There’s enough going wrong in the world this week that even we optimists are getting the Windex out to clean our rose-coloured glasses. Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse – they did. People are starting to read Kafka for laughs and Cormac McCarthy is beginning to look downright lighthearted. However, rather than dwell on the obvious let’s stop for a moment, pour a beverage and relax.
Remember, August is that time of year when the local folks of Edinburgh rent their houses out for mucho dinero and bugger off to Spain; chased out of their town by the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For those of you who’ve never heard of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, that’s too bad because it’s the greatest mish-mash of all-things-considered in the world. The Edinburgh Fringe is actually several coexisting arts festivals that run amok, day and night, through the streets of Edinburgh for the entire month of August. It was started in the late 1940s by some university students, and even though it’s become internationally huge, it still maintains its undergraduate Alphagetti-for-breakfast air.
One of the biggest parts of The Fringe is comedy; some good, some bad, some awful. And for the last few years, it has produced a Top Ten [Fifteen] list of the funniest jokes of the Festival. This is this year’s offering. So, as the world continues to spin, tune out for a second and remember we’re still the funniest species on the planet. (oddly enough, this was written in 2011)
The top 15 funniest jokes from the Fringe (2017)
I’m still giggling over #5!
Sounds like a wild festival. Have you ever gone?
No, but friends have and according to them it’s Monty Python meets Billy Connolly.
Number 5,12,15 had me chuckling out loud. Thanks for the humour.
I will copy your Mister T. story.
Kind regards,
Love it, giggled reading them all.
My American neighbour told me that Mister T. wrote some management books.
I gather they are not very impressive …
Kind regards,
I think he put his name on them but whether he wrote them or not is still up in the air.