Comedian Tim Vine has won the award for the funniest joke at this year’s Edinburgh festival Fringe with a one-liner about vacuum cleaners.
Vine, 47, is won the Dave’s Joke of the Fringe award with 19% of the total vote for his joke:
“I decided to sell my Hoover… well it was just collecting dust.”
When he found out that he had won the award, after being runner up for the previous three years, Vine took a jab at Dave’s propensity for showing reruns, saying:
“I’m a little bit surprised but very delighted. This is the second time I’ve won this award but I guess nobody loves a repeat more than Dave.”
The “king of the one-liners” is the first to win the award for the second time, having previously won in 2010 with the joke:
“I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.”
Dave’s Joke of the Fringe shortlist
- “I’ve written a joke about a fat badger, but I couldn’t fit it into my set” – Masai Graham.
- “Always leave them wanting more, my uncle used to say to me. Which is why he lost his job in disaster relief” – Mark Watson.
- “I was given some Sudoku toilet paper. It didn’t work. You could only fill it in with number ones and number twos” – Bec Hill.
- “I wanted to do a show about feminism. But my husband wouldn’t let me” – Ria Lina.
- “Money can’t buy you happiness? Well, check this out, I bought myself a Happy Meal” – Paul F Taylor.
- “Scotland had oil, but it’s running out thanks to all that deep frying” – Scott Capurro.
- “I’ve been married for 10 years, I haven’t made a decision for seven” – Jason Cook.
- “This show is about perception and perspective. But it depends how you look at it” – Felicity Ward.
