Making Up A Joke

[All Seeing Eye]

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Comedian Dan Antopolski has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
The funnyman, who has previously been nominated for the Perrier award, picked up the trophy from TV channel Dave.
Nine comedy critics sat through thousands of jokes before choosing 27 for viewers to vote on.
The winning joke was a one-liner from 36-year-old Antopolski's show Silent But Deadly - "Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?"
The Londoner proved popular with critics and viewers and another of his jokes made the top 10 list.


The Top 10 jokes were judged to be:

• 1) Dan Antopolski - "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?"

• 2) Paddy Lennox - "I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'."

• 3) Sarah Millican - "I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they're up where they belong."

• 4) Zoe Lyons - "I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West."

• 5) Jack Whitehall - "I'm sure wherever my dad is; he's looking down on us. He's not dead, just very condescending."

• 6) Adam Hills - "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough."

• 7) Marcus Brigstocke - "To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!"

• 8) Rhod Gilbert - "A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble."

• 9) Dan Antopolski - "I've been reading the news about there being a civil war in Madagascar. Well, I've seen it six times and there isn't."

• 10) Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson) - "I started so many fights at my school - I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn't finish a lot of them."

Did you find them funny? are they in the correct order?

Personally the top two I found the funniest was number 2 and 4.

Anyway, I wanted to see of anyone here had a good enough funny bone to actually make up a joke right here and now on the spot.

Do you have the magic to create a joke right now this minute?

GO FOR IT! Make us laugh! but I want originality!

 

[Mallory]

I didn't laugh at any of those. I guess I'm missing the "dry English wit" gene or something.

 

[SinglePurpose]

I agree most of them were mildly amusing but I didn't really think any of those jokes were laugh out loud funny.

 

[Middle Earther]

*facepalm* I finally got the Madagascar joke! It only took me, what, 10 minutes??

 

[tehfunz0rz]

I'm not sure reading one-liners is the best way to induce a laugh. I suppose they might be funnier depending on the delivery and what came beforehand, but I dunno…they seem pretty tepid. Clever, yes, but the funniest? Hard to say.

 

[Rii]

I'm not sure reading one-liners is the best way to induce a laugh.

I'm sure it's one of the worst.

 

[JonathonWally]

And I said: "Rectum? Damn near killed him!"

 

[Alidar Jarok]

One liners often depend on delivery, timing, etc, but here's my thoughts anyway:

1. By itself gets a groan. I would probably have laughed if it were a Mitch Hedberg delivery

2. I can imagine the delivery for this one. Still fairly weak.

3. Not really funny

4. Would have been funny if I knew who Rose West was before the joke was said

5. I imagine this as part of a bigger joke set. Not a bad joke, just incomplete.

6. meh. Picking on Starbucks is too easy anyway.

7. Valid point, not a great joke

8. not funny

9. OK, I liked this one. Took me a moment to get, though.

10. I can see where this one is going, but the delivery (in my head) seems off.

Props for 1, 2, 5, and 9. The rest not so much.

EDIT: As for making up a joke. Ignoring all the other stuff about delivery and timing, I would still want to make it a monologue to set up the final line. Otherwise, I'd just be wasting everyone's time.

 

[StolenThunder]

I enjoy one-liners. I think that Milton Jones is an excellent comic for his puns and one-liners.

These aren't brilliant, but nearly all of them made me smile.

 

[Australis]

I like the Starbucks one, because it's true.

Steven Wright has some brilliant one liners:

"It's a small world... but I wouldn't want to paint it."

 

[judge alba]

Nope sorry didnt think they were particularly funny.
i darent post any jokes i know most are over 18's stuff and would get me banned

 

[RJDiogenes]

One, three and five are pretty good.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I think number 9 was the best.

 

[Shazam!]

1 and 5 are brilliant.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

All those complaining they aren't funny aren't using their imagination.

Imagine you're sat in a theatre with a comedian on the stage, everyone's been having a laugh and having a good time, imagine any comedian you want on stage and imagine they've just told a joke and it was funny and now imagine they've just come out with those jokes in the OP. You've also got to imagine the correct way they would have delivered it, just reading it to yourself without utilising your imagination correctly wont make them funny.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

All those complaining they aren't funny aren't using their imagination.

Imagine you're sat in a theatre with a comedian on the stage, everyone's been having a laugh and having a good time, imagine any comedian you want on stage and imagine they've just told a joke and it was funny and now imagine they've just come out with those jokes in the OP. You've also got to imagine the correct way they would have delivered it, just reading it to yourself without utilising your imagination correctly wont make them funny.

Why'd you ask for opinions on whether people found the jokes humorous or not if you'd already made up your mind to ridicule anyone who didn't find them funny? That's incredibly obnoxious.

I liked 5 and 2 the best.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

All those complaining they aren't funny aren't using their imagination.

Imagine you're sat in a theatre with a comedian on the stage, everyone's been having a laugh and having a good time, imagine any comedian you want on stage and imagine they've just told a joke and it was funny and now imagine they've just come out with those jokes in the OP. You've also got to imagine the correct way they would have delivered it, just reading it to yourself without utilising your imagination correctly wont make them funny.

Why'd you ask for opinions on whether people found the jokes humorous or not if you'd already made up your mind to ridicule anyone who didn't find them funny? That's incredibly obnoxious.

I liked 5 and 2 the best.

Yes I asked if people found them funny and they answered and i'm simply explaining to them why they likely didn't find them funny and what they need to do to get in the correct frame of mind to find them funny.

Do I not have the right to explain to people why I believe they did not find them funny?
Do I not have the right to explain to them how to best get in the frame of mind to find them funny?

Your definition of obnoxious needs some work.

I also asked people to have a go at making a joke up.

Nobody is ridiculing anybody so stop trying to cause trouble.

 

[Australis]

Dude, don't tell mods they cause trouble. It Never Ends Well.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Dude, don't tell mods they cause trouble. It Never Ends Well.

Yeh i'll end up getting Tasered.

 

[Australis]

No, they'll keep a closer eye on you and let you get away with less.

But hey, your problem.