Last night's fun dinner at 1300 Filmore (see separate review) was further perked up by Molly trying to re-tell a joke she'd heard from the Edinburgh Fringe.
Being American, she fluffed the joke (didn't know who or what BandQ was - it's like Home Depot, but smaller - and got the town name wrong), but she needn't have worried, seeing as it won "worst joke of the festival", and came from has-been Paul Daniels.
"I said to a fella 'Is there a B-and-Q in Henley?' He said 'No, there's an H, an E, an N an L and a Y'."
I'm no expert on the Edinburgh Fringe, having never attended, but I do chuckle vicariously through the published reviews. Here are the Top 10 jokes voted for by whoever are the voters:
1) Nick Helm: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
2) Tim Vine: "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels."
3) Hannibal Buress: "People say 'I'm taking it one day at a time'. You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works."
4) Tim Key: "Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought... once you've rented the car..."
5) Matt Kirshen: "I was playing chess with my friend and he said, 'Let's make this interesting'. So we stopped playing chess."
6) Sarah Millican: "My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards."
7) Alan Sharp: "I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure."
8) Mark Watson: "Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife."
9) Andrew Lawrence: "I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails."
10) DeAnne Smith: "My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin."
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thanks for the shout out, Philip. As a typical American fluff, I was happy I knew what the Edingburg Fringe festival was happening... :)
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