It’s Probably Just Me, But ....

[JtB]

I didn’t find any of the top 10 remotely amusing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23753634
(I prefer our very own CC Cafe "Any good jokes" thread every time)

 

[hopless500]

Glad it wasn't just me. If "I heard a rumour that Cadbury is bringing out an oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese Wispa." was the funniest thing this year, I am glad I wasn't there

 

[Beebo]

The winning jokes have to be one liners, that stand alone, so a long rambling joke with a punchline wouldnt work.

I thought the rumours of a Chinese Whisper joke was funny. It's simple yet clever and seemingly no one had ever thought of it before.

Anyone who has ever been to a stand up show will know that jokes are much funnier in a live theatre than read cold on a computer screen.

If you can do better, please show us.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I think a lot is in the way its said , the delivery of a joke is everything.

If you read jokes from the legends of comedy on paper they are no where near as funny as hearing by the comic themselves.

A good comedian can have you laughing before they have actually said anything.

 

[hopless500]

The winning jokes have to be one liners, that stand alone, so a long rambling joke with a punchline wouldnt work.

I thought the rumours of a Chinese Whisper joke was funny. It's simple yet clever and seemingly no one had ever thought of it before.

Anyone who has ever been to a stand up show will know that jokes are much funnier in a live theatre than read cold on a computer screen.

If you can do better, please show us.

Why? We are not touting ourselves as stand up comedians.

 

[Beebo]

Why? We are not touting ourselves as stand up comedians.

I know you weren't, and comedy is subjective and very much personal taste as the OP's suggests.
It's just that coming up with an original joke must be very hard these days.

 

[ianrauk]

Made me chuckle...

 

[vernon]

Made me chortle.

They beat the majority of the jokes in the misleadingly titled "Any good jokes?" thread.

 

[Archie_tect]

Anyone else spent 5 minutes reading all the other years' jokes... some of them are 'laugh out loud' funny- that didn't happen with this years' ones- though some of them are clever. I agree with DD, good comedians have already caught their audience before they say anything.

I liked 'The Boy with Tape on his Face's routines the first time round but he seems to have disappeared.

 

[Cheddar George]

"The funniest joke" has to be a one liner which can be "funny" in isolation, which is why the top 10 for this award always looks like an explosion in a Christmas cracker factory.

There is undoubtedly some really funny stuff at the festival, i heard Norman Lovett on Radio 6 this week and his show sounded worth a watch.

I think i will wait for the Perrier award to be announced (or whatever it is called these days).

 

[simon the viking]

None of them beat "I went to a zoo and they only had a small dog................"

best joke ever

 

[vernon]

Truth is sometime stranger than fiction. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23714896

 

[simon the viking]

Truth is sometime stranger than fiction. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23714896

I saw that and it made me chuckle when I remembered the joke

 

[Maz]

None of them beat "I went to a zoo and they only had a small dog................"

best joke ever

... it was a shitzu

 

[slowwww]

I also liked Meera Syal's winning joke of a few years back

"I went up to the barman and asked for a double entendre, and so he gave me one"