Meanwhile, these were judged the ten best one-liners from the Edinburgh Festival:
1 Masai Graham: I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn’t get pasta.
2 Mark Simmons: Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it’s next-day delivery.
3 Olaf Falafel: My attempts to combine nitrous oxide and Oxo cubes made me a laughing stock.
4 Hannah Fairweather: By my age, my parents had a house and a family, and to be fair to me, so do I — but it is the same house and it is the same family.
5 Will Mars: I hate funerals — I’m not a mourning person.
6 Olaf Falafel: I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that’s four hours of my life that I’m definitely getting back.
7 Richard Pulsford: I sent a food parcel to my first wife. FedEx.
8 Tim Vine: I used to live hand to mouth. Do you know what changed my life? Cutlery.
9 Sophie Duker: Don’t knock threesomes. Having a threesome is like hiring an intern to do all the jobs you hate.
10 Will Duggan: I can’t even be bothered to be apathetic these days.