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| Jobcentre joke is the funniest at the Edinburgh Fringe | Jobcentre joke is the funniest at the Edinburgh Fringe |
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| A one-liner about being sacked by a Jobcentre has been chosen as the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. | A one-liner about being sacked by a Jobcentre has been chosen as the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. |
| Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe - now in its 11th year - has been won by Liverpool comedian Adam Rowe. | Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe - now in its 11th year - has been won by Liverpool comedian Adam Rowe. |
| The joke came from his show Undeniable. | The joke came from his show Undeniable. |
| Supported by 41% of the public who voted for the award was: "Working at the Jobcentre has to be a tense job - knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day." | Supported by 41% of the public who voted for the award was: "Working at the Jobcentre has to be a tense job - knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day." |
| Adam Rowe said: "I thought my agent was lying. He rang me and told me I couldn't tell anyone for a week which has been almost impossible. | |
| "I'm massively taken aback by it, I've never seen myself as being in the running for things like this. | "I'm massively taken aback by it, I've never seen myself as being in the running for things like this. |
| "It's a massive honour and a genuinely huge surprise." | "It's a massive honour and a genuinely huge surprise." |
| Maths student Ken Cheng won last year's prize with the line: "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change." | Maths student Ken Cheng won last year's prize with the line: "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change." |
| Improvisation | Improvisation |
| Adam said this year's winner came about by accident during interaction with an audience. | Adam said this year's winner came about by accident during interaction with an audience. |
| "I was doing the usual compering thing," he said, "asking people what they do for a living. | "I was doing the usual compering thing," he said, "asking people what they do for a living. |
| "A guy said he worked in the Jobcentre and I said the joke that has now won the award. | "A guy said he worked in the Jobcentre and I said the joke that has now won the award. |
| "Because it got such a nice reaction on the night I thought I had to do something with it as a line. I didn't expect to be winning an award for what was essentially a brain fart." | "Because it got such a nice reaction on the night I thought I had to do something with it as a line. I didn't expect to be winning an award for what was essentially a brain fart." |
| Best of the rest | Best of the rest |
| The other jokes making the top ten were: | The other jokes making the top ten were: |
| Dave channel director Luke Hales was asked what marked out Adam's joke as a winner. | |
| "It's clever, I think that's what works for jokes, the punchline has to be unexpected - and I think that works particularly well," he told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme. | |
| He conceded that the annual Funniest Joke award was geared towards to short "one-liners" or puns - but said there was still a lot of competition for the top accolade. | |
| "We get six jokes submitted from each of our 10 comedy critics, so we do have a vast amount of jokes to choose from - and they are voted on by the public. | |
| "We do submit all jokes - but because the public vote for them, I think the cleaner ones tend to make it to the top." |