Dan Antopolski has won Dave television's award for the Funniest Joke on the Fringe. Judges whittled down an estimated 7,200 different jokes from shows at the Fringe to come up with a shortlist of 27 jokes that was then voted on by around 3,000 members of the general public. Surreal comic Dan Antopolski's hedgehog joke won with 18% of the vote.
Here's the top 10 Fringe jokes:
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 girl's 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."
And 10 of the worst:
Carey Marx - "I'm not doing any Michael Jackson jokes, because they always involve puns about his songs. And that's bad".
Stephen Carlin - "There are so many 'failed train' announcements at stations these days. It's not rolling stock, it's laughing stock."
Celia Pacquola - "My mind is like a cement mixer. It's grey, thick and always moving."
Rhys Darby - "I don't believe in guns. Literally; I don't believe they exist."
Frank Woodley - "I phoned the swine flu hotline and all I got was crackling."
Anna and Katy - "I dated a woman from the Chinese State Circus. One time I took her upstairs for a 69. She said, 'I'm not cooking at this time of night.'"
Alex Maple - "Michael Jackson only invented the moonwalk so he could sneak up on children."
Phil Nichol - "She's got a face like a rare Chinese vase - minging."
Denise Van Outen - "A brunette, a red-head and a blonde break out of Holloway Prison. They hide in a barn from the police and get into some sacks. The police come in and feel the sack with the brunette in it - she goes 'miaow'! They go on to feel the sack with the red-head in it - she goes 'woof!' Finally they feel the sack with the blonde in it. The Blonde shouts: potatoes!"
Alistair McGowan - "I've just split up from my girlfriend, which is shame, because it was a long-standing arrangement. Perhaps if we'd sat down a bit more...'