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October 02nd Friday

Hedgehog joke wins comedy prize


Comedian Dan Antopolski has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

The funnyman, who has previously been nominated for the Perrier award, picked up the trophy from TV channel Dave.

Nine comedy critics sat through thousands of jokes before choosing 27 for viewers to vote on.

The winning joke was a one-liner from 36-year-old Antopolski's show Silent But Deadly - "Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?"

The Londoner proved popular with critics and viewers and another of his jokes made the top 10 list.

The Top 10 jokes were judged to be:

• 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 girls' 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."

The judges sat through an average of 60 comedy performances each before creating a shortlist of 27 jokes.

More than 3,000 comedy fans voted, with almost 18% choosing Antopolski's one-liner.

Antopolski said: "I'm delighted to get the prize. Although I have won things before at the Fringe, this definitely means the most to me and that it should unite my loves of hedgehogs, comedy and Dave makes this prize very special."

The judges also listed some of the worst jokes at this year's Fringe.

• Carey Marx - "I'm not doing any Michael Jackson jokes, because they always involve puns about his songs. And that's bad."

• Frank Woodley - "I phoned the swine flu hotline and all I got was crackling."

• 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."

• Alistair McGowan - "I've just split up from my girlfriend, which is a shame, because it was a long-standing arrangement. Perhaps if we'd sat down a bit more..."


When news presenters come unstuck: Top 10 comedy newsroom bloopers

1. This news presenter makes a terrible error when previewing an up-coming news feature.

2. Instead of saying ‘cop’ Fox News anchor Jane Skinner says ‘co*k’. Twice.

3. The mug shot in this news clip surely can’t be correct? Can it?

4. It’s refreshing to see that serious news presenters aren’t so childish as to laugh when presenting a feature on vasectomy. Eh? Oh.

5. The injury suffered by the presenter in this clip doesn’t actually look that painful, but you wouldn’t know it from her blood-curdling screams.

6. Rule number one when working in a newsroom, make sure you know when the camera is live. This Aussie presenter clearly didn’t know she was on air when she started slating her hubby.

7. Maybe this anchor is suffering from the disorder he’s trying, and failing, to read a story about?

8. It’s not always best to reveal on live national TV what your kinky sexual preferences are.

9. This BBC newsreader really ought to get to grips with punctuation, pauses, breathing, that type of thing.

10. If you’re presenting the news as part of a double act, it’s a good idea to remember the name of your co-host.