Is This Really the Best Joke at Edinburgh Festival?

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival sees hundreds of comedians performing thousands of sets over the course of a month. From all these hours and hours of stand-up, the funniest joke told at the Festival this year has been chosen. The comedian who took the ‘prestigious' prize this year is Canadian Stewart Francis (pictured above) for this joke:

"You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks."

The competition was put together by TV channel ‘Dave' who had a panel of experts watching as many comedy shows as humanly possible. After narrowing the jokes down to a shortlist of 30, they were put to a public vote to find the nation's favourite.

There were some familiar comedians in the list, with Brit Tim Vine taking the runner-up spot for the second year running after already winning the award two years ago.

Here is the full list of the top-ten jokes of this year's Edinburgh Fringe. What do you think?

1) "You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks." (Stewart Francis)

2) "Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the telly." (Tim Vine)

3) "I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister." (Will Marsh)

4) "You know you're working class when your TV is bigger than your book case." (Rob Beckett)

5) "I'm good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet... I don't know Y." (Chris Turner)

6) "I took part in the sun tanning Olympics - I just got Bronze." (Tim Vine)

7) "Pornography is often frowned upon, but that's only because I'm concentrating." (George Ryegold)

8) "I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!" (Stewart Francis)

9) "I waited an hour for my starter so I complained: 'It's not rocket salad." (Lou Sanders)

10) "My mum's so pessimistic, that if there was an Olympics for pessimism... she wouldn't fancy her chances." (Nish Kumar)

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