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Speaker 1: It has just gone twenty seven after five. So ever

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Speaker 1: wondered what the funniest joke in the world is, Well,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you because the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has

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Speaker 1: declared the funniest joke. It's a ship gag, a gag

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Speaker 1: about a ship, as in like a vessel that goes

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Speaker 1: a boat that goes in the ocean. And to be honest,

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Speaker 1: it's not that funny. And maybe I'm just getting older

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Speaker 1: and minjia about life. I don't know, maybe I don't

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Speaker 1: find things as funny anymore. Movies. Have you ever tried

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Speaker 1: to find a funny movie lately? Have you managed to

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Speaker 1: find one? No, because they don't make them anymore. They

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Speaker 1: certainly don't make jokes that are actually funny at the

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Speaker 1: Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And I should preface this by saying that, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not funny, so you know it is a hard

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Speaker 1: thing to do. I get it. But I just wonder

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Speaker 1: whether we're not being a little too safe with our comedy,

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Speaker 1: something Jerry Seinfeld spoke about when he was in New

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Speaker 1: Zealand recently. People can't push the boundaries anymore. Let me

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Speaker 1: just read you. There's a few in the top ten

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Speaker 1: funniest jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And actually you

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Speaker 1: can try and guess is this a joke, you know,

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Speaker 1: is this a comedy festival or is this from a

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Speaker 1: Christmas Cracker? Number one I was going to sail around

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Speaker 1: the globe in the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it.

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Speaker 1: That was literally the funniest joke at the end of

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Speaker 1: Fringe Festival. And maybe because I'm reading these from a story,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's the delivery that's funny. Maybe that's what's missing.

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Speaker 1: But I've been taking souls lessons for months, but I

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Speaker 1: just don't feel like I'm progressing. It's just one step forward,

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Speaker 1: two steps back. That was the second funniest joke. Number three.

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Speaker 1: Eight horse at a restaurant once wasn't great. Starter was

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Speaker 1: all right, but the main was dreadful. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to keep going? I sailed through my driving test, That's

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Speaker 1: why I failed. That's number four.

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Speaker 2: These are not Christmas Cracker jokes. These are from the

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Speaker 2: Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Whatever happened to the really good ones do?

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Speaker 2: My favorite comedian was Joan Rivers. She was rude and

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Speaker 2: shocking and outrageous, hilarious and actually a real pioneer and

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Speaker 2: a trailblazer for women in her field as well. But

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Speaker 2: you know, while she's dead and so good jokes, it seems.

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