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Frankie Boyle Savages Trump With Hitler Joke At Edinburgh Fringe

Frankie Boyle Savages Trump With Hitler Joke At Edinburgh Fringe

He still only came in as runner-up in the Fringe's best joke competition.

Michael Minay

Michael Minay

The Edinburgh Fringe is the world's largest arts festival, and sees acts from all over the world perform in theatres, studios and bars across a three-week period.

During that time, plenty of comedians battle for the prestigious joke of the year award. Awarded for the best one-line gag at the fringe, previous winners have included Tim Vine, Stewart Francis and Zoe Lyons.

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This year's winner was Ken Cheng, who won 33 percent of the audience vote with: "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change."

He told BBC Radio 4: "Audiences tends to groan at it a lot. I'm generally going after laughs, but I'll take the groan."

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However, notorious savage and bearded Scotsman Frankie Boyle's joke about American president Donald Trump and ex-German dictator Adolf Hitler even got the approval of Cheng, who feels that it was a better joke.

Boyle's joke was: "Trump's nothing like Hitler. There's no way he could write a book."

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The award, voted by 2,000 people, lists the jokes anonymously to avoid any bias towards the well-known comedians.

The rest of the top five looked like this...

3. "I've given up asking rhetorical questions. What's the point?" - Alexei Sayle

4. "I'm looking for the girl next door type. I'm just gonna keep moving house till I find her" - Lew Fitz

5. "I like to imagine the guy who invented the umbrella was going to call it the 'brella'. But he hesitated" - Andy Field

You can have your say as to which you think was better on our poll below.

Here's the rest of the top 15...

6. "Combine Harvesters. And you'll have a really big restaurant" - Mark Simmons

7. "I'm rubbish with names. It's not my fault, it's a condition. There's a name for it..." - Jimeoin

8. "I have two boys, five and six. We're no good at naming things in our house" - Ed Byrne

9. "I wasn't particularly close to my dad before he died... which was lucky, because he trod on a land mine" - Olaf Falafel

10. "Whenever someone says, 'I don't believe in coincidences.' I say, 'Oh my God, me neither!"' - Alasdair Beckett-King

11. "A friend tricked me into going to Wimbledon by telling me it was a men's singles event" - Angela Barnes

12. "As a vegan, I think people who sell meat are disgusting; but apparently people who sell fruit and veg are grocer" - Adele Cliff

13. "For me, dying is a lot like going camping. I don't want to do it" - Phil Wang

14. "I wonder how many chameleons snuck onto the Ark" - Adam Hess

15. "I went to a Pretenders gig. It was a tribute act" - Tim Vine

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Steve North, general manager of Dave, said: "From Trump and veganism to the new pound coin, this year's news agenda has certainly also provided some great inspiration for comedians to get to grips with.

"It's fantastic to see that, even after ten years of the Joke of the Fringe award, there is no shortage of brilliant one-liners delivered at the Festival to get us all laughing."

Last year's winner was Masai Graham, who took the award with: "My dad suggested I register for a donor card. He's a man after my own heart."

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