Mark Simmons: Last News

Comedian Mark Simmons has been voted the winner of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s funniest joke.

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Gareth Richards died in a car crash in April of this year. Now he has been honoured at the Edinburgh Comedy Fringe Festival in Scotland, UK, becoming the first ever recipient of the Victoria Wood award.

2 time winner! This is getting Pasta joke.x"I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop but the female gaurd saw me and I couldn't get Pasta".xPosted by Masai Graham on Sunday, August 21, 2022Reacting to his second win, the comedian wrote on Facebook: “2 time winner! This is getting Pasta joke.x”.The runner-up joke for 2022 was from Mark Simmons, which went: “Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it’s next day delivery?”Olaf Falafel had two jokes in the Top 10, including: “My attempts to combine nitrous oxide and Oxo cubes made me a laughing stock,” at three, and: “I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that’s four hours of my life that I’m definitely getting back,” at six.“This is Dave’s first Joke of the Fringe award in three years, and the quality of the submissions has been incredibly strong,” said Dave’s channel director Cherie Cunningham (via The Guardian). “It’s a fantastic top 10 full of newcomers and comedy veterans, and it’s a delight to crown Masai Graham as winner once more.”Other comedians that are on the list include Sophie Duker, Tim Vine and Hannah Fairweather, with women only making up two out of all the entries in total.This year’s Fringe has attracted some controversy after comedian Jerry Sadowitz had his show cancelled.

A comedian has won an award for the best joke at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a gag about spaghetti.