Bad dates and bath bombs: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2025

The festival’s best joke award may have been binned this year, but the one-liners keep coming. Here are our favourites

 10 of the funniest jokes from the 2024 fringe

Mon 11 Aug 2025 15.00 BST

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Olaf Falafel: We named our children War and Peace – it’s a long story.

Andrew Doherty: At my lowest, I was kicked out of the museum for being inappropriate with Michelangelo’s David. I’d hit rock bottom.

Bella Hull: I just got a personal trainer. She’s horrible to me but my body goal is a thicker skin.

Rob Auton: Everyone is worried about AI. I’m more concerned with what the other vowels are up to.

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Learning to relax … Ian Smith’s show Foot Spa Half Empty is at the fringe. Photograph: Tamara Cowan

Ian Smith: People who say bath bombs are relaxing have clearly never tried to carry one home in the rain.

Amelia Hamilton: I love getting Latin chat-up lines. I carpe every DM.

Sikisa: This spider has been in my house so long, it should pay half the wifi. As a web developer, it can afford to.

Chris Grace: I went on a date with a matador but there were too many red flags.

Candace Bryan: America is like my ex-boyfriend. Our relationship was toxic, when I left everyone called me brave, and now every morning I pull up social media to see how ugly he’s getting.

Rajiv Karia: I’m not nostalgic but I used to be. Those were the days.