Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 crowns its funniest joke

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It's that time of the year again: Edinburgh Fringe Festival has crowned its funniest joke of the year.

The 11th annual award for Dave's Funniest Joke Of The Fringe went to comedian Adam Rowe for his gag about working at a jobcentre.

The line goes: "Working at the Jobcentre has to be a tense job – knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day."

Rowe's gag, picked from a shortlist of jokes by comedy critics, won the competition with 41% of the public vote.

On winning the award, Rowe said: "I thought my agent was lying. He rang me and told me I couldn't tell anyone for a week which has been almost impossible.

"I'm massively taken aback by it, I've never seen myself as being in the running for things like this. It's a massive honour and a genuinely huge surprise."

And, just because we know you're wondering, here is the top 10 funniest jokes list in full (the one about the TARDIS deserved better):

1. "Working at the JobCentre has to be a tense job – knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day." - Adam Rowe

2. "I had a job drilling holes for water – it was well boring." - Leo Kearse

3. "I took out a loan to pay for an exorcism. If I don't pay it back, I'm going to get repossessed." - Olaf Falafel

4. "In my last relationship, I hated being treated like a piece of meat. She was a vegan and refused to touch me." - Daniel Audritt

5. "What do colour blind people do when they are told to eat their greens?" - Flo and Joan

6. "I've got a new job collecting all the jumpers left in the park at the weekends, but it's not easy. They keep moving the goalposts." - Darren Walsh

7. "Trump said he'd build a wall but he hasn't even picked up a brick. He's just another middle-aged man failing on a DIY project." - Justin Moorhouse

8= "I lost a friend after we had an argument about the Tardis. I thought it was a little thing, but it seemed much bigger once we got into it." - Adele Cliff

8= "Why are they calling it Brexit and not The Great British Break Off?" - Alex Edelman

10. "I think love is like central heating. You turn it on before guests arrive and pretend it's like this all the time." - Laura Lexx

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