Gay sheep, curry wurst and the Yorkshire Shakira: The best jokes from this year's Edinburgh Fringe

From hilarious one-liners about gay sheep to the Yorkshire Shakira, here are some of the best gags from this year's Edinburgh Fringe. 

The event is the world's largest performance arts festival and features various different awards, with the Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award grabbing headlines each year. 

The best of this year's jokes include the one-liner by Louise Atkinson: 'I call myself the Yorkshire Shakira; her hips don't lie, and mine don't faff about.' 

Meanwhile, Amy Mason's animal-themed joke reads: 'I recently read 10 per cent of sheep are gay – turns out there's nowt so queer as flock.'   

Last year's winner Lorna Rose Treen's award-winning gag goes: 'I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah'

Last year's winner Lorna Rose Treen's award-winning gag goes: 'I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah'

Olaf Falafel's joke this year reads: 'My desire to spontaneously sing The Lion Sleeps Tonight is always just a whim away'

Olaf Falafel's joke this year reads: 'My desire to spontaneously sing The Lion Sleeps Tonight is always just a whim away' 

Last year the Edinburgh Fringe found itself at the centre of a 'woke' row over the one-liner voted the festival's top joke.

Comedian Lorna Rose Treen's award-winning gag went: 'I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.'

Taken from her show Skin Pigeon, the pun saw Treen clinching the top spot of Dave's highly anticipated Funniest Joke of the Fringe award.

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The prestigious honour was bestowed on the London-based comic after a panel of UK comedy critics selected a shortlist of jokes from the year's Fringe - and then submitted them anonymously to a public vote of 2,000 people.

But not everyone was pleased with the first woman winning the award since 2008.

One Twitter user raged: 'The funniest joke.... From acts not banned by the woke brigade would be a better title.'

Another fumed: 'Now comedy has been banned from Edinburgh's Woke Fringe. This bilge is what's left.'

Last ten 'best jokes' from The Fringe

2023: Lorna Rose - 'I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.'

2022: Masai Graham - 'I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta.'

2019: Olaf Falafel – 'I keep randomly shouting out 'broccoli' and 'cauliflower' - I think I might have florets.'

2018 - Alan Rowe - '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.'

2017: Ken Cheng - 'I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change.'

2016: Masai Graham - 'My dad suggested I register for a donor card, he is a man after my own heart.'

2015: Darren Walsh - 'I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free.'

2014: Tim Vine - 'I decided to sell my Hoover... well it was just collecting dust.'

2013: Rob Auton - 'I heard a rumour Cadbury is bringing out an oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese Wispa.'

2012: Stewart Francis - 'You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.'

2011: Nick Helm - 'I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'