Magicians and margarine: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2026

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Olaf Falafel: I remember thinking, as I taped a piranha to my boomerang, this could come back to bite me.

Richard Stott: To the person who stole my bank card and spent all my money on ancestry.com – you know who you are.

Scout Boxall: I like my men like I like my passwords – weak, easily compromised, barely distinguishable from each other.

Li Jin Hao: A friend said to me: ‘The last thing I wanna be is racist,’ and I was like: ‘Oh, so it’s on your list?’

Jenny Gorelick: I dated a magician – I was seeing him, now I don’t.

Adele Cliff: I hate AI because it keeps trying to steal the jobs I love, like creative writing and being confidently wrong.

She poses, smiling, against a multicoloured background
Artificially intelligent? Adele Cliff. Photograph: Karla Gowlett

Chris Grace: The Trump administration is like the movie Oppenheimer – it’s full of weird white guys and halfway through you wish it would end early.

Anna Thomas: I’m having an awful time at the moment. The back of my car fell off and you’ll never guess what you can’t buy at a car boot sale.

Bella Hull: I lost my nail file, so I’ve just been using the pavement. As a method, it’s concrete.

Alex Kitson: I spent all day writing a joke about margarine and I can’t believe it’s not better.

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