Magicians and margarine: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2026
Every year, hundreds of standups from across the world descend on the venerable festival. Here are some of their finest one-liners
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- Olaf Falafel made a joke about taping a piranha to a boomerang.
- Richard Stott joked about someone stealing his bank card and using it on ancestry.com.
- Scout Boxall compared men to passwords.
- Li Jin Hao shared a joke about the phrase 'the last thing I wanna be is racist'.
- Jenny Gorelick told a joke about dating a magician.
- Adele Cliff made a joke about AI stealing creative jobs.
- Chris Grace compared the Trump administration to the movie Oppenheimer.
- Anna Thomas joked about her car falling apart.
- Bella Hull made a pun about using the pavement as a nail file, calling it 'concrete'.
- Alex Kitson wrote a joke about margarine that was 'not better'.