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  (From left)  Susie McCabe, Sophie Duker and Ari Eldjárn.  Composite: Guardian Design; Matt Crossick/Alamy; Sarah Harry Isaacs; Hordur Sveinsson With the fabled comedy show off jogging till the give up of August, we whittled down gags galore from this year’s standups to choose a dozen of our favourites Tue sixteen Aug 2022 14.00 BST Michael Spicer: Why did the bird go the road? Because it noticed a person from paintings on a Saturday. Susie McCabe: What’s the distinction among a hippo and a Zippo? One is genuinely heavy and the alternative is a touch lighter. Lou Sanders: I requested if I ought to alternate the vaccine I changed into getting and the man stated he’d get his supervisor. I idea that changed into like Pfizer however a genuinely, genuinely appropriate one. Eryn Tett: A non secular steering instructor gambling disguise and searching for with kids: “All right, well, you men pass disguise. And locate yourselves.” Ignacio Lopez: I come from an extended line ...

  The festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room? Omedian Sam Nicoresti begins his display with an problematic sanitising ritual. Alex MacKeith kicks off with a variety of approximately lockdown together with his dad: “One entire year,” he sings, appalled, “with one whole guy.” Jacob Hawley apologises earlier for his in-yer-face commencing gambit: “How many of you pussies had been vaccinated?” There’s no avoiding Covid-19 on the fringe this yr – even as, at time of writing, the competition runs smoothly and largely contamination-free. Covid cancellations are at a minimal, and anybody hopes – if we tiptoe – we'd get to the stop without the virus, that sworn foe of gala's everywhere, breaking out again. (From left) Susie McCabe, Sophie Duker and Ari Eldjárn From time machines to threesomes: 12 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe Examine more This is the same virus that confronted us, in spite...