This year’s best Fringe joke has been won by a Swede getting a laugh from cauliflower and broccoli.
Edinburgh Festival veteran Olaf Falafel claimed the coveted honour of Dave’s Funniest Joke At The Fringe.
The comic said the annual event was painful for stand-ups but he returned for a seventh year and delivered the best gag of the festival.
Swedish comedian and children’s author Falafel has come close to clinching the winning joke but this year’s effort sealed victory.
The vegetable pun, “I keep randomly shouting out broccoli and cauliflower – I think I might have florets” was deemed the best gag by 2000 members of the public, after being shortlisted by an expert panel.
Falafel said: “It’s been really good fun.
“I would definitely say that winning this award has been a highlight and just being able to make people laugh with my stupid jokes.”
He added: “This is my seventh year at the Fringe.
“It’s like pregnancy – you go through a lot of pain and then the child is born and enough time passes and you forget about the pain and decide that you fancy having another one.
“But straight after you’re like, ‘I’m never doing that again’.”
