This comic’s funniest fringe joke was good, his reply to Kelvin MacKenzie even better
Here’s Adam Rowe, the stand-up comic who you might know by now won the funniest joke at this year’s Edinburgh fringe.
Here’s the gag, as voted for by viewers of the Dave TV channel.
So I've won an award!!! @davechannel's Best Joke Of The Fringe 2018!!!
"Working in the job centre has to be a tense job. Knowing if you get sacked, you still have to go in the next day…"
😁🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/U2uBS02Bmg
— Adam Rowe (@adamrowecomedy) August 19, 2018
Jolly good it was too. But even more satisfying was when the producers of Kelvin MacKenzie’s radio show got in touch to ask this.
And here’s what Adam had to say.
The clues were there (Adam is from Liverpool, in case you didn’t know).
No thanks Fam. pic.twitter.com/6USkHKkLG7
— Adam Rowe (@adamrowecomedy) August 20, 2018
And here’s how people responded online.
Yessssssss! pic.twitter.com/qPYTkeC4NO
— The Redmen TV (@TheRedmenTV) August 20, 2018
Great stuff Adam x
— Hal Cruttenden (@Halcruttenden) August 20, 2018
Did you not fancy going on and telling him that on the air?
— BigC1874 (@BigC1874) August 20, 2018
Scousers. Love us or loathe us, we stick together🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/bcgZcOTHXq
— Brad (@b_radley84) August 20, 2018