Day 5: Best of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Starts at 60 is celebrating the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a week’s worth of the sharpest one-liners doing the rounds in 2026, one day at a time. All jokes attributed to the touring comedians performing them this August.

I’ve been making prank calls to a Vietnamese restaurant… What are they gonna do? Banh Mi?

Richard Stott

I spent all day writing a joke about margarine and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better.

Alex Kitson

Social inequality is like haemorrhoids: I don’t want there to be any in the world, but I’m not taking any action, not even locally.

Stuart Goldsmith