Day 4: The best of the Edinburgh Fringe

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.

The slogan for any mine should be “running our business into the ground”.

Britney

I’m no Andrew Tate. I don’t get girls by pretending to be masculine. I pretend to be emotionally intelligent. I’m a Tate Modern.

Finlay Christie

I am from Moldova. Moldova borders Ukraine, not Russia. Not yet. In Eastern Europe, borders come to you.

Daniel Petrie and Valeria Vulpe