Edinburgh Fringe Week: A 7-Day Celebration of Comedy’s Biggest 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.

“My daughter is obsessed with climate change. She told me we have to stop using plastic completely. So I took away her credit card.”

Sasha Nezlobin

Have you heard of an egg and spoon race? Spoiler, they just sit there. Waste of my bloody time.

MC Hammersmith

On my first driving lesson I went round the roundabout the wrong way round. My driving instructor was very upset. I said, “Calm your cockles, Kenny, surely if you were supposed to go round the roundabout in a precise fashion it’d be called a roundexactly.”

Harriet Dyer