A joke about a vacuum cleaner has been voted the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival.
Comedian Tim Vine dusted off his joke book to come up with a one-liner voted best wisecrack of the festival, PA reported.
“I decided to sell my Hoover … well it was just collecting dust,” the joke went.
A Hoover is a popular brand of vacuum and what people in Britain commonly refer to a vacuum cleaner as.
The joke attracted almost 20 per cent of the votes in the competition, run by comedy television channel Dave.
It was Vine’s second win of the award, his first was in 2010 with the joke: “I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.”
He was also runner up in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
It was the first time a previous winner had taken out the award.
Vine told PA he was surprised but very delighted to have won the award again.
