Brand new video from the Scottish Falsetto Socks, 50 Money Jokes (click to play), was inspired by the winner of this year's Edinburgh Fringe Best Joke Of The Fringe. Also available without subtitles. After a couple of days the Facebook version has 1700 views, 50 shares and 6688 people reached. (Facebook page currently stands on 2608 likes and 2577 follows. I ought to start keeping tabs on these things.)
This year's Joke Of The Fringe, which is a contest sponsored by Dave that supposedly involves jokes being judges at this year's Edinburgh Fringe (though that subterfuge was blown when the shortlist of gags was published before the Fringe had even started, showing that it's a promotional campaign contrived between an ad agency and PR companies, leaving most Edinburgh performers totally out of the loop) was won by Cambridge Footlighter Ken Cheng.
His joke was "I'm not a fan of the new £1 coin, but then I hate all change". I immediately looked on Twitter to see how original that gag was. I found examples of it from March this year.
I posted this rather arsey observation and, to his credit, Ken Cheng tweeted me back with minutes.
I googled a bit further and found examples of the gag going back to 2015...
Then, revelation of revelations I went back to 2014, and who do I find tweeting the gag on March 21st 2014? Only Ken blooming Cheng himself!
So he is vindicated and justice is done. Ken Cheng tweeted the gag on March 21st 2014. Just nobody mention these tweets from a couple of days earlier...
The Scottish Falsetto Socks will be eligible for Dave's Joke Of The Fringe when they return in 2018. But since they don't hire a PR company to send their jokes in advance to Dave's ad agency, they won't be appearing on next year's shortlist (some jokes of which will have been written many many years ago).
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do a tiny bit more Shakespeare in Halifax, Wolverhampton, Nottingham and Goole this autumn, returning with a brand new show in 2018. Stay tuned.
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