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Ten people who made the same award-winning joke about hoovers

Tim Vine saw one of his jokes named the funniest of the Edinburgh Fringe for the second time this year.

I’ve decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

But the award-winning joke is itself, well, a bit dusty:

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Important note: This is not an accusation of plagiarism against anyone, merely a comment on the cyclical, postmodern nature of comedy.

So there.

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