There are some funny ones in the Comment bit under the article http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/aug/21/edinburgh-fringe-funniest-jokes-revealed
You can pay a struggling young English or Welsh street artist to perform all sorts of acts of depravity in a rented apartment during the festival since tuition fees came back in.
its like going in a time machine and being transported back 400 years where everyone wears skirts, eat shortbread, play the bagpipes, roam the hills and glens hunting haggi and pissed up on scotch whisky. its really rather sad and pathetic. och aye the noo Alasdair........................................ dont let me put you off though. if you want to meet a Morag or a Heather though thats the place for you. the only nod to modern society is its junkyism and HIV specialism.
Sums it up pretty well. My mate went to college there, I went to London. I had a great time out and about but when I went up to visit him, the only clubs were stoodent discos playing indie music.
It's a sad state of affairs when your city's being slagged off by a man from a town whose main tourist attraction is a tuk tuk.