Comedian Lorna Rose Treen's one-liner tops the public vote at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A joke about an unfaithful zookeeper has been named the funniest gag at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A University of Edinburgh graduate and former BBC production trainee, Lorna has also spent time at clown school in Paris.I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah - Lorna Rose Treen My grandma describes herself as being in her "twilight years" which I love because they're great films - Daniel Foxx
"She's basically turned up a bar at about 4am and she's telling all these bar keepers - who are my audience - about her life, and that's one of the things she says."The Joke of the Fringe Award is now in its 14th year, with last year's winner Masai Graham a runner up in this year's contest.
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