Video: Fringe comedians share their first jokes
Every comedian has to start somewhere and, as the video below demonstrates, it's clearly not the case that every comic's first foray into attempting to make people laugh is a success.
So here is a handful of the comedians currently up Edinburgh - including Al Murray, Alex Horne and Russell Kane - sharing their first joke with us:
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