I heard on the BBC this morning that the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe 2011 was Nick Helm’s
“I needed 8 characters for a password. So I chose Snow White and the 7 Dwarves”.
Here is the link:
(notice British spelling!)
P.S. I always knew I couldn’t tell jokes! For the right version look at the link, it’ll also give you the other 9 of the top ten, plus the worst from Paul Daniel…
Boom, and, indeed, boom.
If that was their BEST joke, methinks the worse one must have been dire indeed…
I would have taken “6 characters in search of an author (and another)”.
That would have been very subtle indeed - but alas “Pirandello” has 10…! 
He may have got 10 out of 10, ie the Nobel Prize, but he only had six characters…
For real? Not really very funny, I’m afraid.