I've got a confesion to make. When I saw Ivor Dembina in Edinburgh a couple of years ago I nominated him for A Dave Award. Not for the Best Joke of the Fringe but for the Worst Joke of the Fringe. Dembina's classic Borscht Belt Catskills cheesy kosher style has always teetered on the edge of cringe and that time he overstepped the mark with "There is nothing worse than seeing your own kids go hungry on Christmas Day. There's no way you can enjoy your own Christmas dinner." He did';t win, which I guess means that others didn't think that his joke was as bad as I did. He returns this year with his annual self-explanatory Old Jewish Jokes show and also a New Jewish Jokes show, in which he talks about what has befallen him since Edinburgh 2014. Will we be able to tell the diffierence between old and new? Try them both and decide for yourself. The new show is only s short run, the old jokes show is free, or half price for gentiles.

New Jewish Jokes previews at Hampstead Comedy Club tonight, info here, and is at The Stand, Aug 5 & 6, tickets here. Old Jewish Jokes is at the Laughing Horse Aug 6 - 29, info here.