Sublex icon
sublex

Part of Inside British culture

British humor with Angela Barnes

Practice English with 12 real-video lessons in British humor with Angela Barnes, part of the Inside British culture course in Sublex.

Download the app

Practice British humor with Angela Barnes in the app.

Open British humor with Angela Barnes in Sublex to translate subtitles, save words, and see your progress.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Learn English in the Sublex app with subtitles, saved words, and lesson progress.

Lesson 1

Defining British humor

How would you classify English or British humor? Sort of accidentally sex with my father-in-law. I stayed in a hotel that had nice titles. He likes that sort of thing. So I sent...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

Meet comedian Angela Barnes

TV, and stand-up comedian. And as we've reached episode 200, we have a special gift for all of you viewers. For one month, we're offering a 50% discount for all of our membershi...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

Jokes about middle age

about this, right? There is a reason that this is the age when the men start cycling and the women start outdoor swimming, right? Cuz the whole world firm, we don't want to look...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

The lost shoe story

diddling. I got on the train. It was to London to bring and I got on the train. And as I got on the train, my shoe fell off my foot, went under the train. I turn around to get o...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

Gifts for people over 40

okay. It's not therapy. It's fine. Very easy, isn't it, to give a gift to someone over 40. Very easy. All you got to do is arrange to meet up with us, you know, just get us out...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

Learning resources and conversation practice

video member and get worksheets, vocabulary lists, downloads of our videos in multiple different subtitles. Or maybe you want to become a conversation member for a month and pra...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

Feeling out of place

whole time thinking that I'm going to get someone tap on me on my shoulder and say, "Sorry, you can't be here." I feel like if I went to reception and ask for a wake up call, th...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

Comedy and causing offence

people have the right to disagree or to be offended or to, you know, react to it, however, and you have to deal with that. Yeah. Um, and that's okay. That's that's the sort of u...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 9

Dealing with hecklers

who shout out during the show. Yeah, there's there's sort of two main categories of heckler. Okay. I would say there's the you can swear I can. Okay. In that case, there's the j...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 10

Observational and topical comedy

ever? Like your style? I suppose it's observational comedy. It's um sometimes I do topical comedy. So, sometimes I do topical TV or radio shows. So, it'll be stuff about the new...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 11

Where to find Angela Barnes

very much for hosting us. Thank you for having me. Nice. Great. So, there you go. Thank you very much to Angela Barnes. Don't forget to check out the links to her website and ma...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 12

Full video

Full video: Angela Barnes Explains BRITISH HUMOUR for ENGLISH LEARNERS | Easy English 200

Language: en

More in this course

Continue this course.

More to learn

Try another course.

Download the app

Ready for the next lesson?

Use Sublex to repeat lessons, review saved words, and keep learning at your own pace.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Learn English in the Sublex app with subtitles, saved words, and lesson progress.