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Course: Inside British cultureSection: British humor with Angela BarnesSubtitles: en

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Would you say you implement

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self-deprecating humor into your act?

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Definitely. Yeah, definitely. Um, I

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think sometimes I don't know if it's to

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do with um sort of growing up here and

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that being a way to kind of if I say all

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the bad things about me then no one else

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can, you know. So Eminem in 8 mile kind

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of. Yeah. I often compare myself to

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Eminem in 8 mile. The resemblance. Yeah,

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I know. I know. But it's that kind of

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thing, you know. It's just if I say I've

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got, you know, oh, I'm I've got a big

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nose or I've got, you know, whatever. We

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always look for our flaws, British

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people, I think, and laugh at them

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because that way we take the power. I

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can't be in a posh hotel. I spend the

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whole time thinking

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