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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...

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

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define it

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ever? Like your style? I suppose it's

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observational comedy. It's um sometimes

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I do topical comedy. So, sometimes I do

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topical TV or radio shows. So, it'll be

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stuff about the news or whatever. You

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won't see that so much tonight. It'll

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just be talking about life really, you

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know, the the kind of everyday things

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that we all observational comedy is

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basically just looking at things from

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different angles, you know, and just

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saying, you know, that thing you do

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every day. Isn't it crazy? Luckily, I

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didn't change about 40. I reckon that's

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when your birthday presents turn to

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40. No one could be bothered anymore.

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No, not make yet. At some point in my

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life, I must have said that I like

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scented

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candles. I don't. But every birthday

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they come, don't they? Everywhere. And

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they're expensive as well. I've got

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enough scented candles to put Joe

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Malone's keys through

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university. I mean, I keep them in case

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you have a power cup. If you do have a

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power cup, my ass is going to smell like

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pouch. I got her fanny out in the

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forest. But

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Oh, is it time to come to open the show?

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So, I guess we're going to cut to you

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doing your thing in a bit, but thank you

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very much for

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