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Understanding British humour

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Lesson 1

Defining British humour

hello welcome to easy english so today i'm in brighton and i want to know how people would define british humor and if they have any jokes for me let's go [Music] hit us with it...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

A joke about a toilet seat

it's like true story because uh he broke my toilet seat this morning and i said like when we go to the b and q or home base or whatever um as long as you kind of go in and say i...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

Reacting to bad jokes

i'll probably walk away and i'll think yeah you'll come back yeah if you did all right if you'd like to support or learn with easy english then go to link below patreon.com forw...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

Observational comedy

fun of okay and you just recognize these things in you really so would you say he's like an observational kind of comic yeah i think you'd probably describe i didn't know i didn...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

The meaning of banter

brits think about brits and everyone mentioned banter yeah it's definitely within the culture here and we've already sort of had it defined but how would you define banter um ju...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

British and American comedy

well the american comedy always seems very forced and sort of the laughings very artificial um i like i enjoy watching yeah i enjoy watching comedy we went like two a few weeks...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

Storytelling comedians

pirates yeah he's got now he's like a storyteller yeah he tells a story makes up yeah uh yeah it's observational yeah that's my favorite yeah yeah well you'd love him i'm sure d...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

Dry and brutal humour

english comedy can be a lot more dry oh yeah i was gonna say yeah in what way like quite brutal um [Music] i thought you find things funny but if you're not english you wouldn't...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 9

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Full video: What is British Humour? | Easy English 84

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