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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...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: Understanding British humourSubtitles: en

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that

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english comedy can be a lot more dry

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oh yeah i was gonna say yeah in what way

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like quite brutal

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um

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[Music]

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i thought you

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find things funny but if you're not

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english you wouldn't get it oh okay

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yeah yeah and it can come across a bit

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bruised yeah sometimes but i don't think

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it's it's not rude but it's like

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rudeness but in a funny way so ladders

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oh

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ladders don't mention ladders

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i fell off a 50-foot ladder once

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i was so lucky i was only on the bottom

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rung

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[Laughter]

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let me know if you have any jokes to me

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in the comments below and we'll see you

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next time bye

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okay so uh

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a joke a joke a joke ah i have a joke uh

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how many sigmund freuds does it take to

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change a light bulb

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it's two

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want to change the light bulb and one to

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hold the penis i mean mother i mean

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ladder

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terrible

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