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hello welcome to easy english so today

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i'm in brighton and i want to know how

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people would define british humor and if

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they have any jokes for me let's go

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[Music]

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hit us with it what what joke do you

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know

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i know a little one so um it's uh what

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do you call a pig with three eyes and

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what do you call a pig three eyes a pig

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actually i didn't accept that

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[Laughter]

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come on mcintyre call me up

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be on the stage in no time

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that's gone then let's let's hear it

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what tell me your your jokes that you so

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i've got what you call a snowman that

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has a melt no

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oh no i just stopped

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i said what do you edit out

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okay shall go again then cut start again

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okay so what do you call a snowman that

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has a

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tantrum

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what do you call a snowman that has a

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tantrum

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a meltdown

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that was quite a good one tell me your

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favorite joke well it's not even a joke

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it's like true story because uh he broke

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my toilet seat this morning and i said

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like when we go to the b and q or home

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base or whatever um as long as you kind

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of go in and say it's just a bog

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standard fitting

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and uh how much did did you have you've

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done this yeah

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no we haven't been to got the

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replacement toilet seat yet so you

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haven't quite we will do that though at

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some point yeah okay it'd be good to

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know how the joke went down yeah i'm

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sure they've heard it many a time yeah

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the people being yeah they're sick of it

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[Laughter]

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a man fell off a sea wall he strained

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his groin

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brace yourselves

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hit us with a joke okay

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why did the one armed man cross the road

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tell me why did the one unknown

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to get to the second-hand store

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i told you it was terrible

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can you think of any like even like a

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knock knock joke that's like that it's

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basically oh

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right at this moment

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have you heard the one

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about um

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well if you can't think of a joke then i

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won't waste anything no okay i can't

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i'll probably walk away and i'll think

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yeah you'll come back yeah if you did

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are you into um

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[Music]

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like stand up comedy or into like you

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know tv more like tv comedies really

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yeah i do i do watch them in the

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macintosh show every once in a while but

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us

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okay that's about stand up and who who

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would be your

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would it be would he be your favorite

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comedian yeah yeah and why is that

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what's what's so good about his comedy

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in particular i feel like he's the go-to

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comedian really he's the one that gets

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kind of the crowd involved the most and

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yeah he's the one that

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it's the the little the little like you

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know everyday things that you recognize

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in yourself that he just kind of makes

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fun of okay and you just recognize these

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things in you really so would you say

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he's like an observational kind of comic

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yeah i think you'd probably describe i

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didn't know i didn't know it's kind of a

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type of comedy but actually when you say

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like that it's

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it's what i recognize in him are you um

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really into comedy um no i just like a

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good dad joke but not when it actually

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comes from dad you know

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okay uh so you're not into comedy really

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um do you not watch any like stand up or

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anything like that well i've seen a bit

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of family guy okay so you like your

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comedy tv shows

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they're all right yeah yeah

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and do you the family guy's american

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right so uh

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[Laughter]

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there's some distractions going on

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um do you prefer american comedy or

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english comedy um

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i would say i have to prefer

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english comedy oh yeah yeah it's a bit

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less bit less corny yeah ah and so what

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if it's not corny what is it is there a

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specific way you can describe english

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comment um

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it's just throwing back lines back and

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forth a bit of british banter i feel

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like yeah yeah yeah before actually um

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because we did an episode about what

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brits think about brits and everyone

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mentioned banter yeah

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it's definitely within the culture here

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and we've already sort of had it defined

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but how would you define banter

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um

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just kind of lighthearted jokes really

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um

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yeah just kind of uh meaningless fun

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really are you fans of comedy

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yeah yeah everyone likes to laugh don't

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know yeah and what what kind of comedy

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are you into stand-up comedy or into

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more like amusing comedy

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are you into comedy do you like comedy

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do i listen to it yeah you listen to

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comedy

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in what form oh television and whatever

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and do you like comedy tv movies or do

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you like stand up

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tv mainly yeah and what what do you

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watch uh well the all the old ones 40

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towers and things like that but uh

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porridge but um

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not going out i think is very good

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okay yeah

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specifically all the british comedy

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shows that's right i can't stand

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american humor that's interesting and

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what is it what would you say the

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difference is between american comedy

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and british comedy

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well the american

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comedy always seems very forced and sort

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of the

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laughings very artificial um i like i

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enjoy watching yeah i enjoy watching

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comedy

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we went like two a few weeks ago didn't

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we yeah the comedy we went to the comedy

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club i really did some stand-up stuff

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yeah yeah see and um do you have like a

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favorite stand-up that you'd go to see

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like live if there are

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not really just whatever's

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no i used to like peter kaye oh yeah

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yeah but he doesn't really do anything

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anymore does he but no yeah and is that

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that kind of because he does that short

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fast you know yeah and like

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observational stuff right is that kind

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of what you like yeah yeah when they

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think on their feet and when they

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include the audience as well oh yeah i

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like jimmy carter sort of does that yeah

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he was very clever

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do you know do you know any dave allen

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well no he's tell stories ah but i like

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story jokes yeah they're my favorite if

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you if you watch dave allen on youtube

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yeah

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[Music]

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he's hilarious dave yeah oh irish

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haven't you heard no no

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i'm really into my comedy but oh right

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obviously not well

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you must look up dave allen because he's

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a natural comedian and he's irish

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pirates yeah he's got now he's like a

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storyteller yeah he tells a story makes

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up yeah

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uh yeah it's observational yeah that's

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my favorite yeah yeah well you'd love

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him i'm sure did you like tommy cooper

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well tommy cooper was funny wasn't it

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yeah if you've watched him yeah for sure

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yeah yeah yeah he's uh because i like

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that he would tell actually pretty

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decent jokes sort of hidden between his

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tricks yeah

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well his these tricks were the failures

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weren't they

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which were hilarious yeah it was

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actually kind of

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hilarious but he was very clever genius

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really yeah because he could do him

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properly but

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he got he got the laughs through the

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failures that's the thing

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how would you define english comedy you

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kind of mentioned a few

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characteristics um sarcastic ironic

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self-deprecation deprecating doesn't

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take it silly it doesn't take itself too

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seriously

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um yeah it's normally laughing at the

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stupidness of britishness almost so yeah

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quite self-deprecating and

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laughing at ourselves i suppose do you

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like british comedy or is it more

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american that you're into um i'm not

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really fussy to be honest you're gonna

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make me laugh you're gonna make me laugh

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and do you see a difference between

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british humor and american people i

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think yeah yeah i think i would say 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