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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...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: Understanding British humourSubtitles: en

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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

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