296. Learning Comedy is like Learning a Language (with Paul Taylor)

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 11 September 2015

⏱️ 86 minutes

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This episode features a conversation with my friend Paul Taylor, who you already know from previous episodes of LEP. Paul is back from the Edinburgh fringe, where he was performing for the whole of August in a comedy show, and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh fringe and how it went for him. It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please, apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed, and he realised that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected, but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. During the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts so that I could make it into an episode of my podcast. We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording. You can now listen to that conversation here in full. Also, listen to the end to hear some funny out-takes from this episode. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-53R #language #learning #english #comedy #Edinburgh #fringe

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0:14.2	Okay, let's get started with another episode here we go.
0:17.5	You're listening to Luke's English podcast.
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0:24.0	UK.
0:25.0	Hello everybody,
0:30.0	welcome back to an episode of Luke's English podcast this one features a conversation
0:35.3	with my friend Paul Taylor who you already know from previous episodes of Luke's English podcast
0:40.8	Paul is back from the Edinburgh Fringe where he was performing for the whole of
0:44.5	August in a comedy show and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a
0:49.0	cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh Fringe and how it went for him.
0:55.9	It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please.
1:01.7	Apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed and
1:05.2	he realized that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected,
1:11.3	but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between
1:16.8	learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. And during the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts on
1:27.0	the podcast so that I could turn it into an episode.
1:30.2	We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording and you can now listen to that conversation here in full in this episode.
1:39.0	The conversation is a little bit rambling, but I think that's a good thing.
1:44.0	So it's a slightly disorganized chat because we didn't fully plan everything in advance,
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