610. British Comedy: James Acaster
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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610. British Comedy: James Acaster
Listen to a bit of stand up comedy that will require quite a lot of breaking down in order for you to understand all the jokes like a native speaker, but there’s lots to learn in the way of language and culture in the process.
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| 0:47.0 | UK. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello listeners, how are you doing today this is Luke's English podcast episode |
| 0:56.0 | 610 and it's called British comedy James Acaster in this one we're going to listen |
| 1:01.8 | to a lovely bit of stand-up comedy that will require |
| 1:05.0 | quite a lot of breaking down in order for you to understand all the jokes like a native speaker |
| 1:10.0 | and there's lots to learn in the way of language and culture in the process. |
| 1:16.0 | So James Acaster is a popular stand-up comedian from the UK who's won various awards, |
| 1:22.0 | done Netflix specials, Edinburgh shows, and who also appears |
| 1:26.5 | on panel shows and TV comedy programs all the time. |
| 1:30.3 | He's now a very popular and well known stand-up in the UK. |
| 1:34.0 | So I'd like to, if you don't know about him already, I'd like to introduce you to James Acaster |
| 1:39.0 | and to help you understand some of his comedy. |
| 1:42.0 | So I've got a clip from one of his |
| 1:43.7 | performances from a few years ago actually, but it's one I found on YouTube and |
| 1:48.1 | it's a it's one that I like and I thought would be would be worth sharing. So the clip is from the New Zealand comedy |
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