741. Top Jokes from Edinburgh Fringe 2021, Explained

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🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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741. Top Jokes from Edinburgh Fringe 2021, Explained

Learn English from some jokes in this episode as we go through 9 jokes chosen as the best of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe stand up comedy scene this year (2021). Let me tell you the jokes, see if you understand them, and then I will break them down for language learning opportunities. Video version available.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:07.2	visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.
0:10.0	UK. Okay. you today. I hope that it's basically treating you okay and that the world is
0:27.6	not such a bad place for you at this particular moment in time. Here is a new
0:32.4	episode of my podcast with a video version which you can see on
0:35.9	YouTube. Here we go. Let's let's get started properly. Okay listeners okay video
0:41.5	viewers stick with me, listen closely, pay attention, you can definitely learn a lot of English from this episode, so let's get started and here we go.
0:51.0	Welcome, it's time to dissect the frog again as we look at some of the most
0:56.4	popular jokes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of this year 2021. I'm going to read the jokes to you and then explain them so you can
1:07.1	understand them fully and also learn some new vocabulary in the process. This is something I've been doing every year at
1:16.0	the end of the Edinburgh festival at the end of August the beginning of September
1:19.8	when the list of the most popular jokes is published in newspapers.
1:25.0	Last year I didn't manage to do one of these.
1:28.0	I didn't do one of these episodes because Ed Fringe got cancelled due to COVID-19.
1:35.0	Gue, but the festival was back this year.
1:39.0	So here we go again.
1:41.0	Let's find some popular jokes told by comedians at the fringe and use them to learn
1:46.0	English. So some of you might be going, Ed Fringe, what is Ed Fringe? What is the festival
1:51.7	fringe? What are you talking about?
1:53.0	I know Edinburgh, and that's how we pronounce it, Edinburgh.
1:57.0	I know Edinburgh, but what's all this stuff about Edinburgh fringe?
2:01.0	Well, just in case you don't know, the Edinburgh Fringe and the full name of that is the Edinburgh
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