This is an all-ears English podcast, episode 2447.

Is your sense of humor offbeat?

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One of the best ways to connect in English is over a shared sense of humor.

Today, learn phrases to describe comedy so you can start a conversation about this today.

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Hey, Aubrey, how are you? Hi, Michelle. I am great. How are you? I'm good. Thanks.

Guys, Lindsay will be back next week. But Aubrey and I are excited to record together today.

So, Aubrey, what is the funniest thing you've seen or you've heard recently? Is that a comedian? Maybe a funny story. Oh, we discovered something called don't tell comedy. It's all over the United States now. I guess you can find it in most cities where it's sort of like the secret underground stand-up comedy and you never know where it's going to be. It's in just like random venues. It might be in a clothing store or a gym and they just throw up chairs and have like great comedians. So it's fun that it's kind of underground and the comedians are always really great. So we have been going to these don't tell comedy shows. It's pretty fun. Cool. That's awesome. So, so yeah, I, one comedian that I really love is Jim Gaffigan. Um, I think he is hilarious. I recently was listening to him and he was just cracking me up, like laugh out loud funny. So today we are going to talk about how to describe things that are funny. So this is going to be a

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