Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the IELT Speaking for Success podcast.

The podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.

We started this podcast to give you a look at how a super native speaker would answer some of the most common

iot speaking questions using gorgeous grammar and high-level vocabulary for a high score.

A band nine score.

Rory, what's the joke today?

Oh, I don't know. Have we not laughed enough?

It's ironic because we're going to be talking about laughter today.

Yes, dear listeners, in AIL speaking part one, they can ask you questions about laughter, laughing and jokes.

Rory, do you often laugh?

Yeah, I think I laugh every day. I either crack a joke or someone makes me laugh.

When was the last time you laughed?

Probably today, but the memory that comes to mind most easily is on Sunday.

I was on the phone with my friend Rob and we'd tell inappropriate jokes and make each

other laugh. Do you like watching funny TV programs? Yeah, I love them. I think they really

take the edge of reality. I think, I don't know what my favorite one is. I quite like American

Dad and Archer, for example. What about live comedy shows? I can watch them for sure,

but most of the shows that I watch on TV or animated ones. Stand-up? I like stand-up, comedy, yeah. But again,

like I say, most of the viewing that I do is of animated comedy shows.

What kinds of things make you laugh?

I like dark humour and sarcasm, and probably jokes that are a bit vulgar and inappropriate as well.

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