611. Top 10 Jokes from Edinburgh Fringe 2019

hello folks and welcome back i hope you're well here's another episode of this podcast for people learning english this time we're dissecting the frog again as we are going to be looking at top jokes from this year's ed fringe ed ed fringe i mean edinburgh fringe which means the edinburgh festival fringe so top jokes from the edinburgh fringe of this year 2019. so i'm going to read all the jokes to you and let's see if you can understand them or not and then i'm going to dissect those jokes for vocabulary which can help you learn english really effectively learning english through jokes not just jokes that people tell each other but specific jokes that have been written by stand-up comedians hoping to make a big career for themselves by performing at edinburgh and getting attention of the media and stuff like that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog you can learn something from it but the frog dies in the process this is a fast becoming the most common quote that i ever use on this podcast and if you're a fairly long term or regular listener to the show then you'll know that quote in fact i said it in the last episode explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog you can learn something from it but the frog dies in the process so let's dissect the frog again hopefully not too many frogs will die or not too many jokes will die in this episode as i pull them apart and explain them to you but anyway it's a good chance for you to learn english so here's a challenge for you going through this episode one can you understand the jokes the first time you hear them so the first time you hear the jokes do you understand them and two can you repeat the jokes with the right timing intonation and stress to make the joke more funny now before we get on to the jokes let me just say a few things about joke telling the culture of joke telling in english so socially you know we do tell jokes we use jokes to just have fun with each other remember that when someone tells you a joke there are certain normal responses that you should make right certain normal things so this is just social culture it's quite tricky because you might not know when someone is joking or when they are not joking but there's kind of like the joking attitude where someone is just being playful and you don't know if they're being serious or not or if they're just sort of joking in their attitude and then there are actual jokes with specific structures and after a while when you hear more and more jokes you start to notice certain typical structures which is like you know this is like this because of this you know or uh why did the blah blah and you have to say i don't know why did the blah blah so often it's a question and your responses say is to say i don't know um and certain other things as well as we're gonna just see but when someone tells you a joke there are certain normal responses that you should make so you shouldn't give no reaction which is something that i've seen um as i've told jokes to non-native speakers or learners of english before now obviously maybe it's just because my jokes were so terrible and the way that i delivered them was so bad or maybe it was just because the person i was talking to or the people i was talking to didn't understand the conventions i couldn't notice that i was telling them a joke but the typical reaction would be i'd tell a joke and the reaction would just be just a straight face which generally means i didn't notice i haven't realized that a joke has happened that's normally kind of what that means so you have to remember when someone tells you a joke hopefully you'll notice there are certain responses you should give you should show that you s that you see that a joke has happened you have to acknowledge that a joke has occurred don't just give no reaction or respond to the question on face value like why was six afraid of seven which is a joke i'm gonna use in this episode to demonstrate something why was six afraid of seven uh and you say i don't know and the answer is because seven eight nine uh-huh so um your response is to be like hahahahaha hopefully to laugh or you kind of go oh meaning i've understood the joke but i thought it was like not very good oh so oh something like that really or you say i don't get it which is quite a good one because that means i i know that you told me a joke but i don't understand why the joke's funny i don't get it and also you could just have i've heard it before which is something that you do sometimes have to say but don't react to it on face value so why did six why did six why was six afraid of seven what numbers can be afraid of each other um don't just you know like uh or don't try to answer the question why was six afraid of seven i don't know because seven was like a bigger bigger number that made it is that is that the reason you know don't try and answer the question it's just i don't know is what you say um you also have to respond to certain jokes in certain ways obviously there's knock knock so if someone says knock knock to you what do you say who's there of course knock knock who's there luke luke who luke through the window and you'll find out you're welcome folks learning with laughter that's what we do on luke's english podcast i don't know you probably didn't laugh that's a joke that my wife always laughs at i don't know i can't explain it i've tried my comedy on her and normally she's like what is that supposed to be funny like i'm literally trying to write some new material and i'm like what do you think of this and i do it she's like is it is and then i'm like okay knock knock who's there luke luke look through the window and you'll find out she's on the floor i know and i married her i know um so there's knock knock there's also just ones with any kind of question as i said before like what do you call a what do you call um what do you call a blind dinosaur what do you call a blind dinosaur and you have to say i don't know and the answer is do you think you saw us i have to explain that now don't i do you think do you think his soros sounds like the name of a dinosaur doesn't it like tyrannosaurus stegosaurus do you think he saurus do you think he saw us do you think he saw us what do you call what's the name of a blind dinosaur i don't know luke do you think he saw us okay and then you go oh like that to show that you've at least noticed that a joke happened and that you just thought it was terrible so remember question it's like i don't know the answer is then the punchline right so moving on to the jokes from the edinburgh fringe 2019 those little things i just did there are just some bits of culture and language relating to how we tell jokes to our friends and people in social situations to be honest in my experience it's not that often that you just kind of you're with friends and you'll just like tell them a joke normally it's more just sort of on the spur of the moment you just make up comments and jokes based on what's happening around you maybe sometimes you'll have like these little kind of joke telling sessions where people kind of go oh i've got another one for you or what about this one and you're actually telling jokes that you've heard it's usually done in that way where everyone's doing it rather than like oh you know hello my name's luke nice to meet you uh so why did the chicken cross the road eh um it's not necessarily what you'd do straight away it's just like tell pre pre-written jokes instead it's more of an attitude i think being humorous so let me go back to joke types um so i did something about different joke types in the last one of these episodes if you remember last year i talked about things like pull back and reveal and then i got off the bus these different sort of techniques or types of joke so here are about five different joke types again some of them are going to be just a quick um recap from last time maybe with some more details five different joke types or stand up techniques so the first thing is puns puns obviously are word jokes a pun really is based around one word or phrase which means two things at the same time maybe because one word can sound like two words uh homophones homophones are a homophone is a word that has several meanings but they sound the same okay homograph means the word has several meanings and is spelled the same and a homonym is a word that is either spelled the same as another word or sounds the same as another word i think both so these we have a lot of these in english and a lot of them can be kind of created by squeezing phrases together as well so we have lots of examples where words sound like other words or parts of sentences sound like other parts of sentences which makes the language very very rich for making jokes puns for example my one from earlier why was six afraid of seven because seven eight nine so the basis of that pun is the word eight and if you say seven eight nine obviously it's a sequence of numbers but also it's a sentence isn't it because the number eight sounds exactly like the verb eight the past of eat so they sound exactly the same and it is the same pronunciation one two three four five six seven eight and i ate a pizza it's exactly the same and so that's where the pun happens why was six afraid of seven because seven eight nine okay um then we've got the pullback and reveal which is basically when the joke gives you some information and then suddenly you get a lot more information as if the camera has pulled back revealing a lot more uh visual information around the edges of the screen recontextualizing the situation so the situation radically changes when we get more information that's a pullback and reveal it's like the camera pulls back to reveal more so here's an example joke from last year just to give you an example of a pullback and reveal this is joe boar's joke from last from no from 2014 this one and he said my wife told me sex is better on holiday so at this point fairly normal you imagine that they've had sex on holiday and she tells him that sex is better on holiday but then the rest of the joke pulls back the situation and reveals more information recontextualizing it my wife told me sex is better on holiday that wasn't a nice postcard to receive did i did i mess up that punchline my wife told me sex is better on holiday that wasn't a nice postcard to receive that wasn't a nice postcard to receive a nice postcard so in fact she wasn't on holiday with him she was off on holiday with someone else having sex with someone else and then she sent him a postcard to tell him that sex is better on holiday it's quite a good joke i think it's a good one that's a pullback and reveal then we've got observational humor which is basically noticing things about everyday life that we all experience but we haven't put into words yet so it's just like have you ever noticed that blah blah blah blah and what's the deal with blah blah blah you know uh like the typical one is like so what's the deal with airline food right and then you kind of make observations about airline food and typical things in an airplane and how everything's so small and you know then you make a career out of it like jerry seinfeld or michael mcintyre similes are very often used in jokes in stand up these days and this is basically showing how two things are similar in unexpected and revealing ways so for example explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog the frog dart you can learn something from from it but the frog dies in the process i kind of screwed up that joke as well didn't i anyway it's like this is like this because you know these things are the same so explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog and it's it really tells you more about the first thing then we've got common phrases reinterpreted and certainly this year i've noticed a lot of this in the jokes so this time it seems that most of the jokes are based on well-known common phrases and how they could mean something else if you change the context it's a bit like a pun but for a whole phrase so common phrases that people often use and using those to create jokes and from i think it was a few years ago tim vine did a joke which is a good example of this common phrases reinterpreted so his joke was based on the the phrase that's a sight for sore eyes sore if your eyes are sore it means they sting and if you say something is a sight for sore eyes it means you're really glad to see something so if you see someone you love you could spell oh you're a sight for sore eyes like imagine you've just been off on some week-long horrible business trip and it's been horrible and then you see you know your family you might say you're a sight for sore eyes like meaning something you're very glad to see that's a sight for sore eyes isn't it you know a politician admitting that they've lied on tv oh that's a sight for sore eyes isn't it meaning that's something we've wanted to see for some time and the joke is conjunctivitis.com so conjunctivitis is an infection that you might have in your eyes and if you have conjunctivitis you're going to have red sore eyes so conjunctivitis.com now there's a site for sore eyes there's a site meaning a website conjunctivitis.com there is a website for sore eyes literally but also you'd be glad to see it oh there's a sight for sore eyes you see so it's a typical common phrase reinterpreted right then so let's get into the article this is from nme.com and it's uh the 10 the 10 funniest jokes of the 2019 edinburgh fringe festival okay just finishing my tea there right so the top 10 jokes of the edinburgh festival fringe 2019 have been announced with comedian olaf falafel taking the coveted top spot check out the full list below after previous triumphs from the likes of tim vines stuart francis and zoe lyons falafel scooped the prize with a snappy vegetable-themed one-liner he took dave's funniest joke of the fringe with this gag so here's the joke folks are you ready i keep randomly shouting out broccoli and cauliflower i think i might have florets oh i'm not such a fan of this one i think there are other jokes in the list that are better but anyway let's go into it i keep randomly shouting out broccoli and cauliflower i think i might have florets it's not that good so florets so it's not florets it's florets florets are chunks of broccoli or cauliflower you know when you buy broccoli or cauliflower it's like technically you buy it as a head a head of broccoli or a head of cauliflower and then you break these pieces off these are called florets okay and then there's tourettes tourettes so florets we don't call them florets they're called florets i'm sure floret florets yes it's that's right checking the dictionary it's florist definitely so that's kind of one of the reasons the joke doesn't quite work because you say florets of broccoli but tourette's so the stress is on the different word so tourette's is a condition in which people shout out the rudest and most taboo thing in any situation have you heard of it um i mean on one hand it's obviously really serious and it's a serious mental condition and everything and it's very serious subject tourettes but on the other hand it's somehow hilariously funny when just a person can't help shouting out the rudest most inappropriate thing in that situation like just bastard like just suddenly for no reason just shouting really really really rude and inappropriate things i can't help finding it funny but it is something very serious and a lot of people a lot of people deal with tourette's on a daily basis um so that's tourette's which sounds a bit like florets okay two words sound quite similar it's not the best joke in my opinion on that subject what makes a really good joke luke you're asking yourself well i don't know why you're asking yourself that why are you saying luke in your own head to yourself imagine what makes a good joke luke you ask yourself which is a very strange thing to do but okay let's have a look so for me if it's a pun a pun uh which is again a word joke it should work both ways right so what i mean about by that is that you're looking at a sentence which means two things at the same time what uh okay ideally both of those things will make overall sense can i give an example um yeah uh conjunctivitis.com there's a site for sore eyes i mean it mostly makes sense in the sense that it's a sight for sore eyes meaning a sight for people who've got conjunctivitis there's a sight for sore eyes is that something we've wanted to see for a while um well maybe i mean you see the the joke certainly works in one way does it work in the other way um i keep randomly shouting out broccoli and cauliflower i think i might have florets so one sense here is that he has a type of tourette's which only involves shouting out broccoli and cauliflower and that's called florets and that kind of makes sense that if you have a vegetable-based version of tourette's that you might say broccoli you know for no reason and that would be called florets now that does make sense the other meaning though doesn't really like if he's just got some florets of broccoli and cauliflower carrying some florets so why would he be randomly shouting out the words broccoli and cauliflower if he just had some florets in his hand so i keep randomly shouting out broccoli i think i've got florets but that wouldn't make you randomly shout out broccoli so for me the the joke doesn't quite work for the um for the connoisseur over here the joke doesn't quite work here for me is a joke that works both ways i mean it's this is not the only thing that is important for a joke there's also something to do with the cultural context and making jokes about things that are maybe in the popular consciousness things that's particularly timely i think maybe the florets joke is a bit more timely because well i mean it's a it's not really pc to make fun of fl of tourette's but i think the thing about florets of vegetables maybe these days in supermarkets you tend to find your broccoli and cauliflower broken up into florets and put in bags that you put in the freezer and they have the word florets would be on there so it's a word that we have seen but anyway i think it's just a bit more uh part of the current mood or not mood the mood how's your mood today of broccoli and cauliflower i mean it's just maybe in the popular consciousness but here's here's another joke that does work both ways even though it's not doesn't have the same value somehow as um olaf falafel's joke so this one is i broke my finger last week but on the other hand i'm okay i broke my finger last week on the other hand i'm okay so on the other hand can mean two things obviously that's where the joke is it could mean but and the whole sentence still makes sense so he broke his finger but overall overall he's okay so that on the other hand could mean butt i broke my finger but i'm okay i broke my finger on the other hand i'm okay right that makes sense and the other meaning as well also makes sense which is on the other hand means literally on his other hand and the whole sentence still makes sense he broke his finger on one hand but his other hand is okay you see that the joke works in two ways at the same time and both of them make sense that's the kind of joke that is the best joke in my opinion it's got to work both ways so i keep randomly shouting out broccoli and cauliflower i think i might have florets some of the other jokes are better i think right now let's check out the rest of the top ten as we go through nine more uh popular jokes from edinburgh fringe this year so moving on to number two someone stole my antidepressants whoever they are i hope they're happy okay so this is so this joke is based around the expression i hope you're happy which is what you say uh about someone who's done something that makes you unhappy okay so let's say you wanted to go to the cinema to see a film but your friend who you're going with made you late and made you too late and then you couldn't see the film and you say well we're too late for the film now i hope you're happy with yourself i hope you're happy which is like a way of saying i hope you're happy with what you've done because i'm not if someone stole your your car well i hope they're happy um you can you can see right if you how i hope you're happy is used here's another example uh of i hope you're happy i just did a little google search for it to see if there were some examples maybe in the news here's a story from the belle fontaine examiner i'm not even sure where this is where is belfontaine belfontaine where is it is it canada um ohio united states okay councilman walks out of meeting and resigns so another member of the de graf village council has resigned so this is like some story of drama in the some local village council office in ohio councilman chuck burch and birchman abruptly resigned and walked out of a regular council meeting tuesday during a verbal back and forth and argument with the village's zoning officer merle osborne i'm done i resign birchman said you people i hope you're happy we don't need to go into this story of high drama in the uh local town council of belfontaine in ohio but that's just an example i hope you're happy i hope you're happy with what you've done so in this case it's somebody stole my antidepressants well i hope they're happy um okay well antidepressants yeah obviously you take antidepressants in order to try and prevent yourself from being depressed to stop depression to make yourself happy so someone stole my antidepressants literally i hope they're happy i hope they take the antidepressants and that they get happy but also i hope they're happy okay you get the joke fine moving on to number three uh milton jones and he said what's driving brexit from here it looks like it's probably the duke of edinburgh what's driving brexit it looks like the duke of edinburgh okay topical topical humor a little bit of brexit humor in there with a pot shot at the duke of edinburgh as well prince philip himself so what's this all about well what's driving brexit really is this is where the joke is it's the word driving so we know driving like driving in a car who's driving the taxi who's driving the bus you know what is who's driving the bus what's driving brexit though meaning what's pushing brexit forward what is it that's making brexit happen what's the driving force behind brexit what is driving brexit okay so you might say you know it's it's a desire for change it's an anti-establishment feeling it's just sort of racism and anti-immigration it's um like um a cabal of right-wing mps who want to get away from the european union in order to you know establish free banking practices or whatever i don't know it's a chance for the mps to grab power from the eu what's driving brexit from here it looks like it's probably the duke of edinburgh so the joke here is that recently the duke well fairly recently the duke of edinburgh uh had a car crash and it turns out he's a terrible driver he also quit driving after the crash so he's a terrible the duke of enterprise is a terrible driver and uh he had a car crash so brexit is a disaster the brexit is a car crash so what's driving brexit looks like the duke of edinburgh okay lol um not bad so here's a story from the daily mirror about the duke of edinburgh so he had a car crash in norfolk when was it february january february nearly a year ago well ish so prince philip crash from the daily mirror duke of edinburgh will not be charged over norfolk road smash the crown prosecution service confirmed this morning that no charges will be brought against the 97 year old the mirror is kind of a left-wing tabloid so i think that they've got a kind of a slightly critical view of the royals certainly get that sense um you get that sense with this story that they're like shocked that the the prince is not going to be prosecuted for this car accident that he was clearly completely responsible for prince philip will not be charged following his car crash in norfolk last month which left two women injured it was confirmed this morning a statement from the crown prosecution service said the 97 year old will face no further action after the collision with another car near sandringham as a royal property in the countryside the duke's car flipped over after he pulled out into a busy a road and collided with a kia carrying a nine-month-old boy his mother and another passenger he escaped injury but kia passenger emma fairweather broke her wrist on january the 17th philip apologized for his part in the accident when his land rover freelander collided with another car chris long chief crown prosecutor for cps east of england said the cps has carefully reviewed materials submitted by the police in relation to a traffic collision uh on the 17th of january this year blah blah blah basically what happened was uh the duke of edinburgh in his big range rover pulled out into a road and just crashed into a car he didn't even look properly he just pulled out right in front of his car they crashed into they crashed into each other and uh his car rolled over he was fine but this woman broke her wrist so basically the the thing is the duke and edinburgh is a terrible driver so what's driving brexit looks like the duke of edinburgh quite a good joke and um you know a decent joke and quite nicely topical as well so jake lambert number four a cowboy asked me if i could help him round up 18 cows i said yes of course that's 20 cows i like this joke it's a good simple straightforward joke it's it kind of works both ways so all right so the joke is based on the phrase to round something up normally you round up a number so for example you round it up or down to the nearest decimal or like a nearest five so if it's 16 you round it down to 15. if it's 18 you round it up to 20. you see so you round it up or round up round up or down the number to its closest like a unit of five i suppose rounding up a number so a cowboy asked me if i could help him round up 18 cows i said yes of course that's 20 cows but also to round something up to round up some animals means to gather all the animals into one specific place so the animals are dotted around and you go around maybe on a horse and round up all of these cows so that they're all corralled in a in a in a certain little field or part of a field to round up some animals so the cowboy asked me to round up 18 cows so this is could be two meanings round up the cows meaning get them together and round up the cow's meaning get the number to uh a round number so he asked me if i could help him round up 18 cows i said yes of course that's 20 cows quite good good joke i like it number five is from ross smith and he says a thesaurus is great there's no other word for it there's no other word for it so this is based on the phrase a common typical phrase there's no other word for it which is when you've just described something with a word and it's basically a way of emphasizing that you really mean that so there's no other word for it that was absolutely mesmerizing there's no other word for it another example this is from news hub on the 29th of august this year fine dining is fancy there's no other word for it okay all right so fine dining like dining in gastronomic restaurants where you have like tiny tiny portions of food and like lots of droplets of sort of i don't know sauce and the food is in weird shapes and there's always that strange foam stuff which looks vaguely disgusting tiny little portions big prices small portions dining is fancy fancy meaning sort of uh quite posh there's no other word for it okay so there you go so uh this a thesaurus a thesaurus so the joke though a thesaurus is a book filled with uh other words for things so if you look up the word big you'll get large you know you'll get huge massive grand you know in a thesaurus it's a bit like a dictionary so a thesaurus is great there's no other word for it ah but there is another word for it just look up the word great in the thesaurus and you'll see that there are various words for it a thesaurus is great there's no other word for it okay not bad we're fully dissecting these frogs here ah these broad frogs just this floor of my room is just full of dead frog matter everywhere the amount of time i have to spend cleaning up dead frog carcasses in this room after i do these podcasts number six sleep is my favorite thing in the world it's the reason i get up in the morning said ross smith again sleep is my favorite thing in the world it's the reason i get up in the morning i quite like this one so the phrase here is it's the reason i get up in the morning this is a very common phrase which is basically like saying it's my reason for living it's the reason i live it's what i live for it's a way of saying that oxygen.com i think it is a news outlet uh this sentence she added that her dog is the reason i get up in the morning so meaning you know she lives for her dog like podcasting is the reason i get up in the morning for example okay in this case it's sleep sleep is my favorite thing in the world it's the reason i get up in the morning i quite like that obviously you can see that it logic it's not logical because if you love sleep why is he getting up i quite like it number seven is adele cliff i accidentally booked myself onto an escapology course i'm really struggling to get out of it [Music] okay an escapology course escapology is the science maybe of escaping from things if you're an escape artist like houdini uh you would be an expert in escaping from chains or escaping from a straight jacket or something like that like you might be putting a a straight jacket uh you know and then surrounded by chains and then dumped in a box and thrown in the water and you escape from it and you come out that's escapology so i've accidentally booked myself onto an escapology course and i'm really struggling to get out of it so the the joke is based on the double meaning of to get out of it to get out of something is to like uh find a way to not do something so for example at work it's been arranged that you have to do a presentation in front of all of the board of directors and you're like oh god i really don't want to do this presentation i'm too stressed out and he's like oh i'm going to need to find a way to get out of it and you say to your boss one day oh you know about next week wednesday morning i'm supposed to be doing that presentation the thing is my daughter's got to go to the doctors you know we've got a special doctor's appointment so i'm not going to be able to do it any chance that tony could do it instead he says he doesn't mind so i'm trying to get out of it i'm struggling to get out of it in this case it's an escapology course which she accidentally booked herself onto like oh no i know i put myself onto the escapology course by mister i really don't want to do that and then you need to find a way of getting out of it like i'm afraid i can't do thursday evenings anymore because uh um uh i'm washing my hair and uh you know i'm trying i'm struggling to get out of it but also when you're an escape artist you struggle to get out of chains or a box or a straitjacket don't you you see see what she did very clever he said semi sarcastically it's not bad not a bad joke a bit clunky i accidentally booked myself onto an escapology course i'm really struggling to get out of it okay number eight then here we have the last three jokes so uh number eight this is richard pulsford after learning six hours of basic semaphore i was flagging i like it i like it it's a nice joke semaphore is a kind of visual language involving holding flags so you've got a flag in one hand and a little flag in the other hand two flags and you can hold the flags at different positions holding your arms in different directions this is called semaphore and it's a form of language i suppose for people on boats so this is semaphore so after learning six hours of basic semaphore i was flagging so flagging this is where the joke this is the basis of the joke flagging can mean getting tired oh god i've been i've been podcasting for 45 minutes now i'm flagging meaning starting to get tired but also flagging could mean using flags you know doing things with flags semaphore involves doing things with flags it's flagging isn't it what are you doing just a bit of flagging you see after learning six hours of basic exam before i was flagging it's good it works both ways i was flagging meaning i was tired and i was flagging i was waving flags around well done richard pulsford number nine to be or not to be a horse rider that is equestrian mark simmons wrote that joke to be or not to be a horse rider now it already sounds a bit like hamlet doesn't it shakespeare to be or not to be that is the question which is hamlet kind of you know thinking about life and questioning his mortality and stuff but to be or not to be a horse rider that is equestrian so equestrian is a word that means relating to horses yeah relating to horse riding okay so equestrian equestrian an equestrian event would be in a horse riding event at the olympics or something like that the equestrian area or equestrian events horse riding so equestrian relates to horse riding so to be or not to be a horse rider that is equestrian to be or not to be that is the question that is equestrian that is the question that's it that's the joke so to be or not to be a horse rider that is equestrian which is absolutely equestrian it is whether or you're riding horses or not uh but also to be or not to be that is the question quite good right so you've got that is the question and also that is equestrian they sound very similar don't they kind of do all right number 10 this is the last one in the list so i've got an eaton themed advent calendar where all the doors are open for me by my dad's contacts so a bit of culture here you've got to know what eaton is you may have heard me talk about that on the podcast before eaton is a public school public is misleading as a word because it doesn't mean open to everyone it doesn't mean free it's not paid for by the state public schools are very exclusive private schools where only the uh the top elite people go to the richest people in the top jobs send their children to these private boarding schools like eaton or harrow and eaton is a school that if you go to eaton there's a good chance that your dad or mum works in a very high position in some influential situation and because of um what's the word for it nepotism that's it nepotism okay so i'm the word i'm looking for is nepotism um so the practice of using your influence to help younger relatives that's nepotism so what was i saying so if you go to eaton it probably means you've got lots of connections and those connections open lots of doors for you because of nepotism so in this case the person's got uh an eaton themed advent calendar an advent calendar is a calendar that you use during the period of advent which is just before christmas it's like the days leading up to christmas quit look with christmas or quittmonth christmas it's the days leading up to christmas 1st of december to the 25th of december that's advent and if you have an advent calendar you open a door on every day and there's like a little chocolate or something inside so but i've got an eaten themed advent calendar the theme of the calendar is eaton the school where all the doors are opened for me by my dad's contacts okay it's kind of a stretch but it's it's not bad i mean why would you have an eaten themed advent calendar anyway it's a very strange thing but i like the the idea that all the doors are open by his dad's contacts so you know that's the fact is that going to eton means that doors are open for you so you know there you go okay so that is that was uh the list of the 10 top jokes from edinburgh this year and i mean obviously doing what we've just done and sort of dissecting the jokes and all that stuff it's not necessarily fair to these jokes they probably happened in the context of a larger show where the comedian telling the jokes is telling them as part of a story or some other kind of routine you've got the attitude of the people telling the jokes the the situation that you know about their lives all of that stuff can really culminate in a good joke being very funny there in the room on the night so taking them out of context like that is not really fair to the jokes but it's a very good chance for us to learn some english i think so what about you did you get all the jokes did you get them the first time or did you only get them after i explained them and did you pick up some new language on the subject of new language here's a little vocab review of how many items it's about 10 items maybe that came up during the episode 11 items so we've got florets those broken off pieces of broccoli or cauliflower though they're called florets and then what's that condition uh that some people have that causes them to shout out very rude things like like wanker or um things like that when they're in public it's called tourette's um what happens when someone has done something sort of bad to you and you're sarcastic and you say well i hope what is it well you know someone so someone stole my bus pass well i hope they're happy all right i hope you're happy with what you did to my car it's gonna take ages to clean that i hope you're happy with yourself um number four is um the verb which can have two meanings but the meaning i'm looking for is uh the one that's sort of uh pushing something forwards like what is it that's making brexit happen what's what is the force behind brexit what is driving brexit exactly and we use words with the word drive for other things like it's driving this company uh the ethos of this company is what drives us forward okay uh number five um two meanings one meaning is um uh to take a number and make it uh round it oh i nearly said the expression change the number to its closest higher number so from 18 to 20 that's to round something up and to collect lots of animals like sheep or cows into a smaller area is to round up the animals as well to round something up when you're describing something like oh you know that t is just fantastic there's no other word for it remember that there's no other word for it luke's english podcast is simply sensational there's no other word for it if you wanted to give me a review on itunes or wherever wherever it is else that you're listening to this if you're listening in an app on your phone or some other service and if you wanted to leave me a review that would be really really appreciated i really mean that uh it's great to get reviews and it really helps podcasts when they get reviews in itunes because it boosts there's something about the algorithm it boosts those podcasts into the recommended category so if you could give me like a five star rating and a nice review in itunes and you could say luke's english podcast is simply sensational there's no other word for it that would be fantastic if you like it you don't have to but i'm just saying if you want to help the podcast you can so uh number seven it's the reason i get up in the morning doing luke's english podcast is my passion it's the reason i get up in the morning and then number eight struggling to get out of something struggling to get out of it i don't know what what example could that be like i agreed to be interviewed by luke on his podcast and i'm struggling to get out of it like why don't you want to go on because i don't want him to ask me lots of complicated questions about brexit but wait who are you i'm boris johnson the prime minister hmm so he's i've invited him on the podcast but he's struggling to get out of it because i would ask him lots of difficult questions about brexit like what is driving brexit boris um um number nine flagging after 54 minutes of this podcast i'm flagging i'm not really uh equestrian it's an equestrian sport is a sport on horseback and to open doors for someone like thanks a lot for your reference it really opened some doors for me like you know that work experience that i had in the company was really great it really opened a few doors for me getting that exposure in the article was great because it really opened doors for me doing this podcast has been really helpful because it's really opened doors for me it's given me lots of opportunities okay folks out there in podcast land thank you so much for listening to this podcast i hope that's been useful for you um if you like the podcast yes you could leave a review on itunes or wherever else you get your podcasts uh don't forget you can you know always leave comments on the website and it's always nice to have to see those discussions between my listeners uh what else download the luke's english podcast app and you can get it from the app store on your phone for uh android and ios devices just search luke's english podcast app and you can get the entire episode archive it's completely free and there are lots of bonus uh things in there too bonus episodes videos and all sorts of other stuff and if you'd like to learn more from me in a proper way in the sort of in-depth depth manner then you can sign up for my premium series and it's a great way to support the podcast for the price of just like a coffee every month you can support my podcast and my work and also get access to a growing library of premium episodes that you can get in the app or online go to teacherloop dot co dot uk premium great great great episode luke that was sensational there's no other word for it thank you so much for listening it's been an absolute pleasure i will speak to you again on the podcast soon in some way but for now it's time to say goodbye bye bye bye bye

Channel: Luke's English Podcast

Views: 41,251

Rating: 4.9441862 out of 5

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Length: 47min 4sec (2824 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 22 2021