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 Caption: hey everyone my name is Ben and you&#39;re listening to a daily dose of English this is a short simple podcast that you can listen to every day to improve your English you can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on Ben&#39;s language lam.com I&#39;m glad you can make it today in this episode we&#39;re going to be talking about standup which is a style of Comedy um it is not the action to stand up physically it is a thing a kind of comedy that is really quite popular in a lot of the world it is one of the most pure forms of Comedy because you just get up in front of people and you tell some jokes right that is what standup is um the best stand-up comedians have like whole routines and sets and there&#39;s different styles there&#39;s a lot of different ways to do standup but the essence is that you are in front of people and you tell them jokes to make them laugh right that&#39;s standup and I not I&#39;m not currently watching a lot of standup but stand-up comedy is something that was very important to me growing up and I watch a lot of it I listen to a lot of it and I think it&#39;s a really really cool art form a really for really good form of expression because it&#39;s it&#39;s this great mixture of Storytelling truth human connection and that sort of thing right there&#39;s a a one of the I guess tips for good comedy is talking about things that are relatable right so everybody or all the good Comics really talk about something that other people can imagine right and that&#39;s one of the reasons why um people that are just so so different from you aren&#39;t as funny right because if if you&#39;re listening to a a comedian who&#39;s just has a a trillion dollars right they&#39;re so expense they&#39;re so rich they&#39;re so different from you are that that their life is just in every aspect is completely different they&#39;re not really going to be funny to you because the things they find funny aren&#39;t funny to you right they because you don&#39;t really know what they mean um that same thing can apply across cultures right it can be really difficult to understand um comedy from a culture that you don&#39;t intimately know well because you don&#39;t get the jokes you don&#39;t get the references or or there&#39;s a lot of things that just don&#39;t make sense to you and Aren&#39;t funny right that relatability being able to relate to something to understand something is very important for comedy and the best uh comics in their area uh usually really lean into that and make jokes that are relatable that people can understand that can laugh about or laugh with even if they haven&#39;t done literally in that situation they understand the general idea right um and so I&#39;ll start out by talking about a a comedian that I I quite like his name is Bert ker um he&#39;s a little bit he&#39;s quite crass he&#39;s he swears a lot he drinks on stage talks about doing drugs right so if you&#39;re that&#39;s not your thing don&#39;t watch this comedy but if you&#39;re interested in some like what I say is very like white American Comedy right it&#39;s he&#39;s uh very funny but he&#39;s definitely like very American um he&#39;s good he&#39;s very good he&#39;s very funny very charismatic um and but he tells like these stories that literally nobody that&#39;s listening to them has been in that situation right so his most famous story is about getting involved with the Russian mafia when he was 20 21 or something right um and nobody&#39;s done that right well I mean maybe you have but no basically nobody&#39;s done that but the way that he tells the story and the things that he he talks about we can think of in our minds we can relate to we can understand and that&#39;s important right so it&#39;s not necessarily about telling jokes about things that everybody has done but things that everybody can can relate to and understand the the feeling of the problems of whatever that is um that story is great um if you want to watch it look up Bert Cher the machine it&#39;s a very it&#39;s very funny um and it&#39;s it&#39;s like partly true as well which is funny um but that&#39;s another thing about standup is it doesn&#39;t matter if it&#39;s true or not that&#39;s something that I quite like about standup is that it&#39;s a lot more about crafting the story and telling a good joke rather than being like truthful you&#39;re not going up there to tell the truth to people you&#39;re going up there to make them laugh and um however most good standup is based in truth right and so pretty much all the stories you hear in standup um comedy sketches have at least something true about them whether that they did happen or they happen a little differently or it&#39;s actually two or three stories combined into one there&#39;s usually something that&#39;s not literally true about them but they often come out of of true things and one of the reasons is is because often reality is way funnier than like fiction can be some things that happen that are really real and true are just crazy they&#39;re so weird and that can kind of make them funnier because um like there&#39;s just random things that happen that you go H how is this real I&#39;m sure you&#39;ve seen some of those like videos that like are recorded from door like those fancy doorbells or people&#39;s just phones that are recording something else and you get something very just funny recorded on camera um be but like you could never have thought that up right there&#39;s actually a a a phrase or a saying that you might hear is um like when people say something crazy or that that&#39;s hard to believe you can be like I&#39;m not creative enough to like make this a joke this is just true and that&#39;s absolutely true I&#39;ve had things like that happen to me where it&#39;s like I could never have thought of this in a million years this is not what I would think of as funny but it&#39;s it&#39;s just insane right um and so that&#39;s what something I think is also fun about standup comedy is that it is this it is this form of telling a joke which may or may not be fully true but it usually does have that kernel of truth that&#39;s a good word kernel of truth that small amount of truth that makes it really feel more real um and so don&#39;t necessarily believe everything that you hear in standup comedy obviously but uh do enjoy it right that&#39;s why it&#39;s there it&#39;s for fun it&#39;s for entertainment and um having a good time which are synonyms some other uh comedians that I uh grew up listening to and watching a lot of are um Dave Chappelle um John meany oh geez can I remember these names off the top of my head I didn&#39;t looked this up before John meleny I definitely listen to a lot um Bo Burnham he&#39;s a little bit different in his his standup it&#39;s a lot more about songs and singing and musical comedy but I love musical comedy so it&#39;s great um oh God there&#39;s oh Brian Brian rean another good one uh he he he&#39;s pretty old at this point I don&#39;t know when he was like performing probably like early 2000s um and he was known for very clean comedy right so he didn&#39;t really they swear didn&#39;t talk about um uh like adult topics but was still very very funny which is I think is really cool um because he&#39;s funny for everybody in a way that like a Disney movie is fun for everybody you don&#39;t need to talk about um adult topics or swear to make things funny which is I think a good example um I also listened to some like Jeff Foxworthy which I don&#39;t know why he&#39;s like a a like a redneck comic um but he&#39;s also pretty good so if you want to like hear some uh redneck American Comedy definitely listen to that oh there&#39;s there&#39;s so many more comics that I listen to that I just can&#39;t think of right now um ah this is going to this is going to annoy me and I don&#39;t know what to Google to like help find it so um I am sorry but that&#39;s that&#39;s the those are the names I&#39;m going to put out there but there&#39;s a lot of them out there&#39;s a lot of really good Comics working um John meany is definitely oh Gabriel elcia is another really good one he what I like about his comedy is that he also adds a lot of sound effects and like makes the show a lot more fun that way like he makes sound effects makes noises and it becomes a l little more Goofy and I definitely like that about comedy as well when you add a little bit more fun to it um but John meany I think is one that I I watched many specials several times growing up um and he&#39;s known for a bit of of drier comedy um and this dry humor dry comedy is when you are a lot more straight-faced and your jokes are told almost as if they&#39;re not jokes right so this British humor is known for like dry very dry humor um if if you&#39;ve ever watched something like Monty Python in the Holy Grail or um any many any Monty Python sketches and a lot of British humor humor is quite dry um in the sense that it&#39;s just like you say it not like it&#39;s a joke but then it&#39;s it&#39;s very funny and so that&#39;s I really like about John Millenia is sort of matter OFA um just saying stories but they&#39;re also very funny and you can tell that he&#39;s he&#39;s practiced it he&#39;s very good at it and uh he&#39;s definitely I think an all-time favorite in the kinds of stories he tells in the jokes in the the pacing as well that&#39;s definitely really important how fast or slow do you go with the jokes to make sure that they land well so uh yeah there&#39;s a lot of lot of really good comedians out there I can&#39;t think of any other off the top of my head but if you have a Netflix subscription they actually have a lot of um comedy specials on there that&#39;s like an hourong standup show um because they&#39;re really easy to make um for Netflix like cheap they&#39;re very cheap rather and they get a lot of views because what they usually do is they have a a a comedian who goes on tour and they record the special over like two or three nights so they they do the same show two or three times and then they just take the best um they they cut they edit together the best takes or something like that I&#39;m not exactly sure if they always do that or if it&#39;s always the same audience um but that means that they only have like a couple of hours of of footage total and then that&#39;s an entire hourlong special it&#39;s like the half of length of a movie but it&#39;s for so little of the price right like how much does a comedy special cost to produce let&#39;s see if I can get an answer with that long of a thing um I don&#39;t want to create my own I just want to know um what&#39;s the average production budget of a professionally produced hourong standup comedy special um at least three cameramen so yeah this looks like if you&#39;re if you&#39;re a small Creator you could do it for $6,000 um Netflix definitely puts in at least 10 times the amount um so like let&#39;s say even $660,000 plus like whatever you pay the comedian so well under uh well well under a million dollar for sure um actually not for sure let&#39;s even round up a million dollar but like a regular um TV show or a movie um low movie Pro production costs um that sort of thing like how much does a movie cost these days in recent years movies like the last duels that&#39;s $100 million um where else can I see prices1 $150 million um some low budget movies can be really cheap oh yeah Monty Python and the H Grail like I mentioned is 40,000 $400,000 get out oh there we go get out is a is a a good lowbudget movie for $4.5 million so at least a quarter or a fifth of the price of a movie for a good show so that&#39;s why they&#39;re also they&#39;re really common on Netflix um oh the grand budha Prest Hotel a movie that I love was $25 million there you go um anyways I&#39;m going way off topic we&#39;re 13 minutes into this episode um I got distracted but thank you very much for listening I hope that you enjoyed and maybe learned a little something uh do you have a favorite comedian or or comedy special maybe in your native language let me know down below but I&#39;ll see you again tomorrow bye
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Title: Daily Dose of English 176 - Stand up