WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.201 --> 00:00:05.741 Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about humour. 2 00:00:05.741 --> 00:00:10.621 Humour is one of the best things in life in my opinion. I 3 00:00:10.621 --> 00:00:15.461 love humour. I love it when I I'm able to laugh. I like it 4 00:00:15.461 --> 00:00:19.701 when I can make other people laugh. Humour is probably one 5 00:00:19.701 --> 00:00:23.981 of the coolest things about being a human being. Um I just 6 00:00:23.981 --> 00:00:27.501 love it when someone tells me a good joke. I like it when 7 00:00:27.501 --> 00:00:31.421 someone does something that makes me smile. So humour is 8 00:00:31.421 --> 00:00:34.981 the topic for today. I hope you're ready to learn a lot of 9 00:00:34.981 --> 00:00:38.581 English. Uh I hope that you enjoy this English lesson about 10 00:00:38.581 --> 00:00:44.100 humour. Joke. Probably the most common thing that people think 11 00:00:44.101 --> 00:00:48.501 of when they talk about humour is a joke. A joke is something 12 00:00:48.501 --> 00:00:53.421 funny that you say to someone that makes them laugh. If I was 13 00:00:53.421 --> 00:00:56.821 to tell this joke I would say how do you get a squirrel to 14 00:00:56.821 --> 00:00:59.901 like you? You look at the bottom there I have a picture 15 00:00:59.901 --> 00:01:04.981 of a squirrel. And then the answer is act like a nut. So in 16 00:01:04.981 --> 00:01:09.261 English a nut is something that falls from a tree so you can 17 00:01:09.261 --> 00:01:12.301 have walnuts, chestnuts. There's all different kinds of 18 00:01:12.301 --> 00:01:17.141 nut acorns and squirrels love to eat them. But in English 19 00:01:17.141 --> 00:01:21.141 when you act like a nut it means to act kind of funny. So 20 00:01:21.141 --> 00:01:25.941 the word has two meanings. So the joke is funny by the way 21 00:01:25.941 --> 00:01:29.301 jokes aren't funny when you have to explain them. But the 22 00:01:29.301 --> 00:01:33.221 joke is funny because the word nut has two meanings. How do 23 00:01:33.221 --> 00:01:37.581 you get a squirrel to like you? Act like a nut. Jokes are the 24 00:01:37.581 --> 00:01:41.661 best. I love it when someone tells me a good joke. I like it 25 00:01:41.661 --> 00:01:46.441 when Someone is able to think of something funny or they've 26 00:01:46.441 --> 00:01:50.561 heard a joke. By the way that's a common question in English. 27 00:01:50.561 --> 00:01:53.320 You might say to someone have you heard any good jokes 28 00:01:53.321 --> 00:01:59.041 lately. So I just use the phrase to tell a joke. This is 29 00:01:59.041 --> 00:02:03.361 how we talk about jokes as someone is saying them. You 30 00:02:03.361 --> 00:02:08.121 tell a joke. When I go to a party if I know a joke I might 31 00:02:08.121 --> 00:02:12.561 tell that joke to someone. So we use the verb to tell when we 32 00:02:12.561 --> 00:02:17.841 talk About jokes. You tell a joke to someone. Um when I was 33 00:02:17.841 --> 00:02:22.800 a kid my cousins would visit in the summer and my one of my 34 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:27.360 cousins was really good at telling jokes. He always knew a 35 00:02:27.361 --> 00:02:30.961 few really good jokes and he would tell funny jokes when he 36 00:02:30.961 --> 00:02:37.681 visited. We also have the phrase to get a joke. So what 37 00:02:37.681 --> 00:02:43.541 this means is if you understand the joke if someone tells me a 38 00:02:43.541 --> 00:02:48.421 joke. And I don't know why it's funny. I don't get the joke. I 39 00:02:48.421 --> 00:02:51.981 would say I don't get the joke. I don't get it. But if someone 40 00:02:51.981 --> 00:02:56.901 tells me a joke and I laugh then I get the joke. It means I 41 00:02:56.901 --> 00:03:00.821 understand it. So this doesn't mean to receive. We're using 42 00:03:00.821 --> 00:03:05.501 the verb to get to mean understand. When you get a joke 43 00:03:05.501 --> 00:03:09.581 it means that you understand and you laugh. It's important 44 00:03:09.581 --> 00:03:14.721 that when someone tells a joke that you the joke. And then of 45 00:03:14.721 --> 00:03:18.321 course this has been mentioned a few times already in the 46 00:03:18.321 --> 00:03:22.961 chat. Uh there's something in English called a dad joke. A 47 00:03:22.961 --> 00:03:28.800 dad joke is a joke that's funny. But only to the person 48 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.520 who is telling it. And it's usually the dad. So a lot of 49 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:36.960 times in a family a dad will tell really really bad jokes. 50 00:03:36.961 --> 00:03:41.561 Jokes that aren't that funny. Uh and the kids will be like ah 51 00:03:41.561 --> 00:03:46.641 dad that is not funny. Or that is just a bad joke. Here's a 52 00:03:46.641 --> 00:03:51.081 good one. I have a joke about Pizza but it's too cheesy. So 53 00:03:51.081 --> 00:03:55.841 again this joke is funny because pizza has cheese on it. 54 00:03:55.841 --> 00:04:00.761 Pizza is very cheesy. But in English the word cheesy is also 55 00:04:00.761 --> 00:04:05.841 used to describe something that isn't funny or isn't cool or 56 00:04:05.841 --> 00:04:11.201 that's kind of odd. So the joke itself is cheesy. So little 57 00:04:11.201 --> 00:04:14.121 play on words there. I'll talk about that phrase in a little 58 00:04:14.121 --> 00:04:19.701 bit as well. So we have the Word comedy in English and we 59 00:04:19.701 --> 00:04:23.061 use this to describe a number of things. When you go and 60 00:04:23.061 --> 00:04:26.221 watch a movie it can be a comedy. If you've seen the 61 00:04:26.221 --> 00:04:30.981 movie Minions it's a comedy. It's a movie that's designed to 62 00:04:30.981 --> 00:04:35.021 make you laugh. When you watch a TV show you might watch a 63 00:04:35.021 --> 00:04:40.261 sitcom that's short for situational comedy. So it's a 64 00:04:40.261 --> 00:04:45.021 TV show that is written and performed and recorded for you 65 00:04:45.021 --> 00:04:50.641 to watch in order to laugh. The entire design is so that it 66 00:04:50.641 --> 00:04:54.281 will make you laugh. So when we use the word comedy we're 67 00:04:54.281 --> 00:04:59.800 talking about a movie or a TV show or a play. Something that 68 00:04:59.801 --> 00:05:07.840 is created to for you to watch and to make you laugh. We also 69 00:05:07.841 --> 00:05:11.401 have something called stand up comedy. Stand up comedy is 70 00:05:11.401 --> 00:05:16.201 something that you go and listen to at a club a comedy 71 00:05:16.201 --> 00:05:19.681 club. A person will stand up front with a microphone and 72 00:05:19.681 --> 00:05:23.841 they will tell jokes that they wrote themselves. And the 73 00:05:23.841 --> 00:05:26.281 audience will sit and they'll have something to drink and 74 00:05:26.281 --> 00:05:29.801 something to eat and they'll listen to the stand up comedy. 75 00:05:29.801 --> 00:05:34.281 And hopefully they laugh. The person who does this is called 76 00:05:34.281 --> 00:05:40.121 a stand up comic. Or a stand up comedian. Because they do stand 77 00:05:40.121 --> 00:05:45.001 the whole time. When you go to see stand up comedy the person 78 00:05:45.001 --> 00:05:49.321 doesn't sit. It's usually one person standing with a 79 00:05:49.321 --> 00:05:53.361 microphone telling jokes telling little funny stories 80 00:05:53.361 --> 00:05:57.041 making you laugh. This is a stand up comic named Trevor 81 00:05:57.041 --> 00:06:01.801 Noah. Uh he also has a TV show I think now. Um I'm not sure 82 00:06:01.801 --> 00:06:07.961 though I don't stay up late enough at night to be sure. And 83 00:06:07.961 --> 00:06:14.520 here is the fundamental concept of humour I guess. It's to make 84 00:06:14.521 --> 00:06:19.641 you laugh. When you laugh you are indicating that you are 85 00:06:19.641 --> 00:06:25.321 happy. It's a physical response that we do as humans. When we 86 00:06:25.321 --> 00:06:29.961 hear something funny or when we see something funny we laugh. 87 00:06:29.961 --> 00:06:34.321 So notice this person is laughing. Uh when you hear 88 00:06:34.321 --> 00:06:38.961 someone laugh it can make you laugh as well. Um that's 89 00:06:38.961 --> 00:06:43.380 another funny thing about humans when someone smiles or 90 00:06:43.380 --> 00:06:47.060 laughs it can make another person smile or laugh. But 91 00:06:47.061 --> 00:06:52.501 certainly jokes, comedies, everything that has to do with 92 00:06:52.501 --> 00:06:57.901 humour has to do with making people laugh. And then we have 93 00:06:57.901 --> 00:07:01.501 a couple other words for laughter. We have giggle. We 94 00:07:01.501 --> 00:07:04.421 usually do you want me to say that again. We have giggle. We 95 00:07:04.421 --> 00:07:07.901 usually use this to talk about when little kids laugh. Little 96 00:07:07.901 --> 00:07:13.521 kids sometimes giggle a lot. Um so laughing is like and 97 00:07:13.521 --> 00:07:18.561 giggling is like that was a bad example. But anyways it's just 98 00:07:18.561 --> 00:07:22.521 another form of laughing. Usually we talk about giggling 99 00:07:22.521 --> 00:07:25.521 when we're talking about little kids. Little kids when they 100 00:07:25.521 --> 00:07:29.161 laugh it sometimes sounds a little bit different and we 101 00:07:29.161 --> 00:07:34.881 would say that it's a giggle. And then we have the word 102 00:07:34.881 --> 00:07:39.041 chuckle. When you chuckle it just means like it's kind of 103 00:07:39.041 --> 00:07:42.921 like a small laugh if you're sitting and talking to people 104 00:07:42.921 --> 00:07:47.440 if someone tells a funny story or a joke it might make you 105 00:07:47.441 --> 00:07:51.841 chuckle. So you can chuckle. You can giggle. You can laugh. 106 00:07:51.841 --> 00:07:57.561 These are all kind of synonyms of each other. Um it's the the 107 00:07:57.561 --> 00:08:02.441 funny thing humans do when they hear something funny. We have a 108 00:08:02.441 --> 00:08:05.961 phrase in English laughter is the best medicine and I'm not 109 00:08:05.961 --> 00:08:09.881 sure if this has been proven scientifically. But there's 110 00:08:09.881 --> 00:08:14.481 something really really good about laughter. When you laugh 111 00:08:14.481 --> 00:08:19.040 it makes you feel better. If you spend time with friends and 112 00:08:19.041 --> 00:08:23.600 someone tells a few jokes and someone makes you laugh. It 113 00:08:23.601 --> 00:08:27.201 makes you feel better for the rest of the day. So in English 114 00:08:27.201 --> 00:08:30.801 we have this phrase laughter is the best medicine. When you're 115 00:08:30.801 --> 00:08:34.141 not feeling well you can medicine to make you feel 116 00:08:34.141 --> 00:08:38.221 better. When you're not happy laughter is a good medicine. 117 00:08:38.221 --> 00:08:43.941 Laughter can make you feel much happier. Uh I 100% agree with 118 00:08:43.941 --> 00:08:49.141 this. When I go to a meeting at work and when we enjoy the 119 00:08:49.141 --> 00:08:53.541 meeting and someone is really funny in the meeting it's good 120 00:08:53.541 --> 00:08:59.301 medicine. So I've used this phrase a few times so far in 121 00:08:59.301 --> 00:09:02.981 the lesson. We say that something makes me laugh. That 122 00:09:02.981 --> 00:09:07.021 makes me laugh. It makes me laugh when people fall down on 123 00:09:07.021 --> 00:09:10.901 the ice. I shouldn't laugh when that happens. But you might 124 00:09:10.901 --> 00:09:15.541 watch videos on YouTube where people slip and fall or where 125 00:09:15.541 --> 00:09:19.181 where things happen to people and it makes you laugh. This is 126 00:09:19.181 --> 00:09:23.221 the phrase we use. You can describe a person this way too. 127 00:09:23.221 --> 00:09:27.981 You can say ah Joe's great. He makes me laugh. I like Hanging 128 00:09:27.981 --> 00:09:31.381 out with Joe. There's a phrasal verb by the way. I like hanging 129 00:09:31.381 --> 00:09:35.141 out with Joe because he makes me laugh. So you could say 130 00:09:35.141 --> 00:09:39.821 jokes make me laugh. Um watching sitcoms make me laugh. 131 00:09:39.821 --> 00:09:45.921 All of those phrases are correct in English. We have 132 00:09:45.921 --> 00:09:50.521 another way to describe joking around and it's to kid someone. 133 00:09:50.521 --> 00:09:54.641 I know there's a kid in this picture. But when little kids 134 00:09:54.641 --> 00:09:59.481 tell us joke sometimes we say they're kidding around. When I 135 00:09:59.481 --> 00:10:02.681 if I was to say to someone oh you left the lights on on your 136 00:10:02.681 --> 00:10:06.041 car. And if they get up to go turn them off I could say oh 137 00:10:06.041 --> 00:10:10.481 I'm just kidding. Uh I kid. I'm just kidding. I just told you 138 00:10:10.481 --> 00:10:13.921 that to be funny. That's it's not very funny to tell someone 139 00:10:13.921 --> 00:10:17.641 a lie. But you can see where I'm going with this. When you 140 00:10:17.641 --> 00:10:23.381 kid someone it means you tell them funny things. I We have a 141 00:10:23.381 --> 00:10:26.821 phrase in English to be silly. So this person is using a 142 00:10:26.821 --> 00:10:32.941 banana as if he's a undercover police officer. Um by the way I 143 00:10:32.941 --> 00:10:36.780 do have a lot of bananas in a earlier video this week. If you 144 00:10:36.780 --> 00:10:41.860 do a search for the lesson on do did doesn't. Um it was a 145 00:10:41.861 --> 00:10:45.541 lesson on the verb and a lesson on bananas as well. It was a 146 00:10:45.541 --> 00:10:49.621 little bit silly. We used the word silly to describe someone 147 00:10:49.621 --> 00:10:53.401 who is doing something funny. Uh you might if you're a 148 00:10:53.401 --> 00:10:56.680 teacher have students in your class who are silly. You might 149 00:10:56.681 --> 00:10:59.801 have a brother or sister who's always silly. They're always 150 00:10:59.801 --> 00:11:03.321 telling jokes. They're always acting funny. They're always 151 00:11:03.321 --> 00:11:06.881 doing things to make people laugh. If someone does that we 152 00:11:06.881 --> 00:11:12.001 usually say that they are being silly. Sometimes we use the 153 00:11:12.001 --> 00:11:17.160 phrase to joke around. When I go to a family reunion. My one 154 00:11:17.160 --> 00:11:21.720 uncle likes to joke around. He's always doing silly things. 155 00:11:21.721 --> 00:11:25.301 He's always making people laugh. He likes to joke around. 156 00:11:25.301 --> 00:11:30.221 This doesn't mean just telling jokes. When you joke around you 157 00:11:30.221 --> 00:11:34.301 might act silly you might put a banana on your head like this 158 00:11:34.301 --> 00:11:38.901 girl. Um you might tell jokes that is part of it as well. But 159 00:11:38.901 --> 00:11:46.101 to joke around it's always nice to to be around people who like 160 00:11:46.101 --> 00:11:50.381 to joke around. It makes your day a little nicer. And then we 161 00:11:50.381 --> 00:11:54.681 also use the phrase to crack a joke. Um when you Crack a joke 162 00:11:54.681 --> 00:11:59.121 it means you tell a joke. Often though this is just a funny 163 00:11:59.121 --> 00:12:02.801 little phrase or sentence. It doesn't need to be an entire 164 00:12:02.801 --> 00:12:07.160 joke. Um sometimes I sit in a meeting and there's one 165 00:12:07.160 --> 00:12:11.040 colleague who will crack jokes during the meeting. Um when the 166 00:12:11.041 --> 00:12:14.041 person leading the meeting says certain things that person will 167 00:12:14.041 --> 00:12:18.600 lean over and crack a joke. Um so to crack a joke means to 168 00:12:18.601 --> 00:12:23.120 tell a joke but also to be clear it can mean to just say 169 00:12:23.121 --> 00:12:27.021 some funny. Sometimes in the chat during these lessons 170 00:12:27.021 --> 00:12:30.741 people will crack jokes. In fact there was a little joke 171 00:12:30.741 --> 00:12:33.821 here. Vitor just said Bob always finds a way to put a 172 00:12:33.821 --> 00:12:39.380 banana on his lessons. So that was Vitor cracking a joke. 173 00:12:39.381 --> 00:12:44.021 That's an a perfect example. Thanks Vitor for that. Um it 174 00:12:44.021 --> 00:12:50.660 means to say something witty or funny to someone else. And we 175 00:12:50.660 --> 00:12:54.340 have the phrase sense of humour. When you have a sense 176 00:12:54.341 --> 00:12:59.301 of humour it means that you like humour. You like to laugh. 177 00:12:59.301 --> 00:13:02.821 You like hearing jokes and you laugh when you hear them. It 178 00:13:02.821 --> 00:13:05.981 means when someone does something funny you don't get 179 00:13:05.981 --> 00:13:09.861 mad at them. Sometimes people do funny things and you get 180 00:13:09.861 --> 00:13:14.301 annoyed. But if you have a good sense of humour it means you 181 00:13:14.301 --> 00:13:19.341 like it. If a student in my class is acting silly. And it's 182 00:13:19.341 --> 00:13:23.061 a time during the lesson where that's okay. Um I have a good 183 00:13:23.061 --> 00:13:27.280 sense of humour. I don't mind that. But when a student does 184 00:13:27.280 --> 00:13:30.320 silly things when it's a serious time in class I don't 185 00:13:30.321 --> 00:13:35.041 enjoy that then I they might say oh come on you know just 186 00:13:35.041 --> 00:13:37.800 have a you need to have a better sense of humour it's 187 00:13:37.801 --> 00:13:43.721 like no not right out witty when someone is witty they are 188 00:13:43.721 --> 00:13:48.240 able to think of funny things very quickly. A witty person 189 00:13:48.241 --> 00:13:53.041 can listen to a conversation and make little comments that 190 00:13:53.041 --> 00:13:56.681 are funny. They are really smart and they can think very 191 00:13:56.681 --> 00:14:01.221 quickly and they can make jokes from what they hearing. We 192 00:14:01.221 --> 00:14:07.021 would say that that person is extremely witty. It is fun to 193 00:14:07.021 --> 00:14:10.621 be around witty people. Witty people make fun fun little 194 00:14:10.621 --> 00:14:16.021 comments that make you smile or laugh. We have we have 195 00:14:16.021 --> 00:14:19.861 something called a practical joke. A practical joke is a 196 00:14:19.861 --> 00:14:24.021 joke that you do to someone like this. So here we have a 197 00:14:24.021 --> 00:14:27.861 woman who's stepping on the scale to see how much she 198 00:14:27.861 --> 00:14:33.021 weighs. And her husband I'm assuming this is her husband is 199 00:14:33.021 --> 00:14:36.861 playing a practical joke on her. He's putting his foot on 200 00:14:36.861 --> 00:14:41.221 the scale. And it will make her think she weighs more than she 201 00:14:41.221 --> 00:14:44.941 is. He's playing a practical joke on her. That's the verb we 202 00:14:44.941 --> 00:14:49.241 use. Another common Practical joke is to put a sign on 203 00:14:49.241 --> 00:14:52.681 someone's back. A piece of paper with tape and you put a 204 00:14:52.681 --> 00:14:56.241 sign on someone's back that says kick me or something. 205 00:14:56.241 --> 00:15:00.361 Don't actually do this. But a practical joke is when you play 206 00:15:00.361 --> 00:15:04.601 a little joke on someone. The most common one that you might 207 00:15:04.601 --> 00:15:09.481 see on a TV show is to put a cup of water or a pale of water 208 00:15:09.481 --> 00:15:13.881 on top of a door and then when someone opens the door it falls 209 00:15:13.881 --> 00:15:19.221 on them. We would consider that a practical joke. So it's like 210 00:15:19.221 --> 00:15:26.101 a physical joke that you do to someone else. I don't always 211 00:15:26.101 --> 00:15:29.461 find these funny. I don't find this totally funny. This is 212 00:15:29.461 --> 00:15:34.941 kind of funny. Um but sometimes practical jokes go too far and 213 00:15:34.941 --> 00:15:41.701 then people get angry. Dry humour. So dry humour is when 214 00:15:41.701 --> 00:15:47.581 the joke is funny but it's not super funny. Here's a little 215 00:15:47.581 --> 00:15:52.861 comic strip and the person says can I take a picture? And the 216 00:15:52.861 --> 00:15:56.221 security person says sure and then he says cheers and he 217 00:15:56.221 --> 00:16:00.821 walks away with the picture. So this is again a little joke by 218 00:16:00.821 --> 00:16:04.501 take a picture the security guard thought he meant you know 219 00:16:04.501 --> 00:16:08.481 get his phone and take a picture but what the person 220 00:16:08.481 --> 00:16:12.041 meant was can I actually grab the picture and take it. So we 221 00:16:12.041 --> 00:16:16.521 would consider this dry humour because instead of laughing you 222 00:16:16.521 --> 00:16:22.080 might just go ah like it might not make you laugh out loud it 223 00:16:22.081 --> 00:16:26.640 might not make you laugh uproariously there's a huge 224 00:16:26.641 --> 00:16:30.281 English word for you. Dry humour is usually like a little 225 00:16:30.281 --> 00:16:36.201 bit funny. It's similar to a dad joke I think. Funny. So I 226 00:16:36.201 --> 00:16:39.921 not sure why I didn't have this word earlier in the lesson. We 227 00:16:39.921 --> 00:16:43.041 use the word funny to talk about things that make you 228 00:16:43.041 --> 00:16:47.081 laugh. If someone wears a wig and some funny glasses I use 229 00:16:47.081 --> 00:16:50.201 the word funny just to describe this person. You might say this 230 00:16:50.201 --> 00:16:54.401 person is funny. Or you might say it was funny when he wore 231 00:16:54.401 --> 00:16:59.241 the grey wig and the glasses. Or that joke was funny. I like 232 00:16:59.241 --> 00:17:03.201 watching funny movies. Um when I watch funny movies they make 233 00:17:03.201 --> 00:17:07.521 me laugh. I've watched too many serious TV shows. I need to 234 00:17:07.521 --> 00:17:12.161 watch something funny now. The word funny is very useful in 235 00:17:12.161 --> 00:17:15.381 English. You should learn it and learn all the different 236 00:17:15.381 --> 00:17:20.381 ways to use it. I just used about six of them there. Um so 237 00:17:20.381 --> 00:17:24.580 it would be yeah we use the word funny for things that 238 00:17:24.580 --> 00:17:27.660 aren't fun. We use it to describe things that are odd as 239 00:17:27.661 --> 00:17:31.221 well. Like a funny thing happened on the way to work. Um 240 00:17:31.221 --> 00:17:34.821 I slipped on the ice and drove the car in the ditch. That's 241 00:17:34.821 --> 00:17:40.340 not funny at all. It's just abnormal. So learn this word. 242 00:17:40.340 --> 00:17:45.460 Um and all its many meanings. Have the word hilarious. Um 243 00:17:45.461 --> 00:17:49.061 when something is hilarious it means it's extremely funny. Let 244 00:17:49.061 --> 00:17:53.021 me say the word one more time for you. Hilarious. Hilarious. 245 00:17:53.021 --> 00:17:56.061 This is a hard word for English learners to pronounce 246 00:17:56.061 --> 00:18:01.101 sometimes. Because the H is sort of said hilarious. I'm 247 00:18:01.101 --> 00:18:04.580 over pronouncing it now. Hilarious. Hilarious. The H is 248 00:18:04.580 --> 00:18:08.580 in the back of my mouth. Um but when something is really really 249 00:18:08.580 --> 00:18:11.620 funny you would say that it's hilarious. That movie was 250 00:18:11.621 --> 00:18:15.401 hilarious. Um it was hilarious when I watched Bob's lesson 251 00:18:15.401 --> 00:18:17.481 because there were so many bananas in it. It was 252 00:18:17.481 --> 00:18:24.421 hilarious. So hilarious means really really funny. When 253 00:18:24.421 --> 00:18:33.181 someone gets angry when you do something funny to them or when 254 00:18:33.181 --> 00:18:37.821 you make fun of them we would say he can't take a joke or she 255 00:18:37.821 --> 00:18:42.221 can't take a joke. Um this is my standard slide for angry 256 00:18:42.221 --> 00:18:44.941 man. This is one of the only pictures I can find of an angry 257 00:18:44.941 --> 00:18:51.541 person. But let's say you think it would be funny to step on 258 00:18:51.541 --> 00:18:56.361 the scale while someone is on it. And then that person gets 259 00:18:56.361 --> 00:18:59.840 angry at you. In the picture I showed earlier there was a 260 00:18:59.840 --> 00:19:03.560 woman on a scale and a man putting his foot on the back so 261 00:19:03.561 --> 00:19:07.641 she would think she's heavier than she is. If she got angry 262 00:19:07.641 --> 00:19:11.361 because of that we would say she can't take a joke. Okay? So 263 00:19:11.361 --> 00:19:15.281 when you can't take a joke it means you get angry when 264 00:19:15.281 --> 00:19:20.881 someone does something to you that maybe is funny. It's it's 265 00:19:20.881 --> 00:19:27.501 depends on the situation a lot. You can make a funny face by 266 00:19:27.501 --> 00:19:31.621 the way. This guy is making a funny face. Often adults will 267 00:19:31.621 --> 00:19:35.501 make funny faces to young children. Um because it will 268 00:19:35.501 --> 00:19:39.421 make them laugh. One way to make you know a baby at a 269 00:19:39.421 --> 00:19:43.340 certain age baby start to smile and giggle. One of the things 270 00:19:43.340 --> 00:19:46.380 that will make them smile or giggle is if you make a funny 271 00:19:46.381 --> 00:19:50.580 face. Um if you make a funny face then it usually will make 272 00:19:50.580 --> 00:19:55.700 a kid laugh. It'll make adults laugh too sometimes. A play on 273 00:19:55.701 --> 00:20:01.661 words. Often a joke will involve a play on words. A play 274 00:20:01.661 --> 00:20:05.941 on words is when if a word has two meanings you can make a 275 00:20:05.941 --> 00:20:09.821 joke out of it. This joke is how do you fix a cracked 276 00:20:09.821 --> 00:20:15.141 pumpkin with a pumpkin patch? This is a play on words because 277 00:20:15.141 --> 00:20:19.741 a patch has patch has two meanings. If my shirt has a 278 00:20:19.741 --> 00:20:24.501 hole I can put a patch on it pumpkins the big orange things 279 00:20:24.501 --> 00:20:28.141 that we have at Thanksgiving and Halloween grow in a pumpkin 280 00:20:28.141 --> 00:20:31.761 patch. If you have a hole of pumpkin plants. We call it a 281 00:20:31.761 --> 00:20:35.481 pumpkin patch. If my shirt has a hole I can put a patch on it. 282 00:20:35.481 --> 00:20:39.721 So you can make a joke you can have a play on words because 283 00:20:39.721 --> 00:20:43.881 patch has two meanings. How do you fix a cracked pumpkin with 284 00:20:43.881 --> 00:20:48.961 a pumpkin patch? It's kind of a dad joke too by the way. Uh and 285 00:20:48.961 --> 00:20:52.281 then the classic knock knock joke. The knock knock joke 286 00:20:52.281 --> 00:20:56.921 always follows this form. One person says knock knock. The 287 00:20:56.921 --> 00:21:01.201 other person says who's there? In this joke I would say thank 288 00:21:01.201 --> 00:21:03.921 and they would say thank you and I would say you're welcome. 289 00:21:03.921 --> 00:21:07.521 So it's a play on the fact that Tank U sounds like thank you. 290 00:21:07.521 --> 00:21:11.840 So thank you thank you has very similar sounds. Um it's not 291 00:21:11.840 --> 00:21:14.240 actually a very appropriate joke though because it's making 292 00:21:14.241 --> 00:21:17.921 fun of someone mispronouncing something. But I think we all 293 00:21:17.921 --> 00:21:21.840 understand how a knock knock joke works. I'll tell you one 294 00:21:21.840 --> 00:21:27.360 more. Um if I say knock knock and you say who's there and I 295 00:21:27.361 --> 00:21:32.221 say who and then you would respond and say and then I 296 00:21:32.221 --> 00:21:36.261 would say is there an owl in here? An owl is a bird that 297 00:21:36.261 --> 00:21:38.621 says 298 00:21:39.321 --> 00:21:42.981 That's my sound effect for an owl. So you can make a knock 299 00:21:42.981 --> 00:21:46.901 knock joke out of it like that. That's my favourite knock knock 300 00:21:46.901 --> 00:21:50.981 joke by the way. Uh don't be afraid of this next slide. Some 301 00:21:50.981 --> 00:21:55.540 people don't like clowns. A clown is someone who works 302 00:21:55.541 --> 00:22:00.100 maybe at a circus or at an event at our farmers market. 303 00:22:00.101 --> 00:22:03.221 There is sometimes a clown. And the clown makes little balloon 304 00:22:03.221 --> 00:22:07.221 animals and gives them to children. Um and tries to make 305 00:22:07.221 --> 00:22:12.261 everyone happy. So a clown is someone who does silly things. 306 00:22:12.261 --> 00:22:15.861 If you go to a circus and there's a circus clown the they 307 00:22:15.861 --> 00:22:19.261 might have big shoes. They might ride a little tiny bike. 308 00:22:19.261 --> 00:22:25.021 A clown will do things to make you laugh. Um and we've used 309 00:22:25.021 --> 00:22:29.701 that word as well to talk about a class clown. A class clown is 310 00:22:29.701 --> 00:22:34.141 a student who's always being silly. This student is throwing 311 00:22:34.141 --> 00:22:38.541 a paper airplane. A class clown will often sit at the back. A 312 00:22:38.541 --> 00:22:43.621 class clown might make jokes about the teacher. The class 313 00:22:43.621 --> 00:22:47.621 clown might crack jokes all the time to other students. Um some 314 00:22:47.621 --> 00:22:52.001 people the chat I won't mention names are class clowns. Um in 315 00:22:52.001 --> 00:22:55.840 my lessons they like to say funny things all the time. So a 316 00:22:55.840 --> 00:22:59.800 class clown is just a student who doesn't do a lot of 317 00:22:59.801 --> 00:23:05.481 learning and tries to make people laugh a lot. Then we 318 00:23:05.481 --> 00:23:08.441 also have something called a comic strip. Let me make this 319 00:23:08.441 --> 00:23:12.681 as big as I can. A comic strip usually is found in a 320 00:23:12.681 --> 00:23:17.321 newspaper. On Saturdays when I was a kid there was a whole 321 00:23:17.321 --> 00:23:20.321 special section of the newspaper with comic strips in 322 00:23:20.321 --> 00:23:24.201 it. And one of them was called Garfield. You can see here that 323 00:23:24.201 --> 00:23:29.481 the comic stripped has several panels or frames. And in each 324 00:23:29.481 --> 00:23:35.761 frame something happens. Um let's see here. Um Not sure I 325 00:23:35.761 --> 00:23:38.201 previewed this one. I'm going to have to make it bigger 326 00:23:38.201 --> 00:23:42.241 so we can read it. Um I'd like to have something different for 327 00:23:42.241 --> 00:23:47.121 dinner. Like an opportunity to eat my own food. Uh what is it 328 00:23:47.121 --> 00:23:51.441 with your birthday? What what is it your birthday or 329 00:23:51.441 --> 00:23:56.241 something? So that's just a funny joke. Because Garfield 330 00:23:56.241 --> 00:24:00.721 the cat always eats his food. So I'm glad that was 331 00:24:00.721 --> 00:24:04.921 appropriate because I didn't preview that before I made the 332 00:24:04.921 --> 00:24:08.121 lesson. But a comic strip sometimes now they are found on 333 00:24:08.121 --> 00:24:13.241 the internet or in a newspaper. So they're they're funny things 334 00:24:13.241 --> 00:24:16.961 to read that make you laugh.