hello everybody we have a special
episode today we are collaborating with
our great friend chris from learn
british english for free and this is part 2
of the two-part episode on comedy TV
shows that we think English learners
could really benefit from listening to and
watching er so myself Charlie
we also have our partner in crime
Harry Gyles hello, hi everyone and we
have the lovely Chris. Chris how are you today?
Hello, I'm very well thank you and really
honored to be here thank you for the
invitation
I'm delighted to join you for this conversation.
Our pleasure
our pleasure Chris do you wanna start us off?
yep thank you Harry I wanted to talk about
one of the most famous british comedies
It's quite an older now it's not so recent rea
it's called "Dad's Army" and its really
famous here in Britain. It's called "Dad's Army"
and the clue is in the title
it's about the Army during the Second
World War. It follows a group of men in a
town in the South of England and they
formed a small army to protect their town
in case there were any invasions or
enemies came there and it was a really
funny story because you have many
different characters there for example the Captain.
Captain Mainwaring who was a bank manager
You stupid boy
and you had one of the soldiers was Corporal Jones
who was a butcher a person who owns
a shop which sells meat
don't panic don't panic right,
don't don't panic you're alright
and they got into lots of funny episodes
and funny situations in their various
adventures whilst practicing being in the Army
they never really did any fighting
Yeah, I was going to say umm a lot of most of
their time was in the in the training camp, wasn't it?
That's right because they were a
special kind of Army called the Home Guard
So their job was to protect their town they
didn't actually go and fight anyone.
So all of the time they were training and practicing
and posing with their guns.
One of the funniest
scenes was when they actually capture
some foreign enemies and they have to
guard them for a short time so they take
them to one of their bases and they're
having an argument because one of the
enemy says "Oh we're going to win the war"
and the Captain says
"You're not gunna win this war"
"Oh yes we are"
"Oh no you're not"
"Oh yes we are"
"and I'm going to make a list of everyone here
and when we win
you're going to be in trouble
we're going to, we're going to punish you
and I'll make sure of that."
"and your name will go on the list."
and when we win the war you will be brought to account"
and then one of them
says something rude to him
and he says
What's your name I'm going to put it on my list.
Your name will also go on the list.
What is it?
Don't tell him Pike!
Pike.
and by mistake he says the name of the person
and the Captain goes "ah Pike, i'm going to write you on my list."
and the other soldier is very upset because of it
but this is a really famous scene in British comedy.
Luckily I suppose he never had the
opportunity to hunt down Pike.
I don't believe so, no.
in regards to the humour umm I was looking up
and and a lot of them say tongue-in-cheek
Do you know how to explain tongue-in-cheek?
It's quite a difficult one I think.
Yeah, not really but i'll try.
It means that you are perhaps making jokes about a
situation and and you're not taking it
seriously at all so you'll you'll make a
joke and may be similar to mocking
Yeah!
in that you're not being,
you're not being serious about a situation
yeah exactly. Chaz, what's your umm do you
want to go onto your one of your favs?
Yeah! Umm so yeah my preferred for now is
'Da Ali G Show' Booyakasha!
and this show is very exaggerated and playing
on a character in England.
He kind of mimics, he's kind of
mocking a London street slang.
"In dis section you is gunna be taught
to speak real English like me
Booyakasha, swallow back, holler"
Why you so licky licky ya wanga God
Innit!
Really really informal language and he
interviewed a lot of very formal people
he even did an interview with Donald Trump.
And how does I call you like?
You can just call me Donald
For real, it's Trump innit?
Right
T...R...Oh it's up there innit...
He was especially successful
when he went over to America because
they didn't recognize him and he was
able to take some serious interviews and
then on camera the formal people would melt down
and they'd just be like this is ridiculous
I'm out, yeah. Meltdown? Okay, yeah meltdown would
be to get so stressed out and annoyed
that they would give up and and and just
walk out
yeah there was umm there was one that I
really like and it was a play on words as
well he was talking to three doctors and
he said what is this with doctors ending
people's lives. Do they get the right to
end old people's lives? And they all said
that's euthanasia.
Why is it the responsibility of the
youth in asia for killing someone else?
Euthanasia is the term that's used when
you are killing. It's a nice word for killing.
Well whatever you were saying that
its mainly asian youths that is...
no no no no no
Does you think that they're responsible for this?
You don't also agree with him?
Who's responsible for this?
The youth in Asia.
I think we're getting confused here.
So, for listeners
euthanasia, one word, euthanasia
we might type it in the description means to end
someone's life if they are finding it too
miserable to continue. Where as he
heard it has three different words
Youth in Asia, completely different.
So, yeah.
Euthanasia is legal in Switzerland, is it not?
Yeah,
Yeah?
I don't know why I said that with a big smile on my face
Great, yeah!
So, well thank you very much
for watching this video
with our special guest Chris from
"Learn British English Free"
So please check out his channel.
The link to his channel is in the description below
and also watch the first part of this video series.
which we'll find over on Chris's Channel.
Thank you very much guys.
Thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure.
Ahh the pleasure was all ours see you
and goodbye everybody else
yeah
Bye bye
Thank you very much bye bye
Thanks Chris
Take care.