Hey naturals, what's up? It's your favorite funniest American English teacher Gabby Wallace here to talk about
Humor and not just any kind of humor, but not funny
humor
something that is called a
dad
Joke, what is a dad joke well if you look it up online? You're gonna see that it's literally defined as
humor that is not funny or a joke that is not very funny at all but I
Want to tell you about dad jokes because I think they're really fun for language learners because they're going to help you to unlock another
Layer of the English language because a lot of dad jokes
Even though they may be unoriginal or they may seem to not be very funny. They actually play with
language a lot and
Personally I'm a big fan of dad jokes so I'm gonna share five dad jokes with you that I think are hilarious
I hope you enjoy them too, and I hope you don't judge me because I think they're hilarious
But I want to start off by actually
Defining what is a dad joke why do we call it a dad joke it's the kind of humor that?
Middle-aged men particularly fathers, or dads who have family maybe children might tell so they're
appropriate jokes
And they often use puns or play on words so when a word has more than one meaning
or if you can sort of
Put two words together or maybe a word that has you know a double meaning like I said, so I'll show you some examples
Too okay, so I love dad jokes because they play with the English language
And I think that they're rich for us to learn new things about the English language, and that's why we're here right
I love this kind of humor and other languages, too
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Okay, five dad jokes are you ready we're gonna start with number one. How do you know?
When a joke is a dad joke
When it's a parent a
Parents is a word that
means clear or obvious
but when we say in two different words a
Parent a parent could be a mother a father a dad therefore a dad
Joke, huh? It's it's pretty good. Isn't it okay number two?
What did the candle say to the other candle?
What do you think?
The candle said want to go out tonight
So wanna go out obviously means to go out on a date, but when a candle flame
Goes out
That means that the flame has been extinguished, and there is no more fire
So oh did the fire go out did the flame go out? We can also use that phrasal verb and we're talking about
Candle lights so it's a double
Entendre a double meaning. I love these okay number three
Have you heard of the band?
9999 megabytes no well maybe because they're still looking for a gig oh
Oh if you're a techie I bet you love that one. I love these so nerdy, but they're so good
Okay, number four what do you call a?
singing
Computer that's right a computer that sings
any guesses
Adele
Adele you know the famous singer, but it's also uh
Dell like the brand of computer I know that one's
So-so okay last one number five. Did you hear about the kidnapping at school?
It's okay. Don't worry the teacher woke him up. Oh
ho so this one
I love the most of all especially for English learners because we can talk about the stress on a compound noun
So not only are we talking about nerdy dad jokes, but we're talking about nerdy grammar
This is my favorite stuff you guys. I love to nerd out about this so a
Kidnapping where we stress the first syllable kidnapping is when?
someone takes a child
Illegally against their will and it's not a good thing
Where they steal a child but a kid?
Napping which is two separate words a kid
subject napping the verb a kid
napping
That's fine. That's just where you're sleeping a little bit getting a little bit of rest of course you never want to nap in class
But anyway, that's why this is hilarious very funny
Right isn't it. Don't you think okay? Tell me in the comments if you thought any of these were funny
Or if you have any questions about any of these if you're not sure why any of these should be funny
Or what the double entendre is or the double meaning, and yeah?
I would love to know if you have any dad jokes to share with me
I'm always looking to add to my collection so that I can impress or perhaps
Disgust my friends by telling more dad jokes if you love this make sure as I mentioned to
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