125 Comedy Sketches
And finally here are the sketches which I have not been able to correct to any great extent. I always talk about a "threshold of understanding". Once a speaker passes this threshold, one is pretty much lost. But of course, such material is excellent for ear training. But frustrating. Especially with comic sketches where one so much wants to understand. Very, very frustrating....
And the sketches on this page are very, very funny !
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After Gad Elmaleh, Elie Semoun is perhaps the best of France's male stand-up comedians. (And it turns out, strangely, that both of them have a Jewish Moroccan background). Semoun makes great use of an assumed squeaky voice which is good for taking off adolescents and - as here - cowboy builders, but is not always easy to follow. |
TMC did a whole series of shows on Les Inconnus, a comedy trio with the sort of reputation that Monty Python has in the English speaking world. The humour is a little uneven (as with Python in fact), but when it's good, it's very good. They did a lot of parodies of game shows, here Une famille en or. And the humour is quite cruel... | A strange little programme from Direct 8 Very bad blagues. Comedy programmes based around short quick-fire sketches are common enough on French television, but these two comics - David Marsais and Grégoire Ludig, are much more off-the-wall than is normal. I enjoyed it, and it makes a very stiff listening exercise | I leave the best to the last. This is from the second version of Pierre Palmade's brilliant Le grand restaurant. They did it as five little episodes in between other pieces, and I have edited it to make one piece. It is great humour, and as often with great humour, very cruel |
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