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I love this episode. As a non-native English speaker, I can laugh and learn at the same time. Thank you, Luke, you're helping me to enjoy more English jokes. I love these jokes: ”Bad example“，”Sluggish snail“，“You have my WORD”，"Mirror Factory“，“Being frank”，“The Titanic is syncing”，”Calendar factory“，”Seasoned veteran“，“Sleep naturally“，“Resisting a rest”. Double meaning jokes are very funny to me. I also learned several idioms and vocabularies, love it !

I love this episode. These jokes are a great help to remember new words. (Never worry about the frogs, many are still alive.) Beside the jokes and vocabulary, I also enjoy learning the cultural differences in respect of humour. Great channel, great video, thank you!

Luke, being a non native speaker in Malaysia, I could understand most of the jokes. Your explanation is crystal clear n I learned new vocab. Puns are fun altho challenging to grasp. Thk you for making this podcast so interesting.

Thank you for your immense work, Luke! Not long ago I started listening to your podcasts and I really enjoy them.

Hi,Luke.I enjoyed your lesson on humor.I'm an Argentine teacher and I do understand how dificultad it's to explain students to get Jokes in a foreign language.you're a great actor and teacher.congrats! Julio.

This is so brilliant to listen to! Thank you for making these podcasts and videos, Luke!

The best one: " I'm a big metal fan".

As a Russian person I found joke about rushing people very funny and clever 😂 thank you so much for your work. It’s really useful. Love to listen you before sleeping ❤

I really like Luke's English podcasts, they help me to learn english better, i wanna participate in his zoom lessons

I am really keen on podcasts about the jokes. Thanks for that idea, especially now, when only jokes can save us.

Hi teacher Luke, i find this episode very interesting, I am a teacher of English as foreign language and I have understood just some of them , not easy at all to teach jokes for learners , thanks so much for sharing this with us I really like it and I have learnt much from it , thnx again

I have been learning and teaching English for years but I found your podcast the best and really worth watching.

Great episode! :-) I am amused. I understood like 75% of the jokes. I wrote down 5 of them which I found really funny. (completely useless, cows and bells, light faster than sound, camouflage trousers, sleeping) :-D Thank you! You made my day!

for the first stage 14 out of 22 , i found them too funny. I understood the rest through your explaining and most of them were funny, thanks alot

Everytime I learned a new joke a funny smile has appeared on my face. Thanks a lot 😄

Excellent I am a Spanish speaker , student of English and I found some funny and I had to wait till the explanation to fully understand the others. Great job!!!

Although I don't laugh, I find these jokes quite useful to remember vocabulary and I love the way you explain meanings of words or phrases. It's easy to understand and remember. Thanks a lot!!!!!

Hi Luke, It is a brilliant idea to talk about jokes. Now, I have a lot of associations for remembering new words. I got 5 of 22 jokes at the first stage. After your explanations, everything is clearly. 🐸 My favorite ones are about a snail, Titanic syncing and kleptomaniacs. Million thanks for your work:)

I love this episode very much! I did not really understand the points for some of the jokes until you explained the details. It is a really helpful episode, thanks a lot, Luke!

Dear Luke, thank you very much! I admire your podcasts and find them very helpful! You do a great job!🎉🎉🎉

Thank you, Luuuuke! I like this type of episodes. I got almost all the jokes (20/22) except the one with iceberg and the one about a double entendre. Merci for all the explanations)) They are enjoyable to listen to even after understanding the joke. And I laughed out loud at most of them

English is my second language and I’ve been trying to improve it every day. I am so happy that I found your page, I like a lot your videos. Thank you

Jajaja the jokes themselves didn´t make me laugh so hard as Luke´s comments! Love really easy-going, relaxed and funny, but still smart way you teach us! Thanks for existing)

You were born for this buddy. Love your style, your voice is perfect for podcasting and I'm so pleased you've got shitloads of followers. Good on ya mate! YootClub forever! XXX

Thanks Luke! I like your podcast very much!!! You are great!

Great !! Very precious to take part in everyday conversation with pales. Never found before ! Thank's a lot. Will you post any more ? With short stories too. 😊 Kind Regards.

When I first listened to you say them, I understand some of them but after you explain them so I cracked. The best one, I'm a big metal fan.

very enjoyable for all the 22 jokes and your explanations. Thank you 😊

The episode is very well thought to teach the English aspirants. Appreciate!

Luke, thank you))) You are sooo charming 🕺 Your videos - the best way of learning English. Have a great day ☀️

Thank you Luke. It is funnier when you tell then and seeing your face or hearing your intonation than the joke itself. You always do such a great job teaching english, always funny and enjoyble.

Great! I guess they are very English...You don't get the explanation in books and that's why I find this video so useful. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this podcast. Dissection of jokes is my favorite topic. However, not all frogs died in the process. When Luke was explaining the joke "sleeping comes so naturally to me" and noticed that it would be unnatural to do it with open eyes, it made me laugh))

Very good to see you Sir. U r always been my inspiration.

Hi! luke Thank you so much for your english lecture! It's wonderful 😁

Love this episode! I had great fun listening and learned new words like slug.

You always do a wonderful work,explaining very well, in detall everything.Many thanks

Thank you for your work, Luke! It´s fabulous!!! Some months ago I started listening to your podcasts to refresh my sleeping english for a trip. I really enjoy them. I came back from my trip and I keep listening to them. Some were good jokes. Congrats!!!

I love your way of teaching language. thank you.

Great Mr Luke, Keep it up!

Oh, I learned a lot from this vid, and have so much fun!! Thank you Luke!!

Metal ventilator! 🤣 So useful for learning, so please, upload more material like this. Thx Luke!

thanks for your videos here and at the same time your podcasts on google podcasts , your fan from Iran , all the bests 👍👍👍

It's so interesting to study humour of different countries. It's true when one says that if you understand jokes, you understand language. Listening the joke about light and speaking, I remmembered a Russian version of this. Three friends met. One asked: What is the fastest thing in the world? The first guy said: - I think, it's light. The second said: - No, I think, it's word: A word spoken is past recalling. The third guy protested: - Hmm, I think, the fastest thing in the world is diarrhea. I had it yesterday and had no time to switch the light on or say a word;) I hope my translation is understandable) have a good day! sorry for mistakes

The jokes went well. Luke, you are a typical English man. Very understated and this makes it funnier. As a native Kiwi practitioner, of English,I smirked mostly but more than a few good laughs.

Hey Luke, good work, i almost understood all of them, and i think they weren´t bad, more than a half of them made me smile.

Thank you so much x this episode, so much fun. Very useful for learning new vocab in a fun way. I laughed at a few of them, smiled at most of them. Did not get at all a few. Such as the one on tyson and at the bar. Thanks a lot again!

Thank you for the podcast ❤❤❤

It is just brilliant episode!!! Many thanks

very good. I am a Persian but I want to learn English. I enjoying this videos. be successful.

Thanks from Lithuania! Perfect jokes, I really enjoy your content!

Thank you. You are a veteran teacher . I really enjoyed this episode

Good podcast, enjoyable! I understood majority of the jokes (with exception of the ones using very special vocabulary such as pirate and hot blonde). The best one for me is the three old child resisting a rest! I really love that one (frankly, all your podcasts)!

Luke is so funny. I really enjoy listening and watch his videos

Thank you for helping poor people who can't buy lessons You make hope and smile for every one Iam women from algeria

Thanks a lot, your explanations are done in a very clear and straightforward manner, so that every single detail is very clear! As for me, I've got almost each joke from the very beginning, but for a couple of some jokes (about a hot blond and a poor bastard and probably one more)

Thanks Luke for the explanation, useful for expanding the vocabulary and remembering the words because in context. I understood three or four jokes before the dissection! My favorites are "useless as a bad example" and "brilliant before speaking", I guess because these are not just jokes, but also elegant ways to say "idiot" or "stupid" to someone without using direct words and if it is, that person does not understand. I always find this kind of jokes very funny, maybe because I'm not capable of it, my brain is not so fast, so sometimes I think things like that but too late. Maybe I'm the idiot :-)

Hi Luc. I understood more than I thought I would, 17 out of 22. For example, I didn't get the Mike Tyson joke. But after you explained it, I got it and laughed. We'll see what happens next. I think both Titanic jokes are very good.

Hi.it was great .i found it so useful and it made me laughed ,as well. THANK YOU.🎧☘👏

Thanks. I appreciate your way of explaning. It's funny.

I looove this class, thank you very much 🤗

Accidentally i drop into this , i enjoy hearing the lecture. Many thanks to yoy

Great episode. The great joke was: - Can i be a frank - Can you be just Luke. I get 4 of 22 jokes in first round. the joke with cows is the best, I think. i remember joke from a mentor: It's better talk nothing and looks like an idiot, then open mouth and confirm it.

Thank you very much Luke. I love being hearing you even though I understand not much.

Enjoyed at lots of it (Although I understood only a pair before they were explained) The one about mirrors I liked most, also because I can't help laughing when looking at my own face. Regards Luke!!

The jokes about kleptomaniacs and Tyson made me laugh 😁. So smart There are another two that I like: 1. I tried to sue the airport for misplacing my luggage. I lost my case. 2. So.. I said to the waitress...”can I ask about the menu please”? She screamed back “the men I please are none of your business..”!! Wordplay puns are always funny Thanks for the video 😂

Hi Luke! thank you for this great podcast! May I write down what i get from these jokes: 1) Ironic: You make the person feel better and useful, but as a bad example 2) To feel sluggish means to have a weak body and slow thinking with cloudy mind after a daytime nap. Also “sluggish” means similar to another creature like a snail but without a shell (slug) 3) First sentence is the statistics that shows the level of crime incidence in London: every 52 seconds someone is getting stabbed with a knife. But the structure of the sentence might suggest that one person repeatedly is stabbed every 52 seconds. Second sentence is said when you feel empathy to someone in trouble 4) “You have my word” has two meanings. One is a promise to do something, eg, “I’ll bring you money at 6 am. You have my word”. The second is that someone who has stolen Microsoft Office software now has the Microsoft Office Word too. 5) Fog is a cloud on the ground. Mist is like a fog but a bit tinner. “Missed” and “Mist” are homophones 6) “To see oneself doing something” is an imagination that comes to you when you’re thinking what job should you apply for. But in the sentence this can also have a literal meaning 7) Pirates usually say “Aye” (a colloquial way to say “Yes”) and “Matey” meaning “Mate”. So usually pirates say, “Aye Matey” (Mate) what sounds similar to “I’m eighty” 8) “Horn” has double meanings, one is horns of bulls and cows and second is the musical instrument like a trumpet. 9) Plagiarism is stealing of someone else’s idea. Someone came up with (invented) stealing someone else’s word or text 10) “Double entendre” is a comment that could have a sexual meaning but it sounds like a name of cocktail. “Gave it to her” is also a double entendre 11) Lisp is a speech impediment (шепелявость). Someone who has lisp can’t pronounce “s” and “ʃ”. Words “think” and “unthinkable” sound for them like “sink” and “unsinkable”. So, “How do you sink the unsinkable?” - “With an iceberg” (pronounced like “itheberg” because Mike Tyson is famous for having lisp) 12) Another version of the proverb, “Keep silent and you look wise, until you speak and show up your stupidity” 13) Frank is also a person’s name, so Tom have a split personality (like a person with schizophrenia) because he said being also Frank (not frank - brutally honest) 14) “Syncing” means synchronizing and is a homophone for “sinking” that Titanic was in April, 1912 15) Puns are words that sound similar but have different meanings. Puns also might be some kinds of play on words, or words collocations, that have literal and figurative meanings. It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they can’t take things figuratively, they take them literally (steal them) 16) “Big metal fan” has two meanings: 1) a fan of heave metal music, 2) a fan made of metal (windmill looks like a big fan made of metal) 17) “Take a day off” has two meanings: 1) not to go to work due your sickness, 2) to reduce the amount of days in calendar (eg., in April month) 18) The word “seasoned” is used to emphasize the high level of experience that veteran has (someone who has many seasons experience); Pepper and mustard are related to seasonings. So if the person has an experience of exposure to pepper spray and mustard gas might be called seasoned (exposed to seasonings) veteran 19) Camouflage (khaki) is kind of clothes that help you blend in surroundings, so no one can see you. That’s why it’s OK not to find a camouflage trousers, because they’re normally supposed not to be seen 20) “Missis hippie” is pronounced “Mississippi” because “h” letter is usually silent (omitted) like in “Check’im out” 21) If you do something with your eyes closed (figurative meaning), you do it without much efforts. If something comes to you naturally that means you don’t need to try it or to learn it. Sleeping comes naturally to you, because you do this with your eyes closed (literally) 22) “Resisting a rest” sounds like “Resisting arrest” Please keep doing this kind of lessons! Take care!

Thank you Luke i’m Eduardo from Argentina. useful explanations I got sames and others you explain it to me and make sense

I enjoyed this episode a lot Thank you!!!

You are the best teacher, Luke! 👍My favourite joke is the one of the seasoned veteran 😊

You are a gifted teacher, as they say in Germany. And in Russia they would say, so you are a teacher of God. 😊

I really appreciate your efforts thank you so much. By the way, I enjoyed hearing you telling and explaining those jokes, perhaps I prefer mirror and Microsoft jokes

enjoyed this a lot, it's very good. thanks so much

Thank you for this clip. I have been thinking of asking you to talk about British joke / British humour. Appreciated.

Thank you for the jokes and nice explanations to them.

Even after your dissecting the SLUGGISH joke is so funny hahaha Thank u so much and really love this episode!

I really loved this class!!!

Also one other joke I came across recently and like it: Why did scarecrow win an award? Because it stand out in its fields 😂

Nice jokes, great talk. Feel rushing to tell some to my russian buds. Thank you for all the explanation though how you do it.

Well done !!! Keep it going this way and I’ll be expert in English. With respect, Rasul from Russia.

All clever. Definitely my kind of humour. Didn't understand the double entendre one. Laughed at the last one. Thanks for sharing 😊

Dear Luke, I love all your joke's episodes. I can't usually catch all of jokes, of course! But I consider it as a great chance to touch to English humour. How patient you are to all this explanations. Well done!

Thank you for your videos! 🔥🔥🔥

I love it , love your class , thanks

Thank you for explaining jokes. As I often don't get the jokes in English. It is such a good way to understand the differences for cultural. Plus, the joke' you have my word',for me, I feel it is a kind of warning as well as promising.

"I renamed my iPod The Titanic. When I plug it in, it says The titanic is syncing" is the joke that I like most. It is very funny. When I heard this joke, I was confused between sinking and syncing, but then I realized it's actually hilarious. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for the great teaching.

My favourite? 'That's why some people apperar bright until you hear them speak '

Can’t take my eyes/ears off LEP!

Hi, Luke! I got a half of the jokes at the first attempt. Favourite one is about sinking Titanik. You know jokes are not as funny as the way you explaine them)) you are the best

I adore your lessons

I like your KZfaq. Its very useful for listening training.

This is my favorite once; Sleeping comes so naturally to me. I could it with my eyes closed.

Hey! Many jokes made me lough 🤣 I needed explanation for the "double entendre" (unknown words) and Mike Tyson. And I didn't know the direct meaning of a "seasoned veteran", although I got the sense of the joke from the "spicy" point of view. And I didn't know the word stabbed. That was a sad joke. This episode is hilarious!

My favorit one is this about Mike Tyson :How do you think the unthinkable . Mike Tyson said with an itheberg.

Thanks a lot Luke for this very entertaining episode ! I got 11 out of 22 ! I am keen on the one on "camouflage trousers" ! It's a french word, so it was very easy for me to understand this one. The one with the 3-years old "rest" is a great one too ! ;-)

I listened to your explanation three times before I caught the pun: "sink the unsinkable" and "think of the unthinkable." And I was sure that LISP has only one meaning (an abbreviation for one of the programming languages). Thank you for your efforts.

I have come across this podcast only today and I'm already becoming addicted I'm afraid...

Loved it!! Thank you ❤