I don't know if many of you are into it, but I often try to watch a little comedy in Spanish, and catch the gags, or just generally try to figure out what's funny about what some of these comedians are coming out with, I think it's good listening practice, which I guess we all have to do as well as grammar home work, which is why I tend to watch the national news on TVE a lot, but I was thinking, depending on how much you're into the language, you might find some of this useful, if not funny, and there is so much of it on the Web free to watch, so why not make use of it, and besides, a lot of it is in fact very funny, and I hope you will like these few links.....
I love Les Luthiers! They are hillarious but they often use plays on words in their humor so your Spanish has to be sharp to get it all. Will have to wait until I have some time to check out all these videos. But thanks for posting, I didn't know so much of their stuff was available on youtube. Lena
jajaja....we just rented a vid of Les Luthiers and it had English subtitles, which I put on. NO RELATION AT ALL between the words they spoke and the subtitles, because of all those word plays. my spanish is no where near good enough to pick them all up, but i do believe it is a very fun way to try and improve.
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hey that's right, Les Luthiers is great stuff, I really like their kind of comedy, & when I do get some of the word play jokes it's a good laugh, good clean fun (well most of the time) generally they try to keep it clean, at least I haven't heard any bad mouthing or bucket mouthing from them, so that's a good thing, seeing as too many comedians in the world today seem to really get their laughs by bucket mouthing & running down other people & general mud slinging etc, which to me is not funny, but the Radio Tertulias things & Les Luthiers is quite normal, and has been helping me to fine tune my ears to the way that certain things are put across, (I was just about to say, "at the way certain sentiments are articulated") but then changed my mind, as it can sounds a little too "grammar school" (ish) or in other words, a little too Oxford & Cambridge.
But anyways, I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying these guys as well, and as you probably noticed, there are ton of free to watch videos of them on youtube, so it's always worth doing a little searching on there for things before buying or renting, as it could save you a handful of euros, also, it has been extremely helpful to me in improving my understanding of spoken Spanish, and I hope some you will be able to use it that way as well, and get more than just a good laugh out of it.
Saludos
Posts: 696 | Location: Santander | Registered: 11 August 2003
Speaking of a play on words, I was wathcing Univisión last week and the following was said in a comedy sketch. The man held his girlfriend tight and was about to kiss her when he said:
"La cosa se está poniendo dura . . . con tu padre."
When we first think of "la cosa" we are thinking of "la polla" but in essence, he's talking about "la situación". Well, it cracked me up at least.
Shawn
"Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down" - SONG OF SOLOMON, Toni Morrison
Posts: 1255 | Location: Richmond, VA but in MADRID now | Registered: 10 February 2002
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