【英语趣味课堂】酷酷的喜剧演员-Cool Comedians

Wendi: Alright, we've been watching some comedy lately. I wanna know who your favorite comic is?

 

Ken¹: My favorite comic? It's a draw between Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock.

 

Wendi: Is Chris Rock really like, is he still doing something?

 

Ken: No, he really hasn't done anything recently, but still like, yeah, he's pretty, a pretty funny guy.

 

Wendi: He it totally funny.

 

Ken: He's hard to top.

 

Wendi: When is the last time he was totally working a lot, though?

 

Ken: It's gotta be maybe five years ago.

 

Wendi: Yeah, it's been awhile.

 

Ken: Yeah. Now he's like... I don't even know what he does anymore. Maybe he's an actor now.

 

Wendi: He's flipping² burgers.

 

Ken: Yeah, he has to feed his family.

 

Wendi: Yeah, what about Dave Chappele? What's his deal? He's kind of?

 

Ken: Dave Chapelle?

 

Wendi: He's still working?

 

Ken: Yeah. Maybe. He was really popular a couple of years ago when he was doing the Chapelle Show, a couple of his stand-ups came out, but...

 

Wendi: Is that finished?

 

Ken: He...which?

 

Wendi: The Chappelle Show.

 

Ken: It's taking a break or something. What I heard was that he went crazy and he like checked himself into an insane³ asylum⁴.

 

Wendi: For serious. For real.

 

Ken: Like all the pressure from work was getting to him and stuff. Like he just wanted break.

 

Wendi: That's so amazing.

 

Ken: Or he ran off to Africa or something.

 

Wendi: You know what, that is just incredible⁵ because, it's like you know, the whole grass is greener concept. It's like, you think if you're a comedian⁶ and you're making people laugh all day and you're on stage and you're laughing too that you're probably having fun but at the end of the day, I guess work's work.

 

Ken: Yeah, work's work and he was doing, like he mentioned in stand-up he was working maybe 16, 18, 20 hours a day.

 

Wendi: Really!

 

Ken: Yeah, so even like hard to study...

 

Wendi: What was he doing for 20 hours a day?

 

Ken: Uh, like just doing his show. Like I guess it takes a lot of preparation and...

 

Wendi: That's crazy.

 

Ken: Even with all the help in the world, I guess he's still, you know, you have to make it quality, so it takes time and effort.

 

Wendi: Yeah.

 

Ken: So, even if it is comedy, it might not be fun twenty hours a day.

 

Wendi: I guess that's like the funny thing, you just think if someone's a comedian, it just all comes naturally. It's like it all just comes spur of the moment, but I guess the real thing is that a lot of work goes into it.

 

Ken: Yeah, I think so. Like to be creative on a consistent⁷ basis is probably isn't the easiest thing in the world.

 

Wendi: Yeah. I think so. It sure is for me anyways.

 

Wendi: Are you a Seinfeild fan?

 

Ken: Seinfeild...

 

Wendi: Not really. I'm reading your body language.

 

Ken: No, I did watch a few episodes⁸, here and there, when it was on TV and I was bored, but...

 

Wendi: You're not a big fan?

 

Ken: Like I started watching it after the show ended like you know when everybody was watching the season finale, like I had never really regularly watched the show and I didn't even catch the season finale, but so, me friends were like, "Did you watch it? Did you watch it?" and I'm like, "No."

 

Wendi: I think it's brilliant. I think it's incredibly brilliant.

 

Ken: Yeah, it's a good show.

 

Wendi: Yeah.

1 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

2 flipping   

讨厌之极的

参考例句：

• I hate this flipping hotel! 我讨厌这个该死的旅馆！
• Don't go flipping your lid. 别发火。

3 insane   

adj.蠢极的，荒唐的，精神错乱的，疯狂的

参考例句：

• Insane people are sometimes dangerous.精神病人有时非常危险。
• The letter made her insane with jealousy.那封信使她妒忌得发疯。

4 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

5 incredible   

adj.难以置信的，不可信的，极好的，大量的

参考例句：

• Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
• Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。

6 comedian   

n.喜剧演员；滑稽演员

参考例句：

• The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
• The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。

7 consistent   

adj.坚持的，一贯的，一致的，符合的

参考例句：

• He has been a consistent friend to the Chinese people.他是中国人民始终如一的朋友。
• His action is always consistent with his words.他始终言行一致。

8 episodes   

插曲，片断( episode的名词复数 )； 一集

参考例句：

• The novel deals with the romantic episodes of her early life. 小说叙述了她早期生活的浪漫插曲。
• Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme. 把叁集的内容压缩成了一个节目。