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B1 Intermediate English 5:02 Educational

Jerry Seinfeld Interview: How to Write a Joke | The New York Times

The New York Times · 3,074,995 views · Added 1 month ago

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B1

CEFR Level

5/10

Difficulty

Subtitles (113 segments)

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I know you think people are going to be

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interested in this but they're

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[Music]

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not I've probably been working on this

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for 2 years 2 years I mean usually I

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write a bit in a couple days it's a long

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time to spend on something that means

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absolutely nothing but that's what I do

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that's what people want me to do is

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spend a lot of time uh

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wastefully so that then I can then waste

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their time comedy writing is something

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you don't see people doing it's a

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secretive thing I've never shown anybody

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this stuff I feel a little funny about

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it right now to tell you the

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truth in comedy what you do is you think

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of something that you think is funny and

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then you go from there it's a fun thing

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to say poptart I like the first line to

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be funny right away when I was a kid and

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they invented the poptart the back of my

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