AEE 2640: Let’s Roast the All Ears English Team!
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2640. Let's roast the All Ears English team.
Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
What is the theme of today's episode on roasting?
We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, and Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, coming to you from Arizona and New York City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe.
Have you ever roasted someone? Did you know that AI can roast you? Today you'll learn what roasts are all about in American culture and hear a roast of each of the All Ears English hosts.
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Hello, Michelle. How are you today?
I'm doing well, Aubrey. How are you?
Excellent. I am very excited for today's episode. We have never done anything like this before. It's new and it's going to be very fun. I think listeners are really going to get a kick out of this.
Okay, I'm so excited. So, Aubrey, have you ever roasted anyone?
Yes, I did. We had a neighbor that we knew really well. We were very good friends. And then they moved to Atlanta. And we planned a roast. We didn't tell them we were surprising them. We all planned a little roast of them. And they were easy to roast. They were fun to roast because they're just really funny, interesting people who there was so many fun things to poke fun at. And so I roasted the funniest thing I remember roasting him about is he's Italian and he does this thing where he will take fresh shaved Parmesan. And he puts it under his lip like it's dip, like tobacco. And he just like holds it there. And he just loves the flavor of Parmesan. And he has it. He has like a cheese dip in his lip at all times.
And I remember making fun of that in his roast. It's so funny. I don't know anyone else that does that. So funny.
That's an interesting one. Yeah, I love it. Oh, so that's cool. So yeah, we're talking about this word roast. So Aubrey, but what is a roast?
Yeah, this is a type of humor where someone is playfully mocked or insulted, but in a very witty, exaggerated way.
How can roasting be a fun cultural practice?
It's usually in front of an audience, which that was. It was like all of our neighbors and we were just all laughing and they were laughing. It was all like playful. Nothing was super mean spirited. And yeah, usually one person is the target of the jokes, but they're also in on the jokes. They are usually also laughing. A good roast, they will also be laughing.
yes right exactly so um yeah it's a series of jokes at one person's expense um and yeah like you said delivered by friends colleagues or comedians and like and another thing an important point again is it's meant to be funny not genuinely hurtful um and i always just think of you know a classic example is the celebrity roast um Did you ever see on Comedy Central?
Absolutely. Did you see the Tom Brady roast? I laughed so hard.
That's my favorite one. No, I didn't. I didn't see it.
If you guys out there haven't seen it, look it up after this episode. So Nikki Glaser is one of many comedians who roast Tom Brady. And there's a really not famous, but I've heard a lot of people talking about there's a joke. I guess Tom Brady lost some money with Bitcoin, I guess, based on something she says. And she's kind of teasing him. And she's also making fun of somebody else that was there, a friend and football player that he plays with named Rob Gronkowski. They call him Gronk. And she's making fun of him for losing money. She's like, even grunks like me know that not real money. And she talks like he's a Neanderthal sort of and everyone was dying.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:18
2
What is the theme of today's episode on roasting?
0:18–3:06
3
How can roasting be a fun cultural practice?
3:06–10:22
4
What does it mean to roast someone in American culture?
10:22–11:29
5
What are the characteristics of a good roast?
11:29–16:02
6
Why are roasts considered entertaining?
16:02–18:44
Speakers
6 identifiedMore from All Ears English Podcast
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