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Comedy with an Accent

Comedy with an accent - comedy with a different point of view! Join Taiwanese comedian Kuan-wen as he finds out the amusing tales, obstacles and strategies of other non-native speakers who perform English stand up comedy on the UK circuit. We also peek into the comedians" foreign upbringings and cultures, how they approach the English language, how they switch between languages and any random anecdotes that get caught in the chitchats. Leave your comments on the podcast"s Instagram page

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39:00

S01E28 Joshua Bethania, Kannada/ Tamil/ Hindi/...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/06/06

Having only started performing comedy in the UK in 2021, Joshua was crowned winner of So You Think You Are Funny in 2022 and bagged another win at London Comedy Store gong show. He was finalist at BBC New Comedy Award 2022 and nominated as Best Newcomer by Chortle. The Southern India's native came to the UK for a corporate job and he only took up a comedy course to get better at communication doing his corporate job, These achievements and credits were unintended. Equally unintended is his

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36:40

S01E27 Jomi Cruz, Portuguese speaker - From Cascais,...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/05/23

Our very first Portuguese guest is comedian Jomi Cruz who radiates tons of youthful energy and resembles a junior Eurovision contestant. Jomi shares how he acquired a quasi American accent that is not good enough to fool Americans but just enough to trick some Brits. Jomi chats about the few stereotypes associated with Portugal for British audience but the one bad joke about Madeline McCann* that is sure to put punters off but 1 out of every 5 new open mic comics tempts to do.Sounding not typically

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37:13

S01E26 Evaldas Karosas, Lithuanian speaker - From...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/05/09

Evaldas could have stayed in his native Lithuania and earned much more from doing comedy. After all, he started performing at a critical time in Lithuania when anyone who decided to perform was almost automatically a professional comedian.Instead, the hopeless romantic fan of stand up comedy came to the UK and started again from bottom of the barrel - doing open mic gigs all over the place to work his way up. All these because he saw a visiting pro and concluded he had to leave to get good. Your

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42:03

S01E25 Sam See, English / Singlish speaker - From...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/04/25

Described by some as the "mother hen" of Singapore's burgeoning stand up comedy scene, Sam has just performed his solo show "Government Approved Sex" to critical acclaim at this year's Melbourne Comedy Festival.This episode was recorded at the start of 2023 when Sam returned to the UK after a mini-tour in continental Europe (preceded by a full Edinburgh fringe run last summer).Sam shares why his mother tongue Mandarin isn't his most proficient language - something that is not uncommon for

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37:25

S01E24 Anne Klein, Luxembourgish/ German/ French...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/04/11

Actor and comedian Anne Klein is the first Oscar nominee (In the short film The Red Suitcase) and the first Luxembourgish guest on this podcast. Fluent in English, French, German and her native Luxembourgish, Anne has this amazing ability to switch between languages and disguises her accent(s) to fool inattentive listeners.Anne talked about being the oddball that is too weird for her small country and her coming of age after she left Luxembourg. The pandemic ironically forced her to move back home

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39:50

S01E23 Adam Hopkins, English/Mandarin Speaker (West...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/03/28

This week, your host Kuan-wen would like to introduce the burgeoning comedy scenes in his native Taiwan - both in English and in Mandarin - as an example of how Asia is catching the stand up comedy fever (and catching up!). Since he has not lived in Taiwan for over a decade, the introduction is recorded through the eyes of an Englishman who has spent the last few years first in Shanghai and then in Taipei.Outside comedy, Adam is a journalist who moved to Asia for work and perhaps for a bit of change

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41:18

S01E22 Viggo Venn, Norwegian speaker - From Oslo,...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/03/14

Our mini Scandinavia tour comes back to Norway again after two recent episodes feauturing guests from Denmark and Sweden. Viggo Venn, previously half of clowning duo Zack & Viggo, is our second guest from Norway.Viggo trained as a clown at the renowned École Philippe Gaulier, where he is now a member of the teaching staff. His clowning instinct - a desire to entertain and a persistence to embrace failures ("flops") - meant this recording has been the most chaotic and disruptive to date. But it

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48:29

S01E21 Evelyn Mok, Swedish / Cantonese speaker - From...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/02/28

Evelyn Mok is well known for being the former co-host of the (now retired) Rice to Meet You Podcast and the creative mind behind multiple popular sketches. The Swedish native is also one of the highest-profile comedian of East Asian heritage in the UK, who now spends her time between both countries.Evelyn talked about how the feeling of being "other'ed in Sweden in her childhood prompted her to mimic a near perfect American accent as an escape. She also shared the cadence employed earlier in her

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47:56

S01E20 Stephen Buchanan, English speaker (Glaswegian...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/02/14

“Are you the WHSmith guy?” Stephen Buchanan is known by strangers these days for his viral sketch clips, shared so widely that he’d be stopped and recognised by random people on the street. He won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2018; he is a third of the popular podcast Some Laughs and part of the new generation of comedy talents coming out of Glasgow, a city that has produced exceptional performers from Frankie Boyle, Kevin Bridges, Larry Dean to Billy Connolly.With one of the most consistent guest’s

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39:51

S01E19 Cansu Karabiyik, Danish / Kurdish / Turkish...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/01/31

"What's your mother tongue?" A simple question.. Cansu Karabiyik, our guest this week, replied, "That's a complicated question. I don't really have a national identity anymore."As a Kurdish/Turkish Danish citizen who studied abroad first in America then at Cambridge University in the UK, Cansu is an example that national identity and our relationship with a language may not always be straightforward.Cansu in this episode talks to your host Kuan-wen about how she had to adjust her comedy performing

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29:20

S01 Bonus Episode [Recorded in Mandarin] 美國相聲暨中文脫口秀 /...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/01/22

[Notes for our non-Mandarin-speaking listeners, this is a one-off special episode recorded in Mandarin. We will be back to our normal bi-weekly episode in English on Jan 31st]先祝各位聽眾一聲新年快樂，兔年行大運。上一集以英文訪問來自美國波士頓，但在中國以相聲和單口喜劇走紅的艾杰西（Jesse Appell）。錄音當天，我們以中文分別又錄製了這一集。本集中文內容集中於主持人冠文與杰西討論中國與台灣所用中文的差異、杰西闡述他中文如何學到如此入骨的歷程、以及中國相聲「說、學、逗、唱」四大要點。看看杰西的中文好得多驚為天人杰西於中國電視節目表演內容

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40:53

S01E18 Jesse Appell, Mandarin Standup performer,...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/01/17

Ahead of the Chinese New Year, we are rejiggling the podcast's format slightly. Our guest this week is Jesse Appell, a native English speaker from Boston, USA who performs stand up comedy in Mandarin and whose career started in China. This reverses our usual format of interviewing non-native English speakers who perform English stand up.Known as 艾杰西 in China, Jesse has performed on Chinese TV and apprenticed over 7 years under the late Chinese Xiang Sheng* Master 丁广泉（Ding Guang-Quan）Having started

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48:12

S01E17 Steffan Alun, Welsh speaker - From Abertawe...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2023/01/03

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! The first episode in 2023 took your host to the Land of Song on the British isles - Wales. Steffan, more often in his Welsh tongue, is a Radio host, TV presenter and household name in his native Wales. Steffan also performs throughout the UK in English, a language he only became fluent in his teens.The Swansea native's love for his culture and his langue is evident throughout this interview.Steffan shared how he thinks in Welsh, how his skills at translating between the English

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35:27

S01E16 Sergi Polo - Catalan/Castillan Spanish...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2022/12/20

Bon Nadal! Feliz Navidad! Our last guest in 2022 is our third Spanish-speaking guest - also the podcast's first Catalan speaker - the self-titled "Lovely Boy From Barcelona" Sergi Polo.Fresh from being nominated for the prestigious Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, Sergi is a regular at the popular Angel comedy in London who is known for his snappy, sharp and witty gags. Just check his Instagram page for the reels and you'll get an idea.Your host Kuan-wen had an interesting discussion with

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40:55

S01E15 Jin Hao Li, Mandarin/Singlish/English speaker...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2022/12/06

Baby comic Jin Hao Li is still studying at the University of St Andrews, but he already amassed a remarkable win at the legendary Comedy Store Gong Show in London and got through to the final of Chortle Student Comedy Award this year; A fellow veteran comedian described him as "You are a baby who is walking - but you are not supposed to!"The Singaporean comedy prodigy explains in this episode why he does not carry the usual sound of Southern Chinese dialects like many fellow Singaporeans do. Jin Hao

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48:56

S01E14 Freddi Gralle, German speaker - From Berlin,...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2022/11/22

Your host Kuan-wen describes Freddi as one of the best kept secrets to comedy audience in the UK and the US.Freddi has been a veteran on the Berlin stand up comedy scene, one of the largest in a non-English-speaking country in Europe thanks to the large number of expats in the city. In fact, it should be two scene"s", since Freddi used to perform both in German and in fluent English and the two only have a limited amount of crossovers. Most expat comedians perform only in English; more German comics

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48:36

S01E13 Sahil Shah, Hindi/ Gujarati/ Marathi speaker -...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2022/11/08

India's stand up comedy star Sahil Shah has been in this business for over a decade.He has been at the forefront of India's modern stand up comedy scene and has pretty much grown with the scene. It started with comedy sketches uploaded to Youtube, later packed out live shows. This year, he performed for the first time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the UK - including a week at the Comedy with an Accent showcase - and was scouted by Soho Theatre to bring his own show to London.On the eve of his

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47:04

S01E12 Esther Manito, English/ Arabic Speaker (Essex...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2022/10/25

Live at the Apollo star Esther Manito started performing stand up comedy only as recently as 2016 - not to forget we should probably count two years out because of the pandemic. The ex teacher has since brought two critically claimed solo shows (Crusade, #NotAllMen) to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and become the first female comedian to perform at Dubai Opera House.Describing herself as an "Essex Arab Girl Comedian", Esther is in her own words a chameleon of accents having grown up between mixed

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45:33

S01E11 President Obonjo, Laftian (?) speaker - From...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2022/10/10

For the avoidance of doubt, President Obonjo is a comedy character created by Anglo-Nigerian comedian Benjamin Bankelo Bello.In clear contrast to the brash, uber-confident and larger-than-life self-appointed African dictator in exile who speaks with a thick African accent, the comedian Benjamin Bankelo Bello is a soft-spoken, suburban Englishman who often wears a cardigan on top of his shirt.Benjamin has stormed his way on to the British comedy circuit as President Obonjo for more than a decade. So

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46:07

S01E10 Victoria Olsina, Spanish speaker - From...

Comedy with an Accent ·

2022/09/26

Fresh from winning the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year in the UK, Victoria was featured in the Guardian (See link to the article) a month after this podcast episode was recorded. Her unique brand of humour is best illustrated by the joke quoted in the Guardian interview, in a love poem to the former Home Secretary in the UK Priti Patel, "I wish I was the Falkland Islands, so you can occupy me indefinitely against International Law."Outside comedy, Victoria remains a successful business entrepreneur

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