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Nobody in comedy can bring the entire room to tears without saying a single word like Rowan Atkinson
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This is Rowan Atkinson and his most funniest self
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While most comedians spend their entire careers chasing the perfect punchline, Rowan Atkinson built a global empire by saying almost nothing at all.
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But what most people don't know about Rowan Atkinson is that he's nothing like the characters he plays.
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The man behind Mr. Bean is the complete opposite and almost unrecognizable in real life.
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I probably enjoyed playing Mr. Bean the most because he's a character who's furthest away from my own character.
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As a person, I don't like him at all.
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I think he's very odd and pretty weird and not very nice.
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Are you feeling any better?
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No. Excuse me?
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Oh!
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Thank you!
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Speaking of how unrecognizable he is, on The Graham Norton Show,
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Rowan told the hilarious story of a stranger who walked up and swore he was the spitting image of Mr. Bean, with no idea he was talking to the actual man.
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A few years ago, I was in a Land Rover parts department near Peterborough, the kind of place you find me on most Sundays,
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and we were waiting for car parts.
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I was standing around with a group of guys and I could see this guy doing that.
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And he came up to me after a while and he said,
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Excuse me, has anyone ever told you that you are the absolute spitting image of that Mr. Bean?
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LAUGHTER And I said, well, actually, I am the actor who plays Mr. Bean.
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And he said, I bet you wish you were.
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LAUGHTER And they followed this bizarre conversation in which the more I tried to claim that I was the person
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whom he thought I merely resembled, the less he believed me.
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And I could tell after a
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while I had to bring the conversation to a close because not only was he not believing me, but he was getting quite annoyed.
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But nothing tops the moment when Rowan impersonated the legendary F1 commentator Martin Brundle to Martin Brundle himself,
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while Brundle had absolutely no idea it was happening.
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Lovely to see you, Rowan.
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Enjoy the race.
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And so you're cheering for the pole sitter, Mr Russell.
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Well, thank you.
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May the best man win.
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Absolutely.
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Mom!
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Dad!
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In one of the most iconic Mr. Bean scenes ever filmed, Rowan spent over a minute fighting to put on a swimsuit without ever removing his pants.
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Years later, he recreated the entire bit live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and brought the whole studio to tears.
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So this is how to act with discretion and decorum on the beach.
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you wish to change into a sewing suit
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while you've got your trousers on and you've nowhere to hide behind
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and then so what you do first take a chance
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good luck to do this
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so you do this take everything down like this trying to trying to maintain as much decorum as you can
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Okay, like this.
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And then, okay, so you're so fast, so good.
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But this obviously, there appears to be a logical incongruity here where you can't...
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Well, start with either leg, but it can be the right leg.
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You start like this.
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Gotta be just.. gotta be sweet.
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Pull it out like this, like...
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And then you can, there you are.
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There you go, okay.
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And then all you do is feed, feed the crowd.
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Feed your love.
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Take it then, baby.
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See?
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Feed it through.
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Feed it through.
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Alright, come on, settle down, please.
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Answer your names.
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Anus.
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Arse bandit.
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Bottom...
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Clitoris. Where are you, clitoris?
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Rowan has a rare gift.
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He can make the most boring, ordinary moment in life and turn it into a comedy masterpiece.
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This is how Mr. Bean shaves.
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Okay, ready?
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One shaver.
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Okay, so you're here to audition for a part in the British Airways Safety Information video.
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Can you just look into the camera and give your name please?
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Oh Princess of Wales?
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The man has more control over his face than most actors have over their entire body, and one raised brow from him lands harder than a five minute monologue.
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I'm not really a very diligent writer, so I thought, I just stood in front of a mirror, to be honest, and I just started pulling faces, I mean for want of a better term,
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and I just sort of, you know, was doing this... So...
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I'm going
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to go to the next one.
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I can't do that!
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When did the trouble start?
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You see my stethoscope is bobbing to the throbbing of your heart.
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From New Delhi to Darjeeling I have done my share of healing and I've never yet been beaten nor outboxed.
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But her complaint has got me really foxed.
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Can I see your tongue?
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Nothing the matter with it, put it away please.
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Oh, good evening, gentlemen.
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No, no, no, that's no problem.
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Come in, please.
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Oh, no, come in.
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No, no, no, that table is reserved.
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It is also a table for two people.
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Perhaps this table might be more suitable for nine.
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Right, right, now, what would anybody...
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Quiet, quiet, quiet, gentlemen, please, quiet.
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What would anybody like to drink?
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Right, now, what would anybody like to eat?
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Um, oh, uh, it is a lamb dish, sir.
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Yes, a marinated lamb in coconut with a cream sauce very nice no not hot
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it is a medium spiced dish and anything else for starters just some poppadoms and salad and yogurt and shit.
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Anyway, it was this story of a friend of mine who went to a party, a housewarming party.
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This house had just been built and he'd been invited to and he was late.
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He'd stayed late at work and he was rushing to this party.
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He arrived at the party and suddenly realised this is the ultimate toilet joke.
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But don't retune, please.
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That he arrived at this party and he was desperate to go to the toilet
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and in quite a big way he needed to go to the toilet.
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So he went and he came
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and he burst in the front door of the house and there was a door by the front door.
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And he opened that door and sure enough it was a toilet.
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And there was a toilet and he closed the door
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and he locked it and he sat down and he relieved himself in the way that he needed to relieve him.
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And he felt much better for it.
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And then he realized that the house had not actually been quite completed.
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And that the toilet was not actually connected.
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There was no water going in and there was no drainage coming out.
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And he'd left this significant calling card of his own.
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And he sat there, and then he realized that it wasn't, in fact, it wasn't, it was a little office.
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It was a little study that they'd just dropped the toilet.
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It wasn't supposed to be a toilet at all.
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And because it wasn't supposed to be a toilet, there was no toilet paper.
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And he was there thinking, what the hell am I going to do?
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And he rummaged around it in his briefcase, and he found some writing paper lying at the bottom of his briefcase, which is about the right sides, you know.
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So he used the, you know, the writing paper, as you would wish to use, toilet paper.
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And then he suddenly realised that it was his headed notepaper that he used.
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It had his name, Richard Steiner, written across the top.
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And he left the paper on top of what he left in the toilet.
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And it was this fantastic way that, it was the least anonymous way you could have committed this heinous social crime.
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You've probably realised by now, this is hell.
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And I am the devil.
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Now, murderers...
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Over here, please.
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Thieves, if you could join us.
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And lawyers, you're in that way.
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Would you like to come down there?
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Yes, there's plenty of room.
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If the hedge fund managers would just move along a time...
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There you go.
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The French.
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Are you there? And the Americans.
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If you'd just like to keep clear of that big space there,
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we're reserving for a Mr. Trump. And Christians.
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Christians?
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Yes, I'm sorry.
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I'm afraid the Jews were right.
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Thank you, man.
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That would be lovely.
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Thank you, man.
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Knock, knock.
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Who's there?
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Death.
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Death?

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Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/arrivare, giungere
knock verbo/nɑk/bussare, battere
tear verbo/tɛɹ/strappare, dilaniare
dish sostantivo/dɪʃ/piatto, scodella
gentleman sostantivo/ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/gentiluomo, galantuomo
laughter sostantivo/ˈlæftɚ/risata, riso
lamb sostantivo/ˈlæm/agnello, agnellino
spit verbo/spɪt/sputare
relieve verbo/ɹɪˈliːv/risollevare, risollevarsi
pants sostantivo/pænts/calzoni, pantaloni
rush verbo/ɹʌʃ/affrettarsi, correre
mirror sostantivo/ˈmiɹɚ/specchio
chase verbo/t͡ʃeɪs/inseguire, cacciare
ordinary aggettivo/ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ordinario, ordinaria
nowhere avverbio/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/da nessuna parte, in nessun posto

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ParolaSignificato
settle down verbocalmarsi, placarsi
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Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 29 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, wasn't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: thief /ˈθiːf/, furthest /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ðɪst/, stethoscope /ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/, throb /θɹɒb/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: dish /dɪʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, discretion /dɪˈskɹɛʃən/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/

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Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

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Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabeen beaten · is reserved · been built
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave done · You've probably realised

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