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This is a very difficult time in history to do stand -up, and I would appreciate your blanket support, to be honest.
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It's very...
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Look, I went back on the road in September.
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I did a week in Oxford, right?
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That's Remain.
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Then I did Doncaster, that's Leave.
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Then I did Glasgow, Remain.
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Dartford, Leave.
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This was about 60 -40 in favour of Leave, wasn't it?
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And the Remain voting cities now, they loom out of the map, don't they?
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Like fantasy citadels in a Tolkien -esque landscape.
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Wondrous, walled cities, full of wizards and poets.
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And people who could understand data.
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In the middle of a vast, swampy fen, with here there be trolls written over it.
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Yeah, down here, laughter up there.
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People go, hang on.
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Troll stew, that's not a very fair way.
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You know, we are in leave voting south end on sea trolls that's not a very fair way to describe the English
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and Welsh majority that exercise their democratic right to vote to leave the EU
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and it isn't to be fair you know
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and I think look we're gonna leave the EU that is happening
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and I think people have got to put their differences behind them now
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and try and make it work and I don't know
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if you can make massive generalizations about people that voted to leave Europe anyway because people
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voted to leave Europe for all sorts of different reasons you know and it wasn't just racists that voted to leave Europe.
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Cunts did as well, didn't they?
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Stupid fucking cunts.
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Racists and cunts and people with legitimate anxieties about ever closer political ties to Europe.
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Dear Palace Theatre South End, please inform the comedian, and I use that word advisedly,
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Stuart Lee, who I had the misfortune of being taken along to see my friends last night, that I actually voted to leave Europe,
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and I am neither a racist nor a cunt.
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Merely someone with genuine anxieties about ever -closer political ties to Europe.
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Yours, a cunt.
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Burnham on Crouch.
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It's where they live, isn't it?
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Burnham on Crouch.
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Do you know what?
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I don't know anything about Burnham on Crouch.
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I just drove to it.
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I thought, that'll do for that joke.
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It's the first time it's got a laugh. so
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yes welcome to the music hall so
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no but it's difficult you know you can't make massive to be fair you can't make massive generalisations about people
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that voted to leave Europe, people did vote to leave Europe for all sorts of different they did, don't snigger away down there they voted for, you know not everyone
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that voted to leave Europe wanted to see Britain immediately descend
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into being an unaccountable single party state exploiting people's worst prejudices to maintain power indefinitely.
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Some people just wanted bendy bananas, didn't they?
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Oh, no!
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I only wanted bendy bananas.
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And now there's this chaotic inferno of hate.
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Oh, well, never mind.
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At least the bananas are all bendy again on you.
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Right, they always fucking were.
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You know, because I've got a trumpet, I have to check at half -time every night
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that he's not been assassinated or fallen into a barrel of porn actresses or something.
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But it does mean that I see the same crass anti -American generalisations online every night on social media, and it annoys me, to be honest,
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because I don't know if you can and make massive generalisations about Americans who voted for Trump.
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Because Americans voted for Trump for all sorts of different reasons.
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And it wasn't just racist that voted for Trump.
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Cunts do this well, don't they?
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Yeah, stupid, fat American cunt.
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The worst kind of cunts, aren't they?
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Much worse than our British cunts, aren't they?
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Salt of the Earth, British cunts!
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British cunts!
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British cunts!
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British Brexit voting cunts from Southend! But...
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It's you, innit?
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But I don't know...
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Well, I don't know if you can make massive generalisations about Americans that voted for Trump.
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Seriously, I mean, not all Americans that voted for Trump wanted to see America immediately descend into being an unaccountable,
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single -party state exploiting people's worst prejudices to maintain power indefinitely.
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Some Americans just wanted to be allowed to wear their Ku Klux Klan outfits to church, didn't they?

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Stewart Lee - Brexit vs Trump”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: cunt, voted, Europe, Trump, generalizations. Deze video bevat 31 zinnen en 703 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:46. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 122 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 79% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
racist zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/racist
banana zelfstandig naamwoord/bəˈnænə/banaan, pisang
anxiety zelfstandig naamwoord/æŋˈzaɪ.əti/bezorgdheid, ongerustheid
exploit zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛksplɔɪt/heldendaad
prejudice zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɹɛd͡ʒədɪs/vooroordeel
indefinitely bijwoord/ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪtli/voor onbepaalde tijd
vast bijvoeglijk naamwoord/væst/enorm
actress zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈæk.tɹɪs/actrice
genuine bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/echt, authentiek
merely bijwoord/ˈmɪəli/alleen, louter
landscape zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/landschap
outfit zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈaʊtfɪt/outfit
poet zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpoʊ.ət/dichter, poëet
barrel zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbæɹəl/ton, vat
inform werkwoord/ɪnˈfɔɹm/informeren, inlichten

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
stand up werkwoordopstaan

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 21 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, wasn't, aren't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, indefinitely /ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪtli/, legitimate /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/, comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, unaccountable /ˌʌnəˈkaʊntəbl̩/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: descend /dəˈsɛnd/, wizard /ˈwɪzɚd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: banana /bəˈnænə/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, vast /væst/, actress /ˈæk.tɹɪs/, barrel /ˈbæɹəl/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: wizard /ˈwɪzɚd/, wondrous /ˈwʌndɹəs/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als racist, banana, anxiety.

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