Shadowing Practice: 10 Times Celebrities Turned Interviews into Comedy Shows - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Sometimes interviews go way off script, with celebrities turning them into full -on comedy specials.
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Ice Spice walked into Big Boy's neighborhood without realizing the young's game was still very much active.
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Man had that line locked and loaded since dial -up internet at.
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What was supposed to be Ariana Grande doing the interviewer's makeup turned extremely awkward
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when he thought she was about to kiss him.
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I'm sure this moment still haunts him at night.
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Stevie Wonder lost his sight at six weeks old.
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So when Dr. Dre told a story about him, Kevin Hart completely short circuited.
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You can tell Kevin wrote enough jokes for a Netflix special as Dr. Dre told the story.
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When the college admissions scandal broke, where rich parents basically bribed their kids into top schools, Bill Burr had a few things to say to Conan, who's a proud Harvard alum.
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The funny thing about that scandal is that they got their dumb kids in there, but then they were able to handle the curriculum with no problem, like none of them flunked out.
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So I guess evidently the real difficulty is getting in.
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Getting into those colleges.
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Once you're in, you're fine.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So you went to Harvard, right?
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Kevin Hart pulled up to Kai Sinat's stream and immediately had to lay down the law.
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Here's the problem.
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Okay, the way that you're running this, I can already tell is s*.
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Okay?
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People do what they want around here.
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No, listen to me.
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They ain't have to go.
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No, the house doesn't want to.
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Yeah, there's a lot of people down there just f*ing around here.
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Watch this.
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Watch this.
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Watch this.
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What's up?
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You're fired.
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I want you to get off the walking, and I want you to give it to somebody else.
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While Michael Jackson was doing a press conference, he noticed the photographers snapped a photo every time he moved.
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In today's world, we would call that clip farming.
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Ellen's team probably wasn't thrilled with Sofia Vergara's completely unfiltered responses.
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Who has more fun, blondes or brunettes?
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I would say that the girls with the rear boobs.
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The cameraman might have pulled a low blow on Ricky Gervais right in front of Elizabeth Banks.
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Find an unattractive male and serenade him.
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The Wendy Williams show was never exactly known for being wholesome, but the cameraman might have outdone everyone.
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And yeah, Wendy was absolutely loving it.
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After a financially tough divorce, Chris Rock turned to touring following a decade -long break, and was brutally honest about it.
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Interestingly, his prenup was set to expire 20 years after being in the marriage the same year they split.
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Even billionaires aren't safe from a joke doing laps around their head.
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What is six feet tall dashing and disappears in an instant?
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What?
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Oh, he froze right at the punchline!
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Not sure whose idea it was, but they put Anthony Joshua, The Rock, and Kevin Hart together for a news segment.
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Thank you for having fun.
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No problem.
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I just disappeared.
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Charlemagne couldn't handle the temptation of asking an out -of -pocket question when A $AP Rocky's dating history came up.
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Not many people can humble Gordon Ramsay on the spot, but his mom took one look at his dish and knew something was off.
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Late night performances are usually pre -recorded, but designed to feel alive.
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Apparently, Lady Gaga missed that memo.
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Okay, we've all folded under pressure at some point.
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Joe Rogan got absolutely flamed by Shane Gillis, but he didn't go out without a fight.
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I read this guy's book.
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I started running stairs because of this.
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You read a kickboxer's book?
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Oh, yeah.
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I read a...
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You dumb as fuck.
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I'm dumb as fuck.
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I've read about 30 kickboxer's books.
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Every kickboxer book that anybody ever wrote, I read.
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I did sit -ups, and then I kicked that guy in the head.
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That would be a dumb fat dude's interpretation of what a world -class combat sport athlete would tell you what to do.
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The movie The Tourist was a huge flop at the box office and with critics, despite big stars like Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, so Ricky Gervais couldn't risk taking a jab while presenting an award with Johnny.
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Turns out Johnny and Angelina didn't get along on set at all, so maybe that's why he didn't watch it.
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One would think Jason Statham was trying to pull off insurance fraud on The Jimmy Fallon Show.
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Celebrities can usually get away with lying in interviews, unless their mom's in the room.
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Celebrities and rich people's kids can be a little out of touch with reality
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but kevin hart was trying to raise his differently our lifestyle is how it's supposed to be
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because it's not yeah there's a there's a reality behind it
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so i'm going to take you to where dad is from
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so we take a trip you know we take a real trip to philadelphia you know we land
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and i said i'm gonna show you where i grew up
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so you can understand you land in your private jet life
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lesson i'm right lesson didn't start until we got off the phone.
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To be fair, Kevin walked right into that one.
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The network might not have been happy, but Seth Meyers walked right into this one.
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I want to like blow my wife away with like a romantic night out.
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What do I do?
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You said it.
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What?
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Pull your wife.
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Till this day, I don't know what possessed ASAP to do this at the MTV Music Awards.
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As far as everybody being equal, color, Almost ten years ago, when Elon Musk was not in politics,
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he showed up on Stephen Colbert with some surprisingly solid punchlines.
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You've got a new thing that you think people are going to want for their Tesla.
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Can I, Jim, can we show the footage of this snake charger that automatically plugs into your car when you get home?
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This looks a little wrong, you know.
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For the prototype, at least, I would recommend not dropping anything when you're near it.
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Needless to say, they scrapped the whole snake charger project.
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It's no secret that men aren't exactly the target audience for Fifty Shades of Grey, so Graham Norton might have fumbled a bit asking a random guy for feedback back, right in front of the actor.
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An interviewer was giving The Rock a little too much praise.
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After it came out, he bought his mom a house, but Kevin Hart quickly shut that down.
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To be fair, The Rock's been famous since the 90s.
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Wendy Williams might have mastered the art of playing it cool even while casually letting one slip.
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While Johnny Depp is known for being reserved, Ricky Gervais gave us a rare behind the scenes look at the real Johnny.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 100 sentences and 1148 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:48. The speaker talks at a steady 117 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/ (noun) — Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
- lesson /ˈlɛs.ən/ (noun) — A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- snake /sneɪk/ (noun) — Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- scandal /ˈskændəl/ (noun) — An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- disappear /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ (verb) — To vanish.
- charger /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/ (noun) — A device that charges or recharges.
- pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ (noun) — A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- circuit /ˈsɝ.kɪt/ (noun) — The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- romantic /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ (adjective) — Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- fraud /ˈfɹɔːd/ (noun) — The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- divorce /dɪˈvɔːs/ (noun) — The legal dissolution of a marriage.
- script /skɹɪpt/ (noun) — A writing; a written document.
- instant /ˈɪnstənt/ (noun) — A very short period of time; a moment.
- difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ (noun) — The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
- feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ (noun) — Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- get off (verb) — To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- blow on (verb) — To forcefully expel air from the lungs onto an object.
- come out /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ (verb) — To be discovered; to be revealed.
- come up (verb) — To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- get away with (verb) — To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one.
- get in (verb) — To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
- get into (verb) — To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, thrill /θɹɪl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/, dash /ˈdæʃ/, temptation /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/, casually /ˈkæʒuəli/
- Long words — get the stress right: celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like celebrity, lesson, snake.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.