764. 22 Funny Jokes, Explained 

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I love this episode. As a non-native English speaker, I can laugh and learn at the same time. Thank you, Luke, you're helping me to enjoy more English jokes. I love these jokes: ”Bad example“，”Sluggish snail“，“You have my WORD”，"Mirror Factory“，“Being frank”，“The Titanic is syncing”，”Calendar factory“，”Seasoned veteran“，“Sleep naturally“，“Resisting a rest”. Double meaning jokes are very funny to me. I also learned several idioms and vocabularies, love it !

As a Russian person I found joke about rushing people very funny and clever 😂 thank you so much for your work. It’s really useful. Love to listen you before sleeping ❤

The best one: " I'm a big metal fan".

I love this episode. These jokes are a great help to remember new words. (Never worry about the frogs, many are still alive.) Beside the jokes and vocabulary, I also enjoy learning the cultural differences in respect of humour. Great channel, great video, thank you!

Hi,Luke.I enjoyed your lesson on humor.I'm an Argentine teacher and I do understand how dificultad it's to explain students to get Jokes in a foreign language.you're a great actor and teacher.congrats! Julio.

I am really keen on podcasts about the jokes. Thanks for that idea, especially now, when only jokes can save us.

Luke, being a non native speaker in Malaysia, I could understand most of the jokes. Your explanation is crystal clear n I learned new vocab. Puns are fun altho challenging to grasp. Thk you for making this podcast so interesting.

Thank you for your immense work, Luke! Not long ago I started listening to your podcasts and I really enjoy them.

I really like Luke's English podcasts, they help me to learn english better, i wanna participate in his zoom lessons

Great episode! :-) I am amused. I understood like 75% of the jokes. I wrote down 5 of them which I found really funny. (completely useless, cows and bells, light faster than sound, camouflage trousers, sleeping) :-D Thank you! You made my day!

for the first stage 14 out of 22 , i found them too funny. I understood the rest through your explaining and most of them were funny, thanks alot

Hi teacher Luke, i find this episode very interesting, I am a teacher of English as foreign language and I have understood just some of them , not easy at all to teach jokes for learners , thanks so much for sharing this with us I really like it and I have learnt much from it , thnx again

I have been learning and teaching English for years but I found your podcast the best and really worth watching.

Although I don't laugh, I find these jokes quite useful to remember vocabulary and I love the way you explain meanings of words or phrases. It's easy to understand and remember. Thanks a lot!!!!!

This is so brilliant to listen to! Thank you for making these podcasts and videos, Luke!

Everytime I learned a new joke a funny smile has appeared on my face. Thanks a lot 😄

Hi Luke, It is a brilliant idea to talk about jokes. Now, I have a lot of associations for remembering new words. I got 5 of 22 jokes at the first stage. After your explanations, everything is clearly. 🐸 My favorite ones are about a snail, Titanic syncing and kleptomaniacs. Million thanks for your work:)

Excellent I am a Spanish speaker , student of English and I found some funny and I had to wait till the explanation to fully understand the others. Great job!!!

Jajaja the jokes themselves didn´t make me laugh so hard as Luke´s comments! Love really easy-going, relaxed and funny, but still smart way you teach us! Thanks for existing)

Thank you, Luuuuke! I like this type of episodes. I got almost all the jokes (20/22) except the one with iceberg and the one about a double entendre. Merci for all the explanations)) They are enjoyable to listen to even after understanding the joke. And I laughed out loud at most of them

English is my second language and I’ve been trying to improve it every day. I am so happy that I found your page, I like a lot your videos. Thank you

When I first listened to you say them, I understand some of them but after you explain them so I cracked. The best one, I'm a big metal fan.

Thank you Luke. It is funnier when you tell then and seeing your face or hearing your intonation than the joke itself. You always do such a great job teaching english, always funny and enjoyble.

The episode is very well thought to teach the English aspirants. Appreciate!

I love this episode very much! I did not really understand the points for some of the jokes until you explained the details. It is a really helpful episode, thanks a lot, Luke!

Thank you so much for this podcast. Dissection of jokes is my favorite topic. However, not all frogs died in the process. When Luke was explaining the joke "sleeping comes so naturally to me" and noticed that it would be unnatural to do it with open eyes, it made me laugh))

Great !! Very precious to take part in everyday conversation with pales. Never found before ! Thank's a lot. Will you post any more ? With short stories too. 😊 Kind Regards.

Dear Luke, thank you very much! I admire your podcasts and find them very helpful! You do a great job!🎉🎉🎉

Hey Luke, good work, i almost understood all of them, and i think they weren´t bad, more than a half of them made me smile.

You always do a wonderful work,explaining very well, in detall everything.Many thanks

Great! I guess they are very English...You don't get the explanation in books and that's why I find this video so useful. Thank you!

You were born for this buddy. Love your style, your voice is perfect for podcasting and I'm so pleased you've got shitloads of followers. Good on ya mate! YootClub forever! XXX

The jokes went well. Luke, you are a typical English man. Very understated and this makes it funnier. As a native Kiwi practitioner, of English,I smirked mostly but more than a few good laughs.

very enjoyable for all the 22 jokes and your explanations. Thank you 😊

Love this episode! I had great fun listening and learned new words like slug.

Luke, thank you))) You are sooo charming 🕺 Your videos - the best way of learning English. Have a great day ☀️

I love your way of teaching language. thank you.

It's so interesting to study humour of different countries. It's true when one says that if you understand jokes, you understand language. Listening the joke about light and speaking, I remmembered a Russian version of this. Three friends met. One asked: What is the fastest thing in the world? The first guy said: - I think, it's light. The second said: - No, I think, it's word: A word spoken is past recalling. The third guy protested: - Hmm, I think, the fastest thing in the world is diarrhea. I had it yesterday and had no time to switch the light on or say a word;) I hope my translation is understandable) have a good day! sorry for mistakes

Hi! luke Thank you so much for your english lecture! It's wonderful 😁

Very good to see you Sir. U r always been my inspiration.

Metal ventilator! 🤣 So useful for learning, so please, upload more material like this. Thx Luke!

thanks for your videos here and at the same time your podcasts on google podcasts , your fan from Iran , all the bests 👍👍👍

Thank you for the podcast ❤❤❤

Thank you for helping poor people who can't buy lessons You make hope and smile for every one Iam women from algeria

very good. I am a Persian but I want to learn English. I enjoying this videos. be successful.

Thanks Luke! I like your podcast very much!!! You are great!

Thanks from Lithuania! Perfect jokes, I really enjoy your content!

Luke is so funny. I really enjoy listening and watch his videos

Oh, I learned a lot from this vid, and have so much fun!! Thank you Luke!!

Accidentally i drop into this , i enjoy hearing the lecture. Many thanks to yoy

Good podcast, enjoyable! I understood majority of the jokes (with exception of the ones using very special vocabulary such as pirate and hot blonde). The best one for me is the three old child resisting a rest! I really love that one (frankly, all your podcasts)!

You are a gifted teacher, as they say in Germany. And in Russia they would say, so you are a teacher of God. 😊

Thank you. You are a veteran teacher . I really enjoyed this episode

Thanks Luke for the explanation, useful for expanding the vocabulary and remembering the words because in context. I understood three or four jokes before the dissection! My favorites are "useless as a bad example" and "brilliant before speaking", I guess because these are not just jokes, but also elegant ways to say "idiot" or "stupid" to someone without using direct words and if it is, that person does not understand. I always find this kind of jokes very funny, maybe because I'm not capable of it, my brain is not so fast, so sometimes I think things like that but too late. Maybe I'm the idiot :-)

My favourite? 'That's why some people apperar bright until you hear them speak '

Great Mr Luke, Keep it up!

Hi Luc. I understood more than I thought I would, 17 out of 22. For example, I didn't get the Mike Tyson joke. But after you explained it, I got it and laughed. We'll see what happens next. I think both Titanic jokes are very good.

Thank you so much x this episode, so much fun. Very useful for learning new vocab in a fun way. I laughed at a few of them, smiled at most of them. Did not get at all a few. Such as the one on tyson and at the bar. Thanks a lot again!

You are the best teacher, Luke! 👍My favourite joke is the one of the seasoned veteran 😊

Thank you very much Luke. I love being hearing you even though I understand not much.

Well done !!! Keep it going this way and I’ll be expert in English. With respect, Rasul from Russia.

Thanks a lot, your explanations are done in a very clear and straightforward manner, so that every single detail is very clear! As for me, I've got almost each joke from the very beginning, but for a couple of some jokes (about a hot blond and a poor bastard and probably one more)

enjoyed this a lot, it's very good. thanks so much

It is just brilliant episode!!! Many thanks

Thanks. I appreciate your way of explaning. It's funny.

Thank you Luke i’m Eduardo from Argentina. useful explanations I got sames and others you explain it to me and make sense

I have come across this podcast only today and I'm already becoming addicted I'm afraid...

Even after your dissecting the SLUGGISH joke is so funny hahaha Thank u so much and really love this episode!

Hi.it was great .i found it so useful and it made me laughed ,as well. THANK YOU.🎧☘👏

I looove this class, thank you very much 🤗

I like your RU-vid. Its very useful for listening training.

Great episode. The great joke was: - Can i be a frank - Can you be just Luke. I get 4 of 22 jokes in first round. the joke with cows is the best, I think. i remember joke from a mentor: It's better talk nothing and looks like an idiot, then open mouth and confirm it.

Thank you for the jokes and nice explanations to them.

All clever. Definitely my kind of humour. Didn't understand the double entendre one. Laughed at the last one. Thanks for sharing 😊

thx for the lesson,

Enjoyed at lots of it (Although I understood only a pair before they were explained) The one about mirrors I liked most, also because I can't help laughing when looking at my own face. Regards Luke!!

Thank you for this clip. I have been thinking of asking you to talk about British joke / British humour. Appreciated.

Literally means that the meaning is exactly what the words say: Hanging around means being present. Literally hanging around means hanging from a hook in the ceiling.

Thank you for your work, Luke! It´s fabulous!!! Some months ago I started listening to your podcasts to refresh my sleeping english for a trip. I really enjoy them. I came back from my trip and I keep listening to them. Some were good jokes. Congrats!!!

Also one other joke I came across recently and like it: Why did scarecrow win an award? Because it stand out in its fields 😂

Hi, Luke! I got a half of the jokes at the first attempt. Favourite one is about sinking Titanik. You know jokes are not as funny as the way you explaine them)) you are the best

This is my favorite once; Sleeping comes so naturally to me. I could it with my eyes closed.

Nice jokes, great talk. Feel rushing to tell some to my russian buds. Thank you for all the explanation though how you do it.

Can’t take my eyes/ears off LEP!

But 99% of the explanations are on point, interesting and sometimes even funnier than the joke being dissected. Kudos, man!

Thank you for your videos! 🔥🔥🔥

Some of the puns are really fun). Every time I climb the ladder at second floor of my house I recall this joke “ I don’t trust ladders, they always up to something “. I also heard it at other podcast of English tutoring. Best way to leverage your English is listening to native speakers and stand ups as they make you comprehend jokes.

I enjoyed this episode a lot Thank you!!!

NIce! Thanks for your lessons 🤗

I have understood all of them. I knew I would, English comes naturally to me: I can understand it with my eyes closed.🤣

Thanks a lot Luke for this very entertaining episode ! I got 11 out of 22 ! I am keen on the one on "camouflage trousers" ! It's a french word, so it was very easy for me to understand this one. The one with the 3-years old "rest" is a great one too ! ;-)

I really appreciate your efforts thank you so much. By the way, I enjoyed hearing you telling and explaining those jokes, perhaps I prefer mirror and Microsoft jokes

Hey! Many jokes made me lough 🤣 I needed explanation for the "double entendre" (unknown words) and Mike Tyson. And I didn't know the direct meaning of a "seasoned veteran", although I got the sense of the joke from the "spicy" point of view. And I didn't know the word stabbed. That was a sad joke. This episode is hilarious!

I really loved this class!!!

Best one: Light travels faster than sound… That’s why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak.

Thank you for the great teaching.

My favorit one is this about Mike Tyson :How do you think the unthinkable . Mike Tyson said with an itheberg.

Thank you for explaining jokes. As I often don't get the jokes in English. It is such a good way to understand the differences for cultural. Plus, the joke' you have my word',for me, I feel it is a kind of warning as well as promising.

The funny thing is understanding the double meaning of words.thanx so much