What is missing here are his strange eye movements - (now, he looks to the side then focuses back to the camera) I'd assumed that was a tic from childhood, but no - he's developed it now. I like it though, makes him different.
I'll be honest, I thought the 'one Night Stand' part of the title was pointing to a totally different set of jokes, but I still nonetheless extremely happy with what I got. Man, James Acaster is the bomb.
I had a coworker that died suddenly in a car accident. People were joking around about how she didnt bother to turn up for the morning meeting or email us. We found out during the meeting what had happened a couple nights before. So I never joke about people being dead now.
shrive /ʃrʌɪv/ verb ARCHAIC (of a priest) hear the confession of, assign penance to, and absolve. "none of her chaplains knew English or French enough to shrive the king" present oneself to a priest for confession, penance, and absolution.
on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins) it is a Xtian festival a part of Easter getting rid of the foods they were abstaining from for Lent which starts Ash Wednesday and Pancake Day is always 47 days before easter sunday when God died
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Turns out shriving is something like confessing... Out of season shriving? What has that to do with pancakes? (Middle-English is not my first language)
I don't find his stand up routine that good, but when he's on the panel shows like Mock the Week or WILTY he's absolutely brilliant. His brain works so fast and he can think up a brilliant comment in a split second.
He worked with autistic children and relised they have a very unintentional humourous side in terms of innocence that can be used as dry humour. As soon as I saw James I thought he was on the spectrum of Asperger's but I genuinely believe that he addapted his game more through his experience with these special kind people and it has benefited him . Not in a way that is insulting or offensive but dry just like we see Sheldon cooper on the big bang theory he also makes me think he is based on some kind of spectrum due to his genius but anywho........ Very entertaining
This was a while ago. He's improved a lot. I saw him at the Edinburgh festival a few years ago and he was brilliant. He's a regular on Mock the Week now and he is so funny.
