Waiting for the anzac biccies to cook

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..but they're looking a bit goopy :( EDIT: they taste ok :)

Well, I survived my first week of full-time work, during the Crazy July Holidays no less. Today I was doing a show, and the computer doing the powerpoint presentation crashed meaning I had to captivate the audience using only my amazing powers of description ("Imagine I'm a shark about to eat a seal...") Of course someone pointed out I could have just restarted it... I'm such a doofus :) Luckily the kids actually seemed to enjoy it!

A question that struck me: if you videoed comedians and then played them back to people with the sound off/who didn't speak the language, would they still be able to tell who was funny(*)? This occurred to me as I was pondering how much audience response is based on tone/energy etc.

Doing mine would be dull, so here's the haiku meme for my favourite pair of Harry Potter fangirls, made by the ever amazing Grahame:

Haiku2 for potente-potions
weather fie upon the stupid cyclone system up the coast all hail
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Created by Grahame

(*)As judged by people watching the video with the sound on who do understand the langauge.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, Billy Connolly speaks Scottish, not English, exactly. There's a difference. And as far as I'm concerned, American presidential speeches are fairly amusing even if you are a fluent English speaker! If you listen to the actual words, it just gets scary.
Mmmm. Cookies, biscuits...
Hungry now.

Thankyou for the Haiku!
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