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'You have to be 100 times funnier in Danish': the pitfalls and pleasures of taking comedy across borders by Rachael Healy

Just because a joke works in one country or language doesn't mean it will in another. Globetrotting standups talk about routines that have bombed " and the changes that saved them When Yuriko Kotani moved to the UK, she was confounded by our railway services. "Sometimes the train was delayed or the train didn't come, and I couldn't understand," she says. "In Japan, people know that the train comes on time." Years lat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PM on August 15, 2022

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