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Hier soir, avec des amis, on s’est réunis pour une soirée en petit comité de cinq personnes. Après le repas, on a décidé de regarder un DVD. On était tous un peu fatigués et on n’était pas vraiment motivés pour sortir quelque part. La majorité, dont je faisais partie, a voté pour regarder un one man show de Gad Elmaleh ! C’est un comique français qui est très populaire en France.
Qu’est-ce qu’on a rigolé, on a eu des fous rires énormes, et j’ai eu vraiment mal au ventre à force de rire.On peut dire qu’on a fait du sport, au moins !
L’ humour français est assez spécial. Souvent notre humour est lié aux jeux de mots. Gad Elmaleh, comme tout autre comique français, utilise les jeux de mots. Mais l’un des comiques français les plus réputés pour ce genre de prouesses était Pierre Desproges, bien qu’il ne soit plus avec nous aujourd’hui. Ce n’était pas un comique de ma génération mais quand je revois ses sketches, ses jeux de mots sont tellement compliqués qu’il m’arrive de rigoler 30 secondes après la blague car je ne saisis le sens qu’après réflexion. Je me sens un peu bête dans ces cas-là. Au moins, on ne pourra pas dire que rire ne fait pas réfléchir !
L’humour français est aussi très présent dans les films français. En effet, les films français les plus populaires sont sûrement les comédies françaises où l’on rigole beaucoup. D’ailleurs, pour preuve, les deux films français qui ont fait le plus d’entrées dans toute l’histoire du cinéma en France sont « La Grande Vadrouille » qui est un vieux film de 1966 mais il est extrêmement hilarant. Mais cette année, il a été dépassé par « Bienvenue chez les ch’tis » de Danny Boon. Ce film est vraiment sympa. SSi vous avez l’occasion de les voir, n’hésitez pas, car ce sont désormais deux références du cinéma.
Cet humour est une particularité des français et de notre culture. Pour comprendre l’importance de rire en France, on a juste à méditer sur l’expression, " Femme qui rit, à moitié dans son … "
Je vous laisse deviner la fin de cette expression et n’hésitez pas à me répondre en commentaire et à me dire si vous connaissez des comiques ou des films français qui vous ont plu !
J'aime les vieux films de M. Hulot en vacance. Il est assez innocent, et ne veut pas faire mal à personne. De nos jours, les gens sont trop cyniques.
park young ae
Saturday at 10:40 pm
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je n'aime pas les films français dommage:oops:
Angele
Wednesday at 4:55 am
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Bonjour L'arrangeur!
Qu'arranges-tu?
Moi je suis le peace-maker, I see good things everywhere. Sometimes it's a curse I don't know which way to go...
By the way, what is your kind of humor? black, satiric, ironic, british?
Arrangeur
Sunday at 2:47 am
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Merci, billet intéressant !n:) (soit dit au passage, j'adorre ce joli design !) ;)
Angèle
Thursday at 1:45 am
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Hey Careyxxx,
I've been absent for a while as my parents came from France to visit in my humble newly purchased house in Mexico!:smile:
Careyxxx when someone makes a request about a lesson, and with the schedule already planned for the few months to come, it takes a LOOOOONG time to be published! :???:
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Tuesday at 4:07 am
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Celine
Monday at 8:40 pm
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oh que c'est si joliment dit Angele !!!:grin:
Angèle
Sunday at 12:36 am
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Hi Careyxx
Munia' expression basically means that you'll win a women's heart much faster and with less effort if you make her laugh!
Celine
Friday at 4:25 pm
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Bonjour tout le monde !
oui Munia tu as raison !
We do have many songs with sexual overtones "connotations sexuelles" ou "double-sens" like for example the famous France Gall song "Annie aime les sucettes a l'anis" written by Serge Gainsbourg (a "figure de style" master).
I also remember a commercial for "La Vosgiennes" bonbons : "je ne bois pas, je ne fume pas mais qu'est ce que je peux sucer... comme Suc des Vosges..."
Here s the link
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHI1J6wj84
Enjoy ! :lol:
careyxxx
Friday at 4:46 am
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When my class was studying Theatre of the Absurd, one classmate mentioned there were sexual overtones in the play, and my teacher agreed. Being young and naive at that time, I couldn't see the sexual overtones. If a woman laughs, and half the time she does it, she is in bed, is there some kind of sexual overtone to that?
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HideFemme qui rit, á moitié dans son lit. :oops:
J'aime les vieux films de M. Hulot en vacance. Il est assez innocent, et ne veut pas faire mal à personne. De nos jours, les gens sont trop cyniques.
je n'aime pas les films français dommage:oops:
Bonjour L'arrangeur!
Qu'arranges-tu?
Moi je suis le peace-maker, I see good things everywhere. Sometimes it's a curse I don't know which way to go...
By the way, what is your kind of humor? black, satiric, ironic, british?
Merci, billet intéressant !n:) (soit dit au passage, j'adorre ce joli design !) ;)
Hey Careyxxx,
I've been absent for a while as my parents came from France to visit in my humble newly purchased house in Mexico!:smile:
Careyxxx when someone makes a request about a lesson, and with the schedule already planned for the few months to come, it takes a LOOOOONG time to be published! :???:
November and December will be the months of many Audio Blogs only in French from Christophe! So you should find your level there. Also for higher level listeners as you, we are going to start Phrases and idioms and more new lesson series within the next two weeks.
Enjoy!
Hello, everybody! I am happy to see that all of the French teachers are still here. For awhile it seemed like no one was posting in the lesson forums and the mp3s that were uploaded were the wrong mp3s. That could have been a mistake on the part of the administration taking the place of ghost teachers. I have heard of ghost writers, but not ghost teachers.
It is disappointing to hear that the lesson topics that I am interested in will not come out until next year. It is also disappointing to hear that they will be Newbie Lessons, not my level. Still I am sure that there will be something that I can learn from them. I just hope you people will continue to put out interesting Intermediate Lessons such as Huff N' Puff. That is my favorite lesson. By the way, weren't we supposed to have an Intermediate Lesson last week? I am sure it will be worth the wait, as all things are at Frenchpod101.com.
I hope you people are battling natural disasters such as storms and hurricanes and not the administration.
oh que c'est si joliment dit Angele !!!:grin:
Hi Careyxx
Munia' expression basically means that you'll win a women's heart much faster and with less effort if you make her laugh!
Bonjour tout le monde !
oui Munia tu as raison !
We do have many songs with sexual overtones "connotations sexuelles" ou "double-sens" like for example the famous France Gall song "Annie aime les sucettes a l'anis" written by Serge Gainsbourg (a "figure de style" master).
I also remember a commercial for "La Vosgiennes" bonbons : "je ne bois pas, je ne fume pas mais qu'est ce que je peux sucer... comme Suc des Vosges..."
Here s the link
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHI1J6wj84
Enjoy ! :lol:
When my class was studying Theatre of the Absurd, one classmate mentioned there were sexual overtones in the play, and my teacher agreed. Being young and naive at that time, I couldn't see the sexual overtones. If a woman laughs, and half the time she does it, she is in bed, is there some kind of sexual overtone to that?