Best Way To Learn Real Chinese Throught Comedy Videos

[cindyHuang]

屌丝男士 - Loser Man (although the official English title is Diors Man)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZbgMWgkY4 Part 1

 

I searched and didn't find any posts on this but would recommend it for intermediate learners.
It's Chinese comedy show that is done in a western skit format. Maybe it's just because I can understand it, but I do find it quite funny.

 

The comedian 大鹏 is somewhat similar to Mr Bean in this show, with a very humorous face, and lots of situations that poke fun at modern life in China which he muddles through. He produces short 1-2 minute skits on buying a car, giving up your seat to the elderly, massage parlors, fighting over paying the bill, dating, office situations, gangsters, etc.

 

The everyday situations and dialog (including relatively easy word-play, innuendo and swearing), modern setting and short scenes make the show pretty accessible to all. Sometimes you won't find the *actual* meaning of the words in a dictionary, but you'll figure it out from the joke most of the time.

 

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[somethingfunny]

Looks like it might be worth a look - I recognise the slightly 'larger' guy in the smelly feet sketch at the start from another northern sketch show some of my friends used to like watching, but I forget its name now... that one was recorded in front of a live studio audience.

 

One problem with this is the English subtitles appearing over the Chinese ones.  Here it is hosted on a Chinese site:

 

http://tv.sohu.com/s2012/diorsman/

 

 

(Also might be worth moving this to the television forum...)

[Shelley]

I watched about 15 minutes of one of these shows and that was enough for me. He really is like Mr. Bean and this is why I won't/can't watch it.

[889]

To compare that with Mr Bean is quite an insult to Rowan Atkinson.

[gaogaozhan]

大鹏？Ha ha...

More like the Little Dragon Girl.

[L-F-J]

Mr. Bean is a genius. This is nothing like Mr. Bean. Didn't laugh once. Chinese have an incredibly lame sense of humor. 

[AlexBlackman]

I don't get the Mr Bean comparison, 大鹏 isn't silent.

 

It's an enjoyable show, whilst I don't get all the jokes, it is great to watch some original Chinese comedy. Half the fun of 爱情公寓 is guessing whose jokes they are stealing this scene.

[Pokarface]

Good source. Too bad (for me) that the best comedy videos I've seen are from Hong Kong; which is a great way to learn Cantonese. Mainland China's humor is too confusing