Doing Stand-Up Comedy in Chinese (Conversation)

About this episode

Ariel shares experiences and challenges of performing stand-up comedy in Chinese.

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People in this episode

Host: Ariel

Topics covered

• stand-up comedy
• Chinese language
• performance
• travel
• challenges
• humor

Keywords

• stand-up comedy
• Chinese
• performance
• humor
• travel
• Ariel

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Easy Stories in English

Places: China, London

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