美国国家公共电台 NPR Comedian Ali Wong Offers Advice To Keep Us Laughing Through The Holidays
时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2016年NPR美国国家公共电台11月
Comedian 1 Ali Wong Offers Advice To Keep Us Laughing Through The Holidays
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All right, so you've got the turkey or the Tofurky and all the sides for Thanksgiving. Now get ready to talk about flying mashed 3 potatoes. It's been less than three weeks since Election Day, and we have heard from a lot of people who are worried about talking politics at Thanksgiving. Don't worry. We are here to help, and we called reinforcements. Comedian Ali Wong came into the studio and she told me her 1-year-old is helping 4 her make it through Thanksgiving.
ALI WONG: It's a great time to focus on children. You know, there's not much else you can think about when there's an explosive poo. And I've never been so grateful...
MCEVERS: (Laughter).
WONG: ...For an explosive poo because the task of cleaning it - I mean it's like deep breathing. You just - you can't think about anything else. It really clears the mind.
MCEVERS: Yeah. So we asked some of our listeners what their issues are this Thanksgiving.
WONG: Yes.
MCEVERS: Robin 5 Blackwood - she's from Tucson, Ariz., - she voted for Hillary Clinton. Her husband Steve Wilson voted for Donald Trump 6.
WONG: Oh, my God.
MCEVERS: The group that they have for Thanksgiving ranges from a 90-year-old Bernie supporter to students from China who are here studying in the U.S., and she said in her email to us that there will be lots of drinking. And about half of the group voted for Trump, and the other half voted for Clinton. Let's listen to what she had to say.
ROBIN BLACKWOOD: My strategy was to send everybody an email asking them to refrain from political discussion.
(LAUGHTER)
STEVE WILSON: Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Whether it will be effective or not, one never knows, so it could be interesting.
MCEVERS: So that was Robin Blackwood and her husband Steve Wilson. What do you think about, like, the whole, like, send out the email ahead of time thing?
WONG: (Laughter) I think part of them, by inviting 7 all of those people - I think they want some bloodshed. I think they want it.
MCEVERS: Oh, you think they're asking for it.
WONG: I think they want - yeah, I think they want an interesting Thanksgiving. They're like that kind of couple who likes fire. So I say just go for it.
MCEVERS: And just let the sparks fly.
WONG: Just let it all out.
MCEVERS: No email.
WONG: Let the sparks fly, no email. Have a story to tell. Everyone will leave with, like, a great story to tell. And everyone will - it will be a Thanksgiving to remember.
MCEVERS: (Laughter).
WONG: Just shoot the moon. Just go for it.
MCEVERS: Really.
WONG: Yeah.
MCEVERS: So this idea of, like, everyone coming together in, like, a peaceful space and, like, seeing eye to eye and, like, reconciling...
WONG: No.
MCEVERS: No.
WONG: They asked for it the minute...
MCEVERS: Just, like, fight it out.
WONG: They decided 8 to marry each other, yeah.
MCEVERS: It's like oh, yeah?
WONG: Yeah.
MCEVERS: Take some mashed potatoes in your face.
WONG: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
MCEVERS: OK, we have this other listener. Her name's Deb Ann. She suggested using her mom's technique. She said her mom has a dry-erase board on her refrigerator. In addition to writing the times for various foods to come out of the oven, she writes a list of unapproved topics of conversation and approved topics of conversation.
Approved topics will be (laughter) puppies, vacation, home improvement, Christmas and hobbies, and unapproved list, of course, would I think probably be pretty long. She writes, (reading) I think she might need a bigger fridge. (Laughter) What do you think about that?
WONG: Actually, I think that's pretty wise. I mean I could talk about home improvement for a good, like, 30 minutes...
MCEVERS: Right.
WONG: ...With other people - puppies not so much. I mean I guess it's her house. I think she should let people know beforehand. Just like how you should let people know if you're not serving alcohol...
MCEVERS: Right (laughter).
WONG: ...You should let people know that you're going to be censored 9, that Big Mama says you can't talk about this stuff.
MCEVERS: Right, right, right, right. You're going to have to know ahead of time. You can't just walk in to some white board and be like, what?
WONG: Exactly.
MCEVERS: Yeah.
WONG: Yeah.
MCEVERS: What - you think alcohol in general - good or bad in these situations?
WONG: I think it's absolutely necessary.
MCEVERS: (Laughter).
WONG: Before I had a child and before I had in-laws, I didn't drink that much. I didn't understand it when people said, oh, it's so nice to take the edge off. And I didn't understand what people meant. And I'm like, now that I have a child and in-laws, I'm like, oh, I got edge. I got edge to take off.
MCEVERS: (Laughter) It needs to come off right now.
WONG: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
MCEVERS: All right, Ali Wong, thanks so much.
WONG: Oh, well, thanks for having me.
MCEVERS: You can catch Ali Wong on tour or watch her "Baby Cobra" special on Netflix. Alcohol not included.
- The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
- The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。
- View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
- I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
- two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
- Just one scoop of mashed potato for me, please. 请给我盛一勺土豆泥。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
- We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟,知道春天要到了。
- He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
- The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
- An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
- The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人,使人感到亲切温馨。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。