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Stand Up for China

2015/4/14
logo of podcast The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2015

The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2015

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Comedian Des Bishop finds out what makes the chinese laugh. He has learnt Mandarin to take his jokes to China. He finds that there is a long tradition of comedy in China called Xiangsheng, or Crosstalk, often in the form of two comedians playing off each other. Join him in a comedy club in Beijing to find out what goes down well - and what doesn't!