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"Funny foreigners: how overseas comics are storming Edinburgh"
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To Palmieri, the English language is uniquely suitable for verbal humour. “It’s very idiomatic, it contains a lot of polysemantic or homophonic words,” he tells me (in his second language!), “which you can play with a lot. The same things that make English difficult to learn are what make it good for comedy.”
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