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A few years ago, George Lewis, when he realized that he had to change his life, returned to a comedy club.

He played the same club a few years ago, as well as a few minutes and as well as less than gas. Both times, what to do. Showed. Made the audience laugh.

Now, it was a parent. He needed a more stable income and felt tired of the material. The thing that fills the days – the thing that looked at his children did not go to the rough, the old comics said to him: a sure way for the pigeons.

“It was like: ‘Maybe you have children when you have children,'” he said.

“Obviously,” He continues, “I realize that it is now opposite.”

Since that night, now 37-year-old Mr Lewis, a law of the British parenting comedy. It continues to sell in the first round and his shows as a hood. The successful route began after the pandemic and began to send short online videos that make fun of gently ridicule with British Millennial parents.

Mr. Lewis in some sketches, breeds athepars. Running in the clip below Follow a YAP schedule while driving. There are a toddler in the back that should not be allowed to fall asleep. It becomes increasingly hopeless as it approaches home.

“Should we read?” asks. “Do the actions! Great energy!” He commands. Then, he breaks the one who is more dangerous than having fun.

Other times, U claim to be a child. In a long-lasting series, it is in the stage of conversations among children that sounded so much as adults, but the choking logic of the two-year-olds. (Serial, two toddlers talked about the most popular, on Instagram with about 60 million meetings.)

Share a little real concerns of a child in a sketch. His father continues to cover his face – it destroys it. Then, His father comes back by saying this weird, saying word.

“He was wrong,” said Toddler tells her friend. “It just began to scream, ‘peek-a-boo'”

“‘Peek-a-boo?'” Responds to his friend. “He is good, mentally?”

This is a low-budget effort, almost completely avoid the phone. He plays the movies, all the characters in the kitchen and makes clips between school apples and bathtime. After the video in the video, he is the main, eternal life of a small child’s domestic life, the golden gold of the Gulf among the fact that it is eternal.

“The more secular and nervous and nervous and sketch will be,” he said. “So it’s really a great way of your day.”

There is just time: Tiktok and Instagram, of course, became the largest stage of comedy. And it’s not only videos: Several parenting and attitude podcasts set off during pandemic English Comedy Lists.

“The audience has always been there” said Sophie McCartney, a comedy born in Liverpool that turned it “Tired and tested“Enter a comedy career with my mother’s staff, a podcast, two books and live stand-up tours. However, the pandemic was super loaded.

Celebrities are coming “Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe“The episodes include a meal with children with the children” Christmas stress Tornado “and” Hell. “

“The reason he worked, it comes from a place of ‘really trying’,” said Britain’s stand-up circuit veteran Mr. Widdicombe said. Tolding would be thin to listen to. Instead, this is exactly because they love the lands of their jokes because they are a parent. “You can love your children, think at the same time, ‘I can’t engage in the store that plays three hours without feeling like my brain,” he said.

Mr Lewi and Mr. Widdicombe are among the English comics, who are waiting for men to play a more active role in men’s fathers or grandfathers at home. Many households also juggle the special problems of this period: expensive children’s care and housing shortages, both partners and a Perfecting approach to childbalting Those who influence the sun and rainbow and can be strengthened with the latest “delicate parenting” arts.

Yes, they say comics, their children are beautiful, cheerful, real lights of their true life. Both parenting can be isolated. And even with the best intentions, things go wrong.

“Failure is funny,” Sam Avery, told a British comics that joked for a long time to grow children. “And parenting is 90 percent failure.”

According to several British comedy critics and experts, the growing success of the genre can also be technology. Online, sells specificity. The mighty algorithm ranks users with interests, so the rest of the message gets more traction. Something to cheer up his followers, they tend to repeat. As you play with a toddler.

For Mr Lewis, the father of father products (children – now 6, 5 and almost 2 – not 2 – not 2 -). Send a sketch, then wait for other topics, as approved, because of the disadvantaged by the phone – as tingle A surprisingly open film, “Saltburn” – but the most successful work is related to the parent. About 80 percent of the artist in the instagram, about 80 percent of women, and said, and most of them are between 30 and 44 years old. (“Quite, overwhelmed, waxes!”)

“Do we have parents?” A city on the southern shore of England, opening a show in Brighton. The package club laughed and cheered. “Yes,” he said. “I thought it was.”

“He dismisses the most difficult parts of parenting,” he said, Hannah Worrell, who was in the 30s in the show. “It feels like this, ‘Oh, it’s not our passage, it’s our passage.” “

Mr. Lewis follows ideas in irregular lists in the notes app – a part of a joke, hearing with a school apple. When the older children are in school and when their children are asleep, he writes a stolen hour or twice in the afternoon. Sometimes, he often reminds them to be quiet when marking the kitchen (takes the best light), while marking a few numberes.

The children only understand what he did for the job.

“Says a joke?” Their daughter said her parents sat down once.

“What is the father’s work?” Harriett Brettell, who is an educational advisor, his wife. “Who is he to make laugh?”

“Mature?” the son asked.

But they are his inspiration.

“This is all the real research,” said Mrs. Brettell, 36, his and her friendly chaos in the friendly chaos, which is in control of him and her husband, joking each other’s orbit.

A few minutes later, his 5-year-old daughter went to them with a blue marker shot on his lips (wasn’t poisonous). Mr Lewis bent, the markers were gentle to delete Mrs. Brettell, not makeup, wiping a ms. Brettell.

Maybe it would be a joke.