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Art/Literary | | English term or phrase: monkey slapping gags | Ben Elton:
Let’s just establish the parameters? Can we do monkey slapping gags on your show?
Michael Parkinson:
You certainly can. Anything at all. It’s way past the water-shed.
What kind of gags are they? Any idea? |
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| | English translation:sexual innuendo | Explanation:
Ben Elton, who was one of the writers of Black Adder, has done a number of one-man stand-up comic shows on BBC. If HE is talking about monkey-slapping, it is usually in reference to sex (masturbation). His comic routines can be brillantly funny, but he can and often does go to extreme limits.
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what I mean is that with Elton, you don\'t have to look for any other meanings for monkey slapping. |
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12 mins confidence:  Literally, in a monkey-slapping gig, one slaps as monkey, . .
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. . . whereupon the monkey slaps back, the person slaps the monkey back, and so on. It is a cruel form of entertainment.
The term, however, has been used figuratively for all sorts of things, mostly repetitive actions that are thought to be silly or mutually destructive. I have also heard it used for masturbation.
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