that we're in. But the rhyming -- you know, they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. And the rhyming was already there, and so there is some of that. I thought I'd read one really quick scene to you.
I'm been chewed up and spit out and booed offstage. But I kept rhyming and stepped right in the next cypher. Best believe somebody's paying the Pied Piper.
People are more likely, in some studies, to believe that birds of a feather flock together, for example, than if you rephrase that in a non-rhyming way. But this works very, very clearly in political rhetoric, I think, because it takes ideas that might be complicated and difficult to express
Their names are Ronald and Donald. They have rhyming names, OK? That explains everything you need to know about what it was like to grow up in suburban Cleveland in the '60s.
And then he he ultimately gets frustrated and just says, "I'm just going to take the first two rhyming words on the list and make a book." And the first two rhyming words on the list, cat and hat. And the rest is history.
we're getting a half-show, it's really amazing to-- You know what I'm saying? I'm seduced by the rhyming of it all.
And you know, like I said, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. And I heard a lot of rhyming . And one of the fun things about this book-- and it's actually one of the reasons why I included about 10 or 15 pages of endnotes at the end of it--
The Clown got his name because he liked to play pranks. He liked the write long rhyming odes to things, like "Ode to an Inkspot on a Schoolteacher's Skirt." But when the war began, George ran up into the mountains. And because he couldn't really fight, or shoot, or anything, he just ran messages.
we're getting a half-show, it's really amazing to-- You know what I'm saying? I will say that I get caught in the rhyming .
For instance, there will be a film set in north of England where people are speaking English with say a Liverpool accent and in various dialectal ways. But what's unusual about it is that it's not rhyming .
The final frontier, uncharted territory for those who find themselves here, because the public is skeptical of science findings. And they're equally skeptical of the fact that I'm rhyming . In both cases, evidence is insufficient.
And I went up there to deliver it, and I realized that it was in simultaneous translation, and that my translator-- although she was very gifted-- was not going to make any attempt to find rhyming words in Chinese. So you get the benefit of the Chinese version of my book in this framework.
So we're retelling those stories or telling our own. And the rhymes, and the rhyming , and the beatboxing, and the skill set that you see comes with practice, and comes with doing the show for 15 years, or being a battle rapper for 10 years, or being a beat boxer for 20, or whatever.
So some of the book-- not a lot of it-- I might have played up a little bit, or I did play up a little bit, because of the era that we're in. But the rhyming -- you know, they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. And the rhyming was already there, and so there is some of that.
So what I'm talking about is there's a line that goes, you got designer shades just to hide your face face. So not just-- it's not just shades and face that are rhyming , but "designer" and "hide your" are also rhyming . And I just thought that was dope because I didn't hear people sing like that.
Aisha Tyler: Um, hum. Aisha Tyler: And it's almost, almost rhyming . And uh, so I just, I loved that and I wanted to write a book that was in that vein, so Swerve is a, is a collection of essays about
Sam struggled, without success, to regain his composure and said, 'The funny thing-- the really funny thing-- is you do have a Subaru.' After I read this book-- and it was when it came out in hardback-- there was kind of a very strange rhyming event for me,
I had to slip that in in case you forgot I was Catholic. You feeling me? But the bottom line is when it comes to rhyming , I would not stop this show to save the climate.
"Stop taking this so seriously. on the hemorrhagic fever theory, and boiled it down into cheerful rhyming verses.
I still love to go to the library but I notice that, you know, now with a -- with a -- what you've created at Google research is so much easier for me as opposed to when I need something for a character in a book or I need a line-- I need a rhyming word or something you're there. So I should be giving you credit on these albums and things like that so, uh -- and I just wanted to thank you for being a part of my creative life.
it forced him to experiment with rhythm because he couldn't be expansive with vocabulary. And then he he ultimately gets frustrated and just says, "I'm just going to take the first two rhyming words on the list and make a book." And the first two rhyming words on the list, cat and hat.
And so, I was musical, so I started doing beatboxing, and then kids would like start rhyming or whatever.
Anything but the impossible to say Christian Picciolini, pronounced Pee-cho-lee-nee, which made for all kinds of God awful rhyming nicknames-- Pick-my-weenie, Suck-my-weenie,
But in the early '50s, there was a series of advertisements by the side of the road, rhyming signs-- like every 50 yards would to be a sign and they rhymed .