MrXenonProductions no it isn't. I'm a fan of James Acaster but the constant laughter after every single thing he says, whether it's funny or not, is irritating. Either the show felt the need to put canned laughter into the video at every pause because the American audience weren't actually laughing at his misunderstood British humour, or the audience were awkwardly laughing because they were being told to by a prompter in front of the crowd.
+James No, it's a sense of...a rhythm that they start together. It's something American to clap at everything and then move on to the next bit. Or even clap/giggle at silences. In video's, where a daughter goes; 'Stephdad...will you adopt me?!' and the stephdad tears up....you will hear applause in the background from the family. It's a culture-thing. That being said, I'm Dutch and I despise it.
Widdekuu91 it's very mainstream, if that makes sense. Bandwagon type behavior. And when they "woo". They act like this for talk shows. It's not a concert, yet there they go.
exactly. James is all about build up, he gets u with small laughs, little chuckles, to one big long punchline that has you rolling. Its not his fault the audience is braindead
It's TV. What you want reality? James is one of the few funny British stand up comedians. Ricky Gervais is not funny and most of the world doesn't quite get how to do stand up.
Trunk McEight a fallacious and unnecessary observation. He doesn’t have a political set, so their politics has no bearing on their reaction. Also would identify as liberal if I had to and am ultimately distracted by the laughter despite finding acaster very funny. What you call an observation is actually, and ironically a politically invoked delusion so shut up and don’t try to politicise something which isn’t political: ergo, stop being a troll
reppa reppa i really don’t understand your... argument ???? Picking three things that are not native or original to America, you could be talking about anywhere. America is a disgrace of a culture placing their rights to arm themselves over the lives of children. As we all saw yesterday. 2 mass school shootings in less than 6 months, what a great culture
i would say half are british in the audience. I fukkin hate Corden now. Why does he bring these horrible british comics who are so UNFUNNY for? is it because they are british. this guy was SHIT. 99% of Americans never heard of this guy. I did not laugh or chuckle once. In fact, he's annoying. How did this loser get on this show? this guy is brutal.. 0/10. Pls bring someone funny next time.
tarogue1 It's all good they come in a resealable bag as some people aren't as ready to eat apricots as they think they are, maybe next time they'll buy SOME apricots..
Read some of the comments and am genuinely confused by everyone mad at the audience. You don't think comedians want this type of reaction? Every comedian would kill for this type of audience, ESPECIALLY when it's being televised. The audience is loving it! And rightfully so! James is killing it! And for people confused about the pauses, when an audience has this type of reaction where they just keep laughing or clapping or whatever, the best comedians do what James did. They stay in whatever bit they're doing and keep it going. For James it just so happened to be the funny pose he was doing. If it was a bit where he was telling certain part of a story, then he would have stayed in that part of the story and found a way to compound it, whatever "IT" was, before moving on.
@Rosie Widdicombe you see, James Acaster is what people would call a "comedian", say jokes to make people laugh, smile or to tell a joke in a funny way. Hope that helps.
His show on Netflix is one of the funniest, cleverest stand-up performances I’ve ever seen. I actually had to pause it because I hurt from laughing. Properly hurt. Thankfully his audience weren’t as moronic as that lot.
For those wondering about the audience, when you sit for a recording of a talk show, they usually tell the audience to be overly enthusiastic and laugh much more loudly and often than normal. Sometimes they'll even have a guy in between takes trying to hype up the audience and they'll even sometimes stop and redo takes if they feel the audience wasn't loud enough the first time. Most American audiences dont clap at every damn pause in the show like they annoyingly did here. I'd attribute it to poor direction from the production crew.
Interesting… I can imagine this is incredibly annoying for comics who get to understand the natural flow and dynamics of their audiences - it dictates the flow of delivery and they use the natural pauses for extra impact when a line is delivered. You can see it in this video, where he tries to wait for a pause to say “… there it is” but can’t because the audience is still clapping. I have seen it with other comics on this particular late show.
00:38 I thought he was talking about having a British host, but you can tell he abandoned at least 2 punch-lines mid-clap right before this... So he probably IS furious LOL. Way to adapt on the fly
It seems like forever ago but I had the great fortune of spending a summer in London. There I discovered panel shows like Would I Lie to You, Cats Does Countdown...and I was hooked. It was on these shows that I first saw James Acaster as a panelist and he absolutely killed me almost every time he spoke. Love this guy!
I love James Acaster. His stand up reminds me a bit of Jim Carey's. All he has to do is stand a certain way or pull a funny face and people are laughing before he has even opened his mouth... Great stuff James.
It's really bizarre that he was on Conan last year and did a brilliant set to incredibly awkward silence, then he does a pretty weak set here and the audience is in hysterics.
He's implying that James only included a bit in his sketch on gender specific terms such as 'he/she' to cater to the rise of extremist liberalism in society and especially the extremist liberalism that is rampant in LA.
Hate to sound like one of those early adopter fans haha but I saw James gigging when nobody knew who he was. It's so genuinely lovely to see him doing so well, he's such a talent.
I went to a broadway musical in America a few weeks ago and was appalled by the audiences perception of when to laugh and applaud. I was genuinely frustrated and thus did not find any of it amusing. Are all Americans like this? If so, my god you all need a masterclass in comedy.
Loll the comments made me feel relieved to see that I wasn't the only one who didn't laugh as often as the audience laughed and clapped, even during the pauses.
I read through the comments, but one question i never got my answer to was: What did everyone think about the audience and their clap frequency? Guess I'll never know...
This is just a guess, but I suspect it got a big laugh because there was an item before him where people were throwing up on stage so it was a genuinely good and off the cuff joke. Not just a classic example of americans laughing at anything.
It's as if the buttons for those applause/laughter signs were continuously being walked over by a cat. I love James' stand-up normally but he sometimes barely did anything here and there was laughter and applause. He was on Conan once too and the audience reaction was weak but at least realistic and understandable. He is very much a comedian for a British or Aussie audience and I don't think his material and even mannerisms quite work Stateside.
Read some of the comments and am genuinely confused by everyone mad at the audience. You don't think comedians want this type of reaction? Every comedian would kill for this type of audience, ESPECIALLY when it's being televised. The audience is loving it! And rightfully so! James is killing it! And for people confused about the pauses, when an audience has this type of reaction where they just keep laughing or clapping or whatever, the best comedians do what James did. They stay in whatever bit they're doing and keep it going. For James it just so happened to be the funny pose he was doing. If it was a bit where he was telling certain part of a story, then he would have stayed in that part of the story and found a way to compound it, whatever "IT" was, before moving on.
"I'm from England" will never feel the same as "I'm from Kettering"
Myopi Dodi K and an E and a T and a T, E and an R and an I N G, T and an O and a W N
@@sick0em0more0 KETTERING TOWN, FC
... and an E and a T and a T, E and an R and an I N G, T and an O and a W N
@@Qarl23 KETTERING TOWN FC
Joseph Throp .. and an .. and a T and a T, E and an R and an I N G, T and an O and a W N
y'all bitter about the audience's constant laughter/clapping while I'm just glad james is getting the international recognition he deserves
not to say that it didn't mess up his natural flow, because I get it, but that's literally all that's in the comments section
dwindle and I’m just glad he had James on. One of the funniest comedians around.
THANKYOU
If he wasn't with such a hype audience he would bomb here since his material is quite shite really. Toodle-oo.
Alright James's mum. Calm down.
He said 'Thank you' when he came out and people in the audience were laughing like it's the funniest thing they've ever heard in their life
its his thing
MrXenonProductions no it isn't. I'm a fan of James Acaster but the constant laughter after every single thing he says, whether it's funny or not, is irritating. Either the show felt the need to put canned laughter into the video at every pause because the American audience weren't actually laughing at his misunderstood British humour, or the audience were awkwardly laughing because they were being told to by a prompter in front of the crowd.
Mark Williams i think its abit of both, british comedians dont usually get many laughs in the US. Big difference in humour
Mark Williams its called comedic timing. the way he said it was hilarious
They're watching James Corden. It probably is the funniest thing they've ever heard.
I hate overactive applause for comedy, it always breaks momentum.
Just laugh and let them continue with the act.
Ian Thompsett that's Americans for you
Probably because Americans are use to being told when to laugh by laugh track
+James
No, it's a sense of...a rhythm that they start together.
It's something American to clap at everything and then move on to the next bit.
Or even clap/giggle at silences.
In video's, where a daughter goes; 'Stephdad...will you adopt me?!' and the stephdad tears up....you will hear applause in the background from the family.
It's a culture-thing.
That being said, I'm Dutch and I despise it.
Widdekuu91 it's very mainstream, if that makes sense. Bandwagon type behavior. And when they "woo". They act like this for talk shows. It's not a concert, yet there they go.
Just further proof that leaving the empire early was a bad thing
God damn I love these peaches
Daniel Baqueiro maybe you're not ready to eat peaches?
We will fight them on the beaches?
I love that bit! The way he kept cracking himself up was killing me!
I saw your comment and couldn’t stop laughing I loved that part of mock the week😆
and we never got to know the rest
James: The--
Audience: *uproarious applause *
or she
@@ianfarrugia4495 LMAO
don't think the audience realised that sometimes silence is intentional
He's very slow & awkward eh his style, he like leaving people waiting
Too advanced.
Every one of James's stand ups should open with Alex Horne introducing him and James ignoring him.
YESSS!!!
LMAOAOAOA
Please stop with the round of applause after every sentence
Americans..
Andy may be montage :)
🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Lera Paw it's not
Charlie Barratt ii
as a brit watching british comics go to america, i despise every minute of it because the audiences laugh at EVERY WORD LIKE GODDAMN
or none at all, there's another vid of James where it looks like he's completely bombing, this one is better.
At least they didn't throw Maltesers at him and call him a b*tch
In Emgland they just boo
That’s probably just the James Corden type of audience.
ChloeCohndashian That’s probably why he moved to America, us brits are sick of that unfunny muppet.😂
The way he said "I'm from England" instead of his name in the outro cracked me up.
It's quite weird listening to James with constant whooping after every line, especially in the build up of a joke, kind of ruins the flow
Wow, welcome to a different country and it’s culture, you Brexit wanker.
Okay, your point?
@@domremyuk lol that was such an unnecessarily harsh reply to a perfectly reasonable comment
Look up “How to ruin a joke” by key and peele and that is this audience lol
exactly. James is all about build up, he gets u with small laughs, little chuckles, to one big long punchline that has you rolling. Its not his fault the audience is braindead
Honestly "THEY (or she)" is god tier comedy lmao
Is got he in it, so police officer was right tbf. I've heard the joke before in a longer piece, but this was still decent
@@kurtsudheim825 "She" also has "he" in it, and "woman" has "man" in it
Imagine what you'll think when you see good comedy.
@@spikedmo Take your hate elsewhere. Dave Chappelle sucks
@@kryokin9771 So "woman" can't exist without "man"...never thought of it like that, lol.
a K and a E and a T and a T, an E and an R and an I N G, a T and an O and a W N - KETTERING TOWN FC!
Did you spell and pronounce different words?
KETT’RIN
Love that bit of his
And a, and an E and a T and a T, an E and a R and an ING, T and an O and a WN.
I'm from Kettering and they call us LEGENDS
Watching people clapping between pauses in a comedy set is the most soul wrenching thing to watch
I lead a simple life - whenever I see James Acaster, I click
Dan B Design does that simple life involve not being original?
Max Fritze Yes, yes it does.
James always does the same jokes :(
proud leader here everyone. who's simple life are you leading? if you're gonna say, "yours", don't bother replying.
Kevin Torres I have no clue who that message is to, and I don't understand what it means
I love James Acaster but this performance is ruined by the audience.. there's no need to clap every 10 seconds
Liz Clarke dup . P
That rich Americans for you.
0:28 there is no way that that is a genuine audience laugh.
Maybe they just enjoyed it?
U can literally just laugh and leave it 😂
James saying "fair play" to try and recover from the audience continually clapping
I need some of what the audience is smoking
Maybe Reggie had been handing them out on the way in . . .
hahahaha
They, or she were smoking applaud signs
Gotta give Corden's audience a bit of free booze before the show...
Tons of alcohol
I love the fact that James is getting the recognition he deserves but the incessant laughing and clapping completely derails his comedic timing
Probably scared him out of coming back
im so glad everyone else in the comments is talking about the bloody clapping, please give james back to us brits we'll clap appropriately
Yes
yes please take him back
I don't want to ruin your 666 likes, so have this comment as a sign of appreciation. :'D
It's TV. What you want reality? James is one of the few funny British stand up comedians. Ricky Gervais is not funny and most of the world doesn't quite get how to do stand up.
@@nerfherder4284 fair play travis my mistake
i love how he goes 'fair play' every time he gets cut off by the american clapping-at-jokes thing
"Sometimes the audience just sees something I don't."
- James Acaster 2017
What's with the constant clapping at every pause?
Monkeywithagunn they’ve already seen him on Netflix and know what’s coming
Trunk McEight troll
Trunk McEight a fallacious and unnecessary observation. He doesn’t have a political set, so their politics has no bearing on their reaction. Also would identify as liberal if I had to and am ultimately distracted by the laughter despite finding acaster very funny. What you call an observation is actually, and ironically a politically invoked delusion so shut up and don’t try to politicise something which isn’t political: ergo, stop being a troll
Trunk McEight he makes one semi political joke. I understand the phenomenon, it’s basically the premise of Fox News. Cheers
Monkeywithagunn they’re american
American audiences are confused by a pause so need to clap?
Richard Keep yeaps
I'm american and I can't understand why they won't stop clapping.
"hi."
*CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPYELLINGCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP*
It's LA. They're just.. so... LA
Most television studios have applause lights. The douche working the applause light needs a new job.
It's whoever's in control of the "applause" sign that they have at these shows. It's really annoying.
American audiences are so weird 😶😶😶
Isaac Le Vay it's not just audiences but Americans in general
reppa reppa i really don’t understand your... argument ???? Picking three things that are not native or original to America, you could be talking about anywhere. America is a disgrace of a culture placing their rights to arm themselves over the lives of children. As we all saw yesterday. 2 mass school shootings in less than 6 months, what a great culture
nah its the late show audiences mate
i would say half are british in the audience. I fukkin hate Corden now. Why does he bring these horrible british comics who are so UNFUNNY for? is it because they are british. this guy was SHIT. 99% of Americans never heard of this guy. I did not laugh or chuckle once. In fact, he's annoying. How did this loser get on this show? this guy is brutal.. 0/10. Pls bring someone funny next time.
claude878878 found the American too thick to get whimsical humour
James response to the applause "fair play" 😂
The clapping and laughing before the punchline is annoying.
A couple of jokes were kind of telegraphed. I mean to be fair.
that point at 4:23 where james didn’t expect this much laughter & he just starts screaming
I have a sudden urge to eat dried apricots
are you sure you're ready to eat apricots?
I just want to eat SOME apricots.
tarogue1 It's all good they come in a resealable bag as some people aren't as ready to eat apricots as they think they are, maybe next time they'll buy SOME apricots..
Sorry! I had a sudden urge to sit in a bush and eat a cabbage.
I’d rather some ready to eat apricots
Haven't even watched the video yet just saw James acaster in the title and pressed it straight away
aviel Meghnagi Did the same thing
aviel Meghnagi shame its the same thing from repertoire
That's how TH-cam works...
Ygm
How you gonna watch the video before pressing it?
The audience reactions make me genuinely angry. I can't sit though this, it's painful.
Wtf you doing here and since when did you care about comedy.
4:20 I feel like James wasn't happy either
3:12 (sorry, i need to mark my timing)
Read some of the comments and am genuinely confused by everyone mad at the audience. You don't think comedians want this type of reaction? Every comedian would kill for this type of audience, ESPECIALLY when it's being televised. The audience is loving it! And rightfully so! James is killing it! And for people confused about the pauses, when an audience has this type of reaction where they just keep laughing or clapping or whatever, the best comedians do what James did. They stay in whatever bit they're doing and keep it going. For James it just so happened to be the funny pose he was doing. If it was a bit where he was telling certain part of a story, then he would have stayed in that part of the story and found a way to compound it, whatever "IT" was, before moving on.
@Rosie Widdicombe you see, James Acaster is what people would call a "comedian", say jokes to make people laugh, smile or to tell a joke in a funny way.
Hope that helps.
His show on Netflix is one of the funniest, cleverest stand-up performances I’ve ever seen. I actually had to pause it because I hurt from laughing. Properly hurt.
Thankfully his audience weren’t as moronic as that lot.
He and Ricky Gervais should do a double-act; would be great, ‘they’ .
For those wondering about the audience, when you sit for a recording of a talk show, they usually tell the audience to be overly enthusiastic and laugh much more loudly and often than normal. Sometimes they'll even have a guy in between takes trying to hype up the audience and they'll even sometimes stop and redo takes if they feel the audience wasn't loud enough the first time. Most American audiences dont clap at every damn pause in the show like they annoyingly did here. I'd attribute it to poor direction from the production crew.
Interesting… I can imagine this is incredibly annoying for comics who get to understand the natural flow and dynamics of their audiences - it dictates the flow of delivery and they use the natural pauses for extra impact when a line is delivered. You can see it in this video, where he tries to wait for a pause to say “… there it is” but can’t because the audience is still clapping. I have seen it with other comics on this particular late show.
Better than Conan where the audience was a dead fish.
This audience reminds me of the Key and Peele skit “How to Ruin a Joke.” Just laugh at the buildup and not react to the actual punchline
It actually really is strange. As an American myself this audience is overly laughing.
One of my favorite comedians of all time!
James Acaster is my *favourite* comedian but this audience really spoil the routine
James is a fucking legend
_"The topic is Britain."_
*_"I wish I was Mexican."_*
That FAIR PLAY and manic laughter as he looks at his manager off stage and mouths why the fuck are they clapping
As an American I swear we’re don’t all laugh/clap after every word said by a comic.
00:38 I thought he was talking about having a British host, but you can tell he abandoned at least 2 punch-lines mid-clap right before this... So he probably IS furious LOL. Way to adapt on the fly
Everyone send James Acaster cabbages....he LOVES them!
Love Ancaster so much but the crowd ruins it
Hollaname
If thats true, at least get his name right!
Nice try buddy
"I DID TOO vote for Barack Banana!"
You got cabbaged again
This profile picture is freaky as shit man
Oi oi, savoy!
How do you have 300,000 views with no videos?? 🧐
somebody get this man a cabbage.
Let's not forget these people think James Corden is funny, so James Acaster must seem like a comical genuis...
Sam Townley Ha!
Sam Townley AHAHHA ACCURATE
Can I like twice?
Lol
Never a true word said.
I mean tbh James acaster is a comical genius. There is very few comics that can/do completely out stage him no matter what show he is on.
Glad the audience is giving him so much love. Different people, different reactions. Fair Play.
I never realised that crowds had an accent but as I’m watch this English and American crowd laugh completely differently. Thats so weird
It seems like forever ago but I had the great fortune of spending a summer in London. There I discovered panel shows like Would I Lie to You, Cats Does Countdown...and I was hooked. It was on these shows that I first saw James Acaster as a panelist and he absolutely killed me almost every time he spoke. Love this guy!
I love James Acaster. His stand up reminds me a bit of Jim Carey's. All he has to do is stand a certain way or pull a funny face and people are laughing before he has even opened his mouth... Great stuff James.
I can tell that this kind of comedy is literally blowing their minds
Shoutout to he/she that invented the propping up the Leaning Tower of Pisa pose.
The Late Late Show with James Corden it was Paul Foot in 1999
at least its's not the mobot
*They/She
i'm having a poo
Celtic 67
Couldn't have put it better myself!
omg. It's so simple, yet so good.
Is that a fake Friends laughter track playing, or are the audience all on ecstacy?
James:
American audience: wooooo!! * excessive clapping *
Whats with this undercover cop doing jokes???
That's Pat Springleaf for you.
SingWhileYouMay love that man.
I don’t know what I had done to this women for her to hit me with a language loophole,
I don’t know, what’s with the undercover cop doing jokes?
😂 Good Ol Pat Springleaf
I love how at the end James was seeing how long he could point and they would still laugh 😂
Here for James! Oh HE is the funniest and i love HIS humour and HIM!! 😍😍😍😘
Why is everything ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS to Americans ?
Yeah I know mate
It's really bizarre that he was on Conan last year and did a brilliant set to incredibly awkward silence, then he does a pretty weak set here and the audience is in hysterics.
Daniel C I think he catered to the audience with the gender pronouns shit.
Americans don’t get English humour - this crowd were clearly prompted to laugh at every pause even if they didn’t get it. It’s awful.
Americans dont deal with comedy well. Its all forced.
ConspiracyJuice - What do you mean by "the gender pronouns shit"? Genuine question
He's implying that James only included a bit in his sketch on gender specific terms such as 'he/she' to cater to the rise of extremist liberalism in society and especially the extremist liberalism that is rampant in LA.
A caster is one James I can watch always.
I feel like he tried to make it less British-centric but is still sounds like a British-centric stand up. I love it so much.
I saw him last night while he’s in LA and he absolutely crushed it.
James: Hey guys
Audience: *clap clap clap clap*
He’s hilarious, love his 4 part stand up special on Netflix, hopefully he get to work on another special.
Every time I see James Acaster, I suddenly want a salad with cabbage, peaches and SOME apricots
He’s soooooo adorable. On top of funny, I mean. That is universal, and he’ll no doubt expand his audience beyond UK without issue.
damn i love his delivery
lera j and damn I love these peaches
“On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy are you with your smile?”
Hate to sound like one of those early adopter fans haha but I saw James gigging when nobody knew who he was. It's so genuinely lovely to see him doing so well, he's such a talent.
I like this side of the comedy. It makes you think and it's critical like philosophy in that sense.
“Thank you everybody I am from England”
One of my favorite comedians. Kills me every time...
I went to a broadway musical in America a few weeks ago and was appalled by the audiences perception of when to laugh and applaud. I was genuinely frustrated and thus did not find any of it amusing. Are all Americans like this? If so, my god you all need a masterclass in comedy.
Loll the comments made me feel relieved to see that I wasn't the only one who didn't laugh as often as the audience laughed and clapped, even during the pauses.
I might as well try my hand at stand-comedy if it’s this easy to please an audience
I really want to thumbs up James Acaster, but I can’t bring myself to thumbs up James Corden.
I read through the comments, but one question i never got my answer to was:
What did everyone think about the audience and their clap frequency?
Guess I'll never know...
James has improved so much recently; he's killing it
5:20 Did he remember at the last minute that Americans don't know what Kettering is?
Well, it is no Peterborough or Northampton, is it?
james is expanding his wardrobe lmao looking uncharacteristically bohemian in this one
James: so recently....
Audience: *HAHAHAHAHA*
We all love a bit of there it is, the hands say there it is, but the eyes say HERE I AM
Which of the following is a quote by Winston Churchill:
A) We will fight them on the beaches.
B) God damn I love these peaches
A little guy from Kettering I did the same comedy start up with on The Late Late Show...great job James!
0:28 oh no, it’s that type of audience
This is just a guess, but I suspect it got a big laugh because there was an item before him where people were throwing up on stage so it was a genuinely good and off the cuff joke. Not just a classic example of americans laughing at anything.
Dougal Murray okay that makes sense but how about all the screaming and clapping after every intentional pause
@@jonty4332 yea they're americans, they're still relatively new to comedy
Dougal Murray 😂👌true
The new king of observational comedy!!!
I love James Acaster. Hes soooooo funny
international treasure from Kettering. "I'm from Kettering and they call us legends".
No sit down w/ Acaster? I love when he just riffs.
Omg I read the comments before watching the vid and now I can't help but noticed the over the top laughter, damn you all
It's as if the buttons for those applause/laughter signs were continuously being walked over by a cat.
I love James' stand-up normally but he sometimes barely did anything here and there was laughter and applause.
He was on Conan once too and the audience reaction was weak but at least realistic and understandable. He is very much a comedian for a British or Aussie audience and I don't think his material and even mannerisms quite work Stateside.
You nailed that one, Mr Acaster.
there’s something weirdly attractive about James Acaster 🤣
In a cute, autistic way.
"... they use a different word, women say, and I hope I'm saying this right, 'they'"
Wow, James Corden managed to screw up a James Acaster routine.
Didn't think even Corden was capable of that.
The clapping in between instead of just laughing 😂was probably on cue cards aswell to do it
sentence ends*
Americans bursting out laughing*
James Acaster is a legend. You guys need to check out his show on Netflix
Are they laughing because they don't understand the jokes ?
They pump the studio with laugh gas before every comedian.
Read some of the comments and am genuinely confused by everyone mad at the audience. You don't think comedians want this type of reaction? Every comedian would kill for this type of audience, ESPECIALLY when it's being televised. The audience is loving it! And rightfully so! James is killing it! And for people confused about the pauses, when an audience has this type of reaction where they just keep laughing or clapping or whatever, the best comedians do what James did. They stay in whatever bit they're doing and keep it going. For James it just so happened to be the funny pose he was doing. If it was a bit where he was telling certain part of a story, then he would have stayed in that part of the story and found a way to compound it, whatever "IT" was, before moving on.