+lotsoffun It could be because he's a vegan. There are two crucial amino acids only found in animal products. Without them one's brain is in a constant state of desperation for nourishment, making a person nearly insane. That's why vegans are usually pricks in real life.
+lotsoffun Without trying to get into a huge argument, how is he fake? Everyone I've ever heard talk about him says he really is that cheerful normally, just because its not the norm doesn't mean it's automatically fake. Do you have any actual proof of his "fakery" other than just your very subjective opinion on the matter? Not being able to stand him on the other hand is perfectly legitimate. Different strokes for different folks but don't blame it on you thinking he's fake.
KyoPewz Watch a few of his interviews, he's so cheery and whenever someone makes a joke he just leans back, clasps his hands together and laughs. It's so goddamn fake. It's not an opinion, every late night tv host does it I think his sketches are funny, the batman ones always make me laugh. But his "normal" persona that he displays in front of the camera is so cringy.
wow - that was hilarious. i clicked on this link because i thought "this idiot doesn't like game of thrones???" and 4 minutes later i was laughing so loud my dog moved to another sofa
fraud1980 My taste is doing well, so please don't worry :) What makes you think that everyone loves wine? who told you that? :) Comparing GOT to wine is a little irrelevant. We all have our preferences.
I'm sure Game of Thrones is a great show, but I can't get into it either. I've never heard anyone else say that, so I'm glad to know it's not just me. Lol. Pete Holmes is awesome.
I think this is the only Conan clip I go back to once in a while to watch again. Must be like the 5th or 6th time now since it was uploaded 2 and a half years ago.
legend of the seeker used British and Australian actors who faked American "accents" and I loved it, that show it was set in the medieval times just like GOT
@@colincampbell3199 Because it's written in English by Englishmen, also England was always a tough nation to keep for the Romans since the natives were so warlike and was always a topic of discussion even in Roman times. Also no one wants to hear a yankee accent in a historical based movie/show
I always thought that theres no way that Pete's dad actually sounds like Peter Griffin, but just now I watched an episode of his old show and he has his dad on and he is actually for realsies real life Peter Griffin, it's awesome. You can see where pete got his wholesome energy too, his dad has that same kind of gentle kindness.
always assumed british or other european accents were used because america dont really have a sword / knights / armour / kings etc kind of history so it doesnt fit. They are a relatively new country really so lack those times in their history i guess.....
I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre myself but I fucking love Game of Thrones. I think it's mainly because of the realism and the conflicts. Yes there are dragons, white walkers, warlocks, etc but they tackle conflicts that people can identify with... It's not a happy story where the good people eventually end up on top. Atm it is the best tv series (RIP Breaking Bad), and season 4 looks epic!
My buddy won't watch it just because of South Parks hilarious parody, he has an image of dicks flopping around every episode and can't convince him otherwise. Also says he won't watch it because of exactly what this guy just said with the accents making it seem out of this world. People need to just look past things out of their comfort zone
Woogie Harrelson The reason why that South Park parody is so funny is because it's such an inaccurate description of what the show actually contains. And it pokes fun at the way the show disproportionately has more female nudity than male nudity. If he has anything to worry about, it's getting slapped in the face with lots of breasts. lol As for the accents thing, that's really just ridiculous. People all over the world have different accents. The characters have accents because the *actors* actually have accents. Since GRRM's books are heavily inspired by medieval history, it makes logical sense that the characters would have various European accents. I know I don't need to convince you of anything but if it helps, tell your friend that the show is essentially historical fiction in a made up world so the ending isn't know. I find that tends to help ease non-fantasy fans into the show and the books.
Never before in the comments section has there ever been such a huge misunderstanding of a joke. Let all of the fans bow there heads in sadness, for the sorry fools that don't understand that Pete was just kidding around.
The modern british accent didn't exist in the middle ages. It sounded closer to the american accent. The british accent is the one that changed more over time.
Michael Nyholt No it didn't sound anything romotely like todays American accent. But yes it certainly doesn't sound like todays British accent, but it sounded a lot closer to that than any American accent.
Keep what he said in context and try not to be so pedantic. He said "Americans" in relation to the people and their language, not "America" the geographical place. You're grasping at straws if you're going to use the non English speaking native Americans as a point.
I watched this clip three times saying to myself where the hell do I know his voice from?! And it FINALLY hit me! He does the batman in the college humor clips! If you haven't seen them, do it, DO IT NOW. WITH SCIENCE.
i saw an episode with my friends last night. they watch it all the time and i'd never seen it before so i had NO idea what was going on but it was very entertaining and clever!
Game of thrones is based in the past, or atleast related to it, not a single gun, most of it looks pretty medieval with the feel and scenery, plenty of castles and keeps, America dousn't have a past that goes that far back at least not the white settlers of today anyway, the uk has been around for thousands of years and has had a history similar to GoT's and that's why everyone has a British accent in it.
So you're saying that modern day british sounds exactly like British from a 1000 years ago? Ask your brain how people talked in America the year 1776. Now ask yourself how you think Columbus might've talked Italian. You're about halfway to a thousand from there.
I m watching but I get your point :/ My problem with the show is that I find it difficult to get attached to more characters -and those characters I m no attached to I m not interested in . So it s like 20 minutes of fun and the rest I m like well if he dies will my character get more airtime?
NoPancackeHeavenAss So in your eyes 'slow' is three and a half main characters being killed off in one scene (The Red Wedding)? Oh wait, you probably haven't got that far.
This is brilliant! I love how Martin writes. I guess this is geared to the US, so they use the accent to give a foreign feel to the story. I also love that the character names are familiar but spelled slightly off as well.
The "British accent" thing never bugged me about fantasy settings because they're usually loosely based on medieval England so it sort of makes sense. Where it really bugs me is the fact that they always use it in ancient Roman settings. Granted, we don't know what sort of accent they had back then but wouldn't a vaguely Italian sounding accent make more sense?
Replying to a decade old comment: idk why they don't "make up" accents more often in film/television.. it's the perfect in-world solution to that problem. It's done sometimes in literature, but very rarely in visual formats. I wonder why that is!
+Krak thoom Yes, with their rhotic slant, only a few hundred years old. Since the 1700 - 1800s. Before that they pronounced their Rs. The upper class in England developed this style of accent to distinguish themselves from the poorer classes during imperial Britain I would imagine. Before that they probably all sounded a bit like Irish people, or something like tthe American accent. Boston is an example of an american accent that is rhotic like the British one, because many of the eastern coastal cities had to deal with the British in trade.
Are people still peddling the myth that the "American" accent (which one?) is more similar to a traditional "English" accent (which one?) than the English accents that they are typically familiar with - RP and cockney? There are more regional accents in England alone than in the whole of the United States. Moreover, rhoticism is not the only defining feature of an accent by a long shot and there are certainly English regional accents that preserve it like in the Midlands. The idea of the American accent being the truer one smacks of an inferiority complex and really just needs to be banished to linguistics hell.
watched the first one to give it a try, not bothered to continue it. 2 years later gave it another try because of the red wedding hype, now i cant wait for the next episode. even hummed the theme song a lot , wiener wiener wiener wiener wiener
As a fan of GoT, I can definitely see why the first show might seem shitty to people. It's slightly predictable, slightly boring.But you should really, really, really watch through the entire first season and then say you don't love it.
well the first episode is bad. Watch the first season. I didn't do it for months I wont give it away. well at least the first 6 episodes. please. its a very addicting show once you finish season one. and it gets better every episode 2nd episode won't hook you, but you'll slowly learn whats going on
This clip proves that being funny comedian, doesn't always translate into being funny late night host. Pete is funny here, but in his cancelled show, he is not. Maybe he was controlled, or holding back I don't know
yes i mean as a host, you have a script and have to be mindful of commercial breaks and timing out interview segments, etc etc etc, and maybe more nervous because its your job, as opposed to being a guest. as a guest you can bomb it and it dont matter, you can be as silly as you want and wont matter, you can be a terrible guest in every way ... but the host ends up looking worse for it. its definitely more to take in and be aware of while being a host, and not as relaxed as being the guest.
They do however often refer to Westeros as a realm. For example in a recent episode Lord Varys said something like "I did it for the good of the realm."
I think the reason old fantasy shows have british accents is it kinda adds a darker realism to it...makes you think of the dark ages and the only really english speaking country that had kings and queens was england
Homer Simpson and they also didn't sound like English people sound today. Though of course that doesn't enter into it when it comes to making us think of medieval times or whatever
I can't get into GOT either. I may not have tried hard enough but also it has so so so much hype that it doesn't really appeal to me. I haven't written it off or anything but yeah I'm more of a Lost or Firefly kind of girl.
Michael Burke He was joking! It's so obvious he's messing around with the fans, and yet here you are standing proud like you know what the hell you're talking about.
who is pete holmes is he in anything i would know of? I like shows like game of thrones and sopranos so i guess i have never heard of anything he is in. Is he good or funny at all? I guess I have a pretty dry sense of humor maybe I would enjoy him the realms thing was not very funny but maybe in another different setting he would be real funny like I said I'm not gonna judge him on this 1 performance but yah he doesn't do it for me here at all.
He's just a comedian. Sometimes he is funny, sometimes not. I've never really watched his show but I think he's amusing. I love the Games of Thrones books, but haven't really gotten to watch the show yet.
I saw a few of the episodes--I enjoyed it at first, but lost interest! I agree though, it was nice to see the characters acted out. I think they got really good actors for every character.
Look, I love Pete Holmes, and I know that he's just joking, but his "realm" gripe with the show just doesn't make any sense. GOT takes place in the Seven KINGDOMS, and I don't think I've heard a single character say the word "realm" in all four seasons of the show. I know I'm taking this way more seriously than I should, but it bugs me. It's a detail that anyone who's seen a single episode knows is totally inapplicable, so the joke is just nonsensical. It's like saying you can't get into Battlestar Galactica because you hate it when people say "Beam me up, Scotty!"
Actually they do use to word realm quite frequently. I think they even use it when presenting the king. Protector of the realm or something. But it's just a joke mate.
Game of thrones bores me, I wish they would balance the action and drama more, there is just too much talk and not enough of all the aspects to make it entertaining enough. LOTR is way better.
***** To me, LOTR flows better as a story in the books and in the movie trilogy, to be honest the only character I really liked in GOT was Eddard stark, he was the only really strong character and they killed him off too early in the series. But LOTR and GOT can be compared regardless of one being a tv series and one being a movie trilogy, they are both in the category of entertainment. GOT doesn't incorporate enough of all the aspects to make it interesting enough, that goes for any source of entertainment. Just because GOT is a tv series doesn't mean it cant balance the drama and action more like a movie does. Yeah LOTR is a movie not a tv series, but that doesn't mean it cant be better. Also they are both in the fantasy genre and books as well, they can definitely be compared.
***** LOTR is not for children, but the hobbit is. When Tolkien was writing LOTR I don't think he wrote it intending for it to be for children, just look at the huge backstory, and the history of source material that covers way more than just the LOTR books. That doesn't seem like a childrens book to me. But to me LOTR is more heartfelt and has more soul at the heart of the story. I will say I love the GOT music though, there is no denying the music is awesome. No hard feelings, I just think GOT is not on the same level as LOTR as far as the grand epic scale and scope.
***** I can't compare cause I've never watched GOT either, but you either don't read enough or have some prodigious skill at reading to call it a children's book. I dunno about you, but you've gotta be a serious bookworm to be an 8 year old reading through all the long speeches and dialogue of old speech in ROTK, that was some boring stuff when I was 8. Only truly appreciated it word for word a couple years later. Plus, LOTR is an epic, the trilogy that set the foundation for high fantasy and the whole conflict of 'good vs evil'. You just need to learn to appreciate GOT for what it is, and LOTR for what it is. It's a great trilogy. Most certainly not a children's book.
Killigrew Music Apart from the Dragons? The Valyrian steel? The Red God and his power to resurrect and alter weather? And everyone refers to the Country of Westeros as "the Realm". ....do you even watch the show?
Pete Holmes: The best Batman that there ever was.
Hervy dent..can we trust hiiim?
Is it...helicopter?
WB needs to give Pete's Batman a feature-length movie.
PsychoGemini
Seriously. I would actually pay the 20 it takes to get into theaters these days if Peter wore the suit.
"These two fucking dwarfs just stole my horse!" Haha. I would actually watch a show a like that.
Sounds like the realm of Quohog.
I would enjoy shows like Seinfeld or Always Sunny set in the worlds like the Lord of the Rings.
Someone @ Glenn Howerton on Twitter and tell him to make an episode of Sunny set in those medieval fantasy worlds ASAP.
That Seinfeld impression though. Amazing.
So casually done and so good
@Ellis Dee I did Nazi that coming
Part of me thinks Seinfeld himself is doing a Seinfeld impression at this point.
100% accurate lol
I would watch a fantasy show that has east coast accents for their characters. That would be funny as HELL.
+1974spr this is fucking spaarter !
+hakim amalou *spahtah
East Coast accent? You can't just group us all together like that, that's regional profiling.
bcz1 please tell me that's a joke i don't get.
THEY SHOULD DO THIS!
His delivery of "That really made me feel quite terrible" makes me laugh every fucking time.
Chris Ray Gun yaau it's you
hi
hey chris long time
What is this, a reunion?
You famous now
It's 2020 and I still find this hilarious. Gotta love Pete Holmes!
Pete Holmes looks like a better aged version of Val Kilmer than Val Kilmer does.
It makes my stool hard to know that the brilliance of this comment will not get the widespread recognition it deserves
+WhoAteMyFunDip L.....O...L
Lesbian Val Kilmer
That is both absolutely hilarious and really sad lol.
His seinfeld was pretty good!
I would like to see Statham in the role of Stannis.
"Dis night is full o' noightmaarez".
i just pictured him saying that lmfao!!! it fits perfectly!
Dis noight!
He actually played in a some kind of dungeons and dragons movie, which is as random as it gets
"Fucking" pete holmes is so underrated, funny dude!
+Kolzahn he doesn't really fuck with cheese
+Kolzahn he is so fake. I cant stand watching him
+lotsoffun It could be because he's a vegan. There are two crucial amino acids only found in animal products. Without them one's brain is in a constant state of desperation for nourishment, making a person nearly insane. That's why vegans are usually pricks in real life.
+lotsoffun Without trying to get into a huge argument, how is he fake? Everyone I've ever heard talk about him says he really is that cheerful normally, just because its not the norm doesn't mean it's automatically fake. Do you have any actual proof of his "fakery" other than just your very subjective opinion on the matter?
Not being able to stand him on the other hand is perfectly legitimate. Different strokes for different folks but don't blame it on you thinking he's fake.
KyoPewz Watch a few of his interviews, he's so cheery and whenever someone makes a joke he just leans back, clasps his hands together and laughs. It's so goddamn fake. It's not an opinion, every late night tv host does it
I think his sketches are funny, the batman ones always make me laugh. But his "normal" persona that he displays in front of the camera is so cringy.
After hearing Pete do that accent I think there needs to be a kickstarter to hire a bunch of people from Boston to dub over Game of Thrones.
You can have my $20, plus these last 7 years of interest. You have to start right now though
I might have watched the show then
wow - that was hilarious.
i clicked on this link because i thought "this idiot doesn't like game of thrones???" and 4 minutes later i was laughing so loud my dog moved to another sofa
b that’s what Pete Holmes does to you man. Starts off slow and in a couple of minutes he is controlling the room. Dude always murders.
heeeey, look at the top %1 here, the man's got two sofas!!
Cause the show is ass
b I genuinely can’t get into “game of thrones “ I only made it 30 minutes through episode 1 and gave up.
Pete Holmes: You can't do fantasy with a Boston accent.
Bill Burr: Hoald my blastah.
Pete actually sounded like Bill.
Conans laugh when he put his feet on the table lmao it was like a "im gonna fuckin slaughter you" laugh
what are they gonna say at the bakery?
that was fucking great!
AHAHHAHA
GOLD
Wow. That was a brilliant bit. I like this Pete Holmes guy
Thank God, I thought I was the only one.
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Its like saying I hate wine... We all know that you dont get it and at the same time, we feel terribly sorry for your taste :)
fraud1980
My taste is doing well, so please don't worry :) What makes you think that everyone loves wine? who told you that? :) Comparing GOT to wine is a little irrelevant. We all have our preferences.
"You're father is watching, what are they gonna say at the bakery?"
"That was fuckin great"
I laughed so hard.
I love Game of Thrones but this was hilarious.
I'm sure Game of Thrones is a great show, but I can't get into it either. I've never heard anyone else say that, so I'm glad to know it's not just me. Lol. Pete Holmes is awesome.
I can't get into The Walking Dead. I've tried watching it, and it just doesn't grow on me.
2nd season gets pretty boring but it's pretty good over all.
Wher's Caral?
***** Oh my god...THis comment...Accurate
***** classic...Walking...Days of our lives...hahahaha funny...
make my day... :-)
I used to watch the show, but it's gotten slow as of late. Someone will lose a shoe, and it takes them 4 episodes to find it.
I think this is the only Conan clip I go back to once in a while to watch again. Must be like the 5th or 6th time now since it was uploaded 2 and a half years ago.
This clip is television magic. (Another year later lol)
His Seinfeld impersonation.... 10/10
if they had made Game Of Thrones in American accents i don't think it'd make past the pilot episode
+wolvie041007 Depends on the type of American accent.
+David Garcia Detroit-ish , New Jersey-ish or Texan ? ? Which accent is better ?
TheSkipRow Gaming I think it could work fine with a typical American accent. I am from Texas and don't have a southern accent, most people don't.
legend of the seeker used British and Australian actors who faked American "accents" and I loved it, that show it was set in the medieval times just like GOT
Marissa Lopez
never heard of it
People in LOTR have British accents because it was written by an Englishman and because the Shire is based on rural England.
Also possibly because a 'Medieval Time' never existed in America
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In the show Rome, why do they have english accents?
@@colincampbell3199 Because it's written in English by Englishmen, also England was always a tough nation to keep for the Romans since the natives were so warlike and was always a topic of discussion even in Roman times. Also no one wants to hear a yankee accent in a historical based movie/show
Lyndells Bakery is on Broadway in Somerville Mass, it's one of the oldest bakeries in the state and one of the best.
I always thought that theres no way that Pete's dad actually sounds like Peter Griffin, but just now I watched an episode of his old show and he has his dad on and he is actually for realsies real life Peter Griffin, it's awesome. You can see where pete got his wholesome energy too, his dad has that same kind of gentle kindness.
Oh my gosh I wish there was a Jersey Elves show.
Anjela Allen Or Boston elves, that would be awesome!
MCShvabo YES. someone make that happen!
always assumed british or other european accents were used because america dont really have a sword / knights / armour / kings etc kind of history so it doesnt fit. They are a relatively new country really so lack those times in their history i guess.....
I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre myself but I fucking love Game of Thrones. I think it's mainly because of the realism and the conflicts. Yes there are dragons, white walkers, warlocks, etc but they tackle conflicts that people can identify with... It's not a happy story where the good people eventually end up on top. Atm it is the best tv series (RIP Breaking Bad), and season 4 looks epic!
but come on everybody loves the sex, rape, manipulation of people using sex as well in this show
My buddy won't watch it just because of South Parks hilarious parody, he has an image of dicks flopping around every episode and can't convince him otherwise. Also says he won't watch it because of exactly what this guy just said with the accents making it seem out of this world. People need to just look past things out of their comfort zone
Woogie Harrelson The reason why that South Park parody is so funny is because it's such an inaccurate description of what the show actually contains. And it pokes fun at the way the show disproportionately has more female nudity than male nudity. If he has anything to worry about, it's getting slapped in the face with lots of breasts. lol
As for the accents thing, that's really just ridiculous. People all over the world have different accents. The characters have accents because the *actors* actually have accents. Since GRRM's books are heavily inspired by medieval history, it makes logical sense that the characters would have various European accents.
I know I don't need to convince you of anything but if it helps, tell your friend that the show is essentially historical fiction in a made up world so the ending isn't know. I find that tends to help ease non-fantasy fans into the show and the books.
nah Better Call Saul
I love that Conan interviews comedians! Love Pete Holmes!
You people do realize that he did this to deliberately piss off the fans right ?
Petey Pops knocked this one out of the fucking park!
I love that. "If it has realms, I'm out." My sentiments exactly!
Never before in the comments section has there ever been such a huge misunderstanding of a joke. Let all of the fans bow there heads in sadness, for the sorry fools that don't understand that Pete was just kidding around.
You Americans weren't about in the Middle ages, and who were the only ones speaking English, the British.
The modern british accent didn't exist in the middle ages. It sounded closer to the american accent. The british accent is the one that changed more over time.
Michael Nyholt No it didn't sound anything romotely like todays American accent. But yes it certainly doesn't sound like todays British accent, but it sounded a lot closer to that than any American accent.
Jack McConnell
The vowels were closer to American and it was rhotic like American speech.
Atx Jun But Americans didn't exist in the Middle Ages. Would I lose credibility for saying you homo sapiens weren't about in the Triassic period?
Keep what he said in context and try not to be so pedantic. He said "Americans" in relation to the people and their language, not "America" the geographical place. You're grasping at straws if you're going to use the non English speaking native Americans as a point.
Pete is a funny guy. Love his stand up
Hah, I still can't get over that "Westeros" sounds so much like "Västerås", an old and relatively large town in central Sweden :D
2020: Now nobody likes Game of Thrones. At that time it was good though.
And Harvey Dent, can we trust him?
I love how he's like "I'm not watching game of thrones, hold the applause'
Man Pete and Conan together is great!
I watched this clip three times saying to myself where the hell do I know his voice from?! And it FINALLY hit me! He does the batman in the college humor clips! If you haven't seen them, do it, DO IT NOW. WITH SCIENCE.
Pete wearing Conan's shoes is the cutest thing ever
He needs to make an entire sketch with that voice
Finaaaaallllyyyyyyy , I feel the same , just feels empty, non of the characters really draw me in....
i saw an episode with my friends last night. they watch it all the time and i'd never seen it before so i had NO idea what was going on but it was very entertaining and clever!
My friend doesn't watch Game of Thrones because it "has too much story in it". So yeah, I guess some people don't like thinking.
1:57 that's Norm Macdonald rhythm and timing
you know nothing, Pete Holmes!
That Seinfeld impersonation was gold lol
Game of thrones is based in the past, or atleast related to it, not a single gun, most of it looks pretty medieval with the feel and scenery, plenty of castles and keeps, America dousn't have a past that goes that far back at least not the white settlers of today anyway, the uk has been around for thousands of years and has had a history similar to GoT's and that's why everyone has a British accent in it.
Make a point or stfu
So you're saying that modern day british sounds exactly like British from a 1000 years ago? Ask your brain how people talked in America the year 1776. Now ask yourself how you think Columbus might've talked Italian. You're about halfway to a thousand from there.
George Mcglynn ***** The book is also based on medieval story in the UK, so there you have it George RR Martin have said that in an interview.
George Mcglynn Even in alot of futuristic utopian based societies they use British accents in movies. . .not sure why.
+George Mcglynn have you seen the map of GoT? Thats a realm, not a past. It doesn't match up geographically.
3:10 Pete Holmes predicts Bill Burr in the Mandolorian
I don't really like Game of Thrones either.
I know the “southie” (South Boston) accent and to hear it combined with realm-ish dialogue is hysterical.
Game of Thrones is to slow for me
I m watching but I get your point :/ My problem with the show is that I find it difficult to get attached to more characters -and those characters I m no attached to I m not interested in . So it s like 20 minutes of fun and the rest I m like well if he dies will my character get more airtime?
Why else do you think they show tits every episode?
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hang on man, winter's coming!! (probably around season 8 or 9...)
NoPancackeHeavenAss So in your eyes 'slow' is three and a half main characters being killed off in one scene (The Red Wedding)? Oh wait, you probably haven't got that far.
This is brilliant! I love how Martin writes. I guess this is geared to the US, so they use the accent to give a foreign feel to the story. I also love that the character names are familiar but spelled slightly off as well.
looks like an oversized Val Kilmer..
And it's pretty hard to oversize Val Kilmer, my friend.
lol he describes himself that way in some of his stand up.
A lesbian Val Kilmer to be precise.
Val Kilmer looks like an oversized Val Klimer. Have you seen him lately? Sheesh!
2:01 on is SOLID GOLD. LMFAO! Even Conan couldn't help loving the F-bomb. haha
wait is this guy the college humour batman!!!!!!!!!!!
yes
yep
teamcoco you need to have more pete holmes, this is the only video you've uploaded that i keep coming back to
Laughed so hard
Come on this guy is the funniest comedian I've seen in a while I think I can overlook his dismissing a good tv show.
I love Pete
I didn't like it the first either, but gave it a few more tries and now I always can't wait for new episodes :)
Pete Holmes is awesome!
The "British accent" thing never bugged me about fantasy settings because they're usually loosely based on medieval England so it sort of makes sense. Where it really bugs me is the fact that they always use it in ancient Roman settings. Granted, we don't know what sort of accent they had back then but wouldn't a vaguely Italian sounding accent make more sense?
Replying to a decade old comment: idk why they don't "make up" accents more often in film/television.. it's the perfect in-world solution to that problem. It's done sometimes in literature, but very rarely in visual formats. I wonder why that is!
Poor Pete Holmes. The guy is funny but his show gets cancelled.
The Boston accent is the funniest of all accents
The dude is funny, but GoT is an amazing show.
***** I'm not sure you've watched actual porn before..
So what if he's joking or not
I loves me some GoT, but this guy is brilliant. I'm hoarse with laughter from watching his vids!
harvey dent .... can we trust him ?
The seinfelesque joke was pretty spot on!
this dude would have been great in Seinfeld, if he wash't on it
May!? May... why am I seeing this now! That was fawking great Pete, way to fawking go Pete! Hahaha
Isn't the british accent as we know it actually a fairly recent thing?
+Krak thoom Yes, with their rhotic slant, only a few hundred years old. Since the 1700 - 1800s. Before that they pronounced their Rs. The upper class in England developed this style of accent to distinguish themselves from the poorer classes during imperial Britain I would imagine. Before that they probably all sounded a bit like Irish people, or something like tthe American accent. Boston is an example of an american accent that is rhotic like the British one, because many of the eastern coastal cities had to deal with the British in trade.
dust The Boston accent was still influenced by the English through coastal trade, and some other places along the east if I remember correctly.
Are people still peddling the myth that the "American" accent (which one?) is more similar to a traditional "English" accent (which one?) than the English accents that they are typically familiar with - RP and cockney? There are more regional accents in England alone than in the whole of the United States. Moreover, rhoticism is not the only defining feature of an accent by a long shot and there are certainly English regional accents that preserve it like in the Midlands. The idea of the American accent being the truer one smacks of an inferiority complex and really just needs to be banished to linguistics hell.
I love Pete and I love that I'm not the only person who can't get into Game of Thrones. I've tried twice..
I watched the first episode once, thought it was pretty fucking awful.
I thought the same thing but I stuck through it and it is one of my favorite shows now.
watched the first one to give it a try, not bothered to continue it.
2 years later gave it another try because of the red wedding hype, now i cant wait for the next episode.
even hummed the theme song a lot , wiener wiener wiener wiener wiener
As a fan of GoT, I can definitely see why the first show might seem shitty to people. It's slightly predictable, slightly boring.But you should really, really, really watch through the entire first season and then say you don't love it.
Nah, not gonna waste my time. There are too many legit good shows out there. Only a couple of my friends and people at work watch it anyway.
well the first episode is bad. Watch the first season. I didn't do it for months I wont give it away. well at least the first 6 episodes. please. its a very addicting show once you finish season one. and it gets better every episode 2nd episode won't hook you, but you'll slowly learn whats going on
Did anyone catch that he said smugglers? Jason Mantzoukas says that’s a word to use to help you get into a Boston accent. 🤣🤣🤣
This clip proves that being funny comedian, doesn't always translate into being funny late night host. Pete is funny here, but in his cancelled show, he is not. Maybe he was controlled, or holding back I don't know
yes i mean as a host, you have a script and have to be mindful of commercial breaks and timing out interview segments, etc etc etc, and maybe more nervous because its your job, as opposed to being a guest. as a guest you can bomb it and it dont matter, you can be as silly as you want and wont matter, you can be a terrible guest in every way ... but the host ends up looking worse for it. its definitely more to take in and be aware of while being a host, and not as relaxed as being the guest.
They do however often refer to Westeros as a realm. For example in a recent episode Lord Varys said something like "I did it for the good of the realm."
I think the reason old fantasy shows have british accents is it kinda adds a darker realism to it...makes you think of the dark ages and the only really english speaking country that had kings and queens was england
Homer Simpson and they also didn't sound like English people sound today. Though of course that doesn't enter into it when it comes to making us think of medieval times or whatever
Which English people are you talking about? Are you aware that there are hundreds of English regional accents?
And the funny thing is years later after the disaster that was the last season of GOT and that finale. He was the one that was right.
I cant understand the appeal to the show at all!
I can't get into GOT either. I may not have tried hard enough but also it has so so so much hype that it doesn't really appeal to me. I haven't written it off or anything but yeah I'm more of a Lost or Firefly kind of girl.
more like LAME of thrones....hahahaha yeah sorry
Im with Pete here. I don't care for the show.
Michael Burke He was joking! It's so obvious he's messing around with the fans, and yet here you are standing proud like you know what the hell you're talking about.
I'm still with Pete.
Forgiven
Pete is so funny...wish he could have maintained a show, but I'm sure he will find other creative outlets :-)
who is pete holmes is he in anything i would know of? I like shows like game of thrones and sopranos so i guess i have never heard of anything he is in. Is he good or funny at all? I guess I have a pretty dry sense of humor maybe I would enjoy him the realms thing was not very funny but maybe in another different setting he would be real funny like I said I'm not gonna judge him on this 1 performance but yah he doesn't do it for me here at all.
He's just a comedian. Sometimes he is funny, sometimes not. I've never really watched his show but I think he's amusing.
I love the Games of Thrones books, but haven't really gotten to watch the show yet.
he plays batman on college humor parodies on youtube
David Streever Is fun to see the characters come to life, but you're not missing that much if you read the books.
I saw a few of the episodes--I enjoyed it at first, but lost interest! I agree though, it was nice to see the characters acted out. I think they got really good actors for every character.
3:14 a Boston sounding Game of Thrones? holy shit that would be even better than the on on the air now. hahaha
Look, I love Pete Holmes, and I know that he's just joking, but his "realm" gripe with the show just doesn't make any sense. GOT takes place in the Seven KINGDOMS, and I don't think I've heard a single character say the word "realm" in all four seasons of the show. I know I'm taking this way more seriously than I should, but it bugs me. It's a detail that anyone who's seen a single episode knows is totally inapplicable, so the joke is just nonsensical. It's like saying you can't get into Battlestar Galactica because you hate it when people say "Beam me up, Scotty!"
Varys says "the Realm" quite often.
RoboPimp3000 Touche
Actually they do use to word realm quite frequently. I think they even use it when presenting the king. Protector of the realm or something. But it's just a joke mate.
PROTECTOR OF THE REALM!!!!
they say realm constantly, im doubting youve even watched the show
Hilarious take on the Fantasy use of a Boston accent now that we have Bill Burr in Star Wars
I hate game of thrones, it's too silly
I'm going to Lyndell's Bakery just to tell Pete's dad that he is the greatest thing ever!!!
I hate that overrated shit too!
Lyndell's is off Prospect, BETWEEN Broadway and Massachusetts Ave.
Who's this? ..
I watched the first episode once, then somehow ended up watching season 1-4 of The Walking Dead. Now I'm waiting for September to end.
Game of thrones bores me, I wish they would balance the action and drama more, there is just too much talk and not enough of all the aspects to make it entertaining enough. LOTR is way better.
***** To me, LOTR flows better as a story in the books and in the movie trilogy, to be honest the only character I really liked in GOT was Eddard stark, he was the only really strong character and they killed him off too early in the series. But LOTR and GOT can be compared regardless of one being a tv series and one being a movie trilogy, they are both in the category of entertainment. GOT doesn't incorporate enough of all the aspects to make it interesting enough, that goes for any source of entertainment. Just because GOT is a tv series doesn't mean it cant balance the drama and action more like a movie does. Yeah LOTR is a movie not a tv series, but that doesn't mean it cant be better. Also they are both in the fantasy genre and books as well, they can definitely be compared.
***** LOTR is not for children, but the hobbit is. When Tolkien was writing LOTR I don't think he wrote it intending for it to be for children, just look at the huge backstory, and the history of source material that covers way more than just the LOTR books. That doesn't seem like a childrens book to me. But to me LOTR is more heartfelt and has more soul at the heart of the story. I will say I love the GOT music though, there is no denying the music is awesome. No hard feelings, I just think GOT is not on the same level as LOTR as far as the grand epic scale and scope.
That could be true. Interesting theory. Loved desolation of smaug.
***** I can't compare cause I've never watched GOT either, but you either don't read enough or have some prodigious skill at reading to call it a children's book. I dunno about you, but you've gotta be a serious bookworm to be an 8 year old reading through all the long speeches and dialogue of old speech in ROTK, that was some boring stuff when I was 8. Only truly appreciated it word for word a couple years later.
Plus, LOTR is an epic, the trilogy that set the foundation for high fantasy and the whole conflict of 'good vs evil'. You just need to learn to appreciate GOT for what it is, and LOTR for what it is. It's a great trilogy. Most certainly not a children's book.
Will give it a read!
"PETE, SO NICE TO SEE YOU, HOW ARE YOU? I'M DOING WELL - IT'S NICE TO BE HERE!" LOOK, I CAN ALSO TYPE THINGS THEY SAY IN THE VIDEO!
But... there's almost NO magic in Game of Thrones... and not a single person speaking about "realms". Jesus xD
Killigrew Music Apart from the Dragons? The Valyrian steel? The Red God and his power to resurrect and alter weather? And everyone refers to the Country of Westeros as "the Realm".
....do you even watch the show?
Killigrew Music Yes? What do you want?
Jon Stamos I know there's plenty of magic in the show, but the way these person "thinks" it is is not right.
+Jesus Christ Would you please turn some tab water into wine, for me
+Killigrew Music they refer to the king as "Protector of the REALM".
I go by Lyndell's every weekday! I'm expecting my invite to the show any day now.
Any day...