I’m a Scottish air traffic controller working at the London centre, and i swear to god that this is representative of pretty much every time I have to control a United or Delta flight.
I grew up with immigrant parents and my mom doesn’t have a thick accent, my dads was super thick. If he watched too much Spanish news, I couldn’t understand him for an hour afterwards. But at the coffee shop I work at, whenever someone orders and has a thick Spanish accent, almost all my coworkers get their order wrong and I have to correct it. They’re always like “how did you know what they said?” Trust me, I had a lifetime of practice for this moment. Now watching this, if this is what my dad sounded like to some people, no wonder he had a hard time being understood 😂😂😂.
So he isn't just making that stuff up? I thought he was laying it on thick for the sketch. However, I've been to Scotland and I have to admit I did the "What???" quite frequently when someone spoke to me there!
An SNL writer posted on Twitter last night that James worked with them on this skit by rewriting his lines, telling the writers that 'everyone in Scotland will understand me, but no one in the US will'. Good work, James. 😂
@@priscillajimenez27 Same here. I think people that speak multiple languages have more susceptible ears. I understood about 100%. But some words I don't use like doodad. Comprehension was about 75% due to this.
I loved James in "Becoming Jane". OMG he was hot! He also did a great job in a film about the Lincoln assassination. I think it was called "The Conspirator". He was a young lawyer that was assigned to represent Mary Surratt (Robin Wright). Both very good movies. And he was in period costume in both films. McAvoy is so very handsome.
Check out “Ceebeebies Bedtime Stories” on RUclips! It’s a BBC channel where lots of British actors read bedtime stories in soothing voices, often their natural accents. James McAvoy has at least two. :D
I love how the first part was James "Americanizing" his accent to be more understandable by a non-Scot, but the moment Kenan brags about having a feel for Scottish, James goes full highlander.
There's a couple of RUclips videos with Graham Norton and maybe three different Irish guests and in one case Lily Tomlin and in another Marion Cotillard and the poor women are totally lost.
James’ lines: Alright, now, there’s not a TikTok for monikers, big man. I know you’re coming on all peely-wally up there but I’m going to help you down out the sky faster than a whippet gets a hard-on. Okay? Now, I’m going to get you down but here is what I need you to do first, okay. Have a deep breath. I just want you to take a deep breath. In. Out. In. Out. You alright there, wee man? You alright? Deep breath! Right. Deep breath and you need to stay calm. Now, listen to me very carefully. On the wee panel of switches in front of you, there’s a brown doodah with a red jack. About the size of a what do you call it? American cookie. Oreo cookie, not a Keebler. Alright. There’s a wee thing about the size of an Oreo cookie. I thought it was a Keebler. What’s the doodah coming in at? Mate, the brown doodah that looks like an Oreo cookie. What’s it’s coming in at? No. No. Repeat. Brown. The colour. Brown. Aye. What’s the brown doodah coming in at? Good. Two heads are better than one. Right. Have a wee shufty out the window down at the ground. Tell me if you can rest your goggles upon Auchentoshan plane station. Come on. You try it with him. Listen, big man. Tempus Fugit cause we’re only going to get a crack at this once. Now, there’s a wee burgundy hingmajig on the dash, give it a wee tug. Aw no. Aw no. In the name of the wee man. Ah. Right. Radar’s got you leaving Scottish air space. This connections getting crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs. Alright. Godspeed, you lot. Glasgow out.
@jillbythelake no TikTok [video] ‘for monikers’ means for getting to know each other on closer terms. And if you look peely-wally, it means you look pale and tired
As a Scottish person from the same part of the country as James, you just know he wrote this skit. 😂 “doo da” is the remote for the tv in our house, “hing-ee-ma-jig” is thing, any thing. Makes perfect sense.
@@DresdeNareena In Chile it is "thingamagaver" (like in "please pass me the thingamagaver") which is a contraction between "thing-a-ma-jig" and "verga" read backwards (inverting words' syllables is a common practice in Spanish slang), one of the many many many Spanish non-slang words for "penis".
John ross I lived and worked in Glasgow. My favourite seconds city in the uk, pretty much would be my first but loyalty and all. I managed well with the accents, though did get nearly daily headaches 😂. One guys accent was so thick that even other Scots couldn’t understand him lol. I can remember sitting in a senior committee meeting, he was worked up, and appealing for me to back him. I understood the first two minutes, then no, uh uh just his mouth moving with sounds 😂. Nobody else understood either, we all cracked up. He did get what he wanted eventually, a great big Jock with a big heart 😀👍 I’m a bit Scots too, love Glasgow, love Scotland 🏴❤️
I spent a week driving around with my family in Wales as the “navigator”. It got to the point where I just had to point at which exits to leave the roundabouts as I couldn’t begin to pronounce the signs lol
Danny Mcafee We’re perfectly aware of Wales here. I mean, not everyone, but it’s pretty common knowledge... and the one thing most known about wales is that you can’t tell what they’re actually saying lol
Evelyn L. Yeah the best part is my accent isn’t as thick as James’s one in the vid but people still don’t understand you have too speak slow or dull your accent down
Retired United pilot here. Love this skit! My first few years flying to London or anywhere in Europe starting back in the 1990's, this was EXACTLY how our communications with Scottish Control would be! I laughed so hard watching this because it is so accurate. All of the U.S. pilots were continually asking the controllers to repeat themselves, I am sure that it irritated the crap out of them. We would look at each other in the cockpit and say "what the hell did he say?" My last 5 years of flying over there before I retired at the end of 2020 were much easier to understand them. Either I got better at understanding "Scottish" or they got better at speaking American English!
Damn, and here I was thinking they were exaggerating.. Surely you'd think they'd get some air traffic control people with less of an accent considering how vital their job is
@@DEATHBYFLYINGCDS in Scotland? Those don't exist. I think it's a bit of an American thing also. The pronouncement of voul sounds are so different that it's understandable you guys have a hard time.
@@nicholasdavis5393 The American dialect is a neutral dialect... basically it's what you get if you remove it.. But I'm half Colombian.... I was raised by difficult accents
@@nicholasdavis5393 yeah. They're not gonna get like Londoners working airport jobs or Scots with accents with articulate pronunciation if those even exist. They will probably get more "Cockney" like people who are like lower class, ya know? I agree. Like even in the US airport workers are low class people who can't afford healthcare. on food stamps..... or work multiple jobs. I saw it on Michael Moore's Sicko.
"The connection is getting crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs." Oh my, if I could only get one opportunity in life to use that sentence I would be forever grateful.
You can come to this island I'm spending my holidays on. A bag of smashed crabs is defo less crunchy than the connection here. But the place is worth it
Literally came here to say I understood about 90% of this due to JAMMF ❤ ! Living in America all my life, I will take that as a great proof of my Outlander being my show for "education" 😂. I laughed so very hard at this. Love it!
I laughed so hard at this. I studied in Scotland for a year and stayed for two years after just cause. Coming from a west African country that was a real culture shock for my first year. I remember I got to the train station from the airport to get to my university and heard someone speaking on phone and I thought. Did I land in the right country? The accent was insane. I listened intently for sometime to try and identify the language until I heard the word early. I called home as soon as I could to narrate that experience. Now back home I am always delighted to hear the proud Scots speak in their native tongue. Will definitely be visiting again after COVID-19 clears. Thanks SNL.
Omg dude saaaame!!! I’m from Italy thought, and learned english mostly through american tv shows/movies. I thought I understood english, then I arrived in Edinburgh… it was tough 😂
Concurred. When the owner of B&B discussed how much it costs for one night lodge, I couldn't understand anything he said. But I managed to catch/understand the $ amount, whew. And it's all I can say. I thought I am the only one w/ Scott accent since English is not my mother tongue. Apparently, the experience is universal with English speakers! lol
@@giulia6344 I live in Edinburgh and I'll admit the FIfe accents are a bit strong sometimes, but nothing beats the west coast - apart from the Doric... thats just english mixed with phlegm
gold! my brother once moved to scotland and thought his roommate was french and didn't speak english for three weeks.. then they found out, he was scotish
Lol I studied abroad in Scotland as well... Can confirm. Glaswegian accent are v hard to understand. Plus the use different words. Still love that accent though ❤️
Did you actually expect them to be good? Most of them privilege a certain type of American accent so I have low expectations of them in English, let alone Scottish accented English.
I'm Scottish and you should know that his accent isn't exaggerated but for the sake of the skit his sentences are formed of strange words on purpose. The way he said "right, have a wee shifty oot the windae doon at the groun; tell me if you can rest your goggles upon Auchentoshan plane station" at 2:50 is very weird way to say "Look out the window and tell me if you can see Auchentoshan airport"
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I've had the opposite happen lol Some people complimented my English language skills and lack of an accent, even though I was born and raised in the States.
Translation of James McAvoy's bits from a Scot :) "Alright, now there's no time for names mate. I know you're going pale up there but I'm going to get you down faster than a whippet gets a hard on. Now I'm gonna get you down, but, here is what I need you to do first. Ok, have a deep breath. I just want you to take a deep breath. In out in out. You alright there wee man? You alright? Deep breath, right! Deep breath! And you need to stay calm Now listen to me very carefully. On the wee panel of switches in front of you there is a brown doo-dah with a red jack about the size of a, fucking, what do you call it... American cookie. Not a Keebler? No alright. Theres a small thing the size of an oreo cookie, right? I thought it was a Keebler. What's the doo-dah coming in at (reading)? Mate, the brown doo-dah that looks like an oreo cookie. What's it coming in at? No, brown. The colour brown. Yes! What's the brown doo-dah coming in at? Good. Two heads are better than one. Right, have a little look out the window down at the ground. Tell me if you can see Auchentoshan Plane Station. Listen big man we're only going to get one shot at this. The little burgundy thing on the dash, give it a little tug. Oh no, no, oh my God. Radars got you leaving Scottish airspace. This connections getting crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs. God speed you lot. Glasgow out."
A few notes: Doo-dah is a word used to refer to an object you can't remember the name of. Wee Man is "little man". You can use this to refer to anyone male, even if you don't know them personally. Auchentoshan is a whisky distillery near Glasgow.
To anyone needing a translation: 😂 Male controller: "Hello, how are you? Now, there's not much time here and I know you're starting to feel unwell but we'll get you down from the sky faster than a whippet (dog) gets an erection ok?" "Now I'm going to get you down but here is what I need you to do first, ok? Take a deep breath." "I just want you to take a big breath. In, out, in, out. Are you ok there sir? Are you ok?" "Deep breaths, ok? Deep breaths! And you need to stay calm!" "Now listen to me very carefully, on the small pannel of switches in front of you there's a brown switch with a red jack the size of a... what do you call them? Those American cookies..? is it Keeplar? (?) No, Oreo! I thought it was Keeplar... What's the number on the dial!? The small brown thing that looks like an Oreo cookie! No, no! Repeat, BROWN; the colour! BROWN!" "YES! What's the brown dial saying?" "Good! Two heads are better than one! Ok, have a little look out of the window down at the ground. Tell me if you can see Auchentoshan plane station?" [edited, thanks fellow Scots for the correction lol 💙] Female controller: "Can you look out of the window? No, out of the window!" Male controller: "Listen Sir, hurry up because we're only going to get a crack at this once! Now, there's a small burgundy gadget on the small dash board. Give it a small tug." "Oh no, oh no. In the name of god! Okay, radar has you leaving Scottish airspace, this connection is crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs!" Female controller: "We're going to have to put you through to the Welsh air traffic control." Male controller: "Ok good luck to you all. Glasgow out!" The Welsh will have to take over from here! 😂
Keebler (known for their elf mascots) is a competitor of Nabisco, who make Oreos. A doodad the size of a Vienna Finger sandwich cookie would be larger and more elliptical in shape than an Oreo, not to mention distinctly less chocolate brroooon.
This is one of my favorite SNL skits of all time. If I need a good laugh I put this on and laugh away. I gotta love Keenan too. He always manages to crack himself and me up! 😂😂😂
But Kate McKinnon did an amazing job as well. I lived in Aberdeen for a postgraduate degree, and this is exactly what it was like when I tried to order coffee in Inverness. The English girl I was with had to literally translate for me!
After five years of traveling to the UK, visiting Edinburgh and twenty years of watching British television, I'm proud to say that I can understand 40 percent of this lol
I never get tired of watching this skit! Today, however, was the first time I watched it with the automagically generated closed captions... absolutely losing my mind that the CC gives up utterly whenever JM speaks. 🤣🤣🤣
@@erinmcn14 i said it’s a comedy sketch, she doesnt need to nail the accent. Glad you enjoyed it, bad scottish accents aren’t don’t get a laugh out of me personally
@@rmac8378 As someone from Glasgow I applaud Kate’s accent, I’ve never heard an American do that so well 😂 check out what he said! its you not me that got it wrong
CorruptVisionz omg I could understand a thing I thought they were just saying sounds I honestly didn’t know they were actually speaking it.Thats why I though it was more funny and it sorry I just can’t Under anything he is saying and I’m not being dramatic😂
I've been to Edinburgh for a week and their accent fascinated me. I loved it!!Mind you, I'm Brazilian and speak English with an American accent, so this was incredibly funny to watch. I laughed so hard. I'll be coming back to watch it again every time I need a good laugh. 🤣🤣
There's a story that when James McAvoy was making "The Conspirator", the director asked him to use his American accent all the time. McAvoy asked if that was because the director wanted him to stay in character. The director replied "No, it's so I can understand what you're saying!"
@@moonglow630 It was the same case when Sean Connery moved to London to do theater over there in the early days of his career. "Great acting, but can you now please talk english so the audience can understand you?"
@@the_baldy_scotsman6210 yeah I agree!! It's not actually what we're like but the comedy is that's what Americans think we're like, it's funny cause we can take a joke 😂😂
@Duc de Richleau Niamh is a gaelic name, I think it was just a bit of fun, their not saying its who we are or what we're like there making fun of the fact that that's what Americans think we're like. James mcavoy is a glasweigen so obvs knows it's a joke. I am glasweigen, don't think it's racist, just think it's a bit of fun.
Anytime a Scottish accent skit happens it always cracks me up as my grandad had a thick Scottish accent which I understood with absolutely no problems as I do with most Scots thanks to him 😂 my friends and my wife used to sit there lost not having a clue what he said but for me it was clear as day which just goes to show how you adapt to your surroundings,I miss the old man and his quirks which included the old Scottish and English rivalry which I was always the one exception to him 💪🏻✌️
As a girl from Glasgow whose Dad worked at the airport, I was suuuper worried about how this sketch was gonna go at the start, but god I loved it 😂 Couldn't stop laughing. Also probably the most represented I've ever been in American media. G'on James!! 🏴🥰 (And yes, I understood every word he said nae bother 👌🏼)
My Dad worked with two Glaswegians at an airport in the States, and he said that he and his fellow American coworkers often knew they were being insulted, they just weren't sure how exactly. :)
Mark Orenchuk I mean more pure broad Glaswegian representation, lol. I love Craig, but by the height of LLS his accent had softened a lot, and I don't think he said wee man and hingmyjig and peely-wally all that much. James here sounds like anyone you'd pass on Sauchiehall Street tomorrow.
@@Tracymmo PHIL: I think they're making fun of us. STEVE: I think so too." P: Not sure though. S: I kinda don't mind. P: Yeah, it sounds really cool, actually.
I'm Scottish and have never heard breath pronounced as breeth in my entire life. But then I'm Edinburgh born. Maybe breeth is a word used further up Scotland. Aberdeen or Inverness or one o the wee islands?
@@BrianFeral1 I can't hear you but the moment you said you were from Scotland, I just read your comment with a Scottish accent. The adding "wee" made me super smile!!😀
I went on a bus tour of Scotland a while back and the driver was Scottish. His accent was so strong, it was fun to get him talking just to listen to him. I remember the highland cows there had long shaggy hair and looked quite sweet. He kept calling them heeland cooos. I asked him how to spell that, not realizing the spelling was the same as ours. 🤣
Aye, need a bit broon sauce oan yer chips.. cannae beat it. Couldnae dae withoot, ken? If ad nae broon sauce ad jist hafty yase tamatty sauce oan ma chips. Wi a bit buttered breid.
MacAvoy is hilarious. Have to chuckle at the Welsh ending, surprised that SNL knows that Cymraeg is a distinct language , nothing to do with accents. Ond dweudodd e ddim byd, efallai enwau neu random geiriau. Dw i'n caru Cymraeg- Cymru am byth !
@@macrocosmique He just says a bunch of random vaguely Welsh sounding words - not any real Cymraeg ( Welsh language) but these guys are writing under time pressure and for American audiences, so I doubt they were too concerned about authenticity- which is understandable. I'm just glad they seem to know that Wales is a different country and Welsh is actually a distinct language.
dude, though, that tool is pretty daft with it's interpretation of plain old ENGLISH (Brit OR American variety) no regional accents necessary. It's so bad that it might even end up captioning something MORE accurately resembling sensible thought than the phonetical fudge batter it usually generates for well articulated stuff!
I'm furious the channel creators didn't upload proper subtitles for this. Thanks to the guys in the comments. As English is not even my native language, that was extremely difficult to understand. And I got about 10% of it right)
Oh god this happened with me in Scotland the old man kept talking and I’m 😕 I’m not a native English speaker and that accent was very hard to understand, until a young woman came and rescued the situation 😂😂
It happened to me when I travelled to Edinburgh and the only thing I could make out of the Scottish B&B owner talking was 60 pounds. I think that's good enough. I am also glad to realize that I am not the only one have so much trouble understanding the accent.
I’m a Scottish air traffic controller working at the London centre, and i swear to god that this is representative of pretty much every time I have to control a United or Delta flight.
Cavannaro 1 🤣🤣🤣
@Duc de Richleau - what's up your arse? 😕
@@judioregan4210 never ask questions when you don't want to know the answer! 😉😂
😂😂
You can get famous just by recording your chats with the pilots. I personally would like hearing the reactions of said pilots. XD
I used to work in a call centre (I’m Scottish) and had an American once ask me if they could speak to someone who spoke English...
the rest is history
haha
It helps to be fluent in American English.
Sounds about right.
Lol
"your accent is very thick, is it possible to not have it?" omg i am dying 😂😂
Ive had people say similar to me, its pretty funny hearing them really confused
I grew up with immigrant parents and my mom doesn’t have a thick accent, my dads was super thick. If he watched too much Spanish news, I couldn’t understand him for an hour afterwards. But at the coffee shop I work at, whenever someone orders and has a thick Spanish accent, almost all my coworkers get their order wrong and I have to correct it. They’re always like “how did you know what they said?” Trust me, I had a lifetime of practice for this moment. Now watching this, if this is what my dad sounded like to some people, no wonder he had a hard time being understood 😂😂😂.
Everytime I speak to a non Scot lol
My favorite line!
Yeah - unthick please.
I’m Scottish and from Glasgow and yeah, James was spot on how how we speak.
Can’t help but laugh when kenan says “nope” lol
So he isn't just making that stuff up? I thought he was laying it on thick for the sketch. However, I've been to Scotland and I have to admit I did the "What???" quite frequently when someone spoke to me there!
What does he say? Could you please transcribe? I'm dying to know what he said.
Came here for the NOPE hahah
In Danish, and ít almost sounds danish some times
@@victordenisov1412 one of the things you might have missed is the f bomb at around 1:48
An SNL writer posted on Twitter last night that James worked with them on this skit by rewriting his lines, telling the writers that 'everyone in Scotland will understand me, but no one in the US will'. Good work, James. 😂
That is awesome!!!!!😁😁😁😁😁
Awesome😁 I love James so talented and hot as we'el
Is it weird that I understood what he said then? Lol
Yeah I understood a lot of what he said the first time he said it, and I'm a Hispanic born and raised in the US lol
@@priscillajimenez27 Same here. I think people that speak multiple languages have more susceptible ears. I understood about 100%. But some words I don't use like doodad. Comprehension was about 75% due to this.
This is too funny. I once was on a train to Scotland and this nice man tried to teach me a card game. i still have no idea what he said.
But you ended up £500 down :)
Lol
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a nice memory ❤️😍
Welsh air traffic control: All right, you’re gonna land nice and easy in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, yeah?
Lol 🤣
I love that that's an actual place lol
@@thejiggy I know right?
Lala lalala You mean Taron Egerton?
Lol
James McAvoy is one of the most talented actors out there today. He was incredible in Split.
Absolute beast. Def should’ve been nominated for best actor.
@@TheCasualGamer13 Really? Don't make me laugh
Мудаки за Селтик не болеют)))
I loved James in "Becoming Jane". OMG he was hot! He also did a great job in a film about the Lincoln assassination. I think it was called "The Conspirator". He was a young lawyer that was assigned to represent Mary Surratt (Robin Wright). Both very good movies. And he was in period costume in both films. McAvoy is so very handsome.
@@yourKING7ude played like 8 characters. Name someone else who did that…
James McAvoy speaking in his natural accent is ear porn to me. Is there any scottish audio book with him as a narrator outthere?
Check out “Ceebeebies Bedtime Stories” on RUclips! It’s a BBC channel where lots of British actors read bedtime stories in soothing voices, often their natural accents. James McAvoy has at least two. :D
@@christiankrenek7689 Well thanks, gonna take a look on it ;)
see him read 'The Dinosaur That Pooped'.... his accent is adorable and the story got me cracking up
yeah the scottish accent is a beautiful one
If he told you where to find one you would never understand
I love how the first part was James "Americanizing" his accent to be more understandable by a non-Scot, but the moment Kenan brags about having a feel for Scottish, James goes full highlander.
🤣😂🤣
that never happened
@@steelyspielbergo it literally happened.
Highland cows are beautiful
NOPE!
I’m Scottish but I live in England; this is reminiscent of my colleagues’ struggles every day. Bless them.
Really? Most English people can understand Scottish accents. I can't understand cockneys personally
Yupp, this is me with Scottish and Northern Irish accents. And I'm from the North...
I have no idea what you just wrote. "Remi sent college snuggles every day?" What does that mean?
ASMRShortbread hilarious
England is my city
Love all the comments from pilots. I'm American living in Scotland. This sketch is spot on! Hilarious!
Please gather Ewan McGregor, James McAvoy, Davis Tennant and Richard Madden and make them speak in the strong ass Scottish accent or I'll riot
All middle class guys
There's a couple of RUclips videos with Graham Norton and maybe three different Irish guests and in one case Lily Tomlin and in another Marion Cotillard and the poor women are totally lost.
Craig Ferguson interview with David Tennant is a hoot
I'd add Robert Carlyle and Gerard Butler to the mix aswell
Add Karen Gillian too
They are speaking in doctor's handwriting!
BEST COMMENT Can I steal it ?
But that I am trained to understand, lol.
😁😁😁👍
Maybe they are telling the guy in the cockpit to take 2 thorazine and call them in the morning.
This is a posh accent in glasgow
I could watch another ten minutes of James McAvoy shouting piloting instructions in Scottish.
YES! #NotAlone
Me too!
How's your mother?
Me too
I would watch a tv series lol reminds me of an old Navy buddy... For fook’s sake man
James’ lines:
Alright, now, there’s not a TikTok for monikers, big man. I know you’re coming on all peely-wally up there but I’m going to help you down out the sky faster than a whippet gets a hard-on. Okay?
Now, I’m going to get you down but here is what I need you to do first, okay. Have a deep breath.
I just want you to take a deep breath.
In. Out. In. Out. You alright there, wee man? You alright?
Deep breath! Right. Deep breath and you need to stay calm.
Now, listen to me very carefully. On the wee panel of switches in front of you, there’s a brown doodah with a red jack. About the size of a what do you call it? American cookie.
Oreo cookie, not a Keebler. Alright. There’s a wee thing about the size of an Oreo cookie. I thought it was a Keebler. What’s the doodah coming in at?
Mate, the brown doodah that looks like an Oreo cookie. What’s it’s coming in at?
No. No. Repeat. Brown. The colour. Brown.
Aye. What’s the brown doodah coming in at?
Good. Two heads are better than one. Right. Have a wee shufty out the window down at the ground. Tell me if you can rest your goggles upon Auchentoshan plane station.
Come on. You try it with him.
Listen, big man. Tempus Fugit cause we’re only going to get a crack at this once. Now, there’s a wee burgundy hingmajig on the dash, give it a wee tug.
Aw no. Aw no. In the name of the wee man. Ah. Right. Radar’s got you leaving Scottish air space. This connections getting crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs.
Alright. Godspeed, you lot. Glasgow out.
Thank You.
Thanks a lot!
And what does THAT mean? Tick tock for monikers? Peely-wally?
@@jillbythelakeno time for small talk, all turned around
@jillbythelake no TikTok [video] ‘for monikers’ means for getting to know each other on closer terms.
And if you look peely-wally, it means you look pale and tired
As a Scottish person from the same part of the country as James, you just know he wrote this skit. 😂 “doo da” is the remote for the tv in our house, “hing-ee-ma-jig” is thing, any thing. Makes perfect sense.
Or that "shitass"
Whichever you prefer
Whaaat?
@@DresdeNareena In Chile it is "thingamagaver" (like in "please pass me the thingamagaver") which is a contraction between "thing-a-ma-jig" and "verga" read backwards (inverting words' syllables is a common practice in Spanish slang), one of the many many many Spanish non-slang words for "penis".
In England, we say "thing-a-ma-bob" or "thing-a-ma-jig"
There should be a full Wales continuation skit with a true Welsh actor.
Matthew Rhys would be perfect for this
@@antitheist5567, :) :) :)
Christian Bale.
@@antitheist5567, oh, yeah! Excellent choice!
@@Toastcat890, sounds good to me! He's another eye candy! :) :) :)
As someone from Glasgow I applaud Kate’s accent, I’ve never heard an American do that so well 😂
Thanks for all the likes my gals, guys and theys ❤️
😂😂 kate and Cecily are the best at perfecting accent.
☝️
So cool. I didn't know if it was accurate, nice to hear it is.
She's a chameleon!
It was pretty shite mate, your caught up in the moment
I think I read somewhere that her grandfather’s Scottish.
This never gets old. I've seen it maybe 50 times, and I laugh till I cry every time. :-)
I’m from Glasgow in Scotland and I’m in tears at this 😂😂😂😂👏
I'm American who has talked to a friend in Scotland and I'm in tears! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
John ross I lived and worked in Glasgow. My favourite seconds city in the uk, pretty much would be my first but loyalty and all.
I managed well with the accents, though did get nearly daily headaches 😂. One guys accent was so thick that even other Scots couldn’t understand him lol. I can remember sitting in a senior committee meeting, he was worked up, and appealing for me to back him. I understood the first two minutes, then no, uh uh just his mouth moving with sounds 😂. Nobody else understood either, we all cracked up. He did get what he wanted eventually, a great big Jock with a big heart 😀👍
I’m a bit Scots too, love Glasgow, love Scotland 🏴❤️
Nexus nae bother mate 😂👍
Im the same 😂😂😂
It’s amazing thinking of those Americans thinking wat the fuck
What's extra funny is how even the Americans started laughing as soon as they mentioned the Welsh.
I spent a week driving around with my family in Wales as the “navigator”. It got to the point where I just had to point at which exits to leave the roundabouts as I couldn’t begin to pronounce the signs lol
Iam Scottish but Welsh accent is the best, Geordie and Irish and amazing too, and of course Scouse.
It's a laugh machine, most Americans, probably ALL would think Wales was a large mammal, and even then, they would say fish.
Danny Mcafee
We’re perfectly aware of Wales here. I mean, not everyone, but it’s pretty common knowledge... and the one thing most known about wales is that you can’t tell what they’re actually saying lol
I think many of us Americans watch enough BBC America and Masterpiece Theater to see the joke coming.
They needed Mcavoy to host much earlier. Glad they finally corrected it
Best episode in a long time
This was loooooong overdue
@@Infraredx THE SKETCH WAS FANTASTIC!!!! I was laughing my ass off, so funny!
I like James McAvoy’s serious look at his face as if everyone should understand what he says😅
I’m from Glasgow and can admit this is an exact representation of when I talk to somebody who’s not Scottish 😂
Wait, really?!
Evelyn L. Yeah the best part is my accent isn’t as thick as James’s one in the vid but people still don’t understand you have too speak slow or dull your accent down
@@Tricks_53 Oh, I feel sorry for you.
Same with me, but I’m from Wales
at least your text comes without the accent
Retired United pilot here. Love this skit! My first few years flying to London or anywhere in Europe starting back in the 1990's, this was EXACTLY how our communications with Scottish Control would be! I laughed so hard watching this because it is so accurate. All of the U.S. pilots were continually asking the controllers to repeat themselves, I am sure that it irritated the crap out of them. We would look at each other in the cockpit and say "what the hell did he say?" My last 5 years of flying over there before I retired at the end of 2020 were much easier to understand them. Either I got better at understanding "Scottish" or they got better at speaking American English!
Damn, and here I was thinking they were exaggerating.. Surely you'd think they'd get some air traffic control people with less of an accent considering how vital their job is
@@DEATHBYFLYINGCDS in Scotland? Those don't exist. I think it's a bit of an American thing also. The pronouncement of voul sounds are so different that it's understandable you guys have a hard time.
@@nicholasdavis5393 The American dialect is a neutral dialect... basically it's what you get if you remove it.. But I'm half Colombian.... I was raised by difficult accents
@@DEATHBYFLYINGCDS You just think that because American TV and movies are all over.
@@nicholasdavis5393 yeah. They're not gonna get like Londoners working airport jobs or Scots with accents with articulate pronunciation if those even exist. They will probably get more "Cockney" like people who are like lower class, ya know? I agree. Like even in the US airport workers are low class people who can't afford healthcare. on food stamps..... or work multiple jobs. I saw it on Michael Moore's Sicko.
I spit my drink out when kenan was like NOPE!
He was THE BEST when he did that 😂😂
Did I have Wendy’s? Ok, I had Wendy’s last week 😀
It's an ongoing gag with him, I swear he says NO! or NOPE! in every other skit he's in.
Why did I read this in a Scottish accent 😂😂😂🤷🤷
when watching snl never never drink or even eat seriously you might die
Oh my word this is amazing!! It's so cool to find a SNL skit that's hilarious, clean, and has James McAvoy in it!!
"The connection is getting crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs." Oh my, if I could only get one opportunity in life to use that sentence I would be forever grateful.
I heard "The connection's getting cuntier than a bag O'crabs
Just spat my tea out....crack
For me it’s “take a shefty oot the wendie aet the groon.”
You can come to this island I'm spending my holidays on. A bag of smashed crabs is defo less crunchy than the connection here. But the place is worth it
@@fleurdelacour2405 Haha, that would be an opportunity to use the phrase! 😂
I always thought I could speak English.
Until I visited Glasgow.
I went to learn English. In Glasgow. Had to learn Glaswegian first.
I still think I can speak English, now I know they can't.
Haha....wit yees takin aboot
This is so me🤣🤣😄😄
@@eleSDSU *** won't!
Being able to understand this is amazing 😂 💙🏴
Ikr
I couldn't understand much :(
I'm English/Welsh and got this
I understood about 3/4s.
Me too!
As an American who's never been to Scotland, I'm very proud of how much of this I understand. Outlander trained me well.
You n'wah! oops, pardon me, wrong Outlander. This Dunmer shall see myself out.
I’m always on the lookout out for James Alexander Malcom Makenzie Fraser -
Literally came here to say I understood about 90% of this due to JAMMF ❤ ! Living in America all my life, I will take that as a great proof of my Outlander being my show for "education" 😂. I laughed so very hard at this. Love it!
@@juliehill9247😂 Same here❤
As a german who's never been to Scotland, I'm very proud of how much of this I understand. Without outlander training.
Your accent is very thick, is it possible to not have it?
ed rage Hey. This was one of the lines in the video.
Loved it!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Like # 666
@Noble Bevillian no one really cares. It's not like he gets paid for likes.
Lol
I love how when they mentioned Wales everyone was like, "Oh, shit." The audience knew what they were in for.
Everyone watches British television!
As a kid, I used to watch Monty Python. They had great fun at the expense of the Scottish!
@@ichijofestival2576 Found on RUclips as "Monty Python's Sci-Fi Sketch", for those who might want to check it out.
Duc de Richleau why don’t you cry about it some more?
So Funny !!!!!
SNL now legally has do a continuation of this with David Tennant. Sorry, rules are rules. 😑
YES!!!!!
I need that
I'd also take Michael Sheen.
Or ewan McGregor
How about Capaldi?
It doesn't matter how many times I watch this, I laugh until I have tears streaming down my face. Funniest SNL sketch ever!
I have been in Scottish. And i nothing understand what they were saying to me.
Ditto. Many times. Love it!
Same 😂 literal tears.
"Lets do this"
*speaks in highlander Braveheart Scottish cartoon character*
"Nope. 🏃💨"
Gets me every damn time. 😂
@@yourKING7it looks like you haven’t because it’s Scotland not Scottish😭
@@catalinaa766 And you? Have you been to Scotland? Second question. Do you understand Scottish?
Translation of the Welsh guy:
“Hi”
in two hundred letters
Its all i can get (Italy here)
Man can say "where are you" in only 3000-7000 letters😂
🤣🤣🤣
Being from Scotland I totally understand this nae body understands us
What? Say again!!
@@carloshernandez-yi7rl no body understands us
I was able to cope because I sometimes catch "The Thistle & Shamrock" with Fiona Ritchie on the radio on Saturday evenings.
@@JennaProbert sorry, can you not have that accent while you type?
@@mannysikario forgetting that majority of people will be American 😂
*The entire English language has left the chat*
😂😂😂😂
He's speaking Scots.
@@daisyrambob7959 No he is speaking Scots.
*Gaelic has entered the chat.*
Hypno Harlequin fuck off it’s the original language your yanks made it sound like child talk. Aye ya ball bag
Kate McKinnon's Scottish accent was a hell of a lot better than Mel Gibson's in Braveheart that's for sure.
I agree 100%.. even watching Braveheart when I was younger was annoying ..with his over-acting and ex treme accent..
That is saying nothing, which sounds about right as her accent is shite
I laughed so hard at this. I studied in Scotland for a year and stayed for two years after just cause. Coming from a west African country that was a real culture shock for my first year.
I remember I got to the train station from the airport to get to my university and heard someone speaking on phone and I thought. Did I land in the right country?
The accent was insane. I listened intently for sometime to try and identify the language until I heard the word early. I called home as soon as I could to narrate that experience.
Now back home I am always delighted to hear the proud Scots speak in their native tongue.
Will definitely be visiting again after COVID-19 clears.
Thanks SNL.
Omg dude saaaame!!! I’m from Italy thought, and learned english mostly through american tv shows/movies. I thought I understood english, then I arrived in Edinburgh… it was tough 😂
Concurred. When the owner of B&B discussed how much it costs for one night lodge, I couldn't understand anything he said. But I managed to catch/understand the $ amount, whew. And it's all I can say. I thought I am the only one w/ Scott accent since English is not my mother tongue. Apparently, the experience is universal with English speakers! lol
@@giulia6344 I live in Edinburgh and I'll admit the FIfe accents are a bit strong sometimes, but nothing beats the west coast - apart from the Doric... thats just english mixed with phlegm
@@davidgraham370 English mixed with phlegm… 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@davidgraham370 Holy shit 😆
0:41 “Kylies not on board right now, thank God” 😂😂😂
gold! my brother once moved to scotland and thought his roommate was french and didn't speak english for three weeks.. then they found out, he was scotish
still34u
Oh my God that’s so funny !!!
Away'n'bileyirheid
hilarious
still34u Omg, you’re kidding, right? 😃
still34u When did you find out you couldn’t spell?
NOW!
Scottish*
Keenan’s “Nope!” was all I needed!😂🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂. I moved to Scotland in 2014 and this was me for 2 months!
Hummer O same but still running into problems like this on occasions
I could listen to James talk all day, even if I can’t understand him 😂
Amen to that
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤️
Ahh yessss
Yes, add me to that list : )
I'm an American studying abroad in Glasgow, Scotland and I have to say that this skit is 100% accurate
@Charles RossHaha depends on the professor but if its truly impossible I ask the nearest Scottish person in class to show me their notes!!
I studied a broad once myself.. she was confusing AF
@@BiancaBoyC BaDum-swish!
@@DravenGal 😂
Lol I studied abroad in Scotland as well... Can confirm. Glaswegian accent are v hard to understand. Plus the use different words. Still love that accent though ❤️
As a Dutch person working as a doctor in the West of Scotland I'm proud to say his accent actually sounded quite mild to me😆
Imagine a Scottish doctor. No one will understand what they say or write.
How long did it take you to understand this kind of accent?
I heard that Dutch and Scots Gallic have some similarities.
Is that true?
@@tomkeegan3782that’s probably Frisian, a language only spoken in the very north of the Netherlands.
Ik vind het even onverstaanbaar als het Fries!
God, even the auto generated English subtitles couldn't understand what they were saying.
Auto generated sometimes can't even understand American accent.
Did you actually expect them to be good? Most of them privilege a certain type of American accent so I have low expectations of them in English, let alone Scottish accented English.
😂😂😂😂
My captions generator must be Scottish. It got all correct.
@@dianasayson2846 It is not auto-generated anymore. They have uploaded correct captions.
LMAO “your accent is very thick, is it possible not to have it?” 😂😂
😂😂
Every American tourist ever! 😂
Yup every time we call tech support in India 😂😂😂
😂 On God
Video: we’re gonna switch you over to welsh airlines
Me: oh no. Oh no no no no 🤣
Welsh Airlines?
As a welsh person, I can say first hand that we are not understandable
@@txb3806 ye we fucking are
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Same
I'm Scottish and you should know that his accent isn't exaggerated but for the sake of the skit his sentences are formed of strange words on purpose. The way he said "right, have a wee shifty oot the windae doon at the groun; tell me if you can rest your goggles upon Auchentoshan plane station" at 2:50 is very weird way to say "Look out the window and tell me if you can see Auchentoshan airport"
I'm confused at the "breath" pronunciation. Breeth? I don't know anybody that says that.
Weegies do!
"the BRAUUWWNNN dooh-dahhh that loookKKs like an OOHH-REEAAAHHHOOOO KOOKIIIEEE " !!! hahaha
Koo-key
That was cute
@@007nadineL haha, yes, thank you for the correct spelling :)
You mean "brunn " 😂
He pronounced "brown" a bit like how Americans would pronounce "bruin", which of course means "brown".
To this day I'm still confused how they got from Scotland to Wales without passing England
Maybe he flew towards the ocean and back.
I didn’t think about that at the time, but that’s a good point. 😂
Timey wimey
They work for the Kylie Jenner...
🤔😂
They should have cut over to U.S. traffic control and no one answers because they are all out sick.
yeah "sick"
I wonder that that involuntary servitude lawsuit will go xD
Good call. That would be the clever way to end this, but SNL writers ... well you know. 😁
Damn, opportunity missed. Cuts to an empty chair.
Oh shit!
"Did I eat at Wendy's 😂?, Never "...."Fine I had Wendy's last week, but don't tell Kylie" had me dying. 😂
Has to be the best comedic talent out there
"I am sorry, your accent is very thick... is it possible to NOT have it?" *MISSION: To exponentially inspire a new age philosophical renaissance movement by spreading unconditional Honor, Respect, LOVE, LIGHT and peace worldwide, perpetually ending ignorance and poverty through a righteous process of METANOIA by 2020... One country, One neighborhood, and ONE HEART at a TIME!!! (steal this... please) PS: Did you listen to the song I just wrote & sang... Please don't attack The USA... I even played the BANJO!
Sadly, have heard human sincerely ask other human this. It was high school. Other kid tried his best....
Like the accent is optional🤣
The SuperHeart . Org Foundation I’ve come so close to saying that when on the phone with tech support.
It should be thicker. Like even harder to understand to be somewhat accurate
I've had the opposite happen lol
Some people complimented my English language skills and lack of an accent, even though I was born and raised in the States.
Translation of James McAvoy's bits from a Scot :)
"Alright, now there's no time for names mate. I know you're going pale up there but I'm going to get you down faster than a whippet gets a hard on.
Now I'm gonna get you down, but, here is what I need you to do first. Ok, have a deep breath.
I just want you to take a deep breath.
In out in out. You alright there wee man? You alright?
Deep breath, right! Deep breath! And you need to stay calm
Now listen to me very carefully. On the wee panel of switches in front of you there is a brown doo-dah with a red jack about the size of a, fucking, what do you call it... American cookie. Not a Keebler? No alright. Theres a small thing the size of an oreo cookie, right? I thought it was a Keebler. What's the doo-dah coming in at (reading)?
Mate, the brown doo-dah that looks like an oreo cookie. What's it coming in at?
No, brown. The colour brown.
Yes! What's the brown doo-dah coming in at?
Good. Two heads are better than one. Right, have a little look out the window down at the ground. Tell me if you can see Auchentoshan Plane Station.
Listen big man we're only going to get one shot at this. The little burgundy thing on the dash, give it a little tug.
Oh no, no, oh my God. Radars got you leaving Scottish airspace. This connections getting crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs. God speed you lot. Glasgow out."
A few notes:
Doo-dah is a word used to refer to an object you can't remember the name of.
Wee Man is "little man". You can use this to refer to anyone male, even if you don't know them personally.
Auchentoshan is a whisky distillery near Glasgow.
THANK YOU ......LMAOOOOOOOOO
Damn, I got most of this except the plane station name. Y'all have cool af accents
Thank you! Let me know if you need a US passport (2nd citizenship).
You are brilliant!! Thank you!
To anyone needing a translation: 😂
Male controller: "Hello, how are you? Now, there's not much time here and I know you're starting to feel unwell but we'll get you down from the sky faster than a whippet (dog) gets an erection ok?"
"Now I'm going to get you down but here is what I need you to do first, ok? Take a deep breath."
"I just want you to take a big breath. In, out, in, out. Are you ok there sir? Are you ok?"
"Deep breaths, ok? Deep breaths! And you need to stay calm!"
"Now listen to me very carefully, on the small pannel of switches in front of you there's a brown switch with a red jack the size of a... what do you call them? Those American cookies..? is it Keeplar? (?) No, Oreo! I thought it was Keeplar... What's the number on the dial!? The small brown thing that looks like an Oreo cookie! No, no! Repeat, BROWN; the colour! BROWN!" "YES! What's the brown dial saying?"
"Good! Two heads are better than one! Ok, have a little look out of the window down at the ground. Tell me if you can see Auchentoshan plane station?" [edited, thanks fellow Scots for the correction lol 💙]
Female controller: "Can you look out of the window? No, out of the window!"
Male controller: "Listen Sir, hurry up because we're only going to get a crack at this once! Now, there's a small burgundy gadget on the small dash board. Give it a small tug."
"Oh no, oh no. In the name of god! Okay, radar has you leaving Scottish airspace, this connection is crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs!"
Female controller: "We're going to have to put you through to the Welsh air traffic control."
Male controller: "Ok good luck to you all. Glasgow out!"
The Welsh will have to take over from here! 😂
Omg I didnt understand anything he was saying😂😂
I got most of it. Save for the Erect dog, Auchenshpochan plane station and the bag of smashed crabs.
Thanks for the "translation". ;)
Good translation, except the first cookies are Keeblers (which any American of my generation would recognize).
Keebler (known for their elf mascots) is a competitor of Nabisco, who make Oreos. A doodad the size of a Vienna Finger sandwich cookie would be larger and more elliptical in shape than an Oreo, not to mention distinctly less chocolate brroooon.
thanks so much lol
This is one of my favorite SNL skits of all time. If I need a good laugh I put this on and laugh away. I gotta love Keenan too. He always manages to crack himself and me up! 😂😂😂
My uncle is from Scotland. This is exactly what talking to him on the phone is like.
I hope you have an inexpensive international calling plan!
@@Tracymmo ikr? Cos those calls will take forever
OMG! LOL
*Whenever Kenan said “No!” I just lost it* 😂😂
Me too! Especially the way he shouted the second NO.
As usual Kenan stole the show. I hope he stays on SNL forever!
Im Scottish . This is the most accurate representation of a Scottish person communicating with the outside world ever
Christopher Reilly well james mcavoy is scottish soooo
But Kate McKinnon did an amazing job as well. I lived in Aberdeen for a postgraduate degree, and this is exactly what it was like when I tried to order coffee in Inverness. The English girl I was with had to literally translate for me!
That's cas he is Scottish lmao 😂
Did anyone else immediately start reading Christopher Reilly's comments in a Scottish accent? Just me? ok...
@@SethMason88 it's like
Hi I'm Morgan Freeman
Its impossible not to read that in his voice lol
It is 2024, this is still funny
Keenan kills it with one word "No!" That man is a genius.
Lol SNL sucks. I cant believe people still watch it. You have to go back to before 2000 to find good SNL comedy
No ... He's not
@Charles Ross no
“Lewk out the windew!”
“Ok, I had Wendy’s last week, just don’t tell Kylie” 😂😂😂😂
MajorChief5 That was probably the least funniest thing in the video. You must be one of those people that laugh at EVERYTHING.
Amy Minus Let. People. Enjoy. Things.
@@amyminus4622 Dude, it WAS funny
This is the ideal use of James McAvoy in a comedy sketch. His American accent is so convincing that i forget he has a Scottish accent
One of the greatest actors ever.
I was an ATC for 20 years, this brings back some funny stories.
This is such a brilliant sketch I'm dying.
After five years of traveling to the UK, visiting Edinburgh and twenty years of watching British television, I'm proud to say that I can understand 40 percent of this lol
So did I. Lol
Watching Chewin the Fat and Still Game became educational.
My husband is the only person I know who understood every word but his mother is from Glasgow so it’s kind of cheating 🤷🏼♀️
thats a great improvement
You smart... 🤣🤣🤣
"This connection's gettin' crunchier than a bag of smashed crabs.."
🤣🤣
I never get tired of watching this skit! Today, however, was the first time I watched it with the automagically generated closed captions... absolutely losing my mind that the CC gives up utterly whenever JM speaks. 🤣🤣🤣
Just wanted to say she nailed the accent and the skit wouldn't of worked without her support I'm out of Edinburgh
U got ears ya maddo? It’s a comedy sketch she don’t need to nail the accent, she done fine anyway
@@erinmcn14 i said it’s a comedy sketch, she doesnt need to nail the accent. Glad you enjoyed it, bad scottish accents aren’t don’t get a laugh out of me personally
@@rmac8378 As someone from Glasgow I applaud Kate’s accent, I’ve never heard an American do that so well 😂 check out what he said! its you not me that got it wrong
* wouldn't have worked
It has worked, it would have worked, it could have worked, it should...
I’m Scottish and I can understand everything he’s saying
CorruptVisionz omg I could understand a thing I thought they were just saying sounds I honestly didn’t know they were actually speaking it.Thats why I though it was more funny and it sorry I just can’t Under anything he is saying and I’m not being dramatic😂
@@Mitchis_Euphoria you need tae clam doon pal
Fun! I'm not but once bought a mass of Broons comics in Edinborough - which gave me a wee bit o' help (albeit probably dated).
Also as a child of Scottish parents I reckon the first words that will have thrown any non Scottish speakers were probably 'peely walley.'
Please translate
I don't know why they don't understand. I understood what they said... BROON!
Aye me too!
Aye. Cannae beat a bit broon sauce on yer chips.
Ae mate it’s actual Awrite wit he’s speakin aboot
Coaster Labs aye thats cos youre scottish, then again so am a
Even I understood and I am from Czech Republic. :-)
I've been to Edinburgh for a week and their accent fascinated me. I loved it!!Mind you, I'm Brazilian and speak English with an American accent, so this was incredibly funny to watch. I laughed so hard.
I'll be coming back to watch it again every time I need a good laugh. 🤣🤣
There's a story that when James McAvoy was making "The Conspirator", the director asked him to use his American accent all the time.
McAvoy asked if that was because the director wanted him to stay in character.
The director replied "No, it's so I can understand what you're saying!"
The director of that movie is Robert Redford.
@@moonglow630 It was the same case when Sean Connery moved to London to do theater over there in the early days of his career. "Great acting, but can you now please talk english so the audience can understand you?"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm Scottish and live in Glasgow, absolutely love this!!!!!!
Honestly I think it was pretty funny (Glaswegian). It's the exaggeration the accent that gives it's humour.
@@the_baldy_scotsman6210 yeah I agree!! It's not actually what we're like but the comedy is that's what Americans think we're like, it's funny cause we can take a joke 😂😂
@Duc de Richleau Niamh is a gaelic name, I think it was just a bit of fun, their not saying its who we are or what we're like there making fun of the fact that that's what Americans think we're like. James mcavoy is a glasweigen so obvs knows it's a joke. I am glasweigen, don't think it's racist, just think it's a bit of fun.
@Duc de Richleau lololol
@Duc de Richleau that's funny
Omg Kate McKinnon done a great Scottish accent I thought it was going to be awful 😂
She's crazy talented.
@@Jason918114 couldn't handle her doing Theresa may I just couldn't take it seriously 😂
Jenna Probert Not bad, James’ was worse!
@@LeilaLamb he's Scottish as well and that's what alot of us sound like
@@LeilaLamb he actually has a scottish accent in real life. He knows what hes doing
Anytime a Scottish accent skit happens it always cracks me up as my grandad had a thick Scottish accent which I understood with absolutely no problems as I do with most Scots thanks to him 😂 my friends and my wife used to sit there lost not having a clue what he said but for me it was clear as day which just goes to show how you adapt to your surroundings,I miss the old man and his quirks which included the old Scottish and English rivalry which I was always the one exception to him 💪🏻✌️
As a girl from Glasgow whose Dad worked at the airport, I was suuuper worried about how this sketch was gonna go at the start, but god I loved it 😂 Couldn't stop laughing. Also probably the most represented I've ever been in American media. G'on James!! 🏴🥰 (And yes, I understood every word he said nae bother 👌🏼)
My Dad worked with two Glaswegians at an airport in the States, and he said that he and his fellow American coworkers often knew they were being insulted, they just weren't sure how exactly. :)
Kiera h, what about Craig Ferguson? One of my favorite Scottsmen.
Mark Orenchuk I mean more pure broad Glaswegian representation, lol. I love Craig, but by the height of LLS his accent had softened a lot, and I don't think he said wee man and hingmyjig and peely-wally all that much. James here sounds like anyone you'd pass on Sauchiehall Street tomorrow.
@@Tracymmo PHIL: I think they're making fun of us.
STEVE: I think so too."
P: Not sure though.
S: I kinda don't mind.
P: Yeah, it sounds really cool, actually.
Do you S
Do you Summer, Autumn, Winter AND Spring in the Shetlands?@Heather Dunham
I had to take "a dep breeth" cause this was too funny! 🤣
I'm Scottish and have never heard breath pronounced as breeth in my entire life. But then I'm Edinburgh born. Maybe breeth is a word used further up Scotland. Aberdeen or Inverness or one o the wee islands?
@@BrianFeral1 I can't hear you but the moment you said you were from Scotland, I just read your comment with a Scottish accent. The adding "wee" made me super smile!!😀
James McAvoy is a precious gift to this Earth. 🥺💙
I went on a bus tour of Scotland a while back and the driver was Scottish. His accent was so strong, it was fun to get him talking just to listen to him. I remember the highland cows there had long shaggy hair and looked quite sweet. He kept calling them heeland cooos. I asked him how to spell that, not realizing the spelling was the same as ours. 🤣
When he said "Can I eat at Wendy's?" milk came out of my nose.
Same 😂😂😭😭😭
milk came out of my robot nose
lmao
Were you drinking milk at the time? Cuz if not, that's extra impressive.
@@ThunderPants13 💀💀
Wow, I haven't laughed so hard in so long. James McAvoy was brilliant and Kate McKinnon was spot on as always.
I knew they were totally screwed when they hit Welsh air space. 😂
Buffy Bell Yeah they’re better off continuously body slamming the yoke until something happens
Excellent accents!!!❤😂🎉 ....I'm not Scottish, but I understood them perfectly!!!
It's thanks to all the BBC TV we watch!!!❤😅🥰
The color broon
Aye, need a bit broon sauce oan yer chips.. cannae beat it. Couldnae dae withoot, ken?
If ad nae broon sauce ad jist hafty yase tamatty sauce oan ma chips. Wi a bit buttered breid.
Viking Old Norse brun= the colour brown.
@Heather Dunham He's correct as he is using it as a noun. To colour like colour this or colour that is when you use the U. 😉
MacAvoy is hilarious. Have to chuckle at the Welsh ending, surprised that SNL knows that Cymraeg is a distinct language , nothing to do with accents. Ond dweudodd e ddim byd, efallai enwau neu random geiriau. Dw i'n caru Cymraeg- Cymru am byth !
Cymru am byth!
do you know what he says at the end ? (if he says something intelligible)
@@macrocosmique He just says a bunch of random vaguely Welsh sounding words - not any real Cymraeg ( Welsh language) but these guys are writing under time pressure and for American audiences, so I doubt they were too concerned about authenticity- which is understandable. I'm just glad they seem to know that Wales is a different country and Welsh is actually a distinct language.
@@RRTNZ thanks ! I guessed it would be gibberish but I was still curious 😊
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Gwlad! Gwlad!
I thought this was gonna be about the air traffic controllers who ended the shutdown
Me too.
me to
Same
Hey There same too. This shit was unrelated to anything going on in the world today. 👎
SEV XOF : right on!
I have watched this a gazillion times, and it gets funnier every time 🤣
When Kate said “we’re gonna have t’ patch ya over to Welsh air traffic control” I almost fell out the bed laughing 😂😂😂😂👍🏽👍🏽
The Accent is so heavy even the youtube subtitle generator cant write it down. :D
you mean canna.
I noticed. XD
dude, though, that tool is pretty daft with it's interpretation of plain old ENGLISH (Brit OR American variety) no regional accents necessary. It's so bad that it might even end up captioning something MORE accurately resembling sensible thought than the phonetical fudge batter it usually generates for well articulated stuff!
The fun thing is to have it generate English subtitles when it doesn't know the person's talking in Chinese or Korean instead of English!
I'm furious the channel creators didn't upload proper subtitles for this. Thanks to the guys in the comments. As English is not even my native language, that was extremely difficult to understand. And I got about 10% of it right)
Swear to god I'm an international student in Glasgow and this is the perfect representation of my first year here...
this is legitimately the funniest thing i’ve ever seen
can mcavoy be a regular cast member already?
NO! We need him to make more awesome movies!
...wait...No! We need him to be the best thing about a number of mediocre movies!!
YES! We need him to be on the show again to do a part 2!
Theomite Split and glass were fantastic movies.
@@Cwyan-wv1hj Yes, but WANTED, NARNIA and X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST were less so.
Theomite I’m yet to see wanted, and I was completely unaware that he played in Narnia. I never watched any of those movies.
ok, this is the hundred time I'm watching this and I think I'm started to understand what he is saying
"How To Learn Scottish In 100 Views"
@@BigDaddyJinx 🤣🤣
@@BigDaddyJinx how to start understanding the basic information a Scottish person is trying to give you in under 200 views
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Its about time Welsh people are recognized.
Wales is so poor that can't even buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune. That how you get towns named Cwmbran and Mwnt.
@Shane Wilson The “w” is a vowel.
@@Ceibhfhionn Tee Hee, wonderful.
@@12jswilson Welsh has 2 more vowels than English.
@@ggagg123 I know. It's a joke.
Oh god this happened with me in Scotland the old man kept talking and I’m 😕 I’m not a native English speaker and that accent was very hard to understand, until a young woman came and rescued the situation 😂😂
It happened to me when I travelled to Edinburgh and the only thing I could make out of the Scottish B&B owner talking was 60 pounds. I think that's good enough. I am also glad to realize that I am not the only one have so much trouble understanding the accent.