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French VS English Men | Tatty Macleod
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- Published on Feb 16, 2026
- Comedian Tatty Macleod on the difference between French and English men.
Filmed at the Funny Women Awards 2022.
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Thats the most English French woman I’ve ever seen
Mac Leod ...great name of Scotland.
She's bilingual and bicultural, so that makes sense.
Discovered that her parents are from the UK and then moved to France, so she IS reeally the most English French, growing up as a French but living in English at home
@Wazkaty oh ok as a French I was sceptical the whole video... she looks nothing French, her face looks really british to me
@liorbeaugendre6935Fellow Frenchman here.
To be fair, France is a very very ethnically diverse country.
We don’t have a “French look” really.
2000+ years of being in the middle of Western Europe routes, wars, 3 empires, invasions, and a few immigration waves from all over the world will do that for you.
But I get your point though, she feels British indeed.
“Somebody who has sympathy for the English” 😂🤣😂🤣 that is BRUTAL 🤣
Well, I do love England ;) But it's pretty rare lol
@redlandz1977" sympathy for the english", well that's pretty transitory, right?
Oh englishes deserves sympathy, sure. But frenches deserves love. :p
Even funnier, it's true, I looked it up 😂
@kb25j I seriously love that this is true 😂🤣 I’m just some random American, but I appreciate my British and French history (just in terms of how they helped create my culture and country). I’m glad that the vicious rivalry between the two nations is a thing of the past, but this cultural rivalry is awesome 😂
She deserves more than what she got from the crowd or the RUclips algorithm. I’m French, lived 10 years in the UK and that was well observed and damn funny!
She is doing well at the moment, her Tour is pretty much sold out.
not funny
Looks like said algorithm brought us all here together. Yeah...she has sparks, but overall a bore tour.
The material is solid, but she's either rushing or stretching. There's more to audience engagement than acting like a printer when one person laughs.
All in all, I think she'll get better though. Was probably just nervous or what not. Teasing Frenchman is an endless bag. 🤪
Aren't french men Muslims...........
@Drakholm I agree that her timing is way off, which can make or break ANY comedy routine, but I found her material to be no better than a 6 on a ten scale. However, as an American, I realize the subject matter is not of my experience, so I may be missing some subtleties.. Regardless, I do love most English and Irish humor, though, and have even bought a region-free blue-ray player to watch region "2" media that was/is unavailable for region "1" (thankfully, not as big a problem as it used to be).
I'm envious of her perfect bilingualism.
Many Europeans can switch between 2 or more languages without a pause. Welsh or Gaelic speakers do it all the time. As do Quebec Canadians or Hispanic Americans. Many Indians are bi-tri-quadrilingual. Arguably, bilingualism is the norm and mono-linguals are a minority
@gordondavies7773 It's true that Superman would have been just an ordinary guy on Krypton.
Although, her accents are extraordinary
@gordondavies7773 this is patently false. Many Europeans also know a bit of english. But most people are not fluent in more than one language, certainly not more than two. And even among Hispanic americans, roughly 2/3 of them are bilingual, and their Spanish suffers. I don't know what you're smoking, but it sounds like you read a lot more of what you're talking about than actually experienced in life.
@chelseafolk not false at all...my grandfather who was Polish could speak fluent Polish French Italian German Russian English Latin...and he could switch between languages on the fly If there was a word with the same meaning...only person I ever met that could do that.. as an aside he could also do complex maths in his head to 6 decimal places He was a metallurgist and mechanical engineer..
Ah brings up memories of men in France yelling out car windows 'you are a bouquet of flowers ' to my friends and I. How different that is in Australia.....
and? did anything ever come of that? Regale us your stories.....
I read that as “You are a baguette of flowers 🥖 “
Yep you got to enjoy the old France now it's fucked and women get whistled all the time as soon as they want to dress up
@TheSteelGeneraI Probably not, but it would definitely been received better than the Australian version... "of show us your !its"
Very Basic for a french man, "les flatteries" are food of love for women . How People do in other countries ?
It’s an art for the French and the Italians. Either way they’ll forget you in the morning 😂
" Wesh madmoiselle t'es bonne "
@pigeonramier6898 🤣🤣🤣
@pigeonramier6898 ce n’est pas français c’est maghrébin.
" a bella, che mma daai?"
They don't forget, they just leave. 😜
OMG I'm French, I looked up in the Larousse dictionary and SHE'S RIGHT HAHAHAHA xD !
Pareil mdr
The English just cannot catch a break. 😄
"aubergine" and im ded
It's a French word though, so it must be intended as classy! 😃
@dan-nutu Nah, it's just what the Brits call an eggplant. As she said, they like to use French words.
Yes, they do that when it refers to food, e.g. beef instead of cow etc. But it's really just French after all
@dan-nutu In french we call the english "les rosbifs", reminding us surely of the appetizing toneskin your people takes on our beaches.
🫡
Truly the beef/bœuf things seems to be the other one business for both of us.
We also say "vache" to say cow, and to speak english like a spanish vache is about not speaking it quite fluently to say the least. 🐄
On the other hand, "a biff" in english is a bon coup-de-poing. "Un biff" in french is an unresolved conflict.
So here it is to ponder who throw the first entrecôte across the channel. 🥩
A mystery, which, I assume, will stay unmatched.
Here was my preposterous raffinement about our bovine entente.
Gentleman, have a Good day, on my side I'll get back to reading La Fontaine "the frogg and the cow".
🐸
@OmbreDunDouble “having a beef” in British English also means having a bit of a conflict/confrontation with someone
I was at Christmas one night and this French little boy put his hand on my leg and said you have beautiful eyes
Almost lost it laughing
You were at Christmas? Didn't realise it was a place
Well, not gonna lie, frenchies start young to practice the ancient art of tenderly bewildering a woman.
@johngilliam6764 I think we all know what the person meant...
@johngilliam6764you that smart ass eh
@johngilliam6764 😂😂
I'm a Frenchman and I approve this message! lol
Un, deux, trois, bonne nuit 🤣
@benjaminbradley780the French men sound like us Jamaicans!! Full of mouth but no strength!!😂😂😂
@ianchandley jeez, seems like those strenghtless frenchmen butthurt you badly, son. Good luck out there!
That dictionary joke at the end was great she’s pretty funny
It;'s not a joke, it's true.
@disenfranchisingThe truth is often told in jest 😉
@disenfranchising The French will never understand why the world is not speaking their language instead of English. 'But why? We are ze greatest! Johnny 'alliday, underage sex and raw beef mince. Zut alors!'
@docstranger9520 Détrompez-vous, nous le comprenons : c'est la langue des intellectuels, elle n'est pas faite pour commander des BigMacs 😋
@docstranger9520 For centuries French was the international language on the Courts and in international diplomacy. Only after the United Kingdom and Ireland joined, the European Economic Community started to use English and even in the early 1990s there were quite some international realms where French was used more than English. Effectively in the 1990s, after the Berlin Wall had come down the genuine dominance of English in Europe started, albeit French was already receding in prominence in the 1980s.
2:30 the moon line with the guy in the back his laugh was top tier. I,m dying
I got to the "cigarette exhale" and realized how hilarious she is!
The "Un, Deux, Trois, Goodnight!" is killing me
5:05 "an emu's bush" 👀
OMFG I love these subtitles
🔥⭐⭐⭐🏆⭐⭐⭐🔥
...Is made of feathers
As an Australian I heard that too and thought ooooooh so *that's* what they call it over there, fair.
Amuse bouche 🎉
@regant.cameron8237 Thank you Captain Obvious 🙄
@rustyhowe3907😂😂😂😂
My dad had 4 daughters, and got a dog. A very male, macho dog.
😂😂😂
And let me guess... The dog had more hugs and cuddles than your dad, right ?
😂😂😂
I bet the girls gave him a gorgeous name tho, like: Prince Flufferton
And since they're in the majority eventually only responds to that no matter what your dad calls it.
And since your dad is the one walking him he eventually is on the corner yelling for Prince Flufferton to come back.
And hopefully he'll laugh to himself and see how daughters just make everything in life better!
You cannot convince me this dog is anything but a yorkie or a chihuahua (or just another similar small breed, tbh)! 🤣
"You’ve been gorgeous." Funny, exactly what I was thinking.
"That is NOT-- what I paid for..." I was already on board, but that line completely won me over right there. Nice.
Oh m’y god… I’m French and the father of 4 daughters. You had me at the edge of my seat with the “how did your father cope with 4 girls?” Lol. My daughters are half french and half spanish; tonight is France-Spain in the euro semifinals and they are all going to watch like 10 minutes at most and will cheer for Spain. That wouldn’t happen if I had boys 😂😂
Spain deserves to win, though. And tonight is Spain-France, not France-Spain. Since the game ain't played in corrupt Doha, the winner tonight will be La Roja!
@lennis4739 lol whatever dude.
Why are they cheering for Spain? Is it because they're following mum or because the young and handsome Spanish players? 😅
@TwinkleWinks2 lol because they follow mum, even if 2 of them are too young to even understand… The eldest is for Spain and the second wants both to win 😅
Aww props to you for actually having stayed.
4:40 "That is not what I paid for" LMAO
Underrated line. It was so subversive and the crowd failed to appreciate it.
@abstract5249
C'est normal, ça sent un peu la blague facile et on la voit arriver de loin... Le public ne s'y est pas trompé.
The fact that booty call is such a normal part of english vernacular now is pretty funny
'Booty call' is mire American than English
My same takeaway from this. I thought ok Bill Bellamy lives on.
@gordondavies7773 lol we speak English, do we not? Booty call as a phrase is understood in pretty much any English-speaking setting
@gordondavies7773 What would be a more English or British equivalent then?
@andrewwilsonramos8718 "Booty" as a slang term for female buttocks (and thus as a sexual term for women, via the linguistic process of synecdoche) is of Black American English origin, and is first attested in the Jazz Age (circa 1920-35). So, yeah, @gordondavies7773 is right about the term being more American than British. But the Internet and the cross-pollination of movies, television, etc., between both sides of the pond is blurring the line between American slang and British slang more and more each year.
How am I only just discovering her now?
I live in France with 3 grown up daughters and we can totally relate to this. Right on the ball 😆
oo'er
Right on what
You stayed :o
I respect that.
@veme2857 Please be gentle with her, it's internet and she is a boomer, she has no idea about what she is talking about !
She still thinks Nixon is the president 😂😂😂
You are the cock of the walk and in a great country for it.
She is hilarious and that crowd DID NOT DESERVE HER 👏
They sure didn't...
Lmfao at that French booty call 😂😂😂
Well, not doing that myself...but I never made booty calls.
The Moon part was hilarious
Why ? Women in France don't like direct attack !
Btw, I always found it hilarious that the English talk about the French disease and the French about la maladie Anglaise when they talk about syphilis
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
Perfectly bilingual and very funny
no and also no
@o.m.9752 feeling better?
@michellestella7477better than you !
Funny is subjective and you might not have a sense of humor, but she's absolutely bilingual. Which language are you claiming she doesn't know?
@o.m.9752 Let’s forget about her brand of humor, that I like and you don’t. As my dad used to say, des goûts et des couleurs on ne discute pas. But your comment on her being perfectly bilingual makes me wonder if you actually speak either language, it’s just absurd.
0:40 your poor dad, how did he cope with having four girls? - My first reaction literally: "He didn't"
Same. I thought "he left". That's what my dad did! Classic move.
Her delivery is spot on, I just had to rewind the first minute & ten seconds.😂😂❤
The audience is dead
Funny stuff, i love the way that she goes from french to english, and that she speaks perfect in both languages :)
Her English accent is insanely good, you can tell she must have moved there as a teen to have an accent that well developed.
@NickMak-m2c Her parents are both british so she grew up with British accent speaking parents, that's why she also has a British accent
@NickMak-m2cShe said she grew up in France with a Scottish mother, they would speak English at home
My grandpa had six daughters. He survived because he was out working in the fields from morning to evening.
I found these observations so funny my first serious boyfriend was italian, then an Englishman, then engaged to a Canadian, my husband is Greek so I found myself making funny comparisons in my mind much like Tatty has done. 😂
Sounds like you got some mileage on your clock 😂
I hope you have a happy healthy long relationship...but if you ever move on to Indians, please leave a comment.
@BoldTestament Ho ho ho ....
@BoldTestament you call 4 serious relationships milage? Are you 15?
Unbelievable rizz
I am a 42 year old french man and I thought this was hilarious! Loved it!
At the Battle of Hastings and during the Hundred Years War the French called the English les goddams, because the English were always swearing. In the Bayeux tapestry that illustrates the battle, all the Englishmen have mustaches.
It’s called knowing how to romance..I prefer the French way..😊😊
The American way is just to copy whatever the English think "What're we doing we're making fun of the French now even though they helped us kick your ass for our freedom. Sure. HEY FRANCE! LOST WORLD WAR 2 MUCH HA-HAAA!"
That's gotta be half the dopes in America
Speaking a load of waffle is romancing?
@johngilliam6764 Literally yes
I love this kind of comedy! Subtle, light and hilarious
The no laughter pause after the statement at 3:34-3:39 is priceless!
Expectations are EVERYTHING
I'm impressed by her shirt and pants combo!! She's also funny!
Ce n'était pas facile mais c'était très réussi. Excentricité à l'anglaise + goût très sûr à la française. Mais il faut avouer que les cheveux roses sur les sourcils noirs...
Wrong, a french man will text you "tu dors ?" at 2
And italians !!!
Her personality! Her delivery!!
I'm French. We do use English words in French, but apart from corporate speak (which is pretty recent) the only English words we use are words that only *we* use - English people don't use them. We made them.
We do the same in Italy 😆
C'est tellement vrai !
le footing hahahaha
("Footing" exists in English but it doesn't mean the same thing as in French.)
Can you give an example, please?
Refreshing material and nicely delivered.
This lovely girl deserved an even bigger applause than she got. 😂
I cackled through the entire set! Loved it! Looking forward to more from Tatty Macleod!
2:34 > Like the scene in "Bruce almighty" (Moon, stars) lol
She is so funny!😂😂 what a quiet audience 😮
A late night walk 😂😂😂😂😂😂 i will laugh for the rest of my life
😂 brilliant patter
C'était excellent 👍
Me:
Imagining the epic #LaughMicBattle between she and Eddie Izzard!
I want to watch again Roman Frayssinet stand up about his booty call just after that, it’s exactly this 😂
This comedian has a high IQ. Great insights into dating a French man vs an English man. Loved her routine
Even the dictionary tidbit about Francophile showed her high IQ and then switching between two languages brilliantly.
This crowd was dry as hell but she was really funny
Ecrit et interprété avec beaucoup de finesse !! Simplement hilarant
4:10 the Frenchmen sound like they oversell and under deliver. You're supposed to under sell and over deliver 👌
She moved to UK as she was sub-par by French standards for sure...
in fairness I have on occasion seen a british dude do exacty that..
InCel is a state of mind, not a nationality
The wrapping is a major part of the gift, but -being English and French- I agree with the under sell part.
I laughed so much at this. Great stuff
6:05 that was so good
OMG, she is lovely! I want more.
Beautiful, especially at the end!
That was awesome, thank you!
She's very funny and likable❤
Gosh ! le fantôme de Patsy Kensit !
Funny and smart! This is great observational comedy with great timing. One of the rare comic where you can learn something too.
Thanks for the educational video
Her French is spectacular. Really rare not to have the slightest hint of an English accent. Even when switching back and forth within the same sentence. A true bilingual speaker.
She is French, that checks out
@agentstar734 she's both I guess as she spent her childhood in France with her English family
@babelbabel2419 she inhabited in England for more than 15 years now, so she got quite some time to get fluent
Maybe the family helped too
She said she's half french, dunce.
The striped shirt was a nice touch.
Wow, I actually enjoyed this a LOT because you tickled my brain and my funny bone - best kind of comedy.
Oh that was a treat😂❤🎉🎉🎉 Wow 😅😂
She’s so funny. 😂 I loved every minute of this.
She is so real and so funny!
Hahhaha this is so relatable!
Brilliant comedy and delivery.
I saw that dad joke coming from a mile away
4:32 😂😂😂😂😂
She is intelligently hilarious 😊
lol I wasn’t ready for the dad leaving 😂
Somehow I am reminded of the Matrix character named Merovingian.
I'm french and I forgot this frenglish accent...I laughed so much. I don't know it it is perceived as a joke or as The Little Prince speaking x)
I enjoyed that on many levels.
He left😂😂😂
that was good. 😂
Very funny and eloquent person!!!
As a Frenchman! Love it! And I love English people too, you are our neighbors!
beautiful and funny
You have adopted the English accent quite well. 😊
I've got 4 of 'em. Thankfully, they are all adults. They made it!
Hilarious and clever.
She was great! I literally laughed out loud.
She is super accurate
That was a lot of fun! She was so good!
I always thought the French hated the English but I’m starting to think they low key like each other.
Im french and yes, we do like each other. Sometimes an old enemy becomes a friend because of its loyalty.
Except during the 80 minutes of the rugby six nations match each years. :)
It's like the Danes and the Swedes.
@BzhToine c est clair ! peu importe de finir dernier tant que l on gagne face aux Anglais
We love each other really 🇬🇧❤️🇫🇷
Première fois que je vous entends ,i love it,,Nice job..
American boys: "you up?", "come over"
Wait is that a thing ?
@damiens4601yes that's what they say
@minngaeleven worse, I had guys text "wyd?" For "what are you doing?". Um, not them! It's so juvenile.
😂 So true
Perfect in both FRENCH and ENGLISH speaking !
She's actually funny. Good for her
Bien vue tu a eu raison d mon cafe matinal 😂
Bravo.
Fantastisch!