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American Reacts to Harry Enfield - The Scousers Visit The Beach
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A lot of the cultural references in Harry Enfield's comedy aren't really apparent unless you grew up in, or were around in Britain during the late 80's/early 90's. These guys were basically modelled on the characters of Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan from the soap opera Brookside.
yeah everyone will find it funny but americans just dont 'get it'
@@jaynadiah5498 Even then you'd have to be over 30 or so to remember Brookside at all.
@@vallejomach6721 so much of my knowledge of scouse phrases came from Jimmy Corkhill and co
This sketch was based on characters from the 80s soap ‘Brookside’ which was set in Liverpool. Many of the male characters had a moustache and kept fighting. That’s why it was funny as it then depicted that all men from Liverpool were like this. 😂
I've never seen this, so it was my first time watching too. The accent and stereotypes are spot on!!!🤣I know most scousers are great people, but, when you know the stereotypes, this skit is especially funny.
The only person in the sketch who isn't a Scouser, is Harry Enfield.
When Lewis Hamilton won his first Grand Prix, me and my brother was in an English pub in Rome.
Eben someone at the bar lived about 5 miles away from us. The bar had loads of Italians (of course), but when Lewis passed on that last corner, the bar emptied and the TV was off.
there was a tv drama series called Brookside in the 80's they all had moustaches and mullets lol.
The Scouser sketches are really funny. The one where they go to London is my favourite
That London...Calm Down calm Down!
@steevenfrost The look on Harry's face on the coach back to Liverpool. 🤣
@ That there London.
Curly perms on men were all the rage in the 80s 😂
I caught a bus into Liverpool two weeks ago. I experienced three Scousers arguing on the bus. It was a dead ringer for these sketches. It had me in stitches for half an hour.
😂😂😂
This is a parody of a soap called Brookside that was based in Liverpool. There were characters in the soap that had curly hair, handlebar moustaches, and they used to be rowdy and fight lots. This is who the guys in the skit are based upon.
They are so red because we British see so little sun, that when we get abroad, we strip off, sun bathe with no sun cream and burn like lobster red . It's hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂
The look is based on Barry Grant from Brookside - circa 1980's
The Scousers go to that London was the best skit they did i think
Oh Joel, you are spot on with how us Brits are in the news for the wrong reasons. When I moved to Singapore with work colleagues, we saw how us on a night out doing 10 pints was viewed as almost superhuman by the locals with 1 or 2 drinks, my Irish friend John falling in a flowerbed at 9am pissed on the walk home, met with disgusting looks by locals highlighted just how rowdy and drunk us Brits are when we go abroad. What is worse is that we were the most sophisticated holding down high end jobs, so when the lower echelons of society go abroad to Spain and similar local hotspots and start brawling, you can see why the Spaniards and similar really cannot stand us.
Thanks for posting these videos and it's a pleasure to soo how we are seen. I am happy to explain the contextualised cultural meanings to anything you want to ask about.
I worked for over 40 years with British tourists and this is not representative of British tourists. It is however a typical parody. We British do like to make fun of ourselves.
As a scouser... this is exactly down to a T 20+ years later haha !
"Calm down lad", "What ya doin' lad ?", "D'ya know what a mean ?"... so many more, we had lad to almost every sentence, Liverpool is so far behind on times that Liverpool has just started with the Apple Pay/Contactless card for buses. I miss Liverpool !
To this day if we say calm down calm down, we all know it's from this sketch
Yes 😂 I'm 47 and my youngest is 22 and we both do it 😂..he loves all the old comedy's..!
I need to check to see what other Harry Enfield videos you've done. Harry is one of my favourite comedians and I was lucky enough to see him and Paul Whitehouse live. You might already have done my blackberry is not working with Ronnie Corbett. That sketch is genius. Other favourite characters are the randy wobbly old ladies. They are based on true experiences Harry had as a milkman. He'd go to a house to deliver milk and this old lady invited him in. She said to him I may be a mangey old cat but I can still get the cream lol.
They,deliberately,look-alike as that was the stereotypical Liverpudlian look back in the day:)
Even his Carlsberg Sponsored Liverpool Football Club shirt is the 1980s/1990s version. lol
Not a "Shell-Suit" in site tho'
@@Dave-r4u Yes, Dave,not even the odd Hubcap...lol
Brilliant 😂
They do tho don’t they tho 😂😂😂
My brother used to travel around the world and he would play a game and try to find an Irish pub at each destination. I think he said that he only went to one place where he couldn't find one.
Derry?
Londonderry since 1613, Croppy
This is going back to the 80s - when PC meant Police Constable
Joel,these are stereotypical Liverpool men,in the 1980s there was a soap called Brooke side on a suburban estate they had character's like barry terry etc,mullet hair permed hair looking for trouble breaking up trouble, football lout mentality, checkout the compilation of scoucers go to london by far the best.
The Scouser alphabet is brilliant
The dude in the middle with the Liverpool shirt on is Gary Bleasdale who was in Boys from the blackstuff
The Royal Henley Northerner Show ... a must from Harry & Paul.
Hi Fella . Just watched your video on football Derby days ....very good. The best days for that kind of thing are gone but not finished. It was good in the 80s and 90s . 😂
If u come to benidorm u will see this every day 🎉😊
Google a pic of Graham Souness. 1980s to see how they got their look.
Or Phil Thompson or Phil Neal.
When this first aired English football clubs were finally allowed back into playing European competitions after a 5-year ban following Liverpool fans involvement in the Heysel stadium disaster...
Iconic sketch.
3:24 They're referring to the towns of Cannes and Nice in southern France (Nice is pronounced "Neess")
French towns -Cannes and Nice
Need to watch Yorkshire Airlines!
Funny story about the "scousers". I was on a plane with a friend and he said "have you seen the guy in the third row, he looks like one of those Harry Enfield scousers". When we were getting off the guy was still there and it was THE guy who played Terry Sullivan from Brookside (awful British soap opera based in Liverpool), who Harry Enfield based the scousers on.
So that was obviously before he was arrested for killing a bouncer then?
Did anyone else watch with subtitles? 😂
Have you done The Van Drivers Lament yet?
Way OTT, but with a large hint of Truth to it😆
As an Englishman I try not to holiday where English people go
I love the Benidorm sitcom, but I cringe when I think there Are actually places in Spain like this that are infested with the worst British people ever!!!
If you want to see a real/natural scouser watch something called Nanna Skelly. Scouse woman who talks that real thick scouse, in her seventies, just had her eyebrows tatooed in, not that you can tell, hahaha! shows you how to cook the old fashioned way, goes on hols to Spain, sings in the KAraoke bar in Liverpool etc, you will love her I am sure someone has too, no only joking! The funniest part is when she gets her bag of clothes from Temu and models all the items for you to see, you must take a look!
Joel, please tell us what you think of Wayne and Waynetta.
The second 's' in Scouser is a soft 's' - scow-ser, not scow-zer. It comes from the word 'scouse' which is a stew Liverpudlians used to eat. If you see the 1970s Liverpool-based sitcom The Wackers (which is on RUclips), in one of the episodes the wife is making scouse and says it's lovely and thick.
I ate scouse last wee
Some brits complain that there's too many Spaniards in Benidorm ,Spain .
And yes, British tourists can be embarrassing, at times , with drunken behaviour.
Normally the pubs are irish pubs but yes wherever us brits go we like our home comforts. I would say less so now as we are a multicultural society these days. Go back 40 years n I wouldn't even eat parma ham and had beans on toast every day for 2 weeks!
They are from Liverpool and known as scourers. Other wise known as rough necks.
There's over 7000 Irish pubs outside Ireland.
It would be great to see you do a reaction video of the latest trump and zelensky interview
If you’d like to watch a typical non PC/woke bit of English stereotyping (and therefore, funny!), search Terry Collier’s world view. This is a clip from a 70’s comedy called Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, set in Newcastle. Bob, the character on the left is your respectable engaged chap with a job. Terry (on the right) is a cynical grumpy type (but in a nice way) who has recently come back from serving in the Forces for five years. Therefore he’s “travelled a bit’ and as a consequence ……. formed some opinions! 😂😂😂
Memories of Scarborough, maybe? 😅
Manchester (Mancs) and Liverpool (Scousers) have always been rivals because of the football. They are only a few miles apart but their accents are totally different.🤣
Mancs and Scousers are rivals because of the football? Would that rivalry be Man United v Liverpool, or Man City v Everton, or Man United v Everton, or Man City v Liverpool, or Man United v Man City, or Liverpool v Everton? 😁🤣
@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze All of them! 🤣
Joel knows already,he has visited both cities in the last year or so !👌👍
It goes back further than football
No actually it started with the canal taking business away from the port.
Di dow dow dont di dow
And there's a cheapotel lmao
It’s a classic stereotype of working class Liverpudlians.
Calm down lad😂
They were talking about Cannes, and Nice, towns in the South of France.
Timeless comedy, looks like Benidorm 2025 only thing changed is the team sponsor :)
I stil argue the plural of Scouse is Scice.
Lol!
We literally do talk like this but I'm not sure as vulgar lmao
You're watching a comedy but if you grew up in Britain in the 1970s this is like a documentary.
I had a perm once,thought I was cool.
The one in the middle is David Bleasedale.
His uncle Alan Bleasedale wrote 'boys from the blackstuff'
He was in the year above me in senior chool and his younger brother David was in my class.
If you, channel host, appreciate British comedians taking the piss out of one of their regional (allegedly-) stereotypes, check out Reeves and Mortimer who do something similar doing an excellent job of taking the piss out of 'Geordies', aka people from Newcastle, and the supposed Geordie version of NASA. They are hilarious. Actually Geordies are some of the friendliest, warmest, good-natured people in the UK IMO. See reeves and mortimer geordie nasa, and reeves and mortimer geordie antartica.
Very working class.
NO.. not all working class in the UK. I was brought up in a working class family.. nothing like these comedy characters. Its obviously an exageration of the way SOME people in Liverpool were seen as being like. that is all it is. Plus it was very funny t the time it aired. The mullet hairstyles for instance have had their day in the main. lol.
The second s in scouser is pronounced like the s in house. It’s not pronounced like a z.
Ah the days when posh middle class 'comedians' making fun of working class people......about as funny as a burning orphanage.
It's comedy.
@@waynemay7327 Allegedly ;)
Is there any awareness among Americans that the world no longer sees America as a free country with honest democratic principles? People here are already talking about boycotting and not visiting the US anymore. How do you feel about this? Knowing that about half of your voters chose this and will still choose this. It would make me anxious.
English pubs around the world are similar to KFC, McDonalds and so on when it comes to the USA
Calm down Clam down. They do that there though don't they. Classic TV.
Dee do dat der don't dee
......with that being said let's get into video .
If you go to Benidorm they all look like this
Harry Enfield was best known for his loadsamoney character with red braces in the Thatcher era. Unfortunately he had no idea then that we’d be suffering from its effects decades later.
It's pronounced "Scow-sir" NOT "Scowzer" with an S not a Z (that's a zed not a zee!), America please take note. Also it's the River Merzy NOT Mercy. You should know this Joel, you've been to Liverpool.
Not the law, is it? Language and pronunciation is very fluid and the same word may be be pronounced in different ways in the same city or town. Technically it is the difference between a prescriptive and rules-based approach to language
(yours ) and a descriptive view (how it is actually used). Otherwise there would never be any changes in language use.
React to A Dose of Reason.
This is Anfield is acctualy to the stadium
Did you see that the CARLSBERG on his chest as he took the shit of
Its always the scouser answer to bad behaver
Cheers have a great day
Was always the stereotypical example suggested as Liverpudlian scouse, Cilla nd the Beatles Etal would be very disapointed😊
Hiya Joel, its not the funniest Ive ever seen, you need to react to, the Slobs thats hilarious
It shouldn’t be offensive to say there’s a British or English pub in tourist resorts in Spanish seaside towns where Brits go on holidays and spend money that contributes to the Spanish economy when we have in Britain different cultures running businesses all over the U.K. and nobody finds that offensive because it is what it is. Political correctness has ruined comedy and has made Brits feel ashamed of their own culture while everybody else can be proud of theirs. That’s not right!
You are talking specifically about the great British Working Class. Destinations such as the Netherlands (excluding Amsterdam for the Coffee Shops) Germany, Belgium and France apart from Euro Disney are almost free of them. There's always the issue of sharing space in the airports and on flights, but once arrived, one can leave them behind.
Joel, something not quite the same.
ruclips.net/video/58pIS8rWK2U/video.htmlsi=yP-urSia15Lai5hw
Cheap flights, cheap people.
Harry Enfield was from London and he liked to make fun out of Liverpool. Scouser is just a derogatory term for Liverpool