Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule: Brit for Brains (HBO)
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In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher explores America's infatuation with British accents.
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Reminds me of one of my favorite Doctor Who exchanges:
ROSE: "Why do you sound like your from the North?"
DOC: "Lots of planets have a North."
*you're
_"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."_ - Stephen Fry
but they are so often it is now a great crutch to work with
High treason - lol
That is unless they hear a Geordie accent, a Brummie accent, a Yorkshire accent, etc... 😂
Stephen Fry is a convicted thief, and a self-confessed expense fiddler. Anyone detecting brilliance is his manner of speech is indeed being fooled.
@@TheMangomelon789 Ayup, less o't' Yorkshire, I'll give you t'others though ;-)
You can always tell which alien is the captain because he's the one with an upper class British accent.
I once heard a movie Nazi say "Jolly good" in a British accent.
Nazis were many things, jolly doesn't come to mind.
Okay, maybe Goering.
LivingInVancouverBC "Okay, maybe Goering."
I have to explain to my friends why this has made me laugh for a half an hour straight.
Just watch "Allo allo" to know how nazis should sound in English...
LivingInVancouverBC Yeah Goering was a jolly old Nazi. Every Friday night ,down at the local pub, Goering and his mates would have a good old cockney sing song and knees up. Cor blimey squire
Luc Buydens Yes..but you must listen very carefully because they will say it only once. . One of the funniest shows ever. Herr Flick. lol.... I mean thats brilliant writting.
LivingInVancouverBC I just watched Jupiter Ascending and EVERY fucking alien had a British accent except "he's-on-a-breakaway-he's-got-the-full-ice--he-shoots-he-SCOOOORES" Tanning Chatum. No wait, Channeling Tatrum, whatever.
The movie was overloaded with aliens with British accents, unless they were supposed to be "relatable" to us dumbasses... oops, YOU dumbasses.
Since most Hollywood movies are filmed in the UK, it's natural for them to feature many British actors.
Still, I love this video and still use it to show people the beauty of the high British accent.
I bet John Waters is thinking, you call THAT a butt plug?
Justin M lol
Justin M LMFAO!!!
***** Firstly, I'd like to thank the Academy......
I would like to laugh now 😂😅
Funnily enough, the guy who played R2-D2 was British.
Justin M ah shit, I should have read more comments before posting mine.
Justin M As are both actors who played Obi Wan Kenobi.
Are there any other Squidwards I should know about?!
That was basically a British movie. Apart from a few of the actors and production staff, everyone on that movie was British and it was shot mostly in England.
So was/is C3PO, Anthony Daniels, The man inside the Darth Vader costume, David Prowse. The Americans were Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and the voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones. BFD!
In the recent Assassin's Creed, everybody had a British accent despite the fact the game was set in France (and who's publisher is from France and the main developer is developer is from Canada, so why British accents?)
Tylericous I'm gonna guess you're not talking about the most recent one... AC Syndicate since it's literally set in London during the industrial revolution, and thus every character in the game has British accent.
RoT Zlat No Unity. And the accents were stupid, because i mean when they did AC 2 everyone had italian accents.
RoT Zlat So recent it isn't even out yet.
ender003 Sorry you don't got access to the alpha version.
RoT Zlat We all will once the game releases at the end of the year.
Funnily enough, R2-D2 is played by a Brit.
most people in Star Wars r British not many people know that
The thing is, the Star Wars cast you mentioned, Alec Guinness(Obi-Wan Kenobi), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) etc. didn't "put out" a British accent. They ARE British.
Also, Fifty Shades of Grey originated in Britain, so that also was not really "putting out" an accent.
The critic from Ratatouille was voiced by Peter O'Toole and spoke with a British accent...despite the fact that he was French...FRENCH! They're Britain's archenemies.
"Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent." - - Cary Elwes, _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_
This is one of my fav clips... I've been referencing it for many many years :)
Kind of a random new rules segment but that bit was one of the most lucid observations about western perceptions of poshness and gravitas I've seen in a while. I've always wondered what the constant presence of the British accent in entertainment was for. Now I realize that when it comes to speaking English well, it helps to consult the originators of the bloody language.
OtherM112594 Germans and the Danes were actually the originators of the language. Only Celtic existed in Britain before they got there.
ryan lastname -they didn't as they spoke their own language, English originated over 1000 years ago in England by intermixing tribes.
VC YT The Angles spoke a language called "Englisc" and they came from a place called Englaland. They were one of the Germanic tribes that invaded Britain...
OtherM112594 The English language is a mongrel language that developed over time, obvs there is the broad Germanic core but there are numerous subtleties that when examined are moments of hmmm thats jolly interesting for instance Sky is a Norse word
OtherM112594 i thought that the british accent was supposed to give off the appearance of a shakespearean trained actor therefore an assumed good one.
And when movies have an ignorant uneducated person, they have a Southern accent. :-)
***** and when they want a tough, thug-like guy, they do a new york accent.
Edward Bernayse666 Brooklyn, Queens or Staten Island to be exact. Manhattanites don't really have accents.
Edward Bernayse666 We have Warner Brothers Studios, and later the '70's New Cinema to thank for that. Look at the Warner's leading men: Cagney, Bogart, Robinson, Garfield, Raft, Bugs Bunny, etc. All New Yorkers who specialized in playing tough guys. The '70's New Cinema gave us Pacino, DeNiro, Keitel, Walken, etc. Same deal. New York tough guys.
+TheSnoopy1750 I'm so outraged by your comment that I spit out my moon pie and Mountain Dew. Y'all.
@@TheSnoopy1750 wow. The only people on earth without an accent.
Sir Alec Guinness had an English accent because he's ENGLISH!
Scottish!
“Was” dear.... “Was”.
He passed away in August 2000
steve79065 English, born in London. His father was never identified although Guinness believed his father to be a Scottish banker who paid for his upbringing and education. Emphasis on ‘believed’ rather than ‘knew for a fact’.
@@kjamison5951 So ? he grew up in England .... End of story
So was Peter Cushing AND Anthony Daniels, who played C2PO. Both British.
To talk about the obsession Americans have with British accents and not even mention Madonna and Johnny Depp? Both born and raised in the Midwest and now take their afternoon tea with crumpets.
Game Of Thrones with American accents would be hilarious.
Plus a British accent is a Hollywood shortcut to convey foreignness, whilst making the dialogue intelligible to Americans, we aren't in Kansas anymore, so to speak.
chris spray Yes, Chris. I think your take on this is a bit more sensible.
chris spray With deep southern uneducated accent! Like swamp billy accents! That'd rock!
Brave Heart with a Mexican accent! Would have rocked too!
jmitterii2 Anything with a Mexican accent rocks!
chris spray That's exactly the reason. If you had real German actors playing Nazis, your average American numbskull would be scratching his head, going "what he just say?"
"They [British] have the gravitas, we [Americans] have the swag..." What does that leave the Irish with?
lol! As a Brit I totally hadn't noticed! Hahaha I'm so cushioned by British accents.
Not that it's a surprise, I mean, British accents are the best accents in the world (not all of them).
Yeah, not Welsh.
Yeah, like I said, they're not all great ;)
+Le Huy-Anh Well that just about sums up Mancunians alright.May be that is why H.M. Q.E. 2 is a devotay of Coronation Street and will leave a Palace function in time to see it. It's a boost to ones superiority don't you know old bean "Wuh Wuh Wuh.
+Arthur Nichols I am from Bradford Yorkshire.When Thatcher got power i bought a bicycle and went to France,I lived and worked there for 5 years and then went to West Berlin 4 years before the wall came down.I am still here so try and imitate a tyke accent mixed in with a French one and a German one.specifically a Berlin accent (equivalent to cockney).
but of course, everything brit is the best in the world lol except the education that teaches that garbage
i adore a proper British accent. class through and through.
Game of Thrones is based on medieval Britain so it makes sense. Also Tywin wasn't the king... not officially anyway.
Eastbluedrew The Whitewalkers and the Wildlings are stand-ins for the Scots and their partial fore bearers the Picts. The Wall is an exaggerated version of Hadrian's Wall which the Romans built to keep Southern Britain [their colony, Britannia] separate from the Northern "barbarians" who lived in what became Scotland. King's Landing is obviously London. And the whole epic is based upon the events in the English "War of the Roses" with other pieces of British history thrown into George RR's stew that we love so much.
Eastbluedrew Snoop Dogg admitted he watched to learn about history.
Jeremy Holloway Actually, it's based on the cult french novel series 'Les Rois Maudits', George R R Martin said so himself. So, french medieval history, not 'British'.
andiroidYT It's inspired by a confluence of things, but the geography of it is based on Britain. Part of the map of westeros is actually Ireland upside down. Also, it's been confirmed that the Lannister-Stark war was heavily inspired by the war of the roses in medieval England, between the Lancasters (Lannisters) and the Yorks (Starks)
andiroidYT inspired by not based on
That Jennifer Connelly accent was hilarious.
In England our stereotypical idea of a bad guy is someone with a German accent.
I love Killer Mikes reactions, priceless. He is the perfect straight guy for Bill's jokes.
It's the accent(s) that ruled the most vast empire the world has ever seen. It projects power and confidence.
+TheoKabala89 Indeed Sir :)
it is also a naturally calmer accent, giving the speaker a air of being in control of the situation
really? i live there unfortunately and to me it projects arrogance, pretentiousness and as the germans say, the preponderance of appearance over substance... ... thats the trick they pulled, dont let it deceive you... as for americans not being really serious... it is true but its what i appreciate about their culture... for serious stuff theres always europe.. for pop culture, america... i think we complement each other nicely... and enjoy both, lucky me
That's sounds great but it's completely untrue
To everyone offended that he didn't give the connection between the War of the Roses and the plot of Game of Thrones: *it's just a bit meant for laughs*.
Personally I love the way he holds a mirror up to American society just for the lulz; not taking yourself too seriously and being able to laugh at the stupid stuff we all do is a sign of maturity and self-confidence.
“I love a British accent “
“Oh yh , which one ? We’ve got 34,000 “
It's true! Look at the number of viewers on John Oliver's show.
cw95an he really isn't that clever, and has done some pretty childish skit lately and yet for some reason people think his show is brilliant, perhaps it is his British accent
robair9911 I like Oliver not just for the comedy, but because he does a great job explaining real issues in a long format.
And Alex Jones who is a Real life movie charachter said, "A British accent is intelectual."
"And this product still goes in your butt."
Bill Maher 2016
Fun fact. If you opened up the little robot in Star wars (R2-D2) you really would have found someone with a British accent. The little guy inside/operating R2-D2 was British actor Kenny Baker.
A lot of statwars actors were brits . Darth Vader ( not voice of course) obi one and most of the extras . This is because it was mostly filmed in the uk 🇬🇧. I met kenny baker who played R2 before he passed …. He came to a pub I worked at regular in Preston, Lancashire where he lived. He used to drive a specially adapted vintage Rolls Royce with hand controls.
The American accent as we hear it today came into common use around the early 1800s and is a mixture of northern European accents,
not forgetting the many families that traveled across America as depicted in cowboy films were from Scandinavia,.Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, speaking English but with their original accents...
Not true at all. I can not detect anything from nordic countries ..
Vast majority of people in the early 19th century usa were of british heritage
Well, the Star Wars characters he mentioned were played by British actors...
And the bad guy (Peter Kushing) did the british accent because he was working for THE EMPIRE
Yes old chap .
@@felixbeutin9530 or maybe because Peter Kushing was British himself?
Peops...its Cushing with a "C". He played Van Helsing with an english accent as well.So did Christopher Lee when playing anybody...especially Dracula.
And many of the GoT characters too.
Speaking as a Brit, having just watched this video I feel compelled to mention that most of my heroes are American: My favourite artist is Steve Lukather and he is the lead guitarist of Toto, my favourite band since childhood. My absolute favourite voice in music is Richard Marx. I'm a fan of Journey, Chicago and I never even looked at Fleetwood Mac before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band! My favourite stand up comedian is George Carlin. My favorite film is Back to the Future. I own most of the Marvels movies. I'm a full on Star Trek nerd from the classic television series right through to all the current stuff and I buy into all that Gene Roddenberry idealism... Babylon 5, The X-Files, Stargate SG-1 are also favourite shows of mine. Sit-coms? - Frasier, Friends, Big Bang, Goldbergs, Young Sheldon. For over a decade now I've taken a keen interest in works by the activist Peter Joseph of the Zeitgeist Movement and then recently I discovered Bill Maher ;-) -- Americans all. Americans all!
...and of course there's my Dad who is from New Jersey.
As for the British accents in the make believe productions of hollywood, consider that in the UK every pre-teenager from primary to middle school ages, whenever they play characters in make believe productions of their own, they'll typically reel off their "dialogue" in an American accent. - Fact!
The Brits are becoming more American with every passing year.
There's no america without England. One love!
That's the funny thing that I've noticed. No matter where you go you'll find people who prefer American things (predominantly specific products and pop culture-related stuff) over their own. Even in American-hating countries like North Korea the Supreme Leader loves the NBA and American cartoons, while Hitler was a Disney fan.
Likewise with Americans being obsessed with British stuff. We love British films (this time of year "Love Actually" is just as iconic as any Hollywood Xmas flick), British television, British music, British literature (from Shakespeare to Harry Potter), the Royal Family, British fashion, British actors and actresses. There's even this streaming service called "Britbox" with nothing but British programmes for anglophiles to enjoy. It's strange. You guys are familiar enough to understand yet exotic enough that it holds our attention.
The little guy in robot was British 😂 kenny baker…. Star was was mostly filmed in the Uk which prob account for a lot of it .
I think the most logical/path of least resistance explanation is that film is an offshoot/offspring of theater, and since Britain has a long theater history our theater tries to mimic theirs. Hence British accents. Don't overthink this.
To be fair Bill some of those actors were actually British.
***** Was he not using the example of Americans using a British accent for characters that are not British, and wondering why that is? I'll watch it again.
Tyler Stevens The point was that British accents are use to sound more convincing. If i'm not mistaken
Tomas Esparza Period piece dramas traditionally use British accents. It's a tradition started in Shakespearean theatre.
Dialectic Fox Because they are British actors, not German actors. They could have tried a German accent but for whatever reason didn't. I think Bill is asking why American actors use a British accent as a default when they want to sound 'foreign' or give their performance more credibility. Not everyone can be Meryl Streep. :P
Tyler Stevens He was right about r2-d2 as well. Kenny Baker is british.
to be fair Game of Thrones was heavily influenced by medieval England so it is a little more appropriate
Technically more influenced by medieval France, but few French accents.
@@jamiebell1528 When creating his highly detailed fantasy world, George R. R. Martin based much of Game of Thrones on medieval European history. In particular, Martin drew heavily from the War of the Roses. Even the GoT continent is UK and Ireland combined upside down.
The front cover of the first novel of Maurice Druon's Les Rois Maudits (set in France during the Hundred Years War) has a quote from George R R Martin calling it "The Original Game of Thrones". Just saying...
1. The books are called "A Song of Ice and Fire" not Game of Thrones - He wasnt referring to his own series when making that comment.
2. "Game of Thrones" refers to the concept of struggle for control of monarchy.
3. England fought against France and controlled some of it for varying periods the 100 years war. So even if we took it as a French inspiration the English remain one of the core elements.
Its pretty obvious were Martin got the majority of his influence and it was not French history.
I'm British and I speak with a British accent - I spell colour with a u, I wear trousers and I call people Mate. It's all as cute as fuck. Now love me. *LOVE MEEEEE!*
In fairness, all those actors in Star Wars *were* Britons...
***** Theres a reason. Pretty much all the empire is supposed to be british, all the good guys are american. the only one that doesnt really fit with that is Obi-Wan.
Max Schneider One could say Obi-Wan - as a Jedi - was formerly part of the Republic (which devolved into the empire) so it's not an improper fit.
Lol geez I can't believe my original comment actually spawned a thread
***** Why not just chalk it up to the primary characters (ie Luke, Leah and Han) being cast well before production and the rest being cast sooner up to the time of shooting - which primarily took place in London. You're not gonna fly 100 people to London for shooting when they have a wealth of good actors there already...
***** ur saying u need to be at war with a country to make them the bad guys in a movie?
Also how many famous russian actors you know of?
***** maybe the british accents were supposed to make the empire look smart and therefore more formidable.
There is NO British accent ! ~ What American's are hearing is a south-east English accent, an often of the posh variety. Its also sometimes called a home counties accent. Tho this excludes russell brand, Michael caine, david beckham, etc -its complicated !
PS- Sean bean in game of thrones has a Yorkshire accent + gritte.
What you mean is there are many British accents.
@gerard dearie there are many European accents.
There is no American accent either then, don't be a hypocrite.
"And I bet if you cracked open the other robot that only made beeping noises, there'd be a guy in there with a British accent."
YES! THERE WOULD BE! xD #KennyBakerFTW
Right you are, Kenny Baker was inside the R2D2 - well sometimes; other times it was a remote controlled Animatronic "Robot" the way to tell the difference is when R2D2 is "walking" that's Baker in side the shell and when it is rolling it is the Electronic "Bot" - Star Wars Geek here!
We went from English accents, to butt plugs in a matter of seconds 🤣🤣
To be fair, Game of Thrones is loosely based on British history and I think the Star wars movies have parralels to the British Empire
George Lucas drew from a lot of myths & legends when writing Star Wars.
The Arthurian legend was a principle one.
Luke -> Arthur
Obi Wan -> Merlin
Magic -> The Force
Then there the idea of the immaculate conception of Anakin Skywalker.
those myths are british
Yep, the big clue there is that the bad guys are literally called....... THE EMPIRE.
Cheers for that, Sherlock ;0)
Sherlock definitely needs a British accent though, I think we should all agree.
Wasn’t Star Wars about Vietnam
Maher is the funniest man on earth.
I had the impression classical times were represented with British accents because most of the great Hollywood "epic" (=big) films from the 40s to the 60s were filmed in London or elsewhere in Europe (in part because UK law required UK box office reciepts had to be spent in the UK and that was the best way to use the money) and thus, after filling the main roles with big Hollywood stars, British actors were cheaper for secondary roles than importing Americans. That tuned the American ear to think of Romans as speaking "British" rather than anyting else.
When it comes to showbiz and the theater, it's all about the convincing command of the "Shakespearian" accent.
To be fair, the Dornish have spanish accents
I'd love it if they sounded Cornish though.
It's not rocket science. The American accent is a very new accent. Plays were being performed long before the American accent existed, so if it is a classic tale based in ancient times or of an Epic quality then the English accent makes perfect sense to suspend disbelief. A well spoken English accent is also much clearer to the ear seeing as they invented the language.
True...Most academies in other countries also teach British English, more than Ameican.
I don't think you can say "British accents are used to sound serious" and then use C3PO as an example of that seriousness.
Johnny Threefour he's a civil servant
DuffPaddy1 so?
Johnny Threefour C3PO is the typical sort of British civil servant or butler type. Think Rowan Atkinson in The Lion King vs Jeremy Irons in The Lion King. Or Alfred Pennyworth.
Johnny Threefour Thus the "even the robots". He's used as an example of how comically far the phenomenon goes.
Johnny Threefour C3PO had a comic British accent. I think that they were trying to channel Stan Laurel.
The worst evil is a Brit playing someone with a German accent. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber for instance.
That's why thy call it the English language
The vibrating butt plug at the end killed me. lmao
Most of the actors in game of thrones are British. Plus westeros is clearly modelled on the British isles...so there :p
Insightful
I think it's a bit more simple than that, which is that we absolutely know nobody was talking with an American accent more than about 350-400 years ago because it is a new country, with new citizens, and a new culture. Even though modern day British English is far away from its historical roots, we do at least know that there's been a British english variant for about 1500 years. So its history does lend it gravitas. I am Australian, so we face the same thing - except at least the US owns popular modern culture. Our accents, and many other English variants really have no significant place in entertainment and our voices are made either American or British.
Melissa Carlill Interesting to read the Antipodean perspective on this. I always thought the Australians had a rather healthy self-esteem surrounding their accents and national identity.
Melissa Carlill The funny thing about the Australian accent is a lot of times I'll just mistake it for a British accent, e.g. Fiona from the Mercenaries series. To be fair, about 20 years ago TV shows and movies made in the US used the British and Australian accent interchangably.
On a few occasions with RUclips personalities with weak Aussie accents, I've actually mistaken them for American.
majordbag2 interesting. I had a similar experience with the youtuber Matt Shea. I think he's from Newfoudnland or some far flung Canadian province. I could not place his accent at first. Sounded weirdly Australian.
Dennis Lewis I don't really know how I feel about it, except that I do find it quite refreshing when I hear an Australian actor speaking in his or her native accent. I understand in some cases a person's back story informs the character and their accent is important, but a lot of times I don't see why an actor can't just talk like where they're from and have their back story amended accordingly. That said, usually when an Australian is allowed to speak in their native accent it is because their character is a yobbo - think anything Rebel Wilson, or that guy in Orange is the New Black. There's zero gravitas associated with our accent.
Melissa Carlill It's far worse to hear American actors butcher our Australian accents - I'm looking at you Lost (TV Series) ... as an Aussie they all like very bad sound South African to me
Taking it to the next level :) bloody awesome, just brilliant 😂👍
Not just "a British accent" - it is specific RP. English language without any regional accent. Very few Brits speak RP.
Have wondered about this since forever.
Could that be because Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness and Kenny whatsisname are from England? Just a thought.
To be fair, Alec Guiness, Peter Cushing, Anthony Daniels, and Kenny Baker (the dude in R2D2) are all Brits.
Since Tolkien was such a big influence on fantasy, English accents in the genre make sense as part of borrowing from him.
Alec Guinness (original trilogy Obi-Wan) was British. So was Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin). Maybe casting British actors is part of this phenomenon as well as having actors from other countries fake an accent
The best of all - if you crack open R2-D2, you find Kevin Baker inside, who, yes, is from England, and has a British accent xD
Ok. I have a British accent, always have, I was born there. It has been of some use in Canada, usually people think I’m from Australia, but, hey, let’s keep it in the Commonwealth.
Canadians too, LOL.
"We drink wine from a box"
Bitch please, I'm Australian. We invented wine in box.
***** You mean "Goon Bag" ?
+faolan1686 I'm told Americans think Aussies sound cockney.
liar liarliar No really. Jason Statham plasy a Cockney in the work he did with Guy Ritchie, like "Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch". If you give them a watch you will here what it sounds like.
+faolan1686 Can you see what "hear" looks like?
+adamtzsch To what are you referring?
Obviously, Bill has no idea that Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Antony Daniels (C3PO) and Charles Dance had British accents because they are British.
This is partially why some people idolized the Clockwork Orange droogs.
wiley schmitt Good God!
wiley schmitt what do you mean?
Edward Bernayse666 Give them a stupid accent resulting in the sociopathic nature getting judged a bit differently by young men who thought the droogs were cool.
wiley schmitt Yeah, but CLOCKWORK ORANGE took place in the UK. Just what kind of accent SHOULD they have had? Brooklyn? Plus "Nadsat" was really fun slang. Horrorshow groodies indeed, droog.
Great film
"...and this product, still goes on your butt." LOL!
There is no such thing as a ''British accent''. There's an English accent, Scottish accent, Welsh accent and Irish accent, then there are the Geordies.. they are a different breed though. But in some parts of England there are different types of accents. I wouldn't refer to it as a ''British accent'' though.
***** - When did I say Ireland was? I never. The topic was about accents, not countries.
***** - I never said Ireland was apart of Britain. Can you read? They have a Irish accent in Northern Ireland, correct? You was the one who brought up Ireland not being apart of Britain, not me.
***** - You commented saying ''Ireland isn't apart of Britain'' right? When did I say it was? They have a Irish accent in the North. Okay, you caught me, it isn't apart of Britain, I made a mistake, do you feel tougher now that you've caught someone on RUclips make a mistake? Doesn't change the fact that they still have an Irish accent though.
+Liverbird - I'm not saying people in the North aren't 'British', you still have an Irish accent though.
I live on the border of Geordie Land and i can confirm they are a different breed, they are not refined and cultured like the Mackems who live in Sunderland.
Best of all worlds.
Tywin Lannister was not the king, he was the hand of the king, essentially chancellor or Prime minister.
oh man this one should've come with a warning to not lean back in your chair when listening to the part about the sexy marry poppins. "Just a spoon full of sugar makes the ding a ling pop up" made me laugh so hard I fell out of my chair.
This sketch was written thirty minutes after he saw how his ratings stacked up against Last Week Tonight.
Pharrel's hat is British! Haha designed by Vivienne Westwood
He should check out skyrim. First time I heard American accents in a medieval fantasy world.
I'm a Brit and this made me chuckle out loud!! :D
Really? I’m a Brit and I thought it was total s#%;T
British=English, Scottish and Welsh.
***** That's where it gets complicated. People from Northern Ireland do have British citizenship but can get Irish citizenship and it tends to be Catholics who identify as Irish and Protestants who identify as British.
Northern Ireland is part of the UK rather than Great Britain which is the island.
I guess my name gives away what part of the world my Dad's family come from, but my Mother was a Anderson they are from Scandinavia, which explains why i love raping and pillaging while consuming vast quantities of Guinness.
2:38 I love how someone from the audience randomly says "yeah" when Bill talks about the butt plug.
I'm not sure what Brad Pitt thought he was doing in Troy but it sure as hell wasn't a British accent.
Brilliant!
"British accent"? Which one, there are only around 100 of them.
Funniest Bill Maher moment in ages. (said in Estuary English).
Well all the game of thrones actors are British..... and in the books I don't remember the accents being described
televisionblitz Peter Dinklage is an American.
oh you're right, and Jamie is Danish or something. But Tywin and Cersai are British, and so was Joffrey, and they should all have matching accents
"Jamie" is from Denmark and "Joffrey" is Irish. Close enough! :)
Jamie is from Denmark
King died in the toilet? That's Geroge II. He died on the Royal Privy.
star wars is 'Made in Britain"...
So is a lot of GoT. They also make it in Ireland which is why they cast so many Irishman. A lot of the time it's really just who's available.
Yet the story was 'Made in Japan' ...
Brilliant
Swag is for boys, class is for men.
Not what i expected, still funny.
Sorry Bill, we brits don't speak with an accent. We speak English. You're the ones with the accent....
You speak English, which is a derivative language comprised of French, German, and Latin elements.
So yeah - you have an accent.
Americans don't speak English, they speak 'merican...
Jesse P. Pollack you forgot Greek, and if you invented the language, how can you have an accent? An accent is only relative to the way you talk. Everyone has an accent that is not from your area. I was constantly asked, when in the southern states " Y'all have a funny accent, where Y'all from. They have a very distinct accent there, to anyone not from there, but I had the accent. It could be that I am Canadian, and speak English, not American.
Americans and Canadians speak old English, how it was spoken in England in the past. It is the Brits that went off the reservation and started dropping their Rs and such. For that reason North American accents sound more natural and are closer to how the language is actually written.
Whitworthfred To Americans like Bill you do have an accent
Wine out of a box lmfao Maher would do well in UK he is good.
Tbf Alec Guinness (Obi-wan), Peter Cushing (the bad guy), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Kenny Baker (R2) are all actually British and aren't putting the accent on
Back in 2005 when Rome was showing, I couldn't help to notice that all the characters were British. Afterwards I realised that hearing Julius Ceasar say "And you too brutus?" in a Southern accent was not going to fly. Hahahaha...
It is because British people and culture is more respected around the the world than American people and culture. The American accent around the world has become linked to stupidness and lacking class. So people only take that accent seriously in an American situation and not outside that because Americans are not viewed as smart around the world. America is that place that goes crazy for a boring sport called football when they use their hands.
Delboy0 i disagree, and im british!
***** Bro Evry culture is mocked but only one culture is mocked and envied and that is american culture (broadly speaking)
+Pierzing.glint1sh7 no dude, seriously, American culture is pretty much considered trash culture... it's only really envied and adopted by the poorest and lowest classes who find it easiest to appropriate as it requires very little education or mental capacity to latch onto.
All this talk of British accents. Meanwhile everyone in Scotland is going "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU"
I still prefer American accent.
***** “There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.”
***** - Southern American accents can be beautiful sometimes but there are others like New York where it is pretty awful
The Libyan Atheist I love all the British accents :p
Victoria P I can only assume that you've never heard a scouse accent.
ryan lastname Yeah I have haha, depends on who really, Southern accents aren't much better but I'm Canadian and we have our own distinct accents in certain regions as well that aren't the most attractive sometimes
one of the best
the English "accent" is just how English sounds when pronounced properly...
The American accent is much closer to how English is supposed to sound like and how it sounded in the past. Dutch is even closer, that really sounds like old English. The Queen's English (RP) is a very contrived and artificial dialect. People generally have to learn it in private schools, almost nobody speaks like that naturally, not even in England. Claire Foy did some nice interviews on how difficult it was for her to learn to speak like the Queen despite being classically trained. I can speak it too, but it is quite exhausting and my jaw muscles will hurt from the strain after a while.
@Christian Koncz
*"almost nobody speaks like that naturally"*
I think that that's really the crux of the matter. Those who speak with what American's call a "British accent" are generally rich and well-educated. I recall seeing an episode of The Graham Norton show where an American actress asked an English comedian who was from Liverpool whether he could speak in a British accent. He thought that was hilarious. It's not the fact that the accent is from Britain that lends it weight; it's the fact that it is normally associated with well-educated people, even in England. You won't find too many Americans imitating something they heard on The Only Way Is Essex in order to sound smart.
Dutch does not sound like Old English. Frisian sounds a bit like Middle English, perhaps.
2:53 "Is this for real?" YOU BET YOUR ASS ITS FOR REAL!
even britians enemy's the nazis
classic
Brilliant writing!