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What makes this even funnier is that the kids clearly understand the concept and ham it up just as good as Catherine Tate. The boy actor is particularly good
Quite Right. 😅
He has the best lines, but the way "Chloe" say, "Mummy . . . no!" is brilliant!
Meh, just typical child acting, unconvincing but it’s just something fun and not serious
@@janhenson9616 not serious yet you took my comment VERY seriously 😅
@@PDC-yb9qs seems you took my comment to heart.. all i said was it was a funny video so the acting isn’t supposed to be good. This your kid or sum? Why you so pressed lmao
My favourite thing about this is that the nanny doesn't even have a particularly strong accent XD
I know thy are sometimes a lot stronger
Sounds strong to me ahaha, I’ve lived in Newcastle my whole life, and I don’t even sound like I’m from here
@@Emily_47
Aye aye, man!
@@memyself1566 No Bother, Flower!
@@smkh2890
Eeeeh, that’s champion!
For anyone who is from the south that has visited the north, the first thing you realise is actually how nice people are!! It's actually a massive culture shock to meet so many friendly strangers... !
@@GregOrCreg that's a generalisation and a half
They are not friendly at all that is a lie! The south is way better and people are not nosey and just care about themselves
Yes you'll so right within 30 minutes of leaving my train in Manchester, 5 people actually spoke to me! two even smiled! One of these people was a begger on the streets!!!
wait till you have a different opinion to them......we'll talk again afterwards....:-)
i've been married to one of "them" for nearly 50 years.....:-)
@@GregOrCreg this rant is beautiful lol
I'm a foreigner and took a train to the north once. And, people in the north are the kindest and friendliest you've ever asked for. Many thanks to the ladies and the gentlemen in Edinburgh who went out of their way to help me find the hostel in the midst of the evening rain and snow. Without their help, I'd be totally lost. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Scotland isn't really what we mean when we say "the North".
Scots are on the whole a bit nicer but they're not in the Northern cultural catchment area.
Cuturally the term can mean anything (depending on you you ask) either from the top edge of the M25 up (ask someone from Sussex) to just above the Midlands (Birmingham or Leicester) upwards (if you ask someone from the Midlands).
Both definitions however generally end by the time you reach the Scotish borders.
@neil1691 Birmingham and above is the North, anything within the M25 is London and anything below London is the South.😂
@@alexg1778what are you on about. Anything above Manchester is north mate. Birmingham is very much midlands
No. By the North we mean North of England 😂
yeah thats the joke here
"What is it, dear heart!? Tell all!" absolutely killed me 😂
That's too funny🤣🤣🤣
This sort of thing reminds me of "British or gay?"
That was fantastic
.... I see... So this is what they mean with "kill them with kindness"
@@INatalkaI Why not both?
The kids' acting in these was superb.
@@softshallow7435 I have
Great name
@Jay you are funny. 🤣
@Jake These 'found footage' types are particularly jarring. I just hope they didn't suffer too much.
Chloe had three different actors and this was probably the best one.
I love how she's just this normal, friendly, down to Earth human.
That must be terrifying for Londoners, especially the posh sort.
you mean Toffs mate! xDD
what is posh family? I don't really get what this video about? xd
@@dafyddchandler2514 Aah the Toffs and Rüds of London.
Especially the champagne socialists.
@@Chnx050 posh people are usually those who tend to be more rich and pompous, basically upper class
I’m Aussie and I travelled all round England many years ago. Hands down the friendliest people I met were in York and Leeds. The whole North East is full of fantastic, unpretentious people.
Agree. Whitby too. Even the wild men of the Tees were super nice when we had to go through Middlesbrough.
Leeds is not North East but it's an easy mistake to make.
I love York
When Londoners visit Sheffield they're shocked to find people do talk to them at bus stops or on the tram. Oh my goodness me! 😂😂😂
Your from Australia 😮 omg no please don't kill me
The kids in these sketches are excellent. They really understand the humour involved.
No humor was involved in the making of this video.
@El Guiri Bandido you can read a script in the most dull way possible or be an actor
@@t-housetv7580 soufener detected
@@sunsetman22 What? English, please.
Growing up in the UK they already have an understanding of the class system.
Just for the record this is actually exactly how the class system is in the UK.
No! It's worse, check the Royals. Conceited , arrogant crew!
@@georgejob7544 as a working class peasant the ones who are worse by far are the middle class. They despise the lowers and have burning envy for the uppers, it's pretty sad.
@lungshadow yeah I'd like to think not all of us are that shallow but who knows 🤔😢
@lungshadow because the english have never been racist to the Irish... please don't associate the Irish with the english, it is offensive. Americans don't have an equivalent to compare too, so as a thought exercise: imagine people just assuming You, Martin Shkreli and Ted Bundy are the same guy.
That is close too but not exactly enough to convey the insult inflicted by the thoughtless association.
@lungshadow Do you get an attitude every time you attempt to do an English [southern] accent?
I'm from Finland and so visiting London has not been a negative culture shock. People are as cold and distant as back home. :)
Having visited Finland numerous times I can confirm your observation
As a londoner I find this heartwarming :)
@@vice.nor.virtue Heartwarming 🤣 👍
lmao
😂😂😂😂😂 When a Finn says your cold...what an insult.
As an American this is both fascinating and hilarious, like peeking into another world.
lol right?!
As an American, I like learning about other countries. I wish to travel in Europe some day
Think about how shitty the people are that live in progressive utopias versus any normal American and you'll get it
If she did we'd be needing subtitles. I mean, it's not like she's from Glasgow. :) or the rural areas around Burmingham. (Black Country).
@@ms.pirate This isn't a documentary. 😂
A quote from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw-
“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”
Thanks Angela! I had heard that also but thought (till now) that it was GBS himself who said it - not a character in the play :)
@Andy B..100% sure you're right Andy,but we get Angela's drift.🤗
@@kristinejames9812 Yes - I know what you mean. I don't know for sure, but I like to think that the Londoners of 100 years ago were more friendly than portrayed today.
He was an Irishman like me, and fond of Stalin, unlike me, so I wouldn't pay him much attention.
@Andy B..Quite probably Andy. I just think it's nice to be nice wherever you come from. Me I'm from Oldham in Lancashire and reet proud of my heritage,even though I don't choose to live there anymore at this moment in time!
I just love that despite the posh and out of touch family, they are just so loving and considerate of eachother. They are a perfect family that is completely out of touch with reality.
Ha ha, yeah exactly
I've met so many upper class families and I have to say they are all very much the same.
What does posh mean?
@@GabrielBlack221 thanks m8 👍🙂
Wow. For a while there, I thought you were talking about an American family!😆
Northerners: yup, that's how it is
Southerners: Yes, that is how it is.
Scotland: Aye, stroo.
*Northerners: Yup thas 'ow i' is
I know its a joke but thats not how southerners talk
@@alecneate76 It is representative of RP. Obviously Eastenders are different and West Country accents are very different too.
The majority of the population in the North consider Southerners to be posh, rich and power hungry, Catherine Tate is playing on that absurd misrepresentation in this sketch. She is a Southerner, but not posh herself.
@@angrytedtalks i understand that but even most southerners do not speak rp. I'm from Hertfordshire which is seen as a posh and wealthy county but almost everyone I know speaks with a partly local, partly cockney accent. 100 years ago and most people in Hertfordshire would be speaking something like an East Anglian accent which can still be heard today, especially in older people. I do know some people that speak rp but they're often laughed at for it.
@@alecneate76 I completely agree. I live in Bucks, kids were schooled in Herts.
Catherine is playing to the Northerners to perpetuate the myth that Southerners are posh and fearful of over confident Northerners. I was born in Cornwall, learned to speak in Australia (very South) and lived in Leeds ("The North" - Johnny Vegas), Nottingham (Sue Pollard) and London (Bermondsey and Dulwich).
My accent is considered RP by many and "posh" by some. It is a mess in my opinion.
Catherine Tate is a legend. One of the funniest comedians ever 😂😂
Wooo yeeeaaah, Donna Noble!
I’m in American so Doctor Who is one of the few exposures I get to British entertainment.
@@MortabluntDonna is a vibe
That's pushing it a bit.
Greetings from Glasgow. Just so you know: you’re all Southerners to us.
Yes, that's how it works. You're a southerner to the Highlanders I'd imagine, we're all fairies in someone's book :(
I'm awfully sorry, and I'm sure you are lovely, but I can't understand a word you just typed.
wait you mean to tell me that places below the north, you consider south??? that’s crazy
Aye mate, Newcastle here. Great Limmy joke pal, top banter...
@@actionjaxon7570 To be uncharacteristically pedantic, we’re lowlanders to the highlanders, but your point still stands.👍
I'm from Manchester originally and live in Yorkshire, Northern born and bred, and I love saying hello to people on the tube. The hatred that is returned is a pure delight. Once I was with a mate and he went absolutely ballistic after I'd said hello to someone in the Docklands Light Railway. It was so funny. Through clenched teeth he went bananas. Hilarious.
My mum's from London but we moved 'up north' a few years ago so she's mellowed out a lot. She tried saying hello to the bus driver when we went back to london and the look he gave her could have killed. Hilarious. She said she had forgotten how cold everybody is down south. Only took her a couple of years being up north for that to happen!
bloody southerner
The polarity is reversed here in the 'states. I'm from the mid-south (Kentucky) and once, fresh off the train in Boston, I moved to hold the door open (as a southerner does) for a couple entering a Burger King right behind me, and they flinched as if I were about to commit an assault.
I'm Australian, and my first few trips to the UK only covered London, and frankly I thought the UK was a truly awful place, full of absolutely dreadful people. But then later trips took me to Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow, and I realised that London was the problem, and the rest of the UK was full of fantastic, friendly people.
@@AlanCanon2222 Yes. Im Australian and I once gave up my seat on a bus for an elderly man in NYC. The bus went quiet and he refused the seat. It happened again when I thanked the driver.
I don't know why commenters are saying how well scripted this, and what good actors the children are.
It's a fly on the wall documentary.
Lol!!!
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I guess they are just being nice. Kids generally can't act for shit.
😂😂😂
It is a reenactment of Angela Raynor in her part time job.
As an 18 yr old Leeds lad in 1991 I went to London for the first time to an Exhibition with work at Earls Court. I asked an old man if I could help him carry his bag on to the tube and the guy shit himself just like in this sketch. Pre Google maps I got lost looking for Kings Cross station so I asked a hotel concierge 'where is the train station'. He laughed and said 'there's more than one'. Then he said how he loved a true Northern accent and walked with me for 20 minutes to the station! We chatted all the way and when we got there he said with a big smile 'I'm from Wetherby and I miss chatting like that'.
Hahha I have been this nanny ! My employer made me say "months" over and over again to her and her posh mates whilst laughing their heads off . Alongside questions such as " how many ponies have you got?" And " oh so your parents house is actually attached to someone else's?" Jeez hell of an experience for a 17 year old. I still have nightmares I have been sent back to work there and I am now 50 !!!,
What awful people. With luck they lost all their money and were forced into employment. Possibly a fairy godmother was involved.
that's just wrong
The way that some treat working class people is unbelievable. When I was around that age I was a waitress and I learned how horrible people can be to those who serve them. Workers can be rude too, of course, but it feels much worse when people whom you're trying to please treat you like garbage.
jeez
People like that are so awful. It sucks you had to endure that sort of degrading treatment.
I moved from Sunderland to Bournemouth for uni and you wouldn't believe how many times i smile at people on the street and see their fight or flight engage
i spent many happy years living in Sunderland surrounded by warm funny hard people, the collieries were still open back then and thats why i was there, christ I miss though days, my son was born there and is a permanent reminder of much happier days.
They know you are northern just by your smile?
@@hoonaticbloggs5402I guess they're just not used to being smiled at.
Haha it depends where you go. I've just moved to a village outside newcastle (I'm from the south) and I always smile at randoms but they look at you like they're gonna knock your front teeth out
Where I come from, a stranger smiling at me signals they either want to shag me or rob me 😅😂😂
The kid reading the broadsheets at breakfast was a good touch.
Did you see his outfit though.. he looked like he'd come home from work at the bank and left his blazer there to come come in a rather tasteful zip up, that one might see at the golf. I'm only surprised he wasn't called Humphrey
Broad what???
I admit I did read those as a kid..
@@steve.-007obviously a news of the world man lol
I always enjoyed reading the newspaper as a kid.
Almost pissed myself when Catherine says she's from the North 😂 maybe as far as Sunderland lmao 🤣
Aw, she seemed like a dream nanny.
She’s honestly lovely, bless her 😂
Anna I do not know what She said . I will trust your Judgement and Watch it again to learn .
she could nanny my kids anytime
I liked her right up to 'milky brew', I want my tea browner than the Thames, please
I prefer a nanny who’s more like Fran Drescher’s character in leather hot pants and thigh high boots.
I remember a skit on another programme, a newsreader reading the "news": "Northerner shocks London underground passengers by actually making eye contact and talking about the weather!" Then there are a couple of clips of interviews with the traumatised passengers. 😂😂😂
It's Mash Report you're thinking of. Ellie Taylor does a MARVELLOUS job in that skit.
@@zbr76 Right. Thx.
I literally just asked someone for directions on the tube and got told to piss off
I've seen that skit too. The American equivalent would be someone from the Deep South or Midwest visiting Boston or New York and wanting to make small talk on the subway, bus, or in a coffee shop.
@@Ben-rz9cf one incident doesn’t define Londoners
Cstherine Tate is a true wonder of the modern world. Such poise, such talent. No bother at’ll!
i mean.. she’s alright
She’s hot
Simp!
As a visiting doctor , I worked for the NHS between 2004 and 2008 from the suburbs of Sheffield initially to Oxford and Cambridge deaneries later on . I loved every minute of my interaction with the people in Sheffield !! Felt like they were family ..... I mistook their genuine interaction as a sign that everyone in England were the same ! And then .... I headed more towards the south with work ! It was quite a shock initially but then , I knew how to get accustomed to their ways as well . In general , I loved every bit of England that I had seen .
Wait they have.....doctors in Sheffield these days? Wow!
@@fredpuntdroad8701 We have running water too… sometimes it’s even hot! Less so nowadays, as we can’t afford the gas and leccy bills.
I used to have a very very posh friend, an acquaintance of mine, who was a developer, asked her if she would like to see his newest development, a completely refurbished terraced house in Portsmouth, so off they went, after the mandatory tour he asked her what she thought of it, she replied, it’s very nice, but where’s the rest of it
Haha
I didn't get it.
@@Warlock786 Me neither
@@Warlock786 it was too small for her she thought there was more to be seen
Sounds like a posh sod
I moved to Liverpool from the south five years ago. Every time I wait for a bus I get talking to a stranger and before you know it I know their whole family history including the dog, it's very nice 💕😃
Why? Was it a punishment moving there from Durham?
Liverpool? My great grandmother..an immigrant to that great city used to say she was going to England when she left the city limits...
@@ShireGeordie Bedfordshire actually 😄
But you said south, you never mentioned France! lol
the dog, it's very nice , what kind of dog ? :)
"Could be as far north as Sunder..Land"
🤣
Which is actually South to Newcastle.
@@alisonsmith4801 that’s part of the joke.
@@prawnk1ng Aye, I knaa. Divvent want folk ta think them like Mackems are fahter North than tha Toon.
I just knew before the door opened that the nanny would say “ hi ya!” 😂
@@gwynbetts29 Could've been " Ya alreet pet ".
I am an Australian doctor just come home from 20 years in uk mostly London and oxford. Most patients behaved like this when I spoke 😂
"She's from...THE NORTH"
WINTER IS COMING
The north remembers.
Felt like the Queen meeting Winterfell for first time LOL
Every planet has a north
Nope spit talking is COMING
@Gordon Brown Sansa and Arya both speak Posh
The nanny is Jill Halfpenny, born in Gateshead. The accent is natural geordie.
Remember she started off as one of the original Byker Grove cast as a kid. She's been in just about every major TV show since... pops up everywhere.
Ugly accent
And totally gorgeous too
Feel old now I know who she is.....byker grove 😃 memories 🤣
@@flamezodiac5736 What, the mum and kids? Totally.
“Dear heart”? What? I love it 😭😭😭😭😭 it’s actually quite catchy.
it's an actual thing but archaic. I've said it once or twice to my son and I promise you I'm not posh. Maybe a bit of a tosser though.
"actually"
@@pj9615 🤣
Omg... the first thing I thought when I heard that was.."hold on that's what I call my daughter , who incidentally, is called Alice. Well Alice Sophia. Does that make me snooty or posh..? Surely not though. Oh god!
@@carmenburton4918 It was the name of a song made popular by Andy Williams in 1964.
There are so many nice touches to this sketch. Many have been mentioned by others but the packet of Alpen muesli on the table (nothing as common as corn flakes!) and the fact that they still presumably get their milk delivered in bottles were two things that amused me.
The boy child reading the newspaper is a nice touch as well 😂
I have came to uk about 20 years ago , completely stranger and head straight to Newcastle for couple of months than to Gateshead for another couple of months , than to the south until now , northern people absolutely fantastic and friendly People will never forget in my whole life . Love you northern .
I'm from the north, we talk to everyone whether we know them or not. It's just normal to do that up here. This is so funny.
Wye aye pet🤣🤣
@@kalpanadevi7899 India has a terrible caste system.
Are Anglo-Saxons from the north inferior to the ones from the south of England??
Me who's from the north and avoids social contact:
@@lolanifenring2692, There’s a snob system over there that’s completely different from the U.S. A North American in England just notices that people are friendlier the further North you go. It was like swimming into steadily warmer water, or stopping at a gas station in Ohio when you’ve never been out of New England. (When we were young we met people who were nice FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON for the very first time in Ohio! But “Have a nice day” is everywhere now.) However, my husband’s family in Blackpool became absolutely PETRIFIED when they heard the accent of someone who’d clearly “been to university!” and we had no idea what their fear was all about. They were totally, alarmingly cowed. We’ll never understand.
As a foreigner who studied near Manchester for 4 years, people can immediately tell where I got my accent from. It´s hilarious when people expect you to have Eastern European accent, but you go Manchester on them. North is just great. I love how everybody is so friendly and chill.
The most hilarious thing is how genuinely nice most Northerners are, just like the nanny 😂
Bloody tight though!
You think they are joking, but it’s real 😂
I'm still waiting for my chance to yell "it's the eggs they're not organic" at an egg and spoon race. I've had two children and they are just about the right age. Any day now.......
goals👍
This guy knows what's important.
Priorities
If you do, film it and upload it here! We're counting on you....
there's always the Gooseberry Yogurt she goes on about...! Too funny. What's weird is I actually know people like this...
As a non-Brit, I must confess that I prefer northern English accents because they sound more natural, whereas southern posh accents sound rehearsed.
You must be from a tacky country then 😂
@@flamezodiac5736 … how rude.
That’s because you’re foreign lol. Southerners don’t actually talk like this, we speak a lot more naturally.
@@Draftspike Yes, I know that. I spent a month in England.
@A BC You’ve seriously never liked one accent over another? Are you deaf?
0:35 "This......person" Love that long pause. As though someone from the north doesn't quite qualify as human.
''What is it dear heart? Tell all."
Gets me every time
"We were beginning to think you didn't want your brioche!" was the icing on the cake
As an American Southerner, people in the north of England seem more friendly and open to me and more like what I'm accustomed to in behavior. I am used to strangers talking to me randomly and sometimes even asking me personal questions. I was in Newcastle and rural Northumberland and Cumbria last time I was in the U.K. The Geordie dialect's still challenging to me at times, but I think I'm getting better at understanding it.
Thats ironic because the Southern USA was settled by English Southerners , mostly Devon and Cornwall. The New England settlers were from Northeast England and the Midlands. There is no cultural connection.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic That's probably true as to geographic origins for the different regions of the U.S. I haven't seen a lot of the West Country, so I am basing my reactions more on some parts of the southeast of England.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Is this true? I speak mostly East Texas with some S. Louisiana thrown in, having moved as a child (and never assimilated much with my peers in Oregon, lul). The way I say “say-yoh-th” for South, M- Mouth, etc., sounds like old working class London accent. Also many “Scotch-Irish” came over during Potato Famine in 1840s. Maybe Irish don’t count, though aren’t they originally Scots? I honestly do not know what makes folks more friendly, but I found plenty of helpful folks in the British South, as though it seemed everyone in the service industry should have been out doing something which involved no human contact, as ill-suited for it they were.
@@fritzkongi4708 There are many Southern accents, of course, but they have almost nothing to do with working class London accents. I would say the New York city accents sound more akin to Cockney , IMO. Virginia Tidewater came from the Southwest England and spread West to Texas- it is more like the West Country of England- very rural dialects. The Irish and Scots influenced the Upland South- definitely in Appalachia. The South was indeed influenced by London speech, but the on the Coast- Especially Virginia and the Carolinas it was upper Class London speech that influenced the plantation dialects ("r dropping" came in around the late 18th Century) , and the upland South mainly came from the Ulster Scots. Bill Clinton's Arkansas accent sounds very Ulster, IMO.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Not 100% true for all of the south. Large parts of the Appalachian region of the South were settled by Ulster Scots from Northern Ireland.
As someone who comes from Newcastle!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SKETCH! It's also true! I went to Uni in London and people didn't understand a word!!!
Which is sad, because I'm American and I've got about 90% + of what she's saying. She lost me at specific breakfast foods. 😂
@@bast713 Cup of tea & biscuits mate....Milky Brew & Biccys
Brilliant! Utterly marvelous stuff! She’s from the north!
Just love this. Have seen it so many times and never stop laughing! Pity more were not made. Love this sense of British humour.
1:37 ‘Mummy! Mummy what is she saying?!’ 🤣
I'm getting such a kick out of this. I have lived in NYC for the past 22 years.. from North Carolina and it's very interesting for me to see how the south views the north but in England.. never knew..;-)
I felt the same thing! I’m from New York and my parents moved to North Carolina. It’s the absolute reverse in this country.
Just add Wales and Scotland and stand well back!!!!!
It's reversed here. The way the North views the South in the USA is how the South views the North in the UK 😂
Also in the North UK the accents are nicer whereas in the US the southern accents are so much nicer
As someone from Northern England its not quiet the same
I’m an American who used to live in London . I used to amuse myself in the tube standing by the tube map waiting for the train. When a local would ask for directions, they would shrink in horror upon hearing my accent. 😱
Really? English tv is full of American shows, it was when I was there, anyway.
It depends on the American accent, as we, like the UK, have many different accents, that are interpreted to mean certain things about who you are and where you come from. As I come from the upper-east-side of New York, and have a flat midlantic accent (think US news anchors), I actually had a Londoner with a distinctly estuary-tinged accent referring to my accent as “posh”, while downing a pint after work.
If I had a west-Texas, Minnesotan, “Southie” Boston, or Brooklyn accent, I suspect the reaction would have been different. Brits and Americans can, based on accent, make many (albeit often unfair or incorrect) assumptions regarding education and socioeconomic status, and they can do it even on transoceanic basis. Most Americans, even if they don’t know the history or geographic locality of a cockney accent, know that it denotes a lower-status than someone who sounds like “The Queen”. The same is true if you’re walking around London with an accent that sounds like Tony Soprano or Peter Griffin.
That said, it’s not nearly as “weaponized” in the US as it is in the UK. The English educationally institutionalized “Received Pronunciation” as a baseline method of verbally differentiating between classes. In the northeastern US, we had our own version of this briefly in the late 19th and early 20th century, which still lingers as the “generic” midlantic accent, but it was pale imitation of the English equivalent.
That said, this skit perfectly illustrates the absurdity of such behavior. I also happen think Northerner accents are quite lovely sounding.
@@smakfu1375 Brit’s love southern accents though
im an american whos never been outside north america and id like to say what the heck is a tube map? and you say you amuse yourself in the tube while waiting for the train? are you some kind of pervert? please explain
That happens to all of us, even the non-Brits like me🇬🇷
Americanish is *unbearable* 🥲
I'm from Yorkshire so chatting to anyone and everyone isn't unusual but in fairness to the south, I stayed in Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex & the people were lovely. I was expecting stuck-up, snooty people who looked down their nose at me with my Yorkshire accent but just about everyone was chatty, friendly and really nice. I loved the place. It's a very beautiful county too.
“I’m told Newcastle but it may even be as far as Sunderland” Newcastle is like fifteen miles north of Sunderland hahah
The way she said Sunder.....land. like it was a place out of Lord of the Rings lol
@@rivolinho Thats birmingham.
hehe yeah, I thought "hang on"...
Had to check though :D
That was the joke, that she had no idea of Northern geography. Went over your head, eh?
@@FFM0594 I doubt that. You’re giving BBC writers too much credit.
I love your British humour and I like the nanny. She's the prettiest Englishwoman I've ever seen. ;-)
Right? Shes beaming and her smile is so nice ❤
It’s Jill Halfpenny. A bonny lass from Gateshead.
I went to the North once, about forty years ago. It was a bit weird going into a shop and having complete strangers talking to me.
@@JohnDoe-ne4kg no I wasn't offended I was intrigued by how friendly people were. Of course not all northerners are that nice🤔
@@jrc58526 that's true!!! We get in your face & can be too upfront or outspoken - can be scary
@@jrc58526 don't know why he's being so rude! I'm glad you had a friendly experience in the north.
@@sophieshepherd674 It's just the chip on the shoulder, no doubt smothered in gravy.
@@artsed08 At least the gravy makes us interesting, love 😌🖕
I love Catherine Tate. She's an exceptional actor and hilarious.
Those kids are just wonderful, rare to see kids get their expressions so perfect.
Here in the US, it'd be like a family from Manhattan hiring a nanny from the Appalachians... or Mississippi
Or Louisiana 🤣🤣
Ugh! I grew up in Manhattan. Trust me,,that would NEVER happen!! 😜
Or vice versa. I think southern accents are quite unique and perhaps posh, compared to the pushy northern tripe.
I live 45 minutes from Newcastle (the city mentioned in the clip) in a place called Middlesbrough and I struggle to understand their accent!
@@tayachting6345 I live way up by Canada and we're known for our unique accent but I've always noticed it to be a friendly accent. Linguists say the American southern accent is closer to most English accents. It's interesting how just England alone has such a variety of accents when it's the size of just one American state but I'm sure there's a simple explanation.
This is 100% an accurate depiction of a Southerner meeting a Northerner.
As a neutral midlander I can confirm this 👍
In reality it's the exact opposite. There's little animosity in South towards the North. The same can not be said for those Northerners, they might even hate us as much the Scots hate the English
@@rowanmelton7643 hate and fear are different, but it's all exaggerated
But, we’re well better peeps up ere in the north🤣🤣🤣
I once had to take a group of York students to London for an art exhibit, we got as far as the first tube station, me lining them up against the side wall to keep a count, before some toff in pin stripes had a total fit about us ‘out of control’ northerners being too numerous for his comfort, and it continued throughout the visit, posh women glaring at us clutching purses, posh men exploding at us to get out of the way, and when returning, after looking down the train, making sure everyone was safely onboard, I hopped on to the first carriage as the train started moving and had to walk through First Class to get to my carriage/seat, and they reacted as if it was a terrorist take over, wide eyed terrified looking grown men were leaping up out their seats, red faced with a combination of fear and outrage as I passed by, brandishing broadsheets at me like shields, and shouting for the guard.
On the plus side from then on I understood what the major problem with this country was.
So glad I stumbled upon this. Catherine Tate is a legend. 😂
Like the best comedy, more than a ring of truth in the narrative.
Try the Inbetweeners that's really good
The way she says Sunderland is gold 😂
On me meter of strong accents that Goerdie accent is still pretty low down.
That’s what makes the joke more ridiculous
... that's what makes it funny.
Yes but nobody wants Geordie Shore levels of Newcastle do they? Charlotte-piss-the-bed-Crosby is nightmare fuel to everyone not just to poshos lol
The nanny woman is actually geordie
@@karlsanderson8127 lol 😂
I am not English, lived in Yorkshire for a while and frequently visited the South. It's not the accent that astonishes you but the coldness of the southerners. Up North, strangers would strike a random conversation with you anywhere, on the bus stop, at the post office, in the shop, mostly about a favourite British subject, yes, the weather, and it's just nice!
I love most how the nanny looks as if she's experienced this reaction a hundred times before.
Lived and worked in that there London for a number of years. Never again. Very strange people and the City was filthy. Was glad to get back to normality in the northwest.
You know you have a great comedy when an American like me understands and laughs out loud! Good stuff! The kids in particular are on point as well!
Although it’s grim up north, people are surprisingly friendly and down to earth. In stoke, strangers will often greet you with a, “aye up duck”, which translates to “hello”.
There was another sketch about a 'northerner' terrorizing a posh area by walking around and saying, "hello," to strangers.
Living in the south for many years i changed my accent almost immediately, because southerners are terribly snobby about northerners. Even though in the north they are so friendly, kind and warm. I can't bare it, its a class system.
You even titled yourself Lady uh? That's really taking the high road there.
@@Berkhoi No it's not taking the high road to have a tittle at all, its ancestral and beautiful and tribal. Its part of European Culture. I do not see myself as higher than others at all.
@James Furey For me its ancestral and beautiful. Being titled does not mean rich by any means or being part of the house of lords.
your stretching it soooooo much further than it actually is lmao, i live in manny as a student half my mates are northern an none of this is a big deal or brought to attention
@@tm-pm1rp oh I'm talking 25 years ago when I went to live in the south lol
at a northern school, whenever i walk into form i say 'mornin all'. the posh kids look at me like i've grown two heads, it's hilarious.
These kids are insanely good actors
Lol “what is she saying” 😂
"...a milky brew"? Omigods, we ARE going to die!
They're probably bloody vegans.
And yes, before I get any hate, I am a vegan myself. But let's be honest, most of them, like most Guardian readers (and of all the papers, The Guardian is the only one I ever read), are utter w*nk*rs.
In another episode, the mum said she had sea bass on the griddle and in another, they panicked because daddy couldn't find any brie cheese 🤣
@@GregOrCreg I’m a vegan, and I hate 99.9% of other vegans too.
@@Autumn_Forest_ Yeah, a lot of us are w*nk*rs.
Thank you Catherine 🙏.....you have saved me during Covid discovering the greatest UK Comedienne 🙏❤️
Glad to see that Nellie adopted not just ryan's daughter but another kid. She's living her dream life !!!
"Could be as far as.. Sunderland... I am sorry" I chucked xD
I live in the south of England, I find Northerners really friendly. This is hilarious
My Mam was from there too! Which part of County Durham is it?
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There's a sketch about a northerner getting off the train at King's Cross and going around London saying "hello" to people.
That’s funny because northerners way of saying “hello”
Is “you alright? “ lol. I dont ever hear northerners say “hello” lol
@@christina7215 As a Northerner that's limited to the over 50s . Hi or Hiya os used largely in the under 50s .
@@ShireGeordie my cousins in County Durham it was friendly when I visited from the south with family
This made me laugh🤣🤣🤣. I love English humor. As an American, comparing both southern and northern accents, I prefer the northern always 😍. Awesome skit!
Good Irony how the nanny is so bright warm and friendly
I live in a village filled with these mums. They are painfully fake, impossibly happy, spiritually vacant.
Their career is managing their family status. Every conversation is like watching them take a job interview for a million pound job.
Jeez that sounds... Terrible would be an understatement
@@usrnewxnew5227 I had to adapt. Instead of being depressed by their existence, I grew to view them like the actors in the Truman Show.
Interesting descriptions. You should write
@@R3V1ZION thanks, that's kind of you to say.
Absolutely! for logistical reasons I sent my son to a local cheap fee-paying school ( it was cheaper than the transport). Huge cars and air-kisses all round.( His secondary school was state).
I'm a Swede who has worked in the London area for a couple of years. I recently got som Newcastle friends and initially "urban dictionary" was a life saver, also in texting. Now it works perfectly and I guess both I and my friends has adapted... Amazing people up north!
@Tranzor Z We don't have that huge difference in dialects as there is in UK. The Geordie dialect in the Newcastle area iup north is very strong and the girl from the agency in the comedy has a mild version. The problem is also that they have different words too ( thanks God for Urban Dictionary). Here in Sweden are the dialects noticeable but not making it hard to understand. The strongest dialect here is in the south part where the dialect is influenced by Danish.
I had a friend I talk to on the internet from Scotland. Half the time, i didn't understand what she wrote. i finally realize she wrote Phonetically and half her words were cursewords.
@@slewone4905 can i get an example 😂
@@larstenfaelt1859 Skånska?
I was a wee Scottish lass and I moved down south to Yorkshire, I really reacted like Catherine Tate's Character in this video, I had no Idea what people were talking about and the English kids didn't like me because I was Scottish, I was like "OMG, I am I going to die, are they going to murder me!", I was like 8 years old at the time. But I tried Yorkshire tea at the local tea shop and fell in love with the place over a hot cupper and a cute Yorkshire lad who announced that he fancied me.
You typed this as though you were an American imitating a Scottish person.
@@thyenergiser6852 You think so? I love Diana Rigg's voice and she is from Yorkshire. RIP
She certainly didn't talk like a Yorkie.@@Fushigi_TV
Way more posh, eh? She is an actress though.. In interviews she sounds more casual. @@kiwitrainguy
Best part is that the ‘Maybe as far as Sunderland’ line is so wrong as Sunderland is closer to London as Newcastle - meaning the southern posh family have zero clue about the north
1:07 Catherine’s Squeak though 😂
Call me sentimental, but what makes this sketch work is the bond of love these characters have - this is what makes it believable that they would have zero self-awareness, because they are surrounded by people who agree and accept them. Basically my point is that a healthy family dynamic can make you weird.
A psychologist once concluded that the healthiest family dynamic in TV was in The Addams Family.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 well hes right
Are we watching the same clip or do you have brain damage?
It's funny how it's reversed in the States... southerners are portrayed as friendly buffoons and northerners as cold sophisticates. I'm from Alabama and talk with complete strangers all the time when traveling. I think once they hear my accent they understand. Ha!
Roll tide!
As someone from Chicago, I agree with this statement. The first time I went down to the South, I was thrown off guard by how friendly people were. I also expected people to be racist (I am a POC), but that was not at all the case, at least in the parts of the South I visited. You guys tend to get a bad rap with all the political craziness going on down there, but I think most of you are just decent, friendly people
@@silhouettesix2378 I'm so happy you had a good experience... we've come a long way, baby! I adore Chicago! ... but not in winter. :0)
@@silhouettesix2378 As someone who has lived his whole life in Alabama, I can promise you the racism is alive and well down here. I'm glad you didn't see any of it wherever you visited, but it is very much a thing. Especially in the last few years.
Independent of that though, you will easily run into people who will just randomly chat you up and say hello. It is pretty typical down here.
@rick dallas I'm a foreigner and when I visited NY, as soon as I stepped out of LaGuardia airport I noticed a cabbie arguing with a passenger, loudly, telling each to "f**k off" and mad passenger going back to the trunk and taking his bag out. I immediately felt all warm and fuzzy inside cuz it reminded me of my home so much.
It was my last year as an undergrad at Texas State University and I remember binge-watching "The Catherine Tate Show" and " The Mitchell and Web Look" on Netflix. That is one of my fondest memories. "Pulling" was another great show.
BRILLIANT. They should also do one in reverse.. for when northerners get a southern Nanny :)
Somethings are just too far fetched
I don't think that would work!
Why would they need one? They have family.
@@richardamner7432 It would! I've seen a lot of anti-southerner prejudice in Manchester.
@@Smackyabitchupshitlips Just because you haven't experienced it isn't a good indicator it doesn't exist for others. If I had a dime for the number of times I've heard complete strangers shout "posh t***" at a southerner in the north of the UK, I'd be very wealthy indeed. X
Funnily enough, Sunderland is closer to the South than Newcastle is (just), so the mother doesn't really know her geography. I guess it's all the North. :P
i think that's part of the joke??
That's the point.
@Shane Gallagher Yeah, but she says 'even as far as Sunderland', implying Sunderland's further away than Newcastle. That's what I was getting at. So yes, the joke is it's all 'the North' to her and she hasn't got a clue.
Anything north of London is "The North"
The North is the North. It's all the same place.
As an American, I don't understand much but I love it all.
Never mind, keep at it, have you visited the UK ? You would love it! When travel's back on the agenda of course.
To be honest, southerners got off light. It could have been brutal.
@@brunodelconte Trust me, I'm waiting lol
As a well spoken English lady living in Texas, I was always amused when I was asked what country I came from!! "Australia?" Hmm, y'all are a bit dumb when it comes to accents! xxx
@@a.michellecooper7019 Not all. If I heard your voice, I would probably ask you "what part of Australia are you from?"
1:46 She's gonna to kill us.. 😅😅😂😂
I went with my wife to London many years ago. People said we wouldn't like it because nobody will talk to us. We had a great time! We spoke to people and they talked back to us even if they were a bit surprised somebody had spoken to them. As we left the Hard Rock Cafe we let on to the waiter as we left and I overheard one of eight people on a table say, "Look at these two, I wonder who they are." Okay, we were wearing similar bike jackets and it must have seemed like we knew the staff in there. Odd! Us just being us.
Londoners aren't that bad . It's those outside London that get all unfriendly.
I’m a Yorkshire man, my kids are growing up in Oxford. Once my kids said to my wife ‘can we have a daddy who talks like us’😂
The thing is this is real. I grew up in the south, then moved up north for 7 years of my teens and then moved back south on my own. I aspire to move back to the north to be honest. Since coming back you realise how snobby it is. I just miss people being honest about themselves and with you. Makes your day better being able to say hello to everyone. I miss having neighbours I'd have a chat with. I don't even know the names of my neighbours down here. Feel sorry for elderly people too, seem to go to pot down here. Don't get looked out for the same way if they don't have local family.
As an ex Londoner for 27 years born and raised hardly spoke to anyone out and about.
Now having lived in the Midlands over the past 10 yrs + living my best life very involved with the community and local events. Speak to everyone. 🤣🤣🤣
New. Castle. maybe as far as Sunder Land 🤣
They've barely been to Totten Ham!
Those kids are amazing actors! Incredible. :)
I said hello to who I thought was a Northerner once, but it turns out they were Glaswegian and they shivved me in response. Lovely chap.
Okay but the colour palette and the colour grading and the lighting are so so warm! Makes me feel so cozy and at home.