Comedian Charlie Berens talks his stand up and beef with Illinois

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Comedian Charlie Berens is known for his stand up called "Manitowoc Minute" where he tells the news in a Wisconsin accent. Berens talks about leaving the local news world for comedy and people from Wisconsin`s beef with Illinois.

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  • @kepler438b8
    @kepler438b8 2 года назад +137

    As a Wisconsinite, I wish more of us sounded like this guy.

    • @gfhgfghhh
      @gfhgfghhh 2 года назад +16

      As a Michigander you do, you’re just used to it

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 2 года назад

      As a North Carolinian, I can assure you that everyone north of Virginia, west of Pennsylvania, and east of Washington state sounds something like this guy 😆 if yer between Eye-da-hoe n Oh-hi-yo yah prahbly he-ave theat (y)accent

    • @coldvoid7579
      @coldvoid7579 Год назад +3

      Yeah everyone I talk to from outside the state says we do actually sound like this. Lol

    • @samplautz5586
      @samplautz5586 Год назад

      No honestly most people in southern Wisconsin do not sound like this. That’s why Minnesota people say we’re from Chicago, because we don’t have much of an accent

  • @bodarville7860
    @bodarville7860 4 года назад +548

    As a long haul trucker from California I can say with no reservations the people within the borders of Wisconsin are the friendliest in the nation.

    • @Tamra_77
      @Tamra_77 4 года назад +13

      Bo Darville thank you! ✌🏻

    • @adriannaz7954
      @adriannaz7954 4 года назад +7

      Bo Darville *cries in Iowan*

    • @rsohlich1
      @rsohlich1 4 года назад +4

      what about Michigan? Interested in you're honest opinion.

    • @kimjameson7979
      @kimjameson7979 4 года назад +12

      Bo Darville - My experience, too. "Cheesehead" is clearly a compliment.

    • @tannwich5350
      @tannwich5350 4 года назад +1

      Unless you live there and have to hear the relentless gossip and attacks on each other. Talk about your sticky floor.

  • @gxtmfa
    @gxtmfa 4 года назад +667

    As an Illinoisan from near the border, I have a lot of love for Wisconsin. We don’t fight like enemies, we fight like brothers.

    • @K1dsCanPlay2
      @K1dsCanPlay2 4 года назад +7

      Nah

    • @HauntedDreamz1
      @HauntedDreamz1 4 года назад +8

      I lived near the border of Wisconsin years ago, but if you drive then you'll know it's not brotherly since people from WI don't know how to drive at all.

    • @scygnius
      @scygnius 4 года назад +7

      I feel the same way man I love Wisconsin
      Where you from gftmfa I’m in Rockford

    • @jacobandersen6075
      @jacobandersen6075 4 года назад +3

      Just as long as you don’t fight like sisters.

    • @jakobarend4526
      @jakobarend4526 4 года назад +10

      Facts IL gang rise up but we love our Wisconsin boys

  • @TheAngle92
    @TheAngle92 4 года назад +234

    Dude im in Illinois and everyone loves this guy hes hiliarious

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 2 года назад +38

    He's won an Emmy?? Had no idea, well deserved! Love this guy! Ope, keep her movin'

  • @maureentuohy8672
    @maureentuohy8672 4 года назад +409

    I’m a Bear fan from Chicago who loves the “Manitowoc Minute.” Charlie, full speed ahead kiddo, or to put it in simpler words. Keep er moven.

  • @jWestray95
    @jWestray95 5 лет назад +131

    Keep er movin

  • @Condesamontes
    @Condesamontes Год назад +7

    I absolutely love this guy! I didn’t know I sounded like this until I bought our home in East Tennessee. They quickly told me though. 👏🏽

  • @Raphael_Bizmann
    @Raphael_Bizmann 2 года назад +28

    Even Illinois people hate Illinois people.
    That's why we love Charlie so much.

  • @K3ithmm
    @K3ithmm Год назад +25

    Moved to Texas with my native Texan wife. Decided to double down on the accent, absolute best business decision I’ve made. Watching your videos brings me home thank you!

    • @jaceyeah
      @jaceyeah 3 месяца назад

      I was born in Texas and raised in Arkansas, so when I moved up to the Midwest, I also decided to double down on the accent
      if anyone has the possibility to do it, do it
      at some point it'll just become natural

  • @ericfricke4512
    @ericfricke4512 4 года назад +224

    "I'm doing the Lord's work."

  • @donaldvandenbusch8289
    @donaldvandenbusch8289 Год назад +3

    I live in Manitowoc and am very proud that its called the Manitowoc minute.

  • @ccubsfan94
    @ccubsfan94 3 года назад +76

    He literally pulled a true midwest move at the end. They said something about his shirt so he had to tell them the deal he got on it

  • @paulandersen9386
    @paulandersen9386 4 года назад +32

    You are a Wisconsin treasure. Keep er movin.

  • @orion5425
    @orion5425 2 года назад +7

    I'd like to say Charlie is our representative for Wisconsin

  • @briandodge7095
    @briandodge7095 4 года назад +144

    from an Illinois guy, this guy is FUNNY! I get alot of crap from my friends because I'm aPackers fan in flat land. love goin up nort to fish. Hello Birchwood! Keep er movin!

    • @c.r.8019
      @c.r.8019 4 года назад +4

      His last video on boat landings was filmed at the Chippewa flowage in Birchwood! Went to grade school there

    • @jonahlerberg4478
      @jonahlerberg4478 3 года назад +2

      How ofter go you fish in birchwood? I live in birchwood and go to school there

  • @butteredbiskit3497
    @butteredbiskit3497 4 года назад +151

    I'm born and raised in west texas, lived in wisconsin for ten years and all you wisconsin peeps sound like him to me!

    • @LQOTW
      @LQOTW 4 года назад +9

      Oh, you gaht dat right, der.

    • @RufeeColada
      @RufeeColada 4 года назад +6

      Dems fighting words, dere. Bud.

    • @butteredbiskit3497
      @butteredbiskit3497 4 года назад +2

      How big a boy are ya? (Roy D. Mercer reference) lol

    • @destroyanad8651
      @destroyanad8651 3 года назад

      Its called an accent

    • @lsingstock1646
      @lsingstock1646 3 года назад +2

      Y'all sound the same throughout the south.

  • @MW-lx2iu
    @MW-lx2iu 4 года назад +27

    I'm from northern Illinois originally and I love Charlie, I watch all his RUclips videos. Tell your mom I says Hi!

  • @michaelkenefick
    @michaelkenefick 4 года назад +69

    You and Red Green would make a great combo, me thinks.

  • @frankthompson1918
    @frankthompson1918 4 года назад +33

    Just discovered Charlie a few weeks ago, and have been bingeing Manatauk Minute ever since. Keep 'er movin' !

  • @ann-mariemeyers9978
    @ann-mariemeyers9978 2 года назад +2

    I've been in Texas 25 years and I still sound like that.

  • @BobBilly980
    @BobBilly980 4 года назад +47

    A Wisconsin Treasure

  • @stella-gx8ne
    @stella-gx8ne 8 месяцев назад +1

    Hysterical love it!

  • @MiracleWinchester
    @MiracleWinchester 4 года назад +11

    He's not kidding about the shirt. A quick YT search would show he wears it a lot. I love it

  • @whisperingeaglelanders2339
    @whisperingeaglelanders2339 4 года назад +44

    I adore him, he is hysterical!!🤣😂

  • @elizabethhowe4684
    @elizabethhowe4684 3 года назад +3

    I'm from South Florida and I love this guy!

  • @Jerk_ANC
    @Jerk_ANC 2 года назад +1

    Congrats Charlie. ❤ Manitowoc, ❤ Manitowoc minute!!

  • @stvp68
    @stvp68 Год назад +1

    Emmy winner!!!

  • @JoeCole_social
    @JoeCole_social 4 года назад +30

    Moved to Indiana from the southeast and I got to say, the Midwesterners are the best part!

  • @jeffreyvarchmin9262
    @jeffreyvarchmin9262 Год назад +1

    Love your stuff, Charlie! A fan from Illinois.

  • @roccobierman4985
    @roccobierman4985 4 года назад +33

    This guy is great. Would love to see more of him.

  • @johnsiran2810
    @johnsiran2810 2 года назад +3

    One of the funniest people out there! My family has a place in Chetek for over twenty years! My favorite place to be… love the people!

  • @fuzzyrockhound
    @fuzzyrockhound Год назад +2

    It’s amazing. You get off the plane in maaaaawakee and everyone talks like this. I’m from wiscannnnsin, now in Texas lol.

  • @kerplunk9434
    @kerplunk9434 4 года назад +13

    Im not even from the States but I enjoy his accent impersonation. I think anyone can relate to the hilarity of his act.

    • @tommymaxey2665
      @tommymaxey2665 2 года назад +2

      He's not impersonating anything, there are legit people who talk like that

  • @501764727
    @501764727 4 года назад +32

    Lol as a Wisconsinite, I always remind fellow cheese heads and other Midwesterners that without Illinois we wouldn't have our resort vacation towns like Minocqua, Door County, Lake Geneva and The Dells. The Chicago & Illinois folks with the $$ helps our tourism. I easily have more beef w/ Minnesota and their teams. I always say FIB stand for Fellow Illinois Brethren.

    • @swirledworld340
      @swirledworld340 3 года назад +8

      and why do you think they built those resort towns??? to get away from the other FIBs 😂

    • @gfhgfghhh
      @gfhgfghhh 2 года назад

      No

  • @montygates8767
    @montygates8767 Год назад +1

    That was wonderful

  • @paulthefish33
    @paulthefish33 4 года назад +20

    You gotta love the guy.

  • @501764727
    @501764727 4 года назад +7

    Also growing up as a kid we would vacation at the cabin in the Dells for a week and I would always make friends with kids from Chicago all the time and many Great memories. And now I come down to Wrigley for the Cubs-Brewers games, have been doing this for the last 8 yrs and everyone is friendly and nice. All the problems at Miller Park are from the Wisconsin Cub fans who start trouble at the games in Miller Park.

  • @maryrudelich9000
    @maryrudelich9000 Год назад +1

    Charlie is so spot on Wisconsin. All true. 😂

  • @karisap
    @karisap 4 года назад +25

    I, too, am a Midwesterner who has mispronounced faux. We should start a club

    • @shanetaylor5403
      @shanetaylor5403 3 года назад +2

      As a Michigander, I did it up until the age of 12, at which point I took a french class and the teacher very gently told me I was very much wrong.
      Learned a lot of things about a lot of words in French. It's also fun to say Detroit as Day-twah (the 'correct' way to say it) around literally anybody who has ever been anywhere near Detroit, they will go bonkers, gotta sit em down on the Davenport so they can chill off.

    • @karisap
      @karisap 3 года назад +1

      @@shanetaylor5403 that is brilliant!! XD

  • @73honda350
    @73honda350 4 года назад +54

    I can remember back in the 70's or 80's when John Landecker on WLS radio out of Chicago had a routine on his evening radio show based on the Wisconsin character, Johnny Peshtigo, the nicest guy in the world. Coincidentally, several years later a new job took me to WI and we lived in the Town of Peshtigo and my kids went to Peshtigo schools.

  • @DSToNe19and83
    @DSToNe19and83 Год назад +3

    Charlie is a champ!
    As a “purple” he still can get bent!
    🍻

  • @annazapata4423
    @annazapata4423 4 года назад +17

    Wisconsin loves Charlie❤️

  • @lsingstock1646
    @lsingstock1646 3 года назад +2

    In about,1969 at Summerfest I received a bumper sticker that said Don't Ill Annoy Wisconsin.

  • @richiejohnson
    @richiejohnson 2 года назад +5

    I wanted to know Charlie's story. This was great. He has it all

  • @michaellodge5456
    @michaellodge5456 4 года назад +14

    This was a good interview

  • @barbbrammer1156
    @barbbrammer1156 3 года назад +2

    I am born and breed in Wiscoooonsin and love what you do to personalize Wisconsin. I was astonished to realize when I worked in South Dakota for a time, that the accent was real life true. The was no “th” just “da” or “ta”. Thank you for accentuating what we are!

  • @GregBedard
    @GregBedard 3 года назад +3

    Midwesterners are so adorable in their mannerism and dialect.

  • @jackoneill6292
    @jackoneill6292 4 года назад +14

    We have bears in the U.P of Michigan, we tried to put a helmet on one it didn’t turn out to good!

  • @keithlibner9259
    @keithlibner9259 Год назад +1

    I miss the Channel 9 morning news. Those people are hilarious.

  • @maryrudelich9000
    @maryrudelich9000 Год назад +1

    This woman from Chicago suburbs who always wore a dress showed up to meet her friends one day, wearing a flannel shirt. It was wasn’t long after that she moved to Wisconsin. 😊

  • @tomardans4258
    @tomardans4258 2 года назад +13

    I had a friend from Chicago who hated Wisconsin. We were in Wisconsin, driving back to Chicago from Six Flags. He said ‘We call them cheeseheads, and they don’t have a good name for us!’
    I immediately said, ‘How about Chiggers?’
    There was a long pause. He said ‘Don’t tell them that one.’

  • @edburgmunchin2328
    @edburgmunchin2328 4 года назад +50

    This guy’s hilarious

  • @Ragejaw
    @Ragejaw 3 года назад +6

    How he is not more famous is beyond me.

  • @tthappyrock368
    @tthappyrock368 4 года назад +5

    Love Manitowoc Minute!

  • @shaneh1003
    @shaneh1003 2 года назад +2

    I can’t even read the comments without hearing his mid-west accent reading them all to me.

  • @erinsr02
    @erinsr02 4 года назад +42

    It’s ok, I hate Illinois too and I’ve lived here pretty much my whole life.

    • @tannwich5350
      @tannwich5350 4 года назад +5

      Well that's the whole cool thing about being from there is you survived it. Like being a Vietnam vet, you're an Illinois vet.

    • @erinsr02
      @erinsr02 4 года назад +1

      Tannwich oh cool, can I have a medal then?

    • @tannwich5350
      @tannwich5350 4 года назад +4

      @@erinsr02 Sure, you can get one shaped like a hot dog or an etched photo of your choice.

    • @erinsr02
      @erinsr02 4 года назад +2

      Tannwich I think a better choice would be shaped like corn, but whatever works for me lol

    • @Bluenose352
      @Bluenose352 4 года назад +4

      I like the state itself. But, I can't stand every politician in the state, unfortunately. The main reason why so many are leaving.

  • @carolinaumana10
    @carolinaumana10 3 года назад +1

    This was a nice laugh… right before bed

  • @PabloHz
    @PabloHz 4 года назад +5

    Chicago for life! Lol but I love this guy xD

  • @warmflash
    @warmflash 4 года назад +3

    Charlie is fabulous

  • @captainawsomeist
    @captainawsomeist 2 года назад +3

    Charlie is so damn funny!

  • @Rodeo07
    @Rodeo07 2 года назад +1

    Well here in Indiana we love our brothers up in the cheese state

  • @sigsin1
    @sigsin1 2 года назад +2

    I’m a Troll and until Charlie I didn’t realize that Wisconsinites sound like Yoopers. Makes sense.

  • @badguy1481
    @badguy1481 4 года назад +2

    Born and raised in Chcawgo..but moved to Wisconsin 50 years ago. Tank GOD da Chicawgo n'd Milwaukee accents got a lots in common. Udderwise... I couldn't uh "passed".

    • @tannwich5350
      @tannwich5350 4 года назад

      Jus settin in da frunchroom lookin at TV like anybody else, eh?

  • @joannabusinessaccount7293
    @joannabusinessaccount7293 2 года назад +2

    Charlie is a ladie’s guy and a guy’s guy! He’s so wholesome and handsome and funny 😄

  • @bigkkm
    @bigkkm 4 года назад +2

    Love this guy!

  • @stevencrippen6609
    @stevencrippen6609 3 года назад +5

    I thought he was using a fictional town to do his Manitowoc Minute but there actually is a town called Manitowoc. 🤯🤯🤯😂😂😂😂

  • @susanxyz5730
    @susanxyz5730 3 года назад +1

    Hey ex FIB here… still love your comedy.

  • @jackg2212
    @jackg2212 4 года назад +8

    I’m a Illinois resident packers fan

  • @cobblerama
    @cobblerama 4 года назад +5

    Love dat guy

  • @drewt3210
    @drewt3210 4 года назад +5

    "We've always said this business is ripe for a parody."
    Yeah, for sure, somebody oughta make a movie about an anchor man.

  • @douglaslanners6221
    @douglaslanners6221 Год назад +1

    love rock on !

  • @Fiona-68
    @Fiona-68 4 года назад +24

    Speaking as a born and bred Wisconsinite it is true we don't hate Illinionians we just hate the Bears. Also I feel bad for ya'll. Wisconsin is much more beautiful and has many more lakes.

    • @lynntaylor9681
      @lynntaylor9681 4 года назад +1

      Pretty much the same for me except I'd substitute Bears for the Cubs. Illinois is pretty too.
      Although I've only driven through it on the way to Indianapolis.

    • @NeilMcLinden
      @NeilMcLinden 4 года назад +1

      Janeen Heller Except for when they drive: FIBs everywhere

  • @DrwcMichel
    @DrwcMichel 4 года назад +3

    Awesome interview, go Charlie!

  • @koleyw932
    @koleyw932 2 года назад +2

    Miss the midwestern accent, youse guys.

  • @krogers852000
    @krogers852000 5 лет назад +39

    They let you in Illinois? Keep er moving. Jk
    - fan in Illinois
    Ps. I'll never be a pecker fan. Go bears!

    • @krogers852000
      @krogers852000 5 лет назад +3

      🤷‍♂️ they do suck

    • @rnrcustoms2599
      @rnrcustoms2599 4 года назад

      @@dylanspice914 and fuck you

    • @shimes424
      @shimes424 4 года назад +4

      @@krogers852000 hey last week wasn't too bad.
      Ya win some, ya lose the important ones, but that's Bears football for ya.

    • @gxtmfa
      @gxtmfa 4 года назад +8

      I’ll put it this way: I hate the packers because rivalries are fun but I hate the Patriots because I hate the Patriots.

    • @michaelkenefick
      @michaelkenefick 4 года назад +1

      Hey Charlie paid the tolls just like most every pone else! =)

  • @AustiuNoMatterWho
    @AustiuNoMatterWho 3 года назад +2

    This guy has me rolling

  • @stonewintjen505
    @stonewintjen505 4 года назад +13

    I’m from Illinois and for years and years the packers have been my absolute most favorite team

  • @JimLongCO
    @JimLongCO 4 года назад +1

    This guy is great!

  • @barbaraarcher4895
    @barbaraarcher4895 4 года назад +3

    no this guys not exaggerating the wisconsin accent and idioms a all. a friend of mine who spent the first 30some years of his life in Washington state moved to green bay for a bit over ten years and came back sounding just like dis guy does lol

  • @davidbrumbaugh7809
    @davidbrumbaugh7809 2 года назад +2

    Who can not like charlie?

  • @janicesullivan8942
    @janicesullivan8942 4 года назад +5

    I was glad to leave Illinois in the rear view mirror, although I really miss living 15 minutes from the Wisconsin state line.

    • @echoedinnocence
      @echoedinnocence 4 года назад

      I also live like 20 min away from the border and will be glad to see it in my rear view too but I'm running up to the promise Land... Wisconsin! 😂

    • @tannwich5350
      @tannwich5350 4 года назад +1

      @@echoedinnocence It useta be

  • @Bebby_Binkins
    @Bebby_Binkins 3 года назад +3

    That's how us Minnesotans feel about Sconnies

  • @543dp3555
    @543dp3555 3 года назад +3

    Best thing to come out of Illinois is Abraham Lincoln and even he said keep 'er movin' and left.

  • @erinthesystem9608
    @erinthesystem9608 4 года назад +12

    Always great to know an origin story! Also interesting to hear how careers develop (for someone like myself, who has had only jobs)

  • @briancasey4917
    @briancasey4917 3 года назад +1

    Crossing the Cheddar curtain, brave man.

  • @StevenAlpert
    @StevenAlpert 4 года назад +20

    HOW DID I MISS THIS NEWS CAST? I've legit been watching his RUclips channel for like a little over a year now, and I've been watching the WGN Morning News since I could count to 9... When did this happen? How did I miss it?

  • @heatherhopfinger3942
    @heatherhopfinger3942 2 года назад +1

    I love La Crosse Wisconsin Cardinal Burke Lives there I get a newsletter from the Lady of Guadalupe Shrine it is called Salve a good newsletter to subscribe to truth. Love Wisconsin Illinois dumpster fire truth way to go Charlie truth

  • @peggy2360
    @peggy2360 4 года назад +2

    Nice interview! Tell your folks I say hi :)

  • @spike7447
    @spike7447 4 года назад +3

    keep'er movin'

  • @m0thman815
    @m0thman815 4 года назад +2

    The hurtful thing is I relate to his videos so much but also... I’m from Illinois

  • @urfat3320
    @urfat3320 2 года назад +1

    I hate when Illinois people always try to pass you in a no passing zone with that dang grey Honda minivan

  • @Goo42021
    @Goo42021 4 месяца назад

    This is his job when he graduated from Wisconsin he had a little show like this I believe it was on RUclips but it was actually liked I think news

  • @coastaku1954
    @coastaku1954 2 года назад +2

    He sounds like what Americans think Canadians sound like

  • @michaellara7046
    @michaellara7046 4 года назад +6

    If Mac Demarco grew up in Wisconsin

  • @dgpatter
    @dgpatter 2 года назад

    I was so waiting for “Go Packers, and f@&k da Bears.”

  • @shutupandlisten873
    @shutupandlisten873 4 года назад +3

    Wish I lived up there. Accent is dead on

  • @catcatdogdijon
    @catcatdogdijon Год назад +1

  • @heatherhopfinger3942
    @heatherhopfinger3942 2 месяца назад

    We need you in Illinois Penn Holderness for Mayor Belleville Illinois

  • @erikfrankfurt4650
    @erikfrankfurt4650 4 года назад

    Wellp. Ya know, and we all know.. Charlie, yeah, he's a good guy. A real stand up fella. He gives me a good giggle and I sure hope he does the same for you.