Last Week Tonight - And Now This: People on TV Get a Little Too British for the Platinum Jubilee

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  • @JamesMartin-jr8vv
    @JamesMartin-jr8vv 2 года назад +715

    I lost it when the guy yelled "HELLO GUVNA!" at the random car.

    • @SgtPowell
      @SgtPowell 2 года назад +4

      This was definitely the best part.

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 2 года назад +3

      It was a cop too, for icing on the bootlicker cake

    • @whitneymouse
      @whitneymouse 2 года назад +5

      I saw your comment before it happened and it STILL caught me off guard 😂 that’s the funniest part of the video

    • @Lylybeebee
      @Lylybeebee 2 года назад

      At least he did a lower class accent in respect rather than whatever the fuck the other cunts did. Not one people use but A for effort

    • @deferencetodusk
      @deferencetodusk 2 года назад +2

      Fans of the Dollop all thought that was Dave Anthony I bet

  • @LoraCoggins
    @LoraCoggins 2 года назад +596

    What's worse is that "cheerio" in British media means goodbye, but they're using it to say "hello".

    • @michaelstamper5875
      @michaelstamper5875 2 года назад +35

      Quaite raight, old bean. As one of those British chappies mayself, Ay would probably call out "what ho" when ay met someone, and save "cheerio" for one's departure. What, what? 😄😄

    • @AshArAis
      @AshArAis 2 года назад +6

      It's like when they say top o the evening, when that's not a thing and we don't ever say the morning version either.

    • @sethreign8103
      @sethreign8103 2 года назад +3

      Freaking embarrassing

    • @kaladze93
      @kaladze93 2 года назад +6

      This is like Borat saying "dzenkuje" (thank you) as hello in the movie LOL

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 2 года назад +1

      @@AshArAis Top o' the mornin' is Irish.

  • @davidhibbs4737
    @davidhibbs4737 2 года назад +551

    John’s steadfast refusal to show any respect whatsoever to the monarchy is honestly very refreshing

    • @juliagriffin461
      @juliagriffin461 2 года назад +4

      Do you think so? I think it’s actually rather cowardly …

    • @pabloni1117
      @pabloni1117 2 года назад +15

      @@juliagriffin461 how so?

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 2 года назад

      You have to be a real POS not to like the Queen.

    • @bothi00
      @bothi00 2 года назад +18

      @@juliagriffin461 how is cowardly, exactly?

    • @mundaneman1811
      @mundaneman1811 2 года назад +24

      Don’t know where you’re from David, im a brit, & can assure you monarchists are now a minority here. & that suits me just fine :)))

  • @davidchristie6003
    @davidchristie6003 2 года назад +817

    I have never in all my life living in Britian heard someone say cheerio. Except maybe ironically to mock the sterotype. If they genuinely did say it, the word 'wanker' that we actually do use would come in handy

    • @grimftl
      @grimftl 2 года назад +38

      My time in Blighty probably adds up to a couple of years. I did hear it now and again, but it was always as 'goodbye', not a greeting.

    • @xWatanukix
      @xWatanukix 2 года назад +13

      During my vacation in northern England I heard it a couple of times and never ironically. I didn't know that it is something Americans consider stereotypically British (since I'm a German speaker) and I considered it quite charming.

    • @davidchristie6003
      @davidchristie6003 2 года назад +21

      @@grimftl Yeah as far as I know it is supposed to mean goodbye rather than hello. Also its a type of pretty rank wholegrain nestlé cereal.

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin 2 года назад +8

      I wonder if it's like "howdy" in the US.

    • @judithbell6937
      @judithbell6937 2 года назад +17

      I'm from one of the more British-positive parts of Northern Ireland and I would say "cheerio" quite frequently. But we also call the Police "Peelers", which was Victorian slang that has since gone out of fashion over in Britain so maybe we're just behind the times a bit over here 😂

  • @LapsedPacifist79
    @LapsedPacifist79 2 года назад +369

    PSA for Americans: Cheerio means GOODBYE and in my 45 years of living in England I’ve only known 1 person who said it regularly. Also Bugger means to forcefully sodomise, try to remember that when you use it at inappropriate junctures. Also Wanker is a relatively harsh insult, some of my countrymen might not take it with good cheer.

    • @Dan-qx5mi
      @Dan-qx5mi 2 года назад

      Cheerio! Thanks for the good tip you old wanker.

    • @jamesmcinnis208
      @jamesmcinnis208 2 года назад +15

      I like taking obsolete expressions (to my understanding "cheerio" is the only expression here that qualifies as obsolete) and seeing if I can make them sound natural. For years, I've been saying "How do you do?" when I meet people; no one ever bats an eye. It's all in the delivery.

    • @Spero_Hawk
      @Spero_Hawk 2 года назад

      PSA for non-Americans: All of the Americans you've just seen are morons and not wholly representative of our individual intelligence or cultural sensitivity... though they do represent the average quite well.

    • @blitzenfest
      @blitzenfest 2 года назад +5

      That's coz you're a WAAAAAANNNNNNKKKKKKEEEEEEERRR

    • @newjerseyyouth4853
      @newjerseyyouth4853 2 года назад +6

      Calling someone English is a worse insult😂😂😂😂

  • @SgtPowell
    @SgtPowell 2 года назад +78

    Shouting "ALLO GUVNA!!" at random cars should happen more often IRL. The rest of these people need someone in their life who is willing to tell them "That was f***ing embarrassing. NEVER do that again."

  • @tyrxian6452
    @tyrxian6452 2 года назад +66

    Oh god as a British person this just hurts my soul... I promise never to do another American accent

    • @samiam619
      @samiam619 2 года назад

      👍

    • @Spero_Hawk
      @Spero_Hawk 2 года назад +3

      Naw go ahead, I like seeing y'all attempt them. It's not nearly as awful as what these people have done. It's really impressive when someone does an American accent that isn't Boston, New York or Southern.

    • @triarb5790
      @triarb5790 2 года назад

      Sorry but we people of the world can do an American accent way better than they can any of ours! Mostly you just have to shout-talk and say OMG OMG OMG a lot.

    • @lavenderoh
      @lavenderoh 2 года назад +9

      @@triarb5790 You might think you can but nope.

    • @raineetoneme
      @raineetoneme 2 года назад +3

      @@triarb5790 What part of America are you in? Most Americans don't shout when they talk. Also "omg" is American teenage girl slang from 10 years ago.

  • @1982pencil
    @1982pencil 2 года назад +128

    I’ve been to the UK a bunch of times and I’ve heard people say “cheers” all the time, but literally never “cheerio.”

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 2 года назад +1

      Myself and some of my family/friends say "Cheery luck" instead of slán or cheerio or somesuch for goodbye.

    • @louisee7339
      @louisee7339 2 года назад +3

      For anyone wondering, cheers means thank you and cheerio means goodbye

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 2 года назад +4

      Except 'cheers' means 'thanks' over there.

    • @vickygarnett7623
      @vickygarnett7623 2 года назад +1

      @@louisee7339 although we do say ‘cheers’ as an alternative to ‘bye’ on occasion. Usually if it’s the end of the conversation and it’s a sort of combination of ‘thanks’ and ‘goodbye’. E.g. ‘cheers enn!’ as you leave your friends in pub

    • @jamesmcinnis208
      @jamesmcinnis208 2 года назад

      "literally"

  • @drunkengamer1977
    @drunkengamer1977 2 года назад +41

    Meanwhile in Scotland life went on as normal.

    • @BillinhoBamford
      @BillinhoBamford 2 года назад +1

      You mean losing at football? 😉⚽ #toosoon?

  • @Mu51kM4n
    @Mu51kM4n 2 года назад +46

    Every one of these clips reminds me why I haven't watched news broadcasts in 10+ years and reassures me I haven't missed a thing

  • @pastramicheesemonster4873
    @pastramicheesemonster4873 2 года назад +142

    I've honestly never heard such bad attempts at English accents in my life 😭 I might die from cringing at them tbh

    • @ReadyMindsetGo
      @ReadyMindsetGo 2 года назад +8

      oh god this was so terribly horrible... it literally made my eyes water!

    • @triarb5790
      @triarb5790 2 года назад

      @Joe British people...The UK is made up of 4 countries dozens of islands and has around 270 accents.
      But yep sure everyone sounds American Dick Van Dyke trying to be.... what the fk WAS he trying to be???

    • @kerryalbany3922
      @kerryalbany3922 2 года назад

      What? Come on Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins has got to be the all time worst attempt at an English accent ever

  • @sigheyeroll
    @sigheyeroll 2 года назад +278

    There's something extra painful about having someone actually British end that segment with "moving on".

    • @datgrrl5698
      @datgrrl5698 2 года назад

      John Oliver is English not British and yes there is a fucking difference....

    • @Ildskalli
      @Ildskalli 2 года назад +89

      @@datgrrl5698
      All the English are British, but not all the British are English. You're welcome.

    • @horationelson1840
      @horationelson1840 2 года назад +39

      @@datgrrl5698 England is in Britain… That’s like saying someone is a New Yorker and not an American.

    • @drunkengamer1977
      @drunkengamer1977 2 года назад +2

      @@horationelson1840 No she's right most of us Scots, the Welsh and many in N Ireland don't ourselves as British.

    • @silvasilvasilva
      @silvasilvasilva 2 года назад +9

      ​@@drunkengamer1977 Which is your choice, but doesn't change the fact that JO is a British citizen.

  • @annabunovsky5628
    @annabunovsky5628 2 года назад +83

    The juxtaposition of this with John’s main piece this week on SRO’s & how reliance on them in the absence of gun control laws leads to children being terrorized and criminalized, all while doing fuck all to prevent shootings, is some intense tonal whiplash if there ever was such a thing.

    • @molybdaenmornell123hopp5
      @molybdaenmornell123hopp5 2 года назад +4

      There was. It was called Prokofiev.

    • @thejimmydanly
      @thejimmydanly 2 года назад

      You mean his piece about how police are bad and that's why they should be the only one with guns?

  • @bobboulden
    @bobboulden 2 года назад +91

    I lost it when that one lady's impression of the queen was just the worst cockney accent in history.

    • @darrelljebb4544
      @darrelljebb4544 2 года назад +1

      Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins?

    • @bobboulden
      @bobboulden 2 года назад +1

      @@darrelljebb4544 I'm gonna say this one is worse than Dick Van Dyke lol

  • @dcthomas8959
    @dcthomas8959 2 года назад +70

    British person here, obviously the word "cheerio" is real but I've only ever heard it used on some old WW2 film or by a very very old person who remembers the 1940s.

    • @theomegajuice8660
      @theomegajuice8660 2 года назад +2

      Never heard it from anyone younger than 85 say it without it being part of a mocking "posh person" impression

    • @klemensk8776
      @klemensk8776 2 года назад

      I'm a 21 year old german and I use "cheerio" all the time... I... I didn't know that that is wired

    • @emilydavison2053
      @emilydavison2053 2 года назад +1

      My dad used to say it. It's nice, what's the big deal.

    • @dcthomas8959
      @dcthomas8959 2 года назад +1

      @@emilydavison2053 Nobody is saying it was never said or people didn't use it.
      It's just an old fashioned word that's rarely used today.

    • @dcthomas8959
      @dcthomas8959 2 года назад +1

      @@klemensk8776 It's not weird, some words just don't get used as much as they used to.

  • @donrobertson4940
    @donrobertson4940 2 года назад +62

    When Americans have to acknowledge there are other countries.

    • @louieo.blevinsmusic4197
      @louieo.blevinsmusic4197 2 года назад +1

      That and when the opposition is elected president. We love a good mockery and pissy fits.

  • @outeast999
    @outeast999 2 года назад +61

    Ok, it's mostly the usual hilariously inaccurate RP and Cockney - but shout-out to the woman at 2:09ish who opted for Geordie! Gets an A+ from me.

    • @joechapman8208
      @joechapman8208 2 года назад

      That's nothing like Geordie. She was going for South Welsh, for some reason

    • @outeast999
      @outeast999 2 года назад +2

      @@joechapman8208 Ya think? A rather short and low-quality clip to be sure, and my phone's speakers are for shit, but it sounded to me like Sarah Milligan.

    • @joechapman8208
      @joechapman8208 2 года назад

      @@outeast999 Definitely. It's a weird one -- I don't know where she got Welsh from, since I can't think of a TV show where she'd pick it up -- but that's what it's most like. Geordie's pretty different although it does have a similarity in the semi-melodic quality of it

    • @joeygibson6867
      @joeygibson6867 2 года назад +1

      I figured it was Geordie too. But whatever it was it was definitely off. Still hats off for trying

    • @Spero_Hawk
      @Spero_Hawk 2 года назад +1

      I'm from the US so I can't say what region her accent is from but I recognized it as decent, she also seemed a bit nervous doing it which is endearing. A fair amount of us really like British TV though, I watch cats does countdown, QI, taskmaster and others regularly.

  • @pastramichop
    @pastramichop 2 года назад +5

    Thank you for including the context at the beginning of these clips

  • @VanessaMagick
    @VanessaMagick 2 года назад +26

    E L L O G U V N A

  • @recklessroges
    @recklessroges 2 года назад +5

    Everything that I needed, and nothing that I didn't. Thank you!

  • @jessesleight9631
    @jessesleight9631 2 года назад +13

    As an American, I can relate to the urge to get all "hoo-di-hoo-di-hoo" in a British accent when something is quaintly british 😂😂

    • @fluffigverbimmelt
      @fluffigverbimmelt 2 года назад +1

      Best to just drop that idea of "a Breeeeehtish accent", because you probably only ever mean English

    • @stuartmorgan3654
      @stuartmorgan3654 2 года назад

      @@fluffigverbimmelt and only upper class twit English too. It's like they've only seen a 1920's Agatha Christie and think that's what Britain is like 100 years on.

  • @Simon-hb9rf
    @Simon-hb9rf 2 года назад +51

    i love how all the "British accents" are impressions of dick van dyke, famous for doing the WORST attempt at a British accent in Movie history

    • @buckaroobanzai7063
      @buckaroobanzai7063 2 года назад +1

      I would argue Keanu Reeve's in Dracula was the worst attempt ever.

    • @ProtestTheIndie
      @ProtestTheIndie 2 года назад +2

      Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta is a strong contender

    • @Simon-hb9rf
      @Simon-hb9rf 2 года назад +2

      @@buckaroobanzai7063 ive never seen that one, so will have to check it out
      EDIT: okay yeah the 16th century surfer dude accent is pretty up there. im honestly not sure which was worse to my ear but i agree he should be a nominee

    • @alanpartridge1385
      @alanpartridge1385 2 года назад

      Val Kilmer in "The Saint" wins hands down. Not only does he do a dreadful English accent, but also a truly awful Australian, South African, German, Spanish and Russian one. So bad they're brilliant!

  • @daveroche6522
    @daveroche6522 2 года назад +3

    That Jubilee Jolly - aka "The Festival of Stupid Hats", "Toff Twats on Telly" & "That was millions well spent, eh?".

  • @miraitan
    @miraitan 2 года назад +2

    1:54 - OUR Queen?
    Looks like there’s still some Red Coats amongst you 😆

  • @blacktimhoward4322
    @blacktimhoward4322 2 года назад +89

    Tracer doesn't get enough credit for helping us mentally overcalculate how British the average British person is

  • @181cameron
    @181cameron 2 года назад +70

    This insults pretty much everyone, from the Brits to the Americans to, well, anyone with at least 8 brain cells.

    • @ge2623
      @ge2623 2 года назад +1

      Exactly. that's the medias purpose.

    • @datgrrl5698
      @datgrrl5698 2 года назад +2

      John Oliver is English not British and the denizens of the united states are from the united states...

    • @dethlokprime8655
      @dethlokprime8655 2 года назад +2

      Seven. I lost one watching this.

    • @jam-if2ej
      @jam-if2ej 2 года назад +10

      @@datgrrl5698 some Brits are English, all English people are Brits. It's like you've said they're Californian not American

    • @SirWeirdGuy
      @SirWeirdGuy 2 года назад

      lol you take this shit too seriously

  • @Overthought7
    @Overthought7 2 года назад +3

    The guy at 0:45 looks like a real life Peter Griffin

  • @abkl1
    @abkl1 2 года назад +23

    hopefully, if I consistently bring up wanting to see Andrew’s covid test, he’ll pay off my student loans to get me to shut up.

  • @jackdog06
    @jackdog06 2 года назад +34

    Reminder for Americans:
    - No one says “Cheerio” anywhere in the world.
    - Cheerio literally means goodbye, not hello.

    • @louieo.blevinsmusic4197
      @louieo.blevinsmusic4197 2 года назад +1

      Well you say goodbye. I say hello. Hello hello. Dunno why you say goodbye, I say hello. Helllloooooooooo?

    • @TheGreatAtario
      @TheGreatAtario 2 года назад +6

      Wrong, sir, wrong! Cheerio is the singular for cheerios

    • @hadorstapa
      @hadorstapa 2 года назад +1

      It is *almost* said in Scottish Gaelic. Tìoraidh (which is pronounced 'cheery') is the informal way to say goodbye.

  • @Nothanku_
    @Nothanku_ 2 года назад +5

    At least this time my local station wasn’t the worst one!

  • @nightshadegaming1735
    @nightshadegaming1735 2 года назад +16

    25 years of life in Britain, never heard someone unironically say "cheerio my old chap"
    Americans need to update their understanding of Britain and Northern Ireland since there are over 57 unique dialects and accents

    • @triarb5790
      @triarb5790 2 года назад

      They think we ride kangaroos to school and live with deadly spiders infesting our daily existence so why should you get off so lightly!! ( mind you poms have weird ideas about our critters too).

    • @lavenderoh
      @lavenderoh 2 года назад

      Yet the British think there's only 3 accents ("southern", "New York", and valley girl) in America 😂

    • @lavenderoh
      @lavenderoh 2 года назад

      @@triarb5790 oh sure

  • @mikejohnson3338
    @mikejohnson3338 2 года назад

    You're the best, Mr Jacobs.

  • @Meepmoop23
    @Meepmoop23 2 года назад +8

    1:36 it’s nice to see Edgar Wright getting work again

    • @shortstuff780
      @shortstuff780 2 года назад +1

      homie deserves more respect in the industry. his Ant Man would have been amazing

  • @pootispenser5089
    @pootispenser5089 2 года назад

    " 'HELLO GUV'NER" was probably the most accurate one.

  • @nationeer
    @nationeer 2 года назад

    The "Hello Guvna" one is probably the best XD

  • @Pur9leRain
    @Pur9leRain 2 года назад

    No one says cheerio except sarcastically but the helloo guvna was brilliant

  • @kittykittykitty7076
    @kittykittykitty7076 2 года назад

    Every time someone says “Cheerio,” the ghost of P.G. Wodehouse does a little dance ❤

  • @stayforthepeelpronpls4774
    @stayforthepeelpronpls4774 2 года назад +12

    Pain

  • @grimftl
    @grimftl 2 года назад +12

    During my time in Blighty, I did hear "cheerio" occasionally, but usually it's used as 'goodbye'.

    • @Hair8Metal8Karen
      @Hair8Metal8Karen 2 года назад +7

      That's because it actually means goodbye

    • @grimftl
      @grimftl 2 года назад +1

      @@Hair8Metal8Karen
      Yes, I know that. As you probably didn't notice, the announcers were using it as a greeting.

    • @callistogarnet
      @callistogarnet 2 года назад

      @@grimftl you said “usually” rather than “always”, so they were clarifying for you

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 2 года назад

      @@callistogarnet, looks like a beautiful example of British understatement to me.

  • @zeusmultirotor8479
    @zeusmultirotor8479 2 года назад +3

    Anyone else see this and think “gee maybe the British let us win the revolutionary war because they didn’t really want us in the British empire anymore but couldn’t say that out loud…”

    • @Resi1ience
      @Resi1ience Год назад

      This probably was funnier in your head.

  • @kateb2643
    @kateb2643 2 года назад +27

    I think I need to go have a lie down

  • @snapperboat25
    @snapperboat25 2 года назад

    Kids in the classroom look like a scene in a Pink Floyd movie.

  • @cablehogue599
    @cablehogue599 2 года назад

    The Las Vegas guy sounded like dracula 🦇🦇🦇

  • @ohsosmooth01
    @ohsosmooth01 2 года назад +2

    You know, for a republic, Americans don't half have a hard on for royalty.

  • @justayoutuber1906
    @justayoutuber1906 2 года назад +1

    70 years in the same job with no promotion.

  • @nicholassmith7359
    @nicholassmith7359 2 года назад +16

    That was some hardcore cringe.

  • @RobinWells89
    @RobinWells89 2 года назад

    The last person I heard to say "Cheerio" unironically was my Grandad, and he passed away 20 years ago.

  • @mediokay508
    @mediokay508 2 года назад +3

    America should count themselves lucky they are a republic. If Australians did that, we'd get pulled aside for a stern talking-to.

  • @helenbarber5786
    @helenbarber5786 2 года назад +1

    I think my Granny might have said "Cheerio" (meaning Goodbye) once or twice, but she was born in 1903 and died in 2003, so it's probably a tiny bit out of date now.

  • @rocknrollcannibals
    @rocknrollcannibals Год назад

    My best British accent is basically Salad Fingers.

  • @Garvm
    @Garvm 2 года назад

    British royal family all together on a balcony. I understand it can be a very dangerous situation.

  • @annadrift4
    @annadrift4 2 года назад

    Suddenly I have an urge to throw tea in a body of water. Weird.

  • @benroyal1957
    @benroyal1957 2 года назад +3

    And now you the reasons why you should avoid local tv news.

  • @joshua.910
    @joshua.910 2 года назад

    That accent from the newsreaders is so offensive😂 no one talks like that 🙄🤣

  • @sword_of_light
    @sword_of_light 2 года назад +1

    I think I like us better when we don't know there are other countries.

  • @hera0621
    @hera0621 2 года назад +7

    My God! American morning shows (I think thats what they all look like) are so cringe.

  • @marycarla6245
    @marycarla6245 2 года назад +3

    I am American and those have got to be THE sh!tt!est “British“ accents I have ever heard. They might as well have just dressed up as chimney sweeps and said, “Oy, Mary Poppins!” and broken out into a song and dance. 🙄 Cringeworthy is probably the most polite thing I could say about it 😬

  • @AB-yw9bd
    @AB-yw9bd 2 года назад

    2 separate mrs. Doubtfires lol

  • @phantommangagirl
    @phantommangagirl 2 года назад

    I’m American and this hurt my soul.

  • @beeragainsthumanity1420
    @beeragainsthumanity1420 2 года назад

    I love crumpets with a smear of butter and jam.
    Coffee though, no tea.

  • @Lizzo13
    @Lizzo13 2 года назад +3

    I'm an American who has lived in the UK for almost 6 years, and I definitely have never heard anyone but Americans say these things. It's embarrassing. I also don't know anyone here who gave a shit about anything that happened over the weekend, and we were all just happy for the long weekend. I'm convinced that everyone who actually went to the Jubilee was a tourist. I was in Central London on Saturday for something else and saw all the people wearing flags and even wigs, like Americans do on the 4th of July. You never see patriotism like that here.

    • @triarb5790
      @triarb5790 2 года назад

      I beg to disagree. I'm a former Pom, now Australian. I went back to visit family when the soccer world cup was on in Germany. In England there were St. George flags everywhere on everything. Growing up there I'd never seen the Union Jack dismantled so jingoistically before. It made me queasy. I hate that kind of rabid American style patriotism.

  • @fighter2252
    @fighter2252 Год назад

    0:16 seriously, what on earth is that living nightmare?!

  • @LikeTheProphet
    @LikeTheProphet 2 года назад

    IS THAT DAVE ANTHONY YELLING “‘ALLO GUVNA”

  • @mpaulaj
    @mpaulaj 2 года назад +3

    This what happens when you defund the arts

  • @yesmineschannel
    @yesmineschannel 2 года назад

    can say I've lived in the UK, never seen anyone say cheerio

  • @ohaidenny9852
    @ohaidenny9852 2 года назад

    Brits in the comments forget WE ARE YOUR BABIES! What have you done? 😂

  • @adriandaw3451
    @adriandaw3451 2 года назад

    I'm almost 63, and have never heard any native say cheerio.

  • @ec7696
    @ec7696 2 года назад

    Some of us avoided it, as best we could.

  • @justmyopinionbro
    @justmyopinionbro 2 года назад

    2:08 you can tell he wanted to say 'I don't think you should'...

  • @SgtPowell
    @SgtPowell 2 года назад

    These people sound like they've never heard a British person speak in their lives and someone told them "is fine - just talk weird." I guess not everybody grew up binging Monty Python like me and my family.

  • @beemoh
    @beemoh 2 года назад

    When did Good Morning America re-animate Les Dawson's corpse?

  • @rachelfox8108
    @rachelfox8108 2 года назад

    Every one of these made me shudder. Kind of relieved that the one thing those terrible accents remind me of was Cheryl's fake-posh accent in Archer when she says, "... in nothing but a whiskey sour!"

  • @nialljohnson5191
    @nialljohnson5191 2 года назад +2

    So. Much. Cringe.
    I can see David Tennant as The Doctor saying "no, don't do that."

    • @ampersandcastle1091
      @ampersandcastle1091 2 года назад +2

      of course, the irony of that is that he’s putting on an English accent of his own! At least his is bearable lol

    • @nialljohnson5191
      @nialljohnson5191 2 года назад +1

      @@ampersandcastle1091 I am convinced that he lost a bet on the episode "Smith and Jones" where they had him say "Judoon platoon upon the Moon".

  • @chrisleneil
    @chrisleneil 2 года назад +1

    Hope you had a lovely Platty Joobs

  • @RufusWhite
    @RufusWhite 2 года назад +8

    As a Brit, it always amuses me to see Americans attempting ‘a British accent’ (as if there’s just one, and their entire knowledge of it was learned from Mary Poppins). I do have to wonder why it’s ok for American newscasters to attempt a British (or Irish on St. Patrick’s day) accent, but if they were to attempt, say, a Chinese accent they’d get raked over the coals for being racially insensitive.

    • @markachternaam5207
      @markachternaam5207 2 года назад +2

      Because there is a difference between putting on an accent native within the language, versus putting on a foreign accent.

    • @Lylybeebee
      @Lylybeebee 2 года назад

      I mean if Americans did a more modern popular english accent like MLE they'd probably still get raked over the coals and rightfully so goddamnn

    • @hannahrobbins1017
      @hannahrobbins1017 2 года назад

      The whole punching up vs down thing maybe? IDK

  • @wiicow
    @wiicow 2 года назад

    I swear all these people have only seen Oliver Twist and Mary poppins

  • @oceandark3044
    @oceandark3044 2 года назад +1

    Literally half the cast of the Wire manages to pull a convincing American accent, and we return the favor with this?

    • @Daneki
      @Daneki 2 года назад +1

      Spiderman? British
      Old spiderman? British
      Superman? British

    • @ampersandcastle1091
      @ampersandcastle1091 2 года назад +1

      The walking dead too!

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 2 года назад

      @@Daneki, Superman's Indian: m.ruclips.net/video/4GC_Q2YKNR0/видео.html

  • @nyls1717
    @nyls1717 2 года назад +66

    Nothing is more cringe-inducing as Americans attempting (and catastrophically failing) to do a British accent

    • @dereklush9399
      @dereklush9399 2 года назад +9

      Noting better illustrates how we think about the English 😂

    • @theomegajuice8660
      @theomegajuice8660 2 года назад +5

      I don't know why they all default to Dick Van Dkye impression when tons of actual British people are on American shows... like Jon Oliver!
      There are so many fun accents in the UK and they all copy an American doing an accent he invented that sounds nothing like any of them!

    • @BannedUserGaming
      @BannedUserGaming 2 года назад +1

      British people mispronouncing "Aluminum" is near the top of the list. Imagine calling yourself English and not being able to speak it, lmfao

    • @vaudevillian7
      @vaudevillian7 2 года назад +7

      @@BannedUserGaming it’s not a mispronunciation, it’s spelled aluminium outside of North America

    • @fromthefountofyouth
      @fromthefountofyouth 2 года назад

      @@vaudevillian7 He fits the ignorant, insular American to a tee.

  • @spewter
    @spewter 2 года назад +9

    Is there a supercut of Brit news presenters putting on mock American accents when covering school shootings?
    “Gee, thoughts and the ol’ prayers, Buddy!”

  • @todddavidson1332
    @todddavidson1332 2 года назад

    for people whose careers revolve around being on tv you'd think their accents would be better. I'm just some random guy and I could blow them out of the water. Not because my accent is very good, but because it at least gets of it right.

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 2 года назад +5

    Cor blimey, them's was some roight awld bad accents an' no mistake 😉
    Congratulations to Her Majesty and love to all of our British friends from an American Anglophile in North Carolina, God Bless America and God Save the Queen 🇺🇲🇬🇧

  • @miketurina9590
    @miketurina9590 2 года назад

    Why is it that satire is more true than cable "news"

  • @jamesmcinnis208
    @jamesmcinnis208 2 года назад +8

    The irony is that John Oliver has one of the most dreadful accents the British Isles produces.

    • @jamesmcinnis208
      @jamesmcinnis208 2 года назад

      @@paulnewman2000 Thank you for the identification of the accent and pay no attention to my insignificant Yankee opinion. I pronounce my Rs so what do I know?

    • @joechapman8208
      @joechapman8208 2 года назад +1

      @@paulnewman2000 That's not Home Counties, Cockney or RP: not remotely like any of them. He's got a West Midlands accent.

    • @ampersandcastle1091
      @ampersandcastle1091 2 года назад

      @@joechapman8208 I have a West Midlands accent and sound nothing like him lmao,, maybe we are just different types of West Midlands!

    • @joechapman8208
      @joechapman8208 2 года назад

      @@ampersandcastle1091 Depends where you're from exactly, and how strong your accent is. His is obviously softened by life in London and now America, but the hallmarks are still there.

    • @samiam619
      @samiam619 2 года назад

      All right! I give up. What’s a “RP”?

  • @danieldravot341
    @danieldravot341 2 года назад

    I don’t watch broadcast news, but I know the American talking heads all said BuckinHAM Palace instead of pronouncing it Bucking’um Palace.
    You know, like the difference between BirmingHAM, Alabama and Birming’um in the Midlands . . .

  • @Alex-wj9ho
    @Alex-wj9ho 2 года назад

    We don't actually use cheerio that much though!

  • @mariogaeta8911
    @mariogaeta8911 2 года назад +4

    As an Englishman who is also a lone parent, I can tell you that the single most fundamental problem with my country and my union is the fact that we have a hereditary monarchy that is still a very strong political and social influencer . Almost every other inequality in our society stems from that simple fact. To watch £40 million quid being spent on lavish pomp and ceremony amidst a cost of living crisis is so completely distasteful as to essentially be spitting in the faces of the people while telling them to cheer. BBC and sky news enabling the whole sordid thing. Makes me sick. Down with the monarchy! Down with the tories!

  • @chrisarcher1146
    @chrisarcher1146 6 месяцев назад

    I do enjoy my brand-name oat rings

  • @Arcadiabeckons
    @Arcadiabeckons 2 года назад

    'Because of health issues'...man did that age well :/

  • @sapaulgoogdmen9542
    @sapaulgoogdmen9542 2 года назад

    I know it’s a bad British accent because I can still tell what they’re saying instead of making assumptions based off the under annunciation of a verb I caught

  • @just-tess
    @just-tess 2 года назад

    god that was so painful.

  • @happymedium923
    @happymedium923 2 года назад +3

    Why are british people in the comments so offended? It’s not that serious.

    • @SirWeirdGuy
      @SirWeirdGuy 2 года назад +1

      That's just what British people are like. Quite dainty and fragile.

    • @helenryan5217
      @helenryan5217 2 года назад +3

      I agree. Week after week, Englishman John Oliver tells Americans what is wrong with our country and you don't see us getting our knickers in a twist.

    • @louieo.blevinsmusic4197
      @louieo.blevinsmusic4197 2 года назад +2

      @@helenryan5217 as well as American. People can have dual citizenship. He has been an American citizen since 2019 and is already an American treasure. He’s even married to a lady who served in the U.S. military and he sometimes wears a U.S. army pin with her Calvary on it. Sounds pretty dang American to me. If you help fight the good fight in America as a citizen… there’s literally nothing more truly American.

    • @lisahenry20
      @lisahenry20 2 года назад

      I'm not offended, I love it

    • @flowerpower3082
      @flowerpower3082 2 года назад

      Because its painful to hear your language being mangled and distorted this way.

  • @sarahtelles1957
    @sarahtelles1957 2 года назад +1

    Those hosts sound like two of Brandon Roger's characters but at least he was doing it for genuine comedy. Why are they doing the stereotype accent other than to try and pander

  • @KevMcGuire
    @KevMcGuire 2 года назад

    I think “cheerio” is actually Gaelic btw…

  • @knowitall82
    @knowitall82 2 года назад

    Spit spot, cheerio, spam n' eggs, eh wot?

  • @lbeg323
    @lbeg323 2 года назад

    Not British enough if they didn't refer to it by its proper name - Platty Joobs.

  • @hollisticc
    @hollisticc 2 года назад

    So wild that I just started listening to a podcast that started when Epstein was sent to jail just to get that Epstein joke slid into this random compilation video lol

  • @spornge
    @spornge 2 года назад +1

    Fox just loves to go out of its way to be offensive don't they?

  • @krejados1
    @krejados1 2 года назад

    Cheerio!?! Whatever happened to Aye'up, me duck?

  • @jaimecarter3988
    @jaimecarter3988 2 года назад

    lmao that last caption said “jubliee” like some weird feminized french adjective

  • @dioxideuniversal
    @dioxideuniversal 2 года назад

    i felt a lot of transitive embarrassment from those clips