Eddie Izzard - Robin Hood & Accents

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  • @jonnyblade46
    @jonnyblade46 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant. Izzards timing is second to none. It's almost musical, the way he builds this scetch... He knows EXACTLY what he's doing and it looks like he drew it out of thin air. Comedy legend.

  • @jonnyblade46
    @jonnyblade46 Жыл бұрын

    His left field jokes are amazing, like meteors, crashing in. I'm just here on my pogo stick 😂😭

  • @michaelscott6022
    @michaelscott60226 жыл бұрын

    "Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent." --Carey Elwes, Robin Hood: Men In Tights.

  • @LittleB2007

    @LittleB2007

    6 жыл бұрын

    And he says it directly into camera XD I loved the joke!

  • @Xrisus94

    @Xrisus94

    6 жыл бұрын

    I think mel brooks had an influence on the joke

  • @ledeyabaklykova

    @ledeyabaklykova

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LittleB2007 The RH: Men in Tights is a movie that elwes brings the house down with laughter.

  • @onewhowaits7674

    @onewhowaits7674

    3 жыл бұрын

    Everything's so green!

  • @CHRISDABAHIA

    @CHRISDABAHIA

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don’t write the jokes, for heaven’s sake. Just ruins it for everyone.

  • @magicmansm
    @magicmansm2 жыл бұрын

    its dangerous, rat a tat boom and all those noises 😂

  • @martm216
    @martm216 Жыл бұрын

    Loved the, 'Where is the Maid Mar-yion?'

  • @hanpolo2727
    @hanpolo2727 Жыл бұрын

    "The modertly impoverish." I so want to use that.

  • @ChicanoGaijin
    @ChicanoGaijin2 жыл бұрын

    "I'm trying to be a myth, give us cash!"

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube6 жыл бұрын

    funny bits, mythical bits like "noooo, you haven't got the nottingham twang." and "don't go darling, it's dangerous, rat-a-tat boom, and all those noises."

  • @jenswilke3600
    @jenswilke36002 жыл бұрын

    As a german its sometimes hard for me to discern the accents. But even understanding 80% makes it fucking funny.

  • @DeusExHackina
    @DeusExHackina Жыл бұрын

    God bless Eddie Izzard.

  • @Maerahn
    @Maerahn3 жыл бұрын

    My dad used to call the '''East-End" accent adopted by posh forties film stars "John Mills Cockney," because he was the guy who always seemed to get those type of 'lovable working-class chap' parts in all those films. "Caw bly-mee guvvener, thet's a right problim ann noe miss-tayke! Me poor oweld mahm would be turn-inn in her grayve, soe shee woood!"

  • @magnificentmuttley2084

    @magnificentmuttley2084

    3 жыл бұрын

    A brilliant bit of phonetic Cockenese script there!! 😜👍

  • @laurencej7792
    @laurencej7792 Жыл бұрын

    I had never heard of him before today (I'm French) S/HE is fantastic!! 😅

  • @richardcurrie4038
    @richardcurrie40383 жыл бұрын

    True story. My crazy cousin once invited a “lady of the night” (actually during the day) to my house, presumably with the idea we’d have some fun. When she arrived I had no idea what to say, so I offered her a cup of tea. She was very happy until my cousin couldn’t pay her, so she left. She didn’t even finish her tea.

  • @cyranojohnson8771

    @cyranojohnson8771

    3 жыл бұрын

    Didn't. Even. Finish. Her. Tea. FUCK'N WOT? That's out of order, innit? Dint finish 'er fuckin' tea?! The bint. Well shot of 'er, innit.

  • @richardcurrie4038

    @richardcurrie4038

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cyranojohnson8771 I know right?! They normally have such high standards too…

  • @vaclav_fejt

    @vaclav_fejt

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, at least you've got some manners.

  • @avosmash2121

    @avosmash2121

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...is this an IT Crowd joke

  • @sharks3010

    @sharks3010

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@avosmash2121 Not sure, but I know there's a bit in the IT Crowd when Moss tells everyone from the top floor a story (but not the one Roy was referring to) about when him and Roy pick up two prostitutes in Amsterdam. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) for them, they don't have what it takes to do the deed, so end up taking the two ladies to the fair instead.

  • @davidbryce6970
    @davidbryce69703 жыл бұрын

    Remember John Cleese's Robin Hood in the Time Bandits. A portrayal which should be the standard upon which all others are judged. And, how long have you been a robber? 4 foot 6 4 foot 6? Jolly good.

  • @maartenh7551

    @maartenh7551

    3 жыл бұрын

    Forgot all about it, thanks! Here it is kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6asyJWGmqfdg9Y.html

  • @andybutton1515

    @andybutton1515

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely the best Robin Hood

  • @andybutton1515

    @andybutton1515

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can’t leave a polite social situation now without muttering “What awful people” to myself because of this

  • @Kamaway3
    @Kamaway36 жыл бұрын

    "I am just here on my pogo stick" Eddie is the king of randomness

  • @markdaly1903

    @markdaly1903

    3 жыл бұрын

    his seguing from stuff about hammer horror in Yorkshire to Daleks climbing the stairs in Dr who to James mason to cows was masterful.

  • @kennyhagan5781
    @kennyhagan57812 жыл бұрын

    Damned good! The outfit is a real banger too.

  • @soundknight
    @soundknight3 жыл бұрын

    He's a genius!

  • @gamblemadman
    @gamblemadman6 жыл бұрын

    ""These are my etchings"

  • @jonnyblade46
    @jonnyblade46 Жыл бұрын

    "His name was probably just.... Bin!" 😂👍 Nerdiest joke I've ever heard. Love it.

  • @seraphale
    @seraphale3 жыл бұрын

    Completely enthralling!

  • @b.j.stoner9065
    @b.j.stoner90656 жыл бұрын

    That was very good...what a great talent he is! Been nuts about him since late 90s!! Thank you.

  • @Bianchi77
    @Bianchi773 жыл бұрын

    Nice video, thanks :)

  • @debbiesmith9327
    @debbiesmith93273 жыл бұрын

    Love him so much-he’s so right on the accents xx

  • @michaelangeloh.5383
    @michaelangeloh.53833 жыл бұрын

    It's funny that more recently Robin Hood was played by a New Zealander (Russell Crowe) and most recently by a Welsh actor (Taron Egerton) who probably both did a good English accent.

  • @Emberthelabradoodle

    @Emberthelabradoodle

    3 жыл бұрын

    Russell Crowe’s accent was terrible. Swinging from cockney to Irish. Taron Egerton is from Birkenhead (which has more of a Scouse English accent) but lived on Anglesey and Aberystwyth when younger, (more strongly Welsh accents) however has lived in London since he was 15, so his English accent wasn’t much of a strain for him.

  • @Alex-ry6cd

    @Alex-ry6cd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Whilst being Welsh the majority of us in Wales are English by first language. That's imperialism for you. Egerton grew up in Aberystwyth which like many of my friends, some sound English, yet speak fluent Welsh. Not all but with quite a few people I know from Aber, I had to listen hard to find the Welsh twang so present in mine. Some are really thick. It's bizarre. Probably just accent-less..or the area. Technically, he is playing a natural accent, not like an American playing an Englishman.

  • @MCVessels

    @MCVessels

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Alex-ry6cd Would the English/Welsh accents in Aber be due to its proximity to the Landsker line? A chunk of Pembrokeshire has historically been called "little England beyond Wales" because of English settlers bringing their accents, road names etc. (Though there's also been pressure in the 20th century for people with "regional" accents to speak with Received Pronunciation so they won't be discriminated against in the workplace/made a joke of in Gavin & Stacey or Goldie Lookin Chain. I've got a very clunky Englishish accent myself. Ych, why is this stuff always complicated?)

  • @Alex-ry6cd

    @Alex-ry6cd

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MCVessels you raise some good questions. Might have a read and see what I can find

  • @elil8094
    @elil80946 жыл бұрын

    I love that suit. So shiny!

  • @mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029
    @mattsmedley.onehandedgamin90293 жыл бұрын

    I will forever now describe oneself as "comfortable"

  • @lotstodo
    @lotstodo3 жыл бұрын

    The best executive drag queen ever.

  • @PeterStrachanMusic
    @PeterStrachanMusic3 жыл бұрын

    This guy is actually funny... What a difference to most of the mince on TV today..

  • @johncoops6897

    @johncoops6897

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who? Not the guy in this video... do you mean Robin Hood is funny?

  • @jcolinmizia9161
    @jcolinmizia916111 ай бұрын

    Don’t go to the war I must go. They…won’t start without me!

  • @greenassgrass
    @greenassgrass6 жыл бұрын

    EDDIE IS GREAT !!

  • @terryrussel523
    @terryrussel5237 жыл бұрын

    There are many references in very old legal journals in the many archives in England that refer to a "robber in hood" , I am told !

  • @markbriten6999

    @markbriten6999

    3 жыл бұрын

    The other one I've heard of,I think is Rob o the Woods. A robber in the woods. I've also read that the reason he became a robber was because he/ they were declared outlaws and so had no choice as they could be killed on sight

  • @willmfrank

    @willmfrank

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@markbriten6999 Robin Hood is known in French as Robin des Bois -- Robin of the Woods, so yeah.

  • @norman9792
    @norman97923 жыл бұрын

    I was on the fence with regards to Brexit - until I heard this guy on BBC Question Time.

  • @johncoops6897

    @johncoops6897

    3 жыл бұрын

    He acts like a right muppet on stage too, doing what he reckons that he "does best". So you could hardly expect anything better that a mediocre performance in other situations

  • @TheWinterwraith

    @TheWinterwraith

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Internet Viewer Yeah, feckin ‘celebs’ coming over here, having their own opinions about politics. How dare they think differently to me? 🙄 The ignorant muppets who comment on KZread videos should stick to their own careers instead of trying to discuss politics.

  • @CHRISDABAHIA
    @CHRISDABAHIA3 жыл бұрын

    Yes....

  • @eleveneleven572
    @eleveneleven5723 жыл бұрын

    I remember an old film, I think an Attenborough was in it. Set in the Black Country...and the locals sounded like East Enders. Just shows that the film industry,like the BBC, never left London.

  • @Marny5580

    @Marny5580

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ever wonder where people of color learned their form of English ... maybe on the boats that brought them in chains - the crew members, I suppose.

  • @robertmarmaduke9721
    @robertmarmaduke97212 жыл бұрын

    If he ran 25 marathons in 25 days, even if he just ran a mile in each, what a trouper. If this is all adlib, he's better than Kamala!

  • @C0zyDunt
    @C0zyDunt2 жыл бұрын

    Eddie Izzard. Proof that just because you look funny, doesn't make you funny.

  • @leahmontgo
    @leahmontgo6 жыл бұрын

    I am always a little surprised by how attracted to Eddie Izzard I am

  • @jackthelad-ou6zu

    @jackthelad-ou6zu

    6 жыл бұрын

    It wont be because your a lefty feminist lesbian would it....

  • @jackthelad-ou6zu

    @jackthelad-ou6zu

    6 жыл бұрын

    doesn't have any content on you tube lol....What a shit house What a TIT be back soon ?

  • @MartTLS

    @MartTLS

    6 жыл бұрын

    Montgummibear I know what you mean.

  • @dickturpin4786

    @dickturpin4786

    6 жыл бұрын

    it's true 😉

  • @sanclersantander4623

    @sanclersantander4623

    6 жыл бұрын

    he's very 80's rocker...

  • @sugarnads
    @sugarnads Жыл бұрын

    There are several robin hoods mentioned in english assize records from the 1200s on being tried fr various summary offences

  • @jdkdar0902
    @jdkdar09023 жыл бұрын

    He is an amazing man :-)

  • @nicholasreid1836
    @nicholasreid18366 жыл бұрын

    Let's see now. Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood was a silent film, so no American accent. Errol Flynn was Tasmanian and therefore his accent nearer to English than American. Richard Todd in the Disney live action Robin Hood was English. Ditto Richard Green in the 1950s TV series. Sean Connery in "Robin and Marian" was, of course, Scots. So the only Robin Hoods with American accents I can think of were the Disney cartoon (with Robin Hood as a fox) and the awful Kevin Costner movie - the one which Carey Elwes mocked with his line "Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can do an English accent." The fact is, there have been few Robin Hoods with American accents. FURTHER POINT - I hope nobody is under the delusion that, in the Middle Ages, people spoke in the way English people now speak.

  • @sugarnads

    @sugarnads

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nicholas Reid youre even more fun at parties than I am, arent you...

  • @chairman823

    @chairman823

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sugarnads Yeah but he's right.

  • @jamespfitz

    @jamespfitz

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'll bet you're a big hit at parties.

  • @DaveDexterMusic

    @DaveDexterMusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    You bought facts to an Eddie Izzard fight. That was poor planning.

  • @nicholasreid1836

    @nicholasreid1836

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sugarnads Erm, that joke has already been used.

  • @NoferTrunions
    @NoferTrunions3 жыл бұрын

    2:27 LOL reminded me of Peter Cook

  • @donwayne1357
    @donwayne13576 жыл бұрын

    We have a lot of robbers in our hoods.

  • @thesubhumancomedy

    @thesubhumancomedy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Any Robin, or two?

  • @wolfgangbeutin740
    @wolfgangbeutin7406 жыл бұрын

    My name is Hood. Robin Hood.

  • @sergejisd
    @sergejisd3 жыл бұрын

    What's wrong with KZread's audio? It's too low

  • @edgepixel8467
    @edgepixel84676 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant guy

  • @motherflange
    @motherflange3 жыл бұрын

    ...and I believe him.

  • @Enpassantful
    @Enpassantful2 жыл бұрын

    Don’t forget Mel Gibson, that fine American Australian Scots man that saved Scotland from the English.

  • @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists

    @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists

    2 жыл бұрын

    antisemite fool he is

  • @onewhowaits7674
    @onewhowaits76743 жыл бұрын

    Bloody well genius

  • @holyspirit8589
    @holyspirit85892 жыл бұрын

    I have to believe Robinhood, exists

  • @BigHeadClan
    @BigHeadClan6 жыл бұрын

    Robin Hood with an English accent eh? - kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKZ6z9eidpWrfrw.html

  • @nellgwenn
    @nellgwenn2 жыл бұрын

    Well Errol Flynn was from Tasmania. Which is an island state of Australia.

  • @johntierney7244
    @johntierney72443 жыл бұрын

    If you like RObin Hood you may like to join Robin Hood's Merry Men Facebook group

  • @HonairofSecond
    @HonairofSecond6 жыл бұрын

    I am happy enough to be related to David of Huntingdon, who is considered one of the strong inspirations for the legend.

  • @DaveDexterMusic

    @DaveDexterMusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why? It was 800 years ago, half the country is probably related to him in some way.

  • @markfox1545

    @markfox1545

    Жыл бұрын

    Almost everyone alive now is descended from almost everyone from 12th/13th century, you utter fuckwit.

  • @jontalbot1
    @jontalbot1 Жыл бұрын

    I like him cos he doesn’t really tell jokes, just goes off on flights of fancy. No idea how much is scripted and how much improvised but it always comes over as a mad stream of consciousness. Question: why does anyone think Michael MacIntyre is funny?

  • @bobbydazzler9482
    @bobbydazzler94823 жыл бұрын

    Maid Myiran!!

  • @nahAlban
    @nahAlban6 жыл бұрын

    Because unlike some other robin hoods I can speak with an english accent. RHMIT

  • @thesubhumancomedy

    @thesubhumancomedy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you Zorro?

  • @josephdemartino6053
    @josephdemartino60532 жыл бұрын

    The only American-accented Robin I can think of is Costner's and I never bothered seeing his film. Connery was Scottish and Errol Flynn (the definitive screen Robin) was Australian doing a quite passable English accent.

  • @clivejones7104

    @clivejones7104

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's comedy and funny. It's not meant to be a factual history lecture! And I'm sure Robin, whether he existed or not, never met anyone on a pogo stick!

  • @JacquelineMoleski

    @JacquelineMoleski

    2 жыл бұрын

    I actually really really love The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. Flynn sounded British (RP I think). Second favorite is the television series Robin of Sherwood (Michael Praed then Jason Connery as the lead). In terms of accent, Cary Elwes nails it and manages to poke fun at Cosner at the same time.

  • @josephdemartino6053

    @josephdemartino6053

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JacquelineMoleski How could I forget Carey Elwes? Although I much prefer his OTHER British-accented sword wielding mysterious outlaw turn in "The Princess Bride"

  • @JacquelineMoleski

    @JacquelineMoleski

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh yes, The Princess Bride is perfect. And Cary Elwes Indiana Jones/pirate/Robin Hood inspired character on Psych is just perfectly awesome!

  • @josephdemartino6053

    @josephdemartino6053

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JacquelineMoleski Never saw that episode of "Psych". I'll have to track it down.

  • @MWSin1
    @MWSin16 жыл бұрын

    "Let us kiss with tongues" is my pickup line. I'm so lonely.

  • @MWSin1

    @MWSin1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Be brave my friend. It is much better to take the initiative and find the women with low standards.

  • @piplee1439
    @piplee14393 жыл бұрын

    😀 cnut

  • @AnEnemySpy456
    @AnEnemySpy4563 жыл бұрын

    I don't think I've ever seen a Robin Hood with an American accent? I assume he's talking about the Kevin Costner version?

  • @YvonneWilson312

    @YvonneWilson312

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed. It was pretty hilarious.

  • @zargonthemagnificent330

    @zargonthemagnificent330

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not just the Costner version. Many, many others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_and_television_series_featuring_Robin_Hood

  • @yukseloden6939

    @yukseloden6939

    3 жыл бұрын

    There was also Errol Flynn. How old are you, eight?

  • @NotChefCook

    @NotChefCook

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yukseloden6939- Eight? Because he doesn't ( mistakenly ) think Errol Flynn was an AMERICAN? He was Tasmanian !

  • @markharwood7573

    @markharwood7573

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NotChefCook But the accent...

  • @poorfordtransitowner1627
    @poorfordtransitowner16273 жыл бұрын

    Hes got a giant head

  • @johncoops6897

    @johncoops6897

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, I thing it's actually that he has a deformed body. I checked online and apparently he claims to be 5ft 7in (170cm)... However it's not clear if that includes the stilettos or not, and short people tend to lie about their height anyway.

  • @valentinabucibattorti9813
    @valentinabucibattorti98133 жыл бұрын

    1:19 "Marian... Coke? Water? ... Some disgusting sugary drink made with fruits of the forest? ...Apricots soaked in honey?"

  • @dreed1058
    @dreed10583 жыл бұрын

    can't believe poobah's that go to the trouble to say they DON'T like Eddie's comedy, don't watch!! This old lady in Texas gets a giggle every time!!

  • @Kyrelel

    @Kyrelel

    3 жыл бұрын

    But they would need to watch it in order to determine whether or not they liked it :/

  • @donvandamnjohnsonlongfella1239

    @donvandamnjohnsonlongfella1239

    3 жыл бұрын

    donna reed he's much less funny when he isn't in drag. The funniest part about his routines is the funny faces he makes when he's in drag. He doesn't pull off those funny faces when he's in man mode.

  • @donvandamnjohnsonlongfella1239

    @donvandamnjohnsonlongfella1239

    3 жыл бұрын

    donna reed for the record he looks a lot like Hermon Monster from the Monsters

  • @stephenfacca6703
    @stephenfacca67033 жыл бұрын

    I'd have thought King Arthur would be England's most famous myth.

  • @Phil_A_O_Fish

    @Phil_A_O_Fish

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why, @Stephen Facca, they're both equally fictitious and mythical as one another, aren't they?

  • @Lauren.E.O
    @Lauren.E.O7 жыл бұрын

    I want that suit

  • @craftybum
    @craftybum3 жыл бұрын

    pea mix or a bean mix

  • @jbbudish
    @jbbudish3 жыл бұрын

    Eddie Izzard isn't a real person he is actually a normal sized mannequins head supported by two dwarves on a pogo stick.

  • @johncoops6897

    @johncoops6897

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess they allow him on stage since we are obliged to do something to keep the Speshul People occupied.

  • @Jabberwockybird
    @Jabberwockybird3 жыл бұрын

    Robin Hood copied by Zorro, copied by Batman Robin Hood is Batman

  • @themanchestercollective3616

    @themanchestercollective3616

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hence green arrow.

  • @PIPIPISTA

    @PIPIPISTA

    3 жыл бұрын

    You left out Superman.

  • @Jabberwockybird

    @Jabberwockybird

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PIPIPISTA I don't know who was the ultimate idea for superman. Unless he was always a Jesus metaphor from the start.

  • @Chris-lz1fs
    @Chris-lz1fs3 жыл бұрын

    Robin Hood isn't a myth... there is actual photographic evidence which shows him with his band of merry men. There's also a marriage certificate kept in Canterbury Cathedral which details his marriage to Maid Marian. And there's also birth cerificates showing the birth of his children a few years after the marriage.

  • @TheWinterwraith

    @TheWinterwraith

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actual photographic evidence? I wonder what those medieval cameras looked like? 🤔

  • @MrDorbel

    @MrDorbel

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheWinterwraith pretty snappy actually.

  • @MCVessels

    @MCVessels

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheWinterwraith They were really accurate! Strange but true: everybody in the 14th century was a woodcut.

  • @ReligiousAnon

    @ReligiousAnon

    Жыл бұрын

    Iphone hd quality.

  • @TheRealMirCat
    @TheRealMirCat3 жыл бұрын

    Just hit me. The Queen of England super posh accent that all the Royals use. . . it's someone with an English accent trying to fake a German one. (I mean, it makes sense history wise)

  • @Marny5580

    @Marny5580

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dear Eddie was born in Yemen.

  • @andrewtaylor6985
    @andrewtaylor69856 жыл бұрын

    2016 upload? I thought at 480p it would around the 12th century.

  • @jamespfitz

    @jamespfitz

    3 жыл бұрын

    You should definitely demand your money back

  • @andrewtaylor6985

    @andrewtaylor6985

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jamespfitz I took your advice an thankfully was refunded. Cheers for that, mate!

  • @dannywalche8170
    @dannywalche81703 жыл бұрын

    is it just me or does he look like a taller Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones?

  • @HAL-kd7ve

    @HAL-kd7ve

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is just you and the one like proves it :)

  • @njaum

    @njaum

    2 жыл бұрын

    So glad you clarified that it was the Tyrion Lannister from game of thrones you were referring to, I was Hella confused for a minute there 👍🏾

  • @valentinedeer214
    @valentinedeer2142 жыл бұрын

    Where is the Maid Muh-Ryan?

  • @charliemctruth
    @charliemctruth3 жыл бұрын

    Jesus h christ....

  • @yukseloden6939
    @yukseloden69393 жыл бұрын

    This idea belongs to Mel Brooks, honey.

  • @MCVessels

    @MCVessels

    2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine a world in which no two people made jokes about the same thing! And this one takes a different tack anyway: it's not just about Robin Hood having an unconvincing accent, it's about original versions of stories being overwritten by Hollywood versions of the same stories, cultural colonialism if you will.

  • @scrunts666
    @scrunts6663 жыл бұрын

    I used to like watching Eddie Izzard, funny guy :)

  • @johncoops6897

    @johncoops6897

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've never liked him. Total try-hard twat with a pathetic stereotypical "persona" and horrendously boring performance which isn't moderately amusing. The only laughter from the audience is that of embarrassment! You say you used to like him, so when did you come to your senses?

  • @scrunts666

    @scrunts666

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johncoops6897How long ? So long that I could not remember even if I tried.

  • @johncoops6897

    @johncoops6897

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@scrunts666 - ah, cool. So that means you have disliked him for as long as you can remember?

  • @kumquatmagoo

    @kumquatmagoo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johncoops6897 How's brexit working out for you john

  • @medexamtoolsdotcom
    @medexamtoolsdotcom3 жыл бұрын

    Well that's not true. I just watched Robin Hood Men in Tights and he definitely had some sort of british accent, though strangely not everyone around did, like Dave Chapelle certainly didn't.

  • @lomax343

    @lomax343

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Unlike some Robin Hoods, I can do an English accent." - Cary Elwes. And, to be fair, he wasn't bad. But even now, the most fun Robin ever was Errol Flynn - and he was Australian.

  • @musheopeaus4125

    @musheopeaus4125

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow fun fact tell me more

  • @westaussie965

    @westaussie965

    3 жыл бұрын

    No such thing as a British accent 😉

  • @lomax343

    @lomax343

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@westaussie965 Well yes, there are many accents that originate in Britain - but they all count as "A British Accent." Cockney is "A British Accent," Brummie is "A British Accent," Glaswegian is "A British Accent." Cary Elwes said he was doing a British accent, without specifying which one.

  • @HappyCynic

    @HappyCynic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lomax343 So Canadian is an American accent?

  • @TheGreatoutdoorsAndGourmetVic
    @TheGreatoutdoorsAndGourmetVic3 жыл бұрын

    His head is OUT of proportion with his body!

  • @Will-mp2ij
    @Will-mp2ij3 жыл бұрын

    Eddie the freak 🤣

  • @deborahgonzalezknight168
    @deborahgonzalezknight16811 ай бұрын

    I so want to be his girlfriend.

  • @blackletter2591
    @blackletter25913 жыл бұрын

    He's working this into the ground.

  • @danielmoran9902

    @danielmoran9902

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've never thought he was funny. I saw him in London a few years back and there were a lot of stony faces, so it cant just be me.

  • @MrKeefrichards

    @MrKeefrichards

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielmoran9902 i agree unfunny, and his leftist views make him a joke.

  • @danielmoran9902

    @danielmoran9902

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MrKeefrichards That's a good point. When I saw him, he really was playing up to the left leaner's, and there seemed to be a few.

  • @MCVessels

    @MCVessels

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@danielmoran9902 And yet you are here.

  • @danielmoran9902

    @danielmoran9902

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MCVessels yeah, I thought I'd see if it would be amusing, and it's not.

  • @jmmmnliberal8274
    @jmmmnliberal82746 жыл бұрын

    Didn't Errol Flynn have an English accent?

  • @markbriten6999

    @markbriten6999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Australian but posh Australian so not far off

  • @stevechurch4728

    @stevechurch4728

    3 жыл бұрын

    you're right he didn't.

  • @blackletter2591

    @blackletter2591

    3 жыл бұрын

    Metro Australian. Close enough for Hollywood work.

  • @stevechurch4728

    @stevechurch4728

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@blackletter2591 sean connery scots russian close eh?

  • @Marny5580

    @Marny5580

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cary Grant was English as was Elizabeth Taylor and also Kim Cantrell. Nicole Kidman was born in Hawaii and schmuck Mel Gibson was born and raised in Poughkeepsie NY.

  • @rogerbrodniak5644
    @rogerbrodniak56443 жыл бұрын

    0:22 Is he doing Jim Gaffigan in that first American impression?

  • @zargonthemagnificent330

    @zargonthemagnificent330

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have no idea who Jim Gaffigan is, but that's a sort of "standard American accent" that is a normal joke thing here in the UK. It's just meant to sound loud and brash.

  • @alanmorris3601
    @alanmorris36013 жыл бұрын

    Sorry Eddie, it hasn't aged well

  • @cameroncooper4175

    @cameroncooper4175

    3 жыл бұрын

    I bet you haven't either, funnyman.

  • @orsonincharge4879
    @orsonincharge48793 жыл бұрын

    Les Grande Visage ...... you have a big face .

  • @sicilianjiu-jitsu2984
    @sicilianjiu-jitsu29843 жыл бұрын

    His American accent sounded like a American from the southwest trying to speak in a German accent.

  • @zargonthemagnificent330

    @zargonthemagnificent330

    3 жыл бұрын

    To English ears, it just sounds "American"

  • @NevTheDeranged
    @NevTheDeranged3 жыл бұрын

    I mean... Robin Hood is awesome, but... like.... King Arthur?

  • @potatoegirl31
    @potatoegirl313 жыл бұрын

    heh, the 'posh' English accent would be JUST as fake! (um, Great Vowel Shift anyone? Robin Hood would have sounded more like Scottish crossed with Frisian/Dutch!)

  • @yukseloden6939

    @yukseloden6939

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. English think that every Brit mythic character speaks and acts like he is the nephew of the Windsors.

  • @khylerbane4523
    @khylerbane45233 жыл бұрын

    Let me ask a fair and honest question; does anyone even speak English with a Posh accent anymore?

  • @kenhollis6197

    @kenhollis6197

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm not British, but I would guess some of the more elderly folks do, especially if they come from old money.

  • @priyadaka3443

    @priyadaka3443

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ears, one does ectually

  • @KevTheImpaler

    @KevTheImpaler

    3 жыл бұрын

    Last one I heard was about 15 years ago.

  • @InAMinMaths

    @InAMinMaths

    3 жыл бұрын

    On tv no, in some circles still yes darling.

  • @peterread6967

    @peterread6967

    3 жыл бұрын

    Grease Moggy Mogg and Blojo Johnson.......

  • @andrewjohnson6716
    @andrewjohnson67163 жыл бұрын

    Here's the punchline. Linguistic research shows that the accent during the period of Robin Hood *would* have sounded most like the Standard American accent.

  • @helenl3193

    @helenl3193

    3 жыл бұрын

    What's the 'standard American' accent? I thought they'd found it was most close to the Boston accent, but I could have remembered that wrong

  • @andrewjohnson6716

    @andrewjohnson6716

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@helenl3193 The Standard American accent is an invention of the movie industry, the same way that Recieved Pronounciation (basically a standard British accent) was an invention of the BBC. It was an attempt to make an accent that was clearly American, could be understood by anyone, and displaced a story from any specific location.

  • @Marny5580

    @Marny5580

    3 жыл бұрын

    One of my very religious friends believed and said "Jesus spoke English" - she did not know whether from England or Australia.

  • @HappyCynic

    @HappyCynic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just when you think Americans can't get any more arrogant, they then claim they spoke English first and the English copied them.

  • @JacquelineMoleski

    @JacquelineMoleski

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't it have been German? The Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes were Germanic tribes. The Celtic Natives may have spoken Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, or Irish Celtic languages among others. So either German or Celtic but not American.

  • @petermeichan3160
    @petermeichan31603 жыл бұрын

    not only Robin Hood was a myth, but so was King Arthur which was plagarised from German and French tales

  • @chairman823

    @chairman823

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes but.....................who cares?

  • @petermeichan3160

    @petermeichan3160

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chairman823 , i guess we should be used the english stealing

  • @chairman823

    @chairman823

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@petermeichan3160 FFs they are stories, myths, fantasies about heros or anti heros. Every culture has similar tales. Who can prove conclusively which was first with a story?

  • @jamespfitz

    @jamespfitz

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'll bet you're a hit at parties, you are.

  • @JacksonNomad

    @JacksonNomad

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nobody truly knows where the Arthurian legend originated, the mythology exists in one form or another all across Europe, and probably ever further afield in parts of Asia too. Nobody 'plagiarised' it from anybody, different people's have just adapted the myths and archetypes to their own cultures.

  • @msinvincible2000
    @msinvincible20006 жыл бұрын

    Well, the american accent is much closer to the 12th century english accent than the british accent

  • @HappyGardenOfLife

    @HappyGardenOfLife

    6 жыл бұрын

    No, it isn't.

  • @differous01

    @differous01

    6 жыл бұрын

    What, Americans speak the barely intelligible Middle-English of the 12th century? eg. "Compton California, icc was þær þær i crisstnedd was Kevin Costner bi name nemmnedd"? No way. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormulum

  • @sonyahannah

    @sonyahannah

    6 жыл бұрын

    "12th century British accent" was French and German -- Chaucer's writing in the 14th century was the BEGINNING of "a British accent." Early English came mainly from Anglo-Saxon, a Germanic language.

  • @Spitalhatch

    @Spitalhatch

    3 жыл бұрын

    msinvincible2000 '...the british accent.' WHICH British accent?

  • @CaptainCocaine
    @CaptainCocaine6 жыл бұрын

    Robin Hood has been around much longer than the Victorian-era inspired accent. He would have sounded more like an American than a modern Englishman.

  • @jamesmay1164

    @jamesmay1164

    6 жыл бұрын

    What? What nonsense

  • @MCVessels

    @MCVessels

    2 жыл бұрын

    Quite true, Shakespeare spoke with a broad Texas accent. Chaucer was more Detroit.

  • @tiborkovacs4827
    @tiborkovacs48273 жыл бұрын

    The reason he doesnt have a notts twang is he was from YORKSHIRE

  • @robinriebsomer4607
    @robinriebsomer46072 жыл бұрын

    It's not Robin Hood, it's the Lord of the Rings, sir.

  • @makinoahcelloduo9008
    @makinoahcelloduo90083 жыл бұрын

    Getting upset about Robin Hood's accent is actually a bit silly. Had he existed, he wouldn't have spoken modern English at all. He would've spoken Anglo Saxon.

  • @Lynnefromlyn

    @Lynnefromlyn

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well! You’re a party pooper and no mistake! And actually by then ( the reign of Richard) they would have been speaking English. Old English, but English. But that’s besides the point. This is about a comedy show. COMEDY! Not a linguistic trip through yesteryear!🤣

  • @makinoahcelloduo9008

    @makinoahcelloduo9008

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nowadays we call Old English "Anglo Saxon". It is unrecognizably different from English. Middle English, however, is fairly similar to modern English.

  • @palencornell3635
    @palencornell36356 жыл бұрын

    Wh.... where are these Robin Hood movies in which Robin is American? 😐 Every one I've seen, Robin Hood is an Englishman

  • @vaudevillian7

    @vaudevillian7

    6 жыл бұрын

    Prince of Thieves most famously

  • @spookyshark632

    @spookyshark632

    6 жыл бұрын

    He can't be a proper Englishman if he doesn't say tea and cake or death at least once in the movie.

  • @charleschuckfinley3304

    @charleschuckfinley3304

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nethack Rantsandstuff how old are you?

  • @nicwilson58

    @nicwilson58

    6 жыл бұрын

    look again

  • @Philrc

    @Philrc

    6 жыл бұрын

    kevin costner, errol flynn, Douglas Fairbanks,

  • @user-ub8bh8fe2n
    @user-ub8bh8fe2n3 жыл бұрын

    what the fuck is that

  • @petewallwork7848
    @petewallwork78483 жыл бұрын

    Pillock

  • @harper277
    @harper2772 жыл бұрын

    I live in Sherwood Forest, the Nottinghamshire accent is not a pleasant sound. Sixteenth century church records of a murder victim state ‘ He wo faund wi a stake in ‘im’. An anecdote presented by Mrs Ball in an assembly at Ravensdale Middle school Mansfield, on the subject of using standard English and how backward the Nottinghamshire accent is.

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