No one has an accent until they leave where they're from.

@_yak

4 жыл бұрын

But there really is a "no-accent accent" in English speaking North America. If you want to know what a local accent sounds like you should talk to a cop, but a lot of people born and raised in a place don't talk with that local accent. I heard once that the default accent comes from Connecticut.

@papagrounds

4 жыл бұрын

@@_yak Your "default accent" comes from Britain, dude.

@kylem1112

4 жыл бұрын

it's impossible to not have an accent dude. What you probably mean is a non-distinct generic accent like news casters. It's still an accent.

@gospelofrye6881

4 жыл бұрын

The worst part of leaving where you're from is that when you go back... everyone has an accent.

@_yak

4 жыл бұрын

@@kylem1112 what I mean is that there is a national generic accent. People - especially younger, educated people - speak with it. You hear it all over the country, even in the south. That everyone has an accent is kind of my point, because the accent I'm talking about isn't really thought of as an accent at all, but is likely the local accent of Connecticut or maybe parts of California that spread through mass communication.

Skipping Ohio is probably the most Ohio thing he could have done.

@jaredsaltus

3 жыл бұрын

I think we’ve evolved past a need for ohio

@etiopisk4life

3 жыл бұрын

Ohio

@lmlm-ph4pp

3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping he'd do Michigan also. So which accent are we close to?

@bsimpson639

3 жыл бұрын

So much fertile ground for him in UhHIuh

@kitsunech.8378

3 жыл бұрын

ohio gozaimas

"Wisconsin's more Chicago than Chicago." I was dying at that part. Go Fred!

@bossfan49

3 ай бұрын

As a Chicagoan, I can attest to that!. Especially around Milwaukee over by dere. Oh may Got!

“You mentioned two pumpkins “ 😂

"i was born in miami, but i still have this accent”.

@hamie63_m

4 жыл бұрын

Lol Miami has a few accents

@MesRevesEnRose

4 жыл бұрын

As a former Miami resident... So accurate 😂😂😂

@dumpsterjedi6148

4 жыл бұрын

Accurate

@patrickpeters6016

4 жыл бұрын

Cuban accents?

@imlost19

4 жыл бұрын

miami accent = your normal accent + "bro"

“That’s my business, not yours.” - Everyone in Connecticut at least once a day. Accurate can confirm

@MortalConquest

4 жыл бұрын

I always insisted Connecticut didn't have an accent... but apparently I was wrong.

@duanecuster7166

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was born and raised in Bloomfield and never knew til I moved to Florida then all of a sudden...accent!

@mr.nobody9697

4 жыл бұрын

lmfao holy shit! You made me realize im so CT. Its because just about everyone in CT is nosey. Why do I feel this way? Thats my business not yours.

@MortalConquest

4 жыл бұрын

@@mr.nobody9697 I mean...when the state is this small you kinda end up knowing everyone (or it feels like it). We are asshole as a state pastime tho

@gussanderson4579

4 жыл бұрын

@@MortalConquest I grew up in fairfield county, and I feel pretty confident we speak very stereotypical american english with a lot of mumbling of words. hit up hartford or tolland though and things start sounding strange real quick.

As someone who's lived in the northwest their entire life, I was having a good chuckle and then he got to Seattle and Portland and my immediate reaction was just "oh he's talking normally now." Lunacy.

@dgaul123

Жыл бұрын

I felt the same way about Virginia lol, he nailed it

@grxengine

Жыл бұрын

Let's just say he's spent a lot of time in Portland so he knows.

@StoneBuzzard

Жыл бұрын

Dude, I'm convinced he didn't do an accent at all lmao

@fantasyfootballguru3786

Жыл бұрын

Here in the PNW. We say "You guys". But we say it to a group of all men, or a group of mix company, or a group of all women. My friends on the east coast always make fun of me when I say it. I worked in sales and had a older couple from the mid-west walk out on me because I said "Hello, how are you guys today?" The husband was very quick to point out his wife wasnt a "guy" and left. Lol!

@lazersly

Жыл бұрын

Same!

That was great picking up on all of the nuances of the American accents. I've always thought that the best comics are real students of humans.

@liammaxcampbell

Жыл бұрын

the best comics have a command of the language like no other, forget actors.

@MIKERUPTION

Жыл бұрын

@@liammaxcampbell I agree. Heck, even some comics make the best dramatic actors, too. I think of Robin Williams, Jackie Gleason, Billy Crystal in dramatic roles. They fully understand what their characters are going through.

@liammaxcampbell

Жыл бұрын

@@MIKERUPTION Yep this was the exact example and people i was thinking of. I think of stand up comedians(the good ones) as intellectually intelligent as someone that has mastered any other craft, from law to astrophysics and quantum physics.

@MIKERUPTION

Жыл бұрын

@@liammaxcampbell I couldn't agree more!

@fifik1

Жыл бұрын

I agree. You have to be so intelligent and observant to be funny.

I love how he randomly chooses little phrases to exemplify some accents, but they’re not entirely random.

@princessaria

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan Reis yeah, most people who do accents or impressions have specific phrases that help them get into the accent/impression. A good example is when Kate McKinnon talked about it on the Ellen Show.

@ilovemikerogers

4 жыл бұрын

Baseball mitt

@mandolorion8456

4 жыл бұрын

Canada cigarettes got me ps canadian here

@brovold72

3 жыл бұрын

Pumpkins.. we were discussing..

@p1nkfreud

3 жыл бұрын

"2 pumpkins" 😆

“S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A N S P R O N O U N C E T H E E N T I R E W O R D”

@rochelleneal5875

3 жыл бұрын

I was really hoping he would go into a Californians skit

@mr.speyside5240

3 жыл бұрын

Californians invented Ant speak.

@moarschtuff9233

3 жыл бұрын

@@rochelleneal5875 I was hoping to hear a "What'r you doing here?" That would have been a crowd pleaser

@neoxu8588

3 жыл бұрын

That parts just sounds like Doug, the kind of guy pronounces the entire word 😂

@jenm2251

3 жыл бұрын

Who was waiting for him to do Californians?😂👏

This is such a good "accents 101" approach. I remember learning in acting school that two of the most important tenants of doing accents is finding where the sound lives in your mouth and in your body, and finding a phrase or two that gets you to that place. Fred's doing both of these really rapidly, which is cool!

Honestly, as an improv performer, I’m just impressed that he was able to change his accent so quickly

@michaelevert6492

6 ай бұрын

Why do you feel the need to add "as an improv performer, I...?"

"Wisconsin's more Chicago than Chicago" 😂

@ghostpiss1374

3 жыл бұрын

Way too true

@daviddelamora7695

3 жыл бұрын

More shicago than shicago 🤣😘

@SP-cd3wo

3 жыл бұрын

Cmon gimme a little more Chicago tho and some Guatemalan while he’s at it right under Mexico

@whitey138

2 жыл бұрын

It’s from all the FIBs.

@splainin2doo

2 жыл бұрын

He did a perfect wiSCONSin

If there wasn’t a live audience this could be given as a lecture in a linguistics class

@brookenjonas

3 жыл бұрын

HA😂

@herbertwells8757

2 жыл бұрын

Well there no jokes if that’s what you mean, but if this were a class I’d walk out. Every single one of his accents is way off. Henry Higgins would be disgusted.

@Poniksei

2 жыл бұрын

@@herbertwells8757 nice reference

@canaisyoung3601

2 жыл бұрын

Or one of those acting classes where you learn how to do accents and dialects.

@gary609906

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't the students in the class technically be a live audience?

NJ can be sliced into 8 subsections depending on proximity to NY or Philly and the long belt of pine barrens through south/central where some folks have a blue collar style drawl, and they either live in a single-wide out in the sticks or in a 7 bedroom Victorian on 6 acres of wealthy rural land, there is no in-between

@lvl37Bureaucrat

Жыл бұрын

FACTS.

@whaddup5417

Жыл бұрын

Damn

@findingirgendwo

Жыл бұрын

Yup lol. Small state, big nuance

@jackandthebeanstalk4253

Жыл бұрын

I’m from Philly and that’s def true

@Name92391

11 ай бұрын

Exactly 💯 New Jersey explained shout out to South Jersey❤

HE TOOK ME BY SURPRISE WITH THE CUBAN ACCENT! ON POINT!!! 😍 He’s got me screaaaaaming 😂😂😂😂😂😂 QUEENS, KeeNz, Why Nobody Told Me??? Why Didn’t You Tell Me??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

"I am from Seattle, these are the words." Killed me

@audy2174

3 жыл бұрын

@@haashemmalik216 It's definitely true.

@coreygolphenee9633

3 жыл бұрын

Id do like to present my words on a platter

@emilyderoest4732

3 жыл бұрын

Affirmation that Seattleites do indeed have a non-accent, as I have always felt was true.

@careypage5361

3 жыл бұрын

As a Seattlite, I have to say I was surprised that he got us spot on. However, my family roots are from Maine and I went to college there for 4 years, and I think his Maine accent was WAY off. Not even close. Boston and New York were spot on though.

@chattyotter3300

3 жыл бұрын

This is beyond accurate😂I was so confused when his accent disappeared🤣

"You mentioned two pumpkins...not sure...just rethinkin what you said there..."

@MarcillaSmith

4 жыл бұрын

@Matthew Alford Agreed. I would have liked to have seen him include Outter Banks, but definitely shows very high level proficiency

@xxIluvyouguysxx

4 жыл бұрын

Marcilla Smith hardly anyone knows about the Outer Banks accent apart from native NCians

@BGlasnost

4 жыл бұрын

Lol my favorite part

@arastoka

3 жыл бұрын

Matthew Alford it really does. I was watching the news a few years ago and the did piece talking about how one area of the Outer Banks literally has an English (British) accent even though they’re from the US

@nannettehiller9520

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, NC takes its time, lol! "Right away" might be 2 weeks, no "NY minute" down there. Come and sit a spell, chew some tobacco...

It's not just crazy how many accents he has, but how effortlessly he can switch between them. I can only do a couple of accents, but switching between them feels almost impossible without taking some time to like, neurologically "flush" the previous accent. Not sure if that makes sense. This man really is a once a generation talent lol.

@mwater_moon2865

Жыл бұрын

My issue is talking like the people I'm around, I've lived enough places across the US, I tend to slide into an accent as soon as I hear it and I have to be careful to not be offensive. That was HARD in Australia.

@ailujtina

7 ай бұрын

He's incredible.

Manhattan was SO accurate. Sounds just like my grandfather who is from there.

I remember Fred trying to present this to Jimmy Fallon but Jimmy wouldn’t shut up and let him talk. Jimmy had to steal the show and demonstrate to Fred how he knows accents, too.

@AtariForeva

4 жыл бұрын

Fallon has OCD, i swear.

@brovold72

3 жыл бұрын

Conan always steps all over everything too

@godisbollocks

3 жыл бұрын

@@brovold72 Conan is genuinely funny, though.

@WatchGuyJive

3 жыл бұрын

Conan will do that sometimes but he’s overall a much better listener and if someone is funny, his laugh is the best.

@punkybrewstar83

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 jimmy f**kface

I lived in Houston for 6 years. I didn't realize there was a Houston specific accent and then he did it and my ears just had this primal reaction. Like I was listening to a family member

@jbbandsgr

4 жыл бұрын

same 😭

@bratwurst19

3 жыл бұрын

That's sexy

@posteador

3 жыл бұрын

Is it because your family scolds you a little? :)

@wmarkdyer

3 жыл бұрын

Kelly Clarkson and George W. Bush.

@JellyOnDaToast

3 жыл бұрын

Sounded exactly like my grandma lmao

I was waiting for Louisiana but I Fred Armisen is one of my favs! He did Prince when Prince was on SNL

rest in peace michigan accents

"Cubans are like MÍRAME!" - dead lmao

@SlickRick4EVER

3 жыл бұрын

His Cuban accent was dead on! Even women have that accent, too.

@ausernameiguess7058

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t even know that was a thing but it checks out completely

Why do I feel like this is his vocal warmup before everything he does? Queens, nobody told me, queens, brooklyn, Maine "You're on in 5 Fred." OK, thanks 5. QUEENS!

@Tetter.

4 жыл бұрын

I'd upvote but it has 420 upvotes

@frankflapper445

3 жыл бұрын

Motor oil!

Somehow for me this qualifies as ASMR. There is something soothing about hearing him do this.

I think it really speaks to his talent that when he got to my state, any accent disappeared.

@gabrieljohnson4213

Күн бұрын

What is your state?

As a Brit I found that truly educational

@randalclarke5487

3 жыл бұрын

You guys have a ton of regional accents as well, and don't even forget Wales!! Lol

@seanissomething

3 жыл бұрын

It's mad how, in Britain, we have this many dialects/accets in the area the size of one US state. You go 50 miles in any direction in the UK and the accent changes completely.

@ianclements5905

3 жыл бұрын

The difference in accents from the different places in England would be fun too

@liz-c39

2 жыл бұрын

I want a British comedian who’s good at accents to do the same thing. It would be a total rip off of this, but I want to hear the trademark phrases to get into the dialects of each region.

@dolphins1371

2 жыл бұрын

@@randalclarke5487 ì89⁸iì8099

He definitely has a feel for the inflections...could've been a linguist.

@AcornPlays

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of voice actors can do similar stuff to this. This is an excellent example of how versatile you have to be as a voice actor.

@mdunn16

4 жыл бұрын

Cunning linguist, that guy.

@michaelf3805

4 жыл бұрын

mdunn16 that sounds dirty

@GlennDavey

4 жыл бұрын

He ... is and has been... in a way

@melbatoast667

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelf3805 That's the joke, dummy

Bro the fact you know the difference between Cuban and Mexican dialects makes me happy

Not only is he entertaining, but he’s also giving a masterclass lol

"I am from Seattle. These are the words"

@devinkk

4 жыл бұрын

that blew me away

@easimsutube

4 жыл бұрын

In Warshington, we maihhh-zhur our words before giving them to you.

@zachtaylor9597

4 жыл бұрын

easims10 I’m from rural western Washington and I still hear people pronounce cash like “caysh” and creek is “crick” and Tuesday is “tuesdee” and it’s “Hunnerd, Differnt” instead of ‘hundred and different,’ we say yknow a lot and have that sorta low, long O sound and emphasized R sound. I absolutely love it. When I go to Seattle I get people that ask me if I’m from Oklahoma of all places, which has nothing in common with my accent.

@easimsutube

4 жыл бұрын

Zach Taylor amazing. I grew up in Olympia but spent lots of time in rural W WA for climbing and hiking and totally know the accent.

@HazeMotes

4 жыл бұрын

@@zachtaylor9597 That's just your average western hick/Oakie accent. We have it in Nor Cal too if you go inland to a rural place.

when he busted out southern californian that totally sounded like stewart

@fxllencoyote

3 жыл бұрын

GET OUT OF HERE DEVIN!

@jwilsonhandmadeknives2760

3 жыл бұрын

eeehhh eeeeewwww wwwwwhhhhhaaaadddrrrrrr yyyyeeeewwwww deeewwwwiiinnn hhheeeehhhhrrrrr???????

@andypower5531

3 жыл бұрын

Or Dana Carvey kinda

@zacharymyers6392

2 жыл бұрын

Sounded like RDJ

@asklar

2 жыл бұрын

@@fxllencoyote at this time of day? it's gonna be jammmmmed

Fred is an incredibly astute observationalist.

Such brilliance! SF and Mexico vs. Cuba had me rolling! I would’ve loved to hear his impressions of Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska, too!

As a North Carolinian I came into this expecting to be offended, and then he got to us and I had to pause the video because I thought my dad was saying something. That was unbelievable.

"I'm born in Miami but I still have this accent" 😂😂😂

@Chamomile369

2 жыл бұрын

It’s so true 😂

@jacko.6625

Жыл бұрын

I taught in Union City NJ. The Russian kids had a hispanic accent.

Fred is a comedy beast. Portlandia is amazing. And the best cameos in everything. He always kills. Even his rare podcast appearances are gold. The dude just drips hilarity.

from a south carolinian, he got it spot on, 10/10 i love linguistics and IPA so its really awesome to see one of my favorite actor and comedians nail my home state 💙

“This is the Minnesota police” how did he know...

@christianmccaffrey7113

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr it threw me off. I wonder what he thought lol.

@elievans5432

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a quote from a replacements song. Kids don’t follow specifically. They recorded the police shutting down a party they were at and started the song off with it. The cop saying it has a very district accent.

@HarshathJR

3 жыл бұрын

I did quick double take to the date on the video. This guy felt the future.

@Pandaboomina

3 жыл бұрын

This is the Minneapolis* police you mean

@Halliday7895

3 жыл бұрын

he probably has heard it before maybe a few times? i bet theres a story there too. Id guess most of these examples are from things he has heard people say in that place when working there.

More than his changing accent I love the phrases he chose for certain regions. I don't know why but "two pumpkins" is murdering me lol

@amynoosun3703

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, priceless! I’m Canadian, loved cigarettes..

@escapekeymusic

Жыл бұрын

4:00 m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/mKirk9SlfZXPlM4.html

I used to do a version of this, 20 years ago, in my classroom. I had a lecture on regionalism that always got a huge reaction. Nice to see someone else hear the world like I do.

It seems like he’s just saying a bunch of nonsense words together, but he’s actually taking us on a journey of intellect

How the hell did Fred Armisen get the Mexican and Cuban accents better than the American ones??? LMFAO!! Good job, Fred!

@xopi2521

4 жыл бұрын

Mom is Venezuelan and he lived in Brazil.

@MarioBecerraC

4 жыл бұрын

The Mexican one sounded a little bit more Colombian to my ears. 😅

@MarioBecerraC

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe Venezuelan, considering that his mom's from Venezuela.

@luiscastilloful

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarioBecerraC yeah, as far as Mexican accents go, it was pretty terrible. It was more Venezuelan than Mexican. The cuban one is also close, but he missed the eating of consonants that's a major part of the accent. The tone is right, but the pronunciation could've been better.

@rhowell5

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarioBecerraC Oh really? That's cool, I didn't know that.

As a San Franciscan, I can confirm that we say everything like it's a fact. And THAT IS A FACT!

@ww2remembered983

Жыл бұрын

Jack!

@nofurtherwest3474

Жыл бұрын

That's hella funny bro

@V45194

Жыл бұрын

And that's cuz everything we say *is* , in fact, a fact!

As a Wisconsinite, I can say he nailed it.

Cannot listen too many times.....absolutely spot on. I've lived in many of the regions he shows.

I’m glad that he showed the differences in Dallas, Houston, and Austin because Texas being as big as it is, we have a lot of accents.

@daniellyons914

3 жыл бұрын

He skipped over the West Texas accent of J.R. Ewing and George W. Bush. In another video, he does an Arkansas accent that is identical to a northern Louisiana/Northeast Texas accent. He's very, very good.

@toddysurcharge771

2 жыл бұрын

Florida has even more since everyone in the damn country moves there.

@pornthepwongkitigumjorn1567

2 жыл бұрын

I don't care

@slabpanda

2 жыл бұрын

@@pornthepwongkitigumjorn1567 about what?

@ps-ms6wv

7 ай бұрын

His Austin accent was pretty spot on for a San Antonio accent as well !

His mother is Venezuelan and he lived briefly in Brazil. Hence the perfect Spanish accents. His paternal grandpa was Korean. Loved the SoCal accent. Nailed it.

@Sypherz

3 жыл бұрын

His SoCal reminded me immediately of Crispin Glover.

@MinaKay84

Жыл бұрын

Holy crap, Fred Armisen is part Korean?

@marcell5172

Жыл бұрын

I get how having a Venezuelan mother can help with knowing Spanish, but what is the connection with Brazil and Spanish? Honest question.

@MothGirl007

Жыл бұрын

@@MinaKay84 I know - I was shocked too.

@favelado3408

Жыл бұрын

@@marcell5172 there's no connection, and his mexican was far from perfect, it sounded venezuelan

😆😄👏🏼Still keep coming back to this, Fred's simply the best!! 👏🏼😄💖🤟🏼✌🏼

I love the reference to the Replacements recording where you hear “This is the Minneapolis police” - truly comedy for musicians

as a New Yorker I'm dying at all his Tri-State area ones

@nina241085

3 жыл бұрын

Which borough is “I’m walkin’ here!”

@mikeapi5074

3 жыл бұрын

i love that he skipped over staten island 🤣

@thelandgravine

3 жыл бұрын

Sta l l i n g f o r t i m e

@miraclessaint-hilaire4941

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeapi5074AWWW MAN LOL

@javieranglada83

3 жыл бұрын

"Nobody towld me!"

I kinda was waiting for the "californians " traffic report when got to south Cal 😂

@OrdinaryG33K-SF

4 жыл бұрын

Me, too.

@papagrounds

4 жыл бұрын

I always pronounce "california" with Arnold Schwarzenegger accent and voice xD

@Kimmyluvsbooks

4 жыл бұрын

YES!!! 😂😂😂

@MattTelepenko

4 жыл бұрын

Sick profile pic

@GlennDavey

4 жыл бұрын

"You wanna take Labreya alll the way down to the beach and then get on the parkway to the 5...."

Grew up in Miami, currently live in LA… I literally LAUGHED OUTLOUD SO MUCH when he did the Miami, SoCal, Mexican and Cuban accents like SPOT ON!

the BEST American accent description and demonstration of the local state dialects in under 5 minutes ever. GREAT JOB! (Fred missed TN, but its a bit like NC and VA, but with a slight lisp, almost a bit gay sounding, lol)

Me..from Maine: "Oh I wonder if he'll mention Mai..." Fred: "MAINE..YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR ENGLAND HEYAH."

@Reliquancy

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Dawson I used to read a lot of Steven King and sometimes I’ll say something like jeezum crow and people around here have no idea what I’m saying lol

@anniebee2112

4 жыл бұрын

It kind of sounds like forrest gump when he does it!

@bigbud6842

4 жыл бұрын

@@Reliquancy that's because that's not something people say anymore it's like an 80s upper crusty thing.

@Reliquancy

4 жыл бұрын

Big Bud Oh ok I didn’t know that. But no one ever said it in Florida so they’ve never heard it at all...

@annierich6584

4 жыл бұрын

Ben Thurston I don’t know where the other guy is from but people definitely still say jeezum crow up here in northern Maine but it’s mostly from older folks

He's crazy with it when he did Mexican vs Cuban accent he didn't even have a gringo accent super cool

@lordofchaosiori

4 жыл бұрын

killa icy He’s part Venenzuelan I believe.

@KingNefiiria

4 жыл бұрын

Gringo accent lol

@socalastarte6727

4 жыл бұрын

Cause he’s not white

@thalia9789

3 жыл бұрын

I was so impressed!

@dswan1418

3 жыл бұрын

He is half Venezuelan

"hold on there, you mentioned two pumpkins" hahaha

A freaking masterpiece.

As an NC native who's also lived/worked in SC a lot, I was *not* expecting him to get those accents. He nailed them.

@doubtingmustafa

2 жыл бұрын

Its true, the difference between SC and NC’s accents! My dad’s NC accent has a little more bite. More podunk. A lot of SC has more of a proper Aristocratic accent. Governor McMaster is a good example.

@MA-ck4wu

2 жыл бұрын

@@doubtingmustafa Wonderful last name he has

@advancedraymondology2914

Жыл бұрын

My aunt, my grandmother's sister, lived most of her adult life in NC, but she came back to us pretty often and we went to her once for a week when I was a kid. (Crawdads at the cookout! Can't forget that.) I can always recognize the NC accent as separate from other Southern accents and I love to hear it. He did it well. I was a bit disappointed he barely stopped on Philadelphia, mixing it with Pittsburgh. I would definitely say we share more linguistically with Baltimore than Pittsburgh, but whatever.

@jamesandrews8698

10 ай бұрын

Can confirm, that blew my mind

@naverno

5 ай бұрын

Wow. I thought he just bullshited his way through.

I don’t know why, but the “huh?” *wide eyed shoulder shrug* for Montana get me every time 😂

@CristianValenzuela2155

3 жыл бұрын

He looks like an old woman who just peed

"This is the Minneapolis Police" nice Replacements reference!

Fred Armisen is hysterical. He's so talented but underrated artist.

Damn, that change between Cuban and Mexican was so good!

@fernvalemusic269

4 жыл бұрын

agree! i've been to cuba and cancun and that was exactly what i noticed too.

@radionowhere2870

4 жыл бұрын

Miami is English with a spanish letters. It's spot on ! 🤣

@robertosalazarmorales2097

4 жыл бұрын

There was nothing Mexican about his Mexican accent.

@estebansteverincon7117

4 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't. He was using his Venezuelan accent for Mexico. Only some southern Mexicans _might_ talk like that.

@marytapia8024

4 жыл бұрын

Erick D and then there is Puerto Rico which is different again!

This man really created like 50 different characters and seamlessly transitioned between them all.

@designhacker1556

Жыл бұрын

With the pacing and attention span of Nicholas Fehn!

@NoctuaOlivae

Жыл бұрын

Except he only covered like 20 states

@chrisrussell63

Жыл бұрын

Among.

lol i'm from oregon, and the way he described portland was so funny and so accurate. i'd never thought about it before but it was spot on!! we do sound a bit shy

"Wisconsin is more Chicago than Chicago." Thanks for confirming what I always felt deeply on my own

He's not just doing accents he's also doing (harmless) stereotypes of the various places as well.

For New York, for many of us, that's how our parents and grandparents spoke. There are still holdouts who speak that way, but for the most part, the internet softened the accents of the younger generations.

@hlcepeda

Жыл бұрын

Very true; his B'klyn accent was too strong and _perhaps_ influenced by movies. Talking with relatives back in B'klyn, I hear the much softer version of the now "stereotypical" accent. (I've since lost mine, I've been told.) He did nail Manhattan and Long Island! 😄

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR finally putting this on youtube. It is so fantastic.

He absolutely nailed that Baltimore to Virginia switch.

I can’t believe in an interview on Conan once he said he could do every accent in the country from every state including doing one from any town in any state.

@hdpmrr

4 жыл бұрын

That was a shtick. A Stuck. He also said he could do any foreign accent -- or was it any European accent?

@bodyofhope

4 жыл бұрын

Not too uncommon for ppl who do voices and imitation comics.

@hdpmrr

4 жыл бұрын

Check this out, from four years ago, on Conan (it's all a joke, a shtyck) : kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKFrt8GTisS1ccY.html "Fred Armisen Can Do Any Accent In The World - CONAN on TBS"

@GlennDavey

4 жыл бұрын

I saw that too, and I thought he would be doing that here. But this was legit. Whereas that was a little bit joking. He can bluff about the towns... but the states he definitely has down.

@HyderAli-xe6ff

4 жыл бұрын

@@hdpmrr wtf is a stuck. you mean schtick? Yeah he was blowing smoke up your ass a little on the Conan show, but he had an ear for it no doubt> he sat and actually developed an accurate version of that joke for his stand-up - and guess what? Fuckin A

Pacific NW here. Words on a plate LOL! "These are the words" lol

My manager is from Montana and I died when he made that face @4:24 she literally does the same thing 😂😂😂

I’ve always found it odd that Fred hasn’t scored any larger roles, as he’s so uniquely talented.

@wurdofwizdumb1928

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard from a few people that know him that he is VERY messed up and aggressively narcissistic.

@superxavxii421

2 жыл бұрын

Well, now he's Cranky Kong 😂

@RakoonCD

2 жыл бұрын

Now he returns to monke.

@Poniksei

2 жыл бұрын

@@superxavxii421 yeah XD

@EclecticWizard6

2 жыл бұрын

He played Jesus Christ in Man Seeking Woman

As someone who's hugged the west coast for almost three decades...SoCal, Portland, and Seattle were all spot on and now I'm going to be hella self conscious about it

@llabronco

4 жыл бұрын

SAME

@rin4641

4 жыл бұрын

haha im from la and i never thought of myself to pronounce every syllable? definitely more than some ppl in the US but i randomly remembered how my ex is from ohio and used to pronouse "uncomfortable" as "un-com-for-tuh-bull" LOL

@user-qf4tp2ix5v

4 жыл бұрын

Katherine Maitre As a Southern Californian, I’ll pass on hella ;)

@tracy4aminute376

4 жыл бұрын

SuhTHuRN CaLiFORnyuh. So true.

@Kimmyluvsbooks

4 жыл бұрын

So true about Seattle LOL

Louisiana has probably one of the most distinct accents in all of America. You could have 5 southerners from 5 different southern states and the Louisiana accent would stick out like a sore thumb.

@Tonyhouse1168

5 ай бұрын

Is it because everyone in Louisiana speaks like their mouth is full of gumbo? That’s what it sounds like to the civilized world.

@JennyMDMA

23 сағат бұрын

@@Tonyhouse1168 LMAO

This was great! The Miami and Cuban accents were spot on! And when he did the Long Island and NJ accents, I it was like my cousins were talking.

How the hell did Fred get all the nuance from these accents? He’s like that guy on KZread that rates movie accents wow

@johnindigo5477

4 жыл бұрын

Eric singer

@Thesteadfast

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I love all this shit. Fred and and the dialect coach should start a show on accents.

@GlennDavey

4 жыл бұрын

Similar to how Tom Hanks recently did a near-perfect Australian accent on SNL... he had been spending time in Australia. Fred literally tours the entire of North America, so he's had a lot of time to absorb the various accents. Then you just need a way to recall them all... and he uses my technique of picturing how somebody from that area would say the name of where they live. Also years on SNL will make you very good.

@dodgeplow

4 жыл бұрын

@@GlennDavey It doesn't hurt that he speak Spanish fluently, likely German too (his father), not to mention some Korean/Japanese influence as well. He had a wide exposure to languages growing up.

@Jaxkr1

3 жыл бұрын

He’s a professional

Me: Yeah, ok, sure sure. Everyone speaks a little different, but these could be exaggerations of themes in speech and I don't really notice these pinched nasal noises when I speak to people from these areas. *then jaw drops as he absolutely nails the Seattle speech pattern*

@mikemarinacci7161

2 жыл бұрын

My Dad grew up in Tacoma, and I always noticed how he, along with other natives of that area, had EXACTLY the same delivery that Fred describes here. "Present their words on a plate" is PERFECT.

utterly brilliant. Wish there were more of Fred Armison on YT.

So, I’m from Kentucky. Specifically Northern Kentucky in the metropolitan area known as Greater Cincinnati. We basically have a General American Ohioan accent. People don’t believe me when I say I am from Kentucky.

5:15 - I can almost hear Bill Hader announce "The Californians".

@lynseymoat363

3 жыл бұрын

Eeeuuwwhat r u doin here?!?

His southern California was a perfect Crispin Glover impression

"Wisconsin's more Chicago than Chicago!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆 This man is TOO GOOD!

A glorious tour de force. Fred's been consistently fresh, random, and hilarious over time.

“I’m from Seattle, here are the words.” LOL

Finally someone noticed that us Floridians don’t pronounce the “I” in Florida

@ShoshannaEversAuthor

4 жыл бұрын

Lizzy Baran My husband is from Floor-duh too 😄

@ShoshannaEversAuthor

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Natal my parents are NYers (Manhattan and Brooklyn) and they pronounce it that way too! FLAW-rih-duh

@verloren918

4 жыл бұрын

I was a little confused on that one because I'm an upstate New Yorker and I don't pronounce the I in Florida either! Never even been further south than Indiana. Weird.

@YoungIanHollister

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Natal Ayeeee 727

@katelyngummere

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in florida for the majority of my life and didn’t even realize that other people might pronounce the I. Always Floorduh

I love how he compares instantly 😅

I went to college in NY during the 90s didn’t notice I picked the accent till i came back to the south and to this day there are phrases i say unconsciously that make people around me chuckle ..

As a Texan from Austin with relatives from Dallas and Houston, I can absolutely confirm that those accents are accurate. Not all of us, but it's definitely there.

@Synthysynthsynth

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, his getting the diff Texan accents was impressive.

as a born & raised San Franciscan ive NEVER thought about us speaking sounding like that but i think he got it right now that i hear it😂😂

@shitty_beatles

2 жыл бұрын

yeah no hearing that was an experience. tbh i assumed he'd just do the c a l i f o r n i a n s... or some soft generic techboy amalgam.

@kidlitfanful

2 жыл бұрын

My response was almost dying laughing because he is absolutely right. In other words, "This is a FACT!"

@AssOnAPlate187

2 жыл бұрын

It stunned me too. I say "Excuse me??" in the EXACT same way he said it. All the time.

@michlo3393

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, you guys are good at emphasizing the SMUG! 😎

Fred is one of my favorite all time SNL cast

As a German, I just have to say that I am more than happy that *finally* someone on the internet is explaining American accents *properly* - and believe it or not... it really helps. Thanks Fred, keep it up - LMAO😂👍

I thought about Fran Drescher when he did Queens. Looked it up: she's born in Queens.

@beerados3989

4 жыл бұрын

I thought of Action Bronson

@GlassOnion.

4 жыл бұрын

Man she is annoying

@muna5066

4 жыл бұрын

@@kongvinter33 Queens is not mostly Jewish at all. I looked it up and Jewish people make up about 9% of the population. That is a high percentage compared to the country as a whole but Queens is basically the most diverse area in the USA. I'm from Queens and there's a pocket for every "ethnic" group in the world. It's not mostly anything

@Pandidolod

4 жыл бұрын

It was literally in the opening of The Nanny.

@lillianfolsom6741

4 жыл бұрын

You didn't know that? Lol

"This is a fact." What a perfect phrase for SF, lmao

@robertnewell4054

4 жыл бұрын

@Chuffer ..... fuck no. Those are expats from outside of California WHO FORGOT to go home. Have a conversation with someone born & raised in The City & it becomes clear it’s a tale of 2 Cities

@chuffer595

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertnewell4054 I was born in San Francisco, and have lived in the Bay for twenty years, of course it's not perfect, but I just thought it was a funny joke dude!

@robertnewell4054

4 жыл бұрын

@Chuffer ..... And I doubt the veracity of your statement.

@chuffer595

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertnewell4054 Well I can't do anything to dissuade you, so I just hope you have a good day

@robertnewell4054

4 жыл бұрын

@Chuffer ....... In all sincerity I wish you likewise coupled with my apology for any offense. For context I’m a PrunePicker (you’ll probably have to google that one) ... and I can be salty in my reactions regarding the diversity of The Bear Flag Republic that most miss. Broad brush characterizations & hyperbole to often lead. the way. 🖖🏽🤙🏽

I love how he skipped Oklamoma. That was funny in itself.

That was just great. You hit them all. Loved it.

He speaks perfect spanish. I was waiting for the puertorrican impression, really peculiar! 🇵🇷