He is a GEM. He is hilarious and his perspectives are so ordinary yet very funny. 😂😂😂

@wellthen...1539

5 ай бұрын

Loove Ismo!!

Because Finland rules! And so do you, regular American guy dude 😅

@perperson199

5 ай бұрын

Him, yes. Finland, no😬

@peketee2278

5 ай бұрын

@@perperson199 WTF (Welcome to Finland) A much better place than Norway, for example, where it always rains...

@moosesamli4569

5 ай бұрын

Much better than Sweden too, where Perkele was just the name of a band 🤣

@-.-4

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂. Yup , snow is much easier! I’m 5’ and I could throw shovels fulls up on a 7’bank. No snowblowers. My mom would yell at me, your dad is shoveling again. I’d fly out of bed and grab the shovel out of his hands. Ah, to be young 😊 Ya, Finnish American, eh.

@satusalm1

5 ай бұрын

Thanks from Finland 💙

I saw Ismo yesterday on stage here in my home town Kuopio. For a regular American dude he speaks amazing finnish and he only lives part time in Finland.

@thephoenixsystem6765

4 ай бұрын

That's really impressive

@user-rq7hv6lf8c

4 ай бұрын

He learned finnish with a remarkabe dictionary: Americanish-Finnish Finnish-Americanish

@maxcore5815

2 ай бұрын

😂

No "Regular American Guy" would have come up with his hilarious takes on the English language. 😂 we've all grown up with it and it has insideously made us think it's "normal" and only when a foreigner says, "but, waiiiit...whyyyy..." do we actually realize how weird our language is! Thank you, Ismo!

@1414141x

5 ай бұрын

English guy here. 'Our language' ? I take offence....Your English is our language. You stole it from us being too lazy to make your own. Apart from a few words which you have bastardised because you are too lazy to write the whole word......'Aluminum' ??? And what the hell is a VeeeeHickel !!

@ninniv.5615

4 ай бұрын

Ismo also makes jokes about his native language :D Maybe it's his perspective on things that's unique. He's not trying to put anyone down with his jokes, he just observes the world as it is and pays attention even to the tiniest details, seeing the funny side in them.

He's from Finlandville, Alabama

@thrasherdave1428

5 ай бұрын

So he's married to his cousin? 😆

@newsflash7970

2 ай бұрын

no, he's from the UP of Michigan.....

Because of you, Ismo, many people have become interested in Finland, its beauty and culture. You are a Finnish national treasure! Can't wait to see you again. Kiitos!!

@oponamikwe5011

4 ай бұрын

true

He find always good stories 😂

ISMO has been killing it on my youtube feed this past few weeks. Clip after clip after clip and they are all great. Very original funny stuff.

If he's awake for 6 months straight and then he sleeps for 6 months, he's from Finland.

It's all a show - Ismo is from Vermont. Her aunt has cotton fields so wide, they speak Spanish in South, Spanish in West, Canada in North and in East.. they speak Finnish.

He created the character in 1979. To cover his tracks.

I love this guy! All these short clips I get make my day.

Andy Kaufman, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bronson Pinchot, etc..etc.. all created foreign characters that people thought were real and now people can't tell the difference between sarcasm and sincerity. So they have to ask you if you are a character or if you are real. They have lost their ability to exercise judgement and pick up on subtleties. Welcome to 'Merica!

Man, this dudes punchline is rolling on the floor fuuunny!!!

I love this guy. He's such a character.

As much as I love being a Finn, nobody tries to be a Finn because it's cool. Because nobody can be as cool as us Finns.😂

@cherokeestormchaser3259

5 ай бұрын

Every Finn I've ever met, which is only a few, are great people and hilarious 😂 I live in the southern United States, and ISMO would have a ball with the way we talk 😂😂

@wordcoffee101

5 ай бұрын

Yes Finns are extremely cool, the coolest because they live on a block of ice 😂

@cherokeestormchaser3259

5 ай бұрын

@@wordcoffee101 😆 🤣

@Voodoo_Robot

5 ай бұрын

It's "cold". When you are freezing, you say "i am cold" not "i am cool". Common mistake. Don't take this as an offense. Keep it cool.

@kari53

5 ай бұрын

@@Voodoo_Robot Great joke. 😁🤣

It's intentionally a "hilarious" conspiracy to make people think that Finland actually exists.

@mikkolahteenmaki2365

5 ай бұрын

😂 and someone really put the effort in it and swept Finland from a map to be able to claim there's only ocean. "It isn't actually there..." and the dance went on in Nashville... That was hilarious! 😂

@charleshulsey3103

5 ай бұрын

😂

@thejjzz

2 ай бұрын

I live in Finland and I can confirm it doesn't exist.

Probably the fifth bit I've heard of Ismo's, and I get it. I laugh every time. And while I may not possess! that unique, Finnish sense of humor, I respond to it most favorably. Do you know where my first Finnish laugh comes from? Any podium interview of Mika Hakkinen back when he was a front-runner in FIA F1 Grand Prix racing. Mika had that subtle smirk disguised as a smile, now and then, when responding to any interveiwer's questions... That's when I knew I loved the Finns and their below-the-radar personalities. Marcus Gronholm, on the other hand... what a stick in the mud! lmao Here's wishing you continued success, Ismo!

I went to Finland and didn't see you there. Are you sure you're Finish?

ISMO the sniper 😂

He picked Finland because it doesn't exist. (Finland being fake is a hilarious joke conspiracy theory, look it up)

1 of the funniest I've seen, he got me hooked with his "I didn't know sh*t" routine😂😂😂😂

There was a GE turbine rep from Finland I worked with years ago.. We spent quite a bit of money at a local bar.. His name is Per . Pronounced like pear.. Finn's are hilarious!!

@pasiojala3227

5 ай бұрын

And the funny thing is that Per is a Swedish forename. Maybe he was Finlandssvenska.

@MF175mp

5 ай бұрын

Per is pronounced actually More like "pær" in Swedish

@foobar1500

5 ай бұрын

@@pasiojala3227 Maybe his surname was Slappy and he was a friend of Janis Petke.

@jarkkomakela7751

5 ай бұрын

​@@foobar1500Nope, his surname was Saukko.

@pekkasiren4532

5 ай бұрын

If he was from Sweden his middle ame could be vert.

Korpiklaani and Ismo, Finlands GREATEST exports, ya can't beat it!

I can't wait for ISMO to talk about the saying "What's good?" as in the greeting. I'd love to see that ISMO if you're seing this. I'm sure you'd nail it

Why would he pick Finland? Learning fluent Finnish is one of the hardest things you can do, bit these people think he learned it just to try making a believable backstory for a potentially succesful character.

@HNedel

5 ай бұрын

Ah, but you see, we have never heard him actually speak Finnish! He just learned how to do the accent, like many people Imitate german accent without knowing any german

@steresi

5 ай бұрын

​@@HNedel Short search on KZread reveals his Finnish chops! kzread.info/dash/bejne/nH56u8ioaaa4pM4.htmlsi=SrqLJNgGXVNvSH8U

@sugibudder

5 ай бұрын

@@HNedel You can find a lot of videos of his doing stand up in Finnish, its a lot more rare to see him live novadays because he lives in the US, but if you go talk to him in Finnish, he understands. He definetly knows the Finnish language.

@HNedel

5 ай бұрын

@@sugibudder i know, was just saying this is probably what those unbelievers think.

@Samsung-zg9ql

5 ай бұрын

Finnish is really easy.

ISMO has a Finnish channel. Oh ya, he’s Finnish! 😂😂😂

Tbf, I wouldn't be surprised if the Americans asking him this think Finland is where Santa Claus lives. So in that case, it makes sense that Ismo chose his character to have roots in this mythical land somewhere in the country of Europe, they think

Oh, god. You're hilarious. Love ya.

I would love to go to Finland to my relatives home town. It’s on the map, my Family name even.😂😂😂

Why would you choose Finland? Because you are good at doing the accent, of course.

The Finnish Hydraulic Press Channel real American dude has exactly the same accent

I don’t know if you read these comments or not. But I’m here to say, that is some very seriously funny shit coming out of your head. I don’t know how you do it. It’s a gift. Carry on.

Hyvä Ismo! 👍🙂👍

ISMO is BESTMO.

I fondly think of Lappeenranta and the lakes in 1981

People in the United States claim to be from other countries based on their heritage despite the fact that they don’t speak the language and most likely they have never even been there. They probably assumed you were doing the same.

Tell those people you’re from Antarctica

@falsemcnuggethope

4 ай бұрын

They would reply: "but how is your skin so pale?"

Do you come to Hamburg any time ,would come to your showfor sure 🙂

Dude is hilarious

Of course he's Finnish. His mother was a Lapp dancer and his dad sold Eskimo pies.

@marias6583

5 ай бұрын

Eskimos are in Greenland, not Finland 😛

Ey, that's a legit question 😂😂😂

OMG He's such a riot!!! 🤣😅😂🤣😂😅💞💕💞

He manages to say things that aren't really very funny and still be very funny.

Boating racing or camping, Finland has it all!

Hilarious.

😅 the last question funnyy...😊

Who else is old enough to remember José Jiménez?

@YeahRightInc

5 ай бұрын

I do. Funny thing was, Bill Dana was Jewish.

@jeanettewaverly2590

5 ай бұрын

@@YeahRightInc I never knew his real name!

ok , now i am confused even more. is he really from Finland?!?

@Qurgon

5 ай бұрын

Yes he is.

@jeanettewaverly2590

5 ай бұрын

Maybe.

@falsemcnuggethope

4 ай бұрын

Of course not

Haha, the answer is easy - no one would be able to expose him, because Finland doesn't exist😂

Love u 😂

Put the subtitles in the CC section so we can turn them off.

Funniest artist since M. A. Numminen

They watched Poirot series and assiciated to the ictitious comissar Hjerson who was really a Finn.

ISMO pulling an Andy Kaufman or Sasha Cohen Baron? Either way I don't trust him but I will laugh with him.

Same reason the car salesman chose Jon Voight.

😅😂🤣 precis!!!

I have often wondered why Finland is full of ice and snow, but Iceland is full of hot firey volcanoes. Wouldn't it be nice if both held a referendum and switch names? It will be so fitting. The F in Finland will stand for 'fire' volcanic land. 😊

finland is awesome. or rally is awesome, and finland loves rally, and holds a great (but not the best) rally stage/ location. so i dont know if finland is awesome. but rally is, and they like rally, and they produced ismo. so yeah. finland is awesome.

Lol yeah 😅

Definately an original. Here come the movie scripts

😂😂❤

😂❤

Hehe😂

I think he's from New Finland. 🤔

We call the Netherlands “Holland” and the people are “Dutch”. Riff on that Ismo!

HI ISMO, maybe you know Andy Kaufman and then you can appreciate that after what the american public has "suffered" at his performances, they want to be extra cautious :)

Oikein hyvä 😊

please...STOP using the phone wrongly to record video.... there is a reason tvs and youtube have horizontal canvas... -.-' after saying that, love love this guy...

Why would Sasha Baron Cohen choose Kazakhstan for Borat? Some things in combination are just inherently funny.

Очень смешной чувак!😂😂😂

An awsome silly finland caracter!.. ahahha... i would say youre a cilivilized Borat!..

Becose Kazakhstan was already taken by Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen).

I'm certain there are a few Finns here. This is a question from a Dane. Is it true that you dine in silence? I'm serious. I've been told so.

@AnssiRai

4 ай бұрын

Yes, many people do... you're not supposed to talk when your mouth is full of food anyway... 😁

@Laname-Destupid

4 ай бұрын

@@AnssiRai Thanks! 😂

❤😅🤣

fake it till u make it.

😂🤘❤️

Jag tror att barn lär sig svenska i Finland. Testa att använda den i Minnesota, Ismo 😀

@Wenixi

5 ай бұрын

Jag vi lär oss det på 13-15 årig

@mixlllllll

5 ай бұрын

​​@@Wenixi Nej, det fortsätter till universität/yrkeshögskolan.

@Wenixi

5 ай бұрын

@@mixlllllll No. Not all people go there.

@mixlllllll

5 ай бұрын

​@@Wenixi Of course not, but the point was that it continues all the way to higher education.

Miksi ei?😊

😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah, really... Why Finland? I miss the Finnish stand up from way back.

Because no one would know if the accent is real

Could be worse. You could pick Belgium.

6 seconds. lol fastest to me.

@mudatherbabiker1797

5 ай бұрын

But it's very old video 😹

@moonliteX

5 ай бұрын

@@mudatherbabiker1797 damn! XD

It seems conspiracy theories grow very well in American soil.

Plot twist: later it turns out actually he's not from Finland. But Danish 😅

It's not uncommon, look at borat

@XtreeM_FaiL

5 ай бұрын

Borat was great success.

@thrasherdave1428

5 ай бұрын

Wawaweewa

Finland isn't real.

Is this guy a comedian????? Or is he like the girl from North Korea who escaped Finland why are people laughing he’s not funny who’s this show for

😂😂😂😂