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

@SgtPowell

2 жыл бұрын

This was definitely the best part.

@MrGksarathy

2 жыл бұрын

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

@whitneymouse

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Lylybeebee

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@michaelstamper5875

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

Freaking embarrassing

@Joe-gw9wh

2 жыл бұрын

Lora Coggins

@kaladze93

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@juliagriffin461

2 жыл бұрын

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

@pabloni1117

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliagriffin461 how so?

@dannyarcher6370

2 жыл бұрын

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

@bothi00

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliagriffin461 how is cowardly, exactly?

@mundaneman1811

2 жыл бұрын

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 :)))

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

2 жыл бұрын

Cheerio! Thanks for the good tip you old wanker.

@jamesmcinnis208

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

That's coz you're a WAAAAAANNNNNNKKKKKKEEEEEEERRR

@newjerseyyouth4853

2 жыл бұрын

Calling someone English is a worse insult😂😂😂😂

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@judithbell6937

2 жыл бұрын

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 😂

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."

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

@samiam619

2 жыл бұрын

👍

@Spero_Hawk

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@triarb5790 You might think you can but nope.

@raineetoneme

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Meanwhile in Scotland life went on as normal.

@BillinhoBamford

2 жыл бұрын

You mean losing at football? 😉⚽ #toosoon?

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

@datgrrl5698

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Ildskalli

2 жыл бұрын

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

@horationelson1840

2 жыл бұрын

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

@drunkengamer1977

2 жыл бұрын

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

@silvasilvasilva

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

There was. It was called Prokofiev.

@thejimmydanly

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@louisee7339

2 жыл бұрын

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

@dannyarcher6370

2 жыл бұрын

Except 'cheers' means 'thanks' over there.

@vickygarnett7623

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

"literally"

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@klemensk8776

2 жыл бұрын

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

@emilydavison2053

2 жыл бұрын

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

@dcthomas8959

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@darrelljebb4544

2 жыл бұрын

Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins?

@bobboulden

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@stuartmorgan3654

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@outeast999

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Spero_Hawk

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@ReadyMindsetGo

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Joe-gw9wh

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what British people sound like wym

@triarb5790

2 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-gw9wh 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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

When Americans have to acknowledge there are other countries.

@louieo.blevinsmusic4197

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

E L L O G U V N A

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ProtestTheIndie

2 жыл бұрын

Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta is a strong contender

@Simon-hb9rf

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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!

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

@ge2623

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. that's the medias purpose.

@datgrrl5698

2 жыл бұрын

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

@dethlokprime8655

2 жыл бұрын

Seven. I lost one watching this.

@jam-if2ej

2 жыл бұрын

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

@SirWeirdGuy

2 жыл бұрын

lol you take this shit too seriously

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@lavenderoh

2 жыл бұрын

@@triarb5790 oh sure

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

@shortstuff780

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

@louieo.blevinsmusic4197

2 жыл бұрын

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

@TheGreatAtario

2 жыл бұрын

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

@hadorstapa

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

@fromthefountofyouth

2 жыл бұрын

No such luck as he doesn't sweat the small stuff.

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

The "Hello Guvna" one is probably the best XD

That was some hardcore cringe.

@vladimirenlow4388

2 жыл бұрын

Cringe with a side of mushy peas.

You're the best, Mr Jacobs.

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

The Las Vegas guy sounded like dracula 🦇🦇🦇

Pain

70 years in the same job with no promotion.

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

11 ай бұрын

This probably was funnier in your head.

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

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

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

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.

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

My best British accent is basically Salad Fingers.

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

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

I’m American and this hurt my soul.

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

The guy on Coast Live 1:42 does look like Edgar Wright, to be fair.

2 separate mrs. Doubtfires lol

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

@Hair8Metal8Karen

2 жыл бұрын

That's because it actually means goodbye

@grimftl

2 жыл бұрын

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

@callistogarnet

2 жыл бұрын

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

@petertaylor4980

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

This what happens when you defund the arts

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

I think I need to go have a lie down

@henrytawnn8694

2 жыл бұрын

Take as much time as you need.

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

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

IS THAT DAVE ANTHONY YELLING “‘ALLO GUVNA”

Lol I heard it referred to as the "Platty Jubes" and wanted to slap the person who said it. Also: the Americans doing "the accent" is stupid funny. I've never heard an actual British person say "Cheerio" in my whole 35 years apart from on the tv...and I'm a born and bred Londoner 😂😂

@ampersandcastle1091

2 жыл бұрын

Me and all my friends referred to it as the ‘platty joobs’ haha, but maybe that’s just because we didn’t really care about it all that much

@samiam619

2 жыл бұрын

Fraud! You claim to be a “born and bred Londoner” and yet you didn’t call it a “Telly”!

@ZomBabeZoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@samiam619 lol not a fraud, I changed it from telly to tv at the last second before posting,hence the "the" in front of tv!🤪🤪

Hope you had a lovely Platty Joobs

Funny how Americans think that it's only other people that have an accent.

Some of us avoided it, as best we could.

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

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

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

I do enjoy my brand-name oat rings

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

XD

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.

I think “cheerio” is actually Gaelic btw…

We don't actually use cheerio that much though!

Make the noise stop! My ears, my ears!

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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@ampersandcastle1091

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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".

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

@Daneki

2 жыл бұрын

Spiderman? British Old spiderman? British Superman? British

@ampersandcastle1091

2 жыл бұрын

The walking dead too!

@petertaylor4980

2 жыл бұрын

@@Daneki, Superman's Indian: m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/Znt3wbNria60gpM.html

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!"

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 . . .

god that was so painful.

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

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

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

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 😬

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

This is nightmare fuel

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

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

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

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.

1:30 is as far as I can get through this cringefest.

Local TV news is uniformly awful.

Most cringeworthy moment for me: "Jubliee" at 2:18. We'll dun, coast LIVE.

I hate the phrase Across the pond😡

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

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

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