"If you've come as an elf, see it through as an elf" best christmas advice. ever.

The absolute best part of Christmas for me as a child living in Sevenoaks, Kent was carol singing with my friend Joanna on the richest street which was 2 miles long. One night, maybe two, up one side and down the other. I think we had 10 or so songs in our repertoire. I still know the words to several old English carols. We made a ton of money, maybe 4 or 5 pounds! Our parents made us donate half to Charity, I think it was the RSPCA. The rest was ours. So much fun for nine and seven year-old girls. It seems so bizarre to me today.

When a Frenchman introduced me to “Keeping Up Appearances” and showed me how British folks were literally the ONLY ones who could have a show like this and have it be successful… I was sold on their sense of humor and how much it’s given to the world. We owe so much to British humor and overall sensitivity. They are the genesis of all of the First World!

@jeraldbaxter3532

7 ай бұрын

I grew up in rural south Georgia (USA) and there was a woman in the small town who was the Southern version of Hyacinth Buck...er, ah, Bouquet. It didn't help matters that she lived in an antebellum plantation house that had been in her husband's family for generations. She was not prone to dear Hyacinth faux pas, but within 5 minutes in her company, one knew she considered herself a grand lady and, by rights, must be obeyed (all conveyed with the utmost gentility, of course). I still have flashbacks to the year she directed the Christmas pageant😊.

@moj1338

7 ай бұрын

That is an exaggeration. There is humour in every culture. The reason you don't know and find British humour unique is because you don't know other cultures' languages.

@lmrharper3586

7 ай бұрын

@@moj1338Its supposed to be funny . You have single handedly just proved that their descriptions are valid.

@moj1338

7 ай бұрын

@@lmrharper3586 I have no idea what is supposed to be funny? "Keeping Up Appearances"? Yes, it is supposed to be and it is extremely funny. I really enjoy this show, the writing is fantastic, the acting is even more fantastic. But, to say that the British "were literally the ONLY ones who could have a show like this and have it be successful" is an exaggeration. There are plenty of other shows from other parts of the world that are extremely funny and humorous. I am not sure how I "have single handedly just proved" what? It seems that you are also prone to exaggeration!

@lmrharper3586

7 ай бұрын

@@moj1338 Where are you from? Almost all the actors in this video are comedians making fun of the stereotypical English . I also love Keeping up Appearances and I love the all English comedy shows.

OMG….I am a Canadian & I just LOVE the British…their traditions ( that they hate but continue to do because of their beautiful, exquisite, loveable CIVILITY. GOD BLESS & KEEP THEM THE SAME FOREVER. They are the touchstone of the way of life I want to live….

@PH_1964

6 ай бұрын

I so want to be a Canadian but sadly not yet visited. Your humour and irony is spot on ❤ 🇬🇧 🇦🇺

I took a Christmas off once and just went travelling overseas. Completely brilliant. Highly recommend.

@RainbowSunshineRain

6 ай бұрын

Why only once?

The bit at 3:32 about explaining/apologizing for a gift makes me think I must secretly be British. 😂

Born in Canada to an English mum … my mum brought these traditions to her new country. Our Christmas was very different to our friends who have Canadian born parents. Mince tarts, bread sauce, Father Christmas (we sounded ridiculous when everyone else called him Santa Claus), Christmas cake (yuck)….now that my parents are gone, my sibs and I have embraced these traditions.

@PH_1964

6 ай бұрын

God bless your Mum. Christmas Cake yummy 😋❤ Merry Christmas. Do you know Yule Log? I'm English in 🇦🇺 and nearly explode when I see it at Aldi but I actually can't afford any Aussie food. Looking is my treat. Merry Christmas all ❤❤❤

I love the British, as an American, I just cant get over it! Thank you!

@PH_1964

6 ай бұрын

I bet you're delighted egotistical James Corden is back in 🇬🇧

I was the donkey, I went for being a king. In the end of that they only had two kings, and I was still a fucking donkey

@ttintagel

8 ай бұрын

WHAT?!? That's horrible!

@Tentaclestudio1

7 ай бұрын

Next time, audition for Don Quixote (donkey hote) and you'll get the lead role🤣

What I find funny is that a goose or a duck roast would actually be the more traditional choice of bird than the turkey, which is a new world bird, and was used by the settlers as a substitute for goose

@janetpendlebury6808

7 ай бұрын

The 16th-century farmer Thomas Tusser noted that by 1573 turkeys were commonly served at English Christmas dinners. The tradition of turkey at Christmas rapidly spread throughout England in the 17th century.

A Canadian (and particularly Newfoundland & Labrador) version of this show would almost literally be the opposite of almost everything! (Except maybe the saying "sorry" part. LOL) We nod and wink and say "Merry Christmas" to everyone and are literally known for mummering, where disguised visitors are welcome in for a drink and piece of cake during the 12 days. We also created a celebratory event on Dec. 23rd, known as Tibb's Eve, particularly for people to have their night of celebratory drinking, which would then be done, so that one can be more respectable during the family-centred Christmas activities. It's like we took some of the best bits of the UK Christmas and tweeked them to get rid of the guilt and negativity and make them our own. So different! lol

"Happy Holidays" isn't solely to be inclusive of those who don't celebrate Christmas. Since there are so many holidays celebrated between late November and early January, it's simpler to have one greeting you can use for the whole season.

@cc1k435

7 ай бұрын

Harecore Christmas enthusiasts don't seem to give a rip about other holidays, including New Year's, which they presumably also celebrate. 😂

@kristianstipe

6 ай бұрын

A person can have a merry Christmas even though they don't celebrate Christmas.

@srkh8966

5 ай бұрын

@@cc1k435They aren’t “hardcore Christmas enthusiasts”-they’re victim fetishists.

I left Scotland in 1969 and up to that point hadn’t paid much attention to the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day even though my mother watched it religiously. Living in Canada from then on I would watch it and encourage my children to do so. We all stood. Guilt maybe?

Love this VBP series - I watched it so many times on Netflix until they dropped it. Thanks for uploading it!

David Tennant Timestamps 00:50 12:35 20:06 (voiceover starts) 28:27 30:38 40:48 (no talking, just camera shot)

@Tentaclestudio1

7 ай бұрын

Love your David dedication!

@Mel-lz6ub

7 ай бұрын

@@Tentaclestudio1 He's a national treasure! Lol

@kwhite7524

6 ай бұрын

The whole show’s worth watching but DT in a cozy sweater is certainly the highlight

David Tennant, Jack Whitehall, Nigel Havers, Catherine Tate, Steven Mangan - what a great Christmas lunch lineup.

My Gran's family was from Scotland and she grew up with these traditions in Canada. Both My father and mother had these Christmas routines too. The foods, mince tarts and the plum pudding were a staple at Christmas. The family visits were eye rolling as well.

If those good Baptists had known they were turning me into a lifelong theater kid by casting me as the archangel in the Nativity play when I was six, they'd have made me the understudy for the back half of the donkey instead.

@alyzu4755

7 ай бұрын

Love it!!!!! 😂❤️❤️❤️

After many decades, I have realized the strongest and most wide spread Christmas traditions are stressing over every detail and then complaining about Christmas. Growing up on a farm, family Christmas were fairly low key. My father's second wife "DID" Christmas, complete with Chtistmas Eve open house; bingo was played and participation was mandatory. Forty years later and I still have the occassional PTSD flashbac from being sent to the store for the "correct" whipped cream.

@PH_1964

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂❤

We in the U.S. also talk about the journey (we'd say trip) upon arrival: flight, drive, weather, traffic, and if driving, the route you took. It always ends up that you should have taken the route that someone says you should have taken, GPS or no GPS. That route is probably just as bad, but it makes them feel that they knew better than you. And that's OK, because... it's Christmas. (However we do the same thing on Thanksgiving and every other holiday.)

There were always what my dad termed "Jaded Gifts." It would be some random re-gift, or something from the charity shop.

My sister summed it up, "I despise Christmas."

Red wine, teeth😂😂😂 love, Romesh

I'm American. My mum's dad immigrated from England, my dad's grandad immigrated from Wales. It's incredible just how many of these very British problems are still evident in my generation of my family and beyond 😅

Loved it, yep, that's Christmas here as well, although we're in the middle of a 40C day at Christmas. When I feel I want to leave, I just get up and say, well I'm going home now, thank you for the wonderful lunch. 🙃🇦🇺

I love the British humor. ❤

Fun video. Thank you.

What on earth happened to you folks that made you horrified to have a good time? At Christmas you can be a child again for a while. ❤

I am watching this thinking "there are so many things from Love Actually that weren't just cute whimsy character decisions. It's Everyone!!!" 🤯

@SnowyMary

5 ай бұрын

I love the Second Lobster with all my heart, but now I'm low-key invested in a nativity with Cabbage

I like the walk part. Great for burglars

My fantasy of british christmas is destroyed, I thought everyone said 'happy Christmas'

@pamelaspooner7183

7 ай бұрын

We Always said ‘happy’ in the 50’s and 60’s in England. Not sure when that changed but I don’t like it.

@ros8986

7 ай бұрын

@@pamelaspooner7183 thank you for taking the tim to repond to clueless american

@acufish07

6 ай бұрын

Can’t remember where I got this information from. But they use Merry& Happy interchably.

@OzzieOzzieOzzieOyOyOy

5 ай бұрын

I’m fifty-one, and I’ve always said ‘Happy Christmas’. Merry Christmas sounds weird … maybe because my family are common as muck? I dunno!

Being a Kiwi I'm glad the Poms got here first - imagine if the french or Dutch or, god forbid the Spanish colonized us - the Maori wouldve been enslaved and we'd all be speaking romance - nah, Poms have the best sense of humour....

What a holiday treat! All these comedians... and James Corden; the brussel sprout of the comedy world.

@PH_1964

6 ай бұрын

That's an insult to Brussels Sprouts. The show gets a mark down with him. Rude, smug, arrogant git!

15:47 what song is this?

I knew what my ex-British very younger cousins were asking for so much better than he did. They wanted to have sauce with their chips and he had no idea what they wanted. I had to explain to him they wanted ketchup with french fries. I have never even been to the UK, Both my ex and I live in Canada and yet I knew more British customs and how they said things than he did.

Our group went carolling one Christmas, just to sing, and we were well received for quite a while, but one place we went, no one opened a window or door…dead silence! The next day we realized we had been singing Christmas carols at a Jewish Old Folks home….sorry…no offence was meant…we hope none was taken.

Do not start tipping it will never stop

nativity plays are still going strong in Germany, although in my experience they're usually done at churches and not at schools

At 22:24 James Corden is stealing Jack Whitehall's jokes

Watching Christmas specials, you do start to think British people have a huge problem with alcohol.

Why on earth is Stephen Mangan thinking with that 'stache monstrosity??? 🙀

My daughter went to elf school when we lived in Finland. Got a certificate and a lot of responsibility.

I was born and raised in America, but after watching this I think I might be British…

media is the grinch

If you invite a German it'll be rather shaken up. 😂

So James Corden's mum is Frankie Howerd then?

The thing with the receipt being added to the gift is a very british thing, and weird.

@angelapietras1235

5 ай бұрын

Bamboule I think it’s a great idea if the person hates the gift or they already have what has been bought,then they can take it back.I give money.

Um, Katherine, I like figgy pudding and I don't like cheesecake. I also like sprouts. So there.

Nigel Havers....swoon!

Wow,, Stephen looks weird without wild curly hair and that walrus mustache.

Always seems to wind back " Keep a Stiff Upper Lip " Mentality. Unique & Confusing . Amazingly it's Endearing .

Not falling for it this year ,not one wrapped present ,at 70 l don,t do Easter Halloween b,days ,nothing. I did buy my car two news tyres so $530 cash l,m lashing out and telling my family my safety is my number one gift.

Oh, calm the poop down

Is this grumpy christmas.

Bah, humbug….

"It's Christmas time. That magical holiday when us Brits..."...don't learn to use English grammar correctly. Actually, it would be "we Brits', because "us" don't "pull on our festive jumpers" and "us" don't "deck the halls". "We" do.

If for some reason you put an apostrophe in "do's" then logically you should write "don't's".

@Rubytuesday1569

8 ай бұрын

That's nothing logical about the English language!😂

@vjc2270

7 ай бұрын

The title of this video is grammatically correct. "Dos" and "Don'ts" are the correct plural form of the words "Do" and "Don't". "Don't" is a contraction of "Do not" - the apostrophe essentially indicates the missing "o". Apostrophes before an "s" at the end of words indicate possession, so to insert an apostrophe before an "s" to indicate a plural is incorrect (e.g. common errors of this type include "the 1990's", "DVD's") . Yes, you may call me the pendant's pedant! 🤣🤣

@AM-qp2wx

7 ай бұрын

@vjc2......refreshing to see someone who knows correct grammar & punctuation! Hooray!

Germans insist on the walk thing too but preferably in the woods. HATE IT.

Because only the British have this ridiculous class structure and I don’t understand why Americans think it’s so admirable

Absolute joke, but not how you intended.

This was depressing

Mary wasn’t white was she?

Nope. Not all Americans. Merry Christmas because I celebrate it. If you don't celebrate Christmas feel free to say Happy Holidays. Be offended if you want to be. Still saying Merry Christmas.😂

I think it would be less awkward if Christians would wear crosses on chains so others know who to chirp Merry Christmas at.

@Sunset553

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking, oh there is a purpose for those Christmas tree brooches. So yeah, any sign at all. Even the ugly jumper with Rudolph

The whole “these are just our issues” thing is a joke right? Cause the vast majority of it is relatable to this American. Of course, I would trade my citizenship in for a gorgeous listed estate of some sort somewhere near London (provided I have the income for upkeep and the ideal lifestyle) in a heartbeat. It’s one of my life goals to move there eventually, for many reasons, so it’s hard to sum it all up, but I’ve always felt I’d be more comfortable there. BTW, James Cordon clearly hasn’t been drinking with the Americans in my part of the country - we’re certainly not all your typical snob from Los Angeles (not that all people from L.A. are snobs, many are “unhoused” for instance, and some are in-between those extremes, but obviously James only knows the snobs, of which there are plenty). Anyhoo… lost my train of thought, um, Merry Christmas and/or good luck getting through another December!

The ironic thing is that had Mary existed at all she would have been a brown lady anyway 😢

Not even surprised that James Cordon is such a petty child in a adults body. He's put me off watching the rest of this 🤮

@SunnyDays00

6 ай бұрын

I never watched him after Gavin and Stacey...why do people dislike him now? Serious question

Why is that offensive Dyer on this? As soon as I heard him swearing for absolutely no reason I switched off.

@seaofbees783

8 ай бұрын

steady on

@cc1k435

7 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that's Christmas at his house. 😂

great choices save Corden -- he's an awful human being

@SunnyDays00

6 ай бұрын

I never watched him after Gavin and Stacey.. why do people dislike him now? Serious question

It’s interesting that Brits always want to compare themselves to Americans. There’s some awkward Britishness there.

@gjclark2478

8 ай бұрын

That's bollocks 😂😂

@3v3rythlngsc0nn3ct3d

7 ай бұрын

Noone in this video compared britain to america except that toerag Corden who lived there for a while and might as well have stayed there because he's a pleb anyway.

MARY WASNT WHITE EITHER SHE WAS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. IF SHE AND JESUS WERE WHITE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BLOODY MIRACLE

I can't stand James Corden!

what a load of rubbish.

These list shows are trash

Greeks like to fly to London for Xmas. So they balance out the "boat"