@@garryleeks4848 not the best Loyd Grossman impression I've heard - Vic Reeves on "The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer" (the MasterChef parody) was spot on.
Terry Wogan often mentioned his dislike for the way his chat show set was designed. It was designed that way because it had to fit into the BBC Television Theatre stage. When in 1991 he moved to BBC Television Centre, the set was changed to a design we see now on chat shows.
I only knew one person with an accent like this and it was this South African girl down in London. Is this how the old colonials imitate the 'posh middle class accent' perhaps ? Serious question.
I don't know the answer, but I thought I'd heard it described as a mid-Atlantic accent, a cross between American and English (ignoring the specifics of which American and which English accent because I don't know!).
In a word, yes, but more so in the "old days." Places like Australia and New Zealand have had a "cultural cringe" in the past. An uncomfortable relationship with their own place in the world (?), being known as the old "colonials." People in high society, in the media, and even Prime Ministers who were highly educated, perhaps well travelled people, seemed to adopt this quasi English- "plum" English- accent. There was a saying, long ago, that the New Zealanders and Tasmanians were "more English than the English." Now, one might..ah, we could write essays on why this was. And I'm not here to start a race war, I'm just remembering the old days. So, yes, it was a cultural phenomenon.
Apparently, you feel increasingly redundant, as you're moved further and further down the sofa. I don't know.. I mean, you're still on the sofa. I would've thought that you're "redundant" that day they ask you to close the door behind you.
