Chris James - Black British Accent (Stand Up Comedy) 

I know you Black, but you ain't Black, Black". Best line ever.

"Say somethin', British Homie!" I AM WHEEZING

The stereotypical "African accent" in the West is the southern Nigerian accent.

This guy's insane, I searched everywhere for more of his stand ups, couldn't find but a couple.. DUDE WE DEMAND MORE

The biggest problem is well spoken black ppl not being view as being black or "blackblack"

It's real life. My family immigrated from Tanzania (East Africa) when I was a child. I've legit had my Black American friends tell me in conversations "you're black, but you ain't black black." Me with 100% Bantu blood ain't "black black."

Black British guy doesn't fit black stereotype.... even black people are shocked haha.

HAHAH it is like here when I am brown and and they speak to me in Spanish thinking I am Mexican and once I say no hablo Espanol and they Get mad at me and say What kind of Mexican doesn't speak spanish and I am like The Egyptian kind. I am Egyptian haha

I feel like everyone expects black ppl to be like black U.S. Americans, including black U.S. Americans. It's super annoying.

"Black Unicorn"

I'm a black guy in America, watching a black British comedian impersonate an African, while in my Japanese car at a Chinese restaurant on a Korean handheld.. Weird moment.

No no no! im not your broda! 😂😂😂😂

No... No.. No.. I'm not your brother 😝😝😝🙌🏼

"Bust a cap in yo booty! Yeah, yeah" *music stops* *awkward silence* "....Hello everybody (in his British accent)....." Hahahaha..... :D

"African tribal *click* Black" oml

I'm British (and white if it matters) but that happened to me too. I went into a McDonalds and ordered a Big Mac meal and the girl behind the counter called over about 3 or 4 colleagues and told me "say something again". You guys speak our language, yet you act like you've never heard an English person before?!

Even black British people make fun of their American counterparts.

A few of the comments being made here (presumably by Black Americans) really exemplifies the cultural illiteracy Chris James was talking about. You criticize his personality and manner of speech because he doesn't fit your Americanized definition of Blackness. The brotha is simply a product of his environment, his culture. Black folks outside North America usually don't go around saying:" yo! yo! yo! what's up my homie?" Or any other expressions typical of Black America. Don't assume your Black experience speaks for everyone else's. That's one of the reasons Blacks from the different part of the world, residing in America don't always get along. Some of y'all really need to travel more.

I laughed at the black unicorn...

You don't have to be British to be treated this way. I am a 37 year old Black American male, I only speak standard American English because that is how I was raised as a homeschool kid. But I grew up in a ghetto in South Philadelphia, so my entire childhood consisted of me having to fend off other Black kids who constantly tried to fight me or mock me because I was accused of "talking White." As an adult who no longer lives in the hood, I don't have to deal with people trying to fight me at this stage in my life, but I do not have Black friends because of too many bad experiences with being judged. Black Americans tend to be very tolerant and respectful of other ethnicities and dialects, but they are extremely critical and judgemental towards their own kind. The reason they behave that way isn't because it's "Black culture", the problem originated from social engineering because Black Americans had been oppressed for so long that they have been conditioned to reject anything that resembles the institutions that discriminated against them. I understand the reason why I was ostricized from the Black community, but they need to learn that behaving that way only helps the racist entities that they want to oppose. Because along with deciding not to adopt proper English, the same type of Black Americans also avoid careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). It goes hand-in-hand: a racist is usually also a mysognist; likewise, a Black American who mocks educated vernacular of other dark-skinned people are also the Black Americans who generally don't seek higher education for themselves.

Can relate to this!.....I travel the US for work, and STILL get this kind of reaction - I remember one woman asking me if I was actually black!!!, because of my accent, and I only get it from Black Americans!.

As a Black British teenager I'd like to state that the best thing about living in London is that after school you can walk into a chicken shop and buy 3 wings and chips for a £1 or a portion of wings if you don't want the chips.

I'm Ghanaian and I laugh at African Americans who call each other "not black enough". Na kwasia ataka sen! 😂😂👌🏿

Black American here. I love this brother man. He did a good job with our accents. Toooo funny!

My life summed up in under 3 minutes

He looks like Oj Simpson if he never killed anybody

He sounded very country when he was trying to sound like a gansta !!!! lol

Whenever he says "Hello there" I burst out laughing this is amazing

i'm British Asian (British Chinese) and when I was travelling Asia I was surprised when I met another Asian girl who had a British accent haha it was unexpected 'cos it's not common... also everywhere i went people thought i was local haha Bali, Thailand, HK etc... until I opened my mouth xD

Here's the thing in America we are not told about black Europeans so some of us have no clue that they exist so to some of us it's like finding the lost city of Atlantis or some shit

50 shades of black ;)

I really like this video because it really highlights the ignorance of the people who think that black Americans are the default idea of black.

As a black American, what hes saying is facts. I remember telling this one brother, that i was going out with an English girl. His Response: DAMM HOMIE I DIDNT KNOW YOU WAS INTO WHITE GIRLS . Dude I never said she was white SMH

Another problem is the US media's depiction of British people and British accents, generally, as something inherently pretentious, haughty, posh, or upper class. I can't begin to tell you how ridiculous I find this, as a non-Anglo American who has actually travelled in England and met British people of all classes and races. I had a Black Caribbean college buddy in NYC in the 1980s. When he moved as a child from Birmingham, England to the Bronx, NYC, USA, he had to shed his (not-so-posh!) accent to avoid getting beaten up by the African-American kids. (This happened in the 1970s, so things may have changed.) I have also heard stories from the same period about similar treatment of British immigrants by working-class white Americans, such as a working class British kid from Manchester being dubbed, "Lord English" [!] by his US classmates. I do think part of this US media phenomenon stems from (white) Anglo-Americans wanting to believe they are descendants of British nobility, rather than exiled horse thieves.

It’s true though, some black Americans think their the only ones who go through black struggles

So this is what a black british man sounds like... Checked something off my bucket list today

My British friend had the same experience when she went to highschool in America. When she tried to talk to some local black girls, they told her that she can "speak normally now", and when they realized that she legitimately speaks with a British accent they said "You ain't a real n***a gurl!" :D

He speaks for all Caribbean people in the states. Even though we live in there neighborhoods, they never consider us as brother from states.

LOL, ON POINT. Especially with the "Your not Black Black". bahahaha.

When you are latinamerican and you finally understand english and them.... you realize you need to learn black american english too...😬🥺😱

Haha I’m from New Zealand, and when I went to the US for the first time, that’s how they treated me at Denny’s lol too funny. Felt like a celebrity haha

Dude the tongue pop .... KILLED IT !!!

We have black guys in Finland, too - and some of them speak English in a stereotypical Finnish accent... unwieldy, choppy and just outright comical. XD You should hear them, they're seriously hilarious - we have several as regulars at the library where I work at. What's funny about the stereotypical Finnish "English" accent is that people born in Finland are likely to pick it up - it doesn't matter if you're white, black, Asian, etc. You just pick it up from people around you while growing up. XD We call it "tankero-englanti" thanks to a Finnish politician who first spoke in that accent.

Im African but i love how he did the stereotypical "african accent" which is usually found in North Africa by the way, and the twist to it when he made the clicking sounds (OMG) im dying ryt now n i aint even offended🤣🤣🤣

I'm African and in the U.K. some people think I look like a black person from U.S. and have these weird expectations like being "gangster" or "hard" as they like to call it and having "swagger" and pretending to grab my balls while walking and showing off my boxers all just stereotypical crap really. I remember this one Scottish girl in this small town I went to being scared of me because she apparently was scared of black people from U.S. because of all the movies. lol Maybe they put those black american expectations from me because they didn't have any prejudices for black African that wasn't dying of malaria or wasn't starving African in need of donations in order to enjoy christmas, I'm sure we've all seen to UNICEF ads. They just didn't know what to make of me. Just like those black americans didn't know what to make of the British black guy so they resorted to say he's not black black lololol

I find it really weird (and sometimes ignorant) how people from america especially have a hard time comprehending that there are black people in the UK. The UK has a reputation all over the world for having people from different cultures, races and nationalities living here...i thought it would be obvious!? :S Im from London and we have a big british caribbean and african population here.

British people be like *LITCHERLY*

that's a West african accent..not an overall african really funny though!!

2:28 Mutombo? lmao

That’s like a James Bond brother

fucking hell! love people who can do different accents, this is is just amazing at it!

After watching a lot of British tv shows, I've learned that they all have different accents just like Americans do. I'm from CA and I sound waaay different than someone from Texas or the South. British people from Essex sound different than London and so on (like the chimney sweep from Mary Poppins :)

My bruda, do u kno de wae

I'm from Oregon USA I went down to Mississippi once and they were tripping off my accent thought I was from England, not even close we do need to travel more

My family are about as Caribbean as they get on my dads side anyway and I adore my culture regardless of the negative bullshit I hear from people. But I won't lie I have a well spoken posh Buckinghamshire British accent :-D hahahaha This was awesome just

American leftists also say black Republicans aren't blackblack.

for real for real

he actually did a pretty good african american stereotypical accent lol "dannng , dannng homie"

Lots of Black British are of Jamaican descent. So you have Africans ending up in Jamaica, then they end up in Britain.

Bro he legit sound like Stephen from Moon Knight 😄

"Hey, my brotha!" **deep African accent** "No. No. No. No. No. "

Why does everyone assume that Africans have a deep voice? Also some people are assuming he did a Nigerian accent, well its not even close. Funny thing is everyone thinks they can do a Nigerian accent, but their imitations are always rubbish.

I remember seeing a standup routine from another black British comedian and he told a story about being in America and getting pulled over by the cops. And how he was petrified they were going to shoot him or something, but the second they heard his "Hugh Grant" accent they started treating him like a celebrity and let him go without even a ticket.

The funny thing about this is how much I relate. I had an English/South-African accent accent growing up so people always said I wasn’t black enough. My nickname throughout high school was “The Englishman”. Similar thing happened when I moved to the US a few years ago, so now I use a mid western accent to avoid drawing attention to myself, but when I get really mad or tired, the accent comes out and it’s low key kinda funny in hindsight 😂

Part of the reason for African-Americans' ignorance about Black people in England is simply that middle-class Americans travel less than middle-class Europeans, and that international travel is very expensive from the USA, especially for poor Americans. Also, as noted by many commenters, African-American culture has a huge influence around the world; Black communities in Europe are much smaller and don't have the same influence. I would hope that Black people would find it empowing to meet and connect with others of sub-Saharan African ancestry, wherever they come from, but it takes a certain amount of education to be politically conscious. I would also add that, as a middle-class American, I've been fortunate enough to travel to places where I've met plenty of Black people of various backgrounds. I've also met plenty of people of various races and backgrounds who have adopted an "attitude" similar to that described among African-Americans, which seems to happen mostly in First World countries, and in response to poverty and discrimination.

the plaintive little "hello there" destroys me every time

Degrading Africa as usual.

I have to admit it, in the 80’s, long before any social media, on my first trip to London, and literally on my first ride on the U, the first time I heard a 6 foot, 250 pound black man speak with a British accent, I had to do a double take. I just wasn’t expecting that cheery “pop on over for spot of proper English tea” accent from someone who looked like they were from the Sugar Hill Gang (Rappers Delight)

I always feel there's something charming about a black person with a british accent

damn… his American black accent is spot on

The ting goes *skrrrraa*

Damn, this guy is pretty good at a black American accent.

His imitation of American black accent is not good. He sounds more like a southern white person.

I liv in da uk an he is well spoken compared to most people here black or white

I've used this piece in college classes to illustrate cultural stereotypes and just how narrow and constructed identities are. It's quite the brilliant example of how unstable and ethnocentric notions of "blackness" are (no less than "Southern" "female" "European" "gay" etc. pp.). This is what I love about good stand-up, it communicates complex ideas straightforwardly while being funny. Louis CK is a master at that.

This might have been a short set, but this man's cheekbones and jawline putting in a full 8 hour shift. Dude could be a hollywood star.

I know this guy! I met him when I started doing stand up a few months ago. He's one of the nicest most genuine guys I've ever met. He's got years of wisdom and hours of comedy. I really hope he becomes the next big thing, he really deserves it!

Dear lord, is this geezer from the east end? He sounds like my ex🤣🤣🤣🤣

"I am blaaaack, black, black, black African tribal *click click* black." 🤣🤣😭😭

I wonder if people will say "You're not Chinese Chinese" when I go to China lmao

I wonder how African Americans would react to some of the black guys I know here in Ireland lol.

2:33 thats the Knuckles meme right there. lol! Brodah knows de wey!

He is like a British White Guy who accedently came out black

American people, i haved lived in your beautiful country and i have love for all good people of this world BUT if u wana see proper funny black British comedy then look up Kane Brown Comedy.. this bloke is one of the best yet.. educate yourselves but he ain't 4 the faint hearted Piers Da Please on RU-vid is good too... just not quite as black

When he started talking about the two "real black guys", I lost it and laughed so hard from then on. This guy is really funny!

I work in a club on the Vegas strip.. This trips me out almost every night

Its so funny because its so true whenever i go to america(im British and black) people always aske to repeat myself not because they didn't hear me but because they want to hear my accent its so funny

British are the best haha.

I guess no one's never heard of Slick Rick or Lennox Lewis.

I bet you could win cases with that voice

How did I only just see this in 2019!!

In a subtle way I think he's trying to say that some African Americans are a bit ignorant and colloquial. And I feel him because I'm black British myself, it seems like a lot of African Americans aren't aware of the African diaspora.

Funny video and very amusing comments. I once went to the Gambia to visit a friend of mine. One day I went to the beach and was chatting with two girls from London, one black and the other white. The Gambian boys didn't understand why the black girl was sunbathing. "You do know that you're black don't you?" they asked. Her reply was "I've known this all my life!".

The African part had me rolling! This guy is good!!

"Black British Accent" So, a British accent, from someone who just happens to be black?

Wait---I've seen this bit 4 times, and I just realized that he thinks he's doing a "black American English accent"... um, no... sounds like a white guy from West Virginia who grew up around black people from Dalton, GA.

I don't know how I ended up here from football highlights, but I'm glad I did. Good stuff.

When he builds the joke and says, 'Hello everybody' at 0:47 in that British accent; one of the funniest moments of comedy I've ever seen... XD ;)

He looks like no one could be mad at him. And the accent makes him seem innocent. You know?