Marion Cotillard Confused by Impossibly Irish Couch - The Graham Norton Show 

Same.

Neither did I...and nor did others.

I can understand They are smoothing it up a little bit for her it was not that thick accent

Even with 'Caption On'... I still got nothing 😩

harold danny it’s not very difficult even for myself as an American.

He's not wrong though, there's a start and a finish and you just get in your boat and row. Obviously there's a ton of technique and stuff, but still

"why complicate things?"

"yer man says go at the start"

@@hyperionman420 and there's a hooter at the end like

Tis

HandeToon dju no like

Shimple

It's regional dialect. Some places you go, you will hear " sort of fing" after everything. Like " Tis a fairly simple sport, sort of thing"

He’s not wrong tbf

Love these guys 😂

Well also it just makes sense tho like....

That is so classically Irish in it's thought & delivery. I remember watching the Commandments & a kid was waiting outside the lift with a horse. Guy says I hope you're not thinking of taking that horse on the lift. Only to be told. Of course I am. The stairs would kill him!

Foreigners just complicate things like!

@@YewrMan I believe its ”tings”

@@samanthab1923 Sorry there now Sheila, I think you're mixing up a couple very good Irish movies. The comandments is not one. The Commitmets is one and Into the west is the other one.

Irishmen, plural you pleb

this is the kinda couch i‘m talking about

this is the kinda couch i‘m talking about

To you. Easiest accent to you.

@@13strong kinda goes without saying doesn’t it?

yeah, right...? plus, he's got this german grin to himself, its so heartwarming to see... my mum had an old friend of hers who had the exact same smile, it made me so happy anytime i saw it, i mean it really made me happy, because he seemed so fulfilled, even if it was just for a moment... And he was german, of course... :p And his brother had it too, so it was a family thing... It was incredible, I could not get over it anytime it happended, and it just made me speak with them more, which I usually did... :) But the funny thing is that I didn't remember all of this at all, until I saw michael fassbender's smile in this video... :p so, i'm sorry about this long and maybe boring story about these heartwarming and exilerating smiles, but hey, I felt like i could and wanted to share it... :pAlthough I never write any comments in here... :p bye ! :p

I am right there with her.

digitalgravity So am I.

C'est domage. Elle devrait apprendre Kerryois.

Je la comprends en même temps : l'accent irlandais est super beau mais parfois incompréhensible 😂

I don't get a single word out of their mouths, man And I thought James McAvoy has the thicker tongue in the couch...

It’s because he has multiple celebrities on the couch at the same time, and they’re allowed to interact. It makes everything much more comfortable and natural for them

James Cordan and Conan are probably the best talk shows in the US imo

@@nia356 True,absolutely true

Thats because the Americans have political shows not chat shows.

that's cause they can drink alcohol on the couch

so will I if I see anyone spell committed like that again.

Lol

Fiona trust me it still helped

Their hometown is apparently named Windscreen.

TheMymlan Windscreen! XD I just saw! XD

Iain McMullan in skibbereen. It’s a town like 😂😂

Ohhh so that's what they said !! Thanks !

@Mario No, there from Cork, that's the accent

@Mario they come from cork in ireland

"you worked on a movie set with Michael with his thick Kerry accent!" is what he said.

@@leathorns1751 THANK YOU !

@@Nophreetime quite welcome! :) Being irish it was a little more understandable for me XD

😃 then do more ...! What's he saying at 1:34? 😛 and what did the other guy call the finish line..? Hoovers? Hoothers?

@@Nophreetime 1.34 "I was quite serious about the whole situation though. Everything I told was the truth, like." The finish line is hooter, its a horn that sounds as people pass the line

Generally what happens if you are near people speaking in your native manner you tend to slip back into your natural accent.

i'm a Yorkshire man and i've been living in somerset for 17 years, as soon as I go home back to York My accent comes back so strong!

penguinch so did Graham it tends to happen around fellow townies.

Tends to be the case when we are surrounded by people having an accent. I as a Swede will start speaking with a French accent when I'm around French people... When I speak on the phone with my parents, I fall straight back to the accent we have in the North of Sweden...

No he was pointing out to Marion that she couldn't understand them, yet she had just made a movie with Fassbender who has a thick Kerry accent.

k9 aid anymore laid back they fall over. lol.

Well Irish people are laid back anyway well my family there are lol 😂

Irish people have a real tongue-in-cheek style humour

Victor Kyrg He is with his people😆

Fassbender as well. His Irish accent is just dripping off his lips here.

My mum is Irish but left Ireland when she was 14...she’s 70 now and with a Scottish accent... but if she talks about Ireland the Irish lilt comes out strong.

Yayy! 😇

Graham grew up in Bandon, which is about 50 km from Skibbereen. So he’s a West Cork man too.

She's dumbfounded 😂

Her face is priceless anyway.

Visible confusion ensues

Someone needs to write a joke that ends with the dog quote.

not just an englishman.. a brummie

The bartender looks up and says "The usual? Don't worry, I'll pull it like a dog"

Ouch

mmarieden what I was thinking. Guess I need to marry and Irishman now...

*an

Is that what they call Bukkake in Ireland?

varpilah me too lol

varpilah I'm right there with her lol

I'd understand Klingon sooner than Irish English

i don't either. dafuq was that? :P

I'm sorry people, not at all. 😅 i grew up hearing broken English and African English so i can hear all accents very well😆

In what Universe?

Even more so when bemused.

When she smokes 10 packs a day

Michael grew up in both Ireland and Germany.

James is Catholic from Scotland with a last name McAvoy...odds are hes at least 50% Irish himself

she's thinking is this actually the ENGLISH language !!? but her lovely face is priceless!!

K Fallon q

K Fallon

K Fallon, it must be embarrassing for her since everyone else seems to get it.

K Fallon relatable

I hadn't put together how similar they were before.

Many Irish were sent to the Carribean as slaves too.

Other way around, the "red legs" Irish slaves were first into the Caribbean even before the africans, and none of them were slave owners. A look at the colonial records, and you will find this to be true, the Irish were hardly slaves/owners given the status of Ireland under English rule. Only exception was a few (west brits) anglo Irish families. When the Africans slave traders (yes you read me correctly, African) began selling africans to the English/Dutch/French, this was a trade that had been going on between africans and Arabs along the Ivory Coast, for hundreds of years before the northern Europeans showed up. When the Africans came in, they were much better at withstanding the strong Caribbean sun/heat than the pasty Irish, and the Africans soon became the slave of choice, thus the Irish, who were christened red legs by the africans, (because of their sunburn) were quickly phased out. Another fact is that the Irish and Africans mixed well and married, and this is why you have many Irish sounding place names and many people of afro-Irish decent from the Caribbean islands.

You are absolutely right and check mossarat spelt wrong

I read up on this history as well, and I am a total history buff because I am obsessed with world history in many areas, and the thing about history is that there is never enough to know about it because there's always new information. The interesting thing about this particular area of history is that it was always a mixture of both, where there were owners, slaves and indentured servants. English landowners sent many of their Irish indentured servants as well as those that were slaves (possibly as prisoners of war, or as former tenants who had to pay off very big debts owed to their landlords) most were sent to the Caribbean as well as other areas. While there is always possibility of anyone owning a slave being English, Irish, or Spanish, Muslim, and even African (yes, they did this too, mostly though with their enemies), there is also always a chance when it comes to history, to never say never. History is a mixture of stories in the lives of those that are told and untold. We will likely never hear all the stories from across the ages because there's too much of it, and in pre-written history the likelihood is of course less for the most obvious reasons (being that written history is easier to keep track of). However, it is arrogant to say that no one Irish (or any other nationality) was ever slaves because of their color, keep in mind slavery had long existed even before it had become known to what it is now. It didn't just appear out of thin air; it had existed already. The Muslims often took slaves, buying or selling, if they took a female slave they did what they wanted, but if they took a male slave, they would castrate them so that they could not take their women. Did you know in Saudi Arabia they did not abolish slavery until 1962? Few people know that slavery predated Europeans, or that it had touched many countries and nations, regardless of race. Those that had felt the evil of what it is, their voices are still lost in time.

yeah, plus the one with baby face in blue blazer is really cute.

Thats Paul

i choose the non baby face one

I choose James ;)

dangerhamster Ireland and Scotland are basically siblings

mitch's #1 trash same

mitch's #1 trash same

same here

I was amazed the entire video I could actually keep up with them. This is a major win if english isnt your mother tongue.

Seriously, english is not my mother tongue, and I understood everything they said ;) I guess I can say I am billingual ;)

Nobody understands a Cork accent

Hopefully he'll be back on a future Graham Norton show.

And again 😂

2024 here, another gold for him in Paris 💚

​@@JS-uq7iyOkay, if he's not asked back after that, I'll be furious!

Lots of different ancestors that's the secret.

What I didn't even know they were related

Bombay1618 Oh my gosh! I didn't realize they were brothers or related in any way! Wow. 😂

Ireland is a Catholic country. There is no such thing as an affair in Ireland. Just brothers that don't look much alike. The Lord moves in mysterious ways.

Bombay1618 They don't really look alike, but they act like brothers, it's so weird.

Well, they are brothers. Siblings are funny creatures, and if allowed to be together in the wild, they will charm the unwary outsider into complete submission.

Liam Wilbur 🤣🤣🤣 my goodness, what an observation.. almost scientific 👍🏼

Yes, true, I laught even I dont get it... 😁😁😁

@@liamwilbur1897 I like to think I'm vaguely amusing at times, but when my brother and I get together, all of a sudden, it's (Martin) and Martin's Laugh-In.

She's probably used to it.

We have all been in that situation.

Amir Rapaport, you should try the auto generated ones lol

I wish there was a way for me to add subtitles to the video, i would.

Amir Rapaport lmao the subtitles are confused they don't even know

Turning on CC only makes it worse for this video...

You need to get out more.

Doug McVay and michael gets LOTS more irish!!

Blue Mind They're talking about what's happened because of them being in the olympics

The bit Marion completely missed was that some bloke had tattooed their phrase "pull like a dog" on his arm. And one of the rowers suggested he put it there to enhance his masturbation at home.

Blue Mind Dubliners get understood much easier than the lads from Cork , I'm Irish and I have no feckin idea what they are on about 😂😂😂😂

Blue Mind Dubliners get understood much easier than the lads from Cork , I'm Irish and I have no feckin idea what they are on about 😂😂😂😂

@@badhollywoodscience That joke was awesome!

We can let him slide since he is Irish and all. :)

lynchmob72 Oh I know he's Irish, I think it's cute that his accent suddenly reappeared.

Fassbender as well!

sparrow Micheal's only half Irish, but he grew up in Ireland his whole life

There's a psychological term for that. I can't recall what it is right now, though. It's where you subconsciously emulate the terms of the person you are talking to. It could be tone of voice, accent, pitch, mannerisms, etc. It's a bonding concept.

I lived in Dublin for a year and my neighbours were from Kerry and I sat at their kitchen table and ate their food and drank tea with them several times a week, for a year, and to this day I have NO IDEA what they said.

Thats kinda my biggest concern, I want to travel Irland so bad, but I'm afraid I'll be like Marion all the time 😆

@Spuckeblase The Cork and Keery accents are the hardest ones to grasp, its what these guys have, but you get used to them after a while and all the accents are dead simple, though North Dublin can be tough for the beginners. I recommend you do come, just be careful around some parts of Dublin, they can be quite dangerous

I am Irish and find these guys difficult to understand and a bit stage Irish and cringy even

Where have you been there? I was 2015 in Ireland, County Kerry, Dingle and around. Found an old very wise irish man and after a while, evenings with beer and talking, he called me an old soul. My favourite moment in Ireland. And the rain is much more soften than in Germany, so if I could choose I would like to live there. Sorry for this grammatical disaster 😕

Ever stay in Australia? They're honest there to the point of being brutal.

what language are they talking in

They're speaking English

Oh come on they're not that funny! Got a bit predictable n anjoying by the end

Reminds me of a researcher at the local university... his main research field had been the regional accents of Swedish spoken in Finland... he was originally from a small fishing village near Vaasa, and when there was an anniversary of his working in the field, his colleagues made a tongue-in-cheek collection of essays about stuff in his field... so one of them set out to see whether the language spoken in his home village was Swedish or not, he went there and recorded a couple old fishermen talking to each other... then he went through various ways to identify if something said belonged to a language, such as if a person knowing the language could understand it... then he played the recording to five native Swedish speakers, both from Sweden and Finland... and also to some nonnative speakers who however had an excellent grasp of the language, some having studied different forms of it for decades... and nobody understood a word. So the conclusion of the article was, whatever the language spoken in that village, was, it wasn't Swedish :)

🤣

@@jannepeltonen2036 what

Well, it's the south wesht...

Pretty sure there was something about pulling off a dog :/

Nope like pulling like a dog in a boat so pulling the oars fast 😂

A few shots of Jameson clears it right up.

There was a pretty good masturbation joke near the end.

guests are relaxed, and he's got the best investigation team ever..

@@okkcomputer The booze he supplies helps loosen their tongues, too.

Bloody Vanessa and the mighty Brummie English lad at the end, go on Frank lad!

The auld alliance

Alistair Shaw ... That was the French and the Scottish not the Irish and Scottish.

@@Hyndergogen9 Is there not a French Lady also on that sofa

me neither. I empathize so much with Marion here...

I understood 99% of what they said. have an Irish Mother and go to Ireland regularly. I can tell they've got an accent, like, but it's cystal clear to me what they say - raised in London.

anyvideostuff 101 of course, you are a native english speaker.. I'm not :)

***** tru, but even then most english speakers havent a clue either! lol

anyvideostuff 101 really? lol

Did this person just gatekeep

Fassbender doesn't sound British or English though

After just watching other interviews, you are right, he doesn't. The Irish accent is so slight, I hadn't noticed.

he's half irish , half-german as i understand it.

His father is german and his mother is Irish and he's lived in Ireland since he was 2. And identifies with being Irish. Good on him. The Irish are great wonderful people

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Pippa Longstockings 😍😍😍😍😍

No

Sorry mate but still can't make a baby without two opposite sexes. And contrary to the media's belief heterosexuality is still the vast majority of society.

That's some next level trolling, mate. Keep it up :)

Jordan De Pass it is a language

they speak english

Peter O' Connor Joe Minett-Searle Irish is STILL English just with different slang and different speech. Saying Irish is it's own language is like saying country is it's own language as well which is stupid and self defeating

That's what the joke was meant to be

i replied to the wrong comment, i got your joke.

I always thought he was from Northern Ireland

@@lornam7954 :He has always spoken with a Kerry accent. He never had one of the many different accents that one finds right across the north of Ireland, from Donegal to Belfast and Newry to Enniskillen.

BOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY

Presumably this is a dig at the woman with the 2nd most Oscar nominations ever by the age of 25. In any category.

@@libertinemart Still.....

@Nat Le Still fake accents, trying to smooth out the supposed rough elements of real Irish accents. They seem to hate pronouncing "ou" : saying "clahds" instead of "clouds" "sath" instead of "South". "second best" becomes "sacahnd bast" and more examples besides.

@@libertinemart She's undoubtedly a great actress, not trying to detract from that at all.

I both agree and disagree. I have one of the thicker accents in the Netherlands and I do smooth it down a bit for people to understand me. That doesn't erase regional markers like a rolling pronunciation of g and dropping hs and that's fine. You can do both you know.

You're slow

Laura Sanchez damn that was brutal 💔😜

1. Laura is a fake page, so the flirty emojis are unnecessary. 2. They're not speaking fast, they just have an incredibly thick accent. So if you didn't understand most of their words, don't worry, most English speakers couldn't either.

Question Everything Hahaha OK thanks a lot for the info 😛😂

Question Everything It's not, dumbass. Don't be so ignorant

(curious) Why though? I have an idea, but I'm not sure I understand. Is it because he didn't assume they were straight? Nothing wrong with your comment, I'm just curious about it, that's all. /is lgbt

It's more just really progressive I guess for James to say desired sex instead of assuming they're straight. It's just nice that he's "in the know" enough to say things like that. That's all 😊 Nice to see people normalizing not assuming everyone's straight.

Yes its so thoughtful of him to think abt that to politely say before asking his question. Most ppl would nvr think abt that n just assume the opp gender. Thats really sweet

killua123333 but not very funny....the Irish lads were like...'ah yh...grand...wtf tht fella goin on about'

Very overly dry pc of him

Yep. I'm British born Irish, I grew up with West Indian kids, mainly Jamaicans, but a couple of Trini's. My parents have thick Irish accents and my mates' parents have thick accents, our parents got on grand. Similar speech patterns, pronounciations, speed of delivery. I could grasp patois more than the British kids we grew up with. Not a common told fact that Irish prisoners and children from Britain were forced into 'indentured' slavery in a few Caribbean islands way back when. Montserrat, in particular.

Leon James the Montserrat accent is amazing.

lol im trini and i understood most as well. how interesting lol

I think our accent is worse 😂😂

Byyrd I'm Irish and married to a trini there are so many similarities between us its uncanny. Attitude to things, sense of humour, accent, expressions and even food .. punch & rum and baileys? Black cake made with rum or xmas pudding made with whiskey... there were a lot of Irish slaves brought to Barbados and Trinidad by the English so I'd say their version of English had an influence on the africans learning it.

Jen Tombs ‘Tis true. I’m Mexican American but I can understand most of what they say.

Same with Italian Americans

I cant understand them and im from the uk...

Thanks Englishman. Jealous much?

Well, most yanks are thick as two short planks, so...

And was back doing his rounds a few days after winning. Week later went and won singls world chanmpionships :)

Charlene Raymond i did to and i'm from Brazil

They definitely are but their max heart rate is 192 so far far greater than 120

it's brilliant in its simplicity

That's wonderful! Respect is just your normal!

Yeah that was a conversation stopper

Woah, I forgot I commented this, but still it’s nice how inclusive that was

@@Teddy_Iz_Bri I hated it

Anything north of the tees helps. Theres a fair bit of geordie there too

Zack Palmer That actually helps. Do more. In fact, rewrite the dictionary in Irish phonetically.

IRISH NOT BRITISH!!!! :-(

Zack Palmer no it can't, it's only Brits or Americans who do that. It really annoys Irish people when people say that. It's an Irish Republic. Only Northern Irish.

No, it absolutely cannot. "British people, or Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown dependencies The Republic of Ireland is not part of any of the above.

Not the point Zack. Falkland Islanders are British, and don't live in the British Isles. Irish people live in the British Isles and are not British. Living in part of the British Isles does not denote Britishness.

My dad was from Cork. He lived in the U.K. for 75 years but never lost his accent.

Hittingitstiff If you're used to listening accent especially Scottish and Irish,you basically could understand every other accent that is spoken in English because Scottish and Irish pronounciation of word is what I called lazy pronounciation in which it's very subtle. Indian,Chinese,Arab speaking English accent they tend to emphasise and stress the pronounciation.So it's not that difficult

Including Singlish (Singaporean English)? It can be challenging sometimes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oA1qSB1Kxgg.html

Me, I get lost at Nigerian English ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xbxDGJ-Zg70.html

How about deep southern US drawl? And I mean DEEP and twangy with no pauses between words. I find a real southern accent harder to understand than any European English.

Rikkitikkitavi. All American accents are very simple and straightforward to understand to the British.

I'm Southern by the way. As in from the Southern U.S. and I've always found both Irish and Scottish accents to be a lot easier to understand than say a French accent, and that may have to do with how language evolves and who was more likely to move to the southern U.S. or it may just be me.

Sounds like an advert/promo for a delightful comedy show!

I understood this better than I understood them, and I don't even speak French.

ouais et c'est ironique parce que to "pull" c'est un expression anglais, les américains ne comprennent pas

@@claustraphobixit's because we have very different sayings based on our own culture. Shared language doesn't mean shared culture.

As a Canuck, and not a Quebecois, I'm actually kinda proud t'inquiet Marion was the only phrase I didn't immediately understand here... Given I've been out of school quite a while now

Elle est tellement mal à l’aise

I'm surprised at how much I do understand. Once you realize that 30% of the words are either "tis," "like," or "Skibbereen," it gets a lot easier to follow.

ThatTVaddict t Yeah maybe don't do that because it's just as annoying

how is that douchy exactly?

Um... did I miss something? I understand them just fine, and Marion, who is called out in this clip, is French, not American. As a side note, recognizing that people speak differently even while speaking the same language isn't that big of a deal. It is often brought up as in " Oh, how funny it all is," not "Look at that idiot, he cannot speak properly." At least, that's my interpretation when people poke fun at my accent.

LucianoThePig ?? Or maybe its true.. As a foreigner I understand perfectly american and most british accents, but irish/scottish just sounds like a different language to me =(

There's not a single American person in this entire clip lol