Ricky Gervais Teaches You British Slang | Vanity Fair 

Whenever I hear the word vadge, I always think of Madonna.

"He's a geezer, he's a bloke, he's a good lad." Alright then...

haha that’s the only way to describe them and do them justice

@@Armuotas You know! He's a diamond, he's minty. Salt of the earth. Kushty! You know! Geezer....

@@Armuotas Yes, it's so hard to understand.

Init, i know when/how to use slang but I wouldn’t fuckin be able to explain it as well as him

One could say he's an absolute geezer

You're a right geezer.

init x

Noel Westwood you sound so mad about people fighting for equality.....

hes a chap

Smokes and gambles

A good auld sod he is

He's sound

We Americans have geezer. It’s usually a very old decrepit person.

👆🏻👌🏻

@@tommedcouk 👉 👌 there, corrected you

GYANDEEP SINGH (B15EE014) prick 🙄

Or should that be todger? 😄

Honestly though

ahh man when I went to UK for my uni and everybody and everywhere people were saying cheers everytime, like at the end of the convo, as a thanks and in my head cheers means when you clink your beer glass 😂

Big up

it's used as a thank you and, maybe ive understood it wrong all these years, but a sort of goodbye as well? "I'll see you later" "Cheers, mate."

As well as "Tah"

@@jaymercer4692 cheers

Well Ricky's "educated"

Nah, Simon Pegg and Henry Cavill's slang video was well explained too

You should visit Lancashire lol

@Marshall Carwood what never heard of that for tea.

@Marshall Carwood well proof how can you prove something when you grew up with it. My father used it he was RN.

ikr 😂

He forgot to say diamond geezer, the dodgy geezer.

I never realised bloke and lad were slang words, I’m too British 😂

@@sophiemell9752 I didn't know that the word 'bloke' is basically not used in American until more recently. That's when I realised I'm probably too British too.

@@sophiemell9752 I read your comment with my American accent, saw the last part about you being British, then had to read your comment again with a British accent 😂

Castle. Tree. Lump. Gap. Yurt. Flap. You're right! Bloody good observation mate!

donut is the best on

He's an absolute unit

my personal favourite is ‘s/he’s an absolute plonker’

Ethan Yeethan my dad says that one a lot, sometimes throws in the occasional you absolute cabbage as well

Lad is such a slang word.

CJ init man

As a British woman, Todger is my favourite word. It’s my dogs nickname.

We do, but means more like dark or dreary.

I thought the same about shambolic, I’m sure that’s just a word? Like shambles

@@tonyfandango8182 american here, for sure have used the word shambles before but never heard of shambolic before

Grim is definitely used in America, in the same context Ricky describes. Maybe it's used more frequently in Britain?

We definitely have grim. Life is grim right now.

Awww bless you ✌🏻😘

@@sandihagger6478 This is another thing that one hears in Britain all the time "aw, bless you." It's basically a kind hearted but simultaneously patronising way to recognise another person's naivety. Typical usage would be, "bless her, she's harmless."

@@Topophobia Not necessarily patronising. One can do something helpful for someone and they would reply "aw bless you" meaning that's really kind of you.

@@Topophobia yeah ok if you say so .... I’ve been using the saying for years in a nice friendly way not patronising at all 🤷‍♀️... thanks for your detailed opinion as we are all entitled to one 🙌🏻 stay safe!!!

@@Sophie.S.. Totally agree thank you 🙏 stay safe x

Are we burning or burying?

Not to be confused with elephant woman

I was really hoping this was gonna be in the comments haha!

Ricky: "are we burin or buryin"

hahaha

A multitude of ways to tell you something 4:11

Australians call them "whinging poms"

British slang - a thousand words for man and ladyparts

@@annother3350 yea they actually make the slang longer than the original words his explanations were shorter than the slang lol

German then, almost :D

A national treasure

Love him absolute genius ✌🏻❤️

that is the most fitting description of me too :D

THUMP

@@ambergracejones punches you!!!

Lol

Done him up like a kipper

Karl's slang is just something else

Exactly.

Yeah that's the odd one out for sure, at least in my book. It's weird seeing him search for examples for something that...means something already. Obviously the conceit here is how they'd differ but as far as I can tell both cultures use it the same way.

Seems the brits tend to use it more than us, and in a wider variety of situations. But the meaning itself hasn't strayed far. Just my .02 as a kid of 2 english teachers who spends too much time watching linguistics videos.

Well it's seems it's more about how the word has a UK only meaning we just don't utilize. Like we also have the word 'Pants' but it's not the same thing. US english speakers don't use 'Grim' for 'Grimey'

@@TrebleWing do u lot say peng or nah?

haha love that.

That brings back some fond memories.

Best show ever

alrite

me too!

Ooooh chimpanzee that!

"Are we burning or burying"

What can we say about Hilda?

Gaff is apartment?

@@jevicci Gaff is slang for house or apartment.

jevicci gaff is the just place you live. “I’ll see you back at the gaff” for example.

and having a bevvy

hes a top chap waffling about slang in his yard having a brew!!

Can't say I've ever heard that second definition of pants, though!

yea its weird to see the difference in american slang and slang brits use

@@elly8353 I used to say pants at school in the 90's. We called everything pants.

@@zebbedi Ah, that explains it. I was born in '99, so it's a bit before my time.

Don't be daft as a brush ( you KNOW how daft the average brush is !) and I'm not flummoxed and I am not going to cause a brouhaha but some of these words are dowdy that only a nincompoop would say.Please do not misunderstand as I am not trying to flimflam anyone because this is not a load of baloney at all. Toodle-Pip....

hehehe

It’s a slang word I recognized, we just don’t use it as often as you might. And considering the unabated entropy of The British Empire and your post-Brexit state, I think both of us see the necessity in shambolic.

Dear Mr. Dilkington... 😁

Was looking for this comment

Global treasure

more like a pirate.

Ricky should be in charge he's a proper geezer😁

@George Job is it a "still relevant" crack, being in the public eye ?

He could plunder me anytime....

Always called it the offy think Ricky is a bit posher than us peasants 🤣😂

"Going down the offy, do you want owt?" *****

I’ve heard it called an “outdoor” which was a new one on me.

Louise Giles vanity fair provide the terms for the celebrity giving the definition...not the other way around

We call them bottle shops here in Australia!

That is absolute gold! If anyone reading this have not yet seen it, I highly recommend you stop everything and find this masterpiece and watch (I believe it's here on RU-vid).

Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xw2bTpyHGCE.html

write2chrome Worth it. Thank you!

Just listen to the entire XFM series.

I watch it at least 3 times a year

A classic.

Was thinking this

They didn't cover "Bollocks" and "The dogs bollocks" ;)

@@VauxhallViva1975 they're probably not aware of the link to bog standard. Maybe Ricky isn't either.

Sandwiches at the bar

Good point.

never heard that

Off-Licence - Off-premises licence: a establishment licenced to sell alcohol to be drunk off of the premises as opposed to a pub. A public house licenced to serve alcohol in tended to be drunk on the premises

Yeah off-licence is just what it's actually called, I've always called it the offie 🤷🏻‍♂️

Called it 'the outdoor' in my ends

I second that. Haven't said pants since I was at school in the 90's.

Ya Brit r ya? Please marry me so i can live there too,i'll be a gooden to you, and i will take you out for a Ruby every nite !

@@GabberHeadzNL what a muppet

@@GabberHeadzNL Curry every night? I hope you can afford the daily toilet repair bill.

It's cause our parents used to say it but anyone under 30 didn't really say it. Cool memories tho

Same

Now I'm curious, which celeb *would* you mind meeting in real life?

Tinpot radio show fans are the best

Play a record

I miss Saturdays! Best radio show ever.

@@tipperary1082 tinpot?

@@bfc2155 Yes

"stood next to him is a brick shithouse built geezer swinging a bike chain"

Great reference, that scene was BRILLIANT :-).

what's this a reference to?

Suchit Vontary after life, the show Ricky is in

@@emmalouise8675 I saw both the first and the second season but cannot remember that scene. when was it?

"Like Middlesbrough"

Grimsby?

@@lukeytutube Like anywhere north of Bristol.

Sheffield. Definitely Sheffield

Luke May I point you in the direction of the ‘Jeff Stelling Middlesborough rant’ 😆

bald. Bold is thicker and outlined. Bald is without or missing. (bald tyres, bald head) Bold writing Bold actions. get it? bald, not bold.

ok

the actual quote you were looking for is "round headed buffoon"

i wouldn't say it's an "alright", i'd say it's more of an "oint"

She's your bog standard old woman

Americentric, Vanity Fair. (:

Cheers!

Short for be of good cheer?

Clint Hosking - Yes.

I started saying cheers to the bus driver. Now it's just habit and everytime I say it I feel stupid because I have no idea what it really means

I understood that reference!

i'd like a back, sack and crack wax please

Lul

The hair on my crack hasn't grown back, nor has the hair on my back. But my SACK is very hairy.

Educating Ricky

Was it nice Earl Gray?

@@danielzajic6789 oh you innocent being

I was watching it with nice cold pilsner

@@danielzajic6789 It was an impudent little chardonnay.

Your grim mate

Of course we do.

If you'd asked me before today, I wouldn't have guessed shambolic was British slang. Seems like a regular word.

re 'grim' and 'shambolic', I think that was down to the interviewers lack of experience and knowledge. Maybe, in your vast country, different words are used in different places, so 'shambolic' etc gets dropped in favour of other words?

We use geezer too.

We do!!

Glancer, glancing is a beatable offense

@@stupidhandles You'd beat someone off for glancing? You slaaaaaag😂

Don't get Lemon and come the old acid, Darling..... I'm not flummoxed and I am not going to cause a brouhaha but some of these words are dowdy that only a nincompoop would say. Please do not misunderstand as I am not trying to flimflam anyone because this is not a load of baloney at all. Toodle-Pip....

@@Isleofskye Err.... good try...

He shouldn't have done it in the middle of a shambolic off-license then. As a Canadian, geezer is an old guy you don't particularly respect. So I could say: I saw an old geezer's junk when he took a leak. It was gross. I'm never going to that messed up liquor store again.

You live in Grimsby, and your name is Codd? Comedy gold that is

No one has said ‘It’s grim up North’ or is that racist now?

@@tracik1277 it is what it is my friend it is grim up north though

@@jamescodd3911 Travelled all over the UK and I can say Aberdeen is even more grim than Grimsby

@@tracik1277 No its not racist & it still is up there.

Would get used to it lad we say it all the time

@@kitinderwick4211 I did get used to it. This was about 7 or 8 years ago. ^^

If that happened now they’d probably say: ‘oi get 2m back and don’t touch my skis’

The first time I heard cheers was in Toronto. Everyone says it.

Woah here in Australia it's as fundamental as "thanks". Cheers!

on the ven diagram of Slang and English Words I'd say they teeter towards Slang, mainly because Yanks don't use them

grim has a slang meaning in the UK, which is different to the general meaning

True. Think about the word 'safe' in this regard. It's an actual word, yet in British slang it can mean that you like something/this person is decent/everything is cool etc... You're not wrong though

I guess if it is commonly used in one place but not another you could argue it is slang. Kind of a fuzzy subject that someone probably has a PhD in somewhere.

Some slang words exist only in slang form (e.g. bling) but slang words can also be normal worlds otherwise (e.g. cuckoo is a bird, but it's also someone mad in slang). What makes them slang is not that they are special off-beat words but that they are also used in a slang / not official context.

Also, as I learned this term in english class in the early eighties. I don't believe it was considered "slang" at all.

@@sandorrabe5745 The slang would be 'offie', as in 'I'm going to the offie'

Spellcheck doesn’t help the confusion.

Only if you're in the sort of circles where people like "a man's man" in a mid-20th century caricature-like sort of way. I wouldn't want to hang out with anyone who sees that as a compliment.

When used as a compliment, particularly in the greater London area, the word geezer is often prefixed with diamond. For example, "He's a diamond geezer". Which is a big compliment.

We say old geezer over here too, but rarely in a derogatory way. e.g.: 'Sorry,mate. I don't know where that is. Try asking that old geezer over there. He might know...'

it means the same here in England, usually you'd call them 'old geezer' instead. personally, I'm not fond of slang in general.

@@shitposter1000 Sorry, Mon Ami... I think you may have been replying to me thinking I was replying to your previous, when in fact I was replying to Daisy. 😀 I'm a retired _'old geezer'_ living in the Medway Towns, Kent. *_R_* 😀

He’s not wise lol he’s just a super far left atheist and every 30-year-old and younger thanks that makes somebody “brilliant”. He supports freedom of speech and is against outrage culture which is good but that should be the norm not praised. As well as essentially all conservatives that support that.

@@jessejive117 I'm 61. Seems wise to me.

@@jeffreyherre4992 beautiful response

@@jeffreyherre4992 that says more about you than it does Gervais

He is soooo over-rated! OK, he starred in and wrote the most successful British Sitcom of all-time and been the Executive Producer of the 10 series of THe USA one and written and starred in Extras, Oh ! and Derek and written Life's Too Short and, of course, he broke the World Record for selling out the quickest Nationwide Tour AND broke another World Record for most-watched Podcasts with SM. Oh! and he wrote and starred in a few films appearing in cameo roles in others. Has written some excellent Award-Winning Books. Hosted his own Chat Shows and Radio Shows and been a Presenter at The Golden Globes etc....OTHER THAN THAT... WHAT HAS HE DONE ????

Sometime, when I watch British or Irish shows or movies, I have to have subtitles on. Especially with Guy Ritchie movies. Lol

@@kizersosay28 guy Ritchie films generally come across quite fake to us brits, gets called Mockney instead of cockney. Still decent films but the dialogue is more of a caricature

Matt Roberts - ‘Gor blimey, luv a duck!’

I'm not flummoxed and I am not going to cause a brouhaha but some of these words are dowdy that only a nincompoop would say. Please do not misunderstand as I am not trying to flimflam anyone because this is not a load of baloney at all. Toodle-Pip....

Don't get Lemon and come the old acid, My Son......Liberties...

Yup that’s what I know an old person as “an old geezer”

Steven Bailey It can be. But it covers most ages over 18.

That’s pretty much everywhere that speaks English, not just Canada lol

Well yeah Ricky should've mentioned it means old as well. Also waz can mean lies or BS like "Don't trust him, he's chatting waz" Although youd say it like wass.

@@joshualucas Where I grew up, the standard greeting was "Alright geez?"

Gimme a hug

That's interesting: a lot of words in English have Viking roots (the AEngles, the root name of the country England, were Danish invaders).

You’re a poet and you didn’t know it

@@tracik1277 😅👍

Lol exactly, he described it using 2 slang words.

tbh everyone knows what lad and bloke mean

Lad isn't slang. Smh.

Dude would probably be the best equivalent

geezer is Cockney; never heard it any where else.