Simon Talbot On Translating Jokes From Danish To English | Russell Howard 

*you are the joke

One would think

dlwatib alot actually

Unlike the bible

He is a walking Joke. (Dane here)

Sofie Møbes fisse?

Minecraft 69 Øl, fisse og hornmusik!

Its not a broken accent like the previous generation.

Og især de københavnske hehe

Er vi enige

Saw the Simon Talbot make denmark great again, he did make it before this appearance at Russells show, but yes its really awesome he dared to make that move and made it work for him.

Just like we congratulate you on being on the internet.

We used to only have the guy from lord of the ring and Mads Mikkelsen, But now we also have him🖖🏻

Guys, jeg er selv dansk 😂😂

Vi er jo stolte 😅

I like that that's how you judge comedy.

That's a personal best for me

@@h.thumbsthomas5479 it was litteraly a joke he referenced..

@@magnusthoegersen8974 I know. I commented that before I got to that part of the video. Then heard the joke and was like ehhh it still stands.

@@h.thumbsthomas5479 what????!

I literally fell off my chair laughing when he said that. 😂

Yes, all Americans talk, think and behave as a combination of Valley Girls (and Guys) from Brooklyn, by way of Long Island.

@@eboracum2012 no?

@@veronicae2291 Well, a great many do and while that may be funny at the time, they are sad. It is ironic that those who can afford to travel (sans Covid, obviously) are often loud, entitled and obnoxious representatives of their homeland, and the unfortunate natives who get too close have no other frame of reference for Americans, Germans or anyone else, except for the television or internet and God help them then.

Full Disclosure:. I may be loud bc I have rock and roll ears, I am hard of hearing and masks make it impossible to read lips and put that together with what I think my dinner partner or waitstaff may be saying. BTW:. Masks are a necessity, that's not what I'm saying.

Yeah, same. Then again, it's 8 minutes. So he can boil down his material. Even then, his sets on comedy aid hasn't been as genuinely perfect as this one.

Can I ask you a question? Are you a Danish person named Dane, 'cause that's hilarious

I think it is because he has changed topics. I don't watch his Danish shows because they tend to be "teenage humour difference between men and women". He did a really nice bit for Standup for Comedy a few years ago, so I knew he could write jokes for a different audience. I think his target demographic just changed considerably. And he is talented to be able to change his style accordingly.

I think he does much better in English too it’s incredible.

Same. Saw Him warm up for Russell in Denmark, and thought he was defo more fun in English.

You should go into standup comedy!

Dajoe Dijoy Lø africa isnt a country

That's a show I wanna see 😄

You were born to do standup for sure

Whatever happened to 2012?

mathilde mykløy As a Swedish person I agree with you totally. Sometimes I felt like I had an easier time understanding the Danish then the English. 😂 (Not because his English is bad, rather because mine is. 🤦🏼‍♀️)

You people are weird, it's easier to translate things into English than it is to translate inbetween our very similar languages. I mean when I say Grin, then the Swedes think it's crying and the rest of us sane people think it's smiling. When I say Tös, the Swedes don't understand and the Danes doesn't care and the Norwegians get upset, while I think it's a perfectly normal word here In Scania. If I say Rar, then everyone but the Norwegians think it's Sweet, but they think it's rare. Do you get my point... It's a fucking lot easier to translate from our languages into English than in between them, because there are words that have different meanings, and then there are words that doesn't have any cognates in the other languages. And it gets even worse when we get to old Norwegian AKA Icelandic. And let's not mention Gutetal or Dalmål or Sydjylländsk, or Tröndelagsk. We could literally spend over 30000 hours speaking about the differences in every minor language and dialects there of. It's just about exposing yourself to enough of the English language until you get a minor grasp in it and after that it becomes a lot easier, I used to speak both Scanian and Danish fluently, now I rarely if ever Speak either Scanian, Danish or Swedish. Mostly English, I literally dislike speaking Scanian although I'm proud of being a Scanian, however, no one understands me when I speak, most people just learn Swedish here now and no one seems to want to speak Scanian, or any of it's dialects. Klåijntade kotletter me' panntofflagröd o krös, ä så gott ad yvena rinna. Marinated cutlets with mashed potatoes and lingonberries, is so tasty that (my) eyes (flow/tear up). Ja stod ve vången inte möllan o glodde po en granner tös, hon va en redig granner tös, me yved hår o illröa läbbar, pattar som få o en röa som får alla glader vara. Man känner säj som en li'en glytt var gång man ser pona. I stod near the meadow next to the mill and looked at a pretty girl, she was a really pretty girl, with bushy hair and strikingly red lips, breasts like no other and an ass that makes everyone be happy. One feels like one is but a young boy each time you look at her. Now I could translate that into Swedish pretty Easily, by exchanging a few words, but translating it into Danish wish is the sister language of Scanian is near impossible, mostly due to how shit Danes are at spelling and speaking their own language, I mean Danish is mostly vowels and then short words like den is pronounced bm, and it's really shit to think in Danish and try to write it down, and writing it down in the first place makes it look too Swedish. Oh and if we were to all write down phonetically, then shit pommes frites, is it gonna be hard, because Danish is basically hell on Earth with like a billion vowel shifts... No English with it's sorry excuse of spelling and speech is a lot easier. I mean I live 65 km from Denmark and I still feel that English is a lot simpler than a language I've been forced to learn since a young age.

The Major Dude, I am half English. Not saying that it’s a struggle to translate things, but that it’s a stuggle in the sense that it loses it’s humour when you do.

@August : Testa att kalla en norska för en rar tös och se om hon tar det som en komplimang :P

@Jim Elliott Just out of curiosity, do you mean there are more scandinavians descandants in Utah than in other states?

Very nice reference

Nej, jeg er fuldstændig enig! Jeg synes ikke han er speciel sjov, men det her var sgu ret godt.

Joken omkring at han er en dansk ex-jehovas med en irisk accent fungere nok bedre når han fremføre det hele på engelsk, ellers tror jeg ikke rigtig det er mere eller mindre sjovt på engelsk tbh :)

hans danske stemme irriterer mig bare

Lige meget hvad, så var det her et rigtig godt crowd, og Simon var 100% på, god levering og selvsikkerhed... Timingen og stemningen har bare været lige i øjet...

jep

it's just so releaving to get it of our shoulders. You with me?

What do you mean? What are you saying? What language is spoken then ?? 🙄

@@travelwell6049 Dansk

@@travelwell6049 most Danes speak Japanese, since the Japanese colonized Denmark and most Danish islands in 1698

@@vato6686 hahahaahahaha jeg elsker det

Scandinavian stand up is terrible...British stand up is dead. PC crowd have killed it.

@@michaelairley2015 Yeah, PC can go F itself...

I love PC comedy. Y'all are retarded.

@Jim Elliott 5 years or more for me...US standup is all that's left.

This is fake. Smiley comedy...cringe...

LongLiveHarryPotter7 dude I feel like most Danish ppl would know this dude, and even if we didn’t you can still easily hear his danish accent.

K Nogne can’t say I know him, but I could hear his Danish twang throughout, which was very entertaining XD

It's really more to prove non Danes that he's a Dane. It's not uncommon for Danes who haven't shown their full Danish side yet, to be mistaken for being English (I don't really wanna bother listing the countries that speak English). I personally have a *very* British accent and I've had severe difficulty proving even fkn Brits that I'm Danish. Best way for a Dane to prove their nationality is not as much to speak a shite ton of Danish, but to roast the fuck out of everyone around them. Basically give them the same bombardment that Sweden gets on a daily basis

Maddie Collum You aren’t danish, right?

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@Maria Blente Yes! Same in Denmark, though - And anywhere, for that matter. I've lived in Sri Lanka and Poland (and obv. Denmark), and they all ask. In Denmark, I was a live Polish dictionary, and in Poland, I was a live Danish dictionary. And Sri Lanka? Well, both.

Amerikanere, huh? De är jävla dumme ;-;

C J lmao, I’m a Dane commenting in our sister language, Swedish, on the video of a danish comedian. Get out.

C J funny

CJ: And your grandchildren will be speaking Russian.

Not really. All I heard is a drunk baby choking in porridge.

Det synes jeg nu ikke

Damn....jeg vidste altid efter din accent at du var dansk lol....men det har hele tiden været et mysterie for mig aha

Husk nutids-r

@@miklogron6883 Det er den hyppigste fejl i det skrevne. 50 % ved sgu ikke engang, at der mangler et r.

I`m Austrian so not the full English perspective but a third one. I found him very funny. Too bad it got the audience so long to get the Jesus joke, it was so obvious that he meant the bible never mentions him going to the toilet.

Same

I'm American and found him to be pretty damn funny. I had no idea a pastry could do stand-up so well. Sorry, that was my attempt at being funny. We can't all be a Simon Talbot. :)

Shadow Prince ‘Pastry’ Aaaah I see what you did there. 😆 👍🏼👍🏼

That song he referenced, "skilla magina dinga do...." What's that song's name? I imagine it would be fun to listen to.

I've lived in America all my life, I feel the same way when I meet those people. We also wonder how they can walk and breathe

yeah, walking and breathing is weird..

I’m American Can confirm I mean, how DO you do it!?!?

My son have a conversation online yesterday with an American girl who was just "so amarican as possible" as he described it. Some of her comments: "Do they have cars in Sweden?!" Isn't that a shithole country?" "Isn't Europe a country?" "But Russia is a continent, right?" My son tried to explain, "Part of Russia is in Europe." Then she asked what the other part was. When my son asked her if he could to explain to her what propaganda was, she blocked him. I'm proud of my son, trying to nice and friendly explain some things over the internet and not explode inside. ❤

@@annakoch9972 lol I'll take things that never happened for 500 Alex

Well.. he did stand-up in America in 2016 (called make Denmark great again) and I think it'll be on netflix at some point - so if you're patient your wish will be granted.

@@majkenagerbo2952 Wohoo! Thank you for the info, I'll keep my eyes peeled :D

I'm so happy I stumbled across this lol.

In Denmark we have LOTS of qualified, high end comedians. Simon Talbot is... average (no offense he's good, but we have even better comedians).

@@PpAirO5 anden er meget god

That's funny :)

Is it Candy'n'avian?

So why have you incorporated a misspelled Icelandic last name, as a middle name in your profilname I wonder?

@deekat3279 Pork, brown sauce and potatoes. Now I will be totally full. Something like that. My Danish isn't great.

....and in such a difficult Language ;-P

@@bodenlosedosenhose1590 more like : Pork-roast ! Brown sauce and potatoes! Now i have gotten dang hungry... Danish and english dont directly translate in most cases, that last sentence would be "Now am i dang gotten hungry" if done so instead. Its the difference in the use of the words, even tho easy to translate, you gotta "rearrange" or sometimes use more fittings words for a more true translation :) Google is not bad at this with english and nordic translations, but yeah it will leave you short in comparison to any avg IQ dane that doesnt suck at english :P

@@saddane6897 ik there might be some Americans reading but i dont think u hv to explain all of it like dat

@@damiankasperkowicz3265 Doesnt matter what u think m8, i wanted to explain it, hence i did :P

It takes longer to check in at th airport than it does to get there.

Andreas Bagger do I need to? I’m danish?

@@andreasbagger2744 Well it's true. Have you looked it up yourself?

8 hours, direct NY, that's the shortest flight I've heard of.

If you mean London to Copenhagen take off to landing then it's about one hour.

Just one more video Another American asked me if the whole India is a desert. And she was a teacher.

I've had so many people ask me if we still had teepees in oklahoma

*Most Americans. FIX'D

🤣🤣🤣

I'm from Germany and was in the US where I was asked how it feels to have Hitler as president... 😳 First I thought it was a weird joke, but that dude was serious. 🙈

army!

Do I smell a danish peep and an ARMY?

JAAA!! ihh bliver altid så glad når jeg ser andre danske army’s 🦋🦋

Danske armys alfneke

hvor er hele kommentaren omkring danske armys

Luqe Prisecaru “I see them shaking.”

That killed me😂😂😂

He pretty much is the Danish version of Fluffy, just with a bit more adhd 😂

Jamii Tenzoe And he’s not fluffy?🤣

It's basically an Gabriel Iglesias imitation, so yes.

Or really anywhere that's kinda like the default Cheerleader voice in the USA.

Um... yeah.... no one really talks like that. In California or anywhere else. That's why they're called "jokes".

@@rowynnecrowley1689 Ahh, I guess I missed the joke.

@@cyl742 I think Rowynne talks like that... pssst... don't tell her.

ohmagawd!!

Best compliment tbh

Yea! That's Pretty acurate😁

itsFisch except ones a scot and the other has Irish accent vastly different !

Ugh I love Daniel sloss. He's the best

@@michelleflood8220 I Think it's more About their mimicry and bodylanguage being similar.

Then you're gonna like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y3jlR6k_wo0.html But you should actually watch the entire video because it's amazing.

Ok someone knew how to name their child right! Lol

Hello Raven!

@@h.thumbsthomas5479 Ari is just one of many bird names in Icelandic. I know a baby called Stormur Jökull, literally Storm Glacier. My brother-in-law is "Shield of Gods" and his son "Wolf Moon son of Shield of Gods". We don't think about it, it's just regular names xD

@@futhark3 Those are awesome names either way! Lol