Mckenzie-Graye Evans I grew up in the East Midlands :) haven’t lived there since I was 13 which is nearly 21 years ago but I am a very proud East Mids girl
@@darthmetallus1977 it was a bit a poor in taste of a joke I was mainly getting at the fact I'm not surprised people are like that in London because of the knife crime. I didn't mean to cause offence. What ever happened to the days where you didn't have to apologise for comments people make.
I’m American and I can say our tv doesn’t reflect our real perception of you. We love and value your culture and uniqueness. Most of my favorite you tubers are from the uk. Your eunthusiam is my favorite aspect of your people
Paul Wember I meant among Americans :) But yeah, a lot of the colonial history makes it difficult for a lot of people to respect both Americans and Brits because we both screwed people over. As far as actual British people though, I have total respect. :)
I love how Friends had an episode in Britain full of stereotypes, and then Chums(SM:TV Live) retaliated that by having an episode in America full of American stereotypes.
Here is how far the British stereotypes have gone, So I was in class and I was talking to the person next to me, who was trying to do a british accent, which was of course, posh, and she said that she couldnt do a british accent AND I WAS LIKE, WE ARE GODDMAN BRITISH YOU ARE DOING ONE RIGHT NOW
“There’s a big pub capture on the UK... but we don’t all hang out in them, 24/7”... er, may I point out the following soaps on British tv; Coronation Street, Emmerdale... EastEnders? Nearly everyday everyone is in their pubs having a drink/meal 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Many years ago, British actors appearing on US TV always sounded very strange. They spoke with a high pitched Australian accent, even when it was an actor we were familiar with. All became clear when an actor was interviewed on TV. He explained that on arriving in the states, he was sent for lessons to an American voice coach, who taught him to speak with the “correct” English accent.
I'm not American and I don't know if you are, but I've just thought of one for America: "America is just New York and Los Angeles with other cities in between"
Many people fail to understand that use of "sorry" can change meaning according to the situation and inflection. It can range from a genuine apology all the way through to "Who the f... do you think you're talking to?" and even "Are you looking for a smack?"
I like how, when they used to use real British actors on American tv or film that are playing an actual British character, they make them speak in a non-actual British accent that doesnt exist outside of American tv/film.
Yeah, I forgot which British actor I saw on a late night show here in the USA, reveal that the British accent he uses in movies and talk shows is fake. He broke out his real voice and everyone started gasping.
@@miakid4159 yep, that is the case with most British actors and I'm assuming its the same for other nationaities. They have to tailor their accents and way of speaking to be understood in America, or to give off a stereotypical type of voice and image, but its like the speaking coaches have no idea about anything other than those non-existent types. I love it when im visiting Newcastle (in England-geordie accent) to see family, and you hear American tourists talking to the locals, and looking dumbfounded, asking them if they speak English! Same happens where my sister lives in Wales, even though everybody speaks English, just with a welsh accent, again its mainly Americans that struggle with it, assuming they are speaking welsh, but infact are speaking English. I can only assume it happens in Scotland and Ireland etc. Its because Americans, as a whole, are not realoy exposed to real British accents and dialects, and they only get to hear the fake British accents you see portrayed in thise American movies and tv shows. I think it has improved a bit, since America started consuming a lot of British homegrown tv, such as Top Gear etc, and with the advent of the internet, giving global communication between all people, everyone interacting more and being exposed to each others real accents. In some instances picking up local words,slang, phrases and even slight accent changes through these interactions with friends from across the globe. The tv/movie dialect coaches who teach these outdated stereotype accents need to get with the times and realise people are familiarising themselves with other countries and other world regions and their accents, so if you are from, lets say Birmingham in the Midlands of England, it is perfectly fine for you to play a character with the same accent, and not have to resort to doing a 'hoity-toity upper class, posh' fake accent that very few -if any- people actually have anymore. Accents evolve all the time. Hollywood needs to take that fact on board. Also, they really need to stop portraying the British as the bad guy all the time, all because of a war from a few cenyturies ago. They need to take in to account that over the last 100+ years, Britain and America have been allies, standing toe to toe as brothers in almost every war that has taken place in those years and have had each others backs, and have not been enemies in those times. Yet almost every action and adventure movie from Hollywood, the bad guy is either a brit or an actor portraying a brit. Its not that the American general public as a whoke isnt capable of understanding or even picking up a different regional accent from somewhere else, because of course they are, and they do. All my american friends understand my hubbys very strong regional accent (which wven i struggled with when i first met him!) It may take but of getting used to, but once over that initial hump they understood him fine. But hollywood needs to give the general American public more credit than they do and underand the world isnt what it was 50 years ago. They should feature more real British acxents in movies and tv. Infact they should use more real American accents too. I have noticed that they tend to use a generic general american accent for most characters, even if the show/movie is set somewhere that has a very much defined pronounced regional acxent that is specific to that certain region. What hollywood does is pick out one or two tiny aspects of that local acdent, and just gets the actors to add those small parts to their vocal range, but really they should learn the whole of that accent, and perform the character with it. Wake up Hollywood, its almost 2020. Let people use the accents they are born with at least sometimes. Obviously they are actors and have range. Just dont give them a generic voice all the time. Its getting a bit tiresome now.
Saying Family Guy represents how us Yanks view the British is like saying Donald Trump represents what Brits view all Americans to be like. It just isn’t true.
Can’t help but wonder why this video isn’t available in the US. Regardless, Family Guy exaggerates all possible stereotypes. It’s offensive to all; no one is safe. That’s their “thing” so using anything from that series as some sort of proof of how Yanks actually view those from the U.K. is ridiculous. Besides, I watch a ton of British tv (ala BritBox) and most of these stereotypes are coming FROM your own broadcasts. Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Midsomer Murders, etc.
Noone: British person: we are not all raging drunkards, that's just a bitter stereotype. Me: the fact that expressions like "the sesh" (a 3-4 day long pub crawl with brief intermezzos of gobbling down shitty fast food) and "cheeky pint" (popping to the pub in your lunch break) even exist, says quite the opposite. ....and you can't even handle it very well...
i'm yankee but i lived in the uk for 2 1/2 years and let me just go on record as saying the english have absolutely no right to cop an attitude when it comes to americans poking fun at them or when they're exposed to negative stereotypes that americans may have about them. the english never hesitate for a second to bag on americans right to our faces and, in fact, it seems like if it bothers you then so much the better. especially the english are totally obsessed with americans and their weight they cannot seem to say two words about americans without saying something about americans being fat (ignoring the fact their weight problem is damn near as bad) and all too often seem to think the whole country is mississippi and that we're all obese born again christians packing heat. put another way they watch JEREMY KYLE and think "that's a tiny minority barely worth mentioning" but then watch MAURY POVICH (which is giant over there) and think "yep that's the norm". this is not everybody by any means (many people all throughout the british isles seem to revere americana) but definitely enough for it to be noticeable.
I,ve been to America,USA and Americans are a lot freindlier than Brits.more laid back,the nicest people I,ve ever come across,Brits are just jelouse because USA is a far superior country,
1:23 I'm not one of those people. I live in Canada & even though I love London I know that there are other places in England & the rest of the UK that are worth visiting someday
I love Buzz Killington. Trying to think of a US film or show that gets Britain. A terrible offender is NCIS, as is Frasier. Nope, still can’t think of a show. However Chris Pratt does do an amazing Essex (the county for US readers) accent/ impression. Probably the best US impression of a Brit. Mike Myers is pretty good but he is Canadian with English parents. Except when he shouts, and reverts to his natural voice. I cringe when I hear Andrew Lincoln and Hugh Laurie. Surely they sound terrible to Americans? They do to me.
As an American I can honestly say we have horrible teeth as a majority. Almost everyone I knew growing up had to have braces to straighten their teeth.
The number of pubs in the UK is half what it was in the 20th century. Pubs are rapidly going out of fashion & no longer needed now that we have the Internet, mobile phones & can buy alcohol far cheaper in supermarkets.
Frasier did make some strange casting decisions for the Moon family. Simon - Anthony La Paglia - An Australian using a very bad Cockney accent. Stephen - Richard E Grant - A Swazilander using a very good Richard E Grant accent. Michael - Robbie Coltrane - A Scotsman using (to my ear) a reasonable Mancunian accent. Gertrude - Millicent Martin - An Englishwoman (from Essex) using reasonable Yorkshire accent. The question I wonder about is who decided Jane Leeves was to play Daphne as a Mancunian.
The UK is just London surrounded by fields, yep thats how America sees us, seeing how all film studios are London based. 3 Mills Studios Ealing Elstree Longcross Wimbledon Pinewood Shepperton Leavesden This is why Northern England Scotland Wales South West South Midlands and Northern Ireland are constantly missed out and left out. Even got mentioned on a news channel about why keep building film studios in London? Why not in the Northern Power House which the current government are asking industries to look at and bring jobs locally. The response was "Well we did look everywhere but London was just ideal."
Tbf actually met someone in the royal family. It was the most irrelevant son and I cant even remember his name. I was more impressed with Philip Schofield 😂
London isn't the only city in UK. What about Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Newcastle, Carlisle, Newport, Swansea, Cardiff, Aberdeen, Cork. Way moreeeeeee
The teeth thing bugs me. Americans think we have bad teeth but the reality is that we have our own teeth, natural teeth, not dentures or veneers or even absurdly white (chemical enhancement) they're actual human teeth and as such aren't perfectly straight. If my teeth all fell out, I'd ask for the dentures to look as close to my natural teeth as possible. Those perfectly straight, shiny, white teeth just look weird.
Fun fact: the UK is 4th place for good dental hygiene, while the US is 9th place, how hilarious, even the American dental association said that the average american only visits the dentist at most once every 2 years, outside of the Hollywood celebrity fake plastic smile, the average American has discoloured or crooked teeth lol
Having grown up watching lots of American TV, I've always hated their small-minded ignorant portrayal of British people. We're either all posh upper-class relatives of the royal family or working class cockney pub-goers. There's no ethnic diversity, no modern nuances in how Brits are portrayed by Americans and it's incredibly lame and tiresome at this point. I'm all for making fun of stereotypes but not when you actually believe the stereotype is a reflection of real life.
I don't think Americans will be able to understand a proper Yorkshire accent they asked for subtitles with the film kes because they couldn't understand what they were saying in the film
I was offended but now i find this just hilarious, especially the fact that we are all bumpkins with no respectability or tge upper crust gentelmen. Preposterous old bean!
Too bad they didn't show footage of the Teen Titans Fourth of July episode. That puts the Brit stereotype up to 11. At least an actual Brit is voicing Mad Mod.
I don't really follow the stereotypes. I've watched Monty Python and Doctor Who and I can pull off a variety of accents. Liverpool (Beatles) Birmingham (Ozzy Osborne) Bristol (Stephen Merchant) Manchester (Karl Pilkington) Yorkshire (The Secret Garden) Ireland (JackSepticEye) and so on.
I mean despite a lot of stereotypes on TV about Great Britain it's a Rich Collective of Country's that each hold much History and a Refined culture to some degree every country has a significant importance no matter how insignificant it may seem to others but don't take the opinion of a Uneducated White Man from a Small Town in Northern Ohio.
