I spent a year in Glasgow and absolutely loved it. Kevin, I listen half for your amazing comedy and half just to let your Glaswegian accent wash over me. I can't wait to get back there.
Kevin's been 📖studying languages with Rosseta stone he can already translate " aye" to yes. Those who can't understand him should do the same it's really not just that difficult it's not like he's talking Mandarin Chinese
This is about the time I realise that, as funny as it is to think of the Grecian premier quoting Socrates to Angela Merkel to get out of paying the debt, this is a Glaswegian guy quoting Socrates, completely dispelling the unfair stereotype that you can't be Glaswegian and well-educated. This is also about the time I remember that Plato was so named because he was an entire wrestler, and "Plato" (Greek: "Broad") was his wrestling name.
It's not that Kevin is "educated" he's intelligent there's a difference look at parliament they're all "educated" but you'd find more intelligence in a petri dish
@@michaelharrison3602 You know what, you are right. That being said, I think my point still stands that there's a stereotype of ordinary Glaswegian folk not being well-read, intelligent and "well-educated", that the state of being Glaswegian and being "well-educated" can't occupy the same person. That is, somehow you can be upper-class English, well-educated and yet be dumber than soup, but being working/lower-class Scottish and well-educated is considered such an oxymoron that it's a miracle if you're intelligent and proving the rule if you're as smart as a Tory MP. Like, being working or lower-class can impact your access to good education and being Scottish means the language you're educated in is very likely not even the same one you speak at home, but that doesn't mean you can't be well-educated or intelligent -- your obstacle to it is just higher.
@@rachelfox8108 I think the stereotype applies to all working class people who don't have a university education. I sat in my local boozer last night discussing the beliefs of zoroasterism With a scaffolder. Your right about people regarding Glaswegians being uneducated but what can you do? Even Kevin seems to think that everyone in South East England either talks like Sebastian or Danny Dyer but so what it's only comedy
Intelligence and education don’t necessarily go together. Politicians are a great example of that. Think you’d have to go a long way to beat Americans for being both uneducated as well as unintelligent though😂
@@MichelOcampo cool that's understandable you're in a different country, you also have various accents. The blue collar son of a louisiana Farmer probably talks different to the Harvard educated child of a Manhattan stock broker. But you'd still understand each other. I can't get my head around somebody failing to understand somebody from a few miles up the road because they don't go to the same school .
That's because you possess something called intelligence. I can't believe the number of English people commenting that they can't understand their own fucking language when it's spoken by somebody from outside their own town it's not that far away ffs you can walk across the border from England to Scotland it's not the other side of the planet. I've never seen an advert for an interpreter to translate glaswegian to English
I'm English and I married into a family of Glaswegians. At first, I was always asking people to repeat themselves, but increased familiarity bred increased understanding. I think he adjusts his accent [slightly, but enough] for non-Scots audiences, so if you seek out videos of him performing in England or anywhere else but Scotland you'll stand a chance of getting familiarised enough with his accent to understand pretty much everything he says, even when he's performing in Scotland. I do think he's worth it.
@@favouritemoon4133 of course he's going to exaggerate his accent in front of a home audience just like Mickey Flanagan becomes more cockney when he plays the Hackney empire
@@michaelharrison3602 This is exaggerated? He's performing for an English-speaking audience. It's pitched to be broadly intelligible but retain local features. You'll have noticed that he can impersonate a variety of accents from England, so he could tweak the delivery further towards England if need be.
I approve of his English speaking South African accent. 👍 Listen to Trevor Noah speak, a lot of white people in SA speak like that. Hollywood portrays all white people in SA as having this dodgy vague Afrikaans accent.
@@SuperMikado282 why not? Plus I could understand the jist of it even tho he refused to spit out the peanut butter stuffed in his cheeks but hey to each his own
Hope Kev.i.n was suggesting for purely ironic purposes that he might even DREAM of buying the Daily fucking Torygraph. There might be a few soulless bastards here and there in Scotland who buy it -- but surely not the man who is making our Comedic Trinity with the Big Yin and Frankie Boyle.
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I spent a year in Glasgow and absolutely loved it. Kevin, I listen half for your amazing comedy and half just to let your Glaswegian accent wash over me. I can't wait to get back there.
Kevin's been 📖studying languages with Rosseta stone he can already translate " aye" to yes. Those who can't understand him should do the same it's really not just that difficult it's not like he's talking Mandarin Chinese
You are Scotland's hero now Kev man..👍🏴. You're a legend. 👍
its great to see an inteligent man at work and trust me this chappy is a clever dude !!!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant stuff, totally magic,Jimmy!!
I was breaking my neck for a shite milady and she was taking fucking ages i was touching cloth milady. Seems like reasonable mitigation to me
That’s the whole beauty of a dialect, surely? Get to know the accent and, most importantly, the people behind it, and then you may understand them!
This is about the time I realise that, as funny as it is to think of the Grecian premier quoting Socrates to Angela Merkel to get out of paying the debt, this is a Glaswegian guy quoting Socrates, completely dispelling the unfair stereotype that you can't be Glaswegian and well-educated. This is also about the time I remember that Plato was so named because he was an entire wrestler, and "Plato" (Greek: "Broad") was his wrestling name.
It's not that Kevin is "educated" he's intelligent there's a difference look at parliament they're all "educated" but you'd find more intelligence in a petri dish
@@michaelharrison3602 You know what, you are right. That being said, I think my point still stands that there's a stereotype of ordinary Glaswegian folk not being well-read, intelligent and "well-educated", that the state of being Glaswegian and being "well-educated" can't occupy the same person. That is, somehow you can be upper-class English, well-educated and yet be dumber than soup, but being working/lower-class Scottish and well-educated is considered such an oxymoron that it's a miracle if you're intelligent and proving the rule if you're as smart as a Tory MP. Like, being working or lower-class can impact your access to good education and being Scottish means the language you're educated in is very likely not even the same one you speak at home, but that doesn't mean you can't be well-educated or intelligent -- your obstacle to it is just higher.
@@rachelfox8108 I think the stereotype applies to all working class people who don't have a university education. I sat in my local boozer last night discussing the beliefs of zoroasterism
With a scaffolder. Your right about people regarding Glaswegians being uneducated but what can you do? Even Kevin seems to think that everyone in South East England either talks like Sebastian or Danny Dyer but so what it's only comedy
Intelligence and education don’t necessarily go together. Politicians are a great example of that. Think you’d have to go a long way to beat Americans for being both uneducated as well as unintelligent though😂
My favourite comedian by far
His accent is fairly tame in comparison to most Glaswegians 😂
I can concur, being from glesga mysel.😂
Can't wait for his US tour🙏😍
I have to be honest, i was watching this because i couldnt understand more than 80% of what he said but it was entertaining at the same time
Kevin's English is actually better than many English University graduates
@@michaelharrison3602 im from California, his accent is a little hard for me to understand
@@MichelOcampo cool that's understandable you're in a different country, you also have various accents. The blue collar son of a louisiana
Farmer probably talks different to the Harvard educated child of a Manhattan stock broker. But you'd still understand each other.
I can't get my head around somebody failing to understand somebody from a few miles up the road because they don't go to the same school
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Even Scott's people don't know who are on their banknotes
@@michaelharrison3602 Scots. 🤦♂️
As a scandinavian I wonder why i don't have any problem understanding the scottish accent? I find some american accents harder to understand.
Subtitles ?
Some people just have ears for it, never had trouble understanding jocks, but geordies? Yeah they took some getting used to for me
When you get far North enough in Scotland they are probably more intelligible to you than they are to me. :)
Their accent traced way back is a sort of amalgamation of Celtic and proto-scandinavian. The Vikings raided Scotland for hundreds of years
That's because you possess something called intelligence. I can't believe the number of English people commenting that they can't understand their own fucking language when it's spoken by somebody from outside their own town it's not that far away ffs you can walk across the border from England to Scotland it's not the other side of the planet. I've never seen an advert for an interpreter to translate glaswegian to English
The logical funny man. Brilliant.
"Look at me now ma, I'm a tenner!"
Some like me just shut down. Never have i spoken when i was actually hammered to the point of passing out.
Amazing comedian.. Brilliant
If I took a shot for everytime I saw a "I can't understand his accent" comment on his videos I'd be pissed enough to admit to more than murder fml
This is even better with the captions on
Awesome. Good luck with your fundraising well done 👏
Wish that was SO SIMPLE!
It’s comedy hen , calm down
Christ. What a legend!
i love the scottish accent but man, i barely understand it
Keep listening to it, you'll soon get your ear around it... 🏴😬
Same here🤣
Good to know that I m not the only one. Thought I lost my language skills.
Idk if it's because I'm genetically Scottish (never been to Scotland tho) but I understand him really easily
Yeahhhh, I was lucky my Kiwi grandma married a heavily Scottush fella, imagine having him round while trying to learn English
Easily the funniest man in Britain
I was gonna say aye but i translated
Look at me noo, maw, am a tenner!!
He seems like the kind of comedian i like, but i can't understand him 90% of the time. :D
I'm English and I married into a family of Glaswegians. At first, I was always asking people to repeat themselves, but increased familiarity bred increased understanding. I think he adjusts his accent [slightly, but enough] for non-Scots audiences, so if you seek out videos of him performing in England or anywhere else but Scotland you'll stand a chance of getting familiarised enough with his accent to understand pretty much everything he says, even when he's performing in Scotland. I do think he's worth it.
@@favouritemoon4133 of course he's going to exaggerate his accent in front of a home audience just like Mickey Flanagan becomes more cockney when he plays the Hackney empire
@@michaelharrison3602 This is exaggerated? He's performing for an English-speaking audience. It's pitched to be broadly intelligible but retain local features. You'll have noticed that he can impersonate a variety of accents from England, so he could tweak the delivery further towards England if need be.
Funny guy
😂
I'm from the south coast and never had an issue understanding this man. People that have issues with accents baffle me. Listen harder.
Class comic!!!
I'm South African. Yoh 😂. This guys accent is hectic 😂
👍👍👍👍👍👍
I approve of his English speaking South African accent. 👍 Listen to Trevor Noah speak, a lot of white people in SA speak like that. Hollywood portrays all white people in SA as having this dodgy vague Afrikaans accent.
hah hAh!.. what'd he say?
Need subtitles for the Americans.
At 3:17 he demonstrated that he can speak intelligibly… but what fun would that be. 😄
This is not 2 years ago
Those jokes sound like they would be hilarious if I had any shadow of an idea what this dude is saying. Love him though
You don’t have to take our money. Earn it yourself and pay your own forces !!
You do know what a joke is?
The accent is funny but harsh to understand.
Something softer try Frankie Boyle
@@robertreid2002 Thanks.
@@robertreid2002 🤣 Or Jerry Sadowitz...
Watch something else then
I need subtitles
Why do you bother watching it if you can't understand it?
@@SuperMikado282 why not? Plus I could understand the jist of it even tho he refused to spit out the peanut butter stuffed in his cheeks but hey to each his own
@@crossroads2027 lol, he was speaking very clearly for the wider audience to understand and your still lost ? 🤣
@@HAPPYHERBS1 buddy I'm jus joking around don't take life so seriously
Debts are about dispossession, not paying it back.
Hope Kev.i.n was suggesting for purely ironic purposes that he might even DREAM of buying the Daily fucking Torygraph. There might be a few soulless bastards here and there in Scotland who buy it -- but surely not the man who is making our Comedic Trinity with the Big Yin and Frankie Boyle.
I don’t understand sh.t. Even with the subtitles…
bro I swear nothing he says is coherent
Yes, yes it is.
Ffs
These are fucking old..
Don't fucking recommend
Like listening to Swahili..... and trying to understand it.... 🤷
I'm surprised you managed to write a comment in English
@@michaelharrison3602 how is that surprising?