Americans Don't Understand English | The Jonathan Ross Show
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Michael McIntyre explains how Americans feel the need to simplify English words to the extreme.
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I recall Queen Elizabeth saying : " There is nothing called as american English, there is English and then there are mistakes."
Even our Queen can trashtalk the Americans
+Mike Alvarez Yeah yeah. Relax
Our First Lady can tackle your queen like a *Football player*
I thought America and Britain had an alliance...?
china young It s America we are talking about no one trusts them
As an American I was going to put my glasses on so I could write an angry response to this, but I can't figure out what part of my body I should put the glasses on.
Nice ! Gawd bless the ´Yanks´and the good ol´ U.S. of A.
Lol good sport old chap
🤣
matthew banta 😆
Funny I like this
The problem with this video is that it's too short.
if it was anymore longer people would have died laughing..
Paulo Victor you're American?
Exactly this is big problem
Paulo Victor facts, they’re way more words he could’ve used. It’s funny how the words r made easy but in the US it’s fucking complicated for them.
Or the Americans would say it's 2 short
British:- "bring me a torch.."
Americans-"what?"
British:-" you know a flashy equipment from where light comes ...
Americans:-"oh flashlight!!!"
suva bose most torches don’t flash, should be a stay on light
Because torches are things used by Indiana Jones and angry mobs. They're correctly called flashlights, because that's what they were named by the people who invented them.
@@nicchauvin1096 The torch was invented by a Brit. Basically everything was invented by the British.
@@JKK_85 Basically all of Britains are just salty they're not Americans
@@possibility28able Not in the slightest. I like most Americans but your country's a mess, high corruption, poor health and low workers rights. My dad's American and my mum's English, I had the opportunity to essentially claim American citizenship until I was 18 and I chose not to.
And they play football with hands
Omg so true hilarious
Not my Name *Futbol. And no, we play that, but it’s Soccer. Football is regularly played with hands. Futbol is played with feet and it’s Soccer in the US.
@@LoriWolfcat you just missed the whole joke, sweetie
@@LoriWolfcat futbol is the spanish spelling its football in britain
True.. the funnier bit is that they never see the irony in the terminology 😂
I got banned from a site because I shared this there XD One of their American admins took offense to the video and called it racist. It's this kinda mentality that gives the US a bad rep!
LMAO
no matter what they do... voting for trump is like worse than hitler
Hitler invaded other countries! Hilary Clinton supports invading other countries, I hope you realise how stupid you are!
Jacque Noir hilary =/= trump.
read my comment again
+Kaitri I still think your comment was brainless.
Redundant language, americans say "tuna fish" it's like saying beef mammal
that one gets me too
+apocbible I can not stop laughing. Beef mammal. Classic.
+apocbible no we say, cow meat.
also when you say tuna fish your specify the type of fish it is.
salmon is very popular in america so is bass .
try visiting Japan and saying something stupid like you want fish they will ask you what type you want.
This shows how low your intelligence is .
Saul Meyers why do you have to say fish after you say tuna? Why other types of tuna are there. What else would you be asking for if you said bass or salmon. I think your intelligence is so low you have to explain every part.
+apocbible So how do Brits say it? Simply "tuna"?
I'm not an American or a Brit, so I haven't got a fucking clue what you people get up to.
“Go with me on this because I’ve thought this through.” That’s a great line that I’ve adopted into my language.
XjWaudkp.u😢
My favourite one has always been autumn... american leaves need to know what to do at this time of year!!
I love it!
Andrea Woodvine LOVE that one!! 😂😂
WAIT, YOU GUYS DONT CALL IT FALL???
Nick45044 floobloo Not always. Autumn is w/in our ken too :-))
Nick45044 floobloo Not "Fall leaves". But I get you 😊
Same with flashlight, it's a light... that flashes. Apparently torch was too hard to understand...
Torch is a carry over from a prior means of illumination (a stick and oil soaked cloth). They operate on two totally different mechanisms. They are not the same thing and so deserve different names. If we wanted a proper general name free from the dark caves of ignorance from which we emerged, we would call it something like a photon generator.
+MrLambris there's this thing... called a joke... you should try it some time. You know, once you've escaped the clutches of the "dark caves of ignorance from which we emerged"... I mean seriously. Stop trying to sound like a less friendly version of Wikipedia and learn to laugh (you know, if we can even call it laughing anymore - would you prefer exhalation of air from the lungs via the oesophagus and mouth cavity accompanied by a variation of short sounds resemblant of the single syllable 'ha'?)
+90009kitkat
Yeah I totally see what you are saying but the only joke here is " look how stupid Americans are!". The origin of what is being discussed here is interesting and thought provoking if you allow it to be. However, if you take the bit at face value and think no more of it you are cheated out of insight into how languages evolve in different cultures. I'm pointing out that in English culture there was a long cultural precedent for something like a flashlight (torch) and so the precedent subsumed the identification of a device created thousands of years after the invention of a torch. American english having more freedom from linguistic authority (less cultural precedent) was able to evolve quicker and more dynamically and so we have more names for things.
^this is much different then this --------->
"(you know, if we can even call it laughing anymore - would you prefer exhalation of air from the lungs via the oesophagus and mouth cavity accompanied by a variation of short sounds resemblant of the single syllable 'ha'?)"
What I'm saying is speculative for sure but it's at least an attempt to be insightful; and so is an attempt to bring value to a discussion that has otherwise devolved into rhetorical nonsense. I concede the joke was mildly entertaining but at the same time it should not be taken as some kind of aphorism.
Cheers mate!
Your reply... made me sad. Seriously. Do you get trapped in your head a lot? Also, using lots of big words I have no chance of understanding doesn't make you sound smart. It makes you sound condescending and patronising. But cheers, mate! Cause a little relatable tag at the end changes everything... (not)
By the way, you do realise we're arguing about torches? .-.
"Now stay with me here, because I've thought this through."
THIS SHOULD BE HOW I START MY EVERY SENTENCE.
Thank you for the tip. As a therapist, I think this will help a lot.
That is a sentence so it's how u end it as well
careful, you start a sentence that way and people will expect you to have actually thought it through. If you are going to present material like this, that clearly hasn't been thought through very well, and is hopefully intended to just be a joke... I think it's better that you say "Now stay with me here, don't take me too seriously because I haven't really thought this through. "
Now bear with me
@@pranamahardika300 there is bare people at the shop. americans wouldnt know what i meant by saying bare in this context lmao.
"they call a liquid, Gas"
-jeremy Clarkson
Heres a good one parking lot
Or garbage
Or Fanny pack
@Orc Peon someone's offended loool
@Orc Peon says the one who comes from a country that thinks africa is a country and the citizens genuinly think they live in a free country yet they are not free at all
Hey Americans, we have to listen to you guys rip into our accents, beloved tea & delicious crumpets, let us have these 2 minutes of light-hearted friendly banter!
Preach 👏🏻
I'm American and found this funny as hell!!
Deffo true 👏
I'm an american, Honestly i dont know what a crumpet is
It's a very thick chewy pancake with a somewhat tough exterior, usually made with little added sugar, cooked in a ring to obtain its thickness.
I love how Harry, Louis, and, Niall are lightly smiling and Liam is just dying of laughter 😂😂😂
And I love how I just watched hours of one direction videos and came here for something else and then they suddenly pop up - not that I complain 😂❤️
@@skggaming4260 Hey calm down, that's a bit too extreme. You are going racist.
@@skggaming4260 someone is mad, and for what
I'm American and I've never said "waste paper basket"
It's a TRASH CAN
Which is probably even more to his point
XanBcoo in England we call it a Bin. If Americans can’t understand what a Bin is I’ve lost all hope 😂
@@CaptainCoolzCT- We say 'recycling bin' in America, but I just say 'garbage' or 'garbage can' for trash.
@@CaptainCoolzCT- "bin" in the US can refer to almost anything that can store general items permanently. Like a basket or decorated box you put a bunch of shit in long-term can be a bin, or storage bin.
Too fucking true dude... us commoners in the south got inside trash and outside trash and also burn piles we never really say trash can
A pekker in England is something completely different from American
‘Americans will always come to the right answer, after exhausting all other options’
~Winston Churchill~
Still not there yet.
Yeah churchill was one to speak
@@garbage-kun9365 He's also the reason you are free.
@@urmum3773 Nice try. I'm indian and 3 million people died because of him because he kept diverting food grains when there was a famine.
@@urmum3773 Churchill was a horrible person but you guys aren't ready for that talk. British people pick on Americans but conveniently forget that they colonised half the world :)
And this is why I love the British because even when they are mocking Americans they do it so nicely. Loved the video
Except not a single thing he said was even true lmfao.
@@jimmygangster ahh, i also love the typical offended American as well.
@@Marnige lmao
lol the real England isn’t like this don’t be fooled ppl aint polite as it looks😭
@@zino1182 i think they have a different meaning of polite over there
In Australia we are more descriptive. It isn't a sidewalk or a pavement - it is a footpath.
See that makes sense
We say footpath in the UK too. In fact, I think I say footpath more than pavement.
See, "footpath" would be vague in the US as well because you can make a path anywhere you walk with your feet.
@@jwb52z9 🤣
@@jwb52z9 We call a path through a park a footpath too. It is just a matter of context. I don't have a problem with using either sidewalk or footpath but am less inclined to use pavement.
As an American, this is HILARIOUS!! I mean, he’s not wrong... 😂
josephhumbles seems like a strong reaction to me finding a joke funny, but I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion... have a lovely day
Kristen Cowans You have a good one too Kristen, don't feed the trolls. ;)
He is inaccurate but that's part of the joke so no need to be a kiss ass to the Brit community
Kristen Cowans lol
There's no American language lool only English.
The pavement one is fascinating to me, since I would never assume a sidewalk if someone said pavement. My mental image of that word is some kind of large flat area covered in concrete or asphalt, like a driveway or the road itself.
yeah. in America a pavement is anything that is paved. that could be the sidewalk, or driveway, or street. people do say pavement and point or assume. but we also have sidewalk, driveway, street, etc.
Say sidewalk to a British child and they will imagine someone walking besides someone. Lol (jk)
I guess because the road would usually be made of asphalt, and the ‘sidewalk’ would be paved with paving stones?
@@jakew7982 or paving slabs
I'm an American and I found this funny because I too find myself wondering how we came up with names for things. It's OK to laugh at yourself once in a while.😄
funnyprincesshb pppb p^ pppppp,l
Self depreciation, the English do it all of the time..no one is off limits, even ww2 soldiers can be subject to it. Check out dad's army for a good example ha
tj o• British humour just does it best. IMO. But Americans can have some good humour.... but it varies
@@TooGood4Gamesv1 of course,i like mash for some American self depreciation ha some times English humour can become very dark or very difficult to understand but it's all good. I say English because it's totally different from the rare Welsh humour or Scottish that's just non existent aside from frankie Boyle of course.
@@tesstickle7267 Even irish has a slight different humour, I really like mrs browns boys or even that new show that's by some kids called the derry girls (would highly recommend mrs browns boys btw, the tv series)
As an someone who's neither British nor American, I always found it funny when I see something like this.
When Americans making jokes about British stereotypes (i.e. they only live off tea and crumpets, or they're all overly posh and talk like the Queen, or they're all have bad teeth,) the Brits would only laugh it off or even play along with the joke.
But when the Brits doing the exact same thing about American stereotype, the Americans would either get mad, or say "This is funny but...." and continue to nitpick everything and say this isn't true, that isn't true, not all Americans are like that, etc. I mean... It's a joke, you're not supposed to take is seriously nor consider it as a fact, you know. 😂
nakaharaindria the British ones aren't true, but the american stereotypes are true
Yeah.... I live in a country that takes itself too seriously. Didn’t think it was this bad though but these comments start implying an attitude telling other countries laughing at us crosses the line.
We tell other people/places they can’t make jokes about us. We look like hypocrites trying to police opinions of Americans... Makes me a little lonely being the only sense of humor so far...
I would actually love to see a comedian address pointlessness and news comes out of the US and see how someone from the UK is processing all of it. I’ve seen a lot of good stand up with Americans this year, and British comics I am already enjoying don’t have political stuff..... so any recommendations would be great 🤘🏻🤷♀️
Finlay Mitchell Of course they are
Look at some of the comments from the British here and realize how wrong you are.
Yes, so true - Yanks take themselves far too seriously!
I'm a 15 year old American, I think this interview is hilarious and so true. Hahahaha. More people need to understand British humor.
You're American therefore stupid so stop talking you're opinion lacks worth
Lauren Wisteria *your. Ironic isn’t? You calling someone stupid. What’s your problem?
Do Americans even understand 'Irony'?
So you're American go back to your country I guess he didn't deserve to go England
Lauren Wisteria oooooohhhhh roast boi
He also forgot this:
Colleague = Coworker 😂
Funny enough, the American term "coworker" falls more in-line with the German equivalent of "Mitarbeiter", which literally means someone you work with, as in "With-Worker".
In America, we actually use colleague more often than coworker.
@@chachcadi271 Well in businesses coworker is more oftenly used.But colleague is used in colleges and in academia in general.
I remember the time when Americans used to wear their pants OVER their trousers before they had to rename them to ‘underwear’...
XD
That's why Superman used to wear his pants over this suit.
SwagDerpBrah lol
Wait you call underwear, pants? But pants are pants lmao!
@@Leiloni No underpants are pants and pants are trousers.
I am American and no matter how many times I watch this, I am in tears. Michael McIntyre is the best..:)
I'll give you that Michael Mcintyre, that was fucking funny..
Lol He is just telling it how it is and what all us Brits are thinking to
+Phat Master X to what?
It wasn't... just a wanker being butt hurt
LiNingAir nope, this is bloody amazing
LiNingAir it's a joke? You sound like the "butt hurt" one
American and British English are structured essentially quite similar for just having these compound differences like:
Pavement : pave (vb.) + "ment" suffix-
Sidewalk : side + walk (vb.)
the difference is between using fixes versus literal language or words from figure of speech.
whereas the difference in-between most other European languages are found not only over their compound word forms but on top of that in how they use syntax of declensions, specially vowels. an example is how looking at German's grammar case system may remind you structurally in similarity to Norwegian but definitely not like the group that's Italian or Spanish.
It’s the same language just certain slang with words
I’m American and I found this hilarious 😂
Also, I’ve never heard someone say “waste paper basket” 😂
Here is the US Southeast we call it a trash can, meaning anything can go in to it - not just paper.
Me neither, its just trash or recycling
FireEye “recycling bin”
in PA we call it trash can
Same. I just say “the trash” or “trash can”
Stop with the butthurt. The British have to put up with the 'tea and crumpets' shit all the time... at least he's bringing up a funny original observation.
***** It's not my only go to... just an example.
***** That's beside the point... we all know the observations brought up from Americans and British towards each other are horrendously inaccurate. They're just finding humour in it.
***** I didn't bring up any more examples because I don't care. But I guess you're on a high horse... the bad teeth stereotype is ridiculous since most have free dental care until they turn 18. There's many that I can't be bothered to explain but I'm not the one complaining about a few jokes.
***** This is the exact reason I didn't want to bring up any more examples. Since you were clearly trying to be clever and attempting to turn my point on its head. I only gave you more because you asked for more. It doesn't mean I care, or am butthurt, or complaining. My point still stands, Americans glean humour from inaccurate stereotypes... British do the same... No one cares... Stop complaining.
Julie Kavanagh it's a fucking joke, don't choke on the joke!
This is the best video on the internet 😂
madison rose it ain't
madison rose You are deluded person! Where did you came from?
John St England probably
It is! XD
@madison rose Fuck Up
This just randomly came on my recommended and I thank UA-cam very much
I'm an American horse-back rider and this guy has me in stitches. 😂
Did you not know where to ride it? 😉😂
Anna M Foster did you fall off the tail and go to hospital?
Anna M Foster "this guy" is Michael Mcintyre, Britains no.1 comedian. 👍
The English: Autumn came from *insert info here *
The Americans: wE CALL IT FALL BECAUSE LEAF FALL DOWN
Chesca L yeah, was Autumn not easy enough for them to understand, really??
I'm English and I love the word 'Fall' for Autumn.
But the word "fall" is used for something else... I think Americans change the English language to sound special compared to us lol
@@CaptainCoolzCT- I don't use the the word 'Fall' for Autumn but I just think it sound nice. The word Fall is used for something else but it's the same for 'sea' and 'see' . 'There' and 'their' and so on. ☺
Marie Cooper except "Fall" And "Fall" are spelt the same so "Their" And "There" are distinguishable in a way.
I broke my eye glasses while horse back riding down the sidewalk, so I had to throw them in the waste paper basket.
Were you on the way to play some racket ball?
correction:
i broke my glasses while horse-riding down the pavement, so i had to put them in the bin
Lord Jamorgifier you must be fun at parties, let us British laugh at something that isn't ourselves
Why'd you throw them in the waste paper basket? That's clearly for waste paper.
Jam Man, I'm American and I wouldn't say what TomAKAVeto said at all. I'd say that "I broke my glasses while horseback riding down the sidewalk, so I had to throw them away (or throw them in the trash)"
As an American, this is hilarious af. Especially horseback riding and eyeglasses😂
You have glasögon in Swedish. So American English is a true Germanic language.
I'm a Yank through and through and I found this to be very funny! I wish he would have done more as I am sure there are a lot of other words we've made more complicated!
We have a baseball team named the yankees
You do understand that the word 'Yank' is the British version of the N word. It is not a nice compliment or a teasing word said to a little brother. It is meant to hurt, demean, and vilify.
Allie S Not exactly while it was used for a period as a derogatory term it didn't start out that way and it doesn't continue that way.
Allie S uhhhh that's not true Yank is
Short for yankee which deprived from the baseball team...
Rhino Thunder *derived
The term "yank" as a short form of yankee, existed long before the baseball team.
I'm English and I think it's very obvious this was meant purely in good fun, no offence was intended. I believe American people don't always understand British humour, I mean this with the greatest respect. I'm sure there are many things you find very irritating about us British people?!! Live and let live I say, life's too short. God bless x
This isn't British humor. It's a bit that's been done everywhere. If you read the comments, no one is offended, just confused as to how he got so many of these wrong.
Nukey70 I’m an American & I think your word for pants 👖 are called knickers hahah !
And what the heck are crumpets ? We have tea and cake 🎂 or cookies 🍪...
And I notice British say “Fuck me “ which I find odd and amusing ..
We call “mates” friends “👭
Mate To us means animals having sex ..
And some of your words are so far out there I haven’t a clue what they mean ...
I would enjoy this more if he had actually did his research on this a little better tho.
@@Heartfelt-zv7wh we don't sat knickers its outdated. And when you say British you mean English.
Nukey70 average day banter
I love this hahahaAnd they call skipping "jump rope"
And skipping is used to describe skipping. Jump rope refers to skipping or jumping over a rope. Why would that be so funny? You must be really shallow if you think that's funny.
Vrinda Kanchan in Britain we call 'jump rope' skipping as well as regular skipping
@Vrinda .. shallow cuz someone found it funny!! Lord, cant someone tease without having to be politically correct all the time. Bamboo up ur bum?
Then what do you call just regular skipping?
rope jumping
As an American, I love this guy's impersonation of an American. He immediately straightens his posture, looks at nothing in particular, and gives a (I think pretty accurate) midwestern accent. Hilarious, love it! 😂
He forgot 'neck tie'!
Probably they got confused to wear it, should be in their ankle or their neck.
We say both, actually
@@GUITARTIME2024 What, you say 'ankle-tie'?
@@AnnabelleJARankin no. We say tie and necktie.
Hope you know I was joking...
(Otherwise there is no hope for you, and I will
forever imagine there's a Yank called Peaceful
who wears a 'neck-tie' around his ankle!)
Michael is a comic genius..he wrote this bit beautifully..
Juan Pepper pretty shallow to be called genius honestly plus waste paper basket and eye glasses are rare if ever heard. Glasses is only used because it can also mean a couple glasses as in the container
Eh
I'm an American and I still think this true though.😂😂😂😂😂😂
You're Asian
C V you're a fat little poser
Being a South African this man (is he Korean???) Makes my whole body sore from laughter he is so funny and entertaining. Can't wait to hear if ever he did have a gig in USA.
I think he is totally white, but he has joked about looking Asian in the past
Africans are always confused about anyone who doesn't look Africa. You'll never hear a white person asking a question like this.
Why are you mentioning Korean? I don’t understand.
He also said somewhere that it makes no sense why they call a liquid "gas"
alexthegrape1000 I think that was Jeremy Clarkson.
Dead men tell no tales 1914 Oh yeah, he was doing an interview with Jeremy wasn't he. Still relevant though!
Don't they abbreviate it from "gasoline" though? (As far as fuel is concerned)
BingtheLizard Yeah they do but Clarkson was mocking the abbreviation as it sounds ludicrous to refer to a liquid as "gas" regardless of the original word :)
Why's it even called gasoline though? It's petrol or diesel. E-breaks a bizarre one as well, it's to stop the car rolling, where's the E come from in that? I suspect it means emergency but it's not for emergencies though
| have a lot of respect the the Americans in the comment section who can take a joke. It was just a laugh no harm done :)
Yes the video clearly is good-natured; the remarks from Brits in the comments section are not.
Ethan Cox I’m an American and no harm done I gotta kick out of this video ... 😊
@@Page-Hendryx agreed
Lol I gave up trying to find butthurt comments from Americans... Literally all I can find are comments from non-Americans saying that there's a lot of butthurt Americans in the comments.....
I'm Canadian by the way. :3
McMaple Syrup maybe they delete their comments when they realise (or other people point it out to them) that it's only a joke? ;)
So you're also American as Canada is in North America which makes you American or more specifically North American.
Derek Delboy Trotter nobody refers to themselves as North American lol
Canadian = from Canada
American = from USA
Yeah I know that it was just a joke
I do not think that was a funny joke..
He forgot 'movie theater'!
Just say cinema lmao
There’s play theater
"Cinema" is French
@@RootGroves-hl8kt No great surprises. 1 in 4 words in Anglais derive from Francais...
For everyone saying that we don't say waste paper basket and eye glasses. YES, WE USED TO. It has changed since then, but about 25-30 years ago it was still fairly common. When I was a kid, eye glasses was how you made it clear you didn't mean sunglasses. Later it became prescription glasses. And waste paper basket was specifically the small trash can that is usually by a desk (which was mostly for disposing of used paper). But now we mostly use computers to write essays, letters, etc. at our desks, so we don't use as much paper.
“Tuna fish sandwich” is the weirdest
You say “mate “
We say “friend “
Animals “mate “
@@Heartfelt-zv7wh Don't cry mate
@@Heartfelt-zv7wh fuck off mate
-tom hardy
They don't even say tuna, they say toona
@@Heartfelt-zv7wh Animals "breed"
As an American, I find this HILARIOUS. Love it!!!
His logical interpretations about american english are so fucking hilarious 🤣🤣
There's not a single second in this clip where I could hold my laughter.
Wow, the comments here are so crazy.
Michael McIntyre has done jokes about British people too and the way we act on holiday, about the stupid things we say and do, that's just comedy. But when he mocks a US stereotype everyone is up in arms about it.
How many US TV shows and comedians have taken the mickey out of British people, talking about how the English all love tea and have bad teeth and how everyone in Scotland lives in castles and wear kilts and how the Irish love potatoes and guinness and you can't walk a yard without bumping into a poet and how the Welsh are all sheep farmers / lovers… We all have stereotypes about our countries and I can't say I have ever laughed at a joke about the English having bad teeth, but if I see a clip of a US comedian joking about it to an American audience who find it funny based on a stereotype, I just ignore it. Why are people getting so bent out of shape??
Helgacabbage I live in Wales and have probably almost crashed into a sheep several times
Yeah, it's a bit triggered :-)
I’m digging through the comments and I mostly see people point out “triggered Americans” and the hatred for American Football.
It’s weird
Came for 1d. Fell in love with McIntyre.
Same
Aakriti woo!
It's all in good fun, even if some of the terms aren't actually used by most Americans. After all, Americans make fun of stereotypical 'British-isms' that aren't in use either (have you ever actually heard someone from the UK say 'cheerio' in real life? I haven't).
NekoShey thats because anericans think we are the same people from 100 years ago with dodgy teeth and posh or cockney accents
I say it daily
TheTriumphant675 if anything yours is fucked up as we came first
Americans had simplify everything like they said in this video
TheTriumphant675 we came first though
Ur more fucked
Hahaha! I am American and I was laughing the whole way through! This was halarious!
My favourite when I went was "cash money" as if cash could be credit or a cheque!
As an American I have never used or known anyone who says "cash money." That might be more of a regional dialect because yes, even within our own country we have different words and descriptors for the same thing depending on what part of the country you live in and we often are at odds even with ourselves over the words that are used to describe certain things.
S.W.W. No it's like saying look at that Tiger animal WE all know a tiger is an animal there's no need for the extra word animal. Think first type second.
+S.W.W. Wouldn't "I was paid with cash" be equally as descriptive and faster? It's not like you can get cash coupons
Im America and never heard of 'waste paper basket'. But the rest is pretty accurate. Even though I forgot what racket ball is.
Trash can
I'm Canadian, and we use pavement as a word to describe a surface made of asphalt or concrete or what ever, and we use words like sidewalk, road, etc. to describe what the surface is actually used for.
what you talking abuut
Same, and we'd say we're paving the road, and "pound the pavement" is a typical expression.
It's not ashphalt, it's asphalt! Oh, you didn't write it that way but I heard you pronounce it!
I think this one comes after the fact that these days most pavements are not PAVED anymore. They are made of cracking bricks or something?
@Crazy Canuck do you talk to people face to face like that?
2:16 "That's a whole different thing your doing there" 😂😂😂😂😂
😂
He forgot to explain why they can't tell the difference between illuminum and aluminium
In America they say aluminum instead of aluminium, I prefer saying aluminium. I don't know about illuminum.
Yeah I’m American and y’all pronounce it correctly. It’s five syllables, not four.
It's spelled and pronounced differently in the US because of a mistake made through a series of telegraph messages sent decades ago between some scientists and the change stuck in the US.
I always remember an episode of Wheel of Fortune where Vanna White explained the proper pronunciation of "jewellery" by looking at the American spelling "jewelry". She seemed to think people were wrong when they pronounced it with 4 syllables.
Finlay Mitchell Americans pronounce Aluminium WRONG, not DIFFERENTLY, is what I say!
I'm an American and even I think this is hilarious!
He is very funny.
1n4r0m5d1.m31 finally someone with a sense of humor!
There has to be better material than this by him - yes? Id rather watch dave Chappell ty
Melanie Mitchell, search up "Micheal McIntyre" (his name) on UA-cam for his other comedy roadshows.
Good fellow! :3
I love reading all the comments, because it just shows no one gets British humour 😂
+charlie walter This isn't British humour; this is a poor comedian trying to be clever and funny and failing at both.
Nahh I'm sorry but this is hilarious ^
+1mmy2000 this is hilarious too ^
+firefly927 It actually is hilarious.
charlie walter that's because americans can't spell humour
Ohmygosh. One Direction is here!! I clicked on the video because of the title but was so shocked seeing the boys. I miss them. 🥺
love the accent
love the sidewalk
love the racketball
and most of all LOVE THE HORSE RIDING
I am American and I find this hilarious! Right on!
This is why I love You Tube. Seeing British humour. Funnier than most of the stuff on US tv. (I am neither from the UK nor USA)
American Born American humour is forced sex jokes and random scene changes, and British humour is crazy, energetic and fun stuff happening with a few jokes in there.
@@loxisito9533 Better yet. Talk of the original. Monty Python. And the ones that came afterwards. The two Ronnies, Fry and Laurie. There's Blackadder...
I'm from the U.S. and found this hilarious!!
Why is everyone fighting?? We are talking about two wonderful countries that everyone should be proud of.
My favorite is "horseback riding"
Irma Bosquez you can't spell favourite
Oh my gosh really? You don't even pronounce the u in favorite. It is spelled how it is pronounced.
You don't pronounce many letter in the English language for example, you don't pronounce the 'gh' in through, or the 'k' in knight or the 'p' in receipt etc. The U in words such as in colour, favourite etc are not there to be pronounced but to signal how the 'o' is to be pronounced.
Queue.
@@benjaminshepherd2988 in what way? Please elaborate.
Why is anyone getting offended? This was made for the purpose to make people laugh, I'm sure he doesnt hate us he's a cool guy. Besides it wasn't made for Americans it was made for Brits to have a good laugh, so any offended Americans really have no business saying so in the comments.
Clara Annie but if America slags of everywhere else it's fine, get a life will you
Clara Annie you are lol
And Americans never slag off any other countries do they? learn to take a joke loool
No all us English hate you ;)
This happens to be a free country. In other words, my opinions are just as valid as yours. So, if I want to take offense and tell it to the world, I will! His comedy may be funny to some, but he is perpetuating a stereotype that is harmful to Americans. If he had used the words, "Some Americans" that would have been different.
When I arrived in US, the usage of “one-half” to describe half of anything used to simply drive me crazy! Because for me one-half is always going to be 1.5! 😂
Same here😂
I LOVE when he spoke with an American accent. So funny! English, Scottish, and Irish are my favorite accents. So pretty :o)
LOL !!! I'm an American and I'm not offended at all. It's just light hearted humor, that's all. This guy is hilarious !!!!
I'm guessing the people who have disliked this video are Americans lol 😂😂😂 Such a funny clip though.
You're only guessing. They might be people who thumbs down a video for the sake of thumbing it down, and they come from all over the world. There is no way to tell.
If Americans were offended by this there would be 20,000 dislikes not 600
All_Roads
Kind hard to believe if there are 40% butthurt American comments and 1% people who don't find this funny.
Nice try though.
Sarah Steventon I’m American and I liked it, it’s funny!
Munzur Baba I'm a proud American and I found it quite humorous personally.
I teach English as a Foreign language ...it so true!!!!! My students are usually confused!!
Americans don't say "Waste paper basket" It's the trash can.
Still need to know it's trash going in a can
Nocturnal Druid still not getting the point. The irony is so thick even in your latest comment. You are drawing on the exact point Michael is making. What you just said is what the Brits are laughing about. You STILL have to specify what goes inside the can, you needed more information because apparently bin is too hard for you to understand as a place to put rubbish. But I'll stop enjoying the humour, Americans have Donald Trump, bet they wished they were a trash can right about now.
We just call it the bin
choperchic24 they still need to say what goes inside it
We just call it trash
im dying...this was the best
What I want to know is, why are so many Americans watching the Jonathan Ross Show?
It's on UA-cam, and lots of videos appear as recommended, and this one did for myself.
One direction were also on this night of the show with Michael. The 1D fans are probably all here
Because British TV > American
Mostly because of recommended videos, but for the most part our countries share a lot of mainstream movies and TV. Think about everything that people talk about and watch, I bet there is a good mix of US TV/Movies with British ones.
One direction brought me here
Yes, we used to say "wastepaper basket" back in the 60s and 70s.
Well with the technology that those morons have it probably took that long for that information to have crossed the ocean. There's a reason 90% of their buildings are a few hundred years old. I'm exaggerating obviously but it wouldn't surprise me.
@@jimmygangster actually the current president of the Us said Waste Paper Basket in the first presidential debate of 2020 so I don't know why you think it's from the 60s you still use it...
@@jimmygangster Most houses are at least 300 years old, older than the USA because we don't demolish our history we preserve it.
And we implement much better tech than you, contactless payments and tickets for a start, unlike the NYC subway plus I've never had to sign a receipt because of chip and pin can you say the same?
@@TechKnightBrit The US hasn't even existed for 300 years
@@TechKnightBrit Yet your country couldn't save it's own ass in WW2 without America. oooop! Brush your nasty teeth too.
What confuses me is how americans refuse to go metric in any shape or form... but don't know what a stone is.
ナコルル王女 stone?
Rozamunduszek 14lbs make a stone
ナコルル王女 Thank you! I did not know that (my whole life I've lived in a country using only the metric system ;))
Rozamunduszek 😘
ナコルル王女 Yes, most of us do know what a stone is and most of us want to go metric. It would make everything easier. Don't assume. This clip is very funny. It's fun to laugh at ourselves.
Autumn? No. Fall. Because leaf fall down.
haha. Poorly written but very funny. haha/
That decription was amazing about leafs falling down
Because "Autumn" is too comlicated for Americans to understand...
***** we use both ass munch. And it was commonly used in England as well but lost its usage over the centuries.
@@TheJkghfg I mean no Britt's made the term fall the then adopted the french autumn and we just kept fall.
It’s called a footpath in Australia, just to be very clear.
Nobody was talking about Australia.
Cee Deecee we say Footpath And Pavement in Britain, and always have done.
do you have any handpaths over there? :))
Alek well you don’t live in Australia or Britain, because in both of those countries we have Footpaths. Are you from America?
@@CaptainCoolzCT- i know dude, i used to live in the uk...it was a joke wtf :))
As an American english speaker, that guy is the most spot on
Mike Myers impersonator I've ever seen.
As an American, I want to be offended: but nothing he said was untrue
The only ones I have ever said or heard is sidewalk, and horseback riding
People just say glasses, and trashcan
Why do you want to be offended at humour?
You say waste paper basket?
@@cajunsphinxgaming1759 Even if you say trash can the same rules still applies
@@cajunsphinxgaming1759 I've heard eyeglasses MANY times.
The Americans' butthurt comments are the best part of this video.
+Daniel Arshad It's not that Americans are butt-hurt... it's that he's not even correct. He's trying to make fun of American words but he's using words we don't even say.
+BMD
I've heard them around. I personally never really use them but my old teachers used to. Sometimes I use them for the novelty and then just stop when it gets boring.
+BMD I've heard Americans say them.
No you haven't. I'm American, and I know what Americans say. Nobody says "waste paper basket". 99.9% of people say "trash can" or "garbage can".
Helen Wood Do me a favor... type in "waste paper bin" into Google, and just about every result is from European websites. So apparently, it's a European phrase, and not an American one.
Omg his face when he said racket ball 😂😂
In UK we say thank you for contacting us, in US it's thank you for reaching out to us!
Again you use the Anglo-Norman word while we use the Germanic one.
I call it pavement and I have literally never heard anyone call it a waste paper basket. It's a trash can.
+jamya williams oh? not just a bin, but a can for your trash? lol jk mate
firebaby7 Lol, yeap. Gotta be specific that it is a can for trash.
It's comedy, he is over exaggerating.
Rachelle Tregear I know it's comedy thanks. And it wasn't really exaggerating, was it? He's saying that's what people say. How can you exaggerate on that?
+jamya williams still though - trash can. That goes with what he says - its like an instruction, calling it a trash can is like saying "this can is for trash". We call it a bin.
As an American I thought this was funny. There are a lot of words we use that don't make sense, e.g. we drive on a parkway, and park on a driveway.
Every language has idioms that "don't make sense" if you take them too literally. That's not an American thing. We could play the same game with British English or Irish English or Indian English.
I’m British and I’m laughing so much 😂
What part of Britain
do u support liverpool.fc
"Horse back riding" , love it 😂
In Sweden we laugh a lot at the way the danes and norweigans speak. Our languages are similar and we understand each other but the differences are often funny.
Ja, bare vi ikke skal den sædvanlige joke om kartoflen. Den er IKKE sjov længere ...
My God! I can't stop laughing 😂
This is one of the funniest videos I have ever watched
This is still my favourite sketch 😂
I don't think many British people understand that we don't always stick to one word only to describe something. I've heard people say pavement and sidewalk. Trash bin and trash can. Also, nobody says "waste paper basket". Soccer was from the UK... We didn't change every word to make it easier for us. It is just that the English language has evolved from centuries of being on different continents. I am pretty sure that the English in the 1600s in the US was pretty much identical in the British isles because the colonists moved recently. Even Canada which has been under British control for longer still uses different words and nobody criticizes them. I know this is just comedy but I wish people would stop looking at the whole thing with such a narrow minded, simple explanation. We have always spoken English even before we were Americans.
Im from New Zealand, we call a pavement/sidewalk a Footpath 😃
Nice one, never heard of it but yet it makes more sense then the other two:D
Sounds so romantic. By why is a guy who assists people in a carriage called a Footman? In America, that describes a man with a foot fetish.
@@florastewart7957 because it came from a bit different usage of the word. This explains it:
The designation "running footman" derived from the attendants who ran beside or behind the carriages of aristocrats, many of whom were chosen for their physical attributes. They ran alongside the coach to make sure it was not overturned by such obstacles as ditches or tree roots. They would also run ahead to prepare the destination place for their lord's arrival.
The word was subsequently extended to apply to a household servant, who usually filled glasses, placed and removed dishes etc. while standing at meals, while the master and guests remained seated.
Michelle Tana we say 'Footpath' AND 'Pavement' in Britain. We say Pavement when it is a PAVED PATH and a Footpath when it isn’t Paved. Makes sense really.
Yeah, in India too we call it footpath.
I’m American let’s be honest. What he said was kind. Some items we have like six different names for the same damn thing. Lol
so many americans who can't take a joke :')
This isn't funny I'm speak on behalf of America when I say this is offensive in every way possible and he should be arrested for his slanderous claims against the USA.
This video is the reason Trump won the election, now we are a Republican country again. How does that make you feel huh?
Natasha Godfrey I know good humor when I see it and this video isn't funny I'm triggered
sulley They are the most literal people I know
This guy is a shitty comedian who is making shitty jokes about Americans by shitting on us because of our small differences in speech without realizing (or caring) why there is a difference. Dylan Moran does an excellent job of roasting Americans because he has a grasp on the culture. this guys sounds like he took a week long prepaid bus tour of the middle east coast and wrote all his material where Dylan Moran went on fucking coast to coast comedy tour here and actually talked to people in every city he stopped in all over the country before writting his jokes. That's why one is an internationally renowned comedian and one is probably popular in his small country?
Jonathan you are brilliant.