I just have to say the racism slighted toward the southern united states in this video reply section really is saddening. It's music, Stephen Fry and people having fun...
does everything have to be bullshit in this world when people get done with it?
I live in TN and this video in no way shows what TN is like. This just picked the most red neck county ass place they could and started rolling film. From the look of the video just just drove around the mountains of east TN and found some mountain men playing banjos and shit. Stephen needs to come to west Tennessee where we do not all speak like inbred fucks.
I know what you mean about showing only certain bits of Tennessee culture, but a lot of people find that accent and style of music really charming. And they were all friendly to Stephen, which is the important thing, right?
@KSW725 Somehow I feel they would not be so friendly if they knew Stephen is a gay atheist. He might as well peel off his skin and reveal Satan himself!
That would be an unkind assumption to make about people I've never met. They are individuals and I really have no idea how they would feel about Stephen's sexuality or his atheism--or how they might treat him in light of that information.
@mythinktube Tired old stereotype is tired and old. People in the south(at least nowadays)dont really give a shit about a persons religion or sexual preference.Ofcourse bigots still exist in dixie but Ive seen some pretty nasty homophobes in my travels to Europe so its not a southern thing.
@IlovemyGlock21 Um, excuse me? God it's people like you that really make me shake my head. What's wrong with having a TN accent? My grandmother spoke with one her whole life and she was a very educated woman. When I heard her speak it made me feel proud because how she spoke represented a very unique and important part of our family's heritage.
@brunettekoala There is so such a thing you dumb ass. Scotch-Irish were Scottish and English colonizers of the Irish province of Ulster and they later emigrated to North America in droves.
@njdevil281 If you asked anyone from Scotland, England or indeed, Ulster you'd find they don't consider themselves 'Scots-Irish'. They'd be English, Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish or an Ulsterman/woman. Thanks for the history lesson about my own country though. :)
@brunettekoala Not anymore they don't in the 21st century. The people who consider themselves Scotch-Irish in the US remember their ancestors from how they were in the 18th and 19th centuries. Try to look at other peoples perspectives. It was also how they differentiated themselves from other huge waves of Irish immigrants.
@brunettekoala Um, where did you go to school? Cuz you should get your money back. The Scotch-Irish were Irishmen of Scottish descent in Northern Ireland, mainly Ulster. They were the ones who settled the Appalachian area of the South.
im from tennessee, and i thought i was going to be embarrassed by this video. but then i remembered: this is Stephen Fry, who it utterly lovely and sees to best in everyone and respects those different from himself. Thanks for validating my opinion of yourself, Mr Fry.
@Rantandreason - That little community is kinda freakishly paradoxical. They wouldn't care he's gay, Atheist, or raised Jewish, but they'd have no idea who he is... until one of them pulled out a smart phone to read his bio. They'd unimpressed at having met a famous person (that side of my family produced a Miss America from Kentucky a few years ago). They'd be interested enough to tell their immediate families he'd visited, although apparently they didn't care to tell more distant relatives!
OMG!!! When I clicked this video, I expected to be enraged by Stephen's take on Tennessee music, the only thing people outside the state know of, and was shocked and appalled to see he's in the school where my family reunions are... surrounded by my cousins and their friends... I am so stunned, embarrassed, and impressed all at the same time. Just... wow.
Yeah, those people you and I never met sure are prejudiced, aren't they! I know those types of people....always judging people they never met before! Terrible
@agoddamnsexfiend Canada was the second country in the world to abolish slavery, even before the country that "owned" us did it.
Our civil rights movement was one guy who got denied service at a restaurant, sued the restaurant for discrimination, and our entire legal system changed as a result.
We've also had a female prime minister.
I'd say we're doing pretty good, and your comparison doesn't really hold the same weight mine does as experience would tell them apart
@agoddamnsexfiend Oh and I forgot to mention, our Governor General from 2005 to 2010, which on paper actually has more power than the Prime Minister is Michaëlle Jean, a black woman from Haiti
@SuperGermany77 I'd just like to point out that, what with my being raised in the South, my comprehension of the various levels of complexity present in a Southern accent is much clearer than that of an American who wasn't raised in that area. But, seeing as I'm... fonder of the British media, especially that which our wonderful Mr. Fry has produced, I equally had no trouble understanding him.
I'm a believer in Jesus and I like Stephen Fry, he's the only atheist I would tolerate
MejoradaDj 1 week ago
@MejoradaDj why does not believing in fairy stories make someone untrustworthy??
mythinktube 6 days ago
@mythinktube yeah, stephen is the only atheist i like
MejoradaDj 5 days ago
I would love to see this program in its entirety, I would love it if he made it to Nashville.
LeFeff 1 month ago
I'm a little worried about Stephen wearing burnt orange to a thing in Tennessee
asmiller21 2 months ago
I was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, I'm an atheist, and Stephen Fry is one of my idols! :D
Not gay though! Stephen makes it a bit difficult for me, sometimes.
VoiceofCthulhu 2 months ago 2
I just have to say the racism slighted toward the southern united states in this video reply section really is saddening. It's music, Stephen Fry and people having fun...
does everything have to be bullshit in this world when people get done with it?
daPlumber702 3 months ago 5
I love the Southern accent when a girl talks.
Lavalole 3 months ago
y'all tawwwk fuuhny ova der don chas
garveya1 3 months ago
Stephen made it seem like he's never spoken in a southern accent before. Anyone remember "my ass" sketch. Not quite redneck accent, but it was close.
themillenia 4 months ago
0:56: :D
Ventilator313 5 months ago
Hahahaha I love Stephen's shit-eating grin when he's sitting next to that hot guy @ 0:55 :D
zaitesushion 5 months ago 2
I live in TN and this video in no way shows what TN is like. This just picked the most red neck county ass place they could and started rolling film. From the look of the video just just drove around the mountains of east TN and found some mountain men playing banjos and shit. Stephen needs to come to west Tennessee where we do not all speak like inbred fucks.
IlovemyGlock21 6 months ago
@IlovemyGlock21
I know what you mean about showing only certain bits of Tennessee culture, but a lot of people find that accent and style of music really charming. And they were all friendly to Stephen, which is the important thing, right?
KSW725 4 months ago 3
@KSW725 Somehow I feel they would not be so friendly if they knew Stephen is a gay atheist. He might as well peel off his skin and reveal Satan himself!
mythinktube 1 month ago
@mythinktube
That would be an unkind assumption to make about people I've never met. They are individuals and I really have no idea how they would feel about Stephen's sexuality or his atheism--or how they might treat him in light of that information.
KSW725 1 month ago
@mythinktube Actually, they probably do know he is gay. They would of looked him up on the internet. They do have internet in Tennessee LOL.
51Saffron 1 month ago
@mythinktube Tired old stereotype is tired and old. People in the south(at least nowadays)dont really give a shit about a persons religion or sexual preference.Ofcourse bigots still exist in dixie but Ive seen some pretty nasty homophobes in my travels to Europe so its not a southern thing.
agoddamnsexfiend 1 week ago
@agoddamnsexfiend that's good to know and yes there's plenty of bigots in Europe too
mythinktube 6 days ago
@IlovemyGlock21 Um, excuse me? God it's people like you that really make me shake my head. What's wrong with having a TN accent? My grandmother spoke with one her whole life and she was a very educated woman. When I heard her speak it made me feel proud because how she spoke represented a very unique and important part of our family's heritage.
redcorpse 3 months ago
Ahhh....gotta love the Americans who believe they are descended from the 'Scots-Irish' - there ain't no such thing!!
brunettekoala 6 months ago
@brunettekoala There is so such a thing you dumb ass. Scotch-Irish were Scottish and English colonizers of the Irish province of Ulster and they later emigrated to North America in droves.
njdevil281 6 months ago 6
@njdevil281 If you asked anyone from Scotland, England or indeed, Ulster you'd find they don't consider themselves 'Scots-Irish'. They'd be English, Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish or an Ulsterman/woman. Thanks for the history lesson about my own country though. :)
brunettekoala 6 months ago
@brunettekoala Not anymore they don't in the 21st century. The people who consider themselves Scotch-Irish in the US remember their ancestors from how they were in the 18th and 19th centuries. Try to look at other peoples perspectives. It was also how they differentiated themselves from other huge waves of Irish immigrants.
njdevil281 6 months ago 5
@brunettekoala Um, where did you go to school? Cuz you should get your money back. The Scotch-Irish were Irishmen of Scottish descent in Northern Ireland, mainly Ulster. They were the ones who settled the Appalachian area of the South.
cmurphy2826 5 months ago 3
i've only been in Tennessee for 3 months and i love it here (and i'm a uber-liberal from CA, CO, and New Mexico....)
kofixg 6 months ago
im from tennessee, and i thought i was going to be embarrassed by this video. but then i remembered: this is Stephen Fry, who it utterly lovely and sees to best in everyone and respects those different from himself. Thanks for validating my opinion of yourself, Mr Fry.
Skeew1 6 months ago
If i had to move to america, id go to the south, just seems like more fun
dan11009 6 months ago
So everybody goes and hangs out in an old school and makes music on the weekend?
That's...pretty awesome actually.
benjaminthefox 6 months ago
See, the south isn't all that bad :)
mrgrinch14 6 months ago 3
"Maaa-aa Gaaw"
"Mountain Girl?"
"Maaatn Gaaaaa. Real slow fur ya thur."
BanzaiKen 6 months ago
@Rantandreason - That little community is kinda freakishly paradoxical. They wouldn't care he's gay, Atheist, or raised Jewish, but they'd have no idea who he is... until one of them pulled out a smart phone to read his bio. They'd unimpressed at having met a famous person (that side of my family produced a Miss America from Kentucky a few years ago). They'd be interested enough to tell their immediate families he'd visited, although apparently they didn't care to tell more distant relatives!
JervisGermane 6 months ago 2
OMG!!! When I clicked this video, I expected to be enraged by Stephen's take on Tennessee music, the only thing people outside the state know of, and was shocked and appalled to see he's in the school where my family reunions are... surrounded by my cousins and their friends... I am so stunned, embarrassed, and impressed all at the same time. Just... wow.
JervisGermane 6 months ago 4
god, what a lovely man.
globalforce 6 months ago
Oh Stephen, if those boys found out you were gay AND an atheist they'd start playing dueling banjos and you'd be in a world o trouble ;)
Rantandreason 6 months ago 44
@Rantandreason
Yeah, those people you and I never met sure are prejudiced, aren't they! I know those types of people....always judging people they never met before! Terrible
snruB9959 6 months ago 7
@Rantandreason I don't know about that. The banjo player at 1:30 seems to be doing OK.
Crotchrot 6 months ago
@Rantandreason Oh please.
cmurphy2826 5 months ago
@cmurphy2826 Oh I'm sorry, did Tennessee pass gay rights legislation and elect an openly atheistic governor while I wasn't looking?
Rantandreason 5 months ago
@Rantandreason No but since Canada has never had a black prime minister I guess that makes all you Canuks a bunch of racists untill you do.
agoddamnsexfiend 1 week ago
@agoddamnsexfiend Canada was the second country in the world to abolish slavery, even before the country that "owned" us did it.
Our civil rights movement was one guy who got denied service at a restaurant, sued the restaurant for discrimination, and our entire legal system changed as a result.
We've also had a female prime minister.
I'd say we're doing pretty good, and your comparison doesn't really hold the same weight mine does as experience would tell them apart
Rantandreason 1 week ago
@agoddamnsexfiend Oh and I forgot to mention, our Governor General from 2005 to 2010, which on paper actually has more power than the Prime Minister is Michaëlle Jean, a black woman from Haiti
Rantandreason 1 week ago
@Rantandreason and jewish!!
Paulyb1010 3 months ago
y'all talk funny over there, don't ya? - lol.
SuperGermany77 9 months ago 41
@SuperGermany77 I'd just like to point out that, what with my being raised in the South, my comprehension of the various levels of complexity present in a Southern accent is much clearer than that of an American who wasn't raised in that area. But, seeing as I'm... fonder of the British media, especially that which our wonderful Mr. Fry has produced, I equally had no trouble understanding him.
I could have translated. :P
VoiceofCthulhu 2 months ago
press 8 for a hillbilly trying to explain accent to Stephen : )
MuahahahaFActory 1 year ago