Bill Bailey - Geoffrey Chaucer pub gag

[TenStoryLoveSong]

Fucking pathetic!

[RedLorryYellowLorryx]

I think if a few of these dick-shits actually understood Chaucer or just the general idea of Old English THEN they would find it funny and appreciate the humour.

Pubbe Gagge never gets old for me :P

[OffForAPint]

This man is a bloody legend. And that is a very accurate imitation of a Middle English dialect of which you all are either too ignorant or arsefaced to understand how genius this interpretation was. Nuff said

[devilschild666able]

This man is a fucking twat!

[TenStoryLoveSong]

Utter shit!

[awesomeminidude]

oh my god this is absolutely epic

[devilschild666able]

@awesomeminidude . Yes it's epically shit. How can these sad bastards actually be laughing at this fucking prick?. He could say anything in that stupid annoying fucking voice and people will just laugh because they are told too, you bunch of retarded moronic cretins!!!

[publicanimal9]

@devilschild666able Harsh...but fair! The man is nothing more than a shitty cum-fart....

....and his fans are the disease-ridden whores that lick up said spunky arse-gravy!

[me4901]

@devilschild666able What are you doing on youtube? Shouldn't you be off complaining about how can't get a job and that police are bugging you ?

[devilschild666able]

@me4901 No i don't need a job as my benefits are more than enough thankyou. Getting back to the subject of Bailey, he is a filthy left wing Blairite and his so called jokes are utter shit!

[TenStoryLoveSong]

@devilschild666able I noticed this too. Saw the vile socialist cunt promoting Gordon Brown! I doubt his gated mansion in a private road is filled with the Somalian murderers he glady invites into the country. Scumbag, talentless scumbag!

[TenStoryLoveSong]

@me4901 And what are you doing operating a computer? I'd imagine that the spasticated product of an incestuous liaison such as you would have difficulty even turning a computer on, let alone finding videos of your retarded kin. Shouldn't you be trying to ingratiate yourself with the normal able-bodied hominids with whom you have to share this mortal coil? Why exacerbate your disability by associating yourself with other cretinous abnormal freaks such as Bailey?

[MrStratus]

the guy with the reebok t shirt was laughing. As if he understood what bill was saying / got the reference to chaucer haha

[MrCaides]

@MrStratus Maybe he did? Book... cover... ;)

[WobbleSkanker]

@MrStratus Yeah lol. Because everyone in the audience is a Chaucer scholar and is laughing because of the shrewd use of Chaucerian language and obscure historical reference. Not just because this is so clever,amusing and enjoyable.

Who fucking cares what people wear to a comedy gig? If you really look down on someone for laughing at a clever sketch just because of the t shirt they're wearing; then you don't deserve Bill Bailey.

[MrStratus]

@WobbleSkanker wow. woah. ok. I was err I was only havin a laugh mate. not being serious. wow no need to attack me. its not like you see David Cameron walking around with a reebok t shirt on do ya? its only a joke. relax

[Puleczech]

such was the ___ and ___ ,

it was like a sketch by Dick Emery.

What are the words there please?

[NoekieB]

@Puleczech Lewdness and debauchery

[Krashnadar]

@Puleczech Lewdness and debauchery.

[Rachulie]

hah. i never understood why ppl assume they all sounded italian/dutch back then. where the hell did that accent go? makes no sense

[auitane]

@Rachulie It was known as the "Great Vowel Shift". While what Bailey is doing here is a far cry from actual Middle English pronunciation (he's doing it the way a modern English speaker might if they weren't acquainted with the rules), before the great vowel shift English had a vowel system pretty similar to what continues today in most continental European languages. Thus i's were pronounced ee, u's as oo's, etc.

[Colfax11000]

@auitane Very interresting. Could it be, though, what he is saying might resemble some late dialect from a village that is well within the premise of Modern English from the 1500s, but still has many Chaucerisms?

[stridingwolfy]

@yurismir1 Holy shit... You're not the only one...

[bowie4president]

"except dick emery has not been born, so such comparison may not be drawn" :) classic

[yurismir1]

Am I the only one who thinks he looks like Chaucer?

[DCdabest]

showed this in my Uni tute when we were doing Chaucer... many lols were had...

[p3mb0007]

My favourite BB joke. Quality.

[StirlingSweetie]

"They all agreed; what a brilliant night!" I love this guy!

[fearthegeeklord]

@StirlingSweetie *"They all agreed: "What a brilliant night!""

[sarcasmgod]

Glad to see that a night out at the pub hasn't changed in over 600 years :)

[martybow1]

I love



[Burningmace]

Marjorie, fetch me my monocle!

[louthleviathan]

a ditch of shite! lol

[Ambicatus]

Aaaah. Reciprocal intervention of series--what a great technique. As a Chaucerian, I cannot be sad that this has been done. American comedy is so pedantic. Of course, we only have about two hundred years to draw from, and our literature is far less clever.

[nonindividual]

Such a well crafted joke.

[setamonkeytoy]

quiet tame by chaucers standards really

[creamyfilling102]

now this is absolutely fantastic. perhaps the most intellegent and well rehearsed joke ever

[RoninXiC]

watch?v=mNEWatD0viw That version is MUTCH better :(

[nonindividual]

@RoninXiC That version is not better... far too rushed.

[Slapbass13]

@nonindividual Nah, I think I prefer the other one.

This one is a bit laboured.

[widgetno1]

@nonindividual if he is talking about this version /watch?v=88zqaw-447o then i agree with him i dont like the slower version.

[ccgal15888]

@RoninXiC learn how to spell first

[RoninXiC]

@ccgal15888

Awesome, spelling corrections are so mature!

You sir are my favourite poster on Youtube.. not.

[BrianWhistle]

@RoninXiC that's incorrect punctuation as well: you should use either one dot: - . (full stop) or three dots - ... (ellipses).

[RoninXiC]

@BrianWhistle

Amazing, this post is even less useful than the other one.

[MrLittletomdj]

@BrianWhistle Punctuation!... Fuckin' Grammer Nazi.

[Redheadfury]

@BrianWhistle That should be three dots :- ... because you are showing an example and not creating a pause in the sentence.

[BrianWhistle]

@Redheadfury You use quite an interesting piece of punctuation, the note below ' :- '.

As you have not noted below this too is non-standard or incorrect .

[parkourIninja]

currently trying to learn this off by heart... harder than expected

[JJGIANT3]

@parkourIninja lol why?

[parkourIninja]

@JJGIANT3 somthing to do,

[TenStoryLoveSong]

@parkourIninja You're a sad cunt!

[Chimpanzor]

Class

[lickstickly]

Vintage Bill