He does English accents, the same way in USA they speak English being Americans. It's like people from, say, Argetina all the way up to Mexico: they speak Spanish but they're not Spaniards.
The sweep of accents, the idea of succession by geography of psychology of population demographics, is certainly an important one Mr.Sellers here vocates.
@1jamespears It was a heart attack, in part to the congenital heart defect he had. Other factors were his smoking, drugs use and stress from overwork. He had been told by doctors years before to slow down, but that wasn't Peters' style.
How many actors are able, in English language, to change so frequently and easily their accent, I can see the british Anthony Hopkins (Nixon), Sean Connery (without any touch of scottish accent) playing an english spy as James Bond or an american general in the "Presidio"), Hugh Laurie, with an english accent or with an american accent from Seattle aera, or the american actor John Hillerman with a perfect english accent it is fascinating this flexibility of accents in English.
This guy has got to be kidding... "London, East, North, South or West English"? I've only recently learned to distinguish between English, Scottish & Irish accents... now this guy is talking about variations of simply the English accent???
Perhaps, within another 40 years I'll recognize those also
@Chuichupachichi Not going to happen, mate. The UK has the most accents per square mile in the World. If you go 15 miles out of any city in any direction, you will hear almost 15 noticably different accents:-)
Hollywood only really shows one, though, which is the posh, South East butler type, occasionally, you might hear a Cockney type a generic Scots accent or an "Oim from Oirland, me" accent.
Keep trying though, I'll give you a test in 40 years time ;-)
@Triplesod of course the scottish accent is usually the semi-shouting Glaswegian which is just as crass when they try to do a Cockney one and think most of london speaks like that.
@Chuichupachichi Well i live in Newcastle, England and to be honest if you heard me you wouldn't believe i was English, there are probably over 100 different English accents alone, then there's different accents in scotland but they don't vary as much as ours.
@Chuichupachichi There's a lot of different Irish accents too - usually when people think there is just one "Irish" sound, it turns out that nobody here actually speaks like that. Most of the stage Irish accents you hear in (American) films is funny but completely wrong :)
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Sellers was a genius. Not sure if Arlott could be mistaken. In the late 40's Sellers and Benny Hill were the two best rated mimics on the radio, they both understood what makes people laugh.
Interestingly, the reason why the rhotic West Country accents are closer to Ameican accents is because of Bristol's history as a renaissance through Victorian sea-trading city. Many exploratory sailors spoke with the same working-class Bristolian that gives us the modern stereotypical "Pirate" accent.
He was sooo talented lol I love his pimply London accent.
He is displaying various english accents *of that era*
The London accents have changed slightly since then because of many factors, one of the factors is immigration and the huge influx of Jamaicans in the years after WW2
certain South London accent has been heavilly influenced by Jamaican tonality as well as actual dialect, 'innit tho', 'you get mee dough'
@Blokecameuptome Ah yes there werent any white people trying to make money off taking the piss out of Asian people who try to imitate 2nd generation Jamaican patois and African American Ebonic vernacular then
I am a Londoner, and the amount of London accents Sellers identifies and pulls off perfectly is fascinating. If I recall rightly theres 5/6 London accents here, varying between hard cockney and the more posh London accents and lots in-between. Kudos to your powers of observation and impersonation Mr Sellers.
he acshually did a film in Swansea, even up Townhill there, and you are talking about englishmen on kebabs there, but he survived, with colours - even the main woman there put a medal on him, and THAT is saying something. Sellars walks on water as Townhill is concerned, in memory, and today.
I wish he'd done a Yorkshire one that would have really confused our American friends. I grew up in Lincolnshire and when I moved to Canada I constantly got people asking me if I were from the States because it sounds similar apparently. People really don't know accents outside of their own countries.
"People really don't know accents outside of their own countries. "
Very true. I'm in the US, but I've watched a lot of British TV, and my wife lived in Oxfordshire for a few years, so I've learned some of the differences. My favorite is the Geordie accent.
To your point though, someone on YT was criticizing an American that thought Scouse was Scottish, so I asked the guy if he could tell the difference between an Tennessee accent and and Alabama accent. We're all equally clueless! :-)
Hm, well what does that make you? You see, 'stupider' isn't really a word and 'are a stupider and fatter than everyone else.' is just a complete failure at expressed thought.
"Apparently they don't, since you failed to mention every other language which has accents besides english. Epic fail on your part"
Huh? Are your retarded? Why would I mention every other language? It was an analogy doofus. I could have picked any two dialects. The point is, few people can spot regional dialects outside of their own country.
That was abundantly clear, if you bothered to READ what I said.
As a continental European (Belgian) I can assure you, that I can perfectly distiguish between Los Angeles, NYC, Southern, Canadian, London, Scottish, Liverpool, Irish and Welsh accents just to name a few, and I am not an exception.
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the audio level on your download is super WEAK. Can't distiguish Peters dialogue. Can someone upload a version with a decent sound level? Two stars for the effort tho.
It's an old video! If you can't "distiguish" what Peter is saying then listen more carefully because I can and English is my second language. 5 stars well deserved!
I am looking for a video on all English speaking accent s, Scottish english, irish english,Australian, New Zealand, American English(Minnesota, West coast, west coast surfer, east coast, and southern), Canadian/Minnesota, sometimes those Aussies and NZs sound like brits. is their a distinct Welsh accent?
And how the hell did us Yanks ended up talking differently from England English?
I'd say there's definitely a distinct Welsh accent though - youtube 'Gavin & Stacey' - although, on saying that, if you're having trouble distinguishing Aussies from us Brits, I don't know whether you'll be able to hear the differences.
TBH, I usually can't tell Canadian people apart from Americans, and have difficulty telling some European accents apart (apart from the obvious ones - French, German etc) so I think you tend to be more sensitive to accents if they're from your country.
There are loads of Welsh accents, I am English and live in Wales. The 2 main accents for Wales are easily distinguishable, they are the North and South Wales accents. Very different from each other. If the person is a speaker of Welsh then the accent is usually much stronger.
It`s just a joke man. I just wanted to piss off a couple of scots. I know perfectly well that Scotland is a country, but is a part of United Kingdom together with England and Wales etc. They have the same head of state and government. The prime minister of England is also prime minister of Scotland, although Scotland has a first minister or something and their own parliment.
@Marcoshary 1) Cockney. 2) General London accent. 3) Estuary English accent (intellectual lol?). You might here this in parts of Kent and Essex, maybe Surrey, sounded quite Kentish. 4) Pimply guy (?) Frank Spencer! 5) Posh (Cosmo!) sort of London accent 6) Maybe a Greek or Jewish London accent, 7) Edinbro' "Morningside Accent" 8) Glasgow 9) West Country (but as someone pointed out John Arlott was from Hampshire, and has accent has a kind of rural South East feel (with a bit of a burr).
@csvtom - BOTH Arlott and Sellers were from Hampshire. That county , although not far from London, has a distinctly West Country-type accent. Winchester WAS the capital of Wessex.
Portsmouth seems to be the exception - sounds increasingly "Mockney"
@adventussaxonum yeah. Well the rhotic has declined the further East in the country you go. I suppose Portsmouth is a big city, like Brighton where there's a definite London influence.
i would really love to see a documentary about RP and the various UK accents, I can hardly make out the difference between north and south, although I recognize Karl's Manc accent.
Really? I suppose I'm the same with American accents, I can;t tell the difference with those. As someone from the North-East of England, though, I find it pretty easy to tell the difference.
There are slight regional pronunciations in the US, but I think in general we all sound the same, after years of MTV and Hollywood. The only distinctly American sounds left are Southern drawls and urban Black dialects.
I think its great that the UK still has a rich diversity of accents -- makes it all the better when Steve takes the mick out of Karl Pilkington...
He misses out lots of the best ones, though: Brummie, Geordie, Scouse, Bristolian, Manx, Dorset, Yorkshire, Teeside, Lancastrian, Highland Scots and all the Welsh and Ulster accents...
Odd, but not surprising, that I have been ''red-carded'' by simply stating what is true. As noted by another user, Glasgow is indeed not in the region called England.
I'm pretty sure he isn't talking to anyone. This had to have been filmed during Dr. Strangelove, and in the phone scenes that are in the movie he didn't have anyone on the other side (the phone probably wasn't even operational).
i those days interviews were shot as a split screen where the person being interviewed would answer questions asked through a phone and an interviewer was filmed later and added to the split screen .
copy and paste 'Dr. Strangelove - Original Split-Screen Interview' to the you tube search bar.
Where abouts in London would one encounter the 'pimply individual' accent or way of speaking? I have an idea but I'd rather not say (in fear or being verbally abused for my unintentional ignorance and the such.) Peter Sellers possessed such great talent. 'Tis a shame that he is relatively unknown in my school. And there I was wondering why I have very few friends. (Mild amusement.)
Great stuff! He could just breathe and make me laugh. Wherever you are, Peter, I hope you're having the last laugh. The world you left was probably slightly better than what we have now, and we have nobody like you!
A Bristol accent is quite like the ones at the end...a "west country" accent. I don't know how many accents there are but he didn't do any of the Northern English accents.."Geordie" is very hard to imitate
To change in a full of accents is a fantastic performance, british (english, scottish , irish), canadian, american , australian , newzed,southafrican, caribbean, rare are the actors who can do that so perfectly; the british Anthony Hopkins playing english and american characters as "Nixon" or on the contrary John Hillerman a texan who plays a pure former british Sergeant Major in the "Magnum" series, flexibility of english is fantastic isn't it?
Well, if Ireland had its way, it wouldn't be called "The British Isles" either lol. A lot of Irish feel that even though it's a geographical reference, it has political implications too.
Hasn't he got a Morningside Edinburgh accent? I am an Englisher so I'm not sure of these things. His London accents were good, one of them sounded more like a Essex/Kent accent. Maybe Bromley or something.
Too bad he didn't a few more. He was really on a roll.
jab3785 4 months ago
Why is he doing Scottish accents when the video says English?
Snagprophet 4 months ago
@Snagprophet
He does English accents, the same way in USA they speak English being Americans. It's like people from, say, Argetina all the way up to Mexico: they speak Spanish but they're not Spaniards.
Bye!
JaimeinUK 4 months ago
It's Terry Tibbs !!!! - Wooden Ladders Talk To Me !!!!
kingywingystingy 4 months ago
The sweep of accents, the idea of succession by geography of psychology of population demographics, is certainly an important one Mr.Sellers here vocates.
Lieu3C4 6 months ago
Peter truly was the master of accents and impersonations.
TheAltair4 6 months ago
He forgot the hampshire accent! A mix of posh and farmer!! :P
But still bloody good stuff, rip to mr sellers :(
BOT101st 7 months ago
@BOT101st I know roight! Although to be fair and whatnot he did do the west country, which isn't far off!
jaylias 2 months ago
@jaylias
Aye true chap! We hampshires do have a west country twang but i think we pronounciate some words a bit more :D
BOT101st 2 months ago
i just wish it was a little bit louder :(
ravenkiller1 7 months ago
amazing actor. shame how he passed away
1jamespears 8 months ago
@1jamespears It was a heart attack, in part to the congenital heart defect he had. Other factors were his smoking, drugs use and stress from overwork. He had been told by doctors years before to slow down, but that wasn't Peters' style.
rayjr62 6 months ago
The God of character actors.
Erik0072 8 months ago
He sounded more like Rambling Syd Rumpo aka Kenneth Williams than John Arlott at the end there.
Blokecameuptome 8 months ago
How many actors are able, in English language, to change so frequently and easily their accent, I can see the british Anthony Hopkins (Nixon), Sean Connery (without any touch of scottish accent) playing an english spy as James Bond or an american general in the "Presidio"), Hugh Laurie, with an english accent or with an american accent from Seattle aera, or the american actor John Hillerman with a perfect english accent it is fascinating this flexibility of accents in English.
inenglishwithseries 8 months ago
@inenglishwithseries Don't forget Meryl Streep :)
eepghd 6 months ago
Why did'nt this make it into Dr strangelove?
rockyfan94 9 months ago
1:13, that's me!
HelmutVillam 10 months ago
lol
I am speaking english with hebrew accent, I wonder if he could do this :)
regards from Israel
JusticeVSpropaganda 11 months ago
This guy has got to be kidding... "London, East, North, South or West English"? I've only recently learned to distinguish between English, Scottish & Irish accents... now this guy is talking about variations of simply the English accent???
Perhaps, within another 40 years I'll recognize those also
Chuichupachichi 11 months ago
@Chuichupachichi Not going to happen, mate. The UK has the most accents per square mile in the World. If you go 15 miles out of any city in any direction, you will hear almost 15 noticably different accents:-)
Hollywood only really shows one, though, which is the posh, South East butler type, occasionally, you might hear a Cockney type a generic Scots accent or an "Oim from Oirland, me" accent.
Keep trying though, I'll give you a test in 40 years time ;-)
Triplesod 11 months ago 3
@Triplesod of course the scottish accent is usually the semi-shouting Glaswegian which is just as crass when they try to do a Cockney one and think most of london speaks like that.
seonidh 10 months ago 3
@Chuichupachichi Well i live in Newcastle, England and to be honest if you heard me you wouldn't believe i was English, there are probably over 100 different English accents alone, then there's different accents in scotland but they don't vary as much as ours.
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associatesfan 7 months ago
@liamwitdre They do, you just don't hear it, I'm Scottish and I can distinguish around about 3 English ones, Queen's (posh), Northern and Cockney.
xWHITExEAGLEx 1 week ago
@Chuichupachichi There's a lot of different Irish accents too - usually when people think there is just one "Irish" sound, it turns out that nobody here actually speaks like that. Most of the stage Irish accents you hear in (American) films is funny but completely wrong :)
batlin 9 months ago
The most important issue is that the listener understands us clearly and that the grammar is correct. Whether British, American, Australian, Irish, South African, New Zealand, Canadian etc etc -it's not what you feel comfortable with.
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MrCcmaster 1 year ago
Sellers was a genius. Not sure if Arlott could be mistaken. In the late 40's Sellers and Benny Hill were the two best rated mimics on the radio, they both understood what makes people laugh.
LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1 1 year ago 2
@LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1 the difference in my view is that sellers is timeless
timmay301 11 months ago
Interestingly, the reason why the rhotic West Country accents are closer to Ameican accents is because of Bristol's history as a renaissance through Victorian sea-trading city. Many exploratory sailors spoke with the same working-class Bristolian that gives us the modern stereotypical "Pirate" accent.
jhfh3112 1 year ago
Which English accent was it he said that sounds American?
sweiland75 1 year ago
his glasgow and edinburgh accents are unbelievable they spot on scottish accents are the hardest to do rite his are perfect this man was a god
ihateFFX 1 year ago
Somerset in the South-West, woooo xD
Brolgy 1 year ago
He was taking the piss out of Ramblin Syd near the end there
Blokecameuptome 1 year ago
He was sooo talented lol I love his pimply London accent.
He is displaying various english accents *of that era*
The London accents have changed slightly since then because of many factors, one of the factors is immigration and the huge influx of Jamaicans in the years after WW2
certain South London accent has been heavilly influenced by Jamaican tonality as well as actual dialect, 'innit tho', 'you get mee dough'
its ever changing so interesting
Applebaum 1 year ago
@Applebaum your right, there was hardly any "Ali G" accent around then when he done this
Blokecameuptome 1 year ago
@Blokecameuptome Ah yes there werent any white people trying to make money off taking the piss out of Asian people who try to imitate 2nd generation Jamaican patois and African American Ebonic vernacular then
ahh those were the days
Applebaum 1 year ago
I am a Londoner, and the amount of London accents Sellers identifies and pulls off perfectly is fascinating. If I recall rightly theres 5/6 London accents here, varying between hard cockney and the more posh London accents and lots in-between. Kudos to your powers of observation and impersonation Mr Sellers.
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LOL, what accents does he do when speaking about "pimply individuals"? Did I hear this correctly?
rentgenas11 1 year ago
shit the bed on Birmingham...lol
rudeboymick 1 year ago
His first one sounds exactly like Steve Harris
jollywood999 1 year ago
Damn....that's brilliant. But so was most everything else Sellers did so naturally he made it look so easy.
JA101K 1 year ago
Yeah, I have Dr. Strangelove and it is a extra add-on.
cblazek23 1 year ago
he looks like terry tibbs
jimboboy 1 year ago
The crazy thing is he goes back to an American accent in between, when he's not American in the first place!
MyName42 1 year ago
Wish i could melt between each that well
angstmonkey1 1 year ago
@angstmonkey1 Maybe not. Sellers was a brilliant mimic, but he wasn't necessarily screwed together too tightly...
Prod1Kh 1 year ago
sounds like terry tibbs at one point :L
hoaxuk1 1 year ago
Brilliant.
TravelerKM 1 year ago
he acshually did a film in Swansea, even up Townhill there, and you are talking about englishmen on kebabs there, but he survived, with colours - even the main woman there put a medal on him, and THAT is saying something. Sellars walks on water as Townhill is concerned, in memory, and today.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
why is he in the war room? is this a deleted/unseen bit of Dr. Strangelove? Peter Sellers was brilliant!
welovetofu 1 year ago
Where I live it tends to be the older generations who hold the stronger accents, I dread the day when we all talk like posh cunts.
lcfc1985 1 year ago
Peter Sellers is honoured in an Iphone app called Pocket Goon.
You can see his early humour stems from his association with
Spike Milligan. The app has a soundboard and a video board with clips from Sellers as far back as 1956.
msjanet2012 1 year ago
he's talented!!
partygirl209 1 year ago
Unleashed Genius
reviewsvoiceontube 1 year ago
and a little American
cookmoore 1 year ago
dude....wow.
scotmunda90 1 year ago
This man is amazingly talented, theres no method just gifted
JRHYMES007 2 years ago 2
I am sorry but he is a very odd bird.......
VERY ODD.
In fact his whole life is strange,
Just as his characters that he played.
bichonbabymom 2 years ago
OF ourse he's odd. That is his Brilliance!
humbleyetlovable 2 years ago
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Well, I can do accents better than all of you.
Ant777uk 2 years ago
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The accents were okay, but really, *I* can do better English accents than him!
Not kidding...
tubelover64 2 years ago
@tubelover64 lets hear them then.
MrJimmyboy1972 2 years ago
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Is that a challenge?
And by the way, to the people who downed my comment, my best friend is from the U.K. I know perfect accents from above average accents.
tubelover64 2 years ago
actually, for those talking about the sound quality
check out the DVD which includes it, and THERE you will notice the shifts better when going from one to the next
TitusIsaacMaximus 2 years ago 2
I wish he'd done a Yorkshire one that would have really confused our American friends. I grew up in Lincolnshire and when I moved to Canada I constantly got people asking me if I were from the States because it sounds similar apparently. People really don't know accents outside of their own countries.
thelastdaysmessenger 2 years ago 2
"People really don't know accents outside of their own countries. "
Very true. I'm in the US, but I've watched a lot of British TV, and my wife lived in Oxfordshire for a few years, so I've learned some of the differences. My favorite is the Geordie accent.
To your point though, someone on YT was criticizing an American that thought Scouse was Scottish, so I asked the guy if he could tell the difference between an Tennessee accent and and Alabama accent. We're all equally clueless! :-)
ikvsabre 2 years ago
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no we're not.
It's a well known and well documented fact that americans are a stupider and fatter than everyone else.
d33pS3Ad1v3r 2 years ago
Hahahahaha, coming from an Irishman! LMAO!
CrippledRetardo 2 years ago
Hm, well what does that make you? You see, 'stupider' isn't really a word and 'are a stupider and fatter than everyone else.' is just a complete failure at expressed thought.
TomoeNageX 1 year ago
learn to facetious, fat ass.
=)
d33pS3Ad1v3r 1 year ago
That's not really a sentence either.
TomoeNageX 1 year ago
hehe it's not meant to be grammatically correct.
wow you are super slow. and fat.
d33pS3Ad1v3r 1 year ago
"learn to facetious" ? makes no sense
lhrlyc 1 year ago
lol - AND THAT'S IRONIC HuRRrr DUrrH
d33pS3Ad1v3r 1 year ago
Apparently they don't, since you failed to mention every other language which has accents besides english. Epic fail on your part.
Jontish316 1 year ago
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"Apparently they don't, since you failed to mention every other language which has accents besides english. Epic fail on your part"
Huh? Are your retarded? Why would I mention every other language? It was an analogy doofus. I could have picked any two dialects. The point is, few people can spot regional dialects outside of their own country.
That was abundantly clear, if you bothered to READ what I said.
ikvsabre 1 year ago
As a continental European (Belgian) I can assure you, that I can perfectly distiguish between Los Angeles, NYC, Southern, Canadian, London, Scottish, Liverpool, Irish and Welsh accents just to name a few, and I am not an exception.
bartmillerbelgium 1 year ago
@bartmillerbelgium southern canadian? the accents change mostly from east and west not so much north and south
randyman228 1 year ago
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The great Sellers is not at his best here.
suibhne80 2 years ago
For what it's worth - I've always found it necessary to boost the audio about 60% above standard for YouTube. Thus, recordings have to be specially made - or adapted. You can't just upload standard stuff. At least - not if you want it to be HEARD!!!
morpheusatloppers 2 years ago
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the audio level on your download is super WEAK. Can't distiguish Peters dialogue. Can someone upload a version with a decent sound level? Two stars for the effort tho.
kevnote 2 years ago
It's an old video! If you can't "distiguish" what Peter is saying then listen more carefully because I can and English is my second language. 5 stars well deserved!
ellbennet 2 years ago 4
He didn't do the Brummy accent!
euclidxxx 2 years ago 3
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the first one he does sounds like the guys from Oasis
chodiestchode 2 years ago
No he doesn't. He sounds as much like the guy from Oasis as someone from New York sounds like someone from Memphis.
lexo30 2 years ago 5
and brixton accent
BillBochon 2 years ago
i like Scootish accents .. BLUDDY SCOTTS
awazha 2 years ago
I am looking for a video on all English speaking accent s, Scottish english, irish english,Australian, New Zealand, American English(Minnesota, West coast, west coast surfer, east coast, and southern), Canadian/Minnesota, sometimes those Aussies and NZs sound like brits. is their a distinct Welsh accent?
And how the hell did us Yanks ended up talking differently from England English?
Uberaoshi 2 years ago
I'd say there's definitely a distinct Welsh accent though - youtube 'Gavin & Stacey' - although, on saying that, if you're having trouble distinguishing Aussies from us Brits, I don't know whether you'll be able to hear the differences.
TBH, I usually can't tell Canadian people apart from Americans, and have difficulty telling some European accents apart (apart from the obvious ones - French, German etc) so I think you tend to be more sensitive to accents if they're from your country.
HeadlightMorningGlow 2 years ago 2
There are loads of Welsh accents, I am English and live in Wales. The 2 main accents for Wales are easily distinguishable, they are the North and South Wales accents. Very different from each other. If the person is a speaker of Welsh then the accent is usually much stronger.
gwalia2112 2 years ago
im guessing a similar way as how the english ended up talking differently to each other.
long-term seperation and seperate evolution.
monkeyinaspasm 2 years ago
this chap is just brilliant
Thoogah 2 years ago 4
What a wonderfully talented man peter sellers was. Thankyou so much for this excellent posting.
GhostWatching 2 years ago 7
I like his Indian accents the most.
ramusling 2 years ago
Awesome
RealityBites1990 2 years ago
British accents, he does english and scottish. They're British.
tyzwain 2 years ago 46
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Scotland is a part of England. England is the whole island. Ì hate people that think Scotland is a country. Its just a part of England
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tyzwain 2 years ago
Funny...real funny.
tyzwain 2 years ago
It`s just a joke man. I just wanted to piss off a couple of scots. I know perfectly well that Scotland is a country, but is a part of United Kingdom together with England and Wales etc. They have the same head of state and government. The prime minister of England is also prime minister of Scotland, although Scotland has a first minister or something and their own parliment.
Enslaved10 2 years ago
@tyzwain They're mainly Lahnden...
Very few non-London. He's a Londoner anyway.
One Edinburgh.
PhilK1231 1 year ago
@tyzwain caaaalm down caaaaalm down
kozzoh 1 year ago
ha ha. john arlott! I remember his wonderful cricket commentary
clarkanorak 2 years ago
Of course, John Arlott had a Hampshire accent ,not Devon or Cornwall (still classed as a West country accent -pronounced "R"s)
Still the yardstick of cricket commentary.
ektatherm 2 years ago
I think the title should say British accents instead of English accents.
EchoInfinity 2 years ago 2
it's terry tibs LOL
Asoxer 2 years ago 3
Can anyone tell me what exactly accents he´s doing? Thanks
Marcoshary 2 years ago
@Marcoshary 1) Cockney. 2) General London accent. 3) Estuary English accent (intellectual lol?). You might here this in parts of Kent and Essex, maybe Surrey, sounded quite Kentish. 4) Pimply guy (?) Frank Spencer! 5) Posh (Cosmo!) sort of London accent 6) Maybe a Greek or Jewish London accent, 7) Edinbro' "Morningside Accent" 8) Glasgow 9) West Country (but as someone pointed out John Arlott was from Hampshire, and has accent has a kind of rural South East feel (with a bit of a burr).
csvtom 1 year ago 2
@csvtom - BOTH Arlott and Sellers were from Hampshire. That county , although not far from London, has a distinctly West Country-type accent. Winchester WAS the capital of Wessex.
Portsmouth seems to be the exception - sounds increasingly "Mockney"
adventussaxonum 1 year ago
@adventussaxonum yeah. Well the rhotic has declined the further East in the country you go. I suppose Portsmouth is a big city, like Brighton where there's a definite London influence.
csvtom 1 year ago
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thats not bloody funny
SaturnEclipseX 2 years ago
i would really love to see a documentary about RP and the various UK accents, I can hardly make out the difference between north and south, although I recognize Karl's Manc accent.
MEpianist 2 years ago
Really? I suppose I'm the same with American accents, I can;t tell the difference with those. As someone from the North-East of England, though, I find it pretty easy to tell the difference.
Elfdaughter 2 years ago
There are slight regional pronunciations in the US, but I think in general we all sound the same, after years of MTV and Hollywood. The only distinctly American sounds left are Southern drawls and urban Black dialects.
I think its great that the UK still has a rich diversity of accents -- makes it all the better when Steve takes the mick out of Karl Pilkington...
MEpianist 2 years ago
There's still a recognizable Midwest accent, and there's more than one Southern accent. And the New Yorker accent lives on, too.
Iritscen 2 years ago 2
Not to mention Boston.
jgmitchell 2 years ago
or Chicago and Minnesota
imheadinhome 2 years ago
haha, quite good, but i dont know anyone that speaks posh!
graaciekkey 2 years ago
wow. how many different english accents are there? theres a lot of different american accents.
aznpnoiboiperson 2 years ago
err.. a lot! theres so many that are native to certain area's which allow us to tell straight away where that person is from (or there-abouts).
qloudz 2 years ago
As many as there are people!
He misses out lots of the best ones, though: Brummie, Geordie, Scouse, Bristolian, Manx, Dorset, Yorkshire, Teeside, Lancastrian, Highland Scots and all the Welsh and Ulster accents...
globalkevolution 2 years ago
Glasgow, I know is not in England, so he's covering British accents.
FunnyMix 2 years ago
Malvinas ARGENTINAS!
toparojo 2 years ago
No. It isn't.
Pitcairn2 2 years ago
what type of accent does Mandrake have?
filmfanatic99 2 years ago
He missed out scouse!
Still, that was very good.
oisinallen 2 years ago
ba sa stiti ca fetele sunt niste pizde si noi le violam la pizda.
tavalugu 3 years ago
YOU MEAN BRITISH ACCENTS
NewsHeadlineScoop 3 years ago
correct!!!
FunnyMix 2 years ago
Odd, but not surprising, that I have been ''red-carded'' by simply stating what is true. As noted by another user, Glasgow is indeed not in the region called England.
NewsHeadlineScoop 2 years ago
there should be more im sure. wheres the rest?
faiz2k6 3 years ago
this is fucking amazing
achromatic1 3 years ago 3
Yeah i was looking forwar' t' novern accent :P
snozdog 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure he isn't talking to anyone. This had to have been filmed during Dr. Strangelove, and in the phone scenes that are in the movie he didn't have anyone on the other side (the phone probably wasn't even operational).
tripleovertime99 3 years ago
i those days interviews were shot as a split screen where the person being interviewed would answer questions asked through a phone and an interviewer was filmed later and added to the split screen .
copy and paste 'Dr. Strangelove - Original Split-Screen Interview' to the you tube search bar.
jimrock63 3 years ago
but can he do detroit? LOL
dictionar1 3 years ago
ignore the north then! im well offended! lol
macaronicheezplez 3 years ago 2
New Zealand accent is the best
robertdavi1 3 years ago
New Zealand Maori (Native People) Accent is so funny.
ramin8029 3 years ago
he was born in portsmouth (woop woop) do people from pompey have an accent anyone? coz im from there and i was wonderin
MALIKYMAY1 3 years ago
they definately do. its quite similar to an eastern england accent, because its london overspill, but its softer.
IHateTheBBC 3 years ago
what a great talent and yet a shy man, like all actors hiding behind a cloak, is that true!
chrisconil 3 years ago
Where abouts in London would one encounter the 'pimply individual' accent or way of speaking? I have an idea but I'd rather not say (in fear or being verbally abused for my unintentional ignorance and the such.) Peter Sellers possessed such great talent. 'Tis a shame that he is relatively unknown in my school. And there I was wondering why I have very few friends. (Mild amusement.)
CherryMielita 3 years ago
The 'pimply individual' accent must have disappeared about 30 years ago.. I've only ever heard it in Monty Python
tomsega 3 years ago
Great stuff! He could just breathe and make me laugh. Wherever you are, Peter, I hope you're having the last laugh. The world you left was probably slightly better than what we have now, and we have nobody like you!
bartonim 3 years ago 5
very good!
ruthy5555 3 years ago
Scottish.
8G00SE8 3 years ago
What a wonderful talent. Sorely missed.
ChubbyCheckerChannel 3 years ago
AHHGH! don't call Peter Sellers an idiot! that was great.
heybabbess 3 years ago 5
How many accents exist in English language, one hundred?
Sorry , but , somebody could explain me what the bristolian accent is so specific?
teddythefrency 3 years ago
A Bristol accent is quite like the ones at the end...a "west country" accent. I don't know how many accents there are but he didn't do any of the Northern English accents.."Geordie" is very hard to imitate
plantagenant 3 years ago
To change in a full of accents is a fantastic performance, british (english, scottish , irish), canadian, american , australian , newzed,southafrican, caribbean, rare are the actors who can do that so perfectly; the british Anthony Hopkins playing english and american characters as "Nixon" or on the contrary John Hillerman a texan who plays a pure former british Sergeant Major in the "Magnum" series, flexibility of english is fantastic isn't it?
teddythefrency 3 years ago 2
Yes, but Ireland isn't British ;)
CP47 3 years ago 4
Ireland is part of the British Isles, it isn't part of Great Britain.
jshoup 3 years ago 5
Well, if Ireland had its way, it wouldn't be called "The British Isles" either lol. A lot of Irish feel that even though it's a geographical reference, it has political implications too.
CP47 3 years ago
And a lot of Irish people want to be part of The British Isles too... that's politics.
333222777888 3 years ago
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Ireland isn't in Britain dipshit
Skimllfixit 3 years ago
Please be joking.
HylianSpirit 3 years ago
Can't figure out if your being sarcastic or what. I certainly hope so...
Skimllfixit 3 years ago
Hasn't he got a Morningside Edinburgh accent? I am an Englisher so I'm not sure of these things. His London accents were good, one of them sounded more like a Essex/Kent accent. Maybe Bromley or something.
csvtom 3 years ago
Brilliant!
carriebuk 3 years ago
Brilliant! :)
chiichai0cho 3 years ago
Peter Sellers was one of the best, and to came from radio to film.... Pity hes gone:(
discotec 3 years ago
oh i'm sure he is still watching and impersonating somewhere!
projectionist83 3 years ago
Just proves that some good things can come from Pompey.Sellers,Dickens,my brother,and the Royal Navy.Oh! and Bobby Stokes of course.That's about it!
ektatherm 3 years ago
Peter Sellers Is "The Best"
staalhaar 3 years ago
Peter Sellers was the man!
hawkssens 3 years ago 3
Since when has Scotland been part of England? I think we need to ne-name this British Accents. Many thanks.
CheshireQueen1 3 years ago
Given that he also does an American accent at the end, the title refers to accents in the English language and not to accents from England.
MatsJn 3 years ago
MATSJN
the title clearly states ''does english accents''
NOT
''does assorted accents in english''
NewsHeadlineScoop 2 years ago
At the end he does another english accent that he says sounds american not an actual american accent.
amarti26 2 years ago
since when have you been able to think logically?
Szchon 3 years ago
peter sellers is a genius
jackrabbitslims9 3 years ago
aha whoaa that's so good!
m3lisha 3 years ago