Primetime Welsh TV

BBC UK That Mitchell & Webb Look
Wales, a strange country where they have "Litter" written on litter bins in both Welsh and English and they still throw their rubbish in the street!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Wales
• Welsh
• Mitchell & Webb
• BBC

[VidVillan]

athebenmewaddle the swan, leaving them all getting on together there

[CardiffClassicGuitar]

@blingbiscuit2 but I can assure you Early Welsh (Brithonic) was spoken throughout Britain, look at place names like Stratford upon Avon, Afon is Welsh for river. The oldest Welsh literature does not belong to the territory we know as Wales today, but rather to northern England and southern Scotland dating from the 6th century, (a long time before the English had learnt to write.)

[wyatt9688]

this is how the bizarro English in a parallel universe speak

[TheAverageFox]

There is his cousins.

Get me every time.

[busdriverrider]

I don't want to hurt you i want to make you unconcas'

[RhysapTomos]

Dyw'r darn hwn ddim yn ddoniol o gwbl. Mae'n blentynnaidd! Roeddwn i'n esgus fy mod yn gallu siarad Almaeneg neu Rwsieg pan oeddwn i'n bump. Ond, pawb â'i farn, sbo.

[stevebloodymckenna]

Robert Webb!

[PhilipTheaker2009]

Damn you welshmen and your backwards country!

[vidaliadear]

@fudgepackor Besides being an idiotic form of entertainment suicide, blackface is only the weak secondary prop to the PRIMARY comedic material - the observed person's behavior. When white Americans did blackface, they didn't just act as white people, they adopted gross parodies of black people. Here, Robert imitates the "overly gentle/didactic/slow" presentation methods of old W. European programs. Even in America, you see re-runs of stuff that could only have been made with the aid of drugs :}

[Jexington80]

@vidaliadear hey, sorry for late reply....would say 8-10 if u wanted to learn it fluently properly...i have been told it's the hardest language to learn as we have so many single words, that depending on the situation, where you are, who your with, how well you know them, what you're talking about, mean more than one thing....

[fudgepackor]

As a fluent Welsh speaker I do find this funny. But you couldn't get away with taking the piss out of, say an Indian tv channel because they 'sound funny'. I'd love to see Mitchell and Webb 'black/brown themselves up' , wear turbans and say 'Dearie dearie me' and see how many of the PC brigade they'd get on their backs.

[GelGsound]

@sofasport Yes!