Stephen is defeated by a Newcastle Accent

Stephen Fry is defeated by a Newcastle Accent.

"Ferns, they make a canny noise like."

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Stephen Fry
• Phill Jupitus
• Newcastle accent

[Bradburn777]

Oh Pudsey, make him stop!

[gorogawa]

Oh come on, Stephen. Even I got the "war drums" joke and I'm Saudi!

[laminator69er]

@frankkrunk I can definitely see your point of view, I don't particularly think that Clarckson is that bad, but he is indeed an absolute arse who is only kept on the BBC because of the ridiculous amount of money Top Gear brings in. I agree with the last bits though, Clarkson and Hammond just aren't funny however hard they try to be, and also you get Stephen Fry spot on there :)

[MaggieACharva]

And Stephen Fry misheard the 1st joke as we say they make a canny not "cunny noise" like! Wor means our here too.

[MaggieACharva]

I'm a Geordie & i thought this was hilarious too.

[giligara30492]

@giligara30492

And I meant to say that Americans almost always pronounce it "teh," not "tah." Sorry. It's very hard to type up exactly what the sound is, because, unlike Spanish, for example, which only has 5 well-defined vowels whose pronunciation is always the same, the English language has in-between vowels and the pronunciation of the letters a, e, i, o and u (and y) and their possible combinations changes.

[giligara30492]

@ORCA4312

That's how it's pronounced in England, actually. English speakers in the United States accent the "ta" syllable by pronouncing it "tah," but British speakers bypass the syllable in various degrees, going from a complete contraction of the word ("Milit'ry," "lavat'ry," "element'ry," etc.) in some of the stronger accents, to an almost 'American'- sounding phoneme. It depends on the accent not only relative to the geography, but also to the sentence and the rhythm of speech.

[frankkrunk]

@laminator69er Just guessing, but it might be because whatever Fry does, everyone can see that he hasn't got a malicious bone in his body, whereas Clarkson is at heart a horrible, horrible person. I quite like Top Gear, but I cringe every time Clarkson or Hammond try to be edgy and "politically incorrect" in that awful self-congratulatory way.

Also, whenever Fry says something like in the clip above, he is really making fun of himself, or rather the percieved image of himself.

[laminator69er]

Why is it that when someone like Jeremy Clarkson insults a country or people from a certain area he is instantly made to look like he's a racist bastard, but when Stephen Fry does there is nothing done?! I'm not saying that Stephen Fry should get the same reaction as I love him, but that there should be nothing done at all!!

[Mohrkai]

@bulletproofblouse

why?

[KieronSchenko]

Hahaha, we say "wur" in Scotland for "our". Brilliant!

[leelees69]

hey man..me an wor lass just pissed waselves !!