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Hugh Laurie: the British accent vs the American

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    - Now, I'm gonna give you some slang.
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    Some American slang.
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    We're gonna take turns.
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    We'll see how much you know
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    and how much I know.
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    - Okay.
    - Okay?
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    The first one I'm gonna
    give you is flossing.
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    Do you know what flossing means?
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    - You mean actually flossing?
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    - No, it's slang.
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    - It's slang.
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    - You do know what actual flossing is?
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    - Well, I know--
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    (audience laughs)
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    I know the American's opinion
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    of British dental practice, but, yes,
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    I do know what that is.
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    - [Ellen] Flossing.
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    - That would be something close fitting.
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    No, I know, I don't know.
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    - No.
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    (buzzer)
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    Oh, that was to really show you
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    how wrong you were.
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    - Right, that's kind of rubbing it in.
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    That's sort of aggressive, isn't it?
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    - It was aggressive. I'm sorry.
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    'Cause I could've just
    said no but we just--
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    In America, we like to really rub it in.
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    - With a klaxon, yeah.
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    (Ellen laughs)
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    - It's showing off, flossing.
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    - Really?
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    - [Ellen] Yeah, showing off is flossing.
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    - Okay, alright.
    - Yes.
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    (audience laughs)
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    - What sound does it
    make when you're right?
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    - [Ellen] Ding, (bell
    rings) like that, yeah.
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    (audience laughs)
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    It's probably a different
    sound in England.
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    - It is, yeah.
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    We're never right in England.
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    Um, chin wag.
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    Shin wag.
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    I'm not gonna say it again.
    - [Ellen] Okay.
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    Shin wag.
    - Yeah.
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    - That would be a blundering idiot.
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    A shin wag. You shin wag.
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    (buzzer)
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    Mm, no?
    - No.
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    It's actually a verb and it means to chat.
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    Literally, to wag your chin,
    it's actually very literal--
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    - Shin wag.
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    - Chin, chin, chin wag.
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    Did I mispronounce it?
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    - I think that's why--
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    I never would've gotten it wrong.
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    - Oh.
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    (audience laughs)
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    - Just couldn't understand
    the thick British accent.
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    - Should we look at that in slow motion?
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    (Ellen laughs)
    Drat.
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    - Yeah, chin wag, of course,
    that does sound like--
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    Alright.
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    - So we're tied?
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    - Yes.
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    Tied at nothing.
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    (audience laughs)
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    Uh, ba-donka-donk.
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    (audience laughs)
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    - Means to pass someone on a motorcycle
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    and then see a police
    car and brake suddenly.
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    (buzzer)
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    - It's a extremely
    curvaceous female behind.
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    (audience laughs)
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    - Right.
    - [Ellen] Ba-donka-donk.
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    - We definitely don't
    have those in England.
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    - [Ellen] You don have?
    - No, no.
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    (audience laughs)
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    Is it ba-donka-donk?
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    - [Ellen] Ba-donka-donk.
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    - That's a fantastic word.
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    - [Ellen] Isn't is great?
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    You'll use it from now on.
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    (audience claps)
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    I enjoy your ba-donka-donk honey.
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    (audience laughs)
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    - That's fantastic.
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    Chuffed to bits.
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    - Chuffed--
    - Shuffed to bits.
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    - Shuffed to bits?
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    - Chuffed,
    - Chuffed?
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    - Yeah.
    ^- Like chin.
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    - Yes, if you like.
    - Chuffed to bits.
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    - Just exhausted.
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    (buzzer)
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    - No, it's to be really pleased.
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    To really pleased about--
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    To be thrilled by something.
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    I'm chuffed to bits.
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    - [Ellen] That's what I meant.
    - I'm delighted.
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    (bell rings)
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    (audience cheers)
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    I would be chuffed to bits
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    by your ba-donka-donk, for example.
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    - We're to end on this one because
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    everyone has learned
    this watching the show
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    'cause I've helped them.
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    Shawty.
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    - Shawty.
    - Shawty.
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    - Uh...
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    - [Ellen] Shawty.
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    ♫ Shawty had them apple bottom jeans
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    ♫ Boots with the fur
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    - Uh...
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    ♫ Shawty had them baggy sweatpants
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    ♫ Reeboks with the strap
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    ♫ Turn around and give it--♫
    - Is this all one word?
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    - Shawty.
    - Right.
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    ♫ She hit the floor
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    ♫ She hit the floor
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    - Yeah, none of this is helping.
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    ♫ Next thing you know shawty
    got low, low, low, low♫
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    - No, I'm not gonna--
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    - [Ellen] Shawty is a
    young kid or a woman.
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    - Really?
    - [Ellen] Yup.
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    (buzzer)
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    (audience laughs)
Title:
Hugh Laurie: the British accent vs the American
Video Language:
English
Duration:
04:01

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