Doing Accents?

brummytom · 13-10-2009 9:26am #1

Are you good at imitating accents?
I know a lad who can do a ridiculous number of accents, all amazingly well. When I saw Michael McIntyre last week, he did quite a few accents - and to be fair to him, his Birmingham accent was spot on.

Yesterday, me and a mate of mine had to act out a View From The Bridge scene in English. He attempted an Italian accent, but sounded more like Bob Marley trying to do an impression of Ghandi.. we stuck with brummy accents.

I can do Northern Irish decently, we had a teacher come on our bus and shout "Set Doyn Noy!" (Sit Down Now) a lot.. so yeah. And I can do a good inner city dub one too.. but any other, noo.

So yeah, can you, if yes, what ones?

And yes, this is pointless but I'm off school sick so just humour me

WindSock · 13-10-2009 9:30am

I can do a brummy accent. 'Ayup chuck, cuppa tea luv?' or 'I'm gahn dahn the apples and pears to get me wans and twos on. So sling yer 'ook' or my fave 'Hey paddy, say firhy free an a fird'

pow wow · 13-10-2009 9:31am

My brummie is pretty fab, bab :cool:

brummytom · 13-10-2009 9:33am

WindSock wrote: »

I can do a brummy accent. 'Ayup chuck, cuppa tea luv?' or 'I'm gahn dahn the apples and pears to get me wans and twos on. So sling yer 'ook' or my fave 'Hey paddy, say firhy free an a fird'

When did Birmingham move to Yorkshire?! :pac:

pow wow wrote: »

My brummie is pretty fab, bab :cool:

That's more like it.

I do a pretty good brummy accent too, funnily enough :cool:

WindSock · 13-10-2009 9:33am

Forgot to add 'innit'

WindSock · 13-10-2009 9:34am

brummytom wrote: »

When did Birmingham move to Yorkshire?! :pac:

I dunno. You brits all sound the same to me. :cool: ( I was trying to do cockney, btw)

Now that you mention Yarhkshar, I'll say gornish bpasties.

WIZE · 13-10-2009 9:34am

berminggum is wun uv the Larges citays in the u-nyted kingdem

thomond2006 · 13-10-2009 9:34am

brummytom wrote: »

Are you good at imitating accents?

So yeah, can you, if yes, what ones?

And yes, this is pointless but I'm off school sick so just humour me

Comehereiwancha kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thorbarry · 13-10-2009 9:35am

I can do a pretty good American accent "excuse me sir, SIR!" and "i will buy this with my credit card"

Fratton Fred · 13-10-2009 9:36am

WindSock wrote: »

I can do a brummy accent. 'Ayup chuck, cuppa tea luv?' or 'I'm gahn dahn the apples and pears to get me wans and twos on. So sling yer 'ook' or my fave 'Hey paddy, say firhy free an a fird'

no offence, but that sounds more like a Geordie trying to do cockney rhyimg slang.

Kiera · 13-10-2009 9:36am

Nope I’m one of those people who tries to put on a Scottish accent and I end up sounding like I’m from Deli.

WindSock · 13-10-2009 9:38am

Fratton Fred wrote: »

no offence, but that sounds more like a Geordie trying to do cockney rhyimg slang.

Oh yeah, the first one is Geordie. 'Giz a pint o Bovril wirrus tea, pet.'

minidazzler · 13-10-2009 9:38am

I can do loads of different accents, but one of my favourite to do is also one of the hardest to maintain. The South African accent. It's so brilliant but deadly to keep up.

In all I can do around 40 different regional accents quite well. Although I can't do them all one after another, I have to get into it first. And maintaining most of them is quite difficult.

WindSock · 13-10-2009 9:39am

Kiera wrote: »

Nope I’m one of those people who tries to put on a Scottish accent and I end up sounding like I’m from Deli.

Yeah tell me about it. My North Kiltshire accent sounds like West Kiltshire sometimes. lol!!! :pac:

mikom · 13-10-2009 9:39am

An American walked into an English pub and ordered a pint of Budweiser.
The barman replied "You're American aren't you?"
The American says, "Wow, yeah buddy. Could you tell by the Budweiser I ordered, or the accent?"

The barman replied. "Neither, you're just the fattest fu<k I have ever seen."

Fratton Fred · 13-10-2009 9:39am

Doing Irish is easy.

Start every sentence with Aah shure, end it with "So", chuck in a few "Grands" here and there and say "Now" when you pass someone something.

Easy.

Northern Irish is even easier, just say "Situation" every third word.

Snowie · 13-10-2009 9:41am

yes i can do lenny henry

Ice cubes dad in friday

eddie murphy richard prior some times

lots of english accents and french, yada yada

Neamhshuntasach · 13-10-2009 10:05am

Everytime i open the door to people trying to sell me stuff i do it in a different accent. The then normally ask me to do another and another and i usually make a little over a grand from each person.

pow wow · 13-10-2009 10:10am

brummytom wrote: »

That's more like it.

I do a pretty good brummy accent too, funnily enough :cool:

6 years in Sutton does that to a girl, flower

I do a cracking American accent also. Certain boardsies can vouch for it :P

brummytom · 13-10-2009 10:17am

pow wow wrote: »

6 years in Sutton does that to a girl, flower

Sutton as in Sutton Coldfield?! :eek: Wow, I was born in No Good Hope Hospital!

pow wow · 13-10-2009 10:22am

brummytom wrote: »

Sutton as in Sutton Coldfield?! :eek: Wow, I was born in No Good Hope Hospital!

B76. More Walmley than Sutton Coldfield but we won't tell anyone

Elliemental · 13-10-2009 10:24am

My Scouse accent is just perfect.

brummytom · 13-10-2009 10:25am

pow wow wrote: »

B76. More Walmley than Sutton Coldfield but we won't tell anyone

So not quite as posh as Sutton? :P

Mind you, I can talk.. I'm still an Erdington lad through and through :pac:

pow wow · 13-10-2009 10:26am

brummytom wrote: »

So not quite as posh as Sutton? :P

Mind you, I can talk.. I'm still an Erdington lad through and through :pac:

Chester Road before Walmley. Not quite the Lyndhurst, but hardly Wylde Green either

My Northern Irish accent is shocking, but I'm working on it. Limerick, no hope.

laoisforliam · 13-10-2009 10:28am

Been reading alot of Irvine Welsh lately so im thinking in a schemie leith accent.

Aye ahm fae leith, gaun hibbeees!!!!!!! ya ****ain jambo cunts
Ah lift the wee bairn doon ah me ma's....

brummytom · 13-10-2009 10:30am

pow wow wrote: »

Chester Road before Walmley. Not quite the Lyndhurst, but hardly Wylde Green either

My Northern Irish accent is shocking, but I'm working on it. Limerick, no hope.

Oh our house was nicer than any in Wylde Green - the only purpose of that place is the Yenton, the Wylde Green and the Wacky Warehouse :pac:

The Limerick accent is amazing. I was talking to my great auntie last week, she's from Newcastle West. She kept telling me her sister had gone "right duwn de hill".. I had to stop myself laughing every time she said it.

Jesus, I've dragged my own thread off-topic! :eek::P

pow wow · 13-10-2009 10:36am

Shameful. How's your yam-yam accent?

brummytom · 13-10-2009 10:42am

I go to school in Aldridge with a load from Walsall, Pelsall, West Brom.

So it's fcuking amazing!

Leprachaun · 13-10-2009 10:50am

WindSock wrote: »

I can do a brummy accent. 'Ayup chuck, cuppa tea luv?' or 'I'm gahn dahn the apples and pears to get me wans and twos on. So sling yer 'ook' or my fave 'Hey paddy, say firhy free an a fird'

That's not a brummy accent at all. That's just a cockney accent. :P

Adiboo · 13-10-2009 11:22am

I can do just about every character from The Sopranos. If you just nail the "ooohhh", the "eeehhh" and "your breakin' my baulls", you pretty much got it down.

RxQueen · 13-10-2009 11:26am

In the car the other day, and one of the girls was talking about N. Ireland accents..
I said ohh i can do them, did it , and they said i sounded german.. so no i dont have a good grasp on them..

can do " yer i kno" from LB pretty good tho!

pikachucheeks · 13-10-2009 11:34am

I can do tons of accents! It's probably my single skill in life.
My personal favourite is my Gerry Adams impression!

brummytom · 13-10-2009 11:43am

My main problem with accents is singing.. I can't help but sing in a ridiculous Irish accent!

IvySlayer · 13-10-2009 12:01pm

I can do quite a decent livahpuuuoooole accent.

What's the most confusing day in Liverpool?

Father's Day

laoisforliam · 13-10-2009 12:02pm

brummytom wrote: »

My main problem with accents is singing.. I can't help but sing in a ridiculous Irish accent!

Same i cant help it but i always sign with a manc accent

brummytom · 13-10-2009 12:05pm

laoisforliam wrote: »

Same i cant help it but i always sign with a manc accent

You into Oasis' music then?
I sing in an irish accent, so does my uncle because we're singing Irish music. Dad seems to sing with a slight Scouse accent because he grew up mad into the Beatles.. so it's probably just natural; but it sounds so, so wrong

Jesus Wept · 13-10-2009 12:15pm

pikachucheeks wrote: »

I can do tons of accents! It's probably my single skill in life.
My personal favourite is my Gerry Adams impression!

I'll have to start working on my Ian Paisley.

WindSock · 13-10-2009 12:25pm

Start working on him instead.

pickarooney · 13-10-2009 12:26pm

I can do about eleventy accents, many in foreign languages.

WIZE · 13-10-2009 12:30pm

pickarooney wrote: »

I can do about eleventy accents, many in foreign languages.

Probably because you live in France . Oui Oui

Jesus Wept · 13-10-2009 12:33pm

WindSock wrote: »

Start working on him instead.

I'll have to start working on my Winona Windsock.

Paddycrumlinman · 13-10-2009 12:33pm

Since I live in Redneck-Vill here in the Southern US I can put on a great "I can see my ma from up 'ere y'all accent...

Jesus, some of the people here really talk with marbles in their mouth.

I can do a good London Accent along with a good NI accent.

My Crumlin / Dublin accent will be with me forever, would hate to loose it..

WindSock · 13-10-2009 12:36pm

The-Rigger wrote: »

I'll have to start working on my Winona Windsock.

Do your Bezt.

Hows your Manchunian?

Jesus Wept · 13-10-2009 12:38pm

WindSock wrote: »

Do your Bezt.

:pac: touché!

WindSock wrote: »

Hows your Manchunian?

Surprisingly Ian Paisleyly

consultech · 13-10-2009 1:30pm

Im awful. Every accent I try to do essentially just ends up as me doing a bad Borat impression...

laoisforliam · 13-10-2009 2:00pm

brummytom wrote: »

You into Oasis' music then?
I sing in an irish accent, so does my uncle because we're singing Irish music. Dad seems to sing with a slight Scouse accent because he grew up mad into the Beatles.. so it's probably just natural; but it sounds so, so wrong

The Gallaghers, Ian Brown, Shaun Ryder,new order, listened to them alot when i was younger .... ****ed me up , if i ever go on the x factor simon cowell would rip the piss outta me

Novella · 13-10-2009 2:05pm

I think there's something wrong with my ears because I always thought I was an amazing singer. Then one day my mam said to me, "Novella*, if you're going to sing, can you take it somewhere else because I am getting so close to sticking my head into that oven"

I thought I was good at accents too, but I'm more than likely not.

*Actual name not used to protect identity!!!

sidneykidney · 13-10-2009 2:09pm

I can do a decent scottish accent,also my american south(alabama,georgia) accent is good to.

Paddycrumlinman · 13-10-2009 2:26pm

consultech wrote: »

Im awful. Every accent I try to do essentially just ends up as me doing a bad Borat impression...

High Five... in borat voice!!!!

Latchy · 13-10-2009 2:39pm

I can do fairly ok immpressions of the belfast ,scottish ,Brummy ,Cockney scouse accents , not necessarily in that order

grenache · 13-10-2009 3:20pm

brummytom wrote: »

The Limerick accent is amazing. I was talking to my great auntie last week, she's from Newcastle West. She kept telling me her sister had gone "right duwn de hill".. I had to stop myself laughing every time she said it

Now now Tom, that's the West Limerick accent, not to be confused with the Limerick City accent. Our accent has more of a country / Kerry lilt to it. So its naturally more tasteful than the City one.

I can do most irish regional accents. And British accents like West country, Cockney, Scouse, Manc, Geordie, Brum, East Midlandish, Yorkshire, Welsh, Glasgow, Highlands. Can do a fair German, American and Aussie accent. I'm working on the white South African accent, its a hard one to master.

Doing Accents?

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