Being From The Black Country | Darren Harriott: Stand Up For Live Comedy

[@sianjasper2153]

I’m from the Black Country & get the same bewilderment. And being white I get “Black Country? Are you being racist? “No, it’s a place” “But you’re being racist yeah?” “No, it’s a place. The Black Country is a place” You have to tell people SLOOOOWLY & thoroughly what “The Black Country” actually means. 🙄🙄 I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve had this conversation.

[@baknights14]

Same here lol. I live in America and it's even worse reaction here I always say "let me give you a brief history to explain why it's called that then you can judge me in the parking lot afterwards."

[@emilycarter6120]

Also from the Black Country, and when at uni I’d say I was from there people would look at me like I was a raging racist

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

You can't vaccinate against ignorance, sadly .The funny thing is ,they think they are so PC and sooo liberal.! It's hilarious really. I can forgive the Yanks ,but we helped shape this damn country. Don't you get tired of hearing about cotton mills when we had mines, quarries steelworks, glassworks ,jewellery, leather works, chain makers, nail makers, brickmakers, potteries. ..... All treated like shit and forgotten now. We aren't as scenic as cotton mills.

[@parrogakaparadise9477]

@Emily Carter this exact same thing happened to me last year 🙄

[@simonedgbaston]

👍 Weird 😂

[@tyronegreen1807]

You got to explain init.

[@hrothgar64]

I know what he means about London. I moved down to London 15 years ago, from West Bromwich (after spending my whole life in The BC) and some of the conversations I had back then were surreal. First, most insisted on calling me a Brummie. As true Black Country folks will know, nothing winds a yam yam up quicker than being called a Brummie. Two memorable conversations involved me explaining I was from The BC and she though I meant Africa. Another asked me if it was called The Black Country because there were a lot of immigrants living there.

[@baknights14]

As the son of a Black Country lad living in America it's really awkward when people ask where my dad's from and i proudly say "The Black Country!" And people look at this white guy with absolute shock and horror. And when i tell them its not racist at all they say "Well if it's real does it have a flag or something"? And i just say let's not go down that path please it's awkward enough lol

[@peteraston4753]

We have a flag now

[@baknights14]

​@@peteraston4753ya Ik! But you really can't fly that here in the US because all people will see are the chain and black and immediately BOOM your a Racist!

[@baknights14]

​@@peteraston4753Ik and I love it! But over here in America you show that flag and say "Black country", all they hear is black country and see the chains and boom! You're automatically a racist.

[@marieascot]

@@peteraston4753 Yes, with chains on, if your dealing with someone who is sensitive about the racial connotations already this isn't going to help.

[@spiralpython1989]

I am from Australia and always knew of The Black Country... my stepmother is a Brummie...

[@gabrieldettmannb4509]

Same here, my great grandmother was from Dudley, accent an all....

[@simonedgbaston]

👍

[@itstherealjammin]

Incase you didn't know, Brummies called people from the black country "Yam Yams" which was a derogatory term!

[@simonedgbaston]

😊 I'm Brummie & my best Mates from Halesowen& others the Black country👍This was funny couldn't you tell it was Broad street 😂

[@sarahfreeman2419]

🤣 black country gal here 👍 good mon lol

[@DudleyBlue]

Ay it Bruv!!!! The series the Vikings and the Last Kingdom have a lot of scenes where they are in Mercia which is the Modern Day Midlands with not a Brummie or Yam Yam accent to be heard....

[@simonedgbaston]

👍 Weird 😂

[@colinmelling6369]

Yam got to luv the yam yams .

[@tyronegreen1807]

😂😂😂😂I'm from London now I live in Birmingham this is so funny because its true I never ever herd the term babby as in baby till I came here and towen as in town 🤣🤣proper jokes

[@cleancooklily7409]

I'm from the Black Country and add W's to loads of words...schoowel ( school) Pouwend ( Pound) 😂😂

[@tyronegreen1807]

@@cleancooklily7409 🤣its cute and funny dw

[@tyronegreen1807]

Hard to understand on a serious deep conversation though

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

Some people say poo-ah instead of poor and tuth brush for tooth brush. Goo-in owam for going home. I had a strong accent as a young child but lost the accent as I got older, when I moved down South I made a concerted effort to speak well as everyone takes the p*ss otherwise!!

[@jat1994]

Saying day instead didn’t usually gets people

[@UKLeonie]

GoT had no brummies, thought it was just me 😂😂😂😂😂

[@coryhawley738]

Not the same thing Birmingham and the blackcountry have a rivalry don't mix them up

[@AI-Hallucination]

Ozzy Osborne robert plant rob Halford all great metal bands are from the Midlands

[@chrisearl5970]

And ELO

[@mattbarbarich3295]

Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath ( as is Ozzy of course) virtually invented the Metal sound with his distorted heavy low tone and fuzzy guitar sound due to loosing a couple finger tips while working in a Brum sheet metal factory.

[@AI-Hallucination]

@@mattbarbarich3295 I never knew that tah

[@14allovus]

Birmingham was the first city I moved to and I worked with a few people from the Dudley... Oh my I really doubted myself, if I had take the wrong turn at Calais!?

[@Dontcareanymore781]

From the Black Country now living on Berkshire! So you’re a northerner then? No I’m from the Black Country! Is that a real place? 😊😂

[@jat1994]

I’m white and it gets awkward sometimes telling people I’m from the Black Country

[@anthonylong9067]

Being an american living in Birmingham and having to go to Dudley every week for ⚽️, i find this somewhat relatable Ok i live in Solihull. But it’s close enough.

[@turnip5359]

Just say you live in Solihull, but you serve Birmingham... Like how airports do it

[@davidhird3382]

Solihull is as close to the black country as hull

[@patrickbonham949]

Totally flabbergasted that so many people have never heard of the black country 🧐🤔😶😬😂😂.......

[@Stpaulus101]

Charles dance :game of thrones: Lanister head of family: born in redditch

[@rogergutteridge2307]

What a great 👍 nice guy

[@ZapytajFotografa]

You need to listen to Witcher audio book if you missing accent

[@lorddarlo6194]

Black Country lad here to Ay up Mon ow ya bin

[@thatoneguychad420]

I always always upset we had no yam yams on GoT. Mega disappointed.

[@GenZ_Zillenial]

I'm a Londoner and didn't know the Black Country existed lol

[@OldWolflad]

I'm from the Black Country, what's London mean?

[@simonedgbaston]

@@OldWolflad 🕊 I find London ok but it has'nt the humour but a good cultural mix 😊

[@andrewneil542]

It’s very real

[@louiseburke8012]

This video is sad because its not commonly known that the Midlands pay the overwhelming majority of the BBC licence fee but get nothing back. The BBC don't even have a tv studio here anymore, just a cupboard in a shopping centre (the mailbox) to record the local news. When he describes game of thrones and not seeing anyone from the midlands, it because the BBC takes our money and sends it down to London or up to Manchester. You can save yourself £150 per year (if you don't watch BBC, and tbh I don't know anyone under 50 who does), just by watching your tv shows on catch up! Horrible organization, the sooner they go subscription the better

[@Samael78]

Oh grow up ffs

[@simonedgbaston]

🕊 I haven't watched Telly in over 20 years& agree 👍

[@GCAbleism158]

Yeah that famous BBC show *checks notes* game of thrones.

[@Saidul47]

Thats what am looking for 😂

[@coryhawley738]

I'm from the blackcountry I could never live in London I hate it there

[@coryhawley738]

No no no Birmingham is not the blackcountry not even close we have had a rivalry with Brummies for ages how can you not know this

[@tyronegreen1807]

Rivals for what??

[@coryhawley738]

@@tyronegreen1807 gangs and just history

[@baknights14]

Love in peaky blinders they kinda touched on the rivalry with the black country and brummies. The line was "black country boys and brummy boys are on the same side again" and billy kitchen just replies "That'll be the bloody day!"

[@marknewbold2583]

Nobody said it was

[@AnnaMorris411]

From the Black Bush! 😂

[@pennypillow4445]

i have lived in the uk my entire life and ive never heard of the black country lol i legit thought he meant like an african country or something

[@inndia]

😂😂😂😂

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Not something to brag about sweetheart! Us and the Brummies gave you modern Britain. Not that we had any control over what you did with it.

[@dperson9212]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 ay it

[@jhvoojh]

The Black Country has 1.3 million people living in it. Wonderful people for the most part, very down to Earth and you'll never meet a better friend. With love from West Bromwich xx.

[@jhvoojh]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Spot on m8, Birmingham & the Black are probably the most important Cities/Towns in the modern world. The vote for common people for example was decided in Summer Row, and of course let's not forget the Lunar Society from Handsworth that literally shaped the modern world.

[@cheyannewoodall]

Golloo luv black country ay ya

[@davidhird3382]

"Thee bist cosnt cost " if you understand this your from the black country

[@Stpaulus101]

Black Country Power lunch: ::pint of bankseez n packet of scratching 😋

[@just-tess]

how do I know about the Black Country and people who live in London don't?? definitely no right to slag off Americans for failing at world geography...

[@TheNine.]

Naaah The black county looool

[@CA-ee1et]

40 years ago Lenny Henry put black people from the Black Country on the map. This is not as ground-breaking as you think, bab.

[@3nd4tom1c8]

Sorry to burst yeh bubble but brum ay part of the black country, to anyone watching lol

[@coryhawley738]

Same I literally died inside like now we're being represented by a bunch of Brummies

[@3nd4tom1c8]

@@coryhawley738 its an awful feeling

[@marknewbold2583]

He never said it was

[@3nd4tom1c8]

@@marknewbold2583 he literally did

[@jboland1192]

Dooooodleeeeee

[@Brett.Crealy-kh1sk]

Interesting that BBC aren't reporting the breaking news that information from Hunter Biden's discarded laptop, proving that Hunter Biden and his father Presidential nominee Joe Biden, have been entangled in payoffs with Ukraine, and in bed with Russia for years! Facebook and Twitter are refusing to release the videos of these stories! This is a historical cover up and the BBC hasen't bothered to report on it? What's with that?

[@Dhillon6]

BBC Three doesn't do news mate. You should go spam somewhere else. Brits can't vote in your country's election

[@IamRocque]

THIS IS NONE OF THEIR ABSOLUTE BUSINESS WHEN IT INVOLVES A COUNTRY THEY CANNOT VOTE IN.

[@alecneate76]

I want trump to win but don't be a troll mate, no one cares in this comment section

[@SonOfTheRightHand29]

Russian bot detected

[@Toriluvsfashion]

Nobody cares karen