Jonathan Ross Really Tries To Pronounce His R's | 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

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[@eyedeasneverdie3348]

"Rachel Riley" *applause* "Oh weally"

[@rrni2343]

apparently he is at the age where he is beginning to transform into a flying squirrel

[@iamthewalrusx]

Árni hahaha that's exactly what I thought!

[@_BRN_]

Squiwwel*

[@shaun7583]

Árni I thought it was more of the stone age

[@ourresidentcockney8776]

Stone age squiwel!

[@Anjalena]

I swear that is what I came down here to say!

[@yaseen157]

Victoria is right, Lee Mack is smarter than everyone credits him as being, he's incredibly quick at adapting jokes

[@BeirneHenry]

So many of the dim-witted idiots are so much smarter than they appear in my opinion. Lee, Johnny Vegas and even Danny Dyer dare I say haha.

[@thomasc8482]

it's almost as if they're doing a character

[@Meloncholy19]

Being "smart" doesn't come down to just using Logic it has many forms, Wit, Guile, adaptability, manipulation I could go on they can all factor into intelligence I have a friend who is dyslexic and isn't good with numbers but everytime anyone he knows gets into a real life problem he is the first they come to because he is extremely cunning and street smart.

[@CearaRed]

"the bloke from Lego called; he wants his head back"...ROTFLMAO

[@johnmartinez7440]

Eh? People always go on about Lee Mack being smart.

[@sleepyparade]

that's something noel would wear

[@kingdomofskeough6880]

Onesandseconds Haha yeah lol

[@frankhall606]

No not even noel would wear thar

[@jjmacadamaut7930]

I was thinking him or Mitch Grassi

[@xenon8117]

Exactly what I thought.

[@doryexplory2029]

Onesandseconds why the fuck is Noel on great British bake off now??

[@InklanUtterfield]

That clap for pronouncing 'Rachel Riley' _almost_ correctly really is the most patronising thing.

[@phoney98]

Lol i started crying of laughter when that happened

[@jimmysavile69]

Wachel Wiley

[@antonc81]

Lol it still sounded like wachel wiley to me.. he brought his lips forward and together for both Rs as you would to make a W sound, not a correctly formed R.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

I can -feel- the genuine friendship and loyalty that Lee Mack has with the Mitchell family, and they with him...and it makes me very happy.

[@dbcnetwork6910]

Lan Mandragoran, feeł

[@jpaxonreyes]

-FEEL-

[@decent165]

-feel-

[@montanafidge]

Jonathan is slowly evolving into Noel Fielding

[@neptunestardust]

Tana Fidge Yeah a bit

[@jakehughes1369]

He's a timelord. Did you have to ruin his regeneration?!

[@drbigmix7752]

Woss looks like a flying squirrel Edit: sorry meant squiwwel

[@matejrychly8253]

Mushroom Head you mean sowwy

[@onlyyaboi8737]

😂😂😂😂

[@jet3296]

You need speech thewapy

[@jase6709]

I went to a Lee Mack gig. He's so quick with the comebacks, he silenced the hecklers in seconds.

[@rootykazooty351]

Can we have "Jimmy Carr really tries to pay his taxes" next?

[@weslaraye5305]

When Jimmy makes fun of Jon’s height, you can see Jonathan shaking his head in disappointment. Justice for Jon

[@tia5505]

this entire video is such a blessing, i love life

[@7Heaven8ROONEY]

Blaise Ivy looooolo

[@Prakido]

I bet Lee's good friends with Victoria as she would know him through David. I love WILTY :)

[@jakebaker4066]

Jimmy carr 100% looks like a robot serving drinks.

[@EndrChe]

I love that he’s such a good sport about it.

[@LazarkGaming]

I feel like Jonathan Ross has gone rogue celebrity. I should say wogue.

[@connorbovingdon8563]

LazarkGaming he's always been a wogue. how many times has he been kicked off BBC

[@johnmartinez7440]

@@connorbovingdon8563 ...once?

[@PK_Droid]

Lee's "I wanted 3 kids" joke is honestly brilliant.

[@SnowyAngel1217]

When jons daughter grows up, she’ll just see how much her dad was bullied on national television

[@lil.spooky.pumpkin]

I feel bad for him because I have the same speech problem. I've learned that pressing your the back of tongue on your back teeth helps

[@_Kghn]

American here, felt so stupid today after hearing my self talk for a assignment that we had to record and it was nice to hear a respected grown adult have trouble with r’s too

[@fegstachops6746]

I found him in my kitchen stealing kitchen utensils. In court he said it was a whisk he was willing to take…..forgive me if you’ve heard it before.

[@kai-jn7jf]

Came from Tom Scott’s video and found out I have a speech impediment

[@ashtxnparris8224]

Zaxes ._. Same

[@compulsiverambler1352]

It's an accent if the people you learned English from do it too. Which can be either your parents or peers as both have an effect. That can make it hard to know when some of the people you learned English around do it and others don't. But if some of them do, it's probably just you accurately producing the dialect you heard.

[@melissawright1979]

Wachel Wiley ate Wice Cwispsies 😉

[@lauralil6886]

Wob Saxon would like to eat you.

[@lauralil6886]

eeew, not you though.

[@JamesThompson97]

Wouldn't mind her eating my chocolate crispies ;)

[@owenfitzgerald3219]

if they make a new Looney Tunes cartoon Wossy could do the voice of Elmer Fudd.

[@chillillton5244]

I must agree with victoria. I've always thought he was really smart but like played the act of the prick?

[@Jonathan-gx3jm]

Lee is the best comedian on tv

[@TheSuperlime]

Anyone else here comparing how the pronounce their Rs from Tom Scott?

[@helenHTID]

Johnathon Woss looks like Giant Woad Kill

[@jjpb93]

If you know a Jonathan who spells their name like that, shoot them.

[@freidarhealness5216]

Lee mac is a legend.

[@DrummerLittleBrother]

The bloke from lego wants his head back. 😂

[@macster1457]

Listen closely...he CAN pronounce the r sounds. For example when he says “got it”...there’s an r sound there..he has no problem pronouncing r’s

[@TheMastermind729]

That’s not the same r

[@macster1457]

@@TheMastermind729 an r is an r, no matter how you pronounce it. 😉

[@compulsiverambler1352]

That's because it's not a speech impediment, it's just his accent! He pronounces it the way most people from the South East pronounce it who are not middle or upper class. It used to be the norm for the aristocracy of London too, in the 1800s before their R sound changed again. It's most often heard on TV from Cockney, where nobody ever comments on it I guess because they are used to it being in that accent so their brains don't send an alert for them to pay attention to that sound, whereas because his accent is not a pure Cockney accent suddenly people who aren't from the south east hear an unexpected feature of speech for the accent he has and so they actually notice it. It is NOT a w. W is a bilabial approximant. This is a labiodental approximant. The only people who have a speech impediment, are the ones who mistake his labiodental approximant for a w, and fail to imitate the sound he actually makes. They actually can't even hear or produce the difference between those two sounds.

[@paigelewis3266]

Literally I can’t pronounce my r’s too

[@mikeb7906]

Google the Karla method if you haven’t heard of it yet. I finally learned to pronounce my ‘r’s at 22 years old because of it

[@Musiclover-rt1ej]

@@mikeb7906 Really, I have been having trouble with since I was about 14 or 15. I will look into it, I'm 24 now. 👍

[@mikeb7906]

@@Musiclover-rt1ej hope you've had success! KZbin never notified me of your response, but I see it now

[@pixleyez]

Love Lee Mack!!

[@samanthalir1543]

Oh no, Jonathan Ross is adorable in this clip...

[@oisin_smith]

its funny that jonathan woss cant even say his own name

[@carpdig1002]

Unfortunately he’s not the only one, try introducing yourself when you’re called Ruben, so awkward

[@GeorgiaOverdrive]

He had Wobin Williams on his show. That was awkward

[@6oclocktvhour847]

I can't say my own. You know how awkward it is when other people introduce after you've already tried to?

[@mariame9033]

It's not funny trust me💁🏻

[@Link122]

I don't trust you because it is hilarious! Upload a video of an hour trying to say your own name and I shall be in tears laughing!

[@stellaseydel]

I have the same problem :( its hard and hurtful when people talk about it

[@herbertrafael8001]

" i can say Rweachel Wiley "

[@cogidubnus1953]

"It'll all be over in twenty years" - Speaking from personal experience, no it won't ...

[@preciosojug0298]

Man I can see how annoyed he was being made fun of; he got bored of Jimmy so quickly 😂

[@johnmartinez7440]

Who wouldn't?

[@vasilip]

Took me long time to even slightly tolerate Jonathan Ross just because my introduction to him was the clip from Big Fat Quiz where he tried to force David Mitchell to dance but I like him now.

[@angelicalicari8355]

2:13 I'm crying

[@PikkaBird]

1:01 - Wow, he really CAN say "Wachel Wiley" ih he really works at it... :-D

[@parzival8331]

dude he just sounds like a normal british person.

[@compulsiverambler1352]

Yes! From the south east and some other places like Norwich! It is exactly what people are used to hearing in Cockney, but I guess because his accent is not purely Cockney, the sound jumps out at them as unexpected and they consciously notice it. Then they call it a speech impediment. No Cockney speaker ever gets mistaken for having a speech impediment even though they say exactly the same R he does. The weirdest thing is, there are people in the South East who pronounce it the same way he does but STILL believe that he says it wrong just because the media say so. They haven't actually noticed that they pronounce it the same way. Same happens with people who say "street" like "shtreet", some of them notice when other people do it but have no idea that they do it themselves until you ask them to say the same word and listen to it.

[@Tht1Gy]

VCM, as usual, is the brightest spot of the clip, in that she is simply gorgeous.

[@nicholasrowley947]

Why the Hell is Ross dressed like he's trying out for a role in Cats?

[@jet3296]

Cats does countdown

[@lyrimetacurl0]

Flying Cat

[@g_in_garage]

that lego joke was gold

[@havenmirabella3003]

I feel his pain. I used to have this impediment and it’s still comes out when I’m tired or comfortable. People talk different ways, am not sure why people find it funny.

[@friggincanvee]

Because he's a grown man doing baby talk :p

[@elijah613]

@haven mirabella I had the same thing, and you're right its really easy to make a mistake when tired or distracted

[@abigaileldritch]

Dub Dub well, it is, it comes from parents not teaching their kids transitionally to properly pronounce words because they think it’s “cute”

[@lalo-y2d]

How did you fix this?

[@laflame3460]

@@lalo-y2d Im asking the same question I have rhotacism too...

[@georgieroberts9350]

We've all got our faults, the bloke from lego wants his head back

[@Mercurial_Phoenix]

I love Jonathan Woss

[@hpttsmochi8927]

I cant even pronounce my R’s either

[@CoryMck]

"Dress my age"... His age is caveman.

[@snaggiz]

At the end, think thats the first time Ive actually heard Jon's laugh lol

[@lukenutley5960]

I read the whole title in Jonathon Ross's voice

[@dawnholmes2136]

Love Ross top

[@sexyseb21]

Jonathan Ross looks like a giant squirrel

[@MultiBigbird01]

Very accurate I would say.

[@jakehughes1369]

Do you mean a giant sqiwwel?

[@zakdrammeh3634]

I have this lisp

[@mohammedrahim4715]

This isn't lisp.. It's rhotacism

[@JollyBubuyug]

Jonathan Woss looks like if Saul Goodman was Bwitish instead of being Amewican.

[@WorthlessDeadEnd]

I wonder if a certain part of the tongue is paralyzed, or perhaps doesn't have the nerve endings required to curl to tongue just right to make the "R" sound.

[@bipo819]

Everyone’s getting attacked here lol

[@davidwhitfield7864]

I wonder how many times Lee is going to use the 'shaved Chuckle Brother' line.

[@Lena-ch7mu]

I WANT that jacket

[@toprod9493]

Is that a wing suit JR is wearing. Lol.

[@macferadaig3092]

Jimmy looks like a young Richard Nixon here.

[@mixey01]

My name is Jonathan Woss :)

[@patrickemmerson2924]

What's Rest Rorld?

[@hadnoideahow]

I fucking love that jacket

[@Umbra-kx5bm]

Jonathan Ross has an amazing personality, and is so handsome!😍😍😍💓❤💕❤❤

[@michaelrawson6261]

Oooo... Victoria Coren Mitchell!!!... yes pleeeaase!!!

[@Salbutamor]

Can someone tell me where are the cameras? Like the ones directly to theirs heads because when do a pan of the scene there are no cameras and i am going crazy

[@dumplingsoup5289]

I am the same as him LOL! I cant prounouce r's at all.

[@lyrahanson6642]

Jonathon woss twies weally hard to pwonounce his W’s

[@unclecreepy4185]

I was hoping this was 4 and minutes of Woss not being able to say his R’s.

[@TheComedyColosseum]

The thumbnail screams..."1 MILLION DOLLARS"

[@kojarart3184]

I have the same problem with R 😂

[@alannamorrison35]

Is this an old one?

[@mattg8600]

Presumably not

[@kornsin]

Welease Woger!

[@jedjad9145]

I can't say R

[@The1Solamnus]

Where is Sean?

[@tatlockandfriends]

sometimes he takes an episode off. don't fret

[@ledzeprulz]

Hunting whelks..

[@ashith1297]

Damn, he looks and sounds like Barry Kripke.

[@Near_Void]

Fun fact. I have the same impediment

[@unclecreepy4185]

Wachel Wiley. See, I can do it if I twy.

[@marcuscross8051]

Notice how Jonathan didn't pick on Victoria. Probably because he knows David Mitchell would punch his face in.

[@ElvarMasson]

In where?

[@sluaghsidhe8384]

How did John get a baby? He won't even let anyone in his room...

[@HORSEPRISON]

Good aim

[@MrBraddles3128]

Not his.

[@maroshaluza7424]

Jonathan Ross who's no longer? Jonathan "Was"

[@lucaspatrick542]

Jonathan Woss

[@JML-fy4od]

Wobert de Niro

[@MarekUtd]

Rachel has got to be the most beautiful English girl to have ever existed.

[@drownthedays]

Jonathan Ross is secretly from Östergötland, Sweden. Fellow Swedes will get the joke.

[@Lena-ch7mu]

Okay first of all where do I get that jacket. I'm serious I want to have it.

[@SasquatchOfTheNorth]

I've been looking for the clip where Jonathan Ross said "Ferrero Rocher". It showed up in one of those compilation videos and I've been trying to find back to it for days now xP

[@RichRobinson]

My mate speaks the same way as Wossy and it’s just not a thing we ever discuss.

[@compulsiverambler1352]

It's just an accent. Cockneys have it too but people don't notice cos they are used to Cockneys on TV whereas Ross's accent is a bit unusual to have on TV, it is not pure Cockney, so people actually notice it cos it is not expected in non-Cockney speech unless you are from the south east and so are used to the fact that it is not only Cockneys who have this R sound. It is also not the same as the W sound. Confusing it for the W sound is a sign that it is not a feature of your native accent, your brain didn't learn English having to tell the difference between those sounds like it did if you have both of those sounds in your accent. People who natively speak an accent with this feature in it can hear the difference easily between bilabial W and labiodental approximant R.

[@Sillimant_]

That's because you're a humourless yank

[@dingo137]

There are some English accents that pronounce r in a different way to the "standard" so it sounds like a w to others but they still pronounce r differently to the way they pronounce w. Not sure if Ross has one of these.

[@junbh2]

People claim that's where it comes from. But then I've also heard people say he has a lisp in addition to that.

[@compulsiverambler1352]

It is easy to tell apart from the w sound, to those of us who grow up with an accent like this or surrounded by accents like this. Cockney has the same sound but nobody notices because they are used to hearing Cockney on TV, so the sound doesn't jump out as out of place when heard in the context of a Cockney sentence. W is a bilabial approximant. This sound is a labiodental approximant. I would never confuse those sounds. Interestingly, I do have trouble hearing the difference between this sound and the standard British English R. I can hear it but have to pay attention, my brain is used to translating one sound to the other so that I can understand people who don't speak like me. Even more interestingly, I have asked people around me who have the same pronunciation, confirmed by having them describe what is happening with their mouth when they make the sound, and they somehow believe that they do NOT speak like Jonathan Ross, until I point it out. They are used to translating their own R sound in their minds to the standard, I guess, but when they hear Ross speak, they can hear that he doesn't sound like other people on TV and so will label him as someone who does this, completely unaware that they sound the same way, cos they have never had to hear themselves on TV and compare it directly to the other presenters without that sound.

[@naota3k]

0:44 omg

[@ryanphelan6320]

My brother has the same speech impediment omg

[@tyrozone5]

Wice Kwispies

[@henryfraser6781]

I don’t get that joke about the guy from Lego wanting his head back, can anyone pls explain it to me pls?

[@compulsiverambler1352]

Jimmy Carr looks like a lego character.

[@AlphaARC101]

Missed chance to say "..This evening we have given you a handymack."...ok i'll show my self out now

[@ByAnnieBasson]

So question, can he not pronounce his surname? (Haven't seen the video yet)

[@MasterBait1]

Could someone explain to me what Lee Mack said about his kids? Being a non-native speaker myself his speech is way too fast for me

[@wearelegion5533]

Fun Fact. The letter "R" doesn't exist in the Zulu language