"Ghosts" Star Brandon Scott Jones Shares His Foolproof Plan To Learn French In Montreal

[@marykater.7169]

Ghosts is phenomenal, he's phenomenal. Love seeing him in his own skin, so to speak. So delightful!

[@LittleGrayMouse]

Ghosts does not get nearly enough praise for such a great show. I love Isaac's storyline as well as Sasippis'. It's such a feel-good, gentle show but always fun and funny.

[@brandy6281]

He is a breath of fresh air. And Ghost is spectacular

[@cindycimetta3137]

I said that too! We were vibing 😂

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

I am ashamed to admit, I never knew his actual name. I just knew Brandon was one of the BEST parts of *The Good Place* season 4, and I absolutely LOVE him as Isaac Higgintoot on *GHOSTS.* That show is truly phenomenal. Brandon Scott Jones. I will remember your name now, to go along with my adoration of your acting!!

[@CatLady2024-u9e]

Thank you Brandon Scott Jones for acknowledging the band. It's annoying when people come on and acknowledge the audience but forget about the band.

[@mafepa]

He is my absolute favorite on Ghosts

[@geared4war]

For some reason I want "Have you ever tried to read a textbook by yourself?" as a tattoo.

[@Leslie58]

The facial expressions and storytelling gave me several good giggles at 2:45 a.m…. Yah I can’t sleep, so might as well laugh. 🤭

[@jeswilde6188]

If you aren't laughing you're crying xo

[@lukilu65]

😂​@@jeswilde6188

[@daniellecampbell5894]

Is everyone having trouble sleeping this month?

[@rainydaylady6596]

Ditto! 🙂🖖

[@mimim8532]

❤

[@susanroutt6690]

What a great guest! He’s so much fun 😂

[@TheDilettante]

God Brandon is such a presence. Stephen, come on man, match that energy!

[@ishaonpurpose]

I’m with Stephen. That was a monologue when it was supposed to be an interview. Nothing a quick media training session can’t fix.

[@silentjay01]

​@ishaonpurpose Or you just let him roll like Stephen does with Kevin Smith, aka "The easiest interview ever".

[@ishaonpurpose]

@@silentjay01 you’re gonna make me dig for that one!

[@lashendawest7509]

We love brandon scott jones

[@VDash-Slesinski]

I just love the Ghosts show and Brandon is so awesome.

[@SeaStarsLights]

Love Ghosts omg ❤️❤️❤️

[@DNTXPCTMCH]

Oh I must watch Ghost now. I’d never heard of it before. But I kinda live under a rock. Thank you for this conversation 😂❤

[@LordSesshaku]

I like him. He's funny.

[@darthkeyes]

Haha! I can very much relate to this story. Keep trying, Brandon! One day they will compliment your french skills and it will be very satisfying!

[@MAC-op5fc]

He's adorable!

[@racebannon2613]

Great show, great cast, great quoting. Thank you England for the scripts and ideas.

[@psychmatisa]

Hahhaha I am from Montreal and French: you could have said “may I have an ice coffee lol” we do greet everyone with bonjour hi lol

[@jenna7397]

He wanted to immerse himself though! 😂

[@HeathRios-e6o]

Straight dude queening out in 3 2 YASS! LOL this guy here is so funny smd talented he keeps you interested even if nothing else I'd watch Ghosts because of Isaac. Lol go ahead B man.

[@judylaaper4849]

Love him .

[@bea4156]

Omg he is absolutely delightful! 😂😂

[@NewMessage]

Loved the british one... haven't given this one a peek yet. Prolly should.

[@robynmurray7421]

Don't. If you love the British one, don't go there. It's awful.

[@NewMessage]

@@robynmurray7421 Oh... * pulls toe out of pool *

[@baroquejen]

@@robynmurray7421 agree

[@reneeh.1249]

It’s just different, more sweet/upbeat. When I saw the UK original I found it grating (tho I love British comedy). I guess the version you see 1st sets the bar 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@SPQRKlio]

I saw UK first but have come to adore the US one much more. It’s different humour, different history, different cultures clashing (the rapid “white party” exchange between Isaac and two other characters still has me chuckling). US Ghosts is not as consistently meanspirited as UK (oddly, or not so oddly, it got exponentially more meanspirited in the episode when one of the UK actors/producers guest starred). Don’t let the naysayers prevent you from giving it a taste. I mean, it’s not full-on lowbrow 70s farce like “Are You Being Served?” but it’s a lot of fun. Just a different tone. Like any episodic show-including UK Ghosts-it has good ones, bad ones, and fantastic ones. It gets into its rhythm very quickly over the first few episodes.

[@alienfrommarss]

Omg Isssaaac!!! ❤❤❤

[@debbiedoodiedandi]

I love him so much😂😂😂

[@m3hdad]

that jackass AHAHAH, "I stopped listening a long time ago"

[@SuburbanSavage]

I love that show so much and he's the best part!

[@laurinepiper6612]

Omg Brandon is soooo funny!

[@peterbathum2775]

I appreciate all of your interviews in helping us know more of your guests. Fresh . Hilareeeuss.

[@TXGirlinVA]

Love him!

[@amkii2]

Brandon is SO hilarious and SO talented!! What a terrific guest. ❤ (And obviously a total sweetheart, too!)

[@SeaStarsLights]

Stepheeeen you missed the mark on this 😢 Mr Jones is so funny omg why did you flatten the humor 😢

[@aamesquita3178]

Brandon was hilarious, but Stephen was oddly flat. I wonder what that was about. 🤷‍♀️

[@Tao_Tology]

"I stopped listening..." Colbert speaking from the heart, there. Tbf, Steve is having to front a nightly entertainment show while the country falls to fascism so.........he was possibly having an off day.

[@SuzanneSnyder-f9u]

Agreed.

[@TrrsnSmrg]

The look at 5 18 is comedy gold.

[@saralosier5277]

This has me in stitches! Especially since so many people in Montreal are bilingual. The barista would probably have understood perfectly fine if he had spoken in English.

[@Tao_Tology]

'bilingual' Weeellll, they speak english and "french".

[@AlarKemmotar]

He obviously knew that, since he switched to English. He was only speaking French because he wanted to learn it, and this was an opportunity to speak with people who knew it.

[@user-xy6gm6ug5c]

Best damn show!!!

[@HermitOnWheels]

He’s much funnier than Stephen is engaging him with. 🤷‍♀️

[@SuzanneSnyder-f9u]

Stephen seems annoyed. Not very engaged.

[@HermitOnWheels]

@ totally agree. 👍

[@ishaonpurpose]

He’s delightful, but he made it a monologue when it was supposed to be an interview on that story. That’s one of the things I caution against when I do media training with people.

[@HermitOnWheels]

@ I disagree with your advice. 😂 I enjoyed hearing him tell his stories.

[@ishaonpurpose]

@@HermitOnWheels are you already a fan? If so, that makes sense. If there isn’t already inherent interest, it can cause someone to check out.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Oh. Phew. That account is actually kind of a relief. I immediately smelled some kind of symbolic minefield when I heard him referring to Google translate, because I’ve had some misadventures using that to study _German,_ and it makes the oddest mistakes. And not just along the lines of not being able to differentiate between the word “tank” as in a large, mechanical vehicle and “tank” as in something for containing liquid.

[@qwertyuiop1st]

There are a lot of very well-written textbooks!

[@kylearmstrong21]

Funniest person on the other two, so great

[@Olivia-oi9xi]

I’ll be your tour guide 😂

[@Jehu-f2d]

Exactly why I don't trust Google translate... Mf prolly get me arrested .

[@sterlling1]

❤❤❤

[@ZombiZohm]

He might have also gone wrong trying to speak French instead of French Canadian. But the first place he went wrong was trying to speak French Canadian while not being Canadian. They honestly don't want you speaking their language if you're not from there

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Romansplaining Has me entertained

[@BestFitSquareChannel]

🤸🏾‍♂️

[@1217BC]

Clearly, he was dressed as Colonel Sanders

[@suzannedallefeld2937]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@antoniorobertodasilva3716]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@johnnyandtheinsatiablevoid]

Snark Twain, because it's better than any Einstein pun I can come up with this early in the morning

[@ritalagrenade621]

Once visiting in Vancouver, Canada, i was in this shop where a bunch of college Americans young men were being obnoxious saying ae ae ae, or however its spell. They were such a nasty arrogant, disrespectful of poor excuse of humanity. You know Stephen, you are not a college kid, and you are not obligated to use that ae ae ae that's no longer funny. Education wise...Canadians are above the States in more ways then one. You have the platform to teach them that their below knowledge, not even knowing the states and capitals of this country, let alone Canada and the rest of world. . ..

[@Metro-polis]

Hair color?

[@martzenvandenbroek]

Remake of the British original by the horrible histories gang?!

[@robynmurray7421]

Yes, but without the charm, humour and warmth.

[@Stellaluna11]

Was just going to say I watched a British show called Ghosts that I really enjoyed.

[@SPQRKlio]

Not sure why it’s so en vogue to hate on US Ghosts, but everyone is entitled to like or dislike or be indifferent, it’s up to them. It’s fun, it has its moving moments, it has some incredible pay-attention subtleties and cultural interplay going on. UK Ghosts has an equal share of amazing moments and godawful dumb stuff, but overall it comes down to a different style. You might like both.

[@oliviadaly4795]

Yep. Completely different humour though. They do expand on the lore quite a lot. Unfortunately (at least to some) American humour tends to over explain things, and kinda ruins the punchline of the joke if you want to watch it again (whereas the original you can watch over and over and pick up something new every time) But once you get past the first few episodes (which are directly lifted from the UK original because of exposition) it's actually pretty good. Not as good as the original because the original is a passion project made by a comedy troupe who've been working together for 16 years and wrote for each other, and who know when to end it, and any remake is financially motivated which could lead to jumping the shark But for a US remake it's actually pretty good. And Thomas/Mat pops up in S2 E7 Dumb Deaths (about a TV show they're filming called Dumb Deaths. They missed a trick to call it Stupid Deaths) playing an actor who decides to turn Pete/Pat into a repressed, super serious, alcoholic becuase he didn't think he would really get accidentally shot by a little girl for no reason) And he's appearing in the new series of Taskmaster! I enjoy it. Also there's German (release: March 7th), French (filmed around the same time to the German one so would expect a similar release date), Greek (announced last Oct, I think for a late 2025 release) and Australian (again announced last Sept, probably a late 2025 release) and a possible Spanish version (which Simon has mentioned on podcasts but no official announcement) in the Ghosts franchise And there's rumours of a feature film but those were first reported by the Daily Star and are rumours and rumours only unless the Six Idiots/Horrible Histories gang/officially ThemThere say something

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Romansplaining entertained

[@peterbathum2775]

ohhh. trump was raised in a cave and never got out ...

[@NusretTaras-o9q]

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[@OzzieBenzC300]

Omg… I love him!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@cindycimetta3137]

Brandon Scott Jones is a delightful breath of fresh air. Hear me in slow voice I Lo v e Y o u ! I declare this is a new thing. E S P. I N. T E X T!