Fred Armisen Can Do Any Southern Accent

Fred Armisen shows Jimmy his expert skill with impersonating the Beatles and Southern dialects he's nailed down.
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Fred Armisen Can Do Any Southern Accent
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[@dinosaursneverexisted8985]

People think he's joking but he's obsessed with accents

[@thlee3]

#expert

[@joelciojunior6575]

I'm obsessed too... And English is not even my first language LOL

[@sethmellen1]

Perhaps his west tn-mid tn is accurate. East tn is something unique. La is somewhat accurate... albeit you pretty much have to have a fair understanding of French to do it justice. I'm by no means a linguistic professional but a native of southern tongue, both partial African and caucasian. Its difficult to do right. I'll give the gentleman credit. Given he is certainly not from the region he does it fair justice within reason. Nonetheless it's all entertainment:) 👍👍

[@theEarlofChip]

It’s both

[@AndyDuphresne]

I can never tell if he’s joking or not lol.

[@guavanic]

Fred: "I'm an expert in accents: Audience: *laughs Fred: ಥ‿ಥ

[@FishingtheSkyxd]

RIGHT

[@pinksweetyful]

Truuuuue.

[@animalmasti4991]

That font is from language called 'Kannada'.

[@lasttmmt8547]

@@animalmasti4991 yup !!

[@muhaimin6014]

@@animalmasti4991 oh, lolllll, i am from south india and i've never noticed that, thanks for telling lol

[@purdysanchez]

Jimmy: Show us your special talent. Also Jimmy: *Immediately interrupts them with his own attempt at said talent.

[@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419]

He's a shitty interviewer, had it not be for his rap games and tightpants impressions he wouldn't have an audience

[@devirachman5442]

Lol...i was thinking the same thing

[@yeadogthazmyboi]

Shitty attempt*

[@QueekHeadtaker]

Well he was reminiscing some of the conversations they had in the past so... what's wrong with interjecting, you guys have problems.

[@knob3887]

Yeah well it's a talk show not a talent show and Fallon's Paul isn't that bad... and then they both went and forgot George

[@matt4176]

jimmy stop talking so i can hear him do the accents...

[@Kopal_Spectra]

I was going to say the same, he was doing so good and I wanted to hear more from him...

[@Alex-vz7qk]

+Komic Kopal do Texas at least.

[@TheTitanskull]

+Mateusz Czyz Yeah, Fred's really good (that's coming from a brit) but Jimmy is just doing the faux cockney accent that everyone does when trying to impersonate any British person.

[@Alex-vz7qk]

Kryto That's exactly what they said

[@TheTitanskull]

Who? The people in the video? I don't know, there was so much talking over the top of each other that it just kind of blurred out for me so I went to another tab and before I knew it, it was over. Alex B

[@iluvcamaros1912]

As a Southerner I'm just pleased when people recognize there isn't a single "southern accent." It varies widely based on location, age, education, and socio-economic status. It even varies within my own family.

[@celli351]

North Carolina here

[@zcbates15]

Aint really nobody can copy a eastern ky , wv , va accent....thats pure Appalachia talk....it original

[@zoesmybaby]

Me too! I was waiting for Charleston lol

[@peytdawgs4056]

exactly im from north alabama and the accent here is way different than south alabama wayyy different

[@belsnickel9568]

iluvcamaros yeah

[@metalxhorror]

As a native Arkansan, his Arkansas accent is extremely accurate.

[@dakotahutchison6361]

So true

[@Dragon-King1232]

@@heatherdoty66 im also happy that arkansas was included

[@gamingtrey9546]

Yea I approve it’s really good also I’m a native Arkansan

[@jdb6026]

Is Arkansan Arkansan or Arkansawn? Hahahahaha

[@TrevNasty00]

Go hawgs baby

[@frederickvoid4589]

Jimmy is always competing with his guests rather than letting them shine. It's bad for the show.

[@yangerjamir0906]

He should be made to watch Johnny Carson repeatedly for a month...than hopefully he'll learn something about hosting a show.

[@rpmiracle]

Patrick White and still sucks

[@dnice2000]

@Patrick White yeah, they fucked conan who is a billion times better than fallon

[@SB_McCollum]

Carson did the same in his last years, and that’s all these guys know. It’s the early years that made Carson’s reputation, tho, and what he riffed off of later. They need to watch Steve Allen, Jack Paar, and early Johnny, and not binge it either, maybe one per day. It would revolutionize late night shows again. Graham Norton is very close.

[@mc8627]

Frederick Void probably because he’s actually good at it. This idiot sucked ass

[@IronHide3910]

"You've got this Florida panhandle thing goin on when what you really want is a Savannah accent, sort of like molasses just spillin outta ya mouth"

[@sarahb4104]

FrankZx14. Bahahaha. Andy would be so proud

[@carolinar316]

Rididitiroo

[@midnightmystery544]

Panhandle has a fast, soft southern accent, I find.

[@annehajdu8654]

Andy Bernard. Ed Helms. Love.

[@everberry51]

Yes! 😂

[@jessyjulie5506]

He would get along with that Wired accent guy.

[@FoxForcex5]

Can we just have a five min clip of Fred and his southern accents plz? I don't even care what he's trying to plug, I wanna hear a Huston accent !!

[@bones182x]

I have lived in Houston for 10 years and would have loved to hear the accent!!! He did everywhere but TX :( :(

[@johnkreese4521]

+AndroidKeeper He said Huston.

[@SunyiSideUp]

+John Kreese Pretty sure there's not a Huston, TX and OP just meant Houston...

[@johnkreese4521]

SunyiSideUp He clearly said Huston. He made no mention of Texas.

[@SunyiSideUp]

John Kreese Alright, so which state is Huston in? (I am not from Texas and have no emotional ties to it, btw, don't go so hard lol)

[@e.e.perhana]

As a native Tennessean, I've never in my life heard a non-native nail the Tennessean accent so well. Bravo. EDIT: Y'all need to realize the South is full of different accents, TN as well. He nailed A singular western Tennessean accent. He likely based it off of Elvis, whose accent was unique, as he lived in a few different places in western TN during his childhood. My family is from the same parts of TN and so this man mimicked the accent some of my family has. I only bothered to edit this comment 2 years later because I'm tired of people contacting me angrily about a comment I made which should never have evoked such vile and filth to be spewed at me and others.

[@thedenerad]

As a native Tennessean I actually don't agree. B8g difference between Nashville speakers and eastern Tennessee.

[@rxw5520]

That's the crappiest attempt I've heard in a long time. When he said "they're thinkin about it" he didn't even do an accent he just dropped the G off thinking. In East TN we talk faster and add syllables that aren't there. It's more like.... "Thay-ur thankina-bowdit"

[@jaycue7641]

@@thedenerad that is true. I'm from west Tennessee and anytime I've ever met some one from Knoxville or other Eastern cities it's a massive difference. Much thicker accents.

[@IluvatarEru]

Well he said he could do it to the town. Jimmy just said Tennessee. Maybe ask fred to do your eastern Tennessee accent

[@michaellown-peters4317]

@@thedenerad um I'm

[@davidellisonmusic9076]

His Louisiana sounds like Georgia. His Arkansas is good. Tennessee is close but he’s gotta get more of those good diphthong vowels in there. Also in Tennessee we don’t think we thank

[@KatieluvsEdits]

Not my part of Tennessee.

[@FoxyChariot]

I’m from Louisiana and that was off but his Arkansas was spot on. It could go for Alabama too. I know people from Texas and Louisiana that sound that way.

[@toothcruncher]

arkansas was a little bit off, as a person from there. very good, but slightly off

[@stuckylar]

Im from GA, Ive personally never heard anyone talk like that

[@kafenwar]

I thought I heard Jimmy Carter's voice in the Louisiana accent.

[@markothwriter]

There's a big difference between northern Louisiana and southern Louisiana.

[@Jimbeaux]

There are big differences between New Orleans (Yat), SE Louisiana (even east and west north LA), SW Louisiana, North Louisiana and, to some degree, CenLa

[@callmekay6614]

North sounds like Arkansas, South does not sound like that guy 🤣🤣🤣

[@jeffashby8024]

I didn't know Louisiana folk sound like Christopher Walken?

[@jessimcknight7616]

Yep

[@durhamrockerzarchive7034]

Fuck all that everyone in the south is a fucking idiot who cares

[@bitcheslovesticks6993]

Ringo was spot-on.

[@85Aheadstix]

Not really. you must be American.

[@bitcheslovesticks6993]

GamerDares wins Yeah I'm American, haha.

[@85Aheadstix]

Nobody Thought so. ;)

[@YouJustGotAnimated]

Lmao, nah, it was pretty spot on.

[@zahrahAlawami]

YouJustGotAnimated ع

[@unhookedwings]

My grandparents are from southern Arkansas and when he started doing that accent I lost it- too accurate 😂😂

[@SummerLynn88]

Fred is 50% serious here, 50% baloney, that's his comedic genius.

[@lindajones1590]

Totally.. I feel like he doesn't get the recognition he deserves. One of my absolute favorite comedians.

[@Solidsteakx]

Linda Jones he gets plenty of recognition..have you been living under a rock?

[@lindajones1590]

@@Solidsteakx no not living under a rock..just like the guy and would love to see more of him🙂

[@katherine964]

Good comment😊

[@zaracraven]

Blessing 15 families this Xmas with a quick investment of over $5000

[@user-zm8ol1je8r]

His Arkansas accent sounds like a southern televised preacher 😂

[@kerrickcoble6423]

That was what I was thinking! Lol true

[@user-wq2dp6fb3c]

Oh my God that's so true

[@holbriland6584]

and scarily...ACCURATE! lol (I'm from AR)

[@bethbartlett5692]

Andy Ward Sounds like Little Rock to me !

[@lydiadrakeford1074]

Andy Ward hello

[@ViktoriousDead]

We need to start a petition to get jimmy fallon out of the TV industry

[@glawktawk]

His alcohol problem actually makes me want him to stay in the TV industry, makes him unpredictable lol

[@AndySalinger33]

I'd sign that. He's completely worthless. And all the comedians I respect totally hate him.

[@ytwos1]

That would be a fallony. Huh! Aight.

[@ViktoriousDead]

MsUsagi513 Bette reform everyone if he's gone

[@declaytor]

Petition this, petition that...we need to start a petition to get people that want to petition everything out of petitioning altogether

[@peteflanagan3528]

How did he get Arkansas so right? that's a very Fayetteville/Rogers accent.

[@GUITARTIME2024]

sounds nightmarish

[@skylerputman4110]

Fantastic Mr. Pete I live in Fayetteville and no one sounds like that

[@inmediasres.9840]

Yeah I would agree that is more of a hillbilly accent. I live in Little Rock and everyone here just sounds like a yankee LOL

[@MasonBrooks]

I'm from Springdale and that is my accent !

[@alexjarvis6589]

Right??! I never realized this was how to describe it until he said it, but oh my gosh, this is so accurate lol!

[@punishedsnake893]

I would know the Tennessee accent because my stepmom and her family are from there. And it was spot on

[@kristynw87]

I'm from Tennessee and I know so many people who do sound like that but I'm so glad I'm not one of them lol. I think it's mostly the older generation.

[@nohandles406]

+Mike Sky as a Tennessean my whole life I really disagree.

[@punishedsnake893]

+Tobias Funke I'm not implying that everyone sounds the same

[@marymitch316]

It depends on the part of Tennessee you're from. East Tennessee is different from middle or west Tennessee

[@gyloir]

+Kristy Webb No it's not only older generations. There are people around east TN that sound like this, below Knox, etc. lots of varied accents around there.

[@steverouton915]

I'm from Arkansas, and when he did an Arkansas accent, I bursted out laughing just from how spot on it is. Fred Armisen is great!

[@matt4176]

Im from offensive and i find this Tennessee....

[@joshuahinton29]

+Luz Alvarez He's from Tennessee and finds that offensive lol

[@MsLadyNews]

I'm from Tennessee and I find this to be hilarious! I know a few people who speak like that. You can't say ALL Tennesseans talk like that, but some do. Great job!

[@Ohsnapitzodi]

This comment had me THINKin

[@GunsNRoseses]

+Matthew Czyz lol lil bitch

[@haseenaparveen3188]

M C lol you got me

[@sunburnfm]

I love that he respects the accents.

[@Jayce_Alexander]

I agree, they deserve the love. I'm from France, and I love all the different regional accents from the Southern US. They're so diverse, and all so full of charm. I kind of wish I could pull them off myself. :)

[@zaracraven]

Blessing 15 families this Xmas with a quick investment of over $5000

[@RobotReg]

I thought Fred was just going to do goofy accents, but he actually did all of those southern accents so well. Especially the Tennesee accent

[@thagrammarnazi]

That Tennessee accent reminded me of Rhett and Link

[@thatmanckid]

same

[@LostChik7]

thagrammarnazi well they're from North Carolina, which isn't too far off. As a Tennessean though, he was pretty much spot on for any East Tennessee city. Especially Knoxville area.

[@YabbyKadabby]

thagrammarnazi see....as a person from Kentucky...Rhett and Link don't have an accent to me...they sound normal.

[@YabbyKadabby]

thagrammarnazi see....as a person from Kentucky...Rhett and Link don't have an accent to me...they sound normal.

[@thagrammarnazi]

Abby Gaskins Well they're from South Carolina (north or south, can't remember) and they've been living in LA for so long, it's understandable.

[@Enoughsenoughnomas]

If you want to do Georgia just bang your head on the desk 10 times as hard as you can, then relax your entire body and slouch in a chair, turn off your mind, and then just make noises.

[@scrambagorg]

Lol omg

[@Missteree87]

Lmao!!!

[@GUITARTIME2024]

lol

[@Thebreakfastubers]

Im dying lol

[@KenIbeanusi]

lmao

[@nomorebushz]

Damn… I wanted to here him do Georgia and Alabama

[@jjohnson01]

ikr

[@Youngg_Ronnie]

Exactly I’m from Georgia I would love to hear him impersonate my accent

[@TonEva68]

Same!

[@gabelogan56]

Jimmy stop talking over all you guests. Can we have Conan back please?

[@danielraygoza3933]

gabelogan56 no.

[@gabelogan56]

Fallon is a sycophant.

[@masonkane5884]

Conan is amazing. Jimmy is terrible.

[@Tmanaz480]

Imagine Jimmy Fallon as a guest on Morning Joe.

[@BikesAndBridges9]

Conan talks over his guests too..

[@Anya-hd5lq]

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE BEATLES ACCENTS!!??!?!? THEY WERE AMAZING!! Jimmy’s were horrible

[@cisium1184]

He didn't do George, which is the hardest one.

[@profhannigan]

If you're from Liverpool, you'll know how bad they were

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

Jimmy's was good. I'm from Liverpool.

[@meghnasaha4349]

It was pretty bad

[@aeglosdir6368]

cuz jimmy was interupting him

[@justcheesepizzaplease]

Portlandia was an extremely underrated show. It was comic genius.

[@zoner4960]

Underrated in what way? It literally made people move to Portland and ruin a city.

[@justcheesepizzaplease]

@@zoner4960 Portland has the highest number of strip clubs per capita. Coincidence?

[@blaineedwards8078]

I loved the episode where the couple was binge watching Netflix for days and then weeks. They lost their jobs, then the power finally got turned off....lol! The one with the history of the chicken they were about to eat in the restaurant was good too.

[@feliciacoffey6832]

That was an awesome show.

[@zerosoma33]

It was comic penis

[@loudmuzik4499]

One mistake, in Tennessee, we call it Tinnessee.

[@GUITARTIME2024]

I just call it a good place to avoid. NC forever, hillbilly!!!

[@bruce5868]

loudmuzik Mi scusi

[@e3k0n]

raleighman3000 best food

[@litluna9844]

loudmuzik wait wtf people actually pronounce it TENNessee. i cant even pronounce it like that

[@rawyouout]

Whole lotta folks say Tannassee in Memphis and Mississippi

[@roomhairs]

ive lived in Louisiana for 19 years and i dont know any who fuckin sounds like that lol

[@purplehaze1560]

+Rumors ™ I think he went outside of New Orleans for that one.

[@roomhairs]

+Mike L i know he did. i live in West monroe

[@xena2shoes]

+Rumors ™ also from west Monroe and I've lived in both north and south la. NOBODY in Louisiana sounds like that. Lmao. Although his Arkansas was spot on

[@roomhairs]

+BabyfaceBrewster tru. thats crazy how you live close by.

[@roomhairs]

+BabyfaceBrewster tru. thats crazy how you live close by.

[@stevet5379]

It's the Jimmy "I compete with my guests" Fallon show. Jimmy, shut up and let your guests speak man.

[@JDoe-ne4ty]

I would love to see a whole show with just these two talking about random topics.

[@kayamari1244]

Same that would be great

[@zaracraven]

I will never lie to you or try to toy you'' send a DM now to @chloeharryprofitspage and get paid

[@RobCarrollMusic]

"They're... thinkin' about it."

[@OtterSC2]

Fallon is such an egotist, he couldn't completely ruin this because Fred is great but f me not for lack of trying

[@Promatim]

Notice how Fred KEPT prompting him to ask him for a city, to show off how he could even nail a part of a state. He clearly had a stellar city accent ready to show off. But Fallon pays no attention.

[@christinakercher8420]

I’ve never in my life heard someone in Louisiana sound like that lol

[@adamellis3303]

just roll with it

[@snoopybishop]

Lol it's funny bc I never heard anyone in TN sound like that. The Louisiana one sounds like TN

[@Hayne0212591997]

Fred Armisen is my favourite snl cast member of all time. Love u Fred from New Zealand

[@abergethirty]

Anyone from the region would spot him immediately. It's not just accent, it's also your choice of words.

[@starkneitz7612]

OH MY GODS WHEN HE DID TENNESSEE I LITERALLY SAW MY GRANDPA APPEAR

[@carolinestanley_3]

0:26 IS NO ONE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW SPOT ON HIS RINGO WAS

[@cisium1184]

Easily the best one he did.

[@shaynwalker4787]

NEEDED MORE TIME!!

[@itsjustme4848]

His Louisiana sounded like Jimmy Carter from Georgia. And there is no “Louisiana accent”. New Orleans is different from Lafayette which is different from Shreveport, etc.

[@canaisyoung3601]

Which, I'm guessing, is different from Baton Rouge

[@TuscanWonder]

@@canaisyoung3601 yea, how'd ya know? Talk about

[@AngelHxze]

I mean he did a generalization of Arkansas and Tennessee as well .. just probably did the first accent he could think of in that area.

[@richardspencil]

I'm from Louisiana and it sounds just like my neighbors.

[@philipsmith2115]

Northern Louisiana I'm guessing. The southern Louisiana accent is vastly different. I've never seen a non-native pull it off.

[@edgardevice]

There is no north Louisiana. Anything above I10 is either Arkansas, Mississippi, or Texas.

[@samdegarmo7291]

surgedeb he should of done a cajun chalmette accent instead

[@samdegarmo7291]

ღ ღ na they got Cajuns all over New Orleans area. Besides I was saying he should of done a Cajun or chalmette accent, since they are both similar and southern Louisiana.

[@thatrandomyfmfan4523]

Sounds nothing like people from Louisiana

[@Americansikkunt]

Everyone in the world: "There's more than one Southern accent...?"

[@billbrasky1288]

Cult Boy absolutely there is. I’m from Baton Rouge. Not much of an accent for those of us from the city but you go 10 miles in any direction and that starts to change. There’s probably at least 5 or 6 distinct accents in Louisiana alone. Then you can travel to Georgia and get something completely different.

[@jaylynnw1645]

Yes! There are so many Southern accents in the Appalachians that I once pin pointed somebody I met in Washington DC all the way down to my county in rural NC just based off of the accent. I was right and he lived 5 minutes from me!

[@zach8969]

@@billbrasky1288 Georgia's got three different drawls, the further South you go towards Florida the more twangy it is, the more North you go towards South Carolina it goes smoother, the Western part around Columbus is more rounded like Louisiana because of the heavy creole settlement

[@jamesdettmann94]

It's all just Texas

[@E361-p2o]

Everyone from Louisiana I’ve met are mush mouthed Texans we got 4 different sounding accents and Arkansas a mixture of an East Texan and an Oklahoman 😂

[@bunkman64]

People in the deep south can insult you and love you at the same time, for instance, who hasn't heard...."He's an idiot.........bless his heart."

[@liina000]

What a good ear he must have.

[@Brandon75689]

Its not about the ear. You can read up on this. Linguist pick apart stuff all the time. There are terms for things that describe accents like non-rhotic, which explains the lack of an R. Brits only pronounce the R if there is a vowel after it. Not at the end.

[@DarthFurie]

He probably also has a coach or teacher of some sort

[@shoooop]

I automatically thought of a televangelist when he started in on Tennessee

[@jonathang6522]

Yes, Perry Stone.

[@rachelsrooms]

OMG IT’S KERMIT

[@callietippen3692]

i think he’s doing southern louisiana cause in north louisiana we sound like we’re using the least amount of effort to pronounce words

[@codyleblanc9154]

Callie Tippen not even Southern LA. Don’t even sound Cajun at all. Sounds like he just changed up forest gumps accent and said it’s LA. And Arkansas was wrong too lol. I have family all over Arkansas and Louisiana and nobody sounds like those accents he did.

[@travisosborne1367]

No. Southern has more French to it.

[@codyleblanc9154]

@@travisosborne1367 Agreed. Southern LA (South of I-10) is almost impossible to understand. I have to bring a pen and paper when I go see my family down there so they can write down what they are saying HAHAHA

[@heidizeltmann4481]

That's a good way to put it. I'm from Shreveport.

[@matthewhenington8139]

Honestly, if you can just use as little syllables as possible while speaking 99 mph, you’ll nail it. The general litmus test for me is how you pronounce Shreveport and Monroe. There are subtle ways we draw at syllables that don’t need to be and leave out things like R’s and the G on the end of -ing

[@TheTatumchase]

as somebody who's lived in Tennessee my whole life, you couldn't have done it better

[@zari2662]

Here's a thought. How about Jimmy keeps quite and let Fred...you know, the actual guest do the accents 🤔

[@clark9992]

Fred tells him that he can do any city in the south, and Jimmy just gives him States.

[@carlshneebly7136]

New Orleans is like a weird mix of a NY accent and a southern accent. Atlanta is full of Fake West coast and Mid western non accents, because people from Atlanta dont actually want to be from Atlanta.

[@Rudenbehr]

carl shneebly How do you fake a west coast accent. That's literally the general American accent.

[@DeForest]

DoggosarenotPuppers Well, the Midwestern accent is typically considered to be the General American accent. West coasters do have a accents. Think valley girls - just not as pronounced. As an east coaster, they definitely sound different to me.

[@rebekaht7161]

Especially in st bernard is like the NY accent

[@calebd7371]

Atlanta is shit

[@ntdejene18]

This makes no sense

[@danidannidanny]

BUT WHAT ABOUT GEORGE HARRISON.

[@jimmyjim7642]

"Ooohhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

[@countchocula2169]

DanielaChamorro I can do it: I'm spiritual. Ow Me cancer.

[@meerkat8769]

DanielaChamorro BRACKETS

[@W_L-mb9no]

His is probably the hardest to do if the 4

[@Anya-hd5lq]

DanielaChamorro THANK YOU!

[@normpaddle]

Jimmy, the KING of interruptions! That guy monopolies every guest.

[@wbh3952]

he learned it from howard stern, the master of making every interview about himself..

[@jgonz185]

I wanted to hear him do Texas.

[@alicecarroccio2812]

Arkansas is right on!

[@saveriosalemme5366]

You can hear Bill Clinton !

[@johnthomason1984]

no it ainy

[@Backyard-yz3mf]

Not even close haha

[@zedricktorres]

Tom Hanks?

[@matthewmetcalfe6853]

His Louisiana accent was crap. The Tennessee was spot on.

[@garrysmith1029]

Idk

[@eve3363]

Not Tennessee neither

[@SoVaoutdoors]

His Louisiana accent sounded like a crap Southern Virginia accent lol

[@kenziebaker4417]

It totally sucked

[@ShrugSzn]

I'm from Louisiana, that honestly didn't sound like anyone I know... Love Fred Armisen, though.

[@987lennon]

He's good at doing the stereotypical accent of Louisiana...but no one actually speaks like that.

[@TheTrueWarlic]

Dillon Graves Lol Ikr

[@gregkrazanski]

it's a joke, he's completely making it up with fake made-up rationalizations. you love him yet you don't understand is core sense of humour lol

[@kylecockerham1351]

Let's see him do a New Orleans accent. Specifically, the Yat-ccent. It sounds like Brooklynese

[@nickgivens6378]

well if that's where you're from why would anyone sound like that to you?

[@OiTzAsian247]

Lived in Tennessee my whole life and his accent was pretty dang close.

[@brianm7402]

Southern accents are very hard to do IMO. As a native born southerner, I hear a lot of awful accent attempts in movies and tv shows.

[@juliag.chance3457]

I want him to do East Texas!!!

[@GUITARTIME2024]

I don't

[@connorscott1319]

Julia G. Chance east texas has probably the typical american accent.

[@juliag.chance3457]

Connor Scott I'm from east Texas. They don't. It would have just been amusing for me. Case in point: Sissy Spacek, and anyone from the movie Bernie.

[@jlloyd2004mcs]

If he wanted to do East Texas, all he'd have to say is, "I fangered mah sisster".

[@ethanjames5550]

jlloyd2004mcs Thats really rude lol

[@andrewcavett5691]

[@GUITARTIME2024]

oh im sorry

[@andrewcavett5691]

Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous

[@countchocula2169]

Andrew Cavett hahahaha

[@andrewcavett5691]

Chattanooga area, you?

[@iamnemoo]

Tennessee person too, can confirm, had several teachers/professors that talk exactly like that lol

[@daniellyons914]

That Arkansas accent is also the accent of northern Louisiana and far northeastern Texas.

[@chez881]

I have a landlord from Tennessee and Fred was spot on! Always has a thinkin type sound to him. Always asking questions too.

[@BradColemanisHere]

That's stellar. He's even explaining how he came to develop and remember them by describing how they sound.

[@ltvanburen8555]

The best southern accent ever: Christopher Guest in Best in Show. He nailed the North Georgia/SC border. I didn’t know who he was the first time I saw the movie and thought, “Wow, they got a real JoJa boy to play that part!”

[@daedalus_20v]

Harlan Pepper! Sorry... _*Hahlin Peppuh_

[@sheilamansell5634]

That scene with him speaking directly into the camera talking about his hound. At one point he is completely incomprehensible and utterly smooth at the same time.

[@pantslizard]

His "Louisiana" sounds like old Georgia...

[@terryfonz4603]

Cause it’s certainly not Louisiana

[@pantslizard]

yup. I'm from Texas and Never heard THAT before...Lol

[@CaptainBeetheart]

pantslizard even I thought that and I'm Yankee af

[@freezonelen4032]

South Georgia *maybe* But not today. I'm from north Georgia, I would've liked to see him do ours. Anyway...He's fuckin up the non-rhotic thing bad.

[@zach8969]

Central Goergia lol, especially around the Muacogee area lol

[@deltafunction0]

I disagree with the Lousiana. Sounds more,like old Virginia.

[@joshn938]

I was going to say more like Savannah, GA to my NC ears.

[@juliaiw3818]

That definitely isn’t an old Virginia accent

[@jacksonvillejohn9462]

Art Vandelay it’s southern Louisiana

[@glawktawk]

“Fred Armisen Can Do Any Southern Accent...” *does 3

[@trogador95]

glawktawk *butchers the hell out of 3

[@SuperNolanMan]

He literally was begging Jimmy to ask specific towns and cities but Jimmy don’t care

[@palladium607]

He could have done a lot more if Jimmy would have just shut the fuck up for once!

[@isaacangelo435]

that was just... painful to watch. He needs to stop analyzing it so much.

[@blainechappell5383]

@@isaacangelo435 your profile picture is painful to look at. Them colors don't run, they surrender.

[@corissamccomber682]

His Louisiana is also a spot on Billy Bob Thornton LOL

[@boredpeanutable]

+Corissa McComber funny, Billy Bob is from Arkansas.

[@the_undersea_astronauts]

it me like five minutes of playing that back to figure out who he sounded like!! haha i was like "i know that voice!" it brought be back to when he was in Bandits with Bruce Willis lol

[@ms.m3n]

I wanted him to do more!!!

[@bielsabas4407]

+Marie Nimo sameee

[@kathrynmast916]

Marie Nimo h

[@gildrop]

Being from Louisiana, thats so far from accurate its almost sad

[@haydencook682]

Definitely not southern LA for sure

[@gildrop]

@@haydencook682 I'm south of nola and you're 100% right

[@bobbyburga629]

Yea Louisiana was bad. Arkansas was ok but Tennessee was pretty damn good

[@MissFawlty]

Fred Armisen is so underrated. His parody of the Queen of England is etched into my brain!

[@dr.spectre9697]

Hey Jimmy, Johnny Carson is turning over in his grave thanks to you! You talk too much, you laugh too much and you butt in too much. The purpose of the host is to moderate his guests and lead the show, not to compete with his guests to see who is funnier!

[@TSBrax]

You obviously never watched Jimmy Carson

[@timmyrichmond2977]

Anyone else annoyed that they never did George Harrison

[@emanueldixson5645]

I wanna see him do Creole and Cajun from Louisiana and Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville from Tennesse.

[@jebangelacox9279]

Emanuel Dixson being from Knoxville, I would like to know what you think the accent sounds like. IMO there's two, the mountain sounding people (South and parts of North Knoxville) and the West Knoxville people (who sound sort of like Virginia) oh and Michigan cause they are from there. Blacks from East Knoxville sound distinct as it's "lazy" dropping word constant's. I have been told all my life "you don't have a accent." I moved to Texas, met a guy from Arkansas and 5 minutes later, he looks at me and says "you're from East Tennessee, probably near North Carolina." I was pretty amazed as my wife is from Asheville.

[@odgykins]

the first two accents he did reminded me of Rhett and Link lol

[@jarvisjohnson7798]

his louisiana accent was TERRIBLE

[@AlanaRogers]

Fred Armisen is an angel

[@antonelabakavic4045]

Lan nah. He is just very talented, funny guy

[@paulcarrola]

He couldn't do Texas because there is no real Texas accent. It is usually either East Texas, West Texas, Spanish accent or just urban (i.e., not a southern accent).

[@Infomaniac_Moment]

California was also not done because of the same reasons as Texas

[@tuodekab]

urban? like black people? they still have a southern accent in texas. like black people from houston...they definitely have a southern style accent its just different from the white southern accent i guess but its pretty distinct. you could definitely tell the difference between an urban texan and an urban new jerseyan. they got they're own southern drawl to vowels and definitely they're own slang/lingo.

[@paulcarrola]

When I wrote "urban", I was not referring to any particular race or ethnicity. I was referring to a an accent that does not really have any regional context (i.e., southern, northeastern, etc). It is kind of like when many news anchors purposely talk without an accent. They are trying to be relatable with everyone (not just the people who live in their region). I did not necessarily mean people who live in big cities exclusively; but that is where you will most likely hear people with indistinguishable accents. People in Houston with a Southern accent I would argue fall in the "east Texas" category (regardless of their race or ethnicity). My point overall is that Texas is too big to have one accent and that it is more diverse than most other states.

[@incrediblena9827]

+Paul C you can still use informal slams terms in an accent. Is that what you were trying to say?

[@Aurora-vo7lb]

Paul C.U sedsme

[@maryhill4079]

Let’s hear him do the Tidewater Virginia southern accent. Or the hattras North Carolina accent

[@reesejames7240]

north carolina accents are so confusing because some people don’t have an accent at all and others sound like they’ve never left the south lol

[@christschool]

I'm familiar with both of those accents and I think they are probably the most difficult and least known. Especially Hatteras. There are parts of that community that sound like they stepped off the boat from Cornwall in the UK.

[@redboy09100]

@@reesejames7240 I think it's like that in southern cities. Especially Raleigh and sometimes I struggle hearing it in texas and Atlanta to. It's a lot transplants but nc has some of the strongest southern accents I've ever heard

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I'm born and raised in NC, and I couldn't begin to imitate those coastal accents! They're like nothing else in the state.

[@prestonowens4594]

One accent that I think is kinda hard to pin down is the mid west Indiana/Ohio/Illinois accent. Perhaps I do not hear it because I too am a midwesterner? Does anyone else think this as well?

[@Kelsie154]

Preston Owens Ohio's accent(s) are very distinct, which is why they're so difficult to do. It's a mix of multiple accents. All of the states around it influences it, and it also depends on the area in the state you're in, as you can drive 20 minutes, and the accents are different. lol

[@laurasall1395]

I'm from the Chicago suburbs and I get it a lot that when we say "Chicago", "Blackhawks" we pronouce the 'A' like ahh where as others in the world pronounce the 'A' like awe

[@ajm12321]

Preston Owens Ah man! I lived in Pennsylvania and then moved to Ohio. It is different. They say pop instead of soda and that bothers me a lot. And I've had argument with so many people and I just give up arguing about it. Its SODA

[@Kelsie154]

Abhi M.J Nope. It's pop. lol

[@prestonowens4594]

I'm from Indiana and I grew up saying pop as well, but I've also met many people within the same area that say Soda. Personally, I use both words interchangeably, but I don't drink soft drinks so I don't say it often anyway. Thanks for the discussion everyone.

[@highspeed8665]

Me: *is an Arkansas native*........I’m not sure if he’s right or terribly wrong

[@kcarmical]

Why'd he have to raise his pitch 3 steps just to do an Arkansas accent? I don't do that at all :-)

[@datyeen]

I have an uncle who lives in Stuttgart and he sounds just like that

[@v.a.2028]

My favorite bit is from parks and rec when he does the Venezuela accent "Straight to jail."

[@missdarkeyes]

Totally nailed Arkansas!

[@thefratboy]

I’m from Arkansas and we don’t sound nothing like that at all I’m from the Deep South of Arkansas close to the Louisiana border

[@chrishall2594]

Owen Gamer do you sound rounded then ? Lol

[@jasonhelmich484]

Owen Hart as a Benton Arkansas born guy I can confirm this dudes accent was spot on round here

[@henrykramer2085]

yep, although i’m from little rock, i can tell he got it perfect

[@Pitchforkkk]

Owen Hart same buddy, El Dorado

[@newportblue2667]

I feel like hes seriously bullshitting

[@RR44GHYO]

Philip Peng that's the joke

[@rickrose5377]

Not even seriously. Transparently.

[@irgeeksauce4165]

As an Arkansan, that was not an Arkansas accent.

[@johkupohkuxd1697]

Yea, i just think of Bill Clinton when i think about the Arkansas accent.

[@croww_bar]

yeah also Arkansan, never heard anyone talk that way down there. maybe in the east but we don't go over there

[@vihockeyguy1]

IRGeekSauce sounded like he just listened to clips of Houston Nutt to come up with his Arkansas accent. Tennessee was pretty on the nose for several people I work with from Jackson and Memphis

[@Gford912]

He sounds like one of my uncles who lives in rural central Arkansas

[@blackcherry1772]

Bonjourno mi scusi, mi scusi.

[@milena_milan2210]

ahahahahhahh

[@evermaz4455]

OMGGGGGG I love that movie

[@toffee1234100]

buongiorno

[@gulinotm]

I live in louisiana and no one fucking sounds like that.

[@ffjsb]

La. is "rounder" because of the French Cajun influence.

[@MustyChalupa]

Bro Arkansas literally was nailed😂😂😂I’ve never heard anyone do that before

[@bobisawesome99]

i live in louisiana and have never heard anyone talk like that and ive only heard a few talk with the stereotypical lousiana accent

[@kimbermorgan1971]

I thought his Louisiana accent sounded like Jimmy Carter, from Georgia. I'm from Tennessee and there are several accents, depending on what part of the state you're from.

[@chacecrowell]

Jimmy Carter was my first thought too

[@nazarenovallejos]

Tennessee was the best 😂

[@jimmygarlon750]

It 's about time somebody give Fred his own late night show.

[@ronstoner2420]

He is brilliant

[@zaracraven]

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[@lizzyescamilla1974]

His Louisiana accent sounds different from what I hear I’m from New Orleans

[@willchapman._]

I think it depends because I’m from north Louisiana and people talk like he did but in south Louisiana it’s more Cajun

[@michaelbenton1434]

I’ve seen this, and he got Louisiana wrong, that is unless he’s doing north Louisiana. I am a native of South Louisiana and our accent is predominately Cajun, with the exception of New Orleans being the YAT, which is more Brooklynese

[@lynnereichard6259]

And after the Yats there are the river people, down the road, bayou slang and so many many more!

[@ce9345]

The tonight show has never been the same since Johnny Carson left.

[@john8314]

Thank god

[@racthem8711]

Every now and then, I catch a clip of Johnny Carson's show and I still find it entertaining, even though I may have seen it more than once. The few times that I watched a few minutes of these "new" late night talk shows, I find them horrendous.

[@dadsongs]

:16 is all I can be stand of Jimmy upstaging his guest.

[@cajunpipesmoker1519]

I'm from Louisiana, he must have been doing a North Louisiana accent.... In South Louisiana we have a kind of hard French accent!!!

[@avachevalon5052]

YASsSs we dooo!!! Finally SoMeBoDeH’ UNDErsTaNds!!!