Joe Lycett mimics the Black Country Accent - Graham Norton Show

[@sadrevolution]

"That's lucky, I'm going that way. I'll give him a lift." That woman is brilliant.

[@MultiBigbird01]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jenlovesjesus]

🤣🤣🤣

[@AlexAnnA]

Thanks for the translation!

[@juanamedina5966]

Thanks for the captioning! 😂

[@lisaprice8777]

😂😂😂

[@callumaston1598]

I’ve got no neck and no future 😂😂

[@unfortunatebicycle1426]

Sounds like Jon shelby when he does it aswell

[@AdamPaulMorgan]

Thats where wide your neck comes from

[@bmolitor615]

I believe that it's a "nik" that you don't have :)

[@lisaprice8777]

That part cracks me up everytime.....I am a women from the black country and I have no neck and no future 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@hardtohandleweddingbandent8653]

"No neck and no future" - just described me perfectly.

[@DrRock2009]

Sounds just like Jasper Carrott....

[@nothumanalien7984]

This Joe Lycett looks a lot like Hugo Boss!

[@oliviadaly4795]

He changed his name back ages ago... it was brief

[@nothumanalien7984]

@@oliviadaly4795 Was it necessary to ruin my fun

[@brienneoffriggintarth5510]

HE's the absolute spitting image of him :-D

[@oliviadaly4795]

@ARC-5555 'Fives' i get that now. A lot of people genuinely don't seem to know he had changed his name back, let alone to Hugo Boss... Sorry for ruining your fun, OP Just assumed you were one of those people that don't seem to know that he changed his name back

[@suddenpenguin]

theres more than one????????

[@p.sandratangkulung6451]

“i’m going that way, i’d give them a lift” 😂

[@katherine7252]

Honestly my biggest impossible dream is to make Stephen Fry respond: “Very good.” to something I say. 🤍

[@jenn-k-h]

That's a wonderful dream, I wish you the best with it 😊

[@katherine7252]

Jennifer Hogg Aww, thank you so much. I’m not very hopeful, but a girl can dream. ❤️

[@jenn-k-h]

@@katherine7252 Definitely! Dream away 💖 And I'm hoping you know about this clock 😉⏰ www.apartmenttherapy.com/voco-alarm-cloc-106447

[@jz2981]

A Brummie mocking the Black County Accent is like a person in a Robin Reliant mocking a Skoda!

[@Gobbygoblin]

brummies dnt sound like black country tho, black countrys a lot worse

[@jz2981]

@@Gobbygoblin Well, that's just the whole Reliant / Skoda debate, ay it!

[@slightlyconfused876]

A Brummie taking the mick out of either accent is annoying, we have enough with twats from other parts of the country doing that without one of our own doing it.

[@roachdoggjr7393]

It his defence he has almost completely lost his accent and makes fun of the Brummie accent a lot.

[@marvellousmuffin7082]

@@slightlyconfused876 You seem to be a bit annoyed, lighten up. I have a Hull accent and everyone takes the piss (and rightfully so cos It's disgusting). Just accept the accents are undesirable and laugh along :)

[@thescarecrow.8581]

He is one of the funniest comic in the UK hands down. His live shows are amazing.

[@blahblah4129]

Agree!

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Nah

[@Ri57490]

He is currently the funniest UK comic

[@thescarecrow.8581]

@@Chris-tn8zq If that's your option that's ok. His live shows are amazing but that's my opinion so we will agree to disagree.

[@Ph93-b9k]

No he's not he's an arsehole.

[@chrisforrester9978]

‘No neck and no future’ a perfect description of life in the Black Country

[@groundedandinspired]

I love how Stephen says 'very good' when he enjoys something 😊

[@Liammillard_94]

As a person from the Black Country, I can confirm that people from Dudley do sound like that 😝

[@celinehynes3336]

I don't. I'm from Dudley, and have a more sing-song accent.

[@vicsaul5459]

@@celinehynes3336 agree,...to my ears. that sounded nothing like,

[@Ph93-b9k]

After visiting Black Country Museum it gave me as a brummie whole new respect for Black Country people and its history. Fuck Joe he's a cunt who makes personal attacks at people to be funny.

[@deovolente5867]

You cannot not love him. What an awesome lad.

[@shaund4155]

Joe Lycett didn't mimick the accent, that's his normal accent, he just puts on his "telephone" voice for T.V

[@thesandwich5321]

Can confirm- I have a brummy great aunt and she says five and nine like 'foive and noine'. Love her.

[@mattpalmer6054]

I’m from the Black Country and have a strong accent but still cringe when I hear it on tv.

[@mulrennanb]

Matt Palmer ow am ya

[@aperioculus1988]

Why? Be bloody proud of it lol. None of my siblings talk like me and I hate it. We should cherish our accent. Thank god for my 6 year old niece though, she's as broad as the day is lung lol.

[@DLites151]

Except on Peaky Blinders

[@hrdstrange3322]

@Marie Whitbread you’re a real ray of sunshine

[@caroldickens3028]

@@DLites151 that's Brummie ! That ay black country cockka ! Dow mix us up ! 😂

[@anunusualironiccircumstanc2246]

I’m from Wolverhampton and this is hilarious! 😂

[@skye7872]

CJ Russ Yh same 😂😂

[@mulrennanb]

Bulberhampton is how u lot pronounce it

[@anunusualironiccircumstanc2246]

Mr Funkeee not quite 🤔🤔

[@mulrennanb]

CJ Russ I day knowe who yow am talking to

[@anunusualironiccircumstanc2246]

Mr Funkeee that’s better. 🙂👍🏻

[@jenlovesjesus]

"I've got no neck and no future!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@baknights14]

As someone who's a black country lad living in America.... the way he said Dudley my hometown was spot on.

[@missplanejane]

Arm from Duglay! X our Joe....

[@marknewbold2583]

Not speaking like that you arent

[@nannyjeanable]

Arm a Dudley from the black country

[@BossySwan]

Anything for yow cupcake

[@lozzieboy]

I love the Black Country accent. I worked in wolves and I think it’s great.

[@marknewbold2583]

Wolvo isn't in the Black Country

[@Samld1200]

Mark Newbold A mit of people have the accent here though

[@anunusualironiccircumstanc2246]

Mark Newbold Wolverhampton counts as the Black Country.

[@lizzielh]

@@marknewbold2583 it blinking is

[@beccabecca425]

Mark Newbold it’s is tho bab x

[@aoifefitzgerald7379]

i love that he’s wearing the fucking walrus ring

[@bessdavies6440]

Joe Lycett has THE BEST taste in jackets.

[@saschamudge2311]

If Joe doesn’t make you laugh, you must be dead

[@Energyflash1979]

Having spent parts of my life in both regions, the Black country is a happier more friendly place yet it doesn't have the wealth opportunity of Birmingham.

[@jackjohnhameld6401]

I am fascinated by the English West Midlands, its social and industrial history, because I see parallels with my native Glasgow. Read Liz Berry's marvellous collection of poetry *Black Country* which won the Whitbread Forward Prize in 2014. Liz reads on KZbin.

[@joebees21]

West Midlands is where the Industrial Revolution first began. I'm sure you know about Ironbridge.

[@EterPuralis]

The way they're sitting, though, it's like a mini coven with Graham looking in 😂 good chemistry that episode, i take it

[@aperioculus1988]

Born in Birmingham but grew up in the Black Country (generations of my family am from Rowley, Cradley and Netherton) and I couldn't hear any distinction between his accents. Even when you aren't using words like "ay", "day", "woe", doe" or "cor", you can still hear the difference between the Brummie and Black Country accents. Ps: It's so bloody hard not to write in my accent lol

[@Peatingtune]

Fully understandable to my Canadian ears. A delight!

[@MrBoliao98]

You can hear Joe Lycett's Birmingham Accent , but it's clearer he's still nasal

[@claredodd1258]

Love Joe and yes he is a badass! 😅😅

[@A819A1L]

My dads Black Country this made me 😆 laugh

[@jackj.hutchens9209]

it's so cute how he's flirting with Stephen the entire time! :)

[@williamwilson6499]

We got a guy here in southwest Florida who sounds like an Australian, but says he’s from Birmingham. I lived a lustrum in England and never heard a Brummie sound like him.

[@vicsaul5459]

because , that was nothing like

[@celinehynes3336]

Get him on here, and we'll judge

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

I am a Brummie. My ancestors were from the great city of Birmingham. Joe doesn't sound like your typical Brummie. He sounds posh. My Brummie friend went on holiday in Florida and the Americans thought he was Australian.

[@idc5309]

Get Joe Lycett in Peaky Blinders

[@HarekaTysiri]

Oh myyyy i would watch that!

[@SueandOscarD-bi7bi]

I'm from Dudley in the Black Country ....But he's spot on with how we would react lol x

[@lisaprice8777]

This video kills me every time from a proud yam yam 🤣🤣🤣

[@Elberto71]

Loff, I cud a squailed! 🤣

[@OMYAB_Adventures]

I live in dudley but grew up in Blackheath, there's slight differences in all the towns, i reacon Blackheath and cradley talk a bit faster then dudley and I reacon there's a v clear difference between different generations young folk still have the accent but don't really use the sayings as much but probs understand what they mean

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

I am a Brummie. My mother and other family are from the Black Country as well as Brum. I have lived in Stourbridge and worked in Dudley, Halesowen, Blackheath etc. There is definitely difference in the accent within the Black Country area.

[@arthurpewtey]

Brilliant.

[@tracyhurst1292]

Ya Gorran luv us Black Country folk aye ya

[@coryhawley738]

Birmingham isnt the blackcountry how many times do I have to say it

[@jerseydevs2000]

As a Yank I always thought Brummie and Black Country were the English accents closest to Aussie... until I saw this and noticed that Nicole Kidman was deeply puzzled.

[@sophiabraynewton4381]

Cockney (London) is the accent closest to Aussie 😎

[@DeanMoxley87]

You’ve literally cut the best bit out. The tweet about his mum

[@sophiabraynewton4381]

DM87™️ this clip was simply to show the accent, not the whole interview.

[@sadiejackson5320]

Black country girl here. Hello from Dudley 👋 ❤❤❤ love the accent!

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

Hi Sadie. Happy memories of going to Dudley Zoo and Castle from when I was a child in the 1960s. I used to work in a factory in called Simon Engineering Dudley Ltd over the road from Russells Hall hospital. My Brummie son is married to a Black Country wench. My mother was born and grew up in Smethwick. I think my mother was more Black Country than Brummie. Many happy memories of Dudley and the Black Country.

[@colinmelling6369]

Even Brummies have difficulty understanding the yam yams

[@patrickhannon4217]

I'm from Stourbridge, I do have a neck, but no future. So my question for other Yam Yams, (yes KZbin, that's genuinely what Black Country people are called) where do I rank in the general scheme of things?

[@dperson9212]

Don't think Stourbridge is really classed as the Black Country mate.

[@patrickhannon4217]

It's really debatable mate, I know friends from Dudley, Tettenhall e.t.c. who say it is, and others who say it isn't, I'm in Stourbridge I consider myself apart of the Black Country, it's almost like it's subjective... there's two sides to the argument, which I won't get into, cause F**k-sake would that triple the length of my comment But also I was drunk when I posted to start with 😂😂 so I wouldn't pay my original comment much heed Anyway, Merry Christmas bro, I won't be on KZbin tomorrow to respond, so make sure you have a good'un

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

@@dperson9212 I am a Brummie and I used to live in Amblecote, Stourbridge. I would certainly say Stourbridge is in the Black Country.

[@busyVea]

This makes me so happy lol

[@andrewjones5513]

As an inmate of the peoples republic of Sandwell , me , my wife n sister both approve of this

[@WorldWidePatriots]

Cheers mate thanks for that... We're proud of our dialect.

[@slayerwba1]

I was born in wudsley hospital live in hawbush(Brierley Bonk) all my childhood now live in Quarry Bonk I think that classes me as a black country mon brummy accent is not the same they have a larrrf we have a loff 😉

[@anarfox]

Liked just for the title.

[@victorymansions]

To be fair, a Middlesbrough accent is just as obvious. And has certain connotations lol

[@maisiemckeown103]

I’ve had a lot of southerners ask me if I’m from Newcastle instead of Middlesbrough tho lol,

[@b-playzyt9929]

The only issue is the title, why is there a slash between Birmigham and Black Country as if it’s the same thing

[@violator7964]

Disgrace!

[@caroldickens3028]

Aw ya cor beat the black country accent & ar funny sense of humour, may sound dumb but bloody quick witted wiv it 😂😂.

[@Elberto71]

Loff, I cud a squailed!

[@caroldickens3028]

@@Elberto71 😂😂😂😂 yow cor bate it con ya 👍

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

Yam roight, yo am.

[@anthonycutt8854]

Although... imagine you didn't know that there's a region called the Black Country and there was some guy taking the p*** out of it. What would you think?

[@geekdivaherself]

I _am_ that American. Country = American Southerner, not from a big city. So you can imagine my trepidation when I clicked to hear what Joe Lycett was saying now.... "Please let that title mean something I don't know about...."

[@Cal97g]

He is from Birmingham so..

[@DamianBrown]

I didn't hear a Brum accent once in this clip.

[@nomnomnom55555]

Try unmuting the video.

[@vicsaul5459]

because he dow sound like dudley or brummie , any road up

[@kneazle3603]

I bought my brother that jacket from topshop

[@morkofork]

It looks like Will's school blazer in Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

[@OneWanAndHisDog]

Good but it's GOOOIN not goin lol

[@muhammadreyvannatechnoury9767]

What?

[@OneWanAndHisDog]

Muhammad Reyvan Natechnoury in bc we say gooin not goin

[@leeoreilly6797]

What I love about regional accents, is the sense of superiority they engender in people who haven't got one. It's like a quirky residue of the British class system (actually, that still exists doesn't it?). Oh yeah, hahahaha listen to that silly accent, hahaha! Peasants!

[@ktkee7161]

I think most people love their accents, and think they're uniquely fascinating (clue:they're not).

[@michaelmiller2145]

Again i see folk from Wolverhampton ( land of wolves) whos people gave the world football, they marched to Chester under wulfruna queen of mercia out numbered faught a bloody battle with vikings being in victory the queen had the heads cut of the enemy kicking them around they did sending a message back to the vikings dont return it was such a day it became popular to kick a pigs blander to celebate the day over time kids played ( yed bow) head ball hense becoming football. Your dialect is Saxon meaning men of the blade Be proud not mock your fathers fathers dont allow it.

[@vicsaul5459]

well said. i wish midlanders would be more aware of their culture. and stand proud. ( when the kingdom of mercia once ruled)

[@dperson9212]

Still ay in the Black Country though , despite all that.

[@roseknight9554]

They should of explained this to her I think she thinks your being racist?

[@kevchez4262]

I've never heard anyone from Dudley say Dudlaaay, its brummies what drone their words not the blackcountry,

[@marknewbold2583]

They speak a lot faster in Dudley

[@thelastmotel]

@@marknewbold2583 Yeah, it's more Dudleh than Dudlaaay

[@juleerowley9706]

Hilarious 😂

[@TheCaroline1610]

I'm not a native speaker and I don't understand a word from the punch line, could anyone write it down for me please?

[@ehutch9767]

“Thats lucky I’m going that way I could give them a lift”

[@goldenox7896]

That humour is so typical for the Black Country!

[@ShanghaiForever]

Walrus ring!

[@smktru]

Big up the Black Country!

[@jvask33zie]

He sounded like My Cocaine

[@ianreed1528]

The real Hugo Boss designed the uniforms for the Nazis in 1939

[@jonsutherland2446]

Black country folk am bostin. Yo cor beat em.

[@__Ess]

Our accent is absolutely vile tbh but we do have some funny people around 😂

[@emilyhalford3188]

Me coming from Dudley I can assure you no one actually says DUDLAYYYY

[@Artblawk]

Me having spent around half of my life in Dudley and my best friend living in Dudley, people absolutely say DUDLAYYYY

[@havaganderforit3674]

@Marie Whitbread And what glorious utopia are you from?

[@OMYAB_Adventures]

Its more like dudlee

[@vicsaul5459]

thank u

[@jonathanwardle2052]

@@vicsaul5459 Brummies would be more inclined to pronounce it that way, locals Dudlee I reckon ?

[@tjayr7122]

Who’s this joe lycett u speak of? I only see Hugo boss

[@cacampbell1989]

I live in the Black Country, and though I didn't witness this incident but I can confirm it happened

[@stevedoughty1941]

I wonder how long it will be before mocking peoples accents becomes a hate crime?

[@celinehynes3336]

What'd be worse is regional accents disappearing.

[@KyleDB150]

That title reads veeeerry differently if you're thinking Birmingham, Alabama

[@keithreeder]

Nobody was.

[@KyleDB150]

@@keithreeder I did

[@mariec.9102]

Kyle - 😆🤭🤣😆 that's what I was thinking too 😆😆I wanted to hear him do a USA Birmingham Alabama accent

[@alcaynee4853]

I'm from dudley and we say dud lee not dud lay

[@zurzakne-etra7069]

still can't believe elitist Nicole Kidman didn't follow him back on instagram

[@davidwhitehouse2162]

'Mr Lycett may be a good mymic, but has failed to understand that a Birmingham accent is not a Black Country accent. Black Country vocabulary is drawn from many words similar to those from other parts of the country and possibly European continent. Like all languages words are gathered and become popular. The word 'Suc', as in ''ers on the suc agen'. meaning 'she is eating sweets again'. Could that word 'Suc' have come from the french ''Sucre'', or arguably, it may be just down to 'sucking' on a sweet. The tone and pronunciation is different, and far more noticable and strong, but you really need to either go there or be born in the heavy industrial areas that cherish their language. I was born in Willenhall Staffordshire, notable for lock making, but noticed the nearer you got to Birmingham, the more the Black Country tone changed to the 'Brummie' accent, which is a fond favourite of comedians to try.

[@Maerahn]

In fairness, Joe Lycett didn't actually say he had a Black Country accent. He said he was from Birmingham, but didn't really have THAT accent, and then went on to ask Stephen and Nicole if they'd HEARD a Black Country accent.

[@jhickman4735]

Nope , no Black Country accent here, a slight Birmingham maybe. If you would like to hear what it sounds like check out the comedy character Doreen Tipton, portrayed by an actress but still a very good attempt.

[@brettpacker2779]

I'm from Birmingham but work in west Bromwich and have to talk punjabi to my customers

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

The same in my beloved Birmingham. Birmingham and the Black Country aren't what they were in the old days. I was born in Birmingham in 1950s.

[@Pebble_Collector]

Stealing Hugo Boss's material is a bit tight

[@paulshepherd1348]

Its more Brummie than Black Country. .. still a funny story though... "because im in a rush" I don't doubt that reply that girl gave at all! I'm.from Brierley Hill.... but have lived in Canada that last 13 years... ive lost count how many people think I'm from Ireland! What the hell?? Irish?.. LOL

[@anthonylong9067]

Im american and lived in Birmingham for a half year. But i would always go to brierley hill every week for ⚽️. The accent in Dudley sounds more like a thick scottish accent than anything else at least to me

[@paulshepherd1348]

@@anthonylong9067 small world eh. Funny how people from other parts of tte world, perceive accents to sound. I bet people in Brierley Hill and Dudley never thought they would sound Scottish or Irish to any one! Interesting fact the black country dialect is the nearest modern dialect to old/ early middle English dialect. What part of the states were you from?

[@anthonylong9067]

@@paulshepherd1348 originally from Northern California. But lived in Solihull. I’d take a train to Cradley or Stourbridge every week and get a bus to brierley hill so I can play for a ⚽️ team called Dudley Sports.

[@anthonylong9067]

@@paulshepherd1348 I’ve been told that the accent has a lot of significance. And as someone who loves history, this astounds me.

[@paulshepherd1348]

@@anthonylong9067Sollihull is nice, we used to call it the posh side of Birmingham. Brierley Hill and Cradley are very historic towns for industry, not sure if you know, Cradley Heath was famed for chain making, they made tye anchor and chain for the Titanic, and the life boat davits were made by a company called Wellin Lambie which still exists in Brierley Hill today. There was also a huge steel works on Brierley Hill called Round Oak... it was huge... reportedly was responsibility for 5% of the UK steel production. So it was known as a steel town... then whole area is very industrial in its day.. Ive been to California, the coast road is a beautiful drive... different world to the steel town I grew up in. And so is the area of Canada I now live in.

[@BigAlCapwn]

It is funny how just being gay can give some homosexual men a certain voice and lack of regional accent (did you know Alan Carr is from Dorset?)...I say some as of course Mr Fry who is also on the couch doesn't seem to be affected by it.

[@Tom-zr6yn]

lol think that’s probably more of a TV thing than a gay thing

[@Artblawk]

Definitely a TV thing. Absolutely not a gay thing. For starters, Joe isn't even a homosexual, he's pansexual.

[@MaxineNelson]

Joe did have a mild regional accent in video of himself when much younger, it's a deliberate professional choice fully losing the accent, I think. Served him well though, and Tom Allen. And they're both very funny. ♥️

[@heliotropezzz333]

I think it's more to do with education. They went to the kind of schools that knock it out of you or where you become so self conscious about it you learn to lose it yourself if you wish to. The middle classes in those areas don't start out with such strong regional accents to begin with and children pick up their accents first from their families.

[@ktkee7161]

I wonder when mocking people's regional accents will become cancelworthy like for foreign accents?

[@michaelheeheejackson7255]

Wulverrimptan

[@marknewbold2583]

Worverampton

[@mikekram2199]

Why do people never use Ozzy Osbourne as an example to Americans when they talk about midlands accents?

[@albertweiner7946]

This is quite offensive to us Brummies if your not from Birmingham you should not be able to make fun of the accent.

[@OldWolflad]

Sorry your Dudley attempt sounds like a Brummie accent - "Dud-lie". Dudley people say "Dudleeee"

[@MegaBYSON]

hate hearin ma own accent

[@jasonward6723]

i used to like joe Lycett as well oh dear nevermind ...

[@WoodlandAsh]

I imagine the Black Country is renowned for its unshakeable sense of humour as much as it’s dulcet tones.

[@aminseldirawi4516]

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[@jaysonong1025]

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[@jaysonong1025]

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[@robertjackson3552]

two gays a bi and one straight sound like the beginning of a joke

[@sianwebb2128]

Black country rules

[@peteraston4753]

Don't insult the black country and call us brummies,we talk proppa in the black country

[@MimifBones]

Birmingham and Black country accents are different. Joe is from Brum and doesn't know this. Black country accent has it's own words, dialect whereas Brum is an amalgamation of the rest of the country (crossing point) and mimics the black country inflection slightly.

[@rw6391]

I'm a brummie and I think we all know the difference 🙄

[@MimifBones]

@@rw6391 it's more a comment for people not from the area. No one knows of the Black Country outside the West Mids.

[@joebees21]

The Birmingham accent isn't really a mixture of all the accents it's actually one of the oldest accents in the country.