Marion Cotillard Confused by Impossibly Irish Couch - The Graham Norton Show

[@clarahamiltonorr3808]

Love the fact Graham and Michael immediately get thicker accents when they're around these two

[@Skinnycomateen]

My mum's Irish and when my sister-in-law first visited the family over there she could no longer understand a word my ma said (almost as soon as we landed)

[@grainneocruhuir6383]

I can tell who from Ireland my mams been on the phone with based on what her accent sounds like. She Dublin born and raised but for some reason she picks up the cork accent quickest😂

[@burnbobquist8999]

I love that in every culture these things happen, my family is from the north of germany near the netherlands border where they often speak "Plattdeutsch" which is a very strange language. My grandparents always spoke normal german with us, but as soon as one of there siblings visited us you couldn't understand a word. xD

[@davemccullagh4297]

First time Michael's ever sounded Irish, he's always sounded German to me

[@abandonedfragmentofhope5415]

You mean ticker*

[@dutchess2121]

Marion's hopelessly blank face just makes it so much funnier

[@digital_gravity]

I am right there with her.

[@khalilelfak8955]

digitalgravity So am I.

[@PanglossDr]

C'est domage. Elle devrait apprendre Kerryois.

[@gabmusic2655]

Je la comprends en même temps : l'accent irlandais est super beau mais parfois incompréhensible 😂

[@alexeimscruz2893]

I don't get a single word out of their mouths, man And I thought James McAvoy has the thicker tongue in the couch...

[@OliviaYVids]

'...tis a fairly simple sport like...' so wise

[@GodBear97]

He's not wrong though, there's a start and a finish and you just get in your boat and row. Obviously there's a ton of technique and stuff, but still

[@louisasmiles]

"why complicate things?"

[@hyperionman420]

"yer man says go at the start"

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

@@hyperionman420 and there's a hooter at the end like

[@whatsupdanger3045]

Tis

[@PureZOOKS]

For me it's their quick Irish wit. "Go A to B as fast as you can..."- "t'is a fairly simply sport like"

[@CaptainAMAZINGGG]

Well also it just makes sense tho like....

[@samanthab1923]

That is so classically Irish in it's thought & delivery. I remember watching the Commandments & a kid was waiting outside the lift with a horse. Guy says I hope you're not thinking of taking that horse on the lift. Only to be told. Of course I am. The stairs would kill him!

[@YewrMan]

Foreigners just complicate things like!

[@Silirion]

@@YewrMan I believe its ”tings”

[@larrydoyle4715]

@@samanthab1923 Sorry there now Sheila, I think you're mixing up a couple very good Irish movies. The comandments is not one. The Commitmets is one and Into the west is the other one.

[@HandeToon]

"'Tis a fairly simple sport, like."

[@Amelia-ri3oq]

HandeToon dju no like

[@RichHobo]

Shimple

[@PostPatriot1978]

It's regional dialect. Some places you go, you will hear " sort of fing" after everything. Like " Tis a fairly simple sport, sort of thing"

[@callumfriend2523]

He’s not wrong tbf

[@cathydavies2765]

Love these guys 😂

[@AndresMorenov]

Marion's face is priceless, shes like: I didnt get a word

[@backstabbers123]

Same.

[@andychauhan6544]

Neither did I...and nor did others.

[@ryanhuntrajput474]

I can understand They are smoothing it up a little bit for her it was not that thick accent

[@hd591]

Even with 'Caption On'... I still got nothing 😩

[@yammmit]

harold danny it’s not very difficult even for myself as an American.

[@MattJames1958]

Michael Fassbender is loving it, look at his face

[@francoisdejardin-verkinder1835]

yeah, right...? plus, he's got this german grin to himself, its so heartwarming to see... my mum had an old friend of hers who had the exact same smile, it made me so happy anytime i saw it, i mean it really made me happy, because he seemed so fulfilled, even if it was just for a moment... And he was german, of course... :p And his brother had it too, so it was a family thing... It was incredible, I could not get over it anytime it happended, and it just made me speak with them more, which I usually did... :) But the funny thing is that I didn't remember all of this at all, until I saw michael fassbender's smile in this video... :p so, i'm sorry about this long and maybe boring story about these heartwarming and exilerating smiles, but hey, I felt like i could and wanted to share it... :pAlthough I never write any comments in here... :p bye ! :p

[@ibrahimabarry4937]

I have heard Saoirse Ronan speak and never missed a word, so I thought "cool I understand Irish accents”, and then I heard these two

[@michellelovesanberli]

Same...I watched love/hate and I could understand about 90% of them but one guy’s accent just killed me-had to turn subtitles on 😂

[@carameldrops08]

Saoirse is from Dublin so she has a fairly standard accent however those guys are from a town called Skiberreen and the very bottom of Cork. They also mentioned Michael's thick Kerry accent which is next to Cork.

[@odhlanduff4536]

Saoirse Ronan is actually from Carlow, about an hour south of Dublin. She mentions this in her actor on actor interview. Although she has developed a bit of a Dublin accent

[@mollyoneill7109]

Saoirse enuciates really clearly

[@KB-lx7rf]

@@seanfitzgerald8575 you can tell you're from Galway, making a list of places with accents, including Galway and roscommon but no mention of the 100 different mayo accents, typical.

[@zeigbert1743]

The Graham Norton show is so much better than any of the US talk shows.

[@rafaelnahafahik7781]

It’s because he has multiple celebrities on the couch at the same time, and they’re allowed to interact. It makes everything much more comfortable and natural for them

[@nia356]

James Cordan and Conan are probably the best talk shows in the US imo

[@RohitKumar-jp6wx]

@@nia356 True,absolutely true

[@watkinsrory]

Thats because the Americans have political shows not chat shows.

[@chadfife3265]

that's cause they can drink alcohol on the couch

[@SeanHoldenFilm]

With four Irishmen, a Scotsman and a Brummie, Marion probably had the easiest accent to understand!

[@goodputin4324]

Irishmen, plural you pleb

[@JoannaS08]

this is the kinda couch i‘m talking about

[@JoannaS08]

this is the kinda couch i‘m talking about

[@13strong]

To you. Easiest accent to you.

[@SeanHoldenFilm]

@@13strong kinda goes without saying doesn’t it?

[@Utuber1265]

same, Marion.

[@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf]

I love simple Irish wisdom..."noooh, you just like put the boat back in the water and get in."

[@MrKijana23]

😂😂except when there's people in front of you then you ask them to move...

[@ElizabethBrightEyes]

Best response to this question 😂😂😂

[@SaSemax]

Reminds me of the Danish professional cyclist, who, after a bad day in the Tour de France, was asked "what went wrong today" and his response was "well, the other guys were cycling faster than me".

[@oh8wingman]

It is refreshing to see people like this who keep it simple. There is no BS in how they do things, they just do it as best they can.

[@fairydust15]

KZbin's auto-generated subtitles have no chance 😂

[@anyvideostuff1019]

so will I if I see anyone spell committed like that again.

[@vb8428]

Lol

[@ayesharizwan195]

Fiona trust me it still helped

[@TheMymlan]

Their hometown is apparently named Windscreen.

[@rajitchakraborty2046]

TheMymlan Windscreen! XD I just saw! XD

[@emz2329]

James mcavoy being an inclusive king

[@orlatraynor1158]

I'm not sure

[@emz2329]

Orla Traynor how you not sure mate

[@Hyndergogen9]

Emily Reilly It's a small thing but it makes a difference. 10% of the population are gay so there's a decent chance on a panel of 6 of you one is going to be gay and by simply changing his language he includes everyone.

[@emz2329]

Hyndergogen9 I know this that’s why I’m glad that he changed his language and didn’t assume anything

[@etheldir128]

It was nice to see, but I think his wording still confused them a bit lol, maybe he could've just said sexual partner?

[@faiza8642]

I feel like Michael had a stronger accent here than he normally does

[@dbg5744]

Generally what happens if you are near people speaking in your native manner you tend to slip back into your natural accent.

[@sickedits824]

i'm a Yorkshire man and i've been living in somerset for 17 years, as soon as I go home back to York My accent comes back so strong!

[@reinaldopessoa2603]

penguinch so did Graham it tends to happen around fellow townies.

[@SensationalBanana]

Tends to be the case when we are surrounded by people having an accent. I as a Swede will start speaking with a French accent when I'm around French people... When I speak on the phone with my parents, I fall straight back to the accent we have in the North of Sweden...

[@djwinger2003]

No he was pointing out to Marion that she couldn't understand them, yet she had just made a movie with Fassbender who has a thick Kerry accent.

[@Kit-se3zs]

"Something something Michael and his tick Kerry accent!" Marion, still: 👀👀

[@leathorns1751]

"you worked on a movie set with Michael with his thick Kerry accent!" is what he said.

[@Nophreetime]

@@leathorns1751 THANK YOU !

[@leathorns1751]

@@Nophreetime quite welcome! :) Being irish it was a little more understandable for me XD

[@Nophreetime]

😃 then do more ...! What's he saying at 1:34? 😛 and what did the other guy call the finish line..? Hoovers? Hoothers?

[@leathorns1751]

@@Nophreetime 1.34 "I was quite serious about the whole situation though. Everything I told was the truth, like." The finish line is hooter, its a horn that sounds as people pass the line

[@jennifermurphy2662]

I like how James said "a member of your desired sex" He didn't just assume 😂😂😂

[@olly-kai]

Yeah that was classy of him.

[@michaeldukes4108]

That was overly PC of him.

[@olly-kai]

@@michaeldukes4108 Bwa-ha-ha. Riiiight. PC is really just being polite to others.

[@reth2834]

It makes sense particularly in the context of the previous topic. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqqaYp9jjaiEqa8.

[@iVenge]

ridiculous

[@VK-pk8uz]

It's funny how Graham loses his ability to repress his Irish accent when he starts talking with Irish guests. The longer this interview lasts, the more he let's go ^^.

[@itsonlysound]

Victor Kyrg He is with his people😆

[@buzon1658]

Fassbender as well. His Irish accent is just dripping off his lips here.

[@geraldineburns1619]

My mum is Irish but left Ireland when she was 14...she’s 70 now and with a Scottish accent... but if she talks about Ireland the Irish lilt comes out strong.

[@1234smileface]

Yayy! 😇

[@gerardacronin334]

Graham grew up in Bandon, which is about 50 km from Skibbereen. So he’s a West Cork man too.

[@iainmcmullan6049]

I'm laughing and clapping - " In the Skipereen we're just the same two fellas and they've no respect for anything down there like."

[@liadhhurley1859]

Iain McMullan in skibbereen. It’s a town like 😂😂

[@cloudcampos4555]

Ohhh so that's what they said !! Thanks !

[@liamkeegan432]

@Mario No, there from Cork, that's the accent

[@liamkeegan432]

@Mario they come from cork in ireland

[@WolfoftheWoodsAirsoft]

The craic from them fellas is brilliant and yer man Fassbender is smilin away like he's back home and everyone else is struggling to make out a word

[@k9aid514]

These 2 have to be the most laid back athletes ever

[@Irish780]

k9 aid anymore laid back they fall over. lol.

[@michelleflood8220]

Well Irish people are laid back anyway well my family there are lol 😂

[@ChloGaff]

Michael was absolutely beaming on the couch he was delighted to have more irish people

[@JE-vv3nj]

They say "like" more than a valley girl, but it's no where NEAR as annoying lol

[@BemkyWatchesBuffy]

they still kinda sound like dumb jocks in a way tho, so maybe not too far removed from that stereotype as you think

[@MsMesem]

@@BemkyWatchesBuffy Not at all, skip down to the Southern Hemisphere for that. These lads have style in spades.

[@kevmagill5163]

Like at the end is the secret I'm thinking.

[@dm-hz5ux]

@BlockNewb in Ireland there S no such thing as jocks cos like ever1 there plays sport and is rly fit. Also in Ireland people just aren't labled as nerd or jock or wat ever also like "nerds" and jocks aren't like 2 separate groups Btw my cousins Irish so I know. I'm just american

[@dm-hz5ux]

That's just cos the American accent is annoying 😂

[@unFayemous]

I love how they were so appaled at the fact that Marion understood Michael but not them, LOL

[@nobytes2]

I don't think she understood that part either.

[@aditisk99]

I understand Graham and Michael too but their accents were different.

[@jazzycat8917]

@@aditisk99 Well they're from different parts of Ireland. Michael's from Kerry, the lads are from Cork. Graham is from Cork too but has lived in the UK and worked in the English media for so long his accent is very very mild

[@maideegirl189]

@@aditisk99 They are from 2 different counties - Co. Kerry and Co .Cork

[@belindajulie416]

Thank you for explaining this - it helped me understand 1:02 because I really didn’t get it initially that he was saying she understood Michael’s “thick Kerry accent” 😂

[@mmariedennis]

Gorgeous Irish overload.

[@baileybieganek2446]

mmarieden what I was thinking. Guess I need to marry and Irishman now...

[@baileybieganek2446]

*an

[@smartlp3010]

Is that what they call Bukkake in Ireland?

[@xeniosm4549]

Marion's face is priceless.

[@thehh5118]

She's dumbfounded 😂

[@MaineOffGrid.]

Her face is priceless anyway.

[@jessicay8207]

Love how at home Michael seems and feels with other Irishmen and James as always gorgeous with his beautiful accent. Both James and Michael seem to really appreciate these boys and their typical Irish humour love it

[@bobbbxxx]

Michael grew up in both Ireland and Germany.

[@sbakernyc5761]

James is Catholic from Scotland with a last name McAvoy...odds are hes at least 50% Irish himself

[@helh3077]

Four Irishmen, a Scotsman, an Englishman and a Frenchwoman walk into a bar…

[@mitalidey8155]

Visible confusion ensues

[@wallissimpson5414]

Someone needs to write a joke that ends with the dog quote.

[@okkcomputer]

not just an englishman.. a brummie

[@TenaciousSnail]

The bartender looks up and says "The usual? Don't worry, I'll pull it like a dog"

[@YourHostNathanBurke]

Ouch

[@Ridwan-wz6cx]

These two are actually unbelievably funny😂

[@joshuaprice3965]

It's taking all of my mental strength to understand what they're saying. Seems hilarious though.

[@freakaway]

I could not und a word they said. True Irish accents are tough to comprehend!!

[@ConnorMcCartney95]

freakaway unless you're scottish

[@Chimpyloveherself]

Joshua Price I had to close my eyes and listen closely to be able to understand them. I find sight distracting when I have to listen to someone careful just get a few words or sounds to understand what they are saying.

[@MHScrat]

I was ok with them, The Irish guy on the right was a bit more difficult, but if I focused I could understand him xD

[@Marie45610]

I find it really hilarious because I am kind of right along there with Marion, Confused AF. I can understand about half of what they're saying. With a lot of effort too.

[@sllsllsllsllsll]

"no it's the same, you just put the boat down in the water" XD

[@dball_94]

Irish people have a real tongue-in-cheek style humour

[@KevinDardis]

I love how clear it is how much fun Michael Fassbender is having with these two. Great clip.

[@kipperbill]

I don't know, I'd say it got thicker, how much fun he was having

[@Spore6001]

When you're in a nightclub "close your eyes and pull like a dog". Absolute class.

[@shibzy0tennant]

they had the exact same sense of humour as James McAcoy, you could see his eyes lighting up with joy

[@jimmyryan5880]

dangerhamster Ireland and Scotland are basically siblings

[@NilsAlbertsson]

The British have literally hundreds and hundreds of heavy regional accents, so they're really good at understanding thick English language accents from all over the globe, and Irish is one such accent we can understand really clearly... To the Americans asking "why the audience is laughing, is it because they can't understand them," the answer is no; they're laughing because they *CAN* understand them, and what they're saying is funny. For some reason, Americans are absolutely dreadful at being able to understand anything said in English that has any decent amount of accent to it.

[@misstinwhistle1]

I don't think Americans watch much UK tv so they don't hear the various British accents and since Irish tv shows are much less common, it's even harder for them to understand. People need to hear it more often then they get used to it.

[@derricktucker1533]

Most Americans have no problem understanding (the majority of) Irish people, save perhaps a word here or there. These two blokes however have extremely thick accents and I missed a decent amount of that exchange lol. James, on the other hand, completely no issue understanding.

[@snmcfadden]

Derrick Tucker they're accents are actually on the lighter side for people from cork. There are much thicker accents to be found in Ireland.

[@kathryncooper844]

I am American and I can understand them and I watch a lot of British TV shows.

[@ivytherese6481]

Same

[@mvvalley]

Marion Coutillard is absolutely mesmerizing.

[@lancer525]

In what Universe?

[@eclectica1]

Even more so when bemused.

[@limwowo5902]

When she smokes 10 packs a day

[@browtf4796]

i'm literally Marion at this moment

[@mariadoyle-sofola8583]

Nobody understands a Cork accent

[@varpilah]

Marion doesn't understand anything being said 😂

[@fadhilramadhani1847]

varpilah me too lol

[@AdventuresOfStuAndJo]

varpilah I'm right there with her lol

[@HABO2210]

I'd understand Klingon sooner than Irish English

[@m.2891]

i don't either. dafuq was that? :P

[@varpilah]

I'm sorry people, not at all. 😅 i grew up hearing broken English and African English so i can hear all accents very well😆

[@damnhandles]

Poor Marion has no idea what's going on!

[@pvtrichter8816]

she's thinking is this actually the ENGLISH language !!? but her lovely face is priceless!!

[@niekmelchers]

K Fallon q

[@haykminasyan7462]

K Fallon

[@challengers222]

K Fallon, it must be embarrassing for her since everyone else seems to get it.

[@snake6706]

K Fallon relatable

[@malbourne805]

I'm originally from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, and I understood almost everything they said for one reason: their Skibbereen accent is almost similar to Jamaicans' accents, and there's a reason for that: during the transatlantic slave trade, most of the slaveowners in Jamaica were Irish, I read long ago. Even today in Jamaica there are places with Irish names, and one of two of my friends from Ireland (both Caucasian) actually tracked their ancestors to Jamaica, and those ancestors were African slaves who were used by the Irish. In St. Lucia, our ancestry is divided among African, British, and French, so while English is our official language, we also speak Creole French. My personal family ancestry also contains - in addition to the aforementioned African, British and French - Irish, Scottish, Chinese, East Indian, Spanish and some German. But anyway, that's why I think the Irish accent is kind of similar to Jamaican accents. I found some articles online which confirmed this but I was unable to share the link on here.

[@dutchkel]

I hadn't put together how similar they were before.

[@Donabate2]

Many Irish were sent to the Carribean as slaves too.

[@FlatEric-c3k]

Other way around, the "red legs" Irish slaves were first into the Caribbean even before the africans, and none of them were slave owners. A look at the colonial records, and you will find this to be true, the Irish were hardly slaves/owners given the status of Ireland under English rule. Only exception was a few (west brits) anglo Irish families. When the Africans slave traders (yes you read me correctly, African) began selling africans to the English/Dutch/French, this was a trade that had been going on between africans and Arabs along the Ivory Coast, for hundreds of years before the northern Europeans showed up. When the Africans came in, they were much better at withstanding the strong Caribbean sun/heat than the pasty Irish, and the Africans soon became the slave of choice, thus the Irish, who were christened red legs by the africans, (because of their sunburn) were quickly phased out. Another fact is that the Irish and Africans mixed well and married, and this is why you have many Irish sounding place names and many people of afro-Irish decent from the Caribbean islands.

[@Irish780]

You are absolutely right and check mossarat spelt wrong

[@tella117]

I read up on this history as well, and I am a total history buff because I am obsessed with world history in many areas, and the thing about history is that there is never enough to know about it because there's always new information. The interesting thing about this particular area of history is that it was always a mixture of both, where there were owners, slaves and indentured servants. English landowners sent many of their Irish indentured servants as well as those that were slaves (possibly as prisoners of war, or as former tenants who had to pay off very big debts owed to their landlords) most were sent to the Caribbean as well as other areas. While there is always possibility of anyone owning a slave being English, Irish, or Spanish, Muslim, and even African (yes, they did this too, mostly though with their enemies), there is also always a chance when it comes to history, to never say never. History is a mixture of stories in the lives of those that are told and untold. We will likely never hear all the stories from across the ages because there's too much of it, and in pre-written history the likelihood is of course less for the most obvious reasons (being that written history is easier to keep track of). However, it is arrogant to say that no one Irish (or any other nationality) was ever slaves because of their color, keep in mind slavery had long existed even before it had become known to what it is now. It didn't just appear out of thin air; it had existed already. The Muslims often took slaves, buying or selling, if they took a female slave they did what they wanted, but if they took a male slave, they would castrate them so that they could not take their women. Did you know in Saudi Arabia they did not abolish slavery until 1962? Few people know that slavery predated Europeans, or that it had touched many countries and nations, regardless of race. Those that had felt the evil of what it is, their voices are still lost in time.

[@borami22]

They should start a stand up duo... and I didn’t even understand them... but they have something very comedic about them.

[@liamwilbur1897]

Well, they are brothers. Siblings are funny creatures, and if allowed to be together in the wild, they will charm the unwary outsider into complete submission.

[@aselia6369]

Liam Wilbur 🤣🤣🤣 my goodness, what an observation.. almost scientific 👍🏼

[@lauralunaazul]

Yes, true, I laught even I dont get it... 😁😁😁

[@jamesmartin9401]

@@liamwilbur1897 I like to think I'm vaguely amusing at times, but when my brother and I get together, all of a sudden, it's (Martin) and Martin's Laugh-In.

[@fatscarce3967]

"Dere ya go boy" ahahaha legends

[@dawnsherie]

I don't know what they are saying but I'm going to laugh when they do! 😂😂

[@13939014402]

yeah, plus the one with baby face in blue blazer is really cute.

[@shannonarmy9776]

Thats Paul

[@caixapreta2]

i choose the non baby face one

[@girlfriendPunky]

I choose James ;)

[@thurmanmerman2720]

The younger of the O'Donovan brothers, Paul, also just won Olympic gold at the Tokyo games

[@eclectica1]

Hopefully he'll be back on a future Graham Norton show.

[@JS-uq7iy]

And again 😂

[@frankmaxwell5193]

2024 here, another gold for him in Paris 💚

[@eclectica1]

​@@JS-uq7iyOkay, if he's not asked back after that, I'll be furious!

[@MKECBS1]

1:06 the truest face of polite confusion you will ever see.

[@Stangil1]

Never seem Fassbender so Irish.

[@eileenflannery4604]

Stangil1

[@Parallaxus]

He's learned to hide it pretty well. I only occasionally/rarely hear a little bit of his Irish accent in his movie characters.

[@pj1995____]

It's funny because even though he was born in Germany and his father is German, his mother is 100% Irish and he was raised in a very Irish place called kerry

[@patriciajudd284]

I love the Irish. They've a great sense of humour and I understood them most of the time. Their laugh was so infectious

[@CammedFox]

This reminds me of my trip to Ireland, the people are so unbelievably warm and funny and welcoming. I met a lot of people that spoke exactly like these fellas :)

[@MsJackalMoon]

I lived in Dublin for a year and my neighbours were from Kerry and I sat at their kitchen table and ate their food and drank tea with them several times a week, for a year, and to this day I have NO IDEA what they said.

[@Spuckeblase]

Thats kinda my biggest concern, I want to travel Irland so bad, but I'm afraid I'll be like Marion all the time 😆

[@frostyblade8842]

@Spuckeblase The Cork and Keery accents are the hardest ones to grasp, its what these guys have, but you get used to them after a while and all the accents are dead simple, though North Dublin can be tough for the beginners. I recommend you do come, just be careful around some parts of Dublin, they can be quite dangerous

[@geraldwalsh6489]

I am Irish and find these guys difficult to understand and a bit stage Irish and cringy even

[@mitzekatze8315]

Where have you been there? I was 2015 in Ireland, County Kerry, Dingle and around. Found an old very wise irish man and after a while, evenings with beer and talking, he called me an old soul. My favourite moment in Ireland. And the rain is much more soften than in Germany, so if I could choose I would like to live there. Sorry for this grammatical disaster 😕

[@CarlosRodriguez-dh7mm]

I doubt I even caught as much as half of that...

[@MrSkinnyWhale]

Pretty sure there was something about pulling off a dog :/

[@ellieflanagan9985]

Nope like pulling like a dog in a boat so pulling the oars fast 😂

[@ironfae]

A few shots of Jameson clears it right up.

[@liamwilbur1897]

There was a pretty good masturbation joke near the end.

[@solatiumz]

"Your man says go at the start" lol.

[@briancarpenter6413]

lol

[@ukevo]

An dears a hooter at de end

[@deadzoo]

The infamous "yer man", which is any random male. His female equivalent is "yer wan" (Your one)!

[@clement2780]

Ok compared to american actress not understanding scottish accents, marion cotillard being french, having english as a second language and speaking it fairly well, can be excused for not understanding as much irish accents. But southern usa, jamaica were for me the worse, me being canadian

[@chester4576]

Did this person just gatekeep

[@RomainSandt]

God the concentration needed to understand 30% of what they said.

[@moviemommy9039]

Romain Sandt 😂 true!

[@cherryburn7013]

Me while watching this entire video

[@kcmac66]

Yikes...I understood everything.

[@13strong]

For you.

[@mikejohnson9118]

I actually had to translate in my head this English based language. 1-2-3...1-2-3. Oh ok.

[@xxPhoenixx]

It's funny how marion is smiling even though she doesn't understand a single word. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@LB-ou8wt]

She's probably used to it.

[@jonathangammond3019]

We have all been in that situation.

[@shangdism]

I can't believe I understood everything they've said.

[@thenameiskai9164]

mitch's #1 trash same

[@karlpineda4007]

mitch's #1 trash same

[@o_august7908]

same here

[@MrEmanuelPop]

I was amazed the entire video I could actually keep up with them. This is a major win if english isnt your mother tongue.

[@ouralie]

Seriously, english is not my mother tongue, and I understood everything they said ;) I guess I can say I am billingual ;)

[@whoozytmd29]

Turned on auto subtitles,got even more confused

[@clintbrunke2074]

"is it gonna be harder to get back into the boat ?" "no its the same you just go put the boat in the water"(heavy Irish accent ) lol these guys might be the best interviewers ever, so good at taking thins literally .

[@TheTradge]

*interviewees

[@McPierogiPazza]

I like how unpretentious they are. Just get in the boat and row really fast.

[@papagarth]

I recently read the autobiography of a man who grew up mostly in Ireland ; he talked about how Irish kids in the English school system had trouble with maths, because they took things literally

[@niallh4194]

Jesus four Irish lads there now, thats class

[@Thaheadband33]

I understood about 28% of what they said, so that's cool.

[@nil_90]

JJ Keller for me it would be around 32%

[@emartinez7733]

Nilutpal Borgohain I'm at 60 after watching it twice

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

For me it was only 3.14159265359%.......but then I am pi lingual.

[@qaskas]

I understood 29%. Filty 28% peasant.

[@dougmcvay]

I love how it sounds like Graham's accent comes out just a bit while he's chatting with the O'Donovan brothers.

[@martynnotman3467]

Doug McVay and michael gets LOTS more irish!!

[@mydigicraftscrafts8649]

Fair play to Graham he never forgets where he comes from xxx

[@LalaLala-pz2fz]

"Everything we told is the truth like" Is my favourite😂

[@bludelight]

I don't know how he does it, but Graham Norton and his show are so effing hilarious.

[@okkcomputer]

guests are relaxed, and he's got the best investigation team ever..

[@liamwilbur1897]

@@okkcomputer The booze he supplies helps loosen their tongues, too.

[@Bombay1618]

I can't believe they're brothers. They have the exact same nose, but every other facial feature couldn't more more dissimilar.

[@mrsgbee]

Lots of different ancestors that's the secret.

[@Jo-chilin]

What I didn't even know they were related

[@TheSweetBritt]

Bombay1618 Oh my gosh! I didn't realize they were brothers or related in any way! Wow. 😂

[@cgavin1]

Ireland is a Catholic country. There is no such thing as an affair in Ireland. Just brothers that don't look much alike. The Lord moves in mysterious ways.

[@julie-kk5kf]

Bombay1618 They don't really look alike, but they act like brothers, it's so weird.

[@TheMaskedChef7]

Love how Marion understood that last joke and laughed at it ... She is so dazzling 🌷🌿

[@MCluvs2laugh]

Ah these lads are gems, too too funny!

[@RahulKumar-if9wt]

what language are they talking in

[@Tiffaney]

They're speaking English

[@colintatum6872]

Oh come on they're not that funny! Got a bit predictable n anjoying by the end

[@patépété]

"a member of your desired sex". James McAvoy being respectful and considerate

[@alpacalad7492]

my favorite part of this interview is James saying "desired sex" instead of assuming they were straight

[@jbroadcast71]

I loved even more them not jumping to say they were straight!

[@mcbusted1985]

You mean instead of assuming they’re gay...

[@thefuckisgoingon]

@@mcbusted1985 normally people assume you're straight (sadly) and not gay tho...

[@MPSTG_brb]

"a member of your desired sex"... Just say "someone" or a "date" or whatever... LANGUAGE ECONOMY FFS!! This is getting out of control and tedious. Just respect everybody and talk normal, not the other way around

[@72vince27]

@@MPSTG_brb like forreal. date, someone, person... People are reaching these days

[@patyqueti555]

I understood like 80% of the interview. As a mexican i Can say that I am proud of myself (since my native language is not English)!

[@patyqueti555]

Bitter much?

[@patyqueti555]

@@MPSTG_brb jajaja yeah, that must be the problem.

[@WhaleTart]

Check OUT Derry Girls ON Netflix! Its A TREAT!

[@samfarley8301]

🇲🇽✊🏾

[@avantikasingh8303]

Same and I am Indian 😅

[@tomsmith9048]

There's a raw honesty you only get in Ireland 🇮🇪 💚

[@kristinaF54]

Ever stay in Australia? They're honest there to the point of being brutal.

[@bluemind4927]

I felt like i was missing out on so much 😂 wtf are they talking about

[@ameliah2384]

Blue Mind They're talking about what's happened because of them being in the olympics

[@badhollywoodscience]

The bit Marion completely missed was that some bloke had tattooed their phrase "pull like a dog" on his arm. And one of the rowers suggested he put it there to enhance his masturbation at home.

[@user-yb4se5vb3t]

Blue Mind Dubliners get understood much easier than the lads from Cork , I'm Irish and I have no feckin idea what they are on about 😂😂😂😂

[@user-yb4se5vb3t]

Blue Mind Dubliners get understood much easier than the lads from Cork , I'm Irish and I have no feckin idea what they are on about 😂😂😂😂

[@liamwilbur1897]

@@badhollywoodscience That joke was awesome!

[@oliviatully1707]

Their accents are all so much thicker with eachother it’s so funny

[@luvhart]

Graham had to have them on because not only are they funny but are from the same county that Graham grew up in and still has a home. His pride at their success is so genuine but more so he wanted to show what genuine Cork lads are like, and they so delivered. Love this 👍🏻😉

[@amirrap3843]

This video needs friggin subtitles....

[@JerryAsano]

Amir Rapaport, you should try the auto generated ones lol

[@damienscullytoo]

I wish there was a way for me to add subtitles to the video, i would.

[@abbriem2612]

Amir Rapaport lmao the subtitles are confused they don't even know

[@777ElCazador]

Turning on CC only makes it worse for this video...

[@mrsgbee]

You need to get out more.

[@JackDManheim]

Even though I can't understand 40% of the punchlines, still hilarious

[@ion_iot]

3:50 love the way he can't stop laughing at his own joke - look at his Adam's apple bobbing up and down furiously

[@dessullivan1725]

In fairness, it was gloriously rude and off the cuff.

[@peterfarrell66]

"Marion, it's just as well. You're missing nothing!" 😄

[@ubayyd]

Haha have Irish people ever not been funny?😂

[@MaddBadgerr]

ansaree97 The famine.

[@cdulez]

MaddBadgerr that was made made by the english

[@MaddBadgerr]

dulez yes. and we weren't very funny during it.

[@cdulez]

MaddBadgerr true but the brits prob thought it was great craic at our expense

[@MaddBadgerr]

dulez They were too busy arguing over economic policy to take much notice

[@shannonarmy9776]

Proud moment for Cork. These boys are hilarious. Our accent really is special

[@kdawson7955]

BOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY

[@rubyc7771]

3:10 everyone is laughing except Marion, that had me bursting

[@triplef533]

When a fellow Irish man has to rewind a million times to understand you know they’re from skibbereen

[@jannepeltonen2036]

Reminds me of a researcher at the local university... his main research field had been the regional accents of Swedish spoken in Finland... he was originally from a small fishing village near Vaasa, and when there was an anniversary of his working in the field, his colleagues made a tongue-in-cheek collection of essays about stuff in his field... so one of them set out to see whether the language spoken in his home village was Swedish or not, he went there and recorded a couple old fishermen talking to each other... then he went through various ways to identify if something said belonged to a language, such as if a person knowing the language could understand it... then he played the recording to five native Swedish speakers, both from Sweden and Finland... and also to some nonnative speakers who however had an excellent grasp of the language, some having studied different forms of it for decades... and nobody understood a word. So the conclusion of the article was, whatever the language spoken in that village, was, it wasn't Swedish :)

[@marietg8025]

🤣

[@criscrosxxx]

@@jannepeltonen2036 what

[@Al_Ellisande]

Well, it's the south wesht...

[@manphelan]

i always assumed Fassbender was basically British with irish and german heritage. so weird how fast the irish accent switches on.

[@nenabunena]

Fassbender doesn't sound British or English though

[@manphelan]

After just watching other interviews, you are right, he doesn't. The Irish accent is so slight, I hadn't noticed.

[@nigelmurphy6761]

he's half irish , half-german as i understand it.

[@Einstein852]

His father is german and his mother is Irish and he's lived in Ireland since he was 2. And identifies with being Irish. Good on him. The Irish are great wonderful people

[@MrHarsh3600]

Member of your desired sex, wow. So he didn't assume their sexual orientation to be straight.

[@ericbalakrishnan5944]

We live in a culturally enlightened world, people dig whatever and whoever they want

[@Ryan--Official]

LolGuy "he assumed" how dare you assume their gender

[@googleisshit3302]

By suggesting that they had a desired sex, he assumed that they are not asexual. He's an asexualphobic bigot!

[@mossy1379]

Google IsShit you know the desired Sex refers to the preferred gender.... It's not Acephobic

[@Ryan--Official]

Muffintops yes it is, by saying sexual preference james is assuming they have a preference, asexual means you have no preference at all, you're thinking of agendered

[@leegsy]

Marion is still outrageously good looking, even when thoroughly confused. Bless her beautiful little heart.

[@jonconnor2602]

"Probably wa...k..g away there " haha ...best sound bite of all...pull like a dog...and the same great guy, Paul, just won GOLD...in Tokyo..." a monster"

[@Vamparina413]

A couch with full of Scots and Irish.. #PERFECTION

[@hbsblkk3842]

Bloody Vanessa and the mighty Brummie English lad at the end, go on Frank lad!

[@wierdalien1]

The auld alliance

[@Hyndergogen9]

Alistair Shaw ... That was the French and the Scottish not the Irish and Scottish.

[@wierdalien1]

@@Hyndergogen9 Is there not a French Lady also on that sofa

[@lesshairagain]

I feel you Marion....

[@spiderliliez]

LOL, MARION.. i'm with you on this one.

[@Malafky]

As a Mexican who’s second language is English, I watched this once and understood 20%. Now after many times I think I understand 90-95%. This quickly turned into a competition against myself 😂

[@yorgosruffy9506]

The O'Donovan brothers are beasts, as a rower, I can assure you they are incredible. they train 2-3 times a day, ( a session last 60-120mins heart rate > 120)

[@warbler1984]

They definitely are but their max heart rate is 192 so far far greater than 120

[@Clarissa02766]

When James said "desired sex" my heart melted just a little ❤️

[@GPrinceps]

(curious) Why though? I have an idea, but I'm not sure I understand. Is it because he didn't assume they were straight? Nothing wrong with your comment, I'm just curious about it, that's all. /is lgbt

[@Clarissa02766]

It's more just really progressive I guess for James to say desired sex instead of assuming they're straight. It's just nice that he's "in the know" enough to say things like that. That's all 😊 Nice to see people normalizing not assuming everyone's straight.

[@killua123333]

Yes its so thoughtful of him to think abt that to politely say before asking his question. Most ppl would nvr think abt that n just assume the opp gender. Thats really sweet

[@colintatum6872]

killua123333 but not very funny....the Irish lads were like...'ah yh...grand...wtf tht fella goin on about'

[@nenabunena]

Very overly dry pc of him

[@zerlyzerly7572]

The guy in blue suit smiles and laughs so cute!!!

[@xyneqanon1134]

T'inquiet Marion, tu n'es pas seule. J'ai regardé cette interview 2 fois, rewind leur réponses et j'ai toujours pas compris. Except for pull like a dog. 😅

[@majar23]

I understood this better than I understood them, and I don't even speak French.

[@claustraphobix]

ouais et c'est ironique parce que to "pull" c'est un expression anglais, les américains ne comprennent pas

[@jessicaboswell5692]

@@claustraphobixit's because we have very different sayings based on our own culture. Shared language doesn't mean shared culture.

[@Cal94]

As a Canuck, and not a Quebecois, I'm actually kinda proud t'inquiet Marion was the only phrase I didn't immediately understand here... Given I've been out of school quite a while now

[@jqa16]

Elle est tellement mal à l’aise

[@melissanevergettingmarried6425]

I love these guys so natural and not trying to be anything buy themselves. It's great they are naturally funny because they having fun being the way they would be anyway 😄😉 mint

[@Teddy_Iz_Bri]

Why have I never noticed “a member of your desired sex” before? I’ve seen this interview so many times

[@rubyjames3105]

it's brilliant in its simplicity

[@sadrevolution]

That's wonderful! Respect is just your normal!

[@Belfastboi]

Yeah that was a conversation stopper

[@Teddy_Iz_Bri]

Woah, I forgot I commented this, but still it’s nice how inclusive that was

[@Србомбоница86]

@@Teddy_Iz_Bri I hated it

[@Nunofyuhbizness]

I'm Trinidadian and I understood everything. They sound West Indian. 😂

[@leonjames5685]

Yep. I'm British born Irish, I grew up with West Indian kids, mainly Jamaicans, but a couple of Trini's. My parents have thick Irish accents and my mates' parents have thick accents, our parents got on grand. Similar speech patterns, pronounciations, speed of delivery. I could grasp patois more than the British kids we grew up with. Not a common told fact that Irish prisoners and children from Britain were forced into 'indentured' slavery in a few Caribbean islands way back when. Montserrat, in particular.

[@DufftronicOk]

Leon James the Montserrat accent is amazing.

[@kodafynest]

lol im trini and i understood most as well. how interesting lol

[@viktoriaking6504]

I think our accent is worse 😂😂

[@jenster29]

Byyrd I'm Irish and married to a trini there are so many similarities between us its uncanny. Attitude to things, sense of humour, accent, expressions and even food .. punch & rum and baileys? Black cake made with rum or xmas pudding made with whiskey... there were a lot of Irish slaves brought to Barbados and Trinidad by the English so I'd say their version of English had an influence on the africans learning it.

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

The O'Donovan boys are what irish people should be when they're on TV instead of faking an accent to sound presentable

[@libertinemart]

Presumably this is a dig at the woman with the 2nd most Oscar nominations ever by the age of 25. In any category.

[@ranica47]

@@libertinemart Still.....

[@ranica47]

@Nat Le Still fake accents, trying to smooth out the supposed rough elements of real Irish accents. They seem to hate pronouncing "ou" : saying "clahds" instead of "clouds" "sath" instead of "South". "second best" becomes "sacahnd bast" and more examples besides.

[@ranica47]

@@libertinemart She's undoubtedly a great actress, not trying to detract from that at all.

[@nancytimmer9026]

I both agree and disagree. I have one of the thicker accents in the Netherlands and I do smooth it down a bit for people to understand me. That doesn't erase regional markers like a rolling pronunciation of g and dropping hs and that's fine. You can do both you know.

[@victornoir3594]

Love these guys, every phrase priceless! Go Skibbereen! It would be a tragedy if the modern world reduced all these great dialects to a general blend.

[@andrewtongue7084]

Sure, & that'll never happen, Victor

[@ariochiv]

Interesting how Graham suddenly has an Irish accent. :D

[@lynchmob72]

We can let him slide since he is Irish and all. :)

[@ariochiv]

lynchmob72 Oh I know he's Irish, I think it's cute that his accent suddenly reappeared.

[@__anders__]

Fassbender as well!

[@emmascott4643]

sparrow Micheal's only half Irish, but he grew up in Ireland his whole life

[@JazGalaxy]

There's a psychological term for that. I can't recall what it is right now, though. It's where you subconsciously emulate the terms of the person you are talking to. It could be tone of voice, accent, pitch, mannerisms, etc. It's a bonding concept.

[@abigaillewis9198]

It's funny seeing all the comments saying I don't understand what they're saying lmao

[@tmlafrance]

I love how Graham's accent comes out during this bit.