Northern Stereotypes In The UK | Mock The Week

Hal Cruttenden shares his view on the British North/South divide.
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Series 12, Episode 5.
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[@markt1387]

Hal's impression of Jeremy Kyle was spot on 👌😂

[@rg3412]

Hal is so underrated, I wish we’d see more of him

[@Gooberpatrol66]

"That's three or four yards!" Look at this fellow humblebragging about the size of his kitchen

[@OccyDaBoss]

for me it would be "that's three or four inches! that's like driving down to Aberdeen from my residence in Leicestershire"

[@MiodragmitjaBogdanovic]

It's remarkable to me how Dara and other hosts on comedy "quiz" shows still remember to give "points" like it matters 😂

[@watvid1]

It's called editing

[@NotAHero98]

Yeah I think they record Dara saying both players are the winner and the editors decide...

[@DavidOakesMusic]

@@NotAHero98 I definitely noticed that on Would I Lie To You. When Rob announces the 'winner' - the camera is never on him - probably so he can say both and they edit in later.

[@AdrianColley]

It matters, just not very much. If the competitive aspect of the show contributes more than about 10% of the total entertainment value, it has failed.

[@NotAHero98]

@@DavidOakesMusic There's definitely editing trickery in play with WILTY, especially since there are loads of stories cut out of the final broadcast that don't count towards the scores when edited.. How can he possibly know the final score pre-edit?

[@grumpyoldman3458]

I grew up in Pompey so everywhere except the Isle of Wight is "up North".

[@ManlyStump]

In fairness almost all of Cornwall and about half of Devon are South of Pompey!

[@grumpyoldman3458]

@@ManlyStump But the first part of the journey was North and I'm easily fooled ;-)

[@mysticalquilava]

you southerners are weird

[@grumpyoldman3458]

@@mysticalquilava True.

[@cyrilpeter1958]

Pompey got buried in lava How did you survive.

[@attack0nmem0ry]

Great start to a Friday morning! Thanks MTW.

[@aellalee4767]

I loved both. I will say...I might have a teabag spot, and my apartment might have a breakfast bar spot although I use it as space for cutting veggies.

[@nomadicroadrat]

Still think Josh should have been cast as a Hobbit.

[@michaelscott6022]

"Yes Minister" had a skit about Life In The North. Mostly about the fact that there wasn't one to be had.

[@purpledolphin6776]

I use one because of the way my kitchen is set out. kettle and bin are on either side of the room so like Josh said, if you’re making more than one cuppa it’s a bit of a dangerous manoeuvre 😅

[@kjamison5951]

Hal’s RL sister plays Hugh’s on-screen wife in Lee Mack’s ‘Not Going Out’.

[@jonas1015119]

I feel like every time a comedian talks about something being 'middle class' he probably means the upper 20% of the population

[@AdrianColley]

In the UK, "middle class" means a rich commoner (i.e. not nobility, royalty, nor needing to work for income). In the US, "middle class" means that your name is on a sign at your desk (i.e. not on the building, nor on your person).

[@SuLokify]

Middle class means between working class and ruling class. If you're working for a wage, and need that to live, you're working class. If your survival, property, etc, are things you don't even need to consider because they're guaranteed by your social position no matter what you do, you're upper class. Middle class is somewhere in between - if your livelihood is provided for by owning a business, or land, or family wealth, etc, you are middle class. A doctor or lawyer is not necessarily middle class, but many own their own practice and so would fit into that category.

[@rebelraccoon9018]

@@SuLokify That's a very accurate description.

[@panda4247]

Maybe the middle class is anything between, let's say, 25% and 75% quantile. But not from all the people, but from all the possible jobs. That might fit the thing you guys described

[@bt3743]

Because thats whay middle class means

[@nicolasababa895]

The north south divide; it's called the Midlands

[@OccyDaBoss]

i'm proud to be a division now

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

That's a great one!

[@TheHutchy01]

Everyone has to talk to each other in Grimsby as a giant city wide suicide watch

[@EjvindGEMDark]

Got a load of family in Cleethorpes, not wrong. Cleethorpes is alright, Grimsby... Shithole.

[@Nickmariners]

Town. Not city. Not shitty either.

[@thor654]

of course Hal has to be careful as his sister, Abigail (how plays Hugh Dennis's wife in not going out), at one time would wake up with a view of the amazing and defiantly northern craggy upland of Sean Bean's face

[@PlanetoftheDeaf]

I'd never twigged that she was his sister!

[@Maerahn]

Oh, Josh... the tea bag saucer is there to let the tea bag cool down before you put it in the bin. If you put it in the bin while it's still hot from the boiling water you just poured on it, it'll melt a hole through the bin liner inside the bin. You're welcome.

[@peterclarke7240]

Mine go straight in the bin (none o yer fancy southern accoutrements in my 'ouse, I tell' ee), and I have never had a teabag melt a hole in my binbag. Is this actually a thing, and I've just been dodging metaphorical bullets all my adult life?

[@merryn9000]

Defo another pointless thing that someone has realized they can make a bit of money off

[@magicmansm]

how hot is your water that it can melt a hole through the bin liner! is your water coming from a volcano!

[@writerinprogress]

@@magicmansm Guess I must just buy very crap bin liners then. I have learned something new and important from this comment thread today, so thank you all! 😁

[@Levermonkey]

The North-South Divide is the Humber-Severn Line (You know, that part of Britain that folded early against the Romans as opposed to those who had a bit of backbone, grit, and strength of character). Grimsby is therefore in the South.

[@sjdover69]

I always thought it was the tees-exe line. Geographically divides the lowland from the highland. I consider Cornwall to be VERY northern. The line also conveniently seperates those who stood and fought (and died) because in the lowland there was nowhere to hide, and those who hid in the mountains.

[@rachelfox8108]

It's more of a cultural divide in my view. That's why Sheffield is in the North but the minute you pass over the city bounds and into the Peak District, you're in the Midlands.

[@petertaylor4980]

Speaking as a man of Kent, the North begins at Watford.

[@Levermonkey]

@@petertaylor4980 The trouble is that most Southerners don't know the difference between Watford and Watford Gap.

[@petertaylor4980]

@@Levermonkey, the Watford Gap is where the *far* North starts.

[@holldolldee7582]

Up the North😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💪🏻🐎🥊🍻👑

[@avetrotter1356]

Hal reminds me of Justin off CBeebies

[@DavidOakesMusic]

Sometimes the routines on this are like they saw something on the way out of the door on their way to recording....Err....Tea bag on a saucer? yeah thatll do. I'll think of something on the bus.

[@captainsunshine64]

That is the definition of observational comedy, yes

[@DavidOakesMusic]

@@captainsunshine64 From the Michael Mcintyre school of reciting your day to day life in a surprised voice. Observational comedy is supposed to point out the things you didn't notice already. not " THE SKY IS BLUE INNIT EH EH EH "

[@rebelraccoon9018]

@@DavidOakesMusic Michael McIntyre is gold.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

@@rebelraccoon9018 Just no.

[@lancia8751]

I wish I can be on mock the week when I’m an adult

[@kylewilliams5761]

Naaaaaah.!!

[@amyclarke41]

yo

[@ginge641]

Surely Northern stereotypes in the UK would be Scottish stereotypes, not northern English ones.