I am a Londoner, and the amount of London accents Sellers identifies and pulls off perfectly is fascinating. If I recall rightly theres 5/6 London accents here, varying between hard cockney and the more posh London accents and lots in-between. Kudos to your powers of observation and impersonation Mr Sellers.
@GhostWatching15 жыл бұрын
What a wonderfully talented man peter sellers was. Thankyou so much for this excellent posting.
@VTAH23612 жыл бұрын
Today I learned that someone on the set of Dr Strangelove was filming on an iPhone.
@ianpurdie22354 жыл бұрын
Back in 1963? Incredible - I hope they took out a patent.
@crunchie10118 жыл бұрын
That was brilliant. Flawless
@joedragon37079 жыл бұрын
Peter Sellers with an image of the Big Board from Dr.Strangelove reflecting in the glass of that phone booth (I think).Always brilliant.His accents in that movie were superb as was his performance (s) in general in it.
@Adaptation98617 жыл бұрын
Back when the movie was made, actors used to film "fake" interviews where they would answer scripted questions by themselves, and then the film was sent to a news station to have the questions filmed. This clip is from the "extras" section in the special edition and the anniversary edition of Dr. Strangelove. There is also an interview like this with George C. Scott
@marimanila17 жыл бұрын
Flawless Peter Sellers...
@DMEB16 жыл бұрын
i love this!!! thank you so much!!
@juancarlosgonzalezjr3 жыл бұрын
His initial American Bronx accent sounded like a perfect imitation of Kubrick’s voice.
@Thoogah15 жыл бұрын
this chap is just brilliant
@rogeralsop34792 жыл бұрын
Marvellous!
@jackrabbitslims916 жыл бұрын
peter sellers is a genius
@discotec16 жыл бұрын
Peter Sellers was one of the best, and to came from radio to film.... Pity hes gone:(
@csvtom14 жыл бұрын
@Marcoshary 1) Cockney. 2) General London accent. 3) Estuary English accent (intellectual lol?). You might here this in parts of Kent and Essex, maybe Surrey, sounded quite Kentish. 4) Pimply guy (?) Frank Spencer! 5) Posh (Cosmo!) sort of London accent 6) Maybe a Greek or Jewish London accent, 7) Edinbro' "Morningside Accent" 8) Glasgow 9) West Country (but as someone pointed out John Arlott was from Hampshire, and has accent has a kind of rural South East feel (with a bit of a burr).
@jacktheripoff188817 жыл бұрын
You will find this on the special edition DVD. It was a simulated interview style clip used for a commercial style trailer in '63.
@Lieu3C413 жыл бұрын
The sweep of accents, the idea of succession by geography of psychology of population demographics, is certainly an important one Mr.Sellers here vocates.
@Applebaum14 жыл бұрын
He was sooo talented lol I love his pimply London accent. He is displaying various english accents *of that era* The London accents have changed slightly since then because of many factors, one of the factors is immigration and the huge influx of Jamaicans in the years after WW2 certain South London accent has been heavilly influenced by Jamaican tonality as well as actual dialect, 'innit tho', 'you get mee dough' its ever changing so interesting
@kyleashley17 жыл бұрын
Legendary!!, thanks for posting!! Go the GOONS!!!
@jimrock6316 жыл бұрын
i those days interviews were shot as a split screen where the person being interviewed would answer questions asked through a phone and an interviewer was filmed later and added to the split screen . copy and paste 'Dr. Strangelove - Original Split-Screen Interview' to the you tube search bar.
@jhfh311214 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, the reason why the rhotic West Country accents are closer to Ameican accents is because of Bristol's history as a renaissance through Victorian sea-trading city. Many exploratory sailors spoke with the same working-class Bristolian that gives us the modern stereotypical "Pirate" accent.
@ruthy555516 жыл бұрын
very good!
@TravelerKM14 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.
@chrisconil16 жыл бұрын
what a great talent and yet a shy man, like all actors hiding behind a cloak, is that true!
@alna128716 жыл бұрын
This looks like it was on the set of Dr. Strangelove. Great video.
@partygirl20914 жыл бұрын
he's talented!!
@reviewsvoiceontube14 жыл бұрын
Unleashed Genius
@bartonim16 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! He could just breathe and make me laugh. Wherever you are, Peter, I hope you're having the last laugh. The world you left was probably slightly better than what we have now, and we have nobody like you!
@loverbite112 жыл бұрын
great!
@chiichai0cho16 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! :)
@clarkanorak15 жыл бұрын
ha ha. john arlott! I remember his wonderful cricket commentary
@33322277788817 жыл бұрын
I'm English. That was amazing! Very very impressed.
@ikvsabre15 жыл бұрын
"People really don't know accents outside of their own countries. " Very true. I'm in the US, but I've watched a lot of British TV, and my wife lived in Oxfordshire for a few years, so I've learned some of the differences. My favorite is the Geordie accent. To your point though, someone on YT was criticizing an American that thought Scouse was Scottish, so I asked the guy if he could tell the difference between an Tennessee accent and and Alabama accent. We're all equally clueless! :-)
@MisterGraduation16 жыл бұрын
Well, if Ireland had its way, it wouldn't be called "The British Isles" either lol. A lot of Irish feel that even though it's a geographical reference, it has political implications too.
@masterhiggins9217 жыл бұрын
hes so good at all regional accents i live in australia and our accents mish mash of cockney,irish,scottish and northener accents so we find it much easier than americans to notice the differences in the accents
@MEpianist15 жыл бұрын
i would really love to see a documentary about RP and the various UK accents, I can hardly make out the difference between north and south, although I recognize Karl's Manc accent.
@Tostig6817 жыл бұрын
Being a Londoner, he is pretty good at the different London voices in the first half, and he gets the difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh correct. His Cornish is only ballpark but I am sure he could do great West Country ones if he tried. Americans - we have many, many accents in these isles, not just the posh upper class one you always do when you try to sound British!
@m3lisha16 жыл бұрын
aha whoaa that's so good!
@mu301nh17 жыл бұрын
its amazing how he morphs between each accent, listen carefully
@achromatic116 жыл бұрын
this is fucking amazing
@qloudz15 жыл бұрын
err.. a lot! theres so many that are native to certain area's which allow us to tell straight away where that person is from (or there-abouts).
@hamiltonjsh12 жыл бұрын
master!
@oisinallen15 жыл бұрын
He missed out scouse! Still, that was very good.
@adventussaxonum14 жыл бұрын
@csvtom - BOTH Arlott and Sellers were from Hampshire. That county , although not far from London, has a distinctly West Country-type accent. Winchester WAS the capital of Wessex. Portsmouth seems to be the exception - sounds increasingly "Mockney"
@mayhemrw17 жыл бұрын
Very good Peter Sellers! Er, A note to all Americans: I've put together a map of accents in the UK I've experienced. I've found there are a lot.
@XMARINEmax13 жыл бұрын
The most important issue is that the listener understands us clearly and that the grammar is correct. Whether British, American, Australian, Irish, South African, New Zealand, Canadian etc etc -it's not what you feel comfortable with.
@timmay30113 жыл бұрын
@LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1 the difference in my view is that sellers is timeless
@tyzwain15 жыл бұрын
Funny...real funny.
@Iritscen15 жыл бұрын
There's still a recognizable Midwest accent, and there's more than one Southern accent. And the New Yorker accent lives on, too.
@liamwitdre13 жыл бұрын
@Chuichupachichi Well i live in Newcastle, England and to be honest if you heard me you wouldn't believe i was English, there are probably over 100 different English accents alone, then there's different accents in scotland but they don't vary as much as ours.
@xWHITExEAGLEx12 жыл бұрын
@liamwitdre They do, you just don't hear it, I'm Scottish and I can distinguish around about 3 English ones, Queen's (posh), Northern and Cockney.
@ratioveritas998310 жыл бұрын
London and American ones spot on. Birmingham and Scottish ones way fleeting
@tkeely477716 жыл бұрын
He was a talent that was taken too soon.
@BOT101st13 жыл бұрын
@jaylias Aye true chap! We hampshires do have a west country twang but i think we pronounciate some words a bit more :D
@ellbennet15 жыл бұрын
It's an old video! If you can't "distiguish" what Peter is saying then listen more carefully because I can and English is my second language. 5 stars well deserved!
@AppalachianCryptidDoge13 жыл бұрын
The God of character actors.
@MEpianist15 жыл бұрын
There are slight regional pronunciations in the US, but I think in general we all sound the same, after years of MTV and Hollywood. The only distinctly American sounds left are Southern drawls and urban Black dialects. I think its great that the UK still has a rich diversity of accents -- makes it all the better when Steve takes the mick out of Karl Pilkington...
@tomsega17 жыл бұрын
The second accent, "pimply individual", has completely died out. Never heard it before - only in Monty Python sketches, really.
@tikkih17 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Although i didnt think cornish was as good as the rest
@falstaffswims16 жыл бұрын
The Americanish accent at the end was the last nail in the coffin... I've died laughing.
@Monsunamii16 жыл бұрын
and you're proud of coming from east finchley!! :P lol Barnet ftw!
@mattbellamymate16 жыл бұрын
quality
@Uberaoshi15 жыл бұрын
I am looking for a video on all English speaking accent s, Scottish english, irish english,Australian, New Zealand, American English(Minnesota, West coast, west coast surfer, east coast, and southern), Canadian/Minnesota, sometimes those Aussies and NZs sound like brits. is their a distinct Welsh accent? And how the hell did us Yanks ended up talking differently from England English?
@ahhhbisto13 жыл бұрын
It's Terry Tibbs !!!! - Wooden Ladders Talk To Me !!!!
@heybabbess16 жыл бұрын
AHHGH! don't call Peter Sellers an idiot! that was great.
@HeadlightMorningGlow15 жыл бұрын
I'd say there's definitely a distinct Welsh accent though - youtube 'Gavin & Stacey' - although, on saying that, if you're having trouble distinguishing Aussies from us Brits, I don't know whether you'll be able to hear the differences. TBH, I usually can't tell Canadian people apart from Americans, and have difficulty telling some European accents apart (apart from the obvious ones - French, German etc) so I think you tend to be more sensitive to accents if they're from your country.
@tripleovertime9916 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure he isn't talking to anyone. This had to have been filmed during Dr. Strangelove, and in the phone scenes that are in the movie he didn't have anyone on the other side (the phone probably wasn't even operational).
@neilmulhollandcouk17 жыл бұрын
He does a 'Jean Brodie' Edinburgh accent, not an English accent (whatever that is). This is exactly how Edinburgh public school kids speak, or at least how they spoke when Sellers did this skit. It's spot on, as is his wee bit of Glaswegian which is very impressive.
@kigawman17 жыл бұрын
I wish I could talk like that.
@globalkevolution15 жыл бұрын
As many as there are people! He misses out lots of the best ones, though: Brummie, Geordie, Scouse, Bristolian, Manx, Dorset, Yorkshire, Teeside, Lancastrian, Highland Scots and all the Welsh and Ulster accents...
@csvtom16 жыл бұрын
Hasn't he got a Morningside Edinburgh accent? I am an Englisher so I'm not sure of these things. His London accents were good, one of them sounded more like a Essex/Kent accent. Maybe Bromley or something.
@tomsega16 жыл бұрын
The 'pimply individual' accent must have disappeared about 30 years ago.. I've only ever heard it in Monty Python
@MatsJn16 жыл бұрын
Given that he also does an American accent at the end, the title refers to accents in the English language and not to accents from England.
@angstmonkey114 жыл бұрын
Wish i could melt between each that well
@Tostig6817 жыл бұрын
You don't believe in an afterlife? No, "could if he tried" is shorthand for 'could have if he had tried' here, old boy, no misunderstanding intended.
@jonnylawrence381817 жыл бұрын
Where does the gekko come from?
@JuanJohnson18 жыл бұрын
Dude is so good. I struggle to do just a generic British accent!
@ShadSimm6 жыл бұрын
JuanJohnson no such thing as a British accent. What a fuckin ridiculous thing tae say...
@MALIKYMAY116 жыл бұрын
he was born in portsmouth (woop woop) do people from pompey have an accent anyone? coz im from there and i was wonderin
@imheadinhome15 жыл бұрын
or Chicago and Minnesota
@jab378513 жыл бұрын
Too bad he didn't a few more. He was really on a roll.
@hnek16 жыл бұрын
And then there's Bluebottle!!
@Marcoshary15 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me what exactly accents he´s doing? Thanks
@plantagenant16 жыл бұрын
A Bristol accent is quite like the ones at the end...a "west country" accent. I don't know how many accents there are but he didn't do any of the Northern English accents.."Geordie" is very hard to imitate
@AVANHALEN2112 жыл бұрын
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
@batlin13 жыл бұрын
@Chuichupachichi There's a lot of different Irish accents too - usually when people think there is just one "Irish" sound, it turns out that nobody here actually speaks like that. Most of the stage Irish accents you hear in (American) films is funny but completely wrong :)
@csvtom14 жыл бұрын
@adventussaxonum yeah. Well the rhotic has declined the further East in the country you go. I suppose Portsmouth is a big city, like Brighton where there's a definite London influence.
@Dangoku5912 жыл бұрын
I will never say Americans can't do English accents again. That was genius!
@rogerlangridge57726 жыл бұрын
Peter Sellars was English!
@ianfindlay8655 жыл бұрын
No surprise there , dumbo! Sellers was not American.
@ricarleite18 жыл бұрын
Was his filmed at the Dr Strangelove set??? What is this???
@tyzwain15 жыл бұрын
British accents, he does english and scottish. They're British.
@nahojgrooc17 жыл бұрын
Oooh I dunno- there is this funny little bloke drinks in my local who talks like that still.
@falstaffswims16 жыл бұрын
Oh, and if I've actually called myself an "intellectual" somewhere, please let me know where, so I can remove it. I must have been typing in my sleep.
@Triplesod13 жыл бұрын
@Chuichupachichi Not going to happen, mate. The UK has the most accents per square mile in the World. If you go 15 miles out of any city in any direction, you will hear almost 15 noticably different accents:-) Hollywood only really shows one, though, which is the posh, South East butler type, occasionally, you might hear a Cockney type a generic Scots accent or an "Oim from Oirland, me" accent. Keep trying though, I'll give you a test in 40 years time ;-)
@sallyversace15 жыл бұрын
the first one he does sounds like the guys from Oasis
@twoeggcups17 жыл бұрын
Where?
@MrMusicMunky11 жыл бұрын
Was that accent at 1:25 Cleveland from Family Guy?
@Auntkekebaby11 жыл бұрын
He was a genius. I would have been a stalker.
@MrJimmyboy197215 жыл бұрын
@tubelover64 lets hear them then.
@Tracer9GTRider813 жыл бұрын
i just wish it was a little bit louder :(
@JackWarren217 жыл бұрын
and obviously there'd be no better judge on the issue than a 14 year old american girl
@33322277788816 жыл бұрын
And a lot of Irish people want to be part of The British Isles too... that's politics.
@BOT101st13 жыл бұрын
He forgot the hampshire accent! A mix of posh and farmer!! :P But still bloody good stuff, rip to mr sellers :(