The reason Leonardo DiCaprio does a terrible Irish accent - Adam and Joe

[@willjamesb]

I just fucking love Adam and Joe. I wish I was both of them. At the same time!

[@jackdavies3666]

I'm Leonardo DiCaprio and I don't think the bad accent was half irish.

[@wow.tom.masters]

Just hearing the jingle at the beginning makes me all nostalgic for the show :(

[@sajmeister]

Love Adam and Joe!

[@themalloys]

Well Oil Beef Hooked

[@NxDoyle]

The Malloys Whale.

[@RighteousBrother]

Does Adam have trouble reading or something?

[@Spoonfoon]

I'm welsh, but I've spent a lot of time trying to lose my welsh accent. But it's simply impossible to say "Goose" without sounding welsh.

[@118Huntervasser]

Ray Winstone in the Departed ? LolololololoL

[@KaitainCPS]

Well, a lot of the modern American accent clearly descends from what became West Country English. (And Irish.) I guess most people in the British Isles used to speak English with a rhotic R a few hundred years ago.

[@DrParanoidAndroid]

then meh bay you shoo dent be LEE VING HERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@andrewt836]

DrParanoidAndroid just coming!

[@allonewordy]

If Adam & Joe were the Pet Shop Boys this picture would be their album cover.

[@jorgepeterbarton]

pretty good tool i think. you obviously have to try to sound like the accent and not just pronounce it standardly and magically get the accent. it helps with the particular sounds which are different, but there's more to an accent than that. also, if you want to sound scottish, read trainspotting out loud. or anything written in Scots- this works in a similar way really. tae reid e oot lahd soons thae seim.

[@Vince-l4k]

Didn't know he done an Irish accent, news to me

[@KaitainCPS]

@talibanfacebang Comes out more South African or Brummie. Very difficult to do Scottish using this technique because one of the keys to the Scots accent is learning to do the soft roll on the "R", i.e. saying "really" with a Scots accent requires putting the tongue forward on the roof of the mouth almost as though you're going to start with a T or D, but not taking the contact all the way.

[@smile221]

@allonewordy And the album would be called...."I've been a silly sausage" :D

[@123G-r4d]

ehm..... obviously DiCaprio is suppose to have an accent that is being lost as he gets older. the boy has a strong irish accent at the beginning of the film then when he gets out of his borstal school the American accent is creeping in. i thought it was excellent.

[@krombopulos_michael]

Leo didn't have a great accent in Gangs but it's still one of the better Irish accents I've heard by a non-Irish actor. Funny how the got the Irish guy (Day Lewis) to play an American and the American guy (DiCaprio) to play the Irish kid.

[@jamesmullen3601]

Daniel Day Lewis is English

[@TomTomLo1]

The young Sherlock Holmes has really let himself go

[@randomsamno9]

Well it was meant to be second generation assuming your referring to Gangs of New York, are you a second generation irishman from New York?

[@MARSBELLA1]

I really love you guys

[@rotatingcow]

Parr sharr and mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr were how I learnt to communicate with the N.Irish

[@krombopulos_michael]

He has dual citezenship, it's not quite as contrived as Obama. He grew up in England but lives here and his first big film role was in an Irish movie.

[@spacejesusadventure]

No. I'm a first generation Irishman from, er, Ireland.

[@spacejesusadventure]

I'm Irish and I don't think Leonardo DiCaprios accent was half bad :/

[@richieblackhearted]

No no no no!!! It is "beer can rule an hex" sounds like "bacon roll and eggs" in a jamaican accent

[@robbiesize]

Strine?

[@davidbrowne9539]

Is Adam some sort of Mexican wolf boy?... All that fur

[@greenaum]

"perfect for Adam and -me-"

[@KaitainCPS]

Northern Irish: "Yull not do it layder. Yull do it right nye."

[@wrmty56413]

You'll DIRT right nye

[@lucasm3879]

@@wrmty56413 Rayt noiy!

[@ursie1986]

Oh you had to drive an axe through their gag didn't you! Still, I hear it's hip to be square.

[@22grena]

Thanks for making my point Englishman

[@gman8471]

Joe looks like he's developing middle-age spread.

[@conoramphlett2228]

I imagine the phonetic thing is only a small part of it, a lot more important is the way sounds are formed, which is why just reading a phonetic sentence won't work. really rather pointless.

[@mclumperty617]

Whale oil beef hooked.

[@jarzhinio]

we're gordies niventcha na

[@allonewordy]

@smile221 and it would be in the top 100 for over one week!

[@666deadman1988]

The problem with phonetic spelling of this kind is that it's gonna be influence by the accent you have yourself. For example, 'beer can' sounding like 'bacon' in a Jamaican accent only works if you have a southern English accent which doesn't pronounce certain 'r' sounds. It doesn't work for someone like me because I have a Northern Irish accent and therefore pronounce the 'r' in 'beer can'.

[@matetotally]

yeh ok, sure, sure. deriding people that do bad irish accents is actually kind of defending irishness.

[@estebanrey]

No, it's beer can and eggs.

[@richieblackhearted]

No, no no!! It isnt BEER CAN ROLL. Its BEER CAN SAND WITCH. Also, if you try to say "ARSE" in an american accent you suddentlky become cornish!

[@sprucemaroose]

@dunnededunnedunne Beer can make you sound like the queen. Lovely lorra lotta lorry

[@randomsamno9]

Is Day Lewis really Irish or is it one of those claiming him for the irish situations like Barack Obama or Wayne Rooney? I don't know myself haven't looked it up but I thought he was English.

[@extremetee]

beer can = Jamaican bacon

[@andrina118]

Where is it Taf? Dun By yer, back

[@scubastevesfather]

The thing they lack when trying to read the phonetic sentences is the context and intonation of how to speak it. For example the if they took into account intonation of Brad Pitt's Tennessee accent in inglorious basterds it rolls off the tongue in a more natural fashion. In my opinion Brad Pitt's does a fine job in assuming accents in many movies especially his irish gypsy accent in snatch. It's a tough feat to do even the simplest accents with a degree of sincerity so kudo's to him

[@joefangers8228]

Air Hair Lair!

[@chris85april]

@dunnededunnedunne exactly!

[@forgettheswan]

@mitchellele I thought that!

[@sam261007]

rye nah den mun, me gut me beer can and me bree, allza nee now is me woman an ting, are, haa, haaaaar!

[@118Huntervasser]

Oh you must be american...this way please

[@kingmichaelb123]

well oil beef hooked sounds like an Irish accent for (well i'll be f%$#ed) lol kinda

[@themalloys]

jimmy carr

[@cokaorcola]

STEPHEN

[@Farns77]

qwamberry joose.

[@randomsamno9]

Fair enough, guess DiCaprio does have a good accent then.

[@MatchesMalone1183]

Beer can = bacon in a Jamaican accent.

[@atoasttototoro]

interestingly enough this also works in reverse.

[@barrychuckleisdead7345]

Jimmy Carr = Jamaica (no she did it of her own accord)

[@smile221]

Beck Two Sue Theffry Ka

[@barrychuckleisdead7345]

You cawl thayt a noyf?

[@keithclohessy]

South Africa=seff effrika

[@tndowns1122]

@gregnycweb is right! This video is ridiculous.

[@NxDoyle]

It's funny enough.

[@ludonardo]

Quite interesting that so few know the film well enough to know that DiCaprio worked so that his accent is a mix of the Irish accent his character is supposed to have because of his father, and a NY accent of that time, because of the 16 years he then spent in the asylum. I'm not an English native speaker, but, finding his accent in the film pretty strange and unfamiliar, I guess it means the job wasn't bad, right?

[@mitchellele]

WOW. Joe is looking CHUNKY!

[@Amalekites]

Haha.. the most annoying podcast intro song.. ^^

[@Hamilton7776]

I agree. I'm Irish and his accents seems fine with me considering its from a character who's been living in New York. He always does good accents and is always being put down by idiots who have never visited the countries the accent originates from.

[@paulwalsh7134]

Everyone does a bad Irish accent. Except Brad Pitt.

[@rocketsurgeon9711]

+Paul Walsh where..?

[@petros0001]

+Rocket Surgeon In Snatch

[@rocketsurgeon9711]

No Brow Haha, Brad Pitt in Snatch is your Irish accent? Well, OK.

[@Twistedhippy]

Dya, like Dawgs?

[@geoffallibone2270]

Pompoosh und Hottie like him; himself

[@tomkinguk]

Nonsense.. LOL

[@trustyification]

ya bunch a mugs

[@22grena]

One of the things brits do all the time is to delete, downgrade or distort anything irish people do or others do that is irish related. One of the things they always do is try to diss anyone that attempts an Irish accent by using derogatory extressions like 'oirish'.

[@nastyevilbunny]

If you say Beer can it sounds like Bacon in a Jamaican accent.

[@nastyevilbunny]

Beer can.