Mo Gilligan Talks British vs US Comedy, Common Experiences & Stand-Up Stories

[@keysunset5]

So proud of Mo. Look at this. So wonderful

[@aflentertainment]

Mo is fully respected in the UK.. but I must mention, regarding no black British comedians really breaking America, Gina Yashere has been living and doing her thing in the States for a minute!

[@sassyx2048]

Where you been hiding Gina did break it into Ametica. First brit on def jam co wrote and produced Bob loves Abishola ran for 5yrs o ly recently ended Gina said it changed her life 10 folds was earning the mega bucks. Wrote a book and continues to tour. I call that breaking it big in the States.

[@Coxinha87]

@@sassyx2048that’s what the original commenter said

[@sassyx2048]

@@Coxinha87 er said what exactly???

[@toma411]

​@@sassyx2048errr said that Gina made it in the States. You're saying the same thing.

[@BSMAG87]

@@sassyx2048 Yeah, not sure why you're jumping on this because your replies are essentially in agreement with the original comment

[@kavanerose3581]

He explained himself so well and the difference between a US and a British perspective as well as the importance of being authentic.

[@Steve-kl3yl]

Turn the lights on lads 😂😂

[@drewstareid1386]

Fuse box gone 😂

[@msphere760]

It's abit too romantic for my liking 😂😂

[@mattoniy2840]

Yeah it’s pretentious

[@KC-gy5xw]

Love Mo. My bro took greyhound buses around USA in the late 80's and had so much shock that he was black and from London. With his cockney accent as well. Boy. he had the time of his life laughing at people not realising. It's a lot better now though! LL, got stuck next to my dad on a flight many years ago, poor guy!! Dad loved him (when he came back and I had to play his music for him) Also, in The Shop - it's why I always wanted to go with my Dad to barbershop! Those guys made be LMAO. Some of them he stopped going to as they were too 'ungodly', but they were all really funny before that. Loved it..

[@So-and-So-em8fx]

So true, americans don't know certain places in the UK like peckham etc.

[@adamdrakestudio]

How surprising

[@patrickbyrne5070]

Most* Americans. Me n my missus who’s American live in Peckham been here for years. They more likely to of heard of Brixton though I’ve found where I’m from

[@Laura-sg6ss]

​@@patrickbyrne5070 most have not heard of Brixton😂😂 bro move man😂

[@patrickbyrne5070]

@@Laura-sg6ss I never said most. Learn how to read English

[@d2dar459]

​@@patrickbyrne5070 U and how many other Americans?

[@ActualChef]

Great cultural conversation. Love this segment.

[@TheAlkebulanTrust]

From The Sunday Show to The Shop. The journey of Mo Gilligan and more great moments are to arrive...real life facts or get a couple of cans facts?

[@charlesbrown6727]

Bro from Strawberry moons to this. It's amazing man.

[@Not_really]

That was really cool to see bruvvas just being brothers. Nice.

[@charlottemimi1539]

Yes 👏..Gwarn Mo...Love dis..🥰..biggin up the Landan massive an ting 🙌

[@ChalkanCheese]

I'm so glad Mo' can communicate articulately and effectively. It demonstrates ( to the outside world ) that people from England don't all speak with the grime / yardie accent / dialect so prevalent in the prison system and poorer communities.

[@Laura-sg6ss]

5:30 word😂😂 time to go maynee, back up the market man😂

[@h.peters]

It's difficult for people from the Caribbean as well, we get out terms from both UK and the US 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@jamesnewton6872]

It’s just what your used to right? No one in the UK finds American accents threatening either they sound funny to us as well 😂

[@Laura-sg6ss]

Yeah but we get to see a range of emotions with their accents and a range of accents - and we can differentiate more and we have more context. We are not threatened because it is QUITE familiar, they are not threatened because they do not know what to make of us ESPECIALLY A BLACK BRIT and they have a vague schema of Britishness full of tea and crumpets😂 both not threatened to certain degrees but not because of the same thing.

[@harrycampbell7594]

The same way theres 100s of accents in america itls the exact same in Britain, the fact is no accents are intimidating apart from russian and japanese and thats just because they shout everything they say , it is not an accent that intimidates it's attitude lol ​@@Laura-sg6ss

[@matthewkilner]

I love the notion that the UK is just "starting" to export their own culture.

[@Ollie941]

I think you've misunderstood, they're specifically referring to Black British culture being exported for the first time. Not British culture more generally.

[@mpoweredfilms2456]

You see how that Michael Dapper basically took the uk culture back few steps with that comedy tune… That’s why LL cool j saying about Grime comedy… cah it’s those joke tunes that blow…. Also big up Mo for keeping realer than most that see the limelight Brittish slang is from Jamaica

[@lizzieloves.x]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@patrickbyrne5070]

Biggup Peckham. Biggup Brixton.

[@london8615]

big up Mo ❤

[@jatinpatel6562]

Ll cool J wraring shades indoors...proper style.. Mo is good, but he is keeping it simple for the people around him so they understand. Top Boy is different for Mo..

[@GrassFudge7]

5:50 to me american culture basically is black culture, as well as like country music i guess

[@bluereign]

Walk Peckham at 2am you see drunk yt people stumbling out the bussy building. Hate when people lable all the predominantly black areas as dangerous. Yet your fave oscar winners live here.

[@wanderer10k]

Yeah but that's NOW, 15 years ago it was a different ting. The "black areas" WERE dangerous. Peckham/Brixton now has wealth and newcomers making it posh(er). This is why you need to have a mixed-wealth population living in an area to balance it all out.

[@BSMAG87]

Areas like Peckham and Brixton have been gentrified a lot but there are still huge socioeconomic issues (drug abuse, domestic abuse, gang violence etc) occuring in the roughest estates in those areas, but these days, it's areas like Edmonted and Tottenham north of the river that are the worst. Gentrification has changed London but the poverty has just been moved down the street, and with it, as has the crime

[@harrycampbell7594]

What Oscar winners live in peckham ? Shut the fuck up 😂😂😂😂😂😂peckham is a shit hole just because it has a nice side to it doesn't mean it isn't a shit hole

[@a.v.london1952]

Why man's pants so tight or his he wearing leggings?🤦🏽

[@user3838-c7f]

ngl with that accent u wouldn't find him threatening in the uk either, dont know where he's from but as a brit he sounds like he went to private school or something

[@austinvee6601]

No doesn't, he does not sound like a public school boy at all. He sounds like he grew up in South London which he did. He is just a bit more polished than your average Peckham lad.

[@user3838-c7f]

@@austinvee6601I can tell u said public school just to be like “actually it’s public school🙋‍♂️🤓”

[@austinvee6601]

@@user3838-c7fyep .... I said "public school" which actually means private school in the UK, so you'd know that I knew what I'm talking about..... lol

[@Jayne-mw6ef]

It's called "code switching"

[@user3838-c7f]

@@Jayne-mw6ef it’s his tone / accent not really his lingo. It just sounds soft imo.

[@TEKT1ME]

The shop out of touch. Mo is a popular black man yes. But he don’t live “The black experience” this is the LAST place you would catch him in England. He would be in the Turkish barbers with his bunny shopping on Oxford street. That’s why he dances round taking real culture he can’t talk on “grime comedy” mentioning “top boy” don’t relate to him. He not “barbershop” mandem

[@JYGtube]

Because you know him in real life huh?

[@JYGtube]

Furthermore “grime comedy” don’t exist, are you okay?

[@CaptainCactus_S30]

you do realise Mo has to talk to Americans on a level they can understand to drill home the point?

[@TEKT1ME]

@@JYGtube lol. Mo is meant for your demographic

[@TEKT1ME]

@@CaptainCactus_S30 Mo is trying to do over there what he done here (not that I blame him, good luck to him) barbershop to tonight show then walk past said barbershop

[@nickcourtney793]

Why’s he talking like that lol

[@jeezy8360]

american are ya? ignant as usual lol

[@finnmarr-heenan2397]

Why is no Gillian talking comedy he isn’t funny

[@Anonymously-187]

Literally this. Not funny at all. He's blagged his way in

[@harrycampbell7594]

Mo gilligan chilling with ll cool j is crazy

[@Anonymously-187]

Mo Gilligan is not funny! Why they promoting him so hard. Watch 10mins of his stand up. It's bullshit. He's being pushed like he's Kevin Hart or something. He's not.

[@africareigns]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that.

[@benhamer4139]

Why are you so mad bro?

[@katie8325]

Comedy is subjective fella.

[@Captally]

He hasn't got an accent that would have been recognised as British, especially London, ten years ago.

[@stevecarter8810]

Twenty

[@xlxfx]

Token. Appeared on tv randomly one day same way same reason as big Zuu. Not a comedian. Tonnes of black comedians exist. Not these guys

[@almurabitun]

Mo is cringe. I'm from UK and his humour is more like a 14 year old.

[@IFrameRodger]

Stop hating

[@jahleoni1043]

But yet you're here making comments 🤣 literally something a bitch would do