My company moved me and my family from England to the USA for 4 years so I could head-up a project they were struggling with. We enrolled our 7 year old Son in the local school and met with the Principal. Her first words were, "Your English is really good, where did you learn it?" Even when we replied, "We are English, from England" it took a while for it to sink in.
I believe you. I'm Canadian and I've had the standard comments from U.S. colleagues "You're lying.....there's no way you have hot summers anywhere in Canada", and "what kind of gun do you have?" I could go on and on but I think I made my point.
@@timdaly5831 But I've been living in Canada for 67 years...never have I've seen a hot summer. The warmest I've ever seen is 35C(95F)...to me that's not hot.....and it was for only one day too.
The teeth thing is really from centuries ago when British sailors were at sea for so long the salt-water began to rot their teeth. To combat it and to fight scurvy, they were given limes to eat throughout their journey (hence Americans calling Brits "Limeys"). In 2021, the World Health Organisation found Britain had the 4th-best dental hygiene and healthy teeth in the world. The USA was 25th.
I like that he called them "Posh and Becks" since I don't think anyone in the US referred to them as such. Another brilliant layer. (Took me a second to realize who he was talking about.)
I'm British, living in Canada. The #1 thing that really irritates me is..........`I looooove your accent'. Well I don't have one. You do, we invented the language, so it starts with us.
Love the look on Ricky's face when he read these things, especially the LAST one! Pure perfection. Today we can add, "Why don't you eat REAL food? Don't you have a McDonald's?"
Cue up 2023: teeth✔️language ✔️PICK UP HARRY & MEGAN!!!Please Please Please. I’m American but I think term for them is "wankers" THANK YOU Ricky/Dave for making life bearable
I worked on a project years ago that required I spend a lot of time in London. To help with the language differences, I found a American English / British English translation book. It help ed.
true Story I came over to the US on an IT contract. A Summer intern at a very prestigious college and son of the CEO asked me once How Long have you been in the the States. and asked me how long have you been in America I said 2 months he said Wow your English is really good. An American I was working with who happened to have a glass eye laughed so hard he smashed his forehead onto the desk and his glass eye flew 12 feet across the office :-). True story. And yes he knew I was from England.
Number 8 and number 4 aren't stupid depending on which british person your talking to. I've heard interviews with the Gallagher brothers of the former band Oasis and those guys mumble so much you can't understand them at all.
The teeth thing is ironic and today comes from a mistaken confusion in the States between cosmetic dentistry and dental hygiene. The UK's dental hygiene ranks 4th in the world in 2023 but Brits are much less likely to do cosmetic dentistry so when you see a Brit with cream instead of white teeth, that's what a healthy set of teeth look like.
In Britain, cosmetic dentistry isn't as much of a societal requirement as it seems to be in the USA. But, wealthy people here do tend to have it done. I'll bet millions of poor Americans can't afford it either, but they are forgotten about because they aren't on TV.
Brits are more polite than Yanks, for example we don't celebrate the end of the War of 1812, even though wr won that one. NEW ORLEANS DIDN'T COUNT! YOU'D ALREADY SIGNED THE SURRENDER BEFORE THE BATTLE EVEN STARTED!
Tried to watch the ripoff English version but I could not understand a word they were saying. That part is not a joke. Maybe I'll try again with subtitles.
Shickingly bad writing. Out of the ten answers, two were teeth gags and THREE were jokes about speaking the same language but not understanding it. Come on guys, you had one of the best comedians in the world on your show, at least give him some decent material.
A couple more: a) That Ricky Gervais is one funny guy; b) Ricky Gervais, the poster boy on how to be respectful; c) stumped by something in the Bible? Go to Ricky Gervais, who obviously is an authority on everything in it.
@@TheSeafordianI like them both, and I don't think it has anything to do with not understanding it, what would I not be understanding? I grew up watching British comedy, and going to school with a lot of British kids. I just liked the US one more. To me, they both stand alone as good shows, but the characters on the English version just didn't grab me as much.
@@Telstar62a I usually prefer English humour, growing up in the 70s and 80s in Australia we had a lot more British content than American because the ABC used a lot of content from the BBC and the old English comedy movies were in pretty heavy rotation on the commercial stations, Carry On movies and such, I just found the characters on the US office more relatable. I don't think at the time it was the traditional US sitcom approach, it was the beginning of a slight change in style, something a little different from the rest. It took a long time for the US The Office to become popular in Australia, it wasn't prime time, it was something obscure late at night that next to nobody watched for quite a few years. I don't think the British one was even on. If it was it was pretty well hidden, I'm generally up late (at least 3am) looking for things to watch and I don't recall seeing it. At the end of the day, they're both good shows.
Remember that American English is as much of a pizza as English. The difference is that Americans often speak something which is closer to 17th Century English than most modern English.
Ricky is pretty funny I just wish he wouldn't spend 20 minutes out of an hour on how God doesn't exist. It gets old every single special it's the same thing.
@@dizzy_derps I think only with atheists for being "edgy" about religion, but for most normal people, he's not funny and just goes after targets that won't fight back (like the disabled)
Top 10 Things BritWits should say to Americans: 1) You beat us fair and square..we should not have worn red coats 2) Thanks for helping us in WW1 3-10) THANK YOU FOR US OR WE WOULD BE SPEAKING GERMAN
We won the Battle of Britain on our own in the summer/autumn of 1940. This put paid to any German invasion of the UK, and was more than a year before December 1941 when the Japanese embarrassed you at Pearl Harbour and you finally joined the war. So we stopped ourselves from speaking German. Look it up - you might learn something……!!!
#11 "I'll read the number then you read the entry, all right?"
Ricky: "Got it."
That would have been the funniest one 😂😂😂
Love the "Stupid Girl" theme by Paul here.
" STUPID GIRL " flip side of " Paint it, Black "
My company moved me and my family from England to the USA for 4 years so I could head-up a project they were struggling with.
We enrolled our 7 year old Son in the local school and met with the Principal.
Her first words were, "Your English is really good, where did you learn it?"
Even when we replied, "We are English, from England" it took a while for it to sink in.
Yeah. Not really shocking to find out the deplorable state of the US educational system, is it? When dummies are in charge, the kids have zero chance.
But where in England do you learn english? Do they start you very young at school? You learn from American T.V. shows?
@@babajaiy8246 Lol this is some next level trolling.
I believe you. I'm Canadian and I've had the standard comments from U.S. colleagues "You're lying.....there's no way you have hot summers anywhere in Canada", and "what kind of gun do you have?" I could go on and on but I think I made my point.
@@timdaly5831 But I've been living in Canada for 67 years...never have I've seen a hot summer. The warmest I've ever seen is 35C(95F)...to me that's not hot.....and it was for only one day too.
" What are you doing for the 4th of July? "
_"Taking our colony back."_
Rephrase that to: "What are you doing for St. George/Andrew/David/Patrick's Day?" and it still works.
You mean, Colonial Traitors Day?
@@xxxx777xxxx do you mean happy narrow escape day
we are crying ourselves to sleep thinking of all the mineral wealth we lost
Thanks again for the memories...
The teeth thing is so real. I had a boss from Leeds and he had serious Austin Powers choppers 😄
@Daniel Drader 😄😄😄
@@PerrincinaSprecaci The most olrecent îoyytollkllll😮lllamas 😮
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@@TheJILLRAINBOW1 Lay off the Ambien, hon 😄
The teeth thing is really from centuries ago when British sailors were at sea for so long the salt-water began to rot their teeth. To combat it and to fight scurvy, they were given limes to eat throughout their journey (hence Americans calling Brits "Limeys"). In 2021, the World Health Organisation found Britain had the 4th-best dental hygiene and healthy teeth in the world. The USA was 25th.
Number 5 today would be, "When are you coming to collect James Corden?"
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We don't want him back 😂
Ohhh, come on. You can have him back free of charge!@@CoiledBooties
Quite. @@CoiledBooties
More like "When are you coming to collect Harry and Meghan?"
"got it" delivered perfectly was the funniest thing about this.
Ricky is an American treasure!
This comment should have been #1.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH LOL
he's not American
@@rhuephus yes
He’s British
I like that he called them "Posh and Becks" since I don't think anyone in the US referred to them as such. Another brilliant layer. (Took me a second to realize who he was talking about.)
More like anyone in the US didn't refer to them at all. They decided to go back to being UK A-listers instead of US low B-listers.
“Do you know the king?”
He's right; they ought to make an English version of "The Office"! I bet it would be a hit.
Ricky Gervais wrote The Office. It was a big hit in Europe. Then it went to the US.
@@Bhaerts snort. didn't you watch the video? 😉
@@conwaytwt stupid. Whatever
@@conwaytwt Didn't you just know some window-licker would take your comment seriously 🤣
@@Bhaerts That's the joke
I'm British, living in Canada. The #1 thing that really irritates me is..........`I looooove your accent'. Well I don't have one. You do, we invented the language, so it starts with us.
Not necessarily. I've heard that centuries ago, the British accent was just like America!
@@Foebane72 That's because ,most immigration was from the UK.
Luvs both of these geniuses !
"You know what I'm saying?" "No."
Honestly said once by an American lady in a beauty parlour on a cruise ship..."How small does your face have to be to have the Mini Facial?" 😂😂
Love the look on Ricky's face when he read these things, especially the LAST one! Pure perfection.
Today we can add, "Why don't you eat REAL food? Don't you have a McDonald's?"
Love the top tens.
lol watch Paul at 2:35
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 What about him?
Cue up 2023: teeth✔️language ✔️PICK UP HARRY & MEGAN!!!Please Please Please. I’m American but I think term for them is "wankers" THANK YOU Ricky/Dave for making life bearable
You can keep them! Though we'll take Harry back once he breaks up with that tart.
Ricky Gervais is fantastic! 👏🏻👍🤸🏼😆
ok, yeah. that definitely is #1
My favorite. Is it always foggy in London and does every one ride around in horse drawn carriages.
Heard when leaving a theme park ride while looking at the photos on display taken of screaming people ..."How do you know which picture you are in?"
Our next guest is the star of the show "Paris Hilton's My New BFF" over there on the MTV. Please welcome Paris Hilton, ladies and gentlemen.
Had a Texan friend ask me if we celebrated July 4th. I replied " Yep, we officially cut ties with you all "
#11
"Do you all live in castles?"
The one I get asked most often is "what part of Australia are you from?"
Some years ago I was asked if we had Electricity in Scotland.
We were chatting, on the internet..
These are the same people that think everyone in Scotland wear kilts all day every day 🤣
I think Ricky devoted about 30 seconds to this list.
Yeah, that was rather disappointing, including a few repeats.
Wow, the writers worked really hard on those three jokes
Dave says in the beginning Ricky wrote the list himself.
@@zzappligator He really can't do anything without Stephen Merchant, can he?
spot on
i always forget how old Ricky is
I worked on a project years ago that required I spend a lot of time in London. To help with the language differences, I found a American English / British English translation book. It help ed.
these are all legitimately good questions that need answers
#11 Oh my gaaaad, I just love yer accent!
true Story I came over to the US on an IT contract. A Summer intern at a very prestigious college and son of the CEO asked me once How Long have you been in the the States. and asked me how long have you been in America I said 2 months he said Wow your English is really good. An American I was working with who happened to have a glass eye laughed so hard he smashed his forehead onto the desk and his glass eye flew 12 feet across the office :-). True story. And yes he knew I was from England.
Did your English really get that good in 2 months?
I believe your story except the part about the eye flying 12 feet.
@@flyflh I understand your being skeptical but I do have an eye witness - another person not the eye thing!
#11 No. I don't want to be knocked up.
I'd love to go over and talk to the Americans. I'm from Lancashire ,North West England, and our accent and language would tie them in knots ! lol 😅
anything that starts "we invented..."
anything to do with WWII
anything about democracy
anything
Number 1: "Are you sure you don't want us back?"
ricky flew 5,000 miles for that skit and then 5,000 back
man, in my lifetime i had, Steve Allen, Dave & Johnny. look at the sad saps im left with now.
"If it wasn't for us you'd be speaking German"
So by that logic Germans all speak Russian do they?
Gervais is great fun, but they should have chosen Jeremy Clarkson for this one 😕
"How do you say, 'a bottle of water?'"
Well yanks say ‘a badddle ov warderrr’
Ricky can be funny on occasion. This wasn’t one of them.
I disagree. This was funny.
Only 1 of those stands up.
Also, no, they're Turkey teeth.
PravdaTube has just threatened me. Can you imagine?
Number 8 and number 4 aren't stupid depending on which british person your talking to. I've heard interviews with the Gallagher brothers of the former band Oasis and those guys mumble so much you can't understand them at all.
That's the problem with northerners, they don't know how to enunciate.
I'm English and have to agree with you. They're not our best exports. 😉
Practically everyone in Britain would support your comment. The Gallagher brothers always sound like they'd rather be licking paint.
Just seems to me that would have been so hard for Ricky to do - just reading the script with no ad lib
The thing about not knowing if they are speaking English is if they are from Scotland! Can be very hard to understand…
I feel like they got lazy with this one with the teeth and language repetitions.
Listen again. They're not repetitions. There are subtle, and very funny, differences.
@@RWBHere When they do the same thing again, that is repetitious.
@@thesmithersy I agree with you, Ricky could've found three more original entries.
Number 11, "What's all this then?"
"Allo, Guv'na!"
"What's all this? What's all this?"
The teeth thing is ironic and today comes from a mistaken confusion in the States between cosmetic dentistry and dental hygiene. The UK's dental hygiene ranks 4th in the world in 2023 but Brits are much less likely to do cosmetic dentistry so when you see a Brit with cream instead of white teeth, that's what a healthy set of teeth look like.
I’ve had ,Do you have cars? And have you met the queen?
In Britain, cosmetic dentistry isn't as much of a societal requirement as it seems to be in the USA. But, wealthy people here do tend to have it done. I'll bet millions of poor Americans can't afford it either, but they are forgotten about because they aren't on TV.
Probably. I also see more americans with ultra white teeth that just looks unnatural and uncanny.
Got it!😅
He would have hated that I suspect
That's an easy ten grand..!
I thought he was going to tell us some of the really stupid things they say.
are those your teeth or are you eating corn nuts?
Piers Morgan is so funny.
I love how Jimmy dumps-on-Trump every night.
Jimmy who ??
I wish it was rumpie Who!@@rhuephus
Do you Brits also have top-10 lists in your own country?
The Top Ten list was an attempt to get the Americans to accept the metric system.
@@seanwebb605 how do you count to ten in metric ??
No we don't in this style
The same as you do, @@rhuephus 😁
How do the audience get the humour?
Brits are more polite than Yanks, for example we don't celebrate the end of the War of 1812, even though wr won that one. NEW ORLEANS DIDN'T COUNT! YOU'D ALREADY SIGNED THE SURRENDER BEFORE THE BATTLE EVEN STARTED!
A barman in the supposedly most haunted pub in York told me this one, “ excuse me barkeep, what time do the ghosts appear? “
you have an accent, where are you from? but as we all know, everybody has an accent of one shape or another...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stupidest thing i have heard regardless of nationality is that gervais is funny
Obviously sober, shame because he is really funny
Tried to watch the ripoff English version but I could not understand a word they were saying. That part is not a joke. Maybe I'll try again with subtitles.
Ripoff English version?
Eh pretty sub par
Shickingly bad writing. Out of the ten answers, two were teeth gags and THREE were jokes about speaking the same language but not understanding it. Come on guys, you had one of the best comedians in the world on your show, at least give him some decent material.
Irony.
@@paulthomson2375 it doesn't land then
A couple more:
a) That Ricky Gervais is one funny guy; b) Ricky Gervais, the poster boy on how to be respectful; c) stumped by something in the Bible? Go to Ricky Gervais, who obviously is an authority on everything in it.
Probably the least funny thing Gervais has ever done. I'd guess he is embarrassed about it
Ricky gervais is on steroids
#1 didn't age well 'cuz they DID make a UK version of The Office! 😁
and they say americans don't get irony. and thats i-ron-ee, not i-rnee
As an Australian that grew up on, and loves English Comedy, the US version of The Office was better!
No, but I expect it was easier to understand to foreigners.
@@TheSeafordianI like them both, and I don't think it has anything to do with not understanding it, what would I not be understanding? I grew up watching British comedy, and going to school with a lot of British kids. I just liked the US one more. To me, they both stand alone as good shows, but the characters on the English version just didn't grab me as much.
Same concept, (office in danger of closing), but two different approaches, one using English humor, one using traditional US sitcom approach
@@Telstar62a I usually prefer English humour, growing up in the 70s and 80s in Australia we had a lot more British content than American because the ABC used a lot of content from the BBC and the old English comedy movies were in pretty heavy rotation on the commercial stations, Carry On movies and such, I just found the characters on the US office more relatable. I don't think at the time it was the traditional US sitcom approach, it was the beginning of a slight change in style, something a little different from the rest. It took a long time for the US The Office to become popular in Australia, it wasn't prime time, it was something obscure late at night that next to nobody watched for quite a few years. I don't think the British one was even on. If it was it was pretty well hidden, I'm generally up late (at least 3am) looking for things to watch and I don't recall seeing it. At the end of the day, they're both good shows.
Not that funny at all - but maybe so to Americans
Letterman is so slow!
Who the hell thinks this is funny
What are the top 10 stupid things Brits say to Yanks?
Letterman just wasn't funny was he....
Lame
Anti-comedy
And not a single one was funny
probably the most boring ao called comedian in existence the canned laughter says it all.
quite true about England’s English, watching some of their movies on tv, I need sub titles to understand them!
That's OK, I need subtitles sometimes to understand the American mangling of English too.
Remember that American English is as much of a pizza as English. The difference is that Americans often speak something which is closer to 17th Century English than most modern English.
^^^ @sullivanspapa1505
Ricky is pretty funny I just wish he wouldn't spend 20 minutes out of an hour on how God doesn't exist. It gets old every single special it's the same thing.
I know what you mean but it's his biggest passion, one of his films was built solely around that premise.
One of the reasons I don't like his comedy at all.
@@thesmithersy Don't you like the truth ?
@@neilward9932 No, I don't like professional ranters commenting on things hes not really qualified to address.
This is not funny.
Not for you😂
To be honest it's not funny.
I think comedy might be subjective. I willing to wager that some people found at least some of this funny.
Do you need a tissue?
Agreed. I've never found Gervais funny. I don't understand his appeal.
@@dizzy_derps Grew up with Robin Williams, Jim Carey etc. Really hard to laugh at Ricky "jokes"
@@dizzy_derps I think only with atheists for being "edgy" about religion, but for most normal people, he's not funny and just goes after targets that won't fight back (like the disabled)
Top 10 Things BritWits should say to Americans:
1) You beat us fair and square..we should not have worn red coats
2) Thanks for helping us in WW1
3-10) THANK YOU FOR US OR WE WOULD BE SPEAKING GERMAN
No need to add to that list.
We won the Battle of Britain on our own in the summer/autumn of 1940. This put paid to any German invasion of the UK, and was more than a year before December 1941 when the Japanese embarrassed you at Pearl Harbour and you finally joined the war. So we stopped ourselves from speaking German. Look it up - you might learn something……!!!
If we hadn't won the revolution, we'd all be speaking ENGLISH now!
Remember when Ricky was funny?
Do Brits think Gervais is funny? Cuz he ain't very funny.
Pretty lame humour……
The most unfunny comedian ever I've never found him much more than annoying
Bet you get asked to leave at parties and then forcibly made to.
Is he dead??
Think so. RIP.