Adam Hills - Australian accents
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- Australian Comedian in the Melbourne Comedy Gala Festival 2006, discussing accents.
Some of those who are interested in the script or find it hard to understand, out of the kindness of my heart (well mainly out of procrastination and lack of motivation with my life), I've got the transcript typed up below. Freely point out if some of the words are wrong.
I am aware that as Australians we do have the most annoying accent on the planet.
I am sure you are aware of, for we all do.
If you're aware we all go up at the end of every sentence, cause we're all too insecure to actually make a statement.
So we have to make it sound like it's a question. Cause we secretly need your approval. Even when it's something serious.
"Suzzy got eaten by a shark."
I'm afraid there going to be high court judgers in 30 years time handing out verdicts going "I found you guilty of murder."
And you know what we do here in Australia? I didn't realize 'till we went overseas. We ask questions that don't need answering.
"How nice was the weather today?"
I didn't know we did that until I got to England. I was with a group of English people
"Oh, how heavy is that rain?"
They just looked at me..
"Really heavy?"
I think Jesus might've been an Australian. I think Jesus might've been a Aussie and we've just been reading his scriptures with the wrong inflection. Maybe Jesus walked out in the Sermon of the Mount and just went "Ohh, how blessed are the meek?"
And of course the irony of it all is that we're always so arbituary about the languages we speak in Australia. We were almost colonised by the French. In fact we were almost colonized by the Dutch.
The Dutch arrived in the 1600s but they arrived in the part of Western Australia when desert basically meets ocean. The Dutch basically walked off their ships and walked around going "Well this is ridiculous...we cannot grow marihuana crops here." They sailed off.
The French arrived 150 or so years later, but they arrived in Botany Bay, next to city harbour but kinda like swampy, marshland. The French looked around going "Well I agree with the Dutch, this place is shit. [mimics French]" They sailed off.
Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay but in a rare display of British optimism. He looked around and went "Well it is a bit shit, but I think if we go around the corner if might be nicer." Although to be fair, I have done my research, Captain Cook would not have sounded like that. Cause Captain Cook actually came from Yorkshire, which means the first words heard by English people upon sailing to Australia would've been "This place is focking shite!"
The worse Australian accents are people trying to do Australian accents.
Fucking oath mate
This guy is Australian tho
Throw anotha shrimp on the baaaaarbieeee
True
Bloody oath
I dont end my sentences with an upward inflection?
Emma Thompson I went to McDonalds?
Mister Jdvik So did I? (lol I actually just did)
Emma Thompson Lel?
Mister Jdvik kek?
+Emma Thompson
We are a very existential Oz. haha
the Dutch; ... "vwell, thish placsh ish ridiculous..."
"We cannot grow marijuana crops here"
''deze plek is gek, wij kunnen geen marijuana planten!''
German Medic Well I don't need to know Dutch to read that
Is funny coz is true
How funny is Adam Hills.
jq747 He is funny, when he is in Australia, but after seeing some of the stuff he has done lately in England...
love Adam Hills
jq747 + ha! I saw what you did there!
Le Shat Miaou-Miaou h
I just hope he stays in UK. I like Australia without him.
I love the way that Aussies bastardise names - eg, Damian; damo. Stephen; Stevo. Gilbert; gilbie. Darren; Dazza. Frederick; Freddo.
Brilliant 👍👏🏽👏🏽
+Phoebe Carter and don't forget Gazza, Bazza, Shazza and "Chook" because there's always a Chook
I never quite got that as a kid because my mum's side of the family (the side I knew the most for a long time) didn't really bastardize names (they're a fairly European bunch, actually). However, when I met my father's side of the family for the first time, I was weirded out by how they shortened each other's names.
Tones instead of Tony, Cazza instead of Caroline, Mandie instead of Amanda...
Although my mum's brother would call his wife Ned often instead of Nerida.
They're nicknames... The English do the same thing.
Don't forget Sharon, Shazza and Warren, Wazza pronounced wozza
Phoebe Carter not all Stephens get called Stevo my ex is a Stephen he got Steve off my parents me and his friends and family and his grandfather called him stevie , as for Damian's that's not true either that's my cousins name we call him damie or similiar but I'll agree with the rest !
The Aussie accent is the best in the world. I absolutely love it!
+ellen3131 Wrong. it's absolutely awful. And I'm australian
Michael McGrath People usually don't like the accent of the country they are from. But I'm not Australian, so it sounds great to me :D
ellen3131 You wouldn't like it if you had one. It sounds absolutely awful, especially when aussies say "aw yeah". Sounds absolutely dreadful with an aussie accent
Eh, it depends on what kind of Aussie accent. There are many different kinds. I quite like Cultivated Australian English (e.g. Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush), although my accent is more General (e.g. Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman etc.). Not a fan of the Broad Ocker/Bogan accent (e.g. Pauline Hanson, Jacqui Lambie etc.). (-_-) South Australian English is rather interesting too, not just for the accent but also their variant lexicon. :) e.g. what we in NSW call a playground is called a 'schoolyard' in SA.
Goktimus Prime It reminds me of Australia, so I love them al :D
"This place is fooking shite!" - I could just imagine Cookie disembarking and thinking "what have I dooooooon!?'.
As a person who lives in Yorkshire.. I can say this is 100% correct..
'this place is fucking shit' hahahah 😂😂😂😂😂😂 that never gets old
+Keira Lee It's "This place is FOOKIN' SHITE!"
Hellwyck wot? the fuck you talkin bout
When he started speaking in that Dutch accent I lost. my. shit. laughing!! I'm from the Netherlands, so it was extremely funny to me because we actually sound like that.
That bit of British optimism is so true! xD
+Charli Melhuish lol! I loved that too.
I love Adam Hills. It is very rare he doesn’t make me laugh. He roasts Australians so well.
To all Australians: Don't let Adam make you more insecure than you already are! Your accent is perfection. As a Brit I did love the line "In a rare display of optimism"- yup, that's us, glass half empty and never get our hopes up.
I totally agree with Adam, we do have one of the most annoying accents on the planet. The rising inflection for me the equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard.
@@brontewcat haha same! I love being strayan but god what we do with our inflection annoys me so much it’s god awful that it’s grating to my ears even though it’s my own voice so you’d think I’d be used to it by now or at least stop doing it. Nope?!
@@brontewcat You say that, but I'm from the UK, and the Aussie accent is by far the most imitated accent around here. People tend to just like doing it for fun. In fact, I myself love doing it so much that it's basically become second nature to me, to the point that I have successfully fooled several Aussies into thinking I was one of their own. What's funnier is that when I switched back to my original accent (which is a mix of British, American, Russian - my native language - and yes, Australian - that mf snuck in there too and therefore sounds a bit unusual), one of them even accused me of fvскing with him and wouldn't believe me that I wasn't Australian until I showed him proof😂
Contrary to what you say, the Australian accent is very smooth-flowing due the great extent of its vowel gliding - perhaps the greatest out of all the English accents - which by extension makes it very contagious. And of course there is the cultural stereotype of a "bonkers/crude Bogan", which cranks up the "fun" aspect of the accent even higher up.
All in all, you're very wrong. Far from being annoying, it's actually perceived as fun and satisfying overseas.
@@maxkho00 Which accent are you doing? Cultured, middle or broad? The broad Australian accent is the stereotypical one, but most Australians do not have that accent.
However do you imitate the rising inflection?
You may like it, but there are two accents of English speakers that I dislike - the broad Australian and the broad accent from the Southern US. I think they are both very annoying. Fortunately, as most Australians do not use it, but many young Australians women do end sentences on a rising infection when they are not asking a question. It really grates.
@@brontewcat The General Australian one - i.e. the one with which most people speak. A lot of people think that it's just a "toned down" version of the broad accent, but it's actually the most distinct Australian accent there is; broad Australian can be phonetically described as a mix between General Australian and Cockney, while General Australian is its own thing (obviously, it's similar to the New Zealand accent by proximity, and has similarities with the South African accent, but every accent has similarities with other accents).
Yeah, I do imitate the rising inflection as well, but I don't overdo it. Anyway, it never really bothered me; it's just an intonation. In the UK, we often use a falling inflection when asking a question (e.g. do you have anything?), and I don't think anybody has a problem with that.
I love Aussies as a Welshman and everyone here and when I lived in England too said Aussies are nice people. It gets a bit tense whenever rugby or cricket is mentioned but still it's a great country.
Adam Hills is a top bloke!
I quite like the Australian accent, it's actually one of my favourites. It's so much better than a plain old English accent like mine.
I grew up social circles that spoke in the British RP accent or americanised english, and the regular Australian accent is very jarring whenever I hear it. Honestly I prefer the British accent, sounds more mellow.
I have the RP English accent, I just find that it sounds so boring and monotone :/
That's usually how people feel about their native accent.
My mum has an RP accent and i have a semi Australian one, I actually like both accents but when people from the east coast end statements like they are questions it really annoys me.
***** ikr
He's truly an Aussie legend. I love when he pokes fun at sign language translators. Free smiles for everyone (I laughed my self sick). Brutal treatment. :) "Good on ya."
"This shit's ridiculous, we cannot grow marihuana crops here."
Totally. Lost. My. Shit! Genius.
Greetings from Den Helder, Netherlands. The birthplace of William Lonsdale, founder of Melbourne
He then went across to New Zealand, and found NZ to be perfect for growing Marijuana, but the Maori had beaten him to it.
I'm American and I found this hilarious! Adam- you ROCK!
I love Australians and their sexy accents, but this is still funny anyway.
Which Australian accent do you like? There are about twelve and that is just amongst us Gubbas (Europeans) and in the Koori and other Aboriginal groups many more.
Born and raised in Australia, with Half hungarian in me, but i tend to speak with a British accent, i find it odd that i do, because no one in my family has any british decendants.
I get that so much when I talk to people, "I love your accent" I am always confused as to why everyone likes it.
R96spartan
I have always loved the Scottish accent.
Aussies whose I met were straightforward and honourable.
only saw adam hills last night had never heard of him before but OMG he is soooo funny ive never laughed so much. got to be the best comedian EVER brilliant
My favourite accent, Adam. Born and raised in Germany with an American father and I catch myself with Australian pronunciation every once in a while because many things I like and enjoy come from Australia. Mighty Car Mods, Adam Hills, Airbourne...
Most Americans love Australians and their accents.
The Australian accent is fine until you put it next to another accent and then it sticks out like dogs balls, don't believe me? watch Rachael Taylor's performance in Transformers, it's like nails on a chalk board.
Again, you can get away with it when it can be camouflaged with other Aussie accents but not when its by itself.
I spent half the movie wondering what was going on with her before I realised I was listening to an Aussie accent. I am so used to hearing American and British accents in movies that I don't expect my own and it stands out as odd.
The Australian accent is like the cheerleader effect accent.
Bob Thenob but there's as many different Australian accents as there are english or the 75 there are in Ireland and yes I'm including Northern Ireland in that Scotland has around a good forty or so once you take the lowlands , highlands , Hebrides , Orkney and Shetland isles and the 7 main cities as well and Wales it varies too between Northern and southern Wales and England has heaps too in fact no single nation on earth has only one generic or standard accent . Mine is completely different to my mothers and aunts and uncle on that side and that's purely down to me being city born and bred and her growing up in rural New South Wales and that's true of all six states and the territories and also demographic educational background and even what your heritage is as well !
Bob Thenob im aussie and i agree with you 100% sometimes i hate me accent haha
Ayyye Rachael Taylor is my name
I love Aussie accent.
Is Adam Hills still popular in Australia? He's more of a UK comedian, now.
Yeah, na not really.. He's known but I haven't seen him on TV at all in recent years..
+DeFactoLeader thought he was dead to be honest
Yeah every Aussie knows him
Hes got his own TV show. Sounds dead to me....
Yeah most Australians know him
ive always felt that when youre having a bad day and you hear an australian accent it makes you feel like everything is gonna be ok
When his voice goes up he sounds like a teenage boy with his voice cracking. I love Australian accents.
Oh man, I love Adam Hill :D
Fav Aussie comedian :D
I do love the fact that us Aussies are rather laidback about making fun of each other, and we all know that we're not being serious, and most others get that Aussies take the piss out of everyone and everything, so they just roll with it :D
My cheeks are swollen and the murder part made me smile so much my cheeks hurt now. Thank you Adam
I'm Australian so this is hilarious to watch and laugh at everything he says because it's true! I can't wait till I go to England next year :D
How was England? Even though my user name is Misplaced Kiwi, I’m actually a pom (I just love NZ).
This guy is AMAZING!!! But I don't agree that the Aussie accent is the world's most annoying accent at all. I'm from England and I have an Australian girlfriend, and one of the reasons I fell in love with her is because of her accent, I find it's a very beautiful accent, very serene. Also, I'm from the northern part of England from a county called Lancashire which is next to Yorkshire, and I can agree 100% that Captain Cook said that!! XD Either that or that first Kangaroo he saw he would have said hey up to it XD
kangaroo actually means "i don't understand" in the Aboriginal language.
so jokes kinda on us with that one.
Why did the Dutch explorer sound like Sean Connery?
his dutch accent is very correct
haha, he sounded like a cross between Sean Connery and Goldmember 😂
most annoying accent is the kiwi accent worst ever
I'm glad there are people with accents even more annoying than we Americans.
Where are you from poitty1978?
Dane Gilbo 100% proud Aussie born bred Australian
poitty1978 And thats why you think kiwi accents are worse then Aussie accents... Just a tad biased.
Hayley Ward Australians arent the only ones the poms Sth Africans Yanks think the same
Im american but im having a hard time understanding aussies. They're accent is just cool
When I travelled the US, a lot of people didn't know where I was from by my accent but a few did :) 99% of people that tried to replicate it kinda failed :P
I replied to the wrong person AHAHA sorry
hahahaha all good
*their. That's weird, it's easy and I'm Swedish.
Adam Hills is probs one of our greatest comedians! Loved this!
I agree. Australian accent is very funny. They sound funny even when they are talking about serious stuff
You’ll regret saying that when i send my pet crocodile, bazza after you mate. JK i dont even like crocodiles.
Adam Hills has got to be one of the most outstanding talents in Australia .. skilled in a multitude of media / entertainment domains .. plus, a lovely element of humility runs thru his persona ... & I hope the ABC fully realises just what a great Value-Added Factor that his presence on the payrollbrings to our national broadcaster ...
I can confirm that would 100% be the yorkshire reaction 😂
Unlucky about the game at Wembley ;) #hcafc
You guys have the best accent.
What throws me is when people tell me I have a Canadian accent.
I wasn't even aware that was a thing.
Happy Australia day everyone!
HAHA, been waiting for a comic to bag our Australian accent & vocal slant. Awesome, Hillsy.
Americans do the "how heavy is that rain?" thing too.
+Dendy Do we?
+Dendy I've never once heard an american say anything remotely like that. Not the way aussies do.
P3 Gaming it's very common in Massachusetts, at least
Dendy
98% of all content I watch is produced in the US, not once has it ever had the kind of inflection aussies do. I'm not doubting you, just saying I've never witnessed it myself
+Dendy It's called *rhetoric*, a lot of English speaking countries do it.
Adam Hills is a freaking beast speshully when it comes to accents.
Adam hills should play the doctor
"I find you guilty of murder?"
Soda everywhere...
I love the Aussie accent, my favourite accent close second being Irish
It's so true. Our accent is so bloody odd.
My aunt taught Adam Hills when he was little. That fact alone makes me laugh.
I love your accents. I’m a pom and whenever I hear something said with an English accent (obvs depending where in England it’s from: Geordie is a major exception 🥰) it sounds proper hard nosed and serious. Australians are so cool and chilled sounding and the question fing is endearing ❤️
How blessed are the meek? Good one.
Adam Hills is a funny man
Is it really true that aussies always 'goes up' when they speak?. what part of australia speak like this?.
Well we don't really have parts of Australia that speak different to each other and no we don't go up at the end of a sentence unless I haven't realised
i sort of do hmmm never notice this! hehe
Yes, I'm afraid a lot of Aussies, of which I am one, do end their sentences on a high note. It annoys me because it makes them sound tentative. Then again, so many things about the way people speak annoy the shite out of me, for example so many people say "so yeah" at the end of a sentence, as though they don't have enough of a vocabulary to finish a sentence. Or feel the need to say ''just" all the fricken time. I was JUST going to town and my friend JUST called at the wrong time and JUST stuffed up my timetable and I JUST tried my best. So irritating. It diminishes the statement they are making - and they don't even realise it. Not to mention the valley girls which spread like a fricken virus, I could throttle people on public transport or near me who pepper their conversation with "like" - he was "like" checking his emails and "like" got one from Sandi and "like"...... - I've heard it up to 70 times from 2 twats talking in a 20 minute conversation.
Morgan Freeman has the best voice in the world to me, so bee-yoo-tiful. I also love Jaime Murray's 'received pronunciation' English accent, doesn't make me wince like listening to the queen or her twit of a hubbie, that I can't tolerate. I heard a guy describe Jaime's voice as 'posh totty' - that made me laugh!
Don't think Aussie accents are any more annoying than Kiwis or the Queen.
777Psychodelia well mate most of that sums me up
***** Yeah, sorry, probably did go on a bit that day.
Holy shit, he actually did the Dutch English accent really well.
lol, james cook was from middlesborough so he would have sounded more like a geordie than someone from leeds lol
i never tire of watching his videos! EPIC COMDEDY!
I think Australian accents on women are a turn on.
Joseph Chambers doesn't phase me...until they say my name, then it's a massive turn-on...massive. I have no clue why.
Dude, to foreigners I don't think there's anything more attractive than "G'day mate!"
I just found out that I find it sexy. Was watching some videos on NordVPN with Australian IP and had some Aussie voiced ads, that is definitely a turn on.
Well there was an old lady who swallowed a fly
Brilliant! Proper Aussie accents are in the Mad Max series of films. IMHO.
The audience seems rigged...They literally laughed after each and every sentence that the comedian spoke.
When they clap you see that the audience actually dont move a muscle. yup.. rigged.
how blessed is he.
I'm from Poland and I can't understand what he's talking about, maybe a few words... That's terrible for me ;)
Cata lina Read the description of this video.. His entire speech is written there
Sourodip Biswas, thank you a lot ;)
Cata lina are you using google translate or you really speak English?
I really speak English :)
Sourodip Biswas, I really speak English :)
This guy should do more accent they are perfect blend of accurate and funny.
damn whats wrong with audience
The Americans watching this will be like “oh! Now i know how to talk to an Australian” and the Australians watching are going “ this is fake i dont sound like this, the things people think about my accent”
wrong...NZ hez the worst ecsent
Are you kidding me? Have you ever heard Karl Urban? Jesus, that gets me going.
Nz hes the werst icksent
Nah your one is Mate. It's like nails on a chalkboard lol.
In research showed that aussie /Australian accent are 2 best accent after uk 🇬🇧🤝🇦🇺😅😅😅☺️☺️
I could watch this all day just to hear his Australian accent... great god o.o;
Your TH-cam name and Adam Hills put together is hilarious... XD
I like Australian accents in general. This guy was great, loved the accents.
I love the Australian accent and the up inflection is very much a part of the appeal.
The rising inflection is a particularly Sydney thing, not Australian in general.
When he started "would you please welcome to the state" I was like, OMG, will Captain Cook come to the stage?
Entire video in one sentence: Guy says something, audience laughs
The best aussie comedian of all times, mainly because he's disabled
I'm an Aussie, you can't believe how many people love to hear Aussies talk in online gaming. They're so intrigued...
Great work! I would love to watch more
The thing when i was younger i loved Australian accents, never mind about people obsessing over our English accents but to me Australian accents were the best! I think it's because i basically fell in love with the Great Steve Irwin! Another reason why you guys are cool! You obviously had the best celebrity in the world!
"I find you guilty"...?
Had me laughing! 😂
Funny -loved the accents- em, the rising inflection (question) at the end of statements is relatively new, incorrect of course, but it's funny when you use it Adam - how blessed are the meek? : ha ha brilliant.
*we do tend to go up at the end of every senteNCE*
Why is this so damn accurate
lmao this was the first Melbourne comedy festival I watched
As a yorkshireman I can confirm that is EXACTLY what we would have said.
Fantastic youtube video. Thank-you for revealing it.
This is rather accurate
I can add it in the description of the video so you can refer to it
Love Australian accents. I'm from America and I want to take a vacation to Australia. I didn't realize so many people hated to be compared to Americans. I hate stereotypes. Not everyone in America is a terrible person.
Of course not!! I’ve met some lovely people in America. Just like all English people aren’t posh - so many different accents in England, Scotland and Wales.
We have this thing with names where we add 'Eee' to the end when we are doing something.
The Doug Anthony All-Stars were the best Australian comedy had to offer and the last 25 years
He's AMAZING! I usually have problems with understanding auzzie accent but I find it really cool at the same time :)
Actually , he did a fairly accurate Dutch accent . The Dutch accent has been an influence on the German accent , the Austrian accent , the Swiss accent , the Welsh accent , the Irish accent , certain variations of the Scottish accent ( most notably Sean Connery`s unique Glaswegian accent ) , the English West Country accent , the British Canadian accent , the P.A. Dutch accent of course and the New York accent along with Italian , British and Irish .
Married to a Yorkeshireman can totally agree! I speak perfect South Australian too Adam my ancestors arrived on the first ships of 1836
This is excellent
"Well dish ish ridiculoush... We cannot grow majuana cropsh here"
oh wait I just realised I wrote 'I' instead of 'How' for some reason...It's "How blessed are the meek". sorry!
He is hilarious! What I love about Aussie rising inflection is that it makes serious stuff sound funny and less tense)) Moreover it's easy to imitate and as a foreigner I think I've already picked it up.
Fantastic, I come from Marton where Captin Cook was born, perfect proper accent! LOL
THIS CRACKED ME UP!!!! God I wanna go to Australia so bad!!
I love this guy!
Hilarious because I definitely end sentences with an upward inflection. Love the part where the Dutch came to Western Australia ?
His accents are so damn good...
I'm a Kiwi, and as much as Aussies make fun of our accent, we make fun of theirs. Having said that, there are slight variances in New Zealand accents, and slight variances in Australian accents. Somebody who went to grammar school in the affluent Sydney or Melbourne suburbs will talk differently, to say Steve Irwin, "God bless him", or someone from Western Sydney, or rural Queensland. Just saying, that is just my observation. Still it could be worse, it could be South African.
lol that was to backie08 on Keanu Reeves!
I love an aussie accent btw!
Adam Hill is very funny! xo