"Getting the Slang of It" with Brett Goldstein
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2023
- Every language has its own slang but the Brits take the cake. So before you sit down for a chinwag at the local pub, let #TedLasso and #Shrinking star Brett Goldstein guide you through some of England's cheekiest sayings. #Colbert #BrettGoldstein #Slang #England
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he's here, he's there, he's fucking everywhere!
Royyyy KENT!!
Another Brit here. In my neck of the woods we call a fart a trump. As in “did you just trump?” Never heard a fart referred to as a fluff.
Trump is going to be my new word for fart. How apropos!
just reiterating how much I ❤️ hearing farts=Trump as an American who was appalled at ex-prez 🤡’s vileness. Fart is completely fitting and you all must of really lol accordingly considering.
Well, that’s the most accurate thing I’ve seen his name used for, smells like trump over here.
Roy Kent! He's here. He's there, he's every fucking where!!
"I mean.. not something I've come across..."
* blink blink *
Brit here - I’ve never in my life heard of “bum & parsley”. That’s a load of cobblers!
It's a bit chobblesome really.
It's Scots (thought it was). And it's more Och, yer arse in parsley/yer bums oot the windae .
@@laurenceroberts5239 Ahh, I see you are familiar with exactly how to translate to Scottish. *chefs kiss*
@@Erkle64 watching Rab and The Big Yin plus knowing a Weegie helps ;)
@@omnicognatesnr5947 lol , so many do. I'm not Scotish as but heard enough to translate.
"He's wafflin' on with his bit of fluff."
"Well, Bob's your uncle, then."
And Fanny's your Aunt 😂
Just LOVE him...
…..so much!
I love this guy so much!
He DEFINITELY is a writer (a fact I only found about from the recent Colbie interview with him). 😂
Love you dude!
Love all of the call backs!
‘I don’t know what the pig did’ 😂😂😂
The pig shat the bed.
(I'll leave you all to work that one out for yourselves.)
Oh I love him so much
LOVE ITTTTTTTTTT!
Roy Kent!
Ach, dinnae fash yersel. "Yer arse in parsley, yer bums out the windae" is Glaswegian and the sassenachs noo unnerstan ut.
American here and I going to use Fanny Adam's at work ALL DAY LONG😁
I'm British and have heard and/or used all of these other than "You're all bum and parsley".
Growing up, whenever my mum trumped she'd say she's "just fluffed as women don't trump".
Oh yeah, "Trump" is another word we use for "Fart" too, and came before the ex-president Trump was anybody.
As children we also said nickety carted for farted if we didn't use the word fluff, which also could imply that it had crawled out on its stocking feet.
Remember him in the Ricky Gervais series, Derek? He was great!
Absolutely. Just happened to watch me some Derek a few nights ago. 🤗
@@maureen669 Derek is one of my all-time favorite shows.
"Fluff" is used (or was 30 yrs ago) as a euphemism for "fuck up". "He fluffed it" means he failed at something, e.g. scoring a goal, asking a girl out, sitting an exam.
I always hear British football commentators say "he's fluffed his lines" when a player misses a sitter. Good to know where that came from.
Even Americans use that. Muffed it, too.
Yeah i've heard and used it in that context but never the one included here. Or the bum & parsley thing WTAF is THAT?
"Bob's your uncle" means "mission accomplished." Example: "Here's how we do make this cake: mix it up, pour it into the pan, pop it in the oven, and Bob's your uncle."
More like "voila"
Jobs done
Fun fact: it was based on a case of nepotism in the 1800s when the Prime Minister (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil) appointed his nephew to a plum job (Chief Secretary to Ireland).
Robert's your mother's brother - let's get home for tea and medals!
@@DullDishwater TIL! Thanks!
Well done mate! You’re doin us proud! Chuffed we are!! See ya soon, me ol China. 😊
Stephen Colbert brett Goldstein getting the slang awesomeness job
‘Made a right pig’s ear’. I think in that context the ‘right’ is like a synonym for ‘proper’, not specifically talking about the right ear of the pig. 🤔
I know Brits do use ‘right’ in that manner.
yep
What’s a right pig anyway? Why not the ear of a left pig? 😉
Yes, much as Yanks would use 'real.' He's a real asshole (US), or he's a right arsehole (UK). Though we use 'real' too sometimes.
Right is used in the sense of "real".
That's a right proper explanation
they tried hard to make the segment unfunny, but Brett carries it to humor
Ah, you youngsters. Maybe you need to be a certain age to know fluff in the fart sense - used in my school all the time 😂
@davidsmith that's what I thought. I'll be seventy next week.
Since I learnt who Fanny Adams actually was I find it hard to use sweet f a. Fanny Adams and sweet f a have become connected unfortunately but they weren't originally.
He’s here. He’s there. He’s fucking everywhere
I wanna be this man's bit of fluff
My father was born and raised in London and he says "foof" for fart. Did you just foof? Lol
I vaguely remember "anorak" being an insult for a nerd but it's super old. I'm guessing late 80s at the most? (if it had been in use I would have heard it thrown my way!)
I think I have encountered it once or twice, but never past the 90s or very early 2000s. I want to say it was in one of the Adrian Mole books or in Tim Vine's Sketch Show, someplace like that?
Started with train spotters taking down serial numbers and whatnot in little notebooks (way back when) known for beings out in all weathers and often wearing anoraks.
As an American who watches a lot of British TV/CZcamsers, I've only heard it from Clarkson/Hammond/May...
And from the context, Nerd made sense.
What's a corner shop?
@@runnerphile1997 These days It's usually a small shop in the street that sells a variety of food and other every day things you might run out of but don't want to go to a big supermarket for. In the past you'd find them at the end of the street a lot nd they might even have doubled up as a hardware store depending on where you were. They used to be almost all independently run or small chains but the bigger supermarket chains have started setting up small mini branches now in some of these spots.
Sweet FA is actually older and sadder than most people who use it realise. Fanny Adams was a Victorian era child, murdered and chopped up into tiny pieces - there was nothing left of her, hense it entered the lexicon as slang for 'sweet nothing'.
Fluffer! Omg what a job!
Could be worse. Someone could be the fluffer's assistant.
Ok I’m not British but I assumed for whatever reason fluff meant fart! 😅
They missed out: "All mouth and trousers"
'All mouth and no trousers'.
I legit think the writers made up “bum and parsley” just to be silly. Sounds like something they would do.
what? your avin a bubble mate!!! (bubble bath=laugh)
He is so handsome
Love ‘extra’ posts but this was especially amusing. I had to watch it three times in a row☮️
We used fluff for f*rt in the fifties. I'm a Northerner.
And yes I haven't kicked the bucket yet
Take the biscuit. Not take the cake.
Fanny Adams was a child murdered in 1867, and chopped up into myriad small pieces, i.e. chopped meat, nuffingk. Navy slang then arose for their new rations of tinned, chopped meat 😱. Sweet F.A. also stands for 'zilch, nada, nothing ', like her body (never found, unlike the perpetrator).Her brutal death was widely reported in the media, caught the imagination of the public.
Bob's your uncle, Sally's your aunt.
Or, "and Fanny's your aunt"
@@FatCatFanatic In America, we have a different view of " your aunt fanny"
Wish Brett had done "naff". It would definitely require a bleep.
Could “all bum and parsley” be a reference to cooking? If you’re making do with thin resources (say, I don’t know, a housewife on the home front during one of the wars), you could get the cheapest cut of meat from the butchers (we’d call that “rump roast” in the US, and rump = bum), dress it up with a load of parsley, and it could look like a meal.
Nah mate. You're having a giraffe. Codswallop innit.
It's not a reference to anything because fucking nobody says it.
@@DudeInFlares as someone said before: it's Glaswegian
You're all mouth and no trousers
🤣🤣
Aquí te tengo un slang Brett, eres un sojas
Blast! I've got a bad rubber. Pull onto the nearest layby, open the boot & get out the johnny.
@@omnicognatesnr5947
Was that a gurt typo? I could hardly recognize euphemism. But maybe I'm wrong. Sorry.
We are not all omnicognisant.
Not sure why rubber would be used instead of tyre, or why johnny would be used instead of jack. These are not alternates i've ever come across in the UK. Blast & boot are recognisable and appropriate.
Most of these seem to be different ways of saying “Fuck”
I Actually learned some British slang that I never heard before! 😁
I knew what "Bob's your uncle" translated to, but am curious about it's origin. Any anoraks out there?
In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle! - Google
This is arelatively common expression in my part of Canada, too. I heard that it had it's origin in the post-Boer-war popularity and influence of the British General Lord Roberts, nicknamed "Bobs": anyone connected with "Bobs" would have an easy time of it. The alternate explanation that it derives from PM Robert Gascoyne-Cecil penchant for nepotism seems more likely, though. Whatever the case, the expression doesn't start appearing in the popular press until the 1930s.
This is Brett’s week first Harley Quinn valentine special now this
The term 'Sweet Fanny Adams' stems from the murder and dismemberment of an 8 year old girl in 1867. Perhaps many people who use the term don't understand the connection, but it always shocked me that people would treat such a serious matter so flippantly by using her name that way.
Yes, a notorious murder in Portsmouth, her corpse was so mutilated, that subsequently any real disastrous mess was likened to "sweet Fanny Adams", a horrific sight.
Yikes...that's sobering...[has the passage of time made its origins less horrendous? I wouldn't use the term...]
Whoa 😧
Holy S**t that's gruesome. I had no idea. At the very least I hope they caught the person who did it so they lived in prison the rest of their life.
just let it go.
And there's a second part to that "Bob's your uncle". The full saying is "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt"
Dear American friends. I would like to explain a few things about this video that are somewhat misleading. Unfortunately, our English neighbours (I live in Scotland), very often confuse England for Britain. Let me explain. There is not really such thing as “British Slang”. Most of the slang that Brett showed in his video is English slang. Except “You are all bum and parsley” (which is Scottish slang), in the 30 years I have lived in Scotland I have rarely ever heard someone use any of the other expressions (unless they moved up from England or on TV or the radio). We have our own slang here in Scotland, and we are proud of it.
Calling something British is a very English thing and it annoys a lot of people in Scotland. You would rarely ever hear a Scot say that “you are all bum and parsley” is British slang, they would call it just slang or Scottish slang. The reason many Scots don’t like what they often refer to as “Union Jackery” (referring to the plastering Union Jacks on everything Scottish) is because it erodes the Scottish identity. The result is that we see more and more instances where something that is iconically Scottish, is now referred to as British. It is not unsurprising that people are confused and think that everything is the same wherever you go in the UK, when it clearly isn’t.
Scotland is very proud of its identity, culture and produce and we are passionate about making sure that that identity is not watered down or eroded by this relentless Britification of everything.
So dear English friends, kindly stop calling things British when you actually mean to say English, unless you talk about something that is truly British, like driving on the left or drinking beer in pints, especially when you try and explain something to those who do not live in the British isles.
sooo...Brett can just Do one? Got it!
Thank you, Dutch (Belgian? S. African?) friend, for assuming Americans don't know about that.
1. Why would you assume Americans don't know that, but Canadians, Australians, South Africans, New Zealanders or anyone else reading this in English would?
2. Did you know that around 8% (20-25 million) of Americans claim Scottish heritage? (60% claim Irish & 2 million Welsh).
Maybe lose a few ideas?
😁
In my experience, it's not so much English people claiming other British things as their own as foreigners not knowing the difference between the terms. They often lump us all together in the same basket. It bugs me when I'm asked my nationality on official forms and there is no England (or Wales, Scotland etc) just UK. I'm English! Sure England is in the UK but who says "I'm from the UK" when asked where they're from?
Conflating any of the countries in the British Isles with any other is lazy or ignorant. They're all separate, all have their own different cultures and languages and most are fiercely independent. Sure, together we're British but we're all individuals within the family. It's like calling a Serb 'Croatian' or vice versa or a Canadian 'American' (the reverse doesn't seem to have the same effect!)
I thought this was a WIRED video😂
I think Viagra may have put an end to a career as a fluffer!
What about some cockney rhymes like up the apple and pears
as i understand it, fanny adams was a young child who was born a very long time ago, who was found murdered. some how, people started using her initials to represent the phrase, "fuck all". supposedly that's when that phrase first came in to existence. i learned that from the youtube channel, "thoughty2".
In contrast, “up the duff” means pregnant.
taking the piss is known as ranking in the USA
It's funny, I'd heard all of the ones he'd heard of except for anorak. And I didn't realise any of them weren't used in the US. Never heard fluff mean trump, or "bum and parsley".
Waffling on with that bit of fluff!
Maybe somebody saw guff and thought it was misspelt so just went for fluff
My new son in law is British! Im gonna send this video to the family, so we can be on the same page with him! ❤ thx
My husband never heard of bum and parsley but some of those he says.
@@omnicognatesnr5947 This. If an American says "Bum and parsley" in my presence I'll know two things:
1) We've got good taste in talk show hosts,
2) They're easily fooled! I'll sell 'em London Bridge!*
*Wait for it...
Brett Goldstein is “sex on legs”! There’s a bit of British slang for ya.
@@omnicognatesnr5947 Depends where you come from. Growing up in Notts, my mum always used "fluff" if she trumped because, as she used to say, "Women don't trump, they fluff".
Two great nations, separated only by a common language.
It's chesty claire anorak.
😄
He’s a right bad man, innit bruv?
Just a little something to wind the Americans up 😛
brett blink twice if you need help
As a Brit, I can confirm nobody in Britain has ever used 'fluff' for fart
but trump commonly!
It's a child's term for fart. And an old one at that.
It's not an expression I'd use but I knew what it meant. The bum and parsley one though..... absolutely no idea.
@@omnicognatesnr5947 T45 once claimed to be "an expert on toxic gases."
Oh, how we chortled.....
......and guffawed!
We do in Mansfield area. My mum always used it when she trumped when I was a kid.
"A right pig's ear" means *definitely* a total mess, no question about it. Has nothing to do with right or left.
That's very south east England specific. Not really 'British'. More London (ish).
"Fluffie" is slang for fart the same way "trump" is, but I thought that was only in Australia.
He’s joking about the left ear. As if I am informing anybody.
😅✌
I say that British people is half Türk, who immigrate from Türkiye. 😅
British slang makes me want to move there just to experience it!
wait? do other americans not know the phrase "taking the piss"? i heard this phrase all the time growing up in Buffalo NY
I knew "taking a piss". But, to me being pissed was being angry. I was working for this British firm, in the early 80s, as a computer programmer (systems development) and there was this Tandy manager of sales who gave off predator vibes, so I avoided him. I worked there two months, and made sure he never caught sight of me, but my friends convinced me to go to the dive bar everyone went to, for his send off back home. He was exactly the sort of aggressive jerk, I knew he'd be, so I started to leave, and my friend pulled me back into the bar, saying, "Don't mind him. He's just pissed." To which I responded, "He's no call being pissed at me, I've never done anything to him." It had to be explained to me that pissed, meant drunk, in Brit speak. But, it turned out he was irked, that I'd managed to completely avoid him for over two months. He'd seen my work, but assumed I had to be male, and older, as all the other programmers were.
@@deborahfreedman333
And "getting pissed" means getting drunk
Yeah I’ve heard the phrase “I’m just taking the piss out of ya”. I guess no one shortens to just “taking the piss” that’s less common
so cute
Does that mean he did write everything he didn’t say he didn’t write?
Do two another slang means double it
Please find me a British person that uses all bum n parsley on a regular basis. I’m English and I can’t imagine anyone saying it
Anorak = Granola/crunchy person?
I'm English and I've never heard "did you just fluff" either
'Anorak' means 'Snow Suit' in german
It's Inuit idjut.
Aye it's a synonym for Parka in English and all. I believe the slang use comes from geeks (like trainspotters or birdwatchers etc) who would stand outside wearing an anorak, like with big thick glasses and a little notebook or whatever.
"oh look at that fuckin anorak"
@@Azeria
I don't know anyone here in Germany who hasn't at some time owned and/or worn an anorak, which is not a suit but as You say a sort of parka. Those were and are the military ones, worn by the freaks and hippies in the sixties and seventies.
Would that make all Germans nerds?
( not bloody likely)
I've been living in Germany since 1961
Have a great day
What does "Sticky Wicket" translate to?
It means something is difficult.
Doesn’t “Bob’s you’re uncle” mean that you can get away with it / anything “ ?
It's mean you have an easy time of it. Like if you're trying to get a job and your uncle Bob is the boss you'll get the job easily.
You're both wrong. I just means "job done".
@@DudeInFlares Specifically job done easily.
Is this guy related to Dick Van Dyke?
No-one on Earth is related to Dick Van Dyke, at least not in the linguistic sense.
I only get my Bacon from consenting Pigs
The real and most common SE England slang for this totally bogus "all bum and parsley" expression would be "all mouth and trousers" - preferably pronounced "mahf 'n' trahzers".
Or, 'all gas and gaiters' in the SW.
I know this phrase as 'all mouth and *no* trousers'
All full of bollocks.
If you're an anorak about something, you are the equivalent of a trainspotter for your favourite subject. A geek with loads of useless in-depth knowledge about what you love.
wait, haven't we heard the word before? anorak, isn't it some kind of cloth too? a parka?
@@embreis2257 its a type of coat worn by trainspotters
see season 6 episode 4 Star Trek : "the Anoraks" i'm not old, piss off
I couldn't understand*JACK SHYTE.
This explains why whenever you hear brits talk to each other it always sounds like they grew up near each other, possibly as friends. They have so many "insiders" that work throughout their nation...
the UK has so many dialects in WW2 it was nearly impossible for german spies to infiltrate the country. even russia at the time had to hire british people to spy for them since it was far easier to find a turn coat then to train someone to speak like a british person
Yeah, that's how it works. We all personally knew the Queen, and every cast member of (insert whatever British thing you can be bothered to think about) too.
Christ alive.
@@ModelsExInferis you missed the part where I wrote "sounds like". Be a bitch to someone in their 3rd language over something you missed in your first, why don't you?
The brits: still a vivid example of politeness and decency in modern times
Good bit but - even speaking as an American (who lived in England & has many Brit friends) - a lot of this slang is a little bit restricted to certain groups of people, not in general usage.
I imagine everyone in Britain understands all these phrases, but they were picked for being interesting, not because everyone says them all the time.
(Side note - "Bob's your uncle" is pretty widely used; we certainly have said it in the States since before my time)
Hey you got the old last week tonight void
Fluff---- Fart
0:21 "Did you just fluff?" I've never heard this one spoken by anyone here!
2:11 "You're all bum and parsley" - I think that this is Scottish slang specifically, but I've never heard it spoken either!
Fluff is just 50ish years out of date and mostly limited to children of people that insist Bucket rhymes with Bouquet.
feel like some of these would be like insisting that americans constantly say "broad" to refer to women
Pigs ear best EVER WORDD
I think it's a class issue. I wouldn't use any of those words or sayings. My parents did not spend money on our expensive schooling, only to have us speak like dock workers.
Piss off, preppy!
All ‘classes’ in Britain use phrases like ‘taking the Mickey’. Also, many ordinary people especially in London and the south east use a lot of these phrases, not just ‘dock workers’ (not too many of them anymore).
Sounds like you are severely limiting your ability to communicate in your native tongue by deciding to omit common idioms and slang words because of very outdated attitudes. I'm guessing you don't adapt well to new situations.
@@bhoops13 I read once that Queen Elizabeth II's favourite epithet was 'bugger'.
No idea if that's true though. But I think You are right.
Any news on Colbert's stay on EPSTEIN ISLAND ? His name was on the list.
Why is Stephen Colbert's name I the Jeffrey Epstein flight list?
Mastermind is a know it all not that parsley bollocks
(Bollocks/made up/Bullshit) ref to a uk tv quiz show based on knowledge of anorak interests