American Reacts to DEAR AMERICA... David Mitchell's Soapbox REACTION
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King Boomer's Reaction to David Mitchell explaining to Americans how to use the Queen's English on David Mitchell's Soapbox. ENJOY!
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King Boomer, I think you might just be my favourite American at this point. You now "get" us like few Americans ever do, and you're a good sport/humble Muppet, which is very endearing.
That was not a muppet sound.. that was Woody Woodpecker!
David Mitchell is a national treasure.
David Mitchell in upstart crow as William Shakespeare was excellent.
Really? I thought that was the worst thing he's ever done
@@michaelb2388 I loved Upstart Crow
I've also heard many Americans say how ridiculous & wrong that phrase is.
I have heard British people say it wrong haha.
Someone in the kitchen just heard you laugh on my laptop and afterwards went "Boom boom!"
Look up Basil Brush. 😁
Derek Fowlds was the partner/foil for Sir Basil Brush OBE then went on to Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister and decades in Heartbeat.
Look up the RADIO version of "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy". I even left a Pub on a Saturday night to listen to the Radio thinking this was for me = The Dumb Peoples Guide to Astronomy. Instead one of the funniest Radio Series ever. Then went on to be a Book, TV Series, Film and Theatre Productions.
i thought his soap box was a serious thing so I hadn't even watched it at all, that was good AND also informative, not that i didn't already know that saying "I could care less" is completely mental and the complete opposite of the intended meaning. (I think the worm thing was a reference to a book-worm)
It occurred the other day that 'I could care less' might come from a certain New York Jewish way of speaking. Imagine Jackie Mason asking the rhetorical question 'You think I could care less?' the answer to which is 'No'. Perhaps 'I could care less?' is a contraction of the full question. Anyway, that's my attempt at offering an excuse - I mean, an explanation.
I think of it as an abbreviation of "(as if) I could care less". Mind you, it's a bit rich for Englishman David Mitchell to complain about Americans saying the opposite of what they mean. We do little else. "Lovely weather" we say, when it's pissing down with rain.
Thank you! Herbs always gets me!
Basil was the Lord of the Manor
Rosemary, the Lady
Dill the Dog
Tarragon the Dragon
PARSLEY, a very friendly Lion
They can pretend to be French if they want...and give the Irish a break.
@@michaeldowson6988 Mind you, we say cwasson.
Yes but we use hours without the h!
@@helenag.9386 you got me there
I always wondered why Americans say Solder (as in electronics) as soder, without the L. But then DO pronounce the L in Soldier and not say Sodier. But then I don't I have much of life or am any good at sorting priorities from trivial things
This was fantastic! Do more of these!
It's a shame you didn't get to these sooner, he has one about naming your baby which would have been perfect to watch while QB was pregnant! There are plenty of great Soapbox rants though. A personal choice would be "Compliments"
DM burdening both his daughters with elderly names years later is baffling!
@@davidz3879Why? They are actual names, which is what his video was about. It's not like he took names out of the Indian takeaway menu!
@@ManlyStump He warned against giving bad/unsuitable names. Years later he gave his daughters elderly names, which is obviously a bad idea.
Haven't seen the rant, but names go in cycles and fall in and out of fashion all the time@@davidz3879
@@davidz3879 I don't know what his kids names are but old fashioned names are very popular now so they may well be completely normal to their own age range as they grow up
I watched this yesterday after you mentioned it when watching the one about baby’s names . Just watched it again to see your reaction . Most enjoyable .
'erbs... That always gets me. I initially thought someone had a speech impediment when I heard an American say that.
Honestly?
That was great - and your reaction to it - so I am loving the combination of David Mitchell and King Boomer 😊👍 (I am definitely going to find some more Soapbox videos now) Quite right, of course, about 'couldn't care less' but I didn't realise that you say 'hold down the fort' 😅
These are fantastic. You'll definitely dig them. They're so short though I would consider reacting to 2 or 3 of them at a time.
Possibly a bookworm? One of the things my American friends say a lot is tad bit, as in "I'm a tad bit hungry". Its like those morons who say ATM machine, but when I bring it up they could care less. A tad bit less
Whilst we are here, you can go horse riding, not horseback riding, we already know you are on the horses back, that the only place you can sit. Also, they are glasses, not eye glasses, that's the only place you can put glasses, you don't need to tell me
You can put glasses on the bar counter and give me a fresh pint please.
"I could care less" and "erbs" are the two things that always pissed me off 🤣 I don't know why!
Off topic but i recommend reacting to the I'm Alan Partridge sitcom, best thing he's done in that character imo
Has to be in order though, starting with knowing me knowing you. Then the Christmas special knowing yule, then I'm alan partridge series 1 and 2. Mid morning matters, then scissored Isle, places of my life, the book reading one, then finally this time.
Yes, it's hilarious. KB has reacted to highlights, but full eps are much better.
@@atiminthailand4531 Exactly this
It’s Steve Coogan who plays Alan Partridge btw, not David Mitchell.
@@mark_tolver no way
😂😂 Yeah I can see why things like sidewalk and elevator are used, the rest of them are just sort of there but don’t bother me too much. I do find it funny when Americans try to correct us with our English though, with the exception of some like that aluminum /aluminium one. The restroom one always makes me laugh too, you can just visualise loads of people sleeping in the toilets lol
Also I’m studying animation, so I can feel your pain/relate on that too!
Or having a bath when at a restaurant.
I was looking at old house and ship plans, early 18th century I think, and came across very small rooms labelled as the "Room of Ease". Almost certainly the lavatory, could this be the source of "restroom"?
@@michaelmclachlan1650 I reckon you’re right. Although whenever someone says to me “take it easy” I certainly won’t be shitting my pants in front of them lol
These David Mitchell’s Soap Box videos are hilarious.
I watched David Mitchell's Soap Box back when it was new. That was quite a long time ago. Dear America is one of my favourites.
Another great video. Keep up the good work 👍
“I feel like I’m being scolded and I like it.”
That’s David for you. I think he’d be pleased with this remark.
On a side note, there are words that both Amercans AND us English have undoubtedly got wrong. For example, wether you call it an ‘Elevator’ or a ‘Lift’, it doesn’t alter the fact that it spends just as much time transporting people DOWNWARDS as it does transporting people UPWARDS. It should be called a ‘Compact Vertical Suspension Train’. Or hopefully something much shorter and snappier than that which I just haven’t thought of… but at least more accurate.
Oh that’s brilliant 😂
His wife is Victoria Coren, now Victoria Mitchell. She presented a programme (notice the spelling!) on the BBC called Balderdash and Piffle, a series over the etymology of words. Totally fascinating. Totally enlightening and, in one case, rather rude which is why they let Germaine Greer present it. I think parts are viewable on CZcams so I suggest you give it a go.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
She’s also a master poker player
Balderdash And Piffle was great!
I forgot about that show. Yeah was really good
YOU MUST SEE DAVID MITCHELL AS NEUROTIC SHAKESPEARE IN "UPSTART CROW" AND HIS NEMESIS PLAYED BY "JIM" IN FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😃😆😄😅😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😃😆😄😅😂
The worm is a bookworm.
On the subject of pronouncing the Letter H or not we (southern-ish) Brits are perplexed at you dropping the H when saying Herbs but then emphasise it in the word Vehicle.
It's pronounced Vee-Akul or Vee-Ukul but 𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 Vee-Hikul !
That bugs me too!
I’m glad Americans over pronounce vehicle… it’s the only reason I can spell it.
@@RhJones Ha! So great.
Also written by the genius of John Finnemore.
Another one that seems to rear its head every so often, is when people say "on accident" instead of "by accident". Am I nuts, or does that just make no sense at all? 😂
Oh good grief yes. It sounds like a 2 year old still learning to speak.
Now THIS is a reaction!!!! lol
Brilliant!
:D
David's stuff pretty much stands the test of time, these wonderful short but poignant videos being almost a decade old, Peep Show being closer to two decades old. Even the much more recent 'Back' with Mitchell & Webb is now getting on for 7 years old! Please take a peek one day!
Oh and PS
It was a 'Bookworm', perhaps David's little hidden joke that us Brits can have some strange mis-use of things also (considering technically it would ba a BookMaggot lol
Try Jim Jeffries, live videos. He's your kind of humour but, as an Australian, he's going to be on the strong end of the comedy spectrum fo you - we use the c word a lot.
Taking his best (disabled) mate to a brothel, the Elton John concert, and Gun Control are three of his routines that are hilarious.
One other word I have head being misused is 'bunch'. An example being, "Luckily I have a bunch of water with me".
The word bunch is for countable objects though, so using it to describe how much water you have does not compute.
I'm kinda down with your thinking, albeit should you be in the implausible situation where you were carrying different waters, maybe; tap water, tepid water, heavy water, mineral water, just milked from a yuka plant water, water you just retrieved in a space probe from under the ice in the south pole of Mars water - this could be valid. However were it to be a bunch of water from a singe source, I feel like "a good quantity" would be a much more useful descriptive in where I could only imagine needing water would be of some importance.
A bunch of rain? Or a ton of rain? Or rain 6 bananas deep.@@davidb9036
I ABSOLUTELY HATE that! Everything is not in $%&* bunches! Bananas are in bunches, most other things aren't. Its SOME or A LOT of.
No no no… not David Mitchell… those are things that the QUEEN wants you to work on, otherwise she’ll haunt you! 😜
LOVED your reaction 😂 And yes, we do say ‘cocked it up’ ❤️
I love his soapbox videos.
He does one of these about passion which is a classic!
I couldn't give a s**t - its another way of saying I couldn't care less 🎉😂
You really need to check out a compilation of David Mitchell on QI. Interesting facts/discussion combined with David Mitchells ruthless logic and a panel of comedians, you can't go wrong!!
Agreed. I believe Stephen Fry referred to David's "angry logic". But he's also very funny!
Do remember to watch David Mitchell’s comedy partner) doing his dance -Robert Webb does Flashdance -
Remember it’s Hold down your job, but hold the fort!
I don't know if it was my recommendation that made you react to this but I'm really glad you did. Trust me every single one of his soapbox rants is superbly and articulately hilarious. Check out people being passionate about things.
An American friend recently told me he'd lucked out on a job he wanted. I commiserated with him. How is anyone to know that "luck OUT" means to be IN luck?
Thank you David!
Love your reaction .🇬🇧🇺🇸
What gets me is labratory when it's laboratory.
Indeed, it sounds like lavatory.
The worm is a bookworm. On a dictionary. Loved it. :D
DM’s Soapbox is a rich treasure-trove of mini-rants. Enjoy!
Love your reactions and are the only ones I watch, I do have one suggestion to increase our enjoyment, any chance of playing the videos at the correct ratio so they aren't distorted?
Something something yt copyright
Americans living in Tornado zones understand the meaning of Holding Down the Fort. It has meaning.
You didn't actually need to tell me you'd be guilty of saying both those things lol
Spot on pronunciation of aluminium!that,your new found love for tea,and the willingness to take things on board and make changes, we'll make a Brit out of you yet....!👊🏻🤷♂️👏👏😂😂
I'd not seen these before so I'm going to have to have a dig now👌🏼🤷♂️😂💜
Why do Americans say " have a nice day ", when your cats just being run over ,and your best mates run away with your wife ,what's up with you 😂
Being or been?
I've seen a couple of these and yes they are worth watching , he did one on baby names . David is a great foil for Lee Mack on WILTY and you should watch him when Bob Mortimer is on the show .
When aluminium was discovered the convention of all metals ending with ‘ium’ was only just beginning to become accepted. This was also around the period when the language of ‘The United States’ was diverging from standard English due to the natural process of languages changing over time and the lack of instant communication over distances. By the time dictionaries were common place, we’d gone with one spelling and the US had gone with a different one but up until that point, both had been acceptable in scientific literature.
We do say "to cock something up" and the related noun "a cock-up" meaning "a mistake" 😂 All the Soapboxes are great!
no no he was quite clear it was the queen that wanted you to sort it out :P
I heard Queen Boomer say "on accident" instead of "by accident" the other day.. you gotta put a stop to that, man!
I think the little creature is supposed to be a bookworm. I didn't know about David Mitchell's Soapbox, but I have to see more of it.
That was brilliantly fun. 😆🇨🇦
Loved this and David is spot on. 'Neither' and 'either' are two words the USians mix up also. Grrr!
Hold down the fort is a perfectly acceptable way to convey that sentiment. He's nitpicking there. But he's 1000% right about caring less. That has always driven me crazy.
Don't know why Americans say the French ''erb', but don't spell words like 'theatre' the French way.
I don't even think Americans know the answer to that.
I love your videos Keep up the good work you should react on Bad drivers complation ik you did something like that before you should do more Keep up the fantastic work 😁😁😁😁
You shold watch That Mitchell & Webb Look, it launched his career & where the "Are we the baddies" meme/gif comes from.
Plus the last ever scetch is funny and heartbreaking.
Aluminum is a weird one. Americans don't say plutonUm, uranUm, or RadUm, so why make the exception with aluminium? Maybe 5 syllables is just too much.
Aluminum is the original name.
Aluminium is used by some countries as it is a better match for other elements in the table.
There’s a funny one of these where he kicks off about “take each day as it comes” as if we have a choice.
There's a compilation of David M's rants on WILTY on CZcams somewhere. Very funny.
Also "route" its roooot not rout, a rout is a decisive military victory!
Aluminum is actually correct. The Brits got it wrong in something like a dictionary entry. True. The Brits used to say aluminum.
G'day from WA
I always did wonder why 'solder' was never pronounced in the USA the way it looks.
Yes that's weird. I have also heard many American pronounce caramel as carmel. Very odd.
Its because they're lazy. Sodder and carmel are easier to say. But as a brit, i hate it. It is soLder and carAmel. Say it properly.
Incidentally Aaron Sorkin makes a joke of this subject in a West Wing episode. Toby says "I could care less", someone rebukes him with "Toby!", and his response is ".... More?"
My mother was 100% cockney, neighbors had a 'ell of a time understanding her.
There are actually a few dialects in the UK where we drop the "H" at the start of a word, we do in the West Country. It's even taken into account on school tests, so you don't get penalised for writing say "an historical event" instead of "a historical event"
Drop the "haitch" you say?
The "inchworm" is a bookworm 😁😁😁
John Cleese done a short Football v Soccer, rant.
'erbs, really, REALLY grinds my gears.
I may be completely wrong, but that worm on the book at the start, may, in fact, have been meant to represent a 'bookworm'. I could be wrong though
One of my pet hates, in discussing motor sport, American commentators say "he's trying to pass the leader on the STRAIGHT AWAY". When he should say "he's trying to pass on the straight". I'd like them to desist using this term straight away. Thanks ;-)
Solder and Soldering. Neither sodder nor soddering. Stop ignoring the L! Take the L!
spot on. that 'could care less' thing is a major irritant!!
It transpires that Aluminum is ‘more’ correct than Aluminium, although neither are the original name.
I think "I could care less" came from incorrectly shortening a sarcastically stated, "Like I could care less", forgetting the sarcasm in the process.
i really like the "... & pillage" Soapbox because I absolutely agree with Mitchell.
I don’t know which two they are but he does a rant on this channel and then he had Robert Webb on to counter his argument.
This soap box rant is my favourite, but unusually smart men is another.
A bookworm not an inch worm😂
Check out his sketch show with his buddy. Look up the sketch “are we the baddies” by Mitchell and Webb.
"Fine , whatever makes you Appy"
I note they are co-written by John Finnemore. I’d recommend looking him up. Very British gentle humour. See the Winnie the Pooh’s honey addiction sketch
I love his final comment "I could care less".
He is true it makes no sense when people say they could care less 😂
"He is true" 😐
American use both, hold the fort and hold down the fort.
King Boomer, may I just stop you at "Mirror"? It's not MIRRRR ;) All the best from this side of the pond, toodle pip!!
I've always thought that American is a combination of english words and Spanish phonetics
A Pin To See The Peeps how is a 1934 novel by F.Tennyson Jess based on the 1922 Thompson-Bywaters murder case. Ian Dee.
You guys are right about aluminum mind
That metal is spelled differently - Aluminum (US) versus Aluminium (UK).