Christmas in America - The Graham Norton Show - Series 10 Episode 13 - BBC One
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer đ bbc.in/iPlayer-Home www.bbc.co.uk/grahamnortonshow Among the guests on Graham's sofa are Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon, who discusses her new film This Means War; comedian Reginald D Hunter; and Doctor Who and Upstairs Downstairs star, Alex Kingston.
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"no noooo you got it mixed up, dog" LOL
+lisa lisalisa I think he said darlen' in a very deep southern way ... But yeah I thought it was "dog" for a moment too xD
It's 'dawg'
I thought he said "doll"
He did say dog.
Doll...:D not Dog...
Somebody was feeding you something funny ...
And the way she say it .... Haha
Just goes to show Americans arenât the only ones that can be a little ignorant when it comes to other countries. I love how he explained to her that our country was founded by the British so we still have some of the same things just with a little twist to it.
She was surprisingly ignorant though, usually British or Europeans have more knowledge than that
It's so funny cuz these two Americans are specifically Southern. The way they're talking to her is so shady but also so polite its hilarious.
Reese: "Somebody was feeding you something funny" Hahahahhahaha
"She all British. We'll make it niiice." Hahaha!!
Samantha Abeyta đđđ
Samantha Abeyta : Reese so bitchy here in sexy way ...
Boy she's pretty
The truth is that they are many green things in a thanksgiving meal ,green peas,green bean casserole, the celery in the stuffing, the pickles in the potato salad and the deviled eggs and occasionally to much sage in the cornbread stuffing!
Yummy!..to your menu....I made the mistake, once, of thinking yams were carrots..Yuk!..That's when I realised that American food is SO different....
Roy Perkins Iâm guessing Alex Kingston was thinking of that monstrosity known as jello salad
I think that they were just surprised that her generalization of America was so narrow. And I think the audience were laughing at her ignorance.
Jennie Smith I was laughing because the turkey is native to the Americas.
+David Roberts What's your issue dude?
@@garrusn7702 I don't think it was Reese's petulance, more incredulity at just how mind-numbing Alex's comments were being.
The woman is being offensive and ignorant
She meant no harm but I'm shocked no one brought up the fact that the turkey she is shocked Americans eat is actually FROM North America and not England or Europe. In fact, Franklin advocated the turkey as America's national bird vs the bald eagle.
Wild turkeys are fairly Iconic US birds if I remember right they are one of the fastest flying game birds in north america
Alex Kingston really didn't do my little country any favours there did she
She was fine, it was the ignorance of the other three that didn't do the rest any favours. she asked a few questions to find out more about a culture/region that a) doesn't really get snow/cold weather like a UK winter, b) has lots of hugely different customs/food choices. She asked a genuine question and was ridiculed. HTH
ynotnilknarf39 she literally acted like the entire US couldn't be cold on Christmas based on her experience in one city when large swathes of the country are way colder than England in December
No she didn't, she clearly mentions LA as being 'odd' because it isn't cold there at Christmas time and this is so in many places in the US. So she specifically asks Reg hunter about Georgia a southern region of the US because it also doesn't get cold at christmas time there (it's classed as a Sub tropical climate) 11/12C December temps is NOT cold, I bet it rarely snows either. whereas in the UK December/Christmas is cold everywhere, that's why it's odd to her and why she asks him about this as in the US the range of temperatures is huge from bright sunshine/mild temperatures to deep freeze/feet of snow.
I'd hardly say the others were the ignorant ones, when she asked if Americans eat turkey... the bird that's indigenous to America!
She's clueless to say that America doesn't get cold, which she did- then only clarified LA when pressed. Then she said the south didn't get cold (totally false). If she was wanting to learn about our country she should have asked rather than making blanket statements and saying our "Christmas is worse". Actually if she wants to go toe to toe on that the vast majority of America would be SUBSTANTIALLY colder than the vast majority of England around Christmastime.
"We didn't get the best cuts." haha
It may not snow much in the South, but it will chill you to the bone in winter. Much harsher feeling than even Glasgow winters to me. Just inescapable, penetrating cold. Once you get closer to the gulf coast it changes, but inland it's warm in comparison to other places in America. I find British weather feels much milder.
"somebody's feedin you something funny" đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Looks like Alex Kingston needs to visit somewhere else in the United States other than Los Angeles. LA is pretty much an anomaly when compared to the rest of the country.
I think thats any big city lol
His face when she said âwhat do you eatâ jajajajajajja maâam we have a whole day decorated to Turkey a month prior to Christmas
As an American I'm not gonna be as hard on her as some of you. We EACH, no matter where we're from have these little biases rooted in myth. Americans, me for example think Brits boil all their meat and can't enjoy it any other way. That likely isn't true, but remains part of our "vision" about Brits. To me she displayed an earnest intent to learn, something one doesn't do without asking questions. Could her queries have been more artfully framed? Possibly. But I'm no silver tongued devil myself, especially when speaking off the cuff. She gets a pass from me. I am NOT offended.
who cares if you were offended anyway, i find it a bit arrogant that people seem to believe that everyone should know everything about America, even if i found her questions stupid, she was asking to increase her knowledge on the subject, now she knows.
lol boil our meat? Where does this idea even come from? I'm English, I don't think I've ever eaten boiled meat, at least I've never cooked any or ever seen it boiled. It's roasted in the oven, slow cooked in sauce or fried!! But yeah, this lady had some stupid awkward questions. NYC is like the most famous city in America and has cold winters, she should know better, maybe she was attention seeking.
Clearly you know nothing of British culture, boiled meat was not just common it was the default way to cook for centuries right up until the mid 20th century for many families. Have you ever made a casserole/stew/curry with a cut that needed cooking for a while to make it tender? if so you were BOILING it! Boiled beef and carrots was the default sunday joint, brisket or silverside. Even boiling a chicken was common practise. You might be English but you might want to actually research English history/heritage and learn something!
Really well said! Although I definitely have the sneaking suspicion that others who have commented haven't really read what you wrote.
That's not British culture, that's British culture circa half a century ago. Liam is likely a young lad. How in the fuck is he going to know about how people boiled their meat during World War II? Other than when I eat Stew, I have hardly ever had boiled meat either. It's really not a thing here any more.
I love Reese's accent. Its adorable!
+Abbyc983 I know right? she's a typical Georgian.
Norton's face at 2:26 had me in stiches
I believe Ms. Kingston is under the impression that L.A. stretches from the West Coast all the way to the East Coast.
the Natives introduced turkey to the Pilgrims not the other way around!
+The Bodeica Nope, just look it up. Turkeys are native to the Americas. That's why we love to eat turkey so much throughout most of the Americas.
+lisa lisalisa That's what was cracking me up about the whole thing, but nobody brought it up. She's like, "What do you eat?" Then acts surprised when the guy says turkey, like, "You have those in America?" Fucking what, lady? Next you're going to ask if we have bison burgers.
Reginald didn't say that turkeys were introduced by pilgrims. He made the point that pilgrims spread out from the northeast through Georgia, bringing their traditions. Try listening.
Apparently they hunted turkeys and a European at the end divided the kill up and was not fare , the Native American said "Let's talk Turkey '....
The "green stuff" is called watergate salad btw. It's pistachio pudding with whipped cream and walnuts...
THANK YOU! I was yelling that at the screen, lol! All three of them were confused! đ
+Jester JLay That's them British idiots for you
or that lime jello and cottage cheese thing.......
+Aaron Price we apologise for being idiotic since we don't have the same food as you..
Lindsey Hailey apology accepted ;)
Ya'll haven't experinced winter until you've lived in Buffalo, NY. Coldest place on the east coast during the winter. LOL
+Hiddles Beotch not this year! :D
+Hiddles Beotch lol no its not, try Maine
I went to Upstate NY in May and it was 20 degrees! OMG, ya'll get it hard!
Northern ohio gets that damn lake effect. Colder than a witches tit in a brass bra.
I live in California and itâs 57 degrees rnđ”đ”
Evidently this woman has never seen an Australian Christmas
What a funny guy
Thanks for posting.
um...I think she's talking about Watergate Salad aka Pistachio Salad. It a a southern dish that is usually served during the Holiday season.
Iâm in love with this show
Reese wasn't being condescending she was being honest, I don't
Know what green thing she ended up with,business as a well traveled southerner I can assure you nothing green is supposed to be used in sweet potato casserole! I love Alex just watched her
Who do you think you are ,video not to long ago,beautiful lady .
Graham's face @ 2:26 ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I fell in love with her when I first saw her on Dr, Who as River Song.
I love a woman w/ a southern accent
How British are you?
Alex Kingston: Yes!
LMAO I love Alex
She is thinking of green ambrosia salad... which is actually very tasty :)
Oh gross, no. Don't lie. This is disgusting.
Reese Witherspoon, absolutely gorgeous!
Green is the Watergate salad. Very southern
Love you man. đ
reeseâs little âwhat?â squeaking out of nowhere afjjdjdjsp
Most of America is cold on Christmas. The only places that aren't are Florida and California, possibly Nevada. But really, I live in the Midwest in Indiana and we get brutally cold winters with tons of snow. I've never NOT had snow on Christmas.
That sounds like a blessing and a curse.
it pretty much doesn't get that cold in the southwest either. i live in the desert part of Arizona and i've seen VERY light snow here and that's pretty much it :P it's already in November and it's still pretty hot out during the day.
I live in central Florida and we never get snow :(
That's not quite accurate. It almost never snows on Christmas in the southeast as a whole. It's hardly COLD by midwest, northern, or English standards. We grill outdoors on Christmas Day every year. If we get snow, it usually happens in February.
DakNJaxter looks like u haven't spent a Christmas in central Texas
Midwest winters are like a mini artic. I have had Christmas in negative weather
this was great xD
lol! Alex needs to come over to my house for thanksgiving and xmas!
She meant Pistachio Salad! =) It's a Thanksgiving tradition for some (my family too).
It's green with marshmallows, pineapples, and nuts usually.
@@amandab9748 that sounds like vomit. What sort of human puts that together? Eeesh
Reece went so deep south there
I like alex kingston n reginald d hunter I wished he called her maam when she asked him wot does he eat at christmas
Christmas in Australia: BBQ and a swimming pool :D
yeah, It's not just Britain but every country thinks differently about the other, but i think that the other countries view America as the most strangest country of them all, especially since were a mixed ethnicity country, so tradition differs.
Dam I wish I had a voice like Reginald's.
Alex is so pretty here, I love her!
I just want to scream at her: IT'S AMBROSIA SALAD WITH GREEN JELLO!!! đđ
alex is so cute! XD going straight to the food. "...yeah that's good WHAT DO YOU EAT? OuO" also i used to live in LA and yeah...we only get like...one season. =3=;; not cold.
pistachio pudding is the green dessert she is referring to. It's actually really good "homemade"
@LuvsLoliverAndAvatar i'm from Ireland and weather in UK & Ireland varies very little in winter, so a good winter is one we there has been little to no ice, so weather that never has this is actually strange to us folks on this side of the pond.
"It do get cold."
Reese's reaction to Reg saying "white people" is perfect, haha.
We have ham for Christmas.
@ProjectLonely I agree with you too lol xD... even though I live in Australia so it's summer during christmas we always go down to melbourne to visit relatives and it's colder there xD
It's funny that Alex judges American weather by L.A. because there are lots of places in the states that get way colder all winter long than the British Isles do along with those other locales that retain some modicum of heat in the atmosphere that the rest of us then envy.
we get fucking blizzards in the south. mostly unexpectedly, but it happens none the less. it will be frost cold outside but by 2 it is a good comfy 50-60 degrees, at least in nc. i fucking love reginald, he is too damn hilarious!!!!
"That potato salad with marshmallows on the stuff and this green stuff"âŠomfg. I mean. Pretty valid questions though. Everyone does something different at Christmas.
People get so annoyed so easily, chill, she's just making conversation
My family's the type that makes two kinds of gravy, three kinds of cranberry sauce, and five different pies, but it wasn't until a marriage united us with that sweet potato dish and that something with green beans. I imagine they're similar to the results of what would happen if life on other planets tried to mimic earth human food.
Try camping out in the Arizona desert; you'll see how cold it can get.
Alex would find an aussie christmas very strange
She is hilarious. Even UK does not have proper Winter then talks like this. xD
funny! the impressions people overseas have.
Omfg I'm dying, so is Reece
same here, I'm Asian American and in my school we have a lot of foreign students, who study abroad and they often get the wrong idea about Americans, but once they get to know us, they think differently. I live in Cali and I love to approach foreigners to get to know them more & I would often get asked strange questions, especially because I'm Asian, but born and raised in America. So yeah, I think everyone ask stupid questions once in a while, not just one country ^_^
i love how some people in the american south think they get it cold..generally it's a matter of perspective..compared to wisconsin or minnesota or Britain..no..they don't get cold weather..just what they THINK is cold..
It was 7 degrees in Alpharetta, Ga last January. The next day it was a whopping 9 degrees. That's cold.
You do realize that the guy who said it, Reg D, lives the majority of the year in Britain? So he doesn't just think it gets cold, he has experienced the difference.
Are turkeys not actually originally American??
We make it nice!!!!!!!
haha, I like warm Christmas but it's actually cold, no snow but still freezing Marshmallow with potato salad. If it did have marshmallows in it, then my brothers favorite food would no longer be their favorite. "Do you have turkey?"Thanksgiving or what I like to say "Turkey day" one of my most favorite holidays, this year we bought about 5 turkeys. I live in Cali, so it's pretty warm, but I love camping and usually camp in the snow, so yeah, their is snow in America, but in certain parts.
Where dose she think turkey originally came from?
Do you know where fish and chips comes from without looking it up?
the green stuff could be ambrosia salad, almost akin to a fruit salad
If she wanted to be picky about Christmas, she should really know that Turkey wasnât the traditional Christmas meat in the UK up until fairly recently. It used to be Goose.
Sometimes I wonder if europeans realize the US is almost as big as europe as a whole. Spain is like Arizona and Finland is like Minnesota.
pretty sure America's bigger anyway. unless you count that slice of Russia and Kazakhstan
for sure a Miami Christmas will be qualitatively different than a Boston one - in Washington DC, Christmas is still too early for snow, that comes in January - but the traditions are generally similar - some variations do occur, Catholic v Protestant, Anglo v Latino, differences in religious traditions, as one would expect. I enjoyed my culture bubble as a child, the multicultural nuances were lost on me, it was all Christmas carols, tree decorating, present giving, a feast of some sort - still doing it
i think she knows how big america is and how climate works, she just said something that in her head sounded right but didn't come out right, you know she's human she made a mistake.
Spain is bigger than Texas and has a population bigger than California, and Finland is four times the size of Minnesota with roughly the same population, but keep talking . . . .
I mean, that's nice, but you're completely wrong. Spain is ~194,000 square miles, Texas is ~268,000 square miles. Texas is bigger. You're right that Finland is a bit bigger than Minnesota but nothing close to four times. It is more like 25% bigger. In terms of population, yes Europe is more densely populated, but that's not what I was talking about. My main point was that the US is massive and a winter in Texas vs a winter in Minnesota is as different as Spain vs FInland. Totally different regions. Arizona is almost as far from Minnesota as Spain is from Finland. Los Angeles is farther from New York than London is from Moscow.
Have to say. As an Anglo Irish Brit. I do like the southern accent on ladies.
The food she was talking about is, I think, a kind of sweet potato casserole with marshmallow and green apple topping. Pretty strange stuff.
Oh my goodness the hate on Alex is uncalled for.
I was a tad cringe...was like watching your old aged nan talking to someone unsupervised. Just waiting for her to say something hellish ha
Never really had much of an opinion on Reese or Reginald before seeing them on the show, but now I love them. :)
Alex? Eh.. she's okay.
And now I hate them. I'm Southern just like them and they misinterpreted Alex's comments and questions entirely and them tore her apart for them. Extremely rude.
Damn, she was my favorite in Doctor Who, but after watching this. I'm not sure, plus where is she getting her food references from?
Hah! If she wants to see cold and snow in the Winter she should come to Maine! I think we probably get more than they do in England. Funny how British folk think the US is either New York, LA, or the South.
it's colored marshmallows on the sweet potatoes
the only potato salad i've ever had was pretty much potatoes, mustard, mayo, and celery. maybe she was thinking about celery for the "green stuff"? idk where she was getting marshmallows from though :P
i'm pretty sure she meant sweet potato casserole, but I'm not sure what the green stuff is. lol
The "green stuff" is Pistachio Salad. She got it confused with 'potato salad.'
She was confused and mixing up potato salad with watergate salad aka pistachio salad, which is kind of a dessert we serve in the South on holidays.
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And then the Boxing Day Test the next day :)
or Falls, if you have the money, or organisational skills, which I dont
She has a large ring.
Does she know the turkey comes from North America originally?
She starred in _ER_ so she should know that.
Uh,, Turkey is native to America.
Uh, no. They are native to Russia, Korea and Manchuria also. So your point is?
@@gazzaclarkson2547What? Turkey is indigenous to the Americas. Not sure why you wouldn't even bother to double check yourself before posting.
Potatoe salad with marshmallows on top?????? omg I die! hahaha
It's real. Sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. Sometimes pecans and/or crushed cornflakes.
Yuk! Sweet potatoes are bad enough, why stick marshmallows on top? As for yams..I thought they were carrots, until I tasted them, believe they have brown sugar on them, like their baked beans have the same. Nearly everything I had as regards American food, seemed weird...Salad with fruit in jelly?
I think turkey and potatoes are both New World foods. Europeans were eating Christmas goose before turkey became popular.
I know what she's talking about. My Grandma makes that stuff. Anybody else had that green stuff before?
A lot of offended people Brits and Americans unnecessarily so ,Alex didn't mean anything offensive and I don't believe Reggie or Reese did either it's just what happens when cultures are feeling one another out. We all make assumptions about what is
Stereotypical behavior ,Brits think all Americans are uneducated dolts,and Americans think that Brits are all tea swilling snobs ! The truth is that we need to find out about individuals one on one instead of grouping nations as this or that! Most assumptions are as the famous saying goes when you assume you make a ass out of you and me! Love to both the UK and the USA!
@thehushsound15 i understand what u mean, and im english and Dont think all americans are fat, but now you how us english feel when americans or others say we are all really posh and stuck up..because we arent.
I think Alex was talking about ambrosia salad; it's typically green with marshmellow, but there aint no potatoes in there----that's gross.
lonelycompany that green jello mess is nasty, sweet potatoes couldnât make it any worse
In her defense LA can seem like its own planet with a variety of culture, especially the rich upper class. The people Alex knew may have had Christmas dinner with Kale and bean salads. This is LA we're talking about. You cant judge that all Americans are the same.
Just the rich eat like that here. lololol, regular people live here too...
Turkey đŠ is actually an American import . Youâre supposed to eat goose but thatâs rare in The UK now.
I bet she doesn't know there is Christmas in Australia đŠđđđ
Alex wasnt trying to insult anybody! She was just genuinely confused. Stop hating on her.
+whimsicallymad Jesus thank you! Reese fucking steamrolled Alex before she could even finish her thoughts!
I know! Alex specifically said LA when referring to the heat, she didnt say all of America. Please don't insult her, people
She came across as really dumb
No she is just painfully ignorant
Graham, your job is safe.