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- Ricky Gervais tests his knowledge of British slang. From "dishy" to "cheesed off," the comedian takes you through some "bog-standard" British words and phrases.
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I like that he described most of these with just different British Slang words
Whenever I hear the word vadge, I always think of Madonna.
"He's a geezer, he's a bloke, he's a good lad." Alright then...
haha that’s the only way to describe them and do them justice
@@Armuotas You know! He's a diamond, he's minty. Salt of the earth. Kushty! You know! Geezer....
@@Armuotas Yes, it's so hard to understand.
he's a geezer, he's a bloke, he's a good lad...
hes a chap
Smokes and gambles
A good auld sod he is
He's sound
We Americans have geezer. It’s usually a very old decrepit person.
As a british bloke myself, this man is a national treasure
Init, i know when/how to use slang but I wouldn’t fuckin be able to explain it as well as him
One could say he's an absolute geezer
You're a right geezer.
init x
Noel Westwood you sound so mad about people fighting for equality.....
If you can laugh at yourself the way Gervais laughs at his own jokes, you've got life by the tail
👆🏻👌🏻
@@tommedcouk 👉 👌 there, corrected you
GYANDEEP SINGH (B15EE014) prick 🙄
Or should that be todger? 😄
Honestly though
We say “cheers” a lot in the UK basically in place of thanks.
ahh man when I went to UK for my uni and everybody and everywhere people were saying cheers everytime, like at the end of the convo, as a thanks and in my head cheers means when you clink your beer glass 😂
Big up
it's used as a thank you and, maybe ive understood it wrong all these years, but a sort of goodbye as well? "I'll see you later" "Cheers, mate."
As well as "Tah"
@@jaymercer4692 cheers
I've never seen one of these british slang videos where someone explains the words so well as this one
Well Ricky's "educated"
Nah, Simon Pegg and Henry Cavill's slang video was well explained too
You should visit Lancashire lol
@Marshall Carwood what never heard of that for tea.
@Marshall Carwood well proof how can you prove something when you grew up with it. My father used it he was RN.
I love how Ricky explained the meaning of the slang word "geezer" using the slang words "bloke" and "lad"
ikr 😂
He forgot to say diamond geezer, the dodgy geezer.
I never realised bloke and lad were slang words, I’m too British 😂
@@sophiemell9752 I didn't know that the word 'bloke' is basically not used in American until more recently. That's when I realised I'm probably too British too.
@@sophiemell9752 I read your comment with my American accent, saw the last part about you being British, then had to read your comment again with a British accent 😂
Don’t forget anything is slang in Britain as long as you accompany the noun with ‘absolute’. He’s an absolute.... with literally any object.
Castle. Tree. Lump. Gap. Yurt. Flap. You're right! Bloody good observation mate!
donut is the best on
He's an absolute unit
my personal favourite is ‘s/he’s an absolute plonker’
Ethan Yeethan my dad says that one a lot, sometimes throws in the occasional you absolute cabbage as well
British slang: a multitude of ways to complain
A multitude of ways to tell you something 4:11
Australians call them "whinging poms"
British slang - a thousand words for man and ladyparts
@@annother3350 yea they actually make the slang longer than the original words his explanations were shorter than the slang lol
German then, almost :D
Karl: "She was ya bog standard old woman"
Are we burning or burying?
Not to be confused with elephant woman
I was really hoping this was gonna be in the comments haha!
Ricky: "are we burin or buryin"
hahaha
As a foreigner who lives in the UK, this is video is solid education
Awww bless you ✌🏻😘
@@sandihagger6478 This is another thing that one hears in Britain all the time "aw, bless you." It's basically a kind hearted but simultaneously patronising way to recognise another person's naivety. Typical usage would be, "bless her, she's harmless."
@@Topophobia Not necessarily patronising. One can do something helpful for someone and they would reply "aw bless you" meaning that's really kind of you.
@@Topophobia yeah ok if you say so .... I’ve been using the saying for years in a nice friendly way not patronising at all 🤷♀️... thanks for your detailed opinion as we are all entitled to one 🙌🏻 stay safe!!!
@@Sophie.S.. Totally agree thank you 🙏 stay safe x
I love how he not only explains the word, but puts it in a sentence then gives us examples of how to use it and answeres it as if it was a question. 🤣
does america really not have the word 'grim' cause i thought that was just a word and not slang
We do, but means more like dark or dreary.
I thought the same about shambolic, I’m sure that’s just a word? Like shambles
@@tonyfandango8182 american here, for sure have used the word shambles before but never heard of shambolic before
Grim is definitely used in America, in the same context Ricky describes. Maybe it's used more frequently in Britain?
We definitely have grim. Life is grim right now.
Haha, using slang to explain slang.... Yep, he's British..
Legend
Lad is such a slang word.
CJ init man
As a British woman, Todger is my favourite word. It’s my dogs nickname.
"i'm not cheesed off about anything, although anything can cheese me off"
that is the most fitting description of me too :D
Seeing Ricky Gervais having a laugh while sitting in front of all his trophies makes me happy.
A national treasure
Love him absolute genius ✌🏻❤️
"Smack in the face.
What is a smack in the face Karl?"
"When sum'un THUMPS you"
THUMP
@@ambergracejones punches you!!!
Lol
Done him up like a kipper
Karl's slang is just something else
OK which American college intern here didn't know we say grim.
Exactly.
Yeah that's the odd one out for sure, at least in my book. It's weird seeing him search for examples for something that...means something already. Obviously the conceit here is how they'd differ but as far as I can tell both cultures use it the same way.
Seems the brits tend to use it more than us, and in a wider variety of situations. But the meaning itself hasn't strayed far.
Just my .02 as a kid of 2 english teachers who spends too much time watching linguistics videos.
Well it's seems it's more about how the word has a UK only meaning we just don't utilize. Like we also have the word 'Pants' but it's not the same thing. US english speakers don't use 'Grim' for 'Grimey'
@@TrebleWing do u lot say peng or nah?
“Bog standard old woman” - KP
"Are we burning or burying"
What can we say about Hilda?
PLEASE do more of these! I’m an American who grew up in England for 8 years and feel more British than Yankie - absolutely LOVE the British use of language, especially slang.
haha love that.
Ricky is a diamond geezer chin wagging about slang words in his gaff whilst having a bevvy.
Gaff is apartment?
@@jevicci Gaff is slang for house or apartment.
jevicci gaff is the just place you live. “I’ll see you back at the gaff” for example.
and having a bevvy
hes a top chap waffling about slang in his yard having a brew!!
I love how he is genuinely trying to teach the words instead of just saying what they mean.
at the end when he said "with me, ricky gervais" i also heard ..."steven merchant and the little round headed buffoon that is... karl pilkington"
That brings back some fond memories.
Best show ever
alrite
me too!
Ooooh chimpanzee that!
Americans don’t say shambolic? The irony...
hehehe
It’s a slang word I recognized, we just don’t use it as often as you might.
And considering the unabated entropy of The British Empire and your post-Brexit state, I think both of us see the necessity in shambolic.
There’s something about Ricky’s genuineness that effervesces in my heart and bubbles up with grateful laughter. Fun and fascinating! Thank you! 😁
Ricky is a national treasure
Global treasure
more like a pirate.
Ricky should be in charge he's a proper geezer😁
@George Job is it a "still relevant" crack, being in the public eye ?
He could plunder me anytime....
5:52 ... I don’t use that word either, ´cos I’m educated too. I say “slash”.
as a brit, i didn't know half these words were slang. Genuinely thought they was just normal words
Same
"She was your bog standard old woman" - Karl Pilkington
Dear Mr. Dilkington... 😁
Was looking for this comment
Gervais’ definitions are spot on, but it feels so weird hearing them defined. Us Brits say have some really weird slang!
Can't say I've ever heard that second definition of pants, though!
yea its weird to see the difference in american slang and slang brits use
@@elly8353 I used to say pants at school in the 90's. We called everything pants.
@@zebbedi Ah, that explains it. I was born in '99, so it's a bit before my time.
Don't be daft as a brush ( you KNOW how daft the average brush is !) and I'm not flummoxed and I am not going to cause a brouhaha but some of these words are dowdy that only a nincompoop would say.Please do not misunderstand as I am not trying to flimflam anyone because this is not a load of baloney at all.
Toodle-Pip....
I just adore this guy. Really smart AND really funny, if you really pay attention. Wonderful guy.
Off-licence is not slang. It's standard terminology. "Offy" is the slang for off-licence. "Going down to the offy, do you want anything?". Fairly sure it's also called "the outdoor" in some parts of the country.
Always called it the offy think Ricky is a bit posher than us peasants 🤣😂
"Going down the offy, do you want owt?" *****
I’ve heard it called an “outdoor” which was a new one on me.
Louise Giles vanity fair provide the terms for the celebrity giving the definition...not the other way around
We call them bottle shops here in Australia!
‘Here lies Hilda, she was your bog standard old woman. Right, are we burnin’ or buryin’?’
A classic.
Was thinking this
They didn't cover "Bollocks" and "The dogs bollocks" ;)
@@VauxhallViva1975 they're probably not aware of the link to bog standard. Maybe Ricky isn't either.
Sandwiches at the bar
What you should really be watching is "Learn English with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington"
That is absolute gold!
If anyone reading this have not yet seen it, I highly recommend you stop everything and find this masterpiece and watch (I believe it's here on CZcams).
Here it is: czcams.com/video/Xw2bTpyHGCE/video.html
write2chrome
Worth it. Thank you!
Just listen to the entire XFM series.
I watch it at least 3 times a year
1:53 he wanted to say “it’s grim up North”
"Like Middlesbrough"
Grimsby?
@@lukeytutube Like anywhere north of Bristol.
Sheffield. Definitely Sheffield
Luke May I point you in the direction of the ‘Jeff Stelling Middlesborough rant’ 😆
"Geezer". Example sentence: "We come out, and there's this gammy little geezer in a wheelchair, right?"
"stood next to him is a brick shithouse built geezer swinging a bike chain"
Great reference, that scene was BRILLIANT :-).
what's this a reference to?
Suchit Vontary after life, the show Ricky is in
@@emmalouise8675 I saw both the first and the second season but cannot remember that scene. when was it?
I'm a Brit and I haven't heard some of these in years, takes me back to childhood.
I second that. Haven't said pants since I was at school in the 90's.
Ya Brit r ya? Please marry me so i can live there too,i'll be a gooden to you, and i will take you out for a Ruby every nite !
@@GabberHeadzNL what a muppet
@@GabberHeadzNL Curry every night? I hope you can afford the daily toilet repair bill.
It's cause our parents used to say it but anyone under 30 didn't really say it. Cool memories tho
off-license isn't slang the slang would be "im going to the offie"
Good point.
never heard that
Off-Licence - Off-premises licence: a establishment licenced to sell alcohol to be drunk off of the premises as opposed to a pub. A public house licenced to serve alcohol in tended to be drunk on the premises
Yeah off-licence is just what it's actually called, I've always called it the offie 🤷🏻♂️
Called it 'the outdoor' in my ends
I’m watching this even though I’m British, it’s just so amusing watching Ricky tell me things I already know.
I love you RICKY big fan! Love your art , your talent , your humor , your laugh is magical ❤️
I love how they censored "American" slurs, but not "British," as if CZcams won't recognize other dialects, languages, other countries' slang, etc - or the people watching this. Makes sense.
Americentric, Vanity Fair. (:
Ricky is just a funny guy. One of the celebs I wouldn't mind meeting in real life.
Now I'm curious, which celeb *would* you mind meeting in real life?
I love how he laughs with his listeners.
Calling someone a “geezer” in America is usually used with “old” to describe an older person. I’m surprised to learn that it can be seen as a compliment in Britain
Only if you're in the sort of circles where people like "a man's man" in a mid-20th century caricature-like sort of way. I wouldn't want to hang out with anyone who sees that as a compliment.
When used as a compliment, particularly in the greater London area, the word geezer is often prefixed with diamond. For example, "He's a diamond geezer". Which is a big compliment.
We say old geezer over here too, but rarely in a derogatory way. e.g.: 'Sorry,mate. I don't know where that is. Try asking that old geezer over there. He might know...'
it means the same here in England, usually you'd call them 'old geezer' instead. personally, I'm not fond of slang in general.
@@shitposter1000 Sorry, Mon Ami... I think you may have been replying to me thinking I was replying to your previous, when in fact I was replying to Daisy. 😀
I'm a retired _'old geezer'_ living in the Medway Towns, Kent.
*_R_* 😀
Finally I witnessed a British individual questioning the meaning of cheers 🙏🏼
Cheers!
Short for be of good cheer?
Clint Hosking - Yes.
I started saying cheers to the bus driver. Now it's just habit and everytime I say it I feel stupid because I have no idea what it really means
Enjoying a bevvy as I watch this.
Was it nice Earl Gray?
@@danielzajic6789 oh you innocent being
I was watching it with nice cold pilsner
@@danielzajic6789 It was an impudent little chardonnay.
Your grim mate
i love that he has to connect everything to beer in the beginning to keep going. I'll have a bevvy as i watch the video then
Off licence is spelled with a C.
License is a verb. Licence is a noun, so in the sense of “off licence” (a shop selling alcohol), it’s a noun.
Also, as I learned this term in english class in the early eighties. I don't believe it was considered "slang" at all.
@@sandorrabe5745 The slang would be 'offie', as in 'I'm going to the offie'
Spellcheck doesn’t help the confusion.
6:24
"...Stephan Merchant"
"Hello"
"And the bald headed chimp that is Karl Pilkington"
" alright"
bald.
Bold is thicker and outlined. Bald is without or missing. (bald tyres, bald head)
Bold writing
Bold actions.
get it? bald, not bold.
ok
the actual quote you were looking for is "round headed buffoon"
i wouldn't say it's an "alright", i'd say it's more of an "oint"
She's your bog standard old woman
Derek is one of the greatest shows and it's so underrated
I need another video like this...with Ricky...please🙏!
Now I need the uncut version please.
Learn English with Ricky Gervais pt 2
I understood that reference!
i'd like a back, sack and crack wax please
Lul
The hair on my crack hasn't grown back, nor has the hair on my back. But my SACK is very hairy.
Educating Ricky
As a loyal XFM listener, I already knew them, even though I'm Swedish.
For example:
•The eulogy for the bog standard old woman
•The 70 year old who went into an off licence but they thought he was a baby
•The Russian whos dad cut off Hitler's todger.
Amongst others...
Tinpot radio show fans are the best
Play a record
I miss Saturdays! Best radio show ever.
@@tipperary1082 tinpot?
@@bfc2155 Yes
*"he's got his todger caught in his zip"* 😂😂😂😂😂
I demand that you release this uncut
"You don't have the word 'Grim' in America?" 🤣🤣
Of course we do.
If you'd asked me before today, I wouldn't have guessed shambolic was British slang. Seems like a regular word.
re 'grim' and 'shambolic', I think that was down to the interviewers lack of experience and knowledge. Maybe, in your vast country, different words are used in different places, so 'shambolic' etc gets dropped in favour of other words?
We use geezer too.
We do!!
“I don’t use that term because I’m educated”
‘Old industrial town, grim’
Literally just described Grimsby like I live there it’s awful
You live in Grimsby, and your name is Codd? Comedy gold that is
No one has said ‘It’s grim up North’ or is that racist now?
@@tracik1277 it is what it is my friend it is grim up north though
@@jamescodd3911 Travelled all over the UK and I can say Aberdeen is even more grim than Grimsby
@@tracik1277 No its not racist & it still is up there.
Wonderful. Please post more videos like this
I saw that geezer's todger when is was having a waz. It was grim
Glancer, glancing is a beatable offense
@@stupidhandles You'd beat someone off for glancing? You slaaaaaag😂
Don't get Lemon and come the old acid, Darling.....
I'm not flummoxed and I am not going to cause a brouhaha but some of these words are dowdy that only a nincompoop would say.
Please do not misunderstand as I am not trying to flimflam anyone because this is not a load of baloney at all.
Toodle-Pip....
@@Isleofskye Err.... good try...
He shouldn't have done it in the middle of a shambolic off-license then. As a Canadian, geezer is an old guy you don't particularly respect. So I could say: I saw an old geezer's junk when he took a leak. It was gross. I'm never going to that messed up liquor store again.
“Grim” isn’t slang, it’s just a normal word. So is “shambolic”.
on the ven diagram of Slang and English Words I'd say they teeter towards Slang, mainly because Yanks don't use them
grim has a slang meaning in the UK, which is different to the general meaning
True. Think about the word 'safe' in this regard. It's an actual word, yet in British slang it can mean that you like something/this person is decent/everything is cool etc... You're not wrong though
I guess if it is commonly used in one place but not another you could argue it is slang. Kind of a fuzzy subject that someone probably has a PhD in somewhere.
Some slang words exist only in slang form (e.g. bling) but slang words can also be normal worlds otherwise (e.g. cuckoo is a bird, but it's also someone mad in slang). What makes them slang is not that they are special off-beat words but that they are also used in a slang / not official context.
Love this. can we have a part 2
I love Ricky's background. The guitar. His awards.
lol a geezer in Canada is an old person
Yup that’s what I know an old person as “an old geezer”
Steven Bailey It can be. But it covers most ages over 18.
That’s pretty much everywhere that speaks English, not just Canada lol
Well yeah Ricky should've mentioned it means old as well. Also waz can mean lies or BS like "Don't trust him, he's chatting waz" Although youd say it like wass.
@@joshualucas Where I grew up, the standard greeting was "Alright geez?"
I didn't realise that phrases I use pretty much every day could be so strange to another English speaking folk.
Sometime, when I watch British or Irish shows or movies, I have to have subtitles on. Especially with Guy Ritchie movies. Lol
@@kizersosay28 guy Ritchie films generally come across quite fake to us brits, gets called Mockney instead of cockney. Still decent films but the dialogue is more of a caricature
Matt Roberts - ‘Gor blimey, luv a duck!’
I'm not flummoxed and I am not going to cause a brouhaha but some of these words are dowdy that only a nincompoop would say.
Please do not misunderstand as I am not trying to flimflam anyone because this is not a load of baloney at all.
Toodle-Pip....
Don't get Lemon and come the old acid, My Son......Liberties...
Finally! Been waiting for this.
I love his realisation at the end that Cheers is also slang lol
I still remember the first time someone said cheers to me and I was sort of confused and delighted at the same time (confused because I didn't know the word in that context, delighted because it sounded fun and I now knew a new way of saying thanks).
I had literally just stepped foot on English soil for the first time, right there at the airport someone overloaded with stuff dropped their skis and I picked them up for him. Never forget your first genuine 'cheers!' lol. 😅
Would get used to it lad we say it all the time
@@kitinderwick4211 I did get used to it. This was about 7 or 8 years ago. ^^
If that happened now they’d probably say: ‘oi get 2m back and don’t touch my skis’
The first time I heard cheers was in Toronto. Everyone says it.
Woah here in Australia it's as fundamental as "thanks".
Cheers!
Describes Geezer using other British slang 🤣 lad, bloke 🤣
Lol exactly, he described it using 2 slang words.
tbh everyone knows what lad and bloke mean
Lad isn't slang. Smh.
Dude would probably be the best equivalent
geezer is Cockney; never heard it any where else.
Im in love with this guy!
Gotta absolutely love Ricky
He explains the meanings with so much detail and passion hahahah
Not only is he one of the funniest and wisest entertainers out there, but I just love listening to him talk. He skips over consonants in the middle of words which for some reason delights me. Just the best - innit?
He’s not wise lol he’s just a super far left atheist and every 30-year-old and younger thanks that makes somebody “brilliant”. He supports freedom of speech and is against outrage culture which is good but that should be the norm not praised. As well as essentially all conservatives that support that.
@@jessejive117 I'm 61. Seems wise to me.
@@jeffreyherre4992 beautiful response
@@jeffreyherre4992 that says more about you than it does Gervais
He is soooo over-rated! OK, he starred in and wrote the most successful British Sitcom of all-time and been the Executive Producer of the 10 series of THe USA one and written and starred in Extras, Oh ! and Derek and written Life's Too Short and, of course, he broke the World Record for selling out the quickest Nationwide Tour AND broke another World Record for most-watched Podcasts with SM. Oh! and he wrote and starred in a few films appearing in cameo roles in others. Has written some excellent Award-Winning Books. Hosted his own Chat Shows and Radio Shows and been a Presenter at The Golden Globes etc....OTHER THAN THAT...
WHAT HAS HE DONE ????
He is an amazing human being and a free,brave great thinker.
I just love how he laughs.
The first three we say in Canada too
I love when Ricky laughs about something he's just said 🤣❤️
"I'm not complaining" Luv Ricky
More slang! Love it
“Comedy is a place where the mind goes to tickles itself, that’s what she said.” - If you know, you know..
Gimme a hug
GRIM we also have in Scandinavia. The fairytale "Den grimme ælling" (The Ugly Duckling) was written by the Danish writer H.C. Andersen in 1843.
That's interesting: a lot of words in English have Viking roots (the AEngles, the root name of the country England, were Danish invaders).
I live in Maine, USA, and we actually do use some of these terms! The others, I was able to guess quite accurately! Cheers!
Spreading good cheer..cheery.
i wanna hear what doctor pilkington has ta say about this kinda wordage..
n that.
oh look i cant be doin with it.
its stressin me out.
There's too many words... Lot of words...
Squoze , Bidded , Foodage to name a few
@@grease_monkey6078 Glunge
gimme some of that koosabi♥
CZcams recommended a new video to me...miracles do happen.
We use “cheesed off” in Canada too. But really any word proceeded by “off” is almost universally understood.
That's rubbish, bugger off :-)
“Pissed off” in Canada means angry but “pissed” or “pissed to the gills” means drunk. Took me a while to figure out Americans saying they were pissed were angry, not intoxicated!
Jenny Allworthy we have the same in the UK and I still find the US usage strange. My grandfather used to say “ browned off” which has now died out and I think was a London term.
@@MartinParnham Yes, my dad said browned off. I suppose that’s politically incorrect now.
Also, what about ‘ I’ve got the hump’? They are all so funny!
It’s interesting how most of these British slang words a used by us in Australia. Especially, my generation born in the 60’s. We do have some of our own which seem related to the poms’ slang. Birko, was a kettle manufacturer. To go birko is to be boiling over, angry.
Between 1788 and 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, about 7000 arrived in 1833 alone. The convicts were transported as punishment for crimes committed in Britain and Ireland. In Australia their lives were hard as they helped build the young colony.
"I'm having a mare. This builders tea is pants."
Moreish... as in “this crack is very moreish”
He says hello and I laugh 😅😂
Thanks for the educational moment mate. Have another go with some more slang please.
He makes it so much fun to watch ;)
This had me howling! Ricky Gervais is so funny!!
Ricky is seriously such a bloody national treasure
As an Aussie I knew all of these . We share quite a bit of slang . Love Ricky
Love this man so much
I'm surprised they didn't use "shambles" instead of shambolic
I can't believe Shambles/shambolic is only a British thing
@@antonschembri8080 Shambles is shared shambolic is not.
No one has ever said bevvy and meant a cup of tea
Yup. A cup of tea is a brew!
@@toffee2547 If you'd like a cuppa, I'l make a brew.
Brew can mean both though
@@lets_rock_and_ride5943 nah brew is always a cup of tea up north. if you said you wanted a brew and meant a beer i'd think you were north american
Ricky Gervais is a proper "Geezer"! Love him!
Love you, Ricky!