My friends receptionist is a "New York Italian". She went to Italy, her Italian was so bad people started talking to her in English. She gets pissed insists she's Italian. A guy says where are you born Rome? No Queens, everybody in the Bar laughed their asses off.
That's because an Italian doesn't speak Italian, he talk in dialect. Even between neighbouring towns there are differences, the phrase "let's go" can be translated as "andiamo" in italiano but "imo" in my dialect, and "nnamo" in Roman dialect {60 miles apart from my town} and "iemu" in a town nearby 20 miles.
@@cosiabuffo8527 They speak dialect among others who speak the same dialect, but they are taught to speak Italian since they start kindergarten. It’s a requirement.
It's quite a sad thing actually. Italian Americans, for most part, have little to no idea of their Italian roots, dunno what Italians are like, dunno shit about Italy, & hell, they don't even know if they actually have Italian blood! but regardless, they proudly brand themselves as Italians, & behave like mafia, cuz that's all they know.
Jim Patterson lol I know!!! It feels like when he’s impersonating people with different accents, I close my eyes and it sounds like there are multiple people on stage talking to him!
& true Italian people hate them for branding themselves to be Italian & acting what appeared to be Italian to them, despite the fact that they can't speak Italian & hardly knows anything about Italy.
Do you dumbasses ever understand that when most of these immigrants came to the U.S. they all understood that it was important to speak a unifying language since there were people coming from all over the world to the U.S. and could not communicate with each other otherwise. But of course I have to explain such a logical reason since you geniuses can't figure that out.
Royal Emery & do you understand the concept of blending in without having to sacrifice your own ancestral culture? That you can easily pick up TWO languages without having to resort to "us or them" mentality all the time? In extension, do you know how many languages a person can actually easily pick up just during the first 10 years of thier life? Of course you don't. You're a genius who thinks he's figured out everything about being multicultural after all.
Frankie Basile lol first Russell is a comedian , and he can do many accents. Why you getting butthurt. New York Italians have been in USA for many generations and have lost touch with italy,, Indians and middle easterns started coming later, like in 80s lol. They're still fresh here. Lol this is CZcams comment section , people will make all kinds of comments, and you're telling the dude it will get you hurt lol. You shouldn't watch comedy man, it's not for u.
Frankie Basile lol first am kurd from Iraq. Am not Indian. Lol, so why are you using spices from middle east and india. Lol when middle east and rest of asia had palaces and cities and agricultural , civilizations,,mathematics, foods, Europeans were still jumping from tree to tree, eating chunks of meat with no salt and spices. So you should thank middle east for introducing you to alcohol, wine , beer, sugar, coffee, tea, mathematics, architecture, even iron lol. Wheel, time, who made 24 hours, 60 minutes and so on. What did Italians make, stole everything that was Greek and others and claimed it to be their own. Go make us some pasta . In iraq, if someone ate pasta or Macronis, we say aww, poor person has no food. It's just soggy dough lol, mixed with tomato sauce . And please don't talk about cheeses, , we have cheeses million times better than your romano, or permeasan. Fancy names, that's all, yet tasteless and dry. Or oiley.
My great grandfather immigrated here from Italy in the early 20th century. He didn’t want his kids to speak any Italian because he said they needed to be American. It’s a shame that my family (and I’m sure many others) lost our language.
Yes same, my moms grandparents on her dads side both spoke Italian(I think) my great grandpa learned it from marrying my nonna who was from bologna and also from being in the mob. He was Serbian
My father and his family faced the same. Tge trouble is that certain immigrants to this country now do not want to assimilate and learn our language and culture !
In Ontario Canada there is roughly 1 million Italian immigrants who obviously speak Italian and their children speak Italian and many of their grandchildren speak Italian. Still very connected to Italy with relatives visiting or visiting back in Italy...etc. I've always noticed the Italian Americans are very watered down, I know that is starting to happen here as the older generation starts to fade out. But as the son of Italian immigrants who grew up with almost entirely Italian neighbors, friends, class mates...etc I cant stress how fortunate I feel to have grown up Italian but in Canada. My family continues many traditions that even our relatives in Italy do not carry on such as making home made cured meats, cheese, wine, growing our own vegatables, making sauce...etc. Much of Italy moved on but we here are Italians frozen in time of the old ways.
that’s actually special. I wish real italians like me in italy would do this too because we have many beautiful traditions but italy is now modernized too, you have to go to the rural areas with farms to find ancient traditions still going on.
Hmm... interesting story dude. I worked for a short while with some Italian-Canadian dude in NF, ONT, CA and the dude spoke English with an heavy Italian accent but he didn't speak a word Italian 😬 He knew probably the basic but wasn't able to hav an actual conversation in Italian. I know Italian community in NF was big and your story kinda explains somewhat his situation. I believe 90% of his personal life revolved in Italian community (bit weird for someone who's at least third or fourth generation Italian in CA). Perhaps he was faking but I never caught him faking it.
America is a much more deserve place than Canada while at the same time it pressures people to assimilate to American culture. Italians had to go through a period where they weren’t even considered white in America, so most Italians stopped even learning the language by the second generation
Nicholas Kroop and he goes “YEAH YOU! Where the fuck you get the balls to look at my girl?” “WHERE! SHOW ME! WHY DON’T FUCKING SHOW ME! TAKE ME! TAKE ME TO THE FUCKING STORE WHERE YOU GOT THE BALLS TO LOOK AT MY GIRL! WHERE?! WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THE FUCKING BALLS? WHERE?!?!?!?!?!” “Costco!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Most people that I know living in the USA and having Italian roots, they don't speak Italian even if they think they do. They speak a mixture of Sicilian and Neapolitan language, which is as if you blend Dutch and German and think that it is English
@@Anca820 of course, if you're from the South, but if you come from the North of Italy it sounds like a foreign language. Same in Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina, where there's a huge number of citizen with Italian roots (this time from the North), most of them thinking they speak Italian, but in reality it is Genoese and Venitian.
Being from South Texas, we are a pretty laid back bunch. There is a New York City Italian that lives down here. I love to hang out with that guy. He is funny as hell and doesn’t even know it.
He’s on point with his accents and jokes. He does the accents so well that I break out laughing and also can imagine that there are multiple characters in the scenario Russell is describing. Great job Russell! You rock! 😂😍
We “mostly” don’t speak fluent Italian anymore because of all the hate and discrimination we faced when are parents/grandparents came here 1880-1920. So our parents didn’t teach us Italian. They wanted us to become American. Assimilate as immigrants should. Some of us even had to change last names to be treated better or the US government changed them at Ellis Island because they couldn’t pronounce/disliked them. But we’re still very proud of our Italian blood! 🇮🇹 As is with every immigrant. Most people are proud of their heritage/ethnicity.
When Uncle Giuseppe spoke in Italian instead of English in Troy, NY, his mother Grandma Luccia used to slug him on the arm and say say, "Speaka English". This was in the late '50s... Italian-Americans wanted to speak English because THEY WERE IN AMERICA NOW, and regrettably I did not inherit the language of my ancestors.
You don't speak Italian because nobody did before 1950, long after your ancestors emigrated to the US. We all spoke only our dialect before telivision taught us to speak Italian.
@@AnthZee8 The Italian culture is known for being more expressive and open about sharing their emotional life and how they feel than many other cultures.
That's why I'll do my best to teach my son our Mexican culture. So that when we're several generations down the line of time we dont have family trying to act more Mexican than real Mexicans.
Lol or yiu can just eat your son be himself. When your born and raised dsomehere you pick up the culture of that place and the cultures surrounding it. You can be raised my Mexican parents who cane form mexico but also live in neighborhood inhabited bu philipino and Jamaicans
You should definitely do more on New York Italians. I’m Italian from New York real Italian though I speak it . But I think you’re great and would love to hear more .
Yeah everyone’s “Italian” In that audience 😂 please . I’m glad russel called out the Italian Americans about speaking the language 👍🏽👍🏽 this guys too funny and spot on 😹😹
@ItalianBoy No, you're not going to become Chinese just by speaking it. But if you ARE Italian by blood, it would be nice if you actually learned the language and connected better with your Italian roots. I think THAT's basically what she's saying. Too many people walking around almost bragging about being Italian, but if you try to speak to them in Italian, they're like "Huh??" Whaat?" and they can't even understand the simplest Italian words and greetings.
speaking Italian doesn't mean you don't know about three culture or grew up Italian espically as an italian American im 54% sicilan and my dad is 98% Italian
Italians in Italy are just regular people, nice, helpful, and interested in other cultures, I shouldn’t generalise like that but everyone I know is that way. It’s the same everywhere people always want to different from what they are and who surrounds them. The Italo-Americani overdramatise their heritage because their ancestors had to be that way to stick up against the abuse they received 70-100 years or so ago.
I was feeling a little down a while ago but just watching this video let me know that there are people out there who will make you laugh God bless you brother
He's hands down the best comedian in the whole wide world. He's en pointe with every single thing whether it's accents, gestures, even history. He appeals to the intellect and that's why he is so good.
I'm Italian and when together with some of my friends I went to USA to improve (a little bit) our English, some Americans told us that we didn't looked like Italians and also our behaviour wasn't Italian at all, when I met an Italian American and I started speaking my language (standard Italian), he told me, in Sicilian, that the language I was speaking wasn't Italian. Italian Americans look like Italians stacked in the 50's, but they forgot how to use hand gesture and how to cook traditional recipes... anyway this sketch comedy is funny only for le teste di cazzo.😁
Really? So was the guy sicilian? I know that there was neopolitans and mostly southern italians also sicilians that came to america in the late 1800s and early 1900s, maybe the languages blended? Also i noticed in italy there is alot more sea food.
😂😂...Petey you are one hilarious comedian.... So true... I'm Italian from Toronto Canada and I have to say you got it down perfectly... In this life this is what we need it's the best medicine ever laughter... We can never get enough of it
Well, I have some Arab blood, and I can laugh at some stuff about us. 😂 I thank comedians such as Dean Obeidallah, Maysoon Zayid, and Ahmed Ahmed for making me laugh at myself. We Arabs have a different sense of humor, but a sense of humor nonetheless.
IDK why people are hard on this guy. Even if he mostly does impressions, guy delivers well which is the point. Comedy is about entertainment, his impressions and delivery makes him be effective even if his jokes might not be as strong as others.
Lot of respect to Russell, the truly global stand up impressionist with his fingers on the button if global current and community affairs. He is a great ambassador.
Actually the 29 states of India all have their own specific state language and food. So everyone is trying to find their tribe from their own state. We can tell which part of India one is from just by looking. A bangle, an earring, polyster blend, prints on the dress, shoes, hairstyle, beard... everything adds up. Not to mention facial features, build etc. That's why we have to look properly.
I think that goes for every US immigrants group really. They always act more like their people than the actual people who live in that country does. Usually really stereotypical kind of way
How do African-Americans act African? They don't try to learn the language or really what part of Africa they're from. And you'll never an African-American that actually celebrates Kwanzaa(Which is a word that isn't even from a West African language) Chicanos are pretty Latino, they speak Spanish a lot, eat pretty authentic Mexican food and generally know a lot about Mexico. Italian Americans came at a time where privileged Anglo-Saxon white people ruled America and the better you could pretend to be one, the better your life was. Chicanos could keep their culture because they were segregated and so they built their own communities with their own culture. Italian had to fit into wider Anglo American society and so dropped their language to do so.
I am Italian from Milan (Northern Italy). 90% of Italian Americans come from southern Italy. When I hear a southern Italian speak, I understand very little and vice versa. If he also speaks English like an Italian from New York, then I understand a Bengali born in Tasmania more ...
East Coast Italian Americans descend primarily from poor, rural Southern Italians who had to emigrate to the Americas after the turbulent period of Italian Unification (which had massively favored the North economically and generated a lot of resistance in the South - kinda like the US Civil War but without the slavery thing). Their new Italian nation treated them like shit, the Anglo-Saxons in America treated them like shit. They had to develop a very defensive/aggressive personality to survive and affirm themselves. It's not a coincidence that the mafia (on both sides of the oceans) became very powerful in that specific historical period (late 1800s, early 1900s). Before that they were just common bandits. Italian unification was a mistake. Sicilians and Neapolitans should have been left alone in their own Kingdom.
Excellent post and you nailed it. Most of the people posting here don't have a clue about Southern Italians and our history in Italy and the reasons why the Southern Italians came to the USA in huge numbers. Northern Italians despised the Southern Italians and didn't even consider them true Italians. I remember Northern Italians saying that South of Roma is Africa.
Italy 🇮🇹 is very different culture to America’s idea of Italian ! For a start the women are very different although both protect their family ! And the food is very different ! Italy 🇮🇹 pure home cooking x
Not Always though Paulie Malignaggi for example visits his grandparents in Italy even though him and his parents was born in NY and he actually speaks Italian like a native speaker
Yes, big difference, especially in the food. Italians in america eat a lot of spaghetti and meatballs. And we eat a lot of lasagna. I always heard they ate more seafood back in the homeland.
@@nicknardini5469 we love lasagne too 😁 but we always try to make them ourselves so it's not a frequent meal as they require something like 5/7 hours of preparation. The typical food depends on the region. In the south seafood is eaten frequently, in the north there are more meat dishes. What unites all the regions is pasta 😂❤ there are like tons of different recipes that make use of it
Boston area same thing. In the suburbs their are Italian neighborhoods where the Italians are half and quarter Italian , and they act more Italian than real Italians.
I used to work with a guy who would go on and on about being Italian because that’s where his parents came from. Barely spoke any Italian himself, so whenever he spoke to the Head of Northern European Operations who actually was Italian, he’d limit it to asking about the weather or what the gut did on his holidays. It was hilarious to watch a guy profess to being Italian to anyone who’d listen, and not even have a GCSE level understanding of the language.
Yup . Had a guy and his family like that at my daughters Catholic school. On and on everyday car line , after church , School carnivals , parent meetings etc . He never actually contributed anything Italian to the school himself. So odd . 😂😆
Italy has many different languages, what's called Italian is just the Firenze dialect of Tuscan. Not speaking a language doesn't change your ancestry. You don't become ethnically English just because that's the only language you speak. Stop crapping on people for liking their heritage. If Italian Americans hated being Italian, you guys would complain about that instead. You're ethnicity doesn't change just because you move to a different place. Many Italians moved to the US and their descendants make up a large portion of the US today. It doesn't matter if they speak Tuscan or even Sicilian it Neapolitan, their heritage is still their heritage.
@@tylersmith3139 people don’t seem to understand that italian immigrants in the 19th and 20th century were discriminated against and discouraged from speaking italian or teaching their kids the language/culture in order to naturalize and americanize themselves. Italian american is 100% a legitimate ethnic subculture especially in the northeast, nobody says asian- american descendants aren’t asian though. it’s really no different from any other recent immigrant/ethnic minority in the US.
My very obese half Italian cousin showed up at my uncle and his Italy Italian wife’s home with a giant thermos cup full of soda that said on it “I’m not fat. I’m Italian” Our tiny svelte Aunt Franca stuck her finger out and shaking it said, “Antonia, you a not a fat because you a Italian. You a fat because you American. Italians are not a fat!”.
"I thought I was the only one!"
*Cuts to Indian girl*
wherefancytakesme that Indian girl was so pretty
howardOKC her name?? CUZ PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW!
@@ManAssome No, people dont need to know jack shit
@@howardOKC name???
Her name is "Gay men gangbang"
"They act more Italian than the actual Italians do." OMG, YES!!! LOL XD
everybody in america is more somebody else than american : really weird!!!
Jordan Schlansky?
New York Italians, Neh more like bootleg DVD versions of real italians.
How do you "Act more Italian than an Italian"? It's a nationality by the way
Robert Montoya you need an explanation?
My friends receptionist is a "New York Italian". She went to Italy, her Italian was so bad people started talking to her in English. She gets pissed insists she's Italian. A guy says where are you born Rome? No Queens, everybody in the Bar laughed their asses off.
There not Italian there Italian americans
That's because an Italian doesn't speak Italian, he talk in dialect. Even between neighbouring towns there are differences, the phrase "let's go" can be translated as "andiamo" in italiano but "imo" in my dialect, and "nnamo" in Roman dialect {60 miles apart from my town} and "iemu" in a town nearby 20 miles.
@@cosiabuffo8527 They speak dialect among others who speak the same dialect, but they are taught to speak Italian since they start kindergarten. It’s a requirement.
@@bettesfragrancereviews1994 Oh rlly? I didn't know man, I've just lived in Italy all my life, soooo...... ;')
@@cosiabuffo8527 Cool, man! I didn’t know that. Peace ✌️
Normal guy: "Dude were you checking out my girl?"
Italian guy: "take me to the store where you got the balls to look at my girl"
dick's sporting goods
😂 😂 😂 🇬🇧
New York Italian guy! California Italian guy says nothing LOL!!
We are that way! Unfortunately
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1:00 "I thought I was the only one". Lol.
with his fuckin accent lol😂😂
the indian girl was hot! ;)
hot as hell
I feel like that tuu I thought I was the only one aswell
It was good joke but too old, it has been used thousands time by other comedians
he sound exactly like an Italian gangster
It's quite a sad thing actually. Italian Americans, for most part, have little to no idea of their Italian roots, dunno what Italians are like, dunno shit about Italy, & hell, they don't even know if they actually have Italian blood! but regardless, they proudly brand themselves as Italians, & behave like mafia, cuz that's all they know.
Jazz Heart weakest accent? Wow, where the fuck did you get the balls to judge a comedian?
Jim Patterson lol I know!!! It feels like when he’s impersonating people with different accents, I close my eyes and it sounds like there are multiple people on stage talking to him!
@Jazz Heart agree. It was probably his weakest. Italians don't speak like NY italians, that's for sure!
@Jazz Heart I am from Milan and my accent is not like that
People think it’s an Italian accent when it’s a New York accent
Stevespace _ it comes from the early Italians who settled in New York, so it’s Italian
yea italians sound like Mario
No one thinks that lol, at least not in the US.
Irish and italian new yorkers have thick accents. also some puerto ricans as well.
bopita boopie? bopadi bapita babadaba!!!
I have lived in the USA and found that many Italian American do not speak a word of Italian. It is sad, they are missing a lot.
& true Italian people hate them for branding themselves to be Italian & acting what appeared to be Italian to them, despite the fact that they can't speak Italian & hardly knows anything about Italy.
Do you dumbasses ever understand that when most of these immigrants came to the U.S. they all understood that it was important to speak a unifying language since there were people coming from all over the world to the U.S. and could not communicate with each other otherwise. But of course I have to explain such a logical reason since you geniuses can't figure that out.
Royal Emery & do you understand the concept of blending in without having to sacrifice your own ancestral culture? That you can easily pick up TWO languages without having to resort to "us or them" mentality all the time? In extension, do you know how many languages a person can actually easily pick up just during the first 10 years of thier life? Of course you don't. You're a genius who thinks he's figured out everything about being multicultural after all.
Frankie Basile lol first Russell is a comedian , and he can do many accents. Why you getting butthurt. New York Italians have been in USA for many generations and have lost touch with italy,, Indians and middle easterns started coming later, like in 80s lol. They're still fresh here.
Lol this is CZcams comment section , people will make all kinds of comments, and you're telling the dude it will get you hurt lol.
You shouldn't watch comedy man, it's not for u.
Frankie Basile lol first am kurd from Iraq. Am not Indian. Lol, so why are you using spices from middle east and india. Lol when middle east and rest of asia had palaces and cities and agricultural , civilizations,,mathematics, foods, Europeans were still jumping from tree to tree, eating chunks of meat with no salt and spices.
So you should thank middle east for introducing you to alcohol, wine , beer, sugar, coffee, tea, mathematics, architecture, even iron lol. Wheel, time, who made 24 hours, 60 minutes and so on.
What did Italians make, stole everything that was Greek and others and claimed it to be their own.
Go make us some pasta .
In iraq, if someone ate pasta or Macronis, we say aww, poor person has no food. It's just soggy dough lol, mixed with tomato sauce .
And please don't talk about cheeses, , we have cheeses million times better than your romano, or permeasan. Fancy names, that's all, yet tasteless and dry. Or oiley.
My great grandfather immigrated here from Italy in the early 20th century. He didn’t want his kids to speak any Italian because he said they needed to be American. It’s a shame that my family (and I’m sure many others) lost our language.
My mother hates it if I speak in her dialect of Bangla because she says people will laugh at us for speaking in our regional dialect.
Yes same, my moms grandparents on her dads side both spoke Italian(I think) my great grandpa learned it from marrying my nonna who was from bologna and also from being in the mob. He was Serbian
My father and his family faced the same. Tge trouble is that certain immigrants to this country now do not want to assimilate and learn our language and culture !
This is really sad
@@raisyrosye7656 greeks are the exact opposite, because every part of Greece has a regional dialect
As a New Yorker with Italian blood I can claim this 100% accurate.
Italian blood ? Blood doesn’t contain culture.
@@va8392 Where do you get the balls to tell him it doesn't contain culture? Where?!
@@va8392 Exactly
@@va8392 Culture is where you grow up
@@allaboutthemurzic America is an Italian name and Italian country.
In Ontario Canada there is roughly 1 million Italian immigrants who obviously speak Italian and their children speak Italian and many of their grandchildren speak Italian. Still very connected to Italy with relatives visiting or visiting back in Italy...etc. I've always noticed the Italian Americans are very watered down, I know that is starting to happen here as the older generation starts to fade out. But as the son of Italian immigrants who grew up with almost entirely Italian neighbors, friends, class mates...etc I cant stress how fortunate I feel to have grown up Italian but in Canada. My family continues many traditions that even our relatives in Italy do not carry on such as making home made cured meats, cheese, wine, growing our own vegatables, making sauce...etc. Much of Italy moved on but we here are Italians frozen in time of the old ways.
That's Amazing... Un'oasi conservata nello spazio-tempo. Saluti a te
that’s actually special. I wish real italians like me in italy would do this too because we have many beautiful traditions but italy is now modernized too, you have to go to the rural areas with farms to find ancient traditions still going on.
Hmm... interesting story dude. I worked for a short while with some Italian-Canadian dude in NF, ONT, CA and the dude spoke English with an heavy Italian accent but he didn't speak a word Italian 😬 He knew probably the basic but wasn't able to hav an actual conversation in Italian. I know Italian community in NF was big and your story kinda explains somewhat his situation. I believe 90% of his personal life revolved in Italian community (bit weird for someone who's at least third or fourth generation Italian in CA). Perhaps he was faking but I never caught him faking it.
America is a much more deserve place than Canada while at the same time it pressures people to assimilate to American culture. Italians had to go through a period where they weren’t even considered white in America, so most Italians stopped even learning the language by the second generation
As a third generation Italian Canadian I can confirm this is true
As a New Yorker with Italian blood, I can attest for the accuracy of this
*A Y E D I C K F A C E*
Nicholas Kroop and he goes “YEAH YOU! Where the fuck you get the balls to look at my girl?”
“WHERE! SHOW ME! WHY DON’T FUCKING SHOW ME! TAKE ME! TAKE ME TO THE FUCKING STORE WHERE YOU GOT THE BALLS TO LOOK AT MY GIRL! WHERE?! WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THE FUCKING BALLS? WHERE?!?!?!?!?!”
“Costco!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
his accents are so good!!
Lonely Bird lol. Ownage pranks
Rana Mathew I know right??? lol he's hilarious!! 😂😂😂
Most people that I know living in the USA and having Italian roots, they don't speak Italian even if they think they do. They speak a mixture of Sicilian and Neapolitan language, which is as if you blend Dutch and German and think that it is English
So true~
Exactly.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Dialects are pretty similar.
@@Anca820 of course, if you're from the South, but if you come from the North of Italy it sounds like a foreign language. Same in Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina, where there's a huge number of citizen with Italian roots (this time from the North), most of them thinking they speak Italian, but in reality it is Genoese and Venitian.
Infatti mi fanno morire dal ridere gli italoamericani che parlano in italiano tipo Abatantuono🤣👍
How can an Indian person be shocked by another Indian person there are 800 kabillion of them
I think that's just a joke. But the staring part is so true.
Ikr. I'm an Indian very well aware of the huge population but I'd literally do the same. It's an Indian thing I guess.
I'm an asian and asians do stare at each other as well
I guess we all feel a connection, by ethnicity or country, something we both can relate too. Maybe that's why.
Fuck your shit country
Being from South Texas, we are a pretty laid back bunch. There is a New York City Italian that lives down here. I love to hang out with that guy. He is funny as hell and doesn’t even know it.
He’s on point with his accents and jokes. He does the accents so well that I break out laughing and also can imagine that there are multiple characters in the scenario Russell is describing. Great job Russell! You rock! 😂😍
We “mostly” don’t speak fluent Italian anymore because of all the hate and discrimination we faced when are parents/grandparents came here 1880-1920. So our parents didn’t teach us Italian. They wanted us to become American. Assimilate as immigrants should. Some of us even had to change last names to be treated better or the US government changed them at Ellis Island because they couldn’t pronounce/disliked them. But we’re still very proud of our Italian blood! 🇮🇹
As is with every immigrant. Most people are proud of their heritage/ethnicity.
Ms. Angela sounds like how all immigrants were treated when they arrived
te yep everyone takes their turn
When Uncle Giuseppe spoke in Italian instead of English in Troy, NY, his mother Grandma Luccia used to slug him on the arm and say say, "Speaka English". This was in the late '50s... Italian-Americans wanted to speak English because THEY WERE IN AMERICA NOW, and regrettably I did not inherit the language of my ancestors.
You don't speak Italian because nobody did before 1950, long after your ancestors emigrated to the US. We all spoke only our dialect before telivision taught us to speak Italian.
@@MissAngela007 just like us Irish
Loved the way he can switch from the Indian accent to the NYC Italian.
man that was some serious Tony Soprano impersonation😉
Advait Thite you are not alone
@@nishchaysrivastava6251 I thought I was the only one
Lakshya Chaubey sopranos is goat
@@nishchaysrivastava6251 yes it is
Lakshya Chaubey what are your views on The Wire
Lol "take me to the store where you got the balls....." i couldnt breathe
William Lugo same!!! I broke out laughing as soon as he impersonated the NY Italian.
The correct response is not "Costco!" but: "You talkin' to me?"
*wags finger in direction of person while looking at girlfriend*
"I like this guy"
*slaps guy's shoulder*
Italians are very passionate people.
Passionate or ignorant?
@@AnthZee8 The Italian culture is known for being more expressive and open about sharing their emotional life and how they feel than many other cultures.
As an italian girl this is so true🤦♀️😂😂greetings from Italy! Ciao amici, un saluto dall’italia! (Hello friends, hi from italy!)
Bernedette Kuteyi ❤️ciao👋
Ciao bella , un saluto da NY
@F.S.C. LIGHTNING ottimo sottoscrivo con gioia
Ciao
@Jason Blowhard’s Strength and Fitness ma statte zitto buffone
As a New Yorker this 100% accurate
That's why I'll do my best to teach my son our Mexican culture. So that when we're several generations down the line of time we dont have family trying to act more Mexican than real Mexicans.
Mexicans speak Spanglish. Chopped up Spanish and English. Its horrible on the ears
@@fabianavalos1386 usually Mexicans speak Spanish. Mexican Americans typically speak Spanglish.
Lol or yiu can just eat your son be himself. When your born and raised dsomehere you pick up the culture of that place and the cultures surrounding it.
You can be raised my Mexican parents who cane form mexico but also live in neighborhood inhabited bu philipino and Jamaicans
@@fabianavalos1386 Speak for yourself pinche vato
Mexicans celebrate Spains cuIture, their language, dance, mannarisms, music🎸
They dont wanna learn their native ways, language etc..
He looks like Robert De Niro while he is doing the Italian accent
D. Nearow, is only of Italian descent on his father’s side.
He’s a friggin’ mutt 🤫
"COSTCO!!" LMAOOO!!
^ Um, no. It's COSTCO. A Canadian store. Look it up.
^ I disagree but you're entitled to your opinion. Regardless of what he said or meant, it was a joke so get over it.
i dont get it, can you explain full for me
Website MaKer : most don't pronounce the T, genius.
Cosco is a tennis ball making company.
I thought i was the only Indian here watching this :P
Krishna Haha..we live in bubble 😂😂😂..
Krishna lol 😀😀 😀😀 😀
Me too
Lmao dude
Same here
You should definitely do more on New York Italians. I’m Italian from New York real Italian though I speak it . But I think you’re great and would love to hear more .
Ciao Cumpa, da Dove' e la Tua Famiglia?
Yeah everyone’s “Italian” In that audience 😂 please . I’m glad russel called out the Italian Americans about speaking the language 👍🏽👍🏽 this guys too funny and spot on 😹😹
@ItalianBoy No, you're not going to become Chinese just by speaking it. But if you ARE Italian by blood, it would be nice if you actually learned the language and connected better with your Italian roots. I think THAT's basically what she's saying. Too many people walking around almost bragging about being Italian, but if you try to speak to them in Italian, they're like "Huh??" Whaat?" and they can't even understand the simplest Italian words and greetings.
Are you Italian?
speaking Italian doesn't mean you don't know about three culture or grew up Italian espically as an italian American im 54% sicilan and my dad is 98% Italian
@@MusicFanOnline doesn't make u not Italian im sicilian and its a little different also theirs more to culture then language
Italy is great 🇮🇹...
will love to visit New York one day
He is taking stand-up comedy to another level
Genius
Italians in Italy are just regular people, nice, helpful, and interested in other cultures, I shouldn’t generalise like that but everyone I know is that way. It’s the same everywhere people always want to different from what they are and who surrounds them. The Italo-Americani overdramatise their heritage because their ancestors had to be that way to stick up against the abuse they received 70-100 years or so ago.
I was feeling a little down a while ago but just watching this video let me know that there are people out there who will make you laugh God bless you brother
Russell is good he’s a natural lots of laughs with Russell
1:03, woww she’s beautiful
MyLife MyChoices she’s gorgeous
Lmao that was the Indian lady at Times Square
Fine her
That's my roommate. She's taken.
@@DctorSkillz1 ig?😩
You have the BEST accent impressions across the board! 😂🤣😄😁
Russell Peters is alot better than Amy Schumer
Amy Showme where da faq??
Even Hillary Clinton is funnier than Amy Schumer, and she's not funny at all.
A potato with a microphone is better than Amy
Women are not funny. They cannot be funny.
Everybody is better than Amy Schumer
He's hands down the best comedian in the whole wide world. He's en pointe with every single thing whether it's accents, gestures, even history. He appeals to the intellect and that's why he is so good.
Chaibiskut19 Chai I know right?
It’s on point. On. Point.
‘En pointe’ is a term used in Ballet.
Not even close, Colin Quinn, Bill Burr, Patrice O' Neal and Nick Dipaolo are probably the best objectively
who ever lives with this guy well never get old
Half the comments: "1:02. Wow." lol. She IS fine.
Shes pretty hot though
She’s a pretty woman.
Indian queen
@Jim Taylor virgin
SIMP
simply a genius. comedic legend.
I'm Italian and when together with some of my friends I went to USA to improve (a little bit) our English, some Americans told us that we didn't looked like Italians and also our behaviour wasn't Italian at all, when I met an Italian American and I started speaking my language (standard Italian), he told me, in Sicilian, that the language I was speaking wasn't Italian. Italian Americans look like Italians stacked in the 50's, but they forgot how to use hand gesture and how to cook traditional recipes... anyway this sketch comedy is funny only for le teste di cazzo.😁
Really? So was the guy sicilian? I know that there was neopolitans and mostly southern italians also sicilians that came to america in the late 1800s and early 1900s, maybe the languages blended? Also i noticed in italy there is alot more sea food.
Interestingl
Man i haven't laughed that hard for a very long time
😂😂😂😂 hilarious
Costco should use this clip as a advertisement.
😂😂...Petey you are one hilarious comedian....
So true...
I'm Italian from Toronto Canada and I have to say you got it down perfectly...
In this life this is what we need it's the best medicine ever laughter...
We can never get enough of it
Mildy
Satgugih t.vccm9
You don't hear Italians crying about how offended they are over this bit like other groups do 😭😪😢
Well, I have some Arab blood, and I can laugh at some stuff about us. 😂 I thank comedians such as Dean Obeidallah, Maysoon Zayid, and Ahmed Ahmed for making me laugh at myself. We Arabs have a different sense of humor, but a sense of humor nonetheless.
@@AdultThirdCultureKid1971the video is about Italians not Arabs. And this dude is referring to blacks who get offended
This is the most new york story I’ve ever heard
maybe one of the very few spot on videos I've seen about italians. I'm italian btw
You are true talent 👍👍👍
It sounds to me he knows nothing about the Italian culture e proprio un caffone. Americano
IDK why people are hard on this guy. Even if he mostly does impressions, guy delivers well which is the point. Comedy is about entertainment, his impressions and delivery makes him be effective even if his jokes might not be as strong as others.
Lot of respect to Russell, the truly global stand up impressionist with his fingers on the button if global current and community affairs. He is a great ambassador.
As a South Philly Italian, I can attest that this is accurate of us too lol
I love Russell Peters. So good
Actually the 29 states of India all have their own specific state language and food. So everyone is trying to find their tribe from their own state. We can tell which part of India one is from just by looking. A bangle, an earring, polyster blend, prints on the dress, shoes, hairstyle, beard... everything adds up. Not to mention facial features, build etc. That's why we have to look properly.
Do you also have different ways of assassinating political opponents in foreign countries?!
"Costco!" Game over i am dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What is the costco reference there ?
The thought Russel's inner monologue has a thick accent is hilarious to me.
It’s so true. That’s how I talk 😂 this was great bro. Well done 👍🏼😂
Half the comments are about 1:01 😂😂😂😂
Damn who is she
Where? Go straight, then left, then right.
jay rosales perfect joke return
🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Okay
it should be: " OK ... .... ... go straight, then left, then right"
Lol....very underrated comment dude....,@Jay rosales
"They act more Italian than the actual Italians do."
I think that goes for every US immigrants group really. They always act more like their people than the actual people who live in that country does. Usually really stereotypical kind of way
How do African-Americans act African? They don't try to learn the language or really what part of Africa they're from. And you'll never an African-American that actually celebrates Kwanzaa(Which is a word that isn't even from a West African language)
Chicanos are pretty Latino, they speak Spanish a lot, eat pretty authentic Mexican food and generally know a lot about Mexico. Italian Americans came at a time where privileged Anglo-Saxon white people ruled America and the better you could pretend to be one, the better your life was. Chicanos could keep their culture because they were segregated and so they built their own communities with their own culture. Italian had to fit into wider Anglo American society and so dropped their language to do so.
I miss you Russell You have to do more specials! Tell Netflix to give you more specials!
Russell is the best stand up comedian,hands down
Great impression.
I am Italian from Milan (Northern Italy). 90% of Italian Americans come from southern Italy. When I hear a southern Italian speak, I understand very little and vice versa. If he also speaks English like an Italian from New York, then I understand a Bengali born in Tasmania more ...
1:02 is a Goddess!!! 🔥🔥
Bobby Fisher you a hater and you know you will never get a beautiful girl of any kind. Sad person.
@Bobby Fisher yea you are a cluster fuck who hates people of colour
*object
Untill she smells like sulphur
@@SumanTiwariNamaste lol you guys are jealous and don't have respect for humans
Brilliant as always.
awesome !!!!!
"Take me to the store where ..." lol
I've just watched loads of his vids addicted
Russel Peters is definitely my number 1 comedian
The Guidos of NY are hilarious
You talked like Al Pacino.
It's true! When we get mad everything becomes a question! Lol
The best Russel in only in that time
Dickface is the literal translation of the Italian insult "faccia di cazzo". I love this guy 😂
East Coast Italian Americans descend primarily from poor, rural Southern Italians who had to emigrate to the Americas after the turbulent period of Italian Unification (which had massively favored the North economically and generated a lot of resistance in the South - kinda like the US Civil War but without the slavery thing). Their new Italian nation treated them like shit, the Anglo-Saxons in America treated them like shit. They had to develop a very defensive/aggressive personality to survive and affirm themselves. It's not a coincidence that the mafia (on both sides of the oceans) became very powerful in that specific historical period (late 1800s, early 1900s). Before that they were just common bandits. Italian unification was a mistake. Sicilians and Neapolitans should have been left alone in their own Kingdom.
Excellent post and you nailed it. Most of the people posting here don't have a clue about Southern Italians and our history in Italy and the reasons why the Southern Italians came to the USA in huge numbers. Northern Italians despised the Southern Italians and didn't even consider them true Italians. I remember Northern Italians saying that South of Roma is Africa.
@@jtoo6060 That probably explains the rivalry between Juve and Napoli
You've nailed it and I respect you for this comment
Spot on!
@@jtoo6060 They still do.
Italy 🇮🇹 is very different culture to America’s idea of Italian ! For a start the women are very different although both protect their family ! And the food is very different ! Italy 🇮🇹 pure home cooking x
I did not understand the last joke about Costco... reading the comments here and I'm like
"I thought I was the only one! "
@knowledge share ...and big jars of confidence balls.
Membership discount store where people buy massive quantities of everything.
@1:01 what beauty
TheGGMan think she is a tv anchor or actress.
Are you for real?
indeed.
TheGGMan ¡Si! 👀
Her name?
I'm italian and I live in Italy... finally found someone who knows there is a huge difference between american "Italians" and real italians 😂
Not Always though Paulie Malignaggi for example visits his grandparents in Italy even though him and his parents was born in NY and he actually speaks Italian like a native speaker
Yes, big difference, especially in the food. Italians in america eat a lot of spaghetti and meatballs. And we eat a lot of lasagna. I always heard they ate more seafood back in the homeland.
@@nicknardini5469 we love lasagne too 😁 but we always try to make them ourselves so it's not a frequent meal as they require something like 5/7 hours of preparation. The typical food depends on the region. In the south seafood is eaten frequently, in the north there are more meat dishes. What unites all the regions is pasta 😂❤ there are like tons of different recipes that make use of it
Real Italians....You are BORN and RAISED IN ITALY and SPEAK ITALIAN....PERIOD........NO EXCUSES......
Boston area same thing. In the suburbs their are Italian neighborhoods where the Italians are half and quarter Italian , and they act more Italian than real Italians.
I used to work with a guy who would go on and on about being Italian because that’s where his parents came from. Barely spoke any Italian himself, so whenever he spoke to the Head of Northern European Operations who actually was Italian, he’d limit it to asking about the weather or what the gut did on his holidays.
It was hilarious to watch a guy profess to being Italian to anyone who’d listen, and not even have a GCSE level understanding of the language.
Yup . Had a guy and his family like that at my daughters Catholic school. On and on everyday car line , after church , School carnivals , parent meetings etc .
He never actually contributed anything Italian to the school himself. So odd . 😂😆
being italian in america is different your still italian biologically and still know about the culture but u dont speak the language
Italy has many different languages, what's called Italian is just the Firenze dialect of Tuscan. Not speaking a language doesn't change your ancestry. You don't become ethnically English just because that's the only language you speak. Stop crapping on people for liking their heritage. If Italian Americans hated being Italian, you guys would complain about that instead.
You're ethnicity doesn't change just because you move to a different place. Many Italians moved to the US and their descendants make up a large portion of the US today. It doesn't matter if they speak Tuscan or even Sicilian it Neapolitan, their heritage is still their heritage.
@@tylersmith3139 people don’t seem to understand that italian immigrants in the 19th and 20th century were discriminated against and discouraged from speaking italian or teaching their kids the language/culture in order to naturalize and americanize themselves. Italian american is 100% a legitimate ethnic subculture especially in the northeast, nobody says asian- american descendants aren’t asian though. it’s really no different from any other recent immigrant/ethnic minority in the US.
@@bellarandazzo5739 ❤️
I clicked on this video HOPING he would call them not-real Italians, and he definitely lived up to my expectations 😂
My very obese half Italian cousin showed up at my uncle and his Italy Italian wife’s home with a giant thermos cup full of soda that said on it “I’m not fat. I’m Italian” Our tiny svelte Aunt Franca stuck her finger out and shaking it said, “Antonia, you a not a fat because you a Italian. You a fat because you American. Italians are not a fat!”.
So true I’m from Brooklyn and I love it lol
This italian guy looks like Deepak Tijori!!
HE IS AN INDIAN
I think he was referring to the Italian guy Russell spoke to, silly. But then you probably don't know who Deepak Tijori is.
Bingo !!
Yea he is Indian. Even though he was born and raised in Canada and doesn't speak a word of Idian. Yes, he is Indian, sure.
ho disperatilor what? Wtf? He can fluenlty speak hindi and punjabi his name is name is indian everything is indian he looks like indian anything more?
Russell used to train with Joe Rogan, and Joe says Russell here knows how to throw them hands....dude can fight...
Yooooo Russel u kill it bro 🤣just subscribed ✌️
I love this guy 💕💕
Russel when you ll perform in London please!?
COSTCO with a jar is what you feel when you're panicking alone 😂
This guy is really good 😀👏
Great impression!
1:40 I'm like, "It's very close to my "fuckface"
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I wish I could double like it!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Damn this guy got it spot on
This is so great 😂😂