But there really is a "no-accent accent" in English speaking North America. If you want to know what a local accent sounds like you should talk to a cop, but a lot of people born and raised in a place don't talk with that local accent. I heard once that the default accent comes from Connecticut.

@@_yak Your "default accent" comes from Britain, dude.

it's impossible to not have an accent dude. What you probably mean is a non-distinct generic accent like news casters. It's still an accent.

The worst part of leaving where you're from is that when you go back... everyone has an accent.

@@kylem1112 what I mean is that there is a national generic accent. People - especially younger, educated people - speak with it. You hear it all over the country, even in the south. That everyone has an accent is kind of my point, because the accent I'm talking about isn't really thought of as an accent at all, but is likely the local accent of Connecticut or maybe parts of California that spread through mass communication.

I think we’ve evolved past a need for ohio

Ohio

I was hoping he'd do Michigan also. So which accent are we close to?

So much fertile ground for him in UhHIuh

ohio gozaimas

I felt the same way about Virginia lol, he nailed it

Let's just say he's spent a lot of time in Portland so he knows.

Dude, I'm convinced he didn't do an accent at all lmao

Here in the PNW. We say "You guys". But we say it to a group of all men, or a group of mix company, or a group of all women. My friends on the east coast always make fun of me when I say it. I worked in sales and had a older couple from the mid-west walk out on me because I said "Hello, how are you guys today?" The husband was very quick to point out his wife wasnt a "guy" and left. Lol!

Same!

As a Chicagoan, I can attest to that!. Especially around Milwaukee over by dere. Oh may Got!

Lol Miami has a few accents

As a former Miami resident... So accurate 😂😂😂

Accurate

Cuban accents?

miami accent = your normal accent + "bro"

I always insisted Connecticut didn't have an accent... but apparently I was wrong.

Yeah I was born and raised in Bloomfield and never knew til I moved to Florida then all of a sudden...accent!

lmfao holy shit! You made me realize im so CT. Its because just about everyone in CT is nosey. Why do I feel this way? Thats my business not yours.

@@mr.nobody9697 I mean...when the state is this small you kinda end up knowing everyone (or it feels like it). We are asshole as a state pastime tho

@@MortalConquest I grew up in fairfield county, and I feel pretty confident we speak very stereotypical american english with a lot of mumbling of words. hit up hartford or tolland though and things start sounding strange real quick.

the best comics have a command of the language like no other, forget actors.

@@liammaxcampbell I agree. Heck, even some comics make the best dramatic actors, too. I think of Robin Williams, Jackie Gleason, Billy Crystal in dramatic roles. They fully understand what their characters are going through.

@@MIKERUPTION Yep this was the exact example and people i was thinking of. I think of stand up comedians(the good ones) as intellectually intelligent as someone that has mastered any other craft, from law to astrophysics and quantum physics.

@@liammaxcampbell I couldn't agree more!

I agree. You have to be so intelligent and observant to be funny.

Ivan Reis yeah, most people who do accents or impressions have specific phrases that help them get into the accent/impression. A good example is when Kate McKinnon talked about it on the Ellen Show.

Baseball mitt

Canada cigarettes got me ps canadian here

Pumpkins.. we were discussing..

"2 pumpkins" 😆

I was really hoping he would go into a Californians skit

Californians invented Ant speak.

@@rochelleneal5875 I was hoping to hear a "What'r you doing here?" That would have been a crowd pleaser

That parts just sounds like Doug, the kind of guy pronounces the entire word 😂

Who was waiting for him to do Californians?😂👏

FACTS.

Damn

Yup lol. Small state, big nuance

I’m from Philly and that’s def true

Exactly 💯 New Jersey explained shout out to South Jersey❤

HA😂

Well there no jokes if that’s what you mean, but if this were a class I’d walk out. Every single one of his accents is way off. Henry Higgins would be disgusted.

@@herbertwells8757 nice reference

Or one of those acting classes where you learn how to do accents and dialects.

Wouldn't the students in the class technically be a live audience?

Way too true

More shicago than shicago 🤣😘

Cmon gimme a little more Chicago tho and some Guatemalan while he’s at it right under Mexico

It’s from all the FIBs.

He did a perfect wiSCONSin

Why do you feel the need to add "as an improv performer, I...?"

What is your state?

@@haashemmalik216 It's definitely true.

Id do like to present my words on a platter

Affirmation that Seattleites do indeed have a non-accent, as I have always felt was true.

As a Seattlite, I have to say I was surprised that he got us spot on. However, my family roots are from Maine and I went to college there for 4 years, and I think his Maine accent was WAY off. Not even close. Boston and New York were spot on though.

This is beyond accurate😂I was so confused when his accent disappeared🤣

You guys have a ton of regional accents as well, and don't even forget Wales!! Lol

It's mad how, in Britain, we have this many dialects/accets in the area the size of one US state. You go 50 miles in any direction in the UK and the accent changes completely.

The difference in accents from the different places in England would be fun too

I want a British comedian who’s good at accents to do the same thing. It would be a total rip off of this, but I want to hear the trademark phrases to get into the dialects of each region.

@@randalclarke5487 ì89⁸iì8099

My issue is talking like the people I'm around, I've lived enough places across the US, I tend to slide into an accent as soon as I hear it and I have to be careful to not be offensive. That was HARD in Australia.

He's incredible.

same 😭

That's sexy

Is it because your family scolds you a little? :)

Kelly Clarkson and George W. Bush.

Sounded exactly like my grandma lmao

@Matthew Alford Agreed. I would have liked to have seen him include Outter Banks, but definitely shows very high level proficiency

Marcilla Smith hardly anyone knows about the Outer Banks accent apart from native NCians

Lol my favorite part

Matthew Alford it really does. I was watching the news a few years ago and the did piece talking about how one area of the Outer Banks literally has an English (British) accent even though they’re from the US

Yes, NC takes its time, lol! "Right away" might be 2 weeks, no "NY minute" down there. Come and sit a spell, chew some tobacco...

Fallon has OCD, i swear.

Conan always steps all over everything too

@@brovold72 Conan is genuinely funny, though.

Conan will do that sometimes but he’s overall a much better listener and if someone is funny, his laugh is the best.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 jimmy f**kface

I'd upvote but it has 420 upvotes

Motor oil!

A lot of voice actors can do similar stuff to this. This is an excellent example of how versatile you have to be as a voice actor.

Cunning linguist, that guy.

mdunn16 that sounds dirty

He ... is and has been... in a way

@@michaelf3805 That's the joke, dummy

His Cuban accent was dead on! Even women have that accent, too.

I didn’t even know that was a thing but it checks out completely

that blew me away

In Warshington, we maihhh-zhur our words before giving them to you.

easims10 I’m from rural western Washington and I still hear people pronounce cash like “caysh” and creek is “crick” and Tuesday is “tuesdee” and it’s “Hunnerd, Differnt” instead of ‘hundred and different,’ we say yknow a lot and have that sorta low, long O sound and emphasized R sound. I absolutely love it. When I go to Seattle I get people that ask me if I’m from Oklahoma of all places, which has nothing in common with my accent.

Zach Taylor amazing. I grew up in Olympia but spent lots of time in rural W WA for climbing and hiking and totally know the accent.

@@zachtaylor9597 That's just your average western hick/Oakie accent. We have it in Nor Cal too if you go inland to a rural place.

GET OUT OF HERE DEVIN!

eeehhh eeeeewwww wwwwwhhhhhaaaadddrrrrrr yyyyeeeewwwww deeewwwwiiinnn hhheeeehhhhrrrrr???????

Or Dana Carvey kinda

Sounded like RDJ

@@fxllencoyote at this time of day? it's gonna be jammmmmed

Yes!! This!!

Ikr it threw me off. I wonder what he thought lol.

It’s a quote from a replacements song. Kids don’t follow specifically. They recorded the police shutting down a party they were at and started the song off with it. The cop saying it has a very district accent.

I did quick double take to the date on the video. This guy felt the future.

This is the Minneapolis* police you mean

he probably has heard it before maybe a few times? i bet theres a story there too. Id guess most of these examples are from things he has heard people say in that place when working there.

His SoCal reminded me immediately of Crispin Glover.

Holy crap, Fred Armisen is part Korean?

I get how having a Venezuelan mother can help with knowing Spanish, but what is the connection with Brazil and Spanish? Honest question.

@@MinaKay84 I know - I was shocked too.

@@marcell5172 there's no connection, and his mexican was far from perfect, it sounded venezuelan

He skipped over the West Texas accent of J.R. Ewing and George W. Bush. In another video, he does an Arkansas accent that is identical to a northern Louisiana/Northeast Texas accent. He's very, very good.

Florida has even more since everyone in the damn country moves there.

I don't care

@@pornthepwongkitigumjorn1567 about what?

His Austin accent was pretty spot on for a San Antonio accent as well !

Yeah, priceless! I’m Canadian, loved cigarettes..

4:00 m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNqnZNWdspjNlJ8.html

Its true, the difference between SC and NC’s accents! My dad’s NC accent has a little more bite. More podunk. A lot of SC has more of a proper Aristocratic accent. Governor McMaster is a good example.

@@doubtingmustafa Wonderful last name he has

My aunt, my grandmother's sister, lived most of her adult life in NC, but she came back to us pretty often and we went to her once for a week when I was a kid. (Crawdads at the cookout! Can't forget that.) I can always recognize the NC accent as separate from other Southern accents and I love to hear it. He did it well. I was a bit disappointed he barely stopped on Philadelphia, mixing it with Pittsburgh. I would definitely say we share more linguistically with Baltimore than Pittsburgh, but whatever.

Can confirm, that blew my mind

Wow. I thought he just bullshited his way through.

I’ve heard from a few people that know him that he is VERY messed up and aggressively narcissistic.

Well, now he's Cranky Kong 😂

Now he returns to monke.

@@superxavxii421 yeah XD

He played Jesus Christ in Man Seeking Woman

killa icy He’s part Venenzuelan I believe.

Gringo accent lol

Cause he’s not white

I was so impressed!

He is half Venezuelan

It’s so true 😂

I taught in Union City NJ. The Russian kids had a hispanic accent.

Which borough is “I’m walkin’ here!”

i love that he skipped over staten island 🤣

Sta l l i n g f o r t i m e

@@mikeapi5074AWWW MAN LOL

"Nobody towld me!"

Jack!

That's hella funny bro

And that's cuz everything we say *is* , in fact, a fact!

Chris Dawson I used to read a lot of Steven King and sometimes I’ll say something like jeezum crow and people around here have no idea what I’m saying lol

It kind of sounds like forrest gump when he does it!

@@Reliquancy that's because that's not something people say anymore it's like an 80s upper crusty thing.

Big Bud Oh ok I didn’t know that. But no one ever said it in Florida so they’ve never heard it at all...

Ben Thurston I don’t know where the other guy is from but people definitely still say jeezum crow up here in northern Maine but it’s mostly from older folks

Very true; his B'klyn accent was too strong and _perhaps_ influenced by movies. Talking with relatives back in B'klyn, I hear the much softer version of the now "stereotypical" accent. (I've since lost mine, I've been told.) He did nail Manhattan and Long Island! 😄

Mom is Venezuelan and he lived in Brazil.

The Mexican one sounded a little bit more Colombian to my ears. 😅

Or maybe Venezuelan, considering that his mom's from Venezuela.

@@MarioBecerraC yeah, as far as Mexican accents go, it was pretty terrible. It was more Venezuelan than Mexican. The cuban one is also close, but he missed the eating of consonants that's a major part of the accent. The tone is right, but the pronunciation could've been better.

@@MarioBecerraC Oh really? That's cool, I didn't know that.

SAME

haha im from la and i never thought of myself to pronounce every syllable? definitely more than some ppl in the US but i randomly remembered how my ex is from ohio and used to pronouse "uncomfortable" as "un-com-for-tuh-bull" LOL

Katherine Maitre As a Southern Californian, I’ll pass on hella ;)

SuhTHuRN CaLiFORnyuh. So true.

So true about Seattle LOL

With the pacing and attention span of Nicholas Fehn!

Except he only covered like 20 states

Among.

That was a shtick. A Stuck. He also said he could do any foreign accent -- or was it any European accent?

Not too uncommon for ppl who do voices and imitation comics.

Check this out, from four years ago, on Conan (it's all a joke, a shtyck) : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNNniMKLv8ezcZc.html "Fred Armisen Can Do Any Accent In The World - CONAN on TBS"

I saw that too, and I thought he would be doing that here. But this was legit. Whereas that was a little bit joking. He can bluff about the towns... but the states he definitely has down.

@@hdpmrr wtf is a stuck. you mean schtick? Yeah he was blowing smoke up your ass a little on the Conan show, but he had an ear for it no doubt> he sat and actually developed an accurate version of that joke for his stand-up - and guess what? Fuckin A

Is it because everyone in Louisiana speaks like their mouth is full of gumbo? That’s what it sounds like to the civilized world.

@@Tonyhouse1168 LMAO

agree! i've been to cuba and cancun and that was exactly what i noticed too.

Miami is English with a spanish letters. It's spot on ! 🤣

There was nothing Mexican about his Mexican accent.

No it wasn't. He was using his Venezuelan accent for Mexico. Only some southern Mexicans _might_ talk like that.

Erick D and then there is Puerto Rico which is different again!

He looks like an old woman who just peed

Me, too.

I always pronounce "california" with Arnold Schwarzenegger accent and voice xD

YES!!! 😂😂😂

Sick profile pic

"You wanna take Labreya alll the way down to the beach and then get on the parkway to the 5...."

Eric singer

Yeah I love all this shit. Fred and and the dialect coach should start a show on accents.

Similar to how Tom Hanks recently did a near-perfect Australian accent on SNL... he had been spending time in Australia. Fred literally tours the entire of North America, so he's had a lot of time to absorb the various accents. Then you just need a way to recall them all... and he uses my technique of picturing how somebody from that area would say the name of where they live. Also years on SNL will make you very good.

@@GlennDavey It doesn't hurt that he speak Spanish fluently, likely German too (his father), not to mention some Korean/Japanese influence as well. He had a wide exposure to languages growing up.

He’s a professional

Ayesha Malik Or Hawaiians for that matter

Where's that

Don't feel bad he skipped most of the midwest too lol

At least you can see Russia.

Lol

My Dad grew up in Tacoma, and I always noticed how he, along with other natives of that area, had EXACTLY the same delivery that Fred describes here. "Present their words on a plate" is PERFECT.

I thought of Action Bronson

Man she is annoying

@@kongvinter33 Queens is not mostly Jewish at all. I looked it up and Jewish people make up about 9% of the population. That is a high percentage compared to the country as a whole but Queens is basically the most diverse area in the USA. I'm from Queens and there's a pocket for every "ethnic" group in the world. It's not mostly anything

It was literally in the opening of The Nanny.

You didn't know that? Lol

yeah no hearing that was an experience. tbh i assumed he'd just do the c a l i f o r n i a n s... or some soft generic techboy amalgam.

My response was almost dying laughing because he is absolutely right. In other words, "This is a FACT!"

It stunned me too. I say "Excuse me??" in the EXACT same way he said it. All the time.

Yeah, you guys are good at emphasizing the SMUG! 😎

yeah, his getting the diff Texan accents was impressive.

Lizzy Baran My husband is from Floor-duh too 😄

Daniel Natal my parents are NYers (Manhattan and Brooklyn) and they pronounce it that way too! FLAW-rih-duh

I was a little confused on that one because I'm an upstate New Yorker and I don't pronounce the I in Florida either! Never even been further south than Indiana. Weird.

Daniel Natal Ayeeee 727

I’ve lived in florida for the majority of my life and didn’t even realize that other people might pronounce the I. Always Floorduh

Probably the best FA stage presence description I’ve heard tbh

You really hit the nail on the head with this one, couldn't describe it better! 👌😆

well said!

I mean it helps that he's a consummate improviser too, so he's pretty comfortable riding that line

@Chuffer ..... fuck no. Those are expats from outside of California WHO FORGOT to go home. Have a conversation with someone born & raised in The City & it becomes clear it’s a tale of 2 Cities

@@robertnewell4054 I was born in San Francisco, and have lived in the Bay for twenty years, of course it's not perfect, but I just thought it was a funny joke dude!

@Chuffer ..... And I doubt the veracity of your statement.

@@robertnewell4054 Well I can't do anything to dissuade you, so I just hope you have a good day

@Chuffer ....... In all sincerity I wish you likewise coupled with my apology for any offense. For context I’m a PrunePicker (you’ll probably have to google that one) ... and I can be salty in my reactions regarding the diversity of The Bear Flag Republic that most miss. Broad brush characterizations & hyperbole to often lead. the way. 🖖🏽🤙🏽

Michigan too buddy

Don't mind if we do!

Ohio 😔✌🏻

Sure just skip over Toronto, Quebec, Maritimes, Vancouver, Plains, Territories, Dozens of Mexican accents, Greenland, All the countries and dialects in the Caribbean

And Nevada :(