I knew you were the snowman, Devin!! 😅

Such a good comment I un-liked the previous ones.

I was gonna comment, 'Next on the Norwegafornians' but you already took a left on santa monica boulevard

Reminds me of the character from Family Guy that used to say "I was just about to bone my girlfriend..." 😅

"I was just fixing the snowmobile, Dan!"

Really? That's funny😂 Did they say that in an interview?

@@samspiano7070 that link has nothing to do with this video

I can believe that since Fred is the only guy who is actually doing a hilarious accent. The whole sketch literally is just Fred's accent.

They all sound like Peter Stormare.

@@TheKitchenerLeslie Ha ha ha. Peter Stormare is Swedish, and as a Swede, I can actually hear some similarity, yes.

" every we look there was pollution"

😂

yes, we heard it too.

Honestly, I believe you can do it.

A wise choice.

Thank you.

good

@Per VIdar Gornitzka Anfinnsen - oh no men!! You're not going to slap me five? 😂

you're my favourite commenter

Anda Winata you are tearing me apart Anda! :P

Oh.. Hi Anda!

Anda Winata YESSSS!

Can I have a dozen red roses please?

I'm glad someone finally said it

😂😂😂True Это правда

I'm American but I agree. Its even worse if you watch anime dubbed in English and someone is supposed to be Russian lol

We do yall dirty. Our bad lol

Ahahahahahaha нажми эту красную кнопку, Борис.

You posted this 1 year ago: 0 replies. Your answer: No we can not.

I feel like this skit was totally Fred armisens idea! It has him written all over it.

@@johannam.833 Could be, or it could be just a ripoff of the Festrunk brothers skit from SNL when it was in it heyday.

He's the most talented SNL cast in his generation. 👍😆

@@LadyVoldemort He and Hader are tied imo.

Ryan Reynolds is Canadian, though. And Bill Hader as an American portraying a Brit. Still very funny.

How vanguard

SO meta! lol

Ya. Wanted to say that. YOu said it. :)

With one Canadian actor.

It's one of the best lines in the sketch. I'm sad that the audience seemed to miss that joke, maybe because most of us Americans don't know what a barrister is. Hell, I don't fully understand the whole solicitor/barrister system myself... Here we just have lawyers...

Here we have litigators and transactional lawyers…roughly the same thing.

@@goombapizza6335 I don't get it

It was even funnier than the rest of the sketch 😂

Please stop using underrated in any sentence when you don't have a clue what it means. Thanks.

@Zimmit's FunHouse Adventure Thanks, I was laughing so hard at the "streets of Time Square" line that I actually missed the follow-up line.

The area around times square was pretty rough for a long time tho

"Everywhere we looked was pollution"

I’m English and Hader’s English accent sounds exactly like this skit to me!

The irony of this comment being on this exact sketch is amazing 😂

@@tracygilbert547 well that’s because it’s a west Minstencherchire accent and you obviously aren’t from west Minstencherchire or you’d appreciate the flawless accent

Hader is basically doing Jeremy Irons with Hader's sense of humor.

The only problem is his vowel-shift on the "A" is still American, but otherwise it's great

BossBellini .... He's a prince ❤

He sounds like a young James Mason...

yep im english. it's very good.

Why can't he be a British character in a film

NorWAY and OsLO

"Russian" gangsters usually speak Yiddish.

@Somali Kid Tell that to the Israelis.

"Russian" or literally gibberish? Most "Russians" in American movies eitherprized how to say the sentences phonetically, between the accent and misplaced syllabic emphasis or literal gibberish. No language that exists, ever.

Absinthevideo Absolutely :p

Actually Norwegian/American sounds way worse than this. Look up Petter Solberg speaking english. It's horrible.

+Absinthevideo word!

+Jan Aleksander Johannessen That's just one Norwegian.

+Absinthevideo SNL is great.. but this one, not so much (det høres ikke LITT ut som norsk aksent).

That's EXACTLY what it sounds like! :-D

EXACTLY

Yessss! lol

The Norwefornians

Nods

I didn’t think about that at all until I read your comment.

Hearing him say that reminded me of all the times I was like "Is that character supposed to be American?" when I was watching Midsommer Murders.

Sort of like what passes for a "British" accent on American TV - or worse, an Australian accent. You can get away with a lot if there aren't many people in your audience who can tell the difference.

I was like 666 🤘

I just love how he says "Nor-waay"

Fred is just another level of comedy. Portlandia is genius. Lol

+Greta M. yeah, that is the best part, he he - 1:27

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rawburrz

agree :D

@@i_likebeing_home8733 pppp

Yeah...so...good...

true that, but he's polish

Adam S He is real New Orleans man!

Rosana Khatib i miss you

We all had tto mug each other

Same! Like the Californians

They should at least do a followup with the Mexican Kabuki theater.

Next time I pretend-threaten someone one, i’m gonna use that line.

if by "killing it" you mean depleting the energy from the sketch, yes- agreed.

I think that Fred put's in the best effort here. But they are not trying to sound Norwegian. They are trying to sound like Norwegians immitating Americans. Fred's pronounciation of CAAWFEEE is hilarious because it's so true. I dont' think most Norwegians would pronounce coffee like that in English but whenever they make fun of Americans coffee is a go to word and they say it exactly like that. It would be like a Norwegian comedy show having Norwegian actors trying to sound like Americans trying to sound like British people. Lot's of either the Queens English or bad Cockney. The accent isn't supposed to be Norwegian, its supposed to be what Norwegians do when they imitate Americans.

@@ericburton5163 You never mentioned how highly inaccurate Norwegians’ American accents are. You basically just said, “American coffee is terrible and all Americans are shit at imitating accents.”

@@PlannedObsolescence To be fair, most Americans have exactly three English accents: Cockney, Posh, and RP. Also he didn't make fun of our coffee.

​@@goombapizza6335 Good one :) It sounds like it's true too.

Sami M'Barek I'm Mexican and trust me, you don't want to see that

Merab Shirel I definitely would 😂😂😂

10 years later and I'm still waiting...😞🤕😢...😂😂😂😂😂

Watch LOS ESPOOKIES ,Fred's Mexican detective show,VERY REAL

@eshel ahrak Yes, but still, trust me I'm Mexican 😬

I know right lol

Ooh, that burns. You just wait! Someday, we’re going to be, you know, not bad or something…

@@neilgow77 hey man. I’ve been a Prates fan since the Willie Stargell days. I just can’t accept that when this was made we were enduring 20 years of losing seasons.

@@neilgow77 hey now I’ve been a Pirates fan for 40 years. My dad gre up in western PA and talked with pride about seeing Bill Mazeroski and Roberto Clemente play at Forbes field.

BigSirZebras agree samburgs pretty weak here

BigSirZebras Andy is generally very weak. I don't get how he can work on SNL.

I agree!!!! I mean, i have no idea why he got an Emmy at all... I like him, because he seems a nice guy, but as an actor, he is very weak and yet overrated.

morrisal mighty minority?

what do you mean

Pretty much, yeh

Yep, we don't use the word barrister.

What gets me is when they have actors playing as Americans speaking during WW2 or the Cold War. “The Sah-viets will beat us there if we don’t move quickly!”

+Amphibiot yawn

Literally LOL'ed at this comment

Boy you sure were ahead of your time now everyone is offensive

Amphibiot Lmao!

Any sketch with a foreign theme and you’re sure to find someone in the comments making this lame joke. Sorry guy,l

I've only seen this sketch once, right now, and Ryan putting his face right next to Kristen's boob is fantastic. Hystical, under the radar, sketch.

That's an awesome testament to the power of comedy. 😆 Wishing you all the best.

Wow, thanks explaining the sketch. 🙄🤦

YOU SAW THAT TOO???!!!

That's because they are trying to do British accents, which Americans are rarely able to master, rather than mangling the American accent as shown here.

@@nkt1 - Or because Brits take themselves too seriously.

@@PlannedObsolescence Nonsense. Most British comedy is Brits taking the piss out of themselves. It's a national pastime. However, we watch a *lot* of American TV and films, which often feature very poor attempts at British accents, and it's just really unpleasant to listen to.

@@nkt1 And we have to endure Benedict Cumberbatch and Helena Bonham Carter and Michael Sheen and Dominic West. All truly dreadful accent-wise. Some pull it off, yes, just like some Americans pull off a British accent. But I wish everyone would just stick to what they are. Yes, we'd lose Idris Elba on Oz and Tom Holland as Spiderman, but somehow I think we'd live. Also just by numbers alone there are TONS more Brits making the attempt than the reverse...

@@gllyflower OMG, I just had a flashback to whatever the hell accent Daniel Craig was trying to do in "Knives Out." Lol, sounded like Foghorn Leghorn imitating Colonel Sanders.

If those movies are set in Minnesota, it may be plausible. The (very incorrect) stereotypical MN accent is supposed to be like a corrupted Norwegian accent.

@@amyellen3845 I always hear the MN one like Fargo.

To be fair, most Norwegians I know speak English pretty well with what I call an "Internet English accent" in which the base is like the accent of a person from Iowa in the US but with some pronounciations and vocab from other English accents (both American and not). But this is the a great impersonation of someone who speaks English trying to impersonate Americans. The CAAWFEE was hilarious. Like it's based on my own American accent (from the Great Lakes region) but me saying coffee and me making fun of my own accent saying coffee sound way different. This is the typical mix of nasally Great Lakes accent and California accent that no one would ever have (maybe someone who moved from Ohio to California?) that has been exaggerated times 10. It's like how Americans also use a mix of the Queens English and Cockney exaggerated times 10 when doing British accents.

number one What about Andy Samberg lol

Chris Webster I think Andy is very hot!

S1l9o9a0n and you sound like a shit person.

Mary Grace Timmerman Thanks Miss Timmerman- JEW

"I didn'tah makeah ah graffiti". Lol

Indeed

It's easier for me to understand the Norwegians

That was the point. The accent in the Californians is an exaggeration of a very particular accent from a very specific area of California. They reused that accent here because foreigners usually try to do that accent to sound American. In the UK, it was popular to try and imitate a Texan or Southern accent to play Americans on their telly.

@@mohenn22smith27 1. affecting /əˈfektiNG/ adjective touching the emotions; moving. 2. effect /əˈfekt/ verb gerund or present participle: effecting cause (something) to happen; bring about. "nature always effected a cure"

@@mohenn22smith27 so the American accent was emotionally touched by the Norwegians you say? How affectionate of them! Seriously though, we can all Google definitions nowadays but some people prioritize being an incompetent grammar nazi over double checking the facts i suppose...

okay , you guy

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Yup

You don't look Norwegian....

+Eric Ragnar Nationality obviously isn't the same thing as ethnicity.

She's Vietnorwegian.

Actually it varies from person to person.

I find the norwegian accent in English really really really cute ^_^

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