#i've been trying to learn welsh for a while and this joke has been stuck in my head for a week and i need to share it

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

oh my god was the welsh thing really an act i was just under the impression he'd spent so long in england he lost the accent

Part 2: "by now i'm convinced mark watsons special talent is making jokes about air travel that are actually funny because one of my favourite mock the week moments was his bit about airport security that went like "i really hate all the stressful security announcements in airports. "ladies and gentlemen, at this time of maximum security" what do they mean, "at this time"? whens it gonna stop? "ladies and gentlemen, i think they've gone. if you see a mysterious package, shake it!""

Yep, the Welsh accent was not real. I mean, it was clearly sort of "real", in that sounded enough like a Welsh accent to fool people for quite a while. His mother's Welsh so I guess he grew up around it and could do it very well. And the Welsh accent wasn't that different from the voice he uses now, he has quite a distinctive speaking style so to me it clearly sounds like "how Mark Watson is supposed to sound" no matter what accent he's using. But he was born in Bristol and went to school in Bristol and then went to Cambridge. He did not grow up with a Welsh accent.

I previously knew that he did that for the same reason Lee McKillop goes by Lee Mack on stage - it can be easier to perform as someone slightly different from who you are in real life. But I only recently learned just how far he took it. Here he is explaining it on a podcast, and it's such a classically Mark Watson story. Started what was meant to be a small thing that he thought would help him, committed to the bit so hard that he got in over his head, and then had to keep it up for way too long out of sheer social embarrassment. Which appears to be plot of both much of Mark Watson's life and all sitcoms. I'm still really stuck on this idea that I want a sitcom where two guys named Tim Key and Mark Watson become friends through the Cambridge Footlights program while both trying to hide their ridiculous secrets that they are respectively not really a Cambridge student and not really Welsh (even though Mark probably didn't do the accent when he was really in university, artistic license).

I actually just saw that Mock the Week bit last night, while going through old videos and looking for a different bit, and I thought the same thing! That he does do airline jokes well. I've now listened to the first two of his three radio shows, and I've realized he does observational stuff in general really well, which I say as someone who isn't normally into purely observational comedy. I think his delivery lends itself well to jokes like that, the way he constantly sounds hesitant and unsure about anything while he breaks down strange things in the world.

I've been really enjoying his radio shows, they've gotten better with every episode and are making me appreciate him more as a comedian than I ever did before. I really like this small almost Welsh man.

[ghost-in--the-room]

What does a Welsh magician say when procuring a perfect cup of tea from their hat? Te da!

#welsh #i've been trying to learn welsh for a while and this joke has been stuck in my head for a week and i need to share it #pun #language puns #joke #if i can get on post to be noticed in my entire tumblr presence #it would be this one #for those who dont know te da means good tea