Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. How do I do it
Speaker 1: with the accents?
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, like I never thought I
Speaker 2: was good at it or anything, but I think it's
Speaker 2: because I grew up like that.
Speaker 1: I have a mixed family.
Speaker 2: Like everyone in my family has a different accent, you know,
Speaker 2: so my dad, my dad's family, my mom, my mom's family.
Speaker 2: Everyone has like like a hybrid because everyone moved around
Speaker 2: a lot, so whenever you go to a different house,
Speaker 2: it's just easier to speak to them in their accent
Speaker 2: than to try, you know. Because it was weird as well,
Speaker 2: Like because I went to a private school, like myself
Speaker 2: and my cousins, we were all lucky to go to
Speaker 2: like at the time, they called them Model C schools.
Speaker 1: In South Africa, so it was like.
Speaker 2: The first generation of black and white kids at the
Speaker 2: same schools. So we have different accents to our parents.
Speaker 2: And then like your parents were happy to send you there.
Speaker 1: That was the funny thing. It's like your parents.
Speaker 2: Would be like, you must go to that school and
Speaker 2: you must learn to speak good English. And then you
Speaker 2: go to the school and you'd learn the English, and
Speaker 2: then you'd come home and then like your parents be
Speaker 2: sitting with them watching TV or something, and then like
Speaker 2: your your dad would be like put volume, put volume,
Speaker 2: and you'd be like, do you mean increase the volume?
Speaker 1: Be like, hey, I'll increase or decrease your life. Don't
Speaker 1: act smartire put volume. You don't come here with that English.
Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, but that's what you told her.
Speaker 2: So then it became easier to just like speak the
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, speak in the accents of
Speaker 2: the people. It changes, like you might find you do
Speaker 2: the same thing. Do you live in New York or
Speaker 2: do you live in Haiti or you live in Haiti? Okay,
Speaker 2: if you live in New York.
Speaker 1: I know. I've got friends from Haiti who do that.
Speaker 2: Like in New York they sound like half Haiti half
Speaker 2: New York. And then when they go to Haiti, I
Speaker 2: can't understand a word that they're saying. Like like, if
Speaker 2: I FaceTime a friend of mine who's in Haiti when
Speaker 2: he's in New York, you'd be like, yeah, man, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, and I hear a little bit of Haiti.
Speaker 2: And then when he's in Haiti and I'll face time
Speaker 2: with him and I'll be like, yo, what's up?
Speaker 1: Vince? How are you doing? You'd be like why why you?
Speaker 1: Why are you? Why are you? And I'm like what what?
Speaker 1: Everyone everyone? So I think that's where I got it from.
Speaker 2: I just you know, yeah, just having mixed people, you
Speaker 2: just speak to them and it becomes easier otherwise, you know,
Speaker 2: like my grandmother, I'm not gonna repeat the same thing
Speaker 2: six times. I'm just gonna speak to my grand in
Speaker 2: her accent.
Speaker 1: And then she's just like yeah.
Speaker 2: And then my grand I think that's why I'm actually
Speaker 2: my grandmother's favorite grandchild, because all the other grandkids speak
Speaker 2: to her in like the accents they learned at school,
Speaker 2: and then with me, she's just like he's never forgotten
Speaker 2: these roots. What is my favorite accent to do? It
Speaker 2: depends on the day, I'm not gonna lie, it depends.
Speaker 1: On the day. Sometimes I'll choose an accent for the day.
Speaker 2: If I'm on vacation, genuinely, I'll just walk around and
Speaker 2: now like just be on vacation. Some days, like like
Speaker 2: I'll just be like, oh, I'm Australian for the day,
Speaker 2: and I'll just walk around and I'll just be Australia.
Speaker 2: You know, the great thing about an Australian accent is
Speaker 2: that you always sound happy because always what it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what it is, but always got zapp and it's
Speaker 2: like really exciting, you know. It's got that thing like
Speaker 2: even even in Australian gave you bad news, it always
Speaker 2: sounds good.
Speaker 1: It's like, Hi, Mike, your mom's dead.
Speaker 2: It's just oh yeah. One of my favorite things to do, though,
Speaker 2: is sometimes because I don't really impersonate general accents. I'm
Speaker 2: personally people. So the Australian that I do is a
Speaker 2: friend of mine from Australia. And then like the like
Speaker 2: if I do like a Nigerian accent is a friend
Speaker 2: of mine from Nigeria. And because I can't because people
Speaker 2: all have different accents, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So I don't know what an Indian accent is. I
Speaker 2: know what my Indian friend sounds like, so I just
Speaker 2: impersonate his accents. And then like Trinidad, I just know
Speaker 2: my friend from Trinidad, this is his accent, so just
Speaker 2: I just do his accent. And then I remember, like
Speaker 2: one day I did the Trinity accent and then people
Speaker 2: from Trinidad they were like, they're like, that's not how
Speaker 2: people in Trinity talk.
Speaker 1: Were and then I was like, yo, you talk to him,
Speaker 1: that's how he sounds.
Speaker 2: And then they shot on him because he's on like
Speaker 2: Instagram and stuff, and they're like, dude, what happened to
Speaker 2: your accent? Why are you talking like He's like, guys,
Speaker 2: I haven't lived in America. I've lived in America for
Speaker 2: a long time, and like, it's not my thoughts. I
Speaker 2: didn't try to change my accent. They're like, you needing
Speaker 2: Trevor Nor wrong, You're not speaking nowhere.
Speaker 1: It's a horse. So I'm just like I just do people.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm doing. Well. Who else do we have from?
Speaker 1: W Yes? Egypt? Oh? Very nice? That's cool, cool and exotic? Yes,
Speaker 1: how things going over there?
Speaker 2: Just blink if it's good, and blink twice if it's bad.
Speaker 1: I won't say your name. I won't put you on camera.
Speaker 1: You can go back.
Speaker 2: Your president doesn't have to know you were here.
Speaker 1: Things are good in Egypt.
Speaker 2: When you when you watch Donald Trump, does he remind
Speaker 2: you a little bit of Egyptian leaders?
Speaker 1: Yeah? A lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like just without the Arabic. It's just
Speaker 2: like say agin they're also what oh they are friends?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah he is. You can see that be cool if.
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like Trump will be exactly the same,
Speaker 2: even if he spoke Arabic.
Speaker 1: It would be like the same thing.
Speaker 3: Oh lakla, but the goda la la, the lailoa yalla
Speaker 3: yo la.
Speaker 2: I tried to start learning German because my dad is
Speaker 2: Swiss German, right, and so I was like, I want
Speaker 2: to learn his language because I never learned it growing up.
Speaker 2: And then someone was like, why don't you learn Swiss?
Speaker 2: And then I heard Swiss and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: rather learn German. And so I learned German because I
Speaker 2: thought it would bring us closer together, right, because I
Speaker 2: lost contact with my dad for like ten years, and
Speaker 2: so then when I met him again, I was like,
Speaker 2: I want to learn German and impress him or whatever.
Speaker 2: Then I met him and then like I started speaking
Speaker 2: to him in German and he was like, what are
Speaker 2: you doing.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm speaking German. He's like, no, it's
Speaker 1: better if you speak English.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, this is no, this is this is He's like,
Speaker 2: it's better if you don't speak German at.
Speaker 1: All, It's fine.
Speaker 2: But then now I could speak a bit of German.
Speaker 2: So I was excited to go to Germany and stuff
Speaker 2: and practices. Then you know, I'd had a lot of
Speaker 2: fun until I found out that my the way I
Speaker 2: spoke German sounded a little bit like Hitler, Yeah, which
Speaker 2: no one told me on this side of the world
Speaker 2: because we don't know how he really spoke or anything.
Speaker 2: But I would be in Germany and apparently the way
Speaker 2: I would hit certain inflections would freak people out. And
Speaker 2: it's like, think of it like Barack Obama's voice. Like
Speaker 2: if someone learned English in America and they got here
Speaker 2: and they were like, I just want to have You'd
Speaker 2: be like, hey, you're doing the Barack Obama thing and
Speaker 2: they'd be like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So I would do that, like I'd go in places
Speaker 2: and then i'd like order food and like someone would
Speaker 2: be there and be like, wouldn't talk, that's russel you
Speaker 2: haven And then I'd be like if you ly in
Speaker 2: climb watch and haven't.
Speaker 1: Be the sun.
Speaker 2: With the sinking, and the people would like, people won't
Speaker 2: look at me. And then when we left, my friend
Speaker 2: was like, I was like, why would they look? Did
Speaker 2: I say it weird?
Speaker 1: Like wrong, wrong words?
Speaker 2: She's like, no, you sound a little bit like like
Speaker 2: hitler yeah, and she's like and the people are really
Speaker 2: frightened about that, and you know, and I was like,
Speaker 2: so I spoiled their day and she was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you did.
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: And I was like, well that brings me a lot
Speaker 2: of shot in fire. Spain was fun as well as well.
Speaker 2: I was trying to learn Spanish, and the weird thing
Speaker 2: about learning Spanish is I found out in Spain that
Speaker 2: my Spanish is flawless. The problem is I only speak
Speaker 2: like seven words of Spanish, but those seven words are flawless,
Speaker 2: which doesn't help me in Like, so I'll start conversations
Speaker 2: with people, like in the morning, someone will see me
Speaker 2: and they'll be like.
Speaker 1: Oh lah, and then I'll be like, oh la, come
Speaker 1: is that And they'd be like, oh go mobian it too.
Speaker 2: And I'll be like, oh oh I got yea and
Speaker 2: they'd be like, oh this is cool, you know. And
Speaker 2: I'll meet people be like hey, come amas, and they'd
Speaker 2: be like, oh me numbre sonya.
Speaker 1: I'll be like oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and I get into a vibe and I'll.
Speaker 1: Be with the people. I'll be asking people's stuff, I'll
Speaker 1: be giving.
Speaker 2: Directions and then I just run out because I only
Speaker 2: learned as much as I can.
Speaker 1: Learn, but you don't know when you're gonna run out,
Speaker 1: do you get what I'm saying? So so I would.
Speaker 2: Be like, I'll be like, don't know at the Dora,
Speaker 2: and then the people are like, oh, look at the Doral,
Speaker 2: and then I would be arguing like okay, I know that,
Speaker 2: and I'll give direction.
Speaker 1: Then someone would ask me where's the cathedral.
Speaker 2: Then I know how to start the direction, so I'll
Speaker 2: be like, oh, in Docentros Metro and then people are
Speaker 2: like cool. And then the person goes don't know the city,
Speaker 2: and then I'm like, oh, sorry, no.
Speaker 1: No a blah me no no a blah.
Speaker 2: And then the worst thing is like even the way
Speaker 2: I'm saying, because I'd be like no, no, no me,
Speaker 2: no a bleas spaniel, no bless spaniel, which is weird
Speaker 2: because you should say me no abla in the worst
Speaker 2: way you can, which I didn't realize because I should
Speaker 2: have been like, oh me, no abla espaniol, but instead
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, no a blah me no o
Speaker 2: bles spaniel, no o bless spaniel, which is basically like
Speaker 2: the equivalent of meeting like someone and they came up
Speaker 2: to you and they're like.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I didn't speak any English.
Speaker 2: I apologize, No, I speak no English whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I must apologize not a word of English. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Did I hear somebody?
Speaker 2: Was there a French person who has had a fiance?
Speaker 1: Is that very cool? My congratulations? It was nice.
Speaker 2: It was weird because I was listening to you when
Speaker 2: you're speaking, and I was like, it's weird because fiance
Speaker 2: is French, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Because I know this sounds weird, but in my head
Speaker 1: you said, oh yeah, no, and this is my fiance.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, what's the French for fiance?
Speaker 2: Is that a little bit weird to you that in
Speaker 2: English you have to say some French words every now
Speaker 2: and again, right, because like that that's the thing, like
Speaker 2: we do that.
Speaker 1: We'll be like we'll be like fiancee.
Speaker 2: Entrepreneur, you know, like like think about we do that
Speaker 2: like touchet. We just say that to each other in
Speaker 2: conversation as people. Someone will say something, you say something
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, touchet. But like I don't think
Speaker 2: French people, do you guys do that with English? Or
Speaker 2: like French people just hanging out with each other, and
Speaker 2: it's like literally.
Speaker 1: And I was told her, ah, you touch me, you
Speaker 1: do that? You don't, right, it's just weird. It's totally
Speaker 1: weird to me. We just use other languages in our language.
Speaker 1: That's really straight. That's exciting. Man.
Speaker 4: So, Sagan, French fries are not French. I like you
Speaker 4: said that were passion and French fries they are not French.
Speaker 4: Trevor arrived to tell you all of these secrets. The
Speaker 4: French fries are not French, but do you eat them
Speaker 4: in France?
Speaker 1: So why you complained? That's why you guys? Also like,
Speaker 1: where are these French friends from?
Speaker 2: They say they're from France, Jeanpierre these years.
Speaker 1: No they're not, Michelle, this is your friends. No, they're
Speaker 1: not their friends.
Speaker 2: Who are the fresh from They said they are French
Speaker 2: frist but no French person knows where they're from.
Speaker 1: Oh man, what.
Speaker 2: Made you move from France? What you said seventeen years
Speaker 2: you've lived in Detroit. What made you move, Sagan? Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Yeah, Atlanta? What you just walked? Oh shit? Did
Speaker 1: you say work?
Speaker 2: Oh sorry your accent because you said no, I walk?
Speaker 4: And then I was like, god, damn I was like, wow,
Speaker 4: that's one hell of a journey, my friend.
Speaker 2: Just like one day I was working, I was working
Speaker 2: by their fort.
Speaker 1: Hour, and I said, I've seen this before. I've seen
Speaker 1: all of this before. I'm got to walk a little further.
Speaker 1: And then I walked and I walked, and I walked
Speaker 1: some more.
Speaker 2: And then a few years later, I was like Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And then I was tired, so I stayed there's no
Speaker 1: reason to go back. Oh wow, that's fine.
Speaker 2: And then you fell in love with Atlanta and you stayed.
Speaker 1: No what happened? Oh wow? Oh man, so you go.
Speaker 2: To Atlanta, the recession happens, so now you're stuck in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: That is so dope. I feel like I should make
Speaker 1: a TV show about you. Man. That's like a fun story.
Speaker 2: It's like, I ended up in Atlanta and now this
Speaker 2: is my life.
Speaker 1: How did you make money? I became a rapper.
Speaker 2: In the at and I became the only French trap rapper.
Speaker 5: So wow, total o'clock, said Tonkey said Tony tell o'clock.
Speaker 1: I wanted to share this little story with you.
Speaker 2: I I got into a little bit of trouble with
Speaker 2: the French governments. I know the French governments. So what
Speaker 2: happened was, let's start at the beginning, uh, France won
Speaker 2: the World Cup.
Speaker 1: And so and so on the.
Speaker 2: Show, I uh we we we celebrated that, and I
Speaker 2: had this joke where I said, I said Africa won
Speaker 2: the World Cup.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I was shocked at how angry a lot
Speaker 6: of French people got, like genuine a lot of French
Speaker 6: people were angry, and they were like, oh, Trevor, how
Speaker 6: can you say this?
Speaker 1: Why we say these things? You know? This is horrible?
Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: Like not everyone likes every joke that you tell, and
Speaker 2: I get that, but this was interesting. I got a
Speaker 2: letter from the ambassador, the ambassador of France, and I'll
Speaker 2: read it to it.
Speaker 1: It was about that joke, and he says, I'll try
Speaker 1: to read it.
Speaker 2: How I hope he wrote it, which was he says, Sir,
Speaker 2: I watched with great attention your July seventeenth show when
Speaker 2: you spoke of the victory of the French team at
Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen Fifair World Cup Russia final, which took
Speaker 2: place last Sunday. I heard your words about an African victory.
Speaker 2: Nothing could be less true. Now, first of all, I
Speaker 2: think it could have been less I could have said
Speaker 2: there were Scandinavians.
Speaker 1: That would have been less true.
Speaker 2: That would have been less true, says as many of
Speaker 2: the players have already stated themselves. Their parents may have
Speaker 2: come from another country, but the great majority of them,
Speaker 2: all but two out of twenty three, were born in France.
Speaker 2: They were educated in France, they learned to play soccer
Speaker 2: in France. They are French citizens. They're proud of their
Speaker 2: country France. The rich and various backgrounds of these players
Speaker 2: is a reflection of francis diversity. France is indeed, now
Speaker 2: that line there was interesting. The rich and various backgrounds
Speaker 2: of these players is a reflection of Franci's diversity. Now
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I think
Speaker 2: it's more reflection of France's colonialism, because it's not like
Speaker 2: it's just like random play, like they all have something
Speaker 2: in common. Like all of those players, if you trace
Speaker 2: their lineage, you're like.
Speaker 1: How did you guys become French? Like how did your
Speaker 1: family start speaking French? Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm gonna say here, he says A. Indeed,
Speaker 2: their cosmopolitan country, but every citizen is part of the
Speaker 2: French identity, and together they belong to the nation of France.
Speaker 2: Unlike in the United States of America, France does not
Speaker 2: refer to its citizens based on their race, religion, or origin.
Speaker 2: To us, there is no hyphenated identity. Roots are an identity,
Speaker 2: Roots are.
Speaker 1: An individual reality.
Speaker 2: By calling them an African team, it seems you are
Speaker 2: denying their frenchness. This, even in jest, legitimizes the ideology
Speaker 2: which claims whiteness as the only definition of being French.
Speaker 2: So now here's the thing, all right, First things first,
Speaker 2: I understand what he's saying because I read up on this.
Speaker 1: Afterwards, right, I take criticism.
Speaker 2: I'll listen to what somebody says to me, you know,
Speaker 2: I genuinely believe you should. And what it turns out is,
Speaker 2: in France, a lot of like Nazis in that country
Speaker 2: use the fact that these players of African descent to
Speaker 2: shit on their French you know. So they go, you're
Speaker 2: not French, You're from Africa, go back to where you
Speaker 2: came from, You're not French.
Speaker 1: They use that as as you know, as a line
Speaker 1: of attack.
Speaker 2: Now, my thing is, my opinion is coming from South Africa,
Speaker 2: coming from Africa, and even watching the World Cup in
Speaker 2: the United States of America, Black people all over the
Speaker 2: world were celebrating the africanness of the French players, right,
Speaker 2: not in a negative way, but rather in a positive way, going, look.
Speaker 1: At these Africans who can become French. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? It's it's a celebration of that achievement.
Speaker 2: And so this is what I find I find weird
Speaker 2: in these arguments is that people go, they're not African,
Speaker 2: They're French.
Speaker 1: Then I'm like, why can't they be both?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 2: Why is that duality only afforded to a select group
Speaker 2: of people?
Speaker 1: Why can they not be African?
Speaker 2: So what they're arguing here is in order to be French,
Speaker 2: you have to erase everything that is African, because what they.
Speaker 1: What do they mean when they say that our culture,
Speaker 1: our this hour?
Speaker 2: This is like so, so you cannot be French and
Speaker 2: African at the same time, which which I vehemently disagree with.
Speaker 2: I go, if you've seen those players, I love them,
Speaker 2: Paul Pogba, Angolo Conte, I've watched all of them, Like,
Speaker 2: I love those players, and I love how African they
Speaker 2: are and how French they are.
Speaker 1: Don't take their frenchness away. But I also don't think
Speaker 1: you need.
Speaker 2: To take their Africanness away, you know, And that's that
Speaker 2: is what I love about America.
Speaker 1: America is not a perfect country, but what I love.
Speaker 2: About this place is that people can still celebrate their
Speaker 2: identity in their americanness. You can go to a Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's Day parade in America celebrating that you are Irish.
Speaker 2: You can go to a Puerto Rican Day parade in
Speaker 2: America still celebrating the fact that you're Puerto Rican and American.
Speaker 1: At the same time.
Speaker 2: You can celebrate Judent Teams as a black person and
Speaker 2: be like, yo, I'm African American.
Speaker 1: Which is the duality of the two worlds. But here
Speaker 1: they're going, no, you are only French. And here's here's
Speaker 1: why it vexes me to be honest.
Speaker 2: This is what I find interesting, is like when I
Speaker 2: read stories from Africa and when I watch what politicians say,
Speaker 2: especially in France, about African migrants when they are unemployed,
Speaker 2: when they may commit a crime, or when they are
Speaker 2: considered unsavory.
Speaker 1: It's the African immigrants.
Speaker 2: When their children go on to provide a World Cup
Speaker 2: victory for France.
Speaker 1: We should only refer to them as France.
Speaker 2: And we even saw it with that African man who
Speaker 2: climbed the building to rescue the baby. Do you remember
Speaker 2: that we watched him climb that building, he rescued the child,
Speaker 2: and then they gave him French citizenship. They said, you
Speaker 2: are now French. So now I'm going so, is he
Speaker 2: now no longer African? Is that what you're saying. So
Speaker 2: when he was on the ground, he was African, and
Speaker 2: then he climbed up and as soon as he rescued
Speaker 2: the baby, now he's French. So if you dropped the baby,
Speaker 2: the African dropped the baby, It's like, I don't believe
Speaker 2: that you need And here's like I say, again with respect,
Speaker 2: I understand what the ambassadors saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not joining the attack.
Speaker 2: And I know, don't get me wrong, I know there's like,
Speaker 2: you know, we live in a world where like nuance
Speaker 2: is something that is in short supply, and so you
Speaker 2: will find, you know, in America, for instance, the alt
Speaker 2: right saying that's what we've been saying. They're not French,
Speaker 2: and we're saying it's like but if Trevor says it,
Speaker 2: it's not racist, but if we say it's racist, like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll say yeah, you know why, because I believe context
Speaker 2: is everything. There are certain things you can say to
Speaker 2: somebody that like when I say to my friends, what's
Speaker 2: going on my nigga, and if a white person came
Speaker 2: and said the same thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a big difference.
Speaker 2: When I'm saying the African I'm not saying it as
Speaker 2: a way to exclude them from their frenchness, but I'm
Speaker 2: rather using it to include them in my africanness. I'm saying,
Speaker 2: I see you, my French brother of African descent?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to say. When somebody else says
Speaker 2: it the other way, you can use the same line
Speaker 2: in different ways. People like so it's different. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's different. It can be different. It's like somebody's saying, oh,
Speaker 2: so if you play with your naked child, that's.
Speaker 1: A problem, but if I do it, I'm a pedophile. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a big difference. There's a huge difference.
Speaker 2: So I will continue to praise them for being African
Speaker 2: because I believe that they are of Africa, their parents
Speaker 2: are from Africa, and they can be French at the
Speaker 2: same time. And if French people are saying they cannot
Speaker 2: be both. Then I think they have a problem and
Speaker 2: on me.
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