• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Everyone cites Hugh Laurie as the best UK-born imitator of the American accent, and I completely agree, but I also think it’s fucking hilarious that now a lot of UK actors trying to do an American accent also end up imitating Hugh Laurie’s gravelly voice.

    The Fauxmerican Accent is now Grumpy Doctor Voice, 11/10 comedy

    • wieson@feddit.org
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      17 hours ago

      Same as every american sketch comic trying to do a German accent, does a Brüno imitation (Sasha Baron Cohen’s character).
      Brüno’s accent is really good, being a mixture of many characteristics, one of them German, another being typical gay speech patterns.
      So now everyone who thinks they’re doing a German accent, does a gay German Brüno voice. Not quite right.