Sandi Toksvig’s British Accent Is Fake | Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled | Dave

Alan Davies is joined by long-time sparring partner Stephen Fry and future QI host Sandi Toksvig for offbeat chat. With Sara Pascoe and Alex Edelman.

Subscribe to UKTV for more clips from Dave and our network of channels including Gold, W and Really.

Facebook:

Twitter: @Join_Dave

Instagram:

Website:

Watch full episodes from the UKTV network on UKTV Play:

Download the UKTV Play app:

[md]

I love her! Always have, always found her so funny, so glad she's doing QI now and bake off, she should be on more stuff! 😘

[JakeJustIs]

Goodness, she really is the proper replacement for Stephen Fry. They both have similarly mischievous beginnings.

[iansmith]

I'm not being funny but, as a Scotsman who has spent many years travelling this planet, it's COMMON to every human to change their accent to suit their surroundings, I sound very very strange to people from my home town when I return but, that only lasts for a few hours until my brain slips back into my original accent and vise versa.

[hannahaidastitcher]

I could and would watch HOURS of Alan, Stephen and Sandi just sitting around a table discussing their lives.

[holidaysinsweden]

I Love Sandi Togsvik's storytelling.

[junbh]

It's weird to me that if you learn a completely new language and pronounce things correctly, people call it becoming fluent. But if you learn to speak a slightly different dialect of your language equally well, and can switch between your two dialects and speak both perfectly, rather than calling you fluent they call it fake!! If she was 14 when she learned this accent she's been speaking it often for most of her life! It's as much her 'real' accent as her other one.

[lohphat]

All accents are acquired.

I have a close friend who I first knew as an American, then when she picked up the phone one day it was her gran from Surrey and she switched into her native RedHill/Croydon accent without skipping a beat. She too will slip into it when tired or drunk. It's really fascinating when it happens.

[lovelygirl]

When in college to become an English teacher they told us to either pick the 'American' or the 'British' accent and stick to it. Now they had no idea that when they send me off to actual England I'd come back with a Northern dialect, which they were not pleased about.

[morphman]

For anyone wondering, this is from the episode titled "I don't know if it was the embarrassment or the narcotics, but I have a nosebleed". One of my favourite episodes!

[Truffle_Pup]

The saying "sent them to Coventry" is still to this day one of my favourites. I hope it never gets forgotten.

[spencerraney]

English teachers love to stretch books out to infinity.

[CalvinLimuel]

"When I'm tired, I speak with an American accent." I'd love to hear more of that!

[gremlin.x]

'' I didn't realise we were going to read the book one word at a time''
Literally my classmates when they try to read a word that has more than 4 syllables

[ChaoticAphrodite]

Title is partially misleading. Technically speaking, she's bidialectal, as is Gillian Anderson. She can speak both British and American, even if both dialects are heavily accented (even a posh New York accent is a N'Yawk accent).

[TheMDJ]

I grew up in Australia with a father who was Australian but a terrible anglophile. He used to train me to speak with a kind of faux RP English accent. To this day (I'm 62) my accent is a strangled mixture of Australian bloke and English radio announcer. I can speak with a broader Aussie accent if I try but it doesn't feel natural.

[Lilithly]

That's not really fake, is it? She learned it. My english isn't fake just because I studied it in school, it's just not my mothertongue.

[JuiceBoxAndTicTacs]

"They sent me somewhere I've never even heard of...
...*Coventry*" 😂

[pivinne]

it's called code switching, loads of people do it. I speak with a cockney accent when i visit my family in south london, and have the typical middle class accent everywhere else.

[ryancoulter]

I’d love to see her and Hugh Laurie talk and each using their fake accent - her UK accent and his American - and then just switch

[RIXRADvidz]

these snippets are enough to keep me tantalized...but seriously, if there is ANY compassion in the Universe, somebody PLEASE upload these shows