My face doesn’t match my voice, racist comments and being Australian | from Picture This special

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00:00 - 01:13 Getting drunk
01:14 - 03:08 Pandemic hobbies
03:09 - 03:51 My face doesn't match my voice
03:52 - 04:16 Racist comments
04:17 - 04:51 Citizenship in Australia
04:52 - 05:08 China

#standupcomedy #australianaccent #asiancomedy #australia #pandemic

[nomnomjenny]

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[RandomStuff-helu]

Used to know a guy who was Chinese descent. One day someone came up with him and asked him if he would read something for him. He handed it over and it's written in Chinese characters. My friend replied that he couldn't read it. The other guy apologised and asked if it was Korean or something. My friend replied, "Listen to my voice. I sound like Steve Irwin." The other guy was all, "Oh, how long did it take you to pick up that accent?" My friend replied, "My family came over during the 1850s gold rush." The guy just looked at him blankly and walked away. We had a good laugh.

[DeftPol]

😂 so good - I love her line that she “looks oriental, but sounds like the type of person that still uses the word oriental”

[rojoeditor]

I ate in a Chinese restaurant in a small town in Virginia. The Chinese server said, in a thick southern drawl, "What can I get for y'all?" That was incongruous. Then when I asked if they had chopsticks, she said, "Oh I'm so sorry, we sure don't."

[davidbouvier]

Not long after I first arrived in Canada, sitting in a lawyers' office in Vancouver many decades ago, I chatted with a much older turbaned bearded Sikh gentleman. I complimented him on how excellent his English was. He politely responded that it ought to be because he was born in Canada. Egg all over my face.

[keaton]

I went to college and in the dorms there was a young guy who had Japanese parents, but was born and grew up in the Australian outback. He could not speak Japanese and had the thickest Australian accent I'd ever heard, like the Aussiest guy I had ever met. Surprising at first when half the college is international students and you expect him to have a Japanese accent, but you adjust very quickly and it's quickly obvious he's not Japanese, except through descent, and is 100% Australian country boy.

[graceaxisa]

Years ago (when I was a young teenager), my dad hired an account to help process his tax returns. The accountant was Chinese, spoke in a strong aussie accent and easily slipped into fluent Greek to help my dad understand him better 😅 Needless to say, dad booked him every year, from then on! 😂🤗🙂

[tallyhorizzla]

I had a doctor who was quite obviously Chinese but with a wonderful Scottish accent, always made me smile.

[itsrrraven]

"my voice attracts the bogans, and my face attracts the high rollers" GIRL IM FUCKING CRYING 💀 💀

[BeWater]

Somehow, this is easier and caused no problem. I once talked to a Chinese guy who grew up in Scotland, and my brain short-circuited for a few seconds due to the disconnect between what I was seeing and what I was hearing.

[ennie]

god as an aussie born asian millenial i fricking relate to all of this jenny!!!

[TiE]

From the US: My statistics professor in junior college was, if I recall right, of Korean descent, and raised in Texas. If a cartoon needed a voice actor for a cowboy he’d win the part easily. His voice could’ve co-starred with John Wayne.

[JR-omee]

She’s even got the whole upward inflection, asking a question thing at the end. Fantastic.

[Onda-vt]

When my wife went for her citizenship test I was allowed to accompany her. What they didn't count on was an Ocker Aussie being able to speak my wife's native language. They thought I was interpreting the questions, but I was giving her the answers in her own language. She's an Aussie now. What does it mean being an Aussie? It means the bastards can't deport you.

[evanflynn]

I'm Australian, and with mostly English and Irish background. Went over to England for my sister's wedding, and while walking around the Roman Baths in Bath (love the names of places in England), we saw a big group of school kids doing the usual thing when going on a school trip - doing the educational stuff that their teacher gave them to fill out by asking locals questions about the historical site. We were tourists too, but they couldn't tell because we fit in with the locals. When they came up to us to ask their questions they all did double takes when they heard Aussie instead of regional English.

[sheismymom]

She's so funny and her overalls make me wish I was cool enough to wear overalls.

[chital_shikari]

You sound more Australian than Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie combined. Good stuff lol.

[TheOneZenith]

Her voice sounds exactly as I expected after reading the title.

[PapaWoody]

"How's that for Australian?" Brilliant.

[ibast]

One of my funny travel memories is walking along the street in Saigon, behind two Vietnamese girls. then I heard them start talking to each other in a full Bogan accent.

In that setting hearing Pauline Hanson's voice coming from two Vietnamese girls is quite confronting.