I’m usually quite good at identifying British accents, but there is one used by Paul Whitehouse in The Fast Show that I am having trouble placing.
It’s the one he uses when he is doing the adverts for “Cheesy Peas” … “You like cheese, you like peas, you’ll LOVE cheesy peas”.
Any ideas?
From memory I reckon it’s a Manchester accent…
Maybe it’s just me, but the vowels seem a bit different than a “typical” Manchester accent. Of course, he could be exaggerating for comic effect.
I haven’t watched that show for years, so I could be wrong, but I seem to remember it was a Geordie (Newcastle) accent.
Maybe you’re right UV, more of a generic Lancashire accent, if there is such a thing. Towns a few miles apart up there speak with distinctly different accents.
MC - Definately not Geordie, they’ve got Buggarallmoney - they couldn’t afford CheesyPeas.
Not even generic Lancashire, but generic Northern – you’ll hear people who sound like that from Yorkshire too. Paul Whitehouse is good at accents but the Cheezy-Peez guy and the “brillli-aaaant” kid aren’t traceable to any town or county. “Brillli-aaaant” kid’s dad (“it’s rubbish is that”) has a Manchester accent ‘cos that’s where John Thompson is from.
Without looking it up, can you guess where Whitehouse is from originally?
London? He’s on the telly so he must be from London…
Oh yeah!
But no, it’s not London. I’ll give you one more guess, with the clue that one of his more obscure characters is from there.
My completely uneducated guess would be … Birmingham? I seem to vaguely remember a character who sounded like Ozzy Osbourne (Rowley Birkin 
)
I thought he was Welsh. He does that Welsh DJ character, doesn’t he?
<welsh accent>
"I went on that internet the other day.
[pause]
It was rubbish."
</welsh accent>
He’s from the Rhondda Valley, Wales. The obscure character was Taffy, that lugubrious bloke with the pony tail who collected the glasses in a pub.
Rowley was surely a Home Counties man, but he might find it hard to remember himself ;).
I’d never have guessed, he doesn’t sound at all Welsh.
How Queer…
Mind you, Charlie Higson doesn’t sound much like a Naarwich boy…
You could have Run Me Down when I found out…
CAIRO… whfz fuplare en, rrzoofle. “Whup whup whup” she went! Whup whup whup! Hhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeee. Of course I wasn’t aware of the rrla plzzzl orr fof dllc carldnd but it turned out that it was his knees had been eaten entirely orff! Prdkjr odrhe kd hrotur mumrmelr we found out he’d been STAPLED TO THE BACK OF A YAK! Louoie ldn rheioi josir but oroudkup the arse! I should add, of course, that I was very, very drunk.
Yes, his Welsh roots showed when he was on Desert Island Discs, and got a Welsh folk song played. (He also got the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen played, surely a first for D.I.D! “You loved every minute of that, Sue, didn’t you?” he said at the end. Made me laugh)
i think the cheesy-peas geezer’s accent is more of a yorkshire
one myself, from the leeds area.
A Leeds type person eh ?
And why were you not at the Londope I ask ?
I could have given you a lift, being from Castleford.
I personally think its a near Burnley accent.
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Even towns right next to each other have very distinct accents. My town, Wigan, has a very different accent to it’s neighbour, Bolton, despite them bordering each other.
For this thread maybe, but not for this thread: Types of English accents.
casdave: Burnley people sound like Bubble from Ab Fab; I still say Whitehouse is using a generic northern accent, but beyond saying that he’s not from the region it’s hard to supply a proper GQ answer. It’s not pure Leeds, but there’s certainly some Leeds in there.