Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/06/27/100-americans-attempt-a-brit.html
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Freashen yore tea Guv’ner?
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No apostrophe, Mark.
There were several attempts, some quite decent, but nobody in that video possesses a British accent.
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where do they get these people for this stuff?
I think they actually go through 5,000 just to get the 100 worst.
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I haven’t watched it yet, but from previous experience I’m wondering how many attempts I will have to watch before someone attempts an accent that is north of Watford.
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This cuts both ways, of course… 
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Accents vary wildly over the British Isles. There are probably enough for each of the 100 to have picked a different one. I suspect that something similar must be true in the US.
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Yes. Although I think that regional accents anywhere that has television and film have become less prominent in the past decades.
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Reference flew above my head, sadly 
No worries - it’s Peri from Doctor Who (from the classic series):
The actress who played her had a horrible American accent that was kind of all over the place. It was a very bad accent.
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Most of their knowledge of british colloquialisms seem to end around the 1950s and mary poppins and the generic british accent supposedly being cockernee london. The thing to know about a british accent is… there is no such thing as a british accent. 
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They never try accents north of Watford
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Whenever I “attempt” to speak in an English accent, I try to sound as much like Steve Coogan as possible. He’s Manchester, right?
Still, my accent’s terrible.
I had a bus driver friend for a few years in Austin, TX who was a WOC from Liverpool. We bonded instantly when I correctly identified her accent.
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I had to look her up in YouTube. Her accent is indeed very exaggerated!
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hey, she traveled a lot!
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I cultivated a decent old-timey cockney accent in high school. Unfortunately, it backfired as I got cast as the comic relief maid/cook/housekeeper in every goddamn play after that. Except for in Skin of Our Teeth, where the maid is a sultry Jezebel. It was the only maid part I actually wanted. The drama teacher flat-out told me “sorry, but Sabina is supposed to be sexy.” Then she forgot that she’d cast me in a different part and yelled at me for missing Sabina’s cue, to add insult to injury.
Yes, I am still bitter 25 years later.
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Not only that, it was never consistent, either. Sometimes she sounded a lot like a 20s gangster’s moll, others like a california girl. But the Colin Baker era had all sorts of other problems, too, unfortunately.
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Go in to 1:30
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