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English 8:18 Documentary

The Last Late Late Show: Chapter 3 — We're A Bit British

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ladies and gentlemen uh what I'm about

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to say might shock you I am from Great

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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Britain yeah I'm British that's it I

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mean there's really nothing I can do

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about it do you know what we call

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Thanksgiving in Britain

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Thanksgiving obviously we have a lot of

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British people who work here the British

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feeling of the show definitely infused

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into the Americanized late night

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television show come on Phillip let's go

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and teach these ghastly Ruffin's

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manners I think we're lucky cuz we've

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got such a good mix of American sense of

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humor here and British sense of humor we

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want to be warm we want to be funny and

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we want to be silly say oh thank you for

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helping me get to work and you say off

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so all of those things whether it's

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Monty Python or the office they're all

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things that kind of influence our comedy

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and hopefully gives us quite a broad

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upill the global nature of this show has

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been very beautiful and it is a very

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British show in America there's no doubt

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about it James is who James is James

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we've got carpul karaoke yeah maybe I

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can do English tea on the 405 English

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tea on the

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405 but of course we've had to adapt of

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course I've had to remember to say

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elevator and trunk and soccer even

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though you know kills me a little bit

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inside I now know more names of British

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football teams than I ever thought I

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would see see what we got the amount of

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football conversations that happen on

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this show I don't know anything about

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football we've messed up many times by

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scheduling field shoots or sketches when

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West Ham's playing the way it works here

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