February 6, 2023 • 6 mins
A strong Scottish accent can be a challenge to understand (especially for Americans), but as comedian Marc Jennings explained… our Aussie accent can be tough to follow for Scots like him. He told Clairsy & Lisa the one phrase that always throws him... because while we're greeting someone, grammatically speaking, we're actually telling them to leave.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Comedian Mark Jennings is in town for Fringe. You can
catch his show original Sound during Fringe at the Brass
Monkey until February Iteen tickets are through fringe world dot
com dot you join just now. Hello, Hello, thank you
for getting.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Up so early, No problem. So this is definitely the
earliest that I've been.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
For a while.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, definitely.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Now how's your trip down undergoing? She's been here for
quite a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, I've been here for three weeks and it was
actually in PERF twenty twenty as well. So I was
heard in the fringe the year just before everything for
everything went to hell.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, absolutely, and we wouldn't let anyone in.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, I've been waiting for three years
to get back and finally here. But it's been great. Yeah.
The pair of fringes is really class I've been. The
audience has been great so far, and there's a love
which there's obviously ex pat Scottish people that are prevailing PERF,
a lot of them being shown up, even people who
have been here for you know, decades, but they're like,
(00:55):
oh well my mum come over from Scotland and my
dad or whatever. Yeah, So there's a lot of that
x pat in the community that came out for it.
Maybe a bit of taste of home or you know,
you know, my granddad used to have your accent or whatever.
But there's also just you know a lot of presidents
taking a punt on it, going oh, this guy won
an award or whatever, and then check out. They enjoy
it and amazingly understand the accent.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We speke to Justin Carry from the ben Elementary last week.
All right, he was saying, he speaks, he's got push. Yeah,
you guys, everyone can understand me. But he said he's
a couple of the bend people struggle with especially in
the USI.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I think Americans struggled the most
with it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, they struggled with all of them. How do you
go with us and a slang?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, I mean it's perfectly understandable. I think that the
main one that really froze you if you've never been
Asulia before, it is how you going because like it
doesn't make grammatical sense, right, And what I always think is,
like what you guys have done is that you've taken
two phrases that are said a greetings elsewhere or so
you've like, how is it going? Is what people say?
How are you doing? He combined them to make a phrase.
(01:58):
It basically sounds you're like you want the person speaking
to to leave good for my goings.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I have just arised, okay, amusing it, Doug. Yeah, I
follow a bit of you, a bit of some of
the stuff you've done on Instagram. I've want to know
where you Jeffrey Dama glasses?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Are you in my bag? Actually I don't. I saw
the series of Yeah, I'm sure this. I need to
wear the more than one now, but I did generally
buy them just before that Netflix series came out, and
I'm like, I do need to get different style of
glasses now.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Unfortunately, creepy you mentioned award winning are you one Scottish
Comedian of the Year in twenty nineteen?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So hey, you know though that competition.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Some that would be some tough competition, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I mean it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That's a funny.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, you know, it's such people. You know, there's there's
a really good comedy scene in Scotland obviously, like you
know the you know Belly Cornley's nine and it's a
good competition and stuff like that, And yes, I went
in twenty nineighteen, and then I was the raining champ
for about three years because COVID then there is no comment.
So I was like one consecutive years, come on, I
(03:05):
love that. You get a trophy. I did. I got
to keep it in my house for like three years.
I mean I just kept in the cupboard or something. Doorstop. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So the title of the show was Original Sound. Yes,
it references the award you know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hell yeah, So you want to know why the show
is called was called basically Original Sound. The reason I've
called it that is because, like so a lot of
success I've had over the last year or two, it
has been through putting my stuff online. And so when
you put a video on TikTok, if you use your
own audio, it just comes up whoever you are, it
comes up this person original Sound. And so basically the
concept of the show is, look, if you've seen my
(03:41):
wie short clips minute or two, come and see an
hour and it's an hour of original sound of me.
But you get to see it live and ultimately as well,
the show is going to be a lot of like
you know, just a lot of stand up bits that
will at some point probably also be clicked up and
put online. And so that's kind of the concept of
the show rather than you know, a lot of shows,
particularly fringing stuff, they'll have like a concept of a
(04:01):
theme or a narrative. There will be one big story
or whatever. I'm like, Look, this is an hour of jokes.
If you've seen the shorter clips and lights and out
of that, basically like just jokes on on everything under
the sun and and just more of what the people
have seen online. They're coming to see the show.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, I love your accent, especially just when you sayeah,
but when you said when we're not ridly killing, but
when you said going to be And I'm thinking about
the pro climber st.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
When I wake up.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Because you're from Glasgow. Now you're the you're the official
tourism for for Scotland for Glasgow. Would you sell Glasgow?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Glasgow is the cultural capital of Scotland. So Edinburgh's get
the castle and some nic if you want a good
night out, Glasgow spec to go. That's where the people are.
There's a lot of like just everybody's funny there. Everybody's
very friendly and nice and stuff like that. And you
know there's a thing though, because like Glasgo it's got
a reputation, is the one in class city, and it's
got a reputation is violent, always talks his poles art,
(05:04):
it's the most violent, all that right, but also talks
to poles and most friendly. And some days people and
comedians even get bit it's about like, oh, it's so
confusing that it's friendly but it's violent. To me, it
makes perfect centrally. I think the reason people in Glasgow
generally are friendly is because everyone is so violent, you know,
because smiling yeah, yeah, like this, could you put the
jail for attempting all? I know, I'm just going to
be nice to do.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know if Jimmy banns you're striding rock staff from
he's from gless Gage is yeah. He once told me,
he said, he said cleary. If you now, if you
say kept with a tiling bless garg a tourist, it's.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You know, it's not as bad as it used to be.
I think, like you know, my parents' generation and their
parents generation, it was more rough and you know, the
more modern everything gets, everything's a bit more homogic eyes
and clean stuffing up now. But you know, Glasgows is
a very cosmic, polant city. Loads and iice restaurants and
bars and pubs and clubs and all that sort of stuff.
So it's definitely if you got people always go in
Withftery Touring if they're going to going in Scotland, but
(06:01):
take a day. It's only fifty minutes in the train.
Go and have a good night. You in Glass.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You don't go all that way. I'm not going to Glasgow.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Glass.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, you've gotten to a February eighteen to see original
sound at the Brass Monkey, Mark Jennings, thank you for
coming in and seeing it so early.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Thanks so much for having us
Comedian Mark Jennings is in town for Fringe. You can
catch his show original Sound during Fringe at the Brass
Monkey until February Iteen tickets are through fringe world dot
com dot you join just now. Hello, Hello, thank you
for getting.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Up so early, No problem. So this is definitely the
earliest that I've been.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
For a while.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, definitely.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Now how's your trip down undergoing? She's been here for
quite a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, I've been here for three weeks and it was
actually in PERF twenty twenty as well. So I was
heard in the fringe the year just before everything for
everything went to hell.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, absolutely, and we wouldn't let anyone in.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, I've been waiting for three years
to get back and finally here. But it's been great. Yeah.
The pair of fringes is really class I've been. The
audience has been great so far, and there's a love
which there's obviously ex pat Scottish people that are prevailing PERF,
a lot of them being shown up, even people who
have been here for you know, decades, but they're like,
(00:55):
oh well my mum come over from Scotland and my
dad or whatever. Yeah, So there's a lot of that
x pat in the community that came out for it.
Maybe a bit of taste of home or you know,
you know, my granddad used to have your accent or whatever.
But there's also just you know a lot of presidents
taking a punt on it, going oh, this guy won
an award or whatever, and then check out. They enjoy
it and amazingly understand the accent.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We speke to Justin Carry from the ben Elementary last week.
All right, he was saying, he speaks, he's got push. Yeah,
you guys, everyone can understand me. But he said he's
a couple of the bend people struggle with especially in
the USI.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I think Americans struggled the most
with it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, they struggled with all of them. How do you
go with us and a slang?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, I mean it's perfectly understandable. I think that the
main one that really froze you if you've never been
Asulia before, it is how you going because like it
doesn't make grammatical sense, right, And what I always think is,
like what you guys have done is that you've taken
two phrases that are said a greetings elsewhere or so
you've like, how is it going? Is what people say?
How are you doing? He combined them to make a phrase.
(01:58):
It basically sounds you're like you want the person speaking
to to leave good for my goings.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I have just arised, okay, amusing it, Doug. Yeah, I
follow a bit of you, a bit of some of
the stuff you've done on Instagram. I've want to know
where you Jeffrey Dama glasses?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Are you in my bag? Actually I don't. I saw
the series of Yeah, I'm sure this. I need to
wear the more than one now, but I did generally
buy them just before that Netflix series came out, and
I'm like, I do need to get different style of
glasses now.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Unfortunately, creepy you mentioned award winning are you one Scottish
Comedian of the Year in twenty nineteen?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So hey, you know though that competition.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Some that would be some tough competition, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I mean it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That's a funny.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, you know, it's such people. You know, there's there's
a really good comedy scene in Scotland obviously, like you
know the you know Belly Cornley's nine and it's a
good competition and stuff like that, And yes, I went
in twenty nineighteen, and then I was the raining champ
for about three years because COVID then there is no comment.
So I was like one consecutive years, come on, I
(03:05):
love that. You get a trophy. I did. I got
to keep it in my house for like three years.
I mean I just kept in the cupboard or something. Doorstop. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So the title of the show was Original Sound. Yes,
it references the award you know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hell yeah, So you want to know why the show
is called was called basically Original Sound. The reason I've
called it that is because, like so a lot of
success I've had over the last year or two, it
has been through putting my stuff online. And so when
you put a video on TikTok, if you use your
own audio, it just comes up whoever you are, it
comes up this person original Sound. And so basically the
concept of the show is, look, if you've seen my
(03:41):
wie short clips minute or two, come and see an
hour and it's an hour of original sound of me.
But you get to see it live and ultimately as well,
the show is going to be a lot of like
you know, just a lot of stand up bits that
will at some point probably also be clicked up and
put online. And so that's kind of the concept of
the show rather than you know, a lot of shows,
particularly fringing stuff, they'll have like a concept of a
(04:01):
theme or a narrative. There will be one big story
or whatever. I'm like, Look, this is an hour of jokes.
If you've seen the shorter clips and lights and out
of that, basically like just jokes on on everything under
the sun and and just more of what the people
have seen online. They're coming to see the show.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, I love your accent, especially just when you sayeah,
but when you said when we're not ridly killing, but
when you said going to be And I'm thinking about
the pro climber st.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
When I wake up.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Because you're from Glasgow. Now you're the you're the official
tourism for for Scotland for Glasgow. Would you sell Glasgow?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Glasgow is the cultural capital of Scotland. So Edinburgh's get
the castle and some nic if you want a good
night out, Glasgow spec to go. That's where the people are.
There's a lot of like just everybody's funny there. Everybody's
very friendly and nice and stuff like that. And you
know there's a thing though, because like Glasgo it's got
a reputation, is the one in class city, and it's
got a reputation is violent, always talks his poles art,
(05:04):
it's the most violent, all that right, but also talks
to poles and most friendly. And some days people and
comedians even get bit it's about like, oh, it's so
confusing that it's friendly but it's violent. To me, it
makes perfect centrally. I think the reason people in Glasgow
generally are friendly is because everyone is so violent, you know,
because smiling yeah, yeah, like this, could you put the
jail for attempting all? I know, I'm just going to
be nice to do.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know if Jimmy banns you're striding rock staff from
he's from gless Gage is yeah. He once told me,
he said, he said cleary. If you now, if you
say kept with a tiling bless garg a tourist, it's.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You know, it's not as bad as it used to be.
I think, like you know, my parents' generation and their
parents generation, it was more rough and you know, the
more modern everything gets, everything's a bit more homogic eyes
and clean stuffing up now. But you know, Glasgows is
a very cosmic, polant city. Loads and iice restaurants and
bars and pubs and clubs and all that sort of stuff.
So it's definitely if you got people always go in
Withftery Touring if they're going to going in Scotland, but
(06:01):
take a day. It's only fifty minutes in the train.
Go and have a good night. You in Glass.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You don't go all that way. I'm not going to Glasgow.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Glass.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, you've gotten to a February eighteen to see original
sound at the Brass Monkey, Mark Jennings, thank you for
coming in and seeing it so early.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Thanks so much for having us
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