Do the Finnish even feel fear? Ari Eldjárn isn't sure. Pardon My Icelandic is now on Netflix.
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Ari Eldjárn on Nordic Languages | Pardon my Icelandic
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In this English-language special, Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjárn pokes fun at Nordic rivalries, Hollywood's take on Thor, the whims of toddlers and more.
"See you in week 25", the most Nordic thing ever!
Lol - so it’s normal to number the weeks and say week 10 or week 32? Interesting
@@dgill441 yes. In Denmark for sure, and Sweden too I believe.
@@miyounova awesome 🤣
@@dgill441 yes, this is literally how Danes talk all the time 😂 All foreigners find it weird and confusing
@@Shuang_Shuang hilarious 😂 the exact opposite when I visited Africa - they had “Africa Time” which was basically whenever they wanted lol
This is a typical joke Swedes tell about Finns: Two Finnish men sit down to drink together. The alcohol flows for hours and hours. Towards the end of the night one of them raises his glass to his friend and says: "Kippis!" (meaning cheers!) The other one looks up from his glass, well annoyed. "Did we come here to drink or talk?"
Akajbfkjdsbjdsmvdse tämä on hauskaa
as a swede, ive never ever heard this
@@mynameisemilia4543 It's old, like a dad joke.
@@KittStone I hope that was funny and not rude! Funny rude is fine! I just like to keep us keep Scandia regions as friends!
@@pianystrom8137 All good :)
Nords comparing each other’s cultures never gets old to me, I dunno why.
Weirdly, an Icelandic person can read and understand Old English way more than and English person.
It's not weird at all actually. English has changed a lot more than Icelandic in the past 1000 years.
@@16poetisa England has evolved...
Oooo - that would be a great video!
I believe both have roots in proto-germanic, but English has had a lot more outside influence to push it along.
because they were spoken by the same nomadic group :D
Just watched the complete show, have to admit one of the best stand up I have ever seen. Amazing accents and sounds, Hilarious jokes :)
AHHHH YES FINALLY WE ARE BEING NOTICED WE TINY ISLAND
I was about to comment that! I have seen a lot stand up shows but this is definitely one of the funniest.
@@anthonydoesartt everything I've seen about Iceland makes me love it.
@Ceono what? How!
watching it now, seems like your'e right!!!
I have to agree with Ari on emotionless Finns. I once had a business call with my Finnish colleague. I asked her for her opinion about one project. She became increasingly nervous, apologized and asked me for a permission to say openly her opinion. I was puzzled.
@Darwinek: The Finns’ stoicism is reportedly similar to that of the Japanese
@@globetrekker86 as a Japanese I have to agree this.
perhaps there's some relationship between the Fins and the English which has yet to be explored
Wow, on the other hand in Balkans people say their opinion even when not asked and will do their best to make you agree (ie start arguing), and I think it's cute
@@johnhughes212490s moomin
watching this act on netflix for the third time. This guy is hilarious
Same!
Yes, finally we are being noticed!
I enjoyed this comedy show, cant you tell how happy I am -A finnish person
Needs to do a Finnish impression? Does Kimi Räikkönen. (And nails it).
I was looking for this comment! He started doing his Finnish accent and I was just like "Why does he sound like Kimi?"
Maybe that’s his friend... side gig comedian
@@tinaloye2014 Wouldn't he have been the one driving instead of taking a taxi? :)
That’s exactly how I knew he absolutely nailed the Finnish😂
I wonder if he deliberately imitates Jesper Binzer (the lead singer of D.A.D.) when he does his Danish æccænt... sure sounds like it to me!
"No, this is me having a panic attack" got a proper bellylaugh out of me. xD
“It doesn’t sound like I love you in any other country. It sounds more like “pay the money by Wednesday””😂
This is spot on, and as a dane I can say that danish accent was perfection. 👌
kids in Iceland have to learn danish in school because denmark once owned Iceland
Bro your "r" is literally a sound not even a letter
@@j-monk3063 Every letter makes a sound, that's what makes it a letter and not scribbles
It’s so spot on right!!! Watched it with my Danish mother and we couldn’t stop laughing!
Just watched his full set. It is absolutely amazing! Just the small detail that he’s spot on on the different accents while speaking English. The danish accent in English is amazingly accurate! Also he’s right about everything about us Danes. Especially the part about us planning everything. Damnit he’s good!
I maybe heard some other guys do standup comedy two years earlier talking about the exact same things, so im not sure did this guy copy from that guy his comedy.
This guy is hilarious! Even though I’m Mexican and can’t relate much to the Nordic region he had me laughing throughout his whole standup!
I have friends from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Faroe Island so find this funny and interesting! (And I'm Chinese from New Zealand 🤷🏻♀️)
viva México cabrones!
Funny thing, we Danes are in many ways the Mexicans of the Nordics 😂
I grew up among scandinavian immigrants, love hearing the familiar accents of the old ladies on my newspaper route
The funny thing is, Finnswedes often sound similar to Icelanders phonetically as opposed to Swedish they speak in Sweden. I've been watching Icelandic series recently and being a Finnswede I found it shocking how similar the phonetics are, it's especially similar to the Ostrabothnia Swedish. Live and learn.
That is one thing Finnish and *most* Scandinavian languages have in common (looking at you, Danish), very phonetic with hard consonants and rolling R:s. Finnish is the master, though.
And also like Icelandic people, they can make fun of everybody. My husband will make fun of Finns as hard as he does the Swedes because somehow none of these stereotypes apply to him. (They all apply to him.) He does find the Ostrobothnian accent tough though. There were some guys in his brigade in the army, and for the first month, he didn't understand a word they said. He's from the Turku Archipelago area though.
This guy has massive talent. So funny, I just watched this special!!! Also it was interesting to learn more about Iceland. Love from Finland, also the Finnish impression lol!!
I like how instead of going for the Danish about how they sound he went for the Norwigians
I am Learning Norwegian
@@norwegian52 How’s it going?
@@pearspeedruns Going well. I love it
@@norwegian52 Awesome
@@pearspeedruns Are you learning Norwegian
His friend was like "BWOAHHH"
As a Dane, I have to admit, I am wildly impressed by your danish accented english... XD It is true, that us Danes are incredibly proud of our english, and a lot of us think we don't have a noticeable accent.... It is also true that a Dane can hear even the slightest hint of Denmark in an accent, no matter where you are in the world... XD I found a danish exchange student in a supermarket in Italy once, and heard her accent from the back of the line, so when it was my turn, I just spoke danish to her, purely for the joy of seeing the language confusion on her face, when she didn't hear anything she expected and still understood it perfectly... XD I've had the same thing happen in my own job in Denmark, because we can get so focused on our second language and not messing it up, that you can almost see the computing error in our faces, when we forget we're not actually speaking danish anymore and suddenly have to switch back.... XD
meanwhile, people in Poland need private tutors to learn basically everything (especially English). Bet you just learn English at school like real people do, huh?
@@hanami741 Well, it's a core subject, usually taught from 1st or 2nd grade (I think, at least... Been awhile since I knew anyone at that age, and my generation didn't start English until 4th grade), and our media isn't really synchronised unless it's for kids... But I know plenty of other countries in Europe where English isn't as prioritised, or where media synchronization makes it a lot more difficult to master the language because you don't hear it all the time.... So I don't think we're more 'real' than anybody else... And as far as tutors go, I needed one for my programming course, and I've been one for Danish, English and math... I don't see the issue...o.0
That Danish accent tho
Loved it! Educational and hilarious. He's really good but the crowd must've been Icelandic, a little bit slow to warm up.
Yes, the crowd was Icelandic.
Maybe they turned the heat off?
You savage :D
i'm glad that ari finally gets the reconization he deserves. he's awesome :)
Swede who lived in Finland for a couple of years. Can confirm - Finns are even more reserved than Swedes, which I up until that point did not think was possible.
Ari Eldjárn is a very funny man. I first came across him in a radio show with an Irish presenter - great stuff!
This guy was great! His impressions were spot on 🤣 Wish we'll see more of him in the future
I just finished watching this on Netflix. I have to binge more on Ari Eldjárn.
I want more of this dude!!!
He's naturally funny! Love it 😍
I think he is brilliant. Loved the show.
I'm so glad there's more of this guy this is amusing to me
I'm so proud of mister Eagle Fireiron. Great show!
Now I feel lucky to have been in his audience 3 times :)
He's brilliant. I laughed my ass off. Thor, The juice bar, Baby Kkng are just some of his genius work.
We need more from Ari. Please.
This guy is amazing!
Love his show. My mom’s danish, and let me tell you his impression is SPOT ON! Sounds exactly like my uncles.
He really surprised me 😂💕
*VOLCANO EVERYONE IS DEAD* 🤣🤣 I have not laughed that hard in ages😂
why is his rallienglanti so on Point
oh my gosh, this was hilarious 🤣
I wonder if the Finnish comedian he's talking about is Ismo.
That's exactly what I thought
yes, I was there that day and we weren't sure if ismo would make it
It is. They're friends.
Yep. I saw them both perform in a small theater by the city hall.
It could also be André Wickström
as a swede i don't know how anyone could survive without week numbers. 😂
As a Swede I was not aware that was a thing we did. I always have to consult calendars (or worse, google) when someone mentions as week number.
That jump at the end of a sentence is done by some folk in East Anglia. They make statements sound like a question.
If you haven't watched this, you definitely should. I laughed out loud a lot.
The best!!!
Talks in nervous Finnish accented English.. I started looking for the hydraulic press.
So Finland was the Brazil of the Nordic countries. Where the other countries were staying closely related, they went a step further.
Not even the same language family, the others are Indo-European, like the vast majority of European languages... Finnish though is literally Finnish.
no, Finland is more like Basque while other Nordics are like Spanish, Portugal and South Americans
@@lkrnpk Irish is Indo-European too.
@@aidanwalsh2545 yeah I changed it a bit
Please, I love him
I really liked his comedy
Very good.
Love Nordic people, Love Finnish language 💛
Always making me laugh. Greetings from Romania♡♡
I wonder if the Finnish comedian friend of his was Ismo!!
Lol I think the cg voice on creepypasta videos is actually just a finnish narrator
Not sure why this got recommended to me but I feel like I'm nowhere near nordic enough to get it.
Incredibly funny throughout, this guy is immensely talented, he got everything. As I am Norwegian I have to defend myself against the accusations that Norwegians speak like that going UP in the last part of the sentence. Yes, Norwegians do this, but almost mainly the people that live in the east part and middle part, the rest of Norway and specially in the western part the tone is very different and much more like English. This is also why many Norwegians from the east have a terribly bad (and funny!) accent when they speak English, just listen to Stoltenberg, the NATO general secretary, hilariously bad English from that guy, almost unbelievable, and VERY annoying for a fellow Norwegian (fro the west) to listen to. A comfort is that Danish people speak English even worse...
Nice 😂
rising star
In England, we have a comedian who is Danish. Really cool. We need Icelandic comedians now. We need more Icelandic people, Finnish people and all the other Scandinavians in England. There's a shop called Iceland, unfortunately it's not about Iceland, it's just a food shop that mostly sells frozen food. ❤️🥯💙🍨💛🥯🧡🍓🥞🧇🧡❤️🍮🍰🥧❤️🍪🍯🧁❤️🍭🍬❤️🍫❤️🍿🍺🍻🍻🍺❤️
I am not Nordic but I found him hilarious!
Gotta be honest, I've watched a couple of Netflix Stand Up-specials, and in my opinion most of them are painfully unfunny, but this one seems really promising!
True. I don't have Netflix though.
Omg yes most of them suck
All of these things are true, sincerely a Dane
When we Nordics make jokes with each other it's really funny 😂.
Reminds me of Floki..
As a British person learning Swedish, this is a thousand percent accurate. Like, I can read bits of Danish but do I really WANT to?
Yes
His Finnish accent is so fucking good :D
Dear Netflix. This guy and a group of comedians made a trailer for a dogma film. Donald duck in a realistic setting live action. Please fund it and make it happen.
1:35 Meanwhile basically while- while we were like struggling like- DANES were building _factories_ and having infrastructure, we were trying to _not die_ like "hEy iCeLaNd hOw'S iT gOiNg, wE jUsT oPeNeD a cArLsBeRg bReWeRy hOw'Re yOu gUyS dOiNg?" "COUGH _volcanoeveryoneisdead-_ " "oKaY gOoD lUcK wItH tHaT, uHh, sEe yOu iN wEeK tWeNtY-fIvE!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
as a dane, i would say he nailed it :)
He’s really funny.
Only Norwegians from the south-east do the "vocal jump". There are about 200 dialects in the country.
Bro, this is comedy. Stereotypical categorisation is where it's at.
@@TheOnlyToblin no comedy without stereotypes, that's true.
So this is why Kimi Raikkonen called Ice Man😅
His Swedish pronunciation was almost there.
He sounded like he was from southern Sweden
2:44 it almost seems like Dothraki language
Only people in the eastern part of Norway, around Oslo and in Oslo who have that pitch at the end each sentence. The other4 millions talk and act normally.
Aww, I wouldn’t have thought even an Icelander would forget about the Faroe Islands. :(
Isn't Finnish related to Estonian?
And Hungarian!
@@Eremon17 All three languages (Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian) are part of Finno-Ugric Languages group and thus are Uralic languages with common ancestor.
Yes, but an Estonian cannot understand Finnish without additional learning of the language and vice-versa. In Estonian, I love you is 'Ma armastan sind'.
@@Hypetreme Don't forget about the Sami languages
@@christopher.tanujaya I know this is a year old but I'll reply anyways. Reading or listening to Estonian as a Finn is so weird. It feels like I'm listening to someone speaking a southern dialect of Finnish while they have the hiccups and I'm having a stroke. Everything sounds familiar and like I should understand but I don't even though I sometimes feel like I can pick up on the context of what's being talked about. I imagine it's probably similar for Estonians listening to Finnish. "Ma armastan sind" is also somewhat similar to ours. I love you is "Minä rakastan sinua" in kirjakieli (formal Finnish) which no one uses and "Mä rakastan sua" in puhekieli (spoken Finnish) at least here in the south. Armas or Armaani means "my love"/valuable or something like that in Finnish too but it's an older term that's rarely used today. I find that a lot with Estonian. You can sometimes guess the meaning of Estonian words even if at first glance it might seem quite different cause a lot of Estonian vocabulary is the same as in Finnish but just more archaic. Though in most other aspects Estonian seems to be a bit more evolved/advanced than Finnish.
Description of Norwegian was fun. Spot on.
I’m learning Norwegian
2:19 to 2:28 is so funny 😂
I just realized.... This dude's last name isn't a real Icelandic surname, it's a stage-name 😅
its a family name
It's a family name. Not all Icelanders have patronymic and matronymic surnames. One of our presidents was named Kristján Eldjárn , for example.
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He looks like a Nordic Jim carrey
His version of Norwegians was way off tho 😆 but still funny
It's kind of accurate for the ones living in the Eastland, not so much for the ones along the western coast. Going to Sogn area, I've come across some people who have almost an Icelandic intonation.
When my parents saw his special that was the only joke they didn’t laugh at 😂 ‘Well, clearly he’s only heard easterners talk, this is ridiculous’
HAHAAHHAA
Erling Haaland seems like a good comedian
Is that an impersonation of Ismo? 😂
2:05 that was so bad lol. doesnt even sound like swedish
Just wanna point out his Surname means "Fire iron". How cool is that?
true, my Finnish friend speaks in a dead monotone...
only people from eastern norway do the jumping an octave thing... though the most of the populatin in there. If you go to northern or western norway for example you won't hear it.
Is this the guy that said he looks like Ashton Kutcher in Graham Norton show???
No🙂
I was wondering the same
The finnish dude sounds like kimi raikkonen
🇳🇴=💰 🇩🇰 = 🚴 🇸🇪 = ☀️ 🇮🇸 =🧌 🇫🇮 = :| *Stares silently in Finnish*
🇧🇻=🏔 🇩🇰=🌅 🇸🇪=🏖 🇮🇸=🌋 🇫🇮=🏞
Was the finnish friend André Wickström?
the danish sounds like a fisherman
We are not that emotionless, but true that our language is different. But one can make any language sound ugly if they want to.
You can call a Finnish person a Finn. A Swede is a Swedish person and a Dane is a Danish person.
I’m hung up on why Ari’s last name doesn’t end in -sson.
There are some family names used in Iceland although not common. Eldjárn is one of these family names.
Kimi raikonen...