Tag: Accents
There aren’t too many comics who could impersonate New Yorkers in front of said tough crowd and succeed in making them laugh. But On Wednesday night, Portlandia star and Late Night With Seth Meyers band leader Fred Armisen did just that, taking suggestions of New York neighborhoods and improvising a monologue while shifting accents from […]
The most tragic consequence of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s term ending is that we lost the best Spanish-speaking liaison this city has ever had. Whenever a news event occurred, Bloomberg would appear on the dais, give his briefing, and then quickly read an abbreviated portion in Spanish. It was a perfect cacophony of Boston-New York […]
Tonight marks the premiere of If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary exploring the New York accent in all its colors and flavors. In the trailer above, everyone from Italian Brooklynites to Asian Staten Islanders weigh in on how their speech does or doesn’t define them, and discuss the history and future of the venerable squawk. “It’s […]
