Anyone think his real accent is cockney? Maybe Brooklyn-esque? South Boston?
I don't know if there is a real British accent that sounds like that, but it comes across as incredibly fake.
“If they let Jack do it his way the show would be just 12” – snorgtees.com
Hmmm. I think someone would have called him on it by now, like Kathryn Ireland. She would have been like, can the fake accent you crazy!
shareHe is freakin hilarious, he is like some kind of PERFECT caricature of... well.. a camp transatlantic hollywood interior designer.
I think he is British but I think his accent is extremely tweaked, some naturally from living in the US for so long, and some deliberately. I think the truth is that the majority of REAL British accents are not understood very well in the US. And if it's a Northern British accent, most people can barely even tell that it's English at all, they think they are being spoken to in Dutch or German or something.
So a lot of Brits in the US use a 'doctored' accent. He just happens to have a really deliberate one.
p.s. I looked him up on YouTube because I wanted to see if he is really as funny as on that show, and I found this movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJC0HGViLg
I was pretty horrified... You can tell that he had his opening line memorised which was, "I haven't seen you girls since we all had dinner together at the Oscars, at Elton John's party". It's like name dropping and place dropping at the same time, so shameless.
The video is private just so so don't go to the trouble kiddo's :)
I was hoping I wasn't the only one thinking his accent was strange! I have wracked my brain over who it reminded me of and it dawned on me last night. Remember on Project Runway when Santino Rice would imitate Tim Gunn saying "Where's Andre?"? That is exactly what this guy sounds like to me!
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lol. that is the only reason why I logged onto this message board! It just doesn't seem genuine.
That's why I logged on here too. Tweaked is the word. It is almost like a drawl wherein he deliberately enhances certain syllables. He seems to plump them up the way one might plump up a pair of mis-matched accent cushions with a 400% mark-up.
As long as we are all on the same page about how over-the-top he is, I must admit I like this show.
I love that I don't need or want the services of these people but I get to see all the latest gimcracks available.