Name: Theo Von and Ed Sheeran on American vs. British Culture
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von and Ed Sheeran on American vs. British Culture' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-26. Transcript available.

Theo Von and Ed Sheeran on American vs. British Culture

- It's been a, yeah,
some of the exchange rate on the language has been tough.
- Yeah, I liked that when I arrived,
you kept calling me like, cheers mate, nice mate.
- Oh yeah. - Yeah, it's good.
- Yeah, I've been trying to get with it, man.
- I lived in Nashville for a couple of years
and I got the drool, I think.
- Yeah? - Being there, yeah.
I owned a cowboy hat.
- Oh wow. - I had a camouflage hoodie as well.
- So yeah, you really, did you guys hunt anything?
- Do you know, so I lived on a lake for the first year
and I bought a fishing rod from Walmart,
'cause I was like, I'm gonna go fishing.
I'd never been fishing before.
And I sat, I threw it in, and then after about an hour,
my mate came up and was like, have you put bait on it?
And I was like, I didn't know you would do that.
So I just sat with a fishing rod in the lake, yeah.
- Oh, like pantomime fishing.
- I just assumed a fish would like swim past
and catch the hook, I don't know.
I'd never fished before, you know?
It wasn't something that I'd grown up doing.
- Yeah, but you gotta put something on it.
I'm so excited that I'm doing this today, by the way.
- Who is? - All of my friends.
- Oh, really? - All of my friends.
Yeah, there's a guy living at our house at the moment.
And he was like, trying to get off work
to just come down and just say hi.
- Oh, and just mill around?
Like a loitering, they call it.
- Yeah, yeah. - I think you guys,
loitering must be a British thing, huh?
'Cause we wouldn't say that, loitering.
- What would you say?
- We'd be like, oh yeah, stalking.
Well, stalking is more like,
once you've loitered and you see something in the window,
you know, you see something, you see a bit of tits
in the distance or something.
But yeah, that's stalking.
Yeah, yeah.
And then it's breaking and entering, you know?
And then it's marriage, usually.
If you have a way with words, I think.
Do they have student drivers here?
- Yeah, yeah.
I didn't learn to drive until I was 24.
'Cause like, as I said with the train thing,
public transport here is actually really, really good.
- Wow. - So I never learned to drive.
And then, mate, on my first driving test,
so I'd learned to drive for like eight months.
And on the first test, I failed,
'cause I was going around a roundabout.
And my mum called me to see if I passed the test.
And I just quickly took it and like canceled the call.
And then the driving instructor was just like,
"You've just failed the test for that."
And she was ringing to see if I'd-
- Done well. - Passed, yeah.
- Oh. - Yeah, I failed.
- God, dude.
That's when you got to just, yeah.
That's kind of the time I'm glad my mum didn't care that much.
- Yeah.
- You know, because yeah, I passed immediately.
- But you probably, but Americans can drive from like 16, right?
- But they shouldn't all be allowed to drive.
And they'll let-
- I do think American drivers, man, like when I'm over there,
I'm like, this is fucking sketchy.
- They drive to kill. - It's sketchy.
- Yeah. - They drive to kill.
- I sort of feel like here, we have to learn
how to like parallel park and do all these other things.
I think in America, it's like, can you reverse?
- Good. - Yeah.
- Past.
- Well, it's, I think people are America,
just anything can be a weapon there.
You know, it's like-
- So what have you got hidden under your bed?
What's your weapon?
- Oh.
- Weapon of choice.
- I've probably a couple knives.
A lot of my kitchen knives are in my room.
- Cool.
- Kind of strategically placed or whatever.
You know, like, oh, I'll be here.
I need a knife.
- And you have more kids.
- No kids.
- So they're not like reaching under the bed
and finding a huge-
- No, no, no.
And I go small blade kind of, you know, I'm more of a, you know.
- I think I'd be more terrified of you
with a kitchen blade than-
- Yeah, I'm more of a chef than like a hatchet guy.
You know, I'm more like, I'll jewel in a burglar.
What about the queen or anything?
Can you text her or whatever?
- Oh, she's dead.
- Well.
- Oh, the new queen.
- Oh, is there a new one?
- There is a new queen, yeah.
- Did you get a new one?
Sorry.
I didn't know.
And I'm sorry that she's deceased too.
I did not know that.
- Yeah, she died in 2022.
- Oh yeah.
- And then King Charles is now the king.
I did like her Jubilee.
I played her gig and there's an amazing picture of her
shaking my hand and smiling.
And people are like, oh, she was pleased to meet you.
And actually a comedian had just told her a joke.
So it looks like she's really happy to meet me,
but she had no idea who I was at all.
But the picture says a thousand words.
- There you go.
- Yeah.
- Do the queen, do the royal people, what are they do?
What is it really like over there when you go over there?
- I don't think it's, I don't envy it at all.
I wouldn't want to live that lifestyle.
I remember being in Japan once for the rugby world cup
and I met one of them and he was like, you know,
he's six, seven years older than me.
And he was like, this is my first time in Japan.
And in my mind, I'm like,
I would have just assumed that you go everywhere all the time.
But I think it's very much like it's a working job.
They go and open hospitals, open care centers,
go and do this, go and do this.
And it's, I wouldn't envy the lifestyle at all.
I think it's, it is quite restrictive.
I don't think you can just be like, I'm going to go do this.
I think like, have you seen the crown, the show?
Because like, even when they go on holiday,
they go on holiday and they have to do like a press shoot
before the holiday.
And then people just take photos of them for the whole holiday.
Because it's kind of like you allow,
because you are funded by the public, the public own your life.
Yeah.
It's got to be where we are at times.
Yeah.
So it's not something that I would necessarily envy.
It's something that it's a big debate in this country,
whether people agree with it or not.
I personally like think it gives a certain like grounding for the,
there's like a historical aspect of it.
And when things happen, it's like,
Americans love seeing the ceremony that's over here.
Like when the queen passed away, the funeral is like very impressive.
And it very much, I don't know, represents England for the world.
You know, England, look at it.
Yeah.
Because I think England is something there.
There are a lot of great things.
It's like very proper.
And it's like,
there's a lot of things that I would not agree with as well.
I think it is very like.
It's rigid almost.
It's a very polarizing subject.
Um, but yeah, but I, I definitely wouldn't envy.
The lifestyle.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
It seems like it would be tough.
Like you're such a con and you have to be a concierge to the,
your own country and you have to be such a representative.
Never talk about anything negative.
Look, their thing, they say, never complain, never explain.
So anything that happens, they just.
Right.
You're just a middleman.
Yeah.
You can't show any emotion.
Like even at like funerals and stuff like, you know,
not meant to cry and stuff.
It's like really quite hardcore.
I feel like in English people and Americans, they always, they're like,
ah, do you know what?
The other place is better.
And then you go to the other place and you're like, oh, it's kind of,
I feel like the world is going through quite a lot.
Like we, we travel a lot and it's like election time all around the world.
And everywhere I go, I'm like, oh, it's kind of the same here as well.
I feel like everyone is going through a shift.
Oh, that's a good point.
You guys elections are happening right now.
Huh?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I am pretty, pretty bonkers.
Some of the shit that's coming out.
Like, it's like, you're sort of watching these interviews being like,
does your like brain connect to your mouth?
It's like, I sometimes feel like people don't want to get elected.
Yeah.
But they're saying stuff to just be like, now I'm done, man.
I'm done.
It's mad.
Well, I'm sure you probably, there's probably times you get halfway into
something.
You're like, I don't know about this.
Yeah.
Like people get stage fright at the altar all the time sometimes, or sometimes
you'll buy
something at the market and you'll put it back on the, like, and with the gums
or the candies
or something, you'll put like, just a pack of like sausages back there or
something.
So I think that there's,
That's a, if there's knocking, there's someone doing work next door, by the way.
As long as it's not an indentured servant, I think we're good.
You know what I'm saying?
Just because Britain's had their history.
But, um, and I'm not saying America didn't polish it up a little, but we've all,
you know,
we've all sinned a little, um, or we didn't, but forefathers definitely, you
know, had some
crazy plans, but, um, yeah, dude, but yeah, it's nice to be over here.
I like some, like, I'll listen to James Blake.
I like his music a lot, you know?
So I'll listen to some James Blake and, um, uh, yeah, I'll listen to Fred again.
What other kind of, I'm trying to think of British music do I listen to?
Um, oh, nice day for a wide wedding.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
That guy, you know him?
Yeah.
Uh, no, I don't.
I mean, I know the song.
I don't, I don't know him.
Um, start again.
Who's your, every little sister.
Maybe that's not the lyric.
That seems a little bit perverse.
Who's your NFL team then?
Oh, sorry.
I'm a Saints, New Orleans Saints fan.
Cool.
Are you from New Orleans then?
Yeah, that's where I'm from out of Louisiana.
So why move to Nashville?
Well, I lived in LA for a while and then Nashville was open during the pandemic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you could do what you want.
You could like, you know, you could spit on people and they were still okay
with it.
You know?
Like, so it definitely like.
It's a good criteria to move to a town.
Can I spit on people?
Yeah.
Or, you know, you could, you know, you could just, you know, I mean, you couldn't
even.
Yeah, it just, that mask.
When you think about what the mask, it just like, you could, I will say this
though.
You could look at somebody and kind of lick your lips in a way that you wouldn't
normally be able to.
And that's something I miss.
What's the most dangerous place to be around here?
I'd say every, every area of London has a literally everywhere area is sketchy.
Like, I think that you cannot be anywhere.
Uh, I love that.
Yeah.
It's not, it's not like a segregated city.
There's like, it's very, everybody's scared.
No, I mean, the nice areas are sketchy.
The bad areas are sketchy, but you just have to not do stupid shit.
Like if you, if you wander around, uh, with, I don't know, like a Louis Vuitton
duffel bag
and a 200 grand watch, you are going to get robbed.
Like, like, but, but just don't do that.
Yeah, I don't do it.
Yeah.
I think, um, and y'all's robberies all have clues and stuff.
That's what I like about London.
Clues.
Or like if, you know, if there's something that happens, it's like, oh, he is a
clue, you know,
and the, the detectives or whatever, then they're hot on your trail.
That's what I love.
That's one of like the, I think the things that like you guys.
I love that everything that you think about England is based on movies.
And like, cause it's the way that I used to view America as well.
I used to, I remember going, I was, uh, my wife went to Duke.
And we went back.
And my mother went to Duke.
Oh, good, good university.
But I remember we were in town for something and we were driving past the frat
houses.
And I was like, I've never been to a frat party.
Should we just knock on the door of one of them?
And they'll be having a frat party like the movies.
And like, Jerry was like, yeah, I guess so.
They're a bit, it's not like that vibe.
And I, uh, we went up, I knocked on the door.
One of them opened the door and was like, why are you knocking on our door?
And then we went in and it was just like three dudes.
And one guy who had his face super glued to the floor.
Oh yeah.
And it was like, not the vibe.
And I was like, this isn't like the 