Words by Jesse Serwer, Eddie STATS Houghton and Bonjay—
With the possible exception of awful Irish faux-brogues and phony Brooklyn I-Talian talk, what way of speaking has been more consistently mangled by actors in the last 30 years than the Jamaican accent? Even seasoned professionals seem to have the impression that stringing “mon,” “irie” and “bloodclot” into a coherent sentence equates to passable patois—just watch how much Robin Williams misses the mark in his occasionally on-point accent marathon. With a little help from our friends Ian Swain and Alanna Stuart from Toronto’s Bonjay (who once planned an aborted music video concept around roughly the same concept), we present the most unintentionally—and intentionally—bad Ja-fakin’ accents and worst patois faux-pas.
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Michael Rose is involved in at least 3 of these
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“Clara’s Heart”, anyone?
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O—M—–G!
Unless you’re born into it, patois…nah go wuk fe yuh! Yuh zzz mi? Should be nuff Yardies making corn as dialect coaches in Hollywood!
Paul Mooney as “King Willie” In Predator 2. The worst !
Taye Diggs in Waiting to Exhale… lol horrible!
no, no, no, these are not the worst. have you never watched family guy? they have a character based on miss cleo that not only has the most ridiculously retarded faux-patois — far worse than anything here — but they didn’t even bother getting a woman to play the role! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3GpIbk7LZ8
Marked for Death!