plainoldme wrote:BTW -- I think Rosie's accent is fake.
Do you mean exaggerated?...if so that's not uncommon among stand up comics...it's one way of making themselves distinct. She is from Queens, so I'm sure most of it is real...at least, I have not noticed any changes in it during her career, besides the baby talk she sometimes does.
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Judy Tenuta/Roseanne comes to mind, if you don't recognize Judy's name, she is the gypsyish looking comedienne with the accordion, and has a very, very nasal Chicago accent. I noticed it myself, and even have heard her say that Roseanne Barr had stolen her accent....which is a big part of her act....and became famous for it. If you watch the very early clips of Roseanne, on stage, and then on her sitcom, her speech is very similar to Judy's. But as time went on, it relaxed into a more subtle western accent.
Larry the Cable guy is another, he is actually from Nebraska, and his native dialect sounds to me like a sissy dentist from L.A. might sound, far from his staged southern accent.
