Jack Whitehall has revealed that he used to put on a cockney accent for his early stand-up performances because he was so worried about how audiences would respond to his 'posh accent.'
has revealed that he used to put on a cockney accent for his early stand-up performances as he was so worried about how audiences would respond to him being posh.
The 34-year-old, who later branched out into a successful acting career via his turn as extremely posh university student Jonathan ‘JP’ Pembersley on Channel 4 sitcom Fresh Meat from 2011, said he would ‘talk likeJack also shared that he would wear a parka and present his jokes in a deadpan style before eventually realising that sounding like a ‘posh tw*t’ could be his calling card in comedy.
‘For the first couple of years where I was in between styles, I used to go onstage and talk like a cockney because I was very worried about the first impressions I would have onstage with an audience – because I was worried about being posh – and so I would go on and talk like Danny Dyer,’ he admitted., joked that he ‘practised my set in a geezer accent’ before adding that ‘to be fair back then I spoke a bit more like a geezer’.
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