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I Wish I Could Do Better Accents

To me, there is nothing funnier on this earth than a well-executed German accent by a non-German. The simultaneous high pitched squeaks and growly throat sounds mix with the baying ‘ya!’s and rollicking journey of the word ‘wienerschnitzel’ to form a sonic experience that I find hilarious and intensely appealing on every level. So it is with great shame that I admit that I can’t do a good German accent! Oh sure, if I listened to Werner Herzog talk about the Tragedy of Man for an hour, I could probably draft off of him and ham up a conversation about Das Hofbrau Haus for five minutes but other than that, I got bupkus. Soft German boy Üter from The Simpsons (Side note: for a cacophony of German accents that make me spit with laughter every time I listen, please go enjoy comedian Andy Daly’s German character August Lindt on Comedy Bang Bang and The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project.) I really find all accents funny, anything different from the apathetic and clinical Midwestern speec...