Sign Language Interpreter Offers Hilarious Takes on Accents

Australian comedian Adam Hills is supposed to have top billing in this act, but the sign language interpreter steals the show. Her name is Catherine King and she is a master of her craft. Her ability to translate with not only her hands, but her entire body permits her to imitate accents that Hills uses. King's physical accents are perfect, as you can see as she switches between Dutch, French, Australian and Yorkshire movements.

I gather that King is Hills's regular interpreter. In this video of a more recent show, he introduces her and teaches the audience how to interact with a deaf performer.

Content warning: NSFW language (oral and gestural) in both videos. The sign for "wanker" is exactly what you'd expect it to be.

-via Laughing Squid


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Clearly they are telling you they would like a vacation - one that includes an airplane flight over the scenic lakes and waterways.

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Papa Smurf's proboscis is growing at an abnormally fast rate! In order to curb its growth he's using a swirling vortex of Smurfy energy to saw it off.
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Aayla Secura (aka Aaylas'ecura), Rutian Twi'lek Jedi Master, showing her rebelion by giving the middle finger to the Galactic Empire, specifically Palpatine and Vader (as indicated by the "Ppapa" scrawled at the base of the page). Note how the artists emphasized the hatred felt by Secura for the Empire by scaling her gesture to be much larger in perspective to the rest of her body. Also note in the distance, the Death Star in its beginning stages of construction.

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Your children painted a picture of one of the Fugates of the 'blue people' from Hazard, Kentucky who has methemoglobinemia.

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Note the high ponytail, elaborate bottle, and lavish costume. Your talented children have designed the advertisement for the newly resurrected tv show "I Dream of Genie", starring the multi-talented Smurfette.

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Harry Potter attempts to cast a Patronus while trying to save his uncle, Sirius Black, from the prisons of Azkaban. Notice the blue light from the end of the wand (the beginnings of a Patronus charm), the green light from his stomach (representing his soul), the black figure in the sky (a Dementor), and 'Ppa pa' (his cries hoping that his father will save him).

Although it combines two separate experiences of Harry, 1) his experience of being assaulted by the Dementors and 2) waiting in the bushes expecting his father to rescue his past self, it's a tastefully done representation of himself from both perspectives.

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Daddy setting off fireworks in the backyard. And the ppa pa is not what they call him, but the sound of the fire crackers.

And since my answer is too close to ladybugg's, no shirt. Just wanted to clarify the writing.
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This is clearly Goth Smurf waving the One Fingered Smurfy Salute because Bully Smurf was making fun of his stutter.

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