Channel: Good Mythical More
YouTube Video ID: 9Wl4PR6xgeQ
Episode Post Date: January 26, 2026
Episode Number: 2966
Transcript
What's the funniest word in the English language? Welcome to Good Mythical More. We have a stack of cards. On each one, is written, a very funny word according to scientific British people. What? Scientific analysis. Of British people? No, of British people. 2017, the UK study with uh, 821 participants, British people, and they rated 211 words each on a scale from one, which is humorless to five humorous. Okay? So these are the top 12 words with the most extreme averages in terms of humor ratings. So they could be low, they could be high, and we are going to replicate their ranking based on our initial reaction. They could be low, they could be high. Well, is that a metaphor? What? They could be really unfunny or they could be really funny. According to these Brits, no, these are the top funny, top 12 words. They're all funny. Oh, these are the top 12? Yeah. Okay, now I understand. How funny is that? England. Alright, so I know that's just one of the countries. What I'm gonna do is I'm a throw, okay? I'm a I. UK has other, other countries and they're united. It's a United Kingdom. Yeah, but don't, don't ask Ireland about that. What about Northern Ireland? That's what I meant, but like then I just upset them. Let me just turn this over. We're gonna look at the car, we're gonna look at the word and we're gonna see how funny it is. Okay. And then we're gonna make a relative scale. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm gonna be very natural. If it makes me laugh, I'm gonna laugh. It doesn't make me laugh. I ain't gonna laugh. The first word is nitwit. Nitwit. Nitwit. Nitwit Nitwit. Nitwit. Nitwit Nitwit. Nitwit. Nitwit. You are just a little nitwit. Too nitwit. That's pretty funny. It's pretty funny. Put it on the thing. Bring one of those in. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna say it's the funniest thing we've heard today in the United States. We call this a thing. Yeah. Are you doing a, you're doing a United States ranking, or are you going to think through the minds of We are trying to be as British as we can. Yeah. Yeah. Which is why I'm laughing like this ho our, uh, you know, we got a lot of relatives over there. Like ancestors. Well actually interestingly enough, when I did that thing where you do your ancestor stuff mm-hmm. And then I had to go into, you talk, you talking about DNA. And then I had to go delete all the data because of reasons. Yeah. Before I deleted the data. The city where the most people who are related to me live. In the world. That's a weird way to say a sentence. The city in the world where there resides yes. Or resides rules and highs. The most people who are related to me is Dublin, Ireland. Okay. Never been. You have, I have been. Been you? You probably met one of my old brothers. You could have said bro to him. You met, you met my cousins over there. So many of 'em looked like you and so we are defiantly not a part of the United Kingdom. It's like mostly white drunk people. That's, that's my report back. I barely drink. Yeah, but you look drunk. Look drunk all the time. I'm such a nitwit. I mean, you look like Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac. Have you seen him? That's your future. He was British, right? Uh, no. He was Irish. Uh, he's a Hawaiian. No, but he lives in Hawaii and that's where I saw him in person. I was like, right here. Hold on. You saw him in Hawaii? Yeah. In a restaurant. Not the one he owns. Another one. Did you say hello to me? I didn't. Let's I gave you your space. Quit being a nitwit. Is this funny? Tinkle. Tinkle. Yeah, tinkle. Does that mean something different over there? If you sprinkle when you tinkle. Tinkle is more funny because please be need room humor. Do they believe in bathroom humor over there? Tinkle is a funny word. Oh yeah. They, they believe in all types of humor. They're the, you know, they, we follow their lead a lot of times actually. You know, they do things. Yeah, they make their shows different run times. Yeah. Which we had to catch up with with streaming. I mean, last time I was home, my mom said their actors are just so talented. I mean, and it sounded like what she was saying was, as opposed to our actors. Yeah. Not as, she's like, they, they could do anything. So she's moving on from The Chosen. Into other media. I, I don't believe, I don't know. It's on hiatus. I don't know if she have watched it as much as she just communicated with the guy that played Jesus. How funny is this? Egghead. Egghead. Well, Carney likes it. Uh, it's not that funny to me. Egghead. Egghead. I don't, tinkle and nitwit are just, yeah, eggheads low. Those are funny words. It's low. Put it on the thing, but put it low. Oh, also, alt meaning for tinkle in the UK is good to know to, uh, call someone on the phone. To, to, to give them a, give them a tinkle. Hold on. Are you serious? Even better. Well, I mean, that's what Google says and I'm sure in the comments, you know, but Yeah. But let us know in the comments. But, but do they call tinkle y? Yeah, they, they use it for, uh, pee and, uh, a light high pitched ringing sound as we do, but also to call on the phone. That's funny. Give me a tinkle. That makes it funnier. It makes it only funnier. Yep. What about this one? Tit what? Totally British. Now I, this must be something different because it doesn't mean, it doesn't mean like a, a milk bearing mound. A milk bearing mound. An MBM. Yeah, it means a, a stupid or foolish person. Oh, it's so a tit and a nitwit. A tit, which is stupider. That could be us. A tit or a knit whit. Who's the tit and who's the knit whit between the two of us? Just levels of stupid. Which one of us is the milk bearing mound? I mean, milk bearing mound. What is the difference between a tit and a nitwit? Hmm. Good question. Let me see. Hm. But they don't refer to what, what is the unseemly word for boobies in, in, uh, the uk? They, I, I think it's also slang for that. It's just not the, the first user knockers is what we want to think. Nick, Nick Knickers and knockers. Boy, I hadn't said knockers and knickers. I hadn't said knockers in a long time. I've said dockers quite a bit, but I haven't said knockers in forever. Yep, yep. Sometimes the butt can be a knocker, you know? If, if you know what you're doing, you can knock those cheeks together. That's, I mean, that's clapping. That's clapping. Clapping. That's not knocking. Am I talking about clapping? You're talking about clapping. You're not talking about nothing. Mikayla, I'm only looking at you because you're laughing and not because I'm, you have the information, but please. Enlighten me. I just want you to stop. Actually, well wait. I tuned out to find other information you asked for. Now what's this new information that you're asking for? Well, Link says that knockers can refer to the action of the booty. Whoa. About fell out my chair. But we all believe me and Mikayla believe that it's clapping, that it's not knocking. Knockers not clappers. Clap. So your butt cheeks are called clappers? Mm-hmm. No. That makes sense. Yeah. Clap. Okay, here we go. We have, uh, from my favorite website, pastis.co.UK British Lang for boobs. Now, again, this is five years old. We've got norks, chebs Yes, jublees. Lovely. jublees. I've heard that fratatas. Airbags? No, they're not filled with air. Bristols and Baps. I'm gonna go with norks for 500. Alex, uh, baps, norks. Wow. And of course, let us know in the comments if bristles there's, uh, any updated terms. In the last five years for boobs, norks. Also, the answer to your question about nitwit versus tit is that tit is more offensive. It has a, it has a meaner, it has a age connotation, so they're gonna rate that low because they were offended by it. So I'm actually gonna put it here. It's somewhere in the middle. We're sure of that. All right. Let's see how I laugh at this. Bebop. I think it was way you said it. Bebop Say it without trying to make it funny. Bebop. Um, bebop not funny at all. Bebop is, this is not funny. It's like a type of music. This isn't funny. Is that true? Yeah. Style of jazz. Oh yeah, no, this is, put it at the bottom. Bebop also the name of one of the Ninja Turtle henchmen. Also slang, meaning to go or leave. I gotta bebop outta here. Uh, I don't like this word. Bebop bop bebop. I like it's worse than egghead. It's less funny than egghead because you, because it's trying, it thinks it's funny. Right. It's trying hard. It thinks it's funny. Okay. Next. Are we, are we, but are we ready? Yeah. Okay. I just felt I, am I gonna get hate for not liking pizza? Vee told me a second ago. I hope so. Vee gets me like, you know what? I don't, I don't really like chicken wings anymore, anymore. You can have it so much. Do you get tired of it? I don't know if she meant for you to share that with everyone. That's true. Mm-hmm. And she's gone. Yep. Right. So next thing you know, she'll never know. She's gonna find out on Reddit that she doesn't like chicken wings. And then she's gonna be like, I told him that in confidence and she was trying to help me out. Mm-hmm. just trying to make you feel good, but fried chicken, I ain't never gonna get tired of that. Yeah. Cheeseburgers never gonna grow. Old of that. Ass ass. We're getting laughs in the room. ass is pretty funny. I have a, well, okay, where do I start? Christy is, she's on this kick where she sees. What her, a friend has educated her to be called angel numbers. This is when numbers are grouped and I know people believe all types of stuff, and I'm not saying Christy believes any stuff. Well back up a couple of steps. What, what. Angel numbers. Angel numbers. I don't know anything about what you're saying. Angel numbers bebop, right back to the beginning. I'm not, I'm not gonna hold ass while I talk about this. No, I would love you to hold ass. Uh, gimme another one so I can clap it together. That was good. That's a good, that was a good use of it. Angel numbers, my understanding are, is this like crystals groups of numbers in the wild, like the same number. Like 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2. And where do you see this? Seven. Seven. Seven. In like in an address? Anywhere. Everywhere. Any and everywhere. So Christy has started seeing 11, 11 everywhere. And she's like, look, it's 11:11 and I'm looking at the clock. And she started doing that and I'm like, I don't say anything. Mm-hmm. Um, where was I? But what about 6, 6, 6. 6, 6, 6. That is bad. That is an no. That's also an angel number. Yeah. And it means balance between material and spiritual. Thank you. It means Satan. Yeah. Self care, healthy boundaries. Hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But what do you 11, 11 means alignment with higher purpose. 11. 11 I thought was a pretty classic. Yeah. Make a wish time. Yep. I completely agree with that. It's the angel number that she's, um, attached herself to now. But the thing, oh, but my, you know what my version of this is? What ass. It's close. Whenever I see an ass, it's seen. I thank God no, it's seen ass backward License plates. Oh, SSA, I see SSA on license plates all the time and I'm like Social Security administration ass backwards. Social security administration. That's ass backwards. ass backwards and it's, and it just happens anywhere. That's ass backwards. Do you make a wish? Yeah. ass backwards. I don't make a wish. Maybe that's why it keeps showing itself to me because I haven't cashed him away. You have to wish it away, but now I'm giving that to y'all. But you haven't said this. You haven't said anything to your wife about it, but you, but you're like, every time, just, just start this, charting a notice ass backwards license plate, and you'll see it and it's everywhere. How long more than any other three letters? SSA. How long until you say something to Christy? Yeah. About angel numbers as ass got laughs. Let's put it before tit. What about like what? Tell her not to do it. I'm just saying what if every single time? What if it starts happening on the daily? Oh, it does. Oh, that's, that's her point. Okay. See, I think Christy's telling you it's 1111 'cause she knows that's a time where you can make a wish. And so she's like letting you know. So you could also make your wish. 'cause she could be a selfish person, which she's not. And she could not mention it out loud. She could just make her own wish. But she's, that's not what she's letting you said. She's just pointing it out. What she says is, what does she look, I've noticed it again. Oh, I've seen the, I'm looking at the time I tried Kristin and it happens to be 1111. I'll text her about it. So if you see 4, 4, 4, like, you pull it at somebody's house and they live at four. Four. Number four. Four. Angel. It's an angel number. Do you, what do you say, Hey, you're an angel. What do you, what do you say? It's a it, it means stuff for four. Angel, stability and protection. Building strong foundations, practical guidance. Well, I'm gonna get my address changed, but I'm not gonna tell you now. Are they real? Of course. Like crystals is Yes. Yes. Booty, booty, booty, booty. No laughs in the room. Booty's funnier than Ass. Booty is funnier than Ass. Booty. The funny ass. Yeah. Booty is the funny ass. I believe that Booty maybe makes the world go around. I think Booty, maybe as funny as Tinkle, but Pirates Booty. And we are talking about British people. What do you mean? Do you think that they still just think of it in terms of like treasure? Yeah, I think they, a lot of them do. Yeah. Okay. Uh, can we look up slang terms for but from England please? From my favorite website, pesti. arse backside, Jacksy, Nate. Nate's hurdys, Hurdy. hurdys. Okay, breasticles Well, that's for breast. All right. Is this one funny? Hooter. Oh, Hooter. Hooter. Now, do they have Hooters over there? No. Didn't make it over there. I don't know what a hooter is over there. It's, it has the double O of a booty. Mm-hmm. Car, horn, siren, loud, whistle and nose. I think Hooters. Then this is funny, funnier than tit. Hold on. Hooter and, oh, because it's a car. Yeah. For some reason I was about to be surprised by the fact that it was a woman's breast, but of course, because the hooter, I don't know where my brain went for a second. Uh, it went away. I don't, I think the fact that this has been commercialized, and it also represents the sound that an owl makes. It makes it funny. I don't want to go any higher than it is. It's not better. It's not better than Booty. Agreed. How funny is twit? So now we're with nitwit, tit and twit. Tit twit. Twit is funnier than tit. Not as funny as nitwit. If you call somebody a twit. Okay. Thank you. Do you think that Darius Rucker was once sitting at a Hooters and looked at someone's booty and then put 'em together and made up Hootie? Yeah, that's exactly what he did. Is that the origin story? Yep. He was at a Hooters and, and it'd be like, I'm Hootie, I'm Hootie. I gotta find a blowfish. I finally got my name. Yeah, he's, I don't think he is Hootie. What was he doing when he found the other part of the the name? Hmm. Uh. What? That's a great question. He was at a fine Japanese restaurant where they were about to serve him that really dangerous fish. He was like, oh, there's my Blowfish, Hootie and the Blowfish. Now he lives in Southern Pines. Yep. And he thinks twerp is funny. Twerp, RP, because it's got that RRP in it. Twerp, twerp, twerps. Pretty funny to say. Not as funny as Hooter, how funnier than twit, but what if Helen Muren said it to you? If Helen Muren, you are such a twerp came in here and called you a twerp, I would be really excited about that. Okay, so I think it's pretty high. I think. I think it's above hooter, below booty. I think, I think we're gonna have to do a little vertical. Yeah, let's go vertical with these. Now we're like books. Yep. Here we go. Ready to have, remember those Didn't have to do that for you, but I did it. Remember reading. Fix that. No one's reading. Now you know about this, right? People can't read. I know. I'm not, people can't fi People can't start or finish a book anymore. They can't do it. Teachers don't even assign books in school anymore. They're like, I can't assign a book 'cause nobody's gonna read it. What are we gonna do about that Link? Nothing. We can't do it. All right. We've gotta sit here and rank funny words. I mean, how are we gonna try to get people to read? Where do you want us to go? twerp Right there. I mean, in some way we are getting people to read right now, but not, books. All right, last two. 'cause we gotta get, we gotta get this done. Waddle and booby. Waddle. Not, I, I just think tit is not that far. Waddles low. Booby not as good as booty. You think Waddles low? I think waddles higher than that. All right. We gotta lock this in 'cause we're at time. We're going with tinkle as the, I don't think tinkle. I don't think tinkle. Is number one. Can I just say that? What do you think number one is in to hooter nitwit? I don't know. I don't even like pizza anymore ass. I start the, the British mind is the British mind, the British minds of 800 plus people. I, I just don't, let's, we'll start from number 12, which is twerp. Okay. Okay. Then you have ass. Egghead. We knew that was low. We were good about that. Bebop, we're pretty good right here. Mm-hmm. Tinkle. Oh, ooh. We see. I knew Tinkle wasn't number one. Waddle. Yeah. Twit nitwit hooter. Booby tit. Booty's gonna be number one. Booty. Yeah. I almost moved booty to number one. Booty's number one. I almost moved it to number one because they're like, they're just learning that it's not just treasure. We were pretty good except for being very wrong at the top. We'll get through it. Please. Join the Mythical Society now to watch over 500 hours of exclusive content and behind the scenes moments you can't see anywhere else.