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  • (upbeat holiday music)

  • - Hi, we're Joel and Lia.

  • - And welcome back to VLOGMAS.

  • This video is things that America

  • does better than the UK at Christmas time.

  • - No, it's not (chuckles).

  • It's things the UK

  • does better than America at Christmas time.

  • (laughter)

  • - Keep, keep, keep, keep.

  • - Oh, that's the best intro ever.

  • Yeah, we'll keep that.

  • One job, Lia. - Is to...

  • - You were given your line. - Give me a line,

  • learn the words. - Learn the script.

  • - We spent a long time scripting these videos

  • and you just learn your words. - Yeah.

  • But maybe that is a video we should do,

  • things America does better than the UK at Christmas time,

  • but we don't really know much

  • about American Christmases yet

  • so we need you guys to let us know.

  • - The classic portion size.

  • Anyway. - Anyway.

  • Right, so we've got four things

  • that we wanted to discuss

  • that we think are very exclusively British things,

  • or that British people do really well at Christmas.

  • - Okay.

  • - That I don't think America does,

  • or they don't do it as well.

  • - Okay, alright.

  • - So, the first one, - Yeah.

  • - Is British Christmas adverts.

  • - (gasp) Okay, - Mhm.

  • - A hundred percent, we go all out

  • with emotionally led Christmas adverts,

  • - Mhm.

  • - Everyone in the UK, so say like all the

  • big, John Lewis, all the big department stores,

  • - Yeah.

  • - Mark's and Spencer's - Mark's and Spencer's

  • - Sainsbury's - Even Sainsbury's are

  • doing big one's.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Their aim is to make you cry,

  • - Yeah.

  • - With their Christmas adverts,

  • so that's what they want.

  • That, that must be the brief!

  • - Yeah, I think it is, and they go,

  • like Lia said, they go to town!

  • It's well known that their adverts are

  • gonna be around the two minute mark,

  • like, two full minutes, they'll have

  • shortened versions, but there'll be like

  • full two minutes, - Yeah.

  • - And it'll be something that's completely

  • non related to the supermarket - Yeah.

  • - So like, one year John Lewis did one

  • about a penguin, like, or they did one about

  • - The man on the moon.

  • - A man on a moon, like it's got nothing

  • to do with Christmas, other than the message

  • that it sends, like a warmth, or like family.

  • - Yeah, that Christmas is all about

  • the people you love, - Yeah.

  • - Or Christmas is all about the gift of de de da.

  • - Mhm.

  • - This year, it's amazing, I love it.

  • - Oh, really - Yeah, I loved it,

  • - This year, - I loved it so much!

  • - That's the thing, - I cried, Joel,

  • watching it yesterday, in preparation

  • for these videos. - Ridiculous.

  • - I was sobbing, there was people watching

  • the rugby match, there was loads of lads like,

  • ah! Watching the tele, I'm in the corner

  • at White city - Just crying, yeah.

  • - Sobbing, literally sobbing.

  • - But do you know what?

  • This is the thing, it divides opinion,

  • everyone waits to judge these TV adverts

  • and say which one is best,

  • I personally hated the John Lewis advert,

  • which is let's just say, John Lewis are like,

  • they do the best Christmas adverts out of everyone.

  • - Joel! They spent seven million on it.

  • - I heard they spent ten million on it,

  • and they spent five million on Elton John.

  • - Their budgets, their budgets are crazy!

  • - Yeah, but this year it fell short, I think.

  • - Really!? - But they clearly,

  • Lia loved it, and - Oh my gosh,

  • Everyone I know hates it, - Yeah.

  • - But I love it!

  • - Yeah.

  • - I think it's really good.

  • - Oh, I don't.

  • - Oh, the bit where he's a kid and he

  • gets the piano, and I'm like ah!

  • - But, this is what Brits love to do!

  • - I died.

  • - And so this year I think Sainsbury's have won,

  • or Waitrose! Oh my gosh, Waitrose,

  • their shade on John Lewis - is there shade?

  • - Even though they own John Lewis as well,

  • so, that's kinda why - I haven't seen it,

  • but you've told me about the premise, okay.

  • - Yeah, it's very good.

  • But anyway, there's a war about Christmas adverts

  • in the UK, does America put that much

  • effort into your Christmas adverts?

  • I genuinely want to know.

  • - Yeah, I've watched a few, - Yeah.

  • - And, I asked on the Facebook group,

  • the Joel and Lia - Okay.

  • - Facebook group to send in your Christmas adverts,

  • your token US Christmas adverts,

  • - Yeah.

  • - And they tend to be more like comedy.

  • - Oh, okay, interesting.

  • - More funny, and like I'm not getting it,

  • I haven't seen any like tear jerkers.

  • - No.

  • - But we're gonna react - Yeah.

  • - To some in another video, - Yeah.

  • - So stay tuned for that. - Yep.

  • Definitely, but I just think it's one

  • of the best times of the year,

  • when the Christmas advert drops,

  • everyone goes crazy,

  • when it drops. - When it drops,

  • like when Beyonce dropped her album,

  • - Drop it like it's hot! - And tell anyone!

  • Drops it, yeah!

  • - It's amazing, so yeah, everyone goes to war on it,

  • they spend so much money on it,

  • - Yeah.

  • - They even know, so like, these big department stores

  • will probably know what Christmas advert

  • they're doing next year already.

  • - So yeah, the talks will be like from now,

  • - Yeah.

  • - They'll be already making next year's, it's insane.

  • - Yeah, it's crazy.

  • - A little fun fact I was once in

  • a Christmas advert for Sainsbury's.

  • - Oh yeah!

  • - Well, it was an ident actually,

  • but I'll see if I can find the footage somewhere.

  • - Maybe insert that.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Joel, playing a dad - Yeah.

  • - Were you a dad or a brother?

  • - I was initially, and then I became an uncle

  • cause I looked too young, and I was sat at

  • Christmas day, wearing a Christmas jumper,

  • having Christmas dinner, going,

  • It was great, the best day of my life.

  • (both laugh)

  • It was like mid October though,

  • they like, frosted the windows, they like put

  • stuff over it - Yeah.

  • - To make it look like the time of year,

  • it was amazing.

  • - That's incredible.

  • The next thing that we do - Yeah.

  • - Better, is Christmas crackers!

  • - I still don't believe that we're

  • the only ones that do this,

  • but apparently it's true,

  • American's don't have Christmas crackers.

  • - They're missing out on big margins,

  • it's literally a piece of paper, guys.

  • - Are you sure they don't do it?

  • - A hundred percent.

  • They are like, what's a cracker?

  • - Like, - What's a cracker?

  • - The fact that you get a joke,

  • a hat, and a toy, - Yeah, a toy.

  • - Or a gift - Yeah.

  • - Or, if you get the posh ones,

  • - Yeah

  • - You get something decent.

  • - Like a nail file. (laughs)

  • - Yeah. (laughs) - Or, what do you get?

  • - I was just thinking the same thing!

  • I was gonna say like, the posh ones you might get

  • something like, just something a little bit useful.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Tiny bit useful.

  • - Like, the sorts of thing you'll get in a cracker,

  • so basically, a cracker looks like this,

  • and it's something that you pull

  • with a friend or family member,

  • and it goes bang!

  • It's got some like, some gun powder in it,

  • and it snaps!

  • - Is that what it is?

  • - Yeah!

  • - Oh, wow! - Yeah!

  • And you pull it, and it snaps.

  • And whoever wins the bigger half of the cracker,

  • wins the cracker, and inside you get a

  • paper crown, that you all have to wear

  • over Christmas dinner - On Christmas day, yep.

  • - And then you get a joke, which is always not funny.

  • - No, the Christmas cracker jokes are like

  • really, really bad - Yeah.

  • - In fact, we did a video having afternoon tea

  • in London - Yeah.

  • - I'll leave it in the cards above my head,

  • and you can go look at how bad the Christmas cracker

  • jokes are in that video. - They're not good.

  • - They're not good.

  • - Sometimes on the other side

  • it'll have a trivia question as well won't they?

  • - Oh, yeah, you get a bit of trivia.

  • - Which is interesting, so while you're eating

  • dinner, you might tell the jokes,

  • or you'll do a bit of trivia which is nice,

  • it sparks conversation.

  • - Yeah, it's good cause we - And then, yeah.

  • - Need conversation starters, cause we're British.

  • - Yes, exactly, we can't just go "Yo!"

  • - "How was your year?" - "What's up?"

  • like you guys would do.

  • (both laugh)

  • - We need something like, - We need the starters.

  • - We need a bad joke so we - Yeah

  • - can all bond over how bad the joke is.

  • - Yeah, and go, "Aw, dad, that sounds

  • like one of yours!"

  • - Yeah.

  • - And stuff like that. - Stuff like that.

  • (both laugh)

  • But yeah, Christmas cracker, - Yeah.

  • - That's kind of what it is.

  • - And then the toys, so,

  • - And the toys!

  • - Tend to be key rings.

  • - I wanna, yeah, I wanna say like,

  • you know those little fish that go in

  • your hand and tell you about your mood?

  • You know those like - What?

  • - You know those like little, - I've never had one of those

  • what are they? - You're kidding!

  • It's like a little piece of paper,

  • and it's shaped like a fish, - Wow!

  • - And you put it, and it bends and stuff

  • and then there's a little - Oh wow!

  • - Menu in it, it tells you like,

  • if it's bending that way, you're a jealous person,

  • or if it doesn't-- - I've never seen that!

  • - Joel, you would have a hundred percent had one

  • at school or something - No, never.

  • Never, ever. I've seen the mood rings.

  • - You always get them in crackers!

  • - No, I've never had that in a cracker.

  • - I really want you to get one this year.

  • - We've had like nail files, or whistles,

  • or a pack of cards, like a mini pack of cards,

  • or things like that, you don't,

  • I've never seen a mood fish.

  • - You're kidding, they put them in

  • Christmas crackers all the time!

  • - But maybe it's because they're

  • not actually in lots of Christmas crackers,

  • it's in the Christmas crackers that your

  • family tend to buy, and maybe it's not in

  • the Christmas crackers my family,

  • cause we always get the same things.

  • Like, a shoe horn or something.

  • - (laughs) Oh, really?

  • - I want one though!

  • - Nine times that fortune telling

  • fish ruined Christmas for everyone,

  • it's so funny! - Oh my gosh, why have

  • I never seen this!

  • - They like bend and turn, and tell you like

  • you're jealous or that you're passionate,

  • it's so funny! - I want one!

  • - Oh my god, Joel, they're amazing,

  • they go off like the heat of your hand.

  • - Wow, well mine would be very jealous then,

  • because my hands are always hot.

  • - It's always hot!

  • (both laugh)

  • Each cracker contains a paper hat, joke, and a gift.

  • So that is what you always get.

  • - That's the short way of saying

  • what we've said for the last five minutes.

  • (both laugh)

  • My mum and dad tend to get ones that are,

  • you're in with a chance of winning

  • twenty five grand every year, so in your cracker,

  • - You guys get a lottery? - Yeah!

  • - That's amazing! - With a lottery as well.

  • We've never won. - (laughs)

  • - But, you're always like, "Oh! What if we win

  • twenty five grand! No. No." - No. No.

  • - And you just keep going until,

  • - You're like forget the gift,

  • I just want the twenty five grand!

  • - Yeah, I just want the twenty five grand,

  • but someones gotta win, so.

  • - That's amazing, I didn't even know

  • those ones existed. - Yeah.

  • - And you didn't know the paper fish thing existed.

  • - No!

  • The next thing we do better, is panto.

  • - Oh, wow, yes!

  • So you guys don't have panto,

  • I don't think like any other country has pantomime.

  • - No, I think it is a British thing,

  • so of course we would do it better

  • cause no one else does it. (laughs)

  • - It's really hard to explain, it's like,

  • - It's theater basically, it's a theater show.

  • But it's not like, stuffy, and like done well,

  • it's like tacky theater. - It's like,

  • talking to the audience. - Yeah.

  • - I feel really bad calling it tacky because, am-dram.

  • - Yeah.

  • - So like, amateur dramatic, but it can be big scale!

  • They're really good fun.

  • - So there'll be, - They put lots of

  • money behind it, but they're still tacky.

  • - It tends to be Aladdin, or Jack and the Beanstalk,

  • or, - Or,

  • - Fairy tales, and like Lia said,

  • the classic thing is there'll be men

  • dressed up as women, so there'll always be like a dame,

  • or like the mum, - Yeah.

  • - And that'll always be played by an old man in drag.

  • - Yeah, there'll be like, a villain.

  • - A villain who, yeah, and then the main role

  • will be a young boy, who will be played by a woman.

  • It's always a girl that plays Aladdin,

  • or a girl that plays Jack - Yeah, I was gonna say

  • Peter Pan. - Or Peter Pan,

  • I guess that's one as well. - Yeah.

  • - And there's always celebrities, Z list celebrities.

  • - Always Z listers. - Yeah.

  • - So, they'll be like sayings of like,

  • "he's behind you!' - Oh, and that's like a well

  • known joke in panto, isn't it?

  • - Yeah.

  • - The villain will be on stage,

  • and the hero will be like, where's the villain?

  • And everyone will be like,

  • He's behind you! - He's behind you!

  • - And they'll be like, where?

  • And he'll be that side, and be like,

  • he's behind you! - Yeah!

  • - Like, I can't see him!

  • - Yeah, so it's like really interactive,

  • cheesy, - Yeah.

  • Kids orientated. - Yeah, kids are, I'd say so.

  • But also, there's like adult - Yeah.

  • Panto's, that are like really fun.

  • - Yeah

  • - And like, grown ups love it, it's like,

  • - Also, I feel like even in the kid's panto's

  • they'll inject some adult humor that the

  • kid's won't get.

  • - But the parents will. - But the parents will.

  • - To keep them alive. - Like, innuendos, yeah.

  • - Yeah, keep them on the edge of their seat.

  • - And they invite kids up on stage,

  • I remember going on stage when I went to go see panto.

  • - Mortifying.

  • - And it's a tradition!

  • Everyone goes to panto, every year.

  • Like, not everyone, obviously.

  • But like, - Yeah.

  • - It's a well known thing that people

  • tend to go every year, it's their night out

  • for the family.

  • - Yeah, we do like going to a good panto.

  • - It's not prim and proper like theater,

  • where it's like, we don't talk to the audience,

  • and we're, the story's important, it's like,

  • it's having fun, - It's just a bit of good fun.

  • - The actors will get the giggles on stage,

  • and like, - Yeah.

  • - It doesn't matter.

  • - It is really, really good fun for the actors involved.

  • - We can try and put a clip in, cause I think some

  • panto's are broadcast online.

  • - I'm Bobby Davro, and this year

  • I'm gonna be playing Silly Billy!

  • It's behind you! No it's not!

  • - The final thing that we wanna talk about is

  • Christmas markets, - Mhm.

  • - So, this is something that the UK has kind of

  • stolen from like, Germany.

  • - Mhm. (laughs)

  • - We've kind of stolen it. - Yeah.

  • - Like the German markets, - Yeah.

  • - Where you've got like, bratwurst,

  • you've got raclette, you've got,

  • what's that thing we had with gravy?

  • - Poutine!

  • - Oh, poutine!

  • - Which is obviously Canadian - Yeah!

  • - Yeah, all these things. - Oh we stopped, yeah.

  • It's basically all laid out on a Christmas market,

  • and you've got loads of like, cute gifts,

  • we did a-- - Homemade jumpers, and like,

  • - Just amazing things, cool-- - Christmas tree decorations.

  • - Yeah, and we really go all out on our

  • Christmas markets - Mhm.

  • - Like, they'll be dotted all around London,

  • - Yeah.

  • - And all around the UK, and people love it.

  • Like, it's a proper day out. - Yeah.

  • - Oh, it's really nice.

  • Especially if you go from one market

  • to the other, cause you can't spend all day

  • at one Christmas market, - Yeah.

  • - So, you just go to all of them,

  • you freeze your tits off, - Yeah,

  • - Have a hot chocolate, - Mulled wine,

  • Mulled cider, - Yeah.

  • - There's everything, and if you get lucky

  • you might even go to one where there's like

  • an ice rink as well, - Yeah.

  • - So then, that's double fun.

  • - It's really cool.

  • If you haven't seen our winter wonderland video,

  • that is probably the biggest Christmas market,

  • fair ground, food, everything, all in one place.

  • So go check that out. - Yeah.

  • - That'll be in the cards above Lia's head.

  • - Also, last year we were apart of our

  • friend's, Christie's video, which was like

  • the best Christmas lights, and markets in London?

  • - Yeah I think so.

  • - So, check that out, we'll also leave

  • that below, or in the cards. - Yeah.

  • - It's a really like, informative, fun video.

  • - Yeah.

  • And it's shot really well, cause Christie

  • is an amazing Youtuber, like,

  • - She just puts so much effort in,

  • - Yeah.

  • - It's beautiful, if you wanna see Joel and Lia

  • like running around the city, - Doing twirls. (laughs)

  • - Doing twirls, literally doing twirls

  • down Hockter street, nearly bumping into people.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Go and watch that! - Go have a look.

  • So those are the things we wanted to discuss,

  • let us know if you agree with them,

  • if they're things that we do better than America.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Do you have these in America?

  • What do you have in America?

  • We wanna learn more.

  • - I just thought about one more thing.

  • - Oh, go on then.

  • - It's the crepes that they have at

  • the Christmas markets - Yeah.

  • - Just like, amazing, so like massive crepes,

  • like pancakes. - Yeah.

  • - I like to get Nutella on mine,

  • - Yeah.

  • - What do you get in yours? - Lemon and sugar.

  • The classic! - Aw, the classic, Joel!

  • - So good. - Stunning.

  • - But do you know what?

  • I'm so glad that you say crepe,

  • because if anyone says crepe,

  • it really triggers me.

  • - Does it?

  • - Crepe. - Crepe.

  • - That never comes out of-- - It's like the scon scone,

  • Crepe. - Crepe doesn't trigger me.

  • - I know, I'm like,

  • - It's incorrect, isn't it?

  • - I think it is incorrect.

  • - Crepe, crepe.

  • - French people don't go, "crepe"

  • They go, "crepe" - Crepe.

  • (both laugh)

  • And they said it like this.

  • - Like this, crepe!

  • - They don't say, crepe

  • They say, crepe.

  • (both laugh)

  • - Okay, cool, as Joel said,

  • we used to post thrice weekly - Thrice weekly.

  • - But we're currently doing daily videos for Vlogmas.

  • - Yep!

  • - This is our little Vlogmas set up.

  • - Yeah, how Christ-massy is this?

  • - So cute!

  • - We are not, this is not where we live, guys.

  • - No.

  • - We are renting this place, so if you want some

  • Airbnb credit, go in the link below,

  • you can click it, sign up and you'll get

  • twenty five pounds, or dollars - twenty five pounds

  • off your first Airbnb! - first Airbnb!

  • (both laugh)

  • - Airbnb!

  • - Airbnb!

  • So! - So!

  • - We're gonna continue drinking Prosecco,

  • thanks for tuning in, come back tomorrow.

  • - See you tomorrow!

  • - And, merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas.

  • Merry Christmas! - Merry Christmas.

  • - Everyone.

  • (both snicker)

  • - Not you.

  • - Not you?

  • - Not you.

  • - Not you.

  • - Everyone else, but not you.

  • - Everyone else.

  • - (laughs)

  • - Carrots.

  • - (laughs) Carrots.

  • - (laughs)

  • - Merch! Carrots.

  • - Carrots, just carrots.

  • - Merch.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Link down below for merch!

  • - Yeah.

  • (both laugh)

  • - Wow.

  • - All done.

  • - All done.

  • - And cut there.

  • - Cut there, thumbnail, thumbnail, thumbnail!

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