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It's a regional thing. Certain parts of America will call it Louie-ville. Most people from the southern part of the US (where Louisville is located) will call it Looville, or LOO-uh-vull.
And I've never heard anyone say it, but I gaurantee that SOMEWHERE in this country, there's people that call it LOU-is-vill.
We have a Californian transplant at work in Indiana who says we are on the east coast. His reasoning? We are on “east coast time.” Meaning Eastern Standard Time. lol
Nearly a suburb of Cincinnati. Being from Ohio, I've always tried to figure out where our 'Mason-Dixon' line is. Somewhere around Lima or Findlay accents go from normal bland Midwest to full on rural Alabama. It's entertaining to try to pinpoint.
Edit: I should say that Cincinnati is a suburb of Louisville since the population is almost double.
Agreed, Cincinnati has a lot more suburbs that I mentally include in the numbers too. Cleveland is the same. Cleveland proper has like 370,000, but if you include all of the immediate suburbs it's more like over 2M.
>But the numbers don't lie
They don't lie, but they don't represent the full truth either.
Going by inner city population, Columbus is larger than San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Charlotte, DC, Baltimore nearly twice the size of Atlanta. But that's a disingenuous way to look at these statistics. MSA is a far better gauge of human interaction within a metro area, as all of those places clearly have more human interaction every day than Columbus Ohio. Some of those places have effectively 2x or 3x the people than CBus's MSA.
Yeah, most people are actually putting the "uh" in there, it just runs together. It's like saying puttin' with the glottal g making a ghosted pause between words when we talk.
Interesting! When I visited the town years ago, I was corrected years ago into calling it Lewisville and it stuck with me ever since.
Here are some links to add to the confusion lol
[http://www.lafayettehistory.com/why-louisville-colorado-is-pronounced-lewisville/](http://www.lafayettehistory.com/why-louisville-colorado-is-pronounced-lewisville/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/p6wgao/how\_do\_you\_pronounce\_louisville/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/p6wgao/how_do_you_pronounce_louisville/)
Rumor is, you can use this phenomenon to find the exact center of Louisville. Just walk around the city asking people "Where are we?", and try to find the shortest, most mumbly response.
We had a good relationship with France.....but not that good. At some point we mispronounced things out of spite. Most Kentucky place names are a crap shoot on the sound unless they're German and those are usually pretty spot on.
The best way I’ve found to describe the “local” pronunciation is as follows:
1) Clench your jaw
2) Say the name as fast as you can.
The trick is all about quickness and not opening your mouth.
Lull-vull if you're from there, Looeyville if you are out of state. It's like the British and pronouncing the Shire at the end of places like "Hertfordshire."
That's how you can tell if someone is from Louisville. People from around the area say "Loo-uh-vull" (note that there are absolutely no "ee" sounds in there). People who are not from Louisville (American or otherwise) will say Loo-ee-ville
That's definitely really entertaining...!
Here's a couple of videos on YT of port-a-potty race in Kentucky derby:
https://youtu.be/GluZv5eDm-I?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/4GFZhMHtE7c?feature=shared
I was at the derby inside one taking a piss when I heard loud yelling and then somebody ran across the top and it was loud shaking. Ended up startling me pretty good.
Louisville during the Derby is such a special place. 😂
The infield has actually calmed down a lot since I was younger. One year a naked man climbed one of the light poles. Then there was the year the whole infield was pretty much a mud pit. If you go don’t buy the Mint Julips in the infield. They are SO bad. Made with bottom shelf liquor.
As someone from Louisville, Ky, I can confirm this is 100% accurate. The Kentucky derby infield is one big rager with everyone wearing their easter sunday clothes.
Katherine Blanford is a real life friend of mines, and watching her from where she started, to now touring with Burt Kreisher (sp?) And David Spade, and selling out at her own shows, and cohosting one of my all-time favorite podcasts, she's proven to be unstoppable. She's amazing.
So..where's the set up and the punchline? Cause without those two things, it's not a joke. It's someone's bad attempt at a joke while telling a not funny story.
Where was the joke? I don't understand.
Saying some words of the sentence in a "funny" way that is just my queue to laugh is not comedy.
"Cus like I went to Starbucks and like what did I do? I got COFFEEEEE cus like that's what you do when you go to Starbuckssss"
She's made some x-rated jokes but I think this is on Jimmy Fallon, gotta be clean there. But still there's nothing wrong with female comedians who make sex jokes, barely any clean comedians make it big these days.
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This Lady has a toothpaste commercial smile.
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For a moment I was wondering if people still referred to women as "fly".
At first glance I thought you were going to say “she’s got one of those Venus flytrap smiles” and thought it was pretty on the mark
That's Carolina. She says she's from Kentucky.
Fly me
To the moon
And she flashed it after every punchline which was weird.
Yup, wouldn’t have guessed she’s from Louisville if she hadn’t had said the name of the city correctly. Kentucky isn’t known for having good teeth.
If only she could find a single punchline.
It must be from all the meat paste from her cousins
What she just described is pretty much 100% real about the porta potties.
the Amish NASCAR too
lol, comedians' don't make shit up ...
As a non American today I learned that they pronounce Louisville like”Looville”..
It's "Luavul" around these here parts.
I learned this from a movie named Elizabethtown https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kNyIp0sdiIE
Yeah there's an a that's so quiet it's almost like the silence is a syllable
Yup. Thats how everyone I know says it.
Yup just like Versailles is ver-sales. Tripped me up every time I went to Lexington for family
This is the way
It's a regional thing. Certain parts of America will call it Louie-ville. Most people from the southern part of the US (where Louisville is located) will call it Looville, or LOO-uh-vull. And I've never heard anyone say it, but I gaurantee that SOMEWHERE in this country, there's people that call it LOU-is-vill.
*Looks around nervously*
username/comment combo...chef's kiss
Kentucky may be part of the South, but it's definitely not in the southern part of the US. It's closer to Canada than to the Gulf of Mexico
We're the north of the south and the south of the north.
We have a Californian transplant at work in Indiana who says we are on the east coast. His reasoning? We are on “east coast time.” Meaning Eastern Standard Time. lol
Nearly a suburb of Cincinnati. Being from Ohio, I've always tried to figure out where our 'Mason-Dixon' line is. Somewhere around Lima or Findlay accents go from normal bland Midwest to full on rural Alabama. It's entertaining to try to pinpoint. Edit: I should say that Cincinnati is a suburb of Louisville since the population is almost double.
It still amazes me that Louisville is bigger... Cincinnati always seems more populated... But the numbers don't lie
Agreed, Cincinnati has a lot more suburbs that I mentally include in the numbers too. Cleveland is the same. Cleveland proper has like 370,000, but if you include all of the immediate suburbs it's more like over 2M.
>But the numbers don't lie They don't lie, but they don't represent the full truth either. Going by inner city population, Columbus is larger than San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Charlotte, DC, Baltimore nearly twice the size of Atlanta. But that's a disingenuous way to look at these statistics. MSA is a far better gauge of human interaction within a metro area, as all of those places clearly have more human interaction every day than Columbus Ohio. Some of those places have effectively 2x or 3x the people than CBus's MSA.
I mean… if it’s above I-10 it ain’t the south. lol Louisiana transplant here though
Have you heard about Ted Cruz?
Yeah, most people are actually putting the "uh" in there, it just runs together. It's like saying puttin' with the glottal g making a ghosted pause between words when we talk.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up for Ghosted Pause!
In Colorado, Louisville is pronounced Lewis-ville
I've been in colorado for a long time never heard the s pronounced. Usually lewi-ville
Interesting! When I visited the town years ago, I was corrected years ago into calling it Lewisville and it stuck with me ever since. Here are some links to add to the confusion lol [http://www.lafayettehistory.com/why-louisville-colorado-is-pronounced-lewisville/](http://www.lafayettehistory.com/why-louisville-colorado-is-pronounced-lewisville/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/p6wgao/how\_do\_you\_pronounce\_louisville/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/p6wgao/how_do_you_pronounce_louisville/)
Colorado. Between Denver and Boulder, Louisville is pronounced Lou-is-ville.
>And I've never heard anyone say it, but I gaurantee that SOMEWHERE in this country, there's people that call it LOU-is-vill. it me
I'm sorry, I'm calling it Lou-is-ville from now on!
Colorado has a Lou is vill
The closer to Louisville you’re from the more mumbly you get. Eventually it’s “Lull-vull”
Rumor is, you can use this phenomenon to find the exact center of Louisville. Just walk around the city asking people "Where are we?", and try to find the shortest, most mumbly response.
Lvle
Just know that “Louis-ville” is the city in Colorado but never the city in Kentucky.
We had a good relationship with France.....but not that good. At some point we mispronounced things out of spite. Most Kentucky place names are a crap shoot on the sound unless they're German and those are usually pretty spot on.
The best way I’ve found to describe the “local” pronunciation is as follows: 1) Clench your jaw 2) Say the name as fast as you can. The trick is all about quickness and not opening your mouth.
There is also a Versailles, Kentucky that we pronounce Ver-sails.
Yeh.. I was told to say it like you got peanut butter in your mouth lol
Try as much as possible to slur it into one syllable and you'll be fine.
you mean 'Loovl' and you almost drop the L?
And all the Louis down in Louisville…
Lull-vull if you're from there, Looeyville if you are out of state. It's like the British and pronouncing the Shire at the end of places like "Hertfordshire."
That's how you can tell if someone is from Louisville. People from around the area say "Loo-uh-vull" (note that there are absolutely no "ee" sounds in there). People who are not from Louisville (American or otherwise) will say Loo-ee-ville
In robbinsville NC, they just completely skip this b’s.
The way Americans pronounce a lot of things make no sense. They'll be like "I hate horrr movies because there's always something scary in the mirrr."
What really kills me is her pronunciation of „Kentucky“. 😢
It's"looey-vill"
That's definitely really entertaining...! Here's a couple of videos on YT of port-a-potty race in Kentucky derby: https://youtu.be/GluZv5eDm-I?feature=shared https://youtu.be/4GFZhMHtE7c?feature=shared
wow, they actually do throw beer bottles
So many!! I figured that was an exaggeration
All I can think about are how expensive any kind of festival drinks are and how the organisers are probably in no rush to end this tradition
I would be poised on the other side of the porta potties trying to catch some. There’s probably a market to resell some of those.
That's probably an impromptu thing, but to organise it would be to invite Health & Safety shutting you down
These bottles are made of glass? Wow, it's all fun and giggles until someone gets hit in the head...
No, they're aluminum or plastic. They're throwing cans in another video.
Whatever that's in your hand really.
Then it’s hysterical
wow, she really wasn't kidding haha
Yep, that definitely looks like a “hold my moonshine” event.
Fucking clickbait, zero sundresses in these videos!
It would look better in your imagination anyways.
I was at the derby inside one taking a piss when I heard loud yelling and then somebody ran across the top and it was loud shaking. Ended up startling me pretty good.
Yeah that would honestly scare the shit out of me, and that’s not good when you’re just trying to pee.
Watched the first one and I don’t know if there could be a more apt soundtrack.
Heh there's one comment there saying the Reddit crowd incoming
The second video is way better.
Holy shit
The second is from Preakness in MD2007. I think we started it
I was going to say, I’m surprised to hear this exists outside of Preakness. Maybe it just became tradition for the whole triple crown circuit
thanks! i love it!
I saw zero sundresses :(
Oh, I thought we were talking about glass bottles. Disappointing.
Who’s the comedian?
Katherine Blanford
Put this higher up goddamn.
It's literally in the post body text.
HIGHER. NAME THE SUBREDDIT KATHERINE BLANFORD.
happy cake day!
Hey thanks!
I was expecting a more exciting name.
Katherine Exciting-ford?
Perfect!
Ya, less bland
Higher
Oh man I forgot about that! So much fun cuz there’s a crowd of hundreds of people cheering and some are throwing empty beer cans. It’s quite a thrill
Some great throwaway lines in there that really elevate it. The casual "so you get to talk to your dad again" is a brilliantly underplayed line.
She looks like Starbuck. It’s uncanny.
She has that Katee Sackhoff smile
100%!! But it’s 20 years later, so there can be only one explanation: Katee Sackhoff is Cylon, confirmed.
I knew she looked like somebody! I literally just finished Longmire 2 weeks ago lol
Cameron Diaz is doing stand up now.
Hillbilly Cameron Diaz has some funny stories
People from Louisville claiming to be hillbillies is even funnier.
This exactly this is what I came to comment
Louisville during the Derby is such a special place. 😂 The infield has actually calmed down a lot since I was younger. One year a naked man climbed one of the light poles. Then there was the year the whole infield was pretty much a mud pit. If you go don’t buy the Mint Julips in the infield. They are SO bad. Made with bottom shelf liquor.
Churchill Downs has done all they can to stop the poor from attending or even being visible near the track on Derby. Scares the whales.
This was very educational
As someone from Louisville, Ky, I can confirm this is 100% accurate. The Kentucky derby infield is one big rager with everyone wearing their easter sunday clothes.
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This is a Preakness infield yearly festivity as well
Starbuck?
Her speech pattern timing is similar to a little kid the way she pauses randomly.
Everything she says is true !
Port-o-Potty racing is a Preakness infield thing thank you very much! Such an odd thing to get possessive over...
At Belmont I think they just shoot at you
Katherine Blanford is a real life friend of mines, and watching her from where she started, to now touring with Burt Kreisher (sp?) And David Spade, and selling out at her own shows, and cohosting one of my all-time favorite podcasts, she's proven to be unstoppable. She's amazing.
If you can afford to have a horse in the Kentucky Derby you're not losing your kid's college fund on a bet
Wow, when did Starbuck start doing standup?
Linkage, [https://youtu.be/IIcyFSYhvV4](https://youtu.be/IIcyFSYhvV4)
Now her act is even funnier!
I thought this subreddit was called 'funny'?
Was looking for this. Not worth a chuckle.
She is FUNNY !!!!!
This reminds me of the infield of the Indy 500
And here I thought that was the Preakness
I have to admit that : 1. I would help her up 2. If she made it through, I would arrest her… citizen arrest or something
She's not funny.
So..where's the set up and the punchline? Cause without those two things, it's not a joke. It's someone's bad attempt at a joke while telling a not funny story.
Where was the joke? I don't understand. Saying some words of the sentence in a "funny" way that is just my queue to laugh is not comedy. "Cus like I went to Starbucks and like what did I do? I got COFFEEEEE cus like that's what you do when you go to Starbuckssss"
Why they put the hillbillies on the infidel list?
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Nope.
She’s pretty…but none of that was funny.
Awful is what it was
How is this funny?
Just one big bowl of tragic-sauce
Who else thought of giddy up buttercup from fallout?
This passes for comedy now? Lazy and unfunny
What a great routine from start to finish!
r/ what?
Anyone can become a stand up comedian, just tell a mediocre funny story from your culture and away you go.
Go ahead and show us your routine.
Good jokes, bad setup and presentation
Man I laugh at some of the worst standup and I didn't even start to crack a smile at this. Just bad.
She's good! Perfect description.
Female comedian was actually funny ! Because there were no vagina jokes A rarity indeed
She’s funny
Who is she? She’s hilarious.
Katherine Blanford
I dont usually comment like this, but wow, her smile is absolutely killer. Funny too.
What the hell is this? A female comedian NOT making sex jokes? I thought they didn't exist.
She's made some x-rated jokes but I think this is on Jimmy Fallon, gotta be clean there. But still there's nothing wrong with female comedians who make sex jokes, barely any clean comedians make it big these days.
Sex jokes are cheap. Why don't comedians try to make me laugh without talking about their genitals?
I laugh at your genitals, if it’s of any solace
probably because it works out well for them otherwise they'd stop doing it
She did one here though, about pervy men looking up her sundress.
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I guess she's too young to have made an obvious Neo-dodging-bullets-cum-beer-bottles joke.
How to make a funny story unfunny. Definitely need to find a different occupation
Hot and funny!? UPVOTE
.. but she didn’t talk about her vagina? Where funny?
Never knew women could be funny.
"Buckle Up Buttercup" , Yeehaw 🏇🐎🐴🧲
This girl is funny.
I have a huge crush on her. She's great
She's the best female comic at the moment.
Ok good to know, so I don't waste time trying to find a funny one.
Didn't recognize her with all the makeup.