12:42 Mar 15, 200479
Who Knew Celebrities Swearing Would Be So Cool?
Channel Four have slipped out a Flash movie advert which … well, it’s basically people who are on, or have been on programmes on Channel Four, such as The West Wing, ER, Big Brother, yadda yadda … and they’re swearing. A lot. I’ve no idea where it came from, but it’s certainly starting to gather moss. Watch it below.
Sarah Chalke’s sultry “merde” is verrry nice, but the cracker has to be Janel Maloney saying “I like c**t”. Sigh.
Update 2006-03-10: Two years on … thanks to everyone who has commented on this post thus far, but extra-special-huggy-bear thanks go to Steph, Supreme Commander Hoik and Michael who put in the time and the effort to make up this who’s-who list of everyone in this trail:
- Tony Robinson (Time Team)
- Ozzy Osbourne (The Osbournes)
- Michelle Gomez (Green Wing)
- Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel Four News)
- Kirstie Allsop (Relocation, Relocation)
- Sarah Chalke (Scrubs)
- Carol Vorderman (Countdown)
- Jack Osbourne (The Osbournes)
- Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace)
- Richard Maidley (Richard & Judy)
- Richard Schiff (The West Wing)
- Phil Spencer (Relocation, Relocation)
- Jamie Oliver (Jamie’s School Dinners)
- Laura Innes (ER)
- Graham Norton (So Graham Norton)
- Jamie Lynne Di Scala (The Sopranos)
- Naomi Cleaver (Other People’s Houses)
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (River Cottage))
- Sharon Osbourne (The Osbournes)
- Leigh Francis / Avid Merrion (Bo Selecta)
- Derren Brown (Mind Games)
- Peter Gallagher (The OC)
- Kim Woodburn (How Clean is Your House)
- Mathew St. Patrick (Six Feet Under)
- Iain Lee (The 11 O’Clock Show)
- Judy Reyes (Scrubs)
- Sarah Beeny (Propery Ladder)
- Aida Turturro (The Sopranos)
- John Spencer (The West Wing)
- Adam Brody (The OC)
- Janel Maloney (The West Wing)
- Jon Snow (The News)
- Mark Nicholas (Cricket)
- Rachel Bilson (The OC)
- Bradley Whitford (The West Wing)
- Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos)
- Kelly Osbourne (The Osbournes)
- Jimmy Carr (Distraction)
- Ken Jenkins (Scrubs)
- Aggie MacKenzie (How Clean is Your House)
- Rory Bremner (Bremner, Bird and Fortune)
- Peter Oborne (Why Politicians Can’t Tell The Truth)
- Parminder Nagra (ER)
- Mischa Barton (The OC)
- Richard Whitely (Countdown)
- David Starkey (Monarchy)
- Peter Krause (Six Feet Under)
- Anthony La Paglia (Without a Trace)
- Judy Finnegan (Richard & Judy)
- Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck)
- Dermot O Leary (Big Brother)
- Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under)
- Davina McCall (Big Brother)
- Niall Ferguson (Empire, American Colussus)
- Kevin McCloud (Grand Designs)
- Zach Braff (Scrubs)
- Marianne Jean Baptiste (Without a Trace)
79 Comments, Comment or Ping
paul murphy
class stuff.
Mar 29th, 2004
Mike Cowie
Excellent stuff – keep it cumming Channel 4
Apr 1st, 2004
AceClown
Anyone know who the seksey redhead is right after Dermot O’Leary????
Apr 2nd, 2004
Derek Bird
the sexy redhead is on “Six Feet Under”
Apr 3rd, 2004
Scott
who is that guy that says “England” cuz that is funny
Apr 3rd, 2004
Marie
oh my god this is the absolute best thing online! the scottish red head is so funny!
Apr 4th, 2004
SJC
who is that bird who goes
“i love the word fuck way too much”??????
Apr 5th, 2004
Scott
SJC, She’s the chick from the OC… and is hott huh?
Apr 5th, 2004
ed
is the last contributor a uk comedian or the actress from Without a Trace?
Apr 6th, 2004
neil
well, both. She’s the actress from Without a Trace and she’s from the UK
I just wanna know who’s that cutie in the middle who says “shitface” and giggles?
Apr 6th, 2004
claire
merde is klass i like dat and the waaan kaaaa at the v end is amazin
Apr 6th, 2004
Adam Garratt
I love Channel 4 for showing these well-edited, in-between progamme exerts, they always make me smile. It is good fun initialy guessing what they are all talking about, but this one in particular is fantastic. So nice to see celebs swearing, it appears as though all the TV actors actually enjoyed the interviews with Channel 4, when they must get so many boring questions asked. Well done again, enjoy this, Janel is by far the best, wow!
Apr 7th, 2004
m.
this is excellenttttttttt.. is it possible to somehow save it? i dont know much about pcs but id love to have it as a file in my pc..
thanks!
Apr 8th, 2004
stefanie
“i love the word fuck way too much” is mischa barton
the girl in the middle who says “shitface” and giggles is rachel bilson.
both on the OC
Apr 8th, 2004
Poploktom
WHAT A GREAT AD. Avid Merrion’s Comment was good as well as the BUGGERATION.My fav has to be Merde cuz i actually know what that means!!!
Apr 8th, 2004
Poploktom
SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY
Apr 8th, 2004
mooks
what does merde actually mean?
Apr 9th, 2004
neuro
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=merde&langpair=fr|en
Apr 9th, 2004
billy
merde means shit in french, and dat bloke at the end from scrubs is well funney. ha ha ha
Apr 16th, 2004
Scotty McGotty
“You Fuckin CunT” (enfasise the T)
Apr 16th, 2004
Mr Moon
“Far Kewwwwww”
Apr 16th, 2004
sj
sweet lovin it…never get tired of it have seen so many times
Apr 20th, 2004
Shane
Anyone got (and fancy making) a complete list / script?
Apr 27th, 2004
Goulan
WTF!
Aren’t we all becoming very liberal these days. Everything goes…
Apr 28th, 2004
Bobby
who’s the first guy who says ‘cunt’?
May 1st, 2004
me
it took some doing do to some cleverish redirection, but if you want a copy of this, right click the link below and click save target as
http://cache.neuro.me.uk/tmp/s/swearing1.swf
May 13th, 2004
Captain Kirk
I think Judy Finnigans FUCK is the best – got me hard actually !!!!!!!!!
May 16th, 2004
badger
Absolutely brilliant. Mark Nicholas saying shitfuck. doesn’t get much better than that.
May 27th, 2004
P.D.
also..if anyone knows of similar clips – ie. the C4 add asking celebrities what they do to relax etc. could you drop me an e-mail.
Cheers, ah amusement.
xXx
Jun 2nd, 2004
meghan
does anyone know if the second person to say cunt is enrique murciano (danny from without a trace)? also, can you download the other ones?
and, how cute is anthony lapaglia?!
Jun 4th, 2004
maria
what is it parminder nagra says???
Jun 4th, 2004
Ben
where can i download the rest of these?
Jun 7th, 2004
Thom
FUCKING brilliant!!!
Richard whitely saying “Sloblocks!!!!” is absolutely fantastic….
If anyone wants to see something similar, the people at my production company have made a little compilation of stupid things they’ve said. http://www.thomvaughan.com has all the goodies.
Nice work, C4!
Jun 15th, 2004
nicole
where can i download the rest of the interviews?
luv nicole
:D
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Nov 6th, 2004
Sanh
Hey do you know who is the guy just before Janel Maloney?
Jul 27th, 2005
hotroxx
Does anyone have any other ads in this series that they could transcribe? I am putting together a fansite for the actor Richard Schiff (the guy that says ‘cocksucking motherfucker’) and if I could have a list of his answers it would be cool. Any help appreciated.
Sep 26th, 2005
Steph
Ok, so here’s the people I knew, or got from this site. Feel free to add as theres a bunch I dont know.
1. Tony Robinson
2. Ozzy Osbourne
3. Michelle Gomez
4.
5.
6. Sarah Chalke (Scrubs)
7. Isabella Rosellini
8. Jack Osbourne
9. Enrique Murciano (Without A Trace)
10.
11. Richard Schiff
12.
13. Jaime Oliver
14. Laura Innes (ER)
15.
16. Jamie Lynne Di Scala (The Sopranos)
17.
18.
19. Sharon Osbourne
20.
21.
22. Peter Gallagher (The OC)
23. Aggie and Kim (How clean is your house)
24.
25.
26. Judy Reyes (Scrubs)
27.
28.
29.
30. Adam Brody (Scrubs)
31. Janel Maloney (The West Wing)
32.
33. Rachel Bilson (Scrubs)
34. Bradley Whitford (The West Wing)
35.
36. Kelly Osbourne
37.
38. Ken Jenkins (Scrubs)
39. Kim and Aggie (How Clean is your house)
40.
41.
42. Parminder Nagra (ER)
43. Mischa Barton (The OC)
44.
45.
46. Peter Krause (Six Feet Under)
47. Anthony La Paglia (Without A Trace)
48.
49. Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck)
50.
51. Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under)
52.
53.
54.
55. Zach Braff (Scrubs)
56. Marianne Jean Baptiste (Without A Trace)
Nov 18th, 2005
Steph
*30. Adam Brody is from The OC, not Scrubs, sorry!
Nov 18th, 2005
Kirsten
*33. Rachel Bilson is from The OC, not Scrubs!!
Nov 20th, 2005
OC- Lover
The one before Mischa Barton is the one from “Kick it like Beckham” sorry i do not know her name!
I like Rachels : “Shitface” and then giggles so sweet and Mischas : “I like Fuck way too much” and Sarah Chalkes “Merde” always makes me laugh!!!!!
This thing is so funny!!!!!
Nov 20th, 2005
neuro
You’re trying to remember the name of Parminder Nagra from Bend It Like Beckham and ER
Nov 22nd, 2005
Meghan
#28 is (don’t know her name) Janice from the Sapranos.
Nov 23rd, 2005
Steph
Yeah, I knew she was in BILB, but I assumed ER was the show she was supposed to be representing on this.
Rachel Bilson – my mistake. I am an OC fan, so excuse some of the typos. I must admit the list was written at night and I didnt check it.
Nov 24th, 2005
Dan.d aka scrambled eggs
Kelly Douchbag is not swearing im surprised you couldnt of think of a better swear word looking at your background.
Dec 10th, 2005
Mr Twain
21 is psychological illusionist Derren Brown – I love the fact that they’ve stuck him in a launderette.
Dec 23rd, 2005
woo woo
oh
Dec 23rd, 2005
Gabbury
The guy from scrubs is a fucking legend!!!!!
Dec 25th, 2005
Ian
I like the woman that says cocksucker in a really husky voice lol. Makes me laugh
Dec 28th, 2005
Annie
SO FUCKING AMAZING
Dec 29th, 2005
Kate
29) John Spencer – West Wing
Jan 7th, 2006
Emma
37. Jimmy Carr
Jan 9th, 2006
tayla
i don’t get it when that dude was like england?????
Jan 14th, 2006
shannon
he hates Englang to the point that it has become a swear word to him… kinda like if I were to say FRENCH instead of FUCK
Jan 17th, 2006
Louise
Is there any more clips of celebrities like these on the internet?
I have seen a few one TV but I would like to see the others (if there is any)
Jan 22nd, 2006
supreme commander hoik
Right, here’s the updated list (though there’s still a few I don’t know)
1. Tony Robinson (Time Team)
2. Ozzy Osbourne (The Osbornes)
3. Michelle Gomez (Green Wing)
4. Krishnan Guru-Murthy (The News)
5. Kirstie Allsop (Relocation, Relocation)
6. Sarah Chalke (Scrubs)
7. Carol Vorderman (Countdown)
8. Jack Osbourne (The Osbornes)
9. Enrique Murciano (Without A Trace)
10. Richard Maidley (Richard + Judy)
11. Richard Schiff (The West Wing)
12. Phil Spencer (Relocation, Relocation)
13. Jamie Oliver (Jaime’s School Dinners)
14. Laura Innes (ER)
15. Graham Norton (So Graham Norton)
16. Jamie Lynne Di Scala (The Sopranos)
17.
18. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Some boring programme)
19. Sharon Osbourne (The Osbornes)
20. Leigh Francis /Avid Merrion (Bo Selecta)
21. Derren Brown (Mind Games)
22. Peter Gallagher (The OC)
23. Kim Woodburn (How clean is your house)
24.
25.
26. Judy Reyes (Scrubs)
27.
28. Aida Turturro (The Sopranos)
29. John Spencer (The West Wing)
30. Adam Brody (The OC)
31. Janel Maloney (The West Wing)
32. Jon Snow (The News)
33. Mark Nicholas (The Cricket)
34. Rachel Bilson (The OC)
35. Bradley Whitford (The West Wing)
36. Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos)
37. Kelly Osborne (The Osbornes)
38. Jimmy Carr (Distraction)
39. Ken Jenkins (Scrubs)
40. Aggie MacKenzie (How Clean is your house)
41.
42.
43. Parminder Nagra (ER)
44. Mischa Barton (The OC)
45. Richard Whitely (Coutdown)
46. David Starkey (Monarchy)
47. Peter Krause (Six Feet Under)
48. Anthony La Paglia (Without A Trace)
49. Judy Finnegan (Richard + Judy)
50. Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck)
51. Dermot O Leary (Big Brother)
52. Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under)
53. Davina McCall (Big Brother)
54.
55. Kevin McCloud (Grand Designs)
56. Zach Braff (Scrubs)
57. Marianne Jean Baptiste (Without A Trace)
Jan 23rd, 2006
Michael wasting his life
Here you go:
17. Naomi Cleaver (presents one of those bourgeois property-porn programmes; only one whose identity I’m not completely sure of – ugh, ending sentence in a preposition)
24. Mathew St. Patrick (Six Feet Under)
25. Iain Lee (alleged comedian; The 11 O’Clock Show and RI:SE)
27. Sarah Beeny (Property Ladder and non-threatening, big-titted bourgeois wank-fantasy)
41. Rory Bremner (exceptional impressionist and alleged satirist; Bremner, Bird and Fortune)
42. Peter Oborne (journo -political editor of The Spectator- author, opiner; Why Politicians Can’t Tell The Truth [as opposed to journalists, eh Peter?]
54. Niall Ferguson (historian, author, a Scot, and the thinking woman’s crumpet – a sort of younger, fuckable Joan Bakewell, if you will; Empire, American Colussus)
Jan 26th, 2006
Steph
17. Naomi Cleaver is from Honey I Ruined the House
(hooray for pay tv!)
Jan 31st, 2006
claire
i found another one of the ads, but i wish i could see them all. they’re hilarious. anyway, this is the one with the question: “when did you lose your virginity?”
http://www.devilducky.com/media/26383/
Feb 14th, 2006
randomer
tis so awesome!
Judy swearing hahaha
Feb 25th, 2006
Sophie the amazed
OMG! my brother just showed me this clip its actually the funniest thing I’ve ever seen and can i just state that adam brody (number 30) is absoultey gourgeous! Any hoo thank you channel 4! and am i being a spac but where is the link for the virginty thing ont the devil duck website cus i couldnt see it. cheers if you know.
Mar 5th, 2006
Jess
SJC the one with the dark hair is rachel bilson (who i apparetly look like…i wish) n the one with the blonde who says “i like the word fuck way too much” is mischa barton, both from the OC.
If anyone gets hold of the HTML code for this let me know ive wanted it for agesss!
Mar 26th, 2006
Jess
lauren ambrose is after dermot oleary
Mar 26th, 2006
crystal
OMG derren brown, SO HOT!
Apr 16th, 2006
Kathryn
Those Channel 4 films are awesome, especially this one! And Derren Brown- sooooooooo hot!
Apr 25th, 2006
Emmy
DERREN BROWN!!! I love these SO much, oh my gosh! Crystal and Kathryn, watch out for Derren on this one: http://www.devilducky.com/media/26383/ (Thanks to Claire who posted it above) *dies*
Apr 29th, 2006
pap
Derren Brown should be credited as from “Mind Control”, not “Mind Games”
Apr 29th, 2006
Emily
Bradly Whitford is fantastic
Apr 29th, 2006
Christine
Oh, this is only the most brilliant video ever. I just wish we could download it, because that link posted two years ago to the cache’d one doesn’t quite work anymore.
May 3rd, 2006
Graham
Has anyone any idea where the other ads from this series are, the only other one I found is “Age you lost your virginity”
May 3rd, 2006
Melissa
Bradley Whitford is so cute when he swears.
…well, he’s cute all the time, but you know..
May 19th, 2006
Prillo
Ah, I see I am a rather late discoverer! Nevermind, it still rocks my socks.
Any chance you could reactivate the link for the clip? I’ve been lookin’ all over, trying to download it, but I just can’t find anything, except your link, which doesn’t work. D’oh!
Jun 19th, 2006
sparklyjojo
has anyone got any way of me being able to download a copy of this? the link above doesn’t seem to be working for me– thanks
Sep 28th, 2006
G
parminder nagras roughly translates to: Bastard dog
Oct 18th, 2006
Daz
I liked when they asked the celebrities what was their 1st record they bought.
Does anyone know what Marcia Cross’ was (Bree from Desperate Housewives)?
I’d LOVE to know. Thank-you.
May 13th, 2007
robert
the second last one – zach braff – is awesome.. he’s acting just like on scrubs
and all the oc stars rachel bilson, adam brody, peter gallagher and mischa barton were awwesome too 
never heard them swear.. and the show KICKED ASS!!!!! lol
Apr 7th, 2008
Ernie Chippenwax Borehole.
How sad the open howl of an audience branded by televisual lobotomy.
How sad the hankering pangs of the porn hungry.
How bad the voyeurs decent to celebricity.
How strong the arguments brought about by the ultra-intelligent loafers in defense of the truly stupid content of 89% of broadcasting.
How deluded the internet swingset.
Carry on.
best wishes…
May 20th, 2008
Elena
I think the fourth one is Danny Pino (Cold Case). Or… maybe I was counting wrong. But he’s in there, it looks like!
Oct 2nd, 2008