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Comedian White Yardie Reveals All!
TORONTO – White Yardie has become famous not just for his humour, but also for his style. As his name suggests, the comedian is white Jamaican, speaking with a thick Jamaican accent and often using Patois. This week Yardie and Brandon headed over to Chubby’s and dug into why people think his accent is “a gimmick”, as well as his comedy heroes, his message for the haters, and more.
“Mi love Canada,” Yardie said, explaining that he has wanted to move to Toronto since he first performed in our city.
“It feels more at home here than when I’m in the U.K., if I’m honest,” Yardie continued, adding that he feels the vibe is better, and the people are nicer.
“What I like is the embrace of cultures here. Not to say in London they don’t do this, not to say in the U.K. they don’t embrace the culture, but there are too many gatekeepers of the cultures,” he explained.
Yardie shared that he feels in the United Kingdom there are “gatekeepers” who decide who is allowed to participate in certain cultures, and who is not.
“People are quick to ca
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Comedian White Yardie stays true to Ja’s motto
Seventeen years have passed since he migrated, but the London-based comedian who goes by the alias, White Yardie, still speaks patios as though he is walking through the streets of St Elizabeth, the parish where he was born. His accent, also as strong as the day he left, usually acts as the attention-grabber on any stage, but for several years it was also a trait he had to defend.
“Being white and from Jamaica, there was whole heap of discrimination when me just start. There are people who can’t, or won’t, accept it and those that don’t like it. Within comedian circles, they would comment, ‘ah who him think him is and a put on the accent’?,” White Yardie told The Gleaner.
Born Harry Gregory, the delivery driver-turned-comedian describes his childhood in the St Elizabeth capital, Black River, as “mango tree struggles, no less or more”, oftentimes walking to school or not having soap to bathe.
“There are people who feel like me nuh know or understand certain thin
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White Yardie forced to defend Jamaican heritage as it’s questioned in awkward Channel 4 debate
White Yardie was forced to defend himself after his Jamaican heritage was called into question on Channel 4 debate programme Unapologetic.
The comedian, real name Harry Gregory, appeared on the new series hosted by Zeze Millz and Yinka Bokinni last Thursday.
Unapologetic, which made its proper debut following a successful pilot during Channel 4’s Black To Front day, sees the two presenters address the uncomfortable issues surroundingracism and colourism within the Black community.
In the first episode, White Yardie took part in a discussion about ‘who gets to define Black culture’.
The social media star was born in England but moved to Jamaica with his family when he was just three months old. He then spent the next two decades growing up and living on the Caribbean island, learning to speak Patois while being fully immersed in Jamaican culture.
When Zeze asked if he ‘classes himself as Jamaican’, White Yardie stated: ‘I do class myself as part of the J
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