Middle-class actors more likely than others to misidentify as working-class, study shows
“We used to live in a tiny, tumble-down old ’ouse with great ’oles in roof,” declaims the cigar-smoking dinner-jacketed Yorkshireman. “’Ouse!” says another. “You were lucky to ’ave an ’ouse. We used to live in one room … 26 of us.” “Room … we used to live in a corridor!” “We used to dream of a corridor …” and so on.
The “four Yorkshiremen” sketch, which became part of Monty Python’s live shows, is a well known articulation of what is often seen as a very British trait: the desperate need for a humble origin story.
