If you've watched Saturday Night Live's "Fond du Lac Action News" newscast, you might have heard a semi-familiar accent. And while parts of the dialect were pretty spot-on, other parts were just off.
Fond du Lac hit the national news this weekend — well, the fake news. SNL's latest skit, "Fond Du Lac News," parodies small town Wisconsin, taking a swing at everything from the unpredictable weather ...
"Free for All: The Public Library," a new documentary airing on PBS' "Independent Lens" April 29, charts the path of the American public library movement, from Ben Franklin and the Carnegie free ...
Bubbler Talk receives a lot of submissions asking about the way Milwaukeeans talk: What’s with Milwaukee saying ‘yet’ in place of ‘still’?, Why do people here say ‘New BER-lin,’ instead of ‘New ...
We’ve all heard comedy’s exaggerated take on the Wisconsin accent, to which we say, “What Wisconsin accent? We don’t have an accent.” But here’s a fresh approach: a vampire from Staten Island, New ...