The comic book idea of Scottishness so eagerly embraced by football fans, with all the jokes about kilts, worries some Scots. But Colin Gilbert, head of the Glasgow based Comedy Unit, who produced the TV comedy series Rab C Nesbitt, as well as the recent hit, Chewin' The Fat, said it was great that the Scots accent was now globally acceptable when just a few years ago it was looked on with disdain by the rest of Britain. He said Scots should be delighted that the Americans thought Myers' accent was so funny. Mike spent a lot of time in Scotland. In fact, there's a lot of debate here about who Fat Bastard was based on.
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It's a very encouraging sign that Scottish accents can be used on such a global scale because it shows it's acceptable to almost everyone these days. In the past there were problems even about posh intelligible accents on the radio - there's always some retired colonel from Surrey objecting. Even if they're laughing at Mike Myers now, it helps in other areas because it means that a huge audience is now prepared to listen to Scottish voices. He said when Rab C Nesbitt was first shown at the prestigious TV festival at Montreux 10 years ago, the BBC subtitled it with English. The same happened with Gregory's Girl and Trainspotting to some extent.