Eddie Izzard speaks Old English to Frisian (northern Dutch) farmer. Farmer understands him!

[Odin2005]

Frisian is the language most closely related to English. The farmer gets a kick out of it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34

[MrScorpio]

1. After a couple of days with my Dutch in laws, I was pretty much speaking and understanding Dutch

I figured at that time, of all the Germanic languages, Dutch was the closest to English

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. LOL That's funny

[kentauros]

3. I got a kick out of it, too!

:D

[hobbit709]

4. A friend of mine was married to a Dutch woman.

He always said that Dutch was like English, except that you mumble and spit a lot.

[nytemare]

5. I love his style of comedy.

I enjoy that he mixes a bit of language, multiculturism and history in his style.

Honestly, he makes a great dramatic actor as well. He was quite good in his small role in Valkyrie.

[hayu_lol]

6. Used to spend quite a bit of time in Hilversum Holland...

(Royal Dutch Radio)and was always amazed at how many of the signs I could understand despite not knowing any Dutch. Much easier than German to understand.