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The Origin of "That's What She Said" and the Much Older British Equivalent of the Phrase

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: In this video, we take a look at the origin of the phrase "That's what she said," as well as the British equivalent "Said the actress to the bishop" and where that came from. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/12/the-british-equivalent-of-thats-what-she-said/ Sources: Oxford English Dictionary A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/thats-what-she-said-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-2000s-best-bad-joke/283259/ http://spring.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/15/569781-international-thats-what-she-said-day http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World_(film) http://grammarist.com/usage/said-the-actress-to-the-bishop/ http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/as-the-actress-said-to-the-bishop http://dialectblog.com/2013/01/09/thats-what-she-said/ http://www.smh.com.au/news/big-questions/why-do-people-have-an-audience-with-a-king-but-only-a-meetingwith-a-president/2005/08/04/1123125839640.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live

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  • Originally Aired October 23, 2016
  • Runtime 2 minutes
  • Production Code JCbc1il1zQg
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