The Most American Thing That’s Ever Happened - John Oliver
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2019
- John Oliver contemplates America’s legacy and describes an uber-American event that took place off the coast of South Carolina.
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finally i see this mans legs
that's actually cgi, the man has got no legs, just a torso and weird spider hands
Not much to see really. Only about 1/4 of his body.
I had a similar thought and thank you for making me less alone in my John Oliver leg-watching.
You're gonna flip when you find one of the more obscure clips of him wearing Diva Booty Pants
.. the guy has been on TV for years. It is just you who only knows his late night show.
100% earned his citizenship, he clearly gets what we're all about over here.
If the naturalization process includes singing the anthem, I hope he sang that version.
He SO does, for real.
I believe it's called "doing it right" haha
Standups on my channel, thank you, sorry
He does, I can't see wanting citizenship even though I've spent a lot of time with great people working in the US.
“last year”
oh no
“in South Carolina”
_OH NO_
Oh no
@@b1xhrrndbx Just. don't. google. it.
@@b1xhrrndbx I thought it was about the ranch that profited off of guys having sex with their horses until one guy died, but that happened in Washington state. The only things I can find recently for S.C. was the carriage company under investigation for mistreating their horses.
@@Megalomaniakaal TELL US!!!!
@@headsgrowback1 If you look at his hairstyle, you shouldn't search for anything too recent. Also. just don't google it.
Very funny Lion King joke John, but we all know there's no sunlight in Britain
Well, but that reinforces the point doesn't it?
Thats why we went and conquered 1/4 of the world. Do you think it is coincidence that we mainly went for the sunny bits?
@@Chilukar To (mis)quote Al Murray we went for locations with "Hot and spicy food and Olympic quality athletes."
Chilukar that is literally the first thing i thought about when I first came to London the weather cause colonization! Everybody was like “dude it rains all the time here...I heard there was a lot of sun in India and Africa”
Funny enough, he's the voice of Zazu in the new Lion King movie, lol.
IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!!!!
I’ve never been more proud to be American than I am right now listening to a British man make fun of me.
We all as americand noe have a new dream. Hitting home runs off an aircraft carrier to our friends on jet skis
Same, I love it too! I was playing GTAV online years ago at some unfathomably early hour and got plopped into an English server, I got ripped on a little bit over voice chat and was beside myself with laughter. I am female and one guy did a PERFECT valley girl accent, I had to stop playing for a few minutes so I could go pee before I had an accident laughing.
@ThatOneAsianBroChick hi
Exactly
@@wikeni9096 every British chick i talk to says my accent is cute and they love my voice. Weird thing is im from a region that isn't suppose to have an accent at all. I'm from Southern Michigan. I have a deep voice but that's about it
Oliver: "I'm making fun of you."
Murica: "But it's awesome, so it's ours now."
I think that's our real legacy
Isn’t that how Yankee Doodle happened?
@@matthewschlittler2456 yes it is, its also the reason why the democrats have a donkey as the party mascot. 😂😂
Lib right in a nutshell.
White Americans call black Americans N word.
Black people: "that word is mines now" 😆🤣😂😹
He doesn't mention . . . it was sponsored by a beer company!
Well, England feels that if you can see through it, it's not really beer.
@@jaylittleton1 Well, England also drinks it warm. So, fuck what England thinks.
Kevin T. Keith Energy Drinks if you mean the jump sponsored by Red Bull
@@timez9663 No - the baseball-hitting thing. It was sponsored by Miller Highlife.
@@ReeN1995 You're about as fucked as England, bro. Cold beer is the way it's meant to be. Keep that warm bullshit over there in Europe. We're not interested. And to be clear, I'm not defending American beer. Simply the temperature. Your beer is probably better, tbh. But the temperature makes all the difference.
Big whoop. Anybody can click their heels.
*ten minutes later*
Apparently, I cannot
Mary Allgier. Try 10 minutes later of me crying on the floor because I failed so hard. 😭😂
I can do that. I need a bit of a run up to it but I can click them.
Harder with metal spikes on my heels...
David Meyer if I do a run skip I can do the jump but not the click
OTOH, any Prussian can click his heels, and unlike him, can do it while giving a curt bow. Of course, they have this little problem with starting wars.
RIP, John Oliver's bangs.
😂 😂 It's called a fringe!
He should spend the next break growing them out.
Rip, John Oliver's og glasses
I want to like your comment but the number of likes is 666
Or “ fringe” in British English 😂😂
John has a better range than some artists who have sung the actual national anthem
Gregor Bork - nice tonality and vocal style too.
why you gotta do fergie like that
@@TheDreamerBelle why did fergie do America like that
Flashback to fergie
fergie been real quiet since you made this comment
From what I understand, Yankee Doodle was first used as an insult. Until we figured we liked the way it sound. Then took it. We culturally appropriated our own insult. Murica.
Well.. From what I understand, Yankee Doodle is a delicious and fluffy chocolate cupcake filled with just the right amount of vanilla cream you son of a bitch.
SHABLAGOO!
Yes us Americans are Yanks all over the world
According to legend Yankee Doodle was played during the British surrender at York town. By us, the Americans. As a final fuck you, yeah we're Yanks, do something about it.
That is pretty big d energy also good job knowing things and stuff! Actually refreshing these days
Don't worry, I still use it as an insult.
I am so glad this Zazu looking bastard is voicing Zazu in the Lion King remake. You made it John
Agreed, however the existence of another soulless Disney remake does not make me happy
Now I have a reason to watch it.
"Everything the light touches is your kingdom. Well, not everything. Some things have happened."
what
he's doing what now
wHAT
@@monageeuk6504 basically playing the parrot part that Rowan Atkinson did in the lion king remake
This man is ours, England, you can’t have him back.
Finder keeper!!! 😁
He's a citizen of Both Countries...but it's very apparent he's staying put in America....John himself has often said he know's he's not welcome back in The UK....LOL
The Stuport Haha I know I love when he was like “Good evening everyone, my name is John Oliver, or, as I’m affectionately known in my country: who?”
Ah, an immigrant americans wont abuse.
@@Don-ii4vm He's white of course not
“It was incredibly brave, and completely pointless” - Vietnam
Incredibly brave to send the military with the biggest budget in the world to shoot rice farming civilians
How brave, killing farmers and civilians through massive bombing campaigns.
nontan 420 that’s what I’m trying to say, we as Americans view it as something we “had” to do when in reality we didn’t and it was pointless
HEY Vietnam was NOT pointless
The military industrial complex made billions of dollars. Bell helicopter had to make money somehow dude!
This fey shithead wouldn't have lasted two weeks in Nam.
John Oliver is brilliant.
My wife is french and she often talks about how most European countries have these subtle ways of making fun of each other. Not in malice, but more like siblings who grew up with each other and went through some real shit. I'd assume most nations and geographic regions have this. The U.S. and Canada have this. And so do states within the U.S.
I think what John Oliver is trying to do is use that as a tool to say that the U.S. actually has an identity which can be mocked, but is also real and theirs alone. In this way, he invites us to do the same, as a tool for decompression. And he sets all this up by mocking himself as a British person first. It's not about attacking someone as an enemy, but treating them always as a friend and understanding that both of you come from places that are at once ridiculous and also proud of who and what it is. Every place is like this.
I think this whole set is brilliant. And John Oliver is a global treasure.
@Maxx Kroes Florida man agrees..)
Lol what do you mean subtle? We openly mock each other in America.
@Maxx Kroes He wasn't talking about what 'we' do, but what this specific text written and performed by John Oliver is doing. As John Oliver is one of 'us', these generalizations seem to be quite imprecise.
@Maxx Kroes aye man, having baseball on a ship sounds fine to me
@Maxx Kroes eh, not as crazy as England is going to be when the queen croaks
he said south carolina and i was like "what did we do now"
I'm not American, and I have no idea what the incident was that he spoke about. Could you enlighten me?
@@TheSchwindelFrei we have 50 states one called south carolina known for doing some weird ass shit
Meanwhile, I was just relieved he didn't say Florida. You know, you just KNOW, that it would've had to been something really stupid.
@@vfaulkon you know it man.
@@vfaulkon when i head s carolina I knew it wasn't that bad. no florida man
this dude's pretty good i think he's got a future in this business
Uuum, this might be an r/woosh but this guy is um, popular
tactical potato It’s obvious it’s s joke. This is one of the most overused jokes on UA-cam.
Yep, uuuuh. I always fall into these traps 🤦♂️
@@tacticalpotato7923 ohh bangkok thailand would be a perfect place for you haha
So long as s/he takes admiral akbar along as a guide.
Love our new national anthem 😂😂😂
As you should...cause the current one is disgustingly racist and full of hate...
...and if your confused by what i mean...google 'full US Anthem' and read the other stanzas..
Makes up for the earlier joke he completely botched. That moment America became the most American America it could possible be happened in 1960: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
@Risky Business Ugh...im annoyed by your pure lack of an attempt to even try and research the matter before you spoke..
.
(3rd Stanza or Verse 3)
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
take 5 min...use this CRAZY new fad called google, and read what it is literally describing...from the song writers own mouth...francis scott key..
...oh..ill wait for your follow up reply..lmao
C. LANDIS at the end of the day you sound like a victim, victims roll over and get fucked every day, nice people but they’re fucking pansies, so keep getting rolled on your ass and throwing your hands up my friend. No one gives a fuck
@@rwbatze Question...If I were to no longer want to be a "victim" being that I "get fucked every day", it is my understanding, per your sound and indisputable logic, the best way to start is roll back on over...AND JOIN YOU IN POINTING OUT AMERICA'S VICTIMS WHO GROUP TOGETHER...INTO SOME KIND OF... PANZIE BUTTFUCKERY VICTIMS CLUB!
And I know one of these that I can tell you just are tires of hearing the AssSmashry coming from them... ... ...
Those Pathetic Bitch Ass 9/11 Victims! I mean...We still have to hear their families bending over...taking it...complaining each year!
Like ... YOUR SO RIGHT...
...right?
South Carolina is currently holding Florida’s beer.
"Florida, so southern it must go north to get to the south"
Other way around. Florida is holding South Carolina’s beer
@Stillwaterz0901 Is the last lady wrong though?
@claire miller there's a lot of things wrong with Florida. Their crackheads are of a whole different level. Seriously Florida is fucked.
yeah as a Floridian I can confirm we have chemicals in our water.
Been living abroad for a couple years and I legit got choked up at the end of his rendition of the national anthem.
I know, right? I've lived overseas enough to get what you said.
Fitting that John Oliver references Lion King
Oh my god 😂
Why?
@@morgengabe1 I just googled it because I didn't know. He's voicing Zazu in the 2019 Lion King movie.
@@AllisonLinner The bird right? I can totally hear him doing a great job
Didn't he voice him in the original as well?
He’s a surprisingly good singer!
I mean, he is going to be Zazu, so that's a good thing I think :)
@@randomperson8571 i'm just waiting for the quick one liners and witty comebacks
The singing was eclipsed by a perfect heel clicking technique.
You have unsurprisingly no knowledge of pitch.
@@pretorious700 If that is true, you show a surprising level of concern
"If you need me I'll be in the attic." Casual hating of children. Yep, classic British literature.
How is nobody talking about the song?
It made me proud to be American.
And I live in Birmingham.
Birmingham, England.
Home of John Oliver.
No idea why this was in my recommended list, but I'm not complaining.
same
Because UA-cam is selling out to big companies
@@jimmyjigz youtube is a big company, its a branch of google.
@@parus6422 totally aware of that mate. See their policy on authoritative sources.. the 'you' is dying. Comments sections are dying. It's becoming the new cable TV.
Exactly
wow, that's the first time I've ever heard the American anthem all the way through! more jetskis than I expected. i like it
That new anthem made me feel some real American patriotism, even though I am not from, nor have I ever been to the US.
Turns out, there was *_another home run derby on an aircraft carrier_* 4 years later in California.
Absolutely insane.
It was sponsored by "Miller High Life Beer" he missed that part.
The Champaign of Beers ;-)
MY WORD THAT'S MAGNIFICENT
I can't think of a way that this could get more perfect
George Clinton champagne but close enough, damn good beer though
Miller Beer used to be American, but now it’s foreign-owned. So is Budweiser.
If that Hone Run derby on an aircraft carrier was sponsored by Wendy's and they gave away free Baconators,
THAT would be the most American thing.... lol
It was sponsored by "Miller High Life Beer" he missed that part.
@@letoatreides4041
Oh man...
How did he miss that!!!!
🤣🤣🤣
definitely need hamburgers
My brain did not read "if" and I didn't even question it till I got to the end and it didn't make sense. Merica! 🇺🇸
Cheeseburgers beer and a bald eagle flying overhead
The most American thing I’ve seen: Chris Pratt on a Raptor with a machine gun in one had a beer in the other, and the American flag behind him!
Mylanta that needs to be made into a postage stamp ASAP!
That is hands down the coolest thing I've ever seen on the internet! Thank you so much for sharing that!
"Let's spend a bunch of money in this crazy, dangerous and pointless endeavor!"
Yep, that sounds about right
I will take every joke John Oliver has about America with a smile because chances are hes probably right.
He's always right. America is a gigantic mess and that's why we all love it.
Nah, this was the most American thing that's ever happened:
pbs.twimg.com/media/D9B_eRrXsAAHjLD.jpg
@@baxterjaye3984 my problem with John Oliver is tho... hes mostly, like nearly all the time just talking about the more or less irrelevant problems of america. Never really talking about the Imperialistic Politics of the US at all.
TheBlackfall234 no problem is irrelevant
@@TheBlackfall234 Because healthcare isnt a problem in US at all
I can’t believe you missed the opportunity to sing “...oh say can you ski...” ;D
He'd have to add a syllable: "...oh say can you jet ski..."
Good point 😅
I love seeing his old stand up, he is so funny. For a man who has been on TV continuously for the last 10 + years, there is surprisingly little footage of him doing his own stand up routines except 2 minutes MC ing bits. 1 stand up show and the Montreal comedy Festival's first 10 minutes of decline of the American empire is not enough.
4:06 We've come full circle!
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" is sung to the tune of a BRITISH drinking song (I'm not making that up!) called "To Anacreon in Heaven"
- Now a BRITISH comedian suggests that its words should be updated too.
- Then both the melody and lyrics will have a BRITISH origin
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Anacreon_in_Heaven
I did not know that, but I'm not at all surprised, considering that the American song "My Country Tis of thee" is actually the tune of the English National anthem and the American "Graduation song" is actually an English song, "Land of Hope and Glory" which was written for an English coronation! They really should write their own music, lol.
National anthems suck. We deserve better music.
@@eggmayonnaise325 I can't recall when either song was written, but given the "roots" of those who settled the country, it's not surprising to learn where the tunes originated.
@@johnnihil1689 Listen to the russian one
Fitting, considering how America itself has British origins... As an American, I can honestly say that Britain is the gift that keeps on giving.
And no, we're not going to stop culturally appropriating the insults that are flung at us either, those are the American principles we were founded on.
John’s ability to reply to the audience’s suggested state of mind due to his joke… is what makes every damn joke so funny.
As an American, I feel immense pride in that end song
So America is just basically the rich version of Russia.
Pretty much.
Finally. Someone gets it!
Except America uses the death penalty more, and it's companies not Vladimir Putin that have all the power
@@InsufficientGravitas it's oligarchy in both places, the details are minutia
Everything is the rich version of Russia
Peak America. Thank you, South Carolina minor league baseball team.
Even saying "South Carolina minor league baseball team" sounds american as hell lmao
I used to live in Charleston where this took place and the team there is actually known for the hotdogs at their stadium so it gets even more American
John Oliver's wit is boundless! Love this man! And the fact that he's British and can make fun of the United States with such ease and coolness makes me love him even more (for anyone reading this, don't attack me, I'm Brazilian).
To be fair I'm American and I make fun of the US more than anyone.
@@grimmandtonics I was gonna say something about his point not being logical because the biggest American critics.. and the ones with the best insight.. are Americans.. NOT foreigners.
@@basedbear1605 Not most Americans, it must be said...
@@silvasilvasilva No, it mustn't.... because it's not important to the topic, nor relevant, at all.
We've been shrugging off British mockery since Yankee Doodle, we practiced
BTW Less than a year after the balloon space jump the record was broken by Alan Eustace, an American.
@Maxx Kroes like saving other countries in a world war
@Maxx Kroes 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This guy is very funny, someone should get him a TV show
Finally an anthem I wouldn't mind repeating each morning
This man is an international treasure
The most American thing I can think of is the guy in Los Angeles who bought a bunch of weather balloons and tied them to a lawn chair, and inflated them. He took with him beer and a gun.. he rose up into the air space of LAX, shot one balloon, dropped the gun accidently then started descending into the arms of the police. A true American, he finished all the beer.
"Try hitting a cricket ball from a rowing boat" best quote of the year
It's the 4th of July, and watching John Oliver comment on Americans is the most American thing I can do today.
As an American, I'm strangely happy and proud to hear a Limey sing a parody of our national anthem! Well done, John!
who is this scraggly Beatles understudy and what has he done with my bespectacled puffin
I just liked your comment cuz it has 68 likes
This just threw me into a laughing fit which then threw me into a coughing fit!
@@ameyakirtane6050 aaaand I'm number 420
Shout out to John Oliver’s bangs, RIP legend
That's actually not a bad singing voice
The worst part of his South Carolina Horse joke is that as someone out of the loop, I can't find what he was talking about. The reason that's a bad thing is because too many exceptionally bad things have happened to horses in that state that I don't know which one he was talking about. Even worse than that is that google's first page of results gives me stories from after this video was posted, which means that whatever incident he was thinking of likely continues...
I’m deeply in love with this man’s voice
John Oliver has mad pipes!
stand up johny is great
We need more stand up Johnny
It's only truly American if the jetskiers were eating Big Macs.
I promise you at least half of them had eaten a Big Mac that day.
@@anon2234 That was probably lunch after they were done playing :)
I was on a vacation in FL boating on a river & the tour guide was like “Oh & over there in that mansion lives the man who created the jetski.”
I've just found my lock down comedian.
Incredibly brave and completely poinrless. Ladies and gentlemen,we have our new National Motto and the Jet Ski song is now our new National Anthem!
**googles south carolina horse**
And???
@@AZSLproductions they have a horse obesity problem somehow
@@AZSLproductions
seems like there are lota horses o.O
i donT get it
@@allec2117 by god! this makes it weird
@@allec2117 yeah does sound pretty damn American
He's right. That should totally be our new anthem.
He’s never been to Walmart around a patriotic holiday then
Colten G lol that’s when true Americans come out the house..
Colten G
That's probly a good thing. For your own safety, I suggest you stay away from the place on Black Friday, the most Murican of all holidays.
It's weird not seeing him behind a desk.
OrganicSoulJazz and in jeans!!
I'm Austrian, and I approve, especially since the baloon jumper is pretty much an Adolf-Fan.
Did i mention he used gas...hhehehe
The record was so beat by an American too. It's in our DNA.
photosynthesisprototype let’s not give china any ideas
John Oliver, you are the Best.
Can't lie, @3:47 when he says, 'Or did that happen???' I was wholeheartedly expecting to see a cutaway to that video where exactly that happened, then a cut back to John Oliver, sans bangs, sitting behind a desk, smiling wryly before saying, 'And now, this.'
For some reason i assumed he couldn't sing 😂 good job john!
“Everything the light touches is your kingdom”
(“There’s no sun...?”)
“EXACTLY”
Hilarious how the backdrop is essentially a deconstructed Enron logo.
He's right, that is the most American thing that has ever happened, and I am extremely proud of my country right now. I just saluted my computer in a burst of patriotic pride.
I'm going to have to agree that scene is America in the fullest meaningless glory ever. Blue Angel acrobatics overhead was the only thing missing to take it all the way.
They wanted to, but there was a scheduling conflict. Probably.
Wow when was this recorded....
1975
2013, at a guess.
Has to be 2013 because Felix Baumgartner did his dive October 2012
Simon Van Liew his haircut looks terrible. Early 2010s.
@@friendly1870 LOL.....no need to comment....I'm just gonna enjoy my laugh!! Cheers
i come back to this every now and then. what a masterpiece
Give this man a standing ovation
John Oliver for president
John didn't know this back then...but he just foreshadowed him being in the lion king remake
I'm Dutch and it still gave me chills.
His singing isn‘t as bad as I anticipated, well done 👍🏻
John Oliver loves this country.
@CAS No sarcasm.
I looked up the South Carolina Horse thing and I now agree with John, don’t look it up, it will ruin your day.
Vlacoosiano wait what is it?
A dude fucked a horse, bdsm style
Vlacoosiano lmao
0:20 my new record of "unexpected laugh burst"
I come back to watch this every couple of months. It remains one of the funniest things that have ever happened.
This is the most American thing ever, even tho I'm Brazilian.
I had to pause this to do a bong cos i was laughing to much
Don't go near the water
the vision of liz holding up a freshly born infant, lion king style, will live in my memory forever and ever.
That was incredible! Standing ovation!!:D
This act was genius
Plot twist; a lot of us don't actually like the U.S government, so John Oliver mocking it is incredibly amusing.
He’s not mocking the government, he’s mocking the culture
@@spaceace2126 It's not like I'd care much about that either. The U.S is more like 50 countries pretending to be one country when it comes to culture.
Scott Estrada You can say that about every big country. We have more on common with each other than other countries though. That’s the overall culture of the US
@@spaceace2126 I think I have more in common with Canadians on the northwest border than I do New Yorkers on the other side of the country.
@@Lady-V you would be surprised
I googled south Carolina horse incident and I was NOT disappointed 😂
I love Jon and I love America. So beautiful.
This was great
All they needed was BBQ, Burgers, Hotdogs and Beer! 😂
I stood up, took my hat off and put my hand over my heart!
Gosh even doing standup, I still love John Oliver
~ Good SONG ("parody") of the National Anthem!??!
~ "I'm cool with it." -
'Merica! I Can't wait to sing the new anthem this 4th! Jetskis! 4:16
*clicks heels in approval*
thanks for the recommendation in 2019.. i look forward to seeing it again in 5 years, when it pops up in my recommended list again.