RIP John Clarke, some of the best humour ever. I remember first watching "the front fell off" and thought it was real until he said "well cardboard is out, cardboard derivatives, no sellotape..... " 😀😀😀😀😀
Oh my friend, that's not that unlikely of a real response. UA-cam search "Guam will Capsize and Tip Over into the ocean Hank Johnson" - U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district, serving since 2007. "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize" Johnson later said that he was joking that the island would capsize.
A lot of people are very sentimental about their health. The second solution is to acknowledge the magnitude of the problem but to point out that it's certainly not Trump's fault. Whose fault was it? I dunno, some Chinese bloke on a wet market. The third solution was brilliant: Recommend drinking bleach. We thought It was a brilliant idea because now we know that doesn't work, we won't be trying that again.
But we did the opposite. We overestimated the problem. About 1/3 of the population has been infected and there is no significant increase in total annual mortality. The end result will be maybe 2-3% increase which is mostly due to economic consequences. You can't cure the virus anyway, so the hospitals shouldn't even bother...
I had never heard of these two until just now when I saw that John Clarke has passed away...Googled and found this "interview"...This is great stuff, can't believe how unknown these guys are here in the US.
An Australian national treasure, our John Clarke. Just like Crowded House, Russell Crowe and all those other overachieving Kiwi's who came over here...
these guys are so on point. to this day that problem has not been properly or fully resolved. it's amazing most americans have forgotten this even happened.
As MF DOOM said about it “Get the fatter check split, and how much for a hundred thousand tons of Corexit?” This song is when I learned what Corexit was.
Well, you give us something bigger to worry about, like who's marrying who or which company has a worse data breach, and we'll forget about anything. It's a bit like distracting a small animal with something crinkly while you deliver an injection.
[Meanwhile in NZ's Parliament] Metiria Turei: What difference is there between the exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico at 1,500 metres deep and the proposed exploratory well in the Canterbury Basin at 1,500 metres deep that gives the Government confidence that a similar catastrophic leak could be quickly contained? // Hon HEKIA PARATA: The latter has not been drilled yet.
"We're not getting the oil out of the ocean, that's useless that oil. How do you oil out of the sea? We've been trying for a week. You can't be done. It's useless." 😅
“So what happened?” “.. there was a large explosion the rig caught fire 20 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the sea and then the rig sank I mean everything happened.”
Nothing’s out there, just sea. And birds. And fish, I suppose. What else? And 20,000 tons of crude oil. And? And fire. And what else? And the front part of the ship that fell off.
+rick freeman you are totally right. They are 'bloody brilliant'. None tops the Greek Economy explanation that I've found, but I'll keep looking. These guys slay me.
"What happened?" BP pressured the drilling contractor to continue drilling after one of the two BOP subsea controls failed. You're supposed to stop operations, use the remaining control to close the BOP and bring the equipment back to the surface for repair, which can take days or even weeks. Considering that oil rigs generally earn $100k-$500k per day, you can see where the pressure to keep drilling came from. "Money is the root of all evil" as the saying goes.
Also Halliburton was doing the inspection 21 days before the BP spill, said it was fine, then 11 days later spent 250 million on Boots n Coots, a company that cleans spills. 2 weeks after that they get 1.2 Billion clean up contract. Coincidence????
@@joshuapettus6973 - I know the clip very well. During the 2 minutes and 8 seconds, "In another environment?" is not a *direct quote* from that clip. (A direct quote is a piece of text copied word-for-word from a source.) The closest it could have been is when John Clarke (as Australian Senator Bob Collins) says, "Well, the ship was towed outside the environment." To which Bryan Dawes (as the interviewer) asks, "Into another environment?"
I love the constant comedy of the goverment not knowing what regulations are . It's in a few videos when they say what are the regulations he just looks stunned gets me everytime
2024 here and I'm hoping this has been pirated and popped over the nets. That's the only reasoning why this has such low views, it has to be this is "gold Jerry, gold!"
@@DschoermaenRetrodaddler idk us Australians have a pretty dry sense of humour. We don't shy from taking the most serious and making fun of the absurdity. Watch Utopia, very much up the same vein
“You’re not gonna have a problem before you start, it’s starting that causes the problem!” is so backwardly funny that it wraps back around to being unironically accurate
HOW BRILLIANTLY THEY HAVE PRESENTED WHAT WE FACE WITH GIANT OIL CORPORATION & POLITICAL PEOPLE "WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG THEN BLAME SOMEONE ELSE AND WASH YOUR HANDS OFF".
"He didn't do it"
"Well he didn't prevent it either"
Can't argue with that. These guys are brilliant!
Dude I was laughing so freaking hard when he said that
"Well he didn't prevent it either" can be said about practically anyone. I mean, the British Queen didn't prevent it either.
Many years later, and "blame the President" is still a favorite response to any problem.
I'm going to use that every chance I that I get.
Why not just move the oil outside of the environment?
You mean beyond the environment?
@@Inferamusic in another environement ?
@@AuxenceF no its not in another environment. Its beyond the environment.
@@Inferamusic Well, what’s out there?
@@AuxenceF Nothings out there.
At least the front didn't fall off.
Simon WoodburyForget Only of a wave hits it, which is a chance in a million.
+Lukok123 Is that unusual?
+Lukok123 Carboards out.
+mistervanderveer cardboard derivatives?
+Donald Keay A waave?
"It's starting that causes the problem"
My new excuse for procrastinating 💀
"A lot of people are sentimental about the sea" haha
Sigyn???
The first Thing to do is to underereatimate the problem. Politics in a nutshell😅
I follow Clarke and Dawe for years now.
I'm Belgian, don't know about Australian politics. Doesn't matter. This stuff is universal!
+DatMass019 Google them both!
+DatMass019 The Dutch and to a lesser degree the Belgians are by far one of the best English speakers in the world. I'm guessing cardboard's out.
Umlaute are the main fun thing about writing in German. Pluralisation on the other hand...
We put a shopping centre on it.
If you follow Clarke and Dawe you _do_ know Australian politics.
RIP John Clarke, some of the best humour ever. I remember first watching "the front fell off" and thought it was real until he said "well cardboard is out, cardboard derivatives, no sellotape..... " 😀😀😀😀😀
No paper, papers out
@@MrFichstar 😂😂😂
Oh my friend, that's not that unlikely of a real response.
UA-cam search "Guam will Capsize and Tip Over into the ocean Hank Johnson"
- U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district, serving since 2007. "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize" Johnson later said that he was joking that the island would capsize.
@@MrFichstarno string, no cellotape... rubbers out.
it all work beautifully unless the front falls off.
0:54
The first thing to do with Coronavirus, was to underestimate the problem.
Because we don't want people to panic.
No it was to deny there was a problem and threaten people who wanted to close their boarders :-)
A lot of people are very sentimental about their health. The second solution is to acknowledge the magnitude of the problem but to point out that it's certainly not Trump's fault. Whose fault was it? I dunno, some Chinese bloke on a wet market. The third solution was brilliant: Recommend drinking bleach. We thought It was a brilliant idea because now we know that doesn't work, we won't be trying that again.
Elon Mush I see you’re all about the democratic solution.
if only
But we did the opposite. We overestimated the problem. About 1/3 of the population has been infected and there is no significant increase in total annual mortality. The end result will be maybe 2-3% increase which is mostly due to economic consequences. You can't cure the virus anyway, so the hospitals shouldn't even bother...
I had never heard of these two until just now when I saw that John Clarke has passed away...Googled and found this "interview"...This is great stuff, can't believe how unknown these guys are here in the US.
Max Speeder.
Have a look at "The front fell off" clip.
There are of course a bunch of these interviews, I particularly like the ones dealing with the Greek debt crisis.
Satire and sarcasm isn’t well known in the US, plenty of British sitcoms you’d enjoy if you like this
An Australian national treasure, our John Clarke. Just like Crowded House, Russell Crowe and all those other overachieving Kiwi's who came over here...
"The greek economy " is brilliant
"The European Debt Crisis" is also...
I dunno the bloke who built the wing nuts. hilarious
(Haliburton)
RIP John Clarke. You will be missed, especially on Thursday nights.
these guys are so on point. to this day that problem has not been properly or fully resolved. it's amazing most americans have forgotten this even happened.
icewalker23 people are shockingly stupid.
Perhaps because it's all been cleaned up
@@terrylay incorrect
As MF DOOM said about it “Get the fatter check split, and how much for a hundred thousand tons of Corexit?”
This song is when I learned what Corexit was.
Well, you give us something bigger to worry about, like who's marrying who or which company has a worse data breach, and we'll forget about anything.
It's a bit like distracting a small animal with something crinkly while you deliver an injection.
LMAO "blame the guy who made the wingnuts" classic clarke and dawe, RIP John Clarke you are sadly missed.
'And did that work?'
'No, but it was a bloody brilliant idea...'
My favorite line is "A lot of people are very sentimental about the sea"
this rig was sunk after it was hit by the part of the ship that the front fell off
panzerducky Does that happen often at sea?
@@HAHAIMTBOY91 only if a wave hits it.
Peter Mirtitsch And does that happen often?
@@FutureMartian97 At sea? Oh Yeah its one in a million
I had never heard of this guy until today.
Freaking brilliant portrayal of modern politicians! Wonderful!
"I mean, everything happened." hilarious (and sadly true)
Kevin Simmons-Mead Kevin jewey-jew.
@@Tadesan limp-dicked fuckwit
Seriously
"A lot of people are very sentimental about the sea"
Thst part always gets me he says it so serious and deadpan . Like the sea is a nice table or a 4k tv .
'the fifth solution was to pump mud down into the hole'
'what with?'
'well spotted. you see that's the problem there...'
hahahhaa
Clark and Dawe were the highlight of my week.. miss them lots.
"Alot of people are sentimental about the sea"
🤣🤣
"What's the democratic solution? Blame the president" hahahahahaha
Ah yes, I saw 4 years of that just recently
apparently MAGAs are democrats, since they blame Biden for everything.
11 years later and still a gem.
God I miss these guys. Can you even imagine what they'd have to say about recent events?
For real. The last two years would have given them decades of material.
This clip is great, but "The front fell off" is awesome. The 1990's clip also deals with an oil spill but off the coast of Western Australia.
no it is outside the environment now.
Into another environment though right?
Haha so was it 90's? I've never laughed so much in my life. Scotland in the house.
He probably lives there
@@hoxtalicous8986 He doesn't live anywhere these days!
[Meanwhile in NZ's Parliament] Metiria Turei: What difference is there between the exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico at 1,500 metres deep and the proposed exploratory well in the Canterbury Basin at 1,500 metres deep that gives the Government confidence that a similar catastrophic leak could be quickly contained? // Hon HEKIA PARATA: The latter has not been drilled yet.
In the early ‘70s I read there was a 90 minute debate in the NZ Parliament about how they will not sit for 3 hours.
RIP John Clarke. Thanks for the memories.
RIP John Clarke, Thanks for all the laughs
Still brilliant ten years later!
"Well first thing to do in an event like that is to UNDERESTIMATE the problem. We don't want people to panic."
BWHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣
Unless it's a scamdemic to kick off the depopulation agenda, that is! 🤣🤣🤣
@@angelbear_og nope, with that they still did underestimate the problem.
"We're not getting the oil out of the ocean, that's useless that oil.
How do you oil out of the sea?
We've been trying for a week.
You can't be done.
It's useless." 😅
no matter how many times i watch this or any of the other videos . i end up in tears with laughing soooooo much . freaking ace :)
Thats exactly how it went down.
Ah, this never gets old.
Fantastic stuff from a legend. RIP John Clarke
Thank you for the documentary.
“So what happened?”
“.. there was a large explosion the rig caught fire 20 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the sea and then the rig sank I mean everything happened.”
1.30
"Underwater shopping centre. Fitted it over the whole"
"Well, did it work?"
"No, but it was a brilliant idea."
See their bit called "The Front Fell Off". The funniest of their bits.
I agree, I saw the front fell off years ago and totally loved it. I've saved it and sent it to many people.
Richard Stuckmeyer lol
yeah that's killer :) particularly because it's so true
It was good apparently the front fell off 😂
Nothing’s out there, just sea. And birds. And fish, I suppose.
What else?
And 20,000 tons of crude oil.
And?
And fire.
And what else?
And the front part of the ship that fell off.
"Can you Google this for me? Relegations..." 😆
Just brilliant John Clarke, absolute legend
It boggles my mind this has only 159,231 views. It's FUCKING HILARIOUS.
+rick freeman how have I only found these videos today ............ this is new to me and im so happy
+rick freeman you are totally right. They are 'bloody brilliant'. None tops the Greek Economy explanation that I've found, but I'll keep looking. These guys slay me.
+rick freeman 'well, he didn't bloody well prevent it, did he?' roflmfao
"I don't know...someone else, the bloke who built the wing nuts or something" 😂😂😂😂
We miss you John( you too Brian), we need you now more than ever.
"Did it work?"
"Well no, but it was a brilliant idea"
In what sense was it brilliant?
@@DschoermaenRetrodaddler Well we know that doesn't work, we won't try that again.
"What happened?"
BP pressured the drilling contractor to continue drilling after one of the two BOP subsea controls failed.
You're supposed to stop operations, use the remaining control to close the BOP and bring the equipment back to the surface for repair, which can take days or even weeks. Considering that oil rigs generally earn $100k-$500k per day, you can see where the pressure to keep drilling came from.
"Money is the root of all evil" as the saying goes.
Generic Internetter I bet you’re fun at parties.
Ill bet youre even more fun ey!
It's the _"love_ of money" that's the root of all evil. Otherwise, good post!
Also Halliburton was doing the inspection 21 days before the BP spill, said it was fine, then 11 days later spent 250 million on Boots n Coots, a company that cleans spills. 2 weeks after that they get 1.2 Billion clean up contract. Coincidence????
@@epiendless1128 yeah maybe so ,,,, but it should be money is the root of all evil ,,, bible got that one wrong
“You can’t get oil out of the sea! “
Just tow it beyond the environment
In another environment?
@@DschoermaenRetrodaddler - watch their "front fell off" clip and you'll understand the reference.
@@maifantasia3650
You should watch it to get mine.
@@maifantasia3650 he did, that was a direct quote from that clip
@@joshuapettus6973 - I know the clip very well. During the 2 minutes and 8 seconds, "In another environment?" is not a *direct quote* from that clip.
(A direct quote is a piece of text copied word-for-word from a source.)
The closest it could have been is when John Clarke (as Australian Senator Bob Collins) says, "Well, the ship was towed outside the environment." To which Bryan Dawes (as the interviewer) asks, "Into another environment?"
I adore these, its so cleverly written
I legit laughed out loud when he said "to underestimate the problem" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
RIP John. You bloody legend!
I love the constant comedy of the goverment not knowing what regulations are . It's in a few videos when they say what are the regulations he just looks stunned gets me everytime
2024 here and I'm hoping this has been pirated and popped over the nets. That's the only reasoning why this has such low views, it has to be this is "gold Jerry, gold!"
The first thing to do in an event like that is to underestimate the problem 😂
1:18 BP spent millions on attorneys and this was basically their argument
How have I only just stumbled upon this?!
Oh my gosh these are brilliant.
ROTFLMAO!!!! "You see the first thing you wanta do is underestimate the problem... you see because you don't want people to panic."
RIP Fred Dagg.
“Google them both…” lol
Many years later, and "blame the President" is still a favorite response to any problem.
watching this now and thinking about the oil prices as of June 2022 ...
This guy sounds like the soviets explaining the fuckin Chernobyl Disaster lmfao
These 2 are superb.
Love these guys
14 years ago....god damn.....
Great show people 💯💯💯 back in the day les
He should of said " But keep bloody looking.......They could be important" at the end haha
This video is a whole lot of “why are you booing me, I’m correct” 😂
Politian's: If there an art of equivocating, this guy be a master!
This might be the most quotable duo in the history of talking
“Well, Google them both”
RIP John :(
You are not going to have a problem before you start :-)
Might be the most brilliant statement ever.
😂 Viciously sharp, and justifiably so.
These brilliant videos remind me of the BBC series, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.
"So what you're saying is that the accidents only happen when you get going?"
"That's the rule."
Aha! So there *ARE* relegations.
Funny how the most factual information is done in satire.
That's actually pretty sad, If im honest.
@@DschoermaenRetrodaddler idk us Australians have a pretty dry sense of humour. We don't shy from taking the most serious and making fun of the absurdity. Watch Utopia, very much up the same vein
Au weia - these guys were just toooo good !!!! I miss their crude, acidic humour....
Im 33 and i was today years old
I'm so glad they did a follow up
"No problem before you start."
RIP John Clarke.
Fantastic !
Oh for the good ol days when the biggest problem on the planet was that it sprung a leak . 2010 vs 2020 !
Amazing, love it!
I am disappointed in you guys for simply taking a Fox news segment and monetizing it...
Not Fox news ABC Australia - a public broadcasting channel.
Joke
__________
your head
This isn't Fox news. You can tell by the fact that the presenter seems sound of mind
*CNN
The democratic solution - blame the president! That's it, in a nut shell.
Are there any comments that don't involve the front falling off?
“You’re not gonna have a problem before you start, it’s starting that causes the problem!” is so backwardly funny that it wraps back around to being unironically accurate
HOW BRILLIANTLY THEY HAVE PRESENTED WHAT WE FACE WITH GIANT OIL CORPORATION & POLITICAL PEOPLE "WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG THEN BLAME SOMEONE ELSE AND WASH YOUR HANDS OFF".
Not the "front fell off" clip
But still very good
John is sadly missed
Drop a like if you expected him to say the front fell off once
This is highbrow humor at its best
a decade on... how is the recovery going? is there an objective way to find out?
I think I understand where the writers of "Portal 2" got the idea for Cave Johnson.
RIP John Clarke
He is long gone, but we still lovce him
This is amazing 😂
What are these guys doing now?
Was this the one in the Gulf of Mexico.