@@trueaussie9230 To be a good comedian in the US, you have to appeal to a sense of unearned entitlement. Think of it as a nation collectively gaslit by sales pitches from birth to death. Product placement is the only positive reinforcement in our lives, so most of us mistake it as love or inclusion, rather than just advertising. Analytical comedians don't do well for that reason. That said, all of my favorite American comedians do better abroad than domestically.
@@Dead_World_Walking Yeah, the likes of George Carlin, Bill Burr, and Bill Hicks never really got off the ground. To corporate over here. Too much gaslighting. Shame they never got famous. Chapelle and Louis CK never had a chance! And nobody ever listened to Oswalt or Cross or Silverman. Lenny Bruce? Rodney Dangerfield? Richard Pryor? All failures here in the US. No one has ever even heard of Patrice O'Neil or Mark Maron or Zach Galifainakis! Sad to say, but its true. You never see good comedy in America...
Hes got a point about us. I remember working somewhere and it was literally on fire and being evacuated. I had a customer come to me and ask what was going on. I explained it was on fire and we had to evacuated his response was "Shall I pop back in an hour?"
I was in Gatwick airport once when the fire alarm went off. It was awkward: you're not supposed to stop to gather your stuff when evacuating, but you're also not supposed to leave stuff unattended in an airport. After weighing the options I gathered my stuff, followed the evacuation route signs, and realised I was alone. Everyone else was merrily ignoring the blaring alarm.
Met Rich Hall in Memphis. I worked at the local newspaper. I found them to be highly intelligent and incredibly funny. I’m so glad to see that he has found a niche in Britain and a wonderful wife and family. This guy is truly Mensa material. Britain’s gain is the US’s loss.
Rich is and has been the most welcome of our American cousins. He sums us up so brilliantly, telling us the truth about ourselves, but never insultingly. Rich is much to good and polite to do that. Long may He stay here.
Not really the truth, just what we like to say about ourselves, like the stiff upper lip nonsense - you want stiff upper lip go to Finland, you want petty minded mouthy drama queens, we’ll then, the UK is probably the place . If he told the truth he’d never work again in the UK.
@@trueaussie9230 - I lived in Birmingham in the 70s during the time when similar stuff was quite a regular occurrence. I was only there, just 2 minutes from the city center when the 2 pubs were badly hit and destroyed. I later worked in one of them, which is in a cellar. It was easy to see why 14 people lost their lives. Scary times, for sure.
It rings true because it IS true. One incident confirmed for the world that the 'great USA' is not invincable so it declated a 'global war on terror' that we're all going to suffer from until the end of time.
@@zztopz7090 The US invented/fabricated it. Others got roped in to supporting them. I don't think that will happen again so easily. Especially with this new POTUS.
Honest, I was in the UK in the 80's when the IRA blew up an Army recruiting office in the town I was staying. At the time the bomb went off I was being transported by a friends wife to the railway station. Bricks and dust were blown out into the road in front of us and she just slowed down steering between the bricks and continued on to the station. She said "If I stopped we'd be held up all day" 8:(
I read his book "Things Snowball" in a cafe in Thailand. I was laughing so hard the rest of the diners joined in. I had to just pay up and leave before I finished my meal.
Rich Hall analyzing Brits to bits, while he's the American variant of stiff upper lip. While being one of the best comedians in Britain I don't think I've ever seen him laugh. A wee smile for someone elses brilliant joke, yes. But here, at 3:30, is the moment it happens! Love it!
I saw Rich Hall at Mornington Cresent storage (South Camden Town), I was doing a house move and needed stuff in temp storage and he was there for something similar. A real nice, genuine guy. Circa 2006 / 2007 maybe.
3:14 Did anyone notice, when the bus was late Rich looks in the wrong direction. Everyone at a bus stop either faces the way the bus comes from or across the road. So you need to turn and look to your right.
It's OK nobody in the US will believe him, lucky he didn't go to Glasgow Airport when the taxi guy beat up the terrorist trying to carry out his plot to set fire to his vehicle with gas canisters inside, he would have been put in the asylum in the US for delusions!?!
I remember how ppl were getting to the point where we all strongly believed the "terror threat" would only go up from Friday to Sunday for freaking years!! So ppl gradually thought it was silly and absurd so we refused to listen and obey.
I think the best way to compare UK to the US is how each country reacts to massacres. After Dunblane we banned all guns. US they taught kids how to survive active shooter incidents. 🤷♀️
@@bushwhackeddos.2703While after every mass shooting you party wears military style weapon pins ! The party of Hatered and Bigotry and Racism in God's name ! SO UN-AMERICAN AND UN-CHRISTIAN !
That’s not true. Basically all firearms were banned in the UK under the 1968 gun control act. The post dunblane legislation simply removed whatever shred of self defence rights that were left over. (It related to handguns & gun storage.)
This is Rich Hall? Wow, he looks exactly like he did in 1984 when he was in Saturday Night Live. Though I think he just kinda walked into the theater and they thought he was in the cast. "I just wandered in."
the social media team are trying to be cool. It is a misuse of an African-American expression. Reading someone *for* filth is detailing their flaws at length to make others laugh
I'm going to assume Rich Hall went to see Henry Rollins the month after the London bombings the same as me. Because the colored alert/bus late joke was straight from Henry's spoken word tour.
There is a meme here. *Photo of him looking his typical scruffy commoner self* Have a contemptuous British Upper Class voice sneer "That is not a Rich Hall". *Picture of Chatsworth House* "This is a Rich Hall".
Since the Brits in Britain have on average less far to go then they can be often remembering that sometimes it is the turtle who wins the race instead of the hare. Farm boys in North America when going to college every day of the week maybe some people have plenty of answers to provide us concerning where they find all the best farm boys to help mind the children.
To any overseas watchers on here-do you really, from a cultural point of view, see us as being THAT emotionally suppressed (apart from football games and political protests that is)? 😆
Yes! I once got a written notice at work after snapping when Compliance incompetents kept making errors copying my home bank account number from an _email_ (manually, I suppose). Because of those errors they could not get proper investment reports from my home bank and therefore half a year after joining I was flagged as non-compliant. Working in Finance it could mean losing my job and getting severely sanctioned. After the announcement of the written notice by some department director in a sit-down, I demanded a sit-down with the Compliance department in question to explain why I snapped (telling them I should not have but not unconditionally apologising) and the newly hired manager apologised instead, promising it won't happen again, explaining it was understaffed. The written notice however stuck for one year and was then removed from my file. Not really though, I guess as I'm sure they probably don't want to experience that emotional Continental ever again. (edit)PS: those investment reports would have been blank, by the way.
Rich Hall works well in Britain because he gets our sense of dry humour and sarcasm.
His humour works in Aus too.
I often wonder what his countrymen think of him.
@@trueaussie9230 To be a good comedian in the US, you have to appeal to a sense of unearned entitlement. Think of it as a nation collectively gaslit by sales pitches from birth to death. Product placement is the only positive reinforcement in our lives, so most of us mistake it as love or inclusion, rather than just advertising. Analytical comedians don't do well for that reason. That said, all of my favorite American comedians do better abroad than domestically.
@@Dead_World_Walking Yeah, the likes of George Carlin, Bill Burr, and Bill Hicks never really got off the ground. To corporate over here. Too much gaslighting. Shame they never got famous. Chapelle and Louis CK never had a chance! And nobody ever listened to Oswalt or Cross or Silverman. Lenny Bruce? Rodney Dangerfield? Richard Pryor? All failures here in the US. No one has ever even heard of Patrice O'Neil or Mark Maron or Zach Galifainakis! Sad to say, but its true. You never see good comedy in America...
@@Dead_World_Walking This has the energy of the kid that says he only gets along with adults because his peers aren't mature enough.
@@phaedruslive😂
One American that is a British treasure lol. Love Rich Hall.
Hes got a point about us. I remember working somewhere and it was literally on fire and being evacuated. I had a customer come to me and ask what was going on. I explained it was on fire and we had to evacuated his response was "Shall I pop back in an hour?"
i remember that scene from The IT Crowd where a fire starts in the office and Moss starts sending an email about it
🤣
I was in Gatwick airport once when the fire alarm went off. It was awkward: you're not supposed to stop to gather your stuff when evacuating, but you're also not supposed to leave stuff unattended in an airport. After weighing the options I gathered my stuff, followed the evacuation route signs, and realised I was alone. Everyone else was merrily ignoring the blaring alarm.
Not just any letter... a strongly worded letter.
Starting with "Sir"
And you have a good mind to send it too!
It’s not rocket surgery.
😂
@@onastick2411
Dear Sir surely … because we are all taught to write letters at school.
The legend that is Rich Hall. We need more of him 🎉
He looks like Moe from the simpsons.
He is.
Seem to recall that Moe was based on him.
He even says that in his act.
Matt Groening and he have both confirmed it
sounds like him too
Rich Hall’s documentary ‘How the West Was Lost’ is brilliant and worth seeing
Wasn’t it tho
Perfect the guy is a genius
100% one of the best documentaries I have ever watched !
done a few of doc's other than that if you liked it check the others out.
Met Rich Hall in Memphis. I worked at the local newspaper. I found them to be highly intelligent and incredibly funny. I’m so glad to see that he has found a niche in Britain and a wonderful wife and family. This guy is truly Mensa material. Britain’s gain is the US’s loss.
I think you found HIM to be highly intelligent and incredibly funny.
Love Rich Hall.
I absolutely adored Rich Hall on Not Necessarily the News...I still use some singlets to this day!😅👏
Brilliantly funny man, we’ve seen him live and came out with our sides aching. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
OK, he gets us
Rich is and has been the most welcome of our American cousins. He sums us up so brilliantly, telling us the truth about ourselves, but never insultingly. Rich is much to good and polite to do that. Long may He stay here.
Not really the truth, just what we like to say about ourselves, like the stiff upper lip nonsense - you want stiff upper lip go to Finland, you want petty minded mouthy drama queens, we’ll then, the UK is probably the place . If he told the truth he’d never work again in the UK.
I was living and working in central London during the attacks, and he’s right. Though really scary, we just carried right on. 😂
I lived in London in the 1990s.
The bus I usually caught to work had the roof blown off by an incompetent IRA member.
Oh, well.
Carry on.
@@trueaussie9230 - I lived in Birmingham in the 70s during the time when similar stuff was quite a regular occurrence. I was only there, just 2 minutes from the city center when the 2 pubs were badly hit and destroyed. I later worked in one of them, which is in a cellar. It was easy to see why 14 people lost their lives. Scary times, for sure.
I like English humour, I suppose being Australian, but this comedian is funny, his line about Americans inventing the war on terror, rings so true!
It rings true because it IS true.
One incident confirmed for the world that the 'great USA' is not invincable so it declated a 'global war on terror' that we're all going to suffer from until the end of time.
no rings orange.
Even thought the British Labor Party took part in it just as much.
@@zztopz7090
The US invented/fabricated it.
Others got roped in to supporting them.
I don't think that will happen again so easily.
Especially with this new POTUS.
@@zztopz7090
The US fabricated the phoney war and other nations got roped in to share the blame for their stuff ups.
Just like Vietnam.
Never heard of this charmingly demented gent. How is that possible?
In that case you want to check out his support act Otis Lee Crenshaw :)
If you want to see a British man snap, watch David Mitchell interact with Bob Mortimer on Would I Lie To You.😂
Honest, I was in the UK in the 80's when the IRA blew up an Army recruiting office in the town I was staying. At the time the bomb went off I was being transported by a friends wife to the railway station. Bricks and dust were blown out into the road in front of us and she just slowed down steering between the bricks and continued on to the station. She said "If I stopped we'd be held up all day" 8:(
That's brilliant
Was this in Halifax?
Great to see Rich still at it! Been watching him since the 80's.
Rich was one of my favorites in the 80s because of his legendary appearances on Letterman. Glad to see he’s still making people laugh.
"well that was yesterday and todays the present" yeah man
I read his book "Things Snowball" in a cafe in Thailand. I was laughing so hard the rest of the diners joined in. I had to just pay up and leave before I finished my meal.
Good book.
Just the first few seconds of him walking out in front of the crowd. You know he is where he is supposed to be.
That title broke my brain.
Are you going to be ok? Is there anything we can do to help?
@sarcasmo57 Who's we? Are they in the room?
@@monty3854 I think I speak for the entire internet when I say just reach out if you need to.
Agreed. I still haven't worked it out.
Must be a brit then? Write a letter😅
First time watching outside of Q I . I love his humer and yes it does make the British go wild ! Hilarious to watch ! 😊
Saw him at a surprise try-out gig at The Kings Head in Crouch End. Hilarious, obviously, but amazing at close range in a small club.
Lucky you! I used to go there often a fiver for Thursday night but I never saw Rich Hall.
I haven’t seen this guy in years and he’s still funny. Sniggletts.
More Rich Hall
He’s very quick witted
The "Postal Strike" was the cherry on the cake!!!!
Rich Hall analyzing Brits to bits, while he's the American variant of stiff upper lip. While being one of the best comedians in Britain I don't think I've ever seen him laugh. A wee smile for someone elses brilliant joke, yes. But here, at 3:30, is the moment it happens! Love it!
He's a Canadian, eh?! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
Hahaha it’s too accurate. I was like omg I think I corkscrew like that quite a lot.
@@markpimlott2879 he's American, you can look up his bio on Wikipedia, not sure where you got Canadian, unless you meant it as a joke lol
Oh, wow! It's the NNTN/Sniglets guy! I grew up with this dude! He was in "One Crazy Summer", too! Good to see he's still out there.
This is SO true !!!!! He`s a genius at understanding `our` humour ....!!
I've seen him live many times. ALWAYS hilarious!
I saw Rich Hall at Mornington Cresent storage (South Camden Town), I was doing a house move and needed stuff in temp storage and he was there for something similar. A real nice, genuine guy. Circa 2006 / 2007 maybe.
3:14 Did anyone notice, when the bus was late Rich looks in the wrong direction. Everyone at a bus stop either faces the way the bus comes from or across the road. So you need to turn and look to your right.
We did, but we put it down to him being a Yank the poor man and we don't want to engage in conversation with him!?!
I’ve loved Rich Hall since his HBO special days years ago
My favourite comedian for over40 years.
You've known Rich Hall for over 40 years?
@@brinta2868 Yes.
@@brinta2868 Well he is in his late 60s. He's been around a long time.
@@brinta2868 YT David Letterman’s Rich Hall. I first became a fan 1980 as did many in USA I’m sure
The man knows us
Favourite Rich Hall joke was the Irish headline "Cork Man Drowns"... I thought that was impossible.
Mans a honourary Brit.
Anyone else think this guy looks like a real life version of Mo the bartender from the Simpsons?
The ACTUAL inspiration for Moe Syzlak.
What a legend this guy is.
Oh no. He's on to us.
It's OK nobody in the US will believe him, lucky he didn't go to Glasgow Airport when the taxi guy beat up the terrorist trying to carry out his plot to set fire to his vehicle with gas canisters inside, he would have been put in the asylum in the US for delusions!?!
I remember how ppl were getting to the point where we all strongly believed the "terror threat" would only go up from Friday to Sunday for freaking years!!
So ppl gradually thought it was silly and absurd so we refused to listen and obey.
And woe betide anyone that is on the end of a strongly worded letter from a Brit!😂
Badass shirt.
Rich always felt like a British guy pretending to be American but pulling it off fairly well.
He's definitely a Yank, but he has lots of disrespectful respect, we can live with that, it's better than odious banality!?!
I'd forgotten this! He's not wrong though!
Cuppa tea, keep calm and carry on...
As a Brit I was certainly read to filth!
RH is a Brit now, he too the citizenship test 👍
Spot on,😂
The 'rocket surgery' solecism (now entrenched in estuary lexicon) is one of my numerous witty inventions.
I think the best way to compare UK to the US is how each country reacts to massacres. After Dunblane we banned all guns. US they taught kids how to survive active shooter incidents. 🤷♀️
Yeah liberals
@@bushwhackeddos.2703While after every mass shooting you party wears military style weapon pins ! The party of Hatered and Bigotry and Racism in God's name ! SO UN-AMERICAN AND UN-CHRISTIAN !
Edgy.
That’s not true.
Basically all firearms were banned in the UK under the 1968 gun control act.
The post dunblane legislation simply removed whatever shred of self defence rights that were left over.
(It related to handguns & gun storage.)
@@bri_____Not "basically all firearms" were banned in the UK, they just required licenses.
If there's ever a live-action Simpsons, he's a shoe-in for Moe.
This is Rich Hall? Wow, he looks exactly like he did in 1984 when he was in Saturday Night Live. Though I think he just kinda walked into the theater and they thought he was in the cast. "I just wandered in."
Right? He's 70 now. I don't know what year this performance is from. Could be from 20 years ago.
I miss Rich Hall. What is he doing now?
Haha this guy is great!
What year is this from? Rich is 70 yrs old now. I remember watching him on Fridays and SNL when I was like 10.
that was fun.
Rich Hall? Haven't seen him in a while
Moe Szyslak had enough of prank phone calls and now is doing comedy( I know Moes looks are based on Rich Hall)
Also … ‘Let’s have a sit-down’
Cup 'o tea?
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 Nice slice of cake
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv As long as it comes with a fork; I mean cake without a fork, WOULD be something to snap about!
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 and a plate for goodness sake 😀
0:15 is that Arthur from Merlin in the audience?
Yes! Bradley James! I came straight to the comments to see if anyone else noticed. I’d spot that stud-crumpet from space. 😍
I’d say it is.
What does the title mean?
it's slang, it means you analyze someone's faults, basically roasting them
Can somebody please explain the title of this video to me? "Rich Hall Reads British People to Filth!” What?
AI.
@@DomWeasel We’re doomed!
@@DomWeasel AU.
the social media team are trying to be cool. It is a misuse of an African-American expression. Reading someone *for* filth is detailing their flaws at length to make others laugh
Is the I for inability?
I'm going to assume Rich Hall went to see Henry Rollins the month after the London bombings the same as me.
Because the colored alert/bus late joke was straight from Henry's spoken word tour.
The late bus jokes were going round within hours of the picture of the bus being published.... Rollins did not start that one ✌️
@@hamoostaffat the late bus jokes go round and round, round and round, round and round...
It’s not rocket surgery 😂😂😂
There is a meme here.
*Photo of him looking his typical scruffy commoner self* Have a contemptuous British Upper Class voice sneer "That is not a Rich Hall".
*Picture of Chatsworth House* "This is a Rich Hall".
Since the Brits in Britain have on average less far to go then they can be often remembering that sometimes it is the turtle who wins the race instead of the hare. Farm boys in North America when going to college every day of the week maybe some people have plenty of answers to provide us concerning where they find all the best farm boys to help mind the children.
Hilarious….he was performing in Philly in the 80s and a friend brought him to my place…wanted a joint. Then he drove to N Carolina
Joysey!
The better life is the longer it takes to break.
He obviously gets British humour.
What does that title mean?
it's slang, it means you analyze someone's faults, basically roasting them
Its Mo from the Simpsons
Rich Hall HA / THE Comedy channel 1989 ish 1990 ish 🫵👊😎🫡🤘🥂🍸🍸👏👏👏👏
Funny.
show a brit a spider and then see if they calm
I've got no idea what the video title means.
it's slang, it means you analyze someone's faults, basically roasting them
@@CorvusCorone68Is it an American phrase as I have never heard it before today?
@@georgealderson4424 i don't know about American, but it's in drag culture, and possibly LGBQ as well
This is so old! where's the new stuff?
He's right, two sad Manchester bombings resulted in city regeneration and an even bigger concert.
"Reads British People to Filth" - what does that actually mean?
Seems like an AI headline.
It really irks me... how he's so correct
White chicks popped in my head then 😅 im going to write a letter 😂
Don't you love Richard. 😒🤗😜🏴🏴
Lol 😅
How'd he end up owning a tavern.
It was the same in the cold war. We didn't care. 😂
To any overseas watchers on here-do you really, from a cultural point of view, see us as being THAT emotionally suppressed (apart from football games and political protests that is)? 😆
Yes! I once got a written notice at work after snapping when Compliance incompetents kept making errors copying my home bank account number from an _email_ (manually, I suppose).
Because of those errors they could not get proper investment reports from my home bank and therefore half a year after joining I was flagged as non-compliant.
Working in Finance it could mean losing my job and getting severely sanctioned.
After the announcement of the written notice by some department director in a sit-down, I demanded a sit-down with the Compliance department in question to explain why I snapped (telling them I should not have but not unconditionally apologising) and the newly hired manager apologised instead, promising it won't happen again, explaining it was understaffed.
The written notice however stuck for one year and was then removed from my file. Not really though, I guess as I'm sure they probably don't want to experience that emotional Continental ever again.
(edit)PS: those investment reports would have been blank, by the way.
😂
Define Brits
Don't even begin to try.
How come Anna American is the best comedian in Britain?
Moe doing live stand-up comedy ............???
Oh England.. thought this was in Harlem or something
Does he know Aericans are all we Brits laugh at ? 😂😂 Not your comedy either , just Americans being american 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We would if they were not so terrifying!
Back when the apollo was funny
America now & again makes a gem huh?!
'''Canadian, eh?!! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
@@markpimlott2879 is he Canadian?
@@eyesintheskies no, he was born in Virginia and grew up in North Carolina, both US states
@@CorvusCorone68 thats what i thought but someone wrote the Canadian thing which made me doubt myself!
Either way he's a genius...
_Rich Hall Reads British People to Filth! | Live at the Apollo_
Good job, that sentence doesn't mean anything.
Saved me the time. Thanks!
Of course it does. What are you having trouble with?
@@DonoVideoProductions Thank you for replying. What does it mean? I know what "Rich Hall" means.
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer- yes, and he read the British to filth, sweaty 😘
@@danielcrafter9349 Thanks for replying. Still not a coherent, meaningful, sentence.
Thanks for trying.