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  • @timmoore9855
    @timmoore9855 5 років тому +1461

    "Well, science knows it doesn't know everything. Otherwise it would stop." Brill

    • @evantyler8647
      @evantyler8647 5 років тому +18

      I love this quote

    • @architectofechoes4
      @architectofechoes4 4 роки тому +11

      That's a quote to remember and use.

    • @davep8221
      @davep8221 4 роки тому +8

      Tim Moore -- Physics almost did. Until Planck came along. An advisor actually suggested he pick another field of study.

    • @davidburke2132
      @davidburke2132 4 роки тому +14

      dav ep To be fair physics didn’t nearly... misguided and overly prideful physicists opinions of their level of understanding of the science nearly did, which is a different thing entirely.

    • @Killer_Tortoise
      @Killer_Tortoise 4 роки тому +11

      Actually Science doesn't know anything.
      Science is a method to find answers for things, it's not a person or institute.

  • @hughmarcus1
    @hughmarcus1 5 років тому +866

    In the town where I used to live there was an annual psychic fair. Then one year there was a notice in the paperwork say it had been cancelled ‘due to unforeseen circumstances’. The locals had a bit of fun with that.

    • @keennickolas8575
      @keennickolas8575 4 роки тому +8

      xDD I'd bet! xDD

    • @bobmcl2406
      @bobmcl2406 4 роки тому +20

      Yeah, I always wondered why they had to advertise psychic fairs...😉

    • @TrondBørgeKrokli
      @TrondBørgeKrokli 4 роки тому +20

      Good one. That mistake never fails to make fun of the psychic business on the whole. You'd think that people making their living from this fake science business would know to avoid using words like "unforeseen" and similar, in any form of public relations.

    • @sinkhole777
      @sinkhole777 3 роки тому

      I new you were going to say that.........

    • @rollothecat2010
      @rollothecat2010 3 роки тому

      🤣

  • @stephenhumphreys9149
    @stephenhumphreys9149 5 років тому +901

    There's an interview with Dara where he talks about this routine, saying he thought he was losing the audience during his 'hit them with a stick' bit and felt that the show was failing, but after the woman shouted 'Energy' it just revitalised the whole room. He said that if you look just afterwards, you can see the relief in his face :-) I suppose even someone as good a he is has off days every now and then.

    • @bartholomewlyons
      @bartholomewlyons 5 років тому +90

      Time stamp as I didn’t see him losing the audience at ANY point

    • @namavoid3266
      @namavoid3266 5 років тому +119

      Bartholomew Lyons it’s different when you’re up there looking at the faces, there were plenty of people laughing but he might have been seeing a lot of bored faces.

    • @hanreality.7266
      @hanreality.7266 4 роки тому +43

      No, I think it was the energy that she gave him.

    • @FFKonoko
      @FFKonoko 4 роки тому +59

      @@bartholomewlyons I think it's the bit them around priests, because the laugh at the hit them was sticks wasn't quite as big. He hadn't lost them, but can see why he was worried he was losing them

    • @exsappermadman25055
      @exsappermadman25055 4 роки тому +17

      Audiences can be crap too, if they were offended by the stick bit they need to grow up!......It is the comic's job to bring them back and work them to where they feel comfortable and laugh their arses off again though......

  • @Zeresrail
    @Zeresrail 5 років тому +569

    I like how he just goes on a tangent riffing off the audience. Really good stuff. Clearly having fun with it.

  • @VivekAnandJ
    @VivekAnandJ 5 років тому +260

    His reply to the woman who reminded him the topic "Psychic", "How did you know I was going to talk about it?"! That was EPIC!

    • @giv123
      @giv123 5 років тому +14

      It's even more epic when you realise he set the crowd up so he could use that response, as part of his masterful improvising skills.

    • @donmontague4107
      @donmontague4107 Рік тому +3

      Probably planned, but cleverly so

    • @Ramonatho
      @Ramonatho 7 місяців тому

      ​@@giv123 they never tell you that half of improv is improvising ahead of your set.

  • @alteredbeast7145
    @alteredbeast7145 5 років тому +331

    "What was I talking about?"
    "PSYCHICS"
    "Oh my god how did you know?"
    😆

    • @Friendship1nmillion
      @Friendship1nmillion 4 роки тому +5

      The woman who yelled out *ENERGY* "must" of been a Psychic, as she could have known that would throw him off track -> *BUT THEN* I'm not Psychic OR else I would have won *EVERY* offer of reward money offered by police to solve unsolved crimes. 😏 🧙‍♀️👨‍🔬 🧕🧟‍♂️🧠🔮🎯

    • @AdySeifer
      @AdySeifer 4 роки тому

      @Innocent Bystander someone's sexually frustrated

    • @siritio3553
      @siritio3553 Рік тому +1

      Get in the sack

  • @Calcearius
    @Calcearius 4 роки тому +299

    £680 to repair a cracked aura!!! How do people actually fall for that? That's obviously a scam, the going rate is £350 but I can do it for £300.

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk 4 роки тому +15

      I'll do it for a tenner, and I'm real quick too and can do it over the phone.

    • @immortaljanus
      @immortaljanus 3 роки тому +3

      Lots of dumb people out there, unfortunately...

    • @MirlitronOne
      @MirlitronOne 3 роки тому +25

      Does this mean repairing the crack in your aura, or the aura in your crack?

    • @terranceparsons5185
      @terranceparsons5185 3 роки тому +6

      You will take £200 or I will call the police and your manager. Oh, sorry, wrong theme! This isn't Karens.

    • @reeteka
      @reeteka 2 роки тому

      😂😂

  • @excadream
    @excadream 5 років тому +175

    His version of stealth is basically video game stealth
    "Nope, can't see me. Not at all crouching right in front of your nose or anything"

    • @Leon_der_Luftige
      @Leon_der_Luftige 4 роки тому +13

      The assassins creed level of stealth.
      "I'm kneeling in a cornfield, you can't possibly see me..."

    • @DemonicEngineer
      @DemonicEngineer 4 роки тому +8

      Bethesda Stealth: "Nah that arrow in my eye must have just been my imagination"
      Far Cry Stealth: "Is that an eyebrow sticking out 2 miles away?"

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk 4 роки тому +7

      Sniper Elite stealth: "That massive explosion that happened about 30 seconds ago, must have been my imagination after all".

    • @beady123
      @beady123 3 роки тому +6

      Have you seen his metal gear stealth bit about hiding in a box? It was brilliant had me in tears

  • @MrTVintro
    @MrTVintro 5 років тому +518

    Dara: "Who removes their own teeth for Christs sake"
    Bob Mortimer: "not *yet*"

    • @Charliefst
      @Charliefst 5 років тому +90

      As long as you use Fuji 9 its okay

    • @sarahlewis7859
      @sarahlewis7859 5 років тому +26

      Obscure frerence, my favourite

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 5 років тому +22

      I mean Bob has done a damn good job for an amateur fucking about in his kitchen

    • @georgias7299
      @georgias7299 5 років тому +23

      Honestly, I’m relieved I wasn’t the only one who thought of that 😂

    • @GrahamCStrouse
      @GrahamCStrouse 4 роки тому +12

      I thought the exact same thing!😁

  • @lea6555
    @lea6555 4 роки тому +332

    "... just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairytale most appeals to ya!" no trueier truth was ever truthed.

    • @joevenespineli6389
      @joevenespineli6389 4 роки тому +3

      @Jon Bird The fucks wrong with you mate?

    • @jspark8990
      @jspark8990 4 роки тому +3

      that's why its called the god of the gaps *fallacy*

    • @simstar6557
      @simstar6557 4 роки тому +3

      @@joevenespineli6389 he is new to Internet, and stumbled into the rabbit hole of illuminati conspiracy videos.

    • @134StormShadow
      @134StormShadow 3 роки тому +1

      Tell that to a flearther 🤣🤣

    • @Horny_Fruit_Flies
      @Horny_Fruit_Flies 10 місяців тому

      @@134StormShadowFlat earthers don't fill in gaps of knowledge, since we know for a fact that Earth is a planet. They just reject reality and live in a fantasy world

  • @Milkydrummer
    @Milkydrummer 5 років тому +308

    That was brilliant... this guy is the king of navigating a shit crowd... saw him in cheltenham, crowd gave him nothing to feed off... he was masterful at improvising funny moments out of nothing. 👏🏻👏🏻

    • @Sunshine-zm1fx
      @Sunshine-zm1fx 5 років тому

      He's not good in this performance, though. He's pretty bad here.

    • @Friendship1nmillion
      @Friendship1nmillion 4 роки тому +1

      I *DON'T* have any respect for the views he shared in this video about "who he'd put in a sack & hit with a stick & not care about who got the worst of it". Although I find he's *HILARIOUS* most of the time in watching his videos. I must go see him live some day. 🗣😡 🧙‍♀️👨‍🔬 ✝️💔🏳️‍🌈 🚔🔮💰

    • @Saldivinorum
      @Saldivinorum 3 роки тому +5

      @@Friendship1nmillion get out of here with your holier than thou judgmental bs and get in the fucking sack, eh?!!

    • @andreaskarlsson5251
      @andreaskarlsson5251 Рік тому

      @@Friendship1nmillion You know it's a joke right? He doesnt advocate that happening in real life. Its a metaphor for absolute morons.

    • @andreaskarlsson5251
      @andreaskarlsson5251 Рік тому +19

      @@Sunshine-zm1fx "He's not good in this performance, though."
      True! He were great :P

  • @youremakingprogress144
    @youremakingprogress144 Рік тому +25

    I really appreciate it when entertainers encourage skepticism and critical thinking - especially when they're funny.

  • @chelamcguire
    @chelamcguire 5 років тому +92

    Brains to burn and beyond funny. I actually ache with laughter simply watching him arrive on stage. Love this guy. I would gladly have him take over Boris Johnston's job!

  • @bobbyfeet2240
    @bobbyfeet2240 2 роки тому +24

    "who ignores sudden blindness?"
    As a spouse of an optometrist I'll simply say: You. Would be. Amazed.

    • @India.H
      @India.H 8 місяців тому +2

      I feel I should ask... what??

  • @tamoorfromthe5ive
    @tamoorfromthe5ive Рік тому +22

    Best audience interaction ever.
    Also, i love the idea that some people might see this without seeing the whole dvd show and will wonder what the oil in Reading line was about. That and the fairies in bulbs.

  • @yvonnequinn8487
    @yvonnequinn8487 5 років тому +213

    A good psychic would see the stick coming

    • @ceedubelu
      @ceedubelu 5 років тому +11

      Or you know, anyone with looking in the right direction.

    • @namavoid3266
      @namavoid3266 5 років тому +6

      C. W. They’re in a sack

    • @FFKonoko
      @FFKonoko 4 роки тому +2

      They can't see the stick coming, they're in a sack. And being psychic wouldn't help because it's bullshit. And even if it wasn't, reading the guy with the sticks mind wouldn't help if even he doesn't know which ones he's hitting in the sack. It's foolproof.
      Edit: disclaimer for the slow, this was not a serious discussion of the method to take down psychics, it was just a expansion of the above, compiling the whole funny concept of beating scam artist psychics in a sack into one whole. Please resume picturing John Edward and miss Cleo in a sack getting smacked.

    • @namavoid3266
      @namavoid3266 4 роки тому +4

      @@FFKonoko you seem to be under the impression that jokes aren't allowed to exist and that anyone who makes one must be murdered on the spot. you also seem to be pretty fun at parties.

    • @FFKonoko
      @FFKonoko 4 роки тому +1

      @@namavoid3266 you seem to be labouring under a terrible misunderstanding. I was in fact, making a joke. More specifically even, I was expanding your joke, which is why your bit about them being in a sack, also appears within mine.
      I can understand why you didn't recognize it as a joke, the joke I was expanding was admittedly pretty terrible, but I have faith you'll improve eventually.
      My sincere condolences on the death of your party life. Console yourself by giggling in the corner at the high pitched whistling noise that was way overhead.

  • @LearnThaiRapidMethod
    @LearnThaiRapidMethod 3 роки тому +75

    I love the way he nurtures the hecklers and roll with the punches, rather than put them down. Most other comedians tend to have an agenda and resent audience participation :)

    • @benvoliothefirst
      @benvoliothefirst 3 роки тому +16

      I take it by "agenda" you mean that they... prepared?

    • @allaussietraveller9879
      @allaussietraveller9879 Рік тому +7

      ​@@benvoliothefirstyeah those bloody comedians just want to spout off all this pre prepared material

    • @tilltronje1623
      @tilltronje1623 Рік тому +1

      Are those comedians in the room with us now?

  • @vicentetrigo9476
    @vicentetrigo9476 3 роки тому +18

    Legit one of the best comedians out there, his charisma and relation with the crowd is faking amazing

  • @MrDoomDawg
    @MrDoomDawg Рік тому +23

    When Dara mentioned rectal bleeding... thats another one a family member of mine ignored for MONTHS, and when he finally went to a doctor, the colon, liver, and lung cancer he didnt know he had had progressed to a terminal stage. Months and months where he could have caught it earlier. "Who would ignore these severe symptoms!?" It happens all the time, people get worried about getting bad news or don't think it's a big deal or wait for things to go away or get embarrassed by symptoms, and it leads to disaster. It sounds so ridiculous that these are symptons people ignore, but they do, and often!
    That family member of mine was my dad. Smartest man in a room oftentimes. Fiercely clever and funny, well loved and very popular, enjoyed sport, music, trivia. Even smart, well put together people can ignore their health, and in the case of my wonderful father, it cost him his life. Who knows if going to the doctor 3 months earlier might have saved him?
    If you have rectal bleeding, please, see a doctor ASAP!

  • @sarahlewis7859
    @sarahlewis7859 5 років тому +98

    You can't overdose
    You can *fecking drown*
    Amazing :D

  • @thewhat531
    @thewhat531 5 років тому +149

    One of my mates removed his own molar on magic mushrooms. It was very bloody. We refer to him as 'the dentist' now.

    • @Chrisinpommyland
      @Chrisinpommyland 5 років тому +8

      I knocked two teeth out of the nephew of Jock Hobbs. I was referred to as that cunt who knocked out the teeth of an All Blacks nephew

    • @baoboumusic
      @baoboumusic 4 роки тому +4

      I think you guys can repeat these stories as comments to the Greg Davies "nicknames" sketch ;)

    • @danielsteadman4210
      @danielsteadman4210 4 роки тому +9

      I think you should call him 'the toothiologist'.

    • @jdc4316
      @jdc4316 4 роки тому

      Richard L that’s quite an assumption, let alone a bet. Put your money where your mouth is.

    • @thewhat531
      @thewhat531 4 роки тому +1

      Richard L one of the girls was literally passing out from the smell and sight of blood. It was everywhere.

  • @iambiggus
    @iambiggus 4 роки тому +143

    I have a buddy who believes in "Earth Energy", and tries to get us out to spots where he's heard the energy vortex is strong so we can sit there and soak(???) it up. I just kind of nod my head and go along. He has good weed.

  • @robertnewell5057
    @robertnewell5057 5 років тому +55

    Classic Dara. The Evening Standard thing was perfect. I also love it when (about10 times a year) a newspaper headline announces that scientists have found a way to greatly reduce the risk of cancer. It's always the same - Eat vegetables, exercise, don't smoke. Obviously they get some quiet days in the newsrooms.

    • @CallMeNeutraL
      @CallMeNeutraL 2 роки тому +2

      I'm kind of glad they keep reminding people since so many, myself included, are prone to stretches of poor life choices diet and exercise wise.

    • @jaybeecee1949
      @jaybeecee1949 Рік тому

      It's okay. One third of cancers are just bad luck and many people with so so habits live to be 90 or even 100--genes.@@CallMeNeutraL

  • @vladimir520
    @vladimir520 3 роки тому +7

    I think this is my favorite video of Dara on the Internet out of all the ones I've seen LOL

  • @adams3627
    @adams3627 4 роки тому +22

    UA-cam interrupted "the average life expectancy in China today- with an Arby's commercial saying "two for six dollars?!" and I just about died

  • @BenMcghie
    @BenMcghie 3 роки тому +12

    Good lord he's funny. Great material, great delivery, great performer!

  • @timotejbernat462
    @timotejbernat462 3 роки тому +13

    “Who removes their own teeth?!” *Bob Mortimer sweats nervously*

  • @GlobalAgendaFreak
    @GlobalAgendaFreak 4 роки тому +26

    His improv how he plays off of the crowd is amazing

  • @johnlach3700
    @johnlach3700 4 роки тому +29

    He got me with "Get in the fucking sack"

  • @0cramoi
    @0cramoi 5 років тому +39

    The China joke is one of the best things I've ever heard

  • @blauemadeleine
    @blauemadeleine 3 роки тому +9

    Haven't laughed so hard in a while.
    This is so brilliant (and spot on)
    I love it!

  • @AnnaPxx
    @AnnaPxx 4 роки тому +8

    OMG I'm rolling on the floor laughing. Going to binge watch him now

  • @AlaA-ms9up
    @AlaA-ms9up 5 років тому +86

    I've met a few people who ignored episodes of blindness in one eye that happened every few weeks and lasted for a few seconds
    Only went to the GP when it lasted for more than 5 minutes
    They were having mini-strokes/TIAs

    • @Competitive_Antagonist
      @Competitive_Antagonist 5 років тому +7

      I once went blind when I had a wank. It was a really great wank.

    • @AlaA-ms9up
      @AlaA-ms9up 5 років тому +4

      @lcyw20 I'm not joking. That was their reasoning. It went away quickly, so it wasn't a longterm problem....even though it happened multiple times 😅

    • @nictheartist
      @nictheartist 4 роки тому +3

      @@AlaA-ms9up Blimey, the moment this happens once, you'd worry a bit, right? More than once, you should defo leg it go the nearest doctor, if they're unavailable, at least get your eyes examined! Could be an issue with the eye, although not in the case you cited.

  • @MsPike101
    @MsPike101 4 роки тому +14

    "Ya' look fantastic, let's have a pint!" That WOULD be the best ever nutritionist.

  • @BlackKnight_217
    @BlackKnight_217 5 років тому +97

    If that bit with the audience wasn't pre-planned (his jokes, I mean,,, I'm not suggesting he planted people in the audience) and was genuinely stand-up then this man s a genius.

    •  5 років тому +1

      Stand ups tend to pre-plan their jokes.

    • @diamondmx3076
      @diamondmx3076 5 років тому +14

      I imagine it's a collection of possible bits which respond to certain prompts. Some of it might be off the cuff, but a lot of it is not just planned but rehearsed and refined.

    • @Pyxis10
      @Pyxis10 5 років тому +44

      It wasn't. There was another version of this on youtube, and it didn't have it on there. He's just good at improv, as it's part of his act.
      He tends to start out by asking audience members various questions about themselves and makes jokes on his own observations of them.

    • @peterknutsen3070
      @peterknutsen3070 5 років тому +17

      The best standup-comedians are highly intelligent.

    • @up-ls7dv
      @up-ls7dv 5 років тому +16

      he's always been very quick on his feet

  • @IdlewildsCave
    @IdlewildsCave 4 роки тому +7

    Brilliant. Well done. Totally lost it at "sudden blindness."

  • @TrondBørgeKrokli
    @TrondBørgeKrokli 4 роки тому +9

    I admit that I have seen the full show a handful of times already, but in this part he gets to speak so much truth that I can't stop myself smiling and laughing, even if I am only halfway listening to what is being said (occupied with eating or looking around for something else). As a follower of science, natural physics and realism, I do so agree with how he feels about the fake sciences. By the way, thank you for uploading this clip in this length or time frame, it works very well for me most times when I need a quick laugh.

  • @CMDR_Verm
    @CMDR_Verm Рік тому +1

    ''Get in the sack'', I think I might adopt that lol. Brilliant stuff.

  • @jmalmsten
    @jmalmsten 4 роки тому +36

    "There is more to life than E V I D E N C E"
    That kind of selective logic honestly scares me. Because I cannot discern where those people draw the line between stuff that evidently happens vs stuff they heard in a dream.

    • @jmalmsten
      @jmalmsten 4 роки тому

      @Craig Gibbons
      But both gravity and air exist. And humans have used evidence based logic to utilise both throughout millennia to utilize both.
      But to get to the core of the matter. What weighs heavier than evidence in a discussion of somethings existance? Because, that is what that claim professes. That even though we have evidence of something being true or false, there exists some nebulous unknown thing out there that trumps evidence. But what? And if it exists. Without evidence of its validity... Should I really accept it as relevant?

    • @aecides3203
      @aecides3203 3 роки тому +3

      George Bush publicly claimed that "God" wanted him to invade Iraq and was cheered by some and ignored by most others. When people are talking about things 'God' wants/needs them to do, I always replace that word in my head with "My dead great grandfather" (which, ironically, you can prove existed and quite possibly make a reasonable guess on what they would have wanted you to do in any given situation based on empirical evidence from when they were alive). If you do it in your mind, it shows you how stupid a justification that is. If they do it in their speech, they'll be removed from office and sent to a psyche ward - nobody's going to cheer it and very few people would just ignore it.

  • @judythompson8227
    @judythompson8227 6 місяців тому

    I love his connections to the audience. I have no idea how he does this, almost non-stop...

  • @trickycm1040
    @trickycm1040 4 роки тому +14

    *hides behind curtain* “Tats fookin great stelt”

  • @FFKonoko
    @FFKonoko 5 років тому +67

    And here I am ignoring my bleeding asshole and occasional loss of vision because that's just how I was raised. Tough it out, then drop dead.

    • @FFKonoko
      @FFKonoko 5 років тому +2

      @@bt3743 drink Dr pepper, got it. It's got fruit in I think, so it must be healthy.

    • @TheAce12570
      @TheAce12570 5 років тому +6

      It's fine, that's just two of the three. But if you suddenly wake up 30cm shorter, maybe think about visiting a doctor.

    • @igiveup4191
      @igiveup4191 5 років тому +1

      Yeah I was raised to ignore bleeding eyes don’t be a bitch all these snowflakes are so sensitive

    • @allenjenkins7947
      @allenjenkins7947 5 років тому +2

      @@TheAce12570 That used to happen a lot in France, during the revolution.

    • @TheAce12570
      @TheAce12570 5 років тому +1

      @@allenjenkins7947 touché!

  • @SusanForeman1963
    @SusanForeman1963 4 роки тому +38

    Fairies stole my headphones.
    My evidence? I can't find my headphones and I forgot to leave out a cup of cream last night.

    • @granthurlburt4062
      @granthurlburt4062 3 роки тому +2

      I think we need some kind of twenty-first goblins who steal the TV remote and so on. Most people dont know what a hob is anymore (outside of the UK anyway) so who's concerned about hobgoblins?

    • @Ag3nt0fCha0s
      @Ag3nt0fCha0s Рік тому

      This comment is homophobic

    • @SusanForeman1963
      @SusanForeman1963 Рік тому

      @@Ag3nt0fCha0s I meant literal fairies, like the tiny people with wings. Also it's a joke.

  • @amberkelly3187
    @amberkelly3187 5 років тому +96

    I can not get a dentist where I live now so haven’t been in 5 years. So yeah, damn right we need to address it. Also I am planning to die early on in the zombie apocalypse so you better hope I have removed all my own teeth before then.

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 5 років тому

      You'll still be able to gum some flesh from the (probably fatally titillated 'cause there's nothing like coming so hard, you go, so I've heard from my psychic {psycho?} girlfriend), er, where was I, oh yeah, gumming the victims, right, shouldn't be a problem, I'm sure.

    • @alteredbeast7145
      @alteredbeast7145 5 років тому +1

      PSYCHICS

    • @jakovbrizic
      @jakovbrizic 4 роки тому +5

      Fuji 9, Amber... Google it.

    • @amberkelly3187
      @amberkelly3187 4 роки тому +4

      Jakov Brižić When you have Fugi 9 you are a dentist!

    • @rebeccadelbridge2998
      @rebeccadelbridge2998 4 роки тому +1

      Haha!

  • @aecides3203
    @aecides3203 3 роки тому +31

    My earliest memory of being genuinely angry at a random stranger was when I was about 11 and I was going to a shop in town and a god botherer stopped me to ask "Do you believe in god young man?" (let's not even get started on approaching and stopping an unescorted minor to preach your religion) and when I said "No, I believe in Science" they responded, ever so smugly, with "Ah but can Science explain why the sky is blue, why the stars shine or why we feel love?" and I remember snapping "YES! Read a science book! We covered two of those three in school already!".
    What made me so angry about it was that 1) There are a hundred examples he could have picked where I would have had to say "No, it can't" but he picked three that it had literally already offered definitive and provable answers to and 2) NOWHERE in the Bible does it offer an answer (however fantastical) to any of those questions so, presumably, even if I had said "no" then if he was being honest he'd have had to reply "Yeah, we don't have a bloody clue either".
    Like, if you're going to offer a bullshit question in that situation, at least pick one that ACTUALLY has Science currently stumped and that whatever mumbo jumbo you're peddling actually pretends to have an answer for.

    • @tairneanaich
      @tairneanaich 3 роки тому +8

      This just made me think of Sokka
      „Can your science explain why it rains?“ „YES. YES IT CAN“

    • @aecides3203
      @aecides3203 3 роки тому +6

      @@tairneanaich Yeah, I remember that episode, I think I was about mid teens when it came out, I flashed back to what I recounted above and identified with him so hard in that moment.

    • @CoRLex-jh5vx
      @CoRLex-jh5vx 3 роки тому +3

      In the words of Robin Williams, "Was 'let there be light' a metaphor for the big bang?" "No, God went click *mimes turning light on* "

    • @silasfatchett7380
      @silasfatchett7380 3 роки тому +2

      My reply to "Do you believe in God?" is "Which one?".

    • @Gormathius
      @Gormathius 2 роки тому +3

      @@silasfatchett7380
      Alternatively you could go "Yes, I love the way he swings that hammer around!"

  • @Eleni_E
    @Eleni_E 5 років тому +11

    I made the mistake of watching this while eating snacks. I may have nearly choked.

  • @missingno-xk7kp
    @missingno-xk7kp 4 роки тому +12

    He is honestly one of the funniest people alive. Him and bill burr.

  • @Hammern28
    @Hammern28 3 роки тому +1

    One of my all time fav standup comedians!

  • @bisquit56
    @bisquit56 7 місяців тому +1

    Bob Mortimer must love this routine

  • @bluefreedomtrue
    @bluefreedomtrue 5 років тому +10

    Now that's what I call a tangent!

  • @kevg3320
    @kevg3320 3 роки тому +5

    "Get in the feckin' sack...!
    Priceless!

  • @Ginover6
    @Ginover6 4 роки тому +6

    Damn he's quick

  • @OpreRoma
    @OpreRoma 4 роки тому +3

    Dara mentioning Reading. Mary... MARY! WE'RE FAMOUS!

  • @cg21
    @cg21 Рік тому

    I love the sack and stick part!

  • @Dzeroed
    @Dzeroed 5 років тому +13

    10:12 I'd say she went on national television and admitted she was schizophrenic 😂😂😂

  • @SamiHukka
    @SamiHukka Рік тому

    Dara is just magical on stage!!

  • @maishi
    @maishi 5 років тому +67

    Didn't Bob Mortimer remove his own tooth in his kitchen 🤣

    • @radihaydos95
      @radihaydos95 5 років тому +11

      Na I think he put in a crown

    • @ronstahmonstah5677
      @ronstahmonstah5677 5 років тому +14

      ua-cam.com/video/kgI3Y7gxMO4/v-deo.html
      that is the clip from wilty he does fillings and stuff

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 5 років тому +7

      I removed 2 of my own teeth by turning my head just before the puck hit.
      If I hadn't, I'd have removed 10 of 'em. I'd have had a Bobby Clarke smile. Instead, just a Cletus Dicktwiddler smile.
      The guy who shot that puck decapitated himself snowmobiling through farm fields about 2 weeks later. Hit a barbed wire fence at 25-30 mph, right at neck level. Showed the true value of helmets. He was recognisable. Usually, by the time the usual idiots were pulled from the lakes, they were hard to identify without dental records.
      Didn't have DNA testing, back then.

    •  5 років тому +4

      @@thehellyousay Do you not feel bad about messing with his throttle?

    • @cocokai9661
      @cocokai9661 4 роки тому +3

      @@thehellyousay You've got to be Canadian.

  • @thinktwice-me7ie
    @thinktwice-me7ie 3 місяці тому +1

    You are wonderful!

  • @ulalaFrugilega
    @ulalaFrugilega 4 роки тому +1

    Has me laughing 5 minutes after it stopped… probably will pop up for awhile yet. Thank you!

  • @thehellyousay
    @thehellyousay 5 років тому +36

    Fooking eedjit issue.
    Says it all, really.

  • @jamesl8640
    @jamesl8640 4 роки тому +3

    He is so quick it's unbelievable.

  • @groupcaptainbonzo
    @groupcaptainbonzo 4 роки тому +4

    Funny. But scarily true 😂🤣

  • @SomeDumbRandomUser
    @SomeDumbRandomUser 3 роки тому

    This dude is absolutely f*ing Great!
    I ... i litterally have no words ...

  • @davep8221
    @davep8221 5 років тому +1

    How great (for me) to find a new (to me) brilliant (to me) comic.

  • @Rylee_G
    @Rylee_G 3 роки тому +1

    THANK YOU

  • @TyrannosavageRekt
    @TyrannosavageRekt Рік тому +1

    His routine about having someone else on for “balance” reminds me of every morning on the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2.

  • @aprildawnsunshine4326
    @aprildawnsunshine4326 Рік тому +1

    As an herbologist firmly rooted in science I must point out that the way we tested most traditional remedies misunderstood and often completely discounted the entourage effect and decided it had to be just one or maybe two of the component chemicals that created the effects. Often testing only examines a single plant in isolation, which is rarely how they were used. Also many of the experiments were done by people without direct knowledge of how to use the plants and the most frequent result is they test a miniscule dose and then determine it must not be effective. It'd be like deciding alcohol has no effect because a single drop of beer does nothing. Frankly it's maddening.

  •  5 років тому +17

    He is the giant Gael.

  • @oricalu448
    @oricalu448 3 роки тому +1

    I love how he says idiot

  • @madsakjr6507
    @madsakjr6507 5 років тому +33

    Sad thing is: the guy believing the sky is painted is now on television...

    • @danwic
      @danwic 4 роки тому +7

      @Jon Bird and what colour is it at night Einstein?

    • @sadev101
      @sadev101 4 роки тому +3

      @Jon Bird wow i genuinely feel sorry for you

    • @dnomyarnostaw
      @dnomyarnostaw 4 роки тому

      @Jon Bird Sometimes you can see the bottom of the ocean, sometimes you cant.
      Is that fairies painting it in shifts?
      Honestly. ..

    • @dnomyarnostaw
      @dnomyarnostaw 4 роки тому +5

      @Jon Bird Posting the same long rant twice doesn't make you look very smart.
      But the big giveaway is the "no satellite cell tower" bullshit.
      Ask any ship captain or commercial pilot in the middle of the ocean.
      Oh or are ships and planes just a "conspiracy "?

  • @albertwestbrook4813
    @albertwestbrook4813 5 місяців тому

    Hilarious! I can only think of two comedians that were as funny and as quick with an audience as Dara O'Briain - Robin Williams and Johnathan Winters.

  • @thisfacebelievesyou8862
    @thisfacebelievesyou8862 5 років тому +3

    Damn it’s good to be a Dara...

  • @DawnApon
    @DawnApon Рік тому

    Goddamn the stealth bit got me so bad I had to just pause the video and say it. Love the way Dara interacts with the crowd, it's gotta be difficult.

  • @NicBob89
    @NicBob89 4 роки тому +1

    He sounds a bit like Sylvester the cat 😂 very funny guy

  • @JustIT69
    @JustIT69 2 роки тому +2

    Years ago I went to London to see a concert at the Hammy Odeon. We got there way early so took the underground to Oxford St. We were all in our late teens, early 20s. Anyway, we decided to run up the escalators at Oxford St. Bad mistake. I got to the top and everything went black. I mean everything, couldn't see bugger all. I called to one of my mates and told him I couldn't see. He started to panic and asked me what should we do. I said sit me down and get me a coke. Not, call 999, or get me to the hospital. No, sit me down and get me a coke. About 6 minutes later I could see again. I'm guessing I just had oxygen starvation to my head from running up the stairs and everything went black. The gig was great.

    • @charlestownsend9280
      @charlestownsend9280 Рік тому

      Yeah could have been that and a blood pressure problem, depends how active you were.

  • @MrVuvuzaala
    @MrVuvuzaala 3 роки тому +2

    "Who ignores sudden blindness?"
    Ooh, ooh, I know that one......is the answer Dominic Cummings? :D

  • @martinacosta3821
    @martinacosta3821 5 років тому +1

    i lost it at the last part

  • @rachell4417
    @rachell4417 3 роки тому

    Just plain brilliant.

  • @DarthTwilight
    @DarthTwilight 2 роки тому +1

    Goodness, he's spot on... about medicine

  • @businessgoose6057
    @businessgoose6057 5 років тому +6

    He's funny and the accent does a lot for his act. Its cuter and more exciting in an Irish accent

  • @reapeach6383
    @reapeach6383 3 роки тому

    What a wit. I laughed so hard

  • @cjhification
    @cjhification 4 роки тому +27

    This is exactly the problem with BBC policy, "we must show both sides of a debate" they do this but they don't balance it with the proportion of the scientific community that believes either side. So they do climate change with 1 from each side, whereas it should be 99999 speaking for climate change and 1 against it, that would be fair.

    • @Bagofnowt
      @Bagofnowt 4 роки тому +3

      But then you know what'd happen
      People with the username 'BULLDOG PATRIOT' would comment
      THE BRITISH PROPAGANDA CORPORATION, RARARA

    • @donmontague4107
      @donmontague4107 Рік тому +1

      I don't remember the BBC (state propaganda) ever showing two sides of a political debate.
      They'll show the "men are all rapists and the poor should all be locked up" side of the debate, and the "terrorists are everywhere at all times and Iraq has WMD" side of the debate. I don't think I've ever once seen the state propaganda say "for the sake of ballance, here's Mr. XYZ, who thinks that we should start a revolution against the fascist warmongers in government".
      Pretty sure that's not BBC policy at all.
      I mean...by definition, propaganda doesn't have ballance. That's... kind of... the point.

    • @TyrannosavageRekt
      @TyrannosavageRekt Рік тому

      @RaniaIsAwesomeLess of an issue in the UK where there isn’t as much profit to be made as a result of public healthcare.

  • @allenjenkins7947
    @allenjenkins7947 Рік тому +2

    If someone forks out hundreds of quid to a psychic, it ain't their fecking aura that's cracked.

  • @sirdeadlock
    @sirdeadlock 5 років тому +6

    It's only in the one eye. You can make it till noon when the next shift arrives, can't you? It's not like anything will change between now and then.

  • @itookallthenames
    @itookallthenames 4 роки тому

    For years, I couldn't retain it, O'Brian or O'Brain? But it's both!

  • @nickmail7604
    @nickmail7604 3 роки тому +2

    Almost 57 now, when I was 23 I had really bad tooth ache on a weekend and so couldnt get in touch with an NHS dentist so I swigged down a bottle of dark rum and then using mole grips removed the offending tooth. Sorted.

  • @Charsept
    @Charsept 5 років тому +1

    Hahaha. This was pretty good.

  • @thesharksfin109
    @thesharksfin109 4 роки тому +8

    Im fairly sure he forgets his sorta script in the middle, but covers it so well for like 5 whole minutes😅

  • @IANinALTONA
    @IANinALTONA 4 роки тому +10

    Well, on behalf of toothilogists all around the world, I am offended by this routine.

  • @barbaraanneolivier-holisti8120
    @barbaraanneolivier-holisti8120 5 років тому +3

    You're a funny man.

  • @Gooberpatrol66
    @Gooberpatrol66 5 років тому +21

    0:37 bob mortimer

    • @4n0n7m0us3
      @4n0n7m0us3 5 років тому +4

      On the kitchen island, using a curved Indian music instrument!

    • @NathanielHarari
      @NathanielHarari 5 років тому +1

      @@4n0n7m0us3 With Fuji.

    • @Jamie_kemp
      @Jamie_kemp 5 років тому

      that's what I thought!

    • @Shadow_Of_Man
      @Shadow_Of_Man 5 років тому

      Never extractions! Crowns, Fillings, never extractions

  • @JGM0JGM
    @JGM0JGM 5 років тому

    "Get in the fuckin' sack" lol...

  • @michaelmccarthy9411
    @michaelmccarthy9411 3 роки тому +3

    Lots of guys in Ireland have Mary as a second or third name. He's right

  • @roohamm2456
    @roohamm2456 3 роки тому

    First I've ever heard him.. I get it- 😆

  • @clausderenda5777
    @clausderenda5777 2 роки тому +2

    There was the guy who forgot to take his homeopathy remedy. He died of an overdose.

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 4 роки тому +2

    I was going to make a crack about Bob Mortimer, but then I remembered that he doesn’t do removals, only fillings & crown replacements, so there goes my line.

  • @andreaskarlsson5251
    @andreaskarlsson5251 Рік тому

    When Dara O'brian talked about dentistry I could only think of Bob Mortimer and how he does his own dentistry xD

    • @blackletter2591
      @blackletter2591 Рік тому

      Don't forget Mr Bean.

    • @andreaskarlsson5251
      @andreaskarlsson5251 Рік тому

      @@blackletter2591 oh yeah! Haha had forgotten that one. 😂
      Now I remembered a joke-story Michael McIntyre told before about visiting the dentist. Need to find that clip again! Was an insane story as I recall lmao.

  • @clumsiii
    @clumsiii 4 роки тому +1

    Speaking of energy Dara is new to me and reminds me of Alexei Sayle..you know, because of the energy he brings to his delivery. But also plus the dour realism of someone who likes numbers (ps homeopathy is in fact stupid - fantastic bit)

  • @benjaminressler7745
    @benjaminressler7745 4 роки тому +7

    Couldn't stop laughing one of the ads that came on during this was some xenophobic ad about not hiring foreigners i thought in 2020 we were past the whole "no irish need apply" bollocks.

  • @stitchgrimly6167
    @stitchgrimly6167 4 роки тому +14

    Poor Dara had no idea that flat earth, 5G/covid nonsense and Trump were all coming. It's a lonely time for intelligence.
    Remember when Carlin was decrying people's lack of independent critical thought? How would he cope with 2020?

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk 4 роки тому +2

      Yup "Think of how dumb the average person is and realise that around half of people are more dumb than that".