This was really cool! I loved the Royal Albert Hall version of course, but it was brilliant to see just Tim and his piano going at it. Solo Tim + Solo Piano = dream concert.
This version gives a bit clearer back story as well: Sam's mum had to be talked into seeing any doctor (consistent with the claim that she did not trust them), and the diagnosing doctor was a general practitioner (who would be more likely to misdiagnose than a relevant specialist, and who is a different person than the one at the Tuesday appointment who said there was no cataract).
I love that this guy composed an entire piece for a 40 piece orchestra as a sarcastic reply to Sam's apologetic. Not this version I guess but it's good with the orchestra.
@Scout Dawson That orchestra one is great. I've seen it many times. But my favorite Minchin production is this one, which you may have seen: The animated production of "Storm": ua-cam.com/video/HhGuXCuDb1U/v-deo.html It's excellent if you haven't seen it. (Or even if you have!)
@Scout Dawson My favorite section from that is: "Alternative medicine has either not been proven to work or HAS been proven to NOT work. Do you know what they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work? Medicine!"
JustWasted3HoursHere the clip of Thank You God with the Heritage Orchestra is my personal favourite, the animated Storm is brilliant. 15 minutes is a more recent joy.......oh there are so many..... he is just consistently great.
I'm like number 666 haha! I was actually there during this and it was my first introduction to Tim Minchin. I am of course very familiar with him now. It was however a very "soggy" experience. I hope to one day do it again!
I struggle to memorize a few verses and a chorus and maybe a bridge. How on earth did he memorize this monstrosity? I mean it's really good but to sing it in front of people without notes, how did he memorize it? So many words and so tricky on the tongue.
+daz7887 i was going to ask the same question haha it sure looks like him. especially because he was wearing that hat at the reason rally (or at least during his video at the rr)
There is a 0.05% probability that someone can play a piano like that, and a 0.001% probability that someone can write music like that, and a 0.04% chance that someone can construct a philosophical argument that well, and a 0.0003% probability that they can fit that argument into lyrical verse. Therefore, if my calculations are correct, Tim Minchin shouldn't exist.
Nah, not unhealthy. The opposite. Not all religious people are bonkers. You're just not bonkers in how you practise, so you don't have to get defensive about it. :)
Im an atheist but i think its okay to be a christian. Its a "faith based" conviction, and we have have faith where we dont have facts. As long as christians "believe" in christ, rather than "know" i deserve eternal hellfire, then we are cool. Even as an atheist i do volunteer work with the local church. God or no god, we are all in it together, right
One of the most important rights we have as humans is the right to (or to not) believe in whatever we want. A problem only arises when you try to force your beliefs on others. Or when they're used to deny people equal rights. Or when they stand in the way of scientific progress. Or when they're taught to people as facts instead of beliefs.
Tim Minchin is very clever and very smart; he's not the only genius comedian; Bo Burnham is just as much a genius and just as clever. Bo Burnham has been my favorite comedian for quite some time now. I suppose there's room in the world for two genius comedians aside from George Carlin. Dave Allen was very, very clever also; I love his "funeral sketch". Tim Minchin, no offense, lol, but if you didn't have a beard you'd remind me of a woman I worked with some years ago, lmao...I'm not saying you look like a woman or she looked like a man; probably somewhere in the middle I suppose.
I've seen both "what." and heard most of the songs from "words words words" and some of his new stuff and I think Tim is way ahead of Bo. Even though Bo is clever his stand up revolves very much around one liners or the shocking effect of a strong contrast in an otherwise nice story. His songs are what carries his comedy and they're very high class but he still lacks the musical talent that Tim has, especially when it comes to piano playing. I would say Bo is good for his age, but at this point he can't yet beat Tim.
+Majs Kukka I have been listening to A LOT of Tim Minchin in the last few days, and while I can say he's definitely a genius and has awesome piano playing talent, I really do feel the same exact way about Bo Burnham. Maybe you haven't heard some of Bo Burnham's songs which are very amazing like Channel 5 news, or EFF (lots of cursing) or Nerds for example; actually I can't honestly say that Tim is better than Bo, or that Bo is better than Tim. They are both such clever, funny, genius comedians. They have somewhat different styles. Of course I do appreciate Tim Minchin's broadway success. But, I read a screen play by Bo Burnham which really impressed me so much, and I hope that Bo Burnham can do some broadway too someday :.) I love the groundhog day song by Tim Minchin, "Seeing You". It's very beautiful. Oh my goodness, when I want a nice curse word song, aside from EFF I listen to Tim Minchin's "Pope" song.
Tim was doing this long before Bo. In fact there are quite a few jokes in Bo's act that are extremely close to jokes Tim has done already (with better piano)
I'm so thankful for him and men like Krauss for opening my eyes! I can't believe my blind following of something I used to create hope (obviously no need for it now). I am just having trouble opening my grandfather's eyes. He's dying from cancer and keeps on about being ok with that because he's ready to go home to "God" in heaven. I keep trying to tell him that's ignorant and quite dumb thinking, that he needs to understand that there's nothing after, and actually it's a laughable stance. How do I hammer it home to him to quit being an idiot before cancer kills him? How do I take his stupid idea of hope away before he dies? Because the ridicule that's used at this rally that I try to use on him only seems to scare him, and makes him cry. Someone give me a better way to replace that dumbfounded hope with realism in his head. I've got to get it to him there's nothing after before he goes!
+01Airbag I know it's been 10 months, but just thought I'd share with you my current dilemma as it's so similar. My neighbor's daughter (in third grade) is dying of cancer, and told me that she is scared of the emptiness after death. I told her gently (but firmly) that she will suffer eternally in a lake of fire unless she repents her heretical atheist stance. She started crying, but seems to have trouble accepting the truth about the all knowing, all powerful, all merciful Lord. She asked stupid questions about how unmerciful He seems. How do I make it absolutely clear to her that she'll be doomed to eons upon eons of pain and suffering and burning and screaming unless she stops asking questions and just BELIEVES?
what if your wrong and when you die you go to hell, I would rather believe in God at least if I'm wrong theres is nothing after life. but if I'm right we recieve eternal life.
Don't force your beliefs on others, if he believes in God then let him. Atheists don't really believe in salvation or anything so if someone is happy dying while thinking that heaven exists why should you force atheism on him? I enjoy discussing religion with my theist friend but, as I don't try to convert him to atheism, he won't try to convert me to catholicism, we just talk about it because we like it
Love this song, absolutely love Tim Minchin, but boy some atheists get way too cocky. I'm talking Dawkins and this whole "Reason Rally" business. I'm an agnostic or atheist depending on the question, so these people are generally "my people" but this in-your-face "we're better than you" attitude annoys me. Basically falls into the ways of the very groups of people it mocks.
@@ginge641 Because - and that's what argumentative atheists don't get - faith is a lot more a feeling than a belief. I'm not talking oppressive doctrine or images of bearded men in the sky, I'm talking about a need that many people have to feel connected to a higher power in order to make sense of this life. Mocking people just because they have faith, even when that faith, for cultural reasons, has grown within the frameworks of a generally nonsensical fairytale, is a lot more like mocking someone for, say, being in love, and a lot less like mocking someone for mistaken beliefs that have to do with everyday reality. In other words, of course you are allowed to mock beliefs that blatantly ignore scientific reality (e.g. anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, climate change deniers), but it is not OK to mock people for the psychological mechanisms they rely on to cope with mortality and the meaninglessness of existence.
@@elliest55 Faith as a coping mechanism for tragedy makes complete sense. The majority of people, however, aren't in such positions. And like Tim said, love is very much dependant on evidence. Otherwise, it's just stalking. But in that case, the other person was likely manipulative and able to convince the person in question that their feelings for them are genuine. Religious adults have far more access to evidence and reason than that. On Dawkins though, I remember him saying something along the lines of: "Of course I have no problem with the normal pious person who does no harm or who uses it as a coping mechanism. It's organised religion I have the problem with." But it's been a while, so I could be misremembering him.
elliest 55 - People believe conspiracy theories because to them, those theories make sense of complex situations or events that are difficult to understand. This is the same reason we invented gods.
Cocky? What like building massive buildings to show off your beliefs, trying to run everyone else's lives with your rules from your made up god and you accuse atheists of being cocky, ffs, get a grip.
I hereby declare this man a genius.
Sure is...There is no many people who could do what he does. Guy has talent.
genius? its utter mediocre crap
@@simpsimpson5175 Regardless of whether you're a Christian or Atheist this song is very clever
Henry Grant Minchin leaves me cold. Super boring
@@simpsimpson5175 I found the salty Christian
at the beginning of the song, you could hear a pin drop, everyone there was like "Holy Shit, did Tim switch sides?"
omg this guys laugh
I kept rewinding it to hear his little high giggles. Bless his little heart
Holy fuck, that laugh at about 3:23!
*3:21
Loool I am so scared :O
Haha... I had a feeling he wouldn’t say the C word in the USA
I don't think it really bothers him. Check out The Pope Song.
I feel like inviting the masses to shout it out for him isn't exactly his way of censoring himself, kind of on the contrary.^^
Just the fact that you respected him by taking it down when asked and he respected you to alert you, you can reupload it makes me so happy
I have to limit my time watching his perfomances because I'm exhausted afterward from laughing and from how fast he sings and plays! He's so amazing!
This was really cool! I loved the Royal Albert Hall version of course, but it was brilliant to see just Tim and his piano going at it. Solo Tim + Solo Piano = dream concert.
I wish he does more of this show now...
JoelTRowe if you get a chance to see the Back tour, do - he plays this on his own, absolutely brilliant!
This version gives a bit clearer back story as well: Sam's mum had to be talked into seeing any doctor (consistent with the claim that she did not trust them), and the diagnosing doctor was a general practitioner (who would be more likely to misdiagnose than a relevant specialist, and who is a different person than the one at the Tuesday appointment who said there was no cataract).
I was there for this. I hadn't heard of Tim before so when he talked about this new experience of his I had no idea what I was seeing
Hello to those just discovering this genius song :)
I love that this guy composed an entire piece for a 40 piece orchestra as a sarcastic reply to Sam's apologetic. Not this version I guess but it's good with the orchestra.
So lucky to have been there. Great time in spite of the rain!
Those are NOT easy lyrics to remember and I've never heard him make a mistake. Really smart guy.
@Scout Dawson That orchestra one is great. I've seen it many times. But my favorite Minchin production is this one, which you may have seen: The animated production of "Storm": ua-cam.com/video/HhGuXCuDb1U/v-deo.html It's excellent if you haven't seen it. (Or even if you have!)
@Scout Dawson My favorite section from that is:
"Alternative medicine has either not been proven to work or HAS been proven to NOT work. Do you know what they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work? Medicine!"
JustWasted3HoursHere the clip of Thank You God with the Heritage Orchestra is my personal favourite, the animated Storm is brilliant. 15 minutes is a more recent joy.......oh there are so many..... he is just consistently great.
He did in Sydney I think, fucked the line about them being liars, and another one I forget but
I was there that day. Good times. ❤
Lol Aron Ra's huge physique blocks everything just momentarily.... something comforting about seeing that
GOD bless you, no wait, don't worry about it, genius
I'm like number 666 haha! I was actually there during this and it was my first introduction to Tim Minchin. I am of course very familiar with him now. It was however a very "soggy" experience. I hope to one day do it again!
I struggle to memorize a few verses and a chorus and maybe a bridge. How on earth did he memorize this monstrosity? I mean it's really good but to sing it in front of people without notes, how did he memorize it? So many words and so tricky on the tongue.
Love Tim
Is that AronRa in the audience?
+daz7887 i was going to ask the same question haha it sure looks like him. especially because he was wearing that hat at the reason rally (or at least during his video at the rr)
And he nopes out at 6:21
And returns a minute later
Total genius!!!
There is a 0.05% probability that someone can play a piano like that, and a 0.001% probability that someone can write music like that, and a 0.04% chance that someone can construct a philosophical argument that well, and a 0.0003% probability that they can fit that argument into lyrical verse. Therefore, if my calculations are correct, Tim Minchin shouldn't exist.
Some of those variables are not entirely independent of each other...
@@DavidSmith-vr1nb That's probably why he exists.
Actually, rolling hay bales quite often kill famous people...
praise the lord, it's a miracle that Tim exists .... 😏
tim minchin
Very cool of Tim to do that. Great song
WEL done again Tim Minchin
I was there, been a fan since...
At 7:17 is that Aron Ra? Yes it was , his wife sitting next to him.
At 6:20 I saw Aaron Ra move
Haha yeah there he is
6:18 spotted Aron Ra!
how to be distracted as much as possible using a camera zoom function....
does... tim EVER wear shoes?
He is immortal he doesn't need to wear shoes
@@lookatmeimaredditor6223 ah
No
I do LOVE this song a lot! hahaha too funny :.)
Pretty sure that's me to your left with the curly hair! I was all the way up front at the rail behind the VIP seats on the left side.
beautiful mate
thought this might go down a little better at a fucking event for 'american atheists'
What more do you want, fucking fireworks or something?
TrackpadProductions yes
I think my love for this song is a bit unhealthy, especially considering the fact that I am a practising Christian...
+SingActPlay maybe the intellectual bit of you is saying something. ;)
Me too
Nah, not unhealthy. The opposite.
Not all religious people are bonkers. You're just not bonkers in how you practise, so you don't have to get defensive about it. :)
Im an atheist but i think its okay to be a christian. Its a "faith based" conviction, and we have have faith where we dont have facts. As long as christians "believe" in christ, rather than "know" i deserve eternal hellfire, then we are cool. Even as an atheist i do volunteer work with the local church. God or no god, we are all in it together, right
One of the most important rights we have as humans is the right to (or to not) believe in whatever we want.
A problem only arises when you try to force your beliefs on others.
Or when they're used to deny people equal rights.
Or when they stand in the way of scientific progress.
Or when they're taught to people as facts instead of beliefs.
The piano bit in the chorus sounds really familiar, where is that from?
God the weather is brutal
tim pls stop walking infront of the interpreter aaaaa
I have to ask. The dude in the black jacket and hat. Is that Aron Ra? If not, I want to know who the impersonator is as he's very good.
TheAtheistBrony yup, that’s Ra. And about 50ft off camera right is TFoot. (This was way back when they were still working together online)
Placebo, also. sssshaha
Tim Minchin is very clever and very smart; he's not the only genius comedian; Bo Burnham is just as much a genius and just as clever. Bo Burnham has been my favorite comedian for quite some time now. I suppose there's room in the world for two genius comedians aside from George Carlin. Dave Allen was very, very clever also; I love his "funeral sketch". Tim Minchin, no offense, lol, but if you didn't have a beard you'd remind me of a woman I worked with some years ago, lmao...I'm not saying you look like a woman or she looked like a man; probably somewhere in the middle I suppose.
I've seen both "what." and heard most of the songs from "words words words" and some of his new stuff and I think Tim is way ahead of Bo. Even though Bo is clever his stand up revolves very much around one liners or the shocking effect of a strong contrast in an otherwise nice story. His songs are what carries his comedy and they're very high class but he still lacks the musical talent that Tim has, especially when it comes to piano playing. I would say Bo is good for his age, but at this point he can't yet beat Tim.
+Majs Kukka I have been listening to A LOT of Tim Minchin in the last few days, and while I can say he's definitely a genius and has awesome piano playing talent, I really do feel the same exact way about Bo Burnham. Maybe you haven't heard some of Bo Burnham's songs which are very amazing like Channel 5 news, or EFF (lots of cursing) or Nerds for example; actually I can't honestly say that Tim is better than Bo, or that Bo is better than Tim. They are both such clever, funny, genius comedians. They have somewhat different styles. Of course I do appreciate Tim Minchin's broadway success. But, I read a screen play by Bo Burnham which really impressed me so much, and I hope that Bo Burnham can do some broadway too someday :.) I love the groundhog day song by Tim Minchin, "Seeing You". It's very beautiful. Oh my goodness, when I want a nice curse word song, aside from EFF I listen to Tim Minchin's "Pope" song.
+Amendolara Holistic Piano Bo was initially inspired by Minchin. They're friends, now.
get outta here with your bo burnham crap
Tim was doing this long before Bo. In fact there are quite a few jokes in Bo's act that are extremely close to jokes Tim has done already (with better piano)
Love the song, but this camera work leaves a LOT to be desired.
Give them a break, this footage is from someone who just happened to be attending as far as I can tell.
I'm so thankful for him and men like Krauss for opening my eyes! I can't believe my blind following of something I used to create hope (obviously no need for it now). I am just having trouble opening my grandfather's eyes. He's dying from cancer and keeps on about being ok with that because he's ready to go home to "God" in heaven. I keep trying to tell him that's ignorant and quite dumb thinking, that he needs to understand that there's nothing after, and actually it's a laughable stance. How do I hammer it home to him to quit being an idiot before cancer kills him? How do I take his stupid idea of hope away before he dies? Because the ridicule that's used at this rally that I try to use on him only seems to scare him, and makes him cry. Someone give me a better way to replace that dumbfounded hope with realism in his head. I've got to get it to him there's nothing after before he goes!
+01Airbag I know it's been 10 months, but just thought I'd share with you my current dilemma as it's so similar. My neighbor's daughter (in third grade) is dying of cancer, and told me that she is scared of the emptiness after death. I told her gently (but firmly) that she will suffer eternally in a lake of fire unless she repents her heretical atheist stance. She started crying, but seems to have trouble accepting the truth about the all knowing, all powerful, all merciful Lord. She asked stupid questions about how unmerciful He seems. How do I make it absolutely clear to her that she'll be doomed to eons upon eons of pain and suffering and burning and screaming unless she stops asking questions and just BELIEVES?
AHAHA you win the internet Illuck. Great response.
what if your wrong and when you die you go to hell, I would rather believe in God at least if I'm wrong theres is nothing after life. but if I'm right we recieve eternal life.
@@illluck so you told a small child in the third grade with cancer she'll go to hell if she dies, pretty messed up don't you think?
Don't force your beliefs on others, if he believes in God then let him. Atheists don't really believe in salvation or anything so if someone is happy dying while thinking that heaven exists why should you force atheism on him?
I enjoy discussing religion with my theist friend but, as I don't try to convert him to atheism, he won't try to convert me to catholicism, we just talk about it because we like it
Love this song, absolutely love Tim Minchin, but boy some atheists get way too cocky. I'm talking Dawkins and this whole "Reason Rally" business. I'm an agnostic or atheist depending on the question, so these people are generally "my people" but this in-your-face "we're better than you" attitude annoys me. Basically falls into the ways of the very groups of people it mocks.
I can't imagine why anyone would mock people who go around believing in things without evidence and base their lives and morality off of said things.
@@ginge641 Because - and that's what argumentative atheists don't get - faith is a lot more a feeling than a belief. I'm not talking oppressive doctrine or images of bearded men in the sky, I'm talking about a need that many people have to feel connected to a higher power in order to make sense of this life. Mocking people just because they have faith, even when that faith, for cultural reasons, has grown within the frameworks of a generally nonsensical fairytale, is a lot more like mocking someone for, say, being in love, and a lot less like mocking someone for mistaken beliefs that have to do with everyday reality. In other words, of course you are allowed to mock beliefs that blatantly ignore scientific reality (e.g. anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, climate change deniers), but it is not OK to mock people for the psychological mechanisms they rely on to cope with mortality and the meaninglessness of existence.
@@elliest55 Faith as a coping mechanism for tragedy makes complete sense. The majority of people, however, aren't in such positions. And like Tim said, love is very much dependant on evidence. Otherwise, it's just stalking. But in that case, the other person was likely manipulative and able to convince the person in question that their feelings for them are genuine. Religious adults have far more access to evidence and reason than that.
On Dawkins though, I remember him saying something along the lines of: "Of course I have no problem with the normal pious person who does no harm or who uses it as a coping mechanism. It's organised religion I have the problem with." But it's been a while, so I could be misremembering him.
elliest 55 - People believe conspiracy theories because to them, those theories make sense of complex situations or events that are difficult to understand. This is the same reason we invented gods.
Cocky? What like building massive buildings to show off your beliefs, trying to run everyone else's lives with your rules from your made up god and you accuse atheists of being cocky, ffs, get a grip.
i dont' get it, i thought he was atheist
There is a lot you don't get in life. I guarantee this is among the least significant on that list.
: )
Yeh
Yep
@@nicholasseal2217 😂😂
he sounds like he is in 1.25x speed