Matt Berry Reads a letter from Elvis Presley to US President Richard Nixon

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  • @lucillebalinska5868
    @lucillebalinska5868 10 місяців тому +81

    “I have done an in depth study on drug abuse”
    - Elvis Presley, saying the quiet part out loud.

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 День тому +1

      Elvis naming the co-author of the letter!

  • @peteranderson037
    @peteranderson037 2 роки тому +498

    50 years from now someone with cut glass English pronunciation will read aloud Kanye West and Donald Trump's tweets to one another and it will be the most hysterical thing anyone has ever heard.

  • @John_Demarco
    @John_Demarco 2 роки тому +68

    "First and foremost, I'm an entertainer" - Elvis Presley/David Brent

  • @FailSonOfAnarchy
    @FailSonOfAnarchy 2 роки тому +288

    OK, hear me out. A movie about Elvis starring Matt Berry as Elvis. It only covers the part of Elvis' career where he was campaigning Richard Nixon to be an undercover federal agent.

    • @davidrenton
      @davidrenton 2 роки тому +11

      there was a film out 5 years ago about this very thing, no Matt Berry however
      "Elvis & Nixon" 2016

    • @erakfishfishfish
      @erakfishfishfish 2 роки тому +4

      @@davidrenton There’s also “Elvis Meets Nixon” from 1997.

    • @davidrenton
      @davidrenton 2 роки тому +1

      @@erakfishfishfish thanks i'll take a look

    • @bothquickanddead
      @bothquickanddead 2 роки тому +9

      Yes, and Matt Berry must speak in his normal voice, as Elvis Presley, of course. And everyone in the movie thinks nothing of this Memphis-raised boy speaking like a pompous Brit.

    • @erakfishfishfish
      @erakfishfishfish 2 роки тому +3

      @@bothquickanddead it would be like the Kevin Costner’s American accent in Robin Hood

  • @AbrielLeal
    @AbrielLeal 2 роки тому +113

    I love the way Matt talks. He is just Sublime.

    • @angeladawn805
      @angeladawn805 Рік тому

      It's the closest thing to James Mason. I adore their voices

  • @snedshill
    @snedshill Рік тому +17

    Matt Berry, one of my favourite comedians.

  • @johnbadal7319
    @johnbadal7319 2 роки тому +27

    I adore Matt Berry

  • @likwidmocean
    @likwidmocean 2 роки тому +170

    Well, I'm the boss... Head Honcho. El Numero Uno. Mr. Big. The Godfather. Lord of the Rings. The Bourne... Identity. Er... Taxi Driver. Jaws. I forgot the question quite a while back. Who are you, again?

    • @w8m4n
      @w8m4n 2 роки тому

      😂

    • @jaystannard
      @jaystannard 2 роки тому +3

      At first I thought this was from Dewey Cox, then remembered the source

  • @grahamfloyd3451
    @grahamfloyd3451 3 місяці тому +1

    Honoring Elvis' request would have been a wise move, in hindsight.

  • @mariannegeraud6318
    @mariannegeraud6318 3 роки тому +35

    Step aside 007...here comes special agent Presley... Elvis Presley!!!😉

  • @PhoenixNoKiseki
    @PhoenixNoKiseki Рік тому +10

    ‘Allow me to introduce myself, I am Elvis Presley’.
    The most unnecessary introduction in history.

  • @comet1227
    @comet1227 2 роки тому +95

    People should watch the Drunk History version of this. I believe Jack Black played Elvis.

    • @w8m4n
      @w8m4n 2 роки тому +2

      On it!

    • @TobeyFairre7861
      @TobeyFairre7861 Рік тому +1

      And Dave Grohl was in it as well. It's one of the few segments from that show I still remember. I don't remember many others because I was hammered when I watched them.

    • @comet1227
      @comet1227 Рік тому +2

      @@TobeyFairre7861 Yes! I love the amount of people who made cameos on that show.

    • @carlasidhom5785
      @carlasidhom5785 Рік тому +3

      He did, Bob Odenkirk as Nixon, and David Grohl was one of Elvis' guys. SO great

  • @jameslewis8227
    @jameslewis8227 2 роки тому +147

    Almost sounds like a rational letter when read with Mr. Berry’s accent and diction.

    • @TheKitchenerLeslie
      @TheKitchenerLeslie Рік тому

      Elvis was right and so was McCarthy. Communists infiltrated our government... which is why Joe Biden is President. He is owned by the CCP.

    • @jameslewis8227
      @jameslewis8227 Рік тому

      @@TheKitchenerLeslie Hahahahahahahaha, “Kitchener Leslie”. Nice try.
      Are you by chance a troll who suffers from some form of dissociative disorder, or just a poor victim of the ulta-right wing remnants of the CCCP/KGB who have been conducting pro-right wing nut social engineering campaigns for the last couple decades? The fact is, that as American citizen, if in fact you are an American citizen, Joe Biden is the best thing that happened to you in recent history.

    • @TheKitchenerLeslie
      @TheKitchenerLeslie Рік тому

      @@jameslewis8227

  • @jdes5247
    @jdes5247 3 роки тому +108

    Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango.

    • @joliecide
      @joliecide 5 місяців тому +1

      Never gets old.

  • @Rushmore222
    @Rushmore222 6 місяців тому +7

    It should go without saying that Elvis' gift to the President was of course, a handgun.

  • @donaldexcell6697
    @donaldexcell6697 2 роки тому +6

    We can't go on together.. With suspicious minds

  • @BadgerOfTheSea
    @BadgerOfTheSea 2 роки тому +22

    Elvis was made an honorary deputy sheriff and would turn up to car collisions

  • @sylph8005
    @sylph8005 Рік тому +26

    In What We Do In the Shadows, Berry’s character, Lazlo, turns Elvis into a vampire. Then Elvis turns on him

  • @jasonpatterson8091
    @jasonpatterson8091 2 роки тому +36

    He's opposed to "the drug culture," huh?

    • @granthurlburt4062
      @granthurlburt4062 6 місяців тому +4

      Only the "wrong" drugs. He got his from a DOCTOR. Someone obviously wrote this letter for him

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 День тому

      Man likes the substances, not so keen on the music and lights.

  • @mattw7949
    @mattw7949 Місяць тому +1

    "Jackie Daytona. Ordinary Human Bartender."

  • @simonsimon325
    @simonsimon325 Рік тому +8

    How many comedy characters have there been with delusions of grandeur who would write a letter exactly like this.

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 День тому

      I don't know, but I can say, Matt Berry played most of them.

  • @wendydee3007
    @wendydee3007 Рік тому +5

    And I clicked on this, because my brain read 'Mary Berry reads a letter from Elvis'. hehe

  • @pslanez
    @pslanez 2 роки тому +36

    This is especially funny reading it now as we know he had a serious drug problem

    • @EmployeeJoe630
      @EmployeeJoe630 2 роки тому +14

      He wanted the badge to get free drugs off of hippies

    • @chriswest6988
      @chriswest6988 2 роки тому +20

      He was in fact right in the middle of the whole thing

    • @jannetteberends8730
      @jannetteberends8730 7 місяців тому +1

      And that Nixon was a crook.

  • @santiagoperez5431
    @santiagoperez5431 3 роки тому +13

    I forgot about that bit of American history

  • @dillonkeller4477
    @dillonkeller4477 11 місяців тому +2

    Wow i didn't know Elvis was so based

  • @trilliarobinson7862
    @trilliarobinson7862 Рік тому +3

    Maybe this is where Herschel Walker got the idea to pretend he has some kind of Federal Agent.

  • @TheHutchy01
    @TheHutchy01 День тому

    I hope one day to be as high as Elvis was writing this.

  • @Tia-Marie
    @Tia-Marie 3 роки тому +17

    "That boy ain't right"

  • @Mikeztarp
    @Mikeztarp Рік тому +4

    I was hoping Matt Berry would do Elvis' accent.

  • @nicholasyoung3786
    @nicholasyoung3786 Рік тому +4

    I thought Elvis as a federal agent in Black Dynamite was a joke....

  • @dahemac
    @dahemac Рік тому

    Wow!

  • @voightkampffchamp
    @voightkampffchamp 3 роки тому +32

    The lengths Elvis went to become a NARC

  • @donnamcnair6730
    @donnamcnair6730 3 роки тому +15

    Ah, go on, Matt Berry...read anything...

  • @derekscanlan4641
    @derekscanlan4641 Рік тому +11

    the irony being that elvis was addicted to valium at this stage

    • @granthurlburt4062
      @granthurlburt4062 6 місяців тому

      "Wulla-wulla, that's not a DRUG, son. I got it on PRESCRIPTION. Ah don't abuse it". (Sarcasm, BTW). I dont believe he only used or abused Valium

  • @paoragemmell7501
    @paoragemmell7501 Рік тому +1

    I saw the movie, didn't realized it was based on fact😂😂😂

  • @randylucas2458
    @randylucas2458 Рік тому +1

    When my dad was a boy he delivered papers and Nixon was on his route

  • @VuotoPneumaNN
    @VuotoPneumaNN Рік тому +6

    Goddamn Elvis was nuts

    • @chemistryset1
      @chemistryset1 Рік тому +2

      hear hear, that's what I'm getting from this letter

    • @Gothicgirlscout
      @Gothicgirlscout Рік тому +1

      he thought his brother who died from time to time was possessing him.

    • @Sparrows1121
      @Sparrows1121 Рік тому +1

      You can judge that by one letter? Interesting

    • @Gothicgirlscout
      @Gothicgirlscout Рік тому

      Dont know really if you can source the ramblings of a drug addled musician. The only hard facts there are that we can find is that he was supposed to have a twin brother but he was miscarried in the process

    • @Gothicgirlscout
      @Gothicgirlscout Рік тому

      @presley2am873 who knows, either way the letter in this video definitely portrays what sort of non sense was rattling around in his head

  • @plankface
    @plankface 8 місяців тому +2

    Someone sounds high. 🫡

  • @joeydurant6267
    @joeydurant6267 2 роки тому +7

    Holy God... This could just as easily be written just as seriously by H.S.T.

  • @DursunX
    @DursunX 2 роки тому +3

    Toast does Presley 🍞🕺🏻

  • @notme222
    @notme222 2 роки тому +22

    1970. So he was 35 when he wrote this. No grace period for being young and naieve anymore.

    • @Dan200
      @Dan200 2 роки тому +11

      I was actually surprised he wrote this so young! It sounds like the ravings of an older has-been

    • @hadespuppy
      @hadespuppy 2 роки тому +9

      @@Dan200 Elvis didn't really live long enough to get old and wise.

    • @ronburgundy244
      @ronburgundy244 Рік тому +3

      ​@@hadespuppy it's so weird to think Elvis was 42 years old when he died.

    • @rainblaze.
      @rainblaze. Рік тому +2

      He was self importint, cosseted and drug addled.
      And deeply unhappy with the fact that he had been superceded by a vastly different time that had changed out of all recognition, and at a speed, as at time had never been known before. And was just searching for something, anything to make him relevant again. And what better way than to make your self relevant to the most important person in the country if not the world.... the pesadent of the USA lol

    • @HALLish-jl5mo
      @HALLish-jl5mo 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@rainblaze.He wanted to go after the Beetles, although they had actually broken up by this point.
      There's an alternative timeline in which John Lennon is shot by Elvis Presley to impress Richard Nixon.

  • @thecopperhead8592
    @thecopperhead8592 7 місяців тому +2

    Return to sender.

  • @MoodusOperandi
    @MoodusOperandi 2 роки тому +6

    Is it legal to marry his voice?

  • @johnnotrealname8168
    @johnnotrealname8168 2 роки тому +4

    There is a film about the encounter.

    • @erakfishfishfish
      @erakfishfishfish 2 роки тому +4

      There have been 2! One from 1997, and another in 2016.

    • @aahnecroth
      @aahnecroth 2 роки тому +3

      dont forget top secret

  • @joliecide
    @joliecide 20 годин тому

    Steven? This is Clem Fandango, can you hear me?

  • @solanumtuberosa
    @solanumtuberosa 7 місяців тому

    Imagine. Sheriff Presley.

  • @gabschasse600
    @gabschasse600 3 роки тому +17

    I think President Nixon gave Elvis a badge .

    • @joeydurant6267
      @joeydurant6267 2 роки тому +15

      Sure did. And at the height of his addiction he would occasionally get wasted and cruise around. Patrolling for crimes he could stop. There are a couple reports I think of him like breaking up a fight or something minor like that that is just mind boggling... Like somewhere out there is an old man on his death bed, rambling about the time Elvis swooped in like spiderman and saved them from getting roughed up. And their family thinks it just means it's time to pull the plug.

    • @rainblaze.
      @rainblaze. Рік тому +2

      @@joeydurant6267
      Wonder if he done it in his jumpsuit and rhinestones uh hu hu 😂

    • @Blaskidk03
      @Blaskidk03 4 місяці тому

      @@rainblaze.he did once. After a concert he jumped out of a moving car and broke up a fight at a gas station in his jumpsuit lol

  • @Mandrake42
    @Mandrake42 2 роки тому +25

    Its rich him complaining about "drug culture" considering he spent the decade or so of his life drugged to the eyeballs.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 2 роки тому +11

      "In fact I'm right in the middle of it"

    • @Finn_01
      @Finn_01 Рік тому +6

      He’s done an in-depth study

    • @ianh1504
      @ianh1504 Місяць тому

      he was protecting america from drug use by using all of the drugs

  • @piaauman9020
    @piaauman9020 Рік тому

    how truly odd

  • @jouhannaudjeanfrancois891
    @jouhannaudjeanfrancois891 2 роки тому +4

    I can't wait to have an autobiography about myself...

    • @simonsimon325
      @simonsimon325 Рік тому

      Who would write it though 😉

    • @Grendelynden
      @Grendelynden Рік тому

      Well, if it’s an *auto*biography, waiting won’t accomplish much

  • @Hun_Uinaq
    @Hun_Uinaq 7 місяців тому

    Well……… He meant well. Back then though, the country had enough sense not to get celebrities involved in politics and was better for it. Ever since they did, they basically gave platforms to entertainers with no political sophistication and with disproportionately big voices and the country got crazier and crazier culminating with electing a celebrity president.

  • @OrangeTabbyCat
    @OrangeTabbyCat Рік тому +1

    The drug culture…..😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ElisLS
    @ElisLS 3 роки тому +9

    Eu amo Elvis Presley ❤️

  • @tomwatkins8598
    @tomwatkins8598 Місяць тому

    Elvis breakdown is congruent with Kanye breakdown. Even the oval office meeting. History repeats.

  • @RasheedKhan-he6xx
    @RasheedKhan-he6xx 2 роки тому +5

    Think this was out there? 15 years later they made a Hollywood B-movie actor their President but at least he'd gained a bit of political experience on the way. 30 years after that they chose a reality TV star with no experience at all. It's conceivable that all this could have happened in Elvis' lifetime (he'd be 87 this year had he lived).

  • @jeanhawken4482
    @jeanhawken4482 3 роки тому +20

    Elvis was the same lad who abused legal drugs. Great entertainer but interesting political views.

  • @foots-qt4pk
    @foots-qt4pk Рік тому +4

    Narcissism makes a man ask for a badge to "fight the war on drugs", then dies of an overdose while taking a shit. Oh the irony.

  • @Garbageman28
    @Garbageman28 2 роки тому +3

    Literally the same shit Stephen Segal did with becoming a “sheriff” for that shitty reality show. At least Presley was actually talented.

  • @catfish24
    @catfish24 3 роки тому +5

    Elvis taken names and kicking A--

    • @zacharyforeal
      @zacharyforeal 2 роки тому +2

      Elvis... stealing songs and collecting cash.

    • @Sparrows1121
      @Sparrows1121 Рік тому +1

      @@zacharyforeal Disney woke live action does same thing. So we are all equal now. We all steal and love to share :)

  • @jeffreysteiner5006
    @jeffreysteiner5006 2 роки тому +1

    “Tricky Dicky Nixon”

  • @gingertunstall7739
    @gingertunstall7739 2 роки тому +5

    Elvis wrote "Whomever"? LOL

  • @CaliforniaFarmGirl
    @CaliforniaFarmGirl Рік тому +5

    What’s so funny about this letter?

    • @comet1227
      @comet1227 Рік тому

      Elvis was a habitual drug user to start.

  • @ellenchavez2043
    @ellenchavez2043 Рік тому +3

    Was he high when he wrote this?

  • @justinmas299
    @justinmas299 5 місяців тому +1

    People forget most famous people are stupid too.

  • @merlinames9197
    @merlinames9197 3 роки тому +8

    The King of Music . . . . Elvis Presley.

    • @Gunbudder
      @Gunbudder 2 роки тому +5

      The King of Stealing Music From Black Artists ... Elvis Presley

    • @merlinames9197
      @merlinames9197 2 роки тому +6

      @@Gunbudder Which black artist did he "steal" from? Love that ignorant comment.

    • @JAFanClubPrez
      @JAFanClubPrez Рік тому

      All the black artists back Elvis so this guy is a tool.

    • @Sparrows1121
      @Sparrows1121 Рік тому +1

      @@Gunbudder Eh live action Disney does the same thing, so i dont see the big thing. Sharing is sharing now, we are all equal now

    • @Gothicgirlscout
      @Gothicgirlscout Рік тому

      @@Gunbudder multiculturalism look it up

  • @aahnecroth
    @aahnecroth 2 роки тому

    this is just the plot for top secret

  • @Jay-uc8rm
    @Jay-uc8rm 2 роки тому +12

    Gross - the drug abuser turns on his own

  • @inezgraer5482
    @inezgraer5482 2 роки тому +1

    Not much intellect was there?‽..Well read...thank you.

  • @contact_v148
    @contact_v148 3 роки тому +2

    Cue the laughter , now its nonsense .

  • @mimiruss8444
    @mimiruss8444 Рік тому +4

    We laugh at Elvis saying this, and we applaud are modern stars for saying this, so who’s a bigger fool the people that write the letters claiming to want to be agents are the people that celebrate today, stars and let them dictate policy

    • @ZombieflesheaterZFE
      @ZombieflesheaterZFE 10 місяців тому

      let me guess, you wrote that comment mid-flight, didn't you?

  • @TheKitchenerLeslie
    @TheKitchenerLeslie Рік тому +4

    History has been changed to reflect Nixon's legacy over the years. He was one of the most popular Presidents while in office. He actually did beat Kennedy the first time. Kennedy stole a lot of votes in Hawaii, to a point where the Electors sent delegates to disavow Kennedy and elect Nixon. The President of the Senate, aka The Vice President, could have accepted the Nixon Electors and given Nixon the win. Guess who was the VP? It was Nixon. He felt that if he had become President this way, it would tear the country apart, so he took the hit. All of the Watergate burglars were CIA. CIA didn't like him, especially since he told them he knew they killed JFK. So, they made sure to get "caught" to implicate Nixon. Deep Throat was CIA. Bob Woodward had also worked with the CIA in the past. Everything you know is a lie.

  • @Man_fay_the_Bru
    @Man_fay_the_Bru 2 роки тому

    & if that doesn’t put a different spin on Elvis the hypocrite grass I dunno what will.