Our son was getting bullied at high school. His mum kept telling him to just walk away. I said that doesn't work, they just keep following you because you're an easy target. I suggested my son put up with it for 3 weeks and record the conversation you had with whichever teacher you reported it to, time, date, name, whatever was said. If after that time nothing was done about it then go to the headmaster and report it to him and if still nothing was done report it again to the headmaster. If STILL nothing was done then beat the living snot out of the kid. Our son was extremely patient but no one could say he didnt report it. We got a phone call from the headmaster to come and see him. He told us he had to expel our son for violence against another student and damage to school property. When we asked why he hit the kid the clown said he didnt know so we took out the little book that our son recorded all the times and conversations he had with teachers and nothing was done about it. The jerk then claimed that he should have come to him to which we read out the times he did come see him and HE did nothing to stop it. We told him that since this was all written down it was a legal document and maybe we needed to go to court. He backed down and we said so our son doesnt get expelled and the other kid gets suspended right? As we walked down the hallway we asked our son what school property was damaged. He pointed to a line of school lockers and each had a large dent in the door where he rammed the bullies head. In short, unfortunately, yes you DO have to stand up to bullies.
It's true. You did great man. The teachers in school have failed our children by doing nothing. The same goes for many of the older generation. I believe that the bullying is a major factor that contributes to the school shootings we see in the States.
The same thing was happening to my daughter. So I taught some basics on fighting techniques then told her to tell the teacher and if it still keeps happening then defend yourself and not to worry about if she gets in trouble. Will....We had gotten a call from the school and I ended up explaining everything to the vice principal. We found out that the bully was going around hitting girls and my daughter made it all stop. The boy who did the hitting was the one that got in trouble.
I knew a kid in high school who was "car surfing" - riding on the hood of a friend's car at relatively low speed, until neither one saw the speed bump coming up, and when they hit it, he fell off the hood and the car ran over his leg. He was on crutches for weeks and was known as "Speedbump" for the rest of his high school days.
We had some stupid people like that back when I was in high school. Some of them became known as 'dead'...they even have stones erected to their memory.
Yup… some of my classmates were known as “Spaz” (he had epilepsy); “Jelly” (he was overweight but was a great athlete-when he ran everything on his body shook like Jello); and “Einstein” (always raised his hand first, never a correct answer given). The thing is, these kids were our friends. Their nicknames had nothing to do with bullying, they were terms of endearment. And yeah, as to bullying, if you didn’t take care of it yourself and instead told a teacher or a parent then you were marked for life. Even if you got beat up as a result of standing up for yourself the bully never bothered you again. Children today are learning the worst lesson possible: that there will always be someone there to save you. This is a monstrous lie that’s doing real damage to kids that lasts well into adulthood.
They called me Cousin It. I was kinda the class clown and I would comb my (then) long hair down over my face and put my glasses on over it. You're absolutely right about having to stand up for yourself. After all, you're the only person that you're absolutely CERTAIN will ALWAYS be there to help.
An Adverb, we called Reuben Fat boy all his life and he used to destroy us down low on the basketball court, he had deceptive speed and moves, using his weight to spin off and hit that fadeaway, anyway, his nickname was definitely a term of endearment and he never felt a sense of ridicule because we never did it. I was a shot blocker and I only got him a couple of times in thirty years, he was that good. He would tease us after the fact with the you let the fattest guy on the court routine, laughing hysterically as a group. No damage ever surfaced cause he was one of ours. The damage you speak of is malicious and purposely inflicted in some scenarios, we made a point of making each other laugh, that’s how friends do it. 😉😉😉🎯🎯😂😂😂🤔🤔
Well what about the orphan with the anti-vax parents, this guy throws haymakers with a sly smile for good measure. Love the lack of vulgarity. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎯🎯🎯😂😂😂😂
I loved this, because I'm sick and tired of the epidemic of political correctness. It is almost illegal today, to say or do anything that is disagreeable by other people.
@@edithdlp8045 I’m a 90’s kid - and I was called “Wormy” from about age 9-21 most people inc their parents had no idea what my actual name was..! lol 😂
This guy is a breath of fresh air, we need to take the piss out of ourselves more often. We Aussie's have just adopted you. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
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@@SJ-ym9nl Absolutely, that's why it is so funny, he is a comedian after all. We can on occasions, see that behavior in ourselves and those around us. We need to stop being so precious about 'feelings' and have a good laugh. It appears some people travel life's journey looking for every opportunity to be slighted so they can play the victim. There are amongst us 'Professional Victims', High Maintenance Drama Queens, they need to chill s bit. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
Lol! This guy is funny! As a black person growing up in the 70s/80s. We had nicknames for everybody in the neighborhood even the dogs. I screamed out loud when he talked about Clock! Funny!
Yeah my neighbors had a kid we called bee bop because we challenged him to punch a hornets nest and he did it. Who knew wasps could get so crazy? We had another called gunner. He shot a 12 gauge and broke his shoulder.
This is so perfect. "I'm not done yet". He's not done making fun of Gen Zs. I love this! LOL. I remember my 90s days. I got bullied almost everday and none of the bullies got suspended. It did me well actually. I started growing thick skin and learn to bully the bullies back. hehehe
I ticked my bullies off so bad that they messed up and bullied me in front of teachers/busdrivers. I earned the nickname PSYCHO because my laughter was out of place. I was being brained with a two inch thick textbook. The girl got caught after she screamed in rage because I wouldn't stop laughing. She brought that book down on my head one last time as hard as she could. I lost some much needed brain cells that day, but she was suspended off the bus for two weeks after that. Tried to get out of it because MUMMY was on the school board, but... bus cameras...
I came from Brooklyn NY when it was still the real Brooklyn. We weren’t thin skinned, we were natural, free range kids who laugh at the absurdities of life. We had a childhood. Teachers were professional & excellent at their jobs, dressed like adults neat and clean and we respected them. We had no clue about their home life. We were well mannered and on the whole well brought up by the greatest generation.
Ah the real Brooklyn, I didn't go to Brooklyn much but the change is obvious. If you're a millennial seems like you may have just made it, before it turned.. to what it is now? And I'm not just talking the overly woke stuff that's everywhere now, I mean the gentrification and "popularity" of Brooklyn. IF you're not Millennial my bad, I was brought up by Gen-X mom and baby boomer grandmother - best I could've asked for - so thought maybe....
There is something REALLY HEALTHY about this guy's mind. I'm from his generation or perhaps a little earlier. I agree with Adverb - these were / are terms of endearment to us. I remember one guy in my class who had epilepsy. Everyone knew him as "Twitch". When a grand mal came on, we circled around him to protect him until the episode was over. Twitch was every one's friend.
That mans' comedy is legendary. Things were better when life had consequences and you were accountable. Now we gotta pretend NOT to notice the world around us.
@@rickwendling5735 I'll pay you a hundred bucks if you upload a video of yourself peeing into the wind. Maybe you can also run with scissors and text while driving while you're at it.
The moral of the story - it is better to laugh at oneself than to whine and play the victim. Nowadays, everyone is vying to be the most victimized, whereas in the past, we vyed to be the best survivor.
When I was growing up, in the 70's and 80's, a nickname based upon some unfortunate physical condition, or the outcome of a terrible accident, just meant your friends liked you.
@@KratostheThird People get offended if you have an issue with biological males competing in rugby, boxing or MMA against biological females. The world is a long, running joke with a really sad punchline.
Thank God this guy survived his heart attack because he's one of the funniest people around. Even him being a clean comic he wipes out most of the dirty comedians I like this guy's a genius
@@derrickbailey5167 I somewhat agree with that but don't get me wrong you don't have to be vulgar to be funny but some people just have to look at the greats like Robin Williams George Carlin Rodney Dangerfield just to name a couple of the many and Rodney Dangerfield used to go on TV and The Tonight show with Johnny Carson and he was always clean but told very funny jokes a lot like I said though I guess it really depends on the comedian I don't just look for them to be vulgar to be funny or else I would have not watched about 60 of these comedians on dry Bar comedy and found 50 of them hilarious you know...
@Wasn't Me He didn't have it because if a booster he had it because he had a severe blockage that a previous stress test didn't pick up (which can happen). That doesn't happen overnight it takes years.
He's right, just about everyone had a nickname. I remember a friend of my mom's who was called Tiny because he was fat. My mother's nickname was Moose, she used to be a bouncer when she was young. One of my brothers was called MudTub, another was called Rags, oldest sister was Dolly (totally unfair), the other was called Kyle and I was Dawad. All had convoluted stories. No one would dare give nicknames like that to today's youth because everyone is so concerned about hurting feelings.
And I bet the mom loved being made fun of because of her weight. Why respect your elders when you can mock them for the rest of their life? (sarcasm). It's more than just having hurt feelings. It's about practicing what you preach. You want respect. You want forgiveness. You want to be taken serious. But tell me, what part of that can be found in mocking someone for their "affliction" as Brad calls it. Got drunk one night and puked when you were 19? For the rest of your life, you will be called "vomit". You are no longer Betty. You are Vomit. What a wonderful way to be remembered. Not by your college degree or the love you give people, or your charity. But your vomit. That's all you will ever be known for. Edit: And what's wrong with caring about someone's feelings?
@@aprilosborn1886 Many years ago, I gave up a house in the name of love. She ended up cheating on me. You know what my parents called me? "A mistake" and "A failure". Makes me laugh every time
@@Rising_Pho3nix_23 we would never date call our mother Moose! That was her nickname given to her by her brother when she was young and was because she was 6 ft tall, had a full beard when she didn't shave nd quite muscular which is why I mentioned she used to be a bouncer for a bar and a very successful one. I am fat but there is no way I could be a bouncer. She wasn't one to sit back and cry for herself any more than she would tolerate someone trying to bully her. Does sound like you might be one of those overly sensitive millennials he was referencing because you definitely don't get it.
To give an example of what he means- When I was young in the ‘70s, only about 1 out of every 50 kids wore a bike helmet, and the other kids made fun of them for doing it.
I remember bicycle safety classes in the 70s. We didn't have helmets, but we knew to signal before turning and not to just ride out in front of cars suddenly assuming that they would stop. Those helmets are more important for today's kids who aren't taught any responsibility for their own behavior and think that every car will magically stop on a dime if they dart out in front of them.
@@Primalxbeast Ha! So true. And when I grew up in the 70s, there were no such things as bike helmets. All of the extras we cared about were cards clothes-pinned on your spokes to make noises and streamers coming out of your handlebar grips. 😂
I'm saying you have severe heavy metal poisoning because you're over 45 and breathed the air between the 50s and the 80s and you lack a valid talking point.
I brought a real grenade (powder removed) to my fourth grade class that I got from a military surplus store in the 80s. It accidentally rolled out of my backpack under the teachers desk but nobody noticed. I went to lunch determined to be the first one back to retrieve my property, but while eating saw a janitor holding the grenade talking to the principal from afar and never heard about it again. This would be a national news story today.
@@grumpyoldguy584 Not sure where my reply came from, someone hacked me or maybe one of my kids? But it wasn't me. Sorry all. I totally agree, this clip from Brad is absolutely hilarious.
I grew up in the 1950’s-60’s. Whenever I left home one of my parents would say, “don’t do anything stupid”. I don’t know what my parents were thinking because between me and my buddies that’s exactly what we had planned. Like the time a neighbor nearby was burning some garden clippings and small tree limbs in his garden. We saw a couple old car tires nearby and we rolled one onto the fire. It produced HUGE clouds of BLACK smoke so we rolled two more tires onto the fire. Like Wow suddenly we’ve got a spectacular fire. It wasn’t long and we heard sirens so we ran out to the street to see the fire trucks roll up. The neighbor who started the fire came running out of his house in a panic. We actually admitted to putting the tires on the fire and we got off with a mild scolding thankfully. When they asked us why we did it my friend Joe told the firemen we liked to see fire trucks.
I know it's a joke and I should take it with a pinch of salt, but I do agree that if a kid knocks out his bully parents shouldn't be called. Moron had it coming.
give the kid a parade or a party or ice cream or something!! parents werent ever called when I was growing up. If you had to have a parent at the school then you were in serious trouble!
@@skinnyway I got expelled from kindergarten in 1951 and was simply put outside to walk myself home, which I did. My mother went up in a mushroom cloud when she found out, took me back to school, and ripped that principal a new one.
@@miriambucholtz9315 In 5th grade, a female teacher pulled my ear because I was misbehaving. My mom calmy discussed w/her not to do that anymore. Teacher was a nice, conscientious lady and I was a holy terror that year, but no ear pulling or corporal punishment.
@@rufust.firefly4890 I once had a teacher (Read: Nun) that broke a ruler over my head when she swatted me. I just turned around and looked up at her with a bemused look. I think she felt worse than I did and she never gave me another minute of grief. Its all in how you handle it. No parents ever involved.
I agree. Atleast that will help him let his anger out and sort his own problem right away and he'll most probably won't be planning a school shooting for revenge.
This is so true!! Thing is we laughed about these things together. No one felt upset or felt they needed a "safe space" It taught yiu to haveca sense of humor & be resilient.
I was "thin man" in high school... I was 6 ft. tall, weighed 135 lbs., and ran cross country. 40 years later, I'm still thin, much to the envy of all the beer guts I graduated with.
Yeah I had a similar situation in middle school where I was "the 6 Million Dollar toothpick" and "Bones". I graduated from high school at about 6' 2" and maybe 145 lbs. I am now 6' 2 1/2" and hang out at about 220-225 so not quite so skinny now.
I was also 6 ft. tall and weighed 135 lbs. in high school and ran cross country....but my nickname was "fatty" because I would eat and eat and never gain weight. That problem goes away with age. :)
Born in the late 60s, I DID have friends with one eye (garage door mishap), a few fingers missing (gunpowder), broken legs (moped race), brain damage (me, for reasons I'd rather not talk about... not linked to an accident when climbing in an old quarry) - and we were normal middle class and all went to university and got corporate jobs. Yes, quite a few of us didn't make it past their 20th birthday (cancer, drugs, AIDS, accidents, suicides) but all in all we had lots of fun and were involved in spectacular accidents - what else could you possibly want? At least, our adventures were REAL and not second-hand experiences in a synthetic universe created just for us by some AI.
There was an elementary school boy who was suspended a few years ago for pointing a hand 'gun' at a teacher. Another for carving a (crude) gun out of a piece of soap. It's INSANITY!
"Well, kid....Just face it. It looks like Clock cleaned your clock. And it's about time. Don't pick on him any more, because you might tick him off, and sometimes he just goes cuckoo, and then he strikes. Watch out! Make sure never to wind him up again."
I am so glad to see you back on stage and healthy. Please continue to be safe careful and stay well. The world needs your humor. Thank you for sharing your incredible talent.
@@BradUptonlive1 yes I follow you on Facebook it tells of your show and I repost to let everyone to go as well. You are most welcome; please be safe and stay well. Thank you for the many laughs.
Yep and the oldest millennial is 41 but you will never hear any of the boomers Gen X or anyone else born before that ever acknowledging this --because they want to feel younger than 60-80?? who knows.🤣 It will be 2030 and they will still call 50 year old millennials "20-year -old kids" Forget about Gen Z and Gen Alpha - which are some Millennials' children. Not sure why this is still even a topic lol
You're all millennials. How are you any different? What have you done to set yourselves apart? The world has slowed down and hasn't changed much in the last twenty years. Believe it or not, things seemed so different as time went by and people made a big deal about decades. Do you hear people taking about living in the 'twenties and comparing our lives to the 'teens? Maybe you don't get a generation. We're living in postmodern times and there are no new generations after millenial... I'm just kidding you, call yourselves whatever you want if you want to be classified and stereotyped, I don't care.
5:47 - "Hope you learned to keep your mouth shut!" This is way things should be today regarding bullies, but aren't. Something like that happens today, the teacher immediately has to organize some stupid group-therapy sessions with both sets of kids and parents, think of alternative moderation-behavior techniques, etc., etc., and all this must be done in addition to the teacher's regular workload. Either that or the teacher will immediately get fired. Just one of the hundreds of reasons teachers are leaving the profession in droves.
@@thejuiceking2219 - Agree…but my point was that it doesn’t need to be vulgar to be funny. Just because it’s not vulgar doesn’t mean it’s not offensive. Vulgar stuff can definitely be funny too…but it takes a special talent to do it without vulgarity.
@@grumpyoldguy584 If the only thing you care about is the price of tea in China you missed the point. Oh, wait. You care about more than that I assume. I've seen maybe 50+ of these shows and this was the first, and only, time I've even cared about the audience. I'm subscribed to the channel. I just thought it was an interesting subject and wasn't looking for a spot to see the audience. But hey, nice attempt at thinking you know my entire daily schedule, every thought I have, every intention I have and my whole life story. I don't even know myself that well, and you think you know me at all? Tell me, what's my mother's maiden name? Mr "I know why you come to Drybar" But apparently, you're a "grumpy old guy", so I guess that means you don't care about reality or the truth. You're just looking for a way to insult those younger than you. Sounds familiar. Are you white, by chance?
Agreed.These millennials spend all their time on their phones and listening to music. When they cross the street, looking down at their phones, they get hit by a car.
Exactly correct, back in primary i got a friend literally called "Fatso" to the point he even acknowledge it with "yeaaaa??" when someone scream out "Fatsooo" in the cafeteria or visiting over to his house. Nowadays... It would probably caused several UA-cam videos released about "body shaming".
Facts..I Raised Myself Since I Was 9 & Kids Said I Was Always Smiling,, Laughing & Making Others Do The Same,, When They Thought I Had Absolutely Nothing To Be Happy About,, So They Called Me "Happy" & I've Been Called That Ever Since. (52 Years Later)
I'm a millennial and lots of my friends had nicknames. Had a friend so large in highschool we called him manchild. A friend in college always had drinkable soup she was drinking in class. We called her soup. Had a friend named Liz that went by lizard. One boy in middle school had the nickname frog eyes. Every generation gets and uses nicknames. Bullies will always exist and will never care about being politically correct.
The BEST part of this routine is when the PE teacher comes and says, "What's going on?" Then he sees the bully just got "Clocked" by you guess it "Clock". The Brad says, "In those days that was the end of it". The teacher told the bully, I hope you learned to keep you mouth shut". And THE END. No anger management etc. Ah the days of Common Sense. They are gone forever!!!!
I had a Scoutmaster who handled conflict the old school way. When 2 boys had a major conflict, he took them out back, handed them gloves and it was a 1 round boxing match. Problem solved and no long term passive aggressive nonsense.
@@grumpyoldguy584 I didn't know that. I started hearing it some time around the early 90s and thought that people were using the expression, "cold-cocked " incorrectly. Learn something every day.
Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
And that your pain and suffering doesn't become a defining feature in your life that people name you by and make fun of you about for the rest of your life.
Kids I grew up with; "Wingnut" because he had sticky-out ears. "Splitpin" because he was skinny & had a prominent head. "Dot" because he was small. "Tank" because he was built like one ! And "Eight Ball" because he was black. All terms of endearment - if someone didn't have a nickname it was because no-one liked them.
It's true, we had M-80's and Cherry Bombs to blow up that shook the ground a little bit . We played outside, climbed large trees, jumped off my friends 2nd story roof . We weren't sensitive about everything. There was a girl in school called "The swatted fly". My cousin was "Thunder Thighs". Today I went to the dentist where she was telling me to not eat certain fruits and I said "I can't eat Mandarins"? and as soon as I said it - I regretted it because she was like "What what ? (she's Asian). I didn't mean anything by it - that's what they're called ! Give me back the carefree days ! Today people are sitting on the edge of their seats itching to get upset - it's annoying and no way to live..
So true. We had a girl in 2nd grade we called Kelly booger finger. She picked and ate her boogers all the time. I miss those days. My knick name was Hanna Banana or ears since I hadn’t grown into them yet. Heck, I still haven’t. 🤣🤣
This is genius! Even speaking as someone from Generation X (yes, we exist!), I see his point. I'm glad we actually had to physically do things growing up, like parsing through library card catalogs and participating in actual, not virtual, human interaction. If they shut down the internet for a year and made these kids live without it just that long, they would change for the better. The internet is great, but it was never designed to replace participation in the real world, with actual people. We need to interact with human beings directly and when we can get back to this, we will find we have more compassion for each other. Plus, I enjoy interacting with people in ways that data miners can't trace.
Getting called by your deformity or your physical deficiency during your childhood, by people who you knew were real friends and who were always happy to see you, installs deep within your brain, at the level of base programming where it cannot be rooted out, the sure knowledge that you have value that transcends your physicality and that you are lovable. With your parents you are loved but they are your parents, you expect that they will love you, just as they expect that one day you will leave home to make you way in the wide world. So being loved by parents does not make you believe that you are lovable. That certainty you can only get from peer/age group friends at a young age. My friend from Puerto Rico told me about a young boy on crutches that she knew growing up whom everyone called “cripple”. She said that the boys would have foot races in the street and that cripple would be right there racing with them. She said he was fast on his crutches. He never won, but he never came in last either. Most importantly he was always included in all the activities, and that had to have benefited him tremendously with his sense of belonging, acceptance, and self worth.
Spot on. What people take as cruelty, nowadays, was a rite of passage, then. And like all rites of passage, they affirmed your place in the group. In my group of friends, many of these names had a racial component. I called my half Cherokee, half Polish friend Sakajawaski. When my buddies found out I was 1/4 Syrian, they named me Camel, and still call me that 35 years later.
Good thoughts all, but bottom line is this: do you not understand and/or enjoy the nature of comedy? Laughing and crying are basically the same release, and the best comedy touches on reality in order to make us laugh about the human condition we all share. If you are going to be offended or feel like you must wax poetic about a comedy routine, may I humbly suggest you NOT listen to good comedy….
Had a guy I knew as a kid who lost an arm in a farm accident and was known as Hook. He's upgraded his appendage since but I've him called him Hook for the last 55 years
I was tiny when at school, so I wasn't a threat to anyone & never got picked on. 😉 I remember when others fought, if one had the upper hand, they asked the rival if they'd had enough, then put out a hand to get them to their feet, both shook hands & it was over. It makes me pewk that nowadays knife wielding scumbags gang up on an innocent person & kick them while they're down. Bring back the good ol' days.
How he didn't use clock as a verb is beyond me. It was right there. 'He got clocked' was what I was waiting for. My daughter on the other hand said 'you got clocked TF out' 😂
What he is saying is so much to the truth. No one thought students with handicaps, had handicaps. They we just another kid. I’m 67, best years ever as a kid. It was all about living and fun. As soon as attorneys took over, it was all over.
Had a kid I grew up down the strret from, we called him Arthur the Arson, he had tried to burn his house down, TWICE! My brother got called Epi after he had his first epeileptic seizure. It's what we grew up with and nobody called the cops because it might have hurt someone's feelings, because it didn't! This guy is genius!
Well, us gen-Xers were latchkey kids, so we were pretty much defined by not having parental supervision, so the generations after us were the ones who had helicopter parents.
So funny. We had a guy we called "Tooter". He'd do the worse smelling ones when in the classroom in the summer. We didn't have AC back then. And fans were to loud so the smell would linger. Never knew his real name.
Great comedian. Clean and funny. One thing to think about. The younger generations are soft and definitely less life skilled in certain areas, but they didn't get that way magically. Makes you think the parents are right there with them, not as good as they used to be. Just calling it like it is. 😎
I raised all 4 of my kids and a nephew the way I was raised. They are all self sufficient and resilient without any real problems. They are all employed and productive members of society.
So true. I got in a fight in middle school. A teacher stopped us in the middle of it and order us to go in opposite directions. Done. No parents called.
“Any 20 somethings?” Well, I’m 32 and am a millennial. And this was basically my childhood. One of my best friends was called fingers because he was born without thumbs. Some of us are coming up on middle aged.
Yep. Growing up in the 60's and 70's was fun. There was a fat kid in class, his nickname was Teeny. Another kid of Italian descent they called Whoppo, and both of them actually answered to their names. Didn't bother them. Teeny went on to college to play football where he got his degree, and Whoppo opened a successful business which is still thriving today. Yeah, we all had nicknames, got in fights, got picked on, but it built character. Today you couldn't get away with that. People are offended and the sensitive kids become victims instead of learning to cope, they regress into what we have today in society.
I wish DRYBAR would go public; I'd seriously buy a ton of stock. NOTHING in this world is more desirable than EXCELLENT CLEAN comedy. EVERYONE LOVES TO LAUGH.
Oh god, I am SO glad I grew up when I did! A nickname was a badge of honour - now it's called 'bullying' and the nicknamed person is a 'victim of bullying'. I was always disappointed that I was too ordinary to warrant a nickname but in my late 20's I got a part-time job in a Boy's Club where my group, early teens, nicknamed me Olive Oyl. I wasn't thrilled about it until the club leader told me it meant they accepted me. How have we got from a time when people strove to be strong or stoical to where everyone wants to be a victim?
Here's the thing...if everybody in that group has a non-flattering nickname, then they're all on common ground. They poke fun at people they like (those nicknames are created among friends), and they also know what is it like to be poked fun at. The problem to me is when nicknames are given from outside of these circles, with the intention to hurt or humiliate, without receiving a non-flattering public nickname themselves.
Right. See my comment . . . If anyone but my girls called me Twit, it was on! And we only used them among ourselves; I doubt anyone outside our group were even aware of the nicknames.
He is trying to illustrate that we have become too sensitive and by trying to protect the kids who have an affliction of some sort by harshly punishing the ones who poke fun at them, we are losing our freedoms. I grew up being heavy, and the first 3 letters of my last name are FAT. Can you imagine the taunts I received? My sisters also grew up heavy with the same last name. It was difficult and we all cried occasionally. The world can’t be sterile and sooner or later your feelings get hurt. It’s like walking barefoot the first time after the winter. Initially it hurts your feet, but as you get used to it, it doesn’t hurt that much and before long, you are running barefoot over the grass and sticks.
Ana unfortunately you are wrong. many nicknames were given to kids they didn't know or play with, someone could have 3-4 from different groups. It was not always done to be mean, many times they would use it in public to try to get the other to come play in an attempt to be friendly. if the kid didn't accept the name then they would get ribbed about it. this teaches you that you cant think of your self as better than others. Which is a valuable lesson. as kids grew older the using of nicknames would pretty much go away as they realize its not an adult thing to do, but the social lessons stuck with you. It is that lack of social interaction which teaches you things as a child which are missing from society today.
I'm 32 I think that's millennial and I was bought up rough and played outside etx with a dad who didn't care if I was hurt. Think he's talking about Gen z. But either way, not everyone's bought up the same.
We didn't really have nicknames, but we had fun with each other. Nobody got offended, nobody cared about feelings. It wasn't nasty, just the normal chivvying. In its own little way it helped toughen you up.
Some of us had nicknames. One was 'Wingnut' (ears stuck out), and there was 'Wayne Kerr' (surname was actually Kerr), Fish (because he ate sardines for lunch), 'Mr Bateman' (surname was Bateman). One kid called me 'Monsieur Règle' (francophiles will get that one).
When you say "nobody got offended," what you really mean is nobody was willing to take on the whole class in a fight. In reality, the people who are dishing out the insults are rarely offended by them.
I grew up in the country. I was barefoot in warm weather running in the woods, on the gravel road, riding my bike down a hill no hands, riding a go-cart that was too big for me, climbing up the oil drum then to the roof, then jumping off trying to land as far out as I could, plowing the field on a big farm all tractor age 11. No helmets, no shin guards, no shoes. That was in the 1950s.
You're made of brave stout stuff Millieo. I had a great childhood, my dad had been permanently injured on a tractor accident growing up. Still he raised me and my brother to be real men and to take on bullies and always do what was right. He was protective, but would not shelter us from everyday life and he knew how to have fun.
I laughed untill I cried...this is SO true. The world changed for the worse...when we were kids, we sorted ourselves out, some mess, some fuss, but afterwards we were friends mostly. These days the media dictates everything and makes things more difficult most of the time....
Our son was getting bullied at high school. His mum kept telling him to just walk away. I said that doesn't work, they just keep following you because you're an easy target. I suggested my son put up with it for 3 weeks and record the conversation you had with whichever teacher you reported it to, time, date, name, whatever was said. If after that time nothing was done about it then go to the headmaster and report it to him and if still nothing was done report it again to the headmaster. If STILL nothing was done then beat the living snot out of the kid. Our son was extremely patient but no one could say he didnt report it.
We got a phone call from the headmaster to come and see him. He told us he had to expel our son for violence against another student and damage to school property. When we asked why he hit the kid the clown said he didnt know so we took out the little book that our son recorded all the times and conversations he had with teachers and nothing was done about it. The jerk then claimed that he should have come to him to which we read out the times he did come see him and HE did nothing to stop it. We told him that since this was all written down it was a legal document and maybe we needed to go to court. He backed down and we said so our son doesnt get expelled and the other kid gets suspended right?
As we walked down the hallway we asked our son what school property was damaged. He pointed to a line of school lockers and each had a large dent in the door where he rammed the bullies head.
In short, unfortunately, yes you DO have to stand up to bullies.
Yes and sometimes standing up to them doesn't work, but at least you've got your pride and some new assertiveness skills.
Why didn’t you go to school and rage out on the stupid teachers
It's true. You did great man. The teachers in school have failed our children by doing nothing. The same goes for many of the older generation. I believe that the bullying is a major factor that contributes to the school shootings we see in the States.
The same thing was happening to my daughter. So I taught some basics on fighting techniques then told her to tell the teacher and if it still keeps happening then defend yourself and not to worry about if she gets in trouble.
Will....We had gotten a call from the school and I ended up explaining everything to the vice principal. We found out that the bully was going around hitting girls and my daughter made it all stop. The boy who did the hitting was the one that got in trouble.
@@FreeJulianAssange23because he was teaching his son to handle it himself.
I knew a kid in high school who was "car surfing" - riding on the hood of a friend's car at relatively low speed, until neither one saw the speed bump coming up, and when they hit it, he fell off the hood and the car ran over his leg. He was on crutches for weeks and was known as "Speedbump" for the rest of his high school days.
That's funny!
This is how you earned your nickname - through pain and humiliation!
We had some stupid people like that back when I was in high school. Some of them became known as 'dead'...they even have stones erected to their memory.
That’s hilarious 😂
I fell off the stairs and sprained my left leg once and they used to call me lame for the rest of high school lol
Yup… some of my classmates were known as “Spaz” (he had epilepsy); “Jelly” (he was overweight but was a great athlete-when he ran everything on his body shook like Jello); and “Einstein” (always raised his hand first, never a correct answer given). The thing is, these kids were our friends. Their nicknames had nothing to do with bullying, they were terms of endearment. And yeah, as to bullying, if you didn’t take care of it yourself and instead told a teacher or a parent then you were marked for life. Even if you got beat up as a result of standing up for yourself the bully never bothered you again. Children today are learning the worst lesson possible: that there will always be someone there to save you. This is a monstrous lie that’s doing real damage to kids that lasts well into adulthood.
They called me Cousin It. I was kinda the class clown and I would comb my (then) long hair down over my face and put my glasses on over it.
You're absolutely right about having to stand up for yourself. After all, you're the only person that you're absolutely CERTAIN will ALWAYS be there to help.
I too was cousin itt. My hair was down to ankles
@@patricia7823 WOW that IS long! Mine was only about waist length.
An Adverb, we called Reuben Fat boy all his life and he used to destroy us down low on the basketball court, he had deceptive speed and moves, using his weight to spin off and hit that fadeaway, anyway, his nickname was definitely a term of endearment and he never felt a sense of ridicule because we never did it. I was a shot blocker and I only got him a couple of times in thirty years, he was that good. He would tease us after the fact with the you let the fattest guy on the court routine, laughing hysterically as a group. No damage ever surfaced cause he was one of ours. The damage you speak of is malicious and purposely inflicted in some scenarios, we made a point of making each other laugh, that’s how friends do it. 😉😉😉🎯🎯😂😂😂🤔🤔
YOU ARE SO CORRECT AND SMART.
Im part of this young generation and this man is the voice in my head on a day to day basis. Pure gold!!!
I grew up in the UK in the 60's and we had nick names like this to. I'm not saying everyone liked them, but it certainly toughened you up for life.
When he described Clock knocking out the bully, I kept waiting for the “guy got clocked” punch line. Nevermind.
Same here. Missed opportunity. Still funny as hell though. He's the reason I subscribed to drybar
Well what about the orphan with the anti-vax parents, this guy throws haymakers with a sly smile for good measure. Love the lack of vulgarity. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎯🎯🎯😂😂😂😂
Same here, my daughter on the other hand channeled her best smokey & said 'you got clocked TF out man!'😂💀
Nowadays kids in school dont get punched they get shot. The new guy got glock'd.
Exactly what I was thinking
I loved this, because I'm sick and tired of the epidemic of political correctness. It is almost illegal today, to say or do anything that is disagreeable by other people.
Stand out of the crowd, and do not be politically correct. People will like you better for it.
Ask Jordan Peterson.
I am with you on that… I havnt heard such funny real life based comedy for a while - this guy had me in stitches 😂
@@edithdlp8045 I’m a 90’s kid - and I was called “Wormy” from about age 9-21 most people inc their parents had no idea what my actual name was..! lol 😂
That’s why I just stopped talking to people
This guy is a breath of fresh air, we need to take the piss out of ourselves more often. We Aussie's have just adopted you. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
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You do understand that he completely made up every story in order to justify his current views, right?
@@SJ-ym9nl Absolutely, that's why it is so funny, he is a comedian after all. We can on occasions, see that behavior in ourselves and those around us. We need to stop being so precious about 'feelings' and have a good laugh. It appears some people travel life's journey looking for every opportunity to be slighted so they can play the victim. There are amongst us 'Professional Victims', High Maintenance Drama Queens, they need to chill s bit. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
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Lol! This guy is funny! As a black person growing up in the 70s/80s. We had nicknames for everybody in the neighborhood even the dogs. I screamed out loud when he talked about Clock! Funny!
Now you can't give people nicknames without them acting offended.
Yeah my neighbors had a kid we called bee bop because we challenged him to punch a hornets nest and he did it. Who knew wasps could get so crazy?
We had another called gunner. He shot a 12 gauge and broke his shoulder.
Google: Fat Albert and the gang
This is so perfect. "I'm not done yet". He's not done making fun of Gen Zs. I love this! LOL. I remember my 90s days. I got bullied almost everday and none of the bullies got suspended. It did me well actually. I started growing thick skin and learn to bully the bullies back. hehehe
He is mostly making fun of his own generation.
never bully the bullies back, that's weakness right there
just take the blows
yep thats how we did it back then make fun of me make fun of me one day boom thats enough knocked u out and all are cool again heheh
@@thejuiceking2219Nah, you ALWAYS b√ll¥ the b√ll|€$ back. FACTS.
I ticked my bullies off so bad that they messed up and bullied me in front of teachers/busdrivers. I earned the nickname PSYCHO because my laughter was out of place. I was being brained with a two inch thick textbook. The girl got caught after she screamed in rage because I wouldn't stop laughing. She brought that book down on my head one last time as hard as she could. I lost some much needed brain cells that day, but she was suspended off the bus for two weeks after that. Tried to get out of it because MUMMY was on the school board, but... bus cameras...
I came from Brooklyn NY when it was still the real Brooklyn. We weren’t thin skinned, we were natural, free range kids who laugh at the absurdities of life. We had a childhood. Teachers were professional & excellent at their jobs, dressed like adults neat and clean and we respected them. We had no clue about their home life. We were well mannered and on the whole well brought up by the greatest generation.
I grew up in NE PA, and many of our teachers were WWII and Korean war veterans, so they were tough men who didn't put up with nonsense.
happy hannukah
Ah the real Brooklyn, I didn't go to Brooklyn much but the change is obvious. If you're a millennial seems like you may have just made it, before it turned.. to what it is now? And I'm not just talking the overly woke stuff that's everywhere now, I mean the gentrification and "popularity" of Brooklyn.
IF you're not Millennial my bad, I was brought up by Gen-X mom and baby boomer grandmother - best I could've asked for - so thought maybe....
Bensonhurst - The Saturday Night Fever days - Great fkin times - All about RESPECK!
Stick Ball and Iron Tag.
There is something REALLY HEALTHY about this guy's mind. I'm from his generation or perhaps a little earlier. I agree with Adverb - these were / are terms of endearment to us. I remember one guy in my class who had epilepsy. Everyone knew him as "Twitch". When a grand mal came on, we circled around him to protect him until the episode was over. Twitch was every one's friend.
Now "Twitch" is avoided.
When You Are Given An Affectionate NickName,Then You Know You Are Loved!!!!👼👼💝💝🤣🤣🥰🥰🌌🕊️🌌🕊️
"if you let us call you 'Twitch', nobody else EVER will"
I used to work in an aircraft hanger with a bunch of rough looking mechanics. One guy had one big tooth in front and we all called him Chicklet
Ok Butt Man
That mans' comedy is legendary. Things were better when life had consequences and you were accountable. Now we gotta pretend NOT to notice the world around us.
Very true.
You can pretend not to notice. I prefer to poke the bear, stir the pot and tug Superman’s cape! When feeling really bold I pee into the wind.
@@rickwendling5735 I'll pay you a hundred bucks if you upload a video of yourself peeing into the wind. Maybe you can also run with scissors and text while driving while you're at it.
@@rickwendling5735 ...and you don't mess around with Jim
totally agree
The moral of the story - it is better to laugh at oneself than to whine and play the victim. Nowadays, everyone is vying to be the most victimized, whereas in the past, we vyed to be the best survivor.
In the book Fried Green Tomatoes, a kid loses an arm and his “aunt” lovingly nicknames him Stump for that very reason.
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People these days look for reasons to be offended.
When I was growing up, in the 70's and 80's, a nickname based upon some unfortunate physical condition, or the outcome of a terrible accident, just meant your friends liked you.
Now people get offended.
@@KratostheThird People get offended if you have an issue with biological males competing in rugby, boxing or MMA against biological females. The world is a long, running joke with a really sad punchline.
Thank God this guy survived his heart attack because he's one of the funniest people around. Even him being a clean comic he wipes out most of the dirty comedians I like this guy's a genius
Jay, Brad is around my age and his take on things tickles me to the core. The true art is the LACK of vulgarity. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😂😂😂😂
@@derrickbailey5167 I somewhat agree with that but don't get me wrong you don't have to be vulgar to be funny but some people just have to look at the greats like Robin Williams George Carlin Rodney Dangerfield just to name a couple of the many and Rodney Dangerfield used to go on TV and The Tonight show with Johnny Carson and he was always clean but told very funny jokes a lot like I said though I guess it really depends on the comedian I don't just look for them to be vulgar to be funny or else I would have not watched about 60 of these comedians on dry Bar comedy and found 50 of them hilarious you know...
That makes his vaxx joke very ironic.
@@alntr2872 No it doesn't lol
@Wasn't Me He didn't have it because if a booster he had it because he had a severe blockage that a previous stress test didn't pick up (which can happen). That doesn't happen overnight it takes years.
He's right, just about everyone had a nickname. I remember a friend of my mom's who was called Tiny because he was fat. My mother's nickname was Moose, she used to be a bouncer when she was young. One of my brothers was called MudTub, another was called Rags, oldest sister was Dolly (totally unfair), the other was called Kyle and I was Dawad. All had convoluted stories.
No one would dare give nicknames like that to today's youth because everyone is so concerned about hurting feelings.
And I bet the mom loved being made fun of because of her weight. Why respect your elders when you can mock them for the rest of their life? (sarcasm). It's more than just having hurt feelings. It's about practicing what you preach. You want respect. You want forgiveness. You want to be taken serious. But tell me, what part of that can be found in mocking someone for their "affliction" as Brad calls it. Got drunk one night and puked when you were 19? For the rest of your life, you will be called "vomit". You are no longer Betty. You are Vomit. What a wonderful way to be remembered. Not by your college degree or the love you give people, or your charity. But your vomit. That's all you will ever be known for.
Edit: And what's wrong with caring about someone's feelings?
You could write a song with all those nicknames and explanations, that's hilarious, we all had nicknames, we still do
@@aprilosborn1886 Many years ago, I gave up a house in the name of love. She ended up cheating on me. You know what my parents called me? "A mistake" and "A failure". Makes me laugh every time
@@Rising_Pho3nix_23 we would never date call our mother Moose! That was her nickname given to her by her brother when she was young and was because she was 6 ft tall, had a full beard when she didn't shave nd quite muscular which is why I mentioned she used to be a bouncer for a bar and a very successful one. I am fat but there is no way I could be a bouncer. She wasn't one to sit back and cry for herself any more than she would tolerate someone trying to bully her.
Does sound like you might be one of those overly sensitive millennials he was referencing because you definitely don't get it.
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To give an example of what he means- When I was young in the ‘70s, only about 1 out of every 50 kids wore a bike helmet, and the other kids made fun of them for doing it.
We didn't know what they were. We did however know how to ride & maneuver one at an early age 😀
I remember bicycle safety classes in the 70s. We didn't have helmets, but we knew to signal before turning and not to just ride out in front of cars suddenly assuming that they would stop. Those helmets are more important for today's kids who aren't taught any responsibility for their own behavior and think that every car will magically stop on a dime if they dart out in front of them.
@@Primalxbeast
Ha! So true. And when I grew up in the 70s, there were no such things as bike helmets. All of the extras we cared about were cards clothes-pinned on your spokes to make noises and streamers coming out of your handlebar grips. 😂
Possibly related to "Leaded Gasoline"
I'm saying you have severe heavy metal poisoning because you're over 45 and breathed the air between the 50s and the 80s and you lack a valid talking point.
I brought a real grenade (powder removed) to my fourth grade class that I got from a military surplus store in the 80s. It accidentally rolled out of my backpack under the teachers desk but nobody noticed. I went to lunch determined to be the first one back to retrieve my property, but while eating saw a janitor holding the grenade talking to the principal from afar and never heard about it again. This would be a national news story today.
...today they wouldn't remove the powder because they don'y know what is inside...
A woman is suing Sesame Street for $48M because one of characters didn’t speak to her kids during a parade. No wonder the kids today are so messed up!
Gimme a break! What have we come to?!
I always feel bad about being old until I watch guys like Brad and realize how funny we are!
Shala Carter: don't forget REALISTIC!
Just because he's funny doesn't mean you are
@@grumpyoldguy584 Not sure where my reply came from, someone hacked me or maybe one of my kids? But it wasn't me. Sorry all. I totally agree, this clip from Brad is absolutely hilarious.
@@RichardGines I bet your kid is a soft millennial .
Why on earth would you feel bad about getting older? When did age become an insult?
Brad is hilarious. No vulgarities, just funny as can be.
This was my first time ever seeing Brad Upton. Absolutely hilarious! He's got a real gift.
He popped up on here while I was driving to Spain last Xmas... nearly choked with his 'Bi-athlon' skit...funny guy!
I grew up in the 1950’s-60’s. Whenever I left home one of my parents would say, “don’t do anything stupid”. I don’t know what my parents were thinking because between me and my buddies that’s exactly what we had planned.
Like the time a neighbor nearby was burning some garden clippings and small tree limbs in his garden. We saw a couple old car tires nearby and we rolled one onto the fire. It produced HUGE clouds of BLACK smoke so we rolled two more tires onto the fire. Like Wow suddenly we’ve got a spectacular fire.
It wasn’t long and we heard sirens so we ran out to the street to see the fire trucks roll up. The neighbor who started the fire came running out of his house in a panic.
We actually admitted to putting the tires on the fire and we got off with a mild scolding thankfully.
When they asked us why we did it my friend Joe told the firemen we liked to see fire trucks.
Love this kind of comedy. Just clean and real life.
I know it's a joke and I should take it with a pinch of salt, but I do agree that if a kid knocks out his bully parents shouldn't be called. Moron had it coming.
give the kid a parade or a party or ice cream or something!! parents werent ever called when I was growing up. If you had to have a parent at the school then you were in serious trouble!
@@skinnyway I got expelled from kindergarten in 1951 and was simply put outside to walk myself home, which I did. My mother went up in a mushroom cloud when she found out, took me back to school, and ripped that principal a new one.
@@miriambucholtz9315 In 5th grade, a female teacher pulled my ear because I was misbehaving. My mom calmy discussed w/her not to do that anymore. Teacher was a nice, conscientious lady and I was a holy terror that year, but no ear pulling or corporal punishment.
@@rufust.firefly4890 I once had a teacher (Read: Nun) that broke a ruler over my head when she swatted me. I just turned around and looked up at her with a bemused look. I think she felt worse than I did and she never gave me another minute of grief. Its all in how you handle it. No parents ever involved.
I agree. Atleast that will help him let his anger out and sort his own problem right away and he'll most probably won't be planning a school shooting for revenge.
His was one of the first Dry Bar specials I watched, loved it and so glad he's back!
Same here! 🙂
Same for me! 😁
As a viola player, that nickname had me in stitches! 😂
So glad they brought Brad Upton back, he's one of the best.
This is so true!! Thing is we laughed about these things together. No one felt upset or felt they needed a "safe space"
It taught yiu to haveca sense of humor & be resilient.
Yeah rape victims are hilarious, I laugh at them to.
It's funny when people millennial bash without even knowing what a millennial is.
Millennial= perpetually offended victims who never chose to grow up.
Found one.
I was "thin man" in high school... I was 6 ft. tall, weighed 135 lbs., and ran cross country. 40 years later, I'm still thin, much to the envy of all the beer guts I graduated with.
lmao.....
I'm out of high school since 1996 and I can still wear my FFA jacket.
Yeah I had a similar situation in middle school where I was "the 6 Million Dollar toothpick" and "Bones". I graduated from high school at about 6' 2" and maybe 145 lbs. I am now 6' 2 1/2" and hang out at about 220-225 so not quite so skinny now.
I was also 6 ft. tall and weighed 135 lbs. in high school and ran cross country....but my nickname was "fatty" because I would eat and eat and never gain weight. That problem goes away with age. :)
@@davidscott202 Is that weight from muscles or fat ? ^^
Born in the late 60s, I DID have friends with one eye (garage door mishap), a few fingers missing (gunpowder), broken legs (moped race), brain damage (me, for reasons I'd rather not talk about... not linked to an accident when climbing in an old quarry) - and we were normal middle class and all went to university and got corporate jobs. Yes, quite a few of us didn't make it past their 20th birthday (cancer, drugs, AIDS, accidents, suicides) but all in all we had lots of fun and were involved in spectacular accidents - what else could you possibly want? At least, our adventures were REAL and not second-hand experiences in a synthetic universe created just for us by some AI.
He's Funny without cussing.
Now the kids play video games and are glued to the screen almost 24/7.
He always manages to make me laugh.
I am so happy to be in the same timeline with people like him who can make people's worries go away.
That's racist! j/k
Genuinely funny. No foul language or DUMBASSERY...Brad is KING❤
There was an elementary school boy who was suspended a few years ago for pointing a hand 'gun' at a teacher. Another for carving a (crude) gun out of a piece of soap. It's INSANITY!
"Well, kid....Just face it. It looks like Clock cleaned your clock. And it's about time. Don't pick on him any more, because you might tick him off, and sometimes he just goes cuckoo, and then he strikes. Watch out! Make sure never to wind him up again."
I am so glad to see you back on stage and healthy. Please continue to be safe careful and stay well. The world needs your humor. Thank you for sharing your incredible talent.
Thanks dear I really appreciate you and did you still get to any of my shows recently…?
@@BradUptonlive1 yes I follow you on Facebook it tells of your show and I repost to let everyone to go as well. You are most welcome; please be safe and stay well. Thank you for the many laughs.
I love Brad! I do feel like people always lump Millennials together with Gen Z though lol. The youngest millennial is 26 (in 2022).
Thank you!
Yep and the oldest millennial is 41 but you will never hear any of the boomers Gen X or anyone else born before that ever acknowledging this --because they want to feel younger than 60-80?? who knows.🤣 It will be 2030 and they will still call 50 year old millennials "20-year -old kids" Forget about Gen Z and Gen Alpha - which are some Millennials' children. Not sure why this is still even a topic lol
You must be, "emotionally weak".
Came down to the comments just for this. He's talking about Centennials, not Millennials.
You're all millennials. How are you any different? What have you done to set yourselves apart? The world has slowed down and hasn't changed much in the last twenty years. Believe it or not, things seemed so different as time went by and people made a big deal about decades. Do you hear people taking about living in the 'twenties and comparing our lives to the 'teens? Maybe you don't get a generation. We're living in postmodern times and there are no new generations after millenial... I'm just kidding you, call yourselves whatever you want if you want to be classified and stereotyped, I don't care.
5:47 - "Hope you learned to keep your mouth shut!" This is way things should be today regarding bullies, but aren't. Something like that happens today, the teacher immediately has to organize some stupid group-therapy sessions with both sets of kids and parents, think of alternative moderation-behavior techniques, etc., etc., and all this must be done in addition to the teacher's regular workload. Either that or the teacher will immediately get fired. Just one of the hundreds of reasons teachers are leaving the profession in droves.
I L❤VE this gentleman, Mr. Brad Upton! Thanks so much and God bless 🙏 🌹
This guy is proof comedy is still alive.🤣
I bet if he played at a college there would be bomb threats and riots. It's the world we live in.
And also proof that you can be funny without being vulgar. It take brains to do that.
Him and Jim Breuer.
@@dewrus2153 if it ain't offensive, it ain't funny
simple as
@@thejuiceking2219 - Agree…but my point was that it doesn’t need to be vulgar to be funny. Just because it’s not vulgar doesn’t mean it’s not offensive. Vulgar stuff can definitely be funny too…but it takes a special talent to do it without vulgarity.
LOVE THESE !! I'm cryin' !. Nothing funnier than true stories, and SO GLAD THEY ARE ALL CLEAN !!
Brad is a diamond...man...my dad and I love watching his standup. Rare for cross generational comedy...awesome! Keep it up!
cross generation? I was only able to find 4 people out of the 200 audience that wasn't a white middle age person.
@@Rising_Pho3nix_23 I was using myself and father as an example. Can't forget people that watch online with fam.
@@grumpyoldguy584 If the only thing you care about is the price of tea in China you missed the point. Oh, wait. You care about more than that I assume. I've seen maybe 50+ of these shows and this was the first, and only, time I've even cared about the audience. I'm subscribed to the channel. I just thought it was an interesting subject and wasn't looking for a spot to see the audience.
But hey, nice attempt at thinking you know my entire daily schedule, every thought I have, every intention I have and my whole life story. I don't even know myself that well, and you think you know me at all? Tell me, what's my mother's maiden name? Mr "I know why you come to Drybar"
But apparently, you're a "grumpy old guy", so I guess that means you don't care about reality or the truth. You're just looking for a way to insult those younger than you. Sounds familiar. Are you white, by chance?
It's not generational...always about intelligence...emotional, mental etc....or lack of it.
@@HerenowGoneforever intelligence is generational, we used to have it in the older generations, and the younger generations have no intelligence
By far the funniest comedy I‘ve watched and listened to lately 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Agreed.These millennials spend all their time on their phones and listening to music. When they cross the street, looking down at their phones, they get hit by a car.
So glad to see him back and in better health! He looks fantastic! Thank you for the laughs, can't wait to see the full show!!!
Exactly correct, back in primary i got a friend literally called "Fatso" to the point he even acknowledge it with "yeaaaa??" when someone scream out "Fatsooo" in the cafeteria or visiting over to his house.
Nowadays... It would probably caused several UA-cam videos released about "body shaming".
So it's OK as long as you eventually get them to stop objecting. Got it.
Facts..I Raised Myself Since I Was 9 & Kids Said I Was Always Smiling,, Laughing & Making Others Do The Same,, When They Thought I Had Absolutely Nothing To Be Happy About,, So They Called Me "Happy" & I've Been Called That Ever Since. (52 Years Later)
I'm a millennial and lots of my friends had nicknames. Had a friend so large in highschool we called him manchild. A friend in college always had drinkable soup she was drinking in class. We called her soup. Had a friend named Liz that went by lizard. One boy in middle school had the nickname frog eyes.
Every generation gets and uses nicknames. Bullies will always exist and will never care about being politically correct.
No.. real Americans.. I.E. republicans hate political correctness..
@@martywatts7274what are you talking about? Republicans came up with political correctness in the first place
In the early eighties I got arrested they knew my name along with all my nicknames they even threw in a couple of nicknames I've never heard of😂
The BEST part of this routine is when the PE teacher comes and says, "What's going on?" Then he sees the bully just got "Clocked" by you guess it "Clock". The Brad says, "In those days that was the end of it". The teacher told the bully, I hope you learned to keep you mouth shut". And THE END. No anger management etc. Ah the days of Common Sense. They are gone forever!!!!
I had a Scoutmaster who handled conflict the old school way. When 2 boys had a major conflict, he took them out back, handed them gloves and it was a 1 round boxing match. Problem solved and no long term passive aggressive nonsense.
he's killin' it...dead on accurate depiction of school back in the day
I thought for sure he was gonna say he clocked'em 🤣😂🤣😂
Oh my God, me too!
Me too, I was waiting for it!
I don't think that expression was in vogue back then.
@@grumpyoldguy584 I didn't know that. I started hearing it some time around the early 90s and thought that people were using the expression, "cold-cocked " incorrectly. Learn something every day.
me too!
Only a 7 minute video. I could watch this guy all day.
Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
Very kind of you!! Hope all is well for you as well
God bless you🙏🏾
And that your pain and suffering doesn't become a defining feature in your life that people name you by and make fun of you about for the rest of your life.
Thank you!!!! I really felt your kindness!
I have known Brad for years!
Really a great guy..he is a master of the comedy craft.
Well worth watching...
Remember when people knew how to laugh at themselves?...and somehow survived?
Consequences don't exist now days
Kids I grew up with; "Wingnut" because he had sticky-out ears. "Splitpin" because he was skinny & had a prominent head. "Dot" because he was small. "Tank" because he was built like one ! And "Eight Ball" because he was black.
All terms of endearment - if someone didn't have a nickname it was because no-one liked them.
I love this guy’s sense of humor. “Clock”!
Comedy is just truth, humorously told. Not many do it better than Mr. Upton. Cheers.
It's true, we had M-80's and Cherry Bombs to blow up that shook the ground a little bit . We played outside, climbed large trees, jumped off my friends 2nd story roof . We weren't sensitive about everything. There was a girl in school called "The swatted fly". My cousin was "Thunder Thighs". Today I went to the dentist where she was telling me to not eat certain fruits and I said "I can't eat Mandarins"? and as soon as I said it - I regretted it because she was like "What what ? (she's Asian). I didn't mean anything by it - that's what they're called ! Give me back the carefree days ! Today people are sitting on the edge of their seats itching to get upset - it's annoying and no way to live..
So true. We had a girl in 2nd grade we called Kelly booger finger. She picked and ate her boogers all the time. I miss those days. My knick name was Hanna Banana or ears since I hadn’t grown into them yet. Heck, I still haven’t. 🤣🤣
I would have just responded "It's a fruit. Have you never heard of it?"
Agreed.
M-80s were outlawed by the time I was a kid. Which is why we just made sparkler bombs instead.
When I was younger, we had heavy steel blue revolvers that were kid's toy guns, with shooting caps. And they sure looked real!
This is genius! Even speaking as someone from Generation X (yes, we exist!), I see his point. I'm glad we actually had to physically do things growing up, like parsing through library card catalogs and participating in actual, not virtual, human interaction. If they shut down the internet for a year and made these kids live without it just that long, they would change for the better. The internet is great, but it was never designed to replace participation in the real world, with actual people. We need to interact with human beings directly and when we can get back to this, we will find we have more compassion for each other. Plus, I enjoy interacting with people in ways that data miners can't trace.
Getting called by your deformity or your physical deficiency during your childhood, by people who you knew were real friends and who were always happy to see you, installs deep within your brain, at the level of base programming where it cannot be rooted out, the sure knowledge that you have value that transcends your physicality and that you are lovable.
With your parents you are loved but they are your parents, you expect that they will love you, just as they expect that one day you will leave home to make you way in the wide world. So being loved by parents does not make you believe that you are lovable. That certainty you can only get from peer/age group friends at a young age.
My friend from Puerto Rico told me about a young boy on crutches that she knew growing up whom everyone called “cripple”.
She said that the boys would have foot races in the street and that cripple would be right there racing with them. She said he was fast on his crutches. He never won, but he never came in last either.
Most importantly he was always included in all the activities, and that had to have benefited him tremendously with his sense of belonging, acceptance, and self worth.
Spot on. What people take as cruelty, nowadays, was a rite of passage, then. And like all rites of passage, they affirmed your place in the group.
In my group of friends, many of these names had a racial component. I called my half Cherokee, half Polish friend Sakajawaski. When my buddies found out I was 1/4 Syrian, they named me Camel, and still call me that 35 years later.
Good thoughts all, but bottom line is this: do you not understand and/or enjoy the nature of comedy? Laughing and crying are basically the same release, and the best comedy touches on reality in order to make us laugh about the human condition we all share. If you are going to be offended or feel like you must wax poetic about a comedy routine, may I humbly suggest you NOT listen to good comedy….
You could almost say: _The bully got clocked_
Nice material.
This is timely and funny, great clip. Going to bed with a huge smile on my face!
Had a guy I knew as a kid who lost an arm in a farm accident and was known as Hook. He's upgraded his appendage since but I've him called him Hook for the last 55 years
5:20 Clock clocked him.
Gold medal winner of comedic timing
He's so funny and yes that was the way we did things. Fights were always 1 on 1 and then it was done. 😄❤❤😄❤😄❤😄❤
I was tiny when at school, so I wasn't a threat to anyone & never got picked on. 😉
I remember when others fought, if one had the upper hand, they asked the rival if they'd had enough, then put out a hand to get them to their feet, both shook hands & it was over.
It makes me pewk that nowadays knife wielding scumbags gang up on an innocent person & kick them while they're down.
Bring back the good ol' days.
Unless they were black, then a bunch of people would hang them from a tree.
*We originally called him 'Viola' because we knew he'd never play one" -- as a middle school viola player, I lost it. 😂🤣
How he didn't use clock as a verb is beyond me. It was right there. 'He got clocked' was what I was waiting for. My daughter on the other hand said 'you got clocked TF out' 😂
Because it was right there, he didn't use clocked. He was creative. Pure comedy genius.
What he is saying is so much to the truth. No one thought students with handicaps, had handicaps. They we just another kid. I’m 67, best years ever as a kid. It was all about living and fun. As soon as attorneys took over, it was all over.
What do you mean about attorneys?
Had a kid I grew up down the strret from, we called him Arthur the Arson, he had tried to burn his house down, TWICE! My brother got called Epi after he had his first epeileptic seizure. It's what we grew up with and nobody called the cops because it might have hurt someone's feelings, because it didn't! This guy is genius!
They just lump any old group in with us actual millennials 🤣😂🤣😅
Comedians funny but "20-somethings" aren't millenials
lol same for the boomers. welcome to the "stereotyped" club.
right like nah millennials are actually brilliant
Well, us gen-Xers were latchkey kids, so we were pretty much defined by not having parental supervision, so the generations after us were the ones who had helicopter parents.
@@SuperBennyFish Actually they are. Anyone born from 1981 to 1996 is a millennial.
😅😅😅😂😂😂😂 I’m a millennial and I love this guy
Good old fashioned comedy! No obscenities but very funny!
So funny. We had a guy we called "Tooter". He'd do the worse smelling ones when in the classroom in the summer. We didn't have AC back then. And fans were to loud so the smell would linger. Never knew his real name.
Great comedian. Clean and funny.
One thing to think about. The younger generations are soft and definitely less life skilled in certain areas, but they didn't get that way magically. Makes you think the parents are right there with them, not as good as they used to be. Just calling it like it is. 😎
I raised all 4 of my kids and a nephew the way I was raised. They are all self sufficient and resilient without any real problems. They are all employed and productive members of society.
Parenting is definitely an issue. Many people in the younger generations aren't doing it right.
So true. I got in a fight in middle school. A teacher stopped us in the middle of it and order us to go in opposite directions. Done. No parents called.
Brad Upton 💯%😂 Never disappoints.
“Any 20 somethings?” Well, I’m 32 and am a millennial. And this was basically my childhood. One of my best friends was called fingers because he was born without thumbs.
Some of us are coming up on middle aged.
41-year-old millennial here. I just can't with these guys who don't even know who they're making fun of
Im 27 this world is fucked.
Yep. Growing up in the 60's and 70's was fun. There was a fat kid in class, his nickname was Teeny. Another kid of Italian descent they called Whoppo, and both of them actually answered to their names. Didn't bother them. Teeny went on to college to play football where he got his degree, and Whoppo opened a successful business which is still thriving today. Yeah, we all had nicknames, got in fights, got picked on, but it built character. Today you couldn't get away with that. People are offended and the sensitive kids become victims instead of learning to cope, they regress into what we have today in society.
I wish DRYBAR would go public; I'd seriously buy a ton of stock. NOTHING in this world is more desirable than EXCELLENT CLEAN comedy. EVERYONE LOVES TO LAUGH.
Thanks dear I really appreciate you and I hope you’ll get to any of my shows someday
except people these days, they don't like to laugh because laughing might offend someone
Oh god, I am SO glad I grew up when I did! A nickname was a badge of honour - now it's called 'bullying' and the nicknamed person is a 'victim of bullying'. I was always disappointed that I was too ordinary to warrant a nickname but in my late 20's I got a part-time job in a Boy's Club where my group, early teens, nicknamed me Olive Oyl. I wasn't thrilled about it until the club leader told me it meant they accepted me. How have we got from a time when people strove to be strong or stoical to where everyone wants to be a victim?
That's a great reply Shirley.
so lame how society has gotten these days smh
the solution is to shame victims, ban them from your relationsdhip. Therefore no one will ever wanna be one.
Millennials, Zoomers, social media and the internet happened.
Here's the thing...if everybody in that group has a non-flattering nickname, then they're all on common ground. They poke fun at people they like (those nicknames are created among friends), and they also know what is it like to be poked fun at. The problem to me is when nicknames are given from outside of these circles, with the intention to hurt or humiliate, without receiving a non-flattering public nickname themselves.
Right. See my comment . . . If anyone but my girls called me Twit, it was on! And we only used them among ourselves; I doubt anyone outside our group were even aware of the nicknames.
He is trying to illustrate that we have become too sensitive and by trying to protect the kids who have an affliction of some sort by harshly punishing the ones who poke fun at them, we are losing our freedoms. I grew up being heavy, and the first 3 letters of my last name are FAT. Can you imagine the taunts I received? My sisters also grew up heavy with the same last name. It was difficult and we all cried occasionally. The world can’t be sterile and sooner or later your feelings get hurt. It’s like walking barefoot the first time after the winter. Initially it hurts your feet, but as you get used to it, it doesn’t hurt that much and before long, you are running barefoot over the grass and sticks.
Ana unfortunately you are wrong. many nicknames were given to kids they didn't know or play with, someone could have 3-4 from different groups. It was not always done to be mean, many times they would use it in public to try to get the other to come play in an attempt to be friendly. if the kid didn't accept the name then they would get ribbed about it. this teaches you that you cant think of your self as better than others. Which is a valuable lesson. as kids grew older the using of nicknames would pretty much go away as they realize its not an adult thing to do, but the social lessons stuck with you. It is that lack of social interaction which teaches you things as a child which are missing from society today.
Ana Luiza de Figueirdo Souza You must be right. The fact that everybody under 30 is a woos has nothing to do with it.
Lighten up Francis
That was some funny stuff! I laughed at every joke!
Love Brad's humor. Glad to hear some new material.
It's humour*
Learn to spell English correctly.
I'm 32 I think that's millennial and I was bought up rough and played outside etx with a dad who didn't care if I was hurt. Think he's talking about Gen z. But either way, not everyone's bought up the same.
@Down with Corporate Amerika sounds fun or scary, unsure 💓
This man is hilarious. Good to see him again..
We didn't really have nicknames, but we had fun with each other. Nobody got offended, nobody cared about feelings. It wasn't nasty, just the normal chivvying. In its own little way it helped toughen you up.
Some of us had nicknames. One was 'Wingnut' (ears stuck out), and there was 'Wayne Kerr' (surname was actually Kerr), Fish (because he ate sardines for lunch), 'Mr Bateman' (surname was Bateman). One kid called me 'Monsieur Règle' (francophiles will get that one).
Or if your parents gave you a complicated name that was long to write. "Call me Tim." It is spelled T I M.
When you say "nobody got offended," what you really mean is nobody was willing to take on the whole class in a fight. In reality, the people who are dishing out the insults are rarely offended by them.
@@meminustherandomgooglenumbers Toughen up, buttercup.
@@TonyRule Thank you for admitting that you are 100% fake news.
By far my fave comedian I've seen on dry bar. Where can we get his show schedule!?
One year, they called me "Marty McFly", the other "Racoon". I still don't know why. 😂
He definitely means Gen Z
He'd make one hell of a "LIFE COACH"...lol. Stay safe... Rico
I grew up in the country. I was barefoot in warm weather running in the woods, on the gravel road, riding my bike down a hill no hands, riding a go-cart that was too big for me, climbing up the oil drum then to the roof, then jumping off trying to land as far out as I could, plowing the field on a big farm all tractor age 11. No helmets, no shin guards, no shoes. That was in the 1950s.
Never jumped off the room, but did the same as you. 80's. Lives how I grew up!!
You're made of brave stout stuff Millieo. I had a great childhood, my dad had been permanently injured on a tractor accident growing up. Still he raised me and my brother to be real men and to take on bullies and always do what was right. He was protective, but would not shelter us from everyday life and he knew how to have fun.
I dunno, man. I think Gen Z be givin' Millennials a run for their Bitcoin.
*Calls Millennials 'dumb'*
*Describes Gen Z*
Boomers don’t know the difference or care
I laughed untill I cried...this is SO true. The world changed for the worse...when we were kids, we sorted ourselves out, some mess, some fuss, but afterwards we were friends mostly. These days the media dictates everything and makes things more difficult most of the time....
Who raised these millennials?
@@lizziebkennedy7505 I guess YOU are going to tell me.
@@lizziebkennedy7505 don't deflect the responsibility, learn to raise yourself
This guy is ALWAYS a hoot. I always can’t wait to watch him when I finally get a Dry Bar notification that he’s on.