He never says that, he points out that the majority of poor people today are fed, but on cheap & unhealthy food (making them fat). The struggle today is for other things than immediate survival, making you less likely to actively fight your oppressors. We are sedentary and depressed. Not angry.
Cripes, Evans is excellent. And he could make that close-cropped beard widely fashionable. Consistent with the manner of an academic/military officer pensioner who's been provoked to hilarious candor in telling you what's what and how things really are.
When the dispossessed look to people like Brand for leadership, it shows the level of desperation and hopelessness that afflicts them. For Brand, politics is just cocktail conversation. But Evans is right. People get stuck in their ways, and never have there been more ways for them to get stuck in. It's a relief to see the truth acknowledged.
However in my experience Brand's fans and followers are mainly middle class hipster types, rather than the dispossessed. Any working class people I know, who have expressed an opinion on him anyway, think he's a tosser!
I completely agree. He would be a better politician than Brand... because he seems to be as completely full of s**t as any politician to date. I think he'd fit right in... Brand doesn't want to be a politician... BUT HE DOES HAVE POLITICAL VIEWS... don't we all? some more so than others, obviously... Anesthetized indeed...
Why? Because he can makes jokes on stage about another comedian giving political views without actually offering any of his own? Yeah that’s a great politician there
i realise this is necromancy.. but in 2022, you're not even wrong @menzie Dube. however you missed something, in 2022, everything and everybody is offended by anything and everyone. It's hard to differentiate between 'woke' and 'snowflake' these days. and that disgruntles me LOL. Simon has been on the comedy circuit a long time and is absolutely genius.
Russell is a lot more insecure than he lets on. That’s why he talks like that…to cover up the fact he is afraid people will think him inferior. Paxman is a rude snob. I hate him on UC for the way he speaks to the contestants. But he won’t be there much longer.
Simon Evans captures something very important in this satirical comedy routine. And he even flags it up explicitly. There has never been a generation less likely to start a revolution. Two years later the British voted for a conservative government with an explicit Neoliberal agenda including further dismantling the welfare state. The Labour Party self-destructed and the Scots began their long journey to independence by supporting a nationalist party. Which confirmed that Evans had the British people sussed. Progressive politics, let alone revolutionary politics, is more or less dead in England.
@@harrymills2770 let’s see, replacement of all the individual, tailored benefits with universal credit, the creeping privatisation of the NHS, care of the old is now exclusively a private industry. What is actually left that is funded by the public and delivered by a public body solely for the benefit of the people of this country?
Ian-John, I fail to see how Evans is encouraging complacency or apathy in this clip at all, on the contrary he is exposing the apathy that does exist, the self-same apathy that renders Brand's ideas of a country on the precipice of revolution utterly ridiculous. Evans points out at the end, that he is just a comedian, and as such he is not making any pointed moral commentary, rather he is expressing firstly, disbelief at Paxman's unconventionally lax interview and secondly, incomprehension at the fact that Brand makes these sweeping statements then fails to back them up with alternatives - falling back on 'I'm just a comedian'. Evans isn't trying to be a social commentator, merely pointing out Brand's lack of qualifications to be so either and attempting to do so in a funny manner. Whether you find it funny or not is a matter of personal opinion.
Hmmm... something tells me you don't really know anything about anything of what is being talked about here then... just saying; do some homework. with just a little research, i honestly think you wouldn't be agreeing with him...
I guess I could only take your word on that... but doubt it very much. I like how you criticize my grammar when you yourself just did the same thing. What you just said is 2 sentences; 2 completely different subject/object arguments. Yes, in a forum in which perfect grammar is necessary, I would indeed use it... but this is a comment on the f'n internet. I'm going to speak as I wish. Oh, and No, I don't think I can take your word for it given what just transpired. Have fun in your delusions mate. Cheers
Again you prove my point. Good job. Yes, please don't feel the need to truly understand topics of such great importance to all of us; as if time should have any kind of bearing on understanding somthing. I can see how you can't be bothered. Cheers
Are they? Really?... It would seem that the distinction between the poor and the underclass needs to be made... truly poor people have NO money; the underclass are those that have a minimal amount of income to survive on and have access to such reliefs as food stamps. I walk through my city everyday to work and back; I get to truly see poor people walking the streets and lining up at the homeless shelters and food banks: THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT FAT!!! Unless perhaps they are newly poor. What this short-sighted person did was compare poor people of the old days with the underclass of today; this is inherently invalid. Don't get me started on his exaggerations and spins of what Russel was trying to express. I highly suggest you actually watch that interview. Just sayin...
Nice to see how far Russell has progressed in the last 4 years. Sad to see how many people on here haven't realised that yet. Simon and Russell will likely be closer politically than they were 10years ago. Maybe growing older, parenthood, and having your eyes opened by the pandemic debacle?
8 years is a long time, eh? Also Brand, who employs the same rhetorical techniques as ultra right wing American "commentators" can get in the sea. Funny for 5 minutes, then deeply worrying.
Never heard of Simon Evans and this performance seems like a good one, but anyone who's willing to go beyond entertainment can notice the biases. It's like always, quibbling over semantics, like it would change a damn thing. Even worse actually - after doing that, he gives the credit to Russell for being a looney. Many things were disregarded and to be honest it is quite insulting - he was always missing the point Russell made, which is that he is merely a person trying to point out the faults in our system. After that, he doesn't plan on "pissing in the tank", he actually wants to support people who have the solutions, the constructive alternatives. As a matter of fact, at the present moment he's trying to learn more about this issue and the problems we're all facing - which is why he took a break from youtube and whatsoever
Mr. Evans, I admire your intelligence and wit, but I could not disagree more with your position. Those that overthrew feudalism had no idea with what they were going to replace it. Similarly those who overthrew imperial dictatorship had no idea with what they were going to replace it. To think that one must have an exact governmental system worked out in advance before they can acknowledge that the existing system is fundamentally wrong and resolve to do something about it is an inane, self-righteous, and historically illiterate opinion.
Johnny Twohats No he wouldn't. He'd talk random bollocks thinking he's some sort of political genius and Simon Evans will simply listen and laugh at his idiocy and hypocrisy. Bland is a walking thesaurus with no talent.
Brand would rattle off a list of rote-learned, trite and unnecessarily polysyllabic crap, not forgetting to include the odd "paradigm" and "collective consciousness", randomly scattered amongst the inane bullshit for effect, before flouncing off in a deluded self-congratulatory fashion like he'd just delivered the Sermon On The Mount. Meanwhile, enough bored 30-something women, given hope by the fact that his lack of standards mean he will shag literally anything, would wet their pants to get him yet another chat show appearance on American TV. Now I come to think of it, it's a genius marketing strategy. Fair play to him.
while I found this clip quite amusing, and I suppose I'm responding to points made in jest by a comedian but: Brand is human first, then a comedian. One can recognise issues and still have the humilty to say "Im not sure how to fix it but the issue is still there". In fact, I'd be rather surprised if he had a canned answer ready - Besides, it's pretty obvious that "the poor are fat" because they have to subsist on a diet of unhealthy but cheap, processed food (which isn't proper nutrition), combined with a sedentary lifestyle because they're out of work. If you don't think the poor are marketed to, and their lifestyle someone culturally mandated then that's not just failing to offer a solution but also a failure to see the real issue in the first place.
What you're pointing out is largely true, but Brand has always lacked that humility. I believe Evans would be perfectly willing to agree with you that the reduction of much low-paid work to sedentary drudgery and the capitalist focus on selling the cheapest crap at the highest profit is not the fault of the overweight poor or middle class.
First of all Simon, get our facts straight. I will paraphrase; Rusell Brands repsonse to the question of 'How would u reorganize the current system?' He said 'You can't ask me to device a new system in bloody hotel room during a 15 minutes of an interview.' Brilliant. So Simon, you are as funny as you are clever, in conclusion; Stop talking!!
He didn't come to his view of everything that's currently wrong and how to dismantle it in a bloody hotel room in 15 minutes either. If you're calling for change you really should go that extra mile and decide what change you're calling for before sharing your wisdom. Brand has effectively published a novel and left it to the reader to write the last few chapters.
Anyone who can point out what is wrong with something, should have some idea on how to put it right or at least offer an idea or two. If Brand feels strong enough to talk about political failures that possible millions of people are going to see. To not offer any solution or possible ideas for improvement is just ludicrous.
Actually, Brand just picks up whatever are the issues in the air at the moment and recycles them as his personal discoveries. That's how he easily shifted from left-appearing rebel to MAGA/Nigel Farage in a few years.
wtfbollos under-reated? Even on substandard ideals, this guys a prick...IMO, your "under-rated" understanding is using the wrong filter. I totally get why people don't like the guy.
Both are comedians but I found neither clip funny. Brand was encouraging passive resistance, saying that by refusing to engage in a system that doesn't work, we will blackmail our governments into change. Unknown change, that it's not a case of 'better the devil you know'. It's debatable, flawed, certainly naive, but more positive than anything I'd heard in a while. Evans is saying...nothing insightful or inspiring. He's encouraging a complacency and apathy. A 'We're all fucked anyway' position.
another puppet trying to clam fame on the back of the Brand waggon , sad he thinks that because his profession is a comedian that he should not have political views , he is more or less saying leave it to the experts, ye right cause they are doing a wonderful job at representing us as a nation , NOT!
rmilrta seriously? what contradictions??? HE PROVED RUSSEL'S POINT THAT IT IS POINTLESS TO VOTE BECAUSE VOTING IS JUST ANOTHER EXTENSION OF THAT VERY ANESTHETIZATION THAT HAS A STRANGLE HOLD ON EVERYTHING! AND THEN HE HIMSELF JUST TRIED TO USE AGAINST RUSSELL... folly. The "choice" of the vote is completely illusory and only serves as a relief valve for the system. If no one votes, shit will go to hell MUCH quicker, which will in turn incite REAL CHANGE. History has shown things don't change until they get to a breaking point... voting stays off this breaking point while still maintaining the system... Riding the back of the Brand wagon indeed. It is sooo obvious.
Angela Mernagh unsurprisingly you've totally missed the point. No I'm not going to engage and tell you what that is, try to put your prejudices aside and work it out.
I don't want to sound mean but this guy's argument is so fundamentally flawed it is embarrassing. Firstly, it is obvious that if the poor are "fat" it is because they can only afford to buy crap food. Another possible reason is that most of them are an anti-depressants due to the relentless misery and drudgery of being poor. Anti-depressants cause fairly extreme weight gain, as everyone knows. However, the undeniable fact remains that most poor people are not fat. The ones I see outside the food bank everyday certainly look malnourished. This guy has no real clue about the real world at all. A society where everyone lives very comfortably? Maybe in his sleepy little village in West Sussex perhaps. I fear for society when imbeciles like this are allowed to express their toxic and ill informed opinions in such a public forum. Criticising Russell Brand for lacking substance in his argument kind of makes this pratt the punch line of his own joke.
It's not an argument, it's a comedy routine. You seem to have missed the one serious point he made: you shouldn't expect comedians to give you serious insight into and solutions for the world's problems.
Paul Tudor Actually I thought he summed up Britain quite brilliantly. The idea that AD's cause weight gain is a partial truth. Sometimes, sometimes not. Sometimes they cause weight loss. Read the label. This guy was doing a comedy routine, poking fun at Britain, one a comedy show with one aim - to poke fun at Britain. He did his job, got paid and laughed all the way to the bank, I'm sure. When you watch a satirical comedy show you have to be prepared to see satire. Best not to watch if you can't grasp that. But it seems that what has really upset you is that he makes fun of Brand. Ah. Which itself is hilariously funny. Brand goes beyond being a comedian to being a joke in himself.
And that is the reason Brand is more popular than this guy. After nearly 5mins and his best joke was russell brand is named after things you can do to cattle. Its easy to criticise ppl at the top of your profession when you are at the bottom or are very mediocre
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42" plasma screens, they don't make those any more. In much the same way as no one wears hats any more. This fucking Michael McIntyre impersonator should hurry up and end it.
evans does have something to say- heres 5 mins of him saying something - and brand spewed out a load of sixth form student itnicing half arsed rhetoric and then when taxman asked him how the much needed revolution would materialise he said he didn't know and said he's just a comedian- if he's "just a comedian" why's he talking about this stuff in the first place- brand mistakes his elaborate use of language as his intelligence but he hasn't thought thourgh what he's saying
Great to see someone telling it as it is. And making a mockery of RUSSELL BRAND 💯💯💯👍👍👍
He never says that, he points out that the majority of poor people today are fed, but on cheap & unhealthy food (making them fat). The struggle today is for other things than immediate survival, making you less likely to actively fight your oppressors. We are sedentary and depressed. Not angry.
Rustle, Brand, Grill... Genius!!!! And his Russell Brand impression was brilliant 😂
Cripes, Evans is excellent. And he could make that close-cropped beard widely fashionable.
Consistent with the manner of an academic/military officer pensioner who's been provoked to hilarious candor in telling you what's what and how things really are.
When the dispossessed look to people like Brand for leadership, it shows the level of desperation and hopelessness that afflicts them. For Brand, politics is just cocktail conversation. But Evans is right. People get stuck in their ways, and never have there been more ways for them to get stuck in. It's a relief to see the truth acknowledged.
However in my experience Brand's fans and followers are mainly middle class hipster types, rather than the dispossessed. Any working class people I know, who have expressed an opinion on him anyway, think he's a tosser!
simon evans is brilliant.
Gold, absolute gold. Brand is a broken idiot still reeling from a youth full of drugs.
I did enjoy this. So perceptive and witty. Thanks!
Genius comedy Simon. Thank you.
I worked out Brand many years ago that he was a vacuous pontificator who on reflection of his pontifications is found to be vacuous.
George Carlin reincarnated? Wait until his hair turns grey.. this guy is going places.
Russell Brand I can not stand, well said Sir
Simon Evans would be a much better politician than Brand. Go Evans!
Well at least he'd fit in with the current lot. Who is this chap anyway.
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one of the most under-rated comedians/social commentators of our time.
I completely agree. He would be a better politician than Brand... because he seems to be as completely full of s**t as any politician to date. I think he'd fit right in... Brand doesn't want to be a politician... BUT HE DOES HAVE POLITICAL VIEWS... don't we all? some more so than others, obviously... Anesthetized indeed...
Why? Because he can makes jokes on stage about another comedian giving political views without actually offering any of his own? Yeah that’s a great politician there
excellent gig, well done Evans for pointing out (although no educated person should need it) , RB is a comedian and his views are comedic not reality.
I think this is Simon Evans best performance. It's funny while at the same time it brings out what's wrong with British society today.
i realise this is necromancy.. but in 2022, you're not even wrong @menzie Dube. however you missed something, in 2022, everything and everybody is offended by anything and everyone. It's hard to differentiate between 'woke' and 'snowflake' these days. and that disgruntles me LOL. Simon has been on the comedy circuit a long time and is absolutely genius.
Er isn’t he on balance saying what’s right with it
Thought about watching interview but Russel Brand makes me physically sick 🤮
Don't think about it if it upsets you. That's my advice.
Well you need to watch Russell brand. Not sure when you last listened to him. He's the way forward.
@@1STBUCKLEY 😂🤣😂🤣
Russell is a lot more insecure than he lets on. That’s why he talks like that…to cover up the fact he is afraid people will think him inferior.
Paxman is a rude snob. I hate him on UC for the way he speaks to the contestants. But he won’t be there much longer.
@@1STBUCKLEYYou sure about that one?
Absolutely brilliant!!! 😂😂
Simon Evans is such a great comedian. Always funny.
Simon Evans captures something very important in this satirical comedy routine. And he even flags it up explicitly. There has never been a generation less likely to start a revolution. Two years later the British voted for a conservative government with an explicit Neoliberal agenda including further dismantling the welfare state. The Labour Party self-destructed and the Scots began their long journey to independence by supporting a nationalist party. Which confirmed that Evans had the British people sussed. Progressive politics, let alone revolutionary politics, is more or less dead in England.
You really think the welfare state in UK is in any way being dismantled? LOL!
@@harrymills2770 and look at it now...
@@harrymills2770 let’s see, replacement of all the individual, tailored benefits with universal credit, the creeping privatisation of the NHS, care of the old is now exclusively a private industry. What is actually left that is funded by the public and delivered by a public body solely for the benefit of the people of this country?
Ian-John, I fail to see how Evans is encouraging complacency or apathy in this clip at all, on the contrary he is exposing the apathy that does exist, the self-same apathy that renders Brand's ideas of a country on the precipice of revolution utterly ridiculous. Evans points out at the end, that he is just a comedian, and as such he is not making any pointed moral commentary, rather he is expressing firstly, disbelief at Paxman's unconventionally lax interview and secondly, incomprehension at the fact that Brand makes these sweeping statements then fails to back them up with alternatives - falling back on 'I'm just a comedian'.
Evans isn't trying to be a social commentator, merely pointing out Brand's lack of qualifications to be so either and attempting to do so in a funny manner. Whether you find it funny or not is a matter of personal opinion.
wow, a lot of Evans hate from people kissing Brand's ignorant ass...sorry, i'm not a fan of Paxman, but he rightly challenged Brand's stupid rant...
He really does sound like Basil Fawlty here!
Evans reminds me of Leonard Rossiter, another British comedy genius.
100% Spot on, I am just 21 but I agree with this man.
Hmmm... something tells me you don't really know anything about anything of what is being talked about here then... just saying; do some homework. with just a little research, i honestly think you wouldn't be agreeing with him...
ColdWindGreen I know what I am talking about, also would it pain you to not wrote run on sentences?
I guess I could only take your word on that... but doubt it very much. I like how you criticize my grammar when you yourself just did the same thing. What you just said is 2 sentences; 2 completely different subject/object arguments. Yes, in a forum in which perfect grammar is necessary, I would indeed use it... but this is a comment on the f'n internet. I'm going to speak as I wish. Oh, and No, I don't think I can take your word for it given what just transpired. Have fun in your delusions mate. Cheers
ColdWindGreen I really don't care to have a debate on a comment I made almost an entire year ago.
Again you prove my point. Good job. Yes, please don't feel the need to truly understand topics of such great importance to all of us; as if time should have any kind of bearing on understanding somthing. I can see how you can't be bothered. Cheers
Love Simon evans
lol, that was soooooooooooo fookin' funny. he never drew breath!!!!!!! lol. 11/10
haha- he has a very valid point. 'the poor are fat' and everybody is 'anaesthetised'.
Are they? Really?... It would seem that the distinction between the poor and the underclass needs to be made... truly poor people have NO money; the underclass are those that have a minimal amount of income to survive on and have access to such reliefs as food stamps. I walk through my city everyday to work and back; I get to truly see poor people walking the streets and lining up at the homeless shelters and food banks: THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT FAT!!! Unless perhaps they are newly poor. What this short-sighted person did was compare poor people of the old days with the underclass of today; this is inherently invalid. Don't get me started on his exaggerations and spins of what Russel was trying to express. I highly suggest you actually watch that interview. Just sayin...
Brand TESTICULATES: Gesticulating while talking BOLLOCKS! 😝
Spot on.....
Spot on every bit well said
Brilliant.
Perfection.
Please sir can I have some more!
This aged well ...
And in 2023!
Spot on!
spot the fuck on😂😂😂😂
Brilliant as usual.
Nice to see how far Russell has progressed in the last 4 years. Sad to see how many people on here haven't realised that yet.
Simon and Russell will likely be closer politically than they were 10years ago. Maybe growing older, parenthood, and having your eyes opened by the pandemic debacle?
Oh, Miss Jones....
Anyone coming here after the allegation against brand just to hear someone roast him a little?
Word.
russel brand should not be taken seriously by anyone.
spot on
He forgot to mention Top gear!
not really a hamster
Fan of Simon, hope you are as popular as Brand some day. Love the cringe camera work.
Brilliant
Keeps on being relevant.
2:30 - Well, the audience didn't get it...2:39 - the punchline... Though said audience seemed to proved it (somewhat) true... lol
Pity he has to play to a crowd that don’t get it
I loved to see all the seals clapping that. They were clearly needing fish!
8 years is a long time, eh?
Also Brand, who employs the same rhetorical techniques as ultra right wing American "commentators" can get in the sea. Funny for 5 minutes, then deeply worrying.
How does this stand in the current climate?
He's taking about 2 guys I cannot stand esp Russell Brand
If you enter a shop and don't want to buy any of its items, you don't buy any of its items.
Seek God! Anaesthesia or Anastasia?
10 years ago this was right. Now we've had ten more years of tory and right wing agitation by the likes of Brand!
please come back Simon and interview that Jackass Brand and just take the little sh|te apart.
you're moving around??
Never heard of Simon Evans and this performance seems like a good one, but anyone who's willing to go beyond entertainment can notice the biases. It's like always, quibbling over semantics, like it would change a damn thing. Even worse actually - after doing that, he gives the credit to Russell for being a looney. Many things were disregarded and to be honest it is quite insulting - he was always missing the point Russell made, which is that he is merely a person trying to point out the faults in our system. After that, he doesn't plan on "pissing in the tank", he actually wants to support people who have the solutions, the constructive alternatives. As a matter of fact, at the present moment he's trying to learn more about this issue and the problems we're all facing - which is why he took a break from youtube and whatsoever
You couldn't be more wrong on every point you made,
And people paid to see this crap
Crap comment
James Parker Ha. Crap comment to my comment
crap breeds crap
James Parker No crap?
Anthony Abela Saw him in a pub, best stand up I've seen for a long time. Russell Bland follower I presume?
Mr. Evans, I admire your intelligence and wit, but I could not disagree more with your position. Those that overthrew feudalism had no idea with what they were going to replace it. Similarly those who overthrew imperial dictatorship had no idea with what they were going to replace it. To think that one must have an exact governmental system worked out in advance before they can acknowledge that the existing system is fundamentally wrong and resolve to do something about it is an inane, self-righteous, and historically illiterate opinion.
If that's what you got from Simon's diatribe then you are wider of the mark than a cross-eyed dart player.
Ha ha ha
Yawn....
If this guy and Russell Brand were to have an argument 1 on 1 Brand would demolish him within aboutttt 3 minutes I'd say.
Johnny Twohats No he wouldn't. He'd talk random bollocks thinking he's some sort of political genius and Simon Evans will simply listen and laugh at his idiocy and hypocrisy. Bland is a walking thesaurus with no talent.
Not in a million years. Simon Evans can definitely give as good as he gets.
russel brand is a prat. he couldn't 'demolish' anyone.
Brand would rattle off a list of rote-learned, trite and unnecessarily polysyllabic crap, not forgetting to include the odd "paradigm" and "collective consciousness", randomly scattered amongst the inane bullshit for effect, before flouncing off in a deluded self-congratulatory fashion like he'd just delivered the Sermon On The Mount.
Meanwhile, enough bored 30-something women, given hope by the fact that his lack of standards mean he will shag literally anything, would wet their pants to get him yet another chat show appearance on American TV.
Now I come to think of it, it's a genius marketing strategy. Fair play to him.
Brand would be lost, as he always is.
Jeez, this wasn't particularly funny, just a rambling rant about 2 other entities
And the audience claps like seals after being called sheep...
Bla bla bla
***** Hey, what do you mean ?
Why is this old man hating on russell brand for
Read this sentence again. That should clarify things.
Because Brand is a twat.
@@TeaTimePhilosopher😂😂😂 perfect, but lost on him l think.
while I found this clip quite amusing, and I suppose I'm responding to points made in jest by a comedian but: Brand is human first, then a comedian. One can recognise issues and still have the humilty to say "Im not sure how to fix it but the issue is still there". In fact, I'd be rather surprised if he had a canned answer ready - Besides, it's pretty obvious that "the poor are fat" because they have to subsist on a diet of unhealthy but cheap, processed food (which isn't proper nutrition), combined with a sedentary lifestyle because they're out of work. If you don't think the poor are marketed to, and their lifestyle someone culturally mandated then that's not just failing to offer a solution but also a failure to see the real issue in the first place.
What you're pointing out is largely true, but Brand has always lacked that humility. I believe Evans would be perfectly willing to agree with you that the reduction of much low-paid work to sedentary drudgery and the capitalist focus on selling the cheapest crap at the highest profit is not the fault of the overweight poor or middle class.
Hurrah for the status quo! Not. This is shit
First of all Simon, get our facts straight. I will paraphrase; Rusell Brands repsonse to the question of 'How would u reorganize the current system?' He said 'You can't ask me to device a new system in bloody hotel room during a 15 minutes of an interview.' Brilliant. So Simon, you are as funny as you are clever, in conclusion; Stop talking!!
He didn't come to his view of everything that's currently wrong and how to dismantle it in a bloody hotel room in 15 minutes either. If you're calling for change you really should go that extra mile and decide what change you're calling for before sharing your wisdom. Brand has effectively published a novel and left it to the reader to write the last few chapters.
Anyone who can point out what is wrong with something, should have some idea on how to put it right or at least offer an idea or two. If Brand feels strong enough to talk about political failures that possible millions of people are going to see. To not offer any solution or possible ideas for improvement is just ludicrous.
Actually, Brand just picks up whatever are the issues in the air at the moment and recycles them as his personal discoveries. That's how he easily shifted from left-appearing rebel to MAGA/Nigel Farage in a few years.
Simon Evans is a douche.
he's one of the most under-rated comedians/social commentators of our time. russel brand is a total twat.
wtfbollos
under-reated? Even on substandard ideals, this guys a prick...IMO, your "under-rated" understanding is using the wrong filter. I totally get why people don't like the guy.
The poor are fat. Therefore they're not worth trying to help?
Head over to soup kitchens, people's picnic. Deary me, who is this bloke?
Both are comedians but I found neither clip funny. Brand was encouraging passive resistance, saying that by refusing to engage in a system that doesn't work, we will blackmail our governments into change. Unknown change, that it's not a case of 'better the devil you know'. It's debatable, flawed, certainly naive, but more positive than anything I'd heard in a while. Evans is saying...nothing insightful or inspiring. He's encouraging a complacency and apathy. A 'We're all fucked anyway' position.
another puppet trying to clam fame on the back of the Brand waggon , sad he thinks that because his profession is a comedian that he should not have political views , he is more or less saying leave it to the experts, ye right cause they are doing a wonderful job at representing us as a nation , NOT!
I think he's throwing light on the innate contradictions within Brand's approach.
rmilrta seriously? what contradictions??? HE PROVED RUSSEL'S POINT THAT IT IS POINTLESS TO VOTE BECAUSE VOTING IS JUST ANOTHER EXTENSION OF THAT VERY ANESTHETIZATION THAT HAS A STRANGLE HOLD ON EVERYTHING! AND THEN HE HIMSELF JUST TRIED TO USE AGAINST RUSSELL... folly. The "choice" of the vote is completely illusory and only serves as a relief valve for the system. If no one votes, shit will go to hell MUCH quicker, which will in turn incite REAL CHANGE. History has shown things don't change until they get to a breaking point... voting stays off this breaking point while still maintaining the system... Riding the back of the Brand wagon indeed. It is sooo obvious.
Angela Mernagh unsurprisingly you've totally missed the point. No I'm not going to engage and tell you what that is, try to put your prejudices aside and work it out.
Terrible...
I don't want to sound mean but this guy's argument is so fundamentally flawed it is embarrassing. Firstly, it is obvious that if the poor are "fat" it is because they can only afford to buy crap food. Another possible reason is that most of them are an anti-depressants due to the relentless misery and drudgery of being poor. Anti-depressants cause fairly extreme weight gain, as everyone knows. However, the undeniable fact remains that most poor people are not fat. The ones I see outside the food bank everyday certainly look malnourished. This guy has no real clue about the real world at all. A society where everyone lives very comfortably? Maybe in his sleepy little village in West Sussex perhaps. I fear for society when imbeciles like this are allowed to express their toxic and ill informed opinions in such a public forum. Criticising Russell Brand for lacking substance in his argument kind of makes this pratt the punch line of his own joke.
It's not an argument, it's a comedy routine. You seem to have missed the one serious point he made: you shouldn't expect comedians to give you serious insight into and solutions for the world's problems.
Paul Tudor Actually I thought he summed up Britain quite brilliantly. The idea that AD's cause weight gain is a partial truth. Sometimes, sometimes not. Sometimes they cause weight loss. Read the label. This guy was doing a comedy routine, poking fun at Britain, one a comedy show with one aim - to poke fun at Britain. He did his job, got paid and laughed all the way to the bank, I'm sure. When you watch a satirical comedy show you have to be prepared to see satire. Best not to watch if you can't grasp that.
But it seems that what has really upset you is that he makes fun of Brand. Ah. Which itself is hilariously funny. Brand goes beyond being a comedian to being a joke in himself.
Food has never been so cheap. Most people are just lazy. My wife loves telling me how little our tasty, healthy evening meal has cost.
And that is the reason Brand is more popular than this guy. After nearly 5mins and his best joke was russell brand is named after things you can do to cattle. Its easy to criticise ppl at the top of your profession when you are at the bottom or are very mediocre
42" plasma screens, they don't make those any more. In much the same way as no one wears hats any more. This fucking Michael McIntyre impersonator should hurry up and end it.
Simon Evans’ whole shtick is “the world was better in the old days”. Tedious, like a bar bore sounding off at the 19th hole.
Russell Brand at least has something to say. He is also funny which this somewhat mediocre chap clearly is not.
evans does have something to say- heres 5 mins of him saying something - and brand spewed out a load of sixth form student itnicing half arsed rhetoric and then when taxman asked him how the much needed revolution would materialise he said he didn't know and said he's just a comedian- if he's "just a comedian" why's he talking about this stuff in the first place- brand mistakes his elaborate use of language as his intelligence but he hasn't thought thourgh what he's saying
TobyB nailed it.
Simon Evans is one of the funniest and most under-rated comedians around. And this audience loved him.
Simon Evans is really lame...not funny at all.
Brilliant