It reminds me of the 4Chan user back in 2016 who ranted about how he's the world's greatest expert on Edmund Husserl, an Austrian philosopher. He was 36 years old, 43 years old now, and wrote a 1,500 page biography of his life and work that has been rejected countless times because Husserl isn't considered relevant anymore. He hasn't been able to get any jobs at universities because all he really knows is Husserl. Anon works two minimum wage jobs to stay afloat.
Oh wow, I think I had heard of this story before. Was it a guy in his mid 30 that said the only jobs he can get with philosophy major is working at McDonald?
I don't have the reference off hand, but there was in fact a biologist who spent years studying the land-snails native to Hawai'i. Which not long afterwards were driven to extinction by a competing invasive snail species.
This hits different right now as it's 5am and I'm still in the lab looking at an incredibly niche fungus that nobody but other academics will ever care about :/
I look at Science this way. - Big spectacular buildings made from countless small dull bricks. Mundane and unsung research done such as yours, may hold keys to unforeseen, startling Scientific discoveries and advancements in the future. Would anyone today want to research out a formula for getting the long side of an oddly shaped triangle? No, because that would be boring as hell, but we sure can thank people like Pythagoras having spent too much of their time figuring it out and society benefits from it. Even if you find nothing, you still contribute to the pool of Scientific knowledge. Edit. Also wasn't Penicillin developed from research of Fungi and some Fungi can have anti-cancer properties?
Graduates saying they fear this happening to them, here is the real kicker. Right at the end, regardless whether you do something with your life or not, you're probably going to have a similar realization about many aspects of your life.
@@davidec.4021 One of my best friends told me what he started doing for work (sorting some random files for an attorney or something for 8 hours a day) and I'd rather live in the forest than to that for 40 years. 😂😂
@@davidec.4021 i think you forgot the purpose of a job is to make money so you can survive, and do other things you want. That's the alternative to hunting and risk getting killed by tigers or lions back in the old days. So yes, I'd pick a boring job over that any day.
That is the perfect way to sum up being a lower enlisted soldier in the army. Your species is called "joe" and your expert, LT & NCOs, despise you with extreme prejudice.
As an academic, I see this as more of a warning not to make any career your entire life, because regardless of what you do, it's a fickle way to cultivate meaning. You could be a janitor or have any other undervalued, "meaningless" profession, but your life could still hold more meaning than heads of states and CEOs. Live and love well, my friends!
This problem doesn't only pertain to academia. Only being an expert in some hyper niche thing only 100 people in the world can grasp and mopping the same fucking floor for 30 years both suck. 😂😂
@@bingomachinewhose life doesn’t suck? Few of us. Which is why it’s important to create your own meaning internally so your external circumstances don’t matter to your fulfillment and happiness. THAT was their point.
Yeah, I guess one can get meaning and value from almost anything, regardless of if others see it as mundane. It's like those may derive peace and satisfaction correcting, balancing data and accounts all day.
@@LuizAlexPhoenix If you think about it like this, if you live shorter life then your significant parts of life represent a greater % of your life than some ultrawealthy person living 200 years. So if we think positively like that, then actually, it's not too bad
I think perhaps the funniest part is the way the anchor valiantly tries to recover the interview by creating some smidgeon of intrigue, and he never stops trying even when it’s clear that it’s a total trainwreck.
Bruh tamandua comes from a native language of Brazil called Tupi and means "toothless type of mammal" literally that means anteater. In Portuguese tamandua also means anteater
As my PhD draws to a close, I think of this frequently. Update, 3y later: I finished my PhD and had the courage to leave academia to do stuff I think is more important 😃
And what is it really for in the end? What does it mean? It's a simple question. Ask yourself if you are happy. And answer honestly, because lying to yourself - you may find you've wasted a decade and a half on ant eaters. If not, then ask yourself what will make you happy - regardless of pay (western materialistic/capitalistic vanity - I worked hard all my life with my life passing me by just to have stuff around me, that means nothing in the end) prestige of title (which means what in the end?) or what you may think you can change as an individual (noble, yet unrealistic) - and when you find what that is that will make you happy, do that.
Dont waste your precious time on something that doesn't interest you. Oh yeah, this is good money... this project will give me the background to go further. I wake up and I'm 47 years old, I dream of giving monkeys crack cocaine and knives. If I'm lucky they will come after me to end my torture. I thought I was doing important work and come to find out all we were doing was increasing the size of the magnifying lens to burn bugs with. If those fuckers want me, I'll be in a cabin in Lincoln Mt.
Amazing acting. I had to come to the comments to double check this was fake. I felt so bad for this guy. My heart mourned for his wasted years. Seriously, better acting then you would see in most TV shows. I think it would've been really hard to convey so many negative defeated emotions here, so I just wanted to drop a little appreciation comment:)
Unusually emotional comedy is my favorite. I hate family guy but stuff like the serviceman imagining his whole life with Peter just fucking gets me. The combination of emotion and hilarity is just so funny to me
It’s not “fake,” it’s “satire.” Satire is a form of comedy. How does anyone still not know that The Onion is satire??? They’ve been around since the Stone Age.
omg thanks for telling, i genuinely thought this was real, because everything emotional i see on yt these few years have the comments backing up the 'issues' brought in the videos. The comments i see on this video too are talking abt scientists like this in real life only too, so I was there emotionally in the issue described
I was close to giving up my lifelong passion for the study of the history and socio-economic significance of pitchforks until watching this inspirational video. Thanks Onion!
I think that these people, as a collective, do a great service to humanity. Most of their work will end up useless, but theres always a chance of a special finding or use later, and it happens more often than youd think.
Oh my god. This is so well done. It took me until I went to the comments to realize it’s from the Onion. I felt bad for this guy, now I realize he’s just a really, really, really good actor.
Giancarlo Piroli it’s usually more broad than that, the most specific it would get would be groups of species like birds or insects or mammals something along those lines.
I just realized upon the second time watching this, when he mentions that the ant eaters are “endangered and all going to die soon,” he says it with this BARELY visible split second smirk and look at kinda hidden satisfaction. It’s because he hates them so much after having to spend his entire life with them he wants to see them all die 😂. The smallest details.. the onion always delivers lol
Can we give some attention to the guy who plays the host? Every piece he does, he performs flawlessly, and I laugh at him just as much as I laugh at everything else in the sketches.
I have to admit - when I first saw this video almost 15 years ago, I TOO decided to dedicate my life studying anteaters. I have to tell you... after my own 15 years, I've come to the same conclusion... part of my life wasted that I'll never get back. I could have studied aardvarks or African porcupines, or even striped lemurs. But no. I don't even know what I did with my Anteater book. I think I left it at my campsite in Argentina when I was chased out by a herd of gay capybaras.
I spent twelve torturous years alone on the savanna studying aardvarks in spite of the fact that after my dissertation l unfortunately discovered that my real passion is termites.
Look, just because you're studying biology doesn't mean you have to spend 15 years of your life living with and studying ant eaters. There are all sorts of animals you can waste 15 years of your life living with. Sloths, capybaras, ant eaters. The list goes o.. well it stops there but it's a good selection.
I have a degree in Conservation Biology and I felt like I was wasting every moment of my life getting it, I hated it. Since then I've haven't worked in a job with any relevance, but it's still helpful to have a science degree. Just finish, don't quit or fail or you'll have nothing to show for your time and money.
Yeah, there's a guy in my department who's an expert in Cadmium or something like that. You can really see it in his eyes. He probably dreams about the fucking stuff!
Half of people end up doing something different anyway, the main qualification proves you stick at something until the end and by the end you should be dynamic enough to learn new skills to do other jobs. High level qualifications are really just proof you can learn. Unless you pick a specific trade/profession even then you can always switch, just important to ensure you finish (although i cant endorse degrees with no jobs at the end, lesbian dance theory,egyptology etc)
I'm reminded of the Brian May quote "Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer," whenever I think of my time doing Astrophysics. I had to leave for mental health reasons before even getting my undergraduate degree, but I was sort of relieved.
@@CarboKill That's a really interesting quote. Astrobiology and astrophysics were the driving force for my choosing physics but then suddenly I lost interest in it. Other "lesser known" parts of physics sound more interesting these days.
@@CarboKill Oh man, this is a pretty solid quote. I love astronomy and currently doing my PhD, but I also HATE doing the scientific workload of research. There's so much stress over minor details. I'm looking to teach/talk about astronomy to the public as my future career.
I had a language teacher at college that studied some latin verbal forms for years. His PHD supervisor told him there wasn't anything to be found and that it was a waste of time. He did it anyway and lost a decade of his life. It amounted to nothing. It can and does happen irl.
Why? Because then he would have not just been bored, but bored AND cold? Then he'd be on the talk show talking about how horribly boring penguins are instead. You're just biased because your profile picture is a bird.
"I thought you were going to bring an anteater" "That's just what I told your producers because I didn't want them to bring one" You know, if you think about it, this is really just a clever way of making a joke out of the fact that the onion didn't actually have a live anteater available to use as a prop. Accomplishing two things in one move.
@@WilliamTermini i know a know a lot of facts because of the factors involved that i acquired with my long and volatile history of previous onion marathons that i've watched on my apple scroll wheel laptop ( that i got for inflated cigarette prices) with janelle while considering 9/11 conspiracies which turned out to be unrealistic considering this country is run by child politicians.
May I know why are you sticking your tongue out? I'm currently researching and planning to release a paper on why women stick their tounges out and its socio-economical-political-behavioural-boner effects. I would highly appereciate your assistance in my research.
I actually had a guy like this in the military. He was about to retire when it dawned on him he missed his daughter growing up and the death of his parents and grandparents. Most of his friends had separated years ago so he didn’t really know anyone still in. This realization hit him in front of the entire division and it was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.
Same here, I spent 2 years getting an associates degree in broadcasting only to realize I didn't want to be a radio host, then another 2 years getting a bachelor's degree in theatre, who's to say that in 2 more years when I get my master's degree in history if I'll still want to be a teacher?
@@JormungandrEtrSigSjalfr dude. They do speak spanish in Venezuela. But just like all countries. Native people have other languages. So the term venezuelan in this satire is incorrect.
This isn't fictional. The guy ended up going off the deep end and taking out a bunch anteaters with a high power rifle before offing himself. I'm sure his family could use the proceeds from the book though. RIP Jim Haggerty PhD
I've been an artist for 11 years and I feel like this. I've ruined the mystique and joy of creating art by learning more about it. The mysteries of perspective, form and light are gone. I actually hate to draw now and it makes me sick.
I feel you I got burnt out so much I permanently quit art People know I can draw so people sometimes request drawings and I can never get myself to even finish the sketch I get so bored and feel so repelled from it but I still want to create
The fun lies in learning something new. If you can’t approach an old topic like it’s new, then you’ll never learn anything about it again, even though there’s always something you didn’t explore. Ask the passionate mathematicians on numberphile, they’ll tell you the same thing. You see, the fun in learning and creativity is in the discovery, not the knowledge. And if people in mathematics always have more to discover, then it’s clear that your discovery process failed at some point along the line, if what you became an expert in was such an incredibly soft science as art. You CAN enjoy something you are an expert, but only if you learn how to never end the learning/discovery process! In other words, you can be a kid again!
@@bigbuba5212 You and Poop Poop fucking nailed it. But sometimes it's about unlearning what you know and doing something entirely new in terms of creativity to find that spark again it's there! it's just hidden
The "Oh God." kills me every time. He's completely repulsed by once again seeing the monsters he had to spend 15 years of what could have been valuable time with.
Poor man, he looks so broken. I myself have the exact opposite problem; I spent fifteen years of my life studying Fight Club, but due to the first rule, I can't tell a soul what I learned.
+Swegman Blazit I can say without sarcasm that I am beyond flattered to hear that. I'm glad it has made such a non-impact. Your comment actually made me laugh far more than my attempt at joke ever could. Thank you.
If you haven't seen "Missing Teens Friends go on TV" do yourself a favor and watch it twice. Once to watch the actors and listen. A second time to read the little highlights and news headlines.
The Onion was killing it in the late 2000s and early 2010s. My favorites are the prison economics report, the Supreme Court death penalty report, and the one where a golf pro teaches you to play golf with a...twist. 😏
This is what many of us feel like at the end of the day, we just don't show it. Put so much time and effort towards our pursuits only for it to feel so empty and purposeless when it's all over. I'm certain even some millionaires and billionaires, people who have made it and can buy anything they want, feel like this if they haven't put enough their energy towards genuine relationships with other people. It's a sad quality of the human condition.
This is ridiculous. The actor of Mr.Anteater here was able to nail a mood between hopelessness, frustration, anger, condemnation, remorse and insecurity in such a subtle way. It seems way more authentic than 90% of what you see on television today. Can't get over how great TheOnion actors are. The host and his co-host also. Nailed to perfection. Love these clips so much.
I didn't need to study anteaters to waste my life
jiale chen I Second that
Mood
Yes. We can easily do that right here on UA-cam watching videos like this. Although this was painful to watch...
I third that
This guy was reminiscing his whole life on that sofa.
Their acting is gold. The interviewer is trying so hard to make the interview go smoothly lmfao
The fact that it’s fake it hard to realize
NextLevel BJJ why you suspect it’s fake
S O M E O N E it literally is fake
Rilind Bardoniqi i think yeah after some research to his name and his book I couldn’t find it anywhere in internet
The video is very old though it’s from 2008
It seemed to be true but who knows anything could happen in this world
It's crazy that this video is about to turn 15. Someone could have lived with and studied anteaters for the amount of time this has been out.
Lol I noticed it too
@@flameofmage1099 I can't wait for the anniversary.
Lmao you’re right. I wouldn’t have noticed
wdym the guy already did exactly that
This is a comedy skit lol, not real
It reminds me of the 4Chan user back in 2016 who ranted about how he's the world's greatest expert on Edmund Husserl, an Austrian philosopher. He was 36 years old, 43 years old now, and wrote a 1,500 page biography of his life and work that has been rejected countless times because Husserl isn't considered relevant anymore. He hasn't been able to get any jobs at universities because all he really knows is Husserl. Anon works two minimum wage jobs to stay afloat.
jfc
ok idc
Damn imagine being expert in 1 person. That's kinda erm sad
least deranged husserl fan
Oh wow, I think I had heard of this story before. Was it a guy in his mid 30 that said the only jobs he can get with philosophy major is working at McDonald?
“I didn’t bring an Anteater; I told your producers I did so they wouldn’t bring one” 😂😂😂
XD
He’s playing 4D chess
He's so done with anteaters xD
That’s amazing writing
@@TechWithSean checkmate bruh
I lost it when he monotonously said “catcher of ants.”
I was wiping away tears from exactly that when I saw your comment. Best single second of the entire video
Agreed
The pause afterwards too
Same omg
Oh god.
"They are all going to die soon"
I can't fathom how sad it must be to waste your life on the most boring animals ever
Yeah, seems he is just hoping for them to be extinct.
They aren't more boring than most animals are
I don't have the reference off hand, but there was in fact a biologist who spent years studying the land-snails native to Hawai'i. Which not long afterwards were driven to extinction by a competing invasive snail species.
No that’s gotta be the sloth
Sloths and koalas have got to be many times more boring.
This hits different right now as it's 5am and I'm still in the lab looking at an incredibly niche fungus that nobody but other academics will ever care about :/
Fungi are extremely interesting
Maybe what you're studying will be the next penicillin
Who knows
Psst…the other academics don't and will not care about it either. Sorry, but it needed to be said 😢
Sad but true. Impact factor of 0.0001
Weird flex but okay
I look at Science this way. - Big spectacular buildings made from countless small dull bricks.
Mundane and unsung research done such as yours, may hold keys to unforeseen, startling Scientific discoveries and advancements in the future.
Would anyone today want to research out a formula for getting the long side of an oddly shaped triangle?
No, because that would be boring as hell, but we sure can thank people like Pythagoras having spent too much of their time figuring it out and society benefits from it.
Even if you find nothing, you still contribute to the pool of Scientific knowledge.
Edit.
Also wasn't Penicillin developed from research of Fungi and some Fungi can have anti-cancer properties?
"I found the book to be very interesting myself-" - "That's surprising me."
Pure gold.
The acting is Oscar-worthy. They nailed the morning shows down to a t.
i think my dad wouldn't even laugh at this maybe my mom but she watches disney channel cause "its clean comedy".
@@oz_jones To an A.... for anteater.
@@BillyMcBean. my dad would think it's real
Holy crap I died when the anteater came on screen and he goes “oh God”.
m77yice killem i swear i thought it was a cut out from the office of michael saying oh god 😂
he was like: ahh shit, here we go again..
It's so relatable... Whenever I see an x-ray, I think, "oh God."
it sounds so genuine lmfao
I think about that part a lot and burst out laughing at inappropriate times
Graduates saying they fear this happening to them, here is the real kicker. Right at the end, regardless whether you do something with your life or not, you're probably going to have a similar realization about many aspects of your life.
Underrated comment. few people have the balls to admit this to themselves
Yup. Most (or at least, many) people waste their life similarly. Look at how many spend 12 hours in an office. It is no different
@@davidec.4021 One of my best friends told me what he started doing for work (sorting some random files for an attorney or something for 8 hours a day) and I'd rather live in the forest than to that for 40 years. 😂😂
@@davidec.4021 i think you forgot the purpose of a job is to make money so you can survive, and do other things you want. That's the alternative to hunting and risk getting killed by tigers or lions back in the old days. So yes, I'd pick a boring job over that any day.
@@KP-by4eu "Remember that stack of printer paper?" "It was a good hunt..."
This acting is beyond Oscar worthy it literally felt like he wasted 15 years studying ant eater 😂
“That’s what I told your producers so they wouldn’t bring one”
Neo2266 thinking ahead of time, atleast he learned something from those 15 years
@@longphan7656 You people really believe this is real? As in like it's not some sort of sketch or scripted comedy? Wow...
@@Nottoriuz r/wooosh
this man really fucking hates anteaters lmfao.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Imagine being a species where the only expert about you, hates you. So much.
That is the perfect way to sum up being a lower enlisted soldier in the army. Your species is called "joe" and your expert, LT & NCOs, despise you with extreme prejudice.
Katawa shoujo! Changed me
Lily best girl!
Lilly Satou it’s fake
As an academic, I see this as more of a warning not to make any career your entire life, because regardless of what you do, it's a fickle way to cultivate meaning. You could be a janitor or have any other undervalued, "meaningless" profession, but your life could still hold more meaning than heads of states and CEOs. Live and love well, my friends!
This problem doesn't only pertain to academia. Only being an expert in some hyper niche thing only 100 people in the world can grasp and mopping the same fucking floor for 30 years both suck. 😂😂
@@bingomachinewhose life doesn’t suck? Few of us. Which is why it’s important to create your own meaning internally so your external circumstances don’t matter to your fulfillment and happiness. THAT was their point.
If you get sick on a janitor's pay you are likely not going to see much life anyway.
Yeah, I guess one can get meaning and value from almost anything, regardless of if others see it as mundane.
It's like those may derive peace and satisfaction correcting, balancing data and accounts all day.
@@LuizAlexPhoenix If you think about it like this, if you live shorter life then your significant parts of life represent a greater % of your life than some ultrawealthy person living 200 years. So if we think positively like that, then actually, it's not too bad
I think perhaps the funniest part is the way the anchor valiantly tries to recover the interview by creating some smidgeon of intrigue, and he never stops trying even when it’s clear that it’s a total trainwreck.
”Thats an interesting name. What does tamandua means?”
”Catcher of ants”
...
...
I'm from south america and I had no idea it meant that, pretty interesting to me Lol
@@Gabriel-zx3ge thats cause its not true. The tamandua is unique and only means anteasters. Also, did you know there are four different species?
@@Luke_H. yes, where I live there's only one species but there are more of them in other regions
Bruh tamandua comes from a native language of Brazil called Tupi and means "toothless type of mammal" literally that means anteater. In Portuguese tamandua also means anteater
@RikkiTikkiTavi gk nyambung ya
As my PhD draws to a close, I think of this frequently.
Update, 3y later: I finished my PhD and had the courage to leave academia to do stuff I think is more important 😃
That's the point of advanced studies. To make you able to withstand the boredom and drudgery of the work world. The actual topic doesnt matter.
@@nosuchthing8 So true. Unless of course the whole thing was for nothing.
And what is it really for in the end? What does it mean? It's a simple question. Ask yourself if you are happy. And answer honestly, because lying to yourself - you may find you've wasted a decade and a half on ant eaters. If not, then ask yourself what will make you happy - regardless of pay (western materialistic/capitalistic vanity - I worked hard all my life with my life passing me by just to have stuff around me, that means nothing in the end) prestige of title (which means what in the end?) or what you may think you can change as an individual (noble, yet unrealistic) - and when you find what that is that will make you happy, do that.
Dont waste your precious time on something that doesn't interest you. Oh yeah, this is good money... this project will give me the background to go further. I wake up and I'm 47 years old, I dream of giving monkeys crack cocaine and knives. If I'm lucky they will come after me to end my torture. I thought I was doing important work and come to find out all we were doing was increasing the size of the magnifying lens to burn bugs with. If those fuckers want me, I'll be in a cabin in Lincoln Mt.
@@vf12497439 You seem fun at parties.
Every PhD student 3 years in:
Amazing acting. I had to come to the comments to double check this was fake. I felt so bad for this guy. My heart mourned for his wasted years. Seriously, better acting then you would see in most TV shows. I think it would've been really hard to convey so many negative defeated emotions here, so I just wanted to drop a little appreciation comment:)
Unusually emotional comedy is my favorite. I hate family guy but stuff like the serviceman imagining his whole life with Peter just fucking gets me. The combination of emotion and hilarity is just so funny to me
It’s not “fake,” it’s “satire.” Satire is a form of comedy. How does anyone still not know that The Onion is satire??? They’ve been around since the Stone Age.
@@calisongbird I know what satire is man. Yes it's satire. It's also fake. Most satire is fake. Fake is literally defined as "not genuine"
omg thanks for telling, i genuinely thought this was real, because everything emotional i see on yt these few years have the comments backing up the 'issues' brought in the videos.
The comments i see on this video too are talking abt scientists like this in real life only too, so I was there emotionally in the issue described
@@calisongbird calm down lad
"Don't apologize. I'm the one who wasted my life on this."
Lmfao
;-;
I'm gonna put that on my gravestone
@@guybrushthreepwood9071 Lmao, I hope you find true happiness some day. 😂🖤
the last frame
He spent 15 years with anteaters so we wouldn't have to.
Careful, he's a hero.
Couldn’t have said it better
Lol
K
comment section is always the best
@Sol Maq that gets a golden up imo
I was close to giving up my lifelong passion for the study of the history and socio-economic significance of pitchforks until watching this inspirational video. Thanks Onion!
Better than women's studies.
@@user-qd4td7yb8ebecause you never get too fuck any?
Would you mind discussing the effects of industrialized farming on the future significance of pitchforks? (/s) lol
@@ZacksRockingLifestyle Working on my thesis right now. I'll keep you posted.
@@timberwolfdtproductions3890 that lowkey sounds kinda interesting
I have spent the past fifteen years with anteaters in tribute to this man.
Do you hate them yet
I have spent the past 15 years without anteaters in tribute to this man.
Even though this is fake I actually feel bad
How did you find it out that it is a fake?
Because The Onion makes fake videos like this
Michael P dont make me say it
J.Mill okay boomer
ChillestPlays yep that’s exactly what I was going to say lmao
"catcher of ants."
*silence*
lol
Robert Lyons in Venezuelan XD
Lucas V. The best part is that it means that in some tiny parts, the rest of us speak English
@@lucasv.7658 In Brazilian too xD
That's actually what their name means!
@@lucasv.7658 It is kind of Venezuelan as it is Tupi. So it is more Venezuelan than Spanish is.
Well It's been 15 years I think the onion should bring him back on to find out what he did with the next 15 years of his life.
I think that these people, as a collective, do a great service to humanity. Most of their work will end up useless, but theres always a chance of a special finding or use later, and it happens more often than youd think.
Knowledge is never useless
Lol, it's probably destined to be in a vsauce video about fingernails and then the next day it will be in the local recycling plant
@@maxonite yeah but what was the cost?
@@davidmella1174 What do you mean?
No. Why in the world would I want to bring an anteater?
"Well you said you'd bring an anteater"
"No i just told your producers i'd bring an anteater so they wouldn't bring one"
HahahahahahahahahahA
2:06 “Oh, god...”
oh no
Very Larry David
*anteater appears on screen*
"Oh god"
I’m gonna comment just cause I can
The horror
I wAtChEd ThE vIdEo ToO!
@@timhawley3721Host:"Their not cute??"
Expert"no their not cute "
@@seanism3 I'm gonna say thanks bud just cuz I can.
Oh my god. This is so well done. It took me until I went to the comments to realize it’s from the Onion. I felt bad for this guy, now I realize he’s just a really, really, really good actor.
He is phenomenal actor ,it's insane ,much better than many Oscar winners
It felt....like the physical manifestation of 15 years of boredom....came into being.
#POETRY
Me at the school amirite boys 😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👌
@@emanuellopez8578 Hahahah fuck you
True what a wonderful way to analogize his feelings.
"Don't apologize I'm the one who wasted my life on this" 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣
@@emanuellopez8578 when you finally get a diploma after all those years (your name is written wrong)
Imagine a scientist that purely studies anteaters is watching this and finally realizes how boring their job is
I don’t think they have reception in the rain forest.
What’s funny is there are experts like this out there. I once watched a documentary that had an interview with a “moth expert”. A fucking moth expert.
Giancarlo Piroli lol 😂
@@giancarlopiroli7166 Moths are incredibly diverse and fascinating
Giancarlo Piroli it’s usually more broad than that, the most specific it would get would be groups of species like birds or insects or mammals something along those lines.
I just realized upon the second time watching this, when he mentions that the ant eaters are “endangered and all going to die soon,” he says it with this BARELY visible split second smirk and look at kinda hidden satisfaction. It’s because he hates them so much after having to spend his entire life with them he wants to see them all die 😂. The smallest details.. the onion always delivers lol
This is still without a doubt one of their greatest videos of all time.
Can we give some attention to the guy who plays the host? Every piece he does, he performs flawlessly, and I laugh at him just as much as I laugh at everything else in the sketches.
Ikr finally someone else acknowledges how good he is.
Seriously, how did they managed to find all the good actors while high budget films can hardly ever have one?
He killed it this time. When it ended, and he just looked at the camera in silence. My favorite part.
@@asmodeus1234 Amazing!
He's a pig.
This is probably the most well acted parody I have ever seen.
You haven't seen a lot of the onion have you
There's nothing parodic about this. I just wanted to say parodic. The word just came to me and I wondered if it might be a real word, and it is!
No they're not cute.
yeah the way he choppily breathes in at the end really adds the realistic emotion
It’s not a parody...? Fucker hates ant eaters
2:06 "Ohh God..."
Most underestimated part of the whole sketch.
I have to admit - when I first saw this video almost 15 years ago, I TOO decided to dedicate my life studying anteaters. I have to tell you... after my own 15 years, I've come to the same conclusion... part of my life wasted that I'll never get back. I could have studied aardvarks or African porcupines, or even striped lemurs. But no. I don't even know what I did with my Anteater book. I think I left it at my campsite in Argentina when I was chased out by a herd of gay capybaras.
Ok that was a sharp turn you just did, how and when?
I'm gonna study capybaras for the next 15 years of my life
I spent twelve torturous years alone on the savanna studying aardvarks in spite of the fact that after my dissertation l unfortunately discovered that my real passion is termites.
@@bigbuba5212 I hope UA-cam's still around in 15 years so you can finish the pun.
It’s better than spending your life studying striped biologist taunters
His “Oh god” when they rolled the footage is gold.
I shit myself, he just can’t escape the ant eaters man lmao
yea when we saw the anteater and he hates it its so funny lmao. great skit
That was my favorite part. I chuckled.
God*
@@cristianmontesdeoca7392 isn’t real
As someone studying biology in university, the very real prospect of this happening to me absolutely terrifies me.
I look at my professors slightly differently now... hello there, fellow biology student
Keep studying what you want, just don’t be this guy
Godspeed my friend
Look, just because you're studying biology doesn't mean you have to spend 15 years of your life living with and studying ant eaters. There are all sorts of animals you can waste 15 years of your life living with. Sloths, capybaras, ant eaters. The list goes o.. well it stops there but it's a good selection.
I have a degree in Conservation Biology and I felt like I was wasting every moment of my life getting it, I hated it. Since then I've haven't worked in a job with any relevance, but it's still helpful to have a science degree.
Just finish, don't quit or fail or you'll have nothing to show for your time and money.
15 years, 15 years ago.
2:17 "fifteen years."
LMAO
This is what 90% of college degrees out there will feel like when you finally graduate
yeahhh for sureeee...
@@blinkbubs3994 I think that's the whole point of the skit
if this is the case you probably choose the wrong degree program
@@bennyadammh a lot of people get a degree that they arent interested in.
My Women's Studies major with a Philosophy minor is going to get me a great job.
This is what I feel like my PhD will be like.
It's academia in a nutshell. Embrace it.
Yeah, there's a guy in my department who's an expert in Cadmium or something like that. You can really see it in his eyes. He probably dreams about the fucking stuff!
I'm 4 years into my PhD and yeah it is and I want to quit and go be a farmer or something.
Najey Rifai Well, cadmium is a vital component of quantum dots ... yet another material that can do everything except leave the lab.
M3ta1 I have a PhD in cleaning drains.
This is bar none the most interesting and motivating things I’ve watched all year, thanks!
1:46
This gets me every time. The sigh
Plus the “oh god”
I’m terrified of choosing the wrong college major and ending up like this guy. edit: yes, i understand the joke smh
A guy I know did a History PHD on use of stamps in medieval Europe. It's a very real possibility, be careful!
Pick any major and become like this guy
Study finance and get rich.
People who did something like this is at least passionate and happy of what they did, tbh.
Half of people end up doing something different anyway, the main qualification proves you stick at something until the end and by the end you should be dynamic enough to learn new skills to do other jobs. High level qualifications are really just proof you can learn. Unless you pick a specific trade/profession even then you can always switch, just important to ensure you finish (although i cant endorse degrees with no jobs at the end, lesbian dance theory,egyptology etc)
This should be a mandatory watch for anybody considering embarking on a PhD...
I was already howling over the video and the other comments and then I came to yours! 😭😭😭
Was this your experience?
I'm reminded of the Brian May quote "Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer," whenever I think of my time doing Astrophysics. I had to leave for mental health reasons before even getting my undergraduate degree, but I was sort of relieved.
@@CarboKill That's a really interesting quote. Astrobiology and astrophysics were the driving force for my choosing physics but then suddenly I lost interest in it. Other "lesser known" parts of physics sound more interesting these days.
@@CarboKill Oh man, this is a pretty solid quote. I love astronomy and currently doing my PhD, but I also HATE doing the scientific workload of research. There's so much stress over minor details. I'm looking to teach/talk about astronomy to the public as my future career.
It's been 15 years since this interview. The anticipated anteater sequel should be out any day.
“It felt like the physical manifestation of 15 years boredom came into being”. Best. Line. Ever.
I once wrote a paper on why we sneeze. That experience is known as “the lost weekend” in my life.
Jason Luong no offense good sir but that’s nothing compared to 15 years
God I wish I only had one “lost weekend”.
if you don’t mind my asking, why do we sneeze?
@@bigtuna4680 hey dude it's been one week, be prepared for the explanation soon
If you don't respond soon there's gonna be a whole lot more than a lost weekend
His next project: fifteen years of sloths.
Or Tortis Ticks.
He will probably commit suicide 3 years into it.
Shit... that would be awful.
Sloths are amazing! I like ant eaters too though!
@@1MinuteFlipDoc Totally agree, but live with them for 15 years with no human interactions, and anybody's tune would change. XD
Charles Darwin spent 8 years studying barnacles. After which he said, "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before".
barnacles are so gross. 8 years? I can't even look at them in a picture
I love the tortured look of remorse on his face as he speaks about his experience. What a great actor 😀
i never thought my spirit animal would not be an animal, but an animal expert.
Humans are animals.
@@rory5780 mmmm
Lmao
Lmfao
Zoologist (smiles happily): You know, they're on the endangered species list, and they're all going to die soon.
"No they're not really that interesting, certainly not after the first FIVE YEARS..."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's just like raising children or being married in general.
I had a language teacher at college that studied some latin verbal forms for years. His PHD supervisor told him there wasn't anything to be found and that it was a waste of time. He did it anyway and lost a decade of his life. It amounted to nothing.
It can and does happen irl.
It would only be a waste of time for him if he didn’t enjoy the journey
I can relate. I wasted two years of my life working at an Amazon warehouse.
tbh, 2 years ain't bad. I'm sure when you are 80 and look back at your life, those 2 years won't feel like wasted time :)
He was bound to waste those 15 years from the start. He should’ve studied penguins for 15 years instead
Hi zyph
hey
sellout
Why? Because then he would have not just been bored, but bored AND cold? Then he'd be on the talk show talking about how horribly boring penguins are instead. You're just biased because your profile picture is a bird.
He could have done worse, like been in a shitty marriage for 15 years and lost everything.
“Catcher of ants”
* soul-piercing silence *
No replies how ?
1.7 thousand likes and only 1 reply? Let me fix that.
1.8 thousand likes and only 2 replies? Let me fix that.
0:15 I love how miserable he looks right out the gate lol
The acting in these onion vids is absolutely top notch
"I thought you were going to bring an anteater"
"That's just what I told your producers because I didn't want them to bring one"
You know, if you think about it, this is really just a clever way of making a joke out of the fact that the onion didn't actually have a live anteater available to use as a prop. Accomplishing two things in one move.
thats so big brained i didnt even realize that holy shit
I wish The Onion would reboot this news show satire. I miss it and it was much better than the podcasts they upload now.
Agreed
they don't have a big enough budget anymore
@@spooderpig5706 They need to open a go fund me page I need their content
@@spooderpig5706 pretty sure it's not about the budget.
probably with the pandemic and lockdown they can't do a lot of in person filming
This is like a subtle comedy masterclass. Such good acting
Before your comment I even thought that it's real
The use of silence, and awkward pauses is genius.
That's what my ex said when I wanted to break up.
beezzarro eh
I. Did. Not. Know.
i don't mind wasting last 15 years of my life rewatching old onion videos
Do you have any onion facts you'd like to toss around?
@@WilliamTermini i know a know a lot of facts because of the factors involved that i acquired with my long and volatile history of previous onion marathons that i've watched on my apple scroll wheel laptop ( that i got for inflated cigarette prices) with janelle while considering 9/11 conspiracies which turned out to be unrealistic considering this country is run by child politicians.
I miss the Onion News Network so much. Their sports videos were so good too
I'm 10 years late
Damn
ahahaha same
same
Me too
Me too
F
The actors the Onion hires are honestly just stupendous
May I know why are you sticking your tongue out?
I'm currently researching and planning to release a paper on why women stick their tounges out and its socio-economical-political-behavioural-boner effects.
I would highly appereciate your assistance in my research.
@@yeahx32p69 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@yeahx32p69 she sticks her tongue out because she is an anteater
@@yeahx32p69 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Actors?
I love how this video doesn't have a bumper or ending joke, it just ends as Jim Haggerty looks hopelessly into space.
Funny segment until the very end. The way it just hung on their and then closed awkwardly was master class funny.
I love how hard the host tries to keep the interview rolling
Tiger66261 r/whoosh
+N337av G#o5h there is no whoosh to be found.
Goat Boi ofcourse there is! That person actually thought it was for real and they were actually trying hard to keep at it.
Are you new to reddit? All of it is retarded
Keep your reddit bullshit in that shit site, Nobody cares that you are all vergins
“The day it was published, it was completely anticlimactic. It felt like the physical manifestation of fifteen years of boredom, came into being.” 😂😂😂
There's a disorder about this. It's called ADHD
@@sidvacant9382 that...makes no sense
🤣😂
@@sidvacant9382 Wut
@@danitho pHD
adHD
“Certainly not after the first five years” 🤣😂🤣😂
I actually had a guy like this in the military. He was about to retire when it dawned on him he missed his daughter growing up and the death of his parents and grandparents. Most of his friends had separated years ago so he didn’t really know anyone still in. This realization hit him in front of the entire division and it was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.
My grandfather used to tell me, “a man may climb the ladder all the way to the top, only to realize he’s on the wrong building.
That would be tragic, gave me a little motivation to go & do something now
@@RELee-kq6ww damn that hits deep, real deep. Imma try to remember that for the rest of my life.
@@RELee-kq6ww you went far but took the wrong road,
Same here, I spent 2 years getting an associates degree in broadcasting only to realize I didn't want to be a radio host, then another 2 years getting a bachelor's degree in theatre, who's to say that in 2 more years when I get my master's degree in history if I'll still want to be a teacher?
Interview: “Tamondoa” that’s an interesting name, What does Tamondoa mean in Venezuelan?”
Depressed Expert: “Catcher of Ants”
Awkward silence
And I always thought they spoke Spanish in Venezuela... 🤔
@@JormungandrEtrSigSjalfr native Americans
its Tamandua in portuguese as well
@@JormungandrEtrSigSjalfr dude. They do speak spanish in Venezuela. But just like all countries. Native people have other languages. So the term venezuelan in this satire is incorrect.
mike force lol
This is my comfort video
The “Did You Know?” popping up on the screen in the midst of the guy having a breakdown.
Recommendation proudly brought to you by the youtube algorithm.
enjoy
xD
Hahahahaha, it really blubbers out all it's got, since it has censored all the new stuff. UA-cam slowly deconstructing itself. AI at its finest.
btw is this some kind of joke or something or is this a legit interview ?
This was brought to me by a meme page on Instagram
No. I obviously searched for this video
Even though it's fictional, I have a strong urge to buy this guy's book just to make him feel better
👍😂
He does not seem to care, wether we buy his book or not, anymore.
proceeds will go to years of therapy or funeral bills
This isn't fictional. The guy ended up going off the deep end and taking out a bunch anteaters with a high power rifle before offing himself. I'm sure his family could use the proceeds from the book though. RIP Jim Haggerty PhD
If you want to make him feel better buy the book and burn it in front of him.
I've been an artist for 11 years and I feel like this.
I've ruined the mystique and joy of creating art by learning more about it.
The mysteries of perspective, form and light are gone.
I actually hate to draw now and it makes me sick.
I feel you
I got burnt out so much I permanently quit art
People know I can draw so people sometimes request drawings and I can never get myself to even finish the sketch
I get so bored and feel so repelled from it but I still want to create
The fun lies in learning something new. If you can’t approach an old topic like it’s new, then you’ll never learn anything about it again, even though there’s always something you didn’t explore. Ask the passionate mathematicians on numberphile, they’ll tell you the same thing.
You see, the fun in learning and creativity is in the discovery, not the knowledge. And if people in mathematics always have more to discover, then it’s clear that your discovery process failed at some point along the line, if what you became an expert in was such an incredibly soft science as art.
You CAN enjoy something you are an expert, but only if you learn how to never end the learning/discovery process! In other words, you can be a kid again!
@@bigbuba5212 You and Poop Poop fucking nailed it.
But sometimes it's about unlearning what you know and doing something entirely new in terms of creativity to find that spark again
it's there! it's just hidden
Embrace the hate.
That's always been the issue with knowing too much. The only thing you get to learn is something very niche
the bone dry delivery of “catcher of ants” is the best part about this video
The "Oh God." kills me every time. He's completely repulsed by once again seeing the monsters he had to spend 15 years of what could have been valuable time with.
That was jus priceless the way he said it 😂
Same thing happens when you spend 15 years with your wife
@@leztyget divorced then
@@RG-rm6ih point is you’ll get sic
I was thinking the same thing. lol
Poor man, he looks so broken. I myself have the exact opposite problem; I spent fifteen years of my life studying Fight Club, but due to the first rule, I can't tell a soul what I learned.
Mad Maverick - Tell me more about your study, it's about martial arts?
This is the single most mediocre joke I've ever seen in my life
+Elyas I can neither confirm nor deny this assertion. I've already said too much.
+Swegman Blazit I can say without sarcasm that I am beyond flattered to hear that. I'm glad it has made such a non-impact. Your comment actually made me laugh far more than my attempt at joke ever could. Thank you.
Mad Maverick glad you like it
You couldn't write a better comedy sketch. Real life is the king of all stories.
I can't believe I am binge-watching 15-year-old videos. But there's nothing better to watch.
I looove the fact that they don't end on a punchline, but just awkward silence. It's so hardcore. Feels like it's unusual for US humor.
The 2000's was packed with it. ...I miss it.
Lol you didn't grow up watching the right stuff man
silence on their end, but I assure plenty of laughter from the viewers.
@@chrisholland1504 ok this one was a little harsh but still good
Awkward humour is way more of a uk thing. Stuff like inbetweeners and the office was ruined by American loud=funny humour
How could I have missed this for 11 years straight. I wonder how many undiscovered gems are still out there
If you haven't seen "Missing Teens Friends go on TV" do yourself a favor and watch it twice. Once to watch the actors and listen. A second time to read the little highlights and news headlines.
P Sherman pls watch the one about the grabbler & nagglers
I can send you a link to a phenomenal japanese jazz artist that came up in my recommended last year.
The Onion was killing it in the late 2000s and early 2010s. My favorites are the prison economics report, the Supreme Court death penalty report, and the one where a golf pro teaches you to play golf with a...twist. 😏
Have you run into Comedy Central’s “Review”?
This clip aged so well. I come back to it time and time again whenever I need a good pick-me-up. Always gets a laugh.
That hard cut to black at the end got me good! 😂
Spoiler:
This is real.
Life is fake
Haaaaa...
true that
That was so funny I forgot to laugh
This could be really deep at a certain angle..
This is what many of us feel like at the end of the day, we just don't show it. Put so much time and effort towards our pursuits only for it to feel so empty and purposeless when it's all over. I'm certain even some millionaires and billionaires, people who have made it and can buy anything they want, feel like this if they haven't put enough their energy towards genuine relationships with other people. It's a sad quality of the human condition.
This is ridiculous. The actor of Mr.Anteater here was able to nail a mood between hopelessness, frustration, anger, condemnation, remorse and insecurity in such a subtle way. It seems way more authentic than 90% of what you see on television today. Can't get over how great TheOnion actors are. The host and his co-host also. Nailed to perfection. Love these clips so much.
had a feeling it was fake , but who knows what anteater researchers are like
Actors? This is real you plonker
@@pikpik42 plonker
@@UA-camsaysimCyberbully the whole channel is
He sold it to me. Hook line and sinker.
So hilarious because this is what most PhD’s lives stand for 😂😂😂😂😂 The interviewer is epic! can’t breathe from laughing.
man this video is amazing in so many aspects.
That "oh god" at 2:05 is just beautiful. Carries so much disappointment, disgust and defeat you can't help but laugh.
Just incredible indeed.
It’s great. Not everyday I get a laugh as good as that delivered.
“No they’re not cute… they’re not cute they’re not little…. Their tongue alone is two feet long…” 😂🤣
So true
I'm happy this was recommended to me. This was gold.
Same 😂😂😂😂 so funny!
@If you laugh you sub! How does being a sketch make it bad? It's hilarious.
@If you laugh you sub! Yeah, definitely depends on your, "eye cue". Where do they make people like you? lmao...
@If you laugh you sub! eye cue lmaoooo
@If you laugh you sub! you must have at least 20 eye cue!!!
He spent 15yrs in research and this video is now 15yrs old!
Great and Excellent tutorial .This method is clear and works Properly 100%.I recommend it.Thank You.
I started laughing so hard when the reporter at the end when he couldn't say anything with a weird look
So did i lmfao
I feel bad he tried so hard I feel bad for both of them.
@@slice-o-life You know it's fake right?
LiberatedMind Seems so
@@LiberatedMind1 seems like it but damn . The reactions.