"One day when I was fighting my way out of Eton college I nearly tripped up over a top hat" -- LOL

@Alina-fe2zv

8 жыл бұрын

+Ball Bag that was the best part ! ))))

@Mike-xb4fz

7 жыл бұрын

Oh the complete and utter horror of it all.

@danvez5656

5 жыл бұрын

i was in stitches! fucking hilarious.

@lanahurren3986

Жыл бұрын

Russell Brand's voice always repeats in my head whenever I hear the word "top hat" now.

There's a common argument that welfare is too cushy. Watch today's #trews "Is It Your Fault You're Poor?" here kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZnyemtKNlNPegaw.html

@scotter

9 жыл бұрын

What if we choose "responsibility" instead of "fault"?

@BB9203

9 жыл бұрын

My favorite time of the day, I swear to God, Allah, Buddha and Ghandi.

@stackyg123

9 жыл бұрын

Scott Swain nothing?

@keithrodgerstwitterdogsare2073

9 жыл бұрын

97,000,000 Unemployed... Who's POOR?

@hanumaniam

9 жыл бұрын

You had one thumbs down as of this moment. Has to be Bill or his mate.

I'm currently on benefits due to illness, and I can tell you that living on seventy-five quid a week is fucking brilliant. I especially like the part where I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to eat from one day to the next- it adds a real level of excitement to my life.

@stumbling

9 жыл бұрын

Badatstuff Been there, my friend. I used to go to the supermarket every night to pick up all the reduced stuff (well worth doing and can be a nice surprise). I lived on rice, pulses and apples for quite a while. What ever you do do not give them an excuse to sanction you, that got pretty grim for me, and if that does happen find a local food bank.

@busterking2579

9 жыл бұрын

Badatstuff at least you can enjoy ur PC and internet

@stumbling

9 жыл бұрын

buster king Yeah that is the irony of it. You feel like you're well-off because you have a computer and maybe a console or two and other gadgets (all bought before losing your job of course), but you soon realise that these things are worthless. I had to sell my games console to make rent one month, and it's like a drop in the ocean. First world problem, I know, but it is quite eye-opening to see these mod cons you assign value and status to just disappear and be gobbled up by your bills as if they never existed and you're back to square one the next month like it made no difference.

@tenofivelips

9 жыл бұрын

Badatstuff These men are so ignorant. How did they take a phrase "gilded cage" which for centuries has been used to describe women who are trapped in "wife" role, being surrounded by beautiful things (glided) but unable to do as she pleases and use it to describe the poor. The dumbing down/destruction of my country is broadcast through with Faux. Gilded literally means wealthly / covered in gold.

@MagisterMalleus

9 жыл бұрын

Honestly I consider myself lucky. I have a phone which can access the internet, a supportive (emotionally that is) family, and a few good friends. Yes I don't eat every day and I live in a shitty bedsit with junkies, but I'm reasonably healthy and at least I don't live in Syria or somewhere like that :)

I'm college educated and have worked all my life. No one has ever offered me a job for $40,000. They are just pulling this stuff out of their asses and it's insulting, infuriating and baseless. I studied English & sociology at a prestigious university. I can write my way out of a paper bag though to get a job that will pays my bills doing this - well, we all know the fate of PRINT journalism. With my sociological background I can write on these topics endlessly and quote actual academic research to back my articles until I keel over - but so few people REALLY want to hear the truth - and so many still buy into the Horatio Alger lie about american opportunity (and our selective history). When 80 people own more than the bottom three and a half BILLION people - don't dare talk to me about "equal opportunity and lack of ambition. The playing field has ALWAYS been skewed - the first lesson in sociology (besides schools of theory) is that the average person's success is based on WHO YOU KNOW. I spent a lot of money to learn this. Thank you for the Trews Russell; there is NO reason you have to wallow in the muck with us. Thank you for your humanity.

@lizatanzawa7910

9 жыл бұрын

You ennoble our muck, Ms. Lamson!

@MsKnowgirl

9 жыл бұрын

You too friend.Thank you...it's such a lonely place to be. I honestly don't know a soul whom I can speak to about all these issues of which are such a part of me and which I think of ALL the time. Now I just simmer and boil over. I don't write much anymore or play music. I find myself in a intellectual and creative desert - I am no longer in academic circles, don't have anyone to play music with and am living in a VERY unpleasant situation with some very closed minded, ignorant people. The trolls keep me away sometimes. Really - would we even bother to go on a propagandist right wing website and try to enlighten them? I can't think of any reason why Russ is such a magnet for these angry men except that they must so resent him his gifts. He's everything they THINK and have been told would bring THEM what they desire. They see an handsome rich guy who appears to have life come so easy to him and they resent him, want to be him, maybe WANT him. I would go so far as to speculate that beyond their furious envy of him that they actually don't understand their conflicted attraction to him and are beyond confused about them. We are not talking about the brightest, most evolved guys! Besides being such a bright guy, he is quite lovely - although his beauty far transcends his physicality - he BEAMS - and that goes far beyond his mortal coil. And that is WAY over their heads as well I'm afraid! Still, it's nice to find kindred souls on here - he's been blessed and gifted and he is a natural magnet that will not be resisted - or ignored. What makes him truly wonderful is that he knows this but realizes it for the gift it is and believes in his heart it is his duty to share it. With all the gifts he's been bestowed it is the realization that it IS NOT HIS that is his finest feature...and through him he brings some wonderful souls together. Keep in touch friend - I'm barely treading water here!

@MsKnowgirl

9 жыл бұрын

Liza Tanzawa You too Liza - U R a sweet, cool woman. So rare in my world these days. All the best to you friend...

@MsKnowgirl

9 жыл бұрын

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@MsKnowgirl

9 жыл бұрын

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I agree Russell! I am a single parent, oh, through no fault of my own, my partner died suddelnly at 43 leaving me to bring up my son at age 6. I work full time as a teaching assistant, and work BLOODY hard, and I have to collect working tax credits because my wage is £10, 500 per annum, so the goverment only allow me enough on top of my wages to bring me up to what they say is what THEY think I should need to live on by law, so I might aswell be on benefits but I want to set my son a good example. I dont have all the free stuff, I dont go on holiday, or have a car, or ever likely to own anything. So yes, Russell is spot on!!

@DarthDuckTV

9 жыл бұрын

My mother is commenting on my channel again, she doesn't know internet...

@DanielmcintoshTHELOL

9 жыл бұрын

DarthDuckTV Mate you're pretty lucky you have a mother that cares so much about you and has barely enough money but still has enough to afford for you to be able to enjoy the life of gaming, I hope you appreciate it.

@DarthDuckTV

9 жыл бұрын

I really do, I can't be more happy and I appreciate my mothers efforts.

@DarthDuckTV

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, and a PC now... and a ps3...

@DarthDuckTV

9 жыл бұрын

Was that sarcasm? Or do you actually have one? I mean I was just stating that I had one.

Having just come out of unemployment, I can assure you that at no time was I ever snowed under by vast offers of support from my government. Instead, the nightmare of where to place the blame for my failure to be employed was always placed squarely on my shoulders. My monthly support checks, were not enough to cover my families needs and my desperation to find ANY work was the source of nightmares. All in all, the whole experience put me on a course towards revolution. A point the elite are blind to: At Their current rate of oppression, they will simply create the very thing they are so actively trying to suppress, namely Revolution! I challenge Stuart Varney and Bill O'Reilly to live on 347.00 per month! Did I mention the part about how they actually TAXED me on my government "handout" ? I got to pay taxes on my poverty! Just laughable if it wasn't so horrible.

@lisaphilmlee4462

9 жыл бұрын

Oh, my favorite part was paying the ATM fee to use the debit card for my monthly stipend. Really a surreal experience all the way around.

@xymonau2468

9 жыл бұрын

Lisa Culiner But dearie - you can't have the banks going hungry, now can you?

His delivery of this information makes it enjoyable. He's just amazing.

Its cheaper just to give people income. If they're homeless on the street or in prison it costs more to look after them. But, for some reason the hatred in ppls hearts makes the spiteful about "those people getting to live without working".

@helphelpimbeingrepressed9347

7 жыл бұрын

Don't worry the US has the prison thing covered (private prisons, inmates manufacture loads of military/law enforcement clothing/holsters/vests etc., in some prisons inmates also have to pay the prison for the expense of keeping them prisoners!). Now we've just got to turn a buck on those lazy homeless types....hmm.......I know lets make little rectangular boxes to put em in the benefits are threefold: 1) We won't have to look at them (true, already in the US, it is a Quality of Life Crimes, so the homeless can be charged with crimes for being homeless!) 2) We can put adverts up & profit. 3) We could have a little coin slot so bleeding hearts can donate to the homeless occupant of said booth, of course they wouldn't get ALL of the money. After all coin slot mechanisms cost money to buy & maintain. I mean how much do they need? no bills to pay - I say give em 5%

@katmatally

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, you got it. They're deliberately creating an underclass of folks they can exploit, and if the underclass die, there will always be more. It's so disheartening. God bless Russell Brand.

@tange-lq5jg

7 жыл бұрын

dothedeed dole in Ireland is 10k a year to keep a person in jail is 90k a year an to house someone who's down on there look costs about 8k a year. but our government seem to think 6,000 homeless people is OK. look up Apollo house few famous guys like Glen Hansard hozier etc are now stepping up to fight for poor people etc Apollo house check it out some good music on there too.

Do you know what, those two American news guys are right. I dont want to be in poverty no more. Right, tomorrow im gonna go and get a 100k pa job. There must be loads in my local job centre and where you dont need to have an expencive education or be from privileged background to get that 100k year job, it should be sooo easy. What have I been thinking all my life?! Thanks Fox news, no more poverty for me!

@petercorr3545

9 жыл бұрын

Yes what a great idea. I'm going to pop in and see if there's any jobs going with £1,000,000 a year bonuses and expenses all paid.

@TheSaintDesigns

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Corr yes however you only want high bonus's for doing a bad job, and if it doesnt work out make sure you get a golden handshake on your way out

brand is not only funny as hell, he is actually a good person apparently.

Welfare is NOT full of goodies. I lost my home and my art studio(my income) because of a slumlord landlord who did nothing when my house flooded and then my roof caved in and I had to move, ..I currently (thankfully) live in my baby sisters living room in her tiny apt in one of the poorest city in Los Angeles county..after being unemployed (on paper) for so long, selling my cars and 90% of my belongings, I had to apply for Welfare. I get $200 cash and $200 food per month. If not for my little sister, I'd have to share a bedroom with 5 other people in order to have a roof over my head. I am a skilled and educated woman who would give anything to be working again and have enough to get a little used car and have a private bedroom again..But I'm one of the lucky ones. a friend of mine has been reduced to prostitution to keep herself off the streets.Because welfare is not enough.. so the assholes that think welfare is some free for all party..can go to hell.

@dingdingdingding5544

7 жыл бұрын

Aalihte Some people think they have gone through the worst experiences possible and work harder than anyone else when in reality theyre just some old asshole who gets paid to voice his opinions to other old assholes.

@bethabner3940

7 жыл бұрын

I don't understand? Why don't you have a job?

I've know lots of poor people (usually people who WORK, full time or two jobs. often times without transportation) that are on some type of assistance and never had met or heard of anyone getting 40k a year. Not even close. And welfare isn't paying for people not to work. That's not the reality and it's stupid to stay.

Russell Brand I would love it if you could cover the 3 police officers in Oklahoma who were arrested for pulling over and raping women. Afterwards a police captain told a news reporter that if women don't want to get raped then they should follow traffic laws. This is a tip from a cop that is still out on our streets here in America! Please help get the word out for us in America because we love you no matter what Bill O Reilly says about you :). TIA!

@YoungEducationUSA

9 жыл бұрын

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/oklahoma-police-rape_n_5870752.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

@basbleupeaunoire

9 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind seeing a Trews on the guy who raped 8 women. But the comment attributed to the Highway Patrol officer seems to be what the journalist said, not the cop. www.forwardprogressives.com/fact-check-oklahoma-hwy-patrol-captain-george-brown-blames-police-assaults-on-victims/

@YoungEducationUSA

9 жыл бұрын

basbleupeaunoire Here is another article, the Captain did in fact say this: www.prisonplanet.com/cops-tip-for-not-getting-raped-by-a-cop-dont-get-pulled-over.html It is a quote the anchor got from the cop and then he goes on to talk about how they are trying to earn back public trust...

@vcp365

9 жыл бұрын

Is one of them, by chance, the police officer who raped 8 women and got bail? I read he's now under "house arrest" (read: paid vacation, on our taxes).

@YoungEducationUSA

9 жыл бұрын

vcp365 Yes, Daniel Holtzclaw was released on bail and is now on house arrest until trial because a judge reduced his bond from $5 million to $500,000.

"With no job vacancies, withdrawing benefits to encourage people into work is like withdrawing medicine to encourage patients to become fucking immortal" - Frankie Boyle

This is the best video I've ever seen.

"leaving Eaton and tripping over a top-hat", made me laugh so hard. Hahaha......

"I'm chopping it up, like a loaf of hatred" lol, love it!!!

Russell needs to do an episode on Ed Milliband's speech today. He said he wanted to devolve power back to the working class just as Russell has been saying.

@ConstantThrowing

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah its all bullshit and we're all aware of that so yno....

@joshgunton2094

9 жыл бұрын

Yeh Russell should have a look at it. Eds speech was very good and the ideas that he was proposing were close to Russells views especially devolution and his stance on the nhs. Labour will get voted in at the next election not because they're the best party to run our country but because of lack of options to vote for as well as the coalitions incompetence.

@joshgunton2094

9 жыл бұрын

Yeh Russell should have a look at it. Eds speech was very good and the ideas that he was proposing were close to Russells views especially devolution and his stance on the nhs. Labour will get voted in at the next election not because they're the best party to run our country but because of lack of options to vote for as well as the coalitions incompetence.

@groinslasher

9 жыл бұрын

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100206049/ed-miliband-calls-himself-a-zionist-a-brave-and-welcome-statement-but-will-he-dare-to-stand-by-it/

@oboqoo

9 жыл бұрын

'He said he wanted to devolve power back to the working class just as Russell has been saying.' Forked his tongue is.

Love your work, Russell. Can't figure out how you're still alive, but love your work.

@seenasaeed2859

9 жыл бұрын

M also thinking the same!

Thank you Russell for speaking the truth.

Also, once again.. Russell I completely agree with you're response here, I am in full support of an egalitarian like society.. Keep up the great work! ❤️💙

@PlantbasedHabibti

9 жыл бұрын

Indeed. We support

@matsallehx

9 жыл бұрын

Russell is a living legend, would be nice if he (and anyone else pro-Brand) came up to Scotland this weekend to see The Voice of the People rally at Edinburgh's Holyrood. 1000s of people are turning up (including many who now regret voting No last Thursday...yup we still love them, don't believe the pro-elitist / 95% + media bias who with the establishment are or by now must surely be cacking it). Scotland will be a far more egalitarian society sooner than we think, I and many more are highly confident of this. The referendum has done nothing to quell our energies. In fact everyone is bringing supplies for the foodbanks too...you gotta see it to believe...why....again because the media-majority are hiding/manipulating everything that has happened the last wee while here in Scotland!!

Russell, you have definitely found your true calling in life, your well spoken, informed, to the point, quick on your feet and your head/heart is in the right place. Keep calling it how you see it, dont change a thing, you have single handedly renewed my interest in politics.

lol the "snowed under" bit was great. I almost peed myself.

Until politicians start discussing slashing corporate welfare, nobody should take them seriously. THAT is where our tax dollars are being wasted. Millions of dollars going to millionaire farmers who aren't even farming anything while cutting funding to Meals on Wheels and head start is just plain ridiculous! Do I think we need overall welfare reform? Of course, but it should start at the top and not from the bottom!

@Ericwvb2

9 жыл бұрын

The federal government spends about $93 billion a year on corporate welfare (that is NOT counting tax breaks or comically inflated no-bid contracts). Social welfare is $59 billion a year. If you include tax breaks it's probably over 2x the size. Where is the outrage about the "culture of dependency" from these corporations?

@Sharonformation

9 жыл бұрын

Eric van Bezooijen The people who are against social welfare aren't told about corporate welfare in the conservative media bubble. Instead, they're told that social welfare goes to able bodied people who are just lazy, or on drugs, and that we already over tax and over regulate corporations which is why they're moving jobs overseas. You know.... anything to get people to go along with the big con!

@xymonau2468

9 жыл бұрын

And the banks. When poor people were losing their homes, did the government help them? No. They helped the people foreclosing on the homes. I have no idea how you can get around the doublethink necessary to keep a straight face while helping the less fortunate millionaires.

@w1975b

9 жыл бұрын

how much is being wasted on war?

@Sharonformation

9 жыл бұрын

ChiefShittingBull You are sadly correct! There is a bumper sticker I keep meaning to get "Public Ignorance is Corporate Bliss" If you haven't already delve into the documentaries "Citizen Koch" (if you have Netflix) or "Kochs Exposed" here on YT. Also, please watch "The World According to Monsanto" and "What a Way to go: Life at the end of empire" on YT. They are documentaries that have changed my entire prospective on a host of issues. I believe every person on the planet should be forced to watch these and become informed on what is actually going on. Until we get a society that is informed and angry about what is happening to our country nothing will change. As pathetic as that is, it's not near as bad as those who choose to keep their heads buried in their IPhones or up Kim Kardashians ass to care about anything else. Methodically, that's exactly the way the oligarchs who are taking over our political system want it to keep it!

chopping a loaf of hatred every day on FOX

Russell, take the time you need (which admittedly could be a lifetime or two--I'm a public personality on nowhere near the level you're on and even I know how fucking depressing and exhausting it can be to be the only individual capable of level 2&3reasoning skills in the general vicinity who actually speaks out) and then please, PLEASE GET BACK OUT THERE!! The world needs people like you. You encourage us to use our critical thinking skills and in a funny, forthright, down to earth manner. That is incredibly rare. We definitely need you back☺️. Thanks for all you've done.

@gidgethrobowski3860

8 жыл бұрын

Dom, agree 100%

Russel, this was one of your best shows!! You always have good shows but this one was outstanding! Keep up the good work!

"I'm chopping it up like A LOAF OF HATRED." Fuck. Got me. Had to pause so I could laugh and then keep listening.

What do they think living on welfare is??? Sitting around at home with a million luxuries??

Why is okay that American news is two people agreeing with each other on a topic and not a discussion and a topic?

@CosmicCat23

9 жыл бұрын

Joss Duffy They don't want anything to interfere with their propaganda, like objectivity of facts.

@danvez5656

5 жыл бұрын

yeah i thought that was very strange

You are my favorite person on the internet. Thank you for spreading realness, awareness, love, and light.

Truth, Enlightenment and Hilarity! Bloody love it!

@jackthehatuk

9 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha! Wish i had friends like you. You are great. I think people shouldn't be able to comment on stuff until they are out of nappies. (Diapers i am guessing you call them, by your intellectual drivel)

@n.t1196

9 жыл бұрын

jackthehatuk I too was sickened by what Jon Scholes said to you. It was ridiculous. However, you made yourself sound just as awful by saying, "diapers...I am guessing you call them by your intellectual drive). Insinuating that one whom calls them diapers in lieu of 'nappies' (so in this case Americans), is less intellectual. Him stooping to name calling is lazy. You being classist and/or nationalist isn't better. I am a Black American woman and I do know what 'nappies' are. I also know that trousers are what we refer to as pants. I know that knackered means tired. I also know better than to prove a point by name calling (even in pseudo-intellectual ways).

@jonscholes8721

9 жыл бұрын

Niema and Tom Quiet-Hendershot Shut the fuck up, he was rude to me on another thread. What comes around goes around. Nobody asked for your opinion.

@n.t1196

9 жыл бұрын

Ok. I aplogize for offending you.

@jackthehatuk

9 жыл бұрын

Niema and Tom Quiet-Hendershot You are right! I read your comment carefully and i appreciate being put right. I can see how it came across. As for Scholes, i do not know how i offended him before, but judging by his comment here, it was probably justified! Thank you. I have a lot of friends in america and i do know about the difference of use of words. Sometimes though i get pissed off with the same old people saying the same old things which are actually non constructive and just plain dumb. I mean people like Jon Scholes.

Redistribute the wealth. Make the max amount of money someone can have like 500million.

@dubsahara

9 жыл бұрын

maybe one hours work gets one credit, no matter what job you do.

@puffthemagicdragon3913

9 жыл бұрын

***** w/e you say. im pretty sure they would just abuse some other kind of loophole, lower wages or inflate the prices of goods . fuck the pyramid scheme thats going now, your either born rich and get richer or born poor and stay poor.

@JonMow

9 жыл бұрын

communist speaking,it not work in real world,dudes,it not work

@wozzaladers3244

9 жыл бұрын

Why not just raise wages/costs so they can't create this amount of personal wealth. You could link it to profits, that way what is good for the company is good for the employee.

@EmilyRose0

9 жыл бұрын

500 Million? Thats still to high.

It really surprises me that there are still people who think we shouldn't raise the minimum wage... I have to roll my eyes whenever I see the wage compared to that of a soldier. Don't you realize we have to START by raising the minimum wage!? Of course if soldiers were working for minimum wage they wouldn't choose to be a soldier, (and Lord knows we can't not have soldiers) so its inevitable that it would cause the pay in all areas to be raised! In the 50s a man making minimum wage could RAISE A FOUR PERSON HOUSEHOLD! Now? You can hardly survive on your own with it. Russell Brand I love watching your videos it is my dream to meet you, please come back to the states soon!

@Jesserz90

9 жыл бұрын

I can't speak for other states but in MI the problem is, everything else went up with minimum wage. Gas, Rent, groceries fast foods. you name it :/ the cost of living went up and made it pointless here. It is really unfortunate.

@jazmynlouchren

9 жыл бұрын

To raise minimum wage would mean that the cost of living would increase as well and would not benefit anyone. It would be a continuous loop of people complaining about the cost of living. It is basic economics. And minimum wage is the lowest amount a SINGLE person needs to provide the most basic needs to survive. A family, nor more than one person is meant to live on minimum wage. Primarily people complain because one person has more than them. What needs to happen is more jobs need to be created and people need to stop being lazy. If you are in such dire constraints economically then you did something wrong to cause it. The drive to survive is what will ultimately help you live, but raising minimum wage is not where it should start. The cost of living should be decreased so that a person living on minimum wage can survive.

@MoondragonJ

9 жыл бұрын

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I'm not hopeful Russell will read this, but I just wanted to say that I've been a huge fan ever since you were on 6Music/MTV and have generally thought you were a top bloke ever since - funny and thoughtful. But I have so much respect for you doing these Trews episodes - it's pretty risky stuff in terms of your personal reputation and media 'persona' and career and all that. If it's possible, I love you even more than I did. Making people laugh is a real gift. Educating people is also a gift. You're doing both here, and I think it's just incredible work, truly.

yeah, I know, I'm still waiting for my stuff to arrive, the beach ball and stuff.

@simonemarkl3295

5 жыл бұрын

sharon reid 😂😂😂

Good golly, those two would probably praise a homeless man: "Look, man, all the money you are saving by not paying rent or a mortgage"

Poverty is considered anywhere from 23,000 down? Wow. I'm fucking poor.

@stopstalkingmegoogl

9 жыл бұрын

what's the poverty line for single adults?

@aleksandaratan

9 жыл бұрын

The average income in my country for a house of 4 is 4500 eur / year, please complain more :D

@cyanidegiraffe615

9 жыл бұрын

Do the math I suppose

@ChristopherTheBanana

9 жыл бұрын

Shes Comeundun $11,670 src; aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/14poverty.cfm

@stopstalkingmegoogl

9 жыл бұрын

Aleksandar Atanasoski I make less than 10 grand a year Canadian. Everything is in relation to how much things cost in a country. Minimum wage in Canada does not allow for much of a life. Don't compare yourself to me, you don't know how I live.

Russell Brand, you are a legend. Carry on doing what you are doing. You are truly educating me and helping me as I have always been frustrated watching the warped biased news we are given and have finally found someone who is speaking out about this and educating people with the truth. Which is more than can be said for myself and all of the angry little oiks writing not very nice comments below. I would sooner follow you into a new world than any of the "leaders" we have on offer today. Keep it up, raise you fist and resist! You are a good egg.

Russell, i know this is a serious topic but you had me in absolute stitches throughout this 😂 spot on mate!

If I ever saw Bill O'Reilly in person I would sneak up behind him and scream, and if I was lucky his tiny, shriveled black heart would give out. Then I would wait 20 minutes or so to call the ambulance.

you only live in poverty if you base your life on a scale of economic wealth, if your have no interest in money then you don't live in poverty, it's all about perception... if money/wealth/status is your base for judging your position in society then you will always live in poverty.

@Gianfranco_69

9 жыл бұрын

says the 12yr old billionaire....i'll tell my landlord all about your delightful 'advice' come rent day when he wants his monthly grand

@PlantbasedHabibti

9 жыл бұрын

@oboqoo

9 жыл бұрын

'it's all about perception.' No it is not you absolute fucking idiot.

@PlantbasedHabibti

9 жыл бұрын

"Most of you [graduates] are here [at commencement] today only because you believe this charade will help you get ahead in the world. But in the last few years things have got out of hand; "the economy," once the most important thing in our materialistic lives, has become the only thing. We have been swept up in a total dedication to "the economy," which like ... [a] massive mudslide... is rapidly engulfing and suffocating everything." --Hugh W. Nibley "Leaders and Managers"

@JohnnyFootwrinkle

9 жыл бұрын

gian franco i have not a penny to my name actually, i am one of the poorest people in this country (UK) and proud!

Hey Russell, your show is exactly what the world could use more of. Thanks & Love to you. Russell can you please include a link in your descriptions about were you get your facts. We would all really appreciate it.

hahaha. Thanks, Russell -- needed a laugh today. Safety net comment had me in tears.

Bill thinks that Guinness is English?

I had a brain tumor removed in March this year and I am just coming up for air. I have been a good boy and paid my national insurance all my life but i don't qualify, apparently, for anything not a sausage. So thank you Mr Cameron, for all your help; Self employed and worked all my life, please Mr cameron and all your millionaire friends, could you at least help me with one of those cheep treasury loans you keep taking out for war and help me pay my bills.... Russell if he ever takes you on his show can you take me?

keep on the good work mate i have fun every time watching you

Good on you Russell, you've hit the nail on the head! Redistribution of wealth is the answer. So glad there are people like you around.

those 2 guys in the interview make me feel like throwing up

Oh boy a study from the Heritage foundation a foundation founded by the rich to protect the riches agenda. The gilded cage in Orange county ca where i live last I checked a few years ago. A single male recieved $197 a month cash aid and about $135 a month in food stamps. Yes sir that is one hell of a gilded cage. Oh and you have to work it off in the work program.

@lizatanzawa7910

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your insight!

That guilded cage part is hilarious! ( so is al the other stuff but thats the funniest )

I live in New York, Bronx, with my mother, in a HUDD building, [HUDD buildings have controlled rent], and we still struggle to live while on welfare. And if anyone thinks welfare is easy money, it's a real pain in the ass. It's even worse trying to be on welfare alone, with no kids. You hardly get enough food stamps for a months worth of food. It's a constant fight to keep our case open. But, I honestly think middle class get it the worst. They still struggle to live, but they make too much money to benefit from the government. That's the trap right there. You can go from middle class to poor easier then you can get to being rich.

It hurts being this way and no one care they just talk about us .. I am currently living in a black mold filled trailer with my daughter out of work 13 applications put in and guess what there's no one giving me anything no food etc and nor do they have to it hurts listening to them talk about us ;(

@misskim2058

7 жыл бұрын

It's evil, hon, and most of us know that most of the poor are hard-working and these losers are feeding off of them. Good luck in your job search...something that pays well...

@lizatanzawa7910

7 жыл бұрын

Brandy, I will pray for you. I wish I could do more. It isn't right, a mom should be able to live decently.

@brandyf1128

7 жыл бұрын

Liza Tanzawa thank you

@brandyf1128

7 жыл бұрын

Miss Kim thank you

@johannesvonsaaz3987

7 жыл бұрын

Brandy Fletcher Good luck ....just remember that it is not your fault when the going gets tough.

HaHa, 'Big' Bill bottled it! What a coward

Thank You for these videos Russell! Sometimes, I'm so pissed off & listening to self help (or anything for that matter) to calm down just makes me want to break something more....but these videos almost instantly kill the madness. You have a marvelous way of looking a problem in the face & laughing at it. Props to you for your delivery of truth.

"i'm chopping it up like a loaf of hatred" LOL!

These two old geezers is reminiscent of a conversation I had with my younger brother. Dude, is not rich but has been successful in business and opportunities. However, he judges people from his narrow point of view and once stating how dare poor not accept any job they can get, it's better than nothing. It has never had to be on a social safety net program and therefore, I had to break it down to him how sometimes poor people have to be careful what jobs they choose because in some cases certain jobs will put you over the designated minimum amount which means you'll end up going hungry without food stamps. Then I told him about the working poor who also depend on assistance. The reason I told this story is unless you've been the shoes of a poor most people do not understand which is similar to these two old fossils who are privileged to have money yet people like them including my brother have little compassion.

@indy18286

2 жыл бұрын

yep even social security takes away a dollar for every 2 dollars you make over 18.000 .......... thank god the threshold changes every year

Pretty fucking poor full time employee over here, kinda sucks.

Russell thank you, I’ve been up since 4 am hating myself for not properly being able to care for my children. I’ve just fixed their breakfasts and lunches and sent them off to school and I too am off to my classes, finishing my last semester in an IT program. I work and go to classes 7 days a week and there isn’t even a thought of vacation. I consider an evening of watching KZread with my kids a vacation. I am blessed to be a part of these American poverty statistics. I say blessed because I grew up in an upper middle class family, my parents are boomers, born in ‘48, and they “made it” due to hard work, and by taking advantage of some terrific opportunities and being faithful and supportive of one another. I bought a home 2 miles from the Gulf of Mexico when I was 21 years old, I had decent jobs, I had a horrible life event and because of depression, stagnated. Met a “wonderful” educated man, married and had a child at 25. We decided I would stay at home and raise them since he had a large income and we had a very terrific lifestyle. After 10 years, 3 wonderful children and being abused and cheated on for too long, I chose to leave and stay with my parents and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human that had any confidence or courage. Let me get to the point, due to bad choices made with a broken mind, and feeling worthless I ended up with 3 kids living in a rough neighborhood in the poorest county of one of America’s poorest states. I was showered with assistance, $303 a month in food stamps and federal money to go to college. My parents have to help me with my power bill, it is over $500 a month in the summer and $300 in the winter because the house is so old. I’ve had to learn to be a doctor (I haven’t had health insurance in 6 years), a dentist, a plumber, a mechanic, an electrician, just to keep my car running and my house inhabitable. God and our family love is all that keeps this house from caving in. There is barely survival with the government assistance available to me. I am a capitalist, because so far history hasn’t given us any better form of government, but it’s been abused to a point in America that’s its hardly even recognizable. I am so angry that the privileged 1. Believe they’ve done something right and deserving to be wealthy, when clearly it was mostly circumstance and opportunity and plain old luck that created their wealth (I’m happy for them and will be one of them one day). 2. That they judge the poor, while demanding not to be judged themselves 3. Act as if anyone wants to struggle, and it’s some kind of kindness to let people decide between bologna or hot dogs. Gilded cage!!!! It’s a nightmare to never be able to buy your children a yearbook, or their senior pictures, to tell them no to a Beta club convention because you HAVE to have gas in your car! It’s humiliating not having $5 to give in the offering plate at church when your kid ask to put money in. It’s awful to have to turn down the soccer team pizza party invite after a game because you do not even have $3 to spare. There was a time in my life I would have NEVER understood, I mean, come on, your a grown woman and a mom, surely you can get your hands on $3, I would have thought then. I’m blessed to know what poverty actually is, unlike these privileged people who have no idea what they are talking about. I opened my door Saturday because I heard a bunch of dogs barking in front of my house, and an elderly woman was trying to push herself in a wheelchair uphill. It was cloudy and cold, dogs were surrounding her, I asked her what she was doing. She smiled a toothless smile and said, “I’m trying to get to the dollar general to get some food before the rain and snow come” I said “you can’t push that wheelchair up this hill, and the next hill is even bigger”. I pushed her in my driveway and picked her up and put her in my truck, she was covered in her own urine and feces. I went in my house, said a prayer , for my keys and drove her the half mile to the store. I asked how old she was and where she lives and where were her people. She said “I’m 60, I live in that abandoned trailer at the end of the road (so she had already pushed herself a mile when I found her) and I don’t have any people anymore, my parents died when I was 17, my brother died of a drug overdose.” I told her that sucks and I love her. She said she was sorry for smelling like shit and getting it all over my car, that the other people she was squatting with, 2 other elderly woman, told her she either had to get some new diapers or they were going to put her out, but she only had $6 and she needed to eat too. I only had $21 to last for three days, but I had some groceries and gas in my car so I gave her $9 and she bought some diapers and some canned foods and she was so relieved. I stopped and got her some of my clean pants when we passed my house go to hers. She was so thankful. When I came in the house to get stuff to clean the mess in my car my high school senior son asked where I d disappeared to, I told him and we laughed, because she is a new one and he was naming off the others, “Was it the one you take to the doctor, or the one who’s hair you cut, or the one who showers here and gets jugs of water from our hose, or the one you take meals to” and I kept saying “no it’s a new lady” . He hugged me and told me “we are doing all we can mom”. But I’m not satisfied with what I’m doing or what anyone else is doing there is so much more that has to be done, and it can only come from love, and I’m getting so full of hate because of these greedy jackasses! Damn I’m sorry for the rant but I’m just tired and this video was so exactly what I needed to hear this morning, I needed some validation for what is keeping me awake. I pray the spirit of Christ touches hard hearts and love wins❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼😢😘

@hwlsgrl

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like I know way too much about you now from this long ass comment but I hope your doing well now x

This is a fantastic episode of the Trews!

Is welfare too cushy?

@TacticsTechniquesandProcedures

9 жыл бұрын

Hey! Fancy running into you here! Just a subscriber passin' through...

@dakitofey171

9 жыл бұрын

Alltime Conspiracies fuck you

Russ I think you look remarkably reminiscent of Kylie's "Can't get you out of my head" video. Separated at birth you were.

@whablo100

8 жыл бұрын

lol yh man good comparison 😂..

This is my kind of news! Haven't watched news for a long time

Absolutely gold bro. Please keep it up.

Individual drive, hmmmmm, I guess that leaves out the COLLECTIVE drive of a UNION.

@margaretdennehy2280

6 жыл бұрын

Antonio Garmsci a

This problem will always continue to exist. When someone has a hard time to come around financially, it's not like he can get up & find work there could be different reasons why he can't find a job. The upper class will always try to cut social benefits because it is of no use to them they think they can use the money better, they use fear (obvious or discrete) to manipulate the working class into believing those benefits are useless. The way I see it it can still improve but you will never hear one of these derps talk about invoking maximum income. Some of these derps have way to much money like they'll just put 75% on the bank & never touch it. Yet they are the first to throw the stone at the people who actually need the money...

@MrDendevil

9 жыл бұрын

Society teaches us to believe in greed. Only the strongest of minds can overcome this & set their mind free.

@billmarsh1971

9 жыл бұрын

NWO alternatively, get the politicians (who have no idea of reality) to take some MDMA. It's widely recognised as an empathogen...just sayin

@nooneleavesorwill

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Chambers they prefer coke mate

@lizatanzawa2946

9 жыл бұрын

NWO, really brilliant analysis. Thanku

@TheWafflePotato

9 жыл бұрын

"I don't like this thing because it doesn't directly benefit me"

Hilarious man just watched this the whole way through :)

Insightful and hilarious, thank you!

Not discounting the annoyance all should have for Bill, here is a man that hit rock bottom and then became rich and successful by his own efforts but blames rich people for poverty in America. There are a shitload of people that just don't have the motivation to do what's needed to be successful. I know many. I also know the ones that sacrifice to make a good life for their family. Neither Bill or Russel should group all poor people into a simple little bubble of they are all lazy or they are all oppressed. Some are factually lazy and have no motivation to change their life. I have family that treat it like an addiction. They will never ever do anything but just the minimum to get by and use the system for every advantage they can get. I see that as the kind of person Bill portrays in his mind. While I don't think taxing rich people into poverty is the way to fix anything there are numerous loopholes that need to be addressed. When a company makes billions in profits but pays nothing in taxes there is a problem. Our government is complicit in that issue. There is a problem when nearly all of our representatives are millionaires. there is a problem when they care about money more than voting for the good of their constituents who blindly continue to vote for them...

@lizatanzawa7910

7 жыл бұрын

The really ironic thing is that the children of the wealthy are FAR more likely to display the wanton idleness you assign to certain of the poor.

@dothedeed

7 жыл бұрын

$7.50 min wage = poverty. Expensive university means poor kids can't get educated = poverty. Unpaid internships mean only rich kids can afford to get work experience. Lots of new jobs go unfilled because they require technical knowledge and lots of specialized experience. Its a trap on all sides.

@DeathMetalinfedel

7 жыл бұрын

Min wage isn't supposed to be a living wage. It's a starting point. You work hard, get more responsibility and your rewarded with higher wages. If you are stuck at min wage, you are not putting the effort in somewhere. There is no reason to not graduate from high school in this country other than by personal choice. Vocational schools are available to almost anyone regardless of income. I get that it's difficult for some people. Shit parents, shit living conditions, shit "friends" that guilt you into not succeeding. Excuses are easy but success is directly proportionate to effort, most of the time at least. We as humans have just become so lazy and self important that many just don't bother to do what's necessary.

@dothedeed

7 жыл бұрын

DeathMetalinfedel You do know that tragedies happen in life? People get sick, injuries etc.

@DeathMetalinfedel

7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I stated it's difficult for some. I guess you think that's the issue for the majority then? That would also suggest prior to those events they were not at the lowest income or probably successful to some extent, which doesn't really put those into the forever poor group. The problem is Inheriting the mindset of being poor and the expectation that it's just how it is. Not injury or tragedy.

Love you! your commentary is so on point. bill o racist is a joke..

@steveniddon6133

7 жыл бұрын

He cannot be racist against the british, because he is of the same race as us: white caucasian. Don't fall for politically correct buzzwords such as "racist" - they serve only to censor free speech. That being said, I hate the guts of Bill O'rielley, the capitalist establishment pig!

Russell, don't ever stop. Love from New Zealand.

Excellent... I'm speechless... and not only cos laughed out loud throughout

Aw man Russell I just wanna hang with you and chill out.. I need to run into you sometime, so that I can kiss your face!

Ha, it is racist to assume someone from England drinks Guinness? Man, people throw that word around way too much these days. Regardless of whether O'Reilly is or isn't, he was clearly just trying to explain the similarities in poverty between America and the UK, and Guinness was the first beer (understandably) that came to mind. No need for sensationalism Russell.

@wiblyo

9 жыл бұрын

Oh there's need for sensationalism, let me tell you, there is need for sensationalism!

@mikedawson975

9 жыл бұрын

Great argument.

@williamtudor

9 жыл бұрын

The guiness comment was funny as fuck though.

@MoondragonJ

9 жыл бұрын

Have you considered that is simply a product placement? They could have just as easily said beer. What are the dudes business connections?

@marcherm

9 жыл бұрын

The first thing that came to O'Reilly's mind was not Guinness, but "alcohol" and "addiction". That's the problem with that comment. It's not racist, it's stigmatizing.

thank you, Russell, for being you and sharing your beautiful soul!

You make me laugh! And with being a good comedian you tell it like so many see it. Keep up the good work. With such bad things happening all over, I like seeing your views. Like "Gilded" news (TREWS). LOL

Luv blankey wearing

@marcusharrington8551

9 жыл бұрын

My friend has something called a *slanket* & it's pure Brilliant...kinda like a blanket only with sleeves Quality...!

@TheJennRogue

9 жыл бұрын

I hate his commercials at start, bit of hypocrite in that respect for sure, makes me question everything he says

@TheJennRogue

9 жыл бұрын

Marcus Harrington Oh sorry thought you were talking about Russell, I like him but can't get past those irate commercials

@bowragak

9 жыл бұрын

TheJennRogue try using adblocker. those ads come from youtube not his video

@TheJennRogue

9 жыл бұрын

Thanx but you choose wether or not to add commercials when you load videos.

Just mocking everything that's said in the clip (and their accents) isn't really presenting an opinion. Disappointing. And a good indication that you shouldn't be calling anyone else racist for not "representing" or referring to your nation the way you think it ought to be.

@asdfxuiop

9 жыл бұрын

mocking these two out of touch ivory tower assholes is about the most dignified response there is

@EnricoIV

9 жыл бұрын

asdfxuiop No it's not. How about coming up with real solutions. Any moron can simply mock someone else's opinions. That takes no intelligence, or understanding, of a problem. Look, I'm not saying either of them are right. But simply mocking them doesn't do much about the problem, does it? That that is the best that Russell, who is an intelligent person, can come up with is just disappointing. And makes him look bad. IMO.

@petercorr3545

9 жыл бұрын

EnricoIV RB does offer solutions. Spread wealth evenly. That's the solution. Stop the Boss of a bank from being on £750,000 a year + £1,000,000 bonuses while the people behind the counter or in front of the counter being on £16,000 a year. Not saying the boss should be on the same. But they shouldn't be on more money than they could ever feasibly spend without completely wasting it (while the workers pop off to food banks to 'top up' their earnings). Listen to what he's saying inbetween his (hilarious imo) mickey taking.

@MollyGermek

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Corr "Not saying the boss should be on the same." Why not? Why have a boss? Why not organise workplaces democratically?

Russell Brand, I am sooooooooo happy you made this channel! xx

the best trews i have seen yet.. Keep it up Mr. Brand

When is SOMEBODY going to complain about the price of gasoline? You want to talk about hurting the poor? Gas prices are ridiculous!

@rotpeter9148

9 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of climate change mate?? It may not affect you but that kid on your neck's going to be suffering in the F.E.M.A camps when the oil runs out. lol.

@amjidali588

9 жыл бұрын

U should come to England!!

@CharrFrears

9 жыл бұрын

Russell Brand isn't going to speak about that, because per litre petrol here is around £1.35-£1.50 depending on where you live. In the US it's about $0.85-$1 depending on where you live. $1 is around 60p. £1.35 is $2.21. Not saying that the US don't feel a sting, but Russell is hardly the one going to make a video about that.

@CharrFrears

9 жыл бұрын

(I've been given these numbers based on looking at stats online and from friends I have in Arizona, Texas and North Carolina)

@canadianmonte

9 жыл бұрын

Been there done that NO THANK YOU!

I think you are on the right side of the argument, but your silliness is less funny in this context. When you make fun of their wording and accents instead of putting more emphasis onto the issue and why they are wrong, then you just come off as immature and it discredits everything you've said in the video. There were several clips that made sense in here and really got me excited about the issue, but the silliness in some of the other clips really takes away from what you're trying to do here.

@rotpeter9148

9 жыл бұрын

It's not sillyness.It's called satire.He's pointing out the absurdity of it all.Trewth(sic) through comedy.He's a very intelligent stand up comedian with a social conscience .

@Saljen

9 жыл бұрын

I agree. But with quite a bit of this video, he doesn't come off as intelligent, he comes off as belligerent. He needs more Jon Stewart and less 5 year old poking fun at the fat kid in elementary. I want to see him continue to make videos because he can reach younger audiences in a way that few others can. But we want the audience to agree and get fired up, not laugh at the silly voice and move to the next cat video after already forgotten the content of this one.

I can't even speak, I'm too busy laughing at the impressions....

so very true Russell. Keep up the Great work!

We keep being told that robots are taking our jobs. So why can't we send our robots to work and collect the checks from the work they do? My point is -- that advancements in technology and many areas of life, really have created benefits, wealth, and what could have ushered in a new era of enjoyable work, leisure time, and creative pursuit, but the benefits are being kept from the people, and the wealth amassed by the few. It's been socially engineered for people to have NO leisure time, because too-busy and too-tired and too-vulnerable, makes it physically more difficult to attend meetings, organize, communicate, plan and create a world of fairness and happiness for all.

@shreddedreams

7 жыл бұрын

you're right. and in fact bill gates has proposed this, that we Tax computers and machines

Russell, your fabulous...everything I've thought these many years you've put words to. Thank you

Hello Russell. Great work. Love your shit. Would you please consider providing links to the literature you read from in the Trews?

Russell Brand ...I'm so glad I found #trews ...where have I been?! I could listen to you comment on the muppets from FOX news all day. Your videos are brilliant, inspired, and truthful. THANK YOU....

That Guinness comment though...! 😂

Russell,you are a true humanitarian,and a breath of hope.Keep up the fight,and let the truth be your sword...

This is my favourite Trews and I have been watching since episode 1! Ok I did love the "howdoyoudo" era and have kept that one going because it is fucking hilarious, But when you said Stuart you c, the only thing you have ever had to fight your way out of is Eton and tripping on the top hat, I couldn't breathe for a bit because I was laughing so hard. THANK YOU for everything Russell. Just reading "my booky wook" and am really glad you survived!!!! You are a gift to the world and I love that you are able to really highlight the horrors of capitalist culture and the agenda of the wealthy corporate entities. Keep up the great work and know that you are supported, respected, honoured and loved. Stay connected and keep on expanding - we need you.

Russell you're on fire, I love it! You should always do your Trews after yoga, and thank you for spreading love, empathy and truth.

G'DAY RUSS, HOW'S IT GOING? I'M 16 AND HAD THE GREAT PRIVILEGE OF MEETING YOU ON YOUR 'I AM THE WALRUS TOUR' WHEN YOU VISITED AUSTRALIA. I WATCH THE TREWS DAILY AND HAVE DONE SO SINCE THE BEGINNING SO I'M WELL AWARE BY NOW THAT, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, WHAT WE HEAR ON THE TELLY FROM THE POLITICIANS AND MEDIA HAS BEEN TWISTED OR IS ONLY BEEN SAID TO KEEP EVERYONE SCARED. I LOVE YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE IDEA OF CHANGE AND 'POWER TO THE PEOPLE' AND AM EQUALLY AS PASSIONATE HOWEVER, WHENEVER I EVEN BRING UP THE SUBJECT TO PEOPLE, IT SEEMS THAT THEY DON'T EVEN THINK A REVOLUTION IS NECESSARY AND IT'S LIKE THEY'RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO BE PUPPETS CONTROLLED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN INTO MONEY AND WHAT NOT. I THINK MAYBE BECAUSE IM A TEENAGER, THEY JUST THINK I'M ENTHUSIASTIC AND DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I WANTED TO ASK YOU WHAT WE CAN DO (ESPECIALLY THE YOUTH), TO HELP YOU ACHIEVE THE SHARED GOAL OF GIVING POWER TO THE PEOPLE? Sorry about the 'caps lock' ^^^ There's only so much I can do to increase the chances of you seeing this :) Great work mate, keep at it!

I love you Russell. You are a hero. Never stop!

Your honesty makes me smile.

Last comment Russel I wish more people were as active in address the threws go you you are a pure loving soul xxx

Oh Russell you crack me up. Great day for a good laugh.😂🤣🤩❣

So very trew. Keep up the awesomeness Russell. Peace brother.

Loving your work, Mr. Brand. xx

Before I watched this video I had to watch an advert for Swarovski jewellery. "LOL".