For those of you who are curious, Sky did in fact air this segment.

@andreaszweili8593

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, was scrolling the comments in the hope to find the answer.

@davefancella

Жыл бұрын

@@andreaszweili8593 I was, too.

@ManofMunster

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 Were they Russian trolls singing at those Scottish and Irish football matches? 🤦🏻‍♂️ Your list of excuses managed to stop just short of blaming the Irish for their own famine - I suppose, with hindsight, they should have had a more broad-based diet? I’m just not sure that “our bunch of colonising racist c**ts were no worse than all the other colonising racist c**ts knocking about” is a terrific defence. Oliver’s point is that a sh*t-load of wrongs were done in the name of the monarch; maybe, a bit more humility and reparation might have fewer British and Irish people not overly upset at the old bat’s passing.

@paillette2010

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 yes, shut up now. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@perplexed8880

Жыл бұрын

Love how John slyly forced Sky to air the episode, by calling them out on their censorship (which has been happening for years btw - they have been crudely editing out the more brutal attacks on the Royal Family since the beginning of the show). Now they would look monumentally stupid if they refused to air it & major news outlets would 100% picked up on it and amplify their shameful servility. Americans look at the UK, see socialized healthcare, a few welfare programs and assume UK media is more open to leftist rhetoric. But that's DEFINITELY not the case. First, socialized healthcare is more of a 'historic accident' and ever under attack, as the conservatives never surrender their effort to undermine it, gut it and end it. It weirdly coexists with shockingly cruel right-wing policies, which the UK media consistently promotes. John Oliver's show, as it is, would never be given air-time. I suspect it is only reluctantly allowed because of the power of HBO, and because it's technically American. btw, John did the same subtle arm-twisting to Jimmy Fallon - after that numpty silenced his questions about Amazon working conditions & union busting, Oliver put Fallon on the spot in front of his crew & on camera, and challenged him not to edit out what happened

We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.” -James Connolly on George V

@medealkemy

Жыл бұрын

Already wrote that on another comment but: *slaps table* Exactly! EXACTLY!!!

@Gloomdrake

Жыл бұрын

@@wilhelmdietrich8474 people can't be held accountable for that long, but regimes can, and he is the regime

@carolyntalbot947

Жыл бұрын

I didn't want to hear this when the Queen died, but boy do I stand corrected about the monarchy.

@Thehouseoffail

Жыл бұрын

I adore this entire thread.

@omegaphoneofjesus

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

The level of sarcasm and derision in Lidia Thorpe's delivery of the oath. Absolutely legendary.

@myamdane6895

6 ай бұрын

Lidia Thorpe is a rag with absolutely zero support in Australia

@chriscollins9298

6 ай бұрын

badass

@Kaitrin

3 ай бұрын

Totally brilliant!

@TOTN17

Ай бұрын

Most Aussies think Thrope is an Angry Wacko

@philanthropenos1074

Ай бұрын

@@TOTN17 And let me guess: these "most" are ... not aboriginal?

I know an indigenous Canadian, my age, who, while we played disc golf, told me how whenever the Government boat came into the village's inlet he had to hide. He did this successfully, so he fully learned his people's language and did not disappear into an unmarked grave at a boarding school due to abuse. Now I hated school, but my god, there's plenty of stories about similar mistreatment of native children in the US, and we think we're good guys.

@caroldarlington-boberg7031

11 ай бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree with you!! The Indian children were forced to enter these schools, leaving their families and their culture to learn English and the Catholic faith!! They were used as slaves, tortured, punished if they could not remember their lessons! These schools were a nightmare for all these children!!! This country is responsible for many atrocities against our American Indian brothers and sisters!!! And, today they are still being persecuted for being who they are!!!!! They were here first! This is their country!! We, the US, should begin paying them for our sins against a beautiful people!!

@lolicanadian

10 ай бұрын

We are **most definitely** not "the good guys". We are, in fact, guilty of the same crimes we're currently accusing of China _ten times over_

@gandalfgreyhame3425

9 ай бұрын

The latest iteration of the Taylor Sheridan Cinematic Universe, "1923", depicts this part of American history in all its gory brutality. Several of Sheridan's other works also delve into how modern day American Indians continue to be ignored and repressed.

@TravelswithanArchaeologist

8 ай бұрын

At least Canada has ended the schools. The USA still has anywhere from 4 to 72 of them still up and running (depending on the source)

@placeholderdoe

8 ай бұрын

@@TravelswithanArchaeologistwhat

When that British woman said "I think people would like what we have" all I could think was "Because you took it from them."

@kaltaron1284

Жыл бұрын

The British Museum in a nutshell. Not that any others that were created during the colonial era are any better. Also sometimes it looks like museums are more interested in hoarding, pardon conserving, stuff than actually displaying it to teach people.

@ThaEzzy

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention, when it comes to the Monarchy itself, I've never - not once - heard the sentiment "I'd like to have a royal family, like they do in UK".

@katiekane5247

Жыл бұрын

@@ThaEzzy our (s) elected folks already cost us plenty. They feel like royalty I'm sure!

@jonblackk

Жыл бұрын

If anyone wanted to abolish my traditional monarchy, I'd spit in their.

@midnighter2k

Жыл бұрын

We executed our short lived european impossed monarchy (The Absburg emperor) here in Mexico. And they weren't even all that bad dudes, they instigated reforms to help the poor and the needy... But we don't take kindly to monarchs. We didn't just banished them or return them to Europe. We fuking shoot them. So no, not all people want the same stupid shit that the britsh, specially ex-colonies.

My grandfather was a detainee in one of the detention camps during the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya. For five years he endured harsh interrogations (beatings, hours in stress position, starvation, forced labor) until he was able to convincingly renounce an oath he had never taken in the first place. When he left the camp, he found two of his children had died and my grandmother and the rest of his children on the point of starvation from being forcibly housed in a concentration village (yes concentration as in WW2 concentration camps) with no access to food. Thank you JO for bringing this atrocity to light. Anyone seeking more information read Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins

@polyphase4425

Жыл бұрын

That's heartbreaking. 😪

@lrwest16

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the book recommendation will read

@Merrybandoruffians

Жыл бұрын

Love how they were shocked and appalled by the Germans putting people in concentration camps while also putting people in concentration camps barely a decade later. Not to mention what they’d done in South Africa barley a generation before. Smdh

@bridgitwaithaka

Жыл бұрын

‘Histories of the hanged’ by David Anderson is another recommendation. My paternal grandfather was a MauMau oather who was brutally killed in the ‘50s.

@harryr2431

Жыл бұрын

If this is true, it'd be good if John's team saw this

As a Kenyan I thank you for highlighting the colonialism in our country..The effects are still being felt even Up to today

@Sgab1007

5 ай бұрын

I'm sorry for this. I had no idea until I watched this segment.

@fixhubeverything6988

4 ай бұрын

The worst thing was the brain washing that left most of kenyans with self hatred and believe that anything good has come from a white person, I hope thier children will wake up 😢

@michelegraham9044

3 ай бұрын

Well change it. The future is in YOUR hands. How many Kenyans move to the UK for better opportunities? Plenty I’d say And I’ve seen pieces in documentaries about rich Nigerians taking 2 private jets to London to shop. One plane for the shoppers and one for their shopping. I’m sure Kenya is no different. Why not have a go at the Portuguese government who were your first colonisers? Because it doesn’t fit with the narrative? If you had a good brain you’d do some research into the advantages of being a Constitutional Monarchy. There are more checks & balances to minimise corruption. CM’s aren’t perfect but they’re definitely the best of the rest imo. And no mention of your countrymen’s ancestors selling their own people into slavery and making huge money. And how’s the corruption in your government? Asking for a friend 😎 The RF is there to unite people and to serve others. Can you imagine how dull it is cutting ribbons and pulling cords for strangers is. Do you know how important the RF’s around the world are for charities? I’ve heard from people who have done plenty of charity work in the UK. Unless there’s a Royal going to be there they have big trouble selling tickets. If there’s a Royal going to be there the tickets sell out within minutes. And not American style charities/tax dodges , REAL charity that helps others. Even Americans are using the idiot Harry to promote their fake charities.

@patiencemuthama

3 ай бұрын

@@michelegraham9044 I could point out 4 fallacies in your argument but I won't cause I don't have the time like you😂😂... I'm busy trying to change the system left behind by the colonists . Anyway,keep educating us people who don't have good brains as you stated(whatever that means).. you're doing the Lord's work my dear😊👌🏾

@Yeppo_

3 ай бұрын

As an Australian, we still see some of the horrific affects of indigenous child kidnapping, such as insane crime rates ect.

You know what’s more awkward than having the “Lizzie’s in a Box” song stuck in your head? Having to explain what it is to people when they catch you singing it to yourself.

@0Clewi0

4 ай бұрын

Just say a football chant

@alastorlapid2365

3 ай бұрын

@@freneticness6927 WHAT

@emmettbrown3463

3 ай бұрын

@@freneticness6927 ??????????

@thatoneguywiththevoice328

2 ай бұрын

​@@freneticness6927Lizzie's in a box, in a box

@freneticness6927

2 ай бұрын

@@thatoneguywiththevoice328 So are the victims of bloody sunday mate. The famines over so why dont you go home.

Irish Times: “Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.”

@autonomouscollective2599

Жыл бұрын

I almost gave up on reading this, and am glad I made to the end. 😮😂😂😂

@isawadelapradera6490

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I don't see any kind of reason why _ANYONE_ would have a good opinion of the british

@pineapple3832

Жыл бұрын

Omg I loled at this

@KateeAngel

Жыл бұрын

I am Russian and I imagine being neighbour of the UK from the end of WW2 when empire still existed to the Troubles in the end of 20th century was the same for Irish as being a neighbour of Russia has been for Ukraine since Putin started expressing the desire to restore Russian "sphere of influence"(~2007) up until now

@idab9958

Жыл бұрын

I still can't believe they actually published this!

I'm Kenyan and a Kikuyu and a huge fan of John Oliver. He has said what I have wanted the world to hear about the royal family and colonialism. My mum was just telling me that her parents and all their children were forced to live in specific villages/camps where they could be monitored by the white oppressors so what J.O says is completely true thank you

@Songs-lr4wt

Жыл бұрын

I am from India, and the queen and her institution was responsible for millions of deaths.... all orders were made in the name of queen, and she never apologized

@cmb6087

Жыл бұрын

Just know that just because it seems like nobody cares..most people of the world don’t support pain or suffering. Technology just allows us to see the best, and the worst of the world at any moment. Humans tools evolved faster than our brains. I’m happy that you’re happy enjoying John though. I’m from America and it’s the same..not everyone here is rich and crazy.

@jamescunliffe6781

Жыл бұрын

Just another example of the west picking and choosing how history unfolded. Unless you have had family who've lived through events like this or educate yourself you'll never know. I have family from India and the extent of harm caused there by the military and famines is just another one left out of their pages.

@Celisar1

Жыл бұрын

Please inform yourself. The RF had nothing to do with colonialism. And they never supported anything you might consider to be racist. Actually, during QE2 a lot of countries became independent and voluntarily joined the Commonwealth.

@justonlyjohn6596

Жыл бұрын

But that LONG AGO in history... or, wait, your mom, so not long ago. Thanks for sharing this madness, and hope you aren't poisoned by such recent DYSTOPIAN SOCIAL CONTROL endeavors. We all have our mud to grow out of, seems Aristocracy long to wallow more often than common people - it's so comfortable when surrounded by servants, never worrying about the next meal, the only thought how to Protect and Preserve the Legacy of the Family while not caring at all about EVERYONE ELSE. SOCIOPATHS == ARISTOCRACY It's a TRADITION, you don't know plebeian, you don't know anything about the hard life, PUTTING ON A SHOW ALL THE TIME... sounds just like Insta/TikTok/many KZreadrs/FB conjured fantasies of manufactured identities ONLINE - no it's unique to the Royals, you can't grasp it... really?!?

Let us all remember the wisdom that lizzie in the box emparted us before she passed away, " we should embrace modest materialism" while she was sitting on her golden throne.

@yurisei6732

11 ай бұрын

Translation: Cost of living is going up, so get used to eating shit.

@CollinMcLean

8 ай бұрын

She also had a gold piano

@fuzzyhair321

4 ай бұрын

All hail the corpse emperor?

@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025

4 ай бұрын

Is it too late to eat the rich? No? When can we get that going?

@Ravenoustoxic

4 ай бұрын

@@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025 they anticipated that... they have now city size bunker enclave.. just in case total anarchy prevails and government collapsed.

Devastatingly, the last residential school in Canada was Gordon Residential School in Punnichy, Saskatchewan, and it didn't close until 1996. The first one opened in 1831. It's disgusting how long it was allowed to go on, and England had a large part in that. Canada did not become its own country until 1867. Thank you for showing what they, and the white Canadian government, did to the indigenous people of our land.

@catlee8064

20 күн бұрын

Canada became its own country in 1867....just like you said....yet it took you 130 yrs to close them...and STILL you blame the UK....get real, stop looking to others for your mistakes.

@hughjass2745

8 күн бұрын

Tbf the new world resents having to share the land they colonise, with the natives, and still have extreme cognitive dissonance that they're the colonisers in the 21st century. America has openly engaged in modern day slave labour, to make products for pennies on the dollar in South Asia, that would have cost them 100-200 times more in the states.

This episode did in fact air in full on the Sky network. Way to go, Mr. Oliver.

@ryanb5127

Жыл бұрын

This is the comment I was looking to find

@ForrestFox626

Жыл бұрын

Sweet!

@agrajyadav2951

Жыл бұрын

way to sky tbh

@JaydevRaol

Жыл бұрын

Great!

@TheEmbrio

Жыл бұрын

I was curious. Thanks

John Oliver. The only Oliver who hates the monarchy more than Cromwell.

@MonkeyJedi99

Жыл бұрын

I understood that reference. Thanks, Monty Python!

@adamobrien771

Жыл бұрын

As an Irish man, fuck Cromwell!

@LunaAmico

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!🤣

@jai-kk5uu

Жыл бұрын

Armies assemble in the name of Lord protector

@couragekarnga8735

Жыл бұрын

Now that was good!

How dare you insult a vital British institution? We would not be British without mushy peas. Abolish the monarchy by all means, but never, never take away our mushy peas.

@dwnsdp

3 ай бұрын

Got me in the first half

Thank you for this brilliant program. I am a 78 year old, anti royalist and I remember the disgusting situation in Kenya and it was this that started me being politically aware. I hope to see the end of the system of royalty which would also negate the house of lords. These people have stolen from working people for hundreds of years.

Thank you for highlighting the maumau story, my grandfather who is still alive and in his nineties was a victim of that horror, he was detained in Kismayu in Somalia and watched his siblings burnt alive, only a sister remained. He usually narrates these stories alot. He says before everything was forcefully taken away his family were actually wealthy landowners.

@ritamariekelley4077

Жыл бұрын

I wept when I read this. You are still living with that generational trauma. I'm so very sorry.

@brendasilvana5186

Жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry your family experienced such atrocities 😔

@greendragonpublishing

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping his story alive. That is incredibly important.

@willysbakery6878

Жыл бұрын

jirri. that is some fucked up stuff. miss kimani, i never knew about that. i feel ill about it

@janerendell4278

Жыл бұрын

In Barcelona there is the Mau Mau cultural centre which is where I learned about this. Devastating and deserves reparation

My mom is 91 years old. She’s an Irish Catholic born in the north of Ireland. She’s been in Canada since 1957. She doesn’t have her citizenship cause she won’t pledge allegiance to the queen.

@CollinMcLean

Жыл бұрын

Éireannach go Brách

@SlapstickGenius23

Жыл бұрын

Hooray for Ireland!

@spicycatsandthings

Жыл бұрын

well done

@user-yt2xv1gs7l

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@ussinussinongawd516

Жыл бұрын

so shes stateless?

As an Australian, I am 10000% behind you John ! I can't wait to get rid of that ridiculous family that has nothing to do with this Country.

@anEyePhil

11 ай бұрын

In the 1930s, Bertie had to resign the Monarchy to be with the divorced woman he loved. Now, in the 2020s, we have a Monarch and a Queen, both divorced adulterers. WTF!!! Bye bye Charlie Boy and Camelarse, we don't need you or the pathetic Royal Household that protects you by attacking Harry and Meghan. Looking forward to Australia leaving the "British Commonwealth" and gaining one of us, preferably a First Nation leader (the true sovereigns of Oz) as Head of State.

@MultiMolly21

11 ай бұрын

While we're at it; electing one man to run a country is idiotic for the same reasons. Congress has been" tits on a boar" as well. Turns out there's a perfect size for a smoothly run State; and we should save- in our case Washington-- for interfacing with the rest of the world. The states should run themselves, keep their income tax, set their goals and standards too. Washington gets ten percent of each state's haul, to keep the worthwhile organizations running. The states can compete and share what they learn in Washington instead of the present day Congress blathering away about conspiracies, a waste of oxygen. We're all waiting for Washington to solve the myriad problems about which they have no clue. Leaving the States to deal with them is creating a challenge they will all welcome.

@amandairvine3658

8 ай бұрын

❤

@user-wn2dg4jk5b

7 ай бұрын

totally agree

@Aredel

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@MultiMolly21yeah, because that worked out so wonderfully the first time we tried it. As we all know, the Articles of the Confederacy remains to this day the most successful foundation for the US government in history, and isn’t at all notorious for crashing and burning immediately because the states were running around in absolute chaos because there was next to no oversight by any federal authorities or regulations.

As a Kenyan, this is a eye opening piece of our history, most of which we are not told about and the watered down version is taught in our schools.- Sadly, the effects of colonization is till felt to this day especially in the issue of land.

"Why they are working so hard not to offend a family who's name was branded into people skin, and who sit atop a pile of stolen wealth, wearing crowns adorned with other countries treasures" well done to whomever wrote that. Power piece of text.

@JaydevRaol

Жыл бұрын

Agree!

@iroga9764

Жыл бұрын

Conquering other narions is cool and great.

@cindica1106

Жыл бұрын

Very powerful moment indeed! I got CHILLS. Just for the record, in this case you would use "whoever"

@ichijofestival2576

Жыл бұрын

One of the most incredible defenses of the royals is that they "don't actually cost anything" because the land they "share" actually brings in much more money than what they are -paid- given. At which point I guess everyone's just supposed to not ask how it was they came by so much valuable land, and why, after removing them, the people couldn't just take it back.

@sangeet9100

Жыл бұрын

@@cindica1106 ... and "whose" .

Finally, the most British man reacts to the most British institution.

@datafoxy

Жыл бұрын

Zazu has spoken!

@fatbgmanbg975

Жыл бұрын

@@datafoxy Mr. Bean has spoken!!

@mwalimumusita4373

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂Just perfect

@sir_tibbs8838

Жыл бұрын

​@@Chkprofilename

@RLplusabunchofdumbnumbers

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I'm so satisfied by someone finally admitting that mushy peas are fucking disgusting!

Kenya and other colonial atrocities were directed by Winston Churchill. I learned that this year and was truly upset. He's always been presented as a hero.

@Whiteythereaper

11 ай бұрын

Yep. That's partly also why he also lost the election instead of being put in under a landslide. Those left alive didn't want another fascist in power & remembered his attitude towards the Indians, the Welsh, the Irish and the Scottish among many others. He was a vile racist who wanted to eradicate the Welsh language and exterminate brown people just as intensely as Hitler, but because of a few speeches his record of atrocities goes unspoken, including Gallipoli where he forced British soldiers to stay and die when it was known that they'd lost the battle.

@nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415

10 ай бұрын

There's a commie here in Brazil that says that n@z1sm is just colonialism applied to Europe itself. Learning uncomfortable details about policies made by Churchill, De Gaulle, several american presidents and such exposes it as incredibly accurate.

@crstph

7 ай бұрын

thats the thing about war heroes, im discovering-they’re really good at war. that does not usually coincide with being a good person

@jojbenedoot7459

6 ай бұрын

Churchill was a hero during the war, not so much before and after it

@kaykaycee8562

6 ай бұрын

The royal family could have come out against it. As figureheads, not giving the direct order doesn’t absolve them

This piece shows why Oliver wins Emmys again and again and again.

I find it hilarious that there's a man who's legally not allowed to purchase eggs. I'm just picturing him buying a dozen eggs at his local grocery store and an entire swat team just busts in and tackles him to the ground

@gorillaguerillaDK

Жыл бұрын

He’s allowed to buy them, just not allowed to transport them. So he either have to use delivery service, or have someone carry his eggs for him… 😂

@emanuelmartinez7267

Жыл бұрын

@@gorillaguerillaDK yeah I know lol but that's why I'm picturing him just remembering his wife asking him to buy some eggs for the cake she's going to make later and he decides to grab them on his way home from work probably not thinking about the situation and boom! Police raid

@MrNukedawhales

Жыл бұрын

thank god, eggs are they only things he could possibly throw. who would think of throwing - lets say - tomatos or cakes...

@thinkbeforeyoutype7106

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Notice how western colonial ALWAYS call anyone who fights against their colonialism like Mau Mau uprising in Kenya as a “terrorist” organization. Funny how that term is used against 2 billion Muslims worldwide.

@vyran7044

Жыл бұрын

@@MrNukedawhales "people cant affort to eat and heat their homes? Bah! let them throw cake." ~ Marie-Antoinette (probably)

Can I just say, I will never get tired of how perfectly John Olvier recreates the "50s British newscaster" voice. He's done it in countless episodes by now and it's always a highlight

@jaredschnabl825

Жыл бұрын

YES! I KNOW! Whenever John does a British impression, you know it is gonna be funny! It is inception for anglophiles! Also, that newsreel voice never gets old!

@1882uoL

Жыл бұрын

I think this is his best one yet. He maintained it over a stretch. He usually laughs at himself while doing it but this one was perfect

@HybridHalfie

Жыл бұрын

I love anything using that voice. That’s why quagmire in family guys sounds so goofy l

@colincolin13

Жыл бұрын

He can mock the English accent (that's his own kin) and gets away with making fun of the Australian and Texan twangs....... But God help him if he EVER tried to imitate (even in jest) the accent of a person of colour!! He wouldn't have the guts!!! Pure hypocrisy!!!

@TheKeeperofChaos

Жыл бұрын

@@colincolin13 Man, I can shoot characters and innocent people in a video game, but GOD FORBID I ever shoot an innocent person in real life, suddenly I'm a "murderer" and "threat to society". Fucking libtards /sarcasm Get over yourselves, mate.

Im Asian but have heard bits and pieces of how the glory of British monarchy came about at the expense of black and brown people's freedom & liberty but Oliver's humorous albeit factual commentary reinforced it in an enlightening way. Indeed the monarchy painfully lacks accountability to begin with and irrelevance is the least of their problems.

@AB-nw9hc

Жыл бұрын

@nicotorio8627 And also Asian freedom and liberty - Hong Kong fyi.

@myamdane6895

6 ай бұрын

@@AB-nw9hcOh fuck off 😂 how did that liberty and freedom go when the monarchy left in 1997? Oh that’s right, straight into the hands of the CCP

I'm an American, living in Las Vegas. I've frequently run into Londoners....the first question I ask them is: "what do you think of the Monarchy ?" Literally 100% of them give me the same stock answer: "because of the Monarchy, we make millions from tourism." I've been to London...I don't remember being invited into Buckingham Palace or any of the royal gardens. If the Monarchy ends, my guess is tourism will INCREASE. The mansions, palaces and gardens will still bring tourists...nothing will change.

@brmbkl

Жыл бұрын

and the palaces and gardens can be turned into institutions serving the public.

@laurencepenfold

Жыл бұрын

What'll change is we'll have an a$$hole president stinking up the place that half the country will actively hate. Tell me, between 2016 and now, wouldn't you rather have a head of state that could be relied on not to make things worse?

@BeeLZBeeb

10 ай бұрын

As a Brit, yes I’m in the minority like John, but we’re definitely here too. I’ve not been to Las Vegas though, wouldn’t want to go, maybe it’s certain types it attracts there. I’m guessing they go for the gambling and the shows. I’d rather not be somewhere that noisy and busy but I live in the back arse of nowhere, have sensory processing disorder and prefer the quiet and lack of people

@Tony-lj5lr

4 ай бұрын

The hustle and bustle is kind of the point of Las Vegas Have you ever been to a stadium to witness a match? Do you know how noisy that is? Yet millions go every day That is the point of it@@BeeLZBeeb

@freneticness6927

3 ай бұрын

Why do you have the electoral college or the second ammendment or senators or gerrymandering.

The best part that he didn’t even mention is that years before this aired, he turned down an honorary order from the queen because he didn’t want to be associated with the empire.

@teejandahalf

Жыл бұрын

I think I remember him telling the story on Seth Meyers' show a bit ago

@martijnspruit

Жыл бұрын

Not any 'honorary order'. A knighthood, namely Order of the Britsh Empire. And it's especcially the 'Empire'-bit why he rejected it.

@johnb8566

Жыл бұрын

@@martijnspruit An OBE isn't a knighthood. They are entirely different.

@ryancombs1064

Жыл бұрын

@@martijnspruit I understand that, I was just phrasing it that way because I was going to say “an order from the queen” and I didn’t think that captured exactly what was happening, and I couldn’t conjure up whether or not it was an OBE, MBE, et cetera

@poppyorangeflower

Жыл бұрын

This needs to be the first comment.

As someone who strongly believes that people who commit funny crimes deserve equally funny punishments, the case of egg man brought a tear to my eye

@Mr.Patrick_Hung

Жыл бұрын

If I were in the UK, I would buy him eggs and deliver them to his home so that he can have eggs for breakfast, but not break the conditions of bail. Also the idea of having a King Charles III, makes me glad that I live in China. 🇨🇳 The first two were horrible. Oh and if that guy comes here, I would offer to cook him an omelette, with all the fixings.

@sdfkjgh

Жыл бұрын

@humphrey spelling bee: I say we administer silly, humiliating, and above all, highly public punishments to anyone and everyone who violates the dignity of humanity. Supreme Court abolishes abortions? Those that voted for the abolisment must stand in the middle of the busiest intersection of the city, at the busiest time of the day, lift up their robes, and sodomize themselves with balloon animals, and woe betide ANY whose balloon pops, for the further punishment of their failure will be visited on the whole lot of them! Billionaire robot wearing a human skin refuses to crack down on neonazis, bullshit peddlars, and other assorted trash people on his own site? Ten days in the stocks, with rotting fruit provided free for passers-by. Textbook malignant narcissist attempts to stage a coup? Surround him with only the most brutally honest clinical psychiatrists, who will constantly bombard the fast bastard with all of his flaws, his weaknesses, his insecurities, until he's thouroughly broken, then we rebuild him and medicate him into a functional human being. Once they're finished about two hours later, we can all go to lunch.

@HOTD108_

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Patrick_Hung China's not exactly a model society...

@firemaster657

Жыл бұрын

​@@HOTD108_ they are also breaking the law by being on youtube as well, since its banned in china since 2012.

@scipioafricanus5871

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Patrick_Hung Glad to live in China under modern God-Emperor Xi, are we?

❤ this description of what Royals do: “Think of the royals as Mickey and Minnie at Disneyland, they don’t run the rides, they’re mascots of the whole operation.” This is a fantastic well-written segment! Thankyou! ❤ 🇨🇦

My great grandmother was born as a colonial subject of King George V, she saw the reigns of Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II and is still alive in the reign of Charles III. Her opinion of the royal family is overwhelmingly negative as she saw with her own eyes the devastation of the subcontinent following British withdrawal, her own father was a prisoner of war in WWI; however she had great respect and affection for Elizabeth to the point that she cried at the news of her death, yet refuses to even speak of Charles (Primarily because he mistreated Diana).

@minniewannie

4 ай бұрын

Have she ever watched a single documentary of Diana? The queen is equally if not more responsible for her tragedy.

@dionysuspicious

4 ай бұрын

@@minniewannie Nope, she’s 91, legally blind and can’t really understand English that well.

@ae.wayneism

Ай бұрын

@@minniewannieShe had a huge role in it but the majority cause we Charles' mistreatment of her.

@DaylanTheAngrySauerkraut

Ай бұрын

Is your great grandmother 200yrs old?

@dionysuspicious

22 күн бұрын

@@DaylanTheAngrySauerkraut she’s 89

Nearly 30 minutes of John roasting the monarchy? We are truly blessed to receive this juicy episode.

@marin_1441

Жыл бұрын

It's older episode around 1 month ago

@couragekarnga8735

Жыл бұрын

It's nice after last week's. More lighthearted.

@brandonayong5823

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry no meme or no Sci fi can be more out of this world than prince Charles turning turntables in a black neighborhood pretending to be down with the street and saying "I dig that crazy rhythm" 😂😂😂"

@sarcastaball

Жыл бұрын

You should respect the monarchy!

@hibernopithecus7500

Жыл бұрын

@@sarcastaball Sure. Why?

I love how John is not a hypocrite. He's actually got offer from The Empire to get OBE but he refused. He doesn't want to owe them anything

@justayoutuber1906

Жыл бұрын

You down with OBE? No, that's not me!

@meinjapan

Жыл бұрын

It would be a very bad move for someone in John’s position to accept a title from the monarchy.

@mousermind

Жыл бұрын

*from the Empire to get

@BuruIgeru

13 күн бұрын

TBF to him, the one time he becomes lower case h hypocritical (i.e. when it comes to football and FIFA) he directly takes the piss outta himself

I can‘t watch this often enough. Thank you, John Oliver.

Prince Philip having this moment with the Bobs: "Can you tell us what it is, you DO here."

“They might seriously want to think about why. Why they and everyone else are working so hard not to offend a family *whose name was branded into people’s skin and who sit atop a pile of stolen wealth wearing crowns adorned with other countries’ treasures* .” So well and poignantly said.

@GeoTunes01

Жыл бұрын

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@kaemincha

Жыл бұрын

Goosebumps.

@LSSYLondon

Жыл бұрын

He said that and I thought : "There's that Cambridge education shining through the humour..."

@genericyoutubeaccount579

Жыл бұрын

The last time the British abolished the monarchy it didn't go so well.

@NA.NA..

Жыл бұрын

To be fair king Charles II and James II were cousins not ancestors. He mistakenly said they were direct ancestors.

As an Irish person, this segment is giving me life.

@jMkendall15

Жыл бұрын

If only they'd talked about Frank Kitson

@maximusmcmahon1301

Жыл бұрын

Ireland has carried a burden and paid a high price as next door neighbors.

@MotherNatureArmy

Жыл бұрын

Lizzy's in a box much love Irish brother from 🇲🇽

@tuckerbugeater

Жыл бұрын

@@maximusmcmahon1301 Every idiot needs a scapegoat

@cindyhill9091

Жыл бұрын

❤

Charlie boy's opinions on cancer treatments are extra fun now

Bravo for saying what needed to be said.

UK viewers, please, please let the rest of us know how long of a segment of Churchill on a waterslide did you see?!!!

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad he at least let us see a couple times through, I'm sure somebody will throw together the entire segment if it doesn't air.

@MIddleJaman

Жыл бұрын

This video is outright banned for me in the UK, had to use a vpn lmao

@lunarfrog

Жыл бұрын

​@@MIddleJaman yes, but that's been the case for all LWT videos for me. They seem to become available in the UK one month after their release

@jonbongjovi1869

Жыл бұрын

We need to be honest: Its DISGUSTING that Oliver LAUGHS OFF literal nazi censorship in 2022!! And the rest of you LAUGHED IT OFF TOO!! Censorship is the OXYGEN Of evil. No action in history was MORE EVIL than laughing off censorship. (There can be NO EVIL on earth, without censorship. Police can't kill daily unless censorship, see?) That's WHY it was the FOUNDATION Of Nazism 100 years ago.

@El-wv1tf

Жыл бұрын

What about HBO max in UK? I live in the Czech Republic, so I either see this on KZread right away or about a week later it’s available on HBO max.

Brilliant John. Please do not stop son. One Love.

According to a poll published early this year, the popularity of the Royal Family in Britain has actually plummeted to a new historical low: as of now, only about 1/3 of the British people is still in favour or supports the monarchy and/or the royal family.

@Aredel

7 ай бұрын

I’m kind of surprised it isn’t lower.

@leftgrrl

Ай бұрын

And yet there are so many things that need changing in the country more urgently that it's safe.

There were actual concentration camps set up in Kenya during the colonialist era where locals were detained, tortured and killed. The British government attempted to erase this from history, but we remember. Thank you John Oliver for never hesitating to bring forward the hidden truths and uncomfortable conversations

@genericyoutubeaccount579

Жыл бұрын

The British also put white people in Concentration camps during the Boer war. It wasn't racist, it was just a British thing to do.

@crossemily

Жыл бұрын

All overseen by PM Winston Churchill!

@chromicapop4595

Жыл бұрын

Also the camps are violating a bunch of human rights rules by themselves, you can't white wash real history😮

@Maya_Pinion

Жыл бұрын

Hip hop hooray.

@JJ-M

Жыл бұрын

@@genericyoutubeaccount579 Don't project our modern understanding of race backwards. It was not how they thought of it, and, given *every* prior use of them was explicitly racial, and every one after... why was that one different?

I from Barbados and I fully supported ditching the Queen as head of state to become a Republic. I feel like my country is a successful grown up who left home when it became an adult and made it in the world independently ... independent from a mother who protected us, but also abused and used us when we were a child! We are not resentful, but we still don't forget the good and THE BAD that she did..."our Queen".

@michaelhurley3171

Жыл бұрын

Rihanna should be your Queen 👑!

@jameshill5621

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelhurley3171 at least she wouldn’t need to take the Chinese money to prop the island up.

@michaelhurley3171

Жыл бұрын

@@jameshill5621 yeah she has over a billion dollars so she doesn't need their money 💰

@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254

Жыл бұрын

So she was a Boomer parent in a way?

@porsche911sbs

Жыл бұрын

Sic semper tyrannis, vivat republica

Thank you John.❤ I learn so much when I watch your shows. Your sense of humour is right on the mark. We all missed you!

Never been so proud to be Welsh. Both the egging and confrontation were here in Wales.

@Yimello

3 ай бұрын

Moved to Wales from England about two years ago. I thought I might get a break from the jubilee shit when that happened, but the whole street had a jubilee party. Couldn't move for fucking bunting.

@jacksonbriles4816

10 күн бұрын

I feel bad for yall. Those scum bags are swimming in millions and millions of dollars for doing literally nothing. Tyrants

20:00 - _"If I just wait long enough, maybe either the journalist forgets his question or I die of old age."_ energy right there.

@intorainbowzOG

Жыл бұрын

GWB didn't even pause that long

@queennoluthando2269

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@chilanya

Жыл бұрын

"Maybe there's still a way left i can feel good about myself.. lemme think"

@cy-one

Жыл бұрын

@@intorainbowzOG Because he was interrupted.

@ritamariekelley4077

Жыл бұрын

Worse, I think violence was on his mind.

Charles, the man whose face answers the question, "What if 2 cousins had a kid?"😂

@JollyWanker

Жыл бұрын

*slaps table* EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

@borountree4539

Жыл бұрын

Well, his parents ARE cousins so....

“of all the places they could have said she is in, a box is actually quite generous” had me dying. Exceptional writing and delivery, couldn’t have been more perfect.

Funny that he mentions Charles cancer cure here

@quintonmcqueen1382

2 ай бұрын

Curious if he'll even make it to his own coronation

It's crazy seeing the historical topic, the Mau Mau uprising, which i've spent like five years studying, is actually on HBO. AND they use THE interview with Terrance Gavaghan, genuinely one of the most insane documentary interviews of all time. Massive props to the interviewer in that clip, John McGhie, the way he held this war criminal's feet to the fire calmly and methodically was absolutely pitch perfect journalism.

@hoabinhnguyen8839

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 Oh boy there is so much wrong with this post, ok firstly I think you missed the part that the oppression in Kenya didn't just affect the Mau Mau but the general people of Kenya. Most of them had nothing to do with the Mau Mau and were just put into the camps arbitrarily many were even kids. If you want a good book that really puts it into perspective I would recommend Dreams in the Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Second, "Everyone else was doing it therefore it was ok" is a really shit take. If someone as far back as 500 BCE could figure out slavery was bad then the British Monarchy could have done it. Third, people are calling on both France and Spain to apologize for their colonial actions especially France who quite literally has a colonial tax on their former colonies to this day so. Fourth, it is funny how you choose to discuss the Aztecs but failed to mention people like the Haudenosaunee who had essentially a working democracy so there is a variety of other people besides the Aztecs who would have benefited if the Europeans had just fucked off and not colonized. So yeah I think things would have been better for the Indigenous people of South and North America if the Europeans hadn't colonized. Fifth, this entire rant about these other powers doesn't do much to show why we shouldn't call out Britain on its actions. We also call out japan on their actions and its lack of an apology as well. Lastly, "the peace we've all enjoyed the last few decades" what peace? This screams a western perspective. There may have been peace for Western Europe and the US, but what about the rest of the world huh? There have been dozens of wars all over the world because of the actions of the West, some which still rage today.

@jinmakome2796

Жыл бұрын

Every British soldier involved should spend the rest of their lives rotten in prison facing execution for their crimes.

@hoabinhnguyen8839

Жыл бұрын

@@jinmakome2796 Agreed, I hope that man in the interview who ordered soldiers to put their boots on the throats of kenyans rots, don't care if it is in hell, Tartarus, or has a shit reincarnation.

@FantasticBlueGirl

Жыл бұрын

There’s a great radiolab episode about it, and about the site where the British have all their documents on the events hidden.

@madaddies

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 I don't even know where to begin with. Terms like 'ignorant', 'naive', and 'boot-licking' don't seem to do justice to that string of verbal diarrhea. I've never seen so much childish whataboutism in a single post. You've managed to make the UK and the monarchy look even worse with this comment. People reading this will now associate their supporters with your sub-Trumpian level of 'argument'. Bravo.

As a Kenyan, that newsreel is infuriating and depressing. Then, they ask why we can't mourn the queen or "celebrate" the royal family.

@louiskendagor3807

Жыл бұрын

Mau Mau Forever

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

Sadly with all the various crimes against humanity that were committed by the British Crown over the centuries they were in power, it's difficult to not miss a bunch of these instances in the large quantity of other offenses.

@alro11

Жыл бұрын

so sorry for all the suffering you have endured til this day

@thomaspaul-karisa8552

Жыл бұрын

Being half Kenyan and half British myself, I believe that there needs to reparations. How can my British family members live on social welfare and comfortability, by virtue of the riches stolen from my Kenyan relatives, whilst the latter work their behinds off in order to provide the basic essentials and still struggle to make ends meet? Not right!

@africanlegs

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Hurt to watch. I def celebrated her death tho

Another great show John Oliver! As always,you have humor mixed in with the serious topic! I love you4 show! Go John,go! ❤❤❤❤

Love John Oliver! So sane, so funny and so damn right!

As an American, hearing a British person mock an Australian accent was the highlight of my week

@Lon.BedStuyforLife

Жыл бұрын

Oh, man! I completely agree! 💯 👍🏽

@foxinasweater2300

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 You shouldv'e shut up before saying all that bullshit

@TheRussellStover

Жыл бұрын

Did you see John Oliver talking about Eminem and Australians? kzread.info/dash/bejne/e22jppKRfLqrnbg.html

@Mugruncher

Жыл бұрын

As an Australian, mine too

As an Irish person, I thought this was pure poetry. Thanks John.

@arjungutta7762

Жыл бұрын

lizzie’s in a box !

@bigkirbyhj666

Жыл бұрын

@@arjungutta7762 IN A BOX!

@SiddharthJaggavarapu

Жыл бұрын

As an Indian, I feel the same.

@McJethroPovTee

Жыл бұрын

I like rusty spoon

@alfredestrada2729

Жыл бұрын

Still she'll be remembered more than an Oscar Wilde or U2 or Robbie Keane

Thank you for this. Brits royals have gotten free pass for so long when they looted our Indian continent, partitioned the country and millions of families died. It is convenient to forget the past if it has not impacted your culture, your country or your families.

@hansu4003

3 ай бұрын

Muhammad Ali Jinnah favoured partition, not the British. Unless you happen to agree with Jinnah that there should be an unpartitioned India which in all likelihood would have a marginalised Muslim population.

Long overdue. Well said, and backed up with facts. I couldn't agree more.

Thank you for highlighting the atrocities that the British government carried out in "her majesty's name" in my home country of Kenya 🇰🇪

@mollyrose1596

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea any of that happened. Beyond horrible.

@TheJonnyEnglish

Жыл бұрын

@@mollyrose1596 yeah you know that’s why history is important

@polemius01

Жыл бұрын

Now, Kenya is committing its own atrocities against LGBTQ+ people, so, get back to me when that ends.

@latentcc9448

Жыл бұрын

If you're interested, Jacobin Magazine recently did an article about the Mau Mau rebels and interviewed several of the surviving fighters. It's available for free online.

@pmwiky

Жыл бұрын

@@polemius01 I live here and while Kenya IS a 80% christian Nation (gee I wonder where they got that from) and Homosexuality is frowned upon, NOBODY has the time or inclination to persecute members of the LGBT+ community, you are thinking Uganda or Ghana (entirely different countries, please try to keep up).

What's classy if you're rich and trashy if you're poor : living on public money 💕

@ectooo

Жыл бұрын

also wearing raggedy clothes.

@turdfurgeson1643

Жыл бұрын

Also inbreeding.

@capucnechaussonpassion14

Жыл бұрын

I have to add that i stole this from somewhere on the internet but thought it would be way to perfect here ! Also love the inbreeding comment, priceless !!

@crysstoll1191

Жыл бұрын

Socialism for the corporations and banks, capitalism for the poor!

@Mugruncher

Жыл бұрын

Also everything else

There's still so much that (for obvious reasons) wasn't even mentioned here, including, for example, the dismissal of Gough Whitlam in 1975, collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War, the 1943 Bengal famine, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

emotionally unavailable guacamole 🤣🤣🤣

"The Sun never set on the British Empire, because even the God couldn't trust the British in dark." - Dr. Shashi Tharoor

@scottl9660

Жыл бұрын

That’s fire

@anotheryoutubeuser

Жыл бұрын

*set

@lm_b5080

Жыл бұрын

"when the white men arrived they had the bible and we had the land. they asked us to close our eyes and pray. when we opened them they had the land and we had the bible" - desmond tutu

@millsykooksy4863

Жыл бұрын

lol

@wolfwoodphreak

Жыл бұрын

@@lm_b5080 I'm never forgetting this quote now

The work you do is so important. I'm a Grenadian, and when our new government was sworn in in June, a national conversation started about why we have to swear allegiance to the queen, her heirs, and successors. The monarch is still our head of state, but the first time I visited the UK, immigration treated me like a criminal. Caricom (our regional institution meaning Caribbean Community) has outlined 10 reasonable ways for reparations to be given back to us for the legacy of colonialism, but we still haven't gotten an acknowledgement or an apology.

@sophiemcmillan4073

Жыл бұрын

thank you for raising the point that people from colonised countries are actually not welcomed in to the country that colonized them.

@armedwombat6816

Жыл бұрын

Britain, age of imperialism: "You people are now subjects of our king, whether you want it or not. Obey and you get... well, not much, but at least we probably won't kill you (on purpose). Resist and we will kill you all." Britain, few years ago: "Where did all these foreigners come from? And they want to come here? To our country? I don't like that. I feel like the EU has stolen our independence!"

@HullabaLulu_Art

Жыл бұрын

I'm Irish, and we've never gotten an apology either. I hope that Grenada and every other nation that suffered from British colonisation gets the reparations and apologies that Britain owes.

@beegwan1893

Жыл бұрын

The monarchy will never apologize because that would mean accepting responsibility. Its the same reason no colonized nations will ever be given reparations.

@eponymouscharacter

Жыл бұрын

This. As a South African of Indian origin, it grates so much when I have to pay exorbitant visa fees to visit the UK and really high international student rates to study there. From a heritage standpoint, I’ve been colonised twice!

Absolutely excellent piece John! As always, spot-on catalyzing the most interesting discussions to be had in modern society.

As someone from England who hates the monarchy, I love whenever John Oliver verbally destroys the Royal Family, making this one of my favourite LWT segments (closely followed by the museums and the Edward Snowden segments, for very different reasons). The only shame was that after talking about the effects of colonialism associated with the monarchy, he went on to use a clip of Winston Churchill as comic relief, without acknowledging the huge negative role that man had on different colonies of the British Empire during the 1st half of the 20th century. There are many within the former British Empire who would have far more contempt for him than they would for the monarchy.

Fun fact John The name 'Mau Mau' is not actually in the kikuyu language but actually just a phrase conjured up by the colonialist at the time from what they used to hear kikuyu people chant to them. The phrase/word that they would chant repeatedly was 'Uma' which translates to 'Get out' as a way of telling the British to go away from their lands. The word being said over and over, 'uma uma' was heard by the British as Mau Mau and thus the name was born.

@zoebailey6979

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome

@informedpanda254

Жыл бұрын

I always thought it was the swahili acronym for "Muzungu Aende Ulaya Mwafrika Apate Uhuru" (White Man Gi back to Europe for The African Person to Get Independence)

@alessandramacedo18

Жыл бұрын

I had never heard about this topoc before, but there is a card game I used to play here in Brazil that was kinda like uno, but with traditional cards and you had to say "mau mau" when you had only one card left. It means "bad bad" or "mean mean" in Portuguese, but now I'm wondering if it doesn't have anything to do with this revolution.

@yvonnemutahi5129

Жыл бұрын

@@informedpanda254 that was also something we grew up being taught (but as a Swahili acronym). The Maumau though were from the kikuyu ethnic community( one of the tribes in Kenya) and a bigger percentage at that time only spoke kikuyu amongst each other and not Swahili (the national language). In that case, it must have most definitely come from the ‘uma uma’ and not the ‘mzungu atoke Afrika, …….’ I think that must have come later.

@coversbydcap8892

Жыл бұрын

@@informedpanda254 This was adopted later after the name Mau Mau was brought to light. A way of roping in politics and the revolutionists as fighting for the same cause

Twitter was quite the gathering place after the demise of the late Queen. Reactions ranged from “Oh, it’s so sad.” to “Has everyone already made a plan to party in Ireland?”

@brandonayong5823

Жыл бұрын

I loved how John Oliver summed it up in the episode after her death "As you might know. The world is going through a bit of a frenzy right now because an elderly Woman in her 90s died of natural causes" 😂😂😂😂 Facts. I mean I heard people compare this to JFK or Princess Diana and I'm like "..... NO"

@ArcturusOTE

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonayong5823 Yeah, at least JFK and Diana dedicated their lives to hopefully improve people's lives, meanwhile Liz 2 was a cultural institution waiting to be dismantled

@adamobrien771

Жыл бұрын

She's in a box, in a box, LIZZIES IN A BOX 🇮🇪

@Xara_K1

Жыл бұрын

We had a party and it was awesome. That bih should've brought back our diamond just as a start. May she rest in eternal h€ll. She deserved no dignity from anyone she happily kept oppressed and didn't give back wealth.

@chadmarx7718

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcturusOTE any good jfk might have done is outweighed greatly by joining the vietnam war and the cuban embargo

That guy talking about indigenous people reminds me of a prof I had once. He taught ETHICS. He did just kind of glossed over the cultural and attempted physical genocide of indigenous people, referring to it like it was that one time a guy took all 5 everything bagels from the breakroom and left the other 20 non-everything bagels for everyone else. Like wtf?

That Epstein joke was BRUTAL, god damn.

“I spent 3 or 4 days studying this shit” My man has transcended

as someone called lizzie, hearing a bunch of people sing "lizzie's in a box" with such glee honestly put a big open-mouthed smile on my face. sing that shit at my funeral, please

@MassiveMawEnglish

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 define peace. I am intrigued. Better place? Explain how the Brits were good to the people they oppressed and robbed. I think you need to watch this segment again and many more like it. the entrenching is deep with you. Going to take a long time to dig into you to find common sense.

@itishaNairobi

Жыл бұрын

Hehehe... nice one. They should have added "... box, Drop it like its hot"

@bigwitt187

Жыл бұрын

@@MassiveMawEnglish That's how the world works. The powerful used to oppress by force, now they do it financially. It's how the world has always worked. I don't like it either, but denying the reality of it doesn't help.

@sydneywilliams4796

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 we know hun. And us poking fun at a dead monarch that everyone expected to die bc she was so old is not going to stop a western coalition. Stop weaponizing world tragedies to try to scurry away from real criticisms

@sydneywilliams4796

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 so bc others did worse we shouldn’t talk about the terrible things your country did? That’s not how this works babes

I lived in Hong Kong under British rule. The condescending attitudes of the British as they robbed all they can, posted no dogs or Chinese signs, ruled as dictators before adopting democracy a couple of years before the Chinese takeover, was absolutely disgusting and evil.

Truly enjoyed the depth of this .

That colonial officer's response is chilling, not just because it says 'yes.' But because it further says that he doesn't regret it.

@GentlemanBones

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980 She's not gonna fuck you, bro.

@125loopy

Жыл бұрын

@Nicol Katanji oh I get it! The British were mostly killing non-white people, so we should all overlook it now that Russia is attacking poor innocent white people. Thanks, Nicol. I'm glad you're happy with atrocities as long as "everyone" was doing it and it wasn't against white people. Please, go sit down somewhere and never speak.

@A.CMc1997

Жыл бұрын

I don't wish bad things to others but I fcking hope he suffer the same pain he inflicted to others.

@CrabTastingMan

Жыл бұрын

Just as evil as the Japanese and Germans in WW2. I am appalled they sidestepped calling the camps in 1950-58 Kenya as CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Like the one Britain used in South Africa in 1899 for the 2nd Angloe-Boer War.

@pete_lind

Жыл бұрын

Why would he regret it , hes part of master race , people still believe that in England , have you not been reading how EU dictatorship oppressed English people and now when England is independent , there is glorious future of stealing stuff from other countries , like in good old days .

I learn more about history from John Oliver than all of my history classes in high school.

@ChineduOpara

Жыл бұрын

Horrible high school.

@Gabelogan2015

Жыл бұрын

Schools are only going to teach you what they only want you to learn.

@jameshill5621

Жыл бұрын

Pity most of it is highly selective.

@samuela-aegisdottir

Жыл бұрын

It is surprising how much is not taught in schools, is it? I have some friends among the Native Americans in Canada. These horrible things use to happen as recently as 1990s. Indigenous children were taken from families for years, many never returned. They were raised to submission to white people, punished of any expression of their culure and origine (speaking their language, singing songs, praying to the spirits, talking with siblings) and they were heavily abused (punished by hunger, beated, detained in dark cold cellar), children were also sexualy abused there and many died from misstreatmen and abuse. I met a person who saw a priest to beat a child to death when he was detained in a residential school. It was just horrible to hear all the storries and when I got to know this I felt guilty as a a white European with Christian background, even so my country does not have any colonial history. An apology from all heads of all institutions involved in this horror should be a minimum. If the role of the royal family is to symbolically represent the monarchy and the church, so they are the best people to apology in the name of the monarchy and the church, because it is what representing mean and an apology is a symbolic act.

@polyphase4425

Жыл бұрын

@@samuela-aegisdottir In the United States, Indigenous Ceremonies were outlawed until 1978. In addition, I have seen grown men cry over the trauma they experienced in the schools they were forced to attend. 💔

You actually have to ask for a card on your 100th birthday - it used to be just sent to you ( could have even been a bit of a note written in the card), but now its just a signed card that is mailed if requested because there are more and more people reaching 100.

I was at a Rastafarian indigenous village in Jamaica playing drums when the queen died.

Also as a Kenyan, I hope to see Kenya (and ALL East African countries) EXITING THE COMMON WEALTH in my life time!

@juminrhee4255

Жыл бұрын

Kenya isn't even part of the monarchy anymore. Kenya didn't even keep the parliamentary system, instead bringing in the far more corruptible and dictatorship-prone presidential system as used in the US, Syria, and Argentina. And you're free to leave the commonwealth, just convince a majority of your representatives. It's become more of a sports club anyway. 😋

@mlr4524

Жыл бұрын

Just be aware that China is ready to replace it, which is another whole chapter to come.

@MrStartingup

Жыл бұрын

@@mlr4524 I'd rather Asians than the English

@MrStartingup

Жыл бұрын

@@juminrhee4255 Yeah, that's the point you missed I guess; I hope the politicians in Kenya manage this in my lifetime. And I know what challenges my country faces thank you, don't need a refresher from you

@medealkemy

Жыл бұрын

@@mlr4524 oh no, not China! How terrible!

Im canadian, As you can tell by the fact that I’m two weeks late in commenting. I just wanted to say thank you for using your show to talk about the residential schools. The sheer number of unmarked mass graves of indigenous children found in the last two years is absolutely devastating and it is so important that people don’t forget it

@mishyhnyduik6725

Жыл бұрын

It's pretty shitty that he didn't acknowledge that the last ones closed in the 90s rather than the 60s though. While the CoE may not have specifically run any after that, but there were still government run schools until the 90s and we didn't break off constitutionally from the UK until '82 so the UK government (and the Queen as a figure head) could have put a stop to it and didn't. She had a nice chunk of time to do so.

@paulfoley9370

Жыл бұрын

@@mishyhnyduik6725 The schools running after the 60's were run by the First Nations themselves.

@andrewtorrens7790

Жыл бұрын

@@mishyhnyduik6725 and the residential schools may have closed, but they've been replaced by family and children's services... A few years back they did a test. They took the same case files, and randomized the ethnicity of the family. People recommended removing children from the homes of cases that had indigenous names at three times the rate of any other ethnic group. In other words, the racism that has been instilled in us had lead to the foster care system replacing the residential schools.

@eratoisyourmuse659

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewtorrens7790 Of course it has. Are you really surprised? Im not

@Ruthissa_01

Жыл бұрын

@@paulfoley9370 Evidence? Ah, I see you’re either an apologist or a racist. Why would First Nations peoples run residential schools? Schools where their children were beaten, SA, starved, emotionally and psychologically abused? Why would FN peoples even support schools that had the sole purpose to “kill the Indian in the child”?

Thanks John, this video was so necessary!

Absolutely BRILLIANT 👍 Thank you🙏

Truly excellent segment. So well done. As an Aboriginal woman and a Canadian, I was impressed with this.

@abcstv7669

Жыл бұрын

The last couple min he really murdered them

@nicolkatanji1980

Жыл бұрын

Respectfully to Americans (and Canadians) reading this: Russia just attacked Poland with a missile strike, and things could get VERY serious. Now is not a good time for the "West" to fragment. I've watched as shtposters called the Queen a c&&t and a b&&&h during the UK's mourning period, and I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt and assume a lot of this was deliberate provocation from St Petersburg troll factories, or else actual Americans who don't have a comprehensive grasp on history. Yes, the Mau Mau were oppressed (after attacking other indigenous African groups), yes the UK was involved in slavery (as was everyone, frankly. Portugal transported more slaves across the Atlantic than anyone), but I honestly believe the world would have been a much worse place without Britain. You think France or Spain treated technologically-lagging peoples any better? Where is that flourishing Aztec civilization? You think Japan would have treated India respectfully (as unlikely as this seems, Japan did have designs on India during WW2. It was actually one of the complex reasons for the Bengal famine. Also #Rape of Nanjing). Alright, I'll shut up now. All I'm saying is that history is more complicated than the current discussion, and all this shtposting could have serious consequences to the peace we've all enjoyed the last few decades.

@ooooneeee

Жыл бұрын

​@@nicolkatanji1980 sure, if the UK collapses it will be shitposters who caused it. This empire has been declining for centuries and the Windsors and Tories are responsible for most of that.

@Jinxx9081

Ай бұрын

@@nicolkatanji1980I get what you are saying, but as an American, we just feel so discouraged and tired. It seems like every day there’s another conflict on the news and everyone’s saying that America has to get involved. Do we even help anything by getting involved? It feels like we are in an endless cycle of conflict and it just makes America look like war mongers. Russia has even said that they attacked Ukraine because they felt threatened by the U.S. presence. Maybe if America just shut up and kept to ourselves the world would be a better place. Every time we try to help we only make things worse it seems. The world doesn’t actually need us.

As an Australian who is largely left out of this shows discussions, it was both gratifying and extremely hard to hear about the things I know my country did- thank you for covering it.

@epis8613

Жыл бұрын

The Nightingale is probably the best movie about colonialism.

@alondathomas293

Жыл бұрын

@@epis8613 Yeah, that film is hard as hell to watch----I wish the director hadn't made it that way, but I get why she made it, even if I couldn't agree with it.

@epis8613

Жыл бұрын

@@alondathomas293 it's one of the most effective uses of actual horror I've ever seen in a film. It was in no way fun to watch, but it it important to understand that there was no exaggeration involved in the movie, only other accounts in media have been sanitized. Very effective and motivating to oppose the evil that existed then and now.

@JaydevRaol

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was informative for us too.

*Have you tried turning it off, and back on again?* He actually rebooted in front of our eyes...

It is incredibly hard for humans to accept accountability for average mistakes, let alone the enslavement and torture of other humans. The Royal family’s refusal to acknowledge what was done tells you everything you need to know. Deep in their hearts, they know they have a lot to answer for

As a Kenyan this piece brings to light major issues British people need to question their government and the Monarch on. My grandparents were Mau Mau and it is extremely disheartening that the proportion of the atrocities committed against them is immensely misrepresented or undervalued in Western Media. The description by John Oliver is but a tip of an iceberg.

@kiarieray5975

Жыл бұрын

I think the Mau Mau fighters are only mentioned in our history text books. For the vast majority of the western media it's like a myth or rarely mentioned.

@Tuturial464

Жыл бұрын

Well where do we want to start? Racism? Colonialism? Jeffery epiestein? Manipulation of their people

@patrickstar1164

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for what happened to you and your country and family. I hope more westerners will start rethinking about what happened instead of justifying or avoiding the topic.

@SlapstickGenius23

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickstar1164 same thing..

🇰🇪 🇰🇪 That's a moment of truth. Voice for the "Voiceless" common Kenyan. Well done John Oliver.

John Oliver is a treasure, calls em straight, to hell with flashback. Good Man!

A Nigerian woman wrote a story about her grandfather. There was a statue of him in the center of her hometown. The statue was to commemorate him for standing up to the British Colonial authorities. The way he did this was when they abolished slavery there, he marched to the Colonial office and demanded they return his property--his slaves, people--which they promptly did to avoid trouble. And so there's a statue for him. People like to present the issue as all black and white, but it's complicated. Like in this case in which British colonialism, which was bad, led to the abolition of slavery, which was good. Her grandfather stood up to the colonialists, which is good, but in order to demand his right to own slaves, which is bad.

I'm Indian, I've got a few Irish and Scottish friends. And when the funeral was happening, you can bet that we were drinking and singing

@nadiabasheer.

Жыл бұрын

Amen to that. 🎉

@nHans

Жыл бұрын

Did you celebrate when Rishi became the PM? 🙌🍾🥂🎈🥳💃🎉🎆

@me0101001000

Жыл бұрын

@@nHans no. He's still a Tory.

@williamstewart888

Жыл бұрын

AND!!!

@jakobbauz

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha cheers mate.

"The axe forgets, the tree remembers." African proverb. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Also an African proverb.

@myamdane6895

6 ай бұрын

I’ll do my best not to remember them

@scubasteev

3 ай бұрын

That's the dumbest proverb ever! The paper and firewood remember? Axe wins. How about...tree forgets but the car remembers? See? Just as dumb.

I love this man. Why did youtube just let me discover him just now

Rewatching this today and wondering if Charles is doing his homeopathic cancer remedy as we speak...

John Oliver recreating that British Pathé Narrator Voice will never stop being iconic.

@missybarbour6885

Жыл бұрын

When a guy with a British accent has to put another British accent on top of his British accent lol

@Tcrror

Жыл бұрын

"iconic" is an overstatement, but I'll allow it.

@chrissiek8706

Жыл бұрын

@@Tcrror allow it? Thank you, your grace 😂

@anahata2009

Жыл бұрын

@@Tcrror "iconic" is the most recent English word being publicly abused into a shadow of its former meaning. "Aesthetic" is also on the ropes. [Sigh]

@FreshlyBakedLePain

Жыл бұрын

@@anahata2009 you sound like someone who hasn't come to terms with the fundamental transience of language, friend.

My Dad (still very much alive) was forced to live in those "Mau Mau" camps. The colonialists arrested my grandfather my dad and his brothers helpless. He had to move from camp to camp so that he could get back home while grandpa was in prison. In each camp, he spent ~1month while the colonizers sorted his paperwork of movement! The atrocities conducted by that empire is still very much being felt today!

@Ludifant

Жыл бұрын

This was a reasonably fun video to watch despite the horrible content. Which seems wrong... but it's the only way to get attention. Glad I went down to the comments to see this human connection to the past. Thank you for commenting, I hope the trauma in your family will be healed.. This reaction should be at the top. I gave it a "thumbs up", even if "thumbs up" really isn't the right symbol. There should be a "sincerely important" emoji. I am from the Netherlands, our history is even worse and our denial possibly even greater, because we still think we are OK as is. The age of slavery is to this day referred to as "the golden age". It left us poised well for the industrial revolution, which has blinded us for the cost.

@ruthmaina8537

Жыл бұрын

Very true!¡ I watched this clip with my mum and that's how I found out she was born in the camps and they lived there for a while she actually remembers stuff about it. It's quite strange seeing people debate about how long ago it was while there are people alive who remember it vividly

@ephraimkihahu9615

Жыл бұрын

Uga Mundu Wa Nyumba?

@shalevedna

Жыл бұрын

Same in all areas that were under colonial rule. The consequences are very much alive today.

@rushfan1970

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing, & blessings to your Dad!!💗✌🏼

Given the fact that King Charles was diagnosed with Cancer and had believed in the pseudo-science of Coffee Enemas, who here would want to see that added as part of his treatment?

God Bless you John,From an lrish man,laughing His Ass Off👍

I live in Scotland and found out the Queen died through my flatmate telling me "Lizzies done something that's not very girlboss", it was genuinely surprising to talk to people who were actually sad

@arthuredington6171

Жыл бұрын

Thats a great way to find out the Queen died

@adsart4990

Жыл бұрын

mexican american here and my friend told me by sending me a voice note of her singing "london bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down"

@mnirwin5112

Жыл бұрын

Have to raise an eyebrow or two with that Australian guy moaning about how inappropriate it was to not have a minute's silence at Elizabeth's passing. SHE'S DEAD. Why the hell would she care??

@eleSDSU

Жыл бұрын

@@adsart4990 I got a "Se murió la vieja culiá"

@melvinpenman1102

Жыл бұрын

That'll be the unionist traitors to Scotland, I hate the British state and everything they stand for, SOAR ALBA