French Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

About Fillon's suits, because of the scandal he had to give them back, but he didn't give the good ones.

You use to cut their heads off but now you only celebrate that once a year with some fireworks.

brilliant!

well, when there woudln't be flour anymore, we are going to star with heads cutting...these is what happen in 1789

wait, i thought there was cake? or... the cake is a lie too!?

this is gold XD if only you knew all the jokes made about the holograms in frnech satire newspaper "Suprise: the hologram got more vote then Mélenchon himself and became president"

Cyamite No he is not a communist , he is a social-ecologist. The communist candidate is Nathalie Artaud(Philippe Poutou is from the far-left but he isn't communist , he is internationalist which is not exactly the same as communism).

Cyamite not at all! Mélenchon is from La gauche doesn't mean that he's communist. He wants to stay in E.U but I can understand your opinion because there is a pretty bad image of La gauche in usa

Lol ;) Most of all, we don't have any reason to throwing floor to Mélenchon's face. Seriously the french mains politics of this last 5 years gave to me the desire to remake sharp a guillotine... (Hollande president (get some floor), Manuell Valls First minister (was slap), and Emmanuel Macron as economic minister (get floor too) Hollande hasn't followed his program, he did nearly the opposite for what is as elected for... Valls use constitutional rights (49.3) to apply a law against citizen opinion and assembly. ( 5 months of strikes against this law). It's because of UE and the first step was created by Macron. Macron created the CICE to give 22 Billion of euro by year in companies to create employments... they aimed for 1million there was ... nothing the CEO get the money! It would be more useful if the money was gave directly to poor peoples. (Sry for my english), cheers.

S CassBurn And I would throw more than floor at him or Le Pen both of them are dangerous and will bring nothing good to France

Well.. Britain is Europe by ages and the dark..also America is /was used to be a prison that ran from France too so why wouldn't he..

Eh bien ça, mon coco, cela s'appelle de la flagornerie!

If I may ask, what did you think of his French speaking?

@@walterzamalis4846 love his accent

Are you referring to how he plays into the French ego and superiority complex? Because everyone knows the French think they're hot sh*t, so it's not all that amazing for John to understand that.

Wow as a French this is a actually a joke me and my buddies would say regularly to mock his presidency

I think macron is what Joe Biden will be like.

@Abraham Lincoln As a French, I completely agree. They are both Neoliberal Corporatists who only serve the Establishment. The only reason Macron won was because of the fear of a Marine Le Pen presidency. And if Biden wins, it will only be because of the Coronavirus and the Protests.

@@abrahamlincoln8748 I respect your honesty about how your government works and I too agree with it (we also have our governmental problems but it seems it's not doing well in the Land of Freedom). When it comes to calling Sanders a Neo-liberal, it's a bit complex from a French perspective... Afterall over here he would be from the Parti Républicain afterall compared to French Standards he advocated for a more Liberalised Social Democracy. (Reminder : He calls himself a Democratic Socialist but he's actually a Social Democrat) But anyways... When it comes to Biden being "uninteresting and inoffensive" just like Macron.... I wish it were true for Macron (let's just say things got very bad under his reforms) but when it comes to Biden you're not wrong... Afterall the goal of a Biden campaign was mostly just returning the White House and America to normaly. Even though it's good, it's just sad to know that this probably isn't the last time we see Corruption in a Country born through ideals of the Enlightenment and a war for freedom. (I absolutely hate Trump and I have been observing the protests and cases in America so no need to pass me this info)

@@abrahamlincoln8748 Last thing... Most of us in Europe are aware of all these events, the narcissism, the corruption of your president and the police brutality... It's just that I kind off wished you guys came up with a more reformist politician... But between Biden and that Orange Maniack... Surely Is would choose Biden

Toxodos i was thinking the same thing !

Yeah, French men has good aim- point proven!!!!

I love that this is the top comment :)

Kobe!

I want that person to run for President. They have my vote.

yeah I was actually really impresed

They didn't even know who did it

Isn't our handball team great at international competitions last I heard ? :3

first funny comment read... thanks !

some idiot already pointed that out, it's top comment

I thought the exact same thing

@@bernardosantos8020 We've learned long ago not to give bad things a catchy name.

We actually called it that.

I heard another version which is AdiEU Way better imo

Fr-eggs-it.

They have. Macron sucks so much Paris was on fire for a year before coronovirus stopped the riots.

Finally a worthy opponent !

That poor cake 😂

Was the cake 'Frozen' SOLID?

And the weird bear that follows them

Larry SkyWalker, and lost Jeds eye.

He actually predicted TLJ . We didn't got to see luke but Larry was there .

Karl-Henrik Smith underrated comment

Karl-Henrik Smith Imagine someone finding out from where he's broadcasting and they throw something at him there. It would show up on all holograms

Nah, the other thing is that he's actually popular (most popular politician in France at the moment), not many people would bother.

"Throwing flour at my hologram will only make it more visible! I made the french politicians weakness to flour my strength!"

... sure someone will invent a flour hack and egg virus

do you promise 😔

Pass auf dich auf Bruder. De Paris.

@@williamb5662 😷

🥺

Please ignore this Frexit extremist they only represent the stupid minority we won't leave Europe in the future

Especially with the current crisis in Ukraine going on, the last thing NATO and the EU needs is a French Viktor Orban (Le Pen) to suddenly obstruct and divide the alliance even further. Now is critical to be united more than ever.

France out of NATO would be good given their actions in West Africa/ Libya will draw them into endless conflict eventually. Need to focus on the Russians not be dragged into Macron's imperialism

Surtout que la situation est globalement la même qu'il y a 5 ans, ce serait super drôle qu'il refasse une vidéo

@@je.t4617 c’est comme 2017, la deuxième version 💀 j’observe les élections du Canada et je suis inquiète maintenant que Macron et LePen vont s’affronter au deuxième tour.

@@catmonarchist8920 please talk about what you understand, NATO is a defensive agreement for first and for second French troops are there at the request of one side (often the one aligned with French interests.... Strangely...) France isn't belligerent, only support So NATO will in no way intervene in these anyway

Yusufbek Muzaffarov Non, it should be called a terrible joke 😭😭😭

Eutdynxt Txnydtue Quick! opposing opinions! CALL THE BROWN SHIRTS! errr, I mean, antifa....

i may not agree with what you say but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it

Yusufbek Muzaffarov Sorry but why? Is there a game on words?

Ruby Spirit lol yes, le mot oui resemble le mot "we" en anglais qui veut dire "nous" donc le traduction est "nous partons"...c'est plus drôle en anglais.

Moi aussi 😂

Il utilise les stereotypes de façon sarcastique, je trouve ça marrant et très rafraîchissant. Et, il tient suffisemment à la culture française et montre suffisemment d'importance à notre pays pour avoir fait ce sketch en français. x)

*looks at French replies* baguette

@@kylemcmullan2929 Don't forget about the cheese breathe tho.

@nicolas Henry Mets pas tout le monde dans le même sac. Je viens du Nord, nos cultures sont proches. Les valeurs aussi, dont le partage et l'autoderision. :)

probably because he knows that the whole thing isn't correct>First, it's let them eat brioche, second, most peple think Marie Antoinette said that, but it's actually from a book.

I read that with a stereotypical Hollywood french accent.

Nooo! Zat's not true ! Zat's impossible !

-Darth Baker

All of you have a one way ticket to gulag for making me laugh this hard.

@@eleventhknight9744 Is there any other kind of ticket to a Gulag?

If you're French, do you know the name of the outro song ?

Je confirme

@Dominic TétraultThanks, didn't know what to answer. I don't listen at this kind of music at all, I'm a rock/metal fan

@@benagl it's the usual John Oliver outro on accordion

Je confirme

Ta gueule.

J’aime la français

It would be my favorite show.

search on youtube...

Ikr, why can't American campaigns have such drama. throwing flour at politicians ...lol france

The compilation will be way too long for RU-vid

Throwing people at food

The very confident guy "Bernard henry levy" would appear ont this compilation... a lot!

Truckloads of peace incoming!

Yep, good work french dudes. toutes nos félicitations!

Shayne O'Neill merci, mon ami :) we're in this together. America won't become a dystopia. Everything will fall into place eventually.

I thank you people from the deepest portion of my heart...!!!👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏

Finally a country that hasn't gone Mad!

If that doesn't get you in John Oliver's fan mail video, nothing will.

As a french,i confirm that

@@gateausalaire1872 if you are, just out of curiosity, is John ACTUALLY speaking real French?

@@luciferheller8725 Yes he is. Its pretty obivous, even to a Texan like me.

@@luciferheller8725 and he's pretty good. Obviously not French born but still

I don't think so, at least we never hear that they're charged with something in the press. On the contrary, people get mad when the bodyguards are too brutal with them.

Oh I see what you did there! 😂

@@winterain17 r/wooosh

STOP 😂

Only if salt is also thrown.

As a British, I think it's hilarious

As someone who is neither of those things, how the hell do you say "that weird bear" like he said, because I've been trying to look it up, but I just can't find the right word for it

@@eliasmg9144 you mean Chewbacca?

@@catnip2235 l'espace eur?!?! Je ne sais pas?!?! Comme la putain se dit????

Thank you for electing Macron over Le Pen! You have every justification to feel superior! Je viens de Finlande, mais j'étudie le français depuis dix ans. J'adore votre langue et votre pays. J'y ai visité deux fois déjà, et un de mes amis est français. 🇫🇮🤝🏻🇨🇵

Congratulations 🎉!

@@late8641 As bad as Le Pen might have been, electing Macron shouldn't be a reason for anyone to feel pride.

@@thomaslequesne5475 Yes it should, because he's not Le Pen, you drastic moron

The nazi bitch keeps cutting into his lead tho. I’m scared about what’ll happen next time 😟

Funny when a French person laughs at someone else's accent... You guys should hear yourselves speaking foreign langauges ... No nation has a thicker accent than the French.

morrisal as if us americans are any better at pronunciation.

@@morrisal They're probably not even French. Also calm down. Why are you so angry at this?

@@--enyo-- it was a personal attack on the american accent and that shit don fly

@@morrisal I can't see how, but okay. I still don't get your reaction.

TheLifeOfBaha same here

Of course you'd be happy. Hmmm 😑

The Feleapz sorry not good at following up le pin is out

less than a few days after he already got hacked by ordinary people

Canada only just got access to this video, and a quick google search gave this a pleasant ending.

LMAO

fidorover Darth Vader aka Andy Skywalker

fidorover "that weird bear is right"~Tom solo

" Mmuoaaaa!!!" -The Weird Bear.

fuck...i cant breath!!!

Yumelia Gamer Moi aussi et on a pas "fuck up" er comme les anglophones ces derniers temps

Yumelia Gamer even as a non-french speaking person, I could tell that John's French pronunciation is a crime against humanity

Either way he did his job to convey the message to us of not "fucking up" and he succeeded.

Yumelia Gamer what hurt me most is we cant have such a broadcast on french tv. There would be complaints and it would be censored. À few comedians tried to host these kind of show but it was supposed to be seen and sometimes been rewritten by the Channel before it s aired. En tant que français j’ai adoré mais c’est toujours de très bonne qualité quelque soit le sujet

Abe G N ...no?

Or beer, for the matter!

Or wine

Or sugar

British Politician Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown at him on a European election tour. I know it’s not exactly the same but maybe they could make it work???

Just like the Five Musketeers !

Ely Til'Mana j'avoue

But how was his french?

Ben B pretty good! Just a huge accent but understandable

I had to look at the eng subtitles sometimes... but it was hilarious.

Not bad. And that means that I didn't need the subtitles to understand his French. It was clear that a French writer or translator helped him pen it. I was confused when he inserted (no pun intended) "fuck up" with a quasi-French "ou" sound, but then I laughed hard.

xylophone yep, welcome to the XXIst century

a word created by a French man by the way x) it's very ironic

it's actually called Frexit.

Изабелла Ковалёва t

DAMN. GOT HERE TOO LATE. I was gonna call it the Frexit ;w; Can't wait for the Sprexit tho

I'm pretty sure that was previous to her reign...

Clever!

@@mortuos557 Still, her family wealth has come from trading opium... M. Cheminade never said anything more. But you know medias, if you point at something they want people to forget then you'll be painted as crazy, conspirationist, stupid.

Every western nation makes money from drugs

The Queen's estate was involved in the tax evasion scheme known from the 'Panama Papers'. Seems close enough for me.

ferm65 It's a shame they didn't show Manuel Valls being slapped across the face by a teenager.

ferm65 he forgot the one which get cream

the civil way to politicaly assassinate

I would love to see someone throw a pizza slice at trump's face but unfortunately Secret Service would shoot the person on sight

Well there was always the shoe throw. Bush had some reflexes though.

Well Macron won a second term. What do you think?

@@NisarKhan-jm1uh If we ignore the raw numbers and just focus on the event, it’s almost identical to last time.

@@sirsquirrel6176 I get what you are saying. I personally wanted Jean luc melenchon to win

@Flekk Bone Gnawer no... it's definitely not. You may not agree with it but it does make much more sense than "people stealing your wallpaper"

But that's such a weird metaphor to use still lol. That was why it sounded so off.

Well if you put it that way

To be honest, even the inaccurate translation said "removed", not "steal", so even with the translation it sounds like she's talking about said people redecorating your house, not running away with the wallpaper. She's still a horrible piece of garbage.

Even so still a monumentally stupid metaphore to use

He's probably saving that for after the election when he has a rant about how doomed France, Europe, and the entire world is.

I never realized John was so fluent in French. He clearly knows the language quite well. I'm learning myself....and have gotten quite far. But...John is _far_ ahead of me. Although learning second languages is pretty common for Europeans. I lived in France for 2 years as a kid, but sadly never learned the language...I still regret that. Trying to make up for it now at 30. Anyway...John's quite fluent! Nowhere near perfect, but very well articulated and pronounced!

His pronunciation wasn't "well", so I naturally assumed he just read it off the teleprompter after going through it with someone who speaks actual French two or three times before the show.

Daniel Kufner me too

that would have been magnificent tbh

amen to that

Preach

Honestly not that complicated. The electoral college has the power, not the people.

@@stevenxdavis That may have been ok in the 18th century, but we've arrived in the 21st, so move on...

Was the only way to do it in the 18th and 19th century - but now in the 21st it may be time for something better...

@@martinhold1662 with humanity integrating with technology, I believe the new generations are substantially more intelligent then any previous generation before. I agree we need a rework of our democratic system.

Trying to represent the Rural Part of the Country is the reason the result is them winning BIGLY

Drew Ciccotelli We pulled through, thankfully :)

Moise Mensah Happy to hear it.

Drew Ciccotelli We're in this together

Moise Mensah Now more than ever.

Drew Ciccotelli Exactly, brother from across the pond. On est ensemble as we say :) 👌🏿

RIP Benoit Hamon

Dora Esmephi Well, the socialist party has lost anyway no matter who's running for the party. After all, it's the party of François Hollande, so, yeah. We don't want the socialist party back.

Dora Esmephi 💚💚❤ *I like* 💚💚❤

We don't want the socialist party back but still Macron is at the top of the polls... and Emmanuel Macron is the legitimate successor of our president François Hollande since he was his economic minister and since Benoit Hamont was an opponent to François Hollande's policy.

Ася Николаева yo

Me.

Me

Chris Westergaard Me. I liked Le Pen (because of economic and immigration reasons), but I also have a sense of humor, so I laughed quite a bit.

yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I will never know why Americans think you guys just give up. If anything France takes the Blitzkrieg Straight on to the face.

lmfao. I read that in a Scottish accent .

@@H-to-O lol. yup, one of my favorites. the "no thanks" commercial mom had me laughing and cringing

thats what it sounds like when they try to speak our language ^^

Does anyone know if that's a weak translation of a French expression?

@@TheHadMatters it's not, she's just catastrophically weird indeed

@@TheHadMatters She was comparing an apartment with the country. Classical racist fear of imposing Islam and stealing social aid.

lmao

@@cthulucoon7769 islam is not à race Islam is an ideology like fascism or communism

wish I could say the same thing... *sigh*

Believe me, I didn't vote Trump and multiple times a day I'm ashamed he's our leader and embarassed to be an American.

I was a month too young to vote. I keep asking my dad if we can move back to Dublin where my grandma was born... because of Trump's idiocy

Alicia Green you are not the sole person who can decide the fate of your country.

And I'm Swiss and I just sit here

D Mars why wouldnt u

D Mars so who gets the vote ?

Don't you find it hard to move out off the couch a sunday when you had a full stressful week and just want to lay there doing nothing ? (but then remember it's election time and you actually have to go because we could end up with a possible DT on our head.....)

Either Melanchon or Hamon get the vote.....

hamon sounds reasonable

Same

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LEARN ENGLISH WITH JOJO t'inquiète on comprend

LEARN ENGLISH WITH JOJO Des français ?

Here's a more permanent solution: learn basic english like rest of the world.

LEARN ENGLISH WITH JOJO YES ! I'm French viewer and i want understand more of what think american or english people about French politic ! :) (sorry , i speak english quiet well)

Wow, that guy isn't even a pres for a long time.

Well we french don't really think the two words sound the same ^^

because you don't waste macarons for that. macarons are delicious and frickin' expensive dude

Flash si je me suis déjà fait la réflexion ^^

dude, Macarons are too good to be thrown at this guy, he doesn't deserve a Macaron He deserve a nasty old egg that will ruin his 10 000$ suits his wife paid him

Yeah, it sounds more like "maquereau" (French for "mackerel", but we also use this word to mean "a pimp" for some reason) ^^

Except if you take a look at what Macron is doing, it's still not that great, maybe people should have voted differently in the first round.

LexiLSify Melonchon is a good guy

Elijah Ruby he does seem like a honest soul...i get good vibes too

well... Macron isn't really better than LePen, they're both terrible... we're all in deep shit

Both are toxic but at least Macron isn't as racist and homophobic as Le Pen

Yeah I feel cheated that he didn't

There is still hope! (Edit): i'm very glad to see the replies are all positive and in unity! :')

USA didnt elect a castrating old witch also. That's why Trump win

I find that this segment didn't talk enough about Melenchon who is as much of a threat as Le Pen

lol Jean Olivier.

May the French people take more inspiration from the Dutch election than the US one, and leave the candidates opposed to the very ideas of liberté, egalité and fraternité well out of positions of power. Vive la France!

Ha ha!

Doing my best right now to get the numbers up !

+Brice Denice Who's Larry?

I'm not French and I hope you support Le Pen. :)

i am french and i am not supporting Nazis and Fascists friend as Le Pen, also a Putin's puppet as Trump. French is better than this as the USA

Vote for Le Pen for shit and giggles. Show em that France can fuck up even more.

nobody cares you're all french, dudes !

t, now the republicans are crying because trump isnt who he was hoped to be. even the alt right are tuning on hm. he is putting israel first.

If you say one should elect for an office one person and not the other another just because of the sex of that person YOU are the sexist by definition.

huh, trump really was elected by trolls and fly-over states

That logic doesn't work since Le Pen is a vile sexist herself, soooooo... Yeah nop.

The sad truth is some people would use that kind of argument completely seriously. Poe's law is a bitch ;)

She might win. Centrism and neoliberalism are the gateways to extreme conservative fascism. Obama and the Clintons paved the way for Trump and Macron could be the red carpet for Le Pen. Shows like this should stop idolizing "centrist bankers" as ideal politicians.

@@dirrdevil Have you seen the latest polls? Macron now has a 31% to 23% lead in the first round and the second round polling went from 53-47 to 60-40 in the span of 2-4 weeks. Besides it works the other way. Brexit has increased the support for Northern Ireland to join the Republic of Ireland from 13% in 2015 to 35-43 and a 9% Sien Fein lead for next year's Northern Ireland Assembly election. Also the Scottish Independence polls show a 45% leave to 48% stay. The 2014 referendum was 45-55

Not if people do not vote witg their brain in their ass it won't

In the regional elections it was LR PS though.

It was true back six month ago but nowadays doing anything about the french elections without talking about the incredibly fast rise of Eric Zemmour would be pretty inaccurate

StudioPlacard we didn't shoot our political candidates in the us....recently anyway. but I have to admit the flour is inspired. it's a pain to get out of your clothes and hair

too bad, they obviously deserve it :(

I always thought it was Antrax in powder form or atleast rat poison

Baking ingredients*

StudioPlacard pocket flour!

Renaud Chomette oui et non, je trouve que traduire « changer le papier-peint » en « voler le papier-peint » est un poil malhonnête J’aime beaucoup cette émission mais c’est souvent qu’ils font ce genre de choses

@@pierrealexandre1105 mouais, mais au final c'est un peu la même chose nan?

@@FlowziMowzije suis heureux de constater que je ne suis pas le seul à avoir ce genre de vidéo en recommendation 3 ans après

pierre alexandre boul bon voila un autre qui s’intéresse un peu trop au papier peint. Ça va la France?

@@justsomeone1757 c'est une métaphore en fait pour désigner la transformation culturelle du pays mais si vous êtes trop con pour comprendre une métaphore deux possibilités Où vous avez fait des études non littéraires et oublier les acquis du collège Où vous êtes con

Jean Lassalle "is" France.

tboss2447 I finished watching this on Monday

tboss2447 it's 12:04 western time

3:04 eastern Why am I still awake

9:10 mid european time

Blake Griffins it's Easter Monday we don't work in France this day

That and the Amelie-like outro. Awesome little references.

AAaaahh.. A quote that perfectly would fit on a Chef Boyardee Noodles soup can!

Yeah I thought everyone did that...

MrSaycchyS me too! same with tomatoes.

You don't know anything about France ...

Well I'm glad you are able to feel elitist about your high school education somewhere... 😂

Honestly it wasn't that bad. He got difficult sounds (like "ou" or "oi" ) right. He "feucked eup" the "u" sound but i forgive him. His tongue's not trained to make that sound. I'm proud of him for trying. He's making an effort to speak in another language on TV and I respect him for that. Good job Johnny O'!

As a native french speaker, compared to the uncomprehensible french usually sputtered by americans with unwarranted confidence, his french was actually pretty good!! (For someone i assume does not speak french very often hahaha)

Hello World hey! Not shaming them my friend! 😌 I agree with you that french people’s english is the cringiestttt hahaha (I am french canadian lol) But I’m really glad when anyone tries to learn or speak one of my two languages!! The unwarranted confidence thing I meant is not in the case of normal people, it’s more often in like american movies/media very often they have these cool characters who « speak french » and that makes them cool and sexy and impresses everyone when in fact when start speaking french it’s like wtf is this language that was uncomprehensible lol. Ouch. But then again lots of languages have been butchered on tv hahaha not just french

Beatrice Beaulieu, Hello World - His accent definitely isn't bad, but when you know a few regional accents and he's not quite hitting the mark, I think it's amusing! I appreciate that you're supportive of people learning a second language, and I agree that Americans trying to attempt most European languages as affectations are hilarious to listen to.