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Only some? Haha

His "camp walking" competitions during exams were great.

I think it's surprising not more went with him as well (on his shows for example).

I think more comedians and panelists were more surprised about his life in academia than former students and educators would be surprised about his career in comedy.

@@Prakriti2041q

Yes indeed. We see comedy as a shared privilege, not an individual competition. We celebrate each other. Very different to the dynamics of the American comedy scene.

@@dannyboyle603I mean, not necessarily. Comedians do tours with each other or perform at the same venue together all the time, there’s just not very many shows like this in the US. Most popular game shows are hosted by a comedian or actor but the contestants are average people. Celebrity jeopardy, celebrity wheel of fortune, or something like the masked singer would probably be the closest idea to something like this you could find.

It really makes the banter between them feel more genuine, even though its still definitely manufactured lol

​@bengoodwin465 the recent "whose Line is it, anyway?", with Drew Carey, was such a show

​@@bengoodwin465 whose line is it anyway is probably the best, but the british just got so fucking many, and you can tell they all love shitting on and being shit on by other comedians, sure there are exceptions but the british are best with insults, not that they have the best, but that it's more part of their culture that if you can't take a joke you are a fucking bitch and nobody wants you around

“Is everyone here?”

that was perfect

He literally stole someone else’s joke 5 seconds after it was told real genius … the expectation of minority’s should be raised not dropped !!!

he said that like he was Mr Gilbert

Can't tell whether you're joking or have genuinely never heard of "Man Down".

@@decodolly1535i think the probability of a person watching Greg Davis on wilty and not knowing of his show is pretty low

@@fez0062 I mean, post-covid I think Taskmaster is as likely an introduction to giant Rik Mayall

​@@the.Aruarian 'Giant Rik Mayall' 😆

Lots of Americans are watching british panel shows nowadays on youtube and don't see a lot of regular british tv comedies@@fez0062. So like, I am American but have been watching this show for a really long time and know about the show, as well as the In Betweeners, but havent seen any Man Down epoisodes, just a few clips around when Rik Mayall passed. A good amount of Gen X Americnas know Rik Mayall because MTV used to play the Young Ones sometime in the very early 90's, but how many of that group would know about Man Down I don't know. And other than Drop Dead Fred millenials and Zoomers by and large don't really know that much about Rik Mayall. TaskMaster, Would I Lie to you, and 8 out of ten cats does countdown are gaining a decent American following. (Actually Graham norton clips get a lot of traction as well) RU-vid is helping a lot. But a lot of cultural references just get missed.

I mean, you've seen the man

​@@cheyannei5983 That's a lot of arm distance though

He's careful to protect those who are still teaching (per a story he told on Graham Norton)

Plus the overwhelming amount of details.

He gave so many good details for the catapult story too though, and they one was false!

Right? With a lie and a true story back-to-back, it gets pretty obvious when he's telling the truth

Me too! Your comment is the reason I know now.

It’s cause trebuchet’s use counterweights whereas catapults don’t, but it is really weird that a different word isn’t used (in the UK) for the handheld catapult vs the gigantic ones used to invade towns 😂

Likewise, up till now I didn't know Americans called catapults slingshots. For me, a slingshot is the thing David used to kill Goliath. Funny how language changes.

Why did you think they'd brought in a trebuchet if they said catapult?

@@Shcroft2 because a miniature trebuchet is funnier

lol because they know the children fear getting beaten for lying more?

@@zachmoyer1849 No, just beacuse they think we'd know if someone is missing. It's used more for older student groupes. It doesn't always work...

Yeah, a catapult can be a handheld device, or it can be a type of giant trebuchet used to invade medieval villages! 😄 🤣

@@SkepticalTeacher it makes sense, both use tension where a trebuchet uses a counterweight.

@Pagliacci_Rex exactly! I see you are a fellow medieval siege weapons geek!! Go to Laressingle in France, they have big replicas there that you can actually fire, the guy explains how to do it. You get to dress up as well, best holiday outing ever!!

oh my goodness that makes a lot more sense. I just assumed it was a miniature medieval catapult he had confiscated XD

@@kaitlyn2612 if I was a teacher I wouldn't even be mad, just impressed.

And, going off of some of his teaching stories, a giant loss to education

A giant loss in the most literal sense

gold, love it

Head of Languages?!

For me it was theft and Shrubbery, but this one has been ingrained in my brain as I randomly pronounce vegetables the way Greg did. WEGTABLUH

Thank you, I’m glad someone has said it!

Greg's already done serials where he plays a teacher. Look up Inbetweeners and Man Down. There's a joke about his acting "range".

Romesh Ranganathan must join in too

I’d be a bigamist😂 adorable gigantic flirty magnificent phwaoar 😆hehe

Don’t forget, he peed in Liz Kendall’s* bed, which I imagine went quite a way toward their eventual breakup. 😂 *Had a Freudian slip and first typed Liz Truss-I think I just fantasize about pissing in that c*nt’s bed.

He's barely Welsh. He was born in Wales but grew up in Shropshire.

@@thatchoirgirl94 "...barely" Welsh? Perhaps, we should just start to ignore someone's birthplace, then - whether the person in question cares or not...?

​@@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036Cliff Richard was born in India..

I didn't know he was Welsh due to the lack of sheep jokes thrown his way.

@@vermilion1752 Yes, I know. And? Deflecting much?

You were not gemüsed?

I think you are confusing austrians with the swiss

Unwanted overanalysis of a joke, how German of you.

It annoys me too, he'd forgotten that other languages exist. He wasn't the English teacher. Not that I'd like the joke better that way anyway.

Probably the same reason as the previous story: guessing that there were truths wrapped around a lie.

The man is Austrian

It's not a German cultural trait to be "on time", it's a stereotype. I've lived in Germany and the majority of people are late, just like anywhere else in the world

​@@Cheltastiqueas I understand it, German trains are notoriously unpunctual. Is that right?

He meant a school teacher colleague at the time, not a present colleague.

What are "thigs"?

And you're so thick you don't understand that the throne is a joke as part of the slight character he is playing on ' Taskmaster '. The whole point is HE is the unreasonable, arrogant taskmaster, that's not who he is all the time.

The Taskmaster is a character. So is his assistant, Little Alex Horne.

Don't be fooled, Alex runs the whole thing, he just uses Greg as the fall guy