26 October 2012 Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG (born 25 August 1944) is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, a writer, a non-affiliated life peer, and a convicted felon in the United States for fraud.
Victoria looks so uncomfortable and even says how awkward it is at one point. But, after the first row between Ian and his lordship peters out, she's like, "Wait, wasn't there some question about..." Killer instinct for comedy.
The Dalai Lama would never fake something in a speech, but I've seen him talk in person and listened to the Q&A afterward, and I'm sure if there was a way he could ham it up and get a laugh he would, especially if he could get people to laugh at him for something. He told my group (neuroscientists) we should be working on a pill that could make people happy. During Q&A someone pointed out that we've got a wide variety of such pills, mostly illegal. No one laughed more than he did! He clarified that he meant happiness with no negative consequences. He is the Buddha of happiness, and that's his mission.
I don’t imagine there was ever a better example of the difference between Britain and America than this episode. There is no way anything like this could ever air west of the Atlantic Ocean.
Not really simpler times - more like the people were more simpletons and the powerful could get away with anything without anyone being the wiser. Now people are the wiser, but the powerful are still able to get away with anything. It's a step I guess.
@@williamparker1085 People often come to this show to rehabilitate their public image, right? I think he did a great job taking all those hits (well deserved, I'm sure) from Ian and Alexander. Maybe he's horrible, but he's also a good sport. Trump would never have the cool to sit through that. He's VERY easily wound up.
Was there something you know now about Trump that you didn't know then? A moronic, corrupt, amoral, spoiled man-child who craves power and has no self-control, regardless of the law? Ok, let's give him the nuclear codes. The one thing I didn't know then was that the American people would ever take him seriously.
Canadians are not allowed to accept a Peerage. So Conrad renounced his citizenship. However as a convicted felon, he is persona non grata in English social circles so he now resides in Canada. What a sad example of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
Conrad Black is completely off his game here. That's why it is a riot. Conrad has plenty of wit and humour, but it comes out at a cocktail party or an interview with a tv host like Steve Paiken (check youtube. A Canada reference).
