He's a genius. All over a naked spud. He destroys the whole retail marketing with mockery and ridiculte. Never has ranting been so cutting. And that glorious Welsh accent makes it so musical.
Of course, this is comedy, but he's right, why in Earth does everything have to be packaged and repackaged and often repackaged again in layers of plastic, cardboard and styrofoam? For our benefit? Bollocks. You could easily do away with most of it.
It's just more stuff you can charge for. Having packaging means you can involve more companies in the production. A company makes a styrofoam plate for, let's say, a penny. Then sells it to the company that manufactures the product for 2 p. Then they sell the product to retailers, charging one pound for the product and 3 p for the packaging. Then retailers sell the whole thing for two pounds. And, depending on where you live, you might get VAT on each of those stages, bringing up the total to 3 pounds. Then you have to throw all the useless packaging away and you have to pay the government to dispose of it, and because the amount of grabage is artificially inflated the government fucks you up with waste taxes. It's for the benefit of those who work in one of these industries, as they get to have these useless jobs. Except they then have to buy all their essentials from retail, and piss away money on useless packaging. That's consumerism for you.
Andy Merrett because he was using examples from his anger management diary I imagine all the jokes would be the same because all the situations are the same... being pissed at the world for not making sense
Best skit I've seen since the scene in Fawlty Towers where Basil is trying to convey the name of the horse (Dragonfly) to Polly who is in turn trying to tell Sybil.
I've enjoyed Rhod Gilbert for years on radio and TV panel shows but for some reason, I've never looked for his standup stuff until now..... Oh, blimey - I feel a YT binge coming on !
As someone who works a service job, there's something about the soul crushing nature of the work environment that makes you defend it against all logic. It's like subconsciously if you agree that the bullshit foisted on you by the higher-ups is indeed bullshit you think the entire place will collapse around you and you'll be out of a job.
Surprised the shop doesn't sell loose potatoes TBH, but I agree with him :D What a waste of packaging! "Of course people don't like Loose Potatoes, watching 4 potatoes sit around discussing the menopause is only marginally more interesting than the bloody human programme" XD XD
It's kind of funny, I understood the Yorkshire Chipper reference because Looney Tunes had a character named the Shropshire Slasher, who himself is a likely reference to the Yorkshire Ripper
So glad I watched the joke about the tooth brush literaly the video before this one😂😂 This is too funny. Had to pause & go back 10 secs to gain my composure & catch one or two of the lunchlines that I missed from laughing so hard🤣
Tesco Express is the brand name for the smaller Tesco stores located in urban areas, which have a more limited choice of goods available. You can buy loose, unpackaged vegetables at their larger stores. Is what he was trying to say.
This made me think of the amount of physical and verbal energy some comedians expend... then you have someone like John Bishop who hardly breaks a bead of sweat!
Nope. He wanted to get a tat for the first time but wanted something ridiculous and not the same as everyone else...So spur of the moment he asked for a spud...
As a South Welsh man that doesn’t speak Welsh, I sound Welsh but can’t even speak my own language, North Walians speak Welsh and sound fucking Scouse… I love Rhod Gilbert… we are moaning, whinging bastards in Wales. But we just shimf like fuck and moan but just get on with it… Wales should have an Olympic event called “The Moaning Bus Stop” 🚏 because we’d get gold all the time. I left my bike outside the shop, came outside… and there it was… gone!
Sometimes in the shops they do this with some fruit and I think what's the point? The other day I saw a potato on the side I left for a bit and when I came back it had peeled itself and left a suicide note
Alexander Birch . That's suspicious, man. I think that it was probably some other psycho who peeled him and forged the so-called suicide note. It's well known that potatoes are crap at writing. They can't spell either. You should tell the Police, they need all the help they can get.
As funny as it is ... and it is 🙃 - there's a desperate cry for normality/logic in our life behind this act which makes perfect sense. Respect to Gilbert for the courage to shout it out loud. Peace on Earth - Let's Think More 🤟
yea, it would have been great having Crooked in there. Imagine all the black-majority countries she could have invaded and then blamed someone else about.
In my supermarket you can buy 5 bananas loose, and put them in a bag, or buy them prepacked in a plastic bag. The ones in the bag cost twice as much. I have been known to open a bag of prepacked bananas, put them through the self scan, and reunite them with the bag later.Apparently this is wrong.
