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Now visualize the British Lions doing this song, complete with voice and actions in the face of the All Blacks Haka at the beginning of an international rugby match.
@@stevshaboba7476 That's like saying: "the world is roughly sphere shaped, change my mind" How and why would I try to change your mind regarding something only the most stubborn and willfully ignorant would try to argue. For crying out loud. The Dutch are a Germanic people that live in swampland, and use more drugs than anybody else in Europe. I like arguing just as much as the next guy, but give me something I can actually argue.
Omg 😂 Britain literally had the biggest drug use in Europe the Dutch are in 2nd u mug plus of it weren’t for the Dutch we’d be ruled by catholic’s still so don’t be ignorant let willy of orange live on
If you want to insult the Dutch then call them Germans, but be aware that English is a Germanic language too my friend. If you'd watched all of All's vid's then you would've known that 😂👍
Al is hilarious. But some of the comments by people who get triggered by his comedy are even more hilarious. Lighten up people. Keep them coming Al your a legend.
@@RobotronSage 🤣😂🤣😂😂 yeah sure being currently the 4th most powerful nation on the planet. I'm sure they will pee their pans. You Brits truly are funny as fuck. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
"He wasn't his American counterpart who wanted to get the top, fall off and claim compensation" As an American, this made me laugh out loud for once because of how true it is.
As a Kiwi I would absolutely love to see the English Rugby team or British and Irish Lions perform this in reply to the Haka of the All Blacks. Reckon the whole Country would join in... Go the English spider of legend !!!!!!!
I met a couple of pub landlords who were like this and full of information on so many issues or even everything! These days it’s restaurant owners in pubs so it’s great to see this and take me back to my younger years
Pubs, inns, and taverns were gathering places where news was exchanged. Running one would be an education in and of itself, albeit somewhat skewed by local perspectives, to put it politely. After all, "Tales from Bree, not as sure as Shire talk ...", for any Tolkien fans. Still, the publican, the tavern keeper, the innkeeper, they would hear everything that was said by everyone with news who came in, and be asked about news by everyone who came in. There weren't any big screen pay-per-view or strippers, then, savvy?
English always steal other people’s/country’s ideas look at their flag 🏴 was the Knights Templar’s as well as Georgia 🇬🇪 the Scottish spider did a great job 🏴 eventually Scotland took over England no need to waste money James Sixth welcome to Team 🇬🇧 GB
@@solomonkane6442 ...I did it in Mexico. ..a guy had a voice like speedy gonzalez. ...I've done that voice for years so it seemed like a perfect opportunity. ....it wasn't lol.....guy got really angry with me
@@shaunpmarshall are you from the colonies 😂😂 I've done it before to Australian's south Africans etc They weren't happy lol Mind you I was pretty high and drunk at time 😂
As an American i love watching this guy, and the pride he has in his country. I think everyone should have this kind of pride. Also I love the jokes about the "yanks" ya got to admit he's usually spot on
Lol this isn't who he is in real life, he's playing the character of a misogynistic, xenophobic, overly patriotic pub landlord. So this is what you yanks would call a gag character or act, as if you picked up on the nuance you'd notice that in his acts he's subtly poking fun at us aswell as the rest of the world! From what I know he has a history degree from Oxford University in real life and is a very well educated man! I'm obviously not saying that just because people hold different beliefs or values they fit into the category of uneducated, although when one comes across Americans in the comments section, generally speaking, they'll take everything far too literally and will completely miss the nuance of the joke in the process! What I'm saying is that he's obviously portraying somebody who is educated, put putting a spin on his performance and playing with the context of what he's saying specifically, to make himself appear as though he isn't or isn't seriously engaging with it if he is, basically he tries to make it at least partly ambiguous to add to the stereotype! The fact that people might misinterpret the character itself as charismatic and persuasive and full of intellect is part of the joke lol and I'm guessing you've just fallen for it or trying to make us think you have ;)
@@koschmx That's fantastic and yeah maybe it's wrong to stereotype people in that way. I'm simply talking from personal experience, there are a multitude of ways to view comedy and it still works to view him as a goofball British Homer Simpson! Although Homer doesn't really know what he's doing whereas with Al Murray the ambiguity of whether he does or doesn't know what he's saying coupled with that Homer Simpson trait to just say what he's thinking makes his performance even funnier! I don't mean to undervalue comedy because the spirit of it is such that it can be viewed in multiple ways. What I mean really is that occasionally a joke will be taken far too literally (probably why I feel the need to explain the context). For example, I was watching a video with Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington and Gervais was poking fun at Karl because he was talking about the Romans using machines and Ricky's response was in a nutshell that he was talking bollocks. I think an American dude in the comments section started pointing out that the Romans actually did use machines and was going on about how sometimes Ricky's overzealousness gets him in trouble and I'm thinking "you just don't understand the joke" lol the point is that Karl's interpretation of the world is quite childish and naive, for context he really is like our version of Homer Simpson (without the food obsession). Ricky assumes Karl is thinking about modern electrically powered machinery because it's just how simplistic Karl's mindset is and in trying to over explain a faulty nuance this dude completely missed the context of the joke. I've seen American reaction channels where they either won't understand what the British comedian is saying due to the accent or they will miss exaggeration put on for the sake of humour. There was one sketch where Al was taking the mick out of how America sent Marines what he called "water soldiers" to fight in the desert in places like Iraq. And this one guy was like "come on everybody knows that the marines can operate on the land and in the water" and the whole time I'm thinking "it's a joke you aren't meant to take him seriously, his on stage persona is nothing but an act" lol I've also come across Americans who criticize our political system going on about how we lack freedom of speech just because we don't allow speech that incites violence. Or when they undermine our system by saying that because we're socialist it therefor follows somehow that we're all communists when in actuality our system is a mixture of socialism and capitalism. It's shit like that that really irritates me, something said for the sake of comedic effect is fine but it's when we are intentionally misrepresented on a much deeper level that it starts to piss me off! The stupid American stereotype for example only has basis in reality on a very superficial level, as there are stupid people wherever you go. Actually a lot of Americans I've come across in the comments section strike me as pretty well read and quick witted, maybe if I met them I'd change my mind but that's how they come across. I think it only really comes down to some minor cultural differences. I think it's fair to say that despite those differences comedy is comedy wherever you are. The Simpsons, Friends, Everybody Loves Reymond, Two and a Half Men etc all were/are hilarious! We have had shows like Fawlty Towers, On the Buses, Peep Show, One Foot In The Grave and The Inbetweeners also very funny and entertaining (well The Inbetweeners is a bit overrated). The point though is that I made my comment a bit more ambiguous in order to direct it at a particular kind of American not Americans that actually understand comedy and respect our cultural differences that was the intention of saying "maybe you do know better, but you're trying to fool us into thinking you don't" followed by a wink lol speaking as a Brit we tend to poke fun at you if we like you lol
@@koschmx Personally I take the view that no country is exempt from criticism when it comes to the rest of the world. I actually think that we are just as culpable for what happened in the middle east as America and we had the overly imperialistic British Empire long before America became a global superpower so we aren't saints either. I don't really think any country including my own is exempt from blame with regards to conflict. Like I said, misrepresentation tends to irritate me more and yeah Ricky Gervais is pretty hilarious I think it was his 2020 Golden Globes speech he did telling celebrities they had no place moral grandstanding or lecturing the public about anything that I liked. Not heard of Michael Palin, I have heard of Impractical Jokers but not seen it will have to look into what it's about. In terms of American comics I quite like Bill Burr and George Carlin (although Carlin was arguably more of a philosopher than a comedian). In comedians from this side of the pond, Dylan Moran, Billy Connolly, Frankie Boyle and obviously Al Murray are ones I really enjoyed. Dara O'Brien, Russell Howard, Jimmy Carr and Daniel Sloss aren't too bad either.
@@koschmx And cool I'm in my early 30's and tend to prefer the old school comics more or at least comics with that style although I admit there are various styles at anyone time but comedy isn't as good as it used to be.
@@koschmx I actually do separate the people from the government I take things at face value and judge based upon my experience as a lot of flawed human beings do. It's just that for the past few years my experiences interacting with social media have told me both by people who comment extensively on RU-vid videos with any sort of political agenda that what I've mentioned is a recurring theme and narrative. Actually the people who shout the loudest tend to be the people who bother me the most because they're doing everyone else a disservice. I comment on the whole communist thing because it's a recurring theme and I've seen dozens of comments criticising us for that very reason. That doesn't mean that I'm saying all Americans are that way inclined infact I've seen just as many comments on the other side without that view that favour a more socialist way of doing things in their own country, more than anything it concerns me first and foremost because it's a very toxic polarising atmosphere which actually concerns me just as much if not more than people from America simply misrepresenting our way of doing things. I also think it's fascinating that the perception of us is that we're too far to the left in quite a radical way and the perception over here is that America leans too far to the right in an equally radical way. But I think what I said before holds true the difference in cultures leads us to viewing rights and freedom in different ways. It's a faulty assumption if you think I don't separate people from government it just seems like they are very closely linked over there from the perspective of an outsider looking in. I actually do separate those things.
Why not Morris Dancing. Can you imagine the reaction of the All Blacks after the challenged us with the Haka to be struck about the head by a pig's bladder on a stick? They would be running for cover.
There was me thinking this would end up with our rugby team facing their haka with some in-their-faces morris dancing or well dressing. Or maybe rolling some cheese at them? :)
When they do the haka or whatever it's called, instead of looking on all forlorn and intimidated, we should do Gangnam Style dance just to take the piss.
Britain is the dad America ran away from as a teenager, years later makes amends with him and convinces him to retire while writing him back in the family inheritance. This is Britain enjoying his nice long retirement.
If I ever saw an English rugby team do that dance before a game, I'd fall over laughing, but I'd also bet on them to win. That would take hard nuts to do publicly, let alone in a competition.
I don't remember him doing this when I saw him live at The Alexandra Palace Theatre in Birmingham in November 2005 and I'm sure this is from the Same tour 🤔
