Who's interviewing who?! Richard Ayoade speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy 

Cambridge graduate, he knows the game!

He had a big, terrible, digging interview with Michael Jackson, as well

ahhahahaahahhaahahah EXACTLY We wait Third guest and we can smile againn :)))))

@@mjselvig No he didn't, that was Martin Bashir. Did you see a brown man with a british accent and assume it was the same person? You know there were two people in this video, right, not just one guy talking to himself?

@Bigtombowski No, I'm ginger so I'm probably one of the whitest people you'll ever meet. Seriously, the sunburn is awful. But I know Martin Bashir and Krishnan Guru-Murthy are different people. I can tell two bespectacled asian men apart. Can't you?

Viking and original humans.. Kinda makes sense

Ha so true

katy k very good!

Richard Ayoade proves that colour has absolutely nothing (or very little) to do with nationality. For example: After WWII, Britain, still very much an empire with many dominions, invited her overseas subjects to come to the motherland to live, work and play. Just so happened that the majority who arrived, were of a different skin colour but, as the British whites found out, were very, very British. British manners and way of life were instilled in the overseas dominions by the original colonists. The same manners and way of life, then permeated through those overseas societies, generation after generation. I believe that, for some, the shock of discovering that these newly arrived people (whom they thought would be 'foreign') were as British as a pot of tea and cucumber sandwiches at 1500hrs, was too much. Those shocked native whites then thought they were being replaced, (much the same as the recent Tiki torch marchers in America, chanting: "You will not replace us."). It was that sentiment that then caused the violence and rioting of the 50's. It's just my theory.

Nigerians are the most english ppl

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Deserves more

​@@ahyaan2552 because most people can appreciate a good comment and don't have this compulsion to reply for the sake of replying.

@vibovitold You and I will get there someday

He says "Don't fatten me up".

Well KGM looks pretty much as a checkers guy, with his nervous laugh and mannerisms

Lol, I am stealing this 🤣

No, it's more like they both started with turds instead of chess pieces.

this was a chess match but ayoade replaced the pawns with flashbangs

And he sent them all the way to the end of the board and turned them into Empresses!

www.channel4.com/news/by/krishnan-guru-murthy/blogs/10-richard-ayoade-interview

@@susanneyuk-pingpong8705 Sounds like the interviewer is making excuses for why the interview went terribly lol, he knew that was a disaster

@@NGameReviews They're totally on the same page, Richard knows he's obligated to ask a few "serious questions" because of broadcasting rules and just rolls with it.

More like 27

TheNil

Literally 👍🏼👍🏼

he should become part of the Avengers....the real Avengers lol

@@ViceKnIghtTA he is too powerful. He's a walking win everything button.

He's working for SHIELD as part of the IT Crowd

I don't think anyone needs to avenge Mr. Tarantino.

you do realise Krishnan set it up with "do see yourself as a role model for British Norwegians" - he's not an idiot, he's self-aware

@@fryliver4953 Sorry to point this out, but, you're not saying what you think you're saying.

facts

@@khogetzu8429 Ayoade-level comeback. Respect.

Guru Murphy could not of made that interview any more uncomfortable. Why couldn't he of asked about Richard Ayoade's films and why he wanted to write that book. The subject of film. Maybe his career something engaging. Not a politically loaded question about race. No wonder Quentin Tarantino got mad. No wonder.

Oh Jesus, Richard is hardly one to interview seriously, he is a comedian of sorts!Krisna tends to do real serious interviews where they are re needed!What can this self centred Cambridge educated contribute to anything in terms of world politics? he is not a politician, just a comic!

@@gerryburntwood9617 serious interviews like winding up Tarantino and Robert Downey Jr

@@gerryburntwood9617 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-acHugKhLIec.html

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@@gerryburntwood9617 he did tho

@Mass Debater He likes to trap people he interviews

@Mass Debater look at his interviews with Robert Downy jr and Quentin Tarintino

has he changed? has he stopped being so mean? I kind of hope so

@David Shaw He mentioned Tarantino because he's trying the same thing with him, he's there to promote his book.

Why? Because he asked some celebrities some tough questions? Come on. You heard him here - he's doing his job. Complying with the stupid broadcasting rules in your country.

Lol my favorite part of this video

He's biracial you know

Ed Berg I think u find that is 1/8 privilege then

"Where are you?" This is the best line I've heard in an interview. Absolutely brilliant reply.

@I'm Batman ehh not everyone that it mixed or black is a product of slave-rape... or even having any connection to slavery what so ever.

I appreciate the fact that you correctly used 'folds' not 'chords'. From this level of pedantic accuracy we can rebuild a great empire.

@@johndavey8683 hahahaha

@@johndavey8683 Hahaha idk why but I love your comment

JFC. “Underrated” does not mean “good.” No one has rated the comebacks in this conversation for that one to be at the bottom.

I thought his best line was "it's a long medical form"

I loved that too. A standout moment.

What does parry mean please?

@@yinkadavies8403 "Dismiss, repel, turn down something" Dark souls player here

Yinka Davies fencing term. (With swords not posts and rails) 👍🏼

If you want to know what "parry" means, search "daigo moment 37"

@@ghostbanana271 Legendary moment in video game history.

I also loved him being quite serious when he said: "Don't thank me. I've done nothing for you." 👌😂

I unexpectedly snorted a laugh when he said it.

Parry this you fucking casual

Bam Leith FT10?

And he did. Every question or point, he said something very witty before Murthy even finished his question/statement.

Truth

The “effortless-ness” Is what amazes me. Totally unfazed by the personal and inappropriate questions.

Except we're all here watching it, so he just made it profitable for a different reason

@@manmoth4 Yeah. It probably helped Richard sell more books!

@@manmoth4 But to be serious for a second, "Unprofitable in terms of information." Has nothing to do with making money. It means he didn't get the answers, i.e. information, he was looking for. It's word-play. Not a single question asked was given a legitimate answer. Every answer given was, "Unprofitable in terms of information." But now that I'm thinking about it you're absolutely right, it was 'Profitable' just not how the producers envisioned it. Which is exactly what you said lol.

Except for the fact that it was completely staged and was meant to be a joke interview

​@@LeoGodbeeI've seen that said a few times, I'd love to know for sure. Have any of them said it was set up?

I like this comment..I like it a lot 😊

Ha ha I never win shower arguments :(

Ugh the DREAM

😂😂😂

I agree, and please commend your parents for me on their exceptional name choice.

It means he quoted the video

Directly after that subject of his race came into focus. Richard came prepared.

"I'm going to ask myself a very personal question."

The interviewer should have taken that as a warning sign, asked one serious question, and when it got parried either changed the course of the questions or terminated the interview. Instead he ended up being made to look a fool

What do you mean get nowhere? Get nowhere as a subject?

They would incriminate themselves

Imo he would tell them everything to get out of trouble including snitching on any accomplices. I've been around a while and I don't think you can trust him like that.

They'll never get a confession out of him for nicking those Grand Designs DVDs!

- "Your name is Maurice Moss, is it not?" -"It is not"

Ha ha ha

I"d argue that he never walked on. Richard was a no-show for the interview, which was even better. He handed the dude expertly because he had a plan going in.

I don't understand why this interviewer is still working as an interviewer... I'm sure he has other strengths to work behind the scenes in a show maybe? He doesn't have a good track record on building rapport with interviewees at all.

@@RageDaug Dude, that sounded like something Moss would say. At least, that's how I heard it in my head.

@@DennisMoore664 I love Moss =)

I thought it was tits

Laughing my f-ing teeth out?

T for Tushy?

@@sainiranjan9432 Or tuchus.

Genius

www.channel4.com/news/by/krishnan-guru-murthy/blogs/10-richard-ayoade-interview

100% i'm livid

Channel 4 interviewers are so bad lol

Its because of broadcasting rules lol

So what you're saying is Ayoade is a prepper. ;)

Glad to see I'm not the only one who appreciated that line

What does that mean?

@P RK you should stick a time stamp on that

@@monicastofan9213 I mean it's a 4 minute video, it's not the LOTR trilogy, just watch it.

@@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261 😂😂😂

Asif Khan it was so funny

only, if you have missed the rest of the best lines, Asif

I am a Norwegian and I can confirm this. We don't do anything legislative until Richard's given us the all clear.

I prefer the "Which I will parry." Lol

1:09 "... serious," one of your parents was black and the other white, I heard: Richard looks momentarily angry and sad, was hoping for something more serious from this world

Just made it to 2020!

Maybe it is possible to be 2000 years old then

I'm living in 2021

Really? Have you seen The IT Crowd?

Not his tv show. You guys sound stupid

It's almost like he was being frivolous

@@markbaker5599 I'm sure he was but I hope it was intentional, contradicting himself in the same sentence as a comment on how meaningless interview dialogues are, playing into his overall argument that it's a cynical advertisement

@@brendanbrady1000 he probably was, but I dont entirely agree with your assessment that its cynical. I think everybody understands that people give interviews only when they have a product to plug. It might be cynical, but it is consensual.

He wasn't saying 'there should be' as in he WANTS there to be, but rather he is surprised they aren't everywhere given their high birth rate yet stagnant population size

It's the sort of frivolity one gives when you really don't respect the question, and I love it

Spot on

I didn't understand this. Why can't he promote it?

@@vylantv1783 because of broadcasting rules

@@vylantv1783 The UK has strict broadcasting rules regarding advertising and promotion unlike the US where just about everything you see on TV is, in some way or another, a form of advertising a product. They aren't allowed to outright promote the book by saying things like "this book is amazing, everyone should buy it" but they are allowed to simply talk about the book itself and talk to the author of the book.

I read that in his voice

Killer.

It's interesting how he was far more composed and on point with tarantino. With ayode he seems completely confused. No idea what to do. I don't know if that shows the difference in intellect between the British and americabs, or if ayode is just that brilliant. Utterly fascinating though.

Roar Blast He got a taste of his own medicine. Ayoade flips the frame on him and is utterly ruthless about it. Ayoade seemed to know the guy too. I think Tarantino didn't and was just caught by surprise. But the gut reaction he gave was the correct one. That interviewer is a closet asshole: seems to just be interested but passively-agressively denigrades his guests. Afterwards he pretends he didn't know what happened. I think he did: which makes him an unbelievable dick. IF he really didn't know what went on, then he is an idiot and has no EQ skills whatever. Whatever the case may be, Ayoade absolutely knew what was going on. As if he looked at the whole situation from a higher dimension. Untouchable. Great television indeed, I agree.

Cinqmil nice analysis. Out of curiousity, where are you from?

You could not be more wrong. The only one who got massacred here is you. This was a delight to watch. Many people here seem to be too immature to understand what's going on. Krishnan Guru-Murthy was NOT 'owned' or any such thing. If anything, Ayoade appreciated and admired at virtually all times what Guru-Murthy was attempting to do, and Guru-Murthy appreciated Ayoade's wit and intellectual depth. The interviewer was simply trying to engage Ayoade in a meaningful conversation vs adopting the self-promotional nature of most other interviews. In fact, Ayoade here expresses admiration for Guru-Murthy in how he approached the Tarantino interview, in addition to the obvious point he was making regarding the marketing-centricity of modern-day celebrity interviews. Tarantino was most incensed by the fact that he couldn't promote what he had come to promote during the interview - that catches Ayoade's attention and derision. This interview was like watching two top-seeded tennis players keep up a very rapid rally for over four minutes. Brilliant stuff and from the way it ended, they both left with plenty of mutual respect.

Maybe that's why he was confused when he was asked if he goes there as a subject.

Another good descriptor could be impotent

I'm offended that that comment hasn't harvested more thumbs

😂😂😭😂

*irresistible..?

average?

Yeah 10 is a +0.

Ok DnD bros.... he has 30 in charisma and intelligence. Happy now?

kotor 1

he has negative charisma

I feel like I’m on crazy pills. They were both clearly in on the joke.

@@DSQueenie Look at krishnas previous interviews as well as Richard ayoades previous interviews. .. This was no fake interview.

Awesome comment.

@@boshvasara1868 Both were cringe like when Ayoade said "Don't thank me I have done nothing for you" lol....We used to say such sentences when we were 15....If anything it's cringe and not funny

@@honestpanda4933 I'm sorry what? He ment for the interview. I think you might be observing every sentence a little to much.

Will I don't think he was rapier, that "give me something in return" line was pretty rapey

You should watch the IT Crowd. He is amazing in it. But the one from British one. Not the American version.

Yes, it's already been said, but is worth saying again. Go watch The IT Crowd!

@@morfiusx I hear ya' XD I'll give it a go guys lols!!

Can we get an update? Did you watch IT Crowd? How did it go? 😂

Eric Blair We here in Norway look to him to marshall policy

I'll go get the formaldehyde

Treasure**

S E N D H I M T H E TREE

I, for one, think he must be stopped.

😂😂😂😂

Ahhhhh 🤣🤣😂😂😂

Well said. Hopefully the interviewer’s employers cut out the cancer soon.

Please don't disrespect vampires bro they're cool 😅

😄

Richard. Richard happened lol

Nothing happened. There was no hostility. Both of them were having a laugh.

Stuart Summers how do you know?

@@ross8330 because I know Richard's style and the interviewer confirmed it afterwards.

@@ross8330 I think there is no way you can interpret this other than a big joke ....i mean they go for serious to joking all throughout

Nope, he just doesn't play the victim or want to be defined by his skin colour. See Morgan Freeman, it's just maturity, intelligence.

Sonny Etchell Richard isn't human. He's something else that we can't quite define yet as we aren't advanced enough

Lol, he's a super polite smart person but make no mistake, just a person like many others

Intelligence doesnt necessarily equal wit

Sonny Etchell HE IS.

Add to that an abundance of charm and humility and a complete absence of hostility or ego. I’m in awe. I’m so envious of his mind!

Its not hard to Bamboozle a journalist

You described exactly what I was thinking.

@@geoffok ok, I’ll give you the ego, but there’s an undeniable charm to self-deprecating ego. Aoyade has it down pat.

@@geoffok then you don't know Richard. He abhors interviews to begin with, let alone race baiting ones like this guy.

Grant Kerr Some interviews are done to promote a product, so Tarantino's reaction was correct.

Grant Kerr There might be some misunderstanding here: if a network asks/accepts to interview Tarantino and they agree that the purpose of the interview is to promote his new film, the network should stick to the agreement. Tarantino can't read minds and foresee a dishonest behavior on their part. His disappointment is understandable, especially because the interviewer insists in digressing.

Grant Kerr 🖕

Grant Kerr Entiltled for being honest?

@@vaderetro264 You're making an assumption there which is not true. Channel 4 news wouldn't agree that the purpose of the interview from their side is to promote anything. You've missed the point of what they touch on in the video above, the interviewee is there to promote something, the interviewer from a news show is there to ask the interviewee questions which are somehow relevant to current affairs. They would both generally discuss and agree question areas before the interview which would obviously extend beyond who their favorite character in a movie is. It's a news show, not TMZ.

Keke Kimagi set his stall out right there

He said serious

Would've been better if the DM made him roll for it.

Especially that odious specimen interviewing him there.

barkerpoo b

Then he's dealt with it well so far

The poor race baiter laughed even as he was being insulted. They all need to be handled this way bc everything about them is a joke.

wait where's the full interview? bcz it sounded like ayoade was being sarcastic and rude first in this clip. I wanna see the whole thing. What did guru say before this clip to annoy ayoade?

@@cephalonrolli5678 it seemed more to me like they were messing around, the whole thing was really about richard promoting his book but the interviewer first states that he has to ask something serious then asks richard something that has very little meaning in terms of news whatsoever. It’s almost like a skit.

But he was acting weird from the beginning. He knew exactly what was going to happen so why did he turned up?

Yes, but he also made himself look bad. Having a bad interviewer doesn't mean that you should be a bad interviewee.

"But thanks for your time / Then you can thank me for mine / And af-ter that's said / Forget it", the great Sixto Rodriguez said it well too.

Most British way to insult someone ever. Beautiful

😂...He handles it masterfully though, well done Cambridge education system.

If you take anything in that interview seriously then you're a proper fool.

I mean, he does literally start the interview by saying that broadcasting regulations mean it can't just be an advert for the book, so he has to ask him some serious questions not related to it. Which he then did.

He was offended by the race question

this guy ALWAYS goes off topic it pisses me off .

Y r u gey

No I’m Gretchen

It would make more sense to ask how, but thats just a matter of biology XD.

The way I read it was just him saying "You don't seem interested in playing the race card, even though you could". I feel like it was a reasonable comment.

@@returnoftheredeye its literally a mean girls quote

indeed lol, I haven't seen any other interviews on RU-vid with him thus far....RDJ, QT, and RA are the only ones, after that he was never heard of again. lol

Literally the first question Ayoade makes him look like an absolute pudding

Oh I wish. This guy's career should have been ended a long fucking time ago. Unfortunately, his incompetent interviewing generates outrage, which in turn generates views, which generate money. And money is, unfortunately, all the network cares about.

Someone in the background: “What career?”

Big fan of Ayoade, but Guru-Murthy is a well-respected news journalist in the UK and has been for decades (he's not a celebrity interviewer by trade). I'd wager he's more famous here than Ayoade. The notion that Ayoade would be able to (or even want to!) dismantle Guru-Murthy's career sounds a bit silly from over here. Just because he doesn't normally do Hollywood interviews, doesn't mean his career has been ruined...

yeah there's a difference between discussing your experience with race (something that's understandable in the right context) and being forced to talk about it every single time you do an interview. that seems like the opposite of progress and integration 🤷🏽‍♀️

Pretty sure Richard spotted that question a mile away, and thought to himself “how can I politely insult this man for asking me that, and move the interview along?” Didn’t work, but I got a good laugh.

You are missing the point. Being that this is CH4 he was hoping to use that as a way of holding Richard up whilst denegrating society, not the other way around. Richard didn't want that, and wasn't prepared to used as a pawn.

@@threestepssideways1202 you are affirming what I said. I didn’t miss it, I just didn’t attribute a motive to Richard for not wanting to answer that question.

@@nathanielkidd2840 I was talking to the OP, not you.

HOLY RUSTED METAL BATMAN

Jon & Alycia that's numberwang!

@@oz_jones thank you for your comment

Brilliant lol

If Woody Allen were dead I'd say Richard Ayoade was his reincarnation, but in a good way.

LOL, that was brilliant. I'm sure Krishnan was glad to see the back of him. He was owned! :-D

Pointless! why did he accept the interview ?

What a fantastic non interview. He managed to promote his book even though Krishnan was attempting to push him in other ways to conform to the rules.

That was a good one, the only witty thing he said

***** I see you breathe Oxygen, how fucking dare you?

***** I've had it with your tabloid journalism.

I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions.

***** *Punch*

***** I want to up vote this more than once. There are no stupid questions, only stupid people. So what does that say about Guru-Murthy? :D

GreaterBayArea Hero Nah a violin actually takes effort, he’s just playing Krishnan like the cheap kazoo he is

😄 Lol that’s a perfect description of what he was doing!

He admitted it wasn't his intention to mock him. He was just trying to be funny.

Maybe it's just my hearing, but I think Richard was playing him more like a kazoo.

@@elisabethschmerzler963 That's hilarious. Love it.

@Mart kenyon : Haha "weird" for the best LOL hahahahaha so excellent hehehehehehe

It’s still an interview. Don’t fret over extensive punctuation.

Basically, Channel Four News is very, very, painfully woke. I think Krishnu was attempting to lead Richard into an embarrassingly basic ‘my fight with my roots’ narrative spin, but Richard is a highly intelligent and successful gentleman who doesn’t need anybody’s sympathy or understanding about his ‘struggle’, so he shut him down.

@@Lumibear. No he wasn't attempting to lead Richard into anything. They both openly addressed how it was a sham interview and that Krishnan is forced by law to ask serious questions, whilst Richard is just attempting to sell a book.

@@DarkNog yeah no, nobody is here by any law, other people doing this job can manage to let a man promote a book without trying to win an award.

Ill bring the cake ;)

No one asked, but if Master Ayoade is there, I would like to show up as well.

Uuuuuuuuu hells yes.

I would cry for love 😍.. tardis not working anymore! Have you tried turning it on and off again?

Good shout

It’s been touted even before Capaldi.

Great idea

Ayoade also just hates interviews in general.

Yep, he didn't get it at all.

@Here to comment/watch weird stuff Controversy against himself? Sure

Needs a ladder

moths can fly!! its spiders that are notorious for getting stuck in baths, moths get stuck in webs, that spiders make, probably in the baths because that's where they're stuck. now i see.

really?? just no..

well, the moth could use a ladder.

Dyvens or wing

this feels very much like they both know exactly what's going on here. frankly it's hilarious

@Marianne Havisham he was, u old bat

@Marianne Havisham he was

he wasn't shut down at all. he played along to a great degree. He's not a "bully", he's a critical journalist on a public broadcaster used primarily to interviewing serious politicians- what did you wan't him to do with RDJ and Tarantino, wax lyrical about how they where gods on earth like some sycophantic Good Morning bootlicker? The real problem here is that the C4 execs thought it was appropriate to get him to interview an egotistical movie star and an ASD director (no one can argue that Tarantino doesn't exude Aspergers from his pores- and I say that as someone with it) on serious news program like this? it's just a desperate grasp for ratings.