Philomena Cunk's Moments of Wonder - Democracy

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  • čas přidán 7. 05. 2015
  • from Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe s03e07 Election Swipe

Komentáře • 171

  • @elokubano
    @elokubano Před 9 lety +371

    ' I bet you're terrible to go on holidays with' 😄

    • @vuongthang1993
      @vuongthang1993 Před rokem +13

      He beat her at her own game lol

    • @travisrooba1445
      @travisrooba1445 Před rokem +2

      How they keep a straight face through all of this is a bigger mystery than who built the pyramids 😂😅

    • @burieddreamer
      @burieddreamer Před rokem +1

      @@travisrooba1445 The Egyptians built the pyramids. The matter is not who, it's how.

  • @MrStoddartable
    @MrStoddartable Před 7 lety +411

    'It's like saying let's vote to leave our house, without knowing where we're going to live next. No one's going to do that.' BREXIT FEELS

    • @ZemplinTemplar
      @ZemplinTemplar Před 7 lety +9

      A haunting prediction. ;-)

    • @bjaogh
      @bjaogh Před 5 lety +7

      I had the exact same thought.

    • @Kindiah
      @Kindiah Před 4 lety +13

      Britain existed long before the EU and can do it again

    • @deathstroyer
      @deathstroyer Před rokem +7

      ​@@Kindiah Well sure, Britain could exist (in theory), but should it?

    • @leofelix4063
      @leofelix4063 Před rokem +3

      @@Kindiah same could be said about monarchy.

  • @steveweinstein3222
    @steveweinstein3222 Před 3 lety +273

    "Just like other Greek inventions, like thick yogurt, sodomy and triangles." Love her!

    • @azaz911c
      @azaz911c Před 2 lety +10

      ...and the punchline is, "democracy has taken the world by storm"

    • @blackreazor
      @blackreazor Před rokem

      I do love Sodomy and triangles

    • @steveweinstein3222
      @steveweinstein3222 Před rokem +6

      @@blackreazor Churchill said the three pillars of the Royal Navy were rum, sodomy and the lash.

    • @Egill2011
      @Egill2011 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Yes, she has told us that Pythagoras was the inventor of the triangle.

    • @steveweinstein3222
      @steveweinstein3222 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@korhanduranozel Criticizing Ms. Cunk for not making sense is like criticizing a dog for pooping on the street. It's what she does.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před 8 lety +294

    cardboard volcano had me in tears for nearly 20 minutes.. that woman is a genius.

    • @pambromley7481
      @pambromley7481 Před rokem +1

      She doesn't actually write it of course.

    • @Egill2011
      @Egill2011 Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@pambromley7481 Of course not. She has the team of educated Science Men behind her. No one presenter can have such profound knowledge and understanding of history, biology, geology and other aspects of science.

  • @chegeny
    @chegeny Před rokem +68

    When Richard Herring interviewed Diane Morgan, she acknowledged how aggro Prof. Robert Hazell became. She was afraid he'd actually punch her.

  • @hubertboisvertboucher2071
    @hubertboisvertboucher2071 Před 9 měsíci +7

    ''You don't have to stand up and be counted, you can sit down and be ignored if you like'' love it !

  • @papanovembermusic
    @papanovembermusic Před 8 lety +194

    Cunk's conversation with Robert Hazel is hugely ironic in the context of Brexit "let's vote to leave our house without knowing where we are going to live next" #brexit

    • @Syphex2k
      @Syphex2k Před 7 lety +2

      I was going to like this, but then noticed it had 48 likes, and thought I'd leave it at that rather apt number.

    • @Hugh7777
      @Hugh7777 Před 7 lety +1

      I suspect that's not a coincidence.

    • @sarcasticstartrek7719
      @sarcasticstartrek7719 Před 6 lety +5

      Charlie Brooker is pretty good at predicting the future... but this was made and filmed before the EU ref was brought up.

    • @Kindiah
      @Kindiah Před 4 lety +2

      Britain existed long before the EU did and it can do it again

    • @youtubecensors5419
      @youtubecensors5419 Před rokem

      Or the "Green New Deal" currently.

  • @giantred
    @giantred Před 7 lety +100

    "These horse monster things are using their wooden head sticks in a primal battle to decide which of them should be in charge."

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar Před 6 lety +117

    She said elsewhere that this guy got so angry they had to stop the interview.

    • @Kindiah
      @Kindiah Před 4 lety +56

      theoldar He would be terrible to go on holiday with, can't take a joke or enjoy life.

    • @wanderingwade8877
      @wanderingwade8877 Před 2 lety +22

      How do they not know this is a spoof? Even if they think it's serious going into it how can you take her seriously? Yikes!

    • @johan8969
      @johan8969 Před rokem

      @@wanderingwade8877 Everyone they interview is told beforehand that its a spoof. "This is a comedic interview, try to keep a straight face as if it is serious". This guy probably just view the english style of democracy as a sacred religion and thought she was a dirty heretic.

    • @taqunuzuqu8938
      @taqunuzuqu8938 Před rokem +7

      Really? He's one of my favourite interviewees so far because he is SO serious and sensible which somehow fits hilariously well with her character 😂

  • @personface5457
    @personface5457 Před 6 lety +106

    How on earth she manages to keep a straight face when she interviews that guy, god only knows. I love her so much!!! 😂

    • @blakeknightandco3828
      @blakeknightandco3828 Před 2 lety +7

      Indeed. And how some of those (including Professor Hazell) she interviewed (as Philomena) managed to keep straight faces also, has me wondering :-)

    • @rlowethewitch8417
      @rlowethewitch8417 Před rokem +5

      Well apparently, Prof. Hazell’s interview was cut short at some point and they had to ask him to be a bit less aggressive. Diane Morgan (Philomena) said in an interview she felt like he wanted to throttle her!
      So yeah, definitely fun to go on holiday with… and most likely end up missing

  • @genesclean1
    @genesclean1 Před 4 lety +30

    "Bet you're terrible to go on holiday with"

  • @philipstevenson5166
    @philipstevenson5166 Před rokem +32

    he got annoyed because it is entirely true about members of a small elite taking turns to be in charge

  • @annunciataparchesi1832
    @annunciataparchesi1832 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Revisiting this in the US, where in less than six months a sizable number of my fellow citizens will vote to end Democracy.

  • @urbangraffitii
    @urbangraffitii Před rokem +12

    Next time I'll be finding out how to get the noise out of plates...🤣🤣🤣

  • @jmobile6918
    @jmobile6918 Před 5 lety +12

    She's brilliant. This is from May 2015. What a spectacular premonition of Brexit at 3mins 51secs (I'm hardly the first to spot this.)

  • @Deutschebahn
    @Deutschebahn Před rokem +43

    He's quite patronising actually. I mean people have voted against democratic policies many times, not sure how as a professor he doesn't realise this

    • @deirdre108
      @deirdre108 Před rokem

      You're right. Hitler was elected by popular vote.

    • @JasmineSurrealVideos
      @JasmineSurrealVideos Před rokem +6

      He's the type of person to be utterly rigid and think his viewpoints are facts, and get really narky if anyone says anything contrary to his tenets. Let's say I have experience of a man like him lol.

    • @CrazyPangolinLady
      @CrazyPangolinLady Před 8 měsíci +1

      He doesn’t know the principles of “yes and”

  • @carruthers97jc
    @carruthers97jc Před 8 lety +27

    Oh she's just so brilliant... 😂

  • @ajarnStef
    @ajarnStef Před rokem +9

    She is so graciously outrageous! And all done with a straight face!

  • @supersueca1
    @supersueca1 Před 5 lety +12

    "Magma Carta" hahahhahahh

  • @blakeknightandco3828
    @blakeknightandco3828 Před 2 lety +16

    Brilliant Philomena. You've done it again! You coerced Prof. Hazell into offering an alternative right there whilst you interviewed him. "Gypsy Democracy!"

  • @ThrowPunches
    @ThrowPunches Před 8 lety +38

    horse monster things xD

    • @R3tr0v1ru5
      @R3tr0v1ru5 Před 7 lety +6

      "... are using their wooden head sticks".

  • @gonufc
    @gonufc Před rokem +20

    Had to look this up as she said that he was the one who got angriesy out of all her interviews. Apparently he had to be held back and asked not to be so aggressive. And not hit her.

    • @gaspardp7314
      @gaspardp7314 Před rokem +14

      He should have voted instead

    • @taqunuzuqu8938
      @taqunuzuqu8938 Před rokem +4

      Seriously??? It was that bad?! Oh my god! Edit did a miraculous job then because I found the bit hilarious!!

    • @freddleton
      @freddleton Před rokem

      @@gaspardp7314 lmao

    • @aivreescend7945
      @aivreescend7945 Před rokem +7

      Yeah even i can detect the aggression behind his wrinkled forehead. Dude's actually pissed 😆

    • @CraftBasti
      @CraftBasti Před rokem

      Where did you look that up?

  • @chesney1995
    @chesney1995 Před 7 lety +26

    "It's like saying: 'Lets vote to leave our house without knowing where we're going to live next.' No one is going to do that" Aaaaaand we've ended up having a referendum doing exactly that one year later.

  • @swupz9959
    @swupz9959 Před 7 lety +11

    This is a national treasure

  • @pambromley7481
    @pambromley7481 Před rokem +1

    'you can choose to sit down and be ignored' - as many do. nice one.

  • @deanchampion6777
    @deanchampion6777 Před 7 lety +18

    Diane Morgan = comic genius

  • @maggiespeaks8555
    @maggiespeaks8555 Před rokem +10

    three words… “Big Ben House”

  • @amsterdamassassin
    @amsterdamassassin Před rokem +3

    "... I bet you're terrible to go on holiday with."
    🤣

  • @gigakoresh
    @gigakoresh Před 2 lety +12

    The guy's comment about not knowing what to replace existing system with is so ironic considering Brits voted out of EU following year

  • @senghenkgoh9549
    @senghenkgoh9549 Před 8 lety +48

    I think they all knew, and were instructed to answer as normally/seriously as possible. So he probably made the decision to be extremely deadpan, and I find it super hilarious!

    • @thatguyfromthatthing8573
      @thatguyfromthatthing8573 Před 8 lety +24

      They don't know it's not a proper interview (she said this on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast), sometimes they get quite aggressive.

    • @LordWoffingshire
      @LordWoffingshire Před 7 lety +29

      The actress who plays philomina said in an interview that they don't know, and the guy from this episode needed to be restrained by the end of it and told to not be so aggressive towards her because the producer thought he was going to punch her cause he looked so annoyed at her questions.

    • @MrKajjaGG
      @MrKajjaGG Před 7 lety +11

      LOL Brilliant to know that guy was legitimately losing it.

    • @giantred
      @giantred Před 7 lety +8

      Not very democratic of him was it?

  • @Foerster44v2
    @Foerster44v2 Před 8 lety +14

    You could call the professor grumpy, but am I the only one who thinks that his way of speaking is kind of similar to Tyrion Lannister (as portrayed by Peter Dinklage)?

  • @ChorltonBrook
    @ChorltonBrook Před 8 lety +24

    3:50 - Mmmmm .... Like the UK's Brexit?

  • @anterix1999
    @anterix1999 Před rokem +1

    Prof. Robert Hazell was brilliant!

  • @Rob_Kates
    @Rob_Kates Před rokem +1

    Deer have "wooden head sticks!"

  • @whowantsabighug
    @whowantsabighug Před 6 lety +8

    Nearly everything she says is so enjoyably quotable.

  • @richards3648
    @richards3648 Před rokem +3

    Those interview questions feel disturbingly prescient in 2022.

  • @rdhunkins
    @rdhunkins Před 4 lety +5

    "Just like other Greek inventions, like thick Yogurt, Sodomy and Triangles..." 🤣😂🤣😂

  • @dawnduskwinter
    @dawnduskwinter Před 6 lety +6

    This guy is great how he gets annoyed....Haaahhhhaaaaa

  • @bigtex4058
    @bigtex4058 Před rokem

    Democracy is the theory that the common folks know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

  • @jackthewilliams
    @jackthewilliams Před 6 lety +16

    4:01 "Lets vote to leave our house, without knowing where we're going to live next" #brexit

    • @Kindiah
      @Kindiah Před 4 lety +1

      Britain existed long before the EU and it can do it again

    • @mchlbk
      @mchlbk Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@KindiahSure. It was an empire back then. Now it's just another tiny country, left in the cold.

  • @sbomorse
    @sbomorse Před 2 lety +3

    This is comedy genius.

  • @andrewbernard8752
    @andrewbernard8752 Před 6 měsíci

    Election day is your chance to do democracy. You don't have to stand up and be counted. You can sit down and be ignored if you like, because that's your democratic right. You can choose not to matter, and that matters if you wanted to. It's up to you.

  • @FCWatford1
    @FCWatford1 Před 9 lety +4

    Did politics at University and only one of my tutors was as grumpy as the UCL dude here - bet he's a harsh marker too!

  • @merdufer
    @merdufer Před 9 lety +18

    Nice jab at Russell Brand towards the end.

    • @LouisOnAir
      @LouisOnAir Před 8 lety

      Now I see it, that was quite brutal

    • @christschinwon
      @christschinwon Před 7 lety

      The only plan Brand ever had was 'Monkey Government' which funnily enough he didn't dare give a breath to in the Paxman interview!

    • @octaviancaesarhibernicus4447
      @octaviancaesarhibernicus4447 Před 6 lety +2

      merdufer he needs more than a jab,he needs his head caved in with a sledgehammer!

    • @guysaltis1668
      @guysaltis1668 Před 6 lety +1

      Can you explain the reference to Russel Brand

    • @Kindiah
      @Kindiah Před 4 lety +2

      Russell Brand is a hack that thinks he's the Messiah. He's nothing more than a troll.

  • @RobMacabre
    @RobMacabre Před 7 měsíci

    Cardboard Volcano 🌋 😂

  • @alex11943
    @alex11943 Před rokem +1

    The real victim here is the plate

  • @Egill2011
    @Egill2011 Před 9 měsíci

    Magma charta rocks!

  • @theksvlogs2512
    @theksvlogs2512 Před 9 měsíci

    We need her back to save the world😂😂😂😂

  • @blackreazor
    @blackreazor Před rokem +1

    Magma carta

  • @iamaweasel
    @iamaweasel Před 7 lety +2

    No he's not, prospectively, terrible to go on holiday with. He'd be a treat. And would have an ale as well. Or even two.

  • @WilhelmFreidrich
    @WilhelmFreidrich Před rokem +1

    That guy is 💯 terrible to go on holidays with.

  • @jabbra1837
    @jabbra1837 Před 7 lety +2

    "Big Ben house"

  • @almishti
    @almishti Před rokem +1

    So on Sundays the country is just a leaderless anarchy? Or does the country blink out of existence one day every week? Does she know there's 7 days in the week?

  • @rogermellie8713
    @rogermellie8713 Před 4 lety +1

    Robert Hazell was really good there/

  • @anitahamel4576
    @anitahamel4576 Před rokem

    This guy was wonderful! His superb logic totally stumped her. Loved it. Great comedy, why have I missed her for so long? Was this done pre or post Brexit? OK J Mobile, I just read your post saying pre Brexit.

  • @MiigsMusic
    @MiigsMusic Před rokem

    04:03 and yet...brexit😂

  • @RavenBlaze
    @RavenBlaze Před 5 lety +3

    Did this predict Brexit?

  • @mshara1
    @mshara1 Před 7 lety +11

    What would happen if we voted to end democracy. *Trump and Brexit*

    • @ThePointlessBox_
      @ThePointlessBox_ Před 5 lety +2

      mshara1 what you mean you can choose what you want to vote for except for the option you don't like

  • @RiverWorksCo
    @RiverWorksCo Před 3 lety +1

    imagine what it would be like if a country had two leaders. Ultimate democracy? Of course there always be someone who wants the power just for him/herself. And who said we're living in democracy? I've never counted votes in my life. I've been told what the result was and I had to accept it regardless.
    .
    .
    The question only sounds silly because we never had alternatives.

    • @TheEvilRayquaza
      @TheEvilRayquaza Před rokem

      2 leaders at the same time sounds like it'd be a sequel - Democracy 2

  • @symmetrie_bruch
    @symmetrie_bruch Před 7 lety +4

    professor of government and constitution and he never heard of sortition? which was kinda what she was asking about. i doubt they´d cut it out since one could riff off that quite nicely

  • @communistwookiee4727
    @communistwookiee4727 Před 2 lety +1

    "Let's vote to leave our house without knowing where we're going to go and live next." So Brexit?

    • @blank4227
      @blank4227 Před 2 lety

      i think they will still live in Britain

  • @Purplefishish
    @Purplefishish Před 8 měsíci

    This is just one of the funniest ones because that guy was even more droll than Cunk 😁😁

  • @KoiKrafts
    @KoiKrafts Před rokem

    What funny is in South Africa we call “traffic light” robots

  • @BarokaiRein
    @BarokaiRein Před rokem +9

    Nobody tell her that Hitler was actually voted in

    • @almishti
      @almishti Před rokem +2

      He wasn't though. He got elected into parliament or whatever germans call it but he became supreme leader by hook and crook. His party never had a majority of votes, they were back burners.

  • @chrism6952
    @chrism6952 Před rokem +2

    she seemed genuinely annoyed with that expert

    • @GOLVEL
      @GOLVEL Před rokem +2

      I read that he was actually so mad that they had to stop.

  • @weareallbornmad410
    @weareallbornmad410 Před rokem +1

    It gave every person in Britain a vote, except half of them, because they didn't have penises. Which if you think about it, makes it a prick democracy.

  • @JasmineSurrealVideos
    @JasmineSurrealVideos Před rokem +1

    This is so weird, but with the recent fiasco with Tory leaders leaving every five minutes, I suggested on video clips of it all with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss that they could take turns being leader and if one Tory doesn't work out put another one in the next week lol. I was serious mind.
    Don't think you could joke about or have a laugh with that Prof dude, he looks proper narky, like the type who hasn't been to the toilet in ages. I have to live with a guy just like him in looks and personality. Please make any donations or words of sympathy payable to Jasmine Surreal. Thanks.

  • @yunsuuu
    @yunsuuu Před rokem

    PMs taking turns without voting for them.... hmm.. 🤔 at the rate we're going we might get one Monday Tues Wed and another Thurs Fri Sat

  • @fruitcake4t
    @fruitcake4t Před 8 lety +17

    do these toffs not realise that they're being punk'd ??

    • @majorkatzmann2240
      @majorkatzmann2240 Před 8 lety +13

      +fruitcake4t Obviously they do. They're probably asked to answer seriously.

    • @symmetrie_bruch
      @symmetrie_bruch Před 7 lety +2

      i tend to agree this professor of government seems to never have heard of sortition which i´d find quite unbelievable if it was real

    • @rhidiandavies1991
      @rhidiandavies1991 Před 7 lety +12

      Taken from another comment: "They don't know it's not a proper interview (she said this on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast), sometimes they get quite aggressive."

    • @Blingo88
      @Blingo88 Před 7 lety +6

      They have clever ways of setting these things up. And they can tell this guy he will be on the BBC because it's true, and that will make him take it seriously for at least a couple of minutes.
      See Da Ali G Show and Brass Eye for even more ridiculous fake interviews.

    • @sarcasticstartrek7719
      @sarcasticstartrek7719 Před 6 lety +2

      Yes. They have a script. All of it is scripted.

  • @moseyburns1614
    @moseyburns1614 Před 6 lety +1

    Cardboard volcano.

  • @Iggymcpig
    @Iggymcpig Před 8 lety +2

    Hello, who are you?

  • @GOLVEL
    @GOLVEL Před rokem

    He's a profesor alright...

  • @007dalal
    @007dalal Před rokem +1

    I think turkey did vote to end democracy

  • @iamSyedHaroon
    @iamSyedHaroon Před rokem

    Belive me that man is genius 👍

  • @CraftedVision
    @CraftedVision Před rokem

    So glad she mentioned sodomy.

  • @neatodude3339
    @neatodude3339 Před rokem +1

    gringotts

  • @dawnduskwinter
    @dawnduskwinter Před 6 lety

    Better than Ali G.

  • @MrRickRenegade
    @MrRickRenegade Před 7 lety

    0 dislikes. good good

  • @mysterycrumble
    @mysterycrumble Před 2 lety +1

    i did that. don't recommend.

  • @luislozano6073
    @luislozano6073 Před 9 měsíci

    "you can choose not to matter, and that matters". Pffff, pfff

  • @moshedayan2810
    @moshedayan2810 Před rokem

    Democracy was invented 😂

  • @Kindiah
    @Kindiah Před 4 lety +3

    Those who think this points to Brexit makes me wonder if those people realize Britain existed before the EU.

    • @waterbottlesrockyou
      @waterbottlesrockyou Před 2 lety +6

      The amount of times you've commented the same thing gives me second hand embarrassment