Philomena Cunk "Moments of Wonder" on Democracy

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  • @richardcassidy8163
    @richardcassidy8163 Před 2 lety +598

    You’ve got to admit, Prof. Robert Hazell is the first person to properly handle Philomena Cunk.

    • @smartman94
      @smartman94 Před 2 lety +5

      You got it!

    • @adamiotime
      @adamiotime Před rokem +6

      Exactly my thought!

    • @johncox2284
      @johncox2284 Před rokem +54

      He's the first person she has interviewed who didn't just go blue screen in response.

    • @RobMacKendrick
      @RobMacKendrick Před rokem +60

      As a middle school teacher, I suspect he was at one point one of us.

    • @BarginsGalore
      @BarginsGalore Před rokem +7

      Him and the philosophy expert

  • @josearagaojr.3016
    @josearagaojr.3016 Před 3 lety +573

    "I bet you are terrible to go on a holiday with. "
    I lost it.

    • @RobMacKendrick
      @RobMacKendrick Před rokem +11

      And to be completely frank, she's no worse than most of these kinds of interviewers we see on television.

    • @chintazulkanain5694
      @chintazulkanain5694 Před rokem +2

      This!!! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @hello-mynameis
      @hello-mynameis Před rokem +4

      thank you :) I paused the video to comment on this, and was happy to find I was not alone :)

    • @joeyokpako8990
      @joeyokpako8990 Před rokem +4

      It's the look of exasperation on her face for me. 😂😂😂😂

  • @HamNite-uk4ck
    @HamNite-uk4ck Před rokem +113

    Funny how, as a college professor, you can tell this isn't his first profoundly stupid question rodeo.

  • @JayKayDanks
    @JayKayDanks Před 2 lety +212

    This is the most hostile interview so far lmao

  • @ivan987100
    @ivan987100 Před rokem +107

    "Democracy was invented..probably after a vote" that's profound..

  • @gormauslander
    @gormauslander Před rokem +235

    "You don't have to stand up and be counted. You can sit down and be ignored. Because that's your democratic right. You can choose not to matter"
    That's so powerful

    • @paulsolon6229
      @paulsolon6229 Před rokem +3

      Correct
      Your indecision is final

    • @paulsolon6229
      @paulsolon6229 Před rokem

      You can take no part, that’s your rt.
      Your indecision is final

  • @MatheusSantos-ms9mt
    @MatheusSantos-ms9mt Před rokem +153

    "We aren't going to vote to leave our house , without knowing where we going to live next" it appears the British politicians missed that part

    • @phildman132
      @phildman132 Před rokem +5

      Hey we knew exactly where we were going to go. We definitely weren't like a 5 year old declaring they are running away after being told "no" and then just sitting at the end of the garden in the cold with no idea what to do next.

    • @GunControlHelpsCriminals
      @GunControlHelpsCriminals Před 9 měsíci +1

      Surely a better analogy for the EU is moving into a three bedroom shared house, and the one who signed the lease has since invited 20 more people to live there, some in your room, has tripled the electricity bill, filled the garden with tent dwelling gypsies, and now tries to tell everyone what meals they can cook, how and how much and how often.
      Personally, that sounds like a situation worth leaving. With or without a plan.

    • @Elvisism
      @Elvisism Před 7 měsíci

      ahahahah

    • @Elvisism
      @Elvisism Před 7 měsíci

      Wouldn't call the EU 'home' though

  • @johncox2284
    @johncox2284 Před rokem +138

    "Magma Carta is Latin for Cardboard Volcano". I laughed till me glasses fogged up!

  • @Ana-rb7ws
    @Ana-rb7ws Před 9 měsíci +7

    “Hello, who are you?” Never gets old. 😂

  • @ericw2480
    @ericw2480 Před 2 lety +254

    "These... horse-monster things"
    and
    ""According to Google translate, Magma Carta is Latin for cardboard volcano"
    She is my new favorite comedian. Perfect delivery lol

  • @robkunkel8833
    @robkunkel8833 Před rokem +61

    “thick yogurt, sodomy and triangles” 1:29 (Other Greek inventions that are comparable to democracy) Good stuff to remember for impressing new potential in-laws.

  • @steveschwartzman7131
    @steveschwartzman7131 Před rokem +66

    "You can choose not to matter, and that matters if you want it to" is both the funniest thing I've heard in ages, and the most Smiths-sounding lyric not actually used by The Smiths

  • @geronimo8159
    @geronimo8159 Před rokem +39

    "and will probably have to find work as another animal" 🤣

  • @sandythompson1002
    @sandythompson1002 Před 5 lety +236

    "It's like saying let's vote to leave our house without knowing where we're going to live next."
    Or saying let's leave the EU without the faintest clue of how we'll do it.
    No one's going to do that...
    Oh wait.

  • @karinbarger9192
    @karinbarger9192 Před 5 lety +61

    This should have been a public service ad on tv and elsewhere before all elections: "...or you can choose to sit down and not matter".

  • @isbestlizard
    @isbestlizard Před 3 lety +37

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

    • @karabinjr
      @karabinjr Před rokem +1

      thanks I couldn't hear that

  • @xanasantos1
    @xanasantos1 Před 5 lety +71

    Magma carta ... help : ))))

  • @justinokraski3796
    @justinokraski3796 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Apparently this was the one interviewee that they didn’t get along too well with behind the scenes

  • @Black-Rose12
    @Black-Rose12 Před 8 měsíci +3

    "Horse monster things with wooden head sticks sticks" "Other will have to li\eave and find other kind of animal" OMG shes just sooo unexplainable I LOVE IT

  • @mingledspringle
    @mingledspringle Před rokem +15

    holy shit i've not seen anyone tackle her as well as this robert fella that was actually really fun to watch

  • @snowyfolfskyroo2739
    @snowyfolfskyroo2739 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Something I noticed is the fact that the "Next time on moments of wonder" have nothing to do with the next episode. I love that.

  • @calumsanderson6741
    @calumsanderson6741 Před rokem +16

    My favourite thing about the UK is it has a very specific kind of senior in its citizenry that don't exist in any other country who is just inteminably grumpy and lacks a sense of humour. That expert was one of many of those humourless, grumpy old farts. One thing the British definitely DID invent: curmudgeons.

    • @phildman132
      @phildman132 Před rokem +3

      After experience living abroad, nope thos kinds of people DEFINITELY exist everywhere, but they don't tend to get shown off much for international audiences to notice, for obvious reasons!

  • @nickcalingo3309
    @nickcalingo3309 Před rokem +7

    She finally met her match!! She got schooled by that guy! 🤣

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Před 2 měsíci

      However the United States did exactly what he found unfathomable. We rejected a centuries old government without any real government system designed to take it's place. Our provisional committee existed only to complain about the old colonial order and to sign the Declaration of Independence. It had no real structure or authority to actually run a nation. So 4 years after the war was over with victory for the rebels...that confederation committee imploded and was replaced by a think tank appointed mostly by themselves creating a Federated Union Republic.

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Před 2 měsíci

      That then proceeded to elect the members of the think tank as a government.

  • @Mitch6697
    @Mitch6697 Před rokem +8

    this is the most tense interview i ave seen yet

  • @celestehopes3621
    @celestehopes3621 Před rokem +17

    "Greek yogurt, sodomy, and triangles"

  • @noisenik
    @noisenik Před rokem +14

    ... brilliantly performed by Diane Abbot, as ever

  • @blessedheavyelements8544

    This foreshadows BREXIT presciently...

  • @lesmortimers4791
    @lesmortimers4791 Před 11 měsíci +10

    Slightly mispronuncing words has become my favorite genre of comedy

  • @Mondomeyer
    @Mondomeyer Před 11 měsíci +2

    "...a vote that would be points without something called Democracy."
    We Americans, are already way ahead of ya.

  • @Ana_826
    @Ana_826 Před rokem +3

    "You can choose not to matter"

  • @demetriusdemarcusbartholom8063
    @demetriusdemarcusbartholom8063 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Love from Bangladesh!

  • @Peace-tk3gr
    @Peace-tk3gr Před 9 měsíci

    The 'simple process of cutting his head off' 🤣

  • @seiyuokamihimura5082
    @seiyuokamihimura5082 Před 9 měsíci

    Best description of a deer ever!

  • @mikeharrison1868
    @mikeharrison1868 Před 2 lety +3

    Lovely!

  • @idiomasentusiasticos7954
    @idiomasentusiasticos7954 Před 5 měsíci +1

    “According to Google translate” I found my thesis statement. We’re going to Harvard with this one.

  • @michastrzelczyk7224
    @michastrzelczyk7224 Před rokem +2

    love it

  • @UncleJoeMusic
    @UncleJoeMusic Před rokem +2

    I guess we'll never know about the water in the taps.

  • @KasumiRINA
    @KasumiRINA Před 3 lety +15

    MAGMA CARTON.

  • @paulsolon6229
    @paulsolon6229 Před rokem +1

    Clever
    Also educational

  • @hello-mynameis
    @hello-mynameis Před rokem

    brilliant :)

  • @ok1989fish
    @ok1989fish Před 7 měsíci

    She is a comedy genius!!!

  • @Raz.C
    @Raz.C Před rokem +9

    Here's a thought...
    Scandinavian societies were both feudal AND democratic. Following the Norse raids and invasions of Britain, a LOT of people, particularly those living in the Danelaw area would have been used to a more democratic form of feudalism than the Angles/ Saxons/ Jutes that made up the rest of Britain. 200 years later, the Norman invasion might have reinforced these ideals. 200 years after that (well, 150 ish years later), the Cardboard Volcano happened. Maybe this Magma Carta [sic] was a result of generations of Britons being told about how their forefathers had a say in how things were run, but 'nowadays' the king has the only say...

    • @johncox2284
      @johncox2284 Před rokem

      I definitely need to dust off my history books and refresh my knowledge of the Cardboard Volcano and what brought it about.

    • @Raz.C
      @Raz.C Před rokem +2

      @@johncox2284
      Don't take any of the above as gospel. It's almost entirely supposition, based on very little history. Well, Scandinavian societies really were democratic and feudalistic, the Magna Carta was real, so too was the Great Heathen Army...
      The bit about the possible motivation for the Magna Carta, THAT part is entirely supposition. I was just thinking that maybe the participatory nature of Scandinavian societies might have influenced the absolute monarchy practiced in Britain. But it's a bit far-fetched, since there were 150 years between the Norman conquest and Runnymede and even then, the Normans living in Normandy at that time were 150 years distant from Rollo 'founding' the Duchy of Normandy. So there's 300 years between Rollo and King John, thus it's very unlikely that those at Runnymede remembered, or had any family that remembered what it was like to have a democratic society.

  • @draffyduck1
    @draffyduck1 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Prof.Robert Hazell’s analogy of leaving your house without knowing where you are going describes Brexit in one short sentence.

    • @Kwodlibet
      @Kwodlibet Před 4 měsíci

      A bit of a nitpick here, please mind that I am not a British Citizen, nor am I voicing any opinion about Brexit itself.
      - The UK existed for quite a long time and managed quite well before being part of the EU. The analogy of "Leaving the house" doesn't match this context.

  • @Cybermat47
    @Cybermat47 Před rokem +7

    The expert is so disappointed lmao

  • @the_hidden_library
    @the_hidden_library Před rokem

    I just want to know if the interviewees are in on it.

  • @Archontasil
    @Archontasil Před 11 měsíci +2

    "Take a vote to end democracy" didn't that happened in ancient Rome?

  • @dufus7396
    @dufus7396 Před rokem +5

    And now we have Charles the turd

  • @bobob4477
    @bobob4477 Před 7 dny

    Yeah, it'd be stupid to vote to leave somewhere and not know what you're going to do after the vote... Who would do that?

  • @zohzie
    @zohzie Před 10 měsíci +1

    I used the stones to destroy the stones

  • @007dalal
    @007dalal Před rokem +2

    U can vote put Democracy
    Turkey did

  • @deegx7916
    @deegx7916 Před 6 lety +5

    1:46 Egham yay!

  • @ryanreedgibson
    @ryanreedgibson Před 9 měsíci

    Or better yet, let's vote to leave the EU. Oh, that's right, we did!

  • @askthepizzaguy
    @askthepizzaguy Před 2 měsíci +1

    AND THEN BREXIT HAPPENED. "Let's leave the EU." What are we going to replace it with? *shrug* Oooo look things didn't turn out so well, who could have foreseen that.

  • @Anonymous-kt9ym
    @Anonymous-kt9ym Před rokem

    I've been to big Ben house

  • @classicaldeb
    @classicaldeb Před 11 měsíci +2

    Wooden head sticks!😂

  • @dufus7396
    @dufus7396 Před rokem +1

    When govt becomes so dysfuntional dosent matter if you end it with out replacement

  • @nineteenfortyeight6762
    @nineteenfortyeight6762 Před 5 měsíci

    He's terrifying.

  • @strategystuff5080
    @strategystuff5080 Před rokem +1

    4:11 oof Brexit

  • @Floedekage
    @Floedekage Před měsícem

    I feel like that professor Robert Hazell haven't followed the news in the last decade.
    Thinking that people are sensible is but a myth nowadays.

  • @conman_raddish
    @conman_raddish Před rokem

    That professor needs to voice act for fromsoft

  • @billiessphincter4104
    @billiessphincter4104 Před rokem +1

    Horsemonster things

  • @pocketsand76
    @pocketsand76 Před rokem +6

    That guy was definitely a Redditor.

  • @ShadeChasing
    @ShadeChasing Před 11 měsíci

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  • @stevedoggart2805
    @stevedoggart2805 Před rokem +1

    Other Greek inventions like thick yoghurt, sodomy & triangles.

  • @bigtex4058
    @bigtex4058 Před rokem +3

    The Magma Carta was not as hot as the name would suggest. It was mainly about protecting the nobles from buttheads like King John. It failed.

  • @TurtleFalcon
    @TurtleFalcon Před rokem +4

    Yet this is the Republican platform in the USA

  • @psgbibi27
    @psgbibi27 Před rokem

    sodomy & triangles

  • @berhen7360
    @berhen7360 Před 4 lety +3

    I bet you're terrible to go on Hollyday with 😂😂😂😂

  • @RUDI-UK
    @RUDI-UK Před 6 lety +4

    Diane Morgan has ripped everything off Chris Morris. She owes him her career.

    • @youweechube
      @youweechube Před 6 lety +29

      nope

    • @SohCahToa_enthusiast16
      @SohCahToa_enthusiast16 Před 2 lety +8

      You cant own JOKES

    • @WillScarlet1991
      @WillScarlet1991 Před rokem +10

      @@SohCahToa_enthusiast16 You can if you were the first to come up with it. But no-one owns satire (which is what this is).

    • @NoddyTron
      @NoddyTron Před rokem +2

      Written by Charlie Brooker amongst others who used to work with Chris Morris in the 90s and 2000s, so i'd say it's more of a melting pot.

  • @jamesrowsell9346
    @jamesrowsell9346 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I mean, you voted to leave the eu without a plan sooooooo