Can You Name a Book? ANY Book???
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2018
- According to a recent study from the Pew Research Center, almost one in four Americans has not read a book in the past year. So to find out if that is true, we sent a team to the street to ask pedestrians to name a book, and here are the very sad results.
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A moment of silence for the many people who named a book but didn't make it on to this video...
Thank u for saying that
Facts
Obviously, a lot may have named more than one. If nothing else, 'The Bible' at least. But, just the fact that these gentlemen and ladies couldn't even name that really highlights the pathetic education system in a good way.
@@SoudipanMaity in their (potential) defense... when I'm placed on the spot like that sometimes my mind goes blank. As soon as I turned on the video I couldn't recall the name of the book I'm currently reading. I'd like to hope that at least in the librarian's case she couldn't think of an answer for that same reason.
@@amandaburger2506 yeah obviously this can't be possible that they haven't read a single book in their life...
It's just that the situation, the place and the question was so random the human brain gets blank...
I couldn't come up with a book name too cause I was not expecting that
Even if you don't read, I don't see how you couldn't think of any name of a book.
A Dictionary.
Anna Karenina, for example.
Someone could have at least said Mead... That's a book right
The editors cherrypick the embarrassing ones to make the audience feel better.
@@igorjee that makes plenty of sense
The Librarian can definitely name a book. I think people’s minds just go blank when they’re put on the spot.
ya even if she doesn't read there no way she had that job and cant name one
@@diamondly6250 bidens picks cant sY WHAT A WOMEN IS
I can name dozens of books both read or just heard about, but if you put a microphone in my face, don't even ask me my name.
all these people can name books. the bible is a book. as much fun as it is to laugh at people like these, they're clearly just nervous and blanking
she said she was a librarian, but no longer employed as one... do I need to join the dots for you?
Side note: I read 3-15 books a month and blanked when the video played. I spend 1-5 hours a day reading. I'm currently reading three books. I imagine at least the librarian just blanked.
Let me take a wild guess , youre single
@@boltzmannbrain6607 Or just intelligent. Other people play Sports for hours. Doing something a lot doesn't mean nobody wants them
@@-autumnfeelings would depend on what he's reading. If he spends hours a day reading literature from various authors with different backgrounds, I would agree that he's probably an intelligent person. If he spends hours a day reading fanzines of Harry Potter/Star Trek mash ups, I would argue reading isn't helping him much. To be completely honest though, I just feel a compulsive need to argue with any given statement, and it is a problem. Lol. Sorry. Have a nice day!
Nerves!
@@Trentstone121 even if you read various Artist there will be still a difference in just watching words and understanding it (or trying to understand it in fully). I know to many people with alot of books, that actually read them but when it comes to talking about them it won't get over what character does what. Why they doing it or even what these people think the intentions behind making the character doing that is for these readers a mystery. They can't even probably explain why which story is good, they just can say it's good and when an explanation comes it is mostly just saying with extra steps that it is famous.
Incredible how people couldn’t even say like Harry Potter or something
That's what I thought or like Lord of the rings or something
...but like the guy who mentioned the Lion King, would most people have actually _read_ any of the Harry Potter books or just been familiar with movie titles.
I would prefer to say i don't read instead harry potter
Really open-ended questions like that can be surprisingly hard to answer, even more so when you’re on the spot and your failure to immediately answer creates even more stress. There’s a “Billy on the Street” video where the host asks contestants to name a woman, and they couldn’t do it.
They probably did and it was cut
No one said the Bible?
I'm not even religious, but come on people.
Not trying to be pedant but the bible is not a book, is a collection of books. The "chapters" of the bible are actually separate books.
Seems like Harry Potter isn’t a thing for them either
@@jefgir that's like a saying a poetry book isnt a book just a collection of poems. A book is just a bunch of pages bounded together.
yeah
Or the Quran
Haha I remember one time a psychology therapist went to our school to check us kids and when they talked to me to find out if I'm mentally stable to be there they asked me about my favorite subjects. I told them that I love literature. Then they asked me to name some books. They didn't give me any explanations. I was confused because I didn't know if they want me to name something from school program or something I enjoy. I was so anxious and all my classmates were there, which made me even more anxious, so I don't even remember now if I said anything properly. I love reading by the way! So I understand these poor people
🤡
Just say harry potter.
I think thats it for some they want to name a book that is interesting or "important"
na bro you gotta control your anxiety if you can't respond to one question 💀
@@PkmnmasterBP yeah thank you so much for your advise! I was CLEARLY asking for it
I think this has totally been cherry-picked to an extreme degree like they were probably just stressed or freaking out
That's why they do this though. To see how people respond to answering questions they weren't prepared for
You are clearly oblivious to the sheer stupidity within the general American public. Especially in big liberal cities like California and New York. I would suggest you look up nore videos like this, but then that would probably make you lose faith in humanity.
No!!!. It is simple. They don’t read books.
This is how Europeans view all Americans.
papa tingle Many people underestimate Americans smh
@papa: Nice! Greetings from Germany! ;-)
@@nayabsohail6136 Underestimate?
Man you elected Trump as your president
papa tingle and a few Asians.
I mean, that's how Americans present them. But yeah, it's like we expected the intellectuals to pop up
People aren’t this dumb. People just get really nervous when you ask them a super generic question while they are getting recorded by a huge camera and have a microphone on them. They just blanked.
Yeah that even happens to me sometimes- as a bookseller ; ) people come into the store who are interested in something I like- and suddenly I don't remeber the author or title. It's really embarassing. But it still hurt to watch the video
Exactly excellent point dude
You know its scripted...
Some people just don't read, dumb or not dumb. But you do have a point, putting you on the spot makes you go blank, I've read hundreds of books in my life but I can barely name a few of the top of my head
@@sarah-cw3xp Not all Americans are dumb, you just want to stereotype them. You know who was American? Bill Gates.
"Can you name a book? "
Me: starts naming every book from the 1990s
Why do people don’t like reading? Reading is fun, just find the perfect book
In fairness, "The Jungle Book" is a book
Cassie Osbourne yes it is and one of the most popular book
Yes, it's a novel by Rudyard Kipling
Maaz Ali Yeah, I know
Problem is he couldn't definitively say it was a book. 🤦♀️
dude was cracked out he had no idea if it was a book or not
People are proud to say "I don't read books" like it's a good thing..
M Pinchi it is
Turtlelover300 LMAO! I don’t think so... Why don’t people at least use Kindle, that’s ELECTRONIC!
I don't read books, but I do listen to them.
Nicholas Bolton Yeah, that too!
very american
"I was a librarian." I really lol on that one. Classic!
“Can you name a book?”
My big brain answer:
“Oxford dictionary”
Me the bible
good plot, but too many characters.
Cambridge dictionary is better
@@skssis5741which one?
yo Merriam-webster solos any dictionary
This is how the rest of the world views Americans. I'm just being honest.
True
Yeeehaw America sucks, i should move to Iceland
Diego Meringer Or Canada maybe?
Go ByulSun perhaps
But America isn’t a stupid county as they say. Trump is the stupid one. Even though America is in a rough time, we are still a great country :)
All Harry Potter fans are screaming at the computer
There is me: THE FUUUUUUUGGGGGG
Even non Harry Potter fans should get it sksksk
Rūta YES ME !!!!!!!
I don’t know if it’s true but in school we were told that Harry Potter is banned is USA because of witchcraft
@@itsjusteden760 only in some school districts not the whole country
I read a lot, I'd be scrambled to select just one out of the hundreds I've perused
I read, not above the average but at least a book every 2 months. When I was being interviewed to enter the university to study Anthropology, they asked me this and i answered like the first girl just without the "i don't read books" part. I froze out of being nervous.
krlh meno se eh o brabo ne
Me in my head: Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter. Just waiting for someone to say Harry Podar
Lol same
harry potter harry potter harry potter OOOOOOOOH harry potter harry potter harry potter OOOH thats me! snape harry snape harry snape harry snape harry snape harry snape harry snape harry snape harry--- DUMBLEDOOOOOOOR!!! heeeeermione! sorry i love harry potter puppet pals 😂
OMG ME TOO! IM RE-READING ALL OF THEM
Me too!
The hunger games
this is THE SADDEST video I’ve seen recently
this is the saddest video I've seen period
america things,nothing special lol
These videos are heavily edited for maximum humor. The punchline that people don't read anymore wouldn't work unless they feature those people who either really don't read or who freeze up in front of the camera so much that they can't give any decent response. They probably got dozens of answers from people who could "name a book", but that wouldn't have fit their premise.
It's not actually a commentary on illiteracy in modern America. They're just having a laugh.
There are no words! Even video editing doesn't excuse the fact that some people can't name a solitary book.
People know they'll only be featured if they respond with something dumb, so they go along with it. That's all there is to it, it's not an interesting phenomenon.
Herman Melville si laughing from the beyond
''I am totally blanking out on books''
''What do you do for a living ?''
''i was a librarian''
Thank you .. and now we all know why it's WAS !
They 100 percent just cut out the people who don't panic
Yeah that’s what I was thinking, like a lot of people don’t panic and could say something simple, like Harry Potter.
I mean yeah, but thats the whole point of this segment
it's scripted
@@wetsocks7483 no it isn't, it's edited.
Well yes because it wouldn’t be funny if they just showed the 99.9% of people who said a book title
and when the camera turned off 5 book titles came in their minds
Yupppp, happens all the time 😂😂
Exactly
反正那一秒钟就是死都想不起来😂这个问题就在于几十亿本书到底该说哪一本，真的超容易把人问懵😂
Me in every exam
@@danielx4731 这种奇葩问题，完全没有上下文被人问，确实很懵，都不知道对方什么意思。
If someone said "Shrek", they'd be correct, actually. Shrek is an actual book.
To be fair, “The Jungle Book” was a book by Rudyard Kipling. From my memory, the characters’ personalities were sort of different from the Disney movies. For example, Hathi the elephant didn’t act like a military colonel, and rarely spoke.
But that guy not knowing that it was a book was concerning.
And there’s a whole series about mongoose hero fighting against a tyrannical Cobra King if I remember correctly
Why did no one say Harry Potter,most people know who that is.
tons of people probably did say that, they just didn't put anyone who had an answer in the video
Omg I thought that too!
That's a character, not the (complete) name of a book. Aren't they all Harry Potter and the this and that.
Don't have to got that far. The Bible...
I was thinking the same idk but i think these are staged
I thought 90 percent of them would say HARRY POTTER
Same
@@ahmadnaeim756 i thought about russian classic)
Ik right!!!
Or maybe the lightning thief
Just checked and Harry Potter came out in 2001 so probably more millennials read the book than people born before
@@itchystick3907 or the da vinci code
That's pretty popular too
1:22 he’s correct though, the jungle book is actually a book that the movie is based on, which they could’ve easily googled. yet they’re pretending he’s the stupid one
I want to be asked this just so I can name every classic book since the 1800's
"I was a librarian. Now I'm unemployed."
We can see why.
She's proof that it's just nerves. There is no conceivable way that a person who handles books all day, gets asked about books, sorts and stacks books wouldn't be able to name at least ONE book. These videos don't prove anything. Readership is down, but these videos are not a good metric
😂😂
Won't Use Real Name yeah she probably doesn’t know she’s on CZcams, maybe then she would’ve racked up her brain to remember.
I think that was her joke. that from that moment on she is unemployed
I don't know whether I should laugh or should be sad😂😆
Harry Potter was the first came through my mind..
Yup same
same but no idea why 🤣 never even read it
The Kapital, karl marx..
Mine was A song of ice and fire
Seriously
This is how I felt every time I had to do mental arithmetic in elementary school. Mind went completely blank. I DO read a lot but being asked spontaneously on the streets, probably no title would have come up. And I have 70 titles in my e-reader collection of "current favorite books"! 🙃
I like how they all just smile and laughs when they don’t know
Okay, but I was expecting everyone to say Harry Potter...
I wasn't because if they did it wouldn't have shown up on the video.
why is this me tho
But it wouldn't be entertaining that way
@@aaishanaz5627 nice joke
@@aaishanaz5627 ha ha hello alien! how are you?
It’s funny because they probably went through hundreds of people to find these people.
Agreed
yeah, i feel like Kimmell tries so hard with these to make americans look so dumb, when in reality they probably paid these people to act so they could get video views or just had to cut out the hundreds of average people who can name one book.
its still embarassing that you can still find people like these.
@@Dennis-1367 Most of them are probably paid actors. Especially the librarian.
@@alexvarella6276 If is really that unbelievable that people are this stupid? Or is that your bias?
The Giving Tree. I believe that it's the first book I ever read of my own choice (at the age of 7 maybe) so beautiful, so deep, so sad, so brilliant...
The fact that these people agreed to be on TV makes me think it's not real. (In the USA, you typically cannot be put on television without your consent.)
"I was a librarian, now I'm unemployed"
Sounds about right after seeing this.
@RIPapa hahaha
Can't believe that she was librerian. Even if she never open to read one, must remember one of the titles. Idiot. And that's not insult. Name of the book. GOOD ONE.
@@valerycro3853 you're the idiot for not knowing very basic psychological phenomenons
@@Kushufy really? Where you read that?She never reads. Period.
@@valerycro3853 there's this thing called stress, i think you learn about it in preschool
How does a former librarian not remember any title of any book? Well I guess it shows why she's no longer one...
I know like she was surrounded by books every day 🤣🤣
Well when I get put on the spot I draw a blank sometimes.
@Joe Rose
Same. When I suddenly get out on the spot, I freak out and say gibberish
Axe Swinger 69 yeah and you know you’re going to be on TV. Plus If you’re perspective enough you will notice she says “I’m drawing a blank..” and then it cuts. She most likely mentions the name of a book there, and then they ask what she does for a living. It literally just took her a few seconds to come up with a book.
she WAS a librarian, maybe they fired her because she can´t read 😂😂
I'm sure a lot of them were just nervous from being put on the spot but still funny! lol
" I can't name a book."
"What do you for a living?"
" I was a librarian."
😆🤣😆🤣
Tbf the guy that said The Jungle Book was right it is a book by Rudyard Kipling
Yes I was thinking that!
He probably didn't know
The Jungle Books are actually my favorite book!
The lion king guy was right also
Jimmy Kimmel doesn't know that.
They should've cut into between the videos to show that one guy who couldn't stop naming books
That guy passed away 15 years ago.
Me
@@aylbdrmadison1051 i didn't know that i died at age 2
That guy would have been me
I am 71 years old, read 3 magazines, 3 newspapers and ca.10 books a week.
Learned to read 5 1/2 years old.
When I was 17, I could read much more, but old age creeps up on me, unfortunately...
The librarian killed me!
🤣🤣
Remember they are only showing the ones that couldn't come up with one....
“I don’t read books.”
A life without books is such a foreign concept to me that I can’t even picture what that would be like.
Honestly Same
Same
Same
True!
Same
Fun Fact - your mind goes blank when some random guy or someone else ask you a question even though you know the answer
I had the same kind of experience some time ago, when I went to see the city christmas tree with my kid, and suddenly there was a TV camera and a reporter asking me:"So what does the first advent of christmas mean to YOU?" We just got there and we hadn't even seen the tree properly yet. I'm not religious and I didn't know what to say about the first advent, so I improvised and said:"It means peace and a time being with my family. A peaceful time." Since I was at peace and with my family. It turned out to be the right answer for the TV crew as we were shown in the evening news. And it was also straight from the heart.
Finally an actual fun fact that isn’t some nonsense
Yes I expierienced something similar
true but its not like they didnt get enough time and its also not like the presentator was pushing them
You sure it’s not just they have a blank mind. “I don’t read books” should be pretty embarrassing for someone to flat out admit. It’s like saying “hi I’m a dumbass, and I’m fine with that”
I think he meant to say only 1 in 4 Americans have read a book, not haven't
I love books. Watching this makes me wanna read more. Books can change your life.
"I haven't read a book for 12 years". That's insanely idiotic.
what that symbol represents is kinda idiotic too
? what symbol. If you mean the pfp and you don't understand memes then yes.
@@KRiddytoo yh i meant the pfp, sry. i do like some good quality dank memes once in a while but i guess i dont know that one. unless u meant the anthem of the ussr, that is a classic
@@zebma884 Yeah, USSR anthem/just general USSR is a meme.
Reading doesn't make you automatically smarter, and not-reading doesn't mean you're stupid. Some people don't learn well from reading they learn from demonstration or lecture or whatever.
We'll get our coats...
Penguin Books UK or perhaps jackets would be more appropriate??
Oh gosh I love Penguin Books!
Dead 😂😂😭
DONT GUYS I SERIOUSLY DEPEND ON YOU FOR SPME OF MY FAVS
HHAHAAHAHA
Not even the Bible... 🤣
They cut out so many people 🤣
None of these people said Harry Potter...
it's fake, how could you not realize.
I know! Any Harry Potter book was where my mind first directed itself.
HOW DARE THEY
that’s what I was gonna say!!
therealme ;-;
Wow, how embarassing
yeah the librarian was especially embarrassing.
Agree
Man, this is so painful to watch.
Americans look like they live inside a stupidity forcefield, only caring about themselves and their social media, ignoring about the rest of the real world, but ironically claiming to know it all.
Sphinx Weasley I live in a America and I could of listed multiple books
Lmao, your comment has too many layers of stupidity, proving my point.
Funny that i can speak better english than you.
"Name your favourite book"
*"A MACBOOK"*
What’s amazing to me: 99% of commenters have the Harry Potter books as THE ONLY BOOKS THEY EVEN KNOW OF! Blatant ripoffs of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis which I could barely get through - the first HP book, as a favor to a 6 year old I loved
At least I'm happy that these dimwits didn't say "facebook"
HAHAHAHHAHA
@Winters well pretty much
@Winters hater
🤣
This had me cracking up 😂😂😂😂😂
"I'm surrounded by idiots." - Scar
Wait who is Scar sorry
Also for that one person who watches Hermitcraft, I'm confused with you
@@colonelbossman4571 Scar from Lion King
He was so much better in the book. The movie just totally butchered his character.
@Jerz_Beefy So does Scar
I am your 1000th like
I hope they edited the crap out of this. I'm hoping they interviewed 1000 people to find these few.
I bet they interviewed dozens of people who COULD name books, but they didn't make it on to the show.
Cameraman: "Can you name a book?"
Me: "Yes."
*walks off*
Cameraman: ohhhkkkk... I got it... *Gone with the wind*
Could you please tell me your name?
Me:yes
Oh sorry we only look for the dumb ones
Twenty øne piløts!!!
@@beorn4625 Mhm |-/ ||-//
i love twenty one pilots
Wow this really is a new low
I Write A Song A Day Not really. It's to be expected
I Write A Song A Day They’re just nervous because they’re put on the spot in front of a camera. They also understand that this is a comedy segment that aims to poke fun at people who don’t ever read books, so they subconsciously conform to the role that’s expected of them by the audience. Or maybe they consciously do so because they realise they won’t be on TV if they name a book.
Get off your high horse.
I Write A Song A Day as if no one knows Harry potter is based on a movie
I was expecting everyone to say Harry Potter but knowing Americans they probably don't know that the movies were based off books.
I Write A Song A Day
No it's not the US reached the lowest by electing trump
Why did they laught at the Lion King? That was a book before it was a movie.
The Lion King guy may have been thinking of the Mowgli books, which The Jungle Book was based on.
As a fellow bookworm, this is KILLING me.
Seriously Schleich me too man you’re not alone (I’m also a huge Harry Potter fan)
I feel you
Same same SAME😭😭
Same here dude same here
Yessss me too, like haven't you heard of lord of the flies, the book thief, literally ANYTHING?
Plus, I wanted to know if anybody in the comment section reads ya? I'd like some recommendations thanks.
„The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can’t read.“ - Mark Twain
Thanks for that quote. I've read a few of Samuel Clemens' books, including the amazingly boring Life on the Mississippi
"Full belly is little worth, where the mind is starved"
~Mark Twain(Prince and the Pauper)
@@Arkeshan In reality, I don't agree, despite being a big big fan of Mark Twain's wonderful wit and wisdom. I am NOT
religious, but there is an expression in Hebrew that can be translated as: "without bread, there is no bible" (meaning, we must be able to survive and eat or there is no point in having a bible)
@@zvipatent "An unexamined life is not worth living."
@@walterm.robertsiiiphd2157 I generally agree and it's a wonderful saying. I imagine there are people somewhere whose lives are full of hunting & gathering food and other survival issues, that there is little time for introspection, but that is probably rare these days. Peace and justice Mr. III.
As soon as I saw the title, I immediately thought "Under the Oak Tree" but then I was ashamed to not know the authors name...
this is so funny to me because the jungle book IS A BOOK
“Can you name a book? Any book?”
Me, **pulling out a list** : I’m glad you asked
Book lovers wait for this moment
That is me
Murielle Azzi
Me too sis
Oh what's was your last favourite book you read I'm curious?
(needmorebookstoaddtomytbr)
Hey Annabeth
No one said harry potter?? No one????
Lisa Kan I was screaming Harry Potter in my head
lolo Ahahah me too!!
IKR
Thats what i was Going to write on the comment😂
SAME IT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY HEAD
I have been without TV for about 28 years. When I tell people I read, usually read every day, most seem quite perplexed at such an activity.
As a bookworm.... This is disheartening. This is why I gave up my dream of becoming a librarian.
Interviewer: can you name a book?
Me, panicking on the inside because I’m obsessed with books and have too many titles in mind: Just one?!
Hahaha feel you
Ya
I can relate
I can absolutely relate 😄
Name a book
looks like all of these people are Jared, 19
This is underrated.
and they never learned how to read
And they never fuc***g learned how to read
*ah yes i can see you are a person of culture as well*
Evelyn Saunders 😂😂
the lion king, the jungle book... they actually can be found as a book, not only a movie. nothing to shame here
Seriously they can't even name one SINGLE BOOK?
THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS OUT THERE:
Kafka on the shore
Crime and Punishment
Love in the time of cholera
HARRY POTTER
RUSTY AND THE LEOPARD
THE NIGHT TRAIN AT DEOLI
SAPIENS
Mein kampf
DAVID COPPERFIELD
HAMLET
AND MANY MORE
Me a reader
Reads the title and instantly forgets every book I ever read
Same! Took me about a minute
Same man i couldn't even remember the one I'm currently reading 😱
@@sakshisuryawanshi648 ooo what you reading
@@baggyobeast sameee
Me: Comes up with the classic Harry Potter in 0.0003 seconds
They probably cut out all the ones where people actually said a book
@Melkhiordarkblade ya but it is Hollywood blvd
@Melkhiordarkblade they could be paid actors
@Melkhiordarkblade It's called blanking out. Look it up
I hope so because this looks horrible
Murska117 ngl Americans are pretty uneducated tho.
Well, The Jungle Book is a book that was written by Rudyard Kipling in 1894.
Those people look like they've never seen a book in their entire lifetime
Me sitting here, watching this, mentally yelling names of books at the screen.
Queen Victoria haha same
I thought of like 50 titles just looking at the title of this video
Hogwarts Demigod same smh
I thought if the 20 books I have read in the past year, just think of movies and you’ll come to a book
SAME
didnt anyone have to read in high school ??
shadydreamers thats what i thought
They were probably just nervous
that's the only books i know lmao
Most are books we’re told to read, not ones we want to. It’s not all that surprising to me if people forgot the names of those books, especially when you graduated high school years ago
shadydreamers meeeeee
Still in high school
I’ve actually recently reread several of my favorite books, including “Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman”.
Willful illiteracy is so disturbing.
This hurts my bookworm heart
Naphisa it’s honestly kind of scary. I’m a writer and I’m just like, “Oh, well that’s good.” 🤦🏻♀️
Same
Same
Same
Scary hey.
When I was in school, my teacher randomly asked me to name an actor. I blanked. Obviously I have seen actors. This is an example of "putting people on the spot."
Even so, surely you could think of a book you actually have on your own bookshelf - unless you don't have any. Besides, most of these people admitted they don't read books.
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It's such an unexpected and strange challenge. I think I would have struggled a bit though I am always in the process of reading one or more books and I have thousands of books.
@@kerensabirch5214 I've read quite a few books.. But without looking over at my bookshelf I'm struggling to remember the names of each individual book.
I remember the name of the book series I've read, but drawing a blank on most of the individual books.
@RandalfTheBlack Even so, and I know people can be put on the spot and almost go blank - but if someone does read regularly, they should at least know the name of the current book they are reading, whatever it is. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Hunger Games, The Help, The Lorax, y'know whatever it is current.
Obviously, Kimmel found people who already admit they don't read books making that question even harder for them. It is still pretty scary. I'm sure they talked to people who could name books, but I wonder how many they asked and what the ratio was. Was it 10 to 1? 10 knew a book and 1 didn't so they asked like 50 people and had 5 who didn't know? I'm a lil' worried to know the answer.
There's absolutely no way that these are real people.
I often wonder if it is just that people are camera shy. I really don't buy that a librarian doesn't know the name of any books when not under pressure
This is either fake or Thanos has the right idea.
I think Thanos had the right idea 😂😂
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At this point i think Thanos has the right idea lol 😂
i bet for a lot of people they could name a book but it's like when someone asks what your favourite movie is and you forget all movies ever made so you can't name one
Yep, and they only showed those who didn't know a book, we don't know how many people actually did know books
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They didn't ask them about their favourite book. *THEY ASKED THEM TO NAME ANY BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF BOOKS*
Actually I can name a lot of movies right now, like, 40 of them.
As for books, i've just read The disaster artist.
Chief Bill I know so many jokes you would probably need years to count to that number, but every time someone has asked me "Tell me a joke, any joke" I would always draw a blank, but if they asked me for a specific type I would be able to tell like 3 on the spot. Sometimes when you're pressured on the spot your mind just goes blank. It's perfectly normal and happens all the time. Also the broader the specter the worse it actually is.
Rea Keebz I'd never forget my fav book or movie lol
When you do a google image search on a screenshot and find out half of the people interviewed are paid actors.
Sad, because American Literature is actually amazing
This was so sad to watch, I can’t imagine my life without books
I can. I work 12 hour shifts. On my off time, between taking care of my relatives, to taking care of personal matters, exercise, chores, etc, I do not have time to read. Or rather, I prefer not to read in the little off time that I have. I go outside, I exercise, or I nap. The last books I genuinely read were for my nursing career.
@@meylinhernandez461 dude ....I wanna know more about you lol
I'm looking for a website, an app or something where I can talk to people about books and know their opinions about it and also their recommendations (btw I havent read alot of books)
You should try watching the episode called enough time at last from the twilight zone
@@suvilevi9211 you should contact your local library, they can help you with an app or an online book club.
So much to be found at the library.
I read Moby Dick's book Horse it really touched me in a way no book has.
Do you want to show us on the doll where the book touched you ???? :-)
@@D70Dug superb comedy, my friend.
john would be proud XD
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They should've gone the extra mile and filmed this in front of a book store. Wonder how many of these people wouldn't realize it.
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