Stereotypes -- funny because they are true | Katerina Vrana | TEDxThessaloniki
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- Stand-up comedian Katerina Vrana talks about stereotypes and makes us all believe that the reason that they are funny is that they are true. This 16 minutes performance has everything; from humor, inconvenient truths and family secrets, to the actress's plan for global domination. One thing is for sure: it will make you laugh wholeheartedly.
Katerina Vrana was born and raised in Greece. She went to study in the UK and stayed there. As an actress, she has appeared in TV series in Greece, stage productions in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as in short films in both Greece and the UK. As the well-known London arts magazine, Time Out, once reported "Katerina Vrana sparkles" on stage.
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Why isn't the audience laughing more?! She's hilarious!
Julia Caroline I feel like it's me up there, though I'm not Greek, live in England or have big hair.
Julia Caroline It's funny if your Greek or English, the rest don't completely understand.
+MsDanceDiva234
...this was shot in Thessaloniki, Greece. Which means the majority of the audience was Greeks (along with Brittish/Americans/English speaking ones anyway that have already been exposed to "English culture").
+MsDanceDiva234 norwegian here, i was laughing my arse off xD i had to pause at 8:00 to catch my breath
Danielita Bahia it's American audience
"I am too fair to be Greek! When Achilles is being played by BRAD FREAKING PITT" hahahahha Greeks are so lively and hilarious :)
really? british are not so lively and shouting? i thought all countries were like this... well except maybe the super disciplined japan... -_-
no they aren't - she has taken on the British sense of humour - it's not Greek to laugh at oneself nor is it normal to be a stand up comedian. Greeks really do not have much of a sense of humour beyond slapstick (Benny Hill type)
@@jsidiropoulou I would strongly disagree actually and it saddens me cause your greek yourself.
I hope you are not one of those people who think anyone but their country are perfect.
Love your culture guys
@@jsidiropoulou That sounds like you're hanging around the wrong people.
@@alexman378 You're not 'proper Greek' if you think Greeks laugh at thenselves. My post was. 2 yrs ago and I still stand by it. 32 years in Greece
"I was so livid that... I was tempted to complain." Wow!
that part about the "British" rain got me dying of laughter xD
Lika Maigova "I'm the hue grant of moisture" 😂
wouldn't that be 'Hugh' ?
8:04 "because he's dead" ...just like the silence of the audience?
I wanted to hug her.
Dee Elmore that j4 joke sucked... he's dead... its sad... not fckin funny and i dont get it...
She was in Greece. But ya, they were pretty dead
Comedy is objective. Some people may find things funny that others do not. Everyone has different senses of humor. You might not have that sense of humor
Subjective.
Eh. I believe its objective. Not saying it's good to laugh at bad things but people do. That's life.
"I try to balance out not to feel foreign in two countries"
As an immigrant who has spent half his life in a foreign country I can definitively say that is not possible. Unfortunately that's what happens: at a certain point you realize that you've lost your old home, but you've not gained a new one.
I'm not even an immigrant, I just have a mixed cultural descent and it feels the same.
I'm a Third Culture Kid. And I can relate.
Half Greek, half Irish..born and raised in England. Never felt like I belonged with any. I'm not Greek enough to the Greeks, I'm not Irish enough for the Irish. If I say I'm English, I get...no you're not.
So true
It is the same to me at least in my same country, that person which grew up in small town almost in village and started studies, job in capital. After living in capital, I felt exactaly like I feel not a part of capital, and it is not my soul home, I do not feel belonging there, but when I return to my little town-village I also do not feel like a same province girl like before. Strange feeling. 😅
"Your sweat is very lucky to be traveling down your body..." LOLOLOLOL!!
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It IS a very Greek attempt at a 'complinent..."
People who live in Greece or has lived in Greece can understand her humor and how it is smart ause she makes her point with humor
I'm Spanish and I completely got it , I guess there are always exceptions haha
James Shim the particular talk took place in Greece and the majority of people in the audience were ''fucking'' Greeks... No I guess the rest of the world isnt Greeks as it isnt British I guess..
I'm indian living in Italy, and I totally got it. lolzzz!! :D
There is *UNDENIABLY* nothing we can't understand here regardless of her nationality... Besides that she actually in fact FAILS miserably at humour and definitely that she is truly unfunny what else further proof do you want?
We admit regardless of color and race that her humour sucks elephant dicks. That's just your opinion it doesn't.
I'm a Scot and totally get it.😁
"Cyprus,I don't understand what you're saying..slower..12 points to Greece!"
haha omg laughed so hard
I don’t get it
@@TheSeptuagint The Cypriot dialect of Greek can be hard to understand even for Greeks. 12 points refers to the voting for the song of Eurovision. Inside jokes.
I wonder if non-Greeks or non-Eurovision fans will get this - I assume probably not
"drizzle is rain being quintessentially British" xDD lolololol
Ive heard it called english spit
Made me smile so much when she was like " Why can't you all be more like Canada" if you couldn't already tell by that statement, I am Canadian.
But she was right. As an American, I realize that Canada is perhaps the most decent western country there is. You all rock!
CzarJuliusIII Why thank you :)
***** You're welcome. When I first travelled to Toronto to see my cousin, I completely fell in love with Canadian society.
CzarJuliusIII Toronto! Best place ever :) I'm in the gta (greater Toronto area) so I totally love it.
***** No it's a legitimate statement that people make. I guess in other places they think it's stereotype.. huh, I never knew that.
I loved it when she was talking about world domination like all of the countries were children, that reminded me of Hetalia except Canada actually get noticed for something.
thank you you made me bust out laughing so hard I fell off my sofa
Your welcome! XD I try my best! :P
+Colleen Elisabeth be a comedian for anime convensions u will be a hit
Ne ne papa
The funny thing is that I am only thirteen and these things just come to me randomly, I should start writing them down though. Plus I have been to a few conventions before and I enjoy them a lot! :3 I am usually that one quiet person in class that comes up with the best comebacks too, but I usually never say them because I know that I would get in trouble.
I always find it strange when other countries can just accept consuming media in a foreign language. This is a Greek person, in Greece, talking to an audience of Greek people, in English!
Paul Hurford yeh try do a greek talk in a english speaking countrys
its a ted talk. there are foreign people in the audience as well.
There are foreign people in the audience
@@wonderlandian8465 it is definitely English audience cause they hardly laugh 💜😜
Holy fuck, I'm crying she is so funny. "Who gave Iran uranium?.."
Capn. Ballarms I died at that part lol
+Capn. Ballarms my God! this video is 3 yrs. old and she predicted Iran and Uranium!!! The woman is psychic!!!! LOL
It is awkward when you talk about Uranus in science on youtube.
ghugh America ghugh ghugh
The classroom bit was brilliant
"An Albanian girl got the part. Go over there, take our jobs" brilliant humor! Thanks Katerina :)
_//"Where is my Zaziki? - Behind the rain, who knows-"_
_//I am dying here-_
Kwnstantina Sonia
_Well I wrote it with the spelling I was taught as a german, and which is correct according to my autocorrect on my phone and pc._
I am Greek so think again who is correct here ^.^
Kwnstantina Sonia
_You know. Different country, different spelling. So both of us are correct._
Dude write on Google zaziki and check what it will show u and no its not different country different spelling , because i bet, u will not like it when i will spell a German word differently ;)
Kwnstantina Sonia
_Are you understanding that it literally says Zaziki on the package and it is right in every fucking test?_
_In case you didn't know_
*_The spelling is changed in other countries_*
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I am Spanish and live in Greece. I have also lived in the UK for 6 years and this is all true! I really enjoyed this, so funny!
Ofc it's true, it's not like one person woke up one morning and said these kind of people smell very quickly, these people will screw you no matter what, these people's blood is always boiling or these people like swimming in diarrhea. It's a process of observation that took centuries. So don't get offended next time someone tells you that you are cheap af.
i actually found that quite amusing and her hair is exactly how i imagined Hermione Granger's in the Harry Potter Books
οmg yes
She is one of the most talented and strong women I have ever met. If you do not know her story I recommend you look for it immediately. (In short, in 2017 she was on a tour, she fell into a coma and almost lost her life) Today, stuck in a wheelchair, she gives us courage and makes us laugh and proud!
Στέλνω όλη μου την αγάπη και τον αμέριστο σεβασμό μου.
I like her. The first TEDx I actually enjoyed tonight. I keep clicking the ones that have interesting titles, but they are like useless ranting about some supposed key to life that has been practiced to get the TED speech pattern down pat. She was funny, and original though.
"Well done America... yes we all see the black man is in the white house"
I just about died xD
when she mentioned Canada I was screaming FINALLYYY WE GOT NOTICED!!!!
Arnikwee sooo hetalian?
Um, maybe it's just me but Canada is overrated.
You guys should make that day a national holiday!
i kNOW-!!!!! I CHOCKED ON THIN AIR BECAUSE I THOUGHT WE WERE INVISIBLE!!!!!!
I hate guessing but i think she's greek
louisa amante I think so too. There are subtle clues. For example, the second sentence of the presentation is, "I'm Greek." One has to learn to read between the lines.
brindlebriar This was a tough one but i think we did well.
louisa amante Imagine a world in which everybody were as smart as we are...
brindlebriar woah bro I don't think the world is ready
louisa amante But what a wonderful world it would be... What happens to a dream deferred? I think it turns into a whale. I have no idea what that means but it's the funniest possibility.
9 years later, she's on a wheelchair and with some speech impairment after an experience that took her really close to death and she is more amazing and more funny than ever!! A huge inspiration for her audience in Greece and Cyprus 💜
i was so livid i was tempted to complain
Am I the only one who feels bad that barely anyone laughs at her jokes?
+Footwon she actually explained it in an interview she gave in Greek that the people laugh,but there are no microphones at the audience's side so it seems like she laughs because of her own jokes, As she said she's not a jackass she actually laughs from the people's reactions...
also don't forget most people there are Greeks so English is not their native language
Her hair is so big because its full of secrets. Duh.
Sounds like the conspiracy theory about Chantal Biya's hair!
ahaha its actually a mean girls quote
"Evs" Block like dumbledore's beard
Vita McVitface that is weird
Vita McVitface No, it’s full of jokes.
I hang on every word she says and her hair is AWESOME!!
Her hair is amazing
When I first watched this I didn't know what Eurovision was and now having watched exclusively Eurovision for the past six weeks I laughed so hars at "12 points to Greece"
I think she's GREAT!!! Well done love. Very hard to do stand up. She held her own.
She is addressed to a greek audience and most of her jockes make sense only for greeks. But she is one of the FUNNIEST stand up comedians I have ever seen.
"Your sweat is very lucky to be travelling down your body." C'x that one killed me. She's a great comedian!
I am crying with laughter. Why isn't the audience more responsive?😂😂😂
do you know how expensive ted is? i think people expected something informative, this is a bad stand up
When you watch a comedy special on tv, there are mics in the audience to catch the laughter. I have to imagine they didn't do that with this, so the laughter sounds muted or non-existent
this should have gotten a lot more laughs XD
Aimee Coleman it wasn't funny
"India, get off the phone" I listen and laugh while being on a phone in India 😂😂😂
This crowd was greek... and the jokes were for this specific crowd..... if you did not find it funny, maybe it is because you are not greek or british... stop hating, she is not bad
Im American and found her jokes quite clever and amusing
I love how authentic she is 😍
''I'm the Hugh Grant of Moisture'' omfg
First female stand up comedian that I've actually really enjoyed. And before you ask, no I don't find Sarah Silverman funny, think she's a cool person, but she'd not be a person I'd go for laughs.
That whole hair bit ... felt that in my soul lol
This is hilarious! I loved it when she pretended the countries were children XD.
TWO WORDS: aBSOLUTELY fABULOUS
This women is HILARIOUS I love her so much
ive just been laughing through out this whole thing. little brother is just looking at me as if im an idiot...
I can relate. Lol
Well that Jackson 4 joke bombed hard.
+Eric Christiansen underrated tbh
I know, right?! 😂😂😂
+Eric Christiansen no sense of humor
+Nicholas Kolevris-Roots That part was not funny because he's dead? huhh sureky jackson 4 was not just one person
+Eric Christiansen sound of pac-man dying...lol whew...toooo sooon..4ever...
Her point about the rain is so true. In Nigeria (where I come from) the rain is like turning your shower setting to massage but outside and everywhere you go but in England you can barely feel it. It takes like a few minutes to get soaked through but like back home the second you go outside you are soaked through.
I THINK THIS ACTRESS HAS A GENUINE TALENT AND I HOPE ONE DAY THE RIGHT PEOPLE WILL UNDERSTAND IT AND HELP HER BECAUSE SHE DESERVES A BRILLIANT CAREER.ALL THE BEST KATERINAKI!I LOVED YOUR PERFORMANCE
when she started talking about countries, all i could think about was hetalia
ikr
thank you im not the only one!!!!!!
hehehehe England copying America's work. you should know better Arthur than to copy alfred!!
+Miskey (Former Polska) same lol
YASS HETALIA FANNNN
Hetalia? Ik it's satire but imo it's piss poor with history
*Sitting in Canada* Yey! We're the good country! aaaaNYWAY this was genius
Nightmare Rarity MLP we are barely noticed. we are like that quiet kid in school who always gets good grades. we're unnoticed . well... America seemed to notice us when Trump got elected.
Her hair is gorgeous
8:10 yoooo no one laughed after that "because he's dead joke" 😂😂
Love her. She is totally insane.
Her energy is so contagious I love it
I love this chick! She's awesome! While I don't really understand how this is TED talk material. She's excellent nonetheless! For all the haters out there, that don't think she's funny, get a life, and learn something, cause everything she says makes perfect sense and is epic-ally funny! The only way this is not funny to you is because you don't have any cross-culture experience.
I knew she was going to say "why can't you be like Canada" lol must admit we are very quiet and don't stick our nose in other countries business all that much. she so funny tho! I love her hair lol
She is telling the truth, and that is why some people were not laughing.
"I'm the Huge Grant of moisture." That had me laughing so hard... lol
When you realize your fav j4 joke failed .... 8:01
That was the only one I found funny...
*****
She said Jackson 4 instead of Jackson 5, because Michael Jackson died...
Srinjoy Roy, not every comedian gets an awesome reaction for every joke they ever made. She is really talented.
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She's talented no doubt... She just isn't funny...
Yitzchak Epstein That's your opinion.
"Your sweat is very likely to be traveling down your bodeeeeee..."
*lucky.
*very lucky
Don't know what you're saying.I think it was really funny and yeah I'm Greek.She was spot on!
I find her act surprisingly funny, she appears like these couchsurfers who just hitchhiked a long journey and showed up at your house, then later you decide to go to a pub and have this funny conversations about greeks and brits
Brilliant!! i am English and have lived in Greece for many years and you sre so perceptive!! xx
when she was talking about countries i'm surprised she didnt mention turkey!
Because turkey is not a country darling :).
@@vanessawishdoom9305 Then what is it?
@@colonela7815 The centerpiece of contemporary.... thanksgiving.
JasTheKariol 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
She's so fun I love her.
"I'm the Hugh Grant of Moisture..."
XD Laughing so hard
That Girl With The Coffee That part was gooooood
This is the most beautiful thing in the world if you are a Hetalia fan.
Yeeees xD
eyy
It's even more beautiful if you are greek cuz you can understand some parts better😂 (ne ne papa,welcome to hell😂)
Except the bit about Canada being noticed. Poor Mattie
nice funny girl! interesting and enjoyable!
When she said why can't you all be more like Canada I was like YEAAAAA!!!!CANADA!
Also she forgot about Portugal... They would've been the ones to bake her literally everything
All 15 minutes of this video can be summed up in two words: "I'm greek"
Lol yes
hospitalcleaner i am greek actually.
EXACTLY
can confirm
Yes
The part when you were talking about the British getting mad made me laugh, it's just too true!
I love the way she phrases her sentences, its like I'm having a friendly conversation
Her hair is magical.
Comedy gold, well done!
This woman is BRILLIANT
not funny at all. one of the worst speeches of TED. racist and not stereotypical . she kept laughing at her own jokes. pointless.
"racist and not stereotypical". You sure what both of those words mean?
im damn sure what they mean. i was raised on a neighborhood with a lot of black people and that led me to understand a lot aabout racism , stereotypes and respect. and making racist jokes and laughing at your own jokes for most of the time is not a good talk. fail talk.
maGe poTz But racism is stereotypical, so you kind of contradicted yourself..
this video is about stereotypes, this is what people think. It's not true, but it is the first thing that comes to mind... And I think she was hilarious!
Gengar is right, it is contradictory.
Canada, the teacher's pet
We deserve it!!
Sad. But true.
Max Li I'm sorry, I didn't mean to apologize. Oh, sorry for saying sorry. Yeah sorry about that, wait--.
10:37 is where the fun starts hahaha
I see comments about her not being funny, humor is not always about the joke but many times about the character telling it, she has a cute persona, she appears to be a likeable person so where she may tell the same thing as another person her spunk makes it funnier...personally i enjoyed listening to her and watching her demeanor, shes cute and being a sucker for curls i am fascinated with her hair, whats there not to love about it?
❤❤❤ΜΠΡΑΒΟ ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ... ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΗ... ΕΥΧΟΜΑΙ ΝΑ ΓΙΝΕΙΣ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΑ ΚΑΛΑ... 🌹🌹🌹
Very British and that's why it is funny. People who don't get it don't have any wit.
It's people who don't get a kick out of relating concepts and making a bit of fun from one's self. They're to good for constructive criticism in the form of laughter, or just aren't capable of laughing at something that doesn't imply someone's fail.
Linh Nguyen
Maybe youre just too easy to entertain.. ohhhhhhh
KAT maybe
ya if you like their humor you also like their food and their weather and their libido.a this English humor my gush
jackson 4 joke made her seem cooler than the crowd lol
Right now I feel proud to be Greek!!! hahahaha Κατερίνα είσαι απίστευτη! :)
Wow, first time a TED talk produced such consistent laughter!
The Michael Jackson joke is great.
Ted audience has a dull sense of humor.
The audience was affraid of not being politically correct, so accepting the joke would seem as an possibility to create an outrage among the MJ fans so they just froze...
Yes, having a heart means you have a dull sense of humor. That's the thing about jokes, It's hard to laugh about a situation you don't think is funny.
I loved MJ, but that doesnt mean I didn't laugh at the joke. I hope they'll make a joke about me after I'm dead. I'll laugh at it if I could.
I'd laugh if someone made a joke about my death too. But I doubt those who love me would. Your obviously using the word 'loved' very lightly. There are people who love him, even though he's gone. That's called loss. Loss, If you've experienced it, is hard to laugh at.
Death is as precious as Life.From any loss there is a gain.They go together hand by hand.
best part
"jackson 4...because he's dead...heheh" *complete silence*
It was disrespectful :/
Hahahaha I noted that aswell, very much in bad taste! They're still the Jackson five, just one of them tragically died, since when was it ok to make fun of the dead?
It was a bad joke... But it was very funny
erika warwick no one laughed neither did I
Omg this is sooo funny because it is so true!I recently travelled to Amsterdam from Athens and upon disembarking from the plane before we could enter the airport we had to go through a quick passport control and the Greeks were like ' What is this checkpoint about like as if we are in Uzbekistan,I thought the EU solved this blah blah' I was dead on the floor laughing coz it literally took 5mins only to get through! Love her!
In Lithuania - we're impatient too.
If you drive a car with a maximum allowed speed limit +10 kilometers per hour - you are still jamming the traffic....
Έλα ρε Κατερίνα!!!
She has beautiful hair.
Oh this is amazing, I just randomly started watching this and thought she should really do stand up, she's really funny!
She's wonderful! Thank you.
That was so entertaining!
She looks EXACTLY like my English teacher XD
This was the best TEDx Talks I have ever seen!!! Oh my god. That was hilariously accurate. She is very funny! I appreciate her.
so bloody marvellous! ... ευχαριστώ πολύ! 😍😂😜😉😊😘😘😘
HOLY SHIT this is the best ted talk ever LMAO!!!
Why is this a TED talk?
+Luke B It's not a TED talk, it's a TEDx talk...
ΣΚΡΟΥΤΖ ΜΑΚ ΝΤΑΚ
I think it would be wrong to draw the conclusion it is just any talk about anything. To qualify for a TEDx event they have to meet certain conditions to get the license from TED to hold the event.
Luke B I guess you're right. Then how do you explain that this talk took place at a qualified/licenced TEDx event?
ΣΚΡΟΥΤΖ ΜΑΚ ΝΤΑΚ I'm using that
Greek woman confirms everything stated about Greece. Katerina, you are oh so adorably true! Well done!
I would love to watch her to do more talks. Or her stand comedy. She is amazing