Jonathan Pie: Having a pop at Brexit and Tory voters is 'gross' | ITV News

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  • Mocking Brexit and Tory voters is "gross", says Jonathan Pie actor Tom Walker - and a whole generation of comedians might soon have to find other things to joke about.
    The comedian, whose career has grown with 14 years of Tory governments, admits much of his success has been down to Conservative chaos but accepts it's likely he'll soon have to turn on Keir Starmer.
    Jonathan Pie is a satirical news correspondent who found success for his "off-air" moments in which the reporter rants about politics apparently without realising the camera is still rolling.
    Pie's creator Walker, who is currently giving the Tories what could be his final kicking in a stage tour, spoke to ITV News about the future of UK politics, comedy and satire.
    Jonathan Pie: Heroes & Villains is at The Duke of York's Theatre until Saturday, April 27.
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  • @rrbh
    @rrbh 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +863

    I don't watch Pie for fun or light-hearted giggle sessions - his rants are generally how I am feeling , so I rage along with every word.

    • @Godonstilts
      @Godonstilts 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +57

      They are more than just comedic rants, they are straight to the heart cutting observations of the sheer absudity of what our so called 'leaders' are doing, along with their bare faced corruption. No wonder Pie is angry, Tom is likely just as angry but holding back for this interview.

    • @Mike-un5hy
      @Mike-un5hy 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      He makes MSN seem like a parody in which it is compared to Pies rants of truth

    • @PassiveAgressive319
      @PassiveAgressive319 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Me too. He just gets it

    • @amrobinson6124
      @amrobinson6124 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      @rrbh I feel the same. I call it 'second-hand catharsis'.

    • @niceguyjohnny
      @niceguyjohnny 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      100% agree

  • @tasty_fish
    @tasty_fish 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +370

    Walker's skill is that he's able to identify failings and hypocrisy on all political colours. It's just the Tories have given him bucketloads of material to work with. I'm sure whoever gets into power will not be treated any differently.

    • @millrace32
      @millrace32 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      i think he probably just trawls web comments & repackages what 'we' are saying, then sells it back to us

    • @johncannon3411
      @johncannon3411 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      nonsense

    • @mobsiesixsixsix9785
      @mobsiesixsixsix9785 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@johncannon3411 That word doesn't mean what you think it does.

    • @jonathanstewart7838
      @jonathanstewart7838 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      I'm sure whoever gets into power will not be treated any differently.
      Well they will be treated differently and it makes it harder to do so, but the corruption ineptitude and the intellectual vacuity of these Tories is not something we have seen for a 100 years.

    • @mobsiesixsixsix9785
      @mobsiesixsixsix9785 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jonathanstewart7838 Sadly it's directed by profit and that's all USA based. You can't have power in any country unless the USA agrees to it first. It's getting worse because everything is getting worse. Really, don't expect to much from Labour either. We saw what happened when there was an actual leftwinger, he was smeared to within an inch of his life just for asking for reasonable things.
      Neo Liberalism doesn't disappear with the tories.

  • @miketgl4543
    @miketgl4543 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +268

    This man has become the voice of a frustrated, unheard, and tired generation.

    • @Le4befar
      @Le4befar 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      49% of a tired generation

    • @garybarry9365
      @garybarry9365 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He's the voice of whiney, virtue signalling city dwellers that have no idea about the real world.

    • @terryfinch9319
      @terryfinch9319 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      No 99%

    • @Le4befar
      @Le4befar 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @terryfinch9319 reality and maths missing from your reply.

    • @PitchPerfectDesign
      @PitchPerfectDesign 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      the voice of half a frustrated, unheard and tired generation.

  • @breakfreak3181
    @breakfreak3181 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    He may see his character as satire, but in truth, it is *spot on* political observation.
    He may be playing for laughs, but all too often, Jonathan Pie sums up what is *really* going on and *exactly* how I feel.

  • @Lumibear.
    @Lumibear. 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +153

    Well that was one of the best interviews of Tom on Pie that I’ve seen in a long time. Normally the ‘interviewer’ takes a snobby stance that makes the whole thing just a defence of existence, but this guy actually allowed Tom to talk. Nice.

    • @phily8093
      @phily8093 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      Surely you can't be snobby when in possession of a trailer park mullet?

    • @Lumibear.
      @Lumibear. 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@phily8093 well maybe that’s the solution eh? All we need is the entire news team of Channel 4 and the BBC to all get mullets!

    • @phily8093
      @phily8093 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Lumibear. It's no doubt happening as we speak

    • @Lumibear.
      @Lumibear. 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@phily8093 Can’t wait to see it! XD

  • @lookoutleo
    @lookoutleo 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +49

    Johnathan pie is brilliant . In the 80s their were a few programs that were close to the edge but in last 20 years their was nobody taking the folk in power to task , hes a breath of fresh air :)

    • @DrummerBoy233
      @DrummerBoy233 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I've liked this character for years and he's almost the British equivalent to Australian TV show, 'Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell'. It aired in Australia for just over 10 years and wrapped last year. The only difference between them: 'Mad As Hell' has Shaun Micallef presenting as a frustrated news anchor in studio to a live audience. Recurring actors played "guest speakers" attempting to advocate for each event reported on. But 9/10 they shot their own feet off. I used it to get my filler of weekly news, it was fantastic.

    • @dominicparker6124
      @dominicparker6124 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No love for ian hislop then eh

    • @lookoutleo
      @lookoutleo 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@dominicparker6124 lots respect for Ian hislop :)

  • @karlfran0404
    @karlfran0404 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +152

    I remember when Rik Mayall’s character Alan B’Stard switched to New Labour. Genius.

    • @pulchralutetia
      @pulchralutetia 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Not much of a switch, to be fair!

    • @jamesthecat
      @jamesthecat 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Yes, and remember how anti-Thatcher the actual writers were!

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Even my parents could see through Blair and they voted Conservative. They hated that emptiness in him. I think they would have rathered Margaret Beckett or John Prescott was Prime Minister.

    • @dianegerrard6241
      @dianegerrard6241 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      hmm all the sure-start projects!

    • @fredatlas4396
      @fredatlas4396 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      ​@@lemsip207Perhaps that's why because they were con-servative supporters. Things were as a matter of fact much better under the last Labour government from 1997 up until 2010

  • @markrhoden68
    @markrhoden68 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +66

    In my teen years we had Spitting Image to mock the Politicians, Pie is a more intelligent grown up idea of humour.
    I'd like to see him on say Question Time put some heat under professional politicians

    • @GregOrCreg
      @GregOrCreg 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I was too young to fully appreciate Spitting Image, but I always liked the idea of the show, and was impressed with the puppets, but after seeing the revival and recalling a few older sketches, I feel that most of it was scatological and vulgar than genuinely witty. The people behind the show seemed to have a childish obsession with faecal matter which makes it difficult to watch. It's a shame and such a waste of a potentially clever premise and some truly inspired puppets.

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@GregOrCreg The Spitting Image scripts weren't great. Take a look at the Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch "Constable Savage". It's over 40 years old but hasn't dated at all.

    • @GregOrCreg
      @GregOrCreg 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@geoffpoole483 Totally agreed that there was/is far better satire than Spitting Image. It's just a shame because SI had the potential to be better in view of the puppets and the fact that it focused on current events.

    • @markrhoden68
      @markrhoden68 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Also 'Yes Minister' stranger than fiction

    • @GregOrCreg
      @GregOrCreg 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@markrhoden68 I was a bit too young for that, but I've read some of the scripts, and they were indeed very sharp and clever.

  • @stevenredpath9332
    @stevenredpath9332 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +84

    As an old left-winger I despair at both major parties. Starmers’ Labour Party is walking the same path as the Tories, just less extreme.
    No more heroes anymore.

    • @benh715
      @benh715 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Ha

    • @RavenRuled
      @RavenRuled 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Agree, the choice should be between losing a leg or an arm. There should be a 3rd option which allows you to keep both!!!

    • @JT_Williams
      @JT_Williams 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Reform is only sensible option

    • @markianross
      @markianross 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      ​@@JT_Williamswhy?

    • @mickmarsbar81
      @mickmarsbar81 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@markianrossBecause all sane people hate Labour and the Tories with equal contempt.

  • @rogueceska
    @rogueceska 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +103

    This type of political satire was rife in the thatcher era and probably played a small part in their downfall in the end, as well as being a balm, it was also on mainstream tv all the time, Pie is exactly what we need unfortunately he is 1 man and we need an army of him.

    • @grumbo39
      @grumbo39 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      It was funny. And richly deserved. Shame kids are more interested in brain dead TikTok videos now. :(

    • @jamesthecat
      @jamesthecat 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      I know what you mean, and I dearly hope it does have an effect, but I wonder how effective it actually was in the past.
      Spitting Image was absolutely scathing of Thatcher, turning her into some weird dehumanized robotic Caligula-type figure by the end, and millions (most with only 4 TV channels and no internet) were glued to it, and laughed it up, but still apparently voted for her, when it came down to it, as long the economy was going well.
      The recession and the poll tax seemed to be the breaking points, and analysts now say that even 'old Labour' (with Neil Kinnock or, preferably, John Smith) would have got in at that time. Another one of those 'sliding doors' moments...!

    • @Le4befar
      @Le4befar 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The army is already on the street. Uniform consists of a stretched out ear lobes and blue/green hair.

    • @lifesbutastumble
      @lifesbutastumble 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jamesthecat They did bring back Spitting Image for a time, but for some reason it ended far too soon. I did notice they we're as biting as he original series, so maybe that's why it never took off?

  • @spunkychops7484
    @spunkychops7484 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +107

    Jonathan pie is amazing

  • @Pablo668
    @Pablo668 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I think the first clip I saw of Jonathan Pie was indeed him saying stop calling voters from the other side stupid. It doesn't help at all, and certainly doesn't win them over.
    Wise words I thought.

    • @TrophyGuide101
      @TrophyGuide101 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      It's such a simple thing but impossible to achieve. I genuinely believe if you put someone in a room with their ideological enemy and said 'If you just treat them as a person for 10 minutes everything you want in politics will be achieved', they would be insulting them without 10 seconds because achieving their stated goals isn't actually the goal, it's showing others how virtuous they are.

  • @jimcraiggeezer
    @jimcraiggeezer 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +81

    This guy is a legend.. very insightful.

  • @NapoleonSolo61
    @NapoleonSolo61 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +84

    I can't get over that guys Mullet 🤣

    • @MrMmnngghh
      @MrMmnngghh 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Sensational 🪮

    • @pulchralutetia
      @pulchralutetia 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      It screams Duesseldorf 1986. He just needs the bleached jeans to go with it.

    • @mookyzook
      @mookyzook 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      That's what happens when you grow out the modern man's haircut. You know the one that looks like you've been locked up in a foreign jail or been conscripted to the army in the past. Long on the top, almost shaved at the sides The Turkish barber look. 🤣

    • @Kettlepip
      @Kettlepip 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      I love how younger folks currently often look like they're cosplaying as extras from 80s episodes of Home and Away.

    • @pulchralutetia
      @pulchralutetia 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Kettlepip It’s a sign of their desperation.

  • @richardbyrnes8398
    @richardbyrnes8398 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +92

    He is the closest we've got to an opposition in this country.
    Seen this tour twice, in the diehard lefty redoubts of Oxford and Bath. The cheering to his rants (especially Coffey on the pier) was visceral. There's so much anger out there.
    Also, nice to see the mullet making a comeback.

    • @jakehowie442
      @jakehowie442 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Lefty? Is he?
      I’m sure there are plenty of left wing students in Bath, Oxford

    • @richardbyrnes8398
      @richardbyrnes8398 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jakehowie442 Most of the audiences were in their 40s or above.

    • @chrisholland7367
      @chrisholland7367 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Absolutely agree. His sledgehammer satire projects the anger and frustration most people are feeling. He's brilliant.

    • @RayBellis
      @RayBellis 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      We saw him in Oxford a year or so after the Brexit vote. His support act bombed, very badly, for his apparent Brexit supporting views.

  • @antonycharnock2993
    @antonycharnock2993 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    I'm a Labour supporter and even I think Keir is worthy of ridicule

  • @skasteve6528
    @skasteve6528 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Sadly, I think that if Labour win the next election, Tom will not suffer from a lack of material.

  • @ES-qm5hr
    @ES-qm5hr 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +36

    All my brain is doing is going, "Blah, blah, blah, MULLET!"

    • @ManuelRomeroArcos-vx4qh
      @ManuelRomeroArcos-vx4qh 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @vickygarnett7623
      @vickygarnett7623 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      WHY do young people think this a good look? They clearly didn’t live through the trauma the first time round.

    • @Lumibear.
      @Lumibear. 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@vickygarnett7623 they weren’t there mannnn, they weren’t there (smokes cigarettes with trembling fingers)…
      Tbh it’s more whenever the bowl cut comes back that weirds me out.

    • @MrMmnngghh
      @MrMmnngghh 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Lumibear. I blame late nineties to early 2000's emo for the Return Of The Bowl Cut

    • @ES-qm5hr
      @ES-qm5hr 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@vickygarnett7623 You see young people have no authentic culture of their own now that social media has homogenized and commercialized everything, so they are doomed to repeat an endless death loop of past bad taste because they are unable to create anything new.

  • @user-jb1me4bm1v
    @user-jb1me4bm1v 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    This guy is absolutely brilliant, he says what a real interviewer should say , instead of media right wing bias that our toxic media dish out

  • @colinwhite5355
    @colinwhite5355 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +77

    Did I just witness someone from the north east doing an interview? Refreshing.

    • @user-pm8uc5dc3e
      @user-pm8uc5dc3e 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      Sadly ruined by an horrendous mullet.

    • @nebularain3338
      @nebularain3338 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@user-pm8uc5dc3e Appearance has nothing to do with skill.
      Also, it's "a mullet". Not "an mullet".

    • @user-pm8uc5dc3e
      @user-pm8uc5dc3e 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@nebularain3338 Get an haircut you scruff

    • @colinwhite5355
      @colinwhite5355 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@user-pm8uc5dc3e Let’s not judge a book by its cover - even if the cover is pretty terrible.

    • @g7vqedave2
      @g7vqedave2 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Definitely "an" horrendous mullet and a good interviewer/interview.

  • @patrickquinlan3056
    @patrickquinlan3056 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +134

    Pie's cover of Trump's win in 2016 was pure comedic genius.

    • @mum2jka
      @mum2jka 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Or was it the cover of Clinton losing in 2016 that was brilliant...

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      It was the single best take on it of any commentator - it was exceptionally good.

    • @patrickquinlan3056
      @patrickquinlan3056 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@mum2jka No, Clinton was an exceptionally poor candidate who caused her own loss and allowed that lump of orange snot to win. Anyway, what has that got to do with Pie?

    • @kaasmeester5903
      @kaasmeester5903 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

      @@piccalillipit9211He was spot-on about the dangers of vilifying political opponents and their supporters. A lesson that we sadly haven’t learned, quite the opposite.

    • @karmaascendant3936
      @karmaascendant3936 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@kaasmeester5903i don’t want to be that guy but I feel like calling Trump voters deplorables is bad but backing this government after it’s failures in literally every metric for the last 14 years is worth the shame. There’s only so long someone can be blind to the truth before there’s no point trying to be nice to them. There’s a difference between disagreement on abortion for example and hard evidence that the government that you’ve voted for has failed on their manifesto to the tune of 80% failure rate and to vote again for them when they don’t have a functioning plan or the ability to generate new ones.

  • @stephentyler9697
    @stephentyler9697 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +36

    True talent! This mans contribution to satire is
    Without doubt genius
    Thank you!!

  • @Hellwyck
    @Hellwyck 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +73

    That interviewer must be in demand, Pie got him halfway through his haircut!

    • @Warbaman
      @Warbaman 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      What an embarrassment to walk down the street like that ay? The mind boggles.

    • @MrMmnngghh
      @MrMmnngghh 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@Warbaman Mullet is as Mullet does, champ

    • @luke7708
      @luke7708 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Best comment! It's compounded when they have a moustache to boot. The early 80's look is not one I thought would come back.

  • @GregOrCreg
    @GregOrCreg 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Initially, I thought the "Havng a pop at Brexit and Tory voters is 'gross'" tag was another bit of satire, but listening to the interview in full, he's 100% right. I cringe at Hilary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" line. I wouldn't say that statement alone cost her the entire 2016 election, but it definitely didn't help. You don't win an election by attacking the electorate. You have to give them a reason to support you, and attacking and alienating them means you've lost a potential voter for life.

    • @Samuel-hd3cp
      @Samuel-hd3cp 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What the Liberals don't understand is that Remain and Clinton both threw away winning positions because they completely failed to understand their opponents.

    • @markbriten6999
      @markbriten6999 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Given she won the popular vote by some way I doubt it. In any sane system she'd have won

  • @RantingCentre
    @RantingCentre 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Went to see him live and was blown away by this...would thoroughly recommend :)

  • @OptimisticHominid
    @OptimisticHominid 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +100

    People who say that Sunak and Starmer are the same need some extra brain cells.

    • @brianferguson7840
      @brianferguson7840 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Perhaps two ? To double the existing stock !

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

      I dont like Starmer - Im not a Corbinite - but Starmer is a slimy greasy standard politician who would sell his mother for power - IMO.
      BUT - Sunak would sell the COUNTY and is selling the country for personal financial gain - he will make disabled people poorer and more miserable JUST to hang on a bit longer to try and get his India trade deal - he is a terrible human being and there is NO comparison with Starmer.
      Starmer scored 3/10 but Sunak scores minus several million

    • @theghostoftom
      @theghostoftom 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My guy, Starmer has been binning promises and running to the Right for years.
      He got rid of every Labour MP who backed unions, you know the thing Labour was built on.
      He blackmailed the speaker. Openly.
      He has openly talked about further austerity measures.
      He takes cash from a "green energy" company which chops trees in Canada into wood chips and wants to ship them across the Atlantic to burn here as biofuels.
      He has no intention of bringing in proportional representation.
      He spent years as a human rights lawyer. Pretends that Israeli war crimes are legal.
      Basically he has done everything he could to show anyone paying attention that he is another "new labour" Tory in a red tie.

    • @st.george007
      @st.george007 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Absolutely correct, they both need more brain cells and then maybe they can be a bit different.

    • @laurencefox5884
      @laurencefox5884 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      They are both Tories. So there are some similarities...

  • @robertlaw.
    @robertlaw. 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    An out of work actor jumped at the chance to commodify impotent rage. A strong earner in 2020s Britain.

    • @ColinBarrett001
      @ColinBarrett001 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He taps into the visceral rage felt by the true majority against this appalling Tory regime and their awful brexit.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      He played Tom Parker Bowles in a made for TV film about Prince William following the death of his mother. His father made him hang out with Camilla's children but they were a bad influence on him.

  • @mayhem492
    @mayhem492 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Pie began from a refreshingly impartially position, happy to have a pop at both sides. Inevitably his creator realised that a drift to the left ensured being embraced by a younger, more enthusiastic fan base and inevitably more lucrative.

    • @DavidBrown-bs7gg
      @DavidBrown-bs7gg 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Agreed, I preferred his impartial stance, I stopped watching when he became clearly biased

  • @MarvinofMars
    @MarvinofMars 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Pie is a legend. Being ex rescue services I have been interviewed live, then when the live report cut, the presenters really went to town on the idiots who caused incident.
    Pie has the ECHR carinage, Rwanda, Labour back tracking on election promises. ( it will be hard with the debt the UK is in!)

  • @ablebadger4
    @ablebadger4 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I did think the calling of Brexit voters as thick or racist by the supposedly more intelligent remain voters to be rather ironic.

  • @roberthorwat6747
    @roberthorwat6747 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I remember when Colin Baker was at Westminster, cold feet, warm heart, married, several children, pissed off, dreadfully pissed off!

    • @Bromley68
      @Bromley68 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      "This is Colin Baker, the Old Bailey......soaked.....married, with several children....an aching heart......pissed off.....really dreadfully pissed off"

    • @roberthorwat6747
      @roberthorwat6747 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Bromley68 spot on! It was a long time ago and actually funnier than I remembered it🤣

    • @Bromley68
      @Bromley68 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@roberthorwat6747 If I remember, Baker's report had almost no details, he hadn't even been given the names of the defendants, he had obviously been told to stand there in the pouring rain doing an utterly pointless report with no information.
      I remember all this because my friend's dad worked for ITN and at Xmas parties, they would recite Baker's diatribe in the same way that Monty Python fans can recite whole sketches :)

  • @Samuel-hd3cp
    @Samuel-hd3cp 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    You're wrong about Starmer, Tom.
    He is incredibly authoritarian.He was DPP. He's even more Establishment than Sunak.
    You're right about old school lefties seeing the point of Brexit though.

  • @Krymefighter
    @Krymefighter 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

    Great observations, demonising your opponents voters, no matter how much you dislike their views, does neither side any favours. Also liked the point about politicians not feeling like they can be in a position to apologise for getting something wrong. I think changing that narrative would instantly restore a small measure of integrity back into politics across the spectrum.

    • @Naedlus
      @Naedlus วันที่ผ่านมา

      Now, if only Conservatives weren't demonizing the left for the last fifty years, we'd likely be able to get along.
      But, being told that "healthcare is a human right" and "We shouldn't pick on minorities" gets them screaming that you're a dirty commie, so, hard to justify treating people nice, when they are dead set on bringing the world back to the rule of kings.

  • @MrChallacombe
    @MrChallacombe 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Was great to see him Live

  • @chrismaddock5790
    @chrismaddock5790 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As a man who voted for both labour and tories in the past, I can honestly say that I never considered Johnathan Pie's character as one way or the other - just a regular Brit who's genuinely pissed off at how badly our country is being run right now and voicing his anger, saying the very things that so many of us are thinking, perhaps leaning a little bit to the left, but very much aware of where the left are getting it wrong as well. Truly an ingenious satirist

  • @willtricks9432
    @willtricks9432 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Johnathan Pie is "It'll be alright on the night" with a Machette in one hand and "Roger's Profanasaurus" in the other.
    Top content on any platform. Cheers

  • @user-qd2pc5gz4n
    @user-qd2pc5gz4n 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +48

    We need more people like pie in parliament ❤

    • @bkolumban
      @bkolumban 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ...so more made up characters?

    • @floyd1186
      @floyd1186 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      We have enough comedians

    • @hitthenorth9667
      @hitthenorth9667 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      More lefties ? Surely we’ve got enough ?!?

    • @terryboland3816
      @terryboland3816 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      More people who refuse to discuss their tax arrangements for money they were given by Russian state propagandists? Is that what we need? Really?

    • @MichaelSchuerig
      @MichaelSchuerig 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Making an actor president didn't work out half bad for Ukraine. (I'm not so sure about the US in the 80s.)

  • @williamblackwell2978
    @williamblackwell2978 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +45

    Tom, your idea of choice in your next election is how I consider mine; we’re not voting for a candidate per se, but rather we’re voting against a candidate. Anyone but Trump secures my vote. Anyone but Tory probably gets yours PS. You should get awards for the best rants ever. love them.

    • @millennialmale4879
      @millennialmale4879 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      unfortunately the tories arent the worst in uk. we have growing far right parties like reform uk.

    • @stephenoxf
      @stephenoxf 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@millennialmale4879 I see reform as a positive thing, because it means we'll get a change in government, even if it is 2024-era Labour.

    • @kaasmeester5903
      @kaasmeester5903 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Isn’t that what happened back in 2016 as well? Trump was a bit of an unknown, politically speaking. While Clinton was the very embodiment of everything that people thought was wrong with politics. I’m no American, but in ‘16 I might have very well voted against Clinton, i.e. for Trump.

    • @gribblethemunchkin
      @gribblethemunchkin 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I think over here its a rejection of the tory manner of governing that people are rejecting, we can't really vote against any particular candidate because they never last long enough to become the central problem. The last two didn't even win a general election, just a tory party leadership campaign. Its been 14 years now and we are just sick of the constant scandal and lack of actual governing. I think most people just want politics to be boring again, to not have this constant stream of half mad weirdos in charge and the constant scandals.

    • @clayface563
      @clayface563 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@stephenoxfthat’s insane

  • @leeroy1986
    @leeroy1986 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I generally thought Pie was a real-life mate of James O'brien lol.

  • @simonphelon7221
    @simonphelon7221 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    The worst thing about Bill Cosby was the hypocrisy.

    • @slapshot0074
      @slapshot0074 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Nice nod to norm macdonald.

    • @jeremypnet
      @jeremypnet 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I dunno. I think sexual assault is pretty bad.

  • @cpuuk
    @cpuuk 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    He says what we are all thinking and want to yell out loud.

  • @nickxcore74
    @nickxcore74 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    I’m sick of putting up with the lesser of two evils, but the brainwashed masses still seem to tolerate this totally corrupt system that we’re living under.

    • @user-bv5lc1nf5d
      @user-bv5lc1nf5d 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Very true.
      I am a Bennite by birth, but have been shunted over to Reform because the Left no longer want people like me anywhere near their 'safe space'.
      Why do people vote for the Labour-Tory Uniparty - it's because of fear, fear that there's no other option and that no other party can ever win because that's just how it is.
      Ask any Labour or Tory voter why and, if they don't have a mental breakdown because you asked, they cannot give an honest response - 'the alternative isn't worth considering', 'the Tories are corrupt', 'Labour love paedos' etc. etc.
      Basically, you have a circular feedback between two opposing factions who actually NEED each other - one is the boogeyman of the other.
      Of course, there's no reason why Reform UK or Rejoin EU can't be the parties of power - it takes 326 seats won and if either party can do that then they will form the next Government. Reform becoming the party of Government might make some suicidal, but others would welcome it and (same as if Rejoin EU won) it would be a fresh alternative.
      People have to think back to 2020 and Covid-19 - neither Tories or Labour covered themselves with any glory or dignity with what happened, because Uniparty Neolibs do not give a sh*t about anybody or anything other than themselves. You're poor - f*ck you, your tax is too high - f*ck you, the NHS is failing - f*ck them. What are we going to do? Oh yeah, vote in Labour because Carol Vorderman tells us to.
      If Rejoin EU become the new party of power, much as I would oppose their Brexit stance, I would be prepared to give them a chance and if they got the economy under control they'd earn my respect for that. However, I can see certain Left facets going more apoplectic that they got elected than if Farage becomes the next PM - 'how dare the Left not vote for the Left which I want... that is sooo offensive!'

    • @alexhando8541
      @alexhando8541 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Hence why I'm writing to my local MP (yeah I know nothing will probably happen) if there is no electoral reform enacted by the next government. We need proportional representation!

    • @user-bv5lc1nf5d
      @user-bv5lc1nf5d 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@alexhando8541 PR - useful but I think FPTP is here to stay. Most people want PR until you point out 'well that could mean giving Reform UK a platform'. Love them or loathe them, their vote is on the up and very few nuanced people would be prepared to say 'I may not like them, but I believe that they should be heard.' It's more like 'no, ban the horrible people who say horrible things I don't like.'

    • @alexhando8541
      @alexhando8541 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@user-bv5lc1nf5d proportional systems like STV would not prevent greater representation for radically left or right wing parties, but would still not allow them to getting in to power, as the system favours coalitions instead. Regardless of hypothetical scenarios, Reclaim, Reform and the like would remain fringe parties with only a handful of MPs despite the change in system. They certainly wouldn't be forming any governments, it would be a situation very like Germany at present, but certainly not Germany like in 1936 like a lot of people seem to worry about...

  • @katalinhorvath8139
    @katalinhorvath8139 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pie helps me to understand important events in the UK. Nothing less than that. On top of that Pie allows me to feel what I feel.

  • @hdmartyh
    @hdmartyh 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Love this guy. Its sad that things are so bad that his satire is just 100 truths at the moment.

  • @Red_Crows
    @Red_Crows 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Pie the character will have plenty to complain about when he realises the tories are still in power just wearing red 😂

  • @petekadenz9465
    @petekadenz9465 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    So very sensible and insightful.

  • @stevedavidson666
    @stevedavidson666 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I was over in London from South Africa for the last two weeks and finally able to see him in the flesh at the Duke of York theatre. He was ABSOLUTELY EFFING BRILLIANT!!!
    Thanks so much Tom for creating JP in the first place but then putting together a show which as @rrbh says below your rants are even ten times better than the ones we have here on TH-cam. I think the whole audience raged along with every word.

  • @huffdiggler
    @huffdiggler 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I think it’s odd that Sir Kier is never mentioned as a Sir, a Knight of the realm, like it’s hidden like a hush hush, dirty title. “Labour is for the common man” they say, with a Sir at the helm….

    • @rkk578
      @rkk578 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He got this because of his position and it is a tradition that the role holder gets it.

  • @robg521
    @robg521 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The brilliant thing about the early Spitting Image programmes was that they lampooned all politicians, [some more than others] even though the writers were mostly left wing minded they still targeted the political elite across the board.
    The problem comes when the motivation to make the programme becomes politically biased, because it then turn from comedy into propaganda.

  • @csatterley
    @csatterley 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The interviewer makes me glad I had my youth in between the two times that mullets have been considered an acceptable hairstyle.

  • @jamesgravil9162
    @jamesgravil9162 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    "For twenty years I was an out-of-work actor."
    That's even longer than Ford Prefect. He was only out of work for fifteen years!

  • @sirperybLakeney
    @sirperybLakeney 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Tom's great. One of the few interviews with a contemporary celebrity where you feel like they're genuine.

  • @PeaHaytch4
    @PeaHaytch4 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What does it matter who you vote for? Humour doesn't pick sides; it splits both left and right with laughter 💁‍♂️

  • @GregOrCreg
    @GregOrCreg 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    There are many people in the country who aren't hypocrites, like me. How about voting for people like me who honour their beliefs rather than yet another careerist hypocrite? It's time people were rewarded for integrity and honesty.

    • @BM-lb3xs
      @BM-lb3xs 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Everybody is a hypocrite to some degree. Have some modesty, you are not special, you are fallible, as is everybody else. The sooner you and everyone else accepts this the better the world will become.

  • @thatsmrtwattoyou
    @thatsmrtwattoyou 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Spitting image,the original series,was for me the best satire ever.....no one was safe.

  • @alexscarbro796
    @alexscarbro796 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I’d love to see Pie’s reaction to discovering Boris and Mogg sat on the front row!

  • @michaelkhan1752
    @michaelkhan1752 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Legend

  • @cinemaipswich4636
    @cinemaipswich4636 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    ...what do news reporters do between turds... A wonderful turn of phrase. "Thinking while speaking" is wonderful when somebody says the truth while speaking out loud. Comedy, satire and irony are the comic's best friend.

  • @TheVRSofa
    @TheVRSofa 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    legend

  • @raulpinto7543
    @raulpinto7543 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why is it gross? The people whose faces got eaten have a real grievance against those who let the face-eating leopard party in.

  • @clickrick
    @clickrick 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ian Hislop has managed to satirise all sides, and for broadly the same failings as Pie does. I'll be surprised if Tom Walker doesn't make the same shift if (when?) we get a different government.

  • @mrsh810
    @mrsh810 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love all that you do, and agree with most of what you say

  • @Ethericrose
    @Ethericrose 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pie says what the vast majority of the British public are thinking!

  • @masterwatch
    @masterwatch 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Jonathan is great 😂

  • @mark271058
    @mark271058 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Genius!❤

  • @user-cu5gc4qz8p
    @user-cu5gc4qz8p 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    that is an excellent 1 second clip of Peter Capaldi :P

  • @francesdoyle1508
    @francesdoyle1508 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've never heard Tom talking before and this is brilliant 👏🏼 ❤

  • @TheOMT
    @TheOMT 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Actually, this is the first time I've seen that is not his real name 😂😂😂

  • @RalphBrooker-gn9iv
    @RalphBrooker-gn9iv 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    OMG 😱 Jonathan Partridge-Tucker! 😅

  • @ChrisCM23
    @ChrisCM23 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Johnathan Pie you are excellent

  • @Kit2Canada
    @Kit2Canada 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Superb!

  • @vaughancapstick9961
    @vaughancapstick9961 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    We all love Tom ❤️

  • @smithy280663
    @smithy280663 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If you ever get the chance to see him live, do it.......he's brilliant!

  • @dannyhancock9330
    @dannyhancock9330 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    A Mullet in 2024!!!!! Get this interviewer to a Barber STAT!!

  • @earnestequivocation6250
    @earnestequivocation6250 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's like he can read our minds and express our feelings in a more articulate amusing manner than we could ever hope to.

  • @PassiveAgressive319
    @PassiveAgressive319 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I loved his radio series on the BBC and his TH-cam channel.

  • @neilburgess9652
    @neilburgess9652 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    perfection! Partridge wit and sardonic laughter at the idiocy Boris was part of and is now continued in uk politics. Love this and he got it just right at the right time.many times

  • @ToeRagFC
    @ToeRagFC 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    If its so important that Keir Starmer 'used to be a Human Rights Lawyer'... Then why does he support the genocide being committed in Gaza?
    The idea that Starmer is better for this reason is laughable... And not in a comedic way!

  • @jamesgibson1123
    @jamesgibson1123 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    Over half the country are centre right, tory/brexit voters. Amazes me that people talk about them like its a small fringe group of people 😂

    • @RobBCactive
      @RobBCactive 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You haven't been reading election results correctly, more than half the country voted against both Tories and Brexit and seen them turn extreme right, then break Britain with delusional policies.

    • @1983pety
      @1983pety 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Amazes me as well. I'm not attacking the Tory voters however I have a few of them around me who still think Brexit was good for the country, that the NHS is in difficulties because of immigrants and those desperate boat people and not the politicians they've elected, etc. There's no way to change their minds.

    • @douglasstewart3889
      @douglasstewart3889 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Eh…no. Brexit yes, Tories no. The Tories and Reform combined are about 34% right now, and with Johnson they got 43% of the vote.

    • @SMoggyinski
      @SMoggyinski 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That is completely false. The only reason that the Conservatives have been so successful historically, is that the non-Tory vote has always been split, sometimes 3 or 4 ways. The fact that Brexshit voting, GB News watching trash now have a "viable" (!?) alternative in Reform, simply balances things up a bit electorally.

  • @MartinandFreddie
    @MartinandFreddie 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "The child of Partidge and Tucker"............. PERFECT! Thank you Tom!!
    Having seen Pie (Tom Walker) live, all i can say is "How the hell does he remember it all, and where does he get the energy from' Without doubt the best live performer, in any genre, I have ever seen, and i have seen Dave Allen, Led Zeppelin, Dara O'Briain and Pink Floyd to name but four!!

  • @GregOrCreg
    @GregOrCreg 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Is Jonathan Pie satire or a sage? Seems to me that he's right about most things, and, like me, justifiably angry.

  • @jamesmarsh4957
    @jamesmarsh4957 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    love Tom's accent , great interview , love Pie he says the things we all are thinking , brilliant

  • @vladtheimpaler8995
    @vladtheimpaler8995 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Starmer might have been an interesting alternative if he hadn’t of bent the knee to the BLM grift .

  • @Giovanniditessitore
    @Giovanniditessitore 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lovely interview

  • @rojavida
    @rojavida 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    “Do come! You’ll miss out on something great!” - Su Pollard after watching Heroes & Villains.

  • @CarrionCrow993
    @CarrionCrow993 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Keep at it Tom.

  • @TheFoxpitt
    @TheFoxpitt 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So the difference between Keir Stalin and Rashid Sunook is that one is a lawyer and the other is a hedge fund manager, therefore good guy v w*nk? This is comedy gold but given he's being serious, I'll give the tour a swerve!

  • @Mantastic-ho3vm
    @Mantastic-ho3vm 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No it isn't. They have to be told.

  • @tonyb9560
    @tonyb9560 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

    The Labour party introduced the minimum wage, the NHS, workers rights etc. The politicians are not all the same. The tory party are responsible for the mess .They only care about their bank balance.

    • @latchmere100
      @latchmere100 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The Labour Party has not done a thing for the working classes. They ruined this country under Blair.

    • @anglodoomer5995
      @anglodoomer5995 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      You're literally describing Kid Starver

    • @Samuel-hd3cp
      @Samuel-hd3cp 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Yea, a bit like Madonna, I only like their early stuff. All the recent stuff is rubbish.

    • @tonyb9560
      @tonyb9560 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@Samuel-hd3cp The Tories have been like Boyz II men for a long time.Just ask Mr Menzies and his friends in the party.

    • @henghistbluetooth7882
      @henghistbluetooth7882 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      The current tories are the worst. But the Labour Party didn’t introduce workers rights. That was the liberal party from 1830 up to ww1. The Labour Party continued the tradition. And although I would applaud the NHS and the minimum wage, they also introduced the ;government messing with private businesses’ philosophy that destroyed our automotive and aviation industries. Nobody is perfect.

  • @TheWatchman1893
    @TheWatchman1893 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pie is excellent, been keeping me entertained since day 1👌

  • @MrBizteck
    @MrBizteck 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Pie is the one political comedian act that my right wing pro Brexit friends actually like. ( yes I have them, if you dont/ cant then YOUR part of the problem)

    • @MrBizteck
      @MrBizteck 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ps Ive seen the show .... its brilliant.

  • @lifesbutastumble
    @lifesbutastumble 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I hope he does go after the left wing because we HAVE to satirize ourselves when we too go too far

  • @StewartSchiller
    @StewartSchiller 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Having a pop at non-Tory voters is fine and dandy. Funny how that works.

  • @mcjeebus
    @mcjeebus 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This isn't the end, this is the beginning.

  • @MatchesMalone1183
    @MatchesMalone1183 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'd never seen that Sissons clip before 😂

  • @johngamble967
    @johngamble967 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When is the interviewer going to get his haircut finished. 😊

  • @gregbarber7585
    @gregbarber7585 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I don't think Pie would have existed in the first few years of Blair's reign. Plenty of materiel to mine over the next few years I think!

  • @eddiehitler9822
    @eddiehitler9822 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I go for the rants but Pie cracks me up, too

  • @richarddepledge960
    @richarddepledge960 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Tom is brilliant.
    I just wish he would actually stand for parliament. He would get my vote. He talks sense just like the late great George Carlin did re America and the world. We need more people like Tom. He makes you laugh but also makes you think and realise and question what type of world we are all living in.

  • @Turrican
    @Turrican 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Tom? I thought his name WAS Jonathan Pie 😅