wael ag he was also on TDS in New York, community shot in LA. Kind of impossible for him to be a regular. He had LWT by the last couple of seasons of community I think so he was even busier.
Season 3 overlapped with him being the host of The Daily Show while Stewart was away. The new showrunners of Season 4 didn't want him back. He was asked to come back to fill the void left by Glover leaving in Season 5. But he started Last Week Tonight while Season 6 was in production.
Nah, him being used less regularly made him better - you could appreciate his character more. If his character had been in every episode he wouldn’t be as hilarious as he is.
It's probably my favorite line in the show. And it only came about because they forgot to get a shot of his shoe actually untied. A mistake led to such brilliance haha
@@jansojele289 Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon (a British musician known for his atheism, performative activism and that goddamned 'Imagine' song) in order to emulate his literary hero Holden Caulfield (the angsty, mixed-up teenage protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye who is obsessed with superficiality and 'phoniness' in society because he finds it hard to relate to other people). Duncan's using the incident of an American killing a Brit to call both the killer and the student a "loser", and considering both Duncan and Lennon have ties to Liverpool, of course that's the reference he goes for.
Abed: "Where's your dad? It's Christmas, Professor. Where is your dad?" Duncan: "I DON'T KNOW! WE NEVER KNOW! Mum won't stop crying! I'm GOING TO AMERICA WITH GRANDMA!"
He's talking about life and death. "...which we as a species are cursed with knowing, resulting in SOMETHING." Then he writes it. And to top it off: "Again. This is really not my field."
He hosted a panel discussion with the surviving members of Monty Python a few years back and he fit right in, especially when things started to go off the rails.
Never forget "I am a professional, and you are interfering with a very fragile book deal... I mean, human being" from Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas 😂😂
They overdid it with the british jokes in season 5, but Duncan is always the best. Damn you John Oliver for having a very successful career that didn't allow you to appear more on this show!!!
"It's pronounced Aluminium" This is one of those lines that I completely glossed over my first watch. Now it annihilates me every time I even think about it.
I genuinely love how in s2e5 he turned on a lot of stupid videos and no one even questioned it. And then in the end of the episode Britta asked him if he decided to stop pretending to know a subject and he easily said yes. I love this guy!
@@Emilia-mq3xm I think it's because all three; Cheers, Mash, and Faulty Towers are TV shows. When Abed overheard Cheers he assumed they were talking about TV shows so he responded with Mash to which Duncan responded with Faulty Towers. I haven't watched a single one of these so I assume they were trying to one up another by saying that their show was better.
"Again, this is really not my field." I think it shows a psychologist's interpretation of what motivates humans. All the same, that hands down is my favorite Duncan quote.
"I need to go get the tests from my office" *proceeds to leave for over two seasons*
lol
The community college professor equivalent of a father going to get milk from the store and disappearing for seventeen years
OMG I never realised that.
@@Jo-sv9io Milk? In my days they were cigarettes.
What ep was this?
"You've come to respect me"
"Sure"
"Well, get ready to stop"
*Immediately starts rapping*
@@georgehiscott700 perfect transition
I feel like this is his constant approach to “Last Week Tonight”
And it just makes us respect him more
My shoe is untied by British standards.
I can confirm that his shoe is _very_ untied by British standards.
@@javidhussainzade4481 Yeah.
I wish there were more jokes like this in the show! 😂
My favourite line
1 bunnies 2 bunnies
You missed the best one:
"This is why I came to America"
Exactly Brother! That was the best one!
"What, whaaaat?"
yea but that provides its own context, doesn't it?
"They really get the 'incest' right."
no no that’s in context. That line is it’s own context.
I wish Duncan was on the show more. He steals every scene he was in
because it's John-fuckin-Oliver
Div P partly that and partly because he was well written
Even if he’s kinda weird and uncomfortable to watch he was actually not a bad character and had good potential
Too bad I can't help thinking of the twat who plays him whenever I see him on screen.
@@AlanGresov its because he wasn't in it as much
Duncan almost permitting the government to launch an airstrike on greendale or some other facility was my favorite part of the series
Top
I lost it the first time I saw that scene.
“I think your being a little childish and hold on a sec I need to use my force field to prevent Chang from getting food” my favorite line from him
I read this right as he said that lol
@@oliviajordan654 same xd
Quite literally the most underrated character on the show
He’s so good
What about Leonard?
@@ryanbl0593 everybody loves leonard
he should've stayed for season 6
Wtf he's the worst character
0:04 top 10 rappers eminem was afraid to diss
Dean it's Top 1
808 likes)))
Hate that he dipped near the end of season 5 and then just didn’t show until again. He worked as a main character
He was supposed to be a main character, but he did not have that much time, having his own show
@@danielzysk community was before his own show, I think
wael ag he was also on TDS in New York, community shot in LA. Kind of impossible for him to be a regular. He had LWT by the last couple of seasons of community I think so he was even busier.
It’s cuz Last Week Tonight began in 2014 and he got busy
Season 3 overlapped with him being the host of The Daily Show while Stewart was away. The new showrunners of Season 4 didn't want him back. He was asked to come back to fill the void left by Glover leaving in Season 5. But he started Last Week Tonight while Season 6 was in production.
I didn't even know there was 4 minutes worth of Duncan clips.
Right? He did not get nearly as much screentime as he deserved, even this amount is more than it felt like he got
Oh Duncan, he should've been a regular like the dean
They wanted that, but he was preoccupied during season 3 and 6. In 4 the showrunners just didn't ask him.
Nah, him being used less regularly made him better - you could appreciate his character more. If his character had been in every episode he wouldn’t be as hilarious as he is.
@@avblank2064 I don't know, I think they could have made him funny somehow.
@@laluenbaires oh I have no doubt about that, I just think he is funnier and more liked because he is used sparingly
@@avblank2064 like creed form the office
"Oh bloody hell, my shoe's untied by British standards" is such a good line lol
It's also such a funny reason for him to fall victim to the Bandit.
It's probably my favorite line in the show. And it only came about because they forgot to get a shot of his shoe actually untied. A mistake led to such brilliance haha
His “go kill John Lennon again” line is so underrated
Best joke in the whole show
@@r520jr8 how the best joke?
@@jansojele289 Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon (a British musician known for his atheism, performative activism and that goddamned 'Imagine' song) in order to emulate his literary hero Holden Caulfield (the angsty, mixed-up teenage protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye who is obsessed with superficiality and 'phoniness' in society because he finds it hard to relate to other people). Duncan's using the incident of an American killing a Brit to call both the killer and the student a "loser", and considering both Duncan and Lennon have ties to Liverpool, of course that's the reference he goes for.
@@jansojele289 the guy he telling it looks like John's killer
But I don't get it
Abed: "Where's your dad? It's Christmas, Professor. Where is your dad?"
Duncan: "I DON'T KNOW! WE NEVER KNOW! Mum won't stop crying! I'm GOING TO AMERICA WITH GRANDMA!"
"I'm not afraid to push a girl into make-believe lava. In fact, it's been my primary strategy."
God, I wish Duncan was in this show more.
His line in anthropology where he writes something on the blackboard just makes me laugh every god damn time :D
sooooommmfiiing
What did he write?
@@yellowstarburst3810 he just said: soooomething
and wrote that word on the blackboard :D
@@cullermann2 he actually wrote SOMETHINF but in the next cut the F turns into a G
He's talking about life and death. "...which we as a species are cursed with knowing, resulting in SOMETHING." Then he writes it. And to top it off:
"Again. This is really not my field."
He was deadass my favourite character he made me laugh every time he was on screen
its the british humour
3:35, i still don't know how everyone kept ignoring Duncan during that scene. He had mustard on his cheek, that gives you the power.
Hehee
i suppose it comes down to the intent you wear the mustard on your face with. duncan had lecherous intent, whereas britta's intentions were noble
@@tayfun4688This comment was worthy of The Mother of Ones.
no thats just britta because it distracts from her whatever Annie said
"BRITISH DENTISTRY IS NOT ON TRIAL TODAY!"
That rap was kinda epic tho
I always wished he was in the show more. Kinda like that this is John Oliver's only network show.
“Now this! ... is why I came to America”
“All life ends with death that we as humans are cursed with knowing. Resulting in, SOMETHING”
Again this is really not my field
This whole is my all-time favorite Duncan quote.
This man is oozing with Monty Python energy
Oh and I thought what he reminds me of!
Briddish
He hosted a panel discussion with the surviving members of Monty Python a few years back and he fit right in, especially when things started to go off the rails.
and i love him
Never forget "I am a professional, and you are interfering with a very fragile book deal... I mean, human being" from Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas 😂😂
this man just did an episode of tv where he explains the institutional racism embedded in american policing
The word genius gets thrown around too much...
Yet not enough in regards to Mr Oliver.
the duality of man
Epic!!
Crazy...
@@beckgh7270 DualiDEAN of man
THE CREDIT SCENE WITH HIM ORDERING STAPLES IS THE BEST
I was so happy they brought him back for the 5th season
John Oliver has some amazing comedic timing
They overdid it with the british jokes in season 5, but Duncan is always the best. Damn you John Oliver for having a very successful career that didn't allow you to appear more on this show!!!
"you, in the boobs"
People had to ask me why the hell I was laughing so hard at the cafeteria
XD
"It's pronounced Aluminium"
This is one of those lines that I completely glossed over my first watch. Now it annihilates me every time I even think about it.
And now he says Aluminum in his show.. 😀
Crazy how this video that this only less than an hour old video got recommended to me.
john oliver is a national treasure omg
☝ a global treasure
I genuinely love how in s2e5 he turned on a lot of stupid videos and no one even questioned it. And then in the end of the episode Britta asked him if he decided to stop pretending to know a subject and he easily said yes. I love this guy!
The best part about Duncan is the fact that no one has ever said the slang he uses
I’ve only recently gotten into Community, but I am now resolved to refer to 6.30 as “gravedigger’s biscuits” any time I’m talking to an American.
0:43 me talking about season 6 episode 12
"Oh American hi-five!"
"My shoe is untied by English standards."
"Resulting in... sooomething" gets me everytime😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣😭😭
my fave duncan joke is just "whats your clearance level" "top"
Okay I'm not gay but for John Oliver, I can make an exception
This was a weird deviation in John Oliver's career but I loved it!
I'm so glad John Oliver was part of this show.
“Cheers”
“M.A.S.H.”
“Fawlty Towers - game over. Have a nice day”
Notably missing from this video. Best improvised line in the show.
Not improvised
Hinade the cheers and mash lines were written in the script originally, but John improvised and added the “fawlty towers” bit at some point.
One of my favourite lines :)
Can somebody expalin the joke to me?
@@Emilia-mq3xm I think it's because all three; Cheers, Mash, and Faulty Towers are TV shows. When Abed overheard Cheers he assumed they were talking about TV shows so he responded with Mash to which Duncan responded with Faulty Towers. I haven't watched a single one of these so I assume they were trying to one up another by saying that their show was better.
1:48 Best one!
finally some duncan content
is it weird that professor duncan's humor makes him oddly attractive 👁👄👁
He is attractive 😬
I can’t even judge, I feel this ☠️☠️☠️
He's so cute istg, I hoped to see more of him :?
realising out of everyone in this show, ian duncan is the best character for out of context vids. this was hilarious
2:55 is my favorite Duncan line
I forgot this guy's name and searched "it's pronounced aluminium" and that's the first thing that popped up
"Fine go, go kill John Lennon again you loser" always gets me dying every time I watch it
I don’t know why but him playing the piano is hilarious to me
It's even funnier if you know what the pianist on Glee looks like.
“Exactly what they want us to think” lmao I remember seeing that for the first time and dying for 15 straight minutes
Christmas pterodactyl is one of my favorite parts of the show
Ian duncan is my favourite character, I'm so sad he barely comes up in a few seasons!
this channel is the best thing that’s happened this year
Him, Chang and Abed are my favorites
Crazy, insane, and delusional... You decide which is which.
He really worked as main character in season 5... Man I miss his character. If only John had been willing to skip a couple days on the Daily Show lol
I hope Jeff appears on a segment of Last Week Tonight and just berates Duncan
"I'll see you at six thirty, or as we English call it: gravedigger's biscuits."
This has to be one of the top 3, if not the best, out of context characters in television history.
Does anyone else adore the “gravedigger’s biscuits line?”
“All life ends in death which we as a species are cursed with knowing, resulting in ‘something’.” He’s kind of spitting facts tho
"Again, this is really not my field."
I think it shows a psychologist's interpretation of what motivates humans. All the same, that hands down is my favorite Duncan quote.
I love John Oliver and Community with my whole heart 💓.
My name is Xim Xam and my twin brother Mix Max shares all my pain.
And how is that supposed to affect us?
Phoebe Clark ... psycho...logically?
@@StefveoX *Duncan gets shot in the leg*
I love him such a mood
*aggressively sad*
“IM GOING TO AMERICA WITH GRANDMA!”
Boy do I love Daniel Radcliffe. He did a great job as Harry Potter, Ian Duncan AND Magneto. Fucking legend
I don't think that's him-
@@darcat957 u didn't get the joke u mush
My favorite role was Lord of the Rings. He really did a great job as that Hobbit chick with the ring.
"All life ends in death which we as a species are curses with knowing, which results in..."
*pulls out chalk*
"...something".
John Oliver looks like they mashed all the Beatles together.......and the prevailing attitude was Ringo
"All life ends with death, which we as humans are cursed with knowing, Resulting in...
SOMETHING!"
2:36 honestly my favorite scene of Ian Duncan
"...resulting in...soooomething" is probably my favorite obscure quote from this show.
Him calling the Arcadia number is one of my favourite end credits I've seen
Duncan was such a gem
1:52 is so underrated, his delivery makes me laugh every time😂
Obviously a cluster of buildings so let's all have a big laugh at the freak!
If you look closely, Britta (Or hey, perhaps Gillian) looked at it after he said that.
Duncan's rap in season 1 is basically the Dean's payday rap.
Some test told me this is the most accurate character to me , and I'm kinda unsurprised but scared
I love Duncan
as soon as i clicked on this, i knew his song would be in here.
My favorite is when he throws the glass of alcohol on the ground and says "Now that is what Jews do at weddings! Anthropology."
"I'll see you at precisely 6: 30,or as the english call it, GRAVEDIGGERS BISCIUTS" im wheezing LMAO so underrated 1:09
Finally someone made a video on a good character
Mark my word this video is going to get 50k + views
literally my favorite character
I have an insatiable crush on professor Duncan rn and idk what to do with it.
I get you girl🖐️😔
Right?! 2nd season Duncan was so so cute to me😭😭😭😭😭
"The stupid steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car."
Funnily enough, that works in context and out of context.
“Resulting in... S O M E T H I N G”
Again, this is really not my field.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS
0:16 oh god 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
idk if ian duncan was ever in context
1:02 i love the little ‘woo’ after the hi-five like he’s REALLY trying to de-escalate there 😭
A underated character in a underrated show
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS
"Remote control Christmas... Pterodactyl"
"Professor Duncan hasn't been around for a while, huh?"