@@truthseeker7794 How does he make himself a fool Calling out someone else when he's done nothing himself¿? Keep proving evolution can go backwards little boy
This is the first time I have ever disliked anything this guy has done. I think he's part of the liberal elite. He is another person basically calling all UKIP members and voters racist and stupid. I am fed up with this kind of behaviour towards anyone who disagrees with them. I have never voted for UKIP, but they're not Nazis or anything close to that. This lazy labelling helps no one.
If he’d been really interested in exposing democracy he’d have stood directly against the Tory or Labour leader . This was just a woke jape: Murray believes in democracy.
To those critics who accused him of making a farce out of politics - Noone make a better job of this than the top politicians themselves do. The best any comedian can hope to achieve is to highlight this fact for those who can't see it for themselves.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love.
Since the end of WW2 common sense has been on the decline and the popularity of Hamburgers has been on the increase. This clearly shows that eating Hamburgers destroys common sense so if I was an MP I would ban Hamburgers so restoring common sense ....
Some of the comments here reflect my observations from seeing Al in his Pub Landlord persona live. He touches on it in his talk when he references satire. It seems that many in his audiences don't realise that the persona is a satirical construct of a no-nothing, blow-hard, always able to offer an opinion pub bore. They connect with his "common sense" outlook, and think he's for real - someone that can articulate their outlook in an interesting and funny way. I see comments in here that show the same - they don't get that he's taking the piss out of them, even when he's said as much in the video they just watched.
A very clever man all round. As Pub Landlord he’s genius. How he can just spew facts about history , geography, wars and any subject. When he asked that blokes name on the front row ( Luke) even though he said he wasn’t going to do anything I thought he was just about to. Some folk just don’t get Al Murray Pub Landlord. Some think he’s real I think and not a parody. Great talk here. Comedy genius.
@@davidmcculloch8490 Nothing can compare, not even the odious Diane Flabbybot, with the bozoid that the Demotwats in the U.S. have appointed Chief Dickhead.
I love Al Murray but I think his mockery of UKIP was a bit easy. Comedy is always funnier when you mock the powerholders and the powerholders at the time were the EU, the big companies and their political representatives labour and tories.
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But its UKIP. They are hilarious. He did a great job, they are such twats.
it is kind of fascinating how politicians act when someone "invades their turf". they automatically assume you're as crooked as they, and you can't convince them otherwise.
With an utter hatred of politics, since first watching Brewster's Millions I always fancied setting up a joke candidacy with some friends. The thing that has always stopped me from following up is not wanting to be the front man. Fun to hear about Al's journey. It must have been such a laugh, albeit a little frustrating and exasperating at times.
Yep. The Oxbridge elitist grandchild of diplomats and desscendant of one of Britains most famous and successful writers who makes his money taking the mick out of the working class and who decided to court the media with a PR campaign because he couldn't handle the fact that the working class might think and vote differently from him. And of course, according to famous person logic, he believes that he's the poor victim. The lack of self awareness on his part is spectacular.
Ha you seem to know more about the prick then his stupid fans do. Ask him about the Army Cadets Ask him about his m8 Lt Chapman And then ask him about the young girl cadet they took to Scotland
If you see Murray...Ask him about the army cadets in london, Lt Chapman And the young girl cadet. Ask him about what happend the time they took her to Scotland
Ahhhh democracy! 4 wolves & a sheep deciding what to have for dinner! Yes I nicked it & can't remember where but it's the best definition I've found? 🤡
I'd really like to see more of Murray talking about real issues and less of the luvvie brigades doing "world experiences" TV. It's a pity the network's haven't caught on that people are starving for something more substantial in their viewing diet.
The networks have no interest in providing anything more substantial for the viewing public. The function of the MSM, both left and right, is to keep people sedated. Sports, "reality TV", anodyne costume dramas, and sensation-riddled news, are designed to cause outrage, confusion and helplessness...and to sell products. "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." Soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Fair play to the guy, the healthiest thing for democracy and politics in any country is as much competition and as many independent parties as possible. Also, its amusing that so many people cant differentiate between the man himself and his fictional comedy character alter ego...
@@overtheworl to put the fail of the weimar republic down to just having to many parties is stupid which ignores all the history of the weimar republic and the world at that time. Yes we can all admit it was a problem for the weimar republic but having to little parties is also a problem look at the US and the ever increasing polarisation of people based on their political opinions as well as any country that has."elections" where you can vote for only 1 party you can vote for in reality such as China or Russia.
wow, so many salty comments. OK not the best presentation but engaging and witty and well written. I'm surprised he toned down the pub landlord character for the campaign. In for a penny, in for a pound...
This comments section is fascinating. Several interesting points: 1.) He's already acknowledged that he was trying to take votes off UKIP, as he was off Labour, Lib Dem, Tories etc. that's how politics works. 2.) If you are a UKIP voter and can't tell the difference between Al Murray and your party's candidate then maybe you really are as thick as people think you are, plenty of UKIP voters managed the perfectly simple task of checking the box next to the UKIP candidate, because actually they're not that thick (a lot of them are just pissed off with the mainstream parties), so if you're the one sat there going "He's just trying to dupe the stupid plebs" what does that say about your views on UKIP voters? If you genuinely think he's a threat to UKIP's voter base then you obviously hold the exact same opinion of those voters as you're accusing him of holding. 3.) If you're complaining about him being unfunny why are you watching him? Also why are you watching him give a talk at a university where he's clearly out of character and then expecting him to deliver a comedy routine?
Additionally, to add a little bit of quantitative analysis there are 46 down votes out of 394 votes, and that 16 of the original comments, out of the 34, are negative. The disproportionate ratio makes me want to know, are a 3rd of the down voters really really motivated, or is a lot of this comment section Poe's law.
Because you people cant fathom why people think differently from you. This guy is a blue blood elitist who hates not only the working class but furthermore hates the fact that the working class are even allowed to vote and that he doesn't get enough recognition from the world for how smart he is. His lack of self awareness would be staggering but he is just another example of the 'punching-down' elite.
I am not joking when I say he would make a good Prime Minister, although he might do more good helping the politicians not take themselves too seriously!
And yet this man, who the elite types think so deserving of mockery, has arguably had a bigger impact on British politics than anyone since World War Two. Starting pretty much by himself, with little to no funding, he spent 23 years campaigning tirelessly - through ridicule and smug opprobrium from all sides - for the UK to leave the EU, and bloody hell, he ended up doing it. Even if you disagree with him, dislike him.. whatever.. it's quite a story, and quite an example of perseverance, and having the strength to carry on against the tide. Al Murray: great comedian, decent documentary maker, preachy, self-righteous and just dull when it comes to politics.
clearly... they were arguing that you were 'mucking up the voting levels whilst not being a legitimate or serious political agent".. as they clearly saw it.
Ive always liked Al. First saw him for £4 (on a full bill no less) around 1998 and a year later on his own at £20 in the west end. Followed his career.. Also enjoyed his Planet Rock radio show. Great to see him out of character.. Seemed even slightly nervous to start with here!?
I'm sure he meant this to be a great revelation of his wisdom and genius, but it is so dully delivered, and obvious who his target was, that he comes across as yet another smug BBC type sneerer. He plays the Pub Landlord character well, and seems aware that people are laughing with him, but this makes me wonder whether he actually has that awareness at all, or just thinks he's cleverer than his 'thick' audiences.
@@oliverclements5011 Are you suggesting that his real life is the parody not his Pub Landlord character? Interesting idea. Not sure it works with the info available, though.
to compare brexit and scottish independence just proves ignorance about what the conversation about Scottish independence looks like. i don't mean in tabloids or the English parliament i mean from the SNP and people ACTUALLY LIVING IN SCOTLAND
They were only notes/bullet points. You fail to realise that his stand up stuff was not strictly scripted. It was riffing/ad lib . The general idea and some lines were written but it was largely freestyle.
Standup is a wonderful art of mixing prepared and rehearsed material with reactions and interactions with the audience (often also with prepared responses stored in the big bag of tricks). This was a one-off speech, not a performance refined through material tests and then dozens of smaller shows before hitting the major venues.
From a master presenter, this is a terrible disappointment and is just boring as he is just reading a script. Hardly an engaging talk. Talk to the people. It is what you are good at. They will listen. They are intelligent people. And you read to them like they were five years old.
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Rather than a script, its a lecture. they are notes hes using, not a script.
By all means take the piss out of how our democratic process has been denigrated to little more then a cross between an episode of X Factor, and an advert from your local second hand car dealer, but that is hardly the peoples fault. For remember folks the alternative is your lives being run by college boys like Al Murray, who make a living from being something that they are not. Trained and skilled actors, who take the piss out of their own audience. Which indeed we already are to a much greater extent than most would like to imagine. Some may think that these people have made a good job on ballance others may not, I for one am certainly in the later camp. However without democracy it would not matter one jot what either you or I think, and this would be a dangerous situation to say the very least. The intellectual class allied with the big bucks, long since decided to marginalise democracy to the shit show it has progressively become, so that their bought and paid for, so called experts can run the World in the interests of themselves and there financial institutions. Therefore rather then taking the piss out of our democratic process the people would be well advised to become actively involved in it, while they still have a democracy to be involved in. For make no mistake, if people like Al Murray and his mates have their way, there would be no democracy at all, and if the UK stays in the EU, it is all over bar the bread and fuel ques and consequent rioting. If there is one thing a University education teaches most, it is a profound sense of one's own superiority over one's fellow man. That your own opinions and priorities are somehow more valid or important then virtually anyones elses. Democracy acts as a protection from these potential psychopaths permanently inflicting their own psychosis, namely nassasitic megalomania, onto the general population. Al Murray may be witty, but think very carefully before laughing with someone who makes a living laughing at you, or your fellow man or women.
Odd. I remember Murray standing behind Farage pulling faces. Obviously this isn't making a mockery of democracy at all. Even if you think Farage is a complete idiot whose views deserve no consideration, this isn't an excuse. Who decides, Murray ?
He's the descendant of rich and well connected people who seems to hate the working class that he makes his money ridiculing. People like him can't handle the uppityness of those people they consider "beneath" them.
I admire Al Murray for his determination to keep going at it after all the bullshit he put up with, so if you've any skeletons in the cupboard you've got to have thick skin to run for politics.
The UK is not now and has never been a democracy. 18 year olds did not get the vote until 1969. All votes in the UK are not of equal value which is exaggerated by FPtP.
@@powerbite92 I was about to post a rebuttal accusing you of being reactionary and disingenuous, but the guy is a quasi noble of sorts going by his Wikipedia, his background reads like a Tory politician's with his Oxford education to boot. I still wouldn't argue that he's posh or a snob, he's certainly an anti-populist. He talks about his background and Wikipedia funnily enough, half way through.
@@giansideros Look at his comic alter-ego, look at his campaign, he satirises working class people for the schadenfreude of middle class and higher class people. He makes out that they are prejudiced and stupid. "Populism" ie: people being given choices that are actually popular with them, terrifies his class because they take being in charge of policy etc. as a given. All his little campaign showed was how he couldn't handle the great unwashed getting choices that he doesn't want them to have.
Love Al Murray, whether as himself, or as his alter ego. The sad thing is, that I've met many people who think that he means what he says as The Pub Landlord and they agree with him! 🤪
With Al murray at the helm,. .. this country would be a far happier place for all. He hates our flag ( I'm Welsh)......but I understand and forgive him.... " Dragons are for Kids "....😄 Super intelligent guy, vote for him, if you're golden opportunity arrives... !!
Al Murray, or Alastair James Hay Murray to give him his full name, is from an extremely wealthy and politically well connected aristocratic family. He went to a very exclusive independent school and Oxford University. His school fees were more each year than a whole working class family make in an entire year. Like the majority of the wealthy class from which our politicians and journalists come he has no understanding of why working class people would vote for Brexit. Nor does he want to find out, instead this wealthy man mocks working class people in his stand up comedy routine. Al Murray has never had to wait in line for social housing, he has never had to wait for an NHS dentist, he has never has to struggle to find a state school place for his child. Because his family are millionaires, who like to mock the working classes. He is the reason millions of working class people voted for Brexit.
So leaving the EU has made the British medical system better? Oh it made it worse because the system was setup ( by the Tories) to run on increasingly tighter budgets, relying on foreign staff who would tolerate poorer working conditions and waiting for the system to collapse so they can justify privatising it.
@@Aspire198 So the Labour party had no input in the NHS since they created it? Give it a rest. Was the NHS a Nirvana-like place under Tony Blair? Not how I remember it. And now cue the predictable 'Blair was just a Tory in disguise' apologetics. Probably shouldn't have voted for him to run the party, and then the country, then.
As sense of humour is like deodorant; the people who need it the most, never have it. Why are some people getting upset about Al Murray taking the piss out of Farage and UKIP? It's called satire. The fact that some people take comedians more seriously than actual politicians already makes a mockery out of the whole political system. You can't get away from the fact that the UK two parties political is a joke. You have to vote for the party you don't like, so that the party you don't like doesn't have a chance. That's not democracy. That's Hobson's choice.
I don't think people are getting upset that he satirised 'the whole political system', he didn't. He satirised a single candidate and a single party, but lacks the balls to admit that his predominant motivation was setting out his wares in a peacock-like display of his political credentials rather than comedy. What he actually made a mockery of is the endless procession of cloned, unremarkable off-the-shelf comedians who like to dabble in a bit of political activism to secure a regular and lucrative spot on the panel show circuit (it obviously has to be the 'right' - ie pseudo-left - activism, the champagne socialism of the political establishment and its wholly-owned BBC and C4 networks), and particularly his own ultimately vain attempt to join them. He's made a career out of taking the piss out of audience, and that's very funny when it's done as an 'in joke' between 'friends'. The real piss take though was this political stunt, compounded by this lecture making it abundantly clear that "No, I'm taking the piss because I'm an elitist prick who thinks you're a bunch of fucking idiots". Sadly (some might say) the panel show thing didn't materialise after all, and I understand his bookings and DVD sales took something of a hit in the aftermath too. Now who's the 'fucking idiot', Al? Break a leg... or something.
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@@otterspocket2826 And yet there are a heap of pseudo politicians doing the equivalent of the Panel Show on TH-cam and elsewhere, Starkey,(only just), Murray, Farage, Anderson, Taylor, Hitchens, even talkback radio with pictures(what's that for?) He did a great job of the UKIP twats, just brilliant.
@ - I don't think that self-produced content hosted on TH-cam can sensibly be compared to the panel show circuit, broadcast by vast media corporations such as the BBC and C4 - one publicly funded through what is effectively taxation, and both state (ie also publicly) owned.
@@pspicer777I`m not supposed to be a comic. He is just a politically motivated bore. As Colin Veacock says bring back the Gov`nor, that worked for years and years.
Opening the public's eyes to how they are being scammed is a necessary service which education does not do enough to expose. Thus keeping power in the hands of the scammers.
Most of this went under the radar. He was too fast and clever for the audience, even though the audience was university students and doctors of science and literature, and professors. I have made this mistake myself. If you are doing public speaking, slow down, and keep things structured, with regular jokes.
We need to get FUKP up and running.MRLP are to silly. FUKP are only mildly silly with a bit of sarcasm thrown in. The likes of Al, Ian Hislop, and maybe that other bloke who writes books, are easily electable and would easily beat the 300 in a punch up.
Instead of this 55 minute excuse why don't you have the balls to be truly honest and admit that everything you did was just an attempt to undermine Forage and Ukip. You say at 5.23 people should be allowed to make up their own minds and yet everything you did then and are still doing here is venting your spleen over the politician/politics that you personally despise in an effort to discredit. You had more in common with the Nigel of the Reality drugs party and the closest you have come to authentic realistic politics was the whole parachute episode - I don't mean that as a dig, just everything about that was a mini version of what the real politicians experience. We had an election, you said it wasn't rigged - live with it....or overthrow it for our own good.
I'm none the wiser as to your actual politics sir. Anti Brexit?. A virus admirer. ? Trump.derangement syndrome ? Blairite? Do you think us Brexitians were lied to and didn't get the issues...are we all racists ?
Yeah,boris is PM,but of course he's a bumbling fool as is Donald Trump president of USA,maybe that's where the rest of us are going wrong we're to damm clever by far.
@@mjh5437 who cares about Biden? We need to make sure no more Trump's or Johnson's get in! I trust you will help stop bumbling fools from being world leaders, good bloody lord!
I think had you not gone the joker route you actually had a real chance. You left yourself open to the likes of Nararge who took a back step from his own argument. Your comedy scene was comedy but on point about the real issue's. For me it's a shame you didn't campain more to the wider view. I really think we the people need the likes of yourself. The truth!
With the David Cameron thing, the issue is that the average person is actually pretty stupid. And since it is the average 50% of people are more stupid than that. So to try and cover up the fact that they are incapable of even understanding things at face value they make rubbish up in order to not lose self respect. It is a well known psychological principle and one of the key causes of cognitive dissonance.
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A talk by an intelligent, educated man who is a comedian by trade on any topic he chooses to orate about, I want to hear. He never lets me down.
Have you seen the bit he does on Britain defeating ever country in the world? It's really impressive
A brilliant talk, great comedian
@@markmiller6402 He's ok as the pub landlord but when he speaks as himself he just makes a fool of himself.
@@truthseeker7794
How does he make himself a fool
Calling out someone else when he's done nothing himself¿?
Keep proving evolution can go backwards little boy
This is the first time I have ever disliked anything this guy has done. I think he's part of the liberal elite. He is another person basically calling all UKIP members and voters racist and stupid. I am fed up with this kind of behaviour towards anyone who disagrees with them. I have never voted for UKIP, but they're not Nazis or anything close to that. This lazy labelling helps no one.
If he’d been really interested in exposing democracy he’d have stood directly against the Tory or Labour leader . This was just a woke jape: Murray believes in democracy.
@@oliverclements5011 What tosh.
To those critics who accused him of making a farce out of politics - Noone make a better job of this than the top politicians themselves do. The best any comedian can hope to achieve is to highlight this fact for those who can't see it for themselves.
The confusion of citizenship with consumer has perhaps been a theme of the last 40 years.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man.
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love.
Both systems are bad, the latter a bit better , as it’s easier to replace one man making bad decisions than a million.
Since the end of WW2 common sense has been on the decline and the popularity of Hamburgers has been on the increase. This clearly shows that eating Hamburgers destroys common sense so if I was an MP I would ban Hamburgers so restoring common sense ....
Hamburg
@@actionjaxon7570 yeah, they are exempt
Aren't we being told to eat bugs as a way of lowering meat consumption?
Studies show also that Hamburgers are more deadly than the Covid vaccine
@@p24hrsmith you mean the people of Hamburg ?
Some of the comments here reflect my observations from seeing Al in his Pub Landlord persona live. He touches on it in his talk when he references satire. It seems that many in his audiences don't realise that the persona is a satirical construct of a no-nothing, blow-hard, always able to offer an opinion pub bore. They connect with his "common sense" outlook, and think he's for real - someone that can articulate their outlook in an interesting and funny way. I see comments in here that show the same - they don't get that he's taking the piss out of them, even when he's said as much in the video they just watched.
A very clever man all round. As Pub Landlord he’s genius. How he can just spew facts about history , geography, wars and any subject. When he asked that blokes name on the front row ( Luke) even though he said he wasn’t going to do anything I thought he was just about to. Some folk just don’t get Al Murray Pub Landlord. Some think he’s real I think and not a parody.
Great talk here. Comedy genius.
Educated at Bedford Public School 😊
Woke cobblers
Love it, politics needs the piss taken out of it as often as possible.
There is much piss to be taken and even more bull-shit!
More urine than ever was extracted in 2019 when a serial buffoon became PM
@@davidmcculloch8490 Nothing can compare, not even the odious Diane Flabbybot, with the bozoid that the Demotwats in the U.S. have appointed Chief Dickhead.
@@JUANKERR2000 at least all us Brits can agree that at least Donald fucking Trump isn't president anymore, what was that about ☹️
or even better... people need to take the piss out of their heads....
I love Al Murray but I think his mockery of UKIP was a bit easy. Comedy is always funnier when you mock the powerholders and the powerholders at the time were the EU, the big companies and their political representatives labour and tories.
But its UKIP. They are hilarious. He did a great job, they are such twats.
Yeah, as opposed now, where we have the glorious dictatorship of the proletariat comrade.
it is kind of fascinating how politicians act when someone "invades their turf". they automatically assume you're as crooked as they, and you can't convince them otherwise.
That goes for more than just politics. Popularity and hierarchy, pretty much, have always run on this 'social mechanism'
The trump effect.
@@MrToastercide it’s happened for centuries moron. Just cause you don’t like trump doesn’t mean he’s the root of all problems
@@henrymccoy2306 Dont assume who I like.
@@MrToastercide it wasn’t an assumption lol. Even if your comment was meant the other way around my point still stands
Luke. Beautiful British name.
B O. O. O. R. R. R. I. I. N. N. N. G
It's amazing the mental gymnastics people will go through to try and discredit an opponent.
That "mental gymnastics" you're talking about is normally called thinking.
imbecilik I see you've already become well acquainted with humour.
blobbem ;)
imbecilik
I guess you're not familiar with sarcasm... ?
Tbh, he looks better now than when he was younger
With an utter hatred of politics, since first watching Brewster's Millions I always fancied setting up a joke candidacy with some friends. The thing that has always stopped me from following up is not wanting to be the front man. Fun to hear about Al's journey. It must have been such a laugh, albeit a little frustrating and exasperating at times.
We get it. He's a posh kid who looks down on those whose parents couldn't afford to send their kids to private school.
I wonder if Al after not getting elected is heartened, by how well our current crop of leaders have picked up his batten.
A great insight into the mind of Al Murray... respect
Yep. The Oxbridge elitist grandchild of diplomats and desscendant of one of Britains most famous and successful writers who makes his money taking the mick out of the working class and who decided to court the media with a PR campaign because he couldn't handle the fact that the working class might think and vote differently from him. And of course, according to famous person logic, he believes that he's the poor victim. The lack of self awareness on his part is spectacular.
Ha you seem to know more about the prick then his stupid fans do.
Ask him about the Army Cadets
Ask him about his m8 Lt Chapman
And then ask him about the young girl cadet they took to Scotland
@@powerbite92 zzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzzz 😩
@@andycapp5581 Suck it up, buttercup. Silent majority is sick of these elites.
Its hilarious that people couldnt understand that Al, a nationally famous comedian, is rich and able to blow a good few thousand quid for a good gag.
I bet you don't know what it's like to feel bippy.
Got to say, that was legitimately fascinating
If you see Murray...Ask him about the army cadets in london,
Lt Chapman
And the young girl cadet.
Ask him about what happend the time they took her to Scotland
@@halaldabo7303 He did a charity walk with the cadets,so what?
I thought the same and was about to write it
Ahhhh democracy!
4 wolves & a sheep deciding what to have for dinner!
Yes I nicked it & can't remember where but it's the best definition I've found? 🤡
As an Australian having the "old mother country" political system I found the whole exercise 😂 good onya Al
The difference between the parties was fukp was the most honest and gave the public the best opportunity to vote for the best party without mind games
"I pledge to leave Europe by 2025" …….. Looks like someone beat you to it.
A fascinating tale. Thanks to Al for standing and telling his story.
I'd really like to see more of Murray talking about real issues and less of the luvvie brigades doing "world experiences" TV. It's a pity the network's haven't caught on that people are starving for something more substantial in their viewing diet.
The networks have no interest in providing anything more substantial for the viewing public. The function of the MSM, both left and right, is to keep people sedated. Sports, "reality TV", anodyne costume dramas, and sensation-riddled news, are designed to cause outrage, confusion and helplessness...and to sell products.
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
Soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Fair play to the guy, the healthiest thing for democracy and politics in any country is as much competition and as many independent parties as possible. Also, its amusing that so many people cant differentiate between the man himself and his fictional comedy character alter ego...
There is always an connection between who a person is and the character they choose to portray.
look up how the weimar republic failed and you may want to reassess your statement about "the healthiest thing for democracy"
What u don't understand is that democracy and freedom of thought is still the most important thing to man
@@overtheworl to put the fail of the weimar republic down to just having to many parties is stupid which ignores all the history of the weimar republic and the world at that time.
Yes we can all admit it was a problem for the weimar republic but having to little parties is also a problem look at the US and the ever increasing polarisation of people based on their political opinions as well as any country that has."elections" where you can vote for only 1 party you can vote for in reality such as China or Russia.
wow, so many salty comments.
OK not the best presentation but engaging and witty and well written.
I'm surprised he toned down the pub landlord character for the campaign. In for a penny, in for a pound...
"Sooner will a camel pass through the eye of a needle than a great man be 'discovered' by an election." - Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle)
Al Murray is not a comedian nor is he a political analyst it seems.
This comments section is fascinating.
Several interesting points:
1.) He's already acknowledged that he was trying to take votes off UKIP, as he was off Labour, Lib Dem, Tories etc. that's how politics works.
2.) If you are a UKIP voter and can't tell the difference between Al Murray and your party's candidate then maybe you really are as thick as people think you are, plenty of UKIP voters managed the perfectly simple task of checking the box next to the UKIP candidate, because actually they're not that thick (a lot of them are just pissed off with the mainstream parties), so if you're the one sat there going "He's just trying to dupe the stupid plebs" what does that say about your views on UKIP voters? If you genuinely think he's a threat to UKIP's voter base then you obviously hold the exact same opinion of those voters as you're accusing him of holding.
3.) If you're complaining about him being unfunny why are you watching him? Also why are you watching him give a talk at a university where he's clearly out of character and then expecting him to deliver a comedy routine?
Additionally, to add a little bit of quantitative analysis there are 46 down votes out of 394 votes, and that 16 of the original comments, out of the 34, are negative. The disproportionate ratio makes me want to know, are a 3rd of the down voters really really motivated, or is a lot of this comment section Poe's law.
Because you people cant fathom why people think differently from you. This guy is a blue blood elitist who hates not only the working class but furthermore hates the fact that the working class are even allowed to vote and that he doesn't get enough recognition from the world for how smart he is. His lack of self awareness would be staggering but he is just another example of the 'punching-down' elite.
I am not joking when I say he would make a good Prime Minister, although he might do more good helping the politicians not take themselves too seriously!
And yet this man, who the elite types think so deserving of mockery, has arguably had a bigger impact on British politics than anyone since World War Two. Starting pretty much by himself, with little to no funding, he spent 23 years campaigning tirelessly - through ridicule and smug opprobrium from all sides - for the UK to leave the EU, and bloody hell, he ended up doing it.
Even if you disagree with him, dislike him.. whatever.. it's quite a story, and quite an example of perseverance, and having the strength to carry on against the tide.
Al Murray: great comedian, decent documentary maker, preachy, self-righteous and just dull when it comes to politics.
clearly... they were arguing that you were 'mucking up the voting levels whilst not being a legitimate or serious political agent".. as they clearly saw it.
you're trying to steal my votes! yeah, kinda the point lol
Ive always liked Al.
First saw him for £4 (on a full bill no less) around 1998 and a year later on his own at £20 in the west end. Followed his career.. Also enjoyed his Planet Rock radio show.
Great to see him out of character.. Seemed even slightly nervous to start with here!?
a lot of investment and hard work going in to this presentation might have contributed, smashing stuff
Funny to see him in and out of character☺️
I'm sure he meant this to be a great revelation of his wisdom and genius, but it is so dully delivered, and obvious who his target was, that he comes across as yet another smug BBC type sneerer.
He plays the Pub Landlord character well, and seems aware that people are laughing with him, but this makes me wonder whether he actually has that awareness at all, or just thinks he's cleverer than his 'thick' audiences.
And you obviously didn’t ducking watch it.
What’s this bollocks about the BBC? What they fuck do they have to do with it?
@@oliverclements5011 Are you suggesting that his real life is the parody not his Pub Landlord character? Interesting idea. Not sure it works with the info available, though.
Al Murray lost many a fan when he stood against Nigel Farage. 17.4 million
Everyone in the UK hates Farage
@@bugsby4663 You hate him but you don't speak for the rest of the UK do you ;-)
Buffy. Great English name that.
Now piss off to Brussels.
@@TheYanbibiya 6Why are brexiters so thick. Because they were born that way.
@@bugsby4663 except 17.4 million of us. Prat.
The irony is that the joker didn't get elected, but the jokers did.
to compare brexit and scottish independence just proves ignorance about what the conversation about Scottish independence looks like. i don't mean in tabloids or the English parliament i mean from the SNP and people ACTUALLY LIVING IN SCOTLAND
Always liked him - even more now.
They were only notes/bullet points. You fail to realise that his stand up stuff was not strictly scripted. It was riffing/ad lib . The general idea and some lines were written but it was largely freestyle.
Standup is a wonderful art of mixing prepared and rehearsed material with reactions and interactions with the audience (often also with prepared responses stored in the big bag of tricks).
This was a one-off speech, not a performance refined through material tests and then dozens of smaller shows before hitting the major venues.
From a master presenter, this is a terrible disappointment and is just boring as he is just reading a script. Hardly an engaging talk. Talk to the people. It is what you are good at. They will listen. They are intelligent people. And you read to them like they were five years old.
Rather than a script, its a lecture. they are notes hes using, not a script.
Reading out the world's longest blog article...
I agree with his character more than with him.
Then sarcasm just passes you by.
If Al was to live up the title of this clip he should have included multiple political parties and all their follies.
politics is very simple, it's all based on opinions. if your opinions agree with my opinions I vote for you.
And if they don't you can call them a Nazi, which is always fun.
My late father was convinced that all the good comedy came out of the top universities, I see nothing here to contradict him.
Very stilted - very disappointing
I wish I didn't know what my first cousins politics were.Thank you Facebook memes.
Stick to comedy ,
Were the 318 voting for Al, or The Pub Landlord? We just don't know.
By all means take the piss out of how our democratic process has been denigrated to little more then a cross between an episode of X Factor, and an advert from your local second hand car dealer, but that is hardly the peoples fault. For remember folks the alternative is your lives being run by college boys like Al Murray, who make a living from being something that they are not. Trained and skilled actors, who take the piss out of their own audience.
Which indeed we already are to a much greater extent than most would like to imagine. Some may think that these people have made a good job on ballance others may not, I for one am certainly in the later camp. However without democracy it would not matter one jot what either you or I think, and this would be a dangerous situation to say the very least. The intellectual class allied with the big bucks, long since decided to marginalise democracy to the shit show it has progressively become, so that their bought and paid for, so called experts can run the World in the interests of themselves and there financial institutions.
Therefore rather then taking the piss out of our democratic process the people would be well advised to become actively involved in it, while they still have a democracy to be involved in. For make no mistake, if people like Al Murray and his mates have their way, there would be no democracy at all, and if the UK stays in the EU, it is all over bar the bread and fuel ques and consequent rioting.
If there is one thing a University education teaches most, it is a profound sense of one's own superiority over one's fellow man. That your own opinions and priorities are somehow more valid or important then virtually anyones elses. Democracy acts as a protection from these potential psychopaths permanently inflicting their own psychosis, namely nassasitic megalomania, onto the general population.
Al Murray may be witty, but think very carefully before laughing with someone who makes a living laughing at you, or your fellow man or women.
@Lester Piglet Pompous prig
Odd. I remember Murray standing behind Farage pulling faces. Obviously this isn't making a mockery of democracy at all.
Even if you think Farage is a complete idiot whose views deserve no consideration, this isn't an excuse. Who decides, Murray ?
He's the descendant of rich and well connected people who seems to hate the working class that he makes his money ridiculing. People like him can't handle the uppityness of those people they consider "beneath" them.
The Pub Landlord was brilliant, but I liked his other comedy characters the best
Not sure I should trust your comment... I blame your moniker :)
It's Alan, Harry's little brother.
You sure?
I admire Al Murray for his determination to keep going at it after all the bullshit he put up with, so if you've any skeletons in the cupboard you've got to have thick skin to run for politics.
It is genuinely crazy hearing Al in his “none-character”
I'm watching it just after you...
I agree.
He stole everything from german Martin Sonneborn.
Ah, Martin Sonneborn: beautiful British name... ;-)
Brilliant, all hail the Al :) Thoroughly enjoyed that.
and welcome the wine! (for the ladies)
The UK is not now and has never been a democracy. 18 year olds did not get the vote until 1969. All votes in the UK are not of equal value which is exaggerated by FPtP.
"Representation of the People Act 1969"
Oh wow they don't teach this in school.
It's so weird hearing his voice when hes not playing the pub landlord.
My thoughts exactly. Somehow I’d never heard his true voice until now.
@@alvshill
Al did a wonderful documentary about German culture a few years ago.
Very much worth a watch
Weird to hear how posh he is and what a snob he is.
@@powerbite92 I was about to post a rebuttal accusing you of being reactionary and disingenuous, but the guy is a quasi noble of sorts going by his Wikipedia, his background reads like a Tory politician's with his Oxford education to boot.
I still wouldn't argue that he's posh or a snob, he's certainly an anti-populist.
He talks about his background and Wikipedia funnily enough, half way through.
@@giansideros Look at his comic alter-ego, look at his campaign, he satirises working class people for the schadenfreude of middle class and higher class people. He makes out that they are prejudiced and stupid.
"Populism" ie: people being given choices that are actually popular with them, terrifies his class because they take being in charge of policy etc. as a given. All his little campaign showed was how he couldn't handle the great unwashed getting choices that he doesn't want them to have.
I think I prefer the character he portrays rather than the artist.
Love Al Murray, whether as himself, or as his alter ego.
The sad thing is, that I've met many people who think that he means what he says as The Pub Landlord and they agree with him! 🤪
For your own health, do NOT try to eat while watching this at the same time. Nearly choked to death!
Let's hear it for the beer!
@ThirdTechGuy and welcome the wine (for the ladies)
ALL HAIL THE ALE!!! CHEERS TO THE LEGEND AL MURRAY !!!!!!!
"A sense of humour and a little lack of respect. That's what you need to become a legend. "
Karl Lagerfeld
BigStevie93 and a fruit based drink for the ladies 🍹👍🏽
I can't believe how much friendlier Al looks with a beard and his hair grown out a bit.
Nailed jingoism.
If I was somehow elected president, I would quit the next day the old fashion way. No call - no show !
With Al murray at the helm,. .. this country would be a far happier place for all.
He hates our flag ( I'm Welsh)......but I understand and forgive him.... " Dragons are for Kids "....😄
Super intelligent guy, vote for him, if you're golden opportunity arrives... !!
I was never confused
Al Murray, or Alastair James Hay Murray to give him his full name, is from an extremely wealthy and politically well connected aristocratic family. He went to a very exclusive independent school and Oxford University. His school fees were more each year than a whole working class family make in an entire year. Like the majority of the wealthy class from which our politicians and journalists come he has no understanding of why working class people would vote for Brexit. Nor does he want to find out, instead this wealthy man mocks working class people in his stand up comedy routine. Al Murray has never had to wait in line for social housing, he has never had to wait for an NHS dentist, he has never has to struggle to find a state school place for his child. Because his family are millionaires, who like to mock the working classes. He is the reason millions of working class people voted for Brexit.
So leaving the EU has made the British medical system better? Oh it made it worse because the system was setup ( by the Tories) to run on increasingly tighter budgets, relying on foreign staff who would tolerate poorer working conditions and waiting for the system to collapse so they can justify privatising it.
And let's not forget the housing situation, once again setup by the Tories because they own the property which will go up in value.
@@Aspire198 So the Labour party had no input in the NHS since they created it? Give it a rest. Was the NHS a Nirvana-like place under Tony Blair? Not how I remember it. And now cue the predictable 'Blair was just a Tory in disguise' apologetics. Probably shouldn't have voted for him to run the party, and then the country, then.
Loved that. Free crisps😂
He is a legend . the pub Landlord !! Genius
Excellent!
As sense of humour is like deodorant; the people who need it the most, never have it.
Why are some people getting upset about Al Murray taking the piss out of Farage and UKIP? It's called satire.
The fact that some people take comedians more seriously than actual politicians already makes a mockery out of the whole political system.
You can't get away from the fact that the UK two parties political is a joke. You have to vote for the party you don't like, so that the party you don't like doesn't have a chance. That's not democracy. That's Hobson's choice.
I don't think people are getting upset that he satirised 'the whole political system', he didn't. He satirised a single candidate and a single party, but lacks the balls to admit that his predominant motivation was setting out his wares in a peacock-like display of his political credentials rather than comedy. What he actually made a mockery of is the endless procession of cloned, unremarkable off-the-shelf comedians who like to dabble in a bit of political activism to secure a regular and lucrative spot on the panel show circuit (it obviously has to be the 'right' - ie pseudo-left - activism, the champagne socialism of the political establishment and its wholly-owned BBC and C4 networks), and particularly his own ultimately vain attempt to join them.
He's made a career out of taking the piss out of audience, and that's very funny when it's done as an 'in joke' between 'friends'. The real piss take though was this political stunt, compounded by this lecture making it abundantly clear that "No, I'm taking the piss because I'm an elitist prick who thinks you're a bunch of fucking idiots".
Sadly (some might say) the panel show thing didn't materialise after all, and I understand his bookings and DVD sales took something of a hit in the aftermath too.
Now who's the 'fucking idiot', Al? Break a leg... or something.
@@otterspocket2826 And yet there are a heap of pseudo politicians doing the equivalent of the Panel Show on TH-cam and elsewhere, Starkey,(only just), Murray, Farage, Anderson, Taylor, Hitchens, even talkback radio with pictures(what's that for?) He did a great job of the UKIP twats, just brilliant.
@ - I don't think that self-produced content hosted on TH-cam can sensibly be compared to the panel show circuit, broadcast by vast media corporations such as the BBC and C4 - one publicly funded through what is effectively taxation, and both state (ie also publicly) owned.
@@otterspocket2826 Ok.
Bring back the Gov'nor . He's funny!
Unless you want a new joke.
@@johncharlescaley Do better.
@@pspicer777I`m not supposed to be a comic. He is just a politically motivated bore. As Colin Veacock says bring back the Gov`nor, that worked for years and years.
@@johncharlescaley Fair enough. Be well JC.
Opening the public's eyes to how they are being scammed is a necessary service which education does not do enough to expose. Thus keeping power in the hands of the scammers.
Most of this went under the radar. He was too fast and clever for the audience, even though the audience was university students and doctors of science and literature, and professors. I have made this mistake myself. If you are doing public speaking, slow down, and keep things structured, with regular jokes.
We need to get FUKP up and running.MRLP are to silly. FUKP are only mildly silly with a bit of sarcasm thrown in. The likes of Al, Ian Hislop, and maybe that other bloke who writes books, are easily electable and would easily beat the 300 in a punch up.
Instead of this 55 minute excuse why don't you have the balls to be truly honest and admit that everything you did was just an attempt to undermine Forage and Ukip. You say at 5.23 people should be allowed to make up their own minds and yet everything you did then and are still doing here is venting your spleen over the politician/politics that you personally despise in an effort to discredit. You had more in common with the Nigel of the Reality drugs party and the closest you have come to authentic realistic politics was the whole parachute episode - I don't mean that as a dig, just everything about that was a mini version of what the real politicians experience.
We had an election, you said it wasn't rigged - live with it....or overthrow it for our own good.
I'm none the wiser as to your actual politics sir.
Anti Brexit?.
A virus admirer. ?
Trump.derangement syndrome ?
Blairite?
Do you think us Brexitians were lied to and didn't get the issues...are we all racists ?
The pure definition of satire!👏🏼😂
very interesting politics so dirty a game same here in Ireland
I think Boris is running his campaign based on this :D
Yeah,boris is PM,but of course he's a bumbling fool as is Donald Trump president of USA,maybe that's where the rest of us are going wrong we're to damm clever by far.
Petertoms Peter , I’ll bet Boris can spell damn.
@@Pete-z6e haha
@@petertomspeter8879 Joe Biden is the archetypal "bumbling fool"
@@mjh5437 who cares about Biden? We need to make sure no more Trump's or Johnson's get in! I trust you will help stop bumbling fools from being world leaders, good bloody lord!
Mint. A very clever bloke.
Excellently presented. A very clever and engaging lad. Thanks Al!
He’s a lot less eloquent in this than as a comedian. Must be the beer.
Yes, Al' s ancestors were neither voters nor candidates. Although they were not deported themselves they would have voted against it.
I think had you not gone the joker route you actually had a real chance. You left yourself open to the likes of Nararge who took a back step from his own argument. Your comedy scene was comedy but on point about the real issue's. For me it's a shame you didn't campain more to the wider view. I really think we the people need the likes of yourself. The truth!
With the David Cameron thing, the issue is that the average person is actually pretty stupid. And since it is the average 50% of people are more stupid than that. So to try and cover up the fact that they are incapable of even understanding things at face value they make rubbish up in order to not lose self respect. It is a well known psychological principle and one of the key causes of cognitive dissonance.
Alastair James Hay Murray you had us in the palm of your hand x sadly go back to feeding your horses x Silver Spoon shame x
The Spartens with Allies were way more than 318. Even those who chose to remain had more than 318.
Cambridige Analytica does exist but this is hilarious, people will say anything
Thank You, Al.
Gawd Bless Ya, Guv.
IF DAVE CHAPELLE WERE TO WATCH THIS, HE PROBABLY WOULD DECIDE TO RUN FOR OFFICE TOO...!!!!!!!!!!!
Disappointingly cheap, shallow laughs from Al, who seems a smaller person than in his acts.
Should stick to comedy
it would be great to see the Q&A if possible.