As a FIFO worker in Mines in WA and NT I’d like to commend Louis C.K for his well researched and astonishingly accredited description of my life, reduced to one sentence lol
@@randomdude4669 For sure. When I return to Sydney after going OS one of the first things I notice is how constant and how wide the variety of bird calls there are compared to other places.
We just have these rainbow birds booting around everywhere, loud as, in their hundreds and thousands. Occasionally i pause to look up and spare a thought for how cool that is!
@@shamicentertainment1262 so do I and Perth only survived as a colony due to the convicts brought out from England. It was close to failure due to lack of infrastructure that was massively boosted by con labor. If u r interested look into Fremantle prison. As for fifo workers a couple of places I worked fifo had the most incredible camps in Australia that no one outside the employees could dream of some camps where made to show of investment opportunities towealthy investors . Talking disgustingly wealthy as you can imagine. I had an incredible fifo career. Not saying it’s all like that. Not trying to be mean but hot many aussies now our own history and it’s sad. Especially the way it’s being erased by woke uninformed people who judge our pioneers by modern standards. (Not you mate) now you got me started you bastard😉
@@Matt_Wilson01 Well the past few years, yeah. The pc ones are earbleading terrible. But we've had some funny fkers get up, depending what youre into, and rip a good laugh.
@swansong5960 every comedian in aus that seems to get a push is lgbtq for some reason. I wouldn't mind except they haven't seemed to actually be funny.
I think Perth and Adelaide are sister cities in the fact that we both get ignored by the convicts in the eastern states lol no one knows anything about us so when someone mentions something we are pleased
This exactly. Its such a specific but banal part of WA life, and its odd to realise that its odd to others - but even more odd that people like Louis are aware of it and talking about it on JRE. And yeah, and parrots fly around 😄
people encourage Americans to say Mel "bin" which sounds weird, and is just forcing the Aussie accent on others. If they wanted to pronounce it properly, it would be Mel "burn" imo.
Louis is so curious and enthusiastic about different kinds of people from all over the world. You can see how this line of thinking makes his comedy so unique and universally appreciated
Louis Loves People, Art, History, Culture. He admires the World in general, in earnest, from his Heart. That's how he connects universally. We're all capable of it 💞🌎
I don't want to be negative, but he probably did some research or just talked to people. It's honestly not that amazing - if you travel anywhere overseas you'll learn heaps just asking people questions
@@dlb4988 really like resorts? I’ve been on mine sites and stayed in camps- in QLD and NSW not WA, and they were all just little shipping container size Dongas for rooms, and you’d go to a camp kitchen in a building like a high school cafeteria. Not exactly sleeping next to the hole in the ground but not far from it
@@joshchapman4753 the big guys over here have really invested in the camps over the last 5 years. Definitely still some s***holes (mainly smaller and less important sites) but they’ve really had to invest in the camps to keep people. Too much work and not enough workers over here so they’ve had to up their game!
I’d love to hear an entire discussion from Louis on his experiences and reflections on Australia. I’ve lived in every state and our country offers such geographical diversity. He has such a fantastic way of putting things from an ‘outsider’ perspective which I’m sure anyone even remotely interested in Oz would appreciate.
@@plasmapanasonic4741 Tassie possibly. Although plenty of country towns around the place are "mostly" Anglo. You ought to have other reasons than just that to settle yourself down.
You could tell Joe was trying to start the typical stereotype jokes but kudos to louis for being one of the few American comics that actually took the time to find out about us.
@@kane4013 What to mop up after everyone else has done all the hard work and take all the credit ? Tell me one war they've one without everybody doing the hard work first
Umm what knowledge I’m not suprised he said u get there and u think it’s America a typical American hasn’t been outside there own country and when they travel they think every country is like them that’s why he said that if they do travel a American doesn’t even have a passport
I could be wrong, but he seems like the kind of guy who's actually interested in learning about the places he performs in. It probably helps his comedy, tbh! Like Bill Bailey... he spent quite a bit of time here and he can actually do jokes about the stereotypes of each city! Adelaide, Melb, Syd, Brissy Perth etc etc.
Can you believe, they don't even live in the mines like everywhere that isn't Australia, they come in for work leave and come back. Remarkable idea the Australians have come up with.
People don’t realise that only 180,000 convicts were sent to Australia, and the last convicts that were sent there from England arrived in 1868. Over half of the total number of convicts, 90,000 were sent to Tasmania alone. Today Australia is 27 million people. 13 million of them arrived in the country by plane as migrants since 1975. Let that sink in.
the weird part to this is... weren't most of America's original settlers also ex-convicts from England? The reason they started sending convicts to Aus was because America and Canada were full ! England was like "uh, where else can we send them? Oh, there's that big dry hot chunk of land down south, let's send em there"
You know Louis CK is a decent bloke that actually went to Australia and learned about the people and culture and wasn't an arrogant tool just from the fact he didn't say Melboouuuurrrnnn.
As an American living in Australia for 5 years now the cities look and feel very American. American brands, restaurant chains etc everywhere. Australians are not “wild” like Joe says, they are way more reserved than Americans, for instance, look at their bus stops Australians form perfect lines to wait for the bus whereas in American cities it’s just a chaotic mosh pit waiting for the bus. More reserved but that’s the older crowd. Aussie millennials are almost exactly like American millennials with a few minor variances. You really need to live in an Australian small town to experience what Aussies are really like.
We have a a lot of respect for eachother. We will be polite if you are polite We see eachother as equals here And if you talk up be ready for a response And about the Australians not being wild. Mate The most crazy people I know are Aussies 😅 Right up there with the Russians I'd say
Lived here for 20 years. Australia is being torn apart by forced Diversity and the last 3 years have seen huge waves of Indians arrive changing it even more. US Government prints money. Aussie government prints people to keep the housing bubble going. It will end in tears the likes of no one can imagine. I have dual citizenship for a reason. Good luck
Hey Louis and Joe. I'm a Perthon and I'm a FIFO mine worker, so I thought I'd clear some things up... . First of all, Perth or more acurately, Freemantle actually was founded as a convict colony. The gold and Iron mines didn't start up here until long after the convict settlements. Yes, we are covered in iron dust all day if you're up in the Pilbara (Pil-brah) or maybe gold dust if you're working down South in Kalgoorlie (Kal-goo-lee). The roster I'm on is only week on week off and its $150k with bonuses. Not bad for a bloke that left school at 16. Louis is correct about there being nothing around us... Perth is the most isolated city with more than a million people, on earth (2.1).
@@agnz Im from Perth, literally never heard PERTHON haha, think this guys taking the piss. Sandgropers is what the older generation used to call people from Perth but its kind of fallen off. itS based on an insect that burrows into the ground aka a miner like OP here.
@@ImpatientTurtle yeah i literally the title that contains the cities name like Londoner, Wellingtonian or Sydneysider. I mean this ones a shit one by all means, but the first one iv heard. I would've gone perthite or perthian personally but found it interesting it didn't exist in my experience.
I love the culture of WA. I grew up partly in a little coastal suburb where its not unusual for electricans to live next to doctors and share a beer with each other on the weekends. Its one of the few places where trades are considered as important as university degrees and if your university educated daughter marries a heavy diesel machanic he'll probaby earn more money than she ever will . It wasnt until i left WA for Asia as a teen that I discovered this was extremely unusual. Western Australia is one of the most beautiful and diverse places places in the world. Hes right it is it an wierd place.
The whole place is boring, the isolation factor has created a very strange culture all in of itself. Loui's description of it being different to Sydney and Melbourne is bang on. WA people love it but those of us know, this place isnt for everyone unless you love doing absolutely nothing.
@@rebelofbabylon3091 Anywhere that's not Sydney CBD in Sydney is pretty dead too, tbh. There's too much risk in some druggo knifing you even if you go shopping late for there to much of a night life (hobby meet ups, bars, whatever, just getting there isn't worth the risk). It's a shame, because I'd love a night bird cafe, but it just can't happen because of the criminals.
I think that is still quite similar accross Australia - the cultural veneration of tradies coupled with a mild sort of tall poppy syndrome for university educated professionals. Diesel mechanics will still earn more in WA on average though compared to everywhere else.
As an Australian, Louis CK is easily one of the greatest comedians of all time, i can't imagine a bunch of aussies not laughing at one of his shows. Edit: Could all the mainstream media brainwashed boomers please stop replying to this comment, thanks.
That's the same Melbourne comedy outfit that's become so woke it cancelled Barry Humphries who was it's co-founder with Peter Cook. I can just picture the pink haired po-faced audience.
What CK just described is exactly what happened when I went to Sydney. I was walking down a hill and saw this weird bird and this enormous crazy plant and I realized this is a whole other world.
You mean that in other countries, you aren't woken up at 6am with a million birds screeching at the top of their lungs? If you try sleeping after 5am you're screwed, there's no chance you will ever get to sleep.
I’m from Perth and he totally nailed what life is like here. Had many fifo boyfriends. We all belly laughed at his show at the arena though. We all love you louis 🤙
I don't know man. I'm Australian and I love Louis' specials. Love a bunch of American, British and Australian comics. Saw Tom Segura live last week and he killed. Deeply disappointed that I'm moving away two weeks before my favourite comic, Doug Stanhope, tours again.
Yeah, gonna call bullshit on that one. Or there's just some really obscure detail that he left out, like he turned up at an RSL open mic night or something.
As an Australian, my favourite aussie comic right now is aaron chen. I would recommend checking him out if you want to understand aussie humour, he epitomizes that quintessential Australian dry wit and sarcasm
Nah the goat for the last couple decades is for sure Carl Baron. He has the most “Australian” style humour too Crazy he’s the biggest and best comedian here selling our arenas but most Americans haven’t heard of him before bc he doesn’t really tour overseas
Correction ! The only state in Australia that didn’t have convicts was South Australia. As anyone from Adelaide will tell you the state was founded in 1836 by free settlers. The city was laid out in a grid pattern, surrounded by parklands by soldier and surveyor Captain William Light. As for Western Australia they didn’t stop transportation until 1868.
@@SoBlissedOut Neither is Australias, we've open land everywhere and not many people. The average family home in Australia 4 bedrooms. I just bought a 5-bedroom house with almost an acre of property for only 390K. Australia has lots of opportunity if you want it. Fun fact, we're the only country on Earth with more Americans migrating here than vice versa.
@@dko-JackSkalington average house price is 800k, median salary is 65k. 70% of us live in major cities where a million bucks is more realistic. Try and tell me that's not fucked
and it really isn’t that fkn difficult to have at least an inkling of interest about the country you’re touring in that pays you top $$ just by asking a few measly questions ay-I reckon!
Man how refreshing it is to hear Louis CK tell a pretty accurate depiction of Australia. Really nice knowing there are some people who give a damn about our history.
We have entire states like South Australia (Capital Adelaide) that was founded by free settlers. This convict thing annoys me because it doesn’t apply to the whole country.
I have about 30 parrots living near my house, Everytime they fly around over the house squawking really loudly I always tell my daughters to hide because the dragons are back.. they are that loud and annoying. This is the cockatooes though. Have had red parrots in the yard.. but they are very rare.
As a perth resident and ex fifo worker, Louis pretty much nailed it. Perth is one of the most isolated cities in one of the most isolated countries in the world. And awesome. US humour is definitely different to Aussie humour which is different to brittish humour. We swear a lot. Not unusual to call someone a cunt as a term of endearment.
His point is that in Perth we lump everything east of us together as 'the Eastern States' because we think of ourselves as separate to, and distinct from, the rest of the country. We did once vote to secede, after all, and if it hadn't been for our voter rolls being hurriedly stacked with newly-arrived Easterners by the big gold mine operators of the day, our State never would have voted to join the Federation in the first place...
@@digbyskellington Err, are you absolutely sure it's not because, you know, there's more than one state and, well, they are on the East side of the joint? What the bloody hell else would you call them?! I had two kindys in two states and five primary schools in three states, I don't consider myself from being from any state in particular, and I call the states on the East the Eastern states, and I never wanted to secede from anybody.
Lived in Perth for 6 months as a kid in the 90's and "The Eastern States" was almost always used in a derogatory fashion, even a few teachers referred to me as an "Easterner" in a smart arse way.
Props to Joe and Louis breaking down our culture and my profession as “used to be criminals who live next a giant hole getting covered in dirt and paid $100,000.” It’s so weirdly accurate yet totally off the mark at the same time.
Yes, Australia may look and sound like America in our day to day life but we are not America by any stretch of imagination. As an migrant from Argentina I have loved living in Australia since I arrived with my family in 1979... That's a long time ago! Ask me about Australia and I will be happy to sing it's praises!
Hey that's a long flight over the pacific ocean! Yea my brother moved to Australia recently from the UK and he's loving it! He's hoping to stay out there for 3 years on a working visa. I'll be going to see him at some point too. 👍
@@jre-daily-updates actually back in the day (1979) when we migrated under the Australian Skilled Labour Programme it was cheaper for us to fly with (no longer) Canadian Pacific airlines. We went Buenos Aires to Santiago (Chile), then Lima, Peru on a DC 10 plane. From Peru we flew to Vancouver (Canada) then Nandi, Fiji and finally Sydney... So yeah, a very long flight!
As an Aussie (live and work in SA and WA) I love how accurately Louis described it. I would love to hear more about the comedic differences though, I think we tend to like a British sense of humour, but we're so varied that I think any humour flies in front of the right crowd.
As a migrant to Australia, he really hit the nail on the head with the parrot suddenly flying past...that is wild at first. Also, living in a small town, kangaroos DO suddenly hop past my house which is in an ordinary suburban style street.
LOL yeah, they're everywhere. I live in the inner city of Sydney and parrots visit me each day (rainbow lorikeets). They've become so accustomed to me that they land on my window and then fly into my unit and land on my shoulder. Even if I'm in the middle of my unit in the kitchen! Requesting breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner of course. 🦜😆
Cashed up bogans! I lived in Perth for a while. I really enjoyed it. What I found odd about the city was that after 6pm, there's not much to do there. You go thinking you'll have a night out there, and there's not much going on. There was a man in the town I lived in called Mad Dog, everyone knew him, he rode around on a bicycle with no shoes on and people would shout Mad Dog at him, and he'd growl.
We actually had a referendum and decided to succeed and the eastern states said " maybe later guys". Prior to federation we didnt want to be part of Australia either.
It is funny to think about, but then I found out that one of the first places Russia invaded in Ukraine was a place with a very similar “wouldn’t it be funny if we were our own country?” meme, and they were like “We are going to liberate you from the evil Ukrainians (so long as you remain a Russian puppet state)!”. So now I’m thinking we should maybe tone it down a bit just incase China gets any ideas lol God save the King I suppose
I'm Australian and I can count maybe 3,4 great Aussie standup comedians and the rest are boring yet they seem to get all the TV coverage all the time? That's why I watch Netflix or TH-cam for good comedy
Aussie, here. Melbourne is the woke capital of Australia, so Louis might've been playing to a room of humorless moral narcissists who think political conformity and mental illness is a personality.
And an absolute prick who devised a way to bring in Italian workers to drive down Australian miner's wages. He was solely responsible for all of the ill-feelings towards migrant workers on the goldfields that ultimately lead to riots and destruction of property at Dingbat Flats at Kalgoorlie. May he still rot in his grave!
😅😅So we're all miners, live next to giant holes, fly back to Perth every few weeks with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Oh and we have Parrots too. Couldn't have described it better. 😂😂
I saw this guy ages ago on a trip to NY , I swear to God he had people literally falling off their seats and laying in the aisles pissing themself laughing, I couldn’t breathe and turned blue! I had to leave cos I was in real trouble!. He was unknown back then and I was very happy to see he had his own TV show many years later. As a FIFO for many years I can tell you the money earned went straight into toys! V8 hotted up cars, jet skis, offshore fishing boats etc etc , the absolute best of times but of course those don’t last forever but the good fun times had by all can never be taken away.
Two styles of comedy work in Australia: Some will lap up the US style spell it out comedy, others will desire the British style, dry, satirical comedy. Louis' style fits more into the British bracket. The US version of the office goes just as well down here as the British version does. 'Oooh, your'e ard...'
A parrot flies by! Lol! That's nothing. I'm in a large seaside town on the east coast of Oz. We get parrots of every description, kookaburras, koalas, possums, kangaroos (literally grazing on your front lawn at night), wallabies, deer (feral imported) and snakes cruising around like they own the place. I love the wildlife here.
Louis CK wasnt the first American comedian who actually came to Australia and travelled extensively and got to get a good feel of its countrymen and women;the LEGENDARY Phyllis Diller came toour country many times and travelled all over the place and she was much loved by we Aussies as she made a real effort to get to know us.Her unique self depreciating humour was very much admired here.
Louis CK is a king. From his short time you can tell he took some info in. He even says Melbourne in a normal way which is rare for a Americans. They normally say MelBORN but he pronounces it well.
It's unusual that Aussie crowd wouldn't laugh at Louis C.K. coz we Aussie's ha r the BEST sense of humour on the planet. We even poke fun at ourselves and that's something a lot of Americans DON'T like doing lol
Melbourne is different to the rest of Australia. This is the same State that voted in a politician that done a 2 year lock down and they overwhelmingly voted the bloke back in again
Being a performer in Australia isn’t easy, it takes a while to warm up the crowd, you have to earn their respect each performance. I went to guns and roses in Brisbane last time they were here, and you could tell they were not enjoying themselves. However, as the night went on, the crowd warmed up, it ended up being a brilliant show! They loved it, we loved it, it was fantastic!
As a FIFO worker in Mines in WA and NT I’d like to commend Louis C.K for his well researched and astonishingly accredited description of my life, reduced to one sentence lol
Should’ve worked harder in school….
LOL FIFO workers are generally the highest paid workers in Australia.
@@turbostyler cause its shit
@@youwebz Mining jobs are highly sought after bro. A lot of those jobs start at 160k per year
@@haydenlawrie7130 i get more than that doing Monday to Friday 8 hour days in a ‘mining town’ that doesn’t even have a mine.
I’m from Perth and it’s crazy to hear someone from the states talk about “FIFO”. Also hilarious to hear a parrot referred to as a tropical creature 😂
Aussies truly take our wildlife for granted
@@randomdude4669 For sure. When I return to Sydney after going OS one of the first things I notice is how constant and how wide the variety of bird calls there are compared to other places.
so true aye 😂😂
We just have these rainbow birds booting around everywhere, loud as, in their hundreds and thousands. Occasionally i pause to look up and spare a thought for how cool that is!
Seems in general we have more trees even in built up areas, compared to the U.S
Holy crap. Kudos to Louis for his very accurate knowledge of Australia.
You obviously don’t though
Meanwhile Joe is like “wow that’s amaaaaaaazing”
@@Danoz_die_wreckt I mean, for a foreigner who's probably not spent all that much time in Australia, it's really not a bad take.
@@Danoz_die_wreckt i live here and i can neither prove nor disprove what he is saying lol
@@shamicentertainment1262 so do I and Perth only survived as a colony due to the convicts brought out from England. It was close to failure due to lack of infrastructure that was massively boosted by con labor. If u r interested look into Fremantle prison. As for fifo workers a couple of places I worked fifo had the most incredible camps in Australia that no one outside the employees could dream of some camps where made to show of investment opportunities towealthy investors . Talking disgustingly wealthy as you can imagine. I had an incredible fifo career. Not saying it’s all like that. Not trying to be mean but hot many aussies now our own history and it’s sad. Especially the way it’s being erased by woke uninformed people who judge our pioneers by modern standards. (Not you mate) now you got me started you bastard😉
"...you're walking down the street and then a fucking parrot flies by...." LMAO😂😂
Was actually better than any Australian comedians jokes, levels to this shit, I’m Aussie but don’t find our comedians funny at all
@@Matt_Wilson01
Well the past few years, yeah. The pc ones are earbleading terrible. But we've had some funny fkers get up, depending what youre into, and rip a good laugh.
@swansong5960 every comedian in aus that seems to get a push is lgbtq for some reason. I wouldn't mind except they haven't seemed to actually be funny.
If it was spring a Magpie would have sorted him.😂😂😂
I mean no other country's have birds right? Right?
After that respectful yet hilarious description of Perth he will be forever welcome here. He actually took notice of us.
Lucky you even got him
Nobody bothers going to that shithole full of ferals we call Perth
My impression expressed succinctly.
Jesus- have some self free respect!
I think Perth and Adelaide are sister cities in the fact that we both get ignored by the convicts in the eastern states lol no one knows anything about us so when someone mentions something we are pleased
Hells yeah, welcome back any time, he is.
I never thought in my life I would hear Louis CK say FIFO. Long live Perth
It is surreal.
This exactly. Its such a specific but banal part of WA life, and its odd to realise that its odd to others - but even more odd that people like Louis are aware of it and talking about it on JRE.
And yeah, and parrots fly around 😄
@@trevorjalla He calls the lorries parrots 😅
@@nomadheros4663 Unless he's talking about 28s?
@@davespanksalot8413 The rainbow lorikeet infests WA. A local zoo let them escape years ago now its all you here when you're cruising around the city.
I love how Joe says shit like "Australians laugh at different things" and never expands on it lol
Couldnt offer a single example to back up his claim but millions of bros are convinced this guy is a genius.
@@danidejaneiro8378 that’s Joe rogan for you claiming a bunch of things whilst high that no one can prove
@@Alphoric - Joe Bogan Poocast
@@danidejaneiro8378 I don't know mate, I'm laughing at you right now seems Joe was right
@@josey6231 - ok incel bro lol
Kudos to Louis for pronouncing Melbourne without the hard "BORN".
It was a nice try wasn't it? Suppressed but still just there.
The 1st time he said it wasn’t right, still had that Born, 2nd time was spot on.
He must of realised and thought - sht, I better say it again.
It's melb-n.
Gey it right.
Second time was almost spot on: “Melb-un”
people encourage Americans to say Mel "bin" which sounds weird, and is just forcing the Aussie accent on others. If they wanted to pronounce it properly, it would be Mel "burn" imo.
Louis is so curious and enthusiastic about different kinds of people from all over the world. You can see how this line of thinking makes his comedy so unique and universally appreciated
great observation mate
Louis Loves People, Art, History, Culture. He admires the World in general, in earnest, from his Heart. That's how he connects universally. We're all capable of it 💞🌎
Yep. He has an artistic appreciation for people and places
I’m from western Australia and holy shit just his knowledge of the miners on FIFO alone is crazy!
I don't want to be negative, but he probably did some research or just talked to people. It's honestly not that amazing - if you travel anywhere overseas you'll learn heaps just asking people questions
Not sure about sleeping next to the hole in a ground bit though. Camps I’ve stayed at are like resorts
@@dlb4988 really like resorts? I’ve been on mine sites and stayed in camps- in QLD and NSW not WA, and they were all just little shipping container size Dongas for rooms, and you’d go to a camp kitchen in a building like a high school cafeteria.
Not exactly sleeping next to the hole in the ground but not far from it
@@joshchapman4753 the big guys over here have really invested in the camps over the last 5 years. Definitely still some s***holes (mainly smaller and less important sites) but they’ve really had to invest in the camps to keep people. Too much work and not enough workers over here so they’ve had to up their game!
Relax mate he read the inflight magazine and found it interesting, he didn’t pop in to Armadale or something
I’d love to hear an entire discussion from Louis on his experiences and reflections on Australia. I’ve lived in every state and our country offers such geographical diversity. He has such a fantastic way of putting things from an ‘outsider’ perspective which I’m sure anyone even remotely interested in Oz would appreciate.
Which place has the least chinese and islanders.... whats what I want
@@plasmapanasonic4741The area I live is all white for miles, but you sound like a C U Next Tuesday so I'm not telling!
@@plasmapanasonic4741
Tassie possibly. Although plenty of country towns around the place are "mostly" Anglo.
You ought to have other reasons than just that to settle yourself down.
You could tell Joe was trying to start the typical stereotype jokes but kudos to louis for being one of the few American comics that actually took the time to find out about us.
It's funny how Australians never change an American says something nice about us and oh my god we can't give them enough praise
@@James-kv6kb Cos when the sh!t goes down, we need America.
@@kane4013 What to mop up after everyone else has done all the hard work and take all the credit ? Tell me one war they've one without everybody doing the hard work first
I'm Australian and Louis CK is my favourite comic. The guys hilarious!
Me too.. Ah whoops those words don't go together for some reason
@@guyonthecouch136 lol
Lol get some taste.
The guy isn't funny.
British comedy is much better
Could fooled me mate. Your profile pic and name don’t look Aussie to me
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 British comedy is great, but so was C.K.
When I was in australia chickens kept flying out of bins in the middle of the city.
haha, were you in Brisbane? There's a story behind this.... it's something that lots of Aussies will know about, but maybe not many outside Aus.
Ahh Bin-Chickens... the scourge of Sydney
@@GlennSyndallius Sunshine Coast, it was very amusing, one even joined me at the table!
Bin chickens!!! Haha
I edumacated my American husband on this Aussie stuff
So many face palms but he loves the joint
Especially Cairns 🥰🇦🇺🌴
😂😂😂😂😂
As an Aussie CK is a legend, he gets it and I am very impressed by his knowledge of our country.
Umm what knowledge I’m not suprised he said u get there and u think it’s America a typical American hasn’t been outside there own country and when they travel they think every country is like them that’s why he said that if they do travel a American doesn’t even have a passport
I could be wrong, but he seems like the kind of guy who's actually interested in learning about the places he performs in. It probably helps his comedy, tbh! Like Bill Bailey... he spent quite a bit of time here and he can actually do jokes about the stereotypes of each city! Adelaide, Melb, Syd, Brissy Perth etc etc.
2:02 “I mean Miners, not Minors… Miners. You understand? People who work in mines…”
Louis missed a chance to do his hand job joke.
a grown man who works at the mine
Never give up - never surrender.
Are you sure he wasn't talking about the Noisy Miners who fly in and fly out?
Can you believe, they don't even live in the mines like everywhere that isn't Australia, they come in for work leave and come back. Remarkable idea the Australians have come up with.
People don’t realise that only 180,000 convicts were sent to Australia, and the last convicts that were sent there from England arrived in 1868. Over half of the total number of convicts, 90,000 were sent to Tasmania alone. Today Australia is 27 million people. 13 million of them arrived in the country by plane as migrants since 1975. Let that sink in.
It blows my mind that America doesn't know about free settlers in Australia. We're not all convicts...
@@mattellis4270 Tell that to the NSW Police
More convicts were sent to America, but we dont need to know about that....
@@mattellis4270 Yeh and to add, it really fucks me off that its in an overall negative context. Therefore, "we're better".
the weird part to this is... weren't most of America's original settlers also ex-convicts from England? The reason they started sending convicts to Aus was because America and Canada were full ! England was like "uh, where else can we send them? Oh, there's that big dry hot chunk of land down south, let's send em there"
You know Louis CK is a decent bloke that actually went to Australia and learned about the people and culture and wasn't an arrogant tool just from the fact he didn't say Melboouuuurrrnnn.
melBOURNE identity.
As an Australian I think this Louis CK guy is pretty funny. Good luck to him!
I’m expecting big things from him.
We have faith he'll make something of himself one day
@@ThiefKingofLegend He just needs more 'exposure'
Not a fan of his work but as a person he's pretty cool. Intelligent and doesn't talk out of his arse, the clip was impressive as ( =
@@michael_jaye he's been around a looooong time.
“Perth is south of India” like saying Chile is south of Canada 😂
And they call them the eastern states mainly because they are in the east. You cant fault Aussie logic.
As an American living in Australia for 5 years now the cities look and feel very American. American brands, restaurant chains etc everywhere. Australians are not “wild” like Joe says, they are way more reserved than Americans, for instance, look at their bus stops Australians form perfect lines to wait for the bus whereas in American cities it’s just a chaotic mosh pit waiting for the bus. More reserved but that’s the older crowd. Aussie millennials are almost exactly like American millennials with a few minor variances. You really need to live in an Australian small town to experience what Aussies are really like.
@@philjudd3473 100% correct.
100% correct as well.
We have a a lot of respect for eachother. We will be polite if you are polite
We see eachother as equals here
And if you talk up be ready for a response
And about the Australians not being wild. Mate
The most crazy people I know are Aussies
😅
Right up there with the Russians I'd say
I wouldn't say we form perfect lines when waiting for a bus
But we do form reconizable lines
Lived here for 20 years. Australia is being torn apart by forced Diversity and the last 3 years have seen huge waves of Indians arrive changing it even more. US Government prints money. Aussie government prints people to keep the housing bubble going. It will end in tears the likes of no one can imagine. I have dual citizenship for a reason. Good luck
Hey Louis and Joe. I'm a Perthon and I'm a FIFO mine worker, so I thought I'd clear some things up... . First of all, Perth or more acurately, Freemantle actually was founded as a convict colony. The gold and Iron mines didn't start up here until long after the convict settlements. Yes, we are covered in iron dust all day if you're up in the Pilbara (Pil-brah) or maybe gold dust if you're working down South in Kalgoorlie (Kal-goo-lee). The roster I'm on is only week on week off and its $150k with bonuses. Not bad for a bloke that left school at 16. Louis is correct about there being nothing around us... Perth is the most isolated city with more than a million people, on earth (2.1).
Thank you, the whole time i lived in perth and I constantly asked what the term is for someone who is from perth was, no one could tell me.
@@agnz bogan
@@agnz Im from Perth, literally never heard PERTHON haha, think this guys taking the piss. Sandgropers is what the older generation used to call people from Perth but its kind of fallen off. itS based on an insect that burrows into the ground aka a miner like OP here.
@@ImpatientTurtle yeah i literally the title that contains the cities name like Londoner, Wellingtonian or Sydneysider.
I mean this ones a shit one by all means, but the first one iv heard.
I would've gone perthite or perthian personally but found it interesting it didn't exist in my experience.
They're definitely reading what you've just written, bloke
I love the culture of WA. I grew up partly in a little coastal suburb where its not unusual for electricans to live next to doctors and share a beer with each other on the weekends. Its one of the few places where trades are considered as important as university degrees and if your university educated daughter marries a heavy diesel machanic he'll probaby earn more money than she ever will . It wasnt until i left WA for Asia as a teen that I discovered this was extremely unusual. Western Australia is one of the most beautiful and diverse places places in the world. Hes right it is it an wierd place.
Rockingham?
The whole place is boring, the isolation factor has created a very strange culture all in of itself. Loui's description of it being different to Sydney and Melbourne is bang on. WA people love it but those of us know, this place isnt for everyone unless you love doing absolutely nothing.
@@rebelofbabylon3091 Anywhere that's not Sydney CBD in Sydney is pretty dead too, tbh. There's too much risk in some druggo knifing you even if you go shopping late for there to much of a night life (hobby meet ups, bars, whatever, just getting there isn't worth the risk). It's a shame, because I'd love a night bird cafe, but it just can't happen because of the criminals.
@@LantanaLiz yeah Sydney is PvP enabled lol
I think that is still quite similar accross Australia - the cultural veneration of tradies coupled with a mild sort of tall poppy syndrome for university educated professionals. Diesel mechanics will still earn more in WA on average though compared to everywhere else.
I saw Louis in Perth. He was loved by the whole audience
As an Australian, Louis CK is easily one of the greatest comedians of all time, i can't imagine a bunch of aussies not laughing at one of his shows.
Edit: Could all the mainstream media brainwashed boomers please stop replying to this comment, thanks.
Fake Australian spotted, no one in this country can stand this seppo
Victorians.
Kenoath!!!
Could only happen in Melbourne.
That's the same Melbourne comedy outfit that's become so woke it cancelled Barry Humphries who was it's co-founder with Peter Cook. I can just picture the pink haired po-faced audience.
What CK just described is exactly what happened when I went to Sydney. I was walking down a hill and saw this weird bird and this enormous crazy plant and I realized this is a whole other world.
That's some good crack you're on
Australia has a huge amount of birds, I think most of the birds on this planet evolved here
@@BushyJimny yeah, there's heaps of them around my house. They are mental sometimes, it gets loud
You mean that in other countries, you aren't woken up at 6am with a million birds screeching at the top of their lungs? If you try sleeping after 5am you're screwed, there's no chance you will ever get to sleep.
Saw Louis live in Brisbane, I cried with laughter it has been that long. Thankyou sir
same i was there too, late last year? side splittingly funny. my indian gf hated it hahahhahhahah
I missed the show completley man, i had no idea he was coming to Bris but i got to see the mother fucken goat CHAPPELLE so that kinda made up for it
@@avocadoisdelicious yeh late last yr, the gay sperm joke at the end had me in stiches.
As an Australian( from Melbourne) I can’t believe people didn’t know Louis CK. I’ve been a fan for years
OK. So maybe they HAD heard of him? But then, but then …
I don't watch / see many American stand-up comedians...
Can confirm that at Joe's standalone big show he did ahead of UFC 193 in Melbourne he killed it, crowd was loving him!
100% I was there. The crowd was 30 deep just waiting for the doors to open and not an empty seat in the place 👏🙌🙌
"Its a weird culture" said the American... 😂
I’m from Perth and he totally nailed what life is like here. Had many fifo boyfriends. We all belly laughed at his show at the arena though. We all love you louis 🤙
Sounds like you get nailed a lot
Jesus Christ...CK knows more about West Aus than the eastern states do. Am impressed
@Chris Pekel lol yeah just how many boyfriends of that specific occupation and why so many? Also did you go to see louis with all your ex boyfriends
@@frarfarf hahahahahaah
Yeah but we don't get $100,000
I don't know man. I'm Australian and I love Louis' specials. Love a bunch of American, British and Australian comics. Saw Tom Segura live last week and he killed. Deeply disappointed that I'm moving away two weeks before my favourite comic, Doug Stanhope, tours again.
Stanhope is excellent
Saw Segura live in Melbourne too. Excellent show
Damn Louis actually did his research
For once too..🤣🤣
Who could be in a comedy club in Melbourne and not know who Louis CK is?
People from Melbourne. If it was one of those dummies from the project they'd be going nuts. People from Melbourne are idiots.
Australia and Melbourne especially is full of woke people and woke comedy but still surprising that they wouldnt even know who he is
Yeah, gonna call bullshit on that one. Or there's just some really obscure detail that he left out, like he turned up at an RSL open mic night or something.
Lots of people he ain't all that
@@ykook7000 One of the GOATs of comedy
As an Australian, my favourite aussie comic right now is aaron chen. I would recommend checking him out if you want to understand aussie humour, he epitomizes that quintessential Australian dry wit and sarcasm
Is that you Aaron?
Nah the goat for the last couple decades is for sure Carl Baron. He has the most “Australian” style humour too
Crazy he’s the biggest and best comedian here selling our arenas but most Americans haven’t heard of him before bc he doesn’t really tour overseas
@@sloppygoo
"G'Day"
"How's it going?
"Not bad"
*Laughter*
Sorry, I never understood his humour.
Kitty Flanagan 🤣🥰🇦🇺
I’m Australian and everyone I know loves Louis ck
Correction ! The only state in Australia that didn’t have convicts was South Australia. As anyone from Adelaide will tell you the state was founded in 1836 by free settlers. The city was laid out in a grid pattern, surrounded by parklands by soldier and surveyor Captain William Light. As for Western Australia they didn’t stop transportation until 1868.
Yeah go crom😊
Perth was founded by free settlers and then later took in convicts.
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@@Hades-my4jq No
@@branded9063yeah mate do better research
Speaking as an Aussie living in Perth, he's spot on, completely. My brother is a FIFO worker. Pays well: he was able to buy a house.
Most Americans don’t see that as a massive accomplishment. Their housing market isn’t 1M for a tiny hovel.
@@SoBlissedOut Neither is Australias, we've open land everywhere and not many people. The average family home in Australia 4 bedrooms.
I just bought a 5-bedroom house with almost an acre of property for only 390K.
Australia has lots of opportunity if you want it. Fun fact, we're the only country on Earth with more Americans migrating here than vice versa.
@@dko-JackSkalington average house price is 800k, median salary is 65k. 70% of us live in major cities where a million bucks is more realistic. Try and tell me that's not fucked
I'm an Aussie and I was smiling with appreciation through this entire description, so interesting to hear US folks perception of us.
Love from Melbourne , Australia .
It surprised me how educated Louis is on our country
Almost like there's information out there or something
Wow, he talked to people. Who would have thought?
and it really isn’t that fkn difficult to have at least an inkling of interest about the country you’re touring in that pays you top
$$ just by asking a few measly questions ay-I reckon!
The room that Louie is referring to is The Comic’s Lounge
@@philjudd3473Yeah nah our 'mainstream' comics are fucking horrid.
I love that no one outside of australia has any idea on what australia is actually like hahaha
Man how refreshing it is to hear Louis CK tell a pretty accurate depiction of Australia. Really nice knowing there are some people who give a damn about our history.
Iconic Australian comedians, Kevin bloody Wilson and Rodney Rude.
Joe always reminding Aussies we used to be convicts. Cheers mate.
We are just as much convicts as they are slave owners 🤣
It's like the one thing he knows about Australia and he constantly brings it up like it's the most mind blowing piece of trivia ever
Most Aussies aren’t though..some are sure.. but most.. no.
We have entire states like South Australia (Capital Adelaide) that was founded by free settlers. This convict thing annoys me because it doesn’t apply to the whole country.
As was USA before we took over
His show at RAC Arena was brilliant! This guy could be dropped into the middle of the Amazon rainforest and make anyone crack up!
LCK a parrots flys by 🤣🤣🤣 you had me in stitches bro
Your comment made me laugh more than what LCK said… lol 🦜
He's right though, parrots are absolutely EVERYWHERE in Australia to the point they're incredibly annoying
I have about 30 parrots living near my house, Everytime they fly around over the house squawking really loudly I always tell my daughters to hide because the dragons are back.. they are that loud and annoying. This is the cockatooes though. Have had red parrots in the yard.. but they are very rare.
As a perth resident and ex fifo worker, Louis pretty much nailed it. Perth is one of the most isolated cities in one of the most isolated countries in the world. And awesome. US humour is definitely different to Aussie humour which is different to brittish humour. We swear a lot. Not unusual to call someone a cunt as a term of endearment.
Nice to know C.K. knows stuff about Aussie culture. Cheers from Sydney, AU.
His show in Sydney was excellent
"... they call them the Eastern states"
Yeah, we have cardinal directions in Australia, too.
Yes we all have cardinal directions. Pointless comment
Haha yeah like how could anyone possibly decipher the cryptic meaning behind calling states in the east as The Eastern States.
His point is that in Perth we lump everything east of us together as 'the Eastern States' because we think of ourselves as separate to, and distinct from, the rest of the country. We did once vote to secede, after all, and if it hadn't been for our voter rolls being hurriedly stacked with newly-arrived Easterners by the big gold mine operators of the day, our State never would have voted to join the Federation in the first place...
@@digbyskellington Err, are you absolutely sure it's not because, you know, there's more than one state and, well, they are on the East side of the joint? What the bloody hell else would you call them?! I had two kindys in two states and five primary schools in three states, I don't consider myself from being from any state in particular, and I call the states on the East the Eastern states, and I never wanted to secede from anybody.
Lived in Perth for 6 months as a kid in the 90's and "The Eastern States" was almost always used in a derogatory fashion, even a few teachers referred to me as an "Easterner" in a smart arse way.
"they use to be prisoners" umm, has everyone forgotten the 150 or so years that America also had prisoners sent there?
Wasnt just us, dude
Props to Joe and Louis breaking down our culture and my profession as “used to be criminals who live next a giant hole getting covered in dirt and paid $100,000.” It’s so weirdly accurate yet totally off the mark at the same time.
Literally a FIFO worker at work in Western Australia right now and was not expecting Louis CK to start talking about FIFO workers
The Lefties in Melbourne may not have got your material, but Louis CK killed it here in Perth, he got a standing ovation at the end of his show.
Yeah, cause Louise CK is pure right wing.🙄
I'm an Australian and was lucky enough to catch a Louis CK show in Sydney. It was really good. Great crowd. Everyone was on board.
Yes, Australia may look and sound like America in our day to day life but we are not America by any stretch of imagination.
As an migrant from Argentina I have loved living in Australia since I arrived with my family in 1979... That's a long time ago!
Ask me about Australia and I will be happy to sing it's praises!
Hey that's a long flight over the pacific ocean! Yea my brother moved to Australia recently from the UK and he's loving it! He's hoping to stay out there for 3 years on a working visa. I'll be going to see him at some point too. 👍
@@jre-daily-updates actually back in the day (1979) when we migrated under the Australian Skilled Labour Programme it was cheaper for us to fly with (no longer) Canadian Pacific airlines.
We went Buenos Aires to Santiago (Chile), then Lima, Peru on a DC 10 plane. From Peru we flew to Vancouver (Canada) then Nandi, Fiji and finally Sydney... So yeah, a very long flight!
@@colorin81colorado That's not a long flight, that cruel & unusual punishment.
@@paulmaroon9720 hahahahaha, yeah we clocked 56hrs total flying hours but it was all worth it!
Oh! So you're a fake Australian! You just adopted a stronger flag and shed the weaker Argentinian flag, like a snake that sheds its skin!
props to louis for being accurate and retaining that knowledge of Australia. its quite refreshing to see
Louis is so knowledgeable about different cultures and has a really good memory.
Nah he had cue cards
Our humour's a mix of British and Irish.
You know who’s been touring oz for 30+ years doing standup is is Henry Rollins.
I saw him at big day out when that was a festival, very cool
Im an Aussie and love Louis, i bought his 4th July movie off his website this year. So good 😊
As an Aussie (live and work in SA and WA) I love how accurately Louis described it. I would love to hear more about the comedic differences though, I think we tend to like a British sense of humour, but we're so varied that I think any humour flies in front of the right crowd.
As a migrant to Australia, he really hit the nail on the head with the parrot suddenly flying past...that is wild at first. Also, living in a small town, kangaroos DO suddenly hop past my house which is in an ordinary suburban style street.
Happens in suburbia too, rarely.
LOL yeah, they're everywhere. I live in the inner city of Sydney and parrots visit me each day (rainbow lorikeets). They've become so accustomed to me that they land on my window and then fly into my unit and land on my shoulder. Even if I'm in the middle of my unit in the kitchen!
Requesting breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner of course.
🦜😆
Cashed up bogans! I lived in Perth for a while. I really enjoyed it. What I found odd about the city was that after 6pm, there's not much to do there. You go thinking you'll have a night out there, and there's not much going on.
There was a man in the town I lived in called Mad Dog, everyone knew him, he rode around on a bicycle with no shoes on and people would shout Mad Dog at him, and he'd growl.
He’s a national celebrity, and someone that no other country would understand or appreciate.
@@lazytitan6848 Mad Dog is known across Australia?
I feel honoured to have met the guy then, I lived on the same housing estate as him.
Mad Dog is still going and still growling
Check out the mad dog compilation on TH-cam. One of the funniest things ever.
“Mad dog ya mad c***”
WA should actually secede, the nearest capital city is further away than indonesia
We actually had a referendum and decided to succeed and the eastern states said " maybe later guys". Prior to federation we didnt want to be part of Australia either.
It is funny to think about, but then I found out that one of the first places Russia invaded in Ukraine was a place with a very similar “wouldn’t it be funny if we were our own country?” meme, and they were like “We are going to liberate you from the evil Ukrainians (so long as you remain a Russian puppet state)!”.
So now I’m thinking we should maybe tone it down a bit just incase China gets any ideas lol
God save the King I suppose
never going to happen
The swan river colony ( Perth) did have convicts from England.
But it was FOUNDED as a free settler colony. They brought in the convicts a few years later because the commercial enterprise was failing.
I'm Australian and I can count maybe 3,4 great Aussie standup comedians and the rest are boring yet they seem to get all the TV coverage all the time? That's why I watch Netflix or TH-cam for good comedy
Can you recommend any? I haven’t seen any yet. I can’t stand the Peter helliars and tommy littles
@@Peterdecz Steve Hughes Carl Barron and Jim Jefferies are a few great one's 👍
@@madazza yeah, true, I did forget about JJ. I’ll look up CB👍🏻cheers
@@madazza jim jefferies is god awful
Aussie, here. Melbourne is the woke capital of Australia, so Louis might've been playing to a room of humorless moral narcissists who think political conformity and mental illness is a personality.
Basically the whole of Victoria.
I’m watching this video from my bed in a FIFO camp.
I was really expecting a bit on Bin Chickens lol.
No one in my family tree was a convict. They came here as farmers and other trades. We are not all offspring of convicts.
I know who you are Louis. I’d be blessed to see you live 🇦🇺
One of the early mining engineers in Western Australia was a guy called Herbert Hoover. 31st President of United States.
And an absolute prick who devised a way to bring in Italian workers to drive down Australian miner's wages. He was solely responsible for all of the ill-feelings towards migrant workers on the goldfields that ultimately lead to riots and destruction of property at Dingbat Flats at Kalgoorlie. May he still rot in his grave!
Im aussie, and have been watching this bloke for years.
I am blown away with how articulate Louis is about Australia. Love from Melbourne.
As an Aussie, I've got big love for CK. Has he ever made it up to further north than Sydney?
From Perth here.... well 3 hrs south. We know you guys and you are always welcome gentlemen.
Im Australian and have a few really close American friends,I get offended by all the school shootings and they get offended by the C word....
😅😅So we're all miners, live next to giant holes, fly back to Perth every few weeks with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Oh and we have Parrots too. Couldn't have described it better. 😂😂
I saw this guy ages ago on a trip to NY , I swear to God he had people literally falling off their seats and laying in the aisles pissing themself laughing, I couldn’t breathe and turned blue! I had to leave cos I was in real trouble!.
He was unknown back then and I was very happy to see he had his own TV show many years later.
As a FIFO for many years I can tell you the money earned went straight into toys!
V8 hotted up cars, jet skis, offshore fishing boats etc etc , the absolute best of times but of course those don’t last forever but the good fun times had by all can never be taken away.
As an fifo worker it’s more modernised now than what old maté describes, he is talking about the old mining times
Two styles of comedy work in Australia: Some will lap up the US style spell it out comedy, others will desire the British style, dry, satirical comedy. Louis' style fits more into the British bracket. The US version of the office goes just as well down here as the British version does. 'Oooh, your'e ard...'
A parrot flies by! Lol!
That's nothing. I'm in a large seaside town on the east coast of Oz. We get parrots of every description, kookaburras, koalas, possums, kangaroos (literally grazing on your front lawn at night), wallabies, deer (feral imported) and snakes cruising around like they own the place. I love the wildlife here.
@EmilDamil-wt1yf it's social media and we are talking about Australia. I'll say what I please. Good day to you.
Thanks for pronouncing Melbourne correctly. As an American, you nailed it!! 🤙
Louis CK wasnt the first American comedian who actually came to Australia and travelled extensively and got to get a good feel of its countrymen and women;the LEGENDARY Phyllis Diller came toour country many times and travelled all over the place and she was much loved by we Aussies as she made a real effort to get to know us.Her unique self depreciating humour was very much admired here.
Louis CK is a king. From his short time you can tell he took some info in. He even says Melbourne in a normal way which is rare for a Americans. They normally say MelBORN but he pronounces it well.
Australians almost challenge comedians....."c'mon mate, make me laugh" 😂😅
Watching this from a FIFO camp in QLD 😂
This is an unusually accurate summary of Australia. The parrot business is very true.
It's unusual that Aussie crowd wouldn't laugh at Louis C.K. coz we Aussie's ha r the BEST sense of humour on the planet. We even poke fun at ourselves and that's something a lot of Americans DON'T like doing lol
Louis gets it. Suprisingly well informed about Perth.
Kudo to CK for his West Aus knowledge. Summed up Perth pretty much spot on.
Melbourne is different to the rest of Australia. This is the same State that voted in a politician that done a 2 year lock down and they overwhelmingly voted the bloke back in again
as a guy from WA myself, i gotta say that this is pretty accurate. Cool stuff
Being a performer in Australia isn’t easy, it takes a while to warm up the crowd, you have to earn their respect each performance.
I went to guns and roses in Brisbane last time they were here, and you could tell they were not enjoying themselves.
However, as the night went on, the crowd warmed up, it ended up being a brilliant show!
They loved it, we loved it, it was fantastic!
Parrots are not " tropical creatures" they're everywhere, alpine parrots in the snow bro!😂
you blokes are a classic - bravo for working out the Australians
As an Australian living in Melbourne I'm so glad Louis CK knows how to pronounce our city as Mel-burn instead of the American Mel-born.
Nah it’s ‘Mel-bin’
@@BobJones-ej4ez It is actually the city of Batman.
its not melburn its melbin
@@LeeSong325 I've heard people use both but thinking about it your probably more right, it's Mel-bin