Bill Bailey should be given a show where he goes around the world learning and sharing musical concepts to non-musicians. It's like Bill Nye's science show but for music. Make it happen, Netflix.
Theena Kumaragurunathan i have seen clips of him with an orchestra going through some of the different instruments and their sounds. So a show like you suggest shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.
Trouble There is Bill Bailey is a musician and knows what he is doing and Bill Nye is not a scientist he's an engineer and can only parrot what he is told
@zbr76 In a comedic musical show, I have an assumption that explaining what a minor 3rd is, let alone diminish, and intervals, may be a bit much for a likely unmusical crowd to understand. I'm just hazarding a guess tho, who really knows right?
@@cl759 First of all, if you've read my comment you've already read the joke, so it's not like I ruined it somehow. Second, the joke was just a merging of USSR and USA, but considering the S's and U's mean something different in both of them, I genuinely wanted to explore how they'd come together, as you could come up with many interpertations. Third, it's a throwaway comment that's not hurting anyone. Fourth, telling someone what is or isn't poor form is also poor form, as it's subjective.
I love watching the " musical " bits of Bill's shows..he's immensely talented. To those who may not be familiar with him, he's an ornithologist, a conservationist , a co.edian, actor and multi -instrumentalist . This man should be treasured
Its ok, i love watching him too, and so do many of my friends, basically We All Love him, i wanted to build a nest with Bill but unfortunately he turned me down, as he already has one...
I've had a similar but maybe even worse experience like that: went down into the comments of a video, and went "this person makes some good points, I was totally gonna say that. Who is... wait, it's me a year ago‽"
@@PlayThemes Yeah, felt nice to be able to agree with myself from the past. At the same time, being able to disagree with my previous beliefs would also have been refreshing, would show I've grown :)
Okay this is weird. Just had the same experience for the first time ever and then I see your comment! Wonder if I am able to creep out my future self with this comment now...
The melodic minor ascending vs depressing gag had me 😂😂 After a day spent practicing sight reading and improvisation for jazz studies, Bill Bailey is a welcome tonic. Gosh, he is a great musician, comedian, and entertainer.
@@kaaskop7451 This is a show in London based on the description. Notice how he says "the American national anthem", rather than "your national anthem" or similar, implying he's not in America.
Yeah... this is pretty much why I dislike events with "Laugh" or "Applause" light-up signals. You can't see it, but you can still feel how its there - everyone starts and stops "laughing" at the same time.
He's a cornball hack, & if he started smashing watermelons with a sledgehammer it wouldn't change the overall tone or sophistication of his "act" one bit. He's the personification of British decline -- a once powerful, imaginative, wholly original nation reduced to ossified has-beens who cringingly lick their wounds & confuse third-rate comedy for high culture.
This man is SO underrated. He should have a continuous series He is an excellent musician so could do serious music as weĺl as comedy. He is an all round entertainer
You should watch Bill Bailey's Guide To The Orchestra, it's an entire live show, complete with orchestra (as you might have guessed) in this style. It's excellent.
The family cow, who for some reason they never thought to tie to a rope (and couldn't afford a fence or something) but instead had to sit in a cold field whenever it was grazing to make sure it didn't run away. True story.
drschplatt it references the widely circulated accusations that Russia and Putin colluded with Trump and/or the Trump campaign to ensure that Trump won the US presidency. The implication of these accusations is that if they are true, then Trump must secretly be acting in the interests of Russia or even acting under their orders as a Russian puppet, because Russia would have to have had a lot to gain from Trump becoming president for them to have wanted to collude with him. So, the American national anthem sounding “a bit Russian” is a metaphor for the accusation that Trump, the leader of the USA, is a pawn controlled by Russian puppetmasters.
Why are people being defensive of Trump before anyone has even mentioned him (and the video doesn't either). If you're that insecure about your president, maybe you should reconsider your oppinions afterall.
@@Jeff-oc6tm I havent really seen anyone insult trump in the TH-cam comments. I have seen one comment using the NPC joke though. So more defensive trump comments than insulting as of right now.
Looked like it was just people insulting the guy and not defending him at all. What would that say about the outspoken group criticizing Trump on every platform regardless of the parent content they refer to? Coming over to TH-cam on a comedic music video and commenting how terrible Trump is shows a good bit of obsession in my opinion.
@@jordanhardy2463 No, coming to these comments and making the argument that people are insulting trump more than defending him is obsessive. Theres been one NPC meme comment, and this comment talking about defense vs insult comments. Like, I agree that it's very obsessive to take something that has nothing to do with Trump and turn it into a Trump discussion. So why is no one in the comments insulting Trump? I literally just read through all of them again. Theres this comment involving trump, and an NPC meme which as we all know satirizes and belittles anti-trumpers.
Bill Bailey should be given a show where he goes around the world learning and sharing musical concepts to non-musicians. It's like Bill Nye's science show but for music. Make it happen, Netflix.
Brilliant idea but make it on standard tv not just netflix.
Theena Kumaragurunathan i have seen clips of him with an orchestra going through some of the different instruments and their sounds. So a show like you suggest shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.
His show "Bill Bailey Introduces the Orchestra" its along those lines. Quite excellent.
Bill is a music and comedy genius,a national treasure.
Trouble There is Bill Bailey is a musician and knows what he is doing and Bill Nye is not a scientist he's an engineer and can only parrot what he is told
"Things are looking happy and joyful, no they're not they're depressing and bleak." I loved that
Is it really 'happy' with that minor 3rd in the ascent, though? Perhaps he was simplifying his explanation for the audience.
@zbr76 In a comedic musical show, I have an assumption that explaining what a minor 3rd is, let alone diminish, and intervals, may be a bit much for a likely unmusical crowd to understand. I'm just hazarding a guess tho, who really knows right?
I actually like the national anthem of the USSA!
Genuinely made me laugh.
I'mma say that stands for the United Soviet States of America.
@@Huntracony ffs don't explain the joke, it's very poor form
@@cl759 First of all, if you've read my comment you've already read the joke, so it's not like I ruined it somehow. Second, the joke was just a merging of USSR and USA, but considering the S's and U's mean something different in both of them, I genuinely wanted to explore how they'd come together, as you could come up with many interpertations. Third, it's a throwaway comment that's not hurting anyone. Fourth, telling someone what is or isn't poor form is also poor form, as it's subjective.
@@Huntracony Replying to someone and saying that calling something poor form is just poor form is poor form.
Fur Elise in major sounds like music you’d hear at a carnival.
Right? It sounded like a unicorn vomitting.
I had the same thought. Just heard it and went "this is some clown music."
To me it almost sounds like the theme to Cheers.
I know! Sounded so wrong!
A little creepy...
It sounds like that song in Shrek when they enter Duloc.
1:59
If you listen closely, you will hear the most amazing laugh from the crowd
Squantle oh that’s a laugh, I thought it was a duck quacking
Haha that's a "I know where this shits going!" laugh
Thank you for this comment.
sounds like josh widdicombe
Looking for this comment 😂
Many people don't realise what an accomplished musician Bill is.
I do Jay!!🤘🤙🎸🎹🎹
And many people do.
Jay, name them.
I'll bet your neighbour doesn't realise Jay !
Ah, the Tzar Spangled Banner.
Surely this deserves more than the current three likes ?
Nailed it
Very good, sir
genius
Well played!
I love watching the " musical " bits of Bill's shows..he's immensely talented. To those who may not be familiar with him, he's an ornithologist, a conservationist , a co.edian, actor and multi -instrumentalist . This man should be treasured
Its ok, i love watching him too, and so do many of my friends, basically We All Love him, i wanted to build a nest with Bill but unfortunately he turned me down, as he already has one...
Stephen Fry summed it up nicely when he said Bill should have railings built around him so people come and worship. He's just sublime.
You just knew this show wasn't in the US when he mentioned the Star Spangled Banner and nobody in the audience went WOO!
You needed _that_ to tell you a show called "We are Most Amused" wasn't in the USA?
@@EmpiricalPragmatist Yeah you're right in the US it would have been "Funny Show" or something like that.
@@Narrenspiel6 America's Got Funny
@@Zomburai45 Cringeworthy because accurate
Yeah. They applauded Russia.
When you watch a video and scroll down only to find you've already liked a bunch of comments...
"I have no memory of this place.."
Then the next time you even see your own comment.
I've had a similar but maybe even worse experience like that: went down into the comments of a video, and went "this person makes some good points, I was totally gonna say that. Who is... wait, it's me a year ago‽"
@@emdivine Haha, at least you stayed consistant and still agreed! Would have been awkward if you were like, "Wait what shit's this guy spouting?. Oh."
@@PlayThemes Yeah, felt nice to be able to agree with myself from the past. At the same time, being able to disagree with my previous beliefs would also have been refreshing, would show I've grown :)
Okay this is weird. Just had the same experience for the first time ever and then I see your comment! Wonder if I am able to creep out my future self with this comment now...
Bill Bailey is a national treasure!
He's turned into a hack.
I had some of the best times of my life milking to a Bravarian tune.
Bavarian, mate. It's a part of Germany.
Thanks.@@jeffreyau9751
Hey funny seeing you there ! Is the Asian woman planning on posting a new cooking recipe soon ?
Hey mate! Tomorrow actually!!! @@miraonegevmaster5903
@@sarcasmo57 cheers mate !
Arguably the most radical reinterpretation of "The Star-Spangled Banner/To Anacreon in Heaven" since Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.
Nice nod to the original British drinking song melody there, ^oo^
The melodic minor ascending vs depressing gag had me 😂😂
After a day spent practicing sight reading and improvisation for jazz studies, Bill Bailey is a welcome tonic.
Gosh, he is a great musician, comedian, and entertainer.
''Manny!'' Bill Bailey, one of the greatest musicians alive!
He is a genius. I love Graham Norton's mother's description of him. "The bald man with the long hair!!!"
The bloke is a musical genius..a great comic and a terrific actor.
I absoloutely adore Bill Bailey. He is funny and so intelligent.
"like me, like me, like me, like me, im the major key" as a musician who despises the major key for that reason, I lost it
Well then.
is your icon r34?
@@pyr0_jack I thought the same.
@@kaaskop7451 This is a show in London based on the description. Notice how he says "the American national anthem", rather than "your national anthem" or similar, implying he's not in America.
@@TheGenericDavis *rather than the national anthem *
I have never called the national anthem mine or yours. It's just the
Yeah... this is pretty much why I dislike events with "Laugh" or "Applause" light-up signals. You can't see it, but you can still feel how its there - everyone starts and stops "laughing" at the same time.
He is an absolute gem!
Bill is an amazing human being and a natural talent. I am in tears 🥲
Hands down best minor major lesson
I love how the clarinet takes over toward the ending. A screaming ending. Wonderful.
The man is a genious, he's proven it over and over again.
I love how you misspelled genius.
Bill Bailey is God, and we are all just watching Him work.
He's a cornball hack, & if he started smashing watermelons with a sledgehammer it wouldn't change the overall tone or sophistication of his "act" one bit.
He's the personification of British decline -- a once powerful, imaginative, wholly original nation reduced to ossified has-beens who cringingly lick their wounds & confuse third-rate comedy for high culture.
this guy's SIMPLY BRILLIANT! :D
I love Bill and his poetic words and the lovely music he weaves into the conversation beautiful
Saw him in Trondheim, Norway. I've literally never laughed so much at a comedy gig. HOLY LAUGHS!
Nice to see a genius at work
Bill Bailey always cheers me up.
Bill bailey. Comedian and music genius. Watch. Amazing
This man is SO underrated. He should have a continuous series He is an excellent musician so could do serious music as weĺl as comedy. He is an all round entertainer
Bill Baily is something else so talented
Love any video with Bill Bailey. Your never disappointed
There isn't anyone like Bill Bailey.
Never has this been more appropriate
Sounds like the music they'd play in the credits if America was a TV show.
I must say that the last two seasons are jumping the shark.
Sacha Baron Cohen could have used this for Who Is America
After the 2016 election episode
Trump derangement syndrome
Curb Your Patriotism
Saw him live a few years ago, it's nice to see this type of musical comedy still touring
Makes me want to practice scales again!! Anyone who can make a massive audience laugh at musical theory is my hero!!
*Our* anthem comrade
You deserve more likes
I love Bill Bailey! Rest In Peace! (He’s not dead, I simply wish him some good restful sleep) 😄
Manny, you rock!
Utterly brilliant. Enough said.
As a piano student, this is quite possibly the funniest musical comedy skit I've ever seen.
Check out Tim Minchin too, very much like a younger version of Bill Bailey
You should watch Bill Bailey's Guide To The Orchestra, it's an entire live show, complete with orchestra (as you might have guessed) in this style. It's excellent.
@@kaaskop7451 Did Hans Teeuwen do comedy bits based on musical theory? Which ones?
As someone who sucks at piano, this is quite possibly the funniest comedy skits I've seen.
Ever seen Igudesman & Joo?
Genius at”work “ ❤
I really want the American national anthem in minor to be the intro music for a depressing political drama.
Chase Holfelder sang the whole thing in minor, makes it even more dramatic.
Yee
Bill Bailey is my favourite comedian
Best thing I've watched all year just for the last bit
@@teentitans0789 that's the joke lmao
What a genius
Fur Elise in a major key sounds exactly like something Mozart would have written
I disagree... Sounds nothing like Mozart to me
Mozart was Beethoven’s teacher for awhile!!
More like something out of a creepy circus fair lol 😅
Things are looking happy and joyful!
AUDIENCE volume has never been cranked up so high. Even on Mr Bean they didn't push it this far.
Waking up in America, this is a great way to start the day.
Come on, Bill, Für Elise in major is a damn good Bavarian milking song!
Ok, milking what??
@@TheStrataminor I want to reply to this, but which one of your four owls asked that?
@@TheStrataminor, bratwursts, probably.
The family cow, who for some reason they never thought to tie to a rope (and couldn't afford a fence or something) but instead had to sit in a cold field whenever it was grazing to make sure it didn't run away. True story.
Oh how this burns twice as hard now
I quite like his rendition of _Für Elise_ in A Major. :)
Our Bill the absolute legend .
This is brilliant.
I really wish you were my best friend (and I was yours!). Bless you and yours dear man. PAX Gx
Für Elise in A Major sounds like something you'd hear at a children's ballet school.
What absolute gold
I have loved Bailey’s humors since his time on Black Books. He is just so damn funny about the simplest things in life.
Excellent analogy Billy
I want to hear all songs major or minor shifted...
There's a TH-cam channel for that
freakstate >says theres a youtube channel for that
>doesnt post link
😭😭
@@freakstate Post the link you sadistic monster.
foodank_atr Learn to play piano, and then you can shift them yourself.
There's a great version of Smash Mouth - All Star in the minor key on here
He is really good.
2:09 that fucking trill killed me
I love bill!! Long May he rock!!
I kind of liked that version of the star spangled banner xD seems fitting.
Fantastic... what a talent!
I can imagine someone like, Chopin, sharing the same humour back in the day.
Finally fits!!! Hooray 2022
"It actually makes it sound a bit Russian" was a very clever joke.
but he wasnt playing it very fast
It's the only good US/Russia/Current-Year joke I've heard.
Like a funeral dirge
In what way?
drschplatt it references the widely circulated accusations that Russia and Putin colluded with Trump and/or the Trump campaign to ensure that Trump won the US presidency.
The implication of these accusations is that if they are true, then Trump must secretly be acting in the interests of Russia or even acting under their orders as a Russian puppet, because Russia would have to have had a lot to gain from Trump becoming president for them to have wanted to collude with him.
So, the American national anthem sounding “a bit Russian” is a metaphor for the accusation that Trump, the leader of the USA, is a pawn controlled by Russian puppetmasters.
How is this man so good?
Bill Bailey. Comedy musical genius.
I'm speechless.
GLORY TO ARTSOTZKA!
Glory greatest
One of the greatest
0:35 I come from a land, from a far-away place, where the caravan camels roam!
Where they cut off your ear
if they don’t like your face
It’s barbaric, but hey
It’s home.
Bro the major key fur Elise 👌 loved that
How cool would school music lesson have been if the teachers were as great as Bill.
Given what’s going down in the US right now this is quite apt 😂
this is the end credits song when the US crumbles
only if the democramps steal the presidency.
@Joe This is the internet in a nutshell:
Person A: “America failing”
Person B: “Because Democrats!”
Rinse and repeat till the end of time.
Better start playing it
Genius!!!!!
The first part is fun but honestly, the revised US anthem is HILARIOUS!! :D
And false
What I like about this guy is that not only does he know music so well . . . he is also funny!
The minor-key Star Spangled Banner sounds like the music that plays when the villain appears in a silent movie.
Maestro.
This is why I like bill. The Tzar Spangled banner was right on the Russian money.
The only music teacher you’ll ever need
The last one sounded like the soundtrack to Papers, Please! Anyone else or is it me?
Glory to Artstokzia
Papers was Alan Price non?
NEXT!
GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA
GLORY TO ARZTOTSKA
I wish he'd come to NYC. He'd sell out Town Hall for sure, with all the Anglophiles we have here.
I’m glad he decided to do comedy with his talent
This videos too short
Only 2 minutes 43 seconds!? It is a crime against all things civil
Like me, like me, like me, like me. Amazing.
0:38 The Specials-Ghost Town
Anyone else hear the resemblance?
Pretty sure that’s what he was playing
I liked that tune in the major key , you funny funny music thanks for the ideas!
Why are people being defensive of Trump before anyone has even mentioned him (and the video doesn't either).
If you're that insecure about your president, maybe you should reconsider your oppinions afterall.
So far people are insulting and not defending him. Just saying.
Lol
@@Jeff-oc6tm I havent really seen anyone insult trump in the TH-cam comments. I have seen one comment using the NPC joke though. So more defensive trump comments than insulting as of right now.
Looked like it was just people insulting the guy and not defending him at all. What would that say about the outspoken group criticizing Trump on every platform regardless of the parent content they refer to? Coming over to TH-cam on a comedic music video and commenting how terrible Trump is shows a good bit of obsession in my opinion.
@@jordanhardy2463 No, coming to these comments and making the argument that people are insulting trump more than defending him is obsessive. Theres been one NPC meme comment, and this comment talking about defense vs insult comments. Like, I agree that it's very obsessive to take something that has nothing to do with Trump and turn it into a Trump discussion. So why is no one in the comments insulting Trump? I literally just read through all of them again. Theres this comment involving trump, and an NPC meme which as we all know satirizes and belittles anti-trumpers.
Thank you for telling me where I should laugh and applause.
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