Miss America Pageant: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- The Miss America Pageant…how is this still a thing?
They claim to give more scholarships to women than any other organization, and, unfortunately, they’re right.
To illustrate these problems, John Oliver stages his own pageant with the help of Kathy Griffin.
Here are the links to the women's scholarship funds that John mentioned on air:
Society of Women Engineers: societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/
Jeanette Rankin Women’s Scholarship Fund: www.rankinfoundation.org
Patsy Mink Foundation: www.patsyminkfoundation.org
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that girl answering the isis question is AMAZING at talking shit. she basically just said "it's bad and somebody should do something about it" several times in a row, worded differently to make her sound smarter and more informed. this isn't me trying to say she's an idiot, it's legitimately impressive to be that confident when she's under pressure and likely has no idea what she's talking about.
friday13thirteen You seriously expect a girl fresh from school to solve the near-east crisis? This is literally the best answer one could give
red toasti of course i don't. that was the point of my comment - she obviously knew the question was way too complex, so she used her public speaking skills to make an obvious answer sound super smart. i thought it was awesome.
friday13thirteen Even if she does know what she's talking about, twenty seconds is not sufficient enough to include the exact proposition to solve ISIS. But yes, keeping the response general and vague as possible is a poor way of answering the question, but at least the correct line of thought was there.
red toasti Which is why he was a complimenting her. And I agree that it was very impressive.
She should become a politician!
The girl that got that ISIS question is smarter and more well spoken the man that owned that pagent
What university did she attend? Wow!
I know right
ALL OF THEM ARE
Calm down. Everything she said. Thats what the world was doing. And more
@Toori Baba hi I know it's been 3 weeks but this comment is super gross and you should really reexamine your views on women
The segment actually spurred major changes in how the pageant reported "scholarships made available" and was part of the road to the pageant's downfall. The swimsuit competition is gone now, and the pageant is no longer broadcast on TV.
Really? I always wonder the impact some of their articles might have (if they are going to have any impact at all). Thank you for sharing this.
“It is a little ironic that the Ms America beauty pageant is overseen by one of the ugliest souls on the planet” is some on the nose foreshadowing. I was waiting for John to finish with “Imagine if he ever became president?” then burst out laughing.
Um you do know he owned Miss Universe/USA/Teen USA not Miss America.
@@vernskid Why doesn’t he just own the Miss Universe Child Pageant while he's at it? 😒
@@aminakamran6969 I have not idea. But the Miss America Fans don’t want he connected with them I believe.
Remember John urging Trump to run for President?
@@steve41557 remember when it was because he thought it would be hilarious? He literally said "I dont want you as president but I do want you to run." Everyone thought it was a joke
these pageant girls are asked questions that presidential nominees couldnt answer
That’s why we should replace politicians with beauty pageant contestants and put politicians in skimpy bikinis
@@hopefullywholesome1955 I believe we call that Sarah Palin LOL
Bernie Sanders in a bikini.
GO AWAY! I now need eye bleach.
nominees? Some of them answer questions the president couldnt answer... not that it stops him ...
"Donald Trump is a clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy" had me rolling. Whatever your opinion is of the man, I think we can all agree that is hilarious.
The Donald wishes it was made of John's green card so he could burn it like Trump's own draft card? The Dead Zone movie pre-disastered Trump
+Gigabic well, there's good news, and bad news. The bad news is i'm pretty sure it's not fiberglass insulation.
The good news is that i guess it's asbestos. Keeps out the rats.
what Donald Trump said really makes you rethink him as president
+Nick Gee rethink? did someone think of him as a president before?
Yeah, no
The fact that ‘The Nation’ and ‘The World’ are seen as interchangeable for Americans makes me irrationally annoyed at no one in particular
you are so right
Wait what? I’m not disagreeing or anything, we are pretty ethnocentric, but when did that come up in this video?
@@fortunatecookie It wasn't really adressed or anything, it's just a small general annoyance
@@fortunatecookie I think this refers to how "largest provider in the world" and "largest provider in America" are both used? Dunno, it's 5AM and I'm absolutely not wasting any more of my time checking but I kinda recall both?
Maybe they are the largest in the world so that doesn't really matter. Tho it's not like the whole world is benefiting. But from what I gathered after a few years on the Internet, it's that there are US citizens that do not make such distinctions (and even worse, ethnocentrism in the US goes even deeper than the damn Frenchies!). They are thankfully only representative of part of the population, but they exist...
That's just how America is....
Ah yes, let's all reminice about a simpler time, a purer time, an innocent time. 40 years ago, 2014.
Yup
The before times were interesting
It's now September 2020, so more like 659 years ago.
--Dave, before they even HAD 5G, can you imagine?
@@daviddelaney2407 5G has existed on mobiles since 2018
Befoe tha dak tymes. Befoe Trump
Remember when it was a funny joke to imply that a beauty pageant contestant had a better grasp of a complex foreign policy issue than the president did?
:D
Now everyone has a better grasp of a complex foreign policy issue than the president. Lol see how that goes?
The president of the United States is working with terrorist!!!
Mr Moneysign I’m not a trump supporter but do you have a source on that?
@@ZacharyBaez I second that information request
To the girl who answered the ISIS question....
You have my respect.
lol
+Matthew Sexton While it IS a great answer, to be fair joining forces with the EU won't directly solve the ISIS problem. But it would definitely be a GREAT start to it
Matthew Sexton Indeed
trump says to take out their families.. if 51% of my country were daft enough to vote brexit i dont even wanna know what trump will get
Her answer wasn't so terrific, if anything it was an empty statement of "we need to do something about it" and we obviously already know that.
I honestly have never seen a more accurate portrayal of hyperfocus as when he pulled out the giant stack of tax returns
It has the same energy as when you have a passing curiosity about something that somehow results in a six hour long dive down yet another Wikipedia rabbit hole
"that is a borderline better answer the the president gave last week"
and that at a time where that was actually a challenge
dude i spit out my food i laughed so hard at this XDD
"In fact the President ..." With a photo of Barack Obama ... My brain was like : "Wait ... WTF how old is this video !"
2014, as noted near the beginning of the video 🙂
@@asherikamichaela8425 r/woooosh
@@DanDSoul Never mind the fact that plenty of people don't pay attention to when videos were made, be they days or years late...
@@DanDSoul Whoosh ? What was the joke exactly ?
@@jimreily7538 there's three layers to the joke, "the problem is still relevant" , "the villain of the story is Trump like nowadays" and "Obama is gone!" insert crab island meme
John Oliver, hating Trump since before it was cool.
Hes been hated in NY since the 80s.
Hating Trump? More like revealing Trump's truths since 2014
Rigo Rangel yeah. And if you know his truths you hate him lol
Woody Guthrie wrote a song about his nazi father like, almost a century ago. The Trumps are pretty much universally hated and have been for generations.... by sensible people.
I feel like a time traveler watching this in 2019
Remember when Trump was a joke, instead of a credible threat to our democracy? Good times....
Ah the good old days
When was he ever a credible threat to democracy? The people elected him and the people threw him out. Where's the threat? He's gone when his democratically elected term is over.
@@Fireglo he’s fighting that democratic process with everything he has. He is clawing to stay in power bc he wants complete control. He also has racist tendencies/ideologies, which his supporters, a large percentage of Americans, support blindly
@@maddieatkins7595 fighting and losing because he can't overthrow the election. He is not a credible threat to democracy. He never has been. If anything Trump's failed attempt to stay in power despite losing only shows that democracy does work. As far as racist tendencies/ideologies goes both parties are guilty of that. They both play identity politics and use race as a political tool.
I wish that 2016 defeat would have taught liberals and dumbasses in hollywood and the media not to be so stuck up and self righteous in their disdain for commoners. I wish 2020 defeat would teach the religious trump lovers who are fearful of anything new that going and hiding in a bunker and insisting that you are right and following some glorious savior is ridiculous. But it hasn't, and reason, dialogue, and love of freedom are looked down upon as either "alt right fascism" or "enlightened centrism". So while the libs and the right wing lock themselves in their bubbles, the far left gains more and more public momentum. Oh dear, the brave new world is dying, only to be replaced by 1984
Now I want him to do a piece on "Toddlers and Tiaras".
YES absolutely
I'm really getting addicted to John Oliver videos.
same here lol
we need a support group that has more videos
same
im on board 100%
Basically my fill of "the news"
"You wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful."
Ladies and Gentlemen, the now president of the United States.
@Jake Dean No, just a clown made of mummified foreskin & cotton candy.
@Jake Dean and whose fault is that?
Jake Dean He himself is ugly and obese. He wouldn’t have his job if he hadn’t been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Just telling the unvarnished truth. Now, just say it to his face on national television and it’s all equal.
Richard Patik well, he's old. When he was young, he was fairly attractive I'd say. And also, 6'2. And yeah still rich
@Jake Dean I don't want no butt ugly bitches on my tv screen thank you very much.
"A clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy." In addition to being funny, it's just amazing how accurate the analogy is. Just Amazing.
Miss Teen South Carolina answers a question about the American education system's failure to educate and proves once and for all time that a picture (or video) is worth a thousand words. Clearly she was discombobulated by the question and under a lot of pressure so we should give her some slack for that.
The Isis question girl is still blowing my mind as of today.
i mean, she was bullspitting on her feet but she was doing at least as good a job as any politician I've heard..
Jody Pelupessy No shit we are fucked up. Look who is running it
She circled that question to pad time by bringing in other groups with no direct action stated, but still open to that larger group coming up with solutions. Pageant long timers know to coach that some tough questions can be trained for in general.
Yep, and the heads of state of ... what, 20 countries? ... still haven't managed to actually do it. Maybe they should let her have a go at it.
I am so old, I remember when Isis was a girl band.
"And at this point, we had to stop, because it was 35 minutes ago, and we had to tape this show." Classic.
One of the truly great lines of all media.
literally me writing a paper the day it's due
Im from the future, Guess who is president of USA 4:52
@@angecosetta9101 this comment was made during his presidency
I read this as he said it.. creepy
Here in Norway, all university education is free. And the state provides a loan for living expences. The rate is about 2.5%. And around 25% of the yearly loan is given as a stipend if you pass all your classes.
That's because Norway invests in its future, whereas the US invests in its shrinking elite.
You claim to be all woke, green and say everything is free in Norway, but you are one the biggest exporters of oil and natural gass in the world and because of that are sitting on billions in the state's coffers. Hypocrites.
@@Ravencroft81 and her still better than the US
@@kstar1489 Every country is better than the US unless if you are filthy rich.
There's always someone in the comments starting unnecessary drama
ST@@Ravencroft81 FU, nobody cares about your miserable opinions and hurt feelings
The classified document's question aged like fine wine 😂😂😂
Even before he was elected John Oliver was calling out Trump.
As was Spy Magazine.
He was running.
@@stevenp25100
That's a lie and simply not true.
This show aired September 2014
Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015.
Are you lying or simply didn't know any better?
Well he alwas has been a joke and a deplorable human being
When was J.O. elected?
Points for limbs, torso, and construction of the head? Is this the Westminster DOG SHOW?
I know I was waiting for them to test the heat coming off their vaginas next..
+Inquisitive Cameron HAHAHA
Agreed...
honestly those standards would even be demeaning to DOGS.
ManicPixieDreamGirl Yeah, we're just talking about how this is like a dog show.
4:32 "Better answer than the president gave"... back when that was hard to do...
It's wild to see that a comedian is the world's last investigative journalist.
there are others still. don't forget Oliver uses stuff that other journalists found. I genuinely adore him, but he is not an primary investigative journalist in the field, he presents the secondary investigations of his many authors. but great he does that, obviously. ♥️
Because it's great comedic materia.
WOW WOW WOW WOW you are correct. I hadn't thought of that before. He really is. And he makes palatable for everyone
Yeah, totally. Not counting all the other investigative journalists he's really the only one.
*journalists. There's a whole team, including John, behind all of this and some of the jokes are written by them too.
"Buttock adhesive technology"
I died there. Typing from my i-ghost.
"Technology"
+Gigabic ,, funny that Most americans wish he would go back to his birthplace, And the miss America pageant actually released their accounting stuff last week because of this jerk, the scandal? lol
Anyone notice that the acronym spells B A T? Cuz thats the weapon I'm gonna get to wack the person who made this shit XD
Didn't think that making a joke about butt glue would get me 260+ likes and top comment. Happens more often than you might think.
+Gigabic - It didn't get you liked, it got the quotation liked.
DAMN, that ISIS answer was FUCKING SICK, unbelievably amazing
Thank you, John Oliver! I'm watching this for the first time 6 years after it was posted here to TH-cam and it's still solid gold.
They ask beauty pageant contestants harder questions then they do presidential candidates XD
This show needs more credit for its fucking amazing investigative journalism. They don't fuck around.
My question is, why in the hell aren't these questions posed to Presidential Candidates for their answers? A President should be judged on their ability to govern domestic and international problems by these types of questions on top of the regular healthcare and income related topics. The Presidential Debate Moderators should get the Miss America Pageant question writers to send them some notes. Lol
So true man
There should be a swimsuit portion too, with butt adhesives. Obama would demolish though, he actually works out.
@Vincent Savoye 🤣
Maybe it would also help if the presidential candidates had to be never married, never sexually active, and look great in a bathing suit. That might rule out a few past candidates.
@@karenwatkins655 but somehow presidential candidates in USA have to meet the bar of married person with kids and to value christianity. It's not official but it works as far as I know.
Also idea of giving those questions to presidential candidates looks amazing. And it would be so reality show-like to add 20 seconds timer too! Main elections in USA a bit of a reality show anyway so why not to double the fun?
John's wife must be so happy, he seems like a very cool guy to talk and open minded, plus funny!! I will give him a chance any day, love him!
Let's start with the fact he doesn't wear a wedding ring......
@@peterleadley hmm... many people don't do it for it is a possession thing. Still don't know him, he might be an ass but I do think if he is like on TV, so cool!!😁
@@sociologica4247 I was mistaken. I noticed a wedding ring in a later video.
@@peterleadleyIn this one too actually. It’s a thin band though.
I hv come here for a Genuine, showing Mirror to the society content,I m an Indian and I started following Mr Oliver After Hotstar Banned an Episode that ws critical to The Prime minister of India.He is a hero to every Rational Indian and to the Rational people of the rest of the world,We r proud of what u do. Keep doing the good work.🙏🙏🙏
"A clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy" 😂😂😂😂
its an american audience, mention foreskin at all and it's some giant joke because they ritualistically mutilate their children at birth who are unfortunate enough to be born male.
@@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse Oh bullshit. That was once true, but boys are not systematically circumcised anymore in the US. (I have 3 nephews, none are circumcised - couldn't have kids of my own.) My brother and I were circumcised in the mid sixties, not because it was standard (which, of course, it was), but because my older brother had very nasty complications with his foreskin - bleeding and infections. He was not intended to be circumcised, and that's 1965. Our mother was thoughtful about her decision at least. I agree - circumcision should not be done without a reason, and we as a people are coming to terms with that. Please don't cling to old beliefs without checking in once in a while to see if they're still true. We still probably circumcise a lot more boys that most other nations, but we're changing, so please give us a little credit. That's all I ask, and all we deserve, just a little credit. (If you believe circumcising boys is wrong, you should applaud us for the progress we've made since the 70s - the last time it was standard without a specific reason.) I think what some cultures to the girls is horrific, and not at all comparable to boys. I don't mind having been circumcised at all, especially knowing my mom had a legitimate medical concern and made the decision thoughtfully (part of what makes her so special to me - she was way ahead of her time in that regard - she had reasons for all of the important decisions, and she was very thoughtful). We had some goofy foreskin genetics. No big deal, but it's not assumed as standard anymore. I remember being maybe 10 or 11 and my mom trying to explain to me what a foreskin was. It was kinda funny actually. She ran a home day-care in the 70s, and one little boy, a toddler, was not circumcised, and she showed me what it looked like. I'm being honest here, but my first thought was, "How ugly!" But now I really respect the boy's parents for making an unusual decision for that time. American boys aren't being chopped up like we used to be.
@@beenaplumber8379 systematically; according to a fixed plan or system; methodically.
The US position on circumcision changed in the past few years, that is unlike any other first world country in the world, away from a neutral stance towards a positive stance that proclaimed that circumcision benefits outweighed the risks, polar opposite of many countries like Canada who continues to proclaim the risks do not outweigh the benefits and does not recommend the procedure.
The US has also used publicly funded money to run organizations such as UNAIDS, which uses millions of US tax payer dollars and donations to circumcised millions of Africans in a delusional effort to reduce HIV transmission in the continent. Which makes sense, I mean, the US being HIV free despite being the most circumcised first world country on the planet.
If you ask a US doctor about the procedure they will misinform you because the countries position has such a massive bias it's impossible to get an accurate understanding of the risks, it being an entirely elective, unnecessary, cosmetic procedure, done primarily because "daddy is cut".
"my older brother had very nasty complications with his foreskin - bleeding and infections" brought on by what, an ignorant society or neglectful parents? It's usually a great combination of both. because what you'll find common in countries that don't perform child abusive practices, is infections are treated with medicine, not amputation. If my finger nail got infected, I wonder what the chances of having a doctor immediately recommend amputation, versus, an infected foreskin due to a neglectful upbringing or a forcefully retracted foreskin by an ignorant medical professional and/or parent.
"Our mother was thoughtful about her decision at least." yeah too bad she didn't teach her kids to properly take care of their bodies. It's either doctor negligence or parental negligence that results in a childs body being amputated.
"We still probably circumcise a lot more boys that most other nations, but we're changing, so please give us a little credit. That's all I ask, and all we deserve, just a little credit." Yeah I do give you credit, credit for slowly progressing to a less barbaric country. Like the slow progress towards most of many other important social issues that the US is also very far behind on. I mean, the US still has the death penalty, something russia even got rid of.
and YES your country mutilates the genitals far more than any other first world country in the entire world. global medical associations refer to the US research on circumcision to be the most accurate example of cultural bias to ever plague medical research.
"I think what some cultures to the girls is horrific, and not at all comparable to boys." which is because you don't know the practice at all, that would be why you'd claim that. So when I say it's barbaric to cut boys or girls, you'd disagree based on which body parts I'm slicing. Imagine if you were to disagree based on race. Imagine if I said, it's barbaric to cut a white man and a black man, and you disagreed, most people would call you racist because regardless of what you're cutting, the act of violating another persons body is wrong. REGARDLESS of HOW wrong. It's still assault causing bodily harm. you are literally amputating a part of a newborn childs genitals, and you want to argue over the morality of the act based on what you percieve to be some mundane difference of opinion regardless the ethics of cutting WHICH genital of WHICH sex. Which would be ignoring entirely the act of child abuse at the core of the practice, not the conditions in which it's performed.
Tell me, how many circumcised females do you know? I can guarantee it's 0. Can't say the same for males can you. You're surrounded by them. Females are protected BY LAW from this mutilation. Males are not. So yes, they are very different. To protect one and not the other is a sexist double standard. Boys deserve the same protection from violence as women enjoy.
" I don't mind having been circumcised at all," I was sexually molested by my pastor, but I don't actually care, does that mean what he did was okay? No. Stop rationalizing your mutilation. Especially if you expect me to believe you have some sort of well intention other than to give excuses as to why you have your rights violated as a child and your body mutilated because you were unfortunate enough to be born male in a country that regularly practiced male genital mutilation, and of parents that weren't strong enough or educated enough to know what to do.
"We had some goofy foreskin genetics. " no you didn't. You were born in a country that ritualistically, systemically hated foreskin.
Had you been born somewhere else, you would still have your genitals intact.
The only thing you should feel lucky about, is the luck of still having a penis, and having no massive complications from your surgery, including death. an infant can die from 2 ounces of blood loss. how about you google 'skin bridges' and tell me how unaffected you'd be by your mutilation if you had that. image.slidesharecdn.com/circumcision-100326084559-phpapp02/95/circumcision-36-728.jpg?cb=1269594546
"especially knowing my mom had a legitimate medical concern" no she didn't. Just like if you were a female and had a UTI. Wonder what parts of your vagina she'd cut off...OH WAIT, she wouldn't. You'd be given anti-biotics and would have been taught how to properly clean yourself.
"mom trying to explain to me what a foreskin was. It was kinda funny actually." Yeah hilarious. My first thought when someone explains to me about an amputated part of my private genitals.
"my first thought was, "How ugly!" " the typical american response to their bodies being violated. and also the typical response to literally anything different.
" American boys aren't being chopped up like we used to be." american boys shouldn't be violated to BEGIN WITH. Stop trying to rationalize your abuse as justified and calculated.
This is precisely why male genital mutilation continues to exist today. Apathetic american attitude towards something so blatantly abusive.
@@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse I know you are a good person who is very passionate about your cause, and with good reason, but the tone of your posts comes across as rather hostile, IMO. I am truly engaged in this conversation, not someone who wants to prove you wrong. I agree that circumcision without medical cause is mutilation. Please know that. I will follow your format of posting a comment of yours and replying to it.
"The US position on circumcision changed" Who's position? Some agency? A group of pediatricians? A poll among Americans? I've not heard of this change, and I would oppose it. I have a hard time imagining that would have been an official act. Please let me know.
"...UNAIDS, which uses millions of US tax payer dollars and donations to circumcised millions of Africans in a delusional effort to reduce HIV transmission..." I just looked over a bunch of the research literature on the subject, most of which studies were done in Africa, and I had no idea there was a relationship. If prepubertal boys are circumcised, they have a 60% reduction in their risk of acquiring HIV, though that effect vanishes with circumcision at an older age. It's not accounted for by better hygiene either. "their sex practices and hygienic behaviors do not account for the higher risk of HIV infection found among uncircumcised men." That's from a study in Uganda. I found so many articles published around the world (not just the US) that support this. I don't know why (I didn't look up mechanistic studies), but I'd conjecture that the moist area under the foreskin, which contains a lot of white blood cells, brings the virus into closer and more prolonged contact with the very cells it infects. In countries where more than half the adult population is HIV+, circumcision might be an important tool in bringing the pandemic under control. Informed consent of the parents would of course be necessary, and they would have to want it. Unfortunately the boy being circumcised cannot give consent because by the time he is old enough to be competent, it will be too late to have any effect. That is why all medical procedures on children require parental consent, not the child's consent. Parents are their surrogate decision-makers. A 60% reduction in HIV risk might not be enough justification for some, but it must be considered while deliberating on the decision. Public health interventions almost never get an effect that strong.
"If you ask a US doctor about the procedure they will misinform you because the countries position has such a massive bias it's impossible to get an accurate understanding of the risks..." Where did this come from? I have never heard of this. In the 60s and 70s, yes, when about 60% of boys were circumcised, but not today. You should visit a locker room in an American fitness club.
"'my older brother had very nasty complications with his foreskin - bleeding and infections' brought on by what, an ignorant society or neglectful parents? It's usually a great combination of both." Again, where do you get this information? My brother had adhesions, an advanced frenulum ("advanced" is not the proper word, but I can't think of it - it grew to his meatus and was easily torn), and an opening that was too small, so he was always in pain (which antibiotics, such as they were in 1965, couldn't help because the pain came from tearing tissue), thorough cleaning was nearly impossible, and being a one-month-old boy in diapers meant he was exposed to potentially infectious agents quite often. When I was born, I had the same problems, so Mom decided to take care of it right away. This is the proper treatment for such conditions, and your comparison to amputating a hand is ridiculous. I have known a few men with penile bridges, and (I do ask these questions) they all say they have no pain, though I understand some men do when they are erect.
"Tell me, how many circumcised females do you know?" I have no idea. Cultures who do that to their girls generally frown on girls showing men their vaginas. I don't have access to women's restrooms or locker rooms, and I doubt such girls or women would be permitted to be naked in those places anyway. So of course the answer is none that I know of, but the chances are good that I might have known several. I have taught in many multi-ethnic schools and universities, so I may well have known some of them.
"I don't actually care, does that mean what he did was okay?" Of course not, but boys who had so many penile connective tissue problems are likely to grow up in a lot of pain and probably grossly deformed and sexually impaired. I am glad I didn't have to ask my mom about that.
"...and your body mutilated because you were unfortunate enough to be born male in a country that regularly practiced male genital mutilation, and of parents that weren't strong enough or educated enough to know what to do." My mother made the only decision she could after a month of my brother's suffering. It was unusual that our mother had decided not to circumcise us. She had already made that decision, and she held out until she couldn't stand my brother's suffering anymore. I didn't realize that it was only a little unusual until just today, looking at the research. American circumcision, according to only one study I looked at, peaked in the 1960s at about 60%. There has to be regional differences though, because as I said, I'd never seen an uncircumcised penis until my mother showed me at age 11 while she was changing that toddler's diaper. The study I read was done in California clinics, so it would be biased to California-born males. The rate of circumcisions has been plummeting since the 1970s.
"You were born in a country that ritualistically, systemically hated foreskin. Had you been born somewhere else, you would still have your genitals intact." I wouldn't have liked that at all - a life of unnecessary skin tearing injuries. Did you know that the scar tissue that closes wounds is made of collagen, which is not elastic, and more likely to cause future injuries? Did you know that such injuries also cause further adhesions between the foreskin and the glans? I think any country I was born in would recommend circumcision as the appropriate treatment for that disfiguring snd sexually disabling condition. It's not always bad. Sometimes circumcision is healing, not mutilation.
"my first thought was, "How ugly!"" the typical american response to their bodies being violated. and also the typical response to literally anything different." Yes, it was my first reaction because it looked different, but remember 2 things: It was my FIRST reaction (which is very human, and we move past such things with experience and teaching), and I was ELEVEN! Eleven-year-olds aren't known for their great wisdom.
"american boys shouldn't be violated to BEGIN WITH. Stop trying to rationalize your abuse as justified and calculated." Not to begin with, not systematically, not just because everyone else does it, I agree. I was not abused by being circumcised. The thought of having a deformed and sexually unusable penis today is not a pleasant one. I think a lot of boys have been cosmetically circumcised, and I agree, that fits the definition of surgical mutilation, but please don't personalize this to me. If you stop talking about me and my story, which you don't know, we'd probably agree on most other aspects of this discussions. By coming across so angry and hostile (and I can understand a few reasons why you might), you push people away. You don't persuade them, and you might not even recognize someone who mostly agrees with you.
"Apathetic american attitude towards something so blatantly abusive." You've personalized this discussion to make it about me, and you've also generalized it to my country. The majority (~3/4) of boys born today in the US are not circumcised. The general American attitude has changed, and it changed many years ago. You just didn't notice, I guess. 3/4 is not 100%, but it's a damn sight better than 1/3. But with all this overwhelming evidence about the protective benefits against HIV infection, especially in heterosexual males, I know it's a drastic step, but in countries who have lost more (by %) of their adult population to AIDS than the Black Death, it might be worth it to them. Note that it's the adult population - the people who know how to farm and produce food. That leads to the secondary effect of childhood starvation and death. I don't know how bad that is today, but in the past it was very widespread throughout Africa, and a lot of children died from those famines. The circumstances are very different over there, and I don't know the right answer, but that data cannot be ignored, and most of it comes from labs all around the world, not the US alone.
@bill gate Sorry - I think that's a discussion we need to have in the US, but this wasn't the best place to have it. The other party's username tells me he's a one-issue commenter who will seize any opportunity to debate the issue. And I like to debate, period. It was a passing comment by JO, and maybe an overreaction.
Watching this in 2018 is insane. How he talks about the president (Obama, at the time) and then Donald Trump right afterwards... Lmao
wow almost like presidents change wtf!!!!
@@MrLuigi74317 Really??? I never thought aout that!?!??!!!
Before it was "borderline better" now it's "please take advice of what this girls are saying"
oblivious93massacre watching in 2019 is weirder
@@MrLuigi74317 you say that as though you think he's talking about them being president and not about the difference in how they're talked about. Clearly the latter is what the comment is about, and you assuming otherwise is hilariously naive and presumptuous.
Miss First Contestant is stunning and she has that answer down pat at exactly 20 seconds. Bravo.
"I feel bad about myself!!!!"
-John Oliver
Great concluding second to this video, made me grin. We're right there with you, J-Man.
I have to respect the way he does his homework when he does his satire
He has an award-winning staff of researchers and a team of writers who often spend months completing a piece. He deserves credit for high standards, but this is more than just a comedian who’s handy with google and a phone.
And the way he doesnt just scream "fuck you Guiseppe, i went to fucking Cambridge" at the end.
@@shamelesshussyAbsolutely, if you listen to any of The Bugle podcasts dating back to 2007 John Oliver has always had spontaneous knowledge of global politics, he does have a sizeable writing team behind him for Last Week Tonight but he'd be fine without it.
G I I.
Much like the Daily Show, it’s mainly an informational program, the jokes are only there to keep it interesting. Although he does use the “I’m just a comedian!” to hide behind criticism when he fucks up.
"She's not James fucking Franco!"
Allow me to stitch my sides back together.
"We Fun Scholars"
that phrase, much like the man who used to own the Miss USA pageant, Donald Trump, seems to be missing a D
Onald Trump?
@@TheIfifi Onald Rumpf
@@PhoenixDemon94 that was a great episode.
I LOVE good research. And even more, when it is explained from an english guy who i admit is really funny. And i am german, so this is hard to admit!!
The Girl that answered the ISIS question is Courtney Garrett from Virginia
mvp right here.
Thank you
I barfed
3:36 That just make me cackle on the subway. Poor Ms. Virginia.
edit: Oh my god, she is poised as a jewelry-box ballerina.
Super Rabbit ....I feel embarrassed now. but not the bad type.
Solution: Fully tax fund education like we see in for example Scandinavia. No need for scholarships for either gender. That way the people who get in to their choice of university is not the one most attractive or the one with the richest parents, but the one evaluated by the university to be the best qualified. Everyone should have an interest in that hence why I suggest tax funding. It's an investment most of of all.
That’s what makes universities in Europe so valuable. They are a public service. In the USA, however, education is a giant business and that’s why they haven’t changed the system, because those who benefit from it don’t want it changed.
Moby Dick
That's a great point! I didn't realize whales had such nuanced thoughts about different education systems.
Learning FTW I am not a whale. I am THE sperm whale ;)
Sigh. I hate living in an uncivilized country. Especially one that largely thinks it is but actually isn't. I'm talking, of course, about the United States. You know it's bad when the Mexicans are going back to Mexico.
Well we don't need this communist $&;t here. Along with your free health care, thank you very much!
I realized not long into watching this one that I'd already seen it and kept watching it anyway. I LOVE that final bit!
"Its been a weird week here.."
😂😂😂 *laughs in 2020
Laughs in 2021 😅
Can't watch just one episode of John Oliver.... gotta binge that good shit.
rtro spctve same
Ikr!! I freakin love him
rtro spctve samee
so true
Miss America get thougher question than most politicians
And only twenty seconds to answer versus going through lengthy referendums and debates
if she had a full minute she could have mentioned the military industrial complex and the fact that more can be accomplished by using tax dollars on american lives, instead of more war. I was impressed, though
wuuuurd!
Redem10 and unlike politicians, she gave a non-stupid answer.
Redem10 No, just Trump. Apparently no one gets tougher questions than Trump
Back in the 20's and 30's (I think) the US also used to have baby pageants, where babies were judged on their healthiness and caucasian-ness. Eugenics are great !
4:13 all she said was that the UN should work together. And it was pretty vague. But it was only 20 seconds she was given.
There is truth in that answer. No country can stop a worldwide threat alone.
"It's 2014 and I'm a fully dressed man standing in front of a line of Women in swimsuits awaiting judgement!" lol He's great 😂
If Anakin Skywalker saw this profile pic, he'd be very grumpy.
Word 👍
Wow, watching Oliver dig into Trump BEFORE he declared his candidacy...
I bet this was hilarious in 2014. Now it's a liiiiiittle scary
OcarinaLink24 and now it's pure horror
Now it is 2017 and it is even worse
That’s because he was always a terrible person.
up
John Oliver gives us the gift of sanity. Let's hope it keeps on giving.
Seriously. How is this still a thing?!
im gonna sound like a nerd, but i did the math and only 0.00003% of women in AMERICA get the scholarship
Props to you for figuring it out dude.
Even then. They all probably failed
Who is that lucky women, please tell me, I need to google her.
McMahon?
You are not a nerd
Whoever 2,128 people who disliked this video deserved to get a blast of butt glue in their eye. XD
+InterGamer Better yet, that butt glue should be blasted up their ass. That way they explode...
Yes!
+InterGamer I disliked the video, it implies that it's somehow "demeaning" or "unfair" for women that a pageant judges them partly based on their looks, when the same exact thing happen to men in mister Universe, mister Olympia, regional contests, and so on.
Stop creating imaginary sexism out of nowhere. In men's contests nobody bats an eye that they are being judged *entirely* on their looks, only for women people go crazy and create attack pieces like this.
As for scholarships, pay for your own damn things.
+Ancap2112 Did you watch past 14:17 ? :p
+Ancap2112 Obviously you didn't understand the purpose of the video. Simply because the Miss America pageant is in the video doesn't mean you must dislike the entire video. If you'd fucking pay attention, you'd see that all he did was make fun up and denounce the Pageant.
pretty sure I could not love John Oliver more. Thank you, sir.
As a young woman I always felt shitty when my dad would watch pagents because im not built like that and never ever will be
I genuinely hope you are more self assured now with who you are and how you look
@@dontspikemydrink9382 thanks 😊
@@madelinegolding4969 you deserve being told a compliment
must be pretty creepy to see your dad watching that
Are you telling me that your father, a heterosexual male, enjoys the sight of young, beautiful women? What a pig, he's clearly worse than Hitler...
That lady was asked the question, "One fifth of Americans cannot locate the US on a map, explain why that is"
Simple. One fifth of those Americans are infants/toddlers who are too young to read a map. That or just plain poor education
babies make up a tiny percentage of people
+Alex Turlais On the flipside, babies make up a large percentage of tiny people.
ameerhamid89 Thats very true
+ECL28E Well I heard someone say that Spain was the country south of America.
teempoog well they do speak spanish, its smarter than most american statements
I did not realize this was from 2014...that is how relevant this still is...
I did because it talked about Trump and the President as two different things
4:50 you gotta love his consistency.
Fun fact: the guy that used to train Venezuela's competitors for Miss Universe in their answers for those questions, including the ones that got the only back-to-back in the history of the pageant, has a show that's pretty much the Venezuelan version of this show
"...Donald Trump, a clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy."
I am almost literally dying of laughter.
TheAndrewj96 It's even funnier now.
I can't believe he's actually the president now
TheAndrewj96 And now, I am almost literally dying.
TheAndrewj96 yeah good times.
John Oliver is my new favorite person
+Mr. Whatareyadoin Mine too!
+Mr. Whatareyadoin Hey bro, I recommend you start watching Community, he stars there and is pretty funny too.
Yavor Vlaskov cool I'll check it out
Still one of Oliver's best episodes
Never understood why they asked the contestants those ridiculously complex questions. I'm pretty sure most of those questions aren't even asked to presidential candidates during primaries!!
And only 20 seconds to answer? Wtf??
Probably because they hope they'll flounder and give one of those memeable stupid replies to perpetuate the myth that the contestants are stupid.
Crazy idea: Can we switch the questions we ask Miss America contestants and the questions asked presidential contestants? Because for some reason we give the hard ones to people who have no influence what so ever on actually implementing them.
Rick Perry would still mess up the answer "uhhhh.... my mind's drawing a blank. Oops"
These women are giving answers to questions that most politicians get stumped on. These women need to be in congress and on Capitol Hill.
“Trump looks like a clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy”
I will be suing John Oliver for my funeral costs because that comment killed me. I am deceased. 💀😭😂
"f*** you giuseppe" at the end cracks me up every time
Well shit - I just felt in love head over heels for the contestant who gave that ISIS answer.
+Di0 Ditto man, ditto.
She didn't actually answer the question, instead of saying what she would do to stop IS, she just said to get nato together to figure it out.
Which is about the best anyone would be able to come up with in TWENTY SECONDS
+Kyle Snow We should limit the resources available to them and try to get the muslim community to show distaste for what they are doing publicly to stop young muslims being attracted to isis.
+Kyle Snow under 20sec
When Donald Trump was just a joke 😥
Dallas #1 lol he’s still a joke. Only now more people can laugh about it around the world
When the Eagles weren't Super Bowl Champions. HaHa FlyEaglesFly, see you November 11th !!!!! Incidentally, 10:07, I went to Delaware Valley College, now Delaware Valley University, just barely higher tuition than a state school. It was mostly agronomy, animal husbandry, and ornamental horticulture majors when I went there. Simple campus. My nephew thought of going there recently, so I looked into it and they've expanded a bit in the last 35 years since I went there, so maybe it's a nicer giveaway now. That's right. I'm old enough to remember every Super Bowl Dallas was in. I've suffered. I deserve this. As far as President Trump goes, to be honest, he's not that different from Nixon and Reagan and Clinton and George W. Bush. He just doesn't do the "two-step" as you call it when it's time to throttle back the "step aside world America is coming through" rhetoric in public speech. These are different times where there is a heightened sensitivity to ethnic minorities and women. Not to say he wouldn't still seem like a jerk in any era, but beside a Gov. George Wallace, he wouldn't look so different.
he is very much still a joke, but the punch lines can be felt in the nut sack.
Well... he still is.
Now he's a dangerous joke.
Okay, we're all here to retroactively laugh at how John called out Trump
but can we mention that one of those Miss America pageant question posers was Eda from The Owl House?
...holy shit, that's fantastic xD
I like how they can say „the largest women’s scholarship provider in the world“ as most other countries (or atleast countries in Europe) don’t require scholarships because you don’t need to pay thousands just to go to a university
Dear "Miss America Organization", apply cold water to the burnt area.
good one!
Love that!
What kind of burn? The scathing one, or the one that comes with a rash after copious amounts of Buttocks Adhesive Technology...
Its a sad day when I see more investigative journalism exerted for a John Oliver episode than on CNN in any given day. :\
Hahahaha,
***** excellent , did you coin that? It's as good as Mark Twain.
But how do comedians find out the truth from the funny papers (the media) ?
The funniest thing about this show was that no one was defrauded but John Oliver wants to take my bikini girls away?
***** hi..
I love to steal stuff for my channel, Mary Hirsch sounds great,
Can I put your quote on my channel without asking?
True Story: I quit the CNN newsroom on moral grounds, and I would literally do the same job for John Oliver's show for free. You are 100% correct.
Justin Grey Welborn..
Congratulations. Anyone with morals should have quit CNN this week after they repeated the racist rant video from Oklahoma about five times an hour. That 19 year old kid thought he was in a private conversation but I will never be able to play the song "If you're Happy and you know it" again and I always played it at senior centers. lol
Yes we all agree John you're a good person 😗
each country needs more of such honest, feel good, hardworking shows to depict true nature of our society's underlying problems with no false propagandas and instigating speculations.. kudos to the entire team of Last Week Tonight and HBO for their money n efforts 👏🏽
the miss america questions remind me of the AP Bio exam where the college board asked the teenagers to cure cancer 💀
Incidently, that impressive answer came from Courtney Garrett, Miss Virgina.
The woman asking the question was retired BRIGADIER GENERAL Anne Macdonald. That question was asked by somone so far beyond the concept of 'impressive' as we know it that she outshone the entire field of the last 20 Miss Americas put together.
Who?
+tpespos I think he's referring to the clip starting at 3:40
Re-watching the old ones and I'm loving how the male 'contestant' went through all the stereotypical routine of beauty pageant winners lol
Guisseppe is so excited to have won
because he most likely is a beauty pegeant winner... there are also male ones...
@@magimerlyn9596 As he should, I need his hair routine like NOW
Same here. Also the "wins on muscle mass, shoulders and construction of the hair".
Watching this in 2022 hits so differently.
The level of work they did for this episode is insane
Im from the future, Guess who is president of USA 4:52
Alen AxP past john is so innocent
I'm from even further in the future and guess who the president is
4:07
Elomento Supreme and guess what is still a problem too!
I was going to write the same comment.
I'm from the future future future and guess what? It got worse....waaay worse. Find a bunker
That folded paper at 9:08 is what drives me fucking insane.
Sander Lol, OCD eh?
Sander Yes. Thought the same..
Sander oh i hate you, why did i read your comment, i hadn't noticed that before :
***** OCD AARGH! you mean CDO! a lot like OCD but with the letters in alphabetical order as they should be!
Alexander Cummins
Lmao!
5:22
Watching in 2020
...I almost MISS those days.
Almost.
10:39 as someone who's visited troy universty campus, I can tell you: It is not.
"Dictionary in a washing machine" is the best line I have ever heard in my life. Also, my backspace key does not owrk.
At this point I think we're being led by an especially vindictive dictionary in a washing machine :-(
I've had a crappy chromebook for school for years. They're supposed to be brought in for repairs every Summer break, but I kept mine to fix it myself. It's a been a rough three years of jostling and bumping around for that poor machinery. Finally gave out not too long ago. I feel your pain. Been having flashing screen issues, the screen goes blank, touch pad plate fractured, tears in the rubber casing, Mark's on the screen from the keys digging into it when it was closed up and pressure was on top... I've got a whole list.
You can get through this. I know you can. You go dude. I believe in you.
Scholarships for women that only beautiful, unmarried, childless women can access?
* _punches through wall like Andy in The Office US_ *
Haha! Indeed. Alas I’ve never seen it so did not have the reference.
if they didn't want to fund any scholarships at all just throw in "virgin" and be done with it
access, no! just approach, to access you need as said you need working know how of buttock adhesive technology,and an ability to answer ludicrously complex questions with emotively affirming impromptu answers in 20 secs. (Obviously also need the ability to sit through this bullshit while smiling and being socially perfect!! Human political models of legitimacy are so amazing!!)
*One woman. It's not even of a lot of them
That gave the exact mental image you were trying to get across. Good reference!
You are unbelievable john oliver. You are a Legend man. I Love your show man very much.
watching this segment in 2023 is just insane.
5:22 oh I long for the time when the worst thing about trump was his sexism
how can discriminating and dehumanizing 51% of the population be worse than anything else?
If intersectional idiocy is a thing (and trump is a great argument for its existence), his sexism can still be called his worst trait.
@@silvr94 How about literal fucking war crimes
Jake dude he literally has internment camps filled with women and children who are in such poor conditions that some literally had to drink from their toilets
@@xxXthekevXxx still?!
Also, I heard the toilet thing was a lie, but who knows.
8:57 Bless the lengths this show goes to to obtain accurate data
Been binging these over the offseason and it is amazing how Drampf keeps coming up in every video
"We Fun Scholars" They don't have Peter Griffin's friend Quagmire working there, assessing each scholar do they?
"Who Else But Quagmire?!" Giggity Giggity Goo!
Little did John Oliver know his battle against Donald Trump was only beginning.
Elizabeth Lingurar yap
Elizabeth Lingurar Lol.
Wow.
This is a nightmare to watch 2019 lol
Oh hey, it didn't get any better 😀
Those sweet, innocent people in 2019. Would love to be you. 😀
It's a fever dream to watch this video , it's late September 2020.
I am from December 2020 ... you have no idea.
Aaaaaand he won’t leave.
Watching in 2020 and quite frankly, these contestants should be running the country
I have that same exact shirt and tie combo.