Ricky Gervais On Protesting | POLITICS | Universal Comedy

there are more drastic forms of protest though than marching and leaflets in 1963 a Vietnamese Buddhist monk as a protest against the Vietnam regime went out into a public place set himself alight and burned to death did no good because that's not a threat or a deterrent if a little little monk comes up to you and he goes you better stop all those things you're doing otherwise I'm going to set myself a light you're gonna set yourself alight fill your boots mate then no one cared and I bet you don't even know his name do you I do I've looked it up it's absolutely true his name was thich Quang Duc or crispy duck to his mates but John Lennon a less drastic form of protest against the Vietnam War the famous sleeping he stayed in bed for a week with the owner and that was it and people were going brilliant genius that is just a Texan and I bet that little monk was [ __ ] gutted burn yourself to death or shagged Yoko I love it when rock stars get involved I absolutely love it that political song oh look out my he's got a guitar he's saying what he thinks in C it's okay when it's people like you know Bob Dylan and but I Levant win them pop stars ever go yeah remember em culture clubs classic they've been singing karma chameleon or for too long and they came up with the war song war and in that I go war war is stupid and people are stupid how's that going to change your mind I mean if you're into war you're loving war you love it it's your favorite thing you know I mean you in a you in a plane you got the bomb the [ __ ] out of a country or I can't wait to get their own love bombing people Oh Oh nearly there put the radio on people a stupid we're going home boy George there he piled on the pounds when I gave at the smack did me as a fable they're kids every action has a consequence so Billy Joel I'll sing any things like uptown girl he then revealed his classic is put always protest song it's the world we didn't start the fire and in that song Hall he it's basically a list in chronological order right from 1949 to 1989 and he just mentions or six to eight things each verse I just really goes Harry Truman Doris Day Red China Johnny ray South Pacific water which were Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon stead Beckett television North Korea South Korea Marilyn Monroe that's not a song that's a conversation with Rain Man I think the first protest song that actually made a difference was some do they know it's Christmas and particular point you to us in Britain because we used to own and run Africa and then the end of the fifties there were eight independence and slowly we started giving it back to Africa and by the end of the sixties it was totally Africa owned and Africa ruled course in the a is we get a phone call [Music] Fator answers hello were although it's Africa what do you want we're all starving in that you should have thought about before you wanted independence yeah we did those gonna be a drought drought I'll give you a [ __ ] drought in the long hot summer of 1976 we had a hosepipe ban in ready yes in drought my poor mom having to make those of journeys with a bowl of water for the lawn under the cover of darkness with her back we've all got [ __ ] problems mate drought there's a government advert at the time that said save water have a bath with a friend which I did I say a friend he was more friend in my granddad's ten quits a lot working in reading we used to call him grandad Charlie actually he wasn't our granddad he was just an old bloke they used to live across the road from us and used to always come round to play with us whenever he saw our parents go out but lovely old man used to play with us he taught me to wrestle and damn lovely old man loved the old man old granddad Charlie and used to do magic tricks I was grey and used to have a magic hat and he was dead sit down and put the magic hat on it on his lap and he'd show us there was nothing in it there was nothing in it and he'd put the magic hat on his lap and we couldn't do our parents does it stop the magic but I think that's how it works and then it used to only little and we used to have to queue up with our eyes shut I'll take it in terms of feeling the little rabbit in that poor whatever it got to me it was scared stiff poor little things slow and it was always in a bad way the nobody is already fur and done poor little thing I made it sick once is not true there is no granddad Charlie I wasn't abused and if I was I'd save it for my autobiography that's the way to do it so anyway Thatcher on the phone to Africa goes look I can't come to South but I'll send you leasing other Boomtown Rats he's not doing anything all right yeah then call again see the protest song about whether the greatest living African is special aka is free Nelson Mandela that's what they said they said free Nelson Mandela and it worked because like that six years later it was out anyway so incarcerated for a quarter of a century Mandela released in 1990 so it's been out about 14 years now and it hasn't reoffended so I think he's going straight which shows you prison does work [Applause] you

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Length: 7min 48sec (468 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 12 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Ge0rgeBr0ughton]

Exactly. We need to protect the rights of women. Not erode them because some men have found a new cunning way to dominate and demonise an entire sex.

Also Ricky Gervais, on trans women. Don't really care what he thinks about protest or anything else I care about, to be honest.

[u/angelofchange]

he's a naughty one, our Ricky, but I sure do like his comedy! This particular comedy show is particularly relevant, of-course.

Yes, so WHAT is effective activism and protest, it the question, for many. Something that AFFECTS others and touches their emotions, causing real fear, so causing them to act. OR.........