You really need to look this woman up and listen to her interviews. Because her routine is that she will find actual experts in various fields and then bring them into joke interviews, that they believe are completely serious. And then she delivers the most absurd questions the most straight-faced professional sounding monotone possible, and then watch people try to answer those questions without getting mad, blowing off the interview, or asking if this is a joke…
As they are lead to believe that it is serious and they don’t want to look unprofessional or be the rude person.
This is not true. The experts know in advance its a comedy thing, they just dont know what the questions will be.
I get really bad embarrassment squick (watching other people in uncomfortable situations makes me very uncomfortable) and this show is 100% unwatchable, which means it is definitely hilarious for anyone who isn’t afflicted by a similar condition.
No clue how you got that impression. I suffer from the same second-hand emabarassment as well (which prevents me from enjoying most western ‘look at how stupid and dumb and embarassing the MCs are’-comedies), but its not being triggered in the slightest by her. The interviewees 100% percent know that they’re being fucked with.
I’m the same. I watched about 1 min of one of her interviews and had to turn it off due to all the second hand embarrassment I was feeling.
They’re in on the joke to a degree. They know it’s a comedy show but nothing more.
Some of them have so much fun playing straight man. The philosopher, the military history guy who comforts her when she mock cries on finding out nukes still exist, and the “Jesus was the first victim of cancel culture” religious scholar all come to mind.
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Do they really think it’s serious? I thought they knew it was a joke, but try to answer as seriously as possible
Basically an updated take on Brass Eye (which is absolutely a compliment)
But the slaves’ emancipation was right around the corner in 1865, approximately 124 years prior to the release of Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam.
…and the Native Americans.
“We will have equal rights for all. Except blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Jews, gays, women, Muslims. Uhmm…Everybody who’s not a white man. And I mean white-white, so no Italians, no Polish, just people from Ireland, England, and Scotland. But only certain parts of Scotland and Ireland. Just full blooded whites. No, you know what? Not even whites. Nobody gets any rights. Ahhh…America!”
- Peter Griffin
Yeah I was watching the 1953 Calamity Jane Musical on the television, and there is a scene where they just take in the Splendor of the beauty of nature as they travel to this party, and they start singing a song. But before they do they remark
“No matter them injuns are fighting so hard to keep this wonderful place”
Which was a line that made me do a double take and go “Or maybe the more important fact that it’s… ya know… theirs to begin with?”
I just finished a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie and other books in that series. In one of her books she had a line describing her part of the West as “a land that had no people in it”. In the 1950s, shortly before she died, a young fan wrote to her and pointed out that there were, in fact, people in it: the Indians. To her credit, Wilder wrote back that she had made a mistake and of course Indians were people, and she had future editions of the book edited to say “a land that had no settlers in it”.
land of the free
look inside
slaves
Love Philomena ❤️
Yes, a really great one (there are two series)
Philomena Cunk actually started as a “man-on-the-street” interview segment on Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe. She was often shown alongside Barry Shitpeas (whom I miss dearly). Philomena’s character was quite popular however, and Brooker has written many spin-off shows featuring her, with titles styled like “Cunk on…” such as Cunk on Britain and Cunk on Earth.
If you recognize the name Charlie Brooker, it’s more likely you recognize it from his show Black Mirror. I honestly quite like his comedy much better and think A Touch of Cloth is wildly underrated.
