10 Events Shorter than You Realized

[@matthewalanrain5839]

The Beatles started playing together in 1957, they played together for six years before they released an album, almost the duration of their recording era.

[@gro_skunk]

I suppose he's referring to the Ringo years, they were only together from like 63 to 71

[@catalinadog157]

If you want to be technical, yes, that's true, but it's clear he meant them as a band after ringo--formally signed to a label--that lasted only 7 years.

[@harrytheheath]

As a signed, recording band they were together for 7 years. That's a way of framing it that is probably more relevant.

[@LuminusObscurum]

Who cares about the Beatles?!

[@standrew131]

@@gro_skunk70

[@alexplorer]

I once heard the period explained as, "If you played all the Western/cowboy movies back-to-back, that would last longer than the Wild West actually did." And I was told this back in the '90s.

[@killerkraut9179]

Do you even know how many westerns even exist ?thats is a giant amount of western who a produced ! That with the 30 Years of the existance of the Wild West its extremely debatabel!

[@andyjay729]

@@killerkraut9179 And given how early Hollywood started making Western movies, a lot of people who actually remembered Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and even Wild Bill Hickock (d. 1876) probably lived long enough to see movies about them. Heck, Wyatt Earp (d. 1929) actually served as a consultant for some early "horse operas".

[@darkhobo]

​@@andyjay729Hollywood didn't make early westerns though. They were FAMOUSLY shot in Italy. Hence the name "spaghetti Western". Then only after they became big sellers did Hollywood start making them.

[@andyjay729]

@@darkhobo Sorry, but you have that backward. Hollywood was making Westerns in the silent era, including by the Edison Company (so technically even before the American movie industry moved out to Hollywood). Spaghetti Westerns didn't come along until the mid '60s when the genre was starting to die in Hollywood; in fact they arguably contributed to the downfall of traditional American Westerns, with their often nihilistic, deconstructive outlook.

[@mournblade1066]

@@darkhobo Huh? Spaghetti Westerns were big in the 1960s and early 1970s, during Sergio Leone's heyday. That was AFTER the Hollywood Western's heyday of the 1950s.

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

Mr Bean only had 15 episodes!!??!! I just thought I kept catching the same episodes by chance back in the day. That's hilarious.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

Only Fools and Horses kind of took me by surprise when I looked it up though True, they had plenty of episodes during the main run, but I grew up when the specials were airing, and those were the things that kept getting repeated. So I thought Del and Rodney had always been married, and Del had always had a kid. I thought that was what the show was Turns out that the kid wasn't born until the very last episode of the main run. And the era that I thought of as "proper" OFH was just a sporadic run of about 9 Christmas specials coming out every few years

[@Kira-zm7vy]

That's exactly my reaction! 😂 watched Bean when I was a kid and it seemed like there was so much more

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Each episodes had 3 stories, so that is a total of 45.

[@Joemama55122]

Each episode was like made out of 3 10 min sketches so its like 1 ep is more like 3 eps then theres also 2 films and the cartoon as well

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

@@Joemama55122 Yeah but I thought there were WAY more sketches. So only 45 sketches plus the movies 🙂

[@charlespfaff6585]

The Old West Pirates in the Caribbean The Victorian Era and The Meiji Restoration All were taking place at the same time. A cowboy, a Victorian noble, a pirate and a samurai meet in a tavern...

[@vladprus4019]

Golden Age of Piracy is older. It was late 17th to early 18th century

[@mournblade1066]

@@vladprus4019 The Pirates of the Caribbean era would have been before 1776. The most famous pirate of all time, Blackbeard, was the scourge of the Carolinas long before The United States of America was even a thing.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

Plot twist, those 4 descriptions are all the same person, and they've led one hell of an interesting life

[@joseaguilera1609]

I thought the most famous one was Barbarossa@@mournblade1066

[@Joemama55122]

Insert joke punchline here

[@shlomster6256]

Speaking of how long things lasted, M*A*S*H had more seasons of episodes than the Korean War on which it's based.

[@visaman]

Almost every episode was a day and a half.

[@LtJackboot]

14:04 Fawlty Towers was the same. Only aired for 12 episodes but they CRAMMED so much physical comedy into every second that you felt like it ran for years.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

And the syndicated version of is just 39 episodes from one season! (For three seasons before that, it was part of Jackie Gleason's larger show.)

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

While the classic Jay Ward cartoon series GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE (including SUPER CHICKEN and TOM SLICK) is just 17 episodes!

[@douglaswolfen7820]

It did run for years. The same episodes, running over and over and over again. They were still airing them when I was growing up in the 90s

[@douglaswolfen7820]

​@@Blaqjaqshellaqyou've somehow managed to delete "The Honeymooners" from your comment about The Honeymooners 😃

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

@@douglaswolfen7820 I thought I could write the title in italics but it just got erased...

[@cs8712]

"The Wild West was only 30 years long" The Wild West of the Internet was only about 10 years long

[@darthramious1639]

It would have been hilarious if this video stopped at 90 seconds

[@---l---]

Don't tempt them...

[@josephdanderson5492]

I know right, that would be great. I like Karl, he's not Simon by any comparison, but I can imagine both of them hosting a video and it ending after a minute or so. 😂😂

[@woofmeowackwoof3810]

😂

[@edwardphilibin3151]

Or maybe run the credits and links after a couple minutes, after two or three items... Then come back to finish the list for all the viewers who noticed that this "top ten" list only had three items. 😄

[@darthramious1639]

@ElektrikLava7744 The title of the video is "10 Events Shorter Than You Realize"

[@ScooterinAB]

What I always laugh at is that not only did the Wild West last for a comically short time, but it wasn't even really a thing. Frontier life and things like the gold rush absolutely happened, but the whole "Wild West" thing came from a Vaudeville-like act. The imagery, the whole idea of the gunslinger, and a whole lot of other details really never happened. So much of the Wild West is a 20th century weird nostalgia invention.

[@danidavis7912]

We can thank William Cody (Buffalo Bill) and company for most of that but you are not completely correct - there were plenty shootouts and "gun slinging". Dozens, if not hundreds of shootouts occurred across the west and midwest during those 30 years. Even the smallest towns have their stories.

[@alexmacdonald1998]

​@@matthewdaley746lol, they are called politicians and businessmen. But seriously, if you honestly believe that organized criminals evade capture due to good luck, not get caught for bad luck, i might have some bridges you can buy.

[@PhoenixAscending]

The Wild West was pretty extreme in some places, though yes it has been glorified to a point where there can be exaggeration. Some people had plenty of battles with native Americans. There were outlaws, some gangs, and yes...gunslingers. Jesse James was a gunslinger, Billy the kid, Wild Bill, Wyatt Earp, and some others. It didn't happen as much as has been portrayed, but there was definitely a Wild West...just look at Deadwood, Tombstone, and other places

[@danidavis7912]

@@PhoenixAscending Yep, and I like I mentioned before, almost every town, large and small, has a story from the era of some gun fight or another. As for the movies - when hasn't Hollywood ever NOT exaggerated a historical event for the purposes of the almighty entertainment dollar?

[@PhoenixAscending]

@@danidavis7912 nah man, hollywood wouldn't do that. They have more integrity than that 😏

[@kennyfresquez7019]

As a teacher, the fact that you included "maybe we're fudging a bit on this last one..." made my day. I've done this countless times, where the actual lesson is finished, but there's still a few minutes before I can reasonably give them "decompression" time to pack up and say a few words to their friends. Love it.

[@BruceBoyde]

I've watched every single video on this channel since Karl started hosting. I love the way you present these and how legitimately engaged you seem.

[@MachineChrist6]

Do you watch his other channel "fact fiend"?

[@FoggyBadger]

This is my first time seeing him on here. Not sure when he joined, but when the video started I was like, "Wait, am I on the right channel??" lol Haven't watched TopTens of Fact Fiend in a long time and have no idea what's going on, but I'm glad the two came together. Perfect match.

[@BruceBoyde]

@@MachineChrist6 I do! Since he started here. I'd admittedly never heard of him or Fact Fiend before he was hosting here.

[@RemyJackson]

Romeo and Juliet not only lasts just 5 days, but what makes it worse is in that 5 days, 3 prominent families lose 2 members each: Capulets lose Tybalt and Juliet, Montegues lose Romeo as well as his mother, and the Price's family lose Mercutio and Paris. And all over Romeo being on the rebound after a break up.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

​@@matthewdaley746yup! They were horny teens who got carried away. They wanted each other, and they didn't know the difference between that and actual love. Come to think of it, the priest who married them was ridiculously irresponsible

[@douglaswolfen7820]

​@@matthewdaley746do they even spend any time together that isn't on stage, before they get married? The whole play is only a few hours long, and I'm not sure they even spent that much time in the same room as each other before they decided to tie the knot

[@dansihvonen8218]

HEY!! 😲 I was about to see ... read that. Though it doesnt sound like the prequel to Juliet and 40 Alfa Romeos.🤔

[@RemyJackson]

@@dansihvonen8218 Ummm.....spoiler alert?

[@MogaTange-m7b]

Blackbeard was only a pirate for 15 months, and Jesus only a preacher for 3 years

[@Davehaha2001]

The one time frame they shocked me was the “doors” was only a band for three years and had so many original songs

[@Bratishton]

The doors formed in 1965 and were still releasing material after jim morrison died in 1970. The music stats on this vid are not good

[@Hollylivengood]

Another one is Johnathan Keats. Maybe these guys weren't poetry fans, but if you are, you usually like Keats, and know that he wrote a massive amount of poetry about anything on the planet. He only wrote for four years and died at 25. What a soul. And, er... the Doors lasted eight years.

[@5stringking]

He meant the doors with Jim. After all they weren't quite the same after he died. Wouldn't u agree?

[@mikefabbi5127]

I was also shocked to learn CCR was only around for 4 years and John Fogerty wasn't from the bayou but Northern California lol.

[@anthonyperno1348]

Yes, the Pony Express was disrupted by technology (Telegraph), but the truth is it was too expensive, and most businesses had learned to work without 'express' communication. Even without the coming of the telegraph, the Pony Express would have folded.

[@crouchingtigerhiddenadam1352]

Didn't find the script boring. Didn't find the presenting boring. Trying to be critical, give that high quality feedback, cannot objectively think of anything. One of the best channels on KZbin. None of that AI clip-show rip-off trash. Ian, Shannon, Eric, Jennifer, James and Karl (ya filthy limey)... Go out there and have the year you deserve and I hope this is the year the teeth of the cogs bite again and you regain traction.

[@DrawingRoomDraftingBoard]

It's surreal seeing a side of Karl that we aren't used to. Now I need to go back and catch up on all the others, because I just can't describe how trippy this is, haha

[@mikethebeginner]

You missed one of the best ones-the classic era of the American 1930s gangsters-John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker et al.-only lasted a little over two years. They did make fools of law enforcement at first, but laws and tactics changed quickly and brought events under control.

[@orlock20]

While it's not time related, Al Capone and his gang of 128 controlled three blocks of Chicago. Modern gangs can have several thousand members and have footprints throughout the country.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Jackson was a fierce opponent of central banking, which is why it's so ironic that his portrait appears on the twenty dollar federal reserve note.

[@orlock20]

@@matthewdaley746That was just common especially among the rich which kept moving the tribes every time the rich found something worth getting on tribal land.

[@andyjay729]

That said about the Wild West, Butch Cassidy's last train robbery was in 1900, and he escaped to South America in 1901. Quite a few people alive then would've been alive to see the 1969 movie about him. And there are still vast stretches of the West, especially away from the roads, where it might as well be 1880 given their remoteness--or 1880 BC for that matter.

[@glennscott5587]

The Wild West began before the Civil War. The Pony express is the subject of several westerns, and that was founded in 1860, and the California Gold Rush was in 1849, and many of the events which would make Jeremiah Johnson famous/infamous/notorious also took place in the late 1840's. Thus the Wild West was more like 40 or 50 years... and even longer if someone wants to count the exploits of Daniel Boone or the Lewis and Clark expedition, which took place on what was, at the time, the western frontier, and which were quite wild... likely contributing to the notion of a wild west and embedding it in the American psyche years prior to what is usually thought of as the Wild West period.

[@dingusdingus2152]

Re the national debt: "who do we owe this money to? Some guy named Vinnie?" --- Robin Williams

[@Leightr]

If you read Mark Twains "Roughing It" It starts off with him as a young man heading west in a stage coach and includes accounts of the pony express riders, mail coaches etc. and by the end he talks about now being able to take the whole perilous months long journey in a few weeks by train. So the "Wild West" era fit neatly into the middle of Mark Twains lifespan.

[@fiatmortem5128]

And Twains life was bookended by Halley's Comet.

[@brianstiles1701]

Mr Bean was a tough transition for me, having been a fan of Black Adder and Rowan's acerbic insults. Of course I grew to appreciate the genius of Bean.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

Fascinating. For me it was completely the other way around. I got to know him as Bean first when I was a kid, and Blackadder was the eye-opener Though come to think of it, it's only from the second season onwards that he gets so acerbic. First season Blackadder had a lot of Bean in him

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Happy new year karl! Look forward to an amazing year 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@Reclusive247]

This is what people dont understand. Basically a load of medieval knights decided to take off their armour and wear cowboy hats for 30 years, and literally the day after the 30th year anniversary of wearing cowboy hats, everyone changed into baseball caps, blue jeans and white sneakers. It was that quick.

[@emom358]

I love Rowan Atkinson as Black Adder ❤

[@Hollylivengood]

I wish they'd have Black Adder on Britbox. You sometimes see it on KZbin, but it gets pulled all the time.

[@Wallyworld30]

I saw "The Blair Witch Project" in theaters and I knew going in that it was fake. The only people that thought it was real were morons that didn't have internet and didn't have friends with internet. I recall feeling ripped off because the film was projected on only like 1/3 of the Movie Screen since it was shot in just 16mm. I was mad when I left the theater but that night I had a nightmare about that movie's final scene so subconsciously it effected me.

[@Cobra7FAC]

YT suggested video. So glad I get to see Karl again. This video seriously reminded me of the best of FactFiend.

[@roberw1912]

The Beatles article is not correct. The prototype of the brand started in 1956, but the name and form started in 1960 and they were touring in Hamburg. Their first release was in late 1962 and the band ended December 1970. If you take releases the Beatles lasted 8 years, performing live it was 10 years or when Lennon hooked up with McCartney it was 14 years.

[@sydhenderson6753]

1962 is also when Ringo joined.

[@roberw1912]

@@sydhenderson6753 true band change line ups all the time. But it still makes 8 years rather than 7.

[@ScooterinAB]

Irrelevant. That doesn't change the fact that the band was only a band for a short time, not a half century.

[@marksnow7569]

@@ScooterinAB But the video stated specifically 7 years from 1963. Which is not a fact.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

​@@ScooterinABirrelevant to the main point. Not entirely irrelevant though. The details matter too (well, at least a little bit)

[@originaldcjensen]

Romeo and Juliet were teenagers. Juliet was a couple weeks away from turning 14, Romeo was 16.

[@grahamncaff]

Keep them coming karl you're doing great x

[@SVPunk619]

At the San Diego Comic Con the year after the Blair Witch came out the actress in the movie was in a panel for some other thing and one of the first questions ask was "arn't you supposed to be dead?".

[@makouras]

I thought that the 'what the f*** is that?' line in the Blair Witch Project, when the cast runs out of their tent, was a 'real' reaction by the actress, when she saw the crew member dressed as the Blair witch.

[@keiththorpe9571]

In 1928, a 21-year-old bit-part actor named Marion Michael Morrison met the aging Wyatt Earp (then 79 or 80) in the MGM commissary, while Earp was serving as an on-set technical advisor. Marion Michael Morrison is better known as John Wayne. Or that's how the story goes, anyway. In recent years, there have been many who say those stories of their meeting has been wildly embellished, if not entirely fabricated.

[@kingnaga619]

The Wild West one doesn’t particularly surprise me. 30 years is a long time, on a human scale. Babies born when it started would likely have their own children by its end. Think about the CRAZY amount of media about WWII, and that was only 6 years. Compared to that, 30 years is an eon.

[@TheLostCorner]

@@matthewdaley746 Similarly, Dad's Army in the UK ran for nine years, vastly outlasting WWII, and particularly that period of it where the Home Guard was, to coin a phrase, relevant

[@dorderre]

Even when you add the Na-i's rise to power it's still only twelve years, roughly one percent of "german" history, but the media coverage makes it feel like a century. What's even weirder is to realise that everything from the Civil War to the end of WW2 happened within a single human life time. ~85years

[@markpclark1]

Alcatraz Prison was only open as a federal prison for 29 years. When I learned that by visiting I was shocked. Like the Wild West, it seems like film and popular culture make some of these time periods seem longer.

[@theplan-m6c]

A lot of people argue that the Wild West began before the Civil War. It's debated though.

[@patrisha3]

Great show ❤️🇨🇦

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Loved the video and suggestion: Top 10 monarch epithats

[@IronWolf123]

The Eureka Stockade, a famous event in Australian history because of gold mining taxation was a battle that lasted 20 minutes.

[@kasahadragon9499]

Ssh - our fellow Aussie's don't know that and it's huge in their national pride 🇦🇺💜

[@_Baby_Moses_]

i've never heard of ice spice until i watched this video.

[@dontcomply3976]

Future video: Ice Spice was only popular for a few weeks

[@VictoriaKimball]

I was really surprised by the Pony Express!

[@sbonfye8058]

Redcoat trying tell me about my American history This is truly funny

[@brett9382]

Honestly, the fact that the actors in blair Witch had no idea what was going on makes the acting so much more believable.

[@joelmogensen579]

The Beatles didn't bec o me world famous until 1963 but the Lennon/McCartney collaboration started when they met July 6 1957.

[@user-eh6th9wj5k]

Great job Karl!

[@mosalacommodore6993]

KARL!!! So excited to see you since Fact Fiend ended!!

[@shotoka81]

Great video!

[@AmyDentata]

Most countries have debt, and national debt doesn't function at all like personal debt.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Yep, exactly, which is why it's so annoying when people freak out about the debt being too big.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

​@@MatthewTheWandererI agree with the main comment, but surely there is still a point somewhere where it's too high? (So when someone says they think it's too high, they might be making sense?)

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@douglaswolfen7820 Maybe, but probably not.

[@kjn3350]

​@@douglaswolfen7820Generally, the only problem with big national debt is if the global economy starts faltering and a crisis occurs, causing countries to recall their loans in order to raise money. A country like America, however, would not really be affected by such a problem. Greece, on the other hand, who were big borrowers, were sunk into a crisis that lasted nearly 10 years thanks to the economic and political fallout of the 2008 crisis.

[@williamkirkham7357]

The Beatles were together and famous for 7 years, but the core of the band with Pete Best as drummer began performing in Hamburg as The Beatle three years earlier and began recording with Ringo Starr in 1962. So they lasted 10 years, not 7.

[@psychojoe4764]

Blackbeard was only around for about 2 years. Which is just crazy that it only took the guy 2 years to immortalize himself in history

[@joewhyte5218]

Karl should remain the full time host.

[@Muuccss]

30 years = 10,950 days = 262,800 Assuming average length of 1.5 hours, you need 175,200 movies I don’t think there’s that many westerns

[@llywrch7116]

You might be surprised. Yes, there were Hollywood Western movies, but also tv Westerns (Gunsmoke lasted for 20 years, & Bonanza about the same), the Sphaghetti Westerns, & probably a few I don't know about. It would be an entertaining exercise to come up with a number of just how many hours of Westerns there are out there.

[@michag4337]

from 1930-1954 there were 27,000 made alone. just movies registered with the AFI. add in shows, made for tv movies, remakes, and every movie since 1954.

[@Zett76]

"from 1930-1954 there were 27,000 made alone" Interesting. Source?

[@Zett76]

P.S.: still, you won‘t get enough movies.

[@michag4337]

Also you didn't account for leap years. So like 4-5 extra days idk the leap years for the time period.

[@DiscoCatsMeow]

There are moments in every parent's lives when something happens that you will remember forever. My son was obsessed with cowboys. When he was about three he said he wanted to move to the "Wild,Wild, West." I remember telling him that the wild west wasn't there anymore. He said, "But Momma, where did it go?" 😢😢😢😢😢

[@AnimeFridays]

The blair witch was such a horrifying movie when it released in theatres. It was definitely a time to be alive when that movie released

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

Whilst I was never a fan, Hollywood needed it at the time and, quite frankly, always needs something to shake it beyond the milquetoast and blandness of _more of the sameness._

[@Marx1684]

Subbed for Karl.

[@shlomster6256]

You do Bean faces pretty goodly. :)

[@robertoso8796]

just hearing anyone mention mr. bean always brings me joy. mr. atkinson is a gem.

[@ahha6304]

Shout out for the Top10z for also showing Klaus Vooramn pic with Beatles not only Ringo

[@PhoenixAscending]

I hope you stick around Karl. You are doing much better, and I have definitely warmed up to you. I am starting to really like you're style

[@antiisocial]

Agree

[@slake9727]

*your

[@samanthaharris6240]

Interim host? You mean host?? You cannot replace this magnificent man!

[@j.p.6932]

16:16 It is funny how Romeo & Juliet is often held up as the epitome of romance, when really it’s just about lust and an unhealthy relationship between two kids who have issues with obsession and attachment. Even if the suicide were omitted, it’s a bit rushed.

[@j.p.6932]

@@matthewdaley746 That’s the thing people all too often forget it’s a tragedy. It even ends with, “For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

[@grantorino2325]

"Lust" is not really the right word. Back in Elizabethan times, nutrition was so abysmal that girls *typically didn't hit puberty* until around 18, and boys not until around 21. So what those characters felt for each other was more akin to what a modern-day *grade-school boy and girl* would feel. Also, few people realize that it was actually a Modern English retelling of the Hellenic myth of *Antigone* . If you ever read Sophocles's version-in the original Koine Greek-then you'll see that it's an extremely layered story on par with the Divine Comedy or Lord of the Rings.

[@racheladamjuliewhite]

There are 2 bean movies, not just one and of course the cartoon series

[@queliolionelo]

In Argentina air channels milked Mr Bean's 15 episodes for DECADES. Same with the first few seasons of The Simpsons, and Dragon Ball, after the fight with Freezer it would reset back to the start.

[@dorderre]

They did something similar with the german dub of One Piece. The story went from East Blue to Alabasta and Skypiea, then reseted back to the start. For like a decade or so.

[@queliolionelo]

@@dorderre One Piece was too modern for Argentina. We did get to enjoy El Zorro tho.

[@mr.mountvillain362]

Oh man written by Ian fortey and presented by Karl Smallwood? This is an avengers level crossover

[@Nyarlathothep]

I'm wondering just how expensive Simon Whistler is now, that Top Tenz is using this wild array of hosts.

[@randomkeir]

12:48. That sounds amazing! 15 minutes?!

[@j.p.6932]

9:21 I mean, there were only 8 days of shooting, but there was more work. There was casting, the aforementioned editing, all the time spent on marketing. It probably didn’t have as much preplanning as scripted works, but they didn’t just show up, film it, then call it a day.

[@rafaelcisneros562]

30 years was the average lifespan Wild West at that time.

[@seyerus]

The first Oregan Trail group of around 120 wagons set off in around 1843 🤷‍♂️

[@armanclark2401]

subbed cause of KARL

[@billm5555]

A 20-year-old made it to 50 in the Wild West in those 30 years. If he was lucky. On an individual basis, thirty years is a pretty long time.

[@multiyapples]

History is mind blowing.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

”It started out like Romeo and Juliet, but it ended in tragedy…” (Milhouse van Houten, hilariously missing the point)

[@matthiasice]

Parts of the historic Pony Express route still exist. A huge part of it is a right of passage for off roaders out here in Utah. Glorified dirt road with some historic sites, but still fun

[@jakelecroy5553]

It's funny referring to the gunfight at ok corral as between cowboys and outlaws as in that case the cowboys were the "outlaws"

[@lazarussolomon3541]

I remeber as a kid thinking the wild west was a global event. I was suprised to learn that it was almost exclusively an american event

[@wihatmi5510]

When I was a kid I thought the wild west was a country and that it still existed and I wanted to visit it until my mother told me it was a time period and it's over.

[@DigitalBirdie]

Hi Karl, I have noticed that your presentation skills have significantly improved since you started as the interim host. Your inadvertent prolonged eye contact with the audience has also improved. However, I would like to suggest a small tip that can enhance your skills even further. Incorporating head movements such as moving left and right, up and down, AND tilting left and right can prevent the audience from focusing solely on your eyes. Moreover, gesturing with both hands can further distract the audience since our eyes are naturally attracted to movement. I have observed that you usually keep your left hand on the table, but using both hands for gesturing can improve your performance. Please note that if any of these tips conflict with your performance style, I apologize. Keep up the good work. I am confident that you will become a great presenter just like Simon.

[@carolyncasner4806]

The gun fight lasted 30sec. Because it was too smokey to see

[@JeremyPickett]

Mr Bean flabbergasts me. I was introduced to Rowan with Blackadder season 2. His comedy is genius, but i cant not see him as the most ascerbic, genius villian ever. I wont criticize anything he does, but his work with hugh laughie and stephen fry is absolutely legendary.

[@seanj3667]

7:55 It was a great movie. The idea was good, and the way they pulled it together was also great.

[@justaperson6219]

get it karl!!!!! we love u

[@anthonykoeslag]

12:41 - That is amazing

[@jiminverness]

5:40 The Beatles were a band for longer than 7 years. They performed as a group since 1959 (though they had Pete Best as drummer and Stu Sutcliffe on bass) They first performed live as "The Beatles" on 15 Aug 1960. The first time all 4 classic-lineup Beatles played and recorded together was on 15 October 1960, when Ringo stood in as drummer for the group in Hamburg. Their first single, "Love Me Do," was released 5 October 1962 The band last recorded/played together in May 1970, though they were technically together until December 1970, and were formally together until Dec 29th 1974 when John Lennon signed the dissolution papers.

[@BatCaveOz]

Fawlty Towers had only 12 episodes.

[@Ibhenriksen]

30 years of chaos with nothing other than a guy who wears a sheriff badge from a cereal box isn't a long time?

[@johnlowe37]

How hard is it to nail down when the Wild West began? Well, in this very video, you say that it began at the end the American Civil War (1865) and ended around 1895 - then, minutes later, you refer to the Pony Express (which ran from 1860-1861) as being part of the Wild West. So, was the Pony Express part of the Wild West? The California Gold Rush (1848-1855)? The Battle of the Alamo (1836)?

[@nikkicat254]

He also said the Pony Express started in 1960, not 1860, lol! I mean sure they corrected it visually, but he said 1960, while talking about it being for automobiles.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Tbf, it’s not his invention, you can find this definition online pretty fast. Granted, other definitions go down till 1607-1912, which is pretty much the opposite of short.

[@visaman]

There are two distinct periods . The expansion of The American West when Mexico retreated in 1836. And The Wild West, after the Civil War.

[@Traductus5972]

speaking of a similar thing to the Beatles. Creedence Clearwater Revival recorded the majority of their material in three years, they released 1 album in 68, three albums in 69 and two albums in 1970, then finally one more forgettable album in 72

[@Traductus5972]

Honestly I think them releasing so many albums in a short period of time added fuel to the hostility between them all. but who knows@@matthewdaley746

[@junked5214]

You are completely %100 wrong about the wild west. 1836 was the Alamo where James Bowie, William B. Travis, and David Crockett, some of the most famous frontier men ever died there. In 1823 the Texas Rangers were formed to protect colonist from indian raids. Nothing is more quintessential to the western genre than cowboys and Indians. I don't know why people say the west was only wild for 30 years. It was a very wild, hostile, and lawless place with cowboys and Indians for much longer than that.

[@visaman]

Mexico and Great Britain owned much of the West before then.

[@llYossarian]

6:40 - The Young Riders was a TV show about The Pony Express _(starring Josh Brolin only 4 years after The Goonies)_ that ran for _three_ seasons from 1989-1992 comprising 68 episodes so the show lasted twice as long as the service on which it was based...

[@devnull73]

Something like MASH then ;)

[@llYossarian]

​@@devnull73 Korea was 4 years and MASH was 11 seasons so yeah, _but to be fair_ the movie and the show were about Vietnam where the U.S. involvement _alone_ was 20 years and that was on top of the 10 years France had already been at it before we even got there so there were babies born in the Vietnam war who were middle-aged and still fighting before MASH even went off the air. Pretty crazy.

[@llYossarian]

@@devnull73 I was mostly amazed _(but not surprised)_ I'd forgotten Josh Brolin was in it... -- I felt guilty in 2007 for having thought of him for over 20 years as _"that guy from the Goonies better known as the stepson of Barabara Streisand and Diane Lanes's __-wife-__ husband" (because of the reputation of James Brolin as Streisand's "wife")_ and now I feel even MORE guilty because I actually watched that show and remembered lots of things about it but never that Brolin was in it.

[@seanj3667]

13:36 making it the third longest British comedy ever.

[@DelvonCharles-f8f]

Yikes I really need to understand more of my history! I thanks top ten!! I learned this from school and I'm forgetting this!!

[@logannichols5848]

Wild west was post civil war pre American industrial revolution which was the turn of the century. So 1868 to about 1900. You should also knock off about 5 years on either side.

[@josephteller9715]

Regards to Wyatt Earp.. in case folks don't know he lived until 1929 and was an advisor on several movies and even was buddies with Tom Mix the film star (Mix was one of Wyatt's pall bearers at his funeral). Some would say that the passing of Wyatt was the true end of the Wild West, but you could also point at 1893, when the last great Cattle Drive was made across country from Texas to Deadwood South Dakota.

[@ChetMantooth]

the pony express still delivers mail to this day

[@josephteller9715]

THe Wild West is Longer than represented here in the first segment. The Wild West for Americans starts with the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and ends somewhere between 1890 and 1900, depending on how you measure the period. The dates chosen by the presenter are based on the Post Civil War period for his 30 year duration, including the reconstruction in the south, but ignoring a heck of a lot of history.

[@JayGriffinblaze]

I'm British, we're not all ignorant of US history, but he ignores, The Great Migration, and the settler period after Thomas Jefferson's presidency. Manifest Destiny was a thing being written about by the 1830s even if it wasn't called that. 16 year old British GCSE History students could tell the OP that.

[@SitInTheShayd]

Rowan Atkinson trialed Mr Bean at Just For Laughs in Montreal Quebec, Canada

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

Ooh, this totally explains the French audience option. Canadian Frogs do exist too!

[@MrInitialMan]

Another thing that may surprise people by its brevity: World War One was one of the shortest European wars in history, lasting only four years.

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

The Pony Express existed only in 1860-61. Therefore, this 'Wild West' event happened before there was even a 'Wild West', according to this video. In fact the frontier of settled life had continually moved from the American Revolution on. Before that, the British overseers forbade settlement west of the Appalachians, though not entirely successfully, but as soon as the US was formed, people started pushing westward. Johnny Appleseed (d. 1845) is as much a part of the wild west lore as is Wyatt Earp. It really depends a lot on the definition of the wild west.

[@oliverkloshophdndrecords50]

I'm glad I found more Karl since he ended Dact Feind

[@matthewbanta3240]

"Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier" is a film that continued to popularized the Western film genre, and yet Davy Crockett died in 1836. So I would argue that there were aspects of what we think of as the Wild West that existed before the civil war and some of them continued after the Rail Road came through and all of the land was supposed to have been claimed.

[@JayGriffinblaze]

Definitely. Davy Crockett would be an example of the Mountain Men so not many established settlements, but from 1840 onwards, most definitely, even before the rail road.