Aaron Woodall on why Harry Potter is sad - Dry Bar Comedy

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[@tinaloye2014]

I love how the audience is kinda uncomfortable because a lot of them still love Harry Potter

[@alice4ever4444]

lmao so true!

[@fayeazahmedrhythm7460]

Who doesn't still?

[@ANT96-x8d]

Fayeaz Ahmed Rhythm The books are for 12 year olds.

[@Ellashae]

Fayeaz Ahmed Rhythm people who never read them in the first place. LOL JK no one get upset it is OK. All the people that I’ve met, that have read the book, love it for the rest of their life. They’re not obsessed like some people, but they love it.

[@ANT96-x8d]

Ella Shae Actually it’s exactly an obsession. They are “wishing they could live in that world and be a witch/wizard,” but my reply to them would be that it’s highly unlikely that wish is coming true because there’s nobody in reality called Aladdin who just found a magic genie’s lamp.

[@clairekirkpatrick8447]

*slowly puts copy of the hatchet down*

[@dj0ct0]

hatchet is still absolute beauty

[@caseyh1934]

Trilogy is great

[@DLCoates1]

@@caseyh1934there’s a total of 5 books. Its not a trilogy its a saga.

[@danielniemeyer1987]

he is not wrong. this makes Star Wars, dune with tiny gundam beam sabers.

[@TinKittenRacers]

It’s probably just cuz he looks like Neville Longbottom

[@djpl311]

LOLOLOLOL!!!!! omgg..

[@confusedwhale]

Uhhh, sorry. He looks like the troll. Look those ears.

[@epanecka]

I thought Neville was hot now though.

[@christopherpeery8968]

Neville is attractive now

[@tiffanikreft4430]

No way! He is so hot and funny!

[@pennywied9943]

I love how offended everyone is 😂

[@OTGamer95]

But they still laugh because they realize he’s not wrong

[@HulaMami10]

Wow. I really didn’t realize that there are sooo many parallels between the two.

[@1000HolyPlaces]

The same thing can be said of literally thousands of other stories. It's a hero's quest tale, it's very common in fantasy literature. There have been similar comparisons made to Harry Potter and several other famous fantasy/sci-fi stories including Lord of the Rings and Ender's Game.

[@Skelldr]

Hero’s journey.

[@kaiyodei]

@@1000HolyPlaces no. only HP apparently is the tropyist of all tropy ripp off stories

[@Robyn_iz_Here]

Hero's journey is one of the most common things in fiction. Like ever

[@tonymastro42]

I’ve been ruining parties for decades by telling fangirls this, I’m so glad this comedian did the same haha

[@DontHateMeCausImSexy]

sad loser

[@clank1013]

I love this skit, every time I see it I have to watch the whole thing 🤣

[@markhansolo8636]

As a fan of both Star Wars and Harry Potter I agree with The Comedian. Star Wars and Harry Potter are the same thing.

[@11thDC]

"Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better." -Stanley Kubrick

[@jordgev]

My favorite books as a kid were "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Ender's Game." I still re-read and thoroughly enjoy them. They are my favorite. Doesn't mean other books like "Death in Yellowstone," a book purely about all the recorded ways people have died in the US's first national park since its inception, aren't also my favorites.

[@robhood8218]

Ender's Game is so freaking great. That whole saga is phenomenal. Speaker For the Dead I think is my favorite though.

[@OTGamer95]

Ender’s Game is a fantastic book and one of my favorites too

[@cosmicvale]

I just finished Enders Game not long ago, and I absolutely love it

[@briannejohnson5729]

The whole Wrinkle in Time series is amazing

[@ccmusic2249]

(50 seconds in) "That's preposterous. 5th grade books still have relevance. Calvin and Hobbes is a manual for life." (1:45 in) "No way. Can't be that close to Star Wars". (3 mins in) "Wait...stop with your logic. It hurts my nostalgia..." (End of video) "Jesus...he's not wrong. So do i actually like HP because I first loved Star Wars? Darn you JKR..."

[@1000HolyPlaces]

Honestly, it ISN'T just Star Wars. Harry Potter is a hero's quest tale, the same sorts of parallels can be found in quite literally thousands of stories. I had a friend in college who compared the Potter books to Ender's Game and found tons of similarities. There have been comparisons made to Lord of the Rings, among others. Star Wars was hardly the first story like it! Star Wars ripped off tons of stuff, too. Just because some parallels can be made between two stories doesn't meant much. In reality, there are very few basic plot lines in existence, so you will always be able to find similar works in the same genre. In other words, don't feel bad for liking Harry Potter and Star Wars. They aren't truly the same thing, but liking both means you enjoy a certain type of story. :-)

[@CraigMcGuinn]

@@1000HolyPlaces correct…Harry Potter is the more affordable copy for poor people of the original Star Wars masterpiece that only rich people and middle class people can use

[@CraigMcGuinn]

@@1000HolyPlaces also, Harry Potter has more similarities to Star Wars (and Star Wars was clearly the first story) than any newer work of fiction I know has to an existing fictional story that came before it.

[@1000HolyPlaces]

@@CraigMcGuinn You need to read more, then. If the only thing you can think to compare it to is Star Wars, when there are other stories that probably parallel it even better, then you haven't read a whole lot from the genre. I can also almost 100% guarantee you she wasn't thinking about Star Wars when she was writing it. She's listed several of her inspirations, and Star Wars wasn't on the list. Again, just because there are parallels doesn't mean she took from that story specifically. It happened that way simply because the story arch is incredibly common, including some of the particular plot points and tropes.

[@quentinn.3837]

Now that was some funny stuff! So true! I would get tore up with this guy anytime. "Scruffy comic relief" well played.

[@colinpreston80]

As a kid, my favorite book was the Lightning Thief. I was obsessed with that series like most people were with Harry Potter, I was never a huge fan of Harry Potter. Now that I'm an adult, it is no longer my favorite book. While I still think fondly on the series, I don't go around wishing I could go to Camp Half-Blood.

[@DodaGarcia]

Thank you! Someone who gets it. Nobody is saying "throw all your HP books in the garbage" or that you can't feel fond or nostalgic about them. Only that it seems very intellectually stunted when an adult's taste doesn't evolve past something they were into as a child, into more challenging and sophisticated material.

[@drstrangelove307]

@@DodaGarcia if someone were to be truly sophisticated, they would have thrown those books away long ago, stick with science and philosophy and liberal art books like a true genius. Or read something as beautifully relatable as American Psycho.

[@josephhirning2642]

@@drstrangelove307 We aren't reading to be geniuses....though if I were, I'd pick The Iliad and Odyssey , thank you.

[@PillarOfLight98]

Oooo mine was the Kane Chronicles also written by Rick Riordan Egyptian mythology intrigued me more

[@keilahhall5659]

The Percy Jackson series is still my favorite because they are the books that got me to love reading. It holds a special place in my heart. I’ve read books that are better. Currently my favorite book is the book thief. I don’t still wish to go to camp half blood, but I still think it would be cool.

[@trillo3332]

MASSIVE applause!! 👏👏👏

[@nicolebelcher6769]

Dude the hero's journey is like storytelling and like 70% of fiction

[@f.r.etling6226]

Nicole Belcher yeah and it’s not like the Star Wars movies (prequels at least) aren’t just a bunch of laser battles for little kids

[@chilanya]

true and this plot / ard is used too much in my opinion, makes for unoriginal and predictable stories

[@JMCNYC79]

Nicole Belcher Dude, it’s comedy. It’s a joke.

[@alvideos2145]

@@f.r.etling6226 Harry potter fanboy detected. Harry potter sucked, get over it.

[@horationelson1840]

Justin Y. Star Wars isn’t just for little kids. Star Wars is for everyone. Ages 5-100

[@bonnieclary5819]

I heard the audiance clapping and laughing! My favorite bit ever!!!!

[@rachelgarber1423]

I first read Little Women in a very condensed form as a young girl, went back a read the whole story several years ago. I'm 74 and I still love that book.

[@Voicenotes2018]

I think what he means is that since it's meant more for ages 8-11 that it's weird adults like it in a way that if a teen was going around yelling I love bubble guppies. Little Woman is different because it's all ages. But HP is childish

[@looknow5397]

Mind blown! It is star wars with magic wands! My belief system is ruined.

[@DryBarComedy]

We feel the same way!

[@ketg4u]

Mind blown...the exact words I used how uncanny!

[@looknow5397]

Joel King why do I get the feeling that comment was snarky? Hmmm okay...mind blown is not the my oringial comment but it did express my feelings at that particular point in time.

[@ViveMeorLeti]

The story elements he points out are pretty much the Hero's Journey, which is a story pattern that's been around since ancient times, so it's not as though Star Wars is the original =P tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHerosJourney

[@1000HolyPlaces]

Yes! Thank you! This is what I keep saying! Harry Potter has parallels to soooo many other stories, you can almost just pluck one at random. It's how fantasy literature tends to work. This is no big shocker.

[@theflywho]

Stories when you're young imprint. I'm still in love with The Princess Bride and The Last Unicorn. But I dig the comparison!

[@chadquigley227]

The princess bride is one of the most perfect movies ever made . Even cinema sins critiques something about it and says “but this movie is basically perfect , so I’ll let this slide” 😆

[@benv7933]

I’m an adult and I went to the Harry and The Potters concert last night. SOOOO much nostalgia!!!

[@macumicheru3250]

I'm a Hupplepuff.. 9 1/2 Ash wood wand with dragon heartstring... And my patronus is a dragon.... At least its what my Pottermore account stated.. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@uprisingsun9105]

Hey I'm a Hufflepuff too! 11 3/4 Laurel wood with dragon heartstring core... And my Patronus is a thestral...

[@superfriend2246]

What the Rick

[@lukjad007]

I'm fundamentally opposed to this point of view. Your favourite book need not be the one you read last or the one you read in the last ten years, but the one for which you hold the fondest memories. There are people who love Sherlock Holmes books and read it as a child. Does that make Sherlock Holmes suddenly weird because they read them as a child?

[@morganshafer974]

Luke Trust I'm really late adding a comment to this, but I completely agree. I tried to keep an open mind during his joke but most of my favorite books are ones I read when I was in elementary school.

[@frenziedferret4509]

Have you read the Sherlock Holnes short stories? They're absolute trash

[@Fishbowl74]

It's a setup for a joke. Don't take it personally.

[@Paetrox]

we found the Harry Potter fan, everyone.

[@Fishbowl74]

@@Paetrox I actually have not read or watched any Harry Potter, ever :). Doesnt appeal to me.

[@joyfulheart1153]

Wow I haven't laughed this hard in a long time 🤣

[@sarahmountstudios3188]

Ive never read the books or seen the movies ....but I think that he's actually secretly a Harry Potter fan.....he seems to know a lot about it.....maybe he loves it but he's embarrassed 😂

[@DryBarComedy]

He's a Slytherin. Thanks for watching!

[@rockysandman5489]

Go and watch at least the first two/three films.

[@jerrywhidby.]

Or maybe he was a fan as a child. How many people still like PeeWee Herman?

[@Voicenotes2018]

Or he did research for his comedy. His friends may have made him watch the movie and he found it a rip off of Star Wars si he thought it would be a good comedy segment so he did research on it for more jokes. And also it is more 8-11 year olds. I liked it when I was that she and once I turned 13 I thought it wasn't very good

[@Voicenotes2018]

Age*

[@paulbrasier372]

He's so right ! We all think that way here in the Shire....

[@DryBarComedy]

bahahahahahaha

[@alleemaria97]

I'm 21 and still reread them ever 2 years. Still my favourite ;)

[@twosnakesonesword3299]

Harry Potter came out when I was already an adult lol. I still liked it.

[@thejamesification]

Still to this day one of the best media observations I've ever heard

[@Amaranthyne]

I still read children's books! And I read literature! Enjoying Catch-22 doesn't mean Trickster's Queen isn't my favorite book. THREE CHEERS FOR NOSTALGIA!!!

[@Shadowfussel]

You have AMAZING taste in books! There's really not enough people that even know Trickster's Queen.

[@Amaranthyne]

Thank you! I can tell you how many times I've read Tamora Pierce's books...and love Jane Eyre.

[@Faded_Scout22]

I'm that guy who thinks "the hatchet" was the second best book I read in school 😆 I was young and loved the adventure and survival aspect.

[@inspectorjavert8443]

Well I read Jurassic Park for the first time when I was about 11 or 12 and its still one of my favorite books.

[@sheldonnicholl3599]

There should be a "two thumbs up" option.

[@evansmith7911]

Hatchet and Harry Potter are my two favorite books! 😯😆

[@swviolinistforJesus]

My name is Sarah, I am a ravenclaw, and I feel personally attacked

[@jacobmastromonico9420]

I'm a hufflepuff

[@DryBarComedy]

Thats awesome! I think we're all Slytherin... But I don't know...

[@elessal]

what the heck is a hufflepuff?

[@Alex-od9fk]

vasalem Before you read Harry Potter, I’m just going to let you know it’s the best house

[@rockysandman5489]

Lydia No no no! vaselem is making a reference to the Harry Potter musical called A Very Potter Musical! Seems like you haven't been in the Harry Potter fandom much.

[@jamesmora267]

No your an adult.😂

[@just1bandfan104]

Omg I remember reading Hatchet!!! It was so good!!! I still like Harry Potter! (I'm in gyrffindor)

[@libbyann78]

44 and Hufflepuff. The movies came out when I was like 23, and I didn't read the books til after that. I believe the first book came out the year after I graduated high school.

[@benv7933]

That’s the power of Harry Potter!! It’s for kids, teens and adults. I LOVE Harry Potter!!

[@mattsmith457]

You sneeze in Africa and this man will still bless you.

[@zach415]

Forgot to mention that in both stories the villain harms the protagonist in some iconic way

[@Sabreene25]

Mind. Blown.

[@afterhours2344]

This is so true 100% agree

[@williambilyeu9801]

My favorite book is "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. I read it at nine years old and reread it every few years.

[@CraigMcGuinn]

Have you read the H.G. Wells book “The World Set Free”? In that book, Wells described a futuristic hand grenade that “exploded indefinitely” and its explosive abilities are just like that of an atomic bomb. Wells also wrote this story in 1914, meaning he accurately predicted the invention of the atomic bomb 30 years early

[@williambilyeu9801]

@@CraigMcGuinn No, I haven't read that one. I will check to see if I have it in my collection. I have read many of his novels and short stories bit I don't remember that one. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@danacoleman4007]

All of the best books I've ever read have been targeted for young adults. That's the time you remember most strongly, are most formative years, and our most wonderful use of imagination. It happens before our souls and spirits and hearts and minds are crushed by life experiences. When we still have some hope.

[@gunbutter830]

All the hate. Come on people he's spot on. Harry P was good but it ain't a masterpiece. Fun read but that's all AND some people, who should know better, take waaay too seriously. That's why this bit is funny.

[@AndriaTheKobold]

OY! I'm 30 and I STILL love Harry Potter. Slytherin all the way

[@mlamarana]

A.J. Young meee tooo

[@julianazhou1403]

Slytherins unite!!!

[@tabithariley2695]

Yaaaaaaaas Slytherin pride!!!!

[@f.r.etling6226]

Only the first Harry Potter books are that little kiddish-later ones not so much

[@cheyennehopper8214]

Justin Y. ok..

[@jamesmorris9120]

HP is the book series kids keep to read to their children when they’re all grown up, and bond over.

[@Erykrockmusic]

Hey dont be throwing shade at The Hatchet xD that book was dope

[@Nullifidian]

This man is my patronus. I was about seventeen or eighteen when the first _Harry Potter_ book came out, and I couldn't believe that college-aged students were flipping their lids for a twee children's book. They would insist on constantly bugging me with exhortations to read the thing and I was never assertive enough to tell them what I thought of their suggestions. And despite never having seen a single movie nor having read any of the books, people around me have managed to talk about it at such length (and to the exclusion of practically any other books) that I've unwillingly become familiar with the story, which is how I can throw out HP references like "patronus" in the first place. I need to contact Lacuna, Inc. so that I can have the parts of my memory devoted to all the stuff about HP that I've inadvertently learned erased and fill those spaces up with information about books I actually care to read.

[@DryBarComedy]

Bravo. Bravo. Bravo.

[@kaiyodei]

you would say the same for a 19 year old reading Animorphs right?

[@Nullifidian]

@@kaiyodei Absolutely. I as a 19 year-old would have not been reading _Animorphs_ either and I would have been very much annoyed if there were an obnoxious and proselytizing _Animorphs_ fan base to equal the _Harry Potter_ fan base. Fortunately, though they did come in about the same time-don't quote me on this but I think _Animorphs_ was slightly earlier-and I believe there was also a TV show, that level of fandom never took hold. I don't read children's books and barely read them even when I was the right age for them. My parents had to have a lengthy battle with the library just to get me permission to check out books from outside the "Children's Room" before I turned 13 because I couldn't find anything I wanted to read in the children's section. So, yes, _anyone_ forcing _any_ children's book on me is not going to endear themselves to me because I'm just not interested. It's only the _Harry Potter_ fans who seem to have a problem understanding that though-at least when it comes to books. It genuinely seems to shock them that there are people who just don't want to read fantasy fiction or children's books or both. I love the Elizabethan and Jacobean English dramatists, but my solution to that is to read them myself, read books about them, and see as many of their plays as I can (far less easy when they're not by Shakespeare, unfortunately). I don't go around preaching the evangel of William Shakespeare, John Webster, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, etc. to people who couldn't give a toss about any of these men.

[@DoctorQuackenbush]

"Hatchet" is a good story.

[@bethanybarrett73]

So funny!!

[@levilandes1719]

I confess to a surviving enjoyment of the Hatchet.

[@robhood8218]

The Transall Saga is probably my favorite Gary Paulsen novel

[@julikaaadominos5178]

I’m 12 and I just read a Harry Potter book and I’m obsessed with it AND I am tell you that I won’t be letting go of Harry Potter anytime soon

[@ryanlancaster6776]

It’s just facts. I love Star Wars

[@Orion227]

He has a point with Star Wars and Harry Potter!

[@PariahKamikaze]

So nobody is gonna point out the fact that he looks like Nevil Longbottom.

[@disturbedpyro4511]

I can’t stop staring at those ears! They make Elliot’s from Breaking Bad look small 😂😂

[@kaiyodei]

needs more tropes

[@willster8759]

It’s treason then.

[@fugglesticktheugly4322]

The Hatchet was a great book

[@DryBarComedy]

It indeed was!

[@christopherpeery8968]

It takes balls to diss harry potter like that but he did a great job!

[@DLCoates1]

Thumbs up if you actually read Brians saga (Hatchet series) 👍🙌🏻

[@julieabraham3566]

My favorite books range from Watership Down to The Monster At The End Of This Book.

[@superskaldy]

I really liked hatchet and Brian's winter lmao

[@jarrettware5863]

He sounds like a Hufflepuff

[@TheDuck-bvg123]

the only difference is that both of harry's parents are dead and luke's father killed his mother and said father of luke became the villain he had to fight

[@aliceanduril4888]

I'm Slytherin ^-^

[@onpsxmember]

nah, you're not Salazar. *a... Wait...are you the Senate?

[@themanwiththerubyshadow]

I don't blame anyone for enjoying books they read for school, my favorite book is still Fahrenheit 451

[@vice6996]

holy crap. it really is star wars with crappy light sabers.

[@DryBarComedy]

RIGHT????

[@JP-pp2tn]

i'm 32 and i'm a ravenclaw, recieved my letter at 10 LOL

[@AnonyBoiii]

*slowly puts Deltora series 1-3 away*

[@thatonebooknerd7756]

My first series I read was the Hunger Games. I did read Harry Potter but I prefer Percy Jackson. My favorite series of all time though is Sherlock Holmes. It is a masterpiece.

[@matthews.mahoney3743]

I just saw him on a commercial

[@TheGawdessDravidienne]

Awww... must've had sad childhoods to not still love Potter.

[@cathrinecarr9631]

Hatchet's my brother's favorite book

[@DryBarComedy]

Mine is The Cat in the Hat, so... yeah. Thanks for watching!

[@franceslovesrainbows]

I've never heard of Hatchet!

[@Nullifidian]

I hadn't heard of it either, before this comedy bit and its reference in Annie Spence's _Dear Fahrenheit 451_ . Somehow it completely passed me by, despite being published when I was six or seven.

[@clovers10]

Not knocking him, but this and another joke where he personified nations seemed like they were lifted from studio c sketches. Still funny, but the connection was so immediate, it just makes me wonder. Look up ‘Teddy’s Story Joint’ and ‘International Relations’ if you’re curious about which sketches.

[@Nebulous.Infinity]

I just wanna say that most people in their respective houses live to be adults.

[@ladytalksalot4097]

Hey, hey, be nice to Hatchet.

[@random_man2339]

I'm actually reading the hatchet

[@ADerpyReality]

Bedknobs and broomsticks + Dune = the source of most movies/books.

[@berserkirclaws107]

My favourite book is the one I never read!

[@jacezaler7399]

Yes it can.

[@morganshafer974]

It would've been nice if he could've actually pronounced J.K. Rowling's name properly. Idk, this felt less like a joke and more of a jab at individuals who still treasure books that inspired them when they were young. A lot can still be learned from those books, and it's not cool to just tell someone to grow up because they find the concept of child-like fiction fascinating.

[@lorifairchild1653]

Ha! Definitely like Brian’s Winter more than Hatchet. One of those rare cases where the sequel was better than the first.

[@benv7933]

Harry Potter nerd all the way. Those books helped me so much. Hoping to go to Harry Potter world soon. Gryffindor for life!!!

[@micahdavila45]

The hatchet was a good of a book

[@Fishbowl74]

He remembered an awful lot of it, though:)

[@DryBarComedy]

Because who doesn't remember Star Wars?

[@hunterackerman1697]

I never got into HP. Even though I love Percy Jackson, Eragon, and other books like that. It seems like it'd be up my alley, but nope.

[@JessicaHodges23]

Thank God voldemort was not his father.

[@jodiexc74]

Actually Voldemort was more equivalent to Palpatine while snape was closer to being Vader. Think about it, Sinister figure, dressed all in black that the main protagonist believes for most of the movies is a bad guy only to learn in a shocking Revelation he was sort of a father figure that was protecting him after all. All of this is revealed just as the Sinister figure dies because he turned coat on the bigger more Sinister villain.

[@jelloollej8535]

SLYTHERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNN 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 Also I hated the ending of the hatchet

[@DryBarComedy]

Right? Thanks for watching!

[@stephaniewordwoman]

Okay, let's get a few things straight: 1. It is pronounced ROH-LING, with a long "o," not ROW-LING. 2. She didn't just write one book, she wrote 7. And if you didn't read the whole series, you're missing out. 3. It is perfectly okay to be an adult and appreciate Harry Potter--it does not mean you do not read other books (I have books camping out on my floor, okay? That's how much I read. And BTW, I just read the HP series last year, in my 30s, because up to then I was too busy trying to eke out a career. Also, Ravenclaw represent).

[@alexiadoulgeridou8350]

You can’t be serious.Go read a real book or get a life.Pathetic

[@kidsonblackops]

They were okay kids books and it's obviously socially acceptable to reread them... to kids.

[@ryantheis430]

hatchet is on my top 10

[@kaiamehls9429]

Each to their own. Kinda sad you think that liking something from when you were young isn't okay when you grow up. I never wanna turn into a tight wad adult. The child in me will never die it doesn't mean that you can't be a grown up also.

[@littlefinger5199]

I am a RavenClaw stay out of my business! 🤣🤣🤣

[@AprilRose77]

I don't care what anyone says I'm a Gryffindor always have been always will be!!!!

[@katrinadoyle7]

Every Sarah is a Ravenclaw

[@jamisondeeley9080]

I think we all know what j.k. was watching when she came up with the books now

[@decayedrose9864]

Sup, I’m from 2020.......... to all Harry Potter fans, this year is the worst year ever

[@Jarjarbinks683]

I still find this entertaining but the star wars harry potter comparison seems like a bit of a stretch.