Learning How To Drive In The UK | Dara Ó Briain

[@Mat0s-316]

Dara taught me that the UK Air Force is composed entirely by the power rangers.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

You just gave away your limited gallery of groups of fighting men. Though at the moment I'd have to think... Power Rangers isn't my first choice🤣

[@ArifRWinandar]

Their fighter planes can combine to form a single megafighter.

[@TheOneTrueEfrate]

I thought ginyu force.

[@theblackwidower]

From what I understand, that's all military.

[@HellInternAKACandyMD]

A "like" doesn't suffice, so I came to say 😂😂😂

[@EleanorPeterson]

I love the idea of a louche Dara waiting for 'a better green' at the traffic lights. 🚦👀 Brilliant!

[@Starkiller5121]

Louche is my newly found word of the week now 😂

[@hiltonian_1260]

I like that Dara’s interactions with audience members are fundamentally kind. He spins his own absurd fantasies about their lives, but nothing harsh. I’ve seen some comedians, like Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle, bully audience members and the poor bastards have to chuckle along or look like poor sports.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Lol yes but many times both Jimmy and Frankie aren't choosing, they are addressing hecklers who brought that attention on with a shout. 🤷‍♀️

[@hiltonian_1260]

@@thisravenhasflown010 Yup, I’ve seen that, but I’ve also seen them pick someone at random, ask a few questions, and then just disembowel them for laughs.

[@michaelccozens]

@@hiltonian_1260 It's a fair point, but I think that, to a degree, if you're going to see someone like Carr or Boyle and you're sitting up-front, you're doing that with the understanding that being roasted is on the table. Many people like that sort of thing, even (or especially) when it's directed at them. But you're certainly correct that it can be very uncomfortable if it's not handled correctly. Carr and Boyle seem to be pretty good at gauging who's there to engage and who would really rather not. I think that tends to be a big differentiating point for comedians in that style, as it doesn't always take a lot for an audience to decide a comic's being unjustifiably cruel and turn on them. It's a very good point about the difference in Dara's approach. You don't have that same sense of social tension you can get with other styles, which, depending on your mood and comic sensibilities, can be exactly what you're looking for. Sometimes you'd just like to laugh and relax at the same time. Dara creates a safe space to share with his audience, a kind of mutual play. Seems like Frankie's moved away from that sort of "insult" material, anyway, especially as he's brought more of a progressive focus to his act.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

@@hiltonian_1260 possibly, but every person who bought those tickets knew exactly what ride they were about to embark on.... wouldn't you say? Both Frankie and Jimmy's reputations precede them😁🤷‍♀️

[@robertofontiglia4148]

This man did NOT see the clip with the kid in electrician school. Guy got ROASTED.

[@ColinFox]

Dara's memory astounds me. Watch his full shows - he starts by getting some details from some audience members, which he works into the act all the way through, and then several times I've seen him wrap up his show with a mini-story including all the names and professions of the initial audience members he spoke to. I forget people's details 5 minutes after I meet them at a party.

[@herseem]

Dara, I think this is one of my favourite segments of yours out of the ones I've seen. There are so many really good bits. And the riffing on the guy who learned to drive in the RAF is just outstanding. I hereby designate you.... a comedian.

[@mumblbeebee6546]

Same.this show has pride of place on my shelf but this segment is especially grand! Seriously, even if the whole thing was written it would be wonderful but the fact that some of the fastest and punchiest jokes are improvised is a permanent mark in the records of comedy achievement! (at least on my shelf!)

[@nathandougherty7058]

I've the bit about Irish law. Dara weaves quite a bit of texture into a single segment

[@autiethoughties6898]

My word, he's quick with the improv.

[@gwaptiva]

Alternatively, you can take your driving test at 29 in rural Scotland where we had to drive 40 minutes to the nearest traffic light... well, ok, pedestrian lights, then had to circle round the area for 20 minutes until some pedestrian actually wanted to cross the street. And it's a good thing motorway driving is excluded because even a two-hour lesson would've just go you to the start of the nearest motorway before heading back.... So impatient BMWs would've been a nice distraction from the sheep

[@sureshot8399]

What? They have cars in Scotland now?

[@jackstewart2258]

​@@sureshot8399well only the rich people us working class have to get about on our bagpipes while avoiding wild haggis

[@sureshot8399]

@@jackstewart2258 Nah, now you're pulling my leg........I know for a fact there are no more haggis in the wild these days..... they were all rounded up and deep fried years ago.

[@e.p.e]

I watched this video a week ago, but today I stalled the car (first time since I got my license last month) and I remembered the video. Dara was spot on when he described how it feels😭

[@pettespizzaparlor3245]

Even more fun stalling out: on a on ramp, in stop and go traffic, during rush hour getting onto a freeway in LA. PANIC does not cover it. 😅 thank gods it WAS stop and go.

[@MartintheTinman]

I hope you're a US citizen

[@nigelbond4056]

I’ve probably watched this 50 times over the years and I still cry with laughter 🤣

[@Callemos7]

This is one of my favorite standup bits ever.

[@SyntheticFuture]

Dara's brain works at lightning speed wtf 😂 Gives this man the best story to tell at birthday parties now. An entirely new backstory 🤣

[@BarryE48]

My favourite comedian of all time.

[@MsGaella]

So spontaneously witty!

[@type17]

I've seen this multiple times on BBC, and here on YT, and it's still Dara's funniest routine - keep up the good work, chap.

[@nathanw9706]

This channel is what the world needed

[@sadev101]

utter brilliance

[@kjamison5951]

The British Army taught me to drive. I took my test in a Renault but the first vehicle that I drove after I passed my test was … a Land Rover.

[@TheSuzberry]

The encounter he describes with the hasty driver is exactly what my husband did. He was over 6 foot and asked if there was a problem. Got lots of laughs from his story, too.

[@SoItGoesCAL34]

Thanks for the laughs. Love ya

[@Tony_SZ97]

Absolutely Brilliant!!!!! Very clever routine indeed!!!

[@kevgmei]

Gist I'm getting from this skit is that the best defense mechanism for everything is to calmly walk up to the person and go "Ah! Is there a problem, champ?"

[@lillianward2810]

Don’t forget to put on the hand brake!

[@Wunderpantz]

Comedy pefection. Off to rewatch stand-up dvds now :)

[@subbtopp]

i love you Dara, you were great on Taskmaster

[@PotatoMC1]

Scott is a gift.

[@nannyalberte]

I love you, Dara 💕💕😁😁

[@Aj1981Mr]

Thank you Dara, seen that one before but was nice to see it again.

[@brettwainscott1165]

Love ya work!

[@eXistenZ15]

Dara's ability to make something unny with any audience member is what sets him apart for me

[@deannarachelbobiwsky2366]

Oh I love these! I hope someday to see you in person!

[@onkouth]

I once got stopped by the Garda while travelling to Belfast from Dublin, he had clocked me at 125mph and his first words were, you're takin the piss there fellas 😂 he then asked why i did it, i told him i was coming back from holiday and just wanted to get home, he then chatted for a bit about my holiday and said, right get home safe and take it a bit easier, the Garda are generally pretty cool and yes, they definitely have those 3 levels of acceptable legality 😂

[@michelletrimbornCapeTown]

Brilliant as always!

[@cogboy302]

I grew up in Ulster and was driving tractors on the farm when I was 10. However, it's a lot more difficult to stall a big torquey diesel tractor in a muddy field, that maxes out at 18mph than it is to stall a 1.0 litre Vauxhall Nova on the road. I always give learner drivers lots of space if I'm behind them and just chill out and let them learn. We all were learners at some point and it's impatient twats who make the process that much more stressful.

[@alicequayle4625]

Driving tractors at a young age looks lots of fun. I was with my 2 nephews aged about 6 at a farm show admiring the smaller tractors, when a lad who looked aged about 8 jumps on one, starts it up and drives off. My nephews jaws fell tbrough the floor. Isle of Man vintage show.

[@withgrowinginsanity198]

A pro on stage 🎉

[@andrewmorton7482]

On my first driving test I'd done all my lessons in a diesel but my instructor exchanged it for a petrol car for the day of my test. I stalled seven times. By the seventh time I went into the alternative stall procedure: slapping the gear stick and yelling "Get the fuck in!!!"

[@franciscomartinezzea8531]

Grand time listening to your videos. Thank you. Blessings from sunny Spain

[@communitydrivingschoolc.i.8316]

Would love to do this with our pupils.. Dara, this is brilliant...

[@idaliakulik]

You’re awesome :)

[@LokiLivewire]

Oh my stars, how you make me laugh. 🤣🤣🤣

[@felisd]

I stalled my dad's car at 17 when I drove his (manual transmission) Jeep in the middle of one of the busiest intersections of my city during the evening rush hour, blocking traffic on all sides, and it took a solid three tries to get it started again. I still remember it (*cough*)-ty years later how traumatizing that was. I really did feel like I was holding up the world! I got to drive that same car again this year, after a couple of decades not driving manual transmission. This time, when I stalled in the middle of the intersection, it was hilarious!

[@Ofjkk]

even though i know about the segway into the second punchline it's always funny cause it's a genius segway

[@rosiefay7283]

Pretty sure you don't need a driving test for a segway

[@noahfinlayshipman]

I love how any still of him doing a show out of context would make him look like a motivational speaker lol

[@stephencopps1561]

Great, Dara 👍more life affirming stuff😂

[@bendjohans3863]

god its so good to see that english humor isnt totally dead yet ;) greetings from bavaria

[@bendjohans3863]

weeeell i think they do quiet nice with rioting i wish it would be a bit more frenchy like that here in germany either and from over here from the continent english humor includes ireland too , as i think youre irish im sorry i dont know who infected whoom but both england and ireland have the dry black english humor which is by now so often in the critics of theese wake morons so its nice to see that at least some comedians give a shit and keep on telling funny jokes

[@alicequayle4625]

Very funny improv.

[@FergalByrne]

Follied you to that London after only 25 years, good luck with the channel.

[@terryhayward7905]

The hand held microphone was about CB radio, But Dara manages to make anything comical :)

[@ohtheforlanity3205]

Dara's ability to ad lib is just ridiculous, makes it look so easy

[@nathandougherty7058]

He's fantastic. He doesn't need to destroy the audience member he quizzes. Just playfully mocks both them and himself.

[@chriscollins4710]

So funny

[@alanalmo5834]

Great video. 😀 When I was 19 I stalled my car at a traffic lights on Deansgate, in the centre of Manchester. The starter didn't work. In those days old cars (mine came out of the womb in 1959) had what was called "positive earth" which meant the battery terminals corroded until, guess what, they could no longer conduct electricity. No amount of vaseline could counter this threat in the damp Mancunian autumn environment. So I got out of the car, used the starting handle, the engine sprang to life, and the world continued to turn.

[@PokerJoker811]

Air Force *GO*!

[@cassies7170]

I had to push my car so the instructor could do a jump start, now that is embarrassing especially when people are watching lol

[@Ammo08]

It's funny, but in the USAF we had to teach some people to drive berceuse they grew up in large cities, like New York, and never used anything but public transportation.

[@blackbird5634]

"If it's not mandatory, it is forbidden.'' 1984 George Orwell. And he was making the point, much less humorously, and this is comedy, but it fits.🤣😅

[@aaronpincus6095]

That L placards is one of the best things. As an American, the first time I encountered them I immediately thought we need this in US. It’s just a great, well built idea/law.

[@Herr_Damit]

Wdym, are driving schools not marked in the US?

[@rd6203]

​@@Herr_Damit not uniformly and not always very visibly.

[@Herr_Damit]

@@rd6203 Huh, now all these horror-stories from beginners in the US make more sense. Here in Germany it would be considered extremely rude to honk at a schooling vehicles, let alone tailgate them. When you are to close and they roll backwards on a hill, you are the one at fault for not keeping a proper distance.

[@rd6203]

@@Herr_Damit What horror stories?

[@Herr_Damit]

@@rd6203 People being honked at excessively, getting cut off and the general attitude toward learners. Gathered from memes, though, so I don't have real second hand accounts.

[@ToudaHell]

For the first few tines he said stalled, I thought he said stole. Which was confusing but hilarious.

[@stevecavell4479]

Some friends were on holiday in Ireland and were wondering if they could get away with not wearing their crash helmets on the ride to the pub when they were passed by four guys on a motorcycle not wearing crash helmets, so obviously that was “ grand” and no helmets were worn.

[@Dreyno]

It’s not “grand”. It’s illegal and a guaranteed fine if the cops see it. It’s also stupid. A pebble coming back from another bike or car and hitting your head when you’re travelling at a moderate speed could be enough to cause you to crash or at the very least cause a nasty laceration requiring stitches.

[@aliasgharkhoyee9501]

The same pebble could hit cyclists who are not required to wear any helmet. Why are motorcyclists treated differently in this regard?

[@Dreyno]

@@aliasgharkhoyee9501 My brother died in a fall off a bicycle so I would approve of making cyclists wear helmets. But the fact is that the speed you are travelling towards the stone increases the force you will be hit by it. As an example, I was standing along a road at a motorcycle road race (it’s a big thing here in Ireland) and a stone that the rear tyre of a 1000cc super bike threw up hit my head. It hurt a bit but no damage other than a small bump. A week later I was riding my own motorcycle and I hit a small bird (maybe a blackbird) with my chest. Because I was riding fast, it felt like someone punched me in the chest. That’s the difference.

[@aliasgharkhoyee9501]

@@Dreyno agreed, and I think for that reason motorcyclists should only be required to wear helmets when going above a certain speed (perhaps 30 or 40 miles an hour). Or for easier enforcement, it could even be for vehicles capable of maximum speeds above the threshold. The difficulty today in British and Irish law is that there is a such big jump in legal and practical complexity when you want to upgrade from a pedal cycle to motorcycle (helmet, insurance, tax, MOT/NCT, etc) that you're tempted to skip the motorcycle and get a car. Which is much worse for traffic, air, and noise. There needs to be a lower speed motorcycle category that follows the same rules as cyclists.

[@Dreyno]

@@aliasgharkhoyee9501 Electric bikes are that category. Any sort of a proper motorcycle is capable of doing too much damage to other road users. A 200kg motorcycle hitting a pedestrian, cyclist or even a car can be fatal for the other people. I once got over 100mph out of a small 125cc motorcycle. That’s basically a lethal weapon.

[@reinhardbeck1482]

On i see! He means stall not stole!

[@PAVASAKOS]

That law is also valid for pilots using a hand held Mike below 10,000feet

[@Goatcha_M]

My Dad always says the L stands for Lunatic.

[@1rudedudette1]

What's Dara's joke that is most difficult to understand?

[@aaronpeart]

It's always a fuckin BMW. Got my license at 37, thank you Dara.

[@GuyChapman]

To be fair, my son, a lazy sod who has never overshot the required mark by one percent, even in his (first class) MEng, never took his test until Sandhurst. Everyone without a civvy licence was shipped to Deepcut for training. Three days later, he has a licence. Git.

[@joofbing]

Air Force Go!

[@Randomicity912]

I'm British and I learned to drive in Texas.

[@Calixte84]

First 40 seconds or so it was like seeing Eddie Izzard

[@eodiete]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@fifiwoof1969]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@deborahchasteen3206]

I've thought the same for decades, but the difference is that Americans wouldn't care. And I am American.

[@owenfitzgerald3219]

Really loudly. The horn doesn't have a volume control 😂

[@choicesman2000]

Like an episode of father ted

[@MEEEPMEEEPMEEEPMEEEP]

0:25 why does he randomly start to sound like john cleese especially because it kinda reads like it could be in the middle of a monty python sketch

[@silvasilvasilva]

I think it was meant as "generic English accent".

[@emmanuelboakye1124]

😂😂

[@DeeLee-p8c]

Dara is very very funny ❤😂😂😂😂😂

[@JosieWorsfold]

I've just watched a bunch of KZbin clips of another very famous UK comedian that does a lot of hosting, like Dara does. Dara is, hands down, funnier, smarter, less likely to recycle material, and generally more watchable.

[@MotivationExceeds]

Anyone else been confused by subtitles? (stole instead of stall)

[@thisravenhasflown010]

I wish I had the chance of this. Or knowing I was suffering with anxiety, instead that no... there really was enough room to fit two vehicles on the road. Would have made things much smoother. As it does now that I've driven a semi truck🤣

[@frankbrodie5168]

I was a natural at driving. Hell.. I'd been jailed for stealing the things years before I was legally licenced to drive them. So not me, but the funniest thing that I remember was giving one of the ladies who worked for us a quick lesson in our automatic van that we used to transport our severely disabled, wheelchair bound daughter around in. Because the staff would use the van as part of their job caring for our daughter. And said lady hadn't driven an automatic before. Every junction we came to for the first 15 minutes I was all "Nope.. We're not going back to the house until you arrive at a junction without bringing the vehicle to a crashing halt by walloping on the brake with your left foot.."

[@rd6203]

😂 This was me! Terrified everyone who rode passenger because they never knew when I was gonna revert. Haven't driven manual in nearly a decade and I still have random episodes

[@invisiblewizard2538]

I love how bored the call-to-action Dara is at the end-card.

[@Goatcha_M]

I keep hearing him say stolen the car when he says stalled the car. Accents improve the funny.

[@linebrunelle1004]

oh honey. come to the U.S., Gen Z doesn't even KNOW what manual transmission is... or how to use it.

[@daneenmurf1043]

Some say rhat operating an automatic isn't driving, its just steering :)

[@DoubleOSeven007]

@52s. Subconscious racism. Why is the white above the black and not the other way around?

[@jrd33]

He is talking about dividing actions into non-overlapping categories, not skin colour.

[@PoshMurder]

If I got to see Dara O'Briain before the world suddenly engulfs itself into a flaming ball of leftover beanie babies and Pokemon Cards, I would be very happy. Hope something is going on around end of August, is my birthday would be brill to have a laugh like this.

[@Marco-jq6qc]

that guy's been 18 for at least 10 years

[@Eyeyamknowwon]

Did you know that Dara is a great advocate for moleskin trousers? I love them myself and I firmly believe that wearing them protected me from Covid 19.

[@arm_613]

I prefer to just walk around carrying a mole.

[@daneenmurf1043]

'Strue tho. You never hear of a mole getting covid and they wear moleskin all over

[@fanta6789]

Meanwhile an American wondering what he is talking about???

[@13thAMG]

Fkn hilarious. Dara, you're the Irish Robin Williams (meant as a huge compliment).

[@georgesos]

How can you not laugh😂