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Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.
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[@jdmcnutt98]

That’s great, thanks for sharing. Reggie is the single most fantastic mockery of TED talks ever done, just like the “Public Radio” scenes in Parks and Rec are the greatest mockery of NPR known to mankind.

[@GameGeek9199]

He sounds like me trying to reach a word minimum on an essay.

[@fleskenialation]

Ben Knudson hahahaha

[@supravista]

bahahaha!

[@Cosporcos-Q]

Ben Knudson same

[@aeopmusic]

Word minimums in school ruin our ability to communicate concisely and effectively.

[@daniellekenehan852]

Ben Knudson I hate word/page minimums, in school and Uni, most of the time I always get all the information needed as clear as possible in half the necessary count.

[@4ManGood]

I forced a bot to watch 1,000 hours of ted talks, this is what it came up with

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

Lmao...

[@mathewblackman2794]

Bevis John - and you second. 😖

[@Poolie]

@@mathewblackman2794 And you third

[@markio23]

Forest Good comment of the year

[@heroesp100]

I second comment of the year

[@zorken123]

This man has given us the meaning of life. But we can't translate it yet.

[@mahalie23]

100%

[@erinblu8551]

Totally!

[@silenttuber5802]

Just as i understand i found this Guy ....never Saw him before.

[@sTeVe-vl3nh]

Exactly not, yes

[@askibabini1768]

42

[@itssherm9390]

nobody here knows what they just watched but we’re all in agreement that it’s incredible

[@Michael-nc3ib]

Because of his accent of course

[@silenttuber5802]

I know exactly what i was watching . And i understand everything . If you do ,you will Love it even more

[@gruese]

Glorious gibberish

[@3scrs334]

This is what dogs hear when you bark at them

[@br41nb0x7]

I knew it!

[@richhartnell6233]

Comment made me lol.

[@wirly-]

That is not a very direct assumption, but nevertheless it is a very important aspiration. People don't feel freely as if though they do not do the other without ever having to admit to the enevitable underlying victimisation of the truth. It is not contemporary to understand the very resemblance of psychology itself.

[@wirly-]

It was at 999 likes and then i made it a thousand

[@lisasommerlad1337]

@@wirly- woof.

[@KC-bb2bc]

This is like when you have a dream and someone in the dream says something really cool, so when you wake up you try to write it down word for word and it turns out to be something like "Spider Lighter Lumber Lloyd"

[@Ali-thechillerdude]

Lmao 😂

[@rayjoshi1252]

Haha True dat.

[@C00kii0]

xD

[@Felix_Effex]

it comes out like hattattatacabhabahcattatacobh

[@SuperLbptutorials]

That's very specific, did that happen to you?

[@officialtibby]

my guy sounds like someone put a bunch of ted talks into an AI and told it to write one

[@HalfLegitProductions]

I couldn’t agree more, the accumulation of knowledge this man has is amazing

[@goodsirbear-7579]

that's actually what they did why do you think his name is watts

[@Anon2150]

Yes!😂

[@hugheytheboi]

Funnily enough it's really difficult to get ChatGPT or Bingbot to produce absurd material like this. Bots of New York managed it somehow

[@masterlangtau]

And then 2023 came along...

[@13359610]

If you ever feel useless, remember that someone made subtitles for this

[@dansheffield4021]

WHERE??!! Transcription, please.

[@ShaunOfTheDodd]

@@dansheffield4021

[@sayunasoulmesseng839]

Lol!!

[@forgetmybelief]

ROFL amazing comment. Remember, it's not if you succeed that's important. It's that you tried your hardest.

[@13359610]

@@forgetmybelief Haha true.

[@johnwayne9906]

He literally roasts everyone who has ever done a TED talk while capturing the essence of the entire thing while speaking nonsense

[@Johndoe-gd4tb]

John Wayne Sam Hyde did it first , it doesn’t matter but if you haven’t seen it you need to see that

[@fancypenguins]

john doe Sam Hyde's talk was recorded in 2013, about a year after this one.

[@kahrdenas]

It's nonsense only for unprepared minds,

[@scarboroughstudio]

LOL, you've literally proven the OP's point. It's the ones who claim to be the most "woke" are always easily the most hypnotized and arrogant. I get a kick out of it.

[@JLWorks]

Speakers' reasons for speaking like that is nonsense. It's only snobby, uselessly pedantic, assholes that speak like that... and tech manuals

[@Professicchio]

Nothing better than a TED talk that completely takes the piss out of the whole 'TED talk' concept........

[@MrCarKite]

Well considering the E in TED stands for Entertainment I'm not really sure where you're going with this line of thought...?

[@DoctorORBiT]

+Synth You've been reported, enjoy you're warning, next time KZbin ban

[@DoctorORBiT]

***** Jeez, you must be 14 years old.

[@DoctorORBiT]

Alexander Poopslie Yeah, spoiling a movie is a real blessing...

[@alexanderpoopslie9129]

Doctor ORBiT first they came for my ability to spoil movies, and I said nothing

[@Zonday88]

He detailed on a podcast years later that this entire performance was improvised on the spot

[@JerryMetal]

that would be incredible

[@lukehughes6943]

The music, sure. There's absolutely no way he improvised the dialogue.

[@brylaw]

@@lukehughes6943 idk - I saw him do an entirely improvised hour two times recently. I wouldn't be surprised if this were too!

[@thewarrior195]

@@brylaw recently?! Where? I feel he got the Corden gig and stopped doing live stuff.

[@manmoth_1990]

@@lukehughes6943 Oh you bet he did. Every concert Reggie does is completely different. All the words, etc. His whole modus operandi is speaking and playing spontaneously without preparation.

[@snowghost1753]

This man just deconstructed language, musical tropes, and the experience of being conscious all in 10 minutes.

[@siriansight]

FAX. YES.

[@sunspung]

snow ghost ... And then he just left it like that! Just walked away, leaving this completely deconstructed messy piled-up heap behind him, and now nobody knows how to put it all back together again

[@martinmartin8940]

well said

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

and made it feel like 3 minutes

[@informant09]

Good job. You managed to understand the content.

[@godofspacetime333]

Actually saying nothing is a lot harder than you’d think.

[@mwilliamson4198]

Exactly. it requires a lot of genuine creativity

[@imorokr]

He's definitely not saying nothing though.

[@mariodwir]

But you can see the attached file is scanned image in PDF format you are you doing today my dudes see you in the left side of the time to say that I have a pool of the time to say that I have a nice day at work today and I don't know if you have any questions or concerns

[@lukea977]

nah, if trump can do it, most can. *runs away after dropping the Trump bomb into the youtube comment section*

[@stahllandon]

@@mariodwir feels like I have aphasia

[@larrylentini5688]

He would make a good politician

[@larrylentini5688]

*braces for replies taking my comment seriously*

[@joehenderson2194]

You are a potato

[@larrylentini5688]

Joe Henderson Thank you so much. I've aspired to be one all my life.

[@therealezio666]

It's basically already as coherent as a trump speech XD

[@dannyacdc1]

Lawrence Lentini

[@maxmordon7295]

A better title would be: From Hegel To Zizek: An Introduction To Postmodern Sublime Thinking Patterns (by Dr. Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts).

[@mahalie23]

yaaaas

[@shoWbitz]

Module no. 2: The Understanding and Partial Understanding of This Simulation and the Negative Space.

[@gruese]

@@shoWbitz Module no. 7: Music and Meaning - Getting an idea of what the idea that wants to be transmitted wants to be.

[@0228christian]

This is Reggie's masterpiece. All the pieces fit together so perfectly.

[@TrevorCurbo]

I also really liked his performance on Pop Tech

[@0228christian]

@@TrevorCurbo I forgot about that one! I just went and watched it again, it really is amazing.

[@gummyworld6606]

For those of you who don't understand this video: it's a coassimulation of a paradilactic conduction between the infinite space of an interchanging tide and an outer sun of a distant melodramatically kinetic moon.

[@nutmaster652]

Ohhhhhhhh!

[@digum04]

Amen!

[@Tsunamiis]

I see what you did there.

[@tabascopuffen2905]

WHat?

[@duffmcduffee]

I respectfully disagree. You see, what it really does is explore the etymology of epistemological dialectic, vis-a-vis the ontological non-entropic dualism of anti-relavistic audition.

[@vxel]

This is what it sounds like when you’re only kinda listening to something.

[@bloodmaged]

The most accurate comment

[@xblizbroke]

It's worse when you're only kinda listening to it

[@jessekiirya]

LITERALLY

[@lucasryan2692]

I was just doing that and realised i had no idea what was going om halfway through

[@skel2333]

spot on!

[@DaNewWrksOfMeh]

I feel like I actually know what he's talking about. It's like nonsense that makes sense because of the nonsense I've already experienced

[@Jabbeorn]

This comment is somehow one of the most amazing things I've read. Idk why , but thank you. If i ever write a story this statement gonna be in it.

[@RaoniLima43]

This is not called talent, he is simply in a completely different plane, light years ahead than the rest of us. We're privileged to witness him performing for us, mere mortals.

[@christianpage8143]

What sounds like a compliment also sounds slightly like an insult lol

[@pyreta]

Agree. This is a masterpiece. We are lucky to be able to witness such an incredible level of talent

[@bakerygoblin6895]

"A genius is just a crazy person with an audience" Tim Minchin

[@lionelcarnel9642]

what is really a crazy man ? He know that the earth is not a sphere , he talks about truth in deep smile and everybody s laughing without understanding that's so big... sorry about my bad spell i m a french guy.....

[@Someone-ig7we]

@@lionelcarnel9642 Your spelling was great! Just conjugation is a bit off, but it's understandable! :D I bet nobody can even understand my french haha.

[@mikhahl]

Crazy Biscuit. Oh, I would like to see Tim meet Reggie. Maybe he would make a remix of "The Good Book" Edit: My dear god they did meet kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIvOmYlrftiXqqM

[@mwilliamson4198]

Plus some epic musical talent...

[@cbwavy]

Kanye

[@lokevoice]

The French he was speaking at the start was utter jibberish as well. This guy is brilliant I love him

[@lucaswhitfield718]

But, sometimes we can see, because the people here did things, we can eat. But when you're angry with someone...

[@t77snapshot]

@@lucaswhitfield718 Exactly.

[@k9sway]

So was the english

[@Casperdghost618]

@@lucaswhitfield718 the most important thing is not to realise what you are unaware of, but to find out you already know it in every sense of reality

[@baimbridgevoret2309]

No it wasn't. Can't say whether the Portuguese was gibberish but the French was French.

[@sceki2286]

Reggie: Gives a passionate and emotional speach about space time continuum and the fact we live inside a simulation Audience: Laughs to hide the pain

[@pineapplethief4418]

Laugh is just molecules of your body moving according to already preestablished pattern, or one of thereof, as in, a family of patterns, a preconceived notion, glimmering emotion searing in your brain, YEAH, YEAH, ARE YOU FEELING IT ARE YOU FEELING IT THE MOLECULES OF AIR IN YOUR LUNGS AND YOUR TRACHEA, MOVING BACK AND FORTH AND BACK AND FORTH MUTHAFAKKAS

[@tysonatkins2236]

Or because they're still asleep because of anti-conspiracy theory propaganda that teaches people that it's wrong to do your own research.

[@merlijnbell8747]

@@tysonatkins2236 This got real

[@MattLagomarsino]

shorty just got reggied

[@innapinch7112]

"there is no passage of time, other than the sensation of the collapsation of the memories we are living in". I had to pause to mull that one over. It's really good.

[@moe42o]

Just now did the same as you!

[@lilyhutchins9896]

kinda makes sense

[@PeacefulPeteable]

@@lilyhutchins9896 Makes perfect sense

[@UnionJackandsally]

"the mirror of the memories" this is important, as the universe exists in the center of a dual wave form that is infinitely repeated

[@mastod0n1]

It's literally word salad nonsense meant to parody faux intellectuals

[@dawniebug784]

He's not giving you time to comprehend and is not allowing himself to be predictable. The topic isn't comedy; *it's the present.*

[@santiagogutierrez1594]

:o

[@xxportalxx.]

It sounds like being high to me lol

[@JohnSmith-be2ny]

@@xxportalxx. not much of a difference, but with drugs people tend to cling to their egos, making for bad times

[@rootz420]

Wow. Comment of the year.

[@briantrowbridge8134]

You are a saint for pointing this out. Super cool method

[@chefawkes]

When you need to increase your essay word count.

[@fishermanWyatt-qg6tw]

True af

[@iansin7722]

+Morgan Freeman LOL MORGAN

[@eng.ahmedamir7606]

+Morgan Freeman I'm imagining morgan freaman saying this irl

[@lolzzgast]

+chefawkes Know what I'm sayin?

[@courtneyharris1006]

absolutely

[@Shadowrunner123]

I mean, I get it. I'm stoned past pluto, but I *totally* get it. It's Discordian.

[@fakename503]

I beg to differ. I believe it is Accordian.

[@snidebastard9353]

4:25 the one audience member who gets it

[@mphomasuku754]

HAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

[@snidebastard9353]

@@silverfritzreah5598 The guy behind his left hand

[@jaredcarter1165]

He completely understands the nature of what voice sounds like, not actual communication or necessarily song. It's like he's doing an impression of all human noise, but not an impersonation, capturing just the essence without the details. Frickin brilliant

[@God-mb8wi]

It's satire

[@loudcloud6889]

is this you attempting to capture the essence of his sentences

[@selos187]

Nothing is just satire with reggie

[@bitwize]

(in fake English accent) For Watts, the intrinsic nature of the voice is not to communicate something, but rather, to communicate the sense that something has been communicated.

[@justincase6542]

Tbh. This is how I hear everything. Even music.

[@j.r.w7636]

Imagine quarantining with this guy..... like having a new room mate every 30-35 seconds.

[@ghxstyboi8858]

Sounds like me lmao

[@canadianroot]

Imagine not quarantining because you can think for yourself.

[@legenieuh]

That's me! 😂

[@vrldf8181]

Or you can have a Roommate with D.I.D (Google it).

[@tomasviane3844]

👉😳👈 ☝

[@myriadpath]

The way he mocks them to their faces and it's like, not even disrespectful? I love this performance so much

[@don8lifemom]

I went to high school with Reggie, we graduated together. He was hilarious and so talented back then and has just kept on developing his talent! A friend and I went to his house once to see him about something and I met his Mom. I had taken 4 years of French at that time, she spoke French to me and I froze. I could not even think about what she was saying! Obviously those 4 years didn't prepare me for people who actually spoke French!

[@bernardq]

😂 bro natives are crazy

[@premium-_-salt392]

10 min where someone has the opportunity to be absolutely insane in front of an audience without being committed to an asylum.

[@hi_speed_chase]

Talent × crazy = talent

[@bbates9235]

Perception of everything is key to the underlying situation of the current present in retrospect to the right here and now. Day he go Into that rif of the opposite identicals will that be known all that is to be the epitome of the day before tomorrow.

[@xxportalxx.]

Me getting out of the shower lmfao

[@ferencszilvasi2574]

If that's what it was, I think he nailed it.

[@wirly-]

@@bbates9235 that is without a doubt.

[@NastyCrimeBoy]

*Clicks on CC* (Non English) "Wonderful"

[@sirsupesafro7637]

*Smashing

[@UpDownAndUnder]

*Riveting

[@blu_shifted]

*supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[@Asian_Import]

*yeetful

[@trethevillain]

Asian Import 😂😂😂😂

[@virtual_balboa]

I love the blank looks on many of the audience member's faces. Like they hadn't heard of him, went in thinking they would be inspired, but instead feel mocked and confused.

[@DR-420-69]

I was an activity coordinator for an old folks home and I showed this to my group. They loved it

[@hotskull565]

When you didn't write your speech and you had to improvise on spot

[@brighton8002]

Welcome to Reggie

[@birdie2282]

its damn good improvisation

[@bravo9894]

When he said “Non-English” I felt that.

[@jordanreger]

One Zero One lol

[@samfur2165]

Only second to [gibberish]

[@samm4048]

I come back by and watch this every once in a while to reset my brain.

[@IamAJoe]

The first song he preforms lives in my head and I have to come to this video whenever I think about it to cleanse my mind.

[@mylegGuy]

this is literally what morning class sounds like

[@oggyreidmore]

I sing this daily in the shower. Funny thing is, I was singing it long before I ever heard of Reggie Watts. I guess the future really is the collapsation of time in the mirror of our memories.

[@Destro7000]

+oggyreidmore this is arbitrarily sound reasoning in the reverse way. While undulating.

[@oggyreidmore]

Destro7000 Indubitably.

[@Destro7000]

:D

[@marcussegura395]

What were u singing

[@oggyreidmore]

Marcus Segura The song in the video.

[@mlouise17]

This guy keeps pressing the middle suggested word when you typing a text

[@SeventhShadow27]

Mikaela C is the best medicine for you but I never heard of many people are getting kinda boring and my bed is the best medicine for you but I never heard of many people died in the straightest to communicate with a complicated process and my bed is the best medicine for you but I never heard of many people died in the straightest to communicate with each of these two are the only pic or not funny how 6th the same thing as in a complicated process and my bed is the best medicine for you but I never heard of many people died in the straightest to communicate and interact in a complicated process and my Imma stop there cuz it'll just keep repeating

[@jorkles4691]

Pock3tkn1fe 23 was the time to start my day with a good day and then I had to get to work today so I’ll probably get my car done before and I can see what I might do I have a couple more days off and I can get it to one of us to get to the shop tomorrow and I can do a couple things and get back home and then go pick it out I don’t want you guys tomorrow I’ll probably get it bye for you bye

[@Korey47]

Mikaela C hhahhahahaa

[@Korey47]

Mikaela C was a great night out there I was gonna I wanna is a time for y’all and me I wanna meet you at lunch I wanna is a time for me please let us get there and get back with the truck I’ll be back at my office and I can drive you to get gas money for y’all I gotta get a good night and I get some stuff to come pick you wanna I gotta get to you get ready for a ride and I’ll get it you know how to do this is the best thing I can have done for ya I wanna was a time for ya to be here for y’all I wanna ya got to go back and to go get back with the truck I’ll let y’all go back and I’ll let y’all go

[@johnnelsestuen5793]

Yea, and i am pushing the game of happy to be a mil and i 6th to them pedophiles and i am pushing it is so stupid to them pedophiles and i am pushing it is so hard drive us in the middle of the world trade center in danger of the head in a restricted free agent to them pedophiles and i am pushing it is so stupid to, (please ignore all of the pedophiles in there, i wrote a response to a vide that was about pedophiles.)

[@tensecondsplit5471]

I can't imagine totally jamming out while looking around into a sea of lifeless bodies just staring at you with dead eyes

[@notbrianbradley]

Yeah the lifeless, dead eyed bodies smiling, clapping, and laughing.

[@Peter-du7gt]

He's so refreshingly new and fascinating, I think people are genuinely too stunned to react.

[@geoffreylogsdon162]

They do give him a standing ovation. l think they were being respectful, which is what he deserved.

[@TerribleTom113]

That's why no one will remember your name.

[@tensecondsplit5471]

​@@TerribleTom113 good one Mr Jilliumz 🤓🤓

[@vickielawson3114]

His spontaneous word-salad is fascinating and brilliant and so entertaining! I love him!

[@AwPheebs]

This is just like one big Jaden Smith tweet

[@Dong_Harvey]

AwPheebs adn yte ist gamrmatcially crroect

[@fizzyraygun3870]

Dong Harvey Your sentence was actually completely grammatically correct. You internet people need to learn the difference between spelling and grammar.

[@billsplease]

FizzyRaygun Punctuation? Capitalization?

[@MattPetropoulos]

AwPheebs I Am Me But Am I You?

[@bryanasare1632]

FizzyRaygun he had no period.

[@Rowlandi11]

Not much of what he said meant anything, and I get that was the point, but when he said "Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on, rather an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin" it blew my mind a little.

[@Dude31463]

What exactly are you trying to say?

[@DaveYognaut]

***** That.... that's why.... "Discworld".... *mind blown*.

[@mickblock]

He's really good at "stream of consciousness" expression. He has to pull from his own subconscious thoughts, so sometimes what comes out relates to your own subconscious thoughts. And he seems fine with letting those moments happen by accident or not at all. I don't know, it's interesting to watch him go!

[@DaveYognaut]

Michael Block I can't tell if you're being serious, or if you pulled this information out of _your_ "subconscious"

[@justinsburns2532]

Another alias with the name "Uzumaki" one in the same if he is being himseof

[@Rick-Sanchez-C-137]

3:38 Man this is straight fire. 🔥😃

[@jacobsstories8093]

Dude I keep coming back for that song, he kills it on both pitch, tempo and his beats. Looped beautifully. This probably my favourite TED Talk to date

[@mattglover560]

The audio equivalent of "name one thing in this picture"

[@jimmykit-kat3424]

Omg yes

[@cooljazzmat]

Big up for the translaters doing their best with the subtitles...

[@mikebarnes7441]

It's automated

[@aouissi]

it says "sprachgewirr" in german.. literally meaning language-tangle haha

[@accuser_of_the_brethren7816]

I wonder how the sign language translator did to the side of the stage 🤣

[@Waldohasaskit210]

(Gibberish)

[@mouseMan12321]

I can listen to Reggie forever, in a finite type of way.

[@joshuanielson1430]

A finite yet partially infinite kind of way.

[@leonardyoung1119]

the way he starts out with languages, moves to music, then goes back to English (as a language, and touches on physics + science!)! *beautiful*

[@Crossneen]

Fully convinced Reggie Watts is a glitch in the matrix

[@faticaj]

Aaron Thompson you have no clue how right you are 😂

[@ericoliver1603]

a glorious one at that

[@Madison-bw7rn]

Guy: "Tomorrows another day." Audience: *LAUGHTER*

[@marshawn_ing]

Reggie: "My closest family members are being held hostage." Audience: **dies of laughter**

[@TheDopeyElephant]

Reggie: "Dont be afraid, this is a stick-up" **shoots 16 people on the crowd** Audience: **Flops to the ground from laughing**

[@JeguePerneta]

Reggie: Bazzinga Crowd: EXPLODES

[@RonWolfHowl]

They were laughing because he set it up by saying he was going to present the findings of a research study and then said "tomorrow is another day".

[@anthonyorosco1850]

EdgeLord I thought that you were making up a scenario because the audience laughs at everything he says for no reason but no, he legit said that, and the audience legit laughed. They didn't even know what they were laughing at

[@mitchwhitener2885]

I met him and got to hang for like a half hour like 7 years ago. Such an awesome kind person!! And INSANELY talented!!!

[@petra07]

This literally made me tear up. Didn't know you could tear up out of sheer awe. Thank you.

[@zeeavi6280]

I just left this comment on another video. I also didn’t know it was possible to cry to from awe. That’s an amazing feeling.

[@hawesg]

Am I wrong, or did he just spend 10 minutes at a TED conference basically demonstrating that TED conferences are an indecipherable mass of jargon and gobbledygook? Well done, sir.

[@keithhanley7796]

Yes. Yes, he did.

[@rallokkcaz]

G Hawes and he did it in style.

[@TheOrangeFlash]

That is some top-class trolling! Take the piss out of the whole TED Talk concept, get paid for it, plus get a standing ovation from the audience!

[@legendaryzodiac574]

THiS HAD LAYERS...

[@cliffsousa4184]

Absurdity at its finest.

[@ChucksDream]

As a Englishman that is one of the best english accents ive ever heard from an American

[@linuspauling9290]

Sounds like he's channeling Christopher Hitchens.

[@DiscClub6]

He is British

[@linuspauling9290]

Reggie Watts is not British. Reggie lived in Germany and his mother is French, which probably explains why his French and German accents are pretty good too.

[@Firewalkerbg]

Uhm, he's German, actually.

[@TheSanchezGaming]

@@Firewalkerbg He has lived more than 30 years in the US, since he was a teen. He's American.

[@EMMaywald]

Still coming back to this after all these years ❤

[@AlEbnereza]

This is how you professionally troll a crowd full of self importance and pseudo intellectuals.

[@sayunasoulmesseng839]

Lol

[@AgeDrain]

It’s called a parody

[@liminalb1rds158]

True

[@mrjelly0077]

This guy is the best at what he does. No question. Now what is it that he does?

[@Johndoe-gd4tb]

Sulfuric Gamers just a human that’s humaning

[@travisbrown5184]

He is a comedian that does “stream of consciousness”

[@edstirling]

i'm sure there's another ted talk analyzing this performance to death.

[@koza7676]

Entertain.

[@aduhaneh1057]

he plays band for late late show with james corden

[@Labrynthetic]

2:43 He says, "And I'm trolling you." Lol

[@Korey47]

Zu hahahahhahaaha!!!!!!

[@jasminehouston-burns1691]

Thanks for pointing that out!

[@nuetral1zm]

This needs more thumbs up haha

[@DaughtersofOrion]

Zu omg I didn’t hear that the first time 🤣

[@jamiedutton7257]

he said liverpool at some point too so cool

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

Reggie Watts literally speaking an Old Spice commercial: "We're here, look over there, where are we? we're riding on a bike, watch out, here comes a boat... what's over there? ... I'm on a horse...." _wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-whis-tle!_

[@theonlygriffin]

This is undoubtedly one of the talks that will go down in history, of a time when there were real conversations of experiences and gestures within a musical context.

[@Roxanneredpanda]

Better title: Reggie Watts roasts Ted Talks

[@mefca86]

That's exactly what I was thinking. He's just making fun of the whole genre of TED talks.

[@beirch]

@@mefca86 He's not. All of his performances are like this, it's his thing. He's literally just being random, saying random things, and all his musical improvs are the same way.

[@henryvanderwater6974]

@@beirch it nonetheless parodies ted talks perfectly.

[@dksemple]

But in a completely enjoyable way. It's not mean spirited, its tons of fun!

[@mwilliamson4198]

@@dksemple Exactly!

[@peoplemcnuggetz]

So, I don't know what was going on here, but I know how I'll be writing essays from now on.

[@8bitkyle200]

lmfAooooooo

[@aidan_bonner]

Easily one of my all time favorite Ted Talks. Feels like the first time I've really connected with one of these.

[@tamarafields5703]

That was just wonderfully stress-relieving! He is so talented and very creative. Such high vibrational energy lifting our heavy heart and minds. Soul talk!!!

[@hazeee1351]

Love him or hate him he IS spitting straight facts

[@burntchickennugget8142]

Hahahaha God damn it

[@jrhull3]

Are... Are you sure?

[@Isaidit247]

HaZeee no he’s not he just has a microphone

[@cliffsousa4184]

@@jrhull3 Yes. The complexities of his jargon is space-time conundrum shattering and has a tinge of absurdity which can fill your brain with kantian voxtexes utilized by aliens.

[@BEEFBRSKT]

its completely improvised....mental.

[@theitalianwarlord2954]

"Um it's a song about people...and Sasquatchs."

[@KC-bb2bc]

"and other French science, French science stuff, you know."

[@MrTehAlex]

That's French science.

[@ncedwards1234]

Not fringe science?

[@checopodgorny1996]

yeah he said fringe science lol

[@absurdistcat]

Fringe science - "study which departs significantly from mainstream theories." In other words, he was making fun of TED, and this line was a direct stab. lmao I love him.

[@k.v.2049]

i come back to this every few years and it never stops being amazing

[@EricAustinYun]

This man exudes more talent than every Got Talent show in existence...combined...I'm not entirely sure that the people witnessing this are aware of how fortunate they are

[@butters5373]

Absolutely no clue what was happening but brilliant

[@austinfull8941]

There's nothing to understand. that's the point, to not make sense at all.

[@Matt-tr3si]

He’s trolling. Using big words and sounding scientific because most ppl on ted talks are smart ppl

[@bvdek]

+Matt Serna he's being ironically superfluous ;)

[@Dread987]

Did he just summarize "TED talks" ? Yes, he did.

[@sayunasoulmesseng839]

Haha

[@PS-qn4oz]

It's not so much as so little to do with what is.

[@ohorguN]

Its been years since i watch this.. but watching it again in 2020.. i just crack up once again.. He truly is a genius...!

[@robertpavey5615]

That Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeller (the green device) is a classic effects pedal and he uses it so well.

[@CryingShayme]

Reggie: I can't think of anything profound to say. Reggie: Great, let's lean into that

[@leonhathway8096]

Me: I’m going to have an early night tonight My brain at 3am: 8:32

[@Sammie1053]

This may be my favorite comment on anything ever

[@roejogan4374]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sublinimalmessage7958]

Blaue hahah adhd

[@Baconpillin]

I have never related so much to a comment.

[@annataanakim7242]

yes hahahahaha

[@RobertEnterprises]

I believe everyone's reaction to the video is perfectly represented by the repeating word beginning from 8:55, and yet, just like the musical interpretation with which Sir Reggie Watts from the hood blessed us with, it was an utmost joyous and momentous occasion of pure brilliance in the ability to teach us something, while not saying anything cognitive throughout.

[@stevenfranks3131]

"It's a song about people...And sasquatches...." 😀

[@Dutchyman]

How someone can say so much, but say absolutely nothing at the same time, BUT at that same time everything. This guy found a paradox to a paradox in communication. The only thing that actually had context was the music. Even though he didn't say anything meaningful in the lyrics of the songs, they still bring across a message or a feeling. AKA: Music is a way to express yourself outside the boundaries of the human language. This is just my theory, but I think this is the reason why music inspires him so much. Music has a way stronger force of communication than our common sorts of communcation. But for me this means one thing: non-verbal communication is key to our world culture. It has a way bigger impact than most people think. We only have a limited amount books with limited amount of words that most people think is our base of communication. It's not about what you say with the context of the words. It's way more than that: Emotion, Voice pitch, Shape of your body, Your body language, tears, clothes, who your friends are, who your parents are, what care you drive and so on...

[@PepperoniGaming]

It really shows how a nonsensical system of orientation can override what would once be brought about by anyone else's sense of organization. When combined with the realization that however he moves his comparisons within the textures will, almost every time, convey a recurring show of speed-based broadcasting.

[@masterm95]

I know that I don't know what he knows, and that he doesn't know what I know but what I do know is that I know what he knows and he knows what I know although what he knows is not what I know and what I know is not what he knows, but we both know that what we know is known, thus knowing is knowing and not knowing, that's how you know what you know, and everyone knows. And to tell the truth, I don't know.

[@kevinmoehring8259]

tl;dr masterm95 doesnt know.

[@Dutchyman]

But humanity remains to exist in this world of love and hate, even though our society keeps struggling with oppression of everything that remains to be as if there is nothing that really matters. So our lives are all part of special that will keep us around till the end of time even though its ordinary.

[@kevinmoehring8259]

deeper into the unfathomable fathoms of depth to dive deep into the depths of what we fathom to deeply dive into our souls in depth.

[@mcpenetwork]

this man just turned on predictive text in his head

[@bennettnez4711]

I get to see him live every year. He always comes back to Great Falls around Christmas and does a show here in missoula. It is literally this good every time, and never once has anything repeated year to year. Mind blowing.

[@kennyrama]

This man was jamming his heart out to some genuis stuff and no one in the crowd was moving

[@stratikeo]

I feel sorry for the guy who had to make closed captions for this. LOL

[@fuerteventura8554]

+stratikeo machine-generated automatic captions

[@rickyanderson7949]

+MalkolmMuharem no, it's not automatic caption.

[@blurryface1084]

+stratikeo "non english"

[@theID2]

+stratikeo point well taken!

[@EmergencyTemporalShift]

+stratikeo had to turn them on after I read that.

[@John-ss6tb]

He makes a good point, you know.

[@Cosporcos-Q]

Holy Bageebus he makes a lot of good points

[@Xx-ru3ng]

Its amazing the relevance of his statements. In this day. In this time. We are.

[@mikesmollin8908]

"We must remember that music is only the division of space. It is the space we are listening to, divided as such, that gives us the information in comparison to something to something other. That gives us the idea of what the idea that wants to be transmitted wants to be." -Reggie Watts That really need to be the new definition of music in the dictionary, who is with me?

[@lilpisces7467]

I'm on shrroms and everything he says makes so much sense

[@jjjd12346]

@Bleed The Machines shut up nerd

[@xxaidanxxsniperz6404]

@Bleed The Machines shrooms are for geniuses. Degenerates do fucking heroin

[@zhou_sei]

@@xxaidanxxsniperz6404 coke*

[@thenoobinater123]

It would’ve been considerate of you to translate for your fellow man

[@conservat1vepatr1ot]

Bleed The Machines And you may be a moron with many more go rounds before?

[@mrmasrawy92]

Made me realize that good music really has nothing to do with meaning of lyrics

[@michaeldaigle7207]

Oh dude, just wait and keep listening to bunches of different music. There are so many different ways to appreciate sound

[@zhou_sei]

and here i just started listening to lyrics after 30 years of ignoring them

[@michaeldaigle7207]

@@zhou_sei it's a good mix between what the lyrics say and what the music means man. Not everyone gets it and that's ok. Everyone listens to music in their own way.

[@kathleen123]

I heard that Kurt Cobain didn’t care about how the song sounded, he just cared about the lyrics... it goes both ways?

[@michaeldaigle7207]

@@kathleen123 Cobain almost always wrote lyrics last. It's hard to say for sure what the man cared about though, he left us too soon. R.I.P. In my opinion, music is enjoyed in many different ways. There isn't an objectively "good" way to appreciate music. I think that the artists that create the music we enjoy have their own reasons for, and ways to create said music, and everyone who listens interpretes it differently. Music is beautiful in all forms, you just have to be willing to truly listen for yourself. I can appreciate one form of music over another, but the one I consider to be less pleasing to me doesn't become intrinsically "bad" because of my opinion. I can still appreciate it as music in and of itself.

[@roberteli]

This man is a genius! one if the most insightful Ted talk I ever seen :)

[@JohnnieJohnJr]

Legendary. Absolute amazingness. Wants to be transmitted wants to be. That speech was actual fire

[@CloudMechanic]

His hair is an extension of his being...

[@Jack97798]

Arobene7494 each strand is an antenna that receives ideas and energy from the cosmos.

[@CloudMechanic]

Jack97798 oh lord it's so true

[@boyo7918]

His being is an extension of his hair

[@BindMedia]

yep that how hair works, Poindexter

[@Ben-rz9cf]

I was at a showing of at midnight and he either cut it or put it in a ponytail but it was disappointing he lost his fro

[@alteo8588]

My Dad: *Enters the room* "What are you watching?" Me: "I don't know." My Dad: "What do you mean you don't know?" Me: "Come look..." My Dad: *Watches the video* Me: "Can you explain to me what that was?" My Dad: "Nope."

[@xxm0abxx5]

Realty: dad beats him

[@zarakikon6352]

LMAO.

[@painlessirl2888]

Are ya winning son

[@arqamislam3877]

painlessIRL didja beat the fortnites?

[@jenniferpiper4293]

Yes exactly! What to call this genius indeed?

[@the2008hambone]

I’ve watched this 3 times in a row and I still love it! He is great!

[@blawruk]

8:43 - literally everyone straight-faced. That crowd is not ready for Reggie's type of performance. 😄😄

[@linnycrocus6023]

He's way too talented to be James Corden's sidekick. He deserves so much more wow

[@padkirsch]

🤮😢🤯😍

[@ibnorator8149]

Greetings Beautiful souls! (forgive me abit i know I am not exactly what you may have come here for ..) but my name is Ibn Orator...I am an Avant-Garde, introspective & Political Hip Hop Artist from New Haven CT. I've recently released a project titled "The Fishbowl Syndrome" that is centered around the topic of our mental health and art; how they intertwine in experience or how they are sometimes viewed here in America;to which my first debut music video "The Horse on a Trampoline" works showcase on the spectrum of my own experiences with it, that i feel fans alike of FKA twigs, Janelle Monae , EarthGang, Flying lotus, Childish Gambino or those of Bjork, Logic , Lupe Fiasco, & Reggie watts may resonate with...id like to share this with you by giving a warm welcome to my Channel to not only, like and subscribe but to comment with genuine feedback. (Please leave a comment there underneath the video and not here) as i would like for my listeners to feel welcomed to give more in thought than in clout and start a conversation which is what my subject matter is based on ..."Commentary on our shared world".In hopes that this may be fruitful to you i look forward to your response The Horse on a Trampoline Official Music Video kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaDPZHepjM2tpqM All the best Ibn Orator P.S. Im aware that for some us, if not all, are having a hard time this year..so id like to say that i love you very much, if you haven't heard it from anyone, and that things are about to change as they always do, for better or worse….#godspeed..

[@c.mccool1123]

Money talks

[@bolingorastafari69]

This guy is an absolute GENIUS. I love his music.

[@sauce4335]

pretty stable pay tho

[@MegaMellojello]

Leave it to Reggie Watts to Make fun of TED on TED.

[@dose999]

Robert Wharry yes he's an absurd genius. He's a social anarchist.

[@mattlevinson1607]

He isn't making fun of TED at all.

[@ZBritt92]

He's using pretentious language to say nothing/nonsense. I like Ted Talks, but the amount of pretension and nonsense is pretty grating sometimes.

[@pinchofpsy]

From time to time I come back to this video and life makes sense again!