Rich Hall on Americans and Guns | Live at the Apollo | BBC Comedy Greats

[@davegoldspink5354]

😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 This fella always cracks me up and always does it so straight faced.

[@jigoge]

real life moe syzlack

[@bubblezovlove7213]

He is actually isnt he....

[@georgiabaieanderson1766]

​@@bubblezovlove7213mo's character is based on him

[@MISTERB1989]

Ain't it the truth?

[@cameronoquinn94]

All these hate comments... You do understand he's joking right? A comedian... Who's the more foolish, the fool? Or the man who argues with the fool? Many Comedians strike up controversial topics because it gets attention. Like if I walked into Christian Church making jokes about God, people are gonna get riled up. Then you have another percentage of people who realize it's just a joke.

[@cameronoquinn94]

Like if I said, he's right we should ban all the guns. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it. You all would be PISSED! these guys are professional trolls! They get paid to piss you off.

[@cameronoquinn94]

@I B33 I'm not disputing that you'd be "strung up" as you put it for making jokes in a mosque or have an angry mob of leftists waiting at your doorstep. But if we're going to prod then we can't get let this ruffle our jimmies, we have to lead by example. He can crack on us, and we should be able to crack on them. You or I may not find everything he says funny. And your entitled to that opinion. I respect you for it. But it's just comedy.

[@michaeldevaney5728]

Extremely talented amazing talented

[@KidCorporate]

Alright, Olivuer Pantsdpown! I wanna Olivuer Pantsdown right now!

[@alfatazer_8991]

As Rich Hall once said "Americans have the ability to laugh but don't have a sense of humor"

[@51Saffron]

That's his opinion, but most people I know have a great sense of humor.

[@LawlessNate]

Most comedy films are made... Where is it? I don't remember.

[@zackamig4446]

He sounds like the kind of guy that would smell his own farts

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Humour* Can't spell either.

[@thirdstreettito]

200 magazine clip? Im sorry, what?

[@MrMike8789]

@Captain Insano Shows no mercy This guys, is why it's called..................A............JOKE! You say something over the top to make the point and because of the ridiculousness of it, thats what makes it a joke.

[@MrMike8789]

@Captain Insano Shows no mercy Ok. I can go with that one. I suppose if its something that actually deifies logic and reason, fair enough. I assumed it was at least half possible and he over exaggerated for comedic effect.

[@JoabeBarbosa]

Patriotic Americans here trying to be intelligent. Us Brits would just laugh if it was talking about us! hahaha

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Pfft fuck being patriotic. Dumb ideas are just dumb.

[@RichSouthby]

Americans have the right to buy guns. Brits have the right to call them stupid, paranoid, insecure idiots for doing so. Any questions? This from a Brit, who doesn't need any weapons to feel safe enough to walk down any street in London.

[@bcaffrey98]

You stand a higher risk of being mugged in London than in New York City today.

[@JohnS1704]

Bill C utter nonsense and a higher chance of your kid being caught in a massacre during reading class at school in Amurika. Take your pick.

[@carlw3352]

+Bill C That's because he doesn't live in New York City

[@jasewrangler1980]

+JohnS1704 It's true. Look at the statistics. And have you forgotten about Dunblane? The Brits did it first.

[@Anon54387]

+Rich Southby If you feel safe walking in London while unarmed, you are in denial. And owning guns doesn't make someone insecure. I have a question? Why is it the FREEDOM to own guns make you think we are insecure? By that line of "reasoning", so were the American founding fathers insecure. One (owning guns) doesn't have a thing to do with the other (being insecure). How about the insecure people I know who don't own guns?

[@setstocksasha]

The first Amendment was written over 200yrs ago;but, they never thought of the internet, 1000channel cable tv,smartphone,twitter. HAHAHA!

[@vash241987]

200 magazine clip smh

[@disabledbiscuit1351]

vash241987 Its actually 26 belt-fed drums. They can fire over 50 reloads per FPS.

[@madman2u]

He may have the wrong terminology, but it's still a valid point. IMO further regulations are needed. The second amendment is heavily outdated.

[@jsquared1013]

madman2u is the first amendment outdated because the internet didn't exist when it was written? 🙄 The second amendment exists so that the populace can be armed as a counterweight to government tyranny. It allowed citizens to have arms of the same type (and better in some cases) as those commonly in use by the military. This is knowable because the *people who wrote it in the first place* said so in subsequent writings, of which there are plenty.

[@Sandermand1970]

Nuts.

[@MeanBeanKerosene]

@@jsquared1013 Yes because an 5.56mm will stop a 150mm Rheinmetall mounted on a 50 ton tank.

[@scorpiudr7102]

What's a 200 magazine clip???

[@Ally.Cat.252]

200 round magazine

[@scorpiudr7102]

+gundam116 a clip and a magazine is not the same thing lol

[@Eustace.h.plimsoll6625]

Scorpiud R I don’t think he is a gun enthusiast is he.

[@thefourthpercent3762]

200 magazine clip. Hold up, I don't think that is correct.

[@iancraig6070]

It's called humour

[@iroquoisplissken3583]

Ya second amendment was for muskets, that way the government can steam roll any rabble rousers

[@dustinprewitt]

they didnt do a very good job of steamrolling on 01-06-21....

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

@@dustinprewitt So why ain't Trump President?

[@dustinprewitt]

@@KitchenSinkSoup because he's an incompetent crybaby and a failure. What's your excuse?

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

@@dustinprewitt That and the fact that the US military would have crushed a more widespread coup attempt by Trump Evangelists, no matter how many guns they had on hand.

[@dustinprewitt]

@@KitchenSinkSoup not that its going to stop them from trying, or believing otherwise.

[@skvakagud]

2nd am = to protect ur self from the government... US citizens = "It's to protect my family"... IT'S NOT THE FRIGGING SAME!

[@emkaes7625]

That is the stand your ground law if I'm not mistaken

[@iancraig6070]

It's called humour,plus it's the 21st century.

[@SgtSayWhat]

I'm not for guns but I support the view of the American people who want to keep the Gun. The second amendment says the population can own guns to protect them from tyranny. If anyone tried to pass a law that vetoed the second amendment than that is basically starting what the second amendment was designed to stop. But that being said I think I prefer the laws we have in the UK.

[@vg2368]

You sit on that fence.

[@bcaffrey98]

And while you sit on your fence consider this -- in the last 4 years we've set record sales of firearms. Estimates put the number of privately owned firearms now around 310 million - about 1 per every citizen in the nation. Yet, simultaneously, our crime rate has been dropping. Murder is down over 50% since 1993 and violent crime is down about 42%. If guns were really the problem we should be seeing a modern version of the O.K. Corral twice a week. But we aren't. In California, residents set a new record by purchasing over 900,000 firearms in 2014, yet our crime rate is also down the last 4 years.

[@bcaffrey98]

Vik Graves -- Riiight. You think the NRA is so powerful that it's manipulating the FBI Uniform Crime report from inside the FBI. What bovine droppings. Our murder rate in 1980 was 10.0 per 100,000 during the height of the cocaine drug wars. That dropped to 9.5 by 1993 (not much of an improvement). But from 1993 onwards it has declined significantly, reaching 4.3 per 100,000 in 2010. As a comparison, that's lower than in 1964, before gun control, before the race riot in LA/Watts and well before the "summer of love" in 1968 with it's protests/riots over Vietnam. And yes, let's have pity for "the children". No, let's get angry that politicians have put armed guards around themselves and around money, but seem to think a mere sign will protect our children. Our children die in "gun free" zones. So do adults. The Aurora "Batman" movie theater killer selected a theater miles away from his apartment - the only one that banned legally carried guns. Shopping mall killers select malls that ban guns to avoid resistance. Gun free zones are only gun free until a killer walks in with his gun knowing no one can oppose him.

[@vg2368]

Bill C Yes I do. If you don't, I suggest you do some research into the links between the NRA and the US Government. The fact that you don't know this is quite shocking. Come back when you are better informed.

[@bcaffrey98]

Vik Graves Provide a legitimate source or go away.

[@PrivateAckbar]

I used to think i despised political comedy. But i love Team America, everything political in the first 8 seasons of the Simpsons, Chapelle etc. And i realised i only hate the people who get on stage and rant about the same political points without any comedic value. And they always seem to be the same mindless socialist points.

[@geezerbill]

I see some of those "same mindless socialist points" in this clip, too.

[@vidzeerox]

This man is brilliant.

[@zackamig4446]

Eh this is a pretty regurgitated take

[@dinguslopper]

So is this

[@geezerbill]

His other stuff is good. But this clip is just a rehash of the same old shitty arguments from anti-Bill of Rights idiots.

[@lewistaylor1965]

I wonder if Rich Halls gun routine was before or after Jim Jeffries?...either way the more folk see either of them the better

[@VDAM1984]

He's right about guns

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Well no shit

[@bloodsling]

I think his argument in a roundabout way is,if you're going to cite the 2nd amendment as your reason to have a gun,then you should have to use muskets.

[@rec-reation9620]

2nd amendment is to protect us from tyranny. We do that by using the same weapons the military has. Not with muskets. That was heavily implied and the founding fathers knew technology advances. This is why we beat you in the revolutionary war and why we are number 1 in the world lol

[@garethsloan5118]

@@rec-reation9620 i didnt know american civilians had predator drones

[@rec-reation9620]

@@garethsloan5118 We dont need predator drones lol

[@ian-op5fv]

Just in the same way that freedom of expression only applies to writing on parchment with a quill.

[@geezerbill]

Which of course is as retarded as saying freedom of religion doesn't apply to Mormons or new-agers, because their beliefs weren't conceptualized until after the Constitution.

[@Rich.H68]

I reckon Jim Jeffries got some of his material from Rich.

[@luis1coelho]

brilliant...a critique on the only nation on earth where people can carry guns...welcome to the big 'democracy' in the world.

[@ChrisMeerkat]

In reality, when they wrote the 2nd amendment they were thinking to allow the creation of civilian forces that can counteract any future tyrannical federal government... Sorry if it spoils the joke, Just sayin'. 👍

[@mac148]

ha ha simples lol

[@vilentman111]

0:51 Jeff from peep show?

[@Marina-pe1gx]

Jeff's doing a joke

[@25dimensionsfrancis42]

I have said for years that the second amendment was written for the time when they could not be sure the British could return or for that matter the French turn on them it is now too late to take guns away. Also i have said for a long time that youth are influenced by watching violence in games and movies or what is the point of advertising.

[@zackamig4446]

It was to prevent tyranny from.the government who also had muskets and cannons.... that's like saying our military should only use muskets..... as the government's weapon systems advance so does the citizens.

[@shaneweightman]

This man has a point ,, despite being funny

[@ChrisMeerkat]

I'm no fan of guns but actually he's completely missed the point.

[@geezerbill]

No he doesn't. He's just making the same old fallacious arguments and lies we always hear.

[@Changoleon1100]

Soooooooo... Since the constitution is old we should ignore it.?

[@MrUranium238]

1776 never forget

[@anyvideostuff1019]

I disagree with him hugely, but he's pretty hilarious. 9/10

[@Camulus777]

I thought this guy was pretty funny. As a gun owner and an american I happen to know there there is one thing that scared the Japanese shitless enough to think twice about an invasion. There is a gun behind every blade of grass ;)

[@Camulus777]

they screwed up at pearl harbor, and were eventually beaten by the united states military. The would have had a problem with 10 million armed Americans along the coast. the delusion is that they would have even been able to get passed Malibu before the general population cut them down. This was back in the day when each down had an armory in the USA.

[@MegaHani123]

+Camulus777 That's the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard.

[@Camulus777]

If you say so.

[@Elite-bh6pm]

+Camulus777 Why would Americans even fear foreign invasion when your own citizens are killing you more effectively than any foreign power ever could?

[@Camulus777]

Well to be honest we don't even make the top 50 most violent nations in the world. Just the most televised. The UK is # 4 for violent crimes and they have no guns.

[@robertstrong6798]

Funny 😄 but true

[@geezerbill]

No, it's the same old bogus arguments presented to a peanut gallery.

[@sunnygirly2k4]

:-D

[@Ajibica117]

Laughing at you, not with you!

[@11Kralle]

That old chestnut of legalism: should we allow or should we prohibit?

[@plottwist3364]

Answer should be: allow with more strict control on what type of gun you can have. Because, Uzis in the hands of a 9yo make you look totally crazy to the rest of the world

[@11Kralle]

Bite my fhiny metal aff!

[@guyhasbro279]

+Bender B. Rodriguez Well... it is illegal for a 9 yo to own a uzi. so...

[@plottwist3364]

+Guy Hasbro yet a 9yo girl in the US klled her gun instructor at the fire range while manipulating an Uzi

[@357lockdown]

+Bender B. Rodriguez Whose fault was that, the Uzi's or the instructor's? Also, the 18th amendment showed us how well prohibiting someone's legal rights work.In the UK, you ban everything that bad people might use to do bad things. In America, things are legal because good people don't do bad things with them. In a land with great freedoms, it goes without saying that those freedoms will be abused by some but, we don't try to control crime by taking good people's Constitutionally guaranteed rights away.I'm surprised Parliament hasn't outlawed automobiles to stop drunk driving...isn't that worth doing? Here in the US, 27 people die every day from drunk drivers. Where is the moral outrage about that? Many of those 27 are children. Not a peep is spoken about it.

[@jcwood5040]

The damnation of high volume weapons is just an easy knee-jerk target. The point as I see it is, the AR-15 is close but not quit the equivalent of a military infantry arm of today's age. The farmers musket was close but not quit the equivalent of the colonial and the new republics infantry small arm of the 2nd amendments day. So yes they ( the Founding Fathers) did okay the AR-15 of it's day. Let me ask the British military vets because I'm curious if they feel as I do. I carried an M-60 machine gun and other weapons for four years in other nations as a representative of my country. I would be highly insulted if I was deemed trustworthy enough to do that, but not own my own gun in my own country as a civilian. BTW the police in the USA are not responsible for the protection of the population. They are mostly tasked with solving crimes after the fact. If you doubt this research it. Big fan of Rich Hall though.

[@357lockdown]

+JC Wood  The Police try their best but, they only get there in time to count the bodies and draw the chalk lines. No man or government has the authority to tell me I can't protect my life and that of my family's. It is a natural law. I live in Tennessee, I moved here 6 years ago from the People's Republic of Rhode Island. In RI, I could not get a permit to carry because I didn't have a good enough "reason", even though I was a firearms instructor who qualified people every week to get their permit. Here in Tennessee, I have a permit because I am an American law abiding citizen with the right to do so. Tennessee law says I not only have the right to protect myself and family with no responsibility to back down and retreat from a deadly threat but, I have the right to protect "any innocents present". That is the difference between a slave state and a state of free men. I don't expect these Brits to understand. It's been a long time since any of them where free.

[@badbillw]

He's not very bright, obviously.

[@anyvideostuff1019]

+William Windhorst but hes funny

[@iancraig6070]

Just like yourself.

[@martinrobo123]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He is a comic, he writes his own stuff. He's more clever than you.

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

So...his argument is that everyone who owns a gun is a psycho? SMH

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

***** Unless the psycho is patient. Then he can do things much worse with a knife than he can with an assault rifle.

[@vg2368]

Lynette TheMadScientist SO whats your point? Ban knives as well?

[@bcaffrey98]

***** IF there is a Psycho, this Psycho can do things with simple chemistry he could not do with an assault rifle, regardless of magazine size. Is the answer to ban chemistry books or purchasing of chemicals? The Aurora theater shooter rigged his apartment with a number of explosive an incendiary devices, including a napalm-like device.How many more would have died had he used improvised napalm and explosives inside that theater? Or if he had used Tim McVeigh's formula of an ANFO laden rental van? Are you aware that the worst American mass murders involved nothing more complicated than a gallon of unleaded gasoline and a book of matches -- or a dozen box cutters?

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

Vik Graves My point is, banning things doesn't stop crime.

[@bcaffrey98]

Lynette TheMadScientist His next argument will be the need to ban guns in urban areas because no one needs to hunt there or something equally asinine. Never mind in cities with strict gun laws like Chicago and D.C. have some of the worst crime. (So does Detroit, but that's a self-inflicted case where the same party that supported union demands against auto companies, drove them out of Detroit and to bankruptcy also wasted the dwindling tax revenues and is now unable to police itself).

[@ml0723]

we fought against tyranny and the second amendment is the protection of all the other rights in case the government ever becomes tyrannical...or some hopped up country thinks its wise to invade us...both highly unlikely, but still...better to have and not need, then need and not have.

[@davecowan5652]

Why don't you brits mind your owñ dam buisneś

[@SgtSayWhat]

He is quite clearly American

[@RetractedandRedacted]

Dave Cowan Could say the same about America and the lack of minding their own business regarding Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, Syria and pretty much every war since the start of the cold war.

[@garrettj52]

Aaronathers the American people protested all of those wars. Dont blame the people, blame our shitty government. We do not vote for goin to war or not. Our pres and congress does whatever they want.

[@RetractedandRedacted]

Garrett J They protested some of those wars at some point. Vietnam was protested nearer the end of the war. Iraq, some supported some didnt, I dont think anyone protested against intervention in Cuba and Syria, some supported some didnt. And of course we can blame the people unless you live in a dictatorship which Americans do not. The people are voting those people in and those people are the ones making decisions.

[@garrettj52]

Aaronathers haha you think these people do what they say they will do? No sir. Our government does whatever they want. Doesnt matter who you vote for they do what they want.

[@dapsapsrp]

Rich Hall has not been funny for such a long time. I guess that's why he lives in the UK so much.

[@aharvey4990]

@i7fan Correct mate .. and Rich Hall is a great comic!

[@matthewlewis921]

America is the greatest country

[@leec6707]

*everyone in Europe, Australia, Iceland, Canada and New Zealand chuckles to themselves whilst enjoying paid maternity leave, healthcare, employees rights, safety, abortion rights, better standard of education etc

[@marklinkous219]

So do you want to defend your life with a musket or an AR15 lol I believe the choice is clear I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it

[@biggpete100]

I don't agree with the guy at all, but he's funny anyway.

[@yezapredruxzen695]

Somebody show this to trump

[@sirroxalot]

So, when is he going to say something funny?

[@michaeljames4904]

sirroxalot Look up his bit on Tom Cruise.

[@aharvey4990]

sirroxalot & @@michaeljames4904 He's very funny .. a great comic! Better than many of the young twat so called comedians we have here in the UK right now. Mind you, Micky Flanagan is great too!

[@kelteredprine]

This guy should read his history. Lewis and Clark carried repeating rifles that could shoot up to 20 rounds in a minute. There were several rifles and revolvers that could shoot multiple rounds without reloading. Only ignorant folks repeat garbage like this guy. Muskets were not the only rifles available when the 2nd amendment was enacted.

[@Saldivinorum]

There were no revolvers nor were there any guns whatsoever that could hold more than one round when the 2nd Amendment was written. The revolver wasn't invented until about 50 years after. And even the best rifle still only held one round and needed to be reloaded and have a new powder pack put in after every shot. You should take your own advice and read about America's history as well bub... PS, don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly stand by our 2d Amendment rights, just don't bend facts or completely make shit up to back up your opinions. And worse even, don't be a hypocrite.

[@kelteredprine]

@@Saldivinorum Soldiv, you've got to be a liberal acting like a conservative. And, "bub," you are the one who desperately needs to read about America's history. 1786: Flintlock Repeating Musket. 7 rounds per minute. 1779: Girandoni Repeating Air rifle. 20 plus rounds per minute. Thomas Jefferson sent one to Lewis and Clark. It had been in service by the Austrian army 10 years before the 2nd amendment. 1776: Belton Repeater pistol. Up to 8 rounds in 3 seconds. George Washington commissioned 100 but a disagreement over the cost killed the deal. 1718: Puckle Gun. Used a pre-loaded revolving cylinder, producing 9 shots per minute (3 times faster than the typical musket). There are several more, but running out of room. Brownies coming out of the oven. Gotta go. Go ahead and waste our time trying to run down these guns that were available when the 2nd was passed. Fact is, they existed as well as several more. Take your own advice and don't make up doo-doo. It makes you sound like the hypocrite.

[@mjb0183]

I was wondering where this comedy "has been" went.