Those Fat Shaming TV Shows | Dara Ó Briain

[@Robshi]

Gillian McKeith isn't even a doctor. She just threatens to sue anyone who says she isn't despite having no legal ground to stand on whatsoever. She also has some bizaare obsession with colonoscopy, which is why the poo analysis was even on the show. You did a wonderful job hilariously mocking her show, Dara.

[@babboon5764]

If ALL someone said was that a person (by name) who isn't a doctor isn't a doctor ..... She'd end up paying their defence costs if she took 'em to court. That leap of 'let's pretend' hasn't achived protected 'Hate Crime' Status - yet.

[@bungee7503]

I just looked her up on Wikipedia; quite a damning article.

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

Sounds like the hustler Jill Biden

[@viewfromthehighchair9391]

Hi Dara, I attended your show in Toronto last night and had a great time. There were moments where I missed the odd word when you were speaking quickly; however, I was in on most of the jokes and laughed heartily throughout. I was taken aback a bit by your personal story about your mother as I wasn't expecting that; however, given that I had a similar experience (almost the same really), I found it intriquing and wanted badly to be able to sit down with you over a beer and share stories. I know that isn't really possible; however, without giving away the show to others, I wanted just to say that the bit meant a great deal to me. Cheers and safe travels during your tour. A fan for life.

[@dianacfleming]

Perhaps they could do some sort of celebrity version where Nigella Lawson hides in Gillians fridge and encourages her to eat meat, butter, and alcohol drenched desserts for six weeks.

[@weswheel4834]

Or, where the 2 of them are on the program together. Gillian acts as Dara described on one shoulder, while Nigella does her bit on the other. edit: And it's a competition where at the end of the 6 weeks, if the person has lost weight, Gillian wins. If they've gained weight, Nigella wins. Surely the ultimate in reality tv?

[@dianacfleming]

@@weswheel4834 That would get far too philosophical for british TV. Is happiness just 'being thin', does being a thin, miserable shrew top being Nigella? Not that I'm biased or anything.

[@hannahk1306]

That would probably do her some good after what was revealed about her eating habits (basically starving herself and very malnourished).

[@robedmunds7163]

Funny and smart, what a guy.

[@10fanatic1]

Glad you're finally on here to get at least some of that youtube ad revenue that other people have been getting from posting your material here!

[@DrDespicable]

I love the image of that harpy popping out of the fridge with an icicle hanging off her nose... Bravo, mate!

[@MickPsyphon]

Dara, you're the GOAT, mate!

[@thisravenhasflown010]

You have one up on us, UK. We don't have any poo analysis shows here. That genre hasn't been touched yet.🤔😁😉

[@666chaox666]

I wonder if Gillian ever publicly reacted to this clip when it was originally released. Or did she show up in Dara's fridge, flailing at him like hag when he went searching for a late night snack?

[@babboon5764]

She's with him there in his mind every time he touches the fridge handle now.

[@666chaox666]

@@babboon5764 I can imagine him holding out a frying pan or a pot for protection every time he tries to open the fridge now.

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

She's unfortunately the epitome of UK garbage

[@hiltonian_1260]

Sounds murderous. There was an interesting study where the researchers had one group of people do the usual dieting thing and the other group ate as usual but kept a food journal. They wrote down what they ate, when they ate, how much they ate, and what they thought and felt about food, eating, cooking, shopping, and obesity. The journal writers lost more weight than the dieters.

[@decodolly1535]

Can attest to that, I've done the food journal. It makes you so much more aware of exactly what you're pushing into your pie-hole! (Edited for typo)

[@babboon5764]

Well they would ................. They used more energy AND lost sleep time writing the journal 😋

[@hannahk1306]

A lot of these weight loss diets basically put the body into starvation mode (which is why it starts using up fat stores and eventually muscle and bone!). So in the long run a lot of these people actually end up putting on weight rather than losing it, because the body is creating fat reserves for the next food shortage.

[@babboon5764]

@@hannahk1306 KIND OF ....... 🙄 You're right about fat burn being relatively brief after which muscle goes at approximately the same rate. *The problems start* when the dieting ends - THEN muscle is replaced very, very slowly but fat ..... Like you say - Fat goes back on like the body's preparing for another famine.

[@justinmillard8196]

Classic. Good to see it back.

[@EleanorPeterson]

A mixture of pride... and lust? Oh, yeah.😁

[@hannahk1306]

This was obviously before it came out that she'd bought her doctorate! I think she may have also been diagnosed with an eating disorder, so really not someone that you want advising you on your diet.

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

Holistic medicine at an uncredentialed school. Holistic medicine is considered quackery

[@LovelyLass-nb8op]

Sounds like a mental disorder

[@TheRuben_music]

hahahahahah! i want your humour brain!

[@raigrant680]

So excellent 😂

[@NewMessage]

I'm not fat, I'm calorie rich!

[@ClezVideos]

Or “nutritionally dense” 🤷‍♀️

[@babboon5764]

Circa 1.40 .... *and THAT is why Dara is so feckn funny - perfect timing* Pride ............... and lust With NO gap > not as funny. With perfect timing ............ Dry the seat.

[@dianacasey6002]

You are what you eat she’s eaten a frekin shrew the funniest

[@81caspen]

Really hits the “h” on “whatever” and “whatsoever”. It’s almost like it actually starts with a “k”. “No value Kkkkkhwatsoever!”

[@smoothrocky1847]

Was Dara the catalyst for her being cancelled? Or the enema!

[@hannahk1306]

I think that may have been the revelation about her buying her doctorate!

[@bungee7503]

Either way, he got her in the end.

[@nitricoxidegod]

😂

[@LeanAndMean44]

Don’t judge people by their look but by their character. Can’t be said often enough.

[@mermaidmoon2254]

I'm sorry, but I love the Nanny stuff 😂 some parents are just idiots 🤷

[@hannahk1306]

My favourite ones are the ones where the they say the kids refuse to eat dinner, then they get hungry at bedtime so are allowed to eat ice cream, biscuits, crisps, etc. No wonder they don't want dinner: they're holding out for the sugary fatty snacks at bedtime! Surely it doesn't take a stranger coming into your house with a TV crew to work that one out?

[@peterclarke7240]

That's certainly what bullshit, cruel, knives-out TV shows like that like you to believe. It's always some naggy cow, channelling a concentration camp commandant, slagging people off for trying and failing, by focusing on the quick-fix surface level problems rather than the deep-seated issues, so we can all sit at home and sneer along with her. It's cruelty porn, basically. I'm almost 100% convinced it's all commissioned by Tory party strategists to keep us at each other's throats.

[@richardleatherman5075]

...and comment? Don't ya want us to comment to feed the fearsome alligatorithm?

[@EleanorPeterson]

Noooooo! Don't comment or there'll be no more funny clips! Oh, damn. Too late. We've broken Dara's channel. I'm off to stand in the Naughty Corner to think about what I've done. See you there, maybe?

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

big boned

[@TREVONBACH]

Poo is a bit much. this is true. but on the contrary a bit too much poo is quite interesting. not where'd all the poo come from...... but more so how did it fill up the ENTIRE large intestine...

[@peterclarke7240]

The fun thing is, I recently went vegan. My daily poo went from "surely that's normal?" to "dear god...I'd better phone ahead before I flush. Give the brave lads at the sewage treatment plant time to say their prayers and tell their wives they love them," largely because my intake of legumes and pulses is now off-the-charts. As Dara points out, there is no scientific or medical benefit in examining the poo of people who eat a lot, because all it will tell you is that they eat a lot.

[@Cathrinite]

Fatphobia isnt a thing, not everything has to be a phobia

[@glacialimpala]

It's not even fear, just dislike 😂