Werner Herzog discovers John Waters is Gay

This short clip, discovered and posted by Herzog and Waters fan, Robert Maier, author of "Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters" is from a conversation in the 2007 documentary, On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman.
Read about many more things you didn't know about John Waters in "Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters," available from booksellers worldwide.
Clip from:
"On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with
Karen Beckman"
Produced and edited by Aaron Levy and Nicola Gentili, with the
2007-2008 RBSL Bergman Curatorial Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Published by Slought Foundation
slought.org
and
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(used by permission)

[@evansn79]

After 35 years, John waters turned to his partner and said "you know, I think this man may be German."

[@jaeoskyldig]

Plot twist: the partner was Werner Herzog all along.

[@seththomas9105]

I'm dead.

[@PjKneisel]

Bavarian

[@rockinresurrection6542]

​@@PjKneisel Blah Blah blah and I'm Hessian not German

[@billtree52]

Werner Herzog as a medical examiner. **twenty minutes into autopsy** "I'm beginning to suspect this man may be dead"

[@millsykooksy4863]

lmao!

[@rickifriki]

Is he, tho?

[@julian9898]

"....and GAY"

[@jevinday]

Haha for real. As a provocateur it's hard to tell when Werner is being serious or when he's trolling, he's definitely realized that some people find his perspective funny as he has got older. Pretty sure he's being totally serious here though hahaha

[@vidbot4037]

That's a Monty python x Herzog sketch right there. "No he isn't.."

[@OhYourSoSilentJess]

Marge: He enjoys the company of men. Herzog: Who doesn't?

[@NJCUJan]

Jessica Whiteman I LOVE this.

[@giudaevang]

Thank you

[@shreknet]

HAHAHAHA

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

Lol

[@youarenowdark]

this is amazing

[@sudocatsda1guy390]

"Obviously gay, then I would notice" Took him 35 years to suspect John Waters

[@LosMachinesTV]

He had to witness the gay coitus to begin to suspect.

[@InVinoVeratas]

I mean He is German, He takes things, literally.

[@billtree52]

Makes you wonder how high a threshold that is

[@ewwpoorpeople5684]

You could come in dressed in drag and warner would be like "that's a lovely outfit." And leave it at that

[@scofield321]

@@InVinoVeratas Not true at all. You have never been in Germany, never met a German yet here you are spreading bullshit. German humor, satire is full of irony, sarcasm and wordplay.

[@crt77]

Marge: Homer, didn't John seem a little "festive" to you? Homer: Couldn't agree more, happy as a clam.

[@DarKTsunG]

Marge: He prefers the company of men. Homer: Who doesn't?!

[@gigglestim1625]

Marge: John is a homo Homer: Yess Marge: sexual

[@tobyfunk6858]

He's fucking gay Homer, obviously!

[@domenicgalata1470]

Zzap, Zzap !!

[@mikelabomusic7782]

“He didn’t give you gay, did he?”

[@TheStockwell]

There must - MUST - be a video somewhere called "John Waters discovers Werner Herzog is German."

[@mutoneon]

Dying!

[@ilikethisnamebetter]

It's amazing to me that the only three (so far) responses to this very funny six-year-old comment have come within the last hour on 18th November 2019.

[@MisterAppleEsq]

@@ilikethisnamebetter Count me in as another one.

[@IntiFloyd]

count me too

[@Pilachio]

And my axe

[@musomaster9027]

“I take things literally” - every kleptomaniac ever

[@musomaster9027]

@ZwodlorumYou're brilliant.

[@Sergeantpaprika]

😂

[@84C4]

I'm stealing that joke

[@slappy8941]

"I take things, literally." ~ Every grammarian, ever.

[@justgivemethetruth]

great!

[@MusicalPlayground717]

Man . . . when Herzog, the man who cooked and ate a shoe on a bet, who got shot during an interview and shrugged it off, who pushed a steamboat over a mountain in the Amazon, says he wishes he had someone else's guts . . . that means something.

[@Dreamcatcher9000]

You forgot his most gutsy thing of all: being friends with Klaus Kinski!

[@RoonMian]

@@Dreamcatcher9000 Well... "Friends"... In German we have a good word for relationships like theirs: Hassliebe. It translates literally to "hate love."

[@Dreamcatcher9000]

@@RoonMian Also, Herzog made a documentary about Kinski in 1999 titled "My Best Fiend". Which is a wordplay with "friend", of course. Yes, they may not have been the "best" friends ever (I mean, Herzog - supposedly - almost shot Kinski once!), but deep, deep inside, they really loved and appreciated each other. They didn't make 5 films in 15 years together (which were some of the very best Herzog ever did of course) for nothing.

[@nicomurder]

Bb gun is not getting shot

[@GCKelloch]

@@nicomurder Pellot gun, and it drew blood. The funny thing is he just chuckled and went on with what he was saying.

[@TheEdwardNigma]

Next time: Werner Herzog discovers he has that slight German accent

[@mikequad]

Oh this killed me good job hahaha

[@castel5003]

May cause he's german

[@jackdonohue7893]

Castel you got wooshed

[@frederikbeck6464]

You know his accent is a meme even in Germany.

[@Dominian1]

I'm German and imitating him isn't that easy, even for us. He talks dispassionate and Asperger-esque in any language.

[@Atom_Baum]

"I cannot distinguish a gay man from a straight man... unless he makes it very obvious" "I didn't know John Waters was gay"

[@quillclock]

i think he meant very VERY obvious!

[@Don_tHack]

very VERY VERY obvious XD

[@JosephDutra]

Maybe he means stereotype gay, like what Family Guy does.

[@spinblackcircles]

@@JosephDutraJohn waters could not have been any more stereotypically gay 😂

[@Executioner_of_Time]

Maybe like several minutes into foreplay obvious.

[@danmagoo]

I remember when John Waters first "came out," there was, oddly enough, a small ripple of surprise about it, and when they asked John why he had never revealed this before, he said: "Nobody ever asked me if I was gay. I think they were all afraid it was something WORSE."

[@keepinmahprivacy9754]

Well, decades ago, a lot of people didn't have any kind of "gaydar" at all. Millions of little old ladies were completely shocked when Liberacci died of AIDS and the Enquirer wrote a story about how he was gay. Everyone in the 70s listened to Queen and the Village People and most people didn't figure that shit out for years. Weird times man.

[@tintinismybelgian]

Do you have a citation for that quote? I can't find it anywhere.

[@danmagoo]

@@tintinismybelgian , Sorry, I just remember him making the same joke in several interviews at the time, on TV, maybe Entertainment Tonight or shows like that. It was his go-to sound bite at the time -- he was grinning and laughing as he said it. But this was pre-internet, so it may not be searchable.

[@danmagoo]

@tintinismybelgian, Dude, I found it in less than a minute, with a Google search on: John Waters comes out as gay "something worse". My first hit was a KZbin video called "John Waters: Coming Out Is So Square" where he does a version of it as a throw-away, at about the 1-minute point. As I said, it was his standard gag on the subject.

[@tintinismybelgian]

@@danmagoo Thanks. My search terms must've been wonky.

[@lsb2623]

John Water's mustache alone is more gay than a standard level gay entire person.

[@searchingfororion]

LSB there's a fantastic passage in his book role models where he gives the secret of his mustache - it's *literally* a pencil mustache, made from a very specific brand and color of eyebrow/eyeliner pencil! He even talks about being in the ER/hospital and calling his mom on her way to check on him and telling her to IMMEDIATELY go to the drugstore *on the way* to pick up said pencil so that he could correct his mustache before anyone else saw him!😆

[@wedgewizard5429]

lmao! nice one! xD

[@District9Prawn]

"standard level gay" I like how this implies that there's tiers to just how gay one can be.

[@matthewmccormack420]

A Standard gay entry mustache... LOLOLOL

[@lsb2623]

@@District9Prawn There is tiers to EVERYTHING, baby.

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

Werner Herzog discovers that Klaus Kinski is a little strange.

[@fatague9831]

This is brilliant

[@s.g.b.808]

Hear hear! 👏🏼

[@southpaws6814]

Werner's spidey senses are tingeling ...

[@docjrae]

Now look, you see from the clip here that Klaus was a perfectly balanced human being who worked in harmony with all those around him: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4GugHewq5aDepY

[@Sr19769p]

@@docjrae Very well balanced: he had a chip on both shoulders!

[@nicklandable]

"I take things literally" - Every German Ever.

[@davidthompson7723]

How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One, Germans are both efficient and humorless.

[@Gypsyblood777]

"A man is a man"- Werner Herzog

[@get-the-joke]

Every German _ever_ doesn't make sense, because the definition of German becomes indistinct the more you go back in time, and the future is uncertain anyway, nicht wahr?

[@killemall69]

Hitlers jokes about Jews proves this

[@Krageesh]

@@killemall69 Except he wasn't german

[@riotbreaker3506]

"He's gay" "Yes, he sure seems in a good mood, doesn't he."

[@Mathias-kz5dr]

Happy as a clam

[@paulb808]

Literally.

[@Kurzula5150]

No-one could possibly enjoy this anecdote more than John Waters.

[@stephenpitkin5492]

It would be kind of funny if next Werner discovered he himself was gay. "To me I was just a man who fornicated with other men."

[@mikeluke9404]

You have just made me piss myself laughing! Well done you. Stay safe we need people like you.

[@andrescastillo8199]

You sir, are a good man

[@legb0y]

🔥

[@theunrealtimemm]

That's pretty much what Roy Cohn would have said of himself. Not that he should be a role model.

[@DanielVerberne]

Hilarious!

[@saliv88]

Hearing Werner Herzog say “I wish I had the guts you have,” I’d imagine, has to be the highest of all honors.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

He had the guts to work with KKlaus Kinski.... not too many people would be brave enough to do that.

[@alpha0xide9]

​@@thefantasyreview8709that's the point

[@pauloricardo-wn6ps]

puts in perspective how rough it still is out there

[@RobespierreThePoof]

I think any compliment from Herzog should be taken as a high honor. Most Germans don't do flattery and he's a fairly extreme example of this forthright, plainly honest way of speaking that can be common in German culture. This is one of the things that many Americans have a hard time adapting to in Germany. We tend to say nice things just to be nice. It's just the "polite thing to do." Plus, Herzog is one of the best directors of all time. So, yes, I totally agree.

[@0ld_Scratch]

He is not gay, he is a flamboyent man, Cathlyn, a singing man!

[@BobGymlan]

He has a song in his heart! That’s all it is Cathlyn.

[@CountDoucheula]

Shut up, Kathleen, ya taepot!

[@theinkysquid7661]

😂😂

[@ethanlivemere1162]

There're no gaes in Ireland Kathleen! That's somethin the Americans do!

[@ohhai8788]

He's not an alcoholic Kathleen, he's just fond of a pint

[@jackashmore]

Werner: what is gay

[@cabjswe]

baby dont hurt me no more

[@jackashmore]

New Message this is the perfect sub comment

[@RobotReg]

"Why should people be gay?"

[@viciousKev]

You are gae.

[@Buffalobillythekid]

if Herzog pulled out fresh produce to make a point here Id die

[@adamlindeman523]

"I wish I had the guts of this man" As if moving a massive boat across a mountain wasn't enough.

[@cabbage-soup]

coming from someone who takes things literally, it sounds rather disturbing xD

[@jianghuiyuan4256]

@@cabbage-soup that's what I think too ahahaha

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Same with John Travolta, he still doesn't know he's gay

[@RecklessFables]

I hope Kelly Preston is happy. At least

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@RecklessFablesi'M not worried about that, she came visit yesterday

[@guyfieri7189]

Johnny Skinwalker didn’t John Travolta let his son die because he refused to get medical attention for his seizures because he’s a Scientologist or something

[@milascave2]

johny: Oh, I think he knows.

[@evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234]

@@3dguy839 I sincerely hope it was consential between you and John, and good on you for being so brave👍😉

[@FDothat]

„a män is a män“ - W. Herzog

[@pedomcpedoson6213]

A boy is a boy. :)

[@AndreasDelleske]

Änd a chär is a chär to mi. :)

[@FDothat]

Henk de Tank Kinda weird to hear that - is it because you are also german and you can‘t withstand the urge to correct people?

[@robtlm4775]

@@FDothat As a german, I can tell you that your use of the Umlaut was actually correct, since "män" would be pronounced almost exactly the same as the english "man"

[@FDothat]

RobTLM Also manchmal beschleicht mich wirklich das Gefühl dass Menschen in Kommentarspalten ihre Gesprächspartner grundsätzlich für minderbemittelt halten. Anderweitig kann ich mir nicht erklären, warum du mir noch bestätigen musstest dass ich richtig liege. Warum sollte ich denn sonst deutsche Umlaute nutzen?

[@jrsinsf]

next episode: werner herzog discovers water is wet

[@peterbauer1494]

jrsinsf waters*

[@funkyanto9]

water isn't wet though

[@Preserbius]

Yeah, something is wet if it has water on it. If water gets water on it then there's just more water now.

[@MrThankeesai]

wow second time today. what are the odds kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5jcooKJitGFaKM

[@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659]

You could say water is drenched

[@jonathanbethards3689]

I could listen to Werner Herzog recite instruction manuals all day. What a great voice.

[@KenLieck]

"The red button or the green button may start the machine or they may destroy the world. Look at them both they are just buttons.."

[@tedparkinson2033]

"Now remove the control panel and attach the red wire whilst your ruminate on the suffering of your fellow man."

[@jonathanbethards3689]

@@tedparkinson2033 don’t threaten me with a good time

[@TokyoStreetReport]

"a man I have known since 35 years" Classic German diction.

[@TokyoStreetReport]

German people often make this mistake because it is the way it is said in German. In English "I have known for 35 years" is correct.

[@bill7305]

In German - Ein Mann, Ich kenne zeit 35 jarhen. Literally, "A man, I know since 35 years." I love learning the sentence structure of other languages. When you have to think about the language from the viewpoint of the native speaker, you can see how some misunderstandings occur during translation.

[@Centigonos]

@@bill7305 You should learn Japanese then. I've started about half a year ago, really mind-blowing structure!

[@georgseide9764]

@@bill7305 as someone who also loves languages, i thought you'd appreciate if i correct your translation, its "Einen Mann, den ich seit 35 Jahren kenne". semantically correct but still a bit off, very good tho!

[@BessieBopOrBach]

French too. "Depuis trente-cinq annees."

[@oscargustaverejlander.]

It is odd though, because Herzog's work is often very abstract and will reveal something that on its surface one would never have gleaned said theme or message from, i.e., "ecstatic truth" which does counter what he says here with regards to a chair just being a chair. I've met Herzog and what he says about his lack of irony is very true. I had completed his Rogue Film School and made a very British and sarcastic comment upon receiving my certificate of participation that I would "treasure it forever". Immediately, completely missing the ironic intonation of my voice, he looked at me with dead seriousness in his eyes and said "Don't. It is nothing but a worthless piece of paper.".... Haha.

[@jemhoare2105]

IIRC British sarcasm goes "haHa" not "Haha" which would be the lesser (American) sarcasm.

[@salssalsa]

“I wish I had the guts of this man“ *tries to get a boat from one river to another through land using trees, for a movie*

[@woodbell67]

works with Klaus Kinski once.

[@lumpofcoal2437]

@@woodbell67 Works with Klaus Kinski twice, thrice... five goddamn times.

[@woodbell67]

@@lumpofcoal2437 exactly.

[@andrewm2399]

Lol

[@garytelford7897]

Eats his own shoe!

[@Bat_Rag]

Herzog: a chair is a chair Also Herzog: a man is a man Mr Krabs: *a stove is a stove*

[@callum7081]

James Blip haha 😂

[@JohnDoe-dj3lw]

Lmfao

[@John-uh5et]

Mr Incredible: MATH IS MATH

[@dlower23]

Ice King: Holes a hole

[@pedomcpedoson6213]

@@dlower23 So true

[@sna1perlolftw]

Misread the title as "Werner Herzog discovers Water is Gay"

[@SiGhast]

That is, at this very moment, the funniest thing I ever heard.

[@holycow818181]

Fellas, is it gay to drink water? I mean, you're basically putting atoms in your body that have already been inside another man.

[@BlazingOwnager]

@@holycow818181 Careful, what's in the water might turn the freakin' frogs gay! rofl

[@tximinoman]

@@BlazingOwnager I was about to make the same exact joke.

[@dirkbastardrelief]

In the garden of Eden, after Adam and Eve had sex, Eve went to the river to wash her self. God saw this and yelled, “Eve stop! No no! Oh crap, too late! Now all the semen is gonna taste like that!“

[@ggrey5990]

I agree - a man is a man regardless of his sexuality.

[@Olematonnimi]

Yes a man is a man even if he thinks he is not.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

Olematonnimi Can we chat about your reply here? I'd like to have a civil discussion about the point you're asserting, but we can only do that if you agree to be civil too.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

trmk12 I'm not asking for permission. I'm asking if this person is willing to be civil. I don't debate jackasses. I'm only willing to debate if my opponent is as willing to maintain a civil tongue as I am.

[@Olematonnimi]

@@ezekielmartin4323 I'm not going to call you names or anyone. I'll be relatively respectful.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

trmk12 I'm afraid I'll simply have to wait for the reply of the person I was actually talking to. Any further contact with you would break my aforementioned rule regarding jackasses. Goodnight.

[@cariboubearmalachy1174]

"I am someone who doesn't understand irony..." The most German thing ever.

[@crithon]

this is like a Simpsons episode come to life.

[@mouldyseagull887]

The funny thing is Werner was actually in a Simpsons episode

[@syukoshiomy]

Mouldy Seagull so was john waters, lmao

[@crithon]

@@syukoshiomy i love that episode

[@wethole]

Zzzzzzap!

[@tafttheraft5314]

@@syukoshiomy He obviously knows that. He was literally referencing the episode where Homer, like Herzog, couldn't tell John Waters was gay. Are you German or something?

[@mrfrogbutt1]

I just met John Waters in PERSON and he is a marvelous,kind and sweet man. So incredibly sweet and not at all like a diva, just the sweetest celeb I have EVER met

[@TonyMarselle]

Did you pick him up hitchhiking or something ?

[@LaDivinaLover]

This is really sweet in a very clueless and German way.

[@ripleb6261]

Jaysus dude, what was the point of that

[@dirkbastardrelief]

Eddie Bravo YEAH! GET HIM!

[@romo2674]

@Osel Somar ?

[@KyrieFortune]

"I cannot understand the chair in a straightforward way" you needed to understand in a gayforward way

[@MinisterManDan]

Well lets be fair his gaydar is at least better than Homer Simpson’s

[@alabamajrb5534]

MinisterManDan is better than a made up cartoon? Wow, that’s dumb.

[@seanwade8188]

@@alabamajrb5534 it’s ridiculous. You or I as intellectuals know homer doesn’t exist but some of these dimwits can’t comprehend this

[@c0l1n_m45]

His Gay-dar is officially out of commission, and has been for years.

[@JoshSweetvale]

And he's happier for it.

[@jjohnny807]

His ass isn’t

[@JeebusDumonti]

Oh bless your heart Werner.

[@Eilanah100]

My assessment is that Herzog is a great, understated showman. And a bit of a prankster ie: the story of Kinski pulling a gun on him, the "sniper" attack which he didn't want to bother to report, the great mockumentary "Incident at Loch Ness". I think what is going on is that Herzog has a brilliant, dry sense of humor and he fools most of us to believe him. I enjoy every time he does this.

[@dimifisher7942]

No he pulled a gun on Kinski because they were on the amazon filming for months and then Kinski was like I m out of here and was packing up, I would get crazy too 😂

[@beurksman]

​@@dimifisher7942 He didn't pull a gun on Klaus he merely threatened to also he didn't have one at the time

[@jonathangeddes9786]

I choose to believe 😊

[@Aseno08]

Wow, great clip. Great statement from Mr. Herzog. Thanks for posting.

[@onesixfive]

positively two of my favorite people on earth. this made me so happy i almost cried. so wonderful.

[@userste]

Thanks for putting the pieces together.

[@PaddyRoon7]

Admirable mindset, not assuming anything of anyone.

[@Armagedn12]

Herzog saying “I wish I had his guts as a filmmaker” or whatever the quote was feels like pretty high praise

[@darksideofthemood]

This is so wholesome and pure. I can already imagine John waters cackling at this.

[@hootie017]

Conversations like this need to happen more

[@apekleiner]

It's refreshing to hear Herzog's perspective here, I find it very relatable but something I haven't been able to put into words myself.

[@Trund27]

his voice is like rainbows in my ears

[@NoMastersNoMistress]

"I can't distinguish..." translates to "I don't care" in this context coming from Herzog. One more great thing about him, obviously. :)

[@Demiglitch]

@Marten Dekker haha, he might be. I can't tell whether it's that because he's so German.

[@williamrobinson7435]

The more I see of Herzog the more I love and respect him.. His artistic output is simply astounding!

[@Crick1952]

I want Werner Herzog to narrate my life

[@mr.coolmug3181]

Some people, like Werner, are just blind to the bullshit people make against others. Great guy.

[@alamunez]

Yes, a great guy who would never “make bullshit against others”. Good comment, simpleton.

[@Graenelolz]

Ala Munez you realize you‘re beefing in a overreacting manner with a 5 year old comment

[@thesprawl2361]

@@alamunez I always wonder what people like you'd be like in real life, if you were talking to the OP. I get the feeling you'd never in a million years say any of the stuff you come out with online.

[@richardjames1751]

@@alamunez great job! I like you a whole lot!

[@Scroteydada]

@@alamunez *Avengers theme plays*

[@nazzme6181]

The true meaning of "It is what it is." Such people are an absolute joy to be around!!!💝

[@KenLieck]

"After 35 years I'm beginning to suspect Popeye is a sailor..."

[@xwexarexbulletsx]

That was actually beautiful. Like, Herzog knows that a HUMAN is a human, regardless of gender or sexual preferences. Just perfect.

[@andrewjenkins1343]

I'm from the future and I agree with you

[@cbhlde]

Yeah. Should be normal... by now. :)

[@anacletwilliams8315]

I don't think that's what he said.

[@victorkreig6089]

That isn't at all what he was saying, stop trying to inject your point of view onto what people say

[@AkuraTheAwesome]

​@@victorkreig6089that's exactly what he was saying. He was describing how things are literal for him, and then went on to say that stuff like sexual preference don't matter to him so he doesn't notice unless it's super obvious. He doesn't care about anything that doesn't really change how he interacts with someone, and gender/sexual identity fall into that category. If you told Werner Herzog you wanted to be a different gender he'd be like "Yeah whatever I don't really care about these things" Did you even watch the video?

[@jackhackett80]

perhaps one of the funniest titles I've seen on KZbin in awhile

[@huma474]

such a pure video. He takes people as they are. No matter who they are.

[@seththomas9105]

I was raised around German-Americans and this is so, just, yes. Used to be a picture of Germany in the encyclopedia, now a picture of Werner.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

This cultural trait in particular is VERY often misunderstood by Americans, I find.

[@benzielke7149]

I love Herzog, he is an all time classic. I own many of his films and as bizarre as some of them are I love them all.

[@devinbell4816]

This is the best video title of all time.

[@cheezmunky1]

I guess he never saw that Simpsons episode. "Everybody dance now!!!"

[@KrystalLake]

He did. But all that occurred to him was that steel workers also enjoy dancing.

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

"Hot stuffffffffffff comin' throughhhhhh"

[@ZyxthePest]

YOU'RE ALL SICK!!!!!!!!!

[@RogueBoyScout]

Ohh be nice....

[@BrokenCurtain]

KZbin 2012: "Nope." KZbin 2019: "Watch this short video about tolerance."

[@josearagaojr.3016]

I often come back to this. It's just such a wonderful snippet of clueless and adorable humanity.

[@ainsleyharriott2209]

Werner Herzog woke up this morning astonished the sky is blue and has been struggling coming to terms with it.

[@TheStockwell]

Well, I just had MY Herzog moment. You know - where my non-judgmental humanism pauses and I realise something everyone else knew instantly, and years ago. After years of watching Herzog's films, I turned to MY wife and I said to her, "I have the feeling this man is German." :)

[@venaretro5444]

+TheStockwell Does it matter a mans nationality when he is so dedicated to his art?

[@TheStockwell]

+Vena Retro It's never mattered before. Herzog is a brilliant filmmaker - his nationality is irrelevant.

[@venaretro5444]

TheStockwell You know the man is brilliant when hes done 5 films with Klaus Kinski.

[@TheStockwell]

+Vena Retro Doing one film with Kinski is a fluke. Doing two is a coincidence. Doing five is a lifestyle choice. :) Truffaut called him "the most important director alive."

[@venaretro5444]

TheStockwell Truffaut?Well,like to see his movies are not an idicative of his thougts.

[@everyvillainislemons7583]

Werner is such a sweetheart. Love him

[@blindlemonfishbone]

I can relate. I only found out last year that I’ve been struggling with Bipolar Disorder my whole life. Public Schools were torture, for me. Not just other students, but teachers would make rhetorical statements that I’d often take literally.

[@blindlemonfishbone]

@Evan Hodge very much, so. Why do you ask?

[@alro2434]

I had an inkling during "Surfin' Bird" in "Pink Flamingos" about 45 years ago.

[@mrkiky]

"I love the man, I love him dearly. But I love him against my better judgement."

[@09nob]

Such a class human being, what a legend.

[@dale8809]

Happy People by Warner Herzog is the best documentary ever.

[@mrpurple11]

I'm so happy this appeared in my recommendations

[@milascave2]

"A rose is a rose is a rose." Gertrude Stein,

[@RFC3514]

"Zey say he is ze gayest in ze pursic."

[@goingforspeed]

Magically appears in my feed 8 years later. what is wrong with the algorithm youtube?

[@GodwinBaxter]

This video is an absolute masterpiece.

[@Samantha-pn4zk]

My best friend in high school came out to me. In hindsight, it was very obvious he was gay, but all that I ever thought about was how fun it was to have him as a friend. It never occurred to me to even think about that.

[@littlemisspipebomb4723]

Sure but your friend presumably didn't have a long running film career with an entire Simpsons episode about him very explicitly being gay

[@TonyMarselle]

@@littlemisspipebomb4723you think Werner her oh watches the Simpson ?

[@littlemisspipebomb4723]

@@TonyMarselle no but the biggest show at the time got him because he's so well known for being very gay

[@JesseP.Watson]

What do you want, a medal?!?

[@ChartreuseDan]

​@@TonyMarselle It would not surprise me to learn Herzog watches the Simpsons. He's been very vocal about his interest in WWE and the Kardashians. Why would he draw the line there of all places?

[@phototristan]

And who would've thought that Liberace was gay? I certainly didn't see that coming.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Reminds me of the time I read about the singer form the B-52's coming out to his mother - she was apparently cleaning at the time and when he said it she didn't even pause her vacuuming, just replied "Oh, I know, Freddie" and kept right on doing her thing. His reaction to this was, "Well, OK. I guess I'll go back outside and smoke some pot."

[@nt7863]

That is wonderful

[@jeffclement2979]

How sweet He loved John as an artist And the gayness is just an afterthought Love that man!

[@MISTERASMODEUS]

When growing up in 60s-70s nobody talked about or knew anything about being gay. Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly, and so many stars played a roll we saw, but didn’t know about or understand. It’s such a strange blind spot created by our childish world on purpose. But I understand this feeling and can only see it after the fact

[@hash-slingingslasher1374]

I saw the title and picture Herzog with his wife basically recreating the simpsons scene where homer discovers john is gay

[@helenspam5959]

So what I need in my life right now is a documentary of John Waters by Werner Herzog and a biopic of Werner Herzog done by John Waters starring Divine.

[@Plantstho]

'I took him as John Waters' - Well that escalated quickly

[@acrovader]

Werner Herzog is one of my heroes. The guy is a legend!

[@GypsyFairy85]

"A chair is still a chair, even when there's no one sitting there......"

[@aricwood869]

“To me a man is a man” This is woke

[@edthegoomba]

"And a chair is a chair" hardly a fuckin revelation 😂😂😂

[@autodidactpolymath1851]

But what if the chair identifies as a table?

[@secondlastnameleft]

No, it's terribly bigoted. A man can be a cis man, cis woman, trans man, or trans woman. Check your heteronormativity.

[@abeedhal6519]

@@secondlastnameleft lol nice bait

[@CanItAlready]

Aric Wood To me he sounded like those people who claim to be colorblind.

[@werdle92]

Herzog is so good in The Mandalorian.

[@matthewnewlin9993]

Werner Herzog is a sweetheart of a man.

[@Spock0987]

Why is this video so fucking awesome?

[@kristiant96]

Why is this in my recommended i don't know either of these people.

[@1212Artemis]

Lol, true

[@lopezulises2012]

Just need to COOOOOOOOOM

[@kristiant96]

@@lopezulises2012 oh god I'm gonna ... cooooooooom

[@bloodfalconfantastic4445]

Having been the 2nd generation born in America on my fathers side, I can attest that my grandparents are both like this. They don't understand metaphors or jokes. I think that most people raised in post ww2 Germany has this literal unhumourous way of viewing the world.

[@h00db01i]

after what happened in central Europe absurd humour is the only way. Herzog is a timeless figure, if time travel is inventec next year send this man!

[@h00db01i]

@@steffenam Americans have no humour, famously. but the best German comedians are the ones that aren't funny, like Georg Schramm

[@psnfailout000]

Change the title to “Werner Herzog talks about discovering that John Waters is gay.”

[@GobelZachuration11]

If we all could think this way.. Things would be so much simpler. Damn this made me smile

[@Lhwbakao]

The fact that this entire thing isn’t literally a set up makes it 7x funnier 😂😂😂😂

[@causticgrip8329]

Herzog is the most German man ever produced.

[@MaximTendu]

Bavarian. The most Bavarian.

[@TimesThree333]

I love many of the guy's movies, but I love the "wtf moments" even more.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Herzog being the biggest example of the stereotype of humorless German ever. Werner. You're amazing. We love you. I hope you realize how hilarious this anecdote is for us Anglo-Saxons.

[@mickylove76]

I can listen to him for ages.