The Noam Chomsky Show - Chasers War on Everything

[adamboots1]

hahahahahaha!!!

[aylaa121]

This is awesome. I did work experience with these guys when they did this episode, and I was apart of the whole production. Best fun.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

Why Noam Chomsky? There are plenty of philosophers for which this sketch would have been a real good parody of, but Chomsky is not one of them. I'd invite folks who have never seen Chomsky to go watch a few videos of him. He rarely talks in such fundamental philosophical vernacular. Most of his stuff is about US and Isreali military aggression, and all in plain English!

[degas5000]

@TheGodlessGuitarist He taught philosophy (w/ all that technical stuff) and linguistics.. then you have his political work on top of that.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

@degas5000 That doesnt really wash I'm afraid. Chomsky is and has always been a straight talker, he avoids the obscurity of arcane jargon as much as possible.

[degas5000]

@TheGodlessGuitarist Yes he's a straight talker but he also wrote technical books that are complete jargon to the untrained eye lol

[theKockunge]

@TheGodlessGuitarist yeah but isnt ike...."well chomsky a smart dude i guess, we dont care what he really talks about, lets just do some parody on being smart." or like he reads books and stuff so ....eh....lets make fun of that. its like theres geeks, which are to all the same....and theres normal people. Juat put some long sentences in there.....its a perfect exemple of the standard boring misconception about intelelctualism.

[theKockunge]

@theKockunge ...or not "misconception "...but dismissal.

[theKockunge]

@theKockunge dismissive

[munkdo3]

jajajajajaj

[Gabagool1]

Very funny, though the satire is entirely misplaced by aiming it at Chomsky. The people who made this clearly have no clue what Chomsky is about. The whole point about Chomsky is that he DOESN'T speak in that kind of abstract, metaphysical, postmodern mumbo jumbo lingo. In fact, he has dismissed the entire postmodern movement as being essentially gibberish. So they should have used one of the intellectuals who really talk that way, someone like Foucault whom I honestly don't understand.

[hrmIwonder]

the thing that makes this funny is that Chomsky makes fun of most modern day philosophers, he calls the Paris intellectuals "the core of the rot." He thinks that they just overcomplicate everything so they can be like the physicists who really are smart and have complicated formulas and use big words. So the 'intellectuals' come up with theories like 'poststructuralism'. haha

[grmc949]

@hrmIwonder I reckon the funniest thing is reading posts that try to intellectualise humour, complete with a philosophical digression, and then try to compensate with a little 'haha' at the end. Not in a mean way, it really did make me laugh:) 

[JunnyICurosi]

No offense, but Noam looks really fit.

[RetinendParadox]

smartarse shite

[Ebareebaveebeedee]

Fantastic.

[pennydesouza]

Ahh great idea. This was v entertaining.

[MultiSmartass1]

I assume this is a Canadian show because no American sketch comedy show would ever attemtp something as intelligently parodistic as this.

This is quite funny and a nice premise although it only defines Chomsky as a philsopher when his area of expertise is Linguistics.

[xk1ng69]

@MultiSmartass1

nah its an australian show

[MultiSmartass1]

@xk1ng69 Well, its a great sketch and a great premise. I just love it.

[citizenihilist]

If you can't find this funny as a Chomsky reader solely because you think it's derogatory then you need to eat a dick immediately.

[MyMelancholyDodo]

I'm a big fan of Chomsky, and this sketch is sheer briliiance

[upplsuckimcool16]

LOL I thought this was serious and I was liike WOW I dind't know this up until the water got thrown in the face of that guy...

[Shockwave474]

@upplsuckimcool16 I know. I had to watch it twice to get its full meaning, and then I started thinking that I wished that real talk show white trash could be this smart.

[absba9]

i can't stop watching this!!

[ragnarokuk]

how sad poor idiot

[vriend1]

this is an attack on Chomsky.

[absba9]

@vriend1 this is hilarious!!

[IWillKeepThisAccount]

@vriend1 No it's not, it is just a joke, Noam Chomsky is absolutely brilliant. Trust me, we all get that (I hope) but this is just having a good laugh.

[kmfw72]

Apart from 'argy-bargy' (British or australian) they're very convincing!

[Gettinghitonattheban]

I can picture Schopenhauer and Hegel fighting it out on this show.

[bazmataz]

This is genius. All Chomsky lectures should be like this.

[gloomyoutlook]

Brilliant xD

[gettingchilli]

i cqnt believe there marginalsing him here

[Deadleader555]

WHAHAHA!

[scarletletterman84]

lol wtf?? how the shit did this happen?! this is hilarious.

[classicalhero7]

What is truth? I can't sit here and hold a proposition to be true. I can only say a proposition appears to be true or has truth-like properties.

Too funny.

[terminaldeity]

Hahaha! Oh man, as a linguistics major, I can't get away from Noam Chomsky. He's so political that people forget that he was a linguist first and foremost, having introduced the theory of Universal Grammar.

[blakeGTR]

Definitely funny.

[successfulbuild]

Noam Chomsky:

Influenced by: Rousseau, Russell, von Humboldt, Adam Smith, Zellig Harris, Rocker, Kant, Orwell, Turing.

Influenced: Pinker, Everett, Harman, Fodor, Albert, Finkelstein, Bill Hicks :)

[AndroidPolitician]

emphasis on influenced by Orwell and Smith.

[thoughtvideo]

also influenced by Bakunin

[rujiel17]

and good old Hicks is how I found out about him. :)

[SweetDissident]

And Arundhati Roy, too. Chomsky is also a muse to Roy. Her book War Talk is excellent.

[Dalambam]

I'd add Marx, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Antonio Gramsci and Rosa Luxembourg to that list.

[LadyBlutHecate]

@Dalambam GOD YES BAKUNIN.

[MikhailSilverwood]

@LadyBlutHecate Bakunin stinks

GO LENIN!!!!

[Ilikenuman]

@MikhailSilverwood lenin was a mass murderer and authoritarian oppurtunist, go lenin!

[MikhailSilverwood]

@Ilikenuman Lenin was not a mass murder or an authoritarian. All that stuff was Stalin's doing.

[Ilikenuman]

@MikhailSilverwood

Lenin killed 5 million people before stalin got into power.

As the communist party was beginning to claim russian land there were peasant militia movements that were killed to try and keep hold of their land than the state was stealing from them. chemical weapons were used. Women and children were killed.

People from the former borgeoise class were murdered. Liberals, and anarchists who disagreed with the bolsheviks were also butchered.

LERN 2 HISTORY

[RodaLund]

@Ilikenuman

Wow! Five mill kill! That Lenin sure must have been busy...

Stop lying dork.

[Wobblecoc]

@MikhailSilverwood Lenin did whatev it took to continue the momentum of the party view. Any means to an end.

Granted. He did not kill on the scale of Starlin, but he did employ the Lettish sharpshooters to great effect. In a pro Leninist view of accepted murder.

Other justifications for these murders have been.They were bourgeoisie, opportunists and careerists. Enemey of the Revoulution. Enemy of Russia...

Lenin did have a good intention, but there the mother of all...

Masons.

[successfulbuild]

Lol. Absolutely hilarious. 'not the father of Post structuralism.'

And not many people know Chomsky's work has had an influence even in philosophy. Check out: Chomsky amid the philosophers. He would probably be some kind of logical positivist or logical atomist.

[fomastephanovitch]

I think the existence of shows like Jerry Springer completely undermine Noam Chomsky's political philosophy of anarcho-syndicalism.

Makes me think of the peasants on the commune in The Holy Grail.

[successfulbuild]

I think the point is people should be more concerned with questions of truth, logic, ethics, morality, reason, politics, etc., than they are with sports and what normally takes place on these kind of shows.

Chomsky himself has noted that people are basically smart even in their ability to recall all kinds of obscure facts say about football statistics. Our 'challenge' is to make politics interesting to people as well, since it affects their lives in a meainingful way.

[spacerumsfeld]

Keep in mind as well Chomsky would have people that dilute themselves with such shit making important decisions for the country. Always referring to what the majority of Americans think and contrasting it with policy.

[Cefuroxx]

anarchism has a broad back, if the spanish anarchists could endure against the nazis they could handle jerry springer I assure you

[o0xst]

lame

[NosdrahcirBocaj]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[yviva]

ha ha... hilarious... even if philosophy itself is a bunch of rhetorical and semantic mumbo jumbo...

[randomlittletoad]

I don't think philosophy could be considered rhetorical, since rhetoric is by definition intended for persuasion or entertainment. Philosophy was created not for those reasons but to solve problems. It does so more safely than war does. As for semantics (the study of meaning), yes philosophy is very much invested in meaning, since values are from where our cultural problems arise. Chomsky was a linguist and language is very connected to semantics. Yes the vid is hilarious.

[yviva]

while philosophical musings and ponderings aren't necessarily intended to be little more than rhetorical or semantic labyrinthine mumbo jumbo, that is still what they often amount to. philosophizing is what people do when they lack the ability to engage in objective scientific inquiry regarding a particular issue or topic... not that science and scientific methods do not have their own extreme limitations as well... so, we may be philosophizing ourself in circles until the end our our race...

[randomlittletoad]

Yeah, philosophy and science can both be used badly, as can art, religion, politics or any other way that humans make sense of the world. What can be used to help humanity (and most of these ways of understanding our surroundings are created to help humanity) can also be used to coerce humanity, or to spew nonsense with no basis in reality, either to manipulate reality or simply because you don't understand and repeat empty rhetoric.

[Dalambam]

@yviva

Philosophy is all about using rational inquiry to understand how the world works... Science itself is based on philosophy. (I mean, before you can have science, you need to lay the basis for it by defining what truth, objectivity are, and whether they can actually be reached, etc etc, which are basic philosophical questions)

[darkknightbob101]

WOO WOO WOO WOO CHOMSKY CHOAMSKY!

[thespacialone]

@Dalambam As I'm sure you know, modern sciences developed from the philosophical traditions, loosely termed natural philosophy. You state the point very well.

[Dalambam]

And logic also, obviously lol.

[MillsApparatus]

Oh hey the comments section has turned into an IRL version of the skit. How meta.

[Pitacle]

Can someone tells me what the girl says at 0:38 ? I can't understand some of the important words she's saying.

[1NosferatuZodd1]

basically says that using reason without experience (or physical evidence is simpler) will result in illusion or unjustified conclusions. however you must first use reason to justify that anything is real at all therefore the premise that the world is real will result in a illusion (if you hold that view)

make sense? consider how you know anything exists at all and that your experiences are real eg. is experience real or are you in some kind of matrix computer simulation

[timshieldrod]

love chomsky, but think they could have done a little better - that lady in the audience did good though haha

[DanLackey]

hey this is REALLT GOOD!

[shankyxyz]

mazing vieo...

[MareIngenii]

Fucking A!!

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

Love Noam, love Chasers. Love this fucking sketch.

[bazmataz]

Great sketch. Can't see what everyone is getting upset about!

[lordennis01]

Maybe they should try to make it more intelligent so it might come off as though they were imitating chomsky, not some wierdo.

[spiltanarchy]

i think this video pokes fun at how tv is actually aimed at making people fucking retarded and how it'd be if there was actual educational stuff on instead. funny as hell too!

[nukeevry1]

I could create a syllogism about these comments!

[herodotus53]

I could create a syllogism about these things.... :)

[wouwouhahaha]

This is stupid; this show is for stupid people who are not smart like high school kids who think that being "stupid" is cool.  DUMB ASS!!!!!

[JRTET21]

The Chaser's War on Everything is a very funny and intelligent show.

[AidanMclaren]

Shut up, "dumbass".

[AirRave]

IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FACE!

[aamonti]

This show has 1 purpose. It makes Noam Chomsky seem like a philosopher who is incomprehensible and talks about meaningless theoretical stuff. The real noam chomsky is totally different. He talks about things that matter to us all: our rights, how democracy works, how it doesn't work. He talks about the dangers of environmental destruction and climate change. He warns against nuclear proliferation and militarism. But he also explains all this in very simple terms so everybody can understand.

[metalheaven]

I'm a Noam Chomsky fan and I thought this was hilarious.

I think you're missing the point of this sketch. It's not aiming to denote or attack Chomsky, in fact the decision to use Chomsky as the host is merely incidental in my opinion. Contrast is a common comedic technique and all this sketch is doing is offering a contrast between the mundane world of Jerry Springer with the more intellectual realm of philosophy.

[Poleschs]

@metalheaven Noam Chomsky is one special guy, eh? I recently bought a signed copy of his book "Interventions" for 120 dollars, but was worth it! It's a shame how the American politicians turn their back to Noam and his ideas, they are all worth taking a good look into..

[awesome399]

@metalheaven so very true

[haroos]

@metalheaven then you are a nazi supporter of nazi hamas regime.

hamas banned music by law, and you support them.

in effect you are against human rights.

i hope you die.

[Darusdei]

@haroos godwin's law, you lose...

[haroos]

@Darusdei this was meant to me ?

[JunnyICurosi]

@haroos Haroos, I know an Iranian who behaves just like you. You know what happened to him? His channel eventually got terminated. Why? For being a colossal wank. And the whole of YT laughed at him.

Keep it up.

[haroos]

@JunnyICurosi YT ?

listen pig, when you take a stand on h uman rights, try not to threaten others in closing their site while you're at it, ok pig ?

fucking leftist hipporite, like i didn't see it a hundred times.

[JunnyICurosi]

@haroos My, what name-calling! From those victims of bottle rockets hurled by KHAMAASSS! Listen, shellfish, people will lose their shit and poke fun at you if you keep it up. Being a victim of the lulz isn't pretty.

[haroos]

@JunnyICurosi lulz ?

you play the human rights ticket, but you threaten my most basic of free speech ?

and you act what ?

what is lulz btw.

[TheInternetMurderer]

Having read countless (and I mean countless... possibly thousands but literally countless) works on politics and philosophy, i can safely say that Noam Chomsky IS incomprehensible. he is a fluid writer, sure, but the actual subject matter is completely warped and stupid and wrong. i try to avoid reading Chomsky if i can help it, because i always feel stupider afterwards.

however i love the skit, and would love to see a show like this.

[crnogoracz]

Hahaha, you feel "stupider" afterwards? Did you pick up that word in one of those "countless" political and philosophical works?

[monkeyjay13]

If you can't discern the meaning of his word even though it may not be grammatically correct then the problem lies with you, not TheInternetMurderer. Who's stupider now?!

[crnogoracz]

Monkey, you totally got me! You totally figured me out! And as an award you get a banana.

I admit, I did not understand what he meant by "stupider", thank you for pointing that out. You and your theinternetspellingbee are reaching very high intelectual levels and in the process are debunking Chomsky as a "warped, stupid and wrong" and me as "stupider". Yes, Chomsky and I are "stupider" and you guys are "smarterer". Yes, the problem obviously lies within me.

[frozenparrot]

Bananas! Noam Chimpsky says hi

[wid85]

They chould have chosen an actual philosopher, but still funny stuff.

[Veteran4Peace]

Bwahahahh!

[Neondub]

Haha, this is genius!

[chaospet]

this is beautiful

[jpkushin]

"currently dating a logical positivist"

that's too funny!

[VivaElCheSiempre]

maybe not EXACTLY like this, but can you imagine what it would be like if Chomsky had been given a real platform all these decades?

[yviva]

everything he has to say is very much worth listening to, but, he's a terrible speaker, so, likely, what it would have been like would have been a series of audiences quickly nodding off to sleep...

[VivaElCheSiempre]

on the other hand, William F. Buckley had his show "Firing Line" for 33 years, just a little perspective.

[yviva]

hey, i'm all for chomsky getting absolutely as much exposure as possible, in any way possible. i'm just saying... i think he could use a speech coach.

[VivaElCheSiempre]

fair enough.

[randomlittletoad]

haha, he is a little monotone. It wasn't so bad back in the days of "manufacturing consent" and before, but the new ones he's gotten an even lower voice in old age. Kind of like watching the late buckminster fuller speak, hard to hear.