It's called the World's series. Notice the apostrophe because it's the name of the organisation which started it. It has nothing to do with the actual world. True facts.
@jacksawild Ur a fucking retard its not World's series its world series I have a box set of the 2005 WORLD series and it says world series on the box.
@bobjones163 "The series were promoted and referred to as "The Championship of the United States", "World's Championship Series", or "World's Series" for short" - this is from the wiki article detailing the history and it clearly states that the original 19th century name was as I suggested and for the reason I detailed. Are you so stupid that you cannot imagine the name has changed over time? I await an apology.
@jacksawild A wikipedia article u say? yeah thats a good place to get ur information, a place where any asshole can go and edit and put in whatever they want. and yeah the name of the world series has been renamed since 2005... I doubt it.
@bobjones163 You seem to get your information from a DVD sleeve cover. Whatever. You do realise that wiki provides references and sources which can be checked? Is it any wonder the world thinks american is synonymous with stupid?
@metamorp8 It's called american football, because Football is any type of game where the object is to advance the ball from one end to another and take it into goal area. Hence, why Rugby is sometimes called Rugby Football. American Football, is called so because it's an american variation of a football styled game.
Why is it called American 'Football'? Most of the time the players are carrying the ball, not kicking it, and besides that they use a rugby ball. It should be called American Rugby, right? Or is there already a game called American Rugby where everyone is only allowed to kick the spherical ball?
@MintyRoadkill That's funny, because I was under the impression that it was only called the World Series because baseball wasn't a very popular sport, globally, and creating something called the 'World Series' made it seem more international. And...a case could be made for their egotism.
@darknessblack12 Best talent: MLB. Superstars come in from Japan all the time only to become above average players. Has-beens and never-weres can find success in the Japanese or Mexican leagues. America's league is the most talent-laden, and thus, whichever team wins the WS is the best in the world for that year.
@darknessblack12 It is called World Series because the league was sponsored by the now defunct New York World newspaper. After the paper went out of business, the name stuck.
This is exactly why I love Eddie: he never jokes about anyone in the audience personally, not even if they heckle. Many other stand-up comics do that, and it always just makes someone feel uncomfortable. Eddie just goes on with an effective but yet very polite and british way: "Just shut up, WILL YOU." The heckler must feel rather privileged than humiliated.
You said America, not North America. When you said America, I interpreted that to mean the United States of America, not the North American continent.
@shinmusashi44 and you are retarded as well. You forgot greenland, the caribbean, and central america. They are all geographically known as north america.
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@WIDOWDUDE1 It's very popular in South Korea, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Taiwan, Canada, Netherlands Antilles and Mexico. It's also moderately popular in other nations.
Yeah, what the hell is up with the whole Americans calling football 'soccer' and American football 'football'??! American football is basically rugby with padding - never understood that. The rest of the world calls it football but Americans just have to be different! No offence to Americans btw... just another thing I just don't get about Americans!
@Rachiejane1 it's rubgy + padding + millions of unnecessary rules. initially when the rules were enforced no one liked them. they made a movie about it...
@Rachiejane1 well of course it has a story behind it. "leather heads" the main character enjoys "real american football" which was really really similar to rugby. then the story unfolds about how american football got all those rules enforced and the fun taken out.
@Rachiejane1 It's not just Americans. Canadians, Australians, and New Zelanders. use the word "soccer" when referring to Association Football. In all of those countries there is a more popular game that is referred to as "football". In South Africa the top tier soccer league is called "Premier Soccer League", not "Premier Football League". In the English-speaking Caribbean the word soccer is used, but football is more common.
@mellowandy time for a little history lesson. The only reason there are pads is because in 1915, 17 people were killed in 9 weeks playing. Plus you should actually understand a game before criticizing it.
@Poptartza First how do you know I don't understand it? Second get a sense of humour why don't you. Did you not see the ;p and also is this not a comedy page? I profusely apologize if I have caused any offense and I shall immediately rush out and buy a copy of the history of American football ;p .........actually both games are tough and pads are understandable. Peace!!
@mellowandy I apologize. I just got finished with a 2 hour debate with a guy from New Zealand at my college about the 2 sports, and I was still firing on all cylinders. The guy knew absolutely nothing besides the padding. I'm no expert on rugby, but if I'm watching a game and someone asks me something I can tell them what's going on.
@Rachiejane1 I'm pretty sure that the term 'soccer' was originally an English term anyway (though not used very often, obviously), and as for why Americans call football 'soccer'...*shrugs*.
@evanjake54 Well that's another thing, the metric system is too simple and structural for your taste so you just have to use feet and inches and yards and whatnot
@Rachiejane1 The fact of the matter is, American football was around in America before soccer, so the name was already taken when soccer got to America. Also, if you knew anything about American football you would know it is alot different from rugby, though I admit they may be slightly similar. Just becuase the rest of the world decided to name a game football after America already did, does not mean that we're the weird ones.
@yankovicfan17 You may want to brush up on your history mate. Games of 'football' were played the world over more than a millennium before what you call "America" was even officially discovered. Modern day American Football has nothing to do with the origin of the term football, there are plenty of well documented cases from ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and Ancient China and Japan that games called football were played as long ago as 400BC.
@yankovicfan17 I'll not go into the history of the semantics I just want to point out your own sentence: quote [Just becuase the REST OF THE WORLD decided to name a game football after America already did, does not mean that we're the weird ones.]
@Rachiejane1 that's to accomodate the ex-football players who have come to the end of their football career, but haven't any other skills than kicking a ball.
They become the "punters" and get to feel all special about being the only bloke on the team who gets to kick the ball.
Anyway it's hard enough for those old farts to remember that they're no longer a 'striker' but are now a 'punter'. Never mind getting them to remember that they're no longer playing football, but padded-rugby instead.
@Rachiejane1 I'm american i call soccer, football and american football, rubbish. i wish i was over a hundred years old to tell you but now its just a taught thing on the names. XD
@Rachiejane1 Im American and i dont know...i guess we do just like to feel better by being different, Hell why should we use feet? Everyone else on the damn Earth uses meters!
How do we not take offense to a basement dwelling nerd living with his "Mum" talking about matters which he can simply google but is too lazy too?
Soccer is slang for Assoc or Socca (Associated Football) which began in the late 1800s to make a standardized league of rules for rugby, by then the US already had football, so used the slang term for the other form of the sport.
Funny how I found this out with 1 google search.
The world does not revolve around you guys, nor does it for us.
In England theres a team (called Sheffield FC) that wrote the basic rules of football that still stands today, in the 1850's. So show me proof where american football even comes close to that date. Earliest ive found for your game was it evolving between 1874 and 1900. Funny how you believe everything you read on one google search whitetiger. Apart from the fact we named it first, the ball rarely touches your foot in your sport and your ball is hardly ball-shaped is it?!!
@jacksawild not really since in Rugby you cant do the same tackles as you can in American football. Not only that but in American football they are allowed be be more rough. I have played both.
@TheMetalPenguin By your argument an entire hemisphere of the world is American L O L at least we'd probably win every olympics. My mom recently became an AMERICAN citizen once she renounced her CANADIAN citizenship hmm now why would she have to do that if fuckin everyone is American hmmmmmmmmmmm. We (in America) are called Americans not united statesians. At least half qualify your point and call canadians north americans not americans.
@delthafunk the world series is a baseball tournament... Being that the world series has nothing but teams from America in it... America has won every world series... joke over your head... lol notice how he mentions baseball and breaks from the soccer joke? or am I the only one? I read down and see this argument with many people... very observant daft people we seem to be dealing with here lol
@ootter07 the joke was not over my head but apparently my argument was over yours. Are Canadians Americans?? I don't think so, yet the TORONTO blue jays have won the world series and for your information TORONTO is in CANADA y o u d u m b a s s h o l e "Being that the world series has nothing but teams from America in it" is just plain wrong - very ignorant misinformed douchebags we seem to be dealing with here
@delthafunk It is currently composed of 30 teams — twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada.q... sorry we forgot about the ONE team that from what it appears seems to be has beens... they won 2 world series 18 and 17 years ago... lol wonder why everyone forgets 'bout them... can you give me some more facts that make them a little more memorable? or is it safe to say you're just an out-crying fan boy for a shit team?
@ootter07 lol nice wikipedia skills.. First off I'm not a fan boy, the jays suck, Second it doesn't mean jack shit if they are memorable or not the fucking point is that they are not american and twice have won the world series ... think anyone remembers the Boston Red Sox yeah they do and they've won the world series ONCE ... EVER if you need more facts about the jays you can just use wikipedia again oh and wtf does this mean "from what it appears seems to be has beens" LOL
@TheMetalPenguin Look I'm not going to get into this argument again. People who are AMERICANS are from the united states of AMERICA, the only country named America. The joke is about which COUNTRIES have won the World series not which CONTINENTS -- if that was the question it would obviously only be one answer. It's the same as how BRAZILIANS FROM BRAZIL AREN'T AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN SOUTH AMERICA.. haha ask any Argentinian if they consider themselves American u r dum
@TheMetalPenguin By your argument an entire hemisphere of the world is American L O L at least we'd probably win every olympics. My mom recently became an AMERICAN citizen once she renounced her CANADIAN citizenship hmm now why would she have to do that if fuckin everyone is American hmmmmmmmmmmm. We (in America) are called Americans not united statesians. At least half qualify your point and call canadians north americans not americans.
why is everyone talking about football the World Series is baseball dumbfucks ANd furthermore Canada has won the world series i.e. Toronto blue jays in '92 and '93 ... you dumb assholes are thinking about the superbowl lol
listen im catholic and heres christianity in a nut shell the belief that some cosmic jewish zombie is going to make u live forever if u symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically say u accept him as ur master so he can remove an evil force from within ur soul that is present in mankind all because some rib-woman was convinced from a talking snake to eat from a magical tree........makes perfect sense
@Fishlights its short for association. as in association football which is what the full name of football is. as appossed to grid iron(american) football or australian football or rugby football (rugby)
I am entertained by him because of the information he gives, and the manner in which he gives it. Most of the time I only laugh because I'm conditioned to laugh along with an audience. If no one was laughing, I'd just find him very interesting. I enjoy the way he gives the audience information. He said before that most of his material was from television, watching educational channels.
It's the North American Baseball Championship series. It's a set of seven games between the top two teams in North America (specifically, teams mainly in the US, but also a couple in Canada). The first to win 4 games wins the championship.
allright thanks for replying...Why is it called world series then ??? is it like Plaster of Paris and French Fries ?? just named it to make it sound better ?
I imagine so. It sounds more impressive than "American Championships" or what have you, so they probably used World Series. It might also be that they named it back when America was the only country playing baseball (as opposed to cricket or stickball), but I'm not sure.
Maybe canada will win some time
Bakorafanboy13 2 days ago
@amit14267 "We know that" or "didn't know that"
suroj 1 month ago
I would watch Aliens: Jesus Edition
rankaratar 2 months ago 4
3:00 is where the actual baseball bit is
recon455 3 months ago
Ahaha good to see someone rip into America.
JMetzful 3 months ago
@JMetzful : /
checkster12 3 months ago
Anyone up for a game of bananas?
kryptoniceffect 5 months ago
It's called the World's series. Notice the apostrophe because it's the name of the organisation which started it. It has nothing to do with the actual world. True facts.
jacksawild 6 months ago
@jacksawild Ur a fucking retard its not World's series its world series I have a box set of the 2005 WORLD series and it says world series on the box.
bobjones163 6 months ago
@bobjones163 "The series were promoted and referred to as "The Championship of the United States", "World's Championship Series", or "World's Series" for short" - this is from the wiki article detailing the history and it clearly states that the original 19th century name was as I suggested and for the reason I detailed. Are you so stupid that you cannot imagine the name has changed over time? I await an apology.
jacksawild 6 months ago
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bobjones163 6 months ago
@jacksawild A wikipedia article u say? yeah thats a good place to get ur information, a place where any asshole can go and edit and put in whatever they want. and yeah the name of the world series has been renamed since 2005... I doubt it.
bobjones163 6 months ago
@bobjones163 You seem to get your information from a DVD sleeve cover. Whatever. You do realise that wiki provides references and sources which can be checked? Is it any wonder the world thinks american is synonymous with stupid?
jacksawild 6 months ago 2
@bobjones163 I really can't tell if you're serious or not
You're either a great troll, or a colossal idiot
Habbadax 5 months ago
@jacksawild You seem to have missed the actual title of that Wikipedia article...
mcgorgomagan 4 months ago
football is biggest sport on the planet. fact.
gspotkentzoom 6 months ago
@hangout4eva All Americans Stereotype like ignorant people.
WhiteTiger225 7 months ago
@WhiteTiger225 LOL good job being a hypocrite and stereotyping Americans like an "ignorant person" would do apparently.
LawF87 7 months ago
Alien is the bible.
amazed2341 7 months ago 3
funny and brilliant.
sweetytwome2 7 months ago
Uh? Toronto (Canada) won 2 world series! Not American. But this guy is still funny as hell.
freewill51 7 months ago
Lol, I saw world series and I immediatly thought 'Hetalia!'
phoenixhart17 7 months ago
I would just like to point out that the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992 and 1993. So, 2 points for Canada!
Playahatakroom 7 months ago
@Playahatakroom Cananda is always forgotten TTmTT
roquemyracle127 7 months ago
...Anyone else think of Hetalia?
TheMoonPower 8 months ago
ROFL he made one mistake I think Canada won the world series once or twice (Toronto Blue Jays)
12Nehal 8 months ago
@metamorp8 It's called american football, because Football is any type of game where the object is to advance the ball from one end to another and take it into goal area. Hence, why Rugby is sometimes called Rugby Football. American Football, is called so because it's an american variation of a football styled game.
constantnag 8 months ago
Why is it called American 'Football'? Most of the time the players are carrying the ball, not kicking it, and besides that they use a rugby ball. It should be called American Rugby, right? Or is there already a game called American Rugby where everyone is only allowed to kick the spherical ball?
Metamorp8 8 months ago
Hey Toronto won a couple of times.
kraken589 9 months ago 16
@kraken589 yeppers :) but since 1992/1993 and all the times before that, it was all american teams.
goop2526 9 months ago
13 people can't do the belt bit
letshaveadingdong 9 months ago
God, his shirt is so shiny. I feel blinded xD
darknessblack12 9 months ago
It's called the world series because the best talent in the world comes to play in the MLB.
MintyRoadkill 10 months ago
@MintyRoadkill That's funny, because I was under the impression that it was only called the World Series because baseball wasn't a very popular sport, globally, and creating something called the 'World Series' made it seem more international. And...a case could be made for their egotism.
darknessblack12 9 months ago
@darknessblack12 Could you please not refer to us as though there are none of us on this page right now? JK
I'm American. I have to be able to take criticism.
Explosiveelm 9 months ago 2
@darknessblack12 Best talent: MLB. Superstars come in from Japan all the time only to become above average players. Has-beens and never-weres can find success in the Japanese or Mexican leagues. America's league is the most talent-laden, and thus, whichever team wins the WS is the best in the world for that year.
MintyRoadkill 9 months ago
@darknessblack12 It is called World Series because the league was sponsored by the now defunct New York World newspaper. After the paper went out of business, the name stuck.
bluntman007 9 months ago
@bluntman007 that makes sense seeing as we now have things like the Barclays Cup
ShasLaMontyr 9 months ago
@amit14267 She was trying to correct him on a historical fact.
Dolphinbebe3632 10 months ago
Well technically Toronto has won twice, so America hasn't won EVERY year.
golfguy11219 10 months ago
Awesome routine, I love Eddie Izzard!
...Although I am one of those people who has to watch on the plane apparently. What are the two silly ones?
hang1iderswing 11 months ago
I'm kinda jealous of how slim he looks in that outfit. Actually, all of his outfits.
Czathero 11 months ago
This is exactly why I love Eddie: he never jokes about anyone in the audience personally, not even if they heckle. Many other stand-up comics do that, and it always just makes someone feel uncomfortable. Eddie just goes on with an effective but yet very polite and british way: "Just shut up, WILL YOU." The heckler must feel rather privileged than humiliated.
Simyrah 1 year ago 2
Yeah... Its fun! But that aside the video is still funny!:D
Randomvidsarehere 1 year ago
Actually Canada won a couple times (blue jays)
Randomvidsarehere 1 year ago
@Randomvidsarehere Must you ruin everything
jilubit 1 year ago
@junkybabes A common mistake. The World Series was sponsored by The World newspaper.
zenzombie72 1 year ago
Toronto Blue Jays have won 2
Cioppa182 1 year ago
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shinmusashi44 1 year ago
@shinmusashi44
Um, no, it's not, actually. Go back to school, bud.
bigdthirtytwo 1 year ago
@bigdthirtytwo
So you're gonna set there and tell me that Canada isn't part of North America? Are you retarded? The US, Mexico and Canada make up North America.
shinmusashi44 1 year ago
@shinmusashi44
You said America, not North America. When you said America, I interpreted that to mean the United States of America, not the North American continent.
bigdthirtytwo 1 year ago
@shinmusashi44 and you are retarded as well. You forgot greenland, the caribbean, and central america. They are all geographically known as north america.
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@bigdthirtytwo
You do know that Canada is part of America, right? So hes still right in that only America plays the game.
shinmusashi44 1 year ago
Izzard has always been amazing at improv I dont find it surprisung at all that he handled that person so well :-)
fenrizroar 1 year ago
at 2:00 Jesus called Joshua..from studying Hebrew shorten form Ye-shu-a or Yehohshua ... the name meaning;"Jehovah is Salvation"..thereby one can by see studying ancient Hebrew: יהרה Jehovah יהשע Jesus
Jezreel7773 1 year ago
:)
manlovespeace 1 year ago
whats a heckler?
Enoa7 1 year ago
@Enoa7 A heckler is someone in the crowd who shouts disparaging comments at a performer to distract the performers or just interrupt in general
dairinecaoilfhionn 1 year ago
Do we know what the heckler says?
CaptainYossarian 1 year ago
football is played all over the world ( soccer ) ,not am football or baseball
olejohnny64 1 year ago 2
that's right !!! junkybabes
olejohnny64 1 year ago
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tinidus 1 year ago
@hangout4eva i think the point he was making was how the hell can it be the world series when one or two countries play the sport...
junkybabes 1 year ago
@junkybabes A common mistake. The World Series was sponsored by The World newspaper.
zenzombie72 1 year ago
Actually the Toronto Blue Jays, Canada, they won twice...
But yep--we OWN that great World event, the World Series... XD
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago
i love how he pays out americans hahaha. people should do that more often
new91york 1 year ago
@new91york pays out?
Rachiejane1 1 year ago
Hey Canada could win
feeneyhungry 1 year ago
Unless my memory's faulty, Canada had won a couple of World Series when this came out.
Selachim 1 year ago
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DanieINegreanu2323 1 year ago
hecklers should be killed
BananaSandwich1 1 year ago
wait, why bother having a world series for baseball? do any other countries besides japan even care about baseball?
WIDOWDUDE1 1 year ago
@WIDOWDUDE1 It's very popular in South Korea, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Taiwan, Canada, Netherlands Antilles and Mexico. It's also moderately popular in other nations.
yellow5yellow5 1 year ago
Yeah, what the hell is up with the whole Americans calling football 'soccer' and American football 'football'??! American football is basically rugby with padding - never understood that. The rest of the world calls it football but Americans just have to be different! No offence to Americans btw... just another thing I just don't get about Americans!
Rachiejane1 1 year ago 22
@Rachiejane1 it's rubgy + padding + millions of unnecessary rules. initially when the rules were enforced no one liked them. they made a movie about it...
WIDOWDUDE1 1 year ago
@WIDOWDUDE1 Really? What was the movie called? A movie about rules..?
Rachiejane1 1 year ago
@Rachiejane1 well of course it has a story behind it. "leather heads" the main character enjoys "real american football" which was really really similar to rugby. then the story unfolds about how american football got all those rules enforced and the fun taken out.
WIDOWDUDE1 1 year ago
@WIDOWDUDE1 I just wondered how they turned it into an hour and a half long film. Yeah - I see no point at all. Why not just play rugby...?!!
Rachiejane1 1 year ago
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@Rachiejane1 It's not just Americans. Canadians, Australians, and New Zelanders. use the word "soccer" when referring to Association Football. In all of those countries there is a more popular game that is referred to as "football". In South Africa the top tier soccer league is called "Premier Soccer League", not "Premier Football League". In the English-speaking Caribbean the word soccer is used, but football is more common.
yellow5yellow5 1 year ago
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yellow5yellow5 1 year ago
@Rachiejane1 it's very different from rugby. the only things that are the same are the relative shape of the ball and tackling.
Poptartza 1 year ago
@Poptartza and rubgy players don't wear huge nancy shoulder pads and giant crash helmets and stop for a breather every couple of minutes ;p
mellowandy 1 year ago
@mellowandy time for a little history lesson. The only reason there are pads is because in 1915, 17 people were killed in 9 weeks playing. Plus you should actually understand a game before criticizing it.
Poptartza 1 year ago
@Poptartza First how do you know I don't understand it? Second get a sense of humour why don't you. Did you not see the ;p and also is this not a comedy page? I profusely apologize if I have caused any offense and I shall immediately rush out and buy a copy of the history of American football ;p .........actually both games are tough and pads are understandable. Peace!!
mellowandy 1 year ago
@mellowandy I apologize. I just got finished with a 2 hour debate with a guy from New Zealand at my college about the 2 sports, and I was still firing on all cylinders. The guy knew absolutely nothing besides the padding. I'm no expert on rugby, but if I'm watching a game and someone asks me something I can tell them what's going on.
Poptartza 1 year ago
@Rachiejane1 I'm pretty sure that the term 'soccer' was originally an English term anyway (though not used very often, obviously), and as for why Americans call football 'soccer'...*shrugs*.
darknessblack12 9 months ago
@Rachiejane1 Americans likes to be different for no reason, it makes them feel special =)
Medechan 9 months ago
@Rachiejane1 football is 1 foot long
evanjake54 9 months ago
@evanjake54 Well that's another thing, the metric system is too simple and structural for your taste so you just have to use feet and inches and yards and whatnot
TheBellyguru 8 months ago
@Rachiejane1 lol we enjoy being difficult~ We're also the ones who watch the belt-bit while getting in planes 8D
Herhinney 8 months ago
@Rachiejane1 I'm American and even I don't get it.
MyNameIsNeutron 8 months ago
@Rachiejane1 we are just weird
clownwithoutmakeup 8 months ago
@Rachiejane1 The fact of the matter is, American football was around in America before soccer, so the name was already taken when soccer got to America. Also, if you knew anything about American football you would know it is alot different from rugby, though I admit they may be slightly similar. Just becuase the rest of the world decided to name a game football after America already did, does not mean that we're the weird ones.
yankovicfan17 8 months ago
@yankovicfan17 You may want to brush up on your history mate. Games of 'football' were played the world over more than a millennium before what you call "America" was even officially discovered. Modern day American Football has nothing to do with the origin of the term football, there are plenty of well documented cases from ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and Ancient China and Japan that games called football were played as long ago as 400BC.
kkyt543 8 months ago
@yankovicfan17 I'll not go into the history of the semantics I just want to point out your own sentence: quote [Just becuase the REST OF THE WORLD decided to name a game football after America already did, does not mean that we're the weird ones.]
I highlighted the interesting bit.
MWcrazyhorse 3 months ago
@Rachiejane1 that's to accomodate the ex-football players who have come to the end of their football career, but haven't any other skills than kicking a ball.
They become the "punters" and get to feel all special about being the only bloke on the team who gets to kick the ball.
Anyway it's hard enough for those old farts to remember that they're no longer a 'striker' but are now a 'punter'. Never mind getting them to remember that they're no longer playing football, but padded-rugby instead.
kkyt543 8 months ago
@Rachiejane1 i am american, and I agree on the football and american football situation.
LittleMissRed90 7 months ago
@Rachiejane1 i'm american and i don't understand it either...
sherlockfringeaddict 7 months ago
@Rachiejane1 I'm american i call soccer, football and american football, rubbish. i wish i was over a hundred years old to tell you but now its just a taught thing on the names. XD
roquemyracle127 7 months ago
@Rachiejane1 Im American and i dont know...i guess we do just like to feel better by being different, Hell why should we use feet? Everyone else on the damn Earth uses meters!
111axa1 7 months ago
@Rachiejane1 i dont get us either
uptownkhawk 7 months ago
How do we not take offense to a basement dwelling nerd living with his "Mum" talking about matters which he can simply google but is too lazy too?
Soccer is slang for Assoc or Socca (Associated Football) which began in the late 1800s to make a standardized league of rules for rugby, by then the US already had football, so used the slang term for the other form of the sport.
Funny how I found this out with 1 google search.
The world does not revolve around you guys, nor does it for us.
WhiteTiger225 7 months ago
@WhiteTiger225
In England theres a team (called Sheffield FC) that wrote the basic rules of football that still stands today, in the 1850's. So show me proof where american football even comes close to that date. Earliest ive found for your game was it evolving between 1874 and 1900. Funny how you believe everything you read on one google search whitetiger. Apart from the fact we named it first, the ball rarely touches your foot in your sport and your ball is hardly ball-shaped is it?!!
TheJjr272 6 months ago
@TheJjr272 I like wikipedia too
Maxiboncam 6 months ago
@Rachiejane1 You don't happen to mean... Futboll?
IchBinPrussiaKesese 7 months ago
@Rachiejane1 American Football players wear pads because they would get concussions and some would die if they didn't. Its a collision sport.
cwood4ever 7 months ago
@cwood4ever I guess rugby players are just harder.
jacksawild 6 months ago
@jacksawild not really since in Rugby you cant do the same tackles as you can in American football. Not only that but in American football they are allowed be be more rough. I have played both.
cwood4ever 6 months ago
@Rachiejane1 I'm American and I completely agree!
MsJTRK 6 months ago
@Rachiejane1 I'm Australian and anyone who calls it "football" is fed to the dingoes
activatedclone 6 months ago
aw, what did the heckler say?
fishgul69 1 year ago
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@TheMetalPenguin By your argument an entire hemisphere of the world is American L O L at least we'd probably win every olympics. My mom recently became an AMERICAN citizen once she renounced her CANADIAN citizenship hmm now why would she have to do that if fuckin everyone is American hmmmmmmmmmmm. We (in America) are called Americans not united statesians. At least half qualify your point and call canadians north americans not americans.
delthafunk 1 year ago
GO MO! GO MO! Abraham on the left wing!
hobbes282 1 year ago
nvm he was talking about football (or bananas) still America has not won the world series every year
delthafunk 1 year ago
@delthafunk the world series is a baseball tournament... Being that the world series has nothing but teams from America in it... America has won every world series... joke over your head... lol notice how he mentions baseball and breaks from the soccer joke? or am I the only one? I read down and see this argument with many people... very observant daft people we seem to be dealing with here lol
ootter07 1 year ago
@ootter07 the joke was not over my head but apparently my argument was over yours. Are Canadians Americans?? I don't think so, yet the TORONTO blue jays have won the world series and for your information TORONTO is in CANADA y o u d u m b a s s h o l e "Being that the world series has nothing but teams from America in it" is just plain wrong - very ignorant misinformed douchebags we seem to be dealing with here
delthafunk 1 year ago
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ootter07 1 year ago
@delthafunk It is currently composed of 30 teams — twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada.q... sorry we forgot about the ONE team that from what it appears seems to be has beens... they won 2 world series 18 and 17 years ago... lol wonder why everyone forgets 'bout them... can you give me some more facts that make them a little more memorable? or is it safe to say you're just an out-crying fan boy for a shit team?
ootter07 1 year ago
@ootter07 lol nice wikipedia skills.. First off I'm not a fan boy, the jays suck, Second it doesn't mean jack shit if they are memorable or not the fucking point is that they are not american and twice have won the world series ... think anyone remembers the Boston Red Sox yeah they do and they've won the world series ONCE ... EVER if you need more facts about the jays you can just use wikipedia again oh and wtf does this mean "from what it appears seems to be has beens" LOL
delthafunk 1 year ago
@ootter07 the idiom "has-beens" should be hyphenated - straight outa wikipedia LOL
delthafunk 1 year ago
@delthafunk properly should be hyphenated
delthafunk 1 year ago
@delthafunk Yes, Canadians are Americans. Toronto is in Canada. Canada is in North America. QED.
TheMetalPenguin 1 year ago
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delthafunk 1 year ago
@TheMetalPenguin Look I'm not going to get into this argument again. People who are AMERICANS are from the united states of AMERICA, the only country named America. The joke is about which COUNTRIES have won the World series not which CONTINENTS -- if that was the question it would obviously only be one answer. It's the same as how BRAZILIANS FROM BRAZIL AREN'T AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN SOUTH AMERICA.. haha ask any Argentinian if they consider themselves American u r dum
delthafunk 1 year ago
@delthafunk You think I was being serious?
Also, I think you have a problem with your caps lock key :)
TheMetalPenguin 1 year ago
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@TheMetalPenguin By your argument an entire hemisphere of the world is American L O L at least we'd probably win every olympics. My mom recently became an AMERICAN citizen once she renounced her CANADIAN citizenship hmm now why would she have to do that if fuckin everyone is American hmmmmmmmmmmm. We (in America) are called Americans not united statesians. At least half qualify your point and call canadians north americans not americans.
delthafunk 1 year ago
@TheMetalPenguin oh please generally when people say "Americans" they the USA.......look up the word pedantic and the phrase sense of humour ;)
mellowandy 1 year ago
@mellowandy I know both, and I was using them both at the same time ;)
TheMetalPenguin 1 year ago
@delthafunk
Yeah, sometimes the United States wins instead.
D0g63rt 1 year ago
why is everyone talking about football the World Series is baseball dumbfucks ANd furthermore Canada has won the world series i.e. Toronto blue jays in '92 and '93 ... you dumb assholes are thinking about the superbowl lol
delthafunk 1 year ago
listen im catholic and heres christianity in a nut shell the belief that some cosmic jewish zombie is going to make u live forever if u symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically say u accept him as ur master so he can remove an evil force from within ur soul that is present in mankind all because some rib-woman was convinced from a talking snake to eat from a magical tree........makes perfect sense
bloodresurection420 1 year ago
@bloodresurection420
Oh wow you read the .jpeg!
BelfastAtheist 1 year ago
@bloodresurection420 rofl that was pretty fucking amazing many props
ootter07 1 year ago
random person in audience
eddie: wot
adience corrects his mistake
eddie: oh shut up will u!
bezzybecks123 1 year ago
Why do Americans call football "soccer", and then call the other one Football, even though it doesn't envolve feet?
Fishlights 1 year ago 4
@Fishlights I wish I knew. And I'm American!
nolometangere 1 year ago 3
@Fishlights its short for association. as in association football which is what the full name of football is. as appossed to grid iron(american) football or australian football or rugby football (rugby)
dougie211292 1 year ago 2
@dougie211292 ACtually Rugby is an english game, we play AFL
patriot6767 1 year ago
@patriot6767 Actually we play Australian Rules Football. AFL is the national league for that sport.
MrNonesuch 1 year ago
@Fishlights because we ran out of ideas
GamertagIsTURTLER9 1 year ago
'this is football i'm talking about which you call bananas!!!' LMAO++
bkk4life 1 year ago 2
Go Mo, Go Mo!
doodles1979 2 years ago 5
"if you cant work out who they are ,you're probably the person in the plane who watches when they do the belt bit" haha i love him
annahpanna 2 years ago 5
i love it when comedians take the piss out of americans!
mmmtriplem 2 years ago 43
what does the heckler in the beginning even say? i can't understand her.
BrittnixBabe 2 years ago
Strap it to me ear? Let ME fly the plane!
Ninjamonkey767 2 years ago 4
lol eddie is sooo funny!
(he is strait he just dresses that way for the shows!)
SassyCassy96 2 years ago 2
its funny because toronto jays won back to back in the 90's Go Canada!
gallaghersguy 2 years ago 19
he handled that heckler really well! got the rest of the audience on his side. good for him.
rashcaz 2 years ago 84
@rashcaz what did he say?
TheLordZixx 1 year ago
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am i the only one who thinks eddie izzard is rubish? i didnt even crack a smile
killieboy93 2 years ago
apparently
localflavorpolice 2 years ago
Well gosh, based on your thumbs down...that might be a correct assumption.
Ascentist 2 years ago
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thanks for being so civil about it, so please be civil in telling me what's funnt about him?
killieboy93 2 years ago
I am entertained by him because of the information he gives, and the manner in which he gives it. Most of the time I only laugh because I'm conditioned to laugh along with an audience. If no one was laughing, I'd just find him very interesting. I enjoy the way he gives the audience information. He said before that most of his material was from television, watching educational channels.
Ascentist 2 years ago 9
imo it's that he takes mundane topics and presents them in an unusal and unexpected way. A big element in comedy is surpise.
or he'll do the reverse, take a big thing like Alexander's conquest and puts in the mundane (soldeir doens't know where home is)
greatsayain 2 years ago 3
@greatsayain Bit part of comedy is suprise... i think laughter's part in evolution is to combat shock..... think about it.
fourthwind1 1 year ago
yea, I think you are
872463051 2 years ago
LOLLL
dancingpaws1 2 years ago
what the hell is the world series
JayfuzOMarley 2 years ago
It's the North American Baseball Championship series. It's a set of seven games between the top two teams in North America (specifically, teams mainly in the US, but also a couple in Canada). The first to win 4 games wins the championship.
TaranAlvein 2 years ago 3
allright thanks for replying...Why is it called world series then ??? is it like Plaster of Paris and French Fries ?? just named it to make it sound better ?
JayfuzOMarley 2 years ago
I imagine so. It sounds more impressive than "American Championships" or what have you, so they probably used World Series. It might also be that they named it back when America was the only country playing baseball (as opposed to cricket or stickball), but I'm not sure.
TaranAlvein 2 years ago
Surprisingly (or perhaps not) they've been playing Baseball in Japan since 1872.
KatayokoNoTenshi 2 years ago
Canada won several world series titles in the 1990s(The Blue Jays), but I guess they still count as America (Jr.) so Eddie's not acknowledging them.
pskahi01 2 years ago
If I want to tick off my friend who LOVES baseball, I make the World Series comment. Works every time.
Eddie Izzard is legend.
gradgurl2007 2 years ago 2
what IS ars-ee-aayy?
(he said 'if you dont know what .... is, you are the one listening to the seatbelt thing on the planes..'
i dont get it =/
JenterShikari 2 years ago 2
RCA is an electronics company, like Sony (which he says next)
Ralamien 2 years ago
yea, that condused me at first because i had trouble understanding his accent. i actually had to look up the quote to see what he said.
dollydoo55 2 years ago
Canada has the Blue Jays. They suck, but still.
TacticusPrime 2 years ago
we still won a world series though
Kevtbynumi 2 years ago 2