Rachel Maddow: Moment of Geek, kakapo mating.

[dropmeoffinharlem]

you fella's oughta see Kia, they're our other native parrot. They will steal anything, totally beautiful like the the Kakapo, but a little more mischievous. NZ birds rule all!

[perry3340]

@eastsider4eva It makes sense you would feel intimidated by someone so intelligent and insightful.

[barb2birds]

Lol lol this is hilarious!!! He is beating the man's face with his wings!

[BookishBirdy]

Dude got raped by a fucking parrot. LMAO!

[tretrioeciii]

You are the perfect example of someone making up imaginary arguments. You must be fauxnews viewer.

There is not one mention of any reason about why they are becoming extinct. Only a possibility.

But somehow, you hear one.

You must have that Hannity disease where you splice memories together and think they actually happen.

[LowBudProd]

cool bird

[TheMac5010]

this is hilarious!!!! lol..

[darklighter131]

Animal Porn anyone?

[moofushu]

This Rachel Maddow segment killed me when it was on the air. The second Rachel Maddow segment that was funny was when Rachel ended one of her segments with the Emily Litella's quote "Never Mind" Even the camera man was laughing.

[tretrioeciii]

that guy needs to get himself an agent cause now he's famous

[tretrioeciii]

Nature laughs last

[tretrioeciii]

I think i broke something while laughing at this.

[sarshay1987]

Aww its so cute!! hahaha go kakapo!! its so sad theres so few kakapos left, they are such placid animals. Very unusual bird, new zealand needs to keep them they have hardly any native species to represent them!!

[sealyoness]

Oh - BTW, this video is hysterically FUNNY!!!

[sealyoness]

PLEASE remove bdf2718's comments. He is profane and abusing his privileges on this website.

[FOOLYCOOLY]

Actually, bdf25whatever is right. He's directly reffering to an actual scientific study, that had those actual results. The results aren't 100% definitive, but he is not wrong.

[fruitbane]

Why is it a few inconsiderate trolls have to turn the comments of an amusing video clip into a reason to want to secede from the human race?

[meftihe]

Exactly. I've only scanned the other comments but yours is the only one worth reading as far as I can see.

Now, lets all focus on the hilarity at hand; "you're being shagged by a rare parrot!!"

[stersource]

maddow is an idotic stupid lesbo jerk!! Go to hell!!! pos !!!!

[himynameishelen]

ahaha, "Look how happy he is!"

[pookabun]

That was the best thing ever!! For soooooo many reasons!!

:->

[grendelee]

that was the most beautiful thing ive ever seen

[kiwijohnw]

Science damn it! I can't believe I just wasted my valuable time responding to that moron.

[kiwijohnw]

Ah Stinky. I love people like you. Your clear stupidity and ignorance renders any argument you may have irrelevant. Who cares what people do in their private life? (rhetorical) (Oh. You don't know what rhetorical means, haters? Look it up). Anywho, gays are sweet. Less competition for me, a straight male, and lesbians are just plain awesome. Who the F are you to say what is normal? The only sure thing, normal I know is that Republicans and christians love little boys and/or prostitutes.

[StinkyBammerHater]

Why am I stupid and ignorant? Oh I see because I have an opinion. Yes, you say you love people like me but then you insult me because I don't share the same values as you do. I used to work with a gay man and he became my friend cool guy and funny too. I have known some lesbians that would give you the shirt off their back nice ppl. Natural is normal and homosexual is not natural or normal. How do I know you don't rape prostitutes and boys kiwi? I don't know you. U gonna waste more time on me?

[ambbb1973]

One of the beauty's of free speech (yes, other peoples have that right too) is that if someone exercises their right by pronouncing their opinion to the readers of this thread (i.e potentially the entire world), then those who have read your expression of freedom & liberty (or whatever you might like to call it) liberty are equally free to respond .

Tool.

[StinkyBammerHater]

Duh! Express Yourself. We are free to do so.

Super deluxe power tool?? :p

[bdf2718]

You are not stupid and ignorant, you're a fucking moron.

Homosexuality occurs in many mammalian species, quite often around 10% of the population. It MUST be natural or evolution would have removed any tendency towards it long ago. Whether it has a direct benefit in spreading the gene that influences this behaviour or whether it's merely a pleiotropic side-effect is irrelevant: if there were no benefit at all then there would be no homosexuality (apart from occasional mutations).

[StinkyBammerHater]

"It MUST be natural or evolution would have removed any tendency towards it long ago."

Homosexuality is a behavioral problem. We are made male and female and some are not attracted to the natural opposite sex. You make as much sense as me saying that a certain percentage of people are rapists, killers, molesters, abusers, addicts [serious behavioral problems] because it's just a part of evolution or any tendency toward it would have been removed. Would that make these things okay or normal?

[StinkyBammerHater]

All of this poor use of the English language is making you look less and less intelligent. Oh yes I still stick to my original comment that it is unnatural and it's not normal.

People are built to desire the opposite sex and have sex for the purpose to have offspring and carry on. Homosexuality goes against nature and therefore is not normal according to how we naturally and normally should behave. If something goes against nature it in effect is unnatural.

[ambbb1973]

What is natural? If someone is born and is attracted to members of the same sex then it world appear to be natural.

Animals are not built or designed. They are just a mechanism to propagate an autoreplicating molecule called dna. Desire for the opposite sex exisits because it makes an organism more likely to reproduce while, and their offspring have a greater, although not absolute, probability of being similarly inclined.

Did they not tell you about natural selection at your school?

[StinkyBammerHater]

If someone is born and later in their life they become homosexual I would say that is against nature. Some people feel comfortable being gay and feel natural and normal but it's far from normal or even the natural behavior of a human being. Naturally we tend to reproduce with the opposite sex that's how we are structured so if one tends to stray away from that natural process it is not normal according to nature. Homosexuality is not biological any so called evidence is inconclusive.

[StinkyBammerHater]

The argument is really about whether Homosexuality is genetic or maybe has to do with a persons choice/experiences.

If you are certain that the cause of homosexuality is natural or perhaps genetic and biological please publish your findings.

So far as I know science has not concluded any one cause of homosexuality. Science also has not concluded without a doubt that it's a part of the human genome.

[Meechan756]

I have a question for you StinkyBammer: Why is it that science has to provide clear and conscise proof for everything but you say homosexuality is unnatural but have no clear and concise proof either? The fact that homosexual behaviour occures in nature (not just humans) is definitely proven (has been for hundreds and maybe thousands of years). Why is it that humans are exempt from this? Sadly i cannot find an online replica of these datas, but you should google bruce bagemihl.

[bdf2718]

You are a lying fucking cunt.

Homosexuality is PROVEN in other species. It's a FACT.

We haven't isolated the genes concerned, but it's a FACT. Do you understand that, you fucking moron? There are gay sheep, and that's a FACT. There are gay reindeer and that's a FACT.

You moronic fucking twat. Come back to me when you understand REALITY.

[StinkyBammerHater]

Animals like you, sheep, dogs etc. will mount anything. I have seen rare parrots like the Kakapo mount something of an entirely different species. I have seen animals mount inanimate objects. Does it surprise you they mount the same sex of their species? Most people [normal] human beings can understand that. You on the other are an exception I suggest you get back to what you're best at and that is being a drunken/drugged carnival worker.

[ZappyBox]

Lesbian or not, she is so smart and sexy.

[kddoesit]

"He looks so happy!"

Laughin' so hard my face hurts!

[SlamMastaDan]

The parrot's face at 2:56! :D so happy

[PimpMasterZach]

this woman is clearly a lesbian

[MaryFromTheCenterSun]

Rachel is an out lesbian.

[PimpMasterZach]

indeed

[cierrablue]

oh dear.

[BGDPPL]

omg this should come with a health warning

i almost died of laughter watching this lol

being shaged by a rare parrot!!! haha

[Budweiserzs]

AHAH stephen fry ftw lolol

[Dingledoodie]

No wonder the Kakapo's near extinction... evolution wasn't kind to removing the wings but to then also make it attracted to English wildlife photographers... progeny must be rare.

[jrubin22]

so dumb! I was hoping the piece would be about the 'sonic boom' thing. Animals getting confused when they want to mate is just kind of sad

[08EB08]

Sick bastard! If he hadn't taken the bird off his head he was gonna...

[TerryEFV2]

ain't nature grand!

proves the origin of 'he'll screw anything in his mood'

love rachel's reaction

gotta laugh!

[StinkyBammerHater]

THis lady is so gay.

[aberdeen2683]

No shit, Sherlock - give us some more of your wisdom :/

Ass.

[StinkyBammerHater]

She acts gay and not only that she is gay. GAY GAY GAY SO what all the sudden gay is normal?

[aberdeen2683]

Listen, brain-donor, it really isn't so "sudden". And being gay IS normal, if you're gay. Which she is. Why do you have a problem with someone whom you don't know, being gay? Why would you have a problem with ANYONE being gay? You're stating the massively obvious, like a little child who hasn't developped any higher reasoning skills. Is the poor wibble baby afraid you'll CATCH the GAY, just by watching someone on TV who is? Newsflash, genius: That's Not How Gay Works.

[redrocker922]

here, here

[StinkyBammerHater]

I don't have probs with ppl being homo they have a probs and thts y they're homo. Homo ppl have something wrng with them making them homo. I'm not gonna pretend like that's normal. I already knew she was a homo I said she was gay because she acted way too goofy/stupid/happy [gay] and I disagree with her politics anyway. If I wanted to say I thought she was a lesbian I would have used lesbian instead of gay because gay is slang for a homo man anyway.

[jakobein]

She is gay, Fry is gay, the Kakapo is (arguably) gay. The photographer is, if nothing else, VERY tolerant. You have been watching a whole lot of gay action online. Your feelings on that? Apart from anything else I am not keen on people spoiling perfectly amusing distractions with inane and intrusive rubbish.

[StinkyBammerHater]

My comment was directed towards Maddow and the way she acts. Why can you have an opinion and not me? I was just commenting. You know we have a right to do that sort of thing at least here in the U.S.A., we still do for now. If you find my comment inane and intrusive rubbish well...... get over it.

Give it a thumbs down and move on already.

[OrmEmber]

bdf2718, why don't you just come out and say what you think??? Why are you beating around the bush??

In the meantime, I think some lithium, Xanax, and electroshock therapy would help you. All at the same time. Now please get off your mom's computer.

you whore.

[bdf2718]

Hi OrmEmber

You want me to say what I think.

You're a moronic cunt.

M'kayyyyy?

[OrmEmber]

Wow, I have indeed been burned by a kid with a curse word dictionary and a grasp of South Park quotes......

(please aim higher for your education goals......)

[bdf2718]

Kid? That was 40 years ago.

Educational goals? I got bored after a couple of degrees because I could learn stuff I was interested in faster than universities could teach me.

Oh, and you're still a moronic cunt.

[OrmEmber]

A "couple of degrees"? You could "learn stuff"? What did you major in? "Stuff" and "more stuff"?

I guess you're proof that you can grow old without growing up....

[bdf2718]

'A "couple of degrees"?'

I refer you to a decent dictionary.

' You could "learn stuff"?'

Yeah, stuff. Like bending moments, salient pole machines and other stuff. Your degree may have been entirely about masturbation but my degrees covered a lot of stuff. Neither of them dealt with evolution, which is something I have taught myself becuase it is incredibly interesting.

[Xantar]

Yes she is, and she's open about it. You got a problem with that?

[StinkyBammerHater]

Ya I gotta problem with your attitude!

[SATANSbankers]

Bird Owned.

[aventhus]

Brilliant! Always wondered about the origin of 'Kakapo' - an old shipwreck on the South African Cape coast.

[kiwicomposer]

I am surprised that Stephen Fry missed opportunities for cheap jokes about 'giving head', Polly wanting a 'cracker', being 'egged-on' or the 'Kakasutra'. Hmm but that would be beneath him!! (Hmm knowing Stephen I doubt it..) 

But if he did it would probably edited out by BBC ;-)

ha ha ha

[ZaOscelot]

Watched this live and laughed so hard my stomach hurt. Not only hilarious for the clip, but also to see Rachel just completely lose it. XD

[LOL2679]

That was buzzy... Haha lol I didn't know that kakapo's did it like that it was............?

[dippers08]

Brilliant, I'm going to try the flappy wing action on Mrs D next time.

[luvvie59]

I'm thrilled that Maddow aired this. I saw it couple of days ago when it first when up on the website. It will drive US traffic to the Last Chance website, which in turn will generate lots of irate emails to the BBC complaining that we Yanks are blocked from seeing the episodes. Yay, Rachel!!!!

[blenderpanzi]

I think douglas adams did explain it best (reads: very funny): 9b49eT0qni4

[bdf2718]

The series is a homage to Adams. Who had the fortuitous initials DNA.

[utterlyutter]

Rachel Maddow + Stephen Fry = pure awesome

[TAz69x]

@utterlyutter Rachel Maddow and Stephen Fry should mate just for the hell of it, giving the next generation of humans the same awesomeness WE had!

=3

[nahatsu2]

Wow..... so great to see SF on vid...poor Caradwine is being got at big time!!

Oh dear... but lovely to see Mr Fry!

[yuga2]

This cracked me up! I've read the book (by Caradwine and Douglas Adams) a few times. It's about 20 years old. I fell in love with kakapos right then. This video is so funny!

[laskerjones]

Oh my god!!!! My two favorite people in the world are Rachel Maddow and Stephen Fry --- this clip is heaven!!!!!

[ShelaghCol]

I love watching Rachel losing it. *g*

[TAz69x]

That's the cutest fucking bird I've ever seen! =3

[TAz69x]

lol, I can imagine every guy gaining this ability constantly giving off a subsonic boom whenever they're horny. You'd never have a moment of silence again.

[pedrofmbs]

LOL xD

[TheRougeEyelash]

Sub-sonic though...

[GretchenDawntreader]

oh, and first XD

[GretchenDawntreader]

Best.

Moment of Geek.

Ever.

As Rachel was in the process of practically falling out of her chair, I was doing the same on my couch.