Tim Minchin - Canvas Bags

[ZacZmith1]

Screw all the government posters on the environment, just have this blaring out of huge speakers everywhere!

[MagicByEli]

Some day we'll be mining plastic bags out of the ground to burn for energy.

[McLovinCW]

This guy is so fucking rock

[Jessiegurl77]

He's like environmental swearing Jesus at the end!

[ultrapowerpack]

I finally know what that one song in the 4 chords song is

[MoriyaMug]

Not one of the better performances of this song I've seen. Wonder how annoyed he got at the lighting tech for delaying the blackout. :)

[lemoniceluxe]

Sorry Tim, I didn't get the message. You should probably take your pants off too.

[2010wackojacko]

I love how he just runs off stage to grab the fan! Love Ya Tim!!!!

[AlmostLimitless14]

Voice of a angel.

Fucking love this man xD

[ahbuggrit]

Some great fanservice... with a message :)

[Daxim101]

He looks... strange... without a piano.

[misshappylolly]

Clap you bastards!

BLACKOUT! fuck yea!

Lol tim's just so funny x

[bKiwiD]

I hope they were selling canvas bags in the lobby.

[ianokamotochannel]

@louloubabe97 Magic Woody Allen Zombie Superman Komodo Dragon

Telepathic Vampire Quantum Hovercraft *Minchin!* Jesus!

[helenkm13]

black out, fuck yeah!!:)

[4Death4The4Kid4]

You 'eard what he said! TIM FTW!

[ianokamotochannel]

@gilless429 Hahaha

[wilhrly]

BLACK OUT FUCK YEAH!!!!

[thatis9918]

2 words Fuck Yeah

[Jadespeakschinese]

Your allowed to sing about anything when you have an awesome voice like that

[blackdea297]

love how he has to have the fan.... doesn't everyone know that hair and an unbuttoned shirt blowing in the wind is much more effective than the preened alternative?

[shadowkiller2011]

OK FINE ITS FUCK YEAH BUT FUCK U xD

[shadowkiller2011]

lol at end: FUCK IT xD

[ironlilith1]

Tim is hot!

[iTommyBoyL]

those two dislikes would be his shoes, that eternally hate him for being left in a dark closet

[chrissy111nic]

hahahaha! love it! CLAP YOU BASTARDS! bahahahaha!

[editorjimpage]

Like an unfunny Bill Bailey.

[yumPEN15]

clap you bastards.

[pokupokupoku]

@Vannesia200 They're those re-usable bags you can purchase at supermarkets for like 10 cents, so that you don't need to use plastic bags. Most Australian states are trying to phase out plastic bags because they're bad for the environment, and canvas bags are the alternative.

[Adamdavidson2009]

@pokupokupoku 10 cents? Holy crap, they're at least $1 here in Canada, most being up to $2.

[BuecherFuerAlle]

But I don't have any Canvas Bags.

[LeighAkroyd]

*Run off stage, run back on with a fan*

*Turn fan on*

*stand in front of Fan with your shirt open.*

You are now god

[curlywirlymichaelman]

"CLAP YOU FUCKIN' BASTARDS!! YEA!"



[rtinny987]

HaHa I love this video it amuses me :)

[letteduebz]

i strongly feel that he should collaborate with chris lilley! :)

[TheBewleyboy]

Black out! FUCK YEA

[theJaSwA123]

Is he trying to say you can make a song about anything?

[lemoniceluxe]

I like the part when he opens his shirt. :P

[Jubilee3able]

I should remember to take one of the dozens of canvas bags I have in the house and car next time I go to the supermarket.....take your canvas bag.. take your canvas bag to the supermarket... take your canvas bag....to the supermarket take your canvas bag.

[KiriamLeech]

This.Is.The true meaning of awesome!

[TheOveruseOfMetaphor]

I love it when he picks up the mic stand with his feet. :D

[wildflowerdancing]

@STorpedo: first, google the North Atlantic Gyre. Second, go read the Good Book, or get Tim to explain it to you.

[ianokamotochannel]

@willfolds Haha. Very true.

[eatingoreos1]

AMAZING.

[geekify321boom]

one person loves plastic

[wheetabix92]

clap you bastards!! hahahaha <3 so rock and roll

[oOsprinklesOo]

this song just gave my life meaning, how can you not love this??? lol. started out normal, then he turned it into this awesome, legendary theme song for the environment...

[qurt365]

that is power....!

[crispycrisp92]

0 people are retarded <3

[STorpedo]

2:00 I am genuinely split on whether he stumbled here on purpose or no; in the other performances he only unbuttons his shirt at the very end, and there doesn't appear to be a good musical reason for his stumbling.

[ianokamotochannel]

@BrooklynRagtag Haha, yes, he's amazing. We need more people like that, that can distinguish the fantasy from reality.

[BrooklynRagtag]

I'm starting to really like Tim Minchin. He's an atheist, doesn't buy into fortune tellers or chakra-pathic medicines, and he advocates using canvas bags instead of plastic ones. What a reasonable guy!

[xShiizamx]

oh dude. If more attractive people would strip for the environment, we could probably really get this movement off the ground lol.

[ianokamotochannel]

Haha, classic Tim, taking a real issue, and putting his own humorous spin on it, but still maintain it's true meaning. Tim is God.

[Endwankery]

@ianokamotochannel If that were true I'd definitely stop being atheist XD

[willfolds]

@ianokamotochannel Tim isn't God. Tim exists.

[TheRamonRecords]

@ianokamotochannel If tim is God, he wouldn't believe in himself. He should work on his confidence :P

[lovetohate12]

@ianokamotochannel on his ex-girlfriend's Hyundai? D:

[gorerydr]

@ianokamotochannel God doesn't exist.

[LeighAkroyd]

@gorerydr He does, but only in Tim Form

[gilless429]

@ianokamotochannel Nah. I'm pretty sure Tim exists. =)

[louloubabe97]

@ianokamotochannel NO! he is Jesus!!!!

[tazmon122]

i don't have canvas bags...i re-use plastic bags, and melt them together to make a more durable material than canvas, and sew them into bags...personally i think re-using already existing materials is more environmentally friendly than creating a new material altogether.

[LoofaLily23]

I like his bare feet :3

[SeldomSeenKid1997]

Tim Minchin Shirtless = Yes.

[TheBaronessIsAwesome]

Eargasm when he starts looping -_-

[Guffunklefish01]

sexy tim :) fuck yeah!

[EmmaPocketsize]

everybody in the house let me hear you say CANVAS!!

[rennybums109]

legend and a half! <3

[nthmelb1]

never leaving home without my canvas bags ;) loveyou tim minchin!!

[TheSamuriel]

take your camels back

[kfeve11]

I am obbsessing over this song at the minute!!! It is amazing!!! 

[supervanillabear4]

CLAP YOU BASTARDS.

I love you so much, Tim.

[LightBulbxXx]

Blackout Ffffuckyeah!

[rubbishrider861]

i bet back when he first sung this in edinburgh in 2005, he didnt know that he would still be singing it years later but touring the world and filling out arenas!!<3

[shortypingi]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kaitiiecam]

1:23,........ i just loose it there

[Harleygrinn]

NO!

[james20011993]

whats being parodied, sent up or mocked here is not the environmental sentiment, but rather the totally overblown style of many 'anthemic' songs...hence repeated building chorus and backing singers....

[EdmundoLOL]

he's so not funny..i'm better than him..unfunny tosser.

[select899]

@EdmundoLOL Drink bleach and die, inbred reject.

[LightBulbxXx]

@EdmundoLOL If your such a top cunt funny motherfucker get out there and make something of it, I've never herd your fucking name mentioned anywhere, I doubt you could get a fucking gig at a pub with an attitude like that, shut your fucking cunt of a mouth unless you've got something smart to say, Tim Minchins a world renouned commedian, I highly fucking doubt your better than him.

[weelittledragon]

@EdmundoLOL Oh really? So why don't you give us a little demonstration of your greatness, oh lord of laughter? Perhaps you would be so kind as to provide us with a little entertainment, oh emperor of the thoracic diaphragm?

[PullThePin1]

clap you bastards

[Jake5875]

I'm not try'na be ironic or sarcastic do something drastic to rid the world of plastic! Love it!!

[nuckchorris190]

"Clap you bastards!!!" <3 XD

[allystarxxx]

a guy from our school got up in assembly and sung this... he was better XD xoxox

[tsjaaaa]

@allystarxxx Yeah.. no. Not possible.

[allystarxxx]

@tsjaaaa you dont understand. this guy didnt have a fan... he had HAIR DRYERS

[TheCyanideMonster]

He looks so awkward about in-doing his shirt :')

[borristurtle12]

lol slick move when hi picks the mic stand up with his foot

[ZhoZhaal]

I liked the part where he scurries off to the side of the stage like a ginger rodent to fetch the fan :D

[ZhoZhaal]

This song is super glued to my brain now.

[Guffunklefish01]

Blackout! Fuck yeah! xD x

[SiLlyGoOse4321]

Can someone tell me where this is from? I'm assuming a dvd but which one? thanks!

[AdenFarleigh]

@SiLlyGoOse4321 Ready For This (2010) though this one's recorded during another gig than the DVD version

[marcoisard]

goooooooose bumps....

[misato56]

What happens to his shoes every show? xD

[MAN7741]

@misato56 xD he done a interview with wossy(johnathen ross)and said he takes them off and puts them behind the curtan too get over stage fright makeing him fell more at home XD...

[KatLuvsCadbury]

I know its got a message and all, but it's bloody hilarious!

[AMWSX16]

He's a fucking rockstar!

[deathnotehell1]

If public service announcements were done by him Id actually listen to them. Great song

[SomeRandomTangent]

lol



[zinniafairy2]

I love Tim.

[elizaxeight]

He probably cares about the environment. He's just taking the piss out of people who do small, and fairly insignificant "green" things just to be trendy.

[MrRukh80]

He's not being sarcastic at all in this song, hence the line "I'm not trying to be ironic or sarcastic". Saving the planet by changing everyones actions is something he genuinely cares about. Like his song bears Don't Dig On Dancing, it's done in a funny way, but it's a real message.

[LePetitPoisson2]

@MrRukh80 I'm not sure he's talking concretely about saving planet - i think he want people to unite and do something good for ourselves

[STorpedo]

@MrRukh80 Well, let's put it this way...either he *is* being sarcastic (ever heard of a lie? being in character? or a lyricist in desperate need of a rhyme, whether it makes sense or no?), or he's an idiot. To genuinely think that forgoing plastic grocery bags will significantly reduce global warming is rather ridiculous, even if only because grocery bags in and of themselves make up a *tiny* portion of plastic products being used today (food containers, dvd cases, pens, nigh everything).

[MrRukh80]

@STorpedo Well, let's put it this way... Every Little Helps. And, fair point, it is only a small portion of plastic of the world being used in plastic carrier bags, but that still the production of thousands of tonnes of a non-biogradable substance every year. By your argument, we shouldn't help charities like Children In Need or any cancer research because it's only "a *tiny* portion" of what's wrong with the world. Lots of small things make a big difference, mate. Happy shopping!

[STorpedo]

@MrRukh80 I disagree. Every little doesn't help, because the collective thousands upon thousands of hours spent doing something as negligible as opting for canvas, instead of plastic bags are *much* better spent on something bigger. Also, there's the somewhat contentious notion of how human morality functions; I used a canvas bag, I can now relax, I've done my part to save the planet. This impulse of good will would be much better spent on more important matters,

[STorpedo]

@MrRukh80 ...such as using gas-fueled transportation less, contemplating an economic model that would be able to employ as many people as are employed now while utilizing no gas, etc. And by my argument we shouldn't spend money on charities when there's a giant f-ing asteroid coming at Earth, and everybody needs to spend all of their money trying to prevent a collision from occurring.

[MrRukh80]

@STorpedo Okay...... How has the conversation gone from stopping a little bit of pollution to the pointlessness of everything because a huge asteroid is going to wipe out all life on Earth? >;L It doesn't matter. Let's just agree to disagree. I'll take my canvas bags to the supermarket and make a small difference that I can make every day. You wait for the asteroid. Peace.

[STorpedo]

@MrRukh80 ...It is called an analogy; please indulge me, and re-read my comment in light of this knowledge.

[irrevenant3]

@STorpedo Global Warming's a major issue but it's hardly the ONLY issue. Plastic bags cause a lot of damage when they get into the environment. Minimizing use of them is a big improvement.

BTW, I find it interesting that you're focussing on spending money on charities vs a giant asteroid. Not military expenditure vs a giant asteroid. Not the billions we spend on cosmetics vs a giant asteroid. CHARITIES. Weird focus, dude.

[STorpedo]

@irrevenant3 What kind of significant damage do they cause? Decomposition? I could be mistaken, but if it takes a very long time for plastic to decompose, whatever damage would normally be caused by a rapid decomposition of the constituent chemicals is spread over a very long period of time, reducing the potential for geological harm. Eco systemic damage too can be limited through the burial or concentration of waste, what I believe is happening now.

[irrevenant3]

@STorpedo Animals get trapped in the plastic bags or inhale them. This is fatal.

Containment (burial or concentration) of plastic bags helps a bit - less is obviously better than more. but they're light and easily escape by blowing away both at point of use and at the dump and during transport/unloading.

For something as long lived as plastic bags, finding containment sites for all that waste is also a problem.

P.S. I stand corrected re: the charities. My bad.

[STorpedo]

@irrevenant3 We live on such a populated planet that nearly every mass manufactured product inevitably kills some creature; of course a plastic bag will kill some animal, but plastic bags are incredibly thin, and as most animals have claws, I don't find it likely that plastic bags will be a significant cause of deaths. If an animal is so inept at protecting itself that it manages to inhale an *entire* plastic bag,

[STorpedo]

@irreven without spitting it out in the beginning, or pulling it out with using their limbs, it would've likely died from another, naturally-occurring hazard.

And plastic bags do indeed blow away, though I must say, there are only a few which do so; and it's not long before they're caught on something, and within months, get buried under leaves and dirt. And long term containment is not, imo, a significant problem, as they can be packed very tightly, and there's plenty of room under the earth.

[STorpedo]

@irrevenant3 No worries in regards to the initial criticism.

Anyways, surely there must be more compelling reasons for forgoing plastic bags than a few animals being killed once in a blue moon, and a slight difficulty in waste containment?

[STorpedo]

@irrevenant3 It too is highly interesting, and were I a lesser person, amusing, how you fail to recognize that the subject of charities was set by the person I responded to, not by me.

[weeknoxlawd]

Genious. That's what Tim Minchin is.

[ajarach]

for those who didn't get it: YES he is being ssrcastic not against the ecologists but against the ipocrits musitians who do these kinds of songs and have 20 cars each

[burtopower]

i dont know if this is a joke song.. he has passion in his voice but he looks like he has so much fun performing it .?still amazing song :D

[AussieAngel88]

@burtopower He's not trying to be ironic or sarcastic :P A public service announcement in the form of song

[JumpCatmonkey]

Best voice :P

[Brysonawesome]

Shutup ian you fag

[ianc999]

what a knob

[LawNickAble]

One of rare recorded performances where he actually has enough time to sing the line "To rid the world of plastic".

[xMojooo]

BLACK OUT - Fuck Yeah!

[LeeJP77]

Does anybody know if there's an antidote to this tune? Much as I love it, whenever I hear it or even think about it it's stuck in my head for several days like a temporary tumour ROFL