Eddie Izzard - First Thanksgiving

[HedonistUnashamed]

If my history teachers were this fascinating, I'd remember everything I ever learned

[nikkolei]

hes fucking beautiful

[TheUserLady]

He's a walking humorous compendium of history, literature, politics and everything erudite. We can learn more from history from this man than in any stuffy classroom. This bit of the Dress to Kill segment is genius. Second only to Cake or Death depending on which side of the pond you're on. Ciao.

[RoxieBunnie]

I LOVE HIM SOO FREAKING MUCH!!!

[TheJohndoe63]

soooo fkin funny

[RoCKoN3142]

lmao i like the mumbled "that could be useful later" after "oh you have no system of ownership interesting..."

[warhawk9566]

A land empty of human existe-

Who the fuck are these guys?

[NorcalNoise]

"What's all this, please?"

[Oncenter1]

The more comments I read about this very funny clip, I am more convinced we are all of bunch of complete uptight jackasses. Piss off! This is your boring ass redundant, debating class. Or as I like to call it, "The I love to hear my own boring bs non stop", class.

[VitallyPicturesque]

What I find incredibly stupid about the whole Thanksgiving thing is that the settlers found the Indian's buried food stores and then thanked God. Yeah, oh, thank you God for leading us to other people's food we can steal. Because nowhere does it say not to steal things.

[mdsatan]

@VitallyPicturesque found, slaughtered the village and took it, tometo tomato

[IceMetalPunk]

@VitallyPicturesque No, no, no. You can't steal from other PEOPLE. Indians are not PEOPLE! Hell, they're not even Christian, so they can't be real people!

-IMP ;) :)

[rbsadler]

The best part about the first Thanksgiving is it was actually a party to celebrate that the English settlers had helped the Powhatan tribe to massacre an entire village in a neighboring territory. Massacre as in sneak up on them in the middle of the night and kill everyone while they were sleeping. Lovely image, no?

[monny287]

"There's nobody here!....Excuse me...." XD Awesome. I love Eddie Izzard.

[jenleex]

Yes it is true, there were 100 million Red Indians who were exsterminated by the 'occupying invaders ' america was built on the exstermination of 100 million Red Indians this is never mentioned, and they are still going around the world still doing it. claiming its all for peace ? ? ? Obama would be something to shout about if he was the first Rad Indian president.

[ocseans]

@jenleex name a country with a clean past... there is none. America is not exterminating people at the present day like with the Red indians. No country became powerful by being morally right. Doesn't make their actions right but it is the way the world is and has always been. The question is what country would you like to be the number one super power? China? Then you would have something to complain about.

[sp1ink]

@ocseans ireland - the irish people never killed anyone.

[NaranjaVids]

@sp1ink Northern Ireland. Enough said.

[sp1ink]

@NaranjaVids search "the troubles" on wikipedia. The IRA targeted the british army and the RUC no civilians were targeted.

[episykel]

@jenleex

What sources have you used, when you claim that 100 mill red indians has been killed?

And in what timeperiod and geographical region?

[sivartab]

Actually, the Plimoth (Plymouth) was already mapped in Massachusetts by John Smith before the Pilgrims arrived. The Pilgrims left Southampton, England but had to make port in Plymouth, England before setting out across the Atlantic due to the unseaworthiness of one of the ships. So, as a point of fact, it was very "LUCKY" that they set out from Plimoth and landed in Plimoth. This is not fiction. Don't always assume witty humorists actually know what they're talking about.

[adamh2325]

Happy thanksgiving! Lolololol!!!

[phemyda94]

Who the fuck are these guys? What's all this, please?

NO WE DON'T WANT ANY OF YOUR FOOD, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[ShadowXII]

@phemyda94 That Winter, SCUSE ME DO YOU HAVE ANY FOOD?

I LOVE ALL THIS.

[sivartab]

There are many fallacies here. (1) This surprised me...but, actually the Pilgrims did not name their landing from whence they came. It was already labeled on their map...from previous British explorers..they left from Portsmouth and had to dock in Plymouth due to a leaking ship 2)...the natives were trying to kill them initially because they thought they arrived for retribution against a neighboring tribe who tortured and killed British explorers..using their heads in a game of sport.

[Animehem]

@sivartab i was taught the natives started killing them because the men at plimouthe raped there women stole there food and there land.

[shadow6543]

@Animehem

thats a load of bullshit the Natives of New England were in general docile and the settlers didnt provoke them, your thinking of our friend Christopher Columbus

[Animehem]

@shadow6543 i am correct sorry to be mean but in the winter the settlers arrived too late to grow food because there voyage was delayed because of ship and other money problems when they go to the new world they dig through mounds made by the natives often containing food but also bodies and settlers instead of closing the grave would then steal from it and take there food meanwhile the natives who had migrated away from those housings to return in the summer were watching them

[QuietForm]

@sivartab Heh. None of what you just said made anything /he/ said untrue.

[Leshelou112]

in 16*mutters*

lol!

[mandyblahblah]

lol yeah a land free of human existence-uhhh who the fuck are THESE guys?*thumb points at indians*

[mark84j]

Just put some CLOTHES ON... *face*

OMG I'm laughing so hard...

[nattaknowsbest]

I love him!!

[TheGreenerItGets]

If only my history classes were this interesting.

[101moviegod]

what kind of jacket does he wear in this show, what is it called??? EDDIE IS AMAZING!

[tomelollol]

"Just put some clothes on.. *funny face..*.."

[rockluver84]

"they went from plymouth and landed on plymouth" lmfao

[seanreillyireland]

super

[thearkisthebest]

the founding fathers landed in 16hrmhrm...

[quoththeraven73]

there's nobody here!!... 'scuse me.

[ShrimpBoatCaptain01]

Indeed he does, interesting what people notice(:

[TheCameraJunkie]

He has very good posture

[marathon1974]

"yes, there's more of us coming but we all keep our promises." lol

[DarrylCross]

"A land empty of human existan.... who the fuck are these guys?!" ROFLMAO

[killahkoreah]

Excuse me! lmfao!

[LiveAndLoveLife]

I wish my social studies teacher was this entertaining when teaching us about history. What show is this from?

[Tags88mustang]

this is from "Dressed to Kill"

[kht777]

@LiveAndLoveLife It's from his Dress To Kill special.

[Giants2082]

hahah "they set out from Plymouth and landed IN Plymouth! How lucky is that?!"

[Slycooper14]

@Giants2082 very lucky indeed!

[furyplum44]

" In 16...na na na,...." lol

[nltisme]

We'll keep our promises!

[ArcadeeRPG]

Very informative.

Everything in this clip is completely true.

[Preditor117]

that's the amazing thing about Eddie's history jokes. Educational and incomparably funny

[sivartab]

@ArcadeeRPG No...it is not true. Read my post.

[magedogtag]

@ArcadeeRPG emm... not entirely. you really should read a book sometime. by the way, shortly after the plymouth rock landing the dutch landed and settled manhattan and made, after some initial screw ups, a nice little colony. then the brits took it.

[ItsumoYume]

@ArcadeeRPG a lot of his jokes are quite informative...I've found...but so funny. xD

[daddyleon]

lol!

I so love that cynicalwink at the end. xD

[dking987]

excuse me!

[ParkParks93]

Love him! =L

[FallenPast1177]

he's bloody brillant!!! ♥ -i love his shows

[kindofmagicmike]

lawl