@alexvegas It's an exaggeration, a very generic one but I assumed you would have the intellect to work that one out. Secondly, 30% seems a fairly accurate assertion in many parts of major cities such as London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester and Sheffield.
@XxCYRAXANDERMACxX Oh yes there is! 2,869,000 reside in the uk, 8.5% make up the London population roughly on last estimate, now likely to be more. It doesn't take just figures to explain this. Just go out to any major city...London, Sheffield, Birmingham, Bradford or Manchester and see for yourself the saturation of this religion given much undeserved respect and protection among other religions.
My Dad has a few Muslim friends. One of them grew up in Ireland, and he talked about how even if you're a Muslim in Ireland, you still get asked "Are you a Catholic Muslim or a Protestant Muslim?"
@dawtchins Really? Other than the 'same fucking god' and four or five other grade school facts, you don't know a damn thing about them, as this guy says. Unless you frantically googled a bunch of stuff right now in order to respond to me.
@squamish4244 Well i dont need to all im saying is they believe in the same god however intepretate that god differently. All abrahamic faiths believe in the same god, It's not hard . Like you said its Grade 5 Information. There's really not much you need to know when you're dealing with people who believe in iron age mythology.
@dawtchins He could not make jokes about it though. For instance, if he tried to say something about the angel Mohammed spoke to in the cave, most of the audience would be thinking, "What angel?" Or if he said, "That was one hell of a night journey!" most would also be like, "What night journey?" All basic stuff Muslims know and most of us don't.
@dawtchins And you do need to know a lot about Iron Age mythology to deal with people who believe in it or want to discuss it. The Iliad is a vast Iron Age mythology, and if you don't know anything beyond what was in the movie Troy, you are going to have a hard time making jokes about it.
What the average person knows/"knows" about Muslims: -Pray five times a day. -Fast for a month. -Aren't supposed to drink or gamble, but somehow gave us the word "alcohol." -Aren't allowed to stun animals. -No pigs. -Up to four wives. -72 houri. -Europe's Middle Ages were their Renaissance; everything since has been their Middle Ages. -Have to go to a city that only allows Muslims to enter. -Apostasy is a capital offense.
He says he doesn't do islamist jokes because people would't understand them. What about muslems? They'd understand them. They might not laugh, but so what?
1:50 Speak for yourself Dara, I know a lot about muslims and they deserve ridicule just like all the other religious cry babies. Fair enough if he doesn't want to write such jokes or cant find humour in the subject. I have no problem with that but It's pathetic listening to his excuse that he and we don't know enough.
@TheGroggler how is the fact that HE doesn't know enough about islam a pathetic excuse? you expect him to research topics to write jokes about??? you can't learn about every subject, it would take decades just to learn about every religion. Just because you know about islam doesn't mean most people do, his point still stands, i know a lot about particle physics, but that doesn't mean that most people will, and that he should write jokes for my amusement! Just how self-absorbed are you?
@iliketha No, you've completely missed the point. He clearly said that both HE and WE don't know enough to make such jokes possible for a public crowd. My main problem was that he claimed the public don't know enough which I dispute. I went out of my way to say fair enough if he doesn't know for want to write such jokes! Also with Islam being such a hot topic there is a lot of general knowledge about the subject. Southpark did an excellent satire of the muhammed cartoon controversy for example!
@TheGroggler ok mate, i just think you're giving the general public waaaay too much credit, If you know a lot about islam, then try talking to people about it! you'll soon find that the knowledge you take for granted just isn't common knowledge. But the southpark thing is a good point, i suppose you don't need specialised knowledge with issues of common sense like the cartoon controversy, but then again that episode wasn't really about islam, just a small group of muslims who are dicks
@iliketha To be fair, I probably am giving the public too much credit. I suppose I meant that a reasonably educated audience would know enough, although groups like the edl (idiots) know the main faults and concerns with Islam (without the necessary intelligence, diplomacy or responsibility to address them effectively) I have an interest in seeing religious hypocrisy and bigotry correctly satirised but I admit there is a danger of feeding hate to the haters if not done with responsibility. Peace
@TheGroggler Ok...so off the top of your head, without Googling anything or going to Wikipedia, tell me what Moslems would consider to be the most important commandment in the Koran? How many children did Mohammed have by his first wife? Who did Mohammed speak to in the cave? What was the name of his daughter after which a dynasty was founded? What does the word Allah mean literally in Arabic? What argument prompted the schism in Islam? These are things all devout Moslems know.
Dara, - you cowardly sonofabitch, - Why not tell the joke about mohammad's wife, waiting outside his house, packed & ready to leave him for good....??
he says ;- " Aishah, - What are you doing..? "
Aishah says ;- " I'm leaving you, - because you're a pedophile & a misogenist..! "
53yo. mohammad says ;- " My, - those are big words for a 9-year-old..."
LOL who gives a shit about Muslims. They're worthless pieces of shit.
However Jesus Christ truly is a homosexual pedohile rapist who also fucked his mother the "prostitute Mary".
In fact he fucked his whore of a mother so many times while getting his ass fingered by the gay 12 apostles, it was ridiculous!
In the Bible (which I use as toilet paper), it states that Jesus would just sit at home for hours fingering his whore mother's vagina. That bitch just couldn't get nuff!
And Muhammad was an androgynous, demented slattern... and for that matter, I'm God (aka Pol Pot). See, I can be pointlessly offensive too. There's not much to it, is there?!
mohammad " married " a little 9yo. girl called Aishah bint Abubakr, He was 53.
He had Eleven wives, but preferred to rape Aishsh the most.
He raped his 4th. wife;- Hafsa's slave girl, - a Coptic Christian called Maryam, every night for a month, - she eventually had a bastard called ibrahim, who died @ 2yo.
He raped a girl called Jawwariyya after slitting the throats of her entire family in front of her. The list goes on...
He murdered 600+ UNARMED boys & men, for not fighting with him...
here's one ;- 9yo. girl says to 53yo. mohammad ," oooh, - it hurts,"
moHAMmad ;- " shut up and take it bitch,"
- or, he could joke about the gaza terrorists;- " pigs arse " ie. HAM-ass.
- or he could joke about mohammads " mercy ", - when he slit 'Kinannas' throat, - in order to put him out of his misery, after mohammad had him tortured by fire..
Actually, islam is a 1,400yo.JOKE,- albeit a sick one...
@Tcrumpen He doesn't mean 'crack' as in the drug, he means 'craic', it's an Irish term for fun/enjoyment. Thays the point of the pun, 'Dara O'Briain - Craic Dealer' :) it would be brilliant!
Nobody is saying we must flood African countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood Asian countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood South American countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural.
Multiculturalism and mass immigration into White countries and White countries only is GENOCIDE.
It isn't the job of a comedian to supply anti-Islamic material, but it is the job of a comedian to poke fun at the so-called sacred - and yet clearly absurd - traditions in our midst. Claiming not to know enough about the subject is a cop-out, and implying those who'd like to see him do such material as being somehow bigoted and unsavoury is cowardly. He could have answered the question with a joke and it instead been both humorous and honest: "Because I don't want to have me head cut off."
.. I like Dara but I think his ''I don't know about Islam therefore I can't insult it'' is a cop-out. At least Jimmy Carr admits that he doesn't do it because he doesn't want to be killed.
Yeah, as others have already commented, I think he was being a little disingenuous in his answer to the Islamic question.
"Myself and most people in this country don't know much about the Muslim faith..."
That might have been the case for most Brits (and Yanks) before 9/11, but since then we've been swamped in both anti-Muslim hysteria AND excessively pro-Muslim propaganda. The 'ignorance' thing won't wash!
The whole "religion of peace" line should provide brave comedians with HOURS of material.
Central to any comedy is the audience having some knowledge and think and relate and laugh at certain things they know about in a culture which they havent noticed.
His comment was regarding this lack of knowledge about day to day life british people know about muslims so therefore wouldnt "get" any jokes if he were to make fun of this.....its key to comedy.
This was what he was talking about. Not about religion, ignorance, post 9 11 etc. But comedy
"[Comedy] was what he was talking about, not religion..."
He WAS talking about religion: he was explaining why Catholics, for instance, are fair game for comedy but Muslims aren't.
BUT IN TRUTH, no Catholic will disembowel him in public for mocking Jesus but a Muslim MAY consider it if he were to make fun of "some fella called Muhammad" (as happened to Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam).
"...Or ignorance..."
He was using ignorance as his EXCUSE, rather than admitting understandable cowardice.
His audiences are mainly judeo christian in background - thus understand can relate to this humor , they cant relate to "normal behaviour" of muslim ppl as they are not aware of these in the main. -- thus Dara would be wasting his time trying to make jokes about things for which not many can identifiy with
We now live in a largely post-Christian society. Many, many people over the past 20 years have had no religious education or feelings at all. Just because this country is Christian in *background* doesn't mean everyone in it can "relate" to, or be "aware" of, Christian behaviour/dogma/whatever.
With that in mind, when someone says that Christianity is a satirical target but Islam isn't, I think I know why that is.
@terratrema "religious education" is part of the curriculum in UK schools, and bible stories are still read to children in 1000s of Christian schools up and down the land (and even in my middle school despite the fact it was not Christian) , even if you can avoid that stuff Christian beliefs are so referenced by other stuff in western culture that it's pretty hard to avoid some knowledge of Christianity teachings.....and then there's Christmas
"It's pretty hard to avoid SOME knowledge of Christianity..."
Yes, I agree. And it's also pretty hard to avoid SOME knowledge of Islam. Perhaps not quite as much as Christianity, I'll grant you that, but Dara's assertion that all the average Brit knows about Islam and it's various controversies is "prayer five times a day, some fella called Muhammad" is frankly a little insulting.
He. Doesn't. Want. To. Get. In. Trouble.
I don't hate him for it, I just wish he'd be honest with us.
@terratrema I would say we know a lot superficial stuff about Muslims themselves but very little about what they actually believe, where as with Christianity that's mostly also true but most people know at lest few of ten commandments and will have at lest have heard of stuff like noah's ark or the nativity or the world being 7000 years old
Look, this is getten silly. We ALL know one or two things about Islam, superficial or not.
But Dara refuses to make ANY jokes about Islam. None at all, despite how 'famous' that religion and culture has become in the past 10 years.
Why does he REFUSE to make ANY Islamic jokes? 'Cos he may provoke lynch mobs to storm through major cities with banners that read "Behead those who insult Islam."
Remember when that happened? Yeah, EVERYONE does. Doesn't that incident warrant some sort of joke?
@terratrema that would be mocking the Islamic people not the religion it's self, there is a difference, one is mocking an idea, and ideas are fair game, where as mocking a group of people who hold that idea by saying they all act the same way for reasons unrelated directly to the idea, is discrimination and since Muslims aren't an acceptable target (like fat people or men) that's a no no,
It wouldn't be to mock the ENTIRE Islamic people, just those who want to kill people who say things they may ever-so-slightly disagree with.
There's some videos of Billy Connolly making fun of certain preposterous Islamic beliefs here on YouTube, look them out. He gets big laughs. So some of the Brits and Irish in the audience 'get' what he's talking about. Dara could try doing the same. But he doesn't. Because, as you wrote, if you want to play it safe as Dara does, "that's a no-no".
@terratrema "It wouldn't be to mock the ENTIRE Islamic people" no it wouldn't but that's WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT!!!! mocking ALL Muslims for there beliefs
does Connolly have to explain the beliefs ans where there from first? because Dara O Briain does observational humour and if you have to completely explain the reference it's not really observational
I didn't mean to shout. I wanted to emphasize one word and there ain't no italics round here.
Look man, I know a fair bit about the beliefs and practices of Muslims, and I know this having done very little specific research; I've just picked things up here and there. I thought everyone was the same. But maybe they are all ignorant schmucks...
I'm not too familiar with O'Brian's observational satire of Christians. But I can predict that no huge amount of knowledge is required to enjoy it.
No need to get self-righteous. You're the one who's saying that most Westerners know absolutely nothing about the lifestyles of a very visible and influential minority who've been living amongst us for so long. I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
As for O'Brian, "he mocks the marriage course for Catholics"? Well, okay, cool. He COULD mock arranged marriages as well. I'm sure everyone in Britain and Ireland are familiar with the existence of that particular practice.
No need to get self-righteous. You're the one who's saying that most Westerners know absolutely nothing about the lifestyles of a very visible and influential minority who've been living amongst us for so long. I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
As for O'Brian, "he mocks the marriage course for Catholics"? Well, okay, cool. He COULD mock arranged marriages as well. I'm sure everyone in Britain and Ireland are familiar with the existence of that particular practice.
No need to get self-righteous. You're the one who's saying that most Westerners know absolutely nothing about the lifestyles of a very visible and influential minority who've been living amongst us for so long. I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
As for O'Brian, "he mocks the marriage course for Catholics"? Well, okay, cool. He COULD mock arranged marriages as well. I'm sure everyone in Britain and Ireland are familiar with the existence of that particular practice.
@terratrema he mocks the marriage course only when in Ireland because he doesn't think English people will know what it is....like the Muslim stuff
most people probably know what arrange marriages are but don't specifically associate them with Muslims (I thought they where Hindu thing until just now) "I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt" yeah well maybe you can't afford the"benefit of the doubt" if your career is contingent on 5000 people getting your references
In 20 years time, when EVERYONE in this country is well-versed in the complexities of Islam (as by then it will be part of the school curriculum) I hope to see Dara O'Briain satirizing it in his stand up (if, inshallah, he is still around by then) because then he'll have no excuse.
In the meantime, I'm going to assume that the reason he doesn't tackle that particular religion head-on is because he wants to keep his head on.
@terratrema they do teach a bit about Islam in school but pretty much only that it exists...and that's only my generation and younger an I'm only 18
if that was the reason I really wouldn't agree, I don't think it's as bad as all that, and it's very slippery slop to just avoid saying curtain stuff because vague threats. that's why if I ever become famous I'm going to say "the profit Muhammed takes Jesus's tiny dick up the ass nightly" in public to my heart's content
@255ad well i'm not exactly going to list everything i know about islam, but i know their key ideas, and we've visited mosques and stuff. also, people can get a good idea of muslim ideas from stuff around them anyway, as we're being a multifaith nation now.
"we've visited mosques and stuff" so did we but like I said where both pretty young and it's just a building without context
"I know their key ideas" which are?....and that's still not much
OF-COURSE PEOPLE CAN FIND OUT MORE you mist the point of the argument people can find out all there is to know about..... thermodynamics if they want that doesn't mean they will or that it's wise to do an stand up act about thermodynamics
@255ad its hardly a building without context. my best friend is a muslim, so i guess i may know more than some people about islam, but a building without context? seriously?!
@TheHannah641 it's a building without context to an outsider I meant, if you are a special case for knowing more about Islam that doesn't make you a good example
@terratrema I think his explanation here is pretty legitimate, although yeah I do think he omitted the part "oh, and I don't want to be murdered." Stewart Lee says a similar thing, and it's true that the public just doesn't know enough about Islam to be able to write any comedy about it of any value, as opposed to resorting to some dumb sloppy shit about Abu Hamza having a hook for a hand. The conventions of Christianity are understood enough to be able to tackle them with some complexity.
A small bowl will have a proportionately greater surface area and would, therefore, lose heat more quickly than a larger bowl. As Dara has studied physics, he should probably know this.
There are, however many other questions that one could ask about the strange story of the 3 bears.
He could make jokes about Jinns and explain what they are and how muslims are supposed to believe in them, they're a pretty funny and ridiculous concept, even some muslims think so, the ones that have actually read
the qu'ran, that is. Many "muslims" haven't a clue about their own religion and would be as mystified by some jokes about it as any Irish Catholic.
They are both illogical cults that insult any deity that may, or may not, exist, by assigning far too human attributes, showing how they are merely reflections of the people that Made Them Up!
@pineapplepenumbra You said it dude. Whereas I wouldn't consider myself atheist, I don't consider myself theist either, and in all honesty, I'm none too bothered with what people believe, as long as it isnt hurting anyone. People are entitled to it, but one qualm I do have with people plugging an all sentient superbeing that transcends this universe is - God really is very human. o.O
@lammergier I agree that there is insufficient information to make a definitive claim about a god or gods. It isn't logical, considering that everything we can observe, starts off simple and becomes more complex, from atoms to life forms, that things should start off with an all complex, all powerful god of some sort.
Having said that, if there are multiple Universes and, as some scientists think, it is possible for super advanced species to create their own Universes, then, statistically
speaking, we are More likely to be in a Universe that was created than one that isn't, as it is more likely to be tailored for life to be supported. However, those creators would be extremely unlikely to be like the gods of human religions.
If you study how religions evolved, you can see just how unlikely it is that the ones we know today are true, as there are aspects that get repeated and twisted from one generation to the next. For example, have you heard of the 7 generations of gods? Each
of the first 6 generations created something, then the 7th generation rested, sound familiar?
There was El, the chief of a council of about 70 gods, he had a wife, Asherah, and there was a Canaanite wargod called yahweh, somehow that god merged with the chief god. The wife got airbrushed out as misogynistic people realised that they could get more power that way, although she is still mentioned in veiled terms in the bible, as is El and his council (someone forgot to edit that one out, lol).
@lammergier If you want a less human but more reasonable and mature god, you could try reading the (very short) Gospel of the Gargantuan Frog of Despair, the only known deity that doen't mind if you believe in it or not.
@pineapplepenumbra That's true most people have heard of genies so that could work, I had forgotten about that part of the Qu'ran :)
Though telling him to do certain jokes is a bit weird, like you don't generally tell other people what to do in their jobs. I guess it's because it is public entertainment so people feel that they should have a say, like with actors/musicians.
Though there should be some balance in media; eg. if the BBC only did documentaries on 1 faith then they'd get in trouble.
@Miners666 Well it was more of a suggestion, a bit like when I was bored as a child and my mum would make suggestions, I never did what she said, but it sometimes sparked my imagination to go and do something else, like nick car wheels or shoot arrows into the garden of the guy who later commissioned Big Brother for channel 4!
I'm not a comedian and, even if I was, yes, it would be weird telling another comedian what to tell jokes about, and I think I've seen comedians do sketches about the
lol we live in a world where some young punk on a bus will stab you to death for asking him to stop throwing chips at your girlfriend and some people are bitching that some crack-pot is going to make a death-threat because of a joke?
No-one that's truly religious would even go so far as to make the threat, let alone carry it out. It's not religious people you should take issue with, it's nutters and they come in ALL flavours... be they hoodies on buses or fundamental nutjobs.
Why doesn't he make jokes about Jainism? Communism? Hinduism? Taoism?
Why SHOULD he? He's not a politician, he's an entertainer, it's like asking a band why they don't write songs about a certain issue. Or a portrait painter why they don't paint landscapes.
@Pogonotrophist its probably to show the gestures he's doing with his hands. It's common practise in interviews to show people being expressive with their hands.
You seem quite intellegent, and if this is your last comment then I'd like to thank you for not getting aggressive/condescending like most Athiests do. But the thing is, I'm not religous. I'm not even a Christian. My point is that no-one can say 'x is wrong because there is no proof' when the accuser has no proof of what they say themselves. No belief system can be taken as 100% fact. I can see though like most Athiests there is no swaying you, but I thank you for the discussion :)
But there is so much more to the Universe than what Humans, on Earth using what they call science, perceive. Im no longer athiest because I have realised that. The Universe is just too complicated. You can say Creationists are full of shit all you want, but you're lying to yourself if you take that statement as fact. As I've said, no-one knows what's really going on. Humans as a species know next to nothing when you look at the bigger picture.
@1worldgov1 READ IT WITH SOME FUCKING DISCERNMENT DID YOU NOT READ WHAT I SAID AT ALL!¬?!??!?!?!!??!?!!P!{EL£L:D> KAJPIWEJjkdokekare4jwifaoeka;lea aaaaargghh1!!!!
@alexvegas It's an exaggeration, a very generic one but I assumed you would have the intellect to work that one out. Secondly, 30% seems a fairly accurate assertion in many parts of major cities such as London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester and Sheffield.
PatriotFellowship 17 hours ago
@XxCYRAXANDERMACxX Oh yes there is! 2,869,000 reside in the uk, 8.5% make up the London population roughly on last estimate, now likely to be more. It doesn't take just figures to explain this. Just go out to any major city...London, Sheffield, Birmingham, Bradford or Manchester and see for yourself the saturation of this religion given much undeserved respect and protection among other religions.
PatriotFellowship 17 hours ago
LOL Craic Dealer
MrAdzerman 6 days ago
YOU ARE TAKING US FOR GRANTED DARA!
FFS!
blickluke 1 week ago
My Dad has a few Muslim friends. One of them grew up in Ireland, and he talked about how even if you're a Muslim in Ireland, you still get asked "Are you a Catholic Muslim or a Protestant Muslim?"
borednerd74 1 week ago 6
Unfortunately I couldn't see my own face, when some Irish told me for the first time were going to have some craic :-D
geoforn 1 week ago
Why is Islam like the weather?
Because it's either Sunni or it's Shiite.
ralphenstein 3 weeks ago 2
@ralphenstein Fair play. I'm stealing that.
sam0smith 3 weeks ago
@ralphenstein Sufis.
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
because they'll kill him...
ColinRekrab 3 weeks ago
It's not had to learn about muslims they have the same fucking god as christians .
dawtchins 1 month ago
@dawtchins Really? Other than the 'same fucking god' and four or five other grade school facts, you don't know a damn thing about them, as this guy says. Unless you frantically googled a bunch of stuff right now in order to respond to me.
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
@squamish4244 Well i dont need to all im saying is they believe in the same god however intepretate that god differently. All abrahamic faiths believe in the same god, It's not hard . Like you said its Grade 5 Information. There's really not much you need to know when you're dealing with people who believe in iron age mythology.
dawtchins 3 weeks ago
@dawtchins He could not make jokes about it though. For instance, if he tried to say something about the angel Mohammed spoke to in the cave, most of the audience would be thinking, "What angel?" Or if he said, "That was one hell of a night journey!" most would also be like, "What night journey?" All basic stuff Muslims know and most of us don't.
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
@dawtchins And you do need to know a lot about Iron Age mythology to deal with people who believe in it or want to discuss it. The Iliad is a vast Iron Age mythology, and if you don't know anything beyond what was in the movie Troy, you are going to have a hard time making jokes about it.
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
Agree with mrfanlogan, this fella is just another politically correct appeaser afraid of muslims.
That's all.
comeonbrazil 1 month ago
@comeonbrazil No, he's right, most of the audience would lose him five minutes into a routine about Muslims.
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
Writing a joke about muslims is like writing a virus for Macs. It's not impossible, it's just that nobody would GET it.
Ayelis 1 month ago 3
because hes scared....
mrfanlogan 1 month ago
Q. Who is a muslims favourite T.V. detective? A. Inspector Mosque
TheOrangeFondler 1 month ago
Craic dealer is an awesome name for a comedy dvd
tomtom21194 1 month ago
I've got one.
What's pakistan's biggest export?
Terrorism.
Funny huh.
18T220 1 month ago
@18T220 Nah that one sucked.
withthebirdillshare 1 month ago
@withthebirdillshare
I know :)
18T220 1 month ago
@18T220
and what is the greatest export of the Western powers?
Bombs and bullets
also not funny - but arguably true
iamidris 4 weeks ago
Dara called video games an art form, he has won a place in my heart instantly.
MayOceansClaimMe 1 month ago 3
IoEstasCedonta 1 month ago
@IoEstasCedonta Probably less than that.
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
Religious people are so cute, I wonder if you could teach them to dance
EoLoLoIoOoT 1 month ago 31
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What a fag. He cant admit hes too chicken to make muslim jokes.
Allah sucks pig dicks! :D
TheCrilles 1 month ago
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TheCrilles 1 month ago
Craic dealer. Haha!
Hazza32 2 months ago
@TehEzkimo I very very much doubt that in the UK, more like 30%
PatriotFellowship 2 months ago
@PatriotFellowship No. At the highest estimate, Muslims could make up 3.9% of the population.
MatCCarter 1 month ago
@MatCCarter there are more than 1 Billion Muslims...
colenbrak 1 month ago
@colenbrak Not in the UK.
MatCCarter 1 month ago
@MatCCarter ah
colenbrak 1 month ago
@PatriotFellowship Lol 30%. What a ridiculous assertion.
alexvegas 1 month ago
@PatriotFellowship theres not that many muslims in britian boy
XxCYRAXANDERMACxX 19 hours ago
3.05 it sounds like Dara broke
jaz88pa 2 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Great presenter , lame comedian.
Hey Dara I buy a ticket , you do the work . Thems the rules .
If I want to participate , I'll go to a pantomime .
Frankfish1000 2 months ago
@Frankfish1000 You didn't leave him your telephone number so he can get back to you or thank you for the great fucking advice!!
arseymcpherson 2 months ago
Q: How many Muslims does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I have no idea, I don't know anything about them. *rimshot*
HebaruSan 2 months ago 9
He says he doesn't do islamist jokes because people would't understand them. What about muslems? They'd understand them. They might not laugh, but so what?
aTruster 2 months ago
@aTruster because the majority of people are not muslim.
did you not watch the fucking video?
GlophTheweb 2 months ago
@aTruster Only around 3% of the audience will be Islamic. So there wouldn't be much point doing a joke to 100 people that only 3 will understand...
TehEzkimo 2 months ago
@aTruster
Well he also said that he doesn't know much about it himself, which is a legitimate reason I think.
Lightfeatherwing 1 month ago
Why does this guy think everyone is as ignorant as he is?
aTruster 2 months ago
@aTruster Atheism doesn't insulate someone from ignorance about other people.
squamish4244 2 months ago
@squamish4244 so in your opinion what does atheism do?
aTruster 3 weeks ago
@aTruster I think you're responding to the wrong person.
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
@aTruster Good question. Even if the audience doesn't know what you're talking about, so what ? They can catch up surely ?
checkoutgirl 2 months ago
Craic fodder
BBoru8888 2 months ago
The only joke Dara will now find worth doing is to ridicule 80% of the fools commenting below
BBoru8888 2 months ago
All Craic should be the irish kind ...crack makes you wretched.
temporaldisplacement 2 months ago
o_O Trollin' much guys :L
mailjeevas13onDA 2 months ago
1:50 Speak for yourself Dara, I know a lot about muslims and they deserve ridicule just like all the other religious cry babies. Fair enough if he doesn't want to write such jokes or cant find humour in the subject. I have no problem with that but It's pathetic listening to his excuse that he and we don't know enough.
TheGroggler 2 months ago
@TheGroggler how is the fact that HE doesn't know enough about islam a pathetic excuse? you expect him to research topics to write jokes about??? you can't learn about every subject, it would take decades just to learn about every religion. Just because you know about islam doesn't mean most people do, his point still stands, i know a lot about particle physics, but that doesn't mean that most people will, and that he should write jokes for my amusement! Just how self-absorbed are you?
iliketha 2 months ago 4
@iliketha No, you've completely missed the point. He clearly said that both HE and WE don't know enough to make such jokes possible for a public crowd. My main problem was that he claimed the public don't know enough which I dispute. I went out of my way to say fair enough if he doesn't know for want to write such jokes! Also with Islam being such a hot topic there is a lot of general knowledge about the subject. Southpark did an excellent satire of the muhammed cartoon controversy for example!
TheGroggler 2 months ago
@TheGroggler ok mate, i just think you're giving the general public waaaay too much credit, If you know a lot about islam, then try talking to people about it! you'll soon find that the knowledge you take for granted just isn't common knowledge. But the southpark thing is a good point, i suppose you don't need specialised knowledge with issues of common sense like the cartoon controversy, but then again that episode wasn't really about islam, just a small group of muslims who are dicks
iliketha 2 months ago 3
@iliketha To be fair, I probably am giving the public too much credit. I suppose I meant that a reasonably educated audience would know enough, although groups like the edl (idiots) know the main faults and concerns with Islam (without the necessary intelligence, diplomacy or responsibility to address them effectively) I have an interest in seeing religious hypocrisy and bigotry correctly satirised but I admit there is a danger of feeding hate to the haters if not done with responsibility. Peace
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@TheGroggler Ok...so off the top of your head, without Googling anything or going to Wikipedia, tell me what Moslems would consider to be the most important commandment in the Koran? How many children did Mohammed have by his first wife? Who did Mohammed speak to in the cave? What was the name of his daughter after which a dynasty was founded? What does the word Allah mean literally in Arabic? What argument prompted the schism in Islam? These are things all devout Moslems know.
squamish4244 2 months ago
cop out. another pc comedian.
innit27 3 months ago
as if noone has ever heard about the 72 virgins,
and as if every comedian in the world have not joked about it.
MrJudas666666 3 months ago
Dara, - you cowardly sonofabitch, - Why not tell the joke about mohammad's wife, waiting outside his house, packed & ready to leave him for good....??
he says ;- " Aishah, - What are you doing..? "
Aishah says ;- " I'm leaving you, - because you're a pedophile & a misogenist..! "
53yo. mohammad says ;- " My, - those are big words for a 9-year-old..."
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
@0XDracuIaX0 Because nobody in the history of the world has ever made the "pedophile is a big word for a little girl" joke, ever before.
Dara is a better comedian than that.
elixwhitetail 3 months ago
@elixwhitetail Not to mention it's not even funny.
PtolemyAFX 3 months ago 3
@0XDracuIaX0 Perhaps... WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO
Redheadfury 3 months ago
Coward, you know more about Islam than that - everyone does. You just don't want a fatwa.
aarthoor 3 months ago
@aarthoor
His point is that while he does have some knowledge,
you cannot make jokes that the audience will not understand.
TheCraziestFox 3 months ago 3
There's some quality trolling going on on here!
edwardianeccentric 3 months ago 41
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Dara, you don't make Muslim jokes for a simple reason. You're a coward. You're scared you will be targeted.
finchy633 3 months ago
Was the cameraman drunk?
SIngli6 3 months ago
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mohammad was a CHILD - RAPIST, LYING, THIEVING, MASS - MURDERING, PIECE OF PIGSHIT....
muslims are stupid sheep.
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
@0XDracuIaX0 As is everyone who believes in any God, what's your point?
Howard00Wolowitz 3 months ago
@Howard00Wolowitz - fool
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
@0XDracuIaX0 They sure are, I agree.
Howard00Wolowitz 3 months ago
Jesus Christ was a homosexual pedophile rapist bastard.
R0ckstar666x 3 months ago
@R0ckstar666x - There are millions of mohammadan ragheads in Israel, & you are one of them.
Your silly comment about Jesus is not offensive, because it's not true, - I know it, - you know it.
you MUST know, however, that mohammad was a child-raping, lying, thieving, mass-murdering PIG.
and if you find this offensive, deal with it...!!
ps. - Jews are hated the World over, but muslims & izlam are absolutely DESPISED & DISRESPECTED by 5 Billion people
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
@0XDracuIaX0
LOL who gives a shit about Muslims. They're worthless pieces of shit.
However Jesus Christ truly is a homosexual pedohile rapist who also fucked his mother the "prostitute Mary".
In fact he fucked his whore of a mother so many times while getting his ass fingered by the gay 12 apostles, it was ridiculous!
In the Bible (which I use as toilet paper), it states that Jesus would just sit at home for hours fingering his whore mother's vagina. That bitch just couldn't get nuff!
R0ckstar666x 3 months ago
@R0ckstar666x
lolwhat
ihavekankles 3 months ago
@R0ckstar666x - Sinéad, - leave it out, - park your fat arse in a hayshed & pray for the end...
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
@R0ckstar666x lol umad taliban?
xDaZJMx 3 months ago
@R0ckstar666x
And Muhammad was an androgynous, demented slattern... and for that matter, I'm God (aka Pol Pot). See, I can be pointlessly offensive too. There's not much to it, is there?!
SIngli6 3 months ago
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mohammad " married " a little 9yo. girl called Aishah bint Abubakr, He was 53.
He had Eleven wives, but preferred to rape Aishsh the most.
He raped his 4th. wife;- Hafsa's slave girl, - a Coptic Christian called Maryam, every night for a month, - she eventually had a bastard called ibrahim, who died @ 2yo.
He raped a girl called Jawwariyya after slitting the throats of her entire family in front of her. The list goes on...
He murdered 600+ UNARMED boys & men, for not fighting with him...
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
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here's one ;- 9yo. girl says to 53yo. mohammad ," oooh, - it hurts,"
moHAMmad ;- " shut up and take it bitch,"
- or, he could joke about the gaza terrorists;- " pigs arse " ie. HAM-ass.
- or he could joke about mohammads " mercy ", - when he slit 'Kinannas' throat, - in order to put him out of his misery, after mohammad had him tortured by fire..
Actually, islam is a 1,400yo.JOKE,- albeit a sick one...
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
@0XDracuIaX0 I'm not religious at all, but your jokes offend me.... because they're not funny
Marksd99 3 months ago 17
@Marksd99 " I'm not religious at all, " or " actually, I'm a Christian ", - are expressions usually used by muslim lying bastards.
Are YOU a lying muslim bastard...??
- ps. they weren't meant to be funny, - they are disgusting, historical FACTS about mohammad and islam..
0XDracuIaX0 3 months ago
the camera man thinks he's fucking Michael Mann, evidently
DetectiveDeckard 4 months ago
Wow, I actually didn't know Dara is such a deep person.
I'm now a fan :)
shoaibhussain 4 months ago
Dear Allah you really messed up with cutting the hands of theives bit,HOW,says Allah,they can still pinch ring doughnuts.
ghylltarvoke 4 months ago
What does dara mean by "Crack Dealer" is it a irish pun?
Tcrumpen 4 months ago
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@Tcrumpen
"What does dara mean by "Crack Dealer" is it a irish pun?"
It is. The Irish have a word "craic" which means a highly pleasurable experience which is pronounced the same as "crack".
Pigdowndog 4 months ago
@Tcrumpen From wikipedia: "Craic" or "crack" is a term for fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.
blackplatypus 4 months ago
@Tcrumpen He doesn't mean 'crack' as in the drug, he means 'craic', it's an Irish term for fun/enjoyment. Thays the point of the pun, 'Dara O'Briain - Craic Dealer' :) it would be brilliant!
jacobsandre85 2 months ago 2
i respect you for not joking about reliogn and respecting peoples bellives
oMrzubier 4 months ago
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Nobody is saying we must flood African countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood Asian countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood South American countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural.
Multiculturalism and mass immigration into White countries and White countries only is GENOCIDE.
Anti racism is a code word for anti White.
Alphaman7100 4 months ago
By putting more porridge in one bowl than in the other
JankeyL 4 months ago
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Thehatedtruth 5 months ago
@Thehatedtruth Yes that videogames joke was made in Gameswipe as well. Some guy called Dara O Briain made it.
CaptainFryingpan 4 months ago
Dara, comics who premote how .... "clever" .. they are are not funny !
TheBradyOpinion 5 months ago
@TheBradyOpinion Probably because you don't get any of the jokes.
nile590 4 months ago
@squirell1952 'Someone' said Dara O'Briain was a Protestant.... Dara O'Briain said Dara O'Briain is an Atheist. Just saying...
TheDrummerboi94 5 months ago
It isn't the job of a comedian to supply anti-Islamic material, but it is the job of a comedian to poke fun at the so-called sacred - and yet clearly absurd - traditions in our midst. Claiming not to know enough about the subject is a cop-out, and implying those who'd like to see him do such material as being somehow bigoted and unsavoury is cowardly. He could have answered the question with a joke and it instead been both humorous and honest: "Because I don't want to have me head cut off."
JckSwan 5 months ago
aka he is scared as fuck.
SicSeb 5 months ago
.. I like Dara but I think his ''I don't know about Islam therefore I can't insult it'' is a cop-out. At least Jimmy Carr admits that he doesn't do it because he doesn't want to be killed.
Dungarth 5 months ago
Yeah, as others have already commented, I think he was being a little disingenuous in his answer to the Islamic question.
"Myself and most people in this country don't know much about the Muslim faith..."
That might have been the case for most Brits (and Yanks) before 9/11, but since then we've been swamped in both anti-Muslim hysteria AND excessively pro-Muslim propaganda. The 'ignorance' thing won't wash!
The whole "religion of peace" line should provide brave comedians with HOURS of material.
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema He is talking about his jokes
Central to any comedy is the audience having some knowledge and think and relate and laugh at certain things they know about in a culture which they havent noticed.
His comment was regarding this lack of knowledge about day to day life british people know about muslims so therefore wouldnt "get" any jokes if he were to make fun of this.....its key to comedy.
This was what he was talking about. Not about religion, ignorance, post 9 11 etc. But comedy
Donal277 5 months ago
@Donal277
"[Comedy] was what he was talking about, not religion..."
He WAS talking about religion: he was explaining why Catholics, for instance, are fair game for comedy but Muslims aren't.
BUT IN TRUTH, no Catholic will disembowel him in public for mocking Jesus but a Muslim MAY consider it if he were to make fun of "some fella called Muhammad" (as happened to Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam).
"...Or ignorance..."
He was using ignorance as his EXCUSE, rather than admitting understandable cowardice.
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema No again your over reading things
His audiences are mainly judeo christian in background - thus understand can relate to this humor , they cant relate to "normal behaviour" of muslim ppl as they are not aware of these in the main. -- thus Dara would be wasting his time trying to make jokes about things for which not many can identifiy with
Thats all there is to it.
Donal277 5 months ago
@Donal277
I don't buy what you're saying.
We now live in a largely post-Christian society. Many, many people over the past 20 years have had no religious education or feelings at all. Just because this country is Christian in *background* doesn't mean everyone in it can "relate" to, or be "aware" of, Christian behaviour/dogma/whatever.
With that in mind, when someone says that Christianity is a satirical target but Islam isn't, I think I know why that is.
But let's agree to disagree etc.
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema "religious education" is part of the curriculum in UK schools, and bible stories are still read to children in 1000s of Christian schools up and down the land (and even in my middle school despite the fact it was not Christian) , even if you can avoid that stuff Christian beliefs are so referenced by other stuff in western culture that it's pretty hard to avoid some knowledge of Christianity teachings.....and then there's Christmas
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad
"It's pretty hard to avoid SOME knowledge of Christianity..."
Yes, I agree. And it's also pretty hard to avoid SOME knowledge of Islam. Perhaps not quite as much as Christianity, I'll grant you that, but Dara's assertion that all the average Brit knows about Islam and it's various controversies is "prayer five times a day, some fella called Muhammad" is frankly a little insulting.
He. Doesn't. Want. To. Get. In. Trouble.
I don't hate him for it, I just wish he'd be honest with us.
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema I would say we know a lot superficial stuff about Muslims themselves but very little about what they actually believe, where as with Christianity that's mostly also true but most people know at lest few of ten commandments and will have at lest have heard of stuff like noah's ark or the nativity or the world being 7000 years old
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad
Look, this is getten silly. We ALL know one or two things about Islam, superficial or not.
But Dara refuses to make ANY jokes about Islam. None at all, despite how 'famous' that religion and culture has become in the past 10 years.
Why does he REFUSE to make ANY Islamic jokes? 'Cos he may provoke lynch mobs to storm through major cities with banners that read "Behead those who insult Islam."
Remember when that happened? Yeah, EVERYONE does. Doesn't that incident warrant some sort of joke?
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema that would be mocking the Islamic people not the religion it's self, there is a difference, one is mocking an idea, and ideas are fair game, where as mocking a group of people who hold that idea by saying they all act the same way for reasons unrelated directly to the idea, is discrimination and since Muslims aren't an acceptable target (like fat people or men) that's a no no,
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad
It wouldn't be to mock the ENTIRE Islamic people, just those who want to kill people who say things they may ever-so-slightly disagree with.
There's some videos of Billy Connolly making fun of certain preposterous Islamic beliefs here on YouTube, look them out. He gets big laughs. So some of the Brits and Irish in the audience 'get' what he's talking about. Dara could try doing the same. But he doesn't. Because, as you wrote, if you want to play it safe as Dara does, "that's a no-no".
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema "It wouldn't be to mock the ENTIRE Islamic people" no it wouldn't but that's WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT!!!! mocking ALL Muslims for there beliefs
does Connolly have to explain the beliefs ans where there from first? because Dara O Briain does observational humour and if you have to completely explain the reference it's not really observational
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad
I didn't mean to shout. I wanted to emphasize one word and there ain't no italics round here.
Look man, I know a fair bit about the beliefs and practices of Muslims, and I know this having done very little specific research; I've just picked things up here and there. I thought everyone was the same. But maybe they are all ignorant schmucks...
I'm not too familiar with O'Brian's observational satire of Christians. But I can predict that no huge amount of knowledge is required to enjoy it.
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema
"ignorant schmucks" yes they are if you wan't to put it that way, I doubt you know as much as you do about Christianity
he takes the piss out of creationism and mocks the marriage course for Catholics but only when in Ireland
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad
No need to get self-righteous. You're the one who's saying that most Westerners know absolutely nothing about the lifestyles of a very visible and influential minority who've been living amongst us for so long. I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
As for O'Brian, "he mocks the marriage course for Catholics"? Well, okay, cool. He COULD mock arranged marriages as well. I'm sure everyone in Britain and Ireland are familiar with the existence of that particular practice.
terratrema 5 months ago
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@255ad
No need to get self-righteous. You're the one who's saying that most Westerners know absolutely nothing about the lifestyles of a very visible and influential minority who've been living amongst us for so long. I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
As for O'Brian, "he mocks the marriage course for Catholics"? Well, okay, cool. He COULD mock arranged marriages as well. I'm sure everyone in Britain and Ireland are familiar with the existence of that particular practice.
terratrema 5 months ago
@255ad
No need to get self-righteous. You're the one who's saying that most Westerners know absolutely nothing about the lifestyles of a very visible and influential minority who've been living amongst us for so long. I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
As for O'Brian, "he mocks the marriage course for Catholics"? Well, okay, cool. He COULD mock arranged marriages as well. I'm sure everyone in Britain and Ireland are familiar with the existence of that particular practice.
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema he mocks the marriage course only when in Ireland because he doesn't think English people will know what it is....like the Muslim stuff
most people probably know what arrange marriages are but don't specifically associate them with Muslims (I thought they where Hindu thing until just now) "I was prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt" yeah well maybe you can't afford the"benefit of the doubt" if your career is contingent on 5000 people getting your references
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad
Okay, I've an idea. Dig this:
In 20 years time, when EVERYONE in this country is well-versed in the complexities of Islam (as by then it will be part of the school curriculum) I hope to see Dara O'Briain satirizing it in his stand up (if, inshallah, he is still around by then) because then he'll have no excuse.
In the meantime, I'm going to assume that the reason he doesn't tackle that particular religion head-on is because he wants to keep his head on.
(Which is a sentiment I agree with)
terratrema 5 months ago
@terratrema they do teach a bit about Islam in school but pretty much only that it exists...and that's only my generation and younger an I'm only 18
if that was the reason I really wouldn't agree, I don't think it's as bad as all that, and it's very slippery slop to just avoid saying curtain stuff because vague threats. that's why if I ever become famous I'm going to say "the profit Muhammed takes Jesus's tiny dick up the ass nightly" in public to my heart's content
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad actually i'm 15 and we study all 6 major faiths to a bit more detail that 'they exist'.
TheHannah641 5 months ago
@TheHannah641 I was exaggerating a bit but really what do you know about Islam?
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad well i'm not exactly going to list everything i know about islam, but i know their key ideas, and we've visited mosques and stuff. also, people can get a good idea of muslim ideas from stuff around them anyway, as we're being a multifaith nation now.
TheHannah641 5 months ago
@TheHannah641
"we've visited mosques and stuff" so did we but like I said where both pretty young and it's just a building without context
"I know their key ideas" which are?....and that's still not much
OF-COURSE PEOPLE CAN FIND OUT MORE you mist the point of the argument people can find out all there is to know about..... thermodynamics if they want that doesn't mean they will or that it's wise to do an stand up act about thermodynamics
255ad 5 months ago
@255ad its hardly a building without context. my best friend is a muslim, so i guess i may know more than some people about islam, but a building without context? seriously?!
TheHannah641 5 months ago
@TheHannah641 it's a building without context to an outsider I meant, if you are a special case for knowing more about Islam that doesn't make you a good example
255ad 5 months ago
@terratrema I think his explanation here is pretty legitimate, although yeah I do think he omitted the part "oh, and I don't want to be murdered." Stewart Lee says a similar thing, and it's true that the public just doesn't know enough about Islam to be able to write any comedy about it of any value, as opposed to resorting to some dumb sloppy shit about Abu Hamza having a hook for a hand. The conventions of Christianity are understood enough to be able to tackle them with some complexity.
AbortedHitlerCock 5 months ago
He dosen't want to get blown up by a religious nut thats why.
JordoF6 5 months ago
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He dosen't want to get blown up by a religious nut thats why.
JordoF6 5 months ago
He dosen't want to get blown up by a religious nut thats why.
JordoF6 5 months ago
@NavyCutJohn
John Cavil the cylon leader in BSG was a chaplain and an atheist.
badger5079 6 months ago
A small bowl will have a proportionately greater surface area and would, therefore, lose heat more quickly than a larger bowl. As Dara has studied physics, he should probably know this.
There are, however many other questions that one could ask about the strange story of the 3 bears.
He could make jokes about Jinns and explain what they are and how muslims are supposed to believe in them, they're a pretty funny and ridiculous concept, even some muslims think so, the ones that have actually read
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago
the qu'ran, that is. Many "muslims" haven't a clue about their own religion and would be as mystified by some jokes about it as any Irish Catholic.
They are both illogical cults that insult any deity that may, or may not, exist, by assigning far too human attributes, showing how they are merely reflections of the people that Made Them Up!
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago 2
@pineapplepenumbra You said it dude. Whereas I wouldn't consider myself atheist, I don't consider myself theist either, and in all honesty, I'm none too bothered with what people believe, as long as it isnt hurting anyone. People are entitled to it, but one qualm I do have with people plugging an all sentient superbeing that transcends this universe is - God really is very human. o.O
lammergier 6 months ago
@lammergier I agree that there is insufficient information to make a definitive claim about a god or gods. It isn't logical, considering that everything we can observe, starts off simple and becomes more complex, from atoms to life forms, that things should start off with an all complex, all powerful god of some sort.
Having said that, if there are multiple Universes and, as some scientists think, it is possible for super advanced species to create their own Universes, then, statistically
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago
speaking, we are More likely to be in a Universe that was created than one that isn't, as it is more likely to be tailored for life to be supported. However, those creators would be extremely unlikely to be like the gods of human religions.
If you study how religions evolved, you can see just how unlikely it is that the ones we know today are true, as there are aspects that get repeated and twisted from one generation to the next. For example, have you heard of the 7 generations of gods? Each
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago
of the first 6 generations created something, then the 7th generation rested, sound familiar?
There was El, the chief of a council of about 70 gods, he had a wife, Asherah, and there was a Canaanite wargod called yahweh, somehow that god merged with the chief god. The wife got airbrushed out as misogynistic people realised that they could get more power that way, although she is still mentioned in veiled terms in the bible, as is El and his council (someone forgot to edit that one out, lol).
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago
@lammergier If you want a less human but more reasonable and mature god, you could try reading the (very short) Gospel of the Gargantuan Frog of Despair, the only known deity that doen't mind if you believe in it or not.
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago
@pineapplepenumbra That's true most people have heard of genies so that could work, I had forgotten about that part of the Qu'ran :)
Though telling him to do certain jokes is a bit weird, like you don't generally tell other people what to do in their jobs. I guess it's because it is public entertainment so people feel that they should have a say, like with actors/musicians.
Though there should be some balance in media; eg. if the BBC only did documentaries on 1 faith then they'd get in trouble.
Miners666 6 months ago
@Miners666 Well it was more of a suggestion, a bit like when I was bored as a child and my mum would make suggestions, I never did what she said, but it sometimes sparked my imagination to go and do something else, like nick car wheels or shoot arrows into the garden of the guy who later commissioned Big Brother for channel 4!
I'm not a comedian and, even if I was, yes, it would be weird telling another comedian what to tell jokes about, and I think I've seen comedians do sketches about the
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago
public telling them what to tell jokes about, actually, I think it was probably in response to audience heckiling.
pineapplepenumbra 6 months ago
lol we live in a world where some young punk on a bus will stab you to death for asking him to stop throwing chips at your girlfriend and some people are bitching that some crack-pot is going to make a death-threat because of a joke?
No-one that's truly religious would even go so far as to make the threat, let alone carry it out. It's not religious people you should take issue with, it's nutters and they come in ALL flavours... be they hoodies on buses or fundamental nutjobs.
TheKenOhRaoh 6 months ago
Even if he did know a lot about Islam, no-one wants to end up like Salmond Rushdie! :O
barretsbumhole 6 months ago
Why doesn't he make jokes about Jainism? Communism? Hinduism? Taoism?
Why SHOULD he? He's not a politician, he's an entertainer, it's like asking a band why they don't write songs about a certain issue. Or a portrait painter why they don't paint landscapes.
superhamzah85 6 months ago
What the fuck is with the belly shot at about 1:39
Pogonotrophist 6 months ago 95
@Pogonotrophist
It was probably a shot of his hands but his belly got in the way.
badger5079 6 months ago
@Pogonotrophist awh man i laughed so hard at that belly shot and your comment
beanseeker 6 months ago
@Pogonotrophist camera man's a massive twat?
noodles41 5 months ago 21
@Pogonotrophist its probably to show the gestures he's doing with his hands. It's common practise in interviews to show people being expressive with their hands.
Hegtic 5 months ago
hahahaha @ 1:40 Dara is saying he is an atheist and his hands are doing the sign of the cross blessing himself hahahaha
Narayanastra89 6 months ago
@1worldgov1 lol alright you win.
atomicmrpelly 6 months ago
That's one zoom-happy camera man.
saphira1001 6 months ago
@seborgarsen
You seem quite intellegent, and if this is your last comment then I'd like to thank you for not getting aggressive/condescending like most Athiests do. But the thing is, I'm not religous. I'm not even a Christian. My point is that no-one can say 'x is wrong because there is no proof' when the accuser has no proof of what they say themselves. No belief system can be taken as 100% fact. I can see though like most Athiests there is no swaying you, but I thank you for the discussion :)
RoaccVideos 6 months ago
@RoaccVideos
nice stereotyping there.
Georgelangham 6 months ago
@Georgelangham
I assume you mean the 'not getting aggressive/condescending like most Athiests do.'
From my experience this is heavily true. I never said 'all athiests'
RoaccVideos 6 months ago
@1worldgov1 It won't be good for your health when I set a plague on you.
atomicmrpelly 6 months ago
@seborgarsen
But there is so much more to the Universe than what Humans, on Earth using what they call science, perceive. Im no longer athiest because I have realised that. The Universe is just too complicated. You can say Creationists are full of shit all you want, but you're lying to yourself if you take that statement as fact. As I've said, no-one knows what's really going on. Humans as a species know next to nothing when you look at the bigger picture.
RoaccVideos 6 months ago
@1worldgov1 READ IT WITH SOME FUCKING DISCERNMENT DID YOU NOT READ WHAT I SAID AT ALL!¬?!??!?!?!!??!?!!P!{EL£L:D> KAJPIWEJjkdokekare4jwifaoeka;lea aaaaargghh1!!!!
atomicmrpelly 6 months ago