Thanks for coming on. Loved this episode. That sketch needs to be seen by more people. I felt like I was back in my high school/college classroom watching it 😭
Been a fan (especially of your short films) for years, just watched 'Black and White' the other night and now you're on Trig! Nice one, Neel. Thanks for all the solid work you create and put out.
Great! I've shown your work to students and they love it. The queer community is more like 3.6%. Over representation of a minority voice is destroying comedy. Agreed!
I'm very impressed by the young age that this fellow has gotten wind of these sneaking changes in societies. I was already in my beginning fourties when I began to notice changes in the world around me...- thar speaks volumes about this dude's awareness and sensibility.
Think about it. 9 years old. Damn , people were aware of this before Trump took office in his 1st term. Unfortunately, it didn't cone to his attention then.
Whoa. I'm an Australian woman from Brisbane. Have been a huge fan of Neel's comedy since he started out. I love his political commentary too. I love how he weaves the two together. Can't believe he's gotten a Triggernometry appearance. Congratulations Neel, and thank you Triggernometry.
That sketch was a perfect representation of my experience returning to (an Australian) university in 2021. It was my fourth time at uni. I thought I was returning to a beloved space of growth, meaning and academic rigour. Boy, was I wrong. Unfortunately for them, my fellow students, academic staff and industry mentors couldn't fail me as my grade point average was too high, but they all tried. I walked through my Masters (in Education) with a Student Union Advocate walking alongside. I am so grateful to her particularly, and for those who still act upon facts, merit and decency.
Wow… I’m so grateful now my kids didn’t go to university… their choice… and despite that they are doing really well … I wonder where they would be now if they had taken that direction… probably not talking to their parents…
So in essence you end up being scammed, and you could have probably received a better, shorter and cheaper education if the market was able to fill that niche.
In this market to compete you have to buy your PhDs from overseas universities. They only cost a couple of thousand dollars and if you buy more than one you get discounts! Don't even have to do anything beyond spending the money! Aren't we all so clever.
That skit totally embodies the vibe of these people.especially the girl who can barely contain her hatred and it shows on her face. The aggression while pretending to be the victim.... creepy
The left doesn't like comedy because it pulls you out of negativity and feelings of despair. It makes you live in the moment and feel joy. Leftism needs misery to thrive and grow. Comedy is the antidote.
@@slipstreammonkey no, you are not understanding how FAR to the left the overton window has shifted. So far in fact, that Bill hicks would have been roasting them for how nuts they have gone, and HE would have been cancelled.
Worth noting: Neel came up with "right not to be offended" (at 6:10 ) in his satire a couple years BEFORE Cathy Newman said it in the Jordan Peterson Interview.
Actually, Stephen Fry said it long ago in 2005 for an article for the Guardian; he is probably not the first. In 2011 Ricky Gervais also said something to that effect. However, Neel is no doubt far ahead of his time for this skit, with excellent execution, Orwellian parallels and uncanny foresight. I met Neel once at a bar in Sydney, top bloke!
The plus and minus privilege points isn't actually satire though. I was in top university in Aus, and we legitimately had to complete a survey on privilege points. The first two questions; are you male, and are you white? Resulting in -2 straight from the beginning (an original sin?) And this was 2019ish in a "top tier" university course given to all healthcare degrees. I can't imagine its gotten better since then.
It also just happens that the teacher is a spitting image of this teacher in looks and personality. And there are so many clones of those little angry unaware fools haha. Unfortunate circumstances right now
Awesome interview. I think back in 2020/21, I sent a PayPal donation during a Raw and recommended Neel's channel, especially his short satire films. You read it out and said you were already aware of him, so it's great to see you guys got together for this conversation.👍
He’s 100 percent right, the Australian arts scene is a goddamn nightmare. You guys should interview ex-Jezebels singer Hayley Mary, who was recently cancelled for an Instagram post that outed herself as a conservative.
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Google evergreen college, when it went tits up, it was like the sketch, physics students were being accused of being racist for not studying humanity's subjects.
They also basically kidnapped the principal and wouldn’t allow him to go to the toilet and harassed Bret Weinstein and got him fired because he wouldn’t pander to their ideological lunacy.
That whole Evergreen college scene was unbelievable. Every department imploded at the same time. I still shake my head. Completely insane. I was happy to see Bret Weinstein rebound and listen to his podcast often.
I'd love to see a comedy sketch where they promise to chuck her out if they get elected... like last election where they promised to let the Biloela family stay...
Neel was so many years ahead of everyone else, but everyone thought it was just exaggeration. Yet here we are now. Great to see him here! Really nice! I hope to see more of him soon!
This guy is more BASED than the most based public figures from today. The guy just witness clearly the trend 9 Years ago. It is incredible. Good interview guys.
It's telling when foreign comics like Tim Dillon, Andrew Shultz, Tom Segura and Dave Chapelle sell out theatres and arenas within days of being announced when touring Australia, yet most Aussie comics can't even fill a club. This is bc most Aussie comedians suck for reasons Neel stated. Aussies are starved of good comedy hence why US comics sell out quickly when they tour Oz. Neel is probably the best Aussie comic after Jefferies, and Jefferies had to leave Oz to make it!
I saw Educayshun when it came out & it couldn't have portrayed the western Education System more accurately The scene where the guy is openly ridiculed & shamed because his life-savings theories where marked in red pen It just shows that these people will any excuse to hid thier hatred & envy
Pressure makes diamonds - yes so true! Man I haven’t heard that mindset in so long, it’s so sad. Whenever I said that to people in my millennial generation I was shouted down and called old fashioned.
27:04 I think he nailed it on the head. I was in high school when Chapelle was making it big. All my friends loved Chapelle but I found him crass. I don't think I understood how good he was until I watched a documentary about him. He started explaining how important timing was to comedy and how that was the same timing that was important to music. Music was my high school passion so that spoke to me. At that point, I started to understand that there was more to comedy than I previously thought
As an American who lived in England for a few months, just putting it out there, you guys don’t have freedom of speech and assembly protections like we do and that’s why this is still continuing as much as it is. That’s the only reason I can see as to why this woke ideology isn’t going away or shifting. “Going along to get along” mentality is also a big issue. That’s why I was so happy to see all the Brits out there a few months ago protesting. I love your country and people and its culture but there are some very scary faults just like in America.
It exploded after Brexit in 2015, until then it was confined to elite spaces like universities. In 2015, people would say it would blow over, there is a nugget of truth to it, they are only kids etc. Some people did pick up it was more nefarious.
Been longer than that. My first week of highschool in Australia a girl called me dickhead, I said she was a waste of space. Exact words. I got in trouble for sexual harassment because she was a girl. That was 1991.
The Voice (Referendum) was a great showcase as to just how Non-Woke the country is as a whole. Just Melbourne and Sydney that are, but the further west in Sydney the less woke it gets due to how multicultural it is out there
Wow. That a young person created that skit, etc is very impressive and gives me hope that the younger generation DO see and understand what is going on.
As someone in the privately educated arts scene, those ideas are prevalent. The school curriculum has also been captured by the moralising and reductive anti-Western narrative.
Worked with Neel at a Comedy gig at Deakin Uni back just after he dropped Modern Educayshun and even back then some of the other comedians were talking about how much the university comedy gigs had changed even back then. They used to be a hotbed for comedy and a lot of older comedians actually started performing at uni because it was the only place tolerant of radical ideas and free speech
Absolutely unbelievable that I have seen his video 9yrs ago and it was insane cringe comedy, and today it's a horrifying reality even in some quarters of the US... Hope is that people are fed up and the tide is turning. My fear is that humans being who they are it'll swing waaaay out to the other side.
Loved this interview. As a Sydneysider l yearn for the days of comedy with professionals like Chris Lily. He was able to make fun of everyone... Jaimie the elite northshore school girl who was an absolute bitch to everyone was a favourite. I am 60 now and in my 20s and 30s the comedy scene in Sydney was fantastic. We would go to the comedy store and there would be people of all walks of life rolling around the floor in hysterics. Comedians could tell whatever jokes they wanted and if they were funny and clever everyone laughed. If a joke was over the top everyone would groan then laugh... laughter use to be such a bonding experience. I also miss being wedged into a cinema with a crowd of people bonding over a movie... netflix just has zero atmosphere.
I went through that exact scene in the mid 90's at college via a "Social Science" course. One example. My assignment was a resubmit twice, so I asked a student who got a high distinction if I could read her paper. I quickly photo copied it, changed a few names etc and submitted it. C-
I can't believe that Konstantin after visiting Australia felt like Australia hasn't gone down the slippery slope as much as other countries. We are perhaps further down that slippery slope than most countries apart from Canada. We were late coming to the party but we fell down that slippery slope at a rapid speed. Labor secured government in 2022 and then all of a sudden life changed as we knew it, even though there had been a gradual creep for many years.
This is strong anecdotal evidence proving the strong correlation between a sense of humor and intelligence. These comedians are brilliant, in the IQ sense.
I was bullied by my college tutors back in the early 2010s because I questioned their pitiful knowledge But its gotten way worse since I met a boy about a year who did a GSCE English review of Yesterday (About the Beatles never existing) which competely enraged his tutors & got him in quite a bit of hot water Anything that doesnt tick every single box is demoralised & destroyed
I'm an Aussie and part of the now demonic boomer generation. As a retired biology teacher who had a lot of interaction with the psych industry (largely due to complex PTSD originating in childhood), this person is a breath of fresh air. What a relief someone of this generation is still seeing reality. Brilliant use of comedy to create discussion. Just what comedy should do.
I live in Melbourne but it’s only the inner suburbs and certain “arty” suburbs that were once considered hippy that have really been affected by this exclusive inclusivity. The rest of us are still quite a sensible lot.
Neel I have been following you since your early Facebook days. Like you, I am born and brought up in Australia. I am also brown. The thing is man we can join the right from the political standpoint however we need to be careful of these white nationalists. They don’t want us here and even though we are Aussie through and through the racial discrimination is more present now than it ever was. The woke left as much as people disagree with how far things have been taken still protects everyone equally. These guys utilise our votes and will give us the boot as soon as they no longer require us. That’s my only concern with campaigns like this. The best example you can see right now is America.
I think the biggest problem here is our Gov totally disregards its citizens that don't agree with them. We voted NO at the federal level so the states went ahead and did it anyway without a vote....
In Australia we used to laugh about our differences. Slang nick names were just part of the lingo and no one cared. We are losing the laid back Aussie lark part of our culture. Even our football is going the way of the woke and it is ridiculous. It is sad.
32:00 Spot on about the victim complex. Look up the framing of the Drama Triangle that comes from a victim mentality and has saviours playing on that when the lesson is meant to be to not be a 'rescuer' who thinks they know better what the needs of the victims are. Elitist DEI advocates are the rescuer and perpetrator who use any group they can use as victims to feel like they are better. It's the most unhealthy relationship at a societal level. Neel gets the psychology right. The recommendation is to empower victims. Stop thinking you know what's better for them and encourage them. Don't persecute others to make yourself feel better, challenge others. Framing issues according the values of the other side is also needed. First listen and show that you understand what virtues they value, then they might actually listen to yours. The Triggernometry guys have clearly never heard of the drama triangle when it is all about the very things they talk about and neither have incels who are yet another group stuck in victimhood. Why the hell isn't this taught in schools when society is one big drama triangle right now?
They basically cancelled Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna, one of the key drivers of the Melbourne Festival. They were so ruthless his family refused a state funeral in Melbourne preferring Sydney. So the famous housewife from Moonee Ponds (inner north suburb of Melbourne) wasn’t even buried there.
Modern Educayshun was work of some big brains. Message given so powerful that even some lefty looneys would have woken up from their hypnosis. Acting and screenplay was spot on.
When he mentioned sad stories, I instantly thought of Hannah Gadsby's grasp for empathy. 😮😂 Not one bit of humour in it, just blaming men and anyone who isn't gay...
Every creative industry in Australia is a good pool for nurturing talent, which immediately leaves for bigger international markets the moment it becomes popular. This is a microcosm of a wider problem for Australia, we have a massively urbanised population of 27M spread across a continent. There's a tiny local industry to break into, and almost no ladder to climb once you're there.
I’ve never seen this guy before…but he’s very impressive. Laughter is supposed to be “the best medicine”. But maybe what we have lost to some degree is the ability ‘laugh at yourself’. It seems like when people take jokes too seriously ….they’ve lost the ability to laugh at themself. It seems that the lack of ability to laugh at yourself can become a poison. I have found a good comedian can be very enlightening and make me realize some issues with my own behavior. That seems healthy to me.
The sketch at the beginning is really scary and I say that as a queer brown Muslim man! I have seen books being censored from my Academy library! They have simple removed them without even telling anyone, because someone complained about it! I have found the books ("Sexual Personae" by Camille Paglia and Jordan Petersons "10 rules for life") hidden in drawer weeks later! And this was a school for educators!
Thanks for having me guys, thoroughly enjoyed the chat.
Thanks for coming on. Loved this episode. That sketch needs to be seen by more people. I felt like I was back in my high school/college classroom watching it 😭
Been a fan (especially of your short films) for years, just watched 'Black and White' the other night and now you're on Trig! Nice one, Neel. Thanks for all the solid work you create and put out.
Great! I've shown your work to students and they love it. The queer community is more like 3.6%. Over representation of a minority voice is destroying comedy. Agreed!
I've enjoyed your work for more than a decade. Thank you!
will Weldon Chau make a comeback? :p
That sketch at the start was amazing it's nine years old yet 100% accurate on what's happening today
That was nine years OLD?! That is literally “hIgHeR eDuCaTiOn” in America.
Comedy state funded is not comedy. Then you can't be a real comedian.
I'm very impressed by the young age that this fellow has gotten wind of these sneaking changes in societies.
I was already in my beginning fourties when I began to notice changes in the world around me...- thar speaks volumes about this dude's awareness and sensibility.
Think about it. 9 years old. Damn , people were aware of this before Trump took office in his 1st term. Unfortunately, it didn't cone to his attention then.
@@palomino73 you’d already gone through the system, people our age went through at transition - it was glaringly obvious.
Whoa. I'm an Australian woman from Brisbane. Have been a huge fan of Neel's comedy since he started out. I love his political commentary too. I love how he weaves the two together. Can't believe he's gotten a Triggernometry appearance. Congratulations Neel, and thank you Triggernometry.
That sketch should be mandatory viewing for pretty much everyone.
That sketch was a perfect representation of my experience returning to (an Australian) university in 2021. It was my fourth time at uni. I thought I was returning to a beloved space of growth, meaning and academic rigour. Boy, was I wrong. Unfortunately for them, my fellow students, academic staff and industry mentors couldn't fail me as my grade point average was too high, but they all tried. I walked through my Masters (in Education) with a Student Union Advocate walking alongside. I am so grateful to her particularly, and for those who still act upon facts, merit and decency.
Wow… I’m so grateful now my kids didn’t go to university… their choice… and despite that they are doing really well … I wonder where they would be now if they had taken that direction… probably not talking to their parents…
So in essence you end up being scammed, and you could have probably received a better, shorter and cheaper education if the market was able to fill that niche.
In this market to compete you have to buy your PhDs from overseas universities. They only cost a couple of thousand dollars and if you buy more than one you get discounts! Don't even have to do anything beyond spending the money! Aren't we all so clever.
Never heard of this guy, nor seen that video at the start.
Can't believe that was 9 years ago.
In that test I would be down 648 points😂
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The better days when the west wasn't as blatantly ideologically addled, and when we weren't nearly as much of a laughingstock 😂
I watched that 9 years ago and died laughing. Tonight it gives me chills because it’s literally the thing that’s killing my state.
Its the cancer at the heart of western society.
If that's anything to go by what comedy today is going to be reality 9 years from now?
Im an Aussie. Our most successful comedian of late is Hannah Gadsby. That should tell you the utter state of things here.
They use clips of her to break suspects In interrogation....100 per cent break rate
😂
Saw her, kinda lame she was.
Gadsby may be our most revered by the media comedienne, but she's certainly not the most successful.
Agreed. She’s woeful.
That skit totally embodies the vibe of these people.especially the girl who can barely contain her hatred and it shows on her face. The aggression while pretending to be the victim.... creepy
And "vibe" perfectly captures it. It's all about the vibe man, there's no substance.
the reason the left dont like comedy...is because a good joke can crack an ideology.
Love this!!
Tyrants always take out the comedians first. Cant have total control if someone is making people laugh at you.
The left doesn't like comedy because it pulls you out of negativity and feelings of despair. It makes you live in the moment and feel joy. Leftism needs misery to thrive and grow. Comedy is the antidote.
Doesn't really add up since by far most comedians are left leaning but sure, go with your theory.
@@slipstreammonkey no, you are not understanding how FAR to the left the overton window has shifted. So far in fact, that Bill hicks would have been roasting them for how nuts they have gone, and HE would have been cancelled.
The sketch is truly terrifying, the girl especially. Those who believe they're good are often those who commit the most evil.
Neel's sketch at the beginning of this conversation was so ahead of time when he and his associates made it
You mean the strawman caricature? That was a sketch?
@@bfarzady5212did your feelings get hurt booboo?
Neel Kolhatkar - seriously scalpel-sharp wit and seriously big cojones. Top geezer.
Worth noting: Neel came up with "right not to be offended" (at 6:10 ) in his satire a couple years BEFORE Cathy Newman said it in the Jordan Peterson Interview.
Actually, Stephen Fry said it long ago in 2005 for an article for the Guardian; he is probably not the first. In 2011 Ricky Gervais also said something to that effect. However, Neel is no doubt far ahead of his time for this skit, with excellent execution, Orwellian parallels and uncanny foresight. I met Neel once at a bar in Sydney, top bloke!
Yes I noticed that too.
The plus and minus privilege points isn't actually satire though. I was in top university in Aus, and we legitimately had to complete a survey on privilege points. The first two questions; are you male, and are you white? Resulting in -2 straight from the beginning (an original sin?)
And this was 2019ish in a "top tier" university course given to all healthcare degrees. I can't imagine its gotten better since then.
It also just happens that the teacher is a spitting image of this teacher in looks and personality. And there are so many clones of those little angry unaware fools haha. Unfortunate circumstances right now
Wow…
Australian comedy died when they cancelled Barry Humphries.
Nah, Rolf Harris.
He got cancelled?!
The greatest disgrace in Victoria's history as far as I'm concerned
@@sullacicero2610 They had VERY good reasons to cancel him.
@@JJ-wi2uwand what were they ? perhaps I missed some
Awesome interview. I think back in 2020/21, I sent a PayPal donation during a Raw and recommended Neel's channel, especially his short satire films. You read it out and said you were already aware of him, so it's great to see you guys got together for this conversation.👍
Working class Aussies don`t go for the woke at all
Same in Britain. That’s why the establishment hates us.
"Privilege points." That's spot on.
As an elderly woman, I was shocked to see that education has dipped so far into dystopia. 😢
He’s 100 percent right, the Australian arts scene is a goddamn nightmare. You guys should interview ex-Jezebels singer Hayley Mary, who was recently cancelled for an Instagram post that outed herself as a conservative.
Brilliant sketch , way ahead of its time
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His short film "Purification" is one of the best out there. Well shot, acted, the music is amazing and the dialogue is superb.
Jesus Christ, my boy, you made it to Triggeronmetery........
Google evergreen college, when it went tits up, it was like the sketch, physics students were being accused of being racist for not studying humanity's subjects.
They also basically kidnapped the principal and wouldn’t allow him to go to the toilet and harassed Bret Weinstein and got him fired because he wouldn’t pander to their ideological lunacy.
That whole Evergreen college scene was unbelievable. Every department imploded at the same time.
I still shake my head.
Completely insane.
I was happy to see Bret Weinstein rebound and listen to his podcast often.
Love Neel's videos! Ahead of the curve, hilariously witty, and underneath all that, I get the vibe that he has not got a malicious bone in his body!
He’s brilliant. As for Aus comedy, just look at their version of The Office. Nightmare.
Don’t hold that against Australia. Our mainstream media has turned to garbage. No one in Australia watches or approved of it
Love Neel, seen him a few times in Sydney. He runs the best comedy show in the Southern Hemisphere!
I've never heard of him, which probably underlines his point about being excluded.
cope that paraguay !!
Is Raygun making it to the Olympics the result of a similar problem?
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I'd love to see a comedy sketch where they promise to chuck her out if they get elected... like last election where they promised to let the Biloela family stay...
She was a real Ray of Sunshine 🥴
@odettegibbs2238 coincidently 🌞 in the 👀 is how everyone looked watching her "dance".
Her PhD Thesis is her talking about how her boyfriend got her into breakdancing. A PhD.
Modern Educayshun was terrifyingly prescient.
Neel was so many years ahead of everyone else, but everyone thought it was just exaggeration. Yet here we are now. Great to see him here! Really nice! I hope to see more of him soon!
This guy is more BASED than the most based public figures from today. The guy just witness clearly the trend 9 Years ago. It is incredible. Good interview guys.
Love this video, "Educayshun" I have shared it so many times, so many different places! Thanks Neel!
Fantastic pick! Neel was and has been SO FAR ahead of the game!
There is very little political diversity among the cosmopolitan elite.
Penelope pisses me off more than she should- great acting!
I think she'd be alright with a few beers, lippy and a massage.
It's telling when foreign comics like Tim Dillon, Andrew Shultz, Tom Segura and Dave Chapelle sell out theatres and arenas within days of being announced when touring Australia, yet most Aussie comics can't even fill a club. This is bc most Aussie comedians suck for reasons Neel stated. Aussies are starved of good comedy hence why US comics sell out quickly when they tour Oz. Neel is probably the best Aussie comic after Jefferies, and Jefferies had to leave Oz to make it!
Jeffries is as woke as they come these days. He sold out to the seppos.
I saw Educayshun when it came out & it couldn't have portrayed the western Education System more accurately
The scene where the guy is openly ridiculed & shamed because his life-savings theories where marked in red pen
It just shows that these people will any excuse to hid thier hatred & envy
Love this guy - saw his show in Australia a while ago. Very much in the style of Ryan Long …
Modern education skit is one of the best of it's kind...
Pressure makes diamonds - yes so true! Man I haven’t heard that mindset in so long, it’s so sad. Whenever I said that to people in my millennial generation I was shouted down and called old fashioned.
2 of the best comediens in Australia are Carl Barron and Jimeoin.Neither are political.
He’s right about the Melbourne comedy festival. It’s awful comedy. It clearly prioritises diversity over funny. It’s so bad.
27:04 I think he nailed it on the head. I was in high school when Chapelle was making it big. All my friends loved Chapelle but I found him crass. I don't think I understood how good he was until I watched a documentary about him. He started explaining how important timing was to comedy and how that was the same timing that was important to music. Music was my high school passion so that spoke to me. At that point, I started to understand that there was more to comedy than I previously thought
That was a brilliant sketch and I DO remember when it came out. Bravo man!
As an American who lived in England for a few months, just putting it out there, you guys don’t have freedom of speech and assembly protections like we do and that’s why this is still continuing as much as it is. That’s the only reason I can see as to why this woke ideology isn’t going away or shifting. “Going along to get along” mentality is also a big issue. That’s why I was so happy to see all the Brits out there a few months ago protesting. I love your country and people and its culture but there are some very scary faults just like in America.
I don't understand that they are saying he was ahead of the game 9 years ago. For me this wokey crap was everywhere 9 years ago.
Longer than 9 years , just most people were too cowardly to bring ir up
It exploded after Brexit in 2015, until then it was confined to elite spaces like universities. In 2015, people would say it would blow over, there is a nugget of truth to it, they are only kids etc. Some people did pick up it was more nefarious.
Yeah but few had the guts to talk about it then
Been longer than that. My first week of highschool in Australia a girl called me dickhead, I said she was a waste of space. Exact words. I got in trouble for sexual harassment because she was a girl. That was 1991.
Absolutely. When I was at uni in the mid 90s it was everywhere. Back then we called it "political correctness."
This was a great interview with a great guest. Thank you all. 😊
A great crossover I didn’t expect, Neil is an Aussie gem.
So many good points here😳. Pressure makes diamonds….thanks Neel. I love this interview. All 3 guys👍.
I never knew how articulate Neel was. Good voice to have for us Aussies. Keep it up
That sketch at the beginning seemed straight out of Black Mirror.
Sad we saw this 9 years ago, but it still happened because too many people weren't paying attention.
The Voice (Referendum) was a great showcase as to just how Non-Woke the country is as a whole. Just Melbourne and Sydney that are, but the further west in Sydney the less woke it gets due to how multicultural it is out there
You’ve overlooked Canberra, although it is questionable whether it’s part of the country.
@woodrow60 Tasmania I can accept, but Canberra? Now we're getting into Fantasy
This was such an amazing sketch back then and I remember sending it to so many people!
Me too
Wow. That a young person created that skit, etc is very impressive and gives me hope that the younger generation DO see and understand what is going on.
Neel's clips were super popular back in the day, good to see him again.
Damn Neel, that video at the start. Well done mate.
As someone in the privately educated arts scene, those ideas are prevalent. The school curriculum has also been captured by the moralising and reductive anti-Western narrative.
In high school (2002-6), _Nobody Loved Racist jokes More_ than the black kids. It was literally a sign of endearment. WTF happened!?
As a westerner I am not ashamed of the past.
Worked with Neel at a Comedy gig at Deakin Uni back just after he dropped Modern Educayshun and even back then some of the other comedians were talking about how much the university comedy gigs had changed even back then. They used to be a hotbed for comedy and a lot of older comedians actually started performing at uni because it was the only place tolerant of radical ideas and free speech
Absolutely unbelievable that I have seen his video 9yrs ago and it was insane cringe comedy, and today it's a horrifying reality even in some quarters of the US... Hope is that people are fed up and the tide is turning. My fear is that humans being who they are it'll swing waaaay out to the other side.
Loved this interview. As a Sydneysider l yearn for the days of comedy with professionals like Chris Lily. He was able to make fun of everyone...
Jaimie the elite northshore school girl who was an absolute bitch to everyone was a favourite.
I am 60 now and in my 20s and 30s the comedy scene in Sydney was fantastic. We would go to the comedy store and there would be people of all walks of life rolling around the floor in hysterics. Comedians could tell whatever jokes they wanted and if they were funny and clever everyone laughed. If a joke was over the top everyone would groan then laugh...
laughter use to be such a bonding experience. I also miss being wedged into a cinema with a crowd of people bonding over a movie...
netflix just has zero atmosphere.
I went through that exact scene in the mid 90's at college via a "Social Science" course. One example. My assignment was a resubmit twice, so I asked a student who got a high distinction if I could read her paper. I quickly photo copied it, changed a few names etc and submitted it. C-
Neel on the Triggenometry podcast?! Awesome 🙌
I can't believe that Konstantin after visiting Australia felt like Australia hasn't gone down the slippery slope as much as other countries. We are perhaps further down that slippery slope than most countries apart from Canada. We were late coming to the party but we fell down that slippery slope at a rapid speed. Labor secured government in 2022 and then all of a sudden life changed as we knew it, even though there had been a gradual creep for many years.
This is strong anecdotal evidence proving the strong correlation between a sense of humor and intelligence. These comedians are brilliant, in the IQ sense.
I was bullied by my college tutors back in the early 2010s because I questioned their pitiful knowledge
But its gotten way worse since I met a boy about a year who did a GSCE English review of Yesterday (About the Beatles never existing) which competely enraged his tutors & got him in quite a bit of hot water
Anything that doesnt tick every single box is demoralised & destroyed
Can we speak once again how good the actress that portrays Penelope in the sketch is?
That sketch at the start 😂🤣😅
That opening scene was incredible. It scared me
Neel is one of my favorite Aussies - thanks for having him on!
Glad to see Neel here. Been following him since 2015.
Takes a Aussie. Straya mate
With this guy involved, a sketch show parodying woke could actually work
I'm an Aussie and part of the now demonic boomer generation. As a retired biology teacher who had a lot of interaction with the psych industry (largely due to complex PTSD originating in childhood), this person is a breath of fresh air. What a relief someone of this generation is still seeing reality. Brilliant use of comedy to create discussion. Just what comedy should do.
Boomer- that's minus 1 privilege point. Actually, [refers to text] that's minus 10 privilege points. Biology teacher that's minus 1 privilege point.
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I live in Melbourne but it’s only the inner suburbs and certain “arty” suburbs that were once considered hippy that have really been affected by this exclusive inclusivity. The rest of us are still quite a sensible lot.
Also its the “fake rich” of Sydney that are ultra woke too
Virtue Signalling Frauds
Neel I have been following you since your early Facebook days. Like you, I am born and brought up in Australia. I am also brown. The thing is man we can join the right from the political standpoint however we need to be careful of these white nationalists. They don’t want us here and even though we are Aussie through and through the racial discrimination is more present now than it ever was. The woke left as much as people disagree with how far things have been taken still protects everyone equally. These guys utilise our votes and will give us the boot as soon as they no longer require us. That’s my only concern with campaigns like this. The best example you can see right now is America.
I think the biggest problem here is our Gov totally disregards its citizens that don't agree with them. We voted NO at the federal level so the states went ahead and did it anyway without a vote....
Didn’t think I would get as much out of this as I did. Thanks for picking such an unexpected gem
The sketch is so accurate for now, it's odd it is 9 years old!
Interesting conversation. Thank you!
In Australia we used to laugh about our differences. Slang nick names were just part of the lingo and no one cared.
We are losing the laid back Aussie lark part of our culture. Even our football is going the way of the woke and it is ridiculous.
It is sad.
32:00 Spot on about the victim complex. Look up the framing of the Drama Triangle that comes from a victim mentality and has saviours playing on that when the lesson is meant to be to not be a 'rescuer' who thinks they know better what the needs of the victims are. Elitist DEI advocates are the rescuer and perpetrator who use any group they can use as victims to feel like they are better. It's the most unhealthy relationship at a societal level. Neel gets the psychology right.
The recommendation is to empower victims. Stop thinking you know what's better for them and encourage them. Don't persecute others to make yourself feel better, challenge others.
Framing issues according the values of the other side is also needed. First listen and show that you understand what virtues they value, then they might actually listen to yours.
The Triggernometry guys have clearly never heard of the drama triangle when it is all about the very things they talk about and neither have incels who are yet another group stuck in victimhood.
Why the hell isn't this taught in schools when society is one big drama triangle right now?
They don't need to make money if the Government keep giving them money, nearly everything in Australia is publicly funded these days.
The Unholy Alliance also cancelled Charlie Hebdo (with extreme prejudice, not just economically..)
They basically cancelled Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna, one of the key drivers of the Melbourne Festival. They were so ruthless his family refused a state funeral in Melbourne preferring Sydney. So the famous housewife from Moonee Ponds (inner north suburb of Melbourne) wasn’t even buried there.
Modern Educayshun was work of some big brains. Message given so powerful that even some lefty looneys would have woken up from their hypnosis.
Acting and screenplay was spot on.
God, that "ekwality" skit is so much creepier in hindsight.
Excellent interview, great content. Cheers
When he mentioned sad stories, I instantly thought of Hannah Gadsby's grasp for empathy. 😮😂 Not one bit of humour in it, just blaming men and anyone who isn't gay...
This was a really enjoyable discussion, thanks!
Every creative industry in Australia is a good pool for nurturing talent, which immediately leaves for bigger international markets the moment it becomes popular. This is a microcosm of a wider problem for Australia, we have a massively urbanised population of 27M spread across a continent. There's a tiny local industry to break into, and almost no ladder to climb once you're there.
I’ve never seen this guy before…but he’s very impressive. Laughter is supposed to be “the best medicine”. But maybe what we have lost to some degree is the ability ‘laugh at yourself’. It seems like when people take jokes too seriously ….they’ve lost the ability to laugh at themself. It seems that the lack of ability to laugh at yourself can become a poison. I have found a good comedian can be very enlightening and make me realize some issues with my own behavior. That seems healthy to me.
The sketch at the beginning is really scary and I say that as a queer brown Muslim man!
I have seen books being censored from my Academy library!
They have simple removed them without even telling anyone,
because someone complained about it!
I have found the books ("Sexual Personae" by Camille Paglia and Jordan Petersons "10 rules for life") hidden in drawer weeks later!
And this was a school for educators!
hence why I don't watch Commercial tv in Australia. I do watch my preferred comedians on YT or R
The sketch was SPOT ON, the in-born sarcasm of a chitpavan/koknastha shone thru 😂😂😂 (irony intended)