I worked with some exchange students from China, and I brought up the Winnie The Pooh vs Xi situation and they had obviously absolutely no idea what I was talking about, so I showed them multiple examples and they thought it was the best thing they’ve ever seen about him
I'm actually in China at this very moment, streaming this over a VPN, pissing myself laughing, and sharing it with my Chinese friends, who are also laughing, albeit slightly nervously. Well done, sir. Well done indeed!
HBO isn't part of national TV. National TV would be broadcast channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and CNN, which are legally prohibited from broadcasting profanity by the FCC. HBO is actually a premium cable program similar to STARZ, Showtime, and Cinemax. Therefore, its not bound by the regulations of the FCC, and is free to broadcast its shows in all their uncensored glory.
@@maxwellqklinger ehh, not really. Abc/fox etc have to censor nudity, curse words etc HBO can show whatever the fuck nudity they want, cussing, it's still got ratings but doesn't follow the same guidelines
Fun fact: this zazu bit was done WAY before The Lion King reboot was announced so while it's fair to assume that was already in the works, it's also fair to figure he just threaded the joke needle
They later regret immensely of their rash decision, because the manufacturer called and explain the correct usage is to spit in, not to drink from the mugs.
currently living in China and just wanted to remind people that in general Chinese people are very nice, warm people that have a lot more in common with us than they have differences. unfortunately their sources of information are heavily filtered and they don't exist in the same political climate (I.e. in America we have well defined rights to assembly, protest, etc).. just keep any animosity or anger you have aimed towards greedy politicians and well removed from the lovely people of this country.
Yes, but you also have to realize there are so many ultranationalistic people in China. Look at how many people support the Nine-Dashed Line, a completely ridiculous border to take all ocean territory from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. The Chinese people are more than happy to support their nation bullying its neighbors if it means they get more rich and more powerful.
You should. Their cyber security are insanely invasive as all means of communication are government owned. Be. Very. Careful. And don't buy Chinese made phones.
Especially with all the new Hong Kong updates and odd American Buisness practices. Also there was a whole bunch of old fiscal policy stuff that wasn't covered like them buying tuns of gold and silver and the Russian pipe line that more information and updates on would be nice to see.
Xi Jinping seems like the type to pretend to dislike comparisons to Winnie the Pooh so his opponents start to unconsciously associate him with a cuddly, harmless cartoon animal.
@maui what I'm trying to say is the US constantly invades, spy and destroy other countries but they still portray themselves as super heroes not saying China is much better but surely the US are far worst.
As a Chinese international student currently studying in U.S, I have to say the evidence shown in this video is really accurate and, subjectively saying, haunting, because even I know all of these facts from different sources, subconsciously I am just paralyzed to feel anxious enough of the changes happening in China. I’d like to discuss some of the positive social changes not mentioned in this video before jumping into my concern of current state of China. Firstly, the infrastructure development in China is skyrocketing. Citizens of china have their style of transportation completely changed in the past several years. When I went back to China during vacations, I was stunned of how convenient living has become in China. It is objectively true that you can live in a Chinese city with no cards, no wallets, but only your phone… Ok, the more important part…Every time in the history of China when our country becomes the strongest in the world, there would always be a wise yet powerful, authoritarian leader…no exceptions…The very idea of personality cult is rooted in our tradition, culture and, frankly saying, everything. Due to the ancient and influential filial system, Chinese are bonded together in the form of family. Every family in a tightly bonded community and most Chinese carry the duties of maintaining this community their entire lives. Personally saying, I found this iconic nature of Chinese people separates us from the western culture. Why do I want to discuss about Chinese families…well…since most Chinese are deeply concerned with their family community, living conveniently and happily is all that matters. If the leader of China can grant substantial positive changes to Chinese family communities, almost all Chinese won’t ever, ever, ever care of totalitarianism whatsoever. It is a bit of exaggeration, but in the majority cases, what I mentioned above can be applied to Chinese people’s reasoning. Even myself is considering how to payback my parents after I finished my education, and I am 100% fine with it. This leads to my concern: what will happen next to my own country? I don’t know the answer… Chinese people won’t stop our president as long as the family communities prosper. Our president is totally determined to push the influence of China to global scale. And with it, I could only say: absolute power corrupts absolutely…This corruption of power has fallen unto all powerful Chinese leaders throughout the history. We can still pointlessly hope that our president is not traditionally powerful leader, because what else can we do? What will diverge our Chinese people’s fate to another direction instead of repeating the Chinese history repeatedly…I truly don’t know…
It depends on whether I will return or not...however I am always determined to contribute what I can to my country, my people. So probably you are right, we shall see...
What makes this episode remarkable is that John was able to make subtle digs to BOTH the net neutrality ruling and the AT&T-Time Warner merger in a deep dive segment that we all know can take weeks and months to produce 🤯
Carol Poblete it's not hard to make two sentences about the att and time Warner merger. So yeah.... It wouldn't take weeks nor months to write a joke about it. The celebration of mediocrity in America is the reason we are in the sorry state we are.
As a Chinese, I’m shouting there’s finally a one TV show really describe the exact situation in China now!!!!!!! And so many details are true and accurate!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This show is destined for perpetual Emmy a-la Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. AT&T would be nuts to kill this, and if it is killed anyway, that would just mean massive pay jump for Oliver in different platform.
I have a friend who moved to America from a China and my history teacher was talking about censorship when she made a comparison to Tiananmen Square and asked my friend about it to make a point. My friend admitted she’d never known anything at all had happened in Tiananmen Square. This was just four years ago
All governments are like that. The US hid the crime it did in Iraq and the massive surveillance until they were leaked. But atleast it's much free in the US
But the plus is that the initial withdrawing of western factories due to covid and now the emboldenment of the west due to Russia killing itself in Ukraine means that Xi's authority on the world stage is shakier than it has been in a long time.
Jokes on you, China has no access to most websites. The government brain wash the population through China made social media. Imagine Americans have only access to Fox news.
serious.... if you try to message someone using Chinese social media apps with his name the message won't be received. It may still appear on your chat screen but it wont appear on their's. Same with forum posts, blogs and news articles (which will be taken down within minutes of being posted)
A pretty balanced video. I've lived in China for four years now, and a lot of media reporting on the country misses the key issues. In my opinion, Xi is very concerned about keeping the middle class happy. Thankfully John doesn't overplay the "he's turning China into a police state" card which so many people in the western media often do. If he tightens the grip too much, he's going to run into trouble. The Chinese elite have always viewed the masses with fear. The analogy goes: the people are the ocean, the government is a boat. The ocean can support the boat, but if it gets riled up, it is the ocean that sinks it. TLDR: This is pretty complicated stuff; no one knows where China is headed; John does a good job with that.
Are you even justified in saying this though? From my understanding, the phrase "playing the abhorrid-Orwellian-police state card" on China sounds like "playing the murdered-a-bunch-of-people card" on a serial killer, in that they're pretty much true, it doesn't take special foresight to see that, and they're also pretty goddamn significant, if not the centerpieces of the entire situation. I mean, from what I've heard it seems painfully clear-cut, so please enlighten me on the complexities that can somehow trivialize _this_ .
there are other ways to do government besides liberal democracy, and liberal democracy isn't automatically the best Xi's power depends on a lot of other powerful people not turning on him; he has an incentive to listen to them. This sucks, of course, because if you're not threatening to the president due to being too poor or whatever, you're not gonna get heard- but, honestly, that's not really all that different from living in the US.
Tim Xu No. Not because of this one. My English is not good, and I will try my best to explain it. It is all about Tibetan. About this issue, the reports shown in west countries were totally wrong
@Dominic Tirl Thank you for posting your link. I rabbit holed here due to this top reddit post of 09/29/2019 www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/daiysm/china_harvesting_organs_of_uighur_muslims_the/
‘Bide’ your time, but yeah it is a decent strategy. However, wouldn’t it be even better if we could work together instead of all the intra-species conflict? I mean, we’re all humans, fighting over land, resources, who gets to control others, etc. Surely we’ve played this game and there are better ones to try.
Yes but why is being victorious over fellow human beings something desirable? This whole mantra implies that China wants to eventually rule the whole world. Considering how they rule their own citizens, is this something that we really want?
A lot of people in the comments are forgetting about the problems with What about-ism. Don't say "What about (insert bad thing US does)?" or that we aren't any better because of this or that. It isn't about who's better. Acknowledging the problems with one country or one politician does not mean that others aren't also problematic in one way or another. The point is that some of the things China is doing are quite concerning and could easily be leading to some pretty horrific things. Acknowledging these problems doesn't automatically mean things will go horribly wrong like people fear and it doesn't imply that America is strictly better because we certainly have our fair share of problems. It simply means that there are concerning things happening and the world should keep an eye on it.
Indeed. It is almost ironic that people would use "Whatabouticsm" when it actually implies that they have failed to learn from past/ongoing mistakes of someone else and is repeating it/is making up an excuse to repeat it.
It’s funny how people follow John Oliver as if he’s a beacon of how you should think. Don’t use whataboutism because John Oliver said so. He had a witty argument on Fox News about it.
kaleidostar88 there is no what about ism... the US Capital Establishment has sourced most dictators and fascist states as controlled opposition over the last 150 yrs.. sounds crackpot, sure, but if challenged to explain, it wouldn't be me cracking in this conversation... conservatism accrues power as liberalism disperses it. think on this as the derivation is clear...
Well the social credit thing shouldn't be too much of a deal i'm sure, people will see it as an opportunity as a new form of business so they can be hired by people to improve their social credit score by various methods. Sorta like how China already has a service for mobile app developers to get their product into the top 100 for more publicity. They'll just have to put some effort in to not piss the government off too much.
I love that of the photos of US Presidents eating ice cream, Eisenhower looks like the ice cream bar fought against him in the Second World War and he's finally getting revenge, yet now without that hatred fueling his drive and ambition, he experiences an existential crisis mid-bite.
@@electr_icity4613 Yet accurate. Look in those eyes... Who has that look in their eyes when eating ice cream... Well, maybe if he was grossly overweight.
😎 Great point, Nick. Being under British rule from: 1841-1997 (except 4yrs. of Japanese rule during WW II,) the people had a taste of western democracy for several generations. Although they were a British 'colony' the cultural differences from people of mainland China clearly were ENORMOUS. 🗿.
Patrick Jenkins lmao you do realize native Hong Kongers did no have universal suffrage and their prime ministers were directly assigned by the British Government when Hong Kong was colonised by Britain. Does that sound like democracy to you?
@@chk9580 😎 You probably know more about Hong Kong than I. However I try to choose my words carefully whenever I comment. I specifically wrote: "A TASTE of WESTERN DEMOCRACY." Of course it fell far short of what we in the west consider 'TRUE' democracy. To give an unrelated example: I'm American. Years ago I spent (3 months) in Europe, mostly in FRANCE. Although 90 days isn't a lot of time (relatively speaking,) that brief TASTE of a developed nation OUTSIDE of the U.S. has profoundly affected many of my decisions & opinions in life❗ 🗿.
As a Chinese, with ID card and Mainland Passport, I can’t talk much on this video for reasons you may understand. Things are getting tougher, really tough, even sometimes desperate for people who tries to make things better, naively, in ways avoiding political risks for themselves.Besides that, most things non political is fine, at least acceptable here, still tons of problem, true. Absolutely a developing country developing in a really unbalanced way that no one can or should deny. Economy, pollution, education, social morality etc, we are working on that, true. But the efficiency or progress is unclear, since the transparency issue in the system.No one can tell how far have we come, is it reasonable enough base on the time and resources we spent? And at this moment, We got sandwiched, by the pressure from what we call mysterious unspeakable forces right here which seems to be the safest way for me to mention it, And by the up growing anti Chinese attitude , policies, stereotypes from the outside world. Misunderstanding enhancing, Communication with respect is failing.I mean on the citizen scale not govermential behavior. We have the information wall and un deniable nationalism propaganda going on which I dare not to comment lot cuz my opinion would upset some one. That leads to unreasonable aggressive comments anywhere on a video posted by any youtuber about china even with a slightest bit of non goodlooking content, those people who left those comments can mean it by heart, not only got paid for some propaganda need. Then we got a SERIOUS DEBATE started when others try to argue or defend.And the tourist behavior thing, western media demonizing propaganda thing and so on. There’s simply less space and time that allows,tolerates people who are reasonable enough to establish a positive connection, conversation with other people when the mainstream on bothsides are doing exactly opposite. Sometimes it’s really frustrating. I am just a musician running my little studio here, what I can do is just writing songs either to my own kind to make them think more LEGALLY, or to show others what true goodness of Chinese culture would be in a way that can be understandable base on global common values(not started yet though) I even feel responsible and guilty that I’m not brave enough to risk everything I values in my life to change things from the inside, since when I tried to root back couple phenomenons stage by stage to their cause and source, I got the answer least wanted for a sane person with self protection need. Cuz this is for sure and responsible since we are technically running our own country which is not a colony. I got attacked by my own kind on other videos for leaving comments like this which I anticipated, even they questioned if I ‘m not Chinese sigh The education I got teaches me I should be humble, friendly, respecting others, love, supportive and reasonable according to traditional Chinese virtue. And to be a responsible person. If you are reading this thanks for your patience, maybe I’m just trying to show perhaps not the true but a least an alternative facade of Chinese culture. Maybe this is the message I’m trying to deliver. And at last, I can only represent myself, may any superior existence bless the world.
Dave Von Saunder I agree to some degree, but have to make some extension, if you dont mind YES that history did serious harm in all perspectives especially in physical and mental forms, my parents lived through that. BUT that didn’t destroy all, I cant give an exact percentage, quite a lot goodness is carried on through families and neighbor hoods or so, far more than imagined. My opinion based on my life here is what happened next held a huge share of responsibility. It’s not a story that one single incident can wipe out everything like a nuke, but a systematic, step-by-step progress linked with countless events and several incidents which went far beyond even the dictators could foresee or manipulate in their own terms (once there were) .thats wat forged the current situation The most serious outcome is the lost of the room for multiple opinions discussions or debates in mainland. And from that on, things eventually leads to here, not quite surprising. Thanks for knowing the history of my country, that’s what I admire and respect, and what I consider the start of true understanding and conversation.
Hisa Kwok , do what YOU can and feel safe doing. There are others like you and trust in and build on that. Rivers get dammed, but a stream can move the waters of knowledge just the same.
How the fuck was it ballsy. All this shit is made my writers and approved of before airing because it appeals to the audiance, the only think this shows is that AT&T doesnt give two shits and Oliver is a studio hack. Literally clapping seals.
@@saeedvazirian check out the bloody war when China invade Vietnam in 1979 (27 days killing about the same number of lifes that USA lost in the entire Vietnam war). Before that war, China supported a regime in Cambodia that murdered millions peoples (which is ended by Vietnam when that regime started murdering Vietnameses, causing China to invade Vietnam in 1979 as said)
China is too big to survive and too censored to live. Oliver doesn't speak for everyone. He should know where he is in history. Trump has delted with Chinese economy for a very long time. You add patriotism as a cultural norm in the US. China won't be a super power for long.
Benjamin Howell-Hawkins if you really think this is trust worth than please do some other research. This video is criminally biased against China, just as John always is with any country not friendly to the U.S. or Europe
realscummy dude, he didn't even touch on all the fulun gong prisoners of conscience that China is using to harvest organs from, which has been covered by numerous other legitimate news organizations. And he also regularly condemns the US for our horrific practices.
Many people are saying that they are in China but are using VPN to watch this video but are followed up by a lot of questions regarding the Great Firewall of China. So let me put it like this: Using VPN in China is basically pirating music, it's illegal but everyone does it anyway And they don't get into much trouble by Chinese authorities than before. It's really hard catching someone that's using VPN
It's never about vpn. It's about having something against you if you get in their way someday. Illegal activities it's what they call it when they lock you up.
It's never illegal to use VPN in China. Many hotels, universities, and international companies in China have WiFi that you can access anything including RUclips, Facebook, Google, etc. without using VPN. Been there, done that.
@@Soldier-gh4xb Damn I actually didn't know that. I've been back to China for a full month last year but no matter what I couldn't access Google, RUclips or Instagram (All of which I can't live without) without the help of a VPN I pre-installed before going. One of my friends actually went to Shanghai recently and said that he could use Instagram and WhatsApp without trouble or VPN. I guess China is slowly allowing the country to view western media starting from well developed cities.
@@Sonichero151 it’s so funny to watch this video in China, many things that Olive said are contorted. The best thing about internet is you will never know who is brainwashing who.
@@程顶 oh hi I saw you on another video defending the genocide of the uyghers. I have some words for your social credit score: Taiwan #1, Republic of China is the only china, Free East Turkestan, Free Tibet, Free Hong Kong, Winnie the Pooh, Vietnam won the 1978 war, ROC, Dalai Lama, Taiwan has better food
As worrying as all this is, it’s mildly comforting that we’ve seen so much of this before - the cult of personality, the suppression of dissent, the single-party system, the imperialism, the growing militarism - it’s like a script humans have kept in the ‘favourite’ folder and bring it out every few years.
I think we need to be in the throes of economic depression, for people to be desperate enough to trust a fascist. Fascists only stay popular , while there is someone else to blame.
@haojie zhao What part of his comment defends the US, ya blind fuck? He was literally talking about cult of personality in general and yet you responded the same way a morbidly obese self-centered twat would do if they heard someone said the word "fat" within hearing distance. If you felt that mere mentions of authoritarianism in general warranted "hOw AbOuT [insert another unrelated matter here]", then there's clearly something horrifically wrong with your country.
That’s all they know how to argue, whattaboutism. I think because when people criticize China, they think its an affront to the Chinese people when its clearly not. So they expect Americans to get offended when they bring up the US government. That won’t work at all. :/
I lived in the west of China where the Uyghur people are in 2008....I saw people being thrown out their houses at gunpoint and having them bulldozed in front of them. I hung about with some Uyghur people and was constantly being followed and pulled into police stations for questioning. I once googled Tibet and the internet went down and the police arrived at the door. Very scary place
After they passed the law to lift the term limit of the president, I posted "I object" on Weibo. Just 3 Chinese characters without any context. They removed my post the next day and sent me a warning notice. It's bad enough that we don't get to vote. It's even worse that we aren't even allowed to disagree.
I don't represent the majority of the Chinese population of course. I'm from Shanghai, where many people (young people in particular) share my view. There are many others who, like you said, only wish for economic prosperity. And let's not forget those who may have been sacrificed for economic growth. People who trade in their freedom for nothing. In my opinion, civil rights don't necessarily contradict economic prosperity. But rather, the government wants to use economic growth as a means to maintain social order.
Same thing here in Russia. With one difference: people don't trade their civil rights for economic prosperity. They straight away give them up simply because Putin said that the whole world is against Russia... well, by now i wouldn't be surprised if that indeed had become so, seeing where that ignorant scumbag got us, but having him in power got nothing to do with being strong (in fact, it's quite the opposite in my opinion), and they fail to understand that. Probably because people here got that slaves mindset beaten in them for centuries, all they want is someone supposedly strong to suck up to, someone who's going to decide for them and defend them against "those nasty europeans and americans", and seem to be unable to get even such an essencial thing that state authorities are supposed to work for them, not the other way around. Whatever those in power do = good, if you criticize them - you're a traitor, who was bought by USA government. Only teenagers seem to have brighter heads on their shoulders, but they're being ridiculed and slandered by governnent-controlled media and treated as idiots who can't decide for themselves by their elders, which are often more ignorant, getting constantly brainwashed by the abovementioned media. Can't say enough. Very dissapointed in those who i have to live in my country with. Great to see likeminded people from China though, where authoritarian tradition is strong as well. Perhaps all is not lost for us yet, huh?
For context, in Chinese it's actually really normal to refer to a close associated person who's much older as Aunt or Uncle. It's a sort of term of endearment for an older person, and not an assertion of familial relation.
Same here in India. We do refer to older people with terms like aunt, uncle, didi, or even brother and younger ones with nicknames even if they aren't related to us. It's a cultural thing.
As far as I know it's a common thing throughout east and south-east asia... and apparently India too, since +ItsMeAJ says so. I just didn't want to generalise beyond this specific case.
Christopher Robin has been banned, and all mentions of the movie and the banning of said movie have also been banned on all social media platforms. John look what you've done lol.
I work for an ESL company that teaches English to kids in China. Last summer, the whole winnie the pooh thing was big a deal. I have contact with some of my student's parents on social media now. It's sort of a worry about how this will go in the future. Especially not wanting to cause any unnecessary drama for the parent's sake
Over 3,000 to 2 votes on abolishing term limits Breaking news: those two people who voted against it have seemingly disappeared and no one can track them how weird..
First something similar during world war 2 happened to Europe and it will happen again to countries and people if the behaviors stay same:- "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me."
I always pause to remember every time I hear that poem, it was the mentally and physically disabled the Nazis exterminated first, but nobody could be bothered to remember them. Nothing has changed.
Hi Last Week Tonight. I'm a social studies teacher, and I absolutely love your videos and would love to show them to my students. Would you ever consider putting out a school appropriate version of your videos, with the swear words bleeped out and some more appropriate jokes? Because this is awesome information that students need to know!!
I was absolutely obsessed with Tigger when I was younger, and tigers are still my favorite animal. So, even though I know this is beside the point of this segment; Seeing Obama as the Tigger in that picture with Xi Jinping did warm my heart. xD
I forgot what late night show had Andy Serkis reading Trumps tweets in Gollum’s voice but we need Jim Cummings to read things from Xi in Winnie the Pooh’s voice.
I asked my friend what it’s like living in China, he said ‘Can’t complain’
Lol
Complain and be disappeared.
Yep he's quite literally not allowed to complain.
LOL
You trust that? Go on weibo, Chinese twitter, complains about the country are everywhere.
For some strange reason, HBO is no longer available in China.
u're right
Winnie the Pooh felt quite offended...
@@shmibbybibby7668 🍯
With CCP's "unreasonable" acts in every aspect of their own people and towards others around the world, it is only strange if HBO is still in China.
Yesterday, even ULTRAMAN is no longer available in China for avoiding kids imitating violence in that Japanese cartoon.
Do you think John Oliver sits in a room sometimes and asks himself, "What country do I never want to visit the rest of my life this week?"
jbenvenga ok but i definitely read that in his voice
jbenvenga +
eyy, john oliver also did an interview to dalai lama years ago.....
just sayin.....
Also I hope HBO is fine if China calls saying that they are cutting any economic relations with them after that AD.
china most likely wont let him to visit .
The laughter of the woman in the crowd that you can hear throughout the episode is something that brings me a smile.
I was hoping someone would mention her. I love her laugh it’s so genuine and contagious
Glad someone else noticed it
Is "smile" really the right word?
I rewound 4 times to hear her laugh 😂
Was it really 6 million??
AT&T literally did become their parent company and John Oliver kept shit talking and criticising them. So good!
Because even AT&T are more respectable that Xi Jinping!
@@tylerbeaumont Guess they aren't that sensitive and insecure. Xi doesn't understand the Streisand effect, AT&T PR people do.
Lol if att shut down oliver on hbo he could start a new show on literally any other platform and tear them to shreds every week.
Well, when someone making fun of everything, including of himself, that puts things in various perspectives - not necessarily bad.
Jay W This comment was necessary because...?
Stop saying I look like Winnie the Pooh smh
@Dominic Tirl what the fuck is this bruv?
Omg this is gold🤣🤣🤣
onytay75
It’s kind of like a meme in China. Its goetten so huge that Xi hinself banned it.
Whats even "worse" is that all this crap has gotten "worse" not better.
Long live Xi the Pooh, Emperor of ChiNazi!
Am I the only one who was patiently waiting for a “That’s what Xi said” joke? :(
no, but now I wish it happened
I hope someone makes one about the coronavirus
Feeling bored?
Heres something soothing...
The song of the mermaid!
ruclips.net/video/MHv0apmlqmM/видео.html
Thank me later.
@@pax4370 I'm glad someone did! Brilliant!
*Xe's very entitled.*
I worked with some exchange students from China, and I brought up the Winnie The Pooh vs Xi situation and they had obviously absolutely no idea what I was talking about, so I showed them multiple examples and they thought it was the best thing they’ve ever seen about him
@@Rick-sz4hc 🐵
😂😂😂
Propaganda. They probably had been brainwashed into them being misled into believing that bullshit.
@@Rick-sz4hchow is that hard to believe exactly?
Reasons kids know bad words
4.Classmates
3. older Siblings
2. The weird uncle
1. Singing for JOHN OLIVER
I'm the weird uncle!!!
What about unrestricted youtube access. That how I learned to curse
You forget the internet.
5. Teachers
0. Being alive post 1960
I'm actually in China at this very moment, streaming this over a VPN, pissing myself laughing, and sharing it with my Chinese friends, who are also laughing, albeit slightly nervously.
Well done, sir. Well done indeed!
and he was never heard from again...
so which city are you in and what are the names of your friends?
On today on things that never happened... Your name is Alex McCarthy, do you seriously expect anyone to believe you
@@levi2326 I mean he's claiming to be a guy visiting china.
Yet imprisoned? :D
The last time I heard “we’ll share our prosperity with the world” the fire nation invaded soon after
Lol
I guess only 132 people got the reference. 😂
yes fucking yes
@@drsushil9007 now it's 627 get the reference
@@drsushil9007 now 463 people
To the girl that got to say the uncensored f word on national tv and get paid for it this was probably the greatest moment of her life lol
HBO isn't part of national TV. National TV would be broadcast channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and CNN, which are legally prohibited from broadcasting profanity by the FCC. HBO is actually a premium cable program similar to STARZ, Showtime, and Cinemax. Therefore, its not bound by the regulations of the FCC, and is free to broadcast its shows in all their uncensored glory.
@@NexusKin It’s legally distinct but effectively the same
Also, HBO isn't "national", because it's pretty much everywhere in europe as well.
@@maxwellqklinger ehh, not really. Abc/fox etc have to censor nudity, curse words etc
HBO can show whatever the fuck nudity they want, cussing, it's still got ratings but doesn't follow the same guidelines
"It's not TV. It's HBO."
*I guess China won't tolerate any That's What Xi Said jokes*
Yash Kshirsagar holy shit your amazing
Oh dam, that's good
I love you ...
It was very annoying how every time they mentioned him it sounded like She
bravo
... Sales of Winnie the Poo Tshirts have since skyrocketed in Hong Kong and Macau
I bought one too ☺️
Just Hong Kong now
I want one too! I will get online!
yeahhhhhh not Macau, they're too busy gambling to care
Can't believe you didn't use the *"That's what Xi said"* joke
hahahahhahahhahahhahahahah omg
Awesome one XD
yeah 😂
Now I see why they've been trying to ban puns in China.
Come on John Oliver, make it happen! Lol
Fun fact: this zazu bit was done WAY before The Lion King reboot was announced so while it's fair to assume that was already in the works, it's also fair to figure he just threaded the joke needle
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@Sigma Stories r/woooooooooooooooooosh?
@Sigma Stories Incepwooosh!
@ron swanson r/selfwoosh
Hell yeah
for BREAKFAST
That last picture with the Winnie the pooh mugs was some classy last defiance
They later regret immensely of their rash decision, because the manufacturer called and explain the correct usage is to spit in, not to drink from the mugs.
Russian Panda What?
Sharpice Woods what? Whoa what?! But why?
Sharpice Woods Even if the use it to spit in, they're actually spitting on Xi Jinping lmao.
He went down swinging RIP
currently living in China and just wanted to remind people that in general Chinese people are very nice, warm people that have a lot more in common with us than they have differences. unfortunately their sources of information are heavily filtered and they don't exist in the same political climate (I.e. in America we have well defined rights to assembly, protest, etc).. just keep any animosity or anger you have aimed towards greedy politicians and well removed from the lovely people of this country.
any intelligent person in china cannot become important. so sit around and be worthless. you meaningless living thing.
Fuck off Timothy. You probably live with your parents still or work at starbucks / flipping burgers at best.
Yes, but you also have to realize there are so many ultranationalistic people in China. Look at how many people support the Nine-Dashed Line, a completely ridiculous border to take all ocean territory from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. The Chinese people are more than happy to support their nation bullying its neighbors if it means they get more rich and more powerful.
Are they as blunt as the immigrants?
Same for North Korea
12:48 I love how John added a roast for AT&T in there. 😂
I finally found it.
I'm in China right now, and the moment he said "and even: high speed Internet" the video stopped and started buffering.
Should I be worried
Well yes, that was the whole point of the segment.
Maybe a little more than the rest of us.
it looks like you got a low social score from watching this video.
You should. Their cyber security are insanely invasive as all means of communication are government owned. Be. Very. Careful. And don't buy Chinese made phones.
YES
Did they finally unblock RUclips?
Right back to this after blizzard and NBA incident
Edit: back again boys after red candle games incident (Dec 2020)
Just wanted to post a comment about blizzard, good to see an ally in the internet once in a while
As Honk Kong protester said “China are asshole”
To quote Uncle Xi, "When going after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the Bees know you're coming."
This video aged like a fine wine.
And coronavirus
Pls, do another episode about China and the current events
Especially with all the new Hong Kong updates and odd American Buisness practices.
Also there was a whole bunch of old fiscal policy stuff that wasn't covered like them buying tuns of gold and silver and the Russian pipe line that more information and updates on would be nice to see.
@A. S. Specially the uighurs
Social credit scores
Yes!!!! I am waiting for that too: Hong Kong or Xin Zhang...I eagerly await either. The tide is turning on Beijing.
Yes please!
Jesus, Liu Xiaobo was already my hero before I even knew about the mug thing. Imagine now.
Xi Jinping seems like the type to pretend to dislike comparisons to Winnie the Pooh so his opponents start to unconsciously associate him with a cuddly, harmless cartoon animal.
3000 IQ bigbrain
galaxy brain 69d chess moves
🤔
Pooh is also "a bear of very little brain", though.
@@reformCopyright exactly so that he can seem that way
When covid pandemic is over. I want another episode on China, please.
well, let's hope that this pandemic is over this year
@From Maui i can't remember China invading other countries for resources.
@maui what I'm trying to say is the US constantly invades, spy and destroy other countries but they still portray themselves as super heroes not saying China is much better but surely the US are far worst.
@From Maui sounds like something the u.s would never do...
@@kylemin1384 Tibet
As a Chinese international student currently studying in U.S, I have to say the evidence shown in this video is really accurate and, subjectively saying, haunting, because even I know all of these facts from different sources, subconsciously I am just paralyzed to feel anxious enough of the changes happening in China.
I’d like to discuss some of the positive social changes not mentioned in this video before jumping into my concern of current state of China. Firstly, the infrastructure development in China is skyrocketing. Citizens of china have their style of transportation completely changed in the past several years. When I went back to China during vacations, I was stunned of how convenient living has become in China. It is objectively true that you can live in a Chinese city with no cards, no wallets, but only your phone…
Ok, the more important part…Every time in the history of China when our country becomes the strongest in the world, there would always be a wise yet powerful, authoritarian leader…no exceptions…The very idea of personality cult is rooted in our tradition, culture and, frankly saying, everything. Due to the ancient and influential filial system, Chinese are bonded together in the form of family. Every family in a tightly bonded community and most Chinese carry the duties of maintaining this community their entire lives. Personally saying, I found this iconic nature of Chinese people separates us from the western culture. Why do I want to discuss about Chinese families…well…since most Chinese are deeply concerned with their family community, living conveniently and happily is all that matters. If the leader of China can grant substantial positive changes to Chinese family communities, almost all Chinese won’t ever, ever, ever care of totalitarianism whatsoever.
It is a bit of exaggeration, but in the majority cases, what I mentioned above can be applied to Chinese people’s reasoning. Even myself is considering how to payback my parents after I finished my education, and I am 100% fine with it. This leads to my concern: what will happen next to my own country? I don’t know the answer… Chinese people won’t stop our president as long as the family communities prosper. Our president is totally determined to push the influence of China to global scale. And with it, I could only say: absolute power corrupts absolutely…This corruption of power has fallen unto all powerful Chinese leaders throughout the history. We can still pointlessly hope that our president is not traditionally powerful leader, because what else can we do? What will diverge our Chinese people’s fate to another direction instead of repeating the Chinese history repeatedly…I truly don’t know…
Benevolent Marinecat I love your profile image. I have that image myself
Also, brilliant comment
Benevolent Marinecat you’re going to have to go back once school is finished. And you’re going to be trapped. I’m so sorry.
It depends on whether I will return or not...however I am always determined to contribute what I can to my country, my people. So probably you are right, we shall see...
Thank you
that belt and road song is stuck in my head now...
What makes this episode remarkable is that John was able to make subtle digs to BOTH the net neutrality ruling and the AT&T-Time Warner merger in a deep dive segment that we all know can take weeks and months to produce 🤯
Carol Poblete it's not hard to make two sentences about the att and time Warner merger. So yeah.... It wouldn't take weeks nor months to write a joke about it. The celebration of mediocrity in America is the reason we are in the sorry state we are.
I love how John leaned so much into the Zazu resemblance that he ended up dubbing him in the Lion King remake lol
Oh shit u right
Omg incredible 😂
@broootal tbh he was the best part of it lol
Late but HOOOOLY SHIT 😂😂😂, thats great, i needed that info.
As a Chinese, I’m shouting there’s finally a one TV show really describe the exact situation in China now!!!!!!! And so many details are true and accurate!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
and none of this in china. so in a way no one knows what they have to do for the best china possible.
You mean every detail is true?
If your watching this in China, make sure your using a good VPN. The state's been monitoring most of them.
Kris Hurlburt Awwww, this is sadly very touching 😂
i am albert einstein's grandson
That lady's high laugh at 10:57 brightens my day.
*this video may not be avalible in your country*
lol this woulda had way more upvotes like four months ago.
This entire website may not be accessible in our country
whoa, that hurts...
joshua ooroth hey try to search up some anti us government video. It’s also not available in your country
Gees where do you live?
Well if AT&T decides to pull John I'm sure Netflix is dying to snatch him up.
He never won't have a job.
This show is destined for perpetual Emmy a-la Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. AT&T would be nuts to kill this, and if it is killed anyway, that would just mean massive pay jump for Oliver in different platform.
I wish Netflix would snatch him up. Then I could actually watch the whole show.
EVERYONE would be throwing money at him.
They’d have to go through HBO first.
I have a friend who moved to America from a China and my history teacher was talking about censorship when she made a comparison to Tiananmen Square and asked my friend about it to make a point. My friend admitted she’d never known anything at all had happened in Tiananmen Square. This was just four years ago
All governments are like that. The US hid the crime it did in Iraq and the massive surveillance until they were leaked. But atleast it's much free in the US
I wonder if Americans know about Abu Ghraib.
@@HongFeiBai As an American, I learned about the Abu Ghraib prison in psychology. Although I'd admit most Americans probably never heard of it.
revisiting this episode in the present day, I can safely say even John Oliver understated how bad Xi truly is.
But the plus is that the initial withdrawing of western factories due to covid and now the emboldenment of the west due to Russia killing itself in Ukraine means that Xi's authority on the world stage is shakier than it has been in a long time.
Gonna go on a whim and say this video is blocked from all social media in china hhh
TimelineUpdates just putting it out there? Lol
Pretty sure youtube is blocked in china already.
VPN is the answer!! Im in Shanghai right now for an internship
Jokes on you, China has no access to most websites. The government brain wash the population through China made social media. Imagine Americans have only access to Fox news.
VPN should help go around that.
After this aired the words "John Oliver" have been censored on Chinese internet
chinese government ain't stupid.
genchell chao you mean to ban it or to leave it unbanned?
Alli Ward is this a joke? Or are you being serious?
serious.... if you try to message someone using Chinese social media apps with his name the message won't be received. It may still appear on your chat screen but it wont appear on their's. Same with forum posts, blogs and news articles (which will be taken down within minutes of being posted)
yes.. they did, and they did ban him since he made talk show with Dalai Lama
A pretty balanced video. I've lived in China for four years now, and a lot of media reporting on the country misses the key issues. In my opinion, Xi is very concerned about keeping the middle class happy. Thankfully John doesn't overplay the "he's turning China into a police state" card which so many people in the western media often do. If he tightens the grip too much, he's going to run into trouble. The Chinese elite have always viewed the masses with fear. The analogy goes: the people are the ocean, the government is a boat. The ocean can support the boat, but if it gets riled up, it is the ocean that sinks it.
TLDR: This is pretty complicated stuff; no one knows where China is headed; John does a good job with that.
Jonathan Matthews good analogy
just for your information, the analogy was told by the famous minister Wie Zheng in Chinese history, who lived in Tang dynasty.
Fantastically said, and very true.
Are you even justified in saying this though? From my understanding, the phrase "playing the abhorrid-Orwellian-police state card" on China sounds like "playing the murdered-a-bunch-of-people card" on a serial killer, in that they're pretty much true, it doesn't take special foresight to see that, and they're also pretty goddamn significant, if not the centerpieces of the entire situation. I mean, from what I've heard it seems painfully clear-cut, so please enlighten me on the complexities that can somehow trivialize _this_ .
there are other ways to do government besides liberal democracy, and liberal democracy isn't automatically the best
Xi's power depends on a lot of other powerful people not turning on him; he has an incentive to listen to them. This sucks, of course, because if you're not threatening to the president due to being too poor or whatever, you're not gonna get heard- but, honestly, that's not really all that different from living in the US.
I'm from the future! That Chinese woman saying she's optimistic about the future, really didn't see post-2020 China coming
Well done, as I read the Chinese news, your show and HBO is banned in China now, so fragile Xi is.
Tim Xu No. Not because of this one. My English is not good, and I will try my best to explain it. It is all about Tibetan. About this issue, the reports shown in west countries were totally wrong
Yanfang Hu you ban it because it contradict your opinions?
well youtube is blocked so obviously -___-
Of course they ban anything that flies in the face of their state-driven narrative. Damn autocrats...
Tim Xu that's how a tyrant is born
Never heard of the Winnie the Pooh reference, which means the government’s censorship works pretty well.
Worked. You have now.
Only to the naturally ignorant
? are you sure
even my grandpa heard of this meme
@Dominic Tirl Thank you for posting your link.
I rabbit holed here due to this top reddit post of 09/29/2019 www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/daiysm/china_harvesting_organs_of_uighur_muslims_the/
Um actually I live in Australia and have never heard of it before lmao
“Hide your strength and Bid your time” is wise and intelligent quote that can be useful for victory in all walks of life.
‘Bide’ your time, but yeah it is a decent strategy.
However, wouldn’t it be even better if we could work together instead of all the intra-species conflict? I mean, we’re all humans, fighting over land, resources, who gets to control others, etc. Surely we’ve played this game and there are better ones to try.
@@DanielVerberne Yeah let's start playing Warhammer 40k dammit!
Yes but why is being victorious over fellow human beings something desirable? This whole mantra implies that China wants to eventually rule the whole world. Considering how they rule their own citizens, is this something that we really want?
@@DanielVerberne human nature cannot be overcame racism homophobia sexism zelotry will still exist 1 million years from now that's life
found xi
-999 Social Credits 👎😡
😂
mid humour
They were banned in china for a while
How original
A lot of people in the comments are forgetting about the problems with What about-ism. Don't say "What about (insert bad thing US does)?" or that we aren't any better because of this or that. It isn't about who's better. Acknowledging the problems with one country or one politician does not mean that others aren't also problematic in one way or another. The point is that some of the things China is doing are quite concerning and could easily be leading to some pretty horrific things. Acknowledging these problems doesn't automatically mean things will go horribly wrong like people fear and it doesn't imply that America is strictly better because we certainly have our fair share of problems. It simply means that there are concerning things happening and the world should keep an eye on it.
Indeed. It is almost ironic that people would use "Whatabouticsm" when it actually implies that they have failed to learn from past/ongoing mistakes of someone else and is repeating it/is making up an excuse to repeat it.
It’s funny how people follow John Oliver as if he’s a beacon of how you should think. Don’t use whataboutism because John Oliver said so. He had a witty argument on Fox News about it.
kaleidostar88, fully agree with you but most people are reacting to others defending the US in those what aboutism comments. Makes sense?
kaleidostar88 there is no what about ism... the US Capital Establishment has sourced most dictators and fascist states as controlled opposition over the last 150 yrs..
sounds crackpot, sure, but if challenged to explain, it wouldn't be me cracking in this conversation...
conservatism accrues power as liberalism disperses it.
think on this as the derivation is clear...
Fully agree with you. They don't solve any problem, but just questioning how about the same problem in other countries.
So someone in China saw the episode Nosedive on Black Mirror and said that’s a great way to run a society........
Neat
I think nose dive was inspired by what was happening in China.
Well the social credit thing shouldn't be too much of a deal i'm sure, people will see it as an opportunity as a new form of business so they can be hired by people to improve their social credit score by various methods.
Sorta like how China already has a service for mobile app developers to get their product into the top 100 for more publicity. They'll just have to put some effort in to not piss the government off too much.
I think they read psycho pass and thought. "Cool"
that is exactly what i was thinking haha i miss BM
I love that of the photos of US Presidents eating ice cream, Eisenhower looks like the ice cream bar fought against him in the Second World War and he's finally getting revenge, yet now without that hatred fueling his drive and ambition, he experiences an existential crisis mid-bite.
That basically sums up Eisenhower as a whole, to be honest
That is a surprisingly intricate analysis of a photograph of a president eating an ice cream bar.
@@electr_icity4613 Yet accurate. Look in those eyes... Who has that look in their eyes when eating ice cream... Well, maybe if he was grossly overweight.
I have never seen jfk eat ice cream being that he is from Massachusetts that is weird !!
😂😂😂
我是台灣人 謝謝
3000 and only 2.
Really want to know what happen to those 2.
Nisco Racing
What 2? There were never any 2. 2 is just a myth.
If they were smart they'd claim "If it were 100% nobody would believe it so we voted in a way to legitimize your victory".
Vaporized
Probably they reopened the Chinese "Gulag" only for them.
Tek Rx fcking genius
That social credit score is like that episode of black mirror
Nosedive?
SiM bURR the idea of a social credit score wasn’t invented by Black Mirror, it’s been around for a while before that.
Or Psycho Pass.
@@ZoanBlade90 Power levels, dude.
Literally
and people are curious why Hong Kong is worrying about more integration with China and taking to the streets in protest.
😎 Great point, Nick. Being under British rule from: 1841-1997 (except 4yrs. of Japanese rule during WW II,) the people had a taste of western democracy for several generations. Although they were a British 'colony' the cultural differences from people of mainland China clearly were ENORMOUS. 🗿.
Patrick Jenkins lmao you do realize native Hong Kongers did no have universal suffrage and their prime ministers were directly assigned by the British Government when Hong Kong was colonised by Britain. Does that sound like democracy to you?
@@chk9580 😎 You probably know more about Hong Kong than I. However I try to choose my words carefully whenever I comment. I specifically wrote: "A TASTE of WESTERN DEMOCRACY." Of course it fell far short of what we in the west consider 'TRUE' democracy. To give an unrelated example: I'm American. Years ago I spent (3 months) in Europe, mostly in FRANCE. Although 90 days isn't a lot of time (relatively speaking,) that brief TASTE of a developed nation OUTSIDE of the U.S. has profoundly affected many of my decisions & opinions in life❗ 🗿.
Because UK/ USA have been spreading anti China propogada in HK media for years
aaaaand they're gone
John think you may need to revisit this now.
As a Chinese, with ID card and Mainland Passport, I can’t talk much on this video for reasons you may understand.
Things are getting tougher, really tough, even sometimes desperate for people who tries to make things better, naively, in ways avoiding political risks for themselves.Besides that, most things non political is fine, at least acceptable here, still tons of problem, true. Absolutely a developing country developing in a really unbalanced way that no one can or should deny.
Economy, pollution, education, social morality etc, we are working on that, true. But the efficiency or progress is unclear, since the transparency issue in the system.No one can tell how far have we come, is it reasonable enough base on the time and resources we spent?
And at this moment, We got sandwiched,
by the pressure from what we call mysterious unspeakable forces right here which seems to be the safest way for me to mention it,
And by the up growing anti Chinese attitude , policies, stereotypes from the outside world.
Misunderstanding enhancing, Communication with respect is failing.I mean on the citizen scale not govermential behavior.
We have the information wall and un deniable nationalism propaganda going on which I dare not to comment lot cuz my opinion would upset some one.
That leads to unreasonable aggressive comments anywhere on a video posted by any youtuber about china even with a slightest bit of non goodlooking content, those people who left those comments can mean it by heart, not only got paid for some propaganda need. Then we got a SERIOUS DEBATE started when others try to argue or defend.And the tourist behavior thing, western media demonizing propaganda thing and so on.
There’s simply less space and time that allows,tolerates people who are reasonable enough to establish a positive connection, conversation with other people when the mainstream on bothsides are doing exactly opposite.
Sometimes it’s really frustrating.
I am just a musician running my little studio here, what I can do is just writing songs either to my own kind to make them think more LEGALLY, or to show others what true goodness of Chinese culture would be in a way that can be understandable base on global common values(not started yet though)
I even feel responsible and guilty that I’m not brave enough to risk everything I values in my life to change things from the inside, since when I tried to root back couple phenomenons stage by stage to their cause and source, I got the answer least wanted for a sane person with self protection need.
Cuz this is for sure and responsible since we are technically running our own country which is not a colony.
I got attacked by my own kind on other videos for leaving comments like this which I anticipated, even they questioned if I ‘m not Chinese sigh
The education I got teaches me I should be humble, friendly, respecting others, love, supportive and reasonable according to traditional Chinese virtue.
And to be a responsible person.
If you are reading this thanks for your patience, maybe I’m just trying to show perhaps not the true but a least an alternative facade of Chinese culture.
Maybe this is the message I’m trying to deliver.
And at last, I can only represent myself, may any superior existence bless the world.
我觉得中国国内从小开始仇恨外国的教育，和媒体封锁，甚至控制媒体。以后很可能发展成纳粹这种专政的国家。现在是有核武器的年代，再打起来就是人类存不存在的问题了
Dave Von Saunder I agree to some degree, but have to make some extension, if you dont mind
YES that history did serious harm in all perspectives especially in physical and mental forms, my parents lived through that.
BUT that didn’t destroy all, I cant give an exact percentage, quite a lot goodness is carried on through families and neighbor hoods or so, far more than imagined.
My opinion based on my life here is what happened next held a huge share of responsibility.
It’s not a story that one single incident can wipe out everything like a nuke, but a systematic, step-by-step progress linked with countless events and several incidents which went far beyond even the dictators could foresee or manipulate in their own terms (once there were) .thats wat forged the current situation
The most serious outcome is the lost of the room for multiple opinions discussions or debates in mainland.
And from that on, things eventually leads to here, not quite surprising.
Thanks for knowing the history of my country, that’s what I admire and respect, and what I consider the start of true understanding and conversation.
Hisa Kwok , do what YOU can and feel safe doing. There are others like you and trust in and build on that. Rivers get dammed, but a stream can move the waters of knowledge just the same.
PCBEaR65 thx for the words, working on it
Very nice English words.
I love how ballsy that AT&T joke was.
Declan Boyle
John doesn’t pull his punches no matter the ramifications.
Mary Rose Kent agreed
How the fuck was it ballsy.
All this shit is made my writers and approved of before airing because it appeals to the audiance, the only think this shows is that AT&T doesnt give two shits and Oliver is a studio hack.
Literally clapping seals.
+Moe Joe King Who pissed in YOUR coffee?
+Moe Joe King If you think he's a hack, why did you watch over 12 minutes into the video.
This is blocked in China with a VPN to HK. HAHAHA
Taki Maki
Blocked with VPN?
He enabled his VPN to Hong Kong, and it was blocked there.
Because he doesn't know how to use a vpn probably.
I had to use US VPN so don't think it's just China.
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this show is so good i discovered it when i was searching about the Uighurs.
11:27 "lean in"
One Year Later we got the remade Lion King featuring John Oliver as Zazu
AIM GLOBAL Video Archives Unofficial I think he already got cast as Zazu by the time this came out. Also he did a great job as Zazu
AIM GLOBAL Video Archives Unofficial hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
😂😂😂 AND, it's the best❗😂😂😂
omfg lol
@@maxfieldjoyner5244 its on imbd
No matter how badly they behave, the world will still want to do business with them.
Also sounds like my USA.
Well, not really. They haven't started any wars or bombed civilian cities.
@@saeedvazirian check out the bloody war when China invade Vietnam in 1979 (27 days killing about the same number of lifes that USA lost in the entire Vietnam war). Before that war, China supported a regime in Cambodia that murdered millions peoples (which is ended by Vietnam when that regime started murdering Vietnameses, causing China to invade Vietnam in 1979 as said)
@James Lasinski Google US war crimes and think again
North Field google China in Tibet, concentration camps, their support of North Korea, Belt and Road initiative, invasion of Vietnam, etc.
@@saeedvazirian check out what hongkong happend
I love how bored all the kids in that propaganda song look while the kids in the parody are having the time of their lives
They look dead inside to me
The don"t let that become the new Baby Shark. Remember that its Chinese Propaganda!
killing the parents.. see noone pregnant? god tied everyones tubes..
Its notable, but a bit sad.
Me too man
i had autoplay on and I wasnt paying attention, i heard the crowd laughing after oliver said something and i got scared lmao
Two years on and I finally connected the dots on that Zazu joke. He leaned so far into it that he voiced Zazu in the live action.
He DID?!
I think John Oliver more closely resembles Milhouse.
With his self-deprecating humor, he'd probably embrace that and make a practical joke about it.
"Oh look! It's British Milhouse!"
- John Oliver about himself, 2016
All he needs is blue hair
Yes, both are jews.
I love how he compares himself to zazu and fast forward to now where he is voicing him in the remake
He had already been cast back then, that's the joke! ^^
Wow, insults the most powerful man on earth on camera, legendary.
He didnt speak about Trump..
Sorry mate, your heard that wrong
Americans do that all the time.
@Kaleb Kurian Who cares about the US?
People can say whatever they want..
That social score thing reminds me of the Nosedive episode in Black Mirror
It reminded me of an episode from The Orville. But it's not new, the Yuan dynasty already had this system in place
it basically is
Exactly.
TheKamistry85 EXACTLY!!!! Betting that's where they got the idea,
That was a great episode! I can totally see things going in that direction and it appears that China already has! :\
As a mainlander who has been studying in the UK for five years, I found this video hilarious and educational at the same time.
Watching this while in vacation in china makes me scared.
Kyle Li at least they haven't blocked the video yet.
The secret police are on their way to arrest you.
Kyle Li u okay buddy??
Well...you definitely shouldn't have posted this under your actual name lol
Mainland China is a shithole.
I love the one lady in the background whose laughter lingers just a little longer than everyone else
Winnie the Pooh
50% Beloved character
50% Anti-PRC symbol
Winnie the Pooh is the enemy of the people
Tuokia Mapper who would trump be in relation to Winnie the Pooh?
Frankly many Chinese like me love to describe him as Winnie the Pooh, in a good way. Me personally loved Winnie growing up.
@@neoir8514 how?
D Trump just a joke dude
I'm so glad i found John Oliver! Fabulous and spectacular! What a great way to learn about politics! :)
Banned in China hahaha. Damn man you guys hit a soft spot.
Bboy Quest 9 It seems Chinese government has got soft spots all oved their body.Lol.
youtube is banned in china, so yeah of course.
FusionHarry Yeah, that's really annoying.
Fangzhong Li AYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂
China is too big to survive and too censored to live. Oliver doesn't speak for everyone. He should know where he is in history. Trump has delted with Chinese economy for a very long time. You add patriotism as a cultural norm in the US. China won't be a super power for long.
Dude if you keep making awesome content like this you'll end up like Patriot Act.
what happened to Patriot Act?
@@Dubs22005 It got canceled. No more acts.
@@achyutrastogi8080heartbreaking. It was an awesome show 😢
It is sad that the most trustworthy news we can get in America is from a satirical comedy show. Love everything you do bro, keep telling the truth.
Benjamin Howell-Hawkins if you really think this is trust worth than please do some other research. This video is criminally biased against China, just as John always is with any country not friendly to the U.S. or Europe
realscummy dude, he didn't even touch on all the fulun gong prisoners of conscience that China is using to harvest organs from, which has been covered by numerous other legitimate news organizations. And he also regularly condemns the US for our horrific practices.
Everything Oliver says here is based on reporting done by journalists in the big bad, spooky ""mainstream media"".
Strange watching old episodes, with the audience I mean.
I was thinking exactly the same, it’s like the good old times!! Hopefully they come back soon.
James Williams I hope so too. Cheers dude!
Stay safe.
It's funnier watch him squirm without an audience that are prompted to laugh at his crap jokes.
Many people are saying that they are in China but are using VPN to watch this video but are followed up by a lot of questions regarding the Great Firewall of China. So let me put it like this:
Using VPN in China is basically pirating music, it's illegal but everyone does it anyway
And they don't get into much trouble by Chinese authorities than before. It's really hard catching someone that's using VPN
using vpn isn’t illegal, spreading does
It's never about vpn. It's about having something against you if you get in their way someday. Illegal activities it's what they call it when they lock you up.
It's never illegal to use VPN in China. Many hotels, universities, and international companies in China have WiFi that you can access anything including RUclips, Facebook, Google, etc. without using VPN. Been there, done that.
@@Soldier-gh4xb Damn I actually didn't know that. I've been back to China for a full month last year but no matter what I couldn't access Google, RUclips or Instagram (All of which I can't live without) without the help of a VPN I pre-installed before going. One of my friends actually went to Shanghai recently and said that he could use Instagram and WhatsApp without trouble or VPN. I guess China is slowly allowing the country to view western media starting from well developed cities.
Could you plz tell me what vpn you are using plz I have trouble finding a working one because they banned so many vpns just in those 4 years....
More stories about New Zealand please!! 🥺
its 2:30am i cant wait to be sad about something i wasnt even aware of until now
T BoIick cool 🙂
T BoIick
Or learn something you should know.
T BoIick
Chinaaaaaa!!! 😭😭😭
Hooray for your ignorance!
To be honest, if you're unaware about the atrocities happening in china, I think you need a better news source
"I'm going to stay on top indefinitely"
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That's what Xi said😁
Hahaha noice
Nice
Lol
Booo
Thank you for the 'That's what Xi said" joke. John Oliver didn't make one in the entire video :(
The best part about criticizing targets such as China or Scientology in the media is that you KNOW they're going to see it.
You would think but since RUclips is very much banned and their state run tv stations can scrub anything from shows.......
@@Sonichero151 it’s so funny to watch this video in China, many things that Olive said are contorted. The best thing about internet is you will never know who is brainwashing who.
@@程顶 oh hi I saw you on another video defending the genocide of the uyghers. I have some words for your social credit score:
Taiwan #1, Republic of China is the only china, Free East Turkestan, Free Tibet, Free Hong Kong, Winnie the Pooh, Vietnam won the 1978 war, ROC, Dalai Lama, Taiwan has better food
Lol this one "you don't know who's brainwashing who" guy, nice use of whataboutism, puppet, do you dance too?
@@feywildheart2878 nah mate they’ve made that illegal
I'm here from five years in the future watching this...
You had no idea what was coming. OMG, lol
As worrying as all this is, it’s mildly comforting that we’ve seen so much of this before - the cult of personality, the suppression of dissent, the single-party system, the imperialism, the growing militarism - it’s like a script humans have kept in the ‘favourite’ folder and bring it out every few years.
@haojie zhao what about x
I think we need to be in the throes of economic depression, for people to be desperate enough to trust a fascist. Fascists only stay popular , while there is someone else to blame.
@@hitchensghost so.. you mean like trump who endlessly blame others?
@haojie zhao What part of his comment defends the US, ya blind fuck? He was literally talking about cult of personality in general and yet you responded the same way a morbidly obese self-centered twat would do if they heard someone said the word "fat" within hearing distance.
If you felt that mere mentions of authoritarianism in general warranted "hOw AbOuT [insert another unrelated matter here]", then there's clearly something horrifically wrong with your country.
That’s all they know how to argue, whattaboutism. I think because when people criticize China, they think its an affront to the Chinese people when its clearly not. So they expect Americans to get offended when they bring up the US government. That won’t work at all. :/
With net neutrality abolished, America isn't too far away from losing its high speed internet too.
Tacet the Terror
You read my mind. They now have control of the narrative outside of the mainstream news.
Exactly the same as China, Yanks you're no better!
Didn't Net Neutrality get saved for the time being?
Tacet the Terror Except it isn’t abolished, the Senate told Ajit Pai to fuck off.
Evan Blake no it as of right now is no longer in effect.
"Who stays up until 1:30 in the morning to watch John Oliver"
Me: "Oh boy 1:30 A.M.!"
It's 2:30 for me ;(
1:52 for me...
yeah it’s 2 am now!
its not even midnight for me
2:56 AM
I lived in the west of China where the Uyghur people are in 2008....I saw people being thrown out their houses at gunpoint and having them bulldozed in front of them. I hung about with some Uyghur people and was constantly being followed and pulled into police stations for questioning. I once googled Tibet and the internet went down and the police arrived at the door. Very scary place
writing sm to take up space ⏮⏭3️⃣6️⃣3️⃣8️⃣🔢8️⃣⏮⏮⏭2️⃣4️⃣🔟🔢⏺🔽⏭⏮⏭3️⃣⏺⏮⏺
After they passed the law to lift the term limit of the president, I posted "I object" on Weibo. Just 3 Chinese characters without any context. They removed my post the next day and sent me a warning notice. It's bad enough that we don't get to vote. It's even worse that we aren't even allowed to disagree.
Melanie Sun are you sure you are safe to comment here. Stay safe okay.
Not majority of the Chinese population; they seem happy and willing to trade in some of their fundamental freedoms for economic prosperity
I don't represent the majority of the Chinese population of course. I'm from Shanghai, where many people (young people in particular) share my view. There are many others who, like you said, only wish for economic prosperity. And let's not forget those who may have been sacrificed for economic growth. People who trade in their freedom for nothing. In my opinion, civil rights don't necessarily contradict economic prosperity. But rather, the government wants to use economic growth as a means to maintain social order.
Same thing here in Russia. With one difference: people don't trade their civil rights for economic prosperity. They straight away give them up simply because Putin said that the whole world is against Russia... well, by now i wouldn't be surprised if that indeed had become so, seeing where that ignorant scumbag got us, but having him in power got nothing to do with being strong (in fact, it's quite the opposite in my opinion), and they fail to understand that. Probably because people here got that slaves mindset beaten in them for centuries, all they want is someone supposedly strong to suck up to, someone who's going to decide for them and defend them against "those nasty europeans and americans", and seem to be unable to get even such an essencial thing that state authorities are supposed to work for them, not the other way around. Whatever those in power do = good, if you criticize them - you're a traitor, who was bought by USA government. Only teenagers seem to have brighter heads on their shoulders, but they're being ridiculed and slandered by governnent-controlled media and treated as idiots who can't decide for themselves by their elders, which are often more ignorant, getting constantly brainwashed by the abovementioned media.
Can't say enough. Very dissapointed in those who i have to live in my country with.
Great to see likeminded people from China though, where authoritarian tradition is strong as well. Perhaps all is not lost for us yet, huh?
absolute power corrupts absolutely
This video will be *banned in China :-(*
There are millions of nice people in China, let's hope their government treats them well !
epSos.de RUclips is banned in China.
Government. China. And Well.
One of these things just doesn't belong here.
Gulag is always nice place so yes they treated well
The entire RUclips is banned in China...
Wait... how are the expats putting their RUclips videos from China on? VPN?
For context, in Chinese it's actually really normal to refer to a close associated person who's much older as Aunt or Uncle. It's a sort of term of endearment for an older person, and not an assertion of familial relation.
Yep. Here in Singapore its a term used for almost any older person, including taxi drivers, shop workers, etc.
Same here in India. We do refer to older people with terms like aunt, uncle, didi, or even brother and younger ones with nicknames even if they aren't related to us. It's a cultural thing.
Ignorant individuals in the writer's room who know too little about east asian culture
As far as I know it's a common thing throughout east and south-east asia... and apparently India too, since +ItsMeAJ says so. I just didn't want to generalise beyond this specific case.
It's normal to address people as uncles and aunts, but I haven't heard the usage of 「大大」 until this term is used to mention President Xi
This is the best show, great job.
It's not surprising that that video clip is from AlJazeera. They pay attention to a lot of places that a lot of other media ignore.
I think he is being sarcastic lol
RogerWilco shouldn't you be sweeping or mopping something?
If you want to know what happens in the other hemisphere, watch aljazeera
+Omar A. ruclips.net/video/6sf2vWrL7kM/видео.html
RogerWilco
Christopher Robin has been banned, and all mentions of the movie and the banning of said movie have also been banned on all social media platforms. John look what you've done lol.
I work for an ESL company that teaches English to kids in China. Last summer, the whole winnie the pooh thing was big a deal. I have contact with some of my student's parents on social media now. It's sort of a worry about how this will go in the future. Especially not wanting to cause any unnecessary drama for the parent's sake
thanks for being one of the few commenters who actually cares for the people in china
seems like you need to study English a bit more.
why do u pollute these vibes
Her English is fine, go fuck yourself.
The English language practice is to capitalize the first word in each sentence. Learn it!
Over 3,000 to 2 votes on abolishing term limits
Breaking news: those two people who voted against it have seemingly disappeared and no one can track them how weird..
When that one woman laughs at 10:32, you can see that it makes John Oliver smile very briefly. It’s such a little pop of joy.☺️
You’re right! Lol. I never woulda noticed it before.
Awww
So true
10:31
You need to click on your own time stamp to make sure it showcases what you wanted it to. Yours does not. Monster is right.
u realize that's just a laugh track
I love 20 minute main segments!
U should see today's 'And now this' segment.....It is GOLD
First something similar during world war 2 happened to Europe and it will happen again to countries and people if the behaviors stay same:-
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me."
I always pause to remember every time I hear that poem, it was the mentally and physically disabled the Nazis exterminated first, but nobody could be bothered to remember them.
Nothing has changed.
@@Noises Who wrote those remarkable lines?
@@funkyalfonso I did.
Hi Last Week Tonight. I'm a social studies teacher, and I absolutely love your videos and would love to show them to my students. Would you ever consider putting out a school appropriate version of your videos, with the swear words bleeped out and some more appropriate jokes? Because this is awesome information that students need to know!!
You could make them yourself!! It is an adult comedy show but i've seen great teacher verison of history of the entire world i guess
Xi Jinping the type of dude to eat KitKat bars together unsnapped
lol
Absolutely haram
brandon castillo
Bahahaha! He would eat pizza with a fork. 😂
That’s disturbing...
he eats pizza with a spoon
I was absolutely obsessed with Tigger when I was younger, and tigers are still my favorite animal. So, even though I know this is beside the point of this segment; Seeing Obama as the Tigger in that picture with Xi Jinping did warm my heart. xD
Maybe Xi will kill all Chinese with the astrological sign of Tiger too as it reminds people of Winnie the Pooh.
Obama has the most resemblance to Tigger, among the characters, as well.
John Oliver is Zazu from now on.
Well, considering he's voicing Zazu in the live action Lion King remake, I can see why.
He'll be British Milhouse to me.
Thanks for clarification, looked quite familiar but never actually realized what character that was :)
slycooper20 _ by live action do u mean animated remake??
+Essie S
I think it's something like the Jungle Book
I forgot what late night show had Andy Serkis reading Trumps tweets in Gollum’s voice but we need Jim Cummings to read things from Xi in Winnie the Pooh’s voice.