One of the best presidential documentaries, even 4 years after it was made. Well done Rich Hall. A very bright intelligent knowledgeable host. Very impressive. Here’s hoping you’ll consider doing more. Greetings from 2020 😁🙌🏻 You should consider running in 2024.
The US president is just an employee of the people. But the idiotic people of the US puts them on a pedestal. Just like they do with morally corrupt Holywood "celebrities". Obama, actually his wife, was the person who made it her job to fuel race hatred.
@@dwaynesbadchemicals Yet the people have become far simpler. It would just be a rerun of this documentary with examples of how todays right did the same, to people who are able to find the truth quite easily.
Brilliantly written and filmed. Rich is a great man. It was interesting about his comments on Jimmy Carter, probably realising that he could do more good outside the Whitehouse than in it. Most of the other ex-presidents in my life have either gone on to feather their own nests or more or less disappeared. Carter is the only one I know of who went on to do more good.
The legendary Walter Matthau once said he had a face that looked as thought he'd just slept in it. Now that you've mentioned it, the Moe-Rich element is also so accurate. Nice one Ewan!
@@jimreily7538 Excellent! Pity he wasn't more Rich Hilly; still a great character though - WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY FUNNY (The X-Files one still never fails to crack me up). Also, here's the one we use to this day - "Grandpa, are you sitting in the apple pie?", "I sure hope so". Still epic.
Maybe the most fair-minded interpretation of the Johnson-Goldwater contest I've heard, and from someone who is to the left of almost every American who has talked about it. Impressive!
Just found this guy, 7 hours ago, I’m in bed with 38,8 degree temperature,not human malware thankfully,my chromic pain (from an op that went way wrong )is sky high, but this guy has kept me distracted more than enough for me to not have dark thoughts if you know where I’m at. Always well researched,written and presented, right balance of humour,sarcasm, irony and wit. And his own opinions are what we all would be thinking, this is my kind of guy to be able to have a good and reasonable discourse, hope I can find about another 100 hours to get me through this fever….
A miracle of the Facebook/Google/RUclips intertwined algorithm pukes up some occasional novelties, and a few weeks ago, RICH HALL appeared in the otherwise vapid choices I'm offered, and I cannot be more exhilarated, delighted, and endeared. Dude, I love you. [From the Lenny Bruce Memorial Office of Proper Usage]
@@Hithere-ek4qt Hahaha really? He didn’t “start” a war??? Such a dumb thing to say. He was such a great president that the Iranians wouldn’t let American hostages go until he was out of office.
Worse President in modern history....let down our best ally in the Shah and we have had a terror state for the last 45 years....Carter may be a nice private citizen but he was an awful President.
"Here's your prescription on how to see American history. You know it's wrong, but are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Well then, that settles it. Here, have a cookie. It'll make you feel right as rain."
There's something delightfully wrong in the BBC using the "Liberty Bell March" during a description of the Electoral College. It couldn't be more weirdly convoluted if it had been written by John Cleese.
Because, despite the dissolution of default values, schools are still means of indoctrination - only nowadays it's more utilitarian and less ideological.
Ed Lake Because the truth must be hidden at all times if possible. These people who run for office are really quite disgusting, they have become nothing, but degenerate parasites , you don't even need to look too closely at them now , to come to this conclusion. What is most sickeningly obvious, politicians have become puppets of the fraudulent, wealthy elite .
After Potus and Flotus, Rich is my favorite American. He has a sense of humour, married a British woman and moved to England. What's not to like? Go Rich!
I only found out about this guy a month ago. Now any video he has put up I watch. Sort of another Lewis Black only somewhat less angry. Rich does a great job of showing how piss poor the history educations we get are really nonsense.
There are VERY few American comedians who survive in the UK. It takes a special breed to be an Anglo American funny man. I would imagine he upsets some Americans but we seem to enjoy having the pee taken out of us. I guess it's because we don't have anything to prove any more. Let's face it we have had thousands of years of jumping into nasty things right up to our necks. Your very welcome here Rich Hall, I wish there were more like you.
He’s not talented for the status he has...he just uses the anti west rhetoric with sarcasm that wealthy liberals love...cause deep down they know they haven’t earned their status...and are the problem...so they deflect to blame the system. Liberals second favourite tactic, deflection. Favourite PROJECTION!
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Thousands of years. America only became world leader pretend after the development of the Military Industrial complex in the late 1940sand esrly 50s funded by money made by plane loans to Britain for the battles of ww Ii. The same industry that financed Korea and Nam etc You pay to get a government elected and they go to war and you sell them the weapons. And any how last time I checked America had only been around for 244 years. And they always jump into thing cause they’ve more brawn than brains. Just my view from watching them for 59 years from Montreal. Btw my Grandparents are from Yorkshire.
Well, what I really like about President Theodore Roosevelt is that, after becoming president in 1901, he used his authority to establish 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game preserves, FIVE NATIONAL PARKS!!! and 18 national monuments on over 230 million acres of public land.
I only just stumbled across this gem now, Rich Hall hope you're loving Britain........could not be remotely more insane than what's happening in America.
2manynegativewaves. People within the BBC fight agains their main stream media agenda.War in Ukraine Europe, and our headline news is snow.They ignored Yemen for long enough, along with the yellow vest movement. They promote the EU. You're entitled to your opinion. BBC promote dumbing down look at their programmes, trivia. WHEN DID I MOAN ABOUT RICHIE HALL? He does'nt charge the license fee. Also I knew BBC 4 is part of the BBC duh.
Now..... That would be a laugh. " & now is the news from Rich Hall" " Oh what's the point, this happened, that happened, it's all shit, why do we bother?"
Faultless Rich, Apart from; its pretty useless washing your hands after a whiz, if between the urinal and the sink, you’ve handled your beer bottle 😂😂🤟🏼
You know, I thought Richard Hall was an idiot who tried to sell us books with the word SnigLIT in the title on an unfunny show called Not Nesesarily The News. Or he was a somewhat poor impersonator on SNL'S mostly empty 10th season. But the cat takes off to the UK for a couple decades and boom, he comes back as an insightful, astute master of Hal-E-Arius commentary on rather weighty subjects. WTF? Does GB give out second acts when they stamp ur passport? I can't wait for this guy to do another BBC DOC. I've binged all of them in 1 sitting. Thank-you Mr Hall. You have redeemed yourself.
WhiteCamry ... I have to agree, with Paddy B....every bleedin’ show host / comedian, we, the British, have exported to you great folks in the USA... f*****g sucks!!! They couldn’t pass the quality test over here, so f**k knows how they made it in America??
This show is excellent! It's funny and also very complete. I give it A+ and an apple to it! A curiosity: the "numbers war" was invented in the UK (post war - can't remember who was the guy). Numbers war is when candidates start to say "but promissed to creat 1 million jobs but ended up creating 50% less" and reply "yes, but I want to guarantee welfare and healthcare for 2 million families while you want to block 3 million families from accessing those programs". (the examples I created are for the American audiences - if I recall correctly, in the UK it was about jobs and housing at the time)
The one who came up with the idea of seperating the state's powers into the legislative, executive and judiciary branches, was a Frenchman called Montesquieu. The founding fathers put it into practice, but it wasn't their idea.
36:43 I have to disagree with this statement. Jefferson had no input into the formulation of the Constitution because he was in Paris serving as Ambassador to France. I do agree that he and Adams squared off and each were instrumental in forming the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties respectively. In addition, Sally Hemmings, Jefferson's mistriss, was his wife's half-sister. Jefferson ran against John Adams, not John Quincy Adams, his son. JQA ran against Andrew Jackson (see corrupt bargain).
Jefferson's contribution to the US Constitution is established in his correspondence from France where he was in contact with the authors of the French Constitution and he took his perspective into the Oval Office as the institutional mechanisms were put in place. Disagreeing is denying his biography.
Rich Hall’s documentaries are riveting. He is also a hell of a good comedian.
I never watch American documentaries - always so dramatised and idealised - but when Rich takes the helm? Sign me up. Love this man!
Agreed. You always feel like you're getting a true insight into what America is really like with Rich.
It's a British documentary (BBC), hosted by an American.
Ken Burns is an American that does great documentaries.
His dry sarcastic humour best suits the UK not the USA. He is a legend in my eyes.
cheers:)
Your loss so
Rich always says it like it is. We love this guy in the UK
One of the best presidential documentaries, even 4 years after it was made. Well done Rich Hall. A very bright intelligent knowledgeable host. Very impressive. Here’s hoping you’ll consider doing more. Greetings from 2020 😁🙌🏻 You should consider running in 2024.
The US president is just an employee of the people. But the idiotic people of the US puts them on a pedestal. Just like they do with morally corrupt Holywood "celebrities". Obama, actually his wife, was the person who made it her job to fuel race hatred.
Rich Hall is a broadcasting treasure which we British are glad to have.
The world is glad to have this gem of a man.
We're glad you have that commie SOB . So please keep him and please come get Harry and Megan.
I don’t know how I missed this Gem here But I’m sure glad I watched it Rich Hall I think we need you more now than ever😎
Rich Hall for POTUS? His acceptance/inauguration speech alone would be worth it.....
This is a brilliant, accurate and honest video, bravo and thanks Rich Hall and team.
I love all of Rich Hall's documentaries. He plays some great music but I wish he would list the tracks in the credits.
Would LOVE to see this updated for 2021!!!
I have watched every Hall's documentaries. I hope there are more to come.
I’m looking forward to Rich’s view on the current situation in the US
you mean the riot? I bet he predicted for sure, he is so smart
The world has gotten so much more complex in the last four years, it wouldn’t be easy.
Yup. Wine and tortillas ordered. Just need the date to be off work.
@@dwaynesbadchemicals Yet the people have become far simpler. It would just be a rerun of this documentary with examples of how todays right did the same, to people who are able to find the truth quite easily.
I got to be impressed, informed, & entertained. Thank you!
Brilliantly written and filmed. Rich is a great man.
It was interesting about his comments on Jimmy Carter, probably realising that he could do more good outside the Whitehouse than in it. Most of the other ex-presidents in my life have either gone on to feather their own nests or more or less disappeared. Carter is the only one I know of who went on to do more good.
"Aggravated scrotal trauma" You got me Rich. Couldn't stop laughing.
Always wanted Moe from the Simpsons to get his own spin-off
The legendary Walter Matthau once said he had a face that looked as thought he'd just slept in it. Now that you've mentioned it, the Moe-Rich element is also so accurate. Nice one Ewan!
@@daveroche6522The Simpsons producers have actually said, that they designed Moe to resemble Rich Hall. They did a pretty good job !
@@jimreily7538 Excellent! Pity he wasn't more Rich Hilly; still a great character though - WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY FUNNY (The X-Files one still never fails to crack me up). Also, here's the one we use to this day - "Grandpa, are you sitting in the apple pie?", "I sure hope so". Still epic.
Maybe the most fair-minded interpretation of the Johnson-Goldwater contest I've heard, and from someone who is to the left of almost every American who has talked about it. Impressive!
Everyone in the world is to the left of almost every American. :D
You can laugh at the 'stumping' thing, but I saw John Major do just that. The media sneered, but it did impress the actual voter.
Every family needs a Fredo is such a brilliant line.
First rich hall video. Love it.
Bringing entertainment to serious modern history. Keep on rockin' Rich. 👍
it is really good!!!! This is the second one I'm watching.
When did Carol Channing become a political pundit?
Hearing the 'Solaris' sound track at 1:12:00 onwards allows Rich Hall to stray into Adam Curtis territory - a masterstroke.
Just found this guy, 7 hours ago, I’m in bed with 38,8 degree temperature,not human malware thankfully,my chromic pain (from an op that went way wrong )is sky high, but this guy has kept me distracted more than enough for me to not have dark thoughts if you know where I’m at.
Always well researched,written and presented, right balance of humour,sarcasm, irony and wit.
And his own opinions are what we all would be thinking, this is my kind of guy to be able to have a good and reasonable discourse, hope I can find about another 100 hours to get me through this fever….
I found these the other day and been watching at least one a day love it!
He has a book out about his life, which I'll be getting hold of. He just did a podcast with Richard Herring about it, which is hilarious.
Get well soon !
I could only watch Rich Hall and Adam Curtis and be satisfied. I just need both of them to increase their output.
A miracle of the Facebook/Google/RUclips intertwined algorithm pukes up some occasional novelties, and a few weeks ago, RICH HALL appeared in the otherwise vapid choices I'm offered, and I cannot be more exhilarated, delighted, and endeared. Dude, I love you. [From the Lenny Bruce Memorial Office of Proper Usage]
What an insane 7 years it's been since, can we please have just 1 normal year before everyone goes totally mental?
Best American comedian since George Carlin!
Rich is the most underrated American historian.
Jimmy Carter. Still going strong, beat cancer, went from the White House to building houses for the poor and teaching Sunday school.
He should have skipped the White House.
the only president in recent times that did NOT start a war. Digest that!
@@Hithere-ek4qt Hahaha really? He didn’t “start” a war??? Such a dumb thing to say. He was such a great president that the Iranians wouldn’t let American hostages go until he was out of office.
That guy was way too nice to be a politician. And he used to holiday near where I live, in Tregaron, apparently!
Worse President in modern history....let down our best ally in the Shah and we have had a terror state for the last 45 years....Carter may be a nice private citizen but he was an awful President.
Very informative! Thanks Rich from Canada
Rich Hall is truly one of my favourite Americans
"Here's your prescription on how to see American history. You know it's wrong, but are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Well then, that settles it. Here, have a cookie. It'll make you feel right as rain."
There's something delightfully wrong in the BBC using the "Liberty Bell March" during a description of the Electoral College. It couldn't be more weirdly convoluted if it had been written by John Cleese.
I think it was absolutely on purpose - the electoral college in the 21 century IS a Python sketch
this is wonderful. thanks for the upload
We should have a President so articulate.
I guess sadly Rich will be out of the country for a bit! :-( I'd rather have him for POTUS! Great show!
Damn, Rich really has it in for the Kardashians.
emblematically.
As we all should.
I guess Rich Hall's gonna be on british tv all the time now.
So every cloud does have a silver lining. Sorry you Yanks get the idiot but it means we Brits get the gem. :)
I have no problem with that.
We win twice. Get President Trump and get rid of this idiot
@@alexanderthompson7372 wow buddy, good luck out there, youre gonna need it
@@paulwolfman6244 If there ever was a comment on you tube that aged well, it's yours.
That was bloody entertaining! Well done.
Top stuff. Why can't they teach history like this in schools?
Because, despite the dissolution of default values, schools are still means of indoctrination - only nowadays it's more utilitarian and less ideological.
What is a 'school'?
You say, 'sucks horse dick' as if it was a bad thing.
dov linhos,
It's like evil. People are always bad-mouthing evil. You never get the other side of the story.
Ed Lake
Because the truth must be hidden at all times if possible. These people who run for office are really quite disgusting, they have become nothing, but degenerate parasites , you don't even need to look too closely at them now , to come to this conclusion. What is most sickeningly obvious, politicians have become puppets of the fraudulent, wealthy elite .
Time for an update Rich....
So where you living now Rich?...love your stuff man
"you have to want it"
hey, so which old greek dude was it who said that those who desire power are often the least-suited to wield it?
Socrates, Buddha, Ghandi, Orson Wells and John Lennon, in that order. But what do they know?
In RSA, there's a political cartoonist who is often a talking point.
He sells best selling collections for Xmas...
After Potus and Flotus, Rich is my favorite American. He has a sense of humour, married a British woman and moved to England. What's not to like? Go Rich!
Potus and Flotus - really? They are both scumbags
Sorry for your limited view of the world.
@@Hithere-ek4qt Hunter Biden is my favorite American . He's awesome.
I only found out about this guy a month ago. Now any video he has put up I watch. Sort of another Lewis Black only somewhat less angry. Rich does a great job of showing how piss poor the history educations we get are really nonsense.
Well, he got his prediction about the 2016 election very wrong.
There are VERY few American comedians who survive in the UK. It takes a special breed to be an Anglo American funny man. I would imagine he upsets some Americans but we seem to enjoy having the pee taken out of us. I guess it's because we don't have anything to prove any more. Let's face it we have had thousands of years of jumping into nasty things right up to our necks. Your very welcome here Rich Hall, I wish there were more like you.
He's loved over there because he's critical of his countrymen and limeys love a self hating American.
He’s not talented for the status he has...he just uses the anti west rhetoric with sarcasm that wealthy liberals love...cause deep down they know they haven’t earned their status...and are the problem...so they deflect to blame the system. Liberals second favourite tactic, deflection. Favourite PROJECTION!
Thousands of years. America only became world leader pretend after the development of the Military Industrial complex in the late 1940sand esrly 50s funded by money made by plane loans to Britain for the battles of ww Ii. The same industry that financed Korea and Nam etc You pay to get a government elected and they go to war and you sell them the weapons. And any how last time I checked America had only been around for 244 years. And they always jump into thing cause they’ve more brawn than brains. Just my view from watching them for 59 years from Montreal. Btw my Grandparents are from Yorkshire.
@@Dude0000 Bollocks.
"The Kardashians would just be three inconsequential vapid bimbos hanging out at the mall."
We're't they already all that by default Rich?
There are 2 relevant movies still worth watching - Dave (1993, Kevin Kline) and The American President (1995, Michael Douglas). Just suggestin'.
Well, what I really like about President Theodore Roosevelt is that, after becoming president in 1901, he used his authority to establish 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game preserves, FIVE NATIONAL PARKS!!! and 18 national monuments on over 230 million acres of public land.
Yes, and now look at what’s left…….!
I love Rich's documentaries. Any chance of one where Rich Hall covers the great Rick Hall?
Virtual pat on the back, Rich.
Rich must make a documentary about Trump's presidency (since he is stuck in England...) Great stuff!
1 hour, 29 minutes and 5 seconds. Thanks Rich!
Love this show and I guess like lots of Americans you cant stand the Kardashians either😅😅
I cannot say that I'm glad Turnip won, but Rich's humour is very much appreciated!
did Dick just blame Briton for slavery??? Oh man he needs a history lesson. Other than that bloody excellent.
Lovely narrator of history; pedal down and fully engaged!
I remember when he was on a show called "real people" during the early 80's. Still got it.
How about "Not Necessarily The News?" 'Memba that?
@@JamesSmith-vk2ky sniglets
True Fact that Moe From the Simpsons is based on this guy.
I only just stumbled across this gem now, Rich Hall hope you're loving Britain........could not be remotely more insane than what's happening in America.
Rich Hall is pure awesome
God damn, that ending is painful.
Jeb Bush - every family needs a Fredo.... fabulous!
Please clap.
Humour, education, insight,history, balance, everything you dont get from BBC & MSM. Well done Rich putting it out on BBC 4.
2manynegativewaves. People within the BBC fight agains their main stream media agenda.War in Ukraine Europe, and our headline news is snow.They ignored Yemen for long enough, along with the yellow vest movement. They promote the EU. You're entitled to your opinion. BBC promote dumbing down look at their programmes, trivia. WHEN DID I MOAN ABOUT RICHIE HALL? He does'nt charge the license fee. Also I knew BBC 4 is part of the BBC duh.
2manynegativewaves. I didn'nt vote, do'nt you get this progtamme.
He’s not balanced he made an open endorsement for Hillary Clinton at the end. Not to mention he clowned conservatives the entire film.
I want Rich Hall to be a news Anchorman.
I want Rich Hall to be president.
Now..... That would be a laugh. " & now is the news from Rich Hall" " Oh what's the point, this happened, that happened, it's all shit, why do we bother?"
He would fit in perfectly with CNN.
That was great! Thanks
An interesting documentary, well done😊
Oh, and thank you Rich Hall. You did a great job as usual, and I guess you could've done worse than the whole Humphrey Bogart meets Neil Young look.
Yoi might want to add subtitles. But I appreciate the honesty of the horror you documented.
That Hamilton musical looks ridiculous.
Who's president today
6 years later, and pre Trump, what would be in a follow-up? Anyone heard if Hall’s thought of doing so? Subbed.
The Trump rap rocks. I think Rich even surprised himself with how well it turned out.
Has Rick been back since?
well Rich it's been 4 almost 5 years how is you time in England been?
Ha! Too right! That material is being handed to him like candy by the fascists!
Faultless Rich, Apart from; its pretty useless washing your hands after a whiz, if between the urinal and the sink, you’ve handled your beer bottle 😂😂🤟🏼
Please flush the public toilet, citizen!
Watched it all and loved it......but one thing......you were wrong at the end it seems......heh heh...
You know, I thought Richard Hall was an idiot who tried to sell us books with the word SnigLIT in the title on an unfunny show called Not Nesesarily The News. Or he was a somewhat poor impersonator on SNL'S mostly empty 10th season. But the cat takes off to the UK for a couple decades and boom, he comes back as an insightful, astute master of Hal-E-Arius commentary on rather weighty subjects. WTF? Does GB give out second acts when they stamp ur passport? I can't wait for this guy to do another BBC DOC. I've binged all of them in 1 sitting. Thank-you Mr Hall. You have redeemed yourself.
M.w. Canavan Great Britain is a fantastically magical place and will bring the best out of anyone who chooses to call the place home.........
It works both ways. John Oliver found a home in the US, first doing feature spots on The Daily Show and now hosting Last Week Tonight.
So you get whatshisname from Britain on that chat show & we get Rich Hall. I think you got the rough end of the stick there mate.
WhiteCamry ... I have to agree, with Paddy B....every bleedin’ show host / comedian, we, the British, have exported to you great folks in the USA... f*****g sucks!!! They couldn’t pass the quality test over here, so f**k knows how they made it in America??
took me a while too
This show is excellent! It's funny and also very complete. I give it A+ and an apple to it!
A curiosity: the "numbers war" was invented in the UK (post war - can't remember who was the guy). Numbers war is when candidates start to say "but promissed to creat 1 million jobs but ended up creating 50% less" and reply "yes, but I want to guarantee welfare and healthcare for 2 million families while you want to block 3 million families from accessing those programs". (the examples I created are for the American audiences - if I recall correctly, in the UK it was about jobs and housing at the time)
50:00
Me: "This is a very profound and insightful documentary!"
Also me: "Skabadoodledablibliblibliblibli.... I'm the SCATMAN!"
Rich is straight from the shoulder, love his doccies, I even worked with a few Americans like him
"face like a used tire" 😅😅😅
Sorry, I stopped watching when he asserted that Franklin D Roosevelt died of a heart attack (1:40).
The one who came up with the idea of seperating the state's powers into the legislative, executive and judiciary branches, was a Frenchman called Montesquieu.
The founding fathers put it into practice, but it wasn't their idea.
I was looking for Janine Driver's analysis on the Trump/Biden 2020 debate ... couldn't find any.
Susan Estrich sounds like she's slowly becoming Romy and Michelle's high school reunion....
Omg! What did that guy say at 10.30? I didn’t even know that was an -ism ! 🤣
Yep, with the Electoral College system, the best man doesn't always win...
So, Rich, how are the HIGNFY appearances going?
Muskie was a cross between a muskrat and a husky.
36:43 I have to disagree with this statement. Jefferson had no input into the formulation of the Constitution because he was in Paris serving as Ambassador to France. I do agree that he and Adams squared off and each were instrumental in forming the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties respectively. In addition, Sally Hemmings, Jefferson's mistriss, was his wife's half-sister. Jefferson ran against John Adams, not John Quincy Adams, his son. JQA ran against Andrew Jackson (see corrupt bargain).
Jefferson's contribution to the US Constitution is established in his correspondence from France where he was in contact with the authors of the French Constitution and he took his perspective into the Oval Office as the institutional mechanisms were put in place. Disagreeing is denying his biography.
FDR died of cerebral hemorrhage
In yur heart, you know he's right. In your guts, you now he's nuts.
you know nothing about him exsept what you've been told to think
5 minutes in and it’s brilliant.
Nice to see Peej all sober and relaxed. Love your books, Mr. O'Rourke
Jim Carroll's _People Who Died_ used in a documentary? What brave new world is this?
This is due for a update.
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