I have to admit (and only because I've recently come to realise what a comedy genius James is) that for the first minute or so I thought "why the *f_ck* are they just *sitting* there!
I assumed they were filmed either as a separate plate or in front of a green screen and just told to pretend they're listening to a talk, then edited in front of acaster talking to nobody to look like he was in fact talking to a bunch of people.
I lost it at "banana seeds are invisible" and then again at all the slides of smiling tomatoes. I don't get how anyone in the audience could keep a straight face. Must be the hardest job ever.
It's actually true to a degree. Bananas have been through a very big genetic selection to reach the modern state they are at. (Kind of like seedless watermelons). Search for wild bananas on google and see what bananas used to look like. If you've never seen this this is going to be a shock to you.
Bananas actually did used to have seeds in them and that's why when we get candy that is banana flavored it doesn't taste like the actual bananas we have today because the banana flavor and candies is normally what bananas used to taste like a long time ago before they genetically engineered and crossbred the bananas to not have seeds in them anymore cuz I've heard in a couple of videos that the bananas we had today will be completely gone or extinct in the next 20 or 30 years because they have no seeds and my guess we can't make more of them somehow🤷♂️🤷♂️ im not a plant doctor🤷♂️😆🤣😂😭😭..... botanist.... that's the word i was looking for🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣😂😆😭💀
I also heard carrots were originally purple hey baby. I haven't checked that one out for myself but I've heard it in a few different videos that word actually talking about the history of certain foods and crops
@@swordsword5593 Does it occur to you that I particularly like these exact parts of the parody? But thanks for your kind advice......... PS - Gest? Jest or Gist?
Like most TED talks, this DAVE talk turns on the false perception that "people are not a fruit" whereas many people are in fact fruits and some are nuts. James Acaster, on the other hand, is a good egg.
Not sure if those anthropomorphized tomatoes are meant for something and he forgot that part, or it is intentionally put in the buildup of people not being a fruit.
Before I watched this talk I was depressed and had no meaning in life. Now I have a green grocery store at the market called 'Tomato is a fruit not a veg, you numpty'. Life is beautiful.
@@kylecarson4878 Yeah I think he was specifically an teaching assistant for kids with autism. Something along those lines. I don't know if it was like a paraprofessional in the US. For some reason I got the sense he was assisting with a bunch of kids at once? That was his day job when he started doing comedy.
He has got a LONG-LASTING career in front of him! He's so creative. I love this guy! His appearance on Would I Lie to You? was HILARIOUS!!!! PLEASE watch it!
Wow, I feel bad for anyone who can become depressed by someone pronouncing a word differently than they do. It must be tough needing such constant validation.
I'm American and it totally went over my head about how he pronounced "tomato" since that's how we say it here. It wasn't until I read through the comments and realized it was driving everyone nuts!
Why the fuck did I watch someone aimlessly talk about fruit for close to seven minutes. I knew it was a joke piss take on Ted but I legitimately sat here and listened to his every word.
he's got the rhythm and self importance and unnecessary dullness of a ted talk. perfect. well done. the audience did really well, too. it would have been so hard not to crack up.
This feels like a serious lecture between an alien with almost zero knowledge of humanity, and the recently discovered last remaining colony of humans who have been disconnected from other humans for years.
How the audience could sit there with straight faces amazes me (I know they were doing it on purpose but still), I could barely contain myself for 5 seconds!
A surprising amount of people don't get that everyone in the room is committed to parodying Ted Talks. James did not "bomb", it's a piss take
A surprising amount of people dont seem to understand this is a piss take at all.
This getting pinned by UKTV is genuinely one of the greatest moments of my life
What is "bombing" in this context and what is a piss take and why is everyone looking like they're in a funeral service?
I have to admit (and only because I've recently come to realise what a comedy genius James is) that for the first minute or so I thought "why the *f_ck* are they just *sitting* there!
Alexander Miller you need to do more with your life...
If someone were to fetch him some veg, surely they’d get him a cabbage.
And spread it though out his belongings
Ok Mick
😂😂😂😂
only his arch nemesis
Yeeeees.
this boy thinks he is too good for a free banana
We're all too good for a free banana. Believe in yourself a little. It is a banana, it is a banana!
I said all of the bananas are free, I didn’t say all of the bananas are free, to everybody.
story of his revenge lives on!! lolll
that lady still going bananas to this day :D
lmaooo
Idk if I could've held it. That audience is professional.
I imagine there were many many outtakes
Many, many outtakes.
@@StreamOnU please oh please release those as a video!!!!
UKTV RELEASE THEM U COWARDS
I assumed they were filmed either as a separate plate or in front of a green screen and just told to pretend they're listening to a talk, then edited in front of acaster talking to nobody to look like he was in fact talking to a bunch of people.
His arch-enemy, the Cabadge, makes a stealthy appearance.
HEY IK THAT REFERENCE
His arch-enemy is the child
@@evecagerdan6147 mick
...Mick.....
James would never lie....
I lost it at "banana seeds are invisible" and then again at all the slides of smiling tomatoes. I don't get how anyone in the audience could keep a straight face. Must be the hardest job ever.
It's actually true to a degree. Bananas have been through a very big genetic selection to reach the modern state they are at. (Kind of like seedless watermelons). Search for wild bananas on google and see what bananas used to look like. If you've never seen this this is going to be a shock to you.
Bananas actually did used to have seeds in them and that's why when we get candy that is banana flavored it doesn't taste like the actual bananas we have today because the banana flavor and candies is normally what bananas used to taste like a long time ago before they genetically engineered and crossbred the bananas to not have seeds in them anymore cuz I've heard in a couple of videos that the bananas we had today will be completely gone or extinct in the next 20 or 30 years because they have no seeds and my guess we can't make more of them somehow🤷♂️🤷♂️ im not a plant doctor🤷♂️😆🤣😂😭😭..... botanist.... that's the word i was looking for🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣😂😆😭💀
I also heard carrots were originally purple hey baby. I haven't checked that one out for myself but I've heard it in a few different videos that word actually talking about the history of certain foods and crops
Oh great.... now Im wondering if there are any banana seeds in that global Doomsday seed vault in Norway...
The complete lack of correspondence between the gradually appearing photos of different vegetables and what he was announcing absolutely killed meh.
Oh and also: "You are you" (points at self).... "You are _you_ " (points at self)....
Absolutely wet myself 😂🤣🤣🤣
Then you didn't get what he's implying too...warch it again, many times if possible until you get the gest....
@@swordsword5593
Does it occur to you that I particularly like these exact parts of the parody?
But thanks for your kind advice.........
PS - Gest? Jest or Gist?
And he lists tomatoes in those vegetables as well.
Confirmed: Tomato soup is a hot fruit smoothie.
How about ketchup? Cold smoothie?
@@maximschoofs Spiced fruit sauce.
So is pumpkin soup.
"Banana seeds are invisible." *clicks* *to* *a* *blank* *slide.*
Like most TED talks, this DAVE talk turns on the false perception that "people are not a fruit" whereas many people are in fact fruits and some are nuts. James Acaster, on the other hand, is a good egg.
I identify heavily with walnuts.
James should know this... his father is John Nutlips...
very true, I'm fruity for sure
thats very offensive. theyre called homosexuals now
he's got it nailed, right down to the body language, hahaha!!!
and the audience killed it too, did a great job of mimicking the ted talk audiences! I would've been struggling not to laugh
Thought he was going to say...' if you pardon the pun, fruitile'
N Patellio me too lol
Oh, is that a pun? Or a play on words?
@@GarrettPDGA a pun is a play on words
Fruitless is a play on words, Fruitile is a pun
SAMEEEEE
I lost it when he started going through all those pictures of the tomatoes
even me
In dead silence with no reaction. That was the funniest and driest joke I've ever laughed out loud at.
Not sure if those anthropomorphized tomatoes are meant for something and he forgot that part, or it is intentionally put in the buildup of people not being a fruit.
@@stupidfanboyph it’s just a silly gag
james did you say "pardon the pun" before you said the pun?
Yeah but that's OK. You just can't say "no pun intended"
Disappointed now. In the heat of the moment I thought that's what he'd (deliberately) done.
I love come fly with me
Thats great. Love that joke about jury duty
Then it looks like you went into the sentence with the pun fully intended.
"I'm not a liar. You're a liar! How does that feel?" Whole talk was truly enlightening.
Before I watched this talk I was depressed and had no meaning in life. Now I have a green grocery store at the market called 'Tomato is a fruit not a veg, you numpty'.
Life is beautiful.
James Acaster would have made a very engaging teacher.
Miyu Takahada standups are my teacher now I am grown. Ricky gervais is my favourite teacher.
He was a drum teacher at some point
i swear i remember him saying on a panel show that he worked at a special needs school once
@@kylecarson4878 Yeah I think he was specifically an teaching assistant for kids with autism. Something along those lines. I don't know if it was like a paraprofessional in the US. For some reason I got the sense he was assisting with a bunch of kids at once? That was his day job when he started doing comedy.
" 'Courgette' is from France... 'Petits pois' is from France... Every corner of the globe..."
Me: ... is from France?
*Cue the Marseillaise*
He nailed this
He has got a LONG-LASTING career in front of him! He's so creative. I love this guy! His appearance on Would I Lie to You? was HILARIOUS!!!!
PLEASE watch it!
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Fruit salad.
You're a fool. And nobody likes you.
Salsa is tomato based fruit salad
@@Number1tnfan683 Salsa is actually just a spice fruit smoothie with chunks
Philosophy is wondering if that makes ketchup a smoothie.
Strength is crushing a tomato.
Dexterity is dodging a tomato.
Constitution is eating a bad tomato.
Charisma is selling a tomato-based fruit salad.
"We are in a fruit, please believe us!" Absolutely lost it at this one! He's so funny! 1:53
His voice and body language are so spot on I love this man
He's slowly becoming one of my new favorites, his delivery is always top notch.
i love when it cuts to shots of the audience thinking really hard like their whole world view is changing
(misnaming all the veg slides!) LOL!
You could see him concentrating to make extra sure that he didn't accidentally name one correctly :)
the scrolling through the cartoon tomatoes had me laughing way too hard
"People are not a fruit". This ties in very well to the orchard-club-girlfriend bit.
"Feast your eyes! Not your mouths, they're on loan..."
Cheese is a kind of meat. A tasty yellow beef.
Komondored Blobfish booooooosh
i milk it from my teet
But I try to be discreet.
oooooooh cheese, ooooohhhh cheese
Oooooh cheese
Still love the little dance he does when he says it's not April Fools Day
I love how all his jokes can spin off into absurdity but still remain funny!
Review: I'd cheerfully waste another six and a half minutes of my life listening to him. 5/5
"Waste."
You mean...brighten.
I was profoundly moved by this talk, it has shaken everything I had ever believed. I will never let others lead me to believe I'm a fruit again!
Love James and this TED talk spoof. What made me laugh is that two of those "vegetables" behind him are actually fruits too.
Oh he looks devastatingly handsome at the end
The biggest lie is the way you pronounce tomato like an American.
yeah. i thought he was taking the piss until he said it the 8th time
I'm still assuming he was taking the piss
Yeah its pretty depressing if he does pronounce it that way
Morons!! It’s comedy!
Wow, I feel bad for anyone who can become depressed by someone pronouncing a word differently than they do. It must be tough needing such constant validation.
must be so difficult to do this show: James's energy kept up and the audience staying in character without cracking up!
“If we may return to soup momentarily” *having not mentioned soup up until that point* hahahahah
Very, very very deep and very true.
I'm American and it totally went over my head about how he pronounced "tomato" since that's how we say it here. It wasn't until I read through the comments and realized it was driving everyone nuts!
Why the fuck did I watch someone aimlessly talk about fruit for close to seven minutes. I knew it was a joke piss take on Ted but I legitimately sat here and listened to his every word.
This is genius, especially that stuff at 1:13, that's just like pure Ted Talk public speaking right there.
I didn’t see the title, and was watching it thinking it’s like a TED talk, brilliant!
I desperately wanted him to say "their attempts are fruit-ile" but fruitless was pretty good too
an awesome spiritual revelation from a truly inspiration speaker. Wow! Just Wow!!!!
Kamran Rahman i
I’m aware it’s a pisstake but he’s got some good points there
"Banana seeds are invisible" PMSL
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This is the most I've laughed in a long time. Love this guy. The one or two people trying to keep a straight face was so funny.
Y'all know how many vegetables have seeds. I'm going to blow your mind, most of them.
All soups is a vegetable.....
Butternut squash????
Chicken soup
coffee
@@chelseawildflowerloftinwey1945 The joy of morning soup. Best part of the day
His timing and cadence is amazing, not many comedians could say the exact same thing and make it funny 👌🏼👌🏼
he's got the rhythm and self importance and unnecessary dullness of a ted talk.
perfect. well done.
the audience did really well, too. it would have been so hard not to crack up.
This is what happens when people tell you to "Fake It Til You Make It"
Saw the title and I thought immediately: _Women_ _aren't_ _apples._
Some people say you are what you eat, the other day I bought some ready to eat apricots
It’s the way he said oranges that caught me off guard...
My favourite part, and tomayto.
'Tomato Soup is a Hot Fruit Smoothie' should be the name of his next comedy special XD
This feels like a serious lecture between an alien with almost zero knowledge of humanity, and the recently discovered last remaining colony of humans who have been disconnected from other humans for years.
Love how, when he listed up different vegetables, he said tomato xD
@@saganrak Don't know what you're talking about.
@@saganrak Sorry, I was trying to make a joke about me not being supposed to tell anyone.
@@saganrak Sorry, I missed the part were that's my problem.
@@saganrak Sorry, I was trying to make a quote from Spider-Man.
@@saganrak Sorry, I got that reference.
Damn it he got me with the ten slides of animated tomatoes at the end.
how did the audience contain their laughters? i had to pause to avoid hyperventilation.
This is one talented dude. So entertaining, so great with the body language
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time
That "all of their tales are true" line is amazing and nobody seems to acknowledge it.
When he got through all the smiling tomatoes to get to the people I lost it
If people are not a fruit, then why am I ready-to-eat apricots?
surprising that James included the "cabbage" in his list, given his history with said sprout...
Hysterical. I cannot believe I have not seen this until now. Absolute genius.
The triple glance he does towards that guy at 3:30 always get me.
My life has completely changed for the good. Thank you for the incite James, you have truly touched me.
The pause after “pardon the pun” was what cracked me.
I would rank James Acaster the number one comedian in the realm of produce based humor.
Hot fruit smoothie. I love how he completely gets the absurdity of patronising TED talks. Tedtalkisms.
When he gets every single name wrong, that bit gets funnier the longer it goes on for XD
For some reason, the fact that the top-middle screen is slightly dimmer than the rest had me in stitches, lol
the putting up the wrong picture to each vegetable is iconic
"Feast your eyes! But not your mouth; they're on loan!" 😂😂😂
When he honked the horn that fell down I started crying from laughing so hard. He’s a god damn genius
the slide he had for banana seeds had me rolling
The best part is that after all the tomato build up he STILL lists it as a vegetable in that terrible list...
this makes me feel a hell of a lot better about the random ted talk rants I make in my head
I lost it at the pun 😂😭
Dave Talks are the real deal people, listen closely and enlighten yourselves
Wise, wise words.
This is truly life-changing content. I've decided to quit my job on Wall Street and grow vegetables. Thank you.
ted parody?
No.
TED & Google Talks too
nooooooo waaaayyyyyy
That’s why he’s saying tomato in the way they do in America
No shit Sherlock
Tomato is botanically a fruit, culinarily a veg. Almost every "veg" is a fruit. Thanks for coming to my Dave talk.
The fact he pronounces it “Tom-AY-to” gives it away 😂.
the clip art tomatoes bit is the funniest thing ive see in a while
God they have the nightmare job.
"Sit in front of James Acaster and whatever you do don't laugh"
Astronauts have it easier
All those slides of cartoon tomatoes cracked me up 🤣
"...Most of you would return clutching a tomato."
I'd return with a cabbage. XD XD XD
Did not expect it to have a profound point at the end 😂😂😂😂😂
3:02 "but their attempts are, pardon the pun..."
Me: FRUITILE!
"Fruitless"
Guys, I might be stupid.
Missed opportunity to say "no pun intended, there attempts are... fruitless"
3:30 that double stare is pure comedy
It must've been so hard not to laugh 😂😂😂
How the audience could sit there with straight faces amazes me (I know they were doing it on purpose but still), I could barely contain myself for 5 seconds!
We are reliably informed that it was "not easy", and that audience laughter meant "a lot more work" in the edit to make it still look like a TED Talk!
I'm procrastinating my perception lecture by watching this
Time well spent
One of the best things I’ve seen on the Internet
I was really hoping he’d unveil the table and reveal iceberg lettuce.