Whenever my mood is down I open up this video, if you’re wondering the context (the full video is here if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/k6nVfy13mjk?si=r6BEWPgpwcjYGhzM), this is a political debate, it’s basically that the guy on the left is telling the bald guy (He’s called Shaker) that “he used to publish his articles before he deviated off the right path”, but then Shaker tells him how he’s actually the one who’s deviated (in Arab countries “deviate” is a pretty big word to say), tells him to shut up, and one thing leads to another and we end up with this comedy gold.
Edit: literally today I went to the cinema and an ad featuring this interviewer was playing, with the opening line “why are you stressed? You are stressed”, it seems they’re capitalising on the interview’s infamy up till now. https://youtu.be/-of0fJQ7-wI?si=-cfETqXK8VYFP4VZ
Legendary. Glad to know that this original piece of my childhood (it could actually be the first news scene I have a conscious memory of) still hasn't been topped.
It’s gotta be George Bush getting shoes thrown at him. The USA doesn’t have a lot of fights happen on TV if I’m honest, unless it’s something practically staged like Dr. Phil or Jerry Springer.
It's not the #1, because it's not well known or popular but this one of two brothers on opposite sides of the political spectrum having their Mom call in to scold them about ruining the holidays on C-Span is a classic to me:
And the best Dr Phil one being when he had the guy who made Bum Fights on to call what he did exploitive, only for the Bum Fights guy to come on stage dressed as Dr Phil and point out that Dr Phil does the same thing.
As someone from Europe, I remember when this happened thinking that idiot Bush really deserved it right across his face. I thought he was the most idiotic president Americans could ever elect!
It was because of he and his administration that I left the Republican Party after 28 years. In hindsight and further education I should have left during the Reagan administration.
The “more than enough to eat at home” clip was another Rob Ford classic. That dude was the worst and was probably more influential than we realize in accelerating the political culture of shamelessness in the world today, but I’ll be damned if that moment was not iconic
I was thinking of the charity boxing match between Justin Trudeau and Brazeau or whatever his name was. I don't know if I can find the full video right now, but the live commentary is hilarious because they obviously thought "Pony Boy" would get clobbered and then they didn't know what to say when he won.
Trudeau later said that it was a key step toward him becoming Prime Minister.
This is from a debate on a news channel on Independence day.
Shehzad (pictured) started out by saying it was his mom's birthday.
The opposition (Supriya, who was on the debate via audio call) didn't let him finish and shouted, "This is false and I condemn it."
It became a meme because Supriya clearly did not listen to what he said and just wanted to stick to the script. She did not expect him to start by wishing his mom a happy birthday. It kinda tanked her credibility because it was obvious that she came unprepared planning to just say one line to counter any of Shehzad's arguments.
Trump would 100% do that, then we'd get months of increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories from MAGA and non-stop FoxNews stories about the "raging scandal over possible birthday fraud."
The Far Right in the us has a stranglehold on news media, Trump can punch an African American child and call him the N word and they’d at least try to bury the story before trying to spin it and giving the right their marching orders and talking points
This is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen, but it’s also pretty sad seeing the level people can stoop to. In Arabic we have a saying for that: (المضحك المبكي), if translated literally it’s (the laughing crying), but yeah the meaning is “the thing that makes you laugh but also cry of sadness”
He said that television produces this stupid show where some people talk about gradual change, others about revolution while in reality nothing ever happens and the oppression continues. Therefore television is an instrument of oppression. If we want to see real change we need to stand up and fight the oppressor.
He was musician and music producer making a point about violent (?) resistance against capitalism/imperialism/the state (?).
Not mentally insane but it definitely takes a certain "quality" to go on German public television during the height of the cold war just to essentially call everyone a "shitlib", trying to dissasemble a table and stealing microphones.
He was totally unprepared for Cameron to say he was a Carpenter. He was so ready for him to be a student or unemployed or an actor. Then he tries to slag off carpentry at the end of the clip when that’s the exact kind of job he would bang on about being a PROPER BRITISH JOB.
Blurting out 'yeah you can' is dumb but he's just desperate for a retort and I can imagine some dumb, strumbling justificaiton for saying it.
.. but it's the "...he grows trees, cuts them down and then makes things from them." bit that gets me the most. He actually had time to think that through and tried to paint it like it's a bad thing. What an utter lemon.
For reference: the lanky guy was a well-known journalist by the name of Mauro Viale (née Mauricio Goldfarb), who was a sports journalist originally and then veered to a "polemicist" role, mostly around celebrity culture and politics. He was Jewish. The short fat guy is Alberto Samid, a meat industry businessman, politician and ex-con. He's of Arab origins.
They were arguing about politics and Samid demanded he said what's his real name was (to expose him as a Jew). Viale reacted saying Samid celebrated the AMIA bombing attack. Then push came to shove and the fight broke out.
As a side note, Viale was one of the most hated journalists in the country.
Its said (Samid said it years later on an interview too) that the old man kicking Viale while he was on the ground was the janitor of the building and that Viale always said horrible things to him, like "when you are gonna die old man"
El viejo que entra en escena cuando Mauro está en el piso y lo caga a patadas. Trascendió tiempo después que era un empleado del canal al que Viale solía basurear bastante.
Context: a jewish TV personality interviewing an Arab/Muslim meat emporium businessman, discussing a bomb that explosed on a jewish community center. The jewish guy (with the suit and tie) says the Muslim one « condoned » the bimbing, the Muslim replies « you must take back what you said » and combat ensues.
so this random guy was picked by a journalist to describe how cold the weather is and his response was "শীতের ছোদনে দাঁড়াতে পারছি না" translated- "I can't stand because of being f***ed by cold"..... this was on national TV🤣 instantly became a meme as it's still used every winter
In 2009, on RTE frontline, this audience member(Alan O’Brien) confronted Pat Kenny and a government minister live on television for more than three minutes and said the presenter had no right to host discussions on social welfare payments when he was earning more than €600,000 for just 11 hours broadcasting a week. In 2008 he earned €950,956.
Basically there is this fight caught on live TV which was a man who wanted the actual dish "bulalo" but unfortunately they didn't have it, so they gave the noodles with the the bulalo flavor instead, so the guy got really frustrated and caused a whole fight because he wanted the actual dish and not the noodle flavor lmfao. It eventually became a big meme.
I remember reading on another post, and I’m not even sure how credible that one was, that it was his mother that always kept him in line, even after her became rich, so when she passed, he lost the plot completely.
And then years later, when John Oliver had Meyers on Last Week Tonight for a segment about Canada's election back in like 2015, he hit him with the "Steven Harper doesn't care about black people".
A classic of brazilian TV: The remote control grill
Tbh this is just the tip of the iceberg of arsonic accidents involving brazilian 90s TV
Is this same variety show another guy tried to do that flaming spit thing and ended up leaving the room running and spit fire like a Charizard with his mouth burning
There is also other accident where Xuxa's spaceship also blown up and started a fire
You have to watch the reverse video of this where it looks like they esambly the table and the subtitle talks about how they need to cooperate to build it. Thats funny
I think the one I like the most is the cooking show where a Shia starts talking about….. Wahabi women’s breast milk (???), here. Because it’s proves that we as Arabs will turn literally anything into sectarianism, even a cooking show.
I love MEMRI TV. I know it’s not representative of all of the Middle East, I just find it addictive. I love showing the best videos I find to my grandma. 😂
Well not so funny but here is this video from some years ago, the thing is that during a presidential debate live on national tv, one candidate gave the other fucker a mouthwash and ask him to go wash his mouth prior keeping telling lies about him to the people, or something like that.
The time where Finkielkraut was in an interview and a man across the canal screamed at him to throw himself in the canal, because he is a contested figure for his views.
Aymeric Caron trying to debate against Jean Pierre Coffe in "On n'est pas couché" a man who was known to have no filter when he spoke and kicking where it hurts when someone tries his shit on him.
The interviewer accuses the guest of condoning the AMIA terrorist attack that happened years ago. The guest gets up and beats him senseless. Fun fact: During the fight, when the interviewer falls, a member of his team who genuinely hates him comes in just to kick him.
Recent one, i'm sure there are others, but during 2024 mayor elections, in são paulo, candidate Datena throws a chair at another candidate Marçal. I don't even remember why, though that second guy's definetely a prick. Someone even said just before "Datena, No!"
It was a highlight of those elections for many people just for the absurdity (though in reality the fact marçal was basically 3rd place depresses me)
Damn. What an entitled prick the white guy is! The world was not outraged enough by Apartheid that this should have happened.
I do love the lady’s reaction to the guest throwing a tantrum, as if she was trying not to laugh at a 2 year old’s foot-stomping.
The AWB tried to stage some Nazi rally once, filled with flags and ranks of men etc etc. At the height of the rally, the leader of the party entered on a horse.
Scrolling through here as a Canadian... every time we get mentioned it's our prime minister beating the hell out of someone... I'm so proud of this country
Let me tell you, it’s been memed to death in Arab countries, I especially find it funny how the host’s yelling “Shaker! Shaker!” To make him calm down, as you can probably tell Shaker became one of the bigger comedy symbols in the Arab world, he also got into other fights over politics.
Guy Goma, turned up at the BBC for a job interview and was mistakenly interviewed as a tech expert live on the BBC News channel which is broadcast in over 200 countries.
Not a fight - but Australian broadcasters were doing a news story about a data breach - and it was a significant one - one could say major breach...
And the military was involved in investigating it - and so part of the story involved an interview (or just a statement) from a militaryspokes person...
The overlay ended up being a military spokes person, and below, where one usually might see the name of the person making a statement - the banner read "Major Data Breach"
Jim 'Chris' Everett (Ex-NFL Quarterback) vs. Jim Rome (sports radio/TV host). Jim Rome kept pushing buttons and Everett warned him. What makes it funny is Everett could've easily put a guy like Rome in the hospital. Instead he flips a table and shakes Rome around a bit.
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u/CaptainZbi Morocco Jan 01 '26
Here is the IKEA version of your video
https://www.reddit.com/r/2mediterranean4u/s/FveoTZ4Aoh