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Never heard of this guy before seeing @alien_concept 's sift of him here. But I enjoyed that one enough that I did some searching out on the interwebs and unfortunately didn't find much. So did another search here and found your clip of him, thanks for the sift!

Never done this before and not certain that I have privileges, but in the interest of making this more available to anyone who may have missed it as I had, I'll try a *promote.

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Well, guess that didn't work. I tried!

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I'll do it when I have some more points Genius comic, love him!

*standup *downunder and you could take the long tag off it too, it's just under

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9:58 is not long.

Saw this guy at Nottingham Uni back in 2003/2004 along with that other Aussie who talks about shoving an egg up his butt and Alan Carr. This guy was the best of the night, he went on for about 25 minutes and had a great skit about eating home-grown shrooms in Amsterdam.

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Care to add Sweden to the tags as that is where the show is from and the subtitles too?

I do really like him, he has some great insights. BUT

He does do, in both the sifts here, the whole railing against not being able to smoke in public places thing.

Which shits me. I mean, doing the false comparison of invading Iraq and smoking is just silly... I know he's a comedian, on stage, being funny... but those bits always lose it for me while he goes on... Oh poor him not being able to smoke around other people and kill them off a bit while he's killing himself. I really rail against that attitude of smokers, it's not your right to smoke around me. You can smoke all you darn please away from those who don't smoke... go friggen nuts... just leave us out of it.

Still, he is otherwise very entertaining

@spoco2 I think he's contrasting the people's priorities for anger, not the actual acts themselves. Smoking and war aren't directly comparable, but what is comparable is the level of outrage people exhibit over smoking vs their own country's war/hegemony.

Damn funny comedian!!

@blankfist: Yeah, I do get that, but it's that thing I kinda dislike which is 'you may not get annoyed about anything else if you're not getting annoyed about this'. It's also a case of non-smokers are hardly bitching and moaning about it all the time, we just went and got smoking stopped in places where it has no place. No non-smoker wants cigarette smoke wafting over them while they eat a fine dinner, or are waiting for a train in an underground station, or standing in a lift.

Plus I was taking issue, as he did different stuff on the same topic in the other video about him not being able to smoke in places, so he has a real bee in his bonnet about it. It's perfectly reasonable (I think) for non smokers to not have smoke blown over us, forcing us to breath it. It's not the like ONLY effect is that we have smelly clothes (although I don't see why that should be forced on us either), it's killing us.

As a coffee drinker I do not spit a sample of my drink on people standing next to me do I?

@spoco2. If a private business wants to have a restaurant or bar for smokers, how do the nonsmokers have a right to ban that? Why can't nonsmokers choose not to patronize the establishment instead? Because nonsmokers have some bizarre sense of entitlement I don't get (and I don't smoke... anymore.).

Fine, nonsmokers don't have to have smoke blown in their faces when they're on an elevator or in a train depot. Perfectly reasonable. But now it's banned in all indoor businesses, even where people would choose to have it available such as bars or restaurants. How is that fair?

I wouldn't want smoke around me while I'm eating in a restaurant, so I would happily choose a place that didn't allow smokers to smoke inside. Why can't that be an option?

@blankfist Yeah, no, I do get that, and I do agree to a large extent.

I think one of the things that tipped it over in Australia was the health of the barstaff at bars actually, because they had to breathe it in night in night out.

It just doesn't work that way regarding "choice" between non-smoking and smoking establishments.

Out of laziness and/or a need to keep costs down, bars and some restaurants will just surrender to the constant bitching of the poor, poor little cancer stick junkies and everybody else will just have to put up with their shitty smoke, just like it was for decades before the non-smokers finally got sick of it and did something.

Not to mention the pressure that the smoking lobby can exert, with their billions of dollars in drug money.

I've never met a more selfish bunch of cry babies than cigarette smokers.

They won't think twice about blowing smoke in your face, but they'll cry like little bitches when somebody finally gets sick of their shit and does something about it.

@spoco2, what locations are acceptable smoking areas in Australia? Obviously people's homes and cars. But what about in public or private businesses?

Sweden Huh....The biggest laugh from the crowd was from The robber likes Hip-Hop comment. Does sweden have a alot of crime involving Hip-Hoppers?

@blankfist Hmm, I wonder if you knew this before you posted.... But

Well... ahem, there's a bit of nanny stateism going on now.

You are now not allowed to smoke in a car when children under 16 are present in NSW (one of our states).

And they are looking at banning it in apartment blocks (as is the case in a number of places in the States)... so that would be banning it within your own home.

While I'm disgusted when I see a parent with a small child in a pram or in their car smoking, I stop at thinking I have the right to stop them. I instantly think they're being a shitty parent for smoking around their young kid like that, but it's kinda their right to if that's how they see fit to raise their kid.

So... I think it's gone too far to ban smoking in your own car or public housing apartments...

@spoco2, I did not know. Thanks for explaining. Sounds extremely harsh and unfair.

They had commercials here in California a couple years back for some 'Smoke-Free California' committee, and it showed someone smoking in an apartment, and the smoke was thick and billowing up into the air ducts. The camera then took us just through the air duct (you know, like in the movies?), following the smoke, and ending up in another room where the smoke was nearly smothering a sleeping baby.

It was ridiculous. But there are people in the state of California who want smoke-free apartment buildings. To which I'd like to ask where people are supposed to smoke? Their answer would undoubtedly be, "who cares?"

That line "I don't mean to stereotype anyone but I've got a pretty good feeling you're into hiphop" is fucking brilliant. Absolutely love his material, thanks to @alien_concept for her post and this one's great too.

"This is one of the smartest comics I've heard. I love the delivery and keen observations. =]"

First line - 'Look at all these women, perfect height too.'

Aaaaaaand we're done.

@blankfist, we just banned smoking in bars and restaurants here in Michigan. The main argument for it that nobody seemed to refute was that it was to protect serving staff. You can't smoke on outdoor patios and such either, nor within 20ft of entrances. Smoking's been banned from public buildings here for years. As for trying to have smoke-free apartments...trying to stop people from doing things in their private home is ridiculous, even if it sucks for some kids/babies =\

Also, that bald guy they keep showing in the audience (example @3:42) is not amused. He must be Dutch

*gay for the hilarious parts from 7:33 on.

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