Name: Jimmy Carr Doesn't Think America is Collapsing Like the Roman Empire
Uploaded: 2023-10-07T17:42:31.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jimmy Carr Doesn't Think America is Collapsing Like the Roman Empire' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jimmy Carr Doesn't Think America is Collapsing Like the Roman Empire' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-07. Transcript available.

Imagine the research that could go into that with that budget and you go look
you're not gonna win the war on drugs you don't even like there's prisons high
security category a prisons and they've got drugs in them you can't even keep
the drugs out of there good luck with the borders yeah it's it strikes me as
like you go just admit you're not gonna win that fight right and what are we
gonna do in that best practice of going well that's going on in Portugal now
they've done a 15-year test case we know it works I mean Lisbon now have you
been
to Lisbon no you go to Lisbon yeah food is I mean let me the Portuguese it's
fabulous such a great city such a great city
Lisbon and Porto I mean I don't really know the rest of Portugal that well but
it's they're both phenomenal places to play gigs and they love stand-up comedy
it's just a crazy like that little country was like conquering the world at
one point in time sorry I'm from Great Britain hi hi
we had a great run wasn't I tell you what we used to own this mmm sort of crazy
yeah crazy right it is crazy it's crazy how empires rise and fall and that's
one
of the things that people are wondering currently about America if we're in the
last throes of a dying Empire here's my I got a hot take on this please I don't
think they do so I don't think the Roman Empire fell I think it became a church
I
think the so the Rome fell but the Roman Empire became the church where's all
the
money from the Roman Empire the Vatican in the basement of the Vatican is where
it
is yeah that's that's I don't think the British the Vatican yeah poof it's
incredible bizarre it's incredible the city within a city the wealth the the
sheer
wealth in art is overwhelming yeah like st. Peter's Basilica when I walked in
there I
my mouth was open the entire time I was there like you just can't believe the
amount of craftsmanship the architecture the art the painting well I mean if
you
think about culturally what happened every song every painting was about God
until
100 years ago and now every songs about love mmm I think they're talking about
the
same thing but that's me being another so Roman Empire became a church British
Empire
became a bank mmm so we gave our Empire back we said oh yeah sorry we don't
sorry
about that you can have that back we gave you know Saudi Arabia back and went
on
all these other places that we'd sort of we're taking the resources and then
they
had their own money and then we then we went oh well what are you what are you
doing
with that money because we've got this thing called the City of London what it
I
tell you what it's your money but we're gonna hold it what we've we'll have it
over here is that okay yeah fine great so we still got that thing of like and
culturally I think you know America is I mean America's extraordinary it's an
extraordinary place it's kind of based on this amazing premise it strikes me
that
America is it's better now objectively than it has ever been and subjectively
worse than it's ever been mmm so you go the the experience it seems bad but
objectively when you look at the metrics it's good so that's kind of Steven
Pinker thing but I mean subjectivity is important like people aren't people
feel
like there at war mm-hmm and actually this is the the land of milk and honey
but
you know it's it's and I think it's still got a bit of that thing of like the
you know Austin Texas maybe has it as much as anywhere it's it's it's
whispering you
know go and be yourself yeah the pursuit of happiness yeah still got that kind
of
that that dream well I'm always fascinated how people from other parts of the
world see it that's what's interesting when someone comes here and they just
like look around like I had the trigonometry guys here the other day oh
yeah yeah Francis and constant constantin and when we were here and we're
coming to
the club they're like mate this place is incredible like they're just the
freedom
that you guys have and the the wildness that's in the air like it's so it's so
intoxicating and exciting like this is something something's really happening
here well you know it's that it's a beacon it's always been a bit of a beacon
America because it's kind of founded on an idea and you know it's that it's it
the
devil's in the detail well I always think of the Statue of Liberty you've ever
seen
there's a thing in Paris in the the Musée d'Orsay there's the model they made
a
model of the because it was crowdfunded the the Statue of Liberty it was a gift
from the people of France to the people of America right kind of post-revolution
they thought that's a good idea yeah yeah we'll get them something nice we'll
get
them a nice statue so they funded it the French people gave money and the thing
when you see it when you see the model of the Statue of Liberty you realize
she's she's not just carrying a torch she's walking forward and she's moving
forward and it kind of changes it yeah yeah it's it's you know that they'll be
I
think there's potential for I mean I think America hasn't seen its finest days
yet I would I would hope that would hope as well I mean Britain has to find a
new
place in the world but you know the brexit and everything happened we need to
find you know its purpose like I think with people with nations with the world
it's
like finding purpose is very important yeah and what's the next you know
purpose
going to be how we're going to fit in what's our place going to be