Name: Shane Gillis on the Revolutionary War
Uploaded: 2023-03-17T18:08:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Shane Gillis on the Revolutionary War' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Shane Gillis on the Revolutionary War' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-17. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience you have such a
Knowledge of history and you're so interested in so many different things that
like it it layers
Your comedy in a really cool way. Thanks. It's good. It's like like that George
Washington thing
I don't want to say anything because it's so good. Yeah, I don't want to sound
I don't want to fuck it up
But it's so good. I love that bit and it's but it's also historically accurate.
It's fucking fun
It's fun because it's like it's it's engaging me and it's entertaining me. Yeah,
I guess engaging me
It's interesting. I always and it's also very funny
I was it never worked and I remember it in Lancaster Pennsylvania where like
one of the open mics where I started Amish country
There was a joke
I always used to try and my the guy who was running the mic would always be
like dude do it do the Civil War joke
It never worked. It was just about dudes
walking
To shoot each other like you had to walk. It was something about like you know
how racist you had to be to like
Be in the south and wake up one day. I mean like wait. They freed who?
What the fuck I'm going up there and then walking
Walking the whole way you had to sleep at night and wake up and go like son of
a bitch
And they walked from Alabama to Maryland you got shot in the head right away
Who had that great joke about that?
You know where they'll tell you the Civil War wasn't about slavery. It was
about economics
Like yeah, you didn't want to pay the help
Yeah, yeah, whose joke is that? I don't know somebody has that joke
I don't know people try to act like the Civil War was it Bill Maher maybe it
might be Bill Maher
It's someone good, but I what I always wanted to do a joke about a
Because they the brigade like your company whatever your group was because they're
all from the same town
Yeah, so they would your division or fucking your brigade would be from your
town
All right, so you never left your town so you were your brigade back then was
Everybody you grew up with every dude your son your brother your uncle and your
dad. You're all fucking together
Mmm, and you you're marching shoulder to shoulder and you watch your fucking
dad get his head ripped off by a cannonball
You just got to keep being like oh
Oh, yeah, yeah, you knew you knew dad get head you knew who was getting shot.
Oh my god. Yeah, dude
Yeah, can you fuck I don't know why that's fun. I imagine
Yeah, how about the trench warfare of World War one started in Civil War
Siege of Vicksburg, I think that's when they started trying to start it. Yeah,
they say the Civil War in America was like the first modern war
This is the revolutionary dudes just get so horrible
Look at this walking towards each other like the stupidest way to do it ever
can you imagine that people did this for some?
Oh
Oh God
Hit in the face with a cannonball now, that's that the Patriots roughly based
off of I think his name is Francis Marion the swamp Fox
And he was a he was kind of an originator of guerrilla warfare
Because they were like we can't we can't stand and fight the British God we
have to shoot them and run
Which is pretty funny
How crazy the British just gonna come over here and start marching you know, we're
gonna walk right a big white stripe on your chest red jackets
It's a hundred percent a target. Yeah red and white is what you use for archery
targets
Once rifling took over they had to be like I we gotta switch our uniforms
Isn't that amazing though that that was that you had to think of how much the
British army conquered in the world everybody everybody and
Imagine that their decision to fight was this way
Like how how did you get from?
Like the Mongols to that
How does that happen in a thousand years? I guess the Mongols had all these
crazy tactics
They would they would starve people out lock them in their cities. Yeah, they
would wait them out slowly
You get artillery and guns you can just especially think that's this is crazy.
That's just running it down your throat, dude
It's like we're gonna walk at you, but I
Just can't imagine that someone wouldn't say hey isn't there a fucking better
way to fight these people
Yeah, what are we doing get behind a tree and then shoot them? I can't even
watch this dude. I can't believe people did that
That's what's it's so crazy. It's like how did they survive to become that
silly?
Like that's a silly way to fight a war, right? So how did they survive with
those strategies?
How were they dominant with those strategies? They're the only ones with well
most of them are colonies
Where the other guys are they have fucking cow hide shields and spears like the
Zulu and so they were the only ones
Muskets fucking guns you just yeah, you're gonna win
You're the only ones with guns with so the British were the only ones with gun
Well, when it came to like their colonies on a in a land war they would lose a
lot to like France Prussia
Those like major continental powers, but England always had a Navy
They always dominated through naval warfare and then
They had to team up with everyone to stop Napoleon did once they started
shooting cannonballs off boats
That's a problem. That must have been a game-changer
They start doing that when they start doing cannonballs from boats because that's
bro. That is a mother fucker
Yeah, you got a cannon on a boat
Shooting people without cannons boom
Yeah, you just do this all day
How many times that they have to shoot that cannon before they've figured out
how hard they have to bolt it into the floor a
lot
Shot out the other side of the boat you've got a floating
Yeah, wouldn't thing with this giant iron tube on it that has explosions go off
on and just for
poor guys from Manchester
Operating it