Garrett Millerick On The Many Definitions Of The Word “Barbecue” | CONAN on TBS

It was very funny, in fact, and he's a great storyteller.

@@leohong5845 I don't think he was nervous, or showed that, it was an underwhelming response from the audience for the quality of joke. They clearly didn't appreciate it as they should. But I think he was bold and didn't care. I know some of the references and his tone were very English and can go past US audience.

Funny?? u kidding me??? this was the worst set i have ever seen. Did not laugh once. not a smile, not a chuckle, not a ha ha, NOTHING. his material was so boring. No one laughed cuz it was NOT funny. how did this guy even get on tv?? wow.

@@claude878878 mate you’re not funny

And he owns it!

This was a funnier joke then what he just did on stage, I thought you where quoting him when I started the video. Not making up better jokes in the comments section.

Now that's a party.

Lol yes that's actually funnier :)

How was it? Hopefully, the charcoal wasn't to hot.

But is the occasion for everyone to gather at someone's backyard called barbeque where the food consumed is called barbeque and the appliance that the said food is cooked on is called barbeque?

@@joshuaychung hmmm Well it's not implicitly said but we go to the shaokao qu (designated bbq areas in parks) to eat shaokao cooked on shaokao jie (grill). But only an idiot would ask what is going on while the whole thing goes down ya know. It's just bbq. That being said, the bit was fine. I think it was meant as just a culture clash. But that doesn't mean I didn't like his jokes. I'm generally toneless but lived in China for 8 years so that bit was quite funny to me.

The occasion would be called a shaokao 'party', which is a relatively unfamiliar concept in China. The food cooked at this 'party' would be called shaokao, which is a familiar concept but totally different from what Westerners understand as 'barbecue' (Chinese style BBQ is usually a late night, unlicensed snack food setup on a street corner, food is cut into bite size chunks and skewered on bamboo sticks, and cumin appears to the only seasoning they know of). Finally, the device on which it is cooked on would be a shaokao 'oven/stove' and uses a very different design since it is designed to mass cook skewers (shallow coal pit, much longer than it is wide, usually man portable because it is a fly by night operation)
Thay being said, the western concept of a BBQ, and the accompanying pfood style and paraphernalia, is becoming more popular but certainly not to the level of the US where it is practically secular religion 😂

@@rogermu1859 true its not the same as in America where its meat and burgers and stuff but it depends on where you are. In the big cities you'd get a variety of stuff in bbq restaurants like most meats(on sticks including chicken on a cross which we called christ chicken) and seafood (especially bbq oysters yum). But yeah spices are sort of limited.. Usually garlic cumin chilies. It's more of a drinking snack than a social event for the chinese. For students, including us foreigners, bbq joints around the University campus were our social gathering events where you meet new friends, pick up chicks and get pissed drunk before going clubbing. Ah good times.

He would make a terrific Beijinger?

There are Chinese gingers and blondes in west China.
The more you know 🌈

@@armwrestlingfan6804 Many of them are in re-education camps too.

@@AviChetriArtwork Ex-communist countries had a tendency to try and eradicate religion so you can only serve the state. Guess they bringing that part back

...barbecue.

He learned just to do this bit 😅

Way funnier than James Corden; I was reminded of Bill Bailey at several points :D

What are you referring to exactly?

Half way through he had to explain why the crux of his joke was funny to the audience, and continue his bit. The mono tone joke was a bomb, and he wrote the next three minutes about this bombing monotone joke. He had to speak mandarin where no one understood him and the main point of him speaking mandarin in a monotone voice has already been established as not funny. If he had other material he should of switched it up once the monotone joke flopped, this gave me flash backs to the Star Wars Christmas special with a bunch of Wookies yelling "whumpfh" for ten minutes.

@@NoalFarstrider It's a meta joke. The joke was in explaining the joke. It's also an example of "white face comedy" (as explained by Eric Idle on a recent classic upload to this very channel), which British comedians excel at. It didn't work for you, which is fine, but I believe it was planned.

@@PercyPumpkinheart it seemed to me that Monotone joke was the transition to the next few minutes of his bit and it flopped, he then had to explain it to the audience because the next bit was all about his friend saying "barbecue" but with mandarin in a monotone accent. Which was a long walk to get to a "white people are crazy" punchline... Just my opinion though.

@@PercyPumpkinheart Eric idle speaking about comedy sounds interesting, cheers for mentioning that, otherwise it wouldn't have occurred to me to ever Google it.

this was more than painful. Worst set i have ever seen in my life. Those are 5 min i will never get back.

Terrible atmosphere in the studio. I've seen him do this joke in a small comedy club and everyone was loving it.

Explaining the joke was part of his routine..
Big r/wooosh to you, sir.

** whatever you say champ

I'm not claiming this guy is doing amazing work here, but you clearly aren't familiar with the UK comedy scene. In the same way that many westerners unused to 1/4 note spacing find such music strange, it doesn't make it so. I don't get jazz, I don't like any of it, yet I acknowledge some jazz musicians are highly skilled. See where I'm going with this?

Liam Hughes not at all. the enjoyment of music can be quite different from the enjoyment of comedy. you have to laugh at a joke for it to work. i suggest you watch the video again and see how poorly the audience responded. it was a bad joke, uk humour or not.

Curious in what way you see them as similar-other than Jim's pot on weight recently? I don't watch his show regularly so assume I've missed something relevant

I'm European, I got the joke, still didn't find it funny. I just felt a small case of "aah, I just got something borderline intelligent, nice".

@@Evija3000 same

Well said.

George is the best. By a landslide

OK boomer. So based on this one clip, you're right. Google Anthony Jesselnick, now you're wrong.

As opposed to ...?

@@jackdavids2723 Female comedians.
P.s. It's somewhat of a joke. I don't actually mean that, but that's the kind of comments you'd get under a similar female comedian.

Arson Bjork go watch dumb comedy Amy Schumer perhaps

By far, the worst set i have ever seen on a late night show. HORRIBLE SET.. not even once i laughed.