Finding Out Idris Elba is British – Roy Wood Jr.: Imperfect Messenger
Finding Out Idris Elba is British – Roy Wood Jr.: Imperfect Messenger
Roy Wood Jr. describes what it feels like to learn certain Black actors are British (including Idris Elba) and remembers when Meghan Markle left the U.K. for America. (Contains strong language.)
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Roy Wood Jr.: Imperfect Messenger
Original airdate: October 29, 2021
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This guy isn't funny
Is this clown dumb enough to think than black Americans are indigenous? How does he think most of them got to the US in the first place? Maybe he should have turned up for history class when he was in school.
Idris Elba got us good, then you watch Snowfall and realize Damson Idris is an english actor. GOT ME GOOD AGAIN.
I am British and I was completely gobsmacked when Stringer Bell turned out to be born withing 10 miles of me and sounded just like me.
I, like many Brits, was cheering for Markle at first. But her relationship with her own family was strange, and she didn't understand the roles and responsibilities of being Royal. Then there were rumours about how she treated staff… one way or another, she quickly revealed herself to be self-serving and unclassy. When she did that awful interview with Oprah, that just ended it for me. And as for that hugely disrespectful mock curtsey — the poor Queen was owed better than that. Markle is a dreadful woman and a race grifter.
UK had a racial war at bamber bridge
Terrible. Anti-comedy to a point of no conclusion.
This man has some hangups.
That's right make every thing about fucking race
When you're as rich as Oprah is, racism is no longer a problem you have. Racism is the poor people's problem that helps keep poor people poor. Oprah is long past feeling that. She's joined the problem.
Idris is a Londoner through and through, you should check out the Battle of Bamber Bridge to understand a big difference between England and US. As for Meghan Markle , the British people had no issues with Harry marrying an american or a black person – it was her character that was her undoing.
funny
You didn't know Idris is British? Wait till you find out that Schwarzenegger is Austrian. And white!
Imma Brit. He ain't lying.
England really wasn't racist to megan. The media tried to stir up race hate to sell newspapers and unfortunately we had one or two tossers like Piers Morgan talking like he represented the public view.
Meghan now being a Princess of England, I'm not sure she needs so much help from Oprah.
However she DOES suffer a lot from racism, that's a fact.
French here btw, thus, sorry for calling Meghan a "Princess of England". I'm sure my dear cousins from the other side of the Channel (the French one) would pinpoint that "technically she doesn't have the title of…". Who cares? Not me, I'm French. We judge other countries not for having a potential future Black Queen, but for letting any kind of Queen with her head.
The reason the Brits didn’t like Meghan Markle is because they are an astute judge of character. You know, that thing you are supposed to judge people on. Well, she couldn’t understand that no one liked her rictus grin, behind the scenes b*tchiness and uncontrolled desire for power so she decided that it must be down to r*cism. And boy did she shout that lie from the rooftops.
Why you have to think someone is in pain and struggle just because they are black!?
When did we run Meghan Markleout? I thought she got bored and fucked off of her own accord!
We weren't racist to Megan, she was just a see you next tuesday so we didn't want her.
Roy wood-you're hilarious…not!
Why is he talking about race? Can't he just compliment Elba for his acting ability? Not funny!
Markle is hated because she a liar and a bully and took Harry with her anything else is in her head only she was loved over here until she started misbehaving
Basically the person is admitting he's hardly seen any of elba's work and is with the beans comment?
Also, why is the first thing he thinks about when it comes to learning about people from another country is racism?
This person is terrible, both as a comic and as a person.
A DNA test would show he’s not
As a Brit luckily I knew Idris was British before I watched The Wire. I'd seen him in a soap Family Affairs. He needs to hurry if gonna be Bond.
What the Royal Family and our right wing media did to Meghan was a disgrace. After this then Andrew I'm definitely in favour of the dissolution of the Monarchy. Unfortunately many fall for these headlines.
No way this bloke is the son of Roy Wood, the genius songwriter behind The Move, Wizzard and (early) Electric Light Orchestra..
The history of British racism casts a long, dark shadow. As a capitalist, imperialist state, it has always been and remains deeply racist. Brute unrelenting force, have been employed very successfully by the rulers of the British Empire, over generations, in order to maintain their dominion over billions of colonized people and their descendants, both within the country and outside it. Racism in Britain can also be very subtle, hidden and more phycological-gaslighting with micro aggression. For Idris Elba to be such a star took strength of character and God`s blessing.
The British media belittled and ran Magen Markle image & character into the ground whenever she was out doing good. All the while praising Markle white sister in-law Duchess of Cambridge Princess Kate Middleton for doing the very same things as Markle. The moment the royal couple first child was born, images circulated online of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: "Royal Baby leaves hospital".
Sadly the Royal couple couldn't stand the constant racism from the media/press, nor what was going on behind closed doors at the royal palace-they just didn't handle the insidious behaviour properly-its not wise to do your family dirty laundry in public.
Article outlining the media/press double standards…..
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-double-standards-royal
Megan is an entitled American who didn't understand the culture. We all wanted her to stay and change the Royals…
She dealt with no racism in the UK thats just a blatant lie
Funny, but like others have said our hatred for Meghan came about from the person she turned out to be and not the colour she is.
He is awesome in The Wire!
He look like the cop that say “SHIDDDDDDDD”
I know plenty about you.
I promise you, our dislike of Meghan has nothing to do with racism.
She's just a very unlikeable gold digger and us Brits sniffed her out immediately.
Does racism exist here? Yes, if course, but we really don't focus that much on race, certainly not the way you do in the US. Although we are being infected with it, slowly.
His attempt at an English accent was more like a Jamaican 😂
I always thought he was Welsh, because 'Idris' is a Welsh name 🤷
Great sketch, very funny, but regarding Megan Markle….She's just a gold digger pure and simple, a "Grifter" as Americans would say. That's what the Royal family spotted in her, that's what we all saw in her…..and Harry is just a chump who's being used.
watched the whole thing and black comedy is still all about fake racism, cry cry cry nothing but cry
Meghan Markle doesn't get on with Anyone!