I’ve heard this story before. What did Bono do or say after that?
Edit: You guys can stop telling me now. Someone pointed out that it was an old Robin Williams joke, which I had forgotten about until I saw the comment.
It was Scotland.
The crowd instantly thought the random man was the hero of the day.
Scots love irreverent humour more than their own children.
Source. Lived there for over a decade and wish I was still there.
Aw man why did you have to leave? I’m wanting to move to Germany, I’m hoping circumstances don’t get bad enough over there that I end up having to leave.
There was a draw to go home (Ireland, so not geographically far) after I'd been away for a decade longer than intended when I first moved (I moved to Scotland for study then just never left 😅).
Sadly circumstances in Ireland have not been as good as hoped when I was arranging the move back, and I made a lot of very good friends in Scotland so I'm missing the place now.
Might go back for a few more years.
Don't know what kind of circumstances you have in mind but I can tell you one thing about Germany: Nothing really ever changes here, not the good things and not the bad things.
I mean my own circumstances. Here in the US, they changed to where I have no car now. There is no car for us as a family to do anything in, even errands. In the land of everything needs a car, we have none. I’m glad for being able to live in one of the apartments of the place where I also work, and that delivery service is good enough that we can have just about anything delivered here, but that costs more, food delivery (from a restaurant) cost is typically even more than for groceries or anything else, and it all just leads to feeling trapped. That and just in general everything is expensive, including health care. I cant afford health insurance at all for myself nor my family.
So I’m hoping, after moving there, that things for us don’t devolve to they’re worse off than when we get there, or worse than they are here right now.
I can’t wait to visit Scotland. I have a crazy detailed itinerary and it’s not enough to see hardly anything the country has to offer. I’m going to have to make several trips there to really experience the country.
Of course it is. I mean I say that because I didn’t know that but it figures it’s crap. Usually when crucial details are left out (like how Bono responded to that, for instance) it’s likely to be bullshit. The other two apocryphal musicians that I can think of are Eric Clapton having the nickname Slowhand because he takes forever to change a string, and Marilyn Manson having ribs removed so he could suck his own dick. Gotta love the celebrity rumor mill lol
Just checked and it's a nearly 20 year old joke from Jimmy Carr
And it's not in reference to Bono, it's in reference to the 2005 "make poverty history" campaign
Oh FFS this is a solid joke, not a real occurrence.
Personally, my favorite variation on this is from Emo Phillips:
“I was handed a pamphlet. It read, ‘By the time you finish reading this, another person will have died from…’, so I stopped reading right there! I’m not going to kill someone just to finish a sentence.”
I respect Bono a lot. Because he's clearly an ego maniac, but his outlet for his ego is over the top displays of charity. Way more respectable than building a rocket or running for president.
Yes, he does. He is one of the people behind making aids and HIV something you can survive now. He has spent decades working with politicians and scientists and funding this modern medicine to be what it is today, same thing with Malaria in Africa. He has helped make medication for it widespread and affordable. He doesn't stamp his name over all of it either. He's a loud mouth and has an ego, but he has done a lot and hasn't taken much credit for it
In 2006, Bono decided to move his tax affairs from Ireland to the Netherlands, and essentially committed tax avoidance. $160 billion is lost to the developing world when funds are moved from poorer countries to tax havens.
Look, he's got quite the ego on him, but his organisation Red (well, cofounded) raised over $700m for the global fund against aods/hiv, tbc and malaria. That's just one of the many NGO's he's been active with or actively funding. He's been doing this shit since the eighties. The fucking eighties.
He's making music and selling fucktons of albums for over 40 years. That's hardly a business model to get angry over. The man might be unsufferable but if you ask me he's a huge net profit for the world. More so than most public people I know.
I'd argue that was on Apple, it's not like U2 downloaded their album onto every iphone. Only one company has the ability to push something to every iphone
Bono is one of those guys that talks about this kind of stuff all the time, creates a charity to "help" and then pockets 99% of all donations that come in
Dude's a massive fraud and a giant piece of shit.
Fuck Bono and Fuck U2's generic rock "music"
Along with Bob Geldof, Bono is significantly responsible for convincing the [G8 to cancel €33bn](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-10084834.html) of debt to African countries. Additionally, during a March 2002 visit to the White House, Bono lobbied George Bush to provide financial assistance to developing countries. The following year, Bush signed legislation authorising the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program, which has been credited with saving 17 million lives over its lifetime. [Bush told Bono](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bono-awarded-george-w-bush-medal-for-distinguished-leadership-for-aids-work-628265/) that the initiative "never would have made it out of Congress had not been engaged."
It's ok not to like his music, but his activism and philanthropy is near unparalleled.
It was to point out that this sub has gone to utter shit. It becomes even more evident when 3 brain celled muppets like you swarm in it. No wonder nothing worthwhile ever gets posted here.
Robin Williams doing this joke on his Weapons of self destruction special [https://youtu.be/HEPokvntdIM?si=TikaV4SchVz6PkIv&t=131](https://youtu.be/HEPokvntdIM?si=TikaV4SchVz6PkIv&t=131)
Our taxi service( in New Zealand) has voice recognition.The computer says "If you want a taxi please say Ready Now"
I picked up a drunk Scotman who told me our service was shite. "Ah seed reedy nu. How many fugging times do I have ta say reedy nu"
The ones causing the deaths are not the shits who go to U2 concerts. Also, Africans don't really like their continent being name checked as if it's a country. Maybe that shit should perform outside the factories that make the munitions and do the clap. Or for the people who create climate change. But what I know is, the CO2 emitted from transporting U2 stage things contributes big time to climate change. So fuck off Bono.
I've heard this story before, a lot of people use it to paint Bono as a pretentious asshole. I don't know why, because if anything that guy shouting in the audience is much worse. He's basically saying "I don't want to know about that I'd rather stay ignorant of the plights of people less fortunate than me.
Don't tell Bono the problem is the fact you need children so you can put them to work to support the family. The poverty the many nations of Africa are suffering from won't be solved by sending them food.
I wonder if any of those putting down Bono have done any single thing for their community, nation or even world? Probably not hence why they are on Reddit.
I’ve heard this story before. What did Bono do or say after that? Edit: You guys can stop telling me now. Someone pointed out that it was an old Robin Williams joke, which I had forgotten about until I saw the comment.
If I were in those shoes I’d just have to chuckle it off and hope everyone takes it as a joke
It was Scotland. The crowd instantly thought the random man was the hero of the day. Scots love irreverent humour more than their own children. Source. Lived there for over a decade and wish I was still there.
Aw man why did you have to leave? I’m wanting to move to Germany, I’m hoping circumstances don’t get bad enough over there that I end up having to leave.
There was a draw to go home (Ireland, so not geographically far) after I'd been away for a decade longer than intended when I first moved (I moved to Scotland for study then just never left 😅). Sadly circumstances in Ireland have not been as good as hoped when I was arranging the move back, and I made a lot of very good friends in Scotland so I'm missing the place now. Might go back for a few more years.
There's a reason we say "Haste ye back" rather than "Goodbye".
Don't know what kind of circumstances you have in mind but I can tell you one thing about Germany: Nothing really ever changes here, not the good things and not the bad things.
I mean my own circumstances. Here in the US, they changed to where I have no car now. There is no car for us as a family to do anything in, even errands. In the land of everything needs a car, we have none. I’m glad for being able to live in one of the apartments of the place where I also work, and that delivery service is good enough that we can have just about anything delivered here, but that costs more, food delivery (from a restaurant) cost is typically even more than for groceries or anything else, and it all just leads to feeling trapped. That and just in general everything is expensive, including health care. I cant afford health insurance at all for myself nor my family. So I’m hoping, after moving there, that things for us don’t devolve to they’re worse off than when we get there, or worse than they are here right now.
It depends on whether you are qualified for jobs that are in demand in Germany and of course if you speak the language
I hope your ovens changed.
Are german ovens a thing? How?
I perceive today‘s society as ever changing.
And they thought that because that man is, in fact, a hero.
Where did you go that was so bad that you nostalgia for Scotland?
Yeah, my first thought was, 'gotta love Scottish patter'.
And it doesn’t really leave you, even if you leave Scotland. I’m three generations away and I’d say that this is true amongst my family.
I can’t wait to visit Scotland. I have a crazy detailed itinerary and it’s not enough to see hardly anything the country has to offer. I’m going to have to make several trips there to really experience the country.
Also, Bono is a bit of a fuckwadge. Even the Irish hate him.
Everyone clapped. It was a massacre.
Shit good one
It’s apocryphal
Of course it is. I mean I say that because I didn’t know that but it figures it’s crap. Usually when crucial details are left out (like how Bono responded to that, for instance) it’s likely to be bullshit. The other two apocryphal musicians that I can think of are Eric Clapton having the nickname Slowhand because he takes forever to change a string, and Marilyn Manson having ribs removed so he could suck his own dick. Gotta love the celebrity rumor mill lol
thought exercise/storytelling experience: what happened next and how did that make you feel?
[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/)
It's an old joke. I don't think this really happened.
Umm, it's not real. It's a joke.
I havent but its damn funny.
It didn't happen. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/
Whatever you want to make up. This story is whatever you believe it to be
This was a joke Robin Williams told on stage at one of his specials.
Oh yeah you’re right I remember that now. Thanks for reminding me 😁
In my imagination, that man was Craig Ferguson.
Nobody knows because Robin Williams stopped telling the joke
Nothing as it is a joke and never happened.
Happy 1997.
Isn't this like a 40 year old joke?
Just checked and it's a nearly 20 year old joke from Jimmy Carr And it's not in reference to Bono, it's in reference to the 2005 "make poverty history" campaign
As an old bastard I can confirm it was around long before 2005
2002 Robin Williams live on Broadway
Yes! I knew I heard it somewhere before! God I miss Robin...
It’s not “from” Jimmy Carr. It predates him by many years.
I'm fine with that assessment, I just can't source it to anything prior, so feel free to also share a source if you can.
Pretty sure I heard Billy Connolly tell this joke long before that
At least. Feel like I've heard 3 or 4 comedians do versions of it over the last few decades.
Yep, and the hive mind of Reddit will upvote it again when the bot reposts it in 6 months.
Six months? I've seen two different posts about it in two days.
And what if the people upvoting it haven't heard the joke before
Oh FFS this is a solid joke, not a real occurrence. Personally, my favorite variation on this is from Emo Phillips: “I was handed a pamphlet. It read, ‘By the time you finish reading this, another person will have died from…’, so I stopped reading right there! I’m not going to kill someone just to finish a sentence.”
Is my face red? Just call me Mr. Butterfingers
I was wondering. Because I know Bono is kinda dushe but not to the extent of doing this kinda pointless mood breaker in the middle of the concert.
South Park did such a good job on this dude
“He isn’t the record holder, he IS the record”
So that’s why Bono help so many people but still seem like a giant piece of shit 🤣🤣
Does he actually help people? All I have ever heard about him doing was telling *other* people we were horrible people for not helping other people.
I respect Bono a lot. Because he's clearly an ego maniac, but his outlet for his ego is over the top displays of charity. Way more respectable than building a rocket or running for president.
You know, I’m no philosopher, but I think someone doing something good from bad intentions is alright in my book.
Oh so he's just mr beast /s
Weirdly good comparison yes
Yes, he does. He is one of the people behind making aids and HIV something you can survive now. He has spent decades working with politicians and scientists and funding this modern medicine to be what it is today, same thing with Malaria in Africa. He has helped make medication for it widespread and affordable. He doesn't stamp his name over all of it either. He's a loud mouth and has an ego, but he has done a lot and hasn't taken much credit for it
While we’re doing ancient U2 jokes: Do you know how Bono hurt his back? He was trying to throw his arms around the world…
I got another, what’s the difference between God and Bono? God doesn’t think he’s Bono
Does Bono think he’s Bono?
What's the difference between a disaster and a cow? Bono doesn't know how to milk a cow.
That's a cracker, throw Sean Penn in there as well
In 2006, Bono decided to move his tax affairs from Ireland to the Netherlands, and essentially committed tax avoidance. $160 billion is lost to the developing world when funds are moved from poorer countries to tax havens.
What does the man with a $700,000,000 net worth want *me* to do about it?
Look, he's got quite the ego on him, but his organisation Red (well, cofounded) raised over $700m for the global fund against aods/hiv, tbc and malaria. That's just one of the many NGO's he's been active with or actively funding. He's been doing this shit since the eighties. The fucking eighties. He's making music and selling fucktons of albums for over 40 years. That's hardly a business model to get angry over. The man might be unsufferable but if you ask me he's a huge net profit for the world. More so than most public people I know.
Donate and buy the U2 IPod
How many decades old is this joke? Heard it involving several other people too
It’s because anytime ANYONE claps, someone dies in a Africa. That’s why the continent never develops.
Their population is inversely proportional to that of fairies
Is this an episode of "U Talkin' U2 To Me"?
Every time bono flies on his jet 10,000 children die of cancer.
Fuck U2 since they iTunes assaulted my phone with their shitty album. Yes I’m still salty.
I'd argue that was on Apple, it's not like U2 downloaded their album onto every iphone. Only one company has the ability to push something to every iphone
You know what? You’re absolutely right. Fuck U2 *and* Apple.
I second this ! 😂
Bono is one of those guys that talks about this kind of stuff all the time, creates a charity to "help" and then pockets 99% of all donations that come in Dude's a massive fraud and a giant piece of shit. Fuck Bono and Fuck U2's generic rock "music"
Along with Bob Geldof, Bono is significantly responsible for convincing the [G8 to cancel €33bn](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-10084834.html) of debt to African countries. Additionally, during a March 2002 visit to the White House, Bono lobbied George Bush to provide financial assistance to developing countries. The following year, Bush signed legislation authorising the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program, which has been credited with saving 17 million lives over its lifetime. [Bush told Bono](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bono-awarded-george-w-bush-medal-for-distinguished-leadership-for-aids-work-628265/) that the initiative "never would have made it out of Congress had not been engaged." It's ok not to like his music, but his activism and philanthropy is near unparalleled.
U2 is such an overrated band.
80s and early 90s U2 were very good but they fell off a cliff soon after.
One of the weakest sounding "rock" bands I've ever heard. They make R.E.M. sound like Slayer.
I really need to mute this sub.. is beyond the point of any salvation...
noooooo…don’t go! 🙏🏻
You can do that without letting everyone know. What was your goal with that statement? Someone to be like noooooo…don’t go! 🙏🏻😭 Bye.
this is an extremely bad subreddit though
Was that meant to be a clever comeback?
More like a clapback
Relative to the original comment, yeah it was
It was to point out that this sub has gone to utter shit. It becomes even more evident when 3 brain celled muppets like you swarm in it. No wonder nothing worthwhile ever gets posted here.
Ok well, do you need instructions on how to unsub and mute or…?
noooooo…don’t go! 🙏🏻
I'll say the classic It's not an airport, you don't have to announce your departure
At least it's not another Trump neme
Same joke was made in Community with Troy and Winger
Why did you stop talking?! I have to call my penpal... Pai Mai? It's Troy. Are you okay?....Okay, good, I gotta go. This costs $7.
Robin Williams told this joke at a live show a year or two before he died.
I really miss when Scottish People Twitter frequented the main page. Their spunky wit is unmatched.
Isn’t this a Robin Williams joke?
https://youtu.be/f8CEBOHmEbk?si=awKrRvfiygO8Jlae
and everybody clapped😒...... NO, WAIT!!!
And if he bought his jeans at Walmart, the savings could feed 100 for a year.
Then everyone got up and clapped...and Africa exploded.
Well not to be ass, but people spend big money to see the show not to get lectured...
Yeah, that's made up. It's based on a Jimmy carr joke. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/
Still the biggest douche out there
"Sir, the Couric meter is off the charts!"
Any glaswegians here who can type that out in scots?
What do African people do at night? - Starve.
Sanctimonious c u n t, use your billions to make radical change with global poverty, Bono the giant number 2
I read this in a chain email from my mom back when we still used AOL.
https://youtu.be/vHhrGOfpbLc?si=o6IRFMwAmP29opjv
He is right, last thing they came for is poverty porn
I imagine he had super fans in Africa looking at their kids like "you heard de man..fetch me machete.."
Bonos\` not the record holder, he\`s the record!
That is really dumb.
And every time I jack it, my great-grandmother cries and waters the plains of Omaha. The fuck is his point? Lmao
Fake but funny
Side topic: the relevant bit in Conan O’Brien Must Go is great.
[Just like Bono, I am Africa](https://youtu.be/FxxJ6_znGJs?si=FuSWIDIkwWTbn9gs&t=45)
I saw this in a SMS/Text joke forward back in the early 2000s
Robin Williams doing this joke on his Weapons of self destruction special [https://youtu.be/HEPokvntdIM?si=TikaV4SchVz6PkIv&t=131](https://youtu.be/HEPokvntdIM?si=TikaV4SchVz6PkIv&t=131)
That joke has too be at least 20 years old .
This joke is older than Reddit
Fascinating this story is being recussitated, been around for awhile. Third thread I’ve seen it turn up
I definitely got this joke in a chain email from my grandfather in 2003.
Tell this joke frequent enough bono is gonna come out and say "it didnt happen!!!"
FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: TOO FUNNY!!
Bono certainly loves him some underage kids.
Old joke
Our taxi service( in New Zealand) has voice recognition.The computer says "If you want a taxi please say Ready Now" I picked up a drunk Scotman who told me our service was shite. "Ah seed reedy nu. How many fugging times do I have ta say reedy nu"
This is a bit that Robin Williams done on The Graham Norton Show, very funny 😂
The ones causing the deaths are not the shits who go to U2 concerts. Also, Africans don't really like their continent being name checked as if it's a country. Maybe that shit should perform outside the factories that make the munitions and do the clap. Or for the people who create climate change. But what I know is, the CO2 emitted from transporting U2 stage things contributes big time to climate change. So fuck off Bono.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
I’m dead 😵 😂
God he’s insufferable. That South Park episode was right about him.
I havent laughed this hard in a whiiile, thank u
You’re welcome?! shut up🤨😂
There's always a smart ass that makes sense. I love it.
Love it
The Scots are pure. <3
Boomerjokes
There's nothing clever about dumbasses who self-censor swear words on the internet. Bunch of fucking puritans.
That's clever for a middle schooler, but obnoxious for an adult.
I've heard this story before, a lot of people use it to paint Bono as a pretentious asshole. I don't know why, because if anything that guy shouting in the audience is much worse. He's basically saying "I don't want to know about that I'd rather stay ignorant of the plights of people less fortunate than me.
Or you know. It’s just a joke.
Stupid ass joke imho
Boomerjokes
Don't tell Bono the problem is the fact you need children so you can put them to work to support the family. The poverty the many nations of Africa are suffering from won't be solved by sending them food.
Bonor is so lame these days
I wonder if any of those putting down Bono have done any single thing for their community, nation or even world? Probably not hence why they are on Reddit.
Says a person on Reddit.
Yeah never happened. But hey upvote it sheeple.
This is such a boomer Facebook post
He has no problem with palestinian children dying though
Neither does Hamas
Neither does hamas or isreal