Recently I interviewed UK YouTube star Daniel Bostock.
Joshua – You’re one of my favourite YouTube stars. I love that you use humour to mock and parody those who would seek to silence us. I feel comedy is a very powerful weapon in today’s battle to maintain our liberties to mock, critique, comment on and scorn individuals and ideologies that would seek to limit our vocabularies. What drove you to steer your comedy in the direction of politics and other current social issues? Was it any one thing in particular, because you really do seem to have found your niche?
Daniel – Thanks for the nice comments, it means a lot and makes it all worthwhile. I’ve always loved history and I feel a deep gratitude to those who came before us, those men and women who, against all odds, managed to carve out a somewhat free society for us while being slaughtered and sacrificing themselves in the process. I’ve always felt a duty to carry on that march towards liberty and justice in order that future generations can have the same rights and freedoms I have so far enjoyed. Initially, I started out making videos that would help people fight unfair parking tickets. Then I noticed larger social issues that needed to be addressed, and I felt I was able to tackle them with comedy. I had a lot of success educating people on how best to fight having been given unfair parking tickets, and it’s my hope I can be equally successful speaking out against Islam. It wasn’t until people told me I was funny that I embraced my inner idiot and ran with it in relation to Islam and other social matters. I was very happy to make a fool of myself along the way, and parody and comedy seem to be better venues to get my message across to people. You can watch my videos and laugh, but you will also be aware that there is very serious message behind each one.
Joshua – What, if any, abuse do you suffer on the street? Although your parodies are very well thought out and impactful, it’d be hard to imagine someone being enraged by you since you do it all with such good humour, and I imagine even the most devout of Muslims or far-left idiots would be able to keep a straight face for long having watched one of your sketches. You’re unlike the political left-leaning comedians who are all very one-note and not at all funny, and who are in reality quite spiteful. You are absolutely hysterical and not at all mean-spirited.
Daniel – As of yet I haven’t received any abuse on the streets or at work. The abuse usually comes from online social media platforms, and even then it’s only very occasionally, perhaps one comment out of one hundred. This can be quite annoying because it seems like I’m preaching to the choir. I would love to get some hatred or any kind of vitriolic feedback. I’m interested in hearing the views of a multitude of people, both good and bad. The only real backlash I get is from my mum and my wife. My mum worries for my physical safety, and my wife simply gets annoyed. What makes it worse is that most of my wife’s friends watch and love my stuff, so she doesn’t stop hearing about it, and she isn’t political in the slightest. And you’re right, I haven’t got a mean bone in my body, for the best part of 15 years I was a full-on new-age hippy, meditating, always contemplating the universe and all that type of thing. It makes you realise how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things, but at the same time how incredibly important life is on earth, and the human journey, which is the pinnacle of achievement in the universe. Humans are a miracle that are formed from a miracle in my opinion. We matter. Society and culture are the launching-pad for human beings to blast off into space and colonize it.
Joshua – Your new video Living Next Door to Ali is causing more than a few people to feel inflamed. If you were living in the USA, you’d have CAIR hitting you with a lawsuit. Do you expect there to be any legal ramifications for you having made that video in the UK? I meanm you could easily have made it about living next door to a white chav (poor and uneducated white youth) on a council estate with the rave music blaring all night, and no one would have batted an eye-lid. But you chose to make the video about Islam, and you rightly include aspects of Islamic culture that Islam is becoming noted for, particularly with the rise of social media allowing us access into other cultures’ ways of life — stoning women, child brides, suicide bombing, FGM, beheadings, etc. And because of this, people are creating a fuss, because truth is the new hate speech.
Daniel – Whenever I worry about punishment for my speech, I instantly think back to the horrors my ancestors went through to get me to this point, and my worries quickly evaporate. I feel pathetic for worrying about the consequences of my videos, but it’s hard not to worry about my family members who would be distressed if I ever did get hauled in by the cops for “wrongthink.” The spread of Islam in Britain is something that I and many others worry about, because it’s an ideology that is clearly incompatible with the enlightenment values and ideas that our somewhat free society is built upon. So mocking and laughing at it, in my view, is necessary. This is how bad ideas have always been treated in England, because the alternative isn’t pretty. The song is about a person (an extremist) who holds radical and extreme views, and although Ali is probably the exception to the rule, there are many Alis out there who should be mocked and laughed at. I simply channel it all through music and verse. We can all call Ali a degenerate piece of filth and get angry, but there’s nothing more effective than laughter in the face of bad ideas. The chav next door would be funny because it’s okay to laugh at chavs, that isn’t a taboo subject. If you aren’t controversial, you aren’t gonna change the world.
Joshua – I notice you’ve moved your social media platform from YouTube. Is this because you were being demonetized or censored? Have you experienced any other form of censorship in your life due to your religious and political views? Have the left tried the usual tactics of calling up your work or your kids’ school (if you have any) or children’s services, in order to have you investigated as a racist and an abusive father?
Daniel – I moved from YouTube to other platforms because YouTube deleted some of my videos under false copyright claims, and to begin with, I didn’t realise that parody came under fair use, so I accepted the claims. I laid low on YouTube until my strikes had gone, but I am now uploading there again.
Joshua – What are your plans for the future? Do you intend on performing at some of these Free Tommy rallies, and can you give us a hint as to what we can next expect from you? Do you have a song or an issue in mind that you’re ready to tackle?
Daniel – I was asked to perform several times at Tommy’s events, but I didn’t feel ready. I’m planning on getting a 15-minute set together with some songs and jokes for future events. I’ve been in rock bands, and was a DJ for about 10 years, traveling the lengths of the country every weekend. I won the 2004 UK beatbox championships too, so performing has always been my thing. Sod knows where all this is gonna go, I’ve never been good at sticking to one thing, and I find myself moving on to different projects all the time. But as of now, Islam has my attention.
Emilie Green says
Islam and Muslim practices – the mother lode of humor
Terry Gain says
I have been looking forward to this day for 15 years. Great stuff.
esther says
Khaybar, Khaybar YA YAHUD. ——–in honor of the HOLY MARTYRS OF KHAYBAR —the comprehensive genocide of the noble jewish population of KHAYBAR—–I hereby declare–
-upon the same day as the HOLY EVENT of Jerusalem day——BACK TO KHAYBAR DAY.
Prepare, Bnai Yisrael—–PREPARE TO RETURN TO KHAYBAR AND YATHRIB to reclaim
OUR LAND
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Esther
, read history, evil Jews were just settlers in Arabian peninsula and as such they cannot lay over it. The scums of evils !!
Eur says
Can you provide those historical sources? Religious people are prone to mix mythology with history. Hundreds of years ago in Europe the church did not allow to doubt the biblical passages as historical facts. It has been a long way to separate religion from science and history. However Muslims today refer to Hadiths and Quran as reliable historical sources … it is ridiculous. Faith is one thing and history is another. Even non-religious written sources should always be questioned and supported by other sources (mainly archeology). Religion is a compendium of legends, many of them without foundation. Do you really believe that a man named Mohamed heard from Allah? Do you really think he flew in a kind of winged donkey? The same thing I can tell you about Jesus and his walks over the water, healing the blind, resuscitating Lazarus … How old are you? Five? Superman, Spiderman, Thor … Allah … they DO NOT EXIST.
KJW says
The Jews in Arabia (Medina) were Arabians who converted and Semitic brothers. They were in Medina before Muhammad exiled and slaughtered them. Have you no guilt? I say they lay claim to Medina as Palestinians complain. The Arab Christians were Arabian too. Jews could spruce up the place. The Saudis oddly destroyed a bunch of Islamic historical sites yet Israel maintains everybody’s.
eduardo odraude says
Have been checking out Daniel Bostock’s videos on youtube. He does amusing spoofs and parodies.
Mockingjay says
His anti-fa parody is SO good … and the tune he chose for it briljant –
`Girls who are boys and the boys who are girls…`
Bloody hilarious!
Wellington says
Yes, Islam may very well be mocked out of existence more so than by any other route. At the very least, mocking evil is the next best thing to crushing it by force. Perhaps Islam being mocked, and it is so deserving of being mocked and one knows this or should know it, will actually win “first place” for its eventual assignment to the fringes of human society. Verdict still out on this one.
But mock away at Mo, Mein Qurampf, all the silly imams and ayatollahs out there, the many idiocies and monstrosities to be found in the hadiths and sira, and, as well, all the other fools who believe in, or those dhimmis who defend (e.g., Pope Francis), the nonsense Islam propounds. No downside for humanity in the long run taking this route, but short term, of course, matters could be very bloody and totalitarian-like because Islam will not go quietly into the night, courtesy of Mo followers and dhimmi defenders aplenty of Mo followers. The sin upon both groups for this for eternity.
gravenimage says
+1
Terry Gain says
Mocking is part of a Cold War and a Cold War is much preferable to a hot war.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Muslims are waging a hot war against us, as well.
Logic&Reason says
Islam wages a hot war against a hint of dissent.
Good luck to Daniel.
A brave man.
gravenimage says
YouTube star Daniel Bostock: Islam must be mocked
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Yes! Islam should be mocked mercilessly, just as Fascism was! Good for Daniel Bostock.
IanB says
+1
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ít is filthy mithraist christianity which shall be mocked because it is too barbaric inspired by ugly satan god (holy spirit) with funny doctrines líke Godman and begotten son of God
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Esther, jews were just settlers in Arabian peninsula and as such they cannot claim. They must pull out of palestinian land, which they claimed thé Satan in yahweh seized from the original inhabitants and donated It to them. Thé scums of evils !!
IanB says
On all available evidence the “scums of evils” are uniquely Islamic.
Peter A says
I had never heard of this guy, I’m off to youtube to check him out!
MFritz says
Alas, mockery does not work against violence.
Simone says
Thanks so much for drawing my attention to Daniel Bostock. It has given me a much needed laugh. He’s a genius. I’m hooked now!
IanB says
This is fabulous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr30MKH1OiA
I’m now a fan of Daniel Bostock thanks to Jihadwatch!
FYI says
And please feel free to mock the dhimmiwit Christians and Rabbis too…
A Swiftian disdain for “holy men” is perfectly ok.
Like pope francis telling us there is no such thing as islamic terrorism..(of course,being a Globalista,he is also recorded as saying we should embrace the NWO..)
Remember Comical Ali of the Iraq War fame?The denial of reality by some people in the face of overwhelming evidence is simply hilarious.
James says
Mockery and comedy does work, the left has known this for ages and uses it to further their political causes each and every night. The masses are far more likely to hear what the funny guy said rather than the angry political talkshow commentator. And when the comedian says something too offensive he/she can always say ” awh shucks, it was just a joke”.
kevin king says
Excellent parodies, the Ali song is really good. But if you start promoting yourself you’re going to need protection 24/7 in the UK. Part of me hopes you do, but that’s easy for me to say just typing this comment. You’re very brave, whatever you decide to do. Good luck.