Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way | TED

Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.

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[ManGood]

I forced a bot to watch 1, 000 hours of ted talks, this is what it came up with

[GameGeek]

He sounds like me trying to reach a word minimum on an essay.

[zorken]

This man has given us the meaning of life. But we can't translate it yet.

[itssherm]

nobody here knows what they just watched but we’re all in agreement that it’s incredible

[scrs]

This is what dogs hear when you bark at them

[K-bbbc]

This is like when you have a dream and someone in the dream says something really cool, so when you wake up you try to write it down word for word and it turns out to be something like "Spider Lighter Lumber Lloyd"

If you ever feel useless, remember that someone made subtitles for this

[Zonday]

He detailed on a podcast years later that this entire performance was improvised on the spot

[johnwayne]

He literally roasts everyone who has ever done a TED talk while capturing the essence of the entire thing while speaking nonsense

[godofspacetime]

Actually saying nothing is a lot harder than you’d think.

[officialtibby]

my guy sounds like someone put a bunch of ted talks into an AI and told it to write one

[snowghost]

This man just deconstructed language, musical tropes, and the experience of being conscious all in 10 minutes.

[premium-_-salt]

10 min where someone has the opportunity to be absolutely insane in front of an audience without being committed to an asylum.

[maxmordon]

A better title would be:

From Hegel To Zizek: An Introduction To Postmodern Sublime Thinking Patterns (by Dr. Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts).

[RaoniLima]

This is not called talent, he is simply in a completely different plane, light years ahead than the rest of us. We're privileged to witness him performing for us, mere mortals.

[lokevoice]

The French he was speaking at the start was utter jibberish as well. This guy is brilliant I love him

[Professicchio]

Nothing better than a TED talk that completely takes the piss out of the whole 'TED talk'

[innapinch]

"there is no passage of time, other than the sensation of the collapsation of the memories we are living in".

I had to pause to mull that one over. It's really good.

[christian]

This is Reggie's masterpiece. All the pieces fit together so perfectly.

[bakerygoblin]

"A genius is just a crazy person with an audience"
Tim Minchin