know. it s not about taking any joy in a tragedy but maybe pointing out other things that have to do with it i m not, you know, a i m not a kid who s acting out to get attention. you know what i mean? i just i talk about the stuff that s interesting to me. and maybe don t awed comedians want attention? yeah. why do you think i m here? to hang out with you? of course. why wouldn t you? no, you re a lot of fun. i d like to have your reputation, it s a good one. it s cool. wow, she s so cool, sarah silverman. i ll give you a tip you don t try to be cool. that s how i m cool. i think that with you, you want to be like, i m edgy, i m a king, i m blah, blah, but i think america more wants to root for you. you have to let down some guard and be a little vulnerable.
because the elephant was butchered, and people walked from 20 miles around to get a piece of that meat. so it was a very poverty-stricken area. i ll tell you what, those farmers were desperately appreciative. how much is your company worth, mr. parsons? how much is my company worth? you know what, what it s worth. give me a ballpark. huh? give me a ballpark. a ballpark? i don t know. i guess it s well into the maybe a billion, i would hope. you got a company worth billions. yet, you re there saying that you have to shoot elephants to protect poverty-stricken locals. why don t you just give them some money? i don t know that one has anything to do with the other. i mean, is it because, you know, we re now in this country, we have this bent that if you have money, you somehow are evil. but actually, i was there doing a very good thing. i was helping people that needed help, that are in a situation that the political politically, it s tenuous. there really aren t that
to me, i was sure that would be my deepest, darkest secret for the rest of my life. and, you know, when i became an adult and realized that it s fine, you know, it s funny, it informed probably being a comedian in a lot of ways can you be a successful, smart comedienne without having gone through a lot of crap in your life? probably not. no. i think that you have to maybe overcome or not overcome some sort of adversity. but you re also basically clinically depressed at the age of 14. you were taking buckets of xanax and all this kind of thing. very unhappy teenager, even by teenage standards. yeah. yeah. it came over me like a cloud. it was why? i don t know. because your family weren t it wasn t a misery scenario, was it? no. i mean yeah, no. there was divorce and blah, blah, blah, like anybody else was it the divorce, do you think? no. i don t know what it was.
are you serious? some tears, what do you want? i would love to make you cry. go on then. but only if it helped you ultimately. some sort of breakthrough. you re making me quite emotional already. oh, my god are you tearing up, i think. are you cracking into my tough british exterior, getting into my warm, cuddly heart. i m really understanding you, by the way. usually when british people talk, i hear doi, t o doi, doi, in one ear and the out the other. it s my own shallowness, and when i love law and order, and when i saw there was law and order u.k., i tivo d it, but i can t understand a word. i don t know what s going on. you do speak english you did get from us i didn t get it from you. but many years ago relatives somewhere maybe got it from you said it was our language to start with.
you have to shoot elephants to protect poverty-stricken locals. why don t you just give them some money? i don t know that one has anything to do with the other. i mean, is it because, you know, we re now in this country, we have this bent that if you have money, you somehow are evil. but actually, i was there doing a very good thing. i was helping people that needed help, that are in a situation that the political politically, it s tenuous. there really aren t that many relief organizations over there working. and, you know, this was something something these people needed. hey, their crops aren t harvested, they starve to death. will you carry on shooting elephants? excuse me? will you carry on shooting elephants then? well, i will not carry on shooting elephants. but what i will carry on is helping the farmers deal with problem elephants. and it s very different. mr. parsons, if you could wait one moment, i ll bring in dan mathews from peta. you heard what mr. parson