Queen Elizabeth's funeral, along with her coffin, has been making its
way through the United Kingdom and an elaborate week long procession.
Now, there were some Brits who were a little too excited
about seeing the dead queen's wooden box.
I'm not even kidding, it's not an open casket,
all they see is a wooden casket, and here's an insane couple.
Sorry, I know maybe it's unfair to say this, but
listen to what they have to say and you tell me.
>> Sarah and Mark, who were, if not the last people,
very much the last people- >> Yeah, we were.
>> In the queue last night, what was that like?
>> Amazing, I think it's the best thing I've ever done in my life,
even having my my children, Lily and Luca- >> [LAUGH]
>> I think this tops that.
>> You gotta get out more, lady, I love you.
Respect, respect, it was an exciting, thrilling moment for you, but
you gotta live more, and don't say that about your kids.
It's okay to feel it, I get it, I totally get it, right, but
maybe don't say it on camera.
Looking out for you, looking out for Luca and the other one.
>> Yeah, well look, I'm gonna get dark for a quick second.
This is the problem with our society, that people would rather
see dead celebrities than alive human beings that are in their actual life.
And so, apparently seeing that casket of a dead person was amazing,
and the best experience over entire life, we're hooked on fame,
the entire planet is so addicted and we can't kick it.
And I'll go a little darker, all of this pomp and circumstance around
the queen's death, remember, she was one of the most powerful people on earth.
Even after having lost all of her power,
even though it's mainly a ceremonial role, she still has a billion dollars.
Parliament still listens to her to some degree, she has some powers, and
all these people worship her.
But you know what another name for monarch is?
Dictator.
I know it's uncomfortable, but it's a stone cold fact, right?
And so, as people are like, my God, that was our beloved dictator,
the powerful or the best, it's like powerful people in media
getting powerless people to cheer on other powerful people.
Okay, sorry about humbug.
>> I'm gonna say something even darker.
I can't think of some situations in which looking at
a casket carrying the dead body of a public figure or
celebrity would be very exciting for me, but for other reasons.
Let's move on.
So, Mika Brzezinski got pretty emotional while viewing
the ceremony, and so let's take a look at that.
>> One could say the big picture for Queen Elizabeth was the small picture,
seeing where peace needed to be made,
seeing where validation need to be had Katty Kay.
After the death of Diana, her facing the cameras and saying what she said.
It goes back to the small picture that Ed Luce was talking about,
is make sure that people are happy.
And you just wonder, how this will work with Charles.
>> I mean, there's a lot happening in the country to get emotional about.
I don't criticize anyone who works in news, who has a moment where
they can't contain themselves, I've had it happen to me.
But it's usually because there's pain and suffering in the world, and it's
overwhelming, and it's hard to contain your emotions when talking, I don't know.
Maybe I'm being unfair for being so harsh toward Mika Brzezinski for
getting emotional about this.
But, the woman was 96 years old, she was queen for 70 years.
She lived a very full life.
Everything's gonna be alright.
>> Yeah, look, we do a nuanced show on this program.
So we're not gonna appease people on any side.
So we try to do our best and telling the truth.
So I told you a really positive side of the queen.
I think that you could argue that she was in a way, the Gorbachev of
the English empire, where she let the sun set on it without more violence.
There could have been a lot more violence if someone else was king or queen.
So hey, look, that's a huge compliment to the queen, and
I think that it's largely deserved, right?
So now there's tons of nuance to that too, and there was violence in this solution,
the empire, etc, certainly before the queen and a little bit during the queen,
but it could have been way worse.
Now, having said that, this is not the thing to get emotional over.
I mean, this is almost like Kanye for me,
I can't stand the worship of monarchs.
The whole concept is, the king tells you, or
in her case, the queen, they tell you, I'm chosen by God.
That's generally how it works.
I know the queen Elizabeth didn't go around saying that, but
that's the concept, I'm chosen by God to be superior to you.
So you should listen to every word I say, and if you don't, I mean,
in the old days, you could be executed if you dared to criticize the king or
didn't listen to a word he said.
And everyone must bow down and get on their knees for this person.
Yeah, no, I got no interest in that system at all.
And when one of them passed away, I don't need people in the media going,
my God, the beloved dictator, what are we gonna do without her?
I don't know, not bow down.
>> Yeah, bowing down and
getting on your knees should only be in the bedroom if you're into that.
That's just my take.
>> Hey, look, there, I don't judge, okay?
>> [LAUGH] >> So hashtag queen, right?
[LAUGH] Okay, no, I'm not saying she did that.
The English are gonna get so upset, because I know,
the royalty also don't have sex.
They're not sexual at all.
>> No.
>> Somehow they have kids, I don't know.
[LAUGH] But that's the thing, Ana, it's like religion.
You can't say obvious rational things about them,
because people are gonna catch feelings.
>> I think people are allowed to have preferences,
people are allowed to have opinions.
I get it, for some people, the queen was really important, and
I don't begrudge them for caring, right?
But also do don't begrudge others for not caring, for not thinking.
Yeah, that's it.
That's all it is, that's all it is.
That's it.
>> I just gotta just jump in,
stop you from talking to tell you how correct your earlier talking was, okay.
[LAUGH] So, it's just like fundamentalists of religion.
Don't draw Muhammad.
No, no, you don't draw Muhammad, I can draw anything I like, right?
I love the queen, so don't say anything bad about the queen.
No, no, no, you go nuts over the queen, have your tea and crumpets and
like, the queen, the queen, right?
But I can say whatever I want about the queen.
Why do I have to be weirdly respectful of a thing I don't agree with?
Why do I have to listen to your ideas and policies and principles and wants?
What a weird weird request.
Sorry, but no deal, I'm not in favor of monarchs or dictators or empires.
Final video has to do with, I'm sorry, not a video actually.
We have a photo of the most famous insect, I think it's a spider, in the world,
because apparently on her casket was, and you could see it right there,
kind of on the right hand side of the photo, on that white object.
You see a black speck, and apparently that's a spider and
it captivated everyone's attention for a little while today, which,
that's the most human thing I've ever heard.
This is what humans are, okay?
They love squirrels, they love being distracted by the squirrels.
In this case, it was it was a spider.
>> Yeah, that was not about the queen at all, that's about,
again, back to what we started with, our obsession with fame.
My God, there's a spider on the famous person's casket.
[LAUGH] Okay, that's international news, that's international news.
>> Well, remember during the Republican debates, I can't believe I'm
forgetting who this happened to, but I think it was Mike Pence,
wasn't there a fly that landed on him in the middle of the debate?
>> There's a bunch of things that, I don't remember if a fly landed on a Republican
too, but I know Alex Jones had a theory on flies landing on Democrats, and
that meant that they were satanic, of course.
But what you might be thinking about is when Ted Cruz had that white object.
>> Don't mention it, I actively try to not think about it.
That was during a Republican debate, where we don't know if it was spittle,
we don't know if it was tonsils stones, which are disgusting.
But it was something that landed on his lip in the middle of that debate and
it didn't leave for a while.
It was gross.
>> And then I think he ate it.
>> You gotta stop.
>> [LAUGH] >> And there we are,
being interested on a foreign object, on a famous person's face.
But for the grace of God and queen, go us.