Werner Herzog On Chicken Hypnosis: 'The Enormity Of Their Stupidity Is Just Overwhelming' (VIDEO)

If ever KFC/Chick-Fil-A/McDonalds need a spokesman, they'd be SO LUCKY to get Werner Herzog. In the brilliantly self-contained video below from directors Siri Bunford and Tom Streithorst, it takes Herzog less than a minute to eviscerate the entire subspecies of chicken. Or actually, 3 seconds. "The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming." Bam!

WATCH:

Werner Herzog on Chickens from Tom Streithorst on Vimeo.

For reference, chicken:

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Comments

[Dan Slander]

07:31 PM on 02/12/2012

Sure Werner, but you never did figure out a way to stop the dancing chicken. Sad the tic tac toe chicken on Cannery Row's no longer around. It would have taught you a lesson, undefeated in over ten thousand matches.

[Happy Kine]

11:24 PM on 02/10/2012

Great director, great documentaries too.

[misterhuffington]

06:08 PM on 02/10/2012

Werner Herzog on Republicans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSoUSZ7QlDY&feature=youtu.be

[greenlass]

03:07 PM on 02/10/2012

I would listen to this man talk about dust motes. I adore him.

[KarenQuiltsNSews]

07:02 PM on 02/09/2012

Well, duh... Werner obviously never kept chickens for eggs. They are an animal....The Huffington Post reaches new depths of useless dialogue! I'm hoping this is a joke...

[ArtsyJane]

03:47 PM on 02/09/2012

Awe... poor chickens... they have a soul too!

[pqr728]

02:13 PM on 02/09/2012

"Without Herzog there would have been no Citizen Kane." -- Heinrich Heine

[Dan Slander]

07:28 PM on 02/12/2012

"Hamburg Heine" really loved the flics.

[sbrez]

01:42 PM on 02/09/2012

is he talking about chickens or the GOP base?

[crimminy]

01:58 PM on 02/11/2012

Funny. I thought someone could use this excerpt and take out the word "chicken" and replace it with the names of any of the Republican candidates...

[gx5000]

12:00 PM on 02/09/2012

Hummmm, chicken.......Lunchtime !

[rbil49]

11:40 AM on 02/09/2012

Obviously he's yet to meet a tea bagger. Makes a chicken look very intelligent.

[ginadeoliveira2008]

11:07 AM on 02/09/2012

I've always loved his work. From now on I choose the chicken.

[PiperSniper]

09:39 AM on 02/09/2012

Oh ignorance, my name is satire

[turamali]

09:36 AM on 02/09/2012

The same could be said for the Reptilian/Teabaggies.

[escoffier51]

09:24 AM on 02/09/2012

when i first read the head line a thought it was about the gop,(group of pigs ) but it was about chickens , but there that also

[a w young]

03:37 AM on 02/09/2012

Comedian Paul F Tompkins played a great nature-hating Werner Herzog in a recent episode of the "Comedy Bang Bang" podcast.

(take a listen here http://ow.ly/8XPqU )

It was incredibly entertaining, but even more so after seeing this article on HuffPo :)