Give this man a Netflix-special, finally. He is my favorite comic by a long shot.

Damn right...we still looking for who answered the surveys.. because nobody knows even 1 person who has answered that survey 😂😂

But the "happiest country in the world" is titled wrong. If it was called "most content country in the world" every finn would be like "yeah, that's us".

His humor is clever and well articulated. No need to over impersonate situations or bitching out loud for no reason. Congrats.

I always think that Finland is the happiest just because we set the bar so low. If we're just ok doing decently then we are happy.

I'm happy every time I watch Ismo's videos 😂❤

Somehow I started to feel happier six years ago, and I didn't know what it was. Now I know.

Finland was amazing in my last year's summer trip all throughout the country ❤

I’ve met so many happy Finnish people …outside Finland! 😝 Sunny beaches and bars are full of happy people from Finland 😂

So true, i don't know what happy here is, quite miserable at autumn and winter. Summer can be nice, yes I live In Finland 🇫🇮

I'm Norwegian and when I think of happy people, Finland is not the first country I would think of. Maybe Denmark. But I think Finland is a bit more closed off than the other Nordic countries, so it's a bit harder to tell how they are doing. To me, Norway, Sweden and Denmark are like siblings, and Finland is the odd kid at the other side of the street. Perhaps because the language is so different to the others. But hey, I love Finland - it's a cool country. :)

I found a lot of Finns have it so good they think they are depressed because they have time to contemplate and are worrying about big problems. Where as many people in Australia (for example) are "happy" to be around, but they are worried about paying their rent by the end of the week or ending up homeless, while not running their air conditioning in 40*C weather because they can't afford the power bill, while the government deploys illegal "robodebt" programs to the least fortunate. Many hoping their kids don't get involved in crime while they are at work, because they sure as hell can't AFFORD to send them to a Private School for a "good" education. And the rest hoping to not interact with those kids who are involved in crime harassing us on public transit every day Finland really does seem like a happy place, when almost everyone you meet d has the basics of life sorted and can concentrate on self reflection and improvement.

When I went to Finland to visit my relatives for the very first time. The first time. When I was picked up from the airport, my moms cousin turned her head around and said, "Welcome to Finland. Please understand I won't be doing this again. Enjoy your stay."

We are so lucky here that we don´t have any real problems so we even complain about being happiest country. Which proves that we are actually happiest country. Anywhere else people would have more important things to deal with. In this world being happy basically means that everything is not horrible.

Thanks Ismo. I've been trying to make my foreign friends understand this for a long while and just like with most other things, you take burdens off my shoulders regularly, about things I need to repeatedly talk about.

I cannot speak about the country, but I do have a Finnish sister-in-law. I will admit, "happy" is not an adjective that comes to mind when I think of her.

His humor is so cool 🎉

Netflix please for Ismo! 😂

But when it's cold outside like -30 C you can go to sauna +100C and just forget coldness for a moment. And when you feel too hot you go out and jump into snow and remember cold and go back to sauna and feel the happiness. By the way first year was snowiest and coldest winter in long time... 🤔

Hm, extremely accurate!😂

As the popular Finnish song goes: "Finland is the happiest country in the world as long as there is beer."

Hyvä Ismo! Lennä korkealle. 👍

Looking at the wiki page of the world happyness report i think i get why now. They aren't really measuring happyness, but how much people rate their current life situation copmared to how good or bad it could be in the same situation! And additionally factor in the general living conditions of the country.

I was in Helsinki for 4 days in 2014. People were polite but a bit reserved, kind of like us Austrians

All the lakes?

Yup! All finns were complaiming avout that study and were giving justifications for why the study is flawed

7 years now 😂🍻♥️

Your videos make me happy [* sound volume in this video did not make me happy ;) ]

The study is given strange title, it doesn’t actually measure happiness because feelings are impossible to measure. It is more about access to services, food, shelter etc.

Ismo needs to be the New Seinfeld!

Just imagine coming into the 80C sauna from -20C outside... you'd be pretty freaking happy too! ..and then you find the beer! ...and the Survey! 🤣🤣 I'm not saying it's rigged... buuut...

Intervju har gjord dagen efter lönedag den 26:e... du förstår,,,,😂😮😮

This first year we got is when i moved out. 😂😂😂😂 my family

it's seven years n a row now :)

When Ismo moved away, the standard of Finnish stand-up gigs improved. 💀 Just kidding, he's honestly one of the best in Finland, if not the best; easily the best in English. 👍🏻

For close to 700 years from around 1150 until the Finnish War of 1809 Finland was the eastern part of Sweden. But most happy? Rather known for their stoicism and resilience(read SISU).

Make it 7 years :D

The place where I'd quite like to be!

The trick to being the happiest actually is to be the least miserable, the rest of the world is just slightly more shitty.

Fantastic. And somehow so Victor Borge sometimes.

If happiness is having no interpersonal stress, then Finnish people are happy ... as long as nobody is bothering them. Peace and quiet, "rauhassa," is valued like having the latest sneakers in the States. It is social suicide to brag or in any way imply that you are better than others. By law, you cannot build a house that outclasses the others in the neighborhood. Same in Sweden. Traffic fines are proportional to income. Equal pain. Everything is free, from the best educational system in the world to first-class healthcare. The language itself is free of gender bias. The very idea of listing your personal pronouns does not compute.

I remember when your Prime Minister say that Apple killed you twice, Nokia ( iPhone) & the paper industry ( iPad) 🥲

Inside it's very well known. 😆

people who never ever smile how they be most happiest people in the world? Is it happiness is a feeling not a theoretical concept?

I also heard about that study and was like - what? Finland actually has many suicides and same as Denmark because of the gloomy weather, professionals say this. Finish people drink almost as much as Russians who are notorious for their drinking. Theo's is ofcource mainly hearsea and charts, but I can imagine that no northern lights can light up a.whole.uwar in a person's life. Has to be more than that. I always wanted to go to Finland and maybe someday I will. I hate the sun, so I think I'll be fine with the gloom of it. :-)))

So funny.

I would also like to know who are these happy people. I have never seen one irl.

Is their alcohol consumption? The saunas? I had a happy holiday there anyway 😂

Country itself is happy, citizens not so much. 😂

Had to look it up and it's true... hahaha

We're not happy, we're just not complaining as much.

Of course, just look at Finnish Black Metal Band members .. Happy as can Be-hexen !

Ismo... Coincidences do not exist...

He forgot to ask at the end: "No, really?!"

yeah, hows ur day? vittuako se sulle kuuluu

When I apply, just know, I will win.

I know why! They made survey at summer time.

And the survey is only made in summer time😂

Ei multa ainakaan kysytty.

Maybe the year that Finland got the honour was when anti-depressants were widely distributed.

Volume level is faaaar to low.

Veikkaan että kysely on tehty vapun aattona, tai juhannuksena.

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(content loudness -26.3dB)

They don't even have mountains‽

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We ain't happy.

oh un study ok then gotta pay attention maybe little have to think muffkrr!! allright relax but s obviously part of ieieieieuu know ..

I thought it was Denmark.

and yet they make black metal

Sadly, this means Disneyland is full of lies. 😅

It's absolutely ridiculous. Wonderful country and people, but a lot of depression and suicide.

How miserable are the people everywhere else?

The statsitics is a bit misleading as all the sad people with anxiety commit suicide, so you are left only with the happy people.

We know that Finnish people beat Russians 3 times! Mannerheim is so cool!

I know who published that study. People who are eager to copy Finland's policies and are ok with making shit up to make that happen.

I've lived in Finland. They are not the happiest. They are the people who lie the most on surveys.

Happiest country Also the country which has the highest suicide rate

Get rid of these stupid subtitles

dude, stop the silly text in image garbage, it degrade your act and hurts the brain.

Ismo speaking truth, its maybe getting audience laughing, but still its truth not comic, believe me, i live in that sh--hole what Ismo is talking about. Or why do you think Ismo left "world happiest country" behind....?

For anyone seriously wondering, happiness isn't measured by sunshine, having tons of money, huge apartments, fancy cars, paying low taxes s etc., it's more about things like safety, corruption, trusting the officials like police, having proper long paid vacations every year with full salary to let your mind rest and so forth. If happiness was measured by the former list, Finland wouldn't be nowhere near the top, but true happiness indeed comes from completely different things.🤌

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