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  • @Most0riginalUsername
    @Most0riginalUsername 7 лет назад +933

    "If anyone can, Gengis Khan" brb getting that on a t-shirt

  • @ZGundam83
    @ZGundam83 7 лет назад +593

    Julius Ceaser, Julius Marries-er, Julius Dumps-er. That got me rolling.

    • @simeonbaumel7293
      @simeonbaumel7293 4 года назад +1

      Then there was Casanova, who said, "Vici Vinci, Vedi".... I Saw, I conquered, I came.

    • @ronnieince4568
      @ronnieince4568 4 года назад +1

      @@simeonbaumel7293 and Mrs Caesar said Veni Vidi Visa -I came I saw I shopped! !

  • @Pining_for_the_fjords
    @Pining_for_the_fjords 5 лет назад +335

    Archeologists have just discovered the oldest known tampon. They just don't know what period it's from.

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 5 лет назад +5

      LOL!

    • @WardyLion
      @WardyLion 4 года назад +5

      Pining for the fjords Winner!

    • @Me-fo1kk
      @Me-fo1kk 4 года назад +10

      It's Bloody Mary's!!

    • @rohiniguiland4873
      @rohiniguiland4873 2 года назад

      Its probably Prince Charles.🤣🤣

    • @danimayb
      @danimayb 2 года назад

      How do they know it's the oldest then? 😁

  • @alexking8295
    @alexking8295 7 лет назад +496

    Milton on the left hand side team , I can't deal with this

    • @2490debrick
      @2490debrick 6 лет назад +3

      Alex King They have to balance the funny out cant have Sean and Milton on the same team...

    • @Stbricechannel
      @Stbricechannel 6 лет назад +6

      Who's Sean?

    • @eclectica1
      @eclectica1 6 лет назад +3

      There is no Sean on this edition. Angela, Romesh, Hugh, Nish, Ed

    • @chestnutbloke305
      @chestnutbloke305 5 лет назад

      Could be something to do with the production team probably not wanting Nish and Romesh on the same team. I'm not being racist, am I?

    • @arthurvasey
      @arthurvasey 3 года назад

      I’ve seen clips with a two-eyed version of Angela Barnes on the left team - let it be known here that I am four-eyed, in case any four-eyed people are offended by my reference to four-eyed people!

  • @BlahDBlahDBlah
    @BlahDBlahDBlah 4 года назад +49

    Hugh actually sounds like a history programme narrator.

  • @xtheamazingax
    @xtheamazingax 7 лет назад +32

    'What was life like for a typical roman soldier around 200 BC? ... No fuckin idea.' LOL

  • @timebomb4562
    @timebomb4562 3 года назад +12

    Steve the “what goes on tour stays on tour” is the hero we need

  • @trekker3382
    @trekker3382 5 лет назад +38

    "catherine of tarragon" - brilliant

  • @NotAHero98
    @NotAHero98 7 лет назад +287

    I was excited for this, until I saw Milton on the wrong side of the panel! FURY!!!

  • @peterrhodes9209
    @peterrhodes9209 5 лет назад +75

    Brexit. Tick. Joke about Southern Rail. Tick. Nish joke about Danny Dyer. Tick.

    • @Lowdo1549
      @Lowdo1549 4 года назад +4

      Lol Danny Dyer is a Nish staple. I’ll just shout loud, that will be funny

    • @johnm9845
      @johnm9845 4 года назад +4

      Annoying tick?See a doctor.

  • @zeezoo6174
    @zeezoo6174 7 лет назад +182

    ed Byrne is too funny.

  • @namelesslang5909
    @namelesslang5909 2 года назад +3

    Watching this in 2068 since I got nostalgic about my favorite Very-Sorry-Land TV programs

  • @martyheresniak5203
    @martyheresniak5203 3 года назад +8

    Wait, wait! Nish and Romesh on the same episode? This disproves the theory they're actually the same guy.

  • @captain_smart.casual4789
    @captain_smart.casual4789 7 лет назад +37

    That first one was so accurate.

  • @motog4-75
    @motog4-75 5 лет назад +21

    Hugh Dennis is his usual genius

  • @chrisgarton4225
    @chrisgarton4225 5 лет назад +16

    Somewhere in the near future, Alexander Hamilton will still be alive with his own hip hop style musical, and beat a rock school musical to be the best musical of 2016

  • @FooBarBash
    @FooBarBash 7 лет назад +74

    How come Dara didn't buzz for one of Ed Byrne's jokes?

    • @SeanKL107
      @SeanKL107 7 лет назад +25

      Leo King because he's that funny

    • @gwishart
      @gwishart 5 лет назад +6

      Because Ed was Dara's best man.

    • @Sheenifier
      @Sheenifier 2 года назад

      Sometimes he buzzes, sometimes doesn't. Usually it's when it's a belly aching laugh

  • @SeanKL107
    @SeanKL107 7 лет назад +18

    “What was life like for a typical Roman solider around 200 BC?”
    “...No fuckin’ idea..”

  • @TheHutchy01
    @TheHutchy01 7 лет назад +79

    I think I'd like to hear more about MLK's ice cream dream

    • @philippepalmer2968
      @philippepalmer2968 2 года назад

      apparently he had hundreds and thousands of them and in the end,they all drove him nuts to the point where he topped himself 😀

  • @SuperSweetToffee
    @SuperSweetToffee 7 лет назад +81

    What about "if Gengis Khan, anyone can"?

    • @ccassidy9090
      @ccassidy9090 5 лет назад +1

      You got it the wrong way round. "If anyone can, Gengis Khan," works better

    • @oldtimer5111
      @oldtimer5111 5 лет назад +4

      Gengis Khan, Brian Cant but Walt Disney.( you may have to be Scottish to understand that).

  • @chrisgarton4225
    @chrisgarton4225 5 лет назад +16

    If you can watch this twenty four hour documentary about Alexander Hamilton, you win tickets to go see the musical.

  • @7MatthewJames
    @7MatthewJames 2 года назад +4

    As a historian, I find these hilarious

  • @YoonbeenPark
    @YoonbeenPark 6 лет назад +10

    This round's particularly on point

  • @msontopoftheworld
    @msontopoftheworld 6 лет назад +25

    A joke about southern rail is always hit!

  • @chrisgarton4225
    @chrisgarton4225 5 лет назад +6

    And now let’s travel by map like they do in The Indiana Jones movies, and go to our next location.

  • @harryhardwick3267
    @harryhardwick3267 5 лет назад +10

    Death, Taxes and Nish doing a Danny Dyer impression on Scenes we'd like to see

  • @chrisgarton4225
    @chrisgarton4225 5 лет назад +5

    (Plays Reveille) That was just to wake you up because you fell asleep again.

  • @chrisgarton4225
    @chrisgarton4225 2 года назад +1

    So let’s talk about what happened at the Civil War. It was Captain America and his team vs. Iron Man and his team.

    • @michellebyrom6551
      @michellebyrom6551 Год назад

      Ahem. Hugh was referencing the English Civil War. Cromwell testing Charles 1 who passed the etiquette test with colours flying.

  • @danisnotonchairs3561
    @danisnotonchairs3561 4 года назад +2

    "this is where my History A Level got me. I should have listened to my parents and did business"

  • @rustkarl
    @rustkarl 6 лет назад +21

    Ed’s anti joke was brilliant

  • @adaml5796
    @adaml5796 6 лет назад +3

    Angela Barnes, this ones going to be HILARIOUS

    • @wackity.7879
      @wackity.7879 6 лет назад

      Ada Le the first joke was pretty good!!

  • @fajaradi1223
    @fajaradi1223 5 лет назад +29

    If anyone can
    Genghis Khan!

  • @montainemorice9561
    @montainemorice9561 4 года назад +6

    I'll consider myself bilingual when I can understand each and every joke on this show.
    Love from France (someone to help me understand the King Henry the 8 hoover joke?)

    • @hadiza1412
      @hadiza1412 4 года назад +7

      “henry” is a brand of hoover/vacuum cleaner
      “henry the 8th” was a tudor monarch
      putting them together and you get an old royal vacuum cleaner

    • @silvasilvasilva
      @silvasilvasilva 3 года назад +8

      Don't be so harsh on yourself. Many jokes rely on cultural references that would bypass even native speakers, depending on age, background etc.

  • @jaggass
    @jaggass 6 лет назад +4

    ''With my metal detector i made an amazing discovery. Martin Kemp''

  • @ElinorMahoney
    @ElinorMahoney 4 года назад +2

    Four quid for a pencil sharpener lmao

  • @mandem010
    @mandem010 4 года назад +1

    'Medival Hoover' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @fredmila
      @fredmila 3 года назад

      It was the Renaissance but OK.

  • @TheArcher101
    @TheArcher101 6 лет назад +5

    £4 for a pencil sharpener is pretty extortionate to be fair....

  • @phunkymind23
    @phunkymind23 7 лет назад +9

    Chris Addison already did that joke Milton did at the start.

  • @81colinzeal
    @81colinzeal Год назад +1

    Hugh Dennis did the Trojan grand national joke in another episode.

  • @maxblechman2665
    @maxblechman2665 5 лет назад +5

    2:19 hmmm

  • @chrisgarton4225
    @chrisgarton4225 5 лет назад +4

    Now please turn your history books to page one

  • @capershock4972
    @capershock4972 7 лет назад +2

    0:45 wrong way round

  • @pauldockree9915
    @pauldockree9915 3 года назад

    That be the verse Romesh Ranganathan. Deeper holes and burying cads and cadizes.

  • @Me-fo1kk
    @Me-fo1kk 4 года назад +1

    Julius Caesar slept with Cleopatra the Ninth. Man, he had a busy week.

  • @PatrickStar-ej9st
    @PatrickStar-ej9st 5 лет назад +1

    What was life like, for a typical roman soldier, around 200BC? No fuckin idea.

  • @FloraWest
    @FloraWest 4 года назад

    Just saw Hugh to that Trojan horse joke in another series. Which is fine-just funny I ran across it again in the same day.

  • @reasonablyserious
    @reasonablyserious 6 лет назад +4

    2:19

  • @dancingwithnature5303
    @dancingwithnature5303 4 года назад +3

    Hugh! You told the Trojan horse joke again!

    • @mattdickie4696
      @mattdickie4696 4 года назад +1

      It's always sneaking in where you don't expect it. Kind of like...um...something.

  • @chrisriches9807
    @chrisriches9807 7 лет назад +43

    "And this is where the black person won"

    • @Waltzhybrid92
      @Waltzhybrid92 6 лет назад

      I like the top comment more. Not because I'm racist but because its true.

    • @vincehgrutherford6184
      @vincehgrutherford6184 6 лет назад

      James-
      And then we got our own back in a battle where a handful of soldiers faced inimitable odds and impressed the Zulu

    • @tombreen8146
      @tombreen8146 6 лет назад

      As far as i know that was the battle of rorkes drift

    • @nkoawest4392
      @nkoawest4392 5 лет назад

      Battle of Adwa when the Ethiopians smashed the Italians?

  • @fredmila
    @fredmila 3 года назад

    Very apt to use the Brexit disaster for jokes on this one.

  • @jaggass
    @jaggass 6 лет назад +5

    ''This castle is over 1000 yrs old and is derelict (the castle collapses and kills the guy''

  • @emmacassidy8482
    @emmacassidy8482 6 лет назад +2

    If anyone can't Bryan Cant

  • @tailortelhais1744
    @tailortelhais1744 6 лет назад +2

    Monarchs with parents? ...

  • @vaultboy2019
    @vaultboy2019 7 лет назад +130

    Love scenes we'd like to see however still missing frankie

    • @stephenmurphy2212
      @stephenmurphy2212 7 лет назад +2

      Spicee Boii agreed!

    • @saoirsedeltufo7436
      @saoirsedeltufo7436 7 лет назад +26

      Spicee Boii it's been about 8 years, get over it (or just watch old Mock the Week episodes if you really miss him)

    • @dragonsdynamite6403
      @dragonsdynamite6403 6 лет назад +4

      His forte was a self-absorbent drivel. No comedic input, just insults which were mostly unfunny. Every Scottish person I know sees him a comedic genius, through

    • @elaineb7065
      @elaineb7065 3 года назад

      How's your bed for space underneath???

  • @InYourDreams-Andia
    @InYourDreams-Andia 3 года назад

    Lmao! Really funny episode

  • @rlinders9972
    @rlinders9972 6 лет назад +3

    Romesh actually looks darker. Probably his clothes.

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed1023 Год назад +1

    Wouldn't at least one of the King's parents be dead ?

  • @timfischer8165
    @timfischer8165 4 года назад

    one thing ive learnt about britain from these is that they really dislike their railroads

    • @cogidubnus1953
      @cogidubnus1953 4 года назад +7

      No - they really dislike some of the railway operating companies - and in the case of Southern they were quite justified...

    • @spammy3164
      @spammy3164 4 года назад +2

      @@cogidubnus1953 and also northern fail as well

    • @elaineb7065
      @elaineb7065 3 года назад +1

      And don't get us started on train ticket prices. Pre-Brexit I could fly to Italia more cheaply than taking an Aberdeen to London train

    • @michellebyrom6551
      @michellebyrom6551 Год назад

      ​@@elaineb7065...wait...bucket seats to Pisa are more expensive than train tickets now?...falls over in shock.

  • @JonasHamill
    @JonasHamill 7 лет назад +2

    It looks like they replaced the actors with holograms

  • @Rascal2006
    @Rascal2006 7 лет назад +9

    😂😂😂😂😂😂 very funny

  • @dazzaboy04
    @dazzaboy04 5 лет назад

    *No fuckin idea*
    😂😂😂😂

  • @oldman1734
    @oldman1734 2 года назад

    That the English did some good things.

  • @lgbak20
    @lgbak20 7 лет назад +3

    Surprised there was no nazi jokes

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 5 лет назад +1

      I did nazi that coming! ;)

  • @EthanKnight97
    @EthanKnight97 7 лет назад +124

    All of the Brexit jokes is getting boring.

    • @thesurgeon6473
      @thesurgeon6473 7 лет назад +30

      xercon - 😁😁 Are you serious? The BBC can be about as right-wing as anyone when it wants to, and was during the election campaign. Not everyone is stupid, comedians joke about topical things because that's their job

    • @darthlazurus4382
      @darthlazurus4382 7 лет назад +17

      Because Brexit is going so well. . .
      It's a political comedy show.

    • @JamEngulfer
      @JamEngulfer 7 лет назад +4

      *are getting boring.

    • @Supposedlyimrightwingnow
      @Supposedlyimrightwingnow 6 лет назад +8

      it seems every BBC show now has jokes about a negative brexit. can we have some jokes about Europe losing out on Britain for a change??? oh that's right they can't.

    • @saoirsedeltufo7436
      @saoirsedeltufo7436 6 лет назад +1

      Brexit is getting boring

  • @graemeo3440
    @graemeo3440 4 года назад +3

    Quick vote. Does anyone actually find Nish funny?

    • @Rockersrule1011
      @Rockersrule1011 4 года назад +4

      Probably nobody.
      "'ello mates! I'm Nish Kumar AND I HAVE TO SCREAM EVERYTHING AS LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE AND MAKE STALE JOKES ABOUT BREXIT IN A SHITTY ATTEMPT TO HIDE HOW UNFUNNY I AM!"
      I actually have to skip some of these videos when he comes on because the cringe is just unbearable.

  • @Didntwanttomakeauser
    @Didntwanttomakeauser 7 лет назад +7

    I don't get Milton's, Henry the 8th joke

    • @vectoredthrust5214
      @vectoredthrust5214 7 лет назад +41

      Didntwanttomakeauser Henry is a very popular model of vacuum cleaner here in the uk

    • @georgeofakind1710
      @georgeofakind1710 6 лет назад +4

      Henry Hoover. Novelty vacuum cleaner

    • @kjamison5951
      @kjamison5951 6 лет назад +2

      Henry Hoover
      www.google.co.uk/search?q=henry+hoover&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia5ayM0v_aAhUNa8AKHSidA-QQ_AUIEigC&biw=320&bih=454&dpr=2

  • @rachelring2542
    @rachelring2542 4 года назад +1

    😅😅😅😇

  • @DominicGrindrod
    @DominicGrindrod 5 лет назад +4

    1:09 cringe

    • @jamesm3534
      @jamesm3534 5 лет назад +5

      DOM GRINDROD you probably voted leave

  • @donalr9742
    @donalr9742 6 лет назад +1

    “And it’s wasn’t the British’s fault.”

  • @chrisgarton4225
    @chrisgarton4225 5 лет назад +1

    And the history of the new england patriots winning their division begins as bill belichick brings tom brady after Drew Bledsoe gets injured.

  • @krileayn
    @krileayn 5 лет назад +6

    When are people going to realize that Nish Kumar doesn't tell jokes, he is the joke.

    • @scannon9719
      @scannon9719 5 лет назад

      YES! He is not funny, was weak in this clip and is always weak.

    • @joebentley2803
      @joebentley2803 4 года назад +3

      S Cannon humour is subjective?

    • @krileayn
      @krileayn 4 года назад

      @ammar siddiqui Don't stand up for him just because he's your brother.

  • @mikeygrey9855
    @mikeygrey9855 7 лет назад +8

    Milton stole MLK joke off Frankie

    • @lilypond8798
      @lilypond8798 7 лет назад +6

      nope

    • @mikeygrey9855
      @mikeygrey9855 7 лет назад +7

      Perhaps other way round, frankie used the joke on his new show new world order

    • @lilypond8798
      @lilypond8798 7 лет назад

      link the episode

    • @thesurgeon6473
      @thesurgeon6473 7 лет назад +3

      Mikey Grey - I've made that joke before as well, it's very easy to believe it was accidental

  • @dominicsmith4747
    @dominicsmith4747 3 года назад

    Brexit... the greatest thing to happen to the uk, living rent free in these so called comedians heads.

  • @rustkarl
    @rustkarl 7 лет назад +4

    I miss Frankie

  • @pzychomyth9391
    @pzychomyth9391 6 лет назад +1

    Why did frankie leave mock the week

  • @MARTINA-gc3tq
    @MARTINA-gc3tq 4 года назад

    Here we are on Questiontime.....and on the panel tonight are three brexiters and one Remoaner....

  • @dbcooper1618
    @dbcooper1618 5 лет назад +1

    Nish Kumar tries to hard, not funny.

  • @2490debrick
    @2490debrick 6 лет назад +5

    Oh stop having that troll on she is awful!

  • @AngusJones
    @AngusJones 7 лет назад +12

    It's true, a lot of female comedians aren't funny

    • @brain_apostrophe_t
      @brain_apostrophe_t 7 лет назад +10

      Angus Jones Good thing this ones pretty funny then...

  • @wanderingronin6462
    @wanderingronin6462 5 лет назад

    Make England Great Again.

  • @whatonearth9809
    @whatonearth9809 6 лет назад +2

    Who is the female comedian? Very...meh 🙄