I was in the infantry. I spent two years with 81mm mortars. If the round misfired there were two ways of very gently removing the faulty round from the tube. One way used a tool called a ‘knacker-knasher’, which was dropped down the tube until its teeth engaged in a recess on the round. The other method involved detaching tube from the baseplate, tilting the tube on its bipod legs until the round slid out into your hands. A bit like the removal of the detonator in the sketch. Once the faulty round had been extricated from the tube it was handed to a Royal Engineers Ammunitions Technical Officer (ATO) who would then unceremoniously hurl the thing a few feet into the back of a 4-tonner where the round clattered around one floor with other munitions!! This sketch reminds me of that. 😊
Same in the WW2 Navy. The CORRECT procedure for a misfire was to carefully remove the case or round (depending on ammo type) from the gun and "lower it over the side on a long line" ...Sure Wilbur.... "Fling! Splash!" LOL
I was EOD, in the early days our robot had a shotgun gaffer taped to it, and after firing at a suspicious box or whatever would have to bring it back to reload it, so our lance jack would just run over to it and re cock it, bloody looney, and sometimes just pick up the item and shout over don't worry it's bollocks, unfortunately he never left the Engineers, but we always have a good laugh about it....
@@usemoreoil Indecisive Dave is my favourite I think, but so many gems. That bloke in the pub with the curly perm and the know all manner. Cracks me up before he even speaks.
British telly programme "Danger UXB" covered this very topic. Defusing and securing unexploded ordnance during the bombing of London in WWII. Great show!
@@scroungasworkshop4663 haha the comments are full of people who either think it's funny or like you pretending others are offended lolllllll, I don't see anyone being offended, did you forget others can see the comment section?
@@ADHDIYuk that makes absolutely no sense what so ever I can observe the sun without being burnt so I can observe social trends without participating in its trivial matters
As a Gen X I grew up on this humor with Monty Python, Dave Allen, and Benny Hill. I love it. It makes you tough and not a whiny sniveling snot of a human. Realize humor is just that. If people want to be jerks it wont be humorous.
Hahaha so many people bleating about others being offended, i see absolutely nobody being offended in the comments, its a Putin talking point which is interesting
Lucky that wasn't a Type 17 A or B fuze coz it would more thn likely had an anti-removal device attached in the form of a Zus40 fuse underneath it. A severe case of the grid reference blues for all concerned.
It's said about the germans, that they don't have any humor. Well, i'm german and I tell you, there is hardly any german comedian you can laugh about these days. I stick to the british comedy (Vicar of Dibley, Only Fools and Horses, Derry Girls, Mrs Brown's Boys etc., and not forget Benny Hill - yep, i'm old), which get me rolling across the floor all the time.
@@HargravityThanks, I do have a video I'm thinking of putting up with a clickbait title. The video and title would be entirely genuine though. A goldfinch flew into my window last week and knocked itself out. I thought "Found unconscious bird on my patio, so had a quick feel" was a fair reflection of what happened.
It's okay. But there are way funnier sketches than that. . The smith and jones diffusing a bomb and the bob newhart are 2 of the same style funnier than this. But each to their own.
Yes, funny but the problem is that this generation of comedy actors sneered at previous generations of comedy shows about the war. So you had that little horror who played Baldrick in Blackadder being horrible about the cast of Allo Allo. We had to suffer the moral outrage of the actors who became famous in the 90's telling us how reprehensible shows from previous generations were. I'm not arguing that Dads Army or Allo, Allo were better or worse that Blackadder and sketch shows like The Fast Show, I'm saying that actors don't have the right to judge others.
Yes these days real comedy is seen as far right, anti immigration and anti gender stuff. Shame that the younger generations don't know what comedy really is.
I was in the infantry. I spent two years with 81mm mortars. If the round misfired there were two ways of very gently removing the faulty round from the tube. One way used a tool called a ‘knacker-knasher’, which was dropped down the tube until its teeth engaged in a recess on the round. The other method involved detaching tube from the baseplate, tilting the tube on its bipod legs until the round slid out into your hands. A bit like the removal of the detonator in the sketch. Once the faulty round had been extricated from the tube it was handed to a Royal Engineers Ammunitions Technical Officer (ATO) who would then unceremoniously hurl the thing a few feet into the back of a 4-tonner where the round clattered around one floor with other munitions!! This sketch reminds me of that. 😊
Same in the WW2 Navy. The CORRECT procedure for a misfire was to carefully remove the case or round (depending on ammo type) from the gun and "lower it over the side on a long line" ...Sure Wilbur.... "Fling! Splash!" LOL
@@trooperdgb9722Flinging overboard, without a line, saved decades of marine life from entanglements, though!
I was EOD, in the early days our robot had a shotgun gaffer taped to it, and after firing at a suspicious box or whatever would have to bring it back to reload it, so our lance jack would just run over to it and re cock it, bloody looney, and sometimes just pick up the item and shout over don't worry it's bollocks, unfortunately he never left the Engineers, but we always have a good laugh about it....
Thanks for your life story
😂😂😂@@stevecameron1879
"Either we all die or get a drink. Win win"
Almost Fell off my seat laughing at this so British it's brilliant
I thought those were commies. I mean our Russian friends
@@Crazytwister-vw4er are you kidding me now?
No, and it's beat by a bomb scene from MASH: "The instructions say "Cut the red Wire...(snip)...but first, cut the blue wire".
Beat by?
Love that scene. When you hear Radar turn the page before he says…but first…
@@Dante-ki4ol ...yawn.
That's good also. I think it's a tie.
Nah, this one is funnier 😂
Paul Whitehouse, what a genius,he was always the funniest one
@@usemoreoil Indecisive Dave is my favourite I think, but so many gems. That bloke in the pub with the curly perm and the know all manner. Cracks me up before he even speaks.
In't Paul Whitehouse brilliant ?
@@aquapony suit you sir
@@tonygarratt5832 radiant sir radiant
@@aquaponyI prefer Tommy Cockles
British telly programme "Danger UXB" covered this very topic. Defusing and securing unexploded ordnance during the bombing of London in WWII. Great show!
My mum is English and lived through the war (92 now) and she saw the funny side of it. So get over yourselves.
I don’t think it’s about seeing the funny side. They apparently just didn’t consider it number one sex king funniest sketch of all time.
Why are you pretending anyone is offended?
@@NinjaBenification Because I bothered to read the comments.
@@scroungasworkshop4663 haha the comments are full of people who either think it's funny or like you pretending others are offended lolllllll, I don't see anyone being offended, did you forget others can see the comment section?
Either it works or...it doesn't and you'll never know it
Whats with all the mean comments from people with no taste?
Desperate for any attention! 😂
I didn't see any mean comments?
I also think this is funny
From the second golden age of British comedy. Anyone who was offended had to just get over it.
The only ones being offended are the people who go on about people getting offended.
@@ADHDIYuk that makes absolutely no sense what so ever I can observe the sun without being burnt so I can observe social trends without participating in its trivial matters
Why would anyone be offended? There is literally nothing offensive about it.
the days when things weren't censored
@@anthonylocke3366 only by my mum putting her hand across my eyes
Brilliant 😂
Bloody great!
Not the funniest but pretty great 👍
Everyone knows someone they work with that is like that.
Yup. Even looked like him, too!
great miss that show...come see my stupid stuff...
I didn't expect that! Ha!
Old skool .Just get it over & done with.Carry on.
The shear ordasity
What’s it got to do with a brazen haircut?
That’s how I was as a firefighter
Thanks for telling in the past tense. Makes me feel safer.
he closes his eyes while cutting the blue one :)))))))))))
I was thinking it was a boiler mistaken for a bomb.
As a Gen X I grew up on this humor with Monty Python, Dave Allen, and Benny Hill. I love it. It makes you tough and not a whiny sniveling snot of a human. Realize humor is just that. If people want to be jerks it wont be humorous.
Hurt myself laughing, love Paul Whitehouse 😂
Love British humor 😂
Did'nt see that one coming 😂
That is funny!
Good man Zack
my dad told me about disarming bombs during the second world war, not quite this technique
😂😂 miss this stuff
Brilliant! I haven't seen this one before. What's the movie?
Brilliant
I see what you did there
Nice!
Good show chaps ...what ! Jolly hockey sticks ....
Brilliant 😅
Soo funny.
That’s what I would do. Since at the end u cut all of the wires and hopefully don’t go kabooooom
Good, but in no way compares to Bob Newhart - "Defusing A Bomb"
Hahaha so many people bleating about others being offended, i see absolutely nobody being offended in the comments, its a Putin talking point which is interesting
made ME laugh, anyway
Lucky that wasn't a Type 17 A or B fuze coz it would more thn likely had an anti-removal device attached in the form of a Zus40 fuse underneath it. A severe case of the grid reference blues for all concerned.
@@csjrogerson2377 I'm sure they would have checked that before they started filming.
@@aquapony Must have done or the filming would have ended abruptly.
The original Leroy Jenkins…
Very funny!!!!🤣🤣🤣
That was Danny Wellbecks dad
Stan
it's not a bad sketch, but I have seen much funnier.
titles or we don't believe you !
@@MR0DDB4LL She's a witch!--Monty Python.
There is no humour that can be compared with English.
Funniest ever?..4 candles-Two Ronnies,..My blackberry isn't working-Harry Enfield,..Ballater toy shop phones Balmoral-Scotland The What,..The dead parrot-Monty Python,..
yeah that was okay
What's the name of the show?
@@ValleyProud916 The Fast Show
Thanks@@aquapony
It's said about the germans, that they don't have any humor. Well, i'm german and I tell you, there is hardly any german comedian you can laugh about these days. I stick to the british comedy (Vicar of Dibley, Only Fools and Horses, Derry Girls, Mrs Brown's Boys etc., and not forget Benny Hill - yep, i'm old), which get me rolling across the floor all the time.
Brilliant 😂😂
Not really, no. But thanks for asking
quality workmanship
😂😂😂😂
What's the idea behind the title?
🤣🤣😂😂
It’s a clickbait title.
Not click bait. There's a question mark you see. That makes it a question not a statement.
@@HargravityThanks, I do have a video I'm thinking of putting up with a clickbait title. The video and title would be entirely genuine though. A goldfinch flew into my window last week and knocked itself out. I thought "Found unconscious bird on my patio, so had a quick feel" was a fair reflection of what happened.
no
What's the name if this show
2 years too late, but its "The Fast Show"
🙏 thanks @@thomaskemp904
Not even close
Still waiting to laugh
@@bigtbird8809 that's very polite, but go right ahead and let it all out. Must be British...
What, you a bit slow or summat?
If you want funny,watch blackadders firing squad episode
@@tonybell5641 I'm good
Brilliant, great sketch, fancy being RUclips mates?
🤔
Ever? It’s funny, but ever?
They took it from Hogan's heroes
No they didn't. It's a completely different joke
Yes, I agree, people could have got seriously hurt, the slightest miscalculation & it's curtains as someone said!
Not the funniest bomb sketch, Dave Allen's beats it.
It's okay. But there are way funnier sketches than that. . The smith and jones diffusing a bomb and the bob newhart are 2 of the same style funnier than this. But each to their own.
This isn't the funniest sketch ever
No sh** Sherlock.
No but it’s good
Well that settles it then. Now @mr_6691, how do we solve the Middle East?
It got you to watch it tho!
Got me watching too and I laughed like a drain my eyes will stop watering soon, anyone for a pint lol 😂👍🤣
It is not the funniest sketch ever not by a long shot
This should have 96k downvotes.
Yes, funny but the problem is that this generation of comedy actors sneered at previous generations of comedy shows about the war. So you had that little horror who played Baldrick in Blackadder being horrible about the cast of Allo Allo. We had to suffer the moral outrage of the actors who became famous in the 90's telling us how reprehensible shows from previous generations were. I'm not arguing that Dads Army or Allo, Allo were better or worse that Blackadder and sketch shows like The Fast Show, I'm saying that actors don't have the right to judge others.
Out of curiosity what did the actor who played Baldrick say about Allo Allo?
I have seen 10 billion times more funny stuff when entering my parent's bedroom...
Tell us more!
You still do that approaching 40 ?
Did you tell your dad you want a watch?
Lol?
Yes??
Yes these days real comedy is seen as far right, anti immigration and anti gender stuff. Shame that the younger generations don't know what comedy really is.
am ı supposed to laugh ?
Nobody cares.
That wasn't funny at all.
No.
Yes.
Funniest ever? It's not even funny, period.
Nor is farting around a campfire, but you yanks are tickled by it.
Not funny whatsoever
Are you dead?
Brilliant show
Must be american 😂
@@stevenhearnden6103😂😂😂
I'd hate to be that needy!
no