I loved the "friends of" bits in the TV series (the Scooby Doo one is my favorite), didn't know it was something they'd been doing. This is such a treat.
"The Mitchell & Webb Sound" broadcasts/collections feature new scenarios of other bits from the show as well, like Numberwang and Big Talk. I dare say Mitchell & Webb is the best English comedy duo. Their body of work is huge and varied. I don't know if I'm in the minority but I did like their "Ambassadors" show when it came out.
Also "Mein Kampf", was indeed publisher's idea. Hitler's original idea was ten miles long sentence, so his old pal and publisher Max Amann sugested "My Strugle" instead.
"was ten miles long sentence," I've got a mate who writes like that. He sent one massive block of text, and I thought I'd just C&P it into a document to cut it into more manageable chunks, you know, like... paragraphs, or something, and then I realised, there were _no breaks whatsoever!_ No commas, no fullstops, nothing. Worse, when I challenged him on it, he claimed that "writing" that way was better, because there was a "flow" to it, and that maybe I should try it.
Actually a lot of books in the old days had horribly long titles. The original print of Robinson Crusoe was called "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates" ... If that's not a long title for a book then I don't know what is. So I guess thank heavens for the advancement of editorial input?
Adam Neville In hindsight I think the original title might have saved me whole day reading it from cover to cover and just given me a gist of it to say "sure I know what it's about" and at the same time not having to read that dreary, slow book. Which at the time, when I was 8 I found it a bore. Then I grew up and learned of the colonisation and racist themes it had, besides being boring. Still, if I'd find a cheap used Penguin edition I'll still buy it. Can never say no to Penguin Classics.
When Robinson Crusoe was published, the cover of a book was pretty much the only advertising the book got, hence the long descriptive titles (with the first part in larger print).
I just looked it up as I thought you were joking, and had probably added everything after, "all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America," yourself (which I thought was quite clever).
Fun fact: Hitler's moustache style was because that is the only part of your face that you can have facial hair on under the gas masks used in WWI. Having a beard would ruin the seal and make the masks less effective (and Charlie Chaplin's moustache is that way for the same reason)
More fun facts: Hitler had a regular moustache long after WW ended. He only shaved it to the toothbrush style when he rose up in the ranks of NSDAP. There are plenty of pictures with bearded and moustachioed soldiers on all sides during the WW. As for Chaplin, I always thought it was a fake moustache glued on.
@@ZombieDragQueen Having significant facial hair was very fashionable in many armies around Europe, including the British, at the time, and many soldiers went into WW1 with significant facial hair. However with the advent of poison gas it became regulation for troops to be clean shaven so they could wear gas masks. Also, the toothbrush moustache was just a popular style of facial hair at the time. Today it's very strongly associated with Hitler but at the time it was pretty common.
@@kapitankapital6580 Yes, I know. Bit of a history buff myself, though I wouldn't say "significant" facial hair was the norm. A thick mustache certainly, but since the industrial revolution and proximity to fire and machinery for the working classes it seems like well trimmed and groomed beards were a statement for the upper (middle) classes/nobility. Yes, it was a low-maintenance mustache style fashioned in the US and subsequently got popular in Europe, "usurping" in Germany the "Kaiser-stasche". And Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy wore it, so it got celebrity endorsement. Hitler chose it perhaps as to appeal to the working class as well as signaling he's in tune with the current cultural trends. His love for Disney's cartoons is well documented.
@@arnoldhau1 …and very English to answer ”do you find that?” The English need confirmation lest they risk speaking their real thoughts to a comment made in jest. The English want consensus.
You know as I listen to this again, these "friends" of Adolf and Eva sound like they're either oblivious or unaware or delusional about what kind of person Adolf really is. Kind of sounds like they see too much of him as a good driven person. And being associated with him, it almost sounds like they're convincing themselves that he's not as bad or are trying to turn a blind eye on his bad side. XD
Course they know about Perth. Should have heard Hitler going on and on about all the Brits in Perth. If you didn't know him you'd think he was a bit racist.
Doubt it. There were far too many extremely disgruntled Germans or Austrians. Someone similar to AH will step up and voice outwhat the defeated masses think. That's why their movement grew at a lightning speed; There were too many angry people. Honestly, their suffering and punishment as losers of WWI was too much that it didn't lead to genuine constructive reforms.
+Kyle Netherwood The user probably meant at the point in which the sketch was set. But the joke was that the characters thought Hitler was from Australia and has a Perth twang/accent. So it was both a play on words, but also a dive towards the fact that Hitler wasn't of German nationality. And them going about "making a sallad" and having a veggie burger was also a dive to Hitler's vegetarian diet, and then mentioning his relationship with Eva Braun making the characters seem to have a superficial relationship/friendship to the person they speak of, judging them only by a few particular characteristic features. Therein lies the comedy. Mitchell and Webb have several sketches of "Friends of.." like friends of Darth Vader, James Bond, the Scooby Doo gang, inspector Morse and others.
Also, the Circle Line wasn't a named separate line on the Underground until 1949, although the service had run since 1871 (partial) / 1884 (full circle)
Everyone should listen to the Hitler-Mannerheim conversation: ruclips.net/video/oET1WaG5sFk/видео.html Dolf sounds like a really reasonable guy. I'd have him around to dinner for a knees up.....just joking. I'm not a vegetarian.
It was alright. I think that if anything, it's European leaders that are very touchy about the subject. I'm just wondering how did "person" become "ps.rson"?
I loved the "friends of" bits in the TV series (the Scooby Doo one is my favorite), didn't know it was something they'd been doing. This is such a treat.
"The Mitchell & Webb Sound" broadcasts/collections feature new scenarios of other bits from the show as well, like Numberwang and Big Talk. I dare say Mitchell & Webb is the best English comedy duo. Their body of work is huge and varied. I don't know if I'm in the minority but I did like their "Ambassadors" show when it came out.
Radio…
"Oh! I love it when he goes off on one! It's so funny and not a little persuasive!" HAHAHAHA XD
Also "Mein Kampf", was indeed publisher's idea. Hitler's original idea was ten miles long sentence, so his old pal and publisher Max Amann sugested "My Strugle" instead.
Kampf means struggle?
"was ten miles long sentence,"
I've got a mate who writes like that.
He sent one massive block of text, and I thought I'd just C&P it into a document to cut it into more manageable chunks, you know, like... paragraphs, or something, and then I realised, there were _no breaks whatsoever!_
No commas, no fullstops, nothing.
Worse, when I challenged him on it, he claimed that "writing" that way was better, because there was a "flow" to it, and that maybe I should try it.
@@goromaster10 Or fight. Kämpfen is the verb to fight.
"ten miles long sentence" - I like that.
So he actually wrote a recipe book.
Strange. Barely sounds like the Adolf I know.
An excellent upload! Thanks very much for sharing their great work.
Actually a lot of books in the old days had horribly long titles. The original print of Robinson Crusoe was called "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates" ... If that's not a long title for a book then I don't know what is. So I guess thank heavens for the advancement of editorial input?
Adam Neville In hindsight I think the original title might have saved me whole day reading it from cover to cover and just given me a gist of it to say "sure I know what it's about" and at the same time not having to read that dreary, slow book. Which at the time, when I was 8 I found it a bore. Then I grew up and learned of the colonisation and racist themes it had, besides being boring. Still, if I'd find a cheap used Penguin edition I'll still buy it. Can never say no to Penguin Classics.
+Stefan B. Japanese porn books have picked up the mantle.
When Robinson Crusoe was published, the cover of a book was pretty much the only advertising the book got, hence the long descriptive titles (with the first part in larger print).
I guess it's just like putting the blurb in the front
I just looked it up as I thought you were joking, and had probably added everything after, "all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America," yourself (which I thought was quite clever).
Fun fact: Hitler's moustache style was because that is the only part of your face that you can have facial hair on under the gas masks used in WWI. Having a beard would ruin the seal and make the masks less effective (and Charlie Chaplin's moustache is that way for the same reason)
More fun facts: Hitler had a regular moustache long after WW ended. He only shaved it to the toothbrush style when he rose up in the ranks of NSDAP. There are plenty of pictures with bearded and moustachioed soldiers on all sides during the WW. As for Chaplin, I always thought it was a fake moustache glued on.
@@ZombieDragQueen I didn't actually know this fun fact so thank you for fun facting my fun fact friend
@@ZombieDragQueen Having significant facial hair was very fashionable in many armies around Europe, including the British, at the time, and many soldiers went into WW1 with significant facial hair. However with the advent of poison gas it became regulation for troops to be clean shaven so they could wear gas masks.
Also, the toothbrush moustache was just a popular style of facial hair at the time. Today it's very strongly associated with Hitler but at the time it was pretty common.
@@kapitankapital6580 Yes, I know. Bit of a history buff myself, though I wouldn't say "significant" facial hair was the norm. A thick mustache certainly, but since the industrial revolution and proximity to fire and machinery for the working classes it seems like well trimmed and groomed beards were a statement for the upper (middle) classes/nobility.
Yes, it was a low-maintenance mustache style fashioned in the US and subsequently got popular in Europe, "usurping" in Germany the "Kaiser-stasche". And Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy wore it, so it got celebrity endorsement. Hitler chose it perhaps as to appeal to the working class as well as signaling he's in tune with the current cultural trends. His love for Disney's cartoons is well documented.
Wait, why charlie chaplin want to wwear gas mask, he didnt served in war as (as infantry)
Calling Hitler "quite intense" is very british indeed.
@@arnoldhau1 …and very English to answer ”do you find that?” The English need confirmation lest they risk speaking their real thoughts to a comment made in jest. The English want consensus.
Didn't private "Schweijk" use to call his dog "Australia" because he found it on the boarder between Austria and Italia?
Švejk - lol, so funny
You know as I listen to this again, these "friends" of Adolf and Eva sound like they're either oblivious or unaware or delusional about what kind of person Adolf really is. Kind of sounds like they see too much of him as a good driven person. And being associated with him, it almost sounds like they're convincing themselves that he's not as bad or are trying to turn a blind eye on his bad side. XD
It takes on a whole new dimension in the light of so many people in the USA failing to find a bad word to say about you-know-who.
OMG they know about Perth!! No one ever gives us a shout out.
Course they know about Perth. Should have heard Hitler going on and on about all the Brits in Perth. If you didn't know him you'd think he was a bit racist.
Blimey!
I know about The Perth Group, but I'd be surprised if you do. They haven't recorded any hit songs, before anyone asks.
Perth person here and I hate to say it,but there are people here that fit he model.
People from Perth should be given much more voice and chance especially in getting into art schools.
David looks very cute in the picture.
He looks like a spy.
A cute one.
I bet a number of professors at the art school that rejected him came to regret the decision, along with the rest of the world
It was Christian Griepenkerl, at least according to wikipedia, I'm too lazy to verify.
@@dukebaloof5306 The man who changed history
Doubt it. There were far too many extremely disgruntled Germans or Austrians. Someone similar to AH will step up and voice outwhat the defeated masses think. That's why their movement grew at a lightning speed; There were too many angry people.
Honestly, their suffering and punishment as losers of WWI was too much that it didn't lead to genuine constructive reforms.
Ha ha ha, nice one! Is there a Pete and Dud influence here, perhaps?
Any Australians watching this
boom, shout out from perth for ya.
Wait, wouldn't Austria be part of Germany at this point anyway? NITPICKING!
Bennings Ummm he's from Australia. Weren't you listening?
+Kyle Netherwood
The user probably meant at the point in which the sketch was set. But the joke was that the characters thought Hitler was from Australia and has a Perth twang/accent. So it was both a play on words, but also a dive towards the fact that Hitler wasn't of German nationality. And them going about "making a sallad" and having a veggie burger was also a dive to Hitler's vegetarian diet, and then mentioning his relationship with Eva Braun making the characters seem to have a superficial relationship/friendship to the person they speak of, judging them only by a few particular characteristic features. Therein lies the comedy.
Mitchell and Webb have several sketches of "Friends of.." like friends of Darth Vader, James Bond, the Scooby Doo gang, inspector Morse and others.
Also, the Circle Line wasn't a named separate line on the Underground until 1949, although the service had run since 1871 (partial) / 1884 (full circle)
Depends when this hypothetical sketch is meant to be set. Nazi Germany's union with Austria happened in 1938, 4 years after Hitler had become Fuhrer.
Everyone should listen to the Hitler-Mannerheim conversation: ruclips.net/video/oET1WaG5sFk/видео.html
Dolf sounds like a really reasonable guy. I'd have him around to dinner for a knees up.....just joking. I'm not a vegetarian.
Hehe. Funny.
Australian
I wonder what a Jewish ps.rson would say about thid
Also, it seems a bit prejudiced to just assume that the tube workers are jewish to be honest.
The joke is about the naive friends who explain everything away... It's in no way a pro-Hitler sketch, very much the opposite.
I find it hilarious
It was alright. I think that if anything, it's European leaders that are very touchy about the subject.
I'm just wondering how did "person" become "ps.rson"?
Why? Doesn't mock Jewish people.