The Armstrong and Miller Show - Hitler sketch

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024

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  • @VickersDoorter
    @VickersDoorter Год назад +21

    Very authentic late 1960s diesel locomotive horn there.

    • @ParaBellum2024
      @ParaBellum2024 Год назад +7

      Let's not let facts get in the way of a good joke!

    • @itsirrelephantman
      @itsirrelephantman 6 месяцев назад

      I noticed that as well.
      Needs a retcon, he travelled into the future to find inspiration, easy as marvel

  • @shimmeister1062
    @shimmeister1062 Год назад +30

    Without doubt the funniest sketch I have seen in my 60 years. The seriousness of it it absolutely spot on.

  • @jessicalrich
    @jessicalrich 12 лет назад +167

    He's only like, got one ball and shit? Like, only one ball?
    Random.

  • @davepowell7168
    @davepowell7168 3 года назад +12

    Possibly the worst 'Eurovision Song Contest ' rejection ever.

  • @pumpkinhill4570
    @pumpkinhill4570 6 лет назад +68

    I can't believe they're still making Academy bait movies like this.

  • @trublgrl
    @trublgrl 4 года назад +50

    I have watched as much Armstrong and Miller as I could find, but I never saw this sketch. It literally had me laughing out loud, alone in the middle of the night. For those of us in the US, this team is one we really missed out on.

    • @ammedredd
      @ammedredd 3 года назад +6

      The only thing that the Monty python team ever All agreed on was that it would never work in the USA, they were all very very wrong.
      Armstrong and Millar, this sketch in particular, has that same daft old British Upper class being sent up by what appears to be the British Upper class, an accent easy to understand by Americans too and as with all the best British humour it takes the *#"* out of itself, nothing is sacred.
      British humour swears allegiance to nothing but humour, with a straight face too of course. Well,. It did!

    • @ammedredd
      @ammedredd 3 года назад +5

      What I meant to say was ' I agree '.

    • @rdhunkins
      @rdhunkins 2 месяца назад

      Mitchell and Webb are another duo we've been deprived of here in the States.

    • @trublgrl
      @trublgrl 2 месяца назад

      ​@@rdhunkins I found Mitchell & Webb from here, though, plainly they haven't achieved much fame in the US. They did get on TV for a while, though. I had to go down a rabbit hole to find Armstrong & Miller. I think they did a sketch for Amnesty with Mitchell & Webb and that made me look into them.
      And anyway, at least Mitchell and Webb have that meme about the European Soldiers.

  • @Electricdreamerb
    @Electricdreamerb 10 лет назад +206

    I honestly thought the scene where Armstrong is trying to write the song is one of the best in this show's history

    • @krashd
      @krashd 7 лет назад +16

      Xander coming up with modern electronic and disco ditties on a harpsichord in the Victorian era were great sketches too. The bouncing energy building up in his character as he cracks in to the energy of "I'm Horny" by Mousse.T is hilarious.

    • @listerofsmeg884
      @listerofsmeg884 5 лет назад +2

      @@krashd 'no?... Ok...'

    • @richardjamieson6681
      @richardjamieson6681 4 года назад +7

      @@krashd a bit late for a reply but the bit where he performs 'Gay Bar' before being knocked out by the woman with the drinks tray is one of my favourite scenes.

    • @jimbojones8208
      @jimbojones8208 3 года назад +6

      "Testes, testes, the Fuhrer has only one" 😂

    • @answerman9933
      @answerman9933 Год назад

      If this scene represent the best then the show must have been dreadful in its entirety.

  • @Drummer2020
    @Drummer2020 2 года назад +21

    If it ever comes up in a pub quiz: the tune is from a march called Colonel Bogey written by Kenneth J Alford of The Royal Marines. His pen name was Major Ricketts and the tune was also played and whistled in the film 'bridge over the river Kwai'

  • @jamesmaybrick2001
    @jamesmaybrick2001 Год назад +3

    Lol. Grew up in the 70's, post war UK. This song (or near enough) was our playground anthem. "Hitler, Has only got one ball, the other, he left in the Albert Hall....." I cant remember the rest. It was 40 years ago.

  • @PruskiWawrzyniec
    @PruskiWawrzyniec 10 лет назад +125

    I honestly think that the song where he goes: "Testies, testies, the furher has only one..." would have been much much better than the original.

    • @athull08
      @athull08 10 лет назад +68

      Indeed. That was the tune of Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two). He should've said "Testes, Testes, the Fuhrer has only one
      And the best is, poor old Goebbels has none
      And what about Goring and Himmler?
      Their problems are both similar
      They have two balls, but they’re so small
      They look like they’re almost gone"

    • @ticklish1991
      @ticklish1991 9 лет назад +6

      +athull08 your song gets stuck in my head most days. it's unbelievably brilliant. just fyi.

    • @axefairy7868
      @axefairy7868 7 лет назад +7

      holy fuck that's incredible

  • @WildSeven19
    @WildSeven19 3 года назад +14

    The horn sounding had me gasping for air.

  • @mary-kittybonkers2374
    @mary-kittybonkers2374 Год назад +22

    This sketch is absolute genius. I knew the song because many of my relatives, who had either fought in WWII or had experienced the Blitz, told me about it and even sang it. To have an entire sketch about it is inspired…and I actually choked on my tea when the car horn sounded😂.

    • @BiblicalMumblings
      @BiblicalMumblings Год назад +7

      It's a train horn.

    • @mary-kittybonkers2374
      @mary-kittybonkers2374 Год назад +1

      @@BiblicalMumblings Thanks.

    • @markiliff
      @markiliff Год назад

      @@BiblicalMumblings From one of those diesel trains that British Railways introduced ca. 1955!!

    • @davejaguar6532
      @davejaguar6532 Год назад +1

      total and utter genius, I've known the song all my life and this totally cracked me up.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Год назад

      Don't worry about that :-0 @@markiliff

  • @SvenniTayivek
    @SvenniTayivek 9 лет назад +47

    I wanted to hear the full song about Goering's prick.
    That came out wrong didn't it.

  • @christopherpeden547
    @christopherpeden547 3 года назад +20

    So clever n bloody hilarious got to be one of the best sketches of all time

  • @binaway
    @binaway 8 лет назад +214

    While a POW in Poland my late Dad said they used to sing this. An English speaking guard asked them why they kept singing about Hitler and the other top Nazis. The POW's explained it's meaning. He laughed in a very hushed manner saying no no. You will get into trouble. You must stop.

    • @MahsaKaerra
      @MahsaKaerra 8 лет назад +35

      That guard seemed like a nice guy, proof that not every German was a Nazi. I hope he survived the war.

    • @piershood8454
      @piershood8454 8 лет назад

      binaway

    • @stephenhooker882
      @stephenhooker882 8 лет назад +7

      Für Zat - you fill be schot....

    • @atraxuswraithe6031
      @atraxuswraithe6031 7 лет назад +30

      binaway - Mate, it seems to me that your Dad was a bloody hero, and don't ever let anyone tell you any different. To sing that song in that situation; that took serious guts. If you don't mind me asking, which branch of the allied armed forces was he in? Just so you know, my paternal Grandpa was in the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force), as a Leading Aircraftman, who worked on Avro Lancasters and Short Sunderlands (British bomber aircraft). Basically, he was in charge of keeping the Lancasters and Sunderlands in working condition and to repair them after a mission. He died 4 years before I was born, but I've talked to my Dad and my Gran about him, as well as found his service records online, so I am, at least partially, familiar with him.

    • @paulreeves7249
      @paulreeves7249 5 лет назад +1

      Nice fairy story got any more.
      It is utter bol-locks but half wits love it.

  • @DogOfKrondor
    @DogOfKrondor Год назад +12

    The version we heard as kids, growing up in Perth, Western Australia was:
    Hitler has only got one ball, the other is in the Perth Town Hall
    His mother, the dirty bugger
    Cut it off when he was small

    • @tonygorham
      @tonygorham Год назад +9

      I'm the UK or was on the Albert Hall

    • @greenwoodorganics4681
      @greenwoodorganics4681 Год назад +3

      it rolled into the deep blue sea
      picked up a bit of fresh seaweed
      the fishes
      got out their dishes
      and had scollops and bollocks for tea

  • @szw1337
    @szw1337 Год назад +13

    The cut to the Nazi's at the end was a perfect final touch.

    • @markfox1545
      @markfox1545 2 месяца назад

      *Nazis. Apostrophes play no part in plurals and you were never taught that they do so why do it?

  • @ericjamieson
    @ericjamieson 6 лет назад +13

    They were originally going to sing this at the beginning of Bridge on the River Kwai, but British censors at the time wouldn't allow it, so that's why in the movie they whistle the melody instead.

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 6 лет назад +2

      I personally love the orchestration that surrounds the main melody with that one.

  • @drdudemeister
    @drdudemeister 13 лет назад +36

    Makes you wonder what the spy went through to get that information

    • @AsDeadAsDillinger
      @AsDeadAsDillinger 5 лет назад +11

      _"Many bottoms died to bring us that information."_

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 лет назад +1

      @@AsDeadAsDillinger bothans

    • @larsgutsein3910
      @larsgutsein3910 Год назад

      Prince Ludwig : Yes! I was one of his sheep!
      Lord Melchett : His sheep? Not...
      Prince Ludwig : Yes!
      Lord Melchett : Flossy?
      Prince Ludwig : Yes!
      Lord Melchett : But didn't we...

  • @deanberolzheimer2658
    @deanberolzheimer2658 Год назад +2

    Comet, it makes your mouth so clean...
    Comet, it tastes like gasoline.....
    Comet, it makes you vomit,
    So get some comet and vomit ,todaaaaay!

  • @tiffro
    @tiffro 14 лет назад +16

    this has to be one of the best sketches ever

  • @harryohrt5255
    @harryohrt5255 7 лет назад +26

    If I may point out: the tune, "Colonel Bogey March", was inspired by the composer's overhearing of a retired colonel's call on a golf course.

    • @TheShanampan
      @TheShanampan 4 года назад

      If I may point out it was a diesel engines horn,which were not around in the 40's..

    • @davepowell7168
      @davepowell7168 3 года назад +1

      Ha ha, you said bogie. Unreal shame..

    • @davepowell7168
      @davepowell7168 3 года назад +1

      @@TheShanampan didn't stop its rejection from the European Song Contest

  • @pavarottiaardvark3431
    @pavarottiaardvark3431 3 года назад +6

    First time I saw this I absolutely lost my shit at "Testes, testes, the Fürher has only one!"

  • @NorbertDoetsch
    @NorbertDoetsch 10 лет назад +35

    One of the best sketches ever, real funny, alway wondered where this song came from...

  • @RonWylie-gk5lc
    @RonWylie-gk5lc 6 лет назад +6

    You know, that song must have been a thorn in the side of the Nazis ha ha, it certainly kept the spirits up , clever buggers {as always}

  • @pressureworks
    @pressureworks Год назад +3

    This song, Der Fuhrers Face, and of course The Killer Joke brought Hitler and his vermon to their end.

  • @flanplan5903
    @flanplan5903 3 года назад +22

    This sketch is hilarious, even more so when you realize that the song is a real one. I should also note that I also found the dissonance between Armstrong’s speaking and singing voices (it’s somewhat harder to tell from his singing voice and speaking voice that it is the same person).

    • @JT29501
      @JT29501 Год назад +6

      "Realise"? There isn't a British schoolkid who doesn't still know this song, even over 80 years later!

  • @martydoherty2660
    @martydoherty2660 Год назад +1

    Very good. Alexander is a very talented musician. It reminds me of a funny story about English chutzpah or foolishness, take your pick. In the summer of 1940, George Orwell burst into a pub in London, possibly The George on Mortimer Street, and shouted ‘The German Army’s crossed the Rhine! Somebody said ‘Parlez Vous’, and they all carried on quietly supping their pints.

  • @zetaconvex1987
    @zetaconvex1987 6 лет назад +87

    This is actually comedy genius.

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 6 лет назад +4

      Especially as it's played so deadpan.

    • @zetaconvex1987
      @zetaconvex1987 6 лет назад +3

      Gentlemen, I think we've just one ourselves the war.

    • @NoahSpurrier
      @NoahSpurrier 4 года назад +2

      It is.

    • @nmajoros
      @nmajoros 4 года назад +1

      it's fairly derivative of the Monty's Funniest joke in the world though

    • @literate-aside
      @literate-aside 4 года назад +4

      I've come from the future to tell you you're still right.

  • @jimbojones8208
    @jimbojones8208 3 года назад +38

    "You know Hitler's balls?"
    - Yea?
    "You know how many he's always had and that?"
    - Like, two balls or some shit like that?
    "Yea well he's only got one ball now"
    - Random

    • @erikarneberg11
      @erikarneberg11 3 года назад +9

      Isn’t it?

    • @PDFulwood
      @PDFulwood 3 года назад +10

      @@erikarneberg11 Isn't it though?!

    • @MrBigCookieCrumble
      @MrBigCookieCrumble 3 года назад +8

      @@PDFulwood You know what i mean?

    • @Emsworth377
      @Emsworth377 3 года назад +1

      I know what you mean. I'm not some sort of remtard or something.

    • @damageYT666
      @damageYT666 3 года назад +6

      Harsh.

  • @lewys93
    @lewys93 14 лет назад +30

    This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time; however, I showed it to my friends and they didn't even crack a smile

    • @TheVickersDoorter
      @TheVickersDoorter 4 года назад +14

      Nine years on... did you ditch them and get new friends who understand great humour?

    • @Steve-gc5nt
      @Steve-gc5nt 3 года назад +17

      Were they German?

    • @davepowell7168
      @davepowell7168 3 года назад +9

      They ain't friends they 'comedically challenged '

  • @marialac4177
    @marialac4177 2 года назад +3

    This is incredible funny😛, excellent! The first time that I hear about Armstrong and Miiller, genius!

  • @tonyjedioftheforest1364
    @tonyjedioftheforest1364 3 года назад +8

    Absolutely brilliant comedy genius.

  • @Definitely-aDuck
    @Definitely-aDuck 3 года назад +7

    This is one of my favourite shows. Very funny.

  • @tonylia2057
    @tonylia2057 4 года назад +6

    Haven’t laughed this hard ad long till my sides hurt in a long long time...especially when the car horn beeped

    • @Grizzly01
      @Grizzly01 3 года назад +3

      Train.

    • @patersor
      @patersor 2 года назад +5

      @@Grizzly01 And a *very* Post-war train to boot 🙂

  • @Kris.G
    @Kris.G 7 лет назад +28

    3:33 that line was delivered masterfully!

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 6 лет назад +5

      Yeah, by one of the guys who starred in Horrible Histories.

  • @ghhg213
    @ghhg213 3 года назад +3

    i live not far from a train line , I'm singing this 20 times a day

  • @kiwisteve6598
    @kiwisteve6598 Год назад +1

    Gold. Just think what ‘allo ‘allo could have done with the same idea.😅

  • @Grymbaldknight
    @Grymbaldknight 6 лет назад +32

    To address some confusion in the comments, the melody to this song predates the version which sings about Hitler. It's called the "Colonel Bogey March", for anyone who's interested, and was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts of the British Army.

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 6 лет назад +8

      It's also used as the main theme tune to the movie "Bridge on the River Kwai."

    • @burtlangoustine1
      @burtlangoustine1 Год назад +2

      thanks

    • @davidsmith5523
      @davidsmith5523 Год назад +3

      It was most memorably performed at one of Hitler's balls though.

    • @amcmenemy5647
      @amcmenemy5647 Год назад +1

      Vielen Danke

    • @tonywright8294
      @tonywright8294 Год назад

      Do you have any friends ?

  • @janes.9736
    @janes.9736 Год назад +1

    we sang this as kids. This sketch made me laugh out loud. One of the best.

  • @mightisright
    @mightisright 14 лет назад +10

    Get me my old piano.

  • @Schensue
    @Schensue 12 лет назад +5

    This song and the funniest joke ever written won the war.

  • @MrMyers758
    @MrMyers758 12 лет назад +3

    2:48-2:54 That kick was so powerful it caused the candle to ignite!

  • @ebonywatch
    @ebonywatch 6 месяцев назад +1

    I've only got to hear that fucking two-tone train whistle and I'm gone. Inspired stuff!

  • @MixedBag27
    @MixedBag27 14 лет назад +15

    The best sketch these two have ever done.

  • @shantibaku7394
    @shantibaku7394 10 лет назад +17

    Isn't the other one in the Albert Hall? LoL. Love it when the horn inspires the tune :)

    • @jonathandown5709
      @jonathandown5709 10 лет назад +1

      There are multiple versions yes.

    • @visigothic67
      @visigothic67 8 лет назад +4

      +Rob Fraser Kids still sing about the grand old Duke of York, and none of them know why.

    • @zarabada6125
      @zarabada6125 5 лет назад +1

      @Shanti part of the humour with the horn is that it's an anachronism. The sketch is meant to be set in WW2 but he hears a modern train horn. WW2 trains in the UK would have used whistles instead of horns.

    • @Codex7777
      @Codex7777 4 года назад

      @@zarabada6125 - Thank you for explaining it to us mere mortals. We, being thick as shit, were completely ignorant, re' the humour. Luckily someone, with the wisdom of the gods, was on hand to explain the deep profundity beneath the surface. Once again, thank you!

  • @doverandover61
    @doverandover61 8 лет назад +61

    Johnson has only got one ball
    Cameron had two but very small
    Farage kept his in the garage
    and poor old Leadsom has no balls at all ( That´s to be expected )

  • @freakyflow
    @freakyflow 13 лет назад +1

    @harpoon66 Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" refers to the many variations on a set of lyrics to the popular "Colonel Bogey March". These are four-line lyrics making fun of the Nazi leaders the train horn was two notes in the song which the voice on the two notes is Bol - locks! or Bollocks which is slang for balls

  • @athull08
    @athull08 13 лет назад +1

    @TheMotherOfChrist which background music?
    If you mean the tune of Hitler Has Only Got One Ball, that's a military march called Colonel Bogey.

  • @IndieVolken
    @IndieVolken Год назад +1

    for the Trainspotters out there ; the sketch kind of falls flat at 2:55 when the 1980s "125 high speed train" horn does the opening notes of the tune Colonel Bogey

  • @nobunaga240
    @nobunaga240 Год назад +1

    Brilliant sketch capturing all sorts of funny memes or is it tropes

  • @EmperorBeef
    @EmperorBeef 8 месяцев назад +1

    Never before has a single minor third interval been employed to such comedic effect

  • @scaryninja1693
    @scaryninja1693 13 лет назад +2

    @MCTheo3 That'd be the one, cheers. They also have some of the "Fast and Loose" improv comedians in the show as well, I've noticed.

  • @danfozzie
    @danfozzie 14 лет назад +6

    Best Pairing In British Comedy. :D

  • @athull08
    @athull08 13 лет назад +1

    @alexstewartmovies the train's horn was the first 2 notes of Colonel Bogey, which reminded him of the tune.

  • @Cabdrum1
    @Cabdrum1 4 года назад +4

    The diesel train .... genius 🤣

    • @TheCatBilbo
      @TheCatBilbo 3 года назад +1

      But, during WW2?!

    • @Cabdrum1
      @Cabdrum1 3 года назад +2

      @@TheCatBilbo I think it’s called ‘poetic licence’ .....

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 Год назад +1

    My mother grew up during the war and she and the other kids sang: ''Goebbels had two like gerbils.'' so you know, all kinds of fun rhymes there!!

  • @flannerymonaghan-morris7461
    @flannerymonaghan-morris7461 2 года назад +2

    This is hilarious. Also I find the dissonance between Armstrong’s speaking and singing voice to always get to me here.

  • @vlengoc
    @vlengoc 12 лет назад +1

    @TJPricey4eva It's called 'On Dangerous Ground' by Ian Hughes
    I was wondering the same thing, used Shazam to find out.

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 13 лет назад +8

    One of their best! How do they come up with this stuff?

  • @miambao
    @miambao 14 лет назад +5

    Hahaha that fucking train gets me everytime.

    • @Theytoldmetodoit1
      @Theytoldmetodoit1 6 лет назад +2

      Yes, and about 20 years too early. Lol

    • @David-ud9ju
      @David-ud9ju 6 лет назад

      Given the horn and the sound of it moving, it was almost certainly a car.

  • @rossnavy
    @rossnavy 12 лет назад +3

    Anyone else notice that German soldier at the end is angelos epithemiou!

  • @Longlife4YT
    @Longlife4YT Год назад +1

    I couldn’t know how much cheap things for it

  • @johnsrabe
    @johnsrabe 3 года назад

    The song was sung by Ulrich Tukur and Steve Buscemi in the international blockbuster “John Rabe.”

  • @LordPosho
    @LordPosho 13 лет назад +2

    @harpoon66 There was wartime song called Hitler Has Only Got One Ball - its sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey (the tune they whistle in the film The Bridge on The River Kwai). Its a song you first hear as a teenager at school then you grow up with it. Not sure if its would really be funny to anyone not familiar with Britain.

    • @PhilJonesIII
      @PhilJonesIII 6 лет назад

      We used to sing this song on the school bus back in the 1960s. The driver and conductor didnt just encourage us, they taught us the damn song.

    • @timdowney6721
      @timdowney6721 6 лет назад

      Yes, it is funny to one not familiar with Britain. Me. I’ve been humming it and laughing for, now, 46 hours. ;>)

    • @remandstimpy
      @remandstimpy 6 лет назад +2

      +Tim Downey. Glad you liked it. EVERYONE in Britain knows this song, even those born decades after the war, that's why there are those random bursts of laughter as the audience realizes where the sketch is going.

  • @Mikdeelow
    @Mikdeelow 6 лет назад +3

    looool! i’m crying from laughing so hard! and can barely type!

  • @ajivins1
    @ajivins1 12 лет назад +3

    I foresee an Ivor Novello in the offing...

  • @athull08
    @athull08 13 лет назад +4

    @sstelmaschuk YES. The Testes, Testes bit was the tune of Daisy Belle (Bicycle Built for Two).
    He gave up on that too early! He could have said:
    "Testes, Testes, the Fuhrer has only one
    And the best is, poor old Goebbels has none
    And what about Goring and Himmler?
    Their problems are both similar
    They have two balls, but they’re so small
    They look like they’re almost gone"

    • @richardvillafana7743
      @richardvillafana7743 4 года назад

      Change the last line to "They look like they're from a doll"

    • @athull08
      @athull08 4 года назад

      @@richardvillafana7743 Doesn't rhyme. And dolls are female.

    • @gerryatrick
      @gerryatrick 3 года назад

      Last line..They look like they have none at all.

    • @athull08
      @athull08 3 года назад

      @@gerryatrick Does not rhyme. Has to rhyme with one and none. Also, Goebbels is the one with none at all.

    • @gerryatrick
      @gerryatrick 3 года назад

      @@athull08 I said it "looks" like they have one at all, not that they had none at all. They were so small one could hardy see them.
      "They look like they’re almost gone" How does "gone" rhyme with one or none?
      "All" rhymes with "small". "Gone" rhymes with none of the above especially not small or one or none.
      One and none rhyme, Himmler and similar Rhyme but small and gone? Nah.. small and all yes...

  • @mindrolling24
    @mindrolling24 5 лет назад +5

    Oh this is brilliant!!!

  • @RelativelyHostile1
    @RelativelyHostile1 13 лет назад +2

    2:06 is just too fucking hilarious, i burst out in high pitch laughter in the middle of the night and i'm a dude XD

  • @G31M1
    @G31M1 9 лет назад +40

    And that's how they won the war XD

    • @RexOrwell
      @RexOrwell 5 лет назад +1

      Yep. It was touch and go for a while.

    • @tommiturmiola3682
      @tommiturmiola3682 5 лет назад +1

      Quite literaly. It all depended on two things: 1)British having balls and fighting. 2) Hitler having second thoughts several times during the war. This including Hitler not invading England. In the end invasion wouldn't have been even possible as things went but this was mostly because Hitler couldn't even dream of invading England and expected them just to give up and therefore didn't plan for it. Had Germans planed for it before starting the war and gone for it immediately after Dunkirk or capitulation of the France then it propably would have been successfull.

  • @nobunaga240
    @nobunaga240 Год назад +1

    Probably their finest sketch

  • @jeffreyser
    @jeffreyser 14 лет назад +4

    Very good.. I think it would have been funnier if they'd not read out the 'secret' near the start... and left it to the very end to reveal.... but that's probably analysing all the fun out of it; and maybe too traditional a format for A&M... still very good!

    • @tobybartels8426
      @tobybartels8426 8 лет назад +1

      Yes, that's what I think; but then it would be too subtle for the Americans in the audience.

    • @davidsmith5523
      @davidsmith5523 Год назад

      They might wade in after about three years?

    • @frankmachin5438
      @frankmachin5438 Год назад

      Oh, Johnny Cleese over here, the great sketch writer ….

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 12 лет назад +3

    One of their best! So clever!

  • @Richard_is_cool
    @Richard_is_cool 5 лет назад +3

    Gerard would like a toy of that PM!

  • @MrKaywyn
    @MrKaywyn 6 лет назад +1

    I love the song.

  • @LuRawen
    @LuRawen 13 лет назад

    Such a random little song! XD Would be good for a ringtone... :D

  • @josephinebennington7247
    @josephinebennington7247 5 лет назад +2

    Only one tiny, but important, observation...the descending two tone Dee Dah should be an ascending Dah deeh. But nevertheless, a brilliant sketch.

    • @ChrisMelville
      @ChrisMelville 5 лет назад +1

      Josephine Bennington My local trains give a descending horn. I guess they must go both ways.

  • @athull08
    @athull08 13 лет назад +1

    @SadSadDoomDay you can. The tune, at least. It's a very famous tune.

  • @garychapman4294
    @garychapman4294 Год назад +1

    Brilliant! And I loved brabbins & fyfe 😂

  • @billyandrew
    @billyandrew Год назад +1

    A classic. 😂😂😂
    I miss their shows.

  • @missgreeneyes56
    @missgreeneyes56 13 лет назад +1

    @danfozzie I know it's been a long time but, you have forgotten Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore. Listen to Dudley's piano. RUclips (Dudley Moore Beethoven Sonata Parody)

  • @Thursdaym2
    @Thursdaym2 5 лет назад +5

    Funniest of all. As kids we sang it.

  • @ricardoroberto100
    @ricardoroberto100 4 года назад

    Lost in translation bit at the end. Ha ha.

  • @athull08
    @athull08 13 лет назад

    @LuRawen you can get it as a ringtone, it's a very famous tune

  • @AmirBrooks
    @AmirBrooks Год назад +1

    Churchill... hast einen massivkok

  • @lewisjones2825
    @lewisjones2825 Год назад +1

    Dudley Moore used the same tune to parody Beethoven

  • @ivorbiggun710
    @ivorbiggun710 5 лет назад +2

    Amusing though this is I can't help but notice a decided similarity to 'Mozart, Man of Music' from Harry Enfield's Norbert Smith - A Life, which predates this sketch by some years..

    • @richardclarke3924
      @richardclarke3924 5 лет назад +2

      Actually Monty Pythons most deadly joke sketch was before the lot and pretty much set the tone, very good A&M sketch though

    • @tnecniv1952
      @tnecniv1952 Год назад +1

      @@richardclarke3924 On the shoulders of giants?

  • @PedroConejo1939
    @PedroConejo1939 Год назад +1

    Out of nowhere this pops into my feed, the week after we were trying to teach the kids at school the importance of (and the words to) Colonel Bogey. Must remember to use it when we return in September.

  • @MrMrgetbad
    @MrMrgetbad 3 года назад +1

    Its a yes from me.. your through to the next round see you in London🙂

  • @dereksawle
    @dereksawle 3 года назад +1

    the train, lol. brilliant!

  • @hindlewalker9330
    @hindlewalker9330 Год назад

    This was a ditty we knew and sang back in the 60's in the playground.

  • @muninraven3327
    @muninraven3327 6 лет назад +4

    There's a bridge named after this. The bridge crosses the river Kwai, but the bridge itself is more correctly referred to as the... "Kawaii Bridge". So adorable!

  • @georgeharrod7805
    @georgeharrod7805 2 года назад +2

    The Nazis didn't stand a chance after that.

  • @BHALT0S
    @BHALT0S Год назад +1

    this is a true story

  • @Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood
    @Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood Год назад +1

    Amazing 😂

  • @philjamieson5572
    @philjamieson5572 3 года назад +1

    Comedy gold, I reckon.

  • @albion.hlafweard
    @albion.hlafweard 6 лет назад +1

    3:10 the start of the song

  • @upperiscopeUK
    @upperiscopeUK 3 года назад +1

    Priceless

  • @LagunaX1
    @LagunaX1 12 лет назад +6

    The car horn was amazing lol

    • @teclo1057
      @teclo1057 5 лет назад +5

      TRAIN

    • @TheVickersDoorter
      @TheVickersDoorter 4 года назад +4

      @@teclo1057 I guess being a classic British Rail diesel horn tone, it's lost on those outside the UK.

    • @seankayll9017
      @seankayll9017 4 года назад +1

      @@TheVickersDoorter Wouldn't it have been a steam whistle during the war?