Not heard of these folks, will check out their other work. Really liked the MLK sketch, that's a clever 'what if' moment, as was Galileeroy the pimp. The slavery sketch was also good. I think it depends on what you're laughing at in cases like this. Humour, especially satire, is a good weapon. It's the juxtaposition of slaves complaining that they're not being sold which is funny, not the fact that people own(ed) other people as property. Horrible Histories do some great sketches for kids all ages, and Mitchell and Webb did a few good historical sketches in their various series.
The slave auction was my favorite of this collection, but the best K&P is "The Human Centipede Reunion Sketch." I almost suffocated laughing the first time I heard its punchline. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with History.
They ended key and peele in 2015 and they both went on to do some pretty cool stuff. Keegan is in a bunch of funny movies and Jordan actually became a horror director and wrote and directed get out and nope
Us was a bit of a meh film, but Get Out was legitimately one of the best films in a long time and Nope was great. EDIT: I undersold how good "Get Out" was. It's in a league of it's own - it really does deserve serious attention as one of the best horror films of a generation.
Considering that Ben Franklin was one of the founding fathers I think that if we showed them some of our "horrific" weapons. They'd probably be more impressed than appalled.
Considering they just finished fighting a tyrannical government for the freedom of this nation, yes, they’d be impressed. They were ahead of their time and knew what the putting in there. They weren’t so closed minded to think “it would only be for single shot weapons for hunting, blah blah blah”
I don't think they'd be super impressed. The Lewis and Clarke expedition was around the time of the signing and they had an automatic (repeating) rifle that was nearly 50 cal.
Harriet Tubman has always been my heroine for her values, bravery, and, dedication. What I only recently learned is that she accompanied each group of people who fled the South using the network and path she created. She put her own freedom and life on the line each time to free the others. She doesn’t need to be on our money, she needs a greater honor than that.
I think being on currency is pretty good, though. She'd be in the same company as some of the greatest historical figures in human history; e.g., Julius Caesar, George Washington, Napolean Bonaparte, et. Al. Actually...I think we should put her on a coin. Not that having a holiday isn't great, but hell, we give foods, animals, and lovers their own holiday. Not nearly as prestigious, or as timeless.
I don’t think it was because he was white that he was hesitant to laugh, but because it’s simply dark humor about a dark time in history that’s not funny in and of itself
Mr. Terry has a job to think about. What if the school he works at sees this video and they view jt as controversial? It's very possible because white people, and people in general, are very consumed by BLM. Also, what if black students who attend his class bring this up and start raising a fuss? A lot of black people are way too serious about their race (some, not all, of course.)
K&P was an underrated show. I'd put it up there with some of the best skit comedy shows of the 80's and 90's like In Living Color, Mad TV, Kids in the Hall, SNL, etc.
I think everyone appreciates them and feels just like you about their greatness being right up there and surpassing MadTV, In Living Color, et al. On Y.T., I keep seeing the word “underrated” getting used on artists that everybody agrees are top-quality: what is the story behind that ?
I rarely stick around for the commentary afterwards... You being the - jokingly - pedantic person who occasionally corrects actual history gives me a much deeper understanding of the funny/stupid clips! I love it!❤
Quite true. And after emancipation, many former slaves returned to Texas and worked as cowboys after learning herding cattle and horses from Mexican Vaqueros.
The dates weren't made by the show itself. They were made up by whoever created that RUclips compilation. In the original show they don't show any of the dates
The puckle gun would not have been common knowledge. There's only concrete evidence of 2 of them ever being made, and perhaps up to 6 based on shipping records, and no evidence that they ever saw use in battle
@@redstorm8373 my point is the founding fathers would have known about it and had the foresight to know self loading arms would have come along in a more common occurrence
I remember hearing from a teacher that the term "knocked up" came from slaving times. Since a pregnant women was worth more than one, her prices got "knocked up".
This was great! They are done as a comedy central show, and I had to let you know that you most certainly can laugh at the pain right along with the rest of us
Drunk History was always my favorite. I enjoyed so many of the episodes that it's hard to name specificones, but since they were covered to an extent here I recommend the Harriet Tubman one and give a special shout out to the Alexander Hamilton featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Actually the international slave trade ended in 1808, but slaves were still taken from state to state and sold at auction in 1848. History professor here.
Thanks I thought that was the case. Threw me off when he said it ended by then. It didn't end in the US until the 13th Amendment or maybe just prior I thought.
7:28 they literally had advanced weapons, back then, not just muskets. they had mass fire weapons (16 barrels) repating rifles (yes, they did), and cannons; all of which they were in favor of the private citizen owning
A gun that could kill scores of people existed. Lewis and Clarke had one. It was a sealed air system that shot .46-caliber lead balls much like a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. It could hold 22 lead balls. It was called the Girandoni air rifle. It dates back to 1580 and is currently on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
I feel like the railroad one was pretty accurate in a way. People forget that a lot of slaves actually did give up part way through and try to go back, because it really wasn’t easy to get away. People forget Tubman actually used to kill slaves who gave up, because she couldn’t risk the railroad getting discovered, or ANY info about her operation getting leaked. She warned them ahead of time, that once they go with her it’s literally either freedom or death
Exactly! I'm so glad you brought this up! People like to forget that part of her because it means having to admit that she was a complex human being and not a sanitized "safe for family" version that we were all taught in school (even MLK suffers from this).
I think Key & Peele got it pretty spot on with what would happen if you went back in time and showed the people ratifying the second amendment modern weapons. It would just cause a sharp increase in weapons technology lol
Ehh, I'm not so sure. From what I've read, they were mechanically clever enough to figure that sort of thing out -- clockworks and mechanical harvesters were all undergoing constant development and improvement during the late 18th and 19th centuries. My understanding is that the real innovations which needed to be made for automatic firearms were metallurgical and (the absolute key component) "smokeless" gunpowder. Both of those require better understanding of materials science and chemistry, fields that were also undergoing rapid development at the time, but I don't know that seeing what's possible from a pair of machine pistols would have helped to advance those technologies any.
@@boom350ph they definitely tried things like that, and eventually came up with the Gatling gun. As I understand it, black powder fouling means you can't get more than a few rounds through a repeating mechanism before the whole thing gums up too much. There's also the question of industrial capacity (machine guns go through ammunition at a RIDICULOUS rate!) and necessary precision in tooling. One of the great advantages of the Union during the civil war was a certain level of parts interchangeability, but it was _abysmally_ low by modern standards -- and they considered that a national strategic goal in the 1860s. My point is, even with the designs, the technological and industrial ability wasn't there yet.
@@Chasmodius hey a small force or one dude having a modern rifle is enough they will do a the german formation of ten rifles and machine gun or a guy with somesort of auto rifle
@@boom350ph but the precision tooling required to get brass cartridge cases repeatedly in the correct dimensions to allow proper feeding would still be a bottleneck. And they were again lacking the metallurgy to produce breech-loading chambers that they could trust wouldn't blow up in their faces -- an occasional danger even with muzzle-loading firearms at the time. It wasn't their imaginations that was falling short, but the level of scientific knowledge and precision machining available to them. In my opinion, at any rate.
Damn, that's right about the guns lol if we had showed them a modern weapon of our time, back then, they would've likely loved them and would want to use them in battle for the wars at the time
There are letters asking if it's OK to arm merchant ships under the 2nd amendment and the founders were like BUY CANNONS, the biggest you can afford to defend yourselves. So yeah they would have loved this.
Modern weapons aren't that far off from what existed back then... There was government documents indicating they discussed using an automatic rifle with a design submitted to them by a well known gunsmith. Automatic weapons existed back then, but they were usually too costly. It wasn't until modern production techniques that drove prices down that they've been more common now than ever. You can find very old documents dating back to the 1700s that had designs for automatic weapons such as the puckle gun dated 1718. We actually have actual guns such as Girandoni air rifle which was in used by the Austrian army from 1780 to 1820 or so. There's even ones from the 1500s from the area that's now modern germany, a Arquebus with a 10 round revolving cylinder. Nothing about the idea of keeping gunpowder and a bullet in the same cartridge was new, nor was the concept of firing bullets in quick succession. In fact evidence exists that many who founded our country had seen and fired these weapons first hand.
"What chya'll havin?" "chicken and grits" "Yo that's racist! I'm going to take you up on the offer but it's still racist." I really expected the one skit to end that way.
At the time that the Bill of Rights was being written, repeating firearms had long existed, but were only owned by rich men. The Puckle Gun, and several other examples, are easily found, online. The Founders had a pretty good idea what innovations could lead to.
Agreed. I think the idea was to have firepower equal to, or better, than any enemy, so the argument that the founders would have been against modern weapons seems silly. They would have wanted people to have whatever it took to show up and beat America's enemies, imo. To fight against the federal government? Maybe not so much.
Outside of my hometown in Ohio, I used to spend weeks during the summer at my Great Auntie's old farm. huge old house with gables, etc. As a teen, I found an 1863 Confederate $20 bill.. (My Aunt was elderly and lived alone; and was a "packrat"). She told me the place had been a secret shelter for runaway slaves going north to Canada as part of that "underground railroad".
On the second amendment, it's often forgotten that private individuals owned cannons and even ships of war. The second amendment was not about hunting or national defense. It was about defense from a tyrannical government.
7:30 Canons, bombs, mines, and grenades all existed and were legal for anyone to own. The idea of guns being banned for being "too effective" is absurd revisionism of the founding principles of America. America wasn't founded on pragmatism, it was founded on ideologies of individual rights and supremacy of people over the states. There have always been materials and technology available for mass killing. What there didn't used to be was a society that produces mass killers and then blames objects.
NYS Rifle v Bruen EXPRESSLY states that the right to bear arms has NOTHING to do with maintaining a well regulated militia and applies to individuals as well.
The 2nd is about militias, but also about individual rights, also Louis and Clarke carried a gun that was semi automatic and varied a hopper full of ammo. It was compressed air but was also a 30mm shooting over 800fps. Our forefathers were well aware of commas and one of the fastest developing industries in the world.
James Puckle’s Machine Gun (1718): James Puckle, an English inventor, patented a machine gun that could fire 63 shots in seven minutes. This early machine gun had a pre-loaded cylinder and was intended for use on British ships to repel boarders. Pepper-Box Pistols ( Late 18th Century): These pistols featured multiple barrels and could fire multiple shots in quick succession. They were not fully automatic, but they were an improvement over single-shot pistols. Girandoni Air Rifle ( Late 18th Century): This Austrian-made air rifle had a 20-shot revolving cylinder and was used by hunters and sportsmen. Breech-Loading Rifles ( Late 18th Century): Rifles like the Hall Model 1819, which was produced in the United States, allowed for faster loading and firing than traditional muzzle-loading firearms. While not fully automatic, they were an improvement over earlier firearms. These early firearms demonstrate that the concept of rapid-fire weapons was not entirely new during the time of the Constitution’s signing
There was also a design submitted to the government for an automatic rifle, and government documents indicating it was discussed using them. The government at the time decided against it for two primary reasons, first is they were expensive, and second was the concern of these weapons falling into the hands of the british, who were still using standard muskets and would potentially make their enemy stronger if a large supply fell into their hands. Coupled with the fact that the overwhelming majority of guns, ships, cannons, and war supplies in general were mostly owned by private citizens. There wasn't much of a need to supply guns when the population had more than enough, and their primary issue was simply having enough troops.
@@paulghignon4092the US citizens have enough ammunition to arm a whole army for a while. Crazy how far we came. I didn’t know the backstory to the automatics but it makes sense not wanting the enemies to have the blueprints to make them. Now we send over weapons to the enemies for nothing.
Mr Terry really showing his area of expertise calling out the dates in American history whe the Jesus sketch says it takes place in 5 BC (Before Christ) and not a peep 🤣
The biggest thing that people don't know about the second amendment is that the people of the time owned war weapons. Gatling guns and cannon were totally kosher.
Hahah I love Peele’s use(again) of the dialogue “insubordinate & churlish…”. I know he used it in the sketch where he’s the teacher pronouncing everyone’s basic names wrong. I feel like he used it one other time but I don’t find anything. ✌️
The problem with the whole arms thing is that they meant ALL arms. There’s the famous story about how Thomas Jefferson let people have cannons on their ships. Plus the founding fathers made clear their intention with the multiple quotes stating exactly what they meant.
@@ScottServais-poet I would say no simply because the most advanced form of weaponry at the time was a cannon and civilians were allowed to own and use those. They were very intelligent men and it’s a little insulting to that intelligence to think they thought muskets were the end of technological advancement
In what universe are 17th century cannons on a boat and flintlock ball + powder rod & tamp rifles in the hands of a well regulated militia, comparable to an M-16 with a buttstock and extended clip in the hands of an 18 year old with a history of drug abuse and severe trauma? Not ours. The USA's gun fetish is grotesque and ends 40,000 American lives a year. And guess what? The fallback you've been taught to go to when confronted on this insanity doesn't even work on paper. Get all the M-16s your arms can hold. The gov't goes tyrannical, what the fuck are your small arms going to do against predator drones, ballistic missiles and tanks? You've been lied to, friend. There are more guns than people in the US not for your protection, but for shareholder profit in the gun companies who put out the propaganda and fund the politicians that's led you to your delusional views on this matter. You're being milked for your fear.
Harriet Tubman took the old “walk this way” joke and added parkour. Edit: I hadn’t realized “free running” was another name for parkour. It’s funnier with that context.
I enjoyed the 2nd Amendment sketch. Reminded me of Dr. Gatling inventing the Gatling Gun in order to allow armies to be smaller and the soldiers to die more so from gunshots as opposed to diseases that they were dying from in the Civil War. The MLK Speech was a fun one too. Talk about the opening act being better than the headliner! lol
The Second Amendment doesn't grant us the right to bear arms. It's already considered an inalienable right that humans are allowed to have the capability to defend themselves and to fight against those who would try and oppress them of that right. The Second Amendment abolishes the ability of government bodies to prevent that right. Huge difference that I don't hear talked about a lot. Anyway, great video. Funny and entertaining as always.
3:49 😂😂😂 I usually avoid Bible jokes because of the way Christianity and Jesus gets ridiculed. But this was quite accurate, giving modern context to that story, even with the cursing it's not even blasphemous, and it's really funny 😂😂
It's not Christianity nor religion that are ridiculed it's the people that try to 🫸 their beliefs onto others that are the problem! Christians have a bad habit of acting like their persecuted when they are the greatest persecutors on Earth
While not super advanced there were revolver type guns that held 10 shots when the 2nd amendment was written and I believe the British had a multi barrel cannon in the 1390s that would shoot all the ammunition at once across a battlefield. While not as fast as modern weapons they were deadlier than muskets that most people believe the 2nd amendment were about. The founding fathers would have likely known about them so i believe they would have said the weapons are protected.
Point of order : When the Second Amendment was written, they did, in fact, have rapid firing Gatlin guns as well as cannons and explosives, none of which were excluded. The Amendment does deliberately include ALL weapons.
What's both funny and sad about this is that the host would not be allowed to teach Black History in the state of Florida in 2023, but Key & Peele would. SMH.
What?! DeSantis has some stupid notions around, well, a lot of things, African American studies among them. However, I've never heard anything about only black teachers being able to teach it.
Citizens were allowed to own battleships and cannons. Automatic weapons would have been no problem. The second amendment was written to fight a tyrannical government.
The Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves was passed in 1807 (After 20 years, allowing citizens to adjust from being dependent on international slave trade until then), eliminating American participation in the slave trade after January 1, 1808. The Act imposed heavy penalties on international traders, but did not end slavery or the domestic sale of slaves. Only the importation of slaves was against the law at this point, and the states that allowed slavery still operated slave related dealings without being penalized until 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified.
There is a novel by Harry S Turtledove titled "Guns of the South" in which a group of people went back in time and gave Lee's Confederate Army the AK-47. It's quite a fascinating novel.
The founding fathers were aware of the progression of firearms. The Puckle Gun was in existence and if I am not mistaken purchased by the British navy. The context of the Second Amendment is that the citizens should be able to overthrow a tyrannical government and therefore have the same weapons.
They haven't done the show in years. Jordan Peel is now a very successful horror film director with works like Us and Nope. Keegan Michael Key is less successful than Peel, but he does have a moderately successful acting career with several C list roles a year and the occasional B list level role.
Our weapons aren’t super advanced, not even close. They can ALL be made with hand tools from 100+ year ago technology. Same old tech, using differing designs.
I think you've checked them out before, but you need more "Horrible Histories" in your life, "Stupid Deaths" especially should tickle your funny bone ;) Also, it is an incredibly accurate show too.
Interesting fact, they had seen a somewhat semi automatic rifle. It was shown to the military and congress, so I think having been in the military the founding fathers probably assumed that guns would become full auto. I always wondered if they knew how well engineered guns would become
Don’t take Terry’s take on amendments too seriously, lil boy is a state funded indoctrination machine, just there to instill political views on still developing minds and shape them to be cogs in the machine he works for.
The founding fathers new about multishot muskets. They effectively had hand crank machine muskets on their navy ships. If someone showed up warning them about machines guns from the future the founding fathers would have doubled down on the 2A
Great reactions. For another comedy duo who have a lot of history-based sketches, I'd recommend Mitchell and Webb. Not sure if there's any compilations of their history stuff specifically, but I'd recommend: Are We The Baddies, The New Fuhrer, Bronze Orientation, Caveman Police, Conspiracy Theories, KKK, The Good Samaritan, Abraham and Isaac, Caesar.
I dont think the 2nd amenment was about weapons as much as it was about knowing how tyrants, bullies, criminals, and occuping forces will abuse the people if the people cannot defend themselves.
It was about having an armed population so they could participate in a militia - it's right there in the wording. It's literally about weapons and using them as a tool of the state, not the individual. It's since been twisted around, but that's what was meant.
Which was your favorite sketch?
Shall not be infringed is pretty clear
Not heard of these folks, will check out their other work.
Really liked the MLK sketch, that's a clever 'what if' moment, as was Galileeroy the pimp. The slavery sketch was also good. I think it depends on what you're laughing at in cases like this. Humour, especially satire, is a good weapon. It's the juxtaposition of slaves complaining that they're not being sold which is funny, not the fact that people own(ed) other people as property.
Horrible Histories do some great sketches for kids all ages, and Mitchell and Webb did a few good historical sketches in their various series.
The slave auction was my favorite of this collection, but the best K&P is "The Human Centipede Reunion Sketch." I almost suffocated laughing the first time I heard its punchline. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with History.
Mary was my favourite
Horrible Histories did a better Harriet Tubman, very respectful.
If prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, pimping is certainly the second oldest.
third. the second one is mother.
The oldest profession is advertising, how did the clients know there were prostitutes available?
But back then cro-magnons gave cave hookers extra fish for putting out, so then the oldest job would be fishermen. Lawyered!
The oldest is fisher or hunter-gatherer since you Need food to survive making them the oldest profession
@@johannord4778 those weren't professions.
The slave auction bit is way too funny.
"Offense taken!" 😂😂😂
@@Cugastratos you’re welcome
"How'd they catch him?" 🤣🤣
That's my number one favorite skit they did.
At some point, you have to ask, do they even know what they're looking at?
I really love the Key and Peele sketch Das Negro. They're hiding from Nazis. Oh! It's so good!
Found this one to be one of the weaker ones. Works on Americans, though
@@mfhex1398 Typical of Germans not to get comedy
@@SamuelLehHow many Germans do you need to change a lightbulb?
@@SamuelLeh Typical for Americans to have racial stereotypes for everyone I guess.
@@hurtigheinz3790You know it! USA USA USA
Yeah absurdism is something we're allowed to laugh at.
My favorite Key and Peele sort-of historical sketch is where they show up to a civil war battle reenactment dressed up as slaves. It’s so funny!
😆😅😅😅🤣🤣😂😂😂🫡
dont just stand there like a bunch-o lazy n...
@@DrLopoope! There it is! - bust out the bags -
I prefer the Taliban skit if that's considered history
The beauty of comedy is it can be used to point out terrible things and bring light to the subject
"My question is...how'd they catch him?' Lol😂
They ended key and peele in 2015 and they both went on to do some pretty cool stuff. Keegan is in a bunch of funny movies and Jordan actually became a horror director and wrote and directed get out and nope
And US! And I believe he was also in charge of the new Twilight Zone?
@@hoofarted the new horror anthology he edited comes out tuesday
@annburlingham4563 oh man, I hadn't heard of that! Definitely going to check it out tho
Us was a bit of a meh film, but Get Out was legitimately one of the best films in a long time and Nope was great.
EDIT: I undersold how good "Get Out" was. It's in a league of it's own - it really does deserve serious attention as one of the best horror films of a generation.
@@BlueProphet7 ‘Us’ was much scarier than either of the others.
9:24 i’ve watched this video countless times and im just noticing key and peele flexing 💀💀💀
"INSUBORDINATE & CHURLISH" 🤣 At 20:10 I love the nod to the substitute teacher sketch when the German shoots Jordan Peele.
Considering that Ben Franklin was one of the founding fathers I think that if we showed them some of our "horrific" weapons. They'd probably be more impressed than appalled.
I mean people make the argument if they saw the modern weapons that they wouldn't have made the 2nd amendment but they were planning on innovation
Considering they just finished fighting a tyrannical government for the freedom of this nation, yes, they’d be impressed. They were ahead of their time and knew what the putting in there. They weren’t so closed minded to think “it would only be for single shot weapons for hunting, blah blah blah”
They'd say, does the government have those weapons? Then of course, because it's about being able to fight a tyrannical government.
@@gracefulPainter ^based private ownership of nukes argument right here^
I don't think they'd be super impressed. The Lewis and Clarke expedition was around the time of the signing and they had an automatic (repeating) rifle that was nearly 50 cal.
11:45 Yes. Yes you are allowed to laugh at that. It's comedy, it's for everyone to enjoy
Facts
Indeed.
Exactly 💯. Laugh out loud. It's good medicine 😂
Don't let twitter see this, they gonna be mad af 😂
"Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to."
-George Saunders
Harriet Tubman has always been my heroine for her values, bravery, and, dedication. What I only recently learned is that she accompanied each group of people who fled the South using the network and path she created. She put her own freedom and life on the line each time to free the others. She doesn’t need to be on our money, she needs a greater honor than that.
Great point.
She used to knock out babies
Should have a holiday. Dont even think enough blacks appreciate her influence
I think being on currency is pretty good, though. She'd be in the same company as some of the greatest historical figures in human history; e.g., Julius Caesar, George Washington, Napolean Bonaparte, et. Al. Actually...I think we should put her on a coin.
Not that having a holiday isn't great, but hell, we give foods, animals, and lovers their own holiday. Not nearly as prestigious, or as timeless.
A postage stamp?
you can tell hes a teacher, the moment he said dont go anywhere at the end i was laterally getting up and was so surprised i stayed
Mr. Terry. I'm black. You can laugh. It's funny. Laughter should not be censored 😔
Yeah don’t EVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU , you can’t laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😂that was funny AH!!!!!!! Love these guys they are excellente
Agreed
I don’t think it was because he was white that he was hesitant to laugh, but because it’s simply dark humor about a dark time in history that’s not funny in and of itself
Mr. Terry has a job to think about. What if the school he works at sees this video and they view jt as controversial? It's very possible because white people, and people in general, are very consumed by BLM. Also, what if black students who attend his class bring this up and start raising a fuss? A lot of black people are way too serious about their race (some, not all, of course.)
@infiresnation7430 its so not funny that it loops back around into hilarious.
„Oh no Jesus, I think it’s my pimp!“ I never thought to hear something like that 😭😂
K&P was an underrated show. I'd put it up there with some of the best skit comedy shows of the 80's and 90's like In Living Color, Mad TV, Kids in the Hall, SNL, etc.
Agreed
@@mysmirandam.6618 true but that stupid shit about the 2A is just the same crap repeated by retarded gun control lobbyists
Moronic gun control rhetoric
I think everyone appreciates them and feels just like you about their greatness being right up there and surpassing MadTV, In Living Color, et al. On Y.T., I keep seeing the word “underrated” getting used on artists that everybody agrees are top-quality: what is the story behind that ?
Harriet Tubman, the leader of the Subway Surfers... 😂
I rarely stick around for the commentary afterwards...
You being the - jokingly - pedantic person who occasionally corrects actual history gives me a much deeper understanding of the funny/stupid clips! I love it!❤
Mexico banned slavery in 1837 and freed all the slaves that entered there territory as well. So some slave did escape that way.
Quite true. And after emancipation, many former slaves returned to Texas and worked as cowboys after learning herding cattle and horses from Mexican Vaqueros.
The date thing was a bit weird, until I realized that even the dates were part of the humor.
The dates weren't made by the show itself. They were made up by whoever created that RUclips compilation. In the original show they don't show any of the dates
@@YourMothersMan Oh did not know that. I was kinda getting in to the screwed up dates. Dangit.
@@YourMothersManThe official K&P created the compilation, safe to say the dates are the jokes too
" what if modern weapons were there?"....they had the puckle gun dude.
Naw cap
The puckle gun would not have been common knowledge. There's only concrete evidence of 2 of them ever being made, and perhaps up to 6 based on shipping records, and no evidence that they ever saw use in battle
@@redstorm8373 my point is the founding fathers would have known about it and had the foresight to know self loading arms would have come along in a more common occurrence
@@redstorm8373 If I recall they literally tried to sell it to congress
@@redstorm8373 Bro you could legally own Warships, The second amendment wasn't conditional on how deadly your arms were.
Carpenter? Then why does your house look like $#1+ 😂😂😂
There is no evidence that Jesus was a good carpenter.
Still come back to watch Key and Peele when you need a laugh, so funny you reacted to them.
Lmaooo of course you can laugh, that's the point of sketch comedy 😂
Really excited for this video! Key and Peele are really funny 😂
"I will not have bigoted slaves!"
I remember hearing from a teacher that the term "knocked up" came from slaving times. Since a pregnant women was worth more than one, her prices got "knocked up".
Besides Dr. King's speech, there were speeches from a union leader, a rabbi, a priest, a pastor, a spokesperson from NAACP, John Lewis, and others.
Key and Peele has a lot more historical skits, including a Drunken History episode
This was great! They are done as a comedy central show, and I had to let you know that you most certainly can laugh at the pain right along with the rest of us
Drunk History was always my favorite. I enjoyed so many of the episodes that it's hard to name specificones, but since they were covered to an extent here I recommend the Harriet Tubman one and give a special shout out to the Alexander Hamilton featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Actually the international slave trade ended in 1808, but slaves were still taken from state to state and sold at auction in 1848. History professor here.
Thanks I thought that was the case. Threw me off when he said it ended by then. It didn't end in the US until the 13th Amendment or maybe just prior I thought.
Did you just umm actually a history teacher 😂 don't doubt you or him I'm just saying the premice is quite funny innit
Yeah, and one of the largest slave auctions took place well after the year of the sketch (1859, over 400 sold in around 2 days, in Georgia).
7:28 they literally had advanced weapons, back then, not just muskets. they had mass fire weapons (16 barrels) repating rifles (yes, they did), and cannons; all of which they were in favor of the private citizen owning
They did not have repeating rifles or gatling guns when the constitution was written. That is demonstrably false.
A gun that could kill scores of people existed. Lewis and Clarke had one. It was a sealed air system that shot .46-caliber lead balls much like a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. It could hold 22 lead balls. It was called the Girandoni air rifle. It dates back to 1580 and is currently on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
That wouldn’t be scores of people, that would be 1 score at most.
@@CJDM310reload.... there you have over 40 bodies.... most rifles today hold 30 rds. So really your argument is pointless
I guess it didn't hit the spotlight or something or that time traveler did solve his gun problem
I feel like the railroad one was pretty accurate in a way. People forget that a lot of slaves actually did give up part way through and try to go back, because it really wasn’t easy to get away. People forget Tubman actually used to kill slaves who gave up, because she couldn’t risk the railroad getting discovered, or ANY info about her operation getting leaked. She warned them ahead of time, that once they go with her it’s literally either freedom or death
Exactly! I'm so glad you brought this up! People like to forget that part of her because it means having to admit that she was a complex human being and not a sanitized "safe for family" version that we were all taught in school (even MLK suffers from this).
@@kimberlyrichardson5943she did kill motherfuckers lol
so we're just lying now?
If you changed "used to kill" to "threaten to kill" then it'd be accurate and not so misinformed
I think Key & Peele got it pretty spot on with what would happen if you went back in time and showed the people ratifying the second amendment modern weapons. It would just cause a sharp increase in weapons technology lol
Ehh, I'm not so sure. From what I've read, they were mechanically clever enough to figure that sort of thing out -- clockworks and mechanical harvesters were all undergoing constant development and improvement during the late 18th and 19th centuries. My understanding is that the real innovations which needed to be made for automatic firearms were metallurgical and (the absolute key component) "smokeless" gunpowder. Both of those require better understanding of materials science and chemistry, fields that were also undergoing rapid development at the time, but I don't know that seeing what's possible from a pair of machine pistols would have helped to advance those technologies any.
@@Chasmodius but a crude m16 or ak if perfect even if one mag can make a smoke cloude
@@boom350ph they definitely tried things like that, and eventually came up with the Gatling gun. As I understand it, black powder fouling means you can't get more than a few rounds through a repeating mechanism before the whole thing gums up too much. There's also the question of industrial capacity (machine guns go through ammunition at a RIDICULOUS rate!) and necessary precision in tooling. One of the great advantages of the Union during the civil war was a certain level of parts interchangeability, but it was _abysmally_ low by modern standards -- and they considered that a national strategic goal in the 1860s.
My point is, even with the designs, the technological and industrial ability wasn't there yet.
@@Chasmodius hey a small force or one dude having a modern rifle is enough they will do a the german formation of ten rifles and machine gun or a guy with somesort of auto rifle
@@boom350ph but the precision tooling required to get brass cartridge cases repeatedly in the correct dimensions to allow proper feeding would still be a bottleneck. And they were again lacking the metallurgy to produce breech-loading chambers that they could trust wouldn't blow up in their faces -- an occasional danger even with muzzle-loading firearms at the time.
It wasn't their imaginations that was falling short, but the level of scientific knowledge and precision machining available to them.
In my opinion, at any rate.
You're allowed to laugh at everything. The darkest subjects can provide the most humour.
Damn, that's right about the guns lol if we had showed them a modern weapon of our time, back then, they would've likely loved them and would want to use them in battle for the wars at the time
There are letters asking if it's OK to arm merchant ships under the 2nd amendment and the founders were like BUY CANNONS, the biggest you can afford to defend yourselves. So yeah they would have loved this.
Modern weapons aren't that far off from what existed back then... There was government documents indicating they discussed using an automatic rifle with a design submitted to them by a well known gunsmith. Automatic weapons existed back then, but they were usually too costly. It wasn't until modern production techniques that drove prices down that they've been more common now than ever. You can find very old documents dating back to the 1700s that had designs for automatic weapons such as the puckle gun dated 1718.
We actually have actual guns such as Girandoni air rifle which was in used by the Austrian army from 1780 to 1820 or so. There's even ones from the 1500s from the area that's now modern germany, a Arquebus with a 10 round revolving cylinder.
Nothing about the idea of keeping gunpowder and a bullet in the same cartridge was new, nor was the concept of firing bullets in quick succession. In fact evidence exists that many who founded our country had seen and fired these weapons first hand.
The year was intentionally wrong because supposedly he changed history, you get it?
The slave trade in The District of Columbia alone lasted until 1850 ... so the year 1848 is not implausible.
@@seanlamont8501 i think he meant the 2nd amandment where its 16something instead of 17something
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Nope. He meant what he said.
@@seanlamont8501he meant the amandment one.
please watch more key and peele even just the non historic ones! They’re so funny!
Have you seen horrible histories?
"What chya'll havin?"
"chicken and grits"
"Yo that's racist! I'm going to take you up on the offer but it's still racist." I really expected the one skit to end that way.
You’re doing the Lord’s work, truly. I salute you, teach.
At the time that the Bill of Rights was being written, repeating firearms had long existed, but were only owned by rich men. The Puckle Gun, and several other examples, are easily found, online. The Founders had a pretty good idea what innovations could lead to.
Agreed. I think the idea was to have firepower equal to, or better, than any enemy, so the argument that the founders would have been against modern weapons seems silly. They would have wanted people to have whatever it took to show up and beat America's enemies, imo. To fight against the federal government? Maybe not so much.
I loved his "wrong centry" rant 😂
Outside of my hometown in Ohio, I used to spend weeks during the summer at my Great Auntie's old farm. huge old house with gables, etc.
As a teen, I found an 1863 Confederate $20 bill.. (My Aunt was elderly and lived alone; and was a "packrat").
She told me the place had been a secret shelter for runaway slaves going north to Canada as part of that "underground railroad".
I've never seen Key and Peele, but I think I'm going to have to watch it after seeing this! 🤣
On the second amendment, it's often forgotten that private individuals owned cannons and even ships of war.
The second amendment was not about hunting or national defense. It was about defense from a tyrannical government.
Yes!
7:30 Canons, bombs, mines, and grenades all existed and were legal for anyone to own. The idea of guns being banned for being "too effective" is absurd revisionism of the founding principles of America. America wasn't founded on pragmatism, it was founded on ideologies of individual rights and supremacy of people over the states.
There have always been materials and technology available for mass killing. What there didn't used to be was a society that produces mass killers and then blames objects.
We need a series made by them in schools.
NYS Rifle v Bruen EXPRESSLY states that the right to bear arms has NOTHING to do with maintaining a well regulated militia and applies to individuals as well.
A black guy i worked with cracked me up every day. He said his humor was So Dark it could pick cotton,,, I couldn’t stop laughing......
5:39 apparently Mr Terry doesn't know what a militia is.
Rev. Robert Jones later became a musician, and his band played at Live Aid... right after Queen.
Thanks!
Sorry I'm getting back to this so late. My ignorant self just learned about "super thanks". Thank you!
Such a shame Key and Peele aren't available in the UK 😢. Really funny sketches. Hope you do more
Everything is available if you know where to look.
They are bro
Get a vpn man. Or like the other person said its available you just gotta know where to look. Try GOOGLING IT.
You're a history teacher you know damn well that the Gatling gun had already been invented
I love hearing your historical references/thoughts about the skit! Love from PH! 🇵🇭
The last supper picture had me dying😂
The 2nd is about militias, but also about individual rights, also Louis and Clarke carried a gun that was semi automatic and varied a hopper full of ammo. It was compressed air but was also a 30mm shooting over 800fps. Our forefathers were well aware of commas and one of the fastest developing industries in the world.
James Puckle’s Machine Gun (1718): James Puckle, an English inventor, patented a machine gun that could fire 63 shots in seven minutes. This early machine gun had a pre-loaded cylinder and was intended for use on British ships to repel boarders.
Pepper-Box Pistols ( Late 18th Century): These pistols featured multiple barrels and could fire multiple shots in quick succession. They were not fully automatic, but they were an improvement over single-shot pistols.
Girandoni Air Rifle ( Late 18th Century): This Austrian-made air rifle had a 20-shot revolving cylinder and was used by hunters and sportsmen.
Breech-Loading Rifles ( Late 18th Century): Rifles like the Hall Model 1819, which was produced in the United States, allowed for faster loading and firing than traditional muzzle-loading firearms. While not fully automatic, they were an improvement over earlier firearms.
These early firearms demonstrate that the concept of rapid-fire weapons was not entirely new during the time of the Constitution’s signing
They had cannons and rotary machine guns back then... covered under the 2nd amendment.
that’s good to know
There was also a design submitted to the government for an automatic rifle, and government documents indicating it was discussed using them. The government at the time decided against it for two primary reasons, first is they were expensive, and second was the concern of these weapons falling into the hands of the british, who were still using standard muskets and would potentially make their enemy stronger if a large supply fell into their hands.
Coupled with the fact that the overwhelming majority of guns, ships, cannons, and war supplies in general were mostly owned by private citizens. There wasn't much of a need to supply guns when the population had more than enough, and their primary issue was simply having enough troops.
@@paulghignon4092the US citizens have enough ammunition to arm a whole army for a while. Crazy how far we came. I didn’t know the backstory to the automatics but it makes sense not wanting the enemies to have the blueprints to make them. Now we send over weapons to the enemies for nothing.
Rotary machine gun wasn't invented until the 1860's
The founders were ahead of their times... they knew the ppl should have nearly the same weapons as the gov.... for fear of a tyrannical gov
If they saw modern weapons they would say: "Well, that'll teach any tyrannical government not to mess with the people. Gee, can I have one?"
Mr Terry really showing his area of expertise calling out the dates in American history whe the Jesus sketch says it takes place in 5 BC (Before Christ) and not a peep 🤣
Because its not real either way
The biggest thing that people don't know about the second amendment is that the people of the time owned war weapons. Gatling guns and cannon were totally kosher.
Hahah I love Peele’s use(again) of the dialogue “insubordinate & churlish…”.
I know he used it in the sketch where he’s the teacher pronouncing everyone’s basic names wrong. I feel like he used it one other time but I don’t find anything.
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😂😂😂 it had me when kay and peel said I'll pay for him and my question is how'd they catch him 😂😂😂😂😂 that was a really good one, pretty epic.
The problem with the whole arms thing is that they meant ALL arms. There’s the famous story about how Thomas Jefferson let people have cannons on their ships. Plus the founding fathers made clear their intention with the multiple quotes stating exactly what they meant.
Especially the Bear Claws
Do you think they have a point that the forefathers didn't project the ability for every citizen to own the weapons of today?
@@ScottServais-poet I would say no simply because the most advanced form of weaponry at the time was a cannon and civilians were allowed to own and use those. They were very intelligent men and it’s a little insulting to that intelligence to think they thought muskets were the end of technological advancement
In what universe are 17th century cannons on a boat and flintlock ball + powder rod & tamp rifles in the hands of a well regulated militia, comparable to an M-16 with a buttstock and extended clip in the hands of an 18 year old with a history of drug abuse and severe trauma? Not ours.
The USA's gun fetish is grotesque and ends 40,000 American lives a year.
And guess what? The fallback you've been taught to go to when confronted on this insanity doesn't even work on paper. Get all the M-16s your arms can hold. The gov't goes tyrannical, what the fuck are your small arms going to do against predator drones, ballistic missiles and tanks?
You've been lied to, friend. There are more guns than people in the US not for your protection, but for shareholder profit in the gun companies who put out the propaganda and fund the politicians that's led you to your delusional views on this matter.
You're being milked for your fear.
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Funny thing is the civilians had the same weapons as the military. Civilians cargo ships had cannons.
Harriet Tubman took the old “walk this way” joke and added parkour.
Edit: I hadn’t realized “free running” was another name for parkour. It’s funnier with that context.
"I can sleep in a bucket"
Lose my sh*t every time I hear that lmao
I enjoyed the 2nd Amendment sketch. Reminded me of Dr. Gatling inventing the Gatling Gun in order to allow armies to be smaller and the soldiers to die more so from gunshots as opposed to diseases that they were dying from in the Civil War. The MLK Speech was a fun one too. Talk about the opening act being better than the headliner! lol
The Second Amendment doesn't grant us the right to bear arms. It's already considered an inalienable right that humans are allowed to have the capability to defend themselves and to fight against those who would try and oppress them of that right. The Second Amendment abolishes the ability of government bodies to prevent that right. Huge difference that I don't hear talked about a lot.
Anyway, great video. Funny and entertaining as always.
3:49 😂😂😂 I usually avoid Bible jokes because of the way Christianity and Jesus gets ridiculed. But this was quite accurate, giving modern context to that story, even with the cursing it's not even blasphemous, and it's really funny 😂😂
It's not Christianity nor religion that are ridiculed it's the people that try to 🫸 their beliefs onto others that are the problem! Christians have a bad habit of acting like their persecuted when they are the greatest persecutors on Earth
While not super advanced there were revolver type guns that held 10 shots when the 2nd amendment was written and I believe the British had a multi barrel cannon in the 1390s that would shoot all the ammunition at once across a battlefield. While not as fast as modern weapons they were deadlier than muskets that most people believe the 2nd amendment were about. The founding fathers would have likely known about them so i believe they would have said the weapons are protected.
Point of order :
When the Second Amendment was written, they did, in fact, have rapid firing Gatlin guns as well as cannons and explosives, none of which were excluded.
The Amendment does deliberately include ALL weapons.
What?
2nd Amendment on December 15, 1791
Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861
Wasnt about the class of weapons. It was about the ability to fight back against a tyrannical government.
What's both funny and sad about this is that the host would not be allowed to teach Black History in the state of Florida in 2023, but Key & Peele would. SMH.
Lmao funny propaganda there that was debunked
What?! DeSantis has some stupid notions around, well, a lot of things, African American studies among them. However, I've never heard anything about only black teachers being able to teach it.
@@harshrealities2881 whats funny is i read the laws you didnt
Y do u care
@jontaethegyaliss7978 why are you so apathetic?
Repeating weapons actually existed even that far back.
Citizens were allowed to own battleships and cannons. Automatic weapons would have been no problem. The second amendment was written to fight a tyrannical government.
The Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves was passed in 1807 (After 20 years, allowing citizens to adjust from being dependent on international slave trade until then), eliminating American participation in the slave trade after January 1, 1808. The Act imposed heavy penalties on international traders, but did not end slavery or the domestic sale of slaves. Only the importation of slaves was against the law at this point, and the states that allowed slavery still operated slave related dealings without being penalized until 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified.
There is a novel by Harry S Turtledove titled "Guns of the South" in which a group of people went back in time and gave Lee's Confederate Army the AK-47. It's quite a fascinating novel.
The founding fathers were aware of the progression of firearms. The Puckle Gun was in existence and if I am not mistaken purchased by the British navy. The context of the Second Amendment is that the citizens should be able to overthrow a tyrannical government and therefore have the same weapons.
For clarity, the transatlantic slave trade ended but inner USA slave sales did not
Hello Mr. Terry. I'm a new subscriber to your channel. Love the video. Keep up the good work. 👍
They haven't done the show in years. Jordan Peel is now a very successful horror film director with works like Us and Nope. Keegan Michael Key is less successful than Peel, but he does have a moderately successful acting career with several C list roles a year and the occasional B list level role.
Peele had a whole sitcom to himself.
I think Key also has writing credits and stuff off-screen, if i'm not mistaken
These guys are two of the funniest people on the planet right now!! I laughed so hard I cried!!
Our weapons aren’t super advanced, not even close. They can ALL be made with hand tools from 100+ year ago technology.
Same old tech, using differing designs.
The editor who Compiled these Sketches was the one to Mess up all these dates
I think you've checked them out before, but you need more "Horrible Histories" in your life, "Stupid Deaths" especially should tickle your funny bone ;)
Also, it is an incredibly accurate show too.
Yes. I love that show.
Interesting fact, they had seen a somewhat semi automatic rifle. It was shown to the military and congress, so I think having been in the military the founding fathers probably assumed that guns would become full auto. I always wondered if they knew how well engineered guns would become
ERB MLK vs Ghandi
Key and Peele were both in that one.
I think they did the Michael Jordan Vs Ali ERB as well
I forgot all about those😂
At the actual time the 2nd amendment was written, automatic weapons had already been developed.
The context of the 2nd amendment was NOT about maintaining a militia. It is about giving the people protection from a tyrannical government.
Don’t take Terry’s take on amendments too seriously, lil boy is a state funded indoctrination machine, just there to instill political views on still developing minds and shape them to be cogs in the machine he works for.
The founding fathers new about multishot muskets. They effectively had hand crank machine muskets on their navy ships. If someone showed up warning them about machines guns from the future the founding fathers would have doubled down on the 2A
Great reactions. For another comedy duo who have a lot of history-based sketches, I'd recommend Mitchell and Webb. Not sure if there's any compilations of their history stuff specifically, but I'd recommend:
Are We The Baddies,
The New Fuhrer,
Bronze Orientation,
Caveman Police,
Conspiracy Theories,
KKK,
The Good Samaritan,
Abraham and Isaac,
Caesar.
The funniest part about the second amendment one is that Gatling guns already existed before The Constitution was written
I dont think the 2nd amenment was about weapons as much as it was about knowing how tyrants, bullies, criminals, and occuping forces will abuse the people if the people cannot defend themselves.
You don't need a gun for bullies.
It was about having an armed population so they could participate in a militia - it's right there in the wording. It's literally about weapons and using them as a tool of the state, not the individual. It's since been twisted around, but that's what was meant.
@@Evermourn1it says the right to bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. There, is that twisted enough for you?
Great video, was really funny