Cunk On Britain Episode 4 - Twentieth Century Shocks

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024

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  • @KeshavGaur90
    @KeshavGaur90 6 лет назад +3280

    "Radio made it possible for you to listen to other people without the use of thin walls or a devastating mental condition"

    • @douglaskay9959
      @douglaskay9959 6 лет назад +27

      The word RADIO is an American word meaning the device invented in England by an Italian and he called it WIRELESS for obvious reasons. I was a WIRELESS mechanic in the Royal Signals.

    • @catherinerobilliard7662
      @catherinerobilliard7662 6 лет назад +22

      Keshav Guar, I really did laugh out loud

    • @The_Crimson_Fucker
      @The_Crimson_Fucker 4 года назад +2

      @@douglaskay9959
      You're old and senile, go do those things old people do like fishing and forgetting why you're in rooms.

    • @larrylewis5721
      @larrylewis5721 4 года назад +42

      @@douglaskay9959 Lighten up, seriously......Chrissakes. Go back and read what you wrote.

    • @CourierSiix
      @CourierSiix 2 года назад +15

      @@douglaskay9959 dont care, its called radio

  • @Kauffy901
    @Kauffy901 3 года назад +4063

    I declare this informative, educational, and entertaining.

    • @period5304
      @period5304 2 года назад +5

      I am डॉलरPERIOD and I condone this message.

    • @margaretkairu7418
      @margaretkairu7418 2 года назад +11

      Hardly accurate but EXTREMELY FUNNY!

    • @trollmeistergeneral3467
      @trollmeistergeneral3467 2 года назад +3

      @Fletcher901
      And I declare it puerile, infantile, childish and decidedly unfunny. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why these eminent academics and historians participated in this stupid send-up of real history.
      “Why did they call it ‘Norman’s (sic) land?’ Were only people called Norman allowed in there?”
      Is that supposed to be funny?

    • @Kauffy901
      @Kauffy901 2 года назад +35

      Username checks out.

    • @Woosaidthat
      @Woosaidthat 2 года назад +26

      @@trollmeistergeneral3467 no one invites you to parties do they?

  • @noone3216
    @noone3216 2 года назад +1765

    "The show got a record audience of 400 - the sort of viewing figures BBC4 still dreams of." 😂😂

    • @TupokaPeterCosmas
      @TupokaPeterCosmas Месяц назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @karendiaz4088
      @karendiaz4088 5 дней назад +1

      shes ripped them in other episodes and its so good every time.

  • @JS-te2vj
    @JS-te2vj 2 года назад +1688

    "We know it will be hard, and we will expect it to be long"
    - Winton Churchill

    • @masterchuck8772
      @masterchuck8772 2 года назад

      That's really sexy

    • @wiltsunen8244
      @wiltsunen8244 2 года назад +262

      "We shall fight them bitches"
      - Winton Churchill

    • @current9300
      @current9300 2 года назад

      "Nobody's dick is that long, not even Long Dick Johnson, and he had a fucking long dick. Thus the name."
      -Rose of Sharon Cassidy

    • @floridanews8786
      @floridanews8786 2 года назад +53

      Insert "that's what she said" joke here

    • @circularisnotthis4316
      @circularisnotthis4316 2 года назад +17

      Insert “‘insert that’s what she said joke here’” here. I think you’ve been twatted open.

  • @indricotherium4802
    @indricotherium4802 6 лет назад +2293

    "Teenagers that looked like adults but had the brains of children - like professional footballers today." What an absolute gem!

  • @praveenb9048
    @praveenb9048 2 года назад +3353

    What I want to see is a blooper compilation where the profs / experts just fail to keep up their solemn expressions and laugh till they cry.

    • @matteomerlini604
      @matteomerlini604 2 года назад +175

      I have a very sneaky suspicion it may be the case they've not been made aware of the oke until after the interview

    • @hughmoore963
      @hughmoore963 2 года назад +412

      @@matteomerlini604 there was a great chat at the BFI with Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan, and they both explain that the experts are in on the joke. Imagine there’d be a lot more walkouts if they weren’t!

    • @matteomerlini604
      @matteomerlini604 2 года назад +38

      @@hughmoore963 I see - I stand corrected, then

    • @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
      @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 2 года назад +331

      The "in on the joke" thing is why I love Professor Ashley Jackson the most: he always seems on the verge of losing his s**t, yet keeps answering the questions in good faith with facts 'n' that.
      Honestly, my favourite of their experts 😀

    • @dudesayingthings
      @dudesayingthings 2 года назад +55

      @@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 same here! He always seems like he's just about done with phelomina's BS.

  • @KeithPenrod
    @KeithPenrod 6 лет назад +2028

    "He narrowly avoided tragedy by dying." ROFL I LOVE her. LOL

    • @alexlogan7559
      @alexlogan7559 6 лет назад +42

      This needs to go on my tombstone

    • @eelllieeee
      @eelllieeee 2 года назад +74

      Its like when she refferred to charles darwins death by saying "he evolved into a corpse"

    • @piwetshombe4684
      @piwetshombe4684 2 года назад +6

      That's my favourite part as well!! "Little did he know it at the time....."🤣🤣🤣

    • @piwetshombe4684
      @piwetshombe4684 2 года назад

      @@eelllieeee 🤣🤣

    • @thewhisper4269
      @thewhisper4269 2 года назад +4

      @JZ's BFF He evolved into a scientist, then he evolved into a corpse

  • @blupunk01
    @blupunk01 6 лет назад +529

    I'd never heard of Brush Strokes before, but I now know when it occurred in relation to many major events in British history.

    • @rollingwave2732
      @rollingwave2732 2 года назад +14

      I actually went and watched an episode of Brush Strokes😂

    • @joshthesandwich
      @joshthesandwich 2 года назад +30

      @@rollingwave2732 how was it? Is the pump up the jams of sitcoms?

    • @rollingwave2732
      @rollingwave2732 2 года назад +1

      @@joshthesandwich No, it wasn’t. It was sweet and old fashioned. He was a ladies’ man but he didn’t take advantage of a drunk lady! It’s a very random sitcom to have selected. I suppose it adds a further dimension to Cunk’s personality that she likes it so much.

    • @abelq8008
      @abelq8008 2 года назад +5

      I kind of want to watch some now.

    • @jaysinha0
      @jaysinha0 2 года назад +3

      I suddenly remembered watching it in the 90s (or whenever) because there had been nothing else on at the time.

  • @prashanthmachalef
    @prashanthmachalef 2 года назад +849

    "buried him under soil to rule over fellow potatoes for eternity " 😂😂

    • @adriannzekwue1382
      @adriannzekwue1382 2 года назад +13

      I was looking for this comment 😂

    • @bobjohnson6946
      @bobjohnson6946 2 года назад +21

      Funniest one, just because of how random it was.

    • @marcosteffen94
      @marcosteffen94 2 года назад +2

      😂😂

    • @rme1383
      @rme1383 2 года назад +5

      What Edward had to do with potato?

    • @danschwarz
      @danschwarz 2 года назад +28

      @@rme1383 apparently a King Edward potato is a cultivar grown in the UK. I was confused too

  • @vollsticks
    @vollsticks Год назад +389

    "...even women male prostitutes." I never get tired of this series, there are so many jewels that reveal themselves with each watch.

    • @jeansafiera96
      @jeansafiera96 Год назад +12

      Damn women stealing everything

    • @krumuvecis
      @krumuvecis Год назад

      they took our jobs!

    • @NormAppleton
      @NormAppleton Год назад

      @@jeansafiera96 They stole buttsecks from men, damn them

    • @souxcasa
      @souxcasa 5 месяцев назад

      Every time I watch this she still catches me off guard 😂

  • @josephesposo
    @josephesposo 6 лет назад +467

    "Why did they call World War I, "World War I"? It's quite pessimistic numbering, isn't? Or did they just know it this is the start of a franchise?"

    • @Smirnovka23
      @Smirnovka23 6 месяцев назад

      Can’t stop laughing

    • @derfastimmerzustimmer8635
      @derfastimmerzustimmer8635 Месяц назад +2

      The term "First World War" was actually already in use in 1914 by some and more so after it's end in 1918 as a warning that such a war should never happen again.

  • @chrisofnottingham
    @chrisofnottingham 6 лет назад +327

    It cracks me up when she suddenly swears in the middle of talking normally.

    • @hiimterry2009
      @hiimterry2009 2 года назад +24

      The first time she did that, in the first episode, I had to pause until I stopped laughing. Then I watched it 10 more times! "And the queue for Nemesis at Alton Towers, in that it never fucking moves."

    • @urieldaboamorte
      @urieldaboamorte 2 года назад +5

      it reminds me of The Onion's Sony video. the deadpan coupled with swearing is chef's kiss

    • @thescandinavian2487
      @thescandinavian2487 Год назад +1

      In Swedish tv for instance is very common to swear in family programs, important part of expression and...Scandic's are not as stuck up as lets say the people who live in the U.S

    • @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim
      @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim Год назад

      @@thescandinavian2487 swearing is considered low-class, uncultured, unprofessional and rude in most civilized countries, not just U.S.

    • @thescandinavian2487
      @thescandinavian2487 Год назад

      @@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim You need to get out more kid, swearing is not even remotely a sign of being uncultured or low class, being judgmental and girlsplaining things on the other hand is, have a nice day !

  • @thascuzza7316
    @thascuzza7316 6 лет назад +934

    ''We will fight them bitches'' Actually genius.

    • @stone-hand
      @stone-hand 2 года назад +7

      Wait, it's not an actual, direct quote of the man itself?

    • @israelasiku3975
      @israelasiku3975 2 года назад +59

      @@stone-hand "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

    • @blackporscheroadster6415
      @blackporscheroadster6415 2 года назад

      We will fight them bitches on the beaches.

    • @quintomalley1196
      @quintomalley1196 2 года назад +8

      Also sounds like something the man would've actually said.

    • @benrobertson7855
      @benrobertson7855 2 года назад +11

      “…..And you madam will still be ugly…”

  • @glocke380
    @glocke380 3 года назад +553

    "Hitler thought the German's where an elite race like the Grand Prix." Brilliant

    • @blackdragoncyrus
      @blackdragoncyrus 2 года назад +16

      Germans were*

    • @phily8093
      @phily8093 2 года назад +17

      No they weren't 😉

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 2 года назад

      @@blackdragoncyrus No one is an elite race. Every single one of us is an accident. YOU had no control over your conception, nor your colour, nor your race, nor your language. You had no control of your education until over 18 years old. Your "impression" that you are better is caused by conversations, or brain washing, by inferior intellects you came across in whatever life you tried to live. Racism is taught, not born with by the subject.

    • @radvelvetcakez
      @radvelvetcakez Год назад +1

      We really aren't

  • @jonpavlovsky
    @jonpavlovsky 6 лет назад +367

    They soon settled into a british way of life, not smiling and being permanently tired

  • @DorkJedi96
    @DorkJedi96 3 года назад +375

    "Soon it caught on and everybody wanted to be killed. It was a bigger craze than fidget spinners." - LMAO 😂

  • @adzdahlman9724
    @adzdahlman9724 4 года назад +448

    Straight in with , "if you sang Land of Hope and Glory in Portuguese , would it still sound alright ; or would it fucking ruin it." World class - more more more please. I'm still smiling hours after every episode*

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 2 года назад +8

      Personally I think everything's improved with Portuguese (especially Brazilian Portuguese) vowels.

    • @adzdahlman9724
      @adzdahlman9724 2 года назад +4

      @@blackmore4 I honestly wouldn't know , I was picking up on the rhetoric humour , not the linguistics - it's not a complicated joke , any non English speaking country would suffice . She should've , inappropriately ,,, said Wales ha ha

    • @urieldaboamorte
      @urieldaboamorte 2 года назад +10

      @@adzdahlman9724 imo Wales would be a bit too tired for this show. "they speak weird haha" is always the joke when Wales is mentioned. I think Portuguese balances the divide between "English/mainstream" and "too foreign" pretty well.
      Edit: I say this because I think "what if it was in Spanish?" or "what if it was in Mongolian?" (respectively) would make the joke more stale

    • @adzdahlman9724
      @adzdahlman9724 2 года назад +3

      @@urieldaboamorte Ha haa , you're pushing my intellect at this time of day . I'm WELL accustomed to everything North Wales has to offer - from my love of the terrain , the hatred of my dialect / English bastard I was , their hatred of me STEALING THEIR WOMEN , it was an interesting time . I moved onto an unoccupied tidal island , CRASHED the locale . I've never previously known / or since , experienced , such hostility . Unique bunch .

    • @aminemaia921
      @aminemaia921 Год назад +1

      @@blackmore4 I thank you on behalf of my people

  • @pigpuke
    @pigpuke Год назад +158

    "Why did the British build bombers to attack their own territory?"
    "How do you mean?"
    "Well, the Lancaster Bombers."
    The look on his face was priceless. It's like his brain just melted. Brilliant stuff.

    • @It-b-Blair
      @It-b-Blair Год назад

      🫠

    • @gustavosarabia4899
      @gustavosarabia4899 Год назад +3

      i didn’t get that one, can sb explain me?

    • @doswillrule
      @doswillrule Год назад +18

      @@gustavosarabia4899 Lancaster is a city in England, so the implication is that the Lancaster bomber (a WW2 plane) was designed to bomb Lancaster

  • @MatthewMcVeagh
    @MatthewMcVeagh 5 лет назад +591

    27:13 "More research needed, make sure script amended before voiceover record."
    That's the hilariousest thing in all these episodes!

    • @adam19890911
      @adam19890911 2 года назад +23

      Breaking the fouth wall, not literally but with words.

    • @therook24
      @therook24 2 года назад +4

      Utter genius 😂

    • @unrepentantoffender188
      @unrepentantoffender188 2 года назад +4

      "Hilariousest"
      The f

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh 2 года назад +4

      @@unrepentantoffender188 Tell me you can't understand it!

    • @azjmsxhn
      @azjmsxhn Год назад +1

      bro i cant anymore

  • @changedNameSorry
    @changedNameSorry Год назад +156

    This is probably the best summarization of the reasons for wwI I ever heard. "His assassination triggered a serious of other killings. Soon it caught on and everyone wanted to be killed."

  • @ricecrispsandspaghetti2111
    @ricecrispsandspaghetti2111 2 года назад +207

    “His brother George also vacated unexpectedly early to spend more time in his coffin ” 😂

    • @markcotter4213
      @markcotter4213 Год назад +9

      I'm laughing so hard I'm crying over this line!

    • @rahatkhan_7
      @rahatkhan_7 Год назад

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @adriannzekwue1382
    @adriannzekwue1382 2 года назад +1241

    "Hitler wanted to make Britain German, to match it's Royal family 👀' I swear if you're not re-winding her videos every 5 seconds you're gonna miss a whole lot 😂

    • @rme1383
      @rme1383 2 года назад +1

      @@cathhl2440 me too.

    • @davidgoosen1633
      @davidgoosen1633 2 года назад +1

      Yes this woman, speaks a lot of Truth between the lines, like Hitler wanting to make Britain German like it's royal family! With the Queen's passing recently, you'll notice how no one, no one said anything about that fact!

    • @jovangorgi
      @jovangorgi 2 года назад

      Everybody wanted to be killed. It was a bigger craze than the fidget spinners.

    • @thomaslutro5560
      @thomaslutro5560 2 года назад +2

      @@cathhl2440 Me three.

    • @duroxkilo
      @duroxkilo 2 года назад +25

      the writing is just insane. every 5 seconds there's a 'viral tweet' :)

  • @kathowed
    @kathowed 4 года назад +335

    Brilliant writing, sublime delivery. This is what television was invented for.

    • @ppsh43
      @ppsh43 2 года назад +15

      TV was invented for this and Brush Strokes

    • @abukerim91
      @abukerim91 2 года назад +8

      Content worth putting your iphone down for.

    • @Barbreck1
      @Barbreck1 Год назад

      You said that about the Generation Game too, Geof...

    • @paulstewart6293
      @paulstewart6293 Год назад +3

      Exactly. Don't forget Monty python either. Bise

  • @bard6184
    @bard6184 Год назад +67

    "Before the war, King Edward had abdicated, so he could spend more time in his mistress. His brother George also vacated the throne unexpectedly early, to spend more time in his coffin."

  • @struck1999
    @struck1999 2 года назад +209

    “He narrowly avoided tragedy by dying” makes sense

  • @Falconlibrary
    @Falconlibrary 2 года назад +218

    I think this series has hit on the perfect way to educate the public: Philomena makes us laugh and listen to these very learned scholars and gives them a wider audience than they otherwise might find. Brilliant on so many levels.

    • @OneOfTheLoveless
      @OneOfTheLoveless 2 года назад +18

      Also he frequent but not distracting spelling mistakes and inaccuracies made me Google/inform myself about the historic events. Brilliant.

  • @Justmt6940
    @Justmt6940 6 лет назад +292

    “Today racist bigotry has no place in contemporary Britain...except Kent” LOL (24:48)

  • @heatherrockwell9012
    @heatherrockwell9012 2 года назад +101

    "But he turned out to be a monster who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals, a bit like Boris Johnson"

  • @zoe547
    @zoe547 5 лет назад +351

    "Luckily Britain had a hero on its side. A man who's name will never be forgotten; Winton Churchill"

    • @blackdragoncyrus
      @blackdragoncyrus 2 года назад +19

      Whose*

    • @HomoLegalMedic
      @HomoLegalMedic 2 года назад +14

      @@blackdragoncyrus you must be fun at parties.

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 2 года назад +17

      @JZ's BFF I do, but I'm not gonna tell you. You win your own pub quizzes.

    • @Mermete8
      @Mermete8 2 года назад +13

      Winter Church Hill is a legendary name to Brits as Napoleon Cumberbatch is to French

    • @Mskitso1111
      @Mskitso1111 2 года назад

      "Hero" my foot, he caused death of millions in his persuit of victory. dude literally caused a famine with his policy. I wonder how much of the British army were originally british, Britain won relying on the manpower of its colonies and military and weaponry support from USA.

  • @dennisgalvin2521
    @dennisgalvin2521 4 года назад +169

    "..his tv was finalized but idiotically he'd invented it without checking to see if there were any programmes on yet".

  • @colinr0380
    @colinr0380 6 лет назад +216

    "Before the war King Edward abdicated, so that he could spend more time in his mistress..."

    • @TheNefastor
      @TheNefastor 5 лет назад +12

      So many awesome jokes in show just by changing or omitting a word or two... "We shall fight them bitches !" 🤣

    • @helenziegenfus6754
      @helenziegenfus6754 3 года назад +1

      😂😂

    • @nomore2863
      @nomore2863 Месяц назад

      😂😂😂

  • @boredlawyer3382
    @boredlawyer3382 Год назад +59

    23:28 -- "Once the NHS arrived, if you were poor and you got sick, you weren't on you own anymore. You were in a crowded waiting room full of other sick people."
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @shipwreck9146
    @shipwreck9146 2 года назад +69

    "If you sang it in like Portugueses, would it still feel British, or would that just *FUckin* ruin it?"
    Oh my god, I lost it. It was so unnessarily agressive, but so perfect.

  • @dandy5948
    @dandy5948 2 года назад +76

    i’m australian and studied modern history in highschool, naturally we studied mostly the australian side of the story but ironically i learnt more in this satirical masterpiece than i did in 6 years of studying it in a classroom

  • @Haffmatthew
    @Haffmatthew 2 года назад +146

    I just adore “United Britain of Great Kingdom”. It makes me feel both silly and full of whimsy

  • @erickoontz6835
    @erickoontz6835 Год назад +10

    You know, I almost never laugh out loud at RUclips videos. But in the case of Philomena Cunk, it never fails.

  • @dirkbonesteel
    @dirkbonesteel 6 лет назад +6081

    Love these but hope she never comes to US. No one will understand she is a character or that it's comedy so she will probably be elected President.

    • @sparXKuijper
      @sparXKuijper 6 лет назад +84

      LOL XD

    • @Sam-lr9oi
      @Sam-lr9oi 6 лет назад +108

      I'd like a Shitpeas Goes American series, it'd be like old Colbert Report when people still thought the character was genuine.

    • @ghett0bla5t
      @ghett0bla5t 6 лет назад +129

      She wouldn't even have a choice. She'd just walk off the plane and they'd be like "you're president now", then they'd carry her to the Whitehouse.

    • @psammiad
      @psammiad 6 лет назад +202

      I think even if she was real, she'd do a better job of it than Trump.

    • @ghett0bla5t
      @ghett0bla5t 6 лет назад +144

      @@psammiad Her shoes would do a better job than Trump.

  • @CataLinaMurariu
    @CataLinaMurariu 2 года назад +36

    ‘He was dead important. By which I mean he was only important when he was dead.’

  • @bmxt939
    @bmxt939 Год назад +21

    It's so childish yet so clever, it makes me just adore her.

  • @fredmila
    @fredmila 6 лет назад +194

    The kind of audience BBC4 still dreams of

  • @TheNefastor
    @TheNefastor 5 лет назад +160

    "We shall fight them bitches." I laughed so hard my cat fell out of my desk. I love you, miss Cunk.

  • @Daijyobanai
    @Daijyobanai 6 лет назад +75

    Mark Lawson trying to keep a straight face, haha. You can see the tears in his eyes, he's half a second away from cracking up every time.

  • @PatrickLongest
    @PatrickLongest 2 года назад +85

    I will never not laugh at the "Brush Stokes" drop-ins. 🤣

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Год назад

      running-gag. 🤣* There! FTFY

  • @gorillaguerillaDK
    @gorillaguerillaDK 6 лет назад +189

    "A bit like Boris Jonson" - I'm laughing so hard that I have tears in my eyes!

    • @francsmi
      @francsmi 4 года назад +10

      Suddenly it doesn’t feel so funny anymore 😢

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU 2 года назад +3

      @@francsmi Welcome to 1984, served straight on a silver platter.

  • @gianni2083
    @gianni2083 2 года назад +95

    They soon settled into a British way of life: not smiling and being permanently tired

  • @sebasfrankes6501
    @sebasfrankes6501 Год назад +20

    Her question on whether “land of Open Glory” still works in Portugese is actually shockingly sharp. That is what makes this brilliant, you never know when she is gonna say nonsense or something incisive.

  • @glazdarklee1683
    @glazdarklee1683 Год назад +16

    I love the way the experts work so hard at not breaking character. As an American, it reminds me a lot of what Stephen Colbert used to do.

  • @giantbluewhale
    @giantbluewhale 6 лет назад +76

    her reactions are what makes the whole series

    • @KP-ms5cj
      @KP-ms5cj 8 месяцев назад

      tops at her craft...
      5:16 turns genius at 5:20!

  • @Skullzy-01
    @Skullzy-01 Год назад +35

    Whenever she “corrects” the professionals and just interrupts them mid sentence I cry

  • @smackednoodle
    @smackednoodle Год назад +43

    "Even thought it looks like Charlie Chaplin, it's actually not funny at all" cracked me up. I felt so guilty

  • @sensennsen
    @sensennsen 2 года назад +35

    "Awarded Churchill by voting him out of office." brilliant!

  • @relativeparadox9567
    @relativeparadox9567 Год назад +6

    I have a customer that comes to my store in Montreal, she was in the Royal Ballet during The Blitz. They were instrumental(as was the music) in helping people cope with the harrowing experience. She said that whenever the sirens went off as they were preforming, everybody would shhh them and the performers just kept going and help the crowd enjoy what could be their last moment.
    I'm transferring stores this week.
    Going to miss her.

  • @theonesillyboy
    @theonesillyboy 2 года назад +52

    "we shall fight them bitches" got me in stitches 🤣 - genius writing perfectly delivered!!

  • @darrenrobinson9041
    @darrenrobinson9041 2 года назад +63

    The badly timed train wave and the shouting at helicopters - a few seconds in and I'm already laughing.

  • @falconbritt5461
    @falconbritt5461 2 года назад +105

    I still love "a fork in its crossroads." Every time. (As a former English teacher in America, let me say she is so much like a poorly educated 8th grader. You wouldn't believe the questions they ask or what they write in papers.)

    • @Pantuflas295
      @Pantuflas295 Год назад +2

      I still remember a college friend's student teaching essay assignment in 7th grade 20th c. history in the mid 1980s.
      Instructions: Write a two page essay on an historical figure from WWll. Use and cite sources. For example Encyclopedia Brittanica.
      The title, followed by three laboriously copied consecutive encyclopedia entries, that to this day make me chuckle was:
      "Hitler, Hittites and Hives."

  • @descoiatorul
    @descoiatorul 6 лет назад +93

    This is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Top-notch British humor.

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 2 года назад

      There is NO SUCH THING AS BRITISH HUMOUR. It is all just HUMOUR. Trashy nationalists get everywhere.

    • @patagualianmostly7437
      @patagualianmostly7437 2 года назад +5

      @JZ's BFF We have a rather unique ability to laugh at ourselves. We never take criticism seriously at any level.... we can laugh at our detracters...& laugh along with them.
      Something newer arrivals fail to grasp....and would wish to condemn us for.
      Duck 'em I say, Duck the Duckers.

    • @DataLal
      @DataLal Год назад +1

      @@patagualianmostly7437 I wouldn't say it's totally unique. Canadians can do this too. Then again, we were a British colony and in some small ways still are. 😄

    • @ae4164
      @ae4164 2 месяца назад

      @@DataLal Brits love to pretend that types of humor that are ubiquitous across the English-speaking world (and elsewhere) are somehow uniquely "theirs".

  • @missdydaniel
    @missdydaniel Год назад +21

    “how we went from ancient man to Ed Sheeran” 😂😂😂

  • @KeiferElliott
    @KeiferElliott Год назад +11

    This is an EXTREMELY refreshing series. Let’s all sit back and have a laugh. God knows we need it! I think Diane Morgan is hysterical! How she says those things and keeps a straight face…..I haven’t laughed this hard in ages. British tv is so much better than American in my opinion and experience.

    • @Mizmoon2020
      @Mizmoon2020 Год назад

      You’re just pissed we never got to watch Brush Strokes over here. We had to settle for Welcome Back Kotter.

  • @Imaveryniceguy
    @Imaveryniceguy 2 года назад +31

    The woman is absolutely magnific. Perfect delivery and that face...my God 🤣🤣🤣

  • @ic1815
    @ic1815 Год назад +13

    “Like most sequels, War 2 was proving less fun, than War 1.”

  • @foreignparticle1320
    @foreignparticle1320 2 года назад +35

    Brush Strokes is the glue that holds the United Kingdom together.

  • @geoffreyngugi9941
    @geoffreyngugi9941 2 года назад +151

    14:50
    "Churchill speeches were stirring and powerfully erotic"
    Churchill: We know it will be hard, we expect it will be long..
    😂😂😂😂

    • @lancemousel3457
      @lancemousel3457 Год назад +5

      Watching her would make me both of these if you get the drift!

    • @margaretcaine4219
      @margaretcaine4219 Год назад

      Thanks! I'd missed that one.

    • @MeowZer_ing
      @MeowZer_ing Год назад

      I laughed so hard. Had to be my favorite comment.

  • @fittyrightonpoint6466
    @fittyrightonpoint6466 Год назад +8

    Classic British humour
    Extremely funny dry wit
    Philomena is top tier.🔥🔥💯💯👍👍👏👏⭐⭐

  • @blechli
    @blechli Год назад +10

    Quotes like "King Edward had abdicated so he could spend more time in his mistress" are what makes this so brilliant

  • @muddshshshark
    @muddshshshark 6 лет назад +58

    Just discovered Miss Philomena couple days ago , love her . How do they keep a straight face?

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 2 года назад

      @JZ's BFF Gosh you are a regionalist fart.

  • @evifnoskcaj
    @evifnoskcaj 2 года назад +17

    These are so hilariously done. I'm addicted.

  • @Dcook85
    @Dcook85 2 года назад +47

    25:03 "so he could spend more time in his mistress" LMAO so subtle but so sharp!

  • @eezyclsmooth9035
    @eezyclsmooth9035 Год назад +8

    Britons are World Re known for having "A Stiff Upper Lip". What is truly astounding is: the highly educated scholars
    and historians in this series never even flinch, scratch their heads or roll their eyes at the questions.

  • @73whitezz
    @73whitezz 4 года назад +46

    Been a fan of hers for years. She's brilliant!

  • @valentingjorgjiovski4896
    @valentingjorgjiovski4896 2 года назад +12

    "or the band named after him" oh that touched my heart, this is amazing

  • @greyquinn
    @greyquinn 6 лет назад +93

    Does anybody else want to watch Brush Strokes by now?

    • @psammiad
      @psammiad 6 лет назад +12

      No. Really no.

    • @rogermunns9206
      @rogermunns9206 5 лет назад +3

      Yes, Dexys Midnight Runners..................

    • @Rojoco88
      @Rojoco88 4 года назад +8

      Every episode I forget about it. Then bang - Brush strokes intro.
      Gets me every time 😂

    • @samuelchristie570
      @samuelchristie570 4 года назад +2

      Ross Coburn It’s the joke that just keeps giving

    • @jaysinha0
      @jaysinha0 2 года назад

      No. 😡

  • @memph1ston
    @memph1ston Год назад +11

    The Brush Strokes cutaway gets me EVERY time. I never expect it.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Год назад

      running-gag gets me* There! FTFY

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 23 часа назад

      And each time sane people cringe even more than the time before .... Probably because they reckoned Brush Sorks belonged up the ovipositor of a Pelican the First Time the TV puked it at us

  • @samsheep1234
    @samsheep1234 5 лет назад +67

    "A bit like Boris Johnson"... The irony is hurtful at this point.

  • @lawdpleasehelpmeno
    @lawdpleasehelpmeno Год назад +11

    "The viewership was up to 400, numbers that BBC4 can still only dream of." got me good

  • @SpeedFranklin
    @SpeedFranklin Год назад +6

    The commitment to the Brush Strokes gag is laudable. I almost want to see it now...almost

    • @Dragodol
      @Dragodol Год назад +1

      For real haha she has you all invested in each episode and then bam out of nowhere BRUSH STROKES

  • @kb7clx
    @kb7clx Год назад +22

    The thing about Portuguese was brilliant. But I was waiting for her to ask the expert if he knew why Americans were always playing a British patriotic song at their graduations lol.

    • @madyjules
      @madyjules Год назад +1

      good question 😂

  • @anyscaleclassics6880
    @anyscaleclassics6880 2 года назад +17

    Why have I literally only just found out about this? And her? Borderline comedy genius masked by sublime silliness. 👌

  • @flannelsykes0
    @flannelsykes0 5 лет назад +259

    This series makes me proud to be a Brit. That perfect blend of British humour which is poignant yet doesn't mind mocking every part of its poignancy by turning it into pure farce.

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 2 года назад +4

      You don't have much going for you, do you? Diane Morgan creates a ficticious character, and that makes you "proud to be a Brit". WHY? Humour is humour everywhere, it is not limited to this poxed island.

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 2 года назад +38

      @@Demun1649 Dave Mons creates a sentence and he's proud of his witty retort. Verily would he laugh were it not for the tears of closed curtain solitude that dilute his Tomato soup for one.

    • @patagualianmostly7437
      @patagualianmostly7437 2 года назад

      @@Demun1649 You just don't get it do you?
      The British have always had the ability to laugh at themselves.....
      And then along came another group that failed to grasp that simple premise and cried "Foul" & even worse...."Racism".... Totally missing the point that the British have done this for centuries.... Came here, but totally, and utterly FAILED to integrate.
      Interesting that you call Britain a "poxed island".... Fair description these days, but....
      Ever paused to consider how it got that that way?

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 2 года назад

      @@patagualianmostly7437 Answer your own last question, might do some good.
      FIRST, When you use the term "British" how far back in history are you going?
      SECOND, Do you think that the two Polish men, killed on their own doorsteps by Anglo-Saxon mongrels, think it was just a joke and a laugh.
      THIRD, This country was ruined way back in the period between 400-600 when the Angles, Saxe and Jutes invaded us from Germany.
      FOURTH, I have experienced RACISM from the bloody English since I was six years old. White, born and educated in England, but still a foreigner to the racist ENGLISH MONGRELS, and abused my whole life.
      FIFTH, Call out YOUR own side, and ask THEM your last question.

    • @OneOfTheLoveless
      @OneOfTheLoveless 2 года назад +4

      @@flannelsykes0 oh no a critique. Better retort with a character attack. :^)
      Besides it's perfectly valid to attach yourself to a work of art that you have nothing to do with, besides vague origin, to leech off it's prestige. :^)

  • @JK_Clark
    @JK_Clark Год назад +14

    "Churchill's speeches were stirring and powerfully erotic.
    He was one of the greatest orators of all time.
    And some of the phrases he used still resonate today;
    such as 'finest hour',
    'never surrender' and of course
    We shall fight them bitches."
    Fucking nearly dying here, lmao, watered down my beer too!

  • @alexjoeluke
    @alexjoeluke 2 года назад +54

    That guy was so mad at her calling it “war 2”

  • @AgentDigits
    @AgentDigits Год назад +38

    "I think I'd kill myself if I couldn't have crisps"
    I love this show

  • @JaseAndrews
    @JaseAndrews Год назад +14

    "What was up with the Sewers, did someone try to flush something that was awful?" That joke only works with a British accent, amazing

  • @shyamdevadas6099
    @shyamdevadas6099 Год назад +3

    This is amazing! This is the show I've been waiting for for 30 years. Back in the 80s on Saturday Night Live, Norah Dunn had a character named Pat Stevens - a TV show host who was just like this!

  • @CrackinACold1
    @CrackinACold1 2 года назад +13

    "Frankie goes to Hollywood singing about spunk." Good lord I wasnt ready for that 😳😭

  • @marktuggle5609
    @marktuggle5609 2 года назад +18

    I love how they always use the show brush strokes in every episiode.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Год назад +1

      Defined as: Running-gag.

  • @stianmathisen4284
    @stianmathisen4284 2 года назад +7

    Smartest and most sublime funny showbizz woman i ever saw, this Philomena character voice, and manners is out of this world brilliant

  • @owr7702
    @owr7702 2 года назад +15

    "We shall fight them bitches!" is such an inspiring quote tbh

  • @laurawareitsat
    @laurawareitsat 6 лет назад +43

    Not smiling and being permanently tired. I'm dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @piwetshombe4684
    @piwetshombe4684 2 года назад +14

    "Little did he know it at the time, but he'd narrowly avoided tragedy by dying." 🤣🤣🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

  • @dontcare7086
    @dontcare7086 2 года назад +30

    I spit up my coffee when she said "even women male prostitutes" 😂

  • @lucysmith2197
    @lucysmith2197 4 года назад +28

    “Today, racist bigotry has no place in contemporary Britain... except Kent.”
    Boy, don’t I know it.

  • @lickilicki2895
    @lickilicki2895 2 года назад +5

    The dedication to include Brush Strokes is amazing.

  • @johncox2284
    @johncox2284 4 года назад +22

    It's like hearing a report in school from a 8 year old on what they did last summer!

  • @tkondor
    @tkondor 3 года назад +76

    "Hitler thought that the Germans were an elite race, like the Grand Prix." I keep losing my shit on this show :D

  • @ToutCQJM
    @ToutCQJM 2 года назад +18

    “Along the way, I’ll be shouting at helicopters” I’m done for. Hahahahaha

  • @michaelsalmon3450
    @michaelsalmon3450 2 года назад +19

    my dream woman, never afraid to call a dead king a potato

  • @cityonfoot6023
    @cityonfoot6023 2 года назад +12

    Why have I seen this just now?!?! This looks awesome and super funny! I have to start on episode 1.

    • @MikasaOkumura
      @MikasaOkumura 2 года назад

      I just started on episode 2. I am loving this! I don’t understand how people don’t find it funny

  • @voltss1235
    @voltss1235 2 года назад +14

    "Or NHS for less long" made me laugh, it's brilliant when you think about it.

    • @alexsm3882
      @alexsm3882 13 дней назад

      It's pretty easy to miss but it's cheeky as hell lol

  • @mason2me
    @mason2me 2 года назад +11

    that "first world" line is absolute comedic genius.

    • @AdamStein-pv1zq
      @AdamStein-pv1zq Месяц назад

      I love her examples “like running out of couscous or not being able to check Twitter in the tunnel”

  • @Some1inFNQ
    @Some1inFNQ Год назад +2

    _breaking the 4th wall to a camera on the helicopter flying past her_ "Along the way I'll be shouting at helicopters!"
    Diane Morgan is a national treasure.