🎶You're talk is nothing but fiction. Hello my name's Domitian. And I'm the meanest one But I did what must be done I was a spooky scary king Dressed my house up like halloween Invited all my enemies They sat on graves When vestials couldn't do their job I'd wall them up while they would sob I also called myself a God So don't displease me When the rebels tried to take their shot I cut off their you-know-what Burned them in a great big pot And might I add I looked quite hot I'm bad He's bad A really nasty lad I didn't care who had to die to get Rome to expand🎶
Things I took from this song: Simon cannot hit the high notes. Mat can. (Plus, he got the best moves) Ben is diverse. Jim is far and away the best singer. (Tho Mat can sing pretty bloody well himself)
This song makes me laugh so hard! They are all so attractive and hilarious. I love Horrible Histories. I wish I could get this program in North America. BBC is the the best! :)
I love it when they all lean forward and Commodus falls over. All the HH songs are amazing. They are kind of laughing at themselves, whilst being serious.
Honestly, Nero might actually be the nicest of them, since he eliminated capital punishment, lowered taxes and allowed slaves to bring complaints against their masters
I read he was pretty popular with the working classes, so much so that there were pretender Neros popping up for quite some time. Of course, the literal plebes were not the ones writing history, so…
i watched it four times to look at how each of them dance in the background and there are some gems. jim's is during mat's and ben's, and everyone is in on it during jim's
While Jim is singing Mat shifts from being in the middle to being on the right. It must be two different takes, but he is really getting into it on both!
To be honest most of hitlers evil actions were done through other people and their decisions. Hitler loved his wife and loved dogs and animals, he mainly had evil ideas. Nero on the other hand was an evil person, he stomped his pregnant wife to death
Caligula was not bad. He was just crazy. He planned to make his horse Consul. Yes, his HORSE Consul. If that's not insane, I don't know what is. Elagabalus fed the liver of his enemies to his lions, but so did Nebuchadnezzar. There's no difference between those two. Commodus was an obscure Emperor, but killing a person because he was a better gladiator was the same thing Didius Julianus did, so why doesn't anyone call him out? But Nero, Nero WAS an evil Emperor. If anyone looks up evil Roman Emperors, he is almost always near the top of the list if not number one.
Lol! This makes me laugh for so many reasons, & the more I watch it the more I notice other things that are just hilarious, like the background dancing whenever someone is singing a verse is just hysterical!
Elagabalus was the youngest, he was 14 when he became emperor. Mat's the youngest there so obviously he'd get the youngest role = Elagabalus. Also, Jim as Nero is the best thing ever.
Fun fact: Before Commodus, the 5 prior emperors were dubbed the “Good Five”, since they helped Rome thrive and were the nicest emperors to have existed by that point
And all but Nerva (who was appointed) were adopted by their predecessors. Then Marcus Aurelius had to go and have a surviving son/pretend gladiator. When it comes to emperors…adopt ‘em don’t breed ‘em?
He's the only emperor here I hadn't heard of before, so that was a hilarious surprise to me to! Wish they'd done more with Commodus though (killing amputees in the arena for 'entertainment', claiming to be Hercules reborn, slaying helpless wild beasts for sport and charging the public a fortune to watch him, etc.).
any HH fan should be able to recognise this line up as the 4 georges in the very first episode of the very first series and they have reunited to form the 4 baddest roman emperors. love it
Keep in mind we get a lot of the stories of Nero's craziness from Suetonius, who was pretty much a gossip archivist. He also had his own agenda when he wrote, specifically that of flattering the emperor he was writing under at the time. (Admittedly, not a whole lot of Roman writers represent Nero positively either, but it's been debated that these reports weren't always reliable. I'd at least hold out for exaggeration.)
Each one even has little quirks, just like their real counter parts. Like commodus being essentially a frat bro, or Nero having the best dramatic performance.
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"Of badness I'm the daddy!" Couldn't stop laughing at that line.
Your profile pic is truly haunting
He absolutely is daddy 😋 he goes hard in this one.
I love how Matt Banyton can pretend to be a 17 year old Roman emporer, even when he's thirty with a kid of his own.
No love for Jim, Simon and Ben? I love them all. They're just brilliant.
same
Yeah they are all amazing
Hazie995 who's your fav?
ben's my fav
@@cj-lw6wk matt's a babe tho
The guy that plays Nero cracks me up. "I'm the worsest of the lot, WOOH!" lol
You mean Simon?
No, Jim.
Izabel Sequeira Simon plays Caligula
Jim
I named my son Nero lol
"Your nastiness was fabulous."
I know he's supposed to be an evil emperor and all. . . but this guy is really cute. xD
AllieLegra Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this, lol. There’s a few guys who were part of this show who were seriously hot, in an odd way.
Growing up watching this Matthew Bayton was my celeb crush and was so many others
Matt is cute
6 year old me had a crush on him 😂
In the roman come dine with me I love how he he just said "I'm so random"
"if you still have limbs since meeting me..you should be glaaaad" lol
I’m being followed by you I swear
It's do you still have limbs
1:39 why is nobody talking about this
Brilliant
Anyone else listening to this in 2020?
😌
M r
i have to watch it for school lmao
I’m listening to it.
Yeaaaahhh
"you'd think to children i'd be cuter"
mate we literally all loved you
Facts 😂
"You only got the Emperor job 'cause you were chosen by your dad..." That was harsh!
and coming from a guy who was only emperor because of his mom
@Aryana Thomas YOU shut the fuck up
@Aryana Thomas baby rage
Av Rand (TheAv66)
He did kill his mother to make up for that
@Aryana Thomas lmao tetchy
"By bad we don't mean good" *fabulous*
9 years later we all still have crushes on Matt
Don't call me out like this
With the guyliner as well 🥵
The highwayman song was more impactful that the Renaissance
Guilty 😂
Emperor Nero: cmon I want to see a more evil bloke than me
Hitler: *challenge accepted!*
Stalin: a challenge I clearly will win comrade
Mao: Hmph. You wish you could come close to my greatness.
Ghandi: my enemies shall fall before me.
I think i understand it now (I watched a video about exposing ghandi not too long ago)
Pol Pot: You don’t even want to know
Mat's Dancing in the Background, when Jim is singing, is Hilarious! I laugh each time I see that!
Matt’s*
@@Urmomisdele*mat
I love how Simon says '"woeman" instead of "roman" :P
Me too! I didn’t catch the Monty Python reference the first time I listened to it
Sophia Szeneitas i only just realised it omg
With an iron wod you will be smote 😂
Love how commdus falls over
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🎶You're talk is nothing but fiction. Hello my name's Domitian.
And I'm the meanest one
But I did what must be done
I was a spooky scary king
Dressed my house up like halloween
Invited all my enemies
They sat on graves
When vestials couldn't do their job
I'd wall them up while they would sob
I also called myself a God
So don't displease me
When the rebels tried to take their shot
I cut off their you-know-what
Burned them in a great big pot
And might I add I looked quite hot
I'm bad
He's bad
A really nasty lad
I didn't care who had to die to get Rome to expand🎶
Things I took from this song:
Simon cannot hit the high notes.
Mat can. (Plus, he got the best moves)
Ben is diverse.
Jim is far and away the best singer. (Tho Mat can sing pretty bloody well himself)
Fax's
Here are the actors:
Caligula: Simon Farnaby
Elagabalus: Matthew Hatton
Comodus: Ben Willbond
Nero: Jim Howick
Holly Simpkins it’s Mathew Baynton btw not Hatton
I am #disappointed
Tysm
I love how when Jim is like “wait there’s more” the other guys in the background stop and just continue like nothing happened
Out of all of them, Jimmy is the better singer.
Yup
So true
Which of them is Jimmy?
@@ilikedinosaurs392 the chubby one
We were watching this in History once and I started doing all the actions and everyone was like "Wuuut!?"
YouDon'tKnowMeAtAll
If my Teacher played this song this’d happen to me too! 😂😂
My teacher was playing horrible histories and we found this, Miss Oakes is actually an angel tho
This song makes me laugh so hard! They are all so attractive and hilarious. I love Horrible Histories. I wish I could get this program in North America. BBC is the the best! :)
Narssissolock it’s on Amazon Prime.
It's on netflix
No it’s on Hulu
@@redcurrantart 8 years late bro
Caligula is one of my favourite Roman emperors.
The story about him making his horse consul is hilarious.
Apparently he just told someone his horse would make a better consul than him so that's not true. At least that's what I heard
I love it when they all lean forward and Commodus falls over. All the HH songs are amazing. They are kind of laughing at themselves, whilst being serious.
Listening to this in 2024.
OMG love mat's face when he says "whoo-hoo" in a high voice! (1:40)
I LOVE WHEN MAT GOSE HEE-HEE!!
Correction: I LOVE WHEN MATT GOES HEE-HEE
Felix Felicis his name is actually mathew! not matthew :]
i love it wen they're all like "WooHoo!"
Honestly, Nero might actually be the nicest of them, since he eliminated capital punishment, lowered taxes and allowed slaves to bring complaints against their masters
Most of the historical records of Rome came from the senatorial class. To say they were biased is an understatement.
I read he was pretty popular with the working classes, so much so that there were pretender Neros popping up for quite some time. Of course, the literal plebes were not the ones writing history, so…
"the woman empire" brings back good memories from life of brian, dosent it? :)
I didn’t get the reference until I rewatched horrible histories and I was like “omg-“
I recited the Commodus bit in Latin and my teacher gave me a gold star :)
I love how they often imitate famous songs, sometimes even better than the original (this one's close!)
They do parodies
This show must have been so much fun to work on.
Somehow I felt like the emperors in ToA would sing this when no one is looking.
Literally what I was thinking
Aiyie duFreaqoe what does ToA stand for
@@Momus425 Trials of Apollo
So true!
Somehow I think Nero would’ve made Meg memorise this ( maybe only his verse tho )
My dad caught me dancing and singing Nero's part in the kitchen. . . He thinks I need therapy. xD
Love Jim's high bits at the end of his lines!
i watched it four times to look at how each of them dance in the background and there are some gems. jim's is during mat's and ben's, and everyone is in on it during jim's
While Jim is singing Mat shifts from being in the middle to being on the right. It must be two different takes, but he is really getting into it on both!
DUDE THEYRE SO CUTE Tysm for pointing this out
You forgot to mention how Nero lit half the city on fire and blamed it on the Christians because he wanted to build a new temple to himself.
Propaganda
Those christcucks did it
Tbf a lot of it were probably propaganda from his enemies
Just realised this comment is 9 years old
@@ilikedinosaurs392
It's still fair game. I actually like a little necroposting every now and again.
@@warcrimescostextra3992 just learnt a new word👍
Kim Jong Sung: I was the bad one!
Kim Jong II: I was the MAD one!
Kimg Jong Un: AND I WAS THE FAT ONE!
When Nero said "I'd like to see a more evil bloke than me" I think "HITLER"
To be honest most of hitlers evil actions were done through other people and their decisions. Hitler loved his wife and loved dogs and animals, he mainly had evil ideas. Nero on the other hand was an evil person, he stomped his pregnant wife to death
The fact that he almost said school shooter made me die of laughter
I thought he was saying tutor
Endzi124 he did but he almost said shooter in a blooper I think
@@Urmomisdele ohhhh wow
I FREAKING LOVE HORRIBLE HISTORIES!!!! MY PRE-AP CLASS WATCHES IT EVERYDAY IN CLASS AND WE DIE OF LAUGHTER!! BEST WAY TO LEARN!!
"I'm bad, so buddy, of badness I'm the Daddy" That line just...
I'm sorry, but they're all SO legendary.
(p.s. Mat Baynton + his hair + wind machine = gorgeousness overload)
Elagabalus looked hot here.
"I'm the baddest Emperor the Roman's ever had!" Love it! :D
Now this is how we find out the identities of the three emperors in trials of apollo before reading the books
Mats Laugh during his verse and his geeky dancin, gotta love him
"Your nastiness was fabulous"
Camp but damn sexy!! XD
Caligula was not bad. He was just crazy. He planned to make his horse Consul. Yes, his HORSE Consul. If that's not insane, I don't know what is. Elagabalus fed the liver of his enemies to his lions, but so did Nebuchadnezzar. There's no difference between those two. Commodus was an obscure Emperor, but killing a person because he was a better gladiator was the same thing Didius Julianus did, so why doesn't anyone call him out? But Nero, Nero WAS an evil Emperor. If anyone looks up evil Roman Emperors, he is almost always near the top of the list if not number one.
Jim Howick's acting is so funny
Anyone still listening to this? cuz i sure as hell am!
Caligula also planned to place his statue in the Jerusalem Temple, but his buddy Marcus Julius Agrippa talked him out of it.
My teacher: How do you know so much about the emperors of the Roman Empire?
Me: It's... Complicated
My teacher: Complicated?
Me:
1:08 Mat's laugh:')
I'm a Christian, is it Ironic that Nero is one of my fave Emperors?
Slightly
I don't know. I'm Athiest. Is it ironic that I like Martin Luther King Jr?
No...
I mean, that is a good way to live, honestly.
Cat Knight Yes xD
Lol! This makes me laugh for so many reasons, & the more I watch it the more I notice other things that are just hilarious, like the background dancing whenever someone is singing a verse is just hysterical!
That Nero is realy badass here XD. especialy the of badness i', the daddy part
"If you told me a fibula..." The fibula is a leg bone.
A leg bone that was probably named after the pin that was used to fasten clothing in Ancient Rome, like a giant safety pin.
Fib is colloquial language for a "lie" in English, so they're just forcing a rhyme for the song: "fib-ula"
A fibula is a kind of ornamental safety pin, first spotted in Etruscan graves, too. I think that's what he was referring to.
0:12 the one to the right falls down lol i would've asked: are you ok?
These are songs were my childhood! So so good 💯
This shows never ever fails to make me smile. It is the definition of brilliance.
I get chills up my spine when Nero...his first....
WHOO!!!!!!!
Elagabalus was the youngest, he was 14 when he became emperor. Mat's the youngest there so obviously he'd get the youngest role = Elagabalus. Also, Jim as Nero is the best thing ever.
Fun fact: Before Commodus, the 5 prior emperors were dubbed the “Good Five”, since they helped Rome thrive and were the nicest emperors to have existed by that point
yup: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius (although I'm not sure in that order)
And all but Nerva (who was appointed) were adopted by their predecessors. Then Marcus Aurelius had to go and have a surviving son/pretend gladiator. When it comes to emperors…adopt ‘em don’t breed ‘em?
He's the only emperor here I hadn't heard of before, so that was a hilarious surprise to me to! Wish they'd done more with Commodus though (killing amputees in the arena for 'entertainment', claiming to be Hercules reborn, slaying helpless wild beasts for sport and charging the public a fortune to watch him, etc.).
Mat gets really into the dancing awwwwww
Matt Baynton is actually REALLY good at that high note!
JIM JIM JIM JIM JIM *fangirling* He is PERFECT in this.
Dude Jim Howick ate this the fart up😭😭 I think abt Nero’s lines every day no exaggeration
I'm surprised that Nero didn't order his men to kill the camera man.
me too!
Skylar Bowrey Nah he's candle now though
Daniel Jacob Stobbs I'm not sure if the camera man is an christian.
PokeFan10025 Well it's Nero
any HH fan should be able to recognise this line up as the 4 georges in the very first episode of the very first series and they have reunited to form the 4 baddest roman emperors. love it
'And by bad we don't mean good'! Love this song!
My FRIENDS AND ME GOING HOME FROM SCHOOL
Totally enjoying everything HH....wish it were still around but that's life. :)
BTW...I'm fifty-something and loving it. :)
Mats voice is especially amazing here :P
I guess those Emperor's voices never broke....
It's sad how often I watch this. I often have this stuck in my head at work. I get odd looks when I start humming it
I love Jim's epic dancing at 3:03
GOAT heehhehe still have my head
i've watched this sixteen times over the course of today alone...and the night's still young
good to know someone who knows alot about history :)
neros WHOO is so hilarious its so high XD
did i miss it or did they not talk about how nero literally covered people in wax and sET FIRE TO THEM???
i love this. sooo much.
Did anyone else notice how jims solo matches perfectly with the macarena
Keep in mind we get a lot of the stories of Nero's craziness from Suetonius, who was pretty much a gossip archivist. He also had his own agenda when he wrote, specifically that of flattering the emperor he was writing under at the time. (Admittedly, not a whole lot of Roman writers represent Nero positively either, but it's been debated that these reports weren't always reliable. I'd at least hold out for exaggeration.)
Commodus falling over
The other three dancing in the background
Nero's shawl blowing in his face
Elagabalus highfiving Commodus and Caligula
Hahaha, I like it that they all have a different style of singing. It totally adds to the awesomeness.
I love this song so much!!!!!
watch in the background at 2:20 look at Mat he's doing the "Ninja" LOL!!!
LMAO 😂
if u watch them when they're dancing in the background, it's hilarious!
none of them can dance properly (especially matt :D ... sorry bro but its true
True but 9 years later we all still have crushes on matt
This has inspired me to write a song about the four worst poptropica villains in this song format.
Each one even has little quirks, just like their real counter parts. Like commodus being essentially a frat bro, or Nero having the best dramatic performance.
You forget about Phocas, a tyrant Byzantine emperor who slaughtered Jews and some of Christian sects.
But, he is a BYZANTINE GUY!
This is so funny!!
I think the roman empire is really fascinating, in that these sorts of emperor indicate that absolute power kind of, melts the human mind
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