I don't know why but for some reason every Italian I've ever met seems to be okay with racist comments about them. I believe it must be something to do with the people in my life rather than an accurate representation of the whole. I find it odd this seems to be the case especially since Mexicans are similar to Italians in many ways and get offended. This level of disgust still matches the individual when the stereotypes are swapped over so blame their neighbours. For context I've never been the one to make these insulting remarks or manufacture them somehow, just witness them. I like both cultures a lot as they are very family orientated and my own upbringing is very similar to that. Out of the choice of the two I'd find it hard to say which I prefer but I'd say Mexican culture maybe a little more. However my reasoning in this decision is not to do with the individuals themselves but more the traditions I guess.
I have a story about the show Man VS Beast. When it aired, I was incredibly ill with a 39C fever. I spent days on the couch recovering, and when I got back to school I asked my other teenage friends if they saw the Sumo wrestler in the tug of war with the orangutan. Of course, no one had any idea what I was talking about, so for years I was convinced the whole thing was literally a fever dream until RUclips, when I found the show one day a few years ago in my suggestions.
I had to legit Google to remind me where the Good Grief thing happened, because the whole "bodies hidden everywhere" scandal also happened up the road from us in NC.
There's some degree of evidence that it's actually under-reported, at least in the media... From stories of former mortuaries with bodies or parts left behind, being rented out or sold to new owners years after the business... to lawsuits regarding apparently "lost" remains, some of which are simply never accounted for... The spectacular fails are apparently the only ones worthy of being covered by the news or shows about "current events". ;o)
I remember watching Man Vs Beast here in the US. I actually thought it was great, but only because I assumed it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously as a competition. I think the Orangutan vs the Sumo wrestler in tug-o-war was my favorite. The wrestler was using both hands and turning red in the face while the Orangutan looked bored until it finally decided to pull and won pretty much instantly. The entire show seemed to me like “Can an Olympic runner outrun a Zebra? No! Humans are pathetic and weak!” The idea that anyone thought this could be an ongoing show and not just a special is what really surprises me.
I’m happy to have another episode written by Danny, honestly I was beginning to worry about him. I still miss his introductions, but hearing Danny talk about aspects of classic British television is indescribably nourishing for my soul (and I must also include a shoutout to Sam for the Father Ted clip in today’s video, though I’m not wading into the argument of whether Irish tv is or is not “British”). Despite the fact that I’m an American plebeian almost a decade younger than Simon, I somehow know more about vintage British tv shows than he does. But I have learned much from the master, Danny Salter, and Simon would do well to take heed.
When I was 10 my Dad recieved 8 years of disability back payments (Muscular Dystrophy). Since he was angry with the cable company at the time (1987) he got a 10 foot diameter sattelite dish. This type of dish could be moved between different sattelite signals, each of which had an array of channels. Many of these channels were from other countries, like the UK, Japan, Canada, Australlia, France, and more. So I spent many years watching British tv among others. I don't know that I really know it better than any native viewer though.
@@shanerasmussen5225 Is the house that your dad got that dish installed at in Maryland? I know a couple of houses in the town I used to live in there that had unusually large dishes, but no signs or anything indicating that the otherwise normal looking house was a business of some sort.
Am I the only one who's feeling like Simon is getting a bit unhinged lately? I know he's always leaned farther left than most but he seems like he's barely hanging on to his professional and impartial narrator persona recently. I've got a feeling he's on the verge of going full blown leftist soon.
One I was hoping you would include was "Heil Honey I'm Home", a British sitcom about Adolph and Eva Hitler living next door to a Jewish couple. 8 episodes were made but only 1 was aired.
14:50 Honestly consering how many episodes of things like Dr. Who they apparently lost over the years it'd be petty ironic if that was one of the few things they'd managed to keep.
@@samuel_avila I didn't know this was your account. I just fan boy'd out of a moment seeing you reply to someone. Hilarious since I don't do the same if Simon does. I look forward to you performing this request
“All in the Family” was a sitcom in the USA, which was based on ‘Till Death Us Do Part’. It really was a breakthrough show, which finally featured the spotlight on racism, causing the US to acknowledge the prejudice that was rampant in this country.
I only have vague memories of it, but didn’t they also address the issues with a jab of humor. One of those things where you laugh first then stop and go…wait a minute. Which I think helps us see the faults in things easier.
I also think that it's worth remembering that Archie (the father of the family and by far the most prejudiced member) grows quite a bit over the course of the series. By then end of it he not only befriends but also apologizes (for his previous attitudes) to his Catholic coworkers and black neighbors. At one point he even admits Sherman (patriarch of said neighbor family) is a better father than he is. We also see him go from being a casual anti-Semite too adopting a young Jewish girl who he encourages to explore/ value her Jewish heritage. I think that was the real genius of the show. He's initially this prejudiced, bitter white guy but grows into a pretty decent human being. Somehow it manages to be funny throughout.
The Spike Milligan Melting Pot is likely destroyed because the BBC had a policy of reusing film for other shows at the time, to save money. It's the same reason so many Doctor Who episodes from the classic series are missing and can't be found.
After the third season finale, the Basement Buddies were canceled during a writer's strike. When it resumed, they had rebranded to Basement Brigade, and Danny was missing an eye for reasons that haven't been revealed.
Spike Milligan was also responsible for the "Pakistani Dalek" skit, in which a Dalek with a tea towel sitting on its head screams EXTERMINATE at a housewife who is asking it about how it's day at work was. No mention is made of Pakistan except for the title and the fact that the dalek has a towel on its head.
That sketch was part of a series Spike did in the 70s called "Q". It also had a variety of sketches in which they had stereotypical depictions of the Irish which were very offensive (Spike himself was Irish). A shame, since Spike's work on The Goon Show (which he co-starred with Peter Sellers and Sir Harry Secombe) was brilliant, and very funny. I recommend "Napoleon's Piano" and "The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexford-On-Sea" as a pair of classic Goonery. Though Simon has never heard of Alf Garnett, American producer Norman Fell did - he used Til Death Do Us Part as the basis for his American sitcom All In The Family, with Alf being adapted into the lovable bigot Archie Bunker, which ran for many seasons on CBS. (More weirdly, someone made an animated kid's series in the seventies, The Barkleys, which ran on Saturday mornings and featured a bigoted dog character named Arnie Barkley)
@@dreibel Yes Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan was Irish, but he was also born in Poona, India, where his dad was stationed with the army. Because of this he was denied british citizenship in the 1980's, despite serving in the british army in North Africa and Italy.
Once upon a time, I had a TV Tuner card in my computer. I was flipping channels, trying to see what I could get to come in, and I see a team of harnessed little people queued up to pull a passenger jet, in competition with an elephant. Naturally, I did what any sane man would do in this situation, and pressed the Record button. Somewhere on my hard drive, there is a fuzzy recording of that legendary segment of Man VS Beast.
After that last pitch I think Danny should start pitching to networks. That show would be gold. Just make sure the crocodiles are also not fed for some time before shooting 💀
I was kinda hoping they'd bring up "Heil Honey, I'm Home", the sitcom about Hitler and Eva and their wacky Jewish neighbors. (I'm not joking. it's a real UK sitcom broadcast and immediately cancelled in 1990. You can still find the first episode online)
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I like the idea that the UK version of man vs beast would be things like "who can find the most in the bins this bloke or this fox" or "who would win in a foot race? a sprinter or this hedgehog?"
As an American, I had never even heard of a pork and egg pie, and now I feel as though I've been missing out on something amazing. That sounds like such an incredibly American food but somehow isnt a thing here.
Two things popped into my mind. 1) Basically a pot pie with pork and scrambled eggs and a brown gravy. 2) A quiche with pork in it. Either way, I want one.
My four-year-old loves your show. He's sitting on my lap now watching you and pointing "He has glasses like me! He's a nice very man! He has a muzztashh!". I think you have a superfan lol
A human couldn't beat a cheetah in a short distance sprint, but a human could ABSOLUTELY beat a cheetah in a long distance race. Cheetahs are built for short explosive bursts of speed, humans are built for stamina. In fact humans are probably the best distance runners in the animal kingdom, aside from maybe ostriches. Cheetahs can maintain their top speed for a few seconds, humans can (and have) run basically nonstop for literal days.
You can choose your own family as an adult! I hope the girl made it out. I've basically left large portions of my family behind. There's no reason to keep in touch with "family" that always thought I was weird and that I was stuck up because I was shy and didn't want to smoke (cigs and/or pot) and because I liked reading (too high-brow apparently). I was an outcast in my own family. Thankfully, you don't have to stay part of the family as an adult. You just move away and make your own family with friends. It's scary at first but gets easier with time. Sometimes I do wonder what the "family" is up to but then I realize that it's only curiosity not true interest in their lives. Good riddance. I love the family that I have now!
"Till Death Do Us Part" was copied in America, and that version given the title "All in the Family", with the Alf Garnett figure named Archie Bunker, his usual foil being his son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic. It was immensely popular in its day, so the formula just kind of works, especially when well-written and properly cast. They didn't fall into the same pitfall though. There were times when Archie could be a sympathetic character, and there were times when Meathead was just wrong -- he had his own blind spots and prejudices, about which he was less honest -- but his bigoted views were always played up for laughs and never taken seriously.
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Good grief 2:30 - Mid roll ads 4:10 - Back to the video 6:40 - Chapter 2 - Hidden spikes 15:10 - Chapter 3 - Man vs beast 18:30 - Chapter 4 - Generation KKK
Yeah, the problem with all those people complaining that comedy 'must' be offensive are missing the major point: it has to be actually funny first. Not to the point of obnoxious overkill and laziness.
Doubting the sincerity of the value of "offensiveness" when these are also the same people who have trouble laughing at themselves when their behavior is what is involved in the jokes of some comedian/media.
After a couple of years watching Simon's, Danny's, Jen's,et al work products, it blows my mind that you guys can make all these videos on all the various channels!!💖 💖 💖 ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
Mortuaries make f*CK tons of money. My great uncle ran one in Boston, and he used to say 'as long as people keep dying, I'm making a good living" and "if they ever discover the secret to immortality I'll go out of business"
whats blue and sits in the corner - baby in a plastic bag. whats green and sits in the corner - same baby three months later. how do you make a baby float - add three scoops of ice cream.... too soon????
True friggin shame the Intros are cut short/away these days.... first the scriptslapping standup energy was gone & now the insanity of the intro?! comeone.... *"Make the Blaze Great Again!"*
When Simon said “this isn’t black and white “ I thought he meant the terrible reality show Black and White where a black family and white family “swap races”
A&E had a series about a mortuary in Poway/Rancho Bernardo (Near San Diego) that lasted at least two seasons. I forget what it was called but it was pretty good.
"Til Death Do Us Part" and Alf Garnett are the direct inspirations for "All In The Family" and Archie Bunker. Of whom I'll bet Simon has also never heard.
@@MrFuzzyGreen Correct. Bits came 1st. But I used version because for some reason it went from color to B&W. nudge nudge What I can't stand is both Sanford and Son as well as All in the Family credits Norman Lear as "creator." I looked in the dictionary and couldn't find "creator" synonymous with "thief" anywhere.
I totally remember Man vs Beast on Fox in the US! The part that stuck most with me was the tug-o-war between this massive body builder and a humble orangutan. The orangutan effortlessly pulled Mr. Beefcake straight off the the mark.
"honorary" mention should go to Heil Honey I'm home. A sitcom about Adolph Hitler and his Jewish neighbors. When they started airing the first episode one of the high up people at the network (can't remember if it was the owner or what) called and yelled at them to get it off the air RIGHT NOW. As far as I know it is still the only show canceled DURING the first episode and pulled off the air.
I've got two more I'd like to add to this list: First is Ultimate Slip n' Slide, yes as in the summer time water toy you'd use maybe once or twice before deciding going to the local pool would be more fun. NBC apparently thought they could make a competition show out of the toy and tried to do just that. They already had hosts, crew, and contestants lined up for what would surely be one of the most forgettable competition shows ever made. But as they were filming, something crazy happened. Literally, everyone on set came down with intense cases of diarrhea. They were seven weeks into filming, the final stretch of episodes, when a massive outbreak of Giardia ripped through the production staff, 65% of them coming down with the infection, and forcing the whole thing to go on hiatus for so long that NBC decided it just wasn't worth the trouble to bring it back. They'd wasted 18 million dollars on this venture, only for it to be struck down by the act of a seemingly very displeased and bored God. The other show didn't even get past the opening premise before being hit with a backlash so hard that they had to completely rework it from scratch before canceling the whole thing. The show would've been a competition game show where in each of the contestants would be representing various causes they were activists for things like women's rights and environmental protection and competing to get one of the shows three celebrity judges to consider sponsoring their cause. Sufficed to say, many activist groups weren't exactly fans of having their causes paraded out like it was an episode of the X factor and having to compete in order to justify their voices being heard. Not long after announcing it, CBS would "rework" the series from a 6 episode competition to a single episode documentary before deciding to just not do any of that and abandon the whole idea.
I love Danny's set-ups and wrap-ups. It's like a TV show opening . It's like, "Previously, on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer". Simon gets, Previously, on Brain Blaze". Maybe Simon could get John Bailey from Honest Trailers to knock it up a notch. *Bam*. And if I can get Sam to hook it up with some choice Futurama Memes. boom! Simon just got his own sitcom.
i remember that episode of man v beast with the dead hang contest. that one was pretty interesting. the orangutan's handler was trying to keep the primate on the bar because obviously they wouldn't know they needed to. at some point, though the orangutan did figure out it was in a competition with the gymnast and apparently, according to the handler, started taunting the gymnast, even going so far as to stare at the gymnast while going one-handed for a while. eventually, though, the orangutan got bored and left so the gymnast won by default.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it, but Spike Milligan was born in British Colonial India to an Irish father and English mother. As for the Goon Show, it was Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Seycombe, and Michael Bentine. His autobiographical stories; including Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, "Rommel?” “Gunner Who?": A Confrontation in the Desert, Monty: His Part in My Victory, and Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall are a mixture of hilarity and deep sadness at times when you get towards the end and hear how badly shell shock really hit him in Italy and ever after in his life.
6:44 I've heard several recorded episodes of the radio version of 'The Goon Show'. The elevator up Mt. Everest one. *My Sister Sam* not listed? I suppose having the co-lead murdered by a stalker is a *good* reason to not renew the series.
Perhaps you might be more familiar with America’s version of ‘til death do us part, called all in the family, and Alf’s counterpart on our side of the pond, Archie Bunker.
Does anyone know if the Good Greif show is the same funeral home that Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician) did an episode about. The hiding infant remains part sounded, especially familiar. Unfortunately, though, they probably aren't the only funeral home to have ever done that.
Pretty sure BBC used to just destory old stuff by default because it was too expensive to store and they didn't think there would be a reason to keep them once they'd aired. It's how some Dad's army shows are completely lost to time because the originals were taped over and no one has a home recording of them anymore
"Good Grief." Problem one, a reality show 'copying' a prior well known TV series. Namely "Six Feet Under" (2001-2005). On the other hand, one of the actors, Michael C. Hall, would play the part of Dexter Morgan (2006- ?*). Who [spoiler] routinely bypassed mortuaries. * Dexter (2006-2013) Dexter: Early Cuts (2009-2012) Dexter: New Blood (2021- ?)
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"He'll beat you and then eat you."
Jokes on you, I'm into that shit. 💀
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I don't know why but for some reason every Italian I've ever met seems to be okay with racist comments about them.
I believe it must be something to do with the people in my life rather than an accurate representation of the whole.
I find it odd this seems to be the case especially since Mexicans are similar to Italians in many ways and get offended.
This level of disgust still matches the individual when the stereotypes are swapped over so blame their neighbours.
For context I've never been the one to make these insulting remarks or manufacture them somehow, just witness them.
I like both cultures a lot as they are very family orientated and my own upbringing is very similar to that.
Out of the choice of the two I'd find it hard to say which I prefer but I'd say Mexican culture maybe a little more.
However my reasoning in this decision is not to do with the individuals themselves but more the traditions I guess.
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I have a story about the show Man VS Beast.
When it aired, I was incredibly ill with a 39C fever. I spent days on the couch recovering, and when I got back to school I asked my other teenage friends if they saw the Sumo wrestler in the tug of war with the orangutan. Of course, no one had any idea what I was talking about, so for years I was convinced the whole thing was literally a fever dream until RUclips, when I found the show one day a few years ago in my suggestions.
Well, share?
Love the real fact that Spike Milligans actual gravestone inscription reads:
"I told you I was ill"
I had to legit Google to remind me where the Good Grief thing happened, because the whole "bodies hidden everywhere" scandal also happened up the road from us in NC.
Yeah unfortunately there have been a couple similar incidents around the country.
There's some degree of evidence that it's actually under-reported, at least in the media... From stories of former mortuaries with bodies or parts left behind, being rented out or sold to new owners years after the business... to lawsuits regarding apparently "lost" remains, some of which are simply never accounted for... The spectacular fails are apparently the only ones worthy of being covered by the news or shows about "current events". ;o)
Technically, it was a *_corporeality_* TV show.
I remember watching Man Vs Beast here in the US. I actually thought it was great, but only because I assumed it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously as a competition. I think the Orangutan vs the Sumo wrestler in tug-o-war was my favorite. The wrestler was using both hands and turning red in the face while the Orangutan looked bored until it finally decided to pull and won pretty much instantly. The entire show seemed to me like “Can an Olympic runner outrun a Zebra? No! Humans are pathetic and weak!” The idea that anyone thought this could be an ongoing show and not just a special is what really surprises me.
I always can tell what era Brain Blaze I’m watching by Simon’s beard growth.
It'll really throw you when he has shaved it off next week 😂
Or the OG back in the day when he was business blaze😂❤
Not always true
But I do remember the clean shave
Photo shopped Donald Tump pick😢.. I thought you dint care about U.S. politics
I would watch a reality series on a funeral home if it was Caitlin Doughty (she of the awesome "Ask A Mortician" channel).
❤her
She's beautiful on many levels.❤
I’m subscribed to her channel.
omg bro get out of here
Love her content 😊
I’m happy to have another episode written by Danny, honestly I was beginning to worry about him. I still miss his introductions, but hearing Danny talk about aspects of classic British television is indescribably nourishing for my soul (and I must also include a shoutout to Sam for the Father Ted clip in today’s video, though I’m not wading into the argument of whether Irish tv is or is not “British”). Despite the fact that I’m an American plebeian almost a decade younger than Simon, I somehow know more about vintage British tv shows than he does. But I have learned much from the master, Danny Salter, and Simon would do well to take heed.
Father Ted was produced by 2 Irish men, for the British Channel 4.
When I was 10 my Dad recieved 8 years of disability back payments (Muscular Dystrophy). Since he was angry with the cable company at the time (1987) he got a 10 foot diameter sattelite dish. This type of dish could be moved between different sattelite signals, each of which had an array of channels. Many of these channels were from other countries, like the UK, Japan, Canada, Australlia, France, and more. So I spent many years watching British tv among others. I don't know that I really know it better than any native viewer though.
@@shanerasmussen5225 Is the house that your dad got that dish installed at in Maryland? I know a couple of houses in the town I used to live in there that had unusually large dishes, but no signs or anything indicating that the otherwise normal looking house was a business of some sort.
I can't tell whether Danny has actually cut his intros out of the script or if Simon's just skipped over it
Either way, I miss 'em
I miss the intros. It's what set this apart from the other content he produces.
Best part of the show typically.
Yea. Bring back the intros. And make them longer. Dubble them!
@@goosenotmaverick1156 what sets it apart from the other channels for me is how big of an unprofessional asshole he is on these videos
Am I the only one who's feeling like Simon is getting a bit unhinged lately? I know he's always leaned farther left than most but he seems like he's barely hanging on to his professional and impartial narrator persona recently. I've got a feeling he's on the verge of going full blown leftist soon.
One I was hoping you would include was "Heil Honey I'm Home", a British sitcom about Adolph and Eva Hitler living next door to a Jewish couple. 8 episodes were made but only 1 was aired.
What is this I don't even...?
Oh that's down reich horrible.
It's pretty hilarious actually, the entire pilot episode is on RUclips
Danny is back from foraging for mushrooms in the Blazement with another script for us
King Danny is back!!
Calm, peace and serenity has returned to the Blazement
Simon being Simon, Danny returning with script and Sam’s editing at its finest, is the OG Blaze Team comeback!! ❤😂😂❤
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Honestly consering how many episodes of things like Dr. Who they apparently lost over the years it'd be petty ironic if that was one of the few things they'd managed to keep.
Not just the BBC, the original moon landing video was recorded over. If these still existed it was be incredible
Sam, a suggestion: whenever Simon says, "uh-oh", show a Teletubbie saying the same thing.
I've done it before! Hahahaha, will bring it back just for you!
@@samuel_avila I didn't know this was your account. I just fan boy'd out of a moment seeing you reply to someone. Hilarious since I don't do the same if Simon does. I look forward to you performing this request
@@GrayvesX haha thanks! I reply to some comments in most videos :)
“All in the Family” was a sitcom in the USA, which was based on ‘Till Death Us Do Part’. It really was a breakthrough show, which finally featured the spotlight on racism, causing the US to acknowledge the prejudice that was rampant in this country.
Parts of the US, anyway. It hasn’t filtered out to everyone yet.
I only have vague memories of it, but didn’t they also address the issues with a jab of humor. One of those things where you laugh first then stop and go…wait a minute. Which I think helps us see the faults in things easier.
@@firstmkb I didn’t know that. Geez, I wonder which part of the country didn’t broadcast this?
I also think that it's worth remembering that Archie (the father of the family and by far the most prejudiced member) grows quite a bit over the course of the series. By then end of it he not only befriends but also apologizes (for his previous attitudes) to his Catholic coworkers and black neighbors. At one point he even admits Sherman (patriarch of said neighbor family) is a better father than he is.
We also see him go from being a casual anti-Semite too adopting a young Jewish girl who he encourages to explore/ value her Jewish heritage.
I think that was the real genius of the show. He's initially this prejudiced, bitter white guy but grows into a pretty decent human being. Somehow it manages to be funny throughout.
Wdym, Americans STILL won't admit that racism is prevalent here 🙄
The Spike Milligan Melting Pot is likely destroyed because the BBC had a policy of reusing film for other shows at the time, to save money. It's the same reason so many Doctor Who episodes from the classic series are missing and can't be found.
Hi Simon, Danny and the Basement Buddies
After the third season finale, the Basement Buddies were canceled during a writer's strike. When it resumed, they had rebranded to Basement Brigade, and Danny was missing an eye for reasons that haven't been revealed.
It's the OG BB 😂
Now I need a Basement Buddies Lego set
Danny and the Basement Buddies sounds like it could be the title of a kids show on Disney Junior or Nick Jr.
I like it!👍👌
@@pamelamays4186 or a 1950s rock and roll band
OMG SAM PULLING OUT THE FATHER TED CLIPS!
GOOD FOR YOU FATHER! GOOD FOR YOU! *wiggles around with her bags trying not to fall over.* GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
Spike Milligan was also responsible for the "Pakistani Dalek" skit, in which a Dalek with a tea towel sitting on its head screams EXTERMINATE at a housewife who is asking it about how it's day at work was. No mention is made of Pakistan except for the title and the fact that the dalek has a towel on its head.
That sketch was part of a series Spike did in the 70s called "Q". It also had a variety of sketches in which they had stereotypical depictions of the Irish which were very offensive (Spike himself was Irish).
A shame, since Spike's work on The Goon Show (which he co-starred with Peter Sellers and Sir Harry Secombe) was brilliant, and very funny. I recommend "Napoleon's Piano" and "The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexford-On-Sea" as a pair of classic Goonery.
Though Simon has never heard of Alf Garnett, American producer Norman Fell did - he used Til Death Do Us Part as the basis for his American sitcom All In The Family, with Alf being adapted into the lovable bigot Archie Bunker, which ran for many seasons on CBS. (More weirdly, someone made an animated kid's series in the seventies, The Barkleys, which ran on Saturday mornings and featured a bigoted dog character named Arnie Barkley)
@@dreibel Yes Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan was Irish, but he was also born in Poona, India, where his dad was stationed with the army. Because of this he was denied british citizenship in the 1980's, despite serving in the british army in North Africa and Italy.
My part in Adolph Hitler's downfall is the funniest book I ever read. Read before you die lols
Put it in the curry!
@@the_once-and-future_king. Put everything in the curry.
I love watching Simons channels. I’m being entertained while feeding his family
I thought you meant literally feeding his family and was concerned you were also locked in his basement
Great episode as usual, but the jokes tying everything together at the end were especially superb! Well done Danny!
Simon, I am an American, and thanks to him, appearing on the Muppet show even I know who Spike Milligan was
That ending is savage.well done Danny great script as always
Always a good day when we get to blaze with Danny, Simon and Sam.
OG BB
On Spike Milligan's gravestone, it says "I told you I was sick"
Once upon a time, I had a TV Tuner card in my computer. I was flipping channels, trying to see what I could get to come in, and I see a team of harnessed little people queued up to pull a passenger jet, in competition with an elephant. Naturally, I did what any sane man would do in this situation, and pressed the Record button. Somewhere on my hard drive, there is a fuzzy recording of that legendary segment of Man VS Beast.
After that last pitch I think Danny should start pitching to networks. That show would be gold. Just make sure the crocodiles are also not fed for some time before shooting 💀
I was kinda hoping they'd bring up "Heil Honey, I'm Home", the sitcom about Hitler and Eva and their wacky Jewish neighbors. (I'm not joking. it's a real UK sitcom broadcast and immediately cancelled in 1990. You can still find the first episode online)
Thank you Sam for editing!
yw
There actually is a reality TV series set in a funeral home -- The Casketeers! It ran for 2 seasons & is surprisingly charming.
Not a reality TV series, but a *_corporeality_* TV series.
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Most of my home page is just Simon’s face at the moment. 😂 Wouldn’t have it any other way!
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11:49 Simon pretending to be an offended lady is now my favorite thing 😂
Where are my pearls?? I must clutch them!!
I like the idea that the UK version of man vs beast would be things like "who can find the most in the bins this bloke or this fox" or "who would win in a foot race? a sprinter or this hedgehog?"
Simon may never have heard of the BBC's "The Goon Show" but I, an American, have. I've also seen excerpts on RUclips.
It’s been too long since we got a Danny script. I love you Kevin & Dave, but it’s nice to have some OGBB every now and then
If they got rid of huge portions of Doctor Who, but kept the racist shows that didn't even get broadcasted.. damn. That's harsh.
“We might as well give on comedy a just concentrate on producing sowing bee competitions.” 😂 Would that make you happy Peter?
Fascinating Fact du Jour:
Spike Milligan's grave stone is engraved with the phrase "I told you I was ill".
Funny even in death. Thank you, Spike.
As an American, I had never even heard of a pork and egg pie, and now I feel as though I've been missing out on something amazing.
That sounds like such an incredibly American food but somehow isnt a thing here.
At first I was "Pork and egg? What an odd combination." Then I remembered what I had for breakfast.
Call it a “bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich” then it starts to sound pretty good.
Yea…usa doesn’t do many savory pies outside of like chicken pot pie. We do more sandwiches
Two things popped into my mind.
1) Basically a pot pie with pork and scrambled eggs and a brown gravy.
2) A quiche with pork in it.
Either way, I want one.
@Not a Dog more of a boiled egg, wrapped in minced pork meat surrounded by a shortcrust pastry.
My four-year-old loves your show. He's sitting on my lap now watching you and pointing "He has glasses like me! He's a nice very man! He has a muzztashh!". I think you have a superfan lol
A human couldn't beat a cheetah in a short distance sprint, but a human could ABSOLUTELY beat a cheetah in a long distance race. Cheetahs are built for short explosive bursts of speed, humans are built for stamina. In fact humans are probably the best distance runners in the animal kingdom, aside from maybe ostriches. Cheetahs can maintain their top speed for a few seconds, humans can (and have) run basically nonstop for literal days.
Oh, no, Danny's been recaptured and dragged back into the Blazement.
No gruel or mushrooms for him today! His can opener is going to be confiscated.😢
You can choose your own family as an adult! I hope the girl made it out. I've basically left large portions of my family behind. There's no reason to keep in touch with "family" that always thought I was weird and that I was stuck up because I was shy and didn't want to smoke (cigs and/or pot) and because I liked reading (too high-brow apparently). I was an outcast in my own family. Thankfully, you don't have to stay part of the family as an adult. You just move away and make your own family with friends. It's scary at first but gets easier with time. Sometimes I do wonder what the "family" is up to but then I realize that it's only curiosity not true interest in their lives. Good riddance. I love the family that I have now!
"Till Death Do Us Part" was copied in America, and that version given the title "All in the Family", with the Alf Garnett figure named Archie Bunker, his usual foil being his son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic. It was immensely popular in its day, so the formula just kind of works, especially when well-written and properly cast.
They didn't fall into the same pitfall though. There were times when Archie could be a sympathetic character, and there were times when Meathead was just wrong -- he had his own blind spots and prejudices, about which he was less honest -- but his bigoted views were always played up for laughs and never taken seriously.
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Good grief
2:30 - Mid roll ads
4:10 - Back to the video
6:40 - Chapter 2 - Hidden spikes
15:10 - Chapter 3 - Man vs beast
18:30 - Chapter 4 - Generation KKK
You have left us hanging. 😅
@@flowertrue nah, as.lomg as the end of the ads are here I'm happy.
Why was this so far down? Simon should pin these and give you merch as the new meme accountant.
Yeah, the problem with all those people complaining that comedy 'must' be offensive are missing the major point: it has to be actually funny first. Not to the point of obnoxious overkill and laziness.
Doubting the sincerity of the value of "offensiveness" when these are also the same people who have trouble laughing at themselves when their behavior is what is involved in the jokes of some comedian/media.
Danny my man. It feels like it’s been a while
After a couple of years watching Simon's, Danny's, Jen's,et al work products, it blows my mind that you guys can make all these videos on all the various channels!!💖 💖 💖 ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
Mortuaries make f*CK tons of money. My great uncle ran one in Boston, and he used to say 'as long as people keep dying, I'm making a good living" and "if they ever discover the secret to immortality I'll go out of business"
Your joke about the incinerator at the BBC is actually pretty accurate.
Feels like it's been ages since I've seen a Danny video
whats blue and sits in the corner - baby in a plastic bag. whats green and sits in the corner - same baby three months later. how do you make a baby float - add three scoops of ice cream.... too soon????
Oh my God that last joke... top notch Danny top notch!
Spike Mulligan is actually a distant cousin of mine, my dad was reading his biography n realised his greatgran was spikes grans sister
Different time, he made me laugh, proud
True friggin shame the Intros are cut short/away these days.... first the scriptslapping standup energy was gone & now the insanity of the intro?! comeone.... *"Make the Blaze Great Again!"*
Netflix actually has a great light-hearted show about a family-owned funeral home. It's called Buried by the Bernards.
"The Casketeers" in New Zealand did 5 seasons of Reality TV Set in a Mortuary.
Soo gorgeous this one. They should definitely make that last program the KKK vs crocodiles (stomachs). 🥩🥩🥩
When Simon said “this isn’t black and white “ I thought he meant the terrible reality show Black and White where a black family and white family “swap races”
That's actually a thing?? That existed?!
I love how most of the thimbnails for Brain Blaze is just Simon looking like "What the heck did I just read?"
A&E had a series about a mortuary in Poway/Rancho Bernardo (Near San Diego) that lasted at least two seasons. I forget what it was called but it was pretty good.
"Til Death Do Us Part" and Alf Garnett are the direct inspirations for "All In The Family" and Archie Bunker. Of whom I'll bet Simon has also never heard.
But I bet he knows his catchphrase from cultural osmosis.
Brits had _Steptoe and Son._ The US version was Sanford and Son.
@@michaelmoore7975 *the US copy
@@MrFuzzyGreen Correct. Bits came 1st.
But I used version because for some reason it went from color to B&W. nudge nudge
What I can't stand is both Sanford and Son as well as All in the Family credits Norman Lear as "creator." I looked in the dictionary and couldn't find "creator" synonymous with "thief" anywhere.
I struggled to believe an adult Brit didn't know of those Spike Milligan shows, but mispronouncing John Fashanu?
I totally remember Man vs Beast on Fox in the US! The part that stuck most with me was the tug-o-war between this massive body builder and a humble orangutan. The orangutan effortlessly pulled Mr. Beefcake straight off the the mark.
He obviously called the orangutan a monkey! Oook ook.
"honorary" mention should go to Heil Honey I'm home. A sitcom about Adolph Hitler and his Jewish neighbors. When they started airing the first episode one of the high up people at the network (can't remember if it was the owner or what) called and yelled at them to get it off the air RIGHT NOW. As far as I know it is still the only show canceled DURING the first episode and pulled off the air.
I've got two more I'd like to add to this list:
First is Ultimate Slip n' Slide, yes as in the summer time water toy you'd use maybe once or twice before deciding going to the local pool would be more fun. NBC apparently thought they could make a competition show out of the toy and tried to do just that.
They already had hosts, crew, and contestants lined up for what would surely be one of the most forgettable competition shows ever made. But as they were filming, something crazy happened. Literally, everyone on set came down with intense cases of diarrhea.
They were seven weeks into filming, the final stretch of episodes, when a massive outbreak of Giardia ripped through the production staff, 65% of them coming down with the infection, and forcing the whole thing to go on hiatus for so long that NBC decided it just wasn't worth the trouble to bring it back.
They'd wasted 18 million dollars on this venture, only for it to be struck down by the act of a seemingly very displeased and bored God.
The other show didn't even get past the opening premise before being hit with a backlash so hard that they had to completely rework it from scratch before canceling the whole thing.
The show would've been a competition game show where in each of the contestants would be representing various causes they were activists for things like women's rights and environmental protection and competing to get one of the shows three celebrity judges to consider sponsoring their cause.
Sufficed to say, many activist groups weren't exactly fans of having their causes paraded out like it was an episode of the X factor and having to compete in order to justify their voices being heard.
Not long after announcing it, CBS would "rework" the series from a 6 episode competition to a single episode documentary before deciding to just not do any of that and abandon the whole idea.
I love Danny's set-ups and wrap-ups. It's like a TV show opening . It's like, "Previously, on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer". Simon gets, Previously, on Brain Blaze". Maybe Simon could get John Bailey from Honest Trailers to knock it up a notch. *Bam*. And if I can get Sam to hook it up with some choice Futurama Memes. boom! Simon just got his own sitcom.
i remember that episode of man v beast with the dead hang contest. that one was pretty interesting. the orangutan's handler was trying to keep the primate on the bar because obviously they wouldn't know they needed to. at some point, though the orangutan did figure out it was in a competition with the gymnast and apparently, according to the handler, started taunting the gymnast, even going so far as to stare at the gymnast while going one-handed for a while. eventually, though, the orangutan got bored and left so the gymnast won by default.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it, but Spike Milligan was born in British Colonial India to an Irish father and English mother. As for the Goon Show, it was Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Seycombe, and Michael Bentine. His autobiographical stories; including Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, "Rommel?” “Gunner Who?": A Confrontation in the Desert, Monty: His Part in My Victory, and Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall are a mixture of hilarity and deep sadness at times when you get towards the end and hear how badly shell shock really hit him in Italy and ever after in his life.
There are a couple of documentary style shows about family run undertaker businesses. The Casketeers is pretty good, and there are a few others.
6:44 I've heard several recorded episodes of the radio version of 'The Goon Show'. The elevator up Mt. Everest one.
*My Sister Sam* not listed? I suppose having the co-lead murdered by a stalker is a *good* reason to not renew the series.
"The wacky everyday life of members of the kkk". ??? How in the HELL did anyone outside of MAGA think this was a good idea under any circumstances?
Unfortunately a lot of Non-MAGA people are racist.
Maybe because the kkk are democrats. Not republicans.
Perhaps you might be more familiar with America’s version of ‘til death do us part, called all in the family, and Alf’s counterpart on our side of the pond, Archie Bunker.
I saw an ad for man vs. Beast, that included a person racing a shark....with a divider between the two. But I swore that episode aired.
Danny won over Simon with a great outro today.😅
There was a TV show in 2004 called Family Plots that followed a family running a Mortuary in Poway California.
A _corporeality_ TV series?
Does anyone know if the Good Greif show is the same funeral home that Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician) did an episode about. The hiding infant remains part sounded, especially familiar. Unfortunately, though, they probably aren't the only funeral home to have ever done that.
Do the OGBB viewers remember when Simon had a co-host for about a month? I miss ETA/Wilson/Charles
Back when the neon sign still worked...
And Peter. ISN'T THAT RIGHT, PETER?!
The Goons are hilarious 😂
I love The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler
That ending! 🤣
Savage ending. Loved it!
New video hell ya simon! Also thank you danny!
Always darker with Danny, keep it coming.
They could have made a fortune with that Mortuary one just change it a bit to that it ends up like an episode of Casual Criminalist.
I'd watch Beast vs Beast. Hell, I'd pay for a streaming service I didn't have if it was exclusive.
Pretty sure BBC used to just destory old stuff by default because it was too expensive to store and they didn't think there would be a reason to keep them once they'd aired. It's how some Dad's army shows are completely lost to time because the originals were taped over and no one has a home recording of them anymore
I legit am all for anything that helps Simon build his empire but man, I’m real glad the shorts haven’t infiltrated BB yet lol
There is a tv show set in a real life funeral home, and shows them sorting the funerals etc in NZ. Very popular
Simon talking about airplanes then saying “well that’s just plane bizarre “😂
1:57 Speaking of cancelled...
Before you comment about Spike, one of the greatest comedians ever, you should watch some of his shows.
" Kissed " , a pretty creepy movie about a female mortuary worker. I can't begin to describe the plot.
Man that ending was beautiful 😂
"Good Grief." Problem one, a reality show 'copying' a prior well known TV series. Namely "Six Feet Under" (2001-2005).
On the other hand, one of the actors, Michael C. Hall, would play the part of Dexter Morgan (2006- ?*). Who [spoiler] routinely bypassed mortuaries.
* Dexter (2006-2013)
Dexter: Early Cuts (2009-2012)
Dexter: New Blood (2021- ?)
There was a time when The Lifetime Channel was all about educational content and films geared towards a predominantly female audience.
The KKK's bastardization of the word "wizard" is a grave insult to wizards everywhere
That show at the end is something I would definitely have to tune in for!