"The small state of Luxembourg is a charming reminder of how Europe used to be. Plague victims crawl elegantly down its dung-filled streets greasing the way with pus from their buboes, while at least two children a week are burned as the devil in the handsome market square. The town boasts two taverns, one humorous dwarf and a shop that sells little things made of straw."
Love the Agincourt sketch, love Henry V and his writer. First sketch: dang, I was so hoping they'll work in a "and all our shiny progress is based on the work of that smelly dirty peasant there" line.
SOOOOO lucky never to have seen this before ...... so I could truly enjoy it now. Fabulous 👏❤👍🧡😍 This should be a returning event every five years. You British are so good at this and have so many talented characters.
Stevenage Stevenage is a town of approximately 80,000 in the county of Hertfordshire, in the south east of England, only around 32 miles north of central London. The town is well known for being the first ever 'new town'; new towns were a series of towns built near London after World War II.
Quality ? Tv these last 15 years has become crap, no matter the country. I find myself in the same situation and I'm french. Fortunately Edd China's youtube channel provides a weekly dose of quality content, as does Bad Motorpsort Obsession.
I get the feeling that William Shakespeare got it wrong. It wasn't Richard III who said "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!".... It was Henry VIII
Angus Deayton has an amazing talent. Even if the jokes someone else wrote are good, he's able to deliver them in a manner that makes them appear unfunny.
Eh,. he's just one-dimensional. He only does straight/deadpan delivery but he does it well. It is the right style for a mockumentary like this. The onus is on the writers to make jokes that work in this context.
It's a reference to a very well known advert for Ferrero Rocher chocolates - which are brought in right after he delivers the line. Here's the original (with laughter because it's presumably from a show like 'Carrott's Commercial Breakdown'). ruclips.net/video/4P-nZZkQqTc/видео.html
“I am underwired with mortification.” If my hairdresser said that to me, I think I would want her to go take an aspirin or two, lol. “You haven’t just come up the Manchester ship canal on a doughnut, as the homosexuals have it.” With that, I would assume she was drunk and excuse myself, pronto.
Tony Robinson may have been too busy filming Time Team, and the Blackadder Goes Back and Forth millenium special. I think the Two Ronnies actually make the sketch what it is though, although if they ever made another I think having Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in place of the Ronnies would probably work.
@@frederickwallace6552 Yes I know it's a redo of the class sketch (which has things like Ronnie C saying 'I've got a stiff neck' ), and I believe it was also done on at least one other show in the 60s, or possibly 70s, too.
5:58….it’s could happen England beat Senegal (depending on everything) we could we seeing a rekindle of a rivalry that date back since that reenactment
I'm Spanish and I don't get the joke of the Newcastle fan. Can anyone explain this to me? I guess that is related with the cold in the North of England but I'm not familiar with British cliches Thanks
geordies, people from Newcastle, are stereotypically under dressed for cold weather, refusing to wear jackets. Having lived with some Geordies in the mid 2000s this portrayal is was 100% accurate ;)
I always thought that Harold Godwinson and his men REALLY got a bum deal from fate. Just imagine needing to fight the Normans after quick-marching down from Stamford Bridge to Hastings, and that march being immediately after a hard-fought battle with the Danes. Hard lines for the Anglo-Saxons.
@@Tina06019 yeh, but imagine if Harold won in Hastings also, he would have been heralded as the greatest king of that age. Definitely one of the great what ifs of history.
@@vhsvideovault Hello sorry to bother do you have any idea where I could potentially find it? I've loved watching this and it hurts me that there's some I haven't seen!
So go and make a sketch show about pre- 1 AD Egypt, South America and Africa ... or hop over to Horrible Histories and thank them profusely for having made a head-start on it. If you do the first, you'll probably find that its very difficult to do a lot of work on areas of history that left little or no written sources. The small amount of historical movies / sketches about 4500 BC in Europe isn't because of the disdain and hatred towards Europeans of that time. It's just that whatever those guys build up / wrote down isn't around anymore.
I think the "shills" in this situation are the people who lapped up that concept that the point of a community is "I've got to be the winner". The point of a community is that if you manage to work together, then everybody is better off. And as sad as it is: if GB is run by people who don't get that, who are stuck in the "we are the very bestest, make the world England" mind set, then the Brexit isn't as much of a loss for the European Union as it otherwise would be.
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"The small state of Luxembourg is a charming reminder of how Europe used to be. Plague victims crawl elegantly down its dung-filled streets greasing the way with pus from their buboes, while at least two children a week are burned as the devil in the handsome market square. The town boasts two taverns, one humorous dwarf and a shop that sells little things made of straw."
Huh, sounds like Stevenage
You've got to wonder how many takes that one took
A handsome piece of real-estate
Finally a country we can trust in! ;)
My favorite one was the live Bayeux tapestry weaving 😂
"Let's go to the replay!"
Hilarious 🤣
I love English humor -- biting, sarcastic, but so dead-on hilarious.
"France is in their usual
3,000-4,000-3,000 formation..."
Love the Agincourt sketch, love Henry V and his writer.
First sketch: dang, I was so hoping they'll work in a "and all our shiny progress is based on the work of that smelly dirty peasant there" line.
OMG! Bob Mortimer and Amanda Holden... this is gold!
SOOOOO lucky never to have seen this before ...... so I could truly enjoy it now. Fabulous 👏❤👍🧡😍
This should be a returning event every five years. You British are so good at this and have so many talented characters.
Concerning comedians, I agree. Concerning politicians, well....
Your name sounds very pickled herringish
It's like an adult precursor to Horrible Histories
"Hitler had Goebbels, Thatcher had Hitler..." ROTFLMAO
And goebbels had a very young rishi sunak
Theres so many jokes in the beginning alone that, for me, it surpasses a lot of shows instantly.
"...Oh, we don't hate anybody!...[sneering] 'We don't hate anybody!'...Well, you should! Makes life more fun."
Stevenage Stevenage is a town of approximately 80,000 in the county of Hertfordshire, in the south east of England, only around 32 miles north of central London. The town is well known for being the first ever 'new town'; new towns were a series of towns built near London after World War II.
Ty for context
Ah so it's like the history of Cartagena. How quaint.
John Cleese once said that Ronnie Corbett was the best timer of a joke he'd ever known. This is a small example why.
Always loved Angus Deaytons presenting style. Great line up, very funny, sad to think of how many of them we have lost since then.
Especially with the Rowan Atkinson Live 1992
“I’m new Labour, so I don’t believe in anything” HA HA YES
"I just hate the French, I dont need a reason"
That sums up England from the 100 years war to their Alliance before WW1
That's not accurate at all ! It should be "I just hate the French...and everyone else in the world".
"...you find yourself sexually attracted to horses' arses? That's not actually as uncommon as you might think."
...Did they predict bronies in 2000?
Brian Blessed as Henry VIII? Yes please!
lol I was looking for the clip of Henry VIII in marriage counseling a while back, couldn't find it - thanks!
Might be in part 2.
The hairdresser at 27:00 onwards is absolutely glorious 😆😆
I'm glad I stumbled upon this
Ah l'humour British! Excellent 🏆.
Refreshing isn't it ?
😂🤣So many Giants in British actin' in these skits!❤🔥🤟
Why is it that the only thing I can watch these days is British TV from from 15-50 years ago?
Quality ? Tv these last 15 years has become crap, no matter the country. I find myself in the same situation and I'm french. Fortunately Edd China's youtube channel provides a weekly dose of quality content, as does Bad Motorpsort Obsession.
Because TV nowadays is constant PC SJW garbage.
@@RosieJonesRules Yep.
Back when aunty Beeb truly was something to be proud of, and something that I was happy to pay my TV licence for. Oh how the mighty have fallen 😢
Brilliant writing.
Lots of great people here.
O coitus, we forgot the Balkans!
I get the feeling that William Shakespeare got it wrong. It wasn't Richard III who said "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"....
It was Henry VIII
"blah blah blah whoooooosh shish howwwl wheeee" best subtitle ever ! (video of a boat called tally ho)
Oh god the canned laughter. It never stops...
I learnt so much
Who plays Geordie? It sort of looks like Bob Mortimer.
It is. Girlfriend is Amanda Holden?
Angus Deayton has an amazing talent. Even if the jokes someone else wrote are good, he's able to deliver them in a manner that makes them appear unfunny.
When you're right, you're right.
Eh,. he's just one-dimensional. He only does straight/deadpan delivery but he does it well. It is the right style for a mockumentary like this. The onus is on the writers to make jokes that work in this context.
His narration reminds me of John Cleese he does a good job
At first I thought the middle man was Benny Hill.
21:30 what is so uproariously funny about Laurie’s line here?
It's a reference to a very well known advert for Ferrero Rocher chocolates - which are brought in right after he delivers the line. Here's the original (with laughter because it's presumably from a show like 'Carrott's Commercial Breakdown'). ruclips.net/video/4P-nZZkQqTc/видео.html
Thanks so much!
@@vhsvideovault I was wondering the exact same thing, thanks!
Audio: 2
Visual: 8
Comedy: 10/10
18:40 Nice to see Tom / James Dreyfus finally getting a role, albeit as King of Sweden. Hope he didn't break a leg.
“I am underwired with mortification.”
If my hairdresser said that to me, I think I would want her to go take an aspirin or two, lol.
“You haven’t just come up the Manchester ship canal on a doughnut, as the homosexuals have it.”
With that, I would assume she was drunk and excuse myself, pronto.
Is that Bob Mortimer @ 11:35?
Yes it is.
Very, very, very, young!!!
Missed an opportunity in the first sketch to have Baldrick play the part of the serf
It was a redo of a 60s sketch, but the tall one was John Cleese.
Seems a shame to split the twins
Tony Robinson may have been too busy filming Time Team, and the Blackadder Goes Back and Forth millenium special. I think the Two Ronnies actually make the sketch what it is though, although if they ever made another I think having Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in place of the Ronnies would probably work.
@@MrDannyDetail Redo of class sketch Frost Show 7th April 1966
@@frederickwallace6552 Yes I know it's a redo of the class sketch (which has things like Ronnie C saying 'I've got a stiff neck' ), and I believe it was also done on at least one other show in the 60s, or possibly 70s, too.
Oooooh coïtus ! We forgot the balkans...
Why did you cut whole nice-but-dim segment? (around 26:00)
It was blocked by a copyright claim.
@@JamesMLynn Oh for crying out loud!
@@antonk.2748 Just that one sketch was copyrighted. The rest is ok.
5:58….it’s could happen England beat Senegal (depending on everything) we could we seeing a rekindle of a rivalry that date back since that reenactment
very british humor 😂🎉
I'm Spanish and I don't get the joke of the Newcastle fan. Can anyone explain this to me?
I guess that is related with the cold in the North of England but I'm not familiar with British cliches
Thanks
geordies, people from Newcastle, are stereotypically under dressed for cold weather, refusing to wear jackets. Having lived with some Geordies in the mid 2000s this portrayal is was 100% accurate ;)
I am from West Yorkshire and every Christmas Eve in the pub you would wait for the first dickhead to enter the pub in a t-shirt or running vest.
Marmite? Could have been worse. Could have been Vegemite.
Angus Deayton was such a bell.
End
Hoksworth Wipple is that good or bad
Is that Doc Martin as Henry V?
is this missing a Harry Enfield sketch?
"After beating the Danes at Stamford Brdige" gmw
I always thought that Harold Godwinson and his men REALLY got a bum deal from fate. Just imagine needing to fight the Normans after quick-marching down from Stamford Bridge to Hastings, and that march being immediately after a hard-fought battle with the Danes. Hard lines for the Anglo-Saxons.
@@Tina06019 yeh, but imagine if Harold won in Hastings also, he would have been heralded as the greatest king of that age. Definitely one of the great what ifs of history.
@@Tina06019 totally agree. But nobody ever said that life is fair.
It was actually the Norwegians that was beaten at Stamford bridge, not the Danes.
@@Vertikal1000 Harald hardrada
Thank God men are here to make comedy singlehandedly.
Yes. That was arch sarcasm.
0:08: roman numbers suck for this
What happened to the Nice-But-Dim family sketch?
It got a copyright strike.
@@vhsvideovault that's a pity, like most of this it had a phenomenal cast
@@vhsvideovault Hello sorry to bother do you have any idea where I could potentially find it? I've loved watching this and it hurts me that there's some I haven't seen!
@@vhsvideovaultWas it a piece of music that caused the strike?
poor catherine parr - at least she got him back in six
funnygood
DO.IT.
23:24 CUNNY
As an American must ask: what the hell am I watching?
@@lilmofam But more clever.
@@jussilahteenmaki3475 Touche, M. Jussi. That'll shut those brain-dead hot dog eaters up.
... Not.
Does the presenter send a pound to John Cleese every time he rips him off?
are white people ever going to stop equating all of existence to the 2000 years where they were relevant.
So go and make a sketch show about pre- 1 AD Egypt, South America and Africa ... or hop over to Horrible Histories and thank them profusely for having made a head-start on it.
If you do the first, you'll probably find that its very difficult to do a lot of work on areas of history that left little or no written sources. The small amount of historical movies / sketches about 4500 BC in Europe isn't because of the disdain and hatred towards Europeans of that time. It's just that whatever those guys build up / wrote down isn't around anymore.
No.
Nope, is to fun to see the inferiority complex of other.
Oh my! You are so radical. You go girl.
Nazis
Joke is on the EU shills that made this propaganda claptrap. You lost big time.
What are you on about?? XD
@@OMG3DBEAT Shh, people under tinfoil hats believing them to be tin hats should best be left in their own little (Britain) world.
I think the "shills" in this situation are the people who lapped up that concept that the point of a community is "I've got to be the winner". The point of a community is that if you manage to work together, then everybody is better off.
And as sad as it is: if GB is run by people who don't get that, who are stuck in the "we are the very bestest, make the world England" mind set, then the Brexit isn't as much of a loss for the European Union as it otherwise would be.
@@Julia-lk8jn perfectly said.