Ploppy Ploppy: I hate it when that happens! You just cannot get it even, but you can't just leave it be, either. And then, as you say, before long...damn!
GabrielKnightz i think stephen foolishly expected jimmy to be serious. look at his face, fry is listening closely, awaiting a point and most likely already on the way to the rebuttal. carr perfectly plays with expectation subversion on so many of his crude jokes.
that's not accurate hitler killed hitler who didn't kill hitler (yet), but died himself in the act, so in other words he sacrificed himself to kill hitler, which makes his deed all the more noble.
@partisan From the fact that you didn't even get the name right, It's Anne Frank, i gather that you really know what you are talking about. So far, it has been forensically (twice) proven authentic and historically proven accurate many times.
Grand Theft Auto's Nico character got it right about war: "War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other"
Sem Yeah, but in all fairness, the ones that were tricked *are* going to trick the next generation, and so on and on and on. So apparently, no one really has a problem with it in practice.
@C D well, that and the industrial level genocide of millions and the attempted genocide and enslavement of millions upon millions more. Tends to give one a rather bad name.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 And, apparently, it's the only Germanic/French name in existence, as the guy who changed his last name not to be associated with Hitler couldn't have possibly named his child anything other than Adolf.
The choice of Stuart Houston for William Patrick's name change is interesting, to say the least. Houston Stuart Chamberlain was an anti-Semitic British writer, and also the son-in-law of Richard Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer and also a notorious anti-Semite. 😮
What a load of retrograde bullshit. The poles were quite happily looking after themselves. This is the biggest pile of neo fascist bs I've heard in a while.
This reminds me how much I miss Steven, I like Sandy and find her quite funny but Fry had a little something special that just doesn't seem replaceable.
Pantjay - He has a faux naivety that is endearing and great for comedy while sandy is very down to earth and feels like just a fifth guest instead of a host. That might change with more seasons.
The best thing was having both Stephen and Sandy on the same time "Good news dear I've weighed my own head" . Stephen should return as a contestant (he's done it for Christmas before)
I dont understand Jimmy. I never know whether I'd want to hug him or throw a rock at his head. I think maybe a hug and then ill just drop the rock down his trousers for a laugh.
He had that style of mustache going back to WW1. The soldiers had to shape their facial hair this way to fit their gas masks securely. Many veterans kept the style after the war as a sign of their service.
Not correct. During WW1, soldiers were sporting huge Kaiser Wilhelm mustaches. The toothbrush was born in USA, and did not become fashionable.in Europe until the mid-1920's.
@@interestedbystander196 Many war veterans kept the toothbrush after the war such as Hitler the moustache was a reminder of their time in the trenches of WW1
I just always assumed it was fashionable at that time considering the celebrities you mentioned who were groomed similarly. As for his Great War mustache that was definitely the fashion in that period with the British Army actually REQUIRING mustaches between 1860 and 1916.
Did not go out of fashion because of gasmasks though, that is a myth. Most people do not realise but the gasmasks of WWI were not in fact airtight, they did not form that seal that modern masks do. Think of them more as snorkels that feed into what is essentially a filter box, the tube is held in the mouth as a snorkel or a divers mouthpiece and a steel or iron clip holds the nose closed. WHen you breathe the air is taken in through the filter box and essentially scrubbed through a series of filters and charcoal. They are, take it from me, bloody uncomfortable things, I have a reproduction British box respirator and I would really, really hate to have to wear the thing for several hours whilst sitting still, let alone while doing anything like strenuous activity! The likely reason full beards and mustaches went out of fashion in the front line troops is probably rather more prosaic. It's all down to cleanliness, or one specific aspect of cleanliness, namely, lice. Lice were literally everywhere, and the last thing people really wanted were the horrible little beggars drinking from their tea or coffee mug. Hence the hair went.
William Patrick Hitler changed his name to Stuart Houston after moving to the USA. I was really expecting someone to say 'Houston, we have a problem'. ;-)
His sons are actually still alive. They havent had any kids because they feel its their obligation to let their bloodline die because of the actions of hitler allegedly
No idea what that quaker woman is on about... "If we had done something about him before". What in the world would you have done you self-righteous ars*? Politely asked him not to murder millions of people?
Pacifists do their best to discourage governments from going to war in the first place. If they're successful, they can save thousands of lives. Unfortunately when you've got Hitler in power in a country not too far away from yours, preventing a war is always going to be rather difficult.
@@Sobieski1 well look at the series of events that led to Hitler. World War 1, the great depression, the normalisation of anti-semitism. If there were more pacifists in power, they wouldn't have been chomping at the bit to enter the dick measuring contest that World war I was at the beginning. If we recognised that such unregulated capitalism, the likes of which that was going on in the 20s, only leads to disaster the powers that be would have put measures in place to prevent it. At some point, yes, pacifism can't prevent Hitler from achieving his goals but it would prevent the series of events that leads to people like him from coming into power
Answer: That mustache was popular during WWI, and was the only facial hair the Allies permitted the soldiers. It's popularity after was akin to the popularity of crew-cuts after WWII in America during the late 40s to 1950s.
Fun Fact - When Hitler visited England He was so in love with Rochdale town centre that He said when Germany conquers England He wanted Rochdale to be the base of operations
I was in Rome recently and did a tour of the Coliseum and Palatine Hill. Outside the Coliseum is a Roman Triumphal Arch. The guide said there used to be a fountain in front of the arch that had been there since Roman Times. But when Hitler visited in the 1930s he demanded the right to march his troops through, so Mussolini had the fountain destroyed. The guide said it was terrible! I shook my head and said, "Gosh! The more I hear about this Hitler chap, the less I think about him." No-one in the tour laughed, just glared at me. They were all Americans which is probably why.
I would think Trump followers are not likely to know a language other than English, and are so paranoid and xenophobic, they would not want to leave the US for fear of not being let back in. Not bent over double with intellect either. They loves them some orange hitler.
I read some time ago that Goebbels told Hitler he needed a striking image feature, like Stalin and Lenin and he chose the moustache. Why that particular shape was not known, though Hitler was a huge fan of Chaplin (and famously brooded for days after seen "The Great Dictator") ... The moustache could come from that. Strange how David seems to emulate the haircut still.
I would have thought that Hitler encouraged more men to shave than ever before. After all any man with a moustache would hate to be compared to Hitler.
The gas mask theory actually makes some sense. Easy enough to experiment; get an old mask from amuseum, and see how it works with and without such a mustache. Anyone who's ever worn such protective gear is aware that some hairstyles/moustaches/beards don't allow for a decent seal.
That's not correct. I know it, I was an Air Force officer. It's a place where exotic facial hair is very common, yet, we regularly use oxygen masks and gas masks. Naval traditions are prescribing sailors to have beards. Yet, they too are regularly using gas masks. The SF guys and their mustaches.... You see ?
@@thefreedomguyuk Hitler allegedly wore the toothbrush whilst serving in the trenches after he was ordered to trim his moustache down so it could fit inside the gas mask properly this story comes from a former comrade called Alexandra Moritz Frey who served with Hitler during WW1 both of them were in the same regiment
@@thefreedomguyuk A few historians think that Hitler adopted the toothbrush in 1919 around the time he was just beginning his career in politics other people have claimed that Hitler wore his distinctive moustache in August 1914 in Munich during the declaration of WW1 but this is clearly not true because there are several photos of Hitler wearing a larger moustache whilst serving in the military
Yes, that's the story I heard. His "agent" told him to get a striking look - it was essentially a branding thing, as he was beginning to rise to some prominence in politics.
I think those moustaches were just the style at the time. There's a photo of my great-grandfather in 1913 sporting a Hitler moustache. Obviously it wasn't called a Hitler moustache then because Hitler was probably still in Vienna trying to get into art college or something.
@@thefreedomguyuk . Who told you that shit. Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer on the Planet. This wouldn't be possible if we were terrified of the Sun.
It was a marketing thing. It gave them authentic look so everybody new who they are as sooon as they would see them. They both were small man so they needed something to stand out and u had to have balls to wear them.
If that story is true and he just wanted it to look better, there must have been a moment where Hitler first dawned his new look and thought, "oh yes, everyone will love this." Very proud of the look that he killed forever.
Hitler's American nephew giving his son Adolph as a middle name while trying to distance himself from Hitler himself really does sum up the entire post-war relationship between America and Nazism when factoring in Operation Paperclip and Gladio
I watched this and I didn't know Clarkson was on the show and hearing his voice comment about Hitler out of nowhere discribes him kinda well (Clarkson that is, not Hitler)
I would have to agree with Clarkson's assessment on this one. Being a pacifist is admirable until someone like Hitler comes along. Negotiations and appeasement can only go so far - as history has shown. At some point you have to be willing to use the threat of violence in the face of evil, the only language bullies and tyrants understand.
For me its this way; I refuse to take up arms in an organized army facing a weaker opponent. If attacked unlawfully by a greater foe, I would not be pacifist.
A nation, the entire inhabitants, tried it practically. Their case study is a classic example of how stupid and flawed pacifism is. Today it is part of another nation and nobody even bothers. That nation was called Tibet. Poor souls. We should flank any idiot who comes and preaches this.Paradox is spot on. Bullies and tyrants will take us for a ride every single time we do this. And 99%, only bullies would want war all the time. So.
+Abhi Abz - Tibet had an army. It was overwhelmed by the much larger Chinese army. Using your 'logic', their case study is a classic example of how stupid and flawed armed defence is. ;) :)
Frankly, I find the "gas mask" story as having the greatest probability. Couldn't get the gas mask on. Solution, trim the mustache. Charlie Chaplin was not amused.
We had to keep our mustaches neatly trimmed in the Navy, for face mask work. But not that short. It could not extend past the edges of our lips. I went for the William Powell mustache 😎
During my research, I found that Hitler wore the small toothbrush mustache in order to look more distinguished. His "handlers" recommended that he needed an original look. Therefore, he trimmed down the mustache for a cleaner more stand out look. It seemed to work. So much so, that today, no one dares to wear this style of mustache. No one will ever know for sure if any of these stories are true or not. But, it was not due to the gas mask. Hitler did not adapt to the smaller version until after WWI.
In the picture on the left, the mustache was the same style as the Kaiser would wear and I think he wanted to distance himself from that look by cutting it short.
The toothbrush moustache was a sign that one had been on the front lines in the Great War--Hitler was far from the only German at the time to wear it. He also wore his Iron Cross First Class and his Wound Badge, and no other decoration. It all made him look like an authentic war hero.
Which, unfortunately, he really was. He volunteered to be a runner. Runners had an exceptionally short life expectancy. Volunteering to do something that benefits others but may almost certainly cost one their life is pretty much the definition.
@@charlietwotimes to volunteer a dangerous act, you need not be a hero. Being crazy is motivation enough for some. (Firestarters sometimes combine the crazy of the thrill, with the crazy of seeking hero status attention)
At a corporate seminar event one of the presenting hosts had the only example I'd seen in person of that (eponymous) moustache. I couldn't help myself and kept glancing at the guy even when he wasn't speaking. It was like my brain needed constant reassurance that it wasn't THE guy himself somehow travelled through time. Just so weird what an iconic look of evil it still represents.
To become a Quaker which involves being a pacifist, first you must have this inside you or else you wouldn't be drawn to that religion. I am non-religious but I am a pacifist, each to there own as long as they ain't bothering anybody.
I think it’s because Quakers are generally more liberal than other Christian groups. I don’t know much about them but it seems like they’re more accepted because of that. Plus the pacifism part.
They don't have priests or a religious hierarchy. At meetings, anyone that wants to speak, about anything, can. Though you don't need to say anything at all. There are even nontheist Quakers. Just checked. This appears to be the norm in the UK. In some other countries, particularly in the USA, they do have priests and organised worship.
My mother grew up in Marble Head Mass and she remembers the thunderous sound of the guns and once a burned out U boat washed up on the beach. At ripe old age of 84 she has never forgotten the feeling of dread that, "Hitler is just over the horizon."
When he came to Liverpool he visited Rochdale, and he loved the town hall there so much, he had orders made up that after the conquest of Britain, Rochdale Town Hall was to be taken down and reassembled in Germany as a spoil of war
I once heard the following explanation: he trimmed it this way because in appearance, it would be similar to/mimic a bloody nose. So it was to give him a more agressive look. Don’t know if there is any basis for this theory though.
He held the bushy mustache on with Velcro. After a while, he stopped wearing the mustache, and wore only the Velcro, which we all recognize to this day.
The Fry family is interesting. They were Quakers like the Cadbury family and like the Cadbury family they produced chocolate in the UK. Like Cadbury's, Fry's was taken over by a multinational company but I still remember their chocolate from my childhood. Fry's Turkish Delight and Fry's mint chocolate. They also produced a famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. I didn't know that Stephen Fry was related to the same Fry family but it seems he is, unless he's joking.
Somehow Steven forgott to mention the right answer. It was a quite common beard in Germany in the start of the Weimar time. Before most males had the "Kaiser Wilhelm"-Beard with the pointy sides, since the Kaiser abdicated they shaved the sides off to symbolize a new beginning.
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You know what it's like, you trim a little bit off one side and then try to even it out...
Makes sense, he couldn't get into art school, maybe he just really struggled with proportionality
Constant Chaos: oh, you win this one, bigly! It's savage AND hilarious.
Yep and before long you've killed 4 million jews.
Ploppy Ploppy: I hate it when that happens! You just cannot get it even, but you can't just leave it be, either. And then, as you say, before long...damn!
@@ConstantChaos1 But he was a great painter. He could do a kitchen in one afternoon including undercoat and two topcoats.
I love that little beat before Stephen gets the joke.
playing that over and over again... it seems as if the audience is just as slow... and makes it all sound awkward.
I don't get the joke. Hitler killed hitler. Huh?
Mariah Carey he commit suicide
GabrielKnightz
i think stephen foolishly expected jimmy to be serious.
look at his face, fry is listening closely, awaiting a point and most likely already on the way to the rebuttal.
carr perfectly plays with expectation subversion on so many of his crude jokes.
Before anyone, really.... including me. :-D
Jimmy Carr raises a good point, but forgets that he also killed the guy who killed Hitler!
highvoltage988 Explain please.
Robert Medd Hitler also killed the man who killed the man who killed Hitler.
That's Kennedy layers of conspiracy fodder
Dude, thats way meta!
Charlie J Really??? *SWOOSH*
that's not accurate hitler killed hitler who didn't kill hitler (yet), but died himself in the act, so in other words he sacrificed himself to kill hitler, which makes his deed all the more noble.
maybe the joke is old but Jimmy just had a perfect delivery, and Fry and the audience fall for it after a full second of silence and thinking.
Jimmy Carr raises a good point, but forgets that he also killed the guy who killed Hitler!
@@wallacetrisler8560 but he’s also the guy who killed the guy who killed Hitler, the bastard!
Bridget Htiler's diary: Sounds like a great combination of drama, nervous humor and history.
Justin Keuris and all the singletons would luv it😗
"Nervous humor and history". That sounds like the domain for "The Family Guy"...
@partisan From the fact that you didn't even get the name right, It's Anne Frank, i gather that you really know what you are talking about. So far, it has been forensically (twice) proven authentic and historically proven accurate many times.
Justin Keuris , full of complaints about being a singelton and desperate attempts to lose weight and give up smokinh
Hillary Hitler; The Sequel
"As in most things, he went too far" - Understatement of the year right there.
Stalin was way worse
That's the point of the whole clip. Thanks for explaining it.
Understatement of the century more like haha
Still didn't go quite as far as Mao Zedong though
What’s the point of saying one dictator is worse than another? It seems like you’re defending Hitler.
Grand Theft Auto's Nico character got it right about war:
"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other"
Sem
Yeah, but in all fairness, the ones that were tricked *are* going to trick the next generation, and so on and on and on.
So apparently, no one really has a problem with it in practice.
War is Hell. Alan Ladd said that. (Or was it Audie Murphy?)
And if you live through war you become old bitter and repeat
It's like the young want to change everything....yet they become old and wiser and then understand why it doesn't. Lol
Nico's character is actually really sad, went to America to escape war only to find himself fighting the very same people.
1:32 "Of course his eyes were quite, quite blue, you know. Once seen, never forgotten."
As with most things, he went too far...that's...well...apt.
Well thank you for explaining the satire haha
Thank you for your appreciation.
Like to the Soviet Union.
He also bathed several times a day. The fuckin madman
Going too far- that's a bit of an understatement
Funny how one man could completely ruin a first name, a surname and a style of moustache forever!!!!
Not even Lenin or Stalin did all three of those
Hitler: I ruined a first name, a surname, and a complete look.
Donald Trump: Hold my beer!
Propaganda
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Yeah I’m sure there will still be people named Donald... and nobody had his hair to begin with.
@C D well, that and the industrial level genocide of millions and the attempted genocide and enslavement of millions upon millions more. Tends to give one a rather bad name.
@@hlc5410 Stalin exterminated two times more people and yet there are people named Joseph running around the world
Classic QI moment. Incredibly informative, dreadfully serious, and absolutely hilarious.
Wanting to forget your uncle so much that you accidentally forget his name and name your first child after him unknowingly.
Almost a depiction of a meme that goes: "Man with Alzheimers forgot he had it - remembers everything"
Adolf/Adolph/Adolphe is a very common Germanic/French name. Adolphe Menjou, for example.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 And, apparently, it's the only Germanic/French name in existence, as the guy who changed his last name not to be associated with Hitler couldn't have possibly named his child anything other than Adolf.
The choice of Stuart Houston for William Patrick's name change is interesting, to say the least. Houston Stuart Chamberlain was an anti-Semitic British writer, and also the son-in-law of Richard Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer and also a notorious anti-Semite. 😮
Stephen should come back on the show as a panelist now and again. I love Sandy too, and she fits that chair very nicely, but I miss Stephen.
Dave Cooke He should return to the last episode and beat Alan to the last ever question were the answer is "A Blue Whale"
The show is just not the same without him, and that's not a slight on Sandy, it's just Stephen was so great in the role no one could live up to him.
I love the line "As with most things he went too far". Yes, I thought, like Poland.
@Bad Cattitude Yes, the only choice was to invade. Poor ol Nazi Germany.
What a load of retrograde bullshit. The poles were quite happily looking after themselves. This is the biggest pile of neo fascist bs I've heard in a while.
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k They were also quite good and holding up the telegraph wire (/j)
YES THAT'S THE JOKE THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING IT
Classic QI. Informing and then making you bust a gut laughing.
What's qi?
QI is one of the best named tv shows ever. Every episode is quite interesting.
I just thought it was IQ backwards.
He also killed the person that killed Hitler though...
fenhen but he also killed the person, who killed the person, who killed hitler.
@@Blaze473781 Well, at the same time he killed the person, who killed the person, who killed the person, who killed Hitler.
@@pallydan893 he killed that guy too apparently
@@Blaze473781 I don't care. I think they were all Nazis.
well, we dont know for sure, his body was never found
I know this something to do with his gasmask in first world war
Because Stalin took the cool one?
TheHutchy01 Stalin took the cool everything
Stalin had very cool political prison
muskatDR you're goddamn right he did
what as in rainbow stalin? th-cam.com/video/twl1Oea0bs4/w-d-xo.html
James Smith really? I’ve never read that
This reminds me how much I miss Steven, I like Sandy and find her quite funny but Fry had a little something special that just doesn't seem replaceable.
Pantjay - He has a faux naivety that is endearing and great for comedy while sandy is very down to earth and feels like just a fifth guest instead of a host. That might change with more seasons.
The best thing was having both Stephen and Sandy on the same time "Good news dear I've weighed my own head" . Stephen should return as a contestant (he's done it for Christmas before)
I forgot he stopped hosting the show for sec, and thought he was dead. Damn near had a heart attack.
Scorecatron I hope he could come in as guest panelist some day.
You can never truly replace one person with another.
im gonna steal that hitler joke
I've lost count of how many times I've heard that joke.
100%
What! He’s really dead?!?
Everybody already has stolen that joke.
Never heard it. Gonna use it.
Jimmy Carr is delightful as always xD
His laugh is fine if you play it in reverse.
He's laughing at the fact that the HMRC haven't collared him...yet.
I dont understand Jimmy. I never know whether I'd want to hug him or throw a rock at his head.
I think maybe a hug and then ill just drop the rock down his trousers for a laugh.
He had that style of mustache going back to WW1. The soldiers had to shape their facial hair this way to fit their gas masks securely.
Many veterans kept the style after the war as a sign of their service.
Nope, this has been shown to not be the case. He still had the full stache after the war.
Not correct. During WW1, soldiers were sporting huge Kaiser Wilhelm mustaches. The toothbrush was born in USA, and did not become fashionable.in Europe until the mid-1920's.
@@interestedbystander196 Many war veterans kept the toothbrush after the war such as Hitler the moustache was a reminder of their time in the trenches of WW1
Napoleon Wilson
Where's a klaxon when you need one?
It was fashion, many had them. Chaplin comes to mind…
"He's judged very harshly, but he did kill Hitler." is one of the most underrated comedy lines of the 21st century to date.
Hardly. It is one of the most used and vastly overrated joke about the Hitler.
ErisRising Knowing Jimmy, he’s almost certainly stolen that joke from something he read online.
No it's not - I have heard the joke countless times!
Nah it's overrated as shit mang, I've heard that shit joke a billion times by now
Even if it were told just once, it's still nowhere near to being funny.
I just always assumed it was fashionable at that time considering the celebrities you mentioned who were groomed similarly. As for his Great War mustache that was definitely the fashion in that period with the British Army actually REQUIRING mustaches between 1860 and 1916.
Did not go out of fashion because of gasmasks though, that is a myth. Most people do not realise but the gasmasks of WWI were not in fact airtight, they did not form that seal that modern masks do. Think of them more as snorkels that feed into what is essentially a filter box, the tube is held in the mouth as a snorkel or a divers mouthpiece and a steel or iron clip holds the nose closed. WHen you breathe the air is taken in through the filter box and essentially scrubbed through a series of filters and charcoal. They are, take it from me, bloody uncomfortable things, I have a reproduction British box respirator and I would really, really hate to have to wear the thing for several hours whilst sitting still, let alone while doing anything like strenuous activity!
The likely reason full beards and mustaches went out of fashion in the front line troops is probably rather more prosaic. It's all down to cleanliness, or one specific aspect of cleanliness, namely, lice. Lice were literally everywhere, and the last thing people really wanted were the horrible little beggars drinking from their tea or coffee mug. Hence the hair went.
William Patrick Hitler changed his name to Stuart Houston after moving to the USA. I was really expecting someone to say 'Houston, we have a problem'. ;-)
Houston is a common name and even a large city in the USA
Zakimals that’s the joke.
His sons are actually still alive. They havent had any kids because they feel its their obligation to let their bloodline die because of the actions of hitler allegedly
When he said "As in most things, he went too far" I lost it smh lol
Top 10 Hitler jokes
The picture of Hitler with a full moustache looks a bit like Hugh Laurie
Edit: timestamp; 1:31
Schwartzaddierer goes fourth was a far darker series
“Pacifism’s a lovely idea until someone like Hitler comes along.”
THANK YOU, Jeremy.
No idea what that quaker woman is on about... "If we had done something about him before". What in the world would you have done you self-righteous ars*? Politely asked him not to murder millions of people?
@@Sobieski1 she's clearly referencing appeasement.
Pacifists decry war then stand back and watch as others fight and die on their behalf. It’s nothing more than cowardice veiled in a moralistic cloak.
Pacifists do their best to discourage governments from going to war in the first place. If they're successful, they can save thousands of lives. Unfortunately when you've got Hitler in power in a country not too far away from yours, preventing a war is always going to be rather difficult.
@@Sobieski1 well look at the series of events that led to Hitler. World War 1, the great depression, the normalisation of anti-semitism.
If there were more pacifists in power, they wouldn't have been chomping at the bit to enter the dick measuring contest that World war I was at the beginning.
If we recognised that such unregulated capitalism, the likes of which that was going on in the 20s, only leads to disaster the powers that be would have put measures in place to prevent it.
At some point, yes, pacifism can't prevent Hitler from achieving his goals but it would prevent the series of events that leads to people like him from coming into power
Answer: That mustache was popular during WWI, and was the only facial hair the Allies permitted the soldiers. It's popularity after was akin to the popularity of crew-cuts after WWII in America during the late 40s to 1950s.
Just to clarify, when you say allies do you mean the Triple Etente (Great Britain, France, Russia) or the Central Powers?
@@TheAlps36 Certainly the U.S., not positive about the others. It certainly wasn't the only possible mustache, but it was popular.
I most give credit to Jimmy. That was petty good joke XD Even it took me awhile to find out what he ment
I know that. But it was the way Jimmy said it. Need a little while to kick in
British humor is unmatched. I say this as a french. Every british pub has at least one dude in it, whose only goal in life is make you laugh.
What a great panel, with Stephen Fry, Jeremy Clarkson, and Jimmy Carr. Great set of comedians
I'm digging the Fibonacci spiral decor on the table.
Jimmy Carr worried me for a split second when he said “Hitler is judged very harshly by history *but*-“
Right...
He made some great animal protection laws. Not everything he did was abhorrent, just a lot.
Fun Fact - When Hitler visited England He was so in love with Rochdale town centre that He said when Germany conquers England He wanted Rochdale to be the base of operations
And now Rochdale is sadly the base of a different evil, child grooming
George Orwell had one of those moustaches when he was in the Burmese police force.
So, is Stephen Fry related to the chocolate manufacturers?
"He went too far."........ How far?....... Oh,Russia?
He went too far out of his way to help Mussolini, which cost him Russia and the war.
0:40 Was that the old lady in the Adam Sandler film "That's my boy?"
No
I was in Rome recently and did a tour of the Coliseum and Palatine Hill. Outside the Coliseum is a Roman Triumphal Arch.
The guide said there used to be a fountain in front of the arch that had been there since Roman Times. But when Hitler visited in the 1930s he demanded the right to march his troops through, so Mussolini had the fountain destroyed. The guide said it was terrible!
I shook my head and said, "Gosh! The more I hear about this Hitler chap, the less I think about him."
No-one in the tour laughed, just glared at me. They were all Americans which is probably why.
I would think Trump followers are not likely to know a language other than English, and are so paranoid and xenophobic, they would not want to leave the US for fear of not being let back in. Not bent over double with intellect either. They loves them some orange hitler.
William Patrick Hitler changed his name after the war...
to Stuart Hitler.
@Lone pube My comment was also a joke. He took steps to change his name, then put Adolf in his son's name.
That wasn’t as much a joke as exactly what actually happened.
@@gentlemanjim480 That was the point. What actually happened was arguably even more ridiculous.
Answer: It was very fashionable in those days.
I read some time ago that Goebbels told Hitler he needed a striking image feature, like Stalin and Lenin and he chose the moustache. Why that particular shape was not known, though Hitler was a huge fan of Chaplin (and famously brooded for days after seen "The Great Dictator") ... The moustache could come from that. Strange how David seems to emulate the haircut still.
The moustache wasn't real. The real one was in his pocket.
The real one is in Poland. Thats what the invasion was really about, he just used the genocide thing to protect his image.
So what we've been thinking was a mustache was just the Velcro to keep it attached?
I would have thought that Hitler encouraged more men to shave than ever before. After all any man with a moustache would hate to be compared to Hitler.
It wasn't silly at the time. It was a perfectly trendy mustache at the time.
Vortex_13 Moustache.👍😉
Just because it was trendy at the time doesn't mean it wasn't also silly, I mean look at the mullet
Trends are often silly. For example: Crocs.
@@CaptHayfever,what's so silly about crocs?
@@mazadancoseben4818: They're uncomfortable, ugly, & impractical.
The gas mask theory actually makes some sense. Easy enough to experiment; get an old mask from amuseum, and see how it works with and without such a mustache. Anyone who's ever worn such protective gear is aware that some hairstyles/moustaches/beards don't allow for a decent seal.
That's not correct. I know it, I was an Air Force officer. It's a place where exotic facial hair is very common, yet, we regularly use oxygen masks and gas masks. Naval traditions are prescribing sailors to have beards. Yet, they too are regularly using gas masks. The SF guys and their mustaches....
You see ?
@@thefreedomguyuk Hitler allegedly wore the toothbrush whilst serving in the trenches after he was ordered to trim his moustache down so it could fit inside the gas mask properly this story comes from a former comrade called Alexandra Moritz Frey who served with Hitler during WW1 both of them were in the same regiment
@@thefreedomguyuk A few historians think that Hitler adopted the toothbrush in 1919 around the time he was just beginning his career in politics other people have claimed that Hitler wore his distinctive moustache in August 1914 in Munich during the declaration of WW1 but this is clearly not true because there are several photos of Hitler wearing a larger moustache whilst serving in the military
@@thefreedomguyuk Did you just completely ignore the part where he said “old mask”? Of course modern masks are going to be different…
@@liamparrish840 I don't think it takes necessarily more than a few months to grow the larger version from the shorter one, and he served for years.
Didn't a lot of blokes have this mustache back then?
Why did people run with the mullet in the 80s?
Was anyone else able to hear Stephen Fry say “mustache” in their head before even watching the video?
Well he said it on Blackadder!
I think if you couldn't you'd be considered slightly peculiar
Didn’t Ernst Hanfstaengl tell him his facial hair needed to be distinctive and memorable, like Lenin’s pointy goatee?
Yes, that's the story I heard. His "agent" told him to get a striking look - it was essentially a branding thing, as he was beginning to rise to some prominence in politics.
It wasn’t a silly mustache a lot of men wore their mustaches like that Charlie Chaplin Oliver Hardy did also.
It was a silly moustache it just also happened to be popular at the time. Popularity and stupidity often go hand in hand.
I think those moustaches were just the style at the time. There's a photo of my great-grandfather in 1913 sporting a Hitler moustache. Obviously it wasn't called a Hitler moustache then because Hitler was probably still in Vienna trying to get into art college or something.
That would've been during WWI, wouldn't it? So Hitler would've still been at the front.
Strangest thing in this video.
Five Brits with darker skin than me and I live in Australia
Remember, you guys are terrified of the sun, and most of you are completel pale and constantly smeared in sunscreen.
@@thefreedomguyuk . Who told you that shit.
Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer on the Planet.
This wouldn't be possible if we were terrified of the Sun.
I was asking myself thos question yesterday, after seeing a Charlie Chaplin clip.
It was a marketing thing. It gave them authentic look so everybody new who they are as sooon as they would see them. They both were small man so they needed something to stand out and u had to have balls to wear them.
"As in most things, he went too far." An understand if there ever was one.
1969Kismet An understand?
@fraziel87 Oh definitely.
Is it just me or does Jimmy Carr basically just tell all the same jokes we had in school when we were 14? Lol.
If that story is true and he just wanted it to look better, there must have been a moment where Hitler first dawned his new look and thought, "oh yes, everyone will love this." Very proud of the look that he killed forever.
And, of course, Jimmy Carr has the best line in a QI video.
Hitler's American nephew giving his son Adolph as a middle name while trying to distance himself from Hitler himself really does sum up the entire post-war relationship between America and Nazism when factoring in Operation Paperclip and Gladio
Two things people never do these days, have that style of moustache and name their child Adolf.
Imagine what a heck of a time we’d have with all those extra people
how english of her to say that that he went a little too far?
She was Irish. She met Hitler's half-brother in Dublin and they moved to England.
Always a treat to see Jeremy Clarkson on a program. You can recognize him on the first shot by his hairline
Hahahaha
I watched this and I didn't know Clarkson was on the show and hearing his voice comment about Hitler out of nowhere discribes him kinda well (Clarkson that is, not Hitler)
2:17 Credit when credit is JEW
I would have to agree with Clarkson's assessment on this one.
Being a pacifist is admirable until someone like Hitler comes along.
Negotiations and appeasement can only go so far - as history has shown.
At some point you have to be willing to use the threat of violence in the face of evil, the only language bullies and tyrants understand.
Paradox Eddie Izzard once said he was a pacifist except in the case of an ‘organised shithead’.
Though refusing to fight for someone like Hitler, even if it means harsh punishment, is really admirable in itself
For me its this way; I refuse to take up arms in an organized army facing a weaker opponent. If attacked unlawfully by a greater foe, I would not be pacifist.
A nation, the entire inhabitants, tried it practically. Their case study is a classic example of how stupid and flawed pacifism is. Today it is part of another nation and nobody even bothers. That nation was called Tibet. Poor souls. We should flank any idiot who comes and preaches this.Paradox is spot on. Bullies and tyrants will take us for a ride every single time we do this. And 99%, only bullies would want war all the time. So.
+Abhi Abz - Tibet had an army. It was overwhelmed by the much larger Chinese army. Using your 'logic', their case study is a classic example of how stupid and flawed armed defence is. ;) :)
I was honestly wondering how Jimmy was going to get out of the corner he was painting himself into.
“But as with many things, he went too far” what a case of foreshadowing
Frankly, I find the "gas mask" story as having the greatest probability. Couldn't get the gas mask on. Solution, trim the mustache. Charlie Chaplin was not amused.
Nope, this has been shown to not be the case. He still had the full stache after the war.
We had to keep our mustaches neatly trimmed in the Navy, for face mask work. But not that short. It could not extend past the edges of our lips. I went for the William Powell mustache 😎
Brilliant setup for the initial question
During my research, I found that Hitler wore the small toothbrush mustache in order to look more distinguished. His "handlers" recommended that he needed an original look. Therefore, he trimmed down the mustache for a cleaner more stand out look. It seemed to work. So much so, that today, no one dares to wear this style of mustache. No one will ever know for sure if any of these stories are true or not. But, it was not due to the gas mask. Hitler did not adapt to the smaller version until after WWI.
In the picture on the left, the mustache was the same style as the Kaiser would wear and I think he wanted to distance himself from that look by cutting it short.
By research , I'm assuming you mean that terrible drama with Robert Carlise
I'm a Quaker man as well love my oats.
Watching in Lock down here in the UK.
The toothbrush moustache was a sign that one had been on the front lines in the Great War--Hitler was far from the only German at the time to wear it. He also wore his Iron Cross First Class and his Wound Badge, and no other decoration. It all made him look like an authentic war hero.
Which, unfortunately, he really was. He volunteered to be a runner. Runners had an exceptionally short life expectancy. Volunteering to do something that benefits others but may almost certainly cost one their life is pretty much the definition.
@@charlietwotimes to volunteer a dangerous act, you need not be a hero. Being crazy is motivation enough for some.
(Firestarters sometimes combine the crazy of the thrill, with the crazy of seeking hero status attention)
2:03 that killed me dang I love that
2:16 "Credit when credit's *jew* "
Lol
Fry’s purple suit is fantastic.
2:57 you don't WIN a purple heart, it's not some tournament trophy.
At a corporate seminar event one of the presenting hosts had the only example I'd seen in person of that (eponymous) moustache. I couldn't help myself and kept glancing at the guy even when he wasn't speaking. It was like my brain needed constant reassurance that it wasn't THE guy himself somehow travelled through time. Just so weird what an iconic look of evil it still represents.
Thank you Jeremy! Wanting no wars is good. Being a pacifist is childish and cowardly.
1:34 Holy shit, he looks like Luigi from Super Mario Bros.
Being a pacifist is very admirable until someone like Hitler comes along, then it's not very admirable. Clarkson occasionally talks sense
so quick is allan lol
Funny how Fry says that being a Quaker is a "very admirably thing" while at the same time he professes to hate God and religion.
I don't think being a Pacifist is anything to do with religion.
Richard S It is if your a pacifist because of your religion (i.e because you're a Quaker).
To become a Quaker which involves being a pacifist, first you must have this inside you or else you wouldn't be drawn to that religion. I am non-religious but I am a pacifist, each to there own as long as they ain't bothering anybody.
I think it’s because Quakers are generally more liberal than other Christian groups. I don’t know much about them but it seems like they’re more accepted because of that. Plus the pacifism part.
They don't have priests or a religious hierarchy. At meetings, anyone that wants to speak, about anything, can. Though you don't need to say anything at all. There are even nontheist Quakers.
Just checked. This appears to be the norm in the UK. In some other countries, particularly in the USA, they do have priests and organised worship.
"As in most things, he went too far."
No sh*t!!!
If you ask the question that's staring you in the face, it's surprising how much depth emerges.
My mother grew up in Marble Head Mass and she remembers the thunderous sound of the guns and once a burned out U boat washed up on the beach. At ripe old age of 84 she has never forgotten the feeling of dread that, "Hitler is just over the horizon."
To annoy Albert Steptoe who, according to him, had one first.
Look at napoleons hat, hitlers mustache, trumps hair. These men are like characters from a novel
" Great uncle Alexander " 😂😂
When he came to Liverpool he visited Rochdale, and he loved the town hall there so much, he had orders made up that after the conquest of Britain, Rochdale Town Hall was to be taken down and reassembled in Germany as a spoil of war
I don't know what this show is but I'm going to start watching it
Jimmy's face while the show got serious for a hot sec. Looking around like, as he said, he "was on the wrong show".
I once heard the following explanation: he trimmed it this way because in appearance, it would be similar to/mimic a bloody nose. So it was to give him a more agressive look. Don’t know if there is any basis for this theory though.
He held the bushy mustache on with Velcro. After a while, he stopped wearing the mustache, and wore only the Velcro, which we all recognize to this day.
The Fry family is interesting. They were Quakers like the Cadbury family and like the Cadbury family they produced chocolate in the UK. Like Cadbury's, Fry's was taken over by a multinational company but I still remember their chocolate from my childhood. Fry's Turkish Delight and Fry's mint chocolate. They also produced a famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. I didn't know that Stephen Fry was related to the same Fry family but it seems he is, unless he's joking.
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Somehow Steven forgott to mention the right answer. It was a quite common beard in Germany in the start of the Weimar time. Before most males had the "Kaiser Wilhelm"-Beard with the pointy sides, since the Kaiser abdicated they shaved the sides off to symbolize a new beginning.
It was a sign that he knew the trenches to other vets
Stephen Fry is a gem
Imagine seeing Stephen as a guest next to young Alan.
Realities would collide.
I was REALLY expecting one of them to say "Bridget Hitler's Diary" after that line about the journal.