"Workers did long, feckless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in squalid and threatening environment, conditions unthinkable to anyone today who isn't a junior doctor" - thanks Philomena for tribute to us :)
@@2HN. Everything is deadly whether or not it moves. Camping? Gum trees shed limbs to crush people, and leaves might cause excruciating pain when used as toilet paper. Walk in the woods? Koalas might drop down and maim someone, and the ticks could cause allergies to beef and pork for the rest of your life. Since chicken was still a delicacy, going vegan in 1850 is the worst experience. Swimming? Box jellyfish are lethal. Staying home? Most spiders are venomous, and the puddles outside have brain-eating parasites living in them. Most land is either arid or jungle, which are the 2 worst kinds of living conditions humans could settle in the 19th century.
When Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Australia, an Australian customs officer jokingly asked Philip if he had a criminal record. "I didn't realize that was still a requirement," Philip replied.
"I'll be starting sentences in one location - and finishing them in another." 😅 Classic trope. They must've watched a lot of real historical docos to nail all these clichés and it's brilliant.
I love how she dons period costumes more or less unsmilingly as if it's an unnecessary burden. Parodying some other presenter who can't be stopped from so doing and smirking.
Her interview subjects were absolute stars in this. Prof. Greg Dart (the first interview about the romantics) delivered the greatest straight man performance I've ever seen.
I love that she crossed all the voting boxes, ticked one then they hold the camera angle on her and a sign saying "put a cross in only one box. It's the small details that show the writers care.
It wasn't . They just picked it up , it could've been anything . It was previously languishing in obscurity , forgotten by everyone , barr a few , now adult , women who are prob married to / divorced from , the wrong men . It was sh*t , just watch AN episode .
Is the joke that BBC documentaries make contrived segues to crap they still have the rights to in order to pad out time/content? I don't know, I don't watch that many actual BBC docs.
@@Plethorality yeah , me too , much like Hale and Pace had been ; until , some genius brought them to mind recently ~ I was quite annoyed , if ever anything designed to entertain didn't . Hope I haven't ruined your day .
A mere 3mins into it and I had to pause vid because I couldn't stop laughing! "Who was Ron?" "Ron?" "The one how wrote all those poems and signed it By Ron".....crying from laughter!
The fact that I just had an existential crisis when she asked about why planes don’t boil when going through clouds if they’re made of boiling water really sums up this episode for me
@@Fred-oz3tw Clouds are liquid state, condensed droplets. If they were still steam, gaseous, you wouldn't be able to see them. And steam, by definition (at reasonable pressures), does need to be hot- Same way ice needs to be cold. Look up the phase diagram for water.
She has the demeanor of a witless young girl her voice like a child, and yet her delivery of every punch line is phenomenal, her comedic timing is flawless , she is without doubt a genius actor, I 'm forever and ever until I die , perhaps further her no. ONE fan!!
It’s crazy Noel Gallagher was named after a bunch of islands that were named for him over 150 years before he was born. No wonder Liam is always fighting with him.
"But perhaps the best known Victorian to put quill to paper is one of the greatest writers Britain has ever shat out, Sir Charles Dickings." 😂 God, I love her!
I noticed this only a short while back. This series has almost ZERO filler. They had SO much good stuff that they wanted to get out, that they didn't have time to put in bullshit filler. It's jam packed with thoughtfully made content.
Best episode so far. I giggled the whole time, which is unheard of for me... :-) Now I know who's Ron! :-) Diane Morgan is a genius! I love her humor passionately.
Posh folk were gettin' into a primitive paper based form of television, called books, which streamed content from the page into your minds eye. Genius!
“Queen Victoria wasn’t always a grumpy, disapproving, sour lady, no. She was once a sour, disapproving beh-beh.” “…as well as looking miserable, her other hobby was fashion…even at an early age, she was dressing like a cross between a disillusioned old man and an angry hen.”
I love during the computer scene she asks all the right questions that the audience was definitely wondering about. That is top notch interviewing. ✅️ but forreal why did no one ever tell me about the computer before the super computer? That's cool they created something like that during the industrial revolution.
i love how the regenerations of sherlock she literally shows doctor who an alien but when she says alien it shows benedict HAHAH why they gotta do him so dirty
“He came up with a theory: That animals who were dead were less likely to reproduce than animals who were alive.” This is the most brilliant of all Cunkisms. It is completely idiotic and yet it encapsulates evolutionary theory perfectly. This series is so brilliant.
"The death of queen Victoria reduced the number of women in British politics by 100%" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
💀💀💀
Great writer.
It is true
‘Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.’
This almost killed me
hahahahahhaahaha
Why don't you quote the rest of the video? That way we can just read your post and save us the watch??
@@shelbynamels973
Time constraints.
I wheezed. This is a rare gem in the comment section
“Despite the spoiler in its title, Oliver’s Twist doesn’t have a twist at the end - which come to think of it, is a brilliant twist in itself” amazing
I love how proud she looks into the camera when she "comes to think of it".
That’s how clever Dickings was.
@@Yme7yep and Dickens was quite clever as well...
It’s the only time she smiles the entire show LOL!
I mean…..isn’t the twist in Oliver Twist is that he’s the long lost son of a nobleman and he inherits the entire family fortune?
"Workers did long, feckless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in squalid and threatening environment, conditions unthinkable to anyone today who isn't a junior doctor" - thanks Philomena for tribute to us :)
"When Britain fought two world wars but no world cups." That's brutal.
It's insane how seriously she speaks when everything coming out of her mouth is a joke. She's really gifted.
I'd like to think she worked for that.
I agree, it's almost like she's acting
Gifted? Really?
@@ajw9377 better than the fumbling neck smeller we have now
I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE KEEPS A STRAIGHT FACE! No way i could say things that funny and not let on i knew what i was doing, it really is a gift
"With its year-round sunshine and abundant food, Australia was seen the perfect place to send its murderers." This stuff is absolutely hilarious.
Just imagine, u commit crime and instead of punishment, get a permanent vacation abroad.
@@2HN. Everything is deadly whether or not it moves. Camping? Gum trees shed limbs to crush people, and leaves might cause excruciating pain when used as toilet paper. Walk in the woods? Koalas might drop down and maim someone, and the ticks could cause allergies to beef and pork for the rest of your life. Since chicken was still a delicacy, going vegan in 1850 is the worst experience. Swimming? Box jellyfish are lethal. Staying home? Most spiders are venomous, and the puddles outside have brain-eating parasites living in them. Most land is either arid or jungle, which are the 2 worst kinds of living conditions humans could settle in the 19th century.
@@murph_mustela bruh where tf you living, Alice Springs?
When Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Australia, an Australian customs officer jokingly asked Philip if he had a criminal record.
"I didn't realize that was still a requirement," Philip replied.
@@papercamera2989 Either that, or a town like Alice.
"Darwin eventually evolved himself... into a corpse."
Best way to view death.
best line LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
it's devolving
@JZ's BFF well if you think about it, that was an evolution too
I bet he must have written about that in the "Oranges of Peaches"
@@jzsbff4801 isn't every dead being immortal?
The most subtle joke in the intro has to be "to understand where Britain is heading, we have to look behind us"
Not exactly the most 'subtle'.
@@josephbennett4236 Oh wait now I get it.
@@emjayay i dont get it
@@michakwiatkowski1313 poor lad
@@ruqayyahqadri6618 poo on the loo
"You could go there for free...if you were Black and didn't want to go there "
That took me out 😂😬
Absolutely perfect comment on slavery. 7:11
Thank you from Australia for hooking everyone up with Cunk. She’s gold!
that poor man at 4:53. he's so traumatized by the last questions, he boils his answer down to "Jane Austen was a woman who wrote novels" lmfao
5:04 "Austin wrote novels ... filled with words it's almost impossible to care about"
- GCSE English Literature in a nutshell
FasCinating! :)
This is comedy gold, the presenter, the writers. Everyone's just nailing it.
"I'll be starting sentences in one location - and finishing them in another." 😅 Classic trope. They must've watched a lot of real historical docos to nail all these clichés and it's brilliant.
The same thing Nolan does in many of his movies
they make the documentaries lol it's the same guys so easy
Has she done one where she is driving a car pointlessly and speaking to the cameraman?
I love how she dons period costumes more or less unsmilingly as if it's an unnecessary burden. Parodying some other presenter who can't be stopped from so doing and smirking.
Her interview subjects were absolute stars in this. Prof. Greg Dart (the first interview about the romantics) delivered the greatest straight man performance I've ever seen.
I think he was just being himself.
@@matthewbartsh9167 no
@@matthewbartsh9167 I swear, when she's talking about translating Austen's works into "proper English" he looks like he almost cracks up.
@@LolaOpheliac Yes!
@@valnerothgaming8918 Yees, I love his face at 5:16 😅
It looks like he almost laughed
There’s something magical about Philomena marching up to these professionals and immediately blurting out “who are you?” lol
i spat out my tea at 'by ron' this is a fucking masterpiece
But who is Ron
@@myview5840 historian: *pure confusion*
Twas bloody brilliant!
Language
@@myview5840 little brother of Fred and George
She is a genius, I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. I’ve been binge watching all her videos since I discovered her
I love that she crossed all the voting boxes, ticked one then they hold the camera angle on her and a sign saying "put a cross in only one box.
It's the small details that show the writers care.
This had me my crying, she looks so pleased with herself when she's putting the ballot in the box and it's not going to count.
I was dying. So subtle yet hilarious
I think the best part is that many of her questions are truly challenging to these academics.
“He came up with a theory, that said that animals who were dead, were far less likely to reproduce than those that were alive” 😂😂😂😂 LOL’ing
It’s so funny and also it’s actually not the worst summary of evolution by natural selection 😂
More intuitive than „survival of the fittest“.
Pretty accurate description of the theory tho
18:00 The guy totally dodged comparing his beloved queen Vic to Darth Vader 🤣
It cracks me up how serious the experts seem to address her questions, lol.
It’s staged as your smile.
@@Stiffd1 No shit.
@@Stiffd1 thank you captain obvious
@@Stiffd1 wooooshh
@@Stiffd1 That doesn't make it less funny. Realistic reactions to her would be 99% boring as hell, confusion, refusal to engage further, leaving.
I had no idea the 1980s sitcom Brush Strokes was such a prominent cultural phenomenon throughout every period of British history.
Im binging them and living for the Brush Strokes cameos
It wasn't . They just picked it up , it could've been anything . It was previously languishing in obscurity , forgotten by everyone , barr a few , now adult , women who are prob married to / divorced from , the wrong men .
It was sh*t , just watch AN episode .
Is the joke that BBC documentaries make contrived segues to crap they still have the rights to in order to pad out time/content? I don't know, I don't watch that many actual BBC docs.
@@adzdahlman9724 i had forgotten that i had forgotten it.
@@Plethorality yeah , me too , much like Hale and Pace had been ; until , some genius brought them to mind recently ~ I was quite annoyed , if ever anything designed to entertain didn't . Hope I haven't ruined your day .
“We don’t even know if he died… he could be.. you, and thats terrifying cause you’d have no way of knowing” THIS SHIT IS JUST SO
GOLD 😹😹
She's hysterical! Thank you so much.
the "wrong/ron" part took me a few seconds until i bursted out laughing
by ron . lmao.
This women is a national treasure. You should cherish her
“He went from a drawing, to a black and white man, to a black and white man in colour, to a cricketer, to an alien.”
sounds like doctor who
Or david bowie
Mister Men, holy shit, I haven't thought about those characters since first grade. It's even funnier he was able to state who his favorite was.
“She looked like Alfred Hitchcock watching a dog drown” best line in the episode and maybe the series lmaooo
Too many great lines to count imho
agreed, this one was my favorite
😭😭😭😭
A mere 3mins into it and I had to pause vid because I couldn't stop laughing! "Who was Ron?" "Ron?" "The one how wrote all those poems and signed it By Ron".....crying from laughter!
I love it when you see the expert slowly realise that they are being set up and play along "Mr Tickle"
The fact that I just had an existential crisis when she asked about why planes don’t boil when going through clouds if they’re made of boiling water really sums up this episode for me
clouds =/= steam
@@user-jr7vc9dp7u Steam can be very hot.
@@user-jr7vc9dp7u its actually the same. But steam does not need to be hot. Kind of easy to answer that.
It's not hot... It's like fog... Do you burn your face when you walk through fog? xD
@@Fred-oz3tw Clouds are liquid state, condensed droplets. If they were still steam, gaseous, you wouldn't be able to see them.
And steam, by definition (at reasonable pressures), does need to be hot- Same way ice needs to be cold. Look up the phase diagram for water.
I love how the biologist said pigs are quite good at being pigs, but cows are only relatively good at being cows. 😄
...
"Chewbacca?"
"I think that's stretching it..." Brilliant
LOL!
It just keeps getting better.
I know she says it all the time but I still laugh when she says
“Hello, who are you?”
Later she even asked "What are you?" :v
Bigsam4205: I agree. Did you see the Shakespeare one where she asks ‘who are you and what’s your game?’?
Don't forget about her mate... I believe his name is Mark!😂
@@snakejones9965it’s paul.😂
@brianmgrim yea with Iqbal Khan I think. He paused a second lol
I love that Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring is the theme music for "On Britain"
"Why would you want turn a pig into a cow?"
"To see what it's like."
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She has the demeanor of a witless young girl her voice like a child, and yet her delivery
of every punch line is phenomenal, her comedic timing is flawless , she is without doubt
a genius actor, I 'm forever and ever until I die , perhaps further her no. ONE fan!!
Do you think the interviewees get a heads up … how do they not just walk out offended!? How does Diane keep so well composed!?? Fabulous genius!!
It’s crazy Noel Gallagher was named after a bunch of islands that were named for him over 150 years before he was born.
No wonder Liam is always fighting with him.
I love how all her interviews is just her asking whatever question a toddler would ask and then look vacant as the expert tries answering seriously.
"A face like Alfred Hitchcok watching a dog drown."
This girl is great, she's asking all the questions regular people ask experts.
"But perhaps the best known Victorian to put quill to paper is one of the greatest writers Britain has ever shat out, Sir Charles Dickings." 😂 God, I love her!
this is fantastic !! The more one knows about history the more fun this woman is :))))
the out takes must be epic.. Would love to see them
I feel like professor Jackson is matching her energy perfectly by pretending to be a bit pisses it’s so awesome
That doesn't make sense. Go to school and learn about punctuation. Then come back and try again.
@@Jenalgo sick burn dawg
@@Jenalgo skill issue
She literally killed it with the The United Britain of Great Kingdom!
Can’t get enough of her
True, she's a comic genius, and very nice on the eye.
That train ride in the intro is just so perfectly done - waits to wave, then ends up behind a tree.
Oh Lord, the comedic timing of the visuals. Gems hidden in every scene.
Darwin was born the son of a doctor but by his own theories soon evolved into a scientist
"filled with words that's impossible to care about..."
Omg, those jokes are cerebrally impeccable....
This series is all killer, no filler, and this episode should come with a warning! 🤣
I noticed this only a short while back. This series has almost ZERO filler. They had SO much good stuff that they wanted to get out, that they didn't have time to put in bullshit filler. It's jam packed with thoughtfully made content.
Best episode so far. I giggled the whole time, which is unheard of for me... :-) Now I know who's Ron! :-) Diane Morgan is a genius! I love her humor passionately.
Completely died at 11:33 when she walks up and just says "Hello, who are you?"
😂😂😂😂
Imagine having a serious conversation about Jane Austen and closing it by disclosing that "Mr. Tickle" is your favorite "Mr. Men" character. 😂
How does she come up with stuff like..."the width and breadth of the country "? Comedy genius..love her!!
“Is that the one about the man from Nantucket?” “I don’t think that’s Lord Byron.” 😂😂😂
I lost it when he asked, "How did it end?"
Him, her, them and tree were such significant figures in British history.
"Today, Britain stands at a fork in its crossroads..." 😆 So glad I found out about this woman.
"These days no one works at these factories except ghost. And even then, they only work at nightshifts"😂
Posh folk were gettin' into a primitive paper based form of television, called books, which streamed content from the page into your minds eye. Genius!
This entire series is just a constant display of the usefulness of the phrase "Well, I guess..."
Her first question always makes sense, but it's downhill from there
"Eventually Darwin evolved himself - into a corpse.'
7:58 I love how you can see the exact moment she realises something is deeply wrong...
“Queen Victoria wasn’t always a grumpy, disapproving, sour lady, no. She was once a sour, disapproving beh-beh.”
“…as well as looking miserable, her other hobby was fashion…even at an early age, she was dressing like a cross between a disillusioned old man and an angry hen.”
😂😂😂😂😂 I burst out laughing at this
I love during the computer scene she asks all the right questions that the audience was definitely wondering about. That is top notch interviewing. ✅️ but forreal why did no one ever tell me about the computer before the super computer? That's cool they created something like that during the industrial revolution.
😆🤣😂👏🏼👏🏼Philomena, you’re wonderful, your gags are brilliant.
"How does that end?" The professor is trying to troll the troll.
❤ her voice
The subtle brilliance of waiting until the train has almost passed in front of the bushes before beginning to wave....genius.
This is very funny even for this American. Now and again I've missed some references but it's almost non-stop funny. Good show.
alg11297 You have excellent taste!
Watch Ep.1 & 2. Far more funnies. Pretty much every sentence has a treat in it 😀
I love this woman! 💜
How do people keep a straight face while being interviewed by this lady😂😂😂
She is brilliant....!
Poor Professor Dart, trying to figure out who Ron was 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Eventually Darwin himself evolved. Into a corpse.” Lmao
20:45 He became a writer, and began to create some of the most time consuming stories in history
He was faskinated by nature... omg! Truly laughing my head off.
11:30 the original joke wasn't about NFTs, but damn she predicted it
i love how the regenerations of sherlock she literally shows doctor who an alien but when she says alien it shows benedict HAHAH why they gotta do him so dirty
"That's where 'Victoria Cross' came from" I fucking died
The amount of sleep I've lost wondering if I'm Jack the Ripper...
"Much of the fear of the Ripper was stirred up by the press... And by the way he kept killing people."
Hard to argue with that logic.
I can't remember when I last laughed out loud at an entire episode of anything.
Gotta hand it to Johnny Knoxville for knowing his history so well and pretending he didn’t know the Nantucket rhyme. Big up Johnny.
I feel like Cunk got really flustered when the guy said Mr Tickle was his favorite Mr Man 😂
I need more like this in the world
Captain Cook discovered Australia on a 'gap year' trip. lol
How do the interviewees keep a straight face?
Ben Thejrporter it's called being a professional
Some others on Moments Of Wonder just look terrified but these guys are game!
I always assumed the interviewees on Cunk were actors, but Professor Greg is totally a real person :)
@@Mirandorl I think they're genuine, I recognise several of the historians. Some twig and play along, others think she's a proper thicko.
They edit out the times when they crack.
Hahah I love this woman. She is a treasure in Britain.
A time when Britain very much entered the third episode of its history xD
The fact I could be Jack the Ripper is terrifying.
him, her, them, and tree.
“He came up with a theory: That animals who were dead were less likely to reproduce than animals who were alive.”
This is the most brilliant of all Cunkisms. It is completely idiotic and yet it encapsulates evolutionary theory perfectly.
This series is so brilliant.