Don't Mention the War, a compilation of Henning Wehn jokes. Intended solely for entertainment value. Fair use purposes, non-profit entertainment, education, commentary and criticism. #comedy #funny
Germany : C'mon UK, all the EU is is a multi-nation trade agreement that also makes traveling between nations easier and has members use one currency. *12 years later* Germany : If you don't accept 500,00 muslim immigrants who don't speak the language, have no education, practice a religion that goes against most of the values you hold dear, will ALL require government assistance, and have shown a shocking propensity towards violence, we will levy massive sanctions on you and call you a bunch of racists on the international stage.
Talk about Germany's dark past GB has a very dubious and blood soaked past. Raping and pillaging from Africa to Asia. East India company ring a bell ??
@@jamsheadaziz3999 I think you will find that just about every state/kingdom/empire/principality/etc has indulged in "rape and pillage" at one time or another. Were your ancestors any different?
Heard him say he was getting heckled by football supporters at a gig when they were singing 2 world wars and one World Cup doo dah he replied in Germany we sing no world wars but 4 world cups doo dah doo dah day. Very funny man
It took all of the Allied forces to win. If you are implying the Americans won, that would be just as silly as saying The Brits won. Hell, even Hitler lost the war cause of himself. Not the brightest in controlling his forces and choices.
We've been the best monarchists. We've been the best fascists. We've been the best communists. And now we're the best democrats. So you better believe we know what we're talking about! - A German.
@@lfcmike12 German censorship laws are very lenient and the ones we do have are seldom enforced. Admittedly we have a few extremely outdated censorship laws dating back to the Bismarck era which need some revision but free speech isn't an issue in Germany. Unfortunately we also do allow misinformation to be spread by people who exploit others for personal gain and seldom punish it but that's a side effect of being a free country and I wouldn't want it any other way.
I love Henning. I first heard him on a Radio 4 broadcast when he was a guest in a topical lunchtime news satire show. He was introduced as the German Comedy Ambassador, and he introduced his guest spot in the show as his Saturday Surgery, or SS as he preferred to call it. ha ha ha
@@ende4521 and were still hard at it in winter, which became a bit of a disaster. So the recommendation not to invade in winter would be a fair statement.
@@rubaluva What you said is true, but the reason they were still hard at it in winter was because the Red Army turned out not to be the pushover Hitler had claimed they would be. In fact ,Hitler was so confident of an early victory that the German troops were not issued with winter clothing.
so first you want ppl to colonize Mars, then you want them to build alcohol-selling establishments there, and then you want them to make the booze all free? or are you saying you want the bars to promote liberation of the colonies? any plans for the moon while yer at it?
I saw Henning a few times at various clubs many years ago. His English wasn't that great back then which made his delivery a bit stilted at times but he was still one of the funniest comics on the scene at the time. His comebacks are not only funny, they are also lightening quick, intelligent and make you think.
Henning is one of my favorite comedians; not so much because he is the very funniest, but he is such a lovely, witty and obviously wise man. (I say this as an Australian who loves 'British' comedy.. and yes, lets really not mention THE war!)
Khasab i genuinely thought it was just my phone. First comment I've found on the black and white. Clearly see now that its edited to keep ads off it. But i thought my phone may have screwed up somewhere 😂
United Europe perhaps but probably not strong German leadership. They had a go at uniting Europe under strong German leadership in the early 1940's and it didn't exactly go well.
He doesn't work in Germany at all and I think I remember him stating he doesn't want to, ever. Understandable, this guy would be a waste here. Pearls before swine.
Considering the current outcry about the German Episode of Fawlty Towers being removed I wondered how Henning felt about his nationality being constantly ridiculed? Personally, I think he’s a good sport and if he was really upset by it he would say. I love him, and I think everyone does too
Henning in his humour slips in many a home truth about modern Britain something that a UK national couldn't get away with! Because he's a foeriegner therefore beyond any criticism of the pc middle classes i mean how could they criticise him and the go work in his country or something or other or what hav you 😒😒😒
Easily Britain's favourite German. Let's face it, if Europe was an office, the gossips would be convinced UK was dating France, might still have a thing for its ex, Ireland. And yet, secretly was having a mad passionate affair with Germany, despite everyone being convinced they don't get on. Then again. Germany wears those tight blouses and sexy high heels. UK can't resist.
Henning is a really nice guy and I love his comedy. I can imagine Hitler being just as funneh and just as warm a personality! 😂 Many a true word spoken in Jest though. And I am not on about Henning....
Stepped out of my hotel in Remagen and was accosted by an old bag lady in a manky raincoat and long grey hair that looked like it hadn't been washed since the end of the 3rd Reich. She had the audacity to call us American Schweinhunds. I took great exception to this. I replied "Madam, I will have you know, we are British".
As a German, I didn't know Henning Wehn at all. But yesterday, King Charles spoke in German in the Bundestag (very impressive) and praised Henning as an intercultural ambassador. Rightly so. What a great guy!
The Germans definitely have a sense of humour. I've seen direct evidence! When in Berlin at an underground station near the reconstructed 'Checkpoint Charlie' was a large advert for an English language school. Along with the address and other contact details it stated: 'We have ways of making you talk!'. A clear reference to the Gestapo that Germans must find funny!
We had a united Europe well before the EU. It worked brilliantly. Also, Europe isn't the same as the EU. Europe is a continent, and the EU is a set of contracts. It's really strange how the only two non-ex-soviet nations who are not in the EU are the wealthiest in Europe, huh?
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Loved his old gag "I called my first tour "My Struggle", got nothing out of it , not even a book deal."
A properly funny fellow.
A bloody funny man, his comment about "united Europe under strong German leadership" had me in tears.
There's an element of truth in every joke...
Floppy Dodo 😂😂shut up you tit
Floppy Dodo We have to share with France though... Urgh.
Brad Smith We killed the funny ones...
Germany : C'mon UK, all the EU is is a multi-nation trade agreement that also makes traveling between nations easier and has members use one currency.
*12 years later*
Germany : If you don't accept 500,00 muslim immigrants who don't speak the language, have no education, practice a religion that goes against most of the values you hold dear, will ALL require government assistance, and have shown a shocking propensity towards violence, we will levy massive sanctions on you and call you a bunch of racists on the international stage.
That Otto von Bismarck comment is absolutely fantastic
Too obvious to be funny
@@suffern63 shut up nerd
But not true except in the far lefty twats eyes
@@funguyfarage3615
Lighten up, fruitcake.
whiney fuckin' Betty over here, some get her another dry sherry@@@funguyfarage3615
"Don't invade Russia in the winter" 😂😂
Or don't invade in summer and take too long about it!
Oz Bloke “Ve are going to push Henning into England...”😂
Don’t invade winter in Russia
They didn't invade in winter, they just waited for it to come instead X3
@Time Warp born and worked in germany, he decided to move here to learn english for a while but stayed
Only the British could complain that a spy couldn't find anything interesting to report back with.
England: Come queue to complain, so you can complain in a queue.
@Marxine St.Arline ?
clearly non of you ever been to Poland :):):)
One of the reasons I enjoy Henning’s wit is his use of British colloquialisms. Another is his ability to laugh at jibes about Germany’s dark past.
He's got the British market nailed in that sense
Talk about Germany's dark past GB has a very dubious and blood soaked past. Raping and pillaging from Africa to Asia. East India company ring a bell ??
@@jamsheadaziz3999
I think you will find that just about every state/kingdom/empire/principality/etc has indulged in "rape and pillage" at one time or another. Were your ancestors any different?
Sometimes you can see him waiting for an opening for a good War joke.
@@YorkyOne Aziz's people are still doing it!
A german friend once commended me for being very punctual and that was the proudest moment in my entire life.
LOL XD
A very good compilation. He gets a lot of jokes against him about the war but he's funny with his returns. A very funny man. X
I LOVE YOU HENNING XXXX
Heard him say he was getting heckled by football supporters at a gig when they were singing 2 world wars and one World Cup doo dah he replied in Germany we sing no world wars but 4 world cups doo dah doo dah day. Very funny man
@RonnyDonny13 *2 in 1990 Germany already had players from the GDR in their team
Actually they sing the song slightly different now...4 World Cups and f*ck the Queen sha la la la la..
No offence
The English are taking credit for winning WW2? Seriously?
It took all of the Allied forces to win. If you are implying the Americans won, that would be just as silly as saying The Brits won. Hell, even Hitler lost the war cause of himself. Not the brightest in controlling his forces and choices.
@@Luckiestof13 Actually biggest factor in the win was undoubtedly the Russians
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“Polish ppl in general look very ill.”
Well that tends to happen when you don’t feed them anything.
He set himself up, that's what good comedians do on a show like this.
Actually that was the Ukrainians starved to Death not the Polish.
alot of poland was destroyed and ravaged etc.
I have to say, as Pole, that was pretty hard to laugh at.
@@weareallbornmad410 because you know its true?
Henning Wehn is just an extremely naturally funny guy. Doing stand up or on panel shows, he's always hilarious.
We've been the best monarchists. We've been the best fascists. We've been the best communists. And now we're the best democrats. So you better believe we know what we're talking about!
- A German.
Thats also the scary part. Whatever is ordered you are the best
Wouldn't call a country with as many censorship laws as Germany the best at democracy, but the others are pretty much on point lol
@@lfcmike12 German censorship laws are very lenient and the ones we do have are seldom enforced. Admittedly we have a few extremely outdated censorship laws dating back to the Bismarck era which need some revision but free speech isn't an issue in Germany.
Unfortunately we also do allow misinformation to be spread by people who exploit others for personal gain and seldom punish it but that's a side effect of being a free country and I wouldn't want it any other way.
Ve are going to push Henning into England
That UKIP-Bismarck one is 100% true, so it's real dark humor that makes it so funny.
Koala Koala 🤔 absolutely 100%
I wonder how many British comedians could work in Germany on TV and on stage only speaking German? Henning is brilliant.
There is an element of truth in every joke...
Mreh. Europe is falling anyways. Hungary and Poland have both had their voting rights stripped
Well I mean technically Bismarck sought to isolate France not Great Britain
"An authentic German Christmas in the UK?" I thought he was going to say Sandringham.
He looks like sid from ice age
He looks like a lizard man.
Well we now know where the conspiracy theory came from.
I'll never unsee that now.
The eyes wide apart
and you look like a foot
I love Henning. I first heard him on a Radio 4 broadcast when he was a guest in a topical lunchtime news satire show. He was introduced as the German Comedy Ambassador, and he introduced his guest spot in the show as his Saturday Surgery, or SS as he preferred to call it. ha ha ha
HE CROSSED A FABIDDEN LINE THERE.
Henning wehn, the only german who will ever be a british national treasure 😂
Other than the royal family of course
@@randomcamm4519 Hahaha
"They've had a tough time of it historically"
"Oh I dont know, dont invade Russia in the winter" killer one liner that.
It’s funny how they talk about brexit and the video is 3 years old
DominicR 117 How?
It's almost as if the referendum happened 3 years ago
It's funnier how no one talks about it since we left, all that fuss - gone.
Advice for a long life: "Don't invade Russia in the winter" lol
Very good advice
germany invaded in the summer
@@ende4521 and were still hard at it in winter, which became a bit of a disaster. So the recommendation not to invade in winter would be a fair statement.
@@rubaluva What you said is true, but the reason they were still hard at it in winter was because the Red Army turned out not to be the pushover Hitler had claimed they would be. In fact ,Hitler was so confident of an early victory that the German troops were not issued with winter clothing.
He's brilliant, the more I see him the more I like him and his humour.
"We do need a united Europe under strong German leadership"
Everyone laughed but Henning was being serious...
Are you serious?
Love Henning. He can take a good jibe, joke about it himself and knows the perfect time to play to the stereotype for laughs.
This is German humour, it's no laughing matter.
(ripped joke)
big up ZF clan
Nice one geomotrix
ZedF clan reference nice.
It's amazing how humour can build bridges and blot out past dark deeds.We need more of this in the world. That and free Mars bars for all.
so first you want ppl to colonize Mars, then you want them to build alcohol-selling establishments there, and then you want them to make the booze all free? or are you saying you want the bars to promote liberation of the colonies? any plans for the moon while yer at it?
That nazi zombie joke was amazing
I saw Henning a few times at various clubs many years ago. His English wasn't that great back then which made his delivery a bit stilted at times but he was still one of the funniest comics on the scene at the time. His comebacks are not only funny, they are also lightening quick, intelligent and make you think.
And not in his native language.
Again a lone German is fighting a couple of Allies.
United Europe under a strong German leadership. Wow hehehe true that
"Again a lone German..." - your knowledge of modern history is kinda nonexistent, isn't it?
Yeah, they also booked an Italian comedian but he cancelled at the last minute.
"Was, is, and always will be an integral part of the fatherland"
Henning is one of my favorite comedians; not so much because he is the very funniest, but he is such a lovely, witty and obviously wise man. (I say this as an Australian who loves 'British' comedy.. and yes, lets really not mention THE war!)
in black and white?
Khasab i genuinely thought it was just my phone. First comment I've found on the black and white. Clearly see now that its edited to keep ads off it. But i thought my phone may have screwed up somewhere 😂
I assumed it was edited that way to make it appear older to be fitting with the title.
No it was to accenuate the difference between the Black comedians and the White... wait, what? Oh fuck!
No, it's to get around Google's copyright filter
"in black & white to remain in the realm of fair use". So posting this video in colour would've been illegal?
Henning is brilliant! He can take a whole barrage of jokes against him and he's a funny German! A rare breed!
A funny German alone is a rare breed
Adolf Hitler Because you killed the funny ones.
Not so rare. To know that knowing German can be helpful.
Barrage balloons?
How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb? One. We are efficient and don't have a sense of humour.
Love clever comedy. Too few comedians can do it well.
Even in a comedy show we have to listen to the BBC's 'drip-drip' line that being outside of the corrupt Titanic style European Union is 'isolation'.
Chill. It's a joke, but then so is Brexit.
Henning looks a bit like a sloth...
His eyes are in different zip codes.
We need a United Europe under strong German leadership... lmfao....
United Europe perhaps but probably not strong German leadership. They had a go at uniting Europe under strong German leadership in the early 1940's and it didn't exactly go well.
@@Meow_Zedong_1949 please we are already the leading country in europe and the eu.
British comedy has been lacking good Bismarck jokes for a while, but here is Henning Wehn to provide them.
This man has had me in stitches on many occasions. Awesome!
I remember when I first saw this guy on TV. I thought who's this German ... The more I watched the more I laughed. Brilliant!
Back when Carol vordermen actually looked like Carol vorderman
Yes what has she done? She's got that 'just smacked in the face bloated look' now. With the inability to use facial expressions
Great bloke. Able to laugh at himself and others.
Love Henning, he totally cracks me up.
never seen this guy on german television xD but he fits nicely :D
He doesn't work in Germany at all and I think I remember him stating he doesn't want to, ever. Understandable, this guy would be a waste here. Pearls before swine.
Great !
Fucking LOVE Henning~ If there is a person I'd like to have dinner with before I die, he would be amongst the top ten! =O
"What sort of information will I have gathered here this evening..." Funny man LOL
It might sound strange but..... I really think the black and white (for copyright issues) really suits this video.
This guy is hilarious, absolute genius.
even in black and white,
that blond girl's eyes still captivate me.
Good lord.
Helen Flannigan
Considering the current outcry about the German Episode of Fawlty Towers being removed I wondered how Henning felt about his nationality being constantly ridiculed? Personally, I think he’s a good sport and if he was really upset by it he would say. I love him, and I think everyone does too
Brilliant! Love watching Henning, always.
Wehn is a genuine genius in my humble opinion.
"Don't Mention the War" would make a good name for one of his comedy tours.
Henning’s such a gem, I love him. He’s amazing and so funny.
This was a compilation that needed to be made.
Don't invade Russia during the winter...... That was priceless 🤣🤣😂🤣🤣
He makes jokes about race not seem at all racist.
'Anus Hammer'? That's so funny because I went to school with someone called Rectum Hammer. Small world!
Oh? He should meet my uncle Dick Anvil.
...are you lads of Biggus Dicus decendants!?
I like his Dresden jokes stormy weather ahead take shelter folks
Henning in his humour slips in many a home truth about modern Britain something that a UK national couldn't get away with! Because he's a foeriegner therefore beyond any criticism of the pc middle classes i mean how could they criticise him and the go work in his country or something or other or what hav you 😒😒😒
Excellent point that.
We all know Germans have little humor Henning is being serious.
Easily Britain's favourite German. Let's face it, if Europe was an office, the gossips would be convinced UK was dating France, might still have a thing for its ex, Ireland. And yet, secretly was having a mad passionate affair with Germany, despite everyone being convinced they don't get on. Then again. Germany wears those tight blouses and sexy high heels. UK can't resist.
This guy is great. He takes all this shitty war shit and rips the piss out of it. I wish the British would do the same.
"under strong German leadership"
*1940 intensifies*
''wars will always been an integral part of the fatherland...''
He said “was, is, and will always be an integral part of the fatherland”
@@aamj0050 then he meant war, not wars
Henning is a really nice guy and I love his comedy. I can imagine Hitler being just as funneh and just as warm a personality! 😂
Many a true word spoken in Jest though. And I am not on about Henning....
Okay, Heil not mention it.
Stepped out of my hotel in Remagen and was accosted by an old bag lady in a manky raincoat and long grey hair that looked like it hadn't been washed since the end of the 3rd Reich. She had the audacity to call us American Schweinhunds. I took great exception to this. I replied "Madam, I will have you know, we are British".
meh...she would just scoff..
if you are a russian, in the other hand...
I mean, there’s insults and banter on many panel shows, but does anyone else think jimmy sean and lee mack are a bit too mean?
As a German, I didn't know Henning Wehn at all. But yesterday, King Charles spoke in German in the Bundestag (very impressive) and praised Henning as an intercultural ambassador. Rightly so. What a great guy!
Somebody needs to explain some of these jokes to me (born germanic from 1999)
This guy's funny and has a whole area of comedy all to himself. I think he's great.
NO-ONE is a better sport than Henning wehn lol funny dude
I love henning, he is such a good sport
If you need to study for a history test, just watch Henning
Since 2002, so I have seen them win many many world cups. 😂😂😂
Europe is United under a strong German leadership,
This dude knows whats up. He gets the last laugh
The World Cup comment hurts 🤮😪
Don't mention the war, I did once and I think I got away with it ! I love the Bismark line lol.
They say that Germans don't have a sense of humour, but I love this guy! He is hillerious!
Michael W Rather like your spelling.
@@mikewilliams258 He could have said Hitlerious.
Stereotype
The Germans definitely have a sense of humour. I've seen direct evidence!
When in Berlin at an underground station near the reconstructed 'Checkpoint Charlie' was a large advert for an English language school. Along with the address and other contact details it stated: 'We have ways of making you talk!'.
A clear reference to the Gestapo that Germans must find funny!
He's probably a crypto-Jew! Lol.
Henning and Tommy Cooper, two men who make me laugh just by existing.
England and Poland playing on the same side.... problem is, England would show up at half time with Poland already down 40:1
He is brilliant 🤣👍
Henning Wehn was invented by Jesus
He looks like he has waardenberg syndrome
You should check out his work on The Unbelievable Truth which was created by Graham Garden (from The Goodies) and Jesus.
To his credit henning takes all the jabs and banter in his stride.
I saw him at the fringe in Edinburgh and he was very good
Thumbnail said "Dont mention the mat"
Henning is delightful!
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it
he's so lovely
Henning Wehn is an absolute legend!!
We had a united Europe well before the EU. It worked brilliantly. Also, Europe isn't the same as the EU. Europe is a continent, and the EU is a set of contracts. It's really strange how the only two non-ex-soviet nations who are not in the EU are the wealthiest in Europe, huh?
Henning is brilliant 😂
Wow! A video uploaded by MC Hammer's son.
I adore Henning. This is what humour should be allowed to be, without censorship and outrage.