Would you have the courage to take cream pies inna face, wear painfully big shoes and get whacked with a bladder onna stick..for your job? No. The Clown is true hero and gladiator of the realm.
Well, it makes sense. Clowns are meant to be highly satirical, so playing a grand march like this, only to have the show's designated buffoon appear was the perfect bait-and-switch.
Honestly, despite being remembered as the "clown music"... I still think the original it's a very powerful march and an excellent piece of music!!! Probably when it was composed it did an excellent job to represent the gladiator's entrance, despite being just weird for us. Thank you, mr. Fucik. You gave us truly a masterpiece!!! P. S.: I respect and LOVE clowns' work! !! Ironically I think they received one of the best theme songs ever!!
To be fair, I wouldn't want to be the invading enemy about to be subjected to some of the old-fashioned clown violence. Not only will it hurt, but it will be slapstick.
Fun fact: This song is associated with clowns because when circuses had backstage problems and the current scheduled performers needed more time, they'd play this song and send in the clowns to do an improv session while everything got sorted out.
I have this song preprogramed for my mini toy claw machine that goes as soon as the coin slot thing is triggered and ends if something passes a laser in the chute.
True story: I had a friend who played in the marching band, and the football team complained that they wanted something "more awesome" for their entry-song. He said "How about "'Entry of the Gladiators,' that's pretty awesome, right?" So they quickly agreed, much to their chagrin upon hearing the actual song as they entered the field...
This friend of your did enough trolling it would fit into a comedically small car with all the clowns in it and that'd still be a fraction of how much came out of the comically small car.
Same energy has the guy who sold really poor quality metal made a deal with devil for reputation in exchange for metal, and got the reputation as a shitty merchant who’s still taught about today.
Imagine this: You’re a gladiator, a fierce warrior with a body made for violence. You’re just about to compete in the biggest fight of your life. You hop in your chariot with weapon in hand, prepped and ready for battle. The gates open, this tune starts playing. The adrenaline slowly rising. The audience on the edge of their seats. You hear a small honk then it starts getting louder and louder. Just before your eyes, you see your opponent ride in not on a chariot, but in a small colorful car. And once they step out, you realize you’re not dealing with just one…
Imagine being a battle hardened warrior, who kills for sport, never knowing what a peaceful easy life is, and then you just walk out hard as fuck to this
Gladiator: "who am I fighting today" *This starts playing* Gladiator starts sweating "why do I hear boss music" Suddenly a tiny chariot pulls up and 80 battle clowns fall out in full armor with massive circus hammers that squeak when they hit something Gladiator: "oh no"
@@T---ej2tq yo the war clowns pull up in tiny tanks that only fire clown noses and other clowns from the cannon all while blasting a heavy metal cover of this.
Imagine a bunch of tumblers, acrobats and fools, fire-breathers, that sort of thing, entertaining the crowd with less-than-lethal entertainment, all the while knowing what they're all there for, and then, as the entertainers clear the floor, the gladiators take the arena during the final motif. I think that's where you should be with this. Try it again.
To think this was essentially his moment of fame, the song that stood out from all the rest. A song about gladiators, only to be remembered as a song about clowns and circus shows. Truely a historical -tragedy- comedy.
All of history tend to be essentially a tragedy on the small scale but a comedy on the large scale. Example: the entire global economy once collapsed because of TULIPE PRICES crashing, this was tragic to those who sold homes or businesses to buy Tulip buds that were now worthless but hilarious to those of us with the larger context and enough distance to see the obvious cause and effect of so many people selling something like a house or farm for a handful of flower buds that haven't even been grown yet.
@@BertoxolusThePuzzled Reminds me of that "NFT" craze we had a few months back. God, to think that that's probably gonna be a footnote in future economics textbooks like the Dutch Tulip Bubble is now
0:00 - You are ready for the toughest fight of your life 0:05 - The song starts rings a bell 0:09 - You're like 90% sure this isn't what you think it is but you're still worried 0:14 - The _painful_ moment of realisation
Leave Me Alone FBI Well, Mr. Funny Man, is this how you get your sick kicks?! Mr. Plankton: What? It’s just an ordinary krabby- OH, MY GOODNESS!!! Squidward!
"Very popular in the 1930s, it was included as a military march in the repertoire of pieces imposed by the SS on prisoners' orchestras to accompany the departures and returns of the work Kommandos in Nazis concentration camps, notably in Buchenwald, where it appears in the orchestra's original scores, preserved at the Terezín Memorial." Thanks Wikipedia for that fun fact
It's a copyright of the performance, not of the song. If you could perform the song yourself you wouldn't be in trouble. Only if you steal it from an album you or someone else bought. But I agree, classical music should stay in the realm of fair use if it is this old.
0:00-Gladiators entering the ring. 00:07- Swords brandished, they stand ready to fight each other to the death. 00:11- They begin their rage-induced charge towards the center of the ring. This is it.. The moment they had dreamed of. The time to show the world who was the strongest of them all. 00:14- Clowns throw banana peels into the arena, causing the mighty gladiators to slip and fall. Wacky sound effects can be heard throughout the stadium.
The origin of the word "circus" meant circle. The Romans called the circular arenas where they had chariot races, animal fight, gladiators, etc circuses. The use of the song as a motif for modern circus acts is simply that there are no Roman circuses anymore and that the chromatic scale of the piece meant to denote the audience viewing a blood sport with mirth and the comical nature of clowns is meant to be a mockery of the spectator.
Erm, I think it is meant to be a mockery of the spectacle of the gladiator. It doesn't mock the spectator at all. Poor Fucik, to develop this whole royal crescendo to fit his mind vision of the pageantry and spectacle of a Roman gladiator exhibit, and replace it with big red noses falling out of clown cars.
When I'm sad I like to imagine people I dislike falling down the stairs in slow motion set to opera or classical music. This one is great for that. Can highly recommend. 👍
@@karinkorenkova2059 yeah. That's probably why it's the only part of the song cartoons and such ever play when a clown is supposed to be involved. The rest doesn't really fit clowns or circuses much
The bounciness of the rhythm and the melodic phrases during the "clown part" that make it seem so light hearted and perfect for comical scenes. I was trying to picture grim faced warriors walking out to meet their enemies in battle to this, but the best i could do was maybe if the battle took place on a trapeze in between flips, or jousting on unicycles.
Reminds me of a game called Twisted Metal, I dunno if it's Twisted Metal 2 or 3 where they have a character called Sweet Tooth that's a clown themed icecream truck armed to the teeth and shoots missiles at other cars.
“You’re not a gladiator,you’re an entire coliseum “ Edit: You thought it’s gonna be “thx 4 the likes” edit, but it was *Thunder Cross Split Attack* , you fell for it fool!
Exactly. If you step back and look at it without preconceptions, the "silly part" really isn't all that silly, really. It's actually quite heroic. It's only our own memories associating it with clowns that makes it silly to our ears.
"2017 will be a good year" "2018 will be a good year" "2019 will be a good year" "2020 will be a good year" "2021 will be a good year" "2022 will be a good year"
Don't worry, there are higher classes who enjoy their lives as always. Its not like the year is good or bad, just our live is shit...not everyone have a shit live, just us.
@@mariafe7050 Your comment aged well, seeing how Texas is in devastation and how politicians are, though they have been doing this already, creating even more division... even after the election.
As a person from Czechia I am glad that our country has contributed this song to the world, even though not in the way it was originally meant to be used 👍🏻
No offence Fucik, but this is way too cheerful to be the background music for a couple of men who are going to maul each other to death... EDIT: Multiple people have (rightly) pointed out that most gladiator matches didn't end in death, the song symbolises the entry of the gladiators, not the actual fighting etc. Thank you all for the brief history lesson!
It's glorious. Plus, most gladiator matches didn't end in death. Gladiators were more valuable alive, unless there was some specicifc reason, like a holiday.
Firstly, Gladiator matches weren’t to the death. Second, it’s called entry of the gladiators. It’s meant to symbolize the applause of the crowd when the fighters entered the ring not the actual fight itself.
In music history and song writing accumen this makes the most sense for a military march. Especially by a Czech composer, for the era. Look it up, Dvorak was a Czech writer and writer very similar things. Listen to "Songs my Mother Taught me."
@@marwanahmedalhosry1083 It's amazing we've survived this long! One day, our collective stupidity will finally eradicate us all, but it is not this day!
Time Traveler: "Oh wow it's so cool seeing you Julius Fucik" Julius: "You're from the future? Tell me, am I remembered for my heroic compositions for our brave soldiers?" Time Traveler: "Well... They sure are remembered for SOMEthing."
Julius Fucik: *Composes a hypermasculine and bombastic fanfare to celebrate the long-gone glory of ancient Roman gladiators* Everyone else: *Turns the piece into a circus leitmotif, making it synonymous with clowns and other kinds of fools.* Julius Fucik: Am I a joke to you???
How it happened: Circus music in the 1800s was just beginning to break out of a phase of fiddles and flutes, and into big bands with percussion, wind sections, and lots of brass- *lots* of brass. It needed a unique style and regular music just wouldn't do. Yet circuses wanted to be familiar to audience. The answer was to create ridiculous versions of familiar songs. They took Marches and made them Screamers. So military songs full of pomp and robust brass became these overblown songs to hear as you watched clumsy, painted jesters
I think it also has to do with how not-diatonic the main melody is. Undermining the tonic right away like this can give it a less heroic and more “silly” sound
@@gracewenzel the wiki makes it sound like the melody would have been impressive back then. "The march demonstrates the state of the art in playing technology and the construction of brass instruments, which allowed fast and even chromatic gears in all instruments and positions."
Fucik: Ah! Finally, it's complete! The anthem of the mighty gladiators! When people hear his they will imagine the fierce Roman warriors entering the ar- Clowns: Hippity hoppity, this is now our property
Currently imagining going back in time watching a bunch of gladiators proudly and super seriously enter a coliseum to this song and I start uncontrollably laughing and everyone near me is just looking at me like:
True story: When I was in high school band, our director chose this as one of our songs. No one recognized the name when he passed out the sheet music. But once we started playing it as a sight reading practice and we got to 0:14, literally the _entire_ band stopped playing in a collective “oh shit” moment when we all finally recognized the song 🤣
The gladiators come out into the coliseum. Me, and a few of my friends, time travelers, start chucking pies right into the guys' faces. We put on red noses and run into the field. The gladiators run and attack us, but we swallow the swords. We cram into a tiny car and drive off.
@Daniel Molinar Dude, we are here to have fun with this funny comment, and you are doing a non funny "I am 14 and this is deep" type of comment, bringing nothing but negativity, please, remove yourself and do not ruin our fun with politics or any other kind of serious business.
Thank you for listening. You can enjoy Classical Christmas music here: th-cam.com/video/QqFCfP-IEmg/w-d-xo.html
Interesting.
Very nice.
lets gooo
thank you🙏
He has awakened...
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! *honks nose; squirts water from
flower*
HA!
That was great!
_pulls out a stop sign_
Wow that's
Funny
bro
@@sanicishere7295
😳
"You are not a gladiator. You are the entire Colosseum."
We live in an empire...
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@@imdeadinside6310 bottomer text
Kind of edgy and badass, I should use that sometime.
@@imdeadinside6310 south text
all the gladiators hopping out of the tiny chariot
Why does that sound like a Monty Python skit?
ROTFLMAO
JSJDSKD I CANT EVEN
Indeed
They try pulling out their swords, but it keeps coming out like those handkerchiefs.
"I can't believe the trojans have given us such a lovely gift"
the giant wooden clown car:
No, the GREEKS gave the horse TO the Trojans.
@@AlfredFJones1776 shhh I am very smart and totally correct don't look it up
Silence @@AlfredFJones1776 now.
okay this one got me good
You mean the tiny wooden clown car
Look at his face
He knows we did him dirty
Lol
MrCynicalOptiMystical had me laugh dude
He's like "fucik you"
He looks so done.
Lol
Today I learned that what is colloquially known as clown music was originally meant to be a courageous war march. How about that.
Would you have the courage to take cream pies inna face, wear painfully big shoes and get whacked with a bladder onna stick..for your job? No. The Clown is true hero and gladiator of the realm.
Today I learned that apocalypse might happen if i punch the boombox guy.
Didn't expect to see you here
Well it is meant to be a parody of one but yeah, I agree with Flavius Belisarius below.
eh yes and no.
The reason why Fucik called it "Entry of the Gladiators" is because he was OBSESSED with ancient Rome.
This guy is in heaven thinking
“Why the hell is this a circus song”
Gladiators technically fought in circuses. The origin of the word circus is from a circular arena.
@@ashkitt7719 Circus just means circle
"Why is this a political song?"
Honked and clownpilled
Tru
This music in the background can make any situation comedic regardless of how tragic it is
That’s sadly true.
The Title: What I think I am
The Music: What I really am
XD
Lol same
Lmao give this man more like
Best comment
That is an uncomfortable mood
No matter how hard I try, I can't imagine soldiers seriously walking into a battle or arena while this music is playing
agreed
agreed
Same tho
Well, it makes sense. Clowns are meant to be highly satirical, so playing a grand march like this, only to have the show's designated buffoon appear was the perfect bait-and-switch.
I agree indeed
Years ago: "People will remember this theme as the powerful gladiators entering epic battles"
Today: "ah, yes, that circus music"
real today: “ah, yes, twitter”
@@sixbeefydieXDYou mean 𝕏
@player5sRat the circus
@@sixbeefydieXDomg
...@player5sRat
Honestly, despite being remembered as the "clown music"... I still think the original it's a very powerful march and an excellent piece of music!!!
Probably when it was composed it did an excellent job to represent the gladiator's entrance, despite being just weird for us.
Thank you, mr. Fucik. You gave us truly a masterpiece!!!
P. S.: I respect and LOVE clowns' work! !! Ironically I think they received one of the best theme songs ever!!
0:27 to 0:31 is where it especially hits hard as a battle song
“Enjoy your meal”
“You too”
0:14
Brain cells: none
zathary dignity? Gone
Hotel? Trivago
Lol
fuck you i just snorted my milk and chocked on it you asshole
0-14 seconds: Uplifting beginning to a battle hymn.
14 seconds onwards: C L O W N V I O L E N C E
That is exact
To be fair, I wouldn't want to be the invading enemy about to be subjected to some of the old-fashioned clown violence. Not only will it hurt, but it will be slapstick.
OMFG
YOU DO NOT KILL CLOWN
*CLOWN KILLS YOU*
"1:22 - end" Legit sounds beautiful
All I can think when I see your comment is "let the clown generated content begin"
Fun fact: This song is associated with clowns because when circuses had backstage problems and the current scheduled performers needed more time, they'd play this song and send in the clowns to do an improv session while everything got sorted out.
*Things go south*
Circus manager: Send in the clowns
As someone who's never been to a circus, the first time I saw a meme using it, I could tell, "yep. this is circus music."
@@Mrkabrat "Bravo Six, going honk-y."
@@Mrkabrat Don’t bother, they’re here.
they would send in clowns to fight to the death
Gladiator 2 is announced and this is the main theme song.
Yay
Person: Makes this the clown theme
Julius: What the Fucik, Bro.
I love this, thank you
Omg.
What the Fucik 😂😂😂 excellent one, well done
I have this song preprogramed for my mini toy claw machine that goes as soon as the coin slot thing is triggered and ends if something passes a laser in the chute.
I feel like he would’ve been proud of this.
You’re not the conductor, you’re the entire opera.
Is that an Edgeworth reference I just read?
WHAT YER PECKIN SAY ABOUT ME YA PECK NECK?
Hat Cellucard yes.
Sagat: _You're not a warrior, you're a beginner!_ 😤
Your not the conductor your the entire orchestra
Me and the boys giving each other relationship advice.
THIS SENT ME
And life advices too
Underrated comment
Why did I find this so funny...
😂
1. “Entrance of the Gladiators” by Julius Fucik
2. “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin
3. “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” by Tchaikovsky
??????
El vídeo de las pelotas
How did you know?!?! I WAS JUST THERE
this comment is wild when you watched that short before 💀
He knew our next move
My grandpa wanted us to play this at his funeral and we did absolute legend.
🥶
W grandpa 💯
Awesome 😂
based grandpa
A true legend!
Fucik: makes a composition
people: uses it as circus music
Fucik: Fucik you
yes he did
Uh lel
@@thepest354 r/ihavesex
@SolQuik You sound like a thirsty boi.
That's alright. Wagner wrote an opera and now everyone uses an interlude as a wedding march.
You know, once you get past the bit that everyone knows, this actually sounds kinda epic
Honestly I think it just needs a gladiator entry scene and it will just become whole epic.
That frickin' bass riff is so amazing. I'm suddenly reminded that I meant to learn it years ago and forgot.
Like Carol of the bells
Yeah the part at 0:48 really slaps
@@superguy199
On the toilet listening to this in Kmart.
Can confirm.
0:14 the song nobody knew the name of
It was first called Afro Circus now we found the FINAL NAME.
Actually most people know the "yakety sax" version, not this one.
@@harzemyalcinkaya ok
True story: I had a friend who played in the marching band, and the football team complained that they wanted something "more awesome" for their entry-song. He said "How about "'Entry of the Gladiators,' that's pretty awesome, right?" So they quickly agreed, much to their chagrin upon hearing the actual song as they entered the field...
Did they keep playing it?
That’s awesome
Silence means yes my man
was this recorded? i want to see this
This friend of your did enough trolling it would fit into a comedically small car with all the clowns in it and that'd still be a fraction of how much came out of the comically small car.
A song still being played hundreds of years later should make any composer happy.
Even if the meaning has changed...
@@lagartino5093 as long as it’s not being used for evil.
@@striker8961 Fair enough
Cool maths there, R. Kelly
it's not that old though. it was written 127 years ago
When your dramatic gladiator march gets used for clowns:
"Well Fucik."
Underrated
The person above me r/ youngpeopleyoutube
Grassytpot Oh stop whining
@@ultraviolence-69 r/stfuimaginepostingsubredditlinksoutsideofredditibetyoufeelsocool
true just look at his face lol he knows we fucked him up so bad
The title is the life we want
The music is the life we get
Fucik: "I just wrote an epic and serious composition about gladiators. I wish for it to be remembered forever."
Monkey's Paw:
lol
Same energy has the guy who sold really poor quality metal made a deal with devil for reputation in exchange for metal, and got the reputation as a shitty merchant who’s still taught about today.
@@thelostwanderergames4287what that Guy, I dont know them
(sorry for my poor english)
@@Sanguinius850 ea nasir
The Monkey’s Paw short horror story, now that’s a high-brow literature reference.
Julius Fucik, the man whose live was saved by one letter
Lol fr
Lets remove it then
AcTuAlLy tWo LeTtErS: č and í cause he's name is Fučík
@@karolkos5915 *insert a very obviously ironic WoOoOsH here*
Now that's a roast
Imagine this:
You’re a gladiator, a fierce warrior with a body made for violence.
You’re just about to compete in the biggest fight of your life.
You hop in your chariot with weapon in hand, prepped and ready for battle.
The gates open, this tune starts playing. The adrenaline slowly rising. The audience on the edge of their seats.
You hear a small honk then it starts getting louder and louder. Just before your eyes, you see your opponent ride in not on a chariot, but in a small colorful car.
And once they step out, you realize you’re not dealing with just one…
but 2, 4 and even 6
Omg this is golden
😄😄😄
Not 2, Not 3, Not 4, But 5 CLOWNS!
Not 5, not 10, not 15, but 20 CLOWNS!!!
16 years ago and 16 million views this is perfect
Imagine being a battle hardened warrior, who kills for sport, never knowing what a peaceful easy life is, and then you just walk out hard as fuck to this
Well, this was composed in the 1800's, so they were all dead by then. Glass half full.
@@steverino6954 yea it was composed after he heard the alternative B side version in rome at the gladiator fights
I understand the thought but this couldn't be farther from the truth. Gladiators were not like that lmao
@@arrianflores619 bruh it’s almost like it’s a joke. For a funny comment. Wtf lmao
I think you mean hard as Fučík.
Petition to make this play at every politician's speech
You've got yourself two signs: my friend and I
Centrist moment
God I hate POLITICIANS…. all lizards…… yoll see……
This is perfect for Biden's entrance every time he speaks
You got my vote
“Can you write us some marching music?”
“Fucik, why not”
@@DerpTreeNerffin I’m not sure, and I don’t wanna be rude but I think that might be the joke 😭
@@DerpTreeNerffin oh ok lol 😀
true Julius Fucik moment for you up there
@@DerpTreeNerffinyeah right ok
@@DerpTreeNerffin you can just delete it though
I really love this song, it's been used for Circus times and I never knew it's supposed to be gladiators, I love your work ❤
“It’s fine, I’ll have a girlfriend by next Valentine’s Day”
Fuck you for reminding me that every new year I tell myself this exact same words...
GUYS GUYS GUYS you won't believe me but I'm... meeting someone
@@jordimas96 "she just goes to a different school, I swear!"
Its ok guys maybe this year we will 😞
not this year bill gates but I guarantee you next year we'll have a girlfriend
"it's fine, when I'm 35 I will be able to own a house"
The house prices when I'm 35: 0:14
More like your job
@@xbiology7366 not where I live. It's historically high.
@@kingmickey666 lol just work harder peasent
@@pepeokatze nice attempt to troll.
@@pepeokatze How you look rn 0:14
when the waiter says "enjoy your meal" and you say "you too."
One time I asked for penne with spaghetti and meatballs
Made me laugh
Take my like
Omg 😂🤣
You're not the clown, you're the entire circus
ウェイターは食事を置き言います、
「どうぞごゆっくり」
そしてあなたは言います
「おまえもな」
To think this little jam is one hundred years older than me is insane.
honestly, clowns and gladiators served the same purpose
True
Yeah, but you don't see clowns kill each other or being eaten by a lion
are you not entertained?
*HHHOOONNNNKKKKKKKKK*
@@kaz_harada25 "How about another joke, Marcus?"
"No, I think we've heard enough of your jokes."
I mean some kill
*cough cough* John Wayne Gacy
Gladiator: "who am I fighting today"
*This starts playing*
Gladiator starts sweating "why do I hear boss music"
Suddenly a tiny chariot pulls up and 80 battle clowns fall out in full armor with massive circus hammers that squeak when they hit something
Gladiator: "oh no"
XD
let that sink into your brain
BATTLE CLOWNS
its fucking hilarious XD
BRING FORTH THE WAR-CLOWNS.
@@T---ej2tq yo the war clowns pull up in tiny tanks that only fire clown noses and other clowns from the cannon all while blasting a heavy metal cover of this.
"Oh no" said like Knuckles in Sonic Adventure
So people actually called me a Gladiator all this time. How nice of them
yeah lol
🤡
@@Keaton0801l look wrong emoji unofficial good vibes on my phone and get it 😂
@@Keaton0801hou ste the ckown
@@DJYMXGMGZJGZKYSKXGMGXKDHYK are you dyslexic
"Damn this song I made sounds magnificient, surely it will be played at most important functions."
200 years later: "Well Fucik"
I don't picture the entry of any gladiators when I hear this
You've been to conditioned to associate this music with circuses. I can see ancient Romans with short swords marching into the Coliseum.
It sounds too cheerful to be the opening music before a bloody battle. lol
*****
sounds horrifying
Imagine a bunch of tumblers, acrobats and fools, fire-breathers, that sort of thing, entertaining the crowd with less-than-lethal entertainment, all the while knowing what they're all there for, and then, as the entertainers clear the floor, the gladiators take the arena during the final motif. I think that's where you should be with this. Try it again.
To be quite fair, you had to be a real village clown to agree to fight to the death for other people's amusement.
To think this was essentially his moment of fame, the song that stood out from all the rest. A song about gladiators, only to be remembered as a song about clowns and circus shows.
Truely a historical -tragedy- comedy.
To be fair he has bunch of other famous marches as well. He was pretty popular back in his time (hence why circuses used his music)
All of history tend to be essentially a tragedy on the small scale but a comedy on the large scale.
Example: the entire global economy once collapsed because of TULIPE PRICES crashing, this was tragic to those who sold homes or businesses to buy Tulip buds that were now worthless but hilarious to those of us with the larger context and enough distance to see the obvious cause and effect of so many people selling something like a house or farm for a handful of flower buds that haven't even been grown yet.
@@BertoxolusThePuzzled Reminds me of that "NFT" craze we had a few months back. God, to think that that's probably gonna be a footnote in future economics textbooks like the Dutch Tulip Bubble is now
Not a song
From one form of entertainers to another.
0:00 - You are ready for the toughest fight of your life
0:05 - The song starts rings a bell
0:09 - You're like 90% sure this isn't what you think it is but you're still worried
0:14 - The _painful_ moment of realisation
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Clown warriors!!
"NOW FOR OUR NEXT ACT! TWO IDIOTS WILL FIGHT FOR OUR AMUSEMENT! WITH....PISSED SOAKED POOOOOOL NOOODLES!"
Circus afro
Circus afro
After the infamous clown bit, by the second half (00:47), the song is actually pretty good and fits the military vibe it was supposed to.
The song starts so almighty like "Here comes our brave soldiers!"
The it hits the part where its just
"Nevermind it's the entirety of Twitter"
You know, Twitter is basically just a place where everyday people state there opinios. So it is representative of irl people. Let that sink in...
@@dirtyduck6987 Water is wet.
@@dirtyduck6987 wow, I never knew that real people talking represented real people talking. That's so deep.
Do sjws count as "brave soilders"?
Well, probably because they have some balls to be this annoying
@@dirtyduck6987 dont forget cancel culture, though
His face is like "Do you think this is funny?"
In a cosmic sort of way yes
“Yes sir. Now quite being a modern man looking fatass”
Yes and I'm tired of pretending it isn't.
"Are you not entertained?"
Leave Me Alone FBI Well, Mr. Funny Man, is this how you get your sick kicks?!
Mr. Plankton: What? It’s just an ordinary krabby- OH, MY GOODNESS!!! Squidward!
I'm surprised nobody has talked about the guy who wrote this. Thank you, Juicy Fuck, for your wonderful contribution to society.
Wait-
I was looking for this comment
"The only stopping me from getting to Fuck is 'I' "
- Julius Fucik
What?
Cringe pfp
"Very popular in the 1930s, it was included as a military march in the repertoire of pieces imposed by the SS on prisoners' orchestras to accompany the departures and returns of the work Kommandos in Nazis concentration camps, notably in Buchenwald, where it appears in the orchestra's original scores, preserved at the Terezín Memorial."
Thanks Wikipedia for that fun fact
all i can imagine is a bunch of gladiators arriving at the colosseum in tiny clown cars
How many gladiators fit into a VW Beetle tho?
@@frankcalderon8312 How may breads have you eaten in your life?
😂😂
I'M LIGHT-HEADED. I JUST LAUGHED SO HARD.
@@schizophreniagaming1187 DIOOOO!!!
Theme of the people who claim ownership of a 120+ years old song
Let me guess, you came from EmpLemon
I came
Yes, el jajas
It's a copyright of the performance, not of the song. If you could perform the song yourself you wouldn't be in trouble. Only if you steal it from an album you or someone else bought. But I agree, classical music should stay in the realm of fair use if it is this old.
Right i understand, it's just that "ownership of the song" made for a clearer joke than otherwise
19th century: the theme to gladiators.
20th century: the theme to clowns.
21st century: the theme to politicians.
Well, this was only composed 3~4 years before the start of the 20th century so :P
Treasure Ghost Yep, it just didn't last long.
"Trump will never. Ever. Be the President"
You won the internet.
Not really
It’s crazy to think that in an alternate timeline, this song is considered as badass as metal
0:00-Gladiators entering the ring.
00:07- Swords brandished, they stand ready to fight each other to the death.
00:11- They begin their rage-induced charge towards the center of the ring. This is it.. The moment they had dreamed of. The time to show the world who was the strongest of them all.
00:14- Clowns throw banana peels into the arena, causing the mighty gladiators to slip and fall. Wacky sound effects can be heard throughout the stadium.
@Emryn Philogene And they will destroy us all!
@@GiordanDiodato destroy us all... DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL!
@@DDWeirdGang *WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
dota lagi I DON’T KNOW! 😂
Holy fucking shit jesus christ
How did "entry of the gladiators" become "the clown song?"
it was used at the circus which has clowns usually for the grand entrance so it became the circus song which evolved into CLOWNS
Somehow I just can't see a regal "march of gladiators" becoming clowns tripping over their own feet. There's some irony there somewhere.
Also, Circus Maximus was kinda a Roman thing, though it had nothing to do with clowns.
The origin of the word "circus" meant circle. The Romans called the circular arenas where they had chariot races, animal fight, gladiators, etc circuses. The use of the song as a motif for modern circus acts is simply that there are no Roman circuses anymore and that the chromatic scale of the piece meant to denote the audience viewing a blood sport with mirth and the comical nature of clowns is meant to be a mockery of the spectator.
Erm, I think it is meant to be a mockery of the spectacle of the gladiator. It doesn't mock the spectator at all. Poor Fucik, to develop this whole royal crescendo to fit his mind vision of the pageantry and spectacle of a Roman gladiator exhibit, and replace it with big red noses falling out of clown cars.
"You are not a politician, you are the entire government"
So a dictator then?
You are not a politician, you are the entire nation and its people
You are not a politician you are the entire ring of corruption.
@@echoofdawn7209 nah is a entire country and is continent
"I am the senate"
When I'm sad I like to imagine people I dislike falling down the stairs in slow motion set to opera or classical music. This one is great for that. Can highly recommend. 👍
He didn't know at that time, he wasn't just writing about just gladiators, but the entirety of humanity. Truly a legend ngl.
That made me laugh so hard. Humanity is a massive Circus and we all are the Clowns and this is our anthem. Love it
@@hellraisermask Thanks and I'm glad you found it funny. I didn't even know this got so many likes.
We aren't just clowns, we are the entire circus🤡
@@Insert12 Fr
Dude, that comment is LEGENDARY !
Even though this is the stereotypical circus song, it actually kinda rocks in all of it's glory.
It’s low-key kind of a bop...
Yeah only the one part sounds like a clown theme
@@karinkorenkova2059 yeah. That's probably why it's the only part of the song cartoons and such ever play when a clown is supposed to be involved. The rest doesn't really fit clowns or circuses much
It's actually only a short bit that's the famous circus music, the rest really sounds like military music
@@robhenry7896 Because it is a marching band music, the composer was a bandmaster and a pretty influential one.
*”You are not an Austrian heir. You are the entire Austro-Hungarian army”*
*Takes a wrong turn in Sarajevo*
Attack Russia in December, they said. That it would be easy, they said. That Stalin has no army, they said.
"Maybe you are a descendant of Luigi Cardona"
the city should be named Schaneiwosch no Sarajevo, AUSTRIA-hungary mistake
@@granmosermal3625 wrong war
The bounciness of the rhythm and the melodic phrases during the "clown part" that make it seem so light hearted and perfect for comical scenes.
I was trying to picture grim faced warriors walking out to meet their enemies in battle to this, but the best i could do was maybe if the battle took place on a trapeze in between flips, or jousting on unicycles.
"If you are a Gladiator, you are a clown"
-Sun tzu, art of Roman Comedy
lol
“And I’d say he knows a little more about clowns then you do, pal, because he was one!”
🤡
@@Wapolville_Mayor and then he perfected it so no living man can beat him in the ring of honour
That sounds more like something Juvenal might have written
Audiences in 1897: “beautifully composed march, lively composition”
Audiences in 2020: *”ha ha clown go yoink”*
UNDERRRRATEDDDD
not 2020, 2019.
no one is seeing circuses noe
2020 is better
Here’s your diploma from clown university
Throw the damn custard pie!!
The clowns will now enter the arena and fight to the death
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED
*posts Thomas the tank engine Menes*ARE YOU NOT INTO TRAINS?
If only.
This is the comment I was looking for.
SO SHINY
SO CHROME
Reminds me of a game called Twisted Metal, I dunno if it's Twisted Metal 2 or 3 where they have a character called Sweet Tooth that's a clown themed icecream truck armed to the teeth and shoots missiles at other cars.
I would watch that 10/10
0:14 You’re here for this, aren’t u?
Yep
OF COURSE!!!
Yep
“You’re not a gladiator,you’re an entire coliseum “
Edit:
You thought it’s gonna be “thx 4 the likes” edit, but it was *Thunder Cross Split Attack* , you fell for it fool!
It's 777 likes
Now its 778 likes
Then its 779
Maybe the next time I come here its gonna be a 1000
Fuck
Never heard the entire thing, after the “silly part” it’s actually dope, then I realized the whole thing is a masterpiece.
in my head i like to imagine it's a battle that starts out as a disaster and slowly starts to favour one side.
@@cageybee7221oh I love that interpretation!
Exactly. If you step back and look at it without preconceptions, the "silly part" really isn't all that silly, really. It's actually quite heroic. It's only our own memories associating it with clowns that makes it silly to our ears.
@swift_29 dude I guess that’s a sign I should really spend less time online 😅
@swift_29 yeah, hopefully!
Imagine getting ready to battle to the death and they play this when you enter the coliseum
just another reason to kill them all.....in the most comical way.
Might as well be laughing at your ass lol
coliseum
The official song of the next four years
“We who are about to die, salute you!”
Imagine if they played this during the movie Gladiator
Wait, we're going to die!? HELP! HELP! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!
"Here, men! March in to our new battle music!"
"I hope we lose"
Ave, Caesar! Morituri te salutant!
Imagine losing to a group of soldiers playing this song.
Talk about BMing but in real life.
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"2017 will be a good year"
"2018 will be a good year"
"2019 will be a good year"
"2020 will be a good year"
"2021 will be a good year"
"2022 will be a good year"
"This year is MY year"
Don't worry, there are higher classes who enjoy their lives as always. Its not like the year is good or bad, just our live is shit...not everyone have a shit live, just us.
“This is the year Imma get a gf”
@@xr9381 Time to rise up
But some of the years were good.
"2021 will be so much better, trust me!"
How about you stop being a pessimist and think positively about 2021 for once?
@@mariafe7050 don't jinx it, look what happened to 2020
@@didierkoffi7408 My point exactly.
@@mariafe7050 Your comment aged well, seeing how Texas is in devastation and how politicians are, though they have been doing this already, creating even more division... even after the election.
@@mariafe7050 the fact that you didn’t see the quotation marks amuses me
As a person from Czechia I am glad that our country has contributed this song to the world, even though not in the way it was originally meant to be used 👍🏻
No offence Fucik, but this is way too cheerful to be the background music for a couple of men who are going to maul each other to death...
EDIT: Multiple people have (rightly) pointed out that most gladiator matches didn't end in death, the song symbolises the entry of the gladiators, not the actual fighting etc. Thank you all for the brief history lesson!
It's glorious. Plus, most gladiator matches didn't end in death. Gladiators were more valuable alive, unless there was some specicifc reason, like a holiday.
They didn’t fight to the death, it was all staged . They only killed slaves and prisoners.
Firstly, Gladiator matches weren’t to the death. Second, it’s called entry of the gladiators. It’s meant to symbolize the applause of the crowd when the fighters entered the ring not the actual fight itself.
I played this at wrestling practice.
@@zach415 Still too happy for the 21st century; a modern gladiator theme would sound like the Panem anthem or something.
A miniature car drives across the arena.
6 armor-clad muscular men with colorful hair step out the car, honking as they step.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in a nutshell
Pillar clowns
@@LUKA_911 Awaken!, my fellow clowns!
Well they aren’t Jojo characters.
the pillar men fighting a joestar
He looks like the stereotype of a circus ringmaster. Coincidence?
His surname says it all
I think not
LOL
@@emmanuelwestra6524 i was about to say that
Or is it?
*vsauce music starts playing*
In music history and song writing accumen this makes the most sense for a military march. Especially by a Czech composer, for the era. Look it up, Dvorak was a Czech writer and writer very similar things. Listen to "Songs my Mother Taught me."
Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the anthem of humanity…
🫡🫡🫡
Proud to be human
Long live our stupidity
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@@marwanahmedalhosry1083 It's amazing we've survived this long! One day, our collective stupidity will finally eradicate us all, but it is not this day!
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@@thebootymanwcw yeah, whatever.
Time Traveler: "Oh wow it's so cool seeing you Julius Fucik"
Julius: "You're from the future? Tell me, am I remembered for my heroic compositions for our brave soldiers?"
Time Traveler: "Well... They sure are remembered for SOMEthing."
And you know, for what we CZECHS remember J. Fucik? Also for his quote: *,,MANKIND, BE VIGILANT! WE LOVE YOU!"*
Arousing...
Damn, I need to see a historical footage of Czechish military unironically marching with this music.
Pretty sure it's Austrian, and it's just "Czech army"
@@whatisalifeihavenone4708 Czechish
@@threeco2350 Czech was part of Austro Hungarian empire in that time
@@panzerofthelake3437 Czechish
@@threeco2350 you aren't funny
It's a bit weird that so many military marches (Radetzky's march, Schubert's military march, Souza, this one) are so cheerful.
Don't forget the Turkish March
"We don't need to give our soldiers different equipment during winter invasions"
Stalin: haha, very poor choice of words
Bro trust me bro. Kick in the door and the whole rotting structure will fall down. Bro just trust me bro please
@@Killerbee4712 Even Stalin isn't immune to that folly
We can take Russia in the winter bro
The blizzards are nowhere near us
This comment needs to be hearted
This is now the world's national anthem
Now *that's* a proposal I can get behind
Liberal Democrats and and Green Party.
I vote yes
No.
Cracked me up
My man really just said Fucik and decided to make one of the most well known songs in history.
SSS
@@yeahboiyeryeahboiyer woah there, you're 1 S away from being bashed!
Arousing
nice pun
i made 666 comments
The build up at the beginning is actually kinda fire
Julius Fucik: *Composes a hypermasculine and bombastic fanfare to celebrate the long-gone glory of ancient Roman gladiators*
Everyone else: *Turns the piece into a circus leitmotif, making it synonymous with clowns and other kinds of fools.*
Julius Fucik: Am I a joke to you???
Julius Fucik? More like Julius *_FUCK U 21ST CENTURY_*
In a way, yes.
"No no, explain it to me. What the fuck is so funny about my music? Am I joke to you? Am I here to amuse you? What the fuck is so funny?"
he can shares grievances with Offenbach, his cancan will be forever linked to ladies lifting their skirts and flashing there undies at men :P
velvety2006 real cancan dancers didn’t wear panties.
How it happened: Circus music in the 1800s was just beginning to break out of a phase of fiddles and flutes, and into big bands with percussion, wind sections, and lots of brass- *lots* of brass. It needed a unique style and regular music just wouldn't do. Yet circuses wanted to be familiar to audience. The answer was to create ridiculous versions of familiar songs. They took Marches and made them Screamers. So military songs full of pomp and robust brass became these overblown songs to hear as you watched clumsy, painted jesters
Very interesting
I think it also has to do with how not-diatonic the main melody is. Undermining the tonic right away like this can give it a less heroic and more “silly” sound
I love the insight. Thank you
and yet i still can't imagine this being a serious military song. even hearing the original.
@@gracewenzel the wiki makes it sound like the melody would have been impressive back then. "The march demonstrates the state of the art in playing technology and the construction of brass instruments, which allowed fast and even chromatic gears in all instruments and positions."
"I'm Spartacus!" "Oh yeah? Well, I'm Bozo!"
"I'm Spartacus." Carol Channing
Laura bozo
"Sportaflop."
*Bozo then precedes to kill Spartacus and steals his theme*
Clowns aside, 1:30 this part is really 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fucik: Ah! Finally, it's complete! The anthem of the mighty gladiators! When people hear his they will imagine the fierce Roman warriors entering the ar-
Clowns: Hippity hoppity, this is now our property
James A. Meadow and then the politicians stole it like they steal my paycheck
Soon It Will Be The Anthem Of Human Kind And We'll All Be Disappointed
😂💀 and the look on his face says it all
Luigi’s death stare
lmaoooooo
When you say "mom" to the teacher
Zaphyel Felix!
@@reinhardt7769 SANS
@@FourthEgo BO!
@@AnksDilxMC ANKS
One of my classmates does that a lot XD
10 year old: *has a varying opinion*
Reddit:
Anyone*
@@funkyneon3148 you're right, I'm sorry
How's you, 10 yrs old, doing now
Fuck reddit.
Rishabh Vailaya no
Currently imagining going back in time watching a bunch of gladiators proudly and super seriously enter a coliseum to this song and I start uncontrollably laughing and everyone near me is just looking at me like:
"We live in a society" - Some ancient roman gladiator
Spartacus in a nutshell.
_How do you do, fellow Spartacus?_
Gladiators rise up
Jokerus
Probably Spartacus
True story: When I was in high school band, our director chose this as one of our songs. No one recognized the name when he passed out the sheet music. But once we started playing it as a sight reading practice and we got to 0:14, literally the _entire_ band stopped playing in a collective “oh shit” moment when we all finally recognized the song 🤣
I hope he laughed. 😂
bruh someone else said this exact thing
@@wishbonefan Yeah, me. I’ve left the same comment on a few videos
The Rick Roll of the school bands? From before TH-cam,.
OF COURSE THEY WENT LIKE OH S%#@
The gladiators come out into the coliseum. Me, and a few of my friends, time travelers, start chucking pies right into the guys' faces. We put on red noses and run into the field. The gladiators run and attack us, but we swallow the swords. We cram into a tiny car and drive off.
I can't stop picturing this,thank you for making my day!
@Daniel Molinar Dude, we are here to have fun with this funny comment, and you are doing a non funny "I am 14 and this is deep" type of comment, bringing nothing but negativity, please, remove yourself and do not ruin our fun with politics or any other kind of serious business.
@Daniel Molinar I am sorry but we are too lit to p o l i t i c c
A few of my friends and I, time travelers all, start.........
this was great to picture, thanks for making me laugh