Cunk On Britain Episode 4 - Twentieth Century Shocks

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 เม.ย. 2018
  • Philomena and Mark Lawson examine the first half of the 20th Century, with two world wars but no world cup.
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  • @KeshavGaur90
    @KeshavGaur90 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3048

    "Radio made it possible for you to listen to other people without the use of thin walls or a devastating mental condition"

    • @douglaskay9959
      @douglaskay9959 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The word RADIO is an American word meaning the device invented in England by an Italian and he called it WIRELESS for obvious reasons. I was a WIRELESS mechanic in the Royal Signals.

    • @catherinerobilliard7662
      @catherinerobilliard7662 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Keshav Guar, I really did laugh out loud

    • @The_Crimson_Fucker
      @The_Crimson_Fucker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@douglaskay9959
      You're old and senile, go do those things old people do like fishing and forgetting why you're in rooms.

    • @larrylewis5721
      @larrylewis5721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@douglaskay9959 Lighten up, seriously......Chrissakes. Go back and read what you wrote.

    • @CourierSiix
      @CourierSiix ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@douglaskay9959 dont care, its called radio

  • @noone3216
    @noone3216 ปีที่แล้ว +1631

    "The show got a record audience of 400 - the sort of viewing figures BBC4 still dreams of." 😂😂

  • @indricotherium4802
    @indricotherium4802 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2216

    "Teenagers that looked like adults but had the brains of children - like professional footballers today." What an absolute gem!

  • @JS-te2vj
    @JS-te2vj ปีที่แล้ว +1592

    "We know it will be hard, and we will expect it to be long"
    - Winton Churchill

    • @masterchuck8772
      @masterchuck8772 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's really sexy

    • @wiltsunen8244
      @wiltsunen8244 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      "We shall fight them bitches"
      - Winton Churchill

    • @current9300
      @current9300 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Nobody's dick is that long, not even Long Dick Johnson, and he had a fucking long dick. Thus the name."
      -Rose of Sharon Cassidy

    • @floridanews8786
      @floridanews8786 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Insert "that's what she said" joke here

    • @circularisnotthis4316
      @circularisnotthis4316 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Insert “‘insert that’s what she said joke here’” here. I think you’ve been twatted open.

  • @Kauffy901
    @Kauffy901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3980

    I declare this informative, educational, and entertaining.

    • @period5304
      @period5304 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I am डॉलरPERIOD and I condone this message.

    • @margaretkairu7418
      @margaretkairu7418 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Hardly accurate but EXTREMELY FUNNY!

    • @trollmeistergeneral3467
      @trollmeistergeneral3467 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Fletcher901
      And I declare it puerile, infantile, childish and decidedly unfunny. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why these eminent academics and historians participated in this stupid send-up of real history.
      “Why did they call it ‘Norman’s (sic) land?’ Were only people called Norman allowed in there?”
      Is that supposed to be funny?

    • @Kauffy901
      @Kauffy901 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Username checks out.

    • @Woosaidthat
      @Woosaidthat ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@trollmeistergeneral3467 no one invites you to parties do they?

  • @KeithPenrod
    @KeithPenrod 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1938

    "He narrowly avoided tragedy by dying." ROFL I LOVE her. LOL

    • @alexlogan7559
      @alexlogan7559 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      This needs to go on my tombstone

    • @eelllieeee
      @eelllieeee ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Its like when she refferred to charles darwins death by saying "he evolved into a corpse"

    • @piwetshombe4684
      @piwetshombe4684 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's my favourite part as well!! "Little did he know it at the time....."🤣🤣🤣

    • @piwetshombe4684
      @piwetshombe4684 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eelllieeee 🤣🤣

    • @thewhisper4269
      @thewhisper4269 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @JZ's BFF He evolved into a scientist, then he evolved into a corpse

  • @vollsticks
    @vollsticks ปีที่แล้ว +351

    "...even women male prostitutes." I never get tired of this series, there are so many jewels that reveal themselves with each watch.

    • @jeansafiera96
      @jeansafiera96 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Damn women stealing everything

    • @krumuvecis
      @krumuvecis ปีที่แล้ว

      they took our jobs!

    • @NormAppleton
      @NormAppleton ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeansafiera96 They stole buttsecks from men, damn them

    • @souxcasa
      @souxcasa หลายเดือนก่อน

      Every time I watch this she still catches me off guard 😂

  • @blupunk01
    @blupunk01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +503

    I'd never heard of Brush Strokes before, but I now know when it occurred in relation to many major events in British history.

    • @rollingwave2732
      @rollingwave2732 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I actually went and watched an episode of Brush Strokes😂

    • @joshthesandwich
      @joshthesandwich ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@rollingwave2732 how was it? Is the pump up the jams of sitcoms?

    • @rollingwave2732
      @rollingwave2732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joshthesandwich No, it wasn’t. It was sweet and old fashioned. He was a ladies’ man but he didn’t take advantage of a drunk lady! It’s a very random sitcom to have selected. I suppose it adds a further dimension to Cunk’s personality that she likes it so much.

    • @abelq8008
      @abelq8008 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I kind of want to watch some now.

    • @jaysinha0
      @jaysinha0 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I suddenly remembered watching it in the 90s (or whenever) because there had been nothing else on at the time.

  • @DorkJedi96
    @DorkJedi96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +349

    "Soon it caught on and everybody wanted to be killed. It was a bigger craze than fidget spinners." - LMAO 😂

  • @prashanthmachalef
    @prashanthmachalef ปีที่แล้ว +805

    "buried him under soil to rule over fellow potatoes for eternity " 😂😂

    • @adriannzekwue1382
      @adriannzekwue1382 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I was looking for this comment 😂

    • @bobjohnson6946
      @bobjohnson6946 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Funniest one, just because of how random it was.

    • @marcosteffen94
      @marcosteffen94 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂😂

    • @rme1383
      @rme1383 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What Edward had to do with potato?

    • @danschwarz
      @danschwarz ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@rme1383 apparently a King Edward potato is a cultivar grown in the UK. I was confused too

  • @jonpavlovsky
    @jonpavlovsky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    They soon settled into a british way of life, not smiling and being permanently tired

  • @praveenb9048
    @praveenb9048 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3272

    What I want to see is a blooper compilation where the profs / experts just fail to keep up their solemn expressions and laugh till they cry.

    • @matteomerlini604
      @matteomerlini604 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      I have a very sneaky suspicion it may be the case they've not been made aware of the oke until after the interview

    • @hughmoore963
      @hughmoore963 ปีที่แล้ว +397

      @@matteomerlini604 there was a great chat at the BFI with Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan, and they both explain that the experts are in on the joke. Imagine there’d be a lot more walkouts if they weren’t!

    • @matteomerlini604
      @matteomerlini604 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@hughmoore963 I see - I stand corrected, then

    • @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
      @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 ปีที่แล้ว +325

      The "in on the joke" thing is why I love Professor Ashley Jackson the most: he always seems on the verge of losing his s**t, yet keeps answering the questions in good faith with facts 'n' that.
      Honestly, my favourite of their experts 😀

    • @dudesayingthings
      @dudesayingthings ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 same here! He always seems like he's just about done with phelomina's BS.

  • @thascuzza7316
    @thascuzza7316 6 ปีที่แล้ว +874

    ''We will fight them bitches'' Actually genius.

    • @woongah
      @woongah ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wait, it's not an actual, direct quote of the man itself?

    • @israelasiku3975
      @israelasiku3975 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@woongah "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

    • @blackporscheroadster6415
      @blackporscheroadster6415 ปีที่แล้ว

      We will fight them bitches on the beaches.

    • @quintomalley1196
      @quintomalley1196 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also sounds like something the man would've actually said.

    • @benrobertson7855
      @benrobertson7855 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      “…..And you madam will still be ugly…”

  • @CataLinaMurariu
    @CataLinaMurariu ปีที่แล้ว +28

    ‘He was dead important. By which I mean he was only important when he was dead.’

  • @ricecrispsandspaghetti2111
    @ricecrispsandspaghetti2111 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    “His brother George also vacated unexpectedly early to spend more time in his coffin ” 😂

    • @markcotter4213
      @markcotter4213 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm laughing so hard I'm crying over this line!

    • @rahatkhan_7
      @rahatkhan_7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @struck.kobe1999
    @struck.kobe1999 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    “He narrowly avoided tragedy by dying” makes sense

  • @glocke380
    @glocke380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +521

    "Hitler thought the German's where an elite race like the Grand Prix." Brilliant

    • @blackdragoncyrus
      @blackdragoncyrus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Germans were*

    • @phily8093
      @phily8093 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      No they weren't 😉

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackdragoncyrus No one is an elite race. Every single one of us is an accident. YOU had no control over your conception, nor your colour, nor your race, nor your language. You had no control of your education until over 18 years old. Your "impression" that you are better is caused by conversations, or brain washing, by inferior intellects you came across in whatever life you tried to live. Racism is taught, not born with by the subject.

    • @radvelvetcakez
      @radvelvetcakez 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We really aren't

  • @dennisgalvin2521
    @dennisgalvin2521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    "..his tv was finalized but idiotically he'd invented it without checking to see if there were any programmes on yet".

    • @whoah1988
      @whoah1988 ปีที่แล้ว

      Best one 😂

  • @josephesposo
    @josephesposo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +419

    "Why did they call World War I, "World War I"? It's quite pessimistic numbering, isn't? Or did they just know it this is the start of a franchise?"

    • @Smirnovka23
      @Smirnovka23 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can’t stop laughing

  • @bard6184
    @bard6184 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    "Before the war, King Edward had abdicated, so he could spend more time in his mistress. His brother George also vacated the throne unexpectedly early, to spend more time in his coffin."

  • @dirkbonesteel
    @dirkbonesteel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5809

    Love these but hope she never comes to US. No one will understand she is a character or that it's comedy so she will probably be elected President.

    • @sparXKuijper
      @sparXKuijper 6 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      LOL XD

    • @Sam-lr9oi
      @Sam-lr9oi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      I'd like a Shitpeas Goes American series, it'd be like old Colbert Report when people still thought the character was genuine.

    • @ghett0bla5t
      @ghett0bla5t 5 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      She wouldn't even have a choice. She'd just walk off the plane and they'd be like "you're president now", then they'd carry her to the Whitehouse.

    • @psammiad
      @psammiad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      I think even if she was real, she'd do a better job of it than Trump.

    • @ghett0bla5t
      @ghett0bla5t 5 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      @@psammiad Her shoes would do a better job than Trump.

  • @heatherrockwell9012
    @heatherrockwell9012 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    "But he turned out to be a monster who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals, a bit like Boris Johnson"

  • @pigpuke
    @pigpuke ปีที่แล้ว +138

    "Why did the British build bombers to attack their own territory?"
    "How do you mean?"
    "Well, the Lancaster Bombers."
    The look on his face was priceless. It's like his brain just melted. Brilliant stuff.

    • @It-b-Blair
      @It-b-Blair ปีที่แล้ว

      🫠

    • @gustavosarabia4899
      @gustavosarabia4899 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i didn’t get that one, can sb explain me?

    • @doswillrule
      @doswillrule 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@gustavosarabia4899 Lancaster is a city in England, so the implication is that the Lancaster bomber (a WW2 plane) was designed to bomb Lancaster

  • @chrisofnottingham
    @chrisofnottingham 5 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    It cracks me up when she suddenly swears in the middle of talking normally.

    • @hiimterry2009
      @hiimterry2009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The first time she did that, in the first episode, I had to pause until I stopped laughing. Then I watched it 10 more times! "And the queue for Nemesis at Alton Towers, in that it never fucking moves."

    • @urieldaboamorte
      @urieldaboamorte ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it reminds me of The Onion's Sony video. the deadpan coupled with swearing is chef's kiss

    • @thescandinavian2487
      @thescandinavian2487 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Swedish tv for instance is very common to swear in family programs, important part of expression and...Scandic's are not as stuck up as lets say the people who live in the U.S

    • @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim
      @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thescandinavian2487 swearing is considered low-class, uncultured, unprofessional and rude in most civilized countries, not just U.S.

    • @thescandinavian2487
      @thescandinavian2487 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim You need to get out more kid, swearing is not even remotely a sign of being uncultured or low class, being judgmental and girlsplaining things on the other hand is, have a nice day !

  • @boredlawyer3382
    @boredlawyer3382 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    23:28 -- "Once the NHS arrived, if you were poor and you got sick, you weren't on you own anymore. You were in a crowded waiting room full of other sick people."
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @bmxt939
    @bmxt939 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    It's so childish yet so clever, it makes me just adore her.

  • @shipwreck9146
    @shipwreck9146 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    "If you sang it in like Portugueses, would it still feel British, or would that just *FUckin* ruin it?"
    Oh my god, I lost it. It was so unnessarily agressive, but so perfect.

  • @missdydaniel
    @missdydaniel ปีที่แล้ว +18

    “how we went from ancient man to Ed Sheeran” 😂😂😂

  • @aaron.aaron.v.b.9448
    @aaron.aaron.v.b.9448 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    This is probably the best summarization of the reasons for wwI I ever heard. "His assassination triggered a serious of other killings. Soon it caught on and everyone wanted to be killed."

    • @FirstLast-di5sr
      @FirstLast-di5sr ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup, right up there with the one Black Adder Goes Forth.

    • @eduardlebediuk6121
      @eduardlebediuk6121 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yossarian would be proud.

  • @Justmt6940
    @Justmt6940 5 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    “Today racist bigotry has no place in contemporary Britain...except Kent” LOL (24:48)

  • @adriannzekwue1382
    @adriannzekwue1382 ปีที่แล้ว +1199

    "Hitler wanted to make Britain German, to match it's Royal family 👀' I swear if you're not re-winding her videos every 5 seconds you're gonna miss a whole lot 😂

    • @cathhl2440
      @cathhl2440 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I’m not native; I know I’ve missed much!

    • @rme1383
      @rme1383 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cathhl2440 me too.

    • @davidgoosen1633
      @davidgoosen1633 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes this woman, speaks a lot of Truth between the lines, like Hitler wanting to make Britain German like it's royal family! With the Queen's passing recently, you'll notice how no one, no one said anything about that fact!

    • @jovangorgi
      @jovangorgi ปีที่แล้ว

      Everybody wanted to be killed. It was a bigger craze than the fidget spinners.

    • @thomaslutro5560
      @thomaslutro5560 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cathhl2440 Me three.

  • @colinr0380
    @colinr0380 6 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    "Before the war King Edward abdicated, so that he could spend more time in his mistress..."

    • @TheNefastor
      @TheNefastor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      So many awesome jokes in show just by changing or omitting a word or two... "We shall fight them bitches !" 🤣

    • @helenziegenfus6754
      @helenziegenfus6754 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂

  • @fredmila
    @fredmila 6 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    The kind of audience BBC4 still dreams of

  • @kathowed
    @kathowed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    Brilliant writing, sublime delivery. This is what television was invented for.

    • @ppsh43
      @ppsh43 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      TV was invented for this and Brush Strokes

    • @ABCDEFG-ce4eu
      @ABCDEFG-ce4eu ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Content worth putting your iphone down for.

    • @Barbreck1
      @Barbreck1 ปีที่แล้ว

      You said that about the Generation Game too, Geof...

    • @paulstewart6293
      @paulstewart6293 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly. Don't forget Monty python either. Bise

  • @Haffmatthew
    @Haffmatthew ปีที่แล้ว +141

    I just adore “United Britain of Great Kingdom”. It makes me feel both silly and full of whimsy

  • @ic1815
    @ic1815 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    “Like most sequels, War 2 was proving less fun, than War 1.”

  • @adzdahlman9724
    @adzdahlman9724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +444

    Straight in with , "if you sang Land of Hope and Glory in Portuguese , would it still sound alright ; or would it fucking ruin it." World class - more more more please. I'm still smiling hours after every episode*

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Personally I think everything's improved with Portuguese (especially Brazilian Portuguese) vowels.

    • @adzdahlman9724
      @adzdahlman9724 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@blackmore4 I honestly wouldn't know , I was picking up on the rhetoric humour , not the linguistics - it's not a complicated joke , any non English speaking country would suffice . She should've , inappropriately ,,, said Wales ha ha

    • @urieldaboamorte
      @urieldaboamorte ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@adzdahlman9724 imo Wales would be a bit too tired for this show. "they speak weird haha" is always the joke when Wales is mentioned. I think Portuguese balances the divide between "English/mainstream" and "too foreign" pretty well.
      Edit: I say this because I think "what if it was in Spanish?" or "what if it was in Mongolian?" (respectively) would make the joke more stale

    • @adzdahlman9724
      @adzdahlman9724 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@urieldaboamorte Ha haa , you're pushing my intellect at this time of day . I'm WELL accustomed to everything North Wales has to offer - from my love of the terrain , the hatred of my dialect / English bastard I was , their hatred of me STEALING THEIR WOMEN , it was an interesting time . I moved onto an unoccupied tidal island , CRASHED the locale . I've never previously known / or since , experienced , such hostility . Unique bunch .

    • @aminemaia921
      @aminemaia921 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blackmore4 I thank you on behalf of my people

  • @Falconlibrary
    @Falconlibrary ปีที่แล้ว +209

    I think this series has hit on the perfect way to educate the public: Philomena makes us laugh and listen to these very learned scholars and gives them a wider audience than they otherwise might find. Brilliant on so many levels.

    • @OneOfTheLoveless
      @OneOfTheLoveless ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Also he frequent but not distracting spelling mistakes and inaccuracies made me Google/inform myself about the historic events. Brilliant.

  • @zoe547
    @zoe547 5 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    "Luckily Britain had a hero on its side. A man who's name will never be forgotten; Winton Churchill"

    • @blackdragoncyrus
      @blackdragoncyrus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Whose*

    • @HomoLegalMedic
      @HomoLegalMedic ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@blackdragoncyrus you must be fun at parties.

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @JZ's BFF I do, but I'm not gonna tell you. You win your own pub quizzes.

    • @Mermete8
      @Mermete8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Winter Church Hill is a legendary name to Brits as Napoleon Cumberbatch is to French

    • @Mskitso1111
      @Mskitso1111 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Hero" my foot, he caused death of millions in his persuit of victory. dude literally caused a famine with his policy. I wonder how much of the British army were originally british, Britain won relying on the manpower of its colonies and military and weaponry support from USA.

  • @MatthewMcVeagh
    @MatthewMcVeagh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +579

    27:13 "More research needed, make sure script amended before voiceover record."
    That's the hilariousest thing in all these episodes!

    • @adam19890911
      @adam19890911 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Breaking the fouth wall, not literally but with words.

    • @therook24
      @therook24 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Utter genius 😂

    • @unrepentantoffender188
      @unrepentantoffender188 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Hilariousest"
      The f

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@unrepentantoffender188 Tell me you can't understand it!

    • @azjmsxhn
      @azjmsxhn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bro i cant anymore

  • @erickoontz6835
    @erickoontz6835 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You know, I almost never laugh out loud at TH-cam videos. But in the case of Philomena Cunk, it never fails.

  • @sensennsen
    @sensennsen ปีที่แล้ว +31

    "Awarded Churchill by voting him out of office." brilliant!

  • @Esbrittanyputa
    @Esbrittanyputa ปีที่แล้ว +533

    Damn the Brits’ humor is top tier. This show is killing me 😂

    • @Jumpoable
      @Jumpoable ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where are you from?

    • @Esbrittanyputa
      @Esbrittanyputa ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Jumpoable the US. Arizona to be more specific. Where are you from?

    • @Jumpoable
      @Jumpoable ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Esbrittanyputa Oh, I'm also from a former British colony! It's called Hong Kong.

    • @avalonjustin
      @avalonjustin ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hello friends I'm from Canada.👋Diane Morgan has fans all over the world!

    • @MatecaCorp
      @MatecaCorp ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah man this is all they got

  • @dandy5948
    @dandy5948 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    i’m australian and studied modern history in highschool, naturally we studied mostly the australian side of the story but ironically i learnt more in this satirical masterpiece than i did in 6 years of studying it in a classroom

  • @smackednoodle
    @smackednoodle ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "Even thought it looks like Charlie Chaplin, it's actually not funny at all" cracked me up. I felt so guilty

  • @alexjoeluke
    @alexjoeluke ปีที่แล้ว +52

    That guy was so mad at her calling it “war 2”

  • @Skullzy-01
    @Skullzy-01 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Whenever she “corrects” the professionals and just interrupts them mid sentence I cry

  • @gianni2083
    @gianni2083 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    They soon settled into a British way of life: not smiling and being permanently tired

  • @PatrickLongest
    @PatrickLongest ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I will never not laugh at the "Brush Stokes" drop-ins. 🤣

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      running-gag. 🤣* There! FTFY

  • @sebasfrankes6501
    @sebasfrankes6501 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Her question on whether “land of Open Glory” still works in Portugese is actually shockingly sharp. That is what makes this brilliant, you never know when she is gonna say nonsense or something incisive.

  • @dersteve4240
    @dersteve4240 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Quotes like "King Edward had abdicated so he could spend more time in his mistress" are what makes this so brilliant

  • @foreignparticle1320
    @foreignparticle1320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Brush Strokes is the glue that holds the United Kingdom together.

  • @darrenrobinson9041
    @darrenrobinson9041 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The badly timed train wave and the shouting at helicopters - a few seconds in and I'm already laughing.

  • @glazdarklee1683
    @glazdarklee1683 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I love the way the experts work so hard at not breaking character. As an American, it reminds me a lot of what Stephen Colbert used to do.

  • @giantbluewhale
    @giantbluewhale 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    her reactions are what makes the whole series

    • @KP-ms5cj
      @KP-ms5cj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      tops at her craft...
      5:16 turns genius at 5:20!

  • @Dcook85
    @Dcook85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    25:03 "so he could spend more time in his mistress" LMAO so subtle but so sharp!

  • @TheNefastor
    @TheNefastor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    "We shall fight them bitches." I laughed so hard my cat fell out of my desk. I love you, miss Cunk.

  • @Daijyobanai
    @Daijyobanai 6 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Mark Lawson trying to keep a straight face, haha. You can see the tears in his eyes, he's half a second away from cracking up every time.

  • @lawdpleasehelpmeno
    @lawdpleasehelpmeno ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "The viewership was up to 400, numbers that BBC4 can still only dream of." got me good

  • @AgentDigits
    @AgentDigits ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "I think I'd kill myself if I couldn't have crisps"
    I love this show

  • @CrackinACold1
    @CrackinACold1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Frankie goes to Hollywood singing about spunk." Good lord I wasnt ready for that 😳😭

  • @gorillaguerillaDK
    @gorillaguerillaDK 6 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    "A bit like Boris Jonson" - I'm laughing so hard that I have tears in my eyes!

    • @francis4293
      @francis4293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Suddenly it doesn’t feel so funny anymore 😢

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@francis4293 Welcome to 1984, served straight on a silver platter.

  • @Imaveryniceguy
    @Imaveryniceguy ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The woman is absolutely magnific. Perfect delivery and that face...my God 🤣🤣🤣

  • @theonesillyboy
    @theonesillyboy ปีที่แล้ว +50

    "we shall fight them bitches" got me in stitches 🤣 - genius writing perfectly delivered!!

  • @lucysmith2197
    @lucysmith2197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    “Today, racist bigotry has no place in contemporary Britain... except Kent.”
    Boy, don’t I know it.

  • @JaseAndrews
    @JaseAndrews ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "What was up with the Sewers, did someone try to flush something that was awful?" That joke only works with a British accent, amazing

  • @samsheep1234
    @samsheep1234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    "A bit like Boris Johnson"... The irony is hurtful at this point.

  • @piwetshombe4684
    @piwetshombe4684 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "Little did he know it at the time, but he'd narrowly avoided tragedy by dying." 🤣🤣🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

  • @fittyrightonpoint6466
    @fittyrightonpoint6466 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Classic British humour
    Extremely funny dry wit
    Philomena is top tier.🔥🔥💯💯👍👍👏👏⭐⭐

  • @ToutCQJM
    @ToutCQJM ปีที่แล้ว +18

    “Along the way, I’ll be shouting at helicopters” I’m done for. Hahahahaha

  • @dontcare7086
    @dontcare7086 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I spit up my coffee when she said "even women male prostitutes" 😂

  • @falconbritt5461
    @falconbritt5461 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    I still love "a fork in its crossroads." Every time. (As a former English teacher in America, let me say she is so much like a poorly educated 8th grader. You wouldn't believe the questions they ask or what they write in papers.)

    • @Pantuflas295
      @Pantuflas295 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I still remember a college friend's student teaching essay assignment in 7th grade 20th c. history in the mid 1980s.
      Instructions: Write a two page essay on an historical figure from WWll. Use and cite sources. For example Encyclopedia Brittanica.
      The title, followed by three laboriously copied consecutive encyclopedia entries, that to this day make me chuckle was:
      "Hitler, Hittites and Hives."

  • @Doomsquad99
    @Doomsquad99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "Mario 64's redefined the platform game for a new generation." Man the writing is good.

  • @rondonnis6588
    @rondonnis6588 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    the trench conditions were so bad that they wouldn't even get a two star rating on trip adviser lol

  • @Xth3Z
    @Xth3Z ปีที่แล้ว +37

    How anyone being interviewed by her can sit through this with a straight face is beyond me. 🤣

    • @madyjules
      @madyjules ปีที่แล้ว +7

      she said recently on a US chat show (Seth Meyers) that these experts bust out laughing all the time & they have to do more takes…
      brilliant 😂

  • @KeiferElliott
    @KeiferElliott ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is an EXTREMELY refreshing series. Let’s all sit back and have a laugh. God knows we need it! I think Diane Morgan is hysterical! How she says those things and keeps a straight face…..I haven’t laughed this hard in ages. British tv is so much better than American in my opinion and experience.

    • @Mizmoon2020
      @Mizmoon2020 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’re just pissed we never got to watch Brush Strokes over here. We had to settle for Welcome Back Kotter.

  • @kb7clx
    @kb7clx ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The thing about Portuguese was brilliant. But I was waiting for her to ask the expert if he knew why Americans were always playing a British patriotic song at their graduations lol.

    • @madyjules
      @madyjules ปีที่แล้ว +1

      good question 😂

  • @queuecee
    @queuecee ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "We know it will be haaarrd. We expect it'll be looonng."
    -Winton Churchill

  • @greyquinn
    @greyquinn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Does anybody else want to watch Brush Strokes by now?

    • @psammiad
      @psammiad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      No. Really no.

    • @rogermunns9206
      @rogermunns9206 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, Dexys Midnight Runners..................

    • @Rojoco88
      @Rojoco88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Every episode I forget about it. Then bang - Brush strokes intro.
      Gets me every time 😂

    • @samuelchristie570
      @samuelchristie570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ross Coburn It’s the joke that just keeps giving

    • @jaysinha0
      @jaysinha0 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. 😡

  • @relativeparadox9567
    @relativeparadox9567 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have a customer that comes to my store in Montreal, she was in the Royal Ballet during The Blitz. They were instrumental(as was the music) in helping people cope with the harrowing experience. She said that whenever the sirens went off as they were preforming, everybody would shhh them and the performers just kept going and help the crowd enjoy what could be their last moment.
    I'm transferring stores this week.
    Going to miss her.

  • @mason2me
    @mason2me ปีที่แล้ว +10

    that "first world" line is absolute comedic genius.

  • @eezyclsmooth9035
    @eezyclsmooth9035 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Britons are World Re known for having "A Stiff Upper Lip". What is truly astounding is: the highly educated scholars
    and historians in this series never even flinch, scratch their heads or roll their eyes at the questions.

  • @michaelsalmon3450
    @michaelsalmon3450 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    my dream woman, never afraid to call a dead king a potato

  • @valentingjorgjiovski4896
    @valentingjorgjiovski4896 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "or the band named after him" oh that touched my heart, this is amazing

  • @guavaguy4397
    @guavaguy4397 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love it when he actually makes the guy annoyed by saying war 2.

  • @memph1ston
    @memph1ston ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Brush Strokes cutaway gets me EVERY time. I never expect it.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      running-gag gets me* There! FTFY

  • @descoiatorul
    @descoiatorul 5 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    This is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Top-notch British humor.

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is NO SUCH THING AS BRITISH HUMOUR. It is all just HUMOUR. Trashy nationalists get everywhere.

    • @patagualianmostly7437
      @patagualianmostly7437 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @JZ's BFF We have a rather unique ability to laugh at ourselves. We never take criticism seriously at any level.... we can laugh at our detracters...& laugh along with them.
      Something newer arrivals fail to grasp....and would wish to condemn us for.
      Duck 'em I say, Duck the Duckers.

    • @DataLal
      @DataLal ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@patagualianmostly7437 I wouldn't say it's totally unique. Canadians can do this too. Then again, we were a British colony and in some small ways still are. 😄

  • @owr7702
    @owr7702 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "We shall fight them bitches!" is such an inspiring quote tbh

  • @MwauraXavier
    @MwauraXavier ปีที่แล้ว +10

    -Churchil's speeches were stirring, andpowerfully erotic
    Churchil: We know it will be hard, we expect it will be long

  • @JK_Clark
    @JK_Clark ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Churchill's speeches were stirring and powerfully erotic.
    He was one of the greatest orators of all time.
    And some of the phrases he used still resonate today;
    such as 'finest hour',
    'never surrender' and of course
    We shall fight them bitches."
    Fucking nearly dying here, lmao, watered down my beer too!

  • @geoffreyngugi9941
    @geoffreyngugi9941 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    14:50
    "Churchill speeches were stirring and powerfully erotic"
    Churchill: We know it will be hard, we expect it will be long..
    😂😂😂😂

    • @lancemousel3457
      @lancemousel3457 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Watching her would make me both of these if you get the drift!

    • @margaretcaine4219
      @margaretcaine4219 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks! I'd missed that one.

    • @MeowZer_ing
      @MeowZer_ing 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I laughed so hard. Had to be my favorite comment.

  • @anyscaleclassics6880
    @anyscaleclassics6880 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Why have I literally only just found out about this? And her? Borderline comedy genius masked by sublime silliness. 👌

  • @SpeedFranklin
    @SpeedFranklin ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The commitment to the Brush Strokes gag is laudable. I almost want to see it now...almost

    • @Dragodol
      @Dragodol ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For real haha she has you all invested in each episode and then bam out of nowhere BRUSH STROKES

  • @voltss1235
    @voltss1235 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Or NHS for less long" made me laugh, it's brilliant when you think about it.

  • @evifnoskcaj
    @evifnoskcaj ปีที่แล้ว +17

    These are so hilariously done. I'm addicted.

  • @swaggerjagg22
    @swaggerjagg22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    She is obsessed with brush strokes hahhahaahhaha

  • @donaldsmith7824
    @donaldsmith7824 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a national treasure to be preserved for antiquity.

  • @Some1inFNQ
    @Some1inFNQ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    _breaking the 4th wall to a camera on the helicopter flying past her_ "Along the way I'll be shouting at helicopters!"
    Diane Morgan is a national treasure.

  • @stianmathisen4284
    @stianmathisen4284 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Smartest and most sublime funny showbizz woman i ever saw, this Philomena character voice, and manners is out of this world brilliant

  • @laurawareitsat
    @laurawareitsat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Not smiling and being permanently tired. I'm dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!