I've been accused of reading too much into it with this, but personally I do think part of the 'point' of these sketches is that the pilots really were very young at the time, about the age of the kids who speak like this now. Quite poignant really. In either case, these are fantastic sketches, well worth watching 😂
Yeah, it does highlight how immature youths of that age are today, with their self-centred and entitled attitude (not all, but the ones who speak and act like this), compared to back then when they were expected to actually go and fight and die. Again, if you think quite deeply about it, it's actually very sad how those young men and women did not have a chance to have a real youth, whereas today's 'kidults' are almost encouraged to stay like children for years beyond childhood!
these are my favourite pieces of comedy ever made. The juxtaposition of modern and old, the anachronistic language it's just perfect. The red nose special with Geoffrey Palmer is just amazing
These are some of my all time favourite sketches. It dates me but when the German Officer appeared, my instant reaction was to shout "Don't tell him your name, Pike" , from Dad's Army.😂
The "German" at the back is Jim Howick. Ive worked with him. Proper nice man and does some very funny stuff with the former Horrible Histories gang known as "The idiots." You should look him/them up.
This was so funny and it's so great you get the British slang and references. Armstrong and Miller are both really famous and very successful in their own solo careers.
The Armstrong and Miller Pilots sketches are hilarious! Ben Miller and Rob Brydon looking alike is a running joke. They once appeared on Qi together and there was a bit of hilarity that they couldn't be in the same place at the same time because they were really one person! Good spot there!
I’ve always wanted a crossover film with all the britcom war characters in it, like from blackadder, the colonel from Flying Circus, the mitchell and webb duo and these two etc I can imagine exactly how they would all interact 😭 all we need is a time machine
The language is funny but it's also a comment on the self-entitlement and ignorance of many in the recent generations, contrasted against the youth of those times.
Yeah, I read an interview with Alexander Armstrong where he said that some of this came from anger. They read how young some of the WW2 pilots were and considered how today's young people would handle the same situation.
I'm glad you get this- the juxtaposition of youth street talk with 1940's pilots is hilarious- even funnier was hearing a "street" WInston Churchill on the "wireless"!
Thank you for reacting to Armstrong and Miller. I would love if you could react to full episodes of Armstrong and Miller. It is one of my favourite comedy shows.
I remember an episode of Qi, when they were both on, and it was commented on by Stephen Fry how similar they looked - he said they had horse faces I think 😂
@@jody1skinobe314 I was about to say the same until I saw your comment. Although I think it was Rob who made the horse-face comment. They also referenced Anton Du Beke as being a similar looking person.
First Darkplace, now Armstrong and Miller. Every time i think of a show @kingboomer would enjoy a video comes out a few days later of that very show. I really hope the Red Dwarf reactions make it to UA-cam.
At the risk of being called a chauvinist, I honestly believe that only British humour could come up with this sort of off-the-wall series of sketches. We take ridiculous juxtapositions to a different level.
If you've discovered Armstrong & Miller, you have to review their Brabbins & Fyffe sketches which, IMHO, are absolutely bloody hilarious! They were lampooning a 1950s/60s singing duo called Flanders & Swann, but with filthy and highly inappropriate subjects. I nearly p***sed myself the first time I heard lyrics such as 'Have you ever tried to take a sh*t on a train', 'I like women over thirty', 'Ro-Ro-Rohypnol' and more, all sung in cut-glass received Home Counties English accents to a piano accompaniment. Plus, they're always cut off by the broadcaster when they go too far. Brilliant!
Ben Miller was in a comedy series called The Worst Week of my Life it's probably the funniest series I have ever seen on British TV but clips are rare on UA-cam, his character is like a walking disaster area everything goes wrong for him and he lies to cover up his incompetence which just ends up putting him in a deeper hole each time it was great.
These are some of my all-time favorite comedy skits. You even showed a couple I hadn't seen before. Bear in mind that RAF pilots actually DID have their own jargon, and it was practically impossible for civilians to understand what they were saying. (Don't think it sounded like this, though.) Armstrong and Miller were brilliant, as were their contemporaries, Mitchell and Webb. Check out M&W's Are We the Baddies?
Brilliant!! 😂 My favourite character from this show was the TV historian who would always end up accidentally destroying the precious artefacts he was showing 😂😂
Yes, Rob Brydon has been said to look like Ben Miller. They were both on a Stephen Fry hosted QI episode together because people had been going on about them looking like each other.
I don't know why people see it, I don't think so. Totally different eyes, and Miller's forehead is much rounder. Maybe people focus on different stuff.
Would love to see a series of this on your Patreon Brian, as a Brit I've never seen this show before, so I'd like to watch along with you if you do it. Great reaction 👍
Love Armstrong and Millier, You know Armstrong is the host of the quiz show "Pointless" one of the few shows I watch on BBC nowadays, Best show by far with question having the weakest answers winning,
Hurrah! So glad you've found them. Search for their double-ups for Comic Relief 2009 with Mitchell and Webb joining them as pilots and 3 or 4 other sketches with all four of them together. Hilarious! And for Armstrong and Miller alone, History of Predictive Text Swearing is one of my fave sketches of theirs! Enjoy
They did a lot of stuff that I enjoyed such as Sacrifice the Weatherman, Old School Vampires and Regency Ball. I also particularly like the Brabbins and Fyffe songs, which always make me laugh, as does How Many Hats?, but both are satirising very British things, so I'm not sure if they would travel!
Not only that but with their accents, and education, with one of them going to a private fee-paying school, Winchester College, they're very obviously upper-class, and yet they're using modern-day, working-class Multicultural London English slang.
Rob Brydon & Ben Miller DO have a passing resemblance, in fact they both appeared on Qi a few years ago and somebody pointed it out, so they both sat there and did a 'Face off' which was rather amusing.
I’ve got one of those ekco A22 Vintage Radios, I think they look really cool. I could be a pedantic nerd and say (with an adenoidal voice) that model came out in 1945, after the War. But I won’t 😃
If you enjoyed Armstrong and Miller, I can hugely recommend their Olden Days Musician sketch, where it appears to be in a Victorian era but Alexander Armstrong on piano changes the mood and plays somewhat more risque songs. It's more hilarious if you know the songs concerned (worth listening to those first beforehand for context) but it's just so well done and quintessentially English.
There was an episode of QI where Rob Brydon and Ben Miller were on the same show and were seated together. They played into the looking similar thing on that too.
Armstrong & Miller are good , these are similar in a way to the Harry Enfield idea of using old films and contrasting them with today .Many of the pilots in WW2 were very young . Anyway the sketches are cleverly done and funny , look out for Mitchell & Webb guesting in the Comic relief special .
Brilliant. Do the Armstrong & Miller sketches with the cave men. "MAMMUFF!" Also, check out the Mitchell & Webb Bond Villain sketches - they're a hoot too. Cheers
Can I suggest you try watching "The Thin Blue Line", a 90s British sit-com with Rowan Atkinson set in a small town police station or "The Vicar of Dibley", again a 90s British comedy starring Dawn French as a country vicar. Both are absolutely hilarious and brilliantly showcase wonderful characters and storylines. Think Father Ted with English accents and you won't be far wrong!!
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This sketch is extremely Brit-centric, and I applaud you for getting it 😊
And so quickly too. The weirdness of the posh British accent and youth slang ❤
Isn’t it though?
@@SvenTviking Isn’t it though?
@@infidelcastro5129 Standard
It’s up there with one of the best British Sketch ideas ever.
And he's all like "Rattata-tattata-tat and I'm like...talk to the gun 'coz the cockpit ain't listening!“ 😂
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@@guyfrape687 isn't it tho.
Do you know what l mean.
So happy you reacted to this they are one of my favourites! You should check out more of the Armstrong and Miller show!!!
I think Boomer would love the Brabbins and Fyffe songs
I've been accused of reading too much into it with this, but personally I do think part of the 'point' of these sketches is that the pilots really were very young at the time, about the age of the kids who speak like this now. Quite poignant really.
In either case, these are fantastic sketches, well worth watching 😂
Yeah, it does highlight how immature youths of that age are today, with their self-centred and entitled attitude (not all, but the ones who speak and act like this), compared to back then when they were expected to actually go and fight and die. Again, if you think quite deeply about it, it's actually very sad how those young men and women did not have a chance to have a real youth, whereas today's 'kidults' are almost encouraged to stay like children for years beyond childhood!
Some boys lied about their age, so they were probably in their early teens.
Geoffrey Wellum was just 18 when he was a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain.
@@coldwhite4240 You worthless fool.
No, you aren't overthinking, just thinking and you're quite right. @coldwhite4240
I like to talk to my grown up kids like this. Proper amuses me and annoys them.
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@@howardchambers9679Innit tho' ?
these are my favourite pieces of comedy ever made. The juxtaposition of modern and old, the anachronistic language it's just perfect. The red nose special with Geoffrey Palmer is just amazing
The Armstrong and Miller dentist sketches are an absolute must.
Their skit show is so underrated. It’s worth Checking out their other work
These are some of my all time favourite sketches. It dates me but when the German Officer appeared, my instant reaction was to shout "Don't tell him your name, Pike" , from Dad's Army.😂
Are you sure ur not a brit? hahaha, uncommon to see an American gettin it straight away. I am proud of you lol
The "German" at the back is Jim Howick. Ive worked with him. Proper nice man and does some very funny stuff with the former Horrible Histories gang known as "The idiots." You should look him/them up.
He was great in Ghosts
This was so funny and it's so great you get the British slang and references. Armstrong and Miller are both really famous and very successful in their own solo careers.
The Armstrong and Miller Pilots sketches are hilarious!
Ben Miller and Rob Brydon looking alike is a running joke. They once appeared on Qi together and there was a bit of hilarity that they couldn't be in the same place at the same time because they were really one person! Good spot there!
On the topic of world war 2, you may like Mitchell and Webb, "are we the baddies" sketch.
And there’s also one where Mitchell and Webb are in the sketch which is great too.
We are the baddies is great though 😂😂
I’ve always wanted a crossover film with all the britcom war characters in it, like from blackadder, the colonel from Flying Circus, the mitchell and webb duo and these two etc I can imagine exactly how they would all interact 😭 all we need is a time machine
Yes I think you'll love it
The language is funny but it's also a comment on the self-entitlement and ignorance of many in the recent generations, contrasted against the youth of those times.
Yeah, I read an interview with Alexander Armstrong where he said that some of this came from anger. They read how young some of the WW2 pilots were and considered how today's young people would handle the same situation.
I'm glad you get this- the juxtaposition of youth street talk with 1940's pilots is hilarious- even funnier was hearing a "street" WInston Churchill on the "wireless"!
I've seen these before, but a couple of lines made me lol again. Great stuff ;)
Thank you for reacting to Armstrong and Miller. I would love if you could react to full episodes of Armstrong and Miller. It is one of my favourite comedy shows.
Rob Brydon and Ben Miller are often mistaken for one another.
I remember an episode of Qi, when they were both on, and it was commented on by Stephen Fry how similar they looked - he said they had horse faces I think 😂
@@jody1skinobe314 I was about to say the same until I saw your comment. Although I think it was Rob who made the horse-face comment. They also referenced Anton Du Beke as being a similar looking person.
They actually kissed and one said "Now I know what it's like to be my wife".
@@DEEJAYWAL 😂😂
That was well funny innit 😂😂
First Darkplace, now Armstrong and Miller. Every time i think of a show @kingboomer would enjoy a video comes out a few days later of that very show. I really hope the Red Dwarf reactions make it to UA-cam.
Armstrong and Miller: "Olden days musician sings" is on a similar theme. Hilarious too.
Armstrong & Miller's Crazy Paving sketch has me in stitches!
" She's well up for it...slapper." I died😂😂😂😂
The Armstrong and Miller Train Song - a parody of Flanders and Swan: Brabbins and Fyffe. "Have you ever had to take a shit on a train ?"
As with all Brabbins and Fyffe it starts in a very genteel fashion and the quickly descends into crudity! I always laugh at the Mrs. Palmer song! 🙂
Ben Miller a Nantwich lad👍 My hometown
It's great you react to new material. Most reaction toob channels just do the same shit as the last one! Kudos to you ya feckin muppet 😊
I LOVE the RAF pilots sketches. There was one about a break up letter that was hilarious.
Honestly Armstrong and Miller probably my favourite British sketch show
We think the pilots were posh because of the actors that played them in films :-D They were young and quite a lot were Polish.
At the risk of being called a chauvinist, I honestly believe that only British humour could come up with this sort of off-the-wall series of sketches. We take ridiculous juxtapositions to a different level.
Armstrong and Miller are great, I heard someone call their show the Thinking Man's Comedy. Sums it up perfectly.
If you've discovered Armstrong & Miller, you have to review their Brabbins & Fyffe sketches which, IMHO, are absolutely bloody hilarious! They were lampooning a 1950s/60s singing duo called Flanders & Swann, but with filthy and highly inappropriate subjects. I nearly p***sed myself the first time I heard lyrics such as 'Have you ever tried to take a sh*t on a train', 'I like women over thirty', 'Ro-Ro-Rohypnol' and more, all sung in cut-glass received Home Counties English accents to a piano accompaniment. Plus, they're always cut off by the broadcaster when they go too far. Brilliant!
This reminded me to mention you should check out "Worst Week of my Life". Comedy gold.
This is one of the greatest comedy ideas of all time!
Ben Miller was in a comedy series called The Worst Week of my Life it's probably the funniest series I have ever seen on British TV but clips are rare on UA-cam, his character is like a walking disaster area everything goes wrong for him and he lies to cover up his incompetence which just ends up putting him in a deeper hole each time it was great.
I've got nearly a full set of Armstrong and Miller Dvds, they're just as good as the Mitchell and Webb series, just as hilarious
The thing was, there was a lot of colloquial slang used in the RAF at the time,"A Wizard Prang" was a crash landing.
wasn't it though? like
Chocks away was another one.
These are some of my all-time favorite comedy skits. You even showed a couple I hadn't seen before. Bear in mind that RAF pilots actually DID have their own jargon, and it was practically impossible for civilians to understand what they were saying. (Don't think it sounded like this, though.) Armstrong and Miller were brilliant, as were their contemporaries, Mitchell and Webb. Check out M&W's Are We the Baddies?
Dude, you absolutely have to check out the Armstrong & Miller 'Spring Cotillion' compilation 😂
Mate I love that you’re peeling the onion of British comedy
I loved the Armstrong and Miller show, please react to more of their sketches, I love the football pundits fallout.
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Brilliant!! 😂 My favourite character from this show was the TV historian who would always end up accidentally destroying the precious artefacts he was showing 😂😂
Yes, Rob Brydon has been said to look like Ben Miller. They were both on a Stephen Fry hosted QI episode together because people had been going on about them looking like each other.
I don't know why people see it, I don't think so. Totally different eyes, and Miller's forehead is much rounder. Maybe people focus on different stuff.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 There must be something for so many people to think it, but I agree they look very different.
There's another one of these they did with Mitchell and Webb for comic relief. No doubt you'll enjoy that one too
Would love to see a series of this on your Patreon Brian, as a Brit I've never seen this show before, so I'd like to watch along with you if you do it. Great reaction 👍
This is brilliant. We brits also do embarrassingly awkward too. The "Dirty Uncle Bertie' sketch by our Pete and Dud proves this statement.
You are absolutely correct KB. Miller and Brydon where both on a panel show because they look alike (Q I) btw
Utterly brilliant....
Love Armstrong and Millier, You know Armstrong is the host of the quiz show "Pointless" one of the few shows I watch on BBC nowadays, Best show by far with question having the weakest answers winning,
Hurrah! So glad you've found them. Search for their double-ups for Comic Relief 2009 with Mitchell and Webb joining them as pilots and 3 or 4 other sketches with all four of them together. Hilarious! And for Armstrong and Miller alone, History of Predictive Text Swearing is one of my fave sketches of theirs! Enjoy
Armstrong & Miller Olden days singer singing modern songs in 18th century period drama style at the piano forte.
They did a lot of stuff that I enjoyed such as Sacrifice the Weatherman, Old School Vampires and Regency Ball. I also particularly like the Brabbins and Fyffe songs, which always make me laugh, as does How Many Hats?, but both are satirising very British things, so I'm not sure if they would travel!
Ben Miller looks just like Rob Brydon, but if you squint your eyes and got eye problems and shit.
Isn’t it 😊
Yes... been waiting for this reaction 😂😂 Also Armstrong and Miller show s1 is funny as..
Not only that but with their accents, and education, with one of them going to a private fee-paying school, Winchester College, they're very obviously upper-class, and yet they're using modern-day, working-class Multicultural London English slang.
Loved this show. Shame they called it quits so soon.
Absolutely brilliant 😂
Armstrong and Miller “The Origins of….. is equally brilliant.
It not look like Mammoth. But it FEEL like mammoth!
I like the Dentist and the Clumsy Art Historian and the Georgian dance sketches.
My favourite sketch was Armstrong getting the results of his family tree on Who Do You Think You Are. Fab 😂
I used to like the ones with the antiques guy who used to go on about how priceless a piece was, and then something would happen to it.
William the Conqueror is Alexander Armstrongs 27 x great grandfather
Vastly underrated
Armstrong and Miller are worth checking out.
Rob Brydon & Ben Miller DO have a passing resemblance, in fact they both appeared on Qi a few years ago and somebody pointed it out, so they both sat there and did a 'Face off' which was rather amusing.
Never seen this b4..but brilliant 😂😂🤣
Armstrong and Miller Math teacher sketch still cracks me up
Armstrong and Miller show if you can watch a full episode you'll be laughing constantly
Armstrong and Miller Mr Wilkinson clubbing sketches are my favourite.
There is a "Armstrong, Miller, Mitchell & Webb as WW2 Pilots | Comic Relief" sketch that is amazing
Spring cotillion. HILARIOUS. One for the Queen too!
I’ve got one of those ekco A22 Vintage Radios, I think they look really cool. I could be a pedantic nerd and say (with an adenoidal voice) that model came out in 1945, after the War. But I won’t 😃
i love that u get this dude!!!!
About time, quality 😂
So clever, so funny.
If you enjoyed Armstrong and Miller, I can hugely recommend their Olden Days Musician sketch, where it appears to be in a Victorian era but Alexander Armstrong on piano changes the mood and plays somewhat more risque songs. It's more hilarious if you know the songs concerned (worth listening to those first beforehand for context) but it's just so well done and quintessentially English.
There was an episode of QI where Rob Brydon and Ben Miller were on the same show and were seated together. They played into the looking similar thing on that too.
Armstrong & Miller are good , these are similar in a way to the Harry Enfield idea of using old films and contrasting them with today .Many of the pilots in WW2 were very young . Anyway the sketches are cleverly done and funny , look out for Mitchell & Webb guesting in the Comic relief special .
yeah that's Ben Miller and he often gets confused for Rob Brydon lol
Brilliant. Haven't seen that before 😂😂😂
Check out Armstrong & Miller doing the Origins Of…….. set in the Stone Age 😂 my favourites are origins of the interview or the dinner party.
LMAO...Now you see why the 'British Roadmen' are so funny.....
The one in the prison of war camp is an absolute classic. I hope you get to see it
Check out the Brabbins & Fyfe routines they do as well
You must watch the Comic Releif one from 2009 they did. You’ll love it
King Booms please watch a show called Look Around You
Brilliant.
Do the Armstrong & Miller sketches with the cave men. "MAMMUFF!"
Also, check out the Mitchell & Webb Bond Villain sketches - they're a hoot too.
Cheers
you shouild check out the Brabbins and Fife scetches that armstong and miller did
I hope you've got the "Olden Days Musician" sketch where he plays a certain song and hope you know the song.. No spoilers.
Hilarious!
I thought you'd already done these guys.
@@raycope2086 hehehe “Done them…” 😂
....and their satnav shorts. I think that there is a compilation somewhere on UA-cam!
Knew you'd like them.
Can I suggest you try watching "The Thin Blue Line", a 90s British sit-com with Rowan Atkinson set in a small town police station or "The Vicar of Dibley", again a 90s British comedy starring Dawn French as a country vicar. Both are absolutely hilarious and brilliantly showcase wonderful characters and storylines. Think Father Ted with English accents and you won't be far wrong!!
Ben Miller and Rob Brydon do look alike. You're not wrong as they have both actually mentioned it themselves😂
You need to do their Brabbin’s and Fyffe songs.
I LOVE that you get it! 😁
Ben Miller who you mistakenly thought was Rob Brydon you seen him in Johnny English movie King Boomer! 😂
He’s often mistaken for Rob Brydon. (Ben Miller)