“If Shelly’s one of the greatest poets in English literature, how come nobody gives a shit about him today.” “Thats a complicated question.” That shit sent me.
As a historian I really love this series - it's funny, it's well put together, the questions are so basic and dumb that they actually can help give a very rough sketch of british history for those who are unaware of it. - Which likely is why the experts agreed to join into the series. That and because academics can't shut up about topics that interest us.
@@Chris-o9i6j It means you have a university degree in most cases - it's not being pompous, it's being a nerd who can't shut up about their favorite topic.
@@RuerlKhan then why not just call yourselves nerds? lol also, louis ck has this great bit about asholes. basically it goes like this: “you ever have a friend that’s an ashole and you tell them and then they say, ‘im not ashole’. but you dont get to decide if youre an ashole. that’s for everyone else to decide” now replace ashole with pompous 😂
@@Chris-o9i6j Well, because academic is an actual thing, not just "nerd" - it's not pompous anymore than it's "pompous" to call yourself an electrician or a plumber. (Both things that require a great deal of know-how, I should know as my academic degree just landed me with unemployment, so now I am in training to become an electrician). Academic is just a catch-all phrase for a teacher or scholar at an university - so to be one you have to be either graduated from it, studying at it or teaching at it. Feel free to think it pompous however, that's entirely on you and won't really influence me one way or another. (Merry christmas if you celebrate that btw).
Historians basically have low standards for who they're willing to talk to. They're not very snobbish. Actually not kidding, you have to be very patient if you're going to teach anyone anything. It's a good quality.
@@jimfiggerty833 Roman slaves, among many others up until the transatlantic slave trade rose to prominence. The Emperor Pertinax was one such slave. The emperor Septimius Severus was an African and the last Roman Emperor to try his hand at conquering the Pics. Chattel slavery in perpetuity has never before existed in human history. To suggest there is some kind of comparison between the two is reductive at best and just plain ignorant at worst. I hope it's the prior Jim!
I seem to remember reading that they're told it's comedy, but they have no idea what they'll be asked. Honestly, though, I'm not sure how they would be able to find enough experts who're completely unfamiliar with Philomena Cunk, or especially being unfamiliar with Diane Morgan generally.
@@joshuaadams330 From Canada. I highly concurr. It's such an interesting dichotomy...from a culture that lionized such concepts as "keep calm and carry on" came things like Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks". Sometimes I think maybe the absurdity and humor was a necessary "release valve" for all the other prudishness.
It's actually a brilliant summary of natural selection. One of the main reasons why people fail to understand evolution is that they overthink it as some kind of transformational driving force. In fact it really is just about some individuals leaving a lot of offspring and some leaving few or none.
"Workers did long, feckless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in squalid and threatening environment, conditions unthinkable to anyone today who isn't a junior doctor" - thanks Philomena for tribute to us :)
@@Jagar_Tharn If I'd had a second to consider anything other than what was immediately before me, I might have. The best thing about residency is that it eventually ends!
@@zatzu The myths are wild lol. Athena's birth story involves Zeus transforming his first wife Metis into a fly, eating her, but she survives, and happened to already be pregnant with Athena. Metis gives birth to Athena while still inside Zeus' head, where Athena grows to her full form with her spear and shield. She bangs so furiously on Zeus' skull that the ensuing headache prompts him to ask Haphaestus to cut his head open to let whatever is making the pain out. POOF! Athena emerges, a full adult, and Zeus just...gets better. WILD lol
@@2HN. Everything is deadly whether or not it moves. Camping? Gum trees shed limbs to crush people, and leaves might cause excruciating pain when used as toilet paper. Walk in the woods? Koalas might drop down and maim someone, and the ticks could cause allergies to beef and pork for the rest of your life. Since chicken was still a delicacy, going vegan in 1850 is the worst experience. Swimming? Box jellyfish are lethal. Staying home? Most spiders are venomous, and the puddles outside have brain-eating parasites living in them. Most land is either arid or jungle, which are the 2 worst kinds of living conditions humans could settle in the 19th century.
When Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Australia, an Australian customs officer jokingly asked Philip if he had a criminal record. "I didn't realize that was still a requirement," Philip replied.
Her interview subjects were absolute stars in this. Prof. Greg Dart (the first interview about the romantics) delivered the greatest straight man performance I've ever seen.
"Workers did long thankless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in a squalid and threatening environment -- conditions unthinkable today to anyone who isn't a junior doctor." As a physician in the US, this hit way too close to home :D
Junior doctor (resident) from the Philippines here. 30+ hr shifts, 36C weather with broken AC, and tuberculosis everywhere. All for 16,000 pesos ($275) a month after taxes. Very relatable 😂
She is speaking the truth- no joking at all. I am a retired RN and junior drs are treated terribly . Even when really tired they perform well and are not idiots.
"A face like Alfred Hitchcock watching a dove drown." What an incredibly random line! The writers come up with such original takes and jumbled readings, and her delivery is incomparable.
"Why would you want to turn a pig into a cow? Pigs are quite good at being pigs, and cows are relatively good at being cows." I love the experts in this series
He says that, but if no other species other than cows have tried being cows, what's his frame of reference for cows being relatively good at being cows? Cows might be shit at being cows compared to pigs.
He does not seem to understand evolution. The environmental niche being available would create a cow if cows did not exist. You would have some sheep or pigs who were more cowlike over time and eventually would take over the whole niche, become larger, produce more milk, and so on.
"So why did he come up with a theory than turns monkeys into men? Aren't monkeys quite good as monkeys and men just quite good as men? " That should have been her next question.
" These days people pay thousands of pounds to visit the sun kissed islands of the Caribbean. In the seventeen hundreds you could go there for free. If you were black ...and didn't want to go there " XD
I love that she crossed all the voting boxes, ticked one then they hold the camera angle on her and a sign saying "put a cross in only one box. It's the small details that show the writers care.
Plenty of experts give funny absurd answers to Ms. Cunk's funny absurd questions. That particular expert managed gave an absurd answer right out of the gate. Unforced error imo
9:16 I really appreciate whoever had the idea to use "From the new World", a piece very explicitly not about Britain, as background music for this Britain Mockumentary.
"I'll be starting sentences in one location - and finishing them in another." 😅 Classic trope. They must've watched a lot of real historical docos to nail all these clichés and it's brilliant.
I love how she dons period costumes more or less unsmilingly as if it's an unnecessary burden. Parodying some other presenter who can't be stopped from so doing and smirking.
@@FitzFarseer96 Originally they weren't. But I think the character has been around for so long that they are wise to it now. Although I suppose some of them might still be caught off guard.
@@FitzFarseer96 they are (and were) , they got instructions to answer all questions as genuine as possible, they didn't know exactly what she was going to ask, just that it was a comedy program
This is THE BEST historical programme about Great Britain I've seen in the past 5 years. Really. Although it's comedy it still has a better sense of history than most.
'Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention - a machine that would auto-correct his name to Cabbage every single time' - brilliant, classic line!
It is, no doubt about it. Unfortunately it is in danger of becoming extinct. Less and less people possess it, and there is a good argument that this nation is becoming progressively a humourless one. All the clues are thete....that is why, when one finds a gem like this one, it is to be cherished.....
If there were some unified entity under the label "British humor," then there wdn't be such divergence between, say, "The Bennie Hill Show" and "Monty Python's Flying Circus," or among the many comics whose stand-up you can watch on "Live at the Apollo," or among the many comics whose quips you can catch on hundreds of "Mock the Week -- Scenes We'd Like to See" clips on YT. Yes, some British humor is sublime -- as is some American humor, and some Australian humor, etc. -- and some is crummy. Please avoid stereotypes -- they never do any good (even the so-called positive ones), and they usually cause a lot of harm. In addition, thinking in stereotypes is a sure way to become intellectually flabby, and the last thing this world needs, given the existential crises we face, is for anyone to let his/her brain turn to mush.
It wasn't . They just picked it up , it could've been anything . It was previously languishing in obscurity , forgotten by everyone , barr a few , now adult , women who are prob married to / divorced from , the wrong men . It was sh*t , just watch AN episode .
Is the joke that BBC documentaries make contrived segues to crap they still have the rights to in order to pad out time/content? I don't know, I don't watch that many actual BBC docs.
@@Plethorality yeah , me too , much like Hale and Pace had been ; until , some genius brought them to mind recently ~ I was quite annoyed , if ever anything designed to entertain didn't . Hope I haven't ruined your day .
"The idea that man and ape were close relatives was considered both hilarious and shocking; a bit like Graham Norton, but with more profound consequences for humankind".
12:27 - "Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention: A machine that would auto-correct his name to 'cabbage'. Every. Single. Time."
"Babage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention: a machine that would autocorrect his name to 'Cabbage'... ever single time." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gotta say, the people Philomena interviews are taking it so stoically that it makes me believe in their expertise more than any "normal" conversation would😂
@@LTPottenger right wingers when they rant about the fall of the white race on a video about the minions or a coconut or some other completely unrelated shit
- Talk me through the events that led up to the moment where Charles Darwin invented the monkey. - Darwin didn't... invent the monkey, noone invented a monkey. - Okay, well: talk me through the events that led up to the moment where Charles Darwin didn't invent the monkey.
Ha ha ha philomena! Love you. You lighten my heavy step. Thank god for artists and especially the funny ones. And thanks for the straight faced historians. We would be nothing without you, either. The purest of chuckles.
Best episode so far. I giggled the whole time, which is unheard of for me... :-) Now I know who's Ron! :-) Diane Morgan is a genius! I love her humor passionately.
My first time being entertained by Philomena: what a treat! (Must have been living under a rock.) Says it all with a straight face. Like to see her break sometime.
Referring to history as a 'sort of rear view mirror into time' might be something written to be comical but it's actually very philosophical and a fairly intelligent term. I love it, if Dianne is writing this stuff she's an absolute genius.
There's a remote tribe that imagines the future as behind them... They look forward for the past, because they can see what happened. The future is considered to be behind them because they don't know what's there.
‘Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.’
This almost killed me
hahahahahhaahaha
Why don't you quote the rest of the video? That way we can just read your post and save us the watch??
@@shelbynamels973
Time constraints.
I wheezed. This is a rare gem in the comment section
"The death of queen Victoria reduced the number of women in British politics by 100%" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
💀💀💀
Great writer.
It is true
“If Shelly’s one of the greatest poets in English literature, how come nobody gives a shit about him today.”
“Thats a complicated question.”
That shit sent me.
Sooo good. 😂
"Darwin eventually evolved himself... into a corpse."
Best way to view death.
best line LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
it's devolving
@JZ's BFF well if you think about it, that was an evolution too
I bet he must have written about that in the "Oranges of Peaches"
@@jzsbff4801 isn't every dead being immortal?
This woman is a comedic genius as are all the writers. I haven’t laughed this hard since the pandemic started. Feels good, man.
Cheers... I was wondering are these Brits for real or what !???? What does CUNK Mean ? I'm Australian we don't get any comedy here anymore 😳
One could die laughing!
Why did you laugh when the pandemic started?
@@QIKUGAMES-QIKU have you never watched A current affair before? That’s hilarious
it was like watching an alien figure out how the world worked, funny as hell
As a historian I really love this series - it's funny, it's well put together, the questions are so basic and dumb that they actually can help give a very rough sketch of british history for those who are unaware of it. - Which likely is why the experts agreed to join into the series. That and because academics can't shut up about topics that interest us.
totally random, but why do you all call yourselves academics? seems a bit pompous to me 😂
all it really means is that you read right? lol
@@Chris-o9i6j It means you have a university degree in most cases - it's not being pompous, it's being a nerd who can't shut up about their favorite topic.
@@RuerlKhan then why not just call yourselves nerds? lol
also, louis ck has this great bit about asholes. basically it goes like this:
“you ever have a friend that’s an ashole and you tell them and then they say, ‘im not ashole’. but you dont get to decide if youre an ashole. that’s for everyone else to decide”
now replace ashole with pompous 😂
@@Chris-o9i6j Well, because academic is an actual thing, not just "nerd" - it's not pompous anymore than it's "pompous" to call yourself an electrician or a plumber. (Both things that require a great deal of know-how, I should know as my academic degree just landed me with unemployment, so now I am in training to become an electrician).
Academic is just a catch-all phrase for a teacher or scholar at an university - so to be one you have to be either graduated from it, studying at it or teaching at it.
Feel free to think it pompous however, that's entirely on you and won't really influence me one way or another.
(Merry christmas if you celebrate that btw).
Historians basically have low standards for who they're willing to talk to. They're not very snobbish.
Actually not kidding, you have to be very patient if you're going to teach anyone anything. It's a good quality.
"It was immediately obvious to anyone that slavery was wrong, that's why it was only allowed to continue for hundreds of years."
People with a life expectancy of 25 might welcome slavery as a method of survival.
1000s
More than half of the population of Rome were slaves at any one time.
@@jimfiggerty833 Yes, but being a Roman slave was quite different from being an industrial slave. Both conditions were horrible though.
@@jimfiggerty833 Roman slaves, among many others up until the transatlantic slave trade rose to prominence. The Emperor Pertinax was one such slave. The emperor Septimius Severus
was an African and the last Roman Emperor to try his hand at conquering the Pics. Chattel slavery in perpetuity has never before existed in human history. To suggest there is some kind of comparison between the two is reductive at best and just plain ignorant at worst. I hope it's the prior Jim!
“Despite the spoiler in its title, Oliver’s Twist doesn’t have a twist at the end - which come to think of it, is a brilliant twist in itself” amazing
I love how proud she looks into the camera when she "comes to think of it".
That’s how clever Dickings was.
@@Yme7yep and Dickens was quite clever as well...
It’s the only time she smiles the entire show LOL!
I mean…..isn’t the twist in Oliver Twist is that he’s the long lost son of a nobleman and he inherits the entire family fortune?
"She was not always a sour , disapproving old lady . She was once a sour , disapproving baby"😂😂😂
I absolutely love that part, also the one about the crown and that it must have been a relief for her mother 😂
@@wioi”Their untrammeled sexual passion is evident in every photograph of them” is what gets me the hardest.
LOLOLOLOL
She was also highly narcissistic, even by royal standards.
The fact that the academic from the London university appears always just about on the verge of crying really makes this episode
@@pashadyne i thought the same.
Allthough i ask myself how they set up these interviews lmao
Yes theyre told to act along with it
@@kiobio7311 I think they are just told to answer sincerely, rather than start laughing or get angry, act like they think its real.
I seem to remember reading that they're told it's comedy, but they have no idea what they'll be asked. Honestly, though, I'm not sure how they would be able to find enough experts who're completely unfamiliar with Philomena Cunk, or especially being unfamiliar with Diane Morgan generally.
@@dorianleakey this whole time i thought they were actors too...
The Victorian era produced more Victorian writers than any other period in history 😂
Queen Elizabeth was born right in time for the Elizabethan era
The fact I read that as she said it, is so strange 😂
@@MwauraXavier lol you beat me to it
@@paulinegallagher7821 haha. This woman is just perfect.
“And he had brown hair like harry styles” HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAJAHAHA
Let's not ignore the writers of this and other episodes. Their wit and play on words and satire are to be hailed as true and great British humour.
Also all the interviewees keeping a straight face - full marks..
I'm from South Africa. British humour is the best humour quite honestly.
@@joshuaadams330 From Canada. I highly concurr. It's such an interesting dichotomy...from a culture that lionized such concepts as "keep calm and carry on" came things like Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks".
Sometimes I think maybe the absurdity and humor was a necessary "release valve" for all the other prudishness.
As an American, I love British humor but always know that I'm missing out on about half of the jokes.
"Animals who were dead are less likely to reproduce than live ones."
Quite a controversial sentence there.
It's actually a brilliant summary of natural selection. One of the main reasons why people fail to understand evolution is that they overthink it as some kind of transformational driving force. In fact it really is just about some individuals leaving a lot of offspring and some leaving few or none.
Life Happens exactly! It’s such a simple statement at face value but almost fully encapsulates the idea of natural selection😁
She's factoring in sperm banks.
A cold take
Tell that to Kent Hovind!
It's insane how seriously she speaks when everything coming out of her mouth is a joke. She's really gifted.
I'd like to think she worked for that.
I agree, it's almost like she's acting
Gifted? Really?
@@ajw9377 better than the fumbling neck smeller we have now
I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE KEEPS A STRAIGHT FACE! No way i could say things that funny and not let on i knew what i was doing, it really is a gift
"Workers did long, feckless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in squalid and threatening environment, conditions unthinkable to anyone today who isn't a junior doctor" - thanks Philomena for tribute to us :)
Most hours worked in one week during residency? Mine was 132 on neurosurgery.
@@cvn6555 good lord. you must have nearly lost your mind.
@@Jagar_Tharn If I'd had a second to consider anything other than what was immediately before me, I might have. The best thing about residency is that it eventually ends!
The way he answered "Mr. Tickle" while looking terrified is just peak comedy!
It was a thing of beauty.
@@Plethorality he himself being athing of beauty - i want more!
@@hunkhk Agreed. He’s gorgeous.
He never laughed once. Tremendous.
I take my hat off to him. I have a Masters in literature, and look up to him as highly intellectual. Ron Byron!!😅
"must be a good book if you can overlook the fact that he slept with his sister" dead
Priceless
“would that have shocked people or was everyone sleeping with his sister back then” 😂
@@anittadrink Well it's a fair question. Look at greek myth.
Sleep with your sister? Just a normal greek day.
@@zatzu The myths are wild lol. Athena's birth story involves Zeus transforming his first wife Metis into a fly, eating her, but she survives, and happened to already be pregnant with Athena. Metis gives birth to Athena while still inside Zeus' head, where Athena grows to her full form with her spear and shield. She bangs so furiously on Zeus' skull that the ensuing headache prompts him to ask Haphaestus to cut his head open to let whatever is making the pain out.
POOF! Athena emerges, a full adult, and Zeus just...gets better.
WILD lol
“And unlike horses, trains have a big smiley face on the front and the voice of Ringo Starr.” 😂😂😂
Watched her on BBC last night, best quote of that ep was 'He wanted Parliament to be dissolved but nobody could find a big enough glass of water.'
shouldnt you be in the hague war crimes tribunal? LOL
(line from stewart less, comdedeien)
😂😂😂😂
Why?
"With its year-round sunshine and abundant food, Australia was seen the perfect place to send its murderers." This stuff is absolutely hilarious.
Just imagine, u commit crime and instead of punishment, get a permanent vacation abroad.
@@2HN. Everything is deadly whether or not it moves. Camping? Gum trees shed limbs to crush people, and leaves might cause excruciating pain when used as toilet paper. Walk in the woods? Koalas might drop down and maim someone, and the ticks could cause allergies to beef and pork for the rest of your life. Since chicken was still a delicacy, going vegan in 1850 is the worst experience. Swimming? Box jellyfish are lethal. Staying home? Most spiders are venomous, and the puddles outside have brain-eating parasites living in them. Most land is either arid or jungle, which are the 2 worst kinds of living conditions humans could settle in the 19th century.
@@tuathaigh-aa bruh where tf you living, Alice Springs?
When Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Australia, an Australian customs officer jokingly asked Philip if he had a criminal record.
"I didn't realize that was still a requirement," Philip replied.
@@papercamera2989 Either that, or a town like Alice.
Thank you from Australia for hooking everyone up with Cunk. She’s gold!
Her interview subjects were absolute stars in this. Prof. Greg Dart (the first interview about the romantics) delivered the greatest straight man performance I've ever seen.
I think he was just being himself.
@@matthewbartsh9167 no
@@matthewbartsh9167 I swear, when she's talking about translating Austen's works into "proper English" he looks like he almost cracks up.
@@LolaOpheliac Yes!
@@valnerothgaming Yees, I love his face at 5:16 😅
It looks like he almost laughed
The most subtle joke in the intro has to be "to understand where Britain is heading, we have to look behind us"
Not exactly the most 'subtle'.
@@josephbennett4236 Oh wait now I get it.
@@emjayay i dont get it
@@michakwiatkowski1313 poor lad
@@ruqayyahqadri6618 poo on the loo
Queen Victoria is often portrayed as old and grumpy. But she wasn't always a sour, disapproving old woman. She was once a sour, disapproving baby.
"Workers did long thankless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in a squalid and threatening environment -- conditions unthinkable today to anyone who isn't a junior doctor."
As a physician in the US, this hit way too close to home :D
Junior doctor (resident) from the Philippines here. 30+ hr shifts, 36C weather with broken AC, and tuberculosis everywhere. All for 16,000 pesos ($275) a month after taxes. Very relatable 😂
Unfirtunately, it is very similar, and i find it morally wrong. Patients need sane doctors, not sleep deprived idiots.
Neurosurgery junior doctor from Germany here - this is SO on point it made my stomach twist...
She is speaking the truth- no joking at all. I am a retired RN and junior drs are treated terribly . Even when really tired they perform well and are not idiots.
Also for nurses etc though
"You could go there for free...if you were Black and didn't want to go there "
That took me out 😂😬
Absolutely perfect comment on slavery. 7:11
"A face like Alfred Hitchcock watching a dove drown." What an incredibly random line!
The writers come up with such original takes and jumbled readings, and her delivery is incomparable.
I though it was a dog drowning
@@damonedwards1544 so did I...😊
I think she says dog
@@kmc7062 Sounds more like dock but I think you're right, dog fits better.
19:21 "so why was that considered entertaining" had me on my knees this woman is a miracle
I loved her ‘acid house’ joke.
lmfao dawg i was wheezing - Charles "Dickings" also caught me off guard 🤣
"Why would you want to turn a pig into a cow? Pigs are quite good at being pigs, and cows are relatively good at being cows." I love the experts in this series
He says that, but if no other species other than cows have tried being cows, what's his frame of reference for cows being relatively good at being cows? Cows might be shit at being cows compared to pigs.
Christopher Prentice I love Chris Peckham
Edward Ashford I think a cow is better at being a cow than a pig is at being a pig .that said a pig can be a cow better than a cow can be a pig .
He does not seem to understand evolution. The environmental niche being available would create a cow if cows did not exist. You would have some sheep or pigs who were more cowlike over time and eventually would take over the whole niche, become larger, produce more milk, and so on.
"So why did he come up with a theory than turns monkeys into men? Aren't monkeys quite good as monkeys and men just quite good as men? " That should have been her next question.
This is comedy gold, the presenter, the writers. Everyone's just nailing it.
" These days people pay thousands of pounds to visit the sun kissed islands of the Caribbean. In the seventeen hundreds you could go there for free. If you were black ...and didn't want to go there "
XD
I literally yelped out loud
That one had got me. 🤣
😂😂😂
I love that she crossed all the voting boxes, ticked one then they hold the camera angle on her and a sign saying "put a cross in only one box.
It's the small details that show the writers care.
This had me my crying, she looks so pleased with herself when she's putting the ballot in the box and it's not going to count.
I was dying. So subtle yet hilarious
You have to hand it to all the interviewees, they were amazingly patient with Philomena.
- "He was your favorite?"
- "YEAH!".
- "The one who slept with his sister?".
„Must’ve been a pretty good book, if you can overlook that he slept with his sister“
Plenty of experts give funny absurd answers to Ms. Cunk's funny absurd questions. That particular expert managed gave an absurd answer right out of the gate. Unforced error imo
Asking stupid questions to experts... My favorite genre of comedy
9:16 I really appreciate whoever had the idea to use "From the new World", a piece very explicitly not about Britain, as background music for this Britain Mockumentary.
"I'll be starting sentences in one location - and finishing them in another." 😅 Classic trope. They must've watched a lot of real historical docos to nail all these clichés and it's brilliant.
The same thing Nolan does in many of his movies
they make the documentaries lol it's the same guys so easy
Has she done one where she is driving a car pointlessly and speaking to the cameraman?
I love how she dons period costumes more or less unsmilingly as if it's an unnecessary burden. Parodying some other presenter who can't be stopped from so doing and smirking.
"Who's your favourite Mr. Man?"
"Mr Tickle."
Props for the poise on that counter-attack, sir. She tested you and you passed.
And the BAFTA for "most uncomfortable interviewee in a musical or comedy goes to ....."
I still haven't figured out if the interviewees are in on the joke but I like to imagine they are not.
@@FitzFarseer96 Originally they weren't. But I think the character has been around for so long that they are wise to it now. Although I suppose some of them might still be caught off guard.
Reminiscent of Ali G interviewing Noam Chomsky.
@@FitzFarseer96 they are (and were) , they got instructions to answer all questions as genuine as possible, they didn't know exactly what she was going to ask, just that it was a comedy program
I shouldn't have listened to this while recovering from pneumonia. I almost coughed myself to death through laughing so much!
I hope you feel better! 😄
It would’ve been a good way to go haha
Oh dear! 😮
That’s exactly what I’m doing now.
5:04 "Austin wrote novels ... filled with words it's almost impossible to care about"
- GCSE English Literature in a nutshell
FasCinating! :)
i spat out my tea at 'by ron' this is a fucking masterpiece
But who is Ron
@@myview5840 historian: *pure confusion*
Twas bloody brilliant!
Language
@@myview5840 little brother of Fred and George
"When Britain fought two world wars but no world cups." That's brutal.
I love that 100 yards stare she has when she gets answers to her silly questions
This is THE BEST historical programme about Great Britain I've seen in the past 5 years. Really. Although it's comedy it still has a better sense of history than most.
that poor man at 4:53. he's so traumatized by the last questions, he boils his answer down to "Jane Austen was a woman who wrote novels" lmfao
"conditions unthinkable for anyone who isn't a junior doctor" savage
'Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention - a machine that would auto-correct his name to Cabbage every single time' - brilliant, classic line!
@@terryplatt8115 ....... I get as much laughter reading the comments (things people pick out) as I do watching the video
My sister is a GP: try to stay awake while you're being treated by a junior doc on rotation.
True
@@chrisneedham5803 humor and laughter is a social activity that’s why :)
Had a smile on my face from start to finish.
She’s hilarious.
Four years ago?? She's been around for this long and y'all just now shared her with the rest of the world on Netflix? 😭 She's brilliant lol
I love how angry the expert looks when she has to explain where steam comes from 😂
She was not having it that day lol.
At that moment it was coming out of her ears.
Don't forget I'm going to be using the C word a lot then pointing at the Sea.😂
Let's not ignore when one told her how much cow and pig are best being cow and pig
Absolutely love that she keeps calling Dickens "Dickings"
And he died....forever
Was it before or after the industrial revelation?
In the previous episode she refers to Middle Evil years. !
"their unbridled sexual passion for one another is evident in every photo."🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So cleverly made - intelligent humour with sharp comments.
Philomena is perfect for this.
Perfect? She is Philomenal!
She's an utter idiot, with a stupid common accent... I can only assume you're being satirical.
16:11 "It was immediately obvious to anyone that slavery was wrong, which was why it was only allowed to continue for hundreds of years" I died XD
Thought that was a very predictable joke. Just me?
@@jshepard152 you have a predictable pfp
slavery was abolished in favour of a new term, minimum wage.
😂😂😂😂
I can’t believe that I haven’t caught wind of this woman before now. Where the hell have I been anyway? She’s utterly hilarious.
“Even though, at the time, half the men in Britain were women.” Sides still hurting from the laughter.
And then the door she tries to open is locked. Effing brilliant!! 😂
I absolutely lost it when she referred to cumberbatch as alien 😂
Unfortunately, she is incorrect. Cumbledink Snaggleboof is actually a lizard man.
There’s something magical about Philomena marching up to these professionals and immediately blurting out “who are you?” lol
British humor is unbeatable.
It is, no doubt about it. Unfortunately it is in danger of becoming extinct. Less and less people possess it, and there is a good argument that this nation is becoming progressively a humourless one. All the clues are thete....that is why, when one finds a gem like this one, it is to be cherished.....
If there were some unified entity under the label "British humor," then there wdn't be such divergence between, say, "The Bennie Hill Show" and "Monty Python's Flying Circus," or among the many comics whose stand-up you can watch on "Live at the Apollo," or among the many comics whose quips you can catch on hundreds of "Mock the Week -- Scenes We'd Like to See" clips on YT. Yes, some British humor is sublime -- as is some American humor, and some Australian humor, etc. -- and some is crummy.
Please avoid stereotypes -- they never do any good (even the so-called positive ones), and they usually cause a lot of harm. In addition, thinking in stereotypes is a sure way to become intellectually flabby, and the last thing this world needs, given the existential crises we face, is for anyone to let his/her brain turn to mush.
@@dw999 Lighten up, Francis.
@@MrGiorgioud *Fewer
@@dw999 British Humor is funny.
“He came up with a theory, that said that animals who were dead, were far less likely to reproduce than those that were alive” 😂😂😂😂 LOL’ing
It’s so funny and also it’s actually not the worst summary of evolution by natural selection 😂
More intuitive than „survival of the fittest“.
Pretty accurate description of the theory tho
I think the best part is that many of her questions are truly challenging to these academics.
It cracks me up how serious the experts seem to address her questions, lol.
It’s staged as your smile.
@@Stiffd1 No shit.
@@Stiffd1 thank you captain obvious
@@Stiffd1 wooooshh
@@Stiffd1 That doesn't make it less funny. Realistic reactions to her would be 99% boring as hell, confusion, refusal to engage further, leaving.
I had no idea the 1980s sitcom Brush Strokes was such a prominent cultural phenomenon throughout every period of British history.
Im binging them and living for the Brush Strokes cameos
It wasn't . They just picked it up , it could've been anything . It was previously languishing in obscurity , forgotten by everyone , barr a few , now adult , women who are prob married to / divorced from , the wrong men .
It was sh*t , just watch AN episode .
Is the joke that BBC documentaries make contrived segues to crap they still have the rights to in order to pad out time/content? I don't know, I don't watch that many actual BBC docs.
@@adzdahlman9724 i had forgotten that i had forgotten it.
@@Plethorality yeah , me too , much like Hale and Pace had been ; until , some genius brought them to mind recently ~ I was quite annoyed , if ever anything designed to entertain didn't . Hope I haven't ruined your day .
She is a genius, I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. I’ve been binge watching all her videos since I discovered her
"The idea that man and ape were close relatives was considered both hilarious and shocking; a bit like Graham Norton, but with more profound consequences for humankind".
😂😂
The Literary expert was awesome. He just went along with the farce.
Who's your favourite Mr Man?
Mr Tickle probably.
I died.
I love that he turned the tables on her and asked how the Nantucket limerick ended.
Always get faintly disappointed when the academics clock they're in a satire and play along tbf
I almost spit out my drink when she pronounced the C in 'fascinated'. It's the details with this show.
😂 me too.
@@lizroberts1569 I also almost spit out my drink.
non native english speaker here, may you explain?
@@manuelcomparetti2143 The "C" in fascinated is pronounced like the "C" in pronounced - as an "S" consonant sound.
@@Max-DuBois yeah got that. I was wondering whether there was a pun I missed
Queen Victoria is often portrayed as old and grumpy...it's where the term Victoria Cross comes from!
Nope
@@seu6238 wow aren't you dense.
12:27 - "Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention: A machine that would auto-correct his name to 'cabbage'. Every. Single. Time."
She's hysterical! Thank you so much.
“We don’t even know if he died… he could be.. you, and thats terrifying cause you’d have no way of knowing” THIS SHIT IS JUST SO
GOLD 😹😹
"Babage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention: a machine that would autocorrect his name to 'Cabbage'... ever single time." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gotta say, the people Philomena interviews are taking it so stoically that it makes me believe in their expertise more than any "normal" conversation would😂
"Eventually Darwin evolved... into a corpse."
faskinated... :D
Just like western civilization has done
@@LTPottenger you might have missed the point, but look at the Oranges of Peaches
Really?
@@LTPottenger right wingers when they rant about the fall of the white race on a video about the minions or a coconut or some other completely unrelated shit
the "wrong/ron" part took me a few seconds until i bursted out laughing
by ron . lmao.
'Oranges of Peaches' by Charles Darwin had me dead
I'll be starting sentences in one location... AND FINISHING THEM IN ANOTHAAR!
"But not all women of the age were Byron's sister who he was sleeping with."
Brilliant ! Thank you Diane and writers ! Just awesome !!!
"...which is four more than Fast & Furious." She is casually spitting out some hilarious lines! 😆
"Why would you want turn a pig into a cow?"
"To see what it's like."
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
How these experts answer her questions and not totally lose it is amazing.
Diane Morgan is so funny! Don't know how she keeps a straight face sometimes. A big shout out to Charlie Brooker too for co-writing this series!
Mister Men, holy shit, I haven't thought about those characters since first grade. It's even funnier he was able to state who his favorite was.
- Talk me through the events that led up to the moment where Charles Darwin invented the monkey.
- Darwin didn't... invent the monkey, noone invented a monkey.
- Okay, well: talk me through the events that led up to the moment where Charles Darwin didn't invent the monkey.
Solid Belly Laugh Material
😂😂😂
I love the Brush Strokes intro expertly crafted into each episode. 👌😂
It's like the Pump Up the Jam references
@@katherinetutschek4757 except cunk on earth is later than cunk on britain
18:00 The guy totally dodged comparing his beloved queen Vic to Darth Vader 🤣
I'm in love with Philomena
...
"Chewbacca?"
"I think that's stretching it..." Brilliant
LOL!
Ha ha ha philomena! Love you. You lighten my heavy step. Thank god for artists and especially the funny ones. And thanks for the straight faced historians. We would be nothing without you, either. The purest of chuckles.
"The oranges of the peaches" omg, I almost dieded
As an English as a second language speaker, I thank you for helping me finally get that joke
@@Asdftorga Don't feel bad, I just got it now too😂
This girl is great, she's asking all the questions regular people ask experts.
Dickens came to create the most “time consuming” stories in history.
Brilliant
I love Philomena's description of Jane Austin's books: "Filled with words it's almost impossible to care about..." LOL! :D
Best episode so far. I giggled the whole time, which is unheard of for me... :-) Now I know who's Ron! :-) Diane Morgan is a genius! I love her humor passionately.
My first time being entertained by Philomena: what a treat! (Must have been living under a rock.) Says it all with a straight face. Like to see her break sometime.
13:33 - How does she say these things with a straight face? Her sense of humor is so oddly wonderful.
Referring to history as a 'sort of rear view mirror into time' might be something written to be comical but it's actually very philosophical and a fairly intelligent term. I love it, if Dianne is writing this stuff she's an absolute genius.
The end credits say who writes it, feel free to congratulate them as well
There's a remote tribe that imagines the future as behind them...
They look forward for the past, because they can see what happened.
The future is considered to be behind them because they don't know what's there.
"There was a young man from Nantucket... " Brilliant 👌🏼
“She looked like Alfred Hitchcock watching a dog drown” best line in the episode and maybe the series lmaooo
Too many great lines to count imho
agreed, this one was my favorite
😭😭😭😭
“He went from a drawing, to a black and white man, to a black and white man in colour, to a cricketer, to an alien.”
sounds like doctor who
Or david bowie