Alexander Armstrong must be one of the most underrated performers out there. Only came here because Richard Osman talked about this show on pointless. And was he ever ribbing him
Yep I used to be on twitter and said to Xander Armstrong, you must have just laughed yourself sick over these. Must have loved doing them. They loved doing them as much as we love watching. I think he bothered to reply because I had posted some interesting WW2 air force stuff. (Not just RAF).
In their eternal wisdom the BBC produced this gem of comedy. How did they help the artists to develop their talent and their ideas? How? Well, they ignored Miller apart from allowing him to appear occasionally on QI or radio. Armstrong, well they treated him a bit better, they gave him a BBC contract. As a comedy actor? No. As a Comedian? No. He is now the presenter of "Pointless" - the show that makes every other show look like fun. Featuring Richard Osman, a clone produced in a laboratory funded by the BBC's black projects.
If they are cloning Richard Osman, there will be about half a million orders put in by women. I don't know how many gay orders. He is tremendously fast witted, really wide depth of knowledge and well read. As far as I know, sound in politics. If there was a population of 25% Richard Osmans in UK, it would be far better off than now. Just have to outcross a lot, to other countries, for breeding. Might add 6" to height of population, too.
''for shizzle.'' -ah yes, the English language does have to grow and stretch a bit as we go along. The last generation's got to keep up a little bit with ''the kids.'' 😂
I love how the whole point of the WW2 pilots sketches is to show how European(in this case British) men have downgraded since those generations. They've basically tried to show how two mediocre "millennials" or generation y men would act in that setting. So many men who fought in the war were more mature at 24 than the average 35-year-old man today. It is hilarious, but bitter-sweet too.
Maybe Britain should treat young people like the adults they are before the age of 26. They recieve the adult wage at *26* years old. It's ridiculous. In the past they were in full time employment at 14. We cannot keep babying young adults then complain when they don't have the skills to be mature and independent in their late 20s and beyond. We're raising incompetant adults who never grow up
Mr Glew The National Curriculum in the UK was introduced in 1989 by the Tory party. Every Education Secretary between 1979 and 1997 was a Conservative, or a Liberal Democrat or Conservative from 2010 to the present. And, whilst they may not have been perfect, I don’t think you could call the Labour Governments from 1997-2010 ‘degenerate Commies’. Just saying that if this is a satire on the inadequacy of modern men, they have largely been educated by a regime under the control of a right wing government. Isn’t it though?
It seems a great many of viewers seem to miss the main point of these two characters? It's interesting that they find it funny without understanding the joke properly? We shouldn't forget that the young men who flew in the Battle of Britain are the same people who now talk and act as these two, just seventy years apart. The OP states "Though they fought in the World War II, though don't sound like it!" in the introduction. Apply the same statement, but from the other end and it becomes "How would modern youth have behaved in WW2?" A&M are saying they would be hopeless. Sorry, but I had to say because I watched three 21(ish)yo lads laughing at these sketches the other day. Which left me wondering which is the scarier reason, that they were too stupid to see the satire or that they could not care less.
I agree to a point, but it isn't fair to write off a generation. I have worked with and led many extremely brave and dedicated young soldiers in some of the worst fighting since Korea. They go out on the piss, get into fights in town and give me no end of welfare and discipline issues when not deployed. They will often be late for parade, try to skive when given jobs and will complain about everything. However once on tour they are the epitome of excellence. They will show focus and aggression, and they just get on with the task at hand no matter how bone. It does them a disservice to assume otherwise.
PickleUke Is that the same snowflake generation which has challenged sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, campaigned to have the climate crisis treated with greater urgency, helped fight extremism and terrorists (both as soldiers and civilians), acted to reduce the use of single-use plastic, founding organisations that challenge bullying and help the targets of bullying stand up to the bullies, campaigned for the rights of young females to an education, worked to help children escape slavery (one notable campaigner was assassinated at the age of 13 because of his work in this field), used social media to bring the world’s attention to atrocities in Syria, acted as advocates for LGBTQIA individuals, introducing projects to support both local producers and bee populations, raised over £1 million for cancer sufferers (before dying from her own cancer at the age of 8), launching eco-friendly fashion houses, inventing devices to detect pancreatic cancer, designing prosthetic limbs that are over two hundred times cheaper to produce (and then making the design free to download for anyone who has access to a 3D printer; the list goes on and on and on! Yes, there are those that are soft, lazy, self-centred and self-indulgent, just as there have been throughout human history (check out the 12 Caesar’s for example), but to dismiss an entire generation as snowflakes in favour of some mythical ‘golden generation’ is a mistake.
There are extremely skilled RAF pilots in their early 20s nowadays though so your whole point is moot. There were also contemporary "youth" who were the yobs of their day. Nothing's really changed.
This was originally performed by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in a different context - they translated a motown song into English, the song being "Mamma's got a Brand New Bag." It was hilarious as these are. The thing that's brilliant about the Armstrong & Miller ones is that they show how idiotic modern day English has become. We don't hear it, or it's not as obvious when said with a British-cockney accent, but it sounds ludicrous when said with a the stereotypical upper-class British accent. It's hilarious!!
Has no one spotted that RAF pilots used to use a heck of a lot of their own youth slang and juxtaposing modern slang with the forties is half the joke?
@@celestialgardens4380 if you read the comments many people bring their prejudice with them this is them yeah 'oh people who talk like this could never become RAF pilots today or at least could never be as good as those back in the day it's all gone down the drain i wish Thatcher would come back from the dead' wasteman thing
“We’re supposed to be fighting for freedom and they’re taking away my trousers.” Is a great line with and without context.
"This isn't Nazi Germany"
"Yes it is!"
Brilliant.
"Isn't it tho"
Masterpiece!👍" And now I've only got one" "Random " 🤣🤣🤣
Very underrated show, RAF pilots my fav characters.
How do they keep a straight face? Just brilliant!
This is basically what would happen if you put two inexperienced teenage boys inside grown men’s bodies and transported them back in time to WWII.
You don't say!
That was hilarious (and like I'm not even lying isn't it).
WeirdCityCitizen Isn’t it?
Fo'sho.
standard
Harsh
WeirdCityCitizen totaly, bigtime.
Alexander Armstrong must be one of the most underrated performers out there. Only came here because Richard Osman talked about this show on pointless. And was he ever ribbing him
He most certainly is not 'underrated'.
Bring back Armstrong & Miller!
Literally crying with laughter
These are my favourite sketches. Hilarious!
These charactets deserve their own spin-off show.
Fo'sure
Isn't it.
I remember seeing them film one of these scenes at the BBC. I still remember how strange it was to see it in colour.
lovely old radio there in the first one.
It's like an Ekco A22, or some shit like that? I forshow has one too, in Black though, isn't it.
@@VickersDoorter isn't it though?
My favourite A&M sketches. Isn’t it.
isn't it, though.
For show
Brilliantly funny. They should have made a show just for the pilots.
I love how they combine mle with old fashioned style creating comedy from the subversion of expectations
I know right, it’s like good n shit
@@RyanKeane9 Isn't it though? Fo sho.
And Im not even lying
Harsh.
@@beatriceblake5201 isn't that this show is good. I was suppose to be in it but I had a verruca.... I got a note an all.
British humour, don’t let it die innit.
Isn't it
@@Ovvenchips The incorrect grammar is intentional. Innit.
Isn't it?
@@ClamMan1989 You ain’t gettin’ it innit.
@@sherbetdab1200 Standard.
These sketches make me laugh so hard it hurts.
You see her? Clocking my unit and all this.
Alexander Armstrong at his best, this was a brilliant double sketch act I loved it ..... and I'm not even lying!
You're shitting me, thats like, so right n shit. Isnt it.
Isn’t it
@@PSUK standard.
@@wayne20uk you know what I mean?
@@PSUK for real fam.
These sketches are great
I'm not sure HOW you got the idea your editing would be better than theirs though... :S
Who, Hat Trick?
I’d bet good money that in a genuine RAF officers mess, today 2020, 2 or 3 Typhoon pilots have copied this for a laugh, isn’t it?
Yep
I used to be on twitter and said to Xander Armstrong, you must have just laughed yourself sick over these. Must have loved doing them.
They loved doing them as much as we love watching.
I think he bothered to reply because I had posted some interesting WW2 air force stuff.
(Not just RAF).
Absolutely blood😂😂😂😂😂
Isn’t it tho
Standard
@@grahamlogan4068 4 years ago, 73 upticks and responses still coming in. I’m quite moved.
Chalk. Chalky Von Schmidt, a spy?
Why hack the sketches to pieces? They need to be seen in full!
Talk to the gun 'coz the cockpit ain't listening. Genius.
So I'll see you about 7 yeah? So I'll see you about 7? Yeah so I'll see you about 7?
Oh my, who is Biffy's mum, actress "I'm keeping them Orff war, or I'll say you touched their arses"" she is gold, proper posh lol ..
Well fleek Innit.
Isn't it though
Isn’t it
Random
I could watch a movie of these characters
'Benny Goodman shits all over Glenn Miller'.
Forgot how good these two were 🤣
"waterboy"!!! At 5:43
Waterman
Why are sketches mix up
In their eternal wisdom the BBC produced this gem of comedy. How did they help the artists to develop their talent and their ideas? How? Well, they ignored Miller apart from allowing him to appear occasionally on QI or radio. Armstrong, well they treated him a bit better, they gave him a BBC contract. As a comedy actor? No. As a Comedian? No. He is now the presenter of "Pointless" - the show that makes every other show look like fun. Featuring Richard Osman, a clone produced in a laboratory funded by the BBC's black projects.
If they are cloning Richard Osman, there will be about half a million orders put in by women. I don't know how many gay orders.
He is tremendously fast witted, really wide depth of knowledge and well read. As far as I know, sound in politics.
If there was a population of 25% Richard Osmans in UK, it would be far better off than now. Just have to outcross a lot, to other countries, for breeding.
Might add 6" to height of population, too.
You lost me at 'Osman...'
Harsh.
Isn’t it
Isn't it though
I always enjoy BenMiller in other things I've seen him in. These two are hysterical an' shit...isn't it.
Thats right, blood.
I'd love to know what the women might have said had they spoken the same language, innit!
Isnt that a messerschmidt cockpitm
Yeah it is i'm not even chatting shit
They is all like, in the wrong planes and this and that. Isnt it. Random.
Its Little Britain before there was a Little Britain.
Explain?
genius
epic war fail
For sho
Isn’t it
''for shizzle.'' -ah yes, the English language does have to grow and stretch a bit as we go along. The last generation's got to keep up a little bit with ''the kids.'' 😂
Lucy at the end, so wrong she makes smoking hot!
Soooooooo funny and shit like that!!!
I love how the whole point of the WW2 pilots sketches is to show how European(in this case British) men have downgraded since those generations. They've basically tried to show how two mediocre "millennials" or generation y men would act in that setting. So many men who fought in the war were more mature at 24 than the average 35-year-old man today. It is hilarious, but bitter-sweet too.
Maybe Britain should treat young people like the adults they are before the age of 26. They recieve the adult wage at *26* years old. It's ridiculous. In the past they were in full time employment at 14. We cannot keep babying young adults then complain when they don't have the skills to be mature and independent in their late 20s and beyond. We're raising incompetant adults who never grow up
And I ain't even lying and shit.
Mr Glew The National Curriculum in the UK was introduced in 1989 by the Tory party. Every Education Secretary between 1979 and 1997 was a Conservative, or a Liberal Democrat or Conservative from 2010 to the present. And, whilst they may not have been perfect, I don’t think you could call the Labour Governments from 1997-2010 ‘degenerate Commies’. Just saying that if this is a satire on the inadequacy of modern men, they have largely been educated by a regime under the control of a right wing government. Isn’t it though?
@@thediesel4475 Yes, I suppose so.
Mr Glew isn’t it
It seems a great many of viewers seem to miss the main point of these two characters? It's interesting that they find it funny without understanding the joke properly?
We shouldn't forget that the young men who flew in the Battle of Britain are the same people who now talk and act as these two, just seventy years apart. The OP states "Though they fought in the World War II, though don't sound like it!" in the introduction. Apply the same statement, but from the other end and it becomes "How would modern youth have behaved in WW2?" A&M are saying they would be hopeless.
Sorry, but I had to say because I watched three 21(ish)yo lads laughing at these sketches the other day. Which left me wondering which is the scarier reason, that they were too stupid to see the satire or that they could not care less.
Same age people fought for Hitler
I agree to a point, but it isn't fair to write off a generation. I have worked with and led many extremely brave and dedicated young soldiers in some of the worst fighting since Korea. They go out on the piss, get into fights in town and give me no end of welfare and discipline issues when not deployed. They will often be late for parade, try to skive when given jobs and will complain about everything. However once on tour they are the epitome of excellence. They will show focus and aggression, and they just get on with the task at hand no matter how bone. It does them a disservice to assume otherwise.
PickleUke Is that the same snowflake generation which has challenged sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, campaigned to have the climate crisis treated with greater urgency, helped fight extremism and terrorists (both as soldiers and civilians), acted to reduce the use of single-use plastic, founding organisations that challenge bullying and help the targets of bullying stand up to the bullies, campaigned for the rights of young females to an education, worked to help children escape slavery (one notable campaigner was assassinated at the age of 13 because of his work in this field), used social media to bring the world’s attention to atrocities in Syria, acted as advocates for LGBTQIA individuals, introducing projects to support both local producers and bee populations, raised over £1 million for cancer sufferers (before dying from her own cancer at the age of 8), launching eco-friendly fashion houses, inventing devices to detect pancreatic cancer, designing prosthetic limbs that are over two hundred times cheaper to produce (and then making the design free to download for anyone who has access to a 3D printer; the list goes on and on and on! Yes, there are those that are soft, lazy, self-centred and self-indulgent, just as there have been throughout human history (check out the 12 Caesar’s for example), but to dismiss an entire generation as snowflakes in favour of some mythical ‘golden generation’ is a mistake.
@@thediesel4475 yep, the very same bleeding heart woke millenials that are serially offended by everything you W****r!!!
There are extremely skilled RAF pilots in their early 20s nowadays though so your whole point is moot. There were also contemporary "youth" who were the yobs of their day. Nothing's really changed.
This is abuse, and I am not even lying.
This was originally performed by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in a different context - they translated a motown song into English, the song being "Mamma's got a Brand New Bag." It was hilarious as these are.
The thing that's brilliant about the Armstrong & Miller ones is that they show how idiotic modern day English has become. We don't hear it, or it's not as obvious when said with a British-cockney accent, but it sounds ludicrous when said with a the stereotypical upper-class British accent.
It's hilarious!!
Same here, Laters
isn’t it?
Isn’t it
Has no one spotted that RAF pilots used to use a heck of a lot of their own youth slang and juxtaposing modern slang with the forties is half the joke?
@@celestialgardens4380 if you read the comments many people bring their prejudice with them
this is them yeah 'oh people who talk like this could never become RAF pilots today or at least could never be as good as those back in the day it's all gone down the drain i wish Thatcher would come back from the dead'
wasteman thing
@@aiocafea reading the comments is always half the fun 😅
ISNT IT
Standard
IZZit
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE 🏰
Anyone think Armstrong’s better in Pointless? No, oh well, never mind.
😂
Like excellent, and shit!
The narrator doesn't sound authentic
I didn't laugh...
Cool
Laters blood
..harsh
Should not make fun of the war .
They're not. They're using the war to make fun of modern teenagers.