In the mid 80’s it was “hitler has only got one ball, the other got stuck on the garden wall, his mother the dirty bugger, is having scallop & bolok for tea” 😂
G'day Guys! Nick don't over think this...The original song is from about 1939/40 and was meant as a ridicule due to the rumour that Hitler suffered from "monorchism" or having just one testicle and to denigrate the whole leadership as not being terribly masculine... Cheers!
The lyrics 'take the piss' out of the Nazi leaders' masculinity, by mocking and belittling their alleged 'testicular' deformities. The song became popular amongst British soldiers around 1939 and then got taken on by the allied armies and the then the general public psyche (being sung even by children), to keep their spirits up and 'laugh' at Hitler and the German leaders. Full song.... Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim'lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all. Hitler has only got one ball, The other is in the Albert Hall, His mother, the dirty bugger, Chopped it off when Hitler was small. She threw it into the apple tree, the wind blew it into the deep blue sea, Where the fishes got out their dishes, And ate scallops and bollocks for tea. Then it became famous again (in 1957) when it featured in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" - with Alec Guiness. The tune was already well known from WW1, a British marching tune called "Colonel Bogey March".
First time I’ve seen this as a full song thanks. Don’t know if this was ad-lib but in Scotland there was a line swimmen with all the wimmen the dirty bastard is at it again Swimmen = swimming Wimmen = women
They have created an origin story for one of the most famous songs in the UK. The tune is called The Colonel Bogey March most famously whistled at the start of the film Bridge On The River Kwai.
Had you heard that song before? It was definitely sung by troops in WW2, and has been well known ever since. Presumably more in the UK and in Australia than in America.
"Hitler has only got one ball" was a song mocking Hitler during the war just to make fun of him and keep moral up. Not sure if he was lacking in that department but it didn't matter, it was funny. This sketch is taking it one step further highlighting the importance of crude ditties in winning the war.
The "PayOff" @BoringReviews - Is that this was WWII British Forces song and was also a song sung by schoolchildren for many years after. I used to sing it at school in the 70s. We all did!!
you have to be aware of the song already, then it would have been funny. the train horn you heard made the sound of the first 2 notes in the song, thats how the pianist got inspiration for the song
We used to sing the 'Hitler has only got one ball' songs as kids ,..... there were a few variations ! I was born in the 1950s and older men coming back from the war taught the kids the army songs like 'German Officers Crossed the Rhine, parley-vous, ****** the women and drank the wine, parley-vous' and the one about the Virgins from Inverness etc
Not forgetting the other one... Whistle while you work, Hitler is a twerp. He's half barmy, So's his Army, Whistle while you work. Look up "Dad's Army" "Don't Tell Him Pike" That's Private Pike and the TV show Dad's Army. Well worth a look.
I knew that song as a kid 55 years ago. A part of the joke is that the two-tone horn, which inspired the composer, is of a modern-day train common in the UK.
The song was a staple of small boys in U.K. well into the 1970s and beyond. The joke is just that it was written based on information smuggled out of Germany and used as a serious part of the war effort. There is a reference to this in the film Jojo Rabbit, when Stephen Merchant’s Gestapo officer character refutes the rumour about Hitler only having one ball.
"Hitler Has Only Got One Ball", sometimes known as "The River Kwai March", is a World War II British song from 1939. It was made famous in the Bridge over the river Kwai" in 1957
On a trip to Thailand in 2015, I walked over the river Kwai on the remaining metal bridge. On the side nearest Myanmar (Burma) a Thai guy sat with his violin. In his tin was a few Baht coins. I put a 50 Baht note in his shirt pocket, (enough for a cool drink) he said one word, “Angrit?” (English). I said “Yes.” He began to play, Colonel Bogey! 🙏
The song was used as a type of propaganda/morale booster by both the British troops in the trenches and the civilian population during WW2. There are a few different versions on the lyrics but the one line that's always used is 'Hitler has only got one ball' which is how it got its title. its also set to a marching band song.
it was a song sung to take the p out of the nasties during the war. the skit is about the comedy way that the song could have come about. In the skit, he was having trouble writing it, and kept throwing them in the bin, then he heard the noise that inspired him. It then jumps to the finished song being performed..and then the comedy quote about it winning us the war. Incidentally...i think i heard jodi say that it was the wilty presenter. It was Ben Miller, who does look a bit like Rob Brydon. When they appeared on a panel show together, they were dressed sin similar shirts and it was mentioned how much alike they looked.
"Jamie, has only got one ball - the other, is in Neath Hospital" was my song 2 years ago, after getting testicular cancer 😞 I've been clear over a year. I was over my mums, recently, telling someone my sob story, and embellishing it for sympathy,. and my mum started humming that song!
I saw this when it was first transmitted. I laughed so much it hurt!!! 🙂 There are a few variants of this little ditty but my favourite (😉) one is this: Hitler has only got one ball. Goering has two but rather small. Himmler has something 'simlar'. And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 BTW, if you haven't already do check out Armstrong and Millers' "RAF Pilots" sketches. Gen Y meets Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
It's a UK culture thing. Hitler Has Only Got One Ball was a wartime song, obviously mocking the enemy. But you are right: Ben Miller and Rob Brydon famously look the same. QI once sat them together and dressed them the same. Look up "There's no such thing as nothing"
The joke is it’s an origin story for a genuine song used by British troops to ridicule the Nazis during WWII, both in the battlefield and whistled as a sign of defiance when in captivity. The humour does play heavily on British sensibilities and making lite of desperate situations.
Everyone sang this in the war, and all us kids growing up after it, knew it too. The tune is a march "Colonel Bogey". The rumour about Hitler and his henchmen was part of British humour as a morale 'boost'. The joke here is pretending it was based on intel, then carefully composed by the authorities, rather than just one of those 'viral' culture things
This brings back so many childhood memories , with our Cities reduced to rubble morale was all important and even in the sixties there were bombsites and left overs from the war .Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong were hilarious with their WW2 pilot sketches which included a Comic relief sketch with Mitchell and Webb .
The original tune is “Colonel Bogey March,” supposedly inspired by a military officer whistling the first two notes instead of saying “Fore!” when playing golf. It’s the first tune ever played on a computer, in Australia in 1951.
I remember this song was one kids sang in the playground at Primary school some 50years back - except it was the version where the second line was 'the other is in the Albert Hall'. I’ve no idea if it was truly a wartime propaganda thing or if it just kind of evolved afterwards. I can completely understand the confusion: if you don’t already know the song, getting a backstory in a comedy sketch that’s a combination of films about wartime spies and films about composers struggling to create their masterpiece must fall pretty flat. There was even a film starring legendary drag-act Danny La Rue that used the song - but to an alternative tune … they added a lyric to imply it was about tennis, presumably to get around censorship. Called 'Our Miss Fred', it wasn’t anything to write home about.
The meaning is as crude as you can imagine. This, and others, was still being sung by us little boys in the 50s. This is exactly the same creative process used for football and the Barmy Army chants. Look up "Colonel Bogey March". It's what the British POWs were whistling at the beginning of Bridge On the River Kwai movie.
Apologies if anyone has already said but that's not the host of WILTY. His name is Ben Miller. Funnily enough though there is a funny moment between him and Rob Brydon (the WILTY host) on QI acknowledging the likeness. If you check out the video "There's No Such Thing as a Nothing" on QI's channel. Love you guys enjoying the comedy from this part of the world, makes me smile!
Armstrong and Miller’s earlier CH4 show was miles funnier than their BBC show where this is from, but I don’t think it ever fully came out on DVD. Whoever recommended this didn’t think it through!
The version I learned: Hitler has only got one ball The other is in the Albert Hall Himmler Has something similar And poor old Goebbels Has no balls at all
Making suggestions for them to watch for which they have zero preexisting cultural knowledge and then shitting on them for not getting the joke is a *bit* unfair 🤷♂️
Nick Your stunned reaction was one of the funniest things I've seen in years. 👍😂 Give yourself a break mate, there are a lot of brits over here that don't get " Satirical " humour. And only those of us over a certain age will get the content.🤪🤔 Take care all 🙏🙏🙏
Soldiers in ww2 use to sing that song, that's where it comes from. People hated Hitler and it was another way to slate him. Gave the soldiers moral support
It was known that hitler only had one descended testicle. The government promoted the writing of this song which was spread around the empire to help moral. Military bands played it and still do. Its official name is “Colonel Bogey”.
Hitler didn't have one ball,he did have an undecended one though. Chairman Mao did only have one ball,im pretty sure the other wasn't in the Albert Hall! These songs were sung by troops whille marching in the second world war and then by people back in blighty, especially kids!
American 'humour' requires a ba-dum-tish on a drum, a cheesy wink to camera and a laugh track to signal to the American that a joke has been told and it is the appropriate time to laugh. They are very simple people with only a rudimentary grasp of the language...expectations of subtleties such as wit, satire and parody should not be high.
That song was popular in WWII and is still known to every Brit. Mocking zhitler was important to morale. It never occurred to me that Americans wouldn't know it. I suppose that's what happens when your country was late to the war and not very involved.
The song with these words was popular with the Brirish public in WW2 as it ridiculed the Nazi leaders and increased British moral. But the reason this skit is so funny to me is that at the end it parodies how modern war films sometimes take a small detail, in the case the lyrics appllied to the Colonel Bogey march, and increase its impact by the man saying " I think we have just won ourselves a war" Not surprised you didn’t get it, too esoteric unless you are British of a certain age. It made me laugh out loud, the sketch was so well done.
The joke relies on the fact that we all know that song really well. Amongst the British and I'm guessing associated troops of the common wealth it was and still is extremely well known. 😁
You were over thinking and not listening to the final song it was mocking Hitler and his staff. The full song lyrics by John Jones are "Göring has only got one ball Hitler's are so very small Himmler's so very similar And Goebbels has no balls at all! Hitler has only got one ball, The other is in the Albert Hall His mother, the dirty bugger, Chopped it off when he was small. She threw it over West-Germany, It landed in the deep blue sea, The fishes got out their dishes, And had scallops and bollocks for tea. Hitler had only one brass ball, Göring had two but they were small Himmler had something sim'lar And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all. Hitler has only got one ball, The other is on the kitchen wall His mother, the dirty bugger, Chopped it off when he was small. She threw it into a conker tree At this time it went into the sea The fishes got out their dishes, And had scallops and bollocks for tea.ball Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small Himmler is someone sim'lar But poor Goebbels has no balls at all. Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small Himmler is someone sim'lar But poor Goebbels has no balls at all." The Music is The "Colonel Bogey March" is a British march that was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts.
Also see the "Don't tell him your name Pike" from Dad's Army. It was a propaganda song in WWII to boost moral, silly but there you are. This is just a satire on it's origin. And yes keeping up moral kept us fighting until the Americans had drained us of money, had been attacked by the Japanese and declared war on Japan, Britain then also declaring war on Japan shaming America into declaring war on Hitler.
Jodi, the inspector from "death in paradise" is Ben Millar, also known for the Armstrong and Millar show, he is the shorter of the two pilots in the sketches you've watched. When he was killed off in death in paradise, his replacement was Kris Marshall, best known for the sit-com "my family", where the daughter of US film director Sam Wannamaker played his mother. When he left, the lead role went to Ardal O'Hanlon, best known for the sit-com "Father Ted".
@@kjejon1 Last time I watched regularly was when Kris Marshall was the star, I've seen a few episodes with Ardal but none with Ralf Little, I had no idea Danny John Jules had left and then come back till I read about it.
I think you'd be better checking out Armstrong & Miller as 'Brabbins & Fyffe', a pair of old-school Music-Hall (Vaudeville) performers, who have a habit of getting a bit carried away while singing slightly suggestive ditties! They usually go waaaaay too far!! 🤣🤣🤣
Somewhat culturally specific that one. There's probably not a Brit over the age of 30 who doesn't know that rhyme to that (John Sousa?) tune. It's just a bawdy song that was created at some point during WW2 and somehow spread around the country.
It may seem strange on the 21st century internet, but in late 20th century Britain the Natzis were regarded nearly as figures of fun. Clown like joke characters to be mocked and ridiculed. Freddie Starr, Spike Milligan, Allo Allo, etc... laughing at people in those uniforms and armbands was ubiquitous when I was a lad.
The tune is so engrained in the British culture that it can even be turned into a piece of classical music in the style of Beethoven. The late great Dudley Moore was not only funny but a great pianist. ua-cam.com/video/h28kF6xDX3E/v-deo.html
Really famous song in Britain which we all know and this is just a fun tale on how it might have been written, if you know you know but if you don't this would make no sense
If America had actually ever won a war, you would probably understand it. This was a legitimate wartime tactic to spread misinformation to undermine the enemy, but it also had the added bonus of building morale within the English side. This song was originally released in 1939. Edit: most of the misinformation spread wasn't as comical.
It was a well known British Army song, also called " Colonel Bogey" played at the beginning of the movie "Bridge On The River Kwai." Check it out. Ian Dee.
As has been said, the joke relies on the watcher being aware of the song, it's still well known in the UK today, and just originated as a crude way to keep British morale up during WWII. This sketch just takes it one step further to suggest it was based on intelligence. Unfortunately, this version of the video doesn't include the next scene, where the Germans have intercepted their own intelligence, which immediately turns out to be clever propaganda when they sing their song, the first line of which is "Churchill hast eine massive cock!" You don't have to be fluent in German to understand that 😀
IT WAS SUNG DURING THE WAR BY THE TOMMIES, JUST MAKING FUN AND ITS A SKIT ABOUT HIW THE HELL DID, SOMEONE COME UP WITH THAT SONG LOL BEN MILLER WAS A PHYSICIST ALMOST LOL, AND WAS IN DEATH IN PARADISE, THOSE 2 AND MITCHELL AND WEBB ACTUALLY WORKED TOGETHER IN A COUPLE IF SKITS,YOU NEED TO WATCH MORE LIKE THE 18TH CENTURY GAY BAR OR THE RUSSIAN FOOTBALL CHAIRMAN OF CHELSEA, VERY FUNNY
I suppose if you're not familiar with the song it doesn't make much sense But it is a very well known (In the UK) song from WW2 And yes that is the Death In Paradise actor & that's not the first time they've been mixed up! And he was in a comedy duo of his own - Armstrong & Miller You might have reacted to some of their WW2 pilots sketches???
only the request is dumb - and the person who requested it. Unless you have some cultural reference point you won't get the humour in this. - might as well have been in another language.
Everybody new this song at one time even the kids. Most of the humour within this is based on the song. So if you haven’t heard it, you wouldn’t understand. I expect it’s unknown in the states.
A lot of American troops were aware of this song, and it did make it's way back to the States, so I dare say some Americans in the US were aware if it at some point, but if you arent aware of the song to begin with, you won't find this sketch funny. And considering I'm not particularly keen on 'Armstrong and Miller', ill admit that this sketch IS very fuckin' funny, probably more so to 11 year old me In the late 1980's.
The whole joke is knowing the song straight at the start, if you don't know the song there's no build up to the joke. 😂
Hitler has only got one ball - The other is in the Albert Hall. We used to sing it when we were kids.
yeah i remember the albert hall version.
on coach trips school outings oh the memories! :D
We sang it as kids too (in the 70s)
Hitler has only got one ball, the others hanging on a wall, his brother,the dirty bugger, cut off it when he was four,,,
In the mid 80’s it was “hitler has only got one ball, the other got stuck on the garden wall, his mother the dirty bugger, is having scallop & bolok for tea” 😂
G'day Guys! Nick don't over think this...The original song is from about 1939/40 and was meant as a ridicule due to the rumour that Hitler suffered from "monorchism" or having just one testicle and to denigrate the whole leadership as not being terribly masculine... Cheers!
I was born in '64 and I've heard this song all my life. The thing is - the song _IS_ the joke.
The lyrics 'take the piss' out of the Nazi leaders' masculinity, by mocking and belittling their alleged 'testicular' deformities. The song became popular amongst British soldiers around 1939 and then got taken on by the allied armies and the then the general public psyche (being sung even by children), to keep their spirits up and 'laugh' at Hitler and the German leaders. Full song....
Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler is rather sim'lar,
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is in the Albert Hall,
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Chopped it off when Hitler was small.
She threw it into the apple tree,
the wind blew it into the deep blue sea,
Where the fishes got out their dishes,
And ate scallops and bollocks for tea.
Then it became famous again (in 1957) when it featured in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" - with Alec Guiness. The tune was already well known from WW1, a British marching tune called "Colonel Bogey March".
First time I’ve seen this as a full song thanks.
Don’t know if this was ad-lib but in Scotland there was a line swimmen with all the wimmen the dirty bastard is at it again
Swimmen = swimming
Wimmen = women
They have created an origin story for one of the most famous songs in the UK. The tune is called The Colonel Bogey March most famously whistled at the start of the film Bridge On The River Kwai.
Had you heard that song before? It was definitely sung by troops in WW2, and has been well known ever since. Presumably more in the UK and in Australia than in America.
They arrived over two years late so probably missed it.
"Hitler has only got one ball" was a song mocking Hitler during the war just to make fun of him and keep moral up. Not sure if he was lacking in that department but it didn't matter, it was funny.
This sketch is taking it one step further highlighting the importance of crude ditties in winning the war.
That was such a playground song in the UK
The "PayOff" @BoringReviews
- Is that this was WWII British Forces song and was also a song sung by schoolchildren for many years after. I used to sing it at school in the 70s. We all did!!
Most Brits can sing this song, made popular during the war
This song was sung by every kid at school until the seventies, this is funny because it satirises the origins of the song.
It was still sung in the 70s and 80s at least.
I’ll see your 80s and raise you 90s.
you have to be aware of the song already, then it would have been funny.
the train horn you heard made the sound of the first 2 notes in the song, thats how the pianist got inspiration for the song
We used to sing the 'Hitler has only got one ball' songs as kids ,..... there were a few variations ! I was born in the 1950s and older men coming back from the war taught the kids the army songs like 'German Officers Crossed the Rhine, parley-vous, ****** the women and drank the wine, parley-vous' and the one about the Virgins from Inverness etc
I remember singing this with friends back in the 50's!
Not forgetting the other one...
Whistle while you work,
Hitler is a twerp.
He's half barmy,
So's his Army,
Whistle while you work.
Look up "Dad's Army" "Don't Tell Him Pike"
That's Private Pike and the TV show Dad's Army.
Well worth a look.
I knew that song as a kid 55 years ago. A part of the joke is that the two-tone horn, which inspired the composer, is of a modern-day train common in the UK.
Used to live next to a railway station and this song would pop into my head every time a train went by
Me too!
Massively overthinking it !!!
The song was a staple of small boys in U.K. well into the 1970s and beyond. The joke is just that it was written based on information smuggled out of Germany and used as a serious part of the war effort. There is a reference to this in the film Jojo Rabbit, when Stephen Merchant’s Gestapo officer character refutes the rumour about Hitler only having one ball.
"Hitler Has Only Got One Ball", sometimes known as "The River Kwai March", is a World War II British song from 1939. It was made famous in the Bridge over the river Kwai" in 1957
On a trip to Thailand in 2015, I walked over the river Kwai on the remaining metal bridge. On the side nearest Myanmar (Burma) a Thai guy sat with his violin. In his tin was a few Baht coins. I put a 50 Baht note in his shirt pocket, (enough for a cool drink) he said one word, “Angrit?” (English). I said “Yes.” He began to play, Colonel Bogey! 🙏
The song was used as a type of propaganda/morale booster by both the British troops in the trenches and the civilian population during WW2. There are a few different versions on the lyrics but the one line that's always used is 'Hitler has only got one ball' which is how it got its title. its also set to a marching band song.
In Scotland we'd sing the other is in the kelvin hall. 🏴 They're yanks, a product of the American education system passing it down to the next 😂
it was a song sung to take the p out of the nasties during the war. the skit is about the comedy way that the song could have come about. In the skit, he was having trouble writing it, and kept throwing them in the bin, then he heard the noise that inspired him. It then jumps to the finished song being performed..and then the comedy quote about it winning us the war.
Incidentally...i think i heard jodi say that it was the wilty presenter. It was Ben Miller, who does look a bit like Rob Brydon. When they appeared on a panel show together, they were dressed sin similar shirts and it was mentioned how much alike they looked.
"Jamie, has only got one ball - the other, is in Neath Hospital" was my song 2 years ago, after getting testicular cancer 😞
I've been clear over a year. I was over my mums, recently, telling someone my sob story, and embellishing it for sympathy,. and my mum started humming that song!
I saw this when it was first transmitted. I laughed so much it hurt!!! 🙂
There are a few variants of this little ditty but my favourite (😉) one is this:
Hitler has only got one ball.
Goering has two but rather small.
Himmler has something 'simlar'.
And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
BTW, if you haven't already do check out Armstrong and Millers' "RAF Pilots" sketches. Gen Y meets Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
Brits know this song!
American audiences would only know this song from the movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai", which won Best Picture, 1957. Brilliant movie, BTW.
We used to sing this ditty at school 60 years ago. Yes I really am that ancient.
It's a UK culture thing. Hitler Has Only Got One Ball was a wartime song, obviously mocking the enemy.
But you are right: Ben Miller and Rob Brydon famously look the same. QI once sat them together and dressed them the same. Look up "There's no such thing as nothing"
The joke is it’s an origin story for a genuine song used by British troops to ridicule the Nazis during WWII, both in the battlefield and whistled as a sign of defiance when in captivity.
The humour does play heavily on British sensibilities and making lite of desperate situations.
Everyone sang this in the war, and all us kids growing up after it, knew it too.
The tune is a march "Colonel Bogey".
The rumour about Hitler and his henchmen was part of British humour as a morale 'boost'.
The joke here is pretending it was based on intel, then carefully composed by the authorities, rather than just one of those 'viral' culture things
This brings back so many childhood memories , with our Cities reduced to rubble morale was all important and even in the sixties there were bombsites and left overs from the war .Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong were hilarious with their WW2 pilot sketches which included a Comic relief sketch with Mitchell and Webb .
The tune is "Colonel Bogey", as heard in the film "Bridge on the River Kwai", and the words were applied during WW2.
The original tune is “Colonel Bogey March,” supposedly inspired by a military officer whistling the first two notes instead of saying “Fore!” when playing golf.
It’s the first tune ever played on a computer, in Australia in 1951.
Miller and Brydon are often mistaken for each other, it's a running joke.
I remember this song was one kids sang in the playground at Primary school some 50years back - except it was the version where the second line was 'the other is in the Albert Hall'. I’ve no idea if it was truly a wartime propaganda thing or if it just kind of evolved afterwards.
I can completely understand the confusion: if you don’t already know the song, getting a backstory in a comedy sketch that’s a combination of films about wartime spies and films about composers struggling to create their masterpiece must fall pretty flat.
There was even a film starring legendary drag-act Danny La Rue that used the song - but to an alternative tune … they added a lyric to imply it was about tennis, presumably to get around censorship. Called 'Our Miss Fred', it wasn’t anything to write home about.
The meaning is as crude as you can imagine. This, and others, was still being sung by us little boys in the 50s. This is exactly the same creative process used for football and the Barmy Army chants. Look up "Colonel Bogey March". It's what the British POWs were whistling at the beginning of Bridge On the River Kwai movie.
Apologies if anyone has already said but that's not the host of WILTY. His name is Ben Miller. Funnily enough though there is a funny moment between him and Rob Brydon (the WILTY host) on QI acknowledging the likeness. If you check out the video "There's No Such Thing as a Nothing" on QI's channel.
Love you guys enjoying the comedy from this part of the world, makes me smile!
I’m in my fifties and used to sing this, I believe kids in the war sang it.
Armstrong and Miller’s earlier CH4 show was miles funnier than their BBC show where this is from, but I don’t think it ever fully came out on DVD.
Whoever recommended this didn’t think it through!
I've whistled that tune myself, thousands of times. After watching the film "The bridge over the river Kwai."😉
The pay off is simple. It is how the the WWII song, which you may not have heard before, was supposedly created.
British school kids have sang this song in the playground since the war
Hitler has only got one ball
The other is in the Albert Hall
His mother cut off the other
And now he hasn't got any at all
The version I learned:
Hitler has only got one ball
The other is in the Albert Hall
Himmler
Has something similar
And poor old Goebbels
Has no balls at all
Making suggestions for them to watch for which they have zero preexisting cultural knowledge and then shitting on them for not getting the joke is a *bit* unfair 🤷♂️
I was singing this as an 8 year old in 1970.
You're definitely missing something Nick, just like Hitler but different! 🤣🤣🤣
It's the difference between being bombed by the Nazis, and not. It's called the Blitz Spirit.
We used to sing this at school when I was about 7 .
I sang this song in the 50s. But we had Stalin has 2 but very small , then Hiimmlar verse carried on.
Nick
Your stunned reaction was one of the funniest things I've seen in years. 👍😂
Give yourself a break mate, there are a lot of brits over here that don't get " Satirical " humour.
And only those of us over a certain age will get the content.🤪🤔
Take care all 🙏🙏🙏
Used to sing that as a kid 60 years ago.
This song existed in WW2 and it was sang everywhere it was meant to be lighthearted propaganda.
You would never get this in the States. 🤣🤣🤣
Soldiers in ww2 use to sing that song, that's where it comes from. People hated Hitler and it was another way to slate him. Gave the soldiers moral support
It was known that hitler only had one descended testicle. The government promoted the writing of this song which was spread around the empire to help moral. Military bands played it and still do. Its official name is “Colonel Bogey”.
Hitler didn't have one ball,he did have an undecended one though.
Chairman Mao did only have one ball,im pretty sure the other wasn't in the Albert Hall!
These songs were sung by troops whille marching in the second world war and then by people back in blighty, especially kids!
American Humour is from Vaudeville. UK Humour is from Life.
American 'humour' requires a ba-dum-tish on a drum, a cheesy wink to camera and a laugh track to signal to the American that a joke has been told and it is the appropriate time to laugh. They are very simple people with only a rudimentary grasp of the language...expectations of subtleties such as wit, satire and parody should not be high.
That song was popular in WWII and is still known to every Brit. Mocking zhitler was important to morale. It never occurred to me that Americans wouldn't know it. I suppose that's what happens when your country was late to the war and not very involved.
the massive joke is the song itself. eveyone in brittain knows some of it and everyone knows the famous tune. the train horn was genius
The song with these words was popular with the Brirish public in WW2 as it ridiculed the Nazi leaders and increased British moral. But the reason this skit is so funny to me is that at the end it parodies how modern war films sometimes take a small detail, in the case the lyrics appllied to the Colonel Bogey march, and increase its impact by the man saying " I think we have just won ourselves a war"
Not surprised you didn’t get it, too esoteric unless you are British of a certain age. It made me laugh out loud, the sketch was so well done.
The joke relies on the fact that we all know that song really well. Amongst the British and I'm guessing associated troops of the common wealth it was and still is extremely well known. 😁
The biggest thing you are missing is a British sense of humour.
You were over thinking and not listening to the final song it was mocking Hitler and his staff. The full song lyrics by John Jones are "Göring has only got one ball
Hitler's are so very small
Himmler's so very similar
And Goebbels has no balls at all!
Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is in the Albert Hall
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Chopped it off when he was small.
She threw it over West-Germany,
It landed in the deep blue sea,
The fishes got out their dishes,
And had scallops and bollocks for tea.
Hitler had only one brass ball,
Göring had two but they were small
Himmler had something sim'lar
And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all.
Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is on the kitchen wall
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Chopped it off when he was small.
She threw it into a conker tree
At this time it went into the sea
The fishes got out their dishes,
And had scallops and bollocks for tea.ball
Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small
Himmler is someone sim'lar
But poor Goebbels has no balls at all.
Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small
Himmler is someone sim'lar
But poor Goebbels has no balls at all." The Music is The "Colonel Bogey March" is a British march that was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts.
Also see the "Don't tell him your name Pike" from Dad's Army.
It was a propaganda song in WWII to boost moral, silly but there you are. This is just a satire on it's origin. And yes keeping up moral kept us fighting until the Americans had drained us of money, had been attacked by the Japanese and declared war on Japan, Britain then also declaring war on Japan shaming America into declaring war on Hitler.
Jodi, the inspector from "death in paradise" is Ben Millar, also known for the Armstrong and Millar show, he is the shorter of the two pilots in the sketches you've watched. When he was killed off in death in paradise, his replacement was Kris Marshall, best known for the sit-com "my family", where the daughter of US film director Sam Wannamaker played his mother. When he left, the lead role went to Ardal O'Hanlon, best known for the sit-com "Father Ted".
Miller!
And when Ardal left, then came Ralf Little.
@@kjejon1 Last time I watched regularly was when Kris Marshall was the star, I've seen a few episodes with Ardal but none with Ralf Little, I had no idea Danny John Jules had left and then come back till I read about it.
Jodi, yes Death in Paradise was best with Ben Miller. As for the One Ball song, we Canadian kids loved it.
I think you'd be better checking out Armstrong & Miller as 'Brabbins & Fyffe', a pair of old-school Music-Hall (Vaudeville) performers, who have a habit of getting a bit carried away while singing slightly suggestive ditties!
They usually go waaaaay too far!! 🤣🤣🤣
Oh man this tv show is sooooo hilarious. Love three guys.
Somewhat culturally specific that one. There's probably not a Brit over the age of 30 who doesn't know that rhyme to that (John Sousa?) tune. It's just a bawdy song that was created at some point during WW2 and somehow spread around the country.
2.16 - That is NOT Rob Brydon, the host of WILTY!!!!!! That's Ben Miller and the other guy is Alexander Armstrong.
Edit: ...you got it later!!
There is no other meaning it’s to ridicule hitler and turn him into a laughing stock
It may seem strange on the 21st century internet, but in late 20th century Britain the Natzis were regarded nearly as figures of fun. Clown like joke characters to be mocked and ridiculed.
Freddie Starr, Spike Milligan, Allo Allo, etc... laughing at people in those uniforms and armbands was ubiquitous when I was a lad.
No, Ben Miller did not change his name to Rob Brydon and go on to host Would I lie to you.
The tune is so engrained in the British culture that it can even be turned into a piece of classical music in the style of Beethoven. The late great Dudley Moore was not only funny but a great pianist.
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That's not Rob Brydon, it's Ben Miller.
This was a common song during the 2nd WW. Sung to the military march, "Colonel Bogey March".
It’s all Balls were talking testes here.
Famous WW2 music hall ditty. Sung by British Troops during WW2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball
Really famous song in Britain which we all know and this is just a fun tale on how it might have been written, if you know you know but if you don't this would make no sense
It wasn’t Rob Brydon from WILTY but Ben Miller. The tune is very well known in the UK!. As is the mantra about Hitler!😅
If America had actually ever won a war, you would probably understand it. This was a legitimate wartime tactic to spread misinformation to undermine the enemy, but it also had the added bonus of building morale within the English side. This song was originally released in 1939.
Edit: most of the misinformation spread wasn't as comical.
British Army marching song from WW2 .
To clarify; The actual tune was already known in WW1, but the 'Hitler' words did not appear until WW2...
The joke is knowing the actual song . Brits obviously get it as it’s a famous song here
It was a WW2 marching song in te British Army to take the piss out of the Nazi
It was a well known British Army song, also called " Colonel Bogey" played at the beginning of the movie "Bridge On The River Kwai." Check it out. Ian Dee.
As has been said, the joke relies on the watcher being aware of the song, it's still well known in the UK today, and just originated as a crude way to keep British morale up during WWII. This sketch just takes it one step further to suggest it was based on intelligence.
Unfortunately, this version of the video doesn't include the next scene, where the Germans have intercepted their own intelligence, which immediately turns out to be clever propaganda when they sing their song, the first line of which is "Churchill hast eine massive cock!" You don't have to be fluent in German to understand that 😀
IT WAS SUNG DURING THE WAR BY THE TOMMIES, JUST MAKING FUN AND ITS A SKIT ABOUT HIW THE HELL DID, SOMEONE COME UP WITH THAT SONG LOL BEN MILLER WAS A PHYSICIST ALMOST LOL, AND WAS IN DEATH IN PARADISE, THOSE 2 AND MITCHELL AND WEBB ACTUALLY WORKED TOGETHER IN A COUPLE IF SKITS,YOU NEED TO WATCH MORE LIKE THE 18TH CENTURY GAY BAR OR THE RUSSIAN FOOTBALL CHAIRMAN OF CHELSEA, VERY FUNNY
I suppose if you're not familiar with the song it doesn't make much sense
But it is a very well known (In the UK) song from WW2
And yes that is the Death In Paradise actor & that's not the first time they've been mixed up!
And he was in a comedy duo of his own - Armstrong & Miller
You might have reacted to some of their WW2 pilots sketches???
DOH! That was an Armstrong & Miller sketch!!! 😂
Yeah. We’re not. Makes sense for sure
only the request is dumb - and the person who requested it. Unless you have some cultural reference point you won't get the humour in this. - might as well have been in another language.
At 2:35 you have Ben Miller and Jim Howich, who aren't host of WILTY
Everybody new this song at one time even the kids. Most of the humour within this is based on the song. So if you haven’t heard it, you wouldn’t understand. I expect it’s unknown in the states.
A lot of American troops were aware of this song, and it did make it's way back to the States, so I dare say some Americans in the US were aware if it at some point, but if you arent aware of the song to begin with, you won't find this sketch funny.
And considering I'm not particularly keen on 'Armstrong and Miller', ill admit that this sketch IS very fuckin' funny, probably more so to 11 year old me In the late 1980's.
Oh yeah, sung the tune of the "Colonel Bogey March." The sketch is a play on a vulgar song making it sound like vital intelligence.
Armstrong and Miller, Gay Bar sketch. Short, but hilarious.
Colonel Bogey March IIRC. Just a British moral booster to humiliate the b'stard.
We used to include Churchill in the song.
You didn't sing this song as kids in the US?