@@cacambo589 sadly true tho we asked for help from the beginning so much so about 7000 Americans joined the raf knowing that America would remove there citizen ship, because they wanted to remain neutral and they refused until Japan attacked Pearl harbour.
One of his best joke is - "why is it called Great Britain?" "Because when we are in a war other countries look down their list of allies and say great, Britain"
Best shown during WW2 where we won the war, no help from no one else Because if you're not in the fight from the start squire you're not in the fight at all
the Russians won ww2. we won the battle of Britain which was the deciding point for the uk meaning we likely wouldn't have been invaded but we would have been in a stale mate with nazi Germany for years had Hitler not betrayed the Russians.
He is a historian with a degree from Oxford, a comedian, a musician and a writer. His ‘pub landlord’ character as seen here is in his own words; ‘A know-all know-nothing blowhard who knows the answer to every question even though he hasn't been asked any of them’. He is a favourite of ours in the UK
@@dinerouk And I don't suppose that I'll be the last. Thank you for your pointer about UA-cam protocol. If that's all you've got to worry about.............
Al Murray, pure genius; brilliantly close to the bone hilarity. Can't argue with solid fact....😂 There's a number of highly successful UK comedians who've had Oxbridge educations. Monty Python as an obvious example.
The great thing about this character is that I have met guys like this in pubs. They aren't always landlords - sometimes it's that regular who sits at the end of the bar five nights a week, putting the world to rights for all and sundry in the pub who are prepared to listen. I presume he got the inspiration for this character from someone similar.
Alamo. Battle of. 36 of those who gave their lives at the Alamo were British and a further 87 were first generation British American, a fact often forgotten when the Alamo is discussed.
The reason you dont get taught that in America is cus it mentions British... you all hate that time of our relationship for some reason. Took us 250 years to make up
@@philjones45 Two ways to tell if a Brit hates you, are: 1) They are extremely fecking polite, but cold. or 2) They are punching you repeatedly in the face.
I met Al Murry at the fringe after my show a few years back he was so polite and friendly; introduced himself with no regard for his fame and he was drinking a lovely white wine! The chap is a gentleman
Mr Al Murray is literally one of the smartest people on the planet. He's a hilarious character Al Murray he's the reason aswell as many other reasons why I'm proud to be British 💪🇬🇧
I accidentally watched his BBC 4 documentary on Friedrich Nietzsche. I'd never heard him speak as an intellectual only as the character 🤯😳 man is clever, makes you see the charter in a whole new light 👍😂
@@Andy111Woodcock He wrote a book called 'Watching War Films With My Dad' that wasn't exactly hardcore history but was still really good, about the way in which history is represented and misrepresented in fiction...
I think you might want to read up on the War of 1812. The US started the war with the aim to annex Canada and failed entirely, not gaining any territory. Then the British seized Washington D.C. and razed much of it. Then the US sued for peace, which, with Britain being at War with France at the time, Britain accepted. I can't think of any way that can be thought of as an American win.
You probably realise this but that pub land Lord character is just a character It's a persona hes actually a very highly educated smart guy. Hes Got a history degree from Oxford
Actually Al Murray pays the highest accolade to America - He is a historian and he did a TV programme about D-Day to Berlin and he praises the American soldiers for their bravery and their determination .
You mean coming in close to the end taking glory from all the men that dropped before thay got involved o and you only got involved because of a supply ship got sunk Very classy America
@@lordloco-hz2tt No one _took_ any glory from anyone, there's plenty to go around, every man who fought and died or survived during the Normandy Landings and played their part in the liberation of Europe deserves our undying gratitude.
This is my favourite reaction from an American. You seem to get our nutty sense of humour. It’s hard to believe but it means we actually like you! All the best from the UK 🇬🇧
So very true :nods:. If we are scrupulously polite to you at all times then its a winning bet that we would far rather you went away and never darkened our doorstep again :).
Watching this again, I'd like to thank you for being such a good 'sport!' British humour can often be brutal and difficult to understand - you did a great job! I sincerely hope that this pandemic sh*t has not touched you or your loved ones!...
British sense of humour is to take the Mickey out of everything and anything. No offence is intended, we just laugh at ourselves and life. It is also a common misconception that our beer is warm and it isn't.
hmmm i dunno so much I was a landlord for many years and a lot of old timers use to like the bottled ale straight from the shelf at room temp ( me included) lager on the other hand yea that has to be cold
The thing to remember with Al Murray is that he's actually mocking nationalist types by portraying an exaggerated middle-Englander. In reality he is quite liberal - some people have accused him of having his cake and eating it, because on the one hand he appeals to liberals who enjoy the open mockery of flag-waving nationalists, while on the other he appeals to those same nationalists who haven't got the joke.
@AngloGirl85UK who said there's anything wrong with patriotism? There's something wrong with a certain kind of patriotism, obviously, but not in and of itself. I'm not sure in what way you think I'm confused. I'm also not sure why you think I'm a 'librard', nor am I 100% sure what you mean by it.
@AngloGirl85UK way to lower the tone. when describing British liberals don't think of US liberals. They are not the same, our liberals pretty sure you would call em communists.
@@monkeymox2544 your comment sounds very 'liberal'. Makes it seem like there is something wrong with patriotism. There's nothing wrong with being proud of their country.
@@Joshua-bv5bo again, no there's nothing wrong with a certain type of patriotism. Wanting your country to be a good place to live, for example, is admirable. On the other hand, some forms of patriotism are funny, silly, thoughtless or sinister, it just depends.
Brits take the piss out of each other non stop. Someone of the stuff that is said is brutal but it genuinely comes from a place of love. It’s weird that we all know where the line is and if someone does rarely cross it then they 100% know about it.
Wasn't sure what to say when my 8yo niece said "I know you love me because you male fun of me." Momentary existential crisis... am I a bad person? ... nah she seems good.
I appreciate this is an old video but there's a few things worth pointing out here. Al Murrey the pub landlord, really is a character and the real Al Murrey has s degree in history from Cambrige, one of the most prestigious universities in the UK. :)
When he says we got you guys to beat Japan for us. That's a reference to Churchill saying we'll never even need to send a ship to take back the territories Japan took when the Pacific war went up.
What a great reaction! So good to see someone not from here enjoying and understanding English banter, often times people get offended when it's more a sign of admiration. We talk like this about our good friends for fun, we never do it to people we don't like. Many people who react to Al Murray don't get it, it's so refreshing to see someone that does.
A clear British win, stopped the US in Canada burnt the white house occupied Washington and blockaded the US ports. The US achived none of their pre war aims where as the British achived there aims of keeping Canada and controling the sea and waiting till the US were tired of war.
Between a quarter and a third of those killed at the Alamo were in fact British. And of those from Texan and the States of America the majority were of British decent. It’s true, check it out.
You have to remember that he is putting on an act when he is "The Pub landlord". In real life he is a very intelligent man who went to Oxford university!
Love that you got his sense of humour and defended yourself as well, no problem being patriotic. There's another one called 'Al Murray on nations of the world', that one's a good laugh.
All Murray is great lol, he also is making fun of the brits as well in this. If you can catch that, there are definitly some things that seem complimatary towards the brits but if you think about what he actually said, then his actually making fun of it, lol, so theres some backhanded compliments his aiming his own country as well, lol.
@Din Djarin I think Britain is a land mass made up of islands called the British isles, the UK is made up of four countries ( or kingdoms) within that land mass coming together to form the United kingdoms , Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, England being the largest , we are all British because we live in Britain, but never call a Scot,Welsh or Irish English ( he'll have your throat out ) 😂
Another great reaction friend. But, as another commenter pointed out what you guys call the War of 1812, though it did officially end in a stale mate, was technically our win, since we didn't initiate it. The US were the aggressors and you just hadn't learned from history that Britain very rarely loses a defensive war, and when it does it's usually not won for long! Also I say _you call it The War of 1812_ because to us it was regarded as merely a skirmish of the larger Napolionic wars...it was the equivalent of holding a midget at arms lenghth with our weak arm whilst fighting a greater foe with our stronger arm...lol
I know of a defence battle the British lost !! June 9-14 1667 !! It was a payback for the 1664 steal of New Amsterdam (you called it New York afterwards) 😉 History could have been so much different had you left it alone !!
i once made the mistook of drinking warm miller lite in milwaukee.......it taught me why yanky beer is served cold, so you cant taste the cat piss in it. in blighty we have taste buds so the beer is served at a sensible temperature....
Don't take it personally. Al Murray is a character based on some pub landlords who were over patriotic and wouldn't have a single bad word said against Great Britain. It is satire it can be offensive but just take it with a pinch of salt. The UK take the piss out of each other all the time it is how we get by in life. The good old take the piss out of each other in a funny way is what the UK is all about
3:12 Well actually....we only intended to send a message, not take over and the huge battle you won was AFTER the peace treaty had been sighed and we left the capital because of your weather, not you guys. So...more like a draw than anything else, considering we weren't aiming to take the US back anyway. I don't know how its taught in US but over here its taught we did it in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada.
Danniel Boone was sitting in his green fatigues shooting at these morons in red coats with a white belt across the chest. ...yup the British generals really knew how camouflage worked ...
@@raleighburner1589 Is that the same Daniel Boone who spent the first few years of the rebellion fighting the Shawnee, captured, surrendered and subsequently courts martialed (found not guilty)? Who, in what appears to be his first encounter with British troops, was again captured and then returned home after Cornwallis' surrender, only to be on the losing side in a battle with American loyalists and Shawnee. The only military success he seems to have had was his part in the destruction of five unoccupied Shawnee villages under George Clark. Of course, this in no way denigrates his reputation as a pioneer nor politician.
@@raleighburner1589 You're saying it like most nations did not do what we were doing and wearing in that period of time. Or did you forget wearing stuff like that, was what was still done in those days??
@@raleighburner1589 The point of the uniform was identification on the battlefield of the time. Cannons, muskets, rocket fire. ALL left vast clouds of smoke covering the area. If you couldn't see your allies, chances are you would shoot them. Infantry fought in lines, all muskets aimed as one and fired in unison... so you wouldn't blind the man next to you as you would if you free fired. The weapons were inaccurate and required volleys to be effective. Once weapons stopped producing clouds of smoke and could hit an actual target deliberately at a fair range, the tactics changed.
When you poured Bud light, reminded me of this quote from Monthy Python live at the Hollywood bowl "American beer is like making love in a canoe, it's fucking close to water"
America dropped a bomb on Japan. A bomb which was largely developed by British scientists. USA was 10 years away from getting the bomb until Britain gave USA Britains research. Also the bomb was dropped with a British bomb loader which was attached to a US plane. The US military bosses were going to use a British plane as the US airforce didn't have a device to drop the bomb. They tried for months but couldn't make one so they used one from a British plane.
In 1812 you sued for peace ,meaning you cryed after you started it , and seeing as you asked for peace means You lost and we won ! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
I always kinda assume that if you're fighting a defensive war and it ends with status quo that technically means you won. So I think by that metric the UK did win the war of 1812.
Especially when the Redcoats rampaged from the Northern to the Southern border and were only finally stopped at New Orleans, when they were tired out ...
Murray is a walking history encyclopedia. Highly intelligent (Oxford educated if my memory serves me - and it frequently does not) with good recall. One of the funniest men ever to insult everyone. My wife is NY born Sicilian and she loves listening to him. Managed to attend one of his shows - he lacerated everyone.
Al Murray is playing a comic character here, a parody of a British bigot. See the real guy in one of his serious documentaries & he's a polite, well-mannered and highly intelligent person.
He is infected with Wokism sadly irl. Also He’s not acting like a bigot he’s just acting like a working class landlord. The intolerance of the “tolerant” left has warped your mind in true communist subversive style.
@@Stupops78 Someone has some strange views. What has politics got to do with it? Bigotry is found throughout the political spectrum: left, right and centre. You don't have to be left-wing to see it and find this comedy funny!
00:17 A bit late to show Russia "what's up" when they'd already won the Space Race. If you come second in a 100m sprint, you don't get points for running a marathon passed the finish line. 😋
I don't think anyone really won the war of 1812 since the war resulted in nothing happening and everything back to how it was previously before the war. However I'd say Britain got more from their side of it since they were able to hold on to Canada after the U.S tried to annex it and they were able to keep their maritime policies which is what angered the U.S and caused them to go to war in the first place. However the war of 1812 was a mere sideshow for Britain compared to the real war they were fighting in Europe against Napoeleon whilst he was trying to conquer the continent and was just an annoying distraction for them since they had to defer some troops to back up the people in Canada against the U.S. If you search "Who won the war of 1812" into google most sources lean more towards the British/Canadian side and from what I've seen most British and definitely most of the Canadians I've talked to believe they won that war since they kept the U.S out and because of that Canada is it's own country today and not part of the U.S.
The US was trying to capture British territory and Brittan was trying to hold the Canadian border where it was. The border stayed in about the same place and The British lost interest in pushing the war into the US, and concentrated on keeping things as they were. The Americans sued for peace, although they gained great morale and support for the war from the defense of Washington and NY, a serious invasion in New Orleans or the great lakes would have been hard to resist. The Americans lost because they were the first to give up. That's about as strongly as you can put it.
Taking Canada wasn't a "matter of marching" after all as Thomas Jefferson said it would be. If you start a war with a foreign nation, to invade that nation then fail to invade then you lost, the war ended with Britain occupying more of the USA than the USA occupied in Canada. Its a USA defeat regardless of how they try and spin it. They just took their propaganda at face value.
I'm a Scot and was taught all about the Alamo as it's reckoned up to 80% of the men who died were Scots or Scots descent, Texas also has Scottish connections with places Like Houston and Dallas and were one of the largest early populations of settlers until larger influxes of Germans and Spanish overtook them.
Cheezsoup Hey...Don't make me laugh and choke on my Scotch. I had to go and get another. Once (2000) I left a full Bud on a wall next to BB King's Club on Beale St. Memphis. One sip and I couldn't go any further. I bet it's still there. And THEY think English beer is warm!
The reason hes funny is because people like this guy take him seriously....hes a great clown and not a british supremacist. Hes like many a drunk englishman in a pub....unless theyre in glasgow
You’ve really hit a chord with UK audiences as you don’t seem to be the usual ‘ill play dumb and react’ type. Love your uk react videos to see an American react to uk stuff is great. Definitely watch jay forman UK place names video! Really recommended.
Just so you know Al Murray is playing a character here "The Pub Landlord". An exaggeration of many pub landlords or blokes you meet down the pub. In real life he is a highly educated guy, a degree in History from Oxford, and quite well spoken.
In the glorious days when they were open you could go in a certain kind of pub and hear entertianing characters like this after a few pints! Gawd I miss it!
he is just pulling your leg. your our cousins and that's what family do they pull one another's legs. we have spent some time in America and you wont find a more generous and friendly people anywhere we love you
He actually stood for election to become a member of Parliament using his pub landlord persona portrayed here. I believe it was in the same constituency as Nigel Farage who was the UKIP leader at the time. Just looked it up - He got 318 votes!
He was in the same as Farage - South Thanet (I was at the count). He came sixth, but beat the likes of Zebadiah Abu-Obadiah, there representing the Al-Zebabist Nation of Ooog party who only managed to be 11th and got only 9% as many votes.
He did but as a 'joke' candidate. Party Political broadcasts for the FUKP ua-cam.com/video/tADgYkAfXro/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/QQfsLrMkyTE/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/LgW0A94BS4w/v-deo.html etc
Your a great guy man! I’m from the UK and your reactions and our humour was all in good faith! We are a nation that takes the piss out of everyone and we expect it back! Just to give it back some more! I appreciate you listening to a comedian you’ve never heard before and took it in good stride! 🇬🇧🇺🇸 forever!
Al Murray is a Oxford prof of History, the '' Pub Landlord' persona, is just his front, for shit-stirrng his audience, and hilarious it is. DO NOT, take his quips and exaggerations seriously, his facts, yes.
Glad you took it in good spirit. I'm coming to Houston Texas in a few weeks (from UK), and your video popped up as a suggestion. Really looking forward to it, always wanted to see Texas - been playing lots of Strait to get in the mood lol
@@Lewis-zq5ws but that was early on in the War and was in response to the American rampage through York in Ontario. Let’s look at the key war aims of the USA and the UK: 1. USA, in no particular order: take the loyalist colonies of Canada and Newfoundland and include them in the Union; stop the British boarding their ships, arresting suspected deserters and press ganging sailors; resume full trade with Europe without the @#£&& €$¥^]~§§ing British Blockade, FREE TRADE, Y’ALL. 2. British: in order: Defeat Napoleon and France, and restore the balance of power in Europe, by military and economic means. Preserve the loyalist North American colonies’ borders. The latter two of America’s aims were directly related to Britain’s war against Napoleon. We had been maintaining a blockade of the European North Sea and Atlantic coast since 1802, this was costly in men and ships. The blockade was intended to strangle French trade, as well as limit the movement of the French (and Dutch) navy. American merchant ships were boarded to stop them trading with France, and many suspected Royal Navy deserters were arrested and hung, and numerous American sailors “volunteered” (were press ganged) to serve in the Royal Navy. However, when Napoleon abdicated (the first time) in the Autumn of 1814, war aims 2 and 3 for Britain disappeared. The USA-Canada border has not changed since the Treaty ending the AWI. Britain won.
His look is from the appearance of a typical pub landlord from a few years ago I'd say. Beer belly, cursory tie, stout shoes. You're seeing a parody. Thanks for taking it well, Brits love Americans.
Never say that the British discriminate, we take the piss out of everybody, including ourselves!
Australia nods along.
......especially ourselves.
Insulting our friends and colleagues is our way of greeting, bater/ being friendly
ESPECIALLY OURSEVES
Even more out of each other bro. Who else has Spitting Image. Best wishes
“WW II, we were there”. Well, eventually 😂
After we paid them to make the trip so America were just mercenaries
That's a nasty way to view a complex situation.
@@cacambo589 sadly true tho we asked for help from the beginning so much so about 7000 Americans joined the raf knowing that America would remove there citizen ship, because they wanted to remain neutral and they refused until Japan attacked Pearl harbour.
@@connorohoare7470 it is a biiiiiit more complex than that.
@@PalleRasmussen you are right after ww1 America didn’t want to join and help in ww2 until we paid them of which we only recently finished paying.
A British person insulting you is a sign of true friendship
:)
Thats so true, we do it to each other all the time.
Depends on the kind of insult of course, but yes taking the mick out of someone very often shows complete affection for the target of the insults.
But tutting mean they’re your worst enemy.
Never waste a good insult on someone you don't like.
If you get annoyed at Al Murray you’re missing the joke
Seems good enough to confuse people for long enough to nick whatever the good old Britiish Empire wants off 'em
@@johnbuyers8095 🧐🤣🤣🇬🇧
@@johnbuyers8095 here, here old bean.
He’s too American to understand sarcasm. It’s not his fault. 🤣
I still laughed at the "a'ight, I'ma go fight 'im" quip
One of his best joke is - "why is it called Great Britain?"
"Because when we are in a war other countries look down their list of allies and say great, Britain"
They then knew they were on the winning side.
@@blu5543 hahaha tbf this holds quite true since we've won almost every war we've had with allies on our side that is
Great joke, subtle, the yanks will never get it!
Best shown during WW2 where we won the war, no help from no one else
Because if you're not in the fight from the start squire you're not in the fight at all
the Russians won ww2. we won the battle of Britain which was the deciding point for the uk meaning we likely wouldn't have been invaded but we would have been in a stale mate with nazi Germany for years had Hitler not betrayed the Russians.
He is a historian with a degree from Oxford, a comedian, a musician and a writer.
His ‘pub landlord’ character as seen here is in his own words;
‘A know-all know-nothing blowhard who knows the answer to every question even though he hasn't been asked any of them’.
He is a favourite of ours in the UK
Nige H
Quite the best I've read yet!
@@MauriatOttolink You're the 3rd person to mention his degree in first 6 comments. People should really look at the comments made before!
@@dinerouk
And I don't suppose that I'll be the last.
Thank you for your pointer about UA-cam protocol.
If that's all you've got to worry about.............
Al Murray, pure genius; brilliantly close to the bone hilarity. Can't argue with solid fact....😂
There's a number of highly successful UK comedians who've had Oxbridge educations. Monty Python as an obvious example.
The British laugh at themselves, all the time. Don't take it to heart.
It's actually a sign of affection
Well, fundamentally The Pub Landlord is an example of British self-mockery, it's just that everybody else gets mocked as well.
Friendly fire
The great thing about this character is that I have met guys like this in pubs. They aren't always landlords - sometimes it's that regular who sits at the end of the bar five nights a week, putting the world to rights for all and sundry in the pub who are prepared to listen. I presume he got the inspiration for this character from someone similar.
Affection or an infection , those two a deadly to mix up
Alamo. Battle of. 36 of those who gave their lives at the Alamo were British and a further 87 were first generation British American, a fact often forgotten when the Alamo is discussed.
Woah I did not know that. Texas born and raised and in middle school we were required to take "Texas history" and we were never taught that.
Sir Trevor, I would have liked that better as a news bulletin.
Trevor, I would like to invite you to join our pub quiz team.
The reason you dont get taught that in America is cus it mentions British... you all hate that time of our relationship for some reason. Took us 250 years to make up
If a British person is relentlessly taking the piss out of you, usually means they love you.
Or, really fucking hate you.
@@philjones45 Nah you'd know if I hated you :) x
@@philjones45 Two ways to tell if a Brit hates you, are: 1) They are extremely fecking polite, but cold. or 2) They are punching you repeatedly in the face.
@pixelmangler If both parties are happy with the trade, what's the problem?
@@philjones45 If a British person hates you they will either be incredibly polite to you or plotting your murder. Or indeed both at once.
I met Al Murry at the fringe after my show a few years back he was so polite and friendly; introduced himself with no regard for his fame and he was drinking a lovely white wine! The chap is a gentleman
It was like meeting Ralphie May only to realise he went to Yale and loves a cheeky pino nior
He graduated with a degree in history from Oxford ..... his pub landlord character is the bogs danglies lol
Mr Al Murray is literally one of the smartest people on the planet. He's a hilarious character Al Murray he's the reason aswell as many other reasons why I'm proud to be British 💪🇬🇧
I accidentally watched his BBC 4 documentary on Friedrich Nietzsche. I'd never heard him speak as an intellectual only as the character 🤯😳 man is clever, makes you see the charter in a whole new light 👍😂
Murray, izzard, fry, Laurie, Mortimer, reeves, etc
All incredibly clever and funny.
@@Andy111Woodcock He wrote a book called 'Watching War Films With My Dad' that wasn't exactly hardcore history but was still really good, about the way in which history is represented and misrepresented in fiction...
The race to space should really go to Germany! After all the yanks did steal Wernher von Braun
I think you might want to read up on the War of 1812. The US started the war with the aim to annex Canada and failed entirely, not gaining any territory. Then the British seized Washington D.C. and razed much of it. Then the US sued for peace, which, with Britain being at War with France at the time, Britain accepted. I can't think of any way that can be thought of as an American win.
You probably realise this but that pub land Lord character is just a character It's a persona hes actually a very highly educated smart guy. Hes Got a history degree from Oxford
So does my cousin
@@teiloturner5374 yes but your cousin isn't funny.
@@-NemoMeImpuneLacessit tru AF
@@teiloturner5374 Best, yet most irrelevant response ever.
@@Medicalcannabisuk I did have a cousin that ran for President of Uganda, but unfortunately he was crushed to death by a charging herd of cattle.
If as an American you can take Al Murray and like him you sir deserve a like and a subscribe
Actually Al Murray pays the highest accolade to America - He is a historian and he did a TV programme about D-Day to Berlin and he praises the American soldiers for their bravery and their determination .
As well they should be.
And not a lot of people know that.
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k in those time Americans kicked nazi asses. good times with those boys😂😂
You mean coming in close to the end taking glory from all the men that dropped before thay got involved o and you only got involved because of a supply ship got sunk Very classy America
@@lordloco-hz2tt No one _took_ any glory from anyone, there's plenty to go around, every man who fought and died or survived during the Normandy Landings and played their part in the liberation of Europe deserves our undying gratitude.
This is my favourite reaction from an American. You seem to get our nutty sense of humour. It’s hard to believe but it means we actually like you! All the best from the UK 🇬🇧
Thanks brother!
Mike: "I have a Bud Light".
Me "Ahh a refreshing drink for the ladies".
Like having sex in a canoe... F**ing close to water!
But its neither White wine nor a fruit based drink! Thats illegal 😉
@@seanmorris you beat me to that one
To quote Frankie Boyle... "We don't do cocktails..."
One of the symptoms of Covid-19 is a loss of taste. I get into a panic if I drink Budweiser...
Hahahaha I died laughing when he said about the alamo and you just dropped your drink and headphones 😂😂
If a Brit doesn’t insult you you know they don’t like you.
So very true :nods:. If we are scrupulously polite to you at all times then its a winning bet that we would far rather you went away and never darkened our doorstep again :).
Watching this again, I'd like to thank you for being such a good 'sport!' British humour can often be brutal and difficult to understand - you did a great job! I sincerely hope that this pandemic sh*t has not touched you or your loved ones!...
British sense of humour is to take the Mickey out of everything and anything. No offence is intended, we just laugh at ourselves and life. It is also a common misconception that our beer is warm and it isn't.
Our Ale should be cool, but not freezing cold - it shouldn't be fizzy either.
@@davidwallin7518 spot on. There are so many local breweries too!
@@juliehillman8743 Indeed, and I do my best to help them all keep brewing
hmmm i dunno so much I was a landlord for many years and a lot of old timers use to like the bottled ale straight from the shelf at room temp ( me included) lager on the other hand yea that has to be cold
@@markpotter8280 shelf can be quite cool - and I don't know anyone who'd, these days anyway, admit to drinking lager!
I fully retract my previous statement, I like you Bro, you understand it’s comedy and have a decent sense of humour.
Yeah most people just click on the video and comment that im a pansy without watching the whole thing hahaha
The thing to remember with Al Murray is that he's actually mocking nationalist types by portraying an exaggerated middle-Englander. In reality he is quite liberal - some people have accused him of having his cake and eating it, because on the one hand he appeals to liberals who enjoy the open mockery of flag-waving nationalists, while on the other he appeals to those same nationalists who haven't got the joke.
@AngloGirl85UK who said there's anything wrong with patriotism? There's something wrong with a certain kind of patriotism, obviously, but not in and of itself.
I'm not sure in what way you think I'm confused. I'm also not sure why you think I'm a 'librard', nor am I 100% sure what you mean by it.
Oh great definition of a genius then, Al for PM.
@AngloGirl85UK way to lower the tone.
when describing British liberals don't think of US liberals. They are not the same, our liberals pretty sure you would call em communists.
@@monkeymox2544 your comment sounds very 'liberal'. Makes it seem like there is something wrong with patriotism. There's nothing wrong with being proud of their country.
@@Joshua-bv5bo again, no there's nothing wrong with a certain type of patriotism. Wanting your country to be a good place to live, for example, is admirable. On the other hand, some forms of patriotism are funny, silly, thoughtless or sinister, it just depends.
Great reaction! A Yank who understands the humour and laughs at himself - brilliant!
Brits take the piss out of each other non stop. Someone of the stuff that is said is brutal but it genuinely comes from a place of love. It’s weird that we all know where the line is and if someone does rarely cross it then they 100% know about it.
Very true!
*I wonder how we got Gordan Ramsay*
Wasn't sure what to say when my 8yo niece said "I know you love me because you male fun of me."
Momentary existential crisis... am I a bad person? ... nah she seems good.
@@plaguemaster308 Or worse...Piers Morgan...
I appreciate this is an old video but there's a few things worth pointing out here. Al Murrey the pub landlord, really is a character and the real Al Murrey has s degree in history from Cambrige, one of the most prestigious universities in the UK. :)
When he says we got you guys to beat Japan for us. That's a reference to Churchill saying we'll never even need to send a ship to take back the territories Japan took when the Pacific war went up.
He would have known that of course that is why he said it.
What a great reaction! So good to see someone not from here enjoying and understanding English banter, often times people get offended when it's more a sign of admiration. We talk like this about our good friends for fun, we never do it to people we don't like. Many people who react to Al Murray don't get it, it's so refreshing to see someone that does.
We do the same thing here. In Texas if someone ever says "oh well bless your heart" it means f*$k you guy. Haha
Taken like a champ lol. Great video mate
There are cattle stations in Australia as big as Texas. Lol.
Love the content man, you should look into the war of 1812 and what it was about. Sorry to inform you but it was a win for the British ahaha
And we burnt the white house down lol
@@Bartimus543 nah just the inside
A clear British win, stopped the US in Canada burnt the white house occupied Washington and blockaded the US ports.
The US achived none of their pre war aims where as the British achived there aims of keeping Canada and controling the sea and waiting till the US were tired of war.
Between a quarter and a third of those killed at the Alamo were in fact British. And of those from Texan and the States of America the majority were of British decent. It’s true, check it out.
You have to remember that he is putting on an act when he is "The Pub landlord". In real life he is a very intelligent man who went to Oxford university!
Oxfords a complete dump... should have gone to Cambridge or Hull! :-D
@@edthered26 It's one of the best institutes in Europe... possibly the world.
@@holdtightadele8017 learn your blackadder
Great to see you understand our British sense of humour, nice one mate. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Love that you got his sense of humour and defended yourself as well, no problem being patriotic. There's another one called 'Al Murray on nations of the world', that one's a good laugh.
Canada "used to be a British Colony" It is still part of the Commonwealth, with Queen Elizabeth as Head of State
On Spain, and bull fighting " iv no battle with cattle, a row with a cow, its a business arrangement, he's made of beef and I'm hungry.
He has a master's degree in history from Oxford.
Don't forget he took an overseas visitor randomly, it just happened to be an American, could have been German or Aussie. Similar roasting!
Glad you enjoyed some of our humour as quite often British humor goes right over some Americans heads.
it's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin. That reaction may be controversial.
Haha nah thats good old fashion humor back when people could take a joke
@@DrunkTexanSays "we will fight them on the beaches" W.Churchill
"we will fight those bitches" Houston 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Loafer. What are you doing here?
@@SkillBuilder Suppin' home brew, Roger. What else would I be doing at 8 on a Saturday night? ;-)
Great vid boss respect from Manchester GREAT Britain 😁
All Murray is great lol, he also is making fun of the brits as well in this. If you can catch that, there are definitly some things that seem complimatary towards the brits but if you think about what he actually said, then his actually making fun of it, lol, so theres some backhanded compliments his aiming his own country as well, lol.
Britain is not a country 🤦🏼♂️
@@mrperkins8630 I said brits, as in the british people. Not brits as the island. I often call myself a brit and use it slang for british person.
@@mrperkins8630 used to be a country...
first there were kingdoms ruled by king's and empires ruled by emperors now we have countries ruled by cu##'s
@Din Djarin I think Britain is a land mass made up of islands called the British isles, the UK is made up of four countries ( or kingdoms) within that land mass coming together to form the United kingdoms , Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, England being the largest , we are all British because we live in Britain, but never call a Scot,Welsh or Irish English ( he'll have your throat out ) 😂
I absolutely love the fact that you got this and found it funny. This is proper British humour 🤣
Another great reaction friend.
But, as another commenter pointed out what you guys call the War of 1812, though it did officially end in a stale mate, was technically our win, since we didn't initiate it. The US were the aggressors and you just hadn't learned from history that Britain very rarely loses a defensive war, and when it does it's usually not won for long!
Also I say _you call it The War of 1812_ because to us it was regarded as merely a skirmish of the larger Napolionic wars...it was the equivalent of holding a midget at arms lenghth with our weak arm whilst fighting a greater foe with our stronger arm...lol
The US gained Florida.
@@johnwade1095 so you agree that they lost 😂
@@leea8706 most amusing.
Britain prevailed militarily, the US gained Florida,
So Spain lost.
@M Bacon the US backed the wrong horse with France, but France had been a great help at Yorktown.
I know of a defence battle the British lost !! June 9-14 1667 !!
It was a payback for the 1664 steal of New Amsterdam (you called it New York afterwards) 😉
History could have been so much different had you left it alone !!
Mate you took that right on the chin, have a warm beer! 🍻 🇬🇧
i once made the mistook of drinking warm miller lite in milwaukee.......it taught me why yanky beer is served cold, so you cant taste the cat piss in it. in blighty we have taste buds so the beer is served at a sensible temperature....
All I know about the Alamo is Ozzy Osbourne pee'd on it and is barred from Texas for life as a result🤷🏻♂️
Al Murray is great! His whole shtick is an overly patriotic working class brit. He's basicly our version of Larry the cable guy.
Don't take it personally. Al Murray is a character based on some pub landlords who were over patriotic and wouldn't have a single bad word said against Great Britain. It is satire it can be offensive but just take it with a pinch of salt. The UK take the piss out of each other all the time it is how we get by in life. The good old take the piss out of each other in a funny way is what the UK is all about
I'm a Brit who studied in Texas Tech, Lubbock... Recently found your channel and loving it.
Thank you! Go Red Raiders!
@@DrunkTexanSays ☝🏻
Biggest achievement is getting drunk off of Bud Light. I think I'd flood my lungs first.
3:12 Well actually....we only intended to send a message, not take over and the huge battle you won was AFTER the peace treaty had been sighed and we left the capital because of your weather, not you guys. So...more like a draw than anything else, considering we weren't aiming to take the US back anyway. I don't know how its taught in US but over here its taught we did it in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada.
Plus, we didn't want the US anyway as France is far more fun J/K
Danniel Boone was sitting in his green fatigues shooting at these morons in red coats with a white belt across the chest. ...yup the British generals really knew how camouflage worked ...
@@raleighburner1589 Is that the same Daniel Boone who spent the first few years of the rebellion fighting the Shawnee, captured, surrendered and subsequently courts martialed (found not guilty)? Who, in what appears to be his first encounter with British troops, was again captured and then returned home after Cornwallis' surrender, only to be on the losing side in a battle with American loyalists and Shawnee. The only military success he seems to have had was his part in the destruction of five unoccupied Shawnee villages under George Clark. Of course, this in no way denigrates his reputation as a pioneer nor politician.
@@raleighburner1589 You're saying it like most nations did not do what we were doing and wearing in that period of time. Or did you forget wearing stuff like that, was what was still done in those days??
@@raleighburner1589 The point of the uniform was identification on the battlefield of the time. Cannons, muskets, rocket fire. ALL left vast clouds of smoke covering the area. If you couldn't see your allies, chances are you would shoot them. Infantry fought in lines, all muskets aimed as one and fired in unison... so you wouldn't blind the man next to you as you would if you free fired. The weapons were inaccurate and required volleys to be effective. Once weapons stopped producing clouds of smoke and could hit an actual target deliberately at a fair range, the tactics changed.
When you poured Bud light, reminded me of this quote from Monthy Python live at the Hollywood bowl
"American beer is like making love in a canoe, it's fucking close to water"
I think Americans should be impressed that we actually know what the Alamo is
Actually, you right. Haha
@@DrunkTexanSays mexicans learned it too. hard way style 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@fabioartoscassone9305 Which Mexicans ? Santa Ana's troops or the ones that fought with Bowie and company? LOL
@@charlesborden8111 ask that to Mexicans' haters :P
i hate russians
@@fabioartoscassone9305 I'm sure sure they're not too fond of you either. So you're even. LOL
America dropped a bomb on Japan. A bomb which was largely developed by British scientists. USA was 10 years away from getting the bomb until Britain gave USA Britains research. Also the bomb was dropped with a British bomb loader which was attached to a US plane. The US military bosses were going to use a British plane as the US airforce didn't have a device to drop the bomb. They tried for months but couldn't make one so they used one from a British plane.
Haha! Who on earth drinks beer from a jam jar?, and bud light at that. That's not beer, it's piss water.
Too light and fizzy - could it get any worse?
And Al Murray was drinking from the Fosters tap.
@@nemo6686 All hail to the ale!
Mason jars have been accepted drinking vessels in the South and Texas forever. LOL
In 1812 you sued for peace ,meaning you cryed after you started it , and seeing as you asked for peace means You lost and we won ! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
I always kinda assume that if you're fighting a defensive war and it ends with status quo that technically means you won. So I think by that metric the UK did win the war of 1812.
Especially when the Redcoats rampaged from the Northern to the Southern border and were only finally stopped at New Orleans, when they were tired out ...
Its called "Takin the Piss" ... up ya. If you drink Bud Light... and get offended .... well. Cheers from Australia :)
30 seconds in and I'm pissing myself already. great start!
Murray is a walking history encyclopedia. Highly intelligent (Oxford educated if my memory serves me - and it frequently does not) with good recall. One of the funniest men ever to insult everyone. My wife is NY born Sicilian and she loves listening to him. Managed to attend one of his shows - he lacerated everyone.
Al Murray is playing a comic character here, a parody of a British bigot. See the real guy in one of his serious documentaries & he's a polite, well-mannered and highly intelligent person.
He's also a smug, virtue-signalling, condescending, woke twat.
@@THX_1138 He's also funnier, cleverer and more interesting than a troll.
Alf Garnett reincarnated...
He is infected with Wokism sadly irl. Also He’s not acting like a bigot he’s just acting like a working class landlord. The intolerance of the “tolerant” left has warped your mind in true communist subversive style.
@@Stupops78 Someone has some strange views. What has politics got to do with it? Bigotry is found throughout the political spectrum: left, right and centre. You don't have to be left-wing to see it and find this comedy funny!
00:17 A bit late to show Russia "what's up" when they'd already won the Space Race. If you come second in a 100m sprint, you don't get points for running a marathon passed the finish line. 😋
I don't think anyone really won the war of 1812 since the war resulted in nothing happening and everything back to how it was previously before the war. However I'd say Britain got more from their side of it since they were able to hold on to Canada after the U.S tried to annex it and they were able to keep their maritime policies which is what angered the U.S and caused them to go to war in the first place. However the war of 1812 was a mere sideshow for Britain compared to the real war they were fighting in Europe against Napoeleon whilst he was trying to conquer the continent and was just an annoying distraction for them since they had to defer some troops to back up the people in Canada against the U.S.
If you search "Who won the war of 1812" into google most sources lean more towards the British/Canadian side and from what I've seen most British and definitely most of the Canadians I've talked to believe they won that war since they kept the U.S out and because of that Canada is it's own country today and not part of the U.S.
The US was trying to capture British territory and Brittan was trying to hold the Canadian border where it was.
The border stayed in about the same place and The British lost interest in pushing the war into the US, and concentrated on keeping things as they were.
The Americans sued for peace, although they gained great morale and support for the war from the defense of Washington and NY, a serious invasion in New Orleans or the great lakes would have been hard to resist.
The Americans lost because they were the first to give up. That's about as strongly as you can put it.
😂😂😂👏👏👏👏 Alright, I'm off to fight him 😂 .... As others have said, insults are a sign of friendship in the UK.
USA lost the war of 1812 -14 due to fact it never achieve any of it goals
America has never won a war with anybody on its own
@@carlos30071 The invasion of Grenada, they did manage to win a war against a tiny island.
Taking Canada wasn't a "matter of marching" after all as Thomas Jefferson said it would be.
If you start a war with a foreign nation, to invade that nation then fail to invade then you lost, the war ended with Britain occupying more of the USA than the USA occupied in Canada. Its a USA defeat regardless of how they try and spin it.
They just took their propaganda at face value.
I'm a Scot and was taught all about the Alamo as it's reckoned up to 80% of the men who died were Scots or Scots descent, Texas also has Scottish connections with places Like Houston and Dallas and were one of the largest early populations of settlers until larger influxes of Germans and Spanish overtook them.
Fucking Spaniards ruining everything again
Why is Bud light like sex in a canoe?
It's fucking close to water. :O)
Cheezsoup
Hey...Don't make me laugh and choke on my Scotch.
I had to go and get another.
Once (2000) I left a full Bud on a wall next to BB King's Club on Beale St. Memphis. One sip and I couldn't go any further. I bet it's still there.
And THEY think English beer is warm!
He stole that from Monty Python!
I've been using that line since the early 80's!
Granted, they probably stole it from someone else! LOL
@@charlesborden8111
Most joke are 'stolen' from somewhere.
Doesn't mean they are not funny or not true(ish) .
@@Cheezsoup If it wasn't funny, I wouldn't have been using it since I was a teenage.
I’ve seen this before, but this is one of best reactions I’ve seen, Your take has doubled the fun of these clips, cheers Mike!
The moon landing must be the most expensive "wa's up" ever.
Russia got to space first so the moon was the only way to up that.
@@darklighter66 The first man made thing deposited on the moon, was put there by Russia.😄😄
That's a character Al Murray is playing, called the Pub Landlord. He has a Degree in History from Oxford iirc.
The reason hes funny is because people like this guy take him seriously....hes a great clown and not a british supremacist. Hes like many a drunk englishman in a pub....unless theyre in glasgow
“I’m going to fight him”, after drinking a Bud Light out of a jam jar glass.. ok 😂
You’ve really hit a chord with UK audiences as you don’t seem to be the usual ‘ill play dumb and react’ type.
Love your uk react videos to see an American react to uk stuff is great.
Definitely watch jay forman UK place names video! Really recommended.
Its pretty terrifying how smart he is. Not just his academic works, but his quick wit is enough to justify the pont of his intelligence.
Just so you know Al Murray is playing a character here "The Pub Landlord". An exaggeration of many pub landlords or blokes you meet down the pub. In real life he is a highly educated guy, a degree in History from Oxford, and quite well spoken.
I am absolutely loving your sense of humour and style. Keep it up my man.
In the glorious days when they were open you could go in a certain kind of pub and hear entertianing characters like this after a few pints! Gawd I miss it!
he is just pulling your leg. your our cousins and that's what family do they pull one another's legs. we have spent some time in America and you wont find a more generous and friendly people anywhere we love you
He actually stood for election to become a member of Parliament using his pub landlord persona portrayed here. I believe it was in the same constituency as Nigel Farage who was the UKIP leader at the time. Just looked it up - He got 318 votes!
He was in the same as Farage - South Thanet (I was at the count). He came sixth, but beat the likes of Zebadiah Abu-Obadiah, there representing the Al-Zebabist Nation of Ooog party who only managed to be 11th and got only 9% as many votes.
He did but as a 'joke' candidate.
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When it comes to humour in the UK, just remember one basic principle..........
Taking the piss is fundamental and NOT genuine insult.
Aah....the Moon!!!
When you need Germans to get you there in the first place...... And a South African to get you back.
Your a great guy man! I’m from the UK and your reactions and our humour was all in good faith! We are a nation that takes the piss out of everyone and we expect it back! Just to give it back some more! I appreciate you listening to a comedian you’ve never heard before and took it in good stride! 🇬🇧🇺🇸 forever!
Just want to chuck out there a recommendation for the inbetweeners, that show is the best summary of British youth culture out there
It's like Don Rickles, if you don't get insulted, you FEEL INSULTED!
Watch fred dibnah climbing a overhang at 50 plus steeplejack.
Mike, don't forget when you say "I am going to fight him" he's a Brit and you are a Yank!
He'll have gone home by the time you show up!
Al Murray is a Oxford prof of History, the '' Pub Landlord' persona, is just his front, for shit-stirrng his audience, and hilarious it is. DO NOT, take his quips and exaggerations seriously, his facts, yes.
He is not a professor at Oxford. He is a graduate of Oxford big difference
The Brits take the piss out of everyone including themselves. I believe that Al studied history at Oxford, hence his knowledge.
Not personal but in 1812 you wanted to annex Canada... you didn’t win
thats why we gave them a white house lol
and why they have roast turkey on Thanks Giving
In fact the USA achieved none of it's war aims, not one. I'm bewildered how Americans think they won that.
Lived in Canada for a few years..yeah we did. We just used pop culture to do it.
@@pheenobarbidoll2016 haha 😂
He's only joking.
I’m glad you realise he is playing a character. I love your reaction. You have a great sense of humour. ❤️ from me (a Brit) lol
Mickey Flanagan does a great sketch on the differences between Brits and Americans.
Glad you took it in good spirit. I'm coming to Houston Texas in a few weeks (from UK), and your video popped up as a suggestion. Really looking forward to it, always wanted to see Texas - been playing lots of Strait to get in the mood lol
If you thinks he brutal, you should check out Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle.
Bud Light...I'm scared already. Now if it were several pints of Guinness I might be concerned ;-). Great vid by the way.
I’m sorry, but whenever I hear the US won the War of 1812 I burst out laughing!
Init I don’t know how they see it as a win
@@Lewis-zq5ws I suppose they did win the last battle, but, since it was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, it changed nothing!
We burned the White House don’t know how they see that as a win that’s like someone coming and burning 10 Downing Street or Buckingham palace down
@@Lewis-zq5ws but that was early on in the War and was in response to the American rampage through York in Ontario. Let’s look at the key war aims of the USA and the UK:
1. USA, in no particular order: take the loyalist colonies of Canada and Newfoundland and include them in the Union; stop the British boarding their ships, arresting suspected deserters and press ganging sailors; resume full trade with Europe without the @#£&& €$¥^]~§§ing British Blockade, FREE TRADE, Y’ALL.
2. British: in order: Defeat Napoleon and France, and restore the balance of power in Europe, by military and economic means.
Preserve the loyalist North American colonies’ borders.
The latter two of America’s aims were directly related to Britain’s war against Napoleon. We had been maintaining a blockade of the European North Sea and Atlantic coast since 1802, this was costly in men and ships. The blockade was intended to strangle French trade, as well as limit the movement of the French (and Dutch) navy. American merchant ships were boarded to stop them trading with France, and many suspected Royal Navy deserters were arrested and hung, and numerous American sailors “volunteered” (were press ganged) to serve in the Royal Navy. However, when Napoleon abdicated (the first time) in the Autumn of 1814, war aims 2 and 3 for Britain disappeared. The USA-Canada border has not changed since the Treaty ending the AWI.
Britain won.
@@keithorbell8946 I agree 💯
His look is from the appearance of a typical pub landlord from a few years ago I'd say. Beer belly, cursory tie, stout shoes. You're seeing a parody. Thanks for taking it well, Brits love Americans.
the usa defiantly lost the war of 1812: invades Canada, gets fucked, dosnt get to keep Canada, leaves. looks like loosing to me
Yeah, like ‘drawing’ the Vietnam war 🤔. Some actually say that!
Finally a yank who sort of understands our humour, you have my respect good sir! 🇬🇧🇺🇸