It seems ironic, but Henning is developing into a British National Treasure. He was once asked why he chose to come and live in Britain, to which he replied " the lovely weather, the tasty food, and the classy women". Priceless...... And the best of it is, that it's almost a privilege to be insulted by Henning. A genuinely funny guy. I always look forward to his appearances on Would I Lie To You. That show was made for him. His (mainly true) tall stories are matched only by Bob Mortimer's Mortimerian Tales......And going back to pre-pandemic, Henning put in a very creditable performance for a comedian on BBC's Question Time.....answering questions clearly and logically, getting lots of applause in the process.
Lol English maybe because it’s Saxon humour. You’ve got to add in a big slice of Celtic humour and season with some international spices before I’d call it British humour.😉
It's almost like there isn't such a thing as British Humour. It's just the only humour British people know because we don't speak other languages. You can find "British humour" anywhere.
@@bluejay2529 Because Europeans speak English as well, it's the most common second language. The question might as well have been "what other country's comedy scene have you watched before".
The fact the IRA chose to use some of their precious Semtex to blow up the front of Woolworths in Bognor Regis is one of the world’s great mysteries. It happened in 1994 by the way, not 10 years ago!
His response and understanding of time is actually quite normal for the area. In Bognor many people still live in the early 2000's, stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the last 15/20 years where the town and most things in general really went to shit.
@@nothanks9050 Yes, I think it's a British seaside phenomenon. I am temporarily living on the Norfolk coast and feel like I am in a time warp. Some shops only take cash. Some don't open on a Monday or have half day closing on Wednesday. It feels like the 1980s...
@@tinarichardson364 Today I live in rural France, it's still like the 1950s or 1960's here in many respects, but in a quaint/good way. The inconvenience is worth adapting to for the positives. Like only 20 children in a classroom, not 40 and extremely low crime etc.
Nobody can insult a British seaside town as nicely as an adopted foreigner, and Henning does it so well :) I thought Weston super Mare was bad, its paradise compared to Bognor. Come and visit us here Henning.
At least Weston can boast it is the birthplace of Ritchie Blackmore. Bognor has a most recent claim to fame of Russ Abbott taking the mickey back in the 80's. I agree with Henning that the view was nice though.
@@sureshot8399 Herr Doktor, Herr Doktor, ich hab jeden Morgen um 7 Uhr Stuhlgang!” - “Ja, das ist doch sehr gut!” - “Aber ich steh erst um halb acht auf!”
Bless you Henning. I laughed and laughed. You are 100% accurate in your observations. As a Brit and a lover of the seaside, I could not have expressed myself better than you have done. More please!
I worked at the royal Norfolk hotel, they say that the pier was damaged and in danger of breaking up,so they they sawed the end from the rest. Next storm took the middle out.
NO anyone whose spent any time living and working outside Britian or learnt wother languages or cultures can see the strange idiocyncroncies of the Brits or those who come from mixed cultural backgrounds.Its only those who seem to have no other cultural reference other than their own who cannot see it.
@@leoroverman4541 Jetzt aber mal halblang, junger Mann. Sonst werden wir beim naechsten Laenderfinanzausgleich knickerig. Durchschnittsverdienst Oldenburg: 2470 Niedersachsen: Nettoempfaenger Durchschnittsverdienst Muenchen: 4.650 Bayern: groesster Nettozahler Wir sind zumindest nicht zu daemlich bei den Finanzen 😎. Beim Tourismus auch nicht. Die Wirtschaft kriegen wir auch so halbwegs hin. Gruss vom Chiemsee
@edwinov it's: check INTO (written together) A (you need an article) mental hospital. Your English is shit. Please learn our language properly before embarrassing yourself 👍🏼
That was a crack-up! And the "Royal Hotel Dump"! How do innkeepers get away with lodging people in such grubbiness? Thank you for telling the truth about British "hospitality".
If anything sums up the world today it is a kid asking a comedian to say something funny, comedian tells a joke, kid laughs and then says "it's a bit of an adult humour one isn't it".
It was great to see kids that age out on their scooters without an adult, and talking so politely. It's astonishing how few kids get out on bikes/boards or whatever unless it's a forced family day out.
@@somerandomguy2073 Kent. It's extremely rare, to the point where you just don't see it. I work in primary schools teaching bikeability and almost none of the kids are allowed to ride or walk to school by themselves, they get ferried in massive SUVs, whose drivers leave the engine running while they wait half an hour because they had to get there that early to bag their parking space. It's awful.
love Henning and his tongue in cheek observations on the British. I may be wrong but TV now seems to be reverting back to "little Britain" type TV, celebrating everything British, and burying our heads in the sand again.
It's what the public wants. Some stuff from the past was genuinely funny and still is . I bet in the 70's there were people calling morecambe and wise shit but due to their being only 3 channels and no social media it was rare to hear such criticism.
Oh I love him - his mangled English is still better than most of ours and gives him such a funny character - he plays the hapless foreigner so well and he uses that to take the piss out of the English nearly as much as he does himself and the Chherrrrmans😃 Mind you, those two little kids he chanced upon on the pier that he told the joke to and the smaller one thought it was hilarious but was simultaneously a bit shocked and the other one almost slightly offended and effecting that ever-so-slightly affronted, almost prissy sort of King's Scholar and Head Boy tone, who clearly couldn't quite believe this German comedian would tell such a vulgar joke to two small children just gave the scene a marvellously amateur, non-repeatable and UTTERLY English sort of wonkiness which was a real delight!!
@@stigkrakpants3052 what do you suggest - I have re read what I wrote and find there to be nothing amiss with the spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation or "sense". So, perhaps you could edit it and show us all how it's done - I am genuinely curious! Edit: especially as you fail to capitalise either the first word ("well") and "English" - or finish the sentence with a full stop. That's three basic errors in six words😆 So yeah, really looking forward to your suggestions - or should I say "improvements"?
My parents lived in Bognor, I left for Australia 40 years ago and when I go back (very occasionally) I visit Bognor and it totally reinforces my reasons for leaving!
@@Lily-BravoHow on earth can any British person like the UK after living in beautiful Australia,I’m British left there 44 years ago to live in Newzealand ,even though our country is going downhill it’s 💯 better than the UK.
@@angelapietras1235 There are things I miss about Australia of course. But I missed the greenness, the history, the birdsong, the seasons, the pubs, the footpaths throughout the countryside, the old houses,. the castles, the easy access to other countries, the canals, the culture, the radio, BBC radio 4, the differences within a shorter distance, the ability people have to look beyond our shores, the fact that where I live I rub shoulders with rich and poor, educated and not, professional and workman, even titled and not. We came home because my teaching qualifications were not recognised in WA, and my husband wanted to start a business and the UK is more of a hub for customers than Australia. I got a job within a couple of months of arrival and a year on, we had a village house with a fantastic view, a business and a baby. My sons are Australian by descent, and have been several times, but they do not want to live there. We arrived back by boat at Harwich, and were greeted by a couple of policemen at the end of the gangplank with a cheery Good evening, then train into Liverpool street where the London architecture I had lived in previously hit me with something akin to love. I love this place, whatever the politics of the time, whatever the annoying tacky yobbos say.
Thank you Henning! awfully hysterical! I think you have definitely hit the spot about describing Sunny Buzzing Bognor with its exciting holiday residences ! Thank you! Keep em coming! Do one for Blackpool please? Cheers Old Bean! 🎉
Anyone remember Henning's radio shows on Radio 4 before he was on TV? They were sublimely funny. His take on the British cooked breakfast still lives in my mind.
Oh by golly...I've just found them on UA-cam look up 'Henning Knows Best' hehe that's me sorted for a few days, Herr Wehn going into some dodgy territory before TV made him tone it down a bit.
As a South African living in the UK, the seaside in the UK - especially England is absolutely horrendous. Public holidays are sardine packed chav fests.
Henning seems to be the only “foreigner” who completely gets British humour and culture, when he speaks to people he really knows how to interact with them.
I came to Stuttgart for a visit,loved it and spent the next 18 flying back and forth every few months and then 5 years ago moved over to live here. Stuggitown is an awesome city to live in, Germany itself is awesome.
I lived in Bognor as a child in the late 1960s ... used to be quite a hub of social activities. The local cinema opposite the railway station used to be called the 'fleapit' ... Butlins was the place to go back then if you were a visitor ... and it was possible to see Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy wrestling at the Esplanade Theatre along the front ... not too far from the pier. Ah ... happy memories.🙂
Having lived in bognor pretty much my whole life i want to add.. the guy in the interview is genuinely a bit of a legend around the town, see him wandering around all the time, and even though this a few years old now the pier has an arcade and a reasonably big nightclub on it and would have done at the time of filming, so that little bit seemed a bit unfair.. the rest is pretty spot on though.. think the hotel has shut down
I'm American and first encountered Henning on Would I Lie To You re-runs in the States. I'm so glad I found this channel! And it's good to know that he's in Britiain and not bicycling through Morocco!
Henning is the funniest German funny man I have ever heard which isn't difficult because he's the only one. His contributions to the BBC Radio show "the unbelievable truth" are great his humour is spot on and his laugh infectious. Whoever said Germans have no sense of humour????? err we did 😇
Very funny, Henning! When are we going to see a whole program from you on TV about Britain, post Brexit? As someone from New Zealand who has visited the UK a few times all this seems very familiar.
Henning must be the Best Export out of Germany , turns up in all sorts of places , where a BMW OR MERCEDES would not be seen dead there , went through there once in my AUDI , BUT it did cough and splutter , perked up after passing Brighton . Great to see you educating our youth . ALL ways great fun to listen to and watch .🤔😄👍
Mr Wehn, I still feel that your sense of humour is vastly under rated. And I am grateful for the joy you have given me! Who would ever think a German could be a British National Treasure! Well apart from the Royal Family of course! But they haven't given me anywhere near the laughs you have Sir! You have my respect and gratitude! You do British humour better than most British comedians!
I saw Henning Wehn on the street once and shouted a friendly "Henning!" at him, then remembered that he'd never met me and didn't know me. Bit embarrassing, that.
Yes, more please. I love Henning. I've never been to Bognor but I bet its great on a cold, wet winters day. Now try a really good seaside town called Weymouth
Hilarious. - The place with the most sunshine > Got his winter woollies on. - Beautiful beaches > Picture of people freezing their t-ts off - sitting on pebbles - Local: What's great about here? ' Oh well we had a bomb!' - No Jumping or Diving sign: 'Leisure VERY Limited'! & in case you didn't get the message; reinforced by the intimidating gate with wicked spikes and barbed wire. Yes - FUN! - Tried to cozzie up to random children with a bag of sweets! & a 'Sizeist joke'? Even the kids reprimanded you Henning for being 'Non-PC! Lucky the Pier Police were no-where about! { you can just see them thinking about their + Size Parents & visualising what their response might be... 😆 " You'd better watch out mate! You'll get flattened - you will !" } - Took a dump in - or on - The Royal { well... deservedly...} - The Bowing was exciting... - Oh Henning! You missed the the closing shot of a seagull crapping in your chips! Shame that! 😂🤣🙃 Hmmm. feel like some chips now...👍
Henning has the greatest sarcasm and commonsense digs and he's not British🤣I've had the pleasure of seeing this very funny man live and it was a brilliant night and we very briefly chatted at the end. Great guy and funny bloke👏👏✌️😊
I didn't realise that you had a channel Henning so I've subscribed! You tell it like it is but in the most hilarious way - keep them coming you absolute legend.
Thanks for this. I always liked nearby Littlehampton more than Bognor Regis because of the river and the harbour. But cycling between the two places along the coast on a Summer's day is really very pleasant. You can have a nice day on the beach in Bognor for sure, though holding chips up in the air with the gulls flying about is probably not a good idea. Indeed, budget hotel accomodation at our seaside resorts is really very variable in quality, and I certainly stayed in more than a few tatty 'Royal Hotels' in my repping days. You're often better off in the B&Bs or Guest Houses, they being people's homes means they are often better looked after.
I'm American, and I lived in Bognor for over 10 years. (I'm pretty sure I was the only American in town.) I was even forced by some local guys to help them form an American Baseball team, called the Arun Panthers. We played other teams all over the South of England.
Some great laugh-out-loud moments, thanks Henning. I’m trying to judge what their parents’ reactions would be if the two boys told them they got filmed being offered candy floss by a German guy who told them a sweary joke…. I think you’ll probably be okay. My reaction, I gasped, but not as much as I did when I heard your thoughts on the Pope Emeritus, Pope Benedict. That was memorable.
British kids are no strangers to language like that, and much 'worse'. Henning's lucky they didn't roll him for his fairy floss, his backpack and everything else on him. On the tube in 1996 I was openly threatened by 2 urchins, about 8 years old, who had been verbally abusing and terrorising the passengers.
Henning has a better handle on what being British is all about than the vast majority of Britons. He really is everyone's favourite German! Hugely popular TV personality, and deservedly so. Can you imagine a British comedian going down so well in the Fatherland? I don't think so.
If u try renting out deck chairs without the say so of the local council, u wont keep the chairs for long. There's often some dodgy dealing going on with who gets the concession too. Spent years working seasides.
I explored a few English seaside towns in the 80s, to see if they were still as old fashioned as in my imagination. They were then, and nothing has changed since it seems.
For all it's faults - at the end on a pebble beach, surrounded by seagulls with some Chips in a punnet, despite now living in NZ - I could smell that memory. And it's a good memory.
As a 59 year old, dual nationality British and German person myself, although born and brought up in London, I can maybe see what many British viewers of this piece by Henning are actually missing. The thing is, this isn’t really just about Bognor at all! Bognor….just as hundreds of other places that could have been used in exactly the way…is a metaphor for Britain. Substitute “Britain” or “The UK” into every one of the those examples of Bognor and its “Royal Hotel”: of decay, of entitled expectation; of living in 2022 on the past glories of 1922; of laziness and indolent lack of enterprise ( e.g. the deck chair man who doesn’t even open up for 9 months of the year, even on a sunny bank holiday). The broken lift in the hotel is Britain's broken infrastructure. The filthy room in disrepair is how Britain thinks it is acceptable to present itself. The shops are closed down…Britain is closed down! This is exactly the conversation and shock that Germans would have if they visited Bognor….it’s also the narrative they (and other Europeans) have about Britain. When seen in the context of that metaphor it’s less comedy….and more tragedy. I guess that is the talent of a really good comic? He doesn’t just tell jokes? Although, I have to admit the “two fat blokes in the pub….” one is a cracker ! 😂😂😂
All true, but Henning is, I think, very fond of us, in spite of it all! Just found the channel, but remember Henning from his past TV shows, and good to see him about again.
@@Westwoodii Oh don't get me wrong! I'm sure he does love the British and British culture. In fact, I've seen him mingling about down the pub in Hastings a few times. I also have German friends who are very Anglophilic in their outlook. But this is what makes all the more tragic what has happened to this country...and what appears to happening now at an accelerating downwards pace! It feels like the country is now in not just economic free-fall but moral and morale free-fall. I was born here...educated here...spent my whole l working career as a surgeon in the NHS. But now, (sadly) I too have had enough and I'm leaving for Germany despite my age.
He said his friends told him to go to Brighton - gay capital of Britain, also returns Britain's only green mp. Brighton is very lively and trendy, as some British places are. Bognor has been known as elderly and naff for ages. As a disabled person, it stings a bit when people mock mobility scooters.
@@emilydavison2053 I think Henning actually lives in Hastings himself….at least I think he used to because I saw him down the pub on more than one occasion whilst visiting there.
You are TOO funny, this cracked me up; I visited Bognor a few times as a child in the late 80s & early 90s, was dragged to Butlins twice as well, but where you stayed looked way better!😂 I live in Devon, which is a million times nicer and has amazing beaches too…please come and do a video about Devon!
It seems ironic, but Henning is developing into a British National Treasure. He was once asked why he chose to come and live in Britain, to which he replied " the lovely weather, the tasty food, and the classy women". Priceless...... And the best of it is, that it's almost a privilege to be insulted by Henning. A genuinely funny guy. I always look forward to his appearances on Would I Lie To You. That show was made for him. His (mainly true) tall stories are matched only by Bob Mortimer's Mortimerian Tales......And going back to pre-pandemic, Henning put in a very creditable performance for a comedian on BBC's Question Time.....answering questions clearly and logically, getting lots of applause in the process.
He once stayed at my brother's place and enjoyed a huge full English breakfast in the morning.
He lives in London, not Britain 😝
He lives near me in North London. I told him I thought he was very funny. 'Ya for a German' he replied.
So he came to live in Britain but couldn't give a good reason why he wanted to live in the greatest country in the world.
Very classy.
I wish he was a regular on WILTY. I love his stories, and his amiable, mildly self-effacing and generally lighthearted personality.
At the age of 50, I learned I had been conceived in Bognor. My despair on hearing this was bottomless.
Just think. If anything was open in Bognor you might not be here.
@@Chris-mf1rm Lucky for him, his Mum opened up that day.
Poor old Bognor. Once upon a time it was magnificent.
My commiserations.
@@langdalepaul That can be said of many towns and cities in the UK.
Henning I was born and raised in Bognor and I'm still on medication.
😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
That's a preexisting condition
Today Bognor! Tomorrow the World!
Byu nellllĺllllll
Henning, I believe you do British humour better than we do ourselves...
Der Führer was a great comedian! Except for that time on the 30th of April 1945 when he died on stage.
I thenk you! 🎼🎺🎷🎹🥁🥁🥁🤡
Lol English maybe because it’s Saxon humour. You’ve got to add in a big slice of Celtic humour and season with some international spices before I’d call it British humour.😉
He understands the sarcasm perfectly
It's almost like there isn't such a thing as British Humour. It's just the only humour British people know because we don't speak other languages. You can find "British humour" anywhere.
@@bluejay2529 Because Europeans speak English as well, it's the most common second language. The question might as well have been "what other country's comedy scene have you watched before".
“I befriended two young boys by offering them candy floss.” Never change my man.
Is he really a German ?
@@martinnoyes8507 Yes, he’s just lived in England for so many years he’s picked up a few bad habits haha.
And their parents should be proud of them. Polite and confident.
@@andrewsheppard3189 My comment wasn’t a reference to the boys being bad or anything.
Very avuncular. 🥑
This was SO funny! That rude joke you told to the little kids on the pier was outrageous and funny, as was the reaction to it!
I laughed way too hard at the pub joke. 😂
Me too! :-)
The kids reactions were great too.
Classic. And the kid's reactions 🤣
@@Google_Does_Evil_Now they are part of his act.
The fact the IRA chose to use some of their precious Semtex to blow up the front of Woolworths in Bognor Regis is one of the world’s great mysteries. It happened in 1994 by the way, not 10 years ago!
His response and understanding of time is actually quite normal for the area. In Bognor many people still live in the early 2000's, stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the last 15/20 years where the town and most things in general really went to shit.
@@nothanks9050 Yes, I think it's a British seaside phenomenon. I am temporarily living on the Norfolk coast and feel like I am in a time warp. Some shops only take cash. Some don't open on a Monday or have half day closing on Wednesday. It feels like the 1980s...
@@tinarichardson364 Today I live in rural France, it's still like the 1950s or 1960's here in many respects, but in a quaint/good way. The inconvenience is worth adapting to for the positives. Like only 20 children in a classroom, not 40 and extremely low crime etc.
In 1936 George V was very unwell. He was told he could go to Bognor to recover. 'Bugger Bognor!' he said, and died. Absolutely true.
Afraid not. This frequently repeated story was debunked many years ago.
Lmao...I love the kids reaction to the pub joke. They are so wholesome, their parents must be very proud
Agreed!
Nobody can insult a British seaside town as nicely as an adopted foreigner, and Henning does it so well :)
I thought Weston super Mare was bad, its paradise compared to Bognor. Come and visit us here Henning.
At least Weston can boast it is the birthplace of Ritchie Blackmore. Bognor has a most recent claim to fame of Russ Abbott taking the mickey back in the 80's. I agree with Henning that the view was nice though.
I loved Weston when I visited
Good old Weston Super Mud! =:o]
@@andrewharper1609 Yes Weston was pretty grim when I visited
Henning Wehn is the world's funniest German. "The fisherman was too depressed to talk to me." 😂😂
To be fair, there's not much credible competition for that title.
@@sureshot8399 Herr Doktor, Herr Doktor, ich hab jeden Morgen um 7 Uhr Stuhlgang!” - “Ja, das ist doch sehr gut!” - “Aber ich steh erst um halb acht auf!”
Ah man, I never would have thought Henning travelling to Bognor would be funny but this is comedy gold!
Bless you Henning. I laughed and laughed. You are 100% accurate in your observations. As a Brit and a lover of the seaside, I could not have expressed myself better than you have done. More please!
Adopted natives always have the best take on their adopted homeland.
More please Henning!
I worked at the royal Norfolk hotel, they say that the pier was damaged and in danger of breaking up,so they they sawed the end from the rest. Next storm took the middle out.
@@philipegginton5761 Oops! "Maybe we should have taken that bit out first..." =:oD
NO anyone whose spent any time living and working outside Britian or learnt wother languages or cultures can see the strange idiocyncroncies of the Brits or those who come from mixed cultural backgrounds.Its only those who seem to have no other cultural reference other than their own who cannot see it.
I absolutely adore Henning Wehn! He is always on my fantasy dinner party guests.
Great stuff Henning!! I lived in Germany for 5 years I can see why looking at Britain can be a mine for humour, keep up the good work.
I'm an Oldenburger (Old) and actually the Bavarians make me laugh. They're just as daft. Henning, mach dir keine sorgen😂
@@leoroverman4541 Jetzt aber mal halblang, junger Mann. Sonst werden wir beim naechsten Laenderfinanzausgleich knickerig.
Durchschnittsverdienst Oldenburg: 2470
Niedersachsen: Nettoempfaenger
Durchschnittsverdienst Muenchen: 4.650
Bayern: groesster Nettozahler
Wir sind zumindest nicht zu daemlich bei den Finanzen 😎. Beim Tourismus auch nicht. Die Wirtschaft kriegen wir auch so halbwegs hin.
Gruss vom Chiemsee
German humour is no laughing matter.
@@roystonvasey5471 wanna bet😀
@@EllieD.Violet Oh du meine Guete, Junger mann Ich bin in meine 70ger jahre. Wie man sagt, sie haben gebissen😁
We need Henning on all TV shows. You're not even British but you top ours in all ways. Intelligent and full of satire. Was laughing so much 😂
You should check in to mental hospital.
@edwinov it's: check INTO (written together) A (you need an article) mental hospital. Your English is shit. Please learn our language properly before embarrassing yourself 👍🏼
@@edwinov- you should try to have a sense of humour as decent as @wellardme and Henning… And learn to write proper sentences too, eh?
@@Shelsight henning has no sense of humor, no german does. I wrote my sentence in simplified English, so even a german would understand it.
@@edwinovIch kann Englisch, aber du kannst kein Deutsch. Volltrottel.
That was a crack-up! And the "Royal Hotel Dump"! How do innkeepers get away with lodging people in such grubbiness? Thank you for telling the truth about British "hospitality".
If anything sums up the world today it is a kid asking a comedian to say something funny, comedian tells a joke, kid laughs and then says "it's a bit of an adult humour one isn't it".
It was great to see kids that age out on their scooters without an adult, and talking so politely. It's astonishing how few kids get out on bikes/boards or whatever unless it's a forced family day out.
You know you're an old fart when kids are perfectly polite and you're still finding something to complain about.
@@chrisburn7178Yeah, that isn't rare. Don't know where you live.
@@somerandomguy2073 Kent. It's extremely rare, to the point where you just don't see it. I work in primary schools teaching bikeability and almost none of the kids are allowed to ride or walk to school by themselves, they get ferried in massive SUVs, whose drivers leave the engine running while they wait half an hour because they had to get there that early to bag their parking space. It's awful.
love Henning and his tongue in cheek observations on the British.
I may be wrong but TV now seems to be reverting back to "little Britain" type TV, celebrating everything British, and burying our heads in the sand again.
It's what the public wants. Some stuff from the past was genuinely funny and still is . I bet in the 70's there were people calling morecambe and wise shit but due to their being only 3 channels and no social media it was rare to hear such criticism.
Henning, many of us have been watching you for 10 years. Keep em coming!
I’m sat in Bolivia missing home, but after watching this I remember why I left 😂
As someone who grew up in Bognor with German heritage, i thoroughly enjoyed this!
As someone who actually lives here...this was hysterical 🤣🤣🤣
Oh I love him - his mangled English is still better than most of ours and gives him such a funny character - he plays the hapless foreigner so well and he uses that to take the piss out of the English nearly as much as he does himself and the Chherrrrmans😃 Mind you, those two little kids he chanced upon on the pier that he told the joke to and the smaller one thought it was hilarious but was simultaneously a bit shocked and the other one almost slightly offended and effecting that ever-so-slightly affronted, almost prissy sort of King's Scholar and Head Boy tone, who clearly couldn't quite believe this German comedian would tell such a vulgar joke to two small children just gave the scene a marvellously amateur, non-repeatable and UTTERLY English sort of wonkiness which was a real delight!!
well improve your english skills then
@@stigkrakpants3052 what do you suggest - I have re read what I wrote and find there to be nothing amiss with the spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation or "sense". So, perhaps you could edit it and show us all how it's done - I am genuinely curious!
Edit: especially as you fail to capitalise either the first word ("well") and "English" - or finish the sentence with a full stop. That's three basic errors in six words😆 So yeah, really looking forward to your suggestions - or should I say "improvements"?
Sir, your long sentence is marvelous!
he's great. but "mangled English?" He has perfect grammar. There's only his strong accent.
Bad English? Somebody obviously has never heard of dialects.
Have not seen or heard of you for some time! Glad to see the german comedy ambassador still being me old mucker! Great chuckler!
More please Henning !!! You have a lovely sense of humour :)
My parents lived in Bognor, I left for Australia 40 years ago and when I go back (very occasionally) I visit Bognor and it totally reinforces my reasons for leaving!
I left for Australia 40 years ago but came back. I love it here, but have never been to Bognor. My family were in Brighton. Quite a different vibe.
@@Lily-BravoHow on earth can any British person like the UK after living in beautiful Australia,I’m British left there 44 years ago to live in Newzealand ,even though our country is going downhill it’s 💯 better than the UK.
@@angelapietras1235 There are things I miss about Australia of course. But I missed the greenness, the history, the birdsong, the seasons, the pubs, the footpaths throughout the countryside, the old houses,. the castles, the easy access to other countries, the canals, the culture, the radio, BBC radio 4, the differences within a shorter distance, the ability people have to look beyond our shores, the fact that where I live I rub shoulders with rich and poor, educated and not, professional and workman, even titled and not. We came home because my teaching qualifications were not recognised in WA, and my husband wanted to start a business and the UK is more of a hub for customers than Australia. I got a job within a couple of months of arrival and a year on, we had a village house with a fantastic view, a business and a baby. My sons are Australian by descent, and have been several times, but they do not want to live there. We arrived back by boat at Harwich, and were greeted by a couple of policemen at the end of the gangplank with a cheery Good evening, then train into Liverpool street where the London architecture I had lived in previously hit me with something akin to love. I love this place, whatever the politics of the time, whatever the annoying tacky yobbos say.
Spot on, Henning; I don’t know whether to laugh or cry 😮 🇬🇧
More Henning Wehn on TV please!
Whatever show this guy is in, he makes it great.
Idea for documentary… ‘Wehn in Rome’. Looking forward to it already Henning 😉
this video proves that Henning has the ability to be positive in one of the most depressing of places
The UK is very depressing, I agree.
Just found the Channel. So glad Henning stayed in UK. He's such a giggle.
It's along along the South Coast. How did you lose it?
@@Lily-Bravo 😁 very droll
"Most Sunshine Hours!"
Whatever you do, don't let Eastbourne know you said that! 😱😄
You forgot the small print "on mainland Britain" Isle of wight will be out for blood!
He may be German by birth, but by jove he's become as English as any one of us!
not english, he is a krout, he looks like a krout
Thank you Henning! awfully hysterical! I think you have definitely hit the spot about describing Sunny Buzzing Bognor with its exciting holiday residences ! Thank you! Keep em coming! Do one for Blackpool please? Cheers Old Bean! 🎉
Already made my day and it's only 9 in the morning. Some classics in this very subtle humour. Can't wait for the next expose.
Anyone remember Henning's radio shows on Radio 4 before he was on TV? They were sublimely funny. His take on the British cooked breakfast still lives in my mind.
Oh by golly...I've just found them on UA-cam look up 'Henning Knows Best' hehe that's me sorted for a few days, Herr Wehn going into some dodgy territory before TV made him tone it down a bit.
Great video, Henning. Thank you for such a brilliant review, it should keep people away and leave it for the locals for many years!
Henning is such a Brit... Innit. 😁
The bit with the two young boys - offering them candy floss, had me pissing myself!
peace from Australia.
we need more stuff like this
I love hearing your take on our culture! You understand us so well! ❤
As a South African living in the UK, the seaside in the UK - especially England is absolutely horrendous. Public holidays are sardine packed chav fests.
How very dare you
Ltd. Leisure indeed.
'..she said she can't read German.' is comedy gold, though ;)
This is good! I would watch the whole alphabet, Henning; you have a great personality & perspective. Thumbs up from Baja Mexico.
Henning seems to be the only “foreigner” who completely gets British humour and culture, when he speaks to people he really knows how to interact with them.
I'm British and the best holiday I've ever had was (drum roll 🥁) in Germany. 🤣.
I came to Stuttgart for a visit,loved it and spent the next 18 flying back and forth every few months and then 5 years ago moved over to live here. Stuggitown is an awesome city to live in, Germany itself is awesome.
I lived in Bognor as a child in the late 1960s ... used to be quite a hub of social activities. The local cinema opposite the railway station used to be called the 'fleapit' ... Butlins was the place to go back then if you were a visitor ... and it was possible to see Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy wrestling at the Esplanade Theatre along the front ... not too far from the pier. Ah ... happy memories.🙂
Hennaing…… one of my favourite comedians ever 👏💙🤣
Having lived in bognor pretty much my whole life i want to add.. the guy in the interview is genuinely a bit of a legend around the town, see him wandering around all the time, and even though this a few years old now the pier has an arcade and a reasonably big nightclub on it and would have done at the time of filming, so that little bit seemed a bit unfair.. the rest is pretty spot on though.. think the hotel has shut down
Jesus, are telling me you've been there this whole time and the town still isn't saved? Place really is a shithole, glad I left!
Brilliant…..he fully understands the British sense of humour
I'm American and first encountered Henning on Would I Lie To You re-runs in the States. I'm so glad I found this channel! And it's good to know that he's in Britiain and not bicycling through Morocco!
Henning is the funniest German funny man I have ever heard which isn't difficult because he's the only one. His contributions to the BBC Radio show "the unbelievable truth" are great his humour is spot on and his laugh infectious. Whoever said Germans have no sense of humour????? err we did 😇
I agree. I love him on that. And WILTY
that is why he feels more at home in britain, maybe. he was too funny for germany.
"Germany was actually founded by Jesus Christ ..." priceless!
Very funny, Henning! When are we going to see a whole program from you on TV about Britain, post Brexit? As someone from New Zealand who has visited the UK a few times all this seems very familiar.
This needs to be a series
Excellent! Been a fan for years. Told some excellent stories on Would I lie to You. 👍🇬🇧
@Henning Wehn 🤣😅😂 EXCELLENT! ... No sarcasm in this video at all ... splendid stuff Sir 👍👍👍
The empty backpack was a stroke of genius.
Only Henning could get away with that. If I did that, I'd be run in for suspect burglary. Must be my guilty face.
And with all the belts fastened
Henning must be the Best Export out of Germany , turns up in all sorts of places , where a BMW OR MERCEDES would not be seen dead there , went through there once in my AUDI , BUT it did cough and splutter , perked up after passing Brighton . Great to see you educating our youth . ALL ways great fun to listen to and watch .🤔😄👍
Mr Wehn, I still feel that your sense of humour is vastly under rated. And I am grateful for the joy you have given me! Who would ever think a German could be a British National Treasure! Well apart from the Royal Family of course! But they haven't given me anywhere near the laughs you have Sir! You have my respect and gratitude! You do British humour better than most British comedians!
I saw Henning Wehn on the street once and shouted a friendly "Henning!" at him, then remembered that he'd never met me and didn't know me. Bit embarrassing, that.
Yes, more please. I love Henning. I've never been to Bognor but I bet its great on a cold, wet winters day. Now try a really good seaside town called Weymouth
Cumbernauld - yeah, bit pants. Croydon - hmmm, very pants. Cockermouth - ohh errr, bit rude! hahaha
Henning is probably closer in line to the throne than that bloke!
There's a TV series here. "Wehn Briton."
I would watch them all, so many little jewels you could discover
Hilarious.
- The place with the most sunshine > Got his winter woollies on.
- Beautiful beaches > Picture of people freezing their t-ts off - sitting on pebbles
- Local: What's great about here? ' Oh well we had a bomb!'
- No Jumping or Diving sign: 'Leisure VERY Limited'! & in case you didn't get the message; reinforced by the intimidating gate with wicked spikes and barbed wire. Yes - FUN!
- Tried to cozzie up to random children with a bag of sweets! & a 'Sizeist joke'? Even the kids reprimanded you Henning for being 'Non-PC! Lucky the Pier Police were no-where about! { you can just see them thinking about their + Size Parents & visualising what their response might be... 😆 " You'd better watch out mate! You'll get flattened - you will !" }
- Took a dump in - or on - The Royal { well... deservedly...}
- The Bowing was exciting...
- Oh Henning! You missed the the closing shot of a seagull crapping in your chips!
Shame that! 😂🤣🙃
Hmmm. feel like some chips now...👍
Henning has the greatest sarcasm and commonsense digs and he's not British🤣I've had the pleasure of seeing this very funny man live and it was a brilliant night and we very briefly chatted at the end. Great guy and funny bloke👏👏✌️😊
The subtle sarcasm is brilliant, very funny bloke
I didn't realise that you had a channel Henning so I've subscribed! You tell it like it is but in the most hilarious way - keep them coming you absolute legend.
Thanks for this. I always liked nearby Littlehampton more than Bognor Regis because of the river and the harbour. But cycling between the two places along the coast on a Summer's day is really very pleasant. You can have a nice day on the beach in Bognor for sure, though holding chips up in the air with the gulls flying about is probably not a good idea. Indeed, budget hotel accomodation at our seaside resorts is really very variable in quality, and I certainly stayed in more than a few tatty 'Royal Hotels' in my repping days. You're often better off in the B&Bs or Guest Houses, they being people's homes means they are often better looked after.
I thought it would end with the seagull stealing his chip!
Littlehampton cracks me up. Was it given the name because all the local men were poorly endowed?
@@chapsnaps1 it’s known as ‘LA’ locally, Little’ampton’
I was chuckling from the 'beautiful beaches' joke onwards! :D
Great guy, love his sence of humour and really intelligent with it, he has been here that long he is half English
This is brilliant. I feel like I need a bit of Wehn in my life
Henning, you are the funniest German I know. Thank you.
I'm American, and I lived in Bognor for over 10 years. (I'm pretty sure I was the only American in town.) I was even forced by some local guys to help them form an American Baseball team, called the Arun Panthers. We played other teams all over the South of England.
He didn't mention George V's dying words : 'Bugger Bognor.'
I was waiting for that one also.
You sold it to me! Running for my bucket and spade and pumping my bike tyres up as we speak!
Some great laugh-out-loud moments, thanks Henning.
I’m trying to judge what their parents’ reactions would be if the two boys told them they got filmed being offered candy floss by a German guy who told them a sweary joke….
I think you’ll probably be okay. My reaction, I gasped, but not as much as I did when I heard your thoughts on the Pope Emeritus, Pope Benedict.
That was memorable.
Well it was an "adult joke" 🤣
@@yogistephnz that the kids understood. 😄😄😄
British kids are no strangers to language like that, and much 'worse'.
Henning's lucky they didn't roll him for his fairy floss, his backpack and everything else on him.
On the tube in 1996 I was openly threatened by 2 urchins, about 8 years old, who had been verbally abusing and terrorising the passengers.
didn't it strike you that they are his own children ?? seems obvious to me.
Love this guy.... Thank you. I laughed my socks off... 🤣🧦
Nice to see Bognor thriving in these difficult times. Thanks, Henning.
Henning has a better handle on what being British is all about than the vast majority of Britons.
He really is everyone's favourite German! Hugely popular TV personality, and deservedly so.
Can you imagine a British comedian going down so well in the Fatherland? I don't think so.
An enjoyable yet depressingly accurate view of 21st century Britain
The only German with a sense of humour? Love his humour.
Bastard is an acceptable word, because Willy the conqueror's surname was 'the bastard'.
Because he was one in all senses of the term!
W T Conc was my x28 Grandpa. Dont be so rude...
Oh dear Henning! We aren’t much good at tourism are we ? Hilarious video thank you xx
You took your life in your hands holding out a chip with those gulls around! lol
If u try renting out deck chairs without the say so of the local council, u wont keep the chairs for long. There's often some dodgy dealing going on with who gets the concession too. Spent years working seasides.
The Royal Hotel is analogous to Great Britain, adding a posh title doesn't alter the fact it is suffering from neglect and creaking at the joints.
Hasn't been a hotel for years, it has recently been modernised and is now private flats
Brilliant! Now do one for Germany and France please!
I explored a few English seaside towns in the 80s, to see if they were still as old fashioned as in my imagination. They were then, and nothing has changed since it seems.
For all it's faults - at the end on a pebble beach, surrounded by seagulls with some Chips in a punnet, despite now living in NZ - I could smell that memory.
And it's a good memory.
Henning you are fantastic. I always look forward to seeing you on Telly.
Petition to officially raise Henning to the status of National Treasure.
Too funny. Thanks Henning!-
As a 59 year old, dual nationality British and German person myself, although born and brought up in London, I can maybe see what many British viewers of this piece by Henning are actually missing. The thing is, this isn’t really just about Bognor at all!
Bognor….just as hundreds of other places that could have been used in exactly the way…is a metaphor for Britain.
Substitute “Britain” or “The UK” into every one of the those examples of Bognor and its “Royal Hotel”: of decay, of entitled expectation; of living in 2022 on the past glories of 1922; of laziness and indolent lack of enterprise ( e.g. the deck chair man who doesn’t even open up for 9 months of the year, even on a sunny bank holiday). The broken lift in the hotel is Britain's broken infrastructure. The filthy room in disrepair is how Britain thinks it is acceptable to present itself. The shops are closed down…Britain is closed down!
This is exactly the conversation and shock that Germans would have if they visited Bognor….it’s also the narrative they (and other Europeans) have about Britain.
When seen in the context of that metaphor it’s less comedy….and more tragedy. I guess that is the talent of a really good comic? He doesn’t just tell jokes?
Although, I have to admit the “two fat blokes in the pub….” one is a cracker ! 😂😂😂
Plenty of us English have exactly this conversation, too. Very good comment, thanks
All true, but Henning is, I think, very fond of us, in spite of it all! Just found the channel, but remember Henning from his past TV shows, and good to see him about again.
@@Westwoodii Oh don't get me wrong! I'm sure he does love the British and British culture. In fact, I've seen him mingling about down the pub in Hastings a few times.
I also have German friends who are very Anglophilic in their outlook. But this is what makes all the more tragic what has happened to this country...and what appears to happening now at an accelerating downwards pace! It feels like the country is now in not just economic free-fall but moral and morale free-fall.
I was born here...educated here...spent my whole l working career as a surgeon in the NHS. But now, (sadly) I too have had enough and I'm leaving for Germany despite my age.
He said his friends told him to go to Brighton - gay capital of Britain, also returns Britain's only green mp. Brighton is very lively and trendy, as some British places are. Bognor has been known as elderly and naff for ages. As a disabled person, it stings a bit when people mock mobility scooters.
@@emilydavison2053 I think Henning actually lives in Hastings himself….at least I think he used to because I saw him down the pub on more than one occasion whilst visiting there.
Henning, you are the funniest German ever. Not that you have much competition, but still you are.
Bognor looks just lovely, our own seaside in North Norfolk offers similar levels of cosy shabbiness.
You are TOO funny, this cracked me up; I visited Bognor a few times as a child in the late 80s & early 90s, was dragged to Butlins twice as well, but where you stayed looked way better!😂
I live in Devon, which is a million times nicer and has amazing beaches too…please come and do a video about Devon!
that kind of misses the point ...
@@acommentator4452 in what way does my comment miss the point?!?
Your joke to the boys was genius. A scandalous word will work with them every time. Genius quick thinking.