The explorer John Cabot called the place he discovered "New Found Land" just so future generations couldn't make comedy sketches about his choice of name.
John Donne used the line "O my America, my new-found-land" to describe his mistress's lady bits, of which he seems to have been, you know, quite a fan. Possibly some comic mileage there.
One of the strange facts about New South Wales is that it contains a region called New England which was largely settled by homesick Scots. It's possibly the most Irish thing ever.
@@UteChewb Yes. Their "stonehenge" is still there. Glen Innes in NSW is very fond of tartan signs, mystic crystal shops, and a rather good bakery that do a decent neenish tart.
@@UteChewb yep! It’s so weird, that region is crammed with Scottish town names like Glen Innes and Inverell, there’s a tall hill named Ben Lomond too if I remember correctly and then there’s a fake Stonehenge for no clear reason.
@@muttleycrew , I had an ex-girlfriend who came from there. So, on a holiday I decided to take a detour on my drive from Bris to Sydney. Ended up at the standing stones outside Glenn Innes and I thought, "WTF is this?" I liked it but it was so out of left field. It is an interesting area a lot of weird things, including Captain Thunderbolt being a real person.
@@apexaviour He was not. Maaaaaybe he had a red beard or he got red with anger? Like Zelico Obradovic? (google him, he IS red most of the times hahaha)
Although you provide no proof, I can certainly imagine the Vikings doing that - there's a place in the Orkney Islands where the Vikings put some amusing graffiti and claimed, most likely falsely, that there was some treasure around. I've met the odd person with Viking ancestry - they have weird senses of humour. Sometimes very perverted too
@@justincronkright5025 What, you mean like Nick Fury, Mary Jane, Wally West, Starfire, Ariel, Jonny Storm, Little Orphan Annie, Electro, Hawkgirl, Heimdall, Perry White, and Kingpin?
This series of sketches makes me laugh so much that when i am feeling miserable or lonely or down in any way I replay this to cheer me up. I also replay this series of sketches when I am happy, joyfull etc just because I like a good laugh. I never watched Mitchell and Webb when they were on the telly, its definitely more suited to UA-cam! p.s. I also like the caveman sketches.
You may not believe this, but "California" was actually named on the basis of a legendary mythical queen named Califia. Apparently, the Spaniards were all amazed by how lush everything was.
IIRC California was the land that queen Califia ruled in Las Sergas de Esplandian, not a derivation of her name. But yeah, wierd way to name your colony, although more creative than all the variations on Colombia/Columbia.
Renaming it to Commiefornia should be appropriate then ... all the people who dont work but get money anyways, poverty, homelessness and "ruling PARTY which MUST BE OBEYED".
Such an incredibly insightful comment. I‘m very grateful that you take the time to share your wit with the rest of us online, since you must be so busy succeeding at everything in your real life.
Capt Cook is clearly at Birling Gap by the seven sisters in East Sussex, nowhere near Australia (or Wales for that matter). Navigation ain't what it used to be.
@@johnnyboy3949 An area known for it's high gleaming white cliffs. I used to live in Turnpike Lane and on a clear day we could see those mighty cliffs....made us all so jealous 😊😎
Funny, if i google my hometown which name tanslated to "Spring of the river Pader", Google asks me if i mean the german town or the one in Illinois and their river is called "Prairie du long creek" ... there wehere a lot of German settlers and a lot is named German in the USofA.
@@archangle2988 A lot of immigrants were of German (meaning German speaking rather than just the modern nation) origin. I believe there are more Americans of German Ancestory than English (I would say British but that kind of gets complicated too, for instance, technically many Irish immigrants at the time would have been British).
"That Mitchell and Webb Look" was the name of their series, and it's hilarious. You can find more clips from it around here somewhere. If you've ever seen the alternative medicine emergency room sketch, that's them too.
@@the-chillian On it. The complete episodes are on YT... Heh, first sketch of s1e1 is the 'Are we the baddies?' sketch. Sure, I'll watch it for the 10th time!
In fairness to the people that named Greenland, when they arrived, at the height of the Medieval Warm Period, the land was green with trees to supply lumber and grass to pasture their livestock. The land WAS green. Sadly, after the Medieval Warm Period ended, their crops died, their livestock died, and then they died, but at a slow enough pace that they could enter it into the records that they left behind.
I read the book Collapse by Jared Diamond. He explains that Greenland could get a good income from walrus-ivory. But with the crusades the traderoutes to Africa and China were re-opened for Europe and Elephant-ivory was again available.
@@stefanandritoiu According to an embellished Icelandic saga written down a century after Eiríkr rauði died. The theory OC mentioned is a highly likely one.
I didn't realise this contained a paid promotion: the First Mate paid for a future promotion* by using a stupid name the captain liked. *: Assuming the captain became an admiral before the First Mate died.
Weng is the Chinese, Wang is the European mis-literation of the Chinese. We must use the incorrect word here, eh! Just like people using much & many interchangebly in examples like 'how much balloons you got' & 'how many temperature is it out today.
This should be updated. There is a meme song where the singer claims that England is his city. However, the singer could be from Arkansas where there is a city named England.
@@peterembranch5797 Partick Harris didn't say state that EVERYONE in 2000BC knew that the world was round, he said "people" , which implies 2 or more persons knew the world was round and not necessarily everyone. Why do some people propose the hypothesis that the earth is flat?
@@bobbylockes Yes, I know he didn't say "EVERYONE" in 2000BC knew that the world was round. People does indeed imply 2 or more, and in this way is vastly vague, don't you think. To suggest that 2 people knew that the world was round is, well, meaningless. Isn't it? I mean, so what? Surely a number substantially higher than two must be implied to make the sentence meaningful. As you imply yourself, there are people even today - with the benefit of a modern education - who affect to believe the world is flat. Don't you think there must have been more 4,000 years ago? A lot more?
@@JohnZ117 no he is right, it was named after him... just a man from Bristol who scribbled his name across that particular area, and that area became "Amerike", which changed to America. Many things about it online
@@JohnZ117 yeah I know, there is no definitive answer to who named it, or who it was named after. The two theories are either Richard Amerike, or Amerigo. Also given that the USA flag is based on Richard Amerike's coat of arms, I would be more inclined to believe it is named after Amerike, not Amerigo www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/americaname_01.shtml
@@JohnZ117 The problem with Amerigo Vespucci is you don't use the first name, if it was named after Amerigo, the land would be called Vespuccia, like why it's called Columbia, not Chrisophia.
fucking hilarious ... show me that level of thought and planning and being able to do that specific kind of awesome these days ...i beseech thee say yes again ..
@@tobybartels8426 Only five in fact (New Denmark, New [North/South] Wales, New Yorkshire). I also know of New Albion, New Andalusia, New Connecticut, New Cornwall, New Hanover, New Navarre, New Netherland, New Norfolk, New Pomerania, New Shetland, and New Swabia.
@@daniel.u.thibault : The sixth, encompassing all the others, is in the article's title and lede: New Britain (not the one near Australia). But your list is impressive; are those also names for parts of Canada's historical New Britain?
Close one eye, poke yourself in the other eye, then re-open the first eye. It won't make it better. You'll just appreciate what you can see that much more.
Why has nobody ever noticed that they ripped this sketch off TOTALLY from the Mary Whitehouse experience? They even use the same 'Greenland' joke. (Clip for comparison) ua-cam.com/video/xJbIqgMfbUU/v-deo.html
@@TheTarrMan Hang on, let me get my glasses... A meer jest TarrMan. Just messin' wid cha. I think in this case the video doesn't matter quite so much. The locations are, umm, not quite authentic. But it does give it that retro feel like it was filmed a few hundred years ago when cameras were just two pixels. One for light. One for no light. 😀
One would think that Mitchell, as a history major, would know that Columbus did not set out to prove the world was a globe because that was already well established.
@@peterembranch5797 Webb argues that they are the East indies because it's in the "east" (orient to europe), but Mitchell argues they should be the west Indies because they sailed west to get there. Whether they proved the world was round or not is irrelevant. The crux of the joke as that disagreement between them. The "There is a western route to the Indies" is sufficient enough.
@@cvoisineaddis : You've got a point, but I think they put that in there so he could do the hand gesture to remind people how the Earth is a globe and all that; otherwise, the audience might not understand why it would be the East Indies either.
It does seem insane that when thinking of naming a place after the Queen, the first thing that comes to mind is the fact she's a virgin, rather than, IDK, her name? Or ANYTHING else lol. It just shows how men perceived women, even the queen.
Virginia was named after Virginia Dare, the first British colonist child born in the New World colonies, not after a queen.... whoever made this was not historically accurate, or even tried.... but what do I know, i'm just Virginian...
Well, the state library and every other reputable source I can find disagrees with you, and says the name Virginia was inspired by Elizabeth the first. So, either they, as Virginians, are wrong, or you are. Personally, I’d opt for the official sources.
I am not American, but the Virginia government website and national state records of Virginia also back up the comedy skit. Why would we name a whole area after a child, it's more likely that the child was named after the state and then folklore build up around it. Especially if you consider the whole American revolution and so on, having a state named after a British Queen might not have been so popular. But both the sites I checked out say historians believe, so it's not set in stone. What do you know as a Virginian probably more about your history than me.
@@mm-qd1ho : When Ananias Dare announced that he hoped to have a child in the New World and that he was going to name her Virginia (after his grandmother of course), all the other colonists decided to name the colony after Dare's future child. They also pledged to remain celibate until she was born, so she could have the honour of being the first child born in the colony that bore her name. (They were all rather annoyed that it took 3 years for her to be born, but they kept their pledge, because they were Englishmen.)
New York is named after the Duke of York, who was awarded New Amsterdam after the it was seized from the Dutch. I don't think the Danes had anything to do with it.
@@tomonetruth Thank you for explaining everything I already knew and also for missing the fucking joke. LOL. You don't get out much,do you? The joke went WOOOOOSHING over your head. Why do you watch comedy skits if you lack a sense of humour?.At what point did it ever seem like I was being serious? It was clear as day that I was being tongue in cheek. I suppose you wanted to show everyone how much of a big brain smart smart you are. Then again it isn't exactly a difficult subject and I could have given you a full detailed essay on the full history of new york when I was nine. However as for a little light hearted human in line with the craziness of place names my comment was obviously a joke and no sane person would ever have taken it as being a serious comment.
@@whisperedarcc6543 no, i didn't realise it was a joke - i don't get it. i was just passing on a bit of (what i thought was) interesting trivia, but as you say, i don't get out much. honestly wasn't trying to show off, i certainly didn't know all that stuff when i was nine. didn't mean to upset you!
On a related note, New Caledonia does look astonishingly like Scotland. The palm trees, the turtles, the giant insects...
@@HenryJasonVarga and legs like tree trunks
Y'all are trying to entice me with those things? ;)
@@stevenwebb3634 Don't threaten us with a good time. 😋
Yep those midges are a bastard.
@JZ's Best Friend never ever heard that one before.....
The explorer John Cabot called the place he discovered "New Found Land" just so future generations couldn't make comedy sketches about his choice of name.
Someone must surely have mentioned that "it won't be forever".
John Donne used the line "O my America, my new-found-land" to describe his mistress's lady bits, of which he seems to have been, you know, quite a fan. Possibly some comic mileage there.
Oh, but they have. ua-cam.com/video/ehZePNP_w4I/v-deo.html
@@baerlauchstal so does that make Newfoundland a c#%$ of a place?
Brilliant!
One of the strange facts about New South Wales is that it contains a region called New England which was largely settled by homesick Scots. It's possibly the most Irish thing ever.
They even have their own version of Stonehenge or standing stones. Just outside Glenn Innes from memory.
@@UteChewb Yes. Their "stonehenge" is still there. Glen Innes in NSW is very fond of tartan signs, mystic crystal shops, and a rather good bakery that do a decent neenish tart.
@@UteChewb yep! It’s so weird, that region is crammed with Scottish town names like Glen Innes and Inverell, there’s a tall hill named Ben Lomond too if I remember correctly and then there’s a fake Stonehenge for no clear reason.
@@muttleycrew , I had an ex-girlfriend who came from there. So, on a holiday I decided to take a detour on my drive from Bris to Sydney. Ended up at the standing stones outside Glenn Innes and I thought, "WTF is this?" I liked it but it was so out of left field. It is an interesting area a lot of weird things, including Captain Thunderbolt being a real person.
@@UteChewb Uralla
Fun fact: the Viking sagas specifically state that Eric the Red called Greenland green to trick people into going there
Was he even RED?
@@apexaviour He was not. Maaaaaybe he had a red beard or he got red with anger? Like Zelico Obradovic? (google him, he IS red most of the times hahaha)
He was called Eric the Red because he was colourblind... Little known fact... 🤣
Although you provide no proof, I can certainly imagine the Vikings doing that - there's a place in the Orkney Islands where the Vikings put some amusing graffiti and claimed, most likely falsely, that there was some treasure around. I've met the odd person with Viking ancestry - they have weird senses of humour. Sometimes very perverted too
lol
This whole bit feels like it's from Horrible Histories -- And that's a huge compliment.
This came before the horrible histories TV show. But after the books.
And perhaps a complement.
Greenland? Whatever! Brilliant.
I really enjoyed all three pixels in this video.
It was uploaded 8 years ago. Pixels were a scarce commodity back then.
@@thomasdalton1508 But with the discovery of new lands and pretty things to plunder, er bring home, they should now be plentiful
You and your fancy "good eyesight"
:) funny
I liked the first and third. Could have done without the second one
Isn't it lovely how New South Wales looks nothing like the Cliffs of Dover whatsoever?
I’m sure their budget allowed for them to travel halfway around the world for the sake of a single joke. Or to please pedantic you.
@@tahiragibson6407 ⌐_⌐ It was a joke that THEY MADE THEMSELVES in that very same episode...
The one time something was washed to look 'not-White', perhaps?
It's a joke-reference to white-washing things like films & television.
@@justincronkright5025 What, you mean like Nick Fury, Mary Jane, Wally West, Starfire, Ariel, Jonny Storm, Little Orphan Annie, Electro, Hawkgirl, Heimdall, Perry White, and Kingpin?
it does share lots of estuaries though I thought
I like to think they're all different generations from the same families, every so often meeting again just in time to discover some new land.
You should watch Black Adder.
@@marrs1013 although this implies I haven't, I still appreciate the recommendation
That payoff slam dunk joke at the end is so good
This series of sketches makes me laugh so much that when i am feeling miserable or lonely or down in any way I replay this to cheer me up. I also replay this series of sketches when I am happy, joyfull etc just because I like a good laugh. I never watched Mitchell and Webb when they were on the telly, its definitely more suited to UA-cam! p.s. I also like the caveman sketches.
And here I thought that Capt. Cook was in Hawaii eating a sandwich on the beach. “We will call it the Sandwich Isles”!
Or the time in Alaska he had to turn around twice, thus naming Turnagain Arm.
Oh yes, he did that too. Except that he was in the sandwich rather than eating it.
Well that's how they named Sandy Eggo, California. They were having the traditional explorers' brunch of waffles on the beach.
You may not believe this, but "California" was actually named on the basis of a legendary mythical queen named Califia. Apparently, the Spaniards were all amazed by how lush everything was.
IIRC California was the land that queen Califia ruled in Las Sergas de Esplandian, not a derivation of her name. But yeah, wierd way to name your colony, although more creative than all the variations on Colombia/Columbia.
and wasn't that from like a novel or something? as in, the people who named it were aware that the name was made up
Renaming it to Commiefornia should be appropriate then ... all the people who dont work but get money anyways, poverty, homelessness and "ruling PARTY which MUST BE OBEYED".
Such an incredibly insightful comment. I‘m very grateful that you take the time to share your wit with the rest of us online, since you must be so busy succeeding at everything in your real life.
@@Muck006 How long have YOU been a total moron
For Vectron
Capt Cook is clearly at Birling Gap by the seven sisters in East Sussex, nowhere near Australia (or Wales for that matter). Navigation ain't what it used to be.
Seven sisters in London?
Yeah, but he has the captain’s hat...
@@johnnyboy3949 An area known for it's high gleaming white cliffs. I used to live in Turnpike Lane and on a clear day we could see those mighty cliffs....made us all so jealous 😊😎
Yes, yes and Sir Walter Raleigh never actually set foot in North America. Come now, don't spoil the joke, jack ass!
Besides Australia is well known to not exist ... much like Bielefeld.
Be happy that it wasn't German explorers doing all the heavy exploring. We might have ended up in "Neu Süd Weißwurstland"
Or in Bismarck, North Dakota. Oh, wait...
Funny, if i google my hometown which name tanslated to "Spring of the river Pader", Google asks me if i mean the german town or the one in Illinois and their river is called "Prairie du long creek" ... there wehere a lot of German settlers and a lot is named German in the USofA.
@@archangle2988 A lot of immigrants were of German (meaning German speaking rather than just the modern nation) origin. I believe there are more Americans of German Ancestory than English (I would say British but that kind of gets complicated too, for instance, technically many Irish immigrants at the time would have been British).
I prefer the more classical name of Long Frankfurter, or New Hamburger.
Cook actually called it "Terra Nullius" Latin for land belonging to no one.
One of the first real estate marketing campaigns! 🤣
And anyone who's been to South Wales and New South Wales will be astounded by the similarities.
Hip deep in sheep in one
Hip deep in crocodiles in the other
@@saintniccage2818 Crocodiles not so much. A tad further north
@@Whisper555 Yeah, There was this one time I was nearly eaten by a Croc when rambling the Snowdonia wilds!
@@pSynrg303 Here in Tamworth the croc season is late summer, about once every ten millennia.
Yet both are nothing like new beached whales. I guess that's another thing they have in common.
One if my favs
That buildup was worth it
Nope
@@docastrov9013 yes
Hilarious.
My favorite is Welcome to Virginia.
American here. I know I'm not the captain, but I know these guys as the "Are we the baddies? guys".
Definitely. :)
their whole series is good
"That Mitchell and Webb Look" was the name of their series, and it's hilarious. You can find more clips from it around here somewhere. If you've ever seen the alternative medicine emergency room sketch, that's them too.
@@the-chillian On it. The complete episodes are on YT... Heh, first sketch of s1e1 is the 'Are we the baddies?' sketch. Sure, I'll watch it for the 10th time!
welp, if they won New York would be New Berlin.
2:35 Australia is, after all, just Dover with some pot-plants stuck in it.
Brilliant
Welcome to Virginia!
bloody brilliant
As a New South Welshman, I cant think of a betteer name.
New South Plagueland?
North Victoria.
“New South Wakes” 😂😆😂
I don't know why you needed a New South Wales but since we have one put it as far away as possible.
And banish its premier to an Australian Antarctic base.
@@twoflyinghats If only.
I loved the White Cliffs of Bondi
New South Dover!!😂
I prefer the East Undies
Not North Wales, obviously!
I wish I owned a captains hat
You will. One day. Never give up on your dreams.
2:40 Can we please have the alternative universe in which David Mitchell played Lord Cutler Beckett?
Algorithm has picked this up
According to Wikipedia those two broke up...rather West Virginia and the "Captain"
In fairness to the people that named Greenland, when they arrived, at the height of the Medieval Warm Period, the land was green with trees to supply lumber and grass to pasture their livestock. The land WAS green. Sadly, after the Medieval Warm Period ended, their crops died, their livestock died, and then they died, but at a slow enough pace that they could enter it into the records that they left behind.
Actually Greenland was a Viking PR stunt...
In fairness to the people who named Greenland they did so because they new years later Mitchell and Webb would make a joke about it.
I read the book Collapse by Jared Diamond. He explains that Greenland could get a good income from walrus-ivory. But with the crusades the traderoutes to Africa and China were re-opened for Europe and Elephant-ivory was again available.
@@marcdc6809 More colonialism than the crusades. Arabs controlled the trade routes to India until Portugal set up naval bases around Arabia and India.
@@stefanandritoiu According to an embellished Icelandic saga written down a century after Eiríkr rauði died. The theory OC mentioned is a highly likely one.
I wonder if M&W know that Virginia's state motto is "Virginia is for Lovers"?
Ironic, that, yes.
Thats the state slogan, the motto is "sic semper tyrannis"
Sounds like a bad tourism slogan from the 70s.
@@ThreadBomb Yes, Yes it is
New York, New England, whatever...
New Amsterdam! ^_^
New York wishes they were as good as York.
@@roberthoward9500 The new one isn't worthy of plundering by the Scots.
@@forbeshutton5487 that's only in the film
I once lived near a place called New Clear Fallout Shelter
This 1 was particularly good!
Or whatever
My only hope is that there is no such thing as Intelligent Alien life outside this planet that would ever learn this.
Maybe there is ... and that is one of the reasons why this planet got shunted into the MIRROR UNIVERSE about 25-30 years ago.
But is there intelligent life on this planet? That's the question.
@@Muck006 NO NO NO it was about 18 months ago, we moved into the COVID dimension.Bad move that, and I can't wait till we return to the OLD normal.
Brilliant and well spotted whatever were they thinking?
I didn't realise this contained a paid promotion: the First Mate paid for a future promotion* by using a stupid name the captain liked.
*: Assuming the captain became an admiral before the First Mate died.
The best!
Of course, there are a fee more countries that could be added to this list!
"what news numba weng?"
Weng is the Chinese, Wang is the European mis-literation of the Chinese.
We must use the incorrect word here, eh!
Just like people using much & many interchangebly in examples like 'how much balloons you got' & 'how many temperature is it out today.
@@justincronkright5025 So, should we be asking how much numba wang?
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 'What Much Numba Wang' perhaps?
@@justincronkright5025 I think you've gone super wang. I'm still newbie, i.e. not muchly numba wang.
It's B.S. that we don't have a state named Bingo
He's obviously never been to The Gower.
trying to watch 240p videos in 2021 causes me mental anguish, anyone else?
Me too, friend, me too...
How about YOU upload this in better quality then?
Fewer pixels reduce emisions and help save the planet.
Although I've just cancelled that out by posting this. Doh!
@2:20 looks like the beach at seven sisters, i was on that beach today!
This should be updated. There is a meme song where the singer claims that England is his city. However, the singer could be from Arkansas where there is a city named England.
We called our planet Earth, we live on a Planet which we intentionally named another word for soil, or mud.
According to Arthur C Clarke the world should be called "Ocean" because that is what it mainly is.
@@_Mentat That is an even worse name tbh, although he does have a point.
So now, throughout the Galaxy, our planet's name is mud.
@@robinharwood5044 Nope! its Dirt.
@@_Mentat I can sea that. Although with lakes, rivers, glaciers, seas, clouds and the Antarctic maybe "Damp" would be even more accurate.
Is this like the Key and Peele of the UK? I'm digging these skits aha
We're in the UK, we don't know what Key and Peele is.
@@robinarmitage1376 right, well you should check it out. Their sketches are all good
@@philmedeiros2497 I think Key and Peele is the Fry and Laurie of the US.
Logical fallacy: Appeal to accomplishment.
4x4!!
I am the captain now
Turtle Island
england won when they got to australia
GreenLand what ever
I think New Zealand was aptly named
well Greenland was Greenland before was it? Them vikings named it ...
240p???
Who has the Captains hat?
People knew the world was round in 2000BC.
People? All of them?? Some did, others didn't. Nuance.
@@peterembranch5797 ouch. Nuance would normally save you in most situations, but not this one. Try Google my friend.
@@patrickpaganini And if I do, this will demonstrate that EVERYONE knew that the world was round, will it?
@@peterembranch5797 Partick Harris didn't say state that EVERYONE in 2000BC knew that the world was round, he said "people" , which implies 2 or more persons knew the world was round and not necessarily everyone. Why do some people propose the hypothesis that the earth is flat?
@@bobbylockes Yes, I know he didn't say "EVERYONE" in 2000BC knew that the world was round. People does indeed imply 2 or more, and in this way is vastly vague, don't you think. To suggest that 2 people knew that the world was round is, well, meaningless. Isn't it? I mean, so what? Surely a number substantially higher than two must be implied to make the sentence meaningful.
As you imply yourself, there are people even today - with the benefit of a modern education - who affect to believe the world is flat. Don't you think there must have been more 4,000 years ago? A lot more?
Where's the one about pineapples?
America was named for Richard Americke
An attempt at a joke?
@@JohnZ117 no he is right, it was named after him... just a man from Bristol who scribbled his name across that particular area, and that area became "Amerike", which changed to America. Many things about it online
@@smoothie9931 Amerigo Vespucci (www.britannica.com/biography/Amerigo-Vespucci).
@@JohnZ117 yeah I know, there is no definitive answer to who named it, or who it was named after. The two theories are either Richard Amerike, or Amerigo. Also given that the USA flag is based on Richard Amerike's coat of arms, I would be more inclined to believe it is named after Amerike, not Amerigo
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/americaname_01.shtml
@@JohnZ117 The problem with Amerigo Vespucci is you don't use the first name, if it was named after Amerigo, the land would be called Vespuccia, like why it's called Columbia, not Chrisophia.
Greenland, how, why?
fucking hilarious ...
show me that level of thought and planning and being able to do that specific kind of awesome these days ...i beseech thee
say yes again ..
Who’s Virginia? 😊
do they do poison though?
And do they still shoot tourists in Florida?
Bet you can't find New North Wales, though. (It did exist!)
There's half a dozen new places here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Britain_(Canada)
@@tobybartels8426 Only five in fact (New Denmark, New [North/South] Wales, New Yorkshire). I also know of New Albion, New Andalusia, New Connecticut, New Cornwall, New Hanover, New Navarre, New Netherland, New Norfolk, New Pomerania, New Shetland, and New Swabia.
@@daniel.u.thibault : The sixth, encompassing all the others, is in the article's title and lede: New Britain (not the one near Australia). But your list is impressive; are those also names for parts of Canada's historical New Britain?
@@tobybartels8426 Some but not all.
@@daniel.u.thibault There's also New Zealand of course and there's New England which is actually a region of New South Wales.
My brain is a bit overwhelmed by the number of pixels on the screen. Can we blur it a bit more?
Yes, I too want to pleasure myself to David Mitchel's face in all it's glorious detail.
Close one eye, poke yourself in the other eye, then re-open the first eye.
It won't make it better. You'll just appreciate what you can see that much more.
Why has nobody ever noticed that they ripped this sketch off TOTALLY from the Mary Whitehouse experience? They even use the same 'Greenland' joke. (Clip for comparison) ua-cam.com/video/xJbIqgMfbUU/v-deo.html
It's not that original of an idea. The Greenland joke is one every school kid has made after looking at a map.
travel journalists do the same shit
Some of these videos filmed with a potato are really funny.
writing > special effects
Looks perfectly crisp and clear to me. When was your last eye test?
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I think I need to ask you that question.
@@TheTarrMan Hang on, let me get my glasses...
A meer jest TarrMan. Just messin' wid cha.
I think in this case the video doesn't matter quite so much. The locations are, umm, not quite authentic. But it does give it that retro feel like it was filmed a few hundred years ago when cameras were just two pixels.
One for light. One for no light. 😀
Fun fact: no one ever has proved the Earth is round.
Are you one of those flat-earthers?
No Muttley, nor am I a round earther
True, but it has been proved to be an oblate spheroid.
I have. But shhhhhh
@@kevg3320 please show
Lisbetj is not a virgin. Robert may be that but thats a question of awful laws. Back in the days its often were dont ya think. Love the end.
With this statement I entirely and completely.
@@tomonetruth naaw so you get it, I dont at all 😏🤗
One would think that Mitchell, as a history major, would know that Columbus did not set out to prove the world was a globe because that was already well established.
One would think that Mitchell, a successful writer and comedy actor, would know not to allow onerous detail to get in the way of a good joke.
@@gknipe Well it's an unneeded detail. The joke works without that line.
@@cvoisineaddis But it wouldn't work as well. You don't understand this, you pedant.
@@peterembranch5797 Webb argues that they are the East indies because it's in the "east" (orient to europe), but Mitchell argues they should be the west Indies because they sailed west to get there. Whether they proved the world was round or not is irrelevant. The crux of the joke as that disagreement between them. The "There is a western route to the Indies" is sufficient enough.
@@cvoisineaddis : You've got a point, but I think they put that in there so he could do the hand gesture to remind people how the Earth is a globe and all that; otherwise, the audience might not understand why it would be the East Indies either.
It does seem insane that when thinking of naming a place after the Queen, the first thing that comes to mind is the fact she's a virgin, rather than, IDK, her name? Or ANYTHING else lol. It just shows how men perceived women, even the queen.
I'm pretty sure Elizabeth I was rarely, if ever, a victim of sexism.
@@robinarmitage1376 You should read some history.
She called herself the Virgin Queen, and made much of it.
Virginia was named after Virginia Dare, the first British colonist child born in the New World colonies, not after a queen.... whoever made this was not historically accurate, or even tried.... but what do I know, i'm just Virginian...
Well, the state library and every other reputable source I can find disagrees with you, and says the name Virginia was inspired by Elizabeth the first. So, either they, as Virginians, are wrong, or you are. Personally, I’d opt for the official sources.
I am not American, but the Virginia government website and national state records of Virginia also back up the comedy skit. Why would we name a whole area after a child, it's more likely that the child was named after the state and then folklore build up around it. Especially if you consider the whole American revolution and so on, having a state named after a British Queen might not have been so popular.
But both the sites I checked out say historians believe, so it's not set in stone. What do you know as a Virginian probably more about your history than me.
The state of Virginia was named in 1584. Virginia Dare was born three years later in 1587. But what do I know, I'm just educated...
It's not ideal when British comedians know more about your state's history than you do.
@@mm-qd1ho : When Ananias Dare announced that he hoped to have a child in the New World and that he was going to name her Virginia (after his grandmother of course), all the other colonists decided to name the colony after Dare's future child. They also pledged to remain celibate until she was born, so she could have the honour of being the first child born in the colony that bore her name. (They were all rather annoyed that it took 3 years for her to be born, but they kept their pledge, because they were Englishmen.)
New York got its name because "old" York got sacked by the Danes
New York is named after the Duke of York, who was awarded New Amsterdam after the it was seized from the Dutch. I don't think the Danes had anything to do with it.
@@tomonetruth Thank you for explaining everything I already knew and also for missing the fucking joke. LOL. You don't get out much,do you? The joke went WOOOOOSHING over your head. Why do you watch comedy skits if you lack a sense of humour?.At what point did it ever seem like I was being serious? It was clear as day that I was being tongue in cheek. I suppose you wanted to show everyone how much of a big brain smart smart you are. Then again it isn't exactly a difficult subject and I could have given you a full detailed essay on the full history of new york when I was nine. However as for a little light hearted human in line with the craziness of place names my comment was obviously a joke and no sane person would ever have taken it as being a serious comment.
@@whisperedarcc6543 no, i didn't realise it was a joke - i don't get it. i was just passing on a bit of (what i thought was) interesting trivia, but as you say, i don't get out much. honestly wasn't trying to show off, i certainly didn't know all that stuff when i was nine. didn't mean to upset you!
I didn't even know he was employed by them.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 whispered arcc did. when he was 9.
Painfully unfunny.
Sounds like Doc got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning
Brilliant