This almost killed me

hahahahahhaahaha

Why don't you quote the rest of the video? That way we can just read your post and save us the watch??

@@shelbynamels973 Time constraints.

I wheezed. This is a rare gem in the comment section

💀💀💀

Great writer.

I absolutely love that part, also the one about the crown and that it must have been a relief for her mother 😂

⁠​⁠@@wioi”Their untrammeled sexual passion is evident in every photograph of them” is what gets me the hardest.

best line LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

it's devolving

@JZ's BFF well if you think about it, that was an evolution too

I bet he must have written about that in the "Oranges of Peaches"

@@jzsbff4801 isn't every dead being immortal?

I love how proud she looks into the camera when she "comes to think of it".

That’s how clever Dickings was.

​@@Yme7yep and Dickens was quite clever as well...

It’s the only time she smiles the entire show LOL!

Sooo good. 😂

The same thing Nolan does in many of his movies

they make the documentaries lol it's the same guys so easy

Has she done one where she is driving a car pointlessly and speaking to the cameraman?

Priceless

Queen Elizabeth was born right in time for the Elizabethan era

The fact I read that as she said it, is so strange 😂

@@MwauraXavier lol you beat me to it

@@paulinegallagher7821 haha. This woman is just perfect.

“And he had brown hair like harry styles” HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAJAHAHA

I loved her ‘acid house’ joke.

lmfao dawg i was wheezing - Charles "Dickings" also caught me off guard 🤣

totally random, but why do you all call yourselves academics? seems a bit pompous to me 😂 all it really means is that you read right? lol

@@user-pl6bh4bd7q It means you have a university degree in most cases - it's not being pompous, it's being a nerd who can't shut up about their favorite topic.

@@RuerlKhan then why not just call yourselves nerds? lol also, louis ck has this great bit about asholes. basically it goes like this: “you ever have a friend that’s an ashole and you tell them and then they say, ‘im not ashole’. but you dont get to decide if youre an ashole. that’s for everyone else to decide” now replace ashole with pompous 😂

@@user-pl6bh4bd7q Well, because academic is an actual thing, not just "nerd" - it's not pompous anymore than it's "pompous" to call yourself an electrician or a plumber. (Both things that require a great deal of know-how, I should know as my academic degree just landed me with unemployment, so now I am in training to become an electrician). Academic is just a catch-all phrase for a teacher or scholar at an university - so to be one you have to be either graduated from it, studying at it or teaching at it. Feel free to think it pompous however, that's entirely on you and won't really influence me one way or another. (Merry christmas if you celebrate that btw).

Historians basically have low standards for who they're willing to talk to. They're not very snobbish. Actually not kidding, you have to be very patient if you're going to teach anyone anything. It's a good quality.

@@pashadyne i thought the same. Allthough i ask myself how they set up these interviews lmao

Yes theyre told to act along with it

@@kiobio7311 I think they are just told to answer sincerely, rather than start laughing or get angry, act like they think its real.

I seem to remember reading that they're told it's comedy, but they have no idea what they'll be asked. Honestly, though, I'm not sure how they would be able to find enough experts who're completely unfamiliar with Philomena Cunk, or especially being unfamiliar with Diane Morgan generally.

@@dorianleakey this whole time i thought they were actors too...

It's actually a brilliant summary of natural selection. One of the main reasons why people fail to understand evolution is that they overthink it as some kind of transformational driving force. In fact it really is just about some individuals leaving a lot of offspring and some leaving few or none.

Life Happens exactly! It’s such a simple statement at face value but almost fully encapsulates the idea of natural selection😁

She's factoring in sperm banks.

A cold take

Tell that to Kent Hovind!

Also all the interviewees keeping a straight face - full marks..

I'd like to think she worked for that.

I agree, it's almost like she's acting

Gifted? Really?

@@ajw9377 better than the fumbling neck smeller we have now

I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE KEEPS A STRAIGHT FACE! No way i could say things that funny and not let on i knew what i was doing, it really is a gift

It was a thing of beauty.

@@lisasommerlad1337 he himself being athing of beauty - i want more!

@@hunkhk Agreed. He’s gorgeous.

He never laughed once. Tremendous.

I take my hat off to him. I have a Masters in literature, and look up to him as highly intellectual. Ron Byron!!😅

Cheers... I was wondering are these Brits for real or what !???? What does CUNK Mean ? I'm Australian we don't get any comedy here anymore 😳

One could die laughing!

Why did you laugh when the pandemic started?

@@QIKUGAMES-QIKU have you never watched A current affair before? That’s hilarious

it was like watching an alien figure out how the world worked, funny as hell

People with a life expectancy of 25 might welcome slavery as a method of survival.

1000s

More than half of the population of Rome were slaves at any one time.

@@jimfiggerty833 Yes, but being a Roman slave was quite different from being an industrial slave. Both conditions were horrible though.

@@jimfiggerty833 ​ Roman slaves, among many others up until the transatlantic slave trade rose to prominence. The Emperor Pertinax was one such slave. The emperor Septimius Severus was an African and the last Roman Emperor to try his hand at conquering the Pics. Chattel slavery in perpetuity has never before existed in human history. To suggest there is some kind of comparison between the two is reductive at best and just plain ignorant at worst. I hope it's the prior Jim!

I though it was a dog drowning

@@damonedwards1544 so did I...😊

I think she says dog

@@kmc7062 Sounds more like dock but I think you're right, dog fits better.

I hope you feel better! 😄

It would’ve been a good way to go haha

Oh dear! 😮

Just imagine, u commit crime and instead of punishment, get a permanent vacation abroad.

@@2HN. Everything is deadly whether or not it moves. Camping? Gum trees shed limbs to crush people, and leaves might cause excruciating pain when used as toilet paper. Walk in the woods? Koalas might drop down and maim someone, and the ticks could cause allergies to beef and pork for the rest of your life. Since chicken was still a delicacy, going vegan in 1850 is the worst experience. Swimming? Box jellyfish are lethal. Staying home? Most spiders are venomous, and the puddles outside have brain-eating parasites living in them. Most land is either arid or jungle, which are the 2 worst kinds of living conditions humans could settle in the 19th century.

@@murph_mustela bruh where tf you living, Alice Springs?

When Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Australia, an Australian customs officer jokingly asked Philip if he had a criminal record. "I didn't realize that was still a requirement," Philip replied.

@@papercamera2989 Either that, or a town like Alice.

„Must’ve been a pretty good book, if you can overlook that he slept with his sister“

Plenty of experts give funny absurd answers to Ms. Cunk's funny absurd questions. That particular expert managed gave an absurd answer right out of the gate. Unforced error imo

shouldnt you be in the hague war crimes tribunal? LOL (line from stewart less, comdedeien)

😂😂😂😂

Why?

Not exactly the most 'subtle'.

@@josephbennett4236 Oh wait now I get it.

@@emjayay i dont get it

@@michakwiatkowski1313 poor lad

@@ruqayyahqadri6618 poo on the loo

Later she even asked "What are you?" :v

Bigsam4205: I agree. Did you see the Shakespeare one where she asks ‘who are you and what’s your game?’?

Don't forget about her mate... I believe his name is Mark!😂

⁠@@snakejones9965it’s paul.😂

@brianmgrim yea with Iqbal Khan I think. He paused a second lol

Absolutely perfect comment on slavery. 7:11

He says that, but if no other species other than cows have tried being cows, what's his frame of reference for cows being relatively good at being cows? Cows might be shit at being cows compared to pigs.

Christopher Prentice I love Chris Peckham

Edward Ashford I think a cow is better at being a cow than a pig is at being a pig .that said a pig can be a cow better than a cow can be a pig .

He does not seem to understand evolution. The environmental niche being available would create a cow if cows did not exist. You would have some sheep or pigs who were more cowlike over time and eventually would take over the whole niche, become larger, produce more milk, and so on.

"So why did he come up with a theory than turns monkeys into men? Aren't monkeys quite good as monkeys and men just quite good as men? " That should have been her next question.

FasCinating! :)

And the BAFTA for "most uncomfortable interviewee in a musical or comedy goes to ....."

I still haven't figured out if the interviewees are in on the joke but I like to imagine they are not.

@@jasonporter5912 Originally they weren't. But I think the character has been around for so long that they are wise to it now. Although I suppose some of them might still be caught off guard.

Reminiscent of Ali G interviewing Noam Chomsky.

@@jasonporter5912 they are (and were) , they got instructions to answer all questions as genuine as possible, they didn't know exactly what she was going to ask, just that it was a comedy program

I literally yelped out loud

That one had got me. 🤣

😂😂😂

😂 me too.

@@lizroberts1569 I also almost spit out my drink.

But who is Ron

@@myview5840 historian: *pure confusion*

Twas bloody brilliant!

Language

@@myview5840 little brother of Fred and George

She was not having it that day lol.

At that moment it was coming out of her ears.

Don't forget I'm going to be using the C word a lot then pointing at the Sea.😂

Let's not ignore when one told her how much cow and pig are best being cow and pig

'Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention - a machine that would auto-correct his name to Cabbage every single time' - brilliant, classic line!

@@terryplatt8115 ....... I get as much laughter reading the comments (things people pick out) as I do watching the video

My sister is a GP: try to stay awake while you're being treated by a junior doc on rotation.

True

@@chrisneedham5803 humor and laughter is a social activity that’s why :)

She does her own sitcoms and this is her own show really as she was a spinoff character originally.

This is her own show

@@parkeydeeI was hoping someone would say this 😂😂

And then the door she tries to open is locked. Effing brilliant!! 😂

And he died....forever

Was it before or after the industrial revelation?

In the previous episode she refers to Middle Evil years. !

Not really the same though is it

Junior doctor (resident) from the Philippines here. 30+ hr shifts, 36C weather with broken AC, and tuberculosis everywhere. All for 16,000 pesos ($275) a month after taxes. Very relatable 😂

Unfirtunately, it is very similar, and i find it morally wrong. Patients need sane doctors, not sleep deprived idiots.

Neurosurgery junior doctor from Germany here - this is SO on point it made my stomach twist...

She is speaking the truth- no joking at all. I am a retired RN and junior drs are treated terribly . Even when really tired they perform well and are not idiots.

I think he was just being himself.

@@matthewbartsh9167 no

@@matthewbartsh9167 I swear, when she's talking about translating Austen's works into "proper English" he looks like he almost cracks up.

@@LolaOpheliac Yes!

@@valnerothgaming8918 Yees, I love his face at 5:16 😅 It looks like he almost laughed

Thought that was a very predictable joke. Just me?

@@jshepard152 you have a predictable pfp

slavery was abolished in favour of a new term, minimum wage.

😂😂😂😂

😂😂

Unfortunately, she is incorrect. Cumbledink Snaggleboof is actually a lizard man.

It’s so funny and also it’s actually not the worst summary of evolution by natural selection 😂

More intuitive than „survival of the fittest“.

Pretty accurate description of the theory tho

I mean in a way, that's what it is.

This had me my crying, she looks so pleased with herself when she's putting the ballot in the box and it's not going to count.

I was dying. So subtle yet hilarious

😂😂😂😂

LOL!

faskinated... :D

Just like western civilization has done

@@LTPottenger you might have missed the point, but look at the Oranges of Peaches

Really?

@@LTPottenger right wingers when they rant about the fall of the white race on a video about the minions or a coconut or some other completely unrelated shit

I noticed this only a short while back. This series has almost ZERO filler. They had SO much good stuff that they wanted to get out, that they didn't have time to put in bullshit filler. It's jam packed with thoughtfully made content.

Im binging them and living for the Brush Strokes cameos

It wasn't . They just picked it up , it could've been anything . It was previously languishing in obscurity , forgotten by everyone , barr a few , now adult , women who are prob married to / divorced from , the wrong men . It was sh*t , just watch AN episode .

Is the joke that BBC documentaries make contrived segues to crap they still have the rights to in order to pad out time/content? I don't know, I don't watch that many actual BBC docs.

@@adzdahlman9724 i had forgotten that i had forgotten it.

@@lisasommerlad1337 yeah , me too , much like Hale and Pace had been ; until , some genius brought them to mind recently ~ I was quite annoyed , if ever anything designed to entertain didn't . Hope I haven't ruined your day .

It’s staged as your smile.

@@Stiffd1 No shit.

@@Stiffd1 thank you captain obvious

@@Stiffd1 wooooshh

@@Stiffd1 That doesn't make it less funny. Realistic reactions to her would be 99% boring as hell, confusion, refusal to engage further, leaving.

by ron . lmao.

As an English as a second language speaker, I thank you for helping me finally get that joke

​@@LuisFernandoAstorga Don't feel bad, I just got it now too😂

clouds =/= steam

@@user-jr7vc9dp7u Steam can be very hot.

@@user-jr7vc9dp7u its actually the same. But steam does not need to be hot. Kind of easy to answer that.

It's not hot... It's like fog... Do you burn your face when you walk through fog? xD

@@Fred-oz3tw Clouds are liquid state, condensed droplets. If they were still steam, gaseous, you wouldn't be able to see them. And steam, by definition (at reasonable pressures), does need to be hot- Same way ice needs to be cold. Look up the phase diagram for water.

Perfect? She is Philomenal!

She's an utter idiot, with a stupid common accent... I can only assume you're being satirical.

It is, no doubt about it. Unfortunately it is in danger of becoming extinct. Less and less people possess it, and there is a good argument that this nation is becoming progressively a humourless one. All the clues are thete....that is why, when one finds a gem like this one, it is to be cherished.....

If there were some unified entity under the label "British humor," then there wdn't be such divergence between, say, "The Bennie Hill Show" and "Monty Python's Flying Circus," or among the many comics whose stand-up you can watch on "Live at the Apollo," or among the many comics whose quips you can catch on hundreds of "Mock the Week -- Scenes We'd Like to See" clips on YT. Yes, some British humor is sublime -- as is some American humor, and some Australian humor, etc. -- and some is crummy. Please avoid stereotypes -- they never do any good (even the so-called positive ones), and they usually cause a lot of harm. In addition, thinking in stereotypes is a sure way to become intellectually flabby, and the last thing this world needs, given the existential crises we face, is for anyone to let his/her brain turn to mush.

@@dw999 Lighten up, Francis.

@@MrGiorgioud *Fewer

@@dw999 British Humor is funny.

Just woke up in the hospital from my heart attack. It has to be quite a few.

Too many great lines to count imho

agreed, this one was my favorite