Art Historian's Most Clumsiest Moments | The Armstrong and Miller Show

[@maxmattt]

Poor Dennis Lincoln-park. He tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it didn't even matter.

[@mrd.redowanullah7045]

He had to fall to lose it all!

[@jay_rgb]

Damn that comment was so good it sent chills down my spine, like I was literally crawling in my skin.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

​@@jay_rgbthe wounds to art history may not heal.

[@Weird-City]

lol it's those little pauses where he is worried something may break that kill me.

[@tjfSIM]

Heh he yes! The best one is at 8:19 :)

[@kjamison5951]

Kudos to the prop masters, the set dressers and the scene builders for creating such truly realistic surroundings even though they were aware those same items would end up damaged or destroyed.

[@arronlunn308]

Ahh you must mean " cweating twuly beautiful cweations ...that are...unutterwably... pwicelesss"

[@NicolaKaye]

Love how he sadly sidles away from the scene of destruction with that look of rueful resignation. 😂

[@StonefieldJim4]

🤣@"rueful resignation". It's sublimely funny. And my word, they really needed to know their stuff to pull this off! The special effects are brilliant too!

[@Formula1Madx]

As Dennis himself would put it, these sketches are "absolutely priceless"

[@scipioafricanus5871]

more like "absolutely pwiceless"

[@griffj3085]

@@scipioafricanus5871 absolutely.. pwiceless.*

[@jopa1328]

Great... you just made my phone explode

[@ilesalmo7724]

And then the servers hosting these sketches suffered a major malfunction

[@DoctorDodge]

Sometimes, it can be frustrating when you just see essentially the same sketch over and over again. But not in this case. Every single one of these was absolutely hilarious, and the fact that both you and even Lincoln-Park knew was what coming just made the punchline even funnier. What a fantastic series of sketches.

[@howardcoles3537]

Yes, they are great ! Brilliant comedy, and marvellous take off of art critics mannerisms, the hushed , reverent tones of his voice added to the hilarity for me !!

[@joshuakarr-BibleMan]

​@@howardcoles3537 Yup, and how he would watch something after touching it, incase something went wrong, and paused every time after calling something priceless, waiting for the calamity.

[@myoldmate]

Yeah, it's the inventiveness of the impending calamity that makes it worthwhile.

[@Richard-hv5hh]

God I wish they had turned this concept into a movie. It would be simply priceless!

[@lordeden2732]

And Lincoln-Park a nervous wreck by the end.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

more like "simply pwiceless"

[@paperbackonly8438]

Jesus, it’s like watching a Greek tragedy. You know it’s coming but there’s no escape.

[@davesy6969]

"These sketches are indeed absolutely priceless...." And then my phone burst into flames. 🔥

[@scipioafricanus5871]

so your phone was a priceless antiquity?

[@jazzy_786]

I never get tired of watching these. All of these have the same joke, but that one joke is absolutely priceless.

[@Lucifronz]

"You must be quite proud of your gallery. Historian Dennis Lincoln-Park just arrived to showcase your recent acquisition!" "What? Oh dear God in heaven, someone find out where he's gone."

[@howardcoles3537]

I've just read your funny comment . It's imaginative , and made me smile. Thank you for brightening up a dull morning for me !

[@JessicaMiller-pc4dj]

Even though you can see the gag from a mile off, it's still so funny 😂.

[@flanplan5903]

Comedic unintentional ASMR for the win!

[@markmarnell]

“Now we must remain absolutely still” …famous last words from Denis !

[@EricaNernie]

I love the way he adds a lisp for authentication.

[@jenniferkelly5897]

The thing he was describing about the destruction of religious objects is called iconoclasm and it took place during the reformation.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

I am not sure the sackers were Protestants, might as well have been Catholics as it was Spanish tercios, Italian and German mercenaries.

[@ninjacell2999]

Yeah he is talking about the Reformation, but it's kind of an intentionally made up silly story saying that Prot forces sacked Rome in 1527

[@wisteela]

The way the did the props etc is brilliant.

[@DanzMcAbra]

They say he was doing an episode on Notre Dame

[@georgespencer8429]

"Look, we're willing to drop our repatriation claim if you can guarantee us that you'll ban Dennis Lincoln-Park for life." - India, Greece, etc. to the British Museum.

[@as368uk]

2:06 the tapestry is a reproduction of a genuine artefact- not quite absolutely priceless but probably close enough.

[@sheep1ewe]

Yes, but did You took a close look at it? Ha ha!

[@rogerswift1983]

you know the punchline each time, but can't predict the how

[@JohanHerrenberg]

As a Dutchman, I still mourn for the two objects he destroyed here.

[@JohnRCWilson]

They need to hide the Vermeers when he’s visiting Holland.

[@JohanHerrenberg]

@@JohnRCWilson I'll warn the security people at the 'Mauritshuis' in The Hague...

[@gruffydd1000]

They were from Holland though, so who cares?

[@krashd]

@@gruffydd1000 You edgy little thing you.

[@TheTsar1918]

The statue destruction scene near killed me.

[@professor_lembach]

8 clumsy historians disliked this video.

[@itsjudystube]

And France is going to lend us the Bayeux tapestry

[@listerofsmeg884]

Dispite the name, the Bayeux tapestry is actually an embroidery, so he thankfully wouldn't be able to damage it like that.

[@turmuthoer]

@@listerofsmeg884 The name is actually doubly misleading since it was made in England (probably Kent), not Bayeux.

[@timdowney6721]

Mark Baxter He will find a way. 😄😄

[@FredrikHaugen]

A historians prime directive is to take care of rare things. Dennis Lincoln-Parks prime directive is to keep them rare.

[@McSynth]

Utterly superb !

[@vinayseth1114]

Wait- who keeps employing him again and again though? :D

[@Sp4mMe]

Insurance scheme fraudsters. "Look, that priceless(!) artifact was destroyed live on camera! We couldn't have smuggled it out! Pay up."

[@jerrykitich3318]

The BBC

[@ereini0n]

The Madonna omg!!! 😂😂😂

[@ononearts]

Either “most clumsy”, or “clumsiest”. Choose ONE, but do not combine.

[@SafetyProMalta]

Priceless

[@chrisemsley7840]

Aaaah, the gift that keeps on giving!

[@jerrykitich3318]

If this ever happens to you, just slowly walk away...

[@Lucifronz]

Sidestep, if necessary, out of view of any nearby cameras.

[@dirkleipzig6591]

I learned to know Ben Miller at Death in Paradise and loved him for his role as DI Poole. These scenes here are amazingly good. The Madonna killed me. 😂

[@MotorScotti]

Still absolutely hilarious and priceless!

[@oliveralexandre3607]

As a Catholic, I am embarrassed to admit that my favorite is the melting Madonna 😢

[@captaincrash9286]

Hat Trick's most tautologicaliest video title. Quite simply priceless.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

I would like to know who invited Dennis Lincoln-Park to the Copenhagen Old Stock Exchange on April 16, 2024?

[@LeonEvans_Guyver1]

not the right question, the right question to ask is how he did it lol 😂😂🤣🤣

[@nickturner4150]

I love his name.

[@BhargavSushant]

Now that is a person who deserved permanent remote option the most

[@ZuluRomeo]

These sketches could be used in a junior high school science lesson to illustrate potential energy transfer and the concept of entropy. 😜

[@arronlunn308]

This clips, of course, are absolutely beyond value!!!!

[@philipmariposa3067]

I haven't had such a good laugh in ages !

[@jopa1328]

I would actually say he's more unlucky than clumsy lol

[@salwaaj1356]

This gave me stomach aches from the stress of it

[@Naturewalkingthrough]

I keep thinking if he broke them on purpose. “There was a time where they existed and there will be a moment where they will only be a memory. The patrons will thank me later.”

[@N_Loco_Parenthesis]

He's cribbing lines directly out of Civilisation (1969). And why not?

[@as368uk]

The pastiche of Civilisation is really well-observed: the musical intro, the way the lines are delivered, the camera style.

[@taylorlibby7642]

...."truly priceless" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Nounismisation]

He's not 'clumbsy'! He's cursed!

[@FreakHarryPotter]

This comedy is absolutely priceless.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

don't say "priceless" unless you want the joke to be ruined.

[@martm216]

So funny - but it's odd that they continued to let Dennis Lincoln-Park loose on these priceless treasures?!

[@MHOification]

Poor Maria!! LOL!!

[@Richard-hv5hh]

Wonderfully funny.

[@karahughes7074]

That's the kind of thing that always seemed to happen to me!

[@AndRewUK24]

Classic

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

Andrew Whitney Pwiceless

[@franklesser5655]

He so often destroys the priceless items he discusses that I'm surprised the BBC keeps him on.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

The premium on their insurance must be "truly pwiceless."

[@2660016A]

It’s either ‘clumsiest’ or ‘most clumsy’. ‘Most clumsiest’ is meaningless.

[@Matlalcueitl]

These sketches are absolutely pricele&*^$#&^$# NO CARRIER

[@gon4455]

And we must remain absolutely...................................... Lol

[@gruffydd1000]

The title of this video is priceless. In a bad way.

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

Don't let him near the Pyramids.

[@GowerActorLondon]

12:37

[@wolftal1178]

The Madonna one is just hilarious!?! It literally almost blew up😁🤣😅😂😄😝😆😀😃👍👍👍

[@listerofsmeg884]

Wonder how many of these objects are based on real items of antiquity?

[@Nounismisation]

...but the intro. spoils all the punchlines!

[@robkeeleycomposer]

Strawberry Hill. built by Horace Walpole (I think)

[@bobhiatt1750]

Most clumsy please

[@richardd9938]

Are these actually all recreations/copies of real artworks?

[@imokin86]

The tapestry and the Roman rider figure look very similar to real artworks. And the first ink sketch. They might be copies.

[@CycolacFan]

Do wonder if any of these were all achieved in one take.

[@metal87power]

It would be also funny if he would ignite a fire by simply putting a paper sheet inside. or an explosion.

[@bsmnt23]

this is the guy who's been doing all those botched Spanish "art restorations" like Monkey Christ.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Someone also made a truly awful "art restoration" to James McNeill Whistler's famous portrait "Whistler's Mother" in 1997 I think.

[@Londonererer]

Surprised it was gin in that glass

[@fredfat1606]

mr chinnery

[@machtrebel]

Who does not know the malicious temptation-when contemplating a beautiful glazed vase, all voluptuous curves- that lies in the thought that one could smash it to smithereens with a single blow of one's stick? Intensified into the heroically bitter realization that one cannot rely on anything in life except what is clinched and riveted, it is a basic emotion enclosed within the soberness of science, and even if, for reasons of respect, one does not want to call it the Devil, the fact remains that it brings with it a faint whiff of brimstone. - TMWQ

[@cloe1704]

Please, do not enter in museums!

[@intuitiveeevee]

I wonder if Chester bennington found this funny (linkin park) or is it just me who gets the reference?

[@Mungobohne1]

Hahahhahahahahhsgahhwgsh

[@epiendless1128]

@@arlingtonhynes In the year that went past since you made that comment, did you mature enough to be ashamed of it?

[@griffj3085]

How many of these were *actually* his fault tho? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vinayseth1114]

Hmm but hasn't the same idea been used much before in the very first Mr. Bean feature film?

[@Picnicl]

The difference with this historian character is that he's an academic unmistakenly entrusted and knowlegable so works are supposed to be safe with him. Bean's more in the spirit of farce / silent comedy / the innocent 'fool' mistaken for an expert. This character's more tragicomic. Whilst the Bean movie, released in 1997, the year that this sketch show started, could have been some inspiration, the details of the comedy, the character, the script, and even the settings are different enough not to be a mere rehash. The erudition, the traditional professorial look of Miller, the grand surroundings, make it a fine acting piece which makes it different enough to me regardless of the actual inevitable punchline.

[@APTKC2025]

These sketches are more the Mr. Show w/Bob and David sketch called "The Story of Everest" its on youtube. Hilarious.