Cholmondley Warner. A short film about that Mr Hitler

An interesting film on art and social attitudes and development in the early 20th Century.

[@bluegtturbo]

We should all be grateful that those original movie clips survived for generations to come...

[@markjackson5665]

Yes! (Looks left) Yes!

[@BackToTheBlues]

I should say so chum, lawks and luv a duck.

[@brendanroberts4866]

i suspected it was fake - I had no idea it was real.

[@paulrhodesquinn]

😆

[@RealFudd]

Mel Brooks once said the best way to deal with Nazis was to laugh at them and I have to say this is the funniest thing I have seen on the subject bar none. This is pure genius while just down right funny and no matter how many times I watch the video it just gets better.

[@johnthehumanist2333]

i agree,it applies to both ends of the horseshoe,neo marxists and communists as well.😁

[@Hartley_Hare]

'...it'll take a more than a man with a little moustache and only one gonad to queer our pitch'

[@bobbyhanly3466]

I didn't realise Mel Brooks was that old. One of the 4 million Holocaust survivors I suppose.

[@Wipeout6546]

you know who is nazi i don't think so , also who is racist nowdays dumb sheeps and normies think that they can call someone nazi or racist and that is all , if someone doesn;t have any proof of his political views or proof that his house is stuffed with nazi flags then it;s a pile of bs used by social justice warrior and antifa , but the fact society have been so dumbed down in the west that they allow this to happen , pol corectness is evil

[@robertcottam8824]

​@@johnthehumanist2333 Nah. They've got a sense o' humour. What's a 'Neo-Marxist', by the way? You haven't got a clue. Hohohoho! 🤣🤣🤣 See what mean?

[@leehowson440]

By jove that was mightily educational and informative. Thank you Mr. Cholmondley Warner

[@rdor011]

"think again Adolf, you may be knocking a few foul balls into our pavilion..." brilliant.

[@iainclark5964]

The ironic thing is that the term foul ball is a baseball term and not used in cricket.

[@63Branson]

"that's funny I thought I had two" split my sides laughing when he said that. Just brilliant.

[@judyhopps9380]

We all remember 1939, with the outbreak of unseasonably clement weather for the time of year. History will never forget

[@warreng675]

Yes

[@FlowersInHisHair]

Yes

[@rossmcbride9863]

Yes

[@mikemoreno4469]

Yes

[@gwendolynbrown8348]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@brighteyes8474]

That is so fucking hilarious. Harry Enfield is a genius.

[@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan]

"Yes"

[@Hertog_von_Berkshire]

Yes, ebsolutely hilarious ... innit.

[@Zongooo]

I remember seeing this back in '39.

[@chasermalloy7406]

Yes indeed. Well, I don't remember to be honest but I'm glad you and Judy made it through ok.

[@Robert-hz9bj]

Glad to see you made it through. That Mr. Hitler chap seemed like a bad egg.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Cholmondley-Warner, is definitely based on Leslie Mitchell, the pre-war star of BBC radio and early TV. His build, hair style Mustache and clipped posh accent, is a dead ringer for him. Terrific comic send-up.

[@stuartthompson8056]

I think you're right.

[@TdcWillies]

That's it. Exactly and precisely. Well done.

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

Strewth guv! You’re a toff and no mistyke!

[@lloydpenfold486]

Yes.

[@68jroche]

The first outing for this character was in the spoof documentary "Sir Norbert Smith. A life" He parodied Will Hay, Hollywood musicals, Niel Coward, kitchen sink and cliff Richard amongst others.

[@richardenglish2195]

"Grown a 'tasche, have yer?" "Just a tiddler." Pure class!

[@hoilst]

+Richard English "Ta, Eva, ducks."

[@jaakkooksa5374]

As Franz Liebkind said, "Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats"!

[@lucianisidro]

This is far funnier than that short film Mr Hitler did about Cholmondley Warner ...

[@olliefoxx7165]

Yes, it was a bit to much. The weather was barely discussed at all.

[@omen828]

😆

[@jezzaus2124]

Why do I always lose it at the introduction? Enfields posh accent is incredible 🤣

[@Simon-1965]

Until he's had a weekend in the east end!

[@free..to..air..]

Mr Grayson and Mr Cholmondely Warner represent all that is fine and ordered in the placement structure of war time society.. Their wise counsel and instructive narratives are a lesson to us all in our understanding of our place in the world and deference to our betters

[@TheChugg11]

"Blimey! I thought I had two..."

[@thesandwich5321]

No one can say it's not historically accurate!

[@gwendolynbrown8348]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@petergreen2552]

I just love these informal but informative conversations about people like Mr Hitler.

[@FlowersInHisHair]

Yes

[@ionichi]

@@FlowersInHisHair Yes

[@bluetoad2668]

His friends and his social class

[@jellooowith3os]

" Funny.I thought I had two" . Classic

[@troubledspirit3328]

😂😂😂

[@barbaragrosvenor5542]

wonderful and this is just what we need now a right good belly laugh the English can laugh at themselves and we used to have the freedom to produce comedy like this. well done Harry

[@bluetoad2668]

We still do have the freedom to produce comedy - who've you been listening to?

[@thesceptic1018]

Where would we be without humour? Why, Germany

[@chrisholland7367]

Because history and the world it seems will never let them forget.

[@zapkvr]

Uh France actually.

[@dvlawank8493]

Council estates

[@RetroAdzz]

@@zapkvr Where would we be with out rules? France

[@mattuboyle5891]

Hahahaha

[@krayzeejojo]

Harry and Paul proves that bone-dry British sitcom humor wins over our American style any day. Love this shit!

[@janesmith3287]

Thanks. We do appreciate a lot of stuff from the US as well though and we stood together during WWII. We won't ever forget that.

[@johnknott6539]

Jane Smith I’m a Brit living in USA for 38 years. We Brits must never forget we’d very probably have lost WW 2 if not for huge sacrifice of USA in lives and treasure. Some Brits forget the US did not have to

[@rovercoupe7104]

One of my favourite films is Airplane. “Oh stewardess, I speak Jive”. M.

[@vestibulate]

@@johnknott6539 It was the Red Army that tore the guts out of the German war machine. If you want to thank anybody, thank the Russians.

[@ronwhycherly]

The USA didn’t have to? Hitler declared war on them after Japan attacked them And there wasn’t a great sacrifice of American lives in Europe, very small as a proportion of population, and as for sacrificing treasure, they made a fortune out of the war, reversing the depression and ending up richer than ever, suffering no damage to their cities and infrastructure like European countries.

[@kapuzinergruft]

That is actually these kind of British people we as Germans have in mind...😅 one problem which arises when you are a German tourist: a tour guide is also called "Führer"...

[@ElmoUnk1953]

“That’s funny, I thought I had two.” 🤣😂🤣

[@pintpullinggeek]

Alternative title: Hitler, know your limits!

[@rogerramjet5302]

Stood the test of time - hilarious then, even better now!

[@Lesinator]

That's constable Reg Deadman, I knew Goodnight Sweetheart was real, I knew it!

[@malferguson2548]

TheLezinator I was wracking my brains trying to figure out where I recognised him from. Ta, Lezinator, me Duck!

[@LeBronFilms]

Angry ofTuebrook Defected to the German's whilst Gary was away.

[@PurpleChickenTV]

I wonder if we would have failed 'the test'

[@iaincowell9747]

Christopher Ettridge

[@buddhastaxi666]

I just read wat you sed guvner then wrote back in me own time.

[@sophiew1967]

I love Harry Endfield & Paul Whitehouse .If ever there was a time for the BBC to reprise The Fast Show it is now ,christ we could all do with cheering up here in the UK for sure ,wish League Of Gentlemen was back as well .

[@lesigh1749]

With papa Lazarou? Can you imagine the outraged screaming?

[@punkoid76]

This wasn’t a sketch from the Fast Show, Harry Enfield wasn’t even in it. This sketch is from the Harry Enfield show.

[@whitetroutchannel]

@@lesigh1749 your my wife now dave

[@MarkHarrop63]

Pure quality. Never give up Harry and chums.

[@TheCatBilbo]

Thank God our 'pads' were made of stronger stuff! We very nearly had to go in for an early tea (& not just because it was raining, for once). I'm grateful that we were so bloody-minded & belligerent about the whole Test Match!

[@littleratbag1111]

Reg deadman from goodnight sweetheart, lol brilliant actor!

[@stuartpaulsmith3186]

I always knew Reg was an undercover Nazi! No police officer is that thick.

[@praisebewibble]

This is so well done. I hadn't seen it b4. A clever use of the cockney accent for hitler. brilliant!

[@MrDaiseymay]

well---he was common, and his DAD ?? a right piss artiste.

[@mikerodent3164]

"Perishin' " ... the strongest expletive of the 1930s (of the working man as represented by the non-working man of course). Lovely observational stuff.

[@michaelmouse4024]

Hitler was asked if he had any regrets. He replied "Nein"... which you'll agree is quite a lot. 😅😅

[@enkisdaughter4795]

😂

[@MrLorenzovanmatterho]

"What social class does he belong to?" I'm sure many ask.

[@sneakyvanquisher]

This is quite true of what the British thought of him at the time too! Chamberlain came back after his first meetings with him, announcing upon how Hitler, 'was not a gentleman', and in person had absolutely no presence.

[@bearsagainstevil]

I remember them talking to the german team at munich post war , and they said the first thing chamberlain said was well mr hitler we must do our best to avoid another great war in europe , and they said why didnt you send bomber harris to negotiate with hitler or a mean general you sent this man like a maths teacher

[@mikekemp9877]

orson welles said much the same after meeting him through his father in 1932 pre fame.he said he was a totally uncouth man very boring had appalling table manners wasnt particularly bright and seemed incapable of taking part in normal dinner table conversation.if there was some insight into his later greatness and popularity in germany i obviously missed it said welles!

[@68jroche]

I recommend a recent BBC drama called "Life after Life". The hero tries killing Hitler as one of her strategies. It's a most enjoyable story despite the omnipresent tragedy.

[@geoffreycarson2311]

FKDD UP THERE athough ???HITLER Said CHAIBALIN Was a PUSHOVER !!!and HE WENT NUTS WHEN WINSTON !!!GOT VOTED Back into Parliment 😂😂😂😂g

[@Twirlyhead]

Chilling to see there thoughts an machinations on film like this.

[@mastercontrol469]

Excellent pre-war documentary.

[@fergussaint-john2535]

" Ta, Eva ducks..."

[@EdiDrums]

I finished this video singing 'Hitler, has only got one ball; the other, is in the Albert Hall'...

[@danielmcaloon4691]

😂😂😂😂 thank you. I needed a good laugh.

[@krayzeejojo]

"..Funny, I thought I had two..." hahahaha

[@Guedingen]

This will go down as a work of genius.

[@MrDaiseymay]

thats what 'itler thought

[@Collboy64]

Small point of complaint here, but it was not only England that stood up. Scotland and Wales were involved as well. Thank you.

[@bobbyhanly3466]

Really? I thought it was only the English involved in the amazing victory at Dunkirk. 200,000 men running (or floating) away screaming in terror.

[@neddyseagoon9601]

You know the comedy is also aimed at that Britain is England chauvinism?

[@pec104]

That was an absolute GAS.

[@the_9ent]

Berlin - shows a picture of Piccadilly, London. ROFL

[@sitarnut]

Ha Ha.. I caught that too..... lovely humor init

[@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888]

Thanks for repeating the joke as if you're the only one that got it.

[@the_9ent]

Simon H Do you only have one ball too? Guessing so.

[@Kryojenix]

@@the_9ent but why point out Berlin specifically when the joke started with Vienna?

[@Steve_P_B]

And Vienna

[@Lesinator]

It'll take more than a little old man with a funny moustache and one gonad to queer our pitch! That's one stiff as fuck upper lip right there

[@SimonFurber]

See H G Wells the Shape of Things to Come. Penberthy is Mr Cholmondeley Warner.

[@magna4100]

Best sketch I've seen since the last one.

[@clemelwyn]

Yes.

[@marklane5222]

Yes

[@clemelwyn]

Yes

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Yes

[@stuartthompson8056]

Yes

[@katrinamoore3520]

Hilarious. I do love a good mick take.

[@dolanjohnson6264]

Oh my dear God I can just imagine Hitler sounding like that in real lifebeginning to start a moving speech in Nuremberg keeping the crowd waiting and then once he speaks he sounds like this

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Remember his time by the Mersey.

[@jackdaw1328]

Is this the inspiration for Jacob Rees-Mogg's delivery on GBnews.

[@deformednutsack9886]

British humour is always the best 😂

[@Gilmaris]

I remember seeing this ages ago, but I remembered it as a Hale & Pace skit.

[@mortalkonlaw]

"...and to what social class does he belong?" The lower class, naturally. What a prole.

[@zapkvr]

Working class actually

[@critter7052]

very clever parody! thanks for posting.

[@hc4jd]

It's Reg Deadman! Garry never flushed out him as a spy!

[@briansmith1055]

Absolutely genius

[@judgeberry6071]

That gag about his testicle is spot on 🤣

[@mrkeogh]

"Mr. Hitler to you, me laddie!"

[@ivanhart6675]

Chamberlain said of him, he was the commonest little swine , he had ever met in his life. The story goes , that at their first meeting in Berchetesgaden, Chamberlain , mistakenly handed Hitler his overcoat , thinking he was the butler.

[@stevejauncey3086]

I believe that was Lord Halifax.

[@bren70ssss94]

Oh that's classic , I bet he was jolly cross 😊

[@occamraiser]

If only someone had saved a copy of the Reginald Molehusband reverse parking demo film :)

[@ElvisPresley68]

Funny thought I had 2 😂 class sheer class

[@jabbyjabjo]

Jesus this spot on for the time,piss myself everytime i watch it ,brill....ain’t it ducks

[@marcokite]

don't blaspheme

[@johnthehumanist2333]

@@marcokite JESUS! or do you prefer yeshua?

[@chitekwe]

"Blimey I thought I had TWO ".

[@rogerswift1983]

Cholmondley Warner also appeared in Goodnight Sweetheart (as a Doctor) ...

[@MrDaiseymay]

'wished I'd followed that now, but it wasn't very well done, considering the idea, WAS.

[@sharilynfritz247]

Course now adays we have that outlandish Mr.Gates!

[@goldeneddie]

An ee's a rite sort 'e is that Gates fella, a proper perishin' nincompoop wot 'asn't got no morals, e ain't!

[@thesprawl2361]

Oh for actual, genuine, really-existing fuck’s sake. ‘Bill Gates is Hitler’ comments under a Harry Enfield video. Why did we ever bother leaving the sea.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

For some reason, the banter between Hitler and his goons in this sketch reminds me of that of Alex and his droogs in "A Clockwork Orange." Well, minus the Russian words mixed in. LOL

[@SvenTviking]

1930’s Cockney, nor nuffink nor neither.

[@simonlamphee9905]

Bloody brilliant

[@brighteyes8474]

Funniest sketch ever. Genius.

[@ivorbiggun710]

Imagine how dreadful things could have turned out if Mr Hitler had had two gonads.

[@MrDaiseymay]

M'mmmm don't know, maybe he wouldn-ave been so pissed off, if he had a full set ?

[@saagabragi6938]

The whole one ball thing is actually from a song

[@sgsilvarerum]

Brilliant!!!

[@krayzeejojo]

@mrfitness2008 I agree about Tim Conway and the earlier days of SNL. But yeah, watching Basil annoy a bunch of German tourists by constantly talking about the war is forever etched in my memory lol

[@Jack-fs2im]

Spent years in the media adding effects to audience like clapping etc you can still say recorded live.you have to cut back things like laughter to allow for the next gag.Tap dancing is easy to add extra taps and really boost,companies have big libraries of effects like cheering,clapping,laughing to boost mild audience titters?

[@elpistolero9394]

I still have my windows in that fashion. Keep getting them put in.....🤔

[@louisewhalley3499]

Brilliant 👏

[@TrippyNoodles]

Just watching this due to the imminent outbreak of world war.

[@jonwilkin281]

Does anyone else think Harry actually looks really like Adolf?

[@Greebstreebling]

I wonder what Mr Cholmondley Warner would have to say about the Israel Gaza situation in 2024?

[@yumbam5546]

Yes!

[@JohnnyWaterbucket]

Superb.

[@Microtherion]

Re Liar Liarliar and Bfdidc's conversation (a year ago). As far as I know, the full war-time play-ground Hitler song went: 'Hitler has only got one ball/ Goering has two but very small/ Himmler has something sim'lar/ And Goebbels has no balls at all'. The tune to which it was sung is generally known as 'Colonel Bogey'. Hope that helps :)

[@ReadandWite]

My recollection goes as follows:Hitler has only got one ballThe Other is hanging on the wallHis Mother she took the otherSo now the poor c@@t ain't got none at all

[@Microtherion]

ReadandWite Lol. Yes, I think there were quite a few different versions...

[@paulsmith390]

One went..... and poor old Goebbels, has no balls, at all.

[@Microtherion]

Paul Smith That's the version I quoted in the first place :)

[@vulpesinculta1919]

I like how Goering is posher, since he was part of the German aristocracy. Nice attention to detail

[@tonybarrett3107]

Brilliant, I miss comedy

[@steveis33]

“I thought there was 2”😂🤣😂😂😂😂

[@fredrikcarlstedt393]

Yes, it is always clement weather here in good old England !!!!

[@ShahPhilLeotardo]

Unseasonably clement for the time of year

[@Spankytimez]

"Thank you" "Yes!"

[@alternativefm328]

Purealternative FM Interlude

[@Bfdidc]

Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is somewhat sim'lar, But poor Goebbels has no balls at all. -- Sung to the tune of "The Colonel Bogey March"

[@MrDaiseymay]

had------but ironically, he fathered six kids; but later, murdered them, so it don't count

[@rodgoole3371]

My friend at junior school in England in the 1950s had the surname Goble and had this song sung to him many times. He got quite good at fighting as result!!

[@nicholasaslanides9703]

She threw it Into a great big tree It fell Into the deep blue sea The fishes Grabbed their dishes. And had scallops and bollocks for tea.

[@ShibuyaEngine]

TV is shite these days, bring back the Fast Show!!!

[@pwalker8814]

@@LukasOfTheLight No thanks

[@BassistPaul]

Brilliant. Can you even imagine a TV company commisioning/showing something like this in 2020's hysterical climate?

[@drwhatson]

On an a not-entirely-unconnected topic, I have a pottery beaker inscribed 'Dorothy and George, Mortehoe, July 1939' - I can't help but wonder what became of them.

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Mortehoe is a village just north of Woolacombe, Devon, so I wonder if Dorothy & George were on holiday there & the beaker was a memento ?

[@bknight882]

Maybe they're still there, after all it is rather Clement for this time of year, yes😅

[@drwhatson]

@@bknight882 Maybe nobody told them the war was over and they're hiding in a cave?

[@drwhatson]

@@Kevin-mx1vi Quite.

[@neddyseagoon9601]

​@@bknight882😂

[@jayb8439]

Look at the state of us today

[@aramanon]

Hooray for Harry and Paul 🤣

[@jimsmethurst6113]

Not have much fun in stalingrad? Oh sorry chummy, wrong perishin' sketch.

[@neddyseagoon9601]

Mr Bimmler?

[@robertkelly9508]

hilarious dood....

[@ConanMightyWarrior]

Reg, I'm surprised at you!, what would Phoebe say?.

[@georgedonaldson7220]

How could those ghastly Huns ever think they would beat us.

[@peter_kelly]

1,000% my grandparents

[@11FruitCake11]

harry enfield in this vid is what daniel radcliffe will look like in t'future :D

[@richardsunday1612]

I wonder how many of the viewers know the work of Harry Enfield ? :)

[@stuartthompson8056]

Yes

[@Upstreamprovider]

Hardly any Germans but they got to know the work of Lee-Enfield quite well old chap!