Cunk on Britain "The Third Episode"

Philomena examines the Victorians and is joined by Chris Packham who tries to shed some light on Darwin's discoveries.
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[@seaoftranquility7228]

‘Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.’

[@RJAamir]

This almost killed me

[@Sam-tz8ou]

hahahahahhaahaha

[@shelbynamels973]

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

[@seaoftranquility7228]

@@shelbynamels973 Time constraints.

[@salehinkibria8377]

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

[@alexanders7569]

"The death of queen Victoria reduced the number of women in British politics by 100%" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dqwerty587]

💀💀💀

[@thesubhumancomedy]

Great writer.

[@derlynmudombi1143]

"She was not always a sour , disapproving old lady . She was once a sour , disapproving baby"😂😂😂

[@wioi]

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

[@TheAndrewj96]

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

[@NormAppleton]

LOLOLOLOL

[@Ozzymandius1]

“If Shelly’s one of the greatest poets in English literature, how come nobody gives a shit about him today.” “Thats a complicated question.” That shit sent me.

[@lmb888]

Sooo good. 😂

[@jvcksn929]

"Darwin eventually evolved himself... into a corpse." Best way to view death.

[@glitchesandglitter]

best line LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@eminence_]

it's devolving

[@bmkrecordstaz]

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

[@vaibhavchadha585]

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

[@othernicksweretaken]

@@jzsbff4801 isn't every dead being immortal?

[@yoshi8508]

"must be a good book if you can overlook the fact that he slept with his sister" dead

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

Priceless

[@jena.alexia]

"I'll be starting sentences in one location - and finishing them in another." 😅 Classic trope. They must've watched a lot of real historical docos to nail all these clichés and it's brilliant.

[@user-jc6vh8ck1f]

The same thing Nolan does in many of his movies

[@AgentZ-1844]

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

[@STho205]

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

[@granthurlburt4062]

I love how she dons period costumes more or less unsmilingly as if it's an unnecessary burden. Parodying some other presenter who can't be stopped from so doing and smirking.

[@babygrogu845]

"Workers did long, feckless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in squalid and threatening environment, conditions unthinkable to anyone today who isn't a junior doctor" - thanks Philomena for tribute to us :)

[@milesparker557]

"Animals who were dead are less likely to reproduce than live ones." Quite a controversial sentence there.

[@OlleLindestad]

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.

[@TheGreatestGoon]

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

[@RFC-3514]

She's factoring in sperm banks.

[@marcroy5089]

A cold take

[@mikeharrison1868]

Tell that to Kent Hovind!

[@whateverwhatever3443]

"It was immediately obvious to anyone that slavery was wrong, that's why it was only allowed to continue for hundreds of years."

[@budweiser600]

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

[@idno8955]

1000s

[@jimfiggerty833]

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

[@yuratea1700]

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

[@davidmacaart953]

@@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!

[@RuerlKhan]

As a historian I really love this series - it's funny, it's well put together, the questions are so basic and dumb that they actually can help give a very rough sketch of british history for those who are unaware of it. - Which likely is why the experts agreed to join into the series. That and because academics can't shut up about topics that interest us.

[@user-pl6bh4bd7q]

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

[@RuerlKhan]

@@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.

[@user-pl6bh4bd7q]

@@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 😂

[@RuerlKhan]

@@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).

[@askthepizzaguy]

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.

[@2eleven48]

Let's not ignore the writers of this and other episodes. Their wit and play on words and satire are to be hailed as true and great British humour.

[@daveroche6522]

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

[@kiwik5452]

“Despite the spoiler in its title, Oliver’s Twist doesn’t have a twist at the end - which come to think of it, is a brilliant twist in itself” amazing

[@malteschaper3782]

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

[@Yme7]

That’s how clever Dickings was.

[@user-kf7dn5dh1f]

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

[@kmc7062]

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

[@ernestomartinez4090]

- "He was your favorite?" - "YEAH!". - "The one who slept with his sister?".

[@jollyfighter7319]

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

[@harmonicpsyche8313]

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

[@jinh605]

19:21 "so why was that considered entertaining" had me on my knees this woman is a miracle

[@andrewfalconer8599]

I loved her ‘acid house’ joke.

[@MiscEvieous]

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

[@AlmostEthical]

Queen Victoria is often portrayed as old and grumpy. But she wasn't always a sour, disapproving old woman. She was once a sour, disapproving baby.

[@beetroot_chutney]

The Victorian era produced more Victorian writers than any other period in history 😂

[@MwauraXavier]

Queen Elizabeth was born right in time for the Elizabethan era

[@editedbysummer]

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

[@paulinegallagher7821]

@@MwauraXavier lol you beat me to it

[@MwauraXavier]

@@paulinegallagher7821 haha. This woman is just perfect.

[@AngelBaby-md3mm]

“And he had brown hair like harry styles” HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAJAHAHA

[@EdJonesVideos]

The fact that the academic from the London university appears always just about on the verge of crying really makes this episode

[@kiobio7311]

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

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

Yes theyre told to act along with it

[@dorianleakey]

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

[@hiimterry2009]

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.

[@cheesobogo3199]

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

[@kalebwick3429]

“And unlike horses, trains have a big smiley face on the front and the voice of Ringo Starr.” 😂😂😂

[@donjones4719]

"A face like Alfred Hitchcock watching a dove drown." What an incredibly random line! The writers come up with such original takes and jumbled readings, and her delivery is incomparable.

[@damonedwards1544]

I though it was a dog drowning

[@MrTomb789]

@@damonedwards1544 so did I...😊

[@kmc7062]

I think she says dog

[@donjones4719]

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

[@Josh-dz3ep]

"You could go there for free...if you were Black and didn't want to go there " That took me out 😂😬

[@user-bo9lo2cv1x]

Absolutely perfect comment on slavery. 7:11

[@Emajenus]

It's insane how seriously she speaks when everything coming out of her mouth is a joke. She's really gifted.

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

I'd like to think she worked for that.

[@johndawkins623]

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

[@mmmar7317]

Gifted? Really?

[@suspicioustumbleweed4760]

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

[@m.n.executor1902]

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

[@philalethistry7937]

that poor man at 4:53. he's so traumatized by the last questions, he boils his answer down to "Jane Austen was a woman who wrote novels" lmfao

[@deniseking7659]

I shouldn't have listened to this while recovering from pneumonia. I almost coughed myself to death through laughing so much!

[@tamjac10]

I hope you feel better! 😄

[@busboifinn]

It would’ve been a good way to go haha

[@classicaldeb]

Oh dear! 😮

[@isabellaangeline2175]

This woman is a comedic genius as are all the writers. I haven’t laughed this hard since the pandemic started. Feels good, man.

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

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 😳

[@septemberwaqar6576]

One could die laughing!

[@joemiller9445]

Why did you laugh when the pandemic started?

[@handsomal2435]

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

[@universal5459]

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

[@johncostello3174]

" These days people pay thousands of pounds to visit the sun kissed islands of the Caribbean. In the seventeen hundreds you could go there for free. If you were black ...and didn't want to go there " XD

[@CR-zx2zi]

I literally yelped out loud

[@arthurrubents]

That one had got me. 🤣

[@thebagelsproductions]

😂😂😂

[@Bowie_E]

Four years ago?? She's been around for this long and y'all just now shared her with the rest of the world on Netflix? 😭 She's brilliant lol

[@msamour]

You have to hand it to all the interviewees, they were amazingly patient with Philomena.

[@wabisabi6875]

"With its year-round sunshine and abundant food, Australia was seen the perfect place to send its murderers." This stuff is absolutely hilarious.

[@2HN.]

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

[@charlesc.9012]

@@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.

[@papercamera2989]

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

[@Falconlibrary]

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.

[@Falconlibrary]

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

[@Not_An_EV]

The way he answered "Mr. Tickle" while looking terrified is just peak comedy!

[@lisasommerlad1337]

It was a thing of beauty.

[@hunkhk]

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

[@JustinLHopkins]

@@hunkhk Agreed. He’s gorgeous.

[@kimhill3614]

He never laughed once. Tremendous.

[@pathopewell1814]

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

[@felotter]

"When Britain fought two world wars but no world cups." That's brutal.

[@Haffmatthew]

There’s something magical about Philomena marching up to these professionals and immediately blurting out “who are you?” lol

[@ericblair5841]

Watched her on BBC last night, best quote of that ep was 'He wanted Parliament to be dissolved but nobody could find a big enough glass of water.'

[@beakfordflappering4647]

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

[@JoiskiMe]

😂😂😂😂

[@philippededeken4881]

Why?

[@zamnodorszk7898]

The most subtle joke in the intro has to be "to understand where Britain is heading, we have to look behind us"

[@josephbennett4236]

Not exactly the most 'subtle'.

[@emjayay]

@@josephbennett4236 Oh wait now I get it.

[@michakwiatkowski1313]

@@emjayay i dont get it

[@ruqayyahqadri6618]

@@michakwiatkowski1313 poor lad

[@michakwiatkowski1313]

@@ruqayyahqadri6618 poo on the loo

[@cygnusbeast3740]

9:16 I really appreciate whoever had the idea to use "From the new World", a piece very explicitly not about Britain, as background music for this Britain Mockumentary.

[@MichaelPooPants]

I love how the biologist said pigs are quite good at being pigs, but cows are only relatively good at being cows. 😄

[@XprPrentice]

"Why would you want to turn a pig into a cow? Pigs are quite good at being pigs, and cows are relatively good at being cows." I love the experts in this series

[@edwardianed]

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.

[@danyellx615]

Christopher Prentice I love Chris Peckham

[@andrewtrip8617]

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 .

[@LTPottenger]

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.

[@valyriantime910]

"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.

[@onlinefriend3889]

5:04 "Austin wrote novels ... filled with words it's almost impossible to care about" - GCSE English Literature in a nutshell

[@n.r.5380]

FasCinating! :)

[@chrisstratton987]

"their unbridled sexual passion for one another is evident in every photo."🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tariq_al_fahim170]

'Oranges of Peaches' by Charles Darwin had me dead

[@maryambintghassani2341]

"Who's your favourite Mr. Man?" "Mr Tickle." Props for the poise on that counter-attack, sir. She tested you and you passed.

[@darrenrobinson9041]

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

[@jasonporter5912]

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

[@gregoryboatswain1605]

@@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.

[@barbh1]

Reminiscent of Ali G interviewing Noam Chomsky.

[@Blackadder75]

@@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

[@bigsam4205]

I know she says it all the time but I still laugh when she says “Hello, who are you?”

[@thegrayyernaut]

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

[@brianmgrim]

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

[@snakejones9965]

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

[@bochenggu1439]

⁠@@snakejones9965it’s paul.😂

[@assmahane3510]

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

[@K3NnY_G]

This is comedy gold, the presenter, the writers. Everyone's just nailing it.

[@melodyssong4916]

I almost spit out my drink when she pronounced the C in 'fascinated'. It's the details with this show.

[@lizroberts1569]

😂 me too.

[@Max-DuBois]

@@lizroberts1569 I also almost spit out my drink.

[@manuelcomparetti2143]

non native english speaker here, may you explain?

[@mayam4830]

i spat out my tea at 'by ron' this is a fucking masterpiece

[@myview5840]

But who is Ron

[@TheFallofTheEleventh]

@@myview5840 historian: *pure confusion*

[@madridista3927]

Twas bloody brilliant!

[@paulsolon6229]

Language

[@Blackadder75]

@@myview5840 little brother of Fred and George

[@shubhammundhra5113]

Asking stupid questions to experts... My favorite genre of comedy

[@kurtvigenser6041]

Thank you from Australia for hooking everyone up with Cunk. She’s gold!

[@DrN007]

18:00 The guy totally dodged comparing his beloved queen Vic to Darth Vader 🤣

[@garhull11]

"conditions unthinkable for anyone who isn't a junior doctor" savage

[@terryplatt8115]

'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!

[@chrisneedham5803]

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

[@williamchamberlain2263]

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

[@eloiseripley]

True

[@AIA1990]

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

[@m0L3ify]

I love how angry the expert looks when she has to explain where steam comes from 😂

[@andrewfalconer8599]

She was not having it that day lol.

[@Rain-Man915]

At that moment it was coming out of her ears.

[@snakejones9965]

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

[@rahatkhan_7]

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

[@citizenkata]

Gotta say, the people Philomena interviews are taking it so stoically that it makes me believe in their expertise more than any "normal" conversation would😂

[@janinealexander6132]

Diane Morgan is so funny! Don't know how she keeps a straight face sometimes. A big shout out to Charlie Brooker too for co-writing this series!

[@paulm6110]

“Even though, at the time, half the men in Britain were women.” Sides still hurting from the laughter.

[@kmc7062]

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

[@jeremysolomon7791]

16:11 "It was immediately obvious to anyone that slavery was wrong, which was why it was only allowed to continue for hundreds of years" I died XD

[@jshepard152]

Thought that was a very predictable joke. Just me?

[@yourmum69_420]

@@jshepard152 you have a predictable pfp

[@anon-tlv3399]

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

[@rahatkhan_7]

😂😂😂😂

[@7thMack]

I can’t believe that I haven’t caught wind of this woman before now. Where the hell have I been anyway? She’s utterly hilarious.

[@Bobbthemonkey]

Completely died at 11:33 when she walks up and just says "Hello, who are you?"

[@rahatkhan_7]

😂😂😂😂

[@clariphonication]

"The idea that man and ape were close relatives was considered both hilarious and shocking; a bit like Graham Norton, but with more profound consequences for humankind".

[@maynan3]

😂😂

[@mar_man813]

"Workers did long thankless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in a squalid and threatening environment -- conditions unthinkable today to anyone who isn't a junior doctor." As a physician in the US, this hit way too close to home :D

[@Taz1451]

Not really the same though is it

[@lesatmorhaim9546]

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 😂

[@lisasommerlad1337]

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

[@madridista3927]

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

[@mysticmeg111]

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.

[@rogerpetersen3338]

How these experts answer her questions and not totally lose it is amazing.

[@owenmayes2128]

"There was a young man from Nantucket... " Brilliant 👌🏼

[@richardw.johnson2875]

“He came up with a theory, that said that animals who were dead, were far less likely to reproduce than those that were alive” 😂😂😂😂 LOL’ing

[@markhardwick8032]

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

[@K1RTB]

More intuitive than „survival of the fittest“.

[@maniscalcane]

Pretty accurate description of the theory tho

[@halloweenallyearround4889]

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

[@Hokie200proof]

Her interview subjects were absolute stars in this. Prof. Greg Dart (the first interview about the romantics) delivered the greatest straight man performance I've ever seen.

[@matthewbartsh9167]

I think he was just being himself.

[@LolaOpheliac]

@@matthewbartsh9167 no

[@valnerothgaming8918]

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

[@mrsantoro8306]

@@LolaOpheliac Yes!

[@carolanjosmelo]

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

[@donparker4521]

Dickens came to create the most “time consuming” stories in history. Brilliant

[@OmegaMapDesign]

Absolutely love that she keeps calling Dickens "Dickings"

[@re-unbox896]

And he died....forever

[@PaTrick-cf6ev]

Was it before or after the industrial revelation?

[@marilenafourli5990]

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

[@albino_penguin2268]

I love that she crossed all the voting boxes, ticked one then they hold the camera angle on her and a sign saying "put a cross in only one box. It's the small details that show the writers care.

[@jpkey87]

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.

[@tigana]

I was dying. So subtle yet hilarious

[@johnrudy9404]

Her timing and fluid movement from one idiotic statement to another is perfect.

[@truethat774]

I love this woman. Her deadpan delivery is everything! 😂😂😂😂

[@hotpink000]

I absolutely lost it when she referred to cumberbatch as alien 😂

[@matthewhinkel9696]

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

[@evantyoung8033]

"Eventually Darwin evolved... into a corpse."

[@Sirinwara]

faskinated... :D

[@LTPottenger]

Just like western civilization has done

[@James-gk8ip]

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

[@rufiosykes899]

Really?

[@82892869hi]

@@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

[@anasoto3781]

She is a genius, I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. I’ve been binge watching all her videos since I discovered her

[@acpguitar1516]

This series is all killer, no filler, and this episode should come with a warning! 🤣

[@guywhocantgrowabeard]

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.

[@dickrichard5579]

She interviews the most patient people in Britain 😂

[@halloweenallyearround4889]

To be fair, with few exceptions, it's really hard to tell when Brits and Aussies are upset. They keep playing it cool and saying "that's/you're alright" or "oh, don't worry dear". You can only know their true feelings once you read the reviews. Some were being legitimately calm, but others were boiling inside.

[@andrietsa]

I love that 100 yards stare she has when she gets answers to her silly questions

[@stellafox]

A mere 3mins into it and I had to pause vid because I couldn't stop laughing! "Who was Ron?" "Ron?" "The one how wrote all those poems and signed it By Ron".....crying from laughter!

[@shoaibakramchaudhary]

I love the perplexed and irritated faces of expert whenever she posts a daunting question. Such a genius 😂

[@HypeShot-27]

I had no idea the 1980s sitcom Brush Strokes was such a prominent cultural phenomenon throughout every period of British history.

[@kitaster1546]

Im binging them and living for the Brush Strokes cameos

[@adzdahlman9724]

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 .

[@fleasy4393]

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.

[@lisasommerlad1337]

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

[@adzdahlman9724]

@@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 .

[@drmikehuntphd7905]

... "Chewbacca?" "I think that's stretching it..." Brilliant

[@srenjensen3817]

LOL!

[@psychicgamer7939]

“Filled with words, it’s almost impossible to care about” KO’d me hahah

[@WendelltheSongwriter]

"How did it end?" I heard that professor utter that question 5 minutes ago and I'm still laughing!

[@MrJdcirbo]

"Babage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention: a machine that would autocorrect his name to 'Cabbage'... ever single time." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@patrickbrawner2438]

It cracks me up how serious the experts seem to address her questions, lol.

[@Stiffd1]

It’s staged as your smile.

[@TellyArchive]

@@Stiffd1 No shit.

[@generalkweizr7091]

@@Stiffd1 thank you captain obvious

[@SS-yr3ij]

@@Stiffd1 wooooshh

[@Jagar_Tharn]

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

[@Fotosynthesis858]

“It was immediately obvious to anyone that slavery was wrong. Which is why it was only allowed to continue for hundreds of years.” 🤣 Phelomena is a fricken genius & why she isn’t more famous is beyond me! GIVE THIS WOMAN HER OWN SHOW!!!

[@matthewprice2626]

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

[@parkeydee]

This is her own show

[@mitchybooooy]

@@parkeydeeI was hoping someone would say this 😂😂

[@creativeliberdade]

It just keeps getting better.

[@princessbunny80085]

“We don’t even know if he died… he could be.. you, and thats terrifying cause you’d have no way of knowing” THIS SHIT IS JUST SO GOLD 😹😹

[@erato_90]

the "wrong/ron" part took me a few seconds until i bursted out laughing

[@sortof3337]

by ron . lmao.

[@krk6216]

The way she just calls Benedict Cumberbatch an ALIEN 😂😂😂😂

[@chinesekingbee]

The first professor interviewed was cute in his perplexity of Philomena's questions!!

[@SPLICY]

12:27 - "Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention: A machine that would auto-correct his name to 'cabbage'. Every. Single. Time."

[@rikinhouston]

"Why would you want turn a pig into a cow?" "To see what it's like." 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

The junior doctor line killed me. So true, and not just in Britain....

[@mikeg2924]

She's hysterical! Thank you so much.

[@Zibonnn]

"...which is four more than Fast & Furious." She is casually spitting out some hilarious lines! 😆

[@vibovitold]

- Talk me through the events that led up to the moment where Charles Darwin invented the monkey. - Darwin didn't... invent the monkey, noone invented a monkey. - Okay, well: talk me through the events that led up to the moment where Charles Darwin didn't invent the monkey.

[@Zaluskowsky]

Solid Belly Laugh Material

[@thebagelsproductions]

😂😂😂

[@BrianHurry]

I wonder how many people died of a heart attack while laughing at this hilarious woman!

[@anthonystaton3740]

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

[@robertwhitten265]

I know I'm just typing what she said but 'Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage every single time" That is gold.

[@CS9_]

“He went from a drawing, to a black and white man, to a black and white man in colour, to a cricketer, to an alien.”

[@cloudsombrero]

sounds like doctor who

[@lachlank.8270]

Or david bowie

[@blupunk01]

"But not all women of the age were Byron's sister who he was sleeping with."

[@jz4057]

The best part is how all the experts try so hard to give polite and somehow sensible answers to all her bullshit questions. Very British 😂

[@victorkabanda769]

“Eventually Darwin evolved himself into a corpse, he was buried here in Westminster Abbey before evolving again into worms and dust”

[@christophcooper2557]

"The oranges of the peaches" omg, I almost dieded

[@LuisFernandoAstorga]

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

[@katherinetutschek4757]

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