Horrible Histories - Evil Emperors Song

[@loveallenandcraig]

"Of badness I'm the daddy!" Couldn't stop laughing at that line.

[@Hehe-oz2ib]

Your profile pic is truly haunting

[@thorneosgard]

The guy that plays Nero cracks me up. "I'm the worsest of the lot, WOOH!" lol

[@kzrd2r]

You mean Simon?

[@hollysimpkins6829]

No, Jim.

[@Urmomisdele]

Izabel Sequeira Simon plays Caligula

[@sealofthechomk3433]

Jim

[@brinalinaxo]

I named my son Nero lol

[@Hazie995]

No love for Jim, Simon and Ben? I love them all. They're just brilliant.

[@judedolan6220]

same

[@ellaanimates]

Yeah they are all amazing

[@bobblake8205]

Hazie995 who's your fav?

[@cj-lw6wk]

ben's my fav

[@shedandcabbage]

@@cj-lw6wk matt's a babe tho

[@rewindandfreeze]

I love how Matt Banyton can pretend to be a 17 year old Roman emporer, even when he's thirty with a kid of his own.

[@AllieLegra]

"Your nastiness was fabulous." I know he's supposed to be an evil emperor and all. . . but this guy is really cute. xD

[@redcurrantart]

AllieLegra Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this, lol. There’s a few guys who were part of this show who were seriously hot, in an odd way.

[@jodiem5107]

Growing up watching this Matthew Bayton was my celeb crush and was so many others

[@ellaanimates]

Matt is cute

[@Urmomisdele]

6 year old me had a crush on him 😂

[@bobblake8205]

In the roman come dine with me I love how he he just said "I'm so random"

[@cxsper3109]

"you'd think to children i'd be cuter" mate we literally all loved you

[@reganlouise3275]

Facts 😂

[@MdRiAD-cc6kt]

Gosh the internet is filled with a weird bunch

[@itsjemmabond]

"You only got the Emperor job 'cause you were chosen by your dad..." That was harsh!

[@AvRand6]

and coming from a guy who was only emperor because of his mom

[@itsjemmabond]

@Aryana Thomas YOU shut the fuck up

[@austrasas5786]

@Aryana Thomas baby rage

[@rowanaboat4523]

Av Rand (TheAv66) He did kill his mother to make up for that

[@me-dc8pj]

@Aryana Thomas lmao tetchy

[@tenseman08]

"if you still have limbs since meeting me..you should be glaaaad" lol

[@Urmomisdele]

I’m being followed by you I swear

[@johneryorna539]

It's do you still have limbs

[@hollysimpkins6829]

Here are the actors: Caligula: Simon Farnaby Elagabalus: Matthew Hatton Comodus: Ben Willbond Nero: Jim Howick

[@lilybea8524]

Holly Simpkins it’s Mathew Baynton btw not Hatton

[@AD-hy3wf]

I am #disappointed

[@ilikedinosaurs392]

Tysm

[@JaneD0e_LuckyNxmbr7]

Now this is how we find out the identities of the three emperors in trials of apollo before reading the books

[@SkylarBowrey]

Mat's Dancing in the Background, when Jim is singing, is Hilarious! I laugh each time I see that!

[@Urmomisdele]

Matt’s*

[@reganlouise3275]

@@Urmomisdele*mat

[@ashlynbulsara4238]

Listening to this in 2024.

[@masterchicken4586]

1:39 why is nobody talking about this

[@lilybaxter9454]

Brilliant

[@KaizerRolls]

"By bad we don't mean good" *fabulous*

[@Zac-cw1zz]

Things I took from this song: Simon cannot hit the high notes. Mat can. (Plus, he got the best moves) Ben is diverse. Jim is far and away the best singer. (Tho Mat can sing pretty bloody well himself)

[@gaytoe-]

Fax's

[@sassmate8793]

Emperor Nero: cmon I want to see a more evil bloke than me Hitler: *challenge accepted!*

[@lordmegatron7359]

Stalin: a challenge I clearly will win comrade

[@SayianWizard]

Mao: Hmph. You wish you could come close to my greatness.

[@wormnog]

Ghandi: my enemies shall fall before me.

[@emv005]

I think i understand it now (I watched a video about exposing ghandi not too long ago)

[@JAProductions494]

Pol Pot: You don’t even want to know

[@Urmomisdele]

9 years later we all still have crushes on Matt

[@mibbles2371]

Don't call me out like this

[@datgaydangernoodle1315]

With the guyliner as well 🥵

[@chaoticcat2564]

The highwayman song was more impactful that the Renaissance

[@reganlouise3275]

Guilty 😂

[@acwong7893]

Out of all of them, Jimmy is the better singer.

[@stlucky8925]

Yup

[@WyattRyeSway]

So true

[@ilikedinosaurs392]

Which of them is Jimmy?

[@alicechow2860]

@@ilikedinosaurs392 the chubby one

[@ElSkulduggo]

I love it when they all lean forward and Commodus falls over. All the HH songs are amazing. They are kind of laughing at themselves, whilst being serious.

[@RKKGamer12]

We were watching this in History once and I started doing all the actions and everyone was like "Wuuut!?"

[@goodnight-moon564]

YouDon'tKnowMeAtAll If my Teacher played this song this’d happen to me too! 😂😂

[@koijtoh]

My teacher was playing horrible histories and we found this, Miss Oakes is actually an angel tho

[@Urmomisdele]

I love how when Jim is like “wait there’s more” the other guys in the background stop and just continue like nothing happened

[@Narssissolock]

This song makes me laugh so hard! They are all so attractive and hilarious. I love Horrible Histories. I wish I could get this program in North America. BBC is the the best! :)

[@redcurrantart]

Narssissolock it’s on Amazon Prime.

[@leaisnotonfire1618]

It's on netflix

[@WyattRyeSway]

No it’s on Hulu

[@archie7218]

@@redcurrantart 8 years late bro

[@brettjohnson536]

🎶You're talk is nothing but fiction. Hello my name's Domitian. And I'm the meanest one But I did what must be done I was a spooky scary king Dressed my house up like halloween Invited all my enemies They sat on graves When vestials couldn't do their job I'd wall them up while they would sob I also called myself a God So don't displease me When the rebels tried to take their shot I cut off their you-know-what Burned them in a great big pot And might I add I looked quite hot I'm bad He's bad A really nasty lad I didn't care who had to die to get Rome to expand🎶

[@shapejaper1667]

Nice!

[@coldrose813]

I love how Simon says '"woeman" instead of "roman" :P

[@pinkroseperson256]

Me too! I didn’t catch the Monty Python reference the first time I listened to it

[@Urmomisdele]

Sophia Szeneitas i only just realised it omg

[@r3b3cc4m4r]

With an iron wod you will be smote 😂

[@Theringodair]

Caligula is one of my favourite Roman emperors. The story about him making his horse consul is hilarious.

[@nickankhazali2995]

Apparently he just told someone his horse would make a better consul than him so that's not true. At least that's what I heard

[@CatFurniture974]

@@nickankhazali2995 I heard something like that but it was directed at the whole Senate: “you all are such a bunch of idiots, my horse could do a better job!” Many (not all) of the Emperors regarded as “bad” got that reputation because the senators and nobility didn’t like them, and they were the ones writing history.

[@warcrimescostextra3992]

You forgot to mention how Nero lit half the city on fire and blamed it on the Christians because he wanted to build a new temple to himself.

[@SomeGuyandHisHerps]

Propaganda Those christcucks did it

[@ilikedinosaurs392]

Tbf a lot of it were probably propaganda from his enemies Just realised this comment is 9 years old

[@warcrimescostextra3992]

@@ilikedinosaurs392 It's still fair game. I actually like a little necroposting every now and again.

[@ilikedinosaurs392]

@@warcrimescostextra3992 just learnt a new word👍

[@weirdkid951]

i watched it four times to look at how each of them dance in the background and there are some gems. jim's is during mat's and ben's, and everyone is in on it during jim's

[@JR-bm8dl]

While Jim is singing Mat shifts from being in the middle to being on the right. It must be two different takes, but he is really getting into it on both!

[@Krazy-8fangurl]

DUDE THEYRE SO CUTE Tysm for pointing this out

[@____Ai____]

I love how they often imitate famous songs, sometimes even better than the original (this one's close!)

[@Urmomisdele]

They do parodies

[@alfwwarbic5360]

Love how commdus falls over

[@nikkik635]

This comment deserves more likes 😁

[@alfiebuckland5364]

Anyone else listening to this in 2020?

[@AngloFolk]

😌

[@cookie_enjoyer]

M r

[@serenavitellaro]

i have to watch it for school lmao

[@nathancrever5161]

I’m listening to it.

[@sophiew1658]

Yeaaaahhh

[@Justice237]

OMG love mat's face when he says "whoo-hoo" in a high voice! (1:40)

[@mugetsu8580]

The fact that he almost said school shooter made me die of laughter

[@endzi1248]

I thought he was saying tutor

[@Urmomisdele]

Endzi124 he did but he almost said shooter in a blooper I think

[@endzi1248]

@@Urmomisdele ohhhh wow

[@AllieLegra]

My dad caught me dancing and singing Nero's part in the kitchen. . . He thinks I need therapy. xD

[@caelyclifford6133]

This show must have been so much fun to work on.

[@aiyiedufreaqoe4762]

Somehow I felt like the emperors in ToA would sing this when no one is looking.

[@UNKNOWN-jm5jm]

Literally what I was thinking

[@Momus425]

Aiyie duFreaqoe what does ToA stand for

[@aiyiedufreaqoe4762]

@@Momus425 Trials of Apollo

[@lyndafeustel4861]

So true!

[@Sunflower-mf3ml]

Somehow I think Nero would’ve made Meg memorise this ( maybe only his verse tho )

[@111mateq]

My teacher: How do you know so much about the emperors of the Roman Empire? Me: It's... Complicated My teacher: Complicated? Me:

[@Nick_C1997]

Honestly, Nero might actually be the nicest of them, since he eliminated capital punishment, lowered taxes and allowed slaves to bring complaints against their masters

[@MrThischarmingman2]

Most of the historical records of Rome came from the senatorial class. To say they were biased is an understatement.

[@CatFurniture974]

I read he was pretty popular with the working classes, so much so that there were pretender Neros popping up for quite some time. Of course, the literal plebes were not the ones writing history, so…

[@MdRiAD-cc6kt]

​@@MrThischarmingman2yeah he killed a lot of people who were powerful so of course the senators are gonna make him sound over the top bad

[@fakhrianuar9264]

I mean some things he did it for personal but it still benefits the people so i guess it's a win-win, so to call him the worst in Roman history is definitely a bs

[@EditorOfSL]

Love Jim's high bits at the end of his lines!

[@agaczarnecka9990]

"I'm bad, so buddy, of badness I'm the Daddy" That line just...

[@Krazy-8fangurl]

Dude Jim Howick ate this the fart up😭😭 I think abt Nero’s lines every day no exaggeration

[@ramsbills1]

I FREAKING LOVE HORRIBLE HISTORIES!!!! MY PRE-AP CLASS WATCHES IT EVERYDAY IN CLASS AND WE DIE OF LAUGHTER!! BEST WAY TO LEARN!!

[@nigga12344]

When Nero said "I'd like to see a more evil bloke than me" I think "HITLER"

[@lukepearson4611]

To be honest most of hitlers evil actions were done through other people and their decisions. Hitler loved his wife and loved dogs and animals, he mainly had evil ideas. Nero on the other hand was an evil person, he stomped his pregnant wife to death

[@232bluewings]

I'm sorry, but they're all SO legendary. (p.s. Mat Baynton + his hair + wind machine = gorgeousness overload)

[@XRunnerGuy]

"the woman empire" brings back good memories from life of brian, dosent it? :)

[@Urmomisdele]

I didn’t get the reference until I rewatched horrible histories and I was like “omg-“

[@no-oneX]

i love it wen they're all like "WooHoo!"

[@4lyfeclubpenguin]

I LOVE WHEN MAT GOSE HEE-HEE!!

[@Urmomisdele]

Correction: I LOVE WHEN MATT GOES HEE-HEE

[@scentedcandle4480]

Felix Felicis his name is actually mathew! not matthew :]

[@makatak97]

Mats Laugh during his verse and his geeky dancin, gotta love him

[@Ninjaskittlecandy]

Kim Jong Sung: I was the bad one! Kim Jong II: I was the MAD one! Kimg Jong Un: AND I WAS THE FAT ONE!

[@emiirosieecordingley6829]

"Your nastiness was fabulous" Camp but damn sexy!! XD

[@MissStressBex]

Lol! This makes me laugh for so many reasons, & the more I watch it the more I notice other things that are just hilarious, like the background dancing whenever someone is singing a verse is just hysterical!

[@Justice237]

I recited the Commodus bit in Latin and my teacher gave me a gold star :)

[@MdRiAD-cc6kt]

Fr

[@RainbowHippieStar]

"I'm the baddest Emperor the Roman's ever had!" Love it! :D

[@sophiew1658]

Jim Howick's acting is so funny

[@PokeFan10025]

I'm surprised that Nero didn't order his men to kill the camera man.

[@SkylarBowrey]

me too!

[@serpon6930]

Skylar Bowrey Nah he's candle now though

[@PokeFan10025]

Daniel Jacob Stobbs I'm not sure if the camera man is an christian.

[@serpon6930]

PokeFan10025 Well it's Nero

[@FaceUnreality]

I'm a Christian, is it Ironic that Nero is one of my fave Emperors?

[@serpon6930]

Slightly

[@TotalTech_]

I don't know. I'm Athiest. Is it ironic that I like Martin Luther King Jr?

[@mariazlzz]

No...

[@sarahfignutmum8235]

I mean, that is a good way to live, honestly.

[@mohommadsaeed658]

Cat Knight Yes xD

[@milan190291]

That Nero is realy badass here XD. especialy the of badness i', the daddy part

[@gracemckay6645]

0:12 the one to the right falls down lol i would've asked: are you ok?

[@Krazy-8fangurl]

These kings are so funny bruh😭😭

[@EleanorWhite-ml9xw]

I love Mathew Baynton very much I always have and I always will💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖he is the only one I love and look up to

[@laurenconrad1799]

This shows never ever fails to make me smile. It is the definition of brilliance.

[@RICDirector]

Totally enjoying everything HH....wish it were still around but that's life. :) BTW...I'm fifty-something and loving it. :)

[@JohnnyWolfblood]

Elagabalus: I was the sad one. Nero:And I was the bad one. Caligula. I WAS THE MAD ONE! Commodus: And I was the fat one.

[@mikeor-]

Caligula was not bad. He was just crazy. He planned to make his horse Consul. Yes, his HORSE Consul. If that's not insane, I don't know what is. Elagabalus fed the liver of his enemies to his lions, but so did Nebuchadnezzar. There's no difference between those two. Commodus was an obscure Emperor, but killing a person because he was a better gladiator was the same thing Didius Julianus did, so why doesn't anyone call him out? But Nero, Nero WAS an evil Emperor. If anyone looks up evil Roman Emperors, he is almost always near the top of the list if not number one.

[@InnannasRainbow]

"If you told me a fibula..." The fibula is a leg bone.

[@susanbernardi6150]

A leg bone that was probably named after the pin that was used to fasten clothing in Ancient Rome, like a giant safety pin.

[@williamsimpson2777]

Fib is colloquial language for a "lie" in English, so they're just forcing a rhyme for the song: "fib-ula"

[@SkaHajgare]

Anyone still listening to this? cuz i sure as hell am!

[@tomtriska555]

I think the roman empire is really fascinating, in that these sorts of emperor indicate that absolute power kind of, melts the human mind

[@katiestrange5156]

1:08 Mat's laugh:')

[@Miss65boo]

@Sweetlittlemystery You are right. I remember watching a film about Nero, it was on PBS I think, where he was blamed for the fire, but it could have been an accident and he doesn't need the fire to make him the worse emperor Rome ever had.

[@Shaestel]

Elagabalus was the youngest, he was 14 when he became emperor. Mat's the youngest there so obviously he'd get the youngest role = Elagabalus. Also, Jim as Nero is the best thing ever.

[@rewindandfreeze]

Caligula has great legs. Seriously, they are really nice. Check the start of the video.

[@GroinStrain_]

any HH fan should be able to recognise this line up as the 4 georges in the very first episode of the very first series and they have reunited to form the 4 baddest roman emperors. love it

[@zanelenene3288]

you only got the emperor cuz you were chosen by your daad!

[@danieldelrosario7447]

Caligula also planned to place his statue in the Jerusalem Temple, but his buddy Marcus Julius Agrippa talked him out of it.

[@TheMagnaficent]

You notice how in the ending the others who were previously preaching about how bad they were suddenly accept that Nero is indeed the baddest of them all and say he’s bad and openly say that they were nothing compared to him Nero literally dares them to show him someone more evil the others confidently state that they are the baddest Nero is tough enough to dare them to try to match him

[@bkkrantz]

I get chills up my spine when Nero...his first.... WHOO!!!!!!!

[@joshdaattwell]

these seem like really nice guys

[@minalucy1992]

A fibula is a kind of ornamental safety pin, first spotted in Etruscan graves, too. I think that's what he was referring to.

[@dawnwebb3497]

'And by bad we don't mean good'! Love this song!

[@sofi14331004]

if u watch them when they're dancing in the background, it's hilarious! none of them can dance properly (especially matt :D ... sorry bro but its true

[@Urmomisdele]

True but 9 years later we all still have crushes on matt

[@pinkroseperson256]

Lol, I had this song randomly stuck in my head this morning, and then this video was the first thing I saw when I opened KZbin! What are the chances?

[@leoniepaine154]

Mat gets really into the dancing awwwwww

[@williamsimpson2777]

These are songs were my childhood! So so good 💯

[@Nick_C1997]

Fun fact: Before Commodus, the 5 prior emperors were dubbed the “Good Five”, since they helped Rome thrive and were the nicest emperors to have existed by that point

[@sumxr_txme]

yup: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius (although I'm not sure in that order)

[@CatFurniture974]

And all but Nerva (who was appointed) were adopted by their predecessors. Then Marcus Aurelius had to go and have a surviving son/pretend gladiator. When it comes to emperors…adopt ‘em don’t breed ‘em?

[@Xenu]

:55 - How do you spell that emperor's name? I've heard of the other three but don't know who he is (I'm more of a Roman Republic than Roman Empire guy).

[@Moomai95]

Elagabalus looked hot here.

[@theapostate2735]

Each one even has little quirks, just like their real counter parts. Like commodus being essentially a frat bro, or Nero having the best dramatic performance.

[@superbrianna100]

Matt Baynton is actually REALLY good at that high note!

[@DebiEnglishRose]

I love them all in this and Jim Howick is always my favourite but Matt Baynton is hilarious, with his funky dance and his stupid laugh. LOL!!! Set of genius's the lot of them!!! :-P xXx

[@freakyandsqueaky]

Mats voice is especially amazing here :P

[@marsflamesniper]

JIM JIM JIM JIM JIM *fangirling* He is PERFECT in this.

[@niamh269]

did i miss it or did they not talk about how nero literally covered people in wax and sET FIRE TO THEM???

[@snaker52]

I guess those Emperor's voices never broke....

[@fulminousalt]

Keep in mind we get a lot of the stories of Nero's craziness from Suetonius, who was pretty much a gossip archivist. He also had his own agenda when he wrote, specifically that of flattering the emperor he was writing under at the time. (Admittedly, not a whole lot of Roman writers represent Nero positively either, but it's been debated that these reports weren't always reliable. I'd at least hold out for exaggeration.)

[@Banjo_Oz]

He's the only emperor here I hadn't heard of before, so that was a hilarious surprise to me to! Wish they'd done more with Commodus though (killing amputees in the arena for 'entertainment', claiming to be Hercules reborn, slaying helpless wild beasts for sport and charging the public a fortune to watch him, etc.).

[@xNARAxCRAZYA55x]

neros WHOO is so hilarious its so high XD

[@22alexc1]

This has inspired me to write a song about the four worst poptropica villains in this song format.

[@ihaveamonstrousego4442]

Commodus falling over The other three dancing in the background Nero's shawl blowing in his face Elagabalus highfiving Commodus and Caligula

[@turquoiseowl837]

My hands up

[@RexoryByzaboo]

You forget about Phocas, a tyrant Byzantine emperor who slaughtered Jews and some of Christian sects. But, he is a BYZANTINE GUY!

[@stevedavidson5038]

1:51 “If the booing got too loud, made the lions fuck the crowd!” Literally all I here.

[@elliegaming2877]

1:51 Its "if the booing got aloud I'd make the lions fight the crowd"

[@elliegaming2877]

I also heard that at first