American Reacts Philomena Cunk on America REACTION

[@tbd407]

whoever chopped those clips up is CLUELESS, the reaction is 60% of the joke.

[@ReedoTV]

When copyright is detected, KZbin lets you click a button to cut out sections to make it pass. I suspect this has been cut down over the years by that. Although... never attribute to KZbin tech that which can be adequately explained by bad editing.

[@mr.a8315]

I'm glad to see KB do it here but I agree it wasn't a good edit job by the original editor.

[@mcfcguvnors]

reactors & clippers are the laziest people on planet fat

[@Ross-df6ge]

I thought the edi...terrib...ma... unwatchable in parts

[@leonardbrook6764]

I recommend Cunk on Britain for balance, as well.

[@clubkinetic1]

When she does "My mate Paul" has me creased. I'm pretty certain 'Paul' is in fact Elon Musk.

[@joebloggs396]

Satirising Americans is like low hanging fruit, it's an obvious topic. Even more a satirising historian as they've based their identity on a particular way of viewing history.

[@mcfcguvnors]

@@joebloggs396 easy targets , no sense of humour or understanding of sarcasm , pathos ,inuendo ,3rd world country when it comes to Comedy = yet they spawned amazing writers !?

[@mariuscheek]

Diane Morgan's delivery is just genius level!

[@zedcarr6128]

4:20 I think the British Red Coats were shot in their thousands because, as light entertainers from Butlins, they most likely sang Agadoo by Black Lace one too many times, and pissed the Americans off.

[@tillyt4054]

After visiting Butlins as a child , I’m with the Americans

[@mcfcguvnors]

Push Pineapple shake a Tree ( yer doin it wrong )

[@crustybandaid183]

the Bear Arms guy definetly knew what was happening and matched her energy.

[@alanhodgson6714]

KB Well done. You are the first American reactor the get the throwaway line that Americans then weren't the quiet unassuming people they still aren't today. In Diane's Christmas special, she actually visited CERN and there were viewers writing in convinced that Professor Brian Cox was ready to punch her lights out. The fact that household names (in the UK anyway) are prepared to submit to her lunatic persona tells you a lot about how popular the show is.

[@markjones127]

Brilliant character brilliantly played by Diane Morgan, important to give a shout out to Charlie Brooker too who created the character for his excellent 'Wipe' series, Charlie Brooker is someone you're not yet accustomed with (as far as I am aware?) but he's up there alongside Chris Morris as being one of our leading satirists, in fact Charlie and Chris actually created a sitcom together called 'Nathan Barley' which is absolutely hilarious and a true cult classic as it really did go under the radar, but it's fans like myself rate it as one of the great sitcoms of it's generation, I've mentioned it to you loads of times and recommended Charlie Brooker's Wipe series to your on Patreon too, basically if you love Chris Morris you'll also love Charlie Brooker.

[@markjones127]

Charlie Brooker also created the 'Black Mirror' series which I'm sure you must be aware of as it's so highly acclaimed and a Netflix show.

[@markcutting6504]

& in his early days-in bed with medinner(joke about madonna book)

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

I can remember, back in the day, when a teenage Charlie Brooker used to contribute a comic strip in the legendary Oink! comic.

[@mrdainase]

I'd forgotten abut Nathan Barley - that was superb!

[@iany8230]

Chris Morris has done some brilliant things..Charlie Brooker too. Diane Morgan just winds people up with bizarre comments but can be funny.. 😂

[@tonygriffin_]

That cleared up a few things that I'd misunderstood - like why Americans were allowed to arm bears.

[@Drinckx2]

Wow - the editing on this is terrible! There must be better collections of Cunk available.

[@andymerrett]

There definitely are.

[@Joedirt3349]

Where is your video cuh? Weak azz commenting

[@MrJambot]

Boomshakala ​@@Joedirt3349

[@volpefox55]

True, but this was primarily for US so all the irony and subtlety was omitted !

[@hssIceland]

​@Joedirt3349 you stole your name from a 2001 David Spade movie.Don't talk about weak.

[@seancampbell9896]

The American bloke knew it was a spoof and went along with it, so fair play to him

[@andyb3430]

Should just watch all of the Charlie Brooker Wipes. I wish he was still doing the Yearly Wipes.

[@tonygroves5516]

The experts knew it was a satirical interview, but didn't know what was coming. You can see many of them fighting back laughter.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

There's one about black holes: getting sucked through a hole, and Elvis Presley being filmed above the waist: they'll have a stroke. 😂

[@InterestedAmerican]

I love the people she's interviewing. You can tell the very moment their brain speaks to their inner voice saying, "this does not compute."

[@HammyHamster-c2r]

Lmao! Why have I never seen this? I need to find this!

[@timtreefrog9646]

On You Tube "History teacher reacts to Philomena Cunk". You get some commentary and education with it too. He loves her.

[@env0x]

holy cow what a spooky coincidence. i was totally thinking about asking you to react to Philomena Cunk for like the past week. i love her so much

[@Jxb9904]

I don't, she's an insufferable woke lefty.

[@davidbroughton1088]

That bloke wasn't fuming, was trying not to laugh. Good sport.

[@LiNoeliam93]

Nah, he was livid for sure... 😂

[@m8j8s77]

No bears were armed in the making of this video

[@mr.a8315]

Superb! 😂😂😂 Please do the series Cunk on Britain. It's all killer, no filler. Only 7 eps.

[@Arksimon2k]

Cunk is great. The responses from the very real experts are part of the enjoyment though, so I don't know why they were cut off so much in this one.

[@sibbo-v6n]

i love her version on the titanic where she calls it the titan 1c.

[@darrellpowell6042]

2:17 Native Americans also had no immunity to bullets as well.

[@eadweard.]

This is the sort of thing you'd hear on a BBC panel show.

[@Patenhire]

If i remember right, the people shes interviews are aware of her character but are unaware of the questions shes going to ask.

[@andersjohansson4734]

Isn't it obvious why bears don't have arms? With Americans claiming the right to bear arms, there are simply no arms left for the poor buggers.

[@williampne]

KING BOOMER, you need to watch all the responses from the people she's interviewed, they are gobsmacked so funny

[@josephharrington7129]

The guy @11:20, you said was fuming to get it over with, is an American political scientist who teaches at University College London and writes for the Atlantic, the WP and has his own podcast and substack. He is name is Brain Klaas and he proudly shows off he was in this. He enjoyed it. He thinks she is funny.

[@welshgit]

I thought that was Eric Trump!

[@Scripture-Man]

In terms of satire, it's hard to lick Cunk.

[@YouTube_hates_my_name]

You, sir, are a bounder and a cad....as your comment made me spit my beer out in extreme mirth!!! How dare you!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pasteye1671]

Though many like to try

[@Gsoda35]

she really delivered the burn straight in our hearts the almost painful way.

[@FingcoldWitch]

1 American understands British humor... there is hope for your nation you :)

[@DEEJAYWAL]

Quite a few do. Bill Bryson has told the story of how he asked a taxi driver "Are you free?" and got the reply "Sorry! I will have to charge you". A moment of recognition passed between them.

[@davec4955]

So, get the Africans to do the work for us and the Europeans to settle the west for us😂

[@KingBoomer]

DING!

[@Joedirt3349]

@@KingBoomer Fries are done! Ding! Fries are done!

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

Everyone misses "Columbo"

[@ak99uk]

It was a good show.

[@paulmidsussex3409]

Probably an advantage for him.

[@changelocation]

Proud to be a yellowbelly.😊.

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

@@changelocation Who wouldn't be... :o) I remember a local Status Quo tribute band who had posters "Rockin' all over the Woulds" ..... lol

[@changelocation]

@@UphillGardener-ly5sh You mean wolds.Grandad lived in Binbrook. 😊

[@ducomaritiem7160]

Yeah, ❤please a full episode! I've seen Cunk on America and Cunk on the World! Super!

[@Jezebellum-l2u]

Fill-o-meena. Gosh, what's the rush - agree with previous comment - the reaction is everything. You should watch some longer clips. Diane Morgan is hilarious.

[@philipbillington2314]

Charlie Brooker is the writing genius behind this

[@Ashamanic]

I think for the first series she did. Most people didn’t know her, but for the later ones, the UK experts at least had some idea of what to expect

[@Spludgeroo]

She is a comedy legend or should be but it's exquisite having your own culture made fun of if not done with malice. I'm from the North of England and it was a comedy fashion for a while to mock the north (Harry Enfield for example) and I loved it.

[@barrymitchell6444]

I love a bit of Cunk now and then.

[@Danduzzy]

I'm on the Cunk, 24/7 Bay-bay..cant stop Cunking once you start 🎉

[@barrymitchell6444]

@Danduzzy Always willing to Fill A Meaner Cunk 😂

[@Danduzzy]

@@barrymitchell6444 😄 in the immortal words of Mike Ox-small... " you've got a tiny weiner, unlikely to fill-her-meena"

[@Danduzzy]

@@barrymitchell6444 😂

[@zybch]

Dianne Morgan is absolutely fantastic. Especially when shown to humourless people who just can't understand the comedy.

[@Bellpipe41]

I think Cunk on Shakespeare was my favourite. Hilarious.

[@alanrenshaw5497]

What a fun way to learn some history! First time I've seen this lady.

[@daveygravy6574]

That is a HEAVILY edited and Context-free clip of Cunk.... I do recommend watch her original (Cunk on Britain?

[@BradJames83]

Did you know that the Royal Navy lowers the flag to half mast on George Washington's birthday? He was a British general for quite some time, after all.

[@spruce381]

Oregon was the first western destination - based on what Lewis and Clarke discovered. Initially the plains were just crossed, not settled. 48 changed everything. The first big losers in the west were the Mexicans who had been everywhere from Santa Fe (second oldest US City) to California for a couple of hundred years. It wasn’t until the trans continental railroad was built by Chinese from the west and Irish from the east, that the plains Indians really lost their entire way of life. Post civil war, longhorns were driven from Texas to railheads in the north, leading to settlements. This was also done in conjunction with the virtual extermination of the buffalo - the plains Indians most important food source. You know all this, and Im just a Dublin kid, who is interested in US history. Love your stuff KB. ❤️👍🏽👍☘️

[@geoffbuss3699]

09:00 perfect Cunk deadpan.. I'm glad you caught that straight away.

[@SharmanSomerset]

The editing must have been done by Dr Shakamoto but definitely full episodes mates, she’s ace x

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Diane Morgan is fantastic.

[@martysears]

definitely worth watching some full episodes, as the sloppy editing here was very distracting. Worth noting that the interviewees are in on the joke. They know she's just a character and are told to talk to her a bit like they're talking to a child. They don't know what she's going to ask, and answer any nonsense in a straight-up professional way, but you can tell sometimes that they are doing their absolute best to not burst out laughing

[@traceyjordan9284]

The experts know it's a comedy but don't know what she's going to say. She said they had to do a lot of tasks because they couldn't control their laughter 😂

[@2NatoStandard]

Fantastic watching an American actually enjoying the silliness and "getting it" I think sadly sometimes, the good folk of USA take themselves a tad serious. She is definitely a brave Woman doing these interviews, bless her.. I wouldn't 🤣🤣🤣 This is good fun, keep it up buddy 👍

[@finecastleie]

Please watch Cunk on Earth with Queen Boomer. You'll both love it.

[@Stewart-m7i]

The Christmas 2024 episode Cunk On life was brilliant, if a bit dark.

[@pmpcpmpc4737]

Just a questions. If Apaches and Commanches were "hostile", would it mean that Americans hypothetically defending Texas from Mexican invasion would too be considered "hostile"? No they wouldn't, they would be defending their country just as the native Americans did. On the other hand, you can't be blamed for deeds of your ancestors. It wasn't you who carried out the aggression and you have no reason to feel guilty.

[@KingBoomer]

I get what you are saying but we would have to apply that to everyone wouldn’t we? If the human race began in Africa then we are all just Africans at the end of the day aren’t we? But the Comanche in particular were a small tribe that grew into an empire by wiping out, enslaving or displacing every tribe within hundreds of miles. They weren’t “hostile” (maybe I shouldn’t have used that word) only because they refused to negotiate with the US government. It was for a lot of horrifying reasons, to the point where other tribes that were still around after being displaced actively and enthusiastically helped the US Army whenever they could. Much like the tribes that the Aztecs failed to wipe out but displaced enthusiastically helped Hernan Cortes conquer what would be called Mexico today. And by no means does it make what Hernan Cortes or the US government did justified at all. What they did was horrifying to the highest degree, there is no disputing that. But to pretend like all that land was always Comanche and they were just living there peacefully until the Americans showed up is a fabrication. They built their empire in the plains by taking massive swathes of land away from other people long before the Americans showed up.

[@welshgit]

@@KingBoomer Ha! Interesting. That's telling him! And to think, you pretend to be a muppet! Far too modest!

[@thebravoinformant]

Love Cunk 😂

[@jamesbrinner3678]

Cunk started as a skit on Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe (he of Blackmirror) There was another talking head character on the same show called Barrie Sh@tpeas

[@ruthfoley2580]

God I miss Barry Sh*tpeas.

[@enemde3025]

She's a genius. Check out her TV show MANDY. Wouldn't YOU be " hostile" if someone turned up and stole YOUR land !

[@sjwillis1137]

My Mother told me I had Native American Ancestors.

[@crazystarwarsguy1006]

Hard luck.

[@TheGwydion777]

She must've read Terry Pratchett's work. Her explanation of flight is exactly like Sir Terry's theory of dragons. I love her. She's proper mental.

[@garethm3242]

Dialogue written by Charlie Brooker, who is for sure a Discworld fan!

[@TheGwydion777]

@@garethm3242 I miss his wraps.

[@alpine_newt]

I think by this point she was well known enough that the interviewees knew what was going on and were asked to answer as though it was a serious question.

[@zammaproc]

The red coats date back to the new model army of the English civil war...they had two choices blue or red coats...they went with red.

[@JohnPaul-hm2ys]

I agree that the edit was bad, but this is still good for a laugh. Question: if someone is stealing your property, would you silently accept it or maybe be hostile toward them. All in context.

[@DuncanMcCreadie-bw5hv]

How did those being interviewed keep a straight face. She was brilliant. Pleased do put the Brits behind the eight ball.😂

[@manbearpig7359]

7:12 Yes those Apache and Commanche were extremely notorious for fighting against their land being invaded and stolen 🙄

[@crazystarwarsguy1006]

raiding and enslaving each other . Americans enslaved nobody . They bought people from Africa ,who were already commodities in their own countries.

[@ronsandahl274]

A common practice with those wagon train settlers traveling west in the US was that the women would take their crop seeds and sew them into the hems of their dresses. That way if they lost absolutely everything else, they wouldn't starve wherever they ended up.

[@MichaelLamming]

Edison didn't invent the light bulb, Joseph Swan invented it and patented it years before Edison. It went to court and they settled out of court and manufactured them together.

[@markprice1647]

I remember watching a program as a kid about the Oregon Trail..The powers that be, sent them to find the way thru, so they could get Chinese Labourers in to build railways.

[@mrfrye18]

Ahhhhhh here comes cunk.... fantastic stuff!

[@MichaelDaley-l6i]

Same as Greenland,when it was discovered,the land was named,to encourage settlers,to go live there,when they arrived,it wasn’t green,but an ice block,they must have been pissed off.

[@strbst2075]

I had to study the American west for GCSE history it was gnarly stuff

[@ashcross]

Great reaction but the editing of the original clips is insane.

[@johnshannon9864]

Edison didn't invent the light bulb. He beat Joseph Swan in patenting Swans invention.

[@nickrobinson8339]

One of the main reasons we Brits had chosen red for most regiments was for morale ironically. You stood out like a sore thumb against most backgrounds but the red disguised the blood to a great extent of those who were hit. It was thought that the shock value of seeing casualties was thus lessened for those around them.

[@paulbird6689]

Sorry, but that is not true. It came about in the English Civil War, the new model army was first uniform army and chosen red because it was cheap colour to make 👍

[@Marwolaeth01]

I always have to give kudos to the guy talking about bear arms. Whenever I see that clip I think fair play for not missing a beat and just leaning into the conversation tangent. Not many manage it so well. 😆

[@Julian-q7x]

More settlers died from accidental 'friendly fire' than were ever killed by natives. Never in history, have so many people peacefully crossed the lands of other people.

[@emidiobarbeira6089]

Kunk is priceless.

[@kev8227]

new cunk show is on netflix in the USA

[@robertholmes809]

Alright mate, she did a series called, moments of wonder. 8 episodes. Also an interview with Brian Cox.

[@sconaldo7]

Imagine being one of those first Europeans to travel across America. It must of felt like another planet so away from home and so big and vast no infrastructures the wild life.

[@cheryltotheg2880]

Yes please watch a full episode😅

[@BradJames83]

7:00: Imagine that same situation in Australia!

[@carolinehering940]

I follow the bear arms bloke on bluesky and he talks about this quite a lot. I think he finds it very funny.

[@mackertheman]

I’m not 100% sure if this is true, but I did hear the reason why the British were in red uniforms, was because it was harder to count the numbers when a scout was sent to see what type of army they were up against. Something to do with the human eye picking up reds tend to blur into each other which makes it harder to count, opposed the soldiers that wear blue was much easier to count

[@toshe.6690]

red dye was much cheaper. its as simple as that.

[@barrymitchell6444]

Tell that to Liverpool FC. Red is a brave colour, easy to see, and no more likely to merge into a blur than other colours. Blood would be less noticeable too.

[@mackertheman]

@@toshe.6690 although I do have a memory of it being said in a documentary, I should have been more clever before I left this comment and just used Google. Can’t see it anywhere (after a whole two minutes) maybe I just dreamed it lol

[@mackertheman]

@@barrymitchell6444 after a whole two minutes on Google trying to search it, I either dream it or the person who said it was talking out of his bum lol

[@krccmsitp2884]

08:00 I, as a German, learned this not long ago through pop culture's reverence for the Oregon Trail computer game, which is named after the critical path settlers traveled westward.

[@mattchapman1990]

I would love you to react to the recent Brian Cox honesty box video from Ladbible - I think you would find this so interesting and Brian is one of the most interesting people to listen to

[@robertbooth9633]

One of the reasons they rebelled is because the British had a "red" line separating Indian territory from the colonies. Money could be made by moving west ...thats all was a big reasons to aim for home rule.

[@watchreadplayretro]

KB on comedy and history remains my fav watch, cheers Guv!

[@jonathan36457]

2:20 - So close to the point... who brought those new diseases they had no immunity from? Wasn't just the Spanish LOL

[@JeepAlohaAdventures]

07:54. So Americans invented friendly fire long before we gave them credit for?

[@saveBRITAIN-e3n]

Nice one Boomer, great to see an American laughing just like a Brit would; ofc in similar circumstances. You know comedy when you see/hear it.

[@derekdamms7380]

Well i tell ya what, i love your intros. From England

[@paulmk2290]

So, let's get one thing straight. The battle for Independence was the British vs the British. Paul Revere did not say the British are coming he said the regulars are coming. Because there were no Americans at the time, only British subjects. Ergo, the British won that war as well.

[@ben-tendo]

Her whole run is on Netflix I believe

[@GHar94]

The founding of America is fascinating to me as a British person since recently through Ancestry I found out I'm related to some big players in the history of America for instance Jared Ingersoll a signer of the constitution and technically a founding father (my 4th cousin 9x removed), my 12th great grandfather Governor of Connecticut Colony John B Webster and his family. John was on the council that decided the start of the war with the indigenous Pequot. Then I have ancestors that fought in both the American civil and revolutionary wars. I was not taught much about the Americas at school in history but this has kinda made it personal and want to know as much as possible.

[@GHar94]

If you do a history show on KZbin, I'd love to see it, you're easy to listen to..

[@clarkeysam]

I adore Cunk on!

[@michaeldowson6988]

Canada advertised in gazettes/newspapers in Northern Europe for pioneer settlers for western N. America. That's how we ended up with so many Ukrainians, Russians & Polish people for example. Because of the harsh winters they didn't want Europeans from the Mediterranean region.

[@eiv-gaming]

Diane Morgan is the intellectual Ali G. Change my mind :)

[@stevecrisell108]

Quality.

[@mdhazeldine]

She's like Ali G 2.0 😂

[@stuartroberts5267]

Anyone else notice she is like a double of karl pilkinton the way she asks and thinks about these questions 😂

[@markcutting6504]

Cunks scripted.Karl's not Dianne had a good series called mandy & was great in afterlife

[@kelvinlambert4249]

She's from Bolton and Peter Kay from Manchester, only about 11 miles apart. Typical northern humour.

[@MichaelGowdy-x4d]

As to the European immigrants settling in the west it was probably the case that they were in the original 13 states and weren't wanted and were told to go do one elsewhere

[@1ivanesku]

haha what i find funny is - we Americans just told these European immigrants to go west and settle... as if the terms American and European immigrant are not one and the same lol

[@BradJames83]

The American's blue didn't look too bad either.