The British Are Friends With The French Because We Rescued Them | Al Murray's Happy Hour

Al Murray The Pub Landlord chats to a French Pub who don't serve pints...
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[@tamkin007]

People still don't get his character is based of a pub landlord that talks bollox all the time lol! The butt hurt lol

[@jackharle1251]

The French, what a joke.

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

My wife and I went to a very nice bar in Bayeux, France and ordered two ‘ demis’. On hearing my atrocious French the waiter switched to perfect idiomatic English. “ Demi for madam, Would you like a pint Sir ?” Yes , I’d love a pint. Drinks arrived accompanied by ’l’addition’ which clearly said “Pint”. They DO serve pints in French pubs.

[@isntitobvious9894]

She meant , that particular Pub she owns/ operates .

[@adrien5834]

Suspect your pint was actually 500ml, not quite a pint.

[@michaelmather7352]

The 500ml glass is called a formidable., seen in a lot of french bars.

[@moaningpheromones]

@@adrien5834 That's right - and he should've thrown in it his face in outraged disgust. What a liberty.

[@adrien5834]

@@moaningpheromones lol. The Last Stand of the British Empire...

[@elgenerico5453]

Benito Mussolini really turned his life around after ww2, I'm so proud of him

[@iliketowatchsowhat]

MAHHHAAAAA!

[@moxy666]

I love Al Murrays song "Dr Martin Boots"

[@blazrolla2200]

LOL. He knew how to stage his and his wife's own deaths before escaping to England. He never was a bad bloke really. He was not anti-Semitic or racist in any way. He was just delusional and thought he was Julius Caesar. "Infamy, Infamy. They've all got it in for me"!

[@colinhumphries4734]

No pints- but they DO have GARLIC BREAD!!😂

[@jabirujoe5206]

I'll have a pint of Escargot Pale Snail thanks landlord.

[@ohneMofa007]

Nice no jokes about Germans……… greetings from Berlin Germany 🇩🇪

[@jack36afc18]

we mock the french about ww2 more than the germans and the french were on our side lol

[@number1Don]

We have respect for the Germans, but not the French.

[@MadCapMag]

Wanna hear a joke? Germany.

[@number1Don]

@@MadCapMag I meant respect for the fact that they are fairly good engineers etc., not for trying to wipe us out twice. A bigger joke is France, as we say 'the French have always been there when they have needed us'.

[@penultimateh766]

What kind of society removes the WARNING ODORANT from an insecticide? I mean who comes up with an idea like that?

[@ShakemeisterS64]

Bizarrely enough, years ago whilst doing a publicans course, I was told a pint isn't a legal measure for beer in the UK. The legal measures were a third of a pint and half a pint. So when you order a pint you're actually ordering two halves or three thirds.

[@raphstang5383]

So instead of banning the french from the pub and calling it the pint house, they banned the pints from the pub and called it the french house 🤣🤣

[@daviddavid1346]

Sacré Bleu Monsieur Murray 😂

[@canoli72]

Do French sailors receive a special discount on “Pint Day” at the French House bar?

[@hudson7354]

Hilarious what a funny guy. Just can’t stop laughing at his jokes. He never laughs about Dunkirk and leaving the French alone.

[@Tourist1967]

Operation Dynamo rescued 215,000 British troops and about 123,000 French. Among the units left behind was the entire 51st Highland Division, 20,000 men, which was ordered to slow the German advance on the beaches.

[@Ireanxay]

Best comedian in my opinion

[@neilmoore5387]

Just below Kevin Bridges I’d say. The two best for me. Murray very intelligent how he knows all about wars, countries, history all sorts.

[@joeblogs5163]

Al should have been on the Brexit team.

[@russskinner]

He was on the losing side.

[@geoffmunn7591]

he had his own political party

[@sid35gb]

@@russskinner Shame about the fishermen losing their jobs, shame about Kent being turned into a lorry park, Shame about Failing Freeport’s not working with the Tories closing the last one down in the U.K. in 2012!! So what was it you couldn’t do in 2020 that you can do now?

[@matthewwhittaker5428]

@@sid35gb shame about the EU not being able to vaccinate its citizens as quickly and as efficiently as the UK

[@sid35gb]

@@matthewwhittaker5428 the reason why the UK has a faster roll out of the vaccine is because we have a publicly funded NHS for now. In Europe it’s not unified because of lots of private healthcare providers. But Nigel Farage and the Tories want to dismantle the NHS and sell it off to private companies so if when the next pandemic comes along we’ll be in the same boat as Europe. But gammons don’t bother to fact check their dear leaders. Oh and be grateful for the 20 million doses the EU has already supplied to the UK we’ve given them nothing.

[@coucoubrandy1079]

So funny !! But so short

[@michaelpeters1644]

Al Murray, Alf Garnett without a fuse.

[@dmgroberts5471]

The...err..."French House" sounds like it should be a brothel, really. It sounds like a euphemism.

[@Theophrastus99]

When the French fight each other I guess its the only time they don't eat cheese.

[@grahambiggs2017]

aojplum. Wrong. It's the only time the French win a fight.

[@remerson4]

"They were told to go to the Western front and they went to the West end instead"😂

[@ryanbrimson8238]

@@grahambiggs2017 lol so having the most battles won in history doesn’t count then

[@grahambiggs2017]

@@ryanbrimson8238 That's right. It counts for nothing. Most of their victories are against weaker opposition. Just like the Brits. It's the ones against equal or superior opposition that really count. And there mate is where France falls very short.

[@ryanbrimson8238]

@@grahambiggs2017 What? So the entirety of Europe against France is not good enough opposition? I agree that many of France’s victories came as a result of colonising less developed regions (as for many European nations), but wasn’t it France that needed over 7 European coalitions to stop it at the height of the Napoleonic Wars? Is that “falling short” against equal opposition? Your statement is so inaccurate it’s ridiculous. Even during the Battle of France in WWII, possibly her most embarrassing defeat that is surely all you based your argument off of, France’s army was one of the most formidable in Europe and more than capable at the time of toughing it out against the German Wermacht, with outdated tactics and incompetent generals being the decisive factors behind her defeat and eventual surrender (it was a defeat THEN a surrender… you people always forget that). Meanwhile Britain has never had a proper foothold in Europe (and guess who was stopping her… France!). Not even mentioning WWI, where France was as much as a victor as Britain against “equal opposition”. I am half British btw.

[@khankrum1]

Public Sclerosis of the Liver.

[@ogalienman]

the 21 dislikes are french people...

[@Hz-432Hz]

She's cute now and I imagine she was really cute when she was younger.

[@brittanygarrison8030]

Not with them choppers yeah

[@peter85478]

Our UK fish@

[@sid35gb]

Well stop eating gammon an buy the bloody fish then!

[@remerson4]

Why would you even want to eat fish in the first place? it's so full of heavy metals and all the other crap that's pumped into the sea the French fancies can have it🤢🤮

[@johntaggart7406]

I bet he drank wine

[@sid35gb]

Probably they were serving wine in pint pots 😂

[@autoculto7629]

They were a pain in the arse even during the German occupation, hence why we had to sink their Navy fleet in port. Anyone would think that they didn't want rescuing from Germany. Oh wait, just realised nothing has changed to this day. The French still roll over on their back for their German overlords lol.

[@petersone6172]

Ask TIK how many French volunteered to serve in German combat units in WW2.

[@mireillelebeau2513]

Maybe but the German overlords aren't racist and fascist now. I mean not as much as Boris is.

[@robc1014]

@@mireillelebeau2513 stop throwing buzzwords around, people carry on anymore theyll lose all meaning. Fascism - far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy. None of that is accurate with the tory party or bojo currently. Typical words used by the woke left (currently labour) because they don’t like the opposition or have anything of value to fight with and don’t actually have any decent policies to offer to the country, the latest elections proved that, people are voting tory just to avoid labour and this overly woke, gotta hate our own country BS they spouting.

[@alanmawson9601]

@@mireillelebeau2513 Yawn 🥱

[@joepesci6657]

@@mireillelebeau2513 ever heard the story of the boy that cried wolf? An excellent story that CHILDREN can get the moral of the story of. Keep making fictitious claims when a real one comes nobody will care. I mean i hate the New Yorker with a Russian name as much as the next sane person, but you lot are worse.

[@davewoodworth1762]

The French like to fight each other, it’s the only time they have a chance of winning.

[@davewoodworth1762]

@William Dryden They were Normans or Norsemen.Rollo the person who founded Normandy was a Viking. You’ll find in the TV show - The Vikings. They were given land to keep them quiet The Duchy of Normandy was founded by the Vikings.

[@John-gv2ug]

The "French" as you put it never fight each other. The battles were always between armies who identified themselves by their region Burgundian, Breton, Norman etc before seeing themselves as French. The current geographical France is a modern creation as are Germany, Italy and many other nations, including the UK.

[@ryanbrimson8238]

..... Most battles ever won in history mate 😂??

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Un demi litre de biere svp

[@HarryNicNicholas]

i've been to the french. i've been to hiroshima too.

[@uttaradit2]

Granted the french ran faster than the germans in WW2. But credit where credits due - the Brits ran faster and swam further all the way back to england.

[@pashvonderc381]

Where they regrouped and got back into Europe again…

[@jackmason4374]

That was just a weekend away

[@Patrick_3751]

A totally accurate depiction of British and French "co-operation" in WW2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIeVmp-GmM-Ela8

[@billwilkinson4012]

You must be French...never got over Waterloo. Dunkirk wasn't good for us Brits, but instead of capitulation like French did in first 5 mins of war we regrouped, along with allies, went back and fought. Eventually winning, and freeing the French from occupation, thereby allowing President De Gaulle to go back from cowardly hiding in London to France. UK king and Queen refused to hide in Canada but to stay with their peoples. Neither world wars have covered the French in glory, maybe, we should not have gone back and bailed French out...wouldnt have the pains in the arse have now. For the uneducated the French were not allies during WW2 since they didn't fight. USA, Canadians, Aussies, New Zealand, Indian continent, Commonwealth in Africa and Russians along with some others. As such, agree black lives matter over any French person.

[@chrisaskin6144]

"The Brits ran faster and swam further all the way back to England" - that may be one way of looking at it. Either way, they took approx 130/140k French troops with them.

[@MultiMeg101]

Millilitressssss

[@NoKnowledgeNoFuture]

Duty free french pub. Not after Brexit

[@sid35gb]

Please don’t mention the Bloody Great Big Elephant 🐘 in the Room FFS!!

[@alanjack7524]

Some of these comments fail to recognise the free french contribution to the allied effort in WW2 -

[@korbell1089]

I love Al Murray but I wonder why the snowflakes haven't tried to cancel him yet!😃

[@davidgreen1277]

Oh jeez because unlike you they actually realise that he's being ironic and taking the piss out of people like you.

[@korbell1089]

@@davidgreen1277 lol...i triggered someone 😝it was sarcasm...i love Al's humor

[@edltommyrobinson9782]

@@davidgreen1277 Adhominem no need for it! he asked a simple question, who burst your bubble?

[@edltommyrobinson9782]

@Heather Stephens WTAF has this to do with Al Murray?

[@waynetowers5046]

Korbell caught something, he's caught something! And it's... It's oh, it's just David Green. 😂

[@philbarrett3739]

This hasn't aged well given the Jersey situation!

[@Thursdaym2]

Short of knitters are they?

[@sid35gb]

@@Thursdaym2 probably, apparently it’s something to do with climate change it’s the middle of May and I’m still scraping frost off my car in the morning ffs!!!

[@lizmacdonald241]

Aged perfectly as the French have shown their petulant ways we all knew they had.

[@lukefoster2956]

Not first comment😎

[@petersone6172]

The French suffer from SMS “Selective Memory Syndrome”, I think the same applies to most of Europe and many other countries who are worse than when part of the Empire, yet criticise Britain for all sorts of BS.

[@albertgrant1017]

Peter Sone Right on Point.The Empite brought many inventions health services education and the basis for democracy.What they did afterwards is their problem.Same for the French and Portuguese Empires .

[@Generalphoenix8438]

Well we always have to rescue the french and our revolutions was better than theirs. Ours invented mass production and work while theirs involved alot of french people dead. Were just a little more mature than they are.

[@waynetowers5046]

The French measure France in square kilometres so it makes it look bigger than it really is.

[@stephendines1936]

A real Landlord would drink REAL ALE not fizzy pop Lager.

[@Cheezsoup]

Watered to buggery Lager at that.

[@L.C.Sweeney]

I think he drinks Fosters as part of his character

[@thoughtful_criticiser]

The big question remaining unanswered is, if Charles De Gaul was supposed to be commanding the French Tank regiment attacking the Germans supply lines, how the hell did he get on a ship at Dunkirk? Then spent the rest of the war being a pain in the butt, whilst hiding in the French house! Thousands of BEF troops were killed or captured fighting the rear action yet thousands of French troops were evacuated from their own country. If they had been captured, the French troops were released after France surrendered. Then we had to destroy the French ships in North Africa because they would not surrender. Finally, De Gaul had to be persuaded to make the speech telling the French not to resist the Allies on D day and beyond. We should have interned the arrogant coward and occupied France as well as Germany, at least we wouldn't have had the EU or the latest French git causing us problems.

[@buzetisshitpost6126]

He didn't go to england in a boat from Dunkirk

[@tommiatkins3443]

Perhaps you need to read what actually happened at Dunkirk? De Gaulle wasn't evacuated from there, and the perimeter was held by French troops as the British fled from the beaches. I'm British myself, but just dislike pig ignorance on facts.

[@CB-fz3li]

@@tommiatkins3443 British and French were evacuated from the beaches to be precise.

[@MV12379]

If it hadn't been for the English channel Britain would have been occupied as well as France.

[@steveluckhurst2350]

Why let the truth get in the way of an ill-informed, ignorant, borderline racist rant?

[@janrobertbos]

Thank God you lot are no longer in the EU..............best decision ever, should have come up with it myself......................................

[@jjhry177]

fancy having 2 gorgeous lasses laughing with u .......... he did

[@theinsideouter6371]

Well General? de Gaulle , hid over here till the yanks us and few other nations had secured peace then he went back to France to berate our great nation I think he deserve a mention on any of your shows old man

[@derekmulready1523]

And the Reason Britian declared War on Germany. You didn't Fulfill the Promise.🇮🇪🇪🇺

[@chrispate2254]

Went to see Al Murray in concert. A fan of his for years . The way he talked to some of his fans due to them being late, due to traffic was a disgrace. To be totally honest 20 mins into the show was more than enough .

[@forbeshutton5487]

Only the French could make a war hero out of a coward like DeGaul. A real tragedy that he was the best they could come up with....

[@hectorbrown656]

I admire Jean Moulin much much more than De Gaulle , Moulin was a Préfet and a resistance leader , who was asked by Churchill to come to London because he was being tracked by the nazi . He refused was captured taken to Lyon and tortured for weeks personally by klaus Barbie eventually died without giving up a single name , Barbie said at his trial in Lyon that he was the bravest man that he knew . So forget De Gaulle and remember Jean Moulin .

[@lynnedavies5884]

@William Dryden really

[@petermizon4344]

THE THING WERE AL GETS IT WRONG IS THEY HAD NO CHOICE, REASONS PARIS AND OTHER CITIES ARE BEAUTIFUL , COULD NOT LET NAZIS TRASH THEM, PLUS NAZIS HAD STRONGEST ARMY IN WORLD, BUT THE FRENCH RESISTANCE WERE VERY BRAVE AND PAVED THE WAY FOR OUR INVASION, HAD WE BEEN NEXT DOOR TO GERMANY WE WOULD HAVE GONE THE SAME WAY ONLY QUICKER

[@weeddegree]

He’s a comedian bro.. we know history don’t worry

[@petermizon4344]

I know but some people who watch don't know history as you well know, they are called racist

[@Swift-mr5zi]

@@petermizon4344 Anyone who doesn't know isn't worth your attention

[@autoculto7629]

@@petermizon4344 You branded people as racist very early, that in itself is a racist action. Do you even know how to debate without getting triggered ?

[@petermizon4344]

@@autoculto7629 Some people need educating no matter what their age

[@RichardMason-gj9ue]

I don’t know why people think he’s funny he’s poor

[@dWFnZWVr]

Because you’re not intelligent enough. He’s playing a character; he’s got a degree in history from Oxford.

[@TheAtlanticwarrior]

Ye lot rescued the French? American industrial might and Russian manpower rescued everyone....

[@machoneboard]

Post Brexit, not funny.

[@LolLol-zr9jc]

Ok Karen

[@antrimlariot2386]

so over with the British

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

A professional comedian unable to come up with anything more intelligent than the oldest and lamest cliches about the french...sad.

[@jameslegrand848]

His character is literally an over the top parpdy of the people who make these jokes 😆

[@tommiatkins3443]

It's so refreshing to watch racism and bigotry disguised by a thin viel of comedy. It's perfectly defensible as "tongue in cheek" and "sticking it to the politically correct". I just wish we had Bernard Manning or Jim Davidson here, who openly spouted their hatred and fuelled it amongst the audience. Comedy is a fantastic way to slip in fascism and Al does it so well.

[@harrymail7]

😂😂 Do you actually have any idea who Al Murray really is? He has a masters in history from Oxford university. He is very left wing and well spoken in real life and has his own liberal political party. This character "the pub landlord" is a total act and satire. It's called comedy, it's ironic!! You are a total tool mate and a complete. embarrasment for taking this so seriously and you don't even know who Al Murray even is in real life 😂

[@tommiatkins3443]

@@harrymail7 No, I had no idea who he was. In that case he either plays a fantastic character, unrecognisable from a right wing comedian and I was naturally fooled, or he does a useless impression and I'm a total tool for falling for it.Which one would you prefer?

[@steveluckhurst2350]

@@tommiatkins3443 well done for owning up! If it helps, you are not the first to be taken in! 😊

[@penultimateh766]

Then why was Cornwallis such a sissy when Lafayette threw him out of Redoubt #10, thus banishing the Brits from North America forever? Mmmmm, sure am enjoying all this free gold, timber, petroleum, and farmland. Too bad you lost all that....

[@bigfatpengting6732]

Because we owned 1/4 of so world SO FUCK YOUR FREE RESOURCES

[@christopherfranklin972]

North America? Canada is in North America. Britain threw the French out of Canada to enjoy the gold,timber,farmland,fishing. Too bad YOU lost all that ....

[@neilfoddering921]

And look how you’ve squandered and abused those resources, causing pollution and damage to the landscape. Just one example: surface coal mining in the Appalachians has led to the destruction of around 500 mountain tops, the clearance of over a million acres of forest, the loss or degradation of over 12,000 miles of streams important to the watershed, not to mention the health implications for local residents and the miners.

[@penultimateh766]

@@bigfatpengting6732 "owned?" past tense, what what? Don't get me wrong, I love Britain. If we ever need a TV show about crumpets, you're right there for us...

[@penultimateh766]

@@neilfoddering921 Yes but see we HAVE 12,000 miles of streams. And much, much more besides. So easy to criticize one's rich relatives for not appreciating their caviar and Rolexes, when all I have is "pudding" whatever that is. And BTW you're welcome for solving the recent Hitler business for you.