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R R Ummmmmmmmmm

Best of Jason Manford? Best of Stephen Mangan?

Best of companies exploiting pride month and BLM?

Another Alex Horne episode!

Me old mucker is quite an English phrase basically means mate in slang

Eric Burkheimer that’s okay bro, nothing makes sense to Americans 😊

@Eric Burkheimer fair enough pal you sound like one of the alright ones then x

Eric Burkheimer ‘Me old mucker’ is British slang for ‘my best mate/friend’

Interestingly, there's the same word in German: Macker. Pronounced exactly alike. And means quite the same, although with a more negative connotation.

I think he knew exactly what it was.

This is Henning nutshell in a Wehn

Nothing to do with us.

Important distinction though😬😂

@Sandcastle • It's a different country. End of story.

It's funny cause it's true.

The most famous German was Austrian. The most famous Austrian was German.

I Can't imagine being that witty in another language.

Also loved Sean's reaction after he got the joke :D

I think he does the accent on purpose..

@@cr1tx I don't think he's even German

His accent is cockney though

@@rooty See, my german brain can't understand wheter this is irony or stupidity.

@@cr1tx I think you've never learned a second language before

I think its his presentation of them that made them go down so well he was so obviously happy with himself it was adorable

@@felixperrin3795 I think partly that, and partly the audience recognising that while writing poetry that isn't shit is hard, writing poetry that is pretty shit in a second language is also pretty hard. The panel seemed to want to move on to funnier things - so were dismissive - but to me at least after the first poem turned out to be so bad, the fact that Henning interrupted with another shitty poem became the punchline. The gag came full circle when he admitted he hadn't written more but since they 'went down so well' he felt the need to interrupt again. Not the most hilarious bit of all time, but certainly funny in it's own right

half the English would be willing to trade a war for a world cup win.

Third time lucky!

The Germans (or Prussians) have won a number of wars just lost two World Wars.

Two wars and a "police action". Franco-german war (anything before that doesn't count since it wasn't Germany fighting them, since Germany didn't technically exist), Boxer Rebellion and Kosovo. Also a few colonial wars we rather not talk about. And another ongoing "definetely not a war, wink wink" in Afghanistan.

Yeah but jimmy seems to have one joke, ww2

He done that on purpose. And done is extremely well with a straight face. Awesome man

Pretty sure the BBC doesn't have the guts to replay that one in the current oversensitive climate.

@@ipellaers doubly so since it's not their show

@@WalrusisintheMatrix heh that's good, my bad

@Iain Steele it was. Season 10 Episode 1

I laughed so fucking hard nearly pissed meself

Hell yeah!

Brilliant idea!

He'd be amazing!!!

Holy shit, I love this idea so much

They are having problems with the photofit.

That was a different story on a whole different show.

@@screwfist You must be some crack at party's mate.

@@Ard.cfc90 I'm not sure if that's sarcastic or not but I'll assume not. Lol. I think Henning Wehn and Bob Mortimer are probably the funniest guests on wilty. At least I think they have some of the funniest stories.

@@screwfist 100% agree with you on them two,they should do a show together telling old stories.

I like that he seems to pronounce every single letter lol.

My favorite was him saying "me papers".

He's lived in the UK for 15+ years I think.

@@jedinuttall I saw him in a small venue before he hit the big time and every joke was very old - good evening nevertheless

It’s a strange blend of German and cockney accents that is so unique that the human brain will explode if you think hard enough about it

Who...Hitler?...

@@royyates6865 🤣🤣🤣

@@MRR19 Sorry think I had a few too many that night....

@@royyates6865 Was funny, though ;-D

"Za" is the worse. No one calls a pizza a za surely?

@@Senyoln1 in America it happens. Also it was in the goofy movies back in the day, Disney has reach

@@pmillhooper1 In what random part of America does anyone use "za" for pizza

@@witherblaze its not that its used frequently but if someone said za it wouldn't be the craziest thing and everyone would know what you're talking about. Its vernacular its something that's in most people's word bank, its acceptable.

@@Senyoln1 oian

That's because he's one of ours, he's quick and sarcastic. He'd be lost on German TV or radio.

@Florian Held must have missed your sell out tours and TV appearances then 😂

@@drivermcslice9910 Hmmmm ...

hes easier to understand then scousers

@@drivermcslice9910 Sadly this is true. We do not have that fine witty dark humor here (maybe very few exceptions like Mathias Tretter but these people never get big) and it has gone worst the last years. I am so glad modern internet structures makes it possible to enjoy so much content beyond borders :)

Out of date though. It is the English dictionary which should be sitting on the 'far right'.

What about the Spanish one?

Nah, Henning got it right. If you know anything about the nazis, you'll know they were quite centrist.

@@SomeUnsoberIdiot Hmmmm .......

@@SomeUnsoberIdiot I know a thing or two about nazis... ... 1. Hitler 2. Blitzkreig And those are the two things I know.

Literal comedy at its finest, best part about him is that he isn't mean spirited needed attack others as a mechanism for laughter.

@@jpprigge1844 💯

No cap he is such a gizzzaaahh

"Nothing to do with us"

That was a flula joke though

Henning was right though. And Jimmy had no come back. I bet Henning had that thrown out him a few times.

@@melpeddle7243 Actually, to refute what Henning says about Hitler, on February 25, 1932, Adolf Hitler became a citizen of Germany so, from that point on he _was_ German

@@Trek001 yes, but I could move to America from England at 80 years old, renounce the queen, and become an “American Citizen”. We both know I’m not really American though.

My Granddad (I'm German) told me that when he was in a POW camp the Austrians tried to get treated better by repeating that they were Austrians, as in "not German!" Which made my Granddad, who wasn't a Nazi, but was forced to fight towards the end of the war, and the other German prisoners really angry and shout out: "Well, Hitler was yours, wasn't he?! And you wanted to get 'Heim ins Reich' [Home to the Reich, i.e. annexed]"!

@Roderick storey I'm great at being a fucking idiot lol

@Elite Mangudai nowadays maybe the english one was correctly placed after all

Do you watch Lee on Would I Lie To You? His quick wit is on full display on that show.

Shame the nazis were socialist (clue is in the name) who are far left

I'm seriously amazed Lee Mack fans are still making this comment on every single video he's in.

You'd probably be surprised then how many Germans, especially in the North, share that type of humour. Not so much in the South but the regions from the North Sea and Baltic Sea down to (but only partially including) Saxony, Hesse, and Rhineland-Palatinate usually have a dry, dark, and often deadpan humour with a lot of irony and sarcasm. In the South people have a stronger tendency to the burlesque.

@@BlackAdder665 Yes. I was gobsmacked how many different accents I Germany and Europe. But then after the war. What part was Britain in control of ?. And then one part Americans and one part Russians. And most bred and lived in Germany the rest of there lives. All the best.

Well, it's been a month and no-one's jumped in to have a crack at the blindingly obvious open goal here, so here goes... (Puts on outrageous comedy German accent and clears throat): "You see, English? Ve are not so different, you and I."

@@melpeddle7243 I think it's the other way around and pre-dates the WWs: Britain's German Royalty... *micdrop* ;-D

​@@BlackAdder665 Well the North Sea cost of Germany is where the English language and race originated so its not too surprising that there's still similarities

I agree, he seems like an exceptionally sweet human.

Brilliant totally agree with you

Squint and it kinda looks like him tok

"how could that have happened" great moment, I'm also surprised they missed it

This was the only funny jokes made about germany in the video. Everything else is something a racist uncle would say.

@@joegleave8656 ...was it, really?

Spain was fascist more recently than Germany. Franco ruled until 1975.

@@trentrubenacker9718 Britain is heading there right now.

Brilliant

I'm German and I almost snorted my drink at the screen when I saw that for the 1st time. :'-D

Me too! I've been wanting to see Henning Wehn and Flula Borg together for years now!

Yeah, the only one we gladly let go, I guess. I've never heard of him before.

How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb? 1 because they are efficient and don’t have humour , told my german mum that one , her reply? “That’s not funny” 😂

i hate that he isnt known at all here in germany. he is so great. and most of our comedians are garbage. a show like that couldnt function here because they mostly suck

@@danilopapais1464 True . I wouldn't want Mario Barth or Atze Schröder representing our country...

@@scottishinoz674 I'm German and I LOVE it! :'-D

Lol

You mean it looked dead?

And “he was nothing to do with us !” Bloody brilliant

It would have to be the mid-90's.

Uhm... ok...

It's the last thing of any importance that we have done.

We've been pretty shit ever since

That was a brilliant joke haha

And I thought it would have been the semifinal against Bra71l.

That’s nice 🤔

Which war?

@@rv9097 Cod Wars

Yeah, that's why we're all typing in Icelandic...