omg!🤣🤣 it had me falling off my chair.

No way I could have kept a straight face for that

@@AS-fu1kd Here are your 👏👏👏👏

She's probably heard the joke before.

they probably had to retake 😂

I died there 😂💀

laughed for a good 10 min.

Fucking lol'd to myself

Gwyneth paltrow?

​@@maazali8889she played pepper potts, iron man's girl

Ronald Hutton is actually something of a legend. Met him a few times. He also turns up to the Tewksbury Medieval Festival each year and narrates the battle over loudspeaker. Really nice guy with a great sense of humour. Perfect for this sort of thing

yeh they probably realised its the only way to get british youth to be interested in anything apart from a hoodie and some alcohol n drugs

She told once in the interview that sometimes they had to cut off a lot of material from interviews to avoid scholars laughing :D Some questions were asked more then once :)

when they cast a female dr Who, the most political gender

😂😂😂she broke his mind, then her mind wandered off only to return and request the 2nd most at least.

"And second most?"

only a dumb person can beat a smart person.

He is trying soooo hard...😂😂😂

You were not allowed to leave your village and that was what you do to see more. Jump or pogo up and down. Like in the 1980's.

THIS ONE HAD ME LAUGHING OUT LOUD

😁

same 😂😂 😂

Aka the darkages.

I hate you😂

The most significant thing you can do is die

Same here.. that one got me.. and “Walliam Willace” 😂

I thought the same thing.

The usual, clichéd history doco script writers fully deserve the shafting they get. Brilliant.

That was basically the plot of The Reluctant Dragon

Respect to them😂

Honestly, they have to. It's not like they got much agency. They're there because their boss sent them to be the face of the organisation in a PR event. Which is what the interview is, from their point of view, really. So no matter how inane the questions are, they have to remain friendly and polite.

What are you talking about? They're in on the joke, they signed contracts and are aware that they are to play it straight. This isn't Borat, this is the BBC

I like drunk history a lot, but there is no question in my mind that you are correct.

Drunk history was good when it first started. Then it became a parody of itself with more outlandish and obviously scripted bits.

I recently found her on Gervais’ “After Life”

LOL as hilarious as she is, please don't use her shows to learn anything, she mixes the truth in with very inaccurate statements. I think to get the most out of this show you actually already need to know the true facts about what she's talking about as it makes it even funnier.

And to be able to knowingly express that much ignorance with a straight face, while sounding like that one person we all know that thinks they're really smart, but just don't get it, ever, is a talented skill. I have encountered a lot of those people in pseudoscience groups, and she really exemplifies the core of their mode of thinking, and lack of critical thinking.

Uhh, it's Norman R. Kittectsher, and no he doesn't.

I didn't get this one

Yeah, it has a very 3rd grade book report vibe

Academics teach undergrads. They’re well trained at this. 😂

"In this happy land of spikes and hill filth." - wonderful.

"Ancient dick-pics"

Felicitations d'avoir tenté de la comprendre, mais il y a tant de jeux de mots et d'expressions idiomatiques toutes mêlées dans cette série, sans parler de son accent particulier, que ce serait extrêmement difficile à comprendre pour tous ceux qui ne parlent pas parfaitement anglais. Même pour les anglophones, il faut faire très attention si on veut catcher toutes ses blagues. Mais bravo quand même et bon courage. C'est vrai que sa série est brillante et nécessaire.

The Baywatch tapestry :D

Yes, she IS amazing, but not American. 😉

@@mydogdeli I did get the wink, but it is noticeable (and culturally interesting, I think) that many if not most Americans do not register those finer points of English grammar which are designed to pre-empt misunderstandings and minimise ambiguity, like the detection and avoidance of dangling participles (heck, plenty of Brits don't). Maybe the melting pot melted so long ago in Britain that there was more time to iron out the hodge podge origins of British English. It certainly seems to me that most Americans (even many well educated ones) do not have any concept of real time monitoring of their own language usage, eg they don't seem to even try to listen to what they are saying as if they were not already primed with the intended meaning, so as to cut down on opportunities for misinterpretation. To me it's a bit like cooking without tasting: you've no idea whether what you serve up will actually convey what you intended.

The scholar delivered with superb comedic timing.

I thought she said "wool".

@@KOZMOGRAFX The ambiguity is probably intentional.

@@KOZMOGRAFX she did! I mean how is 'wall' funny, it's definitely wool!

There is a lot of her stuff out there. When I posted this I couldn't find any of her stuff anywhere and now it seems to be everywhere

You could see the interviewee almost lost it there 🤣

There's a 'behind the scenes' video somewhere where they tell us that the interviewees know in advance the general set up joke, but not the specifics of what she's going to say.

Yes, apparently they are told to answer her questions as if they are talking to an 8 year old. Don’t laugh or disparage if the question seems silly. Respond calmly and explain in a simple way to help her learn.

If they didn't know, whenever one of her crazy questions come up, they'd looking around to the production staff like "wtf?!"

What? Not native english, especially british one? Did you meant british accent? Bc british people speak the same english, you are killing me mate

@@Apudurangdinya well yeah sorry, I mean the accent

What class are you taking where you need to watch Cunk on Britain

Just finished 'Cunk on Earth', just out on Netflix. Can't remember when I laughed that much. 🎵Pump up the jam! 🎵

I am an American. And sadly, you are not wrong.

Despite these comments tending to provide demostrative evidence for their arguments, I assure all readers that an underappreciated number of Americans' educations are respectable, and I remind them that "Philomena" is not meant to represent a product of a US education.

@@tomnolin8474 As an American, I can personally attest to my education being respectable. I have 10 GCSEs, three A-levels, and an AS in English Language.

@@vituperation American? Sus...

Forgetting the “academia” commentary….she is funny…as…hell. More and more….please!