Cunk On Britain

[BMW6]

utterly brilliant, thought i may actually die from laughing, am sooo impressed the serious historians etc kept the straight face!
If you missed it please watch via catch up or whatever - i think its the funniest thing i've seen since Motherland (probably no coincidence that its the same main actor)

So funny. DH didnt get it at first. It took him until 20 minutes in to understand its supposed to be funny and not a serious history program

Just brilliant. Iron Man superpowers, 'like tolerating Gwynneth Paltrow'.

I find her irritating but possibly too old and seen it all already

Absolutely brilliant, loved it!

I’m going to look up at helicopters for no reason at all..

I saw clips of this on Twitter today...looking forward to watching this when DS goes to bed. Sounds right up my street!

Oh gosh so funny! I really couldn't believe how those existed played along and kept a straight face! Was some interesting facts amongst hilarious one liners.

Just watched it, v funny. I loved the bit about the starved dinosaurs and the scottish pez!!!

It was very well done. Very clever.

I've been howling at this. The people she interviewed look terrified and confused

Real History programmes are very similar, all that walking around castles and churches and voice overs. Its been well researched and lot of it is actually factual amongst the jokes. I can see that the experts are in on the joke though, but its still funny.

Charlie Brooker ( one of the writers) and Peter Kay have that knack of actually watching the programmes they are parodying and having so many things just spot on.

Watched this last night. We haven't laughed so much at a tv show in ages.

Brilliant. Laugh out loud telly. Apparently the experts do know it's a parody but don't know what they'll be asked, etc. Some have been interviewed by Cunk before!

She's brilliant. I love how she plays it so totally straight. I wonder if the experts are told to be as po-faced as possible.

My favourite ever Cunk line (I think) is 'this week we will be asking, who or what is Winston Churchill? The answer of course, is who'

Yes, how did Winston Churchill end up on all the five pound notes?

We have actual footage of the Battle of Hastings - in wool. Luckily someone was around who was good at embroidery eh?

Next week she is looking at pots and stuff.

Ooh if it's got history and humour I'm in.

The Arthurian academic looks like Cunk might have shanghaied her. Her facial expressions are great.

Tarmac inhalation

Tudors = the Kardashians of history

This was hilarious. Me and DH were watching it and DS came in halfway through and ended up watching it too.

Favourite lines were 'Baywatch Tapestry', 'like tolerating Gwyneth Paltrow', Richard III 'burrowing under a car park' and 'so King Arthur came a lot' (just for the historians face).

Looking forward to next weeks.

Funniest thing I have seen on tv for years. Her delivery is brilliant and so are those academics. It reminded me of those interviews that Ali G made some years ago when he said outrageous things to people in what seemed like a serious interviews.

Was it true, the bit about inventing fire at one second past midnight on jan 1st and coming out of the stone age at 3pm on dec 31st?

Actually I meant harnessing fire, not inventing it.

Loved it.

Love the bit about Halley's Comet coming the same year Brush Strokes started.

The Baywatch Tapestry.

All those castles and churches built by one man, Norman Architecture.