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Cunk on Britain - S1E4 'Twentieth Century Shocks'

🕑 Added 2025-08-18 20:30:16 +0000 UTC

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David JB

How dare you, ‘Because of You’ is a classic by ‘Dexy’s Midnight Runners‘…. *shakes fist

Black Mark

Some classic clips in the BBC segment worth following up! 14:37 Morecambe & Wise (Eric and Ernie, give me sunshine...) 14:39 Parkie interviews Rod Hull & Emu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIo0yxnca_c

Mike Reaney

Jess would love the English rock band 'The The'

sean

Happy you are watching this series. The humour is silly, but what makes it funny for me is it how it's portrayed as a serius history documentary and the experts try to answer the questions. I also agree with Mike, it does actually cover real/serious historical events (even though Philomena's version of things are not to be taken seriously) so it gets you thinking about things.

Karl Devereux

Tommies...POOR FOLKS fighting against other POOR Folks...for & V the oligarchs of their age...

Frankiefranks 1

Is this show supposed to be funny

Billy

The historian is the same one that "loves abba"

Nicholas Ferguson

Please, PLEASE react to Cunk on Earth after this series is finished 😭😭😭 The recurring joke of "Brush Strokes" is changed to another reference but is twice as funny 😂😂😂

Julian

Farage is the skid mark on Churchill’s underpants

Dan Anderson

Farage and Reform in power is what Churchill was in WW2, We will get great put back into Great Britain!

Dan Anderson

Cunk on britain- Inform, Educate and entertain 🤣🤣🤣

Simon Cross

I admit to being an emotional old git and always choke up a little bit when the 'Brush strokes' segment comes on, as me and my lovely Mum used to watch it together when it was first broadcast. She's been gone a while now, but I instantly think of those lovely times in our little terrace house watching that show when the title music starts. I enjoyed this reaction as always, and Diane Morgan is brilliant as Philomena Cunk, it was very clever and funny of course, but it reminded me that we have gone through so much as a country (as many countries have) and so many young men, and not so young men, have died in pointless wars, and are still dying today, what a bloody waste, as the late great Edwin Starr sang 'War, huh, yeah, what is it good for, absolutley nothing'

Neil

I think to end the Cunk On Britain series after next weeks, we really need a reaction to the first episode of Brush Strokes (only kidding, not even sure it will be out there still) OK, maybe a little serious ;-)

Rach

Tbf the BBC chairman being politically appointed is bad but the news wing is so highly scrutinised externally that it's hard for the senior staff to put any pressure at all on that team.(After all, the news were able in the last few years break stories like the MI5 perjury, SAS killings etc that the government tried through courts to stop them publishing). Not to say it isn't biased, but I think more towards the politics of the editorial staff and their class background rather than the government itself. I'd say it's actually easier for them to put pressure in the less scrutinised entertainment wing which is why people like Saville etc were able to be covered up for so long by bbc management.

Erica

I got a different feeling form the male historian who is normally very witty. My Dad is a bit obsessed with The First World War and has taken me to Ypres and a few other significant places and it was so bloody horrific I think it can be hard to laugh at. Blackadder deals with it beautifully. You’ll undoubtably watch that one day, a wonderful programme. I get the feeling that historian was being sensitive as he knows how diabolical it was. Anyway respect to him and another brilliant episode.

Mark R

It was my first time seeing this episode too. Wow.. Holy shit it got real. Has there ever been a prediction turning out to be more accurate than Orwells 1.9.8.4. Because to me, and I know many others, it feels like it's heading that way.. It's crazy, it really is and I'm the same when it comes to stuff like this BS.

Andy Oliver

Now I'm sorely tempted to add something to the Music Playlist by Matt Johnson's popular beat combo, The The, just to see if Jess will introduce them as The The The!

Carol

I love your shirt, Mike! It's usually Jess' tops that I admire - she has a great range of blouses - "ooh women love a new top!" LOL! xxx

Rob Gilmour

relationship goals 😊 just one of the reasons we love this channel 🤩

Ian Warren

When it comes to the politics of the BBC, it's because the government chooses who runs the BBC, and that person is answerable to the government of the day. As such the political programmes, and indeed the BBC News, can - and has - be manipulated to sway public opinion (like Orwell's 1-9-8-4!), or to influence the public on matters. It's been called the Department of Propaganda by people because of this. The idea is, you watch your favourite entertainment shows and then stay for the propaganda via news or political discussion programmes. They'll even put a 10 minute news segment in the middle of a popular movie, to make sure they get you. But the entertainment shows can indeed be top notch.

Jord Ayres

To be fair you guys do get most of the jokes. I think you will get more of the joke from the next episode as it’s about modern times 👍🏼

Emily

Mike: The BBC, I've heard of them... Like they haven't been busting his balls all weekend 😂

Julian

This joke will pay off about one year from now 😂

Fordy7169

Mike & Jess, you're doing well on keeping up with the jokes, believe me you're getting most of them. It's a programme you can watch again to pick up on the ones you miss because you're still laughing/thinking about the previous ones.

Mike

When the coronation happened in 1953 my grandparents bought their first TV and the whole street came over to their house to watch it. Apparently this was common around the country :)

Josh Read

❤️the❤️

Emma Edwards

If you’ve watched another performance at The Proms, it was probably Rule Britannia 🇬🇧

Jackdeel

Mike I love what u said about the coronation I think the queens being televised made her seem close to everyone that watched her and everything she don’t since made her seem so down to earth even tho she lived in a palace the country has gone down hill since her death 🇬🇧🤍

Captain Cardboard

I heard that the First World War started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.

Jackdeel

the fact she didnt mention eastenders when talking to that man is a let down its the perfect tv show

Nicola

I'm watching this for the first time with you guys and I'm loving it 😂 I take it Mike is a bit of a conspiracy theorist?

Jord Ayres

I needed this today 🙂😂

Steve B

Great reaction video again. For more historical comedy, I'd recommend watching Blackadder. The first series is not so hot, but the second third and fourth (forth) are brilliant.

ElvisLee

I agree. Lately I've been working like a dog doing long shifts and it gets a little like Groundhog Day, so thank God for Mike and Jess providing these regular beacons of light to get me through it all. It would have been a lot harder without them.

Moody Marco

Fun fact: the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand are named after a racehorse called that. The racehorse was named after the Archduke

Static CentreHalf

You two really need to take this on board. When we get email notifications of a reaction it is, of and in itself, a pleasure. But when it comes off the back of a truly awful day more meaning is attached. Then it's a case of: "Ahh, at least M&J will lift my spirits." I kid you not and I bet I'm not the only one. So thank you.