American Reacts Cunk on Earth S1Ep01 Philomena Cunk 

Guys I really wasn't sure if i was even going to upload this reaction and so didnt have great video quality and fooled around a bit too much lol sorry about that everyone 😅

The experts she interviews are fully aware of the nature of the show; it's not an Ali G type situation. The one with Professor Brian Cox is hilarious because he's proper playing along with it, but the show's creator is Charlie (Black Mirror) Brooker, and the experts reappear from series to series. In the UK, they're all regulars on various science and history shows, so to a UK viewer, it's much funnier because of the verisimilitude. The interviews are unplanned, though.

"I used to be very anti religious. In high school Christopher Hitchens was like a God to me." I love that! :D

The Jesus episode is the best 😂😂 Mary gave birth on the floor… like a crackhead 😂😅❤

I think you're right. I think I'm falling in love with her too. There's a heap of actual facts amidst the deadpan jokes and strange questions. "Did Zeus approve of that?" I'm dying.

A brussel sprout is an entire cabbage-worth of green flavour condensed into a tiny ball of hate.

"I'll give you breast cancer awareness" had me howling 😂😂

The original Lascaux caves in France are mainly closed to all but conservators and a faithful reproduction was made nearby which is probably where she filmed 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"Why am I falling in love with her?" Dude, get in line... 😉

Roads are constructed. Paths are formed by going over the same piece of land over and over again. Romans build roads. They dug a wide trench, filled it with stones and gravel, in specific layers, packing it tightly and then paved it all. Road is usually elevated just slightly from the surrounding ground.

"oh spunk means something different doesn't it" pmsl it's like you're joining in with philomena as a wing man to the idiocy 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

You need to resist the urge to interrupt every 10 seconds.

I've always been meaning to watch this show, I'm glad I chose to watch this with you. It made the whole experience a whole lot better. I definitely had fun and I enjoyed your commentary.

I don’t know who told you Egypt didn’t have the wheel but they did , they had things like chariots and wheels to spin pottery so they most definitely had wheels. Also Egyptians had hieroglyph’s which is a from of writing.

The experts were essentially aware of the joke unlike with Ali G, they were told to treat Philomena as if she was a child, they don’t know what the questions will be though

I love that you are now doing a full video, not just reacting to the best of clips. Watching you react makes it even better. Edit: I'm pretty sure the Egyptians already used wheels.

I like the guy with the white beard he seems to be very intelligent and considers every question respectfully. Peace out.

When the whitehouse was burned instead of painting it white they could have just added yellow stripes and had a Wasp house.

The transition from all fours to standing up was a gradual process. Our monkey ancestors were veggies but when environmental changes made their diet more scarce they had to cover more territory and also started to eat meat which required the body to move in different ways to stalk prey. Eating meat also changed our physiology with guts becoming smaller and brain getting bigger which brought us closer to what we recognise today. Homo Erectus which literally means upright man was one of the earliest human species.

"People looked after each other". One of the funniest things a historian has said. She must be in on it.

„I’m not a fan of vegetables“ said the American

Er, we did invite fire ...Other instances happened by accident. Such as forest fires. We learned to control it.

Glad you have a full episode a go. Those compilations just don’t do her justice

if americans don't get irony, they won't get cunk

"I'm not a vegetable person" - mostly same, for taste, but once I went from hardly ever eating fruits/vegetables (like once or twice a week) to eating 8-14 portions a DAY and you would not believe how amazing I felt. My skin and hair looked INCREDIBLE. I was VERY happy all the time, my anxiety went away, for the first time ever I was never tired and had abundant energy etc,

FYI, Lycra is another name for Spandex

Diane is such a brilliant comic and presenter. She has also done a series, Cunk on Britain, which is just as hilarious.

@34:22 yes Cyrillic is an alphabet descended from Greek I think Latin is also though to some extent, which is why Cyrillic and Latin share quite a few characters. Some make different sounds simply due to the way different languages evolved over time.

Yes it was a real painting from a public brothel in Pompeii 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Love the honesty - "I don't know what I'm talking about" - spot on.

"I know this is a comedy thing, but another good question!" - That means it's good comedy. It makes you think, even though it seems "stupid" ;)

So the kind of spa treatment Gwyneth Paltrow has on a weekly basis 🤣🤣🤣💀 She is brilliant 👏

35:14 “Sing like no one is listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, and live like it is heaven on earth.” Mark Twain

As the worlds leading hieroglyphics expert, I was skeptical when you said you knew hieroglyphics. You nailed every single one, great job.

13:50 The more pressing problem in the 21st century is people who are able to write but not think.

Ancient Egypt used chariots widely in warfare, they definitely had wheels. Which civilisations didn’t have a writing system, it’s one of the key defining elements of a civilisation (you could have a culture without one but not a civilisation) - the only one I can think of is the Inca which is famous for being unusual

Omg, I have wanted you to react to an entire episode ever since you first watched a highlights episode

I love this! Connor's slightly more intelligent than Philomena and slightly less self-aware. Hilarious. Great channel!

That was the Gordian knot that Alexander solved with his sword ⚔️ 😅 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I've been waiting for this Absolutely awesome.

Ancient Egypt totally had the wheel.

Hey kid! you were born without a writing system. Writing doesn't come pre-packed with holes!

My favourite Cunk line was from 'cunk on america' when she said 'america became known as the land of the free, which must've came as a surprise to all the slaves' 😂

Definition of Spunk = A. Semen (British slang) B. Courage or spirit e.g. "She has lots of spunk" - Usually they would be referring to definition B, but definition A could also be feasible! 🤭 -x-

25:30 "you could start with one giant column in the middle" - and, where does THAT start from?!

I’m going to shock u! The interviewees were in on the joke! Dianne Morgan is a very famous comedy actress in the uk and was in the tv show afterlife so the British people (or anyone with Netflix would know her!) here’s the behind the scenes q&a filmed for the BFI! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uZ-5eOD57Ss.html

If you were paying attention you would have noticed she didn't say the GW of China was 'visible from Space'. She actually said "audible from space"

yess was excited for this

Yes that’s true about wheels in ancient Egypt , it was only when the Hyksos or Shepherd Kings showed up in new fangled chariots and battered them then they came into contact with wheels for the first time , but they learned quickly and ejected them with their own chariots a century later . 👍😆

Alexander cutting the Gordian knot may be what inspired the scene in Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark where he simply sidesteps the problem of the scimitar wielding guy by shooting him.

I think its called comedy if the writer is not well known or acknowledged by many and tragedy if it's written by great and well know writers

Connor, quit pushing the planet away from you. You're making me spill my tea.

24:24 You were correct here, it’s a myth that the pyramids were built exclusively by slaves. The Nile has an annual flooding season, so during that time most farmers would go work on the pyramids for pay (usually rations of food that were paid to the government as taxes during non-flooding seasons).

Lmao the beginning where you want to time travel to kidnap a child for science really made me laugh 😂

The show experts know who she is but they have no idea on the questions she is about to ask, they just give an honest answer

You would probably have to take a human from at least around 300000+ years ago, in order for there to be a slight difference, since that is approximately when our species evolved to what it still is today. the human from that time would die, ofcourse, due to diseases in a few days/weeks, but if that weren't the case, then there wouldn't be any significant visible difference.

BTW, the experts know it is a comedy bit. But they don't know the questions or prepare their answers. They have (mostly) deleted the scenes where the broke up laughing.

I just started watching this show yesterday and I'm already loving it 😂

We do still technically use our arms for support while moving, for example, while running, you COULD just run with your arms by your sides, but most people kinda piston their elbows back and forth automatically because it aids in both balance and wind resistance.

Unless I'm much mistaken, "Dance like nobody's watching" is a reference to Zorba the Greek... certainly not Aristotle! ;)

I love how innocent you are or portray yourself to be haha :P

Connor you ranting about past people not having writing systems is the same as future people moaning about flying cars while there's flying cars.

I can see why someone might think Socrates may not have existed. He never wrote anything himself, and almost everything written about him was the work one man, Plato. But actually, we are as sure of his existence as we are of anyone else in his era. We know that lots of people who knew him personally wrote about him. And the work of three of those people still exists today. Not only Plato, but the historian Xenophon and the comic playwright Aristophenes also wrote about him, independently of each other. His life and career, and trial and execution all fit in perfectly to the history of 5thC Athens.

A lot of the humor in Philomena's (Diane Morgan is the actress) presentation seems to have eluded you. Perhaps that's a matter of life experience and the kind of education you've had. And then, your ADHD probably distracted you from listening to parts of the video and missing the punch-line, such as your digression into the kind of vegetables you like and dislike, when Philomena was talking about how hunting vegetables was easier because they can't run away, even though it was still dangerous because of all the farm implements lying around. Or starting to name the busts of Greek philosophers, when Philomena named two of them, then said "and him (pointing at another) and the rest of them", indicating that she really wasn't very interested in them at all. There is a lot of very subtle humor mixed in with the outlandish stuff. You just have to pay attention to recognize it.

The "leaf fort" sounds soooo cool!

You had me there for a moment,good on ya Connor!❤😊

Yep she can be considered the female version of sacha baron cohen with her own personal style and humour. She is great and very intelligent. At 14:20 The wheel and push up story is not wrong in terms of classical physics. it is just easier to think as we do normally. No need to complicate our life unnecessarily. At 16:35 you can avoid that situation in a simple way. Just search for something like "chrome delete autofill history". there is even a shortcut key to delete specific words in the history. At 20:20 what you are describing is pictographic writing (like the old Egyptian one) which is also considered one of the first writing system, the one in the video is the "Mesopotamia" cuneiform writing system. It is different because it basically uses the same form (and indentation made by a corner of a "stick") just that it is in different combinations and rotations to make meanings. At 24:20 the pyramids were certainly build by slaves. Slaves were a reality that we managed to mostly surpass fortunately. The myth was they were only or mainly constructed by slaves. There was to much involved in it to let it fall to the hands of "slaves". And the homeless response by the "prof" was kind of low quality. Homeless people have always existed. It was a different reality from our own but her answer is unrealistic and not worthy of a "prof". At 27:10 they did have roads, it is just that there probably wasn't a "system" of "maintained" roads as we know now. At 27:40 that word is from Latin At 28:10 that was not a bad way to define tragedy and comedy. At 33:15 Every "great Greek" figure might have not existed. And that goes for most of the other countries figure of antiquity (not only). That is the bread and butter of the history discipline. To truly understand and appreciate history that fact is a very essential step. When you say that there are doubts about Socrates or most anyone else, the point is more about what they did and who they were, more so then if they really existed. At 34:05 ".. is Greek Cyrillic?". Lol i think you meant "is Cyrillic Greek?". Greek script is much much older than Cyrillic. And yes it seems that Cyrillic was inspired on Greek alphabet. At 34:35 that was a great example of her genius. At 39:14 the Gordian knot story is to exemplify the image of a pragmatic conqueror not to show him as smart or something.

Drawing animals on stone walls, large rocks, and expansion of such "art" became pictures of hunting and explaining where and how, probablywhen too, started the form of communication via "Writing" Carried on from there...

Around 200,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans developed, we can’t tell the difference between us and them by physical examination. Behaviorally modern humans came about around 50,000 years ago, the numbers range quite a bit though. I don’t know what there’d be like, but it would probably be pretty noticeable.

I like how you said you don’t like vegetables then listed multiple vegetables that you liked or even “loved.”

This show cracked me up when I saw it the first time. Watching the reactions makes cry laugh even more!

You mean when did we become completely and solelybipedal? No one can be certain when man became completely bipedal. Evolutionary adaptation to the human pelvis and spine, to allow for bipedalism, began about 4 million years ago. Although among some hominids it started earlier.

"Okay, I'm gonna stop talking now because I myself am getting annoyed." Then goes on to talk and talk and talk.....

I'm very cynical sometimes and *very* skeptical, so when people try to go watch scary movies, or do stuff like this I'm like "booored". But when it comes to going to abandoned places (which I love), I love to go first, even without a lamp, but making people think the building or forest is actually cursed is WAY FUNNIER.

I really enjoyed your responses on this video. MsCunk is fantastic isn’t she? Thanks heaps

New thinking is that no slaves were used in the building of the pyramids , the Nile flooded the land for a third of the year and no work was possible and hence Pharaoh provided the massive unemployed workforce with work on the pyramid with food rations for wages. There was a smaller full time work force employed all year round 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

She's so funny! Good stuff.

You’d only have to go back about 40,000 years to find the differences,both Neanderthals and Denisovans were still around then.

Love your Hieroglyphics translation ;)

Yes Connor. That’s why I feel The British Museum should keep many of the things they have. Or at least create copies in case the worst should happen if they gave them back

I love that you said you were anti religion and immediately followed up by describing Christopher Hitchens as a god. 😄

I believe all of the early Homonids had a body shape pretty much like ours. It was the brain size that changed, therefore the head is the most noticable difference. You need hands to make tools. You need tools to process meet. You need meat to increase brain size. Interestingly though it would appear that our thumb shape and size has changed, probably because of natural selection, those that could make better tools survived.

The genius brain child of Charlie Brooker.

Philomena a.k.a. Diane Morgan is a funny stand up comedienne too.

A lot of the Ancient Egyptians were illiterate and writing was seen as an elitist thing which only scribes could do and it was considered sacred as there was a God of knowledge and writing called Seth who had an Ibis head and a human body.

Technically human flesh has a sort of brand name ‘Soylent green’ or ‘ long pork’ but don’t quote me on that

Don't you realise what a complex and advanced thought process it was to transform a sound into a concrete shape that could be retained? That was massive. As was the invention of 0 - that's zero to you.

It is posited by some evolutionary scientists that creating and understanding a written language is the most recent step of human evolution. Crawling is a form of cross lateral co-ordination that is only available to babies who can be put safely on the ground or floor to crawl before they begin walking. That form of ambulation is a necessary step in the development of the part brain that can comprehend written language.

Creating a wriring system is ezpz I'm sure. What an ignorant way of looking at things. Ancient Egypt was very advanced for their time, they used hieroglyphics as a writing system yet we aren't able to fully transalte it, since it's a completely foreign writing system to anything alive today. The idea of writing or the wheel may be an easy concept to grasp today, but it's not innate in human nature, you have to learn it. As an English speaker try reading Cyrillic or Hindu and see how much you understand. The idea of bouyancy or inertia may also be obvious to us today, but we LEARN that in school, plus we're surrounded by it. If you can't read ancient egyptian scripture, maybe you're the ignorant one, thinking it's so easy. Reading as a basic skill in the western hemisphere is not even 100 years old for god's sake... Reading used to be something you learned in university, which only the rich could pay for.

Legs became legs and arms became arms when man started wanting to be a bird and fly....😏and started waving the front legs about in the air....

In france there's the lascaux cave, but tourists and visitors breath began to ruin the paintings, so they did recreate those in an other cave nearby that you can visit. So, if it is in france, she's not in the true one, and i assume that other caves in the world are dealt with the same way

Great video!

33:40 I don't remember any discourse about Socrates not being real, in fact all modern philosophers would say he definitely was. Only the validity of his scriptures has been questioned in the past. Since he didn't write anything himself and the only work that's ever been "published" in his name was written down by his scholars, some have questioned whether said texts were actually Socrates' teachings or his scholar thoughts published in his name.

that i'm watching this reaction is officially a Miracle of God.

I agree, if you could see the great wall from space, you'd be able to see any major highway in the world too.

As far as I know, an abacus will allow you to do calculations in any number base, not just base 10 decimal. Binary for instance.

I’m watching, it’s still up. And the reactions are as cunking good as the main show.

I think Socrates was a real person. Homer (the poet not The Simpson) may have been a collection of poets not just one dude.

In heiroglyphics, what you called an eyeball is actually meant to represent a womb, and the symbol makes a "kh" sound depending on the context.

I am with you on the Olympic Games. All wrestling, no weight classes. And with Greek rules that allow ear-biting and knee-breaking