Going into this the experts are aware that it is for a satirical sketch but that is all the info they are given. They have no idea what they are getting into.
I'm a Brit. This shows how ingrained humour is in British life and culture. All of the experts, who are not comedians, are in on it and go along with the whole thing straight faced. One of our dullest Prime Ministers was Gordon Brown. One of his closest associates and advisors was politician Ed Balls. In his autobiography, he has two whole chapters on the imprtance of humour in British politics. The humourless Brown employed people to write a couple of jokes into all of his speeches. The thinking is that the audience remember the jokes more than anything. And a speech without a joke is completely forgetable. And to understand the importance of humour in UK politics, just watch the weekly Prime Ministers Questions or videos of the previous House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow.
My favourite clip of her is when she's talking about a pyramid and says and says "here is a computer simulation of what it would have looked like" and it switches to a clip of a pyramid in Minecraft 🤣😭
The aggressive "who are you?!" always cracks me up! I'd love to see more real-world journalists begin their celebrity interviews with this phraseology; immediately take them down a peg 😂
WHAT a brilliant idea! Now, how can we make this happen? We could begin with 'actress' - and apparent Australian Wildfire Expert - Jennifer Aniston, for example, and ask her to share some of her extensive knowledge on Manmade Climate Change. I'd pay good money to witness the outcome!
Diane Morgan is brilliant and I can warmly recommend the British comedy series called "Motherland" in which she has a big role. The really big star of that show is the genius Anna Maxwell Martin and every time I watch the first scene in the pilot I laugh out loud.
Diana is original and precious. She has a broad appeal over here for her brutal puncturing of stuffy, pompous British TV documentaries. The nuclear weapon bit is both touching and very cleverly delivered.
Finally someone checking out cunk!!! 😂 It is Brian Cox, he was also in a band in the mid 90s called D:REAM their biggest hit called THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER, you may have heard it
It's hilarious that you have to turn captions on because you can’t quite catch what she’s saying, but her accent is so strong (at least as far as AI captioning is concerned) that they completely mess it up! I can assure you she didn’t say "you need 'sperm money' if you want to get rich"!
The “who knows?” To “how many three wisemen were there?” is actually the correct answer. The Gospels do not give a number of Magi that visited, the number three arises from the number of gifts listed (gold, frankincense and myrrh)
Fun reaction! Suggest the compilation "Cunk On Food," the channel 'Philomena Cunk' has many compilations and not clipped as tight as some best of channels (these were good).
everyone seemed to miss that when she was interviewing Brian Cox and that "what it would feel like being sucked through a hole"...she was talk about...well you know
Well Done JJ because there were some British references and jokes like calling Westminster Abbey: "WestminISter" and universal jokes like talking about "FeminINists" and calling yje Leader of The Suffragette Movement to get Women the vote "EmmerDALE" Pankhurst( Emmerdale being the name of a British TV Series) rather than EmmerLINE Pankhurst etc:)
The character was created by the living genius Charlie Brooker for his show 'Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe' and in the early days guests did not know it was all a joke. But when Diane Morgan started to get her own TV shows playing the character the game was up. Now I would imagine most interviewees know who she is.
The people she interviewed knew she was a comedian but didn’t know what she would ask! They were told to answer her questions as if they were talking to a child. 😂
@@jeannellies4778 well to get to a fork, one must have a path to get there, so to walk along a path until one reaches a fork gives a minimum of three paths, I have not ever come across z definition of only two ways to go on a fork, as that would be just one path, forwards and backwards
You are right about Professor Brian Cox. Who I am sure you will know was a keyboard player with the band D-Ream, whose popular song was "Things an only get better. Love Philomena/Diane, and the Prof played along well
Love watching you react to Philomena! The gag rate in these scripts is even higher than you'd notice, because she often references well known British cultural icons that would pass you by- for example in this she referred to the Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst as 'Emmerdale Pankhurst. 'Emmerdale' is a popular UK TV soap opera.
@@Isleofskye Yes although I'd say that those two are characterisation rather than jokes. I don't think there's any real joke in those, it's just showing us that Cunk is uneducated and hasn't bothered to learn how to pronounce those words correctly even for TV.
You would probably enjoy watching the British comedian Jonathan Pie (Tom Walker). He is a fictional, brutally honest, angry political correspondent. Very funny. He has American content as well on his RU-vid channel
Most of the experts are old hands at BBC documentaries, and they all know Cunk (who's been in a few BBC series) is a spoof character sending up the BBC's filming style, voice overs and earnest delivery. It works though because they have no idea what she will ask, and the character is completely clueless to the point of blindly repeating script notes. Always entertaining, but also oddly informative when Diana has a point to make.
LMAO don't use the captions. That's not what she said. "spare" money not "sperm" money. 10:50 I feel like it's gonna go downhill from here. They all know they are going to be interviewed and its a skit but don't know what they are going to be asked and are told that its being filmed as if it was serious I think.
My mum and I watched all of Cunk on earth today thanks to this reaction vid...the rest of the day we've spent watching your reaction vids....keep up the good work JJ 👍
I've never seen her before and didn't know who she was as I haven't had tv for a good 15 years. A couple of her YT videos came up on my feed and I thought she was probably a historian, lol, as I watch a lot of history and didn't want to add any more to my 'watch later' list yet. Absolutely hilarious! I'll definitely have to watch them now. Great video as always, JJ. :)
Matthew Burton (1:50) is a teacher that became famous thanks to a programme called Educating Yorkshire and his relationship with a pupil called Musharaf. I'd love to see you react to that if possible
From what I've heard, when Diane first started playing the role of Philomena, the guests/experts did not know it was an act or a joke. At this point though pretty much everyone knows who she is and they are told the interviews are for comedy. However, they do not know at all what she is going to say or ask. A lot if not most of the stuff she says in interviews is improvised by her anyway, so it would be impossible to know. But yeah, at first no one knew she's an actress playing a character, but now they do, only not what the interviews are actually going to be like. She's brilliant!
What I find most sad to realize is that there will be people that think the questions she asks, statements she makes and facts she names are all real and that this is a real documentary. compounded by the tidbits of truth and fact throughout it all.
Thanks for that I've seen her work reacted to by others from North America and you are the first to keep up with the complexity and ridiculousness of this very British humour.
You must miss a lot if you aren't British and have lived in Britain. For example, she called Emily Pankhurst 'Emmerdale Pankhurst'. Emmerdale is a long-running (some would say too long) soap opera about faming life in the UK. It's silly humor, but she's constantly doing that knowing her main audience is in the UK.
Those subtitles were terrible, they didn't understand her at all!! She said spare money, not sperm money!! Btw Jane Austen is on the £10 note which explains that joke Can't believe the joke I found funniest you didn't respond to at all - Banquo's ghost "played by the letter H" (i.e. the chair) - that was hilarious!
Charlie Brookers creation is a masterpiece of misinformation delivered with a deadpan seriousness worthy of any documentary makers Diane Morgan, genius casting..
When I visited America I thought I had put weight on due to drinking a lot of beer I actually lost weight because I remember I hardly ate anything the food was grim
"you see yourself back to front but not upside down, why ? " and the answer "thats how mirrors are designed "... i still to this day do not understand who had the stoopidest line there
Just one nerdy comment from a person that has English as a 3rd language. When you, the English, Americans and all other with English as a first language, say the word NUCLEAR, many of you say it nukillar and for me it sounds like NEW KILLER.
There *was so* a pair of trousers that stopped under the balls. They were called shorts in the seventies and eighties, before we decided to put men in Purdah.
This is a great compilation, and your reaction amplified the hilarity! Great stuff - but of course although we know Charlie Brooker wrote this, without Diane performing it and adding a few ad-libs in here bringing it all to life it would be nothing. Presenting someone so wilfully stupid, but all the while remaining totally endearing, is a testament to her acting chops. The moment where she unexpectedly starts crying during the nuclear weapons discussion is wonderful.
Cox is a particle physicist at CERN, a hit band member (Things Can Only Get Better, D:ream), and a radio/podcast presenter. Believe you me, that surname has been joked about a few times
They know it's satirical and that she's playing the character, but they have no idea about the actual questions or anything, and are told to act as if they have been actually seriously asked those questions. So yeah they're in on it but they aren't told the questions beforehand.
