i love that the fact she presents her intellect as a child they explain it as such and then they end up explaining things most people never even knew its actually brilliant.
I think we all have a secret desire to go up to experts and ask stupid questions just to make ourselves and others laugh, and we live vicariously through her
At 2:48 when she asks "like fish and stuff", I fucking love the face he makes before saying "yes", it's like he's absolutely flabbergasted that anyone could even ask that question and is just shaking his head in disbelief.
Everyone with watches has to borrow time and people have to pay back any time mistakes with a shorter life span. I can't belive the science man dosn't know this! Greenwich lends time to watches, that's where borrowed time comes from. Common sense. That's why it's called Mean time, it's mean of them to shorten lifespans with borrowed time. They also steal a hours sleep for several months a year to pay the time interest. Greenwich Mean Tyrants. GMT.
Speaking of time. This came out 8 years ago, and I am just discovering it. I take this comedy gem from the past as my gift. You could say, this is my present.
She actually was the 8th doctor's companion in the audio series done by big finish. Course she wasn't in the character of cunk. My guess is she did the roll of a much more intelligent character cause she was afraid of getting type casted.
Potentially, she could be the funniest female in the entire universe. Assuming that aliens don't have a sense of humour and assuming that muslim women underneath those full face burkas don't tell each other jokes. So yeah, potentially.
some say that her interviews is actually normal. Warm greetings, high functioning conversation, proper questions, etc. Then at some question, she start launching her strikes. Weird questions start coming. Her victims is always in serious minds and trying to answer weird stuff with serious answer and serious expressions. Creating this gems.
Fascinating. Although the video is quite confusing, I understand that is just due to a lack of intelligence on my part. The british accents provide credible proof this story is accurate.
I don't know if you're joking. I'm sorry if i don't get the joke, I might just be horribly wrong but i think this whole video was a joke. I really firmly believe all 4 minutes 20 seconds is a joke. I don't even think clocks were first made in Mesopotamia. I think the lady in the video is a comedian.
tash eckett Yes the entire video is a joke and I'm certain the original comment above was playing along. 😊 Tho you seem wonderfully sweet explaining it just in case someone missed out.
I do science communication for a living at University of Copenhagen and somehow something in me always wanted to interview the researchers like this 🤣🤣🤣 I just love Philomena ❤️😂
As well as the priceless interchanges with the "experts", I particularly love the subtle but brutal parody of documentary narrators and their clichéd scripts and imagery. Vacuous truisms, faux meaningfulness, museum shots, cosmological shots, the heartfelt "walkies" towards camera, the funereal music ... and then, finally, the absurdist, facade-breaking punchline which cracks the TV wall of pretence.
Speaking as a 'Science Man' myself, I have to be honest. At 3:14 Philomena Cunk makes the most concise and plausible explanation as to the possibility of time travel that I have ever heard..... Thats is what clocks is for! Bravo
@@kier8064 No, a time machine is a machine that travels through time and it's not affected by time. It can travel to before it was built. A clock cannot do that. A clock is a machine that ticks. Does nothing but ticks one time per second
LMAO... I don't know, is it just me finding her irresistibly cute? I just can't handle how cute she is. I mean how can someone be so cute and funny, I really admire this lovely lady :D
“Science Guy’s” reactions are priceless! Lol! Everyone starts out talking to her at a normal intellectual level but end up talking to her like she’s their 3 year old niece. But not Science Guy. God love him!!! And she’s hilarious!
"This is the only place where i can be in the past and the future at the same time, with the present running up my middle bits." Oh my god i geeked out
It's been 7 years since you made this youtube comment. Would you say you are now: A: More aware of time B: Less aware of time C: None and or both of the above
no but in a way it’s genuinely cool and thought-provoking to have such seemingly obvious things questioned. Like we all „know“ what time is, and along comes philomena and shows us that we actually don’t KNOW know. She’s her own kind of genius
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! I love the part when she turns back at the camera during an explanation; if we were schoolmates, I would definitely have flunked that course we were in! Lol!
This comedy woman will go places. She has the visual art down to a tee like Stan Laurel. And breaking the fourth wall, that Laurel and Hardy started, here is classic
Diane's performance is true comedic genius, but don't discount the scripting by Charlie Brooker and associates. It all comes together superbly. A true delight.
You have no idea how hard I try to take her seriously and every time I do manage to take her seriously I burst out laughing with tears. God she is lovely!
I think this is the funniest thing I have seen in forever. Thank you RU-vid magic algorithm for introducing me to Philomena Cunk! Also, I've been to the Greenwich time museum and time factory, and it's really neat, if you're free to let your inner clock nerd self run free. Like I was able to.
"All the clocks in the world are set from here. Which must take ages". That made me laugh out loud, and really loud at that, like nothing has in a long time. The delivery is so perfect, you could forget there's a joke in there. How can she do that BBC doc voice and say the jokes at the same time?
I like how she brings up genuinely thoughtful ideas, like how the ancient mesopotamians didn't see themselves as ancient, and delivers them with great comedic timing, like money.
I keep coming back to this video for the joke about time moving in a line and the present going up her middle. Might be one of the best jokes of all time, past and possibly future.
