The Pub Landlord reveals why we are called 'Great' Britain. Recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival. ------------ Follow the Al on Twitter at / almurray Become a fan on Facebook at / thepublandlord
I wouldn't call it satire, for me that would imply he actually believes the complete opposite of what he says here. I would say he plays an exaggerated persona or maybe an alter-ego.
His based on English working class pub owners. Al Murray is a oxford educated graduate. One of best historians about. Watch his BBC docs . This is satire
No he was just a twat - he was a great critic of everyone else's life but never looked at his own faults. He soon made you uncomfortable to be around him, most of us avoided him but he homed in on us. I know this character is comedy but comedy is a study of life and charicaturing it.
Jacky My Dogg10 US is great too always good to see these comments from the other americans who have nothing nice to say about britain love from the UK brother.
@@voltagethename9959 what are you on about? Austria is are birth mother with the celts. Then Italy as are adoptive mother with abandonment issues. Then the Germanic people again with the Saxons and then the Danes and then the Saxons again and then the Franco Danish( normans) and then the Germanic people again with Victoria's husband. And I'm pretty sure the ancient British people who lived here before the Celts were also Germanic. So are mother Is the Germanic race not France!
He was right.. we are the centre. The clock starts in Greenwich and either moves forward based on your timezone (east) +1 + 2 etc Or backwards based on where you are -1 -2 but it's calculated and ranged in Britain because of a treaty signed and agreed to by alot of countries
The Empire Strikes back! What makes Britain Great? Their sense of humour Their fierce sense of fairness Their haphazard nationalism Their football hooligans and Queen Victoria The short fat despot who forged an Empire to get away from the kids. Did she spare your back? NO! Did she spare your sweat? NO! Did she spare your blood? NO! So what DID she do? She gave you an Empire you had built. She is your Empress and you are her Empire Builders. With her fierce spirit and unflinching ways she galvanised you into giving birth to The Modern World. #GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
@@Smdylan The Empire Strikes back! What makes Britain Great? Their sense of humour Their fierce sense of fairness Their haphazard nationalism Their football hooligans and Queen Victoria The short fat despot who forged an Empire to get away from the kids. Did she spare your back? NO! Did she spare your sweat? NO! Did she spare your blood? NO! So what DID she do? She gave you an Empire you had built. She is your Empress and you are her Empire Builders. With her fierce spirit and unflinching ways she galvanised you into giving birth to The Modern World. #GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
What used to be great in Britain was if you needed a chippy, sparky, decorator, mechanic, etc. Just pop down to your local boozer. Once upon a time your local boozer was like a community center. Now it's a creche serving shite ale.
Comedians are typically observers of the world. To observe and to be able to communicate your observations in a comedic way requires a brilliant understanding of the subject matter, as well as strong communication skills. Doing both at the same time conveys intelligence. Now throw in the ability to make that funny. And you’ve got 3/3 skills in conveying intelligence.
This from an American "I’m a former New Yorker. I’ve only visited Canada, but lived in London for the past 25 years. In the States, if you have a good job, you can live very comfortably. But if you have a serious medical emergency or long term medical needs, this can bankrupt you, you can lose your home & be very poor. For average workers, the medical insurance is very difficult as the insurance is very expensive and on top of that, you have to co-pay. And many can’t get insurance because of pre-existing issues. In the UK, medical care is free, doesn’t matter about your past history ... the taxes we pay towards it is less than what people pay in the States for their insurance. People never have to worry about being homeless because of ongoing medical problems. Whenever I go back to New York to visit, I’m a bit shocked at how very poor many people are there - compared to London. In the UK, if you are working, but not able to afford rent, the government will pay towards your rent. It may not cover all the rent, but it helps. If you have children & don’t earn enough in your job, the government will top up your earnings so you are above the poverty line. If you are unemployed, your unemployment benefits won’t stop as long as you are actively looking for work & attending the skills meetings. And if you do accept a job, but it doesn’t pay well, the government will top it up to make sure you are earning what they consider to be the minimum needed to live on. My high-earning son had the opportunity to work for his company in the States, but he realised he has a much better safety net here in the UK for his family. It felt too much of a risk for him to have to pay for medical insurance for his family when it isn’t even guaranteed that it will pay for certain things. The only thing I don’t like about living in the UK is the weather. But everything else, in my personal opinion, leads for a better quality of life.
@Gggg well done on not understanding that art is subjective. Only difference between you and him is that he has a special that you're commenting on and you just have a shit, ignorant comment. Pathetic, unloved trolls are a bore.
Britain just decided,.,.,for the third time.! categorically to put the Great back into it. Let’s hope comedians accept this, and revert to being funny again.!
I'll have my wine in a pint glass, please. A proper bloody English pint glass with a proper bloody handle and a chunky pattern on it, not one of those crappy modern straight things. Stackable? Dishwasher safe? My arse. ;-)
@Gggg ahh i could tell you were Irish without even looking at your picture. Hating on Britain for no other reason than we are better looking smarter and more athletic older brother. Whilst mummy ignores you and you grew resentful of us.
So I guess I'll be the nerd... It is called Great Britain, because it is a wrong translation from latin. The name in latin was Britannia Maior. Maior (sometimes written major) can be translated into great or big, but it can also be translated as upper, and it this case this was the real meaning of the phrase. So Brittania Maior means Upper Britain, as opposed to Britania minor, which is, of course, lower Britain. Lower Britain is today known as Brittany, or in french Bretogne. So, these terms were used by French rulers, following the conquest ofWilliam the Conqueror (in France known by his french and real name: Guillaume le Conquérant) to distinguish Brittany (or Bretagne) from Britain. So, when good people that we today know as Brits took control of the island known today as the Great Britain back from the Frenchies, they decided they will translate latin name Brittania Maior to Great Britain, rather than Upper Britain. Voila! P.S. I agree it's great :) All of it...
Thanks, perfessah. That's great. It's a purely geographical distinction, denoting the largest/greatest landmass/island/whatever of several dozen crummy little ones. Yes, yes, yes. We know. Do you want mayonnaise on your archipelago? But it's fun to suggest otherwise because it winds people from the States RIGHT up, and that's always good for a laugh. "We can't call it great, buddy, because it's un-Constitutional and it makes us feel bad, so we'll call it Little Englandshire because it's tiny and it really sucks." Sounds reasonable to me. I think the term 'great' can only mean 'terrific and wonderful and BIG and BEST and NUMBER ONE' in the USA (hence the constellation Ursa Major becomes 'the Big Bear', not 'the Greater Bear', and Canis Major is just some dumb ol' pooch - the 'bigger' and not the 'greater' of two; and the poor old Plough becomes 'a Big Ladle-Type-Spoony-Thing'). The Great Lakes, however, are Jolly Super and actually Awfully Expansive. I expect Emperor Nero Trumphole will want to rename the USA: 'The Great United States of Great America, Greatest and Best and Biggest Nation For Ever And Ever, Like for Infinity, You Know, Plus One, No Returns, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah'. Even though Canada is far greater, North America-wise. Bigger, I mean. Or do I?
Elli P it is called Great Britain because it is the unified , united countries of the British isles and wasn’t referred to as ‘great’ Britain until the unification with Scotland 🏴🏴🇬🇧
All the comments be like “LOL So funny how no ones gets this is satire.” There isn’t a single comment that I can see from someone not getting that this is satire
@Gggg The thing is.. the IRA is much more recent than hundreds of years ago 💁♂️ Just seems mind boggling that the Irish still hate the English from what happened hundreds of years ago and everyone involved/caused the incident is now dead. But hay ho, any excuse to hate the English apparently
Gggg You couldn’t hold back from replying to this guy in order to start an argument all because he thinks a comedian is funny. Comedian... funny... If you’re trying to represent your country in some weird way then i suggest you stop embarrassing yourself. You resorted to name-calling so you could come out on top of the debate, calling the man a Neanderthal, but you just demonstrated your of intelligence (and probably a job).
This is hilarious. I'd forgotten just how funny and clever The Pub Landlord is. Of late you've become The Bloke From We Have Ways of Making You Talk, so it's good to be reminded of your day job! (love that podcast by the way!)
I'm gonna *totally* ruin the joke here and give a cool fact: The reason Great Britain is called that is because of the French province of Brittany. In the Medieval era it used to be an independent kingdom so the "Great" was put before it to differentiate between the 2 places: Britain and Brittany!
I love how he said the metric units were smaller and thus, worse, but the acre is better than a meter cos there's more of it. Yes I know it's satire but it's still funny as fuck.
@@Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq I doubt Nelson commanded 27 ships. A quick review of my copy of a Trafalgar Companion reveals Nelson commanded: Little Lucy, which is a tender and doesn't count as a command Badger, which was a brig sloop and not a ship Hinchenbroke 1 Janus 2 Albemarle 3 Boreas 4 Agamemnon 5 Diadem 6 as commodore. We'll assume the lower rank commodore without a captain underneath him, so this still counts Diadem 7 as commodore Captain 8 as commodore La Minerve 9 as commodore Back to Captain, which is already counted. Nelson is then promoted to Rear Admiral (of the Blue). At this point he no longer commands ships, but rather squadrons.
PaulfromChicago never said he commanded them all Did it take you 24 hours to research all that lol He was in charge some way or another of 27 ships in total Fact
Yeah, he was interviewed once and said it was a bit of a pain having to shave his head for his 'pub landlord' character! Maybe he's finally got fed up of doing it!
The reason Great Britain is called Great Britain: The name Britanny was used by the Europeans for this land, the word means "the place where tin is obtained," as the europeans from ancient times used to obtain that metal from the Cornish tin mines. The reason this land is called "Great Britain" is because the ancient French called this land "Great Britanny" as this island is the larger of the two islands, Britain and Ireland. They named the island of Ireland "West Brittany." (You can tell I'm something of a geek, can't you?)
Very Funny, I like him, although the meaning of Great at the time of creating the Union was just Big or Large, like Greater London including the suburbs. Also as a surveyor I’m bloody glad we went metric. Americans stayed with the Imperial system and see what happened to them 😂😂
Rubbish, as someone who was fortunate enough to be brought up in the Imperial system I can assure you that once learned it’s a lot, lot easier to manipulate.
@@donaldpaterson5827 If you prefer the Imperial semi duodecimal system good luck to you, I was also brought up with miles yards feet inches furlongs fluid oz lbs ozs farthings cwts tons pints quarts gallons shillings half crowns sixpenny, acres, guineas, etc. As a chartered surveyor making a living manipulating dimensions and values the day we decimalised was a godsend !
Hi Michael, I suspect your a lot younger than I am. I’m 75 now and spent my formative years working in imperial as an engineer. I still have to convert metric to imperial to have a feel for it. When working out a calculation in imperial I always had an intuition if it was right or wrong, not so with metric. In addition in fastenings we went from BSW, BSF, BA,BSP and BSPF and many more to the Unified series (combination of U.K. and US threads thought to be required after WW2) followed shortly after by Metric. It may just be that what you learn in your youth, you pick up easier and retain. Anyway Im happy that what has been a pain for me has benefited someone.
I appreciate your response. Being a builder and engineer I see the ease of the metric system but I happen to love fractions and see the things that can be done with then that can’t with metrics. I am probably wrong, but passionate. Please just allow me that. Thank’s mate b
Kerry Fry / Then you are a child. You cannot handle losing. Boo hoo, I voted against brexit as well but unlike you I’m not whining about it and bringing it up in whatever I say. Get over it you baby.
@@user-uq1fq6gs3i ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ANF_12_uwEc.html It's on going. People need to be aware of the damage that's coming. But feel free to ignore. Stay safe and take care.
Sad part is the french made a new calendar and there were 100 seconds a minute and 100 minutes per hour, and 10 hour days, they did this during the French revolution
I can never understand why the thumbs down! With Al Murray, there are no surprises, he Al ways makes me laugh and he's a very naughty 'boy'. The people who dont have enough red blood cells to get their thumbs up, almost certainly have 'other' difficulties.
Regarding Scottish ''independence''?? The one question, that needs answering is, ( and it applies to the Irish too) Both having spent centuries fighting the English, and spilling all that blood, and, in the Scottish case, Scotland applying for union with England, for pure monetary reasons) How on earth can applying for 'independence'', be squared with being ruled totally, by a foreign state ( the E.U) with virtually NO POLITICAL FREEDOM, what so-ever?? Why do they think the UK majority wanted out?? and ,, WHY are the E.U criminals, fighting like hell to stop us? answer--OUR MONEY. Do the 'Independant'' Scots and Irish , have sufficient money to make good, our escape, monetarily? Someone, is going to have to make good the massive deficit.
Just think of all the Celtic NHS prescriptions England won't have to pay for once the Scots and possibly N.Irish jump ship. All we have to do then is pursuade the Welsh to put their hands into their pockets and pay for their own prescriptions and there's a shed load of cash saved straight away.
I am not a British, but I can answer. Cause British Empire was the greatest in world history and will be so. "Sun never set down in British soil." You British should appreciate your history. I understand comedy though...
Meh, the British Empire was a bit low effort though. Lots of empty land with just a flag in the soil, or filled with people that never knew they somehow became subjects of some euro monarch. The Mongols though, those were the real pros.
Sun never set down in British soil because even god couldnt trust the Brits in the dark one of the most Racist, cruel, oppressive loot empires on the world
@@TheJewishCamel So, as well not being able to write a coherent sentence you also have problems reading them too? My answer was informative, to aid that big gap in your (scant) knowledge. There was no 'crying'.
Tbh, there used to be 10 months in a year, apparently In order to synchronise the calendar with the lunar year, the Roman king Numa Pompilius added 2 more months, January and February
When they revisit Blackadder Mr Murray should replace Stephen Fry. Great education disguised in art. Best of British. Well done for winning Wimbledon as well while the Swiss watch 😂✌️☝️👌
