‘She claimed In 1881 the end of the world will come. A claim that has recently been debunked by experts through a careful process of looking around and seeing that we’re still here.’ Absolute gold! 😂😂
I love it how she asks super basic questions - like a child - 'What is a building' and the boffin is actually confused by it and actually CAN'T define a building off the top of his head. It's quite interesting.
I like how he gets flustered and comes up with a poor definition, and she immediately blows up by asking if her shoe is a building. Even more than her deadpan delivery of deliberately shocking questions, my favorite is how fast she can be to follow up on things and ad lib.
My favorite was the astronomer who began to stumble when comparing time to a river; I think he said that things that happen are like the objects the water in the river encounters, and Cunk says "like fish?" and he's clearly flummoxed.
I can't remeber who said it or the exact words, but basically, to be truly intelligent is being able to explain the most complex of ideas, in the simplest terms. If you explain to a child what a building is and they understand it, that's someone who really understands the concept.
"If it wasn't for the Suffragettes, I wouldn't be standing here right now. I'd be in a kitchen, where I belong." As a "Femininism" woman, I love this joke!
I love how she asked an obnoxiously (and hilariously) stupid question about time and was given a brilliant answer by Dr. Clark that a lot of people don't actually know, in regards to measuring quartz crystal oscilation. Quartz drift is also fascinating, and that's not even considering relativistic time dilation!
@DeathnoteBB If I asked a question about a saddle and someone said to put your car in park, would that be semantics, or would they just be wrong? To be clear I'm not saying he's wrong about the nature of time. He's obviously an expert on that. But he did give an incorrect answer about the way her watch works.
@mndmd No, physically speaking there's a difference between "measuring time" IE. by directly observing a time particle if such a thing exists, or by directly observing the dimension of time and seeing where we are, and measuring an effect that indicates the passage of time. But it's true he failed to answer the basic question of where the time goes and do we get it back. Like if I spend my money, I know where the money goes and I can get a refund so then I have it back. But if we over-wind the clock, where does that time go and when we wind it back, do we get a time refund? Totally dropped the ball on that one.
Not only does she have a great sense of humour, but she is also highly intelligent. That's how she can notice all these previously unnoticed nuances and create jokes out of them.
She still has to respond to anything the interviewee says. They can think of a few possible answers and steer in a certain direction, but there's limits to what you can predict. She has to have some wit to know what to say in those situations.
I haven’t seen any full episodes but my favorite moment with her is still when she starts crying after learning that there are still nuclear weapons. Cause like honestly…same
She got very upset when she found out Laika the Russian dog who got sent to space actually died in space. 'you're telling me there's a dead dog in space???' 😁😁
12 yrs of school, 8 more yrs of tertiary education. All a waste of my time bc she was courageous enough and I wasn’t to ask the real questions that really mattered. Wow, my mind is blown.😊
@Guinness You somehow think people can't be bigoted toward a group they belong to, pretty naive. You're more offended that you've been called out for it than for what you've actually said, that's quite telling. Maybe you're just the kind that takes bs lying down
@g00gleisgayerthanaidsJust because you've described something in a way that's sufficient to discriminate it from all other things, doesn't mean you understand it.
5:30 I feel like her reaction there was genuine - like the dude said something that sounded wilder than her questions/theories in a sense - "it measures the oscillation of a CRYSTAL" and she was actually like "woah that's neat" for a sec
I absolutely love her, I saw a short of her about the Soviet onion .I actually thought she believed she thought the man she was interviewing was mansplaning and I was wtf he’s just saying someone got it wrong until I looked her up and I must say she is very entertaining and hilarious
I thought this actress was pretty good in After Life but I am now realizing that she is actually phenomenal. She is so talented. She gave such a wonderful performance. She was funny and dry like she needed to be for the show but she gave really emotional and relatable performances as well. She had these wonderful raw emotional scenes with Ricky. I once heard someone say that comedians are actually some of the most talented actors out there and this lady is proof of that.
..."they designed buildings so horrible looking they had to go inside so they didn't have to look at it"... Best comment on Brutalist architecture I've ever heard
_Ironically, when she overwound her watch (provided it was mechanical) she slowed down time for her watch and made it increase mass. Her watch is actually now moving through time slower. So how does she get that time back out of her watch?_ ...she's brilliant. Even her jokes are genuine physics questions.
@ClassicMist360 OK, so let's just ignore everything we don't already know, and so know nothing. (Ironically, you're typing that complaint on a computer.)
@One by Land, Two if by Sea Run if by Air man i feel bad for you, too mathematical and no social skills. convoluted responses to things that dont matter. "noone- absolutely NOBODY - knows what 'energy' actually is". yet here you are, trying to be extremely nuanced about a topic we dont yet understand. you see how little sense that makes?
@ClassicMist360 So what is energy? Is it a 'physical force'? Then what is "potential energy"? Nobody knows what "energy" is. Absolutely noone. We describe "energy" as "the ability to do work". But this is only a convenient description, not an understanding of the underlying reality. There are times when complicated concepts need thorough explanations, but if it helps you to think of it that way, then that's OK. Some people prefer the big picture. This is such a complex question it wasn't realized in 230,000 years of human thought. It's only been in the last 100 years such a thing was even conceived. Oversimplification often is confusing and inadequate. "Mass" is a rather complicated subject, and a debatable topic in physics. After all, "mass" is a measure of energy, yet noone- absolutely _NOBODY_ - knows what "energy" actually is. So how do you sensibly define "mass" without understanding "energy"?
@One by Land, Two if by Sea Run if by Air bro you are terrible at explaining things simply. You could've said in one sentence "By winding your clock, you've applied physical force (energy) to the clock, which therefore adds mass"
"1 out of 20 people have been victims of a crime" I've never heard that line before but I immediately knew where she was going with that. She delivered the punchline perfectly, I laughed for 5 repeats.
"How does a computer know what money looks like?" "Well how does a computer recognize anything? um.." "So you don't know?" god damn that one got me good lol
It's this aggressive-yet-slightly-bemused childlike energy she has that's so incredibly funny! e.g. 12:14 "So you don't know." Brilliant. Brilliant writing, incredible delivery from Diane Morgan and all her lovely science guests that are open to taking the piss out of themselves so we can all learn! Lovely!
Your humour, laughter and love make your home so inviting! You two have literally put your best into everything and you two are the example of what we can all strive to be. As always, thank you for sharing a little bit of heaven. 🎃
@Ad Oculos I mean... I know late night shows in America are all scripted in the sense that the host knows what a guest is going to say and is mostly there to help them deliver their bits in a conversational setting. And I know that way too maybe people assume all the great bits of sitcoms must be improvised... When really they are just well written amd well acted. But the people involved here arent actors. And you would be asking your writing staff to have expertise in dozens of fields and the vocal mannerisms of dozens of experts.
This woman is new to me. And she is absolutely brilliant. By which I mean, she and her team are brilliant. Because I don't know how much of the material is written by her, or the direction of the comedic approach. But whoever they are, they have created something brilliant, and she brilliantly fronts the whole effort.
Diane Morgan is brilliant - but the character was created by Charlie Brooker (creator of Black Mirror) and he’s one of the writers, so she’s working with awesome material.
Diane Morgan is one of Britain's most brilliant comedy actresses. Yes there are a team of writers for this but they also said alot of stuff just comes out of Diane's head while filming which catches people off guard or has the crew in stitches. She started as a stand up comic so is very quick witted. Her performances on 'Would I lie to you?' show this better. Her comedy acting in Motherland is superb.
It was on TV years ago in Britain. She used to work on Charlie Bookers show "screen wipe" (writer of black mirror) where I think this character was first shown.
I've always loved Diane Morgan's delivery when she is Philomena. It's incredibly funny and has not failed to make me laugh in years. One of my favourite sections from Charlie Brooker's Wipe series.
"When you have a coin, where is the money in that coin?" ..... absolutely brilliant, had me laughing my head off. Even better .... "everybody in plays shouts, because they put the seats too far away"
Cunk's Debunk 2234pm 30.10.22 played by the letter H? red dwarf writers must have had a similar notion... i do recall the chap looking a tad fraught once playing merlin.... wow. p.s that said the archivist showing her the books was getting mor and more irate, seeming, the longer the waste of time went on...
Minecraft is actually slow af to build a model. CAD softwares are quicker for obvious reasons but Minecraft is probably more fun. I've never played it.
"That would be terrible wouldn't it, can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?" OMG I snorted my coffee out of my nose! Too funny!
@Iron Faced IV I would really like to know just how much of it is scripted and how much of it is Diane Morgan improvising an interview with completely unsuspecting academicals who are expecting a serious interview.
"You are much gloomier than I expected, cuz you are quite smiley" - wondered that myself! Loved the interaction with Prof Cox... first time I'm seeing him not smile so much :))
A feminine ist. I love it. I love how the real people she's interviewing are shocked and bewildered and sometimes very annoyed trying to be polite answering her questions. She's brilliant. I'm about 5 years too late discovering her.
As a yank who just came across these video from KZclip's algorithm and haven't been exposed to much British media, she is fucking hilarious. Has a Borat-esque vibe but definitely her very own thing. I'll be on a binge of these for awhile 😂😂
@Kevin Flemming They all know. One of the producers said in an interview that they tell them (the experts) that it's a comedy show and to treat her like a child or words to that effect. Also, Diane Morgan has been doing this character since 2013 and a few of the experts have been on multiple 'Cunk on...' programmes.
@Kevin Flemming Maybe some of them, but there are others that it strains credulity that they wouldn't. Brian Cox, for example, is friends with too many comedians to not have been at least aware of Diane Morgan.
Thank you for restoring the lost art of asking obvious questions challenging the basis on which experts build their knowledge of things they know nothing about.
I was about to say she would have to be a brilliant actress not to laugh in any of the interviews or even crack a smile but now I've seen actual interviews with her and turns out she's actually like this only ironically lmao
"Back in queen Victorian times women weren't allowed to vote, even though we had a female king." By the first line I already knew this was gold.
Y’all good in here?
@Hannibal Burgers I mean , NOT REALLY. but yeah , Woman always had a role in everything. There are many powerful woman in almost every time period.
I don't get it. We europeans literally had female "King"s before
It’s made by woman so … 😂😂😂😂
‘She claimed In 1881 the end of the world will come. A claim that has recently been debunked by experts through a careful process of looking around and seeing that we’re still here.’ Absolute gold! 😂😂
@gammarayburst the first time in history someone comments “here is the clip” without being a bot
Lol
@gammarayburst Thank you! 🙂
@Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey yep. here's the full clip kzclip.org/video/AbSClDu98-c/бейне.html
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 i died
I love it how she asks super basic questions - like a child - 'What is a building' and the boffin is actually confused by it and actually CAN'T define a building off the top of his head. It's quite interesting.
I like how he gets flustered and comes up with a poor definition, and she immediately blows up by asking if her shoe is a building. Even more than her deadpan delivery of deliberately shocking questions, my favorite is how fast she can be to follow up on things and ad lib.
A building is something not built really when you think about it 🤔
Building is the task, built is the completion.
My minds blown now.
🤣
My favorite was the astronomer who began to stumble when comparing time to a river; I think he said that things that happen are like the objects the water in the river encounters, and Cunk says "like fish?" and he's clearly flummoxed.
@DeathnoteBB Anything that's anyone ever built that is not a shoe.
I can't remeber who said it or the exact words, but basically, to be truly intelligent is being able to explain the most complex of ideas, in the simplest terms. If you explain to a child what a building is and they understand it, that's someone who really understands the concept.
The way she opens an interview with "who are you" as if they didn't just set the whole meeting up always gets me
Isn’t it an extremely common interview question so the audience knows who they’re talking to?
It kills me too, i wish someone would do a compilation of all the times she's done it and the other persons face.
Exactly brilliant it breaks the fourth wall like you think where is that wall all of a sudden?
"If it wasn't for the Suffragettes, I wouldn't be standing here right now. I'd be in a kitchen, where I belong."
As a "Femininism" woman, I love this joke!
@HAMZA_Olympus looks to be reference where street women hang out.
@HAMZA_Olympus, 😂😂
And if a man goes in the kitchen and makes a sandwich, is he a woman? Life is so complicated.
I love how she asked an obnoxiously (and hilariously) stupid question about time and was given a brilliant answer by Dr. Clark that a lot of people don't actually know, in regards to measuring quartz crystal oscilation. Quartz drift is also fascinating, and that's not even considering relativistic time dilation!
I can imagine Philomena watching the camera when reading your comment. Hahaha.
@DeathnoteBB If I asked a question about a saddle and someone said to put your car in park, would that be semantics, or would they just be wrong?
To be clear I'm not saying he's wrong about the nature of time. He's obviously an expert on that. But he did give an incorrect answer about the way her watch works.
@Oberon4278 Y’all really telling the expert they’re wrong cause of semantics?
Yeah but he got it wrong. She said she was winding her watch, which means it's driven by a spring, not a crystal.
@mndmd No, physically speaking there's a difference between "measuring time" IE. by directly observing a time particle if such a thing exists, or by directly observing the dimension of time and seeing where we are, and measuring an effect that indicates the passage of time.
But it's true he failed to answer the basic question of where the time goes and do we get it back. Like if I spend my money, I know where the money goes and I can get a refund so then I have it back. But if we over-wind the clock, where does that time go and when we wind it back, do we get a time refund? Totally dropped the ball on that one.
"1 out of 20 people have been victims of crime, which means 19 out of 20 people are criminals" i laughed so hard i woke my dog up
Your comment made me wake up my dog!! 😻🤓🐶😭🤣🤣
Tbf though, kinda seems accurate 😂
😂😂🔥🔥 yep.
@Mark Fox Alright I'll bite. What's your dumb point?
@Lushen - 'literally had to pause'? So...had to pause?
I've just discovered this woman and holy shit, top 5 comedians ever.
She’s a comedian and comic actor, she did stand up for a decade
Diane is also a very good actress.
She’s also really funny in the Ricky Gervais podcasts. She’s not playing a character, just talks shit with him - she’s hilarious 😂
@Valeria I do. But none of them are women
@Prasanth Thomas You don't know good comedians
Not only does she have a great sense of humour, but she is also highly intelligent. That's how she can notice all these previously unnoticed nuances and create jokes out of them.
@Kyrelel it’s impossible to pre write those jokes because the writers don’t know what the experts are going to say
@More Spinach You can't pre-write responses for things you don't know the interviewee is going to say.
Or her writers
@kukelekuuk exactly, it takes someone immensely clever to act convincingly stupid on the fly
She still has to respond to anything the interviewee says. They can think of a few possible answers and steer in a certain direction, but there's limits to what you can predict. She has to have some wit to know what to say in those situations.
I haven’t seen any full episodes but my favorite moment with her is still when she starts crying after learning that there are still nuclear weapons. Cause like honestly…same
@DeathnoteBB how better to describe the hubris of human ingenuity and creativity?
Yeah I was like “Finally someone reacts normally to the existence of nuclear weapons!” and yet it’s satire
She got very upset when she found out Laika the Russian dog who got sent to space actually died in space. 'you're telling me there's a dead dog in space???' 😁😁
Very effective weapons then.
"but theyre-theyre blanks arent they?"
The mix of saying totally ignorant things one time and saying something eloquently another time mit makes it hilarious
tom lxyz please note you can be caught out saying totally ignorant things, eloquently.
@The Nightmare also funny when she does it when asking a question in an interview and they answer seriously
It's hilarious that sometimes she starts off with something that sounds reasonable and then completely dive bombs into a ridiculous conclusion.
12 yrs of school, 8 more yrs of tertiary education. All a waste of my time bc she was courageous enough and I wasn’t to ask the real questions that really mattered. Wow, my mind is blown.😊
"When a feminist looks in a mirror, do they see an equal woman or a better woman?"
Why the hell is this so deep?
Ya, it gave me pause, too.
😂😂😂😂🤘🤘🤘🤘
@Too Many Marys it s a great cognitive dissonance trigger
@Guinness You somehow think people can't be bigoted toward a group they belong to, pretty naive. You're more offended that you've been called out for it than for what you've actually said, that's quite telling. Maybe you're just the kind that takes bs lying down
"they say that laughter is the best medicine, but if that were true, how come so many comedians die of cancer"
i was not expecting that line at ALL
@mgmchenry That's useful, because many comedians are also alcoholics.
get well soon rhod gilbert, rest in peace sean lock.
Because they don't laugh at their own jokes. It's the audience that lives on.
this reminds me of that horrible tragedy...
Maybe if it were more sobering they'd stop dying of cancer.
"but theres no point in sitting around worring about apocalypse, what we should really be scared off, is armaggedon" that line killed me
@Robert Lundkvist summer stole tics
Pockalyps.
*a pocalypse
"It costs a tiny amount of money to make a one penny piece."
"So they're ripping us off?"
These are the kind of questions I actually want to ask! Give me my pennies worth!!!!!
“Even the people who understand time don’t understand what time is.” Man that bleeds into so many other things.
Some don’t even know if time is
@David Schaftenaar by that logic nothing means anything... time is a man made concept... like religion. Of course we understand it, we invented it...
@g00gleisgayerthanaidsJust because you've described something in a way that's sufficient to discriminate it from all other things, doesn't mean you understand it.
For I was conscious that I knew practically nothing
@g00gleisgayerthanaids he might have realized what he was getting into and followed suit
"Played here for some reason by the letter 'H'."
That line got me so good it made me properly burst into laughter. That was gold.
The patience and politeness of the people she is interviewing is astounding...which makes it all the more funny.
@Paix4ever that's the problem.Y'all are French...
@We'llAlwaysHave VALIS lol if you honestly believe that i hope someone doesn't trick you to easily or scam you
It's fake lol
@Paix4everPlease do tell, I would love to watch that!!!
@We'llAlwaysHave VALIS ah, glad to know you are literally telling us, and not just metaphorically telling us
What's funny is this is actually really educational because hearing the science men explain science is genuinely interesting
Or science women. I'm a femininist
who are you? what are you expert on?
science men 💀
I unironically think her Shakespeare special should be shown in highschool English classes. It was surprisingly informative.
Brian's reaction to the suckering off through holes has me howling from this tunnel I've dug
Missed an opportunity to say "glorious "
@Marley You did it. And then he.... Madman.
@Marley Brian Cox.
0:00 Women
2:07 Architecture
4:06 Time
6:08 A "Pocalypse"
8:40 Climate Change
9:04 Evolution
10:07 Crime
11:17 Money
13:36 Shakespeare
18:15 Turkey and chicken
18:27 Winter Soltace
19:00 Medicine
5:30 I feel like her reaction there was genuine - like the dude said something that sounded wilder than her questions/theories in a sense - "it measures the oscillation of a CRYSTAL" and she was actually like "woah that's neat" for a sec
@Federico Claps the interviews arent
@Federico Claps The show has a script, but not the experts. So she actually has to improvise during the interviews for certain jokes and stuff.
@TheAuthorIsNotDead he means that It's scripted. And it is.
I actually had no idea about this so I was in the same boat.
She looked down right flabbergasted when he started explaining
I absolutely love her, I saw a short of her about the Soviet onion .I actually thought she believed she thought the man she was interviewing was mansplaning and I was wtf he’s just saying someone got it wrong until I looked her up and I must say she is very entertaining and hilarious
Soviet onion, that's a keeper 😋👌
Her deadpan delivery is amazing, she’s the female king of it
yet she shedded tears confronting Shakespeare where he rests
@Herceg Mario Yes, but the needs to use her trick in other people than adademics, befher she became too well known,
She's like a female comedian
Ali g will always be king!!
Classic brittish dry humor
I thought this actress was pretty good in After Life but I am now realizing that she is actually phenomenal. She is so talented. She gave such a wonderful performance. She was funny and dry like she needed to be for the show but she gave really emotional and relatable performances as well. She had these wonderful raw emotional scenes with Ricky. I once heard someone say that comedians are actually some of the most talented actors out there and this lady is proof of that.
She is Phelomenal
:D
I love how they just went along with her saying "Femininism" like it's a normal thing.
"you cant, thats probably why you got glasses" He kinda walked right into that one but somehow i still never saw it coming and almost choked to death.
"Can you imagine being sucked through a hole?"
Brian Cox - "Yea"
*facepalm* Glory be Brian, you just walked straight into that one, didn't you.
No hesitation in the answer lol
then she asked him a second time, LOL
i think he knew lol
Brian is deadpaning too. He always smiles while explaining anything lol
I just get such a chuckle at her challenging, almost accusatory, "Who are YOU...?" to open each interview... 😆
Kudos to the experts for not laughing through the interactions...these documentaries are really needed...
@Julia harris However, we do now know what he really looked like due to the selling of a portrait painted when he was alive.
"We don't know what Shakespeare last words were, probably made up ones, no-one wrote them down so they couldn't have been all that" 😁😅😆🤣
@Ad Oculos r/wooosh
Why do you think you are smart?
“I’d be in the kitchen…. Where I belong” 😂 goddamn this is hilarious, I love her delivery
Ikr
The cut where she goes from having the gloves on to not and is looking annoyed at the camera is comedy gold
The absolute panic that man went through thinking she was going to start manhandling the book with the gloves on lol
8:28 Brian’s gotta have a mind of steel to not burst out laughing at what she just said
It's because he's much gloomier than you expect. Cos he's quite smiley.
the way he avoids her gaze lmao. love brian cox.
..."they designed buildings so horrible looking they had to go inside so they didn't have to look at it"... Best comment on Brutalist architecture I've ever heard
Dianne Morgan who plays her is comedy gold. How she can do it so deadpan without corpsing is a testament to the acting skills.
"Doctors are working on this as we speak. And even when we're not speaking, cos some of them work nights."
So much brilliant writing
That one killed me 😂
_Ironically, when she overwound her watch (provided it was mechanical) she slowed down time for her watch and made it increase mass. Her watch is actually now moving through time slower. So how does she get that time back out of her watch?_
...she's brilliant. Even her jokes are genuine physics questions.
He's right. Stop embarrassing yourself
@ClassicMist360 OK, so let's just ignore everything we don't already know, and so know nothing. (Ironically, you're typing that complaint on a computer.)
@One by Land, Two if by Sea Run if by Air man i feel bad for you, too mathematical and no social skills. convoluted responses to things that dont matter.
"noone- absolutely NOBODY - knows what 'energy' actually is". yet here you are, trying to be extremely nuanced about a topic we dont yet understand. you see how little sense that makes?
@ClassicMist360 So what is energy? Is it a 'physical force'? Then what is "potential energy"?
Nobody knows what "energy" is. Absolutely noone. We describe "energy" as "the ability to do work". But this is only a convenient description, not an understanding of the underlying reality.
There are times when complicated concepts need thorough explanations, but if it helps you to think of it that way, then that's OK. Some people prefer the big picture. This is such a complex question it wasn't realized in 230,000 years of human thought. It's only been in the last 100 years such a thing was even conceived. Oversimplification often is confusing and inadequate.
"Mass" is a rather complicated subject, and a debatable topic in physics. After all, "mass" is a measure of energy, yet noone- absolutely _NOBODY_ - knows what "energy" actually is. So how do you sensibly define "mass" without understanding "energy"?
@One by Land, Two if by Sea Run if by Air bro you are terrible at explaining things simply.
You could've said in one sentence "By winding your clock, you've applied physical force (energy) to the clock, which therefore adds mass"
"1 out of 20 people have been victims of a crime"
I've never heard that line before but I immediately knew where she was going with that. She delivered the punchline perfectly, I laughed for 5 repeats.
"How does a computer know what money looks like?"
"Well how does a computer recognize anything? um.."
"So you don't know?"
god damn that one got me good lol
“Nostradamus predicted the world would end in a huge mess called a ‘pocalypse’ “ - TOO FUNNY 😭😂
I love how she reduces every scientist's sense of wonder and suspense to a farce
I love the “who are you” at the beginning every time 😂😂
😂😂😂
@Kim Taeyeon is my everything Yes, "what are you" is even better.
it sounds like "who the F are you". Awesome.
@Tregeta Thank you! That’s what makes it funny. “Who are you?” is a pretty standard question for interviews
This is how my nephew used to answer the telephone . . Hello, who are you? 🤣
It's this aggressive-yet-slightly-bemused childlike energy she has that's so incredibly funny! e.g.
12:14 "So you don't know."
Brilliant. Brilliant writing, incredible delivery from Diane Morgan and all her lovely science guests that are open to taking the piss out of themselves so we can all learn! Lovely!
"they did this partly to highlight how unfair it was that women didnt have a right to vote but horses did"
this show delivers every time
Your humour, laughter and love make your home so inviting! You two have literally put your best into everything and you two are the example of what we can all strive to be.
As always, thank you for sharing a little bit of heaven. 🎃
I’d love to see her and Karl Pilkington have an extended conversation on the history of Britain 😂
Are you asking me, or me as a worm?
Agreed, 100%!
Yes
Yo! That's an incredible idea
These 2 need a show together 100%
I can feel myself becoming physically uncomfortable right along with the experts. She is fantastic!
"Hello, who are you?" Now that's the way to start an interview!
The best way is still the question - "Why are you gay?".
😂😂😂
Science man lol
20:23 The last line alone deserves an Emmy or something for best writing.
Because you are not supposed to laugh at your own jokes, ha!
Ooops!.
8:08 I love the way they're trying to not laugh about "being sucked off into a hole", I'd love to know what Brian Cox was thinking at this moment
She's brilliant and so refreshing to see. She makes some of the intellectuals question their answer
The man politely explaining how reading and writing works is amazing.
“Played here for some reason by the letter H” I almost coughed up a lung
4:50 The guy's reaction to "like fish and stuff" 😂😂 You can see him thinking "It'll be easier if I just say yes"... 😂😂
His face reaction is so funny😂
We can clearly see that he's even shaking his head in a very loud NO whilst he delivers a very shy yes as response.
@Ad Oculos I mean... I know late night shows in America are all scripted in the sense that the host knows what a guest is going to say and is mostly there to help them deliver their bits in a conversational setting.
And I know that way too maybe people assume all the great bits of sitcoms must be improvised... When really they are just well written amd well acted.
But the people involved here arent actors. And you would be asking your writing staff to have expertise in dozens of fields and the vocal mannerisms of dozens of experts.
This woman is new to me.
And she is absolutely brilliant. By which I mean, she and her team are brilliant. Because I don't know how much of the material is written by her, or the direction of the comedic approach. But whoever they are, they have created something brilliant, and she brilliantly fronts the whole effort.
Diane Morgan is brilliant - but the character was created by Charlie Brooker (creator of Black Mirror) and he’s one of the writers, so she’s working with awesome material.
Diane Morgan is one of Britain's most brilliant comedy actresses. Yes there are a team of writers for this but they also said alot of stuff just comes out of Diane's head while filming which catches people off guard or has the crew in stitches. She started as a stand up comic so is very quick witted. Her performances on 'Would I lie to you?' show this better. Her comedy acting in Motherland is superb.
It was on TV years ago in Britain. She used to work on Charlie Bookers show "screen wipe" (writer of black mirror) where I think this character was first shown.
I've always loved Diane Morgan's delivery when she is Philomena. It's incredibly funny and has not failed to make me laugh in years. One of my favourite sections from Charlie Brooker's Wipe series.
She is one of the best at what she does. And I just discovered her a week ago. Brilliant.
"When you have a coin, where is the money in that coin?" ..... absolutely brilliant, had me laughing my head off.
Even better .... "everybody in plays shouts, because they put the seats too far away"
"Who are you?" A simple question delivered with such blunt vacancy. Slays me every time! 🤣
This woman has unironically become my dream girl
@A you've never seen Susanna Hoffs then. 64 and looks 45..
Get in line bro
i want her so bad
@Rook no, I have a wife and children.
This is sublime hilarity. Unique, dry, intelligent and mentally delicious. I'm so grateful this appeared in my recommendations.
" Unique, dry, intelligent and mentally delicious."
- mots justes, and a beautiful turn of phrase, especially the mentally delicious.
I love how seriously the interviewee stays serious, even though it’s meant to be a parody.
"I'm loving angels instead" one of Shakespeare 's most brilliant quotes..
and not from a cheesy song, oh no..
"They say laughter is the best medicine, but if that were true why do so many comedians die of cancer."👁️👄👁️ I died 😂
@Dodomka which is useful, because many comedians are also alcoholics.
@pepkin88 Which is a sobering thought
That's because you weren't laughing enough, I suppose
Always asking the real questions and exposing the truth!
Bless you and the writers, Diane, for bringing us such wonderful comedy. More LOLs per minute than most shows.
Cunk's Debunk 2234pm 30.10.22 played by the letter H? red dwarf writers must have had a similar notion... i do recall the chap looking a tad fraught once playing merlin.... wow. p.s that said the archivist showing her the books was getting mor and more irate, seeming, the longer the waste of time went on...
Who tf is that??!
@Martin krotunas That's the name of the woman playing Philomena Cunk
Who is Diane? She's not mentioned anywhere.
Her humor is so complex I sometimes can't tell if she's joking about joking about feminism or merely joking about feminism
“How do they get the noise into the ink…” I lost it. That and how do they get time out of a watch are just brilliantly insane questions.
4:58 i can not believe that someone has managed to actually answer one of philomena's questions properly without hesitating
I deeply enjoyed her pronouncing pentameter with a North American accent and him (incorrectly) correcting her multiple times. Peak humour right there
I love this woman so much her humor and personality is gold
"How many of those years would be spent studying Minecraft?"
"Very few."
But he didn't say none...
That's why architects think things like sand and gravel aren't affected by gravity. Fascinating stuff.
@amadeus oh really. I WONDER WHAT they are.
@Jackamomo uh I'm sure there are dozens of other software that is able to propotype and visualise building MUCH BETTER than Minecraft
Decades of academic conditioning taught this man to not talk in absolutes.
Minecraft is actually slow af to build a model. CAD softwares are quicker for obvious reasons but Minecraft is probably more fun. I've never played it.
Prof Brian Cox, keeping a straight face... clearly knowing she's doing a character... is the best bit for me. complete legend :-)
She’s absolutely hilarious. I lost my shit when she turned around whilst interviewing the guy about time.
"That would be terrible wouldn't it, can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?" OMG I snorted my coffee out of my nose! Too funny!
Every joke you think yourself "this is fucking genius" it's getting even better
As a person who has evolved skins made of bricks, I can confidently say it has only increased my need of buildings.
18:50
"You can look at the sun when it rises or set"
"You can't"
"You can trust me"
"You can't! That's why you got glasses"
Well, she's not wrong. Refraction means the sun rises & sets you see are illusions. QI had a great bit on this.
@OblivionFall when it rises or sets it isn't that bright, you can look at it
I think this is my favorite moment because she's actually right here. NEVER look directly at the sun.
Just reading that made me laugh out loud
“There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.”
― Lao Tzu
"Played here for some reason by the letter H" got me crying
8:39 You know the comedy writing's good when you have to repay a line 3 or 4 times before you get all the layers of the joke.
"money isn't something you can hold in you hands or bite on like a pirate, because it's stored in the imagination of computers."
Its amazing how sometimes the dumbest questions can the most honest answer out of people. lol
4:54 His shaking head says "no", his mouth says "yes", but his brain is screaming "please make it end".
😆😆
@Iron Faced IV I would really like to know just how much of it is scripted and how much of it is Diane Morgan improvising an interview with completely unsuspecting academicals who are expecting a serious interview.
Her face looking back at the camera while he's babbling about clocks lmao
His entire time he just looked like he was in physical pain listening to her and I love it ha
I just can not ! I just don't know how they remained with a straight face. I would be in shambles is she was interviewing me.
This is absolutely brilliant. So clever but at the same time recognisable.
I just discovered this show and it's like someone doing a book report on a book they never read 😂
"You are much gloomier than I expected, cuz you are quite smiley" - wondered that myself! Loved the interaction with Prof Cox... first time I'm seeing him not smile so much :))
The whole mirror bit was incredible. "What powers a mirror" is blowing my mind
The jump-cut to the folded arms with de-gloved hands is just superb.
When she looked back at the camera while he was explaining was so damn funny 5:49
🤣🤣🤣
I mean, did the cameraman know ahead of time, or was he just supremely on the ball?
I nearly died
That bit was perfect 😂
"I wouldn't even be here, I'd be in a kitchen where I belong." This was too funny, great concept.
A feminine ist. I love it. I love how the real people she's interviewing are shocked and bewildered and sometimes very annoyed trying to be polite answering her questions. She's brilliant. I'm about 5 years too late discovering her.
As a yank who just came across these video from KZclip's algorithm and haven't been exposed to much British media, she is fucking hilarious. Has a Borat-esque vibe but definitely her very own thing. I'll be on a binge of these for awhile 😂😂
The child like innocence on her face when she asks questions is brilliant!
I always wanted to see someone ask Brain Cox why he is so happy.
He instantly became less smiley
Congratulations to the interviewed for not breaking into outright laughter. This is brilliant.
@Kevin Flemming They all know. One of the producers said in an interview that they tell them (the experts) that it's a comedy show and to treat her like a child or words to that effect. Also, Diane Morgan has been doing this character since 2013 and a few of the experts have been on multiple 'Cunk on...' programmes.
@Kevin Flemming Maybe some of them, but there are others that it strains credulity that they wouldn't. Brian Cox, for example, is friends with too many comedians to not have been at least aware of Diane Morgan.
I'm almost certain they don't know she is playing a character. I can't remember where I heard or read it though. 🤔
@Iacopo Guidi
Because they're in on the bit? Kudos to them for great presentation
Interviewee*
"you can't look at the sun you'll go blind"
"Believe me you can"
"No you can't, that's probably why you have glasses" 😂
Thank you for restoring the lost art of asking obvious questions challenging the basis on which experts build their knowledge of things they know nothing about.
@UntrainableWizard yes, it's brilliant. It's great that the experts also go along with the absurdity of it all.
She's not challenging them, she's interviewing them in a mockumentary.
I was about to say she would have to be a brilliant actress not to laugh in any of the interviews or even crack a smile but now I've seen actual interviews with her and turns out she's actually like this only ironically lmao