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This Season was the best. Stephen Fry as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett let me laugh soooooo hard,

You’re a bad person, in real life

A mistake. General Haig's tortoise was called Bartholomew, not Alan.

gen. Haigh actually lowered the minimum age of a conscript, to 15 years of age. I'm nut sure if this change was made law. And genl. Haig of the second world war carpet bombed ancient cities like Wuerzburg and Pforzheim, and two hundered other old cities.That's old style street fighting of the Dickens era in London, kick a man when he's down. Now Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, he....oh never mind!

WWI is the stupidest war ever fought in history. The proof being how easy it is to make fun of it. Don't forget that literally millions of young men died for the egos and embitions of a few old men. Please learn from history and do not repeat it.

There's a moment of doubt in George's face for a split second at the very end of this video

Napoleon in my heart

Incurably sad

It would be funny, if it wasn't so spot on.

Wasn't Stephan Fry just fuckin brilliant , great casting

The last great British comedy show

L'empereur de France Napoléon, le grand président de la France le général de Gaulle, le grand président de la brillante République française Macron ! Comme ils sont proches, comme leurs âmes sont proches, comme leurs cœurs sont proches, les cœurs vivants de grandes personnes ! En marge de la biographie de son idole Zhanna d'Arc de Gaulle écrit : Elle pourrait endurer, souffrir, mourir ! Elle a gagné pour toujours ! Ces paroles auraient pu être prononcées par le général Bonaparte, la Grande Fille de la France, et, j'en suis sûr, par le président français Macron ! Comme ils sont proches, comme leurs cœurs, leurs pensées, leur grand amour pour la Patrie, la Grande France - le bon vieux grand royaume et la nouvelle Grande Brillante République ! C’est l’empereur Napoléon qui faisait le lien entre la bonne vieille Grande France Royale et la nouvelle brillante République française ! Napoléon a dit : J'ai trouvé une couronne de France qui gisait dans la boue, et je viens de la ramasser ! Depuis son enfance, Charles de Gaulle était fasciné par la littérature et l'histoire de France. Charles de Gaulle, d'un garçon romantique et rêveur au cœur large et sensible, est devenu un grand et fier Français, un grand général et un chef de la nation ! Eh bien, tout a commencé dans l'enfance, tout a commencé dans l'enfance en tant que troisième grand bâtisseur de l'Europe, roi, philosophe, écrivain, architecte, musicien du roi de Prusse Frédéric II le Grand ! Fils d'un roi guerrier cruel, vrai Prussien, Frédéric II, élevé par une nounou française et un professeur de français, a reçu une âme française naturelle au XVIIIe siècle et un cœur français vivant et sensuel ! Ce grand principe culturel et vivant, l'âme française, le cœur français vivant du grand roi Frédéric II de Prusse, était si fort qu'il multiplia plusieurs fois la puissance économique militaire territoriale de la Prusse et unifia ensuite les royaumes allemands dispersés en un seul. Grande Allemagne moderne ! Il n'y aurait pas eu le grand cœur de Frédéric II, qui transforma, humanisa , qui a européanisé le rude royaume des chevaliers allemands, la Grande Prusse, et jamais les royaumes côtiers des marchands de l'Allemagne du Nord et les royaumes de l'Allemagne du Sud, presque Autrichiens, aux cœurs délicats et sensibles à la musique, à la poésie, à la culture et à l'art, ne s'uniront en un seul. Grande Allemagne unie ! C'est le grand secret de la planète Terre, c'est le grand secret de l'Europe, les quatre grands cœurs sensuels vivants du Kaiser Frédéric II de Prusse, de l'empereur de France Napoléon Bonaparte, du général de Gaulle et du grand président de la France et du plus jeune président de la brillante République française, Emmanuel Macron !

BAAAAAH!

Fry, Laurie, and Atkinson may have been the funniest trio in history.

Comedy gold!

3:20 Tortoise Allen 🐢

The best comedy has a grain of truth in it... worryingly more than a grain here I fear.

“Look there’s a little worm”

WHOS IDIA WAS THE SEWER TRENCH

The sinking of plague RMS Carpathia 1918 Off the southern coast of Ireland,and sinking of plague ships at the bay of biscay spain , the ship was struck by three torpedoes from a German U-boat and sank. Which you see on father ted beach is more intresting then a windrush ship.

I am still working hard on finding an English film without Stephen Bloody Fry.

Still fanny, darling?

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Brilliant

Stephen Fry when he was younger than hell. 😏 What the hell is that Hugh Laurie?

"doing precisely what we've done 18 times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time." pure insanity. hilarious.

Brilliant...I watched this in an air raid shelter on the border with Syria.

Close the miracle cafe theres no such thing thanks.

Brilliant 😁

Does anyone remember ”Red Dwarf” Absolutely hilarious! I actually fell from my sofa because of a joke

I love this Melchett character. So malicious, we need more villains like this.

these ww1 generals were stuck up their own arse

This is funny but way too tragic when you think on it

Excellent work here

*Base Details* _by Siegfried Sassoon_ If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. You'd see me with my puffy petulant face, Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap," I'd say - "I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap." And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed.

Disturbingly accurate appraisal of WWI

This was so close to the bone I found it hard to raise a titter.

No matter how good or bad the generals were the fact is the two sides were mostly evenly matched. In those situations you can only win with few losses if the other guy does something incredibly stupid. You only get that once in a century. This would be the exact same thing today. If the two sides are relative equals attrition warfare is the only solution. Haig understood that. A bit too well at times to be fair since he kept insisting on offensives regardless of cost just to exhaust the germans. Amateurs keep saying 'today we would blah blah'. No you wouldn't. If the other guy is mostly your equal you'll do nothing. Military historians understand this fact.

Ukraine and NATO getting their tactics from General Melchett.

mr bean joined the army!!!

It’s funny that some of this actually is important tactics for the world wars and just war in general. Like the whole “if we attack where the line is strongest fritz will think our reconnaissance is a total sham” this kinda thing is actually important to espionage you have to pick when to use it to not tip the enemy off that you know things, this means sometimes not saving or modifying plans if the benefit doesn’t out weigh the loss of your intel source.

This was actually true...

0:07 A personal salute?

"God its a barren, featureless, desert out there isn't it" :D:D:D

Russian field marshals after sending 200 conscripts to kill a tiger tank.

Ah, the empathic leadership of first world war generals, always uplifts me...

So the powers that be send us off to war so we don't turn on them...

The show was hilarious. The finale just about made me cry.

2:04 🤣

Reminds me of the thought process behind our current recruiting shortfall…