American Reacts to Armstrong and Miller WWII Pilots
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- American Reaacts to Armstrong and Miller WWII Pilots
In this video I react to Armstrong and Millers WWII Pilot skits. The modern language with the wartime sensibilities is done so hilariously that it is hard not to laugh.
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It's easy to forget that many pilots in WWII were very young (18, 19, 20) so the juxtaposition with that age group now in the 21st Century is what makes this brilliant
Exactly it's the joke that justifies the whole thing. It's very funny as it's horribly accurate.
Very well summed up.
Armstrong and Miller never got the recognition they deserved IMO , they had some great characters and sketches .
Definitely massively under rated. I love these guys, their show didn't last nearly long enough.
They had some really good writers too.
I agree
Isn't it
@@lukereyalp1942 Standard
You hear the youth in London talking like this all the time and hearing it in this context makes me laugh so hard.
Innit!
Pointless trivia: Alexander Armstrong’s father was my doctor as a child. In fact one Christmas he came out to see my father who was unwell & he noticed something was off about me. He told my parents to call an ambulance at which point my father said he’d drive me as it was quicker. I was diagnosed with pneumonia & admitted to hospital. Had he not spotted something not being right who knows what may have happened. Lovely man & best doctor I ever had.
That's not pointless trivia, that's really interesting! You were so lucky that Dr Armstrong sensed you were unwell - what a great doctor! Glad you and your Dad were OK 😎
@@rabbitsonjupiter6824 Every so often I tweet Alexander to ask how his father is doing. Last I heard was he retired and was now living in the village I grew up in which was nice to hear. If I could have him as my doctor today I would sign up at his surgery in a heartbeat, I hope he is enjoying his retirement.
@@RltchieI That's so lovely to hear. I hope he is enjoying his retirement too; he definitely deserves a long and happy one. And how nice that's he's living in the village you grew up in. I remember the doctor I had as a child (through to adulthood) and he was like Dr Armstrong, he was so patient, kind and understanding. Since then I've never had a better doctor. It's a different world today. Thanks for sharing your lovely story.
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Thank God he was cleva an shit or u cud be well gon innit
Armstrong and Miller. a bottomless well of brilliant comedy
Here in the UK, most comedy is written by the people who perform it, rather than a room of writers. I think there are other writers on this show, but they are also performers.
We hold a special reverence for the RAF pilots of the Battle of Britain here in U.K. So, this is also pointing out how things have changed with youngsters in the intervening time. Then comes Churchill’s most famous speech.
Ben Miller, the one mostly on the left without the moustache, decided to go into comedy while he was finishing his PhD in astrophysics. You'll see him in Death in Paradise.
Can you imagine David Niven talking like this !?! 😋
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Mitchell and Webb - are we the baddies? Is an absolute must! :).
That "Isn't it" "Isn't it" "Isn't it" "Standard" line became an absolute staple in my friend's conversations, whenever we agreed on something pertinent.
That's not all of them. The hospital sketch and the firing squad with Biffy's mum have always been the two highlights for me 😂❤️
Yes! I was waiting for _"Pip-pip, I've got you some grapes and shit."_ It's the best of them all imo. M'coll Simon Blackwell is the inventor of the airmen and wrote all the WW2 sketches. Simon doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for his genius, imo. He's not a performer, but he's a brilliant writer.
YES!
I am so glad you have found Armstrong and Miller.
Many years ago there was a musical duo called Flanders and Swann who sang witty, innocuous and snooty songs. Armstrong and Miller did a parody of them called Brabbins And Fyffe who are hilarious.
I loved Flanders and Swan, but you are right the parody was brilliant.
Brabbins & Fyffe are my favourite A&M sketches, they reduce me to tears! So funny!
@@bhurzumii4315 The train song is a winner.
Want to take you to a gay bar was hilarious too
@@dave_h_8742 "You, sir, I want to take you to a gay bar!"
So great an American likes/gets this style of comedy.
I feel his grasp of the comedy is somewhat slight - see my main comment.
Isn't it tho.
@@mcborge1 Standard.
The awesome thing about this is how clever it is as it is built on a historical reality that wanders off into surrealism in the true British tradition.
RAF pilots were extraordinarily young (much younger than the comedians playing them) , so that anyone who survived much into their 20s was a hardened veteran. For example, Guy Gibson, who commanded 617 Squadron on the Dambusters raid, qualified as a pilot pre war aged 17, flew in action on the first day of the war in 1939 aged 19, served as a bomber and then night fighter pilot, was a Squadron Commander, then Wing Commander by 23, bombed the dams aged 24 and was dead at just 26 in 1944.
The RAF was also famous for its banter (slang), so what do you get if you get them chatting away in a modern idiom and then throw in street 'yoof attitude' to replace the sanguine British reserve of the time? This. And it's genius.
Try this one: czcams.com/video/mGp4DvFEgh8/video.html done for Comic Relief.
Yes, this comic relief sketch is funny 🤣🤣🤣
All sketches where written by Alexander Armstrong and Ben miller. Not only where they both comedy geniuses but Armstrong is an extremely talented classical singer and Ben Armstrong is a physicist, even having a lab named after him in his former university for making an important discovery while studying there.
Ben did start his doctorate at Cambridge - a very clever chap indeed. In fact, I don't even understand the title of Ben's PhD thesis "Novel quantum effects in low-temperature quasi-zero-dimensional mesoscopic electron systems".
@@God-ck5yo Actually the full title is Novel quantum effects or some shit in low temperature quasi-zero-dimensional this and that, isn't it though?
@@finncullen I see what you did there 🤣
Guys, try and find BBC horizon "what is one degree"?. Ben miller investigates scientific accuracy by looking at absolute zero and the quantum world.
This is the first time I've seen these sketches (where the heck was I?!!!), so thank you, EBR, for bringing them to my attention. To me, this is just another fine example of the unbeatable wit and cleverness of British humour. Robert, UK.
The fact that they are speaking in the upper-class accent typical of many fighter pilots of the time makes it funnier.
Fighter pilots were depicted in films as being posh, but most of them weren't! A lot of them weren't even British!
The upper class accent was not remotely typical, and existed almost exclusively in movies, where everyone spoke RP accented English.
@@DarkRaven4561 I'd say about 50/50 posh/not-posh of the voices featured here www.iwm.org.uk/history/listen-to-raf-pilots-tell-the-story-of-the-battle-of-britain
@@RichardM-kv4uu Very true
My grandfather was a wing commander and didn't have rp English accent, virtually all of the English accents were present in the pilots of the raf during the war, how you flew was more important than how you spoke.
So pleased you finally got round to Armstrong and Miller 👌 🇬🇧
I recommend the one with them as vampires in a nightclub.
Whoever had the idea of this is pure genius
Once more priceless genuine laughter, this guy really lets rip with his brilliant explosive infectious laugh - cheers you up.
I think one of the points being made here is that the language being used by the 16 - 20 year olds of today, place in the mouths of the WWII generation. Plays a stark contrast to the selflessness of that generation who fought for the freedom of the current generation. But bloody funny too. 😂😂
Apparently the RAF speak became popular from the Actors that played them in the movies. My aunt was in the WAFF as ground crew, she had a dailance with an american airman and went to another country to have the resulting son, a bit later she married a widower and they became bus driver and clippie on the buses out of Clapton
For me what makes this so good is that WW2 pilots were just kids, most that joined up were
I used to watch them years ago and i loved their Bins gag. I forgot to put the bins out.
I had forgotten about these two. Absolutely hilarious! Thank you EB 🇬🇧
Thank you - loved 'the Pilots' some of these I hadnt seen.
Brilliant! Glad you enjoyed these!
One of my favourite series of sketches. My family are RAF right from its foundation, and I spend all day working with young people who talk just like that, so it's a double hit of fun for me and much to their surprise and consternation, we are allowed to manhandle them.
I'm so so glad I discovered your channel and videos.They have brightened my days ever since.Thank you for being you and reacting to our beloved comedies and history. I look forward to every new video.Peace to you and yours. Sarah , a Welsh mum of 3 sons.🇬🇧
I see these guys live and they started with the pilots. Suspended from the ceiling as if they were on parachutes. It was brilliant haha
Lol, thats really funny 😂
Mate, your laugh warms my heart.
I love Armstrong and Miller. Please more of this.
Armstrong & Miller or, even better, Mitchell & Webb, are great comedy duo's and all their stuff is worth a watch.
Have you seen the Armstrong & Miller & Mitchell & Webb comic relief sketches, including the WWII pilots one? Pure genius.
This is genius, the way they use modern slang. So funny! Yellow spitfire! Hahahahaha
Yellow aircraft were trainers. They existed
@@howardchambers9679 The joke is that it wasn`t a trainer. The fighter pilot painted his.
There were also pink Spitfires…photo reconnaissance
@@simonroberts33 yes I know, I watched this when it first came out.
I was making a point about yellow aircraft. Thank you for your input.
I haven't seen these clips since they originally aired on TV and they're even better than I remember
The premise of this was that many WWII fighter pilots were very young, yet on old war movies they all talk in perfectly pronounced queen’s English on deep soul searching subjects whilst smoking a pipe and being terribly brave, whereas their kids talked like this and whined about their rights if asked to do anything, so they mixed the two together and got comedy gold.
Thank you for explaining this to me, I hadn't realised !
@@gunnerlangy NPs, I saw one talking about it on a tv panel show once, but like many of the best skits it’s funny whether you know why or not.
Correct, excellent explanation. Just as many UK WWII military personnel were late teens/ early twenties, many USA military personnel in the Vietnam War were equally young. So USA comedians could legitimately preform a similar sketch referring to the Vietnam War.
That's one thing, but another part of the comely is the 'snowflake' attitude of today's youth, not that it's their fault of course. But if the youth in those days had the same attitude...it's an over used phrase and who knows if it's true but basically 'we'd all be speaking German right now'.
These two woke refugees from the snowflake generation try to interact with the world's "Greatest Generation" and ...they... like...fail ...you know fail...like totally fail. Like this that and everything else. Isn't it? Isn't it? Standard!
That was bloody brilliant. The awful upward infection mixed with the speech of a lot of the London 'goofy, which is spreading across the country. Classic, mate, innit? 😄😉
you should check out the RAF Airmen stuck in a tree skit from Armstrong and Miller, so funny
I love 'em - I'm crying again - these were the best characters they had. 🤣
My favourite pilots sketch is 'Letter from home'.
Was wating for u to discover these lol
Another brilliant depiction of how some youth speak today is Matt Lucas's character Vicky Pollard. Very clever indeed.
You beat me to it!…..Genius! I was going to say 🤗 ‘twas fun watching you discovering these clever chaps😁 thanks for sharing 👍✨
At the risk of explaining the joke, I'll explain: pilots (new ones) were about 19-20 years old.
The did use their own school-based slang, they developed it further in the RAF, and real pilots used many slang terms now considered 'old hat'.
Comparing it to today is... well, putting it out there for context, like.
Innit blud.
I thought it was more about how badly the attitudes of modern young people compare to the bravery of that generation. The modern youth mentality of health & safety, respecting their individuality and exerting their rights and that, wouldn't have been any good in the military, let alone during war time.
@Dan Beech That's like abuse or something. I should probably get compensation like Chum'y-Forteskew did 'cos that's what he did yeah and that's what he got yeah, and that's not a lie either because his sitster told me and she wouldn't lie unless it was about that time behind the aircraft hanger.
Armstrong & Miller did a brilliant sketch along the lines of 'where were you when Kennedy was shot?'. Very similar, oldie (60s) vibe to it, and simply hilarious.
Excellent. Ben Miller has a Physics degree & was also in the very funny "Worst week of my life".
See if you can find them doing the Dutch rock stars "Striker", another sketch from this series
My favourite sketches they did were the Chuffy ones.
Was wondering when you’d get to these classics!!! 😉👍🏻
Makes me so proud to be English just so so overcome with what ever . I love how us Brits can take the juice of ourselves . Despite being an old phart of 73 those two always made me giggle
Thanks for taking an interest in our culture mate, loved your video! Take care
Laughed at the Churchill speech.Very well done.
I always saw these sketches as a comment on what would happen if modern ‘youth’ were faced with the same challenges as those in ww2
these particluar sketeches are some of my favourite ever.
Took me a sketch or two before I could accept what was going on. Then it blossomed obviously being well portrayed as a comedy medium. Love these guys. Sometimes in life society has difficulty pointing directly at things. But if you paint everything else,the issue becomes visible. Well,that is just one quality of these comic sketches, I think,and have really enjoyed them.
Man this is a great shout. Haven’t seen this in years.
Pissing myself 🖖
Thanks for this reaction.
You need to do lifes to short. Written by Ricky gervais and Stephen merchant starring the brilliant Warwick Davies absolutely brilliant British comedy 👏
Thanks for that Alan, never seen this before.
Armstrong and Miller, the Train Song. It's brief so maybe not a reaction but it's brilliant. You do have a great sense of humor, like no way, like.
Your summary at the end is right on, man.
To follow up the football chants.. you should see the Barmy Army in Australia giving it to the Shackle Draggers.. they have some wonderful inventful songs. This reminds me of the Carlsberg Adverts..
You should check out the guy who played the German officer, David Armand. He used to have a mime character, who mimed popular songs. His version of Torn was hilarious, to the point he actually ended up doing it live, with Natalie Umbrulia. :)
I made the mistake of watching my first ever Armstrong and Miller WWII Pilots episode whilst drinking something - which I promptly and involuntarily spat out all over the place in fits of laughter! Try their Babbins and Fyffe sketches - absolute genius!
As commented to 'After work', for armstrong and Miller, the 'Farmers Market' is great.
I used to love Armstrong and Miller. They are so clever ❤
When Armstrong & Miller and myself were young teenagers messing about, quite often there would be some old person admonishing us saying stuff like " I diidn't fight in the war to..." and tell us off. So I think they decided that the way English teenagers talked in the 90s or 2000s when they made this, to imagine what those war heroes would say now, all those years later. Would they have thought it was worth it ? They didn't think so in the 70s and 80s, they've just forwarded that joke in time. 🤣
Love Armstrong and Miller... you should check out their safety video skits. So so funny. Ben Miller has a PHD in astrophysics, he's a clever guy.
Their vampire sketches are hilarious.
Armstrong is a brilliant singer and co-presents a popular quiz show and presents a programme on Classic FM.
These guys were hilarious
There was an era when we had so many ridiculously good sketch shows with scenes that would be repeated up and down the country in schools and no doubt office water coolers etc.one of my favorites is Hans are we the baddies?
That's Mitchel and Webb though, the very first sketch of the Mitchel and Webb Look.
Superb comedy; anyone interested in how the real Battle of Britain pilots spoke, and it was quite esoteric, should read books such as 'Arise to Conquer', it covers life in a Hurricane Squadron (87) at that time - and I know it's accurate because my favourite uncle served in it and is mentioned several times in the book. He'd have found these sketches very funny indeed. 🤣
"Talk to the gunner, 'cause the cockpit ain't listenin"."
I gotta remember that one.
They did some brilliant stuff, try also 'The Origins of Teenagers', 'Sensitive Father' & the "Gonna Take You To A Gay Bar' sketches
The Birth of Art Criticism
Morecambe & Wise - Andre Previn sketch!!! The Brit Who’s on first base…
White rose? you need a red rose as well to balance the plantagenets :-)
These are fun - also - the German that agreed with them in the sketch is one of the actors from Horrible Histories ^*^
I'm sure I heard in an interview somewhere that the inspiration for the pilots came after one of them overheard some chavy teenage school girls speaking like this and then just for fun started imitating them, then the other one responded in kind and it grew from there.
Oh the cigarette part😂😂😂😂
You gotta find the Armstrong and Miller sketch... Hitler has only got one ball.
What I love about these characters is the transposing of the 20 something's of today and their outlook on life and language to the 20 something's of the 1940s. Shows how times have changed. My favourite comedy characters of the 21st century, glorious
If you want more UK comedy to explore I highly recommend “Big Train”. It was a great sketch show. If you can start with “wanking in the office” “fat handed” or “wonderful tonight”
"Evil hypnotist" is hilarious! Big Train was great, and sadly forgotten now...
@@RichardM-kv4uu YES!!! That should absolutely have been in my list.
I loved Big Train. Forgotten treasures of comedy from Simon Pegg, Mark Heap and Kevin Eldon.
@@lunalaws I’m so glad a got the DVDs. There are few shows you just can’t find anywhere now.
Florence nightingale was the best :).
Finally someone reacting to the RAF pilots 😄
I love this.... I'm in double figures for watching it!! Kx
There was another one, I think for comic relief also featuring Mitchell and Webb
Hi matey. In uk films the airforce was shown to be very posh and upperclassmen. On the program Q I with Stephen Fry , it was shown that really the blokes were just young boys from the streets. I think that influenced this sketch. Much love from Australia.
I love this fo sho.
My favourite was…..
‘Mrs Daniels is a right munter…..’
It's hilarious but also sad that language has devolved so much since those days, even the working class sounded much more sophisticated.
I'm pretty sure that Mitchell & Webb were both scriptwriters for Armstrong & Miller .
Great that you've now discovered them . It's another rabbit hole well worth going down
@@madisntit6547 I've been reading David Mitchell's autobiography and he describes a time in his life when he wrote for them
@@madisntit6547 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_and_Webb
It says here in the second or third paragraph who they wrote for. Hope this helps 😃
Ohh this reminds me so much of my late friend & work partner. We would do these Armstrong & Miller skits all the time. Isn't it? Isn't it though? For sho. Standard.
Miss you Ruth.
These sketches were written by the magnificent _Simon Blackwell,_ who also wrote on Peep Show, Four Lions, and The Thick Of It, among many other gems. What a talent. If you haven’t encountered the peerless Malcolm Tucker in TTOI, then you have an absolute treat in store. Get ready for the _best_ swearing. 🤪
Well good innit, like some sick shit n stuff. Alex be like well 'ard wrapped in 'is beaver.
I wonder if this is a response to an infamous Monty Python sketch sending up Battle of Britain pilots and their euphemistic slang. 'Sausage Squad up the Blue End!'
I'd love you to review the pre-film mini sequence of the first few minutes of 'A Matter of Life and Death' (which IMHO is the greatest British film ever made) which is the earliest example I know of this technique to pull you into a film, but which also stands up in its own right as a complete piece. The film stars David Niven and Kim Hunter. No real spoilers, but Niven is a Lancaster pilot, which is why I thought of it while commenting here.
Yes I loved that film, made in 1946 I think. Quite ahead of its time. The starway to Heaven was particularly good. And the table tennis scene where they had to actually hold still for ages it seemed. I might try to watch it again, I wonder if it is on dvd now, must try to find out.
You should watch the recursive nightmare sketch by these 2 it's amazing 😂
Never seen this before - brialliant !!
There are more of these sketches - all over CZcams - you have to check them out.
If you enjoy their use of language check out Armstrong and Miller's "Spring Cotillion" collection. It's their take on Jane Austin and similar period pieces.
That one is brilliant!
They were brilliant, the pilots were my favourite.
English humour has no boundaries lol