"We don't hate anybody." "Well you should. Makes life more fun." Truly the French spirit.
@Mediados8 ай бұрын
It's actually wrong, we hate the Danes.
@Blank-lp4fz8 ай бұрын
just hate the french it's that easy
@Baba_Bahebal7 ай бұрын
... as seen by the Brits *
@JustinCase999997 ай бұрын
Very funny indeed. However, in reality, it's just Germany (enemy) and England (rival), at least nowadays lol
@kevingarnero27657 ай бұрын
@@kevingarnero2765 Don't forget Austria. We mountain people also like to dunk on you for existing.
@Mediados7 ай бұрын
England: we're going to have to opt out of that one This has aged magnificently
@kodyw29604 жыл бұрын
England opted out of the Euro before it was introduced. So it aged fine as it was accurate then and is now.
@Gambit7714 жыл бұрын
@@Gambit771 The whole saying was "one state and one currency" so the state part... Not so much. :D
@martinbudinsky89124 жыл бұрын
Uh... *breathes infrequently* ihhh ufff *gasps* i ... hooo my goodness I came *phew* all the way from *taking last deep breath* sanctuary to tell you *A N O T H E R S E T T L E M E N T N E E D S Y O U R H E L P*
@jacqirius4 жыл бұрын
"I'm alright with that...it'll give future journalist something to write about."
@mpcc20223 жыл бұрын
@@martinbudinsky8912 is it? the eu effectively acts as a state diplomatically and as a government politically, especially in the eurozone where it sets monetary policy, though spending and such is still run by the local states and governments the eu is kinda diplomatically a single entity
@Vletra3 жыл бұрын
"We just knew it on the continent and didn't give a toss really" is one of the most British things I've heard
@Eamonshort12 жыл бұрын
That's one thing that was passed on to the Americans who adopted whole heartedly.
@JasonFightsCrime2 жыл бұрын
apart from all the times they invaded france lol
@gradualdecay2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonFightsCrime Adopted it by invading and robbing every single poor country with resources
@astrolillo2 жыл бұрын
@@astrolillo Sounds like they have truly lived up to their British roots
@willemthijssen10822 жыл бұрын
@@JasonFightsCrime yeah but we have the advantage of 2 oceans and militarily weak economically dependent neighbors to separate us from all that drama.
@evanjohnson12992 жыл бұрын
As a Swede i must say it was a pity we never got Luxemborg for storing our lovely pickled hering.
@1975CEES Жыл бұрын
Don't forget the shop that sells little things made of straw
@Republic-A-Mapper10 ай бұрын
Universe Bless Sweden
@notgadot7 ай бұрын
As a neighbouring Belgian I'm more than happy Sweden never got Luxembourg for storing your revoltive pickled hering
@Listembourg_out_of_Molvania2 ай бұрын
Bit racist. 😉 (@@Listembourg_out_of_Molvania
@ThomasCorfield2 ай бұрын
@@Listembourg_out_of_MolvaniaThat’s it. I’m starting to think the French really did invent fries.
@thenablade858Ай бұрын
The dedication those painters had painting this scene frame by frame to preserve this historic moment
@hikari16903 жыл бұрын
Too right! I was thinking the same myself, but then I became distracted by a pickled herring!
@ArgaAnders2 жыл бұрын
yes, 25 frames for every second
@obiwankenobi6612 жыл бұрын
And even painting the soundwaves of their conversation!
@laurenzpelster24992 жыл бұрын
truly a revolutionary period for painters
@ismeza76 Жыл бұрын
@@ismeza76 Some say it took them their entire lives, to that I say, what is a greater gift than a life well spent!
@JM-mh1pp Жыл бұрын
The real hero is the cameraman who caught this great event on film.
@cryptidian35304 жыл бұрын
and managed not to laugh too hard to save it
@stalinsmum64753 жыл бұрын
What do you mean cameraman? That clearly was a wizard.
@kassandraofodyssey64753 жыл бұрын
I nominate the time machine inventor... thanklessly working away and the cameraman gets all the glory
@domainofthesun44003 жыл бұрын
Here's the 600th like für du. 😁👍
@rextransformation74183 жыл бұрын
What a good day to invent cinema !
@coced3 жыл бұрын
You can 100% tell from the reaction of Hugh's face that "high grade narcotic you're so fond of" was adlibbed.
@PhantomSavage2 жыл бұрын
Vicodin?
@njb11262 жыл бұрын
...and probably true.
@TechnoEstate2 жыл бұрын
@@njb1126 no... cocaine.,..its always coke. but this was 15 yrs before house... hed be dead if he kept it up..
@00BillyTorontoBill2 жыл бұрын
Nope. Check the outtakes.
@TBrl82 жыл бұрын
Was Hugh an addict in real life, and if so, what was it?
@rickoshay55252 жыл бұрын
What's even funnier is that in political science, the Treaty of Westphalia is literally when the basis for what constitutes a sovereign nation-state was created. It's almost universally understood to be one of the biggest milestones in human political development. ...and Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry still made me giggle like a little kid.
@bradyswanson1041 Жыл бұрын
Historians don't really agree with this viewpoint. The universal peace didn't happen with Westphalia but brought peace to the HRE.
@TheWoozie147 Жыл бұрын
@@TheWoozie147 You're confusing two different debates in political science: attributing Westphalia as the first step towards 1) perpetual peace and 2) nationhood. Brady is seemingly talking about the latter, which is a lot more central to our modern understanding of political development. National sovereignty (also called westphalian sovereignty, go figure) essentially means that each nation is free to govern as it sees fit, and no other nation has the right to meddle in another's internal affairs. It might not seem like much, but the idea that each prince has the right to chose their own religion was pretty unheard of in the 1600's. The idea of a nation state in itself was very novel in comparison to the shared sovereignty of feudal monarchies.
@ForgeBall Жыл бұрын
@@ForgeBall The idea that the Peace of Westphalia created an international recognition of a state's sovereign right to its affairs falls apart pretty quickly. The religious rights of German feudal lords did not grant them further practical autonomy within the Imperial Estates. In fact the next 200 years would be marked by the dissolution of nearly all those "sovereign" principalities. At best it reaffirmed the precedent made at Augsburg 90 years earlier. And the period between Westphalia and the Congress of Vienna was marked by endless international meddling in the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Polish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution.
@Turambar_499 Жыл бұрын
@@Turambar_499 There's a reason why I referred to it as a debate. I never claimed this was settled science, I just gave a short description of the theory to Krupa since he seemed to be unfamiliar with it. Unless you think I gave a poor description, we don't disagree.
@ForgeBall Жыл бұрын
Extreme Eurocentrism has entered the chat. Like the concept of nation states didn't exist outside Europe.
@APsupportsTerrorism Жыл бұрын
It's amazing to see archival footage of the signing so well preserved.
@daysofhalcyon5 жыл бұрын
This should be a top comment instead of itchy history buffs correcting a comedy scetch
@Sirinwara4 жыл бұрын
@@Sirinwara Hahah you are right
@Timbone074 жыл бұрын
This is doctored footage though. Napoleon Bonapetite isn't on it
@neglesaks4 жыл бұрын
Even the laughing crowd in the back is accurate
@bowskiaws54324 жыл бұрын
sentient oven Yes, amazing it is in color, I thought they only had black and white film in those days. In any case, just proves that diplomacy and international relations hasn’t changed since then.
@franciscovarela71274 жыл бұрын
4:11 "Oh coitus, we forgot the Balkans" is history worth remembering.
@suzbone3 жыл бұрын
Lance Geiger would like to speak with you. edit (added last name to remove any doubt)
@thekinginyellow17443 жыл бұрын
History guy?
@kielajellopecjo21533 жыл бұрын
As a guy from the Balkans I confirm that we habitually feel like assasinating some heirs to the throne whenever we get forgotten.
@VersusARCH3 жыл бұрын
*angry Yugoslavian noises*
@Anon265352 жыл бұрын
Yeah that seemed to work out fine 😂
@wayzUX2 жыл бұрын
“We don’t hate anybody- well you should. Makes life more fun” is probably the most French thing I’ve heard in my life.
@DefinitelyNattox2 жыл бұрын
2:32 "Oh really? You didn't just fancy kicking some German arse?" This line defined the 20th Century.
@Riley_Mundt2 жыл бұрын
"Plague victims crawl elegantly"
@louisxiv6316 жыл бұрын
@Juni Post Oh no! the brits will leave the EU whatever shall the rest of us europeans do without you?I guess that we will go back to the dark ages without the *strong*british empire guiding us :(
@xynn3rx1164 жыл бұрын
As long as you Brits keep your weak chins and your mangled teeth to yourselves it must be considered an upgrade.
@leonorf27304 жыл бұрын
XYNN3R X, and the funny thing is these inbred retards think that the 4% Muslims in Europe will be the cause of the “downfall” of Europe
@hishamseddiqee95284 жыл бұрын
Tokso Plaxmocis keep living in your delusions.
@namingisdifficult4084 жыл бұрын
Tokso Plaxmocis me when I see people with more melanin than me: 😡
@uhhh47144 жыл бұрын
As a swede, I'm offended by the lack of pickled herring in this sketch.
@japphan3 жыл бұрын
3:56 check again
@djcfb28893 жыл бұрын
Me too, I'm not swedish, but I do love pickled herring.
@Megadriver3 жыл бұрын
I'm offended by how the Swedish ambassador didn't say "We don't hate you we only hate the danes" instead of "We don't hate anybody"
@edvindenbeste25873 жыл бұрын
@@edvindenbeste2587 Are you suggesting the Danes are somebody?
@japphan3 жыл бұрын
Don't listen to them, pickled herring is awesome!
@katebradshaw92803 жыл бұрын
“Well we just knew it was on the Continent and didn’t give a toss really” So many great lines here
@mema00052 жыл бұрын
British policies on Continental Europe in a nutshell. 🤣
@torstenscholz6243 Жыл бұрын
One of the best Fry and Laurie sketches, and that's high praise. What really helps this sketch is the three other actors are every bit as good as Hugh and Stephen. The english guy particularly nails it!
@Trendyflute2 жыл бұрын
It's actually from a different show called The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything.
@torstenscholz6243 Жыл бұрын
Robert Bathurst
@michaelw2816 Жыл бұрын
This sketch is so Monty Python I half-expected the Spanish Inquisition.
@MultiJebusChrist3 жыл бұрын
*_NOBODY_* EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION.
@samarvora71853 жыл бұрын
I certainly did not
@sanaddaoud65413 жыл бұрын
Just because it's British doesn't mean it's like Monty Python. Monty Python would have done this sketch very differently.
@ericstoverink65793 жыл бұрын
No
@sjsbviufvibwvuspi3 жыл бұрын
@@sjsbviufvibwvuspi Well, I didn't expect .... oh, nvm.
@VosperCDN3 жыл бұрын
" 'We don't hate anybody.' Well you should! Makes life more fun." The 1600s in a nutshell.
@dandragland8257 жыл бұрын
2000s* in a nutshell
@avinotion6 жыл бұрын
Human history in a nutshell
@4600norm6 жыл бұрын
French history in a nutshell
@marmorealcandors6 жыл бұрын
Dr. House in a nutshell.
@zabaoth6 жыл бұрын
more like "all of european history in a nutshell" XD
@michelvanderlinden83635 жыл бұрын
I am delighted to discover that the Rocher ad was quoted in this comedic masterpiece. The reason for this is that I am te one who wrote the original, Italian version of the commercial when I was a young copywriter in the '80s. It seems to have reached a cult status as the ultimate corny (or idiotic) advertising. My life wasn't useless, after all.
@lorenzozordan725 Жыл бұрын
The Ferrero ad was played to death in Greece especially before Christmas and New Year
@asicdathens6 ай бұрын
And I'm the Pope.
@user-ii9bl6de2j5 ай бұрын
You made a mark on this world, sir.
@Marksman_12Ай бұрын
If you are who you say, you have left a mark on this world, my friend.
@dudanunesbleffАй бұрын
As a guy from Bosnia and Herzegowina i feel like this is totally accurate... we have always been kicked around by bigger powers, as a side deal or small gift :D
@somebodysomewhere28502 жыл бұрын
Pa tako je zato što bi radije da imamo nacionalni ponos i budemo sluge ostalih sila, nego da se držimo zajedno i budemo svoji na svome. Na Balkanu i ovako malo pameti ima, a sada je još izvozimo po svetu...
@cloud42269 Жыл бұрын
@@cloud42269 nema to veze sa tim što si napisao
@somebodysomewhere2850 Жыл бұрын
Pa na kraju za Savage land of Balkans, svi se slože da "Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo go to Great Serbia", ahahaha i kažu "All satisfied! This will guarantee peace forever. Forever!" :)
@ND-bf8qs Жыл бұрын
Yes, but you see, we needed that drink.
@newtonwhatevs Жыл бұрын
Hmmmm, as an American, all I know is "Balkanized" is not a complimentary descriptor.
@jamespfitz Жыл бұрын
They rattle these witticisms off so cleanly it makes me wonder how much was written and how much was ad-libbed. These guys are all comedic geniuses.
@railgap2 жыл бұрын
"That new high-grade narcotic you're so fond of" was clearly ad-libbed, judging from Laurie's reaction. Hard to tell for most of the rest.
@renerpho2 жыл бұрын
I want to see more stuff like this. What show was this from? Where can I see more comedy like this?
@wadedewell11 ай бұрын
It really annoys me how people always overestimate how much is improv. It's kinda insulting to the script writer(s)
@Overhemd11 ай бұрын
@@wadedewell looks like Blackadder but I'm not sure
@superdupertyson11 ай бұрын
The entire scene is scripted.
@EebstertheGreat8 ай бұрын
"You should hate somebody. It makes life more fun!" A very Greg House line from Hugh Laurie.
@TheLockon003 жыл бұрын
I was watching this scene with my brain on life saving mode, not focusing at all, but that was the moment i realized the Frech was indeed Hugh Laurie...
@cancatalbas78493 жыл бұрын
@@cancatalbas7849 SAME OMG I LITERALLY WENT "HOUSE?"
@zyaicob3 жыл бұрын
Forshadowing
@Burning_Dwarf3 жыл бұрын
Very French too.
@t.c.thompson23593 жыл бұрын
A vey FRENCH line from Hugh Laurie. Let’s not kid ourselves. We hate the brits for a millenia, and the germans for even more than that. And we had honestly a quite fun history.
@thibaudduhamel25813 жыл бұрын
I'm Luxembourgish, and I approve this message.
@SgtPepperForever2 жыл бұрын
Have you got room for a barrel of herring or two? The kingdom of Sweden would be ever so gratefull if you do! We´ll even employ your humorous dwarf as a herring pickler if you do! What a boon to your local economy!
@ArgaAnders Жыл бұрын
eis Streihpoppen sinn halt Legendär
@ghostbuddy60048 ай бұрын
That "Ohhh, she's _back."_ was delivered so perfectly
@potaterjim2 жыл бұрын
The "owhhh" from a lady in the audience is icing on the cake.
@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, the town's people became so skilled at making cute little tax evasion companies out of straw that nowadays everyone would like to have Luxembourg. Or be Luxembourg.
@AmeeliaK4 жыл бұрын
I think that is sort of what they referred to as using it as storage. It's storage for money, a bank economy.
@tobyforrester3 жыл бұрын
@@tobyforrester The one country that manages to have 7000 registered corporations for each lawyer. Meaning that everyone wants to be registered there because no one will look too closely at the paperwork
@BosonCollider3 жыл бұрын
tax straw evasion.. flax jobs
@herauthon3 жыл бұрын
grass rooted
@herauthon3 жыл бұрын
wanting a shrubbery
@herauthon3 жыл бұрын
2 months later "France has broken your alliance" "France desires your province: Eastern Luxemburg (-200)"
@TheGoldenFluzzleBuff9 жыл бұрын
TheGoldenFluzzleBuff So true :D.
@Otterly_luna8 жыл бұрын
TheGoldenFluzzleBuff I said FOREVER!
@Paul-A018 жыл бұрын
+TheGoldenFluzzleBuff You forgot something. France no longer considers Austria to be a rival. France has announced Sweden as their new rival.
@ViridianVictoria8 жыл бұрын
+SparkStop "Oh coitus, you've forgotten the Balcans".
@cocochanelleke8 жыл бұрын
+spudnic88 I thought that was self-explaining (?!) - but never mind dear ;)
@cocochanelleke8 жыл бұрын
It speaks to astounding talent that they could make 17th-century geopolitics hilarious to a 21st-century audience.
@Pan_Z2 ай бұрын
'The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything' is a collection of television comedy sketches, produced in 1999, broadcast in two parts on 2 and 4 January 2000 on BBC One. Based on well-known historical events, it took its title and concept from the 1969 London Weekend Television series 'The Complete and Utter History of Britain'. Treaty of Westphalia * Patrick Barlow - Advisor * Robert Bathurst - English Ambassador * James Dreyfus - Swedish Ambassador * Stephen Fry - Ambassador * Hugh Laurie - French Ambassador
@gadget850 Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I was wondering when this was made!
@boointhelotus533211 ай бұрын
From the show, "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything" in case anyone wishes to watch it.
@HarmeetSinghWaliaHSW5 жыл бұрын
Harmeet Singh Walia, thank you. I had no idea
@Steampunkkids4 жыл бұрын
Thx m8
@rachard4 жыл бұрын
Ah thanks, I had assumed it was from "A bit of Fry and Laurie"
@thekinginyellow17444 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this info :D
@felipepvistaiv4 жыл бұрын
YOu're the real hero here, thank you!
@yeahyeahyeah44884 жыл бұрын
54 offended Luxembourgers downvoted this. So that's all of them, then.
@Zzyzzyzzs7 жыл бұрын
Zzyzzyzzs Hah!
@KeeperofthePeace6 жыл бұрын
They made babies and now it's 185.
@tyler895575 жыл бұрын
French or Swedish ones?
@RYN9885 жыл бұрын
Luxembourger here, and I am here to confirm that there are no more than two hundred citizens in this country, and that the French/Swedish ratio is at a clean 50/50 split. And, yes, 90+% of them can be really butthurt, and all of them have watched this video, even the babies. Please take these jars of pickled herring away from us. They do not make for good house building material, and they are *EVERYWHERE*.
@itsJojoCha5 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure a couple of them voted twice!
@jekubfimbulwing53705 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Luxembourg remains the smallest country to host Eurovision. They've hosted the contest four times in 1962, 1966, 1973, and 1984. But Monaco was the smallest to win in 1971. They also would've been the smallest to host in 1972 but because Prince Rainier III couldn't provide a venue and the rest of the requirements to host, BBC decided to step in and host the contest in Edinburgh. And another thing, the restaurant with the *LONGEST* wine list is also in Luxembourg...ask for a drink at Restaurant Chiggeri and you could pick from *2,200 different wines*
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un2 жыл бұрын
This is so random, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
@prointernetuser Жыл бұрын
Didn’t Iceland win this a couple of years ago?
@ryankelly9032 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't have had the room for all the wine if the Swedes got to store their pickled herring there.
@bobbyhill3323 Жыл бұрын
@@ryankelly9032 Uhhh, how small do you think Iceland is? There's not a lot of people but it sure is a sizeable island.
@scorpixel1866 Жыл бұрын
@@scorpixel1866 my comment had nothing to do with the size of Iceland. It was a reference to the movie Eurovision with Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams.
@ryankelly9032 Жыл бұрын
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie have always been top-notch comedians as well as Rowan Atkinson. British humor at its finest 😂
@NJTDover Жыл бұрын
Category: *E D U C A T I O N*
@jenshep17204 жыл бұрын
Hey, you learn there's a country (or whatever) called Luxemburg. That's educative indeed.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
It's quite educating in comedy if you ask me Look at the "humorous" content on tv nowadays
@jacqirius4 жыл бұрын
*L U X E M B O U R G*
@Cjnw4 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz I thought it was just a radio station
@giovanniacuto26883 жыл бұрын
I'm with you on that categorization of this video, though I think I remember it from my first college history course, come to think of it.
@chissstardestroyer3 жыл бұрын
"Let's just use it for storage!"
@bbenjoe9 жыл бұрын
We need it for our pickled herring. Plagues victims crawl, etc
@johnhaynes67617 жыл бұрын
Luxembourg comes from Lucilinburhuc (medieval for "Little Fortress") or Bockfiels (German for "fortified promontory"). Basically, it's a big storage bin. :P
@kxmode7 жыл бұрын
Well, that's what Amazon and many other companies thought too, which is why they nowadays use Luxembourg for storing lots of money.
@torstenscholz62435 жыл бұрын
Peeyew 😄😄
@johnmauer19744 жыл бұрын
Now they store their money.
@vinny98684 жыл бұрын
Absolute genius in evoking great laughter out of centuries old facts. I bet if history were taught like this in school, more kids would understand the roots of many of our issues as well as hopefully figure out now to not repeat them.
@drewbishop35312 жыл бұрын
Naw. Most kids, as always, don't care.
@waynemarvin5661 Жыл бұрын
@@waynemarvin5661 We’d be in geography class like, “Well, we just knew it was on the continent and didn’t give a toss, really…”
@bcj842 Жыл бұрын
@@bcj842 🤓❄️🇮🇱🤡👃🔰
@chrisdawson1776 Жыл бұрын
Or hate even more people because its fun...
@kishinasura1504 Жыл бұрын
The funny thing about this sketch is that everybody actually wanted Luxembourg, because of the bloody great fortress in the middle of it that commanded the high ground well into surrounding countries. The reason the city and the domain exist is because of that fortress. And I speak of it in the past tense, because the Luxemburgers got rid of it so that surrounding countries would stop trying to take it by force.
@Madcapredcap8 ай бұрын
Partly true. The dismantling of the fortress was decided by the European powers in the Treaty of London. It had the desired effect that Luxemburg lost its strategic significance. The former fortified area is today the city park.
@leondarcy73677 ай бұрын
@@leondarcy7367 So it was less "We dismantled this thing to make our city less of a target" and more like the 19th-century equivalent of a strategic arms limitation treaty?
@Madcapredcap7 ай бұрын
"Why can't you store them in Sweden?" "Oh the whiff" Had me dying.
@thetrustysidekick30136 жыл бұрын
Not as badly as if you lived here and could smell them! Surströmming is not for sane people!
@GreenMetalicDevil4 жыл бұрын
What is 'whiff'?
@celestinekhasatsili98144 жыл бұрын
CELESTINE KHASATSILI it’s the bad smell! My favorite line too 😂😂😂😂😂
@mgg54184 жыл бұрын
@@GreenMetalicDevil Surströmming is fermented herring though, not pickled. Just saiyan
@tttc4 жыл бұрын
@@tttc Ok, did I say anything else?
@GreenMetalicDevil4 жыл бұрын
More accurate than the History Channel.
@astrophonix9 жыл бұрын
History Channel: And thats how nazi aliens divided europe
@nemou49854 жыл бұрын
Everything done by this group especially blackadder aged so well. Absolute genius.
@nimascolari1508 Жыл бұрын
“‘We don’t hate anyone!’ Well you should! Makes life more fun.” 😂
@loganb7059 Жыл бұрын
"We're going to have to opt out of that one." That aged well.
@markdunham96344 жыл бұрын
Mark A. Dunham, Jr. I mean, technically he was referring to Stephen Fry's (The Ambassadors) comment upon the single currency, saying that England would opt out of it (for you see, they pay in pound, not in euro), and not what many here seem to think, Brexit. I, however, would contend that this here sketch becomes even more brilliant with recent British political revelations in mind.
@generalerica41234 жыл бұрын
@@generalerica4123 Spot on.
@Gambit7714 жыл бұрын
@@generalerica4123 *unsure* about opting out
@josephstalin73534 жыл бұрын
@@generalerica4123 to be fair brexxit wasn't realy that hard to predict, england never realy wanted the eu in the first place and basicaly just joint out of peer pressure(fear of european isolationism)
@tommerker80634 жыл бұрын
@@tommerker8063 European isolationism? Isolate from what? The Russians? The americans? The Chinese? All of them are quite nationalist countries. Work together in order to not let them surpass you economically is not isolationism.
@foximacentauri78914 жыл бұрын
"Plague victims crawl elegantly" is a 2020 mood
@dlein933 жыл бұрын
😔
@alexandrugheorghe56103 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately.
@alexandrugheorghe56103 жыл бұрын
@@selinesbeau *pose unmasked with guns
@dlein933 жыл бұрын
We're all Luxemburgers now
@TheVorket3 жыл бұрын
@@dlein93 Yeah, they should be degenerate bootlickers and trust everything the state and media tells them, because if anyone is trustworthy it's them and their useful idiots.
@imperiumoccidentis73512 жыл бұрын
France and Sweeden: *Arguing about who keeps Luxembourg* Spain and the Netherlands fighting for 80 years for that region just to not being invited: 💀
@napoleonbuonaparte89758 ай бұрын
"We don't hate anybody. Well you should. It makes life more fun." That would be such a House MD thing to say.
@McFaddenWasRight Жыл бұрын
This is EU4 to a tee
@mikejennette84789 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately not. EU4 had politics that made much more sense. This video is more like the real thing than anything put into a grand strategy game.
@olstar187 жыл бұрын
Nah it's like the first hoi4 peacedeal ai.
@TheNaturalnuke7 жыл бұрын
Europe , how it used to be...
@1973Washu6 жыл бұрын
So hot
@rapportlebon48236 жыл бұрын
Especially if you promise your allies land
@flyingpirate04566 жыл бұрын
"America that gave us .... that new high grade narcotics that you are so fond of" love the jab and the way hugh laurie reacted to it.
@superchargerone4 жыл бұрын
What narcotic ia referred too?
@eriksunden47044 жыл бұрын
@@eriksunden4704 It could be opium or tobacco. Something else I can't remember except marijuana.
@deadpan9044 жыл бұрын
cocaine
@tyrrhenamaxus4 жыл бұрын
@@deadpan904 Opium isn't from the New World but i believe India,Pakistan that area.
@NapoleonBonaparde4 жыл бұрын
@@NapoleonBonaparde Opium was primarily from Afghanistan. Heroin and opium are both mainly Afghani crops. They were referring to cocaine.
@mkadoza4 жыл бұрын
"That'll give journalists of the future something to write about"😂😂😂 how prophetic
@alsmith98538 ай бұрын
Simply legendary! If this sketch continued an hour, i would watch it and rewatched it.
@BT-km7nl2 жыл бұрын
And peace was had forever after, especially in the Balkans!
@MrStilios4 жыл бұрын
Lol, as Yuri Orlov said "When the Balkans say their going to have a war, they mean it!"
@xanpenguin7544 жыл бұрын
Xan penguin As a balkan i can only say: We dont war all the time but when we do we war all the way.
@stalinsmum64753 жыл бұрын
Broman Yes we had 2 revolutions, multiple wars and two great wars just to kick you out XD
@stalinsmum64753 жыл бұрын
@@stalinsmum6475 man it is the lack of diplomatic tendencies between countries. Everybody is just very xenophobic.
@tincondra43073 жыл бұрын
@@tincondra4307 too much emotional volatility. 😕🤷🏻♂️😔😐
@alexandrugheorghe56103 жыл бұрын
"I'm going to have to opt out over that one, I'm afraid." - England No kidding XD
@jreiland077 жыл бұрын
Was this before or after the shit hit the fan in the Balkans?
@Yora217 жыл бұрын
Hasn't that been happening continuously in the Balkans since the 15th century?
@althesmith7 жыл бұрын
Continuously since there have been people in the Balkans covers it better. I do not think you could find a period longer than 50 years when there have been no major border changes or uprisings in the Balkans since the fall of Rome.
@markomihajlovic70916 жыл бұрын
I want some titty, 'cause England is my city.
@methamphetamememcmeth34226 жыл бұрын
+Maintenance Renegade - 'several' is more imprecise than it should've been. This was filmed in the same ten-year span as the Balkan conflicts - as in the conflicts of the former-Yugoslavia.
@fuzzydunlop79285 жыл бұрын
'that'll give journalists of the future something to write about" is a beautiful line
@jamesburk81452 жыл бұрын
"Savage lands of the Balkans" - the West still looks at the Balkans this way. Nothing's changed. "Racism is okay as long as it's against the Slavs" - the entire non-Slavic world
@korlynetristan16108 ай бұрын
*meanwhile in Sweden* "My King! France, Brandenburg, the Commonwealth and Russia have joined the coalition against us!" ... ...... ......... ............ ............... "Worrisome..."
@punn2138 жыл бұрын
We won didn't we? Well for a while.
@DaDunge7 жыл бұрын
Well it would have been Saxony that entered the Coalition, due to them having a sort of Personal Union over the PLC.
@jakalordarkblood43317 жыл бұрын
+Fredrik Dunge Knocked out in the fourth round fighting in the corner of the ring.
@Derna18046 жыл бұрын
it'd be some random shitty HRE nation that starts the war
@YuiFunami6 жыл бұрын
They will find no safety in numbers...
@eliotwessang99156 жыл бұрын
Oh coitus. We forgot the Balkans.
@kliosarchive35697 жыл бұрын
I'll have to remember that one, just wonderful alternative if you don't wont to use the f-word. :D
@JurgenErhard7 жыл бұрын
GIVE IT ALL TO SERBIA, are you mad! That will give them control of access to the Black Sea.
@josephglatz255 жыл бұрын
we, Bulgarians have the black sea!! stay away serbs!! muhaha
@iliyaaleksov63975 жыл бұрын
They could've given it all to the Ottomans and waited ten or twenty years...Too soon?
@JamaicanCastle5 жыл бұрын
You time-table's a bit off there, mate.
@fuzzydunlop79285 жыл бұрын
I cant believe this was 2000... the quality makes it look like early 80s
@grasshoppersantwitch6087 Жыл бұрын
Even as a german i never get tired of rewatching this, just brilliant.
@kinngrimmАй бұрын
The sad fact is that those negotiators spent 4 years to end up with most of the borders of 1618 unchanged. The changes were just a few places for the Swedes to stash their herring.
@SuperLeica12 жыл бұрын
Mostly river outlets that we could tax
@ulvschmidt71742 жыл бұрын
We do need a good place to stash it before easter, midsummer, christmas. It is a miracle that we dont eat on New Year as well.
@perto19702 жыл бұрын
That was, in the end, the most important result.
@qp9vp2 жыл бұрын
Well and the Alsace-Lorraine or Elsaß-Lothringen area. That messed things up for many years to come. If WW3 ever happens I half expect Germany and France to start fighting over it once more just for the hell of it. Even if they start out on the same side.
@snazzypazzy2 жыл бұрын
I've seen it commented somewhere that there have been many global conflicts, but a war cannot count as a true World War unless Germany invades France through Belgium.
@flemingmggmail Жыл бұрын
ha I like the little bit of actual political satire, the rushed and indifferent dividing up of the Balkans
@ShearsOfAtropos9 жыл бұрын
Except they never made "greater Serbia". But in all fairness, Serbia *is* always great...
@IllusiveSerb6 жыл бұрын
yes they did, after WW1, Serbian ruled state by Serbian king with Serbian police beating Croats, Slovenes and other non-Serbs. Doesnt get much better that that
@filipkralj26186 жыл бұрын
I'ts not supposed to be realistic, it's simplistic satire. Very good satire at that.
@johnvictorengland77036 жыл бұрын
meh, it's just a collective region of savages and weird women with head scarf. Whatever could happen from that region, anyway?
@KoeSeer5 жыл бұрын
...no
@staaannar12955 жыл бұрын
No wonder Dr. House is so smart, he has been alive for so long
@panuk533511 ай бұрын
"I think in the future all our petty squabbles over Europe will forgotten, it'll just be one huge state, probably with a single currency!" Britain: "I'm going to have to opt out over that one I'm afraid".
@jebbroham177610 ай бұрын
2:24 "We don't hate anybody" The Danes, Norwegians, Poles, Lithuanians and Russians of the time would have to disagree with you, Mr Swedish Amabassador.
@JediJaras5 жыл бұрын
>_>
@TosothYaKnow5 жыл бұрын
So would every Ikea customer today (so pretty much the whole of mankind).
@torstenscholz62435 жыл бұрын
We do like Islam though.
@mr.normalguy694 жыл бұрын
JediJaras That was what I was thinking too. I thought he would atleast have pointed out that we hate the Danes.
@Erik-sw3tc4 жыл бұрын
@@mr.normalguy69 Your comment made me laugh so hard I almost made accidental Halal!
@Schmorgus4 жыл бұрын
“What’s wrong with pickled herring?” “Nothing if you’re Swedish”
@ianbrudnakvoss31263 жыл бұрын
Pickled herring is all right. Fermented herring is ... well I have had it and I survived.
@ann-carolinemorner64053 жыл бұрын
@@ann-carolinemorner6405 Some of you has survived.
@JonatasAdoM3 жыл бұрын
@@JonatasAdoM Ha ha.
@ann-carolinemorner64053 жыл бұрын
@@ann-carolinemorner6405 Who doesn't like rollmops.
@tomf31503 жыл бұрын
Its like a biochemical weapon.
@efcpl2 жыл бұрын
That ferrero rocher ending was perfect XD
@SigmaExcel2 жыл бұрын
I don't get it. What did it mean?
@Pulang_Diwa5 ай бұрын
I love how England is just there to vibe, not giving a darn and just having fun going to war
@americancaesar60652 жыл бұрын
"Is it truely wise to divide a land in so wild and ragged a fashion . . . ." "Oh I don't know I think it will give journalists of the future something to write about." *Remembers basic history of Ireland, Germany, the continent of Africa* Oh I felt that
@leoheart62983 жыл бұрын
Also middle east
@antokarman20643 жыл бұрын
@@antokarman2064 And the Balkans... and to be honest any foreign land Europe has been involved in.
@Alystas3 жыл бұрын
@@Alystas What's important to remember is that the colonized people weren't just sitting around, perfectly content with their boundaries with neighboring cultures ... there was low-key warfare at all times, testing each others' resolve. Colonization suppressed communication and movement of the native population ... enforcing a sort of truce. Then, when decolonization was complete, the ethic groups could get back into "negotiations" with each other ... now with Western industrial weaponry.
@secularmonk51762 жыл бұрын
*Israel and Palestine stares in the distance*
@kenshin41132 жыл бұрын
@@secularmonk5176 -turns sparks into conflagrations -There was always a fire! Sure, in the most meaningless usage of term.
@Ravi9A2 жыл бұрын
EU4Multiplayer.mp4
@Laughing_Orca8 жыл бұрын
What makes this funnier is when you remember that while the actual treaties that would make up the peace of Westphalia were being drafted, The war and fighting was STILL going on.
@noriyakigumble3011 Жыл бұрын
Absolute perfection, I can't get enough of it after so many years and views. They should make one about the drawing of the borders of Africa, or even better, of the Middle East too.
@OstblockLatina6 ай бұрын
Love the reference to Belgium, a country which wouldn't come into existence until nearly 200 years after this sketch takes place.
@joshuaevans62952 жыл бұрын
The name for that part of the Benelux is old, it comes from the “Belgae” tribe of Gauls, which was mentioned in Caesar’s book The Gallic Wars
@thenoblepoptart Жыл бұрын
The French ambassador is wearing the tricoleur, so...
@ArkadiBolschek Жыл бұрын
Wasn't Luxembourg part of Belgium once?
@Game_Hero7 ай бұрын
indeed. but the irony persists still since there is no certainty it will endure still
@roc78805 ай бұрын
_Hugh's break when Fry tosses him that one about "*high-grade narcotics (๑•̀ㅂ•́)✧*"_
@JayLeePoe2 жыл бұрын
Priceless
@q-tuber70342 жыл бұрын
Totally
@jimmyjames4172 жыл бұрын
The joke was too funny he had turn and find the person who wrote the script 🤣🤣🤣
@galengness59652 жыл бұрын
Coffee.
@rockstopsthetraffic2 жыл бұрын
@JZ's Best Friend North America wasn't mentioned, just America. Many modern countries make no distinction between North and South and and South Americans will say that they are Americans. :)
@downundanow55692 жыл бұрын
And what a cast! Five comic actors at the top of their games.
@kingbolo4579 Жыл бұрын
Fry & Laurie, Constable Goody, and I'm sure I know the other two but my brain is all fog right now. Their faces are so familiar!
@beenaplumber8379 Жыл бұрын
This is essentially what I imagine in my head whenever I finalize a treaty in Hearts of Iron.
@althistoryconjectures1957 Жыл бұрын
"You didn't fancy kicking some German arse?" Why is that delivery so hilarious and entertaining?
@hectoriiibongconuqui71065 жыл бұрын
Thats what rather appealed to us too.
@TheRedKing2474 жыл бұрын
Because it's true.
@KarakNornClansman4 жыл бұрын
@BlackDeathViral03 France had been regularly throwing parties on german soil for centuries.... long before "that Corsican bloke" buttraped Prussia though lmao. They got more than great times. Almost half of metropolitan France currently was part of the HRE at some point... and look where all those lands are now.
@Itachi9510004 жыл бұрын
@BlackDeathViral03 It hasn't been all down hill for the French since Napoleon. Indeed Germany kicked their asses in 1871, but in WW1 France performed just as well as the British against Germany. In WW2 it was the new superpowers the US and USSR that decided the war. Also, ever since the end of WW2, France has been the only real military power in Western Europe. The British and German armies of nowadays are mere shadows of what they used to be and rely heavily on NATO (US).
@martinivanovs4 жыл бұрын
What @@KarakNornClansman said.
@ablethreefourbravo3 жыл бұрын
“And England.....gets this lovely carriage clock.” “Oh, thank you very much, how very kind.” “Oh really? You didn’t just fancy kicking some German arse?” “That’s what rather appealed to us, too.” Best lines ever.
@Tina060193 жыл бұрын
“Oh coitus we forgot the Balkans” and “She’s back”
@idc53092 жыл бұрын
“In future years there will be Swedish Luxembourgers and French Luxembourgers - Protestant and Catholic - _both_ at each other’s throats!” - “Oh, I dunno, I think that’ll give journalists in the future something to write about”
@mel_energy2 жыл бұрын
That was weird, right? One would think that the English would fancy to kick some French arse.
@LuckyBird5512 жыл бұрын
England, Agent of Chaos
@dillonwarcup64262 жыл бұрын
@@dillonwarcup6426 Indeed. There is a funny quote _If two fish are fighting in a river an Englishman must have passed by._
@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_2 жыл бұрын
As a Swede I can confirm that proper storage of pickled herring is very important.
@rappscallion32382 жыл бұрын
As an International Relations/Diplomacy graduate with two years' worth of Treaty of Westphalia topics, this 100% how Europeans would have been like to each other if they had something close to social media or memes back then.
@maureenannegonzales1429 Жыл бұрын
"oh we forget about the balkans" *proceeds to draw random lines for borders "thats good, lets all go get some tea now" this about sums every re-drawing of the balkans ever, since the beginning of time
@sovietunion76434 жыл бұрын
While funny, its not like you can actually make borders in the Balkans without pissing off somebody, since everybody claims each others territotry.
@horstschlemmer95784 жыл бұрын
@@horstschlemmer9578 Its peaceful these days excluding Kosovo and that sleeping disaster which is Bosnia
@NapoleonBonaparde4 жыл бұрын
At least Hungary is little and Turkey limited to a city in Balkans
@nuperaa66174 жыл бұрын
NapoleonBonaparte Is that what we’ve got planned for June then? Another war in the Balkans?
@AtaMarKat4 жыл бұрын
@@AtaMarKat Well i hope not those countries cant wage a war without outside financial aid.
@NapoleonBonaparde4 жыл бұрын
"I MAY have to opt out of that one" - England, uncertain about opting out since the 1600s.
@randomuploadsism4 жыл бұрын
They have finally opted out of everything... in the worst possible time.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz on the best way to opt out of great Britain.
@foximacentauri78914 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz One wonders what they opted inTO ... I am sure they don't know ...
@whynottalklikeapirat4 жыл бұрын
@@whynottalklikeapirat - They opted to be the US Trojan Horse inside the EU. That's why most of EU isn't really worried about Brexit, it is good for us, at least not bad.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz Good point
@whynottalklikeapirat4 жыл бұрын
bro my ap euro teacher made me watch this once in class in 2021 and now there's no escaping it, it just periodically floats back to the top of my recommended like an old bottle
@comradewindowsill4253 Жыл бұрын
Every time this shows up in my recommended I have to watch it. Such a classic.
@Basileus14537 ай бұрын
Germany: "...one state, and probably with a single currency." England: "I'm afraid I think we'll opt out of that one." He's not feckin joking is he?
@SamuelKristopher7 жыл бұрын
That wasnt Germany tho. Germany didnt exist until 1871.
@manojoogo50037 жыл бұрын
Manojoogo I know, I'm just simplifying for the sake of the joke :)
@SamuelKristopher7 жыл бұрын
It wasn't Germany at all. That was either Belgium or the Netherlands.
@James-th2oo7 жыл бұрын
James Witteveen indeed, Germany or more likely Prussia and Austria lost the thirty wars hence they gave territories to the winners mainly France and Sweden
@brahms637 жыл бұрын
It was the 30 year war, and Germany/Prussia didn't exist at this time. In a way, Austria lost, yes, but the territory that they are giving up here is not Austria's territory itself.
@James-th2oo7 жыл бұрын
"We did it boys, we've ended Continental European warfare forever!"
@Burgerzaza4 жыл бұрын
And then Napoleon shows up. And they made more treaties that will end Continental European warfare forever. But then came the German Empire, and again more treaties that were to end Continental European warfare forever. Except for this one very angry Austrian with a stupid mustache, who was angry at the Jews for existing...
@LuckyBird5512 жыл бұрын
@@LuckyBird551 To be fair, if anyone was stupid enough to actually believe the Treaty of Versailles was stable enough to end WW1 by just saying "Germany admits they suck and pays for everything everyone broke AFTER we take basically half its territory," then they totally deserve what they set up. At least the lesson got learned: desperation breeds radicalism, radicalism causes war. If you want to stop a war, stop desperation.
@PeterDivine Жыл бұрын
@@LuckyBird551This happened more than a century before that tho.
@napoleonbuonaparte89758 ай бұрын
I had missed this old gem. This is absolutely on point and hilarious at the same time, Good satire.
@celorfiwyn8193 Жыл бұрын
Where is it from?
@no-ge9gd Жыл бұрын
@@no-ge9gd The BBC produced a show called "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything" of different sketches, with as one can see comedians of its time like Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
@celorfiwyn8193 Жыл бұрын
"There will be Swedish Luxembourgers and French Luxembourgers... both at each other's throats." > Looks at Belgium
@Ariverfish7 ай бұрын
The whole sketch is awesome, but the bit that really made me lose it was "Oh coitus, we forgot the Balkans!"
@vonteflon9 жыл бұрын
vonteflon Yeah they really go bonkers with the writing.
@AymanB9 жыл бұрын
Well it's one funny way to say oh fuck , we forgot
@raisingwings29135 жыл бұрын
@@raisingwings2913 One of my favourite lines of all time is from Monty Python "oh, intercourse the penguin!"
@SuddenReal4 жыл бұрын
vonteflon - f@%#, no one should EVER forget the Balkans - that’s where the bloody problems always start!
@dorianphilotheates37694 жыл бұрын
@@dorianphilotheates3769 Not true anymore, they start in Russia nowadays...
@martavdz49728 ай бұрын
This is 100% how the original signing of the Treaty of Westphalia went.
@asrieldreeemurr73153 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure my history teacher showed us this
@thedirtbagstash2 жыл бұрын
Yep. A bunch of aristocrats drawing imaginary lines based on what chunks of land with diverse populations they liked to own. What could go wrong?
@neighborhoodmusicsnob55172 жыл бұрын
3:35 As an American, this feels like one of those old family photos were your mom is pregnant with you. I'm not in the Picture, but I'm there in spirit!
@johnpatterson86977 ай бұрын
"everyone likes sweden" "well they dont like u" LMFAO
@lukernman Жыл бұрын
"We don't hate anyone." "Well you should. Makes life more fun." "That new high-grade narcotic you're so fond of." Points at Hugh. Hugh smirks. He's like a 17th century French version of Dr. House.
@argosytheband7 жыл бұрын
Cocaine was big in the 70-90ies So I guess Hugh smiked because he used cocaine at that time...
@MrChillerNo14 жыл бұрын
@@MrChillerNo1 I rather had the impression it was Stephen who had the cocaine habit. Didn't he once adjourn to the toilets at Buck House for a refresher?
@Gottenhimfella4 жыл бұрын
Those two points about hating people making life more fun and "that high grade narcotic", I find, are foreshadowing one Dr. Gregory HOUSE. ;-)
@Crimethoughtfull4 жыл бұрын
Bleeding coffee addicts... they're everywhere!
@MrDeVooluff Жыл бұрын
[CAST] Patrick Barlow - Advisor Robert Bathurst - English Ambassador James Dreyfus - Swedish Ambassador Stephen Fry - Ambassador Hugh Laurie - French Ambassador Thanks for the info, Ben Toth!
@hugoberresford3856 жыл бұрын
I knew I recognized Dr. House in this video!!!
@joshua333ify5 жыл бұрын
Oh my, didn’t recognize Stephen Fry. How lovely
@Steampunkkids4 жыл бұрын
The fact that you know him now as "Dr House" and not for skits like this and for Blackadder says a lot about are SoCiEtY
@mattl57974 жыл бұрын
I assumed Stephen Fry was the Dutch ambassador.
@DaDunge4 жыл бұрын
@Batman The Dark Knight What's this about?
@DaDunge4 жыл бұрын
hilarious, what a lovely description of Luxemburg as well, lets use it for storage....
@gregkral44676 ай бұрын
"Im gonna have to opt out of that one" That aged. Very Well.
@cosmicfails2053 Жыл бұрын
In Westphalidelphia born and raised...
@StorytellerOfTheDead6 жыл бұрын
So....?
@alexanderfoelkel83164 жыл бұрын
Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool, eating pickled herring in my neighborhood.
@Rougarou994 жыл бұрын
@@alexanderfoelkel8316 WHOOSH!
@Trazyn_the_Infinite_40K4 жыл бұрын
When the reformists started agitatin', they were up to no good. I had one little revolt and the nobility got scared, they said "We need a constitutional monarchy, so put your signature there."
@baithinmartel4 жыл бұрын
Begged and pleaded with them, they said: ooh we're gonna kamikaze your tail.
@mDevavex4 жыл бұрын
I may have to opt out of that one... prophetic words right there
@caphalor087 жыл бұрын
He didn't mean opt out of European Union. He referred to the single currency. Britain was a member of the EU when the sketch was broadcast but had not replaced its currency. So, I think it's a joke about the euro :-)
@e.a.11617 жыл бұрын
Oh That was surely what was intended.... but prophetic words are so often veiled, no?
@geekoborabora7 жыл бұрын
Well, Sweden never changed currency either.
@GastonBoucher7 жыл бұрын
Britain joined the EEC quite late, not right away
@danendrahartawan92687 жыл бұрын
You mean when Greece set the ball on fire.
@TheNaturalnuke7 жыл бұрын
Blimey!!!The cameraman was present at the meeting. Well preserved and detailed. That too in colour. Amazing!!!! Hope,The cameraman got the video of the worlds creation too.
@futureisyours3016 Жыл бұрын
this never gets old
@orabera Жыл бұрын
"Well, we just knew it was somewhere on the continent and didn't give a toss, really."
@antoniasinfield17622 жыл бұрын
England's attitude towards anything not-England for about 99% of its documented history.
@ERRandDEL2 жыл бұрын
@@ERRandDEL more like 60% of history. they spent like 300 years bothering the world over the crown of France, Hannover, and the Nazis,
@JamesJJSMilton2 жыл бұрын
@@JamesJJSMilton Hanoverians when Queen Victoria ascended the throne: "We're really sorry, Britain, but we just cannot allow a woman to hold our crown. If you'd like, we can try to change our constitution or find another arrangement to continue our personal union?" Leaders of the UK: "Oh thank the heavens, you're finally leaving? We'll throw in the Isle of Man if you do it before the next war explodes. From now on we'll *demand* that our heirs marry commoners so they won't accidentally inherit more impossible-to-defend territories."
@threenumbnuts2 жыл бұрын
"Luxemburg is up for grabs; anybody want it?" Europe through most of history: "Nah man, we're good" Germany in 1914: *"I'lL taKe YOUr eNtiRE sTocK!"*
@thewaraboo28244 жыл бұрын
Luxemburg was essentially a satellite state anyways
@Wickedonezz4 жыл бұрын
@@Wickedonezz was?
@VictoriaPatricia4 жыл бұрын
@@VictoriaPatricia in ww1 yes
@Wickedonezz4 жыл бұрын
@@Wickedonezz for the most part Germany had nothing to gain from ww1 except colonies
@Yingyanglord14 жыл бұрын
@@Yingyanglord1 what about diplomatic and economic dominance in Europe?
@MrKozeljko4 жыл бұрын
An absolute classic. Spot on👏🏻😃
@Linda-pg3so Жыл бұрын
the best part is that they spend most of the sketch arguing over Luxembourg but then spend like 10 seconds about the balkans
@Kronington2 жыл бұрын
Well, Luxemburg's GDP is probably bigger than the Balkans'. (Just kidding)
"We don't hate anybody." "Well you should. Makes life more fun." Truly the French spirit.
It's actually wrong, we hate the Danes.
just hate the french it's that easy
... as seen by the Brits *
Very funny indeed. However, in reality, it's just Germany (enemy) and England (rival), at least nowadays lol
@@kevingarnero2765 Don't forget Austria. We mountain people also like to dunk on you for existing.
England: we're going to have to opt out of that one This has aged magnificently
England opted out of the Euro before it was introduced. So it aged fine as it was accurate then and is now.
@@Gambit771 The whole saying was "one state and one currency" so the state part... Not so much. :D
Uh... *breathes infrequently* ihhh ufff *gasps* i ... hooo my goodness I came *phew* all the way from *taking last deep breath* sanctuary to tell you *A N O T H E R S E T T L E M E N T N E E D S Y O U R H E L P*
"I'm alright with that...it'll give future journalist something to write about."
@@martinbudinsky8912 is it? the eu effectively acts as a state diplomatically and as a government politically, especially in the eurozone where it sets monetary policy, though spending and such is still run by the local states and governments the eu is kinda diplomatically a single entity
"We just knew it on the continent and didn't give a toss really" is one of the most British things I've heard
That's one thing that was passed on to the Americans who adopted whole heartedly.
apart from all the times they invaded france lol
@@JasonFightsCrime Adopted it by invading and robbing every single poor country with resources
@@astrolillo Sounds like they have truly lived up to their British roots
@@JasonFightsCrime yeah but we have the advantage of 2 oceans and militarily weak economically dependent neighbors to separate us from all that drama.
As a Swede i must say it was a pity we never got Luxemborg for storing our lovely pickled hering.
Don't forget the shop that sells little things made of straw
Universe Bless Sweden
As a neighbouring Belgian I'm more than happy Sweden never got Luxembourg for storing your revoltive pickled hering
Bit racist. 😉 (@@Listembourg_out_of_Molvania
@@Listembourg_out_of_MolvaniaThat’s it. I’m starting to think the French really did invent fries.
The dedication those painters had painting this scene frame by frame to preserve this historic moment
Too right! I was thinking the same myself, but then I became distracted by a pickled herring!
yes, 25 frames for every second
And even painting the soundwaves of their conversation!
truly a revolutionary period for painters
@@ismeza76 Some say it took them their entire lives, to that I say, what is a greater gift than a life well spent!
The real hero is the cameraman who caught this great event on film.
and managed not to laugh too hard to save it
What do you mean cameraman? That clearly was a wizard.
I nominate the time machine inventor... thanklessly working away and the cameraman gets all the glory
Here's the 600th like für du. 😁👍
What a good day to invent cinema !
You can 100% tell from the reaction of Hugh's face that "high grade narcotic you're so fond of" was adlibbed.
Vicodin?
...and probably true.
@@njb1126 no... cocaine.,..its always coke. but this was 15 yrs before house... hed be dead if he kept it up..
Nope. Check the outtakes.
Was Hugh an addict in real life, and if so, what was it?
What's even funnier is that in political science, the Treaty of Westphalia is literally when the basis for what constitutes a sovereign nation-state was created. It's almost universally understood to be one of the biggest milestones in human political development. ...and Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry still made me giggle like a little kid.
Historians don't really agree with this viewpoint. The universal peace didn't happen with Westphalia but brought peace to the HRE.
@@TheWoozie147 You're confusing two different debates in political science: attributing Westphalia as the first step towards 1) perpetual peace and 2) nationhood. Brady is seemingly talking about the latter, which is a lot more central to our modern understanding of political development. National sovereignty (also called westphalian sovereignty, go figure) essentially means that each nation is free to govern as it sees fit, and no other nation has the right to meddle in another's internal affairs. It might not seem like much, but the idea that each prince has the right to chose their own religion was pretty unheard of in the 1600's. The idea of a nation state in itself was very novel in comparison to the shared sovereignty of feudal monarchies.
@@ForgeBall The idea that the Peace of Westphalia created an international recognition of a state's sovereign right to its affairs falls apart pretty quickly. The religious rights of German feudal lords did not grant them further practical autonomy within the Imperial Estates. In fact the next 200 years would be marked by the dissolution of nearly all those "sovereign" principalities. At best it reaffirmed the precedent made at Augsburg 90 years earlier. And the period between Westphalia and the Congress of Vienna was marked by endless international meddling in the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Polish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution.
@@Turambar_499 There's a reason why I referred to it as a debate. I never claimed this was settled science, I just gave a short description of the theory to Krupa since he seemed to be unfamiliar with it. Unless you think I gave a poor description, we don't disagree.
Extreme Eurocentrism has entered the chat. Like the concept of nation states didn't exist outside Europe.
It's amazing to see archival footage of the signing so well preserved.
This should be a top comment instead of itchy history buffs correcting a comedy scetch
@@Sirinwara Hahah you are right
This is doctored footage though. Napoleon Bonapetite isn't on it
Even the laughing crowd in the back is accurate
sentient oven Yes, amazing it is in color, I thought they only had black and white film in those days. In any case, just proves that diplomacy and international relations hasn’t changed since then.
4:11 "Oh coitus, we forgot the Balkans" is history worth remembering.
Lance Geiger would like to speak with you. edit (added last name to remove any doubt)
History guy?
As a guy from the Balkans I confirm that we habitually feel like assasinating some heirs to the throne whenever we get forgotten.
*angry Yugoslavian noises*
Yeah that seemed to work out fine 😂
“We don’t hate anybody- well you should. Makes life more fun” is probably the most French thing I’ve heard in my life.
2:32 "Oh really? You didn't just fancy kicking some German arse?" This line defined the 20th Century.
"Plague victims crawl elegantly"
@Juni Post Oh no! the brits will leave the EU whatever shall the rest of us europeans do without you?I guess that we will go back to the dark ages without the *strong*british empire guiding us :(
As long as you Brits keep your weak chins and your mangled teeth to yourselves it must be considered an upgrade.
XYNN3R X, and the funny thing is these inbred retards think that the 4% Muslims in Europe will be the cause of the “downfall” of Europe
Tokso Plaxmocis keep living in your delusions.
Tokso Plaxmocis me when I see people with more melanin than me: 😡
As a swede, I'm offended by the lack of pickled herring in this sketch.
3:56 check again
Me too, I'm not swedish, but I do love pickled herring.
I'm offended by how the Swedish ambassador didn't say "We don't hate you we only hate the danes" instead of "We don't hate anybody"
@@edvindenbeste2587 Are you suggesting the Danes are somebody?
Don't listen to them, pickled herring is awesome!
“Well we just knew it was on the Continent and didn’t give a toss really” So many great lines here
British policies on Continental Europe in a nutshell. 🤣
One of the best Fry and Laurie sketches, and that's high praise. What really helps this sketch is the three other actors are every bit as good as Hugh and Stephen. The english guy particularly nails it!
It's actually from a different show called The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything.
Robert Bathurst
This sketch is so Monty Python I half-expected the Spanish Inquisition.
*_NOBODY_* EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION.
I certainly did not
Just because it's British doesn't mean it's like Monty Python. Monty Python would have done this sketch very differently.
No
@@sjsbviufvibwvuspi Well, I didn't expect .... oh, nvm.
" 'We don't hate anybody.' Well you should! Makes life more fun." The 1600s in a nutshell.
2000s* in a nutshell
Human history in a nutshell
French history in a nutshell
Dr. House in a nutshell.
more like "all of european history in a nutshell" XD
I am delighted to discover that the Rocher ad was quoted in this comedic masterpiece. The reason for this is that I am te one who wrote the original, Italian version of the commercial when I was a young copywriter in the '80s. It seems to have reached a cult status as the ultimate corny (or idiotic) advertising. My life wasn't useless, after all.
The Ferrero ad was played to death in Greece especially before Christmas and New Year
And I'm the Pope.
You made a mark on this world, sir.
If you are who you say, you have left a mark on this world, my friend.
As a guy from Bosnia and Herzegowina i feel like this is totally accurate... we have always been kicked around by bigger powers, as a side deal or small gift :D
Pa tako je zato što bi radije da imamo nacionalni ponos i budemo sluge ostalih sila, nego da se držimo zajedno i budemo svoji na svome. Na Balkanu i ovako malo pameti ima, a sada je još izvozimo po svetu...
@@cloud42269 nema to veze sa tim što si napisao
Pa na kraju za Savage land of Balkans, svi se slože da "Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo go to Great Serbia", ahahaha i kažu "All satisfied! This will guarantee peace forever. Forever!" :)
Yes, but you see, we needed that drink.
Hmmmm, as an American, all I know is "Balkanized" is not a complimentary descriptor.
They rattle these witticisms off so cleanly it makes me wonder how much was written and how much was ad-libbed. These guys are all comedic geniuses.
"That new high-grade narcotic you're so fond of" was clearly ad-libbed, judging from Laurie's reaction. Hard to tell for most of the rest.
I want to see more stuff like this. What show was this from? Where can I see more comedy like this?
It really annoys me how people always overestimate how much is improv. It's kinda insulting to the script writer(s)
@@wadedewell looks like Blackadder but I'm not sure
The entire scene is scripted.
"You should hate somebody. It makes life more fun!" A very Greg House line from Hugh Laurie.
I was watching this scene with my brain on life saving mode, not focusing at all, but that was the moment i realized the Frech was indeed Hugh Laurie...
@@cancatalbas7849 SAME OMG I LITERALLY WENT "HOUSE?"
Forshadowing
Very French too.
A vey FRENCH line from Hugh Laurie. Let’s not kid ourselves. We hate the brits for a millenia, and the germans for even more than that. And we had honestly a quite fun history.
I'm Luxembourgish, and I approve this message.
Have you got room for a barrel of herring or two? The kingdom of Sweden would be ever so gratefull if you do! We´ll even employ your humorous dwarf as a herring pickler if you do! What a boon to your local economy!
eis Streihpoppen sinn halt Legendär
That "Ohhh, she's _back."_ was delivered so perfectly
The "owhhh" from a lady in the audience is icing on the cake.
Meanwhile, the town's people became so skilled at making cute little tax evasion companies out of straw that nowadays everyone would like to have Luxembourg. Or be Luxembourg.
I think that is sort of what they referred to as using it as storage. It's storage for money, a bank economy.
@@tobyforrester The one country that manages to have 7000 registered corporations for each lawyer. Meaning that everyone wants to be registered there because no one will look too closely at the paperwork
tax straw evasion.. flax jobs
grass rooted
wanting a shrubbery
2 months later "France has broken your alliance" "France desires your province: Eastern Luxemburg (-200)"
TheGoldenFluzzleBuff So true :D.
TheGoldenFluzzleBuff I said FOREVER!
+TheGoldenFluzzleBuff You forgot something. France no longer considers Austria to be a rival. France has announced Sweden as their new rival.
+SparkStop "Oh coitus, you've forgotten the Balcans".
+spudnic88 I thought that was self-explaining (?!) - but never mind dear ;)
It speaks to astounding talent that they could make 17th-century geopolitics hilarious to a 21st-century audience.
'The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything' is a collection of television comedy sketches, produced in 1999, broadcast in two parts on 2 and 4 January 2000 on BBC One. Based on well-known historical events, it took its title and concept from the 1969 London Weekend Television series 'The Complete and Utter History of Britain'. Treaty of Westphalia * Patrick Barlow - Advisor * Robert Bathurst - English Ambassador * James Dreyfus - Swedish Ambassador * Stephen Fry - Ambassador * Hugh Laurie - French Ambassador
Thank you! I was wondering when this was made!
From the show, "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything" in case anyone wishes to watch it.
Harmeet Singh Walia, thank you. I had no idea
Thx m8
Ah thanks, I had assumed it was from "A bit of Fry and Laurie"
Thanks so much for this info :D
YOu're the real hero here, thank you!
54 offended Luxembourgers downvoted this. So that's all of them, then.
Zzyzzyzzs Hah!
They made babies and now it's 185.
French or Swedish ones?
Luxembourger here, and I am here to confirm that there are no more than two hundred citizens in this country, and that the French/Swedish ratio is at a clean 50/50 split. And, yes, 90+% of them can be really butthurt, and all of them have watched this video, even the babies. Please take these jars of pickled herring away from us. They do not make for good house building material, and they are *EVERYWHERE*.
I'm pretty sure a couple of them voted twice!
Fun fact: Luxembourg remains the smallest country to host Eurovision. They've hosted the contest four times in 1962, 1966, 1973, and 1984. But Monaco was the smallest to win in 1971. They also would've been the smallest to host in 1972 but because Prince Rainier III couldn't provide a venue and the rest of the requirements to host, BBC decided to step in and host the contest in Edinburgh. And another thing, the restaurant with the *LONGEST* wine list is also in Luxembourg...ask for a drink at Restaurant Chiggeri and you could pick from *2,200 different wines*
This is so random, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Didn’t Iceland win this a couple of years ago?
Wouldn't have had the room for all the wine if the Swedes got to store their pickled herring there.
@@ryankelly9032 Uhhh, how small do you think Iceland is? There's not a lot of people but it sure is a sizeable island.
@@scorpixel1866 my comment had nothing to do with the size of Iceland. It was a reference to the movie Eurovision with Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams.
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie have always been top-notch comedians as well as Rowan Atkinson. British humor at its finest 😂
Category: *E D U C A T I O N*
Hey, you learn there's a country (or whatever) called Luxemburg. That's educative indeed.
It's quite educating in comedy if you ask me Look at the "humorous" content on tv nowadays
*L U X E M B O U R G*
@@LuisAldamiz I thought it was just a radio station
I'm with you on that categorization of this video, though I think I remember it from my first college history course, come to think of it.
"Let's just use it for storage!"
We need it for our pickled herring. Plagues victims crawl, etc
Luxembourg comes from Lucilinburhuc (medieval for "Little Fortress") or Bockfiels (German for "fortified promontory"). Basically, it's a big storage bin. :P
Well, that's what Amazon and many other companies thought too, which is why they nowadays use Luxembourg for storing lots of money.
Peeyew 😄😄
Now they store their money.
Absolute genius in evoking great laughter out of centuries old facts. I bet if history were taught like this in school, more kids would understand the roots of many of our issues as well as hopefully figure out now to not repeat them.
Naw. Most kids, as always, don't care.
@@waynemarvin5661 We’d be in geography class like, “Well, we just knew it was on the continent and didn’t give a toss, really…”
@@bcj842 🤓❄️🇮🇱🤡👃🔰
Or hate even more people because its fun...
The funny thing about this sketch is that everybody actually wanted Luxembourg, because of the bloody great fortress in the middle of it that commanded the high ground well into surrounding countries. The reason the city and the domain exist is because of that fortress. And I speak of it in the past tense, because the Luxemburgers got rid of it so that surrounding countries would stop trying to take it by force.
Partly true. The dismantling of the fortress was decided by the European powers in the Treaty of London. It had the desired effect that Luxemburg lost its strategic significance. The former fortified area is today the city park.
@@leondarcy7367 So it was less "We dismantled this thing to make our city less of a target" and more like the 19th-century equivalent of a strategic arms limitation treaty?
"Why can't you store them in Sweden?" "Oh the whiff" Had me dying.
Not as badly as if you lived here and could smell them! Surströmming is not for sane people!
What is 'whiff'?
CELESTINE KHASATSILI it’s the bad smell! My favorite line too 😂😂😂😂😂
@@GreenMetalicDevil Surströmming is fermented herring though, not pickled. Just saiyan
@@tttc Ok, did I say anything else?
More accurate than the History Channel.
History Channel: And thats how nazi aliens divided europe
Everything done by this group especially blackadder aged so well. Absolute genius.
“‘We don’t hate anyone!’ Well you should! Makes life more fun.” 😂
"We're going to have to opt out of that one." That aged well.
Mark A. Dunham, Jr. I mean, technically he was referring to Stephen Fry's (The Ambassadors) comment upon the single currency, saying that England would opt out of it (for you see, they pay in pound, not in euro), and not what many here seem to think, Brexit. I, however, would contend that this here sketch becomes even more brilliant with recent British political revelations in mind.
@@generalerica4123 Spot on.
@@generalerica4123 *unsure* about opting out
@@generalerica4123 to be fair brexxit wasn't realy that hard to predict, england never realy wanted the eu in the first place and basicaly just joint out of peer pressure(fear of european isolationism)
@@tommerker8063 European isolationism? Isolate from what? The Russians? The americans? The Chinese? All of them are quite nationalist countries. Work together in order to not let them surpass you economically is not isolationism.
"Plague victims crawl elegantly" is a 2020 mood
😔
Unfortunately.
@@selinesbeau *pose unmasked with guns
We're all Luxemburgers now
@@dlein93 Yeah, they should be degenerate bootlickers and trust everything the state and media tells them, because if anyone is trustworthy it's them and their useful idiots.
France and Sweeden: *Arguing about who keeps Luxembourg* Spain and the Netherlands fighting for 80 years for that region just to not being invited: 💀
"We don't hate anybody. Well you should. It makes life more fun." That would be such a House MD thing to say.
This is EU4 to a tee
Unfortunately not. EU4 had politics that made much more sense. This video is more like the real thing than anything put into a grand strategy game.
Nah it's like the first hoi4 peacedeal ai.
Europe , how it used to be...
So hot
Especially if you promise your allies land
"America that gave us .... that new high grade narcotics that you are so fond of" love the jab and the way hugh laurie reacted to it.
What narcotic ia referred too?
@@eriksunden4704 It could be opium or tobacco. Something else I can't remember except marijuana.
cocaine
@@deadpan904 Opium isn't from the New World but i believe India,Pakistan that area.
@@NapoleonBonaparde Opium was primarily from Afghanistan. Heroin and opium are both mainly Afghani crops. They were referring to cocaine.
"That'll give journalists of the future something to write about"😂😂😂 how prophetic
Simply legendary! If this sketch continued an hour, i would watch it and rewatched it.
And peace was had forever after, especially in the Balkans!
Lol, as Yuri Orlov said "When the Balkans say their going to have a war, they mean it!"
Xan penguin As a balkan i can only say: We dont war all the time but when we do we war all the way.
Broman Yes we had 2 revolutions, multiple wars and two great wars just to kick you out XD
@@stalinsmum6475 man it is the lack of diplomatic tendencies between countries. Everybody is just very xenophobic.
@@tincondra4307 too much emotional volatility. 😕🤷🏻♂️😔😐
"I'm going to have to opt out over that one, I'm afraid." - England No kidding XD
Was this before or after the shit hit the fan in the Balkans?
Hasn't that been happening continuously in the Balkans since the 15th century?
Continuously since there have been people in the Balkans covers it better. I do not think you could find a period longer than 50 years when there have been no major border changes or uprisings in the Balkans since the fall of Rome.
I want some titty, 'cause England is my city.
+Maintenance Renegade - 'several' is more imprecise than it should've been. This was filmed in the same ten-year span as the Balkan conflicts - as in the conflicts of the former-Yugoslavia.
'that'll give journalists of the future something to write about" is a beautiful line
"Savage lands of the Balkans" - the West still looks at the Balkans this way. Nothing's changed. "Racism is okay as long as it's against the Slavs" - the entire non-Slavic world
*meanwhile in Sweden* "My King! France, Brandenburg, the Commonwealth and Russia have joined the coalition against us!" ... ...... ......... ............ ............... "Worrisome..."
We won didn't we? Well for a while.
Well it would have been Saxony that entered the Coalition, due to them having a sort of Personal Union over the PLC.
+Fredrik Dunge Knocked out in the fourth round fighting in the corner of the ring.
it'd be some random shitty HRE nation that starts the war
They will find no safety in numbers...
Oh coitus. We forgot the Balkans.
I'll have to remember that one, just wonderful alternative if you don't wont to use the f-word. :D
GIVE IT ALL TO SERBIA, are you mad! That will give them control of access to the Black Sea.
we, Bulgarians have the black sea!! stay away serbs!! muhaha
They could've given it all to the Ottomans and waited ten or twenty years...Too soon?
You time-table's a bit off there, mate.
I cant believe this was 2000... the quality makes it look like early 80s
Even as a german i never get tired of rewatching this, just brilliant.
The sad fact is that those negotiators spent 4 years to end up with most of the borders of 1618 unchanged. The changes were just a few places for the Swedes to stash their herring.
Mostly river outlets that we could tax
We do need a good place to stash it before easter, midsummer, christmas. It is a miracle that we dont eat on New Year as well.
That was, in the end, the most important result.
Well and the Alsace-Lorraine or Elsaß-Lothringen area. That messed things up for many years to come. If WW3 ever happens I half expect Germany and France to start fighting over it once more just for the hell of it. Even if they start out on the same side.
I've seen it commented somewhere that there have been many global conflicts, but a war cannot count as a true World War unless Germany invades France through Belgium.
ha I like the little bit of actual political satire, the rushed and indifferent dividing up of the Balkans
Except they never made "greater Serbia". But in all fairness, Serbia *is* always great...
yes they did, after WW1, Serbian ruled state by Serbian king with Serbian police beating Croats, Slovenes and other non-Serbs. Doesnt get much better that that
I'ts not supposed to be realistic, it's simplistic satire. Very good satire at that.
meh, it's just a collective region of savages and weird women with head scarf. Whatever could happen from that region, anyway?
...no
No wonder Dr. House is so smart, he has been alive for so long
"I think in the future all our petty squabbles over Europe will forgotten, it'll just be one huge state, probably with a single currency!" Britain: "I'm going to have to opt out over that one I'm afraid".
2:24 "We don't hate anybody" The Danes, Norwegians, Poles, Lithuanians and Russians of the time would have to disagree with you, Mr Swedish Amabassador.
>_>
So would every Ikea customer today (so pretty much the whole of mankind).
We do like Islam though.
JediJaras That was what I was thinking too. I thought he would atleast have pointed out that we hate the Danes.
@@mr.normalguy69 Your comment made me laugh so hard I almost made accidental Halal!
“What’s wrong with pickled herring?” “Nothing if you’re Swedish”
Pickled herring is all right. Fermented herring is ... well I have had it and I survived.
@@ann-carolinemorner6405 Some of you has survived.
@@JonatasAdoM Ha ha.
@@ann-carolinemorner6405 Who doesn't like rollmops.
Its like a biochemical weapon.
That ferrero rocher ending was perfect XD
I don't get it. What did it mean?
I love how England is just there to vibe, not giving a darn and just having fun going to war
"Is it truely wise to divide a land in so wild and ragged a fashion . . . ." "Oh I don't know I think it will give journalists of the future something to write about." *Remembers basic history of Ireland, Germany, the continent of Africa* Oh I felt that
Also middle east
@@antokarman2064 And the Balkans... and to be honest any foreign land Europe has been involved in.
@@Alystas What's important to remember is that the colonized people weren't just sitting around, perfectly content with their boundaries with neighboring cultures ... there was low-key warfare at all times, testing each others' resolve. Colonization suppressed communication and movement of the native population ... enforcing a sort of truce. Then, when decolonization was complete, the ethic groups could get back into "negotiations" with each other ... now with Western industrial weaponry.
*Israel and Palestine stares in the distance*
@@secularmonk5176 -turns sparks into conflagrations -There was always a fire! Sure, in the most meaningless usage of term.
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What makes this funnier is when you remember that while the actual treaties that would make up the peace of Westphalia were being drafted, The war and fighting was STILL going on.
Absolute perfection, I can't get enough of it after so many years and views. They should make one about the drawing of the borders of Africa, or even better, of the Middle East too.
Love the reference to Belgium, a country which wouldn't come into existence until nearly 200 years after this sketch takes place.
The name for that part of the Benelux is old, it comes from the “Belgae” tribe of Gauls, which was mentioned in Caesar’s book The Gallic Wars
The French ambassador is wearing the tricoleur, so...
Wasn't Luxembourg part of Belgium once?
indeed. but the irony persists still since there is no certainty it will endure still
_Hugh's break when Fry tosses him that one about "*high-grade narcotics (๑•̀ㅂ•́)✧*"_
Priceless
Totally
The joke was too funny he had turn and find the person who wrote the script 🤣🤣🤣
Coffee.
@JZ's Best Friend North America wasn't mentioned, just America. Many modern countries make no distinction between North and South and and South Americans will say that they are Americans. :)
And what a cast! Five comic actors at the top of their games.
Fry & Laurie, Constable Goody, and I'm sure I know the other two but my brain is all fog right now. Their faces are so familiar!
This is essentially what I imagine in my head whenever I finalize a treaty in Hearts of Iron.
"You didn't fancy kicking some German arse?" Why is that delivery so hilarious and entertaining?
Thats what rather appealed to us too.
Because it's true.
@BlackDeathViral03 France had been regularly throwing parties on german soil for centuries.... long before "that Corsican bloke" buttraped Prussia though lmao. They got more than great times. Almost half of metropolitan France currently was part of the HRE at some point... and look where all those lands are now.
@BlackDeathViral03 It hasn't been all down hill for the French since Napoleon. Indeed Germany kicked their asses in 1871, but in WW1 France performed just as well as the British against Germany. In WW2 it was the new superpowers the US and USSR that decided the war. Also, ever since the end of WW2, France has been the only real military power in Western Europe. The British and German armies of nowadays are mere shadows of what they used to be and rely heavily on NATO (US).
What @@KarakNornClansman said.
“And England.....gets this lovely carriage clock.” “Oh, thank you very much, how very kind.” “Oh really? You didn’t just fancy kicking some German arse?” “That’s what rather appealed to us, too.” Best lines ever.
“Oh coitus we forgot the Balkans” and “She’s back”
“In future years there will be Swedish Luxembourgers and French Luxembourgers - Protestant and Catholic - _both_ at each other’s throats!” - “Oh, I dunno, I think that’ll give journalists in the future something to write about”
That was weird, right? One would think that the English would fancy to kick some French arse.
England, Agent of Chaos
@@dillonwarcup6426 Indeed. There is a funny quote _If two fish are fighting in a river an Englishman must have passed by._
As a Swede I can confirm that proper storage of pickled herring is very important.
As an International Relations/Diplomacy graduate with two years' worth of Treaty of Westphalia topics, this 100% how Europeans would have been like to each other if they had something close to social media or memes back then.
"oh we forget about the balkans" *proceeds to draw random lines for borders "thats good, lets all go get some tea now" this about sums every re-drawing of the balkans ever, since the beginning of time
While funny, its not like you can actually make borders in the Balkans without pissing off somebody, since everybody claims each others territotry.
@@horstschlemmer9578 Its peaceful these days excluding Kosovo and that sleeping disaster which is Bosnia
At least Hungary is little and Turkey limited to a city in Balkans
NapoleonBonaparte Is that what we’ve got planned for June then? Another war in the Balkans?
@@AtaMarKat Well i hope not those countries cant wage a war without outside financial aid.
"I MAY have to opt out of that one" - England, uncertain about opting out since the 1600s.
They have finally opted out of everything... in the worst possible time.
@@LuisAldamiz on the best way to opt out of great Britain.
@@LuisAldamiz One wonders what they opted inTO ... I am sure they don't know ...
@@whynottalklikeapirat - They opted to be the US Trojan Horse inside the EU. That's why most of EU isn't really worried about Brexit, it is good for us, at least not bad.
@@LuisAldamiz Good point
bro my ap euro teacher made me watch this once in class in 2021 and now there's no escaping it, it just periodically floats back to the top of my recommended like an old bottle
Every time this shows up in my recommended I have to watch it. Such a classic.
Germany: "...one state, and probably with a single currency." England: "I'm afraid I think we'll opt out of that one." He's not feckin joking is he?
That wasnt Germany tho. Germany didnt exist until 1871.
Manojoogo I know, I'm just simplifying for the sake of the joke :)
It wasn't Germany at all. That was either Belgium or the Netherlands.
James Witteveen indeed, Germany or more likely Prussia and Austria lost the thirty wars hence they gave territories to the winners mainly France and Sweden
It was the 30 year war, and Germany/Prussia didn't exist at this time. In a way, Austria lost, yes, but the territory that they are giving up here is not Austria's territory itself.
"We did it boys, we've ended Continental European warfare forever!"
And then Napoleon shows up. And they made more treaties that will end Continental European warfare forever. But then came the German Empire, and again more treaties that were to end Continental European warfare forever. Except for this one very angry Austrian with a stupid mustache, who was angry at the Jews for existing...
@@LuckyBird551 To be fair, if anyone was stupid enough to actually believe the Treaty of Versailles was stable enough to end WW1 by just saying "Germany admits they suck and pays for everything everyone broke AFTER we take basically half its territory," then they totally deserve what they set up. At least the lesson got learned: desperation breeds radicalism, radicalism causes war. If you want to stop a war, stop desperation.
@@LuckyBird551This happened more than a century before that tho.
I had missed this old gem. This is absolutely on point and hilarious at the same time, Good satire.
Where is it from?
@@no-ge9gd The BBC produced a show called "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything" of different sketches, with as one can see comedians of its time like Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
"There will be Swedish Luxembourgers and French Luxembourgers... both at each other's throats." > Looks at Belgium
The whole sketch is awesome, but the bit that really made me lose it was "Oh coitus, we forgot the Balkans!"
vonteflon Yeah they really go bonkers with the writing.
Well it's one funny way to say oh fuck , we forgot
@@raisingwings2913 One of my favourite lines of all time is from Monty Python "oh, intercourse the penguin!"
vonteflon - f@%#, no one should EVER forget the Balkans - that’s where the bloody problems always start!
@@dorianphilotheates3769 Not true anymore, they start in Russia nowadays...
This is 100% how the original signing of the Treaty of Westphalia went.
Pretty sure my history teacher showed us this
Yep. A bunch of aristocrats drawing imaginary lines based on what chunks of land with diverse populations they liked to own. What could go wrong?
3:35 As an American, this feels like one of those old family photos were your mom is pregnant with you. I'm not in the Picture, but I'm there in spirit!
"everyone likes sweden" "well they dont like u" LMFAO
"We don't hate anyone." "Well you should. Makes life more fun." "That new high-grade narcotic you're so fond of." Points at Hugh. Hugh smirks. He's like a 17th century French version of Dr. House.
Cocaine was big in the 70-90ies So I guess Hugh smiked because he used cocaine at that time...
@@MrChillerNo1 I rather had the impression it was Stephen who had the cocaine habit. Didn't he once adjourn to the toilets at Buck House for a refresher?
Those two points about hating people making life more fun and "that high grade narcotic", I find, are foreshadowing one Dr. Gregory HOUSE. ;-)
Bleeding coffee addicts... they're everywhere!
[CAST] Patrick Barlow - Advisor Robert Bathurst - English Ambassador James Dreyfus - Swedish Ambassador Stephen Fry - Ambassador Hugh Laurie - French Ambassador Thanks for the info, Ben Toth!
I knew I recognized Dr. House in this video!!!
Oh my, didn’t recognize Stephen Fry. How lovely
The fact that you know him now as "Dr House" and not for skits like this and for Blackadder says a lot about are SoCiEtY
I assumed Stephen Fry was the Dutch ambassador.
@Batman The Dark Knight What's this about?
hilarious, what a lovely description of Luxemburg as well, lets use it for storage....
"Im gonna have to opt out of that one" That aged. Very Well.
In Westphalidelphia born and raised...
So....?
Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool, eating pickled herring in my neighborhood.
@@alexanderfoelkel8316 WHOOSH!
When the reformists started agitatin', they were up to no good. I had one little revolt and the nobility got scared, they said "We need a constitutional monarchy, so put your signature there."
Begged and pleaded with them, they said: ooh we're gonna kamikaze your tail.
I may have to opt out of that one... prophetic words right there
He didn't mean opt out of European Union. He referred to the single currency. Britain was a member of the EU when the sketch was broadcast but had not replaced its currency. So, I think it's a joke about the euro :-)
Oh That was surely what was intended.... but prophetic words are so often veiled, no?
Well, Sweden never changed currency either.
Britain joined the EEC quite late, not right away
You mean when Greece set the ball on fire.
Blimey!!!The cameraman was present at the meeting. Well preserved and detailed. That too in colour. Amazing!!!! Hope,The cameraman got the video of the worlds creation too.
this never gets old
"Well, we just knew it was somewhere on the continent and didn't give a toss, really."
England's attitude towards anything not-England for about 99% of its documented history.
@@ERRandDEL more like 60% of history. they spent like 300 years bothering the world over the crown of France, Hannover, and the Nazis,
@@JamesJJSMilton Hanoverians when Queen Victoria ascended the throne: "We're really sorry, Britain, but we just cannot allow a woman to hold our crown. If you'd like, we can try to change our constitution or find another arrangement to continue our personal union?" Leaders of the UK: "Oh thank the heavens, you're finally leaving? We'll throw in the Isle of Man if you do it before the next war explodes. From now on we'll *demand* that our heirs marry commoners so they won't accidentally inherit more impossible-to-defend territories."
"Luxemburg is up for grabs; anybody want it?" Europe through most of history: "Nah man, we're good" Germany in 1914: *"I'lL taKe YOUr eNtiRE sTocK!"*
Luxemburg was essentially a satellite state anyways
@@Wickedonezz was?
@@VictoriaPatricia in ww1 yes
@@Wickedonezz for the most part Germany had nothing to gain from ww1 except colonies
@@Yingyanglord1 what about diplomatic and economic dominance in Europe?
An absolute classic. Spot on👏🏻😃
the best part is that they spend most of the sketch arguing over Luxembourg but then spend like 10 seconds about the balkans
Well, Luxemburg's GDP is probably bigger than the Balkans'. (Just kidding)