@ThePyro3825 Yes they did. If you look up 'totenkopf' from wikipedia, you can see that this symbol is really old. Frederick the great adopted it for his cavalry but the symbol goes further back and is mainly connected with the danse macabre and old Spanish graveyards. Thus it has a religious background as well.
Mainly, the skull and crossed bones are a symbol or death and mortality. Third Reich just adopted an old symbol. Nowadays it's also used by many other armies, including the US marines.
@VanRootstuck You're right about everything, but I will say that the skull and crossbones that is used on the US Marine Corps Reconaissance Battalions badges is rendered in a cartoon-like fashion and has a humorously angry expression, and that actually has a different effect on people than a realistic drawing of a skull.
@VanRootstuck I think it’s all about how you wear them. If it’s a part of a badge on the shoulder, among other emblems, then it’s more like an acknowledgement of the death that is involved with being a soldier. When it is the only symbol being worn at the center of one’s forehead where all can see then it comes off as the ONLY thing that defines the soldier and what he or she takes pride in; it doesn’t really scream, “I wouldn’t dare deliberately kill an unarmed civilian”.
@JOdawla5 In all fairness the "Totenkopf" was used long before the SS or the Nazi's. It just happens to be most identified with them and the crimes committed while marching under that symbol.
@wybo2 Given the way history is written (by the winners), in real life the baddies always lose. The winners will portray themselves (objectively accurate or not) as the good guys because that is how they see themselves.
@ElSpartin I like your view and agree in many cases (eg what the English did in India) but considering the millions of innocent annihilated for no valid reason kinda puts "the bad guys"-label on.
@bronkoghma No, because of World War 2, when the Germans invaded. It took a decade for the USSR to recover from the economic damage the German invasion inflicted and the loss (and systematic destruction and looting) of the Ukraine caused famines in parts of the Soviet Union, even after the war.
@ObssesedNuker That sorta discounts all the stuff that the USSR did to screw itself over during that time. They weren't terribly industrialized to begin with, and one of the war's turning points was when they actually gained the facilities to produce weapons and vehicles. And it certainly didn't help that Stalin was a bit preoccupied with committing war crimes in Poland and trying to blame it on the Nazis.
"...if there's one thing we've learned in the last one thousand miles of retreat, it's that the Russian agricultural system is in dire need of mechanization!"
The origin of the SS skull badge was inspired by previous German history, and many countries have used the skull as part of their military insignia, but it is probably more than a coincidence that the Nazi organization most infamous for its cruelty and fanaticism just happened to have skulls on their caps, and a skull ring too if you were extra good at your job. They knew damn well what their uniforms represented.
the skull actually was put on the caps with the thought of the "totenkopf-husaren" in mind, a crack batallion of prussian cavalry, that existed until 1918. Other nations also used it, like the swedes, polacks, portuegese. Nevermind though, thats not really what this sketch is about anyway.
George Bush's and John Kerry's symbol was the same skull and cross bones as the Nazis when then were in Skull and Bones (aka The Order of Death) at Yale, kinda makes them seem like the baddies too.
The Totenkopf BECAME a Nazi symbol. It's been around much longer. The British Army's Queen's Royal Lancers still use it today along with many other countries and organisations. Still, got to love Mitchell and Webb.
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned already (I couldn't be bothered to read the millions of comments), but the Nazi uniforms were actually designed by Hugo Boss. "Are WE the bad guys?" LOL :D
It's such a clever punchline. This parody of just how childishly naive an entire nation can become when indoctrinated during harsh economic times mixed into "the Emperor's new clothes" is a warning for us all. Albeit a tremendously amusing one.
@moonrockguy " This parody of just how childishly naive an entire nation can become when indoctrinated during harsh economic times mixed into "the Emperor's new clothes" is a warning for us all. Albeit a tremendously amusing one."
Speaking as someone from a nation that has a long history of world domination by force, a recent history of mass killing in the Middle East and seemingly no desire to stop but only to find new places to mess up (Libya), I'm pretty sure we are the baddies.
@moonrockguy The skull is in fact a way older militaric symbol and was just re-used by the SS. Even the Kaiser has worn a uniform with this skull once.. but as we all know, the kaiser was a baddie as well so maybe the theory fits again.
@wowsa0 I totally agree. I was just making a quotation to the simpsons where the kaiser was the meanest baddie together with sundance kid. Its pretty much historical proven, that the kaiser did not wanted the war but it was out of his hands.
WWI was the original disaster of the 20th century. Frankly, everyone in Europe shares some blame. Germany for the idiotic 'Weltpolitik' and naval arms race, Britain for its time-honored divide&conquer bullshit, Austria, Russia and the Ottomans for the whole clusterfuck that was the Balcans, France for being butthurt recanchists that wanted another war over Elsaß-Lothringen and the serbian Black Hand terrorists for throwing the match that lit the powder keg.
And how naive exactly do you have to be to subscribe to simplified dualistic concepts such as "good and bad"? Protip: There was no good and bad guys, both sides committed atrocities, and to say one side is better because they 'did it more' or lost in the end is laughably pathetic by all truly enlightened people.
@karupt420 i think he was simplifying the issue in order to make it more easily acessiable; also the phrase 'all truelly enlightened' is just as obscenely dualist. fundementally your argument falls on it's arse because although both sides commited attrocities, one side undoubtably performed more violent attrocoties on a far greater scale for no justifiable reason. your argument is non-sensical.
@moonrockguy: Love this sketch - absolutely hilarious - but, there was actually a fair bit of history/tradition attached to the symbolism of the Death's Head that has nothing to do with Nazism. Frankly, the Nazis put a bad name on a lot of otherwise pretty cool symbolism.
shut up, you weren't around to witness in an economic disaster. You would support anyone that promised to put food on your table, even if it meant hitler
Most people don't think of the Germans as the bad guys, I don't think, not unless they're a bit dim or still carrying firsthand WWII baggage. But I don't think it's being culturally insensitive or anti-German to criticize or poke fun at Nazis or the SS. That the Russians, Chinese, British imperialists, whatever murdered as many or more people is irrelevant, the Nazis weren't just made up by the Brits and Americans. Rather a lot of Germans figure among their victims and critics, too.
The fact that people still think of the Germans as the bad guys, shows the utter stupidity of the human species. The phrase "the victors write the history books" is actually quite true. Look at Soviet Russia. They murdered three to four times as many people as the Germans, yet they're not reviled in the same way as the Germans, simply because they were on the winning side.
@ChudFapper Ah but they are reviled in the same way. Or rather, Stalin fits in the same sentence as Hitler..he was perhaps even worse than Hitler tbh.
I don't get why so many Americans criticize British humor. I'm American, born and raised, and I find this hysterical! I wish we had more shows like this.
@Misishaxi I see it quite often. Most people I meet don't understand British humor. They either don't understand it, or just don't see the hilarity in it. You show them Monty Python and you just get blank stares. It's very sad.
I might not be exact but the german skull and bones have been recorded in use as a military insignia since 18th century. Prussian kings wore it on their "caps", for fucks sake. Of course nazis took it to a whole new level with entire branches of military wearing this symbol, instead of just a regiment or two, but this sketch makes it look like nazis invented skulls as a european military insignia and that would be plain wrong. Americans presented roman salute to the flag until WW2, look that up.
You couldn't show this in the United States. It would cause a moral panic. Fox News/Bill O'Reilly would say "Hey, there's this skit trivializing the grave cruelty of the evil nazis." and then say in that nauseating intonation "And in my opinion, not very funny." This is why we can't have nice things :(
@cars300sl because most people would rather actively seek out the most unintelligible drivel devoid of all thought and creativity than watch a sketch by arguably Britain's best comedy duo.
@cars300sl Nothing beats a good fatty embarrassing (possibly soiling) themselves, falling over and not being able to get up, with a pie stuck in their faces. Crying about how they've 'tried everything', or that they're of big boned heredity, water retention etc. I vote for more fatties hiding in the toilet, eating cakes.
While I can appreciate the time honored tradition of blasting different nationalities over the Internet, I think TheMikeyReilly might be jumping the gun here. I don't see anything to indicate that publicanimal9 is an American, and his use of the words "rubbish", "chav", and references to The Sun make it seem that he's more likely British.
@publicanimal9 You have to have some degree of intelligence to find it funny. Because it's not your dreadfully unfunny and unintelligent comedy you have over in the US, you most probably don't understand.
You better go back to How I Met Your Mother. You're not welcome here.
@TheMikeyReilly Coming from a cretin who enjoys Mr Bean, I can only assume that you have no idea about irony either. Go back to reading your copy of The Sun you sad little chav.
@publicanimal9 First off, Mr Bean isn't unintelligent. It manages brilliant wordless comedy without a single pie in the face of someone falling down a flight of stairs.
Secondly, I read the Guardian. And "chav" is a word used by snobby English people to refer to anyone who is lower class. As a lower class Scot, I would be a "Ned". Your xenophobic, views don't help the generally percieved view that Americans are loudmouth, snobby cunts.
They're not quite chavs... they're something else entirely, even if they seem to act and dress like them. You're not a chav unless you live in council housing and you're on the dole. (Although, many people in this situation aren't chavs either)
@TheMikeyReilly And plus, you obviously missed the Mr Bean episode where he gets a turkey stuck on his head. And I'm sure he's fallen down a flight of stairs at some point or another during his shenanigans.
(I like Mr Bean too, but it's not as sophisticated as you make it seem)
@TheMikeyReilly "Secondly, I read the Guardian." I love that defence! Just seen that in an episode of Law And Order UK. Note to self: Start taking the Manchester Guardian in order to defend self against any accusation of immoderation :-)
@mymusicvideosx Absolutely, Adolf Hitler and Himmler were both members of the Thule Society which is the German version of the Skull and Bones. Himmler turned the SS which was the personal army for the 3rd Reich, into more than Hitlers personal army. Himmler turned into the SS Officers into a Priesthood of Death its own with in the SS. The Skull and Bones are definitely connected to Thule and thus connected to the SS, and even Adolf Hitler's rise to power. The symbols are clearly the give away!
@mojo9o SS stands for swatrts sone = black sun. They believed there was a black sun at the heart of our galaxy. They believed it emitted some kind of force that permeated everything. they were a type of mystic. So ya they were kinda like a priesthood.
oh my fucking god? Who is responsible for teaching you this crap? It means SchutzStaffel. That means something like: SecuritySquad. And no, they didn´t believe in a black sun, though they were a bit mystical. Believing in Superiority of the Aryan Race and had germanic Runes on their Daggers and so on.
@7Starslayer7 In the SS head quarters they had a large black Sun monogram on the floor in the entrance way. I saw a picture of it on the military channel.
@astrialkil The so called "Black Sun" in Wevelsburg is actually a dark green. If you look at it from the door of the room the light is behind it and it looks black. It is called the black sun mosaic b/c is is a Sun-wheel that looks black. A sun-wheel is a symbol much like the swastika, but with tewlve spokes instead of four. It is merovingian in origin and has been used in frankish, allemanian and bavarian brooches and fibulii.
@762cat also french, Norwegians, Swedish, Arab etc. The SS would start groups in any country they touched, ambassadors, political connections. They were like a disease infecting every where they went.
@Squabman I totally agree. Publicanimal9, shut up. Mitchell is one of the funniest people in the world and doesn't deserve to listen to some ignorant dimwit complaining. I loved this sketch. If you don't, don't get onto YouTube and look at this. It's called MITCHELL and Webb, take the clue.
They are wearing the same uniform as the Nazis in the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas! Even the skull matches!
Micimaci92 1 day ago
@cwilliams3567 In all fairness, it's "Nazis", not "Nazi's". If you're gonna be pedantic, use proper grammar.
zerodark13 1 month ago
@zerodark13 If you're "gonna" be pedantic, at least use correct spelling.
Roksonixx 3 weeks ago
pure genius
MrKasiainen 2 months ago
Lol'd so hard at 2:05
childsca 3 months ago
@childsca totally agree, awesome sketch, typical Mitchell line there, love it.
spikyandy 2 months ago
i did nazi that coming
Epicraptor1 3 months ago 6
I know it's Nazis and everything... but those two look simply dashing in uniform! :)
sapicklez 5 months ago
didn't the Prussians have skulls on their hats?
ThePyro3825 6 months ago
@ThePyro3825 Yes they did. If you look up 'totenkopf' from wikipedia, you can see that this symbol is really old. Frederick the great adopted it for his cavalry but the symbol goes further back and is mainly connected with the danse macabre and old Spanish graveyards. Thus it has a religious background as well.
Mainly, the skull and crossed bones are a symbol or death and mortality. Third Reich just adopted an old symbol. Nowadays it's also used by many other armies, including the US marines.
VanRootstuck 5 months ago
@VanRootstuck You're right about everything, but I will say that the skull and crossbones that is used on the US Marine Corps Reconaissance Battalions badges is rendered in a cartoon-like fashion and has a humorously angry expression, and that actually has a different effect on people than a realistic drawing of a skull.
10INTM 4 months ago
@VanRootstuck I think it’s all about how you wear them. If it’s a part of a badge on the shoulder, among other emblems, then it’s more like an acknowledgement of the death that is involved with being a soldier. When it is the only symbol being worn at the center of one’s forehead where all can see then it comes off as the ONLY thing that defines the soldier and what he or she takes pride in; it doesn’t really scream, “I wouldn’t dare deliberately kill an unarmed civilian”.
JOdawla5 4 months ago
@JOdawla5 In all fairness the "Totenkopf" was used long before the SS or the Nazi's. It just happens to be most identified with them and the crimes committed while marching under that symbol.
cwilliams3567 2 months ago
what about pure aryan skull shape??? X-D
Ragnar1227 7 months ago
"I didn't say we weren't fun."
AKAmazikeen 7 months ago
this is brilliant!!!
WayneSA85 7 months ago
Why skulls?! ^^
Yora21 8 months ago
Why do they run away at the end?
Tap0k 8 months ago
@Tap0k Because the baddies always lose. Have you ever watched/read any fiction?
wybo2 8 months ago
@wybo2 like 1984 you mean? :P
FrisianDude 7 months ago
@wybo2 Given the way history is written (by the winners), in real life the baddies always lose. The winners will portray themselves (objectively accurate or not) as the good guys because that is how they see themselves.
ElSpartin 6 months ago 2
@ElSpartin I like your view and agree in many cases (eg what the English did in India) but considering the millions of innocent annihilated for no valid reason kinda puts "the bad guys"-label on.
teemue 5 months ago in playlist Mitchell & Webb
@teemue I am by no means saying the Nazi's were the "good guys" in WW2, I just mean that, that is how the labeling works.
ElSpartin 5 months ago
Let's not thumbs-up the punchlines guys. It's a tacky trend and also annoying for new viewers.
3wsgabav3 8 months ago 249
'these communists are all cowards' LOL
Aimses212 8 months ago
"A rat's anus."
ZOMG I died.
PinkRangerVida 9 months ago
To be fair, it's largely the Germans fault that Russia needs to (re)mechanize its agriculture.
ObssesedNuker 9 months ago
@ObssesedNuker because of ww1? russians declared war before germany there.
bronkoghma 9 months ago
@bronkoghma No, because of World War 2, when the Germans invaded. It took a decade for the USSR to recover from the economic damage the German invasion inflicted and the loss (and systematic destruction and looting) of the Ukraine caused famines in parts of the Soviet Union, even after the war.
ObssesedNuker 9 months ago
@ObssesedNuker well, not really, there were huge famines before the ww2 too. never heard of holodomor?
bronkoghma 9 months ago
@ObssesedNuker That sorta discounts all the stuff that the USSR did to screw itself over during that time. They weren't terribly industrialized to begin with, and one of the war's turning points was when they actually gained the facilities to produce weapons and vehicles. And it certainly didn't help that Stalin was a bit preoccupied with committing war crimes in Poland and trying to blame it on the Nazis.
electricbayonet2 8 months ago
pirates are fun! lol
jjws 9 months ago
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Chewy316469 9 months ago
"What do skulls make you think of
Oakland RAIDERS! ;)
Chewy316469 9 months ago 2
ah lol at collectizisation, also their "Death Heads" hence the skulls
gaunty14 9 months ago
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gaunty14 9 months ago
hmm... nazis with a british accent? what next? maybe some space warrior monk from a galaxy far away with a scottish accent?
obabamaiu 10 months ago
TV Tropes sent me
mrBrooks96 10 months ago 3
Ah, the Waffen SS - living proof that bullies aren't always cowards...
23021955 10 months ago
@23021955 they were baddies, not bullies...and they're not really living either :D
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If one thing we've learned in the last thousand miles of defeat is the Russian Agricultural system is in dire need of mechanisation' ha ha.
ss3cleric 10 months ago 29
@ss3cleric But it's a historically inaccurate line! Soviet agriculture was heavily industrialised, if very inefficient.
ConciseOxford100 7 months ago
@ConciseOxford100
Not during WWII. It wasn't that heavily mechanised until after the war and during the war, much of the machinery was drafted in for military use.
Magni56 4 months ago
@Magni56 Touche. I completely forgot about that.
ConciseOxford100 4 months ago
@ss3cleric He says "thousand miles of retreat".
thesolo 4 months ago
@ss3cleric loved that part XD
alexamerling20 4 months ago
@ss3cleric he said retreat and not defeat.
DONtendulkar10 3 months ago
hehe reminds me of St. Pauli
GauntV 11 months ago
"...if there's one thing we've learned in the last one thousand miles of retreat, it's that the Russian agricultural system is in dire need of mechanization!"
I laugh, every time.
natedogguk 11 months ago 3
I lol'd! These guys are hilarious, & I <3 David Mitchell!
Taynutz 11 months ago
HAHA David Mitchell's face right before they ran away... I lost it!
RowrTiger 11 months ago
I love how they just took off running...
...where are they going?
darkangel160 11 months ago
The origin of the SS skull badge was inspired by previous German history, and many countries have used the skull as part of their military insignia, but it is probably more than a coincidence that the Nazi organization most infamous for its cruelty and fanaticism just happened to have skulls on their caps, and a skull ring too if you were extra good at your job. They knew damn well what their uniforms represented.
squamish4244 1 year ago
@squamish4244 Hey this isn't a history lesson!
DANZAMAN107 11 months ago
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@DANZAMAN107 i think hes making it one!
alexhamster1134 11 months ago
@DANZAMAN107 Sorry man I got caught up in the raging debate you can see in the comments section below me. It is comedy, I know.
squamish4244 11 months ago
@squamish4244 It ok. I like my history too :)
DANZAMAN107 11 months ago
the skull actually was put on the caps with the thought of the "totenkopf-husaren" in mind, a crack batallion of prussian cavalry, that existed until 1918. Other nations also used it, like the swedes, polacks, portuegese. Nevermind though, thats not really what this sketch is about anyway.
Germandude1000 1 year ago 5
"Are we the baddies?" is my favourite comedy line of all time...
WarptimeProductions 1 year ago 3
rats anus :P lol
Yakub121993 1 year ago
George Bush's and John Kerry's symbol was the same skull and cross bones as the Nazis when then were in Skull and Bones (aka The Order of Death) at Yale, kinda makes them seem like the baddies too.
CounterRevolutionary 1 year ago
I love their horrified little faces when he says "Are we the bad guys?"
TheWonderfulWombat 1 year ago
The Totenkopf BECAME a Nazi symbol. It's been around much longer. The British Army's Queen's Royal Lancers still use it today along with many other countries and organisations. Still, got to love Mitchell and Webb.
HeyYashamaru 1 year ago
Trolllololololololololololololololololol
MrOrganicCarrot 1 year ago
I freaking love Nazis! HAHA! Heil Hitler!
lionsleeper 1 year ago
the deaths head aka totenkopf ismeant a a symbol of loyalty. "loyalty till death"
SSBlackAngel 1 year ago
@SSBlackAngel
No, it means "shoot me, I'm a fucking Nazi"
mrmootheirrev 11 months ago 2
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@mrmootheirrev Actually it means save us from all the niggers and mongrols like you
SSBlackAngel 10 months ago
@SSBlackAngel
What, protect you from the big black guy who will rape your ass in prison after you are convicted of a hate-crime?
mrmootheirrev 10 months ago
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned already (I couldn't be bothered to read the millions of comments), but the Nazi uniforms were actually designed by Hugo Boss. "Are WE the bad guys?" LOL :D
DeceasedDeath 1 year ago
What does he say at 1:36 ?
Something Aryan Skull shape?
MJFslovak 1 year ago
@MJFslovak Pure
Paranomasia12 1 year ago
@MJFslovak He says, "What about pure Aryan skull shape?"!
twiftgirl 1 year ago
@MJFslovak pure Aryan skull shape
abarai2007 1 year ago
our uniforms were amazing, but yay we should have known that we were the bad guys...
7Starslayer7 1 year ago
are we the baddies?
TheAlexagius 1 year ago
Crack SS-Division?!?!?!?!
MrWattu 1 year ago
lol good sketch but it still doesn't answer the question
why exactly DID the german SS have skulls on their uniforms because they really did
one would assume they THOUGHT they were the goodies
BlueLeopard200 1 year ago
@BlueLeopard200
It's because that insignia was borrowed from an old Prussian cavalry regiment that the SS liked to style themselves as.
I believe there is a British cavalry unit that has a skull & crossbone in it's emblem too. Can't remember which one though.
Korporaal1 1 year ago
@Korporaal1 Queen's Royal Lancers (and it's predecessors, 17th lancers, 17/21 Lancers)
mert1875 1 year ago
@BlueLeopard200 look up Totenkopf on wikipedia :)
RichieW 1 year ago
"Are we the baddies?"
It's such a clever punchline. This parody of just how childishly naive an entire nation can become when indoctrinated during harsh economic times mixed into "the Emperor's new clothes" is a warning for us all. Albeit a tremendously amusing one.
moonrockguy 1 year ago 192
@moonrockguy Wow. Now that is striping down a joke to its core!
Caboosethecool 1 year ago
@moonrockguy This comment made this so unfunny that I think I will just go and hang myself.
SSandSproductions 10 months ago 4
@moonrockguy " This parody of just how childishly naive an entire nation can become when indoctrinated during harsh economic times mixed into "the Emperor's new clothes" is a warning for us all. Albeit a tremendously amusing one."
Speaking as someone from a nation that has a long history of world domination by force, a recent history of mass killing in the Middle East and seemingly no desire to stop but only to find new places to mess up (Libya), I'm pretty sure we are the baddies.
chrisofnottingham 9 months ago
@moonrockguy The skull is in fact a way older militaric symbol and was just re-used by the SS. Even the Kaiser has worn a uniform with this skull once.. but as we all know, the kaiser was a baddie as well so maybe the theory fits again.
CoIdHeat 9 months ago
@CoIdHeat 'the kaiser was a baddie'
I don't know a lot about History, but wasn't the first world war a lot less black and white than the 2nd in terms of 'goodies' and 'baddies'?
I mean it was a bunch of empires competing for space wasn't it? And you can't exactly get an empire which isn't a 'baddie' can you?
wowsa0 9 months ago
@wowsa0 I totally agree. I was just making a quotation to the simpsons where the kaiser was the meanest baddie together with sundance kid. Its pretty much historical proven, that the kaiser did not wanted the war but it was out of his hands.
CoIdHeat 9 months ago
@wowsa0 So true. All the empires had blood on their hands. And unfortunately it was the aftermath of the First World War that lead the to the Second.
adi87tya 8 months ago
@wowsa0
WWI was the original disaster of the 20th century. Frankly, everyone in Europe shares some blame. Germany for the idiotic 'Weltpolitik' and naval arms race, Britain for its time-honored divide&conquer bullshit, Austria, Russia and the Ottomans for the whole clusterfuck that was the Balcans, France for being butthurt recanchists that wanted another war over Elsaß-Lothringen and the serbian Black Hand terrorists for throwing the match that lit the powder keg.
Magni56 4 months ago 35
@moonrockguy
And how naive exactly do you have to be to subscribe to simplified dualistic concepts such as "good and bad"? Protip: There was no good and bad guys, both sides committed atrocities, and to say one side is better because they 'did it more' or lost in the end is laughably pathetic by all truly enlightened people.
karupt420 8 months ago
@karupt420 i think he was simplifying the issue in order to make it more easily acessiable; also the phrase 'all truelly enlightened' is just as obscenely dualist. fundementally your argument falls on it's arse because although both sides commited attrocities, one side undoubtably performed more violent attrocoties on a far greater scale for no justifiable reason. your argument is non-sensical.
truelieswow 7 months ago
@moonrockguy: Love this sketch - absolutely hilarious - but, there was actually a fair bit of history/tradition attached to the symbolism of the Death's Head that has nothing to do with Nazism. Frankly, the Nazis put a bad name on a lot of otherwise pretty cool symbolism.
MrCEsquire 6 months ago 3
@moonrockguy
shut up, you weren't around to witness in an economic disaster. You would support anyone that promised to put food on your table, even if it meant hitler
FlusherD12 5 months ago
@FlusherD12 But we're in an economic disaster now, and it's going to get much worse before it gets better.
soylentgreenb 4 months ago
Most people don't think of the Germans as the bad guys, I don't think, not unless they're a bit dim or still carrying firsthand WWII baggage. But I don't think it's being culturally insensitive or anti-German to criticize or poke fun at Nazis or the SS. That the Russians, Chinese, British imperialists, whatever murdered as many or more people is irrelevant, the Nazis weren't just made up by the Brits and Americans. Rather a lot of Germans figure among their victims and critics, too.
QekLiHoQfuh 1 year ago
The fact that people still think of the Germans as the bad guys, shows the utter stupidity of the human species. The phrase "the victors write the history books" is actually quite true. Look at Soviet Russia. They murdered three to four times as many people as the Germans, yet they're not reviled in the same way as the Germans, simply because they were on the winning side.
ChudFapper 1 year ago
@ChudFapper Ah but they are reviled in the same way. Or rather, Stalin fits in the same sentence as Hitler..he was perhaps even worse than Hitler tbh.
lelouch3 1 year ago 3
@ChudFapper agreed. Stalin was cunt, as was hitler. but come on it's a comedy sketch.
theAngryscotman 1 year ago
I don't get why so many Americans criticize British humor. I'm American, born and raised, and I find this hysterical! I wish we had more shows like this.
mikekearn 1 year ago
@mikekearn A lot of Americans criticize our culture? really?
Misishaxi 1 year ago
@Misishaxi I see it quite often. Most people I meet don't understand British humor. They either don't understand it, or just don't see the hilarity in it. You show them Monty Python and you just get blank stares. It's very sad.
mikekearn 1 year ago
"Hanz are we the badies?" lol :). I wonder if th Nazis ever did say that at any point 2 themselves? lmao
freymay 1 year ago
15 people had a rats anus for a banner
adds099 1 year ago 5
"Fighting under the banner of a rats anus" LMAO
pitbullgirl65 1 year ago
Actually, I'd wondered that, seriously. What possessed them to use the skull and crossbones as a cap badge?
dfarmbrough 1 year ago
@Vilatan wtf are you on about? "this is why we can't have nice things."
What kind of patronizing drivel is that? I be you think we don't deserve our president either...
beepandbop 1 year ago
I might not be exact but the german skull and bones have been recorded in use as a military insignia since 18th century. Prussian kings wore it on their "caps", for fucks sake. Of course nazis took it to a whole new level with entire branches of military wearing this symbol, instead of just a regiment or two, but this sketch makes it look like nazis invented skulls as a european military insignia and that would be plain wrong. Americans presented roman salute to the flag until WW2, look that up.
Valholm 1 year ago
@Valholm Hey there. Do you own a dictionary? Just wondering. Not criticizing your spelling or anything, I'd just like to know.
Misishaxi 1 year ago
@Misishaxi everyone owns a dictionary now, since we have internets -.-
what is the nature of your inquiry?
Valholm 1 year ago
@Valholm Ok, well it's arranged in simple alphabetical order, so you should find it quite easy to look up the word "humor".
Misishaxi 1 year ago 2
@Misishaxi Oh, you got me there. Ooohh, you got me. You got me good. Good job, sir. You just gained 100 internets for that one.
Valholm 1 year ago
You couldn't show this in the United States. It would cause a moral panic. Fox News/Bill O'Reilly would say "Hey, there's this skit trivializing the grave cruelty of the evil nazis." and then say in that nauseating intonation "And in my opinion, not very funny." This is why we can't have nice things :(
Vilatan 1 year ago 4
Funny, but didn't Eddie Izzard make this same joke a few years earlier?
Or is it the other way around?
frostek 1 year ago
y do these guys get less views than fat people falling over
cars300sl 1 year ago 64
@cars300sl because most people would rather actively seek out the most unintelligible drivel devoid of all thought and creativity than watch a sketch by arguably Britain's best comedy duo.
89Wrathchild 1 year ago
@89Wrathchild agreed its saddening
cars300sl 1 year ago
@cars300sl Nothing beats a good fatty embarrassing (possibly soiling) themselves, falling over and not being able to get up, with a pie stuck in their faces. Crying about how they've 'tried everything', or that they're of big boned heredity, water retention etc. I vote for more fatties hiding in the toilet, eating cakes.
reverendcutterx 1 year ago
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@cars300sl "y do these guys get less views than fat people falling over"
mostly cause this is 2:50 while with the fat guy falling over it's 0:05
bronkoghma 9 months ago
Not that funny....a skulll o no ..
JiS01 1 year ago
AHAHA, when I saw that knitting guy I had to pause the video I was laughing so hard.
TheWonderfulWombat 1 year ago
woah,looks like #TheMikeyReilly won that fight, haha xD WIN !!
Ebender18 1 year ago
This skit is brilliant!
citizenkong 1 year ago
Great! Wish we could get it all in America!
conwaytube1 1 year ago
While I can appreciate the time honored tradition of blasting different nationalities over the Internet, I think TheMikeyReilly might be jumping the gun here. I don't see anything to indicate that publicanimal9 is an American, and his use of the words "rubbish", "chav", and references to The Sun make it seem that he's more likely British.
This American finds Mitchell and Webb hilarious.
PaxEmpyrean 1 year ago 3
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Absolutely fucking rubbish. What has happened to comedy???
publicanimal9 1 year ago
@publicanimal9 You have to have some degree of intelligence to find it funny. Because it's not your dreadfully unfunny and unintelligent comedy you have over in the US, you most probably don't understand.
You better go back to How I Met Your Mother. You're not welcome here.
TheMikeyReilly 1 year ago
@TheMikeyReilly Coming from a cretin who enjoys Mr Bean, I can only assume that you have no idea about irony either. Go back to reading your copy of The Sun you sad little chav.
publicanimal9 1 year ago
@publicanimal9 First off, Mr Bean isn't unintelligent. It manages brilliant wordless comedy without a single pie in the face of someone falling down a flight of stairs.
Secondly, I read the Guardian. And "chav" is a word used by snobby English people to refer to anyone who is lower class. As a lower class Scot, I would be a "Ned". Your xenophobic, views don't help the generally percieved view that Americans are loudmouth, snobby cunts.
TheMikeyReilly 1 year ago
@TheMikeyReilly a "chav" does not mean that at all.
pizt 1 year ago 4
@TheMikeyReilly I'm "lower class", but I'm not a chav.
I have, however, seen plenty of middle class chavs. Quite a lot of them are celebrities, too.
ska2808 1 year ago
@ska2808
They're not quite chavs... they're something else entirely, even if they seem to act and dress like them. You're not a chav unless you live in council housing and you're on the dole. (Although, many people in this situation aren't chavs either)
xxdrosexx 1 year ago
@TheMikeyReilly And plus, you obviously missed the Mr Bean episode where he gets a turkey stuck on his head. And I'm sure he's fallen down a flight of stairs at some point or another during his shenanigans.
(I like Mr Bean too, but it's not as sophisticated as you make it seem)
ska2808 1 year ago
@TheMikeyReilly "Secondly, I read the Guardian." I love that defence! Just seen that in an episode of Law And Order UK. Note to self: Start taking the Manchester Guardian in order to defend self against any accusation of immoderation :-)
dfarmbrough 1 year ago
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@TheMikeyReilly shut the fuck up, you fucking tim!
89Wrathchild 1 year ago
Pirates of FUN! xxxD
god4488 1 year ago
"I just can't think of anything good about a skull"
"What about pire Ayran skull shape?"
"Even that is more usually depicted with the skin still ON"
lol
Bigqwertyuo1 1 year ago 3
acyually here they are sooooo similar to the Peep Show characters...
lkrnpk 1 year ago
Even funnier because its true. A lot of German regiments did have skulls. Skulls are scary.
Outlander1138 1 year ago
it does make you wonder what THEY were thinking 60 years ago....
dchris1990 1 year ago 79
@dchris1990 70 years ago, chap. 70...
MadPyrotechnicus 1 year ago 2
@dchris1990
70 by now.
Menegoth 1 year ago
"Pirates are fun!"
voidnothing 1 year ago
is this skull and bones any relation to a fraternity that John Kerry and W belonged to called skull and bones?
mymusicvideosx 1 year ago
@mymusicvideosx
Whole different group. Dumbass
Roguethoughts2 1 year ago
@Roguethoughts2 Enlightening.
mymusicvideosx 1 year ago
@mymusicvideosx Absolutely, Adolf Hitler and Himmler were both members of the Thule Society which is the German version of the Skull and Bones. Himmler turned the SS which was the personal army for the 3rd Reich, into more than Hitlers personal army. Himmler turned into the SS Officers into a Priesthood of Death its own with in the SS. The Skull and Bones are definitely connected to Thule and thus connected to the SS, and even Adolf Hitler's rise to power. The symbols are clearly the give away!
mojo9o 1 year ago
@mojo9o SS stands for swatrts sone = black sun. They believed there was a black sun at the heart of our galaxy. They believed it emitted some kind of force that permeated everything. they were a type of mystic. So ya they were kinda like a priesthood.
astrialkil 1 year ago
@astrialkil doesn't it stand for schutzstaffel
iceravenVI 1 year ago
@astrialkil SS = Schutzstaffel = Protection Squadron
dfarmbrough 1 year ago
@astrialkil
oh my fucking god? Who is responsible for teaching you this crap? It means SchutzStaffel. That means something like: SecuritySquad. And no, they didn´t believe in a black sun, though they were a bit mystical. Believing in Superiority of the Aryan Race and had germanic Runes on their Daggers and so on.
7Starslayer7 1 year ago
@7Starslayer7 In the SS head quarters they had a large black Sun monogram on the floor in the entrance way. I saw a picture of it on the military channel.
astrialkil 1 year ago
@astrialkil The so called "Black Sun" in Wevelsburg is actually a dark green. If you look at it from the door of the room the light is behind it and it looks black. It is called the black sun mosaic b/c is is a Sun-wheel that looks black. A sun-wheel is a symbol much like the swastika, but with tewlve spokes instead of four. It is merovingian in origin and has been used in frankish, allemanian and bavarian brooches and fibulii.
lindahl01 1 year ago
If there's one thing we've learned in the last 1000 miles of retreat, it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanization....
makes me laugh every time!
TsarIvanIV 1 year ago 4
"Hans... Are we the BADDIES?"
Misasura 1 year ago
these guys must be member of the british ss
762cat 1 year ago
@762cat firstly, the british have the SAS not the ss, which is german.
rickyv622 1 year ago
@rickyv622 dude learn some history there where members of the ss that were british. about 143 if i remeber right.
762cat 1 year ago
@762cat right i though you were saying that the SS were the british forces. i thought you might just be misinformed as you arent british yourself
rickyv622 1 year ago
@762cat also french, Norwegians, Swedish, Arab etc. The SS would start groups in any country they touched, ambassadors, political connections. They were like a disease infecting every where they went.
astrialkil 1 year ago
Only you Brits are able to do such a hilarious Nazi-sketch!
Congrats from Germany
WardancerHB 1 year ago 6
Wait did they actually have Skulls and cross bones on them?
Really makes it easy to vilianize them.
AcanLord 1 year ago
@AcanLord yep called death's head' totenkopf'- I had to look it up to be sure and it makes this sketch even FUNNIER to know...XD
spongiebungie 1 year ago
@Squabman I totally agree. Publicanimal9, shut up. Mitchell is one of the funniest people in the world and doesn't deserve to listen to some ignorant dimwit complaining. I loved this sketch. If you don't, don't get onto YouTube and look at this. It's called MITCHELL and Webb, take the clue.
PC336 1 year ago
SKULLS FTW XD
HardCoreQWERTYA7X 1 year ago
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HardCoreQWERTYA7X 1 year ago
One of my favorite shows
TheMustacheofgod 1 year ago
lol russian agriculture
navh07 1 year ago
"Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanisation" is not a common punchline.
sausagedogmcgee 1 year ago 189