Harry Enfield ~ Jurgen the German.

[select899]

This is a very clever sketch.

[macram16]

"and i am ooogling ze horizon and still there is no sign"

[TheFlinglish]

coming back to england from munich, everything takes forever, its right the buses here are always late and slow when youre on them, German efficiency ftw

[macram16]

@TheFlinglish i've lived in Manila Philippines for 3 months now. You want late/inefficent come here. You appreciate just how efficient buses/trains/EVERYTHING is in England when you go to the third world

[catchthewave91]

when i was in Berlin the bus was late... just sayin'

[olapaCity]

lol this video is great. But Jurgen's English is too good^^

Actually I think we are really often looking at our watch and everything has to be on time. Too bad the German train is often not on time^^

[christl301]

He's right the Nazis would have made the bus's run on time...

[MyMetalmadness]

sounds mix between russian and german

[Pppuuma]

Everything is supposed to happen right on schedule in Finland too. I really can reale to Jürgen.

[mmscott9]

its true, the buses are never late in germany

[george6373]

"i am ogleing the horizon and ...." lol

[TheVelocityKin]

I've not met a German person, but I'm sure this is just a stereotype. I'm surprised why so many people take these things seriously (as in the "Harry and Paul: Americans in London, etc).

Great upload! ^_^

[Elberiver11]

@TClementsUK1 I disagree. I am German and i think it sounds quite good.  lol

[MrRoryTV]

Lol ww2 joke was so predictable :P 

[BeerGogglesReviews]

Why does everyone keep mentioning the war.

You started it.

We did not.

Yes you did, you invaded Poland.

[OlliSaarlaender]

@BeerGogglesReviews DON'T MENTION THE WAR!!

[BeerGogglesReviews]

@OlliSaarlaender You just did it. STOP MENTIONING ZE VAR!!

[OlliSaarlaender]

@BeerGogglesReviews I did it once but I think I got away with it....

[BeerGogglesReviews]

@OlliSaarlaender Hehehe

[jorcastify]

@OlliSaarlaender faulty towers said that

[Ambicatus]

If only Germans got the hint that easy and if only they would only lay off so quickly!

[GreekFreakyJoker]

2 minutes late....in Greece the bus is late for like 30 minutes.... f@#k!!!!!

[Triviumtiger]

The best line is at 1:53 when Jurgen says ''I feel I must apologise for the conduct of my nation in the war.'' lol

[THthefirst]

It's obviously just picking up on the Germans' nervousness in England and desire to fit in

[MainManBrad]

I AM URGERLING THE HORIZONNN! HAHA

[MegaMrDamo]

How long does it take a British show to mention the NAzis when a German is in it, about 1 minute

[Danster547]

lol

its true, the bus would not be late if natzis ran it.

[Rakafeth]

Yeah, what is it with Germans and funny hats?

[calza16]

@Rakafeth And funny walks...

[beafboy01]

I love this, I'm British and I love Germany, its a brilliant country, I advise anyone who wants to go, to go, its a beautiful, interesting and an amazing country :)

[christl301]

Pure gold...

[Artemis458]

love this

[AndrewUK1987]

Hahahahaaha!!! I loved these sketches! Harry Enfield and Chums of 1997 was a work of genius and there has never been anything like it since. I Really wish the BBC would release the series on DVD. I loved the Jurgen sketch where he gets wound up on a tour of the docklands when the tour guide mentions that it was all rebuilt after the blitz.

[crowndeluxe]

sondern in eilfertiger Bereitschaft, den Siegern gefällig zu sein, dann erst ist der Sieg vollständig. Endgültig ist er nie. Die Umerziehung (Reeducation) bedarf sorgfältiger, unentwegter Pflege wie englischer Rasen. Nur ein Augenblick der Nachlässigkeit, und das Unkraut bricht durch, jenes unausrottbare Unkraut der geschichtlichen Wahrheit.

[crowndeluxe]

Wir werden diese Greuelpropaganda fortsetzen, wir werden sie steigern bis niemand mehr ein gutes Wort von den Deutschen annehmen wird, bis alles zerstört sein wird, was sie etwa in anderen Ländern noch an Sympathien gehabt haben, und sie selber so durcheinander geraten sein werden, daß sie nicht mehr wissen, was sie tun. Wenn das erreicht ist, wenn sie beginnen, ihr eigenes Nest zu beschmutzen, und das nicht etwa zähneknirschend,

[crowndeluxe]

Es soll zwar humor sein aber es steckt auch ne menge wahrheit dahinter.

Es zeigt nur deutlich wie uns das gehirn nach dem 2. WK gewaschen worden ist

viele deutsche sind in der tat zum selbsthasser und nestbeschmutzer gebrieft worden und sie empfinden noch stolz dabei das sie so sind wie sie sind.

Hierzu ein Zitat von Weizmann zu Churchill, September 1941

„Mit Greuelpropaganda haben wir den Krieg gewonnen …Und nun fangen wir erst richtig damit an!

[psi43]

i'm german myself and it's true that we love to socialize even with people we don't know

[Spartan307]

amazing ! 

[xoxTOWELIExox]

lol the English guy looks Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ^^

[chicaMelia]

That so funny, even for me. And I'm German.

But fortunately I'm not like that. Not at all. ;)

But some Germans are like that. Just like some Americans, Dutch, Spains, Italiens... as well.

So I don't take it too serious.

[IlRezzonico]

@chicaMelia It's funny. But the thing about the bus times is very true! Nothing runs on time in Britain. The thing about the present tense is also true eh? I guess it is because other European languages only have one form of the present tense, whereas as English has three! I have friends in Munich and when I visit them it is wonderful to use the fantastic public transport there.

[NetzKaiser]

@IlRezzonico I thought it was a joke on our sensitivity to delays. Germans are married to their watches. ;-)

[Urindunk]

@NetzKaiser

Germans are just a people who are good at getting shit done.. No matter what we're talking about.

[TheCatsPajamas1982]

@Urindunk Like shower rooms?..........

[Urindunk]

@TheCatsPajamas1982

Like rebuilding an entire country after getting bombed to shits, son.

[TheCatsPajamas1982]

@Urindunk That and genocide.

[producethegoods21]

@chicaMelia I'm English & I highly respect the Germans.

[Teebonemendez]

Does anyone know what series or DVD this is from? A friend of mine used to have this one video and I loved it.

[darwincity]

CLASSIC!

[neilmac991]

This came out when jurgen klinsmann came to spurs lol

[NickynomatesBKK]

My fav of all time.

[christl301]

No matter how many times I watch this I still laugh

[christl301]

No matter how many timesI watch this I still laugh

[IrieSven]

Hahahaha, this is sooooo funny, briliant, absolute masterpiece!

[ultran33b]

To all the people that disliked thi - Oh wait... Nobody disliked it...

[9hello123]

@ultran33b you know the only reason people have disliked it now is because of you right?

[KeelysNotAmused]

@9hello123 And how do you know they disliked it because of him? Hmm?

[9hello123]

@KeelysNotAmused idiot.

[gibsondanny]

@ultran33b yeah they did... you spoke to soon didnt you

[ultran33b]

@gibsondanny 11 months ago.

[gibsondanny]

@ultran33b Hence the term SPOKE TO SOON

[ultran33b]

@gibsondanny That's what I'm getting at, 11 months ago wasn't that recent.

[NickynomatesBKK]

Classic so funny

[MrSteamdan]

he will have to get used to brittish timetables !

[jerrygreg2]

Hah! Bleezin! I just Googled it! Nothing in my roll up. Not tonight!

[Elberiver11]

why do you keep saying jürgen without umlaut was offensive, of coufrse its not. English keyboards do not hve this sign, so how else could the feller write it.

ALSO, the three umlaut letters ä,ö, ü are orthographically identical with ae, oe, ue. Because thats where the two dots stem from: centuries ago, they used to write e.g. "ö" as an "o" with a little "e" on top of it. And after time, it becamse two dots.

So, if you want to papstlicher than the Papst, you can write it "Juergen".

[jerrygreg2]

@Elberiver11 You can find all accents using the Alt key.

Thanks for that enlightenment. I'm interested in etymology you know.

[jerrygreg2]

Are you deliberately trying to offend Germans? Don't you know it's Jürgen with an umlaut u?

[Elberiver11]

@jerrygreg2 LOL I actually think that this show up there has some funny elements. I like it when the English take the piss of the Germans, when its to do with the real behaviour of Germans. This stupid sentence " i walked aroudn with a a funny hat", for example, that really could stem from German tourists. lol

But in the end, when the guy freaks out and starts shouting, this is pure fiction. Sort of "militaristic German". Thats absolutely unreal.

[Elberiver11]

The Prussian Empire was militaristic indeed, but the Fench Empire, the British Empire and the Soviet Union and the USA (all four winners of WW II) were far more militaristic. In that aspect, taking the piss of Germans is perfectly OK to me, some of it is actually quite funy. Only this nazi/military stereotype is a sort of outdated Allied warpropaganda, and i have to tickle me armpits in order to laugh! lol

But still i like Jürgen the German, lol, its not a bad show.

.

[jerrygreg2]

@Elberiver11 Yeah but the Brits didn't goosestep . . . and we looked like a bunch of big girls blouses!

[Elberiver11]

@jerrygreg2 Jimmey, i guess yer bleezin

[jerrygreg2]

@Elberiver11 You've got me with bleezing but I'll have a wee think!

[Elberiver11]

But i dont think its important. I dont think any german will take offense in that. Most of them would probably not even notice. What sucks instead, is, i just saw another thing by enfield. He imitated Hitler, and Goebbels, and all of that. I am not saying its "offensive", but i think its just stupid that the British always connect Germany to the Nazis. I am trying to imagine what the british would say if every program about them would depict them as slave traders and racists.

[jerrygreg2]

@Elberiver11 No they won't. That's the point! That's the joke. The joke is about what would be expected after my first sentence and the contrast with what I said! Oh my, it's not that good but it is accepted humour. HONEST!

[jerrygreg2]

@Elberiver11 We do have a lot of programmes that remind us of our lugubrious past. Some people, like old Tories are in denial and celebrate all things British as if we civilised the whole world but others face the truth.

[Elberiver11]

PS: writing Jürgen without the two dots (umlaut) is not offensive! lol

You should not become päpstlicher als der Papst lol (popelier than the Pope), just because this whacko Elberiver told you to! lol lol

(dont say veee haff no humour LOL As you see i like to tak the piss of meself, too)

[jerrygreg2]

@Elberiver11 Do I have to explain my bloody humour? OK - Are you deliberately trying to offend Germans? - This alludes to the fact that there's a stereotype on offer in the sketch.

Don't you know it's Jürgen...- but I'm not talking about the stereotype, I'm talking about the vowel change. It's delivered without exclamation mark or lol for comic effect ie deadpan. WELL IT'S NOT FUNNY IF I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT TO YOU. I won't be visiting Germany as a comic!