Ricky Gervais - The 11 O'Clock show WW2 skit 1998

Ricky Gervais performing a skit about World War 2 on the 11 O'Clock show in 1998.

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  Comedy

[eminemfansite]

Not as good as he used to be? He's got funnier. He's infinitely funny, he's like the only comedian I immediately start laughing at when he talks. Just the way he sarcastically dubs certain words and shifts his eyes etc. He's a comic genius.

[Ed O'Meara]

"this joke which suggests that the only regrettable thing of the bombing of Hiroshima was that the name of the plane turned out to mean homosexual"

That's the joke. The attitude of the 'hard as nails' pilot who considers it an 'honour' to drop a bomb! "I wouldn't want any part of it to come back and haunt me" is probably the most important line. He's more concerned with sexual taints than wholesale slaughter! It's about ludicrous inhumanity in times of war.

[jim jimjim]

as true then as it is today. fuck my country.

[hackum1]

Love the vest!

[mustafaamini89]

Just got home from work and watched this and it made my day!

[Bernard Black]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eddie2112x]

Questioning the logic of a person who refuses to consider whether the second atomic bomb was permissible unless the victims are first condemned for the alleged sins of their countrymen has resulted in me being accused of servility and deference by a person whose ethics are informed by Home Box Office. As you have aptly proved, this is Youtube, not reality, and incidentally, I don't find this skit remotely offensive.

[jsmyth024]

Seems your handlers have done a very good job of teaching you how to behave and what to think. Let us all know if you ever wake up and join us in this ever so complicated world we call reality.

Semi-related:

"The common people pray for rain, health and a summer that never ends. They don't care what games the high lords play." ~Mormont~

[jsmyth024]

I suspect involuntary laundering of the frontal lobes as opposed to an intelligent and intentional agenda is the issue here.

Unfortunately, you can't generally talk sense into these types of people, and they will very rarely admit to the opposing pov having any merit at all. It's just not in their nature. Not thinking men, but men full of pride and self justification. It isn't a philosophical conversation, but a battle to see who can prove their recycled jargon is the best.

[SDRockman]

Why are you not hung up about the children who the Japanese MURDERED in the asian countries they went into during world war two?

Can you explain to the world why that is please?

Goodness knows what else they did to them.

Molesting them, raping them, other kinds of slaughtering, but yet you want to go on about a few children who died from a few bombs being dropped on the enemy.

It's very clear what your agenda is.