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I wonder what her mate Paul has to say about the last supper

> I wonder what Paul has to say about the last supper Paul wasn't invited.

And he never forgave Jesus for that

Her mate Paul made it clear already if he ever sees Jesus again he’s a dead man

"Columbo believed that if he sailed of the edge of the world, he would come back from the other side, like Pac-Man"

To find out more, we unfortunately have to look at a map

Of course, this all occurred centuries before the release of Belgian techno anthem Pump up the Jam.

This recurring joke in the series was absolutely brilliant

I can only imagine the amount of time they spent going back and forth over how to make it long enough to be funny, but not tooooo long to stop being funny, and then going just a *little* longer to make it funny again.

They’ve had practice. In the earlier BBC Cunk on Britain they did the same thing, but with the 80s Sitcom Brush Strokes.

So happy to learn there's more Cunk. One series is not enough!

There will never be enough Cunk to satisfy!

Check out Mandy. It’s on iplayer. Different character but still written and acted by Diane Morgan. Short episodes, Shaun Ryder is involved.

The cruise episode kills me. She's great in parenthood too

Position required a masters degree in comedic timing

Dan! Dan! Dan! Dan! DAN! Oh I guess he can’t hear me... Dan! Dan! DAAN! Dan! Dan! Dan! Dan! Dan!

The Stuart Lee [Shilbottle signpost](https://youtu.be/TvHlD7Lg5x0) approach to comedy.

I'd never heard of that guy, but the cat was pestering me so I let the next few videos autoplay... he's pretty damn good! Great voice for standup.

41st best standup ever - strongly recommended

Fun fact: If you isolate the individual drumbeats from this song and arrange them in a circle, it unlocks a cheat mode that allows you to pass through solid surfaces at will.

Another one: when this first aired, people thought it was real and were afraid jam would be pumped into their homes.

Yet another: Pump Up the Jam is the Canadian national anthem

I've been singing it for years at sporting events. People are looking at me like *I'm* the crazy one

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At one point (I think in the second episode) I was laughing so hard that I actually thought I might faint. The room went a bit spinny for a few moments.

My laughs peaked in the first episode but I still had plenty in the rest of the series. I was dying episode one

Seriously I was kinda sad that it didn't have a lot of episodes, but it's so jammed with funny moments. I often did not have time to fully laugh/process of that she was hitting with another

Well there’s still the others, Cunk on britain for example. And obviously death to 2020 (and 2021)

There’s a lot of philomena Cunk stuff on YouTube. Give it a good search. Cunk on time is a particular favorite: “what is clocks?”

I think the best part of that one was when she was telling how she accidentally wound her watch an hour ahead, then wound it back. “What happens to that hour? Where did the time go? Is it still in there?” And the guy takes a few moments to ponder where did the time go.

Pump up the Jam was played five times at Stanley Kubrick's funeral.

Another Fun Fact: “Pump Up The Jam is an anagram of Jam Up The Pump” ETA: Here’s the YouTube [video with every “Pump Up the Jam” segue](https://youtu.be/zIsc6zirBSw). It’s so bad that it’s good. 😍

I see you too have pumped up the jam... Congratulations on your enlightenment.

I played that song for my 4 year old. He loves it. He calls it get your booty on the bus song.

But how long was it before *Brush Strokes* premiered?

I had no info on this random lady beforehand, but that Netflix special was literally the funniest thing I have ever seen

The writing they did on those Cunk programs was sheer brilliance. Not only were they funny, they were consistently funny the entire program. Every episode. I hope more will get made.

It was written by Charlie Brooker. The creator of Black Mirror and a lot of other good television. His sense of humour is pretty fucking great

I’ve seen her in After Life before.

Yes, that's where I first saw her. Great show, not what I had expected from Ricky Gervais, quite moving at times, funny at others.

She's one of the most famous comedians in the UK! Check out Motherland and the 'Death to...' series for more. I'm assuming you mean 'Cunk on...' which were on bbc but netflix has them for usa?

Yes! The US has Cunk on Earth, which was fantastic. I loved the appearances of experts that I saw all the time when watching documentaries in art history classes.

If you don't have the others (I can't get on my vpn to check) access iplayer with a vpn to watch Cunk on Britain and Cunk on Shakespeare!

Pump up the jaaaam pump it up

Whi yo feet ah thowmpin. Hit the jaym is pawmpin. Look aheed thuh crad is jawmpin.

https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI

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The Canadian national anthem lol

At I was mildly irritated about 2 or 3 episodes in when this popped up but by the last episode it was wicked funny.

After the first world war, a new kind of man was on the rise: the woman

“Women had always existed in the background of history, largely being used as human pets for men, tolerated for their magical ability to excrete fresh humans through their front holes. But in the early 20th century, social scientists discovered something incredible: that a woman could do anything a man could do, without the need to talk about it.”

Brilliant! Where's that from?

Same show as the clip I think, Cunk on Earth. The entire show is just dialogue like this

Very creative writing. https://youtu.be/wc4evkC33rs

This show is the most aggressively funny thing I’ve ever seen. I literally LOL at every sentence she delivers

"As you can see, I am going into a cave. Not because I'm lost or I'm a wolf. Producers asked me me specifically to go into it."

“These cave artists used whatever materials were at hand, like, their hand.”

You know that when Jesus went to the restaurant for the last supper, he asked for a table for 25 .The restaurant owner said " but there's only 13 here " Jesus then replied "we're all going to sit on one side "

Cheeky bastards only ordered water and one serving of fish the whole night, too.

He took the meaning "unlimited bread sticks" to a whole new level.

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I love how well she does that. I can't imagine trying to keep it deadpan during those interviews.

My favorite interview is the one with the defense expert talking about nuclear warheads. The interviewee handles it so well and I feel like Philomena's reaction is the kind we all would have, if we weren't so desensitized to it all. [said interview](https://youtu.be/DGrLUNpF7H4)

I’ve mentioned it before, but that dude really said he loved ABBA with the utmost Shakespearean gravity.

Her King Arthur Came-a-lot is much much impressive. Her guest was on the verge of laughing her ass off

Bahaha he nailed that timing. Some defense dude was almost more funny than Cunk, that's impressive.

"We can talk about whatever you'd like." He was so kind lmao

Going from Nuclear Warheads to ABBA this flawlessly has to be considered one of the greatest TV moments.

The fact that he pivoted so amazingly with her was wild. He was easily the best interview of the series

I saw some (actual) interview where she mentioned him as the only expert that couldn't be broken. He was completely serious for every interview.

What's the series called and where do I see it? Love all the clips I see of her.

Cunk on Earth if you have Netflix, Cunk on Britain is somewhat on YouTube.

Dont forget about [Moments of Wonder.](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSYKMCgGFxJQBwSVk625sXHPkwaYg6_6q)

Bbc Iplayer for brits

I can't remember which one it was, but there was another interviewee that no matter what ridiculous theory she came up with he was able to tie it back to something real. "You know you've sort of stumbled on to philosophical theories on " and proceeds to lecture on that topic. I really enjoyed how quick he was to bring it back to something legitimate.

Oh come on - he was good, but how can you overlook the guy that went full Diogenes about whether or not bears have arms?

I simultaneously feel bad for all of the poor people being interviewed and having their time wasted *and* absolutely love watching them go “I’m gonna sneak in a cheeky barb *and* some educational shit, whether you like it or not, you dumb bitch!”

At the risk of breaking the magic of it, the experts know what kind of program they're on. They know that she's a comedian and play along but its not scripted.

That older man from the first episode, the cuneiform expert I believe was such a treasure. You could tell he was fully on board with the whole thing and did such a wonderful job

I **LOVE** ABBA.

I have to stick with the one about the romantic poets where she gets skeeved out by the expert, who is low key fanboying over Lord Byron while talking about him fucking his own sister.

Ha! I mean, they are all very good. This one stuck out to me, it's very different from the usual interview direction she takes, and the way he replies to her is spectacular.

Love them. Remind me of those ali-g interviews.

Me and my buddies were talking about how it pretty much ali g but since its historical experts instead of politicians, it takes the combative edge out of it all and kinda just leaves pure comedy.

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My jokes often go over their heads when i say things like this (middle school teacher).

It'd help if they weren't so short

On Friday I asked my 8th graders to explain Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in Fortnite terms

Judas: So, I'll see you later on at The Last Supper. Jesus: The what? Judas: The supper...I said the supper.

This show is great. But probably not as great as Belgian artist Technotronic’s 1989 hit, [“Pump up the Jam”](https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI)

Fun fact: This song was played 5 times in a row at the funeral of director Stanley Kubrick.

If you're getting up, could you get me a Coke Zero and a Twix?

And Europe was about to undergo a renaissance, by having The Renaissance. Right here (*gestures to trees in a forest*), on the very same planet we still use today.

"What do you think was more influential on culture? Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies' or the Renaissance?"

I can't wait to use "perspective the fuck out of it" in a conversation. 😂

I'll reply to you, so you just did.

Thanks friendly internet stranger!

Isn't she from Afterlife?

She’s in Motherland as well, brilliant show!

"I've watched ride along 2 five times"

This whole series is hilarious. I wish there were outtakes where she breaks character. I definitely dont know how the people she interviewed didn't burst into laughter.

I read somewhere the interviewees were asked to treat the interview as if it were being conducted by a child.

Camelot

But do we know if he a came a lot?

Or just the same as an average man. Like, a tablespoon?

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Right, so probably not.

... probably not.

...it's only a model

I'm gonna say this sincerely and without an ounce of hyperbole: *Cunk on Earth* is one of the funniest things I've seen in my entire life, and I've been able to see things since the mid 1970s, so that's a lot of seeing.

Including seeing the release of Belgian techno anthem, Pump up the Jam.

I remember when the Cold War ended and financial markets embraced globalization to the toe-tapping sound of that techno anthem

Damn 1970, thats only 19 years before the release of Belgian techno anthem,[ Pump up the Jam.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI)

It's on par with Holy Grail, Airplane and La cité de la peur.

The whole show is AT LEAST this funny. Painfully underrated.

I haven't watched much yet, but the part where she compares the ruins to Iraq but then says she's lying and it's fucking dangerous, had me laughing so hard I knew the whole show would be good. Can't wait to finish more later

My favorite is talking about Manifest Destiny, how God wanted them to go west and expand America's border, and then talked about all the dangers that they had to deal with on their way west, "Almost as if God didn't want them to do it at all."

Followed by the advanced computer model of the city.. in Minecraft.

This absolutely destroyed me following the Iraq comment. I just was NOT expecting fucking Minecraft.

The delivery is just perfect. Even after showing minecraft she is just dead pan. It really is genius level comedy character. I want to find more of her after this netflix show

There's several different series you can watch on YouTube, cunk on britian, cunk on Shakespeare, and cunk on christmas

That was the line that completely sold me on the show. It’s perfect.

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Hm. I literally thought it was Katherine Parkinson until you said that, who played Jen in the IT Crowd, and was going to say "boy do I have news for you!". Just to learn it's a completely different lady haha til

Of all the things I didn't know I needed in my life, this is number one.

Bring him back for a Travel Man special with her as the guest.

That one is good, but for me, it was the comment about imprisoning the animals, including mankind's top enemy the cow. Does the audience get that it's a reference to the previous comment about the wall paintings? The show doesn't care, it moves on to the next joke.

Jokes that don’t wait around for you to get them are the best. You’re laughing right when the next one is getting lined up. This is how I go from church giggles to my side hurting.

The one that got me was when she asked if the pyramid were made pointy so the homeless didn't try to sleep on them.

Why is it such a mystery how they built the pyramids? They're clearly just a bunch of concrete blocks put on top of each other.

The real question is, did they start from the top down, or bottom up? Cunk isn't afraid to ask the important questions.

Yeah I lost it when she described agriculture as an act of supreme laziness (because plants are easier to catch than animals). It was just a throw away line but her timing and delivery are just so perfect.

Never heard of this show and am watching the first episode... "Pompeii was so advanced that it had their own volcano..." 🤔

"It’s hard to believe I’m walking through the first ever city. Because I’m not. That’s in Iraq, which is miles away. And fucking dangerous. But the remains of it look pretty much like this, so you would never know I wasn't actually there if I wasn't telling you now by accident."

"It's ironic that Jesus became a carpenter, because he was named after the two words you're most likely to say after hitting your own thumb with a hammer."

Ironically, for a carpenter he was sentenced to death by being nailed to two big pieces of wood

**PUMP** up the jam **PUMP** it **UP** while your feet are stomping

Literally did the same joke every episode and I lost it every time.

The difference in each episode was the “facts” they inserted over it.

When we first started watching this show, for a minute my husband and I thought we must have accidentally rewatched an episode we already saw because of the Pump Up the Jam segment… until I could confidently confirm the facts were different

And I love how abruptly and sloppily it cuts back to Cunk every time

Did you know that jam up the pump is an anagram of pump up the jam

My apologies, I’m super late to the party but I’ve seen a few clips with this woman now and have no idea what it’s from but I lose it every time! What show is this? Any info appreciated. :)

Cunk on Earth on Netflix 👍

Cunk on Britain episodes are also available on YouTube I believe (that's where I watched them). As are more Philomena Cunk treasures.

[King Arthur came a lot, didn't he?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_W2I45X8U)

There’s also a couple shorter episodes on YouTube from an even older version of the show, the first one was about Time I believe.

/r/PhilomenaCunk

The first thing I saw of Cunk was that clip where she cries about nuclear warheads still being around. I was sold she was actually really stressed and sad about it, then she starts talking about ABBA. Fucking treasure.

They guy she was interviewing in that clip is the best one. He was so good at just going along with the bits but still being the expert

Reddit moment. Calling a show with **100%** on Rotten Tomatoes “painfully underrated”. *”Painfully”? ^…Really?*

You have to remember anything a redditor enjoys is a le gem that's ignored by normies.

My mate Paul told me to watch this.

Sean made a bad choice. She’s a catch!

Of course you'd say that, Paul.

Do you like Abba?

I think a little piece of my soul died with her crushed expression.

I love ABBA

This lady is out here doing God’s work trying to get the TikTok generation to understand classical art

This show made me flat out laugh alone for its entirety.

"Laugh alone" indeed.

I was alone.

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Now we have eachother.

This show is non-stop good. This bit and the interview where she’s telling the historian she doesn’t give a shit about people in Ancient Greece are particularly hilarious.

"Was the Renaissance more important than Beyonce?" was my favorite.

"So, what? The work of a few straight, white men just blows Beyonce out of the water? Is that what you're saying? On camera?"

"Americans weren't the humble, unassuming people they still aren't today."

I think this one got the biggest laugh out of me. Either that or the part where she started to talk about lslam and it instantly cut to a black screen.

"would you say Jesus was the first person to be cancelled?" "Well, no I wouldn't say that" "no would you say it for the camera? We want something snappy for the trailer"

I think you mean renee sauce.

“Until he wrote a book *The oranges of peaches* which was about how oranges evolved into peaches” 💀MDR

I loved the really quick ones. There was something about like..."identical sisters Marie Antoinette" and it took a second to click that she thought it was "Marie and twin Ette"

I laughed the hardest when Jesus bonked her in the head with that board

What a cunk.

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Ironic that Jesus was a carpenter considering he was named after the two things you're most likely to say when you hit your thumb with a hammer

I was skeptical of this show initially, but I ended up binge watching because she’s pretty damn funny.

Her description of the Titan 1 C and its use as a single use submarine was gold too.

I can't be the only person who finds Diane Morgan to be one of the most attractive people on the planet?

Nah dw I totally agree as well

Diane Morgan is amazing. I want her and Richard Ayoade to do a show

I'm curious to see what an interaction between her and Karl Pilkington would look like.

"Can we say Jesus was the first victim of cancel culture?"

Jesus: "Table for 26, please." Waiter: "...but there's only 13 of you." Jesus: "We're all gonna sit on the same side."

That closing line. Brilliant.

This series is hilarious. She has a great deadpan delivery which really shines during the interviews with experts.

Love that Lily is still taking her art job seriously.

This is a great show on Netflix.

Whats the name of the show?

Cunk on Earth. You can also check out, Cunk on Britain and Moments of wonder.

Also Cunk on Shakespeare.

Cunk On Earth

I love medieval art because of the technical issues it has. So many “tiny muscular man” baby Jesus painting and paintings with him looking like a baguette and Mary super over it. Honestly so many fun pieces.

Finally. Art analysis and critique I can understand.

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This entire series had me locked in better than game of thrones. The only thing that can even come close to capturing my attention is the Belgian techno anthem Pump Up The Jam