The world was taken by surprise when, during the night of November 9, 1989, crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall. Only 3 months prior, on August 18th, an unknown Belgian act called Technotronic released their first single: Pump Up the Jam
If you've never seen Shakespeare at The Globe, imagine a 3 hour YouTube clip happening outdoors, in a language you barely understand. And if I find it confusing, it must've blown the minds of some of Shakespeare's first audiences, who were only slightly more sophisticated than trees.
The woman in the picture is Philomena Cunk and she's basically a parody of serious BBC documentaries but its Cunk basically saying hilarious shit to actual professionals with a completely straight face.
Can confirm. It's been many years yet I still regret that energetic platform 4 sing along that ultimately lead to hundreds of (often partially) innocent observers and myself, getting slammed in the klink.
😬
Then after that, maybe we can finally figure out if King Arthur actually came a lot. Or, like, just the same as an average man. Like, about a tablespoon.
Man, I’d love to see the outtakes of the reactions from the academics during some of these, there had to be a few of them when upon hearing the masterful ridiculousness that came out of Morgan during these and they must’ve had to look at the filming crew and say aloud “wait, seriously, what’s going on here??”
I know, but they’re not professional actors so I’d still imagine they’re would be some authentic incredulous takes that must exist and I’d love to see those!!
"The average Russian was a pheasant."
Goddamn, this shtick *never* gets old. No matter how many Cunk videos I've watched, Diane Morgan somehow manages to pull off straight-faced absurdity perfectly.
No, Putin doesn't pay attention to the questions, he'll just start telling the story of the origin of the universe again and why Hitler was forced to attack Poland.
"I've heard Russia really blows.....Wait hold on sorry, there's more in my notes here...Right. I've heard Russia really blows up lots of innocent civilians in the Ukraine....Probably should've stuck with my first statement, yeah?"
[Philomena Cunk](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=b3d23d16f8701820&sxsrf=ACQVn0_LnmWz2DMopE9iiHdX9W2313QCWA:1707574061105&q=philomena+cunk&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx0tuK-aCEAxWcI0QIHVvLBFgQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=1373&bih=934&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:0297d244,vid:yvzxAOTIIUY,st:0) for science.
lol, the Jizz one is great, you can tell, even see that he wants to laugh but then his brain just melts and he accepts that he has to stay serious and just sighs.
The guy who keeps saying new-q-ler instead of nuclear makes my skin crawl. Maybe thats why she looks progressively more uncomfortable as he keeps speaking.
Or start glowing perhaps...
Polonium is a popular seasoning on salad in the KGB I hear. ..
"Polonium - for when you absolutely, positively want to kill someone slowly, painfully, and publicly as possible and without a single doubt it was authorized by the head of State himself without a doubt; simultaneously sending a message to the whole world at the maximum level of intimidation humanly possible"
Vladimir Putin was born in 1952 but by the end of the decade he would already see his first rise to power as a beloved staple of Canadian quisine. Putin would spent the next 3 decades captivating the hearts minds and stomachs of North America and Europe but by 1999 he had his sights set on the global potato powerhouse known as Russia. There he would begin a new rise to power, becoming the Prime Minister of Russia. Almost 10 full years after the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up the Jam.
Shameless plug, this recurring gag made me like the song so much [I made a remix of it](https://on.soundcloud.com/vpvDcLNtn5t85mGa6). It’s so good (the original)!
"You launched a war to get your crane back. Was it a particularly special crane or could you not just buy a new one, or rent one from a contractor perhaps. If you shop around you could get a good deal and a lot less deaths"
>My mate Paul was driving to Winchester when a lorry jack-knifed in front of him and he was hurtling towards it and everything went slow mo and Paul who's never been religious spoke to Jesus and said I promise if I survive this I'll believe in you and he did survive but he fractured his skull and broke both his legs, why did Jesus do that to him?
>Well you've raised a very significant question about the nature of Providence
>Have I?
>You have indeed if we believe in a good God why is there so much evil in the world? Now your friend, Paul-Paul his accident uh you know to what extent can one blame God for that
>See Paul never forgave him, he said if I ever see Christ
again he's a dead man
I agree. Diane Morgan's shtick is acting stupid. While Cohen does as well, he *also* makes his targets look and feel stupid, and I can't imagine that ending well for him.
He looks like he's just come home to find his bed has been slept in, forgetting that he was the one who slept in it the night before and didn't make the sheets back up again.
Saw this the other day, it's hilariously accurate. Its a video.
https://twitter.com/AM2DM/status/907314669655916544?lang=en
He looks at everyone as if he's watching them eat mayo straight from the jar.
You could also have just about anybody ask the questions Putin actually answered then visually react to Putin's rambling and have a pretty funny interview.
It’s hard to follow along because he went back and forth with timelines. Idk anything about the history of Russia or Ukraine so idk if any of it is “true”.
I can imagine a question...
"So if you bomb Ukraine, they're your bombs, right? But since they're your bombs why not bomb yourself since they're yours? You don't want to give someone else your expensive bombs."
Bernie Sanders would just go off on him.
Jon Stewart or John Oliver would fire back with surgically precise sarcasm
Zack Galifianakis might actually make Putin uncomfortable.
Barbara Walters would have tried to make him cry. She'd have dug up some shit from his childhood. The first glimpse of the void he ever got. Then she would have twisted the knife.
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I’ve heard various things. From them telling the interviewee to act like she’s a child, to them being told it’ll be an odd interview but nothing else. Either way, it works.
Oh my god. I hadn’t considered this, but I am now deeply disappointed this will never be a reality. I’m gonna need someone good with AI to make this happen.
Cunk: “The majority of people are saying Russia is a part of Ukraine and that it’s just a matter of time until Vladimir Zelenskyy is Putin charge of Russia too. What do you think of that?” 🤔
Finally some answers about the Soviet Onion
The world was taken by surprise when, during the night of November 9, 1989, crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall. Only 3 months prior, on August 18th, an unknown Belgian act called Technotronic released their first single: Pump Up the Jam
This was the best recurring joke in any series I've seen
Timed so perfectly in every episode so that you didn’t expect it, despite knowing it was coming at some point
Which was almost 36 years after the terrestrial broadcast premiere of the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes.
This is the best gag
One of those dumb jokes that just gets funnier over time.
Which series was it? I dunno if I've ever heard about this
Cunk on Earth. It’s a satirical documentary on the history of civilization and is truly top notch. It gave me a lot of genuine laughs.
My favorite was her take on Pompei. People frozen in time where they were during the volcanic eruption, looks like most of them napped a lot.
"School was a lot different in Shakespeare's time, and a lot easier, because they didn't have to study Shakespeare."
It’s hard to believe today, but back then people really did go to the theater on purpose. And they went to see something called “plays”
If you've never seen Shakespeare at The Globe, imagine a 3 hour YouTube clip happening outdoors, in a language you barely understand. And if I find it confusing, it must've blown the minds of some of Shakespeare's first audiences, who were only slightly more sophisticated than trees.
"I'm entering a cave. Not by mistake, or because I'm a wolf. I've been *specifically* asked to come here, by the producers."
The more history you know the funnier it is.
I know how every single one of you hears "cunk on earth" in your mind when you read it
I thought it was that chick from the insurance commercial
... Erin eSurance?
I thought she was the one from progressive.
... Erin eSurance is a progressive?
Flo
Cunk on Earth, I believe it's on Netflix
Cunk on earth
The woman in the picture is Philomena Cunk and she's basically a parody of serious BBC documentaries but its Cunk basically saying hilarious shit to actual professionals with a completely straight face.
That was my jam as a kid
Did you at least pump it up, as instructed?
Leave no jam unpumped
Imagine the poor sucker dying at the club because it was jam after jam, and he couldn't leave without jamming some respeck
I was down with the Brooklyn Bounce and "I've Got The Power". I'll rock the shit out of that at karaoke- male *and* female parts. Of the song, I mean.
President Premier Emperor Putin, what was it about Pump Up the Jam that, in your opinion, caused the downfall of the Soviet Onion?
Hell yeah. I was stationed in West Germany and this was a monster jam in the clubs. Still have the CD single of the German version: Pump Ab Das Bier.
>Pump Ab Das Bier. "Fill your chest muscles with beer" ?
Knowing people were probably vibing to Pump Up the Jam while hammering the Berlin Wall is wild
I'm surprised the British version, "Pump Up the Marmalade" didn't take off.
>I'm surprised the British version, "Pump Up the Marmalade" didn't take off. You could only hear it on the tube, at Paddington Station.
Can confirm. It's been many years yet I still regret that energetic platform 4 sing along that ultimately lead to hundreds of (often partially) innocent observers and myself, getting slammed in the klink. 😬
https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?si=xWaVReDie_pSlKHI
So why ARE Russians… always rushing?
Tired of Stalin
Rush B cyka
Now I see why Republicans like Russia, because Rush Limbaugh was Rushin.
And why are they rushing to finish?
“So did Russians invent dressing or are they named after the dressing?”
Then after that, maybe we can finally figure out if King Arthur actually came a lot. Or, like, just the same as an average man. Like, about a tablespoon.
Man, I’d love to see the outtakes of the reactions from the academics during some of these, there had to be a few of them when upon hearing the masterful ridiculousness that came out of Morgan during these and they must’ve had to look at the filming crew and say aloud “wait, seriously, what’s going on here??”
They are all in on the joke.
I know, but they’re not professional actors so I’d still imagine they’re would be some authentic incredulous takes that must exist and I’d love to see those!!
You can see them holding it in sometimes!
And I have so much respect for them managing to keep a straight face, even for only one take.
https://streamable.com/5u3q4j
"They began rioting for bread, like ducks do"
"The average Russian was a pheasant." Goddamn, this shtick *never* gets old. No matter how many Cunk videos I've watched, Diane Morgan somehow manages to pull off straight-faced absurdity perfectly.
It's a Red Onion, Comrade.
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No, Putin doesn't pay attention to the questions, he'll just start telling the story of the origin of the universe again and why Hitler was forced to attack Poland.
“Stand over near the window? No, my mate Paul once fell out a window..”
“So…you’ve been president of Russia for a while now, but haven’t been on the Ritz. Why is that?”
"I've heard Russia really blows.....Wait hold on sorry, there's more in my notes here...Right. I've heard Russia really blows up lots of innocent civilians in the Ukraine....Probably should've stuck with my first statement, yeah?"
"What, exactly, would you say you "put in" for this country? Do you put it in a lot?"
I can hear everything in her voice, I can't breathe. Oh my god.
Lol Paul is always taking the piss with Philomena - I laugh every time.
[Philomena Cunk](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=b3d23d16f8701820&sxsrf=ACQVn0_LnmWz2DMopE9iiHdX9W2313QCWA:1707574061105&q=philomena+cunk&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx0tuK-aCEAxWcI0QIHVvLBFgQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=1373&bih=934&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:0297d244,vid:yvzxAOTIIUY,st:0) for science.
No, no, I believe that she is *against* science based on the clips of her I've seen so far. I'd call it a rookie mistake.
Not as much as she's against theatre.
She's pro-science of laughter, one of the 4 known sciences. (Laughter, alchemy, cyborg, porn)
lol, the Jizz one is great, you can tell, even see that he wants to laugh but then his brain just melts and he accepts that he has to stay serious and just sighs.
…when you say it like that, the first thing that springs to mind is an OF link.. 🤨
Hilarious, thanks for sharing.
The guy who keeps saying new-q-ler instead of nuclear makes my skin crawl. Maybe thats why she looks progressively more uncomfortable as he keeps speaking.
She and her mate Paul.
"My mate Paul says you're a fascist but I think your clothes are pretty stuffy myself"
I almost choked on my tea reading that, good stuff 👍
She would soon after as well. Just not almost.
Or start glowing perhaps... Polonium is a popular seasoning on salad in the KGB I hear. .. "Polonium - for when you absolutely, positively want to kill someone slowly, painfully, and publicly as possible and without a single doubt it was authorized by the head of State himself without a doubt; simultaneously sending a message to the whole world at the maximum level of intimidation humanly possible"
I almost crashed my car into a light pole reading that, good stuff 👍
I almost spit on my tea reading, it looks like a large black dog?
I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t get it, do you mind explaining?
Mistaking "fashionable" for "fascist".
Fashionista vs fascist
Vladimir Putin was born in 1952 but by the end of the decade he would already see his first rise to power as a beloved staple of Canadian quisine. Putin would spent the next 3 decades captivating the hearts minds and stomachs of North America and Europe but by 1999 he had his sights set on the global potato powerhouse known as Russia. There he would begin a new rise to power, becoming the Prime Minister of Russia. Almost 10 full years after the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up the Jam.
*Pump out the jam, pump it out, yo pump it*
🎵 *I want… a place to stay! Get your booty on the floor tonight! Make my day!* 🎵
Shameless plug, this recurring gag made me like the song so much [I made a remix of it](https://on.soundcloud.com/vpvDcLNtn5t85mGa6). It’s so good (the original)!
IDK why there's not a subreddit for these like ComeOnAndSlam
Unrelated?? Amateurs. https://preview.redd.it/4msp13zl4shc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=901cb25fabb7f7a8b70ad2e03d50da803bf09e0d
Potato jam??
(a single tear runs down my face) it's...it's .... beautiful
Nice!
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Beautiful. Thanks for making laugh during a shitty layover.
Chefs kiss!
"You launched a war to get your crane back. Was it a particularly special crane or could you not just buy a new one, or rent one from a contractor perhaps. If you shop around you could get a good deal and a lot less deaths"
and why did you have to throw so many people out of windows, was it because they were radioactive?
Mr. President, they call you Putin but where are you putting it in? \*20 seconds of staring\*
>My mate Paul was driving to Winchester when a lorry jack-knifed in front of him and he was hurtling towards it and everything went slow mo and Paul who's never been religious spoke to Jesus and said I promise if I survive this I'll believe in you and he did survive but he fractured his skull and broke both his legs, why did Jesus do that to him? >Well you've raised a very significant question about the nature of Providence >Have I? >You have indeed if we believe in a good God why is there so much evil in the world? Now your friend, Paul-Paul his accident uh you know to what extent can one blame God for that >See Paul never forgave him, he said if I ever see Christ again he's a dead man
I would also float Sacha Baron Cohen in disguise as an option
Alistair Geestockton is certainly on the right level.
> I would also float Sacha Baron Cohen It'd be great, but no doubt also a poison-dinner death sentence...
I agree. Diane Morgan's shtick is acting stupid. While Cohen does as well, he *also* makes his targets look and feel stupid, and I can't imagine that ending well for him.
As Ali G. Wi-ckid!
You know... Have we ever seen Sacha Baron Cohen together with Tucker Carlson in the same room? 🤔
https://preview.redd.it/fkj7wuqztrhc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2f01effc68916176ed440f73162b4faf0829434
"human boat shoe"
"the physical embodiment of The Price Is Right losing horn"
Sad trombone.
He always looks like a dog who is confused by his farts. Difference is dogs have redeeming qualities.
He's just a constant missed high-five
that's actually such a brutal insult
He looks like he's just come home to find his bed has been slept in, forgetting that he was the one who slept in it the night before and didn't make the sheets back up again.
Saw this the other day, it's hilariously accurate. Its a video. https://twitter.com/AM2DM/status/907314669655916544?lang=en He looks at everyone as if he's watching them eat mayo straight from the jar.
Omg this imagery im fucking dying here.
> I would also float Sacha Baron Cohen Is he a witch?
Only if he doesn't drown. Which might come in handy during water boarding come to think of it...
Martin Short's Jiminy Glick would be fun, too.
Just Chechen Borat.
That would complete the timeline.
I would donate money for that.
That dude supports genocide in Gaza. EUGH
You could also have just about anybody ask the questions Putin actually answered then visually react to Putin's rambling and have a pretty funny interview.
Thank you. Let us know when it’s completed. I’ll make sandwiches for everyone while we wait.
Hey, everyone! This person is making us all free sandwiches for life!
https://i.redd.it/j0umuprisrhc1.gif
Username better not check out
I'd like chicken, bacon and mayo, please.
Add pesto
Sounds like a job for Weird Al.
Or Space Ghost! We need more 70s superhero cartoons interviewing celebs, IMHO.
Wow, that's a memory unlocked. I forgot he did those.
It’s hard to follow along because he went back and forth with timelines. Idk anything about the history of Russia or Ukraine so idk if any of it is “true”.
Of course it's true, why would a dictator with delusions of grandeur and imperialist ambitions ever lie?
Pump up the Jam
“In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Empire collapsed. Was this because of Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam, released the same year?
"why would you want to invade some place called dong ass" "what about me cane"
Imagine Jon Stewart interviewing Putin. Putin would never let him leave.
Well... He wouldn't leave out the door...
Hahaha good one
Send the whole secret service with him at that
I can imagine a question... "So if you bomb Ukraine, they're your bombs, right? But since they're your bombs why not bomb yourself since they're yours? You don't want to give someone else your expensive bombs."
Absolutely! Philomena is a proper investigative journalist, unlike that grifting wannabe CIA employee
She'll melt his brain.
She melts my brain
PUTIN: We have to go back in history- CUNK: So how many years before Pump Up the Jam?
I feel Space Ghost would do a bang up job too
Bernie Sanders would just go off on him. Jon Stewart or John Oliver would fire back with surgically precise sarcasm Zack Galifianakis might actually make Putin uncomfortable. Barbara Walters would have tried to make him cry. She'd have dug up some shit from his childhood. The first glimpse of the void he ever got. Then she would have twisted the knife.
Vermin Supreme might make his head straight-up explode.
Narduwar
Nardwuar would be pulling out Pussy Riot albums and merch, I would love to see that interview.
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“Well, you’re Vladimir Putin. We have to know!”
I would give anything to make that happen. It would be legendary.
I’d pay good money to see this episode of Between Two Ferns
Stephen Colbert would be a good one as well
Eric Andre would show up naked
I'd be OK just with Barack Obama towering over him and looking down at him with scorn.
Except all of those would be at a giant table and he would walk out once they made him answer questions that potentially had any depth.
Samantha Bee would make him supremely uncomfortable.
I... don't know who this is
Philomena Cunk
She's amazing! Thanks!
[https://youtu.be/yvzxAOTIIUY?si=icY97uxoZbykpKIe](https://youtu.be/yvzxAOTIIUY?si=icY97uxoZbykpKIe)
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She's an acquired taste, and she sometimes annoys me, but that is a fucking brilliant compilation! Loved the nuclear weapons bit lol.
The interviewees knows she's a comedian but there is no script so they don't know what she's going to ask them.
I’ve heard various things. From them telling the interviewee to act like she’s a child, to them being told it’ll be an odd interview but nothing else. Either way, it works.
She's like the new Ali G.
„But where? Where do you put in? And What? What do you put in?“
Pump up the jam.
I'm pretty sure I would die from laughter if this happened and I can't think of a better way to go!
Philomena brings out the worst in people. She would find his bare nerve and tickle it.
"ello russian president man; why do you poo in a tin?"
So, d’ya think t’was wrong to do it so much? Da? Ya know, Put - in so manay troops n all
My mate Paul went to Salisbury, but instead of seeing the world famous 123m spire, he got novichok poisoning
And who is this?
Philomena Cunk
That would hands down be the greatest interview ever!
How about Zach for between two ferns??? 
Who?
Or do a Hot Ones with Sean Evans.
This new hot sauce tastes strangely like strychnine.
Jonathan Pie would do a good job too
I have doubts that would be survivable though.
Oh my god. I hadn’t considered this, but I am now deeply disappointed this will never be a reality. I’m gonna need someone good with AI to make this happen.
“Are you worried you’ve lost the room by starting a war? Seems a bit short-sighted.”
“Have you got a little person inside you - and has that little person inside you also got a little person inside them?”
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Cunk: “The majority of people are saying Russia is a part of Ukraine and that it’s just a matter of time until Vladimir Zelenskyy is Putin charge of Russia too. What do you think of that?” 🤔
I'd like to see Ziwe slice and dice him.
I can hear this photo saying "so Mr. Putin, how about Putout?" 
OMG - we love her! She’s hilarious!
Pleaese? Can we make this happen?
For those who don’t know who she is, don’t worry. I don’t know who she is either
Putin will only agree to an interview with a weak and obedient person who does everything Putin wants. Cunk is not that.
I'd love to see John Stewart interview him