Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena: The Encyclopedia Philomena - 'Essential reading for these slipshod times' Al Murray

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From the creator and star of the “deeply funny, unexpectedly informative” (The Daily Beast) Netflix mockumentary Cunk on Earth , a helpful guide covering every single topic in the known universe, from Adam and Eve to Top Gun. It’s the sort of idea that tell you more about Freud than anybody else, but what can you expect from a man who wanted to hump his mum? And probably the best thing since before sliced bread, but we don't know what happened before then, because that was the start of time. Cunk explaining how we know so much about the Battle of Hastings: "We’ve got an accurate visual record of the whole thing thanks to a quick-thinking bystander, who took a tapestry of it. They sleep during the day, but once it is dark, they hunt in packs for their chief food: lightbulbs.

Using humor quite similar to "Borat" movies, it tells condensed version of human history and main laugh is putting various experts into uncomfortable situation where they have to answer stupid questions about history.Philomena Cunk ( Diane Morgan) travels around the world, interviewing (real-world) experts such as Paul Bahn, Martin Kemp, Nigel Spivey, and Shirley Thompson about world history.

Books like this usually feel cobbled together from out-takes and flotsam that couldn't be used elsewhere, but this is a fairly coherent work with a lot of very strong one-liners. A Christmas special, We Wish You a Mandy Christmas, loosely based on A Christmas Carol, was broadcast in December 2021. There are some real laugh out loud moments in this book (‘Is Big Ben the name of the clock or the monster? Zany and witty throughout but what separates it from many other parody books is just how accurate the social commentary is, without ever coming across as preachy or forced. Cunk on moths: "Moths are like the BBC4 version of butterflies— a bit more boring, and mainly on at night.I first became acquainted with the unhinged genius that is Philomena Cunk through her TV series, Cunk on Earth, and this utterly bonkers book with Philomena's take on - well, EVERYTHING - did not disappoint. V druhom rade ju odporúčam čítať (počúvať) po kúskoch, aby ste sa toho nepresýtili (aspoň teda mne sa to zvykne diať a potom si aj ten humor užijem menej). They fight for white rights and men’s rights, which is why it was a big deal when they finally managed to get a white man to be president.