History...and comedy?

[almaviva90]

I'm sorry but I couldn't stop laughing my head off upon watching this...

www.youtube.com/watch

Dr. Simon Schama is a well-known historian in the UK, by the way...I think he presented the series 'A History of Britain' which I've always been interested in watching but never got round to doing so...

This utterly takes the mickey out of cliched demonstrative devices used so quite often in history documentaries...XD

Comments

[starblues.livejournal.com]

(Originally here via the Writer's Block function)

It's funny, isn't it? I'm a big fan of Dr Schama but Jon Culshaw's impression is just right. There was also another sketch where he tried to do the whole Edwardian period with just a potato (a "King Edward", ha ha) and one with Schama and Rolf Harris as the "Power of Art Rangers" :)

[almaviva90.livejournal.com]

I've yet to see a program with Dr Schama (seeing that I live in Hong Kong) but thanks for telling me that the impression is spot on. The sketch was really hilariously funny. =) It would be nice to see the other sketches you mentioned but alas, Youtube doesn't have them.