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Philomena Cunk (Franchise)
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Philomena Cunk, played by Diane Morgan and usually referred to simply by her last name, is a completely clueless journalist and commentator created as a talking head for Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe. She later received her own Moments of Wonder segment within that programme, and eventually went on to have several of her own series commissioned. Cunk On Shakespeare: Cunk reviews the career of the man they called "The King of the Bards". Cunk On Christmas: Cunk goes on a journey right up Christmas, to discover whether the true meaning of Christmas has any meaning today. Cunk On Britain: Cunk's very personal history of The United Britain of Great Kingdom. Cunk On Earth: Nothing less than a history of human civilisation, in which Cunk asks the big questions, such as "What was the Soviet Onion?" and "Do we know if China has a roof"?The Cunk On... shows are marked by Cunk's total absence of basic knowledge about whatever she's talking about, coupled with her firm confidence that she does know what she's talking about. Joel Morris, one of its writers, said that the basic joke with the character is that viewers ask themselves, "Why have they given a show to someone who knows less about this than me?"She interviews various (real) authorities on the subject in question and frequently asks questions that are so bizarre that they don't know how to answer. Unlike other shows such as Brasseye and Da Ali G Show where the interviewees weren't aware that they were being interviewed by a fictional character, in the Cunk On... shows, the interviewees are 100% in on the joke. Which, the creators say, is the point. | |
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Fictional Greetings and Farewells | |
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Fictional Greetings and Farewells: Cunk often greets interviewees in a way that's slightly... off, such as a blunt "Who are you?" or "What's your game?", suggesting that she genuinely has no idea who they are. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: This joke resonated very much in 2018, with Brexit looming on the horizon: | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X" | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X": Cunk is seen examining a folio of Shakespeare's plays, opened at the title page of Coriolanus. Her finger is pointing at the last four letters and she looks up at the camera and smiles. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: Cunk was originally created for Weekly Wipe as one of these for a character named Barry Shitpeas, although she soon broke out. | |
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Twisted Christmas | |
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Twisted Christmas: Cunk thinks that this is what Eastenders is for. | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure: Cunk is a fountain of these. Later in the same programme, she observes that school in Shakespeare's time was a lot easier than school today, because back then, nobody had to study Shakespeare. Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: She believes Romeo and Juliet to be a romantic comedy until she discovers halfway through an interview with Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells that both Romeo and Juliet die at the end. From one of the "Moments of Wonder" bits in Weekly Wipe: | |
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The Abridged History | |
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The Abridged History: Cunk On Britain is a parody of sweeping history documentaries presented in Cunk's signature, clueless style. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Zig-zagged. The production values of the show are great. The camerawork is fluid, the clips are generally well-chosen, the experts are genuine experts in their field, and it looks fantastic. It's just that Cunk herself is an idiot. In one episode of Cunk On Britain, the production team have obviously failed to get any decent Stock Footage of D-Day and presumably can't afford the rights to footage from Saving Private Ryan, so instead they use footage from Call of Duty 2. Duly lampshaded by Cunk in the narration: The question of who, exactly, in their right mind would put Philomena Cunk at the forefront of a series of high-budget history and current affairs documentaries can still come up while watching, of course. According to one of the writers on the Rule of Three podcast, a bit of meta-narrative the writers use to resolve this issue is that one of the producers is desperately in love with Cunk (who is, of course, too stupid to realise this), and so keeps putting her in TV shows in a vain attempt to get her to notice him. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Cunk thinks that Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is called "Tight Arse and Monicus", she refers to the bubonic plague as "the bionic plague", and she calls the Magna Carta the "Magma Carta", which in turn causes her to inform us that, according to Google Translate, "'Magma Carta' is Latin for 'cardboard volcano'." She thinks Benedict Cumberbatch's name is "Benylin Thundercrack". | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Philomena's offscreen friend "my mate Paul", who she occasionally relates horrifying anecdotes about, and who apparently regularly suffers one painful or unpleasant indignity after another. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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In one episode of Cunk On Britain, the production team have obviously failed to get any decent Stock Footage of D-Day and presumably can't afford the rights to footage from Saving Private Ryan, so instead they use footage from Call of Duty 2. Duly lampshaded by Cunk in the narration: | |
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WomanChild | |
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Womanchild: The central joke of Philomena Cunk is that she's basically an ill-informed nine-year-old in a grown woman's body who has inexplicably been given various current affairs and history documentaries to host, and so keeps coming up with the kind of odd, left-of-field and occasionally surprisingly perceptive questions that a child would ask. | |
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Gorgeous Period Dress | |
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Gorgeous Period Dress: Cunk dons one of these and a large curly red wig in Cunk on Shakespeare, in order to dress up as Elizabeth I. Played for laughs in that she doesn't change her flat Northern accent or deadpan delivery in any way. | |
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Pants-Free | |
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Pants-Free: In a "Moments of Wonder" about charity, Cunk urges the viewer to reach into their pockets to donate to charity, and if they don't have money in there, then donating the pocket, or the entire pair of trousers. Then: | |
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Mean Character, Nice Actor | |
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Mean Character, Nice Actor: Philomena Cunk is deadpan, blunt and can be quite aggressive with people she feels aren't being helpful in an interview, but according to the writers, Diane Morgan is very warm and laughs very easily. | |
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The Everyman | |
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The Everyman: In Cunk On Christmas a chaplain talks about how Jesus being born helps make him relatable. | |
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Iconic Outfit | |
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Iconic Outfit: Cunk almost always wears a man's business suit, a blue shirt and a long tweed coat. Parodied in one episode where she's visiting a spa and takes off her robe for a massage, only to reveal that she's wearing the suit underneath. The masseuse goes to take her jacket and Cunk irritatedly shrugs her off. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: The central gag of the show. At the heart is Cunk herself, who relates poorly-researched gibberish with a completely straight face. Then there's her interviewees, who have to figure out a way of somehow responding to her idiotic questions. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: She believes Romeo and Juliet to be a romantic comedy until she discovers halfway through an interview with Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells that both Romeo and Juliet die at the end. | |
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Pun | |
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Pun | |
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Classical Music Is Boring | |
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Classical Music Is Boring: Philomena certainy believes so, she complains that Beethoven's 5th Symphony doesn't have lyrics and so is "literally meaningless". She points out that every time somebody talks about the middle ages there has to be an annoying harpsichord sound playing in the background. At one point she is made to listen to a 100 year old phonograph recording. it looks like she's about to burst into tears, and she pleads for it to be turned off. | |
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Kissing Cousins | |
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Kissing Cousins: Combined with a Take That! against a certain region of England: | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Shaped Like Itself: Cunk resorts to this because she can't count. | |
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Oop North | |
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Oop North: Cunk talks in a more pronounced version of Diane Morgan's own Bolton accent. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: While talking to an English teacher, Cunk has the (for her) rare experience of realising that she got something wrong. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy: David has no anus. | |
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Stunned Silence | |
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Stunned Silence: Historian Laura Ashe, in her first appearance on Cunk On Britain, has one of these when confronted with Cunk's opening remark: "King Arthur came a lot." She has an even longer one when, after she's cleared up that Arthur's court was called Camelot, Cunk won't let it lie: | |
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The Un-Twist | |
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The Un Twist: | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile: A spectacular one that comes full circle: | |
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Narrating the Obvious | |
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Narrating the Obvious: Cunk often tells exactly us what we're looking at, in the least nuanced way possible. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Cunk repeatedly delivers these, although she seems to do so on the assumption that the viewer agrees with her: | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Downplayed. Philomena looks and sounds like a serious reporter, but she's quite easily bored, doesn't seem to like reading or fine art, eats a banana during a Shakespearean monologue, and believes life wasn't worth living before the invention of television. This might also explain the Running Gag of cutting to irrelevant footage during her programs. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: While interviewing Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale: | |
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Cringe Comedy | |
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Cringe Comedy: Some of the interviews have this, especially when it looks like the real person Philomena is talking to is completely unaware that she's an actor playing a character. In fact, as noted above, all of them do know that; it's just that some are very good at reacting to her as though she's for real. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: On the question of comedy: | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
| Philomena Cunk (Franchise) / int_d46ddfa2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoolander: Cunk's mind can take some seriously weird left turns. She thinks statues are alive, she asks an expert in Ancient Egypt if a mummy can ride a bicycle, she doesn't believe in night time, and in one interview she brings up wasps for no reason at all. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: She began as one of many Talking Heads on Weekly Wipe but soon got her own special, and as of 2022 is on her second full series, Cunk On Earth. | |
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The Vitruvian Pose | |
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The Vitruvian Pose: The title sequence of Cunk On Earth has a drawing of Cunk doing this. | |
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Many Questions Fallacy | |
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Many Questions Fallacy: Cunk has one in Cunk on Shakespeare. | |
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The Ditz | |
| Philomena Cunk (Franchise) / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Cunk, obviously. She believes that dinosaurs were killed to fuel steam trains and that jokes weren't invented until after Shakespeare's death. (Zig-zagged from time to time: see Dumbass Has a Point). She also believes that Alan Turing built a machine that "killed Hitler": She also believes that Vikings had to pull their helmets on over their "skull horns". She also believes that tinsel is a plant. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
| Philomena Cunk (Franchise) / int_e83f211c | comment |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During Episode 4 of "Cunk on Earth," she gets genuinely upset when she realizes that nuclear weapons are still a threat, to the point where she starts crying. And in the following episode, she demands a minute of silence when she learns about Laika's death. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
| Philomena Cunk (Franchise) / int_f360fc33 | comment |
Dumbass Has a Point: Every so often, Philomena says something that really hits home. In a "Moments of Wonder" section on Churchill, her interviewee even concedes this: While discussing the less than comfortable audience arrangements in William Shakespeare's days, she even manages to somewhat stump the interviewee | |
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Product Placement | |
| Philomena Cunk (Franchise) / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: Parodied. In Cunk On Earth, her travels take her to an ancient temple—which, she adds, you can visit while staying at a particular luxury resort. The show then turns for five minutes into an extended promotion for the resort, with "PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL" in the top-right corner of the screen, with Cunk describing its attractions. At the end of it, she's seen stealing bathroom supplies and darts a furtive look at the camera. | |
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Running Gag | |
| Philomena Cunk (Franchise) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: In Cunk On Britain, every single episode contained a reference to the date of the first broadcast of the obscure 80s British sitcom Brush Strokes, which is then followed by the first minute or so of that show's opening titles, with its theme tune by Dexys Midnight Runners. In Cunk On Earth, a similar gag refers to the 1989 single "Pump Up The Jam" by Technotronic, followed by a minute or so of the song's video and some entirely inaccurate factoids about it. Cunk's love of crisps note For US readers, potato chips tends to come up frequently. Cunk is also clearly a bit of a phoneaholic, and several moments can be found where she is clearly supposed to be regarding something or someone with fascinated awe but isn't because she's clearly gotten bored and started playing with her phone instead. | |
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Abbey Road Crossing | |
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Abbey Road Crossing: Cunk naturally does one of these in Cunk On Britain when talking about the Beatles ("George, Ringo and their guitar players.") | |
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