In Cunk on Earth, streaming on Netflix, Actress/Writer Diane Morgan portrays Philomena Cunk the narrator/host of a program on world history. Think of the "journalists" on The Daily Show doing their interviews with unsuspecting subjects, who probably don't get the joke.
If the professors and experts that Cunk interviews are in on the joke they do so with perfectly straight faces. For example, Cunk asks an expert on music how Beethoven could have written his symphonies as he was dead in later life. When she is corrected that she must mean 'deaf' Cunk pulls out a note from her producer which says he was dead.
I have had to pause and go back several times per episode since Morgan is just so funny and her complete lack of knowledge or interest in most topics is a delight. There are several running gags and her referencing friends, family, and ex-boyfriends make me smile.
Given all this, it really is a fascinating quick overview of world history. Fair warning, the show is VERY British and perhaps a bit too Liberal for some folks, as the program does take aim at various political, religious, and social topics. The pokes at early Christianity and Islam might really tick off some folks, but I found them LOL funny.
Morgan has played the character previously and even wrote a book, Cunk on Everything.
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