"Talk to the gun coz the cockpit ain't listening" is GOLD!🤣

This sketch is extremely Brit-centric, and I applaud you for getting it 😊

I've been accused of reading too much into it with this, but personally I do think part of the 'point' of these sketches is that the pilots really were very young at the time, about the age of the kids who speak like this now. Quite poignant really.

In either case, these are fantastic sketches, well worth watching 😂

And he's all like "Rattata-tattata-tat and I'm like...talk to the gun 'coz the cockpit ain't listening!“ 😂

I urge people to not just stop at this sketch. Their show was gold

One aspect of these sketches is less about an idea that young people today use slang a lot, but that the young people serving in the RAF during WW2 used lots of slang too. The slang vocabulary then was very different from the modern substitute slang we hear in these clips (and circumstances alter the underlying attitudes too) but to some people it would have been just as impenetrable. There's a Monty Python sketch where one pilot's slang is so extreme his fellow pilots can't understand him.

I was born in the 1950s and I can recall hearing snippets of wartime slang from time to time, especially when two or more former members of the forces got together - many of my school masters had been in the services during the war and they used it too. My father volunteered for the Scots Guards in 1942 or '43 when he was 17, having falsified his date of birth when signing up. I was very aware of this when I reached that age (he had not used the information against me), and I reflected on it more deeply when each of my three sons also reached that age. I feel they would have coped much better with serving in a war at that age than I would have done.

It’s up there with one of the best British Sketch ideas ever.

Armstrong and Miller  series? 93 94% HYSTERICAL,  and I'm not even Lying.

Average age of a spirfire pilot at the time of the Battle of Britain was 20. They had two weeks training before becoming operational.

I like to talk to my grown up kids like this. Proper amuses me and annoys them.
And shit

Never underestimate our British humour 😂😂😂😂😂

Ben Miller looks just like Rob Brydon, but if you squint your eyes and got eye problems and shit.

At the risk of being called a chauvinist, I honestly believe that only British humour could come up with this sort of off-the-wall series of sketches. We take ridiculous juxtapositions to a different level.

" She's well up for it...slapper."  I died😂😂😂😂

These are some of my all time favourite sketches. It dates me but when the German Officer appeared, my instant reaction was to shout "Don't tell him your name, Pike" , from Dad's Army.😂

The Armstrong and Miller Pilots sketches are  hilarious!
Ben Miller and Rob Brydon looking alike is a running joke. They once appeared on Qi together and there was a bit of hilarity that they couldn't be in the same place at the same time because they were really one person! Good spot there!

William the Conqueror is Alexander Armstrongs 27 x great grandfather

The Armstrong and Miller dentist sketches are an absolute must.

I bought one of those counter top bells, and whenever my kids are around, I'll ring it every time they punctuate their sentences with "like".

Not only that but with their accents, and education, with one of them going to a private fee-paying school, Winchester College, they're very obviously upper-class, and yet they're using modern-day, working-class Multicultural London English slang.