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Hosted by Steve and Neil Webb · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 42 episodes
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Join two brothers for a hilarious dive into the untold stories of history's most obscure figures. Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History unearths the hidden tales your teachers forgot to mention—If you love a good laugh with a bit of sibling rivalry, and learning about remarkable everyday people who did extraordinary things, subscribe for your weekly dose of banter and historical deep dives. It’s the history podcast where the underdogs finally get their due.
Steve and Neil Webb hosts Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History, a comedy show with 42 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Why doesn’t the USA use the metric system? Blame pirates. Seriously. In this episode, we dive into the absurd, tragicomic life of Joseph Dombey—an 18th-century French botanist who had the single worst l
Send us Fan Mail In 1792, amid the chaos of the French Revolution, astronomer Pierre François André Méchain embarked on a mission to measure the Earth from Paris to Barcelona. His colleague, Jean-Baptiste Delambre took
Send us Fan Mail In the late 1950s, the Cold War was heating up, the Space Race was slipping away, and America’s top military minds came up with the ultimate, infallible solution to flex on the Soviet Union: Let’s blow u
Send us Fan Mail How did an English sailor carry out the most lucrative pirate heist in human history, trigger the world's first global manhunt, and vanish into thin air with millions in gold? In this episode, we set s
Send us Fan Mail Can love break you out of prison? In 1986, Nadine Vaujour took flying lessons under a fake name with one goal in mind: to pluck her husband, notorious bank robber Michel Vaujour, off the roof of Paris's
Send us Fan Mail Meet Krystyna Skarbek (alias Christine Granville), Britain’s first and longest-serving female secret agent of World War II. Long before the world knew of Ian Fleming's James Bond or Vesper Lynd, this Pol
Send us Fan Mail In 1897, Swedish explorer S.A. Andrée set out to fly a hydrogen balloon over the North Pole. Alongside Knut Frænkel and Nils Strindberg, he launched The Eagle (or the Ornen) into the freezing unknown. Le
Send us Fan Mail What happens when the supreme leader of the Catholic Church goes completely mad with power? You get the Cadaver Synod. Join us for the terrifying medieval courtroom drama of 897, when Pope Formosus was p
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a dictator's fiercest critic lives right in his backyard? Welcome to Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History and the story of Hitler and The Feuchtwanger family. The Jews who lived as hi
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered who invented the football penalty kick? Meet William McCrum, the forgotten Irish goalkeeper from County Armagh who revolutionized soccer history in 1890 by proposing what critics f
Send us Fan Mail Meet Sergeant Stubby, the ultimate four-legged hero of the Great War. In this episode, we dive into the incredible true story of a stray pit bull mix who wandered onto a Yale University training camp and
Send us Fan Mail Imagine waking up in the dark, cold, confused, in absolute agony and trapped inside a wooden box at the bottom of a six foot hole - you’ve just been buried alive! In this episode, we dive into one of hi
Send us Fan Mail Wait... What? Roland Garros wasn’t a tennis player?! 🤯 If you think the French Open is named after a legendary clay-court champion, prepare to have your mind blown. In this episode, we dive into the wil
Send us Fan Mail Imagine surviving a Great White Shark attack, dragging your bleeding body to shore, and thinking the worst is over—only to be intercepted and mauled by a pride of lions on your way to safety. In this epi
Send us Fan Mail How did a young sailor from South Dakota become the ultimate "secret weapon" in the Hanoi Hilton? In this episode, we dive into the legendary story of Douglas Hegdahl, the U.S. Navy apprentice seaman w
Send us Fan Mail Did you know the man who named the very first dinosaur also tried to eat every animal in the world? Welcome to the utterly chaotic world of William Buckland—the 19th-century theologian, pioneering geolog
Send us Fan Mail On October 27, 1962, the world almost ended. While the Cuban Missile Crisis raged on land, a terrifying showdown was happening deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This is the incredible true story of Vasily
Send us Fan Mail In 1010 AD, a Benedictine monk strapped wings to his hands and feet and leaped from the tower of Malmesbury Abbey. He didn’t just make history; he broke both his legs and became a legend. Join us as we
Send us Fan Mail After being stripped of his rank and tortured, Admiral Yi Sun-sin returned to a decimated navy with only 13 ships remaining. We break down: The Miracle at Myeongnyang : How Yi used the treacherous curr
Send us Fan Mail Before he was the 'God of the Sea' who never lost a battle, Yi Sun-sin was a man of unwavering principle facing a corrupt bureaucracy. In this first part of a two episode tale, we go beyond the famous ir
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Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History is hosted by Steve and Neil Webb. The show is categorised under comedy (history) and has published 42 episodes.
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