Philomena Cunk is the comedic persona of Diane Morgan . She gets historians to play along with her silly questions, and she does a lot of history and then pulls up and jokes about it. Flummoxing academics isn't so horrible and they're obviously game for it. Sometimes it's not to funny, but sometimes I laugh. I laughed when she asked if the romans invented bleached assholes. She also said we know a lot about the Romans because of the Wikipedians. I thought that was funny. She's a cheeky Bettany Hughes. There's a show on Netflix: Cunk on Earth . YouTube : Cunk On Britain The Empire Strikes Back Cunk on Shakespeare . Apocalypse .