Classic Brit

This is typical of the British comedies so popular before and during the Second World War, predicated on the undermining of authority and making fun of foreigners, full of word play, puns and verbal misunderstandings rather than double entendre.

Will Hay was a true original with his bits of business, and one of those comedians who was a great influence on the post-war generation who became big television stars. His dodgy schoolmaster was continued into the fifties by Jimmy Edwards, the St. Trinians films and early Carry Ons until the 1960s changed attitudes to authority figures forever. Historically interesting and still funny, if not always for the intended reasons.