We don't get to review many comedies on this show and the way cultures joke about war is just as illuminating as the more harrowing dramatic treatments.

Satire is a tool that groups of humans use to take the air out of their fears.

And in ancient times, the court jester could make fun of the king without fear of murderous reprisals.

He might visit on a count or a Duke making the same comment.

Similarly, me and Ben are here to primarily lighten the mood of an otherwise dower history

lesson that John would met out if he had his way.

Peter Sellers stars in today's darkly comedic send up of post-war international nuclear

tension and he plays most of the roles.

Oh no!

Did three coconuts fall on your three hosts heads?

Did they forget that they already reviewed Dr. Strangelove?

Have they already watched all of the war movies and now they have to rinse and repeat.

Calm yourself.

Today's film actually predates Strange Love by five years.

And comes very early in Peter Sellers film career. While Nuclear Doomsday

is an element of the story, the parody is less preoccupied with that than the ideas behind

the Marshall Plan and other post-war aid regimes pursued by the United States to rebuild Western Europe and Japan.

If you could get billions of dollars for losing a ward of the United States, then why not try to pick a fight with them?

This is a plan that is so dumb that it just might work.

The fictional micronation of Grand Fenwick, economically devastated by the crashing value of the crappy

wine that is their primary export, sends one of the half dozen Peter Sellers is to the

U.S. ahead of an army of about a dozen long bowmen.

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