Horrible Histories - Terrible Ways to Live in the Savage Stone Age | Compilation

Overview

A comedy compilation of Horrible Histories scenes set during the Stone Age, mixing mock “educational” narration with outrageous jokes and exaggerated reenactments.

Stone Age “tool set” infomercial

• The video opens with a spoof commercial pitching an impractical “all-purpose Stone Age tool set” made of sharp stones—used for slicing, chopping, and hammering with “bloodstone.”
• It repeatedly jokes that the sharp rocks are free/usable, while warning they can cause injury.

Stone Age “medical” myths

Quick joke segments claim bizarre cures:

• Drilling holes in people’s heads to cure headaches (“trip planning”)—framed as something that would likely kill you.
• Treating measles with a cruel method (“through a hole in a boulder”)—presented as self-inflicted punishment.

Stone Age burial practices (dark comedy)

A mock segment shows how graves were supposedly staged:

• A chief is buried with grave goods (e.g., a bow, seashell necklace) plus extra items meant to “confuse archaeologists.”
• The “memorial” ends with an intentionally gruesome slapstick death reenactment (“cliff splat”).

Caveman art show: preserving a dead relative

A “caveman art show” skit:

• Hosts announce a mammoth-painting winner.
• Then pivots to a gruesome how-to: removing the head of a dead relative, scraping the brain, filling the skull with plaster, and rebuilding a face using shells.
• The punchline lands as deliberately unsettling: “she wasn’t much of a looker.”

The Stone Age “news report” time-skip

A narrator (“Bob Hale”) delivers a breaking-news-style timeline:

• Starts around 750,000 years ago with ice, animals, and mega-bears.
• Humans return humorously framed as “another guest standing up”:
  • Heidelbergensis → Neanderthals → modern humans (Homo sapiens).
• Another Ice Age conveniently wipes out the Neanderthals, leaving only Homo sapiens, who then “invent” the wheel, beer, painting, archery, and farming—presented as playful, exaggerated milestones.

Stone Age cooking & feasting gag

• A cooking segment treats mammoth meat like ingredients in a show (“free-range mammoth” chunks and “succulent early blueberries”).
• The twist: the complaint about “vegetarian Stone Age men” leads to the punchline that you eat mammoth raw, followed by more slapstick hostility and chaos.

Final caveman cooking / ritual parody

The video ends with a mock ritual-style cooking moment—quick, over-the-top theatrics that turn “food preparation” into a chaotic Stone Age performance.

Notable personalities / recurring figures mentioned

• UGG (host)
• grunt (partner/straight-man figure in multiple skits)
• Bob Hale (Stone Age “news” presenter)
• Sam (appears as the segment counterpart in the “news” intro)
• Heidelbergensis (called “Heidi” in the timeline skit)
• Neanderthal (the “guest” in the timeline)
• Homo sapiens / “modern man” (the final timeline “guest”)