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Toby Stubbs gives Rome to the lowest, most panicked bidder

His only new sketch casts him as Quintus, a contractor with ten workers and an impossible deadline.

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Toby Stubbs Story of November 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

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The Guy Who Tried to Build Rome in a Day #comedy #history #rome

Quintus has won the contract. Unfortunately, the job is the entire city of Rome, and his winning bid promises delivery in a day. "Some guy said a week, and I panicked, okay?" he explains.

Toby Stubbs plays the contractor in a Roman soldier's outfit topped with a yellow hard hat, tapping a tree with a hammer as if that might get construction moving. He also voices the unseen interviewer, whose practical questions expose just how little planning went into this tender. A smartphone call to Romulus brings ancient history firmly into the modern contractor-comedy business.

"The Guy Who Tried to Build Rome in a Day #comedy #history #rome" was the channel's only upload this week, drawing about 33,000 views. Viewers extend the joke into planning permission and hard-hat competence; another wonders whether the bidder promising a week was really any more realistic.

The ancient-world sketches remain the busiest corner of the channel. Rome has the most daily views at present, with "Building the Trojan Horse 🐴 #comedy #odyssey #mythology" close behind and the Odyssey's sirens also drawing attention.

Across the channel, the week brought roughly 119,000 views while subscribers held steady. Daily viewing is below its usual level. Nearby sketch channels Ryan Kelly Comedy and ToneFrance are drawing above their usual daily audiences, making this a comparatively subdued stretch for Toby Stubbs, but one with a very specific administrative problem: ten workers cannot deliver Rome by close of play.

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What viewers say

This guy must have had trouble getting the building permission
@CubicGTSee it on YouTube
I think it was the great Julius Caesar who said "just because someone's wearing a hard hat, it doesn't mean they know what they're doing" and it's still so relevant today.
@toby_stubbsSee it on YouTube
Tbf I don't think the week guy is going to succeed either! 🤣
@sarahglover3286See it on YouTube

3 more comments

Just call Merlin and he will spawn it
@runeritari3See it on YouTube
Technically you can just make a plot of land a city in a day and call it rome
@VandulniumZSee it on YouTube
Rome was not built in a day, It took a weekend
@Danmarkball_1643See it on YouTube

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