I like how David's rant caused us to conveniently miss that the comment "I have a friend who's quite short and wears vertical stripes to look taller" came from someone who not only has vertical stripes on, but is, himself, Rob Brydon.
No denying I mean look at Dave. He's so invested in the subjects , respects the aspect of the show and pay good attention to Stephen and his answers even jokingly shows that he's trying really to answer unlike Carr who answers with his sexual jokes . Unlike a dumbass like Bailey who just say anything stupid for entertainment value and keep distracting himself while Fry is trying to explain something . Dave keeps it within the show always .
Rob Brydon "I have a really short friend that likes to wear vertical stripes because they make him look taller" ... says he while wearing a vertical stripe shirt.
+D3w10n And Johnny Vegas was wearing horizontal stripes . . . he looked like he wanted to go off camera and change while they were discussing it. I get a kick out of him.
How I'll miss Stephen Fry doing this. One of the best moments of my life was talking to him on the phone. I was working for Tesla and he called to ask to test drive a car, and we ended up just chatting for ages about his new book. An absolute gentleman, just as charming & funny as on TV.
Tim Austin he did indeed - and unlike literally every other celebrity, he came to our public showroom in the busy Westfield mall, rather than ask us to bring a car to him. Alas he decided to keep driving his black cab!
This is great but lacks my favourite moment *talking about a picture of Hitler and his ministers* Alan: Look at the one on the far right! David: Surely they're *all* on the far right
ind0ctr1n3 the word privatisation was invented to describe nazi economic policy 🧐 but I guess China and North Korean are both democratic and republics in your mind? I mean they are called Democratic people’s Republics so it must be?
ind0ctr1n3 sounds to me like you don’t know the difference between authoritarian and libertarian. One can be either authoritarian or libertarian and still be either left or right. If your understanding of political theory is big government = left, small government = right, then I’m afraid continuing this discussion would be like trying to teach a pigeon to play chess. Read a little political theory, learn the most basic terms, come back and have another crack at it. Id suggest you research the government of Augusto Pinochet if you’d like a recent example of right wing authoritarianism, and perhaps look in to Hillel Steine and other similar writers if you’d like to understand left liberalism. There is no argument to be made that the German nazi party was leftist in any serious way beyond the laughable crap produced by the likes of PragerU.
ind0ctr1n3 your views are not even close to being congruent with reality. No one in academic, political, sociological or even media circles would ever try to justify such an insane claim as ‘Pinochet was a left winger because he used force’. Even those who make deliberately disingenuous claims to muddy the waters of left and right would disagree with you here. You clearly have no knowledge of political theory and I suspect a tenuous grasp on reality. I’m going to end my contribution to this conversation after this comment and allow you to have the last word because This is entirely pointless. All I would say was this, please just do some basic research. I assume you must be a teenager or some one who hasn’t received much in the way of formal education, perhaps English isn’t you first language and you are just confused about the difference between left and authoritarian, and that is okay, it’s okay to be wrong you aren’t expect to know everything. But you are making claims that do not make any sense to anyone with even the most basic education in the subject. The word left wing simply does not mean authoritarian, any research with any education source, even those on the furthest right will confirm this for you. Don’t take my word for it, I’m a stranger on the internet. Please do some research, read even just a single chapter on political theory in the most basic text sociology text book. Good luck out there, bye.
I disagree. He's far too opinionated and belligerent in his own beliefs. For instance take the topic of humans shouldn't really eat bread and drink milk, he just shouted down anyone else's opinion on the topic but provided no reasonable back up to his own opinion. Just saying it's rubbish because they haven't killed us isn't a clever argument at all.
@@rcheeks8963 but it is. Something that doesn't kill us or worsen our QOL is, as David puts it, 'fine to eat'. Now the point that there are maybe better things to eat is a different argument
@@rcheeks8963 It is if you actually listen to him, and don't just knee-jerk to it. And anyway, shouting down Alan Davies is perfectly acceptable as he usually talks over top of others anyway and talks shit while he does it.
Just watch our QI. When we like an American show we just watch it and put the buts we don't get down to inevitable cultural difference. The amount of English comedies I have seen ruined by American remakes is alarming. Just watch the origionals, if it isn't broken, don't fix it!
+Abi Daker I love that they were all thin at the same time - Stephen, David and Dara. Not so much any more, of course, but they obviously all had a club or something that year! :P
+Tom B yes, it certainly seems that he realised that if he removes the filter of simply being polite, people find his opinions and sarcastic putdowns hilarious. i doubt i'm anywhere near as funny but some time in my teens i realised that if i simply spoke my mind in this way, people are amused not offended.
As someone who has actually worked as a designer making - among other things - signs... It is actually a matter of technicality, because if a customer asks you to make a sign that says 'Accomodations' rather than 'Accommodations' and you correct their spelling, you are technically not giving them what they asked for and they would actually be entitled to a refund, under most nations' consumer protection laws. Of course sometimes you might simply ask the customer about it but that assumes you can easily communicate with them, which is usually the job of the sales division and it may be that they were only in contact via e-mail and so-on and you'd end up severely delaying a job that should have been finished in no-time... So, yes, generally the signmaker is perfectly aware it is wrong, AND it pisses them off too but they can't really do anything about it because they're told to make what the customer asked for, in a very literal sense.
As someone who has worked with consumer Law, you seem to be justifying not being arsed to do a good job by exaggerating the difficulties. The Law in most places allows you to unilaterally fix little obvious mistakes (misspellings, misplaced decimal points etc) even in the most sensitive of legal documents, much less a sign. I suppose that if it was the name of the business or a stylized logo there could be some confusion, but no client wants a simple sign for "accommodations" that is purposefully misspelled.
Well, I can't speak to what the law says on the matter, so I'll defer to you on that. All I know is that my superiors told me to ignore spelling and grammar errors, and when I asked why that was the reason given. It may well be that they had different reasons for saying so than the ones they were giving me, but I still am of the belief that errors like these are rarely the designer's fault.
+Jørgen A I agree that it's not the designer's fault or even a malicious ploy as implied in the video. There are many people that are just terribly afraid of the twelve headed beast of litigation and make things worse than they have to be, either by ignorance or convenience. It's a lot more convenient to just tell the client to spellcheck before commissioning than to explain why you changed it, specially if they don't agree with the change. I would still prefer it to be left to the designer's discretion as to what is obvious enough to correct (like accomodation) and what might cause contention.
I love David Mitchells skeptic criticism! It's like watching a someone who thinks they're alone in a supermarket fridge eisel arguing with themselves and a tub of I can't believe it's not butter.
Yes, and yet he isn't. He's just used to thinking on his feet. He not only does a lot of panel shows - which keep his wit razor-sharp - but being incredibly bright, he's starting with the best toolbox.
That last bit about the bully and his WILTY tortoise performance are my two favourite Cartoon David moments of all. He's so encyclopaedic with his wit that sometimes I forget he's a talented, natural actor.
I love the way David explodes with logic; he's tenacious in his arguments. Love when he is talking about job contracts and horizontal and vertical stripes. As for 'it's the technique of the bully!' Brilliant
David is absolutely correct about signage companies (the company I work for, at least). We frequently receive orders containing glaringly obvious spelling and grammatical errors. Our dilemma is this: do we inquire about the error and potentially show the customer up, or do we proceed with what we've been given and risk an angry end user?
You don't get to use "(sic)" like a reporter. I mean, who really knows if for some reason, they actually want the misspell/error as some sort of inside joke or pun, no matter how incomprehensible. It may eat away at you, but at least you have the order to fall back on - "Look, I put exactly what you said you wanted". (See also This Is Spinal Tap and the Stonehenge model)
My personal favourite was in answer to a klaxon for the question "do you want a nightcap" in which David Mitchell said "I would like to inquire if the word 'no' is also attached to a buzzer and therefore exactly how we could fucking win"
It's amazing that nobody ever said at the start of the show, "OK, I am going to shut up now and likely win with 0", which just a few episodes in seems like an obvious comment. He came closest to pointing it out, until they finally chose to make fun of their scoring system themselves, rather late. The comment about the penalty being typed out on the fly was also good.
I was waiting for the klaxons bit. Mitchell's one of the few guests who's sharp and quick enough to really tackle the inherent gotcha bullshit of that segment.
I enjoy how Johnny Vegas looks to intently at David when he's ranting about stripes, as if somehow he's going to change his wardrobe in order to look thinner.
Is it just me, or does all of the audio in this clip seem to be at a lower pitch than normal? Things like Stephen's voice at 3:37, David's laugh at 9:02, and especially the claxons at 7:38 seem to be deeper than usual (the claxons there sound a bit like a C).
Contrary to what David Mitchell says about fish blinking, I have two fish in my aquarium that are both capable of blinking, just not as frequently as humans.
The contractual thing, I actually said this in a crap job while doing an MA when I had to put down what I wanted to achieve over the next year. My manager was a bit shocked when all it said in each stupid box “I intend to meet my contractual obligations” and refused to write anything else. It was liberating
He is just brilliant. How often can someone make you laugh so hard you fall of a chair with simple facts and logic. That's just... aaaargh Wish I could do that. So cool man, so cool.
I'm not a signwriter, but I worked as a programmer for a while, and while I think David is probably right about signwriters knowing correct spelling, I doubt that incorrect signs are due mostly to greed or smugness. At first I used to try to explain gently and diplomatically why my clients' plans were flawed and how we could fix them, but I soon learned that when 95% of people are paying for something, they feel justified in overriding the expert because they think they know better. Then later when they can't ignore their mistake, after the work's all been done, they'll still blame the expert no matter how much argument there was. I learned to raise any issue I saw exactly once. If the client wasn't wrapped up in themselves, that was always enough to start a conversation. Otherwise no amount of explanation would move them, and I'd just be making both of us angry for no reason. I'd bet that, like my experience, most signwriters have learned to ask, "Are you sure you wouldn't like to double-check this spelling? It doesn't look right to me, and it'll be more expensive to fix it later." "No, that's right. I've already checked it all." "OK then..."
I recently begun to watch these British panel shows, actually only just QI and WILTY (because they're the only ones I know). Can someone recommend more shows like these?
The thing about the job killed it! Going to an interview with some twat asking how much research you've done on the company, trying to see if you give a flying fuck is ridiculous. The only people that truly enjoy their jobs are research scientists and a handful of people in entertainment who were never in it for fame and fortune.
I like how David's rant caused us to conveniently miss that the comment "I have a friend who's quite short and wears vertical stripes to look taller" came from someone who not only has vertical stripes on, but is, himself, Rob Brydon.
i think that was the joke
PokerJoker811 David Mitchell is somewhat short, has vertical stripes and is Rob Brydon's friend. This joke just gets more subtle as it goes.
Arvid Kirkbakk He's 5'10, that's about the beginning of tall.
***** uhhh...no. He's 5'10 according to google, imdb, and if you compare his height to others in shows it's quite clear he's in that ball park.
***** I was responding to someone who said David was short...I then said that he wasn't he was 5'10.
David Mitchell is a gem, but I always love how much Stephen loves David. I think that's my favorite part.
Buy his autobiography, it's great!
lekoman David Mitchell is a legend
*and :)
agreed
No denying I mean look at Dave. He's so invested in the subjects , respects the aspect of the show and pay good attention to Stephen and his answers even jokingly shows that he's trying really to answer unlike Carr who answers with his sexual jokes . Unlike a dumbass like Bailey who just say anything stupid for entertainment value and keep distracting himself while Fry is trying to explain something . Dave keeps it within the show always .
David Mitchell is the voice of reason for all of humanity.
'PM David Mitchell'
Seen David Mitchell's Soapbox video series?
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Efreeti I've seen a couple of them, the episodes should be longer :)
Efreeti Yeah, it's great.
Stephen loves David, clearly. One of the few guests that can out logic him. :)
Not as much as Emma Thompson loved David 0:42 She was entranced the whole episode.
Joe Black
Stephen loves truly intelligent people...
Rob Brydon "I have a really short friend that likes to wear vertical stripes because they make him look taller"
... says he while wearing a vertical stripe shirt.
+D3w10n
He may have been jokingly referring to himself
Yes but it went unnoticed
+D3w10n or Ronnie Corbett
+D3w10n Rob Brydon is short, too. I think he was definitely talking about himself.
+D3w10n And Johnny Vegas was wearing horizontal stripes . . . he looked like he wanted to go off camera and change while they were discussing it. I get a kick out of him.
How I'll miss Stephen Fry doing this. One of the best moments of my life was talking to him on the phone. I was working for Tesla and he called to ask to test drive a car, and we ended up just chatting for ages about his new book. An absolute gentleman, just as charming & funny as on TV.
Tom did he get his test drive?
Tim Austin he did indeed - and unlike literally every other celebrity, he came to our public showroom in the busy Westfield mall, rather than ask us to bring a car to him. Alas he decided to keep driving his black cab!
Tom he'll come round ;-)
Wow, that is one heck of an upside to working for Tesla.
This is great but lacks my favourite moment
*talking about a picture of Hitler and his ministers*
Alan: Look at the one on the far right!
David: Surely they're *all* on the far right
They're judging how high the high jump's gonna be.
Oh, man! I need to see that. 😆
ind0ctr1n3 the word privatisation was invented to describe nazi economic policy 🧐 but I guess China and North Korean are both democratic and republics in your mind? I mean they are called Democratic people’s Republics so it must be?
ind0ctr1n3 sounds to me like you don’t know the difference between authoritarian and libertarian. One can be either authoritarian or libertarian and still be either left or right. If your understanding of political theory is big government = left, small government = right, then I’m afraid continuing this discussion would be like trying to teach a pigeon to play chess. Read a little political theory, learn the most basic terms, come back and have another crack at it. Id suggest you research the government of Augusto Pinochet if you’d like a recent example of right wing authoritarianism, and perhaps look in to Hillel Steine and other similar writers if you’d like to understand left liberalism. There is no argument to be made that the German nazi party was leftist in any serious way beyond the laughable crap produced by the likes of PragerU.
ind0ctr1n3 your views are not even close to being congruent with reality. No one in academic, political, sociological or even media circles would ever try to justify such an insane claim as ‘Pinochet was a left winger because he used force’. Even those who make deliberately disingenuous claims to muddy the waters of left and right would disagree with you here. You clearly have no knowledge of political theory and I suspect a tenuous grasp on reality. I’m going to end my contribution to this conversation after this comment and allow you to have the last word because This is entirely pointless. All I would say was this, please just do some basic research. I assume you must be a teenager or some one who hasn’t received much in the way of formal education, perhaps English isn’t you first language and you are just confused about the difference between left and authoritarian, and that is okay, it’s okay to be wrong you aren’t expect to know everything. But you are making claims that do not make any sense to anyone with even the most basic education in the subject. The word left wing simply does not mean authoritarian, any research with any education source, even those on the furthest right will confirm this for you. Don’t take my word for it, I’m a stranger on the internet. Please do some research, read even just a single chapter on political theory in the most basic text sociology text book. Good luck out there, bye.
My sister is a graphic designer who works for a printing company and David was spot on about the misspelling of the signs
David arguing with the QI Elves is one of the funniest moments in the show 😂
The best part about David's rants is that he actually makes very good points.
He never talks rubbish, even when hes fuming his rants always have reason and common sense behind them.
I disagree. He's far too opinionated and belligerent in his own beliefs. For instance take the topic of humans shouldn't really eat bread and drink milk, he just shouted down anyone else's opinion on the topic but provided no reasonable back up to his own opinion. Just saying it's rubbish because they haven't killed us isn't a clever argument at all.
@@rcheeks8963 but it is. Something that doesn't kill us or worsen our QOL is, as David puts it, 'fine to eat'. Now the point that there are maybe better things to eat is a different argument
@@rcheeks8963 It is if you actually listen to him, and don't just knee-jerk to it. And anyway, shouting down Alan Davies is perfectly acceptable as he usually talks over top of others anyway and talks shit while he does it.
Bread and milk makes us ill but David Mitchell is still funny
I've seen this before and it still has me crying of laughter. Mitchell is amazing ^^
David Mitchell is fantastic on "Would I Lie To You" as well as QI
+kidneystone53 David Mitchell and Lee Mack's chemistry is brilliant.
I can't get enough of the one where Rob Brydon got into the "cuddle jumper", and it completely broke David down into uncontrollable laughing.
There are big chunks of his autobiography on YT, with David narrating: Really worth a listen, they're great!
Sometimes I think that America needs QI and then other times I think America would ruin QI.
Oh we do have it. We call it Congress.
+That guy... Most polls have said people think Matt LeBlanc is the best part off the new Top Gear, it's Chris Evans that they don't like.
Just watch our QI. When we like an American show we just watch it and put the buts we don't get down to inevitable cultural difference. The amount of English comedies I have seen ruined by American remakes is alarming. Just watch the origionals, if it isn't broken, don't fix it!
edbadyt it doesn't get broadcasted here. RUclips is where I see QI lol
Darris Hawks sometimes I think America needs IQ..
David's last rant (for lack of a better word) about the bully puts me in stitches every time! Absolutely love him
I've watched so much QI that I can tell which series it is just from Stephen's weight fluctuations
+Abi Daker And his awful haircut in later seasons.
+Abi Daker I hope to get to that level soon.
+Abi Daker I love that they were all thin at the same time - Stephen, David and Dara. Not so much any more, of course, but they obviously all had a club or something that year! :P
+HerHollyness Dara...thin??
+Abi Daker
Why would you care about his weight! What difference does his weight matter?
"Sorry, Alan." 00:51
David Mitchell cannot abide being called a bully.
He was born to play his character in Peep Show
+Django Scott It's probably because he wrote himself as the "character".
+Tom B yes, it certainly seems that he realised that if he removes the filter of simply being polite, people find his opinions and sarcastic putdowns hilarious. i doubt i'm anywhere near as funny but some time in my teens i realised that if i simply spoke my mind in this way, people are amused not offended.
+Tom B David Mitchell didn't write Peep Show. It was written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bains.
As someone who has actually worked as a designer making - among other things - signs... It is actually a matter of technicality, because if a customer asks you to make a sign that says 'Accomodations' rather than 'Accommodations' and you correct their spelling, you are technically not giving them what they asked for and they would actually be entitled to a refund, under most nations' consumer protection laws. Of course sometimes you might simply ask the customer about it but that assumes you can easily communicate with them, which is usually the job of the sales division and it may be that they were only in contact via e-mail and so-on and you'd end up severely delaying a job that should have been finished in no-time...
So, yes, generally the signmaker is perfectly aware it is wrong, AND it pisses them off too but they can't really do anything about it because they're told to make what the customer asked for, in a very literal sense.
As someone who has worked with consumer Law, you seem to be justifying not being arsed to do a good job by exaggerating the difficulties.
The Law in most places allows you to unilaterally fix little obvious mistakes (misspellings, misplaced decimal points etc) even in the most sensitive of legal documents, much less a sign. I suppose that if it was the name of the business or a stylized logo there could be some confusion, but no client wants a simple sign for "accommodations" that is purposefully misspelled.
Well, I can't speak to what the law says on the matter, so I'll defer to you on that. All I know is that my superiors told me to ignore spelling and grammar errors, and when I asked why that was the reason given. It may well be that they had different reasons for saying so than the ones they were giving me, but I still am of the belief that errors like these are rarely the designer's fault.
+Jørgen A I agree that it's not the designer's fault or even a malicious ploy as implied in the video. There are many people that are just terribly afraid of the twelve headed beast of litigation and make things worse than they have to be, either by ignorance or convenience.
It's a lot more convenient to just tell the client to spellcheck before commissioning than to explain why you changed it, specially if they don't agree with the change. I would still prefer it to be left to the designer's discretion as to what is obvious enough to correct (like accomodation) and what might cause contention.
+Jørgen A "Accommodations" means compromises. Accommodation, referring to places to live, is always singular.
lammy1234567890 Well, that's not what the online dictionary says AND I'm not a native English speaker, so please do forgive me.
I love David Mitchells skeptic criticism! It's like watching a someone who thinks they're alone in a supermarket fridge eisel arguing with themselves and a tub of I can't believe it's not butter.
you can tell Fry appreciates Mitchells humor so much
He always gives out such coherent and smart sounding rants, almost as if he's preparing them beforehand.
Yes, and yet he isn't.
He's just used to thinking on his feet. He not only does a lot of panel shows - which keep his wit razor-sharp - but being incredibly bright, he's starting with the best toolbox.
Congratulations my cousins across the pond. David Mitchell truly is one of your national treasures.
thanksfernuthin Funnily enough one of his friends from university is doing quite well at your end of the pond. A certain Jon Oliver
That last bit about the bully and his WILTY tortoise performance are my two favourite Cartoon David moments of all. He's so encyclopaedic with his wit that sometimes I forget he's a talented, natural actor.
David Mitchell is my favorite non-Alan panelist. He is always brillant.
pure gold, i wish i could reset my memory and watch all of the British panel shows again
I love the way David explodes with logic; he's tenacious in his arguments. Love when he is talking about job contracts and horizontal and vertical stripes. As for 'it's the technique of the bully!' Brilliant
Thank you for putting this together. David having a rant is one of my very favourite things!
“If you make an attempt to make tea in a teapot in a vague attempt to seem more civilized than you actually are” sounds like a Douglas Adams line😂
David is absolutely correct about signage companies (the company I work for, at least). We frequently receive orders containing glaringly obvious spelling and grammatical errors.
Our dilemma is this: do we inquire about the error and potentially show the customer up, or do we proceed with what we've been given and risk an angry end user?
You don't get to use "(sic)" like a reporter. I mean, who really knows if for some reason, they actually want the misspell/error as some sort of inside joke or pun, no matter how incomprehensible. It may eat away at you, but at least you have the order to fall back on - "Look, I put exactly what you said you wanted". (See also This Is Spinal Tap and the Stonehenge model)
The “showing a very tired mason, a whole cathedral”, is genius!
My personal favourite was in answer to a klaxon for the question "do you want a nightcap" in which David Mitchell said "I would like to inquire if the word 'no' is also attached to a buzzer and therefore exactly how we could fucking win"
some say the rockets are now even further away
+JackTimesJack And the curlied man still attempts to get them closer, to this day. Whenever this day may be.
+JackTimesJack What?
+JackTimesJack What?
+JackTimesJack What?
+JackTimesJack What?
David Mitchell is a legend...I think he´s an absolute comedy genius and his logic always has me in fits!!! lol. I just love him :D
This clip has made me immensely happy
I read it, the beast of David Mitchell
That bully analogy was hilarious. 😂
I come here every time I need cheering up - and it always works
3:37 this is one of the most brilliant comedy bits I've ever heard.
It's amazing that nobody ever said at the start of the show, "OK, I am going to shut up now and likely win with 0", which just a few episodes in seems like an obvious comment. He came closest to pointing it out, until they finally chose to make fun of their scoring system themselves, rather late. The comment about the penalty being typed out on the fly was also good.
“Oh do come off it” 🤣🤣🤣
This was fantastic. Thank you for putting it online in a magnificent compilation for us! :-)
2:00 wow David, that is a ....noteworthy shirt
I was waiting for the klaxons bit. Mitchell's one of the few guests who's sharp and quick enough to really tackle the inherent gotcha bullshit of that segment.
Epic, just epic! I can watch these over and over (which I already have!)
I enjoy how Johnny Vegas looks to intently at David when he's ranting about stripes, as if somehow he's going to change his wardrobe in order to look thinner.
Oh man, I really wish you'd included his Rodney Bewes rant. That is the single greatest moment in this show's history in my humble opinion
This man is a national treasure
I adore David because he ALWAYS points out the errors in grammar and logic which I also notice
David Mitchell is my spirit animal
My favorite part is that despite hos vast wisdom, David Mitchell thinks they type the Klaxons in real time.
They can, now.
Excellent! I am glad you uploaded this!
8:51 I love how he’s clearly never punched anyone before.
Life would be so much less fun without David Mitchell 😍
more rants from David please
The customer service bit was brilliant and actually kind of changed my mind about poor customer service. I respect that now.
you can feel how smug Mitchell is after the mason/cathedral line - and tbh - rightly so!! :D
6:49 he’s just accurately summed up how all tradespeople conduct their business
Is it just me, or does all of the audio in this clip seem to be at a lower pitch than normal? Things like Stephen's voice at 3:37, David's laugh at 9:02, and especially the claxons at 7:38 seem to be deeper than usual (the claxons there sound a bit like a C).
Yeah, it is at a lower pitch than normal. Not entirely sure why.
It's to dodge copyright.
TheAltoSaxophonist Usually that's a valid point, but in this case I would invite you to check the name of the uploader.
lexagon
They are reflexively litigious even unto themselves? Or perhaps their legal department is just a bunch of arsehole lawyers.
PAL to NTSC format conversion
The video is slowed down very slightly
Wow, i learned lots of english expressions and vocabulary from this man....
They should really have David's panda-rant on this. that was HILARIOUS!
Always love it when they argue with the techies controlling the screen.
An honourable mention to David's cheese rant.
8:27 They way Stephen says "yes" so gently is why he's in the big chair.
QI - could we have more of David's anger highlights, please? I absolutely love it!
Whenever I want to cheer up I turn to Mr Mitchell
I love David's angry rants!
Contrary to what David Mitchell says about fish blinking, I have two fish in my aquarium that are both capable of blinking, just not as frequently as humans.
Alan's face after Stephen said "yes" 🤣
I was laughing so hard I cried.
As a person of logic, I can tell you one thing.
I loved the utter shit out of this.
Watching further along I find them talking about Peter Thomson who was one of my first year tutors and a thoroughly nice guy!
I love David Mitchell and his angry logic.
The contractual thing, I actually said this in a crap job while doing an MA when I had to put down what I wanted to achieve over the next year. My manager was a bit shocked when all it said in each stupid box “I intend to meet my contractual obligations” and refused to write anything else. It was liberating
I love how people call it 'angry logic.' He doesn't seem particularly angry to me - just passionate!
He is just brilliant. How often can someone make you laugh so hard you fall of a chair with simple facts and logic. That's just... aaaargh Wish I could do that. So cool man, so cool.
I LOVE David Mitchell
Am I the only one that puts tired bees on flowers?
Lucy Hartwell That's like if you feel sick but you are dragged into work by a giant
Yeah but it's nectar isn't it?
Fuckin' racist is what it is.
I quite literally adore him
I love the stripes discussion.
I'm not a signwriter, but I worked as a programmer for a while, and while I think David is probably right about signwriters knowing correct spelling, I doubt that incorrect signs are due mostly to greed or smugness. At first I used to try to explain gently and diplomatically why my clients' plans were flawed and how we could fix them, but I soon learned that when 95% of people are paying for something, they feel justified in overriding the expert because they think they know better. Then later when they can't ignore their mistake, after the work's all been done, they'll still blame the expert no matter how much argument there was.
I learned to raise any issue I saw exactly once. If the client wasn't wrapped up in themselves, that was always enough to start a conversation. Otherwise no amount of explanation would move them, and I'd just be making both of us angry for no reason.
I'd bet that, like my experience, most signwriters have learned to ask, "Are you sure you wouldn't like to double-check this spelling? It doesn't look right to me, and it'll be more expensive to fix it later." "No, that's right. I've already checked it all." "OK then..."
This show is the best for David Mitchell rant opportunities 😂
Brilliant mashup. My suggestion would be his "forget the bloody panda, the bloody panda's an idiot!" rant
about the horizontal vs vertical stripes.. they are a walking example of the results!
One of the cleverest comedians on telly
That last one XD
Awesome compilation, thanks!
Fry really enjoyed the bully rant..
i just adore david
Makes sense that vertical stripes make a person look larger, since people can count how many stripes across someone is.
I've seen this video hundreds of times... amazing lol
I absolutely fucking love David's rants!
The bee bit is my favour bit from the whole series
I like the fist one he actually apologizes to Alan
Yeah...This guy somehow managed to snag Victoria Coren! Proof that some girls prefer brains over looks.
***** Do. That photo is hilarious,
David Mitchell for President! Of what, you ask? Of EVERYTHING!
I recently begun to watch these British panel shows, actually only just QI and WILTY (because they're the only ones I know). Can someone recommend more shows like these?
Mock The Week, 8 out of 10 cats, Would I Lie To You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Have I Got News For You
the big fat quiz
was it something I said
I didnt even realize how much British panel shows I been watching till I saw the comment section
I was waiting for the one where they were asked "which of the these names are made-up", and David says "Aren't all names made-up?"
7:04 What does Alan Davis say?
leirgauk
"You can tell how long he's been looking for a flat, can't you."
The thing about the job killed it!
Going to an interview with some twat asking how much research you've done on the company, trying to see if you give a flying fuck is ridiculous.
The only people that truly enjoy their jobs are research scientists and a handful of people in entertainment who were never in it for fame and fortune.
The bee economy is my favorite part omg
Beeconomy?