It is. Everything we currently view as medicine was once an entirely natural compound. All we basically do is cook. We take a bit of this and a bit of that from the natural world and combine it in the right quantities with the right baking and mixing and we have a treatment. "Alternative medicine" is basically a moronic over-simplification of the process, usually involving notions about things that have already been proven not to work. If they did work they would already be being used in treatment.
@@ct5625 I presume the point being made is that all medicine that is currently labelled as "alternative" has STILL not been proven to work, even to this day. Thus people should be relatively sceptical of it all, assuming the null hypothesis.
@@benmaxwell115 As Tim Minchin said: "By definition, alternative medicine has either not been proved to work or proved not to work. Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine."
@@benmaxwell115 Or there's no money in it. There's "alternative" medicine like herbs, honey and garlic which you would never see prescribed by a doctor, and then there are rocks which there's no evidence to show that they work.
@@benmaxwell115 Skeptical of all medicine at this point. Pharma companies have been sued for billions of dollars but they don't flinch because of the profit margins.
The woman explained every property show and home renovation show absolutely perfectly: people complaining about something just because it looks a little dated, or it's the wrong color, or there's wallpaper, or some other insignificant detail, when in fact it's a perfectly livable space where everything works that doesn't need anything done to it. But instead, what they always do is squander vast amounts of money changing it to look exactly like every other home that's built these days, and "opening up" a place by breaking down some wall somewhere. I can't watch those shows because I go through every episode shouting at the TV that you don't have to do that, that it's a waste of money, and that you'll never get that money back when it's your turn to sell the place. The number of nice old kitchen cabinets which have the audacity to look like the solid wood they are I have seen swapped out for pressboard garbage that has a shiny layer of white melamine on it is just sickening.
The homeopathic sketch is taking the piss out of the whole alternative medicine scene - usually embraced by well-to-do people seeking some spirituality. Gwyneth Paltrow and the people who buy her nonsense is a great example of the same 😀
Without meaning to be you are being a bit condescending with your comment. If you watched the reaction they clearly get what the joke was about. They say it while watching.
Olivia Colman (who plays the wife here) has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. It is an example of how Britain tends to produce consummate actors rather than stars.
The avocado coloured bathroom suite was a thing in the UK for a while until it became very unpopular. UK A&E (Accident & Emergency) = USA ER, Emergency Room
Good choices! I actually used the Avocado Bathroom sketch in a Sociology essay about societal pressures and conformity! Mitchell and Webb never disappoint. A couple of sketch suggestions for you, from different shows both on YTube: How NOT To Do Your Job… | Smack The Pony | Best Job Sketches Big Train - Radio Station Puns
The funny thing was that when they looked for locations to film this sketch, they couldn't find any houses with avocado bathrooms. They had to install one.
I lived in a newly built house that had an avocado bathroom set. At first I didn’t care but it began to get on my nerves that the water never looked clean when I ran a bath. I just put up with it though. Now I live in a house with no bath, only a shower and I miss it so I’d put up with any colour
I remember a particularly traumatic period of my life... When I was a teenager we had a holiday caravan. Yes. It had an Avacado Bathroom Suite. I shudder to think of it to this day.
I'm in yoga and have been for years, and have as well been open to the alternative medicine. I have always felt the homeopathic sketch to to be extremely funny. It's one of my favorites
It’s so diluted there’s not a single atom or molecule of the active ingredient left. It’s just water. But according to "homeopathic theory", water has a memory, and remembers what’s been in it (though apparently it forgets about all the fish poop). Not only that, but somehow all this dilution reverses the effect of something. Which is why homeopathic sleeping pills are made from caffeine. "Made from" used in its broadest sense here, as there’s no caffeine left in the sleeping pills - it’s just water.
The joke with the husband strangling the wife is that living with it is one thing but the wife saying she actually likes it was a step too far, she had to go, for everyone sake. Remember, they dont know what happened to all the people who wanted avocado. We do now. He still felt bad at least 😂.
The bathroom sketch is a parody of the genre of daytime property shows around at the time. Also there was a trend of coloured bathroom suites which had had its day in the UK and avacado WAS a popular colour in the previous decade or so, so I guess a lot of those shows had very similar conversations about how they couldn’t live with an avocado toilet suite.
No, he really didn't mind the bathroom colour, it was just ok. But then the wife went too far and said she did, which showed that she had no taste. If you're from a British influenced country (as mine is), showing you have no taste is one of the worst possible sins, if you are middle class (as those characters were) as it shows that you are closer to being poor/working class (ill educated and brutish), instead of upper class (well educated and refined). So he had to kill her, because it was more kind for her to be dead, than to live in the ignominy of having no taste. It's a snobbishness thing. At least that's the way that I've always understood that skit. In fairness, that skit had a surface level humor that required a familiarity with those home renonnovation shows, which you fully grasped. And then a second deeper cultural understanding to know that her shameful outburst displaying a complete lack of taste was the least acceptable thing. Don't sweat it guys, you got the general gist, just not the cultural nuiance that's all. :)
The main point of the homeopathy skit was that the remedy was to contain a 1:10000000000 part of car, because like treats like. That literally is homeopathy.
If a trauma doctor tried to treat me with water that had a memory of something that used to be in it, he'd get paid with a wallet that had the memory of the money that used to be in it 🤣
It's a big deal in real life because bathroom and kitchen remodels are very expensive, and it's a pain to do without while living in the house and getting a remodel.
the bathroom sketch is from a uk tv show where you had a couple wanting to buy a house, they are given a couple of choices the wild card is not the sort they wanted say want a house that has small garden but get a huge garden. so it hard if you not know the show
Have you guys watched the peep show? It's got David Mitchell and Webb in that also. Another good show. Would I lie to you panel show is highlarious. On channel 4 (UK) greenwing is a sketch show and teachers is good but a series. Goodness gracious me sketch show is brilliant. Blandest thing on the menu clip is a classic. Kevin and perry is another.
What a horrible thing to say to someone! What have this couple ever done to you? "You should check out the Catherine Tate show"...Some people are unbelievable.
Homeopathy is particularly absurd and the current king of England is a huge proponent of the stuff. It has two basic tenets: First, treat a symptom with something that causes the same problem. If you've got insomnia, drink coffee. If you've got a fever, take something that will raise your body temperature. Second, if you dilute the "medication" in the correct way, it becomes more powerful. So the homeopathic way to treat being hit by a car was to take a bit of car, dissolve it in water, dilute that, shake it, dilute it, shake it, etc. The more dilutions and shaking, the better. Typical homeopathic treatments are so dilute that it's unlikely that they still contain even a single molecule of the original substance involved. But somehow, the water has memory...
Many original allopathic vaccinations work on the same basis. E.g polio vaccination. The oral version of this vaccine is made from weakened live polio virus. It is scientifically acknowledged that giving a weak version can stimulate the bodies immune system to create antibodies etc. so that if the body later encounters the full strength virus, the immune system already knows how to combat it.
Another brilliant Mitchell and Webb sketch is 'Diana Assassination.' There are similarities to the Moon Landings which you've already covered, and Evil Genius is also worth a laugh.
@@Atlas65 I am aware of that. But as far as I know, she was also Olivia Coleman back then. She didn’t "go on to become Olivia Coleman", she was Olivia Coleman all along.
Homeopathy is not a parody of natural healing. Who told you that? Homeopathy stimulates the natural healing functions of the body and mind. If you want to criticize something know what you are doing. My words have decades of experience supporting them. Apart from a total ignorance of this subject, what supports your words?
@@user-fl8yv7rz6f I am a huge fan of science but science is not the only way to gain information about reality. You are ignorant. You are a believer in science and that is scientism not science. Tell me everything you know about natural healing. It shouldn't take you long.
@@peterlukats937 "same fucken difference". Well, I wouldn't have put it that way but yes, Homeopathy is a form of natural healing. In fact, all healing is perfectly natural. Unless you are a believer in unnatural healing.
I'm glad you're not as into alternative medicine as you are into moon conspiracy theories. Because they often go hand in hand (along with flat earth, evolution denying, etc.).
Homeopathic A&E isn't as funny for me anymore since I found out my local NHS hospital now has a homepathic store on site... I know it gets the hospital the money that it isn't getting from the Government like its supposed to but fuck me its depressing.
You know I was thinking you guys might want to do reactions to British TV comedies that were remade into US versions and compare them. Like, Sanford and Son was a remake of British Steptoe and Son, The Office and The Office: An American Workplace, or Ghosts (UK) and Ghosts (USA).
The homeopathy sketch is particularly relevant now that king Charles has cancer and there's a chance he will choose to be treated by quacks and it will not end well...
Yeah, very funny. However, as someone who has successfully used homeopathy for 46 years I have to say that this is what is called "punching down". Homeopaths have taken a lot of shit from allopathic practioners (doctors) who have failed to grasp how homeopathy works for 200 years. I have seen this clip before so I won't watch it again. What6 I would like to know is this: Can doctors laugh at their own bullshit. I have never witnessed such a rare event.
@@rescyn1190 Tell me, who is this "We" you speak of? From the Cambridge English Dictionary: Punching down is "to attack or criticize someone who is in a worse or less powerful position than you: If a comedian punches down, they make fun of people who are less powerful or privileged." According to you it is not a thing. Correct. It is an action. As for the rest of your nonsense, I believe that your grasp on reality is a little too slippery so I won't waste more words on you.
Well, it is like the "famous" saying: if alternative medicin worked it would just be called medicin.
It is. Everything we currently view as medicine was once an entirely natural compound. All we basically do is cook. We take a bit of this and a bit of that from the natural world and combine it in the right quantities with the right baking and mixing and we have a treatment.
"Alternative medicine" is basically a moronic over-simplification of the process, usually involving notions about things that have already been proven not to work. If they did work they would already be being used in treatment.
@@ct5625 I presume the point being made is that all medicine that is currently labelled as "alternative" has STILL not been proven to work, even to this day. Thus people should be relatively sceptical of it all, assuming the null hypothesis.
@@benmaxwell115 As Tim Minchin said: "By definition, alternative medicine has either not been proved to work or proved not to work. Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine."
@@benmaxwell115 Or there's no money in it.
There's "alternative" medicine like herbs, honey and garlic which you would never see prescribed by a doctor, and then there are rocks which there's no evidence to show that they work.
@@benmaxwell115 Skeptical of all medicine at this point.
Pharma companies have been sued for billions of dollars but they don't flinch because of the profit margins.
It's not that he hated the bathroom in the end, but that someone actually preferring avocado is an affront to nature.
Well done on understanding the bathroom sketch, most people don’t get it 👍😂
yer it was 2003 ish buy not buy was name
This feels like a safe space. Personally, I like ceiling fans, popcorn ceilings and avocado appliances.
@@kjmorley I can’t find a strangle emoji 😂
What’s not to get?
liking avocado is just too far
The woman explained every property show and home renovation show absolutely perfectly: people complaining about something just because it looks a little dated, or it's the wrong color, or there's wallpaper, or some other insignificant detail, when in fact it's a perfectly livable space where everything works that doesn't need anything done to it. But instead, what they always do is squander vast amounts of money changing it to look exactly like every other home that's built these days, and "opening up" a place by breaking down some wall somewhere. I can't watch those shows because I go through every episode shouting at the TV that you don't have to do that, that it's a waste of money, and that you'll never get that money back when it's your turn to sell the place. The number of nice old kitchen cabinets which have the audacity to look like the solid wood they are I have seen swapped out for pressboard garbage that has a shiny layer of white melamine on it is just sickening.
sounds like you need some Decking!
I die a little, every time they rip out a pink tiled mid century bathroom.😢
The homeopathic sketch is taking the piss out of the whole alternative medicine scene - usually embraced by well-to-do people seeking some spirituality. Gwyneth Paltrow and the people who buy her nonsense is a great example of the same 😀
“… a touch of the nerves, - or just a little more money than sense….”
Fantastic writing.
Without meaning to be you are being a bit condescending with your comment. If you watched the reaction they clearly get what the joke was about. They say it while watching.
Olivia Colman (who plays the wife here) has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. It is an example of how Britain tends to produce consummate actors rather than stars.
Your comments before the bathroom scene made it 100x funnier! It was almost word for word!!! 🤣
The avocado coloured bathroom suite was a thing in the UK for a while until it became very unpopular.
UK A&E (Accident & Emergency) = USA ER, Emergency Room
Powder blue too
Burnt Orange
The green clarinet, and sir Digby chicken caesar are good skits
I find the sir Digby chicken caesar sketches really boring.
The homeopathic Lager just killed me.
Good choices! I actually used the Avocado Bathroom sketch in a Sociology essay about societal pressures and conformity! Mitchell and Webb never disappoint. A couple of sketch suggestions for you, from different shows both on YTube:
How NOT To Do Your Job… | Smack The Pony | Best Job Sketches
Big Train - Radio Station Puns
There was another meta with the bathroom sketch: the guest actress (Olivia Coleman) is famous for her many roles in BBC murder mystery series'.
Avacado bathrooms were all the rage in the UK in 1970' and 80's.
The funny thing was that when they looked for locations to film this sketch, they couldn't find any houses with avocado bathrooms. They had to install one.
The era which good taste forgot.
Great to see that they got Oscar winner Olivia Coleman to check out the bathroom.
Alas, she refused to bow to the prevailing taste consensus.
I mean, this sketch show is from about 20 years ago - long before she was an Oscar winner - but I know what you mean! 😂
Haha, thanks Mrs. TNT for explaining that bathroom sketch, I never really got it when I first saw it!
So true about the ridiculous complaints on home shows 😂 oh and he was drawing a longer life line on his palm 😅
I lived in a newly built house that had an avocado bathroom set. At first I didn’t care but it began to get on my nerves that the water never looked clean when I ran a bath. I just put up with it though. Now I live in a house with no bath, only a shower and I miss it so I’d put up with any colour
Dave Allen " first day at school " , its comedy gold 😂👍
I remember a particularly traumatic period of my life... When I was a teenager we had a holiday caravan. Yes. It had an Avacado Bathroom Suite. I shudder to think of it to this day.
I've had homeopathic lager before. Its marketed in the UK as Carling. 😊
I'm in yoga and have been for years, and have as well been open to the alternative medicine. I have always felt the homeopathic sketch to to be extremely funny. It's one of my favorites
I love that she's dying at the homeopathy nonsense and he looks so confused 😂😂
I like how you try and rationalise the comedy 😂😂 nice spot on the avocado bathroom! We had one in the 70’s
Homeopathic remedies use a very dilute tincture of an element as medicine. That knowledge makes it funnier and makes more sense.
it is WAY more dilute than that. There is literally not one molecule left.
It’s so diluted there’s not a single atom or molecule of the active ingredient left. It’s just water. But according to "homeopathic theory", water has a memory, and remembers what’s been in it (though apparently it forgets about all the fish poop).
Not only that, but somehow all this dilution reverses the effect of something. Which is why homeopathic sleeping pills are made from caffeine. "Made from" used in its broadest sense here, as there’s no caffeine left in the sleeping pills - it’s just water.
That, and they don’t do anything.
You guys need to watch these two in the adventures of Digby Chicken Caesar!
The man's lifeline was short so he was extending it with biro ;-)
The joke with the husband strangling the wife is that living with it is one thing but the wife saying she actually likes it was a step too far, she had to go, for everyone sake. Remember, they dont know what happened to all the people who wanted avocado. We do now. He still felt bad at least 😂.
The bathroom sketch is a parody of the genre of daytime property shows around at the time. Also there was a trend of coloured bathroom suites which had had its day in the UK and avacado WAS a popular colour in the previous decade or so, so I guess a lot of those shows had very similar conversations about how they couldn’t live with an avocado toilet suite.
that's strong stuff
The Mitchell and Webb "Kitchen Nightmares" sketch is good. Also, the "Discoverer" sketches are good as well.
Never seen the bathroom scene, it's hilarious. And true. My nan had one. It was so classy at the time.
My rental bathroom is salmon pink and black, it's not a great look, but at least it isn't avocado.
My favourite Mitchell & Webb sketches are “Grammar Nazi”, “Green Clarinet”, and “Brain Surgeon”.
Sean Lock's The tiger that came for a pint is a must if you didnt see it.
Loving your reactions guys. Check out the cheese argument. Also moneypenny... enjoy. 😂
No, he really didn't mind the bathroom colour, it was just ok.
But then the wife went too far and said she did, which showed that she had no taste.
If you're from a British influenced country (as mine is), showing you have no taste is one of the worst possible sins, if you are middle class (as those characters were) as it shows that you are closer to being poor/working class (ill educated and brutish), instead of upper class (well educated and refined).
So he had to kill her, because it was more kind for her to be dead, than to live in the ignominy of having no taste.
It's a snobbishness thing.
At least that's the way that I've always understood that skit.
In fairness, that skit had a surface level humor that required a familiarity with those home renonnovation shows, which you fully grasped.
And then a second deeper cultural understanding to know that her shameful outburst displaying a complete lack of taste was the least acceptable thing.
Don't sweat it guys, you got the general gist, just not the cultural nuiance that's all. :)
It makes me want to go out and get an avocado bath just to be a rebel!
The main point of the homeopathy skit was that the remedy was to contain a 1:10000000000 part of car, because like treats like. That literally is homeopathy.
If a trauma doctor tried to treat me with water that had a memory of something that used to be in it, he'd get paid with a wallet that had the memory of the money that used to be in it 🤣
It's a big deal in real life because bathroom and kitchen remodels are very expensive, and it's a pain to do without while living in the house and getting a remodel.
That is true, you want that done before moving in. Rest of the house is easier to do while living in it.
Well that escalated quickly
The Oscar winning Olivia Coleman in the first sketch. She is always great.
And this actress won an Oscar,don'tcha know ..
LOL! My mother had an avocado bathroom in the '70s!
{:o:O:}
Some of the Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie sketches are very good. Hard to choose which ones, really , there are so many.
Please watch "Corner Shop" by the same duo. Thanks for the FUN reactions!
My personal favorites: "The New Fuhrer" and Jesus teaches about "The Good Samaritan"
6:10/:12 - I know you're thinking about those Crystals & Liquorice Tea there with the head-bow!
😂😂😂 should try ‘looking after baby’ or ‘sir chicken tikka caeser’ or ‘the quiz broadcast’
Sir digby chicken caeser
Definitely the 'quiz broadcast' that was clever before the pandemic .. it was eerily good during lol
@@Ceromorth sorry yes! 😂
The best English comedy Yes Prime Minister the characters are so funny!
Watch the vectron sketch.
Also Harry Enfield's "women, know your limits" series of sketches.
Ice Cream Factory is soooo funny
Americans would mispronounce the king's english "A&E" as something like "Emergency Room"
What a lovely couple you are.
the bathroom sketch is from a uk tv show where you had a couple wanting to buy a house, they are given a couple of choices the wild card is not the sort they wanted say want a house that has small garden but get a huge garden. so it hard if you not know the show
Have you guys watched the peep show? It's got David Mitchell and Webb in that also. Another good show. Would I lie to you panel show is highlarious. On channel 4 (UK) greenwing is a sketch show and teachers is good but a series. Goodness gracious me sketch show is brilliant. Blandest thing on the menu clip is a classic. Kevin and perry is another.
More more more please you lovely people ❤😂😊
You should have a look and Mitchell and Webb's take on Sci-Fi in a video entitled Vectron
When you are finished with Mitchell and Webb, you should check out the Catherine Tate Show, and her "Aga Saga Woman" sketches.
What a horrible thing to say to someone! What have this couple ever done to you? "You should check out the Catherine Tate show"...Some people are unbelievable.
Hilarious stuff 🤣
Homeopathy is particularly absurd and the current king of England is a huge proponent of the stuff. It has two basic tenets: First, treat a symptom with something that causes the same problem. If you've got insomnia, drink coffee. If you've got a fever, take something that will raise your body temperature. Second, if you dilute the "medication" in the correct way, it becomes more powerful. So the homeopathic way to treat being hit by a car was to take a bit of car, dissolve it in water, dilute that, shake it, dilute it, shake it, etc. The more dilutions and shaking, the better. Typical homeopathic treatments are so dilute that it's unlikely that they still contain even a single molecule of the original substance involved. But somehow, the water has memory...
Many original allopathic vaccinations work on the same basis. E.g polio vaccination. The oral version of this vaccine is made from weakened live polio virus. It is scientifically acknowledged that giving a weak version can stimulate the bodies immune system to create antibodies etc. so that if the body later encounters the full strength virus, the immune system already knows how to combat it.
Another brilliant Mitchell and Webb sketch is 'Diana Assassination.' There are similarities to the Moon Landings which you've already covered, and Evil Genius is also worth a laugh.
Featuring Oscar winning Olivia Colman!
My favourite thing about Mitchell and Webb? Mitchell's "wife" in the bathroom scene went on to become OSCAR WINNER Olivia Coleman!!! MADNESS!!!!
Who was she before she became Olivia Coleman?
@@boesvig2258 She was in the -TV show Peep Show, also with these guys, Mitchell and Webb, where she portrayed a character named Sophie. Fantastic show
@@Atlas65 I am aware of that. But as far as I know, she was also Olivia Coleman back then. She didn’t "go on to become Olivia Coleman", she was Olivia Coleman all along.
It's not natural healing, it's homeopathy, a parody of natural healing.
Homeopathy is not a parody of natural healing. Who told you that? Homeopathy stimulates the natural healing functions of the body and mind. If you want to criticize something know what you are doing. My words have decades of experience supporting them. Apart from a total ignorance of this subject, what supports your words?
@@patrickquinlan3056 science and knowledge supports my words, not the nonsense you've wasted your life experiencing.
@@user-fl8yv7rz6f I am a huge fan of science but science is not the only way to gain information about reality. You are ignorant. You are a believer in science and that is scientism not science. Tell me everything you know about natural healing. It shouldn't take you long.
Homeopathy and natural healing = same fucken difference.
@@peterlukats937 "same fucken difference". Well, I wouldn't have put it that way but yes, Homeopathy is a form of natural healing. In fact, all healing is perfectly natural. Unless you are a believer in unnatural healing.
Did you spot acclaimed actor Olivia Coleman?
Dave allen job centre is good too.
I think you need a cultural interpretation. The guy could "live" with the colour scheme, but not with someone who thought it was good.
You guys should check out Andrew Dice Clay
why the hell would they want to do that the man's a complete turd
Surely just watch Peep Show?
Moon landigns were not faked 😂
You like their Queen Victoria skit
Homeopathic = Doesn't work
I'm glad you're not as into alternative medicine as you are into moon conspiracy theories. Because they often go hand in hand (along with flat earth, evolution denying, etc.).
Homeopathic A&E isn't as funny for me anymore since I found out my local NHS hospital now has a homepathic store on site... I know it gets the hospital the money that it isn't getting from the Government like its supposed to but fuck me its depressing.
You know I was thinking you guys might want to do reactions to British TV comedies that were remade into US versions and compare them. Like, Sanford and Son was a remake of British Steptoe and Son, The Office and The Office: An American Workplace, or Ghosts (UK) and Ghosts (USA).
Also: All in the Family was based on Till Death us do Part
Check out their Bawdy 70s Hospital and Our We the Baddies?
They've done "Are we the baddies?" recently already.
These are not close to the best ones
The homeopathy sketch is particularly relevant now that king Charles has cancer and there's a chance he will choose to be treated by quacks and it will not end well...
Yeah, very funny. However, as someone who has successfully used homeopathy for 46 years I have to say that this is what is called "punching down". Homeopaths have taken a lot of shit from allopathic practioners (doctors) who have failed to grasp how homeopathy works for 200 years. I have seen this clip before so I won't watch it again. What6 I would like to know is this: Can doctors laugh at their own bullshit. I have never witnessed such a rare event.
Punching down isn't a thing; it's a whinge. And we tested 'homeopathic remedies' and the ones that worked we called medicine...
@@rescyn1190 You may also have to explain that the earth is a sphere...
@@rescyn1190 Tell me, who is this "We" you speak of? From the Cambridge English Dictionary: Punching down is "to attack or criticize someone who is in a worse or less powerful position than you: If a comedian punches down, they make fun of people who are less powerful or privileged." According to you it is not a thing. Correct. It is an action. As for the rest of your nonsense, I believe that your grasp on reality is a little too slippery so I won't waste more words on you.
@@cerisambrook7692 Wait...the earth is a sphere?
@@cerisambrook7692 If you are dumb enough to think that someone who uses homeopathy is a flat earther I won't waste my wisdom on you.
And there is the difference between men and women. All us guys are like "Yes nice, it's a bath" Thankfully the girls have better taste LOL