Guess the weight of the cake is one of the British equivalents of guess the number of jelly beans in the jar. The other activities are typical fair games.
Whack the rat! A classic. I have a photo of me and my best friend running this at our junior school summer fete. There was also welly wanging (throw a rubber boot the furthest) and cow pat bingo (a section of field is taped into squares, you choose a square and place a bet, the cow is led in and if it deposits a pat in your square ... you win!)
The croupier in this sketch (you first see him at 2:41) is John Finnemore, who co-wrote a lot of Mitchell & Webb's skits before going on to do his own fantastic radio sketch show. I'm not 100% sure, but there's a fair chance he came up with the concept for this one, because it's absolutely his brand of wackiness and absurdity.
I really hope you watch at some point two of my favorite sketches of Mitchell and Webb Look 1. The Quiz Broadcast. A quiz show to lighten the mood of the survivors inside of the bunker aftermath of the "event"...😮 2. Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, where to drunks think they are Sherlock Holmes... or something😅.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is the best series of sketches they've done. I also like the visit to a garden centre where Mitchell's character is kidnapped by a hidden tribe who live behind the shrubs for sale. Can't remember which episode that was. Oh, & the magic flute.
If you ever get over to Scotland, a fine part of the Highlands to visit is the Black Mount Estate, near Loch Tulla, off the main A82 road towards Glencoe. The estate belongs to the Fleming family, Ian Fleming being the original creator of James Bond. He drew on his WW2 experience in British Intelligence to create Bond, but also his older brother, who is remembered as a "soldier and traveller", and is buried on the estate. Handily, the spot for what has become an iconic scene from "Skyfall", with Bond and M standing by the Aston Martin DB4 in a misty glen isn't far away, in Glen Etive, also off that same main road.
The two guys giving him info and Mark Evans - writer of shows including Bleak Expectations (Dickens parody) and James Bachman, a comedy regular (also in Bleak Expectations, Sorry I've Got Bo Head etc)
The ‘Guess The Weight Of The Cake’ croupier is played by John Finnemore: a fantastic comedy writer and sometime actor. You should have a listen to some of his radio comedy show: John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme (start with the earlier series)
As others have rightly said, the joke here is that the games are all the sort of thing you'd see in a small village or church fair in the UK, and are generally seen as very silly and a bit old fashioned but still instantly recognisable. It's such a British sketch! The first man we see throwing darts at cards wins a teddy, and tears off the arm and gives it to the attendant because cards gamblers are expected to give a sizeable casino chip or two to the croupier if they win as a tip. Really, when you think about it, is it any sillier than a card game for big money?
As below, these are all games that you'd find on a small stall in an English county fair. The whack-a-rat game is also Frenchified and made posh and hints at a Chemin-de-Fer or Baccarat dealing machine
Guess the weight of a cake is a standard game at small town charity events in the UK. But it's not played like that. There's one cake and the competition goes on for the duration of the event. At the end of the event the person who guessed closest to the right weight wins. And the goldfish in plastic bags, hilarious. It's all the sort of thing you get at a country fair.
A great slice of British mockumentary style parody comedy from the late 90s, early 2000s that you probably never heard of is.... Stella Street! All the big names are present, Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson, Al Pachino, Joe Pesci, Roger Moore David Bowie, and many more, and of course Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run the local corner shop grocery store! It's pretty funny. The Mick Jagger character is hilarious. He's more Mick Jagger than Mick Jagger! It ran for 4 seasons totalling 36 episodes of 10 minutes each. Here's the first episode for a taste of wtf it is... ruclips.net/video/JI5vEevmbvQ/видео.htmlsi=OQwgA6JJM_yIxsBL
Ok you might not see this however there is a very old Mitchell and Webb called "the pit pony" its animated. To me this sums up British Comedy. I think you would love it now you understand the British sense of humour..
4:30 - you're thinking of Alan Davies. No, that's not him :) Everyone else is mentioning the summer fair/school fete think, but I don't think anyone has translated that to you "sideshow games at a County Fair"...
Reminded me of our junior school open day's in the 1989's, with the crap table top games, and sad, sub par fun fair type games and raffles with the most shite prizes imaginable, consisting of mainly donated items such as out of date cans of food, probably left over from the harvest festival, soaps and half empty bottles of perfume, second hand soft toys or unwanted bottom shelf sweets that nobody liked. Also, the obligatory bottle of cheap wine, something like lambrini or blue nun, that, even though it was a school open day fete for 7-11 year olds, for some reason, a donated bottle of cheap alcohol was deemed as a suitable prize for this occasion. What was even worse though, was if, on one of these dubious games, you won yourself a prize that your family had actually donated in the first place, possibly in an attempt to try to get rid of whatever it was, and then you went and won it, and had to take it back home again to go back in the cupboard it had originally come out of, until you donated it again at the next years school fete.
A suggestion for you are the 31 episodes of Red Dwarf original UK version once you've laughed your guts out then watch Smegups which are the even funnier out-takes to the shows which you're likely to appreciate more once you know the episodes. Have fun.
I'll mention it again, the classic Mitchell and Webb sketch Dead British Actors is a must watch. Well worth it: ruclips.net/video/MQEKWUJIqYw/видео.htmlsi=5fATT_B3pa2rAat5
Armstrong and Miller do an amazing spoof of the Ipcress file featuring the anti bond Harry Palmer , called Half priced pots which is rather better than this one
A spoof on British a fete which is a spring summer village/town quaint harmless fun. The circus hasn’t come to town so you make your own fun . The fun for me is we did go metric but we are still in the imperial system which you guys in the USA wholeheartedly took on and haven’t backed away from at all . We get the best of both worlds . That’s another reason why Europe were pissed off with us. By the way, I’m completely European and I didn’t vote for Brexit .
Only just discovered this. Got time for a last minute, Christmas themed, Would I Lie To You reaction, featuring David, and his wife, Victoria? ruclips.net/video/6mQdrEneNRI/видео.htmlsi=p7yM3vxlCDgxSfvR
They are all traditional english summer fair games and prizes 😂
Guess the weight of the cake is one of the British equivalents of guess the number of jelly beans in the jar. The other activities are typical fair games.
That's the first time I've seen this m&w sketch and I couldn't stop laughing all through it.
Whack the rat! A classic. I have a photo of me and my best friend running this at our junior school summer fete. There was also welly wanging (throw a rubber boot the furthest) and cow pat bingo (a section of field is taped into squares, you choose a square and place a bet, the cow is led in and if it deposits a pat in your square ... you win!)
This would go down well in Texas
These are all fairly common games you might have at a fund raising event in the UK. Just played like a high stakes casino of course.
The croupier in this sketch (you first see him at 2:41) is John Finnemore, who co-wrote a lot of Mitchell & Webb's skits before going on to do his own fantastic radio sketch show. I'm not 100% sure, but there's a fair chance he came up with the concept for this one, because it's absolutely his brand of wackiness and absurdity.
"FINNEMORE!!"
He had a really good radio programme, I listen to it on BBC sounds when it turns up.
Cabin Pressure and Souvenir Programme are both excellent 👍
@ Benedict C in an early role
@ a load still available on BBC sounds. When I was renovating my house for 6 months I listened to him a lot.
Love the new intro! :D And I am so glad that I can freely enjoy being a muppet here, a darn great feeling
First time I laughed in a few hours. I needed this, thank you Boomer, Merry Christmas to you, your family and subscribers. 🎄🇬🇧👵❤
I really hope you watch at some point two of my favorite sketches of Mitchell and Webb Look
1. The Quiz Broadcast. A quiz show to lighten the mood of the survivors inside of the bunker aftermath of the "event"...😮
2. Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, where to drunks think they are Sherlock Holmes... or something😅.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is the best series of sketches they've done. I also like the visit to a garden centre where Mitchell's character is kidnapped by a hidden tribe who live behind the shrubs for sale. Can't remember which episode that was. Oh, & the magic flute.
@@graemejones5968I wonder if that garden centre had any half-price pots
@ oh yeah, those are great ones as well😂🤣
If you ever get over to Scotland, a fine part of the Highlands to visit is the Black Mount Estate, near Loch Tulla, off the main A82 road towards Glencoe. The estate belongs to the Fleming family, Ian Fleming being the original creator of James Bond. He drew on his WW2 experience in British Intelligence to create Bond, but also his older brother, who is remembered as a "soldier and traveller", and is buried on the estate.
Handily, the spot for what has become an iconic scene from "Skyfall", with Bond and M standing by the Aston Martin DB4 in a misty glen isn't far away, in Glen Etive, also off that same main road.
So silly and ridiculous, but very funny. Therefore right up my alley. The muppertry is strong in this one!
The 'Linden tree' sketch is their finest by far... Guaranteed side splitter
Like your reactions KB, you definitely get our humour
The two guys giving him info and Mark Evans - writer of shows including Bleak Expectations (Dickens parody) and James Bachman, a comedy regular (also in Bleak Expectations, Sorry I've Got Bo Head etc)
The ‘Guess The Weight Of The Cake’ croupier is played by John Finnemore: a fantastic comedy writer and sometime actor. You should have a listen to some of his radio comedy show: John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme (start with the earlier series)
Considering how silly a game Baccarat is, I think Frappez le Rat would quite a step up.
I am surprised King Boomer hasn't actually bought a puppet/muppet of himself and made an intro/s with it
4:30 No, that's not Alan Davies
I also thought it was him at first, though
Fat Alan Davies does not exist.
He was in IT Crowd. He wanted to tell Roy the ending to that Korean movie in the cannibal episode.
As others have rightly said, the joke here is that the games are all the sort of thing you'd see in a small village or church fair in the UK, and are generally seen as very silly and a bit old fashioned but still instantly recognisable. It's such a British sketch!
The first man we see throwing darts at cards wins a teddy, and tears off the arm and gives it to the attendant because cards gamblers are expected to give a sizeable casino chip or two to the croupier if they win as a tip.
Really, when you think about it, is it any sillier than a card game for big money?
Sarah Hadland. She's fantastic.
"Numberwang!" If you haven't already done it, is pretty mad.
Last time I was this early, he was Prince Boomer
As below, these are all games that you'd find on a small stall in an English county fair. The whack-a-rat game is also Frenchified and made posh and hints at a Chemin-de-Fer or Baccarat dealing machine
It's not Alan Davies it's James Bachmann. He's in a lot of M&W.
Guess the weight of a cake is a standard game at small town charity events in the UK. But it's not played like that. There's one cake and the competition goes on for the duration of the event. At the end of the event the person who guessed closest to the right weight wins.
And the goldfish in plastic bags, hilarious. It's all the sort of thing you get at a country fair.
they got 1 more of him, in his lair. so silly :)
You owe me a new heart for that intro, King of the Tyrant Lizards Boomer
A great slice of British mockumentary style parody comedy from the late 90s, early 2000s that you probably never heard of is.... Stella Street!
All the big names are present, Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson, Al Pachino, Joe Pesci, Roger Moore David Bowie, and many more, and of course Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run the local corner shop grocery store!
It's pretty funny. The Mick Jagger character is hilarious. He's more Mick Jagger than Mick Jagger!
It ran for 4 seasons totalling 36 episodes of 10 minutes each.
Here's the first episode for a taste of wtf it is...
ruclips.net/video/JI5vEevmbvQ/видео.htmlsi=OQwgA6JJM_yIxsBL
Wacky? Wait until you see Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. 🤣🤣🤣
Ok you might not see this however there is a very old Mitchell and Webb called "the pit pony" its animated. To me this sums up British Comedy. I think you would love it now you understand the British sense of humour..
Guess the weight of the cake is a very very very old uk traditional game, usually at a chirch fayre
Gotta love a Finnemore cameo.
ffff I I only recognized him now
To be fair, we usually just hear him, and not in French x)
Hennimoooooore!
FOOD FIGHT, the Swedish chef versus Gordon Ramsay, BEGIN😂😂😂, yah Muppet.
Bat The Rat: every year at our school fair. This is just English tradition.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is obviously the best Bond film :-)
4:30 - you're thinking of Alan Davies. No, that's not him :) Everyone else is mentioning the summer fair/school fete think, but I don't think anyone has translated that to you "sideshow games at a County Fair"...
00:02 muppet-trucker!
These are all garden fete or rose queen type table games you would of seen there back in the day 🤗😆😆
Reminded me of our junior school open day's in the 1989's, with the crap table top games, and sad, sub par fun fair type games and raffles with the most shite prizes imaginable, consisting of mainly donated items such as out of date cans of food, probably left over from the harvest festival, soaps and half empty bottles of perfume, second hand soft toys or unwanted bottom shelf sweets that nobody liked. Also, the obligatory bottle of cheap wine, something like lambrini or blue nun, that, even though it was a school open day fete for 7-11 year olds, for some reason, a donated bottle of cheap alcohol was deemed as a suitable prize for this occasion.
What was even worse though, was if, on one of these dubious games, you won yourself a prize that your family had actually donated in the first place, possibly in an attempt to try to get rid of whatever it was, and then you went and won it, and had to take it back home again to go back in the cupboard it had originally come out of, until you donated it again at the next years school fete.
You need to watch their sketch Flamingo World next
Nice
A suggestion for you are the 31 episodes of Red Dwarf original UK version once you've laughed your guts out then watch Smegups which are the even funnier out-takes to the shows which you're likely to appreciate more once you know the episodes. Have fun.
Still waiting on "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar".
I'll mention it again, the classic Mitchell and Webb sketch Dead British Actors is a must watch. Well worth it:
ruclips.net/video/MQEKWUJIqYw/видео.htmlsi=5fATT_B3pa2rAat5
Cheesoid is one of my favourite Mitchell and Webb sketches - ruclips.net/video/6Ofesgkhikg/видео.html
You should react to "The Goes Wrong Show". I'm not going to say anything other than "90 degrees" is one of my favourites.
"Eww..." 😝
Pls react to “The Royale Family” a family from Salford Manchester where their lives revolve around the tv . I think you’ll love it
No it's not Alan Davies, he is too bigger star to play bit parts like that and he is the only guest that is on QI every week.
I was hoping for Whack a Mole.
They're just kids fairground games
I hate Skyfall, Bond got M killed, no need for her to even be there... Absolutely F'ing Stupid!
Why did you stop reacting to peep show?
He didn't, but he kept getting copyright strikes for his YT uploads so they're Patreon only I believe
Armstrong and Miller do an amazing spoof of the Ipcress file featuring the anti bond Harry Palmer , called Half priced pots which is rather better than this one
Have seen Mitchell and Webb's Kitchen Nightmares & American Idol ?
James Bachman has never been on QI, no.
I think KB was thinking of Alan Davies, and to be fair, I thought it was too for a second
Sky fall is just ridiculous.
Whack the rat...
try this for size! epic ROBERT WEBB performance ruclips.net/video/Pwfa04iQyZI/видео.htmlsi=O9VnKyRk7go2bQI4
I don't like these guys show, but this was funny in parts😂
#SirDigbyChickenCaesar2025
King Boomer lost it. Yep. Gone. Goodbye.
A spoof on British a fete which is a spring summer village/town quaint harmless fun.
The circus hasn’t come to town so you make your own fun .
The fun for me is we did go metric but we are still in the imperial system which you guys in the USA wholeheartedly took on and haven’t backed away from at all .
We get the best of both worlds .
That’s another reason why Europe were pissed off with us.
By the way, I’m completely European and I didn’t vote for Brexit .
Only just discovered this. Got time for a last minute, Christmas themed, Would I Lie To You reaction, featuring David, and his wife, Victoria?
ruclips.net/video/6mQdrEneNRI/видео.htmlsi=p7yM3vxlCDgxSfvR