@@tommylehomme8695 The laser effect was fine. It's things like an animate object that people will more closely notice, so they made the right call to focus on that.
@lygophile thanks for the response. The thing is yes I get it, but it doesn't make sense cause if you remove the name its just giant ------ Ray. Maybe I am just a boomer
@lygophile the name death ray does not make sense, its not "giant death's ray" its "giant death ray". which in that case has nothing to do with his name and his naming of devices is just wrong
I'm not being shitty but one of my favorite things is seeing Brits who are great actors make an attempt at the generic American accent. It can't be easy because even some of the BEST can't do it convincingly in my opinion. It seems to me that there are common words that are hard af to imitate. What for example, the Brits pronounce What as Hwat and that always gives it away. There are also subtleties in cadence of speech as well.
Where’s my bloody flying car. I was promised a flying car when I was a little boy and now, half a century later, I don’t believe I’m any closer to getting one. What a rip off.
lygophile A five year old prototype that never took off (figuratively speaking) does not count. I don’t want a video of one. I want to buy one and fly it myself.
lygophile There have been several flying cars you can pre-order (can you say Kickstarter) for years. I don’t believe that any of them will deliver a single vehicle that can legally be used. I have heard empty promises since I was a little boy. I’ll believe it when there is one I can have a go in and actually order, not pre-order (which essentially means paying for something that doesn’t and never will exist).
lygophile It did rather look like that is what I meant but I shouldn’t have said that. It would have been much fairer to say that building a flying car is very hard. Lots of people try and most of them need investors. Almost none of those people will succeed but someone will become extremely rich, sooner or later. It isn’t fair to suggest that people are not trying to build a flying car in good faith but the last 50 years have been littered with failed flying car companies. The problem with this issue is that it’s actually not that hard to make a thing that you can sit in that flies and can hover. They have existed for all of the last 50 years. This encourages people to have a go. Sadly, the hard bit is taking something that basically works and turning it into something that is safe, reliable (there’s no hard shoulder in the sky), easy to use, compliant with relevant vehicular and aviation standards, is able to gain public acceptance and and and. The extreme difficulty of doing this bit is why I don’t believe I shall ever see flying cars. I am likely to see an apparently omniscient global self-conscious AI before I’ll be able to fly to work. Who would have thought it?
In reality, RADAR originated from the attempt to create a "death ray" that could bring down planes. They realised it wasn't powerful enough to do that, but it could DETECT the planes.
The first sketch is actually reality nowadays but with water! I have seen many people flying around above the water in the Surrey Quays area of London & it looks like a hell of a lot of fun! - you probably have to be very wealthy to do it, though, and I bet it explodes in a billowing radioactive cloud of flames halfway through because that sort of thing always happens.
Bungis Albondigas oh, you meant jetpacks. yea, I mean that’s true about potholes . Now that we’re doing sky traffic, we’d be facing a different set of problems though, not that straightforward to evaluate tbh. For example: how best to coordinate sky traffic? how to enforce traffic law in the sky? or the feasibility of the whole system of jetpack traffic in urban areas, etc. It just seems like a shitshow waiting to happen.
I love that it's never explained what's so helpful about the bullets
It can exterminate any pesky spiders housed in your local area.
You have clearly never worked in retail...
They're very fast, and there's lots of them. Pretty self-explanatory really.
What? You want rats?
Good source of light when in operation.
But can we appreciate how extra they went with the animations and the CG cloth for the giant scorpion of death?
For a comedy sketch show the visual effects are surprisingly good
And also how dogshit was the laser effect
@@tommylehomme8695 The laser effect was fine. It's things like an animate object that people will more closely notice, so they made the right call to focus on that.
@@tommylehomme8695 actual lasers look like that though
With helpful bullets 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“...the giant DEATH R- oh I see”
Absolutely superb delivery!
@lygophile I dont get it. Can you explain
@lygophile thanks for the response. The thing is yes I get it, but it doesn't make sense cause if you remove the name its just giant ------ Ray. Maybe I am just a boomer
@lygophile the name death ray does not make sense, its not "giant death's ray" its "giant death ray". which in that case has nothing to do with his name and his naming of devices is just wrong
@@alisajwani4538 I don't think it's your age so much as your lack of understanding of naming conventions.
Open fridge sketch might be my new fav, i discovered it recently and every second is a perfection.
"The whole quiche I had to throw away, you bastard!"
lmao
"And so much milk! I'll never see that quiche again..."
9:40 - Great to see that cameo from Jimmy Carr
XD
* Jimmy Carr laugh *
LMFAO
The acting on the last one was incredibly good.
„Forgive me Mr. President, but I created the Laser-fitted armoured death scorpion to help mankind!“
I love their absolutely perfect 1940's American accents in the Dr. Death sketch.
Professor
“Go Steve save yourself!”
“Shave myself?”
“Just go!”
not kill
That Mitchell and Webb Look had some really great sketches, but the jetpack wasn't one of them!
It was good idea, it just didn't have anywhere to go
It was more a running joke rather than the laugh out loud moments like the doom melon
They thought it was a good idea but it never really took off.
Well they're a 'hit and miss' show
They just should have gone the "oh, but they're not meant for humans to use them, don't be silly" route.
Still surprised to this day that David Mitchell's hairline stayed exactly where it was
David and Rob are really good at doing accents! I feel like this talent of theirs has been seriously underused to date!
I like when they use American accents in the death ray sketch
I'm not being shitty but one of my favorite things is seeing Brits who are great actors make an attempt at the generic American accent. It can't be easy because even some of the BEST can't do it convincingly in my opinion. It seems to me that there are common words that are hard af to imitate. What for example, the Brits pronounce What as Hwat and that always gives it away. There are also subtleties in cadence of speech as well.
The Numberwang sketches are my favourite.
Yes that is a number
@@hankkingsley9300 Numberwang!
THAT'S WANGERNUMB! ...enough people have typed it it autocompleted.
Olivia went from this to win an oscar. Wow.
I remember her playing a role in an insurance ad.🤣
This show was better than the sorts of pretentious hollywood shit she's in now
What a step down
@@bennyharvey6710 I enjoyed the Night Manager and her performance in it thoroughly
Who say's this is bad?
David’s President character is one of the most American president I ever seen.
One of one.
What this taught me is that Agnoo was a real person and not just a walking headless body in Futurama...
Same: I always wondered who Agnew was
😆
@@cameronspalding9792 39th Vice President of the United States under Nixon
@@cameronspalding9792 Spiro Agnew. Vice president of the USA.
Got caught on bribery charges around the same time as the watergate scandal lol
That actress in the last sketch is fuckin great. She is so perfect for the show and it's weirdness.
Olivia Coleman…she’s a treasure! And an Oscar winner
@@lisajean228 Loved her in Hot Fuzz.
That laugh at the end... "i quite like a little midnight gobble"
Professor Death should be on a shopping channel. He would go down a storm.
I assume by go down a storm you mean sell like hotcakes? Or down the toilet?
@@hankkingsley9300
Hi. Yes, I mean 'sell like hotcakes'.
I’m from the states, and I love the British comedy stuff, you all got the best humor. It’s so dry and stupid and could someone not laugh! I love it.
Mitchell is killing it as POTUS. It's so reminiscent of Peter Sellers doing Eisenhower in "Dr. Strangelove," it's spooky.
Low-key crushing on Olivia Colman here. Blimey.
That Mitchell and Webb Look and The Kids in the Hall, the best IMO
12:05 I didn't realise that was an option! I'm off to tell the wife the good news.
Still with your wife I see. Or is that Alice in the picture?
@@HenriZwols that’s definitely his wife and her boyfriend
Where’s my bloody flying car. I was promised a flying car when I was a little boy and now, half a century later, I don’t believe I’m any closer to getting one.
What a rip off.
lygophile I have looked. They don’t.
lygophile A five year old prototype that never took off (figuratively speaking) does not count. I don’t want a video of one. I want to buy one and fly it myself.
lygophile There have been several flying cars you can pre-order (can you say Kickstarter) for years. I don’t believe that any of them will deliver a single vehicle that can legally be used. I have heard empty promises since I was a little boy. I’ll believe it when there is one I can have a go in and actually order, not pre-order (which essentially means paying for something that doesn’t and never will exist).
lygophile It did rather look like that is what I meant but I shouldn’t have said that. It would have been much fairer to say that building a flying car is very hard. Lots of people try and most of them need investors. Almost none of those people will succeed but someone will become extremely rich, sooner or later. It isn’t fair to suggest that people are not trying to build a flying car in good faith but the last 50 years have been littered with failed flying car companies.
The problem with this issue is that it’s actually not that hard to make a thing that you can sit in that flies and can hover. They have existed for all of the last 50 years. This encourages people to have a go. Sadly, the hard bit is taking something that basically works and turning it into something that is safe, reliable (there’s no hard shoulder in the sky), easy to use, compliant with relevant vehicular and aviation standards, is able to gain public acceptance and and and. The extreme difficulty of doing this bit is why I don’t believe I shall ever see flying cars. I am likely to see an apparently omniscient global self-conscious AI before I’ll be able to fly to work. Who would have thought it?
Just get a plane?
These are great man. Thanks for the upload.
Holding the puppet as hostage was dope!
nooope
His American accent is so great
Amazing to think a supermarket scanner originated from the giant death ray.
In reality, RADAR originated from the attempt to create a "death ray" that could bring down planes. They realised it wasn't powerful enough to do that, but it could DETECT the planes.
Have been waiting since Los Angeles Olympics 1984!!
It's nice to know my favorite english comedians are as bad at american accents as I am at english accents.
Everyone tries to do a Texas twang or a Southern drawl. Just doing a basic American accent is very difficult.
Love Mitchell and Webb! Sir Digby forever! lol :)
So true! The fridge door!!
Spot on James Mason impersonation from Robert.
In the Death Ray Scene, that's what I thought too!
The jet packs were good foreshadowing of the app-rental e-scooters.
Safety is our principal concern.
The first sketch is actually reality nowadays but with water! I have seen many people flying around above the water in the Surrey Quays area of London & it looks like a hell of a lot of fun! - you probably have to be very wealthy to do it, though, and I bet it explodes in a billowing radioactive cloud of flames halfway through because that sort of thing always happens.
It is a reality without water, but what am I doing replying to a 2 year old comment?
@@ub3rfr3nzy94 you just can’t let some things go, can you!!!!
Who would reply to a 2 year old comment? Absolute waste of time.
@@paulshuttleworth6261 In 23 months I'm gonna get you so good
For Vectron’s sake, this video is so incomplete!
The last sketch was pure genius!!!
The puppet robber thing is actually a batman villain
"Yesokfine..." "Gooood" hahahaha
Classy
always with the hammer lmao
I love how they got the headless body of Agnew...with the head!
"Anyone coming to the pub?" XD
Jez really reminded me of Alan Partridge in that first skit.
😂🤣 “silly boy”
This holiday i am going to seek a merger 🥂🍷🍸🍻
Nah it's fine i didn't say memo OOPS XD
Great surname.
I want a jetpack!
Love the board meeting!
Yay, I have to take a drink every time I see the sentence "board meeting".
This reminds me so much of WKUK.
David as the jetpack ceo looks like todd howard lol
Reminds me of Elon Musk talking about the safety of self driving cars.
Helpful bullets! Haha
jetpacks are like flying cars, nice in theory but in practice pretty fucking difficult to coexist with(with all the deaths and health risks)
It can't be as bad as normal cars.
Bungis Albondigas It’s worse actually, because of ethical and coordination problems, which are not present in regular human-piloted cars.
You wouldn't have to driver over pot holes anymore though.
Bungis Albondigas oh, you meant jetpacks. yea, I mean that’s true about potholes .
Now that we’re doing sky traffic, we’d be facing a different set of problems though, not that straightforward to evaluate tbh.
For example: how best to coordinate sky traffic? how to enforce traffic law in the sky? or the feasibility of the whole system of jetpack traffic in urban areas, etc. It just seems like a shitshow waiting to happen.
Well we dealt with masks for morons I'm sure we could do better with jetpacks
Wahayyyy!!!!🤤😵🍻
The last one is if Open Relationships were Honest.
The condom part would probably be a big issue
Remember when Segways changed the world?
and then people took the handles off and reffered to them as a hover device
At this time in 2020 25 year old scotch is cheaper than branded Printer ink .
Blended printer ink? I'll have to try that next time I'm at The Office.
Yes but almost everything is. And it isn't uniquely 2020, printer ink was always expensive
They got drunk on drinkin' a mergea.
I would like to work in the office where they play constant drinking games.
Really started with the jetpack sketch? I mean, obviously a lot of effort went into it, but it wasn't a great one.
Is Rob's voice supposed to be James Mason? It's so familiar. I think Eddie Izard did a similar voice years ago.
Professor Death " noooo"
Imogen Scott
What a memorable quote.
People are always 'yes this' and 'yes that'. This guy broke the mould.
Professor death sounds like James mason
your jetpack is inside the packaging , which , in turn , is up your spouts , your spouts may be found later
David's accent makes the sketch. It's so bad it's good.
1:50 the US Airline Industry
Professor Death sounded like James Mason, right?
😜😂😂😂
Ah so that’s where No10 got their ideas for the Lockdown Party games from!
It IS about the fridge door.
How quaint, that first sketch was made before we had real jet packs
Why did they have the scene from oppenheimer with major agneu in here?
Oliva Coleman. !!
Why on earth did you elect to call this contraption of yours the the giant death! oh i see!
There are so many good sketches in M&W. What about the evil vicar, jizz trees, bad guys, numberwang etc.?
Poor professor Death.
Shit, I was thinking " If this is the future where is my jet pack"?
Alfred Nobel
can we talk about mitchells american accent
Cute presenter.
Its the best of Mitchell and Webb? And it doesn't include "The Captain's Hat" and "The Moon Landings"?
i love the mango mellon, but nobody kniws what k3tcheup i mean.
David's American accent is pretty fucking close but not quite there.
Source: Am American.
LOL I adore Mitchell and Webb, but as an American, His American English s not even close
This is funny
Omg, their American accents are spot on....
WHERE IS MY JETPACK ?!
Why does Robert Webb remind me of my son Paul
is that supposd to be Roosevelt or truman
Reminds me of a young Whitest Kids U Know.
What about the Best of “Best of ‘Best of Mitchell and Webb’”?
The last sketch is just utilitarianism
Strange choices for a best of
My Dad lives in Tring 😂
ur cringe lol
I have a gub.
What the hell does the arm scorpion of death remind me of some movie
Robocop.
Sophie and Mark?
Dont forget about jez
merger? I hardly even knew her