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- David Mitchell talks about Weddings.
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In this episode David takes issue with ridiculously extravagant weddings. He questions whether they're really supposed to be special for you, or for everyone else?
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I've only been to two weddings in the past ten years, due to my clever strategy of having as few friends as possible.
It doesn't work. God it doesn't work. Almost everyone hates me and I still get invited to weddings. Then they get upset when I don't show.
I’ve been to none HA
Can't remember the last one I went to.
I’ve been to -1 weddings
I'm 48, and I've been to 3. Quite proud of that.
When I get married I want a tiny talking David Mitchell on my cake.
Welp, its been 9 years. Did it happen 🤣?
Or a giant cake under regular sized David Mitchell?
yeah c'mon man, this cliffhanger is dragging on a bit now
“In conclusion, Victoria, will you marry me?”
David Mitchell is the only man in the world who probably proposed by PowerPoint. Actually come to think about it Dave Gorman might also might have done
@@TheHutchy01 He probably related pros and cons for having him as a husband, as well as prediction quotas for gift giving, children bearing and love making on an agreed timetable
There was probably a protracted debate over whether or not "love making" should be hyphenated.
@@TheHutchy01 Make up your mind.
He didn't mention the most ridiculous part - couples spending all their savings so that they get the best of everything just for one day that no one except them and maybe their parents are going to remember in detail, and which there's a 50% chance will one day become totally meaningless
Privacy Lover Close to 100% chance, because even for couples who make it, lots of the specifics of the day become meaningless even when the relationship isn’t.
@@collindavey6139 I agree. Even for those who make it.
Very nice point. And that's not even considering the point they say "till etc etc etc" and it self destructs within five years
Unless any of you are married. Fuck off.
Agree!!
"I won't say worse, I'll just think it very loudly"
Brilliant :L
I know it's a green screen, but the idea of sitting atop a cake fills me with a certain anxiety. Imagine having that much icing on the back-- and only the back-- of your trousers.
The thought of someone who could find sitting on cake... Funny?
Society
It's okay, it's all fondant anyway
There's an episode of Taskmaster where Alex has to sit in a cake. Without his trousers on. ruclips.net/video/0sRnUDcvFn0/видео.html
what? you've never sat on a cake before?
'I won't say worse, but I will think it quite loudly'.....Dear David Mitchell, if you don't mind I am going to use this quite often.
I do like this bloke. Such a singular personality - totally his own man from what I can see.
Yeah. Although he didn't write this, so...
@@dorksouls978 He did...
@@dorksouls978 He did.
@@HOTD108_ So Jon Finnemore just did the graphics then?
@@dorksouls978it literally says his name in the credits lol
"a deeply improbable promise"
I laughed sooo hard at that omg.
David, you rock.
On behalf of all the bridesmaids in all the world, thank you.
In light of all that’s going on covered I am meant to be getting married thank you David Mitchell for reminding me what it’s really all about I feel much less stressed
I love David Mitchell's rants
Be interesting to see what his wife Victoria thinks of this :P and how their wedding went! Haha
"... In the presence of catering," should be a phrase used far more often
Modern weddings are far too often about ego and showmanship. Nobody really remembers that the day is not nearly as important to everyone else attending as it is to the bride and groom.
As a lifelong organist who has played hundreds and hundreds of weddings, I confirm and am impressed by the accuracy regarding the skipped generation. Absolutely spot on.
David, as usual, is bang on. The groom is totally superfluous to weddings. It wouldn't matter in the slightest if he weren't there. Weddings are now a tribute and testament to the 'originality' of the bride. Which is exactly why stag nights have taken on the meaning they have. Because not only is it the last night of freedom but the groom knows what's coming the next day and he'd really rather not remember it.
How many grooms are simply blind drunk during their wedding and wedding photos then? 😅
Saturday, the 12th of July 2006, really was a special day.
It managed to be Wednesday whilst being a Saturday!
Agree. Totally. My best friend (female) is so peeved with the idea of having to organise her own wedding she may even let her mother organise it, like the old days. I think that would be fine. Weddings are about 'how cool are we? Look how much debt we can get into. If you would be willing to get married wearing a binbag in a reg office in Croydon with 2 witnesses, now that's commitment.
Short arms and long pockets. I've never heard that before, made me laugh alot.
That's older than I am. And I'm sixty
Short arms , Deep pockets is a saying as old as the hills .
@@Gw0wvl is it mainly a UK saying or are you in the US? Because ive never heard it in the midwest
@@dbrad02 i first heard the saying in a wu tang clan song "protect ya neck" so its definitely known in america lol
@@aegrbdzre Same here, I got that from GZA the Genius hahaha.
I largely agree with this--not that the couple should have no control over their own wedding, but that some people go ridiculously out of control in their attempt to make their wedding memorable. I mean, it's their money and they can spend it how they like, but can you imagine if they took that huge wad of cash they spent having Swarovski crystals on the invites and instead put it toward a house? A car? Their future kids' college funds? I'd rather do that, anyway. But maybe that's just me.
I'm really about to reply to a 9-year-old comment, aren't I?
Fuck it.
You're absolutely right though. People who spend ludicrous amounts of money on their wedding never stay together anyway. Fake money spent to impress fraudulent people. Stick to simple.
I've discovered this series yesterday and it has quickly become my favourite thing on tubes. Finally somebody saying it how it is! Chapeau! This is an absolute brilliant continuation of Mark Corrigan, bit wiser, bit older, bit more bite.
"Short arms and long pockets" - what a wonderful expression that I've never heard before
“To make a deeply improbable promise, that little bit more likely to stick!”
😆😆😆😆
Let’s hope Victoria never sees this! 😂
Never do a wedding the way others expect you to. Organize it in such a way that you can actually enjoy it. I did. It was a pleasant evening. My wife and I often think about this day with content.
The worse thing about weddings is that you, as a guest, have to pretend you're having an incredible fun and are expected to shower the bride with perfect banal platitudes about oh, her radiant smile, whilst all you're thinking of is scuttling discretely to the toilets to practise the healthy sport of cottaging.
Olrac Sobi what the fuck are you even saying?
The truth.
Where are you from?
Olrac, you use your friends weddings to get anonymous gay sex? 0_0
I use any opportunity to get sex, friends' weddings is just another golden opportunity with so many frustrated men around :-)
"a yardstick for the depth of their love".... ha ha, great turn of phrase there.
David Got married yesterday!!!!! It's nice to know he's finally happy!!!!!!
David Mitchell: He doesn't rant. He just thinks quite loudly!
“…and this is bound to lead to trouble.” usually brings a sense of positive anticipation in me when listening to a story…as does, “…Little did they know”.
Two pubs for each church... does that seem enough? Surely we are a few pubs short.
Soon it will be three pubs per Mosque, so no need to worry about that.
I grew up in a town that had 2-3 churches per pub, Needless to say they are all housing developments now but I always wondered about how we had so many.
If you think about it, that's still the same number of places serving alcohol.
@@RebusForever There are around 400,000 congregations in the U.S. and around 65,000 bars. That's more than 6 churches per bar _on average._ And we're the secular country!
@@EebstertheGreat the US was founded by religious fundamentalists. It's never been a secular country. The pilgrims were religious loonies
Spot on, as usual.
Also, I appreciate that he’s sitting on top of a wedding cake. Nice use of green screen.
The recent switch has created a cursed generation: they had their own wedding spoilt by the generation above, but largely aren't allowed to ruin those of the generation below
Brilliant and true! Lol
I'm 31 and have only been to 2 friend's weddings in my life - I moved abroad when I was 25. I feel like I'm missing out on a summer of attending weddings!
beware the bride to be if she says "ive been planning this since i was in nappys"
I think I went to dozens of weddings as a child. My family were well to do and mom was a bit of a socialite.
Since achieving adulthood, and not having done much with college or money I have been to maybe four weddings? I don’t have enough friends and most of them were either married before I met them or have yet to get married.
True to his word, David and Victoria got married in the church round the corner from their home, with nothing at all unusual about the ceremony besides the many comedians who attended.
Weddings are so creepy. "Oh, I love you so much that I'm going to get the government involved so you can't leave."
You can still leave and so can they. Marriage conventions are less the problem than divorce conventions, we've got to scrap all that shit asap.
I agree, Uru. I think it's more likely this: "I love you so much that when I die I want you to inherit my boat.
That reminds me of a Doug Stanhope joke!
they inherit your debts?
The spouse in some cases must pay debts of some kinds in some countries. A typical case would be a loan they both signed. Debts acquired before marriage might be handled differently. Get a lawyer to draw up papers before you marry to deal with that if possible.
I love this man.
I wonder if i should show this video to two friends of mine which will have a their wedding this month. They will do ALL this things mentioned in here.
In the presence of catering 😂
Getting all poetic at the end there.
These are some of the best videos on RUclips.
I went to a wedding in Ukraine, and not only did the bride not plan her own wedding, she wasn't even allowed to see the hall till she was walking down the isle! I hope I can get my aunts to take up that tradition for me! Just imagine not having to worry about everything and all the decorations!
"a deeply improbable promise" looooooooooooooool so damn true
"For us to be a bit different, when I'm meant to say I do I want to say do I"
Wonderful! I agree with everything he says here!
12th of july 2006 was a wednesday
ok fanriffic Well done, you passed the test.
Spatial Rift And now you can begin your training.
ok fanriffic Did you ask Lee Mac?
no but I used his system.
We got married Saturday July 12th... in 2003... so I figured it was off.
I think David should do a rant about his own wedding as his wedding speech. xD
This would be a good intro to a best man’s speech
Well I think this little broadcast will be sufficient to enable David to leave any future wedding as promptly as he desires without anyone daring to complain.
A registry office isn't all that romantic, but I don't agree with the hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on the wedding day when really what you need is to spend it on the marriage. Have your ceremony by all means, do what you like, have the party (because I think that is the only fun bit of the day for everyone) and then use the money you saved from hideous bridesmaids dresses and stretch hummers (boke) on useful things like kettles, toasters and sofas because you will need those things.
As David said, a wedding should be special for the couple. Therefore my wedding will be whatever my husband and I want it to be. Not for the sake of being unique, but for the sake of being fun for us.
you married yet?
David we are so on the same level!! If I was on there Id put this on facebook and maybe it would ring a few bells with people.
I've been to three weddings in my life: my sisters' and one of my friend's cousin's. My sisters' weddings were great because I got to be an usher and it was great having a laugh and enjoying the day with friends and family, whereas the other one was weird and awkward. Going to other people's family do's are almost inevitably terrible.
My friend went completely insane before his wedding. They had a medieval themed wedding but he messed up the styles and we had to wear clothes that made us look like vampire cult members. My other friend broke his foot and my friend called his dad up just to make sure he wasn't faking it to get out of being a groomsman!!! The fact that they waited three and a half years until the wedding night to consummate their relationship may have had something to do with his stress...
I would have loved to have seen his wedding.
oh how true! spot on observation as usual. i couldnt help feeling at our wedding that i was irrelevant to the whole process. i hope i never have to be subjected to that ever again. *shivers*
David Mitchell's wedding to Victoria Coren will undoubtedly be a very sensible but altogether happy day and I wish I was friends with them so I could go :)
0:58 The 12th July 2006 was a Wednesday. I would have expected someone like David Mitchell to be more meticulous than that.
Love that; generation that stiffed us on pension! ha ha ha. Soooo true (isn't it?!)!
Will you marry me David? I swear my Mum will plan the wedding and my Dad will pay for it!
It's all the more pleasing that David got married a year later!
3:19 Except in the show ' Don't Tell The Bride', But we all know how that usually goes...
I guess this answers the question why David wasn't invited to the royal wedding, while his WILTY co-star Lee was.
Not doubting their matrimonial bliss...but...really...one CAN be happy without marrying.
I really don't think I've ever read more bollocks in my entire life, and I worked in the emergency services. That is quite an accomplishment on your part.
Haha love your WILTY reference.
My wife and I got married at the Ren faire. People STILL talk about it, and ask us if we'll do a recommitment ceremony at the same place. We might!
And thus David continues his mission to ensure he never gets invited to anything ever, ever again.
That was brilliant. Thank you!
@doctortehe Around 3:08 He seems to be paraphrasing it. "But I will think it quite loudly". It's quite similar to Professor Farnsworth line "I'm not saying that, but I'm certainly thinking it loudly." It could be unintentional of course. But it's nice to think of Mitchell as a Futurama fan.
david mitchell >>>>> everything and everyone
David Mitchell quoting Futurama.
Unexpected, but completely awesome!
Only David could sit on a cake and not sink into it
Fast forward to November of 2012 and dearest David had what was called a “star studded wedding” in newspapers and magazines
So?
Like he said, it wan't him, it was his bride
So it’s nice
@VincentBrooke1 often yes they do because they have no problem with paying lip service to avoid a fuss
Actually, I'm 30 and still single, and I'd quite happily have someone just tell me who to marry because clearly I suck at dating. Seriously considering just asking my Indian friends to get on the case.
I am scared that every woman I date will want to get married and have a lavish ceremony. I thought I was the only one who thought it was pointless
I think the problem lies more in weddings than marriage itself. I have heard it said that the wedding day is the most important and memorable day in the life of a woman. Not all women may see it this way. But some definitely might. The time, effort, energy and money that goes into that one day. Everything chosen with special attention to detail. All for the day a man and a woman decide to "become one" and in her mind, it is all downhill from there. Fantasies, what can you do, eh? Say no to her?
+themannyxx
I used to be together with someone that was focussed on that 'downhill' thing.
Spend ages with actual secret schedules (not kidding!) to keep my expectations neutral. Everytime I was excited about (let's say a trip to a city), he'd do something to make me sad. Whether it was cancelling future dates (we met twice a month) or telling me that he wanted to watch sports the éntire next day.
I'd then be 'cheered up' by the citytrip, that he knéw in advance was nót going to be up to my expectations (he'd planned to visit the shops he wanted first.)
But since this was my only chance, I tried to make the most of it.
If, that evening, I wanted to watch a movie that he didn't want, he'd make sure to mention his ex-girlfriends. "Did I ever tell you how I banged Charlize on that couch?"
If I was bewildered and upset, he'd get me a bag of crisps and say; 'Don't worry, I'll watch a similar movie with you love' and I'd feel a bit better that he 'gave up his hate for romantic movies' for me.
One day he got drunk and showed me his agenda. He slurred; "Here..look..I'm such an asshole. I've got planned whén to treat you to ice-cream, so I can get my sportsweekend again. And here I'm going to promise you that we're going to the city, but I'll postpone and take you to a sportsevent instead, where I'll treat you on fries and everything will be fine again."
Safe to say, I vomited in disgust, and 3 months later the 4,5 year relationship was over.
TAKE NOTES, VICTORIA.
If grooms got to decide on weddings then I think there'd be a klot of zanier ones. Star wars themed, Doctor Who themed, Indian Jones and James Bond themed, probably even hichhiker's guide to the galaxy themed. I'm not sure if that wouldn't be better but the photos would certainly be more interesting.
A magical day
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@SiriusMined That is the most amazing mix of sweet and awesome I've ever heard of!
Either youtube pays loads or David Mitchel is hard up for cash. Videos with adverts on youtube David.... My heart goes out to you :(
Only ever been to 1 wedding and didn’t feel it was in any way “special”, just a ghastly grind of social interaction with people I don’t / hardly knew.
"...that was a magical night!"
Presumably the thumbs down are the Bridezillas? He speaks the truth you know....
Wow, earliest I've ever got here, and I'm so happy.
he's on question time tonight!
@TehBuhmDiggeee I've always asked myself (and others) why staying together because you're legally bound to eachother is a greater testament of love/affection/commitment than staying together despite being able to fuck off at any given second.
This is spot on. I friggin' hated my wedding.
Maybe I have not got the message correctly, but do I have to infer that marrying couples expect their wedding to be judged "original"? It can't be, can it?
People seem to think that the longer the bride's dress is the longer the lifespan the marriage will have. It's a miracle they don't get caught between the altar and a radio tower in Dublin.
Victoria Coren wrote a column about getting married and monogamy the other day and now her boyf, Mr Mitchell here, has done a soapbox about weddings.
I can only assume they're getting married. I am both happy for the them and FILLED WITH RAGE AND JEALOUSY.
"Last time"? The playlist is out of order? Cuz that one comes AFTER this one.
@fenukii I agree, remember the royal wedding? All people cared about was the originality of Kates dress.
"It seems like a waste of money, effort and could just be done in a registry office with party afterwards" TehBuhmDiggeee clearly said that she may mark her "wedding" with just a party which would fulfil the ceremony you mentioned.
My sister is having a big wedding on saturday, its all well and good but all the money she is spending is making the whole event far more stressful than it needs to be.
There should be a catalogue of choice of Do’s
No customs
Just package deals
“Hello yes I’d like one pewdiepie wedding, the food looked good and I liked the venue”