I love when Mitchell and Webb have a message in their sketches, like with the homeopathy hospital, so funny and they do such a good job of ridiculing their subject.
I used to watch this show religiously but SOMEHOW I must have missed this episode as I have zero memory of this set up! Fantastic stuff from one of the very best double acts this century 😘
I didn't watch the clip because I've seen it many times already, but I genuinely laughed out loud when I saw the title and heard Mitchell say 'laboratoire' in my head. Had to share that for some reason...
@@thegingerpowerranger The ‘you,’ wasn’t directed at YOU, just those who may have missed the ‘135 years’ reference and missed the sarcasm. So ‘you’ don’t need to be just Australian. No need to be spiteful. Yes, I am welcome at parties, FYI. I’ll wait for an apology shall I….?
@@Chafflives you must be either autistic or have English as your second language. Either way I can see you find it very difficult in social scenarios and I can understand how difficult your life must be. I'm sorry for how hard you find it to be kind to other people and I am sorry at how lonely your life must be that you spend it being a troll on the Internet. What a sad use of your limited time.
"This is the LABORATOIRE! Not a UNESCO conference! 😒😒" Whenever he yells "LABORATOIRE!" in such a serious way, is so funny lol. Sometimes I see little hints of The League of Gentleman in their work 😅
This, the "Laboratoire Garnier" sketch, is my second favourite by Mitchell and Webb, after the SS "Are we the baddies?" one. And then "Heil Dönitz". They just recently did guest voices in _Rick and Morty_ s6 e9.
I just saw this clip show up in my feed and didn't even need to watch it (again) because reading the title I heard Mitchell say 'laboratoire' and that was enough to crack me up. Genuinely made me laugh out loud just thinking about it. The repeated use of that word is one of the funniest things ever. Nobody can say 'laboratoire' like Mitchell. Another one that belongs on my favourite list are their 'Angel Summoner and BMX Guy' sketches.
It also works within the context of the sketch, Mousier Garnier wouldn't want to spend excessively on a microscope that could be used for stuff unrelated to hair product research!
This is the key, I only thought about the Perpetual Motion device but now it all makes sense, M. Garnier is actually in the right here. He's trying to keep his (evidently successful) researchers focused on cosmetics because otherwise they have delusions of grandeur and think they've invented perpetual motion, or cured Alzheimer's, where in fact they can't do enough actual scientific research to hold a microscope the right way round.
Lol and btw can someone PLEASE tell me the name of the song that begins to play at the end - I've always loved it but no one has ever been able to yell me it's name :(
The thing that always really bugged me about the Laboratoire Garnier Paris strapline, is that having used a French pronunciation for Laboratoire Garnier they used the English for Paris (it's 'Pari' in French). So it's either 'Garnier Laboratories Paris', or 'Laboratoires Garnier Pari'. So i fully endorse this send up
I don't recall hearing him say so, but it certainly is the sort of thing he might say. Cox is rather big on doing science for the sake of no other explicit goal than exploration and discovery, isn't he?
Research scientists are seen in a particular way, striving for lofty goals, but some mundane chemistry/biology/physiology/medicine problems effect many people, and are lucrative. Many top researchers DO actually work in these industries, and have well-paying, stable 9 to 5's with no teaching/grant writing obligations (often family focused). I know L'Oreal specifically employs state-of-the-art equipment to understand things like skin damage/repair, the pathway of dermal delivery of drugs, etc.
All jokes aside, this is quite an astute observation of the effects of capitalism on scientific advances - if there's no money in it for large corporations, then to them its not worth bothering with.
I believe the point of the joke is the exact opposite. Wouldn't a perpetual motion machine make the discoverer (and by extension the Gargier company) fabulously rich? Ditto for the cure for Alzheimer. The sketch makes fun of the capitalist boogeyman narratives. Of course, actual cosmetics company research (if they even have any) is unlikely to disover anything beyond cosmetics but if they somehow managed to come up with such a massive breakthrough, the company would set up a whole new subsidiary or even pivot to the new field completely to make money on that. You can make a lot more money off a cure to Alzheimer's than by developing a slightly shinier shampoo (and competing with another 30 or so almost identical shampoos sold by other companies).
Ah, I guess it was the same program I was riffing on. I was just under the impression it was someone else presenting it, but everything else sounds so familiar I must be mistaken. :)
The stage (where you place your slide) is more commonly towards the person sitting behind the microscope. This way frame won't get in your way if you are switching the slides.
True, yet this backwards way of using a $5 toy microscope was the key to discovering the cure for Alzheimers. It’s amazing there just happened to be a production crew in the laboritoire to record this event.
He said there are good things about both but yes, he is for the more casual science. On the programme, he used the examples of the marine chronometer for goal oriented research, and William Henry Perkin and his discovery of mauveine for the other.
@@jimmyjam6197 That was a reply to a comment I can't really remember that well. Something about discovering things through different methods of research
Can I make a general appeal to those asking questions about the sketch, or indeed about any clip on 'RUclips'. Stop disabling replies to your posts. We can't respond unless you enable replies. Ta.
You do realise the majority of comments on this video are from before RUclips changed over to the Google+ commenting system? That's why you can't reply to them.
Manly Stump Yes, I realise this. But I've noticed a tendency for some posters, having asked questions in posts with very recent 'time' stamps (not sure of the correct term, sorry) to ask questions having apparently disabled replies.
This is actually a bit true - massive research corporations (more likely Pfizer or GSK than Garnier) work in a particular way which precludes this kind of serendipitous discovery. Their goal-oriented approach is very, very good at seeing results towards that particular goal, it's just likely to discard other interesting discoveries that don't point towards that goal. That's why the Cavendish labs are so important, allowing scientists to be goal-oriented *and* go off on investigative tangents.
The sheer genius of having M. Garnier appear as Catherine Cookson-style northern mill owner. Inspired.
One of 't flehl rod is out of skew wi' treadle ?
Was I the only one expecting the Spanish Inquisition ?
"which sounds like 'nutrition' but doesn't guarantee it" is one of the finest indictments of modern advertising I've ever heard.
So many brands have names that sound like actual words
Andrew, your comment is nine years old at this point. What has become of you? What _horrors_ have you seen?
@@Sawta disease? riots? wars?
i think we ware working on famine at the moment.
pick your poison. or put them in a blender with some drink, like i do.
The word "choc" often gets used when a product tastes like it might have chocolate in, but they can't guarantee that it actually has.
@@fredbloggs8072yet white chocolate tastes like shit.
Something tells me David has never had to shake his hair in the breeze before.
Not the most spontaneous looking hair unleashing, was it?
In his defense I think the wig was just stiff at first
So many layers to this. Funny lines, great acting, and a savage putdown of nonsensical product marketing. Awesome sketch...
I love how they looked for every opportunity to shove the word "laboritoire" into this skit.
Laboritoire - a word that sounds like laboratory but doesn't actually mean that real science is done there.
Laboratoire - Just the French word for laboratory.
hansheiri87 but doesn't actually mean that real science is done there.
I don't see how it changes anything.
athox
I was going along with the "Nutris" joke motif.
Still just the French word for laboratory
Could be 'nutrice'?
These guys will be gold to watch even after decades.
I love how Monsieur Garnier has a Northern English accent
Mark Kennedy - I think he's a 19th century mill owner
I think he is a Northern abattoir owner.
You mean that 'Northern' accent? The one dialect coaches don't have a fucking clue about, that one?
What the ‘ell’s goin’ on ‘ere??
emphasises how much of a fraud he is.
I love when Mitchell and Webb have a message in their sketches, like with the homeopathy hospital, so funny and they do such a good job of ridiculing their subject.
Or the "everyone gets an a" sketch
😤 “..this is MY LABORATOIRE!” 😂
It looks like wind is blowing through his hair but in actuality its microbeads bouncing off of each other, only accessible in the frutcoise range
"frutcoise"
@@johnmartinez7440 Frutcoise is French for laboritoire.
@@johnmartinez7440 frutçoise
🤪🤣
This role, the waiter/priest, and the bond-villain are some of Davids best haha :)
A shampoo that cures Alzheimers.
They're gone sir..
@@ThatPianoNoobthey've _all_ gone...
I used to watch this show religiously but SOMEHOW I must have missed this episode as I have zero memory of this set up! Fantastic stuff from one of the very best double acts this century 😘
David Mitchell is so good in this sketch.
His hair at the end though 😍 makes it all worth it
This is MY LABORITOIRE!!
The delivery of 'Bang on Leslie!' is superb
I say it all the time hahaha
Damn you, Monsieur Garnier, your lust for luscious hair destroyed any chance of a cure for Sherlock Holmes.
One of the best sketches they have created.
I would have thought Mr Garnier would have called it L'abbatoir Garnier with that yorkshire accent
L'Abbatoir Garnier is something very different. It's where he sends his uncooperative workers.
These sketches are completely up my street, obscure, witty and great lines throughout them!
it was funny at first..
then half way through it got REALLY FUNNY.
omg it hurts.
I didn't watch the clip because I've seen it many times already, but I genuinely laughed out loud when I saw the title and heard Mitchell say 'laboratoire' in my head. Had to share that for some reason...
He is clearly dressed and talking like a wealthy Yorkshire land owner.
Yep the Yorkshire stereotype of money above all else is true.
Well spotted. You're sharp, aren't you?
I worked at the Ponds Institute for 135 years and can assure you that this sketch is realistic.
Maybe you need to be Australian to laugh at this one but I thought it was pretty funny!!
@@thegingerpowerranger
Maybe you need to understand ‘sarcasm,’ to appreciate his comment.
@@Chafflives I understood his comment, that's why I said I thought it was funny. I bet you are the life of every party every hey?
@@thegingerpowerranger
The ‘you,’ wasn’t directed at YOU, just those who may have missed the ‘135 years’ reference and missed the sarcasm. So ‘you’ don’t need to be just Australian. No need to be spiteful. Yes, I am welcome at parties, FYI. I’ll wait for an apology shall I….?
@@Chafflives you must be either autistic or have English as your second language. Either way I can see you find it very difficult in social scenarios and I can understand how difficult your life must be. I'm sorry for how hard you find it to be kind to other people and I am sorry at how lonely your life must be that you spend it being a troll on the Internet. What a sad use of your limited time.
Love this sketch, laughing from start to finish.
"This is the LABORATOIRE! Not a UNESCO conference! 😒😒" Whenever he yells "LABORATOIRE!" in such a serious way, is so funny lol. Sometimes I see little hints of The League of Gentleman in their work 😅
You just know the laboritoire Garnier is full of caged beagles wearing as much make up as a Scunthorpe teenager.
This is so much sadder given the old Holmes sketch at the end of season 4
This came on in a plane and I literally started jumping up and down.
Did your handler stop you?
David actually looks really good in that outfit
This, the "Laboratoire Garnier" sketch, is my second favourite by Mitchell and Webb, after the SS "Are we the baddies?" one. And then "Heil Dönitz". They just recently did guest voices in _Rick and Morty_ s6 e9.
The Nazi sketch is the best.
I think I have to put Dr Death and community support officer brutality higher, but this one is good.
My favourites are "Tash - A Man of Oil" and the one with Queen Victoria and the linden trees.
I just saw this clip show up in my feed and didn't even need to watch it (again) because reading the title I heard Mitchell say 'laboratoire' and that was enough to crack me up. Genuinely made me laugh out loud just thinking about it. The repeated use of that word is one of the funniest things ever. Nobody can say 'laboratoire' like Mitchell.
Another one that belongs on my favourite list are their 'Angel Summoner and BMX Guy' sketches.
Dr Death and his ‘death ray’ is right up there, too
Mitchell channelling his Warren Clarke vibes here! Damn that was a good sketch! 👍🏻
the cheapest microscope I have ever I mean ever seen
It's a prop for a sketch
Thats because the sketch had it being destroyed by david throwing it at the ground you twat
It also works within the context of the sketch, Mousier Garnier wouldn't want to spend excessively on a microscope that could be used for stuff unrelated to hair product research!
I love that monsieur garnier is from Yorkshire
I can't believe nobody's actually pointed out Webb's microscope is the wrong way around.
This is the key, I only thought about the Perpetual Motion device but now it all makes sense, M. Garnier is actually in the right here. He's trying to keep his (evidently successful) researchers focused on cosmetics because otherwise they have delusions of grandeur and think they've invented perpetual motion, or cured Alzheimer's, where in fact they can't do enough actual scientific research to hold a microscope the right way round.
Bang on, @kiemul136 !
AHAHAH I've always thought "laboratoire garnier" was a funny name and this just encapsulates
It just means Garnier Laboratory in French.
Most things sound funny in French.
@@zeddeka Yeah, but people rarely associate laboratory work with grooming products, although anything chemistry related will always involve them.
So hard to choose a favorite but this comes so close
i think this is the best sketch ive seen from them, that and the james bond one.
the song's called "slip into something" by kinobe ft ben and jason
with zees laboritoire you are uh-really spoiling us, Monsieur Garnier
Probably the best Ross Noble impression ever
I love that 'pssssst' he does at Peterson. Like kids in school when they should be getting on with their science experiment.
"Take care" hehe that was a nice touch.
david flipping his hair works better then any add
I can't walk past a Garnier product in the shop now without thinking "garnier labatoire" in a thick Yorkshire accent
So deceptively true, its almost as depressing as it is hilarious.
Garnier is part of L'Oreal for those who kept pointing out it's Garnier.
So brilliant and yet I feel there probably are a bunch of jokes in too obscure for me to get.
Lol and btw can someone PLEASE tell me the name of the song that begins to play at the end - I've always loved it but no one has ever been able to yell me it's name :(
Kinobe Slip into something more comfortable
@@biscuit7879 I cant believe nine years later I finally got my answer..... last thing I expected this evening. thanking you
I reckon the real imventor of "nutrisse" was chuffed
If you had a perpetual motion machine, you'd significantly decrease costs. I think that wold be very beneficial.
I think the biggest problem is the fact the microscope isnt actually looking at anything. 0:35
The thing that always really bugged me about the Laboratoire Garnier Paris strapline, is that having used a French pronunciation for Laboratoire Garnier they used the English for Paris (it's 'Pari' in French). So it's either 'Garnier Laboratories Paris', or 'Laboratoires Garnier Pari'. So i fully endorse this send up
I don't recall hearing him say so, but it certainly is the sort of thing he might say. Cox is rather big on doing science for the sake of no other explicit goal than exploration and discovery, isn't he?
Research scientists are seen in a particular way, striving for lofty goals, but some mundane chemistry/biology/physiology/medicine problems effect many people, and are lucrative. Many top researchers DO actually work in these industries, and have well-paying, stable 9 to 5's with no teaching/grant writing obligations (often family focused). I know L'Oreal specifically employs state-of-the-art equipment to understand things like skin damage/repair, the pathway of dermal delivery of drugs, etc.
ohh sarah sarah sarah.....
i love the pay off for this sketch xD
M&W were the best. A pinnacle of British humor.
Laboratoire* - it's been over 14 years and you still haven't got the title right.
I happen to be playing that right now.
All jokes aside, this is quite an astute observation of the effects of capitalism on scientific advances - if there's no money in it for large corporations, then to them its not worth bothering with.
I believe the point of the joke is the exact opposite. Wouldn't a perpetual motion machine make the discoverer (and by extension the Gargier company) fabulously rich? Ditto for the cure for Alzheimer. The sketch makes fun of the capitalist boogeyman narratives. Of course, actual cosmetics company research (if they even have any) is unlikely to disover anything beyond cosmetics but if they somehow managed to come up with such a massive breakthrough, the company would set up a whole new subsidiary or even pivot to the new field completely to make money on that. You can make a lot more money off a cure to Alzheimer's than by developing a slightly shinier shampoo (and competing with another 30 or so almost identical shampoos sold by other companies).
1:45 THIS IS MYYYYYY LABORITOIRRRE!!!
DO IT, NUMBERWANG, QUICK, NUMBERWANG, FAST, NOW, NUMBERWANG, NUMBERWANG!
Genius :)
Reminds me of The Day Today - This is supposed to be a high class bureau de change! Not some two bit Punch & Judy show on the sea front at Margate
THIS IS MY LABORITOIRE!!!!!!!!!!
I reckon Monsieur Garnier has every right to be furious, I reckon.
you know where the exit door to the laboritoire is
3:10 For a moment there i thought David Mitchell turned into Ross Noble.
Does Gariner still exist!
brilliant sketch
Ah, I guess it was the same program I was riffing on. I was just under the impression it was someone else presenting it, but everything else sounds so familiar I must be mistaken. :)
While your reply would place last on the cleverness scale, right below "Sure you do" and other sarcastic quips from 80s sitcoms.
What does he shout when he smashes the microscope? I can't make it out.
“It’s this again”
My God, David Mitchell looks like Fabio with his long lucious locks!
Just wait till he gets hit in the noggin with a goose
The stage (where you place your slide) is more commonly towards the person sitting behind the microscope. This way frame won't get in your way if you are switching the slides.
True, yet this backwards way of using a $5 toy microscope was the key to discovering the cure for Alzheimers. It’s amazing there just happened to be a production crew in the laboritoire to record this event.
Hang on, the stage should face you shouldn’t it? Which it is..
This is MY laboratoire!
LMFAO @ the hair shake at the end. omg
Poor Peterson, out on the streets without a laboritoire to call home and only a perpetual motion machine for company.
THIS IS MIH LABORITAIRE
No, the biggest problem is that you're both looking at the microscope instead of enjoying the sketch. :p
yup I got that. thanks you're the third person to point out my typo. and it was just that - a typo.
He said there are good things about both but yes, he is for the more casual science. On the programme, he used the examples of the marine chronometer for goal oriented research, and William Henry Perkin and his discovery of mauveine for the other.
Eh?
@@jimmyjam6197 That was a reply to a comment I can't really remember that well. Something about discovering things through different methods of research
@greendaymike this is filmed in front of a live audience..........
@bluegreenplanet89 Garnier is a brand of L'oreal
@bluegreenplanet89 You never know, maybe it's Maybelline.
Dan!
Dan!
Dan!
It is not supposed to be French, it was supposed to Yorkshire.
I think this is Garnier, not Loreal.
So random ..love it
keep telling yourself that darling, one day you might even believe it.
@bluegreenplanet89 You pronounce it garniay
Can I make a general appeal to those asking questions about the sketch, or indeed about any clip on 'RUclips'. Stop disabling replies to your posts. We can't respond unless you enable replies. Ta.
You do realise the majority of comments on this video are from before RUclips changed over to the Google+ commenting system? That's why you can't reply to them.
Manly Stump Yes, I realise this. But I've noticed a tendency for some posters, having asked questions in posts with very recent 'time' stamps (not sure of the correct term, sorry) to ask questions having apparently disabled replies.
This is actually a bit true - massive research corporations (more likely Pfizer or GSK than Garnier) work in a particular way which precludes this kind of serendipitous discovery.
Their goal-oriented approach is very, very good at seeing results towards that particular goal, it's just likely to discard other interesting discoveries that don't point towards that goal.
That's why the Cavendish labs are so important, allowing scientists to be goal-oriented *and* go off on investigative tangents.
I sort of thought it was supposed to be implying this is a Sweatshop of science.
9 people don't know where the exit door to the laboratoire is
the sad part is I actually knew that. I have to think that it had something to do with New Year celebrations.
*typo
It's short for 'typographical error'.
I didn't notice the first time but the microscope is the wrong way round.