People don't talk about Bunsen burners like they did back when I was in school. It took a bit for everyone to catch up. I think they all laughed about it later.
Underrated is such an over used word now. It's everywhere. Absolutely every music video on RUclips has someone saying how underrated it is....even if its a number one.
'After several years' work on his PhD in Astrophysics, Brian May has proved conclusively that fat-bottomed girls really do make the rocking world go round'.
When you can make other comedians laugh on the spot from a single line, you know you've both caught them by surprise and it was genuinely funny in the moment
My sister just graduated from the same school of science as Dara did and since it she graduated during the pandemic Dara did a bit during the graduation video and it was super unexpected and it makes them taking the mickey out of him being a real scientist ever funnier.
My personal Father's Day card envelope every year reads: " To whom it may concern, general delivery, Australia ". My message on the inside of the card is the same every year as well - " Thanks for nothing, from one bastard to another! ". It's well worth the postage between here in the U.K. and there! 🖕😡🖕
@@Orromwan they were both created by Dan Patterson (and I think Mark Leveson). Earlier seasons of Mock the Week had more improve sections and were even more similar to Whose Line
QI is the same, a comedy panel show with points (the points system is basically 'whatever Stephen Fry feels like'), there are 4 guests, 3 different comedians each week and one who's always there, called Alan Davies, and 99% of episodes have Alan last with a ridiculous minus points 😁 Edit - in case you didn't know - QI stands for Quite Interesting, it's based on interesting facts, but it's basically like Mock the Week, it goes off the rails every episode, it's so good, it's my favourite show, but I can't watch it anymore, as it's repeated so much I've seen them all too many times 😂
@@Kazza_8240 I don’t know if that’s true? I thought they were actually given points on QI, for correct answers, and various other things, and points away for incorrect answers?
The subject was not actually "leaving card" (the video description is in error), it was "Unlikely Greeting Cards" which is a more generic term. Andy Parsons did a leaving card joke, but most of the rest were for other kinds of greeting cards. And that was only the first subject. The subject changed after about three minutes to "Things you wouldn't hear in a science documentary" (which is plainly shown on the display in the back), so obviously they changed what they were talking about to match that. There are always two subjects.
As a joke I once sent my son on his 18th birthday 2 cards, I signed one "love from dad" and got a mate to write one signed "from your real dad" then I posted it 😂
'It's a girl... Not a woman which is why you're going to prison.' That fucking killed me lol Edit: When they started taking the mock out of Dara... PhD is fantastic!
@@sirrathersplendid4825 That’s actually the opposite of what happened. He resigned his seat hoping they’d get a permanent female panelist. Check out his website-he’s not into your sad, Tory bullshit.
@@jotownsend8412 - How do you know I’m a tory? You don’t know the first thing about me. I’m in fact very left wing, just anti-woke. As usual attacking the player not the ball... And sure, Andy Parsons willingly chucked in a great job for the cause of wokeness - threw himself on the enemy bayonets. That’s just wokespeak for he had to go, and did so peacefully.
Probably thought the idea of Dara getting a PhD was the joke. That's the problem with a lot of Andy Parsons' jokes. The punchline comes at the *start* of the sentence so the audience laughs all over the delivery. The key word should be at the end of the sentence. . . . An example of this would be something like ( imagine this in Andys voice ) Why did the chicken cross the road ? To get to the other side....because he wanted to return a tent to Millets - because the one he bought last week...was shit.
Because they'd already been riffing on Dara's science shows (despite him not being a scientist, though he did study physics at uni). It was just a continuation on that, hence the laughs.
The Unlikely Greeting Cards segment was hilarious. The ‘Sorry for the loss of your grandmother / Happy housewarming’ one always gets me. It got kinda boring when they started mocking Dara.
@@kingda117 "We can't miss you until you fuck off. Crack on, lad" was my best, to the douche canoe who'd been our area manager for 6 years and decided to have an individual leaving do at each of the 17 pubs he covered (over the course of 3 weeks). What a self-aggrandizing prick he was.
@@nomadbakunin as @Samuel dixon explained its a form you get when you leave a job (specifically it says how much you earned and what tax you paid so far in this tax year, so your next employer can get your taxes right.) So any comment to do with a p45 is talking about leaving a job but not necessarily being fired. It's not normally slang, but may get used as a slang in a joke .. in this case Hugh is joking he wants to get off the show :-)
@@johnmartinez7440 - Have you not noticed that ever since Frankie started towing the woke party line he ‘s been forgiven his sins and now even has his own BBC show? Odd that.
Hello, I am Steven Hawkings. Tonight I will be attempting to solve one of the most baffling questions I've ever encountered. Why am I the co-star of a comedian who presses a buzzer?
They write them beforehand, but do occasionally come up with new ones on the spot. I'm confident that some of the Dara jokes were ad libbed, once they got on a roll. Mind you, they may have agreed to gang up on Dara ahead of time.
They get their subjects on a Tuesday for Friday filming. Then they write their material and test it out on a small audience in a comedy club, like a small room above a pub. It means that we can get to see a top comedian quite cheaply on an otherwise ordinary evening. The comedian crosses out the prepared jokes which didn't get a laugh, and uses the successful ones on Mock the Week.
Mostly it’s prepared material but there is quite a lot of improv involved. These are all very fast sparky comedians who riff off each other. Put them together, light the blue touch paper and stand well back.
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Love the clips. But why do we always have to watch them make their way over….?
Why tag Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster in a clip they don't appear in?
The thing I like with Dara is he never tries to outwit the participants when they poke fun at him; he just accepts the banter like a good sport.
...he really does outwit them
He sees them as friends...
...not comedians...
Banter is a twattish word made up by twats to try to excuse twattery
that or he just hits the buzzer when you walk up
Until he hit Ed Byrne with "Et tu, Paddy?" That was a wonderful line
Hugh's "Blank inside..." gag was damn good.
It's a brilliant verbal slap
He does get a few weeks to write these in advance
@@samuelmellars7855 686
probably the best joke in this clip - existential crisis
Lol at Romesh effectively coming up with his own prompt about "cards to send to prisoners" and just sticking with that the whole time
Hey, if it ain't broke...
@@krazycats564 ...then it can probably pay bail.
"Does it burn anything other than Bunsen?" That gag deserved a far better response. Underrated!
People don't talk about Bunsen burners like they did back when I was in school. It took a bit for everyone to catch up. I think they all laughed about it later.
"does it burn anything other than bunsen" is underrated imo
I dont get it though. Dont even know what bunsen is.
@@Furnus105 There's a lab tool called a Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen.
It took them a while, it was silent for a few seconds 😂
Underrated is such an over used word now. It's everywhere. Absolutely every music video on RUclips has someone saying how underrated it is....even if its a number one.
@@orphanoforbit7588 underrated comment.
Jupp Miles's joke about I'm trapped inside a North Korean card factory was hilarious 😂
Miles was on fire this episode
'After several years' work on his PhD in Astrophysics, Brian May has proved conclusively that fat-bottomed girls really do make the rocking world go round'.
That's good
We fat-bottomed girls, and Freddie, have of course always known this ....
You'd need a PhD in astrophysics to explain how to simultaneously travel at the speed of light and also make a supersonic man out of you
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@RS14988 surely anything travelling at the speed of light is, by definition, also travelling faster than the speed of sound
When you can make other comedians laugh on the spot from a single line, you know you've both caught them by surprise and it was genuinely funny in the moment
I love it when the comedians take the mick out of Dara. 🤣🤣🤣
It's poor of them to attack some defendless legless presenter
It's even funnier when he actually gets a bit riled up over it :D
i want to see the hat...
So does he, because his face is on screen when the laughter peaks, and that's the ultimate sexual fantasy for stand-up comics.
I know there's an episode where they ignore the question and instead make fun of his giant head
My sister just graduated from the same school of science as Dara did and since it she graduated during the pandemic Dara did a bit during the graduation video and it was super unexpected and it makes them taking the mickey out of him being a real scientist ever funnier.
Wtf does this have to do with anything. Whoop de do
Cool story bro
I was waiting for "I work with Dara O Briain so you don't have to" 😉
I do love him, though, for the avoidance of any doubt. :D
Hugh can make his face look cool and then like a broken man in split second. Its a part of his comedy, i think.
He's an actor too, he was in a comedy sitcom called 'Outnumbered'.
I’m in constant awe at Hugh. He hits a home run in virtually ever show, and quite often wallops out several.
@@Kazza_8240 loved that show
The “card factory bit” was excellent!
It was acc based on a true story I’m pretty sure, I can’t remember where the news story is but if you search enough I’m sure u can find it
I love Hugh Dennis. What a comedic genius!
No, just no
"He's ol in he?"
My personal Father's Day card envelope every year reads: " To whom it may concern, general delivery, Australia ". My message on the inside of the card is the same every year as well - " Thanks for nothing, from one bastard to another! ". It's well worth the postage between here in the U.K. and there! 🖕😡🖕
Hahaha genius
Hilarious 😂
Hahaha brilliant.
The only Game show in the world where nobody gives a fcuk who wins, or even knows who won!
Counterpoint: Whose line is it anyway, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
@@Orromwan they were both created by Dan Patterson (and I think Mark Leveson). Earlier seasons of Mock the Week had more improve sections and were even more similar to Whose Line
But I'm fairly sure we all agree that Dara lost this round.
QI is the same, a comedy panel show with points (the points system is basically 'whatever Stephen Fry feels like'), there are 4 guests, 3 different comedians each week and one who's always there, called Alan Davies, and 99% of episodes have Alan last with a ridiculous minus points 😁
Edit - in case you didn't know - QI stands for Quite Interesting, it's based on interesting facts, but it's basically like Mock the Week, it goes off the rails every episode, it's so good, it's my favourite show, but I can't watch it anymore, as it's repeated so much I've seen them all too many times 😂
@@Kazza_8240 I don’t know if that’s true? I thought they were actually given points on QI, for correct answers, and various other things, and points away for incorrect answers?
‘Wearing suspenders and a mask’ hits different now
Bruce Forsyth joke hits different too😔
@@Hatafafa 2015 I believe
LOL
People saying "hits different now." Hits different now.
After Romesh called Dara a legend, I thought he was going turn around and say "This is stuff you would _never_ hear, right?"
Took me the longest time to understand the P45 joke, since we call it a pink slip in the US.
Thank you!
For some reason, I thought a P45 was an airplane, so i was super confused!
Greetings Card companies watching this be like "Write that down!"
This was such a great panel. So funny.....
Now that I learned of Dara's physics background, those last bits were so good.
Miles Jupp was on fire in this! 🔥😂
As he always is 😁
Romesh....."I think Dara is a legend!" Solid Gold
The Dara gags 👏
👶🏼😂
If Dara wanted this sort of abuse, he would have gotten Ed Byrne on.
I saw “may the skin of your arse never cover a banjo” written on a leaving card.
It’s the thought that counts...
Hahaha
Vegans are everywhere.....
@@tsjitskek Narcissism is very common.
I wrote that on my bosses leaving card once. Don't know where I heard it in the first place ,but I think the boss was touched by the gesture.
Somewhere it just became mock the Dara
You've passed... Away 😂😂😂
Once someone starts off the Dara comedy it never stops
You can tell from how they do it that they've just been waiting for someone to kick it off
Roses are red,
Violets are green,
I can't read the number on this card,
I think I'm color blind.
Roses are red,
This much is true,
But violets are purple,
Not f*cking blue.
I like how they went off the subject of leaving card.
The subject was not actually "leaving card" (the video description is in error), it was "Unlikely Greeting Cards" which is a more generic term. Andy Parsons did a leaving card joke, but most of the rest were for other kinds of greeting cards. And that was only the first subject. The subject changed after about three minutes to "Things you wouldn't hear in a science documentary" (which is plainly shown on the display in the back), so obviously they changed what they were talking about to match that. There are always two subjects.
@@briansammond7801 Oh, got there was two.
' Just Fuck off! & Don't come back!' was written in a card at a previous work place ( not for me)
Dara IS a legend.
"Blank inside" 🤣🤣😂😜
It's really strange hearing my name so many times when it is not directed at me
Dhara
You poor fella
I've never seen that spelling before.
There are two of you
@@qwertyTRiG yh it’s more like D Hara
When Scene’s We’d Like To See turns into Roast Dara Night 🤣🤣
That 'get the f out of our house' birthday card one is getting stolen the second I have a kid turn 21.
We all need far more of this in to-days' world ... Thanks guys
A year later, still needing it!
*today
It turned very leftie towards the end, and had to be canned after complaints from many viewers.
I loved watching Mock the week while I was in the UK . Still watching here in New Zealand
Then your comment is pretty dumb. Innit.
Romesh's "Dara is a legend" for things you wouldn't hear in a science doc lol
I work with Dara, and today my experiment is to turn this joke into a P45 :))))
That last one really got me haha
These guys should play cards against humanity
0:44 perfect for Boris Johnson's kids
"You passed your driving test!!! God help us all..."
As a joke I once sent my son on his 18th birthday 2 cards, I signed one "love from dad" and got a mate to write one signed "from your real dad" then I posted it 😂
😂
That's fuckin' evil!
Nice work! ;-)
@@WardyLion he brings it up occasionally but I just say to him "leave it son you'll upset your mum" he's 25 now 😂
@@Tonybateman110 Fiendish! 🤣
Why do Josh and James get a hashtag when they’re not in this episode?
I remember hypothetical looking different to this
Josh gets way too much attention
A probably just because they’re popular and when people search for them it’ll come up and will get people to watch it
Or ... somebody made a mistake.
Because the admin for this chanel has made a mess of every upload in the last week! No videos hashtags correlate to the people in them
'It's a girl... Not a woman which is why you're going to prison.'
That fucking killed me lol
Edit: When they started taking the mock out of Dara... PhD is fantastic!
That north Korean one tho xD
Ironman wishes you a happy 4th birthday!
Think that actually happened with a pack of Tesco Xmas cards.
@@matthewmeehan9155 it did one Christmas came from China when a 6 year old found it
Might as well call the science topic "Things you wouldn't hear on a Dara O'Briain show"
4:28 ah the good old days when sarah palin was the craziest politician we could think of
5:15 Roasting Dara. 😜
"...to our darling son on your 21st birthday..." 😆😆😆
Hugh's expressions are great
And his accents.
Hugh is brilliant. 👏 He is a natural comedian. 🤣😁👍
"Happy Fathers day, from you, wherever you are, to me, Boris J."
A full on roast out of nowhere.
Andy is definitely someone who has the appearance of someone who's been described as "inappropriate" more than once.
One of the best of the Mock the Week regulars. Now sidelined by the woke brigade to make room so they can tick boxes.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 "sidelined by the woke brigade" fuckin good one mate
@@sirrathersplendid4825 That’s actually the opposite of what happened. He resigned his seat hoping they’d get a permanent female panelist. Check out his website-he’s not into your sad, Tory bullshit.
@@jotownsend8412 - How do you know I’m a tory? You don’t know the first thing about me. I’m in fact very left wing, just anti-woke. As usual attacking the player not the ball...
And sure, Andy Parsons willingly chucked in a great job for the cause of wokeness - threw himself on the enemy bayonets. That’s just wokespeak for he had to go, and did so peacefully.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 You're not leftwing, don't pretend you are
6:18 they started laughing before the punchline??
Probably thought the idea of Dara getting a PhD was the joke. That's the problem with a lot of Andy Parsons' jokes. The punchline comes at the *start* of the sentence so the audience laughs all over the delivery. The key word should be at the end of the sentence. . . .
An example of this would be something like ( imagine this in Andys voice )
Why did the chicken cross the road ? To get to the other side....because he wanted to return a tent to Millets - because the one he bought last week...was shit.
@@DavidOakesMusic , and what's the problem with Hugh Dennis' jokes?
They were probably already giggly, so when Dara's name came up they probably understood what was about to follow and just giggled
Because they'd already been riffing on Dara's science shows (despite him not being a scientist, though he did study physics at uni). It was just a continuation on that, hence the laughs.
Roses are grey, violets are grey - someone please turn the colour up on my telly!
That's what friends do when you tell them to stop making fun of you!
I'm 21 this year, no way I'm leaving my parents house at this rate 😆
Enjoy it while you can, leaving home is well over rated!
@@iamrocketray I sure will haha
Ok, I understand why they cut to her after the 'please don't chew' bit.. but they should have cut to Rob, really.
At least he gets the option for them to chew! Teeth dragging non stop because many mouths arent that big is painful!
So many classics
Roses are red violets are blue sorry you’re dead what can you do 😂😂
Roses are red,
Violets are red,
EVERYTHING'S RED,
MY EYES ARE BLEEDING,
HELP ME, OH GOD THE PAIN.
Absolute class 👏
F*ucks sake! Just p*ssed myself laughing
You've passed! Away... 🤣
I love how Dara became the (head)butt of the joke!
The Unlikely Greeting Cards segment was hilarious. The ‘Sorry for the loss of your grandmother / Happy housewarming’ one always gets me. It got kinda boring when they started mocking Dara.
Roses are red
Here's something new
Violets are violet
And not fucken' blue!
Love a bit of Mock of the week :kappa :)
I was hoping Romesh would say "I think Dara O'Brien is a legend...." *waits for applause to subside* "......-ary cockup."
6:27 things you would not hear in a science documentary
I once wrote on a leaving card, “You’re dead to us now.” and signed my own name.
I normally joke to a "leaver" at the leaving do that:
I am only here to make sure you're leaving"
@@kingda117 "We can't miss you until you fuck off. Crack on, lad" was my best, to the douche canoe who'd been our area manager for 6 years and decided to have an individual leaving do at each of the 17 pubs he covered (over the course of 3 weeks). What a self-aggrandizing prick he was.
"Scientists have discovered a black hole so big, that Dara O'Brian's can fit inside it."
"Im sorry there won't be a new series of the Mash report"
0:33 the BBC when they sacked Jeremy Clarkson lol 😂
I don't get the last one, what's a P-45?
Google says it's a "slang term for termination of employment"
So the joke is on Dara firing the other guy, I guess. It slipped by me, too.
A P-45 is the form that you get when you leave your job.
@@nomadbakunin as @Samuel dixon explained its a form you get when you leave a job (specifically it says how much you earned and what tax you paid so far in this tax year, so your next employer can get your taxes right.) So any comment to do with a p45 is talking about leaving a job but not necessarily being fired. It's not normally slang, but may get used as a slang in a joke .. in this case Hugh is joking he wants to get off the show :-)
@@davesmith9325 thanks!
"Sorry you have to leave Windsor Castle so suddenly Andrew, maybe you should've tried & I quote Mr Carr "Fucking a grown up!".
This headline threw me off until I noticed the actual headline behind them.
"To be honest we arent really sorry you are leaving, the smell from you isnt natural"
Who’s the guy who made the North Korea joke is it miles jupp
I remember the show Data did with Stephen Hawking. As soon as I saw the hat I thought that isn't going to end well on MTW
Dara
I miss Frankie, but Romesh picks up some of the slack
Even Frankie misses Frankie. Sadly the BBC seem to have taken his brain out and washed it with Dettol.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 ...what?
@@johnmartinez7440 - Have you not noticed that ever since Frankie started towing the woke party line he ‘s been forgiven his sins and now even has his own BBC show? Odd that.
Happy Birthday Club Hole In One 🕳 ⛳️
Perfect Chaucer
Real Visionary ?
Innit Leicester Square In Coventry ? ⬛️ 🟨 ⏹️ 🟥 🟥
Projected To Be
#Beauvoir
If only the greeting cards were available. 👍 😝
sometimes i forget how much of a fucking menace Hugh is
Tiff Stevenson is perfectly gorgeous.
I miss Andy OMTW ...He was funny
2:40
A guy was leaving work. I signed his leaving card “Happy Birthday Mike!” Also, his name was not Mike.
😂
Andy always appears to have a small box of some kind on the back of his belt.
Does anyone know what this is about?
It's probably the microphone? They all have radio mics on connected to the mic pack
@@rockracingfan yes, it’s the transmitter for his mic. Others manage to hide it better I guess.
Roses are red, violet are red, I killed the gardener.
Hello, I am Steven Hawkings. Tonight I will be attempting to solve one of the most baffling questions I've ever encountered. Why am I the co-star of a comedian who presses a buzzer?
Wow that was a lot of jokes 😗
Are these improvised or do they plan them in advance?
They write them beforehand, but do occasionally come up with new ones on the spot. I'm confident that some of the Dara jokes were ad libbed, once they got on a roll. Mind you, they may have agreed to gang up on Dara ahead of time.
Oh that makes sense. I was wondering how one could be so witty under pressure haha
They get their subjects on a Tuesday for Friday filming. Then they write their material and test it out on a small audience in a comedy club, like a small room above a pub. It means that we can get to see a top comedian quite cheaply on an otherwise ordinary evening. The comedian crosses out the prepared jokes which didn't get a laugh, and uses the successful ones on Mock the Week.
Mostly it’s prepared material but there is quite a lot of improv involved.
These are all very fast sparky comedians who riff off each other. Put them together, light the blue touch paper and stand well back.