The way Mitchell says 'yes, it is no' just absolutely kills me every time. It is just the most perfect delivery of a line possible.
@possiblewitch
5 жыл бұрын
SAME.
@DodderingOldMan
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Such a simple line, four one syllable words, and yet it is probably the most memorable line in the entire series.
@AdvocatusThei
4 жыл бұрын
@@DodderingOldMan It's a great line, I agree, but without a doubt "Hans, are we the baddies?" is the most memorable line of the series.
@Palmit_
3 жыл бұрын
3:18 in case anybody trying to locate that line.
@prettyvacant3900
3 жыл бұрын
@@Palmit_ thanks!
@thelouisfanclub
6 жыл бұрын
i'm just laughing because i love sherlock holmes and imagining holmes randomly smashing a vase over watson's head to make a point is the funniest thing ever
@RetractedandRedacted
5 жыл бұрын
I find it funnier that holmes would kick someones crutch away, kick them to the ground then spit on them
@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw
5 жыл бұрын
An aluminium crutch perhaps?
@lowhp_comic
2 жыл бұрын
@@RetractedandRedacted he's giving the most sensible, perfect deduction for how the crime took place whilst beating the absolute shit out his wounded comrade
@IsiahTomas
6 ай бұрын
It would be a crashing point, to be sure.
@MS-he3wz
5 жыл бұрын
The first bit gets especially funny when you've read David Mitchell's memoir. I don't know if they meant it to be some kind of self-aware reflection on their own relationship, but David mentions that each of them used to try and outdo the other every night when they did theatre. They had been working together for so long and on so many different projects that they were sick of each other. Every night, one of them would stand further and further from the crowd whilst talking to the other so that more of his face would be visible to the audience and more of the back of the other person's head. Literally upstaging one another. So that might have been the inspiration for this sketch.
@investigate3_11
3 жыл бұрын
It's so cool that they were able to recognise that, get past it and then make fun of it in a sketch.
@abbieb8130
3 жыл бұрын
So that's where the term "upstaging" came from! I hadn't considered the logistics of moving upstage.
@CalridRobnor123srs
3 жыл бұрын
@@abbieb8130 I think I seem to remember it's called satire although don't quote me on that. Irony or some shit.
@CalridRobnor123srs
3 жыл бұрын
I blame The Greeks. :P
@CalridRobnor123srs
3 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/l7Chsm1nhax0gJg :P
@iswatmoths1862
5 жыл бұрын
"I'm just trying to get to the root of why you felt the need to ask such a humiliating question."
@LHyoutube
2 жыл бұрын
3:21 - The depth of mockery conveyed in David's simple 'Yes, it is no' is just brilliant! 😂
@atomicdancer
2 жыл бұрын
Ahh, the irreplaceable, yet interchangeable, genius of Robert Mitchell and David Webb.
@ivanputignef2418
2 жыл бұрын
As a matter of fact, I know two people called like that. I should ask them to form a duo (after I introduce them to each other, that is)
@A-small-amount-of-peas
10 ай бұрын
@@ivanputignef2418careful, they could go the way of Chip and Pin
@Demiglitch
4 жыл бұрын
Honestly the idea of a play where the actors swap roles night by night, or two cuts of the same film with the actors swapped is fucking amazing and i want to see it.
@ayebraine
3 жыл бұрын
See Frankenstein with Cumberbatch and Lee Miller, they have two versions where they swap being the doctor and the monster. It's a stage production that was filmed for showing in theaters. It was directed by Danny Boyle.
@Demiglitch
3 жыл бұрын
@@ayebraine will check out
@jkmaseruman
3 жыл бұрын
Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams played Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots in a play called Mary Stuart. Who played which role each evening of the performance was decided by flipping a coin. It ran for 2 months at the Almeida.
@Demiglitch
3 жыл бұрын
johnny king was it filmed?
@jkmaseruman
3 жыл бұрын
@@Demiglitch don't think it was. Guess you'd want to see both actors playing the roles but no way of guaranteeing that unless you went to 3 or 4 performances in a row. Think they flipped the coin in front of the audience so you found out who was playing who when the two actors did! More than just a gimmick as it had some great reviews.
@DONKINDONUTS
3 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite. The "acting" portion of the sketch has a phenominal premise and the "break" section has some of the best line delivery I've _ever_ witnessed!
@joj3734
6 жыл бұрын
the crumpets bit was so python-esque
@slitor
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's the same sorta voice they'd do whenever they were in drag.
@TheSchemer1
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah like three headed knight that debates whether to cut sir robin's head off as a piss take of beuracracy
@theDingbat
5 жыл бұрын
Still a better version than Ferrell/Reilly.
@NateSean
4 жыл бұрын
In fairness, Alvin and the Chipmunks set that bar pretty high.
@waynemarvin5661
3 жыл бұрын
A plate of braised pus would be preferable to anything with Ferrell 'acting' in it.
@strawberrypencl
3 жыл бұрын
@@waynemarvin5661 I still don't understand why people like him, he's like a really awful, stupid and crass imitation of Jim Carrey and everything he stars in is like some kind of bizarre fever dream
@waynemarvin5661
3 жыл бұрын
@@strawberrypencl Indeed. It's this celebrating of childishness that's led to the 'dumbing down' of entertainment. Cinema today is mostly infantile and empty. Superheroes and overgrown children. And Will Farrell led the way.
@gabagoolenjoyer
3 жыл бұрын
That's not exactly tough to beat
@Soonzuh
6 жыл бұрын
"Well, certainly I'm sufficiently insecure to have felt the need to establish to my own satisfaction, before the age of 33, whether or not humans can fly. That makes me a chippy little autodidact in your eyes, then so be it." That's glorious!
@shubhamnew
5 жыл бұрын
Peak british comedy
@IronicCliche
5 жыл бұрын
When I was younger I found this funny. Now I just want to see a movie do this. The disorientation would be wonderful
@projectmayhem6898
2 жыл бұрын
The closest I have seen was Cloud Atlas, but there were just the same actors playing many different roles throughout the film.
@darkfool2000
Жыл бұрын
There was a film (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) that starred the late Heath Ledger, and filming wasn't finished when he died. So they brought in Johnny Depp, Colin Farell, and Jude Law to play his character in some scenes and they kept as many of Heath Ledger's scenes as they could manage. The result is very disorientating, in part because the scenes with Johnny Depp, Colin Farell, and Jude Law playing Heath Ledger's character are framed as dream-like sequences divorced from reality. I remember watching it and not understanding the ending of the movie at all.
@freem8son86
5 жыл бұрын
Now I really want to see a movie where the two lead actors randomly switch characters in every new shot.
@michaelritchie2968
5 жыл бұрын
He's reading "Never Let Me Go" which contains no levitation at all ... I wonder where his mind was ...
@David-ln8qh
3 жыл бұрын
Why do you think they mustn't let go?
@LHyoutube
2 жыл бұрын
@@David-ln8qh - Most brilliant response ever! 😀
@Aquaquake
2 жыл бұрын
@@David-ln8qh nice.
@chazmaru9583
2 жыл бұрын
I’d genuinely watch such an insane cast swap movie, that’s a brillant exercise.
@listerofsmeg884
5 жыл бұрын
Despite being the 'stupid one', Webb makes the better Holmes in these sketches
@pogcompagni
3 жыл бұрын
He somewhat reminds me of Jeremy Brett
@joshuanorthey2026
Жыл бұрын
That just a “good looks belong to the MC prejudice”.
@anthonyberry7362
10 ай бұрын
Webbs delivery of ‘Er 12 minutes you TWAT!’ And Mitchell’s frustration and be patient gesture is perfect!
@IoEstasCedonta
13 жыл бұрын
"Crumpets" is going to give me nightmares.
@Redeemer216
6 жыл бұрын
Holly wood needs to actually make a movie like this switching actor roles every scene cut.
@SonofSethoitae
5 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a weird French Art film
@roostuidos
4 жыл бұрын
You’ve clearly never seen the cinematic masterpiece Lethal Weapon 5
@MrSpikethefirst
4 жыл бұрын
@@user-dg3ug7ny5d Thats a Pixar Short! can't remember the name but it is brilliant
@kirbyeatsbomberman
4 жыл бұрын
@@MrSpikethefirst Geris Game, it played after the credits to Bug's Life
@ErmenBlankenberg
4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised David Lynch hasn't made such film already.
@Vickyefisher
15 жыл бұрын
"Er, twelve minutes you TWAT!" BAHAHAHAHA BEST LINE EVER. I lolled for ages xD
@SneedFeedAndSeed
2 жыл бұрын
An elegant vocabulary for a more... civilized age.
@Aquaquake
2 жыл бұрын
@@SneedFeedAndSeed You can immediately say the comment was made more than 10 years ago since it has "xD" and "lolled" in it xD
@PapaBrejj
2 жыл бұрын
@@Aquaquake Some people to this day still use XD unironically. It's a scary world we live in.
@censorduck
8 жыл бұрын
Something tells me this isn't them acting, the camera was just on them as they were being normal.
@williamwhite2971
6 жыл бұрын
What have you got for us Mrs Hudson? CRUMPETS!!!
@trianglemangler
11 жыл бұрын
Highlight: the well-timed, very level, "...yes it is no."
@SalamVeteramexHappyDagger
6 жыл бұрын
Mitchell is a master of comic delivery.
@josh2Sides2
2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see David Mitchell play Hercule Poirot and Robert Webb as Holmes in something together be amazing.
@mistypuffs
11 ай бұрын
This is still one of the funniest skits I’ve seen ❤
@asafupps
9 ай бұрын
The mustache appearing and disappearing is brilliant!
@Riveripple
11 жыл бұрын
CRUMPETS Oh my god.
@ronaldharris6569
Жыл бұрын
Amazing stage show and movie I would totally watch that...that crumpets line from the conjoined twins maid sent chills of suspense down my spines
@draculanova6548
6 жыл бұрын
The behind the scenes bit at the end was like something out of Peep Show
@robsmalls
14 жыл бұрын
2:27 See Mitchell trying not to crack up as he drags Webb through the doorway.
@TheRealMirCat
3 жыл бұрын
I was starting to think David was going to try to levitate when Robert wasn't looking
@sophiewatson3924
6 жыл бұрын
The second bit gets funnier when you remember that they both went to (met at!) Cambridge
@hawkymchawkface5947
5 жыл бұрын
damn girl r u gravy granules cos u r reFINEd
@sharky582
Жыл бұрын
This is especially funny since two actors who played Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller) did a stage show of Frankenstein where they alternate playing Frankenstein and The Monster.
@hedy_dramatur
15 жыл бұрын
So you see Watson, the advantage of my unique powers of observation.
@tyson31415
4 жыл бұрын
A chippy little autodidact - going to have to remember that one.
@ValkyrieDaisy95
10 жыл бұрын
I bet Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke would love this if they were both alive today! Its fab! XD
@MJFAN666
9 жыл бұрын
***** David Burke was better damn it
@ValkyrieDaisy95
9 жыл бұрын
They were both amazing, Jeremy couldn't have done Sherlock Holmes without both of them. I'm not here to cause and argument if thats what you're thinking.
@MJFAN666
9 жыл бұрын
I wonder what happened to David bruke i wonder. They switched watson half way through.
@ValkyrieDaisy95
9 жыл бұрын
He had to take care of his son, so he got his friend Edward in to replace him.
@richefortgaming
4 жыл бұрын
2:45 onwards is literally an extension of any Peep Show conversation between Mark and Jez.
@221b
6 жыл бұрын
They missed a golden opportunity by not having someone levitate in the background.
@AnnabellaRedwood
5 жыл бұрын
Haha! So true!!!
@Chafflives
Жыл бұрын
I suggest you look again, but more closely and to the left of the doorway.
@ThatRandomThing
15 жыл бұрын
''So you see, Watson. The advantage of my unique powers of observation.'' *tap* *fall* *kick* *kick* *kick* *spit* *kick*
@waynemarvin5661
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, we all saw it.
@KBTW1
3 жыл бұрын
@@waynemarvin5661 Well done you pointed out the comment happened in the video. Good for fucking you.
@disneylover6408
Ай бұрын
Next night; "So you see, Watson. The advantage of my unique powers of observation." (Pulls out pocket knife and stabs Alec in the knee) Alec: AAAAAAHHHHHOOWWWW!
@SwimminWitDaFishies
5 жыл бұрын
Bravo!!!! This is brilliant!!
@ralek592
4 жыл бұрын
Love how well they switch them
@SylvanasWindrunnerResurrected
13 жыл бұрын
So you see Watson the advantage of my unique powers of observation.
@zm19827
6 жыл бұрын
That was awesome!
@DARRBEV
15 жыл бұрын
the behind scene sketches are some of there best
@Slameye
3 жыл бұрын
I had no idea people mixed up their/there all the way back in 2010... scary.
@miriamspringett3797
6 жыл бұрын
I love David, but Robert had the better Holmes vibe. :)
@shmookins
6 жыл бұрын
I think it's his voice. Robert has a great voice.
@professionalmemeenthusiast2117
5 жыл бұрын
Honestly Robert is better at both parts. Like the detective/captain sketch where David plays both.
@MackJCM
5 жыл бұрын
Overall Robert is probably a better actor, but David's writing and character acting puts him ahead in important ways.
@rccipriani
5 жыл бұрын
Until I watched Mitchell and Webb I'd only seen him on Peep Show. I was amazed at his range.
@brothermaynard5155
2 жыл бұрын
True. Poirot is right up David's street, though.
@wessltov
6 жыл бұрын
Imagine, if Holmes just randomly started beating on Watson XD
@kissarococo2459
5 жыл бұрын
Granada's version would have been VERY funny indeed then!
@BenjaminGoose
Жыл бұрын
Beating what on Watson?
@victorburnett6329
3 жыл бұрын
I am in tears.
@EsWirdSpaet
12 жыл бұрын
hm... that reminds me of Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch, alternating roles in Frankenstein, both playing Sherlock now... weird^^
@dittilio
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see someone interpret this for Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead. That would be a trip.
@acrodave9287
11 ай бұрын
Ironically, Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller did exactly the same thing in a production of Frankenstein. Don't know whether they tried to kill each other, though. It'd have made a great final night performance.
@arthurrubents
3 ай бұрын
0:42 Well, it escalated very quickly 😂
@Barzins1
4 жыл бұрын
Effing brilliant.
@richardmiddleton7770
5 ай бұрын
It's when he spits on him that gets me! 🤣🤣🤣
@lucaswilliams3806
4 жыл бұрын
Robert Webb makes a perfect Watson, who would have thought
@bentait2462
5 жыл бұрын
I'm torn between the choices because Robert fit both roles better.
@mikeyisred
16 жыл бұрын
CRUMPETS! that will haunt me in my dreams....
@ghostdog4330
5 жыл бұрын
Pure comedy gold.
@gordonlarrikin9683
2 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely a movie that I would watch.
@Amanda-cd6dm
Жыл бұрын
Watson was always my favorite
@rhemtro
2 жыл бұрын
I haven't laughed so hard in ages
@Gregatron13
6 ай бұрын
I need a Sheen vs Tenant remake of this.
@yokoyamataichi1785
5 жыл бұрын
the book he's reading is Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never let me go"
@hickey1292
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it has a very distinctive cover. I was racking my brain trying to remember if the subject of levitation ever came up in it though.
@cninh4574
9 жыл бұрын
Bloody brilliant
@The80sKickAss
15 жыл бұрын
thats not actually a flaw because the concept is that when ever they switch shots they switch places so when the cut from the one room to the other Mitchell would then change from being Watson to Holmes then back to Watson again.
@JohnyG29
3 жыл бұрын
No s***...
@The80sKickAss
3 жыл бұрын
@@JohnyG29 lol thank you for commenting on a post I made 11 years ago. It was in response to someone else's comment saying it was a mistake.
@AnnabellaRedwood
5 жыл бұрын
Hehehe!!!!!! It had such a Ripping Yarn feel too it. Blest laugh in ages. Can people levitate? Lmao!!! 😂😂😂
@mw-cf5dr
4 жыл бұрын
1:54 Hang on, that's Sherlock talking still!
@redrock1963
Жыл бұрын
...."if that makes me a chippy little autodidact then so be it".
@limerence8365
3 жыл бұрын
The second part speaks to me on a spiritual level. So many times I've asked questions, some reasonable, others in hindsight not the smartest, but either way I was confused in the moment and all the time people look down their nose at you and make you feel stupid. I hate people like that.
@TransparentLabyrinth
Жыл бұрын
Yeah some people really want to take the piss just to feel superior. And it represents well the smugness that comes with how those kind of people view the world. I've been that way myself some, honestly, and I'm not proud of it. In my case, some of it came from frustration of dealing with certain types of religious zealotry that seemed (well, still does seem) extremely contradictory morally. But I also allowed it to become too pervasive of a mentality about life in general, in matters I hadn't investigated as well.
@SuzyS85
15 жыл бұрын
"No, I'm not. What is it?" -> most ominous words ever :D
@asherujudo7383
Жыл бұрын
Show is called "Dead and British Actors"
@kamenraider1175
5 жыл бұрын
They need to make a movie like this
@MikeBurkard
Жыл бұрын
The best duo since Fry and Laurie
@FranMSK
11 жыл бұрын
I think that's intentional, cause the actors are only supposed to change when they leave the room.
@lucyt9961
6 жыл бұрын
Rob would be such a good holmes
@Kanhaiye
Жыл бұрын
Genius
@metalshy3661
2 жыл бұрын
I would watch that.
@prunariu
13 жыл бұрын
The advantage of my unique powers of observation...
@EmmyAngua
13 жыл бұрын
I've just noticed the book he appears to be reading is Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go...(it's got the exact same cover as mine). No leviatating in that lol.
@Wolfencreek
6 жыл бұрын
Can people Levitate....?
@thoughtadventure100
13 жыл бұрын
Dr. Moriarity is laughing hysterically
@kirksav
4 жыл бұрын
hahaha that was fucking hilarious. 😂
@samuelatkinson6899
3 жыл бұрын
I felt called out by that last bit
@ejsbxbeiaskd1770
5 жыл бұрын
Never let me go
@vangroover1903
2 ай бұрын
They brought it full circle in the last sketch of the series, with what many see as that sappy boring bit that sort of ripped off the equally mawkish ending of Blackadder, but people often miss the comic genius of how they brought it back to the poo jokes. It was always about the poo.
@jondellar
3 жыл бұрын
One of their very best; I've seen it so many times but still laugh at it. And the links by some stereotypical British luvvie subtly patting himself on the back are spot-on too.
@DaveDexterMusic
Жыл бұрын
that's not a luvvie. it'll be a director or writer, given he's talking about his involvement in the film
@jondellar
Жыл бұрын
@@DaveDexterMusic 🤦♂️
@neilaarondudgeon
13 жыл бұрын
"Insert funniest quote from sketch here"
@whatdothlife4660
6 жыл бұрын
OMG me too!
@J0ECRAWF15H
6 жыл бұрын
Do you also take issue with the top plays of the day on Sportscenter?
@thewerewolff7248
5 жыл бұрын
insert sarcastic comment about watching the sketch too
@BatmanReal
6 ай бұрын
this would be a great gimmick for a movie
@MrHEC381991
12 жыл бұрын
lol but seriously, Robert Webb would be a boss Holmes.
@jcgabriel1569
4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see a Sherlock Holmes movie like that.
@hegmonster
4 жыл бұрын
I would watch this movie.
@josephbennett4236
2 жыл бұрын
2:57: As far as I remember, there are no instances of levitation being performed, or even mentioned, in the novel 'Never Let Me Go'.
@chrislongstay
5 жыл бұрын
We see David Mitchell everywhere now, so where is Robert Webb?
@someguy3766
4 жыл бұрын
Last I saw of him, he was doing some interview where he said men should talk about their feelings and cry more, and women are horribly oppressed in 21st century Britain. Careerwise not much I guess.
@DavidTaylor-yl3yw
2 жыл бұрын
Doing Strictly, very soon!
@tryondola
14 жыл бұрын
lololol hahaha the kids!
@turosfagyi
2 жыл бұрын
There's a mistake at 1:54, the voice speaking from the library should be Robert's and not David's.
@Tenraiden
4 жыл бұрын
That spit makes this.
@chucksolutions4579
4 жыл бұрын
So funny to me how people really think that Holmes thought poorly of Watson. They both expressed such affectionate admiration for each other. Of course this is all an exaggeration for comedic affect but I listen the complete Sherlock Holmes on audio book about twice a year.
@The80sKickAss
15 жыл бұрын
ok yea, youre right
@dudesayingthings
2 жыл бұрын
The holmes-watson sketch is definitely one of their best ones.
@darkfool2000
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
@QuadMochaMatti
3 жыл бұрын
@1:00 It appears that Robert was using David as a stand-in for a trial run of the future "therapeutic beatdown" of Big Mad Andy.
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