@@9AJW4 it might be but I feel like similes are usually shorter (ex. sly as a fox, hot as a flame). But I don't know too much about English rhetorical devices, so I could be completely wrong.
@@trickytreyperfected1482 Similes require comparative language e.g “like or as”, whereas metaphors directly compare two things without using these words. You are right in that generally, extended comparisons are done through the use of metaphors, as opposed to similes, however that is not how they are defined.
I like it because it’s so chewed on. It took a thing that made vague sense and then compared it to a nonsense version of it only valid in a thought experiment so it’s surprising and thereaftwr funny
David Mitchell is on my very short list of people I would like to make immortal. Mainly because he'd be absolutely furious, which is when he's at his best.
@Teamgeist And Vicky Coren too, come on. Those two are most perfect pairing I have seen in my 41 years. Making one immortal to watch the other fade and die would be the direst cruelty.
@@Dysjoint Damn, if anyone could get them both in "What we do in the shadows" that'd be amazing! Angry David Mitchell, being pissed off at immortality. And Bob Mortimer showing party tricks he showed to Jesus and the apostles 2000 years ago
I'd be torn about this decision, as David Mitchell is also the one who said how awful it would be if heaven existed purely for atheists to prove them that they were wrong. It would be entertaining for him to then experience that first-hand.
David Mitchell is so incredibly charming. His acerbic style of speaking combined with the poshness is an incredibly irresistible combination. Could watch him all day.
I agree, his diction, his intelligence, his wit and speed and his inability to instantly buy into claims made by others are part of what I find it fascinating.
He is utterly fantastic. There's never a panel show episode he's been on that hasn't been extremely entertaining at one point, usually when he's become annoyed at some trivial detail or another (or at Lee Mack's antics) and begun to rant.
Both well-earned, too, although humorously the first might come about because of how posh David is, something that is often joked about at his expense.
Are you seriously telling me that if you were pinned in a chair with your eyes held open like something from Clockwork Orange having to watch nothing but David Mitchell clips until the end of time with absolutely no chance of escape that's something you'd be OK with? I think what you really mean is I quite liked those amusing compilations and I'd rather like to see some more please but not so many that I'd become too jaded because I'd like to get some sleep later tonight. Sorry. I went on a bit of a rant there. Can't think where that came from.
@@zhv3062 My comment was meant to be a "Mitchellian rant". Not a serious comment. I wasn't getting at the guy, but trying to be funny. That's the trouble with typed remarks. No-one hears it like you hear it in your head when typing it. We need a new level of emoji for that. Read it again with David's accent and level of pedantic annoyance and maybe it will work better. :)
“If you’re ever trying to get the eye out of a fish and it blinks, it may be a lion.” is the strangest but yet most hilarious sentence I’ve ever heard someone say with a straight face.
well said sir ! initially i thought ... yes that would be a dinner party worth attending ...then my brain kicked in and i dont fancy hiding in the bathroom all night trying to google a smart reply
Of course the number is larger than ten, but it is a running gag with my life that we comment how we always see the same 7 brits in our favorite shows.
Eh, it's the same with Japanese TV. Makes it kind of annoying because unless you absolutely love the person who's in everything, you get very tired of them very quickly. For me, that's Noel Fielding. It also leads to people getting "disposed of" in the entertainment industry because they get wrung of all their material and then dropped as soon as there's a consistent tiredness in audience reaction. So we get denied a fuller career of some talent who could grow into something greater. But I guess that's entertainment.
David has genuinely managed to influence my thoughts on customer service and many other things like the message in "Kill The Poor" sketch... Not sure comedians are the best for helping you form an opinion on society but I feel like David is trustworthy enough.
David has influenced my thoughts on taxation (based off of his rant on tax avoidance on the Last Leg) and made me comfortable with the part of me that's annoyingly logical. I absolutely adore the man.
Customer service is doing just enough to make the customer think you care about anything but their money and them coming back again. I always did better at customer service by being helpful in whatever mood I happened to be in and I always smiled at customers who called me grumpy or miserable before saying something along the lines of "are you surprised?" The smarter ones got the joke and normally came back for the banter.
me too. Proud of it. I've always rankled at the idea that we (here in NZ) should be nicer to people who don't truly care about us, are just passing through, and treat us like a theme park, all so someone we don't even know can collect beer money in exchange for our peace and space to breathe.
Eli I'm from NZ too and I've worked Retail for 9 years and probably customer service for another 5 years. 99% of time I gave good customer service but you get some ashole customers. I can understand if in the UK that they don't give good customer service because the wages are so low and they look repressed. In fact most of the shop owners don't care about customer service and only worry about theift to the point that you walk in the door and all they do have staff follow you around, it's realky annoying. I found that when I lived in London recently for a year 3 / 4 years ago..
Antinomy of Pure Reason; ruthless, wanted to talk to David about that 🥲 and how much the Jewish community probably once loved Germany, in a safe and British environment, I need HRH the Queen and 12 ninja Rabbi to save me before Ireland turns mega perditious burning bush, year eight by Joseph, famine time 😭 Elijah sent me 🫒 Talk with John 🐑
@@10thdoctor15 oh the pain. I hope it really does happen. Though that's also taking a huge risk to be the Taskmaster's unofficial victim that gets no points all the time just because whatever. Those 2 have had small clashes when they appeared in panel shows as well there must be tension building up.
Something that is quite interesting is that the professor who discovered the truth about the horizontal and vertical stripes was in the audience. So Stephen let the panellists dig a hole for themselves by letting them take the mickey out his findings for a while and then introduced him 😂
It's just as well scientists hardly ever claim to have discovered or proven anything. They contribute research, then others de-contextualise it, generalise it, popularize it. Think of the shxt storm they'd be letting themselves in for if they did all that themselves 🙂
I read that as self-deprication, actually. Like the comic suffix "asking for a friend" is understood to mean oneself. I'm autistic so there's the possibility I misread that, but Rob does have a peppering of slightly dark inclusions in his comedy, that makes you wonder if he's alright once the laughter stops.
Because although it's a decent joke, it's not one which can really be built upon without essentially just saying "are you talking about yourself Rob?". Notice that Johnny Vegas also made that very same joke "I beg to differ" to little effect. The difference between people who are a bit funny and great comedians and panelists, is that the latter will pass up on the great majority of the jokes they come up with, whereas the former will just blurt them all out and hope that one sticks.
@@jasoncorr4619 He's funny, yes, but I feel he's more Bill Burr with manners than a whip-smart icon of sophistication like Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, or Stephen Fry.
I love jimmy carr's laugh, its so genuine warm and spontaneous and not at all annoying to the point where upon hearing it a normally peaceable person wants to go on a random killing spree
You know it's going to be a good episode of QI when David Mitchell makes an appearance. His angry logic coupled with quick witted panelists makes my stomach hurt from laughing. Stephens breaking down with laughter and Sandy's exasperation are just the icing on the cake.
Yes, but we all have different 'best moments' and these were mild, and charming, on the whole. Nobody usually puts the last 'teachers pet' moments in best of DM' so it's a breath of fresh air .
Yes. The brief series Was It Something I Said had David as a host and although the show format wasn't brilliant, David was a good host and he's a great fit for QI.
I use something similar if I want a coffee but there's only Starbucks available. I refuse to join in their stupid writing names on cups and tell them "I'm ordering coffee, not joining a glee club".
@@decodolly1535 Yeah, I don't substitute Starbucks for real coffee either, except as a last resort, and this is one of the two reasons why, the other being that I'm not a fan of drinking battery acid.
Mr. Fry and mr. Mitchell are treasures of british entertainment. They've made themselves into the fountains of timely truths( as the status quo doesn't stay true as time passes by..) .. ..
11:04 David Mitchell doesn't realize he's making Bertrand Russell Point here. A lot of peoples lives were relying on calculations at that point, yet they couldn't prove that any of it worked. That's why they had to go back over all of it carefully and be much more rigorous. It's also why math teachers tend to use very precise language in describing mathematical formulas, theorems, and methods. They need to make sure things are precise enough that we can PROVE they are true.
Or david, a comedian, was finding humor in something to make others laugh. I can write up a proof for the laughter part if you’d like. It’ll just be a video of me in a dark room chuckling.
The show also didn't get to the essential point: Whitehead and Russell's attempt to prove mathematics was complete and consistent failed. In 1929 Godel used their methods to show that the Principia must be either be incomplete or inconsistent. A year later Godel proved the general case: any formal system cannot prove it's own consistency (and therefore is also incomplete). Russell's work was proven to be a pipe dream.
This just goes to show once again that, while David Mitchell is absolutely a star, Dara Ó Briain is the most wonderfully collaborative comedian. Any time anyone makes a joke, he not only knows the joke quicker than anyone else, he then also knows how to serve the punch line, how to make it funnier! Talk about customer service.. Dara is an artist.
Well said- while comedians normally only get ranked on their 'goals' of direct laughs, people like Dara also need a lot more respect for their record of 'assists' too.
Having seen Andrew Hunter Murray in action, I'm pretty sure he's the QI elf who laid the Klaxons on David Mitchell during the "First World War" question.
I was thinking the same thing! Except it’s Bryson, not Brydon. I was also thinking: “Aww look at these two! Looks like they don’t know yet that they go on to become great friends and become part of one of the funniest TV shows of all time.”
I think David Mitchell might make me laugh more than any other entertainer. So often I have had to skip back because I have missed anything that came after because I was still laughing to much. His prepared material is very funny, but those times when he gets to just go off on something he finds irritating seems to perfectly align with my sense of humor.
All the signs would be right or wrong depending on the meaning, I love that. Very “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”. I reckon David would like a well used Oxford comma.
I see David Mitchell,I click. I know it will be great without watching! Rich Hall,oddly enough,reminds me of David Mitchell. Not in sophisticated answers but in his quick wit!
This is a great selection! I'd have liked to see his ideas on Pascal's Wager among it, but nonetheless I watch this every now and then to have a good laugh. :D
My favourite part of this is Alan shouting, "Common usage! Common usage!", immediately taking the academic view, instead of Stephen's subjective, one. It's a role flip that happened more and more as the show went on.
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David Mitchell is absolutely right about the HobNob biscuits. They're a brand from 1980s or so. I honestly had to Goole that one.
Man, I never noticed before that in the clip about stripes, 2:44 everbody's wearing vertical stripes except Johhny Vegas who's wearing horizontal! Which proves their point!😂👍
Ok I am not crazy. At 10:41 there is a missing set inclusion symbol in the Russell's theorem. I had to look it up, it's on p.379 of Volume I of the Principia if anyone is curious. They have: ⊢:. α, β ∊ 1. ⊃: α β = Λ . ≡ . α ∪ β ∊ 2 It should read: ⊢:. α, β ∊ 1. ⊃: α ∩ β = Λ . ≡ . α ∪ β ∊ 2 In modern notation: ⊢ (α, β ∊ 1) ⊃ [ (α ∩ β = ∅ ) ≡ ( α ∪ β ∊ 2 )] Which states that if α and β are discrete unitary sets the intersection (the members of the sets α and β they have in common) of α and β is the empty set if and only if α and β's union is a member of the set of duals (the set of sets that have two discrete items). ua-cam.com/video/4TVzeKZ2X-A/v-deo.html
Rob Brydon (1.7m tall) and wearing a vertical stripes, "I have a friend who's quite short and he likes to wear vertical stripes because they make him look taller." I get the feeling he was setting the others up to make fun of him for saying it's a "friend" who does this only to have David take it in a whole other direction.
Here in the USA our comedians are funny men. In England they are intellectuals. Mitchell is correcting everyone's English and recounting history. He's no slouch
Would love to see either David Mitchell or Jason Manford host QI. Both very smart blokes who have been on a good few times and clearly enjoy the format.
"It's like showing a very tired mason a whole cathedral" Is one of the best off the cuff metaphors i've ever heard.
Technically it's a simile.
@@9AJW4 it might be but I feel like similes are usually shorter (ex. sly as a fox, hot as a flame). But I don't know too much about English rhetorical devices, so I could be completely wrong.
@@trickytreyperfected1482 Similes require comparative language e.g “like or as”, whereas metaphors directly compare two things without using these words. You are right in that generally, extended comparisons are done through the use of metaphors, as opposed to similes, however that is not how they are defined.
I like it because it’s so chewed on. It took a thing that made vague sense and then compared it to a nonsense version of it only valid in a thought experiment so it’s surprising and thereaftwr funny
@@trickytreyperfected1482 You might 'feel like that'; but you're wrong. Sorry.
I love how genuinely chuffed David looks at Stephen's praise. Finally winning the approval of his father-figure. It's beautiful
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David Mitchell is on my very short list of people I would like to make immortal. Mainly because he'd be absolutely furious, which is when he's at his best.
I'd worry about David having that kind of power
@Teamgeist And Vicky Coren too, come on. Those two are most perfect pairing I have seen in my 41 years. Making one immortal to watch the other fade and die would be the direst cruelty.
Bob Mortimer also
@@Dysjoint Damn, if anyone could get them both in "What we do in the shadows" that'd be amazing! Angry David Mitchell, being pissed off at immortality. And Bob Mortimer showing party tricks he showed to Jesus and the apostles 2000 years ago
I'd be torn about this decision, as David Mitchell is also the one who said how awful it would be if heaven existed purely for atheists to prove them that they were wrong. It would be entertaining for him to then experience that first-hand.
David Mitchell is so incredibly charming. His acerbic style of speaking combined with the poshness is an incredibly irresistible combination. Could watch him all day.
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I agree, his diction, his intelligence, his wit and speed and his inability to instantly buy into claims made by others are part of what I find it fascinating.
Is he, maybe, the worlds most charming racist ?
He is utterly fantastic. There's never a panel show episode he's been on that hasn't been extremely entertaining at one point, usually when he's become annoyed at some trivial detail or another (or at Lee Mack's antics) and begun to rant.
The sight of David Mitchell trying to look like he is not pleased to get a double teacher's pet award is very . . . human.
Both well-earned, too, although humorously the first might come about because of how posh David is, something that is often joked about at his expense.
Seen that.That second teachers pet is the first time I’ve seen David so pleased and bashful
Can I just get several hours of Stephen Fry and David Mitchell earnestly enjoying talking about things they find interesting? Maybe a whole series?
I'm pretty sure Stephen is (or was) genuinely attracted to David
What a excellent idea
@@chamuchamupalchamperry6686 as a straight male, who isn’t?
@Simon Foxwell how can you not like fry?
@Simon Foxwell maybe there’s historical inaccuracies but there’s no doubt in my mind that fry is a very intelligent guy
I can never get tired of these David Mitchell compilations
Exactly the reason I'm back watching these when I have so far seen them already
Have you seen his soapbox series? Not only does it make you HOWL with laughter, it makes you learn and think.
Are you seriously telling me that if you were pinned in a chair with your eyes held open like something from Clockwork Orange having to watch nothing but David Mitchell clips until the end of time with absolutely no chance of escape that's something you'd be OK with?
I think what you really mean is I quite liked those amusing compilations and I'd rather like to see some more please but not so many that I'd become too jaded because I'd like to get some sleep later tonight.
Sorry. I went on a bit of a rant there. Can't think where that came from.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Some people are just simple. 😉
@@zhv3062 My comment was meant to be a "Mitchellian rant". Not a serious comment. I wasn't getting at the guy, but trying to be funny.
That's the trouble with typed remarks. No-one hears it like you hear it in your head when typing it. We need a new level of emoji for that.
Read it again with David's accent and level of pedantic annoyance and maybe it will work better. :)
“If you’re ever trying to get the eye out of a fish and it blinks, it may be a lion.” is the strangest but yet most hilarious sentence I’ve ever heard someone say with a straight face.
And this is why David and Victoria Coren are a match made in heaven. Imagine what suppers are like in the Mitchell household.
well said sir !
initially i thought ... yes that would be a dinner party worth attending ...then my brain kicked in and i dont fancy hiding in the bathroom all night trying to google a smart reply
@@EvilSean62 lol
America has hundreds of celebrities. Britain, correctly, takes the funniest ten or so people and puts them in everything.
Oh so like Norway then.
Of course the number is larger than ten, but it is a running gag with my life that we comment how we always see the same 7 brits in our favorite shows.
David Mitchell is a professional panelist. 🙂
Eh, it's the same with Japanese TV. Makes it kind of annoying because unless you absolutely love the person who's in everything, you get very tired of them very quickly. For me, that's Noel Fielding.
It also leads to people getting "disposed of" in the entertainment industry because they get wrung of all their material and then dropped as soon as there's a consistent tiredness in audience reaction. So we get denied a fuller career of some talent who could grow into something greater. But I guess that's entertainment.
Do they though?
David has genuinely managed to influence my thoughts on customer service and many other things like the message in "Kill The Poor" sketch...
Not sure comedians are the best for helping you form an opinion on society but I feel like David is trustworthy enough.
I think comedians might be a lot more trustworthy than some other people. They usually don't have an agenda like politicians :p
David has influenced my thoughts on taxation (based off of his rant on tax avoidance on the Last Leg) and made me comfortable with the part of me that's annoyingly logical. I absolutely adore the man.
@@manthanf1 I like how Stephen put it, when he said " welcome to the logically ruthless world of David Mitchell".
George Carlin was another comedian who was hilarious but also made you think.
Comedians are the modern philosophers.
The amount of nonsense Mr Mitchell can cut through is amazing. Very much needed and appreciated!!
Mitchell's Razor
His displays of absolute sincerity are what does it for me!
yes me too. It's simply true, what he says, a left turn towards how things really are vs straight ahead to conformity.
Can I just say, David's outfit is quite unnoteworthy, but not so unnoteworthy as to be in itself noteworthy. He did it.
Even without a gray tie.
This is from another quiz Would I lie to you.
Take note
Ah yes, but did he bring his little bell?
All words are made up aren't they?
Genius and correct
"names"
@@neuvocastezero1838 Still correct if we use "words".
@@mawe9878 -seconded- Thirded! 👍
I think this is one quote he actually got from his time on peep show. British London Publishing.
David's view on customer service has really changed my life for the better.
Customer service is doing just enough to make the customer think you care about anything but their money and them coming back again. I always did better at customer service by being helpful in whatever mood I happened to be in and I always smiled at customers who called me grumpy or miserable before saying something along the lines of "are you surprised?" The smarter ones got the joke and normally came back for the banter.
me too. Proud of it. I've always rankled at the idea that we (here in NZ) should be nicer to people who don't truly care about us, are just passing through, and treat us like a theme park, all so someone we don't even know can collect beer money in exchange for our peace and space to breathe.
Eli I'm from NZ too and I've worked Retail for 9 years and probably customer service for another 5 years. 99% of time I gave good customer service but you get some ashole customers. I can understand if in the UK that they don't give good customer service because the wages are so low and they look repressed. In fact most of the shop owners don't care about customer service and only worry about theift to the point that you walk in the door and all they do have staff follow you around, it's realky annoying. I found that when I lived in London recently for a year 3 / 4 years ago..
“Welcome to the logically ruthless world of David Mitchell!”
😂😂😂
Antinomy of Pure Reason; ruthless, wanted to talk to David about that 🥲 and how much the Jewish community probably once loved Germany, in a safe and British environment, I need HRH the Queen and 12 ninja Rabbi to save me before Ireland turns mega perditious burning bush, year eight by Joseph, famine time 😭 Elijah sent me 🫒 Talk with John 🐑
In that last bit, he was genuinely pleased with himself. He looked like the school boy who ruined the curve for the rest of the class.
The was right there in David's grin more so than his 1st teachers' pet
I dont think I've ever seen David happier than he was for the double teacher's pet fanfare.
I can't wait for when David Mitchell finally gets on Taskmaster. We are getting Victoria, and we had Lee Mack. David's time has to be coming.
He'll either out-smart each task, or wear down Davies into giving him top points.
@@10thdoctor15 oh the pain. I hope it really does happen.
Though that's also taking a huge risk to be the Taskmaster's unofficial victim that gets no points all the time just because whatever.
Those 2 have had small clashes when they appeared in panel shows as well there must be tension building up.
Lee Mack said in Taskmaster broadcast that David would have lawiers bring in over tasks so.... but i hope we'll see it one day 😂
I’m so excited for Victoria and Alan, they’re both brilliant
Victoria on taskmaster? How long do we have to wait?
Something that is quite interesting is that the professor who discovered the truth about the horizontal and vertical stripes was in the audience. So Stephen let the panellists dig a hole for themselves by letting them take the mickey out his findings for a while and then introduced him 😂
Oh, he's a scientist. He's already had his research ripped to shreds in other papers.
@@caitthecat Vertical or horizontal shreds?
@@Moamanly Underrated comment
@@Moamanly xD
It's just as well scientists hardly ever claim to have discovered or proven anything. They contribute research, then others de-contextualise it, generalise it, popularize it. Think of the shxt storm they'd be letting themselves in for if they did all that themselves 🙂
"showing a very tired mason a whole cathedral" is just pure hilarity.
“I missed your angry logic, David”
Lol, Rob Brydon's subtle joke,
"I have a friend that's quite short who likes to wear vertical stripes"
while wearing a shirt with vertical stripes.
I read that as self-deprication, actually. Like the comic suffix "asking for a friend" is understood to mean oneself. I'm autistic so there's the possibility I misread that, but Rob does have a peppering of slightly dark inclusions in his comedy, that makes you wonder if he's alright once the laughter stops.
i was surprised that nobody else on the panel seemed to catch on to that
Because although it's a decent joke, it's not one which can really be built upon without essentially just saying "are you talking about yourself Rob?". Notice that Johnny Vegas also made that very same joke "I beg to differ" to little effect. The difference between people who are a bit funny and great comedians and panelists, is that the latter will pass up on the great majority of the jokes they come up with, whereas the former will just blurt them all out and hope that one sticks.
David caught it. He's wearing finer vertical stripes as well.
It wasn't subtle, somehow David missed it
David Mitchell and Bill Bailey are the funniest people on QI. And both of them are wicked smart.
Sean lock was brilliant in the early days on it
Victoria Coren Mitchell is amazing too.
And incredibly smart
@@jasoncorr4619 He's funny, yes, but I feel he's more Bill Burr with manners than a whip-smart icon of sophistication like Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, or Stephen Fry.
It's always a good episode for me when one of them is on the panel.
Sandy knew stuff where even Stephen said “how did you know that?”. She is the prefect replacement.
I love jimmy carr's laugh, its so genuine warm and spontaneous and not at all annoying to the point where upon hearing it a normally peaceable person wants to go on a random killing spree
I'm pretty sure the way we spell laughs came from somewhere up Jimmy Carr's bloodline.
You sir, need to hop platforms to teach redditors how to write sarcastically, effectively.
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@@georgethakur Funny you mention that, I learned recently that "laugh" was originally an onomatopoeia!
@@Jesse__H what? people go 'laugh, laugh, laugh'? True, it's more real than 'ha, ha, ha' but .. really?
One of my favourite people on the planet. I'd watch him doing his shopping...at the grocers/grocer's/grocers'...
Clever, quick and well educated....makes me so envious.
You know it's going to be a good episode of QI when David Mitchell makes an appearance. His angry logic coupled with quick witted panelists makes my stomach hurt from laughing. Stephens breaking down with laughter and Sandy's exasperation are just the icing on the cake.
"In a sense, all names are made up, aren't they?" is gonna keep me laughing long after I've watched this video.
The absolute best, when Steven geeks out on David and Escoffier!
Someday David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade are going to throw simultaneus rants at each other and the purpose of existence will have been accomplished.
The look on Stephen's face when his lava lamp tips over has always been a favorite
No one expected David's bee rant to go the way it went!
David Mitchell and Alan Davies are adorable and I love the logical arguments David Mitchell comes up with, just great!
He's a bit like Sir Bernard Woolley.
You seem to have missed when he went mental at Alan for saying we shouldn't drink milk as its bad for us. Best QI moment ever??
Yes, but we all have different 'best moments' and these were mild, and charming, on the whole. Nobody usually puts the last 'teachers pet' moments in best of DM' so it's a breath of fresh air .
Hello, how are you feeling
As much as I love Sandi Toksvig as host, and would love to see her do several more series, I really really would love to see David host QI someday.
Yes. The brief series Was It Something I Said had David as a host and although the show format wasn't brilliant, David was a good host and he's a great fit for QI.
You are kidding. Sandi and Stehpen are at least honest, David would lie through his back end to get his way. :))
@@kaizokuAUTO He's great on Have I Got News For You too.
He is great on The Unbelievable Truth.
I'm not sure David is a born host. He's much more in his stride when he can observe and react.
I absolutely adore Mitchell and his comedy. He’s brilliant
Among all David's other brilliant rants, I forgot the one about the mouldy teapot. An absolute little hidden gem :)
I've lost count of how many times I've watched that episode, one of my all time favourites!!
Hello, how are you feeling this morning
I love David Mitchell's sarcastic and on point humor
British humour 😭 lol
Hello, how are you feeling
”In a sense, all names are made up” David Mitchell is apparently Thor 😉
In the context of the joke he was talking about the names of towns
Hello, how are you feeling this morning
Nellie Melba's father was, indeed, David Mitchell (1829-1916), a Scottish-Australian builder. David Mitchell (1974) was quite correct about that.
Lekoman -her real name was Helen Porter Mitchell
I love his attitude to customer service. It's like Jack Whitehall's father "I'm here to buy a shirt, not make a friend." Lol
I use something similar if I want a coffee but there's only Starbucks available. I refuse to join in their stupid writing names on cups and tell them "I'm ordering coffee, not joining a glee club".
@@decodolly1535 Yeah, I don't substitute Starbucks for real coffee either, except as a last resort, and this is one of the two reasons why, the other being that I'm not a fan of drinking battery acid.
Dave's insights about customer service could apply equally here in Australia.
Mr. Fry and mr. Mitchell are treasures of british entertainment. They've made themselves into the fountains of timely truths( as the status quo doesn't stay true as time passes by..) .. ..
And they're both from Cambridge University. David Mitchell even got rejected by Oxford. Hah!
"Angry logic" 🤣
That's the most spot on description ever
11:04 David Mitchell doesn't realize he's making Bertrand Russell Point here. A lot of peoples lives were relying on calculations at that point, yet they couldn't prove that any of it worked. That's why they had to go back over all of it carefully and be much more rigorous.
It's also why math teachers tend to use very precise language in describing mathematical formulas, theorems, and methods. They need to make sure things are precise enough that we can PROVE they are true.
Or david, a comedian, was finding humor in something to make others laugh. I can write up a proof for the laughter part if you’d like. It’ll just be a video of me in a dark room chuckling.
The show also didn't get to the essential point: Whitehead and Russell's attempt to prove mathematics was complete and consistent failed. In 1929 Godel used their methods to show that the Principia must be either be incomplete or inconsistent. A year later Godel proved the general case: any formal system cannot prove it's own consistency (and therefore is also incomplete). Russell's work was proven to be a pipe dream.
@@glenturner9857 I think QI gets things like this wrong for a reason
This just goes to show once again that, while David Mitchell is absolutely a star, Dara Ó Briain is the most wonderfully collaborative comedian. Any time anyone makes a joke, he not only knows the joke quicker than anyone else, he then also knows how to serve the punch line, how to make it funnier! Talk about customer service.. Dara is an artist.
I like Dara but his “tick” of saying “urgh” after every sentence is something I can’t get over noticing.
Well said- while comedians normally only get ranked on their 'goals' of direct laughs, people like Dara also need a lot more respect for their record of 'assists' too.
Having seen Andrew Hunter Murray in action, I'm pretty sure he's the QI elf who laid the Klaxons on David Mitchell during the "First World War" question.
Could also be James Harkin. Both he and Andrew are lightning fast.
Why did no one realise Bryson was talking about himself, there and then wearing vertical stripes? Opportunity missed
no, no, no. His 'friend' is obviously the one he's talking about!
If you look around, all stripes on this warderobe are vertical. Or cross. Just in case.
I noticed that. Maybe they ignored him on purpose
...I'm pretty sure they all got that
I was thinking the same thing! Except it’s Bryson, not Brydon. I was also thinking: “Aww look at these two! Looks like they don’t know yet that they go on to become great friends and become part of one of the funniest TV shows of all time.”
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I love how excited Alan is that somebody is in trouble and it isn't him
I think they all missed the fact that robs “friend” was himself
Yup. 🤣 Disappointed that it seemed to go over the head of even the audience members.
@@abhay7857 While he's wearing vertical stripes, of course.
He didn't look particularly short. Guess the stripes worked.
ah, I thought he might be having a joke at David's expense, but you're right, the look says it all.
@@bellerophonchallen8861 MItchell is taller than Brydon.
I love David's *anality*. Intelligent comedians are different.
"In a sense, all names are made up, aren't they?" may be my favourite Mitchell quote ever.
8:49 Stephen was so happy to be getting angry logic so quickly
"I learned how to use the apostrophe properly, apparently, now it doesn't matter! What I want, I want the time I used to learn that back."
wow.
Don't we all
God how that one applies
More correctly "I want back the time.." A rare inexactitude from the Mitchell.
@@tim40gabby25 no no no Andrew, it's much better the way he did it. 'That back' is like a smack around both chops, don't you see? It works.
@@elinannestad5320 I see that works too :)
"Died in?"
" A terrible house fire" 🤣🤣🤣
“There’s nothing funny about making people laugh” Fry at his best on that one!
I love David's brain.
8 out of 10 Zombies agree
I think David Mitchell might make me laugh more than any other entertainer. So often I have had to skip back because I have missed anything that came after because I was still laughing to much. His prepared material is very funny, but those times when he gets to just go off on something he finds irritating seems to perfectly align with my sense of humor.
David is 100 times more cool than any "influencer" or "UA-camr" or whatever the latest silly trend of non celebrity is.
Thanks for the belly laughs David!!
Much needed
All the signs would be right or wrong depending on the meaning, I love that. Very “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”. I reckon David would like a well used Oxford comma.
David Mitchell one of the funniest men on the planet
I love it when David gets into one of his tirades.
When you watch these compilations, you realise how much David mellowed after marriage. He just doesn't wave his finger about in the air anymore.
If I was hittin Vicky I'd be mellow too. Fell in love with her on the episode Jargon from J series.
I'm sad nobody got that Rob Brydon's short friend in vertical stripes was himself 😂
I love David’s smarts.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I honestly haven’t found anyone else, who has the ability to create analogies for such a wide variety of subjects.
I see David Mitchell,I click. I know it will be great without watching! Rich Hall,oddly enough,reminds me of David Mitchell. Not in sophisticated answers but in his quick wit!
I think Americans, myself included, should feel bad for not appreciating him more while we had him.
@@asterix7842 I'm glad he found an audience over here. Always appreciated his humour.
They credited Bertrand Russell with Gödel's Incompleteness theorem.
Russell was trying to prove the opposite of all that.
Another of QI researchers' errors. Good catch.
If I'm ever doing a pub quiz and I see David Mitchell in the room I'm leaving 🤔😂😂😂
Or get on his team!
David Mitchell`s description of terrible customer service is so spot on, I have often felt the same way from both perspective's in my life
3:40 this joke went over everyone's head. He was referring to himself.
Sure. That’s why they all laughed. I suppose nobody got Brydon’s vertical stripe/height comment either?
3:45 "a friend who is small and likes to wear vertical stripes to look taller". Said Rob Brydon in his vertical stripes. "A FRIEND"
I wonder if David would consider chairing the show... if ever Sandi wants a break.
he chairs a radio show called the unbelievable truth which is quite good
Rob Brydon is absolutely talking about himself and thought everyone would realise 😂
Dave is so good in Peep show you forget some times how great he is in real life
4:29 Johnny getting into thinking position cracks me up
This is a great selection! I'd have liked to see his ideas on Pascal's Wager among it, but nonetheless I watch this every now and then to have a good laugh. :D
My favourite part of this is Alan shouting, "Common usage! Common usage!", immediately taking the academic view, instead of Stephen's subjective, one. It's a role flip that happened more and more as the show went on.
David Mitchell is absolutely right about the HobNob biscuits. They're a brand from 1980s or so. I honestly had to Goole that one.
1985, to be precise.
Great stuff, and thoroughly enjoyable. Mitchell and Fry, unbeatable.
Man, I never noticed before that in the clip about stripes, 2:44 everbody's wearing vertical stripes except Johhny Vegas who's wearing horizontal!
Which proves their point!😂👍
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Ok I am not crazy. At 10:41 there is a missing set inclusion symbol in the Russell's theorem. I had to look it up, it's on p.379 of Volume I of the Principia if anyone is curious.
They have: ⊢:. α, β ∊ 1. ⊃: α β = Λ . ≡ . α ∪ β ∊ 2
It should read: ⊢:. α, β ∊ 1. ⊃: α ∩ β = Λ . ≡ . α ∪ β ∊ 2
In modern notation: ⊢ (α, β ∊ 1) ⊃ [ (α ∩ β = ∅ ) ≡ ( α ∪ β ∊ 2 )] Which states that if α and β are discrete unitary sets the intersection (the members of the sets α and β they have in common) of α and β is the empty set if and only if α and β's union is a member of the set of duals (the set of sets that have two discrete items).
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Mitchell was so right about jobs. Anyone on minimum wage clearly didnt choose to do that.
Many did by choosing the wrong parents, sleeping through school, or just being slovenly proles, but that should be enough punishment.
@@vangroover1903 how In thr hell does someone choose their parents?
@@juanferrer5924 That's the joke, man.
I love David Mitchell ♥
Rob Brydon (1.7m tall) and wearing a vertical stripes, "I have a friend who's quite short and he likes to wear vertical stripes because they make him look taller."
I get the feeling he was setting the others up to make fun of him for saying it's a "friend" who does this only to have David take it in a whole other direction.
The exchange at the end was like from an Oxbridge flirting society
All three spellings of grocers there were correct, though for different uses.
Good point, you get a point for that!😄👍
It’s use’s
@@binilgn5941 No it's not. "Uses" is correct. More than one use.
David Mitchell is so smart! If the laws of nature allows it, i'd be honored to bear his children.
Nothing ruins a punchline more than having someone popping up at a critical moment and asking me if I've ever owned a diesel Mercedes.
David is amazing.
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I agree with David. Sign writers always know..
Signwriter is one word
This makes me realize Ronni hadn't been on in a while, she's an excellent guest.
David Mitchell and Sean Lock (RIP) were great on QI.
Here in the USA our comedians are funny men. In England they are intellectuals. Mitchell is correcting everyone's English and recounting history. He's no slouch
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Tumescent is exactly the right word to describe Steven in that state 🤣
Would love to see either David Mitchell or Jason Manford host QI. Both very smart blokes who have been on a good few times and clearly enjoy the format.
The vertical vs horizontal stripes bit always gets me. I has since stopped wearing stripes of any kind.