My favourite sketch of all time, so many clever things in it, which lots of people have commented on before including -- none of the guests talk -- one of the guests is a dog (for the pet care show) -- his hair gets thinner each episode -- he starts smoking in the last episode -- it is pretty much one take for the sketch, which is amazing -- his tie and shirt are all over the place after the first episode :-) -- he does well to not laugh, but you can see he is working hard to keep it together Also very clever is the actual calls - the first call just gets the show wrong - the second call is asking why the call he heard before is getting the show wrong, so clever
@@DirtyDoctorDan I didn't take it that the white guest was racist, but rather a liberal, pipe-smoking professor of African American Studies intellectual type.
I also love Ken's answer to a grandmother who is having trouble sleeping. Saying that difficulty sleeping is a common problem with the "elderly of today", as if it's a relatively recent problem.
Mr Show and especially Kids in the Hall was just top notch. Really smart humor. Show went a bit dirtier while Kids did the whole theater of the absurd like Monty Python Ben Stiller Show was also out there and more physical humor. What the hell happened? Humor has been dumbed down to fit the plunging IQ
@@avisco01 That's kidna funny, it's a really old comment and was a reply to someone's question, but youtube changed something years ago that broke the old reply chains. Glad it's still a helpful comment
Dino Stamatopoulos wrote this absolute gem that Cross just nails. It's such a bendy way of looking at comedy and marries high concept with physical humor so well.
I read this comment and thought in Brian from Family Guy vouce: "haha I bet this is one of those I read the comment just before it happens haha....my man ha." And it did. I hit play and this moment happened.
I love the tremble in David’s voice even as it begins, foreshadowing a man doing his best yet utterly inept to avoid the oncoming nervous breakdown. Cried laughing watching this.
I think my favorite realization watching this sketch is that his yelling can have no effect, because the people who he’s yelling at will not see the show for another week. Just 100% hell of his own making.
Most of SNL's best moments can't touch this. Cross makes you truly believe his character is stuck in this hell. The fact that it takes most of us *most of the sketch* to get the depth of what's going on makes the irritability even funnier.
I have watched this literally 20x in the last few years and EVERY time I find something new. One of my favorite gags is how the hair is getting fuller as they go in the past. LOL. This skit stands in a class all its own.
The delivery is what makes this sketch work so well. The script is brilliant, but David Cross takes it to an entirely new level. A lesser talent could have easily taken this idea and screwed it up. Cross is simply amazing here and he makes this sketch the masterpiece of comedy that it is.
Idiots! If they wanted to vote on the "Pre-Taped Call-In Show", they should have clicked the thumbs down button last week when the "Change For A Dollar" sketch was airing!
I love watching this over and over, sometimes laughing harder later than I did the first time! For example, this probably the 15th time I've seen this and just noticed his subtle pause into a whimper, knowing the insanity that will follow, at 0:12. So brilliant!
I've watched this sketch a dozen times and have only now noticed that each time it goes back a week he is less bald and his clothes are less disheveled. So brilliant.
Just needed to watch this again for some reason. This and Ass Pennies are my two favorite sketches of all time. My two-year old cat Dracula is quite literally rambunctious and insane so my partner and I are always "correcting" each other when complaining that actually the cat is more the problem, he's rambunctious...
funniest sketch of all time, Dino's like Schwartzwelder. I heard Late Night had a binder full of his sketches they'd use whenever they didn't have any material.
hell ya. i used to tape this on vhs. the way they blend the sketches together is genius. and the sketches are clever and hilarious.....i like the audition and the 1 with the wizard and heavens chimney oh ya 24...so many
Absolutely brilliant bit, not that I'd expect anything less from the greatest American sketch show ever. The climax of the skit, with him pulling one tv out after another, while being just a little less crazed each preceding week, is amazing.
This might be my favorite Mr Show. Cross' increasing manic appearance and behavior is just the best. IT THE HAIR. The progressively receding hairline just slays me
this video is old enough to drive. but it was uploaded ~10yrs after the sketch aired. This clip is an antique. god, I feel old. Still love the premise of this tho, and Mr. Show with Bob and David. Cheers!
My favourite sketch of all time, so many clever things in it, which lots of people have commented on before including
-- none of the guests talk
-- one of the guests is a dog (for the pet care show)
-- his hair gets thinner each episode
-- he starts smoking in the last episode
-- it is pretty much one take for the sketch, which is amazing
-- his tie and shirt are all over the place after the first episode :-)
-- he does well to not laugh, but you can see he is working hard to keep it together
Also very clever is the actual calls
- the first call just gets the show wrong
- the second call is asking why the call he heard before is getting the show wrong, so clever
Lol time travelling
i noticed the racism show had a white guy (racist) and the crime on the streets show had a black guy (criminal)
its the subtle things
The topics get progressively easier as well
@@DirtyDoctorDan I didn't take it that the white guest was racist, but rather a liberal, pipe-smoking professor of African American Studies intellectual type.
I also love Ken's answer to a grandmother who is having trouble sleeping. Saying that difficulty sleeping is a common problem with the "elderly of today", as if it's a relatively recent problem.
I love the 2nd caller, "Hi, what's going on, you're doing a show about pet care, but talking about racism"?
Even the calls add to the humour. It's really a perfect sketch.
@@justacup8676 Pretty sure it's actually Paul F. Tompkins
@@BiffGreggle Definitely PFT.
This skit is so clever. The writing was top notch on Mr. Show.
I've heard that Dino wrote this sketch. What a nutball! How do you even come up with this stuff?!
Mr Show and especially Kids in the Hall was just top notch. Really smart humor. Show went a bit dirtier while Kids did the whole theater of the absurd like Monty Python
Ben Stiller Show was also out there and more physical humor. What the hell happened? Humor has been dumbed down to fit the plunging IQ
1st call @ 1:08 is Tom Kenny
2nd call @ 1:42 is Paul F. Tompkins
3rd call @ 2:30 is Bob Odenkirk
Thanks.
Strangely enough the voices sounded so generic to me I didn’t realize that the callers would be voiced by the cast of course. Well done.
@@avisco01 That's kidna funny, it's a really old comment and was a reply to someone's question, but youtube changed something years ago that broke the old reply chains. Glad it's still a helpful comment
You confused Paul Tompkins and Scott Ackerman
I thought so to😂
Dino Stamatopoulos wrote this absolute gem that Cross just nails. It's such a bendy way of looking at comedy and marries high concept with physical humor so well.
I never knew who wrote this until you said. Possibly the most brilliant sketch on Mr Show, and one of the best ever written.
Starburns wrote this? wow!
Hmmmm I wonder what country that name originates from. Dino Stamatopoulos. Hmmmm
@@euckb Greece?
@@emeraldcelestial1058 Nooooooooooo REALLYY?!?!??!
I love that his guest for the pet care show is just a dog.
I've watched this 20 times and didn't notice that until now
Haha I know right and as soon as he starts yelling the dog bails lol
But you can tell that he's a GOOD DOG! YES YES YES, SUCH A GOOD DOG!!
Was that the only guest you noticed?
How's middle age going for ya?
Notice how he started the show with a full head of hair? Haha subtle. So funny
This is my favorite sketch and I missed that every time :p what a complex show
It's fun to skip back and see it progress
not subtle
not at all really
And no cigarettes lol
also his hair is dark, lol
love how he loses it and it turns grey
if this show aired today, it'd still be ahead of its time. so original, brilliant and funny!
One week ahead, to be exact
If you wanted to talk about this show now, you should've called in years ago when it was uploaded
but the show is technically a week behind...
This is my favorite Mr. Show skit. I think about it all the time. I love the way the host looks like he's decomposing week after week.
Somehow I never noticed his hair disappearing before. That's awesome.
Kerry P Not just the hair disappearing, but look at his shirt and tie...
Zeros12300 YES! I think it's genius.
This and racist in the year 3000 are mine, well I love the spite marriage too...and the titanica skit.
Fuck it, I love them all.
+Saniel Dingleton Yes....the Titannica scene, moving into this one was what got me into the show. Friggin brilliant. Can't wait for November 13th!!
I don't whether it was planned or not, but the dog bolting adds a great touch to his pet care outburst.
Bolting)
It's... just... let's... THINK... before we...
I read this comment and thought in Brian from Family Guy vouce: "haha I bet this is one of those I read the comment just before it happens haha....my man ha."
And it did. I hit play and this moment happened.
I can't get over the amount of thought and planning that had to have gone into this, all for a four-minute comedy sketch. Brilliant.
I've never replied to a 15yr ago comment before, had to take the opportunity! Cheers!
@@thirstfast1025lmao for real its like finding big foot
@@thirstfast1025bahahahaha awesome
I love the tremble in David’s voice even as it begins, foreshadowing a man doing his best yet utterly inept to avoid the oncoming nervous breakdown. Cried laughing watching this.
Among the best sketches ever written anywhere.
They should teach this in schools, this sketch is perfect, I've never scene a sketch with the attention to detail like this.
Just noticed that David Cross's hair gets thinner and thinner by the episode. He has a full head of hair in "Crime on the Streets." Nice touch.
"No, sir, obviously your elderly grandmother is the problem, because that's what this week's show is about!"
I think my favorite realization watching this sketch is that his yelling can have no effect, because the people who he’s yelling at will not see the show for another week.
Just 100% hell of his own making.
3:07 HAHA! The dog leaping out of the chair when he starts yelling is one of the funniest things in the skit!
I think this is my personal favorite from any sketch show. The writing is fantastic and Cross kills it.
Most of SNL's best moments can't touch this.
Cross makes you truly believe his character is stuck in this hell. The fact that it takes most of us *most of the sketch* to get the depth of what's going on makes the irritability even funnier.
This is better than any sketch that SNL has ever done in decades.
One of Mr Show's best ever skits.
It's the hair that's the funniest.
I actually noticed the hair 20 years after laughing at everything else except the hair.
This sketch is classic. Bob and David are comic geniuses, wish this show was still around...
This show is one of the funniest, most original sketch comedy shows of all time. I never realized he has more and more hair as the weeks go back lol
I have watched this literally 20x in the last few years and EVERY time I find something new. One of my favorite gags is how the hair is getting fuller as they go in the past. LOL. This skit stands in a class all its own.
I didn't realized that the titanica sketch was before of this. Two of the funniest sketches of this great show together.
he was interviewing a dog on the pet care episode lol.
such a great sketch. that little old man is the secret MVP of the bit.
Sweet Gerald
Sweet, sweet Gerald
The subtlety of his hair getting progressively thinner and greyer over the course of only four weeks is pure genius.
This is the greatest comedy sketch of all time. Clever premise, witty writing, and an amazing performance by Cross. So many little details.
I wonder if Nolan got the idea of Inception from this.
Lol.
WoW! that TV gag at the end was beyond amazing. I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
This, 24 Is The Highest Number, The Audition and The Story Of Everest are the best sketches I've seen on here.
Absolutely hilarious.
This is probably the greatest ending to a skit I’ve ever seen I mean wtf 😂
Better Call Saul; but call him a week ago because today's topic is hookworms.
The delivery is what makes this sketch work so well. The script is brilliant, but David Cross takes it to an entirely new level. A lesser talent could have easily taken this idea and screwed it up. Cross is simply amazing here and he makes this sketch the masterpiece of comedy that it is.
2022 and still here. One of the best skits ever
i have to watch it everytime it pops up, i love this skit
it all builds up until the ending! definitely one of their best sketch
This is the best sketch in the history of sketch shows.
This is the ONE, my all-time favourite sketch! GENIUS
34 people obviously voted for last week's video.
Idiots! If they wanted to vote on the "Pre-Taped Call-In Show", they should have clicked the thumbs down button last week when the "Change For A Dollar" sketch was airing!
I love that the elderly guy never says a word, just sits there grinning
I love watching this over and over, sometimes laughing harder later than I did the first time! For example, this probably the 15th time I've seen this and just noticed his subtle pause into a whimper, knowing the insanity that will follow, at 0:12. So brilliant!
He genuinely seems on edge of a nervous breakdown from the get go
Glad to hear Mr. Show might be coming back in 2015.
No might about it now!! Nov 13th man!!
Cheers to that🍻🍻
The writing is so brilliant!! When he started pulling out those tv monitors! That was hilarious! He still had hair in the first one!
I've watched this sketch a dozen times and have only now noticed that each time it goes back a week he is less bald and his clothes are less disheveled. So brilliant.
god damn this is one of the best skits of all time
He was so optimistic when the show first started 😂
this is one of my favorite mr. show sketches ever, i just noticed for the first time how david cross has less hair with each passing week.
I'm pretty sure this is my favorite sketch ever. It's too brilliant to compare to anything else.
The Mcluhanist twist at the end was perfect.
I'm dying!!!!!!!! At 3:10 I absolutely lose it. Genius comedy.
Genius sketch!
I love these guys, and I think this is my first in a long line of favorites.
it's awesome how he loses not only his temper but his hair gradually every week
2:50 I appreciate the effort they put into a TV in a TV in a TV in one unbroken shot. It really brings this sketch home.
I forgot about this sketch man the ending had me on the floor
This might be the single best sketch from the show.
The ending is some next-level stuff...
This is like when people get frustrated with Game Grumps...
Wow, did you come from the subreddit too?
@@Skavoc too late to ask for a link I guess. . .
This is one of the best comedy sketches ever made. It's a damn shame the show only ran 4 seasons.
The timing at the end of this skit is nothing short of brilliant!
Notice how his hair is falling out from the stress of each weeks show. Brilliant.
I have never laughed so hard at a youtube video.
Just needed to watch this again for some reason. This and Ass Pennies are my two favorite sketches of all time. My two-year old cat Dracula is quite literally rambunctious and insane so my partner and I are always "correcting" each other when complaining that actually the cat is more the problem, he's rambunctious...
This is probably the most brilliant sketch I've ever seen short of MP's Argument Clinic. Hysterical and smart as hell.
funniest sketch of all time, Dino's like Schwartzwelder. I heard Late Night had a binder full of his sketches they'd use whenever they didn't have any material.
hell ya. i used to tape this on vhs. the way they blend the sketches together is genius. and the sketches are clever and hilarious.....i like the audition and the 1 with the wizard and heavens chimney oh ya 24...so many
I really wanted someone to call in about cooking and for him to flip out that they were too early.
i think this is my favourite mr show sketch. might even be my favourite david cross thing, period.
This is transcendent comedy.
I'm pretty sure this sketch describes some arcane mathematical theorem.
This is genius, funniest and cleverest sketch I've seen in ages.
the premise alone is pure genius but David knocked this one out of the park.
Mind blown. Phenomenal.
"yeah hi uh what's going on..." dead😅😂🤣
I work in radio and we use a 7-second delay to block obscenities, I'm going to recommend to management that we switch to a 1-week delay
As he goes back he has more hair...lauged so hard at this....one of the best I've seen. Go David!
This always makes me laugh to the point of crying. EVERY TIME.
One of the BEST bits by any comedy team ever! Cross is a bundle of nerves...riot!
This is one of the funniest skits ive seen
David cross has a secret weapon in his arsenal, it is the exasperated almost sob while saying the last word of a sentence, so funny, so relatable.
You left out the stinger- "Thank you for watching The Convoluted Network."
How the hell is this the first time I’m seeing this???? The whole thing was genius but I was not ready for the inception 😂
It never fails me to crack me up when they show that his "guest" for the pet care show is a dog.
Absolutely brilliant bit, not that I'd expect anything less from the greatest American sketch show ever. The climax of the skit, with him pulling one tv out after another, while being just a little less crazed each preceding week, is amazing.
This might be my favorite Mr Show. Cross' increasing manic appearance and behavior is just the best. IT THE HAIR. The progressively receding hairline just slays me
David Cross makes me laugh so hard!!!! 😂😂
This is pure genius. Cross is just brilliant.
My favorite little part is the dog immediately jumping off the chair as he loses his cool
That's amazing writing.
I love how his hair improves with each previous episode.
I was going to comment about that as well... just one ore example of Mr. Show's greatness and attention to detail. Brilliance.
I love the little detail of the host having less and less hair from stress each episode :)
ROFL the dog jumps out of the seat when he starts yelling.
this video is old enough to drive. but it was uploaded ~10yrs after the sketch aired. This clip is an antique. god, I feel old. Still love the premise of this tho, and Mr. Show with Bob and David. Cheers!