He'd make a good Felix Lighter - just briefly bring him into the film as a serious character, not long enough to give any "comedian" vibes- he'd get away with it haha
lol that would be hilarious although Kingsman is already a kind of comedy version of 007, so it would be a comedy version of a comedy version of 007 starring Jimmy Carr, BRILLIANT
Mitchell's whole philosophy is to appear as unnoteworthy as possible - without appearing _so_ unnoteworthy that that, in itself, becomes noteworthy. So he could be a spy.
I love how when Jimmy said "Posh and a little bit gay?" and pointed to himself David Baddiel said "Posh?" almost as if he were going "You're not posh but I can agree you do look a little bit gay even though you're not!" xD
absolute quality, the chemistry between david mitchell and lee mack is priceless. i watch every episode twice (luv my humax pvr)..and then again when they repeat it.
Yeah, there is an undercurrent of meanness to David Baddiel that makes me a bit uncomfortable - and I say that as someone who loves black comedy from the likes of Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle. But there's this hostile, stuck up quality that comes across from Baddiel.
I agree, especially after having watched him in other things with Frank Skinner. He's rarely (if ever) the funniest comedian in the room so he's probably trying to overcompensate.
Plausible. Cambridge educated and working for an oil company later. I know a few of the Cambridge comedy crowd have been approached by the security services during their uni years. BUT he would not have told the name of the person who approached him. Pretty sure that would have been illegal.
dageezerboi The only people I've heard saying they have been approached are comedians and radio personalities who went to Oxford or Cambridge, and usually to private schools too, and studied languages and politics.
At the time he was supposedly approached Jimmy would have been a straight-A-student coming into university, a conservative Catholic, holding dual british and Irish citizenship and studying political science at Cambridge, a plausible target for sure. Not as a spy necessarily, but someone "on their books"
+tSp289 That's only in the movies. He would have been given a name or at least an alias. He also would not have been initially approached by an actual counterintelligence agent but by someone who just did recruiting, so protecting their identity would not be nearly as important.
The amount of people in this comments section who think Lee Mack was being serious at the end when he said Jimmy had read the card wrong and it actually said MFI rather than MI5 is a bit concerning.. 😂
0:46 'knows a bit much'? David knows where MI6's building is and knows they have guns and handcuffs. Those bits are fairly common knowledge. And the building isn't exactly subtle. It is a bright green thing with glass windows!
David is middle class, born to two university lecturers and is a public school boy (went to Abingdon school). I think his ancestry can be traced back to someone noble too. Jimmy is working class as he was born in it, just because he went to Cambridge doesn't mean he's posh. I think he got into a grammar school and worked very hard. You can tell by his speech he has a working class background.
The “new” south bank building, codenamed Vauxhall Cross, is MI6 (Secret Intellingence Service), NOT MI5. (The Domestic Security Service), and is WAY more secretive.
I love David Mitchell's reaction when David Baddiel tells him he seems like a spy, because he's posh and a tiny bit gay even though he's not.. :P He's so adorable !
@Swoooze i know, people mistake pannel show comic banter for them genuinely ripping on each other. The four of them were great in this exchange, i think the producers know exactly who to put on.
I could believe Jimmy Carr would be normal and bland enough, but not so much, that he could pass as a spy. Until he has to laugh that is. No disguising that thing.
Hehe yeah, but he forces it for effect and has said so many times - I don't know why he perseveres with it though. Great comedian too, as quick as Lee Mack tbf.
I'm so confused. Jimmy Carr reminds me so much of Andrew Scott as Moriarty, so the MI5 stuff gets me especially mixed up. And then Scott was in Spectre, which makes it all worse.
+popc52 At the end, he made a joke that Jimmy had 'made it hard for yourself, the card reads MFI.' I don't know what MFI is, probably a company in the UK or something, but it would have been easier to make up a lie about being interviewed there, rather than for MI5, if only he had read the card right. :)
MI5 is the equivalent of the F.B.I. and MI6 is the equivalent of the C.I.A. They both exist, and if you think being a spy is anything like James Bond, it's about time you grew up.
That's not what I meant. I'm quite aware that MI6 is along the Southbanks (and if I didn't: David Mitchell told us in the video) but the institute of MI6 does all the James Bond-y abroad missions. MI5 is basically homeland security and makes sure terrorists don't attack us inside of our own homes, while MI6 goes out to the terrorist countries and stops them over there. Very simple and not even entirely accurate example, but to just make it a bit clearer (:
TheSpiritOfTheTimes Don't forget about editing. It might be edited to seem like they instantly gave a perfect response, while actually a few seconds, or maybe even a sentence or two has gone by before they respond.
TheSpiritOfTheTimes Don't forget about editing. It might be edited to seem like they instantly gave a perfect response, while actually a few seconds, or maybe even a sentence or two has gone by before they respond.
Fair play people- there's no doubt they are very clever, quick witted, and funny but its an illusion that everything shown is an accurate depiction of exactly what happened as if they'd just turned up with no prep. it was a fun illusion while it lasted!
I love the idea of him being a spy. With the way he laughs though he'd make a better Bond villain.
have you ever seen that Big Fat Quiz of the Year where he wears an eye patch?
lmao no but i'm sure it completes the bond villain motif
He'd make a good Felix Lighter - just briefly bring him into the film as a serious character, not long enough to give any "comedian" vibes- he'd get away with it haha
In Austin Powers
Working in MI5 or 6 doesn't mean you are going to be an agent - you might be intelligence.
In case anyone's curious, MFI is a British furniture store.
Hehe a bit different to British spy headquarters (for internal affairs - I've said too much, oh no!!!) ;)
Oh, thank you, I was just about to ask someonewhat the last joke meant
Did you hear, their sale is now on!
@@floodlitworld no it's not, it's now on!
C. Riley like a DFS sale!!!
Well ,to be fair, Jimmy Carr could infiltrate Switzerland disguised as Roger Federer.
What would be the benefits of infiltrating Switzerland?
- Well, for starters, their flag is a big plus.
Chocolate watches.
@@hannes1443 well done lmao
I'm just imagining some Bond villain lowering Jimmy Carr into a pool of piranhas, "Game, set and match....Mr Federer."
Anyone else noticed how un-noteworthy Angus' appearance is in this episode?
+LeoMRogers I understood that reference. I'm on to him.
+LeoMRogers It's so un-noteworthy...
Journeyman Man ...that it is noteworthy
That's how you spot spies....
Looks like a chameleon
I love how Lee is answering as many questions as Jimmy is
Reece Turner coz he’s a good team leader.
“Are you in this” is when I completely lost it😂😂
"Which is actually MI6 but never mind" is such a very David Mitchell line
although, MI5 & MI6 are both on Southbank, right across from one another
A comedy version of "Kingsman" starring Jimmy Carr.
lol that would be hilarious although Kingsman is already a kind of comedy version of 007, so it would be a comedy version of a comedy version of 007 starring Jimmy Carr, BRILLIANT
would that not be Johnny English?
and the enemy could be a powerful religious group or something of the sort
hahaha brilliant
Music Films & Bastille i thought kingsman was a comedy
"Was this during the Cold War?" "Yeah I'm 50!"
Best line!!
A sticky bun for every kill
whats a sticky bun?
Those are a wide variety of definitions
popc52 It’s like sweet bread with some icing on the top.
"Fashion Tips from a Tramp!" Epic comeback :)
Did anyone else notice how unnoteworh Angus's appearance is in this? That's how you spot a spy, you know.
Morgan Stiefvater I was so unnoteworthy I bet you can't spot me
Mitchell's whole philosophy is to appear as unnoteworthy as possible - without appearing _so_ unnoteworthy that that, in itself, becomes noteworthy. So he could be a spy.
Jessica Lee Exactly. And a grey tie is so unnoteworthy so as to become noteworthy.
David Mitchell and David Baddiel in the same team? Magnificent. And Lee Mack, of course. This show is brilliant.
This conversation could never happen on American Television
This is brilliant!!...3 Cambridge educated comedians, Baddiel, Mitchell and Carr having a go at each other. Classic!!..
This show seems weird without Rob Brydon
Very strange with no Rob
You should see the episode where Rob was a panelist
'sticky bun for every kill' has stayed with me haha
this guy is hillarious, jimmy carr is the biggest legend! love his material
I love how when Jimmy said "Posh and a little bit gay?" and pointed to himself David Baddiel said "Posh?" almost as if he were going "You're not posh but I can agree you do look a little bit gay even though you're not!" xD
Becky Boulton thanks captain obvious
absolute quality, the chemistry between david mitchell and lee mack is priceless. i watch every episode twice (luv my humax pvr)..and then again when they repeat it.
All said and done, this sort of banter between comedians is what makes this show. Mack is very quick, especially his 'MFI' finale'.
Very quick, except he had the whole segment to think of it.
Would I lie to you is just HILARIOUS! !! Never fails to crack me up! 😂
LOL! I absolutely loved the end " Jimmy, you made that really hard for yourself. It said I one had an interview at MFI"... golden!!
Oh man, I love British comedy and it's witty banter
I love how even the comedians in Britain have degrees from Oxford and Cambridge
@@sbraypaynt one simple Google would have told you he went to Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge University, how dense can you be..🤷
@@jmwturneruk only a moron would imply that someone is unintelligent so directly
Yeah, there is an undercurrent of meanness to David Baddiel that makes me a bit uncomfortable - and I say that as someone who loves black comedy from the likes of Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle. But there's this hostile, stuck up quality that comes across from Baddiel.
I Know you wrote this 11 years ago....but I agree!
@@CNP_24
Thanks. And for what it’s worth I feel that way about him today only ten times stronger!
@@TheConciseStatement 😂😂
I agree, especially after having watched him in other things with Frank Skinner. He's rarely (if ever) the funniest comedian in the room so he's probably trying to overcompensate.
Plausible. Cambridge educated and working for an oil company later. I know a few of the Cambridge comedy crowd have been approached by the security services during their uni years.
BUT he would not have told the name of the person who approached him. Pretty sure that would have been illegal.
Is it only well educated people who get approached? I would love to be a spy but it seems MI5 don't frequent the dole offices.
dageezerboi The only people I've heard saying they have been approached are comedians and radio personalities who went to Oxford or Cambridge, and usually to private schools too, and studied languages and politics.
At the time he was supposedly approached Jimmy would have been a straight-A-student coming into university, a conservative Catholic, holding dual british and Irish citizenship and studying political science at Cambridge, a plausible target for sure. Not as a spy necessarily, but someone "on their books"
kimaboe Not a very good traitor to the nation then. Tsk. They really needed Etonians who went to Oxford and really sold their country out.
+tSp289 That's only in the movies. He would have been given a name or at least an alias. He also would not have been initially approached by an actual counterintelligence agent but by someone who just did recruiting, so protecting their identity would not be nearly as important.
I love the way David Mitchell says the word 'lie'.
*Was this during the cold war?*
Jimmy: yeah, I'm 50
And now he is 48 😭
Why is British television so amazing? Every program is so funny!
The guy next to David is a fucking savage, borders on uncomfortable
+Master Bateman I think david mitchell is fine
+ycafe123 He said the guy next to him
Would you believe he was once in a comedy partnership with Frank Skinner?
The joke was they are both called David
98smithg2 That's a joke? 🤔
This is an absolute classic
Virgin til 26..? So there's still a chance!
The amount of people in this comments section who think Lee Mack was being serious at the end when he said Jimmy had read the card wrong and it actually said MFI rather than MI5 is a bit concerning.. 😂
Saw Jimmy live tonight and he mentioned how he is 50. Here he sarcastically says “yes cause I’m 50”
He missed the perfect opportunity for a joke when he was asked 'were you sent abroad?' 😂😢
OhHoNo what joke would he have said i didnt watch too much of it
Bryan Cox Idk something like no thanks, I get my own women 😁
Bryan Cox “Yes, but she turned out to be a Russian spy: Bootifer Stklasnikov”
I thought he did when he said "don't you start. I'm having enough trouble with him"
@@myeyesarespiders I have studied abroad or two
He did play an MI6 agent in the film Stormbreaker, so that might have been an inspiration for this
"You're the least Posh-and-a-little-bit-Gay out of everyone else in the world ever, Lee"
LOL it feels kinda crazy saying this, but that is sooo true
Classy reply. Well done. You were quite right from the start, and he behaved like a brat. Have a great day, best of luck to you.
"fashion tips froma TRAMP" hahaha
i actually clapped to that :)
that exchange and the one after it had me almost knock over my drink
Am I the only one that thought of the fact Jimmy Carr plays "Crawley", an MI6 agent in the Alex Rider film?
I laughed so hard at the end when he revealed he'd being trying to prove the wrong thing XD
0:46 'knows a bit much'? David knows where MI6's building is and knows they have guns and handcuffs. Those bits are fairly common knowledge. And the building isn't exactly subtle. It is a bright green thing with glass windows!
Haha that made my day. Thank you, sir.
Thank you
"you don't get payed in sticky buns, Maureen. 'a sticky bun for every kill!' "
Love it! :L
"Hang on David, il stop you there. Posh and a little bit gay" - made me crease!
David's campness at the beginning 😂
Lee Mack makes me laugh so much, he is hilarious!!
lool jimmy is awesome lol... you can never go against him lol he is savage
Thanks :)
2:28 - I think that's the first time I seen Jimmy Carr caught in headlights!
Watching this for the first time, and Jimmy now is, in fact, 50.
To be fair to David Baddiel, it is hard to determine the age of a ventriloquist's dummy.
"was this during the cold war?"...."Yeah, I'm 50!" LMAO
David is middle class, born to two university lecturers and is a public school boy (went to Abingdon school). I think his ancestry can be traced back to someone noble too. Jimmy is working class as he was born in it, just because he went to Cambridge doesn't mean he's posh. I think he got into a grammar school and worked very hard. You can tell by his speech he has a working class background.
jimmy carr was in the spy film stormbreaker where he played someone someone from MI5 :)
lol this is so funny
That was entirely brilliant, possibly my favourite WILTY moment. :D
The “new” south bank building, codenamed Vauxhall Cross, is MI6 (Secret Intellingence Service), NOT MI5. (The Domestic Security Service), and is WAY more secretive.
This got very real very fast
I love David Mitchell's reaction when David Baddiel tells him he seems like a spy, because he's posh and a tiny bit gay even though he's not.. :P
He's so adorable !
@Swoooze i know, people mistake pannel show comic banter for them genuinely ripping on each other. The four of them were great in this exchange, i think the producers know exactly who to put on.
I could believe Jimmy Carr would be normal and bland enough, but not so much, that he could pass as a spy. Until he has to laugh that is. No disguising that thing.
ah ah aha ah ah Ah Ah Ah AHHHH
Hehe yeah, but he forces it for effect and has said so many times - I don't know why he perseveres with it though. Great comedian too, as quick as Lee Mack tbf.
Hugh Dennis did have an interview with MI6
@CullTheLivingFlower
I saw that about 15 minutes after I made that comment; brilliant.
1:09 amazing
Yes
Can someone please tell me david baddiels talent?
Yes he has been very consistent with that over the past 20 years..
He's jewish.
To suckle at Frank Skinner's teet for 20 years.
+Imran Ali He does a lot of writing for the BBC
He was famous before Frank Skinner. He had a tv series called Newsman & Baddiel.
'Ohh Fashion Tipps From The Tramp' LOOL
'was this during the cold war?'
'yeah I'm 50!'
absolute gold!!!
So now I know where David's fear of looking like a spy comes from.
golden tv
jimmy carr really is THE BEST
Well Jimmy did play MI6 agent John Crawley in Stormbreaker, so...
lol...that movie was a disaster !!!
Indeed - major disaster!
+Johnny Mac exactly my thoughts! I was disappointed to find out it is a lie
+Tashi wangdü And yet the books are bloody brilliant. :'(
I was gonna say I'm spartacus but then the video went 5 more seconds and apparently that one was too easy.
btw u have one awesome username!
I'm so confused. Jimmy Carr reminds me so much of Andrew Scott as Moriarty, so the MI5 stuff gets me especially mixed up. And then Scott was in Spectre, which makes it all worse.
what did they say in the end?
+popc52 At the end, he made a joke that Jimmy had 'made it hard for yourself, the card reads MFI.' I don't know what MFI is, probably a company in the UK or something, but it would have been easier to make up a lie about being interviewed there, rather than for MI5, if only he had read the card right. :)
Oh thanks! i was wondering that
O sorry another thing: what is a puff?
popc52
A Pouf is slang for gay man.
MI5 is the equivalent of the F.B.I. and MI6 is the equivalent of the C.I.A. They both exist, and if you think being a spy is anything like James Bond, it's about time you grew up.
Funny thing is... Jimmy Carr actually played an MI6 agent in Stormbreaker.
That's not what I meant. I'm quite aware that MI6 is along the Southbanks (and if I didn't: David Mitchell told us in the video) but the institute of MI6 does all the James Bond-y abroad missions. MI5 is basically homeland security and makes sure terrorists don't attack us inside of our own homes, while MI6 goes out to the terrorist countries and stops them over there. Very simple and not even entirely accurate example, but to just make it a bit clearer (:
@Sindre1 Ah, ok, I wasn't aware of those factors. Thanks mate.
what show is this from? where can I see it entierly
Australia HAS to broadcast this show.
Jimmy should be the one hosting
give this cookie a man !
@cobrahawk3 one of the wittiest men alive, been said by thousands of comedians, should see him vs hecklers :P
Update: Jimmy is now 50. Life comes at you fast
Sorry... question... how come everyone is saying how old each other's posts are? Any point in actually doing it...?
MFI, it's a chain of furniture shops in the UK.
2:28 WHOA! He ACTUALLY offended Jimmy fkn Carr!
Are they really this quick-witted or do you think they at least have the broad contours of what the questions are gonna be about?
No, Lee Mack and David Mitchell are known for being quick-witted
TheSpiritOfTheTimes
Don't forget about editing. It might be edited to seem like they instantly gave a perfect response, while actually a few seconds, or maybe even a sentence or two has gone by before they respond.
TheSpiritOfTheTimes
Don't forget about editing. It might be edited to seem like they instantly gave a perfect response, while actually a few seconds, or maybe even a sentence or two has gone by before they respond.
Fair play people- there's no doubt they are very clever, quick witted, and funny but its an illusion that everything shown is an accurate depiction of exactly what happened as if they'd just turned up with no prep. it was a fun illusion while it lasted!
As is Jimmy Carr, and being quick at shifting his income as well ;)
when lee mack says at the end mfi was he joking or did it really say mi5
what season and episode is this?
MI stands for Military Intelligence. The number represents a section. Based on that.. I believe there are AT LEAST 6 sections.... ;)
Cambridge and education are two mutually exclusive words
He ripped me to shreds when I went to one of his shows. Never laughed at myself soo much before or since :L
1:06 Cracks me up all the time
your right. and i am British
This is before Jack Whitehall came to prominence. Now, no one will ever look "posh and a little bit gay" again.