Ummm... no. Not even close, no offense. So, the dead parrot sketch - which was voted in 2004 by Radio Times as the best alternative comedy sketch up to that point. Is hilarious... only 10% due to the writing? Okaaay. I guarantee you John Cleese (who co-wrote it) will disagree with you. And that goes for almost, every great sketch in comedy history. Sadly, the masses do not understand the process. So, since all they see is the actors. They assume that it is the actors that make the scene funny, not the scripts. The actors enhance a scene - that is all (with a few exceptions). Please watch the famous Jerry Seinfeld awards acceptance speech in 2007 when he spoke about actors. Actors are - often - highly overrated. ☮
@@McRocket freshman year of college, a couple of my friends did the parrot sketch for a variety show. It was their favorite bit they'd watched it a hundred times. Did the whole thing word-for-word just as written on the page. It bombed.
@bridgecross No offense intended. But surely you have been on the internet long enough to realize that making unproven claims on social media means little. So, are you and the masses seriously claiming that brilliant comedic series like Father Ted, Monty Python, The IT Crowd, Reds Dwarf (before Rob Grant left), The Simpsons (pre season 11), Seinfeld, Frasier (original), SCTV, Curb Your Enthusiasm, WKRP in Cincinnati, Arrested Development, M*A*S*H*, The Big Bang Theory, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Barney Miller, Mitchell and Webb and the like? That the writing was actually a minor/insignificant reason for their greatness? Come on now. It starts and ends with the writing. Even most actors will tell you that. Actors can definitely enhance/improve a script. And they can definitely wreck a script. But in the vast majority of cases - a funny sketch/show is primarily due to the scripts. But since most people only see the actors and they know little of the creative process? They usually assume it is the actors who create the comedy - not the writers and the producers/directors/crew. ☮
Okay, the special effects for the Armoured Scorpion of Death are well beyond anything I’ve ever seen in a sketch show before. That’s like Terminator 2 quality there.
-"One question which obviously leaps to mind professor...professor...erm" -"Death" "Professor Death, is why on Earth you elected to name this contraption of yours 'The Giant Death'...oh I see.
I wonder one thing. Did he actually not want his machines to be destroyed by that ghastly hammer? Was it all a pretension when he was badgering them unceasingly?
@@flyforce16 He's specifically doing a "mid-atlantic" American accent - the kind that was standard for TV and radio announcers back in the 1940's and earlier. It's an artificial accent - not the way anyone naturally spoke if I recall correctly - and a very affected sound; it also does have some British sounds in it, as it was an attempt by some Americans to sound closer to the "more cultured" British. David Mitchell's actually pretty good at it - but it's not a "standard" American accent, either.
I still absolutely love the sudden sass of "i'm onto you Major Agnew, yeah i got your number" that comes in. Great way to escalate and continue the bits, this show had so many well written and made sketches.
The doom melon has to be the best anti climax. When I first saw this sketch, thought Robert was going to say the Doom melon is ... Well, it's My Lunch...
"The DEATH Star (TM) is a large scale lighting application designed for all your intergalactic illumination endeavours." "Well, surely, the military app..." "NOOOOO, the DEATH Star was supposed to HELP mankind, not DESTROY it"
We're currently so short staffed on the day shift at work, that that Armoured Scorpion of Death Assistant (ASDA), would be really useful where I work.....Can't say where that is obviously!.....As*a!
Mr President: "We can drop these nuclear bombs on select cities in Japa-" Oppenheimer: "NOOOOO! I'M SORRY MR PRESIDENT I MEANT THE NUCLEAR BOMBS TO HELP MANKIND NOT DESTROY IT!"
It may be a parody of the inventor of Dynamite, Mr Nobel. He thought Dynamite would be such a deadly weapon that it would stop mankind from ever wanting to go to war again and.....Well, I don't think I need to tell you what happened next.
@@muradm7748 Oh no, Hiram Maxim had abolutely no peace loving intentions. The idea that a machine gun would give a couple of guys the firepower of an entire army, and thus decrease the size of armies and of casualties, comes from Mr. Gatling, not Maxim.
Nobel wanted the dynamite to be used in mining and building sectors as nitrocglycerin in pure form is unstable so it would save life. He was also of course in for the money as the dynamite made him really rich. The dynamite was used to build bombs and other explosives like mines he was disappointed, bcs his name would be forever linked with that. It is one of the major reason he set up the peace price and the other prices so his name would be linked to help science in the nobel prize fund after his death as his will stated. Anyhow the sketch is really funny lmao.
Somewhere, in an alternate universe, Webb and Mitchell make full feature parodies of the Marvel Universe. Now if I can just figure out how to get there.
I am a man of science to help mankind not destroy it ..... War has helped mankind evolve and science of war leads to a better quality of life ..nothing focuses the human condition quite so much as war
"The Armoured Scorpion of Death" lived on ... its smaller but far more lethal descendent became the rat-hunting machine in the "Mason's Rats" episode in "Love Death and Robots", Season 3 ua-cam.com/video/MKDNSEIWNmg/v-deo.html
@aeternamente13 To me he sounds like the stereotypical late 19th Century-early to mid 20th century American, but then again thats only what I've seen from old movies (Psycho, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, etc).
This sketch is all I could think about during Oppenheimer
''The Jap-zapper device was used to bomb Japan? NOOO I'm going insane!!!''
@@jackdutton3534 More like: NOOOOOO I'll lose my key card.
"This bomb was created to help mankind, not destroy it!"
this comment killed me 😂😂😂 the comparison is hard to unsee
I like how he says the sting fires 'helpful bullets' without clarifying why they're helpful at all.
Well, that one should be obvious.. they are veeery helpful in motivating low wage employees.
@@monostripezebras So this is the next generation Amazon Warehouse robot?
Same as peacemakers gun I guess
@@monostripezebras nah they are helpful dealing with karens
@@bugfeatures WAGIE WAGIE
This sketch is the perfect illustration that comedy is 90% delivery: "Giant death ray? A...military application?" Just brilliant.
Ummm... no.
Not even close, no offense.
So, the dead parrot sketch - which was voted in 2004 by Radio Times as the best alternative comedy sketch up to that point.
Is hilarious... only 10% due to the writing?
Okaaay.
I guarantee you John Cleese (who co-wrote it) will disagree with you.
And that goes for almost, every great sketch in comedy history.
Sadly, the masses do not understand the process.
So, since all they see is the actors.
They assume that it is the actors that make the scene funny, not the scripts.
The actors enhance a scene - that is all (with a few exceptions).
Please watch the famous Jerry Seinfeld awards acceptance speech in 2007 when he spoke about actors.
Actors are - often - highly overrated.
☮
@@McRocket freshman year of college, a couple of my friends did the parrot sketch for a variety show. It was their favorite bit they'd watched it a hundred times. Did the whole thing word-for-word just as written on the page. It bombed.
@bridgecross No offense intended.
But surely you have been on the internet long enough to realize that making unproven claims on social media means little.
So, are you and the masses seriously claiming that brilliant comedic series like Father Ted, Monty Python, The IT Crowd, Reds Dwarf (before Rob Grant left), The Simpsons (pre season 11), Seinfeld, Frasier (original), SCTV, Curb Your Enthusiasm, WKRP in Cincinnati, Arrested Development, M*A*S*H*, The Big Bang Theory, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Barney Miller, Mitchell and Webb and the like?
That the writing was actually a minor/insignificant reason for their greatness?
Come on now.
It starts and ends with the writing.
Even most actors will tell you that.
Actors can definitely enhance/improve a script.
And they can definitely wreck a script.
But in the vast majority of cases - a funny sketch/show is primarily due to the scripts.
But since most people only see the actors and they know little of the creative process?
They usually assume it is the actors who create the comedy - not the writers and the producers/directors/crew.
☮
At last a 5 minute version of the "you can't fight in here, this is the war room" joke
Okay, the special effects for the Armoured Scorpion of Death are well beyond anything I’ve ever seen in a sketch show before. That’s like Terminator 2 quality there.
"If you were to increase the intensity of its beam....?"
"Intensity? YESSS?"
Best delivery of al ine ever.
-"One question which obviously leaps to mind professor...professor...erm"
-"Death"
"Professor Death, is why on Earth you elected to name this contraption of yours 'The Giant Death'...oh I see.
Yep, those are the lines we just heard in the thing we just watched.
@@JackVermicelli 闭嘴
@@JackVermicelli Yeah, but they were very good. So good that it was easy to forget to do the accent for that line :D
That moment when the General realizes what he's spent all his appropriation on.
@@mikhailiagacesa3406 I mean, the line item was probably "Scientific Research for Death Projects".
NOOOOO! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP MANKIND!
NOT DESTROY IT!!
"NNNNOOOOOO! ZE DOOM MELON...still needs some work."
Oh god, I can't stop laughing.
Are you still laughing?
@@Mahalo_83 yes
I wonder one thing. Did he actually not want his machines to be destroyed by that ghastly hammer? Was it all a pretension when he was badgering them unceasingly?
Oh, I always thought it was “dew melon.” Lol
Oh my god, David Mitchell's American accent is atrocious. I love it.
I think it's pretty good
@@flyforce16 He's specifically doing a "mid-atlantic" American accent - the kind that was standard for TV and radio announcers back in the 1940's and earlier. It's an artificial accent - not the way anyone naturally spoke if I recall correctly - and a very affected sound; it also does have some British sounds in it, as it was an attempt by some Americans to sound closer to the "more cultured" British.
David Mitchell's actually pretty good at it - but it's not a "standard" American accent, either.
It's so bad that it borders on Irish lol
@@timlicht2670 No, it's just balls.
@@Vesnicie No, he's right. It's a mid-Atlantic accent. This character is obviously based on Franklin D. Roosevelt - that's how he spoke.
My great uncle actually invented the barcode scanner, so he must have worked with Professor Death.
I like how Robert Webb's accent oscillates between German Scientist and James Mason.
"No!!!! I created the laser-wielding armoured scorpion of Death to help mankind, not destroy!"
"No!!!! I created the laser-wielding armoured scorpion of Death to help mankind, not destroy!"
"It shoots helpful bullets!" xD
Weeeeelllllll bullets _are_ general helpful, to someone.
I still absolutely love the sudden sass of "i'm onto you Major Agnew, yeah i got your number" that comes in. Great way to escalate and continue the bits, this show had so many well written and made sketches.
Gonna tell my kids this was Oppenheimer. XD
I can't believe the production work that went into this simple sketch
I love the beginning. "You should not be here. This is private property."
Oppenheimer 2 seconds after inventing the nuke
Every science major in an ethics class.
"It fires helpful bullets!"
I was interested in the implications of the doom melon to help mankind....for good, of course.
This is literally the entire plot of _Oppenheimer._
Not quite literally!
The doom melon has to be the best anti climax. When I first saw this sketch, thought Robert was going to say the Doom melon is ... Well, it's My Lunch...
Same
It’s a Gallagher joke!
If you really think about it, this is basically how the govt and Nikolai Tesla interacted with each other.
"Oh I see !" that killed me 😀
I like that the president of the US rides in a car with the steering wheel on the right
I feel like this one sketch could be it's own show XD
I wonder if he had the original designs for the DEATH Star.
"The DEATH Star (TM) is a large scale lighting application designed for all your intergalactic illumination endeavours."
"Well, surely, the military app..."
"NOOOOO, the DEATH Star was supposed to HELP mankind, not DESTROY it"
@@captain_kadaver He'd need an extremely large mallet to destroy that invention.
I love that the kept in the crazy flubbed line of "laser plated armoured scorpion of death"
The Deaeth ray sketch is very good. There was a guy round our way used to sell life insurance his name was Deaeth. His wife was a marriage celebrant
I have become Death, savour of worlds.
NO! The death video was uploaded to help mankind, not to destroy it!
XD
Interesting man, that Professor Death; I hope he shows up again
Mitchell and Webb are unique. Such a good sketch...
We're currently so short staffed on the day shift at work, that that Armoured Scorpion of Death Assistant (ASDA), would be really useful where I work.....Can't say where that is obviously!.....As*a!
The unlimited energy bomb is actually terrifying.
terrifyingly WONDERFUL!
Not sure if its a good idea to bash it with a hammer
Scanning material still was useful for quartermasters in maintaining inventories.
love this kinda humor!
the last line just kills me, the writing is so good.
Mr President: "We can drop these nuclear bombs on select cities in Japa-"
Oppenheimer: "NOOOOO! I'M SORRY MR PRESIDENT I MEANT THE NUCLEAR BOMBS TO HELP MANKIND NOT DESTROY IT!"
This might be the cleverest thing ever committed to film
It may be a parody of the inventor of Dynamite, Mr Nobel.
He thought Dynamite would be such a deadly weapon that it would stop mankind from ever wanting to go to war again and.....Well, I don't think I need to tell you what happened next.
you confuse dynamite with maxim gun
But nukes, they work for that instead right? 😋👀🙃
@@muradm7748 Oh no, Hiram Maxim had abolutely no peace loving intentions. The idea that a machine gun would give a couple of guys the firepower of an entire army, and thus decrease the size of armies and of casualties, comes from Mr. Gatling, not Maxim.
Nobel wanted the dynamite to be used in mining and building sectors as nitrocglycerin in pure form is unstable so it would save life. He was also of course in for the money as the dynamite made him really rich. The dynamite was used to build bombs and other explosives like mines he was disappointed, bcs his name would be forever linked with that. It is one of the major reason he set up the peace price and the other prices so his name would be linked to help science in the nobel prize fund after his death as his will stated.
Anyhow the sketch is really funny lmao.
Look like a scene straight out of C&C Red Alert 2!
Oppenheimer:
This is the most important video in the world.
But does it have military applications?
Basically,opennheimer
The president drives around in an imported British automobile.
It's so good I had to watch it twice!
The budget on this one!
The writers of this one must have played a lot of command & conquer.
This was literally the first idea that was dreamed up when we split the atom. "We can make a bomb out of it!"
that scorpion could be used at children's parties
Mitch's American accent is pretty good!
Maybe it's the Mills in me, but military applications pops into my mind first.
Never loading my gun unless the bullets are helpful.
Two people want his inventions used for evil. Poor Professor Death.
More accurate than Oppenheimer.
@cetnikz
Rob wasn't trying to do an American accent, it's supposed to be the accent of a stereotypical evil scientist accent, i.e eastern European.
James had the best line in this
Unlimited power bomb?
They gotta get that scorpion together with ED209 from Robocop 🤣
awwww
i want my own Doom Melon!
Helpful bullets are ballistic missiles which will provide, to the target, quite irresistible advice.
So good hahaha
"Still needs some work" made me LOL
Music in the beginning reminds me of Mass Effect
What piece of music is playing at the beginning? Is there a collection of stock movie soundtracks?
If only more scientists exhibited that level of integrity.
Somewhere, in an alternate universe, Webb and Mitchell make full feature parodies of the Marvel Universe. Now if I can just figure out how to get there.
Lol the guys from peep show. awsome
I for one want to see the finished doom melon.
To be fair, the doom melon would have killed them all when smashed, so it's probably good that he was unable to finish it.
Nooooooo! I created my swarm of autonomous killer death robots for good not evil!!!
I got a doom melon for Christmas
Helpfull bullets lol
the helpful bullets are obviously to help people not abuse the self checkout lane to just get free stuff.
I was expecting David Mitchell aka Mr. Haggerstone to ask Professor Death if he has a license for inventing things or a permit to do such stuff 😂
khaenri'ahn engineers when making the ruin guards, probably
The doom melon... still needs some work...
The doom melon
Why is he hammering on a bomb?
yo i want one of those scorpions
all Graham Norton guests!
Now that is a whole lot cooler!
@aeternamente13
Judging by his attire and the fact that he seems to be US President, I think he's supposed to be Harry S Truman.
Why I oughta… 👋
lol yeah
I am a man of science to help mankind not destroy it .....
War has helped mankind evolve and science of war leads to a better quality of life ..nothing focuses the human condition quite so much as war
@Microglia1 What, it's not as intellectual as Steptoe and Son or Gimme Gimme Gimme?
Why did the mussel of the giant death ray recoil when it fired?
Also why are there shells ejected whenever a rifle fires on the GI-JOE cartoon?
1. Because its CGI.
2. Because it's a cartoon.
I've only just noticed that their American car is right hand drive.
"The Armoured Scorpion of Death" lived on ... its smaller but far more lethal descendent became the rat-hunting machine in the "Mason's Rats" episode in "Love Death and Robots", Season 3
ua-cam.com/video/MKDNSEIWNmg/v-deo.html
Military Applications, sounds familiar...
1:56 🤣
Him and Dr. Mobius would get along.
"I can think of two yes or no answers just off the top of my head"
Funniest thing ever said?
@aeternamente13
To me he sounds like the stereotypical late 19th Century-early to mid 20th century American, but then again thats only what I've seen from old movies (Psycho, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, etc).
Nooooo!!!
fuck it is funny
😂😂😂