That Mitchell and Webb Look - Lindsay Davenport

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  • Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
  • Obviously the best candidate for any job

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  • @matthill3293
    @matthill3293 2 роки тому +98

    It's great to see David playing the stupid character and Rob playing the reasonable one for a change!

    • @ronvlaarsvar6867
      @ronvlaarsvar6867 7 місяців тому

      Stupid? Did you not hear her list of achievements? Could have done any of those jobs easily

  • @pxe
    @pxe 11 років тому +482

    I thought of this when I read a BBC article about Maria Sharapova 'hoping to take her tennis strengths into the world of business'.

    • @nikhilreddy8550
      @nikhilreddy8550 6 років тому +31

      Yeah, but she is not quite Lindsey Davenport.
      P.S. I see it's a 5 year old post. Maybe this could make you binge watch this show again. 😋

    • @romainsavioz5466
      @romainsavioz5466 3 роки тому +7

      @@nikhilreddy8550 yeah but this show is not quite Lindsey Davenport

    • @mankytoes
      @mankytoes 3 роки тому +6

      @@romainsavioz5466 You say that, but she's also very tall.

    • @namename3130
      @namename3130 2 роки тому +2

      Kim kardashian training as a lawyer

    • @mrman2415
      @mrman2415 2 роки тому +3

      @@namename3130 she doesn't even have the groundstrokes

  • @landondunn8861
    @landondunn8861 2 роки тому +30

    "know as Lindsay to his friends" comedy gold

  • @ashliski
    @ashliski 5 років тому +81

    I hope Lindsay Davenport has seen this

  • @dudesayingthings
    @dudesayingthings 5 років тому +146

    "excellent ground strokes" this line got me everytime 😂😂😂

    • @gibbyg2001
      @gibbyg2001 2 роки тому +2

      "Bit of a womanly bearing, known as Lindsey to his friends" lolololol

  • @ThomasCorfield
    @ThomasCorfield 3 роки тому +102

    I know Lindsay reasonably well and she was thrilled with this when it aired.

    • @fredfinks
      @fredfinks 3 роки тому +29

      Really? I remember her telling the story of how travelling to open via plane, the stewards wouldn't let her board with her rackets (Serena was also on the plane and allowed). Lindsay said 'But Serena was allowed' , Stewardess : 'But thats Serena Williams!!' (obviously having no clue who Lindsay was). Lindsay was No.1 at the time. Maybe she thought she was some casual tennis playing accountant from england...

    • @jaymason9373
      @jaymason9373 2 роки тому +7

      Well that's lie lol

    • @Ozvideo1959
      @Ozvideo1959 2 роки тому +6

      Did she get the job ?

    • @Retep4565
      @Retep4565 2 роки тому +19

      Who wouldn't be thrilled after hearing that one is considered the best candidate for no less than 3 different positions?

    • @ThomasCorfield
      @ThomasCorfield 2 роки тому +18

      @@Ozvideo1959 Look, to be honest, I don't actually know her. I pretended to so I could appear cool and trendy. I have no friends. In fact, the only reason I have a cell phone is so I pretend to be speaking to friends while I'm waiting to cross the road so I don't look like a lonely wanker. It's sad, yes, but that's only because I am.

  • @beagleeight
    @beagleeight 11 років тому +258

    Lindsay Davenport would have made an excellent pope.

    • @AA-hg5fk
      @AA-hg5fk 5 років тому +2

      Pity she could never be ordained, what with her being a woman and all.

    • @junbh2
      @junbh2 5 років тому +7

      +Richard Richmond Archbishop of Canterbury, then.

    • @hankkingsley2976
      @hankkingsley2976 5 років тому

      @@AA-hg5fk and you never be able to find her as the Pope in the pizza

    • @papanurgle8393
      @papanurgle8393 4 роки тому +2

      @@AA-hg5fk Allen could have though.

    • @charliecharliewhiskey9403
      @charliecharliewhiskey9403 2 роки тому +6

      I dunno, that'd leave us with a major gap in the Prime Ministerial and Presidential roles.

  • @pxe
    @pxe 14 років тому +122

    lol, the way Robert acts and speaks in this clip is so much like my boss. He always asks "what are your thoughts?" in that voice when it comes to recruitment issues. I'll be itching to start talking about Lindsay Davenport next time we talk.

    • @tomlxyz
      @tomlxyz 4 роки тому +8

      Did you do?

    • @lrussell851
      @lrussell851 3 роки тому +4

      The world needs to know...

  • @janesmith699
    @janesmith699 4 роки тому +41

    Known as Lindsay to his friends. 😂😂😂😂😂 That line made me lose it.

  • @LAnonHubbard
    @LAnonHubbard 15 років тому +27

    This comedy duo are so funny and versatile!

  • @ChartreuseDan
    @ChartreuseDan 3 роки тому +39

    Greg went on to secure PPE suppliers for the conservative party government

  • @VinZorD17
    @VinZorD17 15 років тому +38

    I love this sketch so much! It's so random.

    • @usernametaken2tekken
      @usernametaken2tekken 5 років тому +3

      Vincenzo De Guzmán it's not. It's arbitrary.

    • @smileyparto
      @smileyparto 4 роки тому +4

      It's espresso.

    • @blackbird5634
      @blackbird5634 2 роки тому +2

      random?

    • @A..Shadow..
      @A..Shadow.. Місяць тому

      Bloody hell. Your comment is older than all 3 of my children. 😂
      11, 9 and 4.
      Makes me feel old asf.
      I'm only 35.

  • @ohemgeeorgia
    @ohemgeeorgia 2 роки тому +6

    this is exactly what it's like to be a recruiter

  • @TomRipley7350
    @TomRipley7350 5 років тому +14

    "I mean, look at Sue Barker". 😂😂😂

  • @angrytedtalks
    @angrytedtalks 4 роки тому +23

    I had never heard of this tennis player until now. She didn't get any of the roles she applied for. But she really is very tall...

    • @prospero4183
      @prospero4183 3 роки тому +3

      Dont forget the ground strokes

    • @GroovingPict
      @GroovingPict 3 місяці тому

      if you ever find yourself as a contestant on Pointless and a question about female tennis players comes up, she's almost always a pointless answer, so a good name to remember. And if it's male tennis players, Mats Wilander and Lleyton Hewitt are good ones to remember

  • @zanite8650
    @zanite8650 13 років тому +31

    Lindsay Davenport- what a gal!
    'plays Ace Rimmer theme'

  • @neuvocastezero1838
    @neuvocastezero1838 2 роки тому +2

    I hear there's a position available in the accounting department at Reynholm Industries.

  • @agdgdgwngo
    @agdgdgwngo 3 роки тому +5

    She's so tall!

  • @lareuanlachance4019
    @lareuanlachance4019 2 роки тому +6

    every line in this sketch is pure comedy gold 😂

  • @Football__Junkie
    @Football__Junkie 3 роки тому +7

    Are you really suggesting that working out your payroll is harder than winning Wimbledon?
    😂😂😂😂😂

  • @anonymouse740
    @anonymouse740 2 роки тому +2

    I was waiting for the last open position to be for a tennis coach or something and him being like no sorry I don't have any candidates for that one.

  • @Flomskwain
    @Flomskwain 11 років тому +44

    It's even funnier because we just appointed a squash player as the New Zealand Race Relations Commissioner...!

    • @RealityCheck6T9
      @RealityCheck6T9 6 років тому +44

      Maybe it's because that's not a real job

    • @tomkenning5482
      @tomkenning5482 6 років тому +13

      @@RealityCheck6T9 except that it's a post with an employer, duties and a salary, which makes what it is exactly a job. I'm not quite sure what level of reality you're operating on.

    • @lorblauh
      @lorblauh 5 років тому +36

      @@tomkenning5482 It's as ineffectual job that doesn't produce anything of worth and only exists for PR reasons. It's not a real job.

    • @ketmaniac
      @ketmaniac 4 роки тому +7

      @@lorblauh It's as real as any job that needs good groundstrokes and a womanly bearing.

  • @parricidio999
    @parricidio999 16 років тому +9

    it is Great!! I never though somebody talked about Lindsay 3 mins on a TV programme. I really love it. It is so funny. It would have been perfect if Linds had appeared there... C?MON LINDSAY The tower of power is back!

  • @hmich176
    @hmich176 5 років тому +7

    The Cleveland Browns are doing this with Condoleeza Rice.

  • @maccy4829
    @maccy4829 2 роки тому +2

    I’d love to know is Ms Davenport has ever seen this sketch?

  • @tenniscraze
    @tenniscraze 16 років тому +6

    omg this is SO FUNNY. I hope lindsay gets to see this!

  • @dnizabhad
    @dnizabhad 14 років тому +22

    but she's so tall! :D

  • @DrLilo
    @DrLilo 2 роки тому +1

    Lindsey doesn't know her next job could be in cyber.

  • @Jotari
    @Jotari 2 роки тому +1

    GOing through the 'd's is actually a genuinely good lie in that situation.

  • @antediluvianatheist5262
    @antediluvianatheist5262 5 років тому +1

    We also have an opening in HR.

  • @UppruniTegundanna
    @UppruniTegundanna 15 років тому +6

    I wonder if she's seen this.

  • @abbafan50986
    @abbafan50986 15 років тому +9

    What does that even mean?

  • @mellar07
    @mellar07 4 роки тому +4

    Did she get the job?

  • @Abuamina001
    @Abuamina001 14 років тому +8

    Mashallah. That is hysterical.
    I think that's the same recruitment strategy of my former employer.

  • @jakegulliver1370
    @jakegulliver1370 3 роки тому +2

    Get out Greg 😂

  • @holytriplem5959
    @holytriplem5959 5 років тому +56

    This is literally the sketch I think about every time I hear about Pete Buttigieg.

    • @jonthompson7106
      @jonthompson7106 3 роки тому

      Why?

    • @holytriplem5959
      @holytriplem5959 3 роки тому +1

      @@jonthompson7106 yeah that comment's got a bit dated now. Pete Buttigieg was a candidate in the 2020 democratic primaries in the US and all anyone would talk about was that he was gay, served in the military and spoke loads of languages

  • @adhdj1
    @adhdj1 15 років тому

    oh shitcrap! someone please say what the preceding SDCC sketch was
    I gotz to put it in front me eyeballz

  • @Amanda-cd6dm
    @Amanda-cd6dm 2 роки тому

    I want to fucking know how my best fucker knew about Davenport because I never even spoke it outloud

  • @hankkingsley2976
    @hankkingsley2976 5 років тому +3

    As an American I find this funny and also find Hee Haw funny

  • @amandabumgardner2751
    @amandabumgardner2751 3 роки тому +1

    How did they know about Davenport?!

    • @bigtatties
      @bigtatties Рік тому +1

      They've seen some tennis

  • @camdflage
    @camdflage 5 років тому +4

    This must be how they employ "journalists" here in Australia.

  • @rhysepoos
    @rhysepoos 6 років тому +5

    Great sketch, but he's wrong about Sue Barker, she DID have the groundstrokes. Well, on the forehand side at least.

  • @Scallion_D
    @Scallion_D 5 років тому +2

    Lindsey Davinport coming out of nowhere lol.

  • @eriklehnsherr7238
    @eriklehnsherr7238 4 роки тому +1

    Uploaded 12 years ago, that’s mad

  • @TheBecauseimawesome
    @TheBecauseimawesome 13 років тому +3

    Get out Greg.

  • @Estragon17
    @Estragon17 6 років тому +41

    Send quite a bit like the Trump process for selecting staff.

    • @RealityCheck6T9
      @RealityCheck6T9 6 років тому +9

      He selects a single tennis player for all the jobs?

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 6 років тому +1

      No but he tends to concentrate on the 'Ts'. edit: Trump just happened to be looking through the T section at the time, that's why all the CVs were from someone called Trump.

    • @dmking26
      @dmking26 6 років тому +5

      That was almost a sentence.

    • @guidadiehl9176
      @guidadiehl9176 6 років тому +8

      I love watching a video on UA-cam that has absolutely no relation to US politics whatsoever, then running across some obsessive halfwit in the comments who still hasn't gotten over the election.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 6 років тому +1

      Sorry, Vermouth? You know what the election was for, right? Trump didn't just pop in for half an hour for the election and then go back to his usual reality show? We had the election and now we're onto the his time as President, and this looks likely to go on for a while longer. Some people apparently like him as President. Some people don't. Others think its beyond satire. 'obsessive halfwit'. lol.

  • @carlbennett2417
    @carlbennett2417 3 роки тому

    People sure were skinny back then.

  • @frankspencer6935
    @frankspencer6935 3 роки тому +1

    She's not much of a looker though. Oh, that was the French one.

  • @j.j.c.s2802
    @j.j.c.s2802 6 років тому +7

    Pseudo 4:3 again.

  • @Djarra
    @Djarra 13 років тому

    @biggie558 Apart from the one got watching videos of Lindsey Davenport.

  • @255ad
    @255ad 13 років тому

    @eyeworks88 I think he'd make a better master

  • @biggie558
    @biggie558 14 років тому

    @andreyofdoom Beating a dead horse is funny though!
    There is no climax though...

  • @Izaak247
    @Izaak247 13 років тому +1

    Lmao

  • @Grashnook
    @Grashnook 6 років тому +16

    It sounds like "idear" for the same reason americans are literally incapable of saying buckingham as if its one word

    • @Harani66
      @Harani66 5 років тому

      Bucking-ham
      Birming-ham
      Edin-boro

    • @briancox9357
      @briancox9357 3 роки тому +1

      Hearing Americans say 'Worcestershire Sauce' is always fun.

  • @andreyofdoom
    @andreyofdoom 14 років тому

    @thelleht Maria Sharapova is 6'3 I think. That would make this a mistake.

    • @mohawk393939
      @mohawk393939 2 роки тому +1

      Sharapova is 1.88m tall, Davenport is 1.89m tall

  • @pendragonshall
    @pendragonshall 3 роки тому +1

    Remarkably sounds like the idiocy being forced today. Qualifications bah what’s your skin color and gender

  • @Henry-kz4gn
    @Henry-kz4gn 2 роки тому +2

    hiring a woman to be an accountant, brilliant joke

  • @funkyalfonso
    @funkyalfonso 4 роки тому

    Get out!

  • @SpazzyMcGee1337
    @SpazzyMcGee1337 12 років тому +14

    "Idea" isn't spelled with an 'r'. Why do Brits always pronounce it like "idere"?

    • @lordprotector3367
      @lordprotector3367 7 років тому +13

      How do you pronounce it then?

    • @rogersemahan3011
      @rogersemahan3011 7 років тому +4

      /aɪˈdɪə/ or /aɪˈdi.ə/. See the thing in common? Neither has an "r" sound in it.

    • @ilikethisnamebetter
      @ilikethisnamebetter 7 років тому +2

      I think he does say "idear" rather than "idea" at least the first time. Maybe he thought it was appropriate for the role.

    •  7 років тому +21

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R

    • @Richard_Jones
      @Richard_Jones 7 років тому +40

      I guess it's because the way that english people pronounce things in english is because that's the correct way to speak english (as defined by actually being english)

  • @Hithere-ek4qt
    @Hithere-ek4qt 2 роки тому

    This is actually one of the better ones. Too many of the others are borderline just stupid.

  • @cheydinal5401
    @cheydinal5401 3 роки тому

    This was one of the deliberately bad sketches that they added for pacing

  • @sean3533
    @sean3533 4 роки тому

    It’s funny because it’s women’s tennis.

  • @SpazzyMcGee1337
    @SpazzyMcGee1337 12 років тому +1

    But most of those phonetic idiosyncrasies are understandable. I just find the British predisposition to add r's into words very odd. I can't think of a reason why it would be that way... perhaps because Brits aren't used to ending words with an 'ah' or 'uh' sound? Because they do it with the word "America" too.

    • @rogersemahan3011
      @rogersemahan3011 7 років тому +2

      I heard Lindy Beige claim it is because it's easier when the second word begins with a vowel. But that doesn't explain why it's there when there is no extra vowel after

    • @duxnihilo
      @duxnihilo 5 років тому

      Roger Semahan They don't pronounce idere when there's no vowel after!

    • @jj9749
      @jj9749 Рік тому

      It's americans who add Rs to the end of words, or over pronounce them , whereas in English we don't really pronounce them ata ll

    • @SpazzyMcGee1337
      @SpazzyMcGee1337 Рік тому

      @@jj9749 "Over pronounce"?

    • @jj9749
      @jj9749 Рік тому

      For example the word corner. English: cawna American: corrrnrrrr