Rhod Gilbert is currently recovering from cancer so anything you guys can do to give him more notice I'm in his absence I'm sure is appreciated by him! I saw it on his Instagram with his update on 15th December
Must be such a massive hit to their entire comedy-circle. I know he seems to be on the mend now, but when I heard I just thought about how it is so soon after Sean Lock, so all of them who are old comedy-friends must have been doubly concerned 😢
I use “whom”. The difference between who and whom is the same a he and him. Example: He went to the store. You went to the store with him. Who went to the store? You went to the store with whom? I try to remember when who follows a preposition (with, to, for, etc). This joke helps. :-) Knock Knock Who’s there. To To who? Actually, it’s “to whom”.
Lee and David are so well matched as opposites , and Rob makes a really good host WILTY. has been a favourite on our tv for a long time and it's a credit to everyone it's as good now as it's ever been . Thanks for the Boxing day treat lads .
John Barrowman, who played Merlin in Arrow, has been on TV over here for nearly 30 years now. Scottish born, raised in Chicago, his accent flips in an instant between American and Scottish and it's really weird to hear. He did kids TV over here in the early/mid 90s, well before acting in things like Doctor Who and Merlin, and suspiciously hasn't aged much (he's got a good surgeon)
I will add he actually got his start in musicals in the West End and has the most beautiful singing voice. I know that prior to Covid he was still doing concert tours in the UK and would go back to do Panto for the holidays.
I will add that I appeared in panto once with JB and the Krankies, and he needed zero encouragement to whip his his knob out backstage. There were also tales whizzing around among the cast about the Krankies being swingers, but I can neither confirm nor deny any direct personal experience. 😳
Oh you young people. You have no idea of the lives some of us have led. I still have music tapes, and vinyl, never mind CD's. Also video tapes and DVD's. Yes I am also very old. Incidentally David Mitchell did a brilliant comedy series playing the part of William Shakespeare, called Upstart Crow. It's hilarious. You're absolutely right, David being from a middle class more privately educated background, and from the south, and Lee from a working class northern background, here seen in all it's glory. Cockney slang was rhyning slang, for example, apples and pears = stairs, a butcher's hook = a look, but if that is then shortened to just a butchers' ,it still means a look. And so on. And the word you wanted was topiary, shaping hedges or shrubbery. And whom is perfectly correct, grammatically, though not used much these days,. Except by people like David, Or me. The Wombles were/are an imaginary family of creatures, in a book called The Wombles of Wimbledon Common, who collect odds and ends they find and recycle into useful things. A children's tv series was made from the book.
The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures created by Elisabeth Beresford and originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. They live in burrows, where they aim to help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways. Although Wombles supposedly live in every country in the world, Beresford's stories are primarily concerned with the lives of the inhabitants of the burrow on Wimbledon Common in London, England. Made into a popular a stop motion animated British television series ( 1973-1975).
I liked David but when he married Victoria Coren I thought wowser he had won the lottery. She’s the most intelligent funny presenter ever. Poker player and author.
What makes Mitchell and Mack work is there comedy styles are the polar opposites of each other. Lee makes the extraordinary seem plausible And Mitchell makes the ordinary seem implausible.
David is a very intelligent and witty man playing a particular class stereotype role for comic effect. In the same way Lee is equally intelligent and witty playing a different class stereotype role. They are actually friends, and I for one would love to be at one of their dinner parties. 😂
I received my cancer diagnoses just before rhod now I'm in remission so fingers crossed rhod will receive the same news as me I'm thinking of him and a speedy recovery
I always find it funny how Jimmy Carr tries to make out David is the posh one. Jimmy has had a very similar path in life and is at least AS posh if not more so.
You're getting Topiary (TOH-pyuh-ree, carving hedges) and Pot pourri (POH-puh-ree, a room freshener made from flower petals) confused :) "The Wombles" was an animated children's TV programme about small mouse-like creatures that use rubbish to make things.
Just found you guys. Thank you so very much for showing an Aussie that there are at least 2 intelligent Americans, and giving me a great Boxing day after Xmas day and the relatives have left.
16:16 RE: Elton John (Well the performance, song and melodies are Eltons :-) Almost all songs have lyrics by: Bernard John Taupin CBE (born 22 May 1950) is an English songwriter, singer and visual artist. He is best known for his long-term collaboration with musician Elton John, a songwriting partnership that is one of the most successful in history. Taupin has written the lyrics for most of John's songs.
the arrow actor is actually from Scotland, he uses an American accent because it got him work overseas, which I can't knock because I LOVE LOVE LLLLLLLOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE the American accents. loved the welsh video, I added a book as comment hahaha, thanks for this guys, brilliant reaction video.
In Malaysia, we have a drink called "Cham" which is an abbreviation for 'campur' meaning to mix or mix. 'Cham' is literally tea and coffee mixed and sweetened with condensed milk.
David is wrong about the frozen escalator. A normal set of stairs have equal sized steps. A frozen escalator has shorter steps at the top than it has for most of its length because the top steps are frozen midway through the collapsing mechanism as they were flattening to merge into the floor. Thus Rhod is correct that they don't feel the same. You get into a rhythm with your pace walking up the steps and then the last ones at the top are shorter than the pace you've gotten used to, and that causes the effect Rhod feels
By the way David Mitchell is not actually from posh background. Both of his parents were working class/low middle class. Worked in a hotel, kept David in a linen storage because they did not have the time to take off work. His whole manner of speaking comes from being both studios and very detail driven. This is how proper English is spoken and this is how an Englishman behaves, they told him so in school, so of course he mastered it. There is a long tradition of working class people or people on the bottom of the middle class to be more "posh" than actual rich buggers. You may not have money for food, but you always have money for soap.
‘Who’ is a subject pronoun, in the same way that ‘I’ is a subject pronoun. ‘Whom’ is an object pronoun, in the same way that ‘me’ is an object pronoun. You wouldn’t say ‘Me love ice-cream’ or ‘She loves I’. It’s pretty simple really.
Methinks language evolves gradually so at one point the old becomes indistinguishable from the ungrammatical, as per this example. - In Modern English, 'Methinks' desperately needs to be one word, not just because it works as a disjunct adverb like 'probably' or 'hopefully' but also because 'to think' has switched from having the experiencer of the thinking be the object of the verb to the subject, so it sounds like you are Jar-Jar Binks if you go around saying 'me thinks' all the time. I imagine these lads aren't used to people using "whom" at all, so it just sounds strange to them.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064: Yes, but then Americans also seem to have done away entirely with the past participle for some words. A lot of people laugh at you if you say "I have drunk" or "He should have run" instead of drank and ran (and a large proportion of the same people wouldn't flinch if you said "I seen it yesterday"). Eliminating people from your life because they use proper grammar is just as bad as doing so for people with poor grammar (albeit probably more acceptable from a classist point of view). David could have just said something along the lines of "The question from me to he was perfectly clear", but I suppose he handled it less obnoxiously.
@@mr_k4tz: Huh? I don't know what you're trying to say, but you've either put a typo in your comment and you're agreeing with me (that ran is past tense and run is the past participle), or you've put a typo in and you're flat out wrong (that past tense is run and past participle is run). Or there's no typo at all and you think that both forms are "ran", which is incorrect and also presented in a very peculiar manner (stating that they're both "ran", but presented individually as if they're different). To summarise: It's "I run", "I ran", "I have run". Not "I have ran" or "They should have ran it". (Another option is that I've had too much eggnog and am the one misreading/-interpreting)
@@ericforsyth I have to admit that, even as someone who only speaks English as a second language, I can physically feel that little muscle in the corner of my eye twitching whenever I hear "I have ran", but because I understand what they mean I don't complain. I think my allergy to this phenomenon might be worsened by the fact that I have had to actively and consistently look up every rule and exception in the English language in order to speak it with any level of confidence, and then native speakers just flaunt how Sisyphian it is to my face. Also, the past and the past participle are much easier to distinguish in my native language, so to me, it seems incredibly obvious that they would be different. Anyway, my original point was mostly just to give the boys a break for not really getting the use of "who". Also, they were obviously just joking.
Yep John Barrowman played one of the bad guys in Arrow, over here he was a reoccurring character in the Doctor Who series and also stared in its spin-off Torchwood.
You guys are so freaking special to us! (We fu(k¡ng LOVE you guys!) Remember that! (I absolutely LOVE watching your reactions to British stuff!) Keep it up guys, & we'll keep watching xxx
I don't do Christmas, but traditionally the decorations go up on the 24th of December and come down on the 6th of January. That's the twelve days of Christmas.
Hi guys, I remembered a sketch (more of a true story) by comedian Russell Howard that you really must react to. Really quite fitting for this time of year and one I know you'll really love . It's the cancer funeral. By Russell Howard. Doesn't sound very uplifting I know but it's an amazing story with lots of wit, It's a few years old now and you probably haven't received that many requests for it but it's a must do ! I promise 🙏 you'll be glad you did . Much love.
Oh, I just remembered. McIntyre had a lovely story. About the car where he could not turn the wheel to the left (or right). That was hilarious. With these "best of" lots of great stuff gets lost.
I totally agree with you. The idea of putting Lee as a captain of one team and David as the captain of the opposing team is pure genius. I've been thinking about this for a short while as I'm watching this and I don't there is a better 2 people to put against each other. Maybe Rhod Gilbert or Romesh Ranganathan you could have as the "angry one" but them I'm struggling to think of a good opposite. Maybe David's Wife, Victoria. But she only fits the profile because she's very much like David. Maybe just Rhod against Romesh might work. They are both the "angry one" but Rhod gets angry at life where as Romesh get's angry at people. Might be a good pairing. Little Jon Richardson could probably fit in the role as the "sensible one". But none of these pairing I'm suggesting would work as good as the 2 we have already. That's why I'm in my house watching the show and not in Broadcasting House writing the show. Hahahaha
It's a pretty standard formula for British TV quiz/panel shows. It's actually pitting opposing social classes for maximum comedic clash, as well as appealing to a wider audience - typically "working class" vs "upper middle class" / well educated vs "street smart" You'll see it on many other shows, many of which run for years and years. Another example is "Have I got news for you" (Ian Hislop vs Paul Merton) or "8 out of 10 cats does countdown", often Sean Locke opposite Jon Richardson
Tell me any show in north America that gets so crazy like this show. It's one of my absolute favourites! Task master is a close 2nd. OMG the suggestion of David meeting Karl Pilkington had me laughing so much.
Taskmaster is brilliant, but they need to watch an entire episode to really get it. They could probably do the first episode of each season, this way they get to see an array of comedians in the U.K, as each set of comedians are for each season. It’s also on UA-cam it’s in entirety, by channel four.
@Britishshadow I agree, and I think that people would watch full episodes, too. It's best for both WILTY and Taskmaster to really get the full impact of the shows
Thank you for your content It has brought a smile to my face and I am English..... I would like to wish you both a very happy New Year And all the best for the year to come. Sir Douglas Usher MBE
Merry 🎄 to you both, enjoy your Boxing Day 👍🏻 😀 Thank you for the laughs and so much more this year 💖 Peace, love and all blessings to you and yours 🕊🥰🕯🎄🎶🎸🤶
You wonder how David's wife deals with him? His wife, Victoria, at least on TV, is like the female version of him (though not as intensely angry). So I assume they share roughly the same opinions. Not to mention he is hopelessly in love with his wife as mentioned in his autobiography.
lads it's twee not tweed. tweed is a material/cloth, twee is sort of syrupy sentimentalism. it's used as a light put down to refer to something as a little bit twee, david thought lee was implying david was a little bit twee.
So good - Daniel, Spencer, love watching you watching this, it makes it funnier. David and Lee sparing on WILTY really is up there amongst the funniest of all comedy
I think Alexander would be the _perfect_ name for a Great Dane. It would read "Alexander The Great..... Dane". We once had two Samoyeds. They were named Socrates and Odysseus - Socks and Odie, for short.
Merry Christmas guys, hope you're staying warm! The neck-end of two hours of you reacting to David Mitchell is an incredible christmas gift, cheers lads! Also, I've had the forbidden tea-coffee mix once. It wasn't terrible but was very disappointing - like coffee with all the edge taken off. I'm team coffee too but only drip-filtered coffee or whatever you call it when you put ground coffee in a metal or paper filter and just pour hot water through it; I have like 5 huge cups a day 😆
I agreed with Rhod on that point though. You do fly off a turned off escalator more than you do a set of stairs. The reason is that stairs on an escalator are further apart
Re: Rhod coming to the top of a flight of stairs, I think David's wrong. It's not the same experience, I get the same illusion of rushing off. I think the difference, which David is overlooking, is that at the top of an escalator, the steps get gradually lower and lower, so the effort required to raise yourself in the last few steps DOES actually get less and less, but the perceived effort required remains the same and you apply too much effort and shoot off the top with ease.
Re CD's, vinyl has made a big comeback in recent years, and I think CDs may as well, especially once people realise streaming is not all it's cracked up to be. If someone pulls the plug on their server, you lose access. But if you have the media and a means of playing it at home, it's yours to keep forever.
Thick and dense are both difficult to penetrate (with knowledge or common sense) Raspberry comes from Cockney rhyming slang, raspberry tart rhymes with fart.😊 Another word which can cause confusion is fanny which in the US is backside but in the UK is a female front bottom
I downloaded over 2,000 tracks onto my laptop and lost the lot when it crashed. That happened twice. I can't be bothered to do it again, so I went back to my vinyl. :-(
John Barrowman who played Malcolm Merlin on Arrow is very well known in UK as a present, singer, entertainer and probably most famous for his role in Doctor Who as Captain Jack
Here are some Cockney Bible extracts if you want to put on your best Cockney accent to read them... The Lord's Prayer Hello, Dad, up there in good ol’ Heaven, Your name is well great and holy, and we respect you, Guv. We hope we can all ‘ave a butcher’s at Heaven and be there as soon as possible: and we want to make you happy, Guv, and do what you want ‘ere on earth, just like what you do in Heaven. Guv, please give us some Uncle Fred, and enough grub and stuff to keep us going today, and we hope you’ll forgive us when we cock things up, just like we’re supposed to forgive them who annoy us and do dodgy stuff to us. There’s a lot of dodgy people around, Guv; please don’t let us get tempted to do bad things. Help keep us away from all the nasty, evil stuff, and keep that dodgy Satan away from us, ‘cos you’re much stronger than ‘im. Your the Boss, God, and will be for ever, innit? Cheers, Amen. " Jesus Calms the Storm One evening, Jesus said to his chinas, “Let’s go to the other side of this ‘ere lake.” So they left all the people, and the disciples got into the nanny and set orf. There were quite a few other nannies there too. And then, would you Adam and Eve it, a huge wind started to blow up, and the waves got so bloomin’ big that they began to spill into the nanny. It got to the stage where the nanny was almost gonna fill up with fisherman’s. Despite all this, Jesus was at the back of the nanny ‘aving a feather, lying there with his loaf on a pillow. The disciples woke him up and said, “Teacher, we’re about to die. Don’t you care?” Jesus got up from his little feather and shouted at the wind, “Oi, be quiet!” and he said to the waves, “Oi, be still!” The wind suddenly died dahn, and it became really calm. Jesus then said to his chinas, “What is it with you lot? Why were you all so frightened? Do you still not have faith?” But the disciples were in a right ol’ two and eight.
David Mitchells "angry logic" is legendary. He accepts no BS lol
I have the logic, the anger, but lack the creative wit
These 3 men can turn any conversation into comedy gold… and just when you think you can’t laugh any harder, along comes Bob Mortimer…
I do beg your pardon... I'm watching this in your garden.
@@gillymayevans4115😂😂😂
Rhod Gilbert is currently recovering from cancer so anything you guys can do to give him more notice I'm in his absence I'm sure is appreciated by him! I saw it on his Instagram with his update on 15th December
Must be such a massive hit to their entire comedy-circle. I know he seems to be on the mend now, but when I heard I just thought about how it is so soon after Sean Lock, so all of them who are old comedy-friends must have been doubly concerned 😢
I'm sorry to hear that about Rhod Gilbert. I hope he recovers ok.
I love Rhod our red setter puppy 💞💞💞🤗🐨🦘🇦🇺.
I completely forgot about this 😭
Didn’t know. Speedy recovery Rhod Gilbert.
I use “whom”.
The difference between who and whom is the same a he and him.
Example:
He went to the store.
You went to the store with him.
Who went to the store?
You went to the store with whom?
I try to remember when who follows a preposition (with, to, for, etc).
This joke helps. :-)
Knock Knock
Who’s there.
To
To who?
Actually, it’s “to whom”.
Lee and David are so well matched as opposites , and Rob makes a really good host WILTY. has been a favourite on our tv for a long time and it's a credit to everyone it's as good now as it's ever been . Thanks for the Boxing day treat lads .
Oh, what an awesome treat to end the year with! Been feeling down and rewatching WILTY Christmas specials, and there you are! Thanks!
'He doesn't do well with things that contradict logic.'
'I'd like to see him to talk to Karl.'
Perfect.
John Barrowman, who played Merlin in Arrow, has been on TV over here for nearly 30 years now. Scottish born, raised in Chicago, his accent flips in an instant between American and Scottish and it's really weird to hear. He did kids TV over here in the early/mid 90s, well before acting in things like Doctor Who and Merlin, and suspiciously hasn't aged much (he's got a good surgeon)
I will add he actually got his start in musicals in the West End and has the most beautiful singing voice. I know that prior to Covid he was still doing concert tours in the UK and would go back to do Panto for the holidays.
I will add he has also been cancelled due to him getting his sausage out on set and waving it around for all to see.
I will add that I appeared in panto once with JB and the Krankies, and he needed zero encouragement to whip his his knob out backstage.
There were also tales whizzing around among the cast about the Krankies being swingers, but I can neither confirm nor deny any direct personal experience. 😳
How could you forget about Torchwood?
An excellent spin-off show of Dr. Who that was definitely not family friendly.
Good genes
I have been struggling a lot recently and your videos are the only thing that has been cheering me up. Thank you guys !
Hang in there, things do get better ❤️
Hey mate,suffering isn't nice,and it happens to us all at some point in varying degrees, comedy is a good medicine.
Whoa... Our version of Fraggle Rock is Fraggle Rock... it was made in the UK...
there was a US version as well.
Nope, it was an international version with UK inserts - most of it was made in Canada
David Mitchell is the guy, from whom Id like to learn proper english xD
The Wombles was a story created 1968 and then became a children's TV show mid 70's and even here in NZ they were very popular, characters.
The Wombles are cartoon animals that live on Wimbledon Common, London Sw20.
I love the wombles
Oh you young people. You have no idea of the lives some of us have led. I still have music tapes, and vinyl, never mind CD's. Also video tapes and DVD's. Yes I am also very old. Incidentally David Mitchell did a brilliant comedy series playing the part of William Shakespeare, called Upstart Crow. It's hilarious. You're absolutely right, David being from a middle class more privately educated background, and from the south, and Lee from a working class northern background, here seen in all it's glory. Cockney slang was rhyning slang, for example, apples and pears = stairs, a butcher's hook = a look, but if that is then shortened to just a butchers' ,it still means a look. And so on. And the word you wanted was topiary, shaping hedges or shrubbery. And whom is perfectly correct, grammatically, though not used much these days,. Except by people like David, Or me. The Wombles were/are an imaginary family of creatures, in a book called The Wombles of Wimbledon Common, who collect odds and ends they find and recycle into useful things. A children's tv series was made from the book.
Daniel: "If he says it, I believe it"
Would I Lie To You is not the show for you, my friend 🤣
The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures created by Elisabeth Beresford and originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. They live in burrows, where they aim to help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways. Although Wombles supposedly live in every country in the world, Beresford's stories are primarily concerned with the lives of the inhabitants of the burrow on Wimbledon Common in London, England. Made into a popular a stop motion animated British television series ( 1973-1975).
I can't tell you how many times I've watched Mitchell's rants. Sometimes it's to laugh, sometimes it's for sleep, but it's always entertaining
David's finest achievement was marrying Victoria Coren, whose brilliant father was the same sort of comedy genius that David is.
Never really made that association before but now I see it, intelligent wit. Alan Coren was always a joy to listen too.
@@regreg5416 she's a real chip off the old block, and more. He's one lucky boy.
I grew up listening to Alan coren. Absolute legend.
Oh Lord, I never get tired of telling ppl about her book, "once more with feeling," which was about her attempt to produce a porno.
I liked David but when he married Victoria Coren I thought wowser he had won the lottery. She’s the most intelligent funny presenter ever. Poker player and author.
John Barrowman, apart from appearing on many Dr Who episode, plays the main character in a whole series called Torchwood (a spin-off of Dr Who).
I am so pleased with your understanding of our humor
Whom is correct in that context. Many people just think 'whom' and 'who' are meant to be interchangeable. They are not.
What makes Mitchell and Mack work is there comedy styles are the polar opposites of each other.
Lee makes the extraordinary seem plausible
And Mitchell makes the ordinary seem implausible.
David is a very intelligent and witty man playing a particular class stereotype role for comic effect. In the same way Lee is equally intelligent and witty playing a different class stereotype role. They are actually friends, and I for one would love to be at one of their dinner parties. 😂
With David and Lee, it's more a class thing than a north south thing,but it is funny 😂
All four of them (Lee, his wife Tara, David, and his wife Victoria) are all very close. They can give each other shit.
I received my cancer diagnoses just before rhod now I'm in remission so fingers crossed rhod will receive the same news as me I'm thinking of him and a speedy recovery
Good luck pal.
I always find it funny how Jimmy Carr tries to make out David is the posh one. Jimmy has had a very similar path in life and is at least AS posh if not more so.
Pretty much the Rolling Stones/ Beatles story!
Name your dog shark then take a walk along the beach
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Name your cat "syphilis" it is a pussy so ...
Troll level: Danish
It's like the old Hulk TV show catchphrase; "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." Dude; it's your entire appeal.
You're getting Topiary (TOH-pyuh-ree, carving hedges) and Pot pourri (POH-puh-ree, a room freshener made from flower petals) confused :) "The Wombles" was an animated children's TV programme about small mouse-like creatures that use rubbish to make things.
Just found you guys. Thank you so very much for showing an Aussie that there are at least 2 intelligent Americans, and giving me a great Boxing day after Xmas day and the relatives have left.
16:16 RE: Elton John (Well the performance, song and melodies are Eltons :-) Almost all songs have lyrics by: Bernard John Taupin CBE (born 22 May 1950) is an English songwriter, singer and visual artist. He is best known for his long-term collaboration with musician Elton John, a songwriting partnership that is one of the most successful in history. Taupin has written the lyrics for most of John's songs.
the arrow actor is actually from Scotland, he uses an American accent because it got him work overseas, which I can't knock because I LOVE LOVE LLLLLLLOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE the American accents. loved the welsh video, I added a book as comment hahaha, thanks for this guys, brilliant reaction video.
I've watched most of these before and I just love them. But getting to watch it again with you guys is amazing. Thank you.
Yes, he's Merlin, and also Captain Jack from Doctor Who. He's British, but does a great American accent for various TV characters.
He doesn't "do" an American accent. He spent most of his life in Chicago. That's literally his accent 😆
In Malaysia, we have a drink called "Cham" which is an abbreviation for 'campur' meaning to mix or mix. 'Cham' is literally tea and coffee mixed and sweetened with condensed milk.
Disgusting
No wonder you are all mad! 🤣🤣
Thanks to the way UA-cam selects comments for prominence HERE I AM
Lads, David Mitchell is not really asyou describe. He is just witty and playing the part to make programme funny, and his wife is a comedian too.
I can believe David order's pizza but I also know that he eats it with a Knife and fork.
Merry Christmas dudes!
I love David. You should check out his message to Americans about the English language video. It's great!
"It shouldn't work but it does". That's the quintessence of British humor.
Also "I shouldn't laugh, but I am".
David is wrong about the frozen escalator. A normal set of stairs have equal sized steps. A frozen escalator has shorter steps at the top than it has for most of its length because the top steps are frozen midway through the collapsing mechanism as they were flattening to merge into the floor. Thus Rhod is correct that they don't feel the same. You get into a rhythm with your pace walking up the steps and then the last ones at the top are shorter than the pace you've gotten used to, and that causes the effect Rhod feels
By the way David Mitchell is not actually from posh background. Both of his parents were working class/low middle class.
Worked in a hotel, kept David in a linen storage because they did not have the time to take off work.
His whole manner of speaking comes from being both studios and very detail driven. This is how proper English is spoken and this is how an Englishman behaves, they told him so in school, so of course he mastered it.
There is a long tradition of working class people or people on the bottom of the middle class to be more "posh" than actual rich buggers. You may not have money for food, but you always have money for soap.
Absolutely love this. The original video is great, but your commentary on top is a real treat.
Na cockney is rhyming slang 🤦🏻♂️😂😂apple and pears=stairs,dog and bone=phone etc 😂💜
‘Who’ is a subject pronoun, in the same way that ‘I’ is a subject pronoun.
‘Whom’ is an object pronoun, in the same way that ‘me’ is an object pronoun.
You wouldn’t say ‘Me love ice-cream’ or ‘She loves I’. It’s pretty simple really.
Methinks language evolves gradually so at one point the old becomes indistinguishable from the ungrammatical, as per this example.
- In Modern English, 'Methinks' desperately needs to be one word, not just because it works as a disjunct adverb like 'probably' or 'hopefully' but also because 'to think' has switched from having the experiencer of the thinking be the object of the verb to the subject, so it sounds like you are Jar-Jar Binks if you go around saying 'me thinks' all the time.
I imagine these lads aren't used to people using "whom" at all, so it just sounds strange to them.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064: Yes, but then Americans also seem to have done away entirely with the past participle for some words. A lot of people laugh at you if you say "I have drunk" or "He should have run" instead of drank and ran (and a large proportion of the same people wouldn't flinch if you said "I seen it yesterday").
Eliminating people from your life because they use proper grammar is just as bad as doing so for people with poor grammar (albeit probably more acceptable from a classist point of view).
David could have just said something along the lines of "The question from me to he was perfectly clear", but I suppose he handled it less obnoxiously.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 the old *prescriptive* vs *descriptive* debate. I don’t use *whom* but that’s an informed choice.
@@mr_k4tz: Huh? I don't know what you're trying to say, but you've either put a typo in your comment and you're agreeing with me (that ran is past tense and run is the past participle), or you've put a typo in and you're flat out wrong (that past tense is run and past participle is run). Or there's no typo at all and you think that both forms are "ran", which is incorrect and also presented in a very peculiar manner (stating that they're both "ran", but presented individually as if they're different).
To summarise: It's "I run", "I ran", "I have run". Not "I have ran" or "They should have ran it".
(Another option is that I've had too much eggnog and am the one misreading/-interpreting)
@@ericforsyth I have to admit that, even as someone who only speaks English as a second language, I can physically feel that little muscle in the corner of my eye twitching whenever I hear "I have ran", but because I understand what they mean I don't complain. I think my allergy to this phenomenon might be worsened by the fact that I have had to actively and consistently look up every rule and exception in the English language in order to speak it with any level of confidence, and then native speakers just flaunt how Sisyphian it is to my face.
Also, the past and the past participle are much easier to distinguish in my native language, so to me, it seems incredibly obvious that they would be different.
Anyway, my original point was mostly just to give the boys a break for not really getting the use of "who". Also, they were obviously just joking.
I made a cofftea once just to see what it would be like. It was revolting.
I made it once by accident and I agree 🤢
Yep John Barrowman played one of the bad guys in Arrow, over here he was a reoccurring character in the Doctor Who series and also stared in its spin-off Torchwood.
And he’s Canadian not American
@@rosiedee8849 And he's Scottish, not Canadian.
Watch him talking to other Scots.
He was born in Canada to Scottish parents. So of course he can switch to a Scot’s accent anytime.
@@rosiedee8849 Everything I see says he was born in Glasgow.
Just so you guys know, David in the red shirt was in 2007. He was 33!
I love that I've finally found other Americans who love Brit comedy (and esp. David Mitchell) as much as me! You guys are the best!
Howard Hughes allegedly kept his urine? Happy Boxing Day. 🎄🤶
@anita Hargreaves Happy Boxing Day from England🏴🎄
@@nigecheshire9854 Happy Boxing Day too. ☃️🎅🏻
You guys are so freaking special to us! (We fu(k¡ng LOVE you guys!) Remember that! (I absolutely LOVE watching your reactions to British stuff!)
Keep it up guys, & we'll keep watching xxx
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common were a 1970s children’s TV programme. A cult classic now - but the staple of many a childhood.
That was hilarious. David and his rants are top notch.
How
I don't do Christmas, but traditionally the decorations go up on the 24th of December and come down on the 6th of January. That's the twelve days of Christmas.
Hi guys, I remembered a sketch (more of a true story) by comedian Russell Howard that you really must react to. Really quite fitting for this time of year and one I know you'll really love .
It's the cancer funeral. By Russell Howard. Doesn't sound very uplifting I know but it's an amazing story with lots of wit, It's a few years old now and you probably haven't received that many requests for it but it's a must do ! I promise 🙏 you'll be glad you did . Much love.
Oh, I just remembered. McIntyre had a lovely story. About the car where he could not turn the wheel to the left (or right). That was hilarious. With these "best of" lots of great stuff gets lost.
McIntyre is a compulsive liar and none of the "true" stories he told were actually true. There is a reason he wasn't invited back.
You need to watch David Mitchell on Graham Norton's show talking about flat earthers absolutely brilliant.
For a fleeting second you see Frank Skinner, another guy with a lightning fast wit. That guy has funny bones.
I totally agree with you.
The idea of putting Lee as a captain of one team and David as the captain of the opposing team is pure genius.
I've been thinking about this for a short while as I'm watching this and I don't there is a better 2 people to put against each other.
Maybe Rhod Gilbert or Romesh Ranganathan you could have as the "angry one" but them I'm struggling to think of a good opposite. Maybe David's Wife, Victoria. But she only fits the profile because she's very much like David.
Maybe just Rhod against Romesh might work. They are both the "angry one" but Rhod gets angry at life where as Romesh get's angry at people. Might be a good pairing.
Little Jon Richardson could probably fit in the role as the "sensible one".
But none of these pairing I'm suggesting would work as good as the 2 we have already.
That's why I'm in my house watching the show and not in Broadcasting House writing the show. Hahahaha
It's a pretty standard formula for British TV quiz/panel shows. It's actually pitting opposing social classes for maximum comedic clash, as well as appealing to a wider audience - typically "working class" vs "upper middle class" / well educated vs "street smart"
You'll see it on many other shows, many of which run for years and years. Another example is "Have I got news for you" (Ian Hislop vs Paul Merton) or "8 out of 10 cats does countdown", often Sean Locke opposite Jon Richardson
May be Acaster. He plays a great "straight man who blows up in frustration at times"
French Toast
I agree conversations between David and Karl is a tv series they need to make.
My brother is called David Mitchell so it always makes me laugh to hear his name online and on the tv 😂
This helps me. I'm struggling right now.
God bless
Thanks guys for this! Great way to round off Boxing Day 😂😂
Thanks for bringing this back. There's also a compilation of him on a show called QI which is just as good
I love how David and Lee always pretend that they hate each other when on the show; actually they're good friends irl.
Tell me any show in north America that gets so crazy like this show.
It's one of my absolute favourites! Task master is a close 2nd.
OMG the suggestion of David meeting Karl Pilkington had me laughing so much.
Taskmaster is brilliant, but they need to watch an entire episode to really get it. They could probably do the first episode of each season, this way they get to see an array of comedians in the U.K, as each set of comedians are for each season. It’s also on UA-cam it’s in entirety, by channel four.
@Britishshadow I agree, and I think that people would watch full episodes, too. It's best for both WILTY and Taskmaster to really get the full impact of the shows
The 'American guy' from 'The Arrow' is actually Scottish😂
Was watching this on my holiday in Australia while on the toilet. Now I’m scared.
Awesome, guys. Thanks for uploading. Happy New Year! 🍻🇺🇸🇬🇧👍
That was an amazing parade of British celebrities.
You *need* to see the Mack Speed compilation next with all of Lee's quick wit
I don't know about iPods because I'm not interested in Apple, but we still use CDs and computers in the 2020s.
Then there’s Bob. Bob Mortimer!
Two guys explaining what being contrarian is less than 10 minutes after vowing they refuse to use the word ‘whom’, no matter what anyone says.
Okay…
Thank you for your content It has brought a smile to my face and I am English..... I would like to wish you both a very happy New Year And all the best for the year to come.
Sir Douglas Usher MBE
I love my cats BECAUSE they're assholes! Merry Christmas guys!!!
Yes it's John Barrowman from the Arrow. He's in Dr Who too. He became very popular in the UK and was in a number of things here.
Merry 🎄 to you both, enjoy your Boxing Day 👍🏻 😀
Thank you for the laughs and so much more this year 💖
Peace, love and all blessings to you and yours 🕊🥰🕯🎄🎶🎸🤶
Unbelievable love it so much who gets this worked up about anything so good love this guys thank you
You wonder how David's wife deals with him? His wife, Victoria, at least on TV, is like the female version of him (though not as intensely angry). So I assume they share roughly the same opinions. Not to mention he is hopelessly in love with his wife as mentioned in his autobiography.
lads it's twee not tweed. tweed is a material/cloth, twee is sort of syrupy sentimentalism. it's used as a light put down to refer to something as a little bit twee, david thought lee was implying david was a little bit twee.
Happy boxing day bits lads, hope you've both had good Christmases so far!
So good - Daniel, Spencer, love watching you watching this, it makes it funnier. David and Lee sparing on WILTY really is up there amongst the funniest of all comedy
Happy New Year lads, love seeing you both happy, you brighten the day.
I am a cynic . I trust nothing on the screen but you blokes make me laugh honestly.
I back up CDs onto my computer and then put them on my phone - usually if the CD is cheaper than the download.
Just use UA-cam or Spotify?
I think Alexander would be the _perfect_ name for a Great Dane. It would read "Alexander The Great..... Dane".
We once had two Samoyeds. They were named Socrates and Odysseus - Socks and Odie, for short.
Merry Christmas guys, hope you're staying warm! The neck-end of two hours of you reacting to David Mitchell is an incredible christmas gift, cheers lads! Also, I've had the forbidden tea-coffee mix once. It wasn't terrible but was very disappointing - like coffee with all the edge taken off. I'm team coffee too but only drip-filtered coffee or whatever you call it when you put ground coffee in a metal or paper filter and just pour hot water through it; I have like 5 huge cups a day 😆
Yep, his name's John Barrowman and he's best known in the UK for playing Captain Jack Harkness in Dr Who and its spinoffs.
David on the warmish sausage roll toss is in my top 5. Half shaved beard in there too.😂
Definitely watch British film from year 2000 called Sexy Beast it's awesome
Indeed, it is awesome!
I agreed with Rhod on that point though. You do fly off a turned off escalator more than you do a set of stairs. The reason is that stairs on an escalator are further apart
John barrowman was the dark archer in arrow and captain jack harkness in Dr who
Re: Rhod coming to the top of a flight of stairs, I think David's wrong. It's not the same experience, I get the same illusion of rushing off. I think the difference, which David is overlooking, is that at the top of an escalator, the steps get gradually lower and lower, so the effort required to raise yourself in the last few steps DOES actually get less and less, but the perceived effort required remains the same and you apply too much effort and shoot off the top with ease.
I also think Rhod is right in that there are probably some animals out there who like Marmite 🤣
Re CD's, vinyl has made a big comeback in recent years, and I think CDs may as well, especially once people realise streaming is not all it's cracked up to be. If someone pulls the plug on their server, you lose access. But if you have the media and a means of playing it at home, it's yours to keep forever.
Thick and dense are both difficult to penetrate (with knowledge or common sense) Raspberry comes from Cockney rhyming slang, raspberry tart rhymes with fart.😊 Another word which can cause confusion is fanny which in the US is backside but in the UK is a female front bottom
I downloaded over 2,000 tracks onto my laptop and lost the lot when it crashed. That happened twice. I can't be bothered to do it again, so I went back to my vinyl. :-(
Potpourri is a mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant materials used to provide a gentle natural scent, commonly in residential settings.
John Barrowman who played Malcolm Merlin on Arrow is very well known in UK as a present, singer, entertainer and probably most famous for his role in Doctor Who as Captain Jack
Here are some Cockney Bible extracts if you want to put on your best Cockney accent to read them...
The Lord's Prayer
Hello, Dad, up there in good ol’ Heaven,
Your name is well great and holy, and we respect you, Guv.
We hope we can all ‘ave a butcher’s at Heaven and be there as soon as possible: and we want to make you happy, Guv, and do what you want ‘ere on earth, just like what you do in Heaven.
Guv, please give us some Uncle Fred, and enough grub and stuff to keep us going today, and we hope you’ll forgive us when we cock things up, just like we’re supposed to forgive them who annoy us and do dodgy stuff to us.
There’s a lot of dodgy people around, Guv; please don’t let us get tempted to do bad things.
Help keep us away from all the nasty, evil stuff, and keep that dodgy Satan away from us, ‘cos you’re much stronger than ‘im.
Your the Boss, God, and will be for ever, innit?
Cheers, Amen.
"
Jesus Calms the Storm
One evening, Jesus said to his chinas, “Let’s go to the other side of this ‘ere lake.”
So they left all the people, and the disciples got into the nanny and set orf. There were quite a few other nannies there too.
And then, would you Adam and Eve it, a huge wind started to blow up, and the waves got so bloomin’ big that they began to spill into the nanny. It got to the stage where the nanny was almost gonna fill up with fisherman’s.
Despite all this, Jesus was at the back of the nanny ‘aving a feather, lying there with his loaf on a pillow. The disciples woke him up and said, “Teacher, we’re about to die. Don’t you care?”
Jesus got up from his little feather and shouted at the wind, “Oi, be quiet!” and he said to the waves, “Oi, be still!” The wind suddenly died dahn, and it became really calm. Jesus then said to his chinas, “What is it with you lot? Why were you all so frightened? Do you still not have faith?”
But the disciples were in a right ol’ two and eight.