A Salute to Dean Learner

A Living Treasure

[@jimmyjimbo72]

"I call Garth the Orson Wells of horror, and that's not just because of his weight."

[@danmaftei7633]

4:10 "I am self-taught. In fact, I've made it a point of honor never to learn anything from anyone else." brilliant

[@slipgatetourist4929]

saem hear

[@walterzamalis4846]

But his surname is learner.....

[@AwfulWaffle8474]

" i won't put in semi-colons, this isn't Joyce"

[@josephhopper6924]

westben2000 I scrolled down to quote this and it was the first comment. Thank you.

[@Filbi]

It's amazing how Richard Ayoade looks 20 years older as Dean Learner just because of the mustache. Over a decade later, the real guy still looks younger than the character.

[@TheDarkHour684]

And the little bit of grey in the afro really sells it!

[@McNeillR]

Richard Ayoade is just a character Dean has been playing for the last twenty years.

[@pennydesouza]

'Understood?' 'As crystal'.

[@MooffinMan]

"I think Garth, in terms of caliber of artist will be remembered up with the very best, he'll be remembered in the same breath as Rick Astley" THEY KNEW MAN. THEY KNEW.

[@B-26354]

From memory the Rick Astley meme had been around then.

[@thenightbladefeeds]

​@@B-26354The show came out in the beginning of 2004. Rickrolling became popular on KZbin in like 2006-2007.

[@freem8son86]

You have to listen to the commentary track to get the full Dean Learner experience. He's so dodgy it's hilarious. He constantly refers to Madeline Wool as "dead Maddy" and insists that her body will never, ever be found lmao.

[@SebNutter]

It's always nice to hear Dean's enlightened views on employing females and burgeoning sexuality in minors.

[@marsisamazingilys]

If that's how you treat your friends, imagine how you treat your enemies! Worse, I expect!

[@adrianthomas4163]

@ 3:16. Just NOW noticed he cups her ass with his hand! LMMFAO. Love rewatching this show to pick up on small details like that.

[@lwplwp]

I just read where he was considered for the role of Dr Who. I wish.....

[@yellowblanka6058]

An inspired decision to interject him firing the shotgun randomly between clips, hahaha.

[@sylph8005]

“Teleke-what?”

[@DannyWilliamH]

You forgot to add the many unsolved murders surrounding Dean that surely have nothing to do with him rofl

[@poptart6662012]

There was a short lived spin off series called Man to Man with Dean Learner- all 6 episodes are on here. Its also genius. Youre welcome.

[@SMacCuUladh]

I remember watching that one night I was really high and thinking it was one of the best things I'd ever seen and I couldn't believe it was on the telly. Highly under-rated show.

[@kensssa9375]

I forgot all about darkplace! adult swim had it years ago then it seems all the bbc content just disappeared, including mighty boosh. This show is criminally underrated

[@Klausinator451]

1:44 Dean messed up his line, love that. "Understood?" "As crystal."

[@ArcanePath360]

lol, I never noticed that before. This show is so layered. All these years later I'm only now appreciating the intentionally bad sound design. Ironically it's more difficult to have sound this bad, with obvious jump cuts and different room acoustics between shots, than it is to just record it normally.

[@ThejollyFrenchman]

I love the way Richard breaks character during the "13 and up" bit.

[@FinalConsensus]

Or does he further immerse himself?

[@paulstella8443]

Dean's interview segments are the best distillations of libertarianism I've heard

[@Alexus1138]

I will generally put in punctuation, I see that as my job. Garth does one draft, he doesn't want to dull it by constantly revising; he'll do one draft. And he'll often elect to omit punctuation. That's his call. I will put in commas, I won't put in semi-colons; this isn't Joyce. I will omit dashes, again this isn't French writing. I will make sure sentences start with capital letters - that's what they're called. I will make sure the book is long enough, or should I say thick enough? And that could be a question of adding more words, it could be a question of making the paper thicker; depends what we've got time for. I, in consultation with Garth, will view the cover. Are there too many skeletons on this cover? Is this skull big enough? Could we fit more maggots on? Should bits of this book be pop-up? Questions like that, so it is creative.

[@sylph8005]

You should watch Garth’s interview with IGN where he goes out of his way to say a sentence while using the wrong punctuation. He says every punctuation out loud

[@thatdexyguy9870]

"I beg your pudding."

[@MrBuch169169]

I'm yet to see ANY demons on the ward, and I'm particularly observant!

[@wbl_unlimited]

The greatest character on this show.

[@fingerscoyle]

Thank you. 　Newton. Dickens. Churchill. Learner. Great Englishmen.

[@XxGreatScythexX]

Richard's fame is increasing at an incredible rate, I hope everyone else in this show gets the recognition they deserve!

[@FoxyPinkGirl]

Matt Berry is huge now here in the States

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

​@@FoxyPinkGirlRichards university comedy writing partner was John Oliver who's also doing very well in the States

[@MichaelCasanovaMusic]

"Get lost!"

[@Skoshtwo]

I absolutely adored the show, and I'm from Serbia! Need I say more...need I say more.

[@nurfuerverrueckte]

I'm watching "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" right now. Arthur Christiansen has a role in this movie and his acting is so terrible, I had to pause and come here. His intonation reminds me so much of Dean Learner in Darkplace.

[@KevGee]

this is going to be the most significant television event since Quantum Leap.......

[@mookie714]

I can't get enough of that shotgun!

[@patpettite]

Awesome tribute to an awesome actor

[@SuperNintendawg]

He's not putting on an act. He's putting on the truth.

[@kebabsvein1]

Name a more iconic duo. Thornton Reed and his shotgun

[@ChronoKatie]

How on Earth did these people get any shots done. I'd never be able to stop laughing.

[@5orgen51]

Matt Berry is my favorite, but Ayoade steals every scene in this horror drama series.

[@rick.d]

"Now he's knocking on BOTH DOORS!"

[@DrewzViewz]

"It beggars belief!"

[@rare6499]

‘Turn the other way’ lmao

[@JasonAFlintham]

“My arse is grarse” is something I need to start using more.

[@BlazingOwnager]

The only good thing I can say about Darkplace only lasting 6 episodes is that it is literally the perfect show There's no bad episodes, pure gold start to finish

[@Demendred]

What a great video. Dean himself would give it aces.

[@AwfulWaffle8474]

the only way they can ruin this show is if they start acting well....thats why i love this show haha

[@theoriginalvideo-schmideoc905]

Dean Learner...Never met a pump-action shotgun he wouldn't shoot!

[@xhyipslaugw5407]

Still wonderful all these years later!

[@elhorrendo7026]

As an all-round actor, Matt Berry is so damned underrated. Especially by the yanks and the French... But no surprise there. No offence to you ignorant yanks or you filthy, stinking frogs... I knew you'd understand 😅

[@elhorrendo7026]

Dean Learner is an awesome, shady character. Aoade brings out his shadiness every chance he gets. And he gets a lot... If chances, I mean. He gets them. Chances. Many. "DEAN!"

[@Munedawg]

"It's not a popular view, I know."

[@noodle-bomb5354]

the greatest living englishman!

[@eperrin669]

Remember people he's putting on the truth

[@melhope]

Needs some Dean on a dirt bike.

[@FoxyPinkGirl]

“Pull over I say!” With a megaphone in hand to the Harry ape lol

[@deaconlambeaux2716]

The editor was too busy just staying alive!

[@agdgdgwngo]

Is the book long enough, or rather is the book thick enough? Sometimes it's a question of adding more words... Sometimes it's a question of making the paper thicker

[@FoxyPinkGirl]

Or a pop up book lol

[@RichardX1]

And sometimes it's a question of increasing the font size

[@ellagrace810]

I just saw "The Watch" and it does, in fact, feature Richard Ayoade with a shotgun.

[@sweiland75]

Why didn't this last longer in the UK? Didn't they think it was funny? Maybe it's because of my different sense of humour as a Canadian, but I thought this was hilarious.

[@funghazi]

They showed it late at night and it got terrible ratings. :(

[@ThejollyFrenchman]

I think the show was simply ahead of its time. In this era it would have done better.

[@jasonbrown6113]

Somehow I'm always surprised and cracked up by the Quantum Leap reference on a British TV show. I know our pop culture goes back and forth but it just wasn't a show I ever thought about having been aired there.

[@dongargon763]

Deans other show. Full series kzbin.info/aero/PLNO6IYq6SI9UEwM-hu_xtAaZb8sU9tDT0

[@UberNeuman]

I just hope he doesn't give me a knuckle supper!

[@Leon-pu3vm]

Legendary legendary asf

[@mmscott9]

Dean's cat disliked this. It survived the sofa.

[@MrBuch169169]

And sometimes there IS!

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

3:15 Dean totally not turning the other way from a woman aged 13 and up

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

"And sometimes there is..." Well said.

[@shazledazzle]

Thank you. Richard's perfect.

[@AutomaticDuck300]

@spgllif, ha yes. "I think it's sad that we had to censor the erection. We've all got one. Let's get on with it. I could have one now and you wouldn't know. I don't though."

[@elhorrendo7026]

Daen Learner is the best B-grade character ever. I agree with Dean's philosophy about driving drunk. I am great at driving, despite what the police or the local council have to say about the stoby pole erected in my honour. I am in fact better at driving drunk than I am sober... And I'm a bloody good driver sober... So just imagine how well imagine myself driving when I'm of my tits!

[@lawjef]

Guy Beahm heard the jokes about 13 year olds and thought it was permission

[@RIXRADvidz]

I love it when my little caramelized brain cell gets origami'd into a paper dart and sticks up inside the funny part of my cranium...and then this comes along and makes it wiggle around and gives me the weirdest case of the giggles.....hmmmmmmmm could it be Ayoade Syndrome?

[@Grinningfartking6969]

dean learner is a legend

[@Fi1988]

4:23 Flying objects?? It beggars belief!

[@RIUUI007]

4:21 best part

[@NorthWalesKid]

“Cool it Sanchez or you’ll get a knuckle supper” 😂

[@rupertpupkin77]

I'd prefer a beer

[@Xervello]

Teleki-what?

[@romythayers]

so fucking good.

[@Autopsy6]

Thornton Reed: He is particularly observant.

[@ArcanePath360]

they could add more words, or make the paper thicker - genius solutions

[@mgm8013]

@westben2000 Are you implying that the acting in this is anything short of superb? To portray something so satirically and make it this funny is genius. The fact that they're being ironic makes it GOOD acting, surely? If they were acting poorly, it wouldn't be funny.

[@Tina_Fay]

i dont know wtf I was just watching but he is FIT. mmm

[@macaveli9689]

PUMP ACTION

[@shelbysteverson4841]

Can anyone explain to me how a dead cat is a tax right off?

[@beaudjangles]

great editing!

[@thewkovacs316]

ayoade doesnt age

[@ohiocomando345]

He stole the show

[@HarryDuBois616]

Telekawhat?

[@butterchicken4771]

I once punched a child actor in the face

[@max_mittler]

1:14 cool it sanchez or you'll get a knuckle supper

[@JonnieFarrow]

MOAR SHOTGUN!

[@tarynned]

I wont put in semicolons.. THIS ISN'T JOYCE!!

[@b0lkan]

@tarynned That's ingenious.

[@raddimusmcchoyber3362]

Tristan Tate

[@YourPalHDee]

RIchard Ayoade is awesome xD

[@UltraMegaSandwich]

Understood? As crystal.

[@max_mittler]

understood? As crystal.

[@eddjordan2399]

13 14 come on.

[@oliviaconstanzewoodward-wh7361]

telly kawhat?

[@johnet03]

IT CROWD!

[@MrCryospark]

@fingerscoyle who are those other guys? there is only lerner

[@FortunateJuice]

4:41

[@RasputinReview]

holyeeeeeee shit

[@deaconlambeaux2716]

@6:31

[@Quadcoreification]

@TheFALSESPECTRUM I don't get it...

[@J.L.Media.]

Enough of the shotgun.

[@shrimpflea]

+Kasey Escape...More of the shotgun!

[@jdg574]

@Quadcoreification thats the joke

[@scottbaron]

1:57

[@Quadcoreification]

if he couldn't act then why did they use him? Seem's ridiculous to me

[@boldertits]

The only funny black person on tv in Britain.