American Reacts MITCHELL AND WEBB - Casino Royale REACTION

[@crustychris2]

They are all traditional english summer fair games and prizes 😂

[@paulmidsussex3409]

Guess the weight of the cake is one of the British equivalents of guess the number of jelly beans in the jar. The other activities are typical fair games.

[@shadout]

That's the first time I've seen this m&w sketch and I couldn't stop laughing all through it.

[@bobothn]

These are all fairly common games you might have at a fund raising event in the UK. Just played like a high stakes casino of course.

[@yzolakitchi]

Whack the rat! A classic. I have a photo of me and my best friend running this at our junior school summer fete. There was also welly wanging (throw a rubber boot the furthest) and cow pat bingo (a section of field is taped into squares, you choose a square and place a bet, the cow is led in and if it deposits a pat in your square ... you win!)

[@howardchambers9679]

This would go down well in Texas

[@kawa-rimono]

We used to call it splat the rat

[@MrAronRobinson]

We called it Bat the Rat. I set up my own stall at summer school fete too! A nice memory brought back…

[@spartakistmk2557]

The croupier in this sketch (you first see him at 2:41) is John Finnemore, who co-wrote a lot of Mitchell & Webb's skits before going on to do his own fantastic radio sketch show. I'm not 100% sure, but there's a fair chance he came up with the concept for this one, because it's absolutely his brand of wackiness and absurdity.

[@graememorrison333]

"FINNEMORE!!"

[@alundavies1016]

He had a really good radio programme, I listen to it on BBC sounds when it turns up.

[@rensprout]

Cabin Pressure and Souvenir Programme are both excellent 👍

[@alundavies1016]

@ Benedict C in an early role

[@alundavies1016]

@ a load still available on BBC sounds. When I was renovating my house for 6 months I listened to him a lot.

[@ianmcsherry5254]

If you ever get over to Scotland, a fine part of the Highlands to visit is the Black Mount Estate, near Loch Tulla, off the main A82 road towards Glencoe. The estate belongs to the Fleming family, Ian Fleming being the original creator of James Bond. He drew on his WW2 experience in British Intelligence to create Bond, but also his older brother, who is remembered as a "soldier and traveller", and is buried on the estate. Handily, the spot for what has become an iconic scene from "Skyfall", with Bond and M standing by the Aston Martin DB4 in a misty glen isn't far away, in Glen Etive, also off that same main road.

[@philrob1978]

So silly and ridiculous, but very funny. Therefore right up my alley. The muppertry is strong in this one!

[@chrisparti]

The 'Linden tree' sketch is their finest by far... Guaranteed side splitter

[@SuperKillekille]

I really hope you watch at some point two of my favorite sketches of Mitchell and Webb Look 1. The Quiz Broadcast. A quiz show to lighten the mood of the survivors inside of the bunker aftermath of the "event"...😮 2. Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, where to drunks think they are Sherlock Holmes... or something😅.

[@graemejones5968]

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is the best series of sketches they've done. I also like the visit to a garden centre where Mitchell's character is kidnapped by a hidden tribe who live behind the shrubs for sale. Can't remember which episode that was. Oh, & the magic flute.

[@ReddwarfIV]

​@@graemejones5968I wonder if that garden centre had any half-price pots

[@SuperKillekille]

@ oh yeah, those are great ones as well😂🤣

[@anitahargreaves9526]

First time I laughed in a few hours. I needed this, thank you Boomer, Merry Christmas to you, your family and subscribers. 🎄🇬🇧👵❤

[@DevotionToChaos]

Love the new intro! :D And I am so glad that I can freely enjoy being a muppet here, a darn great feeling

[@szmytke]

The two guys giving him info and Mark Evans - writer of shows including Bleak Expectations (Dickens parody) and James Bachman, a comedy regular (also in Bleak Expectations, Sorry I've Got Bo Head etc)

[@brianrobinson7984]

Wacky? Wait until you see Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. 🤣🤣🤣

[@NataliePine]

Last time I was this early, he was Prince Boomer

[@watchvidjedi]

Brilliant stuff! Sketch A1 your reaction A1+ Laughed my arse off

[@Zso-VIII]

4:30 No, that's not Alan Davies

[@jackbassindale4336]

I also thought it was him at first, though

[@Yora21]

Fat Alan Davies does not exist.

[@kosefix]

He was in IT Crowd. He wanted to tell Roy the ending to that Korean movie in the cannibal episode.

[@JohnSmall314]

Guess the weight of a cake is a standard game at small town charity events in the UK. But it's not played like that. There's one cake and the competition goes on for the duration of the event. At the end of the event the person who guessed closest to the right weight wins. And the goldfish in plastic bags, hilarious. It's all the sort of thing you get at a country fair.

[@informedchoice2249]

It's not Alan Davies it's James Bachmann. He's in a lot of M&W.

[@Sinewmire]

As others have rightly said, the joke here is that the games are all the sort of thing you'd see in a small village or church fair in the UK, and are generally seen as very silly and a bit old fashioned but still instantly recognisable. It's such a British sketch! The first man we see throwing darts at cards wins a teddy, and tears off the arm and gives it to the attendant because cards gamblers are expected to give a sizeable casino chip or two to the croupier if they win as a tip. Really, when you think about it, is it any sillier than a card game for big money?

[@JackNap1er14]

I am surprised King Boomer hasn't actually bought a puppet/muppet of himself and made an intro/s with it

[@richin2123]

I hope to God that King Boomer reads your comment and does exactly that.

[@deanrutland9047]

The ‘Guess The Weight Of The Cake’ croupier is played by John Finnemore: a fantastic comedy writer and sometime actor. You should have a listen to some of his radio comedy show: John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme (start with the earlier series)

[@richin2123]

This is one of my two favorite epic-length Mitchell & Webb sketches! The other is the spoof of the Illuminati, which is on YT somewhere under the title "Secret Society".

[@saltech3444]

Considering how silly a game Baccarat is, I think Frappez le Rat would quite a step up.

[@saltech3444]

I remember hearing somewhere that the crew spent a vast amount of time trying to get the shot at 8:32 where the rat actually gets wacked. Eventually Webb got sick of trying; they dragged the rat up the pipe with a string and shot it in reverse.

[@travisbickle2004]

The cricket sketch they did is extreme muppetism, it might also teach KB a thing or two about cricket, such as never calling the bat narrow and bowling a wide 😂

[@graememorrison333]

As below, these are all games that you'd find on a small stall in an English county fair. The whack-a-rat game is also Frenchified and made posh and hints at a Chemin-de-Fer or Baccarat dealing machine

[@seijika46]

Gotta love a Finnemore cameo.

[@yester30]

ffff I I only recognized him now To be fair, we usually just hear him, and not in French x)

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Hennimoooooore!

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

they got 1 more of him, in his lair. so silly :)

[@Bob-bo8ik]

Check out Vectron and LInden tree sketches.

[@MrHotsnakes]

He's gone rogue!

[@AgentOccam]

"Numberwang!" If you haven't already done it, is pretty mad.

[@robster-vision475]

Guess the weight of the cake is a very very very old uk traditional game, usually at a chirch fayre

[@Cristorbius]

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[@justacommenter]

You need to watch their sketch Flamingo World next

[@bernardmcmahon351]

Like your reactions KB, you definitely get our humour

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

You owe me a new heart for that intro, King of the Tyrant Lizards Boomer

[@NiallBradley-pg6ge]

Bat The Rat: every year at our school fair. This is just English tradition.

[@Tom-z1l2p]

Ok you might not see this however there is a very old Mitchell and Webb called "the pit pony" its animated. To me this sums up British Comedy. I think you would love it now you understand the British sense of humour..

[@scipioafricanus5871]

00:02 muppet-trucker!

[@50thunderer26]

Sarah Hadland. She's fantastic.

[@brianlewis8457]

Cheesoid is one of my favourite Mitchell and Webb sketches - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIDJlqadoM2cock

[@JacknVictor]

Reminded me of our junior school open day's in the 1989's, with the crap table top games, and sad, sub par fun fair type games and raffles with the most shite prizes imaginable, consisting of mainly donated items such as out of date cans of food, probably left over from the harvest festival, soaps and half empty bottles of perfume, second hand soft toys or unwanted bottom shelf sweets that nobody liked. Also, the obligatory bottle of cheap wine, something like lambrini or blue nun, that, even though it was a school open day fete for 7-11 year olds, for some reason, a donated bottle of cheap alcohol was deemed as a suitable prize for this occasion. What was even worse though, was if, on one of these dubious games, you won yourself a prize that your family had actually donated in the first place, possibly in an attempt to try to get rid of whatever it was, and then you went and won it, and had to take it back home again to go back in the cupboard it had originally come out of, until you donated it again at the next years school fete.

[@alanhogg9939]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is obviously the best Bond film :-)

[@jamesohara4295]

Still waiting on "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar".

[@misterprecocious2491]

FOOD FIGHT, the Swedish chef versus Gordon Ramsay, BEGIN😂😂😂, yah Muppet.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

4:30 - you're thinking of Alan Davies. No, that's not him :) Everyone else is mentioning the summer fair/school fete think, but I don't think anyone has translated that to you "sideshow games at a County Fair"...

[@ChloeAndBetty]

I hate Skyfall, Bond got M killed, no need for her to even be there... Absolutely F'ing Stupid!

[@gjsykes7924]

I'll mention it again, the classic Mitchell and Webb sketch Dead British Actors is a must watch. Well worth it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4KofIqLf66kj9ksi=5fATT_B3pa2rAat5

[@briandoyle6188]

These are all garden fete or rose queen type table games you would of seen there back in the day 🤗😆😆

[@Yora21]

"Eww..." 😝

[@iainlittle4735]

A suggestion for you are the 31 episodes of Red Dwarf original UK version once you've laughed your guts out then watch Smegups which are the even funnier out-takes to the shows which you're likely to appreciate more once you know the episodes. Have fun.

[@natmanprime4295]

Nice

[@colinwilson4609]

I was hoping for Whack a Mole.

[@CyanicusTwice]

You should react to "The Goes Wrong Show". I'm not going to say anything other than "90 degrees" is one of my favourites.

[@lawsonic]

Have seen Mitchell and Webb's Kitchen Nightmares & American Idol ?

[@ChloeAndBetty]

No it's not Alan Davies, he is too bigger star to play bit parts like that and he is the only guest that is on QI every week.

[@rlawrence9838]

They're just kids fairground games

[@MaxLynch-hr4km]

Pls react to “The Royale Family” a family from Salford Manchester where their lives revolve around the tv . I think you’ll love it

[@bashab3098]

Sky fall is just ridiculous.

[@garywordsworth9302]

Armstrong and Miller do an amazing spoof of the Ipcress file featuring the anti bond Harry Palmer , called Half priced pots which is rather better than this one

[@brianm1608]

Love Mitchell & Webb! 👍 As King Boomer is (like me) a big history fan I hugely recommend their "New Fuhrer" sketch - to him & fellow Boomerites! Absolute classic! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIrdYnR6qdl8Z8ksi=3-lbRLGfxqmdqey1

[@Lousfw]

Why did you stop reacting to peep show?

[@jackbassindale4336]

He didn't, but he kept getting copyright strikes for his YT uploads so they're Patreon only I believe

[@bl0tt44]

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[@blackdragoncyrus]

Whack the rat...

[@ftroop2000]

I don't like these guys show, but this was funny in parts😂

[@darrenkennedy2231]

If your ever looking for a good series to watch... Watch love hate Irish crime series

[@polythenewrappedme6102]

King Boomer lost it. Yep. Gone. Goodbye.

[@ComaDave]

#SirDigbyChickenCaesar2025

[@iainprendergast8311]

A spoof on British a fete which is a spring summer village/town quaint harmless fun. The circus hasn’t come to town so you make your own fun . The fun for me is we did go metric but we are still in the imperial system which you guys in the USA wholeheartedly took on and haven’t backed away from at all . We get the best of both worlds . That’s another reason why Europe were pissed off with us. By the way, I’m completely European and I didn’t vote for Brexit .

[@matthewsmith5492]

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