Digital Communication - That Mitchell and Webb Look

Digital communication in the office, from That Mitchell and Webb Look

[@artofwargh]

"your keenness to avoid humorous misunderstandings is one of your more appealing qualities..."

[@darkprose]

"Is this going to be the new problem?" This is has been my mantra for years dealing with, well, people.

[@hayberdasher8625]

Like Douglas Adams said: "People are a problem"

[@LittleDrummrBoy]

Hello from a decade ago! This was my exact response 😂

[@somegirl558]

I don't wanna go there, but I know what you mean..

[@Macho_Fantastico]

You know David wrote this sketch.

[@fedbia2003]

Oh yeah, you can definitely tell who wrote the sketches on their own. Anyone know what these guys are up to these days?

[@Inorisso]

Webb I dunno, Mitchell does his radio show "The Unbelieveable Truth" and writes articles, while also doing tv-shows.^^

[@fedbia2003]

Awesome, thanks for that, do you know what articles he writes. Trying to follow him, but it seems to be more difficult than I would have guessed. Thanks again!

[@Inorisso]

No problem, here's a link to his page on The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/profile/davidmitchell I recommend following him on Twitter, his Articles goes up there and sometimes other nice little bits of infromation. :)

[@lightweed]

Webb looks for all the world here like a (beardless) Rixhard Branson on the make

[@jaimevarela5800]

13 years later and bluetooth is still a pain

[@HartyBiker]

It's good for music and that's about it

[@henkdetenk3480]

Sending files though it yes, headphones are great though

[@Vladimir_Fedorov27]

IR Port times were excitig though)))

[@Elukka]

@@HartyBiker "Oh come on why won't it pair? Oh, right, it's paired to your phone, okay, undo that... Okay, now it can't see it. Lemme try to turn it off and on again. Or turn Bluetooth on my phone off and on again. Nope, still doesn't see it. Oh, there we go. What, the pairing failed?"

[@nog297]

@@henkdetenk3480 Um no the quality is subperior and the range is also subperior and it quite often won't pair. It's not great.

[@adamhughes1350]

I can't believe I never noticed how he asks for the number of 'sad Kerry' rather than the one he calls 'gorgeous'.

[@McDADDyK]

how could you not it's said 3 times

[@lukecarroll4052]

Actually he asked for rebound carrey

[@digitig]

Presumably because he's on the rebound from gorgeous Kerry.

[@danielguy3581]

@@peterclarke7240 Such a weird statement, considering David did actually marry Victoria Coren.

[@nghakabeita3198]

I've recently stumbled across these guys and they are hilarious

[@MrPoutPout64]

You should watch Peep Show too mate

[@curtaingamer6900]

Mate watch :the football sketch, are we the baddies?, can people levitate?, the cheese argument, cheesoid, big talk, small talk, vectron, the British emergency broadcast, everything is fine, those are just a couple great ones in my opinion, also peep show is pretty great, and if you’re hungry for more they more recently released a show on all 4 called Back:)

[@jonvitullo748]

I’m American and British comedy has helped me get through many months of this suck we are all living through. Garth Marenghi. Peep Show (Super Hans), mighty boosh, toast of London, IT crowd. And of course these guys. So much great stuff out there.

[@barryh.5409]

​@@curtaingamer6900hail be to almighty vectron

[@A..Shadow..]

​@@jonvitullo748 I'm American too. You ever watched Misfits? It's so whacky but hilarious.

[@AnarchistMetalhead]

i love the lines "you mean casanova" "oh, so you really do fancy your chances"

[@matthewrandell5055]

AnarchistMetalhead saaame I feel like it didn't really land which is a shame

[@hmq9052]

It doesn't really work. Did he mean Caravaggio then? And he knows the difference? Or is he side stepping his mistake, using the good fortune of Cassanova being mentioned and knowing who that is?

[@JenniferRademaker]

"Fine. I'm turning on blue tooth. I want to die" lol This happens to me frequently

[@Badartist888]

The effort put into sets for some rather silly few minutes of jokes always amazes me in this show.

[@iplayzthegames6968]

I recall when the Sony Ericsson was all the rage and people just mashed their phones together like this when Bluetooth was first on phones

[@MrSporkster]

'Colin, it's digital information, not salt!' :D

[@MrTim207]

I like how David the Luddite is the only one of the two that has a PC on his desk.

[@InsertNameHere803]

David looks at the camera at about 1:00. It's amazing.

[@nativeafroeurasian]

If you place the time stamp without contact to other caracters (like this: 1:04 ) you can click on it and don't need to adjust the timeline but it then does that automatically ;)

[@glipk]

@@nativeafroeurasian A lot has changed in 8 years man. Cut the guy some slack

[@Hankblue]

@@glipk 😂😂😂

[@McDADDyK]

Fun Fact: That number is still in use to this day.

[@marcokite]

ooops

[@ΤάσοςΚαυσοκαλυβίτης]

Is Carry still up to it though? That's the important question aahaha :P

[@IGoDoubleHat]

Back when just tossing a phone on the table like that didn't really worry anyone.

[@runawayplane6166]

Looks like the most laidback workplace in the world.

[@boiledelephant]

Bluetooth and IR were so amazingly shit.

[@Darkwisdom9]

+boiledelephant were?

[@SuperSquishface]

+C G0R3Z Yes, were.

[@Darkwisdom9]

People still use them.

[@gunjyguylyricshiphop3906]

+boiledelephant well it was good when it was the only way to fileshare with a mobile

[@Colaglass]

+boiledelephant Bluetooth works, the first IR for mobile was the most shitty experience of my life...

[@paulspydar]

This sketch reminds me of "The IT crowd" even David Mitchell`s voice sounds like Moss...:-)

[@robbie2951]

Brilliant.

[@mistersparkrle]

did you see that ludicrous display last night?

[@MOS6582]

Wow this sketch aged fast!

[@rosaleenauk]

Lol, I love Colin! I think these two should have a spin off show.

[@dnaseb9214]

They do

[@sangodan3031]

@@dnaseb9214 cheers mate

[@turnsout689]

250 likes? I'm afraid that's NOT Numberwang!

[@Sid-jx4gl]

Numberwang!!!

[@SacredNutrino]

It's like if peepshow was more camp and filmed infront of a live audience

[@chicklechives]

"cheeper than texting" back in the day

[@turnsout689]

100 likes! That's Numberwang!

[@ba-wp5zs]

@@TheDoowllams Bad grammar. We'll have to go to Wordwang.

[@NickKeighley]

I've actually done this in a pub. Ended up writing it on a beermat

[@L.i.am95]

"Casanova is it? You really do fancy your chances" idk why this one didnt get a laugh, loved thaf

[@hmq9052]

Because structurally it's poor. The Caravaggio part makes no sense. Does he know who Cassanova is but not Caravaggio?

[@brim4brim]

Bluetooth is useful for transferring MP3's between phones that haven't had 90% of features removed to please invested interests...

[@ExBruinsFan]

They use the character name "Colin" a lot.

[@frcluc]

Sounds slightly like colon.

[@SchlumberttheHumble]

It's a funny name

[@Iamawesomenorly]

Danish is also a pastry. So it could be that she's danish, has danish ancestors(which is more likely than not) or works in a cafeteria selling danish.

[@chrishaddow5644]

Better than anything on the telly now

[@smnoy23]

Love that Casanova line

[@RichardHeiney]

And that's a numberwang!

[@randidno]

So true! Living in Japan, this is often how Japanese transfer contact or as I like to put it "telephone sex", invariably there is some problem, someone has not turned their connection etc. Invariably, it is easier to insist on using a pen and paper!

[@CarlosAntonioBrown]

I'm SO going to use the nought thousand bit hahaha :D

[@JackT13]

This weirdly reminds me of Mark and Jeremy

[@mockturtlesuppe]

I see it too. They even sorta look like they guys who play them.

[@morganstiefvater1693]

+Mijacogeo Words cannot express how much I love that comment.

[@sauercrowder]

+Mijacogeo they have some similar mannerisms and ways of speaking too, it's almost uncanny

[@unlostm8]

You milked it, sauercrowder!

[@OrchidEleven]

Maybe because they're the same actors

[@cookieflower]

Webb is an amazing comic actor...

[@wisteela]

I want one of those old LCD monitors.

[@HamletsUnderstudy]

We he finally read it out, he did it in a Shipping Forecast voice.

[@captain-poppleton]

I have so little success using bluetooth that I sometimes think it doesn't really exist.

[@npickle54]

How

[@iamadooddood4331]

Everyone seems to be getting Kerry's name wrong. "It's just that in predictive text, Kerry comes out Jerry"

[@somegirl558]

I perceive DM as a logic and mind saviour.

[@prathamjohnkamath]

This is exactly people in offices work, who feel content when information or some kind of work has been passed on to then through electronic communities and not through talking though they are sitting next to you. .

[@morganstiefvater1693]

I'm not sure if Collin or Ray would be the more annoying person to work with. But I think probably Collin.

[@MrZAP17]

Definitely Colin. But then I'm more of a Ray myself, so I'm biased.

[@grimTales1]

I would have loved a continuation of this sketch, and sad/gorgeous Kerry is played by Victoria ;)

[@Obsidian1392]

did he just say 'nought thousand'? omfg LOL

[@DKOPness]

Right back at you broski.

[@giorio7414]

gennniuuuus! these guys r n the now! im subbing!

[@thefongz2931]

"nought-thousand", I gotta use that!

[@BravoOscar100]

I really wanted to see more of these guys.

[@rosaleenauk]

Anyone know any other Colin/Ray sketches hidden away in episodes? I think ive seen them all!

[@clat53]

They predicted the 20's

[@Critic115]

Bluetooth is actually so useful.

[@kobathedread]

Good for sharing porn vids back in the day

[@KK426LH]

+Calvin “Vault Dweller” Hall and viruses

[@HighLordBlazeReborn]

No one's saying it's useless. It's just shit at what it's meant to do

[@Nitrxgen]

Sharing polyphonic ringtones

[@matthewrandell5055]

Critic115 It's more reliable that over wi-fi I find, but slower and more fiddly

[@PlasmaMongoose]

I use stereo bluetooth headphones when I listen to my music on my phone, but for some reason, corded headphones is still far more popular in general.

[@DavidBetz00]

Yep... pretty much all BT before 2 years ago. Sadly, he's confusing it with NFC (which usually does work).

[@ProudToBeNoob]

This sketch was made long before NFC was a thing. People really press their phones against eachother, bevause bluetooth back then really was amazingly shit.

[@olivecorf1860]

and also, before bluetooth we used infrared. Infrared works similarly like NFC, so that's why he's putting the phone close together like that too since they used to do that with infrared.

[@thebigpony2703]

Your in the Mitchell and Webb section of youtube and may never leave

[@XalphYT]

Your typo is almost a decade old. How does that make you feel?

[@bmcgudtimes]

very good!

[@eelvis1674]

I have this exact arguement with my friend when they won't read out the code to the among us room code

[@sarcasmo57]

Telephones used to have numbers assigned to them.

[@stonykark]

Standard ADHD conversation

[@SarahJonestoo]

Genius

[@djunior874]

I was still using bluetooth in 2008...

[@mattiasfriis6950]

Carry/Carie isn't a name used in Denmark, though.

[@perfacetus]

@BobRob196 Sure that was what I used it for too. But now, I don't really listen to music on my phone, I have an iPod.

[@perfacetus]

It is funny, when bluetooth first came out I'm sure I used it all the time, now it does seem slightly pointless.

[@johnpetermalcolm]

So much for the "Ergonomic Management Keyboard" then.

[@Furral]

The wigs!

[@bp56789]

@BloodstainYT I'm sure that's just David getting into character.

[@seanwebb605]

They’re phones are touching tips.

[@juhanivirtanen3438]

So what is the new hip way to transfer files phone2phone? I don't think there is any better than bluetooth. Maybe a memory card?

[@Lucifronz]

Cloud storage, technically. Though without any internet connection, I imagine bluetooth is the best wireless way. MicroSD cards being the best physical way, obviously, though some phones don't have a slot for them (looking at you, Apple, and your shitty iPhones).

[@juhanivirtanen3438]

Yes, I tought of that. That solution has it own problems though. I can't understand why developers still have this 'our own way' attitude. I thought they finally woulcd understand using universal protocols would be a win-win but seems like fierce capitalist competition doesn't make everything better after all...

[@screamingturnip]

How bad are texting plans in England?

[@DJ_Dopamine]

Bluetooth. That thing that never works...

[@VampirePraemium]

It's been two years since the comment, have you used it yet?

[@ppeter1982]

I take an instant dislike to anyone who doesn't read out their number in either 5-3-3 or 2-3-3-3 format. I suspect David Mitchell is the same.

[@ppeter1982]

donepearce My phone numbers are 5-6 and I live in Shropshire. Not wanting to give too much away the area code is 01952. With a mobile, most will say '07' as matter of couse as that's standard and then reel off the next nine in groups of 3

[@ppeter1982]

donepearce Your friends are better at recalling groups of numbers than I am.

[@jessepigram1039]

ppeter1982 You would probably hate me, as I recite phone numbers in what probably seem like arbitrary patterns. This is because I recite as I remember, and I remember phone by rhythms (those these don't necessarily make sense). My own number (mobile), for example, I usually say 5-2-4, though I'll break it down further sometimes.

[@aDifferentJT]

What about using double or triple? Eg I’d say “oh double seven double oh nine triple oh five six”

[@RawAirFreshener]

I use prime number format

[@hoonaignachowaneha]

David wrote this.

[@daflameman]

Come one guys. Bluetooth is still used heaps, it is the main thing that wireless mice and keyboards use.

[@superandroidtron]

Android Beam uses Bluetooth after establishing a connection over NFC. It's not quite dead yet.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

And now most people have Bluetooth on constantly. I do like how Brits tend to want to shorten everything.

[@keyholes]

It's quite useful with transferring photos. Numbers... yeah, pointless.

[@MrNickeh]

Nought thousand. 0000?

[@TheOrangeType]

i haven't used Bluetooth in about 4 years because it DOENS'T WORK! i had a phone once with both Bluetooth and infrared and i found infrared faster and easier and it worked 90% of the time, only time it didn't work was when we didn't hold them together in the right way (infrared had to be connected phone to phone for anyone who doesn't know) and guess which one died out almost immediately. I used Bluetooth for the first time on Tuesday with my 2012 phone and it STILL doesn't work

[@MrChimei]

I know.

[@Hamoth]

All I used bluetooth for was send and recieve mobile games to and with my friends.

[@lydiafoster9256]

when can you find time to write all that? (just saying)

[@arturczerwinski2616]

Anybody tried calling this number?

[@markroland9752]

It crowd

[@Akoalawithshades]

It's wifi now

[@TheNoobPube]

i only ever used it for songs lol

[@turnsout689]

Lol an added bonus

[@7Heaven8ROONEY]

dont scroll down then

[@Coreagnis]

He looks like Richard Branson...

[@ionlymadethistoleavecoment1723]

These two are like the british key and peele

[@jamiebatchelor3216]

Better

[@rhysf.505]

@@jamiebatchelor3216 he already said british

[@Lexicon345]

Well, first off, their phones probably aren't paired.....and text would be simpler.

[@sauercrowder]

Completely missing the point, and everyone knows this anyway

[@RadioactiveCassowary]

Oh sweet you have Uncle Fucker? You have to send me that.

[@IcEye89]

Or she has the same hair as Princess Leia and looks like the Pastry? Or she likes said pastry and is renown for consuming it.

[@ChillBroWillGo]

Well you had the wrong information (In his head) and this is a open forum, if you haven't noticed :P..

[@PoshByDefault]

Be careful guys, don't click on the (Show the comment) button! You'll get lost in a conversation that I think is about 'whom' vs 'who' and also something about relationships...

[@petefury94]

It has to be canned laughter

[@ChrisMelville]

Actually, he means: [phone]. The 020 is the code for London. There's no such thing as "0207". The 7 is the first digit of the local number. The whole of London only has one area code: 020.

[@1224chrisng]

Chriseurosong and, 7946 xxxx numbers will always disconnect, as they are designated for fictional use

[@sabinakarimova2935]

Colin??

[@andrewz5981]

So, is Caravaggio (I’m assuming he artist) famous for womanizing?

[@squidbabies]

@perfacetus You grew up