Jimmy Carr Interviewed for MI5 - Would I Lie To You? - BBC

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Jimmy Carr was interviewed for MI5 - truth or lie?
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[@JeanRain17]

I love the idea of him being a spy. With the way he laughs though he'd make a better Bond villain.

[@Omnicius]

have you ever seen that Big Fat Quiz of the Year where he wears an eye patch?

[@JeanRain17]

lmao no but i'm sure it completes the bond villain motif

[@pauldavies4119]

He'd make a good Felix Lighter - just briefly bring him into the film as a serious character, not long enough to give any "comedian" vibes- he'd get away with it haha

[@thealienpredatorfly]

In Austin Powers

[@cl1cka]

Working in MI5 or 6 doesn't mean you are going to be an agent - you might be intelligence.

[@nocalsteve]

In case anyone's curious, MFI is a British furniture store.

[@shugaroony]

Hehe a bit different to British spy headquarters (for internal affairs - I've said too much, oh no!!!) ;)

[@Walperion_Music]

Oh, thank you, I was just about to ask someonewhat the last joke meant

[@floodlitworld]

Did you hear, their sale is now on!

[@thedunyadoneya2628]

@@floodlitworld no it's not, it's now on!

[@sjr999r]

C. Riley like a DFS sale!!!

[@nocalsteve]

Well ,to be fair, Jimmy Carr could infiltrate Switzerland disguised as Roger Federer.

[@hannes1443]

What would be the benefits of infiltrating Switzerland? - Well, for starters, their flag is a big plus.

[@JohnJohnson-ok4gf]

Chocolate watches.

[@Liur.]

@@hannes1443 well done lmao

[@wishingwell12345]

I'm just imagining some Bond villain lowering Jimmy Carr into a pool of piranhas, "Game, set and match....Mr Federer."

[@365reece]

I love how Lee is answering as many questions as Jimmy is

[@destroythehuman3380]

Reece Turner coz he’s a good team leader.

[@casey6556]

"Which is actually MI6 but never mind" is such a very David Mitchell line

[@dshishod]

although, MI5 & MI6 are both on Southbank, right across from one another

[@LeoMRogers]

Anyone else noticed how un-noteworthy Angus' appearance is in this episode?

[@georgerendell1485]

+LeoMRogers I understood that reference. I'm on to him.

[@JourneymanMan]

+LeoMRogers It's so un-noteworthy...

[@jasfay7219]

Journeyman Man ...that it is noteworthy

[@greyforge27]

That's how you spot spies....

[@MrSkinnyWhale]

Looks like a chameleon

[@goodmorningsunrise]

"Was this during the Cold War?" "Yeah I'm 50!" Best line!!

[@danram_]

A comedy version of "Kingsman" starring Jimmy Carr.

[@Pablo-dy2xo]

lol that would be hilarious although Kingsman is already a kind of comedy version of 007, so it would be a comedy version of a comedy version of 007 starring Jimmy Carr, BRILLIANT

[@TuTuChief]

would that not be Johnny English?

[@danram_]

and the enemy could be a powerful religious group or something of the sort

[@Pablo-dy2xo]

hahaha brilliant

[@parkeradelaide4579]

Music Films & Bastille i thought kingsman was a comedy

[@ShanghaiForever]

"Fashion Tips from a Tramp!" Epic comeback :)

[@nithyasris7276]

“Are you in this” is when I completely lost it😂😂

[@OmikronGT]

A sticky bun for every kill

[@popc5245]

whats a sticky bun?

[@popc5245]

Those are a wide variety of definitions

[@fenhen]

popc52 It’s like sweet bread with some icing on the top.

[@darthmarticusLFC]

'sticky bun for every kill' has stayed with me haha

[@morganstiefvater1693]

Did anyone else notice how unnoteworh Angus's appearance is in this? That's how you spot a spy, you know.

[@BBBB-sz9rg]

Morgan Stiefvater I was so unnoteworthy I bet you can't spot me

[@jessicalee333]

Mitchell's whole philosophy is to appear as unnoteworthy as possible - without appearing _so_ unnoteworthy that that, in itself, becomes noteworthy. So he could be a spy.

[@morganstiefvater1693]

Jessica Lee Exactly. And a grey tie is so unnoteworthy so as to become noteworthy.

[@calvinmccorkle5045]

This conversation could never happen on American Television

[@SecretAgentNein]

David Mitchell and David Baddiel in the same team? Magnificent. And Lee Mack, of course. This show is brilliant.

[@abdiel78]

This is brilliant!!...3 Cambridge educated comedians, Baddiel, Mitchell and Carr having a go at each other. Classic!!..

[@Ghost-xb3xn]

This show seems weird without Rob Brydon

[@idc5309]

Very strange with no Rob

[@adamdickinson2894]

You should see the episode where Rob was a panelist

[@beckyboulton2362]

I love how when Jimmy said "Posh and a little bit gay?" and pointed to himself David Baddiel said "Posh?" almost as if he were going "You're not posh but I can agree you do look a little bit gay even though you're not!" xD

[@charlesxav6817]

Becky Boulton thanks captain obvious

[@rudyyoungblood2223]

this guy is hillarious, jimmy carr is the biggest legend! love his material

[@sporkafife]

LOL! I absolutely loved the end " Jimmy, you made that really hard for yourself. It said I one had an interview at MFI"... golden!!

[@TheRhinehart86]

I love how even the comedians in Britain have degrees from Oxford and Cambridge

[@jmwturneruk]

@@sbraypaynt one simple Google would have told you he went to Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge University, how dense can you be..🤷

[@G-host0069]

@@jmwturneruk only a moron would imply that someone is unintelligent so directly

[@mysterioussquirrel4456]

All said and done, this sort of banter between comedians is what makes this show. Mack is very quick, especially his 'MFI' finale'.

[@asticou04]

Very quick, except he had the whole segment to think of it.

[@wtfbollos]

absolute quality, the chemistry between david mitchell and lee mack is priceless. i watch every episode twice (luv my humax pvr)..and then again when they repeat it.

[@tamimaahmed8821]

Would I lie to you is just HILARIOUS! !! Never fails to crack me up! 😂

[@virunee]

Oh man, I love British comedy and it's witty banter

[@TheToneBender]

Virgin til 26..? So there's still a chance!

[@clickerd9444]

*Was this during the cold war?* Jimmy: yeah, I'm 50

[@84Elenai]

And now he is 48 😭

[@GenericUserName8119]

The guy next to David is a fucking savage, borders on uncomfortable

[@ycafe123]

+Master Bateman I think david mitchell is fine

[@ar9n]

+ycafe123 He said the guy next to him

[@madoldbatwoman]

Would you believe he was once in a comedy partnership with Frank Skinner?

[@giles4565]

The joke was they are both called David

[@Formula1Madx]

98smithg2 That's a joke? 🤔

[@nataliekeeler]

I love the way David Mitchell says the word 'lie'.

[@TheConciseStatement]

Yeah, there is an undercurrent of meanness to David Baddiel that makes me a bit uncomfortable - and I say that as someone who loves black comedy from the likes of Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle. But there's this hostile, stuck up quality that comes across from Baddiel.

[@CNP_24]

I Know you wrote this 11 years ago....but I agree!

[@TheConciseStatement]

@@CNP_24 Thanks. And for what it’s worth I feel that way about him today only ten times stronger!

[@CNP_24]

@@TheConciseStatement 😂😂

[@dannyclub09]

I agree, especially after having watched him in other things with Frank Skinner. He's rarely (if ever) the funniest comedian in the room so he's probably trying to overcompensate.

[@MartyJackson]

Saw Jimmy live tonight and he mentioned how he is 50. Here he sarcastically says “yes cause I’m 50”

[@FlameFlickers]

The amount of people in this comments section who think Lee Mack was being serious at the end when he said Jimmy had read the card wrong and it actually said MFI rather than MI5 is a bit concerning.. 😂

[@ManUntdForever]

Why is British television so amazing? Every program is so funny!

[@myeyesarespiders]

He missed the perfect opportunity for a joke when he was asked 'were you sent abroad?' 😂😢

[@userio_4211]

OhHoNo what joke would he have said i didnt watch too much of it

[@myeyesarespiders]

Bryan Cox Idk something like no thanks, I get my own women 😁

[@floodlitworld]

Bryan Cox “Yes, but she turned out to be a Russian spy: Bootifer Stklasnikov”

[@anshuldinger1425]

I thought he did when he said "don't you start. I'm having enough trouble with him"

[@mrman2415]

@@myeyesarespiders I have studied abroad or two

[@tSp289]

Plausible. Cambridge educated and working for an oil company later. I know a few of the Cambridge comedy crowd have been approached by the security services during their uni years. BUT he would not have told the name of the person who approached him. Pretty sure that would have been illegal.

[@NeilusNihilus]

Is it only well educated people who get approached? I would love to be a spy but it seems MI5 don't frequent the dole offices.

[@tSp289]

dageezerboi The only people I've heard saying they have been approached are comedians and radio personalities who went to Oxford or Cambridge, and usually to private schools too, and studied languages and politics.

[@kimaboe]

At the time he was supposedly approached Jimmy would have been a straight-A-student coming into university, a conservative Catholic, holding dual british and Irish citizenship and studying political science at Cambridge, a plausible target for sure. Not as a spy necessarily, but someone "on their books"

[@pumbar]

kimaboe Not a very good traitor to the nation then. Tsk. They really needed Etonians who went to Oxford and really sold their country out.

[@nowandaround312]

+tSp289 That's only in the movies. He would have been given a name or at least an alias. He also would not have been initially approached by an actual counterintelligence agent but by someone who just did recruiting, so protecting their identity would not be nearly as important.

[@scalls95]

"You're the least Posh-and-a-little-bit-Gay out of everyone else in the world ever, Lee" LOL it feels kinda crazy saying this, but that is sooo true

[@reasonablyserious]

This is an absolute classic

[@ned316]

"fashion tips froma TRAMP" hahaha i actually clapped to that :)

[@foggys916]

"was this during the cold war?"...."Yeah, I'm 50!" LMAO

[@dngrouscrgo]

I laughed so hard at the end when he revealed he'd being trying to prove the wrong thing XD

[@GogglesRequired]

Love it! :L "Hang on David, il stop you there. Posh and a little bit gay" - made me crease!

[@trakovich]

lool jimmy is awesome lol... you can never go against him lol he is savage

[@WhatIsWithTheSkittle]

Lee Mack makes me laugh so much, he is hilarious!!

[@Deel2506]

David's campness at the beginning 😂

[@Pfisiar22]

I could believe Jimmy Carr would be normal and bland enough, but not so much, that he could pass as a spy. Until he has to laugh that is. No disguising that thing.

[@Biczeschlappe]

ah ah aha ah ah Ah Ah Ah AHHHH

[@shugaroony]

Hehe yeah, but he forces it for effect and has said so many times - I don't know why he perseveres with it though. Great comedian too, as quick as Lee Mack tbf.

[@Ravage017]

Haha that made my day. Thank you, sir.

[@jietroraximoff2805]

0:46 'knows a bit much'? David knows where MI6's building is and knows they have guns and handcuffs. Those bits are fairly common knowledge. And the building isn't exactly subtle. It is a bright green thing with glass windows!

[@TheobenHunter]

Classy reply. Well done. You were quite right from the start, and he behaved like a brat. Have a great day, best of luck to you.

[@sebastiandasilva22]

"you don't get payed in sticky buns, Maureen. 'a sticky bun for every kill!' "

[@amyshaw893]

He did play an MI6 agent in the film Stormbreaker, so that might have been an inspiration for this

[@OB-806]

Am I the only one that thought of the fact Jimmy Carr plays "Crawley", an MI6 agent in the Alex Rider film?

[@magicbaby44]

jimmy carr was in the spy film stormbreaker where he played someone someone from MI5 :) lol this is so funny

[@onlyashadow1121]

that exchange and the one after it had me almost knock over my drink

[@phen314]

Watching this for the first time, and Jimmy now is, in fact, 50.

[@kingjames460]

give this cookie a man !

[@bored1980]

2:28 - I think that's the first time I seen Jimmy Carr caught in headlights!

[@RIPdementia]

That was entirely brilliant, possibly my favourite WILTY moment. :D

[@sofii169]

'Ohh Fashion Tipps From The Tramp' LOOL

[@MagaIstvan]

Thank you

[@Imiloaheh]

I love David Mitchell's reaction when David Baddiel tells him he seems like a spy, because he's posh and a tiny bit gay even though he's not.. :P He's so adorable !

[@TheFinisherMrC]

'was this during the cold war?' 'yeah I'm 50!' absolute gold!!!

[@RickardApps]

Thanks :)

[@sfshinz]

To be fair to David Baddiel, it is hard to determine the age of a ventriloquist's dummy.

[@lyadmilo]

So now I know where David's fear of looking like a spy comes from.

[@tylerdurden786]

David is middle class, born to two university lecturers and is a public school boy (went to Abingdon school). I think his ancestry can be traced back to someone noble too. Jimmy is working class as he was born in it, just because he went to Cambridge doesn't mean he's posh. I think he got into a grammar school and worked very hard. You can tell by his speech he has a working class background.

[@Lorgar64]

MI5 is the equivalent of the F.B.I. and MI6 is the equivalent of the C.I.A. They both exist, and if you think being a spy is anything like James Bond, it's about time you grew up.

[@thumbwarriordx]

I was gonna say I'm spartacus but then the video went 5 more seconds and apparently that one was too easy.

[@Book7BrokeMyBrain]

I'm so confused. Jimmy Carr reminds me so much of Andrew Scott as Moriarty, so the MI5 stuff gets me especially mixed up. And then Scott was in Spectre, which makes it all worse.

[@popc5245]

what did they say in the end?

[@Book7BrokeMyBrain]

+popc52 At the end, he made a joke that Jimmy had 'made it hard for yourself, the card reads MFI.' I don't know what MFI is, probably a company in the UK or something, but it would have been easier to make up a lie about being interviewed there, rather than for MI5, if only he had read the card right. :)

[@popc5245]

Oh thanks! i was wondering that

[@popc5245]

O sorry another thing: what is a puff?

[@Book7BrokeMyBrain]

popc52 A Pouf is slang for gay man.

[@geeleegeelee]

jimmy carr really is THE BEST

[@kurtwagner350]

This got very real very fast

[@technowey]

I don't know if this joke only works in America, but when Jimmy Carr was asked, "Would you be sent abroad?," he could have replied, "No, I get my own women."

[@technowey]

+Ash D - No, he said, "Don't you start, I've having enough trouble with 'em," and then he gestured at the other people on the panel, and continued with, "you're not even in this. What are you talking about?" The others on the panel had been giving him a hard time earlier, and he was commenting on that.

[@enemaofthest8]

+technoway In England we don't call women broads though, so not really... Would have been quite funny if an American were to say it, though!

[@technowey]

+enemaofthest8 - Thank you for the reply. Jimmy Carr is quick-witted, so I imagine he would have thought of that had "broad" to mean "woman" had been in common usage there. It's not really used here in the U.S. today either, although I have seen it used in some old movies, and most older people here would understand that usage. I just searched for the etymology of that usage, and it's from 1911. It's an impolite term, as is most such monikers for a woman; it is similar in meaning to the medieval term, "wench."

[@enemaofthest8]

No he wasn't haha he was just telling the judge not to join in making fun out of him. No puns there.

[@enemaofthest8]

***** ....Just because you've imagined a joke is there, doesn't mean there is one. Works both ways.

[@markpointer2967]

The “new” south bank building, codenamed Vauxhall Cross, is MI6 (Secret Intellingence Service), NOT MI5. (The Domestic Security Service), and is WAY more secretive.

[@bigpoppa693]

1:09 amazing

[@niharikamanjunath]

Everyone is so mean hahaha

[@LB-px9td]

This guy David Badiel, must have something against Jimmy Carr he is constantly criticising him . What a jerk

[@CrissCross407]

i love the 'posh and a little bit gay' argument :D

[@AlexQuill63]

Funny thing is... Jimmy Carr actually played an MI6 agent in Stormbreaker.

[@IoEstasCedonta]

This is before Jack Whitehall came to prominence. Now, no one will ever look "posh and a little bit gay" again.

[@GogglesRequired]

He ripped me to shreds when I went to one of his shows. Never laughed at myself soo much before or since :L

[@The_Reductionist]

Jimmy should be the one hosting

[@OoOJakeOoO]

LOL, quality!

[@GerryMcAveety]

golden tv

[@MrFunxy]

2:28 WHOA! He ACTUALLY offended Jimmy fkn Carr!

[@drummerkid909]

Australia HAS to broadcast this show.

[@alexanderhill-cp8be]

Update: Jimmy is now 50. Life comes at you fast

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

Are they really this quick-witted or do you think they at least have the broad contours of what the questions are gonna be about?

[@IFilmStuff1]

No, Lee Mack and David Mitchell are known for being quick-witted

[@svenniepennie4237]

TheSpiritOfTheTimes Don't forget about editing. It might be edited to seem like they instantly gave a perfect response, while actually a few seconds, or maybe even a sentence or two has gone by before they respond.

[@svenniepennie4237]

TheSpiritOfTheTimes Don't forget about editing. It might be edited to seem like they instantly gave a perfect response, while actually a few seconds, or maybe even a sentence or two has gone by before they respond.

[@pauldavies4119]

Fair play people- there's no doubt they are very clever, quick witted, and funny but its an illusion that everything shown is an accurate depiction of exactly what happened as if they'd just turned up with no prep. it was a fun illusion while it lasted!

[@shugaroony]

As is Jimmy Carr, and being quick at shifting his income as well ;)

[@graog123]

MI stands for Military Intelligence. The number represents a section. Based on that.. I believe there are AT LEAST 6 sections.... ;)

[@CorellianSmuggler]

That David guy learned a valuable lesson...don't try to one-up Jimmy Carr. He'll win.

[@AnyDreamWillDo1]

Your comment just turned 5 days old. Happy birthday to your comment!!!

[@jamiedonaghy3346]

Hugh Dennis did have an interview with MI6

[@heyysimone]

"you're posh, and a tiny bit gay even though you're not" best line i've ever heard on WILTY.

[@PalePixl]

David Mitchell figured it out at @00:35 and then just played along for comedies sake

[@greencatsick]

I mt Jimmy after a gig last year. He looked at my girlfriend and said "are you tapping that? Nice!" lol I was pissing myself

[@xxTaMeFuarxx]

btw u have one awesome username!

[@graog123]

You're supposed to. That's Jimmy Carr.

[@AlexBowers]

MI5 is homeland security, MI6 is foreign security. They both exist.

[@hedonism13]

@CullTheLivingFlower I saw that about 15 minutes after I made that comment; brilliant.

[@Clarestovold]

XD I love Jimmy Carr and Lee Mack! XD

[@JohnnyMac95]

Well Jimmy did play MI6 agent John Crawley in Stormbreaker, so...

[@tashiwangdu4747]

lol...that movie was a disaster !!!

[@JohnnyMac95]

Indeed - major disaster!

[@alicemacsporran132]

+Johnny Mac exactly my thoughts! I was disappointed to find out it is a lie

[@singenstattatmen5096]

+Tashi wangdü And yet the books are bloody brilliant. :'(

[@SpiderPigggg]

1:06 Cracks me up all the time