Modern Life is Goodish - Series 3, Episode 1 | Full Episode

In Series 3 Episode 1 of Modern Life is Goodish, Dave Gorman discusses Homes under the Hammer, the power of surprises and celebrity video messages.
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[@peterpeterpeterson5143]

Dave Gorman is a bona fide comedy genius. The level of detail and planning in these shows.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

Peter Peterpeterson I can almost hear his wife rolling her eyes. He must be a nightmare to live with.

[@themadplotter]

almost if a team helped him?

[@petergerdes1094]

@@themadplotter Nah no way TV shows have writers.

[@SnoodyMcFlude]

And don't forget his catchphrase, maths

[@scottwallbank4794]

@@themadplotter He actually was working 100 hour weeks for the show. It's part of the reason he eventually ended it. A combination of wanting to tour and the time it was taking.

[@vpetmad]

I found 2 double yolkers in the same pack the other week and can confirm it was the most exciting thing to happen to me in months

[@verenamichel2447]

"My mom has 4 sons." Bet it took her less than 30 sec to figure out which one was behind it 😅

[@rkah6187]

That's also what I was thinking 😆 Unless her other sons are also notorious pranksters, she immediately clocked where this weird message originated.

[@Bone_s]

I just want to give a personal thanks for uploading all your shows to KZbin. I have a rare disease called menieres disease which means I am stuck in bed a lot with severe vertigo. I left the UK 8 years ago and had no idea you had started a tv show, I was a fan of your early stand up shows before moving. Listening to your uploads on KZbin is really helping me get through a super tough time stuck in bed. Even achieving smiles and laughs in a very tough time. THANK YOU SO MUCH X

[@starrya5647]

A friend of mine has that too. Sounds like a real trial. Wishing you all the best

[@kmjohnny]

The ending was a nice surprise. I know he promised it, but still.

[@michaelocyoung]

It was cracking.

[@PenguinTutor]

Dave Gorman, King of "I'll explain after this short break", discusses creating suspense to keep people watching. 😀

[@Sporemaniac206]

Damn, that was a masterful save of a botched line at 29:36

[@meson183]

These daytime TV shows are full of what I call "introduction telly". These shows are constantly introducing you to the next wee snippet of story. They run two or three stories at a time and switch between them. On each switch, they re-introduce you to the story, telling you information _you already have._ They then go on to show an extremely short bit of new story before setting up a dilemma and switching to one of the other stories. Of course, they set up the dilemma as seemingly insurmountable, but in the next segment, the resolution to the impossible dilemma turns out to be (to borrow a catchphrase) super easy, barely an inconvenience. I reckon that if you took a 60 minute show, about 45 mins without ad breaks, took each story, swapped all the segments round so each is shown contiguously and stripped out all the redundant re-introductions and other padding, you would end up with about 15 to 20 minutes of actual material.

[@TheCurrykiev]

Ok

[@rewrose2838]

It's all about polishing the 15min turd into an hour of hollow, mediocre, mainstream entertainment

[@ChrisMelville]

You're absolutely right. I have often thought the same. Note that it's MUCH worse in the USA!

[@nigelkthomas9501]

meson1 How right you are! But unfortunately that wouldn’t make it a long enough show. Ever heard of Deal or no Deal? It is hosted by Noel Edmonds. If you got rid of all the deliberating and pissing about you could actually have two shows in the time it takes to do one! Can’t stand this wasting of tv time. If I watch it I pause it for anything up to about half an hour then skip through to see the boxes being opened.

[@tomhammond3495]

There once was a heavy rock singer, Who's music he thought, was a winner, He wrote one song so bitchin' Twas indroduced in a kitchen, By an ex striker from Aston Villa.

[@matthorn1710]

07:00 - I accidentally flicked onto Dave one night and found Dave Gorman. I was laughing my face off over this.

[@luke-alex]

16:17 I know a couple of nice Russian lads who must have caught this episode of _Escape_ _to_ _the_ _Country_

[@cliffsmith23]

I replied only to let you know that at least one person got your joke :)

[@sentienttapioca5409]

And I'm replying to let you know that at least 9 people got it, given the number of likes :p

[@diamondgirl7377]

Yikes

[@hgwells1899]

I don't get it

[@luke-alex]

@@hgwells1899 kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3-oiICombiBnMU

[@soberhippie]

My favourite limerick is: There once was a fellow in France, Who waited ten years for his chance... And then he muffed it

[@rewrose2838]

May I know what your profile pic is from?

[@grimTales1]

There was an old man of Peru Whose limericks stopped at line two....

[@loveitretrobevvo3270]

@@grimTales1 Another guy arrived, And covered lines three through five, Now his limerick has life anew.

[@Jack93885]

"I don't think anyone can keep a suprise on KZbin" Dave has never been Rick rolled in the comments

[@rewrose2838]

I'm always surprised by how entertaining the comments on KZbin are

[@TheHutchy01]

You know the rules...

[@NUCL3AR991]

@@TheHutchy01 and so do i...

[@Daseinerrichtenstein]

Love how much effort he must have put into this

[@billylawuk]

Homes under the hammer is truly the best of the bbc Also interesting to see how this 'CelebVM' is basically the predecessor to Cameo

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

I dunno how you manage to keep these going for 40 mins an episode for so many episodes, but the effort and execution is genuinely inspiring. I wish I could think of enough content to mimic what you do and take a shot at it. Shame I'm only catching up on these a decade later. Dunno if you would read these messages on a 3 year old upload, but fantastic work, Mr Gorman. I don't live in the UK anymore, but I regret not taking the time to come out a see one of your shows while I studying in England. I live in Finland now.

[@abenaadu-offeh2355]

One of my favorite episodes

[@ParadoxProblems]

"This house is mathematically a hexadecagon. Find out how many sides it has up next." I wonder...

[@DanTheStripe]

Hugely disappointed this video isn't titled "Funny man tells jokes about a lack of surprises in modern life"

[@TheHutchy01]

It did tell us that modern life is good...ish.

[@Elandrianthetrue]

"... and fries up hundreds of eggs to feed the audience."

[@neilcarr6136]

You do realise that if Dave ever made a new series that he has all the material he could ask for.. Right here in this thread. =)

[@Bea.Sted.]

Genius Dave, love it as always!

[@mattshaw5179]

My favourite homes under the hammer music moment (I don't get out much!), In a set up shot for an auction a swan swam passed so they played a bit of Ride a white swan by T Rex! Genius!!

[@johnbonhamsinger]

I love that Andrew WK is part of the Gormiverse!

[@TanjoGalbi]

"Surprises can not be monetised", but there are products available where you do not know the contents until you open the box/bag. I remember as a kid in the 80's getting a surprise bag from the local news agent for a set price, you did not know what sweets were inside it until you opened the bag. And today I get Loot Crates sent to me. They have set themes but other than that you do not know what will be in the box until you open it. It is quite possible to monetise surprises.

[@rewrose2838]

I do not think you buy the LootCrates _for their surprises_ Would you not buy them still if you knew exactly what was in the box, without any change in the prices and stuff? I think what Dave is trying to argue for is something more along the lines of clickbait-ey surprise.

[@hallamhal]

I predicted that he just threw the javelin, I suspect it's just because I've seen so many episodes!

[@confusedwhale]

I was hoping for the video to just end almost immediately. "Why did you expect anything to happen? You get _nothing_ for there is nothing."

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Cameo has taken over with the videos now. Charging a fortune!

[@philipjohansson3949]

One of my favorite videos is "Horse kicks tree, farts on dogs then runs away." No surprises in that one, but it still has 45 million views.

[@ladyclovenstone]

Love this 😮

[@fuzzyalba5419]

The “stay another day” joke made me laugh & I hadn’t even heard of that song before now

[@ThatCoalSoul]

3:04 When you realise James Acaster was right!!! If you know, you know!!!!!! 32:18 Twice!!!

[@laurencenoble3629]

Right about what?

[@ThatCoalSoul]

@@laurencenoble3629 One of his most known routines is about "He ...and she!" ...it's James' Death Star cantina IMO!!!

[@jayt8124]

This comment is confusing. I have no idea what they -or she- is talking about..

[@h4724-q6j]

That last one makes sense though, because it's talking about "God - or Mother Nature if you prefer -"

[@sarahlewis7859]

I thought the same thing when I heard it 😂😂

[@TheoHiggins]

I can not believe what just happened to me. The moment he started talking about a random piece of pop music fading in to highlight a specific word "Baby I'm Yours" started playing. But then it didn't stop once he'd seemingly emphasised an important word. Then it turned into "There's a Platypus Controlling me" from Phineas and Ferb. It was at that point I realised that with absolutely perfect timing with what Dave was saying, in another tab "Baby I'm Yours But There's A Platypus Controlling Me" started playing.

[@dr2stroke611]

Should get a 50% discount on Debbie Mcgee now

[@cliffsmith23]

Dude, too soon.

[@confusedwhale]

I can see someone getting a funeral message for themselves and playing it at their funeral to mess with those attending one last time. It's like playing Highway to Hell or Another One Bites the Dust. Except, with a personal message, you are able to get just the right feeling based on your own sense of humor.

[@LuminalSpoon]

My favourite episode

[@Magz66ify]

I had a "surprise" watching this...the KZbin ad popped up perfectly after you advised the audience of the ad break. I mean, huh?

[@bacillusrex]

12:35 - I recall an episode of 999( a la Michael Buerk) in which someone slipped on some mud, and managed to drive the javelin through their own neck. How would you even manage to do that on purpose?! I do not recall.

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

Rip boycie a legend

[@stefrost4029]

I guessed the 'What happens next?' correctly. 😅

[@alexandriahunter2125]

Dave when various celebs read his limerick: "VIIIINNNNDICATIIIIIIIOOOOONNN!"

[@MrGibsonian]

Years ago I was making an omelette and all 3 eggs I used were double-yolk. I had to show my parents.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

Nearly missed this one, cos Dave seems to have forgotten to put it on his playlist (same for S3E2).

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

When I saw Dave Gorman on tour in Bristol, Martin Roberts was sat in the row behind me.

[@alansmithee419]

28:45 When I realised the found poem was coming. 29:25 When the audience did. Forty seconds? It took them that long?

[@EdFrench_uk]

Brilliant, glad this is up. Not sure thw title of the video is consistent with the theme though!

[@TanjoGalbi]

Erm, the video title is simply the name of the show and the episode number. There is no theme to the show's title on TV so why put one here?

[@wisteela]

Classic stuff. The Chernobyl woman's channel is really good.

[@stinkytoby]

I think this episode is missing in the full episodes playlist

[@nigelkthomas9501]

I’ve always liked: “There was a young man from Gosham who took out his balls to wash em his mother said, Jack if you don’t put em back I’ll stand on the buggers and squash em!

[@vickykeeler-schofield3744]

The first time I heard that limerick was Lee Evans - Live In Scotland.

[@gubjorggisladottir3525]

I am quite sure Dave´s mom did know that he was the son who was behind that video... as soon as "wearing a clown suit" was uttered... she must have gotten a good laugh out of it. And teased him back.

[@OhMyGadd]

Putting an ad at the what happens next :D

[@JazzRadioFfm]

love how he pronounces poem.

[@thomasstewart9752]

I know where the imaginary rabbit thing comes from, it's from "stuart and Harvey" a weird movie about a fairly pleasant man who may or may not be insane, and his best friend, a giant invisible rabbit which may or may not exist.

[@PadreDePato]

There was an old person in black, Dave Gorman jumped on his back; Then he chirped in his ear, That he didn’t like Lear As the surprises he offered were crap!

[@EleanorPeterson]

Maybe I'm just feeling a bit low at the moment, but I find the celebrity video message thing terribly sad. It brings home just how fragile success and fame are, and explains why even the world's biggest stars (in all fields) often come across as anxious and insecure in interviews about their latest project. Even if it's wildly successful, after it, they'll be... 'resting'. Sitting in their magnificent mansions or their crappy little flats, waiting for the bloody phone to ring. I love the video, but seeing 'celebrities' listed with prices by their names made me want to cry.

[@vickywitton1008]

I once, got a box of six eggs and every single one was a double yolker!

[@andrewmurphy5310]

It is funny that it is perfectly acceptable to blow things up, burn things down or use a huge amount of fuel driving round a race track but wasting any food it deemed a mortal sin.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

Andrew Murphy they weren’t wasted, they were bought and used on a tv show.

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

Aww What gorgeous lil cat :-D

[@DeaconTaylor]

when i saw the what happens next, i sarcastically thought 'he throws it'. seems i was right lol

[@honkynel]

I met Chesney Hawkes once. A cool dude.

[@trelard]

You need to do more stuff involving celeb "custom" vids. I mean, for the price of a pint and a mouth hug, those prices could keep you in content for years.

[@kael2450]

Dion "Stairs going up to the bedroom" Dublin

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

Homes under the hammer on Pluto TV app got it's own channel

[@Nathan69]

Love Andrew wk WE WANT FUN AND WE WANT TO GET WASTED

[@rowanaboat4523]

I wonder why he skipped season 1

[@davidphillips3837]

It's not on the UKTV website either, it expired a couple of years ago. Maybe he's just lost the rights to the show? I don't know if that's how it works.

[@gwishart]

@@davidphillips3837 I suspect part of the problem is with obtaining legal clearance for all the images, TV clips, screenshots of websites etc. that he uses in the slides. They'll only be licensed for a certain period of time.

[@emilydavis-morris4195]

Surely it would fall under use though right?

[@laurencenoble3629]

@@emilydavis-morris4195 it's probably a combination. I doubt everything they show is covered by fair use

[@TheMrVengeance]

@@laurencenoble3629 - More importantly fair use isn't a right. It's a defense in court. Fair use isn't a thing that makes you immune to a lawsuit. You still get sued and then a judge will decide whether or not your use is fair use, and court cases cost a lot of money. Depending on who is suing, A LOT of money.

[@petergerdes1094]

So disappointed Dave Gorman isn't on celebvm. I guess he suspects what his fans might do with it.

[@bjarnenilsson80]

The youtube title is not supposed to be a headline, I’ts key keyword spam AI fodder. What I’m saying is the tittle is not for us human any more its to show up in as many times as as possible, to drive more views

[@vermis8344]

Can we get Dave Gorman Celebrity VMs?

[@ElsbethMai]

I just checked. 'Man cooking egg....' has over 13.2 million views now.

[@TmRnBn]

Here in the U.S., we have gun porn. Unfortunately, the grocery stores don't put their magazines in plain brown wrappers beyond the reach of children.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

Simplicius Simplicissimus do they do articles on the best weapons for mass shootings?

[@TmRnBn]

@@Jabber-ig3iw Perhaps not specifically that I have seen because I have not read them on a regular basis, but they absolutely do describe in lurid detail the affects of different types of round on the internal workings of mammalian flesh.

[@TheSamuelCish]

But in the egg omelette video, the guy actually gives it to the customer with the bread on top!

[@katewhitenorth3522]

I'd never wanted to move to the UK before finding out that double-yolk eggs are a possibility there that everybody there seems to know about. I never even knew this was a possibility! Or am I just not talking enough to other North Americans about how many yolks one is likely to find within an egg?

[@MuchWhittering]

I had never heard of a double yolk before watching this show and I've never heard of one since.

[@slake9727]

Get them in Canada all the time

[@davidlittle7182]

i like the mixed response to the view from that house, like a lot of English people think that's actually a good view

[@OneEyedMonkey9000]

Ah! 2015. Such a different world 😭

[@paulbaker9879]

Can we all just appreciate how good Andrew WK is.

[@davidtownson1476]

Wonder why he used a MacBook Pro instead of a Windows laptop? Just curious.

[@chilli-iceolive-abode2447]

I discovered the joys of double yolkers a couple of years ago and now I get them all the time... For free! I was amazed to discover a local farm to me classes them as rejects so I get them free. I hope they don't cotton on and start selling them to M&S now! Bastards.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Brilliant show! When is the next series gong to be made?

[@ghostparty2062]

6:38 did anyone else guess the song 😆

[@fredthompson5997]

Is this where u came up with gorm hub?

[@Lord_Skeptic]

A gross a dozen and a score plus 3 times the square root of 4 dividend by 7 plus 5 times 11 is 9 squared and not a bit more

[@instantlybroken]

Are you sure those people are celebrities?

[@ryanoftinellb]

12:35 I did. I predicted that.

[@kingcobraarchie]

that youtube point hasn't aged super well. If only dave new about shitposts before

[@Acbaker23]

This episode ruined homes under the hammer for me. I can’t watch it now haha

[@kurei5349]

once i genuinely cracked two double yolked eggs in a row, just in case anyone was wondering

[@masonbucior9227]

I would lose an absurd amount of money making those personalized videos. When I heard that she dressed as a clown and hated sprouts I immediately thought, "gotta get a clown outfit and a pot of sprouts to immolate."

[@Cernoise]

You can use what linguists call contrastive focus reduplication and call sex porn ‘porn porn’.

[@dstarfire42]

I want to know what corners of youtube Dave is visiting, because all the places I've been to are full of clickbait hype that's barely connected to the story in the video, let alone revealing all the surprises. Also, after watching fiction TV for a few years with every single season ending in a cliffhanger, and reading several multi-book series where cliffhangers were rampant (Screw you, Robert Jordan!!) I'm sick of surprise and suspense. If you need to use surprise or suspense to make a story, video, or whatever interesting, it's not worth watching.

[@davidcollins9512]

Read your comment which got as far as "... with every season ending in a cliffhanger, and..." Read more The first time I clicked on 'Read more' nothing happened & I thought "Brilliant, a perfect hook that leaves you dangling..." (2nd attempt then revealed the rest of the message!)

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Egg shaped lootboxes.

[@iamdb1990]

"if you haven't seen it, and I know you have" I bloody haven't, can't stand property porn...

[@dogwalker666]

If you have never seen it how do you know you hate it ? 🤔, having said that I find it boring.

[@laurencenoble3629]

@@dogwalker666 to be fair I've never seen homes under the hammer but I know I hate property porn because I've seen countless other shows that are very similar

[@terranovarubacha5473]

We've surely all had a teacher like that. One that tries to stamp out children's imaginations because they never had one themselves. They seem to see it as a service to the community

[@kyrla]

The best type of giveaway titles are the ones that ask and then answer a question, but the answer raises even more questions. KZbinr Adam Neely is the best at this, for example, one of his videos from 2018 ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5fLhHeBaql9p6M ): Title: What is the slowest music humanly possible? Thumbnail: It's about 33bpm. Immediately you're thinking "What? How is it that exact? Why 33? I'm pretty sure I can play slower than that? What does he mean?" And then you click on the video

[@jenniferroy1694]

Hey Dave, that's NOT SHAQ. The gentleman in the video is Charles Barkley.

[@jen_wren_x]

😂😂😂😂

[@axolotllan]

Msn I'd love to see his reaction to modern Manhua/ Manga titles where every story seems to have an essay as the story title especially isekais

[@MrBillybobyeah]

hmmm entertaining but obviously they say exactly what happened in the title on the internet so that it's easier to find through a search

[@ChrissieBear]

X Porn is not a journalist thing, it's just common vernacular amongst the modern generation.

[@GordonHugenay]

It bugs me that the 4 segments are not equal in length. They should all be 12 mins and some odd seconds, but the first two are only about 10 minutes each.

[@brendanmccabe8373]

That’s television for you

[@peteralexander5744]

Found Poem

[@deterlanglytone]

Thanks for pointing that out... now I'll never stop noticing it.

[@PurpleMagicz]

Stop supporting click bait Dave!

[@LeanneModenPoet]

I'm so pleased they've stopped seating audience members behind the string quartet for this series. It was giving me anxiety when watching series 2.

[@morphman86]

Dave Gorman, spending 500 quid on Celebrity VM, when most of those celebs are already on the same network and he could probably just... ask them to do it for him. But where's the fun in that?

[@sperrin]

He, or the production company probably did ask them and got them for free too. But making out he paid for them is funnier.

[@spinozatheobvious626]

The hexadecagon rant is just wrong in every single way. Of course it's perfectly fine to speak about the 2d projection of a 3d object, happens all the time. And yes, the part of "English" he's using is of course the mathematical part. But finally when Dave says that the house is *not* a hexadecagon, he doesn't elaborate but I suspect he has issue with that, from what I can tell, it's not a *regular* hexadecagon.