That Mitchell and Webb Look - Lindsay Davenport

[@matthill3293]

It's great to see David playing the stupid character and Rob playing the reasonable one for a change!

[@ronvlaarsvar6867]

Stupid? Did you not hear her list of achievements? Could have done any of those jobs easily

[@pxe]

I thought of this when I read a BBC article about Maria Sharapova 'hoping to take her tennis strengths into the world of business'.

[@nikhilreddy8550]

Yeah, but she is not quite Lindsey Davenport. P.S. I see it's a 5 year old post. Maybe this could make you binge watch this show again. 😋

[@romainsavioz5466]

@@nikhilreddy8550 yeah but this show is not quite Lindsey Davenport

[@mankytoes]

@@romainsavioz5466 You say that, but she's also very tall.

[@namename3130]

Kim kardashian training as a lawyer

[@mrman2415]

@@namename3130 she doesn't even have the groundstrokes

[@landondunn8861]

"know as Lindsay to his friends" comedy gold

[@ashliski]

I hope Lindsay Davenport has seen this

[@beagleeight]

Lindsay Davenport would have made an excellent pope.

[@AA-hg5fk]

Pity she could never be ordained, what with her being a woman and all.

[@junbh2]

+Richard Richmond Archbishop of Canterbury, then.

[@hankkingsley2976]

@@AA-hg5fk and you never be able to find her as the Pope in the pizza

[@papanurgle8393]

@@AA-hg5fk Allen could have though.

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

I dunno, that'd leave us with a major gap in the Prime Ministerial and Presidential roles.

[@dudesayingthings]

"excellent ground strokes" this line got me everytime 😂😂😂

[@gibbyg2001]

"Bit of a womanly bearing, known as Lindsey to his friends" lolololol

[@ThomasCorfield]

I know Lindsay reasonably well and she was thrilled with this when it aired.

[@fredfinks]

Really? I remember her telling the story of how travelling to open via plane, the stewards wouldn't let her board with her rackets (Serena was also on the plane and allowed). Lindsay said 'But Serena was allowed' , Stewardess : 'But thats Serena Williams!!' (obviously having no clue who Lindsay was). Lindsay was No.1 at the time. Maybe she thought she was some casual tennis playing accountant from england...

[@jaymason9373]

Well that's lie lol

[@Ozvideo1959]

Did she get the job ?

[@Retep4565]

Who wouldn't be thrilled after hearing that one is considered the best candidate for no less than 3 different positions?

[@ThomasCorfield]

@@Ozvideo1959 Look, to be honest, I don't actually know her. I pretended to so I could appear cool and trendy. I have no friends. In fact, the only reason I have a cell phone is so I pretend to be speaking to friends while I'm waiting to cross the road so I don't look like a lonely wanker. It's sad, yes, but that's only because I am.

[@pxe]

lol, the way Robert acts and speaks in this clip is so much like my boss. He always asks "what are your thoughts?" in that voice when it comes to recruitment issues. I'll be itching to start talking about Lindsay Davenport next time we talk.

[@tomlxyz]

Did you do?

[@lrussell851]

The world needs to know...

[@LAnonHubbard]

This comedy duo are so funny and versatile!

[@janesmith699]

Known as Lindsay to his friends. 😂😂😂😂😂 That line made me lose it.

[@VinZorD17]

I love this sketch so much! It's so random.

[@usernametaken2tekken]

Vincenzo De Guzmán it's not. It's arbitrary.

[@smileyparto]

It's espresso.

[@blackbird5634]

random?

[@A..Shadow..]

Bloody hell. Your comment is older than all 3 of my children. 😂 11, 9 and 4. Makes me feel old asf. I'm only 35.

[@ohemgeeorgia]

this is exactly what it's like to be a recruiter

[@ChartreuseDan]

Greg went on to secure PPE suppliers for the conservative party government

[@TomRipley7350]

"I mean, look at Sue Barker". 😂😂😂

[@zanite8650]

Lindsay Davenport- what a gal! 'plays Ace Rimmer theme'

[@janesmith699]

😄

[@PwnZombie]

🏃🏻‍♀️

[@lareuanlachance4019]

every line in this sketch is pure comedy gold 😂

[@neuvocastezero1838]

I hear there's a position available in the accounting department at Reynholm Industries.

[@anonymouse740]

I was waiting for the last open position to be for a tennis coach or something and him being like no sorry I don't have any candidates for that one.

[@agdgdgwngo]

She's so tall!

[@Flomskwain]

It's even funnier because we just appointed a squash player as the New Zealand Race Relations Commissioner...!

[@RealityCheck6T9]

Maybe it's because that's not a real job

[@tomkenning5482]

@@RealityCheck6T9 except that it's a post with an employer, duties and a salary, which makes what it is exactly a job. I'm not quite sure what level of reality you're operating on.

[@lorblauh]

@@tomkenning5482 It's as ineffectual job that doesn't produce anything of worth and only exists for PR reasons. It's not a real job.

[@ketmaniac]

@@lorblauh It's as real as any job that needs good groundstrokes and a womanly bearing.

[@Football__Junkie]

Are you really suggesting that working out your payroll is harder than winning Wimbledon? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@angrytedtalks]

I had never heard of this tennis player until now. She didn't get any of the roles she applied for. But she really is very tall...

[@prospero4183]

Dont forget the ground strokes

[@GroovingPict]

if you ever find yourself as a contestant on Pointless and a question about female tennis players comes up, she's almost always a pointless answer, so a good name to remember. And if it's male tennis players, Mats Wilander and Lleyton Hewitt are good ones to remember

[@maccy4829]

I’d love to know is Ms Davenport has ever seen this sketch?

[@Jotari]

GOing through the 'd's is actually a genuinely good lie in that situation.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

We also have an opening in HR.

[@hmich176]

The Cleveland Browns are doing this with Condoleeza Rice.

[@DrLilo]

Lindsey doesn't know her next job could be in cyber.

[@UppruniTegundanna]

I wonder if she's seen this.

[@abbafan50986]

What does that even mean?

[@gui18bif]

Modern HR. That's why I can not get a job. My resume is realistic and straight to the point. But I lose againist energectic dudes who play the flute

[@tenniscraze]

omg this is SO FUNNY. I hope lindsay gets to see this!

[@parricidio999]

it is Great!! I never though somebody talked about Lindsay 3 mins on a TV programme. I really love it. It is so funny. It would have been perfect if Linds had appeared there... C?MON LINDSAY The tower of power is back!

[@mellar07]

Did she get the job?

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

I want to fucking know how my best fucker knew about Davenport because I never even spoke it outloud

[@dnizabhad]

but she's so tall! :D

[@amandabumgardner2751]

How did they know about Davenport?!

[@bigtatties]

They've seen some tennis

[@adhdj1]

oh shitcrap! someone please say what the preceding SDCC sketch was I gotz to put it in front me eyeballz

[@jakegulliver1370]

Get out Greg 😂

[@eriklehnsherr7238]

Uploaded 12 years ago, that’s mad

[@camdflage]

This must be how they employ "journalists" here in Australia.

[@Abuamina001]

Mashallah. That is hysterical. I think that's the same recruitment strategy of my former employer.

[@holytriplem5959]

This is literally the sketch I think about every time I hear about Pete Buttigieg.

[@jonthompson7106]

Why?

[@holytriplem5959]

@@jonthompson7106 yeah that comment's got a bit dated now. Pete Buttigieg was a candidate in the 2020 democratic primaries in the US and all anyone would talk about was that he was gay, served in the military and spoke loads of languages

[@hankkingsley2976]

As an American I find this funny and also find Hee Haw funny

[@rhysepoos]

Great sketch, but he's wrong about Sue Barker, she DID have the groundstrokes. Well, on the forehand side at least.

[@TheBecauseimawesome]

Get out Greg.

[@Scallion_D]

Lindsey Davinport coming out of nowhere lol.

[@Djarra]

@biggie558 Apart from the one got watching videos of Lindsey Davenport.

[@carlbennett2417]

People sure were skinny back then.

[@frankspencer6935]

She's not much of a looker though. Oh, that was the French one.

[@255ad]

@eyeworks88 I think he'd make a better master

[@Estragon17]

Send quite a bit like the Trump process for selecting staff.

[@RealityCheck6T9]

He selects a single tennis player for all the jobs?

[@weswheel4834]

No but he tends to concentrate on the 'Ts'. edit: Trump just happened to be looking through the T section at the time, that's why all the CVs were from someone called Trump.

[@dmking26]

That was almost a sentence.

[@guidadiehl9176]

I love watching a video on KZbin that has absolutely no relation to US politics whatsoever, then running across some obsessive halfwit in the comments who still hasn't gotten over the election.

[@weswheel4834]

Sorry, Vermouth? You know what the election was for, right? Trump didn't just pop in for half an hour for the election and then go back to his usual reality show? We had the election and now we're onto the his time as President, and this looks likely to go on for a while longer. Some people apparently like him as President. Some people don't. Others think its beyond satire. 'obsessive halfwit'. lol.

[@j.j.c.s2802]

Pseudo 4:3 again.

[@Grashnook]

It sounds like "idear" for the same reason americans are literally incapable of saying buckingham as if its one word

[@Harani66]

Bucking-ham Birming-ham Edin-boro

[@briancox9357]

Hearing Americans say 'Worcestershire Sauce' is always fun.

[@andreyofdoom]

@thelleht Maria Sharapova is 6'3 I think. That would make this a mistake.

[@mohawk393939]

Sharapova is 1.88m tall, Davenport is 1.89m tall

[@Izaak247]

Lmao

[@biggie558]

@andreyofdoom Beating a dead horse is funny though! There is no climax though...

[@Henry-kz4gn]

hiring a woman to be an accountant, brilliant joke

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

"Idea" isn't spelled with an 'r'. Why do Brits always pronounce it like "idere"?

[@lordprotector3367]

How do you pronounce it then?

[@rogersemahan3011]

/aɪˈdɪə/ or /aɪˈdi.ə/. See the thing in common? Neither has an "r" sound in it.

[@ilikethisnamebetter]

I think he does say "idear" rather than "idea" at least the first time. Maybe he thought it was appropriate for the role.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R

[@Richard_Jones]

I guess it's because the way that english people pronounce things in english is because that's the correct way to speak english (as defined by actually being english)

[@funkyalfonso]

Get out!

[@pendragonshall]

Remarkably sounds like the idiocy being forced today. Qualifications bah what’s your skin color and gender

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

But most of those phonetic idiosyncrasies are understandable. I just find the British predisposition to add r's into words very odd. I can't think of a reason why it would be that way... perhaps because Brits aren't used to ending words with an 'ah' or 'uh' sound? Because they do it with the word "America" too.

[@rogersemahan3011]

I heard Lindy Beige claim it is because it's easier when the second word begins with a vowel. But that doesn't explain why it's there when there is no extra vowel after

[@duxnihilo]

Roger Semahan They don't pronounce idere when there's no vowel after!

[@jj9749]

It's americans who add Rs to the end of words, or over pronounce them , whereas in English we don't really pronounce them ata ll

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

@@jj9749 "Over pronounce"?

[@jj9749]

For example the word corner. English: cawna American: corrrnrrrr

[@sean3533]

It’s funny because it’s women’s tennis.

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

This is actually one of the better ones. Too many of the others are borderline just stupid.