STORYTIME: Mark, Claire and the Meet Cute (ft Chloe!) - VEDJ 5

[@ScarfDemon]

mmmmmMMMEET. CEEEYOOOOTT.

[@wietskejanse5951]

Chloe's storytelling skills are absolutely SUPERB.

[@swiftlyswan]

i NEED a series of chloe's overheard conversations

[@wietskejanse5951]

Same! :D

[@lavender_evie]

+ This needs to be a thing!!

[@nordseeblau]

Having watched this daily since it was posted and full on belly laughed every time, I highly endorse this! 👆

[@nadyanah]

The background noise sounds like stock audio (or those productivity apps that give you background coffee shop noise).

[@jessestresse]

legit, without Chloe and Dan, it'd be an asmr video

[@OK-xn7kj]

Lad, where's "if it's not real, it's not right". I swear to god

[@podoke]

I cant believe you took nOTES while eavesdropping as if you just KNEW the plot would thicken

[@dampfoxes]

4 years later and I will still click on and watch this VEDJ all the way through every time it appears in my recommended. I probably watch it 3 times a year? Anyway I like it.

[@issabelletje]

This is just cruel. I need to know what happened to Mark and Claire! Did he call her? Did he work it out with Karen? Did the cockblocking bestfriend confess his love for Karen and give her the happy ending she deserves? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS.

[@themripley]

Find out in Dan's novel/movie.

[@TheLaurenWoggleEyes]

Wait so is the cockblocking best friend actually the guy from love actually that confesses his love for Kiera Knightly?

[@issabelletje]

@@TheLaurenWoggleEyes Omg, yes! He so is!

[@BrigitteCrowder]

devastated by the addition of karen but thrilled by all things claire

[@DragonPrincessAoife]

My favorite overheard moment is at Walgreens. We were waiting in line and all of the sudden a guy in a neighboring line, who was on the phone the whole time, yells at the top of his lungs "YOU MEAN ALL YOUR EX BOYFRIENDS WERE GAY?"

[@sunfreckledmoonchild]

You two together always have such friend energy, it's an immediate mood boost

[@renlish]

"Do NOT presume to pick up the Queen!" Slayed.

[@tinysealooter]

I loved this. This is SONDER! The term Sonder has been noted as well for its relation to other people, its definition meaning "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own"

[@DanLayton]

I WILL USE THAT WORD FOREVER

[@NikkiBeckett]

Love love love this video. It reminded me of a married couple that I saw in the supermarket the other day who were arguing, they were doing the childish "yes they are" "no they're not" back and forth for a good minute or so, so I hung around to see what they were arguing about and the man just said "EMILY, MERINGUES ARE NOT. HEALTHY."

[@morganzola]

i make it a priority to say/do shit in public (that seems weirder out of context) just slightly louder than the rest of the conversation, for the main purposes of being in someone else's eavesdrop story. that's how i get my adrenaline kicks

[@themripley]

DANIEL J LAYTON. You better be writing "Mark and Karen Are Not Ok" this very second.

[@KarisGorst]

i need to eavesdrop on more conversations in public, because this story had me SCREAMING

[@mcbrooke]

I once saw a hippy with an electric ukulele serenade a furry they just met at a train station. Such quotes include: “I like your ears, I should have worn mine.”

[@philippalee2329]

Back in college I had unknowingly become a well known instillation in the library. I only found out when I was shown a well known yikyak post (back when it was popular and unbanned at school) that simply said "shout out to that girl in the library who is always asleep". Not quite as dramatic as mark and Claire but it seems I was the last person to know.

[@evi577]

Omg yes I have a story. In 2014, I went to Rome with my high school class for about a week, and all we did was walk around and visit all the Sights. About two years later, one of my classmates starts dating this guy, and one day, we're at a party. Eventually we start discussing the trips we went on with school. We get to the Rome trip, and we find out his class and our class were there at the same time. He pulls up his phone and goes through his photos and videos, aND IN ONE OF HIS PHOTOS of him in front of the Colosseum, you can see our class, and my classmate he is dating specifically, in the background strolling around. We're from the Netherlands. How did this happen.

[@hannahkelly7913]

i still need to know how chloe ended up in oxford circus in her pyjamas and no shoes

[@maggiestandage-bowles8254]

God that story had so many twists and turns. romance novelists wish they had HALF what mark and Claire have

[@S34U5]

I always tell this story of my first theatre experience, where I'm returning a shirt to the guy's change room and I knock on the door frame and announce, "Don't be naked I'm coming in" And one of the boys goes. "i wasn't nakedbut I am now." and as I walk in he rips off his pants. It's been my baseline story to explain how theatre really is to non-theatre friends. I found out last summer that that guy ALSO tells that story.

[@aoibhk7786]

Thank you Dan for the old-school KZbin vedj and thank you Chloe for living above an italien wine bar

[@YoruuXD]

CLAIRE 👏🏼 YES 👏🏼 Also Chloe is such an incredible story teller

[@orrak]

i got chills when chloe told the story about her being in the back of one of her friend’s photos. THE WORLD IS SO TINY

[@ellieee2911]

ORRAK Since it happened in Disneyland you could say...It’s a small world after all...

[@Carina5707]

1.Any collab with Chloe is golden 2. Are you drinking a Go Girl 3. You have to speak low, calmly, and continuously at kitties to get them to trust you 4. Mark and Claire Aren't Ok is a great title. Look forward to THAT romcom. (but w a happy ending pls) 5. Random performance art that no ones knows about at SITC sounds like a fantastic idea. Very Andy Kaufman 6. I would love to hear more of these stories. Endless collabs with Chloe please 7. Have a lovely day. Thanks for the content. Cheers xx

[@kathis.3973]

I once rode past a woman and her dog on my bike (I was on the bike, not the dog) and he started barking at me, so the woman goes "Shh!" and while biking away, I can hear her say to him, sounding quite upset, "We've talked about this" 10/10 would be barked at by this dog again

[@SunshineNinja94]

When a friend and I were walking around Dublin on a work lunch break, a man in a tan overcoat, talking on the phone, walked past us and all we heard of the conversation was one word: "...Dingleberry!" On a different day, while on lunch with the same friend, the two of us probably became someone else's weird encounter as the two of us were crying with laughter in the middle of the street outside our office because I had used the term "tummy funnies".

[@Maryam-mz7jo]

this is my favourite episode of VEDJ by far. it's basically when my mates and i sit together and just share random stories or SPILL THE TEA. but with dan and chloe and through my phone. anyway love this keep it up dan!

[@anakinjames]

this has happened to me three times: I have been talking to one of my friends and we both are talking about our childhoods and we both realize how we have already met in the past at a certain place multiple times but never realized it was eachother until just then.

[@laurabrumfitt9906]

I went to work in America for the summer when I was 19 , the other staff and I we were discussing the difference between us and uk ids and I was like people think mine is fake because I was born in Germany but am British and this one girl goes me too! I was like omg cool, turns out her dad was my dads boss 20 years earlier and what’s more there was a photo of us SAT NEXT TO EACH OTHER and nursery in Germany 🤯🤯🤯

[@storiesbybrittney]

The one dislike is from Mark

[@SazBerry]

I remember Mark and Claire from Chloe's twitter! I can happily say it did not at all detract from my enjoyment of the story in the slightest tho cos it's *just. that. good.*

[@naif7252]

omg CLaire is savage with the couples counceling

[@DorkOrc]

“Larry McCockBlock” IM DEAD

[@Carina5707]

I've had this thought for a few years now that my ideal superpower would be to have this kind of sensor to when I've come across someone before. Not if I've met them per se. Just come across. Like I'd be at the grocery store and brush by some grandma and my superpower would go off and I'd know that she lent my mother a napkin when we were at Taco Bell in 1999.

[@MeerrGames]

So in college I met this girl through a friend my freshman year. At some point in the budding friendship over the next few years, I was going through old ballet photos of when I was little (like 4-6). The girl, who I'd only known for a few years now, remarks that she also did ballet as a child. We find out that we were both living in the same city at the time as kids, went to the same ballet studio, and I have a group picture with her, me, and other girls all in the same ballet production. So out of every none family member in my life, I've technically known (of) her the longest. This blew my mind and is still crazy to me today.

[@MaiaSmithy]

Once when I was waitressing at a very posh wedding, where the guests were very snooty and pretended like i didn't exist, i discovered that one of the best men was sleeping with the bride .... was so tempted to walk onto the stage and destroy the day 😂

[@kathis.3973]

So basically... What a shame the poor groom's bride was a -

[@Lizzehh]

Just watching The Holiday again. Had to pause after the “meet cute” to watch this again and then just replay you saying “mmmmmMMEET CUUTTTTE” over and over 😂

[@hazzamazza1015]

WE NEED MORE OF THESE ENCOUNTER STORIES WITH DAN AND CHLOE !!!!

[@sorchaaislingoregan1000]

I was walking around town one time and all was well. I walked past these normal looking guys and one of them just shouts out of nOwhere “THEYRE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD” and I tripped over a crack on the path and ended up in a puddle laughing my actual ass off

[@evanorlandomacdonald7511]

I heard a long conversation on the bus about a Shrek cake

[@becca5143]

Please please make that film honestly 10/10 would watch

[@becca5143]

also along the lines with chloe's story about disneyland - when i first got to uni i found i had been sitting in the same block of seats at a thing at the o2 in london as two of the people i met on my course

[@elliotharris416]

I bloody loved this! From start to finish "The Chronicles From Chloe's Overhearing From A Posh Italian Wine Bar Garden"

[@Maddi-tron5000]

Why hasn’t anyone animated this already?!?!?

[@TjBrawl]

Was in Asda today looking for a falafel sandwich and I saw it and just shouted FALAFEL! and pointed and almost hit the person next to me

[@holycrocs3670]

Do i want to meet Claire or to be her?

[@kookiepetal]

me and my friends have this game (that we stole of some stand up comedian) where whenever we walk past someone we have to say the weirdest thing we can think of. And I think the weirdest thing someone has overheard us say is: "no, im not saying that if i could go back in time i WOULDN'T kill Hitler, I'm just saying I'd bring the dildo just in case"

[@gracepenton9790]

I was sitting in my garden listening to my neighbour's party bustling on, vaguely pretending that I was in their conversations (not strange, not strange at all) but yeah I find it funny that conversations can fluidly move from the topics of sexuality to singing let it go.

[@theqwertykeyvoard100]

uhhhh give these two a talk show or a sitcom or something like jesus christ what a duo, you're incredible together and honestly so cute and comfortable like genuinely i want yall to do a casual dish/gossip show on youtube all the time i love ittttt

[@oliviak.4585]

I've watched this at least 65 times and I still haven't gotten tired of it.

[@Trashtienda]

When is "Mark and Karen are not okay" coming out / getting written? Bc this is a PHENOMENAL opening scene for a book or a movie... About another couple

[@likemonstersinlove]

I rewatch this video anytime I need a pick me up and it NEVER fails to deliver Thank you Dan & Chloe

[@hifsaahmed5855]

Whenever i watch a video of you two together, i laugh so much that my sides ache. A conversation between you two is so wonderfully witty and funny. The way you talk and tell stories is so mesmerising. Thank you for sharing it with the rest of the world.

[@lolarosemusicofficial]

I always need more of Dan and Chloe. ALWAYS

[@tabatharich]

I was on the tube once and a lady shouted ‘shit, the brownies’ and got up so fast, but then had to wait at the doors because we very much were not at the next tube stop

[@lenajn13]

exams are giving me death, but vedj is giving me LIFE

[@TheTomLees]

It’s been almost a year since this story and I still wonder what Claire and Mark are doing now... maybe they’re self-isolating together

[@frodobaggins7710]

Any video with Chloe and Kiki in is going to be a good one

[@amylester8227]

I don’t often audibly laugh or gasp when I watch stuff alone, ANY video with Dan and Chloe is an exception. Fucking gold!

[@katem9718]

Favourite pair, fantastic story from Chloe, punctuated perfectly by Dan, love you both

[@Zeeee4]

Everything about this video is hilarious and perfect! Mark and Claire’s story could definitely be made into a movie/ book. Chloe’s hilarious and I love your friendship

[@serafinassong]

Amazing story. One of my favourite times I've been overheard was when several of my friends and I were on a bus home from our Dungeons and Dragons game. Now, it's fairly late at night, and the only other person on the bus is this old man who looks like the perfect caricature of the Irish Old Man, complete with tweed hat. So we're discussing the events of the game, and we get to the part where the demons showed up (as they do), and this old man gets up and moves two rows further away from us. I think he was scared, but he might just have been very disapproving.

[@Emzjellybeanz]

Honestly I love the idea of being someone’s eavesdrop story & have some great conversations loudly in public. Me and my friend were talking about me turning 20 soon and the idea that you need to have a certain set of experiences during your ~teen years~ to look back on, and then that lead on to talking about drugs, and we were planning on smoking some weed sometime & discussing different perceptions & experiences of it. A great convo to have in the middle of a crowded bus. And then when we were getting off, some old guy turned to me and with a wise & knowing grin said “I wouldn’t do it if I were you.” I saw him chuckling to himself as the bus drove off. I like to think we made him think fondly back on the folly of his youth.

[@koolkatkimina9]

CHLOE I NEED MORE STORIES

[@heatherrowena46]

my dramatic teen storm out with my guitar case after getting dumped in a cafe is definitely the subject of someone's eavesdropping story

[@lavenderbard]

I will NEVER get tired of you two chatting. You're both absolutely amazing.

[@hazzamazza1015]

Im at SITC for the whole weekend this year so im ready for the immersive theatre

[@poeven]

That fake laugh at 3:54 made me genuinely laugh out loud alone in my living room

[@iyesharuby22]

In my first year of college I had to redo my maths GCSE and I was complaining about it in a coffee shop over the phone to my friend saying that the lessons went so slowly I'm forgetting everything I learned the year before. And I look in the next month's local paper which has an 'overheard' section and I'm there saying "I got all A's and B's in my mocks, these extra lessons they're giving me are making me more dumb or summat"

[@abiwright2726]

Chloe saying “it’s really jarring and I am afraid” with this straightest face really made me laugh oh my god

[@Ginger_Spice]

I absolutely love your camera/general chemistry together... Reminds me of myself and my best friend. Cheers!

[@Maddi-tron5000]

I need this to be some kind of series!

[@ailishtaylor5802]

My mum overheard two people in a supermarket whose conversation started with "Hey, I didn't recognise you with your clothes on" and tbh it still haunts me

[@hayley7022]

my god this brings me so much joy

[@ScorchTheRedhead]

"This has been chloe"... and this has been great 👏👏👏👏 please write the book 😂

[@RobbeKeters]

FRIENDS REFERENCE AT 0:10 AND AT 1:23

[@kburns3035]

I just want more videos with Dan and Chloe- they’re SO funny together

[@saraduty8972]

I LOVED this video. First, Chloe looks so good in it. Also, the story was great. And when Dan almost spit drink everywhere ...

[@ksw3333]

Your friendship is such a delight, absolutely love Dan and Chloe vids.

[@louiem.m6116]

i spent the entire video thinking the cat was called kinky

[@Stardust_Road]

MAKE THIS INTO A BOOK

[@reannehayles2741]

One time when I was camping me and my sister went to the shower block so we took the two middle cubicles. Then two welsh women come in and take the two cubicles either side of us and they have a very loud conversation. In this conversation they were just talking about the awful weather we were having and then one of them says to the other “do you prefer wellies or brollies?” (Keep in mind they are welsh and I find the accent very funny) “I think I prefer wellies (and then gave an explanation) and honestly it was so funny that me and my sister to this day will quote the conversation when it’s raining

[@darigaabikenova8724]

Love when you both tell stories. Pls animate them, they are too gorgeous.

[@peculiarpencil7601]

this is one of the bestest

[@papaquonis]

Oh Chloe, that's a glorious story

[@nataliehaku]

I'm still self isolating so I'm just watching through these all late, but a conversation I once overheard was at MCM Expo/Comic Con in 2018, and I was severely unwell and everything felt weird so I sort of just sat on the floor trying to get my bearings, and whilst sat there all I heard was: "I can't, or else Steve Buscemi will know". It's been two years and I still want to know what Mr. Buscemi will know.

[@katiek9856]

wouldn’t be surprised if people in various cities have stories about me as the hopelessly lost girl who they saw walking around the same block so many times they started counting for fun

[@jacobgarner5976]

a very similar to Chloe’s story thing happened to me! I was in a very childish relationship in year 7 through to year 9 and didn’t know the person until we met in year 7 however we grew up close by. Their mum was showing me baby pictures one day when we saw my family and I in the background of one of the pictures. Endlessly amusing for us as we’re only around 3 in the picture😅

[@JamesMorfa]

I was once walking through a park in Bristol and I overheard this guy say 'Yeah, I was off the drugs whilst I was in prison but I'm back on them now.' AND, no word of a lie, he looked exactly like Mad Twatter from the first series of Skins. On an unrelated note, there was also a random dude wandering Bangor high street with an owl a few weeks ago.

[@kaitomomotaluminaryofthest8258]

My story is around 3 years ago I went to Cardiff for 10 days in the summer holidays. Pokemon go was popular and i was quite confident person then. While walking around Cardiff and the bay i saw people on their phone and i went up to them and stupidly asked if they were on Pokemon go. Some people said yes or no and some people ignored me sadly. It was a funny holiday and that would be funny if someone was to tell their family about me lolol. Also i love this story its so cute and funny as well.

[@Maddi-tron5000]

~also ‘fun power business’ is my new band name~ thanks lol

[@Maddi-tron5000]

Or alternatively ‘how’s Karen?!’

[@gaildahlas]

I'm not sure where this fits in, but I have managed to meet and make friends with the same person on 4 separate occasions since 2009 (make that years 2-12 of school). Neither of us made any connections between the people or encounters until some point last year, when we finally started talking again and realised a lot of things. It might be cliché, but we've now ended up in a long term relationship, so y'know.

[@michllons]

THIS WAS SO ENJOYABLE TO WATCH also claire is so wise 😩😩 i'm rethinking my whole life just bc of her statement about happiness wow

[@halymaly8800]

I really hope that Claire sees this, mark too but mainly Claire

[@ksongbird]

You two feed off each other so well, every video you put out together is so good. all I'm saying is if you two ever made a joint channel or podcast,, I'd be a fan.

[@CharleyWeller]

Hearing MGGS caught me off guard, I won’t lie - a reference to Maidstone from someone successful always shocks me

[@DanLayton]

It's really only Lizzy Yarnold. The entire town is in her shadow.

[@CharleyWeller]

Daniel J. Layton McKenzie Crook is another one, his birth made it onto a ‘timeline of maidstone’ mural they had in the Chequers Centre

[@iamrachelkerry]

This is the most incredible story ever I can’t deal

[@bandbehaviour5023]

You two together is always comedy gold