That Mitchell and Webb Look - A Prayer & A Pint Tokyo

[@krashd]

Might be a British phenomenon but there are really TV shows like this where two completely unrelated things are entwined, like a chef going around historical battlefields and cooking mushrooms, or a man on a motorbike visiting abbeys to taste cider.

[@AnxietyAddict]

Rob Fraser and thus the one show was born

[@calebfuller4713]

I think you hit the nail on the head there! The Hairy Bikers - Two bearded bikers ride around, cooking stuff. Two Fat Ladies - Two fat ladies ride around on a motorcycle, cooking stuff. Jamie Cooks Italy - Jamie Oliver drives a van around Italy, while Italians make fun of his cooking. River Cottage (in various guises) - basically all your ideas and more, all rolled into one, cooked and eaten. (Or drunk... frequently drunk!) Nigella - attractive posh woman does ASMR videos, disguised as cooking, despite not actually being very good at cooking. (but pleasant to watch and listen to)

[@DaveMoth]

Caleb Fuller Keith Floyd was the first to make the format popular

[@RIGTHEMORT]

@@calebfuller4713 Extreme Fondling with Ben Fogle.

[@honestjim1000]

@@RIGTHEMORT Ray Mears survival tips with special guests Raoul Moat and Paul Gascoigne.

[@hastobe303]

After watching this during lunch break at work, I found myself playing "All I Want To Do" on repeat in my head all day. By Vectron, I'll never watch Prayer and a Pint at work again!

[@C4_Shaf]

That's very curious to hear, by Vectron's Mighty Claw!

[@ma-moomoo]

By the scrolls of Vectron, it is a catchy tune!

[@steveforest8385]

Who do I want to praise? Who do I want to praise? Who do I want to praise? VECTRON.

[@AdamTheMan1993]

For Vectron!

[@draculon5]

"Once you get over the initial shock" just pissed myself laughing in a quiet library.

[@TheZombieSaints]

I laughed for 30 seconds straight when I head that!

[@SaidarSaraaah]

Thank you!! The context of these obswervations is so under rated

[@toolworks]

That japanese actor is extremely good at looking like a confused and out of place japanese person.

[@DanielVerberne]

He’s probably a British actor, of Japanese descent, but I very much agree, he plays his part well.

[@gabefoad]

@@DanielVerberne It's actually an actor called Togo Igawa, who is Japanese ethnically, but works primarily in British media, having joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 80's. He's been in loads of films and tv shows but what instantly comes to mind for me is the IT Crowd, where he played a serious Japanese businessman who jumped with childish glee when he was given a pair of Doc Martens.

[@bensmith5288]

They are all confused anyway so not really acting is it

[@Nonexistent_Hero]

@@gabefoad omg it’s him! :O

[@L.i.am95]

@@bensmith5288 ah the stereotype as old as time, confused Japanese people

[@DrAmazing]

This perfectly captures the feeling of having a conversation in a language where you only understand every 4th or 5th word.

[@nikajinpusno9563]

- Holy cost? - Holy Ghost. - Ah, holicaust! Hahaha

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

I've heard that Bumsex is quite pleasant at this time of year.

[@yoganandavalle]

can you explain me the joke of bumsex that later was sussex

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

Pablo Valle Sorry for the really late reply: Sussex is a county in England and bum-sex is a slang term for anal sex, so the joke’s based on a mix up between the two.

[@yoganandavalle]

hahahahaha very funny

[@joannegray5138]

I live in Bumsex and it's a bit of a hole.

[@janesmith699]

They have great taste in music in Bumsex.

[@MarcDeLarc]

this show was so underrated. intelligent surrealism.

[@RIGTHEMORT]

"Pacman is not based on the holocaust!?" That bit man, the way he questions it. 😂 A great stupid sketch !

[@kerimozdemir4009]

or is it ? My name is david mitchell in this episode we are making a holocaust to test that.

[@stevesutcliffe3490]

I can't believe they sent him all the way to Japan to film this sketch!

[@alex-sr6lk]

why not

[@ThatPianoNoob]

probably easier than finding a fucking portrait of elvis in europe

[@bernardcz92]

What makes this even better is that the actor playing Professor Yashida is Togo Igawa, the narrator in Shogun Total War and its sequel!

[@eylab1541]

NoooooOoooo WAYYYY!!!!!

[@oliverspencer8502]

A prayer and a pint looks like the most wholesome show ever

[@TheLinz78]

As an atheist, I would like this sung at my funeral.

[@MatthiasAletharch]

A perfect skewer of afternoon filler shows like The Hairy Bikers or One Man In A Campervan, in which a gimmicky idiot visits a different place every episode and has an incredibly stilted conversation with someone about "local traditions", when it's painfully obvious they've done no research whatsoever before switching the camera on.

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

... once you get over the initial shock.

[@JoeStunner]

I must say I found the hymn extremely moving…

[@barbicaine]

"Black people are probably objectively more attractive than white people, once you get over the initial shock..." Brilliant! lol

[@lll-bm1cp]

The sort of show you would see if you would turn on the TV at 3 am

[@Macho_Fantastico]

"actually living in pac-man" That line makes me lose it every time.

[@sunnyncloudy]

The song at the end makes me crease up every time. :')

[@Charlieee23]

Spotted the guy playing the Japanese professor in ‘prayer and a pint’ in the new Mamma Mia film today! I thought it was the guy from this sketch (double checked on imdb and I was right!) it made me laugh and think of this sketch

[@mfzoom5401]

Sadly that film is toss.

[@mellar07]

The Japanese man trying not to laugh during the song cracked me up.

[@keefus25]

This is like every hymn ever.

[@dnomyarnostaw]

... and in 2020, still as funny as ever.

[@arnold08]

@XRavsterX He's a proper actor, apparently (looked up on imdb). Name's Togo Igawa, has played in such movies as Memoirs of the Geisha and The Last Samurai. He's also the Japanese businessman in the IT Crowd :)

[@CCootauco]

Is this skit about cultural relations, pubs, or is it just surrealist? This makes no sense, but its hilarious as hell.

[@Rg-es9kv]

Over condensed cultural exchange on a religious hymn show

[@DanielVerberne]

I love it when the humour ‘makes no sense’ and yet tickles us anyway. I think appreciating such humour is a sign of great intellect, or that one uses downtime to browse KZbin.

[@fasteddie6806]

It's a send up of the God Slot programmes that had to be shown on BBC and ITV in the UK. A certain number of hours of religious based programmes had to be shown per week under the terms of their charters. They resorted to desperate measures to make these programmes " original and interesting. " As a result some bizarre programmes were made and shown. Almost as bizarre as this!

[@mftmss7086]

BBC COMIE PROPOGANDA

[@StandardGoose]

Of course a lot of the work in Tokyo is still done by hand.

[@NaelokQ]

I love how the Japanese dude just sort of bobs his head back and forth a bit while he's singing.

[@TheLadyBandit]

Who do i want to praise? GAAAAAAAAAWD!

[@thenoble39]

😀😀😀😀

[@CCootauco]

He was he Japanese CEO in he IT Crowd

[@janesmith699]

Holy crap i just watched that episode today! I didn't recognize him. 😄

[@mattbonann]

5 people don't want to praise Him.

[@jaredtweed7826]

Woah, James May: Our Man in Japan has really changed

[@gershonklapper5916]

has professor Yoshida been voltage-calmed

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

That hymn!!! Has me crying 😂

[@JerryMetal]

Who do I want praise; Gaaaawd

[@darkridr25]

Yoshida: "Yes!" (I have no idea what he's saying. Oh, he's singing something that sounds very solemn. I must be respectful and go along with this.) "Yes!"

[@craigmcmartin6130]

2:50: When you have no idea at all what this crazy British guy is on about, but you're far too polite and socially constrained to do anything about it.

[@superagurihyperteam]

"Yes, yes, Pacman, Japanese" "No!" :O

[@AFCGameByGame]

Sulky Abbot in Bumsex.

[@DanielVerberne]

I've been trying to convince my wife to go to Bumsex one day.

[@johnluvsluna]

love this sketch so much. it should replace songs of praise.

[@FortuneInLies]

goooooooooooooooooooooooooood

[@janesmith699]

I love this song. 😍

[@lukecoolhand100]

Who do I want to praise? GOD!!!!!

[@CorvusCorone68]

@CCootauco it's a parody of British TV shows that involve traveling around Britain and singing hymns

[@James-gc5if]

Sal Mirren, the programme being parodied is called 'Songs of Praise', and they usually go around churches and cathedrals in Britain, but occasionally go abroad.

[@martinwaplington966]

@@James-gc5if Looks more like a parody of Highway with Harry Secombe.

[@Gazereths1234]

I live in Sulky Abbot, Bumsex. A nice little village but full of cottagers.

[@Blackadder125]

David Mitchell has a very funny voice.

[@Jedi-cloud]

All the stifling awkwardness of a weekday mass with great aunt Moira

[@BrellK]

I thought I hated the song, but found myself singing it in the car while I was driving because I was so bored.

[@adamwhair]

who do i want to praise? GOD!!!!

[@brionybrosnan]

Best sketch ever. The song just kills me

[@GirGir183]

0:00 It's Bob Flemming...in Japan!

[@vangroover1903]

You can see how DM's deep and abiding spiritualism informs the series' last sketch, especially the bits before they wet themselves and charge into the fields of poo.

[@hyphz]

I've heard a claim - only a claim - that the hymn at the end is based on a real one used for teaching English in Christian schools, and there are 2 more verses. 2- All he wants to do.. is save us. Who does he want to save? All. 3- "Love him" instead of "praise him".

[@simonkane]

You might be right. But I think I made it up. (Can you imagine two more verses of this!)

[@olivercuenca4109]

All I want to do!

[@Chipster971]

All I want to do! All I want to do is praise him!

[@hawthornrabbit]

I don't even know why this is making me cry with laughter. XD

[@ChickenWings103]

@XRavsterX Of course he does ^^ He's reading from a script ~ it's all acting.

[@Grayfox988]

Can't unhear the narrator from Shogun Total War.

[@jkk45]

Will next weeks hymn request be from Mrs A Trellis of North Wales?

[@Fedaykin24]

Fantastic, its like Highway with Harry Secombe! I remember when it was and he would be somewhere random then all of a sudden break into song about God...

[@Raura0rz]

@XRavsterX I think he does! They probably shot this in some Japanese restaurant in the UK and hired some extras who understood English. I personally admire the chef behind them. How could he work and look so calm while this ridiculous conversation was going? lol

[@moon666watcher]

I don't get this sketch but I love it!

[@steved8193]

It's quite a comedy show that can get a laugh out of the word 'holocaust'.

[@idontneededgrammarlurlylol9671]

2:36 my new ringtone

[@pepepoopsonthefarright7531]

i'm going to a halloween party as donny cosy i'll do the voice all night i don't care if nobody gets it

[@podfunk]

More of a hymn than a prayer at the end there, but it was jolly nice anyway.

[@hyphz]

Can anyone tell what the chords are? It sounds like F, Dm, Am , Dm, G, C, F (C F) but I'm not sure.

[@playerthe2nd]

Id probably watch this if it were a real show.

[@armandsdamanhoo]

this sums up Ireland really

[@particle409]

It's on Netflix right now.

[@GtaNewsITA]

This is looks like a condensed version of James May in our man in Japan

[@hallamhal]

Is that Togo Igawa?

[@AdamTheMan1993]

Yes it is Togo Igawa, he was also the Japanese Boss in The IT Crowd

[@POPPPUdane]

Praise him.

[@podfunk]

Are there any more episodes of this super show?

[@Brunix7000]

I would actually watch this tbf

[@NickStedmon]

@Beltania Songs of Praise is te=he one that springs to mind, but there's probably many similar. It's also making the joke that pretty much all hymns have no real tune and are repetitive as hell XD

[@park1059]

I was the bastard who upvoted the video from 666 likes to 667.

[@hyphz]

Double research error - in Japan, the enemies in Pacman are just called "monsters". "Ghosts" was a name made up by US players based on how they looked.

[@apestaartje321]

haha yes.. I can't hear it without having a smile on my face.

[@cornishphilosopher]

Pixie madness here in Tokio

[@playerthe2nd]

@ReyyanK I meant Prayer and A Pint, no Michell and Webb you cheeky git.

[@cryptobuzz4580]

I can only imagine the reaction to this in 2022 🤣

[@uiruu]

@hyphz Research error? It's a comedy sketch.

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

I've seen the guy who plays the professor in something else. Can anyone tell me his name?

[@Mullahgrrl]

@Raura0rz Maby green screen?

[@InYourYawn]

where is the love button

[@InYourYawn]

elvis presley is common ground

[@mightywindmill102]

Would definitely watch this programme

[@kills26]

I was disappointed to learn it's not a real hymn.

[@TheJeffryButnic2]

Interesting, this really was at the forefront of my mind whilst watching this.

[@woofmute]

@Beltania You could try BBC iPlayer, though you'd need to use a proxy to pretend you are from England, if you aren't already.

[@DanielVerberne]

I've watched this more than it has pixels.

[@aftertheshowmoviepodcast]

GOOOOOODDDDDDD so fucking funny.

[@justkaizer4]

there very polite, they wouldnt object

[@georgeh5075]

This is basically what Ireland is like every day

[@CrispyClaire]

@gazereths1982 I love the other guy swaying along to his singing!

[@Stuart267]

He's just a huge drunk using a holiday program as an excuse to get wasted all the time its like Paul O'Grady type character.

[@MatthewThomasWxm]

Did you know that they were going to call it "Puck Man" but the creators realised how easy it would be to deface it to "Fuck Man". SCOTT PILGRIM

[@Mullahgrrl]

He might actually be saying puck man for all we know.

[@alexandrab488]

Have I just watched another episode of Rick Stein?