That Mitchell and Webb Look - Film Director

[@letsbereasonable4146]

The movie was unappreciated when it came out but "the Man who has a Cough and it is just a Cough and he is fine" is a rollercoaster of emotions nowadays...

[@mikester4896]

It's now considered 'controversial' in these times.

[@thiagodeandrade7081]

What IS the controvertial part? The millions who died?

[@mitchellgeorge9622]

@Jo Ol Hahahaha.

[@CitizenValve]

This now makes a situation I had with a girl make sense! I had a rash down there and when she saw it, she exclaimed it’s like Christmas time, you have the gift that keeps on giving! I said, what are you talking about? It’s poison ivy! She called me a Scrooge…

[@tazandalsoalastname]

This is the best comment on all of KZbin 😂

[@yorktown99]

It's as if Chekov's Gun is being used to play Russian Roulette, but it's not even loaded.

[@lordbuss]

This is one of the best sentences i ever saw on the internet.

[@jmalmsten]

Considering Hitchcock stating repeatedly that one should never let the bomb under the table actually explode, I am pretty sure he would have approved of that scenario. :D

[@smaakjeks]

@@jmalmsten Oh phew! I heard some ticking under my table, but now I can relax

[@McConnellsGuitar]

So much gold in this that the delivery if "no it's just that this is London's Burning and you're quite inpressionable" goes quietly unnoticed. Love it.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

"Sometimes Fires Go Out" and "The Gathering People" are both really good titles

[@putriscool]

no love for "The Man Who Has a Cough and it's Just a Cough and He's Fine???"

[@jye2785]

I’ll provide some love for “The Man Who Has a Cough and it’s Just a Cough and He’s Fine” A beautifully predictable rendition of a scenario that many of us face in our day to day lives of which is unapologetically faithful to it’s script and master title. Kudos to the director! For your films have left my mouth drier than the Sahara! An impressive feat for sure!

[@SomeBF]

Sometimes Fires Go Out sounds like a wonderful east-asian romantic drama

[@walterzamalis4846]

Is it just me or is *Sometimes Fires go out* a great title for an Arthouse film?

[@ericdugal8818]

Or a reverse romantic comedy, like The Break-Up

[@NxDoyle]

It depends on the film, really. I'd style it all in title case though, like I cared.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

It would be good if it was a metaphor, not literal fires.

[@swordofdanu]

I think that's the whole point... - _-

[@hazuinf]

That’s the point of the joke

[@miymoto128]

"And did you notice that the Edwardian woman's name was kylie?" "*Yes*" "Bit weird isn't it?"

[@mehrshadshahabi4845]

very weird

[@hookbeak3516]

Incongruous without doubt.

[@edjamaz4636]

I can imagine David and rob cracking up about an Edwardian woman called kylie when they wrote this

[@jasperfk]

@@edjamaz4636 well it’s a bit weird, isn’t it?

[@zapkvr]

Because Kylie can't act

[@LeMonsieurBanane]

Somebody give that woman an Oscar.

[@joofbing]

Danielle S that’s Olivia Colman. She’s won 4 BAFTAs and 2 Golden Globes.

[@toadrage1498]

joe ding i don’t know but that might be a whoosh right there

[@skittlezbecrazy]

joe ding WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSHHHHHH

[@cheknauss9867]

Lol seriously, I keep coming back just to watch that last bit.

[@jacobwigley]

@@joofbing r/woooosh

[@thomasinlockwood_]

I howled at Olivia Coleman's delivery of, "Aliens!"

[@Yora21]

Someone should give her an award.

[@ozkey1558]

@@Yora21 👏👏👏

[@Pyro-Moloch]

howled? Are you a werewolf or something?

[@zapkvr]

@@restlessdreams17 she should have

[@Emppu_T.]

Gasp

[@ticklish1991]

"could you tell me- and apologies if this seems like a naive question - but...CAN people levitate?"

[@Bluelunes]

+ticklish can people levitate?

[@JaimeEskobar]

+ticklish It is no right ? YES, it is no.

[@vroxxzz]

CAN people levitate? *incredulous look * can PEOPLE levitate?!?

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

I'm just trying to get to the root of why you felt the need to ask such a humiliating question!

[@hiimdanii]

By that i mean, do you beleive that your movie cliché that you have created has set a more unrealistic tone to the movies you direct, progressing inadvirtantly away from your original goal?

[@AntheanCeilliers]

"I thought you had TB." "TB? God no. I'd have mentioned that."

[@janesmith699]

Apparently she wanted TB as well. Going so far as to sleep with him.

[@danb4900]

@@janesmith699 TB isnt sexually transmissable. Coughing and sneezing does it.

[@ThonyHedgehog]

I told them what you told me to say. I told them I worked in sanitation.

[@OldcastleElf]

Dan people usually have their faces pretty close together when they have sex. He’d have coughed on her or around her.

[@BenjaminBizarre]

@@danb4900 "That's why I never kiss them on the mouth."

[@georgemorley1029]

True story this; I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia by a doctor and prescribed powerful anti-epileptic drugs to combat its symptoms, which I took for about a week. The medicine I was taking had known side effects of depression, increasing the tendency for suicidal thoughts and various other neurological side effects. Trigeminal neuralgia, for those of you who don’t know, is known as the suicide disease because it is supposed to be the most painful disease ever discovered. It is known to present itself with symptoms akin to a dental infection and develop from there into an escalating series of painful attacks that can literally blind the victim with pain. As there is no known long term way of arresting its development, people often kill themselves simply to put themselves out of their misery. It turned out after a week that it was a dental infection after all and I was alright. I want this man to make the biopic of my life!

[@Sheen023]

Wake up call from the heavens 😜

[@deftreference]

Thanks for the horrifying story. Glad you’re feeling better.

[@peterfireflylund]

I thought alcohol injections to kill or paralyze the nerve worked quite well for that disease?

[@apocalypsereading7117]

@@peterfireflylund nope, anaesthetic injections to numb the nerve are one option among many but they're not permanent solutions and as with all treatments for TN efficacy varies from person to person. don't think doctors would rec killing the nerve in this day and age, since losing all sensation in half your face would prob result in other sorts of irreversible hellish trouble

[@walrusArmageddon]

Well that was a hell of a ride reading that, start to finish

[@ketmaniac]

When she said "This isn't London's Burning, it's Pride and Prejudice," I spat my tea all over the screen. But it was only a cough. It's fine.

[@maciusdabrowski3543]

i can't get it. Maybe my englsih's scanty.

[@hixidom2274]

I didn't notice this because I've never seen London's Burning, but I gather that it's unmistakably different from Pride and Prejudice.

[@ketmaniac]

@@hixidom2274 Yep, not a single fire in P&P, except the one in the fireplace.

[@laerin7931]

@@hixidom2274 London's Burning is about a modern day(-ish, more like 80s) firefighters, so yeah. Just a bit different from Pride and Prejudice.

[@KesselRunner606]

_The Man Who Has a Cough, and it's Just a Cough, and He's Fine,_ has a clear story narrative, a beginning-middle-and end, suspension, resolution, and a twist ending. All in about 80 seconds.

[@declanashmore]

Kishotenketsu in action, in fact! Ki: Establish situation (Cough) Sho: Develop (Cough gets worse) Ten: Twist (Health and spryness) Ketsu: Outcome (Surprise and regret)

[@volvo245]

80 seconds? Surely it can be trimmed down a bit? The blasted film is in color, you've any idea how expensive color film is?!

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

There's no twist. The title says he's fine and at the end, he's fine.

[@InceyWincey]

⁠@@pkmntrainermark8881the twist is that she only loved him because she thought he was dying.

[@horaceb2614]

Wow Quentin Tarantino really was ahead of his time, having his characters constantly needing a piss and a shit

[@wayneurquhart7192]

He taught me never to leave a loaded automatic on the kitchen counter when I go for poos.

[@peterpretzington9669]

I always wanted to see Gandalf have to shit

[@Dilkingt0nne]

Every time someone has a shit in pulp fiction something disastrous and central to the plot happens. Someone told me that and I couldn’t watch it the same again.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

​@@Dilkingt0nnea bit of subtextual irony to that scene is that quitting heroin causes diarrhea and that's why Vince was on the toilet.

[@sonny9493]

​@@Dilkingt0nneits everytime Travolta uses the toilet 😂

[@SonOfFurzehatt]

Imagine being the producer of a sketch show. "For this sketch, we just need a small studio with two people talking... "Oh, yeah, and cutaway gags to a controlled house fire, an Edwardian railway platform..."

[@SightForMemories]

you shall say, nothing happens, although, all the things happen, to be albeit the things that½ happen, so they happen by the happening, happening, all the happenings, of the happennings. I shall be happenining, too true.

[@starr0401]

Ah, every set for 1 minute each eh? That's the cost-efficient way to go. (Not)

[@modusoperandi4029]

and aliens

[@kida4313]

Oh and Oscar winner Olivia Colman, definitely need her. With a Karen haircut.

[@crystalidentity]

@@kida4313 What is a 'Karen' haircut?

[@stumbling]

That last bit is genius.

[@drewbryk]

@Cake could you explain? I don't get it either..

[@Mabus16]

@@drewbryk Casualty is a TV show about depicting real life accident and injury cases, like a toddler getting scalded with boiling water. The director's obsession with depicting real events that go against narrative convention led him to eschew depicting the conventional and realistic thing (the toddler getting scalded) in favour of something that went against the convention but depicted something extreme and unusual (the toddler being saved by the mother and then an alien abduction happens).

[@crystalidentity]

@@Mabus16 Haha - sounds like a typical intro to an episode of _House_ !

[@mostevil1082]

@@crystalidentity Exactly, a low budget ER version of those.

[@samuelchristie570]

You can see the influence of Fry and Laurie all over this sketch. Lovely stuff

[@tiaj.2625]

I was hoping someone else noticed! The "if you will" is such a Fry-ism

[@RFC-3514]

Mitchell & Webb actually used to write sketches for Fry & Laurie, before they started doing their own shows.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

They both came from the Cambridge Footlights

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@A-small-amount-of-peas "Ra ra ra? We're going to smash the oiks?"

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Yes, that's the spirit

[@DanThePropMan]

I think "No one goes for a piss in Star Wars" is one of my favourite sentences in the English language.

[@bletheringfool]

But some Klingon did piss put of their double penises in Star Trek Discovery

[@thewerewolff7248]

Well huzah. In Star Wars rebels we do indeed see someone take a piss at the “refresher”

[@BarterTom]

I noticed that when I was a small boy. No one goes for a shit in Aladdin.

[@jmalmsten]

The show 24 was notorious for those omissions of reality. I mean. If only once I saw Jack Bauer doing a mundane daily hygienal task, I would be able to believe they forgot about literally nuking a Los Angeles suburb.

[@Hiperruimteindustriee]

That's because there are no toilets on spaceships, the spacedock channel did a great video on that.

[@ZombieDragQueen]

They played a short clip from "The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine"? I wonder what other memorable scenes we've missed from that film. Dramatic scenes with his employers at work? - My God man, you should get that cough checked out by a physician. - Thank you for your concern, sir, but it's just a cough. (stoically concerning himself with paperwork) And then another scene with his parents. His mom bringing him hot tea: - Oh dear, I've put some honey into this camomile tea. I hope it will ease your cough. - Thank you, mom. It's ... (eyes looking into the distance) ... it's just a cough. It will go away.

[@franzfanz]

At the doctor's office. Doctor: "I'm afraid there's nothing we can do for him." Kylie: "You mean..." Doctor: "Yes. It's just a cough."

[@bwallaroo1998]

I bet there was that classic scene, standing at a bus stop near a crowd of people, getting dirty looks as he tries to cough into his handkerchief silently "dramatically sad music plays"

[@santatopham7512]

Stefan B.

[@SightForMemories]

"stop speculating, man!" - "Oh I'm sorry, Its just a cough" - *Haunting music plays* - "Do you know of any flowery hats, that isn't endorned on a prick?"

[@PavarottiAardvark]

"There's not enough life jackets. One of us will have to sacrifice himself to save the others" **cough** "Are you coughing because you are volunteering? Or because your terminal illness means you have nothing to live for?" "No. Neither, it's just a cough. I'm fine"

[@madnessbydesignVria]

How is this not recognized as one of the greatest shows ever?

[@holliswilliams8426]

I think just because the sketches are hit and miss, you are only seeing the good ones here but there were some lame ones as well. They actually had a sketch on the show about which sketches were going to be hits and which were going to be misses, as if it were being done intentionally.

[@sonny9493]

Because they are both in Peep Show and it is at least four thousand times better

[@RPcropland]

A little too slapstick, which then seemed uninspired compared to the frantic and disconnected and most certainly overplayed by now comedy style that's seem to still dominate today. Combined with the old bbc equipment and infrastructure lagging behind prevailing American productions that were then just entering the media market worldwide this played against the newness of US media and internet! The raving over pixls and hd compatibility really threw the established industry into question as all of their expensive equipment and bloated hierarchy became meaningless these shows seemed to operated the same nonetheless. I agree though, this show is suburb much like most 2000's British productions. They have that oldtimey feel and inspire an odd nostalgia because I technically never experienced these vibes personally. Its a relaxed mediocrity, a comfortable malaise, a perfect representation of a simpler time.

[@GRAGH57]

'Oh look there was a fire ' The most English way of speaking about any problem

[@whaddyamean99]

Oh no, anyway

[@Yora21]

That is both funny, and really, really sad.

[@victorwagner2423]

Scene from "The Gathering of People" is actually a brilliant piece of visual story telling. It's a very effective and efficient way of depicting allies actions during the period of weird war. The half sneezing representing impotent, commitless military action on french-german border, the stalling of the meeting while waiting for a missing man representing a fruitless diplomatic policy towards hitlers demends. The best part is the crude metaphor with the man leaving to, literally, take a piss. Finally, the scene ends with a brilliant stoped sneeze by lead council man and a grimace of pain, being a prevue of the suffering that their lack of decisive response will bring europe in coming years.

[@jaggedagger]

Victor Wagner nah mate, it’s just a sneeze

[@genredtankers]

Lana...Lana...laaaaaaana! What!

[@scipioafricanus5871]

That's why "The Gathering of People" is such a brilliant film. I keep discovering new layers with every viewing.

[@OurEyesAreYetToOpen]

Oh god this is film class all over again.

[@milo8515]

Whatever you pretentious prick 😂

[@blaustein_autor]

I heard that the sequel of "The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine" is in production! This time, it's a publicly funded movie and it no longer takes place in Victorian times but in UK 2020. The sequel to "Sometimes Fires Go Out" is said to have been picked up by an Australian production firm. The filming starts in 2021.

[@Aidenkong523]

Is it just a cough anymore? Or is it something more????

[@superchroma]

@@Aidenkong523 you'll have to watch it and find out.

[@roseg2239]

That joke doesn't really work because it's supposed to be a parody of realism in films. The cough is just a cough and the fire goes out. Covid isn't just a cough and the bushfires were the worst in decades.

[@neodonkey]

"If only I could shake this blasted cough." I'm sure many of us feel that way at the moment.

[@TreacleMary]

FYI "The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine" is set in Horsted Keynes, on the Bluebell Railway: RURAL SUSSEX REPRESENT. WAAAAAYOH

[@tonyt1399]

TreacleMary "wish i hadn't let you do me now"

[@crystalidentity]

@@tonyt1399 Tuberculosis is an infection, isn't it? Why would anyone become physically intimate with someone who could pass on such a deadly infection to them?? :O

[@semanticsamuel936]

I love that there's someone else here who noticed that! Greetings from Storrington...seven years in the future where a cough isn't just a cough but a cause for full-on quarantine.

[@allybally0021]

@@semanticsamuel936 Storrington.....small world! I live near Cardiff. In WALES......LOL.

[@paulthoresen8241]

"i thought it was just a massive flashback" lol

[@krashd]

I would love films to have more unnecessary details in them, our world is full of unnecessary detail. People do cough, people do need to pee at times, things do fall off tables, the problem is that when you add something to a film that doesn't 100% fit in to the plot then it gets 100 separate threads on the IMDB. I recently watched Byzantium and a minor character is pregnant and it's irrelevant to the film, but the demand for answers by people who can't simply compute that someone might just happen to be pregnant for nothing to do with the story is crazy.

[@chrisofnottingham]

Rob Fraser A Hollywood film clocks in at upwards of maybe $3,000 per second of screen time, so in general things that are irrelevant or imperfect don't get in.

[@Rusherrz]

+chrisofnottingham The problem is an moment of screen time with no relevance could be replaced by a moment of relevance to improve the pacing to no end. Whats the point in giving a side character unnecessary information when you can give the audience necessary information about the side character to develop their personality further and make them more interesting and relevant to the plot.

[@jotham1397]

+Ryan-Beats In Inglorious Basterds, the camera moves across Brad Pitts neck revealing a scar as he lectured his soldiers - this was not mentioned again in the film. It shows, however that providing minor details may not always be mutually exclusive with the passage of the plot. They can actually be weaved into the story to add volume and character.

[@Rusherrz]

Jotham Teo But it is "relevant" It is "relevant" information that the character has been scarred in battle especially in a scene where he is lecturing soldiers. If you had someone go to the toilet for no other reason than to have someone go to the toilet and not have it be "relevant" to the story or character in any way then it may as well be replaced with a useful scene.

[@dudds6699]

+Rob Fraser If you want great movies that are filled with unnecessary but realistic detail Robert Altman's movies always deal with overlapping audio. Go to his movie MASH its full of just normal conversations that require you to focus as there is overlapping sound.

[@Pyro-Moloch]

Of course he compliments him on his earlier film, when he starred in it

[@DrPacman]

Adam would have had to self isolate if this was in our time

[@meddle98]

I've actually had conversations about the fact that nobody goes to piss in Star Wars

[@SonOfFurzehatt]

In the official Star Wars game 'Dark Forces', there is a moment where you find your way into a toilet where stormtroopers are using the urinals.

[@Zero_Ninety]

How the fuck does a Stormtrooper go for a piss? Do their suits even have the necessary opening?

[@maxjones503]

Likewise.

[@jabberw0k812]

Zero Ninety There is a little airlock in the crotch of the suit that they can empty when it fills up.

[@glammer]

Buzz Aldrin said they peed in their suits. And that was 1969, which was around the time of long long ago. I'd wager any organisation capable of building a Death Star can make a spacesuit with a bag in it.

[@ShoeLube]

When I was at school and we had to write stories I thought about doing this. A lot of the dialogue was going to be people saying "what" and the other person having to repeat what they had just said.

[@theQuestion626]

"Now forgive me if this is a crass question...." love that gag.

[@wisteela]

His new film, 'I thought I had coronavirus, but it was just hayfever'

[@LupinRed13]

Very modest of the presenter to not even mention he starred in “the man who has a cough and it’s just a cough and he’s fine”

[@MrBioTom1]

"The man who has a cough and it is just cough and he's fine." That is me right now. I am someone who literally sneezes and coughs all the time as it is and before lockdown started if I coughed once the whole room looked at me if I'm ill. This short film is about me :P

[@tomlxyz]

And then you died

[@Muzly]

The interviewer noticed that the Edwardian lady was called Kylie but didn't notice that he played the Edwardian man.

[@liallhristendorff5218]

Hilarious

[@Stormwern]

The last one is the opening for every episode of house.

[@pamelah6431]

Yes. Bait & switch every time.

[@princepis]

How that couple reacted to the fire is exactly how my older brother would've reacted

[@SpeckleKen]

I'm a mathematician; I would react in the same way as your brother. True story: I shared a hotel room with a couple of friends years ago, and it had a dodgy wall socket. My lab technician friend woke in the night to find the socket on fire. He grabbed a fire extinguisher, put out the flames and went back to sleep. Later, my physicist friend was woken by the same thing. He saw the extinguisher, reasoned that fire requires oxygen to burn, woke the lab technician and explained at length how a CO2 extinguisher would quench the flames. The lab technician put out the fire and they both went back to sleep. Similarly, I was later woken by fire. I saw the fire, looked at the extinguisher and of course went back to sleep, having established that a solution existed.

[@RamkrishanYT]

@@SpeckleKen and then everyone died from lack of oxygen

[@neodonkey]

Reminds me of when I watching a youtube video, was very engrossed in it and my girlfriend walked in and screamed "fire!". The wastebasket beside me was indeed on fire. My reaction was odd, I didn't react to the fire at all but said rather crossly "Well, I didn't do it!" I did then put it out, but I still giggle thinking of my reaction and how oblivious I had been to the fire.

[@andrewroberts8139]

It's bad that more or less the only thing I remember from Mitchell and Webb is Numberwang. These sketches are very, very good indeed

[@crystalidentity]

That's Numberwang! :D

[@Rossa4444]

Numberwang is their Hotel California, but they have much more quality hits

[@ketmaniac]

@@Rossa4444 ...unlike the Eagles.

[@roseg2239]

I didn't even get Nimberwang

[@pepesilvia3827]

Numberwang stinks.

[@jahajavisstokej]

This could be their Fry and Lauriengest sketch. Especially the interview.

[@Canuckvik]

Oliva Colman , what a legend. love her

[@orangelion03]

And BAFTA and Oscar winner!

[@sexobscura]

Aliens

[@ShoeLube]

Quite. I think for film, those sort of "background" actions can really add to the illusion of realism but for a book, the extra chore of having to read the unnecessary details would just annoy the reader. I would have overdone it. My poor primary school teacher.

[@mchagnon7]

Pardon me if it seems like this is a crass question, but from your personal experience, what is the horniest bra size on a woman? "WHAT?" By which I mean, what if anything is the message of your films? I'm glad he clarified that..

[@BarterTom]

I love how even the little girl has this look of “Srsly?” on her face?

[@liambarker4071]

The interview part is very indebted to fry and Laurie, doooooh

[@Yora21]

"What do you mean by demagoguery?" "By demagoguery I mean demagoguery." "I thought so!"

[@SeanKL107]

"No one goes for a piss in Star Wars" In Star Wars rebels Wedge uses a refresher.

[@dutchess2121]

Finally someone said it! Lost in Translation was pointless

[@johnmartinez7440]

Not sure it was pointless. The lack of "action" is sort of the whole point - I didn't get into it the first time I watched it, then I came back and really enjoyed it.

[@hrotha]

"Nothing at all happens in Lost in Translation" is the single most common criticism of the movie, tons of people say that

[@jmalmsten]

Sad part is that these fake film clips have more tension and buildup and narrative finesse than most movies I usually watch.

[@rahul327]

There is ALWAYS a reason for Olivia Coleman to be pregnant...

[@Xenite]

I swear she was pregnant for like 90% of this show, lol.

[@Czeckie]

she fucks

[@blaustein_autor]

She's the Sean Bean of being pregnant.

[@letosvet1]

@Random Number I thought it was quite true though.

[@SheeplessNW6]

This comment was eight years ago, and it feels like Olivia Colman is STILL pregnant.

[@g13flat]

I think that David Mitchell would agree with me when I say that damp is not literally the worst thing.

[@nathanschubert3048]

PRO TIP: If you feel you are about to sneeze, but don't, and then your are left with the painfully annoying feeling you might still sneeze, just blow your nose anyway. It will clear that pre-sneeze feeling right up.

[@Zero_Ninety]

So you're a professional sneezer?

[@nathanschubert3048]

Zero Ninety professional implies I am paid for it. I would say avoiding sneezes is one of my many hobbies though.

[@davidlewis1787]

Nathan Schubert I tap my chest works every time

[@Sercotani]

pro tip indeed

[@eIucidate]

I wouldn't do that - because I actually like the relief of actually sneezing.

[@NateSean]

I saw his student film, "Study Group Where They Go Off Topic To Talk About That Episode Of Emergency 999."

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

I think they read my mind about Lost in Translation.

[@brain_apostrophe_t]

Since I was a young kid I always imagined that sneezing thing happening to important figures of history at significant points. Like a bunch of Zulus about to fight the english and shit. Something about it is just really funny

[@siukong]

Ah, so the Great Sneeze theory of history.

[@strategossable1366]

Zulus didn't fight the English, they fought the Spanish.

[@Daniel-xe7xd]

@@strategossable1366 does rorkes drift ring a bell

[@crystalidentity]

@@Daniel-xe7xd Okay, you win. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zulu_War

[@ketmaniac]

"Like a bunch of Zulus about to fight the english and shit." Wouldn't shitting take too long?

[@lvl99paint]

"Adam, you're- you're better!" "Well, yes it was just a cough." LOL

[@maxmattt]

😂 "Right, I wish I hadn't let you do me now"

[@TheSteelStallion]

It's an interesting idea, I could just see some people going over board with it though. The right amount of it can work but too much of it just ends up making it dull. Heath Ledger's Joker interpretation had quite a few mannerisms that mimicked life, like when he clears his throat. I guess that's the difference between a well rehearsed scene and a good actor who won't let a little tiny detail ruin a whole scene.

[@cofpaddy]

And in Lost in Translation where nothing happens at all. LMAO

[@Lykos42]

Other people who always die in films are those who have "Always wanted to see the ocean/mountains/Montana."

[@Sgt_Glory]

Well, I mean it's not as though someone's last wish would be to have seen Slough, or a quarry in Afghanistan 😏

[@aledilltud]

4:55 10 Cloverfield Lane Spoilers

[@ArtificialLeech]

I don't remember a pot of boiling potatos in that movie.

[@maxjones503]

Artificial Leech It's a spinoff/Prequel.

[@dylanwestphal3582]

I liked this video after 1:08 when I first saw David Mitchell. I had no sound on at the time and didn't know what was going on, but then David Mitchell pops on looking like THAT. Best. Video. Ever Bwaaaaaahahahahahaha

[@jackreilly4417]

11 years later now I get recommended

[@changer_of_ways_999]

I legit want a down to earth drama and then, in the middle of it, the main character's car gets taken by an action movie character that drives off with it, and then the main character is trying to describe to the insurance company what happened to it.

[@wolfmanhcc]

I've coughed at work for the past 3 years, but with covid "oh no!". I've become quite the piriaha.

[@carlchong7592]

Chekov's Nug: now in select theatres...

[@jianwen5760321]

You gonna admit, these clips are more realisitic

[@dudoklasovity2093]

I like the totally unrelated twist uttered by a single word of the last movie. A masterpiece!

[@tomtom21194]

It is true about lost in translation but weirdly i still enjoyed the movie. I don't know whats wrong with me

[@krashd]

Great setting of typical Tokyo nightlife, some of Bill Murray's best acting and Scarlett Johanson's knicker-clad arse at the beginning of the movie. Three things I enjoyed right there...

[@Shendue]

A lot of people must be wrong then, since it was praised by critics worldwide. I don't know if it was intentional, but that movie has a very eastern sensibility to it, which is curious, considering the setting. Asian directors often have long moments of silence and a great use of pauses in their movies.

[@Esquarious]

@@Shendue Not as Asian director. Sofia Coppola iirc. It's not terrible. Maps of the Sounds of Tokyo does much the same better imho.

[@janesmith699]

Scarlett Johanssen rolling around on a bed in her underwear is what i took from the movie. Worth it.

[@JCJW101]

This is so true, they never show characters needing the toilet or eating in almost every adventure movie.

[@stahppls2293]

2020: That cough is not JUST a cough and everything is NOT fine

[@bucwhovian8305]

I hope we are all in the film Sometimes pandemics just end.

[@maxxumiv]

Love the reference to "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" with the "Horniest bra size on a girl" line. Classic xD

[@HoneyPatchworks]

what Fry and Laurie skit is that from?

[@Vojife]

@@HoneyPatchworks It's one where they discuss the bible. I can't remember the name, but something like "bible study" should find it.

[@conorstephenson6397]

He’s right, in Lost in Translation NOTHING happens at all!

[@mario0318]

Ironically the one film you'd think would MOST resemble his take on "realistic" film styles is the one he critiques for nothing happening. Haha!

[@annalieff-saxby568]

Reminds me of a quote from *The Last Puritan* "Thunderation!" said my father, "There's a man in his shirtsleeves on that step!" We moved the same week.

[@thedativecase9733]

We always refer to this sort of coughing as "Costume Drama Cough" . It is always, repeat ALWAYS fatal!

[@fds7476]

Unless it's just a cough and he's fine.

[@SleuthySocks]

“And in Lost In Translation nothing happens at all”

[@hookbeak3516]

I have the translation for you kzbin.info/www/bejne/a365aIavop2Vf7M&app=desktop

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

All I've learnt from this is that someone needs to make a "The Death of Stalin"-style film about Neville Chamberlain.

[@drtoonie]

3:21 - Someone had to say it.

[@jeffwalker7185]

The 'no one goes for a piss' observation about Star Wars cannot be applied to 2001 a Space Odyssey. 2001 even has a scene where Floyd is reading instructions on how to use a toilet in zero gravity. Such an intense moment in the movie. Lucas has cited 2001 as a major influence on Star Wars, but, was it really? Not even a single warning not to flush the toilet on the death star while it is destroying a planet.

[@michaelhanrahan5349]

I reckon David Mitchell, or Robert Webb for that matter will probably end up with an Oscar one day.

[@jurgen_haan]

Well, David Mitchell does have 2 BAFTAs.

[@ac5128]

Say what you will about "Casualty", but that was the most realistic alien invasion ever filmed... Only thing you could say is missing would be a ginger girl being scalded, which as we all know is the most common trope in any serious alien movie. 3 and a half stars

[@thedolphin5428]

I really wish people would make short films THAT good.

[@DontTouchMyCroissant]

This sketch especially feels like the show is a continuation of A Bit Of Fry And Laurie.

[@255ad]

she was during the filming of That Mitchell and Webb Look series 2

[@gmctech]

Holy crap these guys are hilarious

[@Maddyisnotshort13]

lol "I thought it was a massive flashback!"

[@volvanochaser1099]

Was this the films David Bowie was singing about in Life on Mars? ‘The film is a saddening bore for she’s lived it ten times or more ‘

[@krombopulos_michael]

I fell asleep during it too, but then I did watch it on a long haul flight from L.A. to London, it was the third movie I had watched on the plane and I had been awake for around 30 hours before hand so I don't think I can really make a valid complaint.

[@chrisf1600]

"I wish I hadn't let you do me now!"

[@AdamTheMan1993]

"Charming"

[@darkprose]

I love when he says, "I've been watching it like it was London's Burning," because there is some truth to that where you will watch or listen or read something as it if was one thing when it's another, but, somehow, your brain has glossed over the inconsistencies. Or...not. I'll shut up and watch the video now.

[@susie9893]

Totally nailed it. Every detail. Those hairstyles!

[@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382]

the Lost in Translation bit got me

[@lololololololololololololol338]

In Classical Narrative - with strong causality between scenes - a visit to the toilet would be included if it was a necessary element of a story in terms of moving the plot along - horizontal development - or illustrating a character - vertical development. In Art Cinema, with a usually far looser degree of narrative drive and causality between scenes, a visit to the toilet could be merely character-driven or reflect real life as it is lived and experienced. Classical Narrative, which is inherently unrealistic in its elipsis of all that that is unnecessary to plot development toward a predetermined outcome, is at odds with real life as it is experienced. Having said all that, few of us, I venture, want to watch a graphic representation of someone shitting in a movie. If you do, I suggest viewing a 1976 film directed by Wim Wenders and called "Kings of the Road", but not on a cinema screen.

[@IanMcGarrett]

That answers a question which has haunted me since childhood, which occurred to me when watching John Huston's 1966 movie "The Bible" - why does no one in the Bible take a dump. I assumed it was because in biblical days they hadn't invented toilets yet so everyone had to just keep it all in.

[@lololololololololololololol338]

Ian McGarrett Lol, and another part of the explanation for no "dumping" or sex or graphic violence etc in US film is the "Motion Picture Production Code", AKA "Hays Code", from the early 30s onwards and which prohibited much of ordinary human behaviour as obscene and hobbled US cinema in terms of social and psychological realism for more than three decades. With stipulations that required - among many other things - no depictions of sex outside marriage, criminals always being prosecuted, no scenes of childbirth or ridicule of the clergy, it makes for very informative and entertaining read.

[@GeatMasta]

people in the bible taking a dump: 1 samuel 24:3 judges 3:22 2 chronicles 21:19 Those are the only ones I know off the top of my head. theres's also commandments like deuteronomy 23:14-15, that say to poop in a hole so god doesn't step in it. And mathew 15:17-18 that says pooping is no longer a sin under the new covenant.

[@lololololololololololololol338]

GeatMaster Lol, thanks for that. I wonder what an illustrated version of the Bible does with those passages ;-)

[@AengusFallon]

"This isn't London's Burning. It's Pride & Prejudice."

[@666deadman1988]

David Mitchell looks like my Crime Fiction tutor in this sketch lol.

[@BezoRazo]

Whoever came up with that final moment should receive the best oral that money can buy.

[@stevesloan7132]

For, you see, the entire film is a metaphor for the banality of existance and the pointlessness of life. Which, of course, epitomizes and in fact embodies the very essence of Paul Valery's most famous statement, "The universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being." This film is a veritable tour deforce of the directors' art and can easily withstand comparison to master Felini's finest works, Man Scratching Himself At Bus Stop, and Still Life Of Wino In Gutter. Bravo! Che fin!

[@owaffs]

@Conway79 I saw that in the cinema with my dad when it came out; he fell asleep through it (but he does fall asleep during movies quite often). It is really slow-paced though; I felt as if 3 days had actually passed while I was in the cinema. -_-

[@BionicTem]

I loved "sometimes fires go out" as a kid, I heard there might be a HD remaster

[@travelwell6049]

[3:21] I always joke about ‘Lost in translation’ being the film where I’m still waiting for something to happen. Yet to meet someone who feels the same

[@garethh9440]

Now I know why David Coren Mitchell has grown a beard