That Mitchell and Webb Look - First Television

That Mitchell and Webb Look - First Television

[@moseyburns1614]

Mrs. Patricia Wilberforce is incredible. 'Good evening ladies and the war-wounded' gets me every single time.

[@billy6044]

"Good morning, housewives and layabouts of the British Empire" - the other guy

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

David makes a surprisingly believable woman.

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Dave Jurgens Ah, yes, I forgot about that hideous... *thing* on his face.

[@morphman86]

Ah, you're new to British comedy I see. Well, was 2 years ago. Yes, I was also surprised when I moved here a couple of years ago how believable some comedic male actors could portray women. You see it quite a lot in British comedy, like Mitchell&Webb, Fry&Laurie, Walliams&Lucas and Legz Akimbo/League of Gentlemen. And a lot of times you do forget that it's actually men playing them, once you get used to the idea.

[@breebw]

In an interview, Michell stated this is when he is most at peace.

[@Roy_1]

Insert joke about British women.

[@superneko99]

and i believe she is yummy

[@natetwehues2428]

I love that the first television broadcast was on BBC **Three**.

[@handsomebrick]

The first two BBCs were failed experiments.

[@zapkvr0101]

@handsomebrick yes but in this way they were properly commemorated. A bit like when Apollo one blew up on the launch pad, the space mission at Cape Arbuckle didn't decide to start over.

[@AdamantLightLP]

@zapkvr0101 ...Arbuckle?

[@Myles4Kane]

David Mitchell should play the Penguin in the new Batman films.

[@ericjamieson]

"Good morning, housewives and layabouts of the British Empire" gets me every time.

[@SoulSonder26]

"Good morning ladies and the war wounded." -Mrs. Patricia Wipberforce

[@enthusedtosing9655]

I came here today exactly to hear it again.

[@draculon5]

"i'm sorry we'll have to end it there as mrs Compton has said fuck" lol

[@toresbe]

The joke about health issues in early television is not taken from nothing. Early television experiments at Alexandra Palace used cameras which developed film in real-time. It ran film through a cyanide fixer bath. The cyanide would often spill on the floor and eat away the gowns of the hostess.

[@EebstertheGreat]

I don't understand the connection between television and the wet collodion process. Why would photography be involved in television at all?

[@toresbe]

@@EebstertheGreat Because the electronic sensors at the time were not sensitive enough, so you had to expose film, which was sensitive enough, develop it rapidly, and then project the film onto a sensor.

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@toresbe And potassium cyanide was used in the fixer like in a collodion?

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@EebstertheGreat I admit I don’t know the big words you’re using, but you don’t get what photography had to do with early video technology? Do you know what film is?

[@EebstertheGreat]

​@@DeathnoteBB Film wasn't really involved in TV. I mean, some television was basically just broadcasting a film of a motion picture, but generally it was live or recorded video. In the early days, it was all live. But Tore is talking about the really really early days of experimental TV, and apparently in Alexandra Palace, they used high contrast fast-developing film with a cyanide fixer to make the image discernable to the weak sensors. Potassium cyanide is also used in the collodion process for landscapes and such, but you can't really do that on moving film (it's a slow-developing process), so I imagine this was a little different. Anyway, it sounds cool. Well, except for the poisonous cyanide I guess.

[@mortified776]

04:24 hahaha Olivia Colman! (Her castings in various shows 2004-2010 kept coinciding with her pregnancies, so on screen it felt like she'd been pregnant with the one kid for six years)

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I’m just surprised they actually referenced her being pregnant in this one, usually that’s never part of the sketch.

[@OhNotThat]

David absolutely nailed the 50 year old married woman look.

[@obroni]

I predict big things for the actress playing Miss Margaret Blighton.

[@cricketknowall]

Who is the actress?

[@obroni]

@@cricketknowall The future queen of England: Olivia Colman.

[@drtoonie]

She went on to win an Oscar I believe

[@Macho_Fantastico]

The King gets me all the time.

[@masteryoda394]

I like how they mentioned the full name of DNA even such thing wasn't discovered in the 1940s

[@jrb5077]

It was identified in 1944 by Oswald Avery. (But DNA paternity testing didn't come along until much later, of course.)

[@NicosMind]

David in a dress some how looks natural.

[@GeorgiNM]

'"Oh I don't like to make a fuss"......"Oh, he's always like this...!"

[@josephcole8046]

Georg M please don’t say Fuck on KZbin

[@helphelpimbeingrepressed9347]

Joseph Cole Agreed, from now on we should avoid the use of the word Fuck.

[@GeorgiNM]

I'd never say Fuck on KZbin !

[@nikhilreddy8550]

That's such a juvenile joke but always gets me since it comes when you least expect it. 😂

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

Oh I do beg your pardon readers, Georg M didn't say "fuck" after all. Thank you Georg M!

[@WillTaco456]

you feel hot

[@taliaeategg2027]

I wish television was still like this

[@aerielmoonart8775]

I don't know why but this old-school sound is so attractive.

[@murkartik]

"And I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say that I hope that Miss Blighton's unfortunate fiancée insists on a deoxyribonucleic acid test, when the little bastard is whelped!" That is absolutely brilliant.

[@zapkvr0101]

Blyton As in Enid.

[@buckrogers5331]

Hahahah....so needed. *big smile from an ex-TV engineer.

[@BearWindAppleyard]

The king should have his own 3 minute video

[@BoloH.]

...when the little bastard is whelped.

[@Tauva]

This is such an amazing alternate universe

[@yellowcougar18]

If only more chat shows were like that. :)

[@jamiejjosborn]

And thus numberwang was born

[@jonhumble7199]

David Mitchel is perfect as a 1940's women.

[@zapkvr0101]

I'll bet that gets Vicky's motor running

[@erikbrock5444]

I love the bit with the nuclear reactor behind the curtain. That really does seem like something people of that time period might have done. I mean, say what you like about people today refusing vaccines and denying the seriousness of climate change, but at least they aren't giving themselves uranium enemas. Am I joking about the enemas? What does it say about the 1920s that you're asking yourself that question?

[@kevboard]

well now people have radioactive necklaces to "protect them from 5G signals"

[@bromosome8049]

Considering people drank radium infused water in the 20s I'd say we've come a way

[@paulharries9558]

I hope there's people in a hundred years time that point and laugh at us for taking unproven vaccines against a cold that's been around as long as humans have.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@paulharries9558 Are you really this dimwitted, or just willfully ignorant?

[@fisheatsyourhead]

@@paulharries9558 "unproven" haha very funny joke paul! in reality future generations will look back and wonder why some felt a few hours of online research made them decide that they know more about modern medicine than the people who studied it for the better part of a decade also i'm sure you've heared of a flu shot, for disease that kills many times fewer infected people which comes out every year.

[@manulito2]

david mitchell would be such a perfect drag queen.

[@bezoekers]

You're watching television, stay tuned! 😝🫵

[@tomekkruk6147]

I want Patricia on air! NOW!!

[@Caseus]

I love the start of the wilberforce programme, you can hear the audience kind of laughing but more unsettled and shocked at david mitchell as a woman lol

[@tekqist28]

Stay tuuuned - kills me evertime! :p

[@jdgustofwinddance.7748]

Makeup personnel: How do you want to be powered up? David: Make me look like John Lovitz. Makeup personnel: Got you.

[@zapkvr0101]

*Jon*

[@jdgustofwinddance.7748]

@@zapkvr0101 you feel hot. 🤘🏻

[@Argumemnon]

"Ladies and the war wounded" suprisingly didn't get a reaction.

[@BearWindAppleyard]

@helloimsteph The King should have his own 3 second video

[@itscomingoutofbothends8385]

The best profile of early tv.

[@ballsups]

Stay TUUUUUUUUNED

[@BrainGearMovies]

3:05 I need a video of just "The King"

[@flamingunicorn93]

i love that this says it's on bbc 3

[@krashd]

Well that was the BBC's comedy channel until it was axed.

[@moretoknowshow1887]

Nothing like seeing Olivia Coleman in "the family way".

[@ryanrtw]

And I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say that I hope that Miss Blighton's unfortunate fiancee insists on a deoxyribonucleic acid test when the little b*****d is whelped.

[@trevorlambert4226]

They have what appears to be a pre-recorded montage as an intro to the Patricia Wilberforce Program, which of course would not have been possible.

[@TheSage555]

Great idea. What was first TV like? Hilarious!

[@Princesspony252]

"THE VIBRATIONS, THE VIBRATIONS!!!! I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!"

[@Rubashow]

Where did you get that Ayn Rand look alike from?

[@DendyJungle]

This woman is too fuckable to be ayn rand

[@AndrewLale]

Ah, the half-educated have arrived.

[@charlesloomis2224]

It would be hilarious if this WAS the first BBC broadcast!

[@akelly4207]

I imagine Patricia Wilberforce would make a great headmistress at a girls school

[@aaron4820]

That's how Seth Meyers shoots his show... still.

[@aeyb701]

Kind of an english John Lovitz.

[@SoopSoopa]

Ouch

[@frankkrunk]

Indeed, which is why they will be watching "the charred remains of Corporal Hitler". Although in reality the remains were taken by the Soviet military intelligence long before the western allies arrived.

[@SuperNintendawg]

Koshikei you're right, that's the only thing historically inaccurate about this sketch

[@RabbiHerschel]

And, as we all know, the Soviets were always scrupulously accurate in their depictions of anything related to their hated enemies in Germany. Katyn Massacre? What's that?

[@123456yum123456]

I love how he says "You feel hot." And David Mitchell makes a beautiful looking female Jeremy Kyle.

[@emw1994]

Like a tasteful version of Jerry springer.

[@jamesbaker7112]

The first US television image was a waterfall. The world's first was A. Hitler. His mug will be the first thing aliens see when our broadcasts finally reach them.

[@reallivebluescat]

This is unsettling like an episode of twin peaks

[@Lazyguy22]

@MegaLolburger BASIC Grammar? Do you have to start every sentence with a number?

[@yeahmbrbnfily]

Hes always like this Im sorry we will have to stop it there for mrs Compton has said FUCK, oh i do beg your pardon mrs compon didnt say FUCK afterall haha

[@SirChezarie]

And " Lay abouts ".

[@TheKiosk94]

When he said to shout out go! Did anyone else try to shout out go or is it just me?

[@waynemarvin5661]

Just you.

[@rhyanbennett2629]

GENERAL KENOBI

[@Dim4323]

You watching television STAY TOONED

[@Aurongroove]

Mrs Patricia Wilberforce looks a bit like Mrs. Doyle!

[@laurenjcoates]

This somehow reminds me of the muppets show

[@jrklein]

Good evening ladies and the war wounded!

[@Balsiefen]

4:00 I'm sorry but we'll have to stop it there as we seem to have Monty Python characters as bitparts.

[@SkydinZeal]

"And we all agreed that appearing in profile is what looks most normal" LOL!

[@boyhey1]

what a such a BIG, BIG earpiece. brilliant call EARPIECE, instead of earphone...lol YOU'RE WATCHING TELEVISION, STAY TUNED.. :-p

[@omnivorousbiped2447]

David wearing the same makeup playing male or female.

[@chumshot1]

@GCPaja XD!! Yes indeed you did

[@boyhey1]

@Elyssaen: so, whats the correct line?

[@DanishNerdess]

No, 1945. :) (Hitler's corpse) - which would then make the king at the time George VI.

[@samsung54369]

I wonder if the bbc three sign at the top was meant to intenionally null the sketch

[@GFSTaylor]

Jack BBC3 is a real channel. It used to be on air but is now only online.

[@AB-ii8st]

Anyone else getting Fallout nostalgia feels?

[@duckandcaramel]

3:10 Robert's sexy face

[@goneutt]

16:9, even Star Trek TNG didn't get that and it was a few years after the HD standard was proposed

[@JasonJason210]

I thought the first guy was Harry Enfield for a moment.

[@80snessEj]

Lol David makes a scarily convincing woman xD

[@jabbatheplutocrat1074]

Which one is the Vesuvian comedy?

[@TherealMrChristophel]

@J44K3 tuned

[@baabaabaa2293]

I thought Hattie Jacques had returned!

[@felicity4711]

When he turns at 1:26 he kind of looks like Jon Lovitz

[@henryseeney4429]

Good morning housewives and lay abouts of the British Empire

[@AlbanZap]

i like how he says the full "Deoxyribonucleic acid" test, lol

[@AndrewLale]

I'd marry Mrs Wilberforce. My kind of woman.

[@handsomebrick]

Patricia Wilberforce = Maury Povich.

[@DanishNerdess]

The king - that was Colin Firth, right?

[@crazypianolady]

Mitchell makes a fine lady!

[@whowantsabighug]

Fuck is the best swear word ever when said in a posh dialect.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

Very Harry Enfield.

[@TheIndigobeef]

@mthrnaturesson That's exactly what I was thinking :P

[@255ad]

Jesus there's always one tedious Dissenter, NO THE REST OF US LIKE THIS

[@junbh2]

If I hadn't recognized him, I'm not sure I would have realized it was a man...

[@IoEstasCedonta]

2:02 - What was that?!

[@jimmyboyG485]

@devokillian Ah, cheers.

[@shwwnn]

why does david mitchell have lipstick and eyeliner on? none of the others do.

[@ingusmant]

Is that sideways take a play on hitchcock or something the bbc actually did?

[@redmercer4158]

I don't THINK so, I think it's mostly a writer's artificial way of not revealing the earpiece gag immediately

[@DodderingOldMan]

+Red Mercer I think it's more to do with the simple fact that, contrary to what Webb's character says, to modern people who have actually seen TV appearing in profile seems hideously unnatural.

[@kalibos]

+Red Mercer also, it's hilarious

[@westybestie]

Apparently the host of the first TV broadcast did not face the camera directly for some reason.

[@McDADDyK]

Buffoon1980 no

[@TheFirstDandelione]

"Here, here." lmfao

[@baronmeduse]

It's good, but Harry Enfield did this sort of thing better.

[@CreepyReid]

Grayson and Cholmondoly-Warner do it so much better.

[@zapkvr0101]

Is Mr Winkelman the great granddad of Sophie?

[@MrCWL]

DNA test? They couldn't test that.

[@VinnieJam]

good morning ladies and the war-wounded lol