That Mitchell and Webb Look - Speedo

Mitchell and Webb mock American court room dramas in general and House M.D. and Shark in particular.
From Season 2 Episode 2.

[@Quallenkrauler]

Nothing brings a white lawyer and a poor black kid together like The Police.

[@GenericUserName8119]

That was actually brilliant

[@sclarke6969]

very very good

[@Apeksim]

Now it makes sense. Some hidden joke there.

[@000xyz]

My chest hurts from laughing at that comment. Clearly i need bigger speedos

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Message in a Bottle is a great song but I don't think it will solve racism.

[@Lewcario]

What's great is that Speedo could actually now market itself as a film with two Oscar winners in Olivia Colman and Daniel Kaluuya.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

"actually"

[@weswheel4834]

Thanks for that. I knew I'd seen the kid at the end somewhere before :)

[@demonnick666]

And dying suddenly is so fashionable right now.

[@Mike-dx7he]

Speedo would be Suing Someone.

[@Shaqstheman000]

"I'm brilliant partly because I'm fucked up." It's kind of sad how many popular TV characters can be summarised like this.

[@rorylawrence]

+Shaqstheman000 cant think of one that isnt

[@SirEnglishBatman]

+Shaqstheman000 House M.D. in a nutshell.

[@derangedband]

Sherlock "Yes! Thank you for your input!" xD

[@mitchfletch]

Sherlock is awful

[@SuperTonyony]

@@rice83101 So you're saying that Rey really IS a Mary Sue?

[@Iennda]

He's doing such a good job of impersonating Hugh Laurie and his Gregory House character.

[@francisadams1834]

"madam mayor" and "Janice" was frighteningly accurate!

[@puertoriconnect4611]

Webb is fuckin nailin those moves at the end.

[@F3udF1st]

Whitest moves I've ever seen indeed.

[@cabobs2000]

The lord mayor of london outfit is the best joke in this

[@SuperNintendawg]

Eric Church is that a real thing?

[@FreshNewtype]

Mayors in Commonwealth countries often have a ceremonial outfit along those lines.

[@missmoanypants]

I thought she was a pirate 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@shelbynamels7948]

"I'm going as a sexy mayor ..."

[@Ron-Ayres]

_City_ of London Mayor. That's the tiny square mile of the City. Sadiq Khan does not trot about in this get-up! 😆

[@AnonEyeMouse]

Anyone else notice that Speedo switches from prosecutor back to defense attorney for the final scene?

[@steveforest8385]

That's because he's trying to prove that just because he's a white guy, doesn't mean he has to be on the side of the 'establishment'.

[@tucatheterrorbird5755]

Yeah, the writers got lazy.

[@AA-hg5fk]

One last defence case, this time as a force for good.

[@Ron-Ayres]

@@tucatheterrorbird5755 Nope.

[@jaypee9575]

I didn't and I'm glad you pointed it out.

[@DodderingOldMan]

That last scene with black white Speedo and the poor black kid may be one of my favourite scenes from the entire show. Largely because of the dancing. Also because they're two great actors who play an absolutely ridiculous scene totally straight.

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

Oh hey, you're the person with whom I agreed to disagree about feminism all those months ago. I hope you are well. PS Charlie Brooker et al did a really great special on the most recent general election (Election Wipe) which you would doubtless enjoy.

[@DodderingOldMan]

Ha, well, thanks! It's nice to be remembered in a generally favourable way for once :P And yeah, I think I've seen everything Charlie Brooker has done up to this point... he's the main reason I know far more about British politics than I do about the politics of my own country... and that's taking into account we've just had a general election of our own :P

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

Oh my God are you Canadian I'm Canadian

[@DodderingOldMan]

Joshua Brooks Ha, alas, no. In fact, I couldn't be less Canadian geographically speaking... I'm Australian, literally the other side of the globe :P Although certainly Australia and Canada have a lot in common. Also, my niece currently lives and works in Vancouver, so I'm practically a citizen myself... or not :P

[@captainwilts2244]

Well this was a nice comment thread to read, well done you two you've both made my day!

[@andrewpepper3145]

What I love about these spoofs and comedy sketches is the odd bits of strangely plausible dialogue you get. "I'm not comfortable with you taking this case." "I'm never comfortable. I thought you knew that about me by now." This isn't too far off something you might hear in a straight version of this

[@harrykind]

Mitchell and Webb insist on two Oscar-winning actors in every sketch.

[@TheSuperQuail]

Daniel Kaluuya back before he was a movie star and seemed to appear in every BBC programme there was.

[@MrJamesjohn123]

And won an Oscar

[@manulito2]

@@MrJamesjohn123 And before he improved his American accent :D

[@tomsixsix]

@@MrJamesjohn123 two!

[@smorgi]

That House impression is SO GOOD

[@Lucifronz]

"I'm brilliant because I'm fucked up!"

[@BlueXonar]

There was a house impression?

[@mark9294]

@@BlueXonaryes

[@lukess.s]

I love how the 16 year old daughter is like 30

[@shelbynamels7948]

... as was the cast of "Beverly Hills 90210" and all the other high school shows.

[@piperian3963]

This is exactly like American TV

[@harmonicajay91]

Right down to the dark protagonist constantly moving around while someone chases them.

[@Shugs1994]

This sketch now has 2 Oscar winning actors in it

[@philwilson4167]

An oscar nominee and an oscar winner, this one sketch probably has more acting talent than most movies 😂

[@AH-te5gs]

Don't forget M&W's BAFTA nominations and awards for TMAWL and PS!

[@mmaclipsuknow]

*2 Oscar winners

[@WalterLiddy]

"White guy got some moves!"

[@danielgarvin6252]

Daniel Kaluuya’s career would not have been what it is without performances like these

[@BarriesChannel]

Nope.

[@lala170623]

@BarriesChannel yeah he was in that movie

[@lot24]

"....Janice" "I'm not Janice"

[@halfaworldaway]

I'm so pleased they noted that trope. One of the more annoying ones.

[@IgiWhiteman]

Hang on....that joke was in Hot Fuzz!

[@janehollander1934]

NO, the joke is: "...Janice?!" "I'm not Jealous"

[@1776iscool]

I used to watch Speedo every day after coming home from work; he ended racism and we're all indebted to the writers for making such a ground-breaking show.

[@billslocum9819]

Anyone else notice that Webb really seems to be devouring his prop popsicle while Mitchell is making absolutely zero progress on his ice cream? I need to stop watching this.

[@tehf00n]

when you can end a show like that.... you know comedy.

[@joelmyers-burton741]

I feel like this entire sketch was made to take the piss out of Hugh Laurie lmao

[@LAnonHubbard]

Am I the only one to notice that 2nd lawyer is black? That's going to present some continuity issues if other people notice too.

[@ZombieDragQueen]

LAnonHubbard Aaah, but that was explained in a special holidays episode where Speedo gets trapped in an alternate universe where the racial issues get swapped. So to blend in both of them have to pretend to be the other, lest they'd disrupt the space-time continuum even more and cause irreparable damages.

[@LAnonHubbard]

Stefan B. Ahhh! Just seen that episode and you're right!

[@stinkiekillerdeclerck8964]

LAnonHubbard NO he is just a big white guy in a suit.

[@LAnonHubbard]

***** Seriously... look really close! I'm fairly sure the 2nd one is black.

[@armorers_wrench]

LAnonHubbard You sure he's not just a really dark white guy? I mean you saw how that young black kid responded to him, he even called him a big white guy in a suit, he couldn't be white!

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

I also graduated come loudly.

[@nicholasmackley8580]

This British comedy sketch contains two Oscar nominees

[@finlaychristiecomedy]

this has always been my favourite mitchell and webb sketch

[@Maximillionaire666]

The "white boy got some moves" guy was Emily Blunt's partner in Sicario. Great how far some actors go in their careers :p

[@Cutecrusher25]

He also had a major role in Black Mirror.

[@jackjones4248]

And now in "Get Out." But to me he'll always be Parking Patawayo

[@thomasinlockwood_]

And now he's going to be the Blank Panther in the Marvel films!

[@i0am0yellow]

with his black and white cat - awayo

[@doctoryakreviews9653]

The best friend of the Black Panther, not the Panther himself though.

[@jjdecani]

I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say they had to do quite a few takes for that last bit. I know I would have been corpsing like Ricky Gervais.

[@johnarchluleta]

'I guess I just miss mom'. I just about died laughing at the photo of 'mom'.

[@Ron-Ayres]

Collie Colman gurning into the camera, while devouring an ice-cream on holiday! 😆

[@Occarinaoftime2122]

This should be made into a full series. Kind of like "A Touch of Cloth".

[@sdabestani]

+Occarinaoftime2122 oh man this needs to be the top comment

[@MsGnor]

A Touch of Lycra

[@BackInAGiffy]

the second speedo really suited that hair

[@Vijay-tg7hf]

i tried to clean my screen...

[@MrJamesjohn123]

There are now 2 Oscar winners in this sketch

[@SamSaxtonArt]

"...And one thing that we all realized very slowly was none of us are that adept at writing, you know, rousing trial scenes." - Jessica Gao "Oh, you are way more fun than my last lawyer!" - Megan Thee Stallion (while twerking with her new lawyer) in Jessica Gao's lawyer show

[@Jamie_Pritchard]

She-Hulk was the first thing I thought of too 😂

[@covariance5446]

RELAX, JANICE! THAT'S JUST MY WICKED SENSE OF HEW-MORE! lmao

[@AA-hg5fk]

It's my way or the freeway!

[@zapkvr0101]

Then you watch him play Dr Watson and it tears you apart. Webb is a beast. Incredible actor.

[@thomasinlockwood_]

Holy crap that's Daniel Kaluuya

[@Elephantstonica]

That's how I dance. Everyday.

[@AFireInTheMastersHouseIsSet]

1:44 + pause The patented at-the-back-of-someone's-head House stare

[@borilboyanov5544]

haha! humOr... cause it's an American drama :-)

[@aseemsharma1427]

MY WAY OR THE FREEWAY!

[@specialpatrolgroup92]

That's just my wicked sense of huMORE!

[@kneazle3603]

The kid at the end is the main character in 15 million merits

[@bobbobson4277]

kneazle3603 and he was in psychoville, another great show

[@WalterLiddy]

And he starred in Get Out, which was a huge hit. Hopefully his career just keeps climbing. He's always good.

[@daynefernandez9191]

WalterLiddy And a major role in Black Panther. Daniel Kaluuya really blew up.

[@IgiWhiteman]

When he starts dancing.......I can´t explain it, it´s just perfect and you know it.

[@zacknight9137]

“Come loudly, kumbaya” 😂😂😂

[@saraha180]

There are good reasons why people think this is a parody of _House M.D.,_ but it's directly based on a short-lived show called _Shark_ with James Woods. _Shark_ *completely* stole the _House_ structure, but using prosecutors instead of doctors. There's some stuff in this sketch (e.g., the cane) that's based directly on _House,_ but it's mostly it's that _Shark_ was ridiculously derivative. (E.g., the "needn't tell me" boss he used to sleep with is all really taken from _Shark,_ even though _House_ did the same thing first.) Basically _Shark_ borrowed so much that they were lucky they didn't get sued for copyright infringement. (I would bet some _Fox_ lawyers talked about it.)

[@Erdles]

@Sarah has it spot on. The 'complicated relationship with his daughter' plotline is another direct reference to Shark.

[@flatlo]

Watch the scenes near the beginning... They're walking in circles and around pillars just for filler >w

[@hoktoshinkenmaster]

It's pretty strange now that after all this time Daniel Kaluuya is now doing films about white guys in a black mens bodies

[@nirmalya_kajuri]

This is an epic comment.

[@nothanks4248]

omfg, the dancing at the end, f@#ing hilarious!

[@anthonymadden9470]

The ending is brilliant. subversive, ironic, whacky

[@panda4247]

Alternate title: how to write off ice lollies as a business expense

[@jayclark5469]

She hulk 2022

[@derangedband]

the comment i came here to find! xD

[@owen1079]

Checked back on this after all these years to make or find this comment lol.

[@halley4032]

Yep, absolutely ... comedy sketch back in mid 00s ... now a Hollywood standard writing team !

[@a.j.c.908]

Two of those actors were nomited to an academy award. One actually won.

[@bertie6043]

Holy shit it's the "get out" guy

[@robbiesize]

Webb at his best, the guys at the end are fantastic. Whitey's got some moves, we wish!

[@oremfrien]

The funny thing is that this skit is a parody of US courtroom drama series Stark which was almost as ridiculous as this, but was an actual drama, not a comedy.

[@Hellwyck]

oremfrien It was Shark which starred James Woods and Jeri Ryan

[@oremfrien]

Hellwyck Yes. I forgot that James Woods's character was Stark but that the show was called Shark. Thanks for the correction. The show was hilariously ridiculous, though.

[@Hellwyck]

oremfrien I personally loved it, it was like Monk - so larger than life it was amazingly good.

[@oremfrien]

Hellwyck I never said that I did not like it, only that it was hilariously ridiculous. It was written as legal/criminal procedural drama, but came off as a parody of the genre more than another Law & Order. I liked that approach.

[@Hellwyck]

oremfrien you might want to calm down a bit son, I didn't say you didn't like it - I SAID I DID - big difference.

[@jingremlion8241]

3:26 kills me lol

[@raerae6422]

That photo of mom hahahaha

[@william2496]

The writers of House saw this and thought they should write about medics instead in the hope noone would notice the plaigarism

[@jameshetherington1]

In all seriousness, a defence attorney turning to prosecutor because hes sick of defending rapists would make a great premise

[@ilesalmo7724]

There was that kind of tv series called "Shark" with James Woods

[@karldubelheimer3959]

You CAN be my lawyer!

[@frazansbaet]

I spent a month trying to remember where I saw the dance scene at the end of this sketch and I just remembered at 5AM and now I can't stop watching this.

[@halfaworldaway]

It's Bing from Black Mirror - Fifteen Million Merits!

[@MrSkinnyWhale]

Fucking hell that dance at the end cured my depression, I got a job, got married and now have 2 healthy kids and enough money to get them both higher education. Thanks Mitchell and Webb and two guys dancing.

[@Zzyzzyzzs]

To think, one of these people is now an Academy Award nominee. It should have been all of them.

[@halfaworldaway]

This is how I felt watching Torchwood: Miracle Day.

[@lifeisgood420365]

00:37 I never noticed he was just walking around the pillars loads when I'd seen this before lol

[@ngfdgff1160]

this is beyond hilarious

[@minecachair]

I've fallen down a Mitchell and Webb rabbithole covering many different series yet whichever one I watch,Olivia Coleman is pregnant.

[@mark9294]

True I guess they were all made over a nine month period

[@se8425]

Two oscar winners in one sketch

[@mrlegodude96alt2]

This feels like a parody of shark with a bit of house

[@YourGrace91]

Just started watching How To Get Away with Murder this weekend and it reminded me of this sketch.

[@louisachalarca6494]

Hugh Laurie was all in the walk pass look 😂

[@GenericUserName8119]

It's just my brilliant sense of humOr

[@windalfalatar333]

It reminds me slightly of a scene in the old and proper "Brideshead Revisited" when Charles Rider, the character played by Jeremy Irons, takes home a friend to sup with him and his father, played by Sir John Gielgud. His father intentionally pretends that his son's friend is American (although he's English and he's perfectly aware of this) and so in his make-believe scenario tries to adapt to his American culture by asking things like: 'And how about your national sport, cricket?' It's unclear whether he actually thinks cricket, and not baseball, is an American national sport, or just pretends to get it wrong. Though not played for comedy, the scene becomes incredibly hilarious.

[@londreslocacoesevendasdeim2783]

5:59, "focus puller", in the credits. And I thought I needed new glasses.

[@chiffmonkey]

I'd watch this.

[@Marina-pe1gx]

One of those Americans called Leslie. Accurate.

[@joncoors]

Man i replayed the ending so many times with the name of the song on the tip of my tongue, but i just couldn't remember what it was. Then I come back 20 minutes later, hear 2 notes, and BAM. The Police - Every Breath You Take. Weird how that works.

[@eIucidate]

joncoors I have the same problem remembering pornstar names

[@robfielding100]

Brilliant! If this was really like American TV I'd watch it

[@howardkerr8174]

"....sad, but mainly annoying. " Love the dry wit of these 2.

[@vababoom970]

I guess that was the inspiration for How to get away with murder

[@AR-kf8dr]

The best :)))

[@jb888888888]

One question: was the Caribbean cruise on a *_MASSIVE YACHT?_*

[@sunsetman22]

that's just my wicked sense of HUME OAR

[@xzmicozx808]

When you see actors on their early roles

[@landonvago]

Lmao, defendant at the end is Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out

[@jasvanaarde9512]

damn, nice catch

[@MrSuzykhan]

Ending is piss funny

[@jayknight1099]

I like that Robert Webb plays the writer and Speedo's actor (the first one) and no one bats an eye.

[@arkhamwarden1205]

The fact that that intro actually happened with the writers of She-Hulk makes this even funnier

[@zazuzazz5419]

He just g*d damned loves Justice!!!

[@timothy790110]

Hahah he came along way, starring in get out!

[@finnhaverkamp]

Holy shit! Daniel Kaluuya!

[@bibtebo]

The parasol and the surfboard match the ice lollies they are eating. Strong coincidence if that's what it is.

[@domnorth952]

"It just doesn't happen "😂😂😂

[@TallSilhouette]

Now that's top notch humore.

[@christophereduardo9903]

WAY BEFORE "GET OUT", check it out!

[@halfaworldaway]

wicked sense of hugh moore

[@leonel1982]

Yeah this is about how the US court system works

[@wibhadstrenchvorkel2390]

Anyone else notice the young pre-famous Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out at the end? (I'm pretty sure it was him)

[@Snardvark25]

Holy shit, the street thug is the guy from get out. I feel smart and clever noticing this.