That Mitchell & Webb Look - Can People Levitate (English subtitles)

[@DerLamer]

The delivery of "Yes, it is no" is perfect

[@MrMr-ws3tv]

The intellectual confidence to appear stupid. Well that sums me up

[@billbadson7598]

I’m intellectually confident enough to appear stupid basically all day every day, and yet nobody ever recognizes my brilliance for it.

[@timbax3267]

I like how he was basically mad at David long before he asked the question. He just sat there, confident David would be mean, more or less accurately aware of what David would say, and yet that didn't help. You'd think being aware of the response would soften the blow a little.😂

[@Jackissimus]

Honestly it makes me side with Robert's character here. He knew how David was gonna be and he still gave him a chance to be, you know, friendly and normal :) I think by the end Robert was just mad at himself that he (presumably repeatedly) has had the masochistic need to share anything with David.

[@VestinVestin]

@@Jackissimus That's interesting, my impression was completely different. To me this sketch shows, in a somewhat overblown fashion, that it's like to be surrounded by idiots who get mad at you for being smart.

[@VestinVestin]

​@@wilfri3476 Thanks for free therapy! My suggestion in return is for you to familiarize yourself with other works of David Mitchell ^^!

[@Animekirk]

Smart people are often insensitive. It's quite a large weakness as it does nothing but hurt their social, and familial relationships. However that doesnt mean they're bad people. Sure some might take sadistic glee in making someone else feel stupid. But many are well meaning, intending only to help others maintain a grounded, stable view of reality. As they believe such a view is in the best interests of everyone involved. However often times this is misinterpreted as being a smarty pants know-it-all who likes to trample on people's sense of wonder. It's just one of those things. Different types of people having difficulty seeing eye to eye.

[@robkunkel8833]

Man oh man .. this new generation is fucked, Someone is siding with one character? Give me a break. Once again, THIS IS COMEDY. It isn’t an Ethics class. It isn’t a class in Psychology. Comedy sometimes take everyday situations and stretches them within reason, then showing the audience a comedic twist of irony. It there is any moral for us, look at the last ten seconds. He builds the moment and tries to be lighthearted, after speaking in cruel tones and … (perhaps apologetically) … he asks an innocuous question, equal to equal, (as in the beginning lines about ten minutes) and the comedic response puts the aggressive shoe on the other foot. We cheer for him. Successful comedy.

[@almc1566]

They can fly though, except you need to be married to Keeley Hawes for this to work

[@Jackissimus]

Well well, aren't you a chippy little autodidact.

[@PlatoonGoon]

I'm amazed by the number of mitchell and webb videos with so few views. Cheers

[@Zombie-lx3sh]

I'm amazed that you're amazed that some random non-native speaker with 246 subscribers got "only" 45k views by copying and posting a segment of a British tv show, no matter how good said show is.

[@francistaylor1822]

It's due to the event

[@Jackissimus]

This sketch is probably copied on YT many times over. It's just that for some reason (unknown to me), my viewcounts started exploding a few weeks back.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@francistaylor1822 Don't think about The Event!

[@Thefreakman8]

@@Jackissimus Blessed be the Algorithm

[@jb888888888]

I'm here to be didactic and say to David that levitating and flying aren't the same thing necessarily.

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

And since we aren't entangled with the Earth we do actually levitate slightly off the ground.

[@seaghanobuadhaigh8240]

or pedantic, perhaps?

[@0That_Guy0]

Brilliant!

[@G_BLASTER]

A chippy little auto didact 😂😂

[@Reman1975]

I've often wondered why these two stopped working together? Did they have a falling out? Or was it something else, like double act TV show offers drying up ?

[@ExactFlamingo]

They made some new show together called Back in like 2017 with the second season having came out In early 2021, dunno if it's any good though

[@mkprocter882]

@@ExactFlamingo it has it's moments but peepshow it ain't

[@TallSilentGuy]

0:48 David, there are about 7 billion people living on this planet. Let's not go eliminating them one by one.... 🙄

[@qwadratix]

I'm still waiting for an answer.

[@zjebanygugel]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eovcpoGceq56ptE There you go

[@salwaaj1356]

If you took both of them and created a person, you d get me. Their conversation is my inner dialogue. I m usually a mitchell, but weird questions pop into my mind and i shut them quickly after mocking them.

[@redlightmax]

0:23 [insert Mitchell's "Hold down the fort" reference here]

[@Stuart267]

I miss this show. I tried to get into the new one they did together *Back* but none of the characters are likable or relatable its a shame because I loved all their other shows

[@rudymatheson1415]

There’s a new one?

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@rudymatheson1415 It was a couple of years ago now, but still relatively new.

[@ravingcuriosity6345]

OMG!!! This is pure gold! I didn't know they recorded my interaction with most human beings while just switching my name to "David" tho... 😅

[@jesserothhammer7378]

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