the inebriati

[@maxmattt]

This sketch is even funnier when you're ever so slightly drunk.

[@friendgray1]

I’m off to check this right now

[@carends1]

Or if you're constantly slightly pissed

[@Margarinetaylorgrease]

This comment is even funnier when you're ever so slightly drunk

[@psychologicalsigma9917]

Literally finished my second as this came up in my feed.

[@bjrnmagnusson5351]

Don't finish your second drink!!!

[@CavemanSynthesizer]

The fact that David's character is carrying two filled wine glasses in a briefcase at the start is a nice subtle bit of absurdity.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

or is it…as he said after 2 drinks anything is possible.

[@Gorboduc]

"The problem with the world is that everyone is two drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart

[@benjaminodonnell258]

Not quite two drinks

[@petyrkowalski9887]

I thought it was WC Fields.

[@marstondavis]

Wordz to live by!

[@westernnoir4808]

That was 3 drinks.

[@paulgower4594]

This is the real reason why Boris thinks gathering for wine in the 10 Downing Street garden counts as work.

[@steadyjumper3547]

It was a meeting between society members lol

[@Bungiman]

The drink ambushed him and was in cahoots with the birthday cake 😆 🤣

[@utubeape]

Haven't you ever been to the House of Commons? There are bars there, and they do a roaring trade

[@maartenvandam344]

Unfortunately, Boris finished his second drink and ordered a third, one day in 2016. The next day, the UK voted to leave the EU.

[@xr6lad]

No. Boris was a member of a different secret society. The Inebrfarti. A society of over eaters slightly overweight and with bad digestion

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Still amazing how he stored 2 filled glasses in that suitcase 🤣

[@Mothman1992]

It's much easier if you're a little wobbly

[@bobbodaskank]

One filled glass and one very nearly filled glass

[@sedawk]

@@bobbodaskank I noticed this as well - an important detail!

[@celebalert5616]

I particularly like the "Stalins and Hitlers" joke because Hitler was supposedly a teetotaler and Stalin a habitual alcoholic

[@jaimemurphy2208]

And the 'will it though?' Followed up by a completely unconvincing emphatic 'yes!'

[@henkdetenk3480]

Hitler did like his amphetamines

[@FFKonoko]

@@henkdetenk3480 did you mean the opiatoes, oxycodone and cocaine prescribed by his doctors? Methamphetamine under the trademark name Pervitin was made by the Temmler drug company, but was more used by some soldiers and workers as an energy supplement.

[@Auzzie015]

And where is the golden, lovely place between those two? That's right, just short of two pints.

[@RabbiHerschel]

@@henkdetenk3480 And you used to be able to mail-order cocaine in bulk here in the US. (Technically, I suppose you still could, provided you have the mailing address of a Columbian cartel boss.) Heroin was sold as an over-the-counter painkiller up until 1924. People in general used to be much more cavalier in the use of recreational chemicals.

[@Hurt646]

The premise of this sketch has been turned into an entire movie - the new Danish movie Druk / Another Round with Mads Mikkelsen.

[@christiankrarup6501]

Great film btw

[@aesbj9228]

Nice! Thanks for making me aware of an interesting movie.

[@FenceThis]

Yep - was just about to write it ! :-)

[@BertGrink]

Mads Mikkelsen you say? he's one of the best actors we have in Denmark atm. IMHO of course. I shall look out for when the movie when is released on P2P.

[@sidarthur8706]

BertyFromDK that's the most danish comment ever written

[@Drasai]

I’ve seen this sketch multiple times, and only just noticed that Robert is holding a kebab in the last scene. Ties in nicely with the beginning.

[@michelguevara151]

..which in the fullness of time will end up decorating some one's garden gnome.

[@holmanator79]

David Mitchell looks so much more like Richard Dawkins here than when he played him in the Richard Dawkins sketch

[@romainsavioz5466]

Show me the evidence

[@-null-null8857]

@@romainsavioz5466 Show me your parrot!

[@hankkingsley9300]

Oh I thought you said David Dinkins

[@DiogenesDworkinson]

@@hankkingsley9300 wasn't he the dwarf on game of thrones?

[@DiogenesDworkinson]

@TuubChännel pretty sure he was...

[@Quasimodo1957]

"The Knights Tippler".....love it!

[@MrLTiger]

i dont get that one

[@Quasimodo1957]

It's a pun on 'The Knights Templar'@@MrLTiger

[@Macho_Fantastico]

I love this sketch because its so true. Two drinks and you feel great and lovely, but three or more and you feel like crap. 😂

[@Shinshocks555]

Maybe I'm outing myself as an alky but

[@CorePathway]

I learned that decades ago shooting pool. Take the edge off, I’m pretty good. Cross the like and my game goes completely to sh!t.

[@roosterNooster]

@@Shinshocks555 3 or 4 a night isnt bad, its a good nightcap and has calories so dont need to eat much

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

It’s one and a half?😊

[@patricksanders858]

Dont forget that for Centuries, the common worker drank beer, ale and wine starting first thing in the morning, rather than water, it was safer...

[@ShootMeMovieReviews]

This also works as a metaphor for that moment when you start drinking to be sociable and think, "Ah, a little bit more will be fine." Next thing you know, you've reached the, "Might as well get shit-faced now" phase.

[@leopold7562]

Ah, so this is how the event started! It was a slightly drunk world president who mistakenly finished his second pint!

[@miguelthealpaca8971]

Yes. Now we all have to remain indoors!

[@wbertie2604]

Blessed be the regulations

[@Margarinetaylorgrease]

I thought it was the number Numberwang computer that started it.

[@rayaqin]

@@Margarinetaylorgrease thats not numberwang

[@hankkingsley9300]

Never talk about the event.

[@slitor]

For programmers, we call this the "Ballmer peak"

[@tomlxyz]

I didn't know that yet lol

[@scbtripwire]

Developers, developers, developers, developers!

[@osakanone]

Programming socks, ADHD meds and Ballmer's peak is the fundamental truth of how to be the very best programmer you can be.

[@hankkingsley9300]

@@scbtripwire ABC always be closing

[@FabioRodrigues-xs8vf]

I also didn't know about this. Definitely gonna share with the guys at the office to see if they wanna do early morning Martinis

[@Communist-Doge]

My first day as a barrister, and I just don't know if I'm going to be any good at barristering...

[@daithimac5785]

@Johan Jacobs seems to be a 'thing' nowadays.... I've seen whole comment sections repeating the thing everyone else has just watched. They seem to like it. Maybe they have short term memories .. or maybe they have short term memories

[@basedchimera5859]

@@daithimac5785 it's people participating in the jokes they found funniest

[@michelguevara151]

@@daithimac5785 it's the being slightly shitfaced that does it

[@ashdjones]

hey, I'm not judging...

[@DiogenesDworkinson]

@@ashdjones I am. Constantly.

[@ellenspear50]

"Knights Tippler" -- LOL.

[@CanalTremocos]

The Rosécrucians.

[@BB27823]

@@CanalTremocos underrated

[@oz_jones]

​@@CanalTremocosbravo

[@hughoxford8735]

A summers day, an English pub by a river or in the countryside, and a single pint, and heaven descends.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Get a nice cider in the glorious summer and it's perfect.

[@LilyGrace95]

Amen to that!

[@DiscoFang]

And then you finish your second and suddenly the sun is making you lethargic and you can't be arsed with anything except to think you need a day off work tomorrow.

[@patrickbyrne5070]

I think I speak to all Englishmen, people all over the UK when I say- I’ll see you there my friend. We bloody well need it.

[@patrickbyrne5070]

@@DiscoFang plan ahead!

[@fennecbesixdouze1794]

Little known fact: the hallway from the opening shot of this sketch was also used as the location for the opening scene in Half Life 2 where you have to pick up the soda can.

[@ashdjones]

knew it

[@LoboPreto]

No, it's not the same.

[@cwookdev]

Now put it in the trash can

[@mdog111]

Ha ha. Boris Johnson's whole life encapsulated in a 6 minute comedy sketch!

[@rileyen4608]

This sketch is 100% true... during college before any big test I’d drink a mikes hard lemonade and sip a second while taking the test online.... I made near perfect scores, where as I second guessed myself so much normally that I’d end up at around an 82 with out it. One time I just drank the second to quickly and finished it before the test.... I failed that single test hahaha

[@Electricshrock]

That's my experience as well. I'm a programmer and I find just sauced enough not to second guess yourself while still sober enough to remember all the jargon is an absolute sweet spot.

[@pianochannel100]

Mike's hard lemonade, a true college student. I can't stand that stuff ahaha

[@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189]

in 10 years you are going to be president of the world

[@yourmomssaidicouldhavemyun2590]

You guys all sound like those stupid stoners in high school who couldn't take a test without being high.

[@someguy1365]

@@yourmomssaidicouldhavemyun2590 I mean, if it works, it works! I went to a 4.0 GPA in my Bachelor's with it. And I am still sitting as a 4.0 during my Masters. I'm studying right now! Also a little drunk, but that's besides the point. Or is it? Anyway, it does work. it seems to work better for those of us with really bad second-guessing. I am studying for a test right now, actually! Well, supposed to be. I'll probably still ace it, tbh. All because I enjoy existing a little more. If it works, it works! Binge-drinking is inherently stupid, but a drink or two so you're barely at the threshold? It seems to work just fine for me!

[@cav89-]

4:20 I can’t stop laughing about the lady laying down to take a small nap. I got stuff to do. Cmon!

[@redc7146]

3:01 I liked that he did that separate eye blink to drive it home

[@Vesnicie]

It's true. Two Long Island Iced Teas always make me a better cellist. Scientific fact.

[@BenjaminRodandwhoopi]

That's too much. Have slightly less.

[@naynaynay324]

I concur with Mike Hat even if Rainy day at the hospital wasn't half bad.

[@benlee8436]

I'm a truly astonishing guitarist after six drinks though. Weirdly it causes everybody else to lose their taste in guitar music.

[@Vesnicie]

@@benlee8436 Cretins, the lot of 'em!

[@ukironman1]

That’s way more than two drinks!

[@Sean_but_Not_Heard]

Welp. It’s 12 years later now. Seems like they had the timeline right. The world’s gone a “bit fighty”.

[@TheNapoleose]

DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE EVENT!

[@steerpike66]

I love James Bachman, he has the more adorable smile.

[@AxialHence]

This sketch is 12 years old now. It is time.

[@conorlynch2879]

I LOVE that they used the music from The Shining

[@newtonwhatevs]

Perhaps as well as having a legal limit for drunk drinving, we should introduce a minimum threshold to ease road rage.

[@thetelegothika5327]

Haha! Awesome!

[@DiogenesDworkinson]

Drinving? Looks like you're already prepped up... Just keep it just slightly under two.

[@aredub1847]

vaporized weed should be pumped into all airplanes.

[@soulfulkat]

This is much funnier when slightly drunk. :)

[@Margarinetaylorgrease]

This comment is much funnier when slightly drunk

[@wj2429]

I like the Mads Mikkelsen remake of this sketch.

[@paulberry2884]

Love the Bartok as used in The Shining. No Bartok, no party!

[@billslocum9819]

I did, too. Even if the Kubrick film being parodied is "Eyes Wide Shut."

[@danielsjohnson]

This was a trait of the character Sam Vines from the Discworld books. Except he kept getting the amount wrong so he was always either pessimistic towards most things (from not drinking enough) or totally drunk.

[@ldobehardcore]

Yep. Our man Sam has an alcohol deficiency. He's always slightly Knurd all the time. What a way to live.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Not one drink. Remember if can do for a good reason then you'll do it for an evil reason

[@benlloyd206]

Another Round (2020)

[@WannabeMarsanach]

i literally watched this earlier, got ever so slightly drink, and finally wrote the script for my uni assignment that i've been procrastinating for 2 weeks.

[@simonanardi4312]

It‘s called self-medication… but you have to know your dose very precisely!

[@JM-mh1pp]

You know this is actually true, but it is a very fine line, every person has slightly different tolerance so it is very hard to pinpoint the sweet spot. Drink too much and your effectivness declines, too little and there is no effect, but drink just enough and you are your perfect self without any downsides.

[@DiogenesDworkinson]

That's what I said about meth...

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@DiogenesDworkinson I think the productivity threshold for meth is a bit lower…

[@Harriet-Jesamine]

It also precisely depends on the very specific Drink, and it's corresponding chemical compound!

[@user-bj1dr8md3w]

Our sense of humour and observational awareness are so important to us. Love these guys.

[@jointgib]

This sketch has changed my life!

[@BiggestNightmareJim]

I had an afternoon beer, took a nap and woke up to this video being reccomended to me. So where do I join?

[@AliceP.]

I remember being 17 and actually planning to drink wine everyday before going to school because everytime I had it, it made me more confident and relaxed. I might as well have been visited by the inebriatis and be running against the psychopath who leads my country right now

[@AlexTechie]

Joe Biden does suck.

[@AliceP.]

@@AlexTechie Not american. You've only got 194 chances left.

[@drdeesnutts48]

The Event.

[@safetyfirst5917]

DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE EVENT

[@streifenziesel4151]

Imagine the event happening again... DO NOT! Do not imagine the event happening again!

[@ScottRQueen]

Yes

[@remandstimpy]

Nah! The Event started when some guy in China ate a bat.

[@ewanmcfadyen]

REMAIN INDOORS

[@SiriusMined]

I love how he's holding a donner kebab in the last scot :-)

[@TheCatBilbo]

I command a Brigade & I approve this message. My best, tactical decisions have been made whilst slightly drunk. I'm a Brigadier, but you know that...

[@MsGnor]

The Charge of the Bud Light Brigade

[@anjou6497]

​@@MsGnorVery witty 😂👌🩵

[@ronnietornado396]

Omg David Mitchell with that wig looks just like Emperor Palpatine.

[@MrToms-fb6lm]

It hurts!

[@the-chillian]

I find when I play poker, the sweet spot is exactly 1.5 drinks. I'm relaxed enough to make the big bets when necessary, but I'm still able to play at my best.

[@ianreed1528]

Here we are, February 28th 2022, and this is a bit too close for comfort....

[@Baileaf11]

Being ever so slightly drunk is the true way to live

[@seeingsnails]

It's 3:40am. I'm very sick and this is very funny, but the music from the Shining in the background has made me very scared.

[@waynemarvin5661]

Don't be afraid of music. Maybe if they chanted obscenities to a beat, or yelled racial insults to a background of strings, you'll feel better and not be scared.

[@fenisnad]

Feeling this right now.

[@alexconstable3155]

My favourite comedy troupe of all time!

[@hensonlaura]

Absolute brilliance.

[@Longtack55]

And that, my learned colleagues, is how one becomes a Queen's Counsel.

[@arturczerwinski2616]

Yeah, it's always after the second drink when I usually go full horrible and enp up with the nasties.

[@Beiki]

I shall celebrate coming across this video by getting very slightly pissed.

[@FergusWalsh-dz7mq]

Inebriati,Knights Tippler ,brilliant just love it.

[@jonbaxter2254]

The older I get, the more I understand this. It is true.

[@thechaos44]

Just the clip i was looking for. Cheers! x

[@StinkyCheeseYodeler]

Awesome. Thank you!

[@Tennisisreallyfun]

The inebriati… I knew this sketch would be phenomenal just by reading the title.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

Absolutely brilliant! And ever so much more believable than those ridiculous Illuminaughty boys.

[@RosalieF1]

Knight's Tippler ! haha

[@nuclearbox2]

This is one of the greatest sketches ever, right up with monty python

[@HamHatter]

All so very true. Doubt I could ever be in the Inebriati though. Always gotta have that extra glass or two...

[@valeriekeefe8898]

I was actually watching this sketch whilst on my second drink... Anyway, time to get shit-faced.

[@mookie2637]

It's brilliantly timed to work with the music. Which, btw, is Bartok.

[@lisasommerlad1337]

ciao, Bela!

[@TheFinalIllusion]

After some of these sketches I’m starting to think the Brit’s have a drinking problem.

[@Barnicalsify]

Not true. They have a drinking *solution*.

[@alisonpurgatory85]

This is actually kinda chilling

[@carclain123]

They made the idea of "everything is easier if you're just a bit tipsy" into a movie, it's called Another Round

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

I'm convinced there's a logic to this 😂

[@nicholas97223]

Amazing Boris Johnson biography.

[@dathwampeer]

IT ALL MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!

[@dp7933]

I think you mean, "Eh all maksh sa much shechse!"

[@seastorm1979]

I once saw a QC in a pinstripe suit in Mayfair stooped over a pub table, he must have taken this advice.

[@bl0ndi550]

I've found this to be pretty sound advice when it comes to doing pretty inconsequential work for oneself

[@brettunger2578]

This is some of the funniest shit I saw in the last couple months ....came back cause I was chuckling about it.....

[@michelguevara151]

I allways feel better after slightly less than two pints of rum

[@outeast999]

Ah, finally the explanation for those Downing St parties.

[@DiogenesDworkinson]

Incredibly funny. Bravo!

[@ccityplanner1217]

I recognise that interior, it's somewhere I went on the Open House a couple of years ago. This is a good analogy for the history of an ideology.

[@brettsymons604]

There is a reason why when I sit down to write I have a couple of ciders (only) next to me. Turns out I'm not the only one from this sketch and comments.

[@theplinkerslodge6361]

The Inebriati - you win the internet for the day. Boris Johnson's secret - but he always finishes his second pint.

[@george474747]

Patton, The French Connection, The Godfather, The Sting, The Godfather Part II, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, Annie Hall, The Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer.

[@wisteela]

What is the music that starts playing after the enema? A friend used it in a short film many years ago, and I've since heard it in a few things.

[@therealcaldini]

My dad calls this feeling “pleasantly pissed”.

[@CityPickle]

thank you. thank you. thank you for posting this! thank you :-)

[@InfamousLegato]

At all major historical events we've been in the background. Gently swaying from side to side.

[@AndyPate72]

Boris Johnsons Government explained in a nutshell

[@johnmccrossan9376]

Ok new law, every militarised nation has to install a cover on the declare war button, and if you blow any more Than a 0.06 you can't open it for 24 hours

[@heliumcalcium396]

Or less than 0.02

[@johnmccrossan9376]

@@heliumcalcium396 actually let's just make it so you have to be totally sober to make any government decision

[@heliumcalcium396]

@@johnmccrossan9376 I'd prefer an I.Q. test, but... We're drifting away from the funny.

[@johnmccrossan9376]

@@heliumcalcium396 maybe keep the iq test for the election

[@hamishwhitehenderson5197]

just realised the music in the background is Bela Bartok

[@docdaneeka3424]

Music for strings percussion and celesta! was bartok an inebriati?

[@AlexFlockhart]

I wasn't sure who you meant at first but I recognized it from The Shining

[@bradyedge8613]

@@AlexFlockhart Yes!

[@AlexFlockhart]

@Julian Grant That I don't know, I don't have the movie to pull up right now. Would be strange if Burton decided to use the music from an iconic movie starring the same actor.

[@GudieveNing]

This is brilliant and true.

[@bionicbenofficial]

David Mitchell reminds me of Palpatine in this haha would be really funny to see his emperor spinoff

[@ezrathehuman4148]

Comedy gold 😍

[@Maza675]

I remember I had an assignment due on ethics and I had procrastinated to the last minute. I sat down on the Sunday afternoon to do it and two friends kept calling me to come to theirs for bbq and bourbon. Eventually I relented and went. But I took my assignment and completed it whilst sitting in their backyard 'on the piss' and having a great time and got happily drunk. I not only completed the assignment, I also got a 'high distinction' for it. Life makes little sense...

[@brettsymons604]

I once wrote a speech for university the night before while drinking wine from a cask. During the speech I flipped the page and a poorly written "improvise" in massive lettering covered the last page. I got 98% for that assignment. I'd seen what got my tutors interest and just doubled down on it all when improvising and he loved it.

[@eylam9690]

the last line might be my favourite.

[@rlv360]

Could not be more relevant in January 2022! Thanks KZbin algorithm!

[@nuclearbox2]

"Kebabs... and destruction" pure gold

[@nicelyput299]

Is this the entrance hall from The Matrix?

[@remandstimpy]

As I watch this, I get a terrifying image of Putin eyeing a map of the Ukraine whilst idly toying with a third glass of vodka.

[@jamescharlesworth775]

This comment aged like milk

[@ince55ant]

i've heard this from american programmers who could not have seen this, so its now a core belief

[@Banksie2009]

This sketch later became a danish feature film titled “Another round”.