Mitchell and Webb - A Bigger Spoon

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12 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite M&W sketches of all time, from the very first episode of their first series, That Mitchell and Webb Situation. This sketch was split into three segments that I edited together, so the 2nd edit is a little wonky.

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@GrandSupremeDaddyo 6 жыл бұрын

This is like one of those dreams where your legs stop working.

@hackedagain3421 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@rewrose2838 3 жыл бұрын

accurate

@At0mFruit 3 жыл бұрын

its nothing like that

@peterhall4216 3 жыл бұрын

@dylan murphy I don't think he understands what we mean

@Elbownian 2 жыл бұрын

I have these on the reg. My legs tangle when I try to walk. Or run. It's annoying. But this is nothing like that.

@TheBeaker59 9 жыл бұрын

I've been in design meetings just like that. In fact exactly like that. Well bigger really.

@PoeLemic 6 жыл бұрын

Sad to say, but yeah, I'm in IT and this stuff happens all the freaking time.

@scarletpeoni9347 6 жыл бұрын

John Edwards we want examplessssssss

@owendavies3786 6 жыл бұрын

What bigger

@Kalenz1234 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. you really lost me at the end there. Could you explain it better?

@owendavies3786 6 жыл бұрын

Just think of a design meeting, then think of one thats, well, bigger

@Auzzie015 4 жыл бұрын

I want to work in a place like that. Supportive boss who genuinely appreciates your work, doesn’t blame you when you make a mistake and tries to help you when you do.

@formalsquid 3 жыл бұрын

and you want to work for someone that makes completely unreasonable demands? a bigger spoon? you've got to be kidding me ffs

@AndyFisherMusic 3 жыл бұрын

How would you even make a bigger spoon? A third one? It's a joke. Totally unreasonable boss.

@dwarfoscar 3 жыл бұрын

and is as dumb as you

@DM-mb3wm 3 жыл бұрын

A bigger spoon? Right... No.

@loodlebop 3 жыл бұрын

@@dwarfoscar they're supposed to be dumber, otherwise you wouldn't have the job

@TallSilentGuy 2 жыл бұрын

The absence of a laugh track suits this sketch perfectly.

@thexbigxgreen Жыл бұрын

I was just about to say the same thing, a laugh track would have ruined the offbeat humour

@joshuanorthey2026 Жыл бұрын

Honestly laugh tracks are always bad in this era. If something isn’t funny enough for no laugh track it’s not funny enough to bother watching.

@rvkice23 Жыл бұрын

Unless the show is designed to incorporate them, laugh tracks are just lame

@Ron-Ayres 29 күн бұрын

BBC sketch shows do not use laughter tracks; they're shown to a live studio audience and any laughter we hear is genuine.

@dinsy512 7 жыл бұрын

"Sorry, I'm explaining this very badly.", exquisite!

@jaycho7198 3 жыл бұрын

The level of ettiquette is through the roof! Such a supportive and understanding boss with so much patience!

@Wulfrune 8 жыл бұрын

Those spoons are from the IKEA Manhattan Brushed 16 piece cutlery set circa 2002. And I should REALLY go out more.

@joshsterckx 8 жыл бұрын

Make sure if you do go out its to somewhere other than ikea ;)

@Wulfrune 7 жыл бұрын

You would have no Ikea :)

@logdog6762 7 жыл бұрын

Class A dad, joke. Respect.

@8DX 7 жыл бұрын

There's an IDEA furniture chain as well..

@chris10240 7 жыл бұрын

Wulfrune X

@thenaylor 3 жыл бұрын

It's oddly relaxing to watch this scene.

@leeroyjenkins5754 2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad someone else thinks so 😂 thought I was losing it

@abberss 2 жыл бұрын

These two are super chill and calm in this

@willmcpherson2 2 жыл бұрын

The early Mitchell & Webb skits are comfy

@bubbles8871 2 жыл бұрын

It's because of how calm and supportive the boss is.

@leeballington3136 2 жыл бұрын

It has ASMR feels to it. That's why it feel comfy and relaxing to watch.

@GenericInternetter Жыл бұрын

His first attempt to draw a bigger soon is masterful. He manages to draw a near-perfect replica of the previous one.

@dkennell998 2 жыл бұрын

I saw this sketch years ago and didn't think much of it tbh. And yet, years later, when my boss is trying to explain something at my web job to me that he finds simple and I don't understand, I just keep flashing back to "like this one, only.... you know, bigger." I get this sketch now.

@WilliamSmith-mx6ze Жыл бұрын

You do realise it's not David Mitchell's character who is unreasonable here?

@justin_5631 Жыл бұрын

@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze It's not that simple. They went from a sketch about a dense guy who doesn't understand a simple concept and flipped it into an even better joke about design. A lot of times clients think they know what they want and try to explain it but it turns out they don't have a clear idea of what they want. Or something seems really simple but it turns out is really difficult to get right.

@Aquascape_Dreaming Жыл бұрын

@@justin_5631 I think the point is that they're both idiots, James Webb's Scott character being slightly more so 😂

@justin_5631 Жыл бұрын

@@Aquascape_Dreaming No, that's not the joke.

@Aquascape_Dreaming 7 ай бұрын

@@justin_5631yes it is. it's a layered joke. Scott's inability to understand a simple concept such as a larger spoon, and the boss's incompetence in illustrating the same simple concept. It's a joke about a breakdown in communication.

@fahadus 6 жыл бұрын

Those who don't get the joke, if you have any friends who do freelance development or any sort of creative/artistic work. Go to a meeting with them. This is exactly how all communication is done. The artist keeps saying "I see what you mean" when he doesn't. The client doesn't know how to ask for what he's envisioned and keeps trying to explain in the same words without any additional useful information.

@capitalb5889 3 жыл бұрын

It's not just freelance work, but all across the corporate world. Such as the conversation that follows the emailing of 'Client presentation DRAFT V14.ppt'

@PK-lz4ho 3 жыл бұрын

He did say at the beginning though, a bigger spoon for serving vegetables and such.

@adeyoliver1680 3 жыл бұрын

@@capitalb5889 You made me LOL with the V14.ppt as I've been there WAY more times than I wish to remember... Very recently I managed to have a Client send me a photo of a Final and professionally printed piece ( a certificate ) I had completed ages ago ( I had moved to a different country and did not get to see the end result), I wanted feedback on the quality and whether or not the Client was happy..... Well I got a blurry photo via WhatsApp and realised they had printed out the tiny maquette I sent in a PowerPoint....... When I asked why they used that rather than the professionally formatted much MUCH better version, they said they liked the fake wooden background I'd used to make the certificate stand out AND were more than happy with the result too.....!

@capitalb5889 3 жыл бұрын

@@adeyoliver1680 - that's hilarious. You wonder why you bother sometimes.

@adeyoliver1680 3 жыл бұрын

@@capitalb5889 Haha, my sentiments exactly!

@coneyisland428 5 жыл бұрын

"In a world, where no one can imagine what a 3rd, slightly bigger spoon, would look like."

@gideonros2705 3 жыл бұрын

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

@trisblackshaw1640 2 жыл бұрын

These are the adventures of Digby Chicken Caesar!

@Paul-A01 8 жыл бұрын

What if we made the spoon bigger? I mean not bigger, but like that. Does that make sense? Well, not sense, but yea?"

@StandardGoose 7 жыл бұрын

TGGeko We'd like the spoon to use The Cloud.

@connor5160 6 жыл бұрын

TGGeko Obviously not that. But yeah that would be good.

@willmcpherson2 6 жыл бұрын

I mean NOT that. Don't do that. But, that. Yeah?

@dimturkin5954 6 жыл бұрын

swell guy Well not a spoon, but a fork, or a knife, or a policeman. Well not them, none of them, but, yeah?

@Rushmore222 4 жыл бұрын

I'm telling you, get the exact dimensions of the request and have it signed off by the entire design committee. That way, you only have to do it five or six times.

@rewrose2838 3 жыл бұрын

😂 still too many times

@SportyMabamba 3 жыл бұрын

Too true!

@tomgilesmarvoloryley 3 жыл бұрын

Number of times = point at which you contemplate murder or suicide + 1

@jasonsiegel7039 Жыл бұрын

😂

@peterjoyfilms 7 жыл бұрын

This is what teaching primary school children is like

@sidarthur8706 3 жыл бұрын

i hope you've gotten better by now

@nobodyuknow2490 3 жыл бұрын

This is what teaching college students is like...

@CosmicTeapot 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I'm sure it's what teaching anything to anyone sort of feels like when you easily understand what you're teaching and the student doesn't get it.

@May-or-May-not Жыл бұрын

As a primary school special ed teacher this is also how it feels explaining to other teachers how to handle neurodivergent kids when they're in class. It just does not sink in.

@marcelldavis4809 3 жыл бұрын

This sketch perfectly summarises my entire professional life.

@niksatt4843 Жыл бұрын

I would lose my mind lol.

@Decawink27 2 жыл бұрын

I work in software development. I get told that a bigger spoon is needed while having no knowledge the dinner collection exists, then find out that another team already built a bigger spoon, and in the end the client decides to use a smaller fork instead.

@Ron-Ayres 29 күн бұрын

Bahahaha! [sorry]

@AlecDyer 9 жыл бұрын

That ending was perfect.

@sycamour5654 6 жыл бұрын

Alejandro D Tricky isn't it?

@BenGras Жыл бұрын

Can’t stop laughing

@amendolaraholisticpiano4388 8 жыл бұрын

The whole thing is extremely funny, and even when watching it for the 20th time! At the end, when he says 'it's tricky, isn't it?', is one of my favorite parts. I also loved when he couldn't draw the bigger spoon.

@HolandaChiquita 6 жыл бұрын

For some reason this still is one of my absolute favorite things they ever made together. It's so simple and almost boring, but I love it every time I watch it!

@dinsy512 6 жыл бұрын

Almost boring, but so not.

@WHITE888- 7 жыл бұрын

Such a simple idea but clever in its execution.

@SacredDaturana 7 жыл бұрын

I feel like this describes a lot of Mitchell and Webb sketches.

@BikesAndBatallas 7 жыл бұрын

It's so good that it's painful to watch.

@connorveach5986 6 жыл бұрын

i probably think about this sketch once a week

@sean..L 2 жыл бұрын

You see what they need is a comically large spoon.

@ilanelovitz8988 10 жыл бұрын

This is probably their best "look" sketch. It's so simple, but so ridiculous.

@rayaqin 5 жыл бұрын

@9teen8efore am I wooshed here? their show is the mitchell and webb look, which is why this is a look

@rayaqin 5 жыл бұрын

@9teen8efore oh, my bad then, didnt know about that

@zelnidav 4 жыл бұрын

They were going for both simplicity and flair...

@Smash_252 3 жыл бұрын

But this isn't Look it's Situation

@weswheel4834 3 жыл бұрын

@@zelnidav Well that certainly came across.

@motog4221 3 жыл бұрын

This absolutely encapsulates what it feels like to teach design to students

@chriscolabella880 6 жыл бұрын

I've sat through this meeting too many times for this to be funny.

@4ur3n 8 жыл бұрын

that is how business management works these days

@flyforce16 10 жыл бұрын

"Ah, the new spoon! Great!" "THAT'S more what you meant, isn't it?" (holds up tiny-ass spoon) "Yea-uh... oh." lol

@frederickbottcher8019 4 жыл бұрын

This is every meeting ever where supvervisors have no idea on the subject.

@AmericanMysticDegenerate 3 жыл бұрын

The end killed me. "Tricky isn't it?"

@commanderwyro4204 9 ай бұрын

he was going for simplicity while also going for flair... absolutely love it

@GlassyDusty 3 жыл бұрын

I love the gentle and patient manner of the comissioner, it's so well observed and really complements the silliness of the sketch.

@kekka88 9 жыл бұрын

You'll only get this if you ever had meetings with professors in which they ask for features they don't even know how to explain.

@lovelyxskinny 8 жыл бұрын

Or a boss who tells you to do something when they can't even do it themselves

@quineloe 8 жыл бұрын

And if you didn't, this really seems weird and not funny at all

@8DX 7 жыл бұрын

Professors? What? Clients who want a feature.. but don't care about how it works.. only that it does.. what they want it to do? And they're not sure about that, just that it has to be *better* than what they've got.

@userPrehistoricman 6 жыл бұрын

There is an excellent web site for this. It's called clients from hell.

@Septimus_ii 6 жыл бұрын

I just got trapped on that site for hours :D

@willisan 11 жыл бұрын

The end so brings this sketch all together. Love these two

@gnarlestongnu637 5 жыл бұрын

"Sorry, I'm explaining this very badly..."

@grendelum 6 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the Simpsons sketch when Homer arrives at the chili cook-off with his own spoon and someone says “they say he carved it from a slightly bigger spoon” 🤣😂

@childofthesun32 3 жыл бұрын

David's character under the mistaken impression that Robert's character is a moron. When the truth is Robert just bought a pack of spoons from the shop and doesn't actuallyeven know how to make spoons and he's just trying figure out a way of selling the fact that he only has two spoon sizes available.

@capitalb5889 3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting him to create the bigger spoon, just with a massive arm and a tiny head. He didn't need to - the sketch was perfect as it was.

@Zacho789 9 жыл бұрын

I would've thought he'd come back with a massive ladle or something.

@Virolaxion 5 жыл бұрын

A lesser comedy would have

@rewrose2838 3 жыл бұрын

@@Virolaxion yes exactly.

@15peanutbuttercups 9 жыл бұрын

This sketch is perfect.

@MrSqurk 3 жыл бұрын

This would be funny but I have sat through weeks of meetings like this

@nachoijp 10 жыл бұрын

there is no spoon

@gral3289 10 жыл бұрын

No there is The Matrix aside there is a spoon in this case. ;)

@Kenazzle 7 жыл бұрын

Should be renamed "UK Parliament addressing voter concerns"

@meapantz1983 5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@nathangamble125 5 жыл бұрын

@Brain Davison Because they can't understand simple concepts which people ask for.

@TheBloodsuger150 4 жыл бұрын

@@nathangamble125 "simple"

@allyw7405 3 жыл бұрын

That would imply they care

@daemonL 10 жыл бұрын

This video is exactly what I feel like when explaining English words/grammar to English language learners. I can't explain, they can't understand and everything goes pear shaped!

@simonblake1434 Жыл бұрын

This is the spoon version of Fathers Ted and Dougal talking about the sizes of cows - brilliant !

@FurEngel 6 жыл бұрын

Its sketches like this that show how Mitchell and Webb were geniuses ahead of their time.

@Aquascape_Dreaming 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know about being ahead of their time, but they are definitely comedic geniuses. A bit of Fry and Laurie kinda helped pave the way for them. I would say a bit of Fry and Laurie was ahead of it's time in many regards.

@user-lm2vs1sl3v 10 ай бұрын

I worked with designers from a well known agency back in the 80s and this is 100% accurate.

@blommen 6 жыл бұрын

".... I understand what you're saying." Narrator: "He did not understand what he was saying."

@cassandra5322 9 жыл бұрын

It's like learning proofs and logic, it's obvious and self evident but it's still confusing.

@stationaryplane9149 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, like the physics of water applied to a globe. Just doesn't work.

@aDifferentJT 6 жыл бұрын

Stationary Plane it works perfectly

@hommhommhomm 2 жыл бұрын

That's how meetings between the designer and client always go

@Oafing 11 жыл бұрын

Fricken love this one, not laugh out loud but I chuckled away. Everyone thinks they know what someone should do until they try to do it on their own!

@raresaturn 3 жыл бұрын

they've reached Maximum Spoon

@DominickvdHoff 3 жыл бұрын

This all just builds up to him unable to draw a bigger spoon, brilliant!

@codyheiner3636 2 жыл бұрын

Was wondering how on earth they were going to end the skit. But they nailed it perfectly!

@nicholek11 8 жыл бұрын

As an artist, this sketch is my daily life. x_x

@John_McDonnell 8 жыл бұрын

+Dalton Fitzgerald You've not understood the joke.

@chibichocofairy 7 жыл бұрын

+Dalton Fitzgerald that's not what the joke is xD

@noe9250 9 жыл бұрын

I thought he was gonna come back in a third time with a fork

@blazednlovinit 8 жыл бұрын

***** LOL, this was nice icing on the cake after that sketch

@kylenetherwood8734 8 жыл бұрын

+FirenX951 Yet he doesn't know what bigger means

@blazednlovinit 8 жыл бұрын

Kyle Netherwood Some people wouldn't know wit if it came up and punched them in the face

@InformationIsTheEdge 8 жыл бұрын

+The Guy Your line about the fork made me roar with laughter! I could absolutely imagine that. Thank you for that.

@DyllonSlaboda 7 жыл бұрын

+InformationIsTheEdge I'm guessing you've not experienced much comedy before today

@TheBrutalWaffle 5 жыл бұрын

Back for my monthly viewing of this video

@ss5ringo 2 жыл бұрын

I can't explain it but this sketch broke me and had me in tears of laughter for a good minute. Even now I'm chuckling as I type this message.

@miikavihersaari3104 Жыл бұрын

You've done a lovely set of tears of laughter. I was wondering if you could do more, but... bigger?

@Aquascape_Dreaming 3 жыл бұрын

This was like pulling teeth, but finding pulling teeth uproariously hilarious at the same time 😂😆 How many times I said 'this is so stupid!' but splitting my sides with laughter at the same time, I have no idea 😂

@civpala 9 жыл бұрын

I stumbled upon these guys about a week ago and checked out about 40+ of their sketches right away here on youtube (I am from Central-Europe, we don't have them on TV). This is probably the one I like the most: its almost metaphysical and transcendental. Hahaha, this is what human life is like, by the end I am almost scared. :-))) In any petty daily situation you would think is so easy and absolutely in your hand, and then you suddenly stare into something way beyond human comprehension... Hahaha, the bigger spoon as the devil laughing at you, its tricky isn't it... :-D

@MrSpicyTits 9 жыл бұрын

What have you been smoking!?

@AwesomePhantomPig 8 жыл бұрын

+Gábor Palásti Shoo! Get back in your cage!

@businessbusiness9407 7 жыл бұрын

Gábor Palásti Its great isnt it? One of their best acted sketches too. Thats a great character for David Mitchel

@8DX 7 жыл бұрын

Wow a racist and sexist immigrant joke. Congratulations on being so edgy. And nah, we have plenty of comedy in Central Europe, but you wouldn't get it because its the intellectual, philosophical kind.

@ST1212100 7 жыл бұрын

omfg Gabor high five we Hungarians will always be looked down on i wonder why.....

@AgiHammerthief 11 ай бұрын

„it’s tricky, isn’t it?“ 😂

@wyskass861 2 жыл бұрын

How did I only just discover these guys a few days ago. Hilarious

@markseb2003 10 жыл бұрын

That's why you need to be more specific in your instructions and give measurements.

@MarketResearchReading114 9 жыл бұрын

its a metaphor like wot, they do n' such to make ways between ideas an concepts an such to other thoughts and ideas in a sort of well, proportional like relationship. Its a bridge between concepts too foreign and complex to be compressed, but totally compressed in this form, in something like wot you'd call a representative conception of wot it must be like.

@defaultuser00000 6 жыл бұрын

wot wot

@abigailsepulveda492 10 жыл бұрын

I just love this guys

@GravitasZero 2 жыл бұрын

That’s why when you don’t get something you just admit it. You “ego” would suffer the same damage either way and it saves a lot of time.

@danmaftei7633 5 жыл бұрын

That got pretty surreal at the end there, trippy.

@wimwiddershins 7 жыл бұрын

...reminds me of nearly every design pitch I've ever been present in.

@pjay3028 3 жыл бұрын

I suspect this has just been precisely replicated in a lot of Track and Trace app development meetings over the last few months.....

@Fakechilada Жыл бұрын

I legit had this experience recently when I was comissioning some artwork. Wasn't even 'like' like this. It was exactly this. I just wanted the thing bigger! 😂

@arturczerwinski2616 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, they look so young in this...

@BlackZephyros 8 жыл бұрын

Me at uni

@WDRUM123 8 жыл бұрын

It's depressing how much I get this

@herreguda6199 8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Tran Me when talking to my adviser for my thesis.

@mooshicks 6 жыл бұрын

This video is a visual representation of my boss trying to give me art assignments.

@samuelandrewclark4564 2 жыл бұрын

I have no idea why I'm laughing so hard about this! it's absolute genius comedy, but i have no idea why!

@Debtwarrior 7 жыл бұрын

This illustrates perfectly why i end up doing so many 'delegated tasks' myself.. after spending three or four hours trying to get someone to do a three minute job. its like working in a local council.

@programmerqdev 8 жыл бұрын

I just punched my laptop out of pure rage and frustration that a client can't explain properly or give constructive feedback. **AARRRGGHHHH***

@fahadus 6 жыл бұрын

@Noþhelm Blodcyning:"It's tricky, isn't it?"

@craigspencer8219 3 жыл бұрын

This is why I enjoy working/creating things alone

@NoahSpurrier Жыл бұрын

This would be funny if I hadn’t sat through so many meetings like this.

@NeoN-PeoN 2 жыл бұрын

Tell me how at 2:42 Mitchell manages to photocopy the drawn spoon just to his left. He couldn't do that shit again with 100 tries. I bet after they cut they all flipped their shit.

@dandominare 3 жыл бұрын

I have definitely had conversations like this at work.

@smellyuglydork 11 жыл бұрын

it's one of their older shows, they were still relatively unknown at the time I think. Somebody just thought it would be better without, but whatever it was, it was a great decision. Their humour doesn't need canned laughter, it's histerical on it's own.

@PK-lz4ho 3 жыл бұрын

He did say at the beginning though, a bigger spoon for serving vegetables and such.

@Totalavulsion 7 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why he couldn't just make a bigger spoon. You know, a spoon which is bigger than the other one. And the smaller one.

@almightyk11 7 жыл бұрын

Two things. 1) It was showing that what clients ask for isnt as easy in practice as they think it is. 2) He was likely just taking cutlery he found in a set, which doesn't have a bigger spoon

@Totalavulsion 7 жыл бұрын

AlmightyK yeah, that's great, but what I was really thinking was couldn't he just make a spoon, like the second spoon, only bigger? Do you know what I mean? It's tricky, isn't it?

@jamesyboii100 7 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, went straight over AlmightyK's head!

@almightyk11 7 жыл бұрын

Referencing the sketch. Gotcha. (Some others were seriously asking)

@amanko1357 7 жыл бұрын

It's British humour. The tension and anxiety of not being able to communicate properly.

@Damontable 3 жыл бұрын

This is how many design team meetings go. The frustration.

@Mumbolian 10 жыл бұрын

That's actually quite clever. I did maths at uni and I felt this way every time I spoke to a lecturer haha.

@Ron-Ayres 29 күн бұрын

I'm trying to imagine selling this sketch on paper to a BBC commissioning producer.

@jeffitii 6 жыл бұрын

This feels like how i take my architecture studios. EVERY TIME

@YogaBetter 7 жыл бұрын

That's the best ending

@Mullahgrrl 11 жыл бұрын

This is why we need some system to specify length.

@BillBodkin 5 жыл бұрын

Accurate representation of me in maths class

@rewrose2838 3 жыл бұрын

after two years, I'm curious to know if you got better at maths? (I used to suck terribly at maths too)

@PMX 2 жыл бұрын

So many actual meetings that go like that 😖

@IAMBIGLION 5 жыл бұрын

Ah the early millennium period!

@MazLad Жыл бұрын

I always read this sketch differently to the comments here. Like it was mocking cutlery sets for not having a bigger spoon for serving, meaning your serving spoons were always different to a main cutlery set and that it was pretty unnecessary if they just included them by default.

@davidfiddler3425 3 жыл бұрын

I will bring out *the comically large spoon*

@spockofdune8657 2 жыл бұрын

I NEVER saw it coming ! You got me :) LOL ... I loved this !!!

@darnell2000 19 күн бұрын

I have this same problem. I design things and sketch them out. Then I realise I needed it bigger to put in more detail, so I get a new page and draw it exactly the same! And this happens to me over and over! So funny!