THEY HAVE GOTTEN SMALLER!!!

measurable

@@daikucoffee5316 You got bigger from eating pizza, making the pizzas appear smaller.

Mate, it’s David Mitchell.

Shrinkflation!

+SirTenenbaum Absolutely nailed it IMHO.

Because he sounds quite similar anyway. He just had some slight tweaks

Sounds just like him!

I was going to say he even sounds like him.

What? That's just his voice. He doesn't sound like Dawkins. I've met Dawkins, he don't sound like that

I was thinking that myself, even though the voice isn't quite there the mannerisms, speed of speech and use of vocabulary are spot on.

that's just how david normally acts

Even dawkins would be pleased hahah

Both from Oxfordshire

@John Matrix Dawkins moved to Oxfordshire when he was eight. David Mitchell went to Abingdon boarding school in Oxfordshire as a boy. Idk what you consider to be "from" but I'd say that qualifies. They have the same accent.

Zach Hixson It is, at the end of the day, only a slight modification of David Mitchell's usual accent. What with them both being posh academic chaps from Oxford.

I'm not academic but i sound like that and I'm from Oxford. also Mitchell went to Cambridge he is just FROM Oxfordshire and we sound part Pam Aires and part posh home counties. the farmer comes out in me when I'm drunk and the Dawkins when I'm on the phone haha

Emily Gilbey He grew up in Oxford and was privately educated at an Oxford school. Many people who went to Cambridge University don't talk like this. (Myself, for example.)

codswallop321 yes my uncle went to Oxford boys then Cambridge.

Emily Gilbey Wow he must be like the uber Tory

"Do puppies have Christmas"

Tom Cruises having a wee….against his consent

Lol and they're British so like, pick a direction and you can walk to there

And yet, there is a small but loud contingent _right now_ that believes the Earth to be _flat._ People flew into conferences held in places like Denver and near Dallas, ALONG _GEODESICS,_ to attend these conferences. The Ancient Greeks (probably among others) did EXTREMELY SIMPLE testing that provided quite strong evidence as to the shape of the planet. When we look at other planets using what today are fairly basic lenses, they're clearly spheres. And yet, there walk among us 'neo-alchemists' still convinced that the best way to understand the universe is by taking whatever garbage your own brain tells you is or must be true - often based on some garbage generated in the brain of some other rando, of course - and clinging to that like grim death! It's quite impressive. It really harks back to the model that the Catholic Church used for years. Don't bother to "ask God" (i.e., do some tests and see what reality is actually like), assume you know better, effectively flip God off, and consider it a job well done that you've convinced other randos. Of course, this then lends more credence to your beliefs apparently, because after all, such a large group of people stuck in an 'idiot feedback loop' can't all be wrong, right? So, yes - "brilliantly stupid", and yet, all too real.

If there really was a sea then the question "is there definitely the sea" wouldn't even be a question!

All these comments about 'does a good Dawkins impression' feel very strange to me...

@@EternalQuestion what? cuz you're his relative or something?

Mitchell is in the business of showing all the good tricks and impressions he has got!!

@@bluesque9687 You don't understand comedy.

@@bardsamok9221 Why? I really loved it! It is very well done!

you actually think Dawkins exists? He's a character played by David Mitchell. This Dawkins delusion has got to stop.

It's because he is the same as him

@@jamesbyrne9312 no lie, said to my siblings a few years ago that Richard Dawkins must be David Mitchell's/Mark Corrigan's father

@@kiopyu78 hahahahaha

Exactly what I thought

It's noticeably different.

@AcidDome sure thing bro, can you teach me to read minds please.

@AcidDome bum with a high opinion of himself who thinks he can speak for many, go check yourself you narcissistic fuck

@@aidenhill17 yeah man. Obviously the tone and sound of the voice isn't right as he's not a vocal impressionist. But the language, cadence and annunciation is bang on.

@AcidDome pahaha English born and bred. You're a nutter mate.

being english helps a lot

If it were 25% slower and 25% more meandering

Thats just how Mitchell sounds though

Ever been up north England, that wouldn't help at all.

@@cluckendipprobably about 1% of English people speak like this^

yep!!

That's not an impression: it's his normal voice.

@DieFlabbergast No it isn’t, it’s a deliberately posh and tart augmentation of his accent

🤣

Underrated comment

@@cameronspalding9792super underrated. That could’ve been the bit

That comment was glorious.

Does Richard Dawkins exists? Have you actually SEEN Richard Dawkins?

I know he exists. Because people doubt he exists. And to doubt is to think and to think is to be. I think, therefore I AM Richard Dawkins

So would I.

The line that made me cackle was "Christ!" "No, you've already done him - comes under God."

I read this and started noticing XD

No he isn’t

He's from the same cultural milieu. No surprise he sounds similar.

No there’s definitely some put on dawkins in there

Yeah that's his normal voice, just with a different cadence

+Patrick Bateman The Christian Bale Delusion

Yes it does, at least long enough to get an extra couple of tv channel changes....warming them up slightly works too.

@@contessa.adella He means the batteries, not the TV. I wont say how I know.

I take the batteries out, and swap them round. 100% works

Why is that???.

The Rolling the Batteries Around in the Remote Control Delusion

It's the Christain La La Lander Delusion vs The Liberal La La Lander Delusion, with The Islamist and The Hindu Delusion taking over vast swathes of the UK as the two mental-case bunch of Western La La Landers show each other up for being fake, pretentious nutjobs on both sides... Bunch of Nazti twats, the lot of 'em.. Libs cause the most problems though... 'Liberal Immigration' mass-imported millions of religious authoritarians that bred like rats.

@@PrivateSi what

@@PrivateSi what? (2)

I'm looking for a bit they did, it's about a chololate maker and he wants a room at an inn/hotel.. ..wish I could remember what it's called.

It wasn't. There was video, too. Didn't it come through for you? Shame, that contributed a lot to the humor.

@@jamesmcinnis208 please learn to read, james.

@@MrLego3160 Ah, the confident (and snide!) miscorrection.

@@jamesmcinnis208 i see you still haven't learnt to read.

@@MrLego3160 And I see your policy is to insist rather than reexamine.

i think thats the joke

@@globalincident694 ??

Vasco Quaresma - That's just David Mitchell's normal accent. It's the mannerisms and way of speaking that he does so well.

I routinely spend nights in graveyards photographing stars. While the camera is doing its stuff I'm usually on my back looking at the sky with binoculars. Graveyards tend to be isolated where I live, never illuminated and quiet which makes them useful to me. Cant say any of the residents have complained. No strange images from the camera etc.

there is a reason such shows don't exist: showing you two hours of "nothing's happening" and "well, this was a complete waste of time" would be boring. like, very, very boring.

I have seen Dawkins go around debunking astrology, Tarot readings, psychics, healing crystals, etc.

RKBock That basically is the ghost hunting shows out there. It's an hour of people overreacting with dramatic editing but ending up with nothing much to show for it all. I used to find it entertaining because of that.

rottworks yeah... you didn't get what i meant... (no offense) the shows don't show you "nothing". they show you this overreaction and "supernatural things". yes, it is pointless and bull, but it is entertaining for some people. what i mean is, a show where they would go into a "haunted house" and simply not react to anything scientifically explainable, or in other words: not react to anything.

No no he definetly watched a few RD clips and he copied some of the mannerisms, you are right in he doesnt actually imitate the voice but he does speaks as RD would in his own normal voice, using his pitch highs and lows whilst speaking normally, also some good mannerism copying seem to give of the illusion that the voices are the same.

You're totally correct. He sounds like this in everything I've ever seen with him in.

yes, and of course they both already have pretty much the same accent

Yeh exactly, upper middle class English people all sound quite similar, he's just talking as he normally does. Wee bit bemused by the comments myself

@@dave8323 If you don't see the - admittedly rather subtle - changes Mitchell makes to his natural accent, that's not a reason to be disrespectful to others. The way he stresses the word "civilisation", for example, at 1:21(-ish) is clearly Dawkins and distinctly not Mitchell.

I think they should do a short amazon series. He has to stay overnight in haunted places alone. Only with mic and hidden cameras.

Already been done by 4 teens and a talking dog.

@@Level1Hera funnier with a know it all professor.

"actually"

Depends. Do you have any cheddar?

+WanderingRandomer There's not much call for that around here.

Benjamino If a sketch doesn't have a laugh track, it is generally better than one that does.

"Well I think they have." Such a great show.

Why did they drop it just for this one sketch?

Katzen33 - What if they didn’t and everyone in the audience just didn’t find it funny?

Katzen33 I think it’s because it’s a deleted sketch

There is one

***** ..What? Do you not understand? It's quite simple.

***** A little superfluous yeah, but you have to admit that humour like this is often taken the wrong way. Putting a little bit of emphasis in the comment section on the nonsense and irony of jokes like this might, just might help someone appreciate it in a different light.. Unnecessary yes, but unfortunately the risque comedy we love in this country can be misconstrued.

As a Muslim yes it is a funny sketch

You, Amadeus, are god damn awesome.

Bainbow because he didn't want to cut off someone's head for saying something about his fairytale? Wow, looks like I must be a saint!

Your "but" is redundant: you did "comment on how good David’s Dawkins was".

@@nemo6686 No, I actually didn't 🙁 I just pointed out that others have 🤨

@@AColonDashSix Actually, you did; there's even a name for the rhetorical trick of mentioning something by claiming you're not mentioning it - it's called 'apophasis'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis

@@nemo6686 That doesn't actually apply since I never denied brining up the subject or denied my intention. It would be if I were to say "I wasn't going to comment at all but ... " However, if I deny doing something specific, you would have to point out that specific statement, a statement I didn't make.

@@AColonDashSix You commented on how good David's Dawkins was. There's not much else I can do to make it clearer. Your "that doesn't actually apply since..." is utter nonsense. The real mystery is why you bother to argue something so plain and of so little consequence.

Stefan B. Mr. Rodin, gypsum is not for sniffing.

Izolda G Sure it is, but it's an acquired taste.

Rolling ‘em scratches off corrosion and improves contact resistance between battery and terminal. It really does work, some of the time.

not likely that Dawkins believes in batteries either

It's necessary to speak analogically, but atheists clearly don't take their own beliefs seriously. If it's all just random fluctuations of matter, just randomness, none of it matters and there's nothing to ground normative statements on. It also doesn't make sense that Dawkins treats religion as this random mind virus when it is clearly adaptive behavior. He could even get around his personal problems with it by treating it as a group level metaphor that centers the group, but he doesn't even consider this for some reason.

@@TheThreatenedSwan And we should be courteous to each other and analyze rationally instead of entrenching into our tribes. I apologize for mocking the infinite turtles analogy. (I am aware this is a youtube comment section and we are not supposed to be civilized or admit error, but I am genuinely reflecting that I shouldn't have been laughing at them)

@@anonanon6764 I'm thinking that's just about infinite regression. The world on a turtle thing was popularized by Guns, Germs and Steel

@@TheThreatenedSwan I guess the opinion behind my original mockery was that fundamental truths about the world require tremendous effort, standing on the shoulders of giants to observe, hypothesize, research the reality of the world around us. Not playing word games and making abstract logical theories while talking about ancient literature.

"It's necessary to speak analogically, but atheists clearly don't take their own beliefs seriously." What beliefs? Atheism has no inherent beliefs.@@TheThreatenedSwan

But is Basingstoke real? It doesn’t sound real

I thought that reference might have been a bit Nietzsche for most people :P

+Aethelwyrn Black *Badumtish*

Nazor no they're the same person mate. I mean have you ever seen them both together? I certainly have not! I think the reason they look different when acting out his different personas is a visual illusion.

@@eddienerphy5788 So Richard Dawkins is a baddy?

But how else are you supposed to know when to laugh?

JayFe0 im not American so its not an issue

+slkgfj I don't know because it's not from "Look" or "Situation", at least not any that aired.

slkgfj Thought the exact same thing, never seen this before!

if you can keep yer shit together that's science for you!

Trump says "Jesus, what a loser." He will regret his words and his fake show of faith very soon, Jesus is back messiahsword.weebly.com All things that can be known are made manifest in the Book that will never decay (being digital) “The Nature of Energy” (Barnes & Noble, 2020) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nature-of-energy-patrick-boardman/1136605760?ean=2940163956876 Quantum Theory states: [m=E/c² where E=∞=God] (Note: Outside variables such as the Dirac Antimatter equation would consider this equivalency first in the order of operations. Matter is finite with infinite potential to balance out to zero in the particle-antiparticle annihilation process.) Energy equals infinity equals God, the matrix of all matter and the Creator of all units of consciousness.

he's obviously never heard of the Beatles

Can confirm. I rubbed it on my jeans then put them back in again. A week later it started leaking. But it works!

xJLM if your jeans are leaking, perhaps try an adult diaper

Well played. But I will eat your popplers.

He's just doing an "impression" of himself. David Mitchell talks like that normally!

Someone should turn up at a Dawkins signing with a mock-up of this.

marshmallowbudgie I mean my theory is that there’s no such thing as “the sea”, just a bunch of separate small bits of water in roughly the same area.