Only Mitchell and Webb could get such a big laugh from a line like "the world would have been a different place if we'd managed to keep even some of the children alive".

This is genuinely horrifying from the vagueness of 'the even't and 'them', to the color pallete, I just love it and it needs to be a serious movie.

I love Sarah Hadland's performance as Sheila in these, it's impressive how she manages to be almost _constantly_ smiling while still communicating just pure shell-shocked terror and confusion with her eyes and body language.

Watching Mitchell and Webb reminds me of my pre-Event life... I took it all for granted. The Event is good, it has humbled me. I will never see the outside world again

When you watch them in order you appreciate how dark they get at the end vs the beginning. Amazing sketch writing.

i love the lore buildup in this one

The ending is actually really touching 😭😭😭

My God. The idea that the only two remaining Shakespeare works are Pericles and Cymbelline is easily one of the most underrated lines Mr Mitchell has ever come up with. It makes me laugh every time.

"And that's the alarming alarm, do not be alarmed!" I also love the idea that the apocalypse just sort of ends without reason.

Watching them back to back, you notice that the host becomes filthier and his suit becomes increasingly damaged. He also goes through a small character arc of - Being in control - Losing control - Relying devotedly on the Regulations _(Blessed Be The Regulations)_ and the rules of the gameshow - Trying desperately to maintain his contestants' morale - Having a breakdown when Shiela is killed over his joke - Finally losing hope once They all die

The addition of laughing tracks actually made all the darker moments even more disturbing damn i rly love mitchell and webb

I think these guys are the last humans left because "They" enjoy watching this show, so they give them just enough supplies to survive even though they've killed and/or assimilated everyone else

At 10:35, “it is the mercy” were the final written words of Donald Crowhurst, an English sailor who went mad from isolation during a competition to sail around the world without stopping

Well this has aged alarmingly well

I'm grateful somebody finally put these all together... thx

I love how it this event whatever it was has seemingly erased people's memories of the majority of human achievement in the span of maybe 2 years implying that this effect was something that was an inherent part of the event or that it was some kind of side effect. Honestly this entire premise could be turned into a pretty kick ass show or film especially if the dark comedy aspect is retained

17:34 Mock the Event, I also would have liked to have seen Never Mind The Event and Would I Lie About the Event To You, such a shame that everyone involved those shows became one of them, they used to be us... they...used to be us...

16:28 - "And that's the alarming alarm. Don't be alarmed" My favourite bit

"This is Peter, whom you may remember, and Sheila, whom you are also permitted to remember."

They keep us alive for their sport

I love how they ended this in a serious and sad way.

Mitchell And Webb is probably the best sketch show ever. They just went for stuff so big and conceptual that no one else would even attempt.

If it wasn't for the laugh track, this would be a bonde-fide dystopian horror thriller.

I’m just gonna pretend I have no idea why this was uploaded just last week

When I saw this originally in low definition I thought the clock was a talisman with a giant eye on it ("we don't know but they're everywhere")

“Take whatever injections are recommended in your sector” this is savory

Pre event Peter used to host a game show called Numberwang

16:34 “Have a look at this clip” “I... can’t”

This hits way different post-2020

Wow. This is more interesting, atmospheric and horryfying than all of the Hollywood horrors these days

In the Americas , there was a program called "The Game Show". Unfortunately: no one received any food parcels or recommended injections and no one remained indoors after the event. We are all one of them now.

I watched it in 2021 and 2022. Every year it becomes more and more real.

This is by far the most horrific and hilarious sketch I've ever seen in my life. It's pure dark comedy at it's finest, making a mockery of both fiction and real-life. Every sketch is sad and tragic or scary and ominous and I can't stop laughing.

geez the ending is so sad

'This Morning'

The highest-quality version on KZfaq, thanks for uploading.

2008: lol what a weird and outlandish sketch! 2020-2022: *blessed be the regulations!*

Oh the days after the first event, they seem so blissful now.

Top move by Peter to get the food.

This aged like a fine wine

In this new modern age, I really relate to Maltesers

There's only one piece of pre-event footage because they've used all the tapes to make streamers.

I love the poignant ending. The last Sherlock Holmes sketch from the show ends on a devastatingly sad note, i love this show so much.

Love the war paint on Shelia's head,. A Tesco is probably her communal fortress to ward off "them".

I love all the little touches, like the Host wearing an incredibly 80s suit - probably because it was in storage for years and survived The Event, Sheila wearing the clothes of a supermarket worker, probably what she was doing that when it happened. The fact it’s being filmed on old style cameras and has transmission problems, because the power grid is unstable, probably being run by just a few people. The clips and photos they show are all from film, probably because it was stored safely and not destroyed by any potential radiation and EMP from the Event. Most people are blinded by the event, but Peter was blinded by raiders like some apocalyptic Mad Max situation. The conveyor belt scene has all the people going past in quasi-fascist military uniforms that suggests there’s some rudimentary form of government, probably a dictatorship ruling by control of food. Everyone seems to have lost the concept of time because they’re not really sure how long they’ve been in there, or even what a month is. I think whatever happened involved nuclear and radiation, and what’s left of humanity lives underground. Nearly everybody is infertile due to irradiation, and there’s no children so the population remaining is slowly dying.

Watching this in 2022 is very topical I have to say. All the 'stay indoors' stuff really hits home 🤣

This really looks like it could be taking place inside a Fallout vault. With the whole event thing being the nukes, the soldiers being vault tec employees and the game show being an experiment.

I remember watching these during the first wave of Covid and it felt genuinely terrifying

"...face zips on your safety bag." 😅😬

"I think he can go outside now" Damn

DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN, best bit 5:53

I don't know about you, but I always imagine the Quiz Broadcast taking place in the same universe as Threads.

I enjoyed watching this late at night. Along with a lot of other gems on channel 4 in the 2000s. TV late at night was brilliant.

Thanks for the upload, man! Great timing

Life imitating art.

I like how it's been roughly 2 years and they know practically nothing of the world they lived in for around 30 years before the.... Well you know.

Thank you for this. In HD no less!

Man, there's a lot of subtle jokes in here. I hadn't caught the "Boeing Boeing" bit in the Shakespeare question before. If you enjoy this story about culture disintegrating in the wake of technological breakdown and civil disorder, you might enjoy the classic sci-fi novel _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter Miller. A friend of mind told me several years ago that full strength sci-fi is one of the few ways you can get weird enough to match how weird the world is going to get over the next few decades and my God, he's dead on so far.

If I was rich I’d be throwing money at them to make a movie of this. This is great.

It's so dire and accurate it hurts my soul

REMAIN INDOORS

Told my grandma I was visiting Portland last fall and she watches so much cable news I think this is what she imagined.

Good, but unrealistic. Lee fucking Mack would still be on there.

This is one of the best sketches ever made

This is a masterpiece. A work of horrifyingly hilarious genius.

Blessed be the regulations [ ]

I came here expecting a slew of covid reference comments that mitchell and webb would probably have savagely satirised, and I was not disappointed

This is equal parts hilarious and terrifying

God I love the existential just, sadness in that last one. Even describing what happened to "them". Course it's not a good sign if even "they" couldn't last. "They used to be us. And they all just died."

7:49 “And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”

This is truly brilliant.

Ah, a fine documentary on how things are in the great indoors. Blessed be the regulations.

See this? This is what I need the Amazon Fallout show to be.

Absolutely genius. This was probably much more enjoyable to watch a few years ago. Now it's still hilarious but at the same time hella disturbing and sinister. Still brilliant tho. "Praise the regulations!".

Hands down my favorite running bit across all the series.

This isn't just comedy. It's art.

I miss the days when we were ordered to remain indoors.

One of my favorite sketch, thy for the HD!

So post event they couldn’t remember; how to grow food, what water is, what books or songs were, what traffic cones are but could remember how to film and broadcast a tv quiz show. *should be read in Mitchell’s ultra logical, pedantic voice

I actually cried at the end

Seriously, this is awesome. Even aside from the comedy, this is super awesome

this feels like an episode of Black Mirror

I really want to know if there was a reason Mitchell and Webb chose BS490 Fault Rectified specifically, or it it was a random number. BS 490 is related to lifts (elevators) and conveyor belting materials. Rather stupidly the information for that British Standard needs to be purchased. EDIT: I only wonder because it seems like a little joke Mitchell might have put in but I don't get it. It was also very brief just before you see him struggling with the blind Webb character over the box

Of all of the mitchell and webb sketches, this is the one that I most prefer to watch while sober

They keep us alive for their sport. Do Not Think About The Event!

Oh fuck, I think the UK government watched this back in 2019.

This pretty much sums up my lockdown experience

Well..I guess we now know The Event

The ever expanding bunker was really based a lot on this.

This is actually brilliant

Watching this hits differently in 2022

Came here for advice in 2021.

I think the best way to guarantee survival post event is to become a conveyor belt repair technician, and maybe a podiatrist.

Wow .seeing this about the event in 2022 is fxcking thought provoking to say the least 🐜

Glad for the high quality video. A shame about the audio being off...

"Sheila, any pre-Event knowledge you wish you'd absorbed?" "Well, I think if I'd taken in more survival tips for children, that would have been helpful..." Damn that is dark... my goodness.... taken too quickly by the follow-up and concluding to let that one fully sink in.

"Sheila's fine, Peter. Sheila's safe."

Who else is just watching this for the test cards?

When you think about it this is essentially the same ending as Peep Show

This is very appropriate