Just the way he's sat with that stare kills me

This is incredible if you think about it. They managed to identify, recreate and expose an archetype for something we didn't even know we had. To this day, I don't know what exactly it is that makes him look so perfectly like a magician. I didn't even know there was such a thing as 'looking like a magician' before this.

The hard cut to Magnificent Michael with the turtleneck and stare is absolute comedy gold. 😂

I have been a magician for years and I think that this is not only hilarious but painfully accurate.

This is genius writing

Legit one of the best lead-ups/payoffs in comedy television

I could watch this clip 100 times in a row and laugh every time it first shows Michael

He DOES look like a magician !

The audience bursting with laughter right after his shot makes it more funny

It makes me glad this show never tried to do the whole "Will they won't they" thing with Roy and Jen

Me before seeing him: “what! How can someone look like a magician? That’s stupid!” After seeing him: “…holy shit! He actually does.”

This show’s writing and execution. Utterly unmatched.

Jen's facial expressions are incredible.

I love that almost all of their love interests are also weirdos :D " A fire at Sea Parks ?!"

I wonder how the auditions for the actor went...

0:46 When he gives you that look.

I've been laughing at that first stare of mike for like the last 6 years, thanks IT crowd

Michael the magnificent XD

I love how he waved his hands around those salt and pepper shakers, he really does act like a magician. Oh why did this show ever got canceled whilst other boring horror still airs on tv.

Michael the Magnificent!

Very expressive hands.

This is exactly the sort of observation that would ruin a relationship for me :)

when I die, it'll probably be for laughing too much at this clip

A genius wrote this show,

This is a bit straight out of Seinfeld. Absolutely hilarious.

God I miss IT. You don't see this kind of writing anymore

This is one of the best scenes ever lol

I’m dying here. Can’t stop laughing

I wonder at what point the guys got to see the actor playing the “magician” and if they laughed as much as I did

They had the task of making someone look like a magician for a punchline The best part is, they made someone look like a magician, and it worked for the punchline.

Along with Psychoville's Tina Turner scene, this is one of the funniest scenes in comedy.

The best line in this scene: "Whut?"

@miket it didn't get cancelled the writer decided to end because shows get stale after a while. As the saying goes "quit while you're ahead" (while its still funny)

I love the comedy timing in UT Crowd. They let Jenny walked out of the room, fully, and then walked back with "what?". They didn't rush it immediately with "what?". I remember the horrible US pilot of IT Crowd - how did they rush all timings there 😢

This scene made me have to pause and fall to the floor.

This is still so good.

the hand movements at 0:58 make me laugh so fucking much

The funny thing is that the guy who looks like a Magician is in the Dungeons and Dragons movie 😂

once for ever I will observe every guy which I will go out with.

I explained this scene to my mom and she was really confused. How does one look like a magician? Me: oh, the actor was in the DND movie we watched last week. Her: who did he play? Me: one of the two rich guys. Her: the tall one? Me: yeah. Her: oh my god. He looks like a magician.

oh man! the moment i saw his face, staring just like a magician hahaha i lost it

yah cool episode. with the hooligans and michael

I came to verify if he's the one in Dungeons and Dragons ...I don't know why I even doubted myself

Michael the magnificent! lol

Hahah omg man, I can't stop laughing!

Michael looks more like Jafar

He's in Black Mirror

He dosen't just look like *a* magician, he looks like *that* magician 🙂

I can imagine him as keegan michael key 😆

Omg these salt and pepper shakers

0:48 , hahahaha

It's the same actor from the end of that Black Mirror episode in which hackers make that kid rob a bank and stuff. He has to fight this guy in a forest at the end.

Jen's turn off face at the end is pirceless

How young were they? In the pictures?

0:48

For the main? I’ll have the rabbit

lol

Oh my god, this guy is the same man who played the pedophile that Kenny met in the woods in that Black Mirror episode

Katherine Parkinson got the role of Jen Barber because she looked a little bit like a man

Absolutely fantastic. It's a shame the woke ars&holes have cancelled Graham Linehan (writer of this and Father Ted) for, shock horror, saying women are women, and in general British (Irish! :)) TV comedy now sucks beyond belief. Maybe the BBC or Channel 4 should show they aren't pathetic woke tw@ts by showing something he makes again? You know, might be a tiny point in the "don't cancel the license fee / sell of C4 as they are beyond help" column?

This show's writers were so good at giving Roy and Jen dating storylines where they'd latch onto one little niggle about their partner and not be able to let it go 😂 Philip being/not being gay Peter File Fire at sea parks Michael the magnificent The nerd Jen dates who is temporarily in a band Roy's date that would always cry and get mascara all down her face (it was like breaking up with the joker! 😂) it would always build and build so well and get way out of hand 😂