BEST OF DAVID MITCHELL on QI! He's Always Making Stephen Fry Laugh! 

Technically it's a simile.

@@9AJW4 it might be but I feel like similes are usually shorter (ex. sly as a fox, hot as a flame). But I don't know too much about English rhetorical devices, so I could be completely wrong.

@@trickytreyperfected1482 Similes require comparative language e.g “like or as”, whereas metaphors directly compare two things without using these words. You are right in that generally, extended comparisons are done through the use of metaphors, as opposed to similes, however that is not how they are defined.

I like it because it’s so chewed on. It took a thing that made vague sense and then compared it to a nonsense version of it only valid in a thought experiment so it’s surprising and thereaftwr funny

@@trickytreyperfected1482 You might 'feel like that'; but you're wrong. Sorry.

I'd worry about David having that kind of power

@Teamgeist And Vicky Coren too, come on. Those two are most perfect pairing I have seen in my 41 years. Making one immortal to watch the other fade and die would be the direst cruelty.

Bob Mortimer also

@@Dysjoint Damn, if anyone could get them both in "What we do in the shadows" that'd be amazing! Angry David Mitchell, being pissed off at immortality. And Bob Mortimer showing party tricks he showed to Jesus and the apostles 2000 years ago

I'd be torn about this decision, as David Mitchell is also the one who said how awful it would be if heaven existed purely for atheists to prove them that they were wrong. It would be entertaining for him to then experience that first-hand.

Both well-earned, too, although humorously the first might come about because of how posh David is, something that is often joked about at his expense.

Seen that.That second teachers pet is the first time I’ve seen David so pleased and bashful

@@lostalone9320 below average for the U.K. and he’s constantly roasted for it when he appears with other male comedians, many of which are quite tall

That was the joke. It went over everybody's heads it seemed.

Yeah he was clearly doing a self deprecating joke but no one noticed

Rob is very good at self-deprecating humour. Making himself look somewhat like a berk for lulz is not uncommon.

Horizontally-striped Johnny Vegas paying very close attention too

Hello.

Oh so like Norway then.

Of course the number is larger than ten, but it is a running gag with my life that we comment how we always see the same 7 brits in our favorite shows.

David Mitchell is a professional panelist. 🙂

Eh, it's the same with Japanese TV. Makes it kind of annoying because unless you absolutely love the person who's in everything, you get very tired of them very quickly. For me, that's Noel Fielding. It also leads to people getting "disposed of" in the entertainment industry because they get wrung of all their material and then dropped as soon as there's a consistent tiredness in audience reaction. So we get denied a fuller career of some talent who could grow into something greater. But I guess that's entertainment.

Do they though?

I'm pretty sure Stephen is (or was) genuinely attracted to David

What a excellent idea

@@chamuchamupalchamperry6686 as a straight male, who isn’t?

@Simon Foxwell how can you not like fry?

@Simon Foxwell maybe there’s historical inaccuracies but there’s no doubt in my mind that fry is a very intelligent guy

Even without a gray tie.

This is from another quiz Would I lie to you.

Take note

"names"

@@neuvocastezero1838 Still correct if we use "words".

@@mawe9878 -seconded- Thirded! 👍

I think this is one quote he actually got from his time on peep show. British London Publishing.

Antinomy of Pure Reason; ruthless, wanted to talk to David about that 🥲 and how much the Jewish community probably once loved Germany, in a safe and British environment, I need HRH the Queen and 12 ninja Rabbi to save me before Ireland turns mega perditious burning bush, year eight by Joseph, famine time 😭 Elijah sent me 🫒 Talk with John 🐑

hello how are you feeling

I agree, his diction, his intelligence, his wit and speed and his inability to instantly buy into claims made by others are part of what I find it fascinating.

Is he, maybe, the worlds most charming racist ?

He is utterly fantastic. There's never a panel show episode he's been on that hasn't been extremely entertaining at one point, usually when he's become annoyed at some trivial detail or another (or at Lee Mack's antics) and begun to rant.

Exactly the reason I'm back watching these when I have so far seen them already

Have you seen his soapbox series? Not only does it make you HOWL with laughter, it makes you learn and think.

Are you seriously telling me that if you were pinned in a chair with your eyes held open like something from Clockwork Orange having to watch nothing but David Mitchell clips until the end of time with absolutely no chance of escape that's something you'd be OK with? I think what you really mean is I quite liked those amusing compilations and I'd rather like to see some more please but not so many that I'd become too jaded because I'd like to get some sleep later tonight. Sorry. I went on a bit of a rant there. Can't think where that came from.

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Some people are just simple. 😉

@@zhv3062 My comment was meant to be a "Mitchellian rant". Not a serious comment. I wasn't getting at the guy, but trying to be funny. That's the trouble with typed remarks. No-one hears it like you hear it in your head when typing it. We need a new level of emoji for that. Read it again with David's accent and level of pedantic annoyance and maybe it will work better. :)

The was right there in David's grin more so than his 1st teachers' pet

well said sir ! initially i thought ... yes that would be a dinner party worth attending ...then my brain kicked in and i dont fancy hiding in the bathroom all night trying to google a smart reply

@@EvilSean62 lol

Customer service is doing just enough to make the customer think you care about anything but their money and them coming back again. I always did better at customer service by being helpful in whatever mood I happened to be in and I always smiled at customers who called me grumpy or miserable before saying something along the lines of "are you surprised?" The smarter ones got the joke and normally came back for the banter.

me too. Proud of it. I've always rankled at the idea that we (here in NZ) should be nicer to people who don't truly care about us, are just passing through, and treat us like a theme park, all so someone we don't even know can collect beer money in exchange for our peace and space to breathe.

Eli I'm from NZ too and I've worked Retail for 9 years and probably customer service for another 5 years. 99% of time I gave good customer service but you get some ashole customers. I can understand if in the UK that they don't give good customer service because the wages are so low and they look repressed. In fact most of the shop owners don't care about customer service and only worry about theift to the point that you walk in the door and all they do have staff follow you around, it's realky annoying. I found that when I lived in London recently for a year 3 / 4 years ago..

Mitchell's Razor

I read that as self-deprication, actually. Like the comic suffix "asking for a friend" is understood to mean oneself. I'm autistic so there's the possibility I misread that, but Rob does have a peppering of slightly dark inclusions in his comedy, that makes you wonder if he's alright once the laughter stops.

i was surprised that nobody else on the panel seemed to catch on to that

Because although it's a decent joke, it's not one which can really be built upon without essentially just saying "are you talking about yourself Rob?". Notice that Johnny Vegas also made that very same joke "I beg to differ" to little effect. The difference between people who are a bit funny and great comedians and panelists, is that the latter will pass up on the great majority of the jokes they come up with, whereas the former will just blurt them all out and hope that one sticks.

David caught it. He's wearing finer vertical stripes as well.

It wasn't subtle, somehow David missed it

Oh, he's a scientist. He's already had his research ripped to shreds in other papers.

@@caitthecat Vertical or horizontal shreds?

@@Moamanly Underrated comment

@@Moamanly xD

It's just as well scientists hardly ever claim to have discovered or proven anything. They contribute research, then others de-contextualise it, generalise it, popularize it. Think of the shxt storm they'd be letting themselves in for if they did all that themselves 🙂

I think comedians might be a lot more trustworthy than some other people. They usually don't have an agenda like politicians :p

David has influenced my thoughts on taxation (based off of his rant on tax avoidance on the Last Leg) and made me comfortable with the part of me that's annoyingly logical. I absolutely adore the man.

@@manthanf1 I like how Stephen put it, when he said " welcome to the logically ruthless world of David Mitchell".

George Carlin was another comedian who was hilarious but also made you think.

Comedians are the modern philosophers.

Sean lock was brilliant in the early days on it

Victoria Coren Mitchell is amazing too. And incredibly smart

@@jasoncorr4619 He's funny, yes, but I feel he's more Bill Burr with manners than a whip-smart icon of sophistication like Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, or Stephen Fry.

It's always a good episode for me when one of them is on the panel.

Sandy knew stuff where even Stephen said “how did you know that?”. She is the prefect replacement.

He'll either out-smart each task, or wear down Davies into giving him top points.

@@10thdoctor15 oh the pain. I hope it really does happen. Though that's also taking a huge risk to be the Taskmaster's unofficial victim that gets no points all the time just because whatever. Those 2 have had small clashes when they appeared in panel shows as well there must be tension building up.

Lee Mack said in Taskmaster broadcast that David would have lawiers bring in over tasks so.... but i hope we'll see it one day 😂

I’m so excited for Victoria and Alan, they’re both brilliant

Victoria on taskmaster? How long do we have to wait?

yes me too. It's simply true, what he says, a left turn towards how things really are vs straight ahead to conformity.

I'm pretty sure the way we spell laughs came from somewhere up Jimmy Carr's bloodline.

You sir, need to hop platforms to teach redditors how to write sarcastically, effectively.

@Ross Rossiter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@georgethakur Funny you mention that, I learned recently that "laugh" was originally an onomatopoeia!

@@Jesse__H what? people go 'laugh, laugh, laugh'? True, it's more real than 'ha, ha, ha' but .. really?

In the context of the joke he was talking about the names of towns

Hello, how are you feeling this morning

I use something similar if I want a coffee but there's only Starbucks available. I refuse to join in their stupid writing names on cups and tell them "I'm ordering coffee, not joining a glee club".

@@decodolly1535 Yeah, I don't substitute Starbucks for real coffee either, except as a last resort, and this is one of the two reasons why, the other being that I'm not a fan of drinking battery acid.

Yes, but we all have different 'best moments' and these were mild, and charming, on the whole. Nobody usually puts the last 'teachers pet' moments in best of DM' so it's a breath of fresh air .

Hello, how are you feeling

Yup. 🤣 Disappointed that it seemed to go over the head of even the audience members.

@@abhay7857 While he's wearing vertical stripes, of course.

He didn't look particularly short. Guess the stripes worked.

ah, I thought he might be having a joke at David's expense, but you're right, the look says it all.

@@bellerophonchallen8861 MItchell is taller than Brydon.

British humour 😭 lol

Hello, how are you feeling

He's a bit like Sir Bernard Woolley.

Don't we all

God how that one applies

More correctly "I want back the time.." A rare inexactitude from the Mitchell.

@@tim40gabby25 no no no Andrew, it's much better the way he did it. 'That back' is like a smack around both chops, don't you see? It works.

@@elinannestad5320 I see that works too :)

I've lost count of how many times I've watched that episode, one of my all time favourites!!

Hello, how are you feeling this morning

no, no, no. His 'friend' is obviously the one he's talking about!

If you look around, all stripes on this warderobe are vertical. Or cross. Just in case.

I noticed that. Maybe they ignored him on purpose

...I'm pretty sure they all got that

I was thinking the same thing! Except it’s Bryson, not Brydon. I was also thinking: “Aww look at these two! Looks like they don’t know yet that they go on to become great friends and become part of one of the funniest TV shows of all time.”

Yes. The brief series Was It Something I Said had David as a host and although the show format wasn't brilliant, David was a good host and he's a great fit for QI.

You are kidding. Sandi and Stehpen are at least honest, David would lie through his back end to get his way. :))

@@kaizokuAUTO He's great on Have I Got News For You too.

He is great on The Unbelievable Truth.

I'm not sure David is a born host. He's much more in his stride when he can observe and react.

Could also be James Harkin. Both he and Andrew are lightning fast.

And they're both from Cambridge University. David Mitchell even got rejected by Oxford. Hah!

Or david, a comedian, was finding humor in something to make others laugh. I can write up a proof for the laughter part if you’d like. It’ll just be a video of me in a dark room chuckling.

The show also didn't get to the essential point: Whitehead and Russell's attempt to prove mathematics was complete and consistent failed. In 1929 Godel used their methods to show that the Principia must be either be incomplete or inconsistent. A year later Godel proved the general case: any formal system cannot prove it's own consistency (and therefore is also incomplete). Russell's work was proven to be a pipe dream.

@@glenturner9857 I think QI gets things like this wrong for a reason

If I was hittin Vicky I'd be mellow too. Fell in love with her on the episode Jargon from J series.

Lekoman -her real name was Helen Porter Mitchell

Hello, how are you feeling this morning

Sure. That’s why they all laughed. I suppose nobody got Brydon’s vertical stripe/height comment either?

I like Dara but his “tick” of saying “urgh” after every sentence is something I can’t get over noticing.

Well said- while comedians normally only get ranked on their 'goals' of direct laughs, people like Dara also need a lot more respect for their record of 'assists' too.

Hello, how are you feeling this morning

Hello, how are you feeling this morning

Or get on his team!

Another of QI researchers' errors. Good catch.

Many did by choosing the wrong parents, sleeping through school, or just being slovenly proles, but that should be enough punishment.

@@vangroover1903 how In thr hell does someone choose their parents?

@@juanferrer5924 That's the joke, man.

1985, to be precise.

Good point, you get a point for that!😄👍

It’s use’s

@@binilgn5941 No it's not. "Uses" is correct. More than one use.