In a series for the BBC News website, Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in precisely five minutes. In this video, Matt talks to David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
The interviewer really was hopeless. Couldn't they have got someone with a bit of spark who'd read up on the people he was about to talk to? Talk about wet lettuce!
Speaking as someone who is from Cambridge but due to my s'upidi'y and laziness, went to a former poly somewhere else (not Coventry,) I can provide expert witness evidence that David Mitchell is correct. But then David Mitchell is so often correct, so we aren't surprised.
I'd say not, considering he went to Cambridge and one of the most famous schools in Britain. His insouciance likely stems from his familiarity with them from around the TV and radio scene, with the timekeeping issue being a hallmark of the interview format.
Interviewer is backed into the corner by an absolutely terrible format (this is why multi-hour long podcast interviews are so popular now, and things like cable news are turning to fossils), but these two easily made the video quite an entertaining watch.
