Yeah its really odd when you are recording it too, and they make you do the same thing over and over. It feels progressively less natural to "just walk over here and look that way" and "could you say that again". I did two days filming for a 20 min segment on a programme. The interviewer recorded his questions totally separately to my answers too, all in one go. When I was on Northwest tonight once they even cut my answer so it said something completely different to what I said too.
@@kylegreene1356 are you 12? Who the fuck uses gay like that anymore hahaha why don't you hit puberty and catch up with the world dumbass instead of sounding like you're complaining about getting detention
Yes it is. It is remarkable that you have managed to deduce that. Next on your journey of understanding the universe you might discover that snow is cold and that bears do shit in the woods.
@@johndoe9450 Making everyone else as miserable as you will not alleviate your own misery. Your life will still suck after you've finished typing your truckload of bullshit, so just put the keyboard down and piss off.
@@bubbacalling He is. Their point was not to make some astounding observation, so his comment has no purpose other than to shit on others for mentioning it. As if it's a crime to point out something just because it's obvious. They're enjoying content. People like him can fuck right off. Stop supporting him.
@@Lucifronz You are not better, replying to an 10 month old comment and getting all pissy at a joke about something being obvious that doesn't have even a fraction of the abrasiveness of your reply, you need to do some of that pissing off yourself
It takes some practice. Because of my job, I used to meet a lot of famous people often, and my favorite thing was pretending I didn't know any of them. I got really good at it, and kept the charade up, even did it when I was meeting someone for a second or third time. "Excuse me, I'm awful with names, could you tell me yours again?".
“You’re still here. You’re all still here” is exactly what I’m thinking when guests have outstayed their welcome and are cracking open yet another bottle of Prosecco at 11.30pm
Or..."Out here alone in the scorching aussie heat, Gold Hunter Narelle's sprained ankle could be a death sentence..." Well the cameraman is obviously ok, and the sound guy, and...
@@schvanger could hair growth hurt a person? Could it grow so much the weight of hair would pin them down long enough for them to starve? Specifically this person?
My favorite part of every reality TV show is the fake road trip. I like to imagine them dropping off the camera crew before driving 2 miles back down the highway for the shot.
To be fair, I expect they have a seperate car from the camera crew, so they can set up a shot without the "talent" car having to do double duty. You see it a lot in Top Gear, where the shots are often filmed from a seperate car that's also moving down the same road. I do like that mental image tho =D
My friend's were on TV on Changing Rooms and they got really pissed off at how they were asked to look suprised at things that they weren't suprised about.
The sad truth is that theyll also make you do stuff thatll make you look bad. And the internet will shit on you for it. Like, a Dutch home improvement show gave a family a kitchen makeover, and the woman claimed she hated it because she didnt like the light switches and demanded it done over. The clip went viral ofc. No sensible person would do that in front of a camera. If she really didnt like them she couldve to ahardware store after the crew leaves and switch them herself.
If I was ever on a show like this I would fuck with the continuity in subtle ways like changing my collar between shots, messing up my hair, moving pictures around on the walls, etc. My mum upon watching the show weeks later would be like "That little bastard is at the mischief with that nice TV crew!"
Smoking cigarettes is a great way to mess with continuity. I have family members who worked on reality TV and one of them told me, they got really frustrated by this guy who basically chain smoked the entire day, because it was virtually impossible to get him to have his cigarettes at the exact same length when they edited. The end result made it obvious to any eagle eyed viewer that things were not filmed at the same time as the length of his cigarette would change between shots.
@@walsh9080 reminds me of the first time you see james bond in dr no. The famous scene where he introduces himself. He lights a cigarette only for it to be unlit in the next shot.
Why haven't I seen this sketch before? That's perfect. Exactly what I've always thought whenever I see the kinds of shows they're "exposing" here! :) The ironic thing about the term "reality TV" is that it refers to shows that are in fact doubly fake - every bit as staged as "normal" TV shows, but also attempting to fool viewers they're not staged.
lol I always think about this at the end of these shows where you watch the car drive away while the family stands and waves. I always imagine them having to drive around the corner then turn around and pick up the camera man and then actually say goodbye.
I know everyone loves the way this sketch points out the fakeness of how these kind of shows are edited (I love that too) but for me the joke here is the guy's complete failure to understand it. Usually in these type of sketches David will play a character who is angry and frustrated at having to "pretend" and will go on a rant about how "Isn't this just patronizing the viewers? Surely they know you've already been here and set up your cameras so why do I have to pretend I am just meeting you for the first time now? Can't we just skip all this and be real with the viewers?" etc etc. But in this instance they have decided not to go down that route and instead David's character is really slow and confused and it's almost depressing (in a funny way) how he just doesn't get it lol.
@@jacobgabrieel6646 yeah exactly I was just sharing my thoughts on what I just watched (I thought that's what comment sections were for), but if they want to call me smart, thanks I guess.
Having been on a reality TV series, I'm constantly like this whenever I'm watching TV with someone now. "This is the bit where they create an unnecessary drama for tension." "That'll be the fifth take." "She's not really just walked in that room."
Makes me think of that top gear episode where they were driving in 'dangerous arabic' territory and 'they didn't know what danger was behind the next corner that they had to take' except for the crew who was already there and where filming the whole stuff with a lot of threatening music, of course. Made me laugh harder then with their intended jokes.
That's why I gave up with top gear. Everything was so obviously planned and scripted and yet we were somehow supposed to pretend it was unscripted reality. I just couldn't do it. Shame really, it could have actually been funny.
The crew may have known but the other 3 may not have, the crew wouldn’t have told them about it and they just prepared for when the hosts arrived waiting to record their real reactions or whatever else. Sometimes crew groups drive up ahead and set up the cameras to record the drive pass on roads.
This reminded me of an old American TV show called 'Monk', especially when he said ''my hair will look longer'' exactly something Monk would say, because he could tell the difference of 1 day longer hair and would have expected others as well to realize, as if it's perfectly natural and normal.
semantics but depressed doesn't necessarily refer to clinical depression, it can refer simply to sadness as well, according to both dictionary websites i checked
@James What you seem to assume is that this person doesn't have depression. They might. I have depression but I would still say there were times when I felt depressed and times I didn't
My entire life is looking behind the curtain and wondering why everyone insists upon the clearly obvious charade. I love the way David Mitchell can highlight these points.
I’ll never be able to watch anything on TV ever again… My life is ruined!!! yadda, yadda, yadda…. and now, for something completely different, Thank you and you’re very welcome.
"let's hear what barry thought of the food after we'd gone." "you're still here." damn barry's slow! this show's one of the funniest british comedy acts of the past ten years!!
I love that look of utter bewilderment. I wonder if my face is sometimes like that when I don't understand why people make the exact same mistake they made before.
