As the son of a mortician, I knew from an early age that some surgeons do a less-than-thorough job of cleaning up the work place, leaving sponges, sutchers (and more) inside their patients. Makes you wonder what ELSE might have slipped their mind.
Well some letters are easier to scare than others, O is almost permanently shocked, M on the other hand is usually quite reserved about the whole thing.
It's years since I've watched this sketch and it frigging hilarious. I wonder which one wrote it. It seems like a Robert Webb concept with its cruelty aspect but definitely some input from David Mitchell. Even the character of scorn being David and the problematic surgeon being played by Rob makes me think I've got it right. Sort-of like McCartney versus Lennon, or something. Quite different but complimentary styles, or something.
And then we hear about the surgeon Simon Bramhall in the UK who initialled the organs of his patients using an argon beam coagulator whilst carrying out liver transplants. Rather makes this sketch uncomfortably close to the truth.
As an American, I have no clue whether Perthshire is a real place with its own accent, or if that's a joke making fun of Britain and it's funny town names and countless indistinguishable hyper-local accents.
The historical County of Perth is in Scotland. That grey haired Mitchell has a faint scottish accent. That's as much as I can tell, and English even isn't my first language.
And then he might just direct his attention towards you and issue you with a stern warning about those superfluous full stops and pointless capital letters. ;)
Jonathan Shin Boyd Rice went into a dealership that sold designer ovens, wearing an SS uniform: "Hi, I'd like to buy an oven. Preferably about this tall." Why can't Joanne Peh do this?
