The first bit gets especially funny when you've read David Mitchell's memoir. I don't know if they meant it to be some kind of self-aware reflection on their own relationship, but David mentions that each of them used to try and outdo the other every night when they did theatre. They had been working together for so long and on so many different projects that they were sick of each other. Every night, one of them would stand further and further from the crowd whilst talking to the other so that more of his face would be visible to the audience and more of the back of the other person's head. Literally upstaging one another. So that might have been the inspiration for this sketch.
i'm just laughing because i love sherlock holmes and imagining holmes randomly smashing a vase over watson's head to make a point is the funniest thing ever
@@RetractedandRedacted he's giving the most sensible, perfect deduction for how the crime took place whilst beating the absolute shit out his wounded comrade
Honestly the idea of a play where the actors swap roles night by night, or two cuts of the same film with the actors swapped is fucking amazing and i want to see it.
See Frankenstein with Cumberbatch and Lee Miller, they have two versions where they swap being the doctor and the monster. It's a stage production that was filmed for showing in theaters. It was directed by Danny Boyle.
Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams played Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots in a play called Mary Stuart. Who played which role each evening of the performance was decided by flipping a coin. It ran for 2 months at the Almeida.
@@Demiglitch don't think it was. Guess you'd want to see both actors playing the roles but no way of guaranteeing that unless you went to 3 or 4 performances in a row. Think they flipped the coin in front of the audience so you found out who was playing who when the two actors did! More than just a gimmick as it had some great reviews.
This is my favourite. The "acting" portion of the sketch has a phenominal premise and the "break" section has some of the best line delivery I've _ever_ witnessed!
@@waynemarvin5661 I still don't understand why people like him, he's like a really awful, stupid and crass imitation of Jim Carrey and everything he stars in is like some kind of bizarre fever dream
@@strawberrypencl Indeed. It's this celebrating of childishness that's led to the 'dumbing down' of entertainment. Cinema today is mostly infantile and empty. Superheroes and overgrown children. And Will Farrell led the way.
"Well, certainly I'm sufficiently insecure to have felt the need to establish to my own satisfaction, before the age of 33, whether or not humans can fly. That makes me a chippy little autodidact in your eyes, then so be it." That's glorious!
There was a film (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) that starred the late Heath Ledger, and filming wasn't finished when he died. So they brought in Johnny Depp, Colin Farell, and Jude Law to play his character in some scenes and they kept as many of Heath Ledger's scenes as they could manage. The result is very disorientating, in part because the scenes with Johnny Depp, Colin Farell, and Jude Law playing Heath Ledger's character are framed as dream-like sequences divorced from reality. I remember watching it and not understanding the ending of the movie at all.
They were both amazing, Jeremy couldn't have done Sherlock Holmes without both of them. I'm not here to cause and argument if thats what you're thinking.
Next night; "So you see, Watson. The advantage of my unique powers of observation." (Pulls out pocket knife and stabs Alec in the knee) Alec: AAAAAAHHHHHOOWWWW!
This is especially funny since two actors who played Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller) did a stage show of Frankenstein where they alternate playing Frankenstein and The Monster.
Ironically, Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller did exactly the same thing in a production of Frankenstein. Don't know whether they tried to kill each other, though. It'd have made a great final night performance.
thats not actually a flaw because the concept is that when ever they switch shots they switch places so when the cut from the one room to the other Mitchell would then change from being Watson to Holmes then back to Watson again.
The second part speaks to me on a spiritual level. So many times I've asked questions, some reasonable, others in hindsight not the smartest, but either way I was confused in the moment and all the time people look down their nose at you and make you feel stupid. I hate people like that.
Yeah some people really want to take the piss just to feel superior. And it represents well the smugness that comes with how those kind of people view the world. I've been that way myself some, honestly, and I'm not proud of it. In my case, some of it came from frustration of dealing with certain types of religious zealotry that seemed (well, still does seem) extremely contradictory morally. But I also allowed it to become too pervasive of a mentality about life in general, in matters I hadn't investigated as well.
One of their very best; I've seen it so many times but still laugh at it. And the links by some stereotypical British luvvie subtly patting himself on the back are spot-on too.
Last I saw of him, he was doing some interview where he said men should talk about their feelings and cry more, and women are horribly oppressed in 21st century Britain. Careerwise not much I guess.
So funny to me how people really think that Holmes thought poorly of Watson. They both expressed such affectionate admiration for each other. Of course this is all an exaggeration for comedic affect but I listen the complete Sherlock Holmes on audio book about twice a year.
I've just noticed the book he appears to be reading is Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go...(it's got the exact same cover as mine). No leviatating in that lol.
They brought it full circle in the last sketch of the series, with what many see as that sappy boring bit that sort of ripped off the equally mawkish ending of Blackadder, but people often miss the comic genius of how they brought it back to the poo jokes. It was always about the poo.
