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I used to like Lion bars but I swear the wafer bit has got harder and more brittle since I was a kid. They now have a very unpleasant mouthfeel. Still, better than being killed by your own country's army for a peaceful protest.
The irony is that 'rightist' people are car-loving communists who want roads and free parking built everywhere, and for billions of government funding to go into highway expansion while also slashing taxes :P
Whilst I hope that this production turned out to be a 'roaring' success, sponsorship can go too far. Who can forget the 20 metre long ship fashioned out of dessicated coconut and rippled milk chocolate in Chichester Theatre's production of Mutiny on the Bounty?
To be fair, my joke doesn't add to the original sketch. It's just a different kind of joke. Mine's mainly droll old-fashioned wordplay. The sketch itself, like many Mitchell and Webb sketches, allows the viewer, if they wish, to think "why's that happening?" "Why would Lion Bars think that was a suitable marketing avenue? Does that explain why Lion Bars have fallen off the radar a bit? A scattergun marketing approach?" "Given that I haven't had a Lion Bar for a while and nor has anyone I know, but they definitely remain part of my psyche, how important are they to me or to the world at large?" "Do we, as a society, need to talk more about Lion Bars?"
Your "joke doesn't add anything to the original sketch". Well put! Please write that down ten thousand times and think twice before you waste your time in the future. I suggest that when you feel like biting off more than you can chew, have a lion bar instead.
@@RLukeDavis My follow up comment was only because I like seeing everyone's point of view, luke davis and I know how annoying even deliberately droll humour can sometimes be to some, particularly when it gets a not small number of thumbs up. It wasn't a reflection that my original comment was somehow wrong. Different tastes. Different NEEDS. (The Office). "That's probably a reference you'd get".
I wonder if Lion Bars gave them something as a thank you for this sketch. It must have upped the sales. Oh, wait a second- Of course. They supplied the lion bars.
I love how he’s like “the guys at lion bars” instead of like the guys at Nestlé, it’s like how Eric Andre was like “I didn’t get the job at fruit loops”
Yeah they have but also everyone have missed how business actually works and that Lion Bars isn't a company that could make such an offer. Lion Bars is a brand under under the Nestlé organization.
It’s just pretty funny mentioning obsolete brands of British food in sketches, like in The Mighty Boosh. This comment was sponsored by the New Zealanders who don’t understand British chocolate bars.
4:12 The face of a true friend. Doesn't want it, knows it's stupid, knows it'll completely devalue what he's going for and the point of the show, but sees how much his buddy _wants_ to do a good job, and says okay.
I don't think I had ever heard anyone actually say "lion bars" before I watched this sketch. . .but by the end the words had lost all meaning. Also great sketch as always from Mitchell and Webb
Nestle. And during that iconic moment while the lone student stands in front of the oncoming tank he turns to the camera and starts noming a lion bar ...
Paul: I'm sorry Mark, Lion Bars are ending the arrangement. They said the play wasn't encouraging brand loyalty. Mark: Why not? Paul: Because there were snickers in the audience.
I think this must be a sketch written by John Finnemore as only he could make something so dark so fun and brillianter delivered with a big cheesey grin must be his line! Brilliant!
I didn't realize Lion Bars were a real thing when I first saw this sketch. But I looked it up, and lo and behold, real. I was able to buy some on Amazon. Tasty!
This sketch made lion bars my favourite chocolate bar of all time. Funny how comedy in the media can make slight economical changes. Since this sketch, I swear I've been seeing more lion bars sold in shops
I hadn't even SEEN a lion bar for years, then a few weeks back I saw one and grabbed it... It was the toughest chewy thing I've ever had, it hurt my teeth and took forever to finish :(
You need to go back in time and tackle an original "Texan" bar. That'll give you some perspective on what tough-chewing and takes-forever-to-finish *really* mean.
It's actually an incredible good deal. They could just offer every viewer enough Lion bars to cover for the ticket's price or more and it would make the show a smashing success, because the viewer would be offered Lion bars + show for cheaper than if buying just Lion bars at the store.
Lion Bars are underrated, you never hear anyone talk about them in England. The irony is this sketch was a joke about how they were too fixated on Lion Bars to focus on the theme of the play and everyone in the comments has become just as fixated on lion bars.
HURRUMBLE! And a fellow Finnemore fan! For the uninitiated: hurrumble is to be used in place of words such as "hurrah", but not in place of words such as "dog" or "pineapple". (BTW: did you see there's a new series of JF's Souvenir Programme just out?)
@@AltheFolker Oh really? Pity that. I've got it open as a tab to listen later. He has written some quite dark stuff so it may be in line with his previous work. The deckchairs on the titanic sketch, killing all the first born etc. (he also was on the writing team of Mitchell and Webb which of course has Nazis etc.) But the dark can be fun, as we well know from Bleak Expectations (and Old Harry's Game, which is currently available in full on Sounds!) So fingers crossed he'll get the right formula next time :) If you haven't seen it, Cabin Fever on RU-vid is great fun, with Arthur Shappey :)
Sorry, that's just my opinion. Do have a listen and see what you think. I don't mind dark humour at all, but I suppose not having an audience means there's not the really laugh-out-loud moments. I had the honour of coming second in Arthur's pencils-in-facial-hair competition!
@@AltheFolker Not at all! I think I didn't explain my thinking very well, I meant to make the point how odd that his latest series should not be funny and come across as odd when usually everything of his is brilliant! But I suppose if, as the description suggests, it is a little dark, (making me wonder, where did that come from, when he has a winning formula, why change it?) perhaps this is just building on his previous work with sinister undertones. We will see (if you stick with it that is! I'm going to listen now and make up my mind after!) It is funny that, how we get so used to audience reactions, and how that influences our own. I found with "Back" and Mitchell and Webb's earlier TV show: the lack of audience laughter just felt so flat. Same with the lockdown HIGNFY on the PC screens. Yet people not used to it can't stand it (e.g. Americans in the comments on British comedy on RU-vid). Brilliant!! I remember that one, that was especially fun! I came across it a bit too late for that particular challenge but never won anything in the later ones haha (was just chuffed I got anything right in the riddles hunt challenge). He occasionally goes on tour I believe so do look out for tickets!
I just saw a Lion bar at the store which we don't usually have here (Canada), so I bought it and ate it watching this sketch. Now I wish I had loads more Lion bars!
This would be funnier if it wasn’t so believable. Companies will suggest this as “sponsorship” with a straight face and expect you to be ecstatic. They’ll get indignant about it too, eventually culminating with “you should be paying us for this opportunity”. Look guy, if you want access to our audience then you’re gonna have to pay for it, in dollars.
I once watched a production of nathan the wise where they stopped midway through started again and shortly after actors with Papier-mâché heads of politicians started dancing through the scene. The play would have been a lot less wierd if they just ate lion bars throughout.
Sponsorship from the point of view of children, I love it. It ranks alongside the idea of teachers living in school after home time and getting change being great, because they give you money for buying something you like. It is that kind of thinking in a way, we will pay you in our product instead of currency, who can resist being paid chocolate?
Honestly, Lion bars are one of the ones I've never taken from the shelf. Galaxy, Aero, Twirl, sure. Never Lion. And every time i see this sketch I feel quite guilty about that.
I prefer Mars Bars, because Mars Bars are a bit cheaper and have more Mars Bars caramel, and... well, they are Mars Bars. Mars Bars, Mars Bars, Mars Bars.
I had no idea what a Lion Bar was... First I was thinking of a pub, maybe the company that supplies the beer was called Lion, like it is here in NZ... Then I was thinking of literal lion bars, ie the type their enclosures are made out of. But no. Chocococolates. Makes more sense, I suppose.
I for one think it was very brave of lion bars to sponsor this sketch and see it as an official up yours from them to the ccp in this china arse kissing time and I will be sure to buy lion bars the next time I see them. Raooowr
I once went shopping stoned off my trumpet and bought a box of lion bar icecreams. I've never found them since so my question is this. Did that actually happen?