Probably the saddest comedy sketch I've ever seen.

[Neverending_Elbow]

Ooh, are we posting favourite sketches now?

So difficult to choose, but this one made me laugh so hard the first time I watched it:

Inviting the Scooby Gang

[dropzone]

@Namkcalb

Here is the final sketch from the Mitchell and Webb look,

Started watching it but dropmom’s starting to…well…I didn’t finish it. Brilliantly done, though, what I saw.

[Smeghead]

Homeopathic ER

But the radio version of the show was funnier.

[CarnalK]

@Smeghead

Homeopathic ER

But the radio version of the show was funnier.

Ummm that’s not sad. Wrong thread?

[Small_Clanger]

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But the radio version of the show was funnier.
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You do know that they still do their radio show? And yes, it is funnier. Angel Summoner & BMX Bandit not withstanding.

[Machine_Elf]

@Kobal2

So after having spent a whole episode mocking other shows who did it, and did it in facile fashion to boot (like Black Adder) they did it themselves partly to show them how it’s done right ; and partly out of ironic, self-aware self-deprecation which is a big part of Mitchell & Webb’s repertoire.
IOW, the piss taking of the “serious” bit takes place at a more meta- level rather than within the sketch itself.

And in that way, the ending becomes funny *because *it’s tragic and gut wrenching and no laughing matter at all - the people who’ve seen the previous bits expect them to drop a punchline or blow a raspberry that never comes. Instead you get punched straight in the gut. Ha ha !

I still haven’t seen the part where they rip on Blackadder, but the more I think about it, the more I think that the tragic dementia scene would actually be funny when seen in context with that whole Blackadder critique prefacing it. Kind of a “OMG, now THEY’RE doing the same damn thing!” feeling, and realizing they’re doing it to be funny. I get it.

Re: the “sudden genre shift” phenomenon, it occurred to me that the entire Scrubs series was built around it; every episode had at least one unflinchingly dramatic scene, usually after 15-20 minutes of unrelenting surreallist comedy.

[Smeghead]

@CarnalK

Ummm that’s not sad. Wrong thread?

See post 41

@Small_Clanger

You do know that they still do their radio show? And yes, it is funnier. Angel Summoner & BMX Bandit not withstanding.

Yeah, I haven’t gotten to the latest series yet, but I’m excited to listen to it.