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...
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
@@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 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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I love this. I can't stand how they pretend everything is natural.
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.
I did interviews, this is exactly how it is.
Those shows are so fucking gay.
@@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
@@L.i.am95 wowwww political correctness's gone mad!!!!
This is brilliant in taking the piss out of reality television.
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.
He’s not wrong though
@@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
I've always thought shows like this were awkward for both the host and the normal people. This just takes it up to eleven.
Awesome stuff.
Eleven?! Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
@@mrfocigaz4942 ...well, this takes it up to eleven.
@@2011zurich or twelve.....
This was 12yrs ago wow
@@mrfocigaz4942 I’d prefer it if the sound was in Dubly
I think if I ever appeared on TV I would be like this, though I doubt I could be this subtle.
I wouldn't have the patience for subterfuge either
+CornishCreamtea07 It wouldn't make it to air so no-one else would be in on the joke
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?".
This isn't "subtle" lmao
I once did a cooking tv show for a local tv channel and I’m awkward as shit. I think I came across as pretty weird.
“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
Absolutely. Can't stand it when guests outstay their welcome when you are hosting, you have to put up with them until they decide to go!
That's because you're entertaining the kind of people who drink Prosecco, elevate your taste in friends who don't drink chav juice 🤣
1. Go to bed and leave your mates to it
2. Ask them to leave as you are tired
@@MajorT0m major Tom knows what’s good
Its 9pm what are you ALL STILL DOING HERE?
I'm mic'd up...
No matter how many times I watch this, David's witless performance leaves me in stitches.
I have always thought that about the camera man being behind people when they answer the door like they weren't expecting the presenter to knock.
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...
My mum did a reality show/documentary type thing she said she had to shake the guys hand on the doorstep 7 times. 😂
Was she mic'd up when the guy knocked on the door?
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.
@randomguy8196 way too expensive.
@randomguy8196 oh totally, but daytime lifestyle TV, not a chance. Camera guy, sound guy, director, continuity / runner.
If they're lucky.
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
"Won't my hair look longer." - EPIC
The tv adds ten pounds thing must have confused him.
how much can hair grow in a day?
@@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?
@@MediumRareOpinions it is possible
@@MediumRareOpinions spot on
Every home cooking show ever :D
+eksiarvamus most tv ever . source - im a tv camera man !
I've watched a lot of these shows and have never really noticed people to act as such.
well of course they don't act like that because they indeed are "acting". It's not natural as they would point out these silly issues.
That's literally the point!
Are we sure that David is playing a role and not just being himself?
Because he isn't angry, confrontational and irritable. And Victoria Coren isn't with him.
Yes! Otherwise he would've been much angrier
David mitchell is such a loveable character. So funny
@@SidneyBroadshead This was before they were together
I don't think he's sure
Realty television in a nut shell
Without the drinking and sex. Though it would have made this sketch more interesting...
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.
@@Svoorhout85 what was the show called?
@@isaacs8783 Dutch Improvement show who gives families kitchen makeover I guess?
friends*
I love him leaning on the brick wall and having to awkwardly wave
This is what I'm thinking every show like this.
Everyone with a brain is. Lol.
“This is a lovely painting..” *points to world’s worst painting*
David Orth - I quite disliked it as well but I actually *_did_* quite like that system of hanging them visibly...
That is that the hangars and wires are visible... of course you’d want the art to be displayed visibly...
I bet that's a Rothko or something
@@grendelum not that dreadful painting
@@Argentavisen That's not a Rothko.
This sketch in particular reminds me of A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Especially Robert here reminds me of Hugh. Great sketch.
Hello, Control.
This is Kitchenwang!
Yes! Though it is also Wanger Kitsch.
Let's rotate the chopping board!
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.
This is a lovely painting. *poke*
love how he just constantly pokes holes in the facade that is reality tv
Barry would be excellent at CinemaSins
lot24 DING!
haha
Hossein D stop being a sheep
Hossein D they even criticised themselves: giving themselves infinitely many sins
Dude, you shouldn't have the time to write all that.
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.
I lived with someone with Asperger’s for two years and every day was like this
I am someone with autistic spectrum disorder and every day feels like this!
It’s the honesty that gives him away
That must have been hell for the poor bloke.
This video was even more accurate than Duck Dynasty with The Robertson's.
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.
I was worried my hair would look longer
We get it you’re smart
@@sammythatcher6678 nothing smart about understanding a simple comedy sketch
@@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.
@@ismayb754 Free compliments for everybody!
I am rewatching all of these again and it seems funnier after all these years 🤣🤣🤣 these guys are just comedy genius
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."
It depresses me that people don't already know this for themselves
@@ismayb754 exactly, I was going to say it doesn't take being on a reality programme to work this out... 🙈
Right she’s just saying that being in a reality show was her first experience where she realized all tv is fake
It took being on a reality TV series to make you realise these things?
you sound really annoying.
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.
you- you've been setting up in here for hours...
Subtle genius
+Evi1M4chine
I'm American, and this video is way blatant. Not all of us have trash standards.
+Clarasu Yes you do.
@@DyllonSlaboda Subtle if you're a moron. I'm American; and yes, we do have trash standards. Looks what's on television.
@Evi1M4chine I will ru Jalapeño to your Jalapeñis if you talk shite ever again
I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.
How about this woolen dog?
How about a spatula made of butter and thermite.
That's brilliant, it's like you've met my aunt.
Next time...
Yes, she's my Aunt too.
"won't my hair look longer?"
Barrie’s chopped carrots 🤣
Lesson of the day.. Everything is fake on tv
Especially the news
Literally everything!
"I want to understand..." Such a perfect line.
"Oh I don't understand"*
+Dwarf Midget now we know
Now we know
we know now
we now know
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.
Yeah, because what makes great TV is letting your show's hosts stumble unwarned into a terrorist camp you scoped out the day before.
@@RedsGarageUK
I just figured it was clearly all scripted and treated it as a sitcom starring three idiots. It's a lot funnier that way.
@@beardedemperor you know there was no war when they went to the middle east right? Plus no one knew they were there
this is one of my fav ones
This actually made me kind of depressed.
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, medically you're not an idiot,
but as of now in general, you are an idiot.
@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
@James James, you are not ready for youtube commentating.
@James Oh James you've made a bit of a tit of yourself
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.
This guys are just top quality!!! 😂😂😂
I wish That Mitchell And Webb Look didn't have a studio audience or laugh track.
They didn't on this sketch? I agree, works much better when awkward etc :)
@@bluejackmedia this is Mitchell and Webb Situation, not Look
@@beesree39 OK I see - so the comment I commented I replied to originally was wrong. Thanks for putting me right :)
Mitchell and Webb likely didn't want one either. That's television producers for you; always interfering with the artists' vision.
@@bluejackmedia no, the original comment is correct. your reply was wrong.
I feel this oblivious sometimes 😓🙁
This is my favourite sketch of theirs.
Brought tears to my eyes.
Brilliant exposé of all those televised home visits.
I could watch a whole series of just this sketch idea.
Same spoons as the spoon design sketch. I have watched these too many times.
How did you know that LOL?
+Nosaveddata I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean..
ledge
Pff yeah but not rocket science is it.
Too many times is never enough!
I love them so much...
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.
High five to you for knowing Monk!🤝🏻🥂 lol I loved that show so much as a kid 😁
"Reality" tv...
I love this show!
Loved it. The honesty missed by the dull watchers of boring TV.
The way Robert says “that’d be typical” changes the tone of the statement ever so slightly which i feel is quite unintentionally funny
I've been looking for this for years.
This is just like come dine with me..ahaha hilarious!!
My favourite sketch 😂
Best sketch ever.
“I’m mic’d up.” 😂
oh hey it's the cutlery from the bigger spoon sketch
" so where's the kitchen "
" it's where you set up all those lights " looool
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.
This is David Mitchell being autobiographical. That's what he's totally like.
This is brilliant
Brilliant!
"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!!
Love it!
Love it.
Hahahaha! I loved this 😆👍🏻❤️
XD i love this! I always get pissed off at them acting surprised that the person has arrived even though the camera crew is already inside :D
its been a Looooong time since ive Lol'ed sooooo hard!!!!!!!!!
Utterly fantastic! Putting the lie to all the fakery, HA HA HA.
the ending lol
Omfg this is freaken hilarious hahahahahahah. Y have I only just started watching is genius programme?!?!?!?.!?!?
This is a really interesting portrayal of a character with Asperger's.
+Hakudohshi Not an aspie, just an average, everyday, honest Englishman.
+John G. Schmidt effectively no difference, aspies might be more mathematically inclined.
British Aspie here. The two are very similar.
Crack Cocaine Nigga That isn't how autism works, my dudes.
Does this also name your email ? - And the comment was about aspergers, not autism.
"wont my hair look longer" looool
David is so good.
Hahaha, if reality TV was really like this. Probably more entertaining than what's on now!
Love it when he pokes him in the arm
And just imagine, this is the final "edited" version.
Why is this so funny? Can't stop laughing
This is fucking amazing
Isn't that the cutlery from the sketch about the bigger spoon?
“ I was worried that my hair would look longer…”
This is the quintessential "not playing ball". 😅
So fucking brilliant.
I always think this stuff when I'm watching those crap shows
Austin maestro.
Poor Barry, so confused.
I wish the show was shown in this order
how nice.
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.
OMG lol, I hope it is
im so glad im not the only one who points this kind of stuff out
Why is Webb dressed like Buddy the elf?
He's supposed to be a quirky chef. Just be thankful he wasn't wearing Dobby the Elf's costume...
" I was worried that my hair would look longer"
The best
People who should watch Love Island should watch this 😂😂
@Josh Jamos I should not have added that extra should. Should doesn't even look like a real word anymore 🤣
im already mic'ed up
ROTFL one of the best