@John Matrix Dawkins moved to Oxfordshire when he was eight. David Mitchell went to Abingdon boarding school in Oxfordshire as a boy. Idk what you consider to be "from" but I'd say that qualifies. They have the same accent.
Zach Hixson It is, at the end of the day, only a slight modification of David Mitchell's usual accent. What with them both being posh academic chaps from Oxford.
I'm not academic but i sound like that and I'm from Oxford. also Mitchell went to Cambridge he is just FROM Oxfordshire and we sound part Pam Aires and part posh home counties. the farmer comes out in me when I'm drunk and the Dawkins when I'm on the phone haha
Emily Gilbey He grew up in Oxford and was privately educated at an Oxford school. Many people who went to Cambridge University don't talk like this. (Myself, for example.)
And yet, there is a small but loud contingent _right now_ that believes the Earth to be _flat._ People flew into conferences held in places like Denver and near Dallas, ALONG _GEODESICS,_ to attend these conferences. The Ancient Greeks (probably among others) did EXTREMELY SIMPLE testing that provided quite strong evidence as to the shape of the planet. When we look at other planets using what today are fairly basic lenses, they're clearly spheres. And yet, there walk among us 'neo-alchemists' still convinced that the best way to understand the universe is by taking whatever garbage your own brain tells you is or must be true - often based on some garbage generated in the brain of some other rando, of course - and clinging to that like grim death! It's quite impressive. It really harks back to the model that the Catholic Church used for years. Don't bother to "ask God" (i.e., do some tests and see what reality is actually like), assume you know better, effectively flip God off, and consider it a job well done that you've convinced other randos. Of course, this then lends more credence to your beliefs apparently, because after all, such a large group of people stuck in an 'idiot feedback loop' can't all be wrong, right? So, yes - "brilliantly stupid", and yet, all too real.
The "David Mitchell Does a Good Dawkins Impression Delusion". This is just standard David Mitchell making sure he gets his enunciation right. It's pretty much how he usually talks.
@@aidenhill17 yeah man. Obviously the tone and sound of the voice isn't right as he's not a vocal impressionist. But the language, cadence and annunciation is bang on.
I am AMAZED at the Dawkins impression. I'm like "how would you even do a Dawkins impression, he's just British and normal." Then Mitchell showed me the way.
It's the Christain La La Lander Delusion vs The Liberal La La Lander Delusion, with The Islamist and The Hindu Delusion taking over vast swathes of the UK as the two mental-case bunch of Western La La Landers show each other up for being fake, pretentious nutjobs on both sides... Bunch of Nazti twats, the lot of 'em.. Libs cause the most problems though... 'Liberal Immigration' mass-imported millions of religious authoritarians that bred like rats.
There're a lot of people in this comments section saying this is a great RD impression... is it just me, or is David Mitchell just talking how David Mitchell always talks, and all of the people saying it's such a great impression just can't distinguish between different English people?
No no he definetly watched a few RD clips and he copied some of the mannerisms, you are right in he doesnt actually imitate the voice but he does speaks as RD would in his own normal voice, using his pitch highs and lows whilst speaking normally, also some good mannerism copying seem to give of the illusion that the voices are the same.
@@dave8323 If you don't see the - admittedly rather subtle - changes Mitchell makes to his natural accent, that's not a reason to be disrespectful to others. The way he stresses the word "civilisation", for example, at 1:21(-ish) is clearly Dawkins and distinctly not Mitchell.
I routinely spend nights in graveyards photographing stars. While the camera is doing its stuff I'm usually on my back looking at the sky with binoculars. Graveyards tend to be isolated where I live, never illuminated and quiet which makes them useful to me. Cant say any of the residents have complained. No strange images from the camera etc.
there is a reason such shows don't exist: showing you two hours of "nothing's happening" and "well, this was a complete waste of time" would be boring. like, very, very boring.
RKBock That basically is the ghost hunting shows out there. It's an hour of people overreacting with dramatic editing but ending up with nothing much to show for it all. I used to find it entertaining because of that.
rottworks yeah... you didn't get what i meant... (no offense) the shows don't show you "nothing". they show you this overreaction and "supernatural things". yes, it is pointless and bull, but it is entertaining for some people. what i mean is, a show where they would go into a "haunted house" and simply not react to anything scientifically explainable, or in other words: not react to anything.
"Those guys aren't pussies... not like the Muslims!" Aha, fantastic joke. And I when I heard it I thought I hope Muslims understand and find jokes like that funny too. Because that's a classic bit of provocative satire with only good intentions :)
***** A little superfluous yeah, but you have to admit that humour like this is often taken the wrong way. Putting a little bit of emphasis in the comment section on the nonsense and irony of jokes like this might, just might help someone appreciate it in a different light.. Unnecessary yes, but unfortunately the risque comedy we love in this country can be misconstrued.
"Richard a lot of your readers would have gone with a crystal skulls book if your publishers had had the clout to get it closer to the tills". Lol. So true.
Oh bollocks! I have an old second hand receiver with a remote which came with some obscure brand batteries called "Robust - Extra heavy duty" and when it fails I usually just give a nudge or tap to the battery lock and lo and behold it works again! It also works if I roll the batteries. Now I can just imagine having instead Duracell batteries. Then the remote would work for millions of years. When the imminent Ragnarök Apocalypse will wipe the earth and the survivors will find those remotes with Duracell batteries they will still work. Or the sage of the tribe will impart his wisdom on the subject: "It has been told that the Ancient Ones rolled the batteries to give them more life. The rolling was as a sort of prayer and meditation towards the god of electricity which the Ancient Ones called Nikola Tesla."
@@AColonDashSix Actually, you did; there's even a name for the rhetorical trick of mentioning something by claiming you're not mentioning it - it's called 'apophasis'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
@@nemo6686 That doesn't actually apply since I never denied brining up the subject or denied my intention. It would be if I were to say "I wasn't going to comment at all but ... " However, if I deny doing something specific, you would have to point out that specific statement, a statement I didn't make.
@@AColonDashSix You commented on how good David's Dawkins was. There's not much else I can do to make it clearer. Your "that doesn't actually apply since..." is utter nonsense. The real mystery is why you bother to argue something so plain and of so little consequence.
Pretty sure that's just David Mitchell's normal voice and not an impression.Also other than mildly posh English I'm not sure it really is a good impression. Maybe we all sound the same to Americans
I actually remember going to a Catholic group discussion thing (I was suckered in by free food xd ) and they had bought and were discussing the God Delusion . The dude next to me had all pencil notes and highlighted passages and the priest was attempting to explain something about infinite turtles proving that abortion was evil. Bit bonkers but nice people.
It's necessary to speak analogically, but atheists clearly don't take their own beliefs seriously. If it's all just random fluctuations of matter, just randomness, none of it matters and there's nothing to ground normative statements on. It also doesn't make sense that Dawkins treats religion as this random mind virus when it is clearly adaptive behavior. He could even get around his personal problems with it by treating it as a group level metaphor that centers the group, but he doesn't even consider this for some reason.
@@TheThreatenedSwan And we should be courteous to each other and analyze rationally instead of entrenching into our tribes. I apologize for mocking the infinite turtles analogy. (I am aware this is a youtube comment section and we are not supposed to be civilized or admit error, but I am genuinely reflecting that I shouldn't have been laughing at them)
@@TheThreatenedSwan I guess the opinion behind my original mockery was that fundamental truths about the world require tremendous effort, standing on the shoulders of giants to observe, hypothesize, research the reality of the world around us. Not playing word games and making abstract logical theories while talking about ancient literature.
"It's necessary to speak analogically, but atheists clearly don't take their own beliefs seriously." What beliefs? Atheism has no inherent beliefs.@@TheThreatenedSwan
Nazor no they're the same person mate. I mean have you ever seen them both together? I certainly have not! I think the reason they look different when acting out his different personas is a visual illusion.
It's impressive that this show commented on the heart of the New Atheism movement, and why it merged so smoothly with the Alt-Right: ""That's not why it sells, Richard; people like the denying, the censensus smashing". And lo and behold, the denial of global warming, the moon landing, and even a round Earth (something too ridiculous even for 2010) have all taken an ideological stand beside the supposed rational thinkers.
Trump says "Jesus, what a loser." He will regret his words and his fake show of faith very soon, Jesus is back messiahsword.weebly.com All things that can be known are made manifest in the Book that will never decay (being digital) “The Nature of Energy” (Barnes & Noble, 2020) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nature-of-energy-patrick-boardman/1136605760?ean=2940163956876 Quantum Theory states: [m=E/c² where E=∞=God] (Note: Outside variables such as the Dirac Antimatter equation would consider this equivalency first in the order of operations. Matter is finite with infinite potential to balance out to zero in the particle-antiparticle annihilation process.) Energy equals infinity equals God, the matrix of all matter and the Creator of all units of consciousness.
"I've seen a ghost, that was weird. I don't believe in ghosts but I've definitely seen one, do you believe in ghosts?" "No." "Well there we go then, "The Ghost Delusion."" Lmfao brilliant
If there is something I don't get about David Mitchell then it's his misconstrued dislike of atheism. I don't mind him not calling himself an atheist, but he's claimed numerous times that the position of Dawkins and other famous atheists is that "they know that there isn't a god", which according to Mithcell, is ludicrous. For a man who apparently loves correctness and even pedantry, one would think that he would have heard at least one of the millions of atheists pointing to the dictonary definition "atheists do not believe in god" and thus ending his straw man. I'm such a huge Mitchell fan, and also an atheist, so this really grinds my gears.
"That's not what sells, people like the denying..." That sums up his popularity perfectly. People just want to feel better than others and by belittling theists they do so.
+Reece Swaby Yeah, it has absolutely nothing to do with the demonstrably damaging effects of delusional beliefs. Keep on hating gays, opposing reproductive rights, science education and generally fucking up the world because of your superstitious programming. Fucktard. "Belittling" - indeed. It's not exactly unreasonable to demand that people have actual reasons for what they believe when the actions resulting from those beliefs apparently are solely damaging to society. Nor is it unreasonable to call people out on the fact that they in fact can't answer such demands *yet still insist that their baseless delusions are somehow deserving of respect*. That stuff is the sign of a sick and polluted mind. You should be ashamed of yourself.
@@DaBIONICLEFan It may sound the same as David Mitchell's natural speaking voice to you, but it very much isn't. This why the majority of people are commenting with praise for David's impersonation. I can hear some similarity, but David has changed his cadence, vocal rhythm, speed, accent, and most extraordinarily, vocal tone. It's probably easier for me to hear the nuances, having studied music and Mandarin tones.
I love how quickly Dawkins goes from offended that his ideas aren't being taken seriously to agreeing that pizzas have gotten smaller.
THEY HAVE GOTTEN SMALLER!!!
measurable
@@daikucoffee5316 You got bigger from eating pizza, making the pizzas appear smaller.
Mate, it’s David Mitchell.
Shrinkflation!
That accent seemed spot on.
+SirTenenbaum Absolutely nailed it IMHO.
Because he sounds quite similar anyway. He just had some slight tweaks
Sounds just like him!
I was going to say he even sounds like him.
What? That's just his voice. He doesn't sound like Dawkins. I've met Dawkins, he don't sound like that
wow he does a good Dawkins.
I was thinking that myself, even though the voice isn't quite there the mannerisms, speed of speech and use of vocabulary are spot on.
that's just how david normally acts
Even dawkins would be pleased hahah
Both from Oxfordshire
@John Matrix Dawkins moved to Oxfordshire when he was eight. David Mitchell went to Abingdon boarding school in Oxfordshire as a boy. Idk what you consider to be "from" but I'd say that qualifies. They have the same accent.
That voice! I can't believe how perfect it is!
Zach Hixson It is, at the end of the day, only a slight modification of David Mitchell's usual accent. What with them both being posh academic chaps from Oxford.
I'm not academic but i sound like that and I'm from Oxford. also Mitchell went to Cambridge he is just FROM Oxfordshire and we sound part Pam Aires and part posh home counties. the farmer comes out in me when I'm drunk and the Dawkins when I'm on the phone haha
Emily Gilbey He grew up in Oxford and was privately educated at an Oxford school. Many people who went to Cambridge University don't talk like this. (Myself, for example.)
codswallop321 yes my uncle went to Oxford boys then Cambridge.
Emily Gilbey Wow he must be like the uber Tory
"Is there definitely the Sea?"
They come up with the most brilliantly stupid lines.
"Do puppies have Christmas"
Tom Cruises having a wee….against his consent
Lol and they're British so like, pick a direction and you can walk to there
And yet, there is a small but loud contingent _right now_ that believes the Earth to be _flat._ People flew into conferences held in places like Denver and near Dallas, ALONG _GEODESICS,_ to attend these conferences.
The Ancient Greeks (probably among others) did EXTREMELY SIMPLE testing that provided quite strong evidence as to the shape of the planet. When we look at other planets using what today are fairly basic lenses, they're clearly spheres. And yet, there walk among us 'neo-alchemists' still convinced that the best way to understand the universe is by taking whatever garbage your own brain tells you is or must be true - often based on some garbage generated in the brain of some other rando, of course - and clinging to that like grim death!
It's quite impressive. It really harks back to the model that the Catholic Church used for years. Don't bother to "ask God" (i.e., do some tests and see what reality is actually like), assume you know better, effectively flip God off, and consider it a job well done that you've convinced other randos. Of course, this then lends more credence to your beliefs apparently, because after all, such a large group of people stuck in an 'idiot feedback loop' can't all be wrong, right?
So, yes - "brilliantly stupid", and yet, all too real.
If there really was a sea then the question "is there definitely the sea" wouldn't even be a question!
Mitchell just wanted to show us how good his Dawkins impression is.
All these comments about 'does a good Dawkins impression' feel very strange to me...
@@EternalQuestion what? cuz you're his relative or something?
Mitchell is in the business of showing all the good tricks and impressions he has got!!
@@bluesque9687 You don't understand comedy.
@@bardsamok9221 Why? I really loved it! It is very well done!
that is an absolutely perfect Dawkins impression, from the voice to the vocabulary and expressions! hilarious and well done.
being english helps a lot
If it were 25% slower and 25% more meandering
Thats just how Mitchell sounds though
Ever been up north England, that wouldn't help at all.
@@cluckendipprobably about 1% of English people speak like this^
My goodness, David Mitchell does a pitch perfect impression of Richard Dawkins. I almost want to get them both in a room together.
you actually think Dawkins exists? He's a character played by David Mitchell. This Dawkins delusion has got to stop.
It's because he is the same as him
@@jamesbyrne9312 no lie, said to my siblings a few years ago that Richard Dawkins must be David Mitchell's/Mark Corrigan's father
@@kiopyu78 hahahahaha
Exactly what I thought
Richard Dawkins new children's book, "The Santa Claus myth"
🤣
Underrated comment
@@cameronspalding9792super underrated. That could’ve been the bit
The "David Mitchell Does a Good Dawkins Impression Delusion". This is just standard David Mitchell making sure he gets his enunciation right. It's pretty much how he usually talks.
It's noticeably different.
@AcidDome sure thing bro, can you teach me to read minds please.
@AcidDome bum with a high opinion of himself who thinks he can speak for many, go check yourself you narcissistic fuck
@@aidenhill17 yeah man. Obviously the tone and sound of the voice isn't right as he's not a vocal impressionist. But the language, cadence and annunciation is bang on.
@AcidDome pahaha English born and bred. You're a nutter mate.
The voice was really spot on!
yep!!
That's not an impression: it's his normal voice.
@DieFlabbergast No it isn’t, it’s a deliberately posh and tart augmentation of his accent
I am AMAZED at the Dawkins impression. I'm like "how would you even do a Dawkins impression, he's just British and normal." Then Mitchell showed me the way.
im embarresed to say id watch richard dawkins visiting haunted spots ahahah
So would I.
Just saying “this is superstitious nonsense” over and over
"You're flogging a dead God" haha, brilliant
The line that made me cackle was "Christ!" "No, you've already done him - comes under God."
This is the first time I've seen a parody of Richard Dawkins made by someone who's actually seen Richard Dawkins.
That comment was glorious.
Does Richard Dawkins exists? Have you actually SEEN Richard Dawkins?
I know he exists. Because people doubt he exists. And to doubt is to think and to think is to be. I think, therefore I AM Richard Dawkins
The way he impersonated Richard saying 'ReliGion' was the most accurate bit
The Free Lunch Delusion. I lost my shit with that one. Great impression of Dawkins!
It's the Christain La La Lander Delusion vs The Liberal La La Lander Delusion, with The Islamist and The Hindu Delusion taking over vast swathes of the UK as the two mental-case bunch of Western La La Landers show each other up for being fake, pretentious nutjobs on both sides... Bunch of Nazti twats, the lot of 'em.. Libs cause the most problems though... 'Liberal Immigration' mass-imported millions of religious authoritarians that bred like rats.
@@PrivateSi what
@@PrivateSi what? (2)
Rolling the batteries around in the remote control definitely works. FACT.
Yes it does, at least long enough to get an extra couple of tv channel changes....warming them up slightly works too.
@@contessa.adella He means the batteries, not the TV. I wont say how I know.
I take the batteries out, and swap them round. 100% works
Why is that???.
The Rolling the Batteries Around in the Remote Control Delusion
"The Ghost Delusion"
+Patrick Bateman The Christian Bale Delusion
A convincing impression of RD.
This is such clever, intelligent comedy - absolutely brilliant. I just wish that somebody still produced great comedy like this these days!
I'm looking for a bit they did, it's about a chololate maker and he wants a room at an inn/hotel.. ..wish I could remember what it's called.
Everyone is saying he's doing a great Dawkins when he is literally just speaking in his own voice.
I read this and started noticing XD
No he isn’t
He's from the same cultural milieu. No surprise he sounds similar.
No there’s definitely some put on dawkins in there
Yeah that's his normal voice, just with a different cadence
The voice and accent killed me! xD
Vasco Quaresma - That's just David Mitchell's normal accent. It's the mannerisms and way of speaking that he does so well.
That is a damn good Richard Dawkins impression.
Wow, if it was only a sound clip I would have been sure they got the real Dawkins to do it.
It wasn't. There was video, too. Didn't it come through for you? Shame, that contributed a lot to the humor.
@@jamesmcinnis208 please learn to read, james.
@@MrLego3160 Ah, the confident (and snide!) miscorrection.
@@jamesmcinnis208 i see you still haven't learnt to read.
@@MrLego3160 And I see your policy is to insist rather than reexamine.
Hahaha. Why do people think David Mitchell is imitating Dawkins voice? This is how Mitchell always talks.
i think thats the joke
@@globalincident694 ??
The real gem in this sketch is how well David Mitchell nails the Dawkins impression, spot on from tone to content
He does a damn well Richard Dawkins impression if I may say so
There're a lot of people in this comments section saying this is a great RD impression... is it just me, or is David Mitchell just talking how David Mitchell always talks, and all of the people saying it's such a great impression just can't distinguish between different English people?
No no he definetly watched a few RD clips and he copied some of the mannerisms, you are right in he doesnt actually imitate the voice but he does speaks as RD would in his own normal voice, using his pitch highs and lows whilst speaking normally, also some good mannerism copying seem to give of the illusion that the voices are the same.
You're totally correct. He sounds like this in everything I've ever seen with him in.
yes, and of course they both already have pretty much the same accent
Yeh exactly, upper middle class English people all sound quite similar, he's just talking as he normally does. Wee bit bemused by the comments myself
@@dave8323 If you don't see the - admittedly rather subtle - changes Mitchell makes to his natural accent, that's not a reason to be disrespectful to others.
The way he stresses the word "civilisation", for example, at 1:21(-ish) is clearly Dawkins and distinctly not Mitchell.
A fantastic impression of Dawkins!
It really is an amazing impersonation. That disdainful sigh around 1:12 looked EXACTLY like Dawkins during an interview with Bill O'Reilly.
I would really like a show where hardcore skeptics go around to haunted houses and cursesd objects and see if stuff happens.
I routinely spend nights in graveyards photographing stars. While the camera is doing its stuff I'm usually on my back looking at the sky with binoculars. Graveyards tend to be isolated where I live, never illuminated and quiet which makes them useful to me.
Cant say any of the residents have complained. No strange images from the camera etc.
there is a reason such shows don't exist: showing you two hours of "nothing's happening" and "well, this was a complete waste of time" would be boring. like, very, very boring.
I have seen Dawkins go around debunking astrology, Tarot readings, psychics, healing crystals, etc.
RKBock That basically is the ghost hunting shows out there. It's an hour of people overreacting with dramatic editing but ending up with nothing much to show for it all. I used to find it entertaining because of that.
rottworks
yeah... you didn't get what i meant... (no offense)
the shows don't show you "nothing". they show you this overreaction and "supernatural things". yes, it is pointless and bull, but it is entertaining for some people. what i mean is, a show where they would go into a "haunted house" and simply not react to anything scientifically explainable, or in other words: not react to anything.
Wow his Dawkins is good.
Oh dear! That was a bit of a shock. I thought I was the only one rolling the batteries around in the remote.
No laugh track and still as good
Benjamino If a sketch doesn't have a laugh track, it is generally better than one that does.
"Well I think they have."
Such a great show.
Why did they drop it just for this one sketch?
Katzen33 - What if they didn’t and everyone in the audience just didn’t find it funny?
Katzen33 I think it’s because it’s a deleted sketch
Good impression throughout but 0:33 - 0:36 is fucking pitch perfect.
“The Haunted House Delusion” is a brilliant idea !
I think they should do a short amazon series. He has to stay overnight in haunted places alone. Only with mic and hidden cameras.
Already been done by 4 teens and a talking dog.
@@Level1Hera funnier with a know it all professor.
David Mitchell, the man of two voices
Wow, he does Richard Dawkins voice really really well. I've been trying to imitate it and it never seems to come out quite right.
They are so funny you sometimes forget how talented they are, and how talented they must have been to get the best actors to work with them.
"Those guys aren't pussies... not like the Muslims!"
Aha, fantastic joke. And I when I heard it I thought I hope Muslims understand and find jokes like that funny too. Because that's a classic bit of provocative satire with only good intentions :)
***** ..What? Do you not understand? It's quite simple.
***** A little superfluous yeah, but you have to admit that humour like this is often taken the wrong way. Putting a little bit of emphasis in the comment section on the nonsense and irony of jokes like this might, just might help someone appreciate it in a different light.. Unnecessary yes, but unfortunately the risque comedy we love in this country can be misconstrued.
As a Muslim yes it is a funny sketch
You, Amadeus, are god damn awesome.
Bainbow because he didn't want to cut off someone's head for saying something about his fairytale? Wow, looks like I must be a saint!
Definitely been rolling the batteries around in my hi-fi remote for years! Still going :)
He actually nailed Dawkin’s accent perfectly
"actually"
I hope Dawkins saw this. XD
I'm gonna be honest, I came here for the comments section...
Depends. Do you have any cheddar?
+WanderingRandomer There's not much call for that around here.
"Richard a lot of your readers would have gone with a crystal skulls book if your publishers had had the clout to get it closer to the tills". Lol. So true.
What an excellent Dawkins impression. That was beautiful.
1:02 that was so spot on 😂😂 that is EXACTLY how Dawkins would react to that 😂😂
Now that I've seen this, I really can't stop thinking about whether there is someone like Richard Dawkins or not.
There is one
Blimey, David does a good Dawkins impression.
That's such a perfect Dawkins impression with the script and the voice!
That's a very reasonable way to look at things :)
thank you!
It's always nice to find some intelligent conversation on the internet
Oh bollocks! I have an old second hand receiver with a remote which came with some obscure brand batteries called "Robust - Extra heavy duty" and when it fails I usually just give a nudge or tap to the battery lock and lo and behold it works again! It also works if I roll the batteries. Now I can just imagine having instead Duracell batteries. Then the remote would work for millions of years. When the imminent Ragnarök Apocalypse will wipe the earth and the survivors will find those remotes with Duracell batteries they will still work. Or the sage of the tribe will impart his wisdom on the subject: "It has been told that the Ancient Ones rolled the batteries to give them more life. The rolling was as a sort of prayer and meditation towards the god of electricity which the Ancient Ones called Nikola Tesla."
Stefan B. Mr. Rodin, gypsum is not for sniffing.
Izolda G
Sure it is, but it's an acquired taste.
Rolling ‘em scratches off corrosion and improves contact resistance between battery and terminal. It really does work, some of the time.
not likely that Dawkins believes in batteries either
The pizza express thing just became my favourite joke in history!
"It's not a question of belief", Sounded just like him.
"That's already the consensus, so we can't do that" spectacular
Was going to comment on how good David’s Dawkins was but I see that you all have noticed.
Good on you and good job David.
Your "but" is redundant: you did "comment on how good David’s Dawkins was".
@@nemo6686 No, I actually didn't 🙁
I just pointed out that others have 🤨
@@AColonDashSix Actually, you did; there's even a name for the rhetorical trick of mentioning something by claiming you're not mentioning it - it's called 'apophasis'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
@@nemo6686 That doesn't actually apply since I never denied brining up the subject or denied my intention.
It would be if I were to say
"I wasn't going to comment at all but ... "
However, if I deny doing something specific, you would have to point out that specific statement, a statement I didn't make.
@@AColonDashSix You commented on how good David's Dawkins was. There's not much else I can do to make it clearer. Your "that doesn't actually apply since..." is utter nonsense. The real mystery is why you bother to argue something so plain and of so little consequence.
Richard Dawkins, the Archbishop of Atheism.
Damn! That's a spot-on impression!👍
That is a spot on impression of Dawkins!
Pretty sure that's just David Mitchell's normal voice and not an impression.Also other than mildly posh English I'm not sure it really is a good impression. Maybe we all sound the same to Americans
YOU'RE FLOGGING A DEAD GOD
I thought that reference might have been a bit Nietzsche for most people :P
+Aethelwyrn Black *Badumtish*
I would buy The Wimpy Delusion and The Free Lunch Delusion in a heartbeat.
He nails this impression!
It's not Mitchell who is doing a good Dawkins voice impression. It's Dawkins with a good Mitchell mask.
There's a Wimpy in Basingstoke too.
But is Basingstoke real? It doesn’t sound real
That's a wicked-good voice impression.
Just great. Thanks.
I'm American and I can tell he's doing a good job with this impression :)
I actually remember going to a Catholic group discussion thing (I was suckered in by free food xd ) and they had bought and were discussing the God Delusion . The dude next to me had all pencil notes and highlighted passages and the priest was attempting to explain something about infinite turtles proving that abortion was evil. Bit bonkers but nice people.
It's necessary to speak analogically, but atheists clearly don't take their own beliefs seriously. If it's all just random fluctuations of matter, just randomness, none of it matters and there's nothing to ground normative statements on. It also doesn't make sense that Dawkins treats religion as this random mind virus when it is clearly adaptive behavior. He could even get around his personal problems with it by treating it as a group level metaphor that centers the group, but he doesn't even consider this for some reason.
@@TheThreatenedSwan And we should be courteous to each other and analyze rationally instead of entrenching into our tribes. I apologize for mocking the infinite turtles analogy. (I am aware this is a youtube comment section and we are not supposed to be civilized or admit error, but I am genuinely reflecting that I shouldn't have been laughing at them)
@@anonanon6764 I'm thinking that's just about infinite regression. The world on a turtle thing was popularized by Guns, Germs and Steel
@@TheThreatenedSwan I guess the opinion behind my original mockery was that fundamental truths about the world require tremendous effort, standing on the shoulders of giants to observe, hypothesize, research the reality of the world around us. Not playing word games and making abstract logical theories while talking about ancient literature.
"It's necessary to speak analogically, but atheists clearly don't take their own beliefs seriously." What beliefs? Atheism has no inherent beliefs.@@TheThreatenedSwan
David Mitchell’s Dawkins impersonation is brilliant.
What a perfect Dawkins impression, wow!
I can't believe they actually got Dawkins to do a sketch with them. By the way, what happened to his face? Did he have a plastic surgery?
Nazor no they're the same person mate. I mean have you ever seen them both together? I certainly have not! I think the reason they look different when acting out his different personas is a visual illusion.
@@eddienerphy5788 So Richard Dawkins is a baddy?
The real delusion is believing Richard Dawkins is real. I can see now that he's just a character David Mitchell uses in some of his sketches.
I wish they'd commissioned that Pizza Express exposé. Dawkins would have nailed it.
These guys are great.
That Dawkins impression is surprisingly great!
Its much better without the laugh track
But how else are you supposed to know when to laugh?
JayFe0 im not American so its not an issue
"You're flogging a dead god" is a fucking brilliant joke.
I'm a Christian and I found that funny
Is this a deleted scene?
+slkgfj I don't know because it's not from "Look" or "Situation", at least not any that aired.
slkgfj Thought the exact same thing, never seen this before!
All Mitchell's doing is putting on a posher accent, it's basically his exact voice but more royal. Calm yourself.
if you can keep yer shit together that's science for you!
Disturbingly... I have both of those jackets.
Me too. The Oxfam delusion.
God, Davids impersonation of Richard is flawless!!!
It's impressive that this show commented on the heart of the New Atheism movement, and why it merged so smoothly with the Alt-Right: ""That's not why it sells, Richard; people like the denying, the censensus smashing". And lo and behold, the denial of global warming, the moon landing, and even a round Earth (something too ridiculous even for 2010) have all taken an ideological stand beside the supposed rational thinkers.
Trump called himself best thing since Jesus. New American god confirmed.
Trump says "Jesus, what a loser." He will regret his words and his fake show of faith very soon, Jesus is back messiahsword.weebly.com All things that can be known are made manifest in the Book that will never decay (being digital) “The Nature of Energy” (Barnes & Noble, 2020) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nature-of-energy-patrick-boardman/1136605760?ean=2940163956876
Quantum Theory states: [m=E/c² where E=∞=God]
(Note: Outside variables such as the Dirac Antimatter equation would consider this equivalency first in the order of operations. Matter is finite with infinite potential to balance out to zero in the particle-antiparticle annihilation process.) Energy equals infinity equals God, the matrix of all matter and the Creator of all units of consciousness.
he's obviously never heard of the Beatles
God Davide NAILED Dawkins! Even the voice is almost perfect!
Outstanding move
"I've seen a ghost, that was weird. I don't believe in ghosts but I've definitely seen one, do you believe in ghosts?"
"No."
"Well there we go then, "The Ghost Delusion.""
Lmfao brilliant
Someone should turn up at a Dawkins signing with a mock-up of this.
The battery thing definitely works
Can confirm. I rubbed it on my jeans then put them back in again. A week later it started leaking. But it works!
xJLM if your jeans are leaking, perhaps try an adult diaper
Well played. But I will eat your popplers.
"Preaching to the unconverted" 🤣
Dawkins voice is spot on.
If there is something I don't get about David Mitchell then it's his misconstrued dislike of atheism. I don't mind him not calling himself an atheist, but he's claimed numerous times that the position of Dawkins and other famous atheists is that "they know that there isn't a god", which according to Mithcell, is ludicrous. For a man who apparently loves correctness and even pedantry, one would think that he would have heard at least one of the millions of atheists pointing to the dictonary definition "atheists do not believe in god" and thus ending his straw man. I'm such a huge Mitchell fan, and also an atheist, so this really grinds my gears.
is there DEFINITELY a "sea"?!
marshmallowbudgie I mean my theory is that there’s no such thing as “the sea”, just a bunch of separate small bits of water in roughly the same area.
The free lunch delusion, gotta give u guys that one, hilarious
His Dawkins impression is excellent!
"Christ!"
"You've already done him he comes under God"
ROFL
"That's not what sells, people like the denying..." That sums up his popularity perfectly. People just want to feel better than others and by belittling theists they do so.
+Reece Swaby Yeah, it has absolutely nothing to do with the demonstrably damaging effects of delusional beliefs. Keep on hating gays, opposing reproductive rights, science education and generally fucking up the world because of your superstitious programming.
Fucktard. "Belittling" - indeed. It's not exactly unreasonable to demand that people have actual reasons for what they believe when the actions resulting from those beliefs apparently are solely damaging to society. Nor is it unreasonable to call people out on the fact that they in fact can't answer such demands *yet still insist that their baseless delusions are somehow deserving of respect*. That stuff is the sign of a sick and polluted mind. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm actually an atheist and it isn't just theists who are homophobic dogmatic or hold any other damaging beliefs
+Reece Swaby And the glorious sound of "oooh, snap," could be heard across the world.
+Reece Swaby That's probably true of some people, but not, I suspect, the majority.
Buffoon1980 definitely not the majority thankfully
He really nailed that Dawkins voice!
It's David Mitchell's normal voice. It's not an impersonation.
@@DaBIONICLEFan It may sound the same as David Mitchell's natural speaking voice to you, but it very much isn't. This why the majority of people are commenting with praise for David's impersonation. I can hear some similarity, but David has changed his cadence, vocal rhythm, speed, accent, and most extraordinarily, vocal tone. It's probably easier for me to hear the nuances, having studied music and Mandarin tones.
"But it's an empirical fact! The planets didn't come to us, we came to them! Just look at the stars!"
- Richard Dawkins, 28 June 2008