It really is a case of “The unstoppable force vs The Immovable Object”; the only winners are us, the audience, who get to enjoy it haha. All the best. 😀👍
I've gone quite a while without using an alarm clock when I've been unemployed. The problems with using my circadian rhythms alone are a) I get different amounts of sleep from day to day (and somehow never seem to get enough), and b) I cycle through being up during the day and up during the night. I can see why some sort of standardization is required. We could never interact with each other in a meaningful way or get a society going if everyone just slept whenever their body told them to.
I would question whether this is because of other factors and not necessarily the lack of regulation - from an evolutionary standpoint humans shouldn’t need alarm clocks or to follow standardised time to reap the benefits of good sleep. Ideally, sleeping in a room with a lot of access to natural lighting should wake you up with the sunrise. Obviously this would get you up at an earlier time in the summer than in the winter, but our biology doesn’t account for the arbitrary structure of working hours. Setting a regular bedtime can also help to adjust your circadian rhythm to your daily routine, though it can’t always guarantee a regular wake-up time. Sleep can also be less effective when there are sounds around you, when the temperature is too hot or too cold, when your bed is uncomfortable or when there is too much light, even if it doesn’t wake you up, it is likely to make it harder to fall into deeper sleep. Similarly, anxiety or the stress of modern life affects sleep through both mental and physical symptoms - therapy and/or mindfulness are most effective to mitigate the effects of these, but switching caffeine for a herbal tea of lavender or chamomile before bed can induce calming effects in the short term. It’s unlikely that the lack of an alarm clock would be the largest hurdle to getting effective sleep, as it’s more natural for us than waking up with an alarm, and there are plenty of external factors which do actively disrupt our sleeping patterns.
I know; I thought for a while about trying to do what Edison supposedly did, and sleep an hour every four (the hypothesis being that the first hour after you go to sleep is the most fruitful), but I could only do that if I were a self-employed inventor that didn't have to interface with the schedule of regular people.
How funny. My cousin informed me, when I was very small. That raw liver on a plate, was my older sisters gum trimmings. I totally believed him at the time! Lol
I wish we had this show in the US. I just happened to stumble across these videos and I would totally watch this every week. But not a lame American copy. I want the real thing
In The Netherlands they tried, did not work at all. Something about a lack of genius presenters like Stephen and Sandy. Thank got we got different shows just as brilliant but different set up.
They recently did find out why you need to sleep. If you are sleeping your brain starts clearing out built up garbage, its sorta like the lympathic system but for the brain. It just took us a long time to discover it.
I haven't seen the shark episode before. I'm feeling like David had to chime in at the end. "Is that really a good comparison? Are there really as many people swimming in the ocean around the world at this very minute than people standing near a cow in Britain?"
I have sleep disturbances and without an alarm clock I still don't get enough sleep. Not having an alarm clock doesn't stop you being woken up by other sounds, dreams, physical sensations etc.
Yeah...as children we do sometimes have very strange reactions. I once in choir saw somenody throw up and my reaction to it was not, oh that's disgusting but rather I think he had meatballs given that you could see them there and my brother found that so funny he just kept laughing and reapeating the same line.
Now let me see…. Is it TWO? Or maybe TOO???? Your question is great! (My jokey answer, though, is too lame; maybe I should try two times to see if I can do better.)
In the first clip, that wasn't a composition of the two faces. They just took select features from both and made a new image out of them. Completely different techniques.
I still remember the kid who wrote into SMTV Live and said his dad would fart into a biscuit tin and when the kid had a friend over, the dad would offer them a biscuit from it lol
@@hashtag_thisguy:... no, incorrect. There is an episode of Would I Lie To Tou, where a statement David made, referred to him owning a SPECIFIC dressing gown for travel. This statement turned out to be TRUE and that is what our friend was referring to in their comment.
Well, OK about the sharks vs. cows. But most people don't go deep-sea swimming all that much, do they? And when they do spot a shark swimming close to shore, all bathers are warned out of the water. On the other hand, city-dwellers especially are under entirely the wrong impression about cows and are remarkably incautious when they're around them.
Not sure about the 17hours no sleep = 2glasses of red wine, i recently stayed up that long doing a uni assignment and only made a few spelling mistakes, but kept awake after it finished for a total of 32 hours without sleep and was still alert and actually doing much better on my mates Cod than i normally would be😂
After 24 hours it's supposed to be as bad as if you'd had half a bottle of scotch. After 32 hours I can only assume that everything you thought was happening was some kind of wild delusion :P
that's a Venn Diagram to be had. let's test it out. 10 sharks in the water 10 cows on the beach. are you likely to get stomped to death or chomped to death?
We sleep, because there are tigers out there at night. And we can't see and they can. So safest thing, put us under. Otherwise most guys anyway, would be blundering around out there and probably eaten. Oh, and Alphabet Soup dates back to 1886 at least. So Freud could certainly have known about it.
I could watch this show forever, it is just so entertaining.
One of the great heavyweight intellectual rivalries of the 21st century - David Mitchell vs. the Elves.
It really is a case of “The unstoppable force vs The Immovable Object”; the only winners are us, the audience, who get to enjoy it haha.
All the best. 😀👍
Someone needs to learn the answer to the question of what "too" means.
Don't hold your breath waiting for proper grammar to arrive online. You'll turn pretty bluel!😁
Simon McAuliffe unless they mean also, then you are correct.
I feel the same way to
mcsuibhne005 I see what you did there
And “ to which” and “ won’t”....
9:35 The joy when I realised Alan was about to launch into an animal impression! 🤣
Alan's auditioning for Doctor Who. "I'm regenerating!"
I love it when Alan comments and Sandy goes silent for a moment.
No one seemed to noticed the brutal "piano lid" roast xD
One of the harshest things I've ever heard Stephen say. Lol
What did it mean?
@@chamber0461 hes saying her teeth look like piano keys
I think everyone noticed it. Bad boy.
Surprisingly thoughtless and very unkind.
I've gone quite a while without using an alarm clock when I've been unemployed. The problems with using my circadian rhythms alone are a) I get different amounts of sleep from day to day (and somehow never seem to get enough), and b) I cycle through being up during the day and up during the night. I can see why some sort of standardization is required. We could never interact with each other in a meaningful way or get a society going if everyone just slept whenever their body told them to.
Boy is all that true
I would question whether this is because of other factors and not necessarily the lack of regulation - from an evolutionary standpoint humans shouldn’t need alarm clocks or to follow standardised time to reap the benefits of good sleep. Ideally, sleeping in a room with a lot of access to natural lighting should wake you up with the sunrise. Obviously this would get you up at an earlier time in the summer than in the winter, but our biology doesn’t account for the arbitrary structure of working hours. Setting a regular bedtime can also help to adjust your circadian rhythm to your daily routine, though it can’t always guarantee a regular wake-up time. Sleep can also be less effective when there are sounds around you, when the temperature is too hot or too cold, when your bed is uncomfortable or when there is too much light, even if it doesn’t wake you up, it is likely to make it harder to fall into deeper sleep. Similarly, anxiety or the stress of modern life affects sleep through both mental and physical symptoms - therapy and/or mindfulness are most effective to mitigate the effects of these, but switching caffeine for a herbal tea of lavender or chamomile before bed can induce calming effects in the short term. It’s unlikely that the lack of an alarm clock would be the largest hurdle to getting effective sleep, as it’s more natural for us than waking up with an alarm, and there are plenty of external factors which do actively disrupt our sleeping patterns.
I know; I thought for a while about trying to do what Edison supposedly did, and sleep an hour every four (the hypothesis being that the first hour after you go to sleep is the most fruitful), but I could only do that if I were a self-employed inventor that didn't have to interface with the schedule of regular people.
Sandy is so wholesome when she giggles unexpectedly 😂
That is not what that word means!
{:o:O:}
Roger McGough is an absolute legend, I grew up reading his poems.
How funny. My cousin informed me, when I was very small. That raw liver on a plate, was my older sisters gum trimmings. I totally believed him at the time! Lol
😂I actually lol’d at this
Those guys at the klaxon really have a thing for David Mitchell
I wish we had this show in the US. I just happened to stumble across these videos and I would totally watch this every week. But not a lame American copy. I want the real thing
You could call it “God damn pinkos and their fancy book learnin’” (until the inauguration).
You may also want to check out a programme called "Have I got news for you "
@@bustedfender I don’t know if it’s still on or not, but the tRumper version would be called “ Are you smarter than a 5th Grader”!
In The Netherlands they tried, did not work at all. Something about a lack of genius presenters like Stephen and Sandy. Thank got we got different shows just as brilliant but different set up.
It's was on Netflix last I checked so use a vpn set to UK and you should be good to go
“Cheese-y movements” is going to be my next band name!
For me the scariest part of the shark video is looking down the void that is its throat
For me its the eyes, and when it first comes in sight out of the blue
To be fair, if you don’t sleep you will die, so there’s clearly some evolutionary advantage to sleep
But why does it kill us? That's the chin-stroking question here. Fish don't sleep, so why do we, and most other animals, need to?
They recently did find out why you need to sleep.
If you are sleeping your brain starts clearing out built up garbage, its sorta like the lympathic system but for the brain. It just took us a long time to discover it.
@@MrPbhuh but why does it kill us?
@@martinmaguire-music6692 we aren't fish tho either.
That’s a myth
David enjoys winding up the elfs
All sharks should sound like a happy, friendly Joe Lycett
Mr. Wibbley-Wobbley himself...
I haven't seen the shark episode before. I'm feeling like David had to chime in at the end. "Is that really a good comparison? Are there really as many people swimming in the ocean around the world at this very minute than people standing near a cow in Britain?"
That was my first thought as well.
Recorded on a Gravestone.
"Where ere you be let your Wind go free.
Church or Chapel, let it Rattle, for that was the Death of Me".
I have sleep disturbances and without an alarm clock I still don't get enough sleep. Not having an alarm clock doesn't stop you being woken up by other sounds, dreams, physical sensations etc.
"Cheesy Movements" would be a good name for a Jazz Fusion album
RadonX9 or cheese flavoured laxatives.
@@TheDGAF06 oh dear 😆
"Two-fingered kitkat" must be a euphemism
I knew a girl when I was at school whose nickname was kit-kat.
Because you get four fingers in a kit-kat.
@@jonb4155 good god
@@geniewa1651 Yeah. We weren't very nice kids.
That's how you get 'chocolate' on your fingers 😅
It's true, I was surfing when attacked by a cow.
I was killed instantly.
So sorry for your loss. If it's any consolation, that cow was found guilty of culpable ho-moo-cide and turned into tasty burgers.
Cows: Placid when on land, maniacal when in water!
Cats must have very clean brains.
I wanted to see the shark footage with the Benny Hill theme music.
At 25% speed.
Yes, please.
Yakety sax
We play with our food because we learn through our senses, "sensory play" also why we lock windows etc lol. We touch, taste smell everything.
We touch, taste smell everything - not to mention see & hear as well LOL
All we know about the world is what our senses tell us
Sandi eyeing up that seat
I stayed up for over 72 hours once. Before I finally crashed I was hallucinating incredibly.
Anything interesting?
Plot Twist: You are still awake and hallucinating!
Yeah...as children we do sometimes have very strange reactions. I once in choir saw somenody throw up and my reaction to it was not, oh that's disgusting but rather I think he had meatballs given that you could see them there and my brother found that so funny he just kept laughing and reapeating the same line.
Question 1: How do you spell to?
Too
*KLAXON*
Without referring to this Question how do you spell "Mississippi"?
2
Now let me see…. Is it TWO? Or maybe TOO???? Your question is great! (My jokey answer, though, is too lame; maybe I should try two times to see if I can do better.)
If 17 hours is equivalent to 2 glasses of wine me driving after being awake for 36 must be a death wish lol
@Jorj I see I don't know I kind of hallucinate anytime of the day so
I used to do 24hour solo mountain bike races. The best performers are the ones who cope with the hallucinations best.
The shark panel is one of my favorites
Gumdresser just never fails to make me burst out laughing. It's so gross.
always Quality with Noel. innit
It happened to me
In the first clip, that wasn't a composition of the two faces. They just took select features from both and made a new image out of them. Completely different techniques.
The composite barely changed anything
Stephen Fry would whip your ass for the mis-use of the word too 😂
I still remember the kid who wrote into SMTV Live and said his dad would fart into a biscuit tin and when the kid had a friend over, the dad would offer them a biscuit from it lol
I actually figured out the shark and music instantly.
2:20 I reckon the reason the more attractive female golfers were better was just because they got more time and tutorage spent on them.
*GASP!!!!!* Are you suggesting that sexism exists in some quarters? Surely not, not in this day and age! ; )
@@andyparsons6293 sexism isn’t allowed
Mr. Mark Steele should be given more air time & I demand a revolution to achieve this
Is David wearing his special travel dressing gown in this one?
It's just a dressing gown
@@hashtag_thisguy:... no, incorrect. There is an episode of Would I Lie To Tou, where a statement David made, referred to him owning a SPECIFIC dressing gown for travel. This statement turned out to be TRUE and that is what our friend was referring to in their comment.
@@michaelrawson6261 and the other guy was referencing what Mitchell said immediately after
I think he is. 😂
I've said this before, and I'll say it again, Holly Walsh is just unbelievably cute!!!
As is Aisling Bea!!!!
5 QUESTIONS YOU WONT KNOW THE ANSWERS TOO needs to be changed to "5 QUESTIONS YOU WONT KNOW THE ANSWERS TO" for the correct spelling
WON'T, actually.
*to which you won't know the answer.
Or a comma after "questions."
Nice try.
Martin Dubyah So you’re one of those then?
Merging Alan and Johnny turned into Susan Boyle!
"What is the most frightening thing in this video?"
Me: The shark...
Listen here you two, and yes I'm talking to you, too. I'd like you to meet Desmond Tutu, who is wearing a tutu.
Ha, I have watched the episodes before so I do know the answers to some of these
Only listened to 2 so far and knew the answer to one of them.
Well, OK about the sharks vs. cows. But most people don't go deep-sea swimming all that much, do they? And when they do spot a shark swimming close to shore, all bathers are warned out of the water. On the other hand, city-dwellers especially are under entirely the wrong impression about cows and are remarkably incautious when they're around them.
You don't need to be deep-sea swimming for sharks, and a lot of beaches around the world don't have lifeguards.
Watching Sandi Toksvig makes you realise just how entertaining Steven Fry is.
and you cry about Frankie Boyle no longer being on Mock the Week too
I can't recall ever spelling out the name of some other food with Alphabetti Spaghetti! What a massive missed opportunity! 😢
Alphabetti Spaghetti is still available - don't despair!
@@decodolly1535 Heehee, I know, but I accidentally bought spaghetti hoops in stead! 🤦♂️
I count myself lucky as I'm 47 and haven't started getting up during the night for a wee yet.
Oh you will my Son, you will!
One Time? depends if I had liquids after 8pm I can be up 3 or 4 times between 11 and 6. Dude, OLDE SUXXX. Don't Do It.
Done it many times. Usually after a nightmare
Alan and Johnny merged actually look like Fred Butcher from Corrie...
It's a 6am wee for me. Like clockwork.
BLUE WHALE
"Test you mind... MENTAL KOMBAT!"
Not sure about the 17hours no sleep = 2glasses of red wine, i recently stayed up that long doing a uni assignment and only made a few spelling mistakes, but kept awake after it finished for a total of 32 hours without sleep and was still alert and actually doing much better on my mates Cod than i normally would be😂
After 24 hours it's supposed to be as bad as if you'd had half a bottle of scotch. After 32 hours I can only assume that everything you thought was happening was some kind of wild delusion :P
@@veryanonymous3630 haha, nah, i was in the company of other non-sleep deprived individuals who could vouch.
"5 QUESTIONS YOU WONT KNOW THE ANSWERS AS WELL AS..." Well done kids, it's to not too.
If your cheese starts moving on its own, it might be time to just throw it away.
"A cow is more likely to do you in than a shark"... But surely not at the beach.
that's a Venn Diagram to be had. let's test it out. 10 sharks in the water 10 cows on the beach. are you likely to get stomped to death or chomped to death?
With the shark I said music Ironically and it was right xD
I was tempted to make that point too but i feel like I shouldn’t judge.
If you ever seen the film De Lift you know the music makes its scarry
Facebook is blocking me from sharing, While i can understand Best of Jimmy Carr, why is *this* one deemed offensive?
I love the comment section. People say the funniest things. You know who you are 🤣🤣🤣, keep them coming 👏👏👏👏
lol I actually do have a disease where my gums continuously grow. It's not the fleshy part, but the bone structure underneath.
Butchered "Maiken Nedergaard" 😂
there`s only one way to store your records autobiographically
or metaphorically
Excellent idea. I never thought of that.
Dermatoglyphically...
I didn't know the answers tooo....
3:33 ...and let's not forget the "Director's Rip"--I mean "Cut". XD
All these people commenting on the misspelled "too". Has no-one noticed the omission of the apostrophe from "won't"?
Why is Alan Davis sitting at a school desk,I think I missed that episode
Following as I’d also like to know what episode that is.
The music. Knew it.
I know enough to not use "too" in place of "to"
"To".
"Too"?
too?!
Alan Davies never knows when to stop.
Couldn't agree more.
Glad of It. Keep the Laughs Rolling.
@@RIXRADvidz But it's not funny.
We sleep, because there are tigers out there at night. And we can't see and they can. So safest thing, put us under. Otherwise most guys anyway, would be blundering around out there and probably eaten.
Oh, and Alphabet Soup dates back to 1886 at least. So Freud could certainly have known about it.
Technically the safest thing to do would have been to evolve night vision
Humans killed by sharks, around 10 per year.
Sharks killed by humans (indirectly and directly) around 11,417 per hour
Who's the Daddy?
“5 Questions you won’t know the answer also”.
And your title is incorrect I knew the answer was that the music was the most scary 8:35
A true genius in our midst
@@bertiesaurus why thank you. I do music at college so it's the 1st thing I think of
@@Ethan-Entah never took social classes huh
1:00 Why has Sandi got one eye two inches above the other?
have a break, have a kit-kat
Elderly people would not sleep at night but watch the fire .
'Too.'
Anyone else see Big Ed? When they mixed Alan and Johny.
One o in the word to.
*To
Question #1: What is the difference between the words "too" and "to".
the vid title is misspelled
Who's the chap in the green leather jacket at 14 minutes?
The scariest thing about sharks is the ominous music played when they appear on tv
No. No it isn’t. It isn’t at all. It’s not even top 10
10:08 Don't forget the ugly nighttime fish. "No! Don't look at me! Don't look at me!"
too?
Stephen has the most attractive hands.
TOO?
to*
What is the name of the uplifting music in the shark part
It’s, IIRC, the Pastoral section of the William Tell or the 1812 Overture.
@@samiam619 No, it's "Morning Mood" from the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg.
“To”
Okay... So why have several people posted “To or Too”?