part of what makes this so funny and one of my favourite 'possession' segments is the fact that David Doherty already had a difficult story to sell about bird leg warmers but he deliberately chose to massively escalate the difficulty level to 'swan leg warmers' for purely comedic effect and it really paid off. If you look at his other contributions on WILTY you will notice that he doesn't care about winning but more about creating bizarre and ridiculous stories to entertain the audience
"Maybe a swan could be able to slip that over it's foot, and maybe a swan would derive tremendous warmth from this incredibly thin and flimsy, and short piece of material going an inconsiderable distance up its really rather long leg"
My brother and me have increased the amount of David Mitchell-ian banter in our common dialogue these recent weeks following our discovery of British panel shows. It has been a marvelous experience ever since.
The instant he took those out the box I recognised them as legwarmers from a particular Barbie I owned in the 80s... I wonder where the prop department found them!
One of them may have owned a Barbie when they were little and kept it either a memory of their childhood or to give to their daughter(or son-21st century progressiveness and all that)
The Queen and all Royalty, plus some other selected people (Stephen Fry, for example) are the only ones in UK allowed to eat the swans. Fry talks about it somewhere, in QI I think.
cluelesspixie no this is only partly true--- there are several species of swan in UK the queen has protective law only over one species The whistling one I think alto it is generally accepted that she owns them all this is not the real truth for all species
+Watty It's not easy to put legwarmers on a swan though. I'd say nearly impossible. I worked (when I was 12) in a birdshelter for about a year and had to hold swans, peacocks and geese. And those had been sedated ór were injured. And still, you literally hat to sit on their backs if they were big, to stop them from jumping up and running off. They're very strong.
Try watching David Mitchell slowly turning the same colour as the background, great fun.
2:27 😅
LOL Look at his face at 0:38 when David says "A swan?!" and he's just like "I immediately regret this decision..."
He's trying to stifle laughter.
part of what makes this so funny and one of my favourite 'possession' segments is the fact that David Doherty already had a difficult story to sell about bird leg warmers but he deliberately chose to massively escalate the difficulty level to 'swan leg warmers' for purely comedic effect and it really paid off. If you look at his other contributions on WILTY you will notice that he doesn't care about winning but more about creating bizarre and ridiculous stories to entertain the audience
1:21 "It's like OJ Simpson, stick it on there." Underrated line. If the leg warmers don't fit, you must acquit.
I love you David Mitchell. I think I would annoy you if we ever met, but I love you.
Rob under appreciated for his line “did you mean a sparrow?” So good.
1. The whole crowd laughed, should they have been gasping for breath?
2. Everyone in the entire world expected someone to say that, it's not clever.
I derived tremendous warmth from liking this video.
"I AM SO MERRY"
"And I'd just like to say, Rob, if it's true, I don't care!"
Fantastic bit of comic delivery
I have said this to people in that delivery, just hoping that someone will connect it. It really stuck out to me for some reason.
his face during mitchells swan interrogation is priceless
"Maybe a swan could be able to slip that over it's foot, and maybe a swan would derive tremendous warmth from this incredibly thin and flimsy, and short piece of material going an inconsiderable distance up its really rather long leg"
I think it's true!
@@masterdon187 DON’T SAY THAT
" A SWAN ! I died laughing and had to stop and start the video three times after that line !
THEY BREAK YOUR ARM, AND THEN THE QUEEN EATS THEM.
You know, I do have to decide on a senior quote for high school...
But does she eat the swans or the arms? Or both?!
Lostariael ...so did you go with this
Sierra Teate I considered it, but instead went with something from Gandalf. Should've done something funnier.
I remembered this when Lee cracked a swan joke about Prince Charles.
"DON'T SAY THAT! That's what happens to your mind in this game!" 😆
2:03
their hands
DON'T SAY THAT
If you tried to do anything to a swans leg it would put you in hospital. They are vicious birds. I KNOW
Michael Naisbitt Me too. A Swan bit me when I was three.
+Michael Naisbitt No, they raise their wings up and then nod their head as if to say "make me leg warmers".
David Mitchell's rants always cheer me up :)
It was over as soon as he uttered swan, David was on him like a rash 😂
My brother and me have increased the amount of David Mitchell-ian banter in our common dialogue these recent weeks following our discovery of British panel shows.
It has been a marvelous experience ever since.
I love how Carol's only contribution along the three-minute long video was basically dying of laughter.
Those are 100% Barbie leg warmers.
Ayo MazRotti Oh you're right! That's exactly what they are hehehe 😂😂😂 I'm sure she'd lend her leg warmers to birds if they needed them 🤣🤣
Action man willy warmers
I love that David starts his questioning at an 11 and he just barely calms down.
lmao i love david o'doherty, he always makes his lies so hard on himself. of all the birds, why did he say swan???? lmaoooo
At the end "Oh thank God!"
2:05 the face of someone who _just_ realized he could have said he made them for his pet canary.
What I love here is that he could have claimed they were for a budgie, but no, that would be too easy.
Can't stop laughing. I'm so happy I wached this a second time. Missed the:¨It's like O.J. Simpson¨ the first time.
Where? :)
@@TorilAzzalini-Machecler 1:20 :)
Never seen David get so worked up haha.
Try watching the clip from QI when they asked "When was the first world war named?"
Try the one where someone (I think Armando Ianucci?) was on WILTY telling a story about baboons...
@@junbh2 Yes, Armando Iannucci, answering David for the umpteenth time: "IN THE BABOON ENCLOSURE!!" David: "As I suspected."
I love how David tries to contain his laughter!
David O'Doherty's laugh is so funny and catching! Got to love it
The instant he took those out the box I recognised them as legwarmers from a particular Barbie I owned in the 80s... I wonder where the prop department found them!
One of them may have owned a Barbie when they were little and kept it either a memory of their childhood or to give to their daughter(or son-21st century progressiveness and all that)
The woman in turquoise.. if I know anything about her in any clips is that she is always laughing.. what a delightful person
Carol Kirkwood, weather presenter on BBC 1
This and David O'Doherty's hypnotist therapy one....hilarious!
How did rob miss the opportunity to say "Well David, it's time to take a gander".
I mean, it was right there!
I've watched this clip at least a dozen times and I'm just now hearing the OJ Simpson line 😂😂
0:32 when David manages to chuckle through his nostrils hahahaha
I think he's about to burst in laughter :D
David still hasn't come to terms with the Bob Mortimer egg story
And they would be so impractical when the swan wants to swim. Imagine it getting all wet and cold
Can someone explain for me story behind the "queen eats swans"-reference that seems to pop up in british talk shows all the time?
+Erik Hanssen By law, all the swans in the UK belong to the queen.
+Erik Hanssen No, you got it wrong mate. The swan breaks your arms and the queen eats [your arms]. Not the swans, the owns the swans.
The Queen and all Royalty, plus some other selected people (Stephen Fry, for example) are the only ones in UK allowed to eat the swans. Fry talks about it somewhere, in QI I think.
cluelesspixie no this is only partly true--- there are several species of swan in UK the queen has protective law only over one species The whistling one I think alto it is generally accepted that she owns them all this is not the real truth for all species
+Erik
I thought it was a joke as in...bee's or ants.
Like...they murder a beetle and then the ant-Queen eats it.
As if swans had a Queen as well.
I just kayaked by 3 swans and thought of this
1:10 David has killed me
The swans or the arms?
Rob. I'd just like to say, if it's true... I DON'T CARE. David abandoned all logic on this one
If he hadn't said they were for swans it might've been slightly more believable
David looks hot with the longer hair and his beard
Yasss glad someone noticed. A beard always improves a guy's looks
oh wait, WHICH DAVID?
vinyl hedgehog has to be david o'doherty. otherwise by noticing Mitchell's appearance you've made it noteworthy.
He looks like Hitler if that's your thing.
@@vinylhedgehog5574 yes....except Keanu Reeves. Lol
There's absolutely no way any bird can fit that tube over its foot.
0:19 he starts pretty cross
2:11
DON'T SAY THAT
A SWAN?!
00:44
O'Doherty might be the liar equivalent of Bob Mortimer's truths.
You, sir, are a genius - SUCH a brilliant (& underrated!) comment!!
what episode of wilty is this
Series Seven Episode Five
David Mitchell is a Christopher Hitchens/Graham Chapman hybrid.
I feel like David Mitchel has Anatidaephobia.
What's that?
Kate Battye
Irational fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you.
That's totally rational though
That word triggers my hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
**mentally whispers **: Nerrds!
lol if he had said a smaller bird they would have beleived him :)
I think he meant to say swallow.
A swan!!!!
Omg lol
If a swan tried to break your arm, it would break its wing, because the bone structure in a swan's wing isn't very strong.
+Watty
It's not easy to put legwarmers on a swan though. I'd say nearly impossible.
I worked (when I was 12) in a birdshelter for about a year and had to hold swans, peacocks and geese. And those had been sedated ór were injured.
And still, you literally hat to sit on their backs if they were big, to stop them from jumping up and running off. They're very strong.
Swans are quite cunning though, I expect they sub-contract out the actual arm breaking part of operation to distance themselves from any retribution
Send the arabs in to cover the 2 remaining old school chips 😂😭 ok
probably because the other david has a better beard.
BBY
Euh... context?
Should have edited out the reveal at the end to Torture people.
David O'Doherty > Bob Mortimer
heresy.
David is a joker :p