The way Mitchell says 'yes, it is no' just absolutely kills me every time. It is just the most perfect delivery of a line possible.

"I'm just trying to get to the root of why you felt the need to ask such a humiliating question."

The first bit gets especially funny when you've read David Mitchell's memoir. I don't know if they meant it to be some kind of self-aware reflection on their own relationship, but David mentions that each of them used to try and outdo the other every night when they did theatre. They had been working together for so long and on so many different projects that they were sick of each other. Every night, one of them would stand further and further from the crowd whilst talking to the other so that more of his face would be visible to the audience and more of the back of the other person's head. Literally upstaging one another. So that might have been the inspiration for this sketch.

Honestly the idea of a play where the actors swap roles night by night, or two cuts of the same film with the actors swapped is fucking amazing and i want to see it.

He's reading "Never Let Me Go" which contains no levitation at all ... I wonder where his mind was ...

i'm just laughing because i love sherlock holmes and imagining holmes randomly smashing a vase over watson's head to make a point is the funniest thing ever

Ahh, the irreplaceable, yet interchangeable, genius of Robert Mitchell and David Webb.

the crumpets bit was so python-esque

"Well, certainly I'm sufficiently insecure to have felt the need to establish to my own satisfaction, before the age of 33, whether or not humans can fly. That makes me a chippy little autodidact in your eyes, then so be it."

That's glorious!

Something tells me this isn't them acting, the camera was just on them as they were being normal.

3:21 – The depth of mockery conveyed in David's simple 'Yes, it is no' is just brilliant! 😂

Still a better version than Ferrell/Reilly.

This is my favourite. The "acting" portion of the sketch has a phenominal premise and the "break" section has some of the best line delivery I've ever witnessed!

Despite being the 'stupid one', Webb makes the better Holmes in these sketches

I'd love to see David Mitchell play Hercule Poirot and Robert Webb as Holmes in something together be amazing.

The mustache appearing and disappearing is brilliant!

"Er, twelve minutes you TWAT!"
BAHAHAHAHA BEST LINE EVER.
I lolled for ages xD

Holly wood needs to actually make a movie like this switching actor roles every scene cut.

Now I really want to see a movie where the two lead actors randomly switch characters in every new shot.

200 years late, but, just after 1:00 in, the overtly pre-injured pair look AND sound like they're doing a Fry & Laurie bit! :laughing: