Product Description

Does Numberwang mean anything to you? Relive the entire hilarious series 1 of That Mitchell and Webb Look on DVD from October. The DVD is bursting with well loved characters such as Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar, Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit as well exclusive extras including, outtakes, behind the scenes and an M&W documentary. A must for any fans of Mitchell & Webb and the hit series Peep show.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1494 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-29
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 180 minutes

Synopsis
Following on from the massive success of PEEP SHOW, David Mitchell and Robert Webb return in a more traditional comedy show in the form of THAT MITCHELL AND WEBB LOOK, which they wrote. The sketch show features such memorable characters as posh tramp Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar, crime fighters Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit, the drunken snooker commentators, and the maths game show NUMBERWANG.

Customer Reviews

Excellent.
Sketch shows have a rich British tradition, The Fast Show, Harry Enfield And Chums, dating all the way back to Monty Python. However, first season aside, Little Britain heralded a different brand of sketch show, a lowest-common-denominator, catchphrase-and-gross-out based style. This predictability removes the one thing which made shows like Monty Python in particular great, namely the unpredictability. The whole point of a sketch show isn't to have recurring characters every week, but to just spent a couple of minutes in each little world and then move onto something totally different. That Mitchell And Webb Look restores this balance, reviving sketch shows as they were originally intended.

This is not to say that there aren't recurring characters in That Mitchell And Webb Look. The likes of delusional tramp Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, conman Barry Crisp and spectacularly surreal gameshow Numberwang all have repeat appearances, but crucially have enough material to make it worth seeing each time, with each rendition having a new spin. Also funny are the Extras-style, 'backstage' moments, with Mitchell and Webb playing perverse, childish verisons of themselves to great effect.

In addition to this, each episode is crammed full of one-shot sketches which deliver home-run gangs and then disappear; like the abusive detective on the phone, the man with the telekinetic power over biscuits or the BMX Bandit and the Angel Summoner. Best of all is the saga of Chip And Pin, a hilarious mini-biography of the rise and fall of four stage performers. An original, sharp, witty show that's well worth watching from front to back; and the DVD comes with a bunch of deleted sketches and outtakes which are worth watching, as well as an interesting (and funny) making-of documentary.

This is not Peep Show
Peep show is excellent. This isn't Peep Show.

Mitchell and Webb's comedy sketch series is silly. That's the basis of it all, a bunch of downright enjoyable silly sketchs that often (but not always) hit the funny bone like rounds from a minigun. The sketches range from those that appear in just one episode (the amazing BMX Bantit, Mr. Green Claronet) to those which recur (Numberwang, Sir Digby Chicken Sezar). In my view it's the one episode sketches which make this show (Numberwang is just a bit crap really) with exception of Mitchell and Web playing themselves (yeah, it's really just Mark and Jez).

Forget about Peep Show, don't expect this to be Peep Show, be prepaired for some amazingly silly jokes that will make you die with laughter, and you'll have a riot with this DVD (that is unless you don't like silly Jokes, in which case stay away. Honestly they really are silly).

cack
I love peep show and this was such a letdown. It just isnt funny. I now understand that they never actually wrote peep show which explains a lot.

I suppose there's the odd funny thing like numberwang or sir digby chicken caesar but generally the sketches just go on for way too long, dragging out weak material well beyond the point of goodwill.

don't bother.