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: #1685 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

No copy and paste catchphrases, thank the lord
After years of copy and paste sketch comedies, where people take one joke and bleed it to death with merchandising, video games and celbrities guests being bought in to say the same catchphrase I was amazed when this came along.

The Mitchell and webb look does not rely on the same joke, week in week out, and does genuinely attempt to keep its comedy fresh and new every episode.

This is so refreshing to see and the skills of mitchell and webb as comedic actors does help in lifting this above the average.

Whilst, there are still some catchphrase moments ('numberwang' etc) these are never over done and written with an air of uncertainty so that it is not overtly obvious what the final punchline is the second the sketch starts.

But mainly, the sketches are one offs, usually in the style of monty python in that they tinker with the format by stopping sketches half way through or having a sketch based behind the scenes of filming, this all leads to a superior sketchshow by people who clearly study and love the format.

It is certainly not going to get the audience Catherine tate has but it certainly keeps a much higher level of comedy. I reccommend this to anyone looking to see why sketch shows used to be (in the 1990s anyways) such a brilliant part of British comedy.

FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY!
Not as good as Peep Show, but still very, very good! This is just a sketch show from David Mitchell and Robert Webb, containing some fantastic writing and timing, and generally some fantastic sketches.
'Numberwang' is one that reccures frequently, it's just a game show that makes absolutely no sense and is just a load of rubbish, but in a good way. The last few sketches of it though offer a 'Wordwang' and a German 'Numberwang'.
The sketch with the two snooker commentators is another reccuring one. There are too many sketches to go through them all, but they are all fabulous.
Definitely worth wasting three hours of your life watching, and if you like this, why not try buying the four 'Peep Show' series, or their 'Magicians' film. It's all brilliant stuff!

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.