That Mitchell and Webb Look - All 3 Gilbert and Sullivan Sketches in one.

[anonUK]

If you give the public the same types of plots, characterisations and attitudes they are used to, you have a greater chance of success. In Victorian times, musical operettas were the "comfort food" entertainment of the (upper)-middle classes. Giving the public proto-versions of 20th century entertainment would have been so mystifying to them that they would have become hostile. Giving them colonial-type racism mixed with all the other attitudes they grew up with would have been far more popular.

[bucknell28]

Is it just me, or did it repeat itself?

[Sythofin]

the question you're asking yourself, is how many times have i discharged my blunderbuss?

[h4ming]

@Sythofin How many times has he discharged his blunderbuss?

[metagaia]

The brick should instead be a dog with a note attached

[softlavender]

I don't understand. Why at 3:30 does it go back to 2:20 all over again and repeat itself exactly?

[darthesgoobis123]

@softlavender because you touch yourself at night

[moocher2121]

You know, I actually saw Starship Pinafore. No joke, thats actually something that got done, and it really really sucked.

[Jonstern1983]

Why did you repeat the last sketch?

[yourverysilly]

@Jonstern1983 cos they're shit and need to die

[whowantsabighug]

@yourverysilly You're very silly.

[ntruby]

hazface - if it was a question of English you'd have a good point. But, it's not a question of English. The *whole* point of the sketch is that Gilbert and Sullivan are presaging 1970s films - in this case, Dirty Harry. And the scene being parodied was the police officer (Callahan) speaking to the would-be robber and saying "I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five? ....".

That's what I think, anyway. ;-)

[BRADERZ2008]

Im confused is that bonga thing repeated on purpose or what?

[anonUK]

@BRADERZ2008

At the time, African languages were widely dismissed as sounding like "Bongo, bongo" and the tribal lands of Africa were often nicknamed "Bongo bongo land".

Of course, no-one is ever racist today. Just look at the rest of Youtube.

[CCNuck]

*glass breaking* *thunk* ". . . we're very disappointed in your new operettas!"

I am going to be saying this SO much, now.

[ntruby]

It should of course be: "The question you are asking yourself, is how many times has he discharged *his* blunderbuss?"!

[koaranomachisan]

Finally a tune you can hum!!! Bongo bongo bongo bongo....

[Schnorbs]

Of course, if it had been "arquebus" instead of "blunderbuss"...

[MessiahComing]

@Schnorbs That was a blunderbuss though, not an arquebus.

[JediSlayer22]

Hail the queen of Bongo Bongo land.