Mitchell And Webb - KKK

[RPSM101]

I love a good history lesson. So that's how they got those silly accents!

[kateleaverful]

we said we're not doing the accent:|

[mystudio611]

I bet you didn't realise that David Mitchel had a beards.

[twooffour]

Didn't get the ending - I mean, it's the Southern accent obviously, but I still don't get the joke.

[igreatbritishweather]

@twooffour

It's sort of breaking the fourth wall, acknowledging within the sketch that it is a sketch. They could've chosen to do the whole thing with a Southern accent but it was probably cheesy as fuck.

[twooffour]

@igreatbritishweather

Ah, now I get it! Thanks :)

[thejoshhartley]

@twooffour a couple of sketches before this, it shows the 2 on set deciding if to do the accents or not, after the hilarity of the 2 trying to do southern accents they decide not to. And the pun is that they forgot to tell her.

[DeathMetalThunder]

The Ku Klux Klan... Worht joining just to find out what washing powder they use.

[datsome80]

I'm part of the Wip Wap Wop union!

[IntenseArtz]

Ku Klux Klan means 'Circle Group'

lolwut

[7CellarDoors]

"Twaiyats"

Fuck all mighty...

[BiloLCFC]

The word 'twat' in a Deep South accent amuses me.

[KatrinaMess]

@ Admiral Pancake- Haven't you ever seen Dave Chappell and the skits he's done about the Klan? Much funnier! In prime time but on cable.

[Treblaine]

1000 years from now this is probably how they'll think it went down

[GumGumOnigiri]

Next thing you know they're gonna start burning wooden lower case 'ts' for when it's 'time to leave'!

[MyNameIsBucket]

Here in the US, "twat" rhymes with "swat". Go figure.

[twooffour]

@MyNameIsBucket

And football rhymes with goofball - figures.

[a89dc]

TWAYATS

[amarcote1123]

i'm a member of the ku klux klan and i find this offesive!

[SSUstufRudel]

@amarcote1123 Offesive? LOL This is new... Spelling level : KKK

[Faidros62]

@amarcote1123 I´m a member of the Wippety Woppety Whoo and I find it offensive to.

[BassNatty]

@amarcote1123 I'm offensive and I find this ku klux klan!!

[mattbt2k0]

shame how the punchline was overshadowed by the accent joke...

[sirgarberto]

@aaddaammize & @Bsword640 Of course he's joking, do you really think a kkk guy would know how to use a computer?

[Bsword640]

@JamesWilliams1990 i'm reporting you to the authorities, racist

[jackandjuice]

Ooh, the Wip Wap Wop and the Bingly Bongly Boo will be furious.

[ST4leave]

At my school its name starts with a K. So when I was receiving my letter for varsity sports, I turned in look at the crowd and said, “Wait a minute; I need two more K’s”. Everyone laughed except the black man in the back, long story short I had to apologies at his house.

[MoonbeamBucket]

@ST4leave Why would you say that? Do you do History at your school?

[255ad]

@ST4leave I wouldn't have gone, I would have told him to grow a fucking sense of humour and if he can't to just fuck off, it's people like him who are holding humanity back by making such issues no go areas and people like you who are helping to take away their power with ironic humour

although to be honest it's was a pretty shit joke

[JamesWilliams1990]

im a member of the kkk and i find this hilarious!

[aaddaammize]

@JamesWilliams1990 If you're not joking, then Mitchell and Webb would be ashamed that you find this funny, you bigot.

[JamesWilliams1990]

@aaddaammize i am joking quite obviously, i wanted the giant little girl costumes so i refused to join up.

[SimonAllanSAS]

I'd join the KKK just to find out what washing powder they use to get their whites whiter than white....

[jazzykoenig]

@SimonAllanSAS Cillit BANG

[SimonAllanSAS]

@jazzykoenig :3

[WhiteTrashBarbarian]

This is very funny. I do have to wonder if this is closer to the truth than we might know. I mean come on...a lose flowing robe while your carrying a torch?

[LanceDirk]

The KKK would be funny in real life if they hadn't done so much real damage to the country.

[revilo314]

Maybe the guy who made the outfits was black and that's why they were all racist.

Started off as a fantasy football club.

[5paradox]

This is what humor is all about piss on the KKK with a joke

[SamGlover25]

I'm not racist but to me, all the kkk members look exactly the same.

[MrDonneiDarko]

@SamGlover25 bix nood

[kagairu]

ku klux klan just sounds like chicken noise to me...

[TheAdmiralPancake]

It's sad that this would not be allowed to air on American TV without someone filing a lawsuit. Oh, well...

[gotsda]

@TheAdmiralPancake Thats right, we have the right to preach death to those who have a different skin colour to us, but as soon as you poke fun at our costume well thats just not on now is it!

[TheAdmiralPancake]

@gotsda

No, I meant that someone would claim it's racist. At least, it wouldn't air during primetime.

[UtopiaMinor666]

For those of you saying the KKK has disbanded, this is not entirely true, I have the unfortunate pleasure of living on the Alabama/ Tennessee state line, near the founding of the group, their are still small sub sets of it that exist and practice their hate speech. These groups, though not under the moniker KKK, have manifest into other "Pro Christian/ White Seperatists" groups. Anyway, i love this bit!

[formless777]

Such a practical uniform. I bet no-one ever tripped over in it or suffered from impaired vision while wearing it. Apparently the name of the Ku Klux Klan sounds like a rifle being cocked and fired... if you're illiterate white trash...

[veso5554]

"Twuaats".

[saveyourselfagain]

Admittedly, there IS very little scarier than a giant little girl... 0_O

[Rabsputin]

@saveyourselfagain how about a 6' 5" old woman?

[handsomebrick]

Little is certain about the original KKK, except that they were a secret organization of hooded figures who employed intimidation tactics to seemingly anti-Union ends in the wake of the Civil War. Many decades later, they were depicted as heroes in the first Hollywood-style film, 'Birth Of A Nation.' Its popularity spurred William Simmons to form his own KKK, a pretender organization motivated by profit, and the only KKK we know anything about. So this sketch is strangely appropriate.

[UtopiaMinor666]

@handsomebrick i live 20 miles from where the KKK was founded in Tennessee.

[Psynewaves]

5 people were kkk members... or scared of massive little girls............or both

[Katalyzt]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[IoEstasCedonta]

They actually were originally meant to be tall ghosts, the ghosts of Confederate soldiers.

[TheMikeyReilly]

What a bunch of kunts.

[SuperSambaxter]

@TheMikeyReilly gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood speling get a life mitche; and web r briliant.

[benc777]

@SuperSambaxter ironic

[russelgazimov]

this is an offensive representation of my culture. how can this utter bigotry continue? you racists disgust me.

[finka123456]

@russelgazimov what the fuck are you talking about

[adi87tya]

To be honest, Ku Klux Klan sounds scarier than the Confederate Campaigners Club.

[bossmonkeykj]

3 people are members of the Konfederate Kampaigners Klub

[pyrocubed]

I don't know why, but the ending gave me the giggles:

"We said we're not doing the accent."

[gruffaloface]

Maybe he should have planned further ahead than ordering the costumes one day before the big rally... Silly racists.

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

"You did it, you made those bigots look like twats" – Awesome!

[MashkaZelandiashi]

Laughing out loud, for way too long, in a library. AWESOME clip.

[Yubera2K10]

If i recall correctly the pointy cap was a callback to the Spanish inquisition.

[previouslyadjetive]

@Yubera2K10 what I read was that the costume came from the practice of slave owners dressing like ghosts/ doctors taking black people for disection, etcetera to keep generally uneducated and superstitious slaves scared.

[MrOdsplut]

to be honest, just like the nazis, they did have great uniforms

[1337ontoast]

'it is if you're nine... and scared of ghosts' rofl

[houdini2233]

Union, the Union was fighting for slavery, not the Confederates.

[Gingrnut]

@houdini2233 Oh bloody hell, you retard, the confederates wanted slavery, the union didn't, thats why slavery was abolished when the union won. You don't honestly think they were pro slavery and then changed their mind just s they won, omg you are dumb...

[houdini2233]

@Gingrnut The Union didn't abolish slavery, the civil war was not about slavery, slavery is still going on to this day, even though it isn't legal.

[houdini2233]

@Gingrnut And why the fuck do you care anyway, England only made slavery illegal in 2010, evil motherfuckers.

[2601andrew]

@houdini2233 Yeah that was annoying, I had to release all my African slaves last year.

[houdini2233]

@2601andrew Hey dude, slavery extended to more people than just Africans. What do you think the Scottish, Irish and Welsh have had to put up with?

[2601andrew]

@houdini2233 My point is; slavery hasn't been around in Britain for 200 years, yet you say it was only abolished last year.

[houdini2233]

@2601andrew I did not say abolished, I said illegal. Lrn2reed.

[TheSirPrise]

@houdini2233 QI?

[houdini2233]

@TheSirPrise Section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009

[Lazyguy22]

@houdini2233 A judge in the 16th Century proclaimed that any slave who set foot on English soil would immediately become free, as the institution of slavery does not exist in England (although serfdom still did in some ways, and the colonies were exempt from this). This judgement was reaffirmed in the 19th Century. All the Coroners and Justice Act did was create a new crime for having slaves, where previously any slavers would just be charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.

[houdini2233]

@Lazyguy22 Well according to your laws that isnt entirely true. And to force the colonialists into debt servitude the way England did was abhorrent and a form of state institutionalised slavery. So in other words, it wasn't ok for the common man to own a slave as there were ample offences to charge them with, but if the uppers kept the slaves they could be overlooked because slavery wasn't exclusively illegal, just the crimes surrounding slavery.

[hardcoreharcourt]

@houdini2233 True dat. Have a research of the Old English origins for the place 'Wales.' It comes back as foreigner/ slave. Well played England. Well played.

[RattyRandnums]

@houdini2233 Lol wut. The south seceded from the Union over fears that the federal government would overrule state authority on laws pertaining to slave ownership. Because the economies (and wealthy, influential landowner's plantations) of these areas were built upon the sweat and BLOOD of slave labor. Anyone telling you it was over other "states' rights" is trying to sell you a load of manure.

[houdini2233]

@RattyRandnums And the fact that freemen fought for the Confederates means nothing. The civil war was a war fought over land and federal ruling rights. Lincoln had a pet dream of removing all the Africans from American soil.

[RattyRandnums]

@houdini2233 To answer your question yes, the fact that some freed blacks fought for the south has nothing to do with why states succeeded to start with. Lincoln was not the only person who thought that a back to Africa movement might have been good for blacks after the war. Many people believed this into the 20th century, just look up Marcus Garvey. And considering the way that blacks were subjugated with taxation on voting and even chemical castration to keep them powerless maybe theywereright

[RattyRandnums]

@RattyRandnums *seceded

[houdini2233]

@RattyRandnums I didn't say that freedmen fighting for the south is the reason for the secession, I said the reason was the southern states did not want the federal government to have as much power as it wanted. Lincoln never thought about sending them back to africa, he just wanted them out of America and arguably Lincoln made the africans lives even worse now that they had no guaranteed work or a roof and the segregationist laws made their lives impossible to live.

[RattyRandnums]

@houdini2233 That was your implication, an attempt to divert attention away from the validity of my central point. "the southern states did not want the federal government to have as much power as it wanted." OVER THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY. Is the point you forgot to add there. "Lincoln never thought about sending them back to africa, he just wanted them out of America" citations plox.

[houdini2233]

@RattyRandnums Slavery was an issue, but not THE issue. Yip, I bet those freedmen walked around going 'mmmm this freedom is nice, it puts a roof over my head, fills my stomach and makes the segregation laws invalid. And now that Im a freeman, I can get arrested and thrown into jail, away from my family and any sort of humanity. And considering I have no way to support my family, how long will it be before I have to steal to live?'

[RattyRandnums]

@houdini2233 "Lincoln made the africans lives even worse now that they had no guaranteed work or a roof and the segregationist laws made their lives impossible to live." Hahaha geez. Yeah I'm sure there were a lot of freed slaves walking around going "Life sure was better when my forced 15 hour a day labor and meal of malnutritious scraps was assured. Ahh how I long for the days when my children and family members were being sold off left and right never to be seen again."

[RattyRandnums]

@houdini2233 And no, your red herring of an argument does not change the fact that the war was begun over whether the federal government had the right to outlaw slavery or not. "land and federal ruling rights" might be the way you choose to dress up the language of "the states' right to determine the legality of one human owning, trading and selling others for the purposes of forced labor" but that does not change the historical facts or fool anyone not already inclined to believe such garbage.

[houdini2233]

@RattyRandnums Slavery was an issue, but it wasnt the only issue nor was it the only main issue preceeding the states secession. The Union could have let the South seceed but no, the Union thought it would be a good idea to launch one of the most bloodiest conflicts known to man, all because the South didn't want to obey the fed.

[konebater1]

Funny thing is the first KKK members wore sacks on their heads, making them look even more ridiculous

[ShatPhat]

TWAYATS!

[Mikeybetts]

as a member of the "Bingly Bogglly Boo" i find this very offensive to my organization

[ReyFlame82]

@Mikeybetts Organisation*

[aragorn1780]

@Mikeybetts as Elder Marshal of the Midwestern Rite of the Whip Wap Wop, I'm with you 100% there!

[HeFilmsTheClouds]

@aragorn1780 As Grand Wizard of the Bingley Bongley Boo you have my complete support.

[oogachuckababy]

2 people are in the kkk, and they aint happy

[LPerry0123]

'Affiliated with the Whip-Whap-Wop and the Bingly-Bongly-Boo' XD

[LaurenLionheart]

This seems just as plausible a history as any. Awesome perspective.

[mrpwase]

Twayuts.

[Blackadder125]

And as if the costume and the name aren't silly enough, they actually call their leader "Grand Wizard". What the hell kind of stupid title is that?

[666deadman1988]

@Blackadder125 Suits Dumbledore ok.

[DCdabest]

@Blackadder125

Maybe they hope he's gonna "magic" away all the black people..... stupid Klansmen......

[hellswar]

@Blackadder125 it's "Grand dragon" mate, i'm against all that shit, but i'm against lack of research, too

[Blackadder125]

@hellswar Actually they didn't use the title Grand Dragon until the 20th century, so Grand Wizard seems a more approppriate title to call silly, given that this sketch is in the 19th century. But yeah, Grand Dragon sounds stupid too.

[TheDavidG54]

@hellswar Actually different Klan organizations use different titles. Both have been used in the past.

[hellswar]

@Blackadder125 It all sounds silly though, the KKK in and of itself, is silly, hence the sketch :P

[xGODZILLAFIREFOXx]

@Blackadder125 and they have their own language - called, Klonversations

[irbthejames]

@Blackadder125 I know right? He does not even have a Monocle......

[smile221]

@Blackadder125 Sorry champ, you got mixed up. It's IMPERIAL wizard and GRAND dragon.

[Blackadder125]

@smile221 Not in the era this sketch takes place in, "champ". en wikipedia org / wiki / Grand_wizard

[bongolongo]

@Blackadder125 That's offensive to Harry Potter.

[Jinxprincess13]

@Blackadder125 ...Dumbledore?

[AL52Dragon]

@Blackadder125 Or Grand Dragon.

[fleabag500]

@Blackadder125

They don't even have proper leaders. The KKK disbanded a while ago, and it sort of rebanded, but not very well, so you end up with different areas having their own little KKK groups, each with their own Grand Wizard, and often more than one. So really anyone can claim the title of Grand Wizard.

[JDrakeify]

@Blackadder125 and their less senior leaders are called grand goblins and grand dragons and kleagles and their meetings are called klonklaves :)

[willscomix]

@Blackadder125 Another title is 'Grand Dragon'

Grand Dragons and Imperial Wizards, sounds like Lord of the Rings

[el6caballo6oscuro6]

@Blackadder125 woah really? i bet chicks dig that!

[knaan163]

@ProNorden you two need to argue about politics somewhere else

[Bootstrap193]

@ProNorden @VanDoodah Shut the fuck up. Thanks.

[ProNorden]

@VanDoodah Mussolini was a lifelong socialist and never rejected it .. Fascism merely became his preferred form of Socialism. So said all his Leftist fellow-travelers in the intellectual/writing community in Britain and America from aprox 1920 to 1938. Much the same crowd as swooned for Stalin ('Uncle Joe' as Franklin Roosevelt called him.)

In the 20's and 30's Communists, Nazis & other violent Leftist groups attacked each other in the streets like whores fighting over the same street corner.

[gatebasher311]

FUCK THE KKK

[elwood180]

The Confederate Campaigner's Club. Brilliant.

[kajamix]

Kuklux derives from the Greek "kyklos" meaning circle. Klan is a klan. Another instance of the Greek language donating the world (Greece however does not take responsibility for the day to day workings of the particular organization). Why they made the "os" of kyklos into an "ux", merits some further scholarly consideration. Maybe it fits better with southern phonetics or maybe it was yet another mistake made by the historical character depicted by Webb.

[ThomasRowsell]

klan is used because they were mostly of scottish descent not english. there were no clans in england

[bornagainsaint1]

what does ku klux klan mean?

[666jimmysmusicgirl]

@bornagainsaint1 All I know is that a klan is like a clique but in a more serious and demeaning way... It technically means a group of people with a very strong belief or determination for action for or against something.

[guitarpop]

@666jimmysmusicgirl That's an awful definition of clan.

[666jimmysmusicgirl]

@guitarpop Klan, not clan

[guitarpop]

@666jimmysmusicgirl Klan is not a word, you fool.

[666jimmysmusicgirl]

@guitarpop Whatev's chuck

[TheMrJake]

Yes, the 'Rifle Cocking' theory seems to be apocryphal. Especially considering that most of the Klan's founders were well-educated and thus well versed in ancient Greek. And naming something after a pretty vague Onomatopoeia? Really...?

[EssentialOption]

Actually, 'kuklos' is greek for circle. hence, being the circle of brothers.

[ScrumpyJack1234]

I believe it was called 'Ku Klux' after the sound of a rifle cocking

[joehiggs100]

The dubbed on audience laughter track is annoying.

[AngelBiLove]

KKK inspired Hitler, not other way around. History teacher made that very clear. America, the cradle of creationism, racial hatred and christian fundamentalists that want to hunt down and murder every islamic woman and child, like the nazis wanted to hunt down the jews. The country which had slavery until yesterday, and 1% of whose population is in jail. Usa, the land of the free.

[TheHaeresiarch]

@AngelBiLove Classic trolling, but wearing a bit old -- 3/10, I'd say.

[B0rn0nly0nce]

That was a pretty good southern accent from a British woman.

[championofcathay]

@B0rn0nly0nce yeah that's Sarah Hadland. It's sort of her specialty. She also played a German woman in Quantum of Solace

[jellywillreturn]

The satire is brilliant, not to mention the ending. It only makes sense that no one who watches such intelligent programming is dumb enough to mistake this for actual KKK support.

[jeevesthepunk]

to be totally fair, the Bingley Bongley Boo have made major reforms to their policies the the past few decades

[Alathaea]

I was taught that the KKK /were/ actually dressing as ghosts, attempting to reembody the dead spirits of Confederate soldiers.

Which is still weird, but makes this whole sketch even more ironic.

[player7249]

What the hell is that?

i knew you would like it

it's a ghost costume!

amzing :D

[E101ification]

What's this? A video on youtube mocking racist ideology and prejudicial thinking, and not one racist pro-KKK comment in the comments section?!

This has to be the only video on youtube that hasn't been flooded with "I hate niggazz" comments, which is hilarious considering the subject of the video.

[Dvdmitch]

@E101ification Well I think the nature of the video is such that commenting on it in such a manner would be an intellectual suicide: Not that I think they are that concerned about that :)

[TheDavidG54]

@Dvdmitch O, nigga please

[Pazma1]

@Dvdmitch

Concerned? I'd say 90% have to look those words up!

[ThePereginPigeon]

@E101ification Certainly any racist who watches this changes their mind, cuz who wants to be affiliated with the Wip Wap Wop or the Bingly Bongly Boo?? no one lol....

[Celjha]

@E101ification Loved this comment, pure class! :)

[soooyeahhh]

'you'll make thouse bigots look like twats!'

'....we said we're not doing the accent.'

PAHAHA!!

genius.

[Mryorkshirepudngravy]

@40390576 well played

[Mryorkshirepudngravy]

@40390576 If there's anything I've learned from watching that crappy Most Haunted program it's that the majority of 'haunted' places which people wanting to see ghosts visit have an incredibly dark history.

If I was someone who believed in ghosts then I would say there are far more evil ghosts than good ghosts, hypothetically speaking.

[Mryorkshirepudngravy]

the KKK look like ghosts, many ghosts are evil so....are they the baddies?

[alasdairduncan3]

Poor quality and not the whole sketch

[MrAudiovideodisco]

Fuck the KKK, they ruined the subtle art of homemade ghost costumes.

And I bet the ghosts aren't too happy about being associated with a group of inbred racists with an IQ of 70.

[Immortal4Aday]

@MrAudiovideodisco that is completely wrong and ridiculous..................KK­K members IQ is no where near 70!

[Warunho]

@MrAudiovideodisco Asshole. Just watch the damn video and enjoy it instead of spewing your hatred all over the comment section.

@Warunho Oh the irony :)