Mitchell and Webb Under the Linden Tree with Queen Victoria

[IoEstasCedonta]

Chipul tau si dragostea din tei, mi-amintesc de ochii tai...

[TerraFirma69]

Has to be one of their best sketches.

[Richie4761]

As a cyclist, it's tradition to hail 'spunk plant' whenever riding past a Linden tree.

[NativeAlternative]

If they plan to make a new Queen Victoria biopic I will be the one leading the petition to get Robert Webb cast in the starring role...

[deralbernehelge]

Those linden trees I know don't smell of cum, BARBERRY bushes smell of cum, and bad.

[kd1s]

Something you could NOT do on U.S. television. It smells like cum!

[audgeyp]

@kd1s maybe HBO or Showtime but not anywhere else.

[TheWizardOfSmog]

There's a stand of Lindens in Kennington Park that I cycle past twice a day and for a couple of weeks Spring/Summer, when they're like ovulating or whatever I guess, they do indeed smell overpoweringly bukkake-y.

[egedson]

I watch this video once a day for my ab workout. My obliques hurt after the first 30 seconds. Best most effective core routine ever.

[Ddraig64]

10 people like Linden Trees' scent.

[myuumyuuchan]

Was that a Magicka commercial coming up?

[aegisgfx]

Nature just ran outtta smells is all.

[reka10]

This so matches our relationship with US. we give them friendship and they dump cum smelling trees on us. and we smile..

[grimTales1]

This is hilarious!! :D "Can you smell cum?"

LMAO! :D

"Don't Linden trees smell like cum?" is the sky falling on our heads!" :D

[Metamorp8]

Mitchell and Webb don't deserve a laugh track, they're better than that.

[surrendermonkeys]

David Mitchell's rants are amazing! lol

[Jackclivesim]

This society was your idea!

[96dominoes]

can you smell cum?

[SaraCufer]

lololololol

[Nokonthedoor]

Hmmmm. Sketch smells of something all right... and it's not cum... was looking for the Sherlock Holmes sketch, which is excellent, but got this instead. This feels like the writing was outsourced to a sixth form college...

[grimTales1]

Brilliant sketch, love it!! :-D

Maybe it's just the way she says cum, but I can't stop laughing, juxtaposing the Victorian image with the way Robert Webb says that and the language he uses as the Queen is hilarious :-D

[VenaCava4]

I definitely know the tree. Can't picture it, but the smell is definitely just that.

[rorshak73]

There's a stretch of trees on my way to work which smells strongly of cum - they must be lindens.

[garymakin01]

LMAO.

[Chingophia]

gahhh i had to tolerate the odious reek of the linden tree for 4 years during my walks to and from school.

bastard tree!

[DarthRevan1051]

unfortunatly there is pracically a forest of linden trees where i live and on a summers day urgh it just makes me sick

[littlsuprstr]

linden trees don't smell like semen.

chestnut trees, yes.

[fishhead06]

I'm guessing the prime Minister is supposed to be Lord Salisbury. He mentions "50 years as a Victorian," at which time Salisbury was PM, and he had a big, bushy beard (unlike, say, Disraeli or Gladstone).

[TheDentistify]

This sketch is similar to a (very) short story written by the Marquis De Sade over 200 years ago. I'm guessing Mitchell (or more likely Webb - he looks the sort) is familiar with his work. Anyone else read it? Think its called The Horse Chestnut Flower. Its only about a page long, not really even a story, just a joke really. Quite funny though

[EricBree1978]

Wow! A dull and sober moron on tv.

"It is so terrible to be a wife" *SNIF SNIF SNIF*

[TVCriticAmy]

Brilliant!! xx

[Helmasterinjapan]

We have those trees in Japan!

It's NOT just me who thinks they smell like cum hooray!

[Tattor111]

PEEP SHOW!

[hazface]

best rant ever.

[lcozzarelli]

second only to the "can people levitate" rant :)

[olfrygt2007]

I can barely move at home! All these little vases on stands or portraits of ill children praying! :D

[BenPN1000]

Funny,in the summer there's always a cumy smell up the road from my house.Must be one of these trees.Its foul.

[Khrome1]

@BenPN1000 Probably a Bradford Pear tree.. they're quite common and smell really bad in the spring and summer

[Jungletron]

@BenPN1000 no thats your sock drawer you're smelling

[eedobaba7726]

0:45

The waddle was hilarious! I thought she was sitting down!

[NoGufff]

So...I have to ask . DO Linden trees smell like semen ??

[FrozenCones]

I cant vouch for the Linden tree but I have been around trees which have had a really strong "cummy" scent. Needless to say its sickening when you get a nose full

[mediocreO]

@NoGufff Yeha this tree actually does!

[OV3RCOM3]

@NoGufff Yes. Or I assume so. We have trees at school that smell DISTINCTIVELY of semen, and I must conclude that they are in fact Linden trees.

[zionravescene]

@OV3RCOM3 That's not the smell of the trees, it's the persistent taint of the pederasts.

[thescroll]

@NoGufff We had trees like that at our high school, that when they bloomed in spring smelled as such. Some seniors cut them down as their senior prank. Nice white flowers though lol

[zombiemoses]

@NoGufff Yes.

[maxaltenburg]

@NoGufff The Queen wouldn't lie

[NoGufff]

@maxaltenburg Hmm I dunno. Heard she was a crotchety old morphine fiend. A Morphiend. Yeah

Morphiend ⓒ All rights reserved NoGufff 2010

[maxaltenburg]

@NoGufff And apparently she has a powerful ability to detect the smell of cum as well....but that does not reflect on her veracity, I don't think

[116Bears]

@NoGufff

It depends on what they have been eating.

[wtfreely]

@NoGufff yup

[gatotsumaster]

@NoGufff Yes, yes they do.

[DuykRuyk]

@NoGufff They smell good for like one week when they first bloom, then for the rest of the time they smell like jizz.

[speedwolf]

@NoGufff I live in Berlin and there are Linden Trees everywhere. Yes, they really do smell like cum. They never tell you that about this city, that every summer you'll be cycling around and the whole place smells like they've just hosed down the whores for their yearly wash.

[poppylv21]

yep, still funny one month later :-)

I think this is one of their most brilliant sketches. And how on earth did they make him actually look like Queen Victoria???

[linzy37]

yeah i only looked at this cuz vickyt tweeted it hahahah.

it's pretty funny tho forreal.

[ninjapckle]

MADE MY DAY.

[iduncare12]

Victoria ( Cobra Starhip's keytarist ) tweeted this !

[latenitetvaddict]

I know!!! she was right, this is hilarious!!

[mr0buch]

He is BOILING!

[poppylv21]

the whole tenor of this conversation is completey out of keeping with contemporary mores...

rofl :-) :-) :-)

[poppylv21]

this sketch had me pissing myself... one of the funniest things ever and he does look like Queen Victoria, weirdly enough

[ShiCullen]

this has to be one of my favourite mitchell and webb sketches of all time XD

[WarbyWasTaken]

SAAAMEEE, and the EVIL VOICE

[thereflex101]

i cant remember the last time i laughed so hard at a sketch

mitchell's rant is just incredible: "you are Queen Victoria, this society was YOUR idea...... I am BOILING!!!"

[purgatoryfire]

"i am COVERED in starch!"

I literally burst out in laughter!

[strapioni]

I've played this 50 times now...luv it

[richardcadbury]

the shuffle is by far the funniest part, but only if you've seen photos of queen vic.

[joewhittles]

This is being played at my funeral

[Shadowvex101]

prime minister may we have a word, excuse us ambassador

*shuffle, shuffle'

your majesty?

Can you smell cum?

LMAO!!!!

[LoafOfPint]

Ridiculously funny.

[zeepan9886]

until this sketch i thought i was the only one. i was too scared to mention they smelt like cum incase it was just my cum that smelt like a linden tree haha

[littlemissredshoes]

OMG when i first saw this on TV i absolutely loved it

"ive been victorian for 50 years and whats the point for Queen Victoria comes oveer and asks can you smell cum!"

LOVE IT

[TheAverageFox]

This is one of the funniest sketches ever.

It's brilliant in every way.

[lolironmaiden]

David's Rant is the best thing i've ever heard!

[MaxReinsch]

I feel like this sketch needs to be made into a movie!!

[Albionensis]

My new favourite sketch. I AM BOILING!

[notthatoriginal]

0.49!

[presh55]

pure comedy gold - it's a side splitter

[maroonkobrakai]

I hadn't laughed this hard for ages the first time I saw this ... I nearly expired

[sensiblenick]

Kinda specific this... but at Bisley Shooting ranges there is an alley of Lindens... affectionately known as "Cum-Tree Alley" the lasses who walked down it giggling are the ones you want to talk to ;o)

[JediSlayer22]

Can you smell cum?

[munchkinmann]

dude, linden trees actually do smell like cum. onetime i was with friends and we couldn't figure out what it was, but now i know. Seriously, they are very reminiscent, its freaky when your out in a park or something and you smell it. This is just fucking genius btw!

[legend933]

Can you smell it? The cum!!!

[peeweelow]

Thanks ^^