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

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Uploaded by on Jul 27, 2010

Sketch by David Mitchell and Robert Webb in That Mitchell and Webb Look Series 4 Episode 3.
Gilbert and Sullivan seek success after HMS Pinafore.

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

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

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

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  • @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.

  • 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.

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

  • Is it just me, or did it repeat itself?

  • @softlavender because you touch yourself at night

  • @Sythofin How many times has he discharged his blunderbuss?

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

  • The brick should instead be a dog with a note attached

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