After having a really rather rubbish day (which involved a trip to A&E, with an inflamed wrist that I can barely move, which is now strapped up in what is essentially a massive crash harness; typing, as you can imagine, is rather… interesting), I was in need of a ruddy good pick me up, so I finally got my bottom in gear, and watched last week’s Mitchell and Webb Look, which I missed last Thursday because of the awesomeness that was Torchwood.
Imagine my surprise to see that there’s a sketch in it that just brilliantly lampoons mobile phones, thus neatly killing two birds with one stone: 1/ it made me laugh quite heartily and 2/ it gave me something to blog about!
Plus, how often do you see something as commonplace and not inherently funny as texting get riffed on to produce comedy genius?
Honestly, Mitchell and Webb are grand masters of this kind of wordplay. But then, they’re probably about the funniest thing on British TV for chuffin’ ages, so that’s hardly surprising. That’s part of the reason why Thursday nights are now just about my favourite part of the week. There’s Mitchell and Webb, Mock The Week’s back, and there’s the ongoing twisted genius of Psychoville.
See, this is why I’m a firm fan of the licence fee. Commercial telly is run by advertising budgets, and it’s those advertising budgets which have made ITV axe Primeval, a move I won’t very soon forgive them for. The BBC, funded by us, at least does decent telly, and you don’t get ad breaks in ‘em. So, anyone who disagrees with the TV Licence, I invite you to consider the alternative, which is what ITV seems to be turning into: wall to wall, reality show cack.
But I digress…
Mitchell and Webb. Comedy geniuses. Oh, and here’s the other reason I love the BBC: they stick the best bits on Youtube, so I can actually show you the actual sketch, instead of describing it to you (which would be dull) or making you wade through iPlayer to see it. Witness the glory of subtext mode (and wait till you see what their idea of predictive text is):
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! What a genius invention that would be!
Hmmmm, Android’s open source, isn’t it? Right, anyone who’s got an HTC Magic, get coding and make subtext mode a reality!
Would you welcome a feature that told you what people REALLY meant when they sent you a text? Leave us a comment and have your say!