The Mitchell and Webb Situation

The Mitchell and Webb Situation

2001
The Mitchell and Webb Situation
The Mitchell and Webb Situation

The Mitchell and Webb Situation

7.6 | TV-14 | en | Comedy

Comedy sketch show with hilarious characters and absurdist twists from the duo that brought us Peep Show and The Smoking Room - David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP6  Episode 6
Nov. 10,2001
Episode 6

Sketches include The Early 1990s House, soldiers who cannot live without their mobile phones, and a man who is guilty about other people doing jobs for him.

EP5  Episode 5
Nov. 03,2001
Episode 5

Sketches include a disturbing artist on a daytime art show, a porn magazine proof-reader, and backpacking around England.

EP4  Episode 4
Oct. 27,2001
Episode 4

Sketches include Changing Meals, a somewhat worrying library visitor, and a child who asked some difficult questions.

EP3  Episode 3
Oct. 20,2001
Episode 3

Sketches include the annoyed pub conversation man, the dirty phone calls and the over-safe stuntman.

EP2  Episode 2
Oct. 13,2001
Episode 2

Sketches include the poor stage actor, the man alone in the restaurant and the noise-making bar staff.

EP1  Episode 1
Oct. 06,2001
Episode 1

Sketches include the money-making farmer, the rubbish poisoner and the spoon designers.

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7.6 | TV-14 | en | Comedy , Talk | More Info
Released: 2001-10-06 | Released Producted By: BBC , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dzyvj
Synopsis

Comedy sketch show with hilarious characters and absurdist twists from the duo that brought us Peep Show and The Smoking Room - David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

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Cast

David Mitchell , Robert Webb , Olivia Colman

Director

Shaun Mitcheson

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GertrudeStern I don't generally like sketch comedy, but I consider myself a pretty big fan of this duo. I've even seen the one where they're magicians. When I finished this series, I had that feeling you get when you finish a good book: "if only i could see it again, in the way it once was, unknown to me..." I'd rank this above That Mitchell and Webb Look and slightly, very slightly below Peep Show.I mean this in all seriousness: as great as laugh tracks can be, and as satisfyingly silly as they are on That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Mitchell and Webb Situation is made so perfect without the addition of laughter. The absence of laugh track means the show doesn't tell you when to laugh, justly serving its awkward scenes, which cycle through half of the logical fallacies into the depths of absurdity. Its absence leads the viewer, sans instruction manual, into the more jarring tiers of comedy in which Mitchell and Webb occasionally find themselves splashing or wallowing around.As opposed to Look, which has multiple recurrent jokes and sketches, Situation has only one (that I observed) running across the full season, and it's totally funny. Mitchell and Webb, in a regular apartment sporting plain clothes, throw around ideas for things that already exist in the world, as if they were gods or billionaires or both. In one episode, they bicker as makers of the human race -- arguing for or against the merits of creating inversely shaped sexual genitalia for the purpose of "stacking people" when needed. In another, Webb articulates just what makes a hanging garden more splendid than other gardens, and pushes for the construction of one. A tiff about the value of building a pyramid vs. a colossus, based solely on the practical architectural pluses of each, ensues.This is great for bedtime. It's funny and reflective and will make you only a little bit grouchy about the state of things. Then you'll just return to softly smiling, chuckling or flat out laughing.