The Mitchell And Webb MySpace has some nice new photos that you should look at but not steal as that is wrong…

That is all I have to say today.

The Green Clarinet has been unveiled at last and now people know what the heck I have been talking about for months. Ditto to Chip & Pin (not forgetting Pin & Cushion of course) so now we can all laugh inside our strange minds whenever we purchase anything with the new safer credit card technique…

This week’s brand new for telly bits were:
Nice Cop Nasty Cop (not very funny actually).
Very Grand Designs at the swimming pool (good throwaway one-off).
Green Clarinet (we have been obsessed for ages).
Chip & Pin (Fish is our favourite).
Early Television (a bit Fry & Laurie/Enfield but we don’t mind).
Committe For Eliminating Social Misunderstandings (We believe David Mitchell actually uses this guide).
So all in all another very good half hour of comedy sketches again. Full marks!

Even The Sun loved this episode and their telly bod described it is ‘funnier than Extras.’ That isn’t all that difficult an achievement in my humble opinion but it’s still good that TMAWL is stealing some of that comedy hype away from Gervais and co.

Look at the pretty spinny Numberwang thing!

That Clive has such dedication to the nerd lifestyle.

There are a few new things over at the official MySpace: a nice new poster of the tour, a couple of new photos that can’t be used without permission and I am a well-mannered young man so they’re not being used on here, and a bit of behind the scenes video. I may hate MySpace but I like that one.

New clips of That Mitchell And Webb Look are online at that BBC2 site…

Episode 3 is great. It includes Chip & Pin AND The Green Clarinet plus the return of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!

That site also has an interview involving 10 questions for David and Rob…

1. What’s your favourite website?
Mitchell: Wikipedia. I know you can’t rely on it but it’s an amazing resource powered by people’s need to inform.
Webb: Amazon.co.uk. If I managed to read as many books as I buy, then I’d be wiser than most owls.

2. What’s your TV heaven and TV hell?
Mitchell: I love detective programmes – Inspector Morse, Foyle’s War, CSI, that sort of thing (although I draw the line at Rosemary and Thyme and that ginger guy in CSI Miami is an abomination, so I stick to Vegas). They’re the perfect escapism: a cosy, or cheesily gritty, environment with a little bit of murdery doubt that all gets resolves by the end of the programme. My TV Hell is reality TV – I wish it would stop. It’s a horrible addictive drug without any initial high.
Webb: TV heaven: The West Wing. I know it’s a liberal fantasy but oh… imagine if America was really run by people like that. And the acting is exceptional. TV hell: Any morning ‘discussion’ show involving Trisha or the even more insufferable Jeremy Kyle. Why start the day watching scared, angry people becoming even more scared and angry?

3. How much do you pay for a hair cut?
Mitchell: I can’t really remember. I think it’s between £10 and £15. I hate having my hair cut since I started wearing contacts instead of glasses: now I can see what they’re doing and it scares me.
Webb: About £18. It’s all falling out now so haircuts are less about vanity than about disaster management.

4. It’s my round, what are you having to drink?
Mitchell: A pint of bitter. I used to drink lager but swapped in the last year. I imagine I’ll be a pipe smoker before I’m 40.
Webb: Any French lager or red wine.

5. Who’s the funniest person on the planet?
Mitchell: John Cleese probably. Not done his best work of late perhaps but he has made me scream with laughter more than anyone else alive.
Webb: John Cleese or Robin Williams. Don’t make me choose.

6. What’s your fancy dress costume of choice?
Mitchell: I like those Bernie Clifton things where it looks like you’re riding an Ostrich.
Webb: Blenheim Palace. I just think it would suit me.

7. What would your Mastermind specialist subject be?
Mitchell: Nothing. I’m an expert on nothing. I just quite like a lot of stuff.
Webb: The novels and short stories of Ian McEwan, 1975- present day.

8. What’s the biggest mistake you¹ve ever made?
Mitchell: I expect it’s either still to come, or I’ve yet to realise the disastrous nature of something I’ve already done. But I definitely think I should have told more women I fancied them when I was a student. Only when it was true, that is.
Webb: Confetti. I had a miserable time making it and I think the finished film is an underwhelming mess. I look forward to its DVD release as ardently as I look forward to appendicitis.

9. What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
Mitchell: When I was 10, I was too scared to audition for the school play and my Mum basically made me. It was more coercion than advice but I’m so grateful. If I hadn’t got used to performing before puberty hit, I don’t think I’d have ever got up on stage. Since then performing in public is the only thing I’ve ever been brave about.
Webb: No single line, but when I was 15 I asked my grandad if I could buy his portable TV which he didn’t need any more. He said, “Make me an offer, mate,” and I suggested £50. He thought about it for a second and then said, “You’ve made me a fair offer Rob, you can have it for nothing.” I love the justice and innocence of that. Liars and bullies are doing it the hard way – reasonable people should be, and often are, rewarded.

10. Who would you most like to be trapped in a lift with?
Mitchell: A lift engineer.
Webb: I’m not being cute; I think I can honestly say – my girlfriend. Failing that, I suppose I could make do with Stephen Fry.

MySpace just gets stranger every day…

He’s obviously received his grant from the foreign office.

While looking for treasure I found a mysterious forthcoming live CD listed on a certain online retailer …

…and an even mysteriouser forthcoming vague DVD. Is it That Look?

I did actually go looking for the radio series 1 CD, which I found:

It’s half price on play.com at the moment. Pre-order it before it’s released on October 2nd. Or be square.

That Mitchell and Webb Sound : Radio Series 1
our price: £7.99 Delivered
availability: Due for release on 02/10/2006
RRP: £15.99 You save: £8.00 (50%)
More sketches from the inside-out world of David Mitchell and Robert Webb, including what James Bond is really like as a party guest, and the rather too exciting world of Rabbit Newsnight. Their distinctive and lopsided view of the world includes the worst possible name for a dry cleaning shop; the brave and dangerous work of Hairdressers Sans Frontiers; and the tragic consequences when a stray piece of ham goes unchecked. Mitchell and Webb’s gallery of peculiar characters is populated by misfits, eccentrics, the occasional talking animal and a few stray Radio 4 arts programme presenters. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, with Olivia Colman and James Bachman.

Peep Show DVD goodness forthcoming! The series 1 – 3 boxset is released on November 6th, which is the same day as series 3 all by itself. They really are spoiling you. You’ve already got the other two though, haven’t you?

Episode Two: I’m biased of course but I loved it… I didn’t quite recreate the laughing until I almost choked effect from the filming which was caused by the biscuit telekinesis and Pugwash sketches being shown straight after each other but I tried, I really did. There was a lot more original material this week so that calmed down some of the comedy nerd doubters out there who were worried that it was just a televisualising (is that even a word?) of that radio show.

Original sketches written for the telly: Holmes and Watson, the rubbish counterfeiter, biscuit telekinesis, man and dog man, Pugwash, heroin, and Barry’s rapids ride. So quite a lot of not previously imagined on the radio. Hurrah!

Favourite lines:
“My boyfriend played King Rollo!”
“That is the one you wanted, isn’t it?”
“I only have shinty six days left to live.”
“A nurse fingered me…”

Are you ready for biscuit telekinesis?

Are Jaffa Jakes biscuits or cakes?

What are you doing tonight at 9:30?

Tonight’s highlights, apart from the aformentioned biscuit telekinesis and Pugwash sketches, include the extremely weird Holmes & Watson and a man who likes drugs gets the wrong Christmas present from his Nan.

More clips on that BBC2 site…