"I stand with two thousand years of darkness and bafflement and hunger behind me, my kind have harvested the souls of a million peasants and I couldn't give a ha'penny jeers for your internet assembled philosophy!"
David Mitchell can make his voice just ooze with contempt at will. It's a wonderful trick.
"You've thought about eternity for twenty-five minutes and you think you've come to some interesting conclusions."..."And I couldn't give a hately-jizz(?) for your internet-assembled philosophy."
"And we don't like being talked to by people with hands in their pockets."
me too, although its slowly being replaced in my heart by the Get Me Fennimore! sketches this season (which very badly need to be on here, by the way.)
The self-referential discussion of why they keep writing misses to pad out the hit & miss format was great too, since every lazy critic uses that exact phrase for the show.
