You're tuned to the good stuff

Corner Shop (Lager Beer)

That Mitchell and Webb Look 2006 Season 1 Episode 5

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A painfully polite customer finds elaborate reasons to replace his groceries with very strong lager.

Watch on YouTube

Watch onYouTube

Community rating

– / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Hugh greets his local shopkeeper with exaggerated cheer and presents a modest shopping basket. A supposedly sudden thirst draws him to the cheapest strong lager, which he treats as an intriguing discovery. As his money proves insufficient, the food and newspaper give way to a second can. John quietly indulges the familiar performance while Hugh maintains his respectable facade.

The funny people