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Funny Chiropractor
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
During a treatment, a chiropractor with a pronounced lisp learns that David Mitchell is a comedian and offers what he thinks are funny workplace stories: the word coccyx, and an assistant named Debbie who sometimes wears a hat. David, desperate for ideas, says the team will simply turn the conversation itself into a sketch, with Robert playing the chiropractor. The chiropractor worries he will be mocked with a cheap speech impediment, and David assures him they will only heighten reality a little, just as Debbie bursts in wearing an enormous feathered hat. Then a man stands up in the studio audience, introduces himself as David's real chiropractor, and walks onto the set to complain that the conversation never went like that and that his genuinely amusing stories were left out, before telling one that falls flat.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
This is great, coccyx, a hat. We'll certainly use both of those.
You're not gonna try and make me look ridiculous just to get a cheap laugh, or give me a gratuitous speech impediment.
That wasn't anything like the conversation we had in my office the other week.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Funny Chiropractor aired in the sixth and final episode of the first series, broadcast on BBC Two on 19 October 2006. The real chiropractor's supposedly hilarious anecdote involves the veteran British disc jockey Tony Blackburn.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:01
Chiropractor
So David, you're a comedian are you? That sounds like fun.
- 00:06
David Mitchell
Yes, I suppose it is.
- 00:07
Chiropractor
Actually, there are a couple of funny things happening at chiropractors. You could probably use them in your comedy show.
- 00:15
David Mitchell
Seriously?
- 00:17
Chiropractor
Well, you probably have people suggesting stuff all the time.
- 00:20
David Mitchell
I wish, no. We're really stuck for ideas. What have you got?
- 00:25
Chiropractor
Oh, well, there's funny words, like coccyx, Which sounds a bit like, well, I don't need to tell you, you're a comedian.
- 00:34
David Mitchell
Cock! Of course, yes. Sounds like cock. Certainly a laugh in that.
- 00:39
Chiropractor
Oh, super.
- 00:40
David Mitchell
And nothing else? Because, as I say, we really are screwed. Any wacky incidents or zany people?
- 00:46
Chiropractor
Well, there's my assistant, Debbie. She's quite a character.
- 00:50
David Mitchell
Brilliant. A character. So, how is she a character?
- 00:54
Chiropractor
well she sometimes wears a hat
- 00:57
David Mitchell
good that could be funny that this is great coccyx a hat well certainly use both of those anything else
- 01:09
Chiropractor
no that's this I'm afraid loads of the two funny things
- 01:13
David Mitchell
that's a shame because I must stress that we really are bang out of ideas and if you can't think of anything we'll probably just do this
- 01:21
Chiropractor
what this conversation
- 01:24
David Mitchell
yeah
- 01:25
Chiropractor
wow that's exciting so what you play me
- 01:30
David Mitchell
no i'd play myself
- 01:31
Chiropractor
what so i'd play me then
- 01:32
David Mitchell
no no we'd get robert to do it
- 01:34
Chiropractor
well does he look like me
- 01:36
David Mitchell
yeah
- 01:39
Chiropractor
now i don't know you're not going to try and make me look ridiculous just to get a cheap laugh or give me some kind of gratuitous speech impediment
- 01:50
David Mitchell
no of course not
- 01:53
Chiropractor
oh i'm worried that you're just gonna try and humiliate me on the telly
- 01:57
David Mitchell
not No, not at not at all i suppose we might heighten the reality a little for comic effect
- 02:06
Chiropractor
hello debbie
- 02:08
Real Chiropractor
excuse
- 02:10
Nurse Debbie
Here's your paper work, sir.
- 02:12
Real Chiropractor
Excuse me so sorry sorry i'm really sorry to interrupt but excuse me sorry but i'm david mitchell's real chiropractor I'm actually quite upset because, well, I mean, this isn't... Well, that wasn't... It That wasn't anything like the conversation we had in my office the other week. For a start, I don't sound anything like that. Sorry. And secondly, while I was easing off his sciatic nerve, I told David Mitchell several genuinely amusing chiropractic stories. Like the time I was treating Tony Blackburn, afterwards he said to me if anyone hears the real disc jockey it's you
- 03:05
Real Chiropractor
Which was hilarious!
- 03:08
David Mitchell
that was good
The rabbit hole continues
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