Turns out that Colosson's rise to power was actually "the event"...

@meredithmclaughin9911

9 жыл бұрын

Oh my God it all makes sense

@ManlyStump

9 жыл бұрын

No! Don't make me think about the event! The event is in the past!!!

@EdgyZapatista

9 жыл бұрын

fragglet That's a fan fic I'd like to see.

@hfc3398

8 жыл бұрын

+fragglet Oh my god. And the gameshow broadcast is the place where numberwang and wordwang were filmed. It all makes sense now.

@hankkingsley2976

4 жыл бұрын

I'm praying for Closson to get rid of the Democrats after covid-19.

I lost it at "tragically trying to de-gay himself with a laser" and it simply got better.

"I opened the door and said to him, quite simply, 'that's numberwang'. As I remember he cried." Is my favourite thing ever said.

@ewanhopper4275

Жыл бұрын

To his good friend who happened to go to school with Hitler

The genius of making a whole running gag about a quiz-show surrounding nonsense maths... It kind of melts my brain. Could that be numberwang? I have no idea.

@splintmeow4723

2 жыл бұрын

If you add one pencil, minus a fork, find the square route of circle, your comment becomes numberwang. 🥰

@Cre80s

2 жыл бұрын

This is made flesh all the runaway wack humor my highschool friends and I took too far, “but wouldn’t be awesome if all that happens and THEN there’s like a TV documentary about it and it just keeps getting worse and worse!!”... but someone ACTUALLY DID.

"In countries like Australia, such as New Zealand" always has me howling

Yes, that is a number.

@adam84657

3 жыл бұрын

Typical Americans

@NoahSpurrier

2 күн бұрын

Americans

I've just seen the Imitation Game, but I'm glad than now I've finally seen the REAL story.

@billymanners9629

4 жыл бұрын

Evi1M4chine that’s why it didn’t work lol

@garyheron

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair the imitation game does make the massive mistake of not including any reference to Thomas Flowers.

I'm glad this was recommended to me twelve years later. Truly a numberwang.

Love how Julie is the only constant throughout the generations, hinting about her being immortal

@matthewcollins4773

9 ай бұрын

That would mean that the episode in which she won... she cheated...

6:02 "YEEESS! That is a number!" Absolutely brilliant.

@FreePalestine270

4 ай бұрын

6:02

Computing numberwang isn't that difficult. I took a course in statistical morphology and it's proven to be of great use in calculating numberwang and even wangernumb (provided it's a non-dilute number). For instance, 8 is numberwang, but 8 isn't.

@usvalve

2 жыл бұрын

The famous thought experiment Schrodinger's Wang shows that the superposition of any number upon itself in quantum space may be simultaneously numberwang and not numberwang until someone claims that it is or it isn't, at which time it takes on one state or the other, but only from the observer's point of view.

@geekdivaherself

2 жыл бұрын

@@usvalve Schrodinger's... Wang.... HAH _[&c.]!_

@ian_b

Жыл бұрын

8 is Numberwang in base 10, but not in decimal.

If there's anything I've learned from Numberwang, it's that 1 is the prime numberwang, 2 is deadly to humans, 3 is not a numberwang, and 4 is definitely numberwang regardless of the number or sequence of numbers preceding it.

Ever since this episode was first broadcast, my friends and I have kept a picture of a chicken as our phone screensavers. We are prepared.

"And it was here, in these halls, that the Luftwaffe was defeated..."

This skit is (IMO) the best that M&W ever put out. This was programme was one of the best comedy shows I've ever had the pleasure to watch.

Poor Colosson. He just wanted things to be numberwang.

@psychologicalsigma9917

2 жыл бұрын

After the event, they were.

@lordbuss

2 жыл бұрын

Numberwang Maximizer.

@jackmulford6509

2 жыл бұрын

@@lordbuss that's numberwang

I said to him, quite simply, "that's numberwang." ...and as I remember, he cried.

What's hilarious about the Russell scene is that in his 'Principia Mathematica' (written with Alfred North Whitehead) he takes exactly 162 pages to conclusively prove that 1+1=2.

@nfadaloo

8 жыл бұрын

Terrance Howard ought to read that.

@timbeaton5045

4 жыл бұрын

And Kurt Gödel killed it off with his Numberwan_ Incompleteness Theorem

@explorer806

4 жыл бұрын

He (Russell) also has a nice teapot orbiting the sun between the Earth and Mars.

@michaellavery4899

4 жыл бұрын

Pissing myself.

@GeebusCrust

3 жыл бұрын

162? That's numberwang!

"The Good Life is one inspired by love and guided by Numberwang" - Bertrand Russell

“Wangs for the memory” is what I google on my free time

"Thit's numberwing!" "Hahaha ol' mate that's numberwang!" "Yes! That is a number!"

and this is why I NEVER leave the house without a picture of a chicken!

"tragically trying to de-gay himself with a laser." Another epic quote from Mitchell.

"Oh, its a tough one today" "Yes, tricky" "Thats numberwang" "Oh damnit Reg always gets it first"

The BBC2 announcer won an Oscar.

This whole thing reminds me of the game Mornington Crescent

The Bertrand Russell bit is genius. xD

One of the best running gags of the show!

Today Numberwang is a vast, global franchise like MacDonald's, U2 and the Catholic Churc all rolled into one. The relativly humble beginings of not yet existing...classic stuff

Fantastic! And he pulled out a picture John Bird: love it! He's of Bremner, Bird and Fortune (a hilariously funny British comedy trio, for anyone who doesn't know, especially good at but not limited to satire). This was only series two but somehow they managed to convince the BBC to pay for so many extras, such elaborate sets, costumes and props! One of the best shows that was ever on television: I so wish Mitchell and Webb would get back together, they wrote these scripts themselves and they're bloody brilliant!

@davimurph

2 жыл бұрын

2 ducks and a different sort of bird, but no chicken. Very funny

@youcanlearnalotfromlydia

2 жыл бұрын

@@davimurph That's Numberwang! Every time I watch their sketches I pick up on some nuanced detail I never spotted before (or maybe not so nuanced but it all flies over my head at once at a million miles an hour!) I just realised watching it again after you replied that they all stand when Webb starts humming the national anthem: brilliant!

"Yes that is a number"...Roberts greatest line

I always crack up at Webb's "Ahhh... Hello, hello..." at 4:03

This feels like an SCP.

@safebox36

4 жыл бұрын

SCP-033 is numberwang!

@BNK2442

4 жыл бұрын

Everything is a SPC these days.

@chaosincarna

4 жыл бұрын

@@BNK2442 SCP and with enough creative writing, anything can be.

@alexanderg1935

3 жыл бұрын

Ah SCPs. The male wattpad.

@chaosincarna

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderg1935 "No fun allowed, especially with popular stuff!"

"As i remember he cried." So damn good.

All those stupid, repetitive Numberwang sketches..... they were all leading up to this. So worth it. I'm crying with laughter.

Avengers: Age of Ultron totally rips this off.

"Thits nimbawing!"

@JoeyLamontagne

9 жыл бұрын

Peter O'Donoghue YES! THAT IS A NUMBER! (big ass grin on my face)

@censorduck

8 жыл бұрын

+Peadar Bakunin Eulenspiegel Fuchsberger Thinks broo!

YES!!! That is a number

You'd think David Frost would've noticed Collosson there while he was trying to copulate with 11

i remember my first Numberwang. I was eleven, my numbers were 12, 34.4, and 70. Good memories

We now know that millions of people contemplating the complex mathematics of numberwang brought humanity to the attention beings from non-Euclidian dimensions, causing The Event.

"I say chaps, you don't suppose we could use this machine for anything else do you?" "Like what?" " I dunno erm, eh something to help with the war or something..." "I'll just go check...NOOO! NUMBERWANG WAS DESIGNED TO HELP MANKIND NOT TO DESTROY!!"

@thekinginyellow1744

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps if it had a Death ray...

Um...oh it's my turn? Uh...Mornington Crescent? No, no! Aldgate! I meant Aldgate!

4:02 Ahhhhh hello hello....kills me every time

People here are idiots. 6 is never numberwang unless 7 and 88 + 6 are simultaneously numberwang except if 4 was wangernumbed in later 15 pt bonus, however it is also numberwang when 6 and 65 are equal in bonus, unless the host announced the bonus before numberwang is called on 44 and 6 (or 23) but not 16. It's perfectly clear.

@myth1032

9 жыл бұрын

That only works with American rules. I prefer the UK version where 6 is numberwang when you take the square root of the previous numberwang, times it by 83.4, subtract one fifth and then times it by wangernumb. Much more versatile that way.

@JohnEusebioToronto

9 жыл бұрын

myth1032 I'm Canadian, so we play by Mussolini's Italy rules (Canada's numberwang is 1943.65). Here 6 and 7 are both numberwang, but not at the same time unless sqrt 9 is equal to twentibly. Naturally this only applies if 99 is a wangernumb, but that's most of the time since we usually tie 50 to 8.

@JoeyLamontagne

9 жыл бұрын

myth1032 I think it's more Australian rules, American rules states that 6 is never a numberwang unless it's combined with 66 and add 111. But then, you must divide by pi/2 or 4, depending on the round,and multiply by 8 to get numberwang. But be careful, if you multiply by .8, 18 or 80, then you would be wangernumbed. (Which, fun facts, are the total opposite the Kim's North Korean, Hitler's German and Stalin's Russian rules)

@samparr3368

9 жыл бұрын

We play by san quentin rules.so 6 is always numberwang if you subtract .5 and then sodomize the new inmate in the shower.

@calcifieddirt4120

9 жыл бұрын

Fools. Do you not know that Sub-Universal Standard Numberwang is the combination of Euclid-Vanzetti 5th Quadrant Zetarithm Type Numbers, when the logistic anti-points of Divine Metaphysics, by Japrussian-Netherlandian Secular Monk Barmetto Golinthian, and NOT with the Fork System of Paramilitary Metric Third Volume conversions. That is Democratic Eastern Orthodox Cuba's Numberwang binary rotation system, and in this day and age that Numberwang will simply not do. In conclusion, both 6 and 7 are Numberwang, but automatically Numberwang has Wangerinfinitariumed itself, following The G=6.67 10^-11 Sociopolitical Parameters of 6 (RIP 2996-Event Horizon). The nature of 6 itself is a walking Trunkarithmic contradiction, thus it both is, is not, and exists Adjacent inward to the curvature of Marx-Relpek Space, within coordinates "32, 25, 1(;, j, £, Ω, Rokovoj Bereg, and Outer Inner Third Mindframe". Peace and Math be upon thee, heathens, for while Zarasthura has turned his back upon 6 as Numberwang...The Mongolia-Pequot have not! 6! Might! Be! Gnawrebmun! (or relative Ablative Absolute Inverse, as stated in the C-54 Greenland-Seaworld Convention as to the acceptance of Sub-Saharan Alaska as a Biological Morphotronic power)

I love his grammatically correct use of like and as.

I had long wondered how this amazing discovery was made.

lol, I love the way the US version totally messes up the format and misses the point. Just like so many US reworkings of UK shows.

@thatdomguy2857

4 жыл бұрын

I took the joke as “look, the folks in the US are so dumb, that their version of the show is “name a number””

@ThePrinceofParthia

4 жыл бұрын

It's also wang being a sexual reference and the prudish Americans wouldn't have it on TV. I think it works on several levels.

@inplacesdeep893

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatdomguy2857 I took it more like how America renamed Cluedo to just Clue.

@tommiatkins3443

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's Americans not understanding how something works and wrecking it. Like they did with, "The Office" and with democracy...

@nthgth

4 жыл бұрын

@@tommiatkins3443 right, it's not like our versions of those things saw any success after all

any lost fans? the sequence of numbers he says 4-8-15-162-3420 4-8-15-16-23-42

a machine that gets a number, prints out if it's numberwang or not, and no one knows how it works...so basically that the first machine learning algorithm

"five hundred four thousand beef hundred and ninetington shinx divultiplied by the tesserect root of omegen?" ... "THAT'S NUMBERWANG!"

Best sketch of Mitchell and Webb ever!

There's something very nostalgic about the BBC Two intro

Arsene Wenger almost signed Numberwang in 2006 but turned it down because he ."thought he was little bit wanganumb". I can only dream of what could have been.

where he sat tragically trying to de-gay himself with a lazer. :P

@Mipotsmiplants I normally don't reply to such old posts, but I will in this case. The sense I got from this was that they were satirizing our American media's tendency to latch on to a popular show from abroad, and remake it, in the process either completely missing the point as to what made it popular and omiting it, or "dumbing it down" to the point of incomprehensibility.

"yeees! that is a numberrr!" hahahahahahahaha genius

I love how when the show is in America, it has to be different.

@daveed467

2 жыл бұрын

It's because of our poor educational quality..we really don't even know what a numberwang is..we mainly watch it for the board rotation

This show deserves another season.

@davidcanfield883

8 жыл бұрын

It is a number! lol.

At 3:10 I was almost astonished when they started the Lost numbers!

brilliant show, its really my kind of humor

If only we could combine Numberwang with Mornington Crescent.

I very nearly achieved numberwang by accident while trying to swim the Bristol Channel in 1990. I am still forbidden by law to discuss how.

21 dislikes - that's 4.5 more than the number of likes which is only 1454, recurring no less! If only it was 6 or more sideways of what it is now, then it would be a Perfect Numberwang!

"Ahhh, would that it were, would that. it. were."

You're absolutely right.

@candyinthebottle Also, most American game shows deliberately ask less difficult questions in order to create the impression that the show is easy and that anyone who signs up to compete will be guaranteed to make some money. Then, of course, they pick a group of idiots as contestants, and the circle continues ad infinitum. It's the same logic that gives us reality television.

Numberwang is my most favourite telly show!

I wonder if the BBC still has the colosson prop.

@GlyntTheCat

3 жыл бұрын

Prop?

"In countries like Australia; such as New Zealand."

Showing this to someone half way through learning English would be fun.

No one does, it's never really explained. That's one of the funniest aspects of the Numberwang sketches, the apparently arbitrary nature of the game.

Happy Birthday Turing!

"Yeeeess, that is a number!"

I don't think I'll ever be able to look at a number the same again. Numberwang.

It would be so good if there were actually some secret rules to Numberwang, but they are just so complicated that nobody will figure them out and it just sounds like nonsense.

3:12 The number's that the boffin tests: 4, 8, 15, 162, 3420. Let's split these numbers up: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. And what do you get? The numbers from LOST!!

Wracking my brain trying to think of another fish number besides eel-even

I laughed so hard I almost cried.

@MrUndersolo

8 жыл бұрын

That's Numberwang!

love the fact that the lost numbers are numberwang. (lost numbers - 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 numberwang - 4, 8, 15, 162, 3420.)

@BNK2442

4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, lost writers chosed 23 as one of the numbers because of 'The Mystery of 23', first appeared in the Illuminatus! Triology, and 42 because it was the answer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

@BNK2442

4 жыл бұрын

Particularly, I venerate the number 423.

@Limabeans1

4 жыл бұрын

Octavio Bannach I knew when I made that comment 11 years ago someone would eventually reply

"that is a number" hahahaha

Damn I've spent a morning trying to prove to myself that I existed......still not convinced

@pazma1

4 жыл бұрын

@Evi1M4chine I'm pretty sure that's not Numberwang.

@BNK2442

4 жыл бұрын

@@pazma1 But the OP was numberwang. I don't know how no one noted it yet.

Holy crap this is funny. "Thet's nambaweng"

I love history!

This is an alternate universe where Monte Carlo methods are simply numberwang methods and numberwang is the name of the rng generator they use.

Yeeeesss that IS a number

YEAH DUDE!!! I flipped out when I heard that!

Good point, looks like it is!

And that’s numberwang!

Damn man....well spotted!

The numbers the WWII scientist reads off are the numbers from LOST.

"Yess that is a number"

Was that the last sketch? If so, it's friggin' awesome.

lmfao "Ah, would that it were numberwang. Alas, it is not!"

3:12 the Numbers from LOST are numberwang...it all makes sense now.

The best part of this is how the Americans cut out the crap and simultaneously miss the point.

They stand up for him humming the national anthem!

This could be made into a brilliant Doctor Who episode.

That's numberwang!