That Mitchell & Webb Look
A few clips have been going around the internet in the last week, due to the almost radical turn of the new series of “That Mitchell & Webb Look”, a comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The first two seasons were filled with hilarious sketches, but the third has some absolute gems surrounding issues of skepticism, such as this sketch mocking religious zealots and their passion for finding messages in pieces of fruit (or anything else for that matter).
In the same episode, they attacked the pseudoscience of homeopathy with a sketch called “Homeopathic A&E”.
On the subject of David Mitchell, I was rather surprised to find an article he wrote a week ago in the Guardian that spoke out against the “Camp Quest” summer camp for children of atheists. I’m not sure if he has ever stated his religious beliefs, but evidently he doesn’t support the “new atheist” ideals. I wouldn’t suspect him to be a Christian (or even a believer given the content of his shows), so perhaps he’s on the same line as Julian Baggini?
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It's just comedy – everything's fair game, including atheism. I found the closing paragraph to his Guardian piece pretty funny:
"Richard Dawkins's Christmas Wonderland – "Join Richard in the spectacular setting of Lapland for a Christmas your children will never forget! An idyllic week spent building snowmen, collecting holly, baking mince pies and stirring the Christmas pudding, culminates on Christmas morning when Richard reveals that there's no such thing as Father Christmas and there are no presents for anyone! The children will then thank him for delivering them from ignorance." "