David Mitchell's Soapbox continues this week with a second consecutive episode taking issue with restaurant etiquette. After last week's attack on memorising waiters and the lack of a push-button system to get their attention, Mitchell turns his ire towards the custom of wine tasting at the table. "It was fine when I didn't know any better," Mitchell says, but that no longer holds. Furnished with the knowledge that a sip and compliment isn't desired and that he should instead offer an "imperious sniff" and "cold nod", he worries about looking (more)...
- 7/6/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
David Mitchell's Soapbox continues this week with a rant about restaurants. In the latest instalment, the Peep Show actor has a quick quibble with the set-up of Dragon's Den before getting his teeth into the meatier fare of ordering etiquette. Talking from his CGI fishtank, Mitchell wants a push-button system (but Not like the ones in Yo! Sushi). New episodes of Soapbox are available to watch (more)...
- 7/2/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
David Mitchell's Soapbox has returned for a fourth series. The web-based comedy show is again produced with Dell and ChannelFlip and the first episode of the new 22-episode run premiered today. The new episodes will be made available on a weekly basis via YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, downloadable apps and other formats. To mark the new series, sponsors ChannelFlip & Dell will launch a competition on July 5 to find the "next David Mitchell". Entrants will submit their own comedy videos and the winner will get £10,000 and a year's development deal with ChannelFlip, including coaching with Mitchell. ChannelFlip's content director Jamie Lennox said: "I'm always excited to work with David on (more)...
- 6/14/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
David Mitchell has said that Doctor Who is a children's programme. Speaking on the current episode of David Mitchell's Soapbox, the actor suggested that too many things are aimed at children with the assumption that adults will also enjoy them. Mitchell said of Doctor Who: "It's a children's programme; it's not for me, and I was a fool to think my opinion of it mattered. "Though not as much of a fool as I would have been if I was an adult thinking that about the original series, which was proudly and unambiguously a children's show - whereas now, for some reason, we're all encouraged to weigh in." He added: "My parents never watched Doctor Who - it wouldn't have occurred to them to do (more)...
- 9/9/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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