David Mitchell praises Sky Sports parody of ‘Mitchell And Webb’ football sketch

20 April, 2025

David Mitchell has praised a self-aware Sky Sports parody of a famous Mitchell and Webb sketch – watch below.

On Friday (April 18), the sports broadcaster posted an advert for their coverage of EFL football over the Easter weekend, with presenter David Prutton using manic mannerisms and exaggerated promotional language that rang a bell for many comedy fans.

The video, complete with Prutton’s yellow-shirted suit, was a reference to a much-memed sketch from That Mitchell And Webb Look in 2008, in which Mitchell spoofed the nature of footballer broadcasters with lines like, “Catch all of the constantly happening football here, it’s all here and it’s all football, always!”

“I’m genuinely delighted to see this,” Mitchell wrote in reaction to the Sky Sports post.

See both videos below.

That Mitchell And Webb Look ran for four seasons on BBC Two from 2006 to 2010, a spin-off from their radio show That Mitchell And Webb Sound. Writers on the show included Jesse Armstrong, who went on to create Succession, and regular cast members included Daniel Kaluuya, who went on to star in Get Out and win an Oscar for Judas And The Black Messiah.

Mitchell and Webb rose to fame on the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, and earlier this year, it was revealed that the duo would be reuniting for a new sketch comedy show.

The as-yet-untitled series, also to be shown on Channel 4, will consist of six half hour episodes, with the pair being joined by up-and-coming performers Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin, and Krystal Evans.

“When Channel 4 asked us to do another sketch show we were startled, bemused and available,” Mitchell and Webb said. “It’s a perilous time for the industry and so it’s our hope that relaunching the trickiest genre of comedy is a brilliant piece of counterintuitive commissioning.”

“We’re confident that unlike Roger Moore with his shoe on the bonnet of a car teetering on the edge of a cliff in For Your Eyes Only [REPLACE WITH 21ST CENTURY REFERENCE?] we’re not about to give British TV comedy a final lethal nudge into the abyss.”

Last October, it was revealed that Mitchell and Webb’s most recent sitcom Back would be getting a remake for American television.

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