David Mitchell's School Disco Days | Would I Lie To You?

David Mitchell: At age 10 my mum and dad let me go to a school disco, but put an alarm clock in my briefcase, set to ring when it was time to start saying my goodbyes."

From Would I Lie to You? Series 17 Episode 11.

Would I Lie to You? is the hit BBC panel show where two teams of celebrity guests try to figure out whether their opponent's ridiculously far-fetched statements about themselves are true or, in fact, a lie.

Featuring inimitable host Rob Brydon with lightning-quick team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack.


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[statman]

The problem with this one is that it's actually too plausible to be true, like it was scientifically engineered in a lab specifically to sound exactly like something that David would have done as a child.

[mss]

like Lee, I thought it was a lie. Like his teammates, I so wanted it to be true.

[williambarton]

It was a lie. David never went to a disco.

[Tao_Tology]

Wait, he put his suitcase _on to his coat_ ?

What a brazen lie.

[stevethorpe]

Obviously a lie, written by someone else. David would never have written a sentence with a dangling participle! His mum and dad were not aged ten when David went to a disco (if he ever went to a disco! 😄)

[GodotOfficial]

A school disco with a briefcase - is he Will Mackenzie?

[sstills]

1984: George Orwell, Van Halen, David Bowie and David Mitchell with an alarm clock leaving a disco early.

[simonvaughan]

I'm surprised David didn't pick up on the dangling participle on his card and say that his mum and dad weren't aged ten when they let him go to a school disco.

[lindaj]

David being 10 years old with a briefcase 💼 - like a little Professor: other 10 year olds just have a satchel 😂

[NativeIntelligenceCheckMyDJmix]

ha love this show, first time i ever saw david box himself into an implausible corner with each question...

[DillerDallerDuller]

Did he mime David putting on a monocle?

[JohannesWiberg]

Paul Blart aged well, didn't he?

[johncowan]

David was the inspiration for Will from the Inbetweeners!

[just-tess]

did Lee's team just return from 1984?? sure the 80s are back but wow

[panda]

0:58 I was thinking that before, and I was not surprised Lee did not suggest that scenario as first possibility.

[frowningJoker]

I bet the writers gave David this story as a lie, where in fact, it all happened but David was too embarrassed to admit it.

[JonasHamill]

I thought it was true until Lee said he doesn't. Lee knows David too well something something, I forgot how I was going to end this sentence

[jennypage]

Why did Lee not pick up on the grammatical error - as it stands the parents are age 10.

[SonnyK]

No one asked him how his mother was able to come and pick him up early? There were no cell phones back then. That's when I knew he was lying.

[SchlichteToven]

How would he have danced with a briefcase and a loose alarm clock bouncing around in it?