Car Share Outtakes

Recently I have been asked, at work, as part of an 'away day' (where a team gets together outside of the office to gather and do things that aren't their day-to-day work to improve morale or some such shit), to share my favourite Youtube clip.

The idea of the game is that everyone in the team will share their favourite Youtube clips anonymously and then we can all try and guess who selected the clips.

Whether or not people will be able to identify me from the clip I am putting forward is neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned. I'm just thrilled at the chance to get people stuck in a room having to watch the clip I am suggesting to see how they react.

The clip I am putting forward is of a collection of outtakes from a British TV series called Car Share. You don't need to have seen the show to enjoy the clip, I don't think. It's a simple show about two people who travel in the same car to and from work and how they get along. Yet the outtakes are a sequence where they have an annoying passenger (played by Reece Shearsmith, who is a personal favourite of mine for other work he has done) who is singing along to a tune on the radio.

The outtakes are basically Reece singing outrageously along to the tune and the two stars of the show, Peter Kay and Sian Gibson, left struggling to keep their composure and not crack up laughing. Obviouly, as these are outtakes, they utterly fail.

Just watch the clip, then you'll see what I mean.

Peter Kay's Car Share Outtakes

There's just so much about it I like. Those moments where Reece clearly knows what he's doing and is deliberately trying to get them to laugh are my favourite. At just over the 1 minute mark you can see this, with him looking at Peter and seeing he's making him laugh and then innocently saying, "What?" as though he doesn't know why he's ruining the take. He then starts tapping them both on the shoulder as he's singing, just trying to get them to break character.

I like the way he perverts the words of 'dance-floor' into 'dance flap', and somehow manages to force in the sentence "rape my ass" at the 1' 50 mark (note how he immediately looks to see Peter Kay crack up and then settles back in the seat, his work done). Peter Kay near-bursting with laughter, "I can't fucking cope".

It's just glorious.

Here we go now, here we go now. . . Here come the hotstepper. . .