This article contains spoilers for the final of ‘Last One Laughing’ series two
The finale of Last One Laughing’s second series had to be seen to be believed. After six hours of suppressed laughter and subdued smirks, the game ended with comedians David Mitchell and Sam Campbell – both masters of dry, deadpan humour – force-feeding one another eclairs, jelly and chips. “It was very, very odd,” says Mitchell, the eventual winner of the show. “It had the quality of a dream. I was frightened that it would turn out that everyone outside that room had gone.”
Mitchell and Campbell didn’t break during their feeding frenzy. “By the last phase, I wasn’t so much worried that I would crack as that neither of us would, and we’d be stuck in there for ever,” says Mitchell. Eventually the winner was crowned based on how many other players they had made laugh and therefore eliminated. “As it is, that neatly happened and I’m sorry if we damaged the format”. And so, it was Mitchell who lifted the second ever Last One Laughing trophy.
The final came down to just Sam Campbell and Mitchell (Photo: Prime Video)Not laughing in a room full of comedians – including Romesh Ranganathan, Alan Carr, Diane Morgan and last year’s winner Bob Mortimer – might seem impossible, but for Mitchell (who didn’t even chuckle once and completed the series without even a yellow card warning), it was rather easy. “As I remember it for the first few hours, I barely could laugh. It’s like when you hold a wee in too long, and your bladder sort seizes up,” he says. “I think that actually killed a man at the court of Emperor Rudolf II.”
Mitchell describes his technique as “nervous watchfulness” – “like at a dinner party where you’re worried you’re going to say something offensive”. Though he was almost caught out a few times by his fellow players, particularly during the jokers, when each comic would perform a pre-prepared skit designed to make their contenders break.
“For me, it was during Diane, Alan and Romesh’s jokers that I came nearest to cracking. They were difficult moments,” he says. Those performances involved Morgan reading Dylan Thomas’s Do not go gentle into that good night regularly interrupting herself with loud farts, a new game show “Concentration or Constipation”, the winner of which won a sausage made by Carr himself, and a cathartic round of throwing insults at Ranganathan, largely concerning his “gammy” (his word) eyes.
Mitchell’s own joker performance was a series highlight (Photo: Prime Video)Once Mitchell had survived these onslaughts, however, they became fuel for his victory: “I think maybe something inside me died as a result of that and, actually, in the last phase I don’t know if I could have laughed if I’d tried.” Mitchell’s own joker performance – which saw him perform an incredibly lively version of “Flash Bang Wallop” from Half a Sixpence – was a highlight of the entire series, largely because it was so out of step with the intellectual pedant we’ve come to know over his two decades on TV.
A laughless world doesn’t bear thinking about, and now Mitchell is free to giggle again – if indeed he still can. After six hours sequestered away with some of the country’s best comic minds without letting out so much as a titter, has he learned anything valuable about himself? “I learned that I am willing to be fed on TV if contractually obliged.”
‘Last One Laughing’ is available on Prime Video
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