The Surprising Adventures Of Sir Digby Chicken-Ceaser
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The Surprising Adventures Of Sir Digby Chicken-Ceaser is a sketch from the British TV sitcom That Mitchell And Webb Look. The sketch follows the endeavours of Sir Digby Chicken Ceaser (Robert Webb) and his sidekick Ginger (David Mitchell), two drunken tramps who believe they are detectives (especially Sir Digby). Sir Digby and Ginger also vaguely dress up as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, probably in a feeble attempt to heighten the reality of the dream world they both live in. Sir Digby is on an imaginary quest to find out who is behind it all (and he does mean ALL). His arch nemesis, who he is looking for, is never seen or revealed. Sir Digby merely describes him as "some bastard who is presumably responsible".
Whenever Sir Digby and Ginger are either being pursued by the police or people who generally get in their way, or if they need to get to somewhere quickly, they run to their own theme tune, which is Devil's Gallop (the theme tune to the radio serial, Dick Barton). During which, Sir Digby amusingly hums to, whilst pulling strange faces. The characters were originally played by both Mitchell and Webb in That Mitchell And Webb Sound but the character of Sir Digby Chicken-Ceaser was then called Sir Digby Ceaser-Salad.
There are two sketches in the first series of That Mitchell And Webb Look.
[edit] Sketch One
Sir Digby and Ginger are sitting in an old lady's house, who they have bound and gagged in her chair and they are drinking her alcohol. Allegedly, the old woman is Sir Digby's Great Aunt Marygold, but it is never proven whether she is and he is treating her badly, or whether he is pretending she is his great aunt so that he is making an excuse for himself. Sir Digby and Ginger then steal her TV and video recorder and leave the house. At the front door, a man is outside with a bouquet of flowers and notices them stealing from her. They then run away from him to Devil's Gallop, with Sir Digby humming it and pulling his face. Sir Digby is narrating the sketch and he explains what is happening.
According to Sir Digby, the video recorder he stole earlier is a piece of top secret machinery that he has "successfully couriered to its rightful owners at the heart of government." But the so called rightful owner he hands it to just so happens to be a pawn broker, who exchanges it for ten pounds. Sir Digby's attention then turns to Ginger, who was apparently beat up by the man who pursued them out of the house earlier, exclaiming he is "pissing blood again". Gingr also managed to drop the old woman's TV, but kept the remote. He suggests that they melt the batteries and drink the liquid. Sir Digby agrees and suggests they "borrow" a bunsen burner from his old school. After persuading Ginger to go with him, the sketch end with them being pursued by the school science tutors and pupils with bunsen burners in their hands and running to Devil's Gallop again, with Sir Digby's hilarious humming.
[edit] Sketch Two
The second sketch starts with the two tramps waiting in a church to receive holy communion. Sir Digby notices a woman in front of him (played by Olivia Colman) and pulls on her bra strap, saying back to Ginger "I've still got it". When they are receiving holy communion, the priest gives Sir Digby his chalice to drink from, and Sir Digby snatches it and drinks all of it. He and Ginger then run to the alter to their theme tune and steal the crucifixes and candle sticks on top. After Sir Digby inroduces the sketch, he and Ginger are in prison. According to SDir Digby, he and Ginger have been invited to an evening at her Majesty's pleasure. But because they are in prison, they can't make it there.
Sir Digby them comes up with a plan to hang Ginger from the ceiling by his scarf and tell the guard he has killed himself. The guard comes in to inspect, Sir Digby knocks him out and the duo make their escape. They run to their theme tune, with Sir digby humming to it as usual, and they end up down a back alley to discuss their next move. Here, Ginger tells Sir digby how he was regularly hung by his father as a child. These were the good days, however. The bad days was when his father would try to sexually abuse him.
Ginger then suggests that they go to the arcade to look for ten pence pieces. Sir Digby regards it as a search for clues and agrees to go with him. They run there to their theme tune, as Sir Digby hums at it pulling his strange face. The sketch ends as they are looking for ten pence pieces. They soon start fighting over them after Sir Digby is threatened by a young man.
