It's quite striking that the actors, their age difference being only 2 years, are able to play father and son absolutey convincingly. Hilarious.
@TheAkelei11 жыл бұрын
Good make-up
@christianflores34374 жыл бұрын
@@christianflores3437 Wrong answer. Freaking good acting, you mean. And good make-up. In that order. Television sets where not very sharp, those years. On a bad one, the make-up was a waste.
@voornaam31913 жыл бұрын
It would be pretty hilarious if Fry tried playing the son and Laurie was the father instead
@4umata3 жыл бұрын
you might have broken an old queen's heart
@Lebronscokholder3 жыл бұрын
Theatrical, comedic genius'
@alexevansuk2 жыл бұрын
When my parents kicked me out, they just pinned a $20 bill to my collar and wished me luck. I was the most distraught 47 year old imaginable.
@Gotchism4Life3 жыл бұрын
lol! Good one!
@RuddsReels3 жыл бұрын
This is a wonderful Milliganism
@jeffkeith6372 жыл бұрын
😆😅🤣
@ariadneschild84602 жыл бұрын
That’s hysterical 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@WyattRyeSway2 жыл бұрын
What became of you Walter?
@nigelskipping7941 Жыл бұрын
I get the feeling that Fry would be great at D&D.
@tombranch22616 жыл бұрын
I think Fry would be great at being any sort of narrator, which is why he does so much narrating and voices for audiobooks.
@helios246015 жыл бұрын
He was Rever in Fable II
@christianblack3925 жыл бұрын
@@christianblack392 HE WAS?
@helios246015 жыл бұрын
@@helios24601 yes he was... Fable 3's Rever as well
@christianblack3925 жыл бұрын
¿Game of Thrones?
@masters.10005 жыл бұрын
Fry was born old. I bet he could recite the Iliad before he could walk
@ryanmcavoy10 жыл бұрын
He was probably IN the Iliad.
@LemoUtan5 жыл бұрын
Didn't he go to prison really young as well? I not sure how easy his life was.
@joeyherne5 жыл бұрын
Zany Nobody said his life was easy but he has had his fair share of ups and downs so to speak
@jourdanwolf5 жыл бұрын
He had a very privileged upbringing but he did get into trouble regularly.
@joeb24875 жыл бұрын
Stephen did have some issues with the law due to manic episodes of his bipolar. Not sure if he was even diagnosed at the time.
@tnexus134 жыл бұрын
I live in Saffron Walden and it's such a pointless insignificant town that it's a big surprise to have anything set here
@saoirsedeltufo74366 жыл бұрын
yeah right nice try Punac
@asusmctablet91806 жыл бұрын
I actually live near Saffron Walden and it’s certainly not insignificant
@ukar696 жыл бұрын
Saoirse del Tufo BIDE YOUR TIME
@vincenttavani63806 жыл бұрын
Saoirse del Tufo I'm in Essex, and yup, Saffron Walden is devoid of basically everything. Nice place though, got a castle I think?
@OsofoGriot6 жыл бұрын
Peter Johnson the ruins of what was a castle!
@saoirsedeltufo74366 жыл бұрын
My parents did this to me as well now I'm on a quest to a faraway land just past Luton to fulfill the prophecy
@tcac16875 жыл бұрын
Ahhh Luton, or Luu-Ton in the ancient tongue. Home to Helnak the hairy one if I'm not mistaken.
@paulmccloud93955 жыл бұрын
Say hi to my brother in law when you drive through there...
@jhwheuer4 жыл бұрын
Theres a place *beyond* Luton? Surely you jest! The wisest men in all the land hold it to be at the furthest reaches.
@MediumRareOpinions4 жыл бұрын
@@MediumRareOpinions There is of course Leighton Buzzard, but even the bravest dare not venture there.
@pietsnot39274 жыл бұрын
@@pietsnot3927 No! Do not speak its name lest you summon the foulest beats from that accursed place!
@MediumRareOpinions4 жыл бұрын
This was basically the plot to the entire Harry Potter series, wasn't it?
@OsofoGriot10 жыл бұрын
No it isn't.
@IanaGyln10 жыл бұрын
***** Sarcasm doesn't come over clearly across YT comments.
@OsofoGriot10 жыл бұрын
Peter Johnson No it doesn't.
@yenee949 жыл бұрын
Peter Johnson It's Excaibur
@GF-636 жыл бұрын
It's King Arthur
@AlexeiRamotar6 жыл бұрын
And this is how London's knife crime problem started
@danielbateman65184 жыл бұрын
Die infidel Punac!
@u.v.s.55834 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the parents forget to tell their children the getting the job part.
@Catubrannos4 жыл бұрын
@Jude M Didn't even try to disguise the prejudice,did you?
@jeevithrai79944 жыл бұрын
@@jeevithrai7994 Truth doesn't need disguise
@MBKill3rCat4 жыл бұрын
@@MBKill3rCat His prejudice doesn't need disguising is what you just said. So isn't really a great comment if you wanted to back up his statement.
@jacob93274 жыл бұрын
How Stephen Fry keeps a straight face when he holds up and announces the watershed arrival of Burwhale the Avenger is one of the confounded mysteries of space and time, right up there with the multi verse and dark energy.
@andrewlockett45694 жыл бұрын
Well, Burwhale the Avenger is just about as scientific as “the multiverse”.
@jeffryphillipsburns10 ай бұрын
Fry's calm gaze as he holds up the pocket knife is just gold.
@bangthehankers19858 жыл бұрын
I think Stephen's cardigan makes a significant contribution to this sketch, it sets the tone
@Deliquescentinsight11 ай бұрын
"And in my own clothes" - Classic Fry B-)
@MrIcelander6 жыл бұрын
"You chose me?" "After a great deal of shopping around, yes." Ouch lol
@Satellite_Of_Love3 жыл бұрын
"It was something to do with penises, I think"
@VintageTopHat6 жыл бұрын
VintageTopHat not with a penis but with penises....
@aku02174 жыл бұрын
Like the fact Stephen is gay.
@JukeboxTheGhoul4 жыл бұрын
Golly
@Demiglitch4 жыл бұрын
VintageTopHat the title of Frys autobiography
@aricwood8694 жыл бұрын
I literally spit out my drink when he said that 😂😂😂
@mgg54184 жыл бұрын
I'm going to be 25 in a week and I'm waiting for this conversation from my dad! 😂 I've been watching this sketch on and off since I was 16 and always thought that just before I turn 25 I am going to come back here and make that comment! Pretty sad I know 😂
@alicelucy13334 ай бұрын
People complain about Millennials never leaving home, but this is proof that it's not a new thing at all. Parents in the 80's were just much more creative than they are now.
@WillLaPuerta4 жыл бұрын
people have always stayed with their families well into adulthood. its only since the economic boom post wwII that children started moving out as soon as they came of age. its stupid to expect someone to immediately be able to support themselves the instant they enter the job market.
@Nebuelaeus4 жыл бұрын
I _was_ defiantly ashamed of living with my parents. There are positives to me sticking around, e.g. family member with heart condition in the home, us taking in a immediate relation's child in my parents life when they need help to watch over them. And many more. It's good to have more heads around in the house. Still, I'm self aware of my situation. I _was_ still a bit insecure because of it, until recently. Let me tell ya a little story: A vendor set up in my workplace to sell some specialty food. She was a posh type of person from NY. I've met these type of people before [not NYers specifically, I mean upper-class people], and they seem so alien to me as a person who grew up in a relatively rough and tumble blue collar area, and has had experiences with underprivileged people from very bad areas. She was very schizophrenia in her conversations. The simplest small talk opening statement would induce an LSD-like rant from her. I have dated two schizophrenics, both on the opposite ends of the spectrum of mild to severe mental suffering. This vendor may not have been literally schizophrenic, but talking to her was like talking to someone with that condition. One day, a simple innocuous question somehow led into one of her ramblings. It went from one of her NY friends working on their cellar that day with no help, her claiming they'd hurt themselves with no one to watch them, then her mentioning that she dates 30 year old guys who still live with their parents. I chimed in, trying to keep the conversation in a stable place, with a factually true statement that "The way things are now it's hard to find a decent paying job in this area, sometimes it's best for people to stick together and help each other instead". She continued on, and ended with "I think men who still live with their parents aren't real men at all." ..... I wasn't offended at all. I was just blown away by the innocent ignorance of it. I just let the conversation end and went about my work. I didn't know where to go from there. One: These are the type of men you JUST said you steadily date. Two: There are a wide spectrum of people, in all kinds of conditions. I've grew up with and seen alpha male ass kickers who stayed with their parents into their 30s. And I've seen squares that moved out into good houses with a wife and kids. I'm not excusing my situation, I was just blown away about how confidently ignorant she was, about people in general. It was like she was locked in a cellar for most of her life with a DvD of the Friends TV show to keep her company and help her develop. She was trying to be witty and funny, and just came off as batshit crazy to everyone from this area who interacted with her.
@deadjuice18804 жыл бұрын
"Today at 43 I own my own business as well as offshore work." I am sure the medal you think you deserve is in the mail. "Emasculated, dumb, fat, pathetic..... but don’t worry, since WW2 each generation has been worse" Wanna cry? "we’re witnessing the downfall of Rome." Don't worry, I am sure civilization will outlive you.
@thiagodeandrade70814 жыл бұрын
@Scottish Lol, some of the biggest successes of the millennial generation lived with their parents until 25+. Typical delusional boomer, so eager for your children to be independent (so that you can conserve your precious time) that you're happy for them to have worse prospects than you did at their age. If you ask me that's a failure in parenting, your goal as a parent should be to help your children do better than you did not worse.
@SubscribersWithoutAnySubscribe4 жыл бұрын
@Scottish Funny how you refuse to comment anymore after seeing your argument crumble. I see that while you didn't allow your kids to stay on phones and play games you seem to find ample time to surf youtube and spread your bullshit.
@SNIperofDARKness024 жыл бұрын
The classic “dad gives you a pocket knife before sending you out in the world” trick.
@DJCoolK1d3 жыл бұрын
Possibly my favourite Fry & Laurie sketch - a friend of mine also loves this sketch & we still refer to any folding pocket knife as "Burwail the Avenger", often to startled glances from those who are not "chosen" :-)
@gavmusic6 жыл бұрын
gavmusic But in fact it's a bit obvious which way this sketch is going. I smelled it as soon as the father was amazed his son could easily open the drawer. And as soon as he suggested his son should work in a can factory I smelled the ending ^^ But the execution made more than up for it.
@miskatonic62106 жыл бұрын
Sirion yeah, execution is what makes the joke - at least that's what Robespierre used to say.
@starry_lis5 жыл бұрын
Raphaël Atherill - Didn’t know he had it in him. That’s quite a healthy attitude against his own mortality.
@floris.9275 жыл бұрын
@@starry_lis Well you can't spell 'slaughter' without a 'laughter'
@marcinpilarski24125 жыл бұрын
But later, much later, Timothy would track the Dark one to America , New Jersey to be exact, and disguised as a simple Doctor with a limp so that Burwail, in the form of a cane, would always be at his side.......
@edwarddeguzman32584 жыл бұрын
'NOW TAKE BERWHALE THE AVENGER GO UPSTAIRS AND wash your hands for lunch' lol!
@lawro0415 жыл бұрын
Fun trivia: Saffron Walden is a very historic but relatively insignificant locality with around 15,000 people in the parish. Besides the very degraded ruins of a castle, it is home to the Fry Art Gallery which had been in the Fry family since the 19th century. The gallery is named after Roger Fry, an artist, who died in 1970. The Fry’s were Quakers and were part of a strong Quaker community that centered on the town. Steven would have been very aware of Saffron Walden, even before he went to Cambridge University, but I am sure that while at uni the duo must have visited Saffron Walden and appreciated its history, including a very remarkable ancient maze, and castle ruins, which invoke thoughts of mythical beings and legendary stories.
@artistjoh5 жыл бұрын
One of the first settlers of Concord Mass. USA was from Saffron Walden and that's how Walden Pond got it's name
@robertgoodwin5570 Жыл бұрын
>The Fry’s were Quakers and were part of a strong Quaker community that centered on the town. Wait is this why the guy on the packet of Quaker's Oats looks like Stephen Fry?
@Nikedemos Жыл бұрын
A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A word, Timothy 2112pm 20.2.23 reads like mr s. fry wrote that bit of trivia in relation to himself. now that's nothing new - folk have allus written their own reviews and blurbs. as for fry the quaker - never heard of him. and if the quakers of old are anything to go by - a bit of a con job. but isn't all religion? listening to our mr s. fry he seems to have gone wandering about a bit and claimed to have been many religious facades in various interviews he has undertaken - from roman catholic to jew to scientific boffin...... i am sure a audio book as read by mr s fry would do wonders for those milf chat ladies who look ever so bored.... cambridge or no.
@JJONNYREPP Жыл бұрын
@@JJONNYREPP I like the way you type that out. “mr s. fry” It’s so silly, I love it! You put a period after the “s,” but not after the “Mr,” and despite having the urbanity to use an honorific, you don’t capitalize a bit of hit! What a gas!
@ChestersonJack Жыл бұрын
@@ChestersonJack A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A word, Timothy 15.4.23 1443pm a bit of hit? what are you trynna imply, my man? good job i did put a period after the s or it may have been a shit of it. which is basically my grammar in a nutshell... i wasn't aware i was silly.. but that's fine by me. as for comedy - you just gotta play it straight or it just doesnt work... so they say. dunno where you go from here - is it all gonna be banal observations masking as humour as folk down the pub would have it ie: irish humour...? or is it gonna all revert back to violent slapstick asides cos people are sick of cruddy snippets of shitty lives and unmarried mothers whinging about the price of heroin????? there you go yerv started a new comedy sketch.... re: the grubby use and abuse of grammar. let's hope grandma appreciated your lavatorial style of humour... as it doesnt give me any pleasure to sit on bath taps - at all!! yours, nob 'nd.
@JJONNYREPP Жыл бұрын
I love the way Fry says 'please Timothy let me tell this in my own way, in my own time, in my own clothes!'..
@mddistribution306 ай бұрын
Oh do you now, oh really?
@PlayNiceFolks6 ай бұрын
❤
@PlayNiceFolks6 ай бұрын
Yes I do by crikey!
@mddistribution306 ай бұрын
It's been a white since I've seen this much beige.
@Renzsu6 жыл бұрын
I suggest you head over to the *Lindybeige* channel, then, for beige runs galore there. Just make sure that you have a few weeks worth of watching time, for it's... absorbing.
@alexandergorelyshev84855 жыл бұрын
Yes check out Lindybeige and prepare to be amazed
@perperson1995 жыл бұрын
Fitting, given the resemblence between Laurie and Lindy
@lpsp4425 жыл бұрын
Seriously, LindyBeige, check him out! Specially the video where he shows you how he dyes his VERY OWN BEIGE SHIRTS!
@privatevoidkeeper37755 жыл бұрын
Haha. Been a white. I see what you did there.
@Jotari5 жыл бұрын
Much as I love Laurie in goofy mode, it's refreshing to see Fry play the ham for once. And he does it so well.
@Beelzebibble12 жыл бұрын
Fry and Laurie work so well together. They did a series many years ago of Jeeves and Wooster, which is amongst the very best television has ever had to offer. In fact, pretty much everything they did together is world class.
@moosound3 жыл бұрын
Right on, Brother...
@sitarnut2 жыл бұрын
Haha, right ho!
@michellesheppard9253 Жыл бұрын
So the main take away is that Stephen Fry would make a good Gandalf.
@1894db2 жыл бұрын
You see it coming a mile off but it still works.
@WalterLiddy6 жыл бұрын
I didn't. I thought he was going to say his wife cheated on him and he was a bastard. So it was a great twist for me.
@Movies123Online5 жыл бұрын
@@Movies123Online Yeah I didn't get it in advance either
@martonk4 жыл бұрын
Soon as he said "get a job at a canning factory" the twist was revealed.
@swishfish88584 жыл бұрын
Stephen isn't even 2 years older than Hugh, yet some how he looks 35 years older than Hugh and I can imagine him being his dad.
@unclecreepy41852 жыл бұрын
It's amazing Fry could say all that with a straight face!
@maxnullifidian6 жыл бұрын
Not really, the man is quite the actor, were you to ask me. Quite good at doing a cold delivery of utter absurdity, imho.
@ILoveHandles5 жыл бұрын
@@ILoveHandles Yes he started out as a serious actor and the comedy was a bit of a sideline.
@frankshailes32052 жыл бұрын
I'm female and too young to have kids but as soon as I do and they turn 25 we *will* have this conversation.
@saltie54805 жыл бұрын
Don't plan on too much Kaine....they might not work right
@TheMarkFerron64 жыл бұрын
I can help.
@harrisons624 жыл бұрын
@@TheMarkFerron6 I know, they might not be able to open the drawer.
@saltie54804 жыл бұрын
@@alfa-psi I'll adopt then and make it really happen.
@saltie54804 жыл бұрын
Sooo nine months later.... Any luck?
@maisie27304 жыл бұрын
It's the way Fry says "beast"...
@wigs6666 жыл бұрын
Yes or "teesh". He is a great wordsmith.
@robhandley84126 жыл бұрын
Thank God, my parents haven’t found this video yet.
@donaldaribam3 жыл бұрын
THIS is how you get your nerdy child out of the house, parents
@DrCaseus5 жыл бұрын
It's how Punak's mom and dad got him to move out.
@Relugus2 жыл бұрын
This video has captured the essence of gamification
@theShaunus6 жыл бұрын
pretty sure this is how ma and pa kent got clarke to get a job in metropolis at the bugle
@danhanley56186 жыл бұрын
The Planet. The Bugle was Spider-Man.
@eddievhfan19846 жыл бұрын
@@eddievhfan1984 you beat me to it by only a year :)
@aarondavis53865 жыл бұрын
Except he really was the chosen one....
@trullsengar27845 жыл бұрын
Actually their deaths are what made him move to metropolis. They retconned that when they rebooted the DC universe in the 80s though.
@WildBluntHickok4 жыл бұрын
... It's also "Clark". No e and capital c. Apart from that and the stuff already mentioned about the parents being dead at that time, plus the name of the newspaper, just start the sentence with a capital letter (or, preferably "I'm pretty sure"), and you'll be SPOT ON 😀
@Slameye3 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact : "Punac the Destroyer" was actually a typo in the script for "Sunak the Tory".
@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT7 ай бұрын
This is literally one of the best sketches of all times!
@misterjder1.8313 жыл бұрын
Wow, that went in a direction I was not prepared for
@fearthegeeklord6 жыл бұрын
Somebody definitely needs to write that fantasy novel, preferably in at least three tomes 😂 I can’t wait to read more about Puna’ch the Destroyer and Teess the Wise!!
@mgg54184 жыл бұрын
That's spelled, "Teesse" ot "Teess". One must be precise when speaking of these entities.
@tamolyn5141 Жыл бұрын
“Get that lazy little sod out of the house and earning his living” Whilst trying to find and kill Punack the Destroyer😂😂😂😂
@captpicard68944 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes, the time period where you could simply get a job in a factory and start a new life for yourself. Gas was 5 cents a gallon, movie ticket was a quarter, and $200/month got you a nice midrange apartment.
@ghostbond10742 жыл бұрын
Gas was 5 cents a gallon? You sound dismissive! Ooh don't poo-poo a nickel, Ghost Bond. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel, with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds!
@youcanlearnalotfromlydia Жыл бұрын
@@youcanlearnalotfromlydia Don't poo-poo a poo-poo!
@pooletrainboy Жыл бұрын
“I don’t remember the exact details, something to do with penises I think” ...plural? I see the problem.
@jackdog063 жыл бұрын
It gets a bit funnier when you know that Stephen Fry is actually a homosexual. I can't remember if the show was from before or after he came out, but if it was after, it would've made the joke all the more hilarious to the audience at the time.
@jasonkeith28323 жыл бұрын
@@jasonkeith2832 he came out much later I believe
@aiswariyasweety15173 жыл бұрын
@@aiswariyasweety1517 Fry struggled to keep his homosexuality secret during his teenage years at public school, and by his own account did not engage in sexual activity for 16 years from 1979 until 1995. He was in a 15-year relationship with Daniel Cohen from 1995.
@frankshailes32052 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who would like the story to be made into a film?
@biologyfreak10110 жыл бұрын
I mean... we have the Hobbit already...
@D4K44R19 жыл бұрын
:D ...and King Arthur and Harry Potter...but I want these characters!
@biologyfreak1019 жыл бұрын
biologyfreak101 Saffron Walden was made for Hollywood
@EmbodiedNonDuality8 жыл бұрын
They should make this into a movie.
@therojowo8 жыл бұрын
It be a fairly boring movie. Kid goes off, starts working in a factory for 6 months... and well then just keeps working in the factory because the whole story was made up to get him the hell out of the house.
@Kaziklu6 жыл бұрын
Now, at last, I know why our army gave each one of us a knive just like this.
@PeterNGloor10 жыл бұрын
"Golly"
@kevinfromsales68426 жыл бұрын
Stephen Fry- pure comedic genius
@weian874 жыл бұрын
I am 36 years old and i still have not found Punak, the Destroyer, the Dark One, the Beast. I am still waiting for Ferlow Wroth to call on me, since i know that i cannot find Teesshs all by myself. But to this very day, even if so many years have passed, i am still afraid that the minions of Threek will discover me..
@vardellsfolly52003 жыл бұрын
One does not simply walk into Saffron Walden.
@garrick37272 жыл бұрын
Oh how I love this show
@michaelpenc73558 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I would absolutely read hell out of the Chronicles of Timothy
@GypsyScot1 Жыл бұрын
when he holds up burwail the avenger you can just see the slightest inkling of a smile in the face of absurd silliness, he so professionally manages to subdue and conceal it, but it is there...
@samuelluftensteiner686 жыл бұрын
I like how Stephen Fry was holding the door closed with his thumb at the beginning.
@joeydifranco04224 жыл бұрын
I love this skit🤣❤️
@meganwyatt16077 ай бұрын
To this day, my go-to RPG character name is Ferlo Roth.
@KesselRunner6063 жыл бұрын
What amazes me most is how Stephen Fry keeps a straight face throughout the whole scene.
@birgirbirgisson59016 жыл бұрын
My wife came from Saffron Walden, I always knew there was something weird about that town. 🤷🏼♂️😂
@mike.47 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I have been living in Brittany France for the last ten years, and Punac is actually my next village... just over the hill from Carnac. There is also a beast there, and let me tell you, despite what he says... he actually knows nothing about cars!
@nigelcarren3 жыл бұрын
"Luke the force is strong with you" "Really, how strong is it?" "Strong as a small pony!" I love British comedy!
@chatty_writer66612 жыл бұрын
Hahah that´s a brilliant bit of stand up!
@Gwydda5 жыл бұрын
Eddie Izzard has nothing to do with Fry and Laurie. The fact that they all lived in the same country for a while doesn't mean that their senses of humour were at all similar.
@omp1994 жыл бұрын
@@omp199 Calm down buddy, he's not suggesting they had anything to do with each other. "British humour" has a very distinct style, based on our cultural upbringing and attitude to the world. Even sketch artists like these two (and the time anyway) and surrealist comedians like Eddie Izzard have that in common. So it's not an unfair statement to say "I love British comedy", and certainly doesn't warrant the tone of your response.
@tinygamer4713 жыл бұрын
Omg! I wish Stephen Fry would read LOTR to me.
@taimatsuko6 жыл бұрын
taimatsuko Well he did narrate the Harry Potter audiobooks, so that's a step in that direction at least
@MrEAus6 жыл бұрын
@@MrEAus thought that was Jim Dale..
@KHwut5 жыл бұрын
@@KHwut interesting, I'd not heard of Jim myself, but it seems we are both right... ...as both Jim and Stephen have done Harry Potter audiobooks, but it's mainly a matter of region..: Jim Dale is aimed at the USA market, apparently, while Stephen is more famous elsewhere
@MrEAus5 жыл бұрын
@@MrEAus Ah, that didn't occur to me! I like Stephen Fry's voice, don't see why they needed two different narrators.. perhaps licensing? (I certainly enjoyed Jim Dale's performance too!)
@KHwut5 жыл бұрын
@@KHwut Yes, it seems both have received praise for their performances A guy on Quora summarises it here... www.quora.com/Why-did-they-replace-Jim-Dale-with-Stephen-Fry-for-the-US-version-of-the-Harry-Potter-audio-books
@MrEAus5 жыл бұрын
- Tis? - Tisssss!! I'm dying. xD
@Rayne47412 жыл бұрын
Why does this remind me of Monty Python somehow? Quest of the Holy Grail or something?
@ShehrozeAmeen2 жыл бұрын
Now I couldn't watch a single episode of House MD keeping a straight face!
@adarshjoseph22299 жыл бұрын
Adarsh Joseph I
@salbra306 жыл бұрын
Adarsh Joseph I couldn't do that before anyway
@warpspeedchic69326 жыл бұрын
Just came from watching repeats.
@sarahgreer42345 жыл бұрын
He s still the prince regent for me.
@ABW9415 жыл бұрын
Now, go watch the season of Blackadder with Hugh Laurie, and then go back and try to watch House MD and keep a straight face. It will be even more difficult.
@tamolyn5141 Жыл бұрын
About 6 times a year a watch this scene with my son.. he has a little schizophrenia... always we laugh hard.. I love him
@massagetherapyforinjuriesf81974 жыл бұрын
Did you try 'mr dalliard' already? A frylaurie scetch nearly as good.
@jpgrumbach85623 жыл бұрын
And he became a great doctor. Incredible!
@starsoffyre3 жыл бұрын
Emergency roadside tracheotomy.
@petermgruhn6 ай бұрын
knowing fry, this must ve been inspired by wagner's ring cycle
@muhammedshareef19676 жыл бұрын
muhammed shareef Or Arthurian legend.
@borisvandruff75326 жыл бұрын
I love that at 2:05 Fry can barely keep it together 🤣
@GtsAntoni14 жыл бұрын
How can one give such a speech whilst holding a pocket knife in such a way without losing their composure?
@MrJfizzle112334 жыл бұрын
"Golly!"
@SpiritmanProductions2 жыл бұрын
Actually not a bad idea to give yourself a more interesting backstory - I’m going to work harder, get out of the house more, get in shape and meet new people, but it’s all just so I can be accepted by the community as part of a plan to rid the world of Punac.
@MarxistKnight4 жыл бұрын
I have just turned 25 and am expecting a similar talk from my parents every day :D
@borisa2borisa11 жыл бұрын
lmao! Now that it is 4 years later, has it happened?
@rozamunduszek47876 жыл бұрын
He is now a 30 year old wandering the land dressed like Gandalf, seeking out the dark one.
@anthonycunningham81166 жыл бұрын
@@anthonycunningham8116 He's still working on being accepted by the Saffron Walden community.
@Thirsty_Fox2 жыл бұрын
I live in Saffron Walden!
@ShatteredxSpiritx11 жыл бұрын
Madelaine Hanson than you should have met a guy named Hugh Laurie awhile ago, or do you think he didn’t fall for it after all ???
@sietzevandeburgt6816 жыл бұрын
It's been four years.......are you still biding your time?
@davebuchan816 жыл бұрын
Do you work in a local canning factory?
@UsernameRulesSuck16 жыл бұрын
Do you know where I can find Furlough Roth
@bootdude75275 жыл бұрын
And Punac lives three doors down, I suppose?
@DieFlabbergast3 жыл бұрын
"it was something to do with penises I think" That line is even funnier to me considering Stephen is gay.
@Sabrowsky3 жыл бұрын
I just thought that lol.
@MixedRogueKhorri2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah! Because, being gay, he likes penises and can't have children! That does make it extra funny, doesn't it!
@K1lostream2 жыл бұрын
@@K1lostream Someones mad lol Haven't you got pictures of the queen to take down.
@AmazinglyGayPhil2 жыл бұрын
AmazinglyGayPhil That's right, I am as mad as a box of coked-up ferrets!
@K1lostream2 жыл бұрын
Lot of people these days need their parents to pull this on them.
@raynmanshorts92755 ай бұрын
I've opened a drawer today and now im On a quest for dragon fire in the land of aghast I should be back by 4 put the kettle on
@tcac16875 жыл бұрын
How good were Fry & Laurie....... I miss comedy like this and Blackadder so much.
@paulmoran70264 жыл бұрын
Oh, if only one could afford to live on the salary of a cannery worker.
@artistwithouttalent6 жыл бұрын
you can actually afford living on a salary like that, its just gonna be a shitty life mostly
@rayaqin5 жыл бұрын
You must seek Theese, the career adviser!
@fredfinks4 жыл бұрын
@@somename6955 i love you. But a girl would never say such thing
@smokinggun84183 жыл бұрын
This is actually just Hugh Laurie playing a one shot D&D game for his first time
@alexgogoladze62014 жыл бұрын
“You must leave us to go in search of Punac, the destroyer! The dark one! The *beast!”* “...golly.”
@5Oblivion4 жыл бұрын
3:25 Threek is actually a town in the Japanese version of SNES RPG Earthbound.
@MisterAppleEsq6 жыл бұрын
Lord of the Rings is basically a 1000 page version of this.
@czgibson30866 жыл бұрын
Fellowship was anyway
@aarondavis53865 жыл бұрын
Uhm, the lord of the rings doesnt have that ”the chosen one” nonsense so common in trash fantasy. Some random hobbits are heroes because they choose to do it. Not due to fate, birthright, or extraordinary talent.
@martinlarsson89475 жыл бұрын
@@martinlarsson8947 yeah there wasnt totally a destiny/chosen one angle in aragorn's story or as tolkien put it "All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king"
@aarondavis53865 жыл бұрын
czgibson I thought it was 1223 pages
@Theproclaimed5 жыл бұрын
Martin Larsson So it seems much of Greek mythology, from which LOR was inspired, is nothing but nonsense and trash fantasy. Good to know.
@Elephantstonica5 жыл бұрын
"in my own way,in my own time in my own clothes..." XD
@freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez14 жыл бұрын
this is one of their best scetches. can't stop watching.
@rudhouse112 жыл бұрын
Holy shit! I'm 26 and I still live with my parents. my days are numbered. any day soon that's me !
@leoshane91186 жыл бұрын
Leo Shane That’s fine. This was written in the 80’s, well before the millennials and the necessity of living with your parents beyond your 20’s due to rising rents and house prices. What you were supposed to do in Britain back then was work your way through college living in a grubby shared flat while paying the rent on said crappy flat by being a barman in the evenings and thus end up becoming an alcoholic. Thank God that I never... *hic* ...went that way 😜
@MrAronRobinson5 жыл бұрын
Golly, I'm in my early 20's, wonder if my mum will give me this kind of story. XD
@chatty_writer66610 жыл бұрын
One like just for the "golly"! :D
@MarxistKnight9 жыл бұрын
It has been 4 years now, are you still a lazy sod living with your mum?
@MetaalMeerkat5 жыл бұрын
5 years, ARE YOU EARNING A LIVING YET, LAD?
@TheHellogs44445 жыл бұрын
The worst part is that 10 other people wrote this exact conment
@magicman92184 жыл бұрын
Can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to do this sketch with (unbeknownst to her!)
@thomasburns33453 жыл бұрын
This is like, the plot of most JRPGs I've played.
@thetoaster6413 Жыл бұрын
NOW TAKE BERWHALE THE AVENGER GO UPSTAIRS and wash your hands for lunch 😂😂😂
@Sherpiddy3 жыл бұрын
Stephen Fry adopted Anakin Skywalker.
@shockedbyjoy10 жыл бұрын
Furlough Wrath?! I think I’ve developed that over the last few weeks.
@darkdave253 жыл бұрын
Indeed. And they ARE able, and how! Absolutely adorable.
@TheAkelei10 жыл бұрын
Ok I just googled Saffron Walden.... it’s a beautiful town, absolutely gorgeous .... I want to visit like right now! (I’m American by the way) I’m beginning to learn that Great Britain has a secret that we Americans don’t know. It’s one of the most lovely and beautiful places on earth.... I just discovered Coventry recently and was blown away. All we in the states know about is London... which is very nice, I’m sure, but wow the rest of the country is too magnificent for words to follow! Planning my next vacation’ By the way.... there’s a Fry art gallery there!!!
@TheLocoUnion4 жыл бұрын
Its alright, kinda quiet place stuck in between farmers fields. Not very exciting at all.
@Karls_Clips4 жыл бұрын
KZhead is reading my mind. I was thinking of this skit all day, and it shows up in my recommended videos list as I'm laying myself down to sleep
@BottomBunkArt6 жыл бұрын
Baikal920 KZhead?...or Pewnac? The dark one, the Beast, is reading your mind - quick, where's Berwail?
@MrEAus6 жыл бұрын
Punac the Destroyer. The dark one. The beast.
@HandsomeMoose5 жыл бұрын
This show was brilliant!
@technowey4 жыл бұрын
Never even seen these guys before, but the whole time I was thinking "pretty sure they just want their son out of the house..." Lol
@JamesBond-xx1lv3 жыл бұрын
Stephen is quite slender here Love these blokes!!
@danielbrown17244 жыл бұрын
Thought Fry had a weird looken blunt in hand in the thumbnail
@aliciaa4455 жыл бұрын
I haven't left that hard in a long time thank you very much for brightening my day :-)
@fredjaneson16703 жыл бұрын
you need to leave harder more often... 😅
@hedonismunderstands24697 ай бұрын
Am I the only one watching this while listening to 80's fantasy movies music?
@enanorojo82334 жыл бұрын
King Arthur - how it really happened!
@stone1andonly6 жыл бұрын
Turns out every medieval story in existence started out as a fairytale to tell their kids out of the house. Maybe for all we know there isn't an actual holy grail
@operator91210 Жыл бұрын
TEEESSSSSSSS!
@apolloc.vermouth56726 жыл бұрын
Timonthy is the chosen one. He's going to bring balance to the force.
It's quite striking that the actors, their age difference being only 2 years, are able to play father and son absolutey convincingly. Hilarious.
Good make-up
@@christianflores3437 Wrong answer. Freaking good acting, you mean. And good make-up. In that order. Television sets where not very sharp, those years. On a bad one, the make-up was a waste.
It would be pretty hilarious if Fry tried playing the son and Laurie was the father instead
you might have broken an old queen's heart
Theatrical, comedic genius'
When my parents kicked me out, they just pinned a $20 bill to my collar and wished me luck. I was the most distraught 47 year old imaginable.
lol! Good one!
This is a wonderful Milliganism
😆😅🤣
That’s hysterical 😂😂😂😂😂😂
What became of you Walter?
I get the feeling that Fry would be great at D&D.
I think Fry would be great at being any sort of narrator, which is why he does so much narrating and voices for audiobooks.
He was Rever in Fable II
@@christianblack392 HE WAS?
@@helios24601 yes he was... Fable 3's Rever as well
¿Game of Thrones?
Fry was born old. I bet he could recite the Iliad before he could walk
He was probably IN the Iliad.
Didn't he go to prison really young as well? I not sure how easy his life was.
Zany Nobody said his life was easy but he has had his fair share of ups and downs so to speak
He had a very privileged upbringing but he did get into trouble regularly.
Stephen did have some issues with the law due to manic episodes of his bipolar. Not sure if he was even diagnosed at the time.
I live in Saffron Walden and it's such a pointless insignificant town that it's a big surprise to have anything set here
yeah right nice try Punac
I actually live near Saffron Walden and it’s certainly not insignificant
Saoirse del Tufo BIDE YOUR TIME
Saoirse del Tufo I'm in Essex, and yup, Saffron Walden is devoid of basically everything. Nice place though, got a castle I think?
Peter Johnson the ruins of what was a castle!
My parents did this to me as well now I'm on a quest to a faraway land just past Luton to fulfill the prophecy
Ahhh Luton, or Luu-Ton in the ancient tongue. Home to Helnak the hairy one if I'm not mistaken.
Say hi to my brother in law when you drive through there...
Theres a place *beyond* Luton? Surely you jest! The wisest men in all the land hold it to be at the furthest reaches.
@@MediumRareOpinions There is of course Leighton Buzzard, but even the bravest dare not venture there.
@@pietsnot3927 No! Do not speak its name lest you summon the foulest beats from that accursed place!
This was basically the plot to the entire Harry Potter series, wasn't it?
No it isn't.
***** Sarcasm doesn't come over clearly across YT comments.
Peter Johnson No it doesn't.
Peter Johnson It's Excaibur
It's King Arthur
And this is how London's knife crime problem started
Die infidel Punac!
Unfortunately the parents forget to tell their children the getting the job part.
@Jude M Didn't even try to disguise the prejudice,did you?
@@jeevithrai7994 Truth doesn't need disguise
@@MBKill3rCat His prejudice doesn't need disguising is what you just said. So isn't really a great comment if you wanted to back up his statement.
How Stephen Fry keeps a straight face when he holds up and announces the watershed arrival of Burwhale the Avenger is one of the confounded mysteries of space and time, right up there with the multi verse and dark energy.
Well, Burwhale the Avenger is just about as scientific as “the multiverse”.
Fry's calm gaze as he holds up the pocket knife is just gold.
I think Stephen's cardigan makes a significant contribution to this sketch, it sets the tone
"And in my own clothes" - Classic Fry B-)
"You chose me?" "After a great deal of shopping around, yes." Ouch lol
"It was something to do with penises, I think"
VintageTopHat not with a penis but with penises....
Like the fact Stephen is gay.
Golly
VintageTopHat the title of Frys autobiography
I literally spit out my drink when he said that 😂😂😂
I'm going to be 25 in a week and I'm waiting for this conversation from my dad! 😂 I've been watching this sketch on and off since I was 16 and always thought that just before I turn 25 I am going to come back here and make that comment! Pretty sad I know 😂
People complain about Millennials never leaving home, but this is proof that it's not a new thing at all. Parents in the 80's were just much more creative than they are now.
people have always stayed with their families well into adulthood. its only since the economic boom post wwII that children started moving out as soon as they came of age. its stupid to expect someone to immediately be able to support themselves the instant they enter the job market.
I _was_ defiantly ashamed of living with my parents. There are positives to me sticking around, e.g. family member with heart condition in the home, us taking in a immediate relation's child in my parents life when they need help to watch over them. And many more. It's good to have more heads around in the house. Still, I'm self aware of my situation. I _was_ still a bit insecure because of it, until recently. Let me tell ya a little story: A vendor set up in my workplace to sell some specialty food. She was a posh type of person from NY. I've met these type of people before [not NYers specifically, I mean upper-class people], and they seem so alien to me as a person who grew up in a relatively rough and tumble blue collar area, and has had experiences with underprivileged people from very bad areas. She was very schizophrenia in her conversations. The simplest small talk opening statement would induce an LSD-like rant from her. I have dated two schizophrenics, both on the opposite ends of the spectrum of mild to severe mental suffering. This vendor may not have been literally schizophrenic, but talking to her was like talking to someone with that condition. One day, a simple innocuous question somehow led into one of her ramblings. It went from one of her NY friends working on their cellar that day with no help, her claiming they'd hurt themselves with no one to watch them, then her mentioning that she dates 30 year old guys who still live with their parents. I chimed in, trying to keep the conversation in a stable place, with a factually true statement that "The way things are now it's hard to find a decent paying job in this area, sometimes it's best for people to stick together and help each other instead". She continued on, and ended with "I think men who still live with their parents aren't real men at all." ..... I wasn't offended at all. I was just blown away by the innocent ignorance of it. I just let the conversation end and went about my work. I didn't know where to go from there. One: These are the type of men you JUST said you steadily date. Two: There are a wide spectrum of people, in all kinds of conditions. I've grew up with and seen alpha male ass kickers who stayed with their parents into their 30s. And I've seen squares that moved out into good houses with a wife and kids. I'm not excusing my situation, I was just blown away about how confidently ignorant she was, about people in general. It was like she was locked in a cellar for most of her life with a DvD of the Friends TV show to keep her company and help her develop. She was trying to be witty and funny, and just came off as batshit crazy to everyone from this area who interacted with her.
"Today at 43 I own my own business as well as offshore work." I am sure the medal you think you deserve is in the mail. "Emasculated, dumb, fat, pathetic..... but don’t worry, since WW2 each generation has been worse" Wanna cry? "we’re witnessing the downfall of Rome." Don't worry, I am sure civilization will outlive you.
@Scottish Lol, some of the biggest successes of the millennial generation lived with their parents until 25+. Typical delusional boomer, so eager for your children to be independent (so that you can conserve your precious time) that you're happy for them to have worse prospects than you did at their age. If you ask me that's a failure in parenting, your goal as a parent should be to help your children do better than you did not worse.
@Scottish Funny how you refuse to comment anymore after seeing your argument crumble. I see that while you didn't allow your kids to stay on phones and play games you seem to find ample time to surf youtube and spread your bullshit.
The classic “dad gives you a pocket knife before sending you out in the world” trick.
Possibly my favourite Fry & Laurie sketch - a friend of mine also loves this sketch & we still refer to any folding pocket knife as "Burwail the Avenger", often to startled glances from those who are not "chosen" :-)
gavmusic But in fact it's a bit obvious which way this sketch is going. I smelled it as soon as the father was amazed his son could easily open the drawer. And as soon as he suggested his son should work in a can factory I smelled the ending ^^ But the execution made more than up for it.
Sirion yeah, execution is what makes the joke - at least that's what Robespierre used to say.
Raphaël Atherill - Didn’t know he had it in him. That’s quite a healthy attitude against his own mortality.
@@starry_lis Well you can't spell 'slaughter' without a 'laughter'
But later, much later, Timothy would track the Dark one to America , New Jersey to be exact, and disguised as a simple Doctor with a limp so that Burwail, in the form of a cane, would always be at his side.......
'NOW TAKE BERWHALE THE AVENGER GO UPSTAIRS AND wash your hands for lunch' lol!
Fun trivia: Saffron Walden is a very historic but relatively insignificant locality with around 15,000 people in the parish. Besides the very degraded ruins of a castle, it is home to the Fry Art Gallery which had been in the Fry family since the 19th century. The gallery is named after Roger Fry, an artist, who died in 1970. The Fry’s were Quakers and were part of a strong Quaker community that centered on the town. Steven would have been very aware of Saffron Walden, even before he went to Cambridge University, but I am sure that while at uni the duo must have visited Saffron Walden and appreciated its history, including a very remarkable ancient maze, and castle ruins, which invoke thoughts of mythical beings and legendary stories.
One of the first settlers of Concord Mass. USA was from Saffron Walden and that's how Walden Pond got it's name
>The Fry’s were Quakers and were part of a strong Quaker community that centered on the town. Wait is this why the guy on the packet of Quaker's Oats looks like Stephen Fry?
A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A word, Timothy 2112pm 20.2.23 reads like mr s. fry wrote that bit of trivia in relation to himself. now that's nothing new - folk have allus written their own reviews and blurbs. as for fry the quaker - never heard of him. and if the quakers of old are anything to go by - a bit of a con job. but isn't all religion? listening to our mr s. fry he seems to have gone wandering about a bit and claimed to have been many religious facades in various interviews he has undertaken - from roman catholic to jew to scientific boffin...... i am sure a audio book as read by mr s fry would do wonders for those milf chat ladies who look ever so bored.... cambridge or no.
@@JJONNYREPP I like the way you type that out. “mr s. fry” It’s so silly, I love it! You put a period after the “s,” but not after the “Mr,” and despite having the urbanity to use an honorific, you don’t capitalize a bit of hit! What a gas!
@@ChestersonJack A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A word, Timothy 15.4.23 1443pm a bit of hit? what are you trynna imply, my man? good job i did put a period after the s or it may have been a shit of it. which is basically my grammar in a nutshell... i wasn't aware i was silly.. but that's fine by me. as for comedy - you just gotta play it straight or it just doesnt work... so they say. dunno where you go from here - is it all gonna be banal observations masking as humour as folk down the pub would have it ie: irish humour...? or is it gonna all revert back to violent slapstick asides cos people are sick of cruddy snippets of shitty lives and unmarried mothers whinging about the price of heroin????? there you go yerv started a new comedy sketch.... re: the grubby use and abuse of grammar. let's hope grandma appreciated your lavatorial style of humour... as it doesnt give me any pleasure to sit on bath taps - at all!! yours, nob 'nd.
I love the way Fry says 'please Timothy let me tell this in my own way, in my own time, in my own clothes!'..
Oh do you now, oh really?
❤
Yes I do by crikey!
It's been a white since I've seen this much beige.
I suggest you head over to the *Lindybeige* channel, then, for beige runs galore there. Just make sure that you have a few weeks worth of watching time, for it's... absorbing.
Yes check out Lindybeige and prepare to be amazed
Fitting, given the resemblence between Laurie and Lindy
Seriously, LindyBeige, check him out! Specially the video where he shows you how he dyes his VERY OWN BEIGE SHIRTS!
Haha. Been a white. I see what you did there.
Much as I love Laurie in goofy mode, it's refreshing to see Fry play the ham for once. And he does it so well.
Fry and Laurie work so well together. They did a series many years ago of Jeeves and Wooster, which is amongst the very best television has ever had to offer. In fact, pretty much everything they did together is world class.
Right on, Brother...
Haha, right ho!
So the main take away is that Stephen Fry would make a good Gandalf.
You see it coming a mile off but it still works.
I didn't. I thought he was going to say his wife cheated on him and he was a bastard. So it was a great twist for me.
@@Movies123Online Yeah I didn't get it in advance either
Soon as he said "get a job at a canning factory" the twist was revealed.
Stephen isn't even 2 years older than Hugh, yet some how he looks 35 years older than Hugh and I can imagine him being his dad.
It's amazing Fry could say all that with a straight face!
Not really, the man is quite the actor, were you to ask me. Quite good at doing a cold delivery of utter absurdity, imho.
@@ILoveHandles Yes he started out as a serious actor and the comedy was a bit of a sideline.
I'm female and too young to have kids but as soon as I do and they turn 25 we *will* have this conversation.
Don't plan on too much Kaine....they might not work right
I can help.
@@TheMarkFerron6 I know, they might not be able to open the drawer.
@@alfa-psi I'll adopt then and make it really happen.
Sooo nine months later.... Any luck?
It's the way Fry says "beast"...
Yes or "teesh". He is a great wordsmith.
Thank God, my parents haven’t found this video yet.
THIS is how you get your nerdy child out of the house, parents
It's how Punak's mom and dad got him to move out.
This video has captured the essence of gamification
pretty sure this is how ma and pa kent got clarke to get a job in metropolis at the bugle
The Planet. The Bugle was Spider-Man.
@@eddievhfan1984 you beat me to it by only a year :)
Except he really was the chosen one....
Actually their deaths are what made him move to metropolis. They retconned that when they rebooted the DC universe in the 80s though.
... It's also "Clark". No e and capital c. Apart from that and the stuff already mentioned about the parents being dead at that time, plus the name of the newspaper, just start the sentence with a capital letter (or, preferably "I'm pretty sure"), and you'll be SPOT ON 😀
Fun Fact : "Punac the Destroyer" was actually a typo in the script for "Sunak the Tory".
This is literally one of the best sketches of all times!
Wow, that went in a direction I was not prepared for
Somebody definitely needs to write that fantasy novel, preferably in at least three tomes 😂 I can’t wait to read more about Puna’ch the Destroyer and Teess the Wise!!
That's spelled, "Teesse" ot "Teess". One must be precise when speaking of these entities.
“Get that lazy little sod out of the house and earning his living” Whilst trying to find and kill Punack the Destroyer😂😂😂😂
Ah, yes, the time period where you could simply get a job in a factory and start a new life for yourself. Gas was 5 cents a gallon, movie ticket was a quarter, and $200/month got you a nice midrange apartment.
Gas was 5 cents a gallon? You sound dismissive! Ooh don't poo-poo a nickel, Ghost Bond. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel, with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds!
@@youcanlearnalotfromlydia Don't poo-poo a poo-poo!
“I don’t remember the exact details, something to do with penises I think” ...plural? I see the problem.
It gets a bit funnier when you know that Stephen Fry is actually a homosexual. I can't remember if the show was from before or after he came out, but if it was after, it would've made the joke all the more hilarious to the audience at the time.
@@jasonkeith2832 he came out much later I believe
@@aiswariyasweety1517 Fry struggled to keep his homosexuality secret during his teenage years at public school, and by his own account did not engage in sexual activity for 16 years from 1979 until 1995. He was in a 15-year relationship with Daniel Cohen from 1995.
Am I the only one who would like the story to be made into a film?
I mean... we have the Hobbit already...
:D ...and King Arthur and Harry Potter...but I want these characters!
biologyfreak101 Saffron Walden was made for Hollywood
They should make this into a movie.
It be a fairly boring movie. Kid goes off, starts working in a factory for 6 months... and well then just keeps working in the factory because the whole story was made up to get him the hell out of the house.
Now, at last, I know why our army gave each one of us a knive just like this.
"Golly"
Stephen Fry- pure comedic genius
I am 36 years old and i still have not found Punak, the Destroyer, the Dark One, the Beast. I am still waiting for Ferlow Wroth to call on me, since i know that i cannot find Teesshs all by myself. But to this very day, even if so many years have passed, i am still afraid that the minions of Threek will discover me..
One does not simply walk into Saffron Walden.
Oh how I love this show
Not gonna lie, I would absolutely read hell out of the Chronicles of Timothy
when he holds up burwail the avenger you can just see the slightest inkling of a smile in the face of absurd silliness, he so professionally manages to subdue and conceal it, but it is there...
I like how Stephen Fry was holding the door closed with his thumb at the beginning.
I love this skit🤣❤️
To this day, my go-to RPG character name is Ferlo Roth.
What amazes me most is how Stephen Fry keeps a straight face throughout the whole scene.
My wife came from Saffron Walden, I always knew there was something weird about that town. 🤷🏼♂️😂
Unfortunately I have been living in Brittany France for the last ten years, and Punac is actually my next village... just over the hill from Carnac. There is also a beast there, and let me tell you, despite what he says... he actually knows nothing about cars!
"Luke the force is strong with you" "Really, how strong is it?" "Strong as a small pony!" I love British comedy!
Hahah that´s a brilliant bit of stand up!
Eddie Izzard has nothing to do with Fry and Laurie. The fact that they all lived in the same country for a while doesn't mean that their senses of humour were at all similar.
@@omp199 Calm down buddy, he's not suggesting they had anything to do with each other. "British humour" has a very distinct style, based on our cultural upbringing and attitude to the world. Even sketch artists like these two (and the time anyway) and surrealist comedians like Eddie Izzard have that in common. So it's not an unfair statement to say "I love British comedy", and certainly doesn't warrant the tone of your response.
Omg! I wish Stephen Fry would read LOTR to me.
taimatsuko Well he did narrate the Harry Potter audiobooks, so that's a step in that direction at least
@@MrEAus thought that was Jim Dale..
@@KHwut interesting, I'd not heard of Jim myself, but it seems we are both right... ...as both Jim and Stephen have done Harry Potter audiobooks, but it's mainly a matter of region..: Jim Dale is aimed at the USA market, apparently, while Stephen is more famous elsewhere
@@MrEAus Ah, that didn't occur to me! I like Stephen Fry's voice, don't see why they needed two different narrators.. perhaps licensing? (I certainly enjoyed Jim Dale's performance too!)
@@KHwut Yes, it seems both have received praise for their performances A guy on Quora summarises it here... www.quora.com/Why-did-they-replace-Jim-Dale-with-Stephen-Fry-for-the-US-version-of-the-Harry-Potter-audio-books
- Tis? - Tisssss!! I'm dying. xD
Why does this remind me of Monty Python somehow? Quest of the Holy Grail or something?
Now I couldn't watch a single episode of House MD keeping a straight face!
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Adarsh Joseph I couldn't do that before anyway
Just came from watching repeats.
He s still the prince regent for me.
Now, go watch the season of Blackadder with Hugh Laurie, and then go back and try to watch House MD and keep a straight face. It will be even more difficult.
About 6 times a year a watch this scene with my son.. he has a little schizophrenia... always we laugh hard.. I love him
Did you try 'mr dalliard' already? A frylaurie scetch nearly as good.
And he became a great doctor. Incredible!
Emergency roadside tracheotomy.
knowing fry, this must ve been inspired by wagner's ring cycle
muhammed shareef Or Arthurian legend.
I love that at 2:05 Fry can barely keep it together 🤣
How can one give such a speech whilst holding a pocket knife in such a way without losing their composure?
"Golly!"
Actually not a bad idea to give yourself a more interesting backstory - I’m going to work harder, get out of the house more, get in shape and meet new people, but it’s all just so I can be accepted by the community as part of a plan to rid the world of Punac.
I have just turned 25 and am expecting a similar talk from my parents every day :D
lmao! Now that it is 4 years later, has it happened?
He is now a 30 year old wandering the land dressed like Gandalf, seeking out the dark one.
@@anthonycunningham8116 He's still working on being accepted by the Saffron Walden community.
I live in Saffron Walden!
Madelaine Hanson than you should have met a guy named Hugh Laurie awhile ago, or do you think he didn’t fall for it after all ???
It's been four years.......are you still biding your time?
Do you work in a local canning factory?
Do you know where I can find Furlough Roth
And Punac lives three doors down, I suppose?
"it was something to do with penises I think" That line is even funnier to me considering Stephen is gay.
I just thought that lol.
Oh yeah! Because, being gay, he likes penises and can't have children! That does make it extra funny, doesn't it!
@@K1lostream Someones mad lol Haven't you got pictures of the queen to take down.
AmazinglyGayPhil That's right, I am as mad as a box of coked-up ferrets!
Lot of people these days need their parents to pull this on them.
I've opened a drawer today and now im On a quest for dragon fire in the land of aghast I should be back by 4 put the kettle on
How good were Fry & Laurie....... I miss comedy like this and Blackadder so much.
Oh, if only one could afford to live on the salary of a cannery worker.
you can actually afford living on a salary like that, its just gonna be a shitty life mostly
You must seek Theese, the career adviser!
@@somename6955 i love you. But a girl would never say such thing
This is actually just Hugh Laurie playing a one shot D&D game for his first time
“You must leave us to go in search of Punac, the destroyer! The dark one! The *beast!”* “...golly.”
3:25 Threek is actually a town in the Japanese version of SNES RPG Earthbound.
Lord of the Rings is basically a 1000 page version of this.
Fellowship was anyway
Uhm, the lord of the rings doesnt have that ”the chosen one” nonsense so common in trash fantasy. Some random hobbits are heroes because they choose to do it. Not due to fate, birthright, or extraordinary talent.
@@martinlarsson8947 yeah there wasnt totally a destiny/chosen one angle in aragorn's story or as tolkien put it "All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king"
czgibson I thought it was 1223 pages
Martin Larsson So it seems much of Greek mythology, from which LOR was inspired, is nothing but nonsense and trash fantasy. Good to know.
"in my own way,in my own time in my own clothes..." XD
this is one of their best scetches. can't stop watching.
Holy shit! I'm 26 and I still live with my parents. my days are numbered. any day soon that's me !
Leo Shane That’s fine. This was written in the 80’s, well before the millennials and the necessity of living with your parents beyond your 20’s due to rising rents and house prices. What you were supposed to do in Britain back then was work your way through college living in a grubby shared flat while paying the rent on said crappy flat by being a barman in the evenings and thus end up becoming an alcoholic. Thank God that I never... *hic* ...went that way 😜
Golly, I'm in my early 20's, wonder if my mum will give me this kind of story. XD
One like just for the "golly"! :D
It has been 4 years now, are you still a lazy sod living with your mum?
5 years, ARE YOU EARNING A LIVING YET, LAD?
The worst part is that 10 other people wrote this exact conment
Can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to do this sketch with (unbeknownst to her!)
This is like, the plot of most JRPGs I've played.
NOW TAKE BERWHALE THE AVENGER GO UPSTAIRS and wash your hands for lunch 😂😂😂
Stephen Fry adopted Anakin Skywalker.
Furlough Wrath?! I think I’ve developed that over the last few weeks.
Indeed. And they ARE able, and how! Absolutely adorable.
Ok I just googled Saffron Walden.... it’s a beautiful town, absolutely gorgeous .... I want to visit like right now! (I’m American by the way) I’m beginning to learn that Great Britain has a secret that we Americans don’t know. It’s one of the most lovely and beautiful places on earth.... I just discovered Coventry recently and was blown away. All we in the states know about is London... which is very nice, I’m sure, but wow the rest of the country is too magnificent for words to follow! Planning my next vacation’ By the way.... there’s a Fry art gallery there!!!
Its alright, kinda quiet place stuck in between farmers fields. Not very exciting at all.
KZhead is reading my mind. I was thinking of this skit all day, and it shows up in my recommended videos list as I'm laying myself down to sleep
Baikal920 KZhead?...or Pewnac? The dark one, the Beast, is reading your mind - quick, where's Berwail?
Punac the Destroyer. The dark one. The beast.
This show was brilliant!
Never even seen these guys before, but the whole time I was thinking "pretty sure they just want their son out of the house..." Lol
Stephen is quite slender here Love these blokes!!
Thought Fry had a weird looken blunt in hand in the thumbnail
I haven't left that hard in a long time thank you very much for brightening my day :-)
you need to leave harder more often... 😅
Am I the only one watching this while listening to 80's fantasy movies music?
King Arthur - how it really happened!
Turns out every medieval story in existence started out as a fairytale to tell their kids out of the house. Maybe for all we know there isn't an actual holy grail
TEEESSSSSSSS!
Timonthy is the chosen one. He's going to bring balance to the force.
The hero's journey...in a comedy sketch!