Clip from the pilot of Stephen Fry And Hugh Laurie's TV Show "A bit of Fry and Laurie". Enjoy.
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And I'd be alive today
@danielnatzke67335 жыл бұрын
😁😁
@jean-louistixier-vignancou3211 Жыл бұрын
The "I didn't catch that" joke is quality, and they breezed right past it like it was nothing.
@peterhunt4818 Жыл бұрын
It was nothing. He hadn't thrown it yet!
@NPzed Жыл бұрын
Ah, Quality....reminds me of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.
@StephenS-2024 Жыл бұрын
@@StephenS-2024 that book should have been called “western philosophy and the art of bad parenting”
@anathamon Жыл бұрын
@@anathamon ha! That's good.
@StephenS-2024 Жыл бұрын
that WAS INDEED NOTHING when compared to the line "it's because i'm dumb, isn't it sir"
@srikaneator Жыл бұрын
“You can’t come because you’re a bastard and we all hate you!” Epic.
@jswaggart01 Жыл бұрын
Every line of this scene was more unpredictable than the last.
@Shakes-Off-Fear Жыл бұрын
"I'm blind and deaf, so they cancel each other out" is almost like Norm MacDonald's "I'm a deeply closeted gay man" bit.
@danielskrivan692110 ай бұрын
This is why I carry my cigarette case on my head.
@sarcasmo57 Жыл бұрын
This is why i don’t smoke.
@Voodoo_Robot Жыл бұрын
Sorry to tell you but that won't do anything to stop anything bigger than a pellet gun
@Eralen00 Жыл бұрын
@@Voodoo_Robot you won't be surviving any german snipers like that sonny
@somewhatdubiouscontents Жыл бұрын
@@Eralen00 Really? What am I going to do with the bullet proof vest I made out of cigarette cases then?
@rmac32172 ай бұрын
"lets die for Fry who may or may not be born one day" would be such an awesome phrase to motivate soldiers with
@gvantsasakaruli99006 ай бұрын
Sounds like a marching song, Left my wife in New Orleans, To die for Fry and eat fried beans, Left, Left, Left Right Left
@rmac32172 ай бұрын
"if you pardon the pun" "what pun?" xD
@extenebrislux11 жыл бұрын
There's something hilarious about seeing a young Dr. House claiming that his deafness and blindness are cancelling each other out.
@catsinq5726 Жыл бұрын
I didn't see an episode of House until years after I had been a fan of Laurie's comedy career. Imagine how hilarious it is to see one of your favorite comedians playing Dr. House.
@John_Ridley Жыл бұрын
Never even occurred to me that obviously in some places people will have only seen Hugh Laurie as House. Absolute quality
@makkapakka2098 Жыл бұрын
@@makkapakka2098 that was me until very recently, he was only House and Stuart Little's dad
@jordlopez Жыл бұрын
@@jordlopez I haven't seen that movie since I was a wee lad, was he really in that? He was also Major -- de Coverley in the Hulu Catch-22 miniseries, which I quite liked. (It didn't follow the book too closely, which is alright since doing a one-to-one adaptation of that kind of book is practically impossible. Heller didn't mind things being changed in adaptation. In fact, he thoroughly enjoyed the 1970 movie adaptation, making him one of the seven people who did.)
@RabbiHerschel Жыл бұрын
@@RabbiHerschel yeah, I distinctly remember rewatching Stuart Little a few years back and being like: "House is his dad? Really?" And there was no way I could misremember such an anomaly lol
@jordlopez Жыл бұрын
The great thing about them's that they're equally funny.
@FrankieParadiso4evah6 жыл бұрын
Yep
@ianbrewer4843 Жыл бұрын
Nope laurie is funnier
@ginabrogan1825 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather’s battle blouse was shot clean thru the temple, yet the bullet bounced off his cigarette case which saved his life, but he was nevertheless killed 30 seconds later in his escape attempt because he was half blind and partially deaf with a penchant for tripping over chairs, but all of that was irrelevant as he promptly expired from a… Thus, a Fry & Laurie skit is born.
@conservativemike37682 жыл бұрын
These two are very much the masters of wit and cleverly written dialogue…good on em’
@OddBallThe4th8382 Жыл бұрын
"He was given it by his god-niece as a kind of 'loss-of-virginity' present"
@richardgadberry8398 Жыл бұрын
These two are treasures. I hope they realize how much happiness they’ve brought to the masses.
@hollyb68858 ай бұрын
never seen this one before...blessed be the algorithm for finally showing this. Just another Masterpiece of Comedy.
@Sepilein1 Жыл бұрын
The scene they're spoofing from The Great Escape is so sad. This is hilarious.
@stanamilanovich3956 Жыл бұрын
Their PG Wodehouse plays are hilarious.
@ChanduKale Жыл бұрын
Absolutely… “Wooster and Jeeves” is perfect. But maybe not better than Black Adder. That was a true Dream Team of Brit comedy.
@TampaDave Жыл бұрын
Laurie does the best American accent of anyone I've ever seen or heard.
@michaellinner7772 Жыл бұрын
Clint Eastwood's American accent was pretty good...
@roberthanlen6036 Жыл бұрын
How about Daniel Day Luis?
@renobeck1976 Жыл бұрын
How about Laurie?
@flynnlivescmd Жыл бұрын
It's because he's blind you see...
@Bumbley1 Жыл бұрын
I never understood this observation. As House, he makes a drawn out meal out of every Amurican weurd. For excellent American accents done by Brits, Band of Brothers is the gold standard.
@findmurdock Жыл бұрын
It's so odd hearing him talk about his grandfather, knowing from "Who Do You Think You Are?" that his maternal grandfather was an Austro-Hungarian Jew from Vienna, who emigrated to England. His name was Neumann.
@shelbynamels973 Жыл бұрын
Yes, but this was his grandfather on his parents’ side.
@General_Nothing Жыл бұрын
@@General_Nothing all grandfathers are on the parents' side.
@shelbynamels973 Жыл бұрын
We’ll surely he wasn’t talking about his real grandfather here, it was likely made up for the skit!
@MerkhVision Жыл бұрын
Nnnnueman...
@mikenicholas9017 Жыл бұрын
The two together!!! Just perfect.
@skyteus Жыл бұрын
"I lost my sense of smell while forging the minutest details of a thousand Nazi documents" That's a line from al fresco, fry and Lori's 1983 series with Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane.
@StarWarsMoments Жыл бұрын
Love the idea that because he’s blind and deaf each lost sense promotes the other, so logically he’s got perfect sight and hearing! 🙈🙉😆
@montecristo1845 Жыл бұрын
He has amazing sight and hearing, he just can't use it 😂
@TOBAPNW_ Жыл бұрын
I don't think it's that funny- it's actually my own situation...
@loge10 Жыл бұрын
@@loge10 Congrats, I wish I had perfect sight and hearing.
@silversolver7809 Жыл бұрын
"logically"
@joedingo7022 Жыл бұрын
Lol these guys are so out there for their time.
@treebeard84752 жыл бұрын
For their time? They are exactly of their time. There was a lot of this style around then. They are out there for today, probably. Comedy is much more of the everyday now
@sophitsa79 Жыл бұрын
@@sophitsa79 yeah I guess it’s how ya look at it or how I worded that haha. It just hits my funny bone different than comedians of my day and it pleases me :)
@treebeard8475 Жыл бұрын
Their chemistry is off the charts!
@TeemuSintonen8 ай бұрын
Oh, thank you!!! I love both these guys so much.
@geraldineclarke5434 Жыл бұрын
5.25 minutes of brilliance.
@c.a.marsupial.1282 Жыл бұрын
Actually that would be 5.41 minutes or thereabouts
@taowroland8697 Жыл бұрын
His grandfather could he be Melchett lol 😂
@87654321j Жыл бұрын
now this is funny!! the kind of British ‘humour’ i really like. thanks. :) 😋🌷🌱
@feralbluee Жыл бұрын
The spirit of Python is strong in this one and it is exquisite.
@SPRPhilly11 ай бұрын
One of the greatest clips from ABOFAL
@ALEGODAY11 жыл бұрын
Heavy“Blackadder goes forth” vibes there.
@morenauer Жыл бұрын
"Are you deaf?" "Yes, sir"
@handlesarecringe957 Жыл бұрын
Masterpiece
@codyheiner3636 Жыл бұрын
Lmao that final line was absolutely brilliant!
@nvrndingsmmr6 ай бұрын
Fun fact few people know: some parts of this sketch were taken from the POW sketch in the older Fry & Laurie show Alfresco.
@hallfiry2 жыл бұрын
Such a truely talented actor. Beautiful executed example of what the true meaning of the word 'dumb' actually means of which most do not know, yet wrongfully use everyday in every day speech.
@shannonjaensch3705 Жыл бұрын
Wow really? I thought it was common knowledge that dumb had a medical meaning as well. Surprising. But I guess knowledge is often seen as a negative these days.
@VestigialHead Жыл бұрын
I've not seen this one. And I've repeated DAMN and WE'VE BEEN ACTIVATED a hundred times.
@PlayNiceFolks5 ай бұрын
Cheers jake :D brilliance XD
@TheEpicNoodle12 жыл бұрын
A cigarette case can be opened and close- Audience: "-HHAAAHAHAHAHAACHAAHCHAHH"
@LosBerkos Жыл бұрын
Begging forgiveness. But I can only take Stephen Fry in small doses, which is uniquely difficult as he is quite a large man. 🤣🤣🤣
@Lord.Kiltridge Жыл бұрын
"So the Great War and World War II were just vast entertainments laid on for your benefit, were they?"
@richardgadberry8398 Жыл бұрын
''Well when you put it that way... yes''.
@rustythecrown9317 Жыл бұрын
Strange to see them so young. Love Fry as Wilde and Laurie as House MD, I think that's the best of both of them.
@helenmoss961 Жыл бұрын
did you not see Jeeves and Wooster?
@buckcherryfan1000 Жыл бұрын
_Jeeves and Wooster_ is unequivocally Fry & Laurie's greatest work. _Blackadder_ is a riot as well.
@barcode8459 Жыл бұрын
Or battle blouse
@matthewbritton27904 жыл бұрын
I literally almost did a spit take watching this.
@marklechman2225 Жыл бұрын
This start reminded me of Christopher Walken's Gold Watch monologue.
@thuurmichels763Ай бұрын
"... and I'd be alive today." Wait, What?
@keepdancingmaria Жыл бұрын
Was this improvised? Feels brilliantly "Yes, and..."
@NicholasMonks Жыл бұрын
You can see Fry almost trip over one of his lines. It's scripted, but that doesn't diminish it at all.
@don_5283 Жыл бұрын
He did have a mum ! And a dad !
@robertwoodroffe123 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@DulceN Жыл бұрын
the laughs are so bought
@dan4461 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if it part of the joke that Hugh calls Stephen Sir despite them being equivalent ranks.
@sureshot8399 Жыл бұрын
Any attempt at analizing the humour here fails, absurdism is at absurd levels. "my grandfather on my parents' side' sets the stage
@benwu7980 Жыл бұрын
Idk, honestly that's the one joke that's almost something you could ordinarily say; it specifies that it's neither of your grandfather-in-laws.
@hashbrown777 Жыл бұрын
@@hashbrown777 :) I guess that's what I mean about analizing their jokes.
@benwu7980 Жыл бұрын
''And I'd be alive today''.
@rustythecrown9317 Жыл бұрын
Who is giving electric knives to the prisoners?
@thiagodeandrade708110 ай бұрын
If his grandfather wore the cigarette case on his temple he'd just have bits of tobacco in his brain instead of just lead. That's like 1.5mm sheet metal, an 8mm Mauser would go through that like a piece of tissue paper
@Eralen00 Жыл бұрын
He’s only got a bad limp in his House now
@robertwoodroffe123 Жыл бұрын
The first part is just kindergarten show and tell
@samstudios99085 жыл бұрын
But done by a adult comic genius.
@MartinHiggins19722 жыл бұрын
My dad was a ww2 sniper ! And I’m alive
@robertwoodroffe123 Жыл бұрын
Did this inspire Tarantino to the watch story - i think - told in Pulp Fiction to young Bruce Willis?
@color-head1696 Жыл бұрын
Great entertainers and masterful subversive humor! Probably lost on an audience that laughs at literally every word regardless.
@justk9415 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like what we Yanks refer to as a "laughtrack"....cue Dr Evil air quotes
@jeffreyjeziorski14806 ай бұрын
Tarantino borrowed this it seems.
@DCUPtoejuice Жыл бұрын
Is the audience being gased with laughing gas?
@t.m.2415 Жыл бұрын
1:50 this is where population ethics comes from
@reallyidrathernot.134 Жыл бұрын
Lindybeige humor
@kn7991j Жыл бұрын
I wonder if this sketch was made after Blackadder IV, given the bit about war skits being in bad taste.
@philipsalama8083 Жыл бұрын
I think it was about a decade earlier
@sophitsa79 Жыл бұрын
That is what several of my ex girlfriends said - "you can't come because you are a bastard and we hate you".
@VestigialHead Жыл бұрын
Wow. Didn’t know Dr. House could be this funny.
@thecapone454 жыл бұрын
One of the best British comedy duos of all time
@Banzybanz2 жыл бұрын
Not just funny, but a talented comedy writer as well. He and Fry co-wrote these skits. Laurie's comedic timing in House is flawless, and his acceptance speeches at awards shows are hilarious.
@peterhunt4818 Жыл бұрын
a some point Hugh Laurie decided to stop playing comedy and started acting in serious roles. The first of those role I saw him was as the grumpy husband of a hysterical Emelda Staunon in Sense and Sensibility with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.
@kamion53 Жыл бұрын
@@kamion53 Thus ruining a brilliant comedic career,
@HootOwl513 Жыл бұрын
@@kamion53 Mr Palmer wasn't him deciding to stop doing comedy and doing serious roles - a) it's not a serious role (apart from the one line where he offers assistance to the Dashwoods, everything he does is deeply ironic; it's a comic part), b) that was filmed around the same time as the last series of ABOFAL, and he continued to do primarily comic roles for years after that, and c) he was invited to do it personally by Emma Thompson, his long-term friend (and former girlfriend) as basically a cameo.
@alisonhill3941 Жыл бұрын
It's never lupus
@ImNotADeeJay Жыл бұрын
3:43 was that scripted or not? Because I can't tell XD
@delta968510 ай бұрын
Yeah, it had to be. Saying "pardon the pun" when neither of them has made one is bit of a running gag for them.
@dars52297 ай бұрын
@@dars5229 Pardon?
@delta9685Ай бұрын
Why does it sound so similar to monthy python?
@gasan6599 Жыл бұрын
They’re Britons.
@SwordsmanRyan Жыл бұрын
Does it?
@enthusedtosing96559 ай бұрын
what episode is this? and what series? someone tell me the detail of this clip please?
@muhammadavatarmarvellian766 жыл бұрын
The show's name: A Bit of Fry and Laurie. That's all I know
@avinotion6 жыл бұрын
Check the video's description
@DarthGTB5 жыл бұрын
Escalation humor like this just makes no _sense._
@ConstantlyDamaged6 ай бұрын
Is this comedy? I don't speak British.
@StephenS-2024 Жыл бұрын
This is definitely a more weird, meta one.
@Dilmahkana Жыл бұрын
@@Dilmahkana funny.
@StephenS-2024 Жыл бұрын
Are you per chance german?
@Michael-dj6pd Жыл бұрын
@@Michael-dj6pd Ich bin Amerikaner.
@StephenS-2024 Жыл бұрын
@@StephenS-2024 That explains the lack of comedic understanding.
@rustythecrown9317 Жыл бұрын
FRY… just go away, already
@marekvollach7831 Жыл бұрын
Daredevil's cameo in She-Hulk is amazing.
@jeronimo196 Жыл бұрын
Are you sure you are on the right video?
@Michael-dj6pd Жыл бұрын
@@Michael-dj6pd it's a joke, don't worry about it.
@jeronimo196 Жыл бұрын
@@jeronimo196 That whole show is a joke.
@rustythecrown9317 Жыл бұрын
So funny I forgot to laugh. Uh.
@FreemonSandlewould Жыл бұрын
It's alright , your from modern times, subtlety is not your strong point.
@rustythecrown9317 Жыл бұрын
They're just too clever to generate funny. Because funny is simply not rational. These are properly educated men. They're not funny at all.
@badgerbadgerton966 Жыл бұрын
They didn’t die for you, Stephen; they died for Jesus.
@brotherben4357 Жыл бұрын
And look where that got them... dead.
@rustythecrown9317 Жыл бұрын
That's a dumber reason to die
@aaroncabatingan523811 ай бұрын
Astonishing how they put up with that inane, fake laughter back then.
@TechToWatch Жыл бұрын
That inane fake laughter was real laughter from an actual studio audience.
@peteb1206 Жыл бұрын
Not funny
@stephenlindsey6631 Жыл бұрын
In the Anglostate, Stephen Fry will be experimented on as our foremost scientists attempt to de-gay and de-Jew him so that he may one day rejoin society.
@RabbiHerschel Жыл бұрын
they laugh at literally everything he says? cringe AF
@fireantmedia7946 Жыл бұрын
I don't see how that is cringe AF but to each their own..
And I'd be alive today
😁😁
The "I didn't catch that" joke is quality, and they breezed right past it like it was nothing.
It was nothing. He hadn't thrown it yet!
Ah, Quality....reminds me of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.
@@StephenS-2024 that book should have been called “western philosophy and the art of bad parenting”
@@anathamon ha! That's good.
that WAS INDEED NOTHING when compared to the line "it's because i'm dumb, isn't it sir"
“You can’t come because you’re a bastard and we all hate you!” Epic.
Every line of this scene was more unpredictable than the last.
"I'm blind and deaf, so they cancel each other out" is almost like Norm MacDonald's "I'm a deeply closeted gay man" bit.
This is why I carry my cigarette case on my head.
This is why i don’t smoke.
Sorry to tell you but that won't do anything to stop anything bigger than a pellet gun
@@Voodoo_Robot you won't be surviving any german snipers like that sonny
@@Eralen00 Really? What am I going to do with the bullet proof vest I made out of cigarette cases then?
"lets die for Fry who may or may not be born one day" would be such an awesome phrase to motivate soldiers with
Sounds like a marching song, Left my wife in New Orleans, To die for Fry and eat fried beans, Left, Left, Left Right Left
"if you pardon the pun" "what pun?" xD
There's something hilarious about seeing a young Dr. House claiming that his deafness and blindness are cancelling each other out.
I didn't see an episode of House until years after I had been a fan of Laurie's comedy career. Imagine how hilarious it is to see one of your favorite comedians playing Dr. House.
Never even occurred to me that obviously in some places people will have only seen Hugh Laurie as House. Absolute quality
@@makkapakka2098 that was me until very recently, he was only House and Stuart Little's dad
@@jordlopez I haven't seen that movie since I was a wee lad, was he really in that? He was also Major -- de Coverley in the Hulu Catch-22 miniseries, which I quite liked. (It didn't follow the book too closely, which is alright since doing a one-to-one adaptation of that kind of book is practically impossible. Heller didn't mind things being changed in adaptation. In fact, he thoroughly enjoyed the 1970 movie adaptation, making him one of the seven people who did.)
@@RabbiHerschel yeah, I distinctly remember rewatching Stuart Little a few years back and being like: "House is his dad? Really?" And there was no way I could misremember such an anomaly lol
The great thing about them's that they're equally funny.
Yep
Nope laurie is funnier
My grandfather’s battle blouse was shot clean thru the temple, yet the bullet bounced off his cigarette case which saved his life, but he was nevertheless killed 30 seconds later in his escape attempt because he was half blind and partially deaf with a penchant for tripping over chairs, but all of that was irrelevant as he promptly expired from a… Thus, a Fry & Laurie skit is born.
These two are very much the masters of wit and cleverly written dialogue…good on em’
"He was given it by his god-niece as a kind of 'loss-of-virginity' present"
These two are treasures. I hope they realize how much happiness they’ve brought to the masses.
never seen this one before...blessed be the algorithm for finally showing this. Just another Masterpiece of Comedy.
The scene they're spoofing from The Great Escape is so sad. This is hilarious.
Their PG Wodehouse plays are hilarious.
Absolutely… “Wooster and Jeeves” is perfect. But maybe not better than Black Adder. That was a true Dream Team of Brit comedy.
Laurie does the best American accent of anyone I've ever seen or heard.
Clint Eastwood's American accent was pretty good...
How about Daniel Day Luis?
How about Laurie?
It's because he's blind you see...
I never understood this observation. As House, he makes a drawn out meal out of every Amurican weurd. For excellent American accents done by Brits, Band of Brothers is the gold standard.
It's so odd hearing him talk about his grandfather, knowing from "Who Do You Think You Are?" that his maternal grandfather was an Austro-Hungarian Jew from Vienna, who emigrated to England. His name was Neumann.
Yes, but this was his grandfather on his parents’ side.
@@General_Nothing all grandfathers are on the parents' side.
We’ll surely he wasn’t talking about his real grandfather here, it was likely made up for the skit!
Nnnnueman...
The two together!!! Just perfect.
"I lost my sense of smell while forging the minutest details of a thousand Nazi documents" That's a line from al fresco, fry and Lori's 1983 series with Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane.
Love the idea that because he’s blind and deaf each lost sense promotes the other, so logically he’s got perfect sight and hearing! 🙈🙉😆
He has amazing sight and hearing, he just can't use it 😂
I don't think it's that funny- it's actually my own situation...
@@loge10 Congrats, I wish I had perfect sight and hearing.
"logically"
Lol these guys are so out there for their time.
For their time? They are exactly of their time. There was a lot of this style around then. They are out there for today, probably. Comedy is much more of the everyday now
@@sophitsa79 yeah I guess it’s how ya look at it or how I worded that haha. It just hits my funny bone different than comedians of my day and it pleases me :)
Their chemistry is off the charts!
Oh, thank you!!! I love both these guys so much.
5.25 minutes of brilliance.
Actually that would be 5.41 minutes or thereabouts
His grandfather could he be Melchett lol 😂
now this is funny!! the kind of British ‘humour’ i really like. thanks. :) 😋🌷🌱
The spirit of Python is strong in this one and it is exquisite.
One of the greatest clips from ABOFAL
Heavy“Blackadder goes forth” vibes there.
"Are you deaf?" "Yes, sir"
Masterpiece
Lmao that final line was absolutely brilliant!
Fun fact few people know: some parts of this sketch were taken from the POW sketch in the older Fry & Laurie show Alfresco.
Such a truely talented actor. Beautiful executed example of what the true meaning of the word 'dumb' actually means of which most do not know, yet wrongfully use everyday in every day speech.
Wow really? I thought it was common knowledge that dumb had a medical meaning as well. Surprising. But I guess knowledge is often seen as a negative these days.
I've not seen this one. And I've repeated DAMN and WE'VE BEEN ACTIVATED a hundred times.
Cheers jake :D brilliance XD
A cigarette case can be opened and close- Audience: "-HHAAAHAHAHAHAACHAAHCHAHH"
Begging forgiveness. But I can only take Stephen Fry in small doses, which is uniquely difficult as he is quite a large man. 🤣🤣🤣
"So the Great War and World War II were just vast entertainments laid on for your benefit, were they?"
''Well when you put it that way... yes''.
Strange to see them so young. Love Fry as Wilde and Laurie as House MD, I think that's the best of both of them.
did you not see Jeeves and Wooster?
_Jeeves and Wooster_ is unequivocally Fry & Laurie's greatest work. _Blackadder_ is a riot as well.
Or battle blouse
I literally almost did a spit take watching this.
This start reminded me of Christopher Walken's Gold Watch monologue.
"... and I'd be alive today." Wait, What?
Was this improvised? Feels brilliantly "Yes, and..."
You can see Fry almost trip over one of his lines. It's scripted, but that doesn't diminish it at all.
He did have a mum ! And a dad !
Brilliant!
the laughs are so bought
I wonder if it part of the joke that Hugh calls Stephen Sir despite them being equivalent ranks.
Any attempt at analizing the humour here fails, absurdism is at absurd levels. "my grandfather on my parents' side' sets the stage
Idk, honestly that's the one joke that's almost something you could ordinarily say; it specifies that it's neither of your grandfather-in-laws.
@@hashbrown777 :) I guess that's what I mean about analizing their jokes.
''And I'd be alive today''.
Who is giving electric knives to the prisoners?
If his grandfather wore the cigarette case on his temple he'd just have bits of tobacco in his brain instead of just lead. That's like 1.5mm sheet metal, an 8mm Mauser would go through that like a piece of tissue paper
He’s only got a bad limp in his House now
The first part is just kindergarten show and tell
But done by a adult comic genius.
My dad was a ww2 sniper ! And I’m alive
Did this inspire Tarantino to the watch story - i think - told in Pulp Fiction to young Bruce Willis?
Great entertainers and masterful subversive humor! Probably lost on an audience that laughs at literally every word regardless.
Sounds like what we Yanks refer to as a "laughtrack"....cue Dr Evil air quotes
Tarantino borrowed this it seems.
Is the audience being gased with laughing gas?
1:50 this is where population ethics comes from
Lindybeige humor
I wonder if this sketch was made after Blackadder IV, given the bit about war skits being in bad taste.
I think it was about a decade earlier
That is what several of my ex girlfriends said - "you can't come because you are a bastard and we hate you".
Wow. Didn’t know Dr. House could be this funny.
One of the best British comedy duos of all time
Not just funny, but a talented comedy writer as well. He and Fry co-wrote these skits. Laurie's comedic timing in House is flawless, and his acceptance speeches at awards shows are hilarious.
a some point Hugh Laurie decided to stop playing comedy and started acting in serious roles. The first of those role I saw him was as the grumpy husband of a hysterical Emelda Staunon in Sense and Sensibility with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.
@@kamion53 Thus ruining a brilliant comedic career,
@@kamion53 Mr Palmer wasn't him deciding to stop doing comedy and doing serious roles - a) it's not a serious role (apart from the one line where he offers assistance to the Dashwoods, everything he does is deeply ironic; it's a comic part), b) that was filmed around the same time as the last series of ABOFAL, and he continued to do primarily comic roles for years after that, and c) he was invited to do it personally by Emma Thompson, his long-term friend (and former girlfriend) as basically a cameo.
It's never lupus
3:43 was that scripted or not? Because I can't tell XD
Yeah, it had to be. Saying "pardon the pun" when neither of them has made one is bit of a running gag for them.
@@dars5229 Pardon?
Why does it sound so similar to monthy python?
They’re Britons.
Does it?
what episode is this? and what series? someone tell me the detail of this clip please?
The show's name: A Bit of Fry and Laurie. That's all I know
Check the video's description
Escalation humor like this just makes no _sense._
Is this comedy? I don't speak British.
This is definitely a more weird, meta one.
@@Dilmahkana funny.
Are you per chance german?
@@Michael-dj6pd Ich bin Amerikaner.
@@StephenS-2024 That explains the lack of comedic understanding.
FRY… just go away, already
Daredevil's cameo in She-Hulk is amazing.
Are you sure you are on the right video?
@@Michael-dj6pd it's a joke, don't worry about it.
@@jeronimo196 That whole show is a joke.
So funny I forgot to laugh. Uh.
It's alright , your from modern times, subtlety is not your strong point.
They're just too clever to generate funny. Because funny is simply not rational. These are properly educated men. They're not funny at all.
They didn’t die for you, Stephen; they died for Jesus.
And look where that got them... dead.
That's a dumber reason to die
Astonishing how they put up with that inane, fake laughter back then.
That inane fake laughter was real laughter from an actual studio audience.
Not funny
In the Anglostate, Stephen Fry will be experimented on as our foremost scientists attempt to de-gay and de-Jew him so that he may one day rejoin society.
they laugh at literally everything he says? cringe AF
I don't see how that is cringe AF but to each their own..