Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, & Emma Thompson sketch from 1986.
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Emma violently playing the piano in the beginning.
@TexasHoldEmGurl9 жыл бұрын
Only very high and very low notes, and even in opposition to the actual tunes 😁
@gustavgnoettgen4 жыл бұрын
Oh, did she?
@compfox4 жыл бұрын
@@user-fo7bj2tz9y Liszt's Liebestraume No.3
@camerongreig17224 жыл бұрын
Who was playing it when she stood up to address her father?
@banksta33 жыл бұрын
@@banksta3 i think that was a joke.
@alexmackay74543 жыл бұрын
I've learned two important lessons from this sketch: 1. Never be at home to Mr. Hophouse. 2. If Mr. Hophouse shows up at your home, show him in.
@Satellite_Of_Love3 жыл бұрын
I've gone peculiar now
@Bullshit_Media Жыл бұрын
@@Bullshit_Media Gone? Now?
@quasarsphere Жыл бұрын
"You have a noble thigh, sir."
@shortjohnsilver46056 жыл бұрын
The pitfall of having Stephen Fry as a father, is he will steal your boyfriend.
@MadameRaven16 жыл бұрын
Madame Raven that really _does_ explain Elliott Spencer, doesn't it
@foolish.principalitee5 жыл бұрын
Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie were actually dating for a while so Stephen Fry stole her boyfriend in all seriousness
@sophiajetton12344 жыл бұрын
Considering Stephen Fry turned out to be gay and happily married to a man much younger than him. I found this illuminating and tongue-in-cheek funny.
@guadalupebaptista97574 жыл бұрын
@@sophiajetton1234 Given the fact that Emma later told while on QI that while the three of them was living at the same apartment, she'd lock the doors and chase poor Stephen flashing her boobs...
@andersbjansson16883 жыл бұрын
@@andersbjansson1688 i remember that! Such a funny episode, he is so embarassed by women's nudity it's hilarious. Me on the other hand would not have minded ,she was and still a fascinating woman 😏
@Eisenwulf6663 жыл бұрын
I wish everyone always talked like Stephen Fry in this
@JackT137 жыл бұрын
so posh
@imranhq135 жыл бұрын
Damn you, sir!
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
You do ? I must say, I haven't the slightest idea why you would want that. It seems rather cumbersome to me...
@atyourservice4 жыл бұрын
Watch Blackadder episode "Dual and Duality"
@dyfol3 жыл бұрын
@@dyfol we all did, mate, we all did
@mbrackeva2 жыл бұрын
"That was a funny sketch. Now, I must head over to the comments section to quote various lines from it...."
@slobodanreka10885 жыл бұрын
Lol
@allanwilson88784 жыл бұрын
TO QUOTE VARIOUS LINES FROM IT!
@keithklassen53204 жыл бұрын
Love Ben Elton and his “Hophouse, for you!”
@dinsy5124 жыл бұрын
Yes, yes, it must be so!
@pvtj0cker4 жыл бұрын
Nah, they're allready there, just give them a like.
@M-CH_4 жыл бұрын
The perfect trio 2:29 and the microphone as a guest was also so funny
@cmarq8173 жыл бұрын
Emma really went all out, with her piano playing. XD
@alysonrodrigues14928 жыл бұрын
Laurie’s faces, his eyes, when he’s declaring his love: “Something nobler-something higher! Something... Moister.” 3:47
@TheCapedWanderer3 жыл бұрын
His faces indeed!
@aleksanderbudzynowski36253 жыл бұрын
I'ma use this phrase some day
@gvantsasakaruli99005 ай бұрын
Unironically, Hugh Laurie met Stephen Fry through their mutual friend Emma Thompson in college (University of Cambridge)
@srivarenya8625 жыл бұрын
How is that ironic?
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
In the Alanis Morissette kind of irony
@xbracke59014 жыл бұрын
Some might say it was destiny making love to the british dramatic arts with triplets as a result
@ErnestoBrausewind4 жыл бұрын
@@xbracke5901 surely it's fortune, like sun on your wedding day.
@DanielMasmanian4 жыл бұрын
Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson dated for four years so it wouldn't be a surprise the three of them knew each other.
@sophiajetton11744 жыл бұрын
Emma Thompson is delightful, Stephen Fry is marvellous, Hugh Laurie is excellent, and Mrs. Ben is the surprise star of the show.
@TranscendentLion9 жыл бұрын
TranscendentLion Totally agreed.
@icotaxi2036 жыл бұрын
No Mrs Ben here.
@michaelynedwards10434 жыл бұрын
@@michaelynedwards1043 Still waiting for the tea.
@RBAWintrow4 жыл бұрын
Oh, isn't she?
@compfox4 жыл бұрын
Everybody is wonderful, except that for the glitch at 2:30, the mic boom operator was fired.
@alonzogarbanzo2 жыл бұрын
The fake piano playing is so dead-on.
@GeorgiNM7 жыл бұрын
I did that to my brother once. Acted like I was playing something, and then got up and sat next to him while the song kept on. Never have forgotten the look on his face.
@jovetj4 жыл бұрын
@@jovetj Have you ever considered a career in comedy?
@camtou9143 жыл бұрын
Love how the servant is dressed in a contemporary suit and tie, lol. The mic also sells the absurdity of the sketch
@gabrielanderson8767 Жыл бұрын
They're hilarious. So talented. And Emma Thompson was, is and will always be stunning. ♥
@celine.d.et.son.ame.d.enfant10 жыл бұрын
Damn straight.
@Yoseqlo14 жыл бұрын
Looks like a princess, acts like a queen.
@mbrackeva2 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it.
@mertz730511 ай бұрын
"I cannot believe my ears!!" "...they do rather stick out"
@magicman92184 жыл бұрын
And now imagine the part of Ben being played by Rowan Atkinson! That would be perfection!
@Ndotra4 жыл бұрын
Actually it would be MUCH better!!
@mgg54184 жыл бұрын
Not really 😕
@OP-10004 жыл бұрын
Hey! Don’t diss Ben Elton’s unique contribution here! I won’t have it, I tell you!
@dinsy5124 жыл бұрын
If this was General Melchett, Lieutenant George, and Captain Blackadder from blackadder that would perfectly top the cake
@sophiajetton12344 жыл бұрын
He'd show him in, but not without a perfect deadpan snark and a sneer.
@Satellite_Of_Love3 жыл бұрын
HOLY FUCKING SHIT LMFAO THE FUCKING BOOM MIC 2:30
@floridtv10 жыл бұрын
It has to be a mistake within a mistake type sketch. The timing was beyond perfect.
@gutz19817 жыл бұрын
Its also that stupid grin on Hugh's face that sells it even more as he waits to speak.
@gutz19817 жыл бұрын
2:30 that boom being frantically whipped out of sight 😂
@samvidas95993 жыл бұрын
I think it was a joke on "so perfect, smooth, and shiny".
@LilPlaya320010 ай бұрын
“It’s her nose that rather baffles me” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is comedy gold
@danielbrown17244 жыл бұрын
"my smooth flanks shall soon be dry and flaky" lol
@ellystripes7 жыл бұрын
Wow, Emma looks incredible in that dress...
@Dalroi14 жыл бұрын
My goodness, Emma Thompson!
@SirAgravaine10 жыл бұрын
*Drools*
@ShamelessHorse9 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most enjoyable sketches with these three lovely people. Hugh's eyes when he explains why he has come to Mr Surname's house 😂😘
@Plons0Nard Жыл бұрын
I find it great to see that Both Hugh and Stephen are so comfortable in their own sexuality to never having had troubled or seemed forced in sketches like this.
@fahrinurlaub01vg4 жыл бұрын
Stephen Fry is gay
@MalikSheytan3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@travisbickle43603 жыл бұрын
@@MalikSheytan well still.
@lunasorree71773 жыл бұрын
Yes, its so terribly important that everyone be so comfortable!
@baronvonnembles11 ай бұрын
Fry has said that the fact that, while the best of friends, the fact that he was never attracted to Laurie made things much easier between them over the years.
@lauraakers356610 ай бұрын
This sketch will always make me laugh my ass off. Always. So much talent together. I need a Cambridge Footlights reunion like I need breathing. Btw, Emma
@nefariousbecks9 жыл бұрын
Rebeca Aldea Cambridge footlights isn't a comedy troupe like Monty Python. They are a theatre society at Cambridge uni who have members every year.
@rohansoham9 жыл бұрын
Rohan Agarwal Well, I know that. What I mean is that I'll like very much for THAT Cambridge Footlights generation to reunite. No need to correct me.
@nefariousbecks9 жыл бұрын
Sorry I didn't mean to offend. I just thought you might have been confused but never mind.
@rohansoham9 жыл бұрын
Rohan Agarwal No offense done. Just wanted to clarify :)
@nefariousbecks9 жыл бұрын
You two must be either Brits or Canadians... ;-)
@JurgenErhard7 жыл бұрын
"Do what I say child! Or by Heaven, I'll ask you again."
@hadithi14 жыл бұрын
Simply genious!
@Bullshit_Media Жыл бұрын
How very Oscar Wilde-esque!
@vibes622913 жыл бұрын
The character of Ben is one of the most inexplicably funny things ever seen on television. "HOPHOUSE! FOR YOU!"
@Woesteinvuir10 жыл бұрын
You think? I found him very out of place haha
@KungKokkos7 ай бұрын
I want to live with these three in a little house made of comedy.
@PiecesOfRainbow713 жыл бұрын
That's hysterical. They were so great together.
@youmightstumble12 жыл бұрын
The timing of that mic 2:30 is so perfect it has to be a genuine mistake and lucky accident.
@gutz19817 жыл бұрын
by applying the same logic to the acting, their comedic timing is so perfect that it must be a mistake and a lucky accident. huh? this isnt a live show, and they have coverage from several other cameras. if the shot with the mic was a mistake, they wouldnt have used it in the final edit. it is clearly deliberate, to poke fun at the poor production of "TV plays", where camera operators often leave the tip of the boom mic in frame, and lazy editors barely look at the footage, so they dont bother to crop it out.
@JimSteinbrecher6 жыл бұрын
Jim Steinbrecher I know and you are probably right, but its so perfect, right down to that stupid expression on Hugh's face. I can't stop laughing.
@gutz19815 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, I never noticed it, till I went back... but it's right there, in the middle of the frame!
@Domarius645 жыл бұрын
That's the joke. She's like "is he not so perfect and smooth and shiny?" *Cut to microphone in the shot.*
@hugjuffs4 жыл бұрын
@@hugjuffs OOOHHHHHH
@PointsofData3 жыл бұрын
I haven’t seen this one before & it’s great to see Emma Thompson in this sketch.
@Folkstone5711 ай бұрын
This is hilarious 😂🤣 Emma Thompson is funny as hell 😂🤣
@marjanp47843 жыл бұрын
I want to have a dream about Stephen and Hugh getting engaged and then wake up to find it was all true.
@phemyda9413 жыл бұрын
The part where he gets me every time even though I've watched this tons of times is when he says ever since I first heard from Flora that she had a father you've exerted a strange fascination over me it's just like hearing that she had a dad was enough for this dude to fall out of love with his fiance and into love with her dad like wait you have a dad
@chatsidefires5 ай бұрын
Right?! 😂😂
@shally62283 ай бұрын
Absolutely fantastic!!!
@sturnbull094 жыл бұрын
Emma Thompson is still amazing.
@blackraspberryproductions81184 жыл бұрын
Silence-----------"Are you sure you got that quite right?" lol
@hildurmildur11 жыл бұрын
Didn't notice but he was House before House. Damn!
@balasubramaniam81494 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, as ever they are!
@ronaldl9085 Жыл бұрын
Comedic genius! British comedy at it’s best.
@bubbercakes5283 жыл бұрын
Oh, this has got to be my favourite sketch XD
@b4k4chan13 жыл бұрын
Absolute gold.
@MiroslavHundak2 жыл бұрын
It's a fantastic sketch! They set you up to think Fry's character is never going to accept Hophouse. Then they do the entire, funny 'bringing a boyfriend home' routine. And just when you think you've got it, they flip the entire thing on its arse -- Hophouse was actually interested in the dad, and vice versa. Brilliant. Three phenomenal actors doing wonderful comedy. What more can you ask? :)
@gpgara10 жыл бұрын
i have a good friend who speaks just like emma in that skit :) i can't get enough of it :)
@eustazio10 жыл бұрын
Indeed I did but watch the sketch two minutes ago yet I had forgotten wherefore I had found it so amusing so I thank you sir for recounting it to me so that I can once again after so long a time find joy in it.
@DuchessOfDoofus3 жыл бұрын
I ship it.
@LeetaMaybe10 жыл бұрын
3:32 “oh” ... 😂 😆
@V-C1373 жыл бұрын
So moist. So smooth. So stiff and unbending.
@diomedes87914 жыл бұрын
Great multi talented Emma!!!
@manna88995 жыл бұрын
This is funnier when you realize Hugh and Emma used to date in college
@geniusfollower5 жыл бұрын
humour so ahead of the times they depict!! magic ❤
@sampritisen87567 ай бұрын
BRILLIANT stuff indeed... I also adore watching Jeeves and Wooster on the TV... Stephen is an excellent Jeeves and Hugh plays Bertie Wooster to perfection... And Emma.. well she is perfection as Elenor in Sense and Sensibility (which she did the screen play for) ... :0)x
@wenglishsal14 жыл бұрын
mister Surname... lol
@yenee949 жыл бұрын
yenee94 that's SIR William Surname to you :)
@bobafetting63734 жыл бұрын
Love this video
@totoro95905 жыл бұрын
Three of my favourite people in television. And, for that matter, the world. Could this get any funnier?
@Lilopossum14 жыл бұрын
This is gold
@DamaKubu6 жыл бұрын
The big microphone at 2.30 !
@alexanderwes52048 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it was intentional or not. Something tells me it was a mistake within a mistake sketch were everything was trying to be wrong and that was actually really wrong. LOL, the speed of it leaving looks like the Bom mic operator shat himself to get it out of there quickly. Brilliant.
@gutz19817 жыл бұрын
Three of my favorites.... 😅
@scotto959111 ай бұрын
Love dream, one of my favorites.
@datukaruma15635 жыл бұрын
"You sure you got that quite right, sir?"
@ChickenBond25 жыл бұрын
Gooooddd, they look so young!
@lawnbank12 жыл бұрын
Something ... moister! LOL!
@danielosullivan73057 жыл бұрын
Something moister. I love it.
@taragragg4006 жыл бұрын
this bit is wonderful.
@nienna2413 жыл бұрын
ben!!!! its ben!! fantastic!!!
@patteeemac14 жыл бұрын
Omg!! They all look soooooo young!!
@121mckenna11 жыл бұрын
3:14 Now THAT i did not see coming! ''For YOUR hand in marriage!!".
@vardellsfolly52007 жыл бұрын
Those are some rather extraordinary sideburns on Mr. Fry xD
@HorseCrazyGrl16714 жыл бұрын
Nice period piece. Ben Elton's hair I mean.
@ParadoxapocalypSatan7 жыл бұрын
ParadoxapocalypSatan noice
@ThejollyFrenchman7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@globalwarmhugs77415 жыл бұрын
Embarrassingly hilarious as usual with Fry and Laurie but Emma Thompson is amazing.
@42kellys4 жыл бұрын
Oh god yes!
@laal6710 жыл бұрын
I don't know why, bit I died at "Sir William Surname"
@dariofprsia3 жыл бұрын
It's deliberate ;)
@themissingn12 жыл бұрын
3 best friends still together since their school days.
@teufeldritch10 ай бұрын
How handsome Stephen Fry is!!
@pretty3124 жыл бұрын
LOVE that episode. She can make him blush so easily.
@karaNUFC11 жыл бұрын
"Moist" is such a Fry and Laurie word
@HulloKat12 жыл бұрын
This is not a comedy sketch. It's a Stephen Fry wet dream about Hugh Laurie.
@redtony5810 жыл бұрын
I actually saw a documentary where Fry mentioned that he feels so lucky he never fancied Laurie being a gay man. That would've made their collaboration really akward. And he doesn't understand why since Laurie is supposed to be an attracive guy.
@Pssybart9 жыл бұрын
@@Pssybart No, in that documentary Fry specifically states that he never fancied Laurie _despite_ recognising that he is attractive.
@ScoopMeisterGeneral4 жыл бұрын
@@ScoopMeisterGeneral that's exactly what the comment you answered to meant : he never fancied Laurie and didn't understand why, since Laurie is attractive.
@sps63744 жыл бұрын
@@sps6374 Yeah, I realise that now. I obviously missed the "since" in the final sentence. Thanks!
@ScoopMeisterGeneral4 жыл бұрын
Yeah whether him not fancying Hugh or not is true - I'm not entirely convinced...
@AnkeB822 жыл бұрын
Emma Thompson here being amazing
@mspeter974 жыл бұрын
I love when the microphone was shoved away as soon as camera went back to Hugh
@gvantsasakaruli99006 ай бұрын
Considering the fact Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson dated for 4 years Stephan Fry literally stole her boyfriend XD
@sophiajetton11744 жыл бұрын
I don't know if anyone else out there has seen SNL's "Colonel Angus" skit. But this is basically the British, intelligent, witty version of that skit. I quite agree that these are some of the most legendary people to take to the screen. If only we were all BFFs...
@RealoveGSR13 жыл бұрын
“I don’t think ever seen so fine a head” 😂😂
@nithyasris72765 жыл бұрын
They are Ron, Harry, and Hermione- friends for life. Love them all.
@infernalchaos10664 жыл бұрын
Agree, but it's the other way around tho😁
@bennylloyd-willner9667 Жыл бұрын
omg the stuffed bobcat on top of the Grand Piano is hilarious.
@margaretgaby45062 жыл бұрын
Wooster and Jeeves ❤️
@arajo57734 жыл бұрын
Love he expression in the end. Too bad it got cut off.
@F00dTube10 жыл бұрын
yes indeed, i am absolutely certain it is THE Ben Elton. magnificent! :-)
@patteeemac14 жыл бұрын
xDDD Love it!!
@szilvavirag13 жыл бұрын
This is soooo funny!
@lindadaheim34125 жыл бұрын
This is to good... 🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
@3dgar7eandro3 жыл бұрын
The sound mic tho 😂😂
@groovygirlwillz42256 жыл бұрын
I went from never recognizing her in anything (mark of an excellent character actor) to thinking I was crazy for recognizing her in this... because IMDB apparently does not...
@abborne14 жыл бұрын
Emma Thompson is such a beautiful woman!
@dolanroufs10325 жыл бұрын
They're all super, but Emma at age 27...holy smokes! She should have gone into comedy. Or just been cryogenically preserved.
@gfweis5 жыл бұрын
I'll be contempt with my clone
@HUNKragor4 жыл бұрын
she is fine even today
@LednacekZ3 жыл бұрын
She is stunning today. Certainly looks almost 2 decades younger than her age, to me.
@georgielancaster13562 жыл бұрын
I wish the audience had laughed at "Sir William Sirname"
@whatno50903 жыл бұрын
*Surname
@Netherfly3 жыл бұрын
I thought, “hey that looks like Emma Thompson.” Indeed, she looks so much like Emma, that if she looked any more like Emma, she would BE Emma. 🤣
@f308gtb1977 Жыл бұрын
1:24 "Oh, and Ben...?" "WHAAAAAAAAATTT???!!!" ...... XD
@valentinabucibattorti98134 жыл бұрын
The plot twists in this one. Almost one couldn't take it all (no pun intended). 😝😜😅
Emma violently playing the piano in the beginning.
Only very high and very low notes, and even in opposition to the actual tunes 😁
Oh, did she?
@@user-fo7bj2tz9y Liszt's Liebestraume No.3
Who was playing it when she stood up to address her father?
@@banksta3 i think that was a joke.
I've learned two important lessons from this sketch: 1. Never be at home to Mr. Hophouse. 2. If Mr. Hophouse shows up at your home, show him in.
I've gone peculiar now
@@Bullshit_Media Gone? Now?
"You have a noble thigh, sir."
The pitfall of having Stephen Fry as a father, is he will steal your boyfriend.
Madame Raven that really _does_ explain Elliott Spencer, doesn't it
Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie were actually dating for a while so Stephen Fry stole her boyfriend in all seriousness
Considering Stephen Fry turned out to be gay and happily married to a man much younger than him. I found this illuminating and tongue-in-cheek funny.
@@sophiajetton1234 Given the fact that Emma later told while on QI that while the three of them was living at the same apartment, she'd lock the doors and chase poor Stephen flashing her boobs...
@@andersbjansson1688 i remember that! Such a funny episode, he is so embarassed by women's nudity it's hilarious. Me on the other hand would not have minded ,she was and still a fascinating woman 😏
I wish everyone always talked like Stephen Fry in this
so posh
Damn you, sir!
You do ? I must say, I haven't the slightest idea why you would want that. It seems rather cumbersome to me...
Watch Blackadder episode "Dual and Duality"
@@dyfol we all did, mate, we all did
"That was a funny sketch. Now, I must head over to the comments section to quote various lines from it...."
Lol
TO QUOTE VARIOUS LINES FROM IT!
Love Ben Elton and his “Hophouse, for you!”
Yes, yes, it must be so!
Nah, they're allready there, just give them a like.
The perfect trio 2:29 and the microphone as a guest was also so funny
Emma really went all out, with her piano playing. XD
Laurie’s faces, his eyes, when he’s declaring his love: “Something nobler-something higher! Something... Moister.” 3:47
His faces indeed!
I'ma use this phrase some day
Unironically, Hugh Laurie met Stephen Fry through their mutual friend Emma Thompson in college (University of Cambridge)
How is that ironic?
In the Alanis Morissette kind of irony
Some might say it was destiny making love to the british dramatic arts with triplets as a result
@@xbracke5901 surely it's fortune, like sun on your wedding day.
Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson dated for four years so it wouldn't be a surprise the three of them knew each other.
Emma Thompson is delightful, Stephen Fry is marvellous, Hugh Laurie is excellent, and Mrs. Ben is the surprise star of the show.
TranscendentLion Totally agreed.
No Mrs Ben here.
@@michaelynedwards1043 Still waiting for the tea.
Oh, isn't she?
Everybody is wonderful, except that for the glitch at 2:30, the mic boom operator was fired.
The fake piano playing is so dead-on.
I did that to my brother once. Acted like I was playing something, and then got up and sat next to him while the song kept on. Never have forgotten the look on his face.
@@jovetj Have you ever considered a career in comedy?
Love how the servant is dressed in a contemporary suit and tie, lol. The mic also sells the absurdity of the sketch
They're hilarious. So talented. And Emma Thompson was, is and will always be stunning. ♥
Damn straight.
Looks like a princess, acts like a queen.
Beat me to it.
"I cannot believe my ears!!" "...they do rather stick out"
And now imagine the part of Ben being played by Rowan Atkinson! That would be perfection!
Actually it would be MUCH better!!
Not really 😕
Hey! Don’t diss Ben Elton’s unique contribution here! I won’t have it, I tell you!
If this was General Melchett, Lieutenant George, and Captain Blackadder from blackadder that would perfectly top the cake
He'd show him in, but not without a perfect deadpan snark and a sneer.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT LMFAO THE FUCKING BOOM MIC 2:30
It has to be a mistake within a mistake type sketch. The timing was beyond perfect.
Its also that stupid grin on Hugh's face that sells it even more as he waits to speak.
2:30 that boom being frantically whipped out of sight 😂
I think it was a joke on "so perfect, smooth, and shiny".
“It’s her nose that rather baffles me” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is comedy gold
"my smooth flanks shall soon be dry and flaky" lol
Wow, Emma looks incredible in that dress...
My goodness, Emma Thompson!
*Drools*
This is one of the most enjoyable sketches with these three lovely people. Hugh's eyes when he explains why he has come to Mr Surname's house 😂😘
I find it great to see that Both Hugh and Stephen are so comfortable in their own sexuality to never having had troubled or seemed forced in sketches like this.
Stephen Fry is gay
Lol
@@MalikSheytan well still.
Yes, its so terribly important that everyone be so comfortable!
Fry has said that the fact that, while the best of friends, the fact that he was never attracted to Laurie made things much easier between them over the years.
This sketch will always make me laugh my ass off. Always. So much talent together. I need a Cambridge Footlights reunion like I need breathing. Btw, Emma
Rebeca Aldea Cambridge footlights isn't a comedy troupe like Monty Python. They are a theatre society at Cambridge uni who have members every year.
Rohan Agarwal Well, I know that. What I mean is that I'll like very much for THAT Cambridge Footlights generation to reunite. No need to correct me.
Sorry I didn't mean to offend. I just thought you might have been confused but never mind.
Rohan Agarwal No offense done. Just wanted to clarify :)
You two must be either Brits or Canadians... ;-)
"Do what I say child! Or by Heaven, I'll ask you again."
Simply genious!
How very Oscar Wilde-esque!
The character of Ben is one of the most inexplicably funny things ever seen on television. "HOPHOUSE! FOR YOU!"
You think? I found him very out of place haha
I want to live with these three in a little house made of comedy.
That's hysterical. They were so great together.
The timing of that mic 2:30 is so perfect it has to be a genuine mistake and lucky accident.
by applying the same logic to the acting, their comedic timing is so perfect that it must be a mistake and a lucky accident. huh? this isnt a live show, and they have coverage from several other cameras. if the shot with the mic was a mistake, they wouldnt have used it in the final edit. it is clearly deliberate, to poke fun at the poor production of "TV plays", where camera operators often leave the tip of the boom mic in frame, and lazy editors barely look at the footage, so they dont bother to crop it out.
Jim Steinbrecher I know and you are probably right, but its so perfect, right down to that stupid expression on Hugh's face. I can't stop laughing.
Holy shit, I never noticed it, till I went back... but it's right there, in the middle of the frame!
That's the joke. She's like "is he not so perfect and smooth and shiny?" *Cut to microphone in the shot.*
@@hugjuffs OOOHHHHHH
I haven’t seen this one before & it’s great to see Emma Thompson in this sketch.
This is hilarious 😂🤣 Emma Thompson is funny as hell 😂🤣
I want to have a dream about Stephen and Hugh getting engaged and then wake up to find it was all true.
The part where he gets me every time even though I've watched this tons of times is when he says ever since I first heard from Flora that she had a father you've exerted a strange fascination over me it's just like hearing that she had a dad was enough for this dude to fall out of love with his fiance and into love with her dad like wait you have a dad
Right?! 😂😂
Absolutely fantastic!!!
Emma Thompson is still amazing.
Silence-----------"Are you sure you got that quite right?" lol
Didn't notice but he was House before House. Damn!
Brilliant, as ever they are!
Comedic genius! British comedy at it’s best.
Oh, this has got to be my favourite sketch XD
Absolute gold.
It's a fantastic sketch! They set you up to think Fry's character is never going to accept Hophouse. Then they do the entire, funny 'bringing a boyfriend home' routine. And just when you think you've got it, they flip the entire thing on its arse -- Hophouse was actually interested in the dad, and vice versa. Brilliant. Three phenomenal actors doing wonderful comedy. What more can you ask? :)
i have a good friend who speaks just like emma in that skit :) i can't get enough of it :)
Indeed I did but watch the sketch two minutes ago yet I had forgotten wherefore I had found it so amusing so I thank you sir for recounting it to me so that I can once again after so long a time find joy in it.
I ship it.
3:32 “oh” ... 😂 😆
So moist. So smooth. So stiff and unbending.
Great multi talented Emma!!!
This is funnier when you realize Hugh and Emma used to date in college
humour so ahead of the times they depict!! magic ❤
BRILLIANT stuff indeed... I also adore watching Jeeves and Wooster on the TV... Stephen is an excellent Jeeves and Hugh plays Bertie Wooster to perfection... And Emma.. well she is perfection as Elenor in Sense and Sensibility (which she did the screen play for) ... :0)x
mister Surname... lol
yenee94 that's SIR William Surname to you :)
Love this video
Three of my favourite people in television. And, for that matter, the world. Could this get any funnier?
This is gold
The big microphone at 2.30 !
I don't know if it was intentional or not. Something tells me it was a mistake within a mistake sketch were everything was trying to be wrong and that was actually really wrong. LOL, the speed of it leaving looks like the Bom mic operator shat himself to get it out of there quickly. Brilliant.
Three of my favorites.... 😅
Love dream, one of my favorites.
"You sure you got that quite right, sir?"
Gooooddd, they look so young!
Something ... moister! LOL!
Something moister. I love it.
this bit is wonderful.
ben!!!! its ben!! fantastic!!!
Omg!! They all look soooooo young!!
3:14 Now THAT i did not see coming! ''For YOUR hand in marriage!!".
Those are some rather extraordinary sideburns on Mr. Fry xD
Nice period piece. Ben Elton's hair I mean.
ParadoxapocalypSatan noice
Brilliant
Embarrassingly hilarious as usual with Fry and Laurie but Emma Thompson is amazing.
Oh god yes!
I don't know why, bit I died at "Sir William Surname"
It's deliberate ;)
3 best friends still together since their school days.
How handsome Stephen Fry is!!
LOVE that episode. She can make him blush so easily.
"Moist" is such a Fry and Laurie word
This is not a comedy sketch. It's a Stephen Fry wet dream about Hugh Laurie.
I actually saw a documentary where Fry mentioned that he feels so lucky he never fancied Laurie being a gay man. That would've made their collaboration really akward. And he doesn't understand why since Laurie is supposed to be an attracive guy.
@@Pssybart No, in that documentary Fry specifically states that he never fancied Laurie _despite_ recognising that he is attractive.
@@ScoopMeisterGeneral that's exactly what the comment you answered to meant : he never fancied Laurie and didn't understand why, since Laurie is attractive.
@@sps6374 Yeah, I realise that now. I obviously missed the "since" in the final sentence. Thanks!
Yeah whether him not fancying Hugh or not is true - I'm not entirely convinced...
Emma Thompson here being amazing
I love when the microphone was shoved away as soon as camera went back to Hugh
Considering the fact Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson dated for 4 years Stephan Fry literally stole her boyfriend XD
I don't know if anyone else out there has seen SNL's "Colonel Angus" skit. But this is basically the British, intelligent, witty version of that skit. I quite agree that these are some of the most legendary people to take to the screen. If only we were all BFFs...
“I don’t think ever seen so fine a head” 😂😂
They are Ron, Harry, and Hermione- friends for life. Love them all.
Agree, but it's the other way around tho😁
omg the stuffed bobcat on top of the Grand Piano is hilarious.
Wooster and Jeeves ❤️
Love he expression in the end. Too bad it got cut off.
yes indeed, i am absolutely certain it is THE Ben Elton. magnificent! :-)
xDDD Love it!!
This is soooo funny!
This is to good... 🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
The sound mic tho 😂😂
I went from never recognizing her in anything (mark of an excellent character actor) to thinking I was crazy for recognizing her in this... because IMDB apparently does not...
Emma Thompson is such a beautiful woman!
They're all super, but Emma at age 27...holy smokes! She should have gone into comedy. Or just been cryogenically preserved.
I'll be contempt with my clone
she is fine even today
She is stunning today. Certainly looks almost 2 decades younger than her age, to me.
I wish the audience had laughed at "Sir William Sirname"
*Surname
I thought, “hey that looks like Emma Thompson.” Indeed, she looks so much like Emma, that if she looked any more like Emma, she would BE Emma. 🤣
1:24 "Oh, and Ben...?" "WHAAAAAAAAATTT???!!!" ...... XD
The plot twists in this one. Almost one couldn't take it all (no pun intended). 😝😜😅
Emma Thompson ❤️