1984. At Nether Wallop Fete. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie give a master class in Shakespeare.
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"Before we strip you down and oil you ..." nobody laughed at that! It was hilarious!
@Lisallamaa10 жыл бұрын
***** he was speaking quite fast, i think ppl just missed it
@Randomkloud10 жыл бұрын
It is hard to catch all of Fry's hilarious quips in any show he does. I suppose we have the advantage of being able to replay the video :)
@Lisallamaa10 жыл бұрын
true, we live in different times.
@Randomkloud10 жыл бұрын
Randomkloud Yes, these days it wouldn't even be considered a joke, it would simply be part of the show.
@Oll100010 жыл бұрын
+Sean Michel-White When you live in Nether Wallop you become inured to double entendre.
@catherinebutler48198 жыл бұрын
Seeing this famous comedy duo looking so youthful has had me wistfully reflecting on TIIIIIIMMME!!
@wotsitalabowt2 жыл бұрын
Hugh Lauries' impression of a student in the headlamps of his tutors impossibly obvious questions is priceless. And Stephen Fry is, as ever, absolutely spot on. 'I think thats partly it, Hugh, but think' argh!
@susanfehr40732 жыл бұрын
Having specialised in literature at university I can safely proclaim this is a very accurate representation of the “over-analysis” of every word of text that goes on every single day
@mercurion10005 жыл бұрын
Is literature at any level not just over-analysis?
@bartholomewdan Жыл бұрын
@@bartholomewdan No. There's definitely appropriate levels of analysis too.
@KiroOsexXIII Жыл бұрын
@@KiroOsexXIII Here here! More analysis the better I SAY. Similarly the more Philosophy the better too. THEY SAY. kzhead.info/sun/aL6FpMeMkYJonas/bejne.html
@listen2meokidoki264 Жыл бұрын
This is why even though I love books I never took English literature further than o level, because I love books, not dissecting them😊
@doublelightangel10 ай бұрын
He seems a promising young actor, this Laurie chap.
@Mojosbigstick5 жыл бұрын
Mojosbigstick indeed he’s got quite a career ahead of him
@Emiliapocalypse4 жыл бұрын
Yeah for some reason he looks perfect for an asshole American...um...an asshole American doctor, perhaps?
@jessicawang65584 жыл бұрын
He'd fit with Rowan Atkinson in a series perhaps, even have a show with Fry in the future. Quite a great lad.
@amiqai4 жыл бұрын
Apparently he and Emma thompson dated lol.
@3920230013 жыл бұрын
@@392023001 This guys going nowhere, probably end up doing panto in Bishops Waltham, and as for the other guy Stevie Fry or whatever he's called, probably wont get any further than a brief interlude as a bit part actor in Eastenders.
@CalridRobnor123srs3 жыл бұрын
This is eerily similar to my English Literature classes.
@alexwright85858 жыл бұрын
Particularly at GCSE....
@Jemini42288 жыл бұрын
@@Jemini4228 I hope your teachers weren't promising to strip you down and oil you in your GCSE classes...
@ScoopMeisterGeneral5 жыл бұрын
Haha. No, just how painfully slow to get though the text it was at times. XD
@Jemini42285 жыл бұрын
@@Jemini4228 I know the feeling 😂
@ScoopMeisterGeneral5 жыл бұрын
ScoopMeisterGeneral wait is that not what you need to do for extra marks
@nicktaylor19025 жыл бұрын
As someone who teaches Shakespeare...this is hilarious and I know the type.
@turkeygrump5 жыл бұрын
yeah, exactly. There is always one gal in the workshop who had this done to her, and who mostly thinks that it is correct, to boot.
@FlorisGerber5 жыл бұрын
@@FlorisGerber I don't think we're ready for that, are we?
@lisasommerlad13374 жыл бұрын
@@lisasommerlad1337 i am not sure what you mean. I did not mean to offend you, or anyone. It is just my experience that in any Workshop i give there is someone who was taught at some point with similar techniques. Usually a lady, probably since female attendance is much higher than male. ( in theatre, at least. In fencing it is more equal )
@FlorisGerber4 жыл бұрын
@@FlorisGerber I was not offended. I was agreeing with you, and backing that up with a quote from the sketch. Thank you for your kind reply, though. Its nice to see some good manners on KZhead. : )
@lisasommerlad13374 жыл бұрын
No, no no. This is not how you behave on you tube. There must be some invective and a generous dollop of supercilious posturing. Now both of you take it from the top and see if you can show us that.
@barryschwarz3 жыл бұрын
I love Hugh Laurie’s guilelessness. Perfect match for Stephen Fry’s obsequious-meets-obnoxious-for-a-tea-party 🤣
@yippee8570 Жыл бұрын
“What went wrong there?” “I think I got lost in the middle.” 😆❤️😆❤️💐💐
@harpinpoem4 жыл бұрын
Fry is insufferably good at this!
@37Dionysos8 жыл бұрын
I think he rather enjoys being "insufferable." He's so good at it.
@charlesdavis70875 жыл бұрын
Indeed! My high school years come rushing back.
@tsaszymborska73893 жыл бұрын
What's he not good at?
@kindnessfirst96702 жыл бұрын
Indeed. I think is pretty much what Viola Davis was talking about in terms of the white Eurocentric drama school experience. Nicely portayed.
@SJKM2 жыл бұрын
Watching this right after watching Sir Ian McKellen teaching actors how to deliver the Time speech in Macbeth is PRICELESS. Thank you KZhead.
@sfex99 жыл бұрын
+sfex9 I just watched that an hours ago...I liked his insights but didn't tremendously love the performance at the end
@ExxylcrothEagle8 жыл бұрын
Just watching old RSC workshops and they used the same routine (in another recording) to show how not to do it!
@shugaroony6 жыл бұрын
Same here
@TheSuperQuail5 жыл бұрын
Link please!!! I want to see that :D
@weareallbornmad4105 жыл бұрын
I did the same haha.
@inisus5 жыл бұрын
You know, I don't think Stephen has ever not looked fatherly and professorial. I mean this is thirty whole years ago and he still looks how he always has. It's like the man was born to be wise and witty from the very start.
@boccs99259 жыл бұрын
Well, there was the really early thing where he read a parody of Dracula. He was hilarious, but he looked like a baby. I mean he literally looks seventeen.
@georgeparkins7779 жыл бұрын
Fry says that in school plays etc, he was always called upon to play older characters like fathers, professors etc, because of his height.
@vermilliongecko9 жыл бұрын
George Parkins and what a hilarious parody too :')
@jamesberger69309 жыл бұрын
George Parkins Thank you for mentioning this. I just watched it and it's fantastic!
@trombonedrama9 жыл бұрын
trombonedrama The Dracula parody is genius.
@vermilliongecko9 жыл бұрын
“What went wrong there, Hugh?” I love them.
@stanmonzon57884 жыл бұрын
every English and drama teacher ever
@rockndudette9 жыл бұрын
+rockndudette Exactly. I have a drama teacher exactly like this. And I seem to be the only one in the class who gets confused by it. O_o
@Vojife8 жыл бұрын
yess
@ikbalpinjari86476 жыл бұрын
Oh tell me about it. When the teacher gets you to dance around the room like weird contortionists yelling like wild animals to convey what is meant by the word TIAAEEMEEE
@elias_xp955 жыл бұрын
I think It's problem of most literature teachers around many countries. I am from Russia and our Russian literature teacher always told us something like "Read between the lines and try to find out what the author wanted to tell us".
@penguin404045 жыл бұрын
@@penguin40404 Literature is difficult. It doesn't help that, most commonly, those teaching children at school are hardly the best and brightest their profession has to offer. In reality, though, I doubt you could explain the concepts of real analysis and the different schools of thought and epistemology (in their historical context) to someone in class at school. You need some grounding in philosophical analysis, philosophy of science, AND the history of philosophy and literature to really begin to understand. Which is why it always boils down to the worst tools literature has ever had to employ: 'Remember Kafka's childhood, children. Do you think you can spot something of that in the text?' You can -- and should -- obviously read the classics at any level of education, and -- really -- I have only disdain for those who try to make it seem like only they understand what the author meant (which, in itself, is already a thesis that fills libraries of theoretical discussions), but the truth of the matter is that literature is hard. It comes down to trying to unwind a human mind. Muddled by words. From another time. Muddled by your own subjective understanding. Literature is, basically, intentionally failed discourse. It is meant to be hard.
@RagingGoblin3 жыл бұрын
Not only hilarious - this is a spot on parody of a master class
@viggosimonsen4 жыл бұрын
Anyone who’s worked at any level of theatre has met a director like this
@sunekoo3 жыл бұрын
They invented the overanalyzing English teacher meme 30 years before the internet did
@invertedgames79934 жыл бұрын
dude. they didn't just make it up. Even before television there were overanalyzing English teachers
@tharealmikezee31653 жыл бұрын
@@tharealmikezee3165 Did you fail to notice the words "meme" and "internet"?
@lizardas3 жыл бұрын
@@tharealmikezee3165 the sound of the joke going over your head was so loud it made me deaf
@Loammello23 жыл бұрын
Well Stephen could have been an a English teacher he studied English literature at uni so very accurately portrayal of what may have become Stephen
@Eli_Ghostie3 жыл бұрын
Those profs made me absolutely crazy in university.
@ToniGlick3 жыл бұрын
It’s Laurie’s straight faced answer to the obvious questions that made me laugh most.
@TroupeGoal3 жыл бұрын
The same for me. As if straight from Black Adder!! 🤣😂🤣
@mckavitt13 Жыл бұрын
Genius comedy. The timing, the expressions on their faces, the language (who else could make the mannerisms of Oxbridge dons so hilarious or the satire of a university Shakespeare tutorial so funny)
@davetubervid5 жыл бұрын
Mannerisms that have unfortunately been carefully studied by anyone who charges money to teach Shakespearean acting.
@valentinefrey5164 Жыл бұрын
Having spent a year in drama school, I can so relate to this experience.
@weckar4 жыл бұрын
Whoa, have you forgotten everything? What is the fourth word in your sentence? Year. Which is a measuring unit of what? You should write Having spent a *YEAR* in drama school....
@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын
@@u.v.s.5583 Wtf are you talking about?
@weckar Жыл бұрын
Whoosh
@CrookedNose2131 Жыл бұрын
I find it kinda funny they tittered at: "The great actor, Hugh Laurie" because they saw him as a comedian rather than an actor, even though every single sketch these two did underpins just how good BOTH of them are as actors as well as comedians.
@seraphinaaizen62783 жыл бұрын
This is exactly how performing Shakespeare in acting class with teachers feels like sometimes!! lmbo!!
@SAnderson548 жыл бұрын
holy shit they were young once.
@Sabrowsky7 жыл бұрын
TIME!
@u.v.s.55835 жыл бұрын
@@u.v.s.5583 but why did you choose to spell TIME, in this particular way? No one can comment for another 2 years.
@demon13doc3 жыл бұрын
Many of us were. You win the genetic and luck longevity lottery, and what do you get as a prize? You get fricken OLD, is what. (Not that it's bad, and i hope we all get older still.)
@laurawillits1763 жыл бұрын
This is so Blackadder the Third "Look, If I stand any more heroically than this I'm in serious danger if disappointing my future Queen"
@jammygitz7 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahaha!!! Yesss!!!
@amuline136 жыл бұрын
*of
@ZarkowsWorld5 жыл бұрын
I have always assumed that the actors scene in Blackadder the Third is directly inspired by this sketch.
@12Trappor3 жыл бұрын
@@12Trappor The last line took away all doubt for me.
@Rsharlan32 жыл бұрын
Ah! The glorious sweaters of the 1980s....
@lakrids-pibe3 жыл бұрын
A Level English in a nutshell. Every single sentence taking half the lesson to analyse. 🙂
@jtjdrums5 жыл бұрын
Yes, because language is art.
@Repented0084 жыл бұрын
@@Repented008 art is bollix language is art or as me father in law used so say just get on w' it
@GravityBoy724 жыл бұрын
Thanks Prof Leavis.
@lizziebkennedy75053 жыл бұрын
@@Repented008 And time must be respected; stop taking SO long analysing something, be more concise and get on with your life!!
@KhanivoreQniba3 жыл бұрын
Hugh used this as Prince George in Blackadder the Third. ... ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!! Unaccustomed as I am .. etc. :)
@grahamlive9 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahaha!!! Yesss! Exactly!!!
@amuline136 жыл бұрын
I fear you mew it like a frightened tree
@SimderZ5 жыл бұрын
Yep. I spotted that too. Priceless.
@copycat21c3 жыл бұрын
just what i was thinking- that was a briliant series, and maybe the best episode
@mizofan3 жыл бұрын
Aww, they look so young! Strange to say as they were probably my age in this but for some reason I find it adorable!
@Jemini42288 жыл бұрын
Early on it was crystal clear that these two made comedy in the top league.
@studiosatire4 жыл бұрын
"Ambition?" "No, leave ambition out of it" Oh! I lost it! It's just brilliant. 🤣🤣
@leishayoung41242 жыл бұрын
God, this is brilliant on so many levels ! It's even more hilarious to see that this is exactly how we analyze texts, how we study literature... It can be so far fetched sometimes ahah. I'm French so, yeah, I think a lot of people from different countries can relate to this sketch. That's how good they are (ohh british humour...)
@normadeperetti56056 жыл бұрын
Stephen and Hugh are National Treasures😉
@cynthiaschultheis16602 жыл бұрын
Beautiful satire on how complete and utter bollocks is read into Shakespeare by those teaching his plays, none of which said bollocks was ever meant to be interpreted out of it by Bill himself. TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!" hahahahahaha
@ProjectFlashlight6127 жыл бұрын
“What went wrong there Hugh??” I lose it every time!!!🤣🤣🤣
@wademorgan84642 жыл бұрын
I know it's a sketch, but I've always hated this form of teaching. The lecturer holding the students hostage to their obtuse questions, framed within a paradigm only they know, and outside of which answers will not be accepted.
@smaakjeks3 жыл бұрын
paradigm - look at you fancy pants ;-)
@gedzy2 жыл бұрын
There must be a term or phrase for that exact type of buttheadery. I always disliked teachers who did this, and it made them look so petty and self-involved.
@Liusila2 жыл бұрын
This is so true. I have faced this during interviews as well :)
@hrushikeshj88102 жыл бұрын
@@hrushikeshj8810 My driving instructor did it to me. -"What's the most important thing to remember when you first get into your car?" -"Uh. Keys? Seatbelt! Check the breaks, and lights? Oh, uhm, make sure the area around the car is fr--" -"To keep your wits about you!" -"Fer the love o'Pete..."
@smaakjeks2 жыл бұрын
@@smaakjeks that's really too much haha!!!
@hrushikeshj88102 жыл бұрын
"Before I strip you down and oil you..."
@Noah-wx7fm4 жыл бұрын
Just brilliantly written and acted out. A total piss take of all those ludicrously pretentious Shakespeare Masterclasses seen on TV in the past, just absolutely brilliant😁😁😁😁
@captpicard68944 жыл бұрын
Every Masterclass ever.
@itsjudystube6 жыл бұрын
absolutely love stephen's "hi!"
@rondon989710 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the bit in Black Adder where the Prince Regent is being coached by the actors in how to deliver a speech. Hugh has always been great at physical comedy.
@mosaics20242 жыл бұрын
For the Scottish play?
@Paldasan Жыл бұрын
@@Paldasan Well, Edmund is tormenting them by saying Macbeth at every opportunity, but the prince has to deliver a speech. And there is nothing more annoying than people saying the Scottish play instead of Macbeth. It is a very silly thing that only non-theatre people do. At least in my experience, which includes doing a pretty big fundraising run of Macbeth. Not a single person involved in the production said the Scottish play even one time.
@mosaics2024 Жыл бұрын
A rough diamond embedded in pure gold. I do hope they'll get together again. We need their chemistry.
@roelvinckens55533 жыл бұрын
Teachers all over the world are working really hard to take all the fun out of reading and literature. So in the future the horrific phenomenon of taking pleasure out of art will be eradicated. Keep up the good work! We’re getting there.
@Peacefrogg3 жыл бұрын
I love these men! A hilariously comedic duo!
@roselenalaferte10362 жыл бұрын
The sheer talent of these two is extraordinary.
@WyreForestBiker Жыл бұрын
They are SO YOUNG! I feel so old.....
@melaniesmith1313 Жыл бұрын
This video took me right to the literature classes in my school days!
@anubratabhattacharya53679 жыл бұрын
I was in the audience when this was recorded for a show called Weekend in Wallop.
@Captain.Crispy3 жыл бұрын
Stephen Fry is such a cutiepie :3
@noeliaalberti79 жыл бұрын
Still is.
@laurawillits1763 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant and hilarious. I had a teacher like that once who couldn’t see the novel for the words. A shame about the screwed-up aspect ratio though. 😡
@wertherquartett3 жыл бұрын
This is so beautiful. It brings me joy.
@alittlepieceofearth5 жыл бұрын
Amazes me the way Fry has kept that condescending swagger throughout his career.
@firstnamelastname9631 Жыл бұрын
Haha his subtle Kenneth Branagh impression tho.
@HighKingTurgon8 жыл бұрын
Always gather from the buttocks.”...words to live by.
@dyenahh3 жыл бұрын
How brilliant is this... British humour at it's absolute best...
@LJW555 жыл бұрын
j'adore... à se tordre de rire, ainsi que toutes les vidéos associées à ce duo de choc !
@v.o.14589 жыл бұрын
So much appears to go over the audience. Meanwhile my daughter and I are in stitches frequently pausing due to our laughter.
@mamaeli81013 жыл бұрын
Mama Eli, how good for you and your daughter! So clever and way above everyone else in the audience. Congratulations.
@EvelynTokamp11 ай бұрын
Now I need to binge watch Jeeves and Wooster.
@jes38363 жыл бұрын
Every Shakespearean acting class ever.
@vihaze67256 жыл бұрын
as someone who teaches shakespeare much closer to commedia dell'arte, let me say: Most shakespeare classes ever.
@FlorisGerber5 жыл бұрын
@panda cooper it's really fun to both do and watch, too. Just have a look at how relentlessly funny most shakespeare plays are. Even MacBeth ( I can say the name, it had its go trying to kill me already :) ) has very funny scenes, always before the worst stuff happens.
@FlorisGerber3 жыл бұрын
THTAIIIIIMMEEEEEEH my lord
@Diax13244 жыл бұрын
While Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are both great at what they do, I always liked Hugh Laurie a bit more for being comfortable acting in the sillier/less authoritative roles, be they in the "Bit of Fry and Laurie" series or in the Blackadder series. It was always fun to watch him play those kinds of characters.
@kimberlyloranger83213 жыл бұрын
Oh my god when they bow at the end : so adorable!!
@mathugh1112 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of our teacher asking us (while dissecting a novel) ''what was the sky like when she died?'' I said...blue!! She used a blue pen to give me an F. But, I was actually right. It was a bright sunny day.
@lonewolfvule46823 жыл бұрын
0:59 the crowd didn't noticed that joke lul
@Mr_Valentin.4 жыл бұрын
"Before I strip you down and oil you..." I'll just make sure that Facebook agrees with the joke...
@hariseldon37863 жыл бұрын
They are adorable!!!!
@marinalynn10008 жыл бұрын
The works of Shakespeare were enjoyable -- until someone decided that they needed to be analyzed.
@americancitizen7487 жыл бұрын
Brilliant... Totally Brilliant !!!
@DevilDogDen17752 ай бұрын
What do we learn from the misspelling of "Shakespeare"?
@RichardGMoss7 жыл бұрын
The author wanted to highlight and make this title abstract, I guess
@crowdinside18857 жыл бұрын
The author wanted to bring us away from the ordinary, conventional sense of the word.
@oscar_jacques7 жыл бұрын
That was a popular spelling in the C18th. Arguably not misspelt, they are just being very old-fashioned...
@hippophile7 жыл бұрын
Allegorical signpost to the huge casualties due to wound infection and cholera among British soldiers during the Crimean War?
@ProjectFlashlight6127 жыл бұрын
Giving the name a fruity sense
@dielaughing736 жыл бұрын
Love it.I am learning from these extremely Gifted figures.
@abooswalehmosafeer1732 жыл бұрын
Hugh, why are you squatting? I don't think we are ready for that yet? Are we?!🤣
@janehollander19343 жыл бұрын
When he asked hugh how time was spelled, he messed up his line by saying how does hugh decide to spell it, but quickly improvised over it. Very professional
@jonathanlee66603 жыл бұрын
Great send up of Trevor Nunn and actors in the South Bank special on acting Shakespeare 😂. If you watch it though, it's actually pretty interesting.
@andrewball51114 жыл бұрын
" I don't think we are ready for that " was my favourite part. I assume he meant that level of drama\turning ones Jacobi up to 11. "Or it will be theatre, and nobody wants that" Stewart Lee Great upload thank you. Truly masters of their craft.
@nigelcarren5 жыл бұрын
Holy shit young Hugh Laurie 🤩
@sayno2lolzisback3 жыл бұрын
Plus great play and acting by both....awesome they are as always 👌👌👌
@PROfreelancers013 жыл бұрын
TIIIME!
@norahj.99704 жыл бұрын
Thanks to ever who posted this
@michaelpurtell47412 жыл бұрын
He's got the stance down, but he's not doing the roar, is where he's going wrong!
@Shindai6 жыл бұрын
Wasn't he doing it from the buttocks?
@t.chatary34582 жыл бұрын
First saw Fry and Laurie in "Jeeves and Wooster". They are incredible!
@peskyfervid65153 жыл бұрын
ah, this is brilliant
@poorsonwelles9 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Nice to see a brief glimpse of my Grandad's old boss, Billy Jepson Turner, right at the end.
@Spitalhatch7 жыл бұрын
I read about this in his memoir (frys) and couldent wait to look it up! worth it!
@eluna349 жыл бұрын
i love how they make fun of people who analyse shakespeare
@LuffyissHere9 жыл бұрын
And here"s me thinking :wot a load of cra
@howler64903 жыл бұрын
Love these two. So great to see some early stuff.
@catmomjewett Жыл бұрын
I feel like I’ve experienced both sides of this 🤣🤣🤣
@ShakespearewithSarah3 жыл бұрын
No no no no this brings back too many memories of university
@j.a.motteux27856 ай бұрын
that patronising way fry would always try to put his words into Laurie's mouth by saying 'isn't it, Hugh?' is SO accurate
@gradualdecay2 жыл бұрын
""Because it's the first word in the sentence" lol
@noradosmith4 жыл бұрын
At the Time of Shakespeare standardized spelling was a thing of the future. He even spelled (spelt?) his name in many ways. Is it no surprise then that his name (William Shakespeare) forms the anagram: "I am a weakish speller" ?
@SAWOK127 жыл бұрын
I've heard that of the various spellings used, 'Shakespeare' was actually one of the least common.
@TranscendentLion7 жыл бұрын
The name was signed by all his writers, hence the misspellings at times.
@ZarkowsWorld5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!!
@Zebradeen5 жыл бұрын
@@TranscendentLion Well I'm Spearshaker
@fwqkaw5 жыл бұрын
No, it is a surprise, to answer your question as it was put :)
@tim40gabby253 жыл бұрын
Everyday thing for a literature student.
@faizalkhan30424 жыл бұрын
Im a performing arts student and one of my tutors is identical to this 😂😭
@jeezlouise1902 Жыл бұрын
Hugh looks find actor. I think he has future. Will see....
@nickpolycandriotes14843 жыл бұрын
2:08, Stephen calls Shakespeare 'Hugh'
@SockMonkey0078 жыл бұрын
That's the actor's name^^ Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie.
@gaahhhhnn11408 жыл бұрын
Yes but the script actually says “Shakespeare”. He messed up
@alexiswayward6 жыл бұрын
@@alexiswayward And then he says "Shakespeare" twice in the following sentence to bury the mistake. :)
@freakazoid46913 жыл бұрын
Well caught. "And how, I wonder, does Hugh decide to spell that word..."
@deborahfishburn48752 жыл бұрын
This is Art!
@BritishComedyUK695 жыл бұрын
"The serial killer is a professor. He cuts his victims into smaller and smaller pieces, until they die. You can call him 'The Deconstructionist'."
@neuvocastezero1838 Жыл бұрын
So perfect.
@ursie198610 жыл бұрын
@CineLad I did - thanks so much for posting. It's a real nostalgia trip.But then I wonder where the years went...28 years!
@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou12 жыл бұрын
So early, nearly 40-years ago. Fry was born 45-years old & wearing a cardigan. Both are brilliant.
@TheCatBilbo10 ай бұрын
sweeties!!!
@renesmeewright4710 жыл бұрын
They are both such young and beautiful boys, but Laurie almost unrecognizable young.
"Before we strip you down and oil you ..." nobody laughed at that! It was hilarious!
***** he was speaking quite fast, i think ppl just missed it
It is hard to catch all of Fry's hilarious quips in any show he does. I suppose we have the advantage of being able to replay the video :)
true, we live in different times.
Randomkloud Yes, these days it wouldn't even be considered a joke, it would simply be part of the show.
+Sean Michel-White When you live in Nether Wallop you become inured to double entendre.
Seeing this famous comedy duo looking so youthful has had me wistfully reflecting on TIIIIIIMMME!!
Hugh Lauries' impression of a student in the headlamps of his tutors impossibly obvious questions is priceless. And Stephen Fry is, as ever, absolutely spot on. 'I think thats partly it, Hugh, but think' argh!
Having specialised in literature at university I can safely proclaim this is a very accurate representation of the “over-analysis” of every word of text that goes on every single day
Is literature at any level not just over-analysis?
@@bartholomewdan No. There's definitely appropriate levels of analysis too.
@@KiroOsexXIII Here here! More analysis the better I SAY. Similarly the more Philosophy the better too. THEY SAY. kzhead.info/sun/aL6FpMeMkYJonas/bejne.html
This is why even though I love books I never took English literature further than o level, because I love books, not dissecting them😊
He seems a promising young actor, this Laurie chap.
Mojosbigstick indeed he’s got quite a career ahead of him
Yeah for some reason he looks perfect for an asshole American...um...an asshole American doctor, perhaps?
He'd fit with Rowan Atkinson in a series perhaps, even have a show with Fry in the future. Quite a great lad.
Apparently he and Emma thompson dated lol.
@@392023001 This guys going nowhere, probably end up doing panto in Bishops Waltham, and as for the other guy Stevie Fry or whatever he's called, probably wont get any further than a brief interlude as a bit part actor in Eastenders.
This is eerily similar to my English Literature classes.
Particularly at GCSE....
@@Jemini4228 I hope your teachers weren't promising to strip you down and oil you in your GCSE classes...
Haha. No, just how painfully slow to get though the text it was at times. XD
@@Jemini4228 I know the feeling 😂
ScoopMeisterGeneral wait is that not what you need to do for extra marks
As someone who teaches Shakespeare...this is hilarious and I know the type.
yeah, exactly. There is always one gal in the workshop who had this done to her, and who mostly thinks that it is correct, to boot.
@@FlorisGerber I don't think we're ready for that, are we?
@@lisasommerlad1337 i am not sure what you mean. I did not mean to offend you, or anyone. It is just my experience that in any Workshop i give there is someone who was taught at some point with similar techniques. Usually a lady, probably since female attendance is much higher than male. ( in theatre, at least. In fencing it is more equal )
@@FlorisGerber I was not offended. I was agreeing with you, and backing that up with a quote from the sketch. Thank you for your kind reply, though. Its nice to see some good manners on KZhead. : )
No, no no. This is not how you behave on you tube. There must be some invective and a generous dollop of supercilious posturing. Now both of you take it from the top and see if you can show us that.
I love Hugh Laurie’s guilelessness. Perfect match for Stephen Fry’s obsequious-meets-obnoxious-for-a-tea-party 🤣
“What went wrong there?” “I think I got lost in the middle.” 😆❤️😆❤️💐💐
Fry is insufferably good at this!
I think he rather enjoys being "insufferable." He's so good at it.
Indeed! My high school years come rushing back.
What's he not good at?
Indeed. I think is pretty much what Viola Davis was talking about in terms of the white Eurocentric drama school experience. Nicely portayed.
Watching this right after watching Sir Ian McKellen teaching actors how to deliver the Time speech in Macbeth is PRICELESS. Thank you KZhead.
+sfex9 I just watched that an hours ago...I liked his insights but didn't tremendously love the performance at the end
Just watching old RSC workshops and they used the same routine (in another recording) to show how not to do it!
Same here
Link please!!! I want to see that :D
I did the same haha.
You know, I don't think Stephen has ever not looked fatherly and professorial. I mean this is thirty whole years ago and he still looks how he always has. It's like the man was born to be wise and witty from the very start.
Well, there was the really early thing where he read a parody of Dracula. He was hilarious, but he looked like a baby. I mean he literally looks seventeen.
Fry says that in school plays etc, he was always called upon to play older characters like fathers, professors etc, because of his height.
George Parkins and what a hilarious parody too :')
George Parkins Thank you for mentioning this. I just watched it and it's fantastic!
trombonedrama The Dracula parody is genius.
“What went wrong there, Hugh?” I love them.
every English and drama teacher ever
+rockndudette Exactly. I have a drama teacher exactly like this. And I seem to be the only one in the class who gets confused by it. O_o
yess
Oh tell me about it. When the teacher gets you to dance around the room like weird contortionists yelling like wild animals to convey what is meant by the word TIAAEEMEEE
I think It's problem of most literature teachers around many countries. I am from Russia and our Russian literature teacher always told us something like "Read between the lines and try to find out what the author wanted to tell us".
@@penguin40404 Literature is difficult. It doesn't help that, most commonly, those teaching children at school are hardly the best and brightest their profession has to offer. In reality, though, I doubt you could explain the concepts of real analysis and the different schools of thought and epistemology (in their historical context) to someone in class at school. You need some grounding in philosophical analysis, philosophy of science, AND the history of philosophy and literature to really begin to understand. Which is why it always boils down to the worst tools literature has ever had to employ: 'Remember Kafka's childhood, children. Do you think you can spot something of that in the text?' You can -- and should -- obviously read the classics at any level of education, and -- really -- I have only disdain for those who try to make it seem like only they understand what the author meant (which, in itself, is already a thesis that fills libraries of theoretical discussions), but the truth of the matter is that literature is hard. It comes down to trying to unwind a human mind. Muddled by words. From another time. Muddled by your own subjective understanding. Literature is, basically, intentionally failed discourse. It is meant to be hard.
Not only hilarious - this is a spot on parody of a master class
Anyone who’s worked at any level of theatre has met a director like this
They invented the overanalyzing English teacher meme 30 years before the internet did
dude. they didn't just make it up. Even before television there were overanalyzing English teachers
@@tharealmikezee3165 Did you fail to notice the words "meme" and "internet"?
@@tharealmikezee3165 the sound of the joke going over your head was so loud it made me deaf
Well Stephen could have been an a English teacher he studied English literature at uni so very accurately portrayal of what may have become Stephen
Those profs made me absolutely crazy in university.
It’s Laurie’s straight faced answer to the obvious questions that made me laugh most.
The same for me. As if straight from Black Adder!! 🤣😂🤣
Genius comedy. The timing, the expressions on their faces, the language (who else could make the mannerisms of Oxbridge dons so hilarious or the satire of a university Shakespeare tutorial so funny)
Mannerisms that have unfortunately been carefully studied by anyone who charges money to teach Shakespearean acting.
Having spent a year in drama school, I can so relate to this experience.
Whoa, have you forgotten everything? What is the fourth word in your sentence? Year. Which is a measuring unit of what? You should write Having spent a *YEAR* in drama school....
@@u.v.s.5583 Wtf are you talking about?
Whoosh
I find it kinda funny they tittered at: "The great actor, Hugh Laurie" because they saw him as a comedian rather than an actor, even though every single sketch these two did underpins just how good BOTH of them are as actors as well as comedians.
This is exactly how performing Shakespeare in acting class with teachers feels like sometimes!! lmbo!!
holy shit they were young once.
TIME!
@@u.v.s.5583 but why did you choose to spell TIME, in this particular way? No one can comment for another 2 years.
Many of us were. You win the genetic and luck longevity lottery, and what do you get as a prize? You get fricken OLD, is what. (Not that it's bad, and i hope we all get older still.)
This is so Blackadder the Third "Look, If I stand any more heroically than this I'm in serious danger if disappointing my future Queen"
Hahahahahaha!!! Yesss!!!
*of
I have always assumed that the actors scene in Blackadder the Third is directly inspired by this sketch.
@@12Trappor The last line took away all doubt for me.
Ah! The glorious sweaters of the 1980s....
A Level English in a nutshell. Every single sentence taking half the lesson to analyse. 🙂
Yes, because language is art.
@@Repented008 art is bollix language is art or as me father in law used so say just get on w' it
Thanks Prof Leavis.
@@Repented008 And time must be respected; stop taking SO long analysing something, be more concise and get on with your life!!
Hugh used this as Prince George in Blackadder the Third. ... ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!! Unaccustomed as I am .. etc. :)
Hahahahahaha!!! Yesss! Exactly!!!
I fear you mew it like a frightened tree
Yep. I spotted that too. Priceless.
just what i was thinking- that was a briliant series, and maybe the best episode
Aww, they look so young! Strange to say as they were probably my age in this but for some reason I find it adorable!
Early on it was crystal clear that these two made comedy in the top league.
"Ambition?" "No, leave ambition out of it" Oh! I lost it! It's just brilliant. 🤣🤣
God, this is brilliant on so many levels ! It's even more hilarious to see that this is exactly how we analyze texts, how we study literature... It can be so far fetched sometimes ahah. I'm French so, yeah, I think a lot of people from different countries can relate to this sketch. That's how good they are (ohh british humour...)
Stephen and Hugh are National Treasures😉
Beautiful satire on how complete and utter bollocks is read into Shakespeare by those teaching his plays, none of which said bollocks was ever meant to be interpreted out of it by Bill himself. TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!" hahahahahaha
“What went wrong there Hugh??” I lose it every time!!!🤣🤣🤣
I know it's a sketch, but I've always hated this form of teaching. The lecturer holding the students hostage to their obtuse questions, framed within a paradigm only they know, and outside of which answers will not be accepted.
paradigm - look at you fancy pants ;-)
There must be a term or phrase for that exact type of buttheadery. I always disliked teachers who did this, and it made them look so petty and self-involved.
This is so true. I have faced this during interviews as well :)
@@hrushikeshj8810 My driving instructor did it to me. -"What's the most important thing to remember when you first get into your car?" -"Uh. Keys? Seatbelt! Check the breaks, and lights? Oh, uhm, make sure the area around the car is fr--" -"To keep your wits about you!" -"Fer the love o'Pete..."
@@smaakjeks that's really too much haha!!!
"Before I strip you down and oil you..."
Just brilliantly written and acted out. A total piss take of all those ludicrously pretentious Shakespeare Masterclasses seen on TV in the past, just absolutely brilliant😁😁😁😁
Every Masterclass ever.
absolutely love stephen's "hi!"
Reminds me of the bit in Black Adder where the Prince Regent is being coached by the actors in how to deliver a speech. Hugh has always been great at physical comedy.
For the Scottish play?
@@Paldasan Well, Edmund is tormenting them by saying Macbeth at every opportunity, but the prince has to deliver a speech. And there is nothing more annoying than people saying the Scottish play instead of Macbeth. It is a very silly thing that only non-theatre people do. At least in my experience, which includes doing a pretty big fundraising run of Macbeth. Not a single person involved in the production said the Scottish play even one time.
A rough diamond embedded in pure gold. I do hope they'll get together again. We need their chemistry.
Teachers all over the world are working really hard to take all the fun out of reading and literature. So in the future the horrific phenomenon of taking pleasure out of art will be eradicated. Keep up the good work! We’re getting there.
I love these men! A hilariously comedic duo!
The sheer talent of these two is extraordinary.
They are SO YOUNG! I feel so old.....
This video took me right to the literature classes in my school days!
I was in the audience when this was recorded for a show called Weekend in Wallop.
Stephen Fry is such a cutiepie :3
Still is.
This is brilliant and hilarious. I had a teacher like that once who couldn’t see the novel for the words. A shame about the screwed-up aspect ratio though. 😡
This is so beautiful. It brings me joy.
Amazes me the way Fry has kept that condescending swagger throughout his career.
Haha his subtle Kenneth Branagh impression tho.
Always gather from the buttocks.”...words to live by.
How brilliant is this... British humour at it's absolute best...
j'adore... à se tordre de rire, ainsi que toutes les vidéos associées à ce duo de choc !
So much appears to go over the audience. Meanwhile my daughter and I are in stitches frequently pausing due to our laughter.
Mama Eli, how good for you and your daughter! So clever and way above everyone else in the audience. Congratulations.
Now I need to binge watch Jeeves and Wooster.
Every Shakespearean acting class ever.
as someone who teaches shakespeare much closer to commedia dell'arte, let me say: Most shakespeare classes ever.
@panda cooper it's really fun to both do and watch, too. Just have a look at how relentlessly funny most shakespeare plays are. Even MacBeth ( I can say the name, it had its go trying to kill me already :) ) has very funny scenes, always before the worst stuff happens.
THTAIIIIIMMEEEEEEH my lord
While Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are both great at what they do, I always liked Hugh Laurie a bit more for being comfortable acting in the sillier/less authoritative roles, be they in the "Bit of Fry and Laurie" series or in the Blackadder series. It was always fun to watch him play those kinds of characters.
Oh my god when they bow at the end : so adorable!!
This reminds me of our teacher asking us (while dissecting a novel) ''what was the sky like when she died?'' I said...blue!! She used a blue pen to give me an F. But, I was actually right. It was a bright sunny day.
0:59 the crowd didn't noticed that joke lul
"Before I strip you down and oil you..." I'll just make sure that Facebook agrees with the joke...
They are adorable!!!!
The works of Shakespeare were enjoyable -- until someone decided that they needed to be analyzed.
Brilliant... Totally Brilliant !!!
What do we learn from the misspelling of "Shakespeare"?
The author wanted to highlight and make this title abstract, I guess
The author wanted to bring us away from the ordinary, conventional sense of the word.
That was a popular spelling in the C18th. Arguably not misspelt, they are just being very old-fashioned...
Allegorical signpost to the huge casualties due to wound infection and cholera among British soldiers during the Crimean War?
Giving the name a fruity sense
Love it.I am learning from these extremely Gifted figures.
Hugh, why are you squatting? I don't think we are ready for that yet? Are we?!🤣
When he asked hugh how time was spelled, he messed up his line by saying how does hugh decide to spell it, but quickly improvised over it. Very professional
Great send up of Trevor Nunn and actors in the South Bank special on acting Shakespeare 😂. If you watch it though, it's actually pretty interesting.
" I don't think we are ready for that " was my favourite part. I assume he meant that level of drama\turning ones Jacobi up to 11. "Or it will be theatre, and nobody wants that" Stewart Lee Great upload thank you. Truly masters of their craft.
Holy shit young Hugh Laurie 🤩
Plus great play and acting by both....awesome they are as always 👌👌👌
TIIIME!
Thanks to ever who posted this
He's got the stance down, but he's not doing the roar, is where he's going wrong!
Wasn't he doing it from the buttocks?
First saw Fry and Laurie in "Jeeves and Wooster". They are incredible!
ah, this is brilliant
Brilliant. Nice to see a brief glimpse of my Grandad's old boss, Billy Jepson Turner, right at the end.
I read about this in his memoir (frys) and couldent wait to look it up! worth it!
i love how they make fun of people who analyse shakespeare
And here"s me thinking :wot a load of cra
Love these two. So great to see some early stuff.
I feel like I’ve experienced both sides of this 🤣🤣🤣
No no no no this brings back too many memories of university
that patronising way fry would always try to put his words into Laurie's mouth by saying 'isn't it, Hugh?' is SO accurate
""Because it's the first word in the sentence" lol
At the Time of Shakespeare standardized spelling was a thing of the future. He even spelled (spelt?) his name in many ways. Is it no surprise then that his name (William Shakespeare) forms the anagram: "I am a weakish speller" ?
I've heard that of the various spellings used, 'Shakespeare' was actually one of the least common.
The name was signed by all his writers, hence the misspellings at times.
Brilliant!!
@@TranscendentLion Well I'm Spearshaker
No, it is a surprise, to answer your question as it was put :)
Everyday thing for a literature student.
Im a performing arts student and one of my tutors is identical to this 😂😭
Hugh looks find actor. I think he has future. Will see....
2:08, Stephen calls Shakespeare 'Hugh'
That's the actor's name^^ Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Yes but the script actually says “Shakespeare”. He messed up
@@alexiswayward And then he says "Shakespeare" twice in the following sentence to bury the mistake. :)
Well caught. "And how, I wonder, does Hugh decide to spell that word..."
This is Art!
"The serial killer is a professor. He cuts his victims into smaller and smaller pieces, until they die. You can call him 'The Deconstructionist'."
So perfect.
@CineLad I did - thanks so much for posting. It's a real nostalgia trip.But then I wonder where the years went...28 years!
So early, nearly 40-years ago. Fry was born 45-years old & wearing a cardigan. Both are brilliant.
sweeties!!!
They are both such young and beautiful boys, but Laurie almost unrecognizable young.