A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Flexibility of Language

[difero123]

These guys are "Capable" to make me laugh like nobody else.

[BillieJolene1]

i love these guys!!! come check out BILLIE JOLENE!!!  (still Stephen Fry is GOD!!!)

[voxiphiliac]

Stephen Fry actually has a podcast that talks about this seriously. Actually makes this funnier.

[kanakaken]

One can easily see why Molly was so infatuated.

[Yora21]

The topic of the initial discussion is actually quite interesting.

[37Dionysos]

I want all my language to be "a hunk of a charred panzer...."

[Nutarei]

Definitely the best I've seen of them. -3 I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe at "Marjory is dead". That damn Marjory ;)

[555pontifex]

Reminds me of tutorials at Cambridge.

[jmarr100]

The horrible thing is that I understand exactly what they're talking about.

[crapatev]

0:20-0:27 -- The university intellectual to an absolute T! An astonishingly profound concept about to be unleashed on a seminar of uninterested (hungover) undergraduates.

[linemania]

I have no idea what they're talking about, but that's funny as fuck!

[acoronab]

Now I understand what Dr. House is about...comedy!!!!

[HulloKat]

Besides the obvious hilarity of the sketch, Stephen has some really interesting things to say! Stephen Fry is in actuality a lover of the English language and a linguist, as well as a self-proclaimed addict of reading. The way he mixes unparalleled humour with fascinating intelligence and sophistication is just ... "lovely."

[coldasice90]

hold the newsreaders nose squarely waiter or friendly milk will countermand my trousers

[Pighood]

EXTRINSICALLY?

[BohemianFish]

"Is our language wringing forks in our rears?"

[InATelescopeLens]

I love you don't go in there get out you don't have a right to say that stop it why should I that hurt help, Marjory is dead.

[gabumonfanclubx]

"Our language, tiger, our language" too funny! Sad how some of this made sense.

[lefthandedsnake2]

Language is different from speech: Structuralism!

[Aima267]

Hands up, who grabbed a dictionary, or ought to have done, during this sketch?

[elgar104]

I simply rejoice to live in the 'time of fry'.

[madziek23]

Even though Stephen said all that in a comic way, it was real linguistic information. I enjoyed listening to this sketch because of that and simply because it was funny :)

[saraface11]

Even through all that nonsense, Stephen maintains his natural, sophisticated self. How can anyone not fall in love with him?

[Wheelsgr]

@saraface11 None of it is nonsense, it's all highly interesting questions of philosophy of language. That's the beauty of the skit.

[kalyan238]

Let me start a levrette here 1:34

[SurlyInsomniac]

Is it wrong that I'd actually like to hear a serious discussion about Hitlerian rhetoric and how it would've been received by the British?

Ofcourseitisofcourseitisofcour­seitisofcoutseitis.

[SpiritWanderer91]

@SurlyInsomniac No ... not at all. we lack that i'd say. And the fact that actual intellectual discussion becomes a thing to laugh at... while i do admit such stereotypical mannerisms as portrayed here in this sketch do hold certain entertainment value when portrayed ironically enough, is a sign of the general publics attitude and the kind of people that modern television is trying to reach and entertain. Actually that gives me the idea we might resort to upper class TV and lower class TV. Hm.

[trinachronism]

@SpiritWanderer91 ooooh, intellectual television viewing... surely you jest! ;) and it amuses me more that these skits from 20+ years ago still hold true today and are still funny.

[SpiritWanderer91]

@trinachronism i certainly do ^^ i wanted more intellectualism in my life 3 years ago and threw me telly out the window :p well maybe not that extreme but pretty much ^^ But yes absolutely brilliant and timeless these sketches are :)

[SpiritWanderer91]

@trinachronism really got awkward only when i catch myself talking like that myself haha

[trinachronism]

@SpiritWanderer91 oh, I wish I could speak that well but yes, I was once many a year ago always censured and frowned upon for what seemed like snobbery. *shrug*

[MrBuch169169]

We're talking about bicycles and repairmen.

[NivMizzet89]

@MrBuch169169

And their influence on international communism.