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  • Very funny. I think you have to be British and old enough to remember the 70's to really appreciate it.

  • didn't get the math joke but watching Stephen rolling on the floor laughing while Hugh hurls a barrage of censored words was enough to crack me up xD

  • wtf is this not funny omg were is big bang thery

    :)

  • ADVERTS FUCK OFF

  • But memory IS RAM!

  • really? people have argued about this? they are laughing about an obscure (possibly non-existant) math joke, with an obvious sperm drawn on the background. i wonder what the joke is.

  • wha... DID I MISS THE JOKE AGAIN!?!

  • Wait what?

  • here come the retarded american's who don't understand comedy :l

  • @sadlybadlyy4

    Yes anyone who does not get something is instantaneously mentally handicapped, and by being mentally handicapped, they are American. What ever country you are from, get over it, it is not that great. "America bullies/polices other country" ... by constantly calling Americans dumb fat this and that, you are bullying Americans which you could blame yourselves for causing Americans to bully others.

  • @bobfrommi Shut up, you dumb, fat, American git. 

  • @sadlybadlyy4 and there goes you who puts apostrophes where they don't belong

  • TO MUCH FAKE LAUGHING CANT HANDLE THE BAD PROGRAM !! OVERLOAD !!!

  • @MrHotmose Try watching Disney or The Big Bang Theory

  • WTF IS SO FUNNY

  • dont cry puffy

  • That hair deserves a skit by itself.

  • haha, I'm sure that Sheldon Cooper would laugh at this funny mistake.

  • can someone explain this like seriously?

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  • @monday1051 if someone explains it, it will not be funny. just watch it but don't look for something to be funny.

  • @floftyAl aw so im actualy laughing for the right reason. :) apprec.

  • @monday1051 It's just taking the piss out of OU presenters of the 70s

  • stephen laughing on the floor is sooo funny

  • The worst part is that these guys are so brilliant that it's probably a real equation, with the real answer, and they understand all the mathemababble Hugh Laurie was spouting. ;)

    And 54 people thought the answer was 0.567359.

  • The worst part is that these guys are so brilliant that it's probably a real equation, with the real answer, and they understand all the mathemababble Hugh Laurie was spouting. ;)

  • stephen fry sounded like he was giving birth :D

  • Some people are just too dense to tell that the video was mocking how seriously these people take even the smallest, insignificant details. I think the video was actually indirectly pointing to Fry himself, on his padentic take on every minute detail of language..

  • THIS ADVERTISING IS A FUCKING DISGRACE

  • Ахуенный английский юмор. Дегенераты!

  • @Dalsir1 если ты его не понял, это не значит, что он не смешной))

  • Excellent!!!

  • i dont understand this joke at all...

  • @BlacksSorrow Really? How do you NOT get it.

  • @BlacksSorrow sorry for you...

  • @BlacksSorrow Naught point five six seven three five nine

  • LOL. The outfits and hair styles are spot on. As a kid I remember the OU programmes being on BBC2 on Saturday mornings while I was waiting for the cartoons - those guys were like aliens to me.

  • the mistake wasnt even funny...then why am I laughing? XD

  • I bloody hate when people are laughing just to show they understand the joke, that's so embarassing and stupid. What's more, you can't understand what is being said and when the joke is supposed to be that it's no funny (like here...) well, it kind of ruins it >: / Morons...

  • @mariekitu then again that's the point. and you're defaming stephen fry.

  • @Bleumange Yeah but you can hear these loud bouts of laughter are really forced and fake, nothing really is That funny, it's more towards the end that you should laugh and even, not that loud ^ ^ It's like this is a laughing competition...

    And I don't see how I'm "defaming Stephen Fry". (or why I would care at all...) >: [

  • @mariekitu your statement is so disjointed i have no idea what you're talking about. if its about laugh tracks, countless brilliant shows used them.

  • @Bleumange What the hell... I'm talking about how STUPID people are to laugh too hard and at the wrong places, and since you can't get your head round how they're stupid, you're concluding that I'm "defaming Stephen", and then that I must be talking about canned laughter, and then answering that totally made-up complaint.

    Seriously, with such "disjointed" logic, stop trying to teach people what the points of things are !!!!

    PS : If you don't understand that, why not leave just leave it ? =]

  • @mariekitu Okay, so you're commenting on people. Why are you making references to this episode when it's all irony?

  • @Bleumange Sorry mate, but now it is me having no idea what you're on about...

    I suggest you leave it there and stop commenting people's comments for the sake of it and READ what they actually say.

  • And they are both wrong! The right answer is 5 6 7 593!!!! HA HA HA HA !

  • My word Stephen Fry has aged over the last few years

  • @publicdomainmoney That would be that Stephen Fry has aged over the last 25 years...

  • @publicdomainmoney yeah people tend to do that. Damn telomeres

  • I couldn't not laugh.

  • AMERICAN STUDIES OPEN UNIVERSITY MATCHBOX & SILK

  • sexy trousers...

  • that number is the telephone number of my school! what the hell? :L

  • fucking adverts

  • Fry & Laurie = LEGENDS! 

  • When they started swearing I lost it.

  • They've both done so well for themselves

  • LMFAO

    funniest "bit" I've seen of them

  • American TV made a whole series out of this joke called "The Big Bang Theory".

  • @Gmackematix Thank you for pointing that out. I hate that show too.

  • It's so unfunny it's funny. XD

  • FANTASTIC

    

  • Like literally? That means: "You have no sense of humor")))

  • What does 5-6-7-3-5-9 mean?

  • @EvilerBanana ...Did you even watch the video??

  • @EvilerBanana

    0.567359 (or more correctly 0.5673595) is the resultant modular quantity of D3 and D7.

    I hope this helps.

  • @dawduk it doesn't

  • BBC Worldwide have started advertising Sky? Huh, who'd have thought it?

  • @towneslives youtube is advertising sky.. not the bbc

  • Please England, the world needs another of your comedy duet 

  • There should be an entire week's television where everyone, including newsreaders, dresses in 1970's fashion.

  • @DayDreamAscent Yes!

  • 49 people? duh

    

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  • im pretty sure by 1:13 they were actually laughing.

  • i don't get it. what does it mean?

  • @vasodyss You probably need to have been around for the 1970's broadcasts of the Open University on BBC2 to properly get it. It's basically one anorak laughing at a very obscure in-house reference by two other anoraks; poking fun at the dweebiness of the presenters who were around at the time. It was a real cult thing, and a huge cultural reference in the UK that was always good for lampooning.

  • one of my favourite sketches of theirs :D

  • I think it's funny even now, but I laughed cause they started

  • I don't get it.

  • @MrNorringtonmyiPOD

    With respect if you do not get "irony" then you MUST be American!

    I'm accusing you of being American. Are you?

  • @MrNorringtonmyiPOD I find it funny because there is this big build up, leading you to expect something horrendous, and the blooper is really trivial and silly. Also, the amount they laugh at it is fairly silly.

  • Stephen looks yummy in those trousers ^^

  • I'm glad I live in 2011.

  • could this be inspiration for the it-crowd guy? xD

  • LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOO

    hahahahahahahaha

    oh lord ahahah

  • 48 people thought it really WAS 0.567359...

    School boy error...

  • great stuff gees!!! great minds put together

  • @moviefact1 It's not fake; it's actually very authentic. That's a roller blackboard. They were common in the 60s and 70s. The writing surface was made from a flexible canvas-like material which allowed it to be rolled over to reveal a clean surface. Google 'roller blackboard' and you'll see what I mean.

  • @koratvinnie Some classrooms still have them. I'm in college now but I can remember my secondary school last year still having those blackboards in some of the classrooms.

    Nowadays classrooms have whiteboards which work in the same way- they're on a roll and can be moved around to create more board space

  • @koratvinnie The scrollboard was state of the art when I was 13!

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  • best one ever

  • What were they smoking, to make them laugh so hard, back in the 70's? I wonder...

  • I laughed so hard, I squirted blackberry squash out of my nose...

  • I love how he slaps the chalkboard and you see it's fake

  • And then to think that one is currently playing a philologically disturbed doctor with social issues, and the other is hosting traveling shows and a science quiz :S

  • I was laughing like Stephen here when I first saw this.

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  • Audience are way too fucking loud.

  • best ROFL

  • @coolnick5504 don't use that word please :/

  • See... this is why Hugh curses so much on House bloopers

  • Biting sarcasm..

  • It's so delicate and tastefull, it's like eating fine cheese in the form of comedy.

  • @xxxChubyxxx Perfectly put!

  • omg is that gregg?

  • Could you even say "5-6-7-3-5-9" on BBC in the 70s?

  • AMERICAA

    STATES

    STATES

  • 46 people don't understand math humor.

  • 46 people need to get a sense of humour.

  • Laurie looks just like Swedish telly meteorologist Pär Holmgren.

  • @babypappa Reminds me of Garth from Wayne's World

  • I'm appalled at the number of retards who don't understand why this is funny. D:>

  • 0:01

  • It's not that the number is funny. Generally when we see outtakes it's some readily apparent mistake that anyone can tell is funny and/or embarrassing. OU was very dry educational stuff, and the humour comes from the fact that people are laughing at/embarrassed by a random maths problem in a context where comedy was not really the order of the day.

    i.e. people acting well out of character and inappropriately for their surroundings.

    ... I'll just see myself out, shall I?

  • I thought this was hillarious, but now as I'm reading the comments I think I missed something. Are the numbers inherently funny? I just laughed becuase he apparently screwed up, was there something else that I'm just not getting?

  • I love how all you can hear is: "Aaahahahah *biip* ahahahah *biiiip* hahahahah *bip* ha *biiiip* mwuahahahha!!!"

    xDDD

  • I think some Americans don't get this because American humor is very literal. There are clear jokes laid out for the viewer, while British Comedy is happy just wandering off on some bizarre tangent with no discernible aim.

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  • Stephen Fry rofl'd haha

    Awesome clip. God, I grew up with this show, so many good memories xD

  • me too , didn't get the reason why's that number is that funny !

  • @kaneeye oh honey, it's not the number. 

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  • @kaneeye

    haha lol

  • HaHaHaHaHaHa!!

  • I don't get it, what was that number funny for?

  • @KafshakTashtak check your sense of humour

  • 567 (3+5=8) 9. What an idiot!

  • @YoutoobSam lol

    i think he meant that 

  • Brilliant!

  • With that hair on Steven Fry this would make a great head and shoulder conditioner commercial.

  • I love Hugh Laurie's character's sandals!! :-)

  • I just adore this :)

  • ROFL! God I love Laurie and Fry. They need a reunion.

  • @mojorhythm amen to that!!!

  • @mojorhythm dude Fry and Laurie have had a reunion

  • @mojorhythm hey Fry and Laurie have had a reunion

  • @mojorhythm There was one on TV recently and they even did the piano at the end of every episode in the final series and the whole 'cocktail shaker' thing. It was called 'Fry and Laurie reunited'. Hope this helps :)

  • @mojorhythm Didnt you see Fry And Laurie Reunited?

  • that reminds me of three hole punch

  • Forty Two useless wankers disliked this video

  • lol, looks like they teamed uo with Ross Noble

  • @Piatasify in their time-machine

  • yes

    

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  • Great Comedy

  • @ a few comments.

    * the BBC is also known affectionatly as 'the Beeb' ('beeb' being short BBC)

    * the BBC is not run by the british goverment, howerver the goverment has a responsibilty to ensure it does not show biased or misleading information. The goverment also uses it to host public information info (elections, queens broadcast etc)

    * the joke is about 'The Open University' & 'Blooper's shows'. - the OU is public a university that uses the BBC to show lectures etc.

    * 567359 = FUNNY

  • i dont get it

  • @hahabigbully123 Your not getting it is what makes it a joke. Most people don't get it, and the characters are laughing as if it were extremely obvious.

  • Funny vid, but I'm getting sick of that stupid ad with the annoying music before the vid starts.

  • So funny.

  • hahahahahahahahaha xD

  • I love Hugh's outrageous reaction when he realizes he's got the quantity wrong. Kills me every time.

  • those 2 are geniuses !! i'm inlove

  • Two of the greats!

  • I actually like blooper reels, but god this made me crease up. XDD Their hysterical laughter... so contagious...

  • Dude, I really hope they are wigs.

  • Ah, good old nerd humour...

  • I don't get it? That was the right answer.

  • @kright74 ... Huh?

  • ...I'd laugh, but I don't want to anger Hugh Laurie's awful hair. :(

  • @Tomoko4004 Ha!

  • I honestly don't get how some people can't grasp this kind of humour.

    Even just the sight of those guys cracking up is enough to make me do the same.

  • Ummm...I do not get what the fuss is all about?? Why are they laughing again??

  • @musicarena1

    Assuming that your comment is NOT a wind-up I'll explain.

    Back in the days of Open University the lecturers took themselves and their Subjects VERY seriously and only a "geek" would laugh at the "supposed" Maths error.

    So Fry/Laurie did a sketch taking the piss out of those old programmes which were on at 4.00 AM !

  • @musicarena1

    Assuming that your comment is NOT a wind-up I'll explain.

    Back in the days of Open University the lecturers took themselves and their Subjects VERY seriously and only a "geek" would laugh at the "supposed" Maths error.

    So Fry/Laurie did a sketch taking the piss out of those old programmes which were on at 4.00 AM !

  • epic fail!!! 567359!! AHAHAHAHA

  • Call me dumb but I don't get it. 56735 or 567359 ?

  • @TheOneAndOnlyMe92 It taking the piss out of mathematicians in the sense of how boring they can be! For them it is funny that he got the number wrong - for anyone else it shows mathmaticians need to get a life.

  • @masala505 Oh right.

  • @masala505 No its not. You've completely missed the point. Its nothing to do with numbers or mathematicians. Its taking the piss out of programs that show mistakes in tv productions and think they are always hilariously funny.