Apart from the genius of the sketch, the acting and the script, Hugh Laurie's bass line slapping away..... definitely in my top 10. :):):) "Barrel of a knife"
I feel like each time he crosses the atlantic ocean he loses his comedy powers and gains drama powers.... so now the question stands: what would happen if he took the long way from england to america?
@mustaine75 It's not an American accent, it's the sort of Americanised inflection used in British series' like Department S and Jason King by ITC. Hugh's accent here has more of an Australian twang than anything.
@wwwonderful I suppose it depends on how much importance you place on originality. Once a style of music is invented is it then wrong to make another song in that style because it's not original? This sketch IS original in so much that it's never been done before. The style might be similar to Monty Python but it doesn't make it any less funny or worthy. I could get on stage and burp into a microphone for 30 minutes. Original? Yes. Worthwhile? No.
@hockstrap Never. We've already got him Eddie Izzard, and Neil Gaiman... we're not giving them back. Though if you would like you can have Russell Brand back.
"Now I can't do that as you very well know Mr.Allan, the department is a large building housing hundreds of people. I couldn't possible shove it up my arse with a great deal of discomfort--"
@p473r I think perhaps more taking the piss out of James Bond and British secret service and police series of the 60s and 70s. Like Department S, Callum, The Professionals, The Sweeney. Maybe even a touch of Harry Palmer.
fry- "now i cant do that, you very well know that the department is a large building housing hundreds of people i cant possibly shove it up my ass without a great deal of discomfort" LMAO
OMG I saw the legwork policeman joke on Rowan Atkinson's Laughing Matters DVD when I was little. I had no idea who Hugh Laurie was back then! So great to see it again!
To me, This was both Stephens' and Hugh's finest work. I always wonder what would have happened if Stephen hadn't had a nervous breakdown - but then again alot of fat women in their 30's-40's would probably miss out on fantasising about a miserable, haggard, amazingly intelligent cripple who deep down has a heart of gold and is just reaching out for someone to love him . . . . . . Wonder how Hugh feels deep down about becoming the thing he once made fun of?
You look at alot of the Fry and Laurie stuff, and quite a fair bit of it is directly poking fun at the "House/Grays Anatomy" style of drama and the way actors on those shows "acted". I dont blame Hugh, he was able to go over to America and completely re-invent himself, and gain alot of fame and adulation. It must have been heard finding himself after working with Stephen fry for so long.
godforsaken christ! it's insanity the British humour shows are so bizarre to find here at my place and that's been for years, and instead we just receive the American humour school that's not subtle and ironic and delightful at all.... I feel very ashamed to say I'm just discovering these 2 geniuses tonight, because I wanted to know more about the career of the man playing House but I must say, this character has the same hilarious humour of Laurie in this show, restrictedly... it's fantastic!!
@jiujitsubuddah not necessarily... you could also come at it from the viewpoint that ABOFAL is more of the real creation of laurie as it was he and fry who created it as their breakthrough programme while house is david shores brainchild... thats not to say hugh doesnt have a huge input in house which im sure he he does... and im not even going to get into the attractiveness argument becaus its not worth the effort
@jiujitsubuddah Oh it's fine for me if you take them personally, just taking offense in what random people say on the internet is something I wouldn't do myself, since it doesn't make any sense, but that's just me.
And rise above it, no point in bawwing, son.
Since you finally get my point, I think this is it. Thanks, was fun, pip pip cheerio.
@jiujitsubuddah Better? Christ in heaven, stop saying that. Nobody has said anything about anyone being better, that's your thought, and if you think the old school fans are better than the new ones, that's completely your own inferiority complex. I have absolutely nothing against someone liking them, whether they discovered them yesterday or 20 years ago.
Besides if I were you, I wouldn't take things on the internet personally. Seriously.
@jiujitsubuddah So which one did you see first? That's what it's about.
I don't understand why you're so mad. Just try to accept the fact that you'll never understand how a European/British person feels about this, there's nothing you can do about it, nothing I can do about it and there's no need to do anything about it.
There's no need to take this personally, it's just cultural perspective.
@jiujitsubuddah No I meant IN the olden days. Not watching them now that they are old, and only after you've seen House M.D. Don't know if that's your case, but it sounds like it. You haven't seen him like this since you were a kid. That's the difference. A funny person can be attractive, but that hardly has anything to do with what I'm talking about.
What I'm talking about is growing into something. And that's the thing that makes me say; "Please don't, it's Hugh Laurie", and you wont get it.
@jiujitsubuddah That "please don't, it's hugh laurie" was a quote from someone else, but that describes perfectly the situation. Europeans/Brits don't think of him as sexy, sure, you can think he's sexy, but most europeans/brits wont agree with you, if they've seen him in the olden days. It's just two different perspectives, sure you can think he's sexy, but it doesn't mean I'll agree with you.
@jiujitsubuddah I just thought you didn't receive my last comment since you didn't answer. And I'm merely discussing, this is hardly an argument. And what's wrong with Brits/Europeans vs. Americans? Would be stupid to say that we're all the same with everything. As I said, it's nothing to get mad about, it's just how it goes.
Have I said you're not allowed? No, that's just my perspective, and I think it's a bit silly. You'll just have to accept that.
@jiujitsubuddah Implication? Sure I said there's a cultural difference between understanding "Hugh Laurie", but it's hardly negative. Calling Hugh Laurie sexy is something Brits/Europeans (who have seen Fry & Laurie etc back in the day) find weird, but it's definitely you who said "Americans are stupid for not agreeing with me", I have never said that.
No need to get mad about not understanding "Please don't it's Hugh Laurie", you can't help it, nothing wrong with that.
@jiujitsubuddah What? This has nothing to do with "Americans being stupid", I never said anything like that, that's your own perception. But it's definitely cultural thing to get "Please don't, it's Hugh Laurie", and I understood it the second I read it, it's just somehow something you either understand the way it's supposed to be understood, or you don't understand it at all, nothing to do with anyone being stupid, just how you understand "Hugh Laurie".
@jiujitsubuddah No it's just... it's... Hugh Laurie. There's no way to explain it, if one doesn't understand the meaning "Please don't. It's Hugh Laurie". You either get it, or you don't, it's just a cultural thing I guess.
@jiujitsubuddah Saw someone from the UK reply to someone from the US, when they said "OHMAGAWD HE'S SO SEXY", and the other person replied "Please don't. It's Hugh Laurie."
well for me, i actually first saw hugh on 101 dalmations, then recognised him more on House. but since im not a real hard core fan of house, i started watching his old stuff and got into blackadder and bit of fry and laurie instead =D
It's all in the details. Hugh Laurie's got that non-specfic Not-Quite-English, Not-Quite-American accent in bad old British thrillers down to a tee. And I love how he's carrying one of those paper bags of messages, you always see in American films and TV, but that you never see in real life.
When Hugh grabs the bunch of bananas I always think of the Monty Python sketch "Self Defense Against Fruit," especially the part where Michael Palin asks, "What if he's got a bunch?" I've always wondered if it's a deliberate homage to that sketch.
F "I prefer to put it this way: I certainly came prepared, didn't I."
I suppose that there is a fundamental difference - in grammar! (;-D} Only Mr. Fry, Mr. Laurie and their 'Bit' could do something as insanely simple and yet as insanely witty!
"No, I can't do that as you very well know. The Department is a large building housing hundreds of people. I couldn't possibly shove it up my ass with a great deal of discomfort--"
Because it's a small picturesque city in Sussex. A spy conversation involving a first class flight to, say, Istanbul or Moscow might make sense, a first class flight to Chichester is just laughable.
It's probably also helped by the fact that Chichester is one of those words that just sort of sounds funny, if you say it right...
Mine is more of a "He's talented and hilarious and I adore everything he and Fry ever did together. oh look, he's good-looking as well. So much the better."
But he IS being a comedian in House. I mean yes, it's got its serious side as well, but he's definitely kept his snark. I wouldn't be such a fan of the show, and of Laurie, if it was a completely serious drama. It's just less of the slapstick/physical comedy of his youth and more mature and refined. Well, somewhat :)
@rawtoast I don't know if you realised, but that wasn't the point of my comment at all. Indeed, Laurie's acting, and being the way he is in House M.D. is probably the main, possibly the only reason for many people to even watch the show, so I can only agree with you on that.
But it's somehow sad how so many people don't even know he had a career before House.
@whitebeam I'm a 15 year old girl and I think he's sexy and cute xD but seriously, I have so much respect for him, I'm one of the fifteen year old girls who actually knew him from his work before House, and that aren't many girls =p
He inspires me and can make me laugh everyday, no matter what, and not many people can do that :)
So not every 15 year old girl has no respect for him. =p
Oh, I don't know. I'm American, and a girl, and I'm a teenager. I do think he was a little attractive when he was younger, but it's definitely secondary to him being a fantastic comedian.
And I assume you feel the same about yourself because your obnoxious on the internet, yeah? That makes you a real individual.
Sorry if it wasn't "the point", but this is the internet, and I'm free to share any opinion, idea or unrelated musing I see fit. Actually, thats how communication between humans usually works, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, you're right. But Lang is far more nerdy and like a tough Bertie Wooster, in my opinion. But the atmosphere and everything else in the sketch just drags my mind towards the Gun seller.
"both had trials at west...bromwich...albion"
laser1ish 1 week ago
Apart from the genius of the sketch, the acting and the script, Hugh Laurie's bass line slapping away..... definitely in my top 10. :):):) "Barrel of a knife"
richie616799 1 month ago
"my knees go weak for this" xb lol
EndureFocusEngageDie 1 month ago
I feel like each time he crosses the atlantic ocean he loses his comedy powers and gains drama powers.... so now the question stands: what would happen if he took the long way from england to america?
hukslee 1 month ago
He looks like Steve McQueen in 'Bullitt'.
yam83 1 month ago 2
You need a new ballcock
ResistanceofLove 2 months ago
"Certainly came prepared, didn't you"
"I prefer to put it this way; I certainly came prepared, didn't I?"
BAHAHAHAHAHA :D Ahhhhh comedy gold :D
gildlily78 3 months ago 3
Hugh looks like Toby Turner xD
ZKlaus666 5 months ago
IT FINISHED ITS OVER ITS FINISHED IT S COMPLETELY OVER
alimunth 6 months ago 3
DAMN. Hugh Laurie's american accent used to be terible.
MrJayCudmore 6 months ago
Those two should sooooo do the adaptation of Laurie's "The Gun Seller"!
Fnorder23 7 months ago 3
Laurie's American accent was soooo weak back then... ;D
mustaine75 7 months ago
@mustaine75 It was a spoof of all those awful American 'cool undercover cop' shows, it was supposed to be bad :D
RichPlaystation 7 months ago 4
@mustaine75 It's not an American accent, it's the sort of Americanised inflection used in British series' like Department S and Jason King by ITC. Hugh's accent here has more of an Australian twang than anything.
nakedmambo 6 months ago 3
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@mustaine75 : Laurie's doing an Australian accent.
LuJia84 4 months ago
The poor man's Monty Python?
wwwonderful 7 months ago
@wwwonderful No.
RichPlaystation 7 months ago
@wwwonderful errrr no. Just as good, if not better.
vymmas 5 months ago
@vymmas There's nothing original about this kind of tired-out, same-old, same-mold British 'humour'
wwwonderful 5 months ago
@wwwonderful I suppose it depends on how much importance you place on originality. Once a style of music is invented is it then wrong to make another song in that style because it's not original? This sketch IS original in so much that it's never been done before. The style might be similar to Monty Python but it doesn't make it any less funny or worthy. I could get on stage and burp into a microphone for 30 minutes. Original? Yes. Worthwhile? No.
vymmas 5 months ago
@vymmas You've just described the level of British humour
wwwonderful 5 months ago
@wwwonderful Sorry to butt in, a whole month later, but this might be old now but it wasn't at the time.
LaSeuleEtoile 4 months ago
foreman , cameron , taub , thirteen , chase , wilson , cuddy and four Princeton plainsboro nurses disliked this xD
memo2memo500 7 months ago 2
Both fans of west brom XD
SabbaghProductions 7 months ago
Genius but yanks should check blackadder goes forth for the best of fry and laurie IMHO
LegoDreamz 8 months ago
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11 people never even got to Aylesbury
simonatford1 8 months ago
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simonatford1 8 months ago
this would make a sick BBC cop show :D
Sboy200 8 months ago
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I would like to see this movie ;)
gryphonavocatio 8 months ago
11 people were only given economy class flights to Chichester!
SuperBobster10 9 months ago
staring down the barrel of a knife! haha!
navitzki 9 months ago
give us back hugh, america!
hockstrap 10 months ago 83
@hockstrap NEVER!!!!!!! HE'S OURS NOW FOREVER!
and we have a plan to abduct Fry and convince him to do another show with Laurie that we won't let air on british television!
TheThecheshirecat 8 months ago 2
@hockstrap i think hugh has become a global star now and i must say that he is a very talented british comedian, but with a global reach.
sidrahsiddiqui 8 months ago
@hockstrap NEVER!
ihaveissuses 7 months ago
@hockstrap Haha! Not a chance! We're after Stephen Fry next ;D
lajollacat 7 months ago 6
@hockstrap Never. We've already got him Eddie Izzard, and Neil Gaiman... we're not giving them back. Though if you would like you can have Russell Brand back.
TheSinfulFreedom 5 months ago
@hockstrap you can't have him!
letmechanistsrule 1 month ago 3
@letmechanistsrule He's ours anyway!
misamoomin 1 month ago
@hockstrap you don't deserve him
zl4iuzmh 1 month ago
"Please, Alan...don't throw porridge in my face"!
shelders1984 10 months ago
No use threatening Stephen Fry with a bunch of bananas. I'm sure he has learnt how to defend himself against any type of fruit.
tanmaynd2001 10 months ago 8
files are not useful, if you're staring down the barrel of a knife!
orEvil 10 months ago
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"You can shove your department up your arse!"
"Now I can't do that as you very well know Mr.Allan, the department is a large building housing hundreds of people. I couldn't possible shove it up my arse with a great deal of discomfort--"
Hahaha so amazingly awesomlely, epically, fantastically brilliantly brilliant.
Watabou89 10 months ago
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Watabou89 10 months ago
Alany, Alany, Alany...
IoEstasCedonta 10 months ago
"all right allan, blast you! 15 all!
chilavert42 10 months ago
girl: how about we go to bed together
laurie: as i said i work faster alone
XD
crazycouplefan 11 months ago 9
Lady: "Nice flat."
Laurie: "Gets me from A to B."
xXBossBattleXx 11 months ago
looking at the comments i think most of you seemed to have missed the point of this sketch: taking the piss out of american movie cliches :)
nevertheless great performance from F&L as usual
p473r 11 months ago
@p473r I think perhaps more taking the piss out of James Bond and British secret service and police series of the 60s and 70s. Like Department S, Callum, The Professionals, The Sweeney. Maybe even a touch of Harry Palmer.
nakedmambo 10 months ago
Theres a little man in the village who runs up my skirts.
dlw401 1 year ago
Man, who is that actress? As sexy as Fry & Laurie are, she's up there as well.
gi50192 1 year ago
ROFLMAO 0:54 Now that was funny.
roopr 1 year ago 5
this is a pretty badass haircut for laurie:)
KruppaF 1 year ago
fry- "now i cant do that, you very well know that the department is a large building housing hundreds of people i cant possibly shove it up my ass without a great deal of discomfort" LMAO
tppipersa 1 year ago
THUMBS UP If U THINK HUGH IS SMEXYYY!!!!
tppipersa 1 year ago
OMG I saw the legwork policeman joke on Rowan Atkinson's Laughing Matters DVD when I was little. I had no idea who Hugh Laurie was back then! So great to see it again!
Escmymind 1 year ago
"when you're staring down the barrel of a knife" ... xD
DelusionalDreamers 1 year ago 4
Both trials for west Bromwich Albion.
That's "soccer" team for our American friends.
markrskinner 1 year ago
Like I said - I work faster alone :D
tuliratsu 1 year ago 3
I need nothing and nobody.
QBlackGriffin 1 year ago
0:18 am I the only one reminded of the ministry of silly walks?
Rotom5000 1 year ago 191
@Rotom5000 me too :D
ineverfakejumps 9 months ago
@Rotom5000 One of the best British comedy duos paying homage to the greatest British comedy troupe. Bravo!
xNightmarexVampsx 8 months ago
@Rotom5000 No your not alone, after all "a nod's as good as a wink to a blind man, eh?"
Tubewatcher1969 7 months ago
@Rotom5000 That's a damn good John Cleese impression.
yam83 1 month ago
:)))) In "Street Kings" he looks just like Alan when Hugh narrows his eyes!
And a little bit like Wooster ...due to the smoothed hair maybe :)))
Ssykun 1 year ago
I love the part at 0:55! How does Hugh stay serious? Its finished! Over! And FINISHED! DONE OVER WITH!! DONE!!!
crossecat 1 year ago 2
I love the part at 0:55! How does Hugh stay serious?
crossecat 1 year ago
To me, This was both Stephens' and Hugh's finest work. I always wonder what would have happened if Stephen hadn't had a nervous breakdown - but then again alot of fat women in their 30's-40's would probably miss out on fantasising about a miserable, haggard, amazingly intelligent cripple who deep down has a heart of gold and is just reaching out for someone to love him . . . . . . Wonder how Hugh feels deep down about becoming the thing he once made fun of?
woodins2008 1 year ago 5
@woodins2008 What exactly do you mean by ,,becoming the thing he once made fun of"? I'm just curious, I don't really understand that part.
fookingmrsschwein 1 year ago
@fookingmrsschwein
You look at alot of the Fry and Laurie stuff, and quite a fair bit of it is directly poking fun at the "House/Grays Anatomy" style of drama and the way actors on those shows "acted". I dont blame Hugh, he was able to go over to America and completely re-invent himself, and gain alot of fame and adulation. It must have been heard finding himself after working with Stephen fry for so long.
woodins2008 1 year ago
godforsaken christ! it's insanity the British humour shows are so bizarre to find here at my place and that's been for years, and instead we just receive the American humour school that's not subtle and ironic and delightful at all.... I feel very ashamed to say I'm just discovering these 2 geniuses tonight, because I wanted to know more about the career of the man playing House but I must say, this character has the same hilarious humour of Laurie in this show, restrictedly... it's fantastic!!
gomongio 1 year ago
thank you so much for uploading all these,"a bit of fry and laurie....i have loved both of them for yrs aand had no idea.
tessinterupted3 1 year ago
hugh has the freakiest, bendiest legs i've ever seen...
kgdsmile 1 year ago
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Ssykun 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah not necessarily... you could also come at it from the viewpoint that ABOFAL is more of the real creation of laurie as it was he and fry who created it as their breakthrough programme while house is david shores brainchild... thats not to say hugh doesnt have a huge input in house which im sure he he does... and im not even going to get into the attractiveness argument becaus its not worth the effort
mickthekindstranger 1 year ago
fyfaen det er så konge å se humor på sitt beste!
karskenes 1 year ago
The moment the slide flew off the pistol... I was sold!
misterprickly 1 year ago 6
"nice flat"
"Get's me from A to B"
hahaha
rafonzo 1 year ago 3
Whenever I see this now I can't stoping thinking about "The Gun Seller", Hugh's book :D
Marchof31Days 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah Oh it's fine for me if you take them personally, just taking offense in what random people say on the internet is something I wouldn't do myself, since it doesn't make any sense, but that's just me.
And rise above it, no point in bawwing, son.
Since you finally get my point, I think this is it. Thanks, was fun, pip pip cheerio.
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whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah Better? Christ in heaven, stop saying that. Nobody has said anything about anyone being better, that's your thought, and if you think the old school fans are better than the new ones, that's completely your own inferiority complex. I have absolutely nothing against someone liking them, whether they discovered them yesterday or 20 years ago.
Besides if I were you, I wouldn't take things on the internet personally. Seriously.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah So which one did you see first? That's what it's about.
I don't understand why you're so mad. Just try to accept the fact that you'll never understand how a European/British person feels about this, there's nothing you can do about it, nothing I can do about it and there's no need to do anything about it.
There's no need to take this personally, it's just cultural perspective.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah No I meant IN the olden days. Not watching them now that they are old, and only after you've seen House M.D. Don't know if that's your case, but it sounds like it. You haven't seen him like this since you were a kid. That's the difference. A funny person can be attractive, but that hardly has anything to do with what I'm talking about.
What I'm talking about is growing into something. And that's the thing that makes me say; "Please don't, it's Hugh Laurie", and you wont get it.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah That "please don't, it's hugh laurie" was a quote from someone else, but that describes perfectly the situation. Europeans/Brits don't think of him as sexy, sure, you can think he's sexy, but most europeans/brits wont agree with you, if they've seen him in the olden days. It's just two different perspectives, sure you can think he's sexy, but it doesn't mean I'll agree with you.
And to someone being superior; Don't be silly.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah I just thought you didn't receive my last comment since you didn't answer. And I'm merely discussing, this is hardly an argument. And what's wrong with Brits/Europeans vs. Americans? Would be stupid to say that we're all the same with everything. As I said, it's nothing to get mad about, it's just how it goes.
Have I said you're not allowed? No, that's just my perspective, and I think it's a bit silly. You'll just have to accept that.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah Implication? Sure I said there's a cultural difference between understanding "Hugh Laurie", but it's hardly negative. Calling Hugh Laurie sexy is something Brits/Europeans (who have seen Fry & Laurie etc back in the day) find weird, but it's definitely you who said "Americans are stupid for not agreeing with me", I have never said that.
No need to get mad about not understanding "Please don't it's Hugh Laurie", you can't help it, nothing wrong with that.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah What did he say anyway? Seems he removed the comment.
whitebeam 1 year ago
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@jiujitsubuddah What? This has nothing to do with "Americans being stupid", I never said anything like that, that's your own perception. But it's definitely cultural thing to get "Please don't, it's Hugh Laurie", and I understood it the second I read it, it's just somehow something you either understand the way it's supposed to be understood, or you don't understand it at all, nothing to do with anyone being stupid, just how you understand "Hugh Laurie".
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whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah No it's just... it's... Hugh Laurie. There's no way to explain it, if one doesn't understand the meaning "Please don't. It's Hugh Laurie". You either get it, or you don't, it's just a cultural thing I guess.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@jiujitsubuddah Saw someone from the UK reply to someone from the US, when they said "OHMAGAWD HE'S SO SEXY", and the other person replied "Please don't. It's Hugh Laurie."
whitebeam 1 year ago
"A chartered prostitute from Hereford. Died two years ago, in a smiling accident."
ImMichaelTaylor 1 year ago
Watch an episode of 'Spooks' and then watch this, you will never take Spooks seriously again. This is just genius.
Zorg2006 1 year ago
I wish my legs could do that.
jdeppluver1599 1 year ago
Haha, yes. This is reminiscent of The Gun Seller. Which, I must add, is hilarious.
CosplayingCassie 1 year ago
God bless moment 0:13!!
CaroDrago 1 year ago
Okay, I first saw Laurie through his work on House. But this is fucking FANTASTIC. I'm definitely a fan of his comedy career now.
headphonic8 1 year ago 4
Reminds me of The Gun Seller
Redsparrowe123 1 year ago
well for me, i actually first saw hugh on 101 dalmations, then recognised him more on House. but since im not a real hard core fan of house, i started watching his old stuff and got into blackadder and bit of fry and laurie instead =D
chocchipfox 1 year ago
laughed soo hard wen hugh policeman came on!
tsubassarulz 1 year ago
0:55 i blowed up! xxDD
raynielbb 1 year ago
please allan don't throw porage on my face lol
i work faster alone
why don't to bed together
i told you i work faster alone lolz
60sto80s2 1 year ago
It's all in the details. Hugh Laurie's got that non-specfic Not-Quite-English, Not-Quite-American accent in bad old British thrillers down to a tee. And I love how he's carrying one of those paper bags of messages, you always see in American films and TV, but that you never see in real life.
PurushaDesa 1 year ago 2
@PurushaDesa I thought his accent was Australian, especially on the word "department".
TommyWylie 1 year ago
"No, I can't do that as you very well know. The Department is a large building housing hundreds of people, I couldn't possibly shove it up my ass."
I4gotmyMANTRA 1 year ago 3
Snazzy leg work xD
FraterAeternus93 2 years ago 7
Brilliant leg work that policeman.
WG00 2 years ago 70
@WG00
He graduated from the Ministry of Silly Walks, cum laude.
EmptyWalls100 1 year ago 4
Haha, hugh looks like a banana or a monkey in this scetch.
DutchMileyLover 2 years ago
To QOTSAgerbils:
I think the conversation is as follows:
L "You simply came prepared, didn't you."
F "I prefer to put it this way: I certainly came prepared, didn't I."
and I think the difference is in the adverbs
hopuiyin12 2 years ago
When Hugh grabs the bunch of bananas I always think of the Monty Python sketch "Self Defense Against Fruit," especially the part where Michael Palin asks, "What if he's got a bunch?" I've always wondered if it's a deliberate homage to that sketch.
LowSweetChariot 2 years ago 10
I think so - Hugh Laurie's policeman has to be a homage to the Ministry of Silly Walks too.
Rich606 2 years ago 11
@LowSweetChariot Maybe Stephen and Hugh are fans of Monty Python xD
neripinkstar 1 year ago
Laurie looks like Robert Reed in this
branddobbe 2 years ago 2
L "You certainly came prepared, didn't you."
F "I prefer to put it this way: I certainly came prepared, didn't I."
I suppose that there is a fundamental difference - in grammar! (;-D} Only Mr. Fry, Mr. Laurie and their 'Bit' could do something as insanely simple and yet as insanely witty!
QOTSAgerbils 2 years ago 29
@QOTSAgerbils could you provide a little bit of explanation? (for non-English people) thank you!
even if I understand half of the meaning it's still brilliantly hilarious! ;)
ladentina 1 year ago
@QOTSAgerbils could you provide a little bit of explanation? (for non-English people) thank you!
even if I understand half of the meaning it's still brilliantly hilarious! ;)
ladentina 1 year ago
"No, I can't do that as you very well know. The Department is a large building housing hundreds of people. I couldn't possibly shove it up my ass with a great deal of discomfort--"
suniseclipsed 2 years ago 7
Please, there's only one perfect woman for Hugh - Stephen.
PurushaDesa 2 years ago 11
LOL
so funny
I love Stephen, even if he is gay.
He's HOT!
and thats that!
;]
JennylovesMJ 2 years ago 4
>, even if he is gay.
@.@
gggrow 2 years ago 5
He's GAY?! :O I never knew!
darksnow07 2 years ago
why does everyone laugh at 'chichester'? i heard it in a monty python skit too...
onerandomperson 2 years ago
Because it's a small picturesque city in Sussex. A spy conversation involving a first class flight to, say, Istanbul or Moscow might make sense, a first class flight to Chichester is just laughable.
It's probably also helped by the fact that Chichester is one of those words that just sort of sounds funny, if you say it right...
Tommehful 2 years ago 9
It's kinda sad that Laurie's physical comedy got more laughs than his brilliant commentary, "it's mostly legwork, this job."
thegoodgeneral 2 years ago 5
"...starring down the barrel of a knife" lol
ucc360 2 years ago 8
Stroud - spy capital of the world.
SniffPeters 2 years ago 3
what is it about hugh laurie? why do ppl say they love him all the time? and are you all women?
KulaAShaker 2 years ago
cause he's brilliant... but I'm more of a Stephen Fry fan, even though he's gay...
and yes, we're all women..... at least i am:)
18violet 2 years ago 5
I'd say it's because of the recent House M.D. -fan rush, even all the 15-year old girls are yelling how "sexy" and "cute" Laurie is.
I myself prefer his comedian carieer, and my liking is more of a... respect than "OH GAWD HES LIKE SO GOOD LOOKING AND SEXY!!"
whitebeam 2 years ago 80
@whitebeam
Mine is more of a "He's talented and hilarious and I adore everything he and Fry ever did together. oh look, he's good-looking as well. So much the better."
I4gotmyMANTRA 1 year ago 9
@whitebeam
But he IS being a comedian in House. I mean yes, it's got its serious side as well, but he's definitely kept his snark. I wouldn't be such a fan of the show, and of Laurie, if it was a completely serious drama. It's just less of the slapstick/physical comedy of his youth and more mature and refined. Well, somewhat :)
rawtoast 1 year ago
@rawtoast I don't know if you realised, but that wasn't the point of my comment at all. Indeed, Laurie's acting, and being the way he is in House M.D. is probably the main, possibly the only reason for many people to even watch the show, so I can only agree with you on that.
But it's somehow sad how so many people don't even know he had a career before House.
whitebeam 1 year ago 4
@whitebeam I'm a 15 year old girl and I think he's sexy and cute xD but seriously, I have so much respect for him, I'm one of the fifteen year old girls who actually knew him from his work before House, and that aren't many girls =p
He inspires me and can make me laugh everyday, no matter what, and not many people can do that :)
So not every 15 year old girl has no respect for him. =p
SuperBleeder001 1 year ago
@whitebeam
Ala Noel Fielding / Russell Brand. Then again, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are comediac geniuses, those two are just a passing fad.
BelfastAtheist 1 year ago
@whitebeam certainly agreed
slmnhypntc 1 year ago
@whitebeam
Oh, I don't know. I'm American, and a girl, and I'm a teenager. I do think he was a little attractive when he was younger, but it's definitely secondary to him being a fantastic comedian.
I4gotmyMANTRA 1 year ago
@I4gotmyMANTRA Then what has my original comment up there have to do with you? Are you saying those things?
If not, then it has nothing to do with you, or your nationality, or age, or anything.
Good bye.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@whitebeam
I'm just saying you can think someone is attractive and still respect and like them, as an actor.
As far as my age/sex/nationality... I was saying that I do belong to the demographic that usually DOES post that kind of comments. :)
I4gotmyMANTRA 1 year ago
@I4gotmyMANTRA Yeah sure. That's still hardly the point.
And woopedoo good for you, zany, interesting and all that jazz. I hope you feel special.
Yep, that's about it, bye.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@whitebeam
And I assume you feel the same about yourself because your obnoxious on the internet, yeah? That makes you a real individual.
Sorry if it wasn't "the point", but this is the internet, and I'm free to share any opinion, idea or unrelated musing I see fit. Actually, thats how communication between humans usually works, if I'm not mistaken.
I4gotmyMANTRA 1 year ago
@whitebeam
people finds funny and good acting people, atractive
you loser..
your comentary shows how whore you are
bitch
I am a 22 med student and not a 15 year old girl. I have never commented if laurie is sexy etc. but you..
you show everybody how simple of thought you are
and if user from youtube use their hands with u its because youtube people doesent think..
alfajorcin 1 year ago
@alfajorcin So I'm a "loser whore bitch", but you get mad at people on the internet when you disagree with them.
Right. Great logic right there.
whitebeam 1 year ago
@whitebeam i find him rather gawky and adorable actually :)
RaaaytselM 1 year ago
@whitebeam he's both
DeanMalenko 1 year ago
It's the Americans that say it. And you know what they're like...
KardKaper 2 years ago 7
Pip pip cheerio Americans wot wot.
thegoodgeneral 2 years ago 3
something about this sketch reminds me of hugh's book, the gun seller
=)
mikelhk 2 years ago 6
yeah I think so as well! Great book by the way! :)
DraMaQween2000 2 years ago
Yes, you're right. But Lang is far more nerdy and like a tough Bertie Wooster, in my opinion. But the atmosphere and everything else in the sketch just drags my mind towards the Gun seller.
ImeldaLumos 2 years ago
Just brilliant because most of it is just like all of those American police/ secret agent shows.
drattigan91 2 years ago 2
0:18 comic!
supersammie89 2 years ago
"Files aint a lot of use when you're staring down the barrel of a knife."
Love it.
JusticiarVolchak 2 years ago 58
those are blackmoors, not fighting fish.
EgolandTed 2 years ago
Hereford, woohoo! No-one ever mentions Hereford in anything :(
maroonkobrakai 3 years ago
Except for documentary histories of the SAS
EnormousHuntBall 2 years ago
true :D
maroonkobrakai 2 years ago
I LOVE HUGH LAURIE SOOOOOO MUCH
and is that morwenna banks?
banoffeepiedreams 3 years ago
id love to see a continuance of this sketch S+H R AWESOME!
humanshapedplushie 3 years ago
there are others with this theme.
markrskinner 2 years ago
Man, Hugh dancing as a cop, priceless.
stevenhughrock 3 years ago 5
How do Hugh Laurie's legs DO THAT?!
ThingsWeSaidToday 3 years ago 7
There's always a french stick in the shopping bags.
Eruadhiel 3 years ago 7