A Bit of Fry & Laurie - Beauty and Ideas

[FinalFirebrand]

When Hugh pretends to be bothered by Stephen being gay, it's hilarious.

[CaroThePharaoh]

LOL Hugh's interjections are the best part!

[ApostleTLC]

Hugh makes the best straight man to Stephen's antics. He always looks perfectly confused and slightly scared.

[Skeew1]

Stephen's rants are incredible.

[thenofxer]

Wow i'm just getting into laurie's "other" stuff. He has some good stuff

[animenagai]

lol This is Plato. I must be in trouble when this makes sense to me.

[macintosh311]

"Think beauty, but be beautiful. Say beauty, but say it beautifully. Beauty is duty and duty beauty."

lol CLASSIC

[LotLot94]

Duncan, Jeffrey, Philip, Tommy and Timothy are excellent listeners.

[muffin8or]

3:27

"Oh Christ, I've left the iron on!"

[dekekyo]

..this frazzle is the zazzle.!!!

[jerryhello100]

Vulva is a nice word.

[kokaiini]

Extatic!

[MisterSting]

One person is ugly inside.

[microscopic]

hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers

[thesunreport]

this show totally shaped our playground conversations at school....ooooh how to be even 1% as funny as these guys...listen to me lovelet, i think the youtube comments where people just repeat lines from the video replaces the playground in that sense, replaces and restores, replenishes and revives, a swirling conundrum of youthful fancy. So There.

I don't feel quite so well now.

xD

[Luarrangel]

Hugh is beautiful !!

[dekekyo]

.....stephen sports the tight anorak of authority whilst hugh slowly pops the brass buttons of certitude.

[sunside87]

@dekekyo I wish I knew what that meant! :)

[LordFalcar]

Hush, tish, vibble.

[frentiee]

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Both most adorable

[SomaliLioness]

WoW!!

[MaltoCort]

paRRRRRadigm

[SiriusPunk]

The point he raises about Hugh being beautiful, therefore having an aspect of beauty in him that can be recognised, meaning beauty must be a thing that exists somewhere, is actually a very valid one that was initially described by Plato as the concept of a Form via his cave analogy.

xx

[xiangyik]

@SiriusPunk hoooray! I felt so alone there thinking i was a hopeless nerd for a moment.

[SiriusPunk]

@xiangyik He's so clever he even makes intelligent philosophical remarks when he's joking, we can only look on in awe and hope to achive his level of greatness ;DD

xx

[CGwonder]

oh to be called 'lovelet' by Stephen Fry...

[shuiyuki]

@CGwonder it just makes you feel all special inside.

[wolflover449]

@CGwonder oh my do I agree with you that one!

[thibautadavy]

This makes perfect sense to me...should I be scared?! hahaha

[CGwonder]

@thibautadavy no, be very, very, VERY proud of yourself. :P

[beccadaisical]

HAHAHAHAHA! :D

[smallinson]

For me, one of the best sketches they ever did.

[UxforxUseless]

"..Whoops."

[phantomnanden]

ideeed :D

[phemyda94]

he sounds just like my professor only funnier

[TheMatthewTE]

lol another one where stephen keeps changing Hugh's name

[Othaur]

He's mentioning the various philosophical stances on what is beauty while arguing its' basis is in language and jumbling up everything while he does it. So it's not only funny in a purely silly way, with the various little word plays, but also in an intellectual sort.

[Watabird]

Correctly Correctington!

Extrinsic! EXTRINSIC!

Stephen has issues in this one. XD

[anetchi]

hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! oh my goodness this is glorious creativity and poetry at it's best. I am tickled

[eskinol1]

explain expand expound and exposit

[NewAgeEagles]

after hugh says "i think he said vulva" stephen look slike hes trying hard not to laugh

[oOZePirateOo]

"listen to me lovelet"

8)

[phemyda94]

the scary thing is I think Stephen knows exactly what he's talking about

[LizTiddington]

an even scarier thing is that so do I... If you listen hard enough there is a lot of sense in what he's saying, that's if you can hear him over your own laughter of course!

[Brogel]

In his other rant about language he is basically reciting Ferdinand de Saussure, which is the first thing you see in college as a linguistics major.

[vymmas]

Just brilliant.

[saytheremeg]

"EX-trinsic, EX-trinsic." Yay, Stephen! I love this character. He seems to have gotten even crazier since his first appearance in Season One, if that's possible.

I also love that he calls Hugh "Duncan", "Geoffrey", "Philip", "Tommy", and "Timothy"... not to mention "lovelet".

[Erutuluco]

He's talking about Plato's theory of Forms right? as well as a whole lot of other stuf

[PhillyDickinson]

Yup, pretty much.

[LACIPPO]

whooops

[gr8sarcasmo]

This is one of my favourite sketches from season 2. Every time I watch this it starts to make more sense to me.

LOL at "...whoops"

[telofy]

... but "limn" is great, too.

[iownagreyhound]

"...i think he just said vulva"

love these two :) stephen fry is an utter genius when it comes to language

[queenastilon]

I know! A perfect line, delivered perfectly by overwhelmed Hugh, completely out of his depth: "I think he said vulva!"

Oddly, Stephen Fry will pick people up on grammar and using words "incorrectly" but on other days will completely embrace any and all changes to language, such as things texted to him from his young nephews.

[08jansmc]

"i find you beautiful, but you are not beauty"

"...whoops" - ROFLMAO!!!

[m0eb1us00]

This is how to be intelligent and funny at the same time.

[supersammie89]

Duncan.. Jeffery... Timothy... there's more lol

[anetchi]

AMAZING!! isn't it? man, Stephen is one of the funniest talents ever!

[TheAverageFox]

It really does all make sense. I love Fry and Laurie.

[Twigs0wot]

"Oh Christ, I think I've left the iron on."

[artvandelay13]

"i'm going to hold a thought now..."

lol you can see hugh trying to keep from laughing near the end... no idea how he managed to!!

[elizzievb]

"...EX-trinsically....EX-trins­ically...."

[pinkheart666]

Stephen toatally got his haair done.. lol

[scandowegianpean]

Stephen is so brilliant!

[StephenDLong]

"Noel, as you so rightly, Harrison."

I like this.

[NicholasTurnbull]

I actually showed this to a group of students for introductory Philosophy of Science and Consciousness, as an example of Hegelian dialectic taken to ridiculous proportions. Go me. :-)

[queenastilon]

Go you, indeed, Nicholas. The 'twin' sketch of theirs to this is Tricky Language... the same two characters, more or less.

You could have them try to keep track of how many different names Stephen Fry calls Hugh Laurie during this sketch.

Since I am labouring without the benefit of any formal education in the philosophy you name, I have no idea at all what Hegelian dialectic is.

I do, however, find that the more times I listen to this, the more sense it makes.

[videowifie]

@NicholasTurnbull thumbs up. I wrote an undergraduate essay on this and then gave up

[sunside87]

@NicholasTurnbull Can I please join your class!!!?

[Nenyatha]

@NicholasTurnbull Go you indeed!

[D4K44R1]

@NicholasTurnbull

Great reaching, mate.

[lapislazuli7]

Wohoo, Karl Kraus being mentioned on Fry & Laurie.

Perfect! I love this world.

[Lakrits16]

Great quotes in this one! :)

'Listen to me, listen to me lovelet.'

'I find you beautiful, but you are not beauty.'

'Whoops.'

'I think he said vulva...'

'So there. Goodnight, I don't feel quite so well now.'

[mmasny]

@Lakrits16 your forgot correctly correctington

[ranj22288]

"Whoops!!!" :D :D

[rugbygamer]

I'd love to be able to learn to do that or just learn this sketch ..... so funny

[phemyda94]

I love that he calls Hugh different names throughout the sketch.

[phemyda94]

Duncan, Jeffery, Phillip, Tommy, Timothy...

not to mention "lovlet"

[ImeldaLumos]

I understand about 50% of the words that was in this sketch.... but I found it very hilarious in some way...

[queenastilon]

I think he said 'vulva' - one of my all time favourite Hugh Laurie asides. This complements another piece they did about the use of language.

Thanks so much for putting this up - I've been looking for it for ages.

[Elpinix]

Me too!! 'I think he said vulva...' AHAHA

LOVE HUGH AND STEPHEN!