A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Death Threat

[NotaFro]

Could someone please explain the 'Pontillo' reference? After a quick google search I found a Tory MP by the name of Michael Portillo who was active in the early 90s, but I can't figure out whether his name was used simply for the democracy comment or if the entire sketch is some sort of parody of something that actually happened...Maybe I'm just over-analysing...

[SlikHelvetius]

Youtube comments if ever there were any.

[dougpryce92]

thats 30 pence post&packaging down the drain isn't it! i couldn't stop laughing at that bit!

[blackwolf1200]

Sounds like it's from the same person who wrote to Coughlan.

[schutzenhaus]

To tear out lungs and replace with portable clothes (yes please)

[bizteck1]

Dear sir / madam !! lol

Michael portillo ! ha ha have heard of him in a long time !



[samirhym]

@bizteck1 please be a good guy greg and explain??? not getting the portillo reference

[bizteck1]

Dear sir / madam !! lol



[muffin8or]

Were they reading a Youtube comment?

[sousaphonist]

...it's almost as if someone got Shakespeare drunk, gave him a combination of crack and Valium, then asked him to write a sonnet...

[EmmyNeander]

Portable clothes... Oh, I love them.

[KumagoroNugget]

Stripping scrotum through eery-leery pastures of deep smell.

[ArianLock]

"But, my face is made up."

>xD

[smileychick99]

Haha Stephen at the end!!lmao!

[FraserScarlett]

the death threat was written like a troll writes youtube comments nowdays lol

[cianroberts]

That soundd like a youtube comment

[bendingunit113]

My face is made up

[jerryhello100]

Country, spelt wrong, lol!

[MrBradipo73]

for evil to flourish all that's required is for good men to spout cliches...

[000Yasmine000]

Sounds like something Google translated

[Kojak7snap]

@000Yasmine000 My thoughts exactly!

[EmmyNeander]

What a sweet man indeed. I adore the "m'colleague"!

[guinivereXbloodgood]

Sounds like a YouTuber...

[Digginjim]

Sounds like a spam email message

[armegeddis]

Who here knew right away it was from Stephen?

[sghay]

"for evil to flourish all that is required is for good men to spout cliches" LOL! i love these guys!

[DINGDONGDANIEL3]

Wow you guys didn't realize M. Pontillo

Monty Python? ehhhhhhhhhh?

[Lamashtar]

@DINGDONGDANIEL3 It DID sound suspect. Thanks for bringing it up!

[ArtfulDodger92]

8 people missed the like button

[prokentsful]

@ArtfulDodger92 Shut the fuck up, I'm sick of people who make comments like you!

[ArtfulDodger92]

@prokentsful woahhh wtf? someone's well got anger issues. Why don't you just go crawl up your own arse and die?

[prokentsful]

@ArtfulDodger92 I'm sick of clicking on every video and seeing: "46 people didn't like Halo", or some variation.

I am also in a bad mood right now..

[ArtfulDodger92]

@prokentsful Well clearly this isn't about Halo. I was just stating my opinion that I didn't get how anyone could not find this funny. Maybe you should wait till your bad mood has passed before you go insulting people?

[CyanideSovereign]

@ArtfulDodger92 I'm also in a bad mood. Can I also have a go please!!

[ArtfulDodger92]

@CyanideSovereign I'd rather you didn't to be honest

[CyanideSovereign]

@ArtfulDodger92 Trolls get all the fun... (sulk)

[rocksoliddude1]

lol he hated hugh's singing

[wipeout2098]

The threat sounds like something Chris Morris would say. :)

[sk8rdman]

ha, I knew it

[BelfastAtheist]

Did Hugh Laurie just read the average youtube comment?

[floodma2]

Love 'Dear Sir/Madame' and 'Ladies and in a broader sense gentlemen'!! Genius.

[davehauni]

@macburl2 thank you, I also tought so but wasn't sure

[davehauni]

what the hell says Fry at the end?

[SorteOrm]

Is it just me or is this clips terribly out of sync?

If thats the case i could try uploading another...

[BigCarreyKauffmanFan]

i thought that, maybe it`s just the clear audio

[youtubesneak]

@SorteOrm Yes, it is about a half second out. I also have had audio sync problems when re-encoding certain videos and had trouble finding the options that would work. Good luck.

[ShesFixingHerHair8]

@SorteOrm

a bit. :)

[RightHandJack]

@SorteOrm Just a tad out of sync, I didn't really notice until i read your comment just now..

[boopdeedeedoo]

@SorteOrm It´s not that bad, I think it´s pretty much ok :)

[eddievhfan1984]

@SorteOrm Yeah, it is. :P

[MissusHow]

@SorteOrm Yeah it's super out of sync

[didzease]

@SorteOrm yes, it's out of sync

[DeanMalenko]

@SorteOrm just like half a second or less.. not disturbingly out of sync

[basherofnoggins]

@SorteOrm not just you

[HomegirlOfJezu]

@SorteOrm Go for that! But THANK YOU FOR POSTING!

[scary00001]

@SorteOrm i've seen worse

[RealoveGSR]

"Well ladies, and, in a broader sense, gentlemen..."

My God I love that line.

[TheBaroqueAristocrat]

"My face is made up"

LOL

[guharup]

m pontillo=m portillo, the conservative politician?

[60sto80s2]

this m pontillo might be in pioo with mobile rocket launcher

m pontillo lol

[Watabird]

Stephen you evil schemer!

[misseyre47]

"m'colleague", heehee, I love these two!!

[makesmewonder007]

"but my face is made up" !! lol!

[8DX]

"Me colleague" -HAHAH perfect!

[araucaniad]

for evil to flourish all that is required is for good men to spout cliches.

[Clairski3]

I love this one, particularly the end :P

[Isanion]

half my email inbox reads like that letter.

[DeoMachina]

How did these two predict Youtube comments?

[PurushaDesa]

You bastard! I got 19 seconds into this clip, when that was gonna be my line!

[hazaraku]

For evil to flourish all that is required is for good men to spout cliche's.

Brilliant show.

[saytheremeg]

I almost didn't catch Hugh's remark that 'his face was made up'. Hilarious!

Man... I wish these two were m'colleagues.

[XshadowskaleX]

ROFL, the end was epic lol. :D

[tdlbr17]

this is just about the greatest thing i have seen hugh laurie do. and yes, my face is made up about this comment.

[CarsNsongS]

One word : HILARIOUS

[pazzmodium]

anyone else notice the amusing lisp Stephen puts on the words 'death threats' at 0:06 - 0:07

lol

[hhhhbk3942]

lol what was the song after this

[matgunter]

the song after is 'What I mind'. great one! i love them!

[mecrazy5]

omg, this is hilarius!

[InsaneFandom]

'but my face is made up'

XD

[schizo123]

i knew where this was going.. but it's still hilarious^^

[LittleBoiFen]

M'colleague.

I'll never get sick of that.

[vysehrad]

They make me laugh until it hurts!

[wblstudios]

Has Stephen Fry ever been on House?

[Yankeesgirlmaria]

no he has not

[wblstudios]

Damn... because that would be funny as hell.

[SpurvN]

Well, they've been in almost everything else together, so... not really.

[CreatingPulsars]

they are talking about getting him a guest spot which would be epic but they haven't gone anywhere with it that I know.

[ebag10]

guest spot on what? Do u mean house? because that would be AWESOME and brilliant

[CreatingPulsars]

yeah, Stephan fry mentioned it in an interview while doing Bones that he and some others were trying to get it together to happen.

[ApproximatelyJane]

This reminds me of a line from House: "Norwegian chocolate? Frankly, you buy that stuff, the terrorists win."

[stevenhughrock]

Well, i take the view that if you give in to these people... you've given in.

[Marshmellowed]

a qoute worthy of dearly departed Mr Doublyuh himself.

[etewati]

what it is huge, I really love your show your a great fella i get to chill with because you are really fun to watch....

etewati

[brcbrtn]

person4fun: How true! Usually, a bunch of crass jiberish.LOL

[FordHugheClees94]

briliant. Love when he says. " my face is made up"

[person4fun]

Lawl That sounds like some comments I've seen on YouTube. XD XD XD

[maroonkobrakai]

That's so true

[janemylow]

My thoughts exactly! Especially at the "spelled wrong" part

[athenanaveah]

my-coleuge that is so funny! there accents are soooo adorible !!! lol!

[snappykat19]

I love the line "my face is made-up".

[NcisTivaLover]

my face is made up...☺☻☺

[Twigs0wot]

I could see that coming and it still killed me. :) It's the delivery, Stephen is legendary.

[Laurie76K]

There's 30 pence postage and package down the bloody drain, isn't it?!

[LoneFerret]

yup...

LOL great clip

[SGGH12]

Or Portello

[Steedrider]

For those of you who understand German: check out "Herricht & Preil", they are a sort of comparable pair. Although they're not half as smoooooth and....yes, damn it, sexy as hugh. :P

[pppdc55]

herricht und preil -.-*

nur weil es auch zwei männer sind, sind sie noch lange nicht mit fry und laurie vergleichbar. ganz anderer humor, wenn du mich fragst. kann auch nur ein deutscher lustig finden, zu durchschaubar. aber das ist nur meine meinung. ich mag ja herricht und preil, aber die sind nicht in abofal's liga!

[Steedrider]

Ich hab doch gesagt, dass sie sich unterscheiden. Krieg dich wieder ein. -.-

[phemyda94]

that does sound like something Stephen would write... Hugh should have guessed

[silvastomp]

"MA COLLEUGE!"

[pyrophiliac]

i was thinking hahahahahaha duh

[lydz25]

ha ha

[sheridanb]

who exactly is Michael Portillo? I hear mention of him a lot in British shows from this period, well The Day Today anyway. I gather he's a politician, but was he especially disliked for some reason?

[DratVanity]

He was in the Conservative party...so yeah.

[jmmorris9913]

Was a conservative govt minister in this period, who was considered a likely leader and thus potential prime minister. It didn't come to pass. His screw up was admitting he had tried homosexuality when at university. It was probably calculated to make him look human, which ministers generally didn't in the 80s, but it didn't go down well in the UK with conservative voters/the conservative party. He also came across well on the media and I think he had a tv show for a while. Well known.

[FemaleWeaponX]

Thanks Fry... nice try! uuuuuh, thatuhrhymes. :-)

[simonjeste]

Wow, how prescient! "If we give into the [threats of the terrorists] then the [terrorists] have won -- and democracy can go take a shower!" :o

[SiriusLoveGirl]

That's thrity pence, postage, and packaging down the bloody drain!

[speedcrayzy]

dear sir/madam, you die heavily don't like the cween in this country. stripping skrotum from eerie leary pastures of ddeep smell!

don't succumb to these people!

[Klementyne]

"For evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to spout clichés."

Ah ha ha!

[BlackDog17]

I'm not sure whether Stephen Fry saying "m'colleague" 24893284758 times is funny or just plain annoying.

[prfctday]

I always found it very annoying from the start. Bit of a school boy word. Shame because pretty much everything else is pure gold! He probably thought it was cute and saying "my colleague" normally would be too straight but I think it would've worked with Stephens voice!

[BathandSomerset]

M'colleague is a play on the practice in the British courts where barristers refer to the judge as "m'lord" and each other as "m'learned friend", by tradition not My but m'. They just adapted to sketch comedy.

[Queen0606]

"Macollegue"

Love it <3

[HNCS2006]

sorry, where was it uploaded at ? the song

[Kalliopurania]

What a clever sketch!

Hugh is soo brave! *lol*