inspired surely, but they do it in a way that is their own. Most english sketchshows are inspired by John Cleese and Monthy Python, so you're allowed to have your view but i respectfully disagree
inspired surely, but they do it in a way that is their own. Most english sketchshows are inspired by John Cleese and Monthy Python, so you're allowed to have your view but i respectfully disagree
The character Fry plays here reminds me of one of John Cleese's many authoritarian roles, especially the instructor in the "How to Defend Yourself Against Fresh Fruit" sketch.
And so much of Fry and Laurie's humor in this show was about the outrageous gap between rich and poor that Thatcher's policies brought about. Would have been just as relevant in Reagan's US.
one of my all time favorites! i love the look on hugh laurie's face when stephen thinks he's been caught on the show and then "no..but i might have been" hilarious.
WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT DEMOCRACY!?! WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT DEMOCRACY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!?! Democracy is freedom of thought, and belief, and speach. That's what's so good about it you degraded heap of smelliness! Get out of my way before I set fire to you! Get yourself a job, clean yourself up. It's demeaning to have harmonica played upon by a heap of yitter!
Its a piece of classic eighties this sketch! I love it! The comments here are right..it does sound like cleese and Palin but then thats no surprise. The influence of python was vast on the comic scene in those days! Still is now really...
'Turn the pictures off and it's uncanny how it sounds like Cleese and Palin. Right down to the way Stephen Fry screeches Laurie's last words back at him (cf. "<i>PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!</i>") and the way it begins a lot like the Merchant Banker sketch.'
Turn the pictures off and it's uncanny how it sounds like Cleese and Palin. Right down to the way Stephen Fry screeches Laurie's last words back at him (cf. "<i>PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!</i>") and the way it begins a lot like the Merchant Banker sketch.
The voices ARE Monty Python. Completely. Based purely on the sounds of the voices, this is the Dead Parrot sketch.
vpgreg 6 months ago
being kind,being kind,if they were just being kind they would just put a bullit through your head,would'nt they,gooooooood
TreborRebore 8 months ago
Stephen = John Cleese
Hugh = Michael Palin
malproxy 11 months ago 5
man these 2 REALLY need to get back together and do atleast 1 more series! can you imagine the viewers! it would be in the trillions! thanx 4 upload!
tobie1 1 year ago
AHahahahahahahahah
This is SO hilarious!!!!
snowhiterules 1 year ago
Why not call it ' On The Streets with Bibby' ?
MenCap7 2 years ago 5
"Get out of my way before I set fire to you" PMSL!
LondonSkiiies 2 years ago 6
I don't understand how stephen still has his voice in the end of the scene.
DutchMileyLover 2 years ago 6
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agreed. so like john cleese it's embarrassing.
jmezm7777 2 years ago
inspired surely, but they do it in a way that is their own. Most english sketchshows are inspired by John Cleese and Monthy Python, so you're allowed to have your view but i respectfully disagree
TheEmiljoergensen 1 year ago 3
IF THEY WERE JUST BEING KIND THEY'D PUT A BULLET THROUGH YOUR HEAD!!!!! indeed...
darkmagician998 2 years ago 13
All I can say is....
Dead Parrot Sketch
ccgsales 2 years ago
in a good way?
BillyBobsEel 2 years ago
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inspired surely, but they do it in a way that is their own. Most english sketchshows are inspired by John Cleese and Monthy Python, so you're allowed to have your view but i respectfully disagree
TheEmiljoergensen 1 year ago
WHAT`S SO GOOD ABOUT DEMOCRACY?!? hahhaaaha ,,like it? how could I like it? it´s the most pathetic noice i´ve ever heard" XD
5*****
viennapianoplayer94 2 years ago 10
The character Fry plays here reminds me of one of John Cleese's many authoritarian roles, especially the instructor in the "How to Defend Yourself Against Fresh Fruit" sketch.
And so much of Fry and Laurie's humor in this show was about the outrageous gap between rich and poor that Thatcher's policies brought about. Would have been just as relevant in Reagan's US.
colibri1 2 years ago 12
WHAT'S so GOOD about DEMOCRACY???!??!?!!!??
lol i can see how he'd lose his voice after that...
artvandelay13 2 years ago 7
ARE YOU MAD!?
33whitey 2 years ago 2
Wow his voice goes almost as high as mine does when i'm annoyed.
twinsruleok 2 years ago 2
Is there anyone better at screaming than Fry ???
I don't think so ...
UnderJollyRoger 2 years ago 8
John Cleese?
BillyBobsEel 2 years ago
It's so funny how he's screaming all the time.
loserfreak92 3 years ago 3
Get out of my way before I set fire to you! LOL
NewYorkBound 3 years ago 8
this was fanfuckingtastic!
Haduct 3 years ago
"get out of my way before i set fire to you!!" hahahahahahahaha!! why is he being so mean to the poor beggar...i'm actually a little sad now.
zippoyay 3 years ago
XD ...but i know what you mean. the poor poor man. *wants to hug hugh laurie*
susieqt08 2 years ago 6
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xNikkaX3 3 years ago
What are you doing?!!!!!!!
XD
Bloody Hulk!!!!Bloody Hulk?!!!
XD ☺☻☺ Stephen is really histeric!!!
Really Funny!!☺☻☺
NcisTivaLover 3 years ago
The Beggar
The reference to "Bibby Peevis" may be a joke at the expense of Libby Purvis, BBC presenter
"Rotting hulk! rotting hulk!"
willwilliamsdh 3 years ago
"It's demeaning to have the harmonica played upon by a heap of yitter!"
zoltankissjnr 3 years ago
call it the tramp and the capitalist
megacoolboy1 3 years ago
A Bit of Fry and Laurie...I can't think of a title for it.. How about 'Conservative candidate for Mayor of London'
knackeroo 3 years ago
I can imagine Boris Johnson doing this actually...
tfcdogbert 3 years ago 6
'Get out of my way before I set fire to you!'
Laurie76K 3 years ago 30
Stephen does hysteric well.
rabassa1 4 years ago 29
Hmmm...Fry's character perhaps a little too much like Basil Fawlty, but I still love these two on the whole.
cottonwhiskersuk 4 years ago 3
oo yar tis but its still funny
henrycrumm 3 years ago 3
i did hear a bit of Cleese in Fry that time.
hollywoodwerewolf 3 years ago 8
I laughed so hard I woke my roommate up. Does not get old.
Halispie 4 years ago 11
i adore this sketch.
marshall3kayx 4 years ago 7
great sketch - and perfectly true about the rich depending on the poor. death to the bourgeois pig-dogs!
anarchodolly 4 years ago 7
To the streets! ;)
Mysticum81 4 years ago 3
I think this sketch is more targeted at the Daily Mail than anything else... :-)
tabletschool 3 years ago
''heap of smellyness'' haha they are geniuses!
madeinengland90 4 years ago 3
one of my all time favorites! i love the look on hugh laurie's face when stephen thinks he's been caught on the show and then "no..but i might have been" hilarious.
TDS10101 4 years ago 4
'If they were just being kind theyd put a bullet through your head, wouldn't they!'
'You're very insulting, you know.
YES I KNOW!'
houserox13 4 years ago 11
'if they were just being kind theyd put a bullet thru ur head!'
rchbch4nvr 4 years ago
Hugh Laurie is a master of accents! What a wonderful pair they are.
24gwen24 4 years ago 13
omg I just realized that you're right...so much like that Parrot sketch
adi87tya 4 years ago
get out of my way before i set fire to you...one of stephen fry's finest moments
pabloeskabar 4 years ago 5
Stephen Fry reminds me sooo much of some of John Cleese's sketches in this piece !
babette62 4 years ago 3
WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT DEMOCRACY!?! WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT DEMOCRACY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!?! Democracy is freedom of thought, and belief, and speach. That's what's so good about it you degraded heap of smelliness! Get out of my way before I set fire to you! Get yourself a job, clean yourself up. It's demeaning to have harmonica played upon by a heap of yitter!
TheDoggfather86 4 years ago 4
I'm very insulting indeeed! Especially to poor smelly people who can't play the harmonica properly!
TheDoggfather86 4 years ago
"..the mouth organ.."
shinyhappyhairhead 4 years ago
They give you money??? People give you money??? For playing the mouth organ like that?!? They actually give you money??? They pay you?
Not like it? How could I like it? It's the most pathetic noise I've ever HEAAARD! And people give you money for it!?!
TheDoggfather86 4 years ago 7
It's not the same planet at all, how DAAARE you suggest otherwise!?!
TheDoggfather86 4 years ago 4
Hugh Laurie is adorable here. And Stephen Fry sure can dish it out. xD
kittenwigirl 4 years ago 5
Oh to be insulted by Stephen Fry...Yes.
4calendarcafe 4 years ago 3
'Ladies and Gentlemen!
BebopTrotter 5 years ago 2
i've never heard of "a bit of fry and laurie" but by the gods of olympus that is hilarious and brilliant
dekoy269 5 years ago
Are you a communist? Do you want me to call a police man?
LOL!!!
House706 5 years ago 5
are you really bibby peters? no but i might have been! ouch!! that hurts! :D
VandaTheVampire 5 years ago 2
aaaaaaaah ive been looking for this for ages
emaorjsa 5 years ago
Its a piece of classic eighties this sketch! I love it! The comments here are right..it does sound like cleese and Palin but then thats no surprise. The influence of python was vast on the comic scene in those days! Still is now really...
BelatedCommiseration 5 years ago 2
I LOVE STEPHEN FRY'S VOICE
Muttzrock 5 years ago 3
funny! sounds like dead parrot scetch!!
communistrabbit 5 years ago
Ahhhhh...hilarious! "Now get out of my way before I set fire to you!" Statospheric!! And the double twist at the end is a marvel! ^_^
ultraseb 5 years ago 2
if i saw him playin the harmonica i would giv him money... hehe... genius
HouseFan13 5 years ago
"If they were being kind they'd put a bullet through your head!" Nominee for Award for most extreme insult ever! Brilliant.
SethHesio 5 years ago 2
'Turn the pictures off and it's uncanny how it sounds like Cleese and Palin. Right down to the way Stephen Fry screeches Laurie's last words back at him (cf. "<i>PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!</i>") and the way it begins a lot like the Merchant Banker sketch.'
Yeah, it does sound like Cleese and Palin.
yannickjoker 5 years ago
Cleese and Jones in the Merchant banker sketch.
BebopTrotter 5 years ago
"...you degraded heap of smelliness. Get out of my way before I set fire to you." HAHAHA!
thedakkster 5 years ago 19
that's gonna be my new comeback to everything lol
ayesham819 5 years ago
hahaha sweet
CandyShakes 5 years ago
Squalid poor person playing a harmonia badly being screamed by a lunatic rich man. - that would be a good title
non2002 5 years ago
HAVE YOU GONE MAAAAAD? I love this so much. Stephen Fry's increasingly loud voice cracks me up!
KatiePirkle 5 years ago 6
lol i know what you mean, he sounds like a screeching bird
ayesham819 5 years ago
omg rofl!!!
CandyShakes 5 years ago
Far too long.
fourpm 5 years ago
Just being kind!?! Fantastic.
Rosebud04 5 years ago
Stephen Fry acts like my old english teacher in this video! lol :) And I absolutely adore HUGH! Even as poor folk.
petlover4u 5 years ago
Turn the pictures off and it's uncanny how it sounds like Cleese and Palin. Right down to the way Stephen Fry screeches Laurie's last words back at him (cf. "<i>PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!</i>") and the way it begins a lot like the Merchant Banker sketch.
LeboviciAB84 5 years ago
haha thats great
coldplayisawesome 5 years ago