Introducing vocabulary sketch - A Bit of Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie - BBC comedy

[staomruel]

I remember this being broadcast in the Netherlands when I was a kid and I loved it.

Thanks for the upload.

[MrBuch169169]

Standerrds of accountabiliteh.

[HulloKat]

Accountabilitehh

[HulloKat]

Stephen's cute little smile at 1:42 <3

[widezu69]

Thompson and Thompson?

[Thought1984Criminal]

@widezu69 I was just about to say they remind me of the Thompsons.

[Qw3rtypop]

@widezu69

Thomson and Thompson.

[danbo1984]

@vaudevilleUK, yep pretty close isn't it! Stephen Fry loves his rhotic "r"s!

[rycka1983]

Are they mocking linguists, who always try to mock others because they don't spell words right?

[aNdYmAtTeR]

I'm just happy I'm not a comedian because that would mean those two would be the competition ...

then the light in the tunnel is a train, for sure! XD

[counter546]

CAREFUL! LOL

[Joe88877788]

I literally didn't understand a word of that... Laughed my ass off, though XD

[kateDAbomb]

@Joe88877788 pfhahahha! thumbs up :D

[alksdjhfiuealhf]

Fry needs to get Laurie back on QI again and they need do the entire episode acting as either these guys or the Robert Robinsons from the smug hour sketch.

[vaudevilleUK]

That accent is almost Rochdale...



[aussiec1]

haha, i know a few people from haslingden and they sound exactly like that. love fry and laurie :)

[agilekhan]

wolverine!

[Bowden99]

CAREFUL!

[ThePhinbar]

Class pure class

[Metatality]

Sure felt like an hour!

[CaptMARNEY]

God how the hell does Hugh gets his legs so crazy?

[0000Bigfoot]

that sideburns make them look kinda like the wolfman :)

[pullanchor]

19 people have no standards of excellence.

[HomegirlOfJezu]

Fry and Laurie.

I love you. <3

[jeesh123]

why did these two stop working together? they where great!

[Theblargen]

pause at 0:45 for Laurie's strangest face ever

[gnackattack]

@Theblargen you clearly haven't seen much of laurie, it gets stranger

[SethHesio]

Was Rhodes Boyson a real person then? This is hilarious. "Our hour..." lol

[nitt3rz]

@SethHesio Yes he was a real person,

[Stalky24]

@SethHesio Sir Rhodes Boyson (born 11 May 1925 in Haslingden, Lancashire) is a British educator, author and politician and a former Conservative Member of Parliament for Brent North. He was knighted and made a member of the Privy Council in 1987.

[zacandsabby]

LOL

"working to improve the lot CAREFUL!"

"careful!"

[flobblepop1]

I wish this actually were an hour long... 

[demo4nurple]

@WiseOwlOfGallifrey From what I've read the BBC World Wide isn't funded by the TV Licence, so adverts are allowed.

[Nattlefrosten]

@WiseOwlOfGallifrey Yeah, it's called YouTube. Get AdBlock plugin, available for both Firefox and Chrome. Only thing more annoying than adds are people constantly complaining about something they could have fixed before they even had time to type out the complaint about the ads.

[spaceoreo]

@WiseOwlOfGallifrey You could always pay for Youtube. I know which I'd rather.

[Beefie11]

@WiseOwlOfGallifrey YouTube is providing you with free videos, it's up to them if they want to put ads at the front. If you're that against it just get an ad blocker, or better yet just don't come on YouTube. Those of us that aren't effected by the ads don't want to have to see whiny comments like yours.

[ToshiroDK]

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana!

[strawberrymilk11]

CAREFUL!

[NeoBossman]

I'd like the bloody obvious for five hundred, please Alex...

[MuahahahaFActory]

who could top Fry and Laurie? I ask you.

[socialdisorderous]

@MuahahahaFActory well...the pythons could:)but i love them just as much...

[Robi2009]

our hour :)

[yatter1]

outstanding (if you remember Rhodes Boyson)

[Yeannes]

I love it!!! ^^

[LihAniaih]

I don't believe I've ever seen British men make fun of their own accents. This is several different kinds of awesome.

[WasLilChrisnowbigish]

@LihAniaih

then u havent seen many british sketch shows. we take the mick out of all of our large varity of accents.

[LihAniaih]

@WasLilChrisnowbigish I think you're right. This is just my first introduction to it :3

[ELuhn]

A sketch of excellence.

[Blashada]

that sucked

[SatoTM3]

@Blashada justin bieber fan

[nrc06]

@Blashada you suck

[Asbjo94]

im from denmark and i must admit that british humor is excellent xD so hilarious

[vollsticks]

Rhodes Boyson was a Tory politician, wasn't he?

[DrMattDestruction]

AHHAHHAHA! when he says "careful" for the first time.

[Elvarks]

Cørful

[pattayalob]

I'd forgotten how talented and funny these two were in this program. Why no repeats on tv?

[thegibblet01]

Careful, careful, careful, careful, CAREFUL

its not working to improve A lot of small businesses

thats working to improve THE lot of small businesses

^^love it

[dummbatz48]

Mutton chops!!

[IcEye89]

They kinda look like the bastard child of Barf from spaceballs

[SatoTM3]

and this was owar owar

lol our hour

standards of accountability =P

[SSNK101]

why do they say careful, I didn't understand?

[ZolotayaKoshka]

@SSNK101 Because the Boysons made a mistake themselves with that sentence, saying 'a' where they should have said 'the', so they warn their viewers that it's a tricky one...

[SSNK101]

@ZolotayaKoshka Got it. Thanks. I shudda been careful...lol

[ConorNeuhaus1]

@SSNK101 because it was THE instead of A.

[DeusViator]

Are these double sketches meant to be taking the piss out of the two ronnys slightly?

Just the whole having the same name and the "it's buh bye from..." bit seem to be paraphrasing them rather well.

[mapo12]

Good Lord! Stephen breaks character at 1:39! First time I've ever seen that!

[RasMajnouni]

@mapo12 Fags Boggins. Its not the first time you've seen him break character, its the second.Be precise. I understand from Hughie that its by far from the first time that he's broken wind.

[containznutzrule]

I reckon the 16 people who disliked this were all Rhodes Boyson

[zackm318]

I think I peed a little at 1:12 when Hugh said "MARvelous"

[Craplatte]

I could spend hours listening to Stephen Fry saying "Standards of accountability" in that accent :-)

[Ivanhoe2]

If you enjoy British humour,,,then learn to spell it.

[RinEdition]

@Ivanhoe2 you miss the point, I think.

[kroozader]

I'll admit I did laugh with this, but not being british, I have no reference for most of it. Help anyone?

[kinggimped]

@kroozader I'm not sure it's supposed to reference to anything. Like so many Fry & Laurie sketches, it's supposed to be random. I'm British but was quite young when this show originally aired.

Unless somebody knows if this is parodying something in particular?

[Vetis213]

@kinggimped hi King..yeah they are. Rhodes Boyson

[Vetis213]

@kroozader its Rhodes Boyson, old member of parliament

[SM9T8]

@kroozader The three phrases were used ad nauseam by the then Conservative government and are still some of the favorites of MPs and managers alike.

I didn't know who Rhodes Boyson was but its funny for these contaminated, and now meaningless, phrases to be celebrated like works of art.

[negooog]

that was in some regard, excellent

[Bielocke]

British Humor>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>American Humor

[WhatIf2009]

@Bielocke No no no, that's not true...

[WhatIf2009]

@WhatIf2009 American humor doesn't even exist when you're talking about the British humor.

[RabidHobnob]

Oh god, I'm so confused!

[TheBloodSeeker005]

the most random talk i ever seen. and still funny, man i wish i grew up with the bbc

[tau000]

the day after i first saw this my lancastrian lecturer mentioned "standards of accountability"

I nearly pissed myself and wanted to reply "Curful!"

[rockchick80s]

Brilliant Piss-take and so accurate. I remember him saying "Centres of Excellence" on numerous occasions. LOL

[AnUnmitigatedBleat]

'Caerrful!'

[zeppelin812]

Just great show)))))

Russia.

[sundayliein4]

Try saying "Curly-wurly,purple burglar alarm" in that accent.

[bellsdepp]

I'm brazillian and my english isn't very good, but I'm completely obsessed with A bit of Fry and Laurie and the british humor, I watch at least a sketch every day since I found a video of them *--*

[yobhsiFehT]

@bellsdepp

No worries - I'm American, and all too often OUR English isn't very good either, but several of us over here are pretty obsessed with it too;):D

[speedoflightvanc]

@bellsdepp going by what you wrote, your english is pretty decent mate

[Nijokaz]

@bellsdepp Why do you feel the need to tell everyone? So what?

[jerryhello100]

This is our hour

[aderice]

It is a faux accent but seems to be parodying a Lancashire accent. Def not Scottish.

[PhilipPorter]

@aderice

It isn`t actually too much of a charicature of the real Rhodes Boyson`s accent which as you say is a pretty broad Lancashire.

[Theriomalstrom]

What sort of English accent is this?

[Odinn08]

@Theriomalstrom

I'm pretty sure it's Scottish.

[AngelLoverGirl24]

when hugh said 'careful' i almost peed.

too funny.

this was awesome.

[datum711]

This was a hilarious video ....... CAREFULLLLL!!

[sharkey4123]

I have no idea what just happened.

[MeMightyLeper]

Was that an Imperial hour, cause it certainly wasn't metric.

[ZAHNATHON1]

he repeats "standards of accountability" and then says "i do love that one...i should using that one in bed tonight"

[gossieuk]

careful

[vivapaix]

Standards of accountability! <3 it!!

[elTMorales]

I dont get it ...

[lepolemicist]

'Not getting it' is not a crime.

[nezapamatovatelne]

Our hour. :-)

[MondayAddams]

Gotta love them :)

[invaderzim7890]

Did you happen to look at Hugh's legs? How oddly they were crossed!

[FreekisGollum]

awesome sideburns

[MaccaAndOHarra]

I love Stephen's accent.

[Xegethra]

anyone else think the resemble really posh farmers?

haha but yeah good sketch

[HEV29]

You think Tony Blair got all his "ideas" from this sketch.............?

[hjpotta]

did anyone else notice that this was a relatively short hour?

[Xegethra]

hmm, i had a feeling it was hah

[GarnetBering93]

@hjpotta They could make three hours feel this short.

[joshie92]

@hjpotta An hour goes by quickly when you watch these guys.

[Broommaster2000]

@hjpotta You see, that's TV time. Everything goes faster on telly!

[mrbeanaswell]

@hjpotta no

[bilonay]

@hjpotta Time flies when you are having fun? =)

[MrGBH]

@hjpotta It's these new hours all the kids are using. Not proper hours in my opinion. In my day an hour lasted a whole week and you had to work 25 hours a day.

[earedien13350]

@MrGBH

That actually was an hour and twenty minutes. We the teens have added a decrease to the hourly time standards for 2011. I mean really, 1:45 for only an hour? it takes forever!

[cameleopard42]

@MrGBH And don't forget about waking up at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before you went to bed.

[ThommyTiernan]

@hjpotta - hahaha probably no XD

[noukinav018]

I wish I knew how can they keep a straight face. I can't contain laughter XD

[mickmoart]

They resemble werewolves! Ha ha! :P

"Careful, careful, CAREFUL!"

[GeminimagerRS]

haha british people.

[Gamerpigeon]

so so clever

[tekniklypyro]

House with mutton chops. win.

[TheWalkthroughMasta]

Careful! Careful!

[872463051]

@MaggieMadness ...don't you mean British humour?

[worotan]

Change it to a New Labour type, and it could mock the vacuous idiots in charge now, rather than Thatchers idiots in the 80s.

[lenimulder]

Fry grins in the end!

[delacote60]

For anyone unfamiliar with Sir Rhodes Boyson, try looking up the Ali G interview to hear his real accent.

[ReeceyBabes]

Me main man Sir Rhodes Boyson, indahouse.

You were caned? Respec' man.

It was something like that wasn't it?

Nice one =)

[artvandelay13]

careful!

[UltimateVenom]

i'm from lancashire, haha.

[laura2blue]

Oh , what a shame, you've got it wrong. Absolutely brilliant Brits :)

[taubheiten]

What a pity that I don't speak english as well as to understand what the sketch is about...

It seems to be very funny though....

[WritingJenny73070]

shiney

[facellina]

Fry pronounces "accountability" exactly like "dirty" in another F&L video on youtube. :)))

[alaswoeisme]

Which one?

[facellina]

Don't Be Dirty Quiz

[stu531]

Rhodes Boyson is an MP who appeared on TV a great deal in the late 80s. He has a strong Lancashire accent - which is what F&L are trying to mimic. The accent is 'rhotic', which is why you get the long 'r' sound, similar to Cornish or American.

[loveistoshare]

I love them

[otterrrr]

So, finding this video makes me wonder, why hasn't Hugh Laurie been a guest on Top Gear? Stephen Fry will be making his second appearance tomorrow, so it only makes sense for Laurie to get on there. I want to see his lap time.

[MartianManhunter1987]

perhaps because hugh laurie is in America

[otterrrr]

AFAIK, he still lives in the UK when he's not filming. Plus, they've had US stars/residents on Top Gear before, not many, but they've had them.

[djwing1]

Damn! You are so right! I bet he can beat the 1:20 bu he should use his motorcicle. :P Let me ask you a question, how many sesons of Top Gear do you have in England? Last chapter I saw here in Mexico was that one where they go to Africa to cross a country in cheap cars and there is VW Beatle waiting for the loser. At the end all of they made it. How old would you say is it? Regards from Mexico City!

[otterrrr]

I'm not in England, but Top Gear is currently two episodes into their 13th series. The African episode is from the 10th series and aired in 2007.

[thebeautywithin678]

Reminds me of Graham Chapman's pronunciations from Monty Python sketches xD

[keira317]

With this accent, I can't understand anything of what they're saying... I'm sure it's funny though lol

[djwing1]

Well my English sucks so I don´t know either but I love this show. Since I have contact with Americans all the time I have learn to identify their different accents but it´s really frustating not to enjoy something that seams to be so funny like this because my little contact with british english. I guess this is a good way to improve.

[Quiznozsubs44]

CAREFUL! CAREFUL! CAREFUL!

[Haannaahh92]

it sounds like they're tryying to sound like they come from somewhere like somerset.. but i can't quite place the exact accent :P ?

[navyking2000]

the sound like lancelot in monty python

[YelenaObraztsova]

both looking a bit like 'extras' for a 'planet of the apes' film

[daryl1q1]

*Standards*

[kittyprydekissme]

I thought the accents were American for a moment, but they clearly didn't sound right. I guess they could be Lancastrian; I'm not very familiar with that accent. Are the 'R's really that sharp there? I didn't know England had 'R's that prominant, except maybe around Somerset. (I think that's where I'm thinking of.)

[martybow1]

Yeah, somerset and Devon and Gloustershie and east anglia and maybe somewhere else have pretty prominent ARRRRs

!

[hmesser91]

Being from Lancaster I can tell you that isn't a Lancastrian accent. But to be honest I don't think it's meant to be under that much scrutiny!

[ladslad]

Shame on you not recognising a Lancashire accent - Rhodes Boyson is from Haslingden in East Lancashire - although we northern Lancastrians (I'm from Morecambe) speak with a much softer version of the Lancashire accent.

[schweitzer006325]

Lancaster is also a place in England. I think they were commenting on the English Lancaster rather than the American one. As for it being an hour (or otherwise), it wasn't really the point of the sketch; Fry and Laurie were aiming to poke fun at the people they were imitating.

[Maura44]

I was kidding about the hour thing...it was funny without it being an hour long.

[dark0fday]

Lancaster is in England too, northwest of manchester.

And it's a comedy - so you wouldn't exactly find it funny anymore if they kept doing the same thing for 60 minutes.

[watsername93]

Is Hugh wearing a fat suit of sorts?

Yeah I think they both are