A Bit of Fry and Laurie - "the Modern Britain"

[londonthistle]

This is more relevant than ever.

[londonthistle]

@londonthistle apart from the cherry

[CraigMetalHead]

2 years ago this was fiction, now Cameron is selling the freaking trees and choking the life out of the NHS.

[ArthurFWTaylor]

@CraigMetalHead Two years ago? It was true when they did the sketch; I remember, I was there at the time.

[alinemerrow]

"IT'S RUUUINED! NOTHING THEEEERE!"

Gosh, I do love Stephen. Please do shut up about "oh no, you don't get what he meant". Get it your own way and enjoy the show.

[Eruadhiel]

This is actually kind of sad and moving.

[negooog]

I live in the modern world, hence this comment was posted post 2010. Life is better in this age and we have time to criticize the present and compare it to the past as if humanity is in decline. good times we live in, but i imagine the future will not be only better but more criticized

[TacticusPrime]

Stephen isn't entirely joking. It's a send up of the disgusting Thatcherite era, when Britain was infected by the same "the market is God" cancer that Reagan brought to America.

[igswonderworld]

Tupppyyyyyy!!!!! :))

[karearea9]

Thanks for posting.

The thing I find most disturbing is, no matter how many times I watch it, I'm always distracted by the mute. Ah well.

Fry adn laurie. Genius!

[DragonSporks]

Britain is ruined! Hugh Laurie has gone to America!

[fluffycatears]

I adore listening to Stephen Fry!

[afthefragile]

Fry is such a genius!!!!

I can only image where he comes up with all of his amazing monologues!

[fritspas]

It's Tuppy :P

[mastercritic]

Most of the comments are probably honest, because most of YouTube is morons. The cherry of hope jab in the description was meant to ridicule the people who honestly say things like what Stephen Fry says in this video. Sorry if nobody's posted to explain that yet.

[Noakesy1412]

I stand corrected

[Noakesy1412]

The whole point of this sketch is to send up and expose as moderately pathetic and ridiculous the majority of the sentiments expressed in these comments.

[mastercritic]

yeah jokes are always funny when some tweed-coated bespectacled nerd condescends to explain them to us benighted illiterate plebes

[Noakesy1412]

holy fuck, how did you do that?? those are totally my characteristics!!

but honestly, the comments below are so self-indulgently world-weary that it's as if they haven't watched the thing. to judge from your own description of the clip, you seem to think it's meant as some sort of eulogy. it's clearly not. so unless everyone is being ironic, i don't quite understand most of the comments.

on the other hand, thanks for posting

[TheEmiljoergensen]

i love your language :D you remind me of them

[lucke001]

I love hugh inpression on his face when stephen said to him: oh please mister music wil you play for the very last time

[bighandlittleman]

i do believe fry and laurie are actually making fun of "dear old ruined britain" sentiment.

i know, subtle, eh!

[Ruthun92]

hehe an emo cocktail, with extra tears

[damnedsilence]

haha i dont think anybody could have summed up modern britain any better than it has been just now!

[smallinson]

soupy motherfucking twist

[egregiousdave]

They're commenting on Britain under the Conservatives but it could equally apply to today. So much marketing bullshit and consumerism.

[archeronfoot]

You are utterly utterly right the politics makes no difference. The same old dilution of old england

[greenlandship]

Yes, absolutely nothing to hope from either political party (at least then they were at the *end* of a long period of Tory rule, now we appear to be heading for another beginning.) I have indeed, in every sense, lost my cherry.

[thechaos44]

Still, you have to laugh, eh?

[lamnaa]

Or else you cry. And then what are you?

[thechaos44]

Drunk.

[Pineapple5064]

Or else not drunk enough.

[PICKLETREE]

AHH! It's Tuppy from Jeeves and Wooster!

[mastercritic]

holy crap you're right I hadn't noticed

[manwithoutabody]

I had! There is no escape from Hildebrandt!

[HotlipsPierce]

I love the adoration with which Hugh looks at Stephen. Makes my heart sing.