When this was on we just thought they were taking the piss out of a tiny minority of quite ridiculous overblown scumbags.Now we know these characters pretty much describe a fair chunk of the population. I wonder if they knew what lay around the corner for Britain? I think if they did they would have both fucked off abroad and a lot sooner.
'Don't har-assle me peter!' I saw this sketch ages ago when I was knee high to a bag of crisps and I still use that word if I find my self in a stressful situation involving someone else. I don't often verbalise it but I do mentally partake of a side of damn double damn and an extra plate of damn for afters. Gotta love Fry and Laurie. Comic gold!
The great thing about Fry and Laurie is that they can take ordinary words and do extraordinary things with them. No one else has ever made me laugh as much at the word "damn" as these two men.
well wherever the blue rinsed hell she is! Watch Stephen Fry trying not to laugh when hugh Laurie confronts him up close, little things like that just make it even more endearing. Completely love whatever these two do.
I'd love to see them make a real show out of this! But i fear that would take out the hilarious randomness that makes these sketches so frigging good... who cares, i'd watch it anyway :-)
Does anyone actually remember the type of show they were satirising? Those incredibly serious dramas revolving around small businesses where menial jobs were treated like life and death situations.
@londontrada Yes, The Brothers, Howards Way and all those 70s and 80s Sunday evening shows produced by Gerard Glaister, father of Gabrielle who worked with F & L in Blackadder.
I don't think John and Peter would have worked as a series, but I do wish that Fry and Laurie had made a few more sketches as these two. The gag ratio in all of them is astonishingly high.
felt physically sick when hugh was on the actors studio & failed actor James Lipton didn't even mention Fry and Laurie, Damn Yanks wouldn't know comedy if it farted in their face DAMNNNNNNN!!!!!
Any idea what kind of accents they're trying for here? Sometimes, I thought it was American (the attitude and phrasing were certainly that stupid "go for it"-style American business talk). Other times, mildly Australian. But it was probably some sort of British that I'm not familiar with.
Er, they're not doing american accents... They're doing those kind of tough businessman mid-atlantic 80's accents you'd hear in programmes like Howards Way . They're doing it very well too! Jeremy Clarkson is a modern purveyor of said style...
DAMN, DOUBLE DAMN WITH AN EXTRA PINT OF DAMN FOR THE WEEKEND! :~)
I remember watching A Bit of Fry and Laurie when it was first out, when I was 11 or so. Loved it then and I love it now! Hugh and Stephen were my first comedy loves! Still 2 of the best in the business after all these years.
oh my god, how can they not laugh at each other!? Id be shitting my pants with laughter in that scene. But, I guess thats what seperates the amatuers from the big kahunas. They are masters of their art!
..is that a beaker?
catnipemo 1 month ago
Is there a difference?
MegaSengi 1 month ago
Damn it four times round the car park and back in for another damn it!
andytom2495 1 month ago 2
3:09 :D
TimMer1981 2 months ago
You're just gonna lay down and walk away?!
JankeyL 3 months ago 2
Im not exactly sure what the hell is going on here..... but dam is funny
mynameisnotneil 3 months ago
DAAAMMMNNN!!!!
Licoricesnails 3 months ago
3:30 you can see the microphone on the picture frame above Stephen's head :p
SnakeJake23 4 months ago
i love how Stephen says peter :D
SnakeJake23 4 months ago 2
9 people are acting like DAAAMN AMATEURS.
viperchris34 4 months ago
HUGH LAURIE STEALS THIS SKETCH
lindseywashere1010 4 months ago
4:16
GrimJim8000 4 months ago
4:27
DavidGaluska 5 months ago
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DavidGaluska 5 months ago
failed americans !
unrealturbos 5 months ago
DAMMIT PETER!
RabidWolverine32 5 months ago
9 people should just lie down and walk away.
mygiftismysong3 6 months ago 7
"Well dammit every which way but one Peter!"
gspsid 6 months ago 2
Same game, John. Different RUUUEELZ
MrBuch169169 6 months ago
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MrBuch169169 6 months ago
"What is this, some kind of game?'
drotis 6 months ago
its funny cause this was filmed in uttoxeter where i live and its quite busy;)
thepickster123 6 months ago
1:54 Where's his head going!? lolol
Reclaimer1986 6 months ago 3
Hugh Laurie at 1:55 Excellent!!! :D
dodger555 7 months ago
@dodger555 XD He just about beaned his own head on the table with that remarkable gesture!
CaptMARNEY 7 months ago 3
damn damn double damn and another helping of damn, daaaaaaamn !
BOGGLEO 7 months ago
@JohnMYX You're mistaken - nobody uses the word "ass" in this video (I believe you are referring to the use of the word "arse")
TheBorrovan 7 months ago 2
No one says the word 'ass' better than the British.
JohnMYX 8 months ago
@JohnMYX It's because we say "arse" :)
kinggimped 6 months ago
Maybe it's time I moved on and just blubblubbbbbbppp.
10 bucks says that scotch is apple juice. :D
pinkriffic 8 months ago 8
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maybe its time i move on and just blubblubblubblub
gamz4tlol 8 months ago
When this was on we just thought they were taking the piss out of a tiny minority of quite ridiculous overblown scumbags.Now we know these characters pretty much describe a fair chunk of the population. I wonder if they knew what lay around the corner for Britain? I think if they did they would have both fucked off abroad and a lot sooner.
NormanArches 8 months ago
You're just going to lie down and, and, walk away?!
vertigo1380 8 months ago 7
i want to lick stephen xD
PapaCorms 8 months ago 3
3:09
Carrzy1 8 months ago
3:56
SteVeThe3rd 8 months ago
Isnt this eerily similar to that priest one?
Blasted2Oblivion 9 months ago
@Blasted2Oblivion It's the same characters, but the priest one is later in their career after their health club gets taken over by Marjory
Calculost 9 months ago
That's a lot of whiskey.
IoEstasCedonta 9 months ago
9 people are acting like DAAAMN AMATEURRRRRS!
MrBuch169169 9 months ago 8
A Sitcom with John and Peter is a great excuse for Stephen and Hugh to do something together again
lhawes92 9 months ago 2
DAMN, double DAMN, and an extra pint of DAMN for the weekend!!
Watabou89 10 months ago
SAME GAME JOHN....different RRUURRLSZ
KILLERSTROP 11 months ago 5
Tony and Control - Peter and John
33dgtp 1 year ago
'Don't har-assle me peter!' I saw this sketch ages ago when I was knee high to a bag of crisps and I still use that word if I find my self in a stressful situation involving someone else. I don't often verbalise it but I do mentally partake of a side of damn double damn and an extra plate of damn for afters. Gotta love Fry and Laurie. Comic gold!
BelatedCommiseration 1 year ago 6
9 people that Marjorie has gotten to, DAMN her!
ringafiar 1 year ago 19
Fry desperately holds onto his composure 2:35-2:43 when Hugh's shouting in his face!
koratvinnie 1 year ago 6
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koratvinnie 1 year ago
The great thing about Fry and Laurie is that they can take ordinary words and do extraordinary things with them. No one else has ever made me laugh as much at the word "damn" as these two men.
joshaf26 1 year ago 5
I could never 'lie down and walk away' from these great men!
YesDahling 1 year ago 3
My fave sketch by these two I think, couldn't stop laughing all the way through! Especially the bit about the car park lol
MissTwiggy28 1 year ago 2
@pokerjack4356 I bet I know who one of those dislikes was: Marjorie!
SuperBobster10 1 year ago 3
3:08 -- Best line in the whole sketch... but the whole thing is funny!!
koradan 1 year ago
You can see the boom mic in the reflection of the picture frame's glass at 3:33.
IanEckie 1 year ago
"Don't harrassle me." That's an awesome word. xD
2:44
lotsabots 1 year ago 7
well wherever the blue rinsed hell she is! Watch Stephen Fry trying not to laugh when hugh Laurie confronts him up close, little things like that just make it even more endearing. Completely love whatever these two do.
zanado666 1 year ago 5
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMNNNN!!!!
EastBank85 1 year ago
Don't harassle me!
LinkK2B 1 year ago 7
FOUR YEARS HA..GA..BA..DA..BA
Spruxy 1 year ago
these guys are funny!
AnthonyUseryJr 1 year ago
Don't harassle me!
shinynewjb 1 year ago 4
"We pulled it down when we built the car park."
Well thanks, I spat yoghurt all over my homework.
Idnarmadur 1 year ago 32
@Idnarmadur That's what they call it nowadays huh? Yoghurt? ;)
SicSeb 1 year ago
one word... damn
sabrinamatis 1 year ago
What accent are they doing in this sketch? They've done so many it's hard to keep track!
Drroxxette 1 year ago
@Drroxxette American, I think
kklji 1 year ago
@kklji i dont think american because... i dosnt sound that much like it
sabrinamatis 1 year ago
@sabrinamatis i think they are by the loudness.
hovis1962 1 year ago
@hovis1962 lol true......
sabrinamatis 1 year ago
@Drroxxette It's either a really bad American accent, or just their normal voices BUT REALLY LOUDLY WITH INTERESTING CHOICE OF EMPHASIS.
Spazzbert 1 year ago 4
@Spazzbert typical americans.
hovis1962 1 year ago
"Are you just going lie down and walk away"
Oh Christ that is so fucking funny DAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNN!!
ma049 1 year ago 5
"As a wife, or as a business partner?"
"Is there a difference?"
"I hope so Jhon..."
tehredmage 1 year ago 4
i wish they would come back for another series, would be extremely popular considering the lack of current comedy that is based around sketches
dudegoode 1 year ago 3
Peeeeederrr!!!
podfunk 1 year ago 2
"Tell me what you see."
"A car park."
"Well that's funny, John, because the last time you looked out of that window you saw an idea. Do you remember?"
"Yes, I thought that would be a good place to put a car park."
boiledelephant 1 year ago 8
Same game, Different rules.
jackbentley708 1 year ago
Has anyone else noticed how much whiskey they're drinking? DAMN!
AkaGenya1 1 year ago 2
no more than a bad joke and not even a very good one?
rocksoliddude1 1 year ago 8
Hugh sounds just like Jeremy Irons in Die Hard: With A Vengeance when he says John.
pippynip 1 year ago 3
@pippynip very true.
Jpbremner 1 year ago
"harassle" to hassle AND harass at the same time! loving it. using it.
juliench1 1 year ago 16
facebook honour this in the facebook group derwententerprises healthclub with peter and john
lordoakwell 1 year ago
3:08 to 3:11
maybe it's time I moved on and just *gurglegurgle...*
Hi-FREAKIN'-larious!
Enigma2K99 1 year ago 11
"Same game John... different rules" Lol
sysarchitect 1 year ago
Glad to see hugh laurie's american accent has improved somewhat!
londontrada 1 year ago
This was great. I don't think anyone could have played up this stereotype to its greatness further than they did.
headphonic8 1 year ago
"You're just going to lie down and walk away?!"
lmao
phemyda94 1 year ago 7
Damn those wet arsed college kids!!
Craplatte 1 year ago 2
I'd love to see them make a real show out of this! But i fear that would take out the hilarious randomness that makes these sketches so frigging good... who cares, i'd watch it anyway :-)
Craplatte 1 year ago 3
3:09 Maybe it's time I moved on and just blbbbgblb!
Nonregional 1 year ago 10
Does anyone actually remember the type of show they were satirising? Those incredibly serious dramas revolving around small businesses where menial jobs were treated like life and death situations.
PurushaDesa 1 year ago 5
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leecooper301 1 year ago
@PurushaDesa a 70's show called The Brothers would fit
leecooper301 1 year ago
@PurushaDesa I'm pretty sure it's baseds on howards way.
londontrada 1 year ago
@londontrada Yes, The Brothers, Howards Way and all those 70s and 80s Sunday evening shows produced by Gerard Glaister, father of Gabrielle who worked with F & L in Blackadder.
yt090584 1 year ago
Dammit four times around the parking lot and back in again for another 'dammit!'
mph419 1 year ago 3
@mph419 I think it was round the caah paahk they said. Love it though.
abbamanic 1 year ago
But damnit Marjorie was goood Peterr!
wapdems 1 year ago
the diabolical marjorie
rocksoliddude1 1 year ago 3
"what happened to the OLD JOHN?!?" "we pulled it down when we put in the car park D:"
puns <33
dogsanwam1 1 year ago 7
"our marrige was nothing but a bad joke and not even a very good one" bwhaha
zeeslag123 1 year ago 7
DAMN!!!
ADyingFaith 1 year ago
I love that its not one guy carrying the other, they are just both THAT brilliant :) DAAAMMNNN!!! :D
SuperCakelover 1 year ago 9
Damn those wet-arsed college kids.
daryl1q1 1 year ago 5
DAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMN!!
casdebom2 1 year ago
DAMMIT PETER.
xdick316 1 year ago 2
I don't think John and Peter would have worked as a series, but I do wish that Fry and Laurie had made a few more sketches as these two. The gag ratio in all of them is astonishingly high.
daryl1q1 2 years ago 4
All their sketches are so JOYFUL, especially in the earlier seasons :) There's not much of that about, at the moment.
frogshortening 2 years ago 6
"Maybe it's time I moved on and just *bubble bubble*"
Catherine3234 2 years ago 20
Don't harrassle me Pe-d-er! Roflmao!
rachel3972 2 years ago 2
I imagine YouTube couldn't stand Stephen's greatness at 0:30
053bss 2 years ago 323
"she licked me good and proper and..i've got that feeling again and it's sore peterrrr" lol
farewellfaustus 2 years ago 8
felt physically sick when hugh was on the actors studio & failed actor James Lipton didn't even mention Fry and Laurie, Damn Yanks wouldn't know comedy if it farted in their face DAMNNNNNNN!!!!!
lickstickly 2 years ago 11
" and you're just gonna ... just gonna lie down and walk away? "
stewux 2 years ago 9
" maybe its time I moved on and jusht blubbibbibbbubb ".
I used to love these 2 characters, someone please post the other sketches with John and Peter.
stewux 2 years ago 9
"If Marjory should call... tell her I'm BUSY!
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMn"
starwarsfreak1111 2 years ago 136
" Peter don't - Don't HARASSLE me I'm tired! "
ThisTooShallPass314 2 years ago 13
"And now you're just gonna...lie down, and walk away?"
Zorg2006 2 years ago 12
"Same game, John. Different rules."
Oh my god, that's amazing. It's like two trailer voice guys having a fight.
PurushaDesa 2 years ago 16
Incredible! Wonderful!
medea1990 2 years ago 4
Dammit 4 times around the car park and back in for another dammit.
Snakeguevara 2 years ago 8
One of the best lines ever!
AnarchoHumanist 2 years ago 5
"Had? Had what? A marriage that was no more than a bad joke and not even a very good one."
jonbenrob 2 years ago 11
DAMN they are such geniuses.
JHandcock1111 2 years ago 6
Lmao! At 1:55 lol the head turn is sooooo funny!
same with everything eles,
damn dubble damn with with a extra bite of damn for the weekend!
lmao!
if marjery calls,thell her im bissy---daaaaaaamn!
every one how thinks hugh is awesome say aye...
aye!
JHandcock1111 2 years ago 3
I was acting like a DAAMN AMATEEEEUR!
I say that whenever I make a mistake now! It confuses some people!
mr0buch 2 years ago 9
Hugh Laurie is why I watched House.
And this is why I followed Hugh Laurie in everything he did.
jimbobjimminy 2 years ago 5
"I was acting like an amateur"
Genius.
Tulipso 2 years ago 4
the best one was the one in the lavatory
GriefTourist 2 years ago
Their hair is AMAZING.
saytheremeg 2 years ago 3
strangely enough I used to work in Uttoxeter
And the John WAS on a car park...(true)
moriarty79 2 years ago 4
Is this a game?
No game, just look out of the window!
I see a carpark.
Yes, and do you remember what you saw the last time you looked out of that window?! You saw an IDEA!!
...I had the idea of putting a car park there.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago 7
Laurie sounds like Jeremy Irons in this skit.
suniseclipsed 2 years ago 2
They never have failed to make me laugh :)))
ATLyssaNSN 2 years ago 5
Hugh's hairdo is EPIC
albatrossyglossy 2 years ago 14
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!!!! hahahahaha
whatdoicarehuh 2 years ago
what was the sketch before this?
TheDamnHero 2 years ago
The best part is at 3:12 - 3:13
DraMaQween2000 2 years ago 3
HAHA! I adore those two! They just drink whiskey and talk about ..... there isn`t even a word for it! XD Love Hugh! <3
DraMaQween2000 2 years ago 2
I can never watch House without thinking of this sketch.
Poor old Hugh.
cantleysugar 2 years ago 2
OH, TIRED BE DAMNED!
kbillysupersounds 2 years ago 2
A line frequently missed in this scene
"Are you just gonna lie down and walk away?!"
GENIUS!
OlderMoi 2 years ago 11
Probably my favorite line. Especially the look on Laurie's face and the hand gestures as he says it.
Classic!
heroforhireshan 2 years ago 2
Any idea what kind of accents they're trying for here? Sometimes, I thought it was American (the attitude and phrasing were certainly that stupid "go for it"-style American business talk). Other times, mildly Australian. But it was probably some sort of British that I'm not familiar with.
colibri1 2 years ago 2
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Wonderful as Fry and Laurie are I think they're jsut both really bad at American accents!
OlderMoi 2 years ago
Laurie plays an American in House doesn't he?
Gastumto 2 years ago 4
Er, they're not doing american accents... They're doing those kind of tough businessman mid-atlantic 80's accents you'd hear in programmes like Howards Way . They're doing it very well too! Jeremy Clarkson is a modern purveyor of said style...
BoycottStabb 2 years ago 6
Maybe it's time I moved on and just fablblblbl...
myHEADisAtv 2 years ago 13
I nearly fell out of my chair at that one!
heroforhireshan 2 years ago 3
my favorite part of the whole scene! haha
diecheney 2 years ago
Same game, John! Different RUUULZSZ!
mrbuch 2 years ago 5
if marjorie should call, Tell Her Im Busy!
DAAAAAAMNNNNN
Gears2warzone 2 years ago 6
Damn it 4 times around the car park and back in for another DAMN IT!
koradan 2 years ago 8
Man I love that line!
kanemura93 2 years ago 2
It certainly made think of the town of Uttoxeter as a whisky swilling health club kinda town
Mooocheropordis 2 years ago 2
Is it me or does Hugh Laurie use the same voice for Peter as he does for house?
Myopicmariner 2 years ago
I wouldn't be very surprised.
drattigan91 2 years ago
Nothing like it!
queenoftartan 2 years ago 3
Nah, he sounds like Hugh Laurie as a cursing, drunken lout.
UberMan5000 2 years ago
Don't harrassle me! Hilarious
ebaysellerbarca317 2 years ago 7
DAMN, DOUBLE DAMN WITH AN EXTRA PINT OF DAMN FOR THE WEEKEND! :~)
I remember watching A Bit of Fry and Laurie when it was first out, when I was 11 or so. Loved it then and I love it now! Hugh and Stephen were my first comedy loves! Still 2 of the best in the business after all these years.
GettingWhiggyWithIt 2 years ago 4
oh my god, how can they not laugh at each other!? Id be shitting my pants with laughter in that scene. But, I guess thats what seperates the amatuers from the big kahunas. They are masters of their art!
JuuhachigouSama 2 years ago 10
The old John? We pulled it down when we built the car park!
funkey37 2 years ago 8
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i thought someone said hugh didnt curse accept for the a word?? hmmm
iluvJHCL 2 years ago
It's great when he says "motherfucker" Hehehee.
JuuhachigouSama 2 years ago
heard him say fuck up in an interview today too
Vetis213 2 years ago
This sketch is brilliant! Which came first, this one or the one with the religeous types ("Fry Laurie --- Damn it." in the Related Videos)?
But it's just... so funny! And Stephen trying not to laugh at 2:35. XD
LiekaQueenofDarkness 2 years ago
absolutely brilliant
okidokipianissimokee 3 years ago
i love the face hugh makes when he says "YOU'RE JUST GONNA LIE DOWN AND WALK AWAY?" at 2:43
i love this sketch <3
neeerv 3 years ago
yeah, reminds me of when he played george in blackadder goes forth!
dermotoblong 3 years ago 2
hahahahahhahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
these two are amazing!!! the most talented duo ever!
anetchi 3 years ago
Same game John. Different RUUUUULZS.
mrbuch 3 years ago 6
Theyre both fantastic actors! I love this show
Soccerpersonz10 3 years ago 2
lol, I LOVE the ending! hehe! "DDDDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNN!!!!!!"
shrimpsmiaka1995 3 years ago 2
I always crack up when he keeps talking while he's drinking.
"Maybe it's time I moved on and just- -hubblebubble-"
theamazingshoebox 3 years ago 14
Had what? A marriage that was nothing more than a bad joke, and not a very good one?
OckamsLaser 3 years ago 4