Cambridge Footlights Revue 2/5

[mxgirl918]

these guys are genius. no surprise it won the perrier award.

[Emsyphine]

GENIUS! I love the "After what seemed a cliché"

[EndureFocusEngageDie]

9 minutes straight damn nice!

[bennythebearful]

Any idea who wrote this sketch? .

[bennythebearful]

This is Peter Cook style excellence. Much better than the truly awful first part.

[bennythebearful]

blood type genius!

[147PHiLL]

Was just reading about this revue in 'Fry's Chronicles', so pleased to have found a televised version of it here. That monologue, that he makes small mention of in the book, was quite brilliant. I recommend his book, it goes into great detail about his Cambridge experiences, particularly meeting up with his fellow Footlights associates.

[themillenia]

Gosh, I love Stephen's dreamy sleepy bed eyes in this. He looked so cute, so fine, so tall, so thin and handsome back in the day. Omg, if he was my husband during this time, I would feel so fortunate to have an awesome reader to my kids. Kids would always look forward to bedtime stories with Stephen.

[TaylerIsAComedyFan]

'oh shit' Well. I must say, I wasn't expecting that XD

[muffin8or]

He says 'arrived' like Rowan Atkinson

[luludevreeze]

how wonderfully silly.

[Superduperminime]

Ah Stephen Fry, to say he is a man is quite an insult for he is nothing BUT a legend. In his role in the letter, did he realise quite a number of years later his voice would also take on a similar looking persona in Fable II? Perhaps not ;)

[kiwimci]

"He was either mad or both!"

[DragonSporks]

Oh, that quirk of the eyebrows at 6:15 ! I think I'm in love...

[Gubbywubby]

Notice at the beginning of Stephen's narrating, the name "Melchitt" crops up! Blackadder!

[Caasboer]

Anyone else ended up here in the middle of reading the Fry chronicles?

Boy I love modern technology.

[badtimesallthetime]

@Caasboer Yes, me too! :D

[garyandsonia]

@Caasboer Right in the middle of the Fry Chronicles as well.

[rainbow84uk]

@Caasboer yeah me too! I have this on the Fry and Laurie Series 2 DVD, but I can't find it so I came here to see it again!

[oldhamite]

@Caasboer Yep!

[LaceyOberst]

@Caasboer Yes, I am! I've been checking out all the old videos of Stephen I can find. He's a legend :)

[MyAlterEgoCd]

@Caasboer Me too! loving them =D

[XsLipKnoTiC4x]

'Exciting isn't it?' just like his Harry Potter narration xD

[NebulaOwl]

He was trying so hard not to laugh, love the blood type joke XD

[DtOoCrTcOhRwWoHoOd13]

"ooooohh shit" lol

[IzzyferX]

british humour ♥

[issystardust]

after what seemed a cliche...

[FoolieFishing]

Isn't that kind of how Nosferatu ended?

[IzzyferX]

"It seemed...innocent enough"

[FudgePop101]

oh... shit...

freakin' hilarious!

[crapola67876578]

fry should run for government

hes way to damn intelligent. wtf! :)

[crapola67876578]

did u notice how he mentioned melchit during the reading? he acted as colonel melchit in blackadder a few years after this i think...cool stuff

[albionsupreme]

@crapola67876578 To be exact, he played Lord Melchett, an adviser (possibly Lord Chancellor) to Queen Elizabeth I, in Blackadder II and General Sir Hugh Cecil Anthony Hogmanay Melchett in Blackadder IV.

[rnbldsrnmsvlbl]

"Prudence had demanded that I leave her behind so I was alone"!

[BeastPWNedGaston]

He's a bleedin anarchist, this one. lol. gets me every time. as well as the most gruesome spectacles.

[happeningfish77]

"the sign of the very cross indeed"

[wingedhamham]

BRAVO! That narration by Fry was brilliant; an excellent play on words!

[mellielli]

Thank you so much for posting this, it's always a pleasure to come across new (old) material by fry&laurie:) They are tremendous actors, and deserve every bit of admiration for being so soft and fluffy and pink and moist and lovely. (Tony Slattery is pretty as well)

[wingedhamham]

@mellielli I completely agree. Nice "How to be Gorgeous" reference, btw.

[60sto80s2]

walking with pronounced limp l-i-m-p

pronounced limp XD

no stakes , no crusifix ,no wooden stakes adn i wasn't to look at the word vampire seemed innocent enough lol....XD

[artvandelay13]

"he was either mad or both!"

[loserfreak92]

Could someone explain to me the 'Blood Type' joke?

[Bigfatbutterfly02]

sure: "what's bloodtype are you?" (asked by vampire)

"A" ("a?" used sometimes in British as "what?", so vampire repeats question)

" o" (well, hope u understand that people say "oh," when they get the point, and the actual answer to vampire's question is "b")

the confusion is there, because it's narrated in a way that you first think bloodtype is "a", than "o"

that explaned well?

[pleasefindnemo]

A - we thought he meant he was type A. He was saying "Eh?" as in pardon.

O, also a blood type.

B, blood type .

Oh, B. Get it now?

[Eilatj]

"...this was puzzling...I couldn't see myself spending a month in a house without mirrors (eyebrows)..." BUHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

[2205923358]

Whatever happened to Tony Slattery?

[CountDRox]

diagnosed as bipolar. may have been on drugs. he joined coronation street and i think he's presenting now. he was always hilarious on whose line!

[SalutationToTheDawn]

He's currently starring alongside Stephen Fry in ITV's Kingdom on Sundays.

[JuuhachigouSama]

Did Stephen write this himself? I wouldn't be surprised. It's so witty and fun!

[TossTheParadox]

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie wrote the script, as far as I know:)

[Filmlover4ever]

LOVE Stephen Fry - just amazing and he was back then as well.

actually never knew that he, Laurie and thompson started their career in this!!

[crystalcloverrain]

I am to read Dracula for my next semester at university, I wasn' t THAT Kean on it, but now I can hardly wait!

[Karine15]

What does he mean when he says the manservant was called Travolta, and it got a laugh?

[xDISTANCERUNNERx]

I think it may be a reference to the American actor, John Travolta.

[beatyourheartout91]

I think it's just a joke about John Travolta's last name sounding kind of "evil"

[LaSeuleEtoile]

@Karine15 I think it's cos it sounds like "revolter", like as in revolting. :)

[Lotty85]

@LaSeuleEtoile Also I think because it seems such an odd name for a vampire's servant to have - that's why I laughed, at least.

[fritspas]

melchet vs the vatican?

[kangamoo6]

'What's he done that for?'

Do you think Stephen Fry just appeared, fully formed - as he is now, and that he's just... swelled... between then and now?

[diefortacos]

'OH SHIT!'

poor count...

that story rocked!

[aplantage1]

"Prudence had demanded that I leave her behind." lol

[iseelc]

OH SHIT.

[ImeldaLumos]

Already at this time Stephen Fry was a talented narrator, I'm impressed... I would like this version of the story...

How many episodes did they do...or was it just one episode?

[gordonhogan]

@ImeldaLumos

you probably have , but i suggest you check out the autobiography "the fry chronicles".great stuff.after reading it this episode meant so much more.

[mickthekindstranger]

@ImeldaLumos this is just a single programme of the footlights review they did for the fringe festival... the stage show was a success so they recorded it for television

[katyanarockercook]

@ImeldaLumos it wasn't really a series - it was the footlights revue for the Edinburgh fringe and it ended up being televised for the BBC :)