This will always be my favorite Fry and Laurie sketch. There's just something about Stephen's dancing that is both endearingly awkward and indescribably graceful.
i love it 'it's an ingenius mix of the word dance and the word circumcise' XD their style of humour is so absurd and brilliant. i think this show would be quite popular today.
'stephen love that body' thank you it's mine!' 'you see this, you could eat your dinner off it' 'we took the caravan to dorset this summer and pushed it off a cliff' lol!!
Absolutely nearly P***** myself laughing. Steven Fry appears to be such a stuffy intellectual - but the Man knows how to take the Piss out of himself - Pure Comic Genius.
I was never great dancer but always happy to start it off at any party. I figured out that you need never be embarrassed because everyone's just so grateful that THEY're not the first ones dancing... you're doing everyone a favour.
Poor Stephen hates dancing, though. As Hugh Laurie said in "Stephen Fry - 50 not out" (also on YT somewhere): "Stephen thinks he can't dance. And I believe he may be right."
Can someone help me? I looked for this clip and it is quite different from how I remember it. I remember the plinth being higher, Stephen wearing different clothes, and saying, before he surveyed the quantity 'first I'm going to bust some moves Hugh' - Is there another version? Is my memory such a blatant fantasist?
Poor, poor Stephen! Not that he's an awful dancer (seen much worse), but he hates dancing so much! And they loved to put Stephen in such situations :P again; poor, poor Stephen (still, though, it is really funny xD)
I don't know how it is over in the U.K. with Quantity Surveyors, but to me what's funny is that isn't even CLOSE to what quantity surveyors do which is what puts this bit top rate for me!
This comment pretty much encapsulates my views as well. I've had almost fifteen years of ballet, and one thing it doesn't teach you is how to dance like Stephen Fry. :-P
Stephen and Hugh are so beautiful together.
8thPrincessofHeart1 5 months ago
I love the part when Hugh just goes Mmmmm and Stephen starts dancing
poetrykid702 5 months ago in playlist poetrykid702's Favorited Videos
"The key to dancercise is the rather ingenues coupling of the word 'dance' to the word 'circumcise' " XD
Those two are brilliant
depplaurie 6 months ago 5
This will always be my favorite Fry and Laurie sketch. There's just something about Stephen's dancing that is both endearingly awkward and indescribably graceful.
MissGrapeNehi 6 months ago 4
Everyone take a look at Stephen's face in the Vox Pop bit at the end...
now tell me it doesn't remind you of Drew Barrymore. :P No? anyone?.
Seiyuu 7 months ago 4
@Seiyuu Ha! Yes!
louieaubergine 7 months ago
13 people, and it grieves me to say this, are deeply unattractive.
mygiftismysong3 7 months ago 13
What kind of quantities do quantity surveyors survey?
ADyingFaith 7 months ago
I actually think Hugh's parting line is the best.
".....and pushed it over a cliff."
xx
Mooandi 7 months ago
Lol Stephen Fry is soooo freaking funny, greatest dance ever!
Ttreblerebel 8 months ago 4
I'm wildly turned on by Stephen's dancersizing.
GrimSqueaker03 8 months ago 6
Anyone else thinks that Stephen Fry has a sort of Jullian Assange vibe about him at 2:00?
marcmischief 10 months ago
2:00 "Sex is nothing what ?
mariekitu 10 months ago
@mariekitu Nothing to fax home about
B0WtiE 10 months ago
@B0WtiE Hah really ? lol, thanks..
mariekitu 10 months ago
Stephen is like a boy at a jr. high school dance that I never had the nerve to ask out...his dancing is mesmerizing.
Headtail 1 year ago 6
"Thanks...it's mine."
Headtail 1 year ago 22
Stephen Fry plus Hugh Laurie equals sheer, inspired insanity.
FlippinBooks 1 year ago 5
I want to be a quantity surveyor just so I can come into the office and freak out my co-workers with that dance.
joshaf26 1 year ago
let me just say
these are the real
crown jewels
of England
pooltarr 1 year ago 12
I have the biggest, most uncontrollable crush on Stephen!!! Love him to bits!
Odonnolly 1 year ago 20
I really, really hope that's what 'quantity surveyors' actually do.
MrBuch169169 1 year ago 4
" and by the way, love that body"
"thanks, its mine" ROFL :D
Verminreaper999 1 year ago 11
I did not see the cercumcize thing coming xDDD
DelusionalDreamers 1 year ago 4
classic
CulturalMyths 1 year ago
dem hips >.<!!
nauseaalert 1 year ago
Ah, it's hysterical!
I'm hysterical now.
Porcelanesa 1 year ago
How the hell Laurie kept from laughing through the whole thing I'll never know. This shit put me in tears XD
wethreestooges 1 year ago 9
Love that body! Thanks, its mine. LOLOLOLOL
1994Topgear 1 year ago 9
Fry's got some quantities I'D like to survey...wink.
Drroxxette 1 year ago
Just loooove the finger on 1:35
Sannaatje 1 year ago 7
If you pause the video at any point during the surveying of quantities, it's a brilliant laugh haha.
LeftyHandedGuns 1 year ago
Oh Stephen Fry, I could watch you swivel those sexy hips all day. ;P
manypseudonyms 1 year ago 18
When he said "circumcise," I quite literally burst out in mad laughter.
JFMello1116 1 year ago 15
The sight of Stephen Fry not dancing ranks up there with the Pyramids and the Northern Lights.
TheConciseStatement 1 year ago 11
Who on earth are the 13 people who don't like this?!
StarringHilary 1 year ago 13
Stephen's 'dancersizing' is like a train wreck, you're stunned, a little horrified, but you CAN'T tear your eyes away.
CaptEoNinja83 1 year ago 15
Stephen Fry? Deeply unattractive? Well gosh, I knew he was gorgeous but I didn't know he was a liar. Stephen Fry can never be deeply unattractive.
Jayna 1 year ago 21
i cnt tell you how much i enjoyed this ^^
livstar93 1 year ago 3
i love it 'it's an ingenius mix of the word dance and the word circumcise' XD their style of humour is so absurd and brilliant. i think this show would be quite popular today.
yootoobah1 2 years ago 19
a groovier peter garret :P
TOMMASCRAWLEY 2 years ago
aww, stephen you were and never will be deeply unattractive =D
piaaguilos 2 years ago 36
Thanks, it's mine xD
DutchMileyLover 2 years ago 12
They said the word "dancersize" in a recent episode of House, and I immediately thought of this skit.
potcfanatic 2 years ago 19
what episode?
EdoNoKaze 2 years ago
The one with the 80s party, someone says to Cuddy, "Well hello there Jane Fonda, would you like to dancersize?"
potcfanatic 2 years ago 3
thanks, but... what does mean Dancersize xDDD?´
sorry i dont speak english xd
EdoNoKaze 2 years ago
it's actually a combination of "dance" and "exercise" so it's getting exercise by dancing, usually in a silly or embarrassing manner. :)
qwertydeluxe 2 years ago 3
surely you mean dance and circumcise? :)
arseman1024 2 years ago 9
I wish it wasn't! I want it!
drgnfrddd 2 years ago
I want to be a quantity surveyor now!
mr0buch 2 years ago 10
"Do you have any quantities for me to survey today?" Brilliant!
"Love that body!"
"Thanks, it's mine"
Every line is just perfect. Humor is art.
MyMusic0201 2 years ago 35
i love how Stephen just starts dancing! (dancersizing!)
Centuria13 2 years ago 10
What episode of season two is this? I'm trying to purchase it on iTunes ;D
iLovesGregHouse 2 years ago
S2E1
y2kcjc 2 years ago
Great dancing :O
"By the way..."
"Yes?"
"Love that body!"
"Thanks!" *meaningful glance* "It's mine."
DenAndreErMeg 2 years ago 21
What a couple! I'm crying of laugther.
medea1990 2 years ago 11
Best dance ever!
xNikkaX3 2 years ago 8
Is it just me, or before Stephen starts dancing you can see he's thinking "Oh God, now I have to dance"
CabbageGroupie 2 years ago 23
"The ingenious coupling of the word 'dance', with the word 'circumcise'." xD
Incidentally, two things that are equally horrible, in Stephen Fry's opinion.
FlippinBooks 2 years ago 16
Stephen dances ironically, then? A kind of post-modern dancer.
cooltrollface 2 years ago 7
dance and circumsize lofl
josef4buzu 2 years ago
I could watch Stephen Fry dance all day long and still cry with laughter XD
warning05 2 years ago 3
I want to be a quantity surveyor! I didn't realise it was so easy xD
mr0buch 2 years ago 12
love that body !!!
thanks it's mine hahahhahahah xd
great !!
why1so1serious1 2 years ago 2
His dancing is hilarious! (It's a compliment xD)
I love the movement he does at 1:37, when he says "survey".
Idnarmadur 2 years ago 3
i love stephen's dancing xD
snobannicxD 2 years ago 5
I have the feeling Stephen's body is an entity in itself! ;)
totaldynamix 2 years ago 6
"Love that body. Thanks. It's mine" XD I died laughing! XD LOVE THEM!
LoverOfVolley 2 years ago 5
look at steven's face @ 0.05
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saytheremeg 2 years ago
haha , how the hell did hugh laurie keep a straight face through that sketch !! :S
SnapCracklePop91 2 years ago 4
A clever combination of the words "dance" and "circumcise".
tregnier279 2 years ago 9
oh, wow :) that was possibly the funnies thing i've ever seen
Haannaahh92 2 years ago 2
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i just wanted to jump in and dance with him! XP
haha at the end hugh and Stephen are adorable!
especially hugh at the end :]
DUMBASSDEB 2 years ago
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DUMBASSDEB 2 years ago
Stephen's hatred of dancing put into a sketch, LOVE IT XD
Lennoxed 2 years ago 9
briliant this is amazing :d:d:d:d:d:d
great dancing of him
why1so1serious1 2 years ago 3
that look on his face kills me xD
CurlingBulka 2 years ago 9
I don't believe Stephen Fry could ever be 'deeply unattractive'.
tuliratsu 2 years ago 323
AMEN TO THAT!
queenastilon 2 years ago
This really makes me want to be a quantity surveyor!
mrbuch 2 years ago 22
I think the profession is slightly more demanding than portrayed here... but only slightly.
Good luck, anyway. :)
queenastilon 2 years ago 2
'stephen love that body' thank you it's mine!' 'you see this, you could eat your dinner off it' 'we took the caravan to dorset this summer and pushed it off a cliff' lol!!
lawro04 2 years ago 10
what
skyfrog696969 2 years ago
Aw, bless stephen, he hates dancing!
JustAnother800 2 years ago 25
ive watched this so many times and every time he surveys the quantity i die laughing!
moskytoes 2 years ago 180
God, me too!
In fact, I start dying of laughter the moment he starts dancing. It's just the look on his face while he's doing it! :)
Paws31 2 years ago 15
@moskytoes Me too. These rwo are just completely wonderful arent they?
ADyingFaith 8 months ago
Stephens such a good dancer!
help0867 2 years ago 16
Yes, he is. You're right!
medea1990 2 years ago 5
Stephen Fry is brilliant. Love that dancing! :)
emh26 2 years ago 20
"The key to dancersize, is the rather ingenious coupling of the words, dance and circumcise."
xD
XxBeatlesforeverxX 2 years ago 14
*dancersizes*
XXD
VampireTears13 2 years ago 6
Absolutely nearly P***** myself laughing. Steven Fry appears to be such a stuffy intellectual - but the Man knows how to take the Piss out of himself - Pure Comic Genius.
rockchick80s 2 years ago 17
I love his camp imitation at the end.
He did it later on Q.I. when he was talking about Germans and what they call their mobile phone.
"Ugh vere's meine Handie?"
It's funnier when you watch it...
KevL75 3 years ago 7
How can Stephen Fry hate dancing so much when he's so good at it?!
lucelli1chivas 3 years ago 20
Oh by the way..
Yes?
Love that body.
Thanks, it's mine. :D
Regenmacher175 3 years ago 23
'while I work, I am able to build in all kinds of strenghtening and toning movements.'
CF1975 3 years ago 6
HAHAHA the first time I saw it I knew I had to watch it again =L
His movements are so... flowy =P
x
ParanoidAndroid92 3 years ago 12
This was too utterly hilarious. The 'dancersizing' is just... wow. xD How can Hugh not laugh! And Stephen's final words just killed me. 8D
LiekaQueenofDarkness 3 years ago 10
I don't think Hugh Lauries human...I mean, he can't be & keep a straight face at Stephens "dancercizing", tis not possible lol.
Spikesmistress 3 years ago 11
Stephen Fry is the best person alive.
ibkod 3 years ago 18
lol that dancing is awesome...
but i really don't think dancing and circumsizing should be combined... could get messy....
artvandelay13 3 years ago 7
I love the 'quantity surveyor' part. I'm in the wrong job!
mrbuch 3 years ago 7
GAWD, Stephen Fry is SO GAY. Hahahahah He always cheers me up :D
Iloverockstars 3 years ago 4
Yep, well and truly gay. Utterly gay. Completely gay.
Which is probably why his significant other is called Daniel.
evilegg288 3 years ago 7
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Daniel? Ha ha ha ha! WTF?
Carfer22 3 years ago
Well said! A fact! Hear hear! Quite right! :D
All parts of Stephen's personality make up a wonderful and lovely whole.
(And oh! Stephen surveying quantities at 1:33 gets me every time.. XD Joy.)
warg29 3 years ago 5
"*peers* Well, that's got that quantity surveyed!"
Man, if that were all the job entailed, I'd sign up before you could say "circumsize".
evilegg288 3 years ago 8
dancercise...coupling of the word dance to the word circumcise...LMFAO!! Thank gawd for Fry n Laurie!
MAYALL10 3 years ago 5
i laughed so hard i nearly fell off my chair when i saw stephen's dancing. :D
"thanks... it's mine."
noxblackergirl 3 years ago 5
i wish they had this show over here in the US,
i enjoy British humor, quite different from American
and i completely adore hugh
and stephen's moves are epic
xxgangsteressxx 3 years ago 6
definitely!!:)
slipperghurl 3 years ago 3
People should dance at parties. In my opinion, the world needs more dancers like Stephen!
stevenhughrock 3 years ago 3
Oh definitely!
I was never great dancer but always happy to start it off at any party. I figured out that you need never be embarrassed because everyone's just so grateful that THEY're not the first ones dancing... you're doing everyone a favour.
Poor Stephen hates dancing, though. As Hugh Laurie said in "Stephen Fry - 50 not out" (also on YT somewhere): "Stephen thinks he can't dance. And I believe he may be right."
queenastilon 2 years ago 2
jeffrey cavendish
SamNulman 3 years ago
Stephen working that tall body is the funniest thing around. They're so good together. Think I'm overdosing on Fry and Laurie tonight.
sjoes 3 years ago 11
The "Thanks, it's mine." bit never fails to make me smile.
mtjasnewell 3 years ago 5
"by the way, love that body."
"thanks. it's mine."
classic. these guys are great.
neeerv 3 years ago 12
Lol, that's a cute dance ^^ (or maybe it's Stephen who makes it look cute?) love this show!
OpalDragonStar 3 years ago 5
Can someone help me? I looked for this clip and it is quite different from how I remember it. I remember the plinth being higher, Stephen wearing different clothes, and saying, before he surveyed the quantity 'first I'm going to bust some moves Hugh' - Is there another version? Is my memory such a blatant fantasist?
atheistblossom 3 years ago
That's just the hottest thing on this planet :D
sakura4yuki 3 years ago 10
Stephen actually has a rather nice bum here, doesn't he?
Kakareen 3 years ago 9
to quote himself, "GET THAT ARSE!"
GreetingsFromFinland 3 years ago 7
Steven Fry's dance is epic! XD XD XD
HUGH SHOULD HAVE JOINED IN!!! lol
person4fun 3 years ago 16
"thanks... it's mine"
steph0rw0d 3 years ago 6
Poor, poor Stephen! Not that he's an awful dancer (seen much worse), but he hates dancing so much! And they loved to put Stephen in such situations :P again; poor, poor Stephen (still, though, it is really funny xD)
xxAlchemistressxx 3 years ago 5
I don't know how it is over in the U.K. with Quantity Surveyors, but to me what's funny is that isn't even CLOSE to what quantity surveyors do which is what puts this bit top rate for me!
Zenutheduck 3 years ago 2
Thats kind of the point. They are just playing with the name.
alagast 3 years ago
the dance is sooo cute^^
GwendolenFairfax 3 years ago 7
That may quite possibly be the best dance ever invented. Even better than Elaine's "dry heave set to music".
saytheremeg 3 years ago 11
XD Hudge !!!!!
griffon10 3 years ago
"well that's got that quanity surveyed!"
almost as funny as the dance. classic.
ab8jeh 3 years ago 20
How can Hugh stand there and not join in?
beltholesforeyes 3 years ago 14
I love his dancing face lol
Thankg Godddd this is on DVD!!
QuornishxXx 3 years ago 3
Stephen's mentioned in his podcast that he hates dancing, so you can imagine how he felt about this.
Twigs0wot 3 years ago 16
The odd thing is, I've seen people dancing much worse than the way he dances.
lordhaku 3 years ago 4
I like that little laugh/smile Hugh gives after Stephen said "Thankyou, it's mine". It looks like he couldn't stop himself...
ImeldaLumos 3 years ago 7
By the way, I like that body.
Thanks. It's mine:)
Shurupchik 3 years ago 14
This is still one of the most brilliant things I have ever laid eyes upon.
kashmir87 3 years ago 17
How Stephen manages a perfect fusion of both the ungainly and the sublimely graceful in his dancing, I'll never know.
ldhenson 3 years ago 74
This comment pretty much encapsulates my views as well. I've had almost fifteen years of ballet, and one thing it doesn't teach you is how to dance like Stephen Fry. :-P
UpsideDownPedestrian 3 years ago 59
They should obviously just start a new brand of dance dedicated to it. *nods* I would most definitely take that.
LemonFairyLili 3 years ago 7
It would be his self-made fusion of techno and disco - more commonly known as Tesco.
lordhaku 3 years ago 9
LOL fry is so cute when he starts dancing in the beginning XD LOL
yayoineko 3 years ago 17
This is wonderful.
thatgirl312 3 years ago 6
Woo-hoo! Shake it Stephen!
13owlets 3 years ago 11
this is probably my favorite sketch ever...Hugh's song, Stephen's dancing, and the whole "prominent quantity surveyer thing....so funny!
rancid4eva 3 years ago 17
1:32 XD
TaPpAjAkAnI 4 years ago 6
Really nice moves, Stephen *whistles*
kandydarkness 4 years ago 5
I would totally dance with Stephen Fry in a nightclub! :D
shmivv 4 years ago 7
I would dance with him in a cave...
atisenif 4 years ago 15
I would do more than dance with him, even tho im 15 and female lol
GilbertSullivanLover 3 years ago 9
This might just be the best thing I have ever seen. Amazing dancing from Stephen.
I laughed out loud.
Osafune2 4 years ago 15
I mean the clip where Fry had to be hypnotized.
ImeldaLumos 4 years ago 2
i love that body..
..thanks its mine
haha
LilKimHottie69 4 years ago 6
'Oh, by the way, love that body!'
'Thanks, it's mine!'
Laurie76K 4 years ago 17
I loved: "...I think it was probably the most valuable thing he's ever done in his otherwise futile and squalid life."
One of the funniest lines ever.
Thraxwhirl 4 years ago 9
time where did u go.....
nicholasjames100 4 years ago 5
I love Fry's surveying technique.
laurielovelauren 4 years ago 19
That was hilarious! I think I might have to implement dancercize at my place of work
rory215 4 years ago 5
Whaa Aree Yahh Doin??
Ahh.. Ill Explain
Lmaoo
mexicangal123 4 years ago
Oh how I love Stephen Fry. Lol.
"Love that body."
"Thanks. It's mine."
xsvsx 4 years ago 15
great grooving there
the words dance and circumsize, that's hilarious
joleen666 4 years ago 5
Wow...is this the one where Fry had to be hypnotized to dance in front of people? I hope so, because that would at least give him an excuse.
Very adorkable none the less. <3
XxAlmightyStanxX 4 years ago 5
no, he had to be hypnotised to sing ion a differant clip which i'll be damned if i can find.
rubzleandditchda 4 years ago 3