A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Hardware Shop

[zoyataylor]

oh this is bloody brilliant :D

[megamarsvin]

So many of these sketches end in Hugh Laurie getting slapped or punched by Fry :D

[kiloch]

fork 'andles?!

[brianartillery]

If you've ever had to go to a builder's merchants' store in the UK, you will know that a lot of items, [especially for plumbing] have ridiculous arcane names, similar to, but not as extreme as here. That's why this sketch is a gem, as it shows the fine line between arcane nomenclature and obscenity. That's the English Language for you - and Fry & Laurie relish every bit of it. BTW. 'Frotting Pencils' could be used for Brass Rubbing. True. :D

[Eztoez]

I literally fell off my chair laughing at this. Brilliant

[pixi6666]

Got any grollings?

[TreborRebore]

slip hole ,grip gigging,lol

[OxideEndeavor]

"triple nob joint snatch membrane"

i fell to the floor! LOL

[smylahdaz]

felching pens or frotting pencils....decisions, decisions...

always good for a triple knob joint with a snatch membrane...

B&Q never have any of these...

[louiecostello]

try homebase mate

[mattsladey111]

@smylahdaz I know. Aren't B&Q crap.

[dfarmbrough]

Very good. (Script Copyright Ronnie Barker 1978!)

[hurleyinoz]

I can remember seeing this for the first time on BBC2 nearly 20 yrs ago...its as funny now as it was back then.

"Bevelled Spill trunion' - priceless!

[atrios28]

Hugh Laurie has been dumbed down for American TV audiences as a physician who's addicted to Vicodin. In Season 3 he performs a liver transplant on himself in agony with minutes left before his liver completely succumbs to necrosis from nearly 3 seasons of swallowing all that acetaminophen.

[hypocrita]

Acetaminophen is a bitch... As I always say, stick with the morphine.

[GhastlyOnesRule]

"twenty cock-grip shafting sleeves"

[FordHugheClees94]

well i am 13 and from norway. did get all the words.

dang funny anyway

[cybogoblin]

I think that is probably a good thing. Watch this video again in about 10 years time and you might get them all.

(And it will still be funny, then, too!)

[Metilma1]

What the hell kind of English did they teach us in school? I have more than ten years of studying English behind me, a Cambridge Proficiency Certificate and still, only two words in ten were actually in my vocabulary.

Brilliant stuff, because even though I hardly got *what* they were saying, I cracked up laughing. Gotta love 'em.

[BianceIcaras]

That's actually the purpose of the sketch: it's jibberish. See Stephen Fry: Guilty, it's on youtube somewhere on that kind of stuff, this is an example of it. :)

[marshall3kayx]

how dare you!

- thanks for uploading =]