Yellow Pages advert spoof- A Bit of Fry and Laurie- BBC Comedy

[Feitanyo]

i just show the advert hahahahaha

[BaronZiffer]

i would n't join with obama if it saved my life

[Applemask]

If they'd got Norman Lumsden to play the old guy, this would have been even better.

[Xxfancythat79xX]

hmmmmmmmm....since when did BBC have adverts??? Go to hell Youtube.

[j0shissocoollike]

@Xxfancythat79xX install AdBlock, I've not seen a YouTube advert for ages now ;)

[024Vishal]

For those who "don't get it", it's intended to humourise and simply to take the piss out off the original ad which must've been aired so often that it was that well known in Britain at the time. According to the ad, everyone fails to find whatever they're looking for and MUST come across and yellow pages and MUST order it through phone with their name.

Damn I lvoe Fry and Laurie, they can satarise and humourise anything and everything. Legends.

[dec8808]

Is the old fella the monkey priest in Fr. Ted? The one that Graham Norton's character was with in the plane episode?

[IRememberTheOldDays]

dont get it....

[VeroniqueCG]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

[mariekitu]

The new adress for the original ad :  /watch?v=QW08Pr5z7Gw

[ex2tt7yaa2vy9dyhvw5u]

@existenceisrelative @stevebritgimp  they've changed Youtube's comments renderer so now it parses each word and automatically adds an invisible word-break tag in it, in our case this tag is placed between X and 8 in the end of the video code, and that causes an error. So when you copy-paste the above URL into an address bar and manually delete it, everything works fine. You can also delete all "X8" part and re-type it. This is not anyhow related to country restrictions.

[bennythenoob]

I don't get it. And I watched the original.

[Keinlicht]

@bennythenoob The joke is that the original ad sold out the flyfishing book and the rest is just comedy..

[Seekmo22]

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA

Now that i've seen the original comercial, it's so much funnier

[MlTCHY]

lol

[EuskaltelEuskadi]

That old man is hilarious XD

[edv11nas]

now it all makes sense :D

[Tehtog]

They recenty remade this add in a modern settings



[magicarp79]

are all english people natural born comedians?

[lickstickly]

why the fuck am i paying for my tv license when BBC seem to be making money from adverts online now?

[BobTheMunificent]

Firefox + Adblock Plus = no more adverts. Anywhere (almost)...

[starwarsfreak1111]

Splendid!

[shelleybelley682]

For those of you who are trying to watch the original advert and are having problems (like me) put watch?v=abt6wGtWVX­8 in the search box. Hope this helps! :)

[SethHesio]

Ted Cunterblast.

[tomharding]

Stephen Fry is a god. 

[theSPUDereHD]

lol, they should do one of Day V Lately!!!

[corvette0084]

Real marketing 

[Phlegasus]

Since when did you pay for the youtube service?

[grahamisthebest9]

@WiseOwlOfGallifrey You always could try setting up your own global video sharing website and fund it completely on your own with absolutely no advertisment support if you liked?

[spinout3]

brilliant spoof

[jren207]

LOL

[93DOL]

lol very funny, a boy in my at college (did BTEC in media last yr) class did a spoof of the same advert, very funny indeed

[33Ona]

I love Stephen fry xxx

[englandmadethewest]

I love these guys and to think Hugh Laurie gave it all up for "House". How silly was that?

[93DOL]

@englandmadethewest yeah it was, this is way better than house I think

[himrawkz]

@englandmadethewest ah but there was Years between the two though

And his role in House in contrast with his earlier comedy work just demonstrates his supreme overall acting talent

[ELuhn]

I just realized, I haven't even *seen* any Yellow Pages in at least three years.

[Reinbeast]

@ex2tt7yaa2vy9dyhvw5u Thanks for the link. It's definitely better to watch the commercial first if you've never seen it.

[7SDice]

@ex2tt7yaa2vy9dyhvw5u

The link doesn't work :C

[Orlabobz]

@7SDice

It does, just type the code into the youtube box as you would anything else...

[7SDice]

@Orlabobz

I'm not technologically impaired, and it redirects me to the front page no matter what. Perhaps it's because I'm from a shit country?

[Orlabobz]

@7SDice

No I'm not saying that! I had the same prob at first.... but when I just put the code into the thing it gave me the video... only trying to help. And what, pray tell, is your shit country?

[existenceisrelative]

@ex2tt7yaa2vy9dyhvw5u Your address/link thingy didn't work for me. Not sure if it's just altogether broken. Alls I know is that it didn't work for me.

[stevebritgimp]

@existenceisrelative youtube.com/watch?v=abt6wGtWVX­8

[existenceisrelative]

@stevebritgimp It's the same address and it still doesn't work for me. Just sends me to the main youtube page.

[stevebritgimp]

@existenceisrelative Worked fine for me - odd one. Usual problem I get is that some TV channel wants to stop me looking at something in my country. Yellow pages advert ought to be openly available, but who knows on this site.

[psypants]

@stevebritgimp doesn't work for me either. and I know the message you're referring to about being blocked in your country, but I don't get that message, just goes straight to homepage!! weird..

[ZeroTolerance4BS]

lol that was great!

[iserra75]

dr. house!

[Omnomnomnnom]

The old man is brilliant.

[ImmmyyyTheCowww]

PAGES!

[lynnb66]

Very funny !! If you like the original join the J R Hartley page on Facebook - just search for J R Hartley - probably the best Yellow Pages advert ever !! :-)

[helpthepoorstruggler]

The actual advert is on Youtube!! With the music and everything. Just search J R Hartley!

[helpthepoorstruggler]

LOL! Blast from the past, I remember both the advert and this sketch. Brill.

[bbBumble28]

i like the old man. good actor

[Hydermard]

'You do?!...Splendid...'

[lucke001]

is that still the same person of the 1983 commercial?? :O

[litlemadguitarist]

Adverts really are like this most of the time!! lol

[JDLupus]

Oh, man, a blast of nostalgia and a killer punchline at the same time...!

[emilybyeight]

=P Oh man, I love these guys!

[TheDaredare2]

lol, had to watch it twice to get it... good stuff

[worotan]

There was an advert in the 80s that this is a spoof of. The customer was in the advert, getting book shop numbers from the phone book (yellow pages) to try and get a copy of his book.

I used to love A Bit Of Fry & Laurie, one of the few good things from the 89s. The scripts book is great too!

[Phavonic]

Is there an an actual script book of the shows available? There should be....

The great thing about this show was that there was a slight surreal element to the dialogue.

[worotan]

Yes there is a scripts book, and it's well worth it. They set the mise-en-scenes very wittily. Dunno if it's still around, tho'.

[JohnEllery]

probably best to try on abe books.

second hand books from bookshops all over the world.

There are loads of fry+laurie books on there for 60p

[CheesesPeaks2U]

'Fly-Fishing' by JR Hartley.

[SweetDissident]

ROFL!!!!

[Prokaryon]

Funny. Also funny how Laurie's head has become more hairy over the last 20 years.

[MrsRichardArmitage]

LOL

[SneverusSnapers]

Yes, Jeeves and Wooster is hilarious, and ead the books if you haven't...although, Jeeves and Wooster is one of the few TV programmes that beat the books... they are that good! What they do is encorporate about 5 seperate stories into one episode...it makes it even more difficult a situation to escape from!

[alaswoeisme]

I didn't quite get the end. :(

[ImeldaLumos]

Haha, the old man plays a role in "Jeeves and Wooster", they recruit persons from all TV series they appeared in around that time - which isn't very illogical, I suppose.

I found this sketch very curious, same goes for all the other sketches by Fry/Laurie.

And I love curious.

Somehow, I really like the way he says: "Splendid", wagging his finger... It's like finding a little Donald Trefusis in him.

[BigLee92]

hahahahahaha classic j.r hartley......

[666satanification666]

I don't get it...

[BritGirlJay]

Years ago there was a Yellow Pages advert with an old guy who 'wrote' fly fishing' (his name was JR hartley) - it was a very popular advert and it got spoofed to death. This is very 'of the time' and 'UK audience' specific

[666satanification666]

I'm from the UK, but apparently not old enough to get the joke. Ah well.

[BritGirlJay]

if you search youtube for j r hartley you should find the ads :) (there were 2 or 3 I think)

[donepearce]

The campaign took hold so deeply that in the end somebody actually had to write the book. Don't know if it is still in print, though.

[donepearce]

Sorry to reply to myself, but it is available from Amazon.

[whyaretherenoneleft]

It was a bestseller for years because of the ads.

[AwdreeHpburn]

Yankees?

hahahahahaha - wow

[rocker1407]

we are, blackadder rocks!!!

tough call: is hugh laurie better as an iddiot leftennant or a gimpy, saRCASTIC DOCTOR

[RasMajnouni]

He's more enjoyable in comedy and I've see most, but I didn't ever watch "House" after half an hour. I've seen other people suffer in real life tv is cyber,and I'd rather be with them than watch a figment on tv.

[lulululuqtqt]

He was great in Blackadder, but I prefer him as House. I dunno why.

[efagels]

no he's better in the classics

[lulululuqtqt]

Over all I prefer him in this.

But that's just my OPINION.

[RasMajnouni]

Look at Happy Hugh, and then see how disgruntled he is on the melodramatic "House" thing.Hugh can do drama and comedy, but look how antimated he is here, and the many other comedy shows that he's done for years.I hope the Yankees are watching "Black Ader"

[LMT784]

really?

[RasMajnouni]

Now I know where my favourite red and black flannel shirt { bought in 1974} is.

Stephan Fry is wearing it.

[xojeckiaxo]

i like hugh in that red sweater..... =]

[mrlc59]

haha i love how there's nothing on the shelves.

[lamasarecool101]

i have this season on dvd:D

[ellboy10101]

You do? Splendid. (shakes finger)

[freshdarkstar]

obscure as hell if you didnt watch TV in the early 90's in england

[saintee1000]

If you watched it in Scotland, Wales or N Ireland you will be alright too ;)

[XxGoCrazyGurlxX]

i have a good escuse for not watching Hugh & laurie in the early 90's

[HUNDOLOS]

"Hugh & laurie?" :P Once my friend, who wasn't very interested, called them Stephen & Fry XD

[XxGoCrazyGurlxX]

lol sorry i always do that!! its really annoying

[orphedeliaXimmortal]

that old guy could really act! <3 that was brilliant!!

[cherryberry360]

CUTEST OLD MAN EVER!!!

[bindiyay]

SOooo good - I remember watching the original ads as a child. It's so funny hearing Oxbridgers Hugh and Stephen doing a 'working class' accent!

[wisteela]

Brilliant.

[maverickdbd]

roger roger roger roger roger

[MVeyn]

haha!! hugh laurie's just great

[eagillum]

okay I just looked up the original yellow pages advert and it makes so much more sense now.

[papalevies]

And here it is: watch?v=abt6wGtWVX8

[arul20]

thanks =)