Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie: The Subject of Language

From season one of "A Bit of Fry & Laurie".

• Category

  Comedy

[greenjelly01]

I just came back to hear Stephen say "capable"

[ENVocalist]

"...my trousers." The way he said that...brilliant timing and inflection.

[lyadmilo]

I don't know what you are talking about but Tourette's syndrome is very real, albeit very different from it's usual media portrayal. It usually is just muscle ticks, or compulsive gesturing. But it is real.

[lyadmilo]

Stephen Fry is the only man that can make me laugh till I cry, over the inherent silliness of the word "capable" and then, within three minutes, have me crying legitimately over his blisteringly pure love of language.

[zoerickard]

It's Tourette's not tourettes, and it is real. Most people who present with it have much smaller symptoms than something like in 'Duce Bigalo: Male Gigalo' where the woman screams expletives out a car window. It can often present as seemingly compulsive eye blinking. But good to know, through you, that ignorance still exists in the youtubes!!

[neel dee]

ca-paa-bble

[archerheartgirl]

Well, this is great!!!

[Bernard Black]

stephen is a wizard with words

[sam johnstone]

there is no such thing as tourettes,its just a label dumb asshole kids get from our white liberal society-if they brought back caning in schools it would get rid of all these disruptive attention seeking kids

[ISeriouslySuck]

As a touretter and fan of linguistics I love Stephen for his marvellous example of the scope of the possibilities of the English language. It was also so fucking funny I nearly pissed myself.

[RealXFool]

00:31 ...Capable...