A Discussion of Language

The British television show "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, explores the English langage. Either listen intently to Fry's brilliance or watch Laurie's inability to pay attention.

Category:

Comedy

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• hugh
• laurie
• stephen
• fry
• british
• humour

[snakesruleLMR]

This clip has intrigued and taught me more than the five months I've spent studying linguistics at university. I wish my teachers were more like Stephen.

[BlackJokerLady]

Stephen Fry can make me orgasm by his voice alone.

[tommytigerpants]

"Language is a hulk of a charred Panzer." This, this will stay with me.

[Wheelsgr]

Happily I've seen all of this in my Philosophy of Language classes but to see it made comic is wonderful. He's just throwing away rich ideas as if they are nothing, it's fascinating to watch.

[animagus1]

At 5:26, Stephen says 'Hush, tish and vibble.' He said that same thing once on QI, one of my favorite shows ever.

[umopap]

I watch Stephen Fry's videos originally to learn something, but I end up being awed and have to watch the video again, that was 3 years ago.

[slashfilledmind]

I love you, don't go in there, get out, you have no right to say that, stop it, why should I, that hurt, help, Margery is dead.

XD

[mspeter97]

I lost Stephen near the end!

[tangent272]

Stephen Fry is my own personal QED for the possibility of re-incarnation.

Oscar Wilde was taken from us before his time and like Socrates it was reasonable to expect that we would not soon see his like again. But the fates were kind and we got a second chance. Here he is.

Of course, re-incarnation, by its nature, is typically not into someone so similar and/or generally not quite so soon. But then, this is Wilde we're talking about here, of course he wouldn't do it the conventional way.

[MixMadMen]

Stephen could run any rapper into the ground.

[lyadmilo]

I can no longer say "extrinsically" a single time.