I get worried whenever laurie says good morning.

@roguishpaladin

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Dalliard! We've been activated!

@cogtroper

4 жыл бұрын

Let's detonate our relatives and fly to Dover.

@staalman1226

4 жыл бұрын

Then we'll get on a goods train carrying cattle bound for Minsk.

@cobblestonegenerator

4 жыл бұрын

This comment chain is beautiful.

@peteandurnot

4 жыл бұрын

Comrade Stalin in rude health I trust???

I knew a guy like this once. He was a barber.

@gamagenin

9 жыл бұрын

arbitterm I assume you are referring to one of the first Fry and Laurie sketches.

@arbitterm

9 жыл бұрын

Emil Hardersen You kinda kill the joke when you spell it out like that...

@DrZaius3141

6 жыл бұрын

Did said barber ever cut your hair? And if so, which one?

@Znex2718

6 жыл бұрын

Really? I knew a fellow like this who was a Russian ag---I mean, model airplane shop owner. I heard he's planning a trip over to Dover.

@Vahki100

4 жыл бұрын

I once knew of an owner of a most fine establishment for shoe ill-repute.

I love it when Fry plays the silly, impossibly eloquent guy, it's golden

@ReallyTwistedHumor

9 жыл бұрын

He's like Alfred from Batman on drugs....it's awesome

@bfkc111

5 жыл бұрын

Wrong.

@GhostinTube

5 жыл бұрын

Jeeves

@sebastianboeddinghaus3505

4 жыл бұрын

Geardirector Its coz he is normally

@MGR99

3 жыл бұрын

Plays?

I love his use of language, he says the strangest of sentences, but makes them sound fabulous.

"He's upstairs in the Cellar"

@silviasanchez648

4 жыл бұрын

That bit is quite creepy... xD

@pleaseexcusemyenglish6219

4 жыл бұрын

@@silviasanchez648 only if he is an Austrian

"You really should talk to father he's upstairs in the cellar." I love how easily they just pass right over that beautifully absurd comment.

-And if two broad-shouldered long-fingered young men such as ourselves can come independently to the conclusion that the morning they are currently experiencing is one of a goodness, then one of a goodness it most assuredly is.

"You'll humor a dying man" always kills me

Stephen Fry can recite a sentence half a mile long in one breath but he nearly suffocates from laughter due to the Acropolis where the Parthenon is. What a strange world we live in.

@samarvora7185

2 жыл бұрын

What do they saaaaayyy....

@liamwalsh4008

5 ай бұрын

🎶About the acropoliiiiissss... ?🎶

I love how "your earth pounds" is glossed over

Watched Fry & Laurie hundreds of times, yet I always notice something new each time. Just realised at the very start, he's polishing his hands :D

@ashari3506

4 жыл бұрын

Well spotted! I absent-mindedly noted it as very over-enthusiastically wiping the bottle clean. Although I suppose both are nutty enough pastimes for Fry's eloquent nutcases :D

@bertranwalker6524

Жыл бұрын

if not for your comment i would never notice that

I could listen to Stephen Fry talk like this all day.

@caramurad

4 жыл бұрын

there are audiobook series of him on youtube you can give it a try actually

@mikejonesnoreally

2 жыл бұрын

@@caramurad I do. :3

@emmeeemm

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, but after the day is over, when do you think you would get to hear the end of the sentence that he began that day you were listening to him talk like this?

@dropbearkellyevehammond4446

9 ай бұрын

As could I ❤

Fry's lines remind me of those "written by a bot" stories.

@InvisiblerApple

4 жыл бұрын

Someone should write a script page after allegedly making a bot watch 1000 hours of Fry & Laurie.

@baronmeduse

2 жыл бұрын

Oddly it doesn't remind me of anything like that at all.

"There is a sweet shop not two miles way from here..." Considering the way these sketches go, I'm willing to bet that means the distance is something like ten miles. Not two miles, in other words.

@aakksshhaayy

8 жыл бұрын

***** 2 miles as the crow flies but in actuality a winding road that take 10 miles

@jainayak666

5 жыл бұрын

But I don't think it's the distance aspect of that joke that has been focused upon. Rather, the fact that Fry would even think about going to a sweet shop, for a customer, that is still a decent distance away, with the customer actually waiting at the shop. All ties in with the knowledge that Fry is actually smitten by Laurie and is just acting out of infatuation. I know this comment is old. I just found the topic very interesting ..

This is batshit insane in the best possible way

You know it's going to be a good sketch when Stephen's character refers to Hugh's character as "Sir."

LOL. The man who speaks in written English.

@willowarkan2263

4 жыл бұрын

Written with a thesaurus sitting open on a dedicated stand, by candle light, on a stormy night.

@petervaneno4045

3 жыл бұрын

Plain flavored English

This is, so far, the Stephen-Fry-est Stephen Fry I've ever heard. Absolutely peak. He demonstrates an incredible command of the English language, excellent skill in speaking any of these sentences, and a beautiful comedic presentation through it all. Now, I'm going to spend the rest of my life wondering if this is the best of Stephen Fry, or if the KZread Algorithm will serve up something even more quintessential.

@discordlexia2429

Жыл бұрын

I think the Barbershop skit is funnier, personally. Same character, though.

Stephen Fry: Quite brilliant in his insane delivery. How on earth does he remember all that dialogue without a stumble?

@Gongasoso

3 жыл бұрын

He wrote the thing

@imperialpatriot6693

3 жыл бұрын

And possible most is improv.

@baronmeduse

2 жыл бұрын

@@imperialpatriot6693 It's all written.

"You'll humour a dying man...." XD The frank delivery of Fry's most random and hilarious lines is awesome.

"Your Earth Pounds." I still use that.

Humor requires intelligence. These two are high on that.

"...which Sir would be so kind as to cast over with sir's eyes which I cannot help but noticing are of a lovely blue which would go very well with the wallpaper in one of my godniece's back rooms" ahahahahaaa :D

@rayaqin

5 жыл бұрын

Actually.. "..which I would ask sir to cast over with sir's eyes which i cannot help but notice are of a startling cobalt blue that would go very well with the wallpaper in one of my godniece's back rooms"

I tense up every time hugh says good morning now.

"Sir, I am chastened and bowed. Ever the man of affairs, sir has reminded us all, - all - of our duty." "I did sir; sir, I did." Just superb.

Teacher: "describe the subject in your own words, using at least 500 words or more"

Laurie: Good morning Fry: MR. DALLIARD, OH MR. DALLIARD DO COME QUICK.

@AlternateRealityMusic

3 жыл бұрын

I feel obligated to recognize that you’re hearting videos after 13 years.

Stephen Fry in the Mr Dalliard sketches is hilarious.

I was high the first time I saw this sketch. No lie I laughed so hard I was violently sick. These guys are pure class and they were ahead of their time.

@PlayNiceFolks

4 жыл бұрын

Haha I know the feeling!

@oliverlambkin3412

4 жыл бұрын

@@PlayNiceFolks I have fallen out of chairs while watching this stuff as I was laughing so hard...

What I always remember most about this show is the sense of comic misdirection taken to the absolute extreme, and this is a classic example

Leaving? but we're engaged! HAHAHA!!!

ok stephen fry is an absolute genius

The thing about Fry & Laurie is, that there was never someone like them and there still hasn't been someone like them. It's just so uniqe and fresh :D

how is it possible that the more I watch this, the harder I laugh? these two are pure genius.

Now I understand why Fry is the one narrating for the film "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". An absolutely perfect match.

0:49 "Did you?" This line is HILARIOUS!!

"He's upstairs, in the cellar." heheheh

Should've married him just to drive the relatives insane.

One of the funniest sketches ever, I nearly spat my gin out.

They do verbose inanity so well. Love it!! I can't believe I had forgotten how much I loved 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie' when I was younger. The fact that I haven't seen it on TV since its original airing may have something to do with it. I feel my memory has cheated me!... Oh well.... At least the continual repeats of 'Black Adder' reminds me of why I have such nostalgic affection for them both.

I love the gayness at the end, it bringeth light unto my earthbound heart

Seems like a weird nightmare Bertie Wooster would have in the middle of a crazy caper (though nothing could be crazier than every aspect of the dream itself). Seriously, the most bizarre thing I've ever seen.

One of my favorite sketches of theirs : ) Thank you England!!! You've provided me most of my favorite things!

Stephen Fry is just plain amazing.

youtube captions is like 'im not doing that'

@Gongasoso

3 жыл бұрын

I'm convinced that when youtube auto captions can figure these sketches out, they come from an AI that has become worryingly smart

He's upstairs in the cellar hahahhaa

That is.. Brilliant.. Love the way Fry can play with the english language.. :D

That’s what YOU said , I barely spoke at all. 😆

Has to be one of the best sketches I've EVER seen! "Hilarity ensues" indeed :D

XD This progressed so obviously but it still had me laughing at the randomness of it all. Plus all the weird little one-liners thrown in all the time.

Fry is the original becomes increasingly verbose meme.

Stephen looks and sounds amazing

@missjones580

4 жыл бұрын

He looks quite handsome.

@complexlittlepirate3589

4 жыл бұрын

He was indecently gorgeous in his young years

"'Here is a morning, O mother of my bosom,' I overred, 'as fine and crisp and gutty as any since the days that Compton and Edrich opened for England; and the sun never went down on the British without asking permission first.'"

@jj9749

5 жыл бұрын

averred, not overred

I really believe he knows what basic idea he wants to get across at the beginning of the sketch and then he makes most of the dialogue up along the way.

"yes we've had sexual intercourse yes... not in a biblical sense" 🤣🤣 oh dear lord when he said "just tell me the freaking price" I completely lost it!

That end made me in tears 😂😂😂😂

"Since sir has been kind enough never to be Peter Sissens..." ;D

Brilliant, just brilliant!

This gives me such an Alice in wonderland Vibe

@xarastewartmusic

3 жыл бұрын

YES. The humor is completely Lewis Carroll-esque

It's insane how many great lines are in this video

'He's upstairs in the cellar' Genius XD

What is the moral of this story? Do not tell ''good morning'' to Stephen Fry.

"40,000 of your earth pounds." Is he an alien, too? XD

@gracenewsom4694

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be surprised.

Love watching these clips. Not sure how i got here, but love them. So very sad that these times will never come back with nowadays “humor”

This must be how the TOEFL listening sounds like to foreign students.

@zeppelincraft1443

3 жыл бұрын

“Would you like an opal fruit?”

@mubislevent4215

Жыл бұрын

@@zeppelincraft1443😂😂😂

That ending!

"Upstairs in the cellar". 😀😂 I'd say "Downstairs in the Attic."

"I don't have an opal fruit On Me !" xD

Hugh Laurie's rather attractive here. :) "You really should speak to father, he's upstairs in the cellar." Haha, genius.

This is brilliant

Seeing the setup, I kept waiting for Fry to call to Mr. Dalliard.

pommy comedy is the best timeless..

This is so duxking funny.

I'm Swedish so I don't know if it's an actual expression but "the sun never went down on the British without asking for permission" is a hell of a great quote.

So good.

He's just upstairs in the cellar. * hippity hop *

@saytheremeg ...and when he says "you should talk to father-- he's upstairs in the cellar" :)

Sir is as dogged in his pursuit of detail as Roy Walker, presenter of the never popular Catchphrase, is dogged in his pursuit of a thick earlet. Heh heh heh briiiiiliiiant!!!

Those skits are great to test your level of fluency in English language. At low level of understanding Shakespeare's tongue you fell like it's all gibberish. Few levels higher and you understand it is, in fact, gibberish.

I certainy wish I could enunciate my english in such a manner as Fry.

"I'm getting engaged next week" ROFL

“ Father is upstairs in the cellar”

@livvyxo Oh, alright. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I appreciate that.

I think you must be right. He's clever enough to do exactly that.

Long winded for no reason 😂😂😂 so beautifully bizarre

Hugh is too cute

I half expected him to, after receiving the 218 pounds to say something like: "The ring will be a thousand pounds. I gave you the price for 218 pounds, the price of the ring is a thousand pounds".

@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg

3 жыл бұрын

Two hundred AND eighteen pounds.

Ok, I can't help seeing Hugh Laurie trying to have a conversation with General Melchett.

I would be equally at fault if I were to let it go for less than 90.

Real comedy

genius.

Well, this was... someting. :D

some one could tell me please what saing in the second 2:02 i can hear than say( i went belong) what is that mean if some one could tell me, i barely start learn english and is difficult for me the listening

@DerMannII

6 жыл бұрын

Close, but it's, "I won't be long"

@nombre1213

6 жыл бұрын

ohhh i see, now all have sense thank you

"Do you mind if you stand up sir . I think , perhaps your sitting down idea was ahead of it's time " The comic sketch portraying these two genius gentlemen, sure did take me through certain hilarious insights of their well crafted sapid jocund having nourished and nurtured with umpteen moments of jovial interaction which indeed was supported with the very judicious and prudent stuffings of sheer humourous spells which rather led to the promising smiles and gradually took some steep turns through the valley named 'Laughter' and steadily manged itself to accelerate on the path of bright eyed and bushy tailed tarmac addressed as " Laughed to Death" and wished to carry on seamlessy with spontaneous jerks of utmost hilarity ......................................

@mubislevent4215

Жыл бұрын

I see you are well steeped in their brand of humor. Well done!

One really needs to watch this a few times to really catch everything they've actually said... 'Youngest of my mothers"??? xDDD Even the public didn't realize that! xDDD

Wait. Hilaire Belloc is dead?

I just discovered that Opal Fruit is what they call Starburst in England

Never say good morning to Stephen Fry. The answer might require a Oxford degree to understand or if he be in a generous mood a very very slow repeat for the common man. 😅🤣🤣🙏 Cant wait to finish my studies and settle down on the Island where the sun must ask permission to set. If the English has a little nook for a South African to call home that is and become Her majisty's subject well and surely.

There is a sweetshop but two miles from here, I shall get you some Opal Fruits

His father is upstairs - in the cellar? :D