The "I didn't catch that" joke is quality, and they breezed right past it like it was nothing.

@NPzed

Жыл бұрын

It was nothing. He hadn't thrown it yet!

@StephenS-2024

Жыл бұрын

Ah, Quality....reminds me of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.

@anathamon

Жыл бұрын

@@StephenS-2024 that book should have been called “western philosophy and the art of bad parenting”

@StephenS-2024

Жыл бұрын

@@anathamon ha! That's good.

@srikaneator

Жыл бұрын

that WAS INDEED NOTHING when compared to the line "it's because i'm dumb, isn't it sir"

Every line of this scene was more unpredictable than the last.

And I'd be alive today

@jean-louistixier-vignancou3211

Жыл бұрын

😁😁

“You can’t come because you’re a bastard and we all hate you!” Epic.

"I'm blind and deaf, so they cancel each other out" is almost like Norm MacDonald's "I'm a deeply closeted gay man" bit.

These two are very much the masters of wit and cleverly written dialogue…good on em’

"lets die for Fry who may or may not be born one day" would be such an awesome phrase to motivate soldiers with

@rmac3217

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like a marching song, Left my wife in New Orleans, To die for Fry and eat fried beans, Left, Left, Left Right Left

There's something hilarious about seeing a young Dr. House claiming that his deafness and blindness are cancelling each other out.

@John_Ridley

Жыл бұрын

I didn't see an episode of House until years after I had been a fan of Laurie's comedy career. Imagine how hilarious it is to see one of your favorite comedians playing Dr. House.

@makkapakka2098

Жыл бұрын

Never even occurred to me that obviously in some places people will have only seen Hugh Laurie as House. Absolute quality

@jordlopez

Жыл бұрын

@@makkapakka2098 that was me until very recently, he was only House and Stuart Little's dad

@RabbiHerschel

Жыл бұрын

@@jordlopez I haven't seen that movie since I was a wee lad, was he really in that? He was also Major -- de Coverley in the Hulu Catch-22 miniseries, which I quite liked. (It didn't follow the book too closely, which is alright since doing a one-to-one adaptation of that kind of book is practically impossible. Heller didn't mind things being changed in adaptation. In fact, he thoroughly enjoyed the 1970 movie adaptation, making him one of the seven people who did.)

@jordlopez

Жыл бұрын

@@RabbiHerschel yeah, I distinctly remember rewatching Stuart Little a few years back and being like: "House is his dad? Really?" And there was no way I could misremember such an anomaly lol

The great thing about them's that they're equally funny.

@ianbrewer4843

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@ginabrogan1825

Жыл бұрын

Nope laurie is funnier

My grandfather’s battle blouse was shot clean thru the temple, yet the bullet bounced off his cigarette case which saved his life, but he was nevertheless killed 30 seconds later in his escape attempt because he was half blind and partially deaf with a penchant for tripping over chairs, but all of that was irrelevant as he promptly expired from a… Thus, a Fry & Laurie skit is born.

This is why I carry my cigarette case on my head.

@Voodoo_Robot

Жыл бұрын

This is why i don’t smoke.

@Eralen00

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to tell you but that won't do anything to stop anything bigger than a pellet gun

@somewhatdubiouscontents

Жыл бұрын

@@Voodoo_Robot you won't be surviving any german snipers like that sonny

@rmac3217

4 ай бұрын

@@Eralen00 Really? What am I going to do with the bullet proof vest I made out of cigarette cases then?

never seen this one before...blessed be the algorithm for finally showing this. Just another Masterpiece of Comedy.

These two are treasures. I hope they realize how much happiness they’ve brought to the masses.

"if you pardon the pun" "what pun?" xD

"He was given it by his god-niece as a kind of 'loss-of-virginity' present"

Laurie does the best American accent of anyone I've ever seen or heard.

@roberthanlen6036

Жыл бұрын

Clint Eastwood's American accent was pretty good...

@renobeck1976

Жыл бұрын

How about Daniel Day Luis?

@flynnlivescmd

Жыл бұрын

How about Laurie?

@Bumbley1

Жыл бұрын

It's because he's blind you see...

@findmurdock

Жыл бұрын

I never understood this observation. As House, he makes a drawn out meal out of every Amurican weurd. For excellent American accents done by Brits, Band of Brothers is the gold standard.

The scene they're spoofing from The Great Escape is so sad. This is hilarious.

The two together!!! Just perfect.

Their PG Wodehouse plays are hilarious.

@TampaDave

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely… “Wooster and Jeeves” is perfect. But maybe not better than Black Adder. That was a true Dream Team of Brit comedy.

@thichinhphan4010

28 күн бұрын

@@TampaDave The only Dream team of British comedy is Monty Python.

Their chemistry is off the charts!

Love the idea that because he’s blind and deaf each lost sense promotes the other, so logically he’s got perfect sight and hearing! 🙈🙉😆

@TOBAPNW_

Жыл бұрын

He has amazing sight and hearing, he just can't use it 😂

@loge10

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it's that funny- it's actually my own situation...

@silversolver7809

Жыл бұрын

@@loge10 Congrats, I wish I had perfect sight and hearing.

@joedingo7022

Жыл бұрын

"logically"

Oh, thank you!!! I love both these guys so much.

It's so odd hearing him talk about his grandfather, knowing from "Who Do You Think You Are?" that his maternal grandfather was an Austro-Hungarian Jew from Vienna, who emigrated to England. His name was Neumann.

@General_Nothing

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but this was his grandfather on his parents’ side.

@shelbynamels973

Жыл бұрын

@@General_Nothing all grandfathers are on the parents' side.

@MerkhVision

Жыл бұрын

We’ll surely he wasn’t talking about his real grandfather here, it was likely made up for the skit!

@mikenicholas9017

Жыл бұрын

Nnnnueman...

"I lost my sense of smell while forging the minutest details of a thousand Nazi documents" That's a line from al fresco, fry and Lori's 1983 series with Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane.

Grandfather on my parents side absolute gold

Lol these guys are so out there for their time.

@sophitsa79

Жыл бұрын

For their time? They are exactly of their time. There was a lot of this style around then. They are out there for today, probably. Comedy is much more of the everyday now

@treebeard8475

Жыл бұрын

@@sophitsa79 yeah I guess it’s how ya look at it or how I worded that haha. It just hits my funny bone different than comedians of my day and it pleases me :)

5.25 minutes of brilliance.

@taowroland8697

Жыл бұрын

Actually that would be 5.41 minutes or thereabouts

The spirit of Python is strong in this one and it is exquisite.

Heavy“Blackadder goes forth” vibes there.

One of the greatest clips from ABOFAL

His grandfather could he be Melchett lol 😂

now this is funny!! the kind of British ‘humour’ i really like. thanks. :) 😋🌷🌱

Such a truely talented actor. Beautiful executed example of what the true meaning of the word 'dumb' actually means of which most do not know, yet wrongfully use everyday in every day speech.

@VestigialHead

Жыл бұрын

Wow really? I thought it was common knowledge that dumb had a medical meaning as well. Surprising. But I guess knowledge is often seen as a negative these days.

Fun fact few people know: some parts of this sketch were taken from the POW sketch in the older Fry & Laurie show Alfresco.

"Are you deaf?" "Yes, sir"

“My grandfather on my parents’s side”

I've not seen this one. And I've repeated DAMN and WE'VE BEEN ACTIVATED a hundred times.

Lmao that final line was absolutely brilliant!

Masterpiece

Strange to see them so young. Love Fry as Wilde and Laurie as House MD, I think that's the best of both of them.

@buckcherryfan1000

Жыл бұрын

did you not see Jeeves and Wooster?

@barcode8459

Жыл бұрын

_Jeeves and Wooster_ is unequivocally Fry & Laurie's greatest work. _Blackadder_ is a riot as well.

"So the Great War and World War II were just vast entertainments laid on for your benefit, were they?"

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

''Well when you put it that way... yes''.

A cigarette case can be opened and close- Audience: "-HHAAAHAHAHAHAACHAAHCHAHH"

I wonder if it part of the joke that Hugh calls Stephen Sir despite them being equivalent ranks.

Brilliant!

Or battle blouse

This start reminded me of Christopher Walken's Gold Watch monologue.

I literally almost did a spit take watching this.

If his grandfather wore the cigarette case on his temple he'd just have bits of tobacco in his brain instead of just lead. That's like 1.5mm sheet metal, an 8mm Mauser would go through that like a piece of tissue paper

Begging forgiveness. But I can only take Stephen Fry in small doses, which is uniquely difficult as he is quite a large man. 🤣🤣🤣

Cheers jake :D brilliance XD

He did have a mum ! And a dad !

the laughs are so bought

Who is giving electric knives to the prisoners?

"... and I'd be alive today." Wait, What?

Any attempt at analizing the humour here fails, absurdism is at absurd levels. "my grandfather on my parents' side' sets the stage

@hashbrown777

Жыл бұрын

Idk, honestly that's the one joke that's almost something you could ordinarily say; it specifies that it's neither of your grandfather-in-laws.

@benwu7980

Жыл бұрын

@@hashbrown777 :) I guess that's what I mean about analizing their jokes.

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

''And I'd be alive today''.

My dad was a ww2 sniper ! And I’m alive

Was this improvised? Feels brilliantly "Yes, and..."

@don_5283

Жыл бұрын

You can see Fry almost trip over one of his lines. It's scripted, but that doesn't diminish it at all.

He’s only got a bad limp in his House now

The first part is just kindergarten show and tell

@MartinHiggins1972

2 жыл бұрын

But done by a adult comic genius.

Tarantino borrowed this it seems.

Did this inspire Tarantino to the watch story - i think - told in Pulp Fiction to young Bruce Willis?

1:50 this is where population ethics comes from

Great entertainers and masterful subversive humor! Probably lost on an audience that laughs at literally every word regardless.

@jeffreyjeziorski1480

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like what we Yanks refer to as a "laughtrack"....cue Dr Evil air quotes

what episode is this? and what series? someone tell me the detail of this clip please?

@avinotion

6 жыл бұрын

The show's name: A Bit of Fry and Laurie. That's all I know

@DarthGTB

5 жыл бұрын

Check the video's description

It's never lupus

Lindybeige humor

I wonder if this sketch was made after Blackadder IV, given the bit about war skits being in bad taste.

@sophitsa79

Жыл бұрын

I think it was about a decade earlier

Wow. Didn’t know Dr. House could be this funny.

@Banzybanz

2 жыл бұрын

One of the best British comedy duos of all time

@peterhunt4818

Жыл бұрын

Not just funny, but a talented comedy writer as well. He and Fry co-wrote these skits. Laurie's comedic timing in House is flawless, and his acceptance speeches at awards shows are hilarious.

@kamion53

Жыл бұрын

a some point Hugh Laurie decided to stop playing comedy and started acting in serious roles. The first of those role I saw him was as the grumpy husband of a hysterical Emelda Staunon in Sense and Sensibility with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.

@HootOwl513

Жыл бұрын

@@kamion53 Thus ruining a brilliant comedic career,

@alisonhill3941

Жыл бұрын

@@kamion53 Mr Palmer wasn't him deciding to stop doing comedy and doing serious roles - a) it's not a serious role (apart from the one line where he offers assistance to the Dashwoods, everything he does is deeply ironic; it's a comic part), b) that was filmed around the same time as the last series of ABOFAL, and he continued to do primarily comic roles for years after that, and c) he was invited to do it personally by Emma Thompson, his long-term friend (and former girlfriend) as basically a cameo.

Is the audience being gased with laughing gas?

That is what several of my ex girlfriends said - "you can't come because you are a bastard and we hate you".

3:43 was that scripted or not? Because I can't tell XD

@dars5229

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, it had to be. Saying "pardon the pun" when neither of them has made one is bit of a running gag for them.

@delta9685

3 ай бұрын

@@dars5229 Pardon?

Why does it sound so similar to monthy python?

@SwordsmanRyan

Жыл бұрын

They’re Britons.

@enthusedtosing9655

11 ай бұрын

Does it?

Escalation humor like this just makes no _sense._

FRY… just go away, already

Is this comedy? I don't speak British.

@Dilmahkana

Жыл бұрын

This is definitely a more weird, meta one.

@StephenS-2024

Жыл бұрын

@@Dilmahkana funny.

@Michael-dj6pd

Жыл бұрын

Are you per chance german?

@StephenS-2024

Жыл бұрын

@@Michael-dj6pd Ich bin Amerikaner.

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

@@StephenS-2024 That explains the lack of comedic understanding.

Daredevil's cameo in She-Hulk is amazing.

@Michael-dj6pd

Жыл бұрын

Are you sure you are on the right video?

@jeronimo196

Жыл бұрын

@@Michael-dj6pd it's a joke, don't worry about it.

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

@@jeronimo196 That whole show is a joke.

They didn’t die for you, Stephen; they died for Jesus.

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

And look where that got them... dead.

@aaroncabatingan5238

Жыл бұрын

That's a dumber reason to die

So funny I forgot to laugh. Uh.

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

It's alright , your from modern times, subtlety is not your strong point.

Astonishing how they put up with that inane, fake laughter back then.

@peteb1206

Жыл бұрын

That inane fake laughter was real laughter from an actual studio audience.

They're just too clever to generate funny. Because funny is simply not rational. These are properly educated men. They're not funny at all.

In the Anglostate, Stephen Fry will be experimented on as our foremost scientists attempt to de-gay and de-Jew him so that he may one day rejoin society.

Not funny

they laugh at literally everything he says? cringe AF

@enthusedtosing9655

11 ай бұрын

I don't see how that is cringe AF but to each their own..