As Stephen Fry says in his autobiography, the Saturday Live audiences were more interested in how their hair would like on TV than anything happening on the stage.

@vaishnaviyadav4334

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂wow

Dude, I hate going to goodbye parties because of these speeches! But if they all turned out like this one, I might go more often!

They've nailed businessman bullshit and bravado to a T

Corporate Sales execs are such shy and retiring creatures ,aren't they.

2:18 "Part of a push to get a chocolate knob into every mouth in the Arabian Gulf" - priceless! :-D

0:09 Synchronised pants!

Oh whoops. Oh whoops... Oh whoops

Jude Law said that kissing Fry in 'Wilde' was one of the best onscreen kisses he's ever done. Said his lips were very soft.

@rheinhartsilvento2576

2 жыл бұрын

Did he?

@lindawetherby837

2 жыл бұрын

Oooh lovely

So young. So brilliant. Adore both of them. I feel as though I am commenting on a Charles in Charge episode, perhaps a bit late to the gate. But this is genius in precisely the way Charles in Charge was not.

@cautionTosser

Жыл бұрын

what an odd comparison.

This is on Spotify podcast.. i discovered it today. While listening to this segment, I really missed their faces and expressions. Thank You, KZread . 💜😎

OMG I have never seen this one! thank you for posting

God how good they are.

"He was in Bahrain, which is a pretty bloody place to be!" : Derek and Clive, "Squatter and the Ant".

British comedy at its best!LOL!

Best of british comedy - ever!!

"Neither am I" *But I was*

Thanks!

You think you've seen it all, then they finish a sketch by snogging on the floor. BOYS. :DD

A friend, but more than that a colleague.

This video was uploaded less than 2 years after KZread had its first video, which was apparently 10 years ago yesterday on April 24th, 2005.

@Richard_is_cool

9 жыл бұрын

NormanMatchem Yes, why this video.......

@Xezlec

5 жыл бұрын

This comment was made 3 years, 4 months ago, which was apparently 10 years after KZread got its first video.

@franzliszt8090

5 жыл бұрын

Xezlec this comment was made 4 months ago. Approximately 2 and a third years after the first comment was made

@Blackfyre_93

3 ай бұрын

@@franzliszt8090This comment was made 5 years ago. Approximately 2 and two-third years after the first comment was made

It wasn’t a worry about budget…I knew I could get a budget out of John

@christheghostwriter

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know why, but that was my favorite line

brilliant

How have I never seen this before?

wow though that kiss was definitely fake, it was still hot

I have the same problem with my shift. Sometimes it makes me seem more excited than I AM.

The wild dogs of retail!

I don’t know how they were able to do this typecasting when they did not work in ‘industry’, but it still stands true, more or less

@Microtherion

3 жыл бұрын

I gave that a like just for being recent. It's true though. Their conferences are also very similar to those 'networking' events. Halfway between a Bafta ceremony and a religious cult meeting. Actually, those are probably *all* the same thing, ultimately... Also when scientists describe their colleagues before a talk. I don't know how those colleagues don't just throw up all over the desks. Every time one replies sarcastically - like 'I, on the other hand, have always found Professor Dinkeldorf to be a vacuous self-promoting trust-fund dweeboid, and I have no regard for his work' - I believe that angels dance around on the clouds and scatter the earth with good things. :)

this is the funniest thing ever

They need to end sketches by making out more often.

I can see all of Stephen Fry's body 😍

sales managers are such shy and retiring creatures aren't they.

it was, erotic on so many levels

@ingahauks As I recall this was from "Saturday Live" circa 1986

OH GOD, so do i !

Stop at 1:57 and look at Hugh's face xD

@carolsnook4659

4 жыл бұрын

Lol brilliant

because they would usually stop filming before they got to that point...

@Sievr Because they essantially write it themselves? Yes. :)

I wonder where these smooth-lipped corporate confectionery high-fliers are based out of now? Sure, we know what happened to Betty Tomlinson two years on, but this question is a knob that still needs turning. Nutters!

You're giving me a lump.

Working out of Leicester.

@Sievr - Yeah, like that's gonna stop them =]

To nod to black added though with Darling

That's hot.

Is Stephen trying an American accent? It's so terrible, I love it.

@SomeRandomGuyOnYouTube

8 ай бұрын

No, he's parodying the American mannerisms adopted by these small-time executives. Like the way they say "based out of " instead of just "based in", and the US sports phrases they use. British people adopting American ways is a recurring theme with Fry & Laurie. Ironic in Hugh's case, I suppose.

@Pagliacci_Rex

8 ай бұрын

@@SomeRandomGuyOnKZread I was just having a go at his accent. What made you think I didn't understand the jokes?

Young Fry looked a lot like Drew Barrymore. Is it just me?

@steverhodesvideos6244

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, just you

If you hit 1 over and over, it sounds like Hugh says "spank."

6 years, 8 months = 80 months.

@Coccinelf

6 жыл бұрын

They say that? I heard 18 and I wondered why it was funny!

@David-ud9ju

5 жыл бұрын

No, they do say 18. That's why only 1 deranged woman laughed. Stephen also delivered the line really well.

I wonder if they ever cracked the Uttoxeter market?

Seen the audience at the end? I think their faces are bored (I am shocked by that, the show is awesome :)

Referencing a dead British airline truly dates this sketch - BCal

@frankshailes3205

3 жыл бұрын

So?

@TheCaptScarlett

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankshailes3205 no So is Graham Norton's production company. The airline is British Caledonian

@frankshailes3205

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCaptScarlett Yes I know. So what?

@TheCaptScarlett

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankshailes3205 I make the observation that the sketch references a now-defunct airline, has placing its performance pre-1988. The use of BCal over say British Airways, I would conjecture, is based on Laurie's character trying it on with a stewardess and BCal's ad campaign based on the Beach Boys "California Girls' with the strap line 'I wish they could all be Caledonian girls' . Other references in the sketch that date it was the bragging about using a car phone. Precision comedy of its time. That is what. Thanks for commenting.

@frankshailes3205

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCaptScarlett Everything is "of its time" I suppose.

That is so disturbing, yet eerely erotic and somehow giving me the tingles.

"Neither am I." ---- really Stephen?

Wow, I've never seen this before. that WAS hot! and I hope they have made out before, that would seriously make my day...actually, more like make my life!

Seems like that is just britishness, and 90s audiences, bit like 'whos line is it anyway?'.GOod point though, it's fucking awesome!!

@robalexander8065

Жыл бұрын

Mid-1980s Saturday Live.

He's an Arab

This...doesn't seem funny. Am I missing something?

@jamesrockybullin5250

5 жыл бұрын

The script-writer deliberately writes rubbish jokes and stories to poke fun at corporate humour. Of course these sales execs aren't funny: that's not their job. The sketch is steeped in irony, that's what makes it funny.

@carolsnook4659

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you are...

@dclark142002

Жыл бұрын

It's mocking a specific subset of industry / sales folks. If you've ever worked with that group, you recognize the parody of the usual good ol boy back slapping humor...

@Jotari

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesrockybullin5250 So it's funny because it's very intentionally not funny?

@jamesrockybullin5250

Жыл бұрын

@@Jotari The two "it's" in your comment are talking about different things. If you said "The sketch is funny because the jokes are very intentionally not funny" that would be correct. :D