If you'll pardon the pun, here is even more "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" here: bit.ly/2OJKqZD

@notmagicok7612

4 жыл бұрын

but, theres no pun there?

@D4K44R1

4 жыл бұрын

@@notmagicok7612 Isn't there one? Oh, I'm sorry...

@abrahamcano6195

3 ай бұрын

You're pardoned!

0:53 I like how Hugh's character is more puzzled by "fly to Dover" than by "detonate our relatives"

@stayforthepeelpronpls4774

4 жыл бұрын

JefGrailet The blooper reel shows multiple failed attempts at this part 😂

@paradise_valley

2 жыл бұрын

@@stayforthepeelpronpls4774 how can I find it

"Oh you are genuinely stupid. I do apologise." Words thought by every customer service person _ever._

@aosagi79

2 жыл бұрын

I have, when dealing with particularly annoying customers, used the line: "We do try to accommodate our customers, but not being a hotel, we find it almost impossible" repeatedly, and with malice-aforethought. Until i my Scottish supervisor overheard me doing it, almost busted a gut suppressing his laughter, and then told me to never do that again. After which I referred to him as Mr Dalliard, and he menacingly dubbed me Arnold. In retail, you get your laughs in where you can.

@baronmeduse

2 жыл бұрын

These days it's thought more about the customer 'service' person.

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

@@aosagi79 Your boss seems like a lad. I hope he's not in rude health.

@RaynmanPlays

5 күн бұрын

Are you sure you want to use this sketch as an allegory? Because... yeah. Stupid people generally think that about people smarter than they are.

I like how this implies that either this shop hasn't had customers in 27 years (at least not any that say good morning) or this happens every time someone walks in.

@deadpan904

3 жыл бұрын

I thought same thing

@abbyalphonse499

3 жыл бұрын

The shop probably opens at 1pm

@hgjfkd12345

3 жыл бұрын

I think the implication is that it's a self deprecating joke about British being rude and never saying good morning

@ethanlivemere1162

3 жыл бұрын

@@hgjfkd12345 Like that "Northener terrifies Londoners by saying hello" video?

@theodorepinnock1517

2 жыл бұрын

@@hgjfkd12345 What? The British stereotype is that we're polite and formal to the point of stuck-upishness. The only people stereotypically more polite than us are the Canadians!

" Let me ask a different question in the same way" - a wonderfully ridiculous phrase...

“We do try to accommodate our customers, but not being a hotel we find it almost impossible.”

@thepayne7862

4 жыл бұрын

Just reading that line makes me laugh.

@agentul009

Ай бұрын

That's genius. 😂

"Mr. Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now!" Is perhaps my favourite line in the whole skit.

@iggysixx

8 ай бұрын

"..when your son turns out to be one of those 'drug jockeys' we're always reading about on television.." is a nice one too. So many hidden sillyness in this one :') Wednesday. "yes.. When's the day..?"

Fantastic acting by the actor playing mister Dalliard. Too bad he wasn't credited ;)

@kristianfischer9814

4 жыл бұрын

That was Derek Jacobi.

@Gongasoso

4 жыл бұрын

The lady rubbing it into Hugh's face with salt was credited tho.

@misterjder1.831

3 жыл бұрын

Rumors say it was Patrick Stewart himself

@peteandurnot

3 жыл бұрын

He was having a plate of water

@agamjaini

3 жыл бұрын

It was Drax, the destroyer. He was so incredibly still that you couldn't see him

Mr Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now! 🤣🤣🤣

I think I've watched this a hundred times and this is the first I've actually caught the line where Stephen says he and Mr. Dalliard were reading about people on television.

"A model aeroplane of water?" 😂😂🤣

He seems so concerned when he confirms “a model airplane of water”

Shame you cut the ending, when Steven Fry looks at the camera quizzically and says “Strange man!”

@stevetobin7495

2 жыл бұрын

They seem to cut the ending off many of them

Easily one of the best comedic shorts ever made. Stephen is brilliant with the non stop delivery. Such talent

0:21 The way Laurie breaks the fourth wall here is perfect!

The line about Comrade Milensky standing slightly to the left is such a silly little joke and i love it

“Mr Dalliard, I’ve gone peculiar now” 😂😂😂

The way Hugh slowly turns around when Stephen points at the imaginary woman in the corner gets me every time 😂😂😂

@PurtyPurple

Жыл бұрын

Mr. Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now!

*Legend has it that Mr. Dalliard is still walking towards Fry.*

I’ve decided to name my pet in the future Dalliard because of this sketch, would name a child but they wouldn’t sell me the one at the pet shop

@johanngamblepotty7445

2 жыл бұрын

Did you ask for locusts? They are equivalent after all

@Fofo-sr2xu

Жыл бұрын

All they offered me is a dead parrot.

I feel like they only gave Stephen a character whereas Hugh will just be himself

@musettemusic8261

4 жыл бұрын

Whereas themselves will transform untll they transfigure into eternity! 😀

@vivaldi1ett

4 жыл бұрын

They both wrote all the sketches, Hugh is better at acting the fool Or a drunk

@cupguin

4 жыл бұрын

It's comedy, Hugh Laurie is the straight man in this sketch. That's kinda standard...

@OperaLily

4 жыл бұрын

@@cupguin He's also the straight man in real life, but that's not related

@HelmutNevermore

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Stephen didn't tell Hugh it was a sketch at all.

Last time I was this early , Comrade Stalin was still in rude health

@danielholoweckyj9098

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Incidentally, I wonder how he is now?

@danielholoweckyj9098

4 жыл бұрын

@Krukov Von Königsberg No!

I can't wait for model shops to open again so I can have interactions like this.

3:28 I like how he just kept that under the counter 🤣🤣

I always laugh when I read this sketch on the television

@valentinabucibattorti9813

Ай бұрын

You've gone peculiar, now

@Bellpipe41

7 күн бұрын

Please post a different comment in the same way.

Every single second of this sketch is hilarious.

If I could spend my life working in an old school hobby shop like this one it would be a life not wasted.

Mr Dalliard! Command the earth the swallow me up!

"A model airplane full of water?!" 😂😂😂

I can’t listen to Mr Fry on QI for example without seeing him in these comedy shows, he has a fantastic precise voice

I think Mr Dalliard's acting is top notch, a veritable tribute to silent cinema, his performance is so subtle that you wouldn't be blamed for believing there was no one there.

I was screaming with delight and laughter at this one! The steady steam of misunderstandings peppered with insults in a very good English is just hysterical to listen to,

Just something about the way he says mr. Dalliard gets me every time.

This sketch is so great it almost brings a joyful tear to my eye.

LOVE HOW Stephen gets all Dadaesque

Now I have to work "ready-sliced golf shots" into my daily conversations.

Nearly every line in this is quotable, i love it

this customer must be a very talented anti-espionage officer indeed, figuring out the secret activation phrase on first try.

Watching this bit makes me truly understand why House's sense of humor was so scathingly brutal.

One of the best-written shows of all time. Absolutely razor sharp

Man, I remember play Super Sonic Hedgehog Brothers when I was a kid.

@Urlocallordandsavior

2 жыл бұрын

Same.

I'd want a tank... "A tank of water sir?!"

Now I wanna see Mr.Dalliard

I don't know why, but I am quite sure that Mr. Dalliard is a rather large old tom cat. And that he is indeed crouched over a rifle.

@nickgreen4731

Жыл бұрын

Wish I'd named my cat Mr Dalliard now.

A MODEL AEROPLANE OF WATER?!! 🤣🤣🤣

@dorayantz3649

4 жыл бұрын

krazykat1977 ikr 🤣🤣

This is the best medicin for a covid19 lockdown...i live in Panamá waching this to cheer myself a little...wourdefilull 💌👌😃😄😀

If you put this alongside Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch I'd take this every time. This is my favourite sketch of theirs. Absolutely faultless in every aspect, both the writing and performances. A Bit of Fry and Laurie is underrated. It should be acknowledged for what is is, top, top sketch comedy by two extraordinary talents.

“A *model aeroplane* of water!?”

A helpless seal pup called Arnold 😄

That very naughty Comrade (actually Colonel) Malenski. In his lighter moments I feel certain that he would have been known for playing a few mean pranks on people after a vodka binge! I bet that after getting back to Moscow he would often reflect on how many times the model shop proprietor might be going through those lines and the "activated" routine any time a potential customer walked in and greeted him with THAT phrase. The comrade probably spotted an easy mark from the get go after observing the proprietor regularly carrying on a conversation with the invisible Mr Dalliard :-)

This sketch was broadcast in 1995 (in Series 4) and presumably thus written at some point after 1992 (when Series 3 was broadcast). Thus when Stephen says early on that it is '27 summers' since he had his instructions from Comrade Malenski, that takes us back to 1965 at the earliest. Yet he also asks 'How is Comrade Stalin?' indicating he'd been undercover since a time when Stalin was alive, which means pre 1953, when Stalin died. Thus anyone alive in 1965, even in the USSR would have well known that Stalin was dead, indeed Khrushchev who succeeded Stalin as leader had already been replaced himself, by Brezhnev in 1964. Odd for Stephen to not have picked up on the discrepancy, given his huge range of general knowledge!

@aristidetwain9117

2 жыл бұрын

I think the line is intentionally absurd - and, perhaps, meant to be a hint that the model salesman is in fact just plain mad and never actually met any Malenski. After all, it's pretty clear Mr Dalliard is only a figment of his imagination, too…

@Veyron722skyhook

2 жыл бұрын

@@aristidetwain9117 I was gonna say myself, that's probably intentional that the dates don't line up.

@krashd

Жыл бұрын

The salesman is clearly just off his rocker.

@neiledwards5100

Жыл бұрын

For goodness sake it’s a comedy sketch and not meant to be taken seriously

Nothing short of genius

Can't get enough of it, revisiting it almost daily xD

2:51 “A model aeroplane of water?!”

@andrewpepper3145

Жыл бұрын

😂

I'll take 1 plate of water...just because it'd be an interesting sight to have it delivered

"we would love to accommodate our customers but we aren't a hotel" I need to use that at work

0:51 - and from the Auntie's Bloomers outtakes we now know that it took may takes for them to get this small part right, as Hugh continued to laugh and put off Stephen.

The first fry and Laurie sketch I ever saw. A good one

Mr. Dalliard, please pardon the pun.

I've Never seen this with such good image quality, thanks, the BBC

“A MODEL AIRPLANE OF WATER??”

So, so good.

Is the point of the sketch that he acts crazy so he doesn't blow his cover as a sleeper agent, or is he just crazy?

@martinhodge921

3 жыл бұрын

The point of this sketch, sir, is splunge.

@hankkingsley2976

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinhodge921 I don't want a yes man and don't disagree!!!

This is preciouss to me!

Bloody classic lol. Xx

"Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure seems quiet"

Their finest moment together.

‘A model aeroplane of water!?’

A model?

@Nosregni

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@muchocos

4 жыл бұрын

a model?

@dr_outcast9385

3 жыл бұрын

A Model

@pek5117

3 жыл бұрын

With or without plastic struts?

A model aero plane of water?!!

what if stephen murdured mr dalliard and keeping the shop open to avoid suspicions

So ridiculous it’s genius.

wow what a crisp image!

"a model aeroplane of water!?''

Relevant.

You'll notice Mr. Dalliard ignores all of this.

Imagine Rowan in the scene as a second customer just messing around.

@bernicerogers2383

4 жыл бұрын

It would start to feel like Blackadder :-D

Stephen Fry at his best! 😃

Super Sonic Hedgehog Brothers is my favourite game.

A model aeroplane of water?! :D :D

Mr. Dalliard is Stephen Fry’s imaginary friend/lover.

I like how he checks whether or not the dude knows about planes and plastic struts or not 🧐💥

When I make a faux pas I'm genuinely going to start looking over my shoulder and say to no one "Mr. Dalliard! Command the earth to swallow me up!"

I wonder how many seal pups are called Arnold

A model aeroplane of water is my favourite form of measurement for water.

I think mr Dalliard and the Stig from Top Gear are the same person.

Hugh’s looks to camera suggest there may have been much less prepared script, and a lot of unexpected spontaneous notions from Stephen. Which he had to handle without warning.

I fully believe this is a daily occurrence

I can't decide if it's funnier if Mr Dalliard is real or imaginary

Must remember to be careful when going into a model shop now

Detonating relatives is all very well and sound, but flying to Dover? Simply shocking.

Proudly sponsored by Airfix!

"Mr. Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now!" you mean you weren't before?

honestly any line in this skit is quotable

Good Mourning

Original genius - wish F&L would reform for one last series!

Anyone watching this while in lockdown?

@JesusKrispies

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone watching this while their eyes are open?

@tomp6911

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, and it is still perfect :)

Gateway sent me. My curiosity is now satisfied.

@davidblaising-wimmer9972

2 жыл бұрын

Same

Nobody seems very concerned that there's been a soviet sleeper cell in their town for 27 years

Supersonic Hedgehog Brothers