Is this Hugh Laurie/what role is this?

[Peanut7316]

I stumbled on this gif the other day and am pretty sure it's Hugh Laurie. I'm just not 100%. I also can't place what show/movie it's from either. Anybody know?

GIF (http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/4/14/129157546914779732.gif)

[Mahaloth]

Well, I'd say it's him, but I can't place it.

[Mr. Kobayashi]

From 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie', a sketch show he did ages ago. Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3CWlLoKiQ) a bigger clip.

[Peanut7316]

Wonderful! Thank you very much Mr. K!

[Smeghead]

Since I got beaten to it, I'll just add that that's one of the best, and most overlooked, sketch comedy shows of all time.

[Joey P]

While we're all here. How about Hugh Laurie as Annie Lenox's counterpart in the video for Walking On Broken Glass. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-vGDbb70w&feature=related) Ever notice that?

[Hippy Hollow]

Since I got beaten to it, I'll just add that that's one of the best, and most overlooked, sketch comedy shows of all time.

Word. If you have a region-free DVD player, you can order at least the first two seasons from amazon.co.uk. My PBS affiliate showed in the in the early 90s.

My favorite sketch is probably the Michael Jackson interview, featuring Stephen Fry on a treadmill doing some body popping. Brilliant!

Also: "Welcome to the harsh realities of the marketplace, Mr. Casalingua!"

[Smeghead]

The DVDs are available in the US. I have them downstairs.

[Cugel]

My favourite is Stephen as the reluctant barber.
http://hodgers.com/abitoffryandlaurie/sketches/haircut

[Alessan]

Marjorie! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7o8FbGCR9U)

[choie]

One of my favorite sketches is from Episode #2: A conversation about language (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw).

Imagine a piano keyboard, eh? 88 keys, only 88 and yet, and yet, hundreds of new melodies, new tunes, new harmonies are being composed by hundreds of different keyboards every day in Dorset alone. Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas, so that I can say the following sentence and be utterly sure that nobody has ever said it before in the history of human communication: "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." Perfectly ordinary words, but never before put in that precise order. A unique child delivered of a unique mother...

I also love the Dinner with Digby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiV4F7HWHRk#t=0m25s) sketch.

[vivalostwages]

I didn't care much for season 4 of F&L, but seasons 2 and 3 were really good.
Funny stuff.

[Superfluous Parentheses]

God I love that series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUxWdIQVT_c

Oh and for anyone who thought Laurie was always good at US accents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6riY-103vbc

[BigT]

God I love that series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUxWdIQVT_c

Oh and for anyone who thought Laurie was always good at US accents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6riY-103vbc

Well, that's a different accent, one that a lot of Americans have a real problem with, as well.

[tr0psn4j]

Oh and for anyone who thought Laurie was always good at US accents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6riY-103vbc

The accent doesn't sound bad. He kind of looks like Johnny Knoxville in that clip.

[Elendil's Heir]

Good stuff! Thanks. They're great together in the Jeeves and Wooster series, too (my all-time favorite scene: Jeeves explains the syncopation of "Puttin' on the Ritz" to his befuddled master).

[choie]

Good stuff! Thanks. They're great together in the Jeeves and Wooster series, too (my all-time favorite scene: Jeeves explains the syncopation of "Puttin' on the Ritz" to his befuddled master).

Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGItt9cCgc) I'm fond of the Minnie the Moocher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwgS1ctxglw) bit. "Ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho, sir."