Hey, that’s Paul Whitehouse in the audience, before he was famous.
I’m not the only person who remembers that both Hugh Laurie and John Malkovitch were in Annie Lennox’s Walking on Broken Glass video, am I?
I can’t find it on YouTube.
Well, here’s a fuzzy version. You can tell it’s Hugh Laurie here by the way he moves.
http://music.aol.com/video/walking-on-broken-glass/annie-lennox/tag/music-pop/1467619
Every Bit of Fry and Laurie: The Complete Collection will be available on DVD July 24th from Warner Home Video and BBC Video.
And his dancercising in ep. 1 of s. 2 is equally hilarious.
I nearly split a gut watching “Slightly mad”:
“GIVE THE MAN A BLOODY MEDAL!”
Sweet! I have a couple of homemade VCDs around here, and I bought the CBS/Fox video which has mostly sketches from the first season.
ABOF&L is the funniest sketch comedy ever, with the possible exception of The Fast Show!
I recommend Tony of Plymouth and Mr. Nippl-e.
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Love the tights!
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“Diddums…” Poor thing. It looked like a fake floppy bat, but still…
As most of the OP’s points have been answered: the blasphemous parts of the language questions in point 4 aren’t anything like as big a deal here as they would be in America. ‘Sack of shit’ would have been pushing the boundaries at the time the programme was made, but would pass unnoticed nowadays. (Assuming it was after the watershed, cf Usram’s post. Watershed (broadcasting) - Wikipedia )
How is anyone on the planet so damn talented and good looking as Hugh Laurie? The only strike against him is he is married.
According to Wiki, he’s also had two books published!
You can read all the scripts for this series here - I haven’t a clue whether that’s an authorised archive - it’s been around for years and years, so I assume the authors know of its existence and approve.
I’m reading one of them now, The Gun Seller. I like it very much.
A couple more questions:
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What is a cream slice?
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I just discovered that these guys did an earlier comedy show with some other folks; it was called Alfresco. Anybody know it? It does not seem to be available yet on DVD or even VHS.
I only dimly remember Alfresco (although it looks like there is plenty of it on YouTube, natch). My memory is that is was rather patchy. F&L really became well-known during their regular appearances on Channel 4’s stand-up comedy show Saturday Live, DVDs of which do exist.
Just remember that, whenever discussing it aloud, you have to do the air quotes thing with your fingers whenever you say “A Bit of Fry and Laurie”.
Yeah, it’s excellent - like Douglas Adams doing Frederick Forsyth. The man’s a god: he actually submitted it to the publishers under a pseudonym, and only revealed himself to be the author after it was accepted, in order that it wouldn’t be dismissed as some dilettante actor’s vanity project.