# Hugh Laurie on "Inside the Actors Studio" tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719 "2006-07-31T15:17:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/1 "2006-07-31T15:17:51Z")
Monday, July 31 8pm (7 Central) on Bravo. It’s been ages since I’ve seen this show, but as much as James Lipton annoys me, I’ll watch because I think Hugh Laurie is one of the most interesting personalities in show business right now. On the ad, they show him playing the piano and singing (swoon). I wonder what his favorite curse word is? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/2 "2006-07-31T15:25:52Z")
“Bloody” prolly. I will try to watch this tonight. I think he’s totally hot, and don’t know much about him other than he’s part of a very successful comedy troupe. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/3 "2006-07-31T15:31:31Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I will try to watch this tonight. I think he’s totally hot, and don’t know much about him other than he’s part of a very successful comedy troupe. [/QUOTE] Whoosh??? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/4 "2006-07-31T15:58:53Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] Whoosh??? [/QUOTE] Evidently. What did I miss? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/5 "2006-07-31T16:01:36Z")
Aside from the House thing, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/6 "2006-07-31T16:01:41Z")
[This whole series](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8575051/) : ‘House’ star ‘reeling’ from Emmy nod Hugh Laurie plays the acidic doctor with the terrible beside manner unless it’s the comedy you mean. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/7 "2006-07-31T16:02:43Z")
We haven’t got his timing. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/8 "2006-07-31T16:10:24Z")
Well, there was _Blackadder_ and _Jeeves and Wooster_ there were right funny. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/9 "2006-07-31T18:18:56Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] I wonder what his favorite curse word is? [/QUOTE] Cloff-prunker? [A Bit of Fry & Laurie](http://www.geocities.com/mmemym/bits2/fal0106.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/10 "2006-07-31T20:01:40Z")
When Fox first ran the House, M.D. ads, I finally figured out where I’d seen that guy before. Oh yeah! It’s Prince George from Blackadder III! And he was a splendid ninny George. It’s such a change for House, when you’ve only seen him play buffoons. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/11 "2006-07-31T20:25:01Z")
Thanks for the heads up on this! I just started watching House halfway through last season, but I’ve been catching season 1 reruns on USA this summer. I’ve never seen Laurie in anything else, so it will be interesting to hear his normal accent. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/12 "2006-07-31T20:25:22Z")
He also invented the word “spoffle”. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/13 "2006-07-31T21:26:54Z")
Wow, this is great news. Now, let’s hope Lipton doesn’t concentrate on, say, _Stuart Little_ at the expense of _Blackadder_ (though I definitely wouldn’t put it past him). ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/14 "2006-07-31T22:35:28Z")
Yes, I’m even going to break my _Inside the Actors’ Studio_ boycott (I hate that pompous asshole James Lipton. Does **anybody** like him?) to watch the fabulous Hugh Laurie. A momentous occasion indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/15 "2006-07-31T23:04:30Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] Monday, July 31 8pm (7 Central) on Bravo. [/quote] Check your local listings if you don’t want to miss this! Here on the Left Coast, at least for those of us who have DirecTv with Local Listings, it’s airing at 5:00PM, because Bravo doesn’t stagger their showings – we get the East Coast feed at the East Coast time. Fortunately, I set my Tivo days ago. Hugh Laurie ROCKS! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/16 "2006-08-01T02:50:21Z")
I missed it! Can anyone tell me about it? StG ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/17 "2006-08-01T04:48:14Z")
I liked the song that he played. He’s quite the pianist (although I would never say that to him, as he once made a point in an interview to differentiate what English people say when they mean “quite” – i.e., not so complimentary – versus what Americans mean when they say it). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/18 "2006-08-01T04:50:35Z")
[QUOTE=StGermain] I missed it! Can anyone tell me about it? StG [/QUOTE] Well I’m not an avid watcher of Inside the Actors Studio so I can’t tell if that was a lame episode or if it’s always that lame. Here’s a rundown: Talked about Hugh’s life as a kid. Dad was a doctor with an incredibly long name. Mom was a Presbyterian. They didn’t go to church too often. Hugh went to the Dragon Prep School. He says he was a bad kid (quoted from an article he wrote for some rag) Hugh went to Eton and was a rower. He sang the Eton Boating Song (?) and everyone laughed. Hugh said it was gay. Hugh went to Cambridge as a rower, to “read” uhm…anthropology(?) but actually “read rowing.” Hugh got mono and had to stop rowing, so he became part of Cambridge Footlights with _gasp_ Emma Thompson. Emma and Hugh were “friendly” Short clip of Stephen Fry and Hugh doing a footlights sketch in 1981. A little Blackadder to truly amaze the “House” fans. Skip to 1996 where Hugh writes a novel A little chit chat about Ben Elton’s “Maybe Baby” with _gasp_ Emma Thompson. Skip to “House” zzzzz More “House” (Hugh likes Dr. House and thinks he’s a hero.) zzzz Lipton does a bad British accent Hugh’s mom died and Hugh says he wasn’t too distraught over it. Apparently she didn’t like his wife or "the manner in which my son was born(?) Hugh says he is/was chronically depressed, sees a shrink. Much better now. More “House” Hugh plays an original song on the piano. A funny ditty called “Mystery” Ten Questions… - Favrite swear word is fuck and all cognates of it - Loves the sound of badly played acoustic guitar - Hates financial advice - Favorite word: Marsupial Questions from the audience… - Who will House hook up with? Lady 1, Lady 2 or Wilson? ho ho ho - maybe all of them! - Do you know a lot of medicine now? Yes and no. Yes, while I am doing my lines. No, not in the long term. (that is ALL the questions!!) It was a great start and absolutely fizzled at the end. Hugh rocked of course but… WTF was with sidestepping Stephen Fry?!?! As far as I know they’re still great buddies. Is America just completely Fry-less? Makes me sad. This is why I think the episode was lame. Hope that was a good rundown 🙂 I happened to have just watched it, and came here for other people’s reactions to the show. ---
**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/19 "2006-08-01T12:19:25Z")
I’m still convinced _House_ is just an extended _Fry & Laurie_ sketch. At the end of series seven Stephen Fry is going to walk in and shout, “Mr Dalliard, I’ve found him!” over his shoulder then hand him a shoe. Laurie will turn to the camera and pull a face. Fade to black. Mark my words. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719/20 "2006-08-01T12:42:18Z")
I think most Americans would ask, “Stephen fry what? Why is he frying things?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-laurie-on-inside-the-actors-studio-tonight/366719.md?page=2)