Videos like this make me impressed that Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ever got anything done together. They can barely look at each other here without making each other laugh.
i don't know what's funnier: james dreyfuss failing to keep it together and the other actors stop and stare at him corpsing in take 6, the d-d-d-d- nonsense or the fact that after they finally get through the d-d-d-d- bit, they all forget their lines!!
0:30 "America has given us nothing but tobacco, and potatoes, and that new high grade narcotic that you're so fond of." If I didn't know better I'd have thought that was a House reference lol 😂
I would have laughed every time hearing Stephen Fry say "D d d d d d d d d d d d d gentlemen". Nicely improvised too. I found it amusing the way he shortened it the last time so they could get through it without cracking.
Hugh: "Ok. NOW I am ready" ...Take 9! " D-d-d-d-d-d-dgentlemen gentlemen please, now, hmmm? huh? ..Someone say something!!" ;) If it's not Laurie..it's Fry :') LOVE them!
Stephen Fry, a legend in his lifetime! This really cracks me up every time I watch it. Its the d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d gentlemen bit that is pure comic genius and totally hilarious. Thank you so much for the upload.
The saddest Part is he cant even do his best DDDDDDD becasue No One can Keep a straight face. He has to tone it down and that is a homage to his talent and a shame as well.
He recently did the Melchett sheep-laugh - only for a SECOND - on Qi ...and it nearly stopped the show! Stephen is a comedy god - and a hell of a good chap. Apparently he has SEEN this upload. If he ever returns here - thankyou, sir, for YEARS of entertainment - from Friday/Saturday Live to the afore-mentioned Qi.
It is so funny when you imagine that Hugh Laurie was only a local star in UK during this sketch. And a few years later he became one of the biggest TV Stars in the whole world. And he had no idea here.
Dandy Candy Dr House may have given Hugh Laurie another status, however, please check IMDB to find more about his impressive career before 2004🙂 you might appreciate him even more
AHAH! THAT explains it. It SEEMED to me that Stephen was being POINTED when he said it - and Hugh's reaction to it seemed a bit GUILTY! Oh for the day we can all smoke jazz cigarettes without fear...
I think it must be just me, but hugh Laurie looks like Van Helfin in that custom. Both lovely to look at. And Stephen Fry will all ways be WOW good looking.
There seems to be some confusion. Stephen says, "America has given us nothing but TOBACCO, potatos, and that new high-grade narcotic that your so fond of," and points at Hugh. The irony is of course that STEPHEN is the admitted user of COCAINE here. Maybe thats why Hugh looks at him and laughs.
It appeared to be Blackadder, with Rowan in the same role and time period as Fry plays here, addressing a group of men around a table. I could be mistaken.
@FastMonkeyBluePants DAMN! I can't believe I DID that! You're right of course - and I've followed him from C4's "Saturday Live" to "House" - I ought to know how to spell his NAME! I've corrected my cock-up. THANK you for the help.
I think it's definitely from the film The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything not to be confused with the tv series The Complete and Utter History of Britain
I don't see my reply to you posted, so this may be a duplicate: Being a Hugh Laurie fan, I was watching various RUclips clips, when I stumbed upon the scene of Rowan uttering the same line, the same way. I don't know which episode it was. Sorry I can't help.
@singinginachurch Don´t think so, thought I had seen all of that. It´s also not from blackadder :( But where is it from? Have never seen it before! Please! Someone! I need to see that!
Is this "ddddddddddd-gentlemen" a wink or nod or related to the "ddddddddddddd-gentlemen" uttered by Rowan Atkinson? Or is it purely coincidential, a common form of address in the UK?
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Videos like this make me impressed that Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ever got anything done together. They can barely look at each other here without making each other laugh.
I know. 😂
1:09 The moment where you're thinking, "Someone has a line here", and then you realize it's you.
I soo can relate to that. It's always a crack up
i don't know what's funnier: james dreyfuss failing to keep it together and the other actors stop and stare at him corpsing in take 6, the d-d-d-d- nonsense or the fact that after they finally get through the d-d-d-d- bit, they all forget their lines!!
Can you imagine laughing like this every day you go to work?
What legends!
1:53 the silence IS golden! “Someone say something.” That was a great killer ending.
Someone say something. LOL
Something!
0:30 "America has given us nothing but tobacco, and potatoes, and that new high grade narcotic that you're so fond of." If I didn't know better I'd have thought that was a House reference lol 😂
I would have laughed every time hearing Stephen Fry say "D d d d d d d d d d d d d gentlemen". Nicely improvised too.
I found it amusing the way he shortened it the last time so they could get through it without cracking.
d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d gentlemen gentlemen
I died XD
***** That was a good one :D
Hugh: "Ok. NOW I am ready" ...Take 9! " D-d-d-d-d-d-dgentlemen gentlemen please, now, hmmm? huh? ..Someone say something!!" ;) If it's not Laurie..it's Fry :') LOVE them!
"They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is..."
Heading there next, cheers
Stephen Fry, a legend in his lifetime! This really cracks me up every time I watch it. Its the d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d gentlemen bit that is pure comic genius and totally hilarious. Thank you so much for the upload.
The saddest Part is he cant even do his best DDDDDDD becasue No One can Keep a straight face. He has to tone it down and that is a homage to his talent and a shame as well.
The sheer brilliance of Stephen Fry is truly legendary!
Whenever I'm feeling down and out, I come here, and I invariably go away feeling much better. :D
He recently did the Melchett sheep-laugh - only for a SECOND - on Qi ...and it nearly stopped the show! Stephen is a comedy god - and a hell of a good chap. Apparently he has SEEN this upload. If he ever returns here - thankyou, sir, for YEARS of entertainment - from Friday/Saturday Live to the afore-mentioned Qi.
i love that even though it's sometimes other people who corpse, stephen still apologizes. It's like he's saying "sorry i was too funny"
Sometimes you have to wonder HOW comedians ever make it through a taping!
D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d gentlemen, gentlemen........................... someone say something! That nearly killed me with laughter. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fry is bloody brilliant! Long live Fry!
I love watching them riff around the script.
Hugh Laurie is so cute there, even with that silly beard. And of course he and Fry are hilarious when they're cracking up.
We will have to opt out I'm afraid.
Predicting the brexit is tight
Every time I watch this I laugh until I cry. Priceless.
It is so funny when you imagine that Hugh Laurie was only a local star in UK during this sketch. And a few years later he became one of the biggest TV Stars in the whole world. And he had no idea here.
Dandy Candy Dr House may have given Hugh Laurie another status, however, please check IMDB to find more about his impressive career before 2004🙂 you might appreciate him even more
Exactly!!
Two fine fine actors.
Beautiful people indeed.
Amen. Such a gift and shared!
Makes SNL look like comedy pre-school.
"OK, NOW I'm ready!"
The wigs make it even better :)
"Jazz cigarettes" - what a great term. I could imagine it as a lubricant for Laurie's multi-dimensional creative talents.
When I'm done here, I shall be watching (in the Orient) the final episode of "House". Thanks for eight great years Hugh!
Absolutely EPIC Fry & Laurie. Made my day.
Stephen is on (to) something 😊
2021...years later and my stomach hurts again..
i think that one of the most entertaining parts of being an actor is all the fun you have while shooting
And oh the work!
AHAH! THAT explains it. It SEEMED to me that Stephen was being POINTED when he said it - and Hugh's reaction to it seemed a bit GUILTY!
Oh for the day we can all smoke jazz cigarettes without fear...
watched this several times - only once is not enough - brilliant - huge thanks
@RaZarati I thank Mr Fry for tweeting the link to this. I am ALSO a major fan. And of his friend Mr Laurie, for that matter.
Lol revisiting all the hugh laurie/ fry vids xp whenever I mess up, i do the exact same thing Hugh did in the last few takes "Ok! NOW, I'm ready"
For a second I thought all those d-d-d-d-d-d's were going to turn into _Flight of the Bumblebee_
"d-d-d-d-d-d-d-gentlemen!" - i think i may have ruptured my spleen laughing
Boy did they OPT out of THAT one!
Just image working with Stephen Fry. That would be wonderful
😊
And as I’m not brilliant, terribly sad. Lol
thanks for uploading - been looking for these kinda bloopers - so hilarious..
Remember Stephen, your line is "Harry pocketed it." Ready? And... *ACTION!* 1:18
I'm reading all the comments in Stephen Fry's voice. Everything seems terribly more sophisticated.
Wow, an actual studio audience.
I think it must be just me, but hugh Laurie looks like Van Helfin in that custom. Both lovely to look at. And Stephen Fry will all ways be WOW good looking.
The way Stephen Fry said gentlemen sounds exactly like my lawnmower as it powers off.
Funny stuff, but I don't see how they can keep going on and on like that and not get tired of it or even get it right. :)
It's called corpsing and if you haven't experienced it then it's hard to describe
+Reb Brown Ricky Gervais on Extras is a prime example of corpsing. Funniest thing i have ever watched. 10/10 would highly recommend if feeling down.
Eleanor Cleary I have and Ricky is probably the worst corpser of them all
Thank you, thank you, thank you. To not take life too terribly seriously, ahhhh!
There seems to be some confusion. Stephen says, "America has given us nothing but TOBACCO, potatos, and that new high-grade narcotic that your so fond of," and points at Hugh. The irony is of course that STEPHEN is the admitted user of COCAINE here. Maybe thats why Hugh looks at him and laughs.
I'd doubt it I think was just corpsing ,sometimes the smallest thing sets you off
Cocaine isn't a narcotic though. It's a stimulant. But I get the point, and so does Stephen.
flecot Yes, I had written that tobacco wasn't a narcotic, too. Oops.
Jd Ingres Thanks, I was wondering about that and thought it was some English inside joke that foreigners cant get
I thought it was a House reference (vicodine)
@slaphead6000 I can hear an echo of Peter and John in that DAMN of yours.
🤣 This is gold!
0.24 Fry unwittingly announcing that he is high on cocaine. Twice.
He went on to fill entire dreary memoirs detailing when and where he got high on cocaine...
I'm laughing so much it hurts
Much too much fun.
My goodness, I think I cracked my ribs laughing at this!
@ADyingFaith Damn it four times around the car park and back in for another DAMNIT!
xD
d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- lol! ah stephen fry is BRILLIANT!!
For a moment I actually thought Stephen fry was the guy as dumbledore.
It appeared to be Blackadder, with Rowan in the same role and time period as Fry plays here, addressing a group of men around a table. I could be mistaken.
@FastMonkeyBluePants DAMN! I can't believe I DID that! You're right of course - and I've followed him from C4's "Saturday Live" to "House" - I ought to know how to spell his NAME! I've corrected my cock-up. THANK you for the help.
Now that's halarious! Disrespectful but halarious! : p
Oh the laugh tracks.
'd-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-gentlemen' is my text alert XD
Did they ever complete that sketch, or give up and all go home to bed
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I think it's definitely from the film The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything not to be confused with the tv series The Complete and Utter History of Britain
@GalaSmile Thank you very very much for the answer !
Gggggggggggggreat fusion of the contemporary with the historical. Love how they keep losing it
"D-d-d-d-d-d-d gentlemen!" -pause- "...someone say something."
Lovely! Thank you!!!
Hilarious is putting it lightly
You are! It's "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything "
love this
hahaha v good!!!!! xx ty for posting
@Mayna00 Damn, double damn and an extra pint of damn for the weekend!
Priceless....
@slaphead6000
That is to say, the "Britain" show does show up, but not this one. Or are they the same?
I'm rambling now.
That high grade narcotic Hugh is so fond of is cannabis, he is well known to be a cannabis smoker.
@Surtak "The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything" - but you probably know that now - sorry for the delay in answering!
74 people don't like Luxembourg nor pickled herring
Wonder if that high grade narcotic was vicodin...
Stephen Fry sure looks like James Mays' twin brother :))
Or General Melchett's sheep laugh!
thats Sir Anthony Stradlin of Downton Abbey in this sketch
I KNOW you're right :)
It's him ...
Well - "high grade narcotic" WOULD be a more appropriate description for THAT than humble weed...
I don't see my reply to you posted, so this may be a duplicate: Being a Hugh Laurie fan, I was watching various RUclips clips, when I stumbed upon the scene of Rowan uttering the same line, the same way. I don't know which episode it was. Sorry I can't help.
It's "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything "
Brilliant!! . . .
Anyone got a better use for Luxembourg other than storage I want to hear it. 😉
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Templetonq "The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything" - I think...
@slaphead6000
What is this show? I've never seen it and my life will not be complete until I do!
@singinginachurch Don´t think so, thought I had seen all of that. It´s also not from blackadder :(
But where is it from? Have never seen it before!
Please! Someone! I need to see that!
they say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is ...
Does anyone know where you can get the whole show?
What do I know?? I'm American. Thanks for the correction and the clip.
I love it
Is this "ddddddddddd-gentlemen" a wink or nod or related to the "ddddddddddddd-gentlemen" uttered by Rowan Atkinson? Or is it purely coincidential, a common form of address in the UK?
@slaphead6000
Ok, now how do I find it? It doesn't appear to be on the tube. Any idea where to get it?