The word gay used to be a lovely word... A LOVELY WORD! Taken from The Pilot episode of 'A bit of Fry and Laurie' Copyright BBC And Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry
Those sketches where Stephen's delivery trumps anything on the page. In this instance, it's, "Oh, it's one of the great words." It's nothing on the page, yet Stephen gives it just the right energy and emphasis to make it funny.
Ahhh I have found the civilised people of RUclips. Of course they would be on a Fry and Laurie video :) I would like to extend an offer for a homosexual pint or two! Wait a minute...
There's ANOTHER fine English word you can't say anymore. Why, just the other day I said at work that the carpet at home is covered in pussy hair, and now HR wants to see me!
ROFLMAO! These guys ROCK! Saw their telly programmes in the 1990's when I spent holidays here (Away from Cleveland).. A *DVD compilation* under my Christmas Tree fer me, Santa, if you please.. Thanx fer this clip, m8..
For anyone who happens to be curious, the technical term for this process is "Perjoration". The process by which a word, over time, acquires more negative connotations than what it previously had.
If I did it would be in Carlisle (North of England). Couple of years ago, I was in a bar next to the station and ordered a Cosmopolitan cocktail. The barman pretended to have misheard me and then said "A beer was that?" before handing me an orange juice. LMAO
@357Snowball Well, Hugh spent nearly his entire career in the UK and then came over and put on a perfect American accent. Since nobody had ever heard of him, they assumed he was some American stage actor getting a big break in TV. Trust me anyone who watches at talk show or an awards show knows he's YOURS! He always uses his Brit accent for that. I love the Blackadder "Antidisestablishmentarianism" clip.
Having a conversation with my mother, she was talking to me about the number of people who came out of the closet back 20+years ago, I decided I'd be clever and said to her, "Well, it was "The Gay '90s, after all." After a long pause, she asks me, "Wasn't that name used before?" I just stayed silent and shook my head....
It's the same in Danish: The word "bøsse" use to be the Danish word for hunting rifle. But at some point it also became the slang for "male homosexual". And today the original meaning has almost vanished.
@TobyEllisSongwriter He also played Dr Cockroach on Monsters vs Aliens. He's one of my favorite actors. Personally, I would love to see Steven Fry show up on an episode of House.
@LadyStardustSoul Yes. All 4 series are out on DVD. Check amazon. They are also free-streaming if you have Amazon prime. And you can get them through netflix. Enjoy!
@puffydcat Here in Australia it means a male homosexual, and I assume it means the same in England still, considering thats where the term comes from : ))
@pahjx Duh. I think I am being an awful stereotype of the English, but it annoys me SO MUCH that some Americans think he's american. You can't have him!! He's OURS!!!!!! Now how ridiculous is it that I think that way????
In English if someone is "on a bender" it does in fact mean they've gone on a drinking binge. But if they are "a bender" they are gay. English is complicated like that :)
here in England, "take a slash" means "take a piss." I'm assuming you're talking about slash fiction, but I really don't know where "slash" came to have that meaning.
"Slash" denotes the slanted line between words. Such as either/or. Used in the sense of, say "Kirk/Spock", it refers to an imagined connection between the two which does not exist. So "Slash" Fiction is fan-made.
@RiparianRhapsody then what the real problem is, is the intention when someone says a word not the actual word. because if you simply shun a word you give far too much power to 1 word, not to mention that at anytime people could simply stigmatize any other word. you dont like gay? stigmatize it, dont like homosexual stigmatize it, dont like blue? stigmatize it. and so on. people can't be walking on eggshells everytime they want to say something. it's ridiculous.
My word! The garden's looking very homosexual this morning! *ROFL*
I am just this year finding a bit of fry and laurie and already I can tell it's one of the best shows ever. Ill never get tired of it ever.
Did you get tired of it after all?
lol this reminds me of the time my aunt lamented "I just want my rainbow back!"
I see Fry almost laughed himself at one point :) That's a really fun sketch, i love these two.
Haha yes I wanted to comment that, and and the end they both lose it a bit haha
I tried to pour a mug of some very homosexual beer, but got nothing but head
Well, getting only head is perfectly fine as long as you have a pack of ass- bandits on you!!
I was laughing so much I spilt some of my most homosexual beer
I laughed so hard that I dropped all my ass bandits into the screaming benders.
Cyber Jackelope ... and went all poofey as they did so. GoOOod!
That's the best comment to anything I've read in a very long time, if you'll pardon the pun.
Gabriel Cutrer my, your pun is wonderfully homosexual!
'the garden's looking very homosexual this morning!' ha
Saw this a while ago, and soooooo glad I found it again.
Gotta love British comedy :D
Those sketches where Stephen's delivery trumps anything on the page. In this instance, it's, "Oh, it's one of the great words." It's nothing on the page, yet Stephen gives it just the right energy and emphasis to make it funny.
Hugh Laurie used to be so funny.
Now he is funny but also very serious.
What a great actor.
"Landlord, I'll have two foaming pints of your most homosexual beer."
"Oh! And a packet of arsebandits as well!"
"And keep the change."
BAHAHA!!
the garden's looking rather homosexual today so funny!!
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'But NOW!'
This was so funny I nearly fell of my arse bandit, would you believe!
God, stephen fry and his relentless gaybashing.
"Landlord, I'll have two foaming pints of your most homosexual beer."
"Two pints of Stella Artois, coming right up."
I've learned so many new words today.. thanks Dr. Gordon Gordon
Ahhh I have found the civilised people of RUclips. Of course they would be on a Fry and Laurie video :) I would like to extend an offer for a homosexual pint or two! Wait a minute...
"Arse-bandit" sounds like a nickname for a car. Kind of like "Pussy-wagon".
There's ANOTHER fine English word you can't say anymore. Why, just the other day I said at work that the carpet at home is covered in pussy hair, and now HR wants to see me!
there are almost on the point of cracking up in this video! splendid couple!
Arse bandit - perfectly decent couple of words!
I'm dying XDXD
Absolutely brilliant!
The 1890's were the "gay 90's"- but then, they had Oscar Wilde.
Stephen Fry could have fitted in Monty Python perfectly.
ROFLMAO!
These guys ROCK!
Saw their telly programmes in the 1990's when I spent holidays here (Away from Cleveland)..
A *DVD compilation* under my Christmas Tree fer me, Santa, if you please..
Thanx fer this clip, m8..
For anyone who happens to be curious, the technical term for this process is "Perjoration". The process by which a word, over time, acquires more negative connotations than what it previously had.
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Aye. Thank you. I just learned enantiodromia a couple weeks ago. This is a good month for my vocabulary on RUclips. 👍
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Homosexuality isn't really a negative connotation, though.
BeyondSideshow no but it has gained more negative connotations relative to the original meaning
If I did it would be in Carlisle (North of England). Couple of years ago, I was in a bar next to the station and ordered a Cosmopolitan cocktail. The barman pretended to have misheard me and then said "A beer was that?" before handing me an orange juice. LMAO
The funny thing is Stephen Fry actually IS gay.
I googled homosexual beer today and found out that the Mexicans have created the world's first gay beer.
Please do try it with the transcribe sound option on it's hilarious!!!!!!!!
Landlord, I'll have two foaming pints of your most homosexual beer! :D
I almost choked laughing! :D
British humour. Best humour in the world
I used this reference for 3 years now only one- a college senior got the reference.
@357Snowball Well, Hugh spent nearly his entire career in the UK and then came over and put on a perfect American accent. Since nobody had ever heard of him, they assumed he was some American stage actor getting a big break in TV. Trust me anyone who watches at talk show or an awards show knows he's YOURS! He always uses his Brit accent for that. I love the Blackadder "Antidisestablishmentarianism" clip.
HOUSE IS IN THE HOUSE!
This was very very gay! love it!
I used to be a landlord who'd sell foaming pints of homosexual beer..but then I took an arrow to the knee
Having a conversation with my mother, she was talking to me about the number of people who came out of the closet back 20+years ago, I decided I'd be clever and said to her, "Well, it was "The Gay '90s, after all."
After a long pause, she asks me, "Wasn't that name used before?"
I just stayed silent and shook my head....
Indeed!
It's the same in Danish: The word "bøsse" use to be the Danish word for hunting rifle. But at some point it also became the slang for "male homosexual". And today the original meaning has almost vanished.
@TobyEllisSongwriter He also played Dr Cockroach on Monsters vs Aliens. He's one of my favorite actors. Personally, I would love to see Steven Fry show up on an episode of House.
Whenever someone says comedy nowadays is too PC, show them this video.
They're great!!
Hook, line and sinker xD
0:19 A LOVELY WORD!!!
@LadyStardustSoul Yes. All 4 series are out on DVD. Check amazon. They are also free-streaming if you have Amazon prime. And you can get them through netflix. Enjoy!
I always thought "arsebandit" was a one armed bandit machine that very rarely payed out.
i"m sure fry appreciates that
Quite a bit of General Melchett in this one!
Completely and utterly fair enough :) I just wish in a completely weird, protective, granny like way (I'm 13) that EVERYONE KNEW :D
God... Stephen looks so young!
@ShizoukaMukai He couldn't save Bones, though. What an eerily aggravating show that is.
"the garden's looking very homosexual as well" xDDD so great, indeed
"I used it all the time" LOL
@Beedy10 That was a "series" comment.
...they were so lovely words! LOL
man that funny!
hugh
Fundamental in the extreme I'd say old chap.
@AboutHreinzi And then Teller started talking, and you realized you were wrong.
Please tell me you are joking... Stephen Fry IS gay... He's doing this ironically.
@Pahjx Was that a series comment or not?
@Skagnita sure it was this
If you want to find this video, go to my twitter @GuyPlus where I have just tweeted a link to it, or alternatively just scroll up a bit.
@puffydcat Here in Australia it means a male homosexual, and I assume it means the same in England still, considering thats where the term comes from : ))
@Gessador Poofy, it's a slang term for gays.
@BigotesMcbuff Was that meant to make sense
@pahjx Duh. I think I am being an awful stereotype of the English, but it annoys me SO MUCH that some Americans think he's american. You can't have him!! He's OURS!!!!!! Now how ridiculous is it that I think that way????
well who else if you'll pardon the pun.
What pun?
Don't tell me what to do.
Ass bandit...LOL
My my, aren't they homosexual this fine screaming bendy morning.
In English if someone is "on a bender" it does in fact mean they've gone on a drinking binge. But if they are "a bender" they are gay. English is complicated like that :)
i do
Ahh, no it doesn't. Haha, sorry for the misunderstanding. I've been on the wrong side of sarcasm being lost in text many times too...! :-)
I agree about the word "gay" having been hijacked. Remember Gay Paree? Having a gay old time? Children gaily off to the zoo?
At least in French people are still using it with no shame, because "gay" wasn't really borrowed as the word for homosexual.
"Gai(e)" - "Gaieté"
Stephen Fry is openly gay, um this is satire ...
Ayman B. : Except in Québec.
@organfairy Weird. Hunting rifles... yeah they're definitely gay. Basically, get any phallic object you can find.
Is it just me or does anyone else see a young Paul Mcartney in Stephen Fry in this scene?
a lovely word!! :DDD loool
witty :)
The garden's looking very homosexual this morning!
@Spencerfarrington and?
Ha ha i wud have loved to have seen ur teachers reaction.
Taking the arsebandit to the what now? I have absolutely no idea what that word is.
the mender's I believe
LOL true, true. :)
kids in the hall redid this skit
Homosexual: one of the great words
did kidz in the hall do this first????
No, it's tinny! Tinny!
here in England, "take a slash" means "take a piss." I'm assuming you're talking about slash fiction, but I really don't know where "slash" came to have that meaning.
"Slash" denotes the slanted line between words. Such as either/or. Used in the sense of, say "Kirk/Spock", it refers to an imagined connection between the two which does not exist. So "Slash" Fiction is fan-made.
Probably meant desist not persist?
The Kids In The Hall actually do a rip-off of this sketch. I love both versions.
@RiparianRhapsody then what the real problem is, is the intention when someone says a word not the actual word. because if you simply shun a word you give far too much power to 1 word, not to mention that at anytime people could simply stigmatize any other word. you dont like gay? stigmatize it, dont like homosexual stigmatize it, dont like blue? stigmatize it. and so on. people can't be walking on eggshells everytime they want to say something. it's ridiculous.
mine is a screaming bender
the garden is looking very homosexual this morning :D:D:D
the garden is looking very homosexual today :D
My word! The comments are looking very homosexual this morning
If you look closely at the guy on the right, you would notice he is the same guy who plays Dr. House in House.
oh
@saikyoryu House would have to admit to being Bisexual in that episode, just because it has Stephen Fry in it. :D