Claire Foy reads a hilarious letter from Phyllida Law to her mother-in-law

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  • Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
  • Here's Claire Foy with a terrific reading of a hilarious letter Scottish actress Phyllida Law wrote to her mother-in-law, originally performed at the Union Chhapel, London.

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  • @marcowen1506
    @marcowen1506 3 года назад +248

    I am in a library and , thanks to Claire Foy's perfect delivery and the most English letter about a simple bodily function, I have tears streaming down my face in mirth and effort not to laugh.

    • @atyourservice
      @atyourservice 2 года назад +7

      Well, you shouldn't have replaced the garlic with an onion. Of course at some point it will have made itself a way upwards and make you cry. Why the hell would you even try that in a library. Really !

    • @antoinepetrov
      @antoinepetrov 5 месяцев назад

      "The most English letter" written by a Scotswoman.

  • @thexxit
    @thexxit 3 года назад +299

    I love Phyllida Law - she's truly a treasure! Her book of letters is amazing, I highly recommend it (Notes to My Mother in Law). The Emma in her letter is obviously her daughter, Emma Thompson. I wish Phyllida amazing health, we can't lose someone as talented as that!

    • @EterPuralis
      @EterPuralis 3 года назад +54

      ... this s Emma Thompson's mother? Well, that explains a lot

    • @SenselessUsername
      @SenselessUsername Год назад +4

      @@EterPuralis Yes... I found this out when watching The Winter Guest in the cinema, which has them in the mother+daughter roles and is just incomparable.

    • @famprima
      @famprima Год назад +5

      This explains so much about Emma.

    • @jeanniesegall287
      @jeanniesegall287 Год назад +7

      It's so clear where Emma Thompson gets gets her wit and brilliant writing style from!

    • @floralovespringandflowers6227
      @floralovespringandflowers6227 Год назад +8

      She is also Sophie Thomsons mother 😄.

  • @clairejoicey7648
    @clairejoicey7648 3 года назад +70

    It was off the back of this video and Claire’s performance that I bought Phyllida’s book that the letter comes out of. It is HYSTERICALLY funny and moving and I cannot recommend it enough. x

  • @eliameci1325
    @eliameci1325 3 года назад +92

    Claire is a treasure
    Been loving her since the crown. Her delivery was beautifull. And P.L is of clurse hilarious

    • @shillanassi
      @shillanassi 3 года назад +2

      you should see her anne boleyn

  • @sarahbaker379
    @sarahbaker379 2 года назад +36

    Now I see where Emma and Sophie gets their humor from

  • @mattdavis1735
    @mattdavis1735 3 года назад +58

    And Claire completely nailed reading that! LOL!

  • @dg8620
    @dg8620 11 месяцев назад +8

    Phyllida Law is Emma Thompson's mother btw.

  • @mattdavis1735
    @mattdavis1735 3 года назад +42

    LOL!!! I don't care how mad you at someone...if they tell you that story from their life... you gotta forgive them! LOL!

  • @linnulman7138
    @linnulman7138 Год назад +5

    I think she just became my favorite writer.

  • @gillsmith3382
    @gillsmith3382 3 года назад +28

    Haven’t laughed like that in a long time 😂🤣

  • @ellanorevannin4147
    @ellanorevannin4147 Год назад +13

    Makes me think of my mother and I. This happens where we all burst out laughing and my mother thinks we are laughing at her. We aren't. And most of the time she isn't even part of the subject either!🤣
    Next time I should write her a letter of explanation.

  • @qwertyTRiG
    @qwertyTRiG 3 года назад +24

    I still see Adora Belle Dearheart.

  • @Swimdeep
    @Swimdeep 2 года назад +11

    I love anything Claire Foy does…

  • @IloveHobbits1995
    @IloveHobbits1995 3 года назад +304

    Hit tip: do not watch this while eating couscous. You WILL accidentally inhale the grains and seriously consider how Heimliching yourself works for a full sixty seconds.

    • @ginnylorenz5265
      @ginnylorenz5265 2 года назад +5

      Dear llovehobbits1995, thank you for the chuckle!!

    • @anniejderose1234
      @anniejderose1234 2 года назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @rmanningau
      @rmanningau Год назад +2

      Or drink coffee.

    • @marthacastro9162
      @marthacastro9162 Год назад +1

      Thank Gd it wasn't peanuts! Lol 😂

    • @dw3403
      @dw3403 Год назад

      You throw yourself on a table or back of a couch hitting the edge right under the rib cage.

  • @adolfopena7358
    @adolfopena7358 2 года назад +9

    She looks great with glasses.

  • @bregieirofernandes
    @bregieirofernandes Год назад +12

    Claire in glasses is doing things to me

    • @antoinepetrov
      @antoinepetrov 5 месяцев назад

      What kinds of things, good or bad?

  • @MelissaThompson432
    @MelissaThompson432 3 года назад +60

    See, I always appreciated Emma T. for her forthrightness. I claimed it as a Thompson trait. Apparently I was wrong, but I would gladly claim equally spurious kinship with Emma's mother.

  • @chrisg7891
    @chrisg7891 3 года назад +7

    Thanks I needed this today!

  • @lyarnes
    @lyarnes 3 года назад +20

    What a glorious way to start the week...a full bodied guffaw about a fart 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @labratamber
    @labratamber 2 года назад +43

    You can easily tell where Emma gets her humor

    • @the_mia_mia
      @the_mia_mia 2 года назад +1

      Who is Emma?

    • @ayusoenaryo6809
      @ayusoenaryo6809 2 года назад +6

      @@the_mia_mia Dame Emma Thompson, Phyllida's daughter.

  • @julianielsen1885
    @julianielsen1885 2 года назад +5

    I so love this channel.

  • @barryispuzzled
    @barryispuzzled 3 года назад +22

    Very nicely done, Claire! :)

  • @maisvidaisencao3370
    @maisvidaisencao3370 3 года назад +7

    she is the best!

    • @mattdavis1735
      @mattdavis1735 3 года назад +2

      She is! Super kind too! Google...claire foy lesotho...so wonderful what she did there 😊

  • @chipworrell6025
    @chipworrell6025 3 года назад +10

    This was awesome....

  • @laurenconrad1799
    @laurenconrad1799 3 года назад +40

    I'm going to be haunted for the next week from imagining what a garlic fart must smell like.

  • @raquelrivas2431
    @raquelrivas2431 3 года назад +9

    Amazing. Love your culture. I am from Latin America.

  • @janetovens756
    @janetovens756 9 месяцев назад +1

    Loved her in Peter's Friends

  • @june-fc9ui
    @june-fc9ui 3 года назад +14

    god i love her

  • @brucemah609
    @brucemah609 3 года назад +9

    The BEST..❤️❤️❤️

  • @piaauman9020
    @piaauman9020 Год назад +3

    that was brilliant

  • @marthaelenariveragarcia5752
    @marthaelenariveragarcia5752 3 года назад +6

    Amazing!!

  • @HeatherHotcakes
    @HeatherHotcakes 3 года назад +9

    This is why the acronym TMI was created.

  • @chrissiem3958
    @chrissiem3958 3 года назад +14

    Wow..... that is commitment to health right there: shoving garlic up your hoop 😂🤦🏻‍♀️😵

    • @SheilaR.08
      @SheilaR.08 3 года назад +3

      Wait til you hear about the yeast infection remedy. 😁

    • @daniellamcgee4251
      @daniellamcgee4251 2 года назад +1

      @@SheilaR.08 Yo got to be committed to that treatment.

  • @jewel65
    @jewel65 Год назад +1

    This is a great letter!

  • @mooniejohnson
    @mooniejohnson 2 года назад +4

    Well, that certainly took an unexpected turn...

  • @urskaska
    @urskaska 3 года назад +49

    Isn't Phyllida Law Emma Thompson's mother?

    • @thexxit
      @thexxit 3 года назад +8

      Yes, and her book is amazing!

    • @M.Campbell
      @M.Campbell 3 года назад +1

      @@thexxit Which one did you read? She seems to have written at least three.

    • @thexxit
      @thexxit 3 года назад +9

      @@M.Campbell I have read all three, and all are very conversational in nature and very entertaining in my opinion. However, this one was in the book "Notes to my Mother In Law." I found it to be an interesting insight into their day to day life told through real letters - reading like little vignettes of the day. Some were hilarious, some were ordinary, and some were slightly sad.... There is an anthology of all three books, I think, called Three Mothers and a Camel if you want to save money/space on your bookshelf!

    • @M.Campbell
      @M.Campbell 3 года назад +3

      @@thexxit Thank you! I'll look for it. I appreciate the tip. I'm always on the lookout for good books and, if this letter is any indication, her writing is something I would definitely enjoy.

  • @agam406
    @agam406 Год назад +3

    I love her voice.

  • @KLJ1981
    @KLJ1981 2 года назад +9

    We really are losing the art of beautiful communication… so sad

  • @pltopper771
    @pltopper771 3 года назад +6

    this is great

  • @beckv8526
    @beckv8526 3 года назад +11

    What a brave letter! Hilarious!

  • @helenl3193
    @helenl3193 3 года назад +11

    Slightly disappointed that they missed the opportunity for a "butt of the joke" line, but otherwise great! 😂

  • @mikes5637
    @mikes5637 2 года назад +11

    If I was a theatre agent and someone proposed a live show in which celebrities read out other people's letters I would have shown them the door.
    Then I would have watched these and kicked myself up the a**e.

  • @violabeth
    @violabeth 3 года назад +2

    Love you girl💙🇺🇸🇬🇧💙

  • @marcohghar
    @marcohghar 3 года назад +2

    Hmm, that was very cheeky!

  • @elizabethturner2421
    @elizabethturner2421 3 года назад +6

    You could dine out on that story for the rest of your life.

  • @linnulman7138
    @linnulman7138 Год назад

    Thanks for book recommend, everyone.

  • @anyahathaway9613
    @anyahathaway9613 3 месяца назад

    I just farted while laughing.

  • @mariannegeraud6318
    @mariannegeraud6318 3 года назад +15

    There you go...another use for garlic!!

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia 3 месяца назад +1

    I know this says this is addressed to the mother-in-law but, I would swear that this has all the marks of a mother addressing a daughter. And the bit with the garlic fart with the smell positively slew me. Thought I’d mention that. I’m going to have to listen to it again.

  • @ingridpear1882
    @ingridpear1882 Год назад

    When was this letter written ,in the 80's when bran was popular? I've never heard the garlic treatment,but there was an 80's book titled The healing foods. And where was this letter obtained? Was it originally private or preformed?

  • @ingvarhallstrom2306
    @ingvarhallstrom2306 Год назад +4

    Ah, the lost art of writing letters between family members. In my family only when someone has truly fallen from grace.

  • @lisahodges8299
    @lisahodges8299 3 года назад +4

    Oh poo! Oh no! Such a difficult letter to write.
    Birdy

  • @reneeyounk9663
    @reneeyounk9663 9 месяцев назад

    Omg! Yes!!!

  • @helenaaraujo6324
    @helenaaraujo6324 Год назад

    Claire❤❤❤❤❤

  • @msamour
    @msamour 3 года назад +15

    How do they find these letters!?!

    • @robyn8942
      @robyn8942 3 года назад +4

      I assume this one came from Phyllida Law's book 'Notes to my Mother-in-law'.

    • @msamour
      @msamour 3 года назад

      @@robyn8942 the only such book I ever read was "Letters from a nut" by Ted L. Nancy. I thought it was unique in its kind. I guess there are many books that are published that are letter compilations. Thanks for the information.

  • @passiveagressive4983
    @passiveagressive4983 3 года назад +21

    God this sounds harsh but Claire could play a young Emma Thompson ❤️

  • @jandrews6254
    @jandrews6254 Год назад

    How perfectly British

  • @psammiad
    @psammiad 2 года назад +9

    I would've loved to hear Phyllida reading it! Claire is wonderful but it doesn't quite capture Phyllie's style.

  • @somefactsthatneedstobeface6465
    @somefactsthatneedstobeface6465 3 года назад

    do you people have a podcast?

  • @zahrasattari8738
    @zahrasattari8738 3 года назад +3

    I'm curious to know if that remedy is really helpful? :))

    • @silvasilvasilva
      @silvasilvasilva 2 года назад

      Yes, inquiring minds want to know.

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 Год назад +2

      @@silvasilvasilva You both could give it a try. Might pay to leave the windows open though! 😉🙄

  • @h.huffen-puff4105
    @h.huffen-puff4105 5 месяцев назад +1

    To put this in writing...?

  • @deejayk5939
    @deejayk5939 Год назад

    Omg!

  • @SubPablum
    @SubPablum 3 года назад +13

    So this is the day I keep hearing stories about bum stuffing. At least the day is almost over.

  • @thosoz3431
    @thosoz3431 2 года назад +5

    More than a few of that audience have forgotten how to laugh.

  • @Falcon8913
    @Falcon8913 3 года назад +1

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @RussJoysandsorrows
    @RussJoysandsorrows 9 месяцев назад

    Was that Cruella not enjoying herself throughout? 🤔

  • @richardl772
    @richardl772 2 года назад +1

    The lady on the left is not amused…..

  • @jacquiliddell1811
    @jacquiliddell1811 3 года назад

    Oh well

  • @billrey8221
    @billrey8221 Год назад

    This sounds like it might be aimed at Joe Biden??

    • @Levleup
      @Levleup 9 месяцев назад

      What? This has NOTHING to do with politics, at all!

  • @blagger42
    @blagger42 3 года назад

    Actors again, boring