He's the best at setting up complex lead-ins, and then subverting our expectations. Even though you know it's coming, it's still criminally hilarious 😂
@@lexcpen2344 when most people use that line, 'if history has taught us anything...' they are usually about to share some kind of moral or wise lesson that we learned by studying events from history. For example, someone might say, 'if history has taught us anything, it's that bigotry and racism leads to hatred and violence' and they might make a reference to examples in history where this was observed. What Stephen Fry was doing here was something called 'subversion of expectations', which is basically another way of saying, 'giving the audience what they are not expecting.' He used a commonly known phrase as a lead in, so that people were expecting him to share some kind of lesson that we've learned from history, and then tricks us by making a pointless reference to an event in history that didn't necessarily teach us anything significant. It's hard to explain. I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say.
@@Aquascape_Dreaming I think people outside of the UK just does not know about that Battle. So they assume it has some underlying meaning. Thanks for your detailed explanation.
@@cbkhanh I'm outside of the UK, and I know literally nothing about the battle of Agincourt, but I know how to identify a joke that uses subversion of expectation as a punchline. No offense intended, but I think you underestimate the perceptiveness of non-british people when it comes to British humour. But if you found my explanation helpful in any way, you're welcome.
There’s a rather charming heartlessness to these snippets of English life, which seem more contemporary today, than they were when originally broadcast between 1989 and 1995.
Stephen says they need to be planted, "oh, late July"...the subtitles say mid-July. I need to know which it is, dammit ! These nine-lane motorways don't just build themselves, you know !
Stephen Fry is something of a superhero. He can virtualise basically any persona, without having lived that kind of life. Only a person with super powers like his could do something so darn convincingly. If you haven't seen it yet, look up on dailymotion, 'stephen fry "the letter"'. It used to be on youtube but I think it was removed for some unknown reason. It's a skit that's basically parodying Bram Stokes's Dracula, but oh my goodness it's hilarious. 😂
1:58 - Wait a moment!!! Is that the gorgeous Georgina I see??? The irresistibly beautiful and famed cabaret performer from the First World War, adored by every red-blooded honest Tommy on the Western Front?!?!?
I'm sorry there's been a problem. She was so happy and went out into no man's land, and before I tried to warn her not to tread on a mine,... she trod on a mine.
4:45 was filmed I think on King Street in Hammersmith. The shopping centre scenes are also from King’s Mall. Took me a little while to figure it out but I thought they looked strangely familiar!
Thanks. I was wondering if the lack of love was the reason I didn't get my nine-lane motorway running through my back garden. I think now I was too early.
@glazenbol "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be" is a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The vox-pop character's father (who apparently is not too bright) is basically telling him not to be an idiot.
That "country narrowing scheme" joke from the driver at 4:11 is really only a half joke if you think about it. (if you don't get what I mean, I mean that the widening of roads means the narrowing of public space for pedestrian space and thus public life). 10/10
he could do an American one so well the producers of 'House, MD' didn't even realise they hired someone who couldn't be more English than Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh
You does a pretty good Geordie, and my Aussie pal says his Australian accent is ridiculously good. You can see it pretty frequently on here if you search for ‘Stephen Fry QI accents’.
The Sanctuary, in London, in front of Westminster Abbey and Dean's Yard (and in front of my old school, as it happens). I believe it is still legally the case that if you remain in the Sanctuary under the protection of the Church you cannot be arrested (though I would not recommend testing that).
Not an English speaker here but if I am not mistaken 64p equals 1 pound sterling. Not sure what are the connotations here but I would understand that the question itself is worth very little - and looking at recent British history - rightly so.
It's a satire of current affairs segments when people in the street would be asked about the issues of the day. I think it's from Latin for "talk of the people" or something.
I wonder whether these sketches came out a little bit too early for the British audience at the time ... they are as sharp as a tack, and rather racy, but maybe too acerbic for that time, however, today ...
@@digitalT83 I believe you are - perhaps not for the first time - in the minority. One also has to ask why you’re here wasting your time watching a video of comedians you clearly don’t like, and even bothering to comment instead of moving on to something you enjoy instead. A psychologist might call that masochism. 🤔
Oh, nostalgia for something that hasn't changed. You could set up those shots in exactly the same spots today and they'd look virtually identical, bar some more updated vehicles and shopfronts.
Some prefer reading to listening. It does help to understand better. It help deaf people too. Or young moms trying to keep quiet while baby is sleaping.
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Fry's mustached driver character doesn't even seem like an act, he's so good at it.
That laugh by Fry at the start. When we were kids, my brother and I used to rewind the video over and over at that part crying with laughter.
Stephen Fry is my favourite person on the telly. I love everything about him.
❤🎉😄🪝🚂❤️🪱💛😭🤣😅💘🦷😇🤡🤡🔫🔫😅❤️🩹💟💯👻💀☠️🤑
@@crazysoupforever he is a genuinely wonderful person
0:08 Stephen's laugh saved my soul 😂
The one that always gets me is "It's only then I realized she was far away."
And i literally expected it was coming, still laughed
@@nyChannel09 same here and I just watched it again and tried no laugh and I did. Something about the way he delivers the line.
1:44 Fry starts answering seriously then remembers hes doing a skit :P
He's the best at setting up complex lead-ins, and then subverting our expectations. Even though you know it's coming, it's still criminally hilarious 😂
I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure that's just Stephen's legitimate answer
Hugh Laurie is such a wonderful actor, so expressive
The marmalade sketch is brilliant!
The best!🤣
Arse the parlour maid?
@@Van_Der_Lay_Industries you want me to fart the hit parade?
Passssss the marmalade
“If history has taught us one thing, it has taught us that the Battle of Agincourt was in 1415.”
sry but what doe this mean?
@@lexcpen2344 What he said
@@lexcpen2344 when most people use that line, 'if history has taught us anything...' they are usually about to share some kind of moral or wise lesson that we learned by studying events from history. For example, someone might say, 'if history has taught us anything, it's that bigotry and racism leads to hatred and violence' and they might make a reference to examples in history where this was observed.
What Stephen Fry was doing here was something called 'subversion of expectations', which is basically another way of saying, 'giving the audience what they are not expecting.'
He used a commonly known phrase as a lead in, so that people were expecting him to share some kind of lesson that we've learned from history, and then tricks us by making a pointless reference to an event in history that didn't necessarily teach us anything significant. It's hard to explain. I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say.
@@Aquascape_Dreaming I think people outside of the UK just does not know about that Battle. So they assume it has some underlying meaning. Thanks for your detailed explanation.
@@cbkhanh I'm outside of the UK, and I know literally nothing about the battle of Agincourt, but I know how to identify a joke that uses subversion of expectation as a punchline. No offense intended, but I think you underestimate the perceptiveness of non-british people when it comes to British humour. But if you found my explanation helpful in any way, you're welcome.
Those ladies of a certain age played by Fry... Absolutely filthy.
He makes a stunning woman, does Stephen.
This is 2018 and this show is getting funnier and funnier to watch. That's the real comedy, kids.
Andrei Sokolov I laughed more now than in the old days
While I don't like the patronizing Juvenoia, as a 21 year old born '99, this is very witty and funny, all of the Fry and Laurie stuff is.
July 2020 : extremely funny. One more viewing and I am ready for the mental health hospital 🤣👍🤝🇳🇱
I was just thinking that myself.
I really miss those guys British comedy at it’s best thank you guys for making our lives a little bit more enjoyable
There’s a rather charming heartlessness to these snippets of English life, which seem more contemporary today, than they were when originally broadcast between 1989 and 1995.
Vox pop was honestly the best part about this show 😂😂😂 this is not a slight on the sketches, but high praise for the vox pop. absolutely epic 😂😂
The policeman 😂 makes me die laughing everytime
“One of the great benefits of being an alcoholic.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stephen says they need to be planted, "oh, late July"...the subtitles say mid-July.
I need to know which it is, dammit ! These nine-lane motorways don't just build themselves, you know !
Don't just grow* themselves, you mean.
The marmalade....I'm dead XD
treintaydiez - where are you gonna put em?
"Road widening scheme?!" (DERISIVE LAUGHTER)
Stephen Fry is something of a superhero. He can virtualise basically any persona, without having lived that kind of life. Only a person with super powers like his could do something so darn convincingly.
If you haven't seen it yet, look up on dailymotion, 'stephen fry "the letter"'.
It used to be on youtube but I think it was removed for some unknown reason.
It's a skit that's basically parodying Bram Stokes's Dracula, but oh my goodness it's hilarious. 😂
1:58 - Wait a moment!!! Is that the gorgeous Georgina I see??? The irresistibly beautiful and famed cabaret performer from the First World War, adored by every red-blooded honest Tommy on the Western Front?!?!?
I'm sorry there's been a problem. She was so happy and went out into no man's land, and before I tried to warn her not to tread on a mine,... she trod on a mine.
HOW HOW HOW?
@@KabirChattopadhyay1991 (EAR-SPLITTING SOBS OF ANGUISH)..... Ah well, can't be helped, can't be helped.
Amazing, an awesome comedy pairing.
I so wish these two would get back together again. Stephen Fry is simply adorable.
A great piece of work.
wow that taxi driver line about Russia really swung around in the space of 30 years
23
still, wow
Mikkel Ulrich 23 is within the space of 30 years
@@DeathnoteBB Correct!
"swung around" like something changed in Russia lmao
4:45 was filmed I think on King Street in Hammersmith. The shopping centre scenes are also from King’s Mall. Took me a little while to figure it out but I thought they looked strangely familiar!
How could this be so accurate🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you so much for posting this. I have seen all their other shows but I don't think this was ever aired in Canada.
At 0:19 a version of the small/far away joke that Father Ted is famous for. Originally broadcast in 1995, the year Father Ted started.
0:03 It's late July, not mid July. Just in case anyone got confused.
Not only are the subtitles wrong, but they totally ruin the humour.
It's actually February right now
Thanks. I was wondering if the lack of love was the reason I didn't get my nine-lane motorway running through my back garden. I think now I was too early.
@@David-ud9ju well, they are helpful for foreign people... like me, from spain... at least i could laugh a bit
1:28 so good, classic House
They captured the absurdity of the common English peoples persona so eloquently and honestly. Then used it as comedic cannon fodder.
the elephant man joke was pretty nice :D
"You can take sex and violence off television, but where'ya gonna put 'em?"
wheres the one where laurie goes "ya wanna know what they keep under these hats? eh?
*gasp* some bastard's nicked it!!"
Neither a borrower, nor a git be.
Words to live by, I suppose.
3:42, wise words from the cabbie.
100% agree.
I needed that.
@glazenbol "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be" is a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The vox-pop character's father (who apparently is not too bright) is basically telling him not to be an idiot.
Ah thanks !
Thank you so much!! I couldn't translate this one and was wondering what's the gag
Huge is a MASTER of accents
3:40 so ahead of its time!
Not really; Tories have pretty much always been horrific scum.
I was gonna say, how did this get even more topical? 😂
Man House sure can do a good British accent!
Apparently the actor spent a few months in England when he was a baby.
yeah, some British people are really good at that
@@ictmeoy1988 honestly I was expecting more likes on my comment, it was pretty funny if I say so myself.
better than that upstart idris elba
Someone rush a Sense of irony to ictm Eoy, urgently.
[derisive laughter]
Patrick Ellis I see you everywhere
Nobody realises how much training goes into being an estate agent. Virtually none😂
6:42 real talk
This is just like the fast show, except 15 years earlier, and good.
That "country narrowing scheme" joke from the driver at 4:11 is really only a half joke if you think about it. (if you don't get what I mean, I mean that the widening of roads means the narrowing of public space for pedestrian space and thus public life).
10/10
Thats what he literally meant by country narrowing scheme...
Theres nothing else he implied by that
Yes, that's the joke.
0:08 the KEKW laugh
well, at least it wasnt lupus
It's never Lupus....
@@goingcritical7406 until it's lupus...
Fry is so posh he can't pull off a working man's accent 😁
he could do an American one so well the producers of 'House, MD' didn't even realise they hired someone who couldn't be more English than Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh
Ygraine apparently you don’t know which is which
@@granville7 wrong guy
@@granville7 You’re talking about High Laurie. Not Stephen Fry.
You does a pretty good Geordie, and my Aussie pal says his Australian accent is ridiculously good. You can see it pretty frequently on here if you search for ‘Stephen Fry QI accents’.
4:23 Fry snaps
The answer is the internet at 7:03
Bur where to put the marmelade ?
@@Plons0Nard well you've got the marmelade. it's not in the cupboard but you've got it.
6:12 is such meme material
1:25 how does he keep a straight face???
Watch this one. Both of them can barely hold back their laughter,
ruclips.net/video/0nTmSu6v0LA/видео.html
5:18 House is a great show...
Full body consult.
3:40 _”Well, if people wanna be right-wing and nationalistic and bigoted, then let them go and live in Russia.”_ 30+ years on...
...and you bumboys are still afraid of the Russians
Honestly rather would at this point
Who are these people and why are we interviewing them? 😂
Fry: "In about late July"
Subtitles: "In about mid-July"
Hmm.
subtitle man obviously knows more about growing roads than stephen fry
I understand 5% of the jokes, but I still laugh 95% of the time
Yeah... me too... THE ENGLISH PEOPLE SPEAK SO FAST!!!!!!
What is that square with that cool building where Stephen is standing?
The Sanctuary, in London, in front of Westminster Abbey and Dean's Yard (and in front of my old school, as it happens). I believe it is still legally the case that if you remain in the Sanctuary under the protection of the Church you cannot be arrested (though I would not recommend testing that).
I had many a great holiday at Westminster School, with PHAB
Note to subtitles, he said LATE July.
Is that Dr. House?
Hugh Laurie, yeah
late july seems a bit late to me. They would be best planted in late may.
5:23 I miss Dr. House 😭
Oh christ ive left the iron on!
Fun fact: This was probably Stephen Fry's own London Taxi?
Reminds me of the grand illusions guy
3:40 Fry has his finger on the pulse of current American politics somehow.
Paaaass meeeee the sex and violence!
Killing it hhhh very funny guys
Old boggy walks on Lammas Eve
3:41 - that joke was about 20 years ahead of its time. Or rather, it stopped being a joke 20 years later.
i hope they've got 'ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer'
not in this one. shame
So young and so.. silly!
Steven has nice hair
Can someone explain 64p line? (2:25)
I think it was the cost of a newspaper at the time though I might be mistaken
Not an English speaker here but if I am not mistaken 64p equals 1 pound sterling. Not sure what are the connotations here but I would understand that the question itself is worth very little - and looking at recent British history - rightly so.
@@buttercup9884 No.
£1 sterling is 100p.
I find this comedy to be somewhat humorous!
Why is it called vox pox?
It's a satire of current affairs segments when people in the street would be asked about the issues of the day. I think it's from Latin for "talk of the people" or something.
Latin: Vox Populi = Voice of the people
Hugh's businessman character lol
I wonder whether these sketches came out a little bit too early for the British audience at the time ... they are as sharp as a tack, and rather racy, but maybe too acerbic for that time,
however, today ...
No it just wasnt funny
In some ways it's amazing how it's still relevant.
@@digitalT83 I believe you are - perhaps not for the first time - in the minority. One also has to ask why you’re here wasting your time watching a video of comedians you clearly don’t like, and even bothering to comment instead of moving on to something you enjoy instead. A psychologist might call that masochism. 🤔
Stamps!
4:43 Dead xD
Subtitles kinda ruin the punchline :( But still awesome
It helps foreign people.
Where? Could you please point one out?
@@vivekbarchha you mean point out a subtitle? they're... like.. throughout the entire video.
Honestly didn’t notice it ‘til I read this comment.
Kyler Windhorst lol that's scary. You get behind the wheel with those eyes? 😂
What is that one about a poor man who looks like an elephant? The ELephant man. Oh I know Collin Welland
How come you can't get The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick anymore?
Here in Amersham!
Is Steven Fry the 5th Beatle?
I thought he was Oscar Wilde reincarnated.
3:40 aged well
Well yes, it did. Tories have always been nationalistic, bigoted scum.
Well I wouldn't suck it.
I wonder if they've questioned their derision yet? hmm...
Haha, good stuff..
"I suppose they'll be saying Hitler was a racist next"
Dr House!
oh yeah yeah
The benefit of being an alcoholic....
Wow London looked a heck of a lot better then....(in the background)
Oh, nostalgia for something that hasn't changed. You could set up those shots in exactly the same spots today and they'd look virtually identical, bar some more updated vehicles and shopfronts.
He looks like doctor whoo
Where are you going to put sex and violence if it isn't on the television?
bit of water??
Why are there subtitles? its in English
Some prefer reading to listening. It does help to understand better. It help deaf people too. Or young moms trying to keep quiet while baby is sleaping.
Deaf People?
It also helps us, foreign people! !
@@vytautasp.8109 if you are not native, it is soooo difficult to understand the whole sketch!
Go around schools...cuz I'm trying to learn French
Why is this subtitled in English?
It's a lot easier to read a foreign language than listen to one, without losing anything in translation.
@@jaredbowhay-pringle1460 IT IS
peopel dont see through things these days... :D