Comedy gold. Brilliant how they (Rob, Jimmy, Bill and Alan) just took it and ran with it, instantly playing off to each other and just instinctively know what to say at the right moment for maximum comic effect🤣
My face hurts, I need to blow my nose and dry my eyes from tears but at least I know what they say about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is !!! :D One of the funniest things ever, and that's no joke!!!
Bare minimum, gets my cheeks hurting. I've seen this portion of the episode a few times before yet for some reason my eyes are watering from laughing. Incredible, I'd like to hear John Cleese's opinion on why this is so damn funny :P
Probably for the same reasons the legendary "Spam" is funny? When you repeat something a thousand times, especially with the same intonation and rhythm, it loses its meaning and sounds sillier and sillier... This is why actors in blooper reels keep messing up their lines multiple times over, too. (I'm no Cleese, but still)
I think it already starts with the fact it rhymes so that makes the spontaneous transition into song seem perfectly natural. And yet you know this whole thing was _genuinely_ spontaneous. It's brilliant.
I'd say it's so funny, because Stephen is always so authoritative and controlled that seeing him corpse this heavily has this surprising but deeply humanizing and relatable quality to it. The other guests finding new and innovative ways to bully him over it and enjoying the moment as much as we do makes it even funnier...
I am just in the middle of watching the new BBC documentary 'Who the Greeks were' and couldn't figure out for a bit why I was laughing to myself when the narrator talks of the Acropolis. Then I remembered and had to come back and find it and watch it yet again :D
I'm only human, if this vid is recommended to me, I have to watch it
I’ve been watching this video for 12 years and it still makes me laugh
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Incredibly unfunny
... supporting roof - the roof, yah - ... and when they started building in marble - marble - ... they just echoed ... 🤦♂😅
It’s alright Stephen. We love you. They’re just comedians. And so are you. 🎉
Still funny as hell in 2024. ❤😂
Marble
I’m watching this at breakfast for at least the 20th time, right before I go visit the Parthenon in Athens.
"what do they say, what do they say!"
'He's going to say, he's going to say!'
Stephen Fry, National Treasure
I love how it sounds like he's about to break into song in a musical.
Which episode is this plssss?
Series 5, episode 1: Engineering
Cracks me up every single time...!
makes me laugh even when I am depressive.
Comedy gold. Brilliant how they (Rob, Jimmy, Bill and Alan) just took it and ran with it, instantly playing off to each other and just instinctively know what to say at the right moment for maximum comic effect🤣
It really is a masterclass...
My face hurts, I need to blow my nose and dry my eyes from tears but at least I know what they say about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is !!! :D One of the funniest things ever, and that's no joke!!!
One of the finest tv moments!!
NO straight lines?!! That was a 2 minute straight line!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
I'm reading Mythos written by Stephen Fry and whenever he mentions either the Akropolis or the Parthenon I immediately think; No straight lines!
I've watched this at least 10 times and it always breaks me up. A priceless classic.
I am probably at a hundred. And same...
Fight fight fight
'Bloody hell Stephen, this better be good'.
Do they?
@@nicholasimholte7359 \/ \/ Whatevahh!
I love Stephen Fry. He is so funny. They say of the acropolis where the parthenon is.........
This is season 5 but which episode?
+Ty Webb It is from Episode 13 "Elephants" - which is a clip show of unused clips from the entire E series.
Bare minimum, gets my cheeks hurting. I've seen this portion of the episode a few times before yet for some reason my eyes are watering from laughing. Incredible, I'd like to hear John Cleese's opinion on why this is so damn funny :P
Probably for the same reasons the legendary "Spam" is funny? When you repeat something a thousand times, especially with the same intonation and rhythm, it loses its meaning and sounds sillier and sillier... This is why actors in blooper reels keep messing up their lines multiple times over, too. (I'm no Cleese, but still)
I think it already starts with the fact it rhymes so that makes the spontaneous transition into song seem perfectly natural. And yet you know this whole thing was _genuinely_ spontaneous. It's brilliant.
I'd say it's so funny, because Stephen is always so authoritative and controlled that seeing him corpse this heavily has this surprising but deeply humanizing and relatable quality to it. The other guests finding new and innovative ways to bully him over it and enjoying the moment as much as we do makes it even funnier...
they are right about british humour... dont ever get it
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Dying. Every time. Will never not be funny.
5 years later, only got funnier.
What's funny about this
@@ferv888They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is…
Damn my cheeks hurt...
cheek cheeks or bum cheeks?
@@tomaszskowronski1406 What a cheeky response!
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I caught that series, good wasn't it! Like QI! When I someday visit the Parthenon I'm not going to think of anything but this clip haha
You do produce excellent dramas and sitcoms though.
How can you not find this funny?!
You mean good off him?
I just do not get British humor.
I am just in the middle of watching the new BBC documentary 'Who the Greeks were' and couldn't figure out for a bit why I was laughing to myself when the narrator talks of the Acropolis. Then I remembered and had to come back and find it and watch it yet again :D
AND my stomach!!! hahahhha
A Christmas special I believe, I can't remember which year though. :)
The first clip with Stephen in THAT outfit, which episode is that? :)
Fight! Fight! Fight!
"wha-evaaaah" xD
Lightning in a bottle.
@macrosent Oh you so hilarious, yank boy.
And Brits giggled as London Burned
i have never seen stephen lose it like that :p
I think I pissed myself--yep, I did!