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  • Contains language which some may find offensive. Hugh has received a disturbing death threat. Subscribe: bit.ly/BBCComedyGreats
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  • @BBCComedyGreats
    @BBCComedyGreats  4 роки тому +92

    If you'll pardon the pun, here is even more "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" here: bit.ly/2OJKqZD

    • @KissedByFire16
      @KissedByFire16 4 роки тому +5

      what pun?

    • @volo870
      @volo870 4 роки тому +2

      What pun?

    • @ElKoubi1975
      @ElKoubi1975 4 роки тому +2

      @@volo870 the pun is that.... There was no pun :)

    • @volo870
      @volo870 4 роки тому +3

      @@ElKoubi1975 How come pun is no pun? Pun should be pun pun.

    • @reisnajem854
      @reisnajem854 4 роки тому +2

      @@volo870 Err...thinking about it now, you are quite right....a pun is a pun....is a pun...
      @ BBC Comedy.....where is the pun then????? Come on... we are all waiting!!

  • @goniib
    @goniib 7 років тому +592

    "For evil to flourish all it is required is for good men to spout cliches." HAHA!

    • @kitty6720
      @kitty6720 3 роки тому +5

      Never more accurate than in the times we're living in now.

  • @MaleScientist
    @MaleScientist 6 років тому +295

    "A bit of Fry and, in a broader sense, Laurie"

  • @lucyhannah1227
    @lucyhannah1227 8 років тому +1345

    m'colleague

    • @chavzone
      @chavzone 5 років тому +47

      dips tefora

    • @Liusila
      @Liusila 4 роки тому +3

      chavzone *tips fedora

    • @IlIIlIIIIIlBrianSt0rm
      @IlIIlIIIIIlBrianSt0rm 4 роки тому +1

      @@Liusila No, it was spelt that way on purpose.

    • @applemask
      @applemask 4 роки тому +1

      M'coll

    • @Liusila
      @Liusila 4 роки тому +1

      @@IlIIlIIIIIlBrianSt0rm Some new brand of meme perhaps

  • @leon2901
    @leon2901 4 роки тому +122

    Always good to start a death threat letter with Dear sir or Madam 😂

    • @andyjlyon1
      @andyjlyon1 4 роки тому +8

      Well, one must maintain the highest standards when planning an execution. One must'nt be shoddy my good man!

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 4 роки тому +8

      I'm reminded of the letter Tom Lehrer received: "Darling, I love you and I cannot live without you. Marry me or I will kill myself!" Addressed to "The Occupant".

    • @hamishanderson6738
      @hamishanderson6738 Рік тому +4

      To whom it may concern.

  • @jacobhannah2969
    @jacobhannah2969 7 років тому +442

    predicting youtube comments decades in advance

    • @stuartdunlop8834
      @stuartdunlop8834 7 років тому +29

      Pretty much the internet itself, I think.

    • @ruaoneill9050
      @ruaoneill9050 5 років тому +9

      Exactly what I was thinking, like someone put a huge, hate filled comment through google translate!!! "spelled wrong" LOL!!!

    • @emperorpicard7222
      @emperorpicard7222 4 роки тому +1

      Ah, I was gonna say Twitter.

    • @samarvora7185
      @samarvora7185 4 роки тому

      Monty Python did that years previously with the argument sketch.

    • @bnsyphotography2104
      @bnsyphotography2104 2 роки тому

      You’d be surprised how far back in history these sort of threats go.

  • @aaronhurst4379
    @aaronhurst4379 2 роки тому +28

    I've watched this sketch numerous times, and I've just noticed that the so-called "shadow" disappears when Hugh goes to do his song lol. Very nicely hidden gag there

  • @watkinscopicat
    @watkinscopicat 4 роки тому +147

    this show was so unbelievably ahead of it’s time and under appreciated, genius

    • @maargenbx1454
      @maargenbx1454 4 роки тому +2

      Neale Scott: I liked this show but don’t see how it was “ahead of its time”. They didn’t do much that Monty Python hadn’t done a decade before.

    • @micahwright5901
      @micahwright5901 Рік тому +2

      @@maargenbx1454 They were actually funny for the most part. Monty Python tried a bit too hard to be absurd in a lot of cases.

    • @maargenbx1454
      @maargenbx1454 Рік тому +3

      @@micahwright5901 Yes, I always thought MP sometimes felt forced.

    • @nkenchington6575
      @nkenchington6575 Рік тому

      its time

  • @Shindai
    @Shindai 6 років тому +241

    "My face is made up." Took me about two seconds to register what he'd said, I wasn't expecting that :P

    • @zlee001
      @zlee001 4 роки тому +17

      Cuz hes on tv and make up artist had touched it up.

  • @shockwave4742
    @shockwave4742 4 роки тому +38

    The whole thing is pretty amusing, but the really amazing thing is how much humor is packed into the last couple of seconds.

  • @eIucidate
    @eIucidate 7 років тому +181

    30p postage and packaging ... damn what a difference just a few years makes.

    • @chopun3862
      @chopun3862 4 роки тому +11

      "just a few years"

    • @Liusila
      @Liusila 4 роки тому +8

      *40 years. Yup, it does indeed make a difference. If you take into account inflation, 70p for a stamp is an absolute bargain for an industry that was foreseen to be dead completely by the 2010s due to technological advancement.

  • @alexreid4131
    @alexreid4131 4 роки тому +104

    They basically predicted future internet comments before y'all were even born.

    • @samarvora7185
      @samarvora7185 4 роки тому +3

      So did Monty Python with the argument sketch.

    • @ZumbaMarx
      @ZumbaMarx 3 роки тому +5

      @@samarvora7185 No they didn’t.

  • @jenniferjuniper97
    @jenniferjuniper97 5 років тому +46

    "For evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to spout cliches."

  • @ryancoulter4797
    @ryancoulter4797 4 роки тому +29

    Used to know a guy who’d write like that whenever he was on Benadryl

  • @levimeister101
    @levimeister101 9 років тому +64

    Legends.

  • @robindixon4814
    @robindixon4814 6 років тому +69

    - country .....that’s spelt wrong ! Hahahaha

    • @theocean1973
      @theocean1973 6 років тому +9

      That joke was subtle and went over the heads of most people in the audience, but I spotted it.

    • @Pawn-Sac
      @Pawn-Sac 4 роки тому

      @@theocean1973 What's the joke?

    • @MrEAus
      @MrEAus 4 роки тому +2

      @El Deplorable maybe this M. Pontillo is actually Ted Cunterblast 😉

    • @mikedawolf95
      @mikedawolf95 3 місяці тому

      Cntry

  • @krishancurtis450
    @krishancurtis450 Рік тому +5

    No wonder these two are now at top of their careers. This is amazing.

  • @Chris_Cross
    @Chris_Cross 5 років тому +16

    When someone who doesn't even understand how English works tries to insult you in a UA-cam comment section.

    • @timbeaton5045
      @timbeaton5045 4 роки тому +5

      I are you hating, Pyle ov garbage loving beetroot salad abusing furballing of a foolish marine. to go a black hole and to in jump is best to all world.
      Yours, sincerely....

  • @tonymakaroni2898
    @tonymakaroni2898 4 роки тому +8

    I feel like many people are missing out on "Who is she?" :DDDD

  • @Symbioticism
    @Symbioticism 6 років тому +44

    M. Portillo.

    • @Chris_Cross
      @Chris_Cross 5 років тому +1

      I don't get that bit.

    • @palutalu
      @palutalu 5 років тому +29

      @@Chris_Cross It's a reference to Micheal Portillo, a prominent right wing UK government minister at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Portillo

    • @hackdaniels7253
      @hackdaniels7253 4 роки тому +13

      'PoNtillo'. Yes - easy to forget now that he's on television most evenings posing as an avuncular train enthusiast, with an eccentric taste in pastel blazers, but at the time this sketch was recorded, Michael Xavier Portillo was manifesting as a crypto-fascist headbanger, a hang'em and flog'em merchant.

    • @MrBizteck
      @MrBizteck 4 роки тому

      @@hackdaniels7253 its nuts how politicians 'change' after parliament. I viewed him as scum in Westminster but later on that political late night show ( cant recall the name) I thought he had really good ideas and insights!

    • @vincentsmit1935
      @vincentsmit1935 2 роки тому

      The Andrew Neil one?

  • @lxtatar7773
    @lxtatar7773 3 роки тому +5

    I don't why but the way they say m'colleague is just so sexy lol
    P. S. Great actors, great comedians!

  • @AlfaMadDog11
    @AlfaMadDog11 4 роки тому +7

    m'colleague, m'mate, m'friend, m'partner... "my my steady on"

  • @victorjohnson7512
    @victorjohnson7512 Рік тому

    These two did great work together. Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993) was brilliant, as they like to say...

  • @Trollioli
    @Trollioli 4 роки тому +11

    I feel like this is an early version of "Has Anyone Ever Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to Do Look More Like?"

  • @ThreadBomb
    @ThreadBomb 4 роки тому +6

    M Pontillo went on to host Great British Trams.

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 4 роки тому +2

    Oh, that's great!

  • @mindy56374
    @mindy56374 2 роки тому +3

    Fry & Laurie accurately predicting the quality of so many C21st Facebook comments....

  • @zlee001
    @zlee001 4 роки тому +8

    My face is made up. Its so stupid its genius.

  • @chattycathydoll
    @chattycathydoll 5 років тому +11

    Country...spelt wrong. Haha

  • @7ajhubbell
    @7ajhubbell 4 роки тому +1

    Lol, thanks.

  • @rebeccabrewer2221
    @rebeccabrewer2221 4 роки тому +11

    I'd be falling out of my chair laughing if I got this. 🤣 One's persecutors never do seem able of conveying themselves comprehendibly do they? 🙂

  • @BlueFieldGamer
    @BlueFieldGamer 4 роки тому +8

    Death threat
    sound like something you hear of call on duty or discord

  • @JonathanNichollstechandsuch8
    @JonathanNichollstechandsuch8 6 років тому +12

    That punchline... They don’t like they used to.

  • @ethandalton6480
    @ethandalton6480 4 роки тому +32

    "Dear Sir/Madam" Fry & Laurie ahead of their time...

    • @Picnicl
      @Picnicl 4 роки тому +9

      In what way is that example ahead of their time? It's based on longstanding conventions. It could have been done in the 1960s.

    • @Liusila
      @Liusila 4 роки тому +6

      That’s how formal letters are written m’friend, not some kind of a gender issue reference.

    • @rowanaboat4523
      @rowanaboat4523 4 роки тому

      In old times you would just put dear sir at the top of a formal letter the sir or madam is a relatively recent thing.

    • @omnijack
      @omnijack 4 роки тому +2

      Rowan Aboat that’s untrue

    • @rowanaboat4523
      @rowanaboat4523 4 роки тому

      Jack Dawson no it isn’t, my mum used to work for the government and she would get letters saying dear sir.
      And if you’ve seen Monty Python they had letters in their program which began dear sir

  • @dsantamaria713
    @dsantamaria713 4 роки тому +3

    M' colleague! ❤

  • @mmonkeys
    @mmonkeys Рік тому

    I wonder what the misspelling on "country" was, lol

  • @arkhamreleased
    @arkhamreleased 8 років тому +38

    Shame on the 3 that Disliked this.

    • @brianoneill4470
      @brianoneill4470 7 років тому +3

      Pity to the 3 that disliked this obvious lack of a sense of humour

  • @scsutton1
    @scsutton1 4 роки тому +4

    This is where Jimmy Kimmel got the idea for Mean Tweets.

  • @unclecreepy4073
    @unclecreepy4073 4 роки тому +2

    “Macaulay who”

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz 4 роки тому

    PLOT TWIST!!!! like we did last summer......

  • @DTRMtunes
    @DTRMtunes Рік тому

  • @oliverlambkin3412
    @oliverlambkin3412 4 роки тому +5

    "...this country..." (spelt wrong)
    !

  • @andrewmckeown6786
    @andrewmckeown6786 4 роки тому +7

    Pls forgive me ignorance but this is the actor who played the Dr with the pain med addiction yes?

    • @ghosty918
      @ghosty918 4 роки тому +6

      Dr House, and yes

  • @HSMiyamoto
    @HSMiyamoto 4 роки тому +8

    The letter should have ended with "All your base are belong to us."

  • @BrusierWeight
    @BrusierWeight 5 років тому +3

    This reminds me of the letter the WWF received from their cable channel. And then wrestlers read it to the audience.

  • @fisherking7798
    @fisherking7798 4 роки тому +6

    From the time when stupid trolls had write actual letters

  • @neptunestardust
    @neptunestardust 3 роки тому

    M Pontillo
    Ha 😂

  • @rockinchimp
    @rockinchimp 9 років тому +56

    The kind of nonsensical bollocks I get from people who don't agree with me...

  • @probablynotmyname8521
    @probablynotmyname8521 3 роки тому +1

    Sounds like a standard youtube death threat comment.

  • @EnglishPolishOnline
    @EnglishPolishOnline 2 роки тому +1

    2-minute commercial for a 3-minute video clip. I'm going offline to watch some DVDs. Thank you Google for messing up UA-cam. Offline is the place to be right now.

  • @Favar1
    @Favar1 3 роки тому

    Thats a Q drop

  • @asmolbean9300
    @asmolbean9300 4 роки тому +3

    m'colleague *tips fedora*

  • @IoEstasCedonta
    @IoEstasCedonta 8 місяців тому

    M. Pontillo?

  • @antonlossev3302
    @antonlossev3302 4 роки тому +36

    Scrolling down knowing that m'colleague would be the most liked comment

  • @imranhq13
    @imranhq13 6 років тому +17

    u can actually see there's nothing written on the paper

    • @Shindai
      @Shindai 6 років тому +27

      The letters fell off when he held the sheet vertically, of course!

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray 4 роки тому +2

      Dont be bloody silly! it was written in invisible ink.

  • @RickReasonnz
    @RickReasonnz 5 років тому +4

    Sounds like the youtube comments

    • @rebeccabrewer2221
      @rebeccabrewer2221 4 роки тому +1

      It'd make my day if I got that 😋 bullies are never comprehendable are they?🙂

  • @dubsy1026
    @dubsy1026 6 років тому +7

    Lol Micheal Portillo bashing

    • @rebeccabrewer2221
      @rebeccabrewer2221 4 роки тому +2

      What has everybody got against Michael Pontillo, I find him engaging in his documentaries.

    • @1258-Eckhart
      @1258-Eckhart 4 роки тому +2

      @@rebeccabrewer2221 He's a nasty rightwing twat who drinks real ale with Nigel Farridge.

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw 4 роки тому

      In the good ol'days, he was a junior minister under the Tory PM Major, and got pummeled in the ensuing election. It's hilarious, there's a video somewhere over here of when they announced the results.

  • @Eliteerin
    @Eliteerin 4 роки тому

    M pontillo

  • @hexonatapeloop
    @hexonatapeloop 3 роки тому +2

    Covfefe

  • @joesr31
    @joesr31 2 роки тому

    Whats the joke about "M pon tilo"? I don't get it and its annoying me so much

    • @vincentsmit1935
      @vincentsmit1935 2 роки тому

      Michael Portillo

    • @youcanlearnalotfromlydia
      @youcanlearnalotfromlydia Рік тому +3

      The joke is that anyone who wanted to send an anonymous death threat to get away with it would think of a good alias if signing the letter at all. Michael Portillo was at the time a famous politician (if not a very popular one: which politicians are popular?) So to sign the death threat with a fake name "M Pontillo", is funny because it is just changing one letter from the real name, "M Portillo", so at first we think he must be making the threat and just is not very bright, thinking of such a stupid name obviously so similar to his own name and identifying himself when he bothered to change it, suggesting he is trying to remain anonymous.
      Then the joke becomes even funnier when Stephen and Hugh can't seem to guess who the threatening anonymous author is, "this M Pontillo, whoever he is...", because he's very famous, so now they look like the stupid ones, not just Portillo, who we still think may have actually written the note (and it is just ludicrous to think a famous politician would go round developing an irrational hatred of a famous comedian and send a death threat).
      And then the final joke is Stephen just pretended he couldn't guess who the letter was sent by, of course, and failed in his endeavours :)
      You might be interested to know that in real life, since the end of his political career, Michael Portillo is famous on TV for making documentaries, travelling around the world, particularly on trains (hence somewhere else in the comments someone made a joke about M Pontillo hosting "Great British Trams", a play on "Great British Railway Journeys"). Hope that helps!

  • @edmund184
    @edmund184 Рік тому

    Oh I don't like this. They seem to be making fun of that nice man who travels to nice places on trains and shows everyone what happened there.

  • @vihaze6725
    @vihaze6725 5 років тому +18

    This is basically every tweet/youtube reply I've received from Trump supporters lmao.

  • @Xfranman
    @Xfranman 3 роки тому +1

    Did anyone - EVERYONE - see that coming. One more m'colleague and I would have paid for the bloody rocket launcher. Mention of male naughty bits do heat Frey

  • @joachimmacdonald2702
    @joachimmacdonald2702 6 років тому +4

    McCollege

  • @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music
    @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 5 років тому +38

    "Contains language which some may find offensive."

  • @k.angelova
    @k.angelova 6 років тому +62

    m'colleague

  • @EnglishPolishOnline
    @EnglishPolishOnline 2 роки тому

    2-minute commercial for a 3-minute video clip. I'm going offline to watch some DVDs. Thank you Google for messing up UA-cam. Offline is the place to be right now.