Comedy Connections - A Bit of Fry and Laurie

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @PeterWhite-q1k
    @PeterWhite-q1k 24 дні тому +22

    For me, these two made the ideal Jeeves and Wooster! The show was brilliantly done by all involved. Seeing these other collaborations (I'm an American living in America) for the 1st time is a true joy. Thank you gentlemen!

    • @henrybutchy3242
      @henrybutchy3242 23 дні тому +1

      Yes, correct. F+L as jeeves and wooster is non-stop brilliant performances.

    • @teddymacteddy
      @teddymacteddy 20 днів тому +2

      i have read that originally they were to play the others parts , Fry as Wooster and Laurie as Jeeves and i think that would have also worked . Genius i still watch the episodes every year or two

  • @ed_goblin
    @ed_goblin 29 днів тому +18

    These two getting back to do something, ANYTHING together would be a dream for many of us.

  • @TarzansMom
    @TarzansMom Рік тому +16

    Love these 2 together.

  • @jeffnettleton3858
    @jeffnettleton3858 Рік тому +96

    Seriously glossed over Stephen's walking out on Cellmates. ""Citing stage fright and went abroad." He nearly checked out permanently. Perhaps he hadn't publicly admitted the suicide attempt, when this was recorded. Lot of respect for Fry's willingness to discuss his mental health issues in documentaries and interviews, especially after living with someone, for 15 years, who suffered from depression and anxiety. It's a horrible thing to witness and I can only imagine what it is like to live.

    • @zoekm
      @zoekm 4 місяці тому +2

      Yeah, that wasn't public knowledge at the time this programme was made.

    • @aodhablackheart
      @aodhablackheart 4 місяці тому +7

      Adrian Edmonson during Bottom Live - "I'm beginning to understand why Stephen Fry fucked off." :D

    • @Johnnybananass-_
      @Johnnybananass-_ 2 місяці тому +2

      Glossed over the director that worked on Jim’ll fix It . With the worlds west pedofile that people say they saw signs

    • @aodhablackheart
      @aodhablackheart 2 місяці тому

      @@Johnnybananass-_ Esther Rantzen knew and did fuck all.

  • @Faridbuza
    @Faridbuza Рік тому +15

    Thank you so much for uploading and sharing this!!! ❤ We had been looking all over for this to share with students. We kept coming back to UA-cam in the hope that someone would be kind enough to share this episode. Thank you.

  • @stephenbarrette610
    @stephenbarrette610 6 місяців тому +18

    I think Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are probably the best double act we’ve ever had. And I’m someone who had adored Eric and Ern from the early sixties. In fact I saw Morecambe and Wise live on stage in London and it was fabulous.
    I really do hope Stephen and m’colleague find time to get together and maybe just do a one off special. We had the Reunited show which was great, but not the same as their sketch show.

    • @aodhablackheart
      @aodhablackheart 4 місяці тому

      Yeah but Stephen is a very different man now isn't he.

  • @KathrynTanner-t8f
    @KathrynTanner-t8f 2 місяці тому +7

    What a lovely friendship!

  • @skontheroad
    @skontheroad Рік тому +8

    They are the best!!

  • @EA-vd4gd
    @EA-vd4gd Рік тому +40

    So interesting to see this retrospective of these 2 geniuses prior to Hugh becoming House.

  • @mddistribution30
    @mddistribution30 2 місяці тому +15

    'The key to dancercise, is the rather ingenious coupling of the word dance,... to the word circumcise...!'

    • @Robert08010
      @Robert08010 12 днів тому

      I would have gone for Exorcism, but the priest was on vacation.

  • @mozhdehbashirian
    @mozhdehbashirian 13 днів тому

    Stephen Fry can do magic tricks with words! And these two together are amazing.

  • @BT-km7nl
    @BT-km7nl Рік тому +9

    in this world in this decade where mediocrity is the norm, we need more geniuses like these two. oh i will be super sad when these two dies that i know.

  • @Chrisjames504
    @Chrisjames504 3 місяці тому +7

    It’s a pity we won’t get to see them as Vimes and Willikins from the Discworld books

  • @nonsuch
    @nonsuch Рік тому +29

    As an American... it's a shame it took over 20+ years with the creation of UA-cam for me to enjoy A Bit of Fry and Laurie. I mean, Monty Python was always available to us in the states, not that Fry and Laurie's comedy is exactly on par with Python, but it didn't have to be for me and others to enjoy it back then when it aired or even a few years later. I imagine it's possible that it could have been on a BBC cable TV channel and I just never caught it. Of course, my introduction to Hugh Laurie was from House not knowing he was British until he was on a talk show where he used his true accent and A Bit of Fry and Laurie was subsequently mentioned during the interview. Regardless, I'm happy to be able to see it now at will.

    • @A-small-amount-of-peas
      @A-small-amount-of-peas Рік тому +3

      I feel the same way about American shows I had always seen being referenced in other media but never got the chance to see it.
      Currently watching old SCTV episodes and loving it

    • @ephemerabluetit335
      @ephemerabluetit335 2 місяці тому +1

      Good Lord, didn't you know about PBS?!?! My kids watched from age16, when they were old enough, and now they are 40. Sheesh.

  • @EuskaltelEuskadi
    @EuskaltelEuskadi 8 місяців тому +25

    Soupy twist!

    • @Mark-lj1dj
      @Mark-lj1dj 2 місяці тому +1

      I always thought that was such a fun ending to the show 😂

    • @michaelstamper5604
      @michaelstamper5604 Місяць тому +1

      To this day, friends and I still say it before the first sip of a drink. Happy memories.

  • @adawil2002
    @adawil2002 Місяць тому +2

    Ah Frye is "Lord Snot" on The Young One's University Challenge. Love how top notch comedy is all intertwined & lift everyone.

  • @dengueberries
    @dengueberries Місяць тому +4

    0:48 ive never heard such an intense audience reaction that the sound redlines - incredible

  • @lamaquinadeleer
    @lamaquinadeleer 24 дні тому +1

    27:55 I feel some of the spirit of what they were together survive in the works of Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, the brilliant yet funny and not at all unclever duo, Map Men

  • @Rynios222
    @Rynios222 17 днів тому

    This was just beautifull!

  • @drucifer00
    @drucifer00 7 місяців тому +4

    No mention of their sketches on Friday/Saturday Live.

  • @kevinw712
    @kevinw712 Місяць тому +2

    once they had established in HOUSE canon in the later seasons that the R Lee Ermy character wasn't House's biological father and that he wanted to find out who was, I held onto the tiniest hope til the end that it was going to turn out that House also had a half-brother from that true father, and Stephen Fry could've appeared to play him (and be smarter than him) and essentially be the Mycroft to House's Sherlock Holmes

  • @Mooocheropordis
    @Mooocheropordis Рік тому +5

    What about Saturday Night Fry on BBC home service?

  • @citizenVader
    @citizenVader 3 місяці тому +3

    And we are lucky you found each other

  • @AllIsWellaus
    @AllIsWellaus Рік тому +6

    2:34 Emma Thompson. Ding. Dong.

    • @stephenbarrette610
      @stephenbarrette610 6 місяців тому

      Yes Hugh and Emma were a thing, a long time ago …

  • @roadwarrior144
    @roadwarrior144 Рік тому +2

    What part did Stephen Fry have in “A Fish Called Wanda”?!

    • @scottandrewbrass1931
      @scottandrewbrass1931 Рік тому

      A bit part. Near the end.

    • @roadwarrior144
      @roadwarrior144 Рік тому

      @@scottandrewbrass1931So, somewhere in the Heathrow scene?

    • @dionlindsay2
      @dionlindsay2 Рік тому

      Hutchison. I looked it up on the public IMDB database

    • @karlbassett8485
      @karlbassett8485 Місяць тому

      He played an airline passenger at Heathrow near the end. Kevin Klein knocks him unconscious and steals his ticket.

    • @robin_holden
      @robin_holden 14 днів тому

      @@roadwarrior144 “Oh look, the Queen.” “Where?” BONCC

  • @JohnBeeblebrox
    @JohnBeeblebrox 16 годин тому

    09:25 Not sure I'd want a Jimmy Saville show on my CV. Different times...😢

  • @csgollum
    @csgollum 15 днів тому

    When I first watched the first episode of 'Jeeves and Wooster', I was in my teens and, much as I enjoyed reading the books, I wasn't sure of how I felt about the TV series. It wasn't just the idea of Fry and Laurie playing these characters (it was my first introduction to the two), but after a couple of episodes I somehow felt that Hugh would do far better with serious roles (turns out, I was right... couldn't help but feel a bit "Nostradamy" when I first watched 'House, MD'). Stephen Fry did, however, seem like the perfect person to play Jeeves. It wasn't until much later that I realised the similarities between the character from the books and the actor (must be all that fish he eats!).

  • @Robert08010
    @Robert08010 12 днів тому

    Fry: "Just a moment. If anyone is going to bugger this up, its going to be us!" The twit!
    By the way, I'm a huge fan of Hugh Laure from "HOUSE". And its delightful seeing this other side to him. I was under the false impression he was an unknown until House.

  • @Duncan.Terrace
    @Duncan.Terrace Місяць тому

    I really want to see the crystal cube , is it on a streaming site or CD ?

  • @BorisNoiseChannel
    @BorisNoiseChannel Рік тому +2

    who the bleep is Jon Canter and who drove over his face? (0:53)

    • @bennylloyd-willner9667
      @bennylloyd-willner9667 6 місяців тому +1

      It's probably too far in the video for your attention span, but less than 10 minutes in, he is mentioned again...

    • @BorisNoiseChannel
      @BorisNoiseChannel 6 місяців тому

      @@bennylloyd-willner9667 does it say who xrove over his face?

    • @bennylloyd-willner9667
      @bennylloyd-willner9667 6 місяців тому +2

      @@BorisNoiseChannel nope, but I think it was the same one who vacuumed your brain away

  • @willyum3920
    @willyum3920 Рік тому +4

    The very best

  • @jamesthornton3539
    @jamesthornton3539 Рік тому +2

    When was rhis originally aired?

    • @nolongerlistless
      @nolongerlistless 7 місяців тому

      From previous responder to point above, 2005.

  • @davidchouinard9268
    @davidchouinard9268 15 днів тому

    brilliant, and thank-you 🤔😉

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems 20 днів тому

    Bloody hell, Fry looks like the Rees-Mogg in that University Challenge episode

  • @Samhertzog
    @Samhertzog Місяць тому +2

    They never mention the radio show they had together for some reason

  • @Gurra_Gforce
    @Gurra_Gforce Рік тому +2

    Recorded in 1997 or so? They are are great anyways

  • @A-small-amount-of-peas
    @A-small-amount-of-peas 5 місяців тому +2

    I think Stephen is right about sketch comedy being a young man's game

  • @tonydrake462
    @tonydrake462 16 днів тому

    mm missed Blackadder II-IV which pre-dated a Bit of.. I think that's probably why it was 'green lite'...

  • @FistandFootMartialArts
    @FistandFootMartialArts Місяць тому

    Conspicuous by it's absence, I guess someone really Brought down the House. lol

  • @heygranti24
    @heygranti24 Рік тому +11

    The fact that they mentioned Oscar Wilde but not House and not even Gun Seller saddens me.

    • @EA-vd4gd
      @EA-vd4gd Рік тому +20

      Pretty sure this aired before Hugh Laurie took on House and super stardom.

    • @codingkriggsofficial
      @codingkriggsofficial Рік тому +8

      @@EA-vd4gd Yeah this was aired in 2005 (based on the copyright in the last few seconds of the video), when House was just getting into season 1, and news of it had probably not carried back to the UK.

    • @bennylloyd-willner9667
      @bennylloyd-willner9667 6 місяців тому +4

      To try and mention everything they have done in the entertainment business in less than half an hour is pretty futile IMO

  • @adamgrimsley2900
    @adamgrimsley2900 Місяць тому +1

    5:09 what avoir de point??

    • @michaelstamper5604
      @michaelstamper5604 Місяць тому +1

      "Avoir du pois" (literal translation, to have some peas. Reasons why are lost to history) is a rather posh way of describing the weights system that uses pounds, ounces, hundredweights, etc rather than grammes, kilos and the like.

    • @RedshiftDougal
      @RedshiftDougal 21 день тому

      @@michaelstamper5604 Very humorous. 😂 But anyone looking for the real answer should look up the avoirdupoids system.

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems 20 днів тому

    Well, if you've been at Cambridge...

  • @seanp8220
    @seanp8220 Місяць тому +1

    friendly milk ...

  • @adamgrimsley2900
    @adamgrimsley2900 Місяць тому +2

    Peter's Friends... Wow that was bad

  • @anjinmiura6708
    @anjinmiura6708 26 днів тому

    I liked him in "HOUSE" but not so much as Dr. Strange.

  • @yodel606
    @yodel606 Місяць тому

    Oh laurie I miss you. Not.

  • @carlpayne8791
    @carlpayne8791 Місяць тому

    Love these two, but Python beat them to this idea by many years………

    • @robin_holden
      @robin_holden 16 днів тому +1

      Sketch comedy was around long before Python. It came from radio via vaudeville.

    • @carlpayne8791
      @carlpayne8791 15 днів тому

      My grandfather was in the Perth vaudeville scene. After surviving the Western Front for 4 years, he thought every single thing on the planet was hilarious…….