It would be easy to dismiss this as an ex-University English MA posho discussion at the exclusion of everyone else, but it's clearly taking the piss out of that. Pricking the pomposity of it all. Look, I didn't go to University, I left school at 16 and moved straight into an apprenticeship to forge the career I still have to this day at the age of 46 - but I understood this. And it's funny. (Which, of course, is always subjective). Also KB, I too have a few issues with short term memory, but that is not a measure of intelligence. You are clearly a smart guy with a curious nature about the world and its history that will always serve you well. Never change, my man.
@@stewartmackay You've misread. Dunno where you got pickling from. Pricking, as in popping a balloon. Exploding it for the nonsense it is, thus nullifying it. That sort of Pricking. Oh, unless you are continuing the sketch, in which case - bravo, otherwise. well original comment stands (?) I do believe the great poet William Smuthers once wrote about such, and there was a great prickling going on. His ideas would make apples cry, which disavowed all around him. He hated apples forever more, but because horrible knickers that surrounded his poor writhing body he would need nothing more than a frenetic apparition around him that would, and I think you may agree, completely spooked him. Via many authoritarians , thrustly, and wherefore, mighty, his backside was destroyed yet equally validated. He was whole. And so was his...
That first part is one of my all-time favourite sketches. The amazing thing about it is that from a lingustics point of view it makes perfect sense, but it's presented in such a way as to be hilarious.
Why this is funny is that at the time there really were shows like this on the telly in which two people would just talk about a subject and give the audience credit for a bit of intelligence; it's parodying that. Yes, just talking ... not baking cakes or dancing and being voted off one by one, just talking.
The irony of not having seen Fry looking so young is that A Bit of Fry and Laurie didn't air until most of the Blackadder series had aired. Except in Blackadder Fry often looked older because he was made up with beards and moustaches and so on. :)
Stephen Fry displayed his very deep English education unintentionally once on an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway. One of the improv skits involved "talking like a Roman" and instead of talking about things Roman in English, Fry started it right off by asking a question of his teammate in Latin. Funny and erudite.
The weird thing is we used to have odd little discussion shows like this on British T, often late in the evening just before broadcasts for the day ended.
Yep. The Open University using terrestrial TV for broadcasting helped matters a lot, before it was scaled back in the mid-2000s. I can't help but feel that documentary programming has very much been dumbed down in the years since on the main UK channels.
Do you remember the time Oliver Reed was inebriated and on a late-night talk show with a bunch of feminists and academics? That was the funniest thing that was ever on TV. Bet it’s on UA-cam somewhere.
@pauljohnson1664 yep, it was magnificent. Ollie ran rings around them anyway, but when he returned from having a piss and climbed over the sofa and kissed that feminist, I frakking died laughing. I believe the show was called After Dark and to this day, Oliie is my hero and I'm so glad I never used to go to bed before the wee hours!!
Oh the philosophy, I guess it's like something me & my mother used to say about things, like colours, she would point at the sofa and ask "is that sofa red?" when I agreed she would then go on to say "I say it's red, you say it's red, but how do we know that you are seeing the same colour I am seeing?"
@vinsgraphics I simply said his rhetoric is ridiculous. As was Hitler's. And Mussolini's. All wannabe dictators are ridiculous and deserving of our contempt.
Just wonderful whimsy! You MUST check out The Hedge Sketch they performed live. "Secret Policeman's Ball: Stephen Fry introduces his favourite clip 'The Hedge' with Hugh Laurie"
@@jamesrowe3606 I had a similar friendly comment from someone who thought he knew me on LBC. 😅 Have a great day and all the best for 2025 from Germany.
@@medievalladybird394 Some people believe it's OK to make smart-arse comments to strangers, although they never do it in person for some reason. 😏 Frohes neues Jahr!
You would certainly enjoy your fellow American Rich Hall. He's the funniest cleverest most watchable American on TV and his Documentaries (mostly about your beloved US of A) are all excellent.
I live in Dorset a county on the South coast of England with about 800k people, I don't think that it is particularly associated with piano compositions.
Language definitely shapes outlooks. Just consider those occasions in any language where a concept expressed in a single word requires an entire sentence and/or explanation in another language.
I think you'd love their police station sketch ("Derek Nipple"). Especially after watching this it shows how varied (but hilarious) their humor could be. The whole show is just brilliant.
I think people are forgetting that if not many people are using a kindles its because people are reading on tablets which is the exact same experience. I read on a tablet occasionally though I prefer a real book....but people were surprised someone could read on a phone very easily I think that's why it became a bit of a discussion.
Ah, young mister Fry is, I believe, alluding to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - aka linguistic relativity - the notion that a language has a big influence on the speaker's experience and comprehension of the world.
It's a beautiful composition and it's underpinned by a really serious and quite dark concept but also really interesting one about the nature of language and the nature of the British language in itself. It's really interesting as I was being quite funny.
Fry is playing the brains behind Laurie. Your right though Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson are all up there on the smartOmeter hence why Slack Bladder was so brilliant. Comedy geniuses all of them.
Boomer, you would really enjoy reviewing Fry and Laurie in the British television show: Jeeves and Wooster. Three seasons of the Wodehouse books . Devilishly clever !!!
The funny thing is - in Oxford there are people who talk like this in the pub, and ESPECIALLY in the Union Bar. But they tend to be unaffiliated to the University. The properly brainy people I knew were anarchic libertines with warped and twisted appetites, and wouldn’t be caught dead having a twee, effete salon like this, when they could be running around a garden naked, shouting sonnets in pursuit of some boy or other. I loved Oxford.
Don’t put yourself down, these two gentlemen are extremely talented and highly educated and would probably run rings around most people. As you so rightly say Rosen Atkinson is another one. The previous generation produced the likes of John Cleese and Michael Paylin and likes Peter Cooke.
I visited a pub in Oxford (near the university colleges) a few years ago, and overheard a conversation between students that was a perfect representation of this type of pompous intellectualistic discussion. Considering both Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie attended Cambridge University, I'm sure they've been witness to many of these types of conversation.
Stephen Fry.....one of our National Treasures here in UK...... If you want to see a very serious side of Stephen then check out his debates with Christopher Hitchens on some very controversial issues
This is the sort of sketch that happens when you stay in university for too long. Monty Python were often the same. Check out Monty Python's "The constitutional peasant" from The Holy Grail to see what I mean.
The Kindle was a bit rubbish, needing some other light source and the page never looked like white paper, always a bit dull. That is until the first 'Paperwhite' came along, which I still have now. It's the best thing to read to go to sleep, as it looks pretty natural, an turns itself off after a couple of minutes if you fall asleep. The new Kindle Paperwhites are really superb, much better than my original paperwhite in terms of just looking like printed text in a book. The technology has come so far! And always remember, if you read on a phone screen, you're depleting your phone battery markedly, but a Kindle can have several weeks of intensive reading on one charge. My 12 yr old one does about 2 hrs/day for me, and still only needs charging once a fortnight.
don't forget in 1938 in American cities there were uniformed American Nazis marching in the streets here in UK we had Oswald Mosley part of the upper class es organising his 'Blackshirts' but here there were riots and punch ups in the street whenever they appeared
"Just a muppet in a chair"? I don't think so. You are obviously very well informed and much better educated than you pretend to be, and (thank goodness) you know a lot more about many out-of-the-way subjects than most of your fellow American commentators, some of whose birdbrained remarks and lack of elementary knowledge leave me gasping in disbelief. If this was not the case, you wouldn't find Fry and Lauries' kind of esoteric humour funny. You would look puzzled and mutter something like "I missed that", or "Help me out in the comments" - neither of which you ever do.
Please watch the Michael Jackson sketch and the in the police station giving his name sketch and many others the The Vox Pop Street interviews are brilliant as well there are collections of those. Some really crazy stuff on Fry and Laurie and but yeah a lot of really grey stuff. The American songs are quite good the kicking ass song is quite good as well i'm sure you'll appreciate that.
Fry is in his early 30s here. Yes, he is extremely smart and intellectually playfull as so many, he's a great novelist too allthough not consistently imho. As someone who is comfortable in both German and English and native speaker of neither, I don't appreciate the underlying thought of this sketch that mach as it's just British exceptionalism. Yes, language does shape thought, no, English is not special in that.
Your reaction on this - The Two Ronnies, Fork Handles would be great to see. Truley a world class comedy sketch, the bar is set high here. ua-cam.com/video/0CmaLgxLDE0/v-deo.htmlsi=JH-ZkMIY-jnAk_-m
Btw; I have some thoughts that is probably not relevant for this channel.. but I AM curious about the comment King boomer made around the 4 minute mark (and if you read to the END of my comment I will at least start off such conversation.. Stop reading whenever you feel like).. Where he talked about AI translating Hitler's speech to English and it not resonating with him. This is a conversation I would be glad to partake in, but it is the wrong one for a reaction channel. but.. I will say two things: 1. I really want to hear that speech (I haven't come across it yet, and since I WILL think of this channel and what he said when I hear it I REALLY want to be sure it is the SAME I hear, so I WANT to ask for a link for the SPECIFIC AI rendering that King Boomer heard).. and.. 2... No.. You WOULDN'T feel enticed by it today.. NOT because of what language it is expressed in but simply because.. history.. You are NOT in a vaccuum.. Knowledge is passed down..Tone of voice, arguments, rhetorical elements, and other things.. alters over time.. more exactly: They may fall out of favoure.. so.. ABSOLUTELY!! because of the very lessons learned back then.. we have altered our socio-cultural conditioning to.. "react negatively" to the very things that people USED to find appealing. So.. BECAUSE!!!! Hitler fell out of favour as strongly as he did.. and about 80 years of rhetorics and people using specific ways to express yourself as negative, and so on.. you WOULDN'T find it appealing.. it's not about the language used (English versus German).. it's about.. historical events/context.. (BEFORE we learned that Hitler was bad so we literally used Hitler's way of expressing himself as a way to define people as bad).. ·.... This is why modern world makes people so extremely fearful.. Because.. if you ACTUALLY know history.. if you learned about propaganda.. what arguments were good or bad.. how specific viewpoints could make you think a certain way.. be more attracted to specific ideas, and reject others.. and so on.. THEN you'll know that what Trump is sharing is literally the SAME crap as Hitler was saying.. using the SAME flawed logic, the SAME flawed propaganda, the same hatred/fear/selfishness based concepts.. as Hitler did. The ONLY difference is that he expresses his views in a different mode.. SAME views.. but in a different tone.
I’ve been watching ur reactions to Friday Night dinner from last year. Can u react to the last season they made a few years back it’s season 6 if u can
Being smart is about logic and working things out for yourself. A lot of people who seem really smart actually only have a good memory, especially for language. A lot of people who seem quite dim only come across like that because they struggle with language, and are actually logically very clever. Sportsmen are often a good example of that. Being smart is about being able to mentally connect things together and using that information to make reliable predictions.
I’m pretty sure this is a pisstake of over educated oxbridge/Ivy League bellends. Also, and I hate to bring this up, but Addie made way more coherent, intelligible, comprehensible, lucid than Donny in any language
Hitlers speaches sounds less convincing to you than Trumps random babbeling? Stupid appeals to stupid, simple solutions to complex problems and stroking peoples egos.
Stephen Fry is clever, but he is not clever on everything. Just because he says it is so (and can read the answer cards in QI) does not mean he should be put on a pedestal. I've read/heard some things he has said which were just outright stupid and/or wrong. Keep him on his good subjects (English Language, Literature) and he knows a lot. On other stuff ... he just has opinions. I like him as an actor and comedy performer.
@@eadweard. Fry on GPS: "You send a signal from your GPS device. You've got to be at least three, usually four or five satellites - that receive your signal. And the difference in time it takes to get from one satellite to the other to the other, which is milliseconds, allows them to calculate your position to within 10 metres." Fry on TCP/IP: "Any email or transaction on the internet uses what's called packet-switching, which means the information is broken up into packets, and reassembled on the other side. But each side has to be exactly synchronised, otherwise the message is nonsense. So the caesium atomic clocks are necessary to make all this technology work." Need I go on? Fry is a stupid person's idea of a clever person.
I'm a fan of both Fry & Laurie but I regard this as just self-indulgent nonsense that really only his University chums appreciate. Sure it's clever, but not really that funny.
I'm also a fan of those old F&L shows, I disagree, I think it's actually taking the piss out of the whole pomposity of it. But you know, great how different everyone's mind perceives things, would be boring otherwise!
@@Jxb9904 What's funny to you, might be funny to me too. In fact I'm sure of that. But sometimes, something isn't. It's not a problem, just human nature. I don't understand why some don't get that humour really is subjective sometimes, like we are all in a hive mind or something!
Thing is, with languages that end the sentence with the verb, as the audience you're hanging on every word. It's not until the end of the sentence is fully apparent that you can make final sense of it. It's already fully parsed and it's going to arrive in your cognitive centres (technically, thinkly bits) in an instant. A decent orator can make hay with that.
As a resident of Dorset born and bred I would have to say. "Not especially"🤣
It would be easy to dismiss this as an ex-University English MA posho discussion at the exclusion of everyone else, but it's clearly taking the piss out of that. Pricking the pomposity of it all. Look, I didn't go to University, I left school at 16 and moved straight into an apprenticeship to forge the career I still have to this day at the age of 46 - but I understood this. And it's funny. (Which, of course, is always subjective).
Also KB, I too have a few issues with short term memory, but that is not a measure of intelligence. You are clearly a smart guy with a curious nature about the world and its history that will always serve you well. Never change, my man.
Pickling, or prickling? Those are two different charges, it seems.
@@stewartmackay You've misread. Dunno where you got pickling from. Pricking, as in popping a balloon. Exploding it for the nonsense it is, thus nullifying it. That sort of Pricking.
Oh, unless you are continuing the sketch, in which case - bravo, otherwise. well original comment stands (?)
I do believe the great poet William Smuthers once wrote about such, and there was a great prickling going on. His ideas would make apples cry, which disavowed all around him. He hated apples forever more, but because horrible knickers that surrounded his poor writhing body he would need nothing more than a frenetic apparition around him that would, and I think you may agree, completely spooked him. Via many authoritarians , thrustly, and wherefore, mighty, his backside was destroyed yet equally validated. He was whole. And so was his...
That first part is one of my all-time favourite sketches. The amazing thing about it is that from a lingustics point of view it makes perfect sense, but it's presented in such a way as to be hilarious.
Why this is funny is that at the time there really were shows like this on the telly in which two people would just talk about a subject and give the audience credit for a bit of intelligence; it's parodying that. Yes, just talking ... not baking cakes or dancing and being voted off one by one, just talking.
Had those in Norway too, it really is on point
The irony of not having seen Fry looking so young is that A Bit of Fry and Laurie didn't air until most of the Blackadder series had aired. Except in Blackadder Fry often looked older because he was made up with beards and moustaches and so on. :)
I think the main cast of Blackadder, with the exeption of Tony Robinson, were all still under 30 while filming Blackadder Goes Fourth.
Not quite. Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny were over 30 whilst filming. Rowan was the oldest of the three.
Stephen Fry displayed his very deep English education unintentionally once on an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway. One of the improv skits involved "talking like a Roman" and instead of talking about things Roman in English, Fry started it right off by asking a question of his teammate in Latin. Funny and erudite.
Mum in her 90s, bought me a new kindle. 🇬🇧🎄😅
The weird thing is we used to have odd little discussion shows like this on British T, often late in the evening just before broadcasts for the day ended.
Yep. The Open University using terrestrial TV for broadcasting helped matters a lot, before it was scaled back in the mid-2000s.
I can't help but feel that documentary programming has very much been dumbed down in the years since on the main UK channels.
Do you remember the time Oliver Reed was inebriated and on a late-night talk show with a bunch of feminists and academics? That was the funniest thing that was ever on TV. Bet it’s on UA-cam somewhere.
@pauljohnson1664 yep, it was magnificent. Ollie ran rings around them anyway, but when he returned from having a piss and climbed over the sofa and kissed that feminist, I frakking died laughing. I believe the show was called After Dark and to this day, Oliie is my hero and I'm so glad I never used to go to bed before the wee hours!!
Oh the philosophy, I guess it's like something me & my mother used to say about things, like colours, she would point at the sofa and ask "is that sofa red?" when I agreed she would then go on to say "I say it's red, you say it's red, but how do we know that you are seeing the same colour I am seeing?"
Yeah it's amazing how Hitler's rhetoric sounds so ridiculous in English.
Right. Who's going to tell Trump.
Trump is too stupid to understand that.
lol. Thinking Trump is Hitler is like thinking Uranus is a body part.
@vinsgraphics I simply said his rhetoric is ridiculous. As was Hitler's. And Mussolini's.
All wannabe dictators are ridiculous and deserving of our contempt.
Just wonderful whimsy! You MUST check out The Hedge Sketch they performed live. "Secret Policeman's Ball: Stephen Fry introduces his favourite clip 'The Hedge' with Hugh Laurie"
America just elected a demogogue who uses nothing but inflammatory rhetoric, so the short answer is YES.
I think these are more your own ideological preoccupations than anything else.
@eadweard. Do you? Despite not knowing a single thing about me? Well thanks for your input anyway.
@@jamesrowe3606
I had a similar friendly comment from someone who thought he knew me on LBC. 😅
Have a great day and all the best for 2025 from Germany.
@@medievalladybird394 Some people believe it's OK to make smart-arse comments to strangers, although they never do it in person for some reason. 😏
Frohes neues Jahr!
@jamesrowe3606 dankeschön
He's the spitting image of Michael Jackson.
Berwhale the Destroyer? Who knew!!?
You would certainly enjoy your fellow American Rich Hall. He's the funniest cleverest most watchable American on TV and his Documentaries (mostly about your beloved US of A) are all excellent.
Dorset is associated with cream teas, which is curious, since cream teas were mentioned later in the monologue.
My Dorset Uncle went away his favourite dog.died, they didn't know how to tell him? The budgie said as he went through the door, Tinas dead! 👵🙏😂🇬🇧🎄
I live in Dorset a county on the South coast of England with about 800k people, I don't think that it is particularly associated with piano compositions.
So you've *really* never heard the fourth piano concerto, in A major, of Wurzel Giles?
@@langermain Yes it is a masterpiece but sadly it is a Somerset classic. 🤣🤣🤣
My wife loves this show, obsessed. She showed me a few episodes and I’ll be honest I didn’t really think much of it but it grew on me after a while
I have the most cutting edge way to keep all my books in one place it’s called a “shelf” I have ten of them!
This is one of my favorite F&L bits, along with Berwhale the Destroyer. :)
A lifetime ago I read Theoretical Linguistics at university. I can’t tell you how many of these completely unfathomable conversations I was party to.
Language definitely shapes outlooks. Just consider those occasions in any language where a concept expressed in a single word requires an entire sentence and/or explanation in another language.
I can't decide whether I think Fry is reciting a script from memory, or improvising it as he goes along, or which would impress me more if I knew.
A Bit of Fry & Laurie - Michael Jackson
Hugh Laurie had some solo sketches on ABOFAL: one about his ex girlfriends and another about his previous jobs and they are both hilarious
I think you'd love their police station sketch ("Derek Nipple"). Especially after watching this it shows how varied (but hilarious) their humor could be. The whole show is just brilliant.
I think people are forgetting that if not many people are using a kindles its because people are reading on tablets which is the exact same experience. I read on a tablet occasionally though I prefer a real book....but people were surprised someone could read on a phone very easily I think that's why it became a bit of a discussion.
In my view Fry was taking the piss out of himself perhaps?
Ah, young mister Fry is, I believe, alluding to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - aka linguistic relativity - the notion that a language has a big influence on the speaker's experience and comprehension of the world.
I would rather tend to say that one's comprehension of the world is what develops the vulva of the development of one's language.
It's a beautiful composition and it's underpinned by a really serious and quite dark concept but also really interesting one about the nature of language and the nature of the British language in itself. It's really interesting as I was being quite funny.
I always loved their 'Bishop and the Warlord' sketches - particularly the US court one.
Stephen Fry is like a professor of words
I can recommend 'Rutland Weekend Television - Gibberish'. Truly insane 😅
Fry is playing the brains behind Laurie. Your right though Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson are all up there on the smartOmeter hence why Slack Bladder was so brilliant. Comedy geniuses all of them.
Boomer, you would really enjoy reviewing Fry and Laurie in the British television show: Jeeves and Wooster. Three seasons of the Wodehouse books . Devilishly clever !!!
Correctly correctington...
Oh, this is pure genius, thank you for reacting. 😂
Ever thought about reacting to all the short Wallace & Gromit films?
Have you seen any episodes of the British sitcom Bottom, with Rik Mayall? I would strongly recommend it. Absolute genius.
Listen to me lovelet, I can't exaggerate enough how much this sketch inspired in me a love for what can be done with the English language.
The whale is not actually a fish at all. It’s an insect. Bananas are marsupials. Salmon live in trees and eat pencils.
Well, I'm sitting here in Germany, wondering not only how anyone could follow AH but also how anyone could follow DT.😅
I can only imagine there was an eccentric English Literature Professor in a University Mr Fry attended.
This one F&L sketch that I always remember, so funny.
The funny thing is - in Oxford there are people who talk like this in the pub, and ESPECIALLY in the Union Bar. But they tend to be unaffiliated to the University. The properly brainy people I knew were anarchic libertines with warped and twisted appetites, and wouldn’t be caught dead having a twee, effete salon like this, when they could be running around a garden naked, shouting sonnets in pursuit of some boy or other. I loved Oxford.
Don’t put yourself down, these two gentlemen are extremely talented and highly educated and would probably run rings around most people. As you so rightly say Rosen Atkinson is another one. The previous generation produced the likes of John Cleese and Michael Paylin and likes Peter Cooke.
11:27 Kate Adie was a journalist who often reported from war zones
Yay!! Was gonna suggest this very one 😁😁😁
We made up a song about him only having one ball so we wouldn't have let him become our dictator.
I think the song only came about because we were at war with him, didn't it?
Armstrong and Miller (the WWII pilots, etc.) do a fine sketch about how the song came to be written.
Love George Carling, but I never thought his vocabulary was particularly intricate or sophisticated.
I visited a pub in Oxford (near the university colleges) a few years ago, and overheard a conversation between students that was a perfect representation of this type of pompous intellectualistic discussion. Considering both Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie attended Cambridge University, I'm sure they've been witness to many of these types of conversation.
Well... what did they say?
@@eadweard. 🤣
@@SirHilaryManfatNot sure what you mean.
This where Ricky Gervais got the idea from!
Wasn't Laurie, Fry's room mate in University or something? sure i heard that somewhere?
I still use ‘correctly correctington’ to this day…
Oh dear, how positively primordial you make me feel if Kindle is viewed as ancient. I still read from things once called books. 👴🤔
stephen is an extremely capabububolorator.
He only went and introduced a leveret! Bloody nerve.
05:55 No, Dorset is famous for being the home of Legends!
If you like Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese, you should react to the beekeeping sketch. It's brilliant.
How on earth did he memorise this, lol
0:52 - If you do a lot of reading then a Kindle is much better for your eyes
Stephen Fry.....one of our National Treasures here in UK......
If you want to see a very serious side of Stephen then check out his debates with Christopher Hitchens on some very controversial issues
The debate on Catholicism with Fry and Hitchens was brilliant.
This is the sort of sketch that happens when you stay in university for too long.
Monty Python were often the same. Check out Monty Python's "The constitutional peasant" from The Holy Grail to see what I mean.
The Kindle was a bit rubbish, needing some other light source and the page never looked like white paper, always a bit dull. That is until the first 'Paperwhite' came along, which I still have now. It's the best thing to read to go to sleep, as it looks pretty natural, an turns itself off after a couple of minutes if you fall asleep.
The new Kindle Paperwhites are really superb, much better than my original paperwhite in terms of just looking like printed text in a book. The technology has come so far! And always remember, if you read on a phone screen, you're depleting your phone battery markedly, but a Kindle can have several weeks of intensive reading on one charge. My 12 yr old one does about 2 hrs/day for me, and still only needs charging once a fortnight.
He does look so young, and yet he'd already been in Prison at this point
You need to look at their Dammit John sketches on the show
Unfortunately we had Moseley
don't forget in 1938 in American cities there were uniformed American Nazis marching in the streets here in UK we had Oswald Mosley part of the upper class es organising his 'Blackshirts' but here there were riots and punch ups in the street whenever they appeared
Not sure of your point.
Boomer talked about Hitler's speech in English would it sway anyone, well it did
@@misolgit69 Oh yes thank you.
Hey, check out Fry & Laurie in "Dinner With Digby" 😄
Fry is bipolar, and I can see him having a bit of a manic episode in this
"Just a muppet in a chair"? I don't think so. You are obviously very well informed and much better educated than you pretend to be, and (thank goodness) you know a lot more about many out-of-the-way subjects than most of your fellow American commentators, some of whose birdbrained remarks and lack of elementary knowledge leave me gasping in disbelief. If this was not the case, you wouldn't find Fry and Lauries' kind of esoteric humour funny. You would look puzzled and mutter something like "I missed that", or "Help me out in the comments" - neither of which you ever do.
Invisible green sheep sleep furiously.
Colourless green ideas...
…warble decadently in the wabe
@@johnloony68 I mean it's "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously".
Please watch the Michael Jackson sketch and the in the police station giving his name sketch and many others the The Vox Pop Street interviews are brilliant as well there are collections of those. Some really crazy stuff on Fry and Laurie and but yeah a lot of really grey stuff. The American songs are quite good the kicking ass song is quite good as well i'm sure you'll appreciate that.
Born again Kindleist eh...
Do you think Stephen Fry scripted all that ... or did the script just say "Fry ad-libs for half an hour"
I read actual books
Fry is in his early 30s here. Yes, he is extremely smart and intellectually playfull as so many, he's a great novelist too allthough not consistently imho. As someone who is comfortable in both German and English and native speaker of neither, I don't appreciate the underlying thought of this sketch that mach as it's just British exceptionalism. Yes, language does shape thought, no, English is not special in that.
Attraction
Have you seen any Ronnie Barker?
Your reaction on this - The Two Ronnies, Fork Handles would be great to see. Truley a world class comedy sketch, the bar is set high here.
ua-cam.com/video/0CmaLgxLDE0/v-deo.htmlsi=JH-ZkMIY-jnAk_-m
Btw; I have some thoughts that is probably not relevant for this channel.. but I AM curious about the comment King boomer made around the 4 minute mark (and if you read to the END of my comment I will at least start off such conversation.. Stop reading whenever you feel like).. Where he talked about AI translating Hitler's speech to English and it not resonating with him. This is a conversation I would be glad to partake in, but it is the wrong one for a reaction channel. but.. I will say two things:
1. I really want to hear that speech (I haven't come across it yet, and since I WILL think of this channel and what he said when I hear it I REALLY want to be sure it is the SAME I hear, so I WANT to ask for a link for the SPECIFIC AI rendering that King Boomer heard).. and..
2... No.. You WOULDN'T feel enticed by it today.. NOT because of what language it is expressed in but simply because.. history.. You are NOT in a vaccuum.. Knowledge is passed down..Tone of voice, arguments, rhetorical elements, and other things.. alters over time.. more exactly: They may fall out of favoure.. so.. ABSOLUTELY!! because of the very lessons learned back then.. we have altered our socio-cultural conditioning to.. "react negatively" to the very things that people USED to find appealing. So.. BECAUSE!!!! Hitler fell out of favour as strongly as he did.. and about 80 years of rhetorics and people using specific ways to express yourself as negative, and so on.. you WOULDN'T find it appealing.. it's not about the language used (English versus German).. it's about.. historical events/context.. (BEFORE we learned that Hitler was bad so we literally used Hitler's way of expressing himself as a way to define people as bad)..
·.... This is why modern world makes people so extremely fearful..
Because.. if you ACTUALLY know history.. if you learned about propaganda.. what arguments were good or bad.. how specific viewpoints could make you think a certain way.. be more attracted to specific ideas, and reject others.. and so on..
THEN you'll know that what Trump is sharing is literally the SAME crap as Hitler was saying.. using the SAME flawed logic, the SAME flawed propaganda, the same hatred/fear/selfishness based concepts.. as Hitler did.
The ONLY difference is that he expresses his views in a different mode.. SAME views.. but in a different tone.
This is what they should have done with Karl Pilkington
I’ve been watching ur reactions to Friday Night dinner from last year. Can u react to the last season they made a few years back it’s season 6 if u can
The mentioning of Dorset is completely random and means literally nothing.
King boomer can you please react to Vic and Bob - Geordie Astronauts Compilation please? it is so funny
Am trying to find someone who is prepared to sell a Kindle. No luck so far? Dec 2024.
Being smart is about logic and working things out for yourself. A lot of people who seem really smart actually only have a good memory, especially for language. A lot of people who seem quite dim only come across like that because they struggle with language, and are actually logically very clever. Sportsmen are often a good example of that. Being smart is about being able to mentally connect things together and using that information to make reliable predictions.
People who still have a bit of class and intellect read real books.
How can anybody follow this guy? Modern example - TRUMP!
Pretentious brain fart?
I’m pretty sure this is a pisstake of over educated oxbridge/Ivy League bellends. Also, and I hate to bring this up, but Addie made way more coherent, intelligible, comprehensible, lucid than Donny in any language
Hitlers speaches sounds less convincing to you than Trumps random babbeling? Stupid appeals to stupid, simple solutions to complex problems and stroking peoples egos.
Stephen Fry is clever, but he is not clever on everything. Just because he says it is so (and can read the answer cards in QI) does not mean he should be put on a pedestal. I've read/heard some things he has said which were just outright stupid and/or wrong. Keep him on his good subjects (English Language, Literature) and he knows a lot. On other stuff ... he just has opinions. I like him as an actor and comedy performer.
Like what?
@@eadweard. Fry on GPS: "You send a signal from your GPS device. You've got to be at least three, usually four or five satellites - that receive your signal. And the difference in time it takes to get from one satellite to the other to the other, which is milliseconds, allows them to calculate your position to within 10 metres." Fry on TCP/IP: "Any email or transaction on the internet uses what's called packet-switching, which means the information is broken up into packets, and reassembled on the other side. But each side has to be exactly synchronised, otherwise the message is nonsense. So the caesium atomic clocks are necessary to make all this technology work." Need I go on? Fry is a stupid person's idea of a clever person.
I think George Carlin was a rapper and a poet. The rhythm and speed of some of his quickfire diatribes suggested so.
I'm a fan of both Fry & Laurie but I regard this as just self-indulgent nonsense that really only his University chums appreciate. Sure it's clever, but not really that funny.
I agree, it's painfully unfunny.
I'm also a fan of those old F&L shows, I disagree, I think it's actually taking the piss out of the whole pomposity of it. But you know, great how different everyone's mind perceives things, would be boring otherwise!
@philrob1978 It's clever but just painfully unfunny. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think comedy should be funny.
@@Jxb9904 And that's fine. As I say, it's all subjective. Don't worry about it. My best to you.
@@Jxb9904 What's funny to you, might be funny to me too. In fact I'm sure of that. But sometimes, something isn't. It's not a problem, just human nature. I don't understand why some don't get that humour really is subjective sometimes, like we are all in a hive mind or something!
Thing is, with languages that end the sentence with the verb, as the audience you're hanging on every word.
It's not until the end of the sentence is fully apparent that you can make final sense of it.
It's already fully parsed and it's going to arrive in your cognitive centres (technically, thinkly bits) in an instant.
A decent orator can make hay with that.