Hahaha. Same. I was so terrified l could barely stand. I remember my boss coming in to check on me cos, as she walked past my room, she had seen me through the window in the door and thought l was going to pass out because of how pale l was. 😊
@@nikiTricoteuse I soon found out how to teach after one term with 7 year old ESL's. If you can teach them, you can teach anyone anything. You don't know the meaning of fear, or how to overcome it, if you haven't taught young kids. Since then, I have taught soldiers, very powerful CEO's and government ministers. Piece of piss in comparison. I now understand why most people hate teachers. I, and the others like me, are the reason. No-one intimidates me. Thank your own kids for that.
@@Excession-h6e Same same. My all time favourite classes were the 8 year olds. We had so much fun. A the end of every month, I used to push the desks together and turn the classroom into a stage then, they'd take turns, half would stand on the desk and sing the songs l'd taught them and the others would cheer and clap. Then we'd swap. Was never quite sure if l was allowed to do it but, no-one stopped (saw?) us. Their parents used to have to come in and actually fetch them from class cos, they never wanted to leave. I loved them all. Even the ones l accidentally got to do a very bad gesture, when l was teaching verbs. Just a heads up. NEVER tell ltalian kids to "touch their arms". It will not go how you expected! 😳
@nikiTricoteuse I really wish I'd thought of hand gestures for ESL! I'm jealous now. That would have been hilarious 10 years later when someone English explained the significance to them.
I read a story last week of a teacher whose students raised a left hand when they knew the answer and the right when they didn't. They always looked engaged.
It was painful the whole way through. Had he asked "Is anyone unsatisfied with the lesson?" he would have been met by a whole class of satisfied students. Because noone ever reacted to anything. He was so engaged and so eager to meet the students. But they were not. Interested.
Awww, I can't think of a teacher by name I've had who has been like him but I've definitely had at least one teacher like this. It just felt too familiar. You just wish that they would get some sort of hold of the class.
At university I once had it that I was really the only one participating in class and at a certain point the prof and I just felt awkward. I never felt so ashamed for my fellow classmates. We were 40 + people and I wasn't sure if the others didn't know, were too shy or to bored or just didn't care. It was painful.
I had the same thing, it was an 8:30am class so I think everyone was half asleep but it's really disheartening when people couldn't give a damn for a subject that is quite important.
Actually, this is what kills teachers. When whatever they say or do nobody cares. This class was an example of a totally uninterested crowd, so by the end he lost his nerve. Although I am not an English teacher but an English Language teacher, I know how it feels. Poor sod. Actually, this is the least funny of Fry and Laurie, because it is something that can actually happen in a class. But I love them anyway.
Thank you for your question, but when using "to do" as a modal auxiliary verb, the verb it is used in conjunction with always remains in present-tense.
Yeah, it's a bit sad but true. I guess that's why Fry and Laurie are popular, they are the enthusiastic version that we keep under tabs. Most people must be sooo boring. Thankfully I keep away from them. Covid's been fantastic for that :)
The "students" made continual eye contact. If this comedy skit were filmed in 2024, the students would be staring at their phones, talking amongst themselves, sleeping, standing up to avoid deep vein thrombosis, etc.
Just in case you didn't know, Hugh Laurie is British. His accent skill was putting on the American one in House. Of course, your comment may just have been a joke!
oh my poor english teachers - what a mare they had to live with ! my god tho the BFG was a HORRID bloody book. Bridge over the river Kwai tho :) quality !
Unfortunately, this isn’t absurdist humor or satire in the 2020s-and it wasn’t much different when I went to junior high (middle school in the U.S.) in the early 2000s.
In some ways, Fry & Laurie were similar to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore; not least because in each partnership, one member (arguably the junior partner) went on to make it big in the US.
I kept waiting to see what role Fry had in this one but it never came, because the upload doesn't finish the whole sketch! Also, I thought I had watched all the F&L episodes but I've never seen this bit - what ep is it from?
That IS the whole sketch and that IS Fry's role. The whole point is that everyone, including Fry, ignores Laurie. It is Episode 5 by the way, for those looking for it.
@@Fardawg They aren't ignoring him, they are not interested and disnegaged. Fry si the typical teaching assesssor who is there to observe and not participate.
I thought that myself but I suspect there was a big sign in front of them telling them not to laugh, raise hands etc. The sketch wouldn’t really have worked if they had participated
@@chrisshelswell3222 Good point didn't think about it that way. However if the audience was allowed to participate more Fry and Laurie could have shown off their adlib skills.
@@thepayne7862 true, Laurie has adlib down to perfection. Fry brings the brains. Actually they’re equally as good but I do love the contrast in personalities
О да, бывают такие молчаливые классы. Сидят и сверлят тебя глазами. Для таких планирую больше письменной работы, а потом предлагаю прочитать записи, высказать своё мнение, выполнить на доске. Ну а как нервничаешь на открытых уроках для администрации и методистов! Правда в России ты сам выбираешь тему открытого урока и класс, в котором будешь его проводить. Можно выбрать любимую тему и более активный класс.
As ay inglish teacher this is what I do to make my money, and I can see the chalk on the hands of the guy makin the baby foot 👣 prints on my chalk board, I just can't do anything about it.
This is a strange sketch as Fry and Laurie sketches exist because of their obvious enjoyment at word play and eloquence and yet here they're biting the hand that feeds by zeroing in on English teachers. It's quite a tough sketch, not really amusing, just sad and dis-spiriting but maybe that's their point as there must be countless teachers out there flogging their guts and trying to impart some interest in a subject just being met with disinterested silence. Or repeating subject information year after year until it loses all meaning or interest perhaps would be even more soul destroying.
hmm, i see teachers in the comments empathizing with the clip. from student's perspective, its really nothing against you. when i was a student, i just could not be bothered with interacting with the teachers. i'm just there for the trade secrets. i'm there for the summary, i'm there so i don't have to read ten books, i'm there for the important or for what the teacher thinks is important in those 10 books. kind of like what online courses do.
Look, if everything that had "love" in it were relevant to today's society... Twilight would be relevant. It's only ever relevant when you're doing a review on the FSG trilogy, which is only ever relevant to anything when you're discussing unhealthy relationships that have nothing to do with genuine love. So that's a terrible point. However, there is some relevance in Shakespeare's writing - the people in his plays act like complete idiots... as people always have and always will. Still, this was pretty funny, if painful.
Your language (in this case English) and history is a waste of time after primary school and should be voluntarily for those that wants to be a writer or journalist. Most people don't even need advanced math, so why do we need school? Just put people at work at 16
And then we'll end up with a society of idiots who can't communicate technical details or understand the basic functions of the world around them. Language and mathematical skills are incredibly useful in the vast majority of occupations, whether you realise it or not
@@dubious6718 Nah man, I passed highschool and I'm studying marine science in university. All I'm saying is there are very few occupations where advanced communication skills and a decent understanding of maths aren't useful/necessary
@Dubious > Just put people at work at 16 Well in many countries you can drop out of school and join the workforce at that age, but the more important question is who is going to hire you and what *qualifications* you would actually have in *any* job or work environment. Let's face it, if people think that school is tough and boring and find it unbearable, then they might find out that the prospect of spending 40 years in the workforce with no proof of knowledge, degrees or education is hardly a walk in the park. What job would YOU hire a 16 year old school drop-out for, really ?
If you'll pardon the pun, here is even more "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" here: bit.ly/2OJKqZD
What pun?
@@stuartwildig8628 Oh, wasn't there one?
Never excuse for puns, they keep you a life.
To quote one of my favourite films: I don't think it means what you think it means.
@@MrIcelander What?
My favorite part is that Fry is technically in this bit, but he just silently stared at Laurie the whole time.
I’m an English teacher and I showed this to my Freshers students...They laughed a bit too heartily for my taste.
I am an English teacher and this hits too hard
Oh my goodness-same here! Hahaha
Way too close to home!
I know no one would believe me we used help the teacher especially if someone came from the London Education Authority (LEA).
That was just like my last observed lesson, where I asked and answered all the questions. Normally the class was very responsive.
This makes me feel terrible as a student too. I was a kid like that crowd. Never liked language class.
When the administrators come in and the teacher has to pretend like they’ve had a lesson plan all year
I have a lesson plan. It's just been eaten by the dog sir.
Former English tutor here, this sketch reminded me of the first time teaching. God it was absolutely terrifying!
Bless you.
Hahaha. Same. I was so terrified l could barely stand. I remember my boss coming in to check on me cos, as she walked past my room, she had seen me through the window in the door and thought l was going to pass out because of how pale l was. 😊
@@nikiTricoteuse I soon found out how to teach after one term with 7 year old ESL's. If you can teach them, you can teach anyone anything. You don't know the meaning of fear, or how to overcome it, if you haven't taught young kids.
Since then, I have taught soldiers, very powerful CEO's and government ministers. Piece of piss in comparison.
I now understand why most people hate teachers. I, and the others like me, are the reason. No-one intimidates me. Thank your own kids for that.
@@Excession-h6e Same same. My all time favourite classes were the 8 year olds. We had so much fun. A the end of every month, I used to push the desks together and turn the classroom into a stage then, they'd take turns, half would stand on the desk and sing the songs l'd taught them and the others would cheer and clap. Then we'd swap. Was never quite sure if l was allowed to do it but, no-one stopped (saw?) us. Their parents used to have to come in and actually fetch them from class cos, they never wanted to leave. I loved them all. Even the ones l accidentally got to do a very bad gesture, when l was teaching verbs. Just a heads up. NEVER tell ltalian kids to "touch their arms". It will not go how you expected! 😳
@nikiTricoteuse I really wish I'd thought of hand gestures for ESL! I'm jealous now. That would have been hilarious 10 years later when someone English explained the significance to them.
As an English teacher, I totally feel for him. But he's such a wimp of a teacher. Hugh Laurie is brilliant here.
Oh my God😅😅as a teacher i know his feelings in the class
Such a hugely talented actor x
Plus incomparable British sense of humor.
Love the hand footprints on the blackboard
Which are actually footprints, right? Making it even funnier.
As an ex-English teacher, I have to say that if you take away the laughter, it's reality TV. (Except that everybody is sitting upright.)
poor sod, i feel like hugging him. he's soooo competely nervous.
I read a story last week of a teacher whose students raised a left hand when they knew the answer and the right when they didn't. They always looked engaged.
I work as an English teacher myself and this is soooo true it's sick!
Same here teaching English to Spanish ,very little interaction students just stare there with blank faces.
That ending was so sad!
It was painful the whole way through. Had he asked "Is anyone unsatisfied with the lesson?" he would have been met by a whole class of satisfied students. Because noone ever reacted to anything.
He was so engaged and so eager to meet the students. But they were not. Interested.
Aw man the poor English teachers. Now I realise how it must have been like for them.
What a dedicated audience 😂
This was the first Sketch I saw and then I downloaded the whole show... it's so awesome 🤘
Awww, I can't think of a teacher by name I've had who has been like him but I've definitely had at least one teacher like this. It just felt too familiar. You just wish that they would get some sort of hold of the class.
Young Mr. Wooster is a fine teacher!
Teacher trying too hard...... Poor barstad!
At university I once had it that I was really the only one participating in class and at a certain point the prof and I just felt awkward. I never felt so ashamed for my fellow classmates. We were 40 + people and I wasn't sure if the others didn't know, were too shy or to bored or just didn't care. It was painful.
I had the same thing, it was an 8:30am class so I think everyone was half asleep but it's really disheartening when people couldn't give a damn for a subject that is quite important.
Actually, this is what kills teachers. When whatever they say or do nobody cares. This class was an example of a totally uninterested crowd, so by the end he lost his nerve. Although I am not an English teacher but an English Language teacher, I know how it feels. Poor sod. Actually, this is the least funny of Fry and Laurie, because it is something that can actually happen in a class. But I love them anyway.
It's not the 'least funny' because it's closest to reality, what a strange observation. That's what MAKES it funny.
The cute girl unable to hold her laughter at 3:26 on the left 🤣
Did a demon crawled up the blackboard? All those fingerprints
Looks like feet haha
We used to make those 'footprints' with our hands.
Thank you for your question, but when using "to do" as a modal auxiliary verb, the verb it is used in conjunction with always remains in present-tense.
@@zibberebbiz at least Hugh was funny
@@figjam59 yeah we did too, or maybe a baby walked vertically up the blackboard
On average a uni lecturer will wait 3 seconds before answering thier own question.
Barstad = The City of Bar
I can't wait to show this to my students.
I got distracted by the feet prints on the blackboard 😅
Accurate representation of reality! Funny and painful to watch 😅😅😅
Yeah, it's a bit sad but true. I guess that's why Fry and Laurie are popular, they are the enthusiastic version that we keep under tabs. Most people must be sooo boring. Thankfully I keep away from them. Covid's been fantastic for that :)
You can make footprints like that by using the side of your palm and poking marks for the toes.
Brilliant! Thank you.
Aw memories of doing this to all our windows when I was little. My poor old mum! 😊
Ooh this hurts watching..
Me in this class
*hands up at every single question..
Talk about painfull to watch
It sounds like he was reading the galic translation, love.
This never gets old
The "students" made continual eye contact. If this comedy skit were filmed in 2024, the students would be staring at their phones, talking amongst themselves, sleeping, standing up to avoid deep vein thrombosis, etc.
I totally thought the gag was going to be that this was the first day of an ESL class...
Which it could very well be 😂
I'm trying to work out if those are footprints on the chalkboard
Yes 🤣
It's an old school trick, the sole of the foot is the pinky side of the hand with fingers curled, then you use 4 fingers to make the toes
I don't know if Stephen was staring at Hugh in support and interest or whether he was staring judgingly🤣.
Just tooo good this
I don't think I've ever seen anything where Hugh Laurie looks this young.
I wish Hugh Laurie were my teacher 😭
English was always my favourite subject, so I was totally engaged and tried to answer all of the questions...yup! English geek.
I see one of the Kids in the Hall in the audience!
I just love House's cute British accent
Just in case you didn't know, Hugh Laurie is British. His accent skill was putting on the American one in House. Of course, your comment may just have been a joke!
@@chrislaf2011 I rather get the impression it was...!
He sounds like your average upper class twit
Every zoom call ever
Brilliant❤❤
As an English teacher, I had the fortune only to encounter very few of these situations... 😇
Teaching flashbacks - I so don't miss this at all. Especially evaluations. PTSD.
The worst is when you try to crack a joke and all you can hear is silence...
Getting ready for my CELTA course..😂😂😂 good god, help me if you can 😅
No answers dead silence my struggle an an English teacher 😅
I totally relate to this vid.
If I was in this class, my one burning question would be "who left the footprints on the blackboard"?
Why are there footprints on the board?
@Joshua Grebert • Because many students enjoy making the footprints. 😊
lol so true
anybody...? anybody....? anybody...?
Brilliant
Capolavoro
Episode 5 (10 February 1989)
What's with the foot prints on the board?
Exactly!
oh my poor english teachers - what a mare they had to live with ! my god tho the BFG was a HORRID bloody book. Bridge over the river Kwai tho :) quality !
It's actually sad ☹
Does it matter?
@@betsiehall9731 😄
This kind of teacher rarely asks that last crucial question, lol
2:18 Hands up who spies a very young Dr Wilson in the front row?
Who was letting their child walk on the blackboard? For that matter, who is taking their child to school?
I know the feeling...
Did he become a doctor on tv possibly......!?
Welcome to teaching.
What on earth, are those footprints doing on the board??? 🧐🧐🧐
why didn't my english teacher show this to us in class
The 'well done!' is, er, well done!
Funny :)
Unfortunately, this isn’t absurdist humor or satire in the 2020s-and it wasn’t much different when I went to junior high (middle school in the U.S.) in the early 2000s.
If Liane Cartman was a teacher.
I feel sad for him....
Childrens footprint🤔on the board
It’s amazing how many English teachers are in the comments
And why do you think that is, I wonder? 😅
Reminds me a a bit of Hugh Grant
Ben McDrury one difference is Laurie is proper posh.
In some ways, Fry & Laurie were similar to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore; not least because in each partnership, one member (arguably the junior partner) went on to make it big in the US.
why can't you ask "who does not want to answer me?" and then you just forcefully pick one of the listeners
😂😂
O please! English not hindi...
I kept waiting to see what role Fry had in this one but it never came, because the upload doesn't finish the whole sketch!
Also, I thought I had watched all the F&L episodes but I've never seen this bit - what ep is it from?
That IS the whole sketch and that IS Fry's role. The whole point is that everyone, including Fry, ignores Laurie. It is Episode 5 by the way, for those looking for it.
@@Fardawg They aren't ignoring him, they are not interested and disnegaged. Fry si the typical teaching assesssor who is there to observe and not participate.
Is Cillian Murphy in the class?
I just wish the audience participated more in this sketch.
I thought that myself but I suspect there was a big sign in front of them telling them not to laugh, raise hands etc.
The sketch wouldn’t really have worked if they had participated
@@chrisshelswell3222 Good point didn't think about it that way. However if the audience was allowed to participate more Fry and Laurie could have shown off their adlib skills.
@@thepayne7862 true, Laurie has adlib down to perfection. Fry brings the brains. Actually they’re equally as good but I do love the contrast in personalities
Talk about completely missing the point! WOW!
It didn't occur to you that they weren't supposed to?
О да, бывают такие молчаливые классы. Сидят и сверлят тебя глазами. Для таких планирую больше письменной работы, а потом предлагаю прочитать записи, высказать своё мнение, выполнить на доске. Ну а как нервничаешь на открытых уроках для администрации и методистов! Правда в России ты сам выбираешь тему открытого урока и класс, в котором будешь его проводить. Можно выбрать любимую тему и более активный класс.
thats just hugh laurie try being hugh grant.
There was no Hugh Grant in 1988!
As ay inglish teacher this is what I do to make my money, and I can see the chalk on the hands of the guy makin the baby foot 👣 prints on my chalk board, I just can't do anything about it.
"As ay inglish teacher" Riiiiiiiiight
I think barstads must be people who feel terrible.
I never hope to be a barstad.
This is a strange sketch as Fry and Laurie sketches exist because of their obvious enjoyment at word play and eloquence and yet here they're biting the hand that feeds by zeroing in on English teachers. It's quite a tough sketch, not really amusing, just sad and dis-spiriting but maybe that's their point as there must be countless teachers out there flogging their guts and trying to impart some interest in a subject just being met with disinterested silence. Or repeating subject information year after year until it loses all meaning or interest perhaps would be even more soul destroying.
I hate it when people ask for people to respond to things that are obviously lecture gimmicks like "what is the definition of ______?"
Those lazy, bored students are terrible people and probably too stupid to even answer. Poor teacher, he should stand up for himself
Wow - some people really don't get comedy.
hmm, i see teachers in the comments empathizing with the clip.
from student's perspective, its really nothing against you. when i was a student, i just could not be bothered with interacting with the teachers. i'm just there for the trade secrets. i'm there for the summary, i'm there so i don't have to read ten books, i'm there for the important or for what the teacher thinks is important in those 10 books. kind of like what online courses do.
The face of that woman in the pink in the left hand corner. Christ....Scowls through the whole thing. Bet shes fun at parties.
Look, if everything that had "love" in it were relevant to today's society... Twilight would be relevant. It's only ever relevant when you're doing a review on the FSG trilogy, which is only ever relevant to anything when you're discussing unhealthy relationships that have nothing to do with genuine love.
So that's a terrible point.
However, there is some relevance in Shakespeare's writing - the people in his plays act like complete idiots... as people always have and always will.
Still, this was pretty funny, if painful.
I think it was sad and embarrassing rather than funny.
i guess you have to british to find this funny. i thought it was sad.
Your language (in this case English) and history is a waste of time after primary school and should be voluntarily for those that wants to be a writer or journalist.
Most people don't even need advanced math, so why do we need school?
Just put people at work at 16
And then we'll end up with a society of idiots who can't communicate technical details or understand the basic functions of the world around them. Language and mathematical skills are incredibly useful in the vast majority of occupations, whether you realise it or not
@@JohnSmith-dk6on Like you..
@@dubious6718 Nah man, I passed highschool and I'm studying marine science in university. All I'm saying is there are very few occupations where advanced communication skills and a decent understanding of maths aren't useful/necessary
@Dubious > Just put people at work at 16
Well in many countries you can drop out of school and join the workforce at that age, but the more important question is who is going to hire you and what *qualifications* you would actually have in *any* job or work environment. Let's face it, if people think that school is tough and boring and find it unbearable, then they might find out that the prospect of spending 40 years in the workforce with no proof of knowledge, degrees or education is hardly a walk in the park.
What job would YOU hire a 16 year old school drop-out for, really ?
@@sejuanisupportonly7385 anything construction as you learn everything you need at work
So unfunny.
I'm having a party on Friday if you're free. You will really liven it up I think.