I’ve watched this sketch dozens of times and I still can’t decide if it’s funnier to imagine that no one had said “good morning” to Fry’s character in decades, or if this routine has happened multiple times a day for decades.
also: HUGE kudos to Sir Ian McKellen for his excellent perfomance as Mr Dalliard here. He didn't even need to be shown on screen - not even heard either - to pull off a fantastic act. The subtleness, the energy, the smell. It will always be remembered.
I believe he won a BAFTA and was knighted for his portrayal. Sniffer dogs still weep at the memory of his performance. The SAS still use his skill of hiding behind the curtain with a gun in training to this day.
It's a pretty plausible alibi. I know some people who make plastic model kits and they're all quite mad. Something to do with the fumes from the paint and glue I expect...
There are parts of Scotland where that's how morning is pronounced. I had a teacher at school who always said, "Good mourning." Unless it was afternoon of course. Then she told us to fouk off.
I think the very funny part about it is that Hugh's character repeats "fly to Dover" as though that's the strange bit. Detonating relatives? OK, but why are you flying to Dover?
Everyone’s talking about the shop owner, but no one’s talking about how the customer just casually brushed off a man admitting to espionage and treason
"We do try to accommodate our customers, but not being a hotel we find it almost impossible" - I almost wish I was still working in retail so I could use that one!
Well, be honest now, how would you react to a statement as bizarre as 'detonate our relatives'? I mean, that surely is a very strange thing to say, whether you mean it literally or not.
I'm starting to suspect that that odd chap in the black suit might be...and you're not going to believe this but...*a soviet spy!* Yes, I know, quite scandalous!
"Mr Dalliard, we've been activated" is a surprisingly useful phrase and can be employed in a variety of business and social contexts, as can "Mr Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now".
Bob Thenob My nephews pulled this on me in a way when they were teeneagers, about 10 years ago, at a birthday party. I was talking about a phone and said the word cell and they launched into this hushed but improvised conversation. I almost peed my pants. They are the funniest, nicest, smartest guys you could imagine.
That’s the difference between being taught the use of language with debate & critical thinking skills versus being taught how to pass an exam on the use of language while activists tell you how to think.
Lunatik How? This dude literally did the mental gymnastics to get from “the command of language is staggering” to “while activists tell you how to think”. It’s fucking cringe.
My parent were stingy, so I had to play my platforming games on the family's personal macintosh. I have many a great memory of *Tonicman: The Raving Donald Duck's Quack-attack Time Quest to Escape Beyond Evil* , and not so great memories of it's sequel, *Tonicman 2: The Legendary Adventure of the Origins of the Hoodlum Rabbids* . Also, The Kellogs Game. Man, that was a weird time!
I just love every time Hugh Laurie looks into the camera like "I can't believe this what passes for a sketch. I can't believe that's what passes for a gag. I can't believe I'm even in this and I helped write it!" Like, there's your average fourth wall break. And then there's your fourth wall break with unspoken disdain that makes it even funnier.
My experience with model shops: walk in, graying fatbeard behind the counter is already engaged in a conversation with a customer that he obviously knows. I stand around for 10 minutes. I ask where the acrylic paints are, they stop, shop clerk gestures to a rack of dust-covered bottles of Tamiya military colors, I walk out. So yeah, nobody says goo dmorning.
"you must ignore anything I say when my hand is on my head" (whilst hand is on his head) so isn't that the same as the old paradox, "this statement is false"?
Technically he only said to ignore it, not that everything he said with his hand on his head was false. Could be stuff that’s true but which should still be ignored.
I appreciate that almost every line Fry speaks is a complete muddling of idioms “Let me ask you a different question in the same way” “Are you stupid or just plain deaf” “Plain flavoured English”
We had Professor Irwin Corey and Robin Williams. Britain still has Stephen Fry, all in one guy. Bob Hope and Groucho were great. Stephen is no less IMO.
As a WWII-era aircraft enthusiast, I appreciate that it really is a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E. (most likely an E-3 variant) EDIT: A quick freeze at the 3:34 close-up clearly shows the boxy canopy, so it's without doubt a Bf 109 E-4.
English is my second language, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the word "nerd" doesn't seem to have such pejorative meaning as it had some twenty years ago. Or is it "geek"? I can't tell the difference...nevermind. Anyway, when I get started talking about something really enthusiastically, people listen (IF they listen) only because I learned to sort of tell it in an interesting way. (or, "How to stay weird and still retain some friends.")
That's it, I'm going to get a summer job in retail, purely to recite these lines a couple of times. I can only hope that I will have a sufficient supply of customers fluent in fry&laurie.
So glad these are popping back on UA-cam. BBC kept taking them down and these sketches are timeless classics which I was very lucky to have seen when I was a wee 🐻. Still holds up in 2018
The way Stephen Fry says Mr. Dalliard gets me every time. And I so want to use " Let me ask a different question in the same way" in a conversation some day, as well as "We do try to accommodate our customers but not being a hotel we find it most impossible. "
Possibly. One thing we have is English as a bucket into which many languages: Celtic, Latin, Old German, Scandinavian, Norse-French, Greek, Gaelic, Spanish, and, later, pretty much every language under the sun have been dumped, stirred around, and provide many words for same thing and many meanings for same sound. I wonder if other lingua francas have similar properties? Map that against our socio-economic class structures and we get a vast range of comic possibilities. Voltaire contrasted between England, where a pauper and a lord of the realm could be in same hostelry and laugh and joke together - something that could not happen in France of his day. Written English humour traced back to Chaucer and the time when English was becoming the national language while Norman French was losing its dominance among ruling classes who came over in 1066. Some other countries and languages also have great humour: Russian as a language and Jews as a people group. Often a pattern among people who live where simplistic talk is dangerous.
It was clearly heroin. A "fix" for his son? The wonderful Golden dust that millions have died over? Edit: The model is already built, thus the lack of a need for glue. Plus he was agast at the question of glue, stating that his son was already a junkie and they had warned him about it. So they give the stupid man a pre built Messerschmitt 109 E and a quite large bag of Heroin or Opium, as the slightly yellow/gold coloring means it could not be cocaine as cocaine is almost always white and white alone.
@@mohammedashian8094 Listen, man! I am Agent Bashirov from Kremlin. Code name good day! You and your assistant are to destroy everything here and fly to South America. They seem to be out of nuts and need help.
OMG! A store full of Airfix kits. I used to stay with an uncle at weekends and he'd give me £1 pocket money. £1 back then could get me a decent Airfix model to build. Mind you, we are talking about the 70s here.
He actually said "Super Sonic Hedgehog Brothers", referencing both Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog; at the time probably the only two video game characters most people had heard of.
I have and will continue to binge "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" during quarantine. When I eventually return to work, I anticipate I will be annoying all m'colleagues with endless references.
0:54 LOL I just realized that Stephen says, "We were to detonate our relatives and fly to Dover." And Hugh perplexing inquires, "Fly to Dover?", as if that is the weird bit. I must have watched this skit a dozens of times and never heard that. Such great writing and delivery!
I was able to catch A Bit Of Fry & Laurie a few years ago on Netflix here in the States. What an absolutely brilliant show! I wish it had gone on for much longer than it did. That, and Little Britain, too.
2:45 I don't know why but this "reading about on television" is one of the most hilarious things of this clip combined with the acting of Fry and Laurie :D
No its simply because whenever you go into a model shop, its usually got: A depressingly nerdy neckbeard talking to a customer who comes in frequently Said customer A random person who came in to look around, then leaves because they'd feel rude interrupting the conversation. Also applies to most hobby shops.
@@RickReasonnz lmao literally my first and only experience going to one. Was looking for some paints to get for a gift until I realized Games Workshop is a namebrand and not generic hobby shop and sells very specific paints for very specific models and a very specific unreasonable price. I stood around for another 5-10 minutes (maybe 30? felt like an eternity) perusing the shelfs before my patience outweighed my awkward politeness and I interrupted their conversation to say 'have a good day' as I walked out. I'll frequent game stores and DnD supply shops but never had such a weird atmosphere before ha.
> An achievement, something to be proud of! Rare words indeed in these days of supersonic hedgehog brothers and ready sliced ... golf shots. favorite line
I'd to thank Fry and Laurie for this sketch. I've channelled the character of the shopkeeper many times when I get one of those scam phonecalls saying I've had a car accident or I'm going to court for tax evasion. Curiously, I don't seem to get as many of them anymore, for some reason.
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I’ve watched this sketch dozens of times and I still can’t decide if it’s funnier to imagine that no one had said “good morning” to Fry’s character in decades, or if this routine has happened multiple times a day for decades.
OR if it's his way of relieving the monotony by messing with the customers
Or you have too much spare time on your hands?
@@alternative1999 I guarantee you have too much spare time on your hands.
Huh? Are you replying to me or the original poster, Alex Cousins, who has "...watched this sketch dozens of times..."?
@@alternative1999
Notice the @mention....
Edit: oh, I suppose you've already 'lost the plot,' eh?
Mr. Dalliard is the best supporting character ever.
A Bit of fry and Laurie won four Emmys for Mr. Dalliard’s role on the show.
Not as good as Larry
I agree
What about "Margaret.... Margaret. I've a man here looking for a painting of a disappointed horse", Little Britain.
Everyone’s talking about the shop owner, but no one’s talking about how the customer just casually brushed off a man - selling Cocaine for children
also: HUGE kudos to Sir Ian McKellen for his excellent perfomance as Mr Dalliard here. He didn't even need to be shown on screen - not even heard either - to pull off a fantastic act. The subtleness, the energy, the smell. It will always be remembered.
You know what? I actually believe you. It would fit in exactly with the absurdity and their sense of humour.
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Sandro S
Yes Sir Ian McKellen is a true genius actor. Not someone to be dallied with.
I believe he won a BAFTA and was knighted for his portrayal. Sniffer dogs still weep at the memory of his performance. The SAS still use his skill of hiding behind the curtain with a gun in training to this day.
You can always tell a Milford man.
@@shrokbouf They always give a performance worth my loose seal of approval
He pretends to be mad when he realises that he's been compromised.
A Z I really like that interpretation.
Actually, he pretends for be sane for the first 2 seconds of the sketch.
That's amazing and I love you
Or he's mad, comrade Dallard is imaginary and the customer isn't the first person to say "Good Morning" to him
It's a pretty plausible alibi. I know some people who make plastic model kits and they're all quite mad. Something to do with the fumes from the paint and glue I expect...
The code was "good mourning", which is a perfectly valid code as it would never come up in regular conversation.
Simon Smith Ah, clever.
There are parts of Scotland where that's how morning is pronounced. I had a teacher at school who always said, "Good mourning." Unless it was afternoon of course. Then she told us to fouk off.
Mourning and morning are pronounced the exact same way, Jerry...
Mrs Smith! It's you!
JAM F Yes they do sound the same when pronounced with American or English accent ofc.
The phrase "Detonate our relatives" has no right to be as funny as it is.
As well as the Line Delivery on a "Train delivering Livestock to Minsk"
I think the very funny part about it is that Hugh's character repeats "fly to Dover" as though that's the strange bit. Detonating relatives? OK, but why are you flying to Dover?
@@MichaelCoombes776 I seriously recommend watching the outtakes for that phrase! 😁😁
Everyone’s talking about the shop owner, but no one’s talking about how the customer just casually brushed off a man admitting to espionage and treason
How would you react in that situation? I know I'd just pretend I hadn't heard it. Don't want to get poloniumed or novichok'd.
I guess if I accidentally activated a sleeper agent I'd be more interested than anything else. And I'm not a snitch.
By that time, nobody took the Soviet Union seriously.
he's English. It'd be rude to snitch.
Eh, I'd gladly befriend a soviet spy.
"We do try to accommodate our customers, but not being a hotel we find it almost impossible" - I almost wish I was still working in retail so I could use that one!
try it with the johns then.
+Shameless
I work in the service industry. Gonna go ahead and nick this one for sure!
I work at McDonald's...you know much well as I what must be done.
Shut the fuck up and make my burger
@@smaakjeks
Well... Did you?
Literally every time I enter the Games Workshop
A Space Marine Dreadnought of water?
Would you like some "war"ter? The only fluid you should be rinsing your brushes and thinning your paints with
In the grim darkness of the future there is only odd and unexpected drinking vessels.
Orcs or Orks?
Mr. Dalliard, I've gone chaotic now!
"On hearing those words, Mr Dalliard and I were to detonate our relatives and fly to Dover."
ProjectFlashlight612 I’m surprised the customer wasn’t aghast when he said “detonate our relatives”....😳
ProjectFlashlight612
“Fly to Dover...?”
Well, be honest now, how would you react to a statement as bizarre as 'detonate our relatives'?
I mean, that surely is a very strange thing to say, whether you mean it literally or not.
Where they must find a single, solitary, Mr. Smith.
ProjectFlashlight612 I really doubt there are any flights to dover now let alone back then.
"Mr Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now!"
what does he mean by that
When talking he says like old lady over there then says he gone peculiar other know in the UK or Ireland and a bit strange hope this helps
Really polite way of saying crazy
@Rick O'Shay oh my, everyone really must listen to Stephen Fry's new series of podcast on the seven deadly sins
The funniest thing in the whole sketch! 🤣
i'm starting to suspect that there is no mr dalliard.
I'm starting to suspect that that odd chap in the black suit might be...and you're not going to believe this but...*a soviet spy!* Yes, I know, quite scandalous!
You shut your mouth.
Mr. Dalliard was a furnace repairman who happened to wish him 'Good day', which was the code to identify his handler.
FUN FACT: Mr. Dalliard was played by Alan Smithee, the famous film director.
I also suspect there is no "tactless old bastard like that lady over there" either..! 😒
I can't decide if it's funnier if Mr Daliard exists or doesn't exist
Try Mr Dillard in a state of quantum superposition.
shrodinger's been activated
@@JB-ym4up he's only in department stores.
@@Jsssddfgffghshdhdhusjsjd -Shrodinger- Dalliard
Mr Dalliard died nine years ago.
"Mr. Dalliard, command the earth to swallow me!"
Anyone get the vibe that Mr. Dalliard and Fry are more than business partners.
Genuinely one of the best sentences I've ever heard in comedy
"Mr Dalliard, we've been activated" is a surprisingly useful phrase and can be employed in a variety of business and social contexts, as can "Mr Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now".
“Mister dalliard, command the earth to swallow me up.”
Wow. I feel that.
Same.
"Good morning"
'Mr Dalliard, WE'VE BEEN ACTIVATED"
Would love to pull this on an unsuspecting client.....comrade
Bob Thenob My nephews pulled this on me in a way when they were teeneagers, about 10 years ago, at a birthday party. I was talking about a phone and said the word cell and they launched into this hushed but improvised conversation. I almost peed my pants. They are the funniest, nicest, smartest guys you could imagine.
I would to, the issue is I wouldn't be able to do it with the straight face fry somehow manages throughout.
BOB THE NOB!! CULTURED MAN
"Oh, you are genuinely stupid, I do apologise. I'm sorry, I thought you were just being deaf."
WHAT?
If you want to find a flaw in an argument, highlight a contradiction.
Daft*
A pity IMDB seems to have skipped over this most venerable of roles on his page
Let me ask a diferent question in the same way
Never!
Written down like this, that sentence seems even more insane
That sentence alone is so much funnier and more creative than most other comedy.
I want a model aeroplane of water.
Would you like a sack of glue with it or a supermodel of heroine?
A model? A model?
Aquaman might be able to help you out there
Smaakjeks K fizzy or still?
A plate of water?
The command of the language is staggering.
That’s the difference between being taught the use of language with debate & critical thinking skills versus being taught how to pass an exam on the use of language while activists tell you how to think.
IMMentat cringe
@@shadyyy8817 Thanks for proving their point...
Lunatik How? This dude literally did the mental gymnastics to get from “the command of language is staggering” to “while activists tell you how to think”. It’s fucking cringe.
@@shadyyy8817 What? What is cringe?
Fry and Laurie are the rare instance where both members of the double act are arguably just as successful as each other.
I still remember the first time I played "Supersonic Hedgehog Brothers" on my friend's Nintendo Genesis. Changed my life.
Ah see I'm a bit younger than you, I can recall my days playing Spyro the Bandicoot and Ridge Turismo on my PlaySaturn 64. Those were the days
Where am I?
Moscow, I suppose
That line with that was a good one
Resident Road Rash for the SegaStation was the dog's bollocks!
My parent were stingy, so I had to play my platforming games on the family's personal macintosh. I have many a great memory of *Tonicman: The Raving Donald Duck's Quack-attack Time Quest to Escape Beyond Evil* , and not so great memories of it's sequel, *Tonicman 2: The Legendary Adventure of the Origins of the Hoodlum Rabbids* . Also, The Kellogs Game. Man, that was a weird time!
"Drug jockeys we're always reading about on television."
so many gems in these
"Rest your weary elbows"
Worthy of Brass Eye
@@johnmartinez7440 I wondered if that was a Hitchhiker reference, as in the part when Gargravarr supposed his body must be on it's last elbows by now.
On bended legs 🤣🤣Stephen fry is a total legend and his comand of the English language is stunning
This is basically how a computer thinks, apart from the whole soviet sleeper thing...
no istead they have Microsoft/apple sleeper files.
@@owenbevt3 Soviets just get the generic version.
Spoogebooge 7)
That's what they want you to think!
I just love every time Hugh Laurie looks into the camera like "I can't believe this what passes for a sketch. I can't believe that's what passes for a gag. I can't believe I'm even in this and I helped write it!" Like, there's your average fourth wall break. And then there's your fourth wall break with unspoken disdain that makes it even funnier.
“One of those drug jockeys we’re always reading about on TV”
So subtle that I barely noticed it
To this day I can't not laugh at how quickly they move past the phrase "detonate our families"
If you've ever been in a model shop, you'd know no one would ever say good morning.
My experience with model shops: walk in, graying fatbeard behind the counter is already engaged in a conversation with a customer that he obviously knows. I stand around for 10 minutes. I ask where the acrylic paints are, they stop, shop clerk gestures to a rack of dust-covered bottles of Tamiya military colors, I walk out.
So yeah, nobody says goo dmorning.
No model shop opens in the morning, at least in my country.
There is no such thing as a model shop in my country. What a shame!
@@arwahsapi this. mine opens at 10 am but usually they open after midday
@@glowiever No models. Just RTR Chinese toys.
"you must ignore anything I say when my hand is on my head"
(whilst hand is on his head)
so isn't that the same as the old paradox, "this statement is false"?
Yes, I didn't think anyone else noticed that.
His hand wasn't on his head, just patting it
Technically he only said to ignore it, not that everything he said with his hand on his head was false. Could be stuff that’s true but which should still be ignored.
Yes, I noticed that
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I appreciate that almost every line Fry speaks is a complete muddling of idioms
“Let me ask you a different question in the same way”
“Are you stupid or just plain deaf”
“Plain flavoured English”
The drug jockeys we're always reading about on television
''Rest your weary elbows''
"On bended legs"
We had Professor Irwin Corey and Robin Williams. Britain still has Stephen Fry, all in one guy. Bob Hope and Groucho were great. Stephen is no less IMO.
@@johncmitchell4941 they also had charlie chaplin
Comrade Stalin's in rude health
DarrenBonJovi About as rude health as any skeleton can be.......😏😉🤣
@@Jakegothicsnake Skeleton, isnt his body preserved in a glass case?
Edit: nevermind
@@fulcrum2168 I think you're thinking of Lenin
Mr.Dilliard arrest this slanderer
@@Elholz That’s what we want you to think!
Lenin zombie: Must crush capitalism! Grrrrrr!
As a WWII-era aircraft enthusiast, I appreciate that it really is a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E. (most likely an E-3 variant)
EDIT: A quick freeze at the 3:34 close-up clearly shows the boxy canopy, so it's without doubt a Bf 109 E-4.
Correct.
The Blissful Zombie 😳
Does being an enthusiast of anything make you a nerd? Or is there a list of acceptable interests? Penned perhaps, by you?
English is my second language, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the word "nerd" doesn't seem to have such pejorative meaning as it had some twenty years ago. Or is it "geek"? I can't tell the difference...nevermind. Anyway, when I get started talking about something really enthusiastically, people listen (IF they listen) only because I learned to sort of tell it in an interesting way. (or, "How to stay weird and still retain some friends.")
I would say Nerd represents a fan or someone who has avid interest in a hobby, and Geek is more of a computer expert or professional.
That's it, I'm going to get a summer job in retail, purely to recite these lines a couple of times. I can only hope that I will have a sufficient supply of customers fluent in fry&laurie.
Good morning!
@@roguishpaladin Mr. Dalliard! Mr. Dalliard! We've been activated. After all these years!
A plate of water?
@@singu7arity I understood that reference.
Even if they do recognize it, they wouldn't be able to do anything funny. Laurie's lines are not exactly important here.
Fry demonstrating that he is one of the greats at playing with words and their meanings..
And Laurie showing he is one of the greats at reaction acting.
I hope he's the ONLY one- imagine a room of them 'conversing'?
"... slightly to the left of where you're standing."
A leftie Communist? Never...
I didn't catch that Left(ist) joke until I saw this comment! :-D
@jdshultis neither did I
@TOP CAT Thanks for pointing out that they pointed it out.
So glad these are popping back on UA-cam. BBC kept taking them down and these sketches are timeless classics which I was very lucky to have seen when I was a wee 🐻. Still holds up in 2018
This has been posted since 2010 and I've visited it several time since 2015. BBC took nothing down here.
What?? I think this is my favorite Fry and Laurie sketch now. It's got everything, spies, puns, ridiculous word play. Them at their finest!
Its brilliantly done , but this is Fry at his glorious best imho but feel free to disagree..............
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But if you do disagree, remember that Mr Dalliard has a gun pointed at your head.
I'm impressed that they actually filmed in a hobby shop rather than in a studio with just a couple of models lying about.
It is clearly a studio set with models strewn about
The way Stephen Fry says Mr. Dalliard gets me every time.
And I so want to use " Let me ask a different question in the same way" in a conversation some day, as well as "We do try to accommodate our customers but not being a hotel we find it most impossible. "
Ive been able to slip "Oh you're spoiled, I only get one birthday a year. Usually on my birthday"
2:10-“Mr Daliard, I’ve gone peculiar now.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s a Bible reference
British humor, one of the best things that exists on this world
Perhaps
Trash
Possibly. One thing we have is English as a bucket into which many languages: Celtic, Latin, Old German, Scandinavian, Norse-French, Greek, Gaelic, Spanish, and, later, pretty much every language under the sun have been dumped, stirred around, and provide many words for same thing and many meanings for same sound. I wonder if other lingua francas have similar properties? Map that against our socio-economic class structures and we get a vast range of comic possibilities. Voltaire contrasted between England, where a pauper and a lord of the realm could be in same hostelry and laugh and joke together - something that could not happen in France of his day. Written English humour traced back to Chaucer and the time when English was becoming the national language while Norman French was losing its dominance among ruling classes who came over in 1066.
Some other countries and languages also have great humour: Russian as a language and Jews as a people group. Often a pattern among people who live where simplistic talk is dangerous.
"We are always reading about on television,"
Stephen Fry just mentioned Minsk, the capital of my country, with his own mouth. Now my life is complete.
I'm so sorry to hear of your passing.
@@AndiGravity Nice one :D
To be fair, it wasn't a country when he said it.
Maybe he caused its independence. Way to go, Stephen Fry...
@@ssbohio a republic within USSR. More like a country within an empire now independent - to an extent
I love how Hugh questions the pre - made model more than the bag of coke that was just handed to him.
I think it was glue. For the son....
It was clearly heroin.
A "fix" for his son?
The wonderful Golden dust that millions have died over?
Edit: The model is already built, thus the lack of a need for glue. Plus he was agast at the question of glue, stating that his son was already a junkie and they had warned him about it. So they give the stupid man a pre built Messerschmitt 109 E and a quite large bag of Heroin or Opium, as the slightly yellow/gold coloring means it could not be cocaine as cocaine is almost always white and white alone.
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2:47 The audience didn't notice "reading about on tv"
Cyanide Dinosaur said it quickly
Maybe it was Ceefax.
Cyanide Dinosaur yes you can indeed see words on a television...... you don’t watch the words on the tv you read them
Cyanide Dinosaur - I just noticed it, but only after having watched it several times over the years.
Ever heard of teletext?
The two Mr Dalliard sketches are amongst the wittiest things in all of British comedy
There's another one?
This will always be my favourite sketch. I could watch it a hundred times and still laugh like it's the first time I've seen it!
I hope the guy who played Mr Dalliard got an award for his stellar performance in this skit.
I always laugh at this superb bit of writing and acting.....
.......even though I know what's coming!😄😄
"mr. Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now"
0:26 I love the musicality of the way Stephen says "Moscow…"
Underrated comment!
This is a scarily accurate impression of what it's like entering ANY model train shop.
There's something funny about the way Fry said 'supersonic hedgehog brothers'.
I don’t remember this episode of House.
Its the prequel, called "Model" lol
It was lupus
A MODEL AIRPLANE OF HOUSE?!
@@rebeccahaines9839 A MODEL AIRPLANE "OF" A HOUSE?!? That's just absurd.
@@nuhuh4564 Mr. Dalliard, I've gone peculiar now...
Sheer bloody genius writing. This is true comedy! I have the whole series on DVD, and this has made me want to go and watch it again :)
The shock and confusion Stephen conveys at around 2:58 is just brilliant. Great sketch, rather Pythonesque in its silliness and wordplay.
Most Pythons and both Fry and Laurie from similar home, private school, and Cambridge University backgrounds
-And when is this birthday of his?
-Wednesday.
-Yes, that's what I said, *when is the day?*
When's'day?
@@u.v.s.5583 are you stupid or are you just plain deaf?
@@mohammedashian8094 Listen, man! I am Agent Bashirov from Kremlin. Code name good day! You and your assistant are to destroy everything here and fly to South America. They seem to be out of nuts and need help.
Fly to South America? But why comrade bashirov?
@@mohammedashian8094 Venezuela needs your and Comrade Dalliard's help! Murder, sabotage, espionage. Fun stuff!
You feel an actor to be perfect when he says "hm, hm" in a way that makes you swoon ;-) (1:34)
This sketch is so good. Fry and Laurie really are the best.
But I gotta say, before he got that job in that hospital, dr House was an amazing impersonator of British accents!
your trolling...and its working!.
I wish desperately to correct your grammar but I shant deprive another being the joy.
*shan't
@@rossdalegg5282
Also, the comma after 'grammar' is missing. :-D
@@M0DERN_B0REFARE no it isnt, you dont need a comma next to a conjunction
OMG! A store full of Airfix kits. I used to stay with an uncle at weekends and he'd give me £1 pocket money. £1 back then could get me a decent Airfix model to build. Mind you, we are talking about the 70s here.
Did Fry just reference Sonic the Hedgehog?
He actually said "Super Sonic Hedgehog Brothers", referencing both Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog; at the time probably the only two video game characters most people had heard of.
I honestly thought this was older than Sonic. Caught me off guard.
@@PiousMoltar me to mate
@@PiousMoltar easy to be misled tbh; a lot of their stuff is set 20-30 years earlier than it was performed, they seem to enjoy the postwar era.
PiousMoltar I think the first two series were in the late 80's but this is from when they brought it back for a series in, I believe, 1995
These two are just darn great! Love 'em!
It wasn't until my third watching that I caught "please accept my green felt apologies." 😂😂
A model aeroplane of water??!!
This is my FAVOURITE sketch out of all of them, the pace is just perfect 👌
a model aeroplane of water?
Ryan Lynch Yes please
Fizzy or still?
Dave Archer Fizzy
@@dave_archer I'll take still and a bag of glue for my degenerate junkie son!
These Three superb actors gelled together seamlessly in this scene :)
Very Pythonesque.
tbh I had to search to find out if it was Monty Python or not
I'm sorry, I have a cold.
Alexaeus Do you wish to make a complaint?
Except it's funny
Like a missing sketch quite impressed
I have and will continue to binge "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" during quarantine. When I eventually return to work, I anticipate I will be annoying all m'colleagues with endless references.
Having experienced More Fool Me it's fascinating to watch this knowing that Stephen Fry was high on cocaine doing this skit.
Now I want to do cocaine. Bloody frustrating.
Get the Chilean variety, common as muck, used for survival purposes.
Coke's overrated, here he's high on being Stephen Fry
I imagine there's a special batch of marijuana named after him where instead of seeing dragons you see interesting sofas and a thin lining of bees
@@MrNinjaFish Thank you. That made my day. :)
Classic comedy skits. These greats will never be replaced.
- I just came here to buy a model. - A model? -Yes, a model. *gives the man an AK47 for providing the secret code
God, I adore seeing old Hugh Laurie and Stepphen Fry skits.
0:54 LOL I just realized that Stephen says, "We were to detonate our relatives and fly to Dover." And Hugh perplexing inquires, "Fly to Dover?", as if that is the weird bit. I must have watched this skit a dozens of times and never heard that. Such great writing and delivery!
It's only about a two hour drive. A plane seems pretty excessive.
I was able to catch A Bit Of Fry & Laurie a few years ago on Netflix here in the States. What an absolutely brilliant show! I wish it had gone on for much longer than it did. That, and Little Britain, too.
"Mission compromised"
Pretend to be a madlad
2:45 I don't know why but this "reading about on television" is one of the most hilarious things of this clip combined with the acting of Fry and Laurie :D
I lost it when Hugh looked at the camera.
Not seen anyone do that with such great effect since Oliver Hardy.
This is on par with the absolute best Monty Python sketches. Well done.
Simply fantastic.
How can a man make the phrase "delivering livestock to minsk" into such a funny joke purely by the way he pronounces his ks 😂😂
Who's On First runs off the road and drives right through into The Cheese Shop. Brilliant.
Oh dear... the implication is that for 27 years, NO ONE has said 'Good Morning' to Fry's character :O
I think it's a jab at how unpopular a hobby they think model aeroplane building is.
On the contrary, he has merely had this entire conversation every day for 27 years.
No its simply because whenever you go into a model shop, its usually got:
A depressingly nerdy neckbeard talking to a customer who comes in frequently
Said customer
A random person who came in to look around, then leaves because they'd feel rude interrupting the conversation.
Also applies to most hobby shops.
@@hmmyou2544 Sounds like a Games Workshop
@@RickReasonnz lmao literally my first and only experience going to one.
Was looking for some paints to get for a gift until I realized Games Workshop is a namebrand and not generic hobby shop and sells very specific paints for very specific models and a very specific unreasonable price. I stood around for another 5-10 minutes (maybe 30? felt like an eternity) perusing the shelfs before my patience outweighed my awkward politeness and I interrupted their conversation to say 'have a good day' as I walked out.
I'll frequent game stores and DnD supply shops but never had such a weird atmosphere before ha.
I'm Mr. Dalliard, and I approve this sketch.
A bit of Fry and Laurie!!!!! I loved this show!!!!
He could've avoided all this with a simple "A swell after-night to you, sir."
Must say the shop looks nice, its like they buy off a whole modelshop for this sketch :D i see sum airfix, revel and models
Its not hard to just get the boxes.
@@tanith117 or just rent it from a bloke for a few hours, or maybe he'd even allow them to film there for free
@johndoe its not a real shop, the wall is actually Caroline Quentin
The way Stephen Frye says Mr. Dalliard just slays me and I don't know why.
> An achievement, something to be proud of! Rare words indeed in these days of supersonic hedgehog brothers and ready sliced ... golf shots.
favorite line
I love Hugh's breaking the 4th wall.
Even a non-native speaker, this is hilarious
What's longer than forever?
Fivever.
World's shortest joke:-"Dwarf shortage"
Get out.
I don’t get it
@@joehostile4541 that must be frustrating.
Zac Mumblethunder what must be frustrating?
This series is the closest I've found in quality I've managed to find to Monty Python
a model aeroplane of water
It could've worked had he wanted a C-130 Hercules.
"reading about on television" completely passed over my head the first 5 times I saw this
"Mr. Dalliard I've gone peculiar"
Me any time I say anything
They are incredible! Great classic humour
The phrase "MR. DALLIARD! MR. DALLIARD!" has had a special significance to me for a long time because of this
I'd to thank Fry and Laurie for this sketch. I've channelled the character of the shopkeeper many times when I get one of those scam phonecalls saying I've had a car accident or I'm going to court for tax evasion. Curiously, I don't seem to get as many of them anymore, for some reason.
Oooh that could be my next tactic.