Hugh Laurie

Mainly of interest to our Brit viewers, but I noticed that English comedian Hugh Laurie did a voice in this week's ep...he played the English bartender and I'm sure he did a couple of the other Brits too. Y'all probably know Laurie best as Stuart Little's dad, but that's not exactly his greatest role :)

Thanks for the note... I didn't recognize it on first viewing. I've been a fan of his for years--he was in some of the Black Adder shows, Peter's Friends, etc. Often with Stephen Fry, whose books I love. (I can't remember--wasn't Hugh Laurie in that episode of The Young Ones when they went on University Challenge or something? I know Emma Thompson was in that one.)

Naturally, neither name rings many bells here in the States...

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Yup, he was in that episode as Lord Monty I think. Stephen Fry was in it too. As was Tony Robinson.

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Indeed he was. In case any Stateside fans of the Young Ones are reading, there's an excellent guide to all the references you might have missed on the mighty (but soon to be departed) SOTCAA site - it lives at http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~frogger/corpses/update1/esoterica.html and there's more on the show at http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~frogger/corpses/editnews/youngones1.html (the rest of the site's at http://www.notbbc.com/corpses - get it while it's still there).

Hugh Laurie has also written a book - The Gun Seller - and it's brilliant. Go buy.

Oh, and any UK viewers equipped with digital telly might want to check out the repeats of the whole run of A Bit Of Fry & Laurie on Paramount. One of the best post-Python sketch shows the BBC has made. 11pm weekdays (I think).

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Man I loved 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie'! He and Fry made the best British comedy pair I've seen in a while.

Alex

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comedian

bartender and

Laurie

My favourite sketch is the one where the doctor turned out to be a tabacconist.

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One of my favorite ones is where the couple ae sitting at oppositte ends of the huge table and Laurie is asking Fry to 'pass the marmalade' in a high woman's voice and Fry says, "You want me to ass the parlor maid?!?'

Alex

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:)

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So many quality bits to choose from, but from memory...

"I don't know if I ever told you about the day I forgot my legs. I can't remember which day it was: it was one of those ones that happened in 1987, I can't remember which exactly, there were so many. In particular there were quite a lot of Tuesdays then, I remember, so I've a feeling it might have been one of those. Anyway, I was on my way into work with Sir Peter Thorneycroft, no relation, one fresh June morning in early May and we took the short cut across the fields. I stooped to pick a buttercup, why people leave buttocks lying around, I've no idea. The gentlest breeze and mildest Camemberts were packed in our hamper and all nature seemed to be holding its breath. We made good time by taking a back way across what was then the main Corpusty to Saxmundham Road. I was just remarking to Peter how still and peaceful everything was when he suddenly agreed with me and said how he thought everything was still and peaceful too. You know how if you half-close your eyes you can't see so well? I'd just discovered that it was equally true if you half-opened them. I was pointing this out when I suddenly noticed that I'd completely forgotten my legs. We had to go back and get them. The moment was spoiled and three years later almost to the decade, Margaret Thatcher was hounded from office. I sometimes muse on what might have happened if I had forgotten my ears as well. Never go back, ladies and gentlemen. Never go back." - Stephen Fry.

(Oh alright then, not from memory, but from http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~wongc/fandl/FandL.htm - the Fry and Laurie scripts archive. Hey, I'm a walking search engine, me.)

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