@@cheilith1031 The joke is two English yuppies with weird, transatlantic accents getting worked up about something as small scale as a little British business. It's also a spoof of Brit TV Soaps of the 80s.
He got him good. Also in another skit he accidentally connects with a punch to fry and he spends a full 16 seconds saying "That REALLY HURT!"" before going back into character.
Anyone who could float their own grandmother as a holding corporation and strip her bare of preference stock is an absolute monster!!!! Will evil never rest ??
The way they drink in these skits is a spot-on parody of contemporary shows like Dallas and Dynasty. Characters would have ‘business meetings’ like this from midday onwards, apparently getting through about half a bottle of Scotch during each if them, and still be miraculously upright and sober enough to argue with the rest of the family at dinner time, sitting at a table with placings for about 20 people. By that time any normal person would’ve been face-down in a puddle of puke if they’d actually been drinking Scotch rather than apple juice. A journalist once pointed out how silly this was to one of the directors of those shows. The director pointed out that characters on TV can look stupid if they just stand around with their arms hanging down by their sides (look at Tony from the Fry & Laurie ‘Tony and Control’ sketches to see what I mean). Directors made actors drink all the time to give their arms and hands something to do.
Think they're mocking 1980s UK shows like Howard's Way, to highlight just how ridiculous that American-style posturing looks when set in small-town Britain.
Some folks reckon that Brad Pitt is often eating/drinking to distract audiences from the "fact" that he is not a good actor - which I think is nonsense.
DAMN BLAST AND DOUBLE DAMN!!! These two and their hilarity are on a whole new level. Im horribly depressed and im shaking with laughter when they do their bits. Bravo sirs
This was heavily based on a BBC programme called "Howard's Way" which followed a man trying to set up as a boat designer and run a shipyard. It was a bargain basement "Dallas" with lots of great character tropes. My favourite was the rival shipyard owner who always said he "had been building boats for 40 years!"
Ah, now I wondered about that. I live barely a mile or two from where Howard's Way was filmed, around the River Hamble in Hampshire. Happened to see one or two scenes being shot. And dammit - I think you're right!
Anyone else notice how, when John is describing how the court ruled he was violent and unstable, Stephen opens his eyes a little wider, looks that much crazier...?
Me! Love House but knew nothing about his earlier career until something popped up in my recommendations, and now I'm basically tracking down every single Fry and Laurie clip here!
These sketches were my favourite. I think they copied JR from Dallas the way they pour their drinks and talk like they are high-powered business people. It was brilliant to watch these growing up. No Serial Killer.
I'd like to see all of these Peter & Jon sketches all together? There is one where they put their jackets on back to front and where he says 'there are 6 million people out there'...but I cant find them
His audition for House was actually filmed hung over in a hotel room in Namibia during production of Flight Of The Phoenix. He thought Wilson was the main character and he was auditioning for a supporting role. The producer was so impressed by his accent he didn't even know Hugh Laurie wasn't American.
