Hugh Laurie Got His Start in Acting with Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry 

I totally agree with you ❤

Absolutely agree

Yes.

Yessss

I am truly in awe of all of his talents.

I loved him as Bertie❤️

I love Wodehouse. He was exactly what I had pictured Wooster in my mind. Fry wasn't exactly as I'd imagined the character.

I only wish he had replied "Toodle-Pip"

I love that he told Seth to say "What ho" to her!

@@ramyashastri I read some of the books. Hugh Laurie elevated the stories to another level, in my mind. What a prince of a man.

It's quite astonishing how utterly different he looked during different stages of his life so far. Early 20s Hugh was unbelievably a handsome jock-type! He looked really different during much of Fry and Laurie, Black Adder, Jeeves and Wooster and House respectively... Hell, the difference between House and Night Manager was extreme, and I'm not talking about the toupet!

And they all seem to be great friends still.

His blue eyes

She said that she "fell for him like a ton of bricks".

@@RikardPeterson Yep, apparently Ms T still terrorises Stephen Fry with her body parts every chance she gets.

"Which one of us is Wellington?" So hilarious!🤣

I've had a crush on Hugh Laurie since warching "Jeeves and Wooster" with my mum as a child. He seems like such a charming, affable man.

"Hugh Laurie Got His Start in Acting with Emma Thompson...." "Yeah, he did. That lucky duck! Duck. Luck, luck, luck. Luuuck-cluck-cluck CLUCK!"

go forth, especially

Season 3 of Black Adder is one of the funniest things ever put to film. Those collection of episodes are almost perfection. I adore Black Adder.

I never get tired of those shows! Every time I re-watch one, I see things I didn't notice before. So brilliantly done!

Came to post this, leaving satisfied.

Yep, I re-watch it regularly.

They were great on "A Bit of Fry & Laurie," too! My favorite comedy show ever.

Perfect casting! If you look up "gormless idiot" in the dictionary, you will see Hugh as Bertie Wooster!

Agreed!

Yes!

Check out the Blackadder series on WW1 !

Jeeves and Wooster was fantastic

👍👍👍👍

I did a double take when I spotted Ade Edmondson in star wars part 8

I’m impressed but not surprised. I think most comedians worth their salt have seen the classic British sitcoms, and Seth is of the generation that _The Young Ones_ chiefly served.

The Young Ones aired in the US (on MTV). As did Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder (both on PBS). I don't believe A Bit of Fry & Laurie ever did however, so less Americans will know it.

@@Wiley_Coyote it did, but I don't remember ever watching it.

Ah, but do you remember which episode it was? It's my second favorite!

I've been hiding from 2020 by watching "Wooster and Jeeves" and listening to P.G. Wodehouse audiobooks every night (read by Jonathan Cecil, an accomplished British actor reads many of these, and his voices are SUPERB!). I catch myself using slang and even the accents from these stories. I slipped and called someone "Old Thing" the other day, then had to try to explain where it came from. I felt like Bertie, trying to weasel out of something I didn't mean to say. I looked around for Jeeves to help me, but he never appeared.

Or "Toodle Pip" :-)

@@LazyIRanch Jolly good show, old thing!

Oh! Good for you!!

Most People "Hey look, it's Doctor House" Me: "Little Hi, Little Ho"

Permission to shout "bravo" at an annoyingly loud volume, sir?

University education, you can't beat it!

Soupy twist !

it'll never happen but thanks for yr thoughts :)

@@IdoruFalls they said the same thing about Monty Python

What about Jeeves and Wooster?

​@@kittycatmeowmeow963 That's great too but in ABOFAL they had creative freedom.

Emma tells a great story on an episode of QI about how the computer she was writing her script on died. She unplugged everything and brought it to Stephen’s house and sobbed to him, “Find my script!!!” He fixed her computer and saved her draft.

He was super in Sense..... etc.!

😂 I didn't even catch that double meaning! Good spotting!

He was damn good ham. High quality to where its no insult.

It's actually more appropriate to call it doctors in a ham sandwich. You name a sandwich by the thing that's in between. You wouldn't call an egg sandwich, a bread sandwich. It's an egg sandwich because that's what's inside. The self-deprecation tho. So British. haha.

I love his character in House! He did such a good job in that show!

@@b.41879 He really did. Totally different person that in this interview.

@Dean Florey Including you I take it. How so?

... and even if you're aware of it all, its hard to mention everything he's done and still have a conversation in such a short clip. Such a talented man.

Hugh has tremendous blues credit! Look him up.

Oh, Seth knew. He worked with him and Laurie is well known as a musician. Seth was just joking with the oblique reference to the piano. Laurie can rip on a piano.

Seths giggle really gave it away 😁

@Agent Fungus He's also a prize-winning rower, and his father won a gold medal at the Olympics for rowing.

Thanks for reminding me!

Me, I will revisit Hugh singing. 🤗

It took me a moment to realize that was a title and not you waiting to live out a Last Man on Earth style scenario.

Same here. I didn’t even know he was British!

Muricans.

Most of my friends never even knew he was English when he played House. They wouldn’t believe me.

I know right - they went to university together - seems like basic common knowledge to me - but then been a fan of them all for ages...

It's because the things we used to get from the uk on television were normally period piece dramas. Pbs did show a few English comedies in the 90s and 00s. But the only ones I really remember are "keeping up appearances" and "Are you being served".

many Americans already knew him from Black Adler, usually the same people who like Python and other British comedy like that. I had friends with VHS copies of Black Adler back in 1992 or maybe earlier. He really became popular after "House" because that was a more mainstream demographic.

He made an American programme for years called House

@@cboscari Blackadder

@@triarb5790 yep my mistake

I'm American but I am also a big British comedy fan so I knew who he was and loved him back when he was in Blackadder!

@Sarah Jane he was talking about their university challenge episode which was great

And Stuart Little

Peter's friends?

The only bad thing he's ever been in?

Right? I have a rare and hideous disease called Trigeminal Neuralgia (aka the "suicide disease"), and had it more than 2 years before I got a diagnosis (16 years ago). I had brain surgery 10 years ago that helped some with the pain level and frequency of attacks, but left me with double-vision and weak eyesight in my right eye and a tendency to run into walls. TN causes sudden severe pain in the right side of my face (like an electrified, sharp knife). It felt like the worse toothache ever, except it would come and go. I had several root canals and 2 teeth pulled, only to find out it had NOTHING to do with my teeth! When I watched "House", I always hoped they would have an episode with a TN patient, but I think it's not quite rare enough, and many people would have figured it out too quickly because the symptoms are so bizarre, yet common to those who suffer with it. I can be fine one minute, the next I feel like I've been hit with a taser and crumple to the floor, trying not to scream. I still think they could have made an interesting episode with that. I think there was a segment about TN on 20/20 once, but most people have never heard about it.

@@LazyIRanch my heart goes out to you. I suffer from multiple chronic pain conditions that all exacerbate the others or when one calms down the others act up. I know about TN as I have researched it due to an online friend with it & I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone. Healing hugs to you.

@@erikacallahan2824 Thank you! I'm so sorry you are in pain, I have a sister who has fibromyalgia, likely caused by untreated Lyme disease 30 years ago. Her doctors don't seem to believe her, though. It's frustrating to see her suffer. I actually had a bit of a "miracle" last May. I got very sick with what turned out to be bacterial meningitis, but I thought I had Covid. When I finally got bloodwork done 2 months later, found I had Acenobacter Baumanii, aka "Iraqibacter" because it's common with injured soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's what almost killed journalist Bob Woodruff. Usually, our immune system fights it off, but I got a load of it because I tripped and fell down a hill, ground dirt into my knees and elbows (this common bacteria lives in desert soil). I'm lucky I was able to recover and it didn't turn into flesh-eating bacteria. One of my baby goats got this years ago and had to be euthanized. I swear, there's a point to this... I realized the 2nd week I was sick that I had not had any TN attacks. Now 6 months later, I STILL haven't had an attack! I don't know why, after 18 years of daily misery, it's just gone! I suspect the infection had something to do with it, since it affects the nervous system too, but my doctor didn't think so. What if it did, though? Maybe a new treatment could be developed from bacteria? I've heard stranger things! It would make a good story for "House", it was even comical how I got infected, tripping over a baby goat I was frolicking with and taking a head-over-heels tumble down the hillside. I could see that kind of scene in a "House" episode! LOL

@@LazyIRanch 0

It’s never lupus.

Isn't it great? 😄

Surely you have to start with the The Understanding Barman?

I think the Michael Jackson interview is a great starting point. :D

I quite like "Your name sir?" Just because they try so very hard to keep straight faces in it.

I really loved their fake vox pop segments.

@@mrpositronia haha - yes!

@Marina E Pity indeed. Either you seek it out or not.

Yes, your highness your highness.

With enormous trousers of course.

Bertie Wooster for me, but only because that was my first series of his... until House came along, of course.

In that role he outfunnied Rowan Atkinson, which is like outrunning Usain Bolt.

Axel Lukkien stealing scenes from Rowan Atkinson and Robbie Coltrane is art itself

"Sit down, comrade, sit down. What news from Moscow? Comrade Stalin's in rude health, I presume?"

My favourite sketch ever

@@LACIPPO The Bishop and The Warlord's Light Metal is mine. I don't think Hugh says a word in it, but it cracks me up every time.

Mr Dalliard, Mr Dalliard

Good morning.

Normal? Not only is it normal, it's inescapable! How could you NOT love this man??

Yes!

I'm almost 31 years of age and he's older than my parents but he's a beautiful older man.

Yesss of coz!

Not having a crush on him would be abnormal.

Me too! Love him in House MD and have watched the show quite a few times. Love it!

One of my favourite films.

it's a great movie. he was also good in Sense and Sensibility

All are UK national treasures

Wasn't Rowan Atkinson around the same time as well? I remember him saying something about trying out stand-up comedy in University around the same time as Ben Elton. I might be wrong..

@@KabirChattopadhyay1991 I think he was a couple of years older than the Footlights trio of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson.

Sandy from the Great British Baking Show?

@@KabirChattopadhyay1991 Rowan went to Oxford and Hugh and those other guys were at Cambridge

I'll have to check out his music!

@@jocelynjohnston8257 saint James infirmary is a good one and weed smoker's dream are a good start. Kisses fire is also gr8

I love this scene from "Wooster and Jeeves", where he shows off his comedy AND musical skills. He's messing up the song on purpose, of course! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zO9axGrzDE0.html

Thanks, you guys!

All he did in House was talk in an accent! this is him *without* putting on an accent ;)

Just got done with rewatching season 1-7 of House on Peacock. He did it for 8 seasons and I never had a clue. His ‘Midwest accent’ is clearly special as I never suspected he was actually British, except for his role in The Man in the Mask when he actually ‘didn’t’ speak in an accent. Now That’s impressive. Could any American actor pull off a Scouse or any British accent for 8 years without anyone being the wiser? He’s a national treasure.

he is rocking that full beard

Uses to be hulu. Idk if they've removed it

Now on Amazon Prime in the US

Especially Toxteth O’Grady 😉

It's my second favorite, actually. "Nasty" wins the top prize!

@Nicky Poundtown if anyone else asks me that, I'm gonna stick their head through a window!

@@antipatsy same here! featuring the damned too, can't beat that :)

World's stickiest bogey 😁

Truly. And it’s 'revue'!

he was always stunning, but looks different.

@@NellieKAdaba well he's 63 now so he's bound to look different.

Mine too. I’m binging Chance now. Very dark and great.

My heart couldn't take a House return without Wilson.

House wouldn't survive nowadays. Twitter would cancel him 2 episodes in. People are too sensitive for jokes.

@@lux3226 House saved Wilson. We just didn't see that part.

That would have been amazing.

Don’t miss Hugh Laurie in The Night Manager. He’s plenty plenty in this role. 😂

His doll face and those incredible eyes. And the overwhelming talent. What's not sexy about that?