Hugh Laurie - Keynote Conversation with David Silverman 

We desperately need more long-form conversations with Hugh Laurie

I wish I could meet this guy. Such a genius. And I miss House more then my own doctor

Hugh Laurie is a brilliant actor!

Best ever interview with the super gorgeous drop dead funny bloke and wit Laurie.

This is hands down the BEST interview ever conducted with Hugh Laurie!

I can’t get over the fact I had no idea this was happening and I live very close to Oklahoma City.

Thank you for posting !!! I love Hugh .

Legend.

How am I the first one to like this. There were 0 likes and 1 dislike. Come on, people, it's Hugh Laurie -- talent and rationality.

I don't have any poignant comment, I just wanted to say I had fun in a little bit more meaningful way than just one click. This video deserves it.

Great chat with a great thinker

I was waiting for this....as a fan of HLaurie for a long long time...I’m craving for interviews/event where he can interact & express his opinions very sarcastically & poignant......

Brilliant!

Thanks - what a clever conversation

so insightful and it's amazing to see Hugh has the habit to think really carefully and collect all the available info before making a statement or movement. Because things could be very complicated and counterintuitive. As always I love Hugh.

By the 5th minute, he was making me really nervous by still standing. SIT MAN.

I love the show House, also ive been an Atheist all my life with really no trouble because i dont allow it. I always felt special being Atheist and i still do. Great interview.

Love Hugh, though I can't believe when atheism, Douglas Adams, Blackadder, A bit of Fry and Laurie were being discussed, the name Stephen Fry wasn't mentioned..

The penalty kick taker crosses himself and the goalkeeper crosses himself , how does that work out ?🤣.

I think Wilde's quote needs to be changed, the only sin is not stupidity, but rather ignorance. A person can be born stupid and there's nothing that can do to change that; EXCEPT, become informed. Especially now in the information the only excuses for ignorance are laziness or arrogance.

"I'm not an academic or a stand up comedian" says the very successful comedy actor and Cambridge graduate. Don't sell yourself short Laurie!

He was great, the audio is very poor...

There’s a huge industry of motivational speakers, seminars, books and recordings for athletes and salespeople using faith as a device. It isn’t just early family and local church groups that are indoctrinating athletes and convincing them they aren’t capable of, or responsible for, their own achievements.

There's an Atheist Association?? To a swede what he says about Britain is even more relevant. We're the most secular country in the world

Pareidolia - the perception of a recognisable image, or meaningful pattern where none exist, or is intended, such as the perception of Wolf Blitzer in a patch of mould on a bathroom ceiling. Suspension of disbelief - being able to become emotionally involved in a story as a lived reality, while suspending logical awareness that it isn't real, that allows for enjoyment of the narrative. The phrase is attributed to Coleridge, 1817, referring to the experience when reading literature.

My right ear is lonely

Robert Sapolski of Sanford University said, "you can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into." Moreover, once the neural connections are made with regard to some belief, it's not possible to un-connect those neurons. Therefore it's extremely difficult to alter a belief once it's been established in the hardwiring in the brain. What matters is that social policy should be engineered in order to minimize the effects of irrational beliefs and prejudices.

As anyone figured out what actress drew him being stabbed in the eye?

I find that interesting that people believe and don't believe at the same time. We scatter peoples ashes in places they'd have liked and yet we know its completely illogical but somehow it seems spiritually the right thing to do..

I believe in God, but, as Wilson said once “House reads the Bible, he reads the Koran because he likes to know what mistakes people are making”; although I don’t think that atheist are making a mistake by not believing in God, I’m still very interested in knowing what their thoughts are. To spend time listening to Hugh Laurie is definitely always worth it.

Oh dear!!!

“Everything causes cancer.” - Love, California

Hugh should get a Knighthood.

There was so much great stuff in this conversation but the one thing that I thought was pivotal was Hugh Laurie's reference to the 'threat to the tribe', which we are all guilty of, as he wittily pointed out. There will always be a tension between freedom and the need to belong; think Northrop Fry termed it The Myth of Concern and the myth of Freedom; 1967 Centennial Canadian lectures, vr loose paraphrase. Because of the world recession and because of wars, migrations of people not seen since the aftermath of WWII there are a lot of people who feel profoundly disenfranchised so increasingly the window of informed debate is closing in an alarming manner. You see this ubiquitously in comments under videos on the net where there is a unanimous chorus of 'we are with you o master' -- Jordan Peterson comes to mind as I reveal my own prejudices. I miss the days of people like Christopher Hitchens, the Great Contrarian, who would wade into the fray with glee for the intellectual exercise of it == no ad hominin attacks from him, just a kind of glee. CS Lewis, in his role as Christian apologist, didn't take personally the arguments of people like myself who thought him a brilliant man but disagreed with his fundamental tenets. I loved this conversation; for me of course I do subscribe to the views expressed here, but perhaps what Hugh Laurie refers to goes a long way to the intransigent religiosity more prevalent in the States than in any other 1st world nation, as far as I can tell. Excellent conversation.

Is tha Gad Saad on the front row?

if you're watching in windows 10, this might help with the audio uknowit.uwgb.edu/page.php?id=82920

did someone seriously bring their baby to this event?

House....sit down.

All the loud dominionists lost to the loud atheist. Wtf? It is "legal" now.

43:50 damn, he seemingly knows more about american history than americans loljk.

The need to belong is certainly an important thing, loners turn quite bitter with time, especially those who say that they like being alone, becaue they are alone with their own thoughts, never having their thoughts provoked or questioned, so ultimately they raise themself, thinking they know best :) Though that might still be favorable to indoctrination, the freedom to express yourself and question things to find the answers is so important Religions and the nazis(and likeminded, closeminded groups), out of plain fear, push their beliefs into young childrens throats, because they are so easily manipulated, at least until they reach the age of 20 An important question is, do all atheists also indoctrinate their children into believing there is no god, or do they teach their children to think for themself? I'd like to hope it is the latter

Sound...? What sound... boo hoo, I love Hugh Laurie, too bad I can't hear him

Hugh's mysticism keeps peeking out through his flamboyantly bitter skepticism

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And yet, one year later in 2019 in an interview at the Edinburgh Festival he talks about his "Presbyterian Soul". Politics loss for sure.

850...a bit sad, by now it should be sold out at 850,000, and people standing outside with a drinking glass to the wall.

Did he just say football players are the most talented athletes in the world?! Lmao of shit that’s funny. If they were true.... the whole world would be playing that sport. And guess what. They already have their own football.

if there were a god why would he even care about some football game? a friend of mine was in this audience

Τhe NFL player thanks God for the strength he himself gets from believing. The NFL player feels grateful for the fact that he has faith. That's all it is.

As a Catholic... I hate when athletes thank God, too. 12:28 It's insulting to think that God would choose sides among his children. And yes, even if you don't believe in Him.... He loves you, too.

I think hugh may be overstating the percentages of athiests in the u.k....well, those who admit it.

I'm disappointed to see Hugh L here. A bit crushed actually I thought he was a little kinder toward religion than his peers. I guess he is kinder, still.

Surprise me!!!Atheist. . That answer many things.

God = Sky Daddy

Dear Dummy American Atheists, Please do us over 31 millions who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing viewers a BIG favor? Please add the captions or subtitles on every video you posted on RU-vids and we are kinda of tired nagging you and others about captions BUT do not CRAPtions according to Rikki Poynter. Come on, be thoughtful or mindful to put captions on every video you post, thanks. I have asked the same from Freedom From Religion Foundation and they added captions after aired videos immediately. (Thanks, FFRF)

Sad.

Who takes a baby to a public talk? How annoying!

I am sad... I just disagree

The pope cancelled Hell. Really? That both sucks and is a relief. A) I’m not going to hell, and B) NO ONE is going to hell? Doesn’t seem right … but then again, neither does crucifying the best of us for Reasons …

I am not an atheist, but at the same time I am not a very religious person. I'm very suspious towards any religion or any ideologism as, at the end of the day, they always devide people (in a nasty way). What strikes me though, is that amongst all the interviews I've seen with H. Laurie, this is the only one that he made an actual efford to be LIKED AND ACCEPTED. And it wasn't just a normal efford. It was a BIG efford. To the point it made me cringe. It's just made me thinking...Is he just a zealot excited about his new point of view (which is utterly understandable) or is there something...deeper. What do you think?

So Brilliant ,Yet so Foolish and dark , no wonder his singing career tanked Anybody realizes a higher power made Everything ,whatever you call it is your business but you got to be a complete fool not to realize it.