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aka Jeeves

Jeeves!

Very hard indeed for non native speakers like me to follow, despite having, I may say, a proficiency level of English.

I liked him better as Melchett.

That flew right over my head, what reference am I not getting?

@@joesr31 tidyman's carpet is another famous sketch from fry&laurie

I can't hear Stephen Fry speak like this w/out imagining Jeeves reciting those exact same lines!

Second only to "sir would prefer it if in the sphear of total hair cutation I was to him a virgin?"

@@markushausammann8578 sphere

Many of the words are made up and mean nothing - or at least don't mean what they are supposed to mean here. That's a part of the joke :)

I believe you wish to encur an encutment upon the English language.

@@WhoThisMonkey I delect on such ocurrements, they are the enjoyance of my humanhoodly activities.

Encutment.

Michael Nurse Humbleness.

Me editing my copy pasted work to avoid the plagiarism checker.

@@theblackswordsman9951 but then its like 60% copied

@@NonsensicalSpudz Depends how much you edit.

@@ProperGanderSaul to get a job. Duh!

@@ProperGanderSaul Bro I am yet to see anyone who does their job properly. People go to unis to get a degree so they can get a job, and unis design courses not to teach but rather to fulfill criterias and objectives. The whole system is shoddy.

I likewise in the most effusive language I can muster would say it was....ok

Indeed, I might endeavour to go one further and dub the volume in question "great".

Ah, yes a verbose and riveting discourse on the finer subtleties of the English language canon, is indeed an eminent and worthy tome to possess. Without wishing to appear sycophantic or obsequious may I proffer Sir my optimistic assessment of Sir's future abilities in mastering the advances in said sociolinguistics.

Sir, this book, of what author and title is?

@@kkrsnn5632 Edmund: A Butler's Tale, by Gertrude Perkins.

The most impressive part is when he loses the third cape for a second, calmly grabs it, decides to tie it to not lose it again, while focused on that Almost misspeaks "place in my professional p..care" but corrects himself in time and continues as if he was going steady all along !! His composure is beyond belief !

Oh my goodness I never noticed it, and I've seen this sketch so many times before holy cow XDD

Whereas the haircut purveyor considered survival of the service to be a rare event, I am certain that the multitude of capes were applied in order to capture the bountiful profusion of blood.

I have no recollection of having made the above post, nor do I find myself likely to have been being in possession of the ability of such locution at that time.

@@chrisbanbury hahahahahaha this post is golden!!!

manbalex you’ve obviously never done cocaine

Cunningflop we know Stephen Fry has tho

@Yung Smegma manbalex obviously hasn't according to Cunningflop

I read this comment with Archer's voice

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I would love to read it if you feel comfortable to share it. Just a thought!

I would love to read it!

I must admit a level of minute confusion, sir... That IS how we sons and daughters of the benighted isle of blighty verbalise.

@@peterclarke7240 😂

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@@peterclarke7240 wait youre from an island suffering from blight?

@@haadzahid129It’s a potato-person. Irishmen, you know!

“May I take it that sir is keen to exploit the financial and social advantages inherent in having a Haircut?”

They originally turned down the roles as they didn't want to ruin Wodehouse's stories but later changed their minds! Very happy they did change their minds!

i can't remember who said it, but someone (i think it was hugh but i can't remember rn) said that stephen in the video was 'jeeves on crack'

Both of them by their own admission have been influenced by P. G. Wodehouse, and the script in this skit was certainly Wodehouse and I think Wodehouse+

I think it was the effortlessly smooth way that he flipped his cloth back into his hand at around the 0:20 mark. A truly Jeevesian move.

@@BBCComedyGreats From what I read in an interview, they refused to portray Jeeves and Wooster on tv because they didn't want to ruin it. But they were afraid that someone else might do an even worse job. So they took it up.

In the evolution of the barber-profession, we must wonder if Egyptian mummies were not the suffocated victims of overzealous apprentices. He did say he started in Cairo.

I wonder how many u could put on the customer, before they get weirded out

Looooooooooooool

​@@prospero4183I would start to be a bit confused if they put on two

atimholt what

@@luislaurencio They talk weirdly big on purpose, or maybe mental disorder.

I chose the last option.

lugubrious verbiage, a sesquipedalianist.

Truer than true, sir or madam, but it is Bacchanalian, nay, outright shit-faced opinion of this, your humble responder-in-kind, that our loquaciously long-winded and language-laden lad is languid with the lust of the lunatic! Would that he, in his terpsichorean dodges around God's truth, intends to, in the place of fashioning coifs into beatific sculpt and polish, be in expectancy to apply vorpal evisceration upon the customer with an industrial tool, commonly used in the harvest of lumber! Indeed to then play about in scarlet delights and gore-streaked merriment of the poor fools viscera before bagging it up cleanly, parlaying it to an unscrupulous hog-farmer, and returning to tumble into the comforting bosom of laudanum and cigarettes?

""Cometh the hour, cometh the man"". Though it must be remembered that Emma Thompson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are luminaries of similar stature and also their cohorts. And Ben Elton.

@@Belzedarand Sandi Tosvig. I was there too, but missed all the fun.

Are you saying they were all on the same swim team?

@@jeffreyjeziorski1480 Perhaps it was something in the gin. Whatever it was, it is kind of amazing that all that comedic talent emerged from the same time and place.

@throckmortensnivel2850 yes. The gin.

Cracked Hugh up

Cracked Hugh up

Did he just smirk??

@@metalhammer5 Looks like it

O how I wish to learn this kind of English ! ♥️💓

@@rodger3352 My students look somewhat confounded with a hint of flummoxing emerging towards my effusion of Ciceronian ebullition. 💪 (Sometimes I try to make them enthusiastic to use these exuberant compositions).

It isn't 'glib'. Using "feast upon a banquet" as a metaphor for surplus is cliché. You're in the wrong job.

@@vapourmile 'Glib' is also 'well-spoken'. I merely wanted to express my admiration of these two marvelous actors, acting way over the top with their marvelous 'stage English'.

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It's only been 3 days, but thanks.

It's been a week. I'll be back in 5 years to say hi.

William Sage a “bit” wrong?

Pretty much. 🤣🤣🤣

Would've loved Stephen fry to cameo in House XD

@@KissedByFire16 that actually would have been funny as fuck

Even stranger in the age of George the forth and world war 1

@@alexunitymist2973 roaring holes

if you could write an essay like this it would be incredible

That's just how he always talks.

You should see him in "Jeeves and Wooster"!

He probably goes to get a chainsaw or something...

They didn't even start properly.

Does sir mean to suggest , that sir did both knowingly and unreservedly utilize sesquipedalian lexicon in order to propound the idea that sir was an erudite scholar of a most unequivocal competence ?

It's also pretty much Jeeves' character to a t.

All comedians should learn from these. These men are absolutely Titans of comedy

Not gonna fight you on that. This two are genius.

vocabulary is however, a key part of the script.

@Bucket with a face on it is Mrs brown boys a show? It's probably a good thing I haven't heard if it since it's shit.

Both American and British comedy have their treasures and their trash. Mel Brooks is a great example of an American comedy treasure.

Cleese's voice and manner of speaking are far more different from Fry's.

The owner of the channel said this was released in 1989, so it was directly before J&W! (J&W's first season was in 1990.)

What pun?

@@starwarsfreak1111 A bit more "A Bit of Fry & Laurie"

@@chickenwheel45 You don't need to add the first "bit". More of a bit of a... is pun enough!

@@starwarsfreak1111 I think it's because it's a bit.ly link.

@@starwarsfreak1111 the link is a "bit".ly link

This refinement of apprehension on the missing hyphen, is truly and beyond question, both masterly and magnificent...

Precisely. 🤣

Don't blink.

@@KartikayBagla A fellow Whovian

"I endeavour to give satisfaction, sir."

Or just entirely roundabout, pretentious and annoying...

S hayman the world would be full of useless talking and words

I think not. He's more professional than that.

@@RealityCheck6T9 Can't you see the smirk, though? Also at 0:17 he let out a slight laugh, and you can clearly see it's a sincere one. Although they are professionals (or maybe because of that), there were tons of short moments in the show when they were enjoying themselves and laughing about each other.

LOL, that would be hilarious! XD

Indupit- as you did most eloquently ellucidate -ably.

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