A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A word, Timothy

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  • čas přidán 9. 11. 2008
  • From Series 3, episode 1
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  • @TheAkelei
    @TheAkelei Před 11 lety +3592

    It's quite striking that the actors, their age difference being only 2 years, are able to play father and son absolutey convincingly. Hilarious.

    • @christianflores3437
      @christianflores3437 Před 4 lety +32

      Good make-up

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 Před 3 lety +77

      @@christianflores3437 Wrong answer. Freaking good acting, you mean. And good make-up. In that order. Television sets where not very sharp, those years. On a bad one, the make-up was a waste.

    • @4umata
      @4umata Před 3 lety +30

      It would be pretty hilarious if Fry tried playing the son and Laurie was the father instead

    • @Lebronscokholder
      @Lebronscokholder Před 3 lety +1

      you might have broken an old queen's heart

    • @alexevansuk
      @alexevansuk Před 2 lety

      Theatrical, comedic genius'

  • @ryanmcavoy
    @ryanmcavoy Před 11 lety +3191

    Fry was born old. I bet he could recite the Iliad before he could walk

    • @LemoUtan
      @LemoUtan Před 6 lety +241

      He was probably IN the Iliad.

    • @joeyherne
      @joeyherne Před 5 lety +30

      Didn't he go to prison really young as well? I not sure how easy his life was.

    • @jourdanwolf
      @jourdanwolf Před 5 lety +27

      Zany Nobody said his life was easy but he has had his fair share of ups and downs so to speak

    • @joeb2487
      @joeb2487 Před 5 lety +12

      He had a very privileged upbringing but he did get into trouble regularly.

    • @tnexus13
      @tnexus13 Před 4 lety +19

      Stephen did have some issues with the law due to manic episodes of his bipolar. Not sure if he was even diagnosed at the time.

  • @Gotchism4Life
    @Gotchism4Life Před 3 lety +1067

    When my parents kicked me out, they just pinned a $20 bill to my collar and wished me luck. I was the most distraught 47 year old imaginable.

  • @tombranch2261
    @tombranch2261 Před 6 lety +4743

    I get the feeling that Fry would be great at D&D.

    • @helios24601
      @helios24601 Před 5 lety +313

      I think Fry would be great at being any sort of narrator, which is why he does so much narrating and voices for audiobooks.

    • @christianblack392
      @christianblack392 Před 5 lety +103

      He was Rever in Fable II

    • @helios24601
      @helios24601 Před 5 lety +21

      @@christianblack392 HE WAS?

    • @christianblack392
      @christianblack392 Před 5 lety +42

      @@helios24601 yes he was... Fable 3's Rever as well

    • @masters.1000
      @masters.1000 Před 5 lety +5

      ¿Game of Thrones?

  • @danielbateman6518
    @danielbateman6518 Před 4 lety +1387

    And this is how London's knife crime problem started

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 4 lety +36

      Die infidel Punac!

    • @Catubrannos
      @Catubrannos Před 4 lety +40

      Unfortunately the parents forget to tell their children the getting the job part.

    • @jeevithrai7994
      @jeevithrai7994 Před 4 lety +9

      @Jude M Didn't even try to disguise the prejudice,did you?

    • @MBKill3rCat
      @MBKill3rCat Před 4 lety +20

      @@jeevithrai7994 Truth doesn't need disguise

    • @jacob9327
      @jacob9327 Před 4 lety +2

      @@MBKill3rCat His prejudice doesn't need disguising is what you just said. So isn't really a great comment if you wanted to back up his statement.

  • @saoirsedeltufo7436
    @saoirsedeltufo7436 Před 6 lety +2842

    I live in Saffron Walden and it's such a pointless insignificant town that it's a big surprise to have anything set here

    • @asusmctablet9180
      @asusmctablet9180 Před 6 lety +957

      yeah right nice try Punac

    • @ukar69
      @ukar69 Před 6 lety +54

      I actually live near Saffron Walden and it’s certainly not insignificant

    • @vincenttavani6380
      @vincenttavani6380 Před 6 lety +153

      Saoirse del Tufo BIDE YOUR TIME

    • @OsofoGriot
      @OsofoGriot Před 6 lety +61

      Saoirse del Tufo I'm in Essex, and yup, Saffron Walden is devoid of basically everything. Nice place though, got a castle I think?

    • @saoirsedeltufo7436
      @saoirsedeltufo7436 Před 6 lety +30

      Peter Johnson the ruins of what was a castle!

  • @OsofoGriot
    @OsofoGriot Před 10 lety +4784

    This was basically the plot to the entire Harry Potter series, wasn't it?

    • @IanaGyln
      @IanaGyln Před 10 lety +73

      No it isn't.

    • @OsofoGriot
      @OsofoGriot Před 10 lety +286

      ***** Sarcasm doesn't come over clearly across YT comments.

    • @yenee94
      @yenee94 Před 9 lety +120

      Peter Johnson No it doesn't.

    • @GF-63
      @GF-63 Před 6 lety +54

      Peter Johnson It's Excaibur

    • @AlexeiRamotar
      @AlexeiRamotar Před 6 lety +56

      It's King Arthur

  • @tcac1687
    @tcac1687 Před 5 lety +866

    My parents did this to me as well now I'm on a quest to a faraway land just past Luton to fulfill the prophecy

    • @paulmccloud9395
      @paulmccloud9395 Před 5 lety +73

      Ahhh Luton, or Luu-Ton in the ancient tongue. Home to Helnak the hairy one if I'm not mistaken.

    • @jhwheuer
      @jhwheuer Před 4 lety +9

      Say hi to my brother in law when you drive through there...

    • @MediumRareOpinions
      @MediumRareOpinions Před 4 lety +35

      Theres a place *beyond* Luton? Surely you jest! The wisest men in all the land hold it to be at the furthest reaches.

    • @pietsnot3927
      @pietsnot3927 Před 4 lety +35

      @@MediumRareOpinions There is of course Leighton Buzzard, but even the bravest dare not venture there.

    • @MediumRareOpinions
      @MediumRareOpinions Před 4 lety +21

      @@pietsnot3927 No! Do not speak its name lest you summon the foulest beats from that accursed place!

  • @WillLaPuerta
    @WillLaPuerta Před 4 lety +1107

    People complain about Millennials never leaving home, but this is proof that it's not a new thing at all. Parents in the 80's were just much more creative than they are now.

    • @Nebuelaeus
      @Nebuelaeus Před 4 lety +186

      people have always stayed with their families well into adulthood.
      its only since the economic boom post wwII that children started moving out as soon as they came of age.
      its stupid to expect someone to immediately be able to support themselves the instant they enter the job market.

    • @deadjuice1880
      @deadjuice1880 Před 4 lety +25

      I _was_ defiantly ashamed of living with my parents.
      There are positives to me sticking around, e.g. family member with heart condition in the home, us taking in a immediate relation's child in my parents life when they need help to watch over them. And many more. It's good to have more heads around in the house.
      Still, I'm self aware of my situation. I _was_ still a bit insecure because of it, until recently. Let me tell ya a little story:
      A vendor set up in my workplace to sell some specialty food. She was a posh type of person from NY. I've met these type of people before [not NYers specifically, I mean upper-class people], and they seem so alien to me as a person who grew up in a relatively rough and tumble blue collar area, and has had experiences with underprivileged people from very bad areas.
      She was very schizophrenia in her conversations. The simplest small talk opening statement would induce an LSD-like rant from her.
      I have dated two schizophrenics, both on the opposite ends of the spectrum of mild to severe mental suffering.
      This vendor may not have been literally schizophrenic, but talking to her was like talking to someone with that condition.
      One day, a simple innocuous question somehow led into one of her ramblings. It went from one of her NY friends working on their cellar that day with no help, her claiming they'd hurt themselves with no one to watch them, then her mentioning that she dates 30 year old guys who still live with their parents.
      I chimed in, trying to keep the conversation in a stable place, with a factually true statement that "The way things are now it's hard to find a decent paying job in this area, sometimes it's best for people to stick together and help each other instead".
      She continued on, and ended with "I think men who still live with their parents aren't real men at all."
      .....
      I wasn't offended at all. I was just blown away by the innocent ignorance of it. I just let the conversation end and went about my work. I didn't know where to go from there.
      One: These are the type of men you JUST said you steadily date.
      Two: There are a wide spectrum of people, in all kinds of conditions. I've grew up with and seen alpha male ass kickers who stayed with their parents into their 30s. And I've seen squares that moved out into good houses with a wife and kids.
      I'm not excusing my situation, I was just blown away about how confidently ignorant she was, about people in general.
      It was like she was locked in a cellar for most of her life with a DvD of the Friends TV show to keep her company and help her develop. She was trying to be witty and funny, and just came off as batshit crazy to everyone from this area who interacted with her.

    • @thiagodeandrade7081
      @thiagodeandrade7081 Před 4 lety +49

      "Today at 43 I own my own business as well as offshore work."
      I am sure the medal you think you deserve is in the mail.
      "Emasculated, dumb, fat, pathetic..... but don’t worry, since WW2 each generation has been worse"
      Wanna cry?
      "we’re witnessing the downfall of Rome."
      Don't worry, I am sure civilization will outlive you.

    • @SubscribersWithoutAnySubscribe
      @SubscribersWithoutAnySubscribe Před 4 lety +48

      @Scottish Lol, some of the biggest successes of the millennial generation lived with their parents until 25+. Typical delusional boomer, so eager for your children to be independent (so that you can conserve your precious time) that you're happy for them to have worse prospects than you did at their age. If you ask me that's a failure in parenting, your goal as a parent should be to help your children do better than you did not worse.

    • @SNIperofDARKness02
      @SNIperofDARKness02 Před 4 lety +28

      @Scottish Funny how you refuse to comment anymore after seeing your argument crumble. I see that while you didn't allow your kids to stay on phones and play games you seem to find ample time to surf youtube and spread your bullshit.

  • @andrewlockett4569
    @andrewlockett4569 Před 4 lety +252

    How Stephen Fry keeps a straight face when he holds up and announces the watershed arrival of Burwhale the Avenger is one of the confounded mysteries of space and time, right up there with the multi verse and dark energy.

    • @jeffryphillipsburns
      @jeffryphillipsburns Před 11 měsíci +3

      Well, Burwhale the Avenger is just about as scientific as “the multiverse”.

  • @VintageTopHat
    @VintageTopHat Před 6 lety +1262

    "It was something to do with penises, I think"

    • @aku0217
      @aku0217 Před 4 lety +14

      VintageTopHat not with a penis but with penises....

    • @JukeboxTheGhoul
      @JukeboxTheGhoul Před 4 lety +10

      Like the fact Stephen is gay.

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch Před 4 lety +6

      Golly

    • @aricwood869
      @aricwood869 Před 4 lety +1

      VintageTopHat the title of Frys autobiography

    • @mgg5418
      @mgg5418 Před 4 lety +1

      I literally spit out my drink when he said that 😂😂😂

  • @bangthehankers1985
    @bangthehankers1985 Před 8 lety +642

    Fry's calm gaze as he holds up the pocket knife is just gold.

  • @MrIcelander
    @MrIcelander Před 6 lety +541

    "And in my own clothes" - Classic Fry B-)

    • @Satellite_Of_Love
      @Satellite_Of_Love Před 4 lety +9

      "You chose me?"
      "After a great deal of shopping around, yes."
      Ouch lol

  • @Deliquescentinsight
    @Deliquescentinsight Před rokem +39

    I think Stephen's cardigan makes a significant contribution to this sketch, it sets the tone

  • @alicelucy1333
    @alicelucy1333 Před 5 měsíci +13

    I'm going to be 25 in a week and I'm waiting for this conversation from my dad! 😂
    I've been watching this sketch on and off since I was 16 and always thought that just before I turn 25 I am going to come back here and make that comment! Pretty sad I know 😂

    • @spyninja1456
      @spyninja1456 Před měsícem +2

      Awww that is so sweet. I am 20 now and will come back when I am almost 25, God willing :)

  • @artistjoh
    @artistjoh Před 5 lety +383

    Fun trivia: Saffron Walden is a very historic but relatively insignificant locality with around 15,000 people in the parish. Besides the very degraded ruins of a castle, it is home to the Fry Art Gallery which had been in the Fry family since the 19th century. The gallery is named after Roger Fry, an artist, who died in 1970. The Fry’s were Quakers and were part of a strong Quaker community that centered on the town. Steven would have been very aware of Saffron Walden, even before he went to Cambridge University, but I am sure that while at uni the duo must have visited Saffron Walden and appreciated its history, including a very remarkable ancient maze, and castle ruins, which invoke thoughts of mythical beings and legendary stories.

    • @robertgoodwin5570
      @robertgoodwin5570 Před rokem +19

      One of the first settlers of Concord Mass. USA was from Saffron Walden and that's how Walden Pond got it's name

    • @Nikedemos
      @Nikedemos Před rokem +15

      >The Fry’s were Quakers and were part of a strong Quaker community that centered on the town.
      Wait is this why the guy on the packet of Quaker's Oats looks like Stephen Fry?

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před rokem +2

      A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A word, Timothy 2112pm 20.2.23 reads like mr s. fry wrote that bit of trivia in relation to himself. now that's nothing new - folk have allus written their own reviews and blurbs. as for fry the quaker - never heard of him. and if the quakers of old are anything to go by - a bit of a con job. but isn't all religion? listening to our mr s. fry he seems to have gone wandering about a bit and claimed to have been many religious facades in various interviews he has undertaken - from roman catholic to jew to scientific boffin...... i am sure a audio book as read by mr s fry would do wonders for those milf chat ladies who look ever so bored.... cambridge or no.

    • @ChestersonJack
      @ChestersonJack Před rokem +7

      @@JJONNYREPP I like the way you type that out. “mr s. fry” It’s so silly, I love it! You put a period after the “s,” but not after the “Mr,” and despite having the urbanity to use an honorific, you don’t capitalize a bit of hit! What a gas!

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před rokem

      @@ChestersonJack A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A word, Timothy 15.4.23 1443pm a bit of hit? what are you trynna imply, my man? good job i did put a period after the s or it may have been a shit of it. which is basically my grammar in a nutshell... i wasn't aware i was silly.. but that's fine by me. as for comedy - you just gotta play it straight or it just doesnt work... so they say. dunno where you go from here - is it all gonna be banal observations masking as humour as folk down the pub would have it ie: irish humour...? or is it gonna all revert back to violent slapstick asides cos people are sick of cruddy snippets of shitty lives and unmarried mothers whinging about the price of heroin????? there you go yerv started a new comedy sketch.... re: the grubby use and abuse of grammar. let's hope grandma appreciated your lavatorial style of humour... as it doesnt give me any pleasure to sit on bath taps - at all!! yours, nob 'nd.

  • @gavmusic
    @gavmusic Před 6 lety +870

    Possibly my favourite Fry & Laurie sketch - a friend of mine also loves this sketch & we still refer to any folding pocket knife as "Burwail the Avenger", often to startled glances from those who are not "chosen" :-)

    • @miskatonic6210
      @miskatonic6210 Před 6 lety +29

      gavmusic But in fact it's a bit obvious which way this sketch is going.
      I smelled it as soon as the father was amazed his son could easily open the drawer.
      And as soon as he suggested his son should work in a can factory I smelled the ending ^^
      But the execution made more than up for it.

    • @starry_lis
      @starry_lis Před 6 lety +52

      Sirion yeah, execution is what makes the joke - at least that's what Robespierre used to say.

    • @floris.927
      @floris.927 Před 5 lety +2

      Raphaël Atherill - Didn’t know he had it in him. That’s quite a healthy attitude against his own mortality.

    • @marcinpilarski2412
      @marcinpilarski2412 Před 5 lety +23

      @@starry_lis Well you can't spell 'slaughter' without a 'laughter'

    • @edwarddeguzman3258
      @edwarddeguzman3258 Před 5 lety +20

      But later, much later, Timothy would track the Dark one to America , New Jersey to be exact, and disguised as a simple Doctor with a limp so that Burwail, in the form of a cane, would always be at his side.......

  • @WalterLiddy
    @WalterLiddy Před 6 lety +442

    You see it coming a mile off but it still works.

    • @Movies123Online
      @Movies123Online Před 5 lety +17

      I didn't. I thought he was going to say his wife cheated on him and he was a bastard. So it was a great twist for me.

    • @martonk
      @martonk Před 5 lety +6

      @@Movies123Online Yeah I didn't get it in advance either

    • @swishfish8858
      @swishfish8858 Před 4 lety +36

      Soon as he said "get a job at a canning factory" the twist was revealed.

  • @Renzsu
    @Renzsu Před 6 lety +1588

    It's been a white since I've seen this much beige.

    • @alexandergorelyshev8485
      @alexandergorelyshev8485 Před 5 lety +96

      I suggest you head over to the *Lindybeige* channel, then, for beige runs galore there. Just make sure that you have a few weeks worth of watching time, for it's... absorbing.

    • @perperson199
      @perperson199 Před 5 lety +26

      Yes check out Lindybeige and prepare to be amazed

    • @lpsp442
      @lpsp442 Před 5 lety +16

      Fitting, given the resemblence between Laurie and Lindy

    • @privatevoidkeeper3775
      @privatevoidkeeper3775 Před 5 lety +15

      Seriously, LindyBeige, check him out! Specially the video where he shows you how he dyes his VERY OWN BEIGE SHIRTS!

    • @Jotari
      @Jotari Před 5 lety +16

      Haha. Been a white. I see what you did there.

  • @saltie5480
    @saltie5480 Před 5 lety +457

    I'm female and too young to have kids but as soon as I do and they turn 25 we *will* have this conversation.

    • @TheMarkFerron6
      @TheMarkFerron6 Před 4 lety +2

      Don't plan on too much Kaine....they might not work right

    • @harrisons62
      @harrisons62 Před 4 lety +7

      I can help.

    • @saltie5480
      @saltie5480 Před 4 lety +13

      @@TheMarkFerron6 I know, they might not be able to open the drawer.

    • @saltie5480
      @saltie5480 Před 4 lety +4

      @@alfa-psi I'll adopt then and make it really happen.

    • @maisie2730
      @maisie2730 Před 4 lety +6

      Sooo nine months later.... Any luck?

  • @DJCoolK1d
    @DJCoolK1d Před 3 lety +34

    The classic “dad gives you a pocket knife before sending you out in the world” trick.

  • @lawro04
    @lawro04 Před 15 lety +72

    'NOW TAKE BERWHALE THE AVENGER GO UPSTAIRS AND wash your hands for lunch' lol!

  • @DrCaseus
    @DrCaseus Před 6 lety +286

    THIS is how you get your nerdy child out of the house, parents

    • @Relugus
      @Relugus Před 2 lety +2

      It's how Punak's mom and dad got him to move out.

  • @wigs666
    @wigs666 Před 6 lety +173

    It's the way Fry says "beast"...

  • @mddistribution30
    @mddistribution30 Před 7 měsíci +8

    I love the way Fry says 'please Timothy let me tell this in my own way, in my own time, in my own clothes!'..

  • @Beelzebibble
    @Beelzebibble Před 12 lety +59

    Much as I love Laurie in goofy mode, it's refreshing to see Fry play the ham for once. And he does it so well.

  • @maxnullifidian
    @maxnullifidian Před 6 lety +194

    It's amazing Fry could say all that with a straight face!

    • @ILoveHandles
      @ILoveHandles Před 5 lety +11

      Not really, the man is quite the actor, were you to ask me. Quite good at doing a cold delivery of utter absurdity, imho.

    • @frankshailes3205
      @frankshailes3205 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ILoveHandles Yes he started out as a serious actor and the comedy was a bit of a sideline.

  • @1894db
    @1894db Před 3 lety +29

    So the main take away is that Stephen Fry would make a good Gandalf.

  • @moosound
    @moosound Před 3 lety +67

    Fry and Laurie work so well together. They did a series many years ago of Jeeves and Wooster, which is amongst the very best television has ever had to offer. In fact, pretty much everything they did together is world class.

  • @danhanley5618
    @danhanley5618 Před 6 lety +248

    pretty sure this is how ma and pa kent got clarke to get a job in metropolis at the bugle

    • @eddievhfan1984
      @eddievhfan1984 Před 6 lety +28

      The Planet. The Bugle was Spider-Man.

    • @aarondavis5386
      @aarondavis5386 Před 5 lety +12

      @@eddievhfan1984 you beat me to it by only a year :)

    • @trullsengar2784
      @trullsengar2784 Před 5 lety +5

      Except he really was the chosen one....

    • @WildBluntHickok
      @WildBluntHickok Před 4 lety +1

      Actually their deaths are what made him move to metropolis. They retconned that when they rebooted the DC universe in the 80s though.

    • @Slameye
      @Slameye Před 4 lety +1

      ... It's also "Clark". No e and capital c. Apart from that and the stuff already mentioned about the parents being dead at that time, plus the name of the newspaper, just start the sentence with a capital letter (or, preferably "I'm pretty sure"), and you'll be SPOT ON 😀

  • @theShaunus
    @theShaunus Před 6 lety +187

    This video has captured the essence of gamification

  • @unclecreepy4185
    @unclecreepy4185 Před 3 lety +31

    Stephen isn't even 2 years older than Hugh, yet some how he looks 35 years older than Hugh and I can imagine him being his dad.

  • @biologyfreak101
    @biologyfreak101 Před 10 lety +560

    Am I the only one who would like the story to be made into a film?

    • @D4K44R1
      @D4K44R1 Před 10 lety +13

      I mean... we have the Hobbit already...

    • @biologyfreak101
      @biologyfreak101 Před 10 lety +11

      :D ...and King Arthur and Harry Potter...but I want these characters!

    • @EmbodiedNonDuality
      @EmbodiedNonDuality Před 9 lety +19

      biologyfreak101 Saffron Walden was made for Hollywood

    • @therojowo
      @therojowo Před 9 lety +4

      They should make this into a movie.

    • @Kaziklu
      @Kaziklu Před 6 lety +26

      It be a fairly boring movie. Kid goes off, starts working in a factory for 6 months... and well then just keeps working in the factory because the whole story was made up to get him the hell out of the house.

  • @jackdog06
    @jackdog06 Před 3 lety +139

    “I don’t remember the exact details, something to do with penises I think”
    ...plural?
    I see the problem.

    • @jasonkeith2832
      @jasonkeith2832 Před 3 lety +6

      It gets a bit funnier when you know that Stephen Fry is actually a homosexual. I can't remember if the show was from before or after he came out, but if it was after, it would've made the joke all the more hilarious to the audience at the time.

    • @aiswariyasweety1517
      @aiswariyasweety1517 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jasonkeith2832 he came out much later I believe

    • @frankshailes3205
      @frankshailes3205 Před 3 lety

      @@aiswariyasweety1517 Fry struggled to keep his homosexuality secret during his teenage years at public school, and by his own account did not engage in sexual activity for 16 years from 1979 until 1995. He was in a 15-year relationship with Daniel Cohen from 1995.

  • @ghostbond1074
    @ghostbond1074 Před 3 lety +39

    Ah, yes, the time period where you could simply get a job in a factory and start a new life for yourself. Gas was 5 cents a gallon, movie ticket was a quarter, and $200/month got you a nice midrange apartment.

    • @youcanlearnalotfromlydia
      @youcanlearnalotfromlydia Před rokem +6

      Gas was 5 cents a gallon? You sound dismissive! Ooh don't poo-poo a nickel, Ghost Bond. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel, with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds!

    • @pooletrainboy
      @pooletrainboy Před rokem +3

      @@youcanlearnalotfromlydia Don't poo-poo a poo-poo!

  • @donaldaribam
    @donaldaribam Před 3 lety +16

    Thank God, my parents haven’t found this video yet.

  • @kevinfromsales6842
    @kevinfromsales6842 Před 6 lety +75

    "Golly"

  • @fearthegeeklord
    @fearthegeeklord Před 6 lety +51

    Wow, that went in a direction I was not prepared for

  • @garrick3727
    @garrick3727 Před 2 lety +4

    One does not simply walk into Saffron Walden.

  • @starsoffyre
    @starsoffyre Před 3 lety +21

    And he became a great doctor. Incredible!

    • @petermgruhn
      @petermgruhn Před 7 měsíci

      Emergency roadside tracheotomy.

  • @chatty_writer666
    @chatty_writer666 Před 12 lety +292

    "Luke the force is strong with you"
    "Really, how strong is it?"
    "Strong as a small pony!"
    I love British comedy!

    • @Gwydda
      @Gwydda Před 6 lety +1

      Hahah that´s a brilliant bit of stand up!

    • @omp199
      @omp199 Před 4 lety

      Eddie Izzard has nothing to do with Fry and Laurie. The fact that they all lived in the same country for a while doesn't mean that their senses of humour were at all similar.

    • @tinygamer471
      @tinygamer471 Před 3 lety +8

      @@omp199 Calm down buddy, he's not suggesting they had anything to do with each other.
      "British humour" has a very distinct style, based on our cultural upbringing and attitude to the world. Even sketch artists like these two (and the time anyway) and surrealist comedians like Eddie Izzard have that in common. So it's not an unfair statement to say "I love British comedy", and certainly doesn't warrant the tone of your response.

  • @WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT
    @WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT Před 9 měsíci +9

    Fun Fact : "Punac the Destroyer" was actually a typo in the script for "Sunak the Tory".

  • @Sherpiddy
    @Sherpiddy Před 3 lety +2

    NOW TAKE BERWHALE THE AVENGER GO UPSTAIRS and wash your hands for lunch 😂😂😂

  • @samuelluftensteiner68
    @samuelluftensteiner68 Před 6 lety +14

    when he holds up burwail the avenger you can just see the slightest inkling of a smile in the face of absurd silliness, he so professionally manages to subdue and conceal it, but it is there...

  • @PeterNGloor
    @PeterNGloor Před 10 lety +58

    Now, at last, I know why our army gave each one of us a knive just like this.

  • @mgg5418
    @mgg5418 Před 4 lety +35

    Somebody definitely needs to write that fantasy novel, preferably in at least three tomes 😂 I can’t wait to read more about Puna’ch the Destroyer and Teess the Wise!!

    • @tamolyn5141
      @tamolyn5141 Před rokem +3

      That's spelled, "Teesse" ot "Teess". One must be precise when speaking of these entities.

  • @misterjder1.831
    @misterjder1.831 Před 4 lety +21

    This is literally one of the best sketches of all times!

  • @taimatsuko
    @taimatsuko Před 6 lety +138

    Omg! I wish Stephen Fry would read LOTR to me.

    • @MrEAus
      @MrEAus Před 6 lety +17

      taimatsuko Well he did narrate the Harry Potter audiobooks, so that's a step in that direction at least

    • @KHwut
      @KHwut Před 5 lety

      @@MrEAus thought that was Jim Dale..

    • @MrEAus
      @MrEAus Před 5 lety +7

      @@KHwut interesting, I'd not heard of Jim myself, but it seems we are both right...
      ...as both Jim and Stephen have done Harry Potter audiobooks, but it's mainly a matter of region..:
      Jim Dale is aimed at the USA market, apparently, while Stephen is more famous elsewhere

    • @KHwut
      @KHwut Před 5 lety +1

      @@MrEAus Ah, that didn't occur to me! I like Stephen Fry's voice, don't see why they needed two different narrators.. perhaps licensing? (I certainly enjoyed Jim Dale's performance too!)

    • @MrEAus
      @MrEAus Před 5 lety +2

      @@KHwut Yes, it seems both have received praise for their performances
      A guy on Quora summarises it here...
      www.quora.com/Why-did-they-replace-Jim-Dale-with-Stephen-Fry-for-the-US-version-of-the-Harry-Potter-audio-books

  • @vardellsfolly5200
    @vardellsfolly5200 Před 3 lety +15

    I am 36 years old and i still have not found Punak, the Destroyer, the Dark One, the Beast. I am still waiting for Ferlow Wroth to call on me, since i know that i cannot find Teesshs all by myself. But to this very day, even if so many years have passed, i am still afraid that the minions of Threek will discover me..

  • @adarshjoseph2229
    @adarshjoseph2229 Před 9 lety +263

    Now I couldn't watch a single episode of House MD keeping a straight face!

    • @salbra30
      @salbra30 Před 6 lety +1

      Adarsh Joseph I

    • @warpspeedchic6932
      @warpspeedchic6932 Před 6 lety +8

      Adarsh Joseph I couldn't do that before anyway

    • @sarahgreer4234
      @sarahgreer4234 Před 5 lety +2

      Just came from watching repeats.

    • @ABW941
      @ABW941 Před 5 lety +13

      He s still the prince regent for me.

    • @tamolyn5141
      @tamolyn5141 Před rokem +1

      Now, go watch the season of Blackadder with Hugh Laurie, and then go back and try to watch House MD and keep a straight face. It will be even more difficult.

  • @ShatteredxSpiritx
    @ShatteredxSpiritx Před 11 lety +69

    I live in Saffron Walden!

    • @sietzevandeburgt681
      @sietzevandeburgt681 Před 6 lety +7

      Madelaine Hanson than you should have met a guy named Hugh Laurie awhile ago, or do you think he didn’t fall for it after all ???

    • @davebuchan81
      @davebuchan81 Před 6 lety +17

      It's been four years.......are you still biding your time?

    • @StandardGoose
      @StandardGoose Před 6 lety +9

      Do you work in a local canning factory?

    • @bootdude7527
      @bootdude7527 Před 5 lety +8

      Do you know where I can find Furlough Roth

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast Před 3 lety +1

      And Punac lives three doors down, I suppose?

  • @captpicard6894
    @captpicard6894 Před 5 lety +15

    “Get that lazy little sod out of the house and earning his living”
    Whilst trying to find and kill Punack the Destroyer😂😂😂😂

  • @Sabrowsky
    @Sabrowsky Před 3 lety +39

    "it was something to do with penises I think"
    That line is even funnier to me considering Stephen is gay.

    • @MixedRogueKhorri
      @MixedRogueKhorri Před 3 lety

      I just thought that lol.

    • @K1lostream
      @K1lostream Před 3 lety +1

      Oh yeah! Because, being gay, he likes penises and can't have children! That does make it extra funny, doesn't it!

    • @AmazinglyGayPhil
      @AmazinglyGayPhil Před 3 lety +2

      @@K1lostream Someones mad lol Haven't you got pictures of the queen to take down.

    • @K1lostream
      @K1lostream Před 3 lety

      AmazinglyGayPhil That's right, I am as mad as a box of coked-up ferrets!

  • @joeydifranco0422
    @joeydifranco0422 Před 4 lety +7

    I like how Stephen Fry was holding the door closed with his thumb at the beginning.

  • @weian87
    @weian87 Před 5 lety +9

    Stephen Fry- pure comedic genius

  • @michaelpenc7355
    @michaelpenc7355 Před 9 lety +21

    Oh how I love this show

  • @SpiritmanProductions
    @SpiritmanProductions Před 2 lety +5

    "Golly!"

  • @GypsyScot1
    @GypsyScot1 Před rokem +7

    Not gonna lie, I would absolutely read hell out of the Chronicles of Timothy

  • @borisa2borisa
    @borisa2borisa Před 11 lety +38

    I have just turned 25 and am expecting a similar talk from my parents every day :D

    • @rozamunduszek4787
      @rozamunduszek4787 Před 7 lety +7

      lmao! Now that it is 4 years later, has it happened?

    • @anthonycunningham8116
      @anthonycunningham8116 Před 6 lety +20

      He is now a 30 year old wandering the land dressed like Gandalf, seeking out the dark one.

    • @Thirsty_Fox
      @Thirsty_Fox Před 2 lety +7

      @@anthonycunningham8116 He's still working on being accepted by the Saffron Walden community.

  • @birgirbirgisson5901
    @birgirbirgisson5901 Před 6 lety +6

    What amazes me most is how Stephen Fry keeps a straight face throughout the whole scene.

  • @Rayne474
    @Rayne474 Před 12 lety +19

    - Tis?
    - Tisssss!!
    I'm dying. xD

    • @ShehrozeAmeen
      @ShehrozeAmeen Před 3 lety

      Why does this remind me of Monty Python somehow? Quest of the Holy Grail or something?

  • @artistwithouttalent
    @artistwithouttalent Před 6 lety +60

    Oh, if only one could afford to live on the salary of a cannery worker.

    • @rayaqin
      @rayaqin Před 6 lety +7

      you can actually afford living on a salary like that,
      its just gonna be a shitty life mostly

    • @fredfinks
      @fredfinks Před 4 lety +6

      You must seek Theese, the career adviser!

    • @smokinggun8418
      @smokinggun8418 Před 4 lety

      @@somename6955 i love you. But a girl would never say such thing

  • @SunnyIntervalsORG
    @SunnyIntervalsORG Před měsícem +1

    The hero's journey...in a comedy sketch!

  • @czgibson3086
    @czgibson3086 Před 6 lety +390

    Lord of the Rings is basically a 1000 page version of this.

    • @aarondavis5386
      @aarondavis5386 Před 5 lety

      Fellowship was anyway

    • @martinlarsson8947
      @martinlarsson8947 Před 5 lety +25

      Uhm, the lord of the rings doesnt have that ”the chosen one” nonsense so common in trash fantasy. Some random hobbits are heroes because they choose to do it. Not due to fate, birthright, or extraordinary talent.

    • @aarondavis5386
      @aarondavis5386 Před 5 lety +13

      @@martinlarsson8947 yeah there wasnt totally a destiny/chosen one angle in aragorn's story or as tolkien put it "All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king"

    • @Theproclaimed
      @Theproclaimed Před 5 lety

      czgibson I thought it was 1223 pages

    • @Elephantstonica
      @Elephantstonica Před 5 lety +2

      Martin Larsson
      So it seems much of Greek mythology, from which LOR was inspired, is nothing but nonsense and trash fantasy. Good to know.

  • @KesselRunner606
    @KesselRunner606 Před 3 lety +5

    To this day, my go-to RPG character name is Ferlo Roth.

  • @rudhouse1
    @rudhouse1 Před 12 lety +5

    this is one of their best scetches. can't stop watching.

  • @muhammedshareef1967
    @muhammedshareef1967 Před 6 lety +73

    knowing fry, this must ve been inspired by wagner's ring cycle

  • @raynmanshorts9275
    @raynmanshorts9275 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Lot of people these days need their parents to pull this on them.

  • @shockedbyjoy
    @shockedbyjoy Před 11 lety +30

    Stephen Fry adopted Anakin Skywalker.

  • @ModernBarbarian187
    @ModernBarbarian187 Před 10 lety +189

    Frankly I think it's much better to do something like that rather then tell your kids to get out and get a job.

  • @GtsAntoni1
    @GtsAntoni1 Před 4 lety +6

    I love that at 2:05 Fry can barely keep it together 🤣

  • @massagetherapyforinjuriesf8197

    About 6 times a year a watch this scene with my son.. he has a little schizophrenia... always we laugh hard.. I love him

    • @jpgrumbach8562
      @jpgrumbach8562 Před 3 lety +2

      Did you try 'mr dalliard' already?
      A frylaurie scetch nearly as good.

  • @HandsomeMoose
    @HandsomeMoose Před 6 lety +4

    Punac the Destroyer. The dark one. The beast.

  • @MrJfizzle11233
    @MrJfizzle11233 Před 4 lety +10

    How can one give such a speech whilst holding a pocket knife in such a way without losing their composure?

  • @MarxistKnight
    @MarxistKnight Před 5 lety +10

    Actually not a bad idea to give yourself a more interesting backstory - I’m going to work harder, get out of the house more, get in shape and meet new people, but it’s all just so I can be accepted by the community as part of a plan to rid the world of Punac.

  • @freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
    @freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez Před 14 lety +10

    "in my own way,in my own time in my own clothes..." XD

  • @mike.47
    @mike.47 Před rokem +3

    My wife came from Saffron Walden, I always knew there was something weird about that town. 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

  • @nigelcarren
    @nigelcarren Před 4 lety +9

    Unfortunately I have been living in Brittany France for the last ten years, and Punac is actually my next village... just over the hill from Carnac. There is also a beast there, and let me tell you, despite what he says... he actually knows nothing about cars!

  • @reenarawat5537
    @reenarawat5537 Před 3 lety +1

    Timonthy is the chosen one. He's going to bring balance to the force.

  • @alexgogoladze6201
    @alexgogoladze6201 Před 5 lety +21

    This is actually just Hugh Laurie playing a one shot D&D game for his first time

  • @paulmoran7026
    @paulmoran7026 Před 4 lety +7

    How good were Fry & Laurie....... I miss comedy like this and Blackadder so much.

  • @stone1andonly
    @stone1andonly Před 6 lety +30

    King Arthur - how it really happened!

    • @operator91210
      @operator91210 Před 2 lety

      Turns out every medieval story in existence started out as a fairytale to tell their kids out of the house. Maybe for all we know there isn't an actual holy grail

  • @meganwyatt1607
    @meganwyatt1607 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I love this skit🤣❤️

  • @thetoaster6413
    @thetoaster6413 Před rokem +1

    This is like, the plot of most JRPGs I've played.

  • @Jaxymann
    @Jaxymann Před 4 lety +3

    “You must leave us to go in search of Punac, the destroyer! The dark one! The *beast!”*
    “...golly.”

  • @BottomBunkArt
    @BottomBunkArt Před 6 lety +3

    CZcams is reading my mind. I was thinking of this skit all day, and it shows up in my recommended videos list as I'm laying myself down to sleep

    • @MrEAus
      @MrEAus Před 6 lety +1

      Baikal920 CZcams?...or Pewnac?
      The dark one, the Beast, is reading your mind - quick, where's Berwail?

  • @tssteelx
    @tssteelx Před rokem +1

    When the dm gives you a plus one sword.

  • @Shaftofthor
    @Shaftofthor Před 12 lety +4

    Dr. House has Berwhale the Avenger in a desk drawer

  • @tcac1687
    @tcac1687 Před 5 lety +21

    I've opened a drawer today and now im On a quest for dragon fire in the land of aghast I should be back by 4 put the kettle on

  • @chatty_writer666
    @chatty_writer666 Před 10 lety +141

    Golly, I'm in my early 20's, wonder if my mum will give me this kind of story. XD

    • @MarxistKnight
      @MarxistKnight Před 9 lety +33

      One like just for the "golly"! :D

    • @MetaalMeerkat
      @MetaalMeerkat Před 6 lety +10

      It has been 4 years now, are you still a lazy sod living with your mum?

    • @TheHellogs4444
      @TheHellogs4444 Před 5 lety +5

      5 years, ARE YOU EARNING A LIVING YET, LAD?

    • @magicman9218
      @magicman9218 Před 5 lety +2

      The worst part is that 10 other people wrote this exact conment

  • @enanorojo8233
    @enanorojo8233 Před 4 lety +2

    Am I the only one watching this while listening to 80's fantasy movies music?

  • @leoshane9118
    @leoshane9118 Před 6 lety +3

    Holy shit! I'm 26 and I still live with my parents. my days are numbered. any day soon that's me !

    • @MrAronRobinson
      @MrAronRobinson Před 5 lety +1

      Leo Shane That’s fine. This was written in the 80’s, well before the millennials and the necessity of living with your parents beyond your 20’s due to rising rents and house prices. What you were supposed to do in Britain back then was work your way through college living in a grubby shared flat while paying the rent on said crappy flat by being a barman in the evenings and thus end up becoming an alcoholic. Thank God that I never... *hic* ...went that way 😜

  • @georgeharper7676
    @georgeharper7676 Před 4 lety +8

    George from Blackadder goes forth

  • @lprocter1982
    @lprocter1982 Před 12 lety +7

    But strange women lying in ponds distributing swords are, apparently, a basis for a system of government!

  • @Flabburger
    @Flabburger Před 14 lety +2

    this is just an amazing way to get anyone out of your house

  • @robabob1001
    @robabob1001 Před 13 dny +1

    Bit upset I'm not the chosen one, sounds like a right hoot.

  • @thomasburns3345
    @thomasburns3345 Před 3 lety +5

    Can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to do this sketch with (unbeknownst to her!)

  • @MisterAppleEsq
    @MisterAppleEsq Před 6 lety +12

    3:25 Threek is actually a town in the Japanese version of SNES RPG Earthbound.

  • @louisethompson6465
    @louisethompson6465 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Outside Royston! My home town

  • @TheAkelei
    @TheAkelei Před 10 lety +1

    Indeed. And they ARE able, and how! Absolutely adorable.