He's actually really good. His pronunciation is nearly spot-on! And I am French. Also, he's charming and hilarious!! I loved "pouf, 5" haha, trop drôle!
HUGH LAURIE IS ONE OF THE BEST ACTORS -- HE SAT IN HIS SMALL BATHROOM FOR THE ACOUSTIC AND FIXED UP AN AUDIO-CASSETTE WHICH HE SENT TO HOLLYWOOD !! GREAT GUY, GREAT ACTOR... GREAT LOOKS, PERFECT FOR THE ROLE
Actually his French is not so bad...it is even good. Very few mistakes (to be exact only one) but perfectly understable and diversified vocabulary. Good job Dr House.
I found this clip recently, and I've come back a few times already, I just absolutely love it, can't stop watching it over and over again😃 I love how good Hugh Laurie is at foreign languages; just 1 of his many qualities! 🥰 (and of course this is also extremely funny!)
I don't know if you guys realise how hard is it for someone who has english as a mother language to pronounce the ''r'' in french but damn Hugh Laurie does it ! Man he is good !
I'm not French-speaking and from the animated mannerism of Laurie and annoyed mannerism of the lady beside him, I thought at first that Laurie was speaking gibberish. When I read from the other comments that he's actually spot-on with the French, I was amazed at how brilliant this sketch has played on Laurie's fame for accents and nationality. Brilliant!
From British person to great actor to great actor that speaks French... he's sure moved up in the world ^.^ (yes I realize he was already popular whilst British; I've seen every episode of Black Adder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie
This is what happens when two trained experience performers that understand and know every trick of the trade in comedy come together, when someone says "let's put james franco and anne hathaway to host the oscars" you say fucking no.
Both performers are at the very best of their game. The handful of "voters" who claim to dislike this clip must be so very sad and pathetic. They most probably "dislike" everything that is ever put before them as an attempt to entertain them. Some people are just angry to be alive, I suppose. Hopefully their suffering will be brief, so the rest of humanity can go on with a little less of whatever it was these chronic malcontents insist they have contributed to society. Hugh Laurie RULES!
But, what a merciful one is God! we live 9 months in our mother's womb with neither fear nor hungry, then, came to life with all these boons (I don't know whether that word fits here or not) provided for us to use and share.... And, our slavery to God is not by owning us, it's by creating us. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said "O God, I'm so proud that you're my God, and it's an enough glory to be your slave!" Our being a slaves of God, is our highest glory!
Excellent ! He's so crazy ! I dream that one day i'll speak english like he's speaking french ! La france vous adore Mr Laurie ! France love you Mr Laurie !
Good to speak many languages. I am a Viet Nam born Chinese, grew up in France, Hong Kong, Japan and now Thailand since three years. I speak Vietnamese, Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, French, English, Japanese, Lao and Thai. More to come, I like to learn new languages. But still when I see a native English speaker I have a good attitude toward him/her because you know native English speakers usually don't bother to learn another language.
@TheYoshiToshi Wow, thank you SO MUCH for pointing out why it's funny. I'm sure we were all staring blankly at the screen at that point until you explained it for us all.
Yeah, I had talked to him about that. We had cleared things up, it was just a misunderstanding. What part of france are you from? I have a friend in Montpellier..
@phiil0u Actually it does make sence. Helen says that out of hundreds of performances they went down to the best 5 of them. So Hugh was refering to the 5 performances that came first.
Oooohhhh, two of the best, talented and beautiful actors together! Is it even possible?! Nice accent there mr. Laurie, even if I'm certainly not an expert on the French language... so, he can speak at least THREE quite different accents fluently?
@magguylicious We're practically the same people, maybe that has something to do with it. The Angles and the Saxons were both tribes that moved to Eastern and Southern England from what is now Northern Germany.
the english are so cool and elegant. quel sens de l'humour !!! Helen Miren speach and understand french very well. I know that hugh grant, alan rickman, emma thompson speach french too, but i didnt know for hugh laurie.
I understand what you mean. French and German are both difficult languages (I learn German at school too). And it's also true that English is easier to learn for foreigners, thanks to all the american and english movies, tv shows, etc... Beside English is obligatory at school, unlike french, german or spanish.
I'm Belgian, I speak French and he has a really good accent It's hard for a French or Belgian to learn French, I can't imagine how hard is this to learn French when it doesn't our mother tong !
@thebeastisback2007 That's not a crazy theory, indeed. Because of the "n" the pronunciation of "cinq" actually differs depending on the region (chiefly Northern vs. Southern France).
Wow. A whole lot of people seem to forget way before he was House he was a comedian. He still is a comedian, and he is looking for laughs, not linguistic accuracy.
I've seen this video a million times, but I still can't stop laughing :D I'm going to his concert in Paris next month, I hope he's gonna speak some french there too...
For the record, the most visited city in Europe is London and Paris is second (see the Visa/Forbes survey). But France is by far the most visited country in the world with 83 millions visitors in 2012 (United Nations World Tourism Organization), 16 million more visitors than the United States which is in second place. In terms of received foreign direct investment (FDI in $), France went from 4th in 2007 to 2nd in 2010 (twice less than the USA with one fifth of it's population).
I'm french and he says "cinq" (five) better than i do because i have a french southern accent and even though it's pretty discreet five is one of the few words i can't say without accent !
That's so true. When people know you speak english, they want to try all their english on you even when it doesn't make sense and you'll understand them better in their own language. But I was saying that why does he go to France and expects people to speak english? They don't speak english in France, they speak french. If I go to USA or UK I don't expect people to speak french, I know I'm the one who has to make concessions because I came in an english country.
OMG, that was so good! And it is funny because when he speaks french, he has a german accent, it's strange xD Mon rêve est devenu réalité *-*, merci Hugh!
And french is structured a lot too, but there are a lot of exceptions, which make it more difficult to learn (I may be wrong, but that's how I feel it anyway).
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He's actually really good. His pronunciation is nearly spot-on!
And I am French. Also, he's charming and hilarious!!
I loved "pouf, 5" haha, trop drôle!
... and suddenly everybody in the comments speaks french
the french is awesome ^^
Pourquoi pas?
Hon hon hon
et puis c'est quoi le probleme??
Loving the look on Ben Kingsley's face, and how Helen Mirren trolls Laurie with "winnowing" immediately afterwards.
What a perfect accent !!! ( I am french )
HUGH LAURIE IS ONE OF THE BEST ACTORS -- HE SAT IN HIS SMALL BATHROOM FOR THE ACOUSTIC AND FIXED UP AN AUDIO-CASSETTE WHICH HE SENT TO HOLLYWOOD !! GREAT GUY, GREAT ACTOR... GREAT LOOKS, PERFECT FOR THE ROLE
louisetta1000
ok, ok calm down
coeur de rafale 'calm down' ???!!!! I love Hugh Laurie... HE IS A REAL ACTOR/ COMEDIAN !!!
It's so funny how Laurie stays in character as House.
because house's caractère is adapted to hugh's caractère, hugh is a actor how like make jokes, like house ^^
House isn’t French...
@@somerandomplatypus2059 stroke, much?
House is Laurie.
@@TacoBlend duh he's French
Actually his French is not so bad...it is even good. Very few mistakes (to be exact only one) but perfectly understable and diversified vocabulary. Good job Dr House.
C'est super dur le français à apprendre et le plus dur reste l'accent comme dans toutes les langues ! Bravo !
You gotta love Hugh Laurie. That man is a comic genius.
Fr
I found this clip recently, and I've come back a few times already, I just absolutely love it, can't stop watching it over and over again😃 I love how good Hugh Laurie is at foreign languages; just 1 of his many qualities! 🥰 (and of course this is also extremely funny!)
Hugh Laurie a un très bon francais, comme il nous l' a prouvé à son concert, mais cette satanée fausse modestie... ! ^^
Pouf ! Cinq ! XD
mais n'empèche hugh c'est : rien a foutre de votre cérémonie, moi je fais des blagues XD
I don't know if you guys realise how hard is it for someone who has english as a mother language to pronounce the ''r'' in french but damn Hugh Laurie does it ! Man he is good !
Hugh should play in french movie. He could be good enough!
I'm not French-speaking and from the animated mannerism of Laurie and annoyed mannerism of the lady beside him, I thought at first that Laurie was speaking gibberish. When I read from the other comments that he's actually spot-on with the French, I was amazed at how brilliant this sketch has played on Laurie's fame for accents and nationality. Brilliant!
I love the look on Helen Mirren's face when she gives him the difficult word. She is a legend as well.
LOVE this! Especially the "properly!" and "Yes, dear" at the end, they both sound so perfectly English
From British person to great actor to great actor that speaks French... he's sure moved up in the world ^.^ (yes I realize he was already popular whilst British; I've seen every episode of Black Adder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie
This is what happens when two trained experience performers that understand and know every trick of the trade in comedy come together, when someone says "let's put james franco and anne hathaway to host the oscars" you say fucking no.
"à la tâche presque impossible" this is too cute when he said that^^
I'm American and love France, French, and French people. I even took a few French classes in high school and college. J'adore Français!
So great to read, I hope it is still the case 10 years later !
Hugh Laurie - the best thing to come from Britain and like a true Brit, completely modest about his brilliance!
Waaa je savais pas qu'il parlait aussi bien français, et qu'il avait une si bonne prononciation. Hugh Laurie is Amazing !!!! I love Him!!!
I've seen this video like a thousand times.. and i laugh so hard every single time xD
Btw, I'm french and his pronounciation is perfect!
Ah Hugh Laurie... from an era when actors were actually skilled and respectable. Love the guy.
simply brilliant!
I couldn't hear over them retreating to the beaches by Dunkirk.
0:36 Hugh Laurie turns into Gregory House :)
Very difficult task : Tâche presque impossible => Lol brillant !
de winowing => lol no.
Very good french still ;).
People forget how funny Hugh Lauire is
How?
Both performers are at the very best of their game.
The handful of "voters" who claim to dislike this clip must be so very sad and pathetic. They most probably "dislike" everything that is ever put before them as an attempt to entertain them. Some people are just angry to be alive, I suppose. Hopefully their suffering will be brief, so the rest of humanity can go on with a little less of whatever it was these chronic malcontents insist they have contributed to society.
Hugh Laurie RULES!
But, what a merciful one is God! we live 9 months in our mother's womb with neither fear nor hungry, then, came to life with all these boons (I don't know whether that word fits here or not) provided for us to use and share.... And, our slavery to God is not by owning us, it's by creating us. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said "O God, I'm so proud that you're my God, and it's an enough glory to be your slave!"
Our being a slaves of God, is our highest glory!
Il est trop fort ce type!!! loooooool
😃
00:40 sa voix ressemble a elle de fred, d'omar et fred ! o.o
Bien vu !!
there's nothing as bad as a french speaking english
ABSOLUTELY TRUE !! EVEN FRENCH POLITICIANS... LOL !!!
ABSOLUMENT VRAI, MEME LES POLITICIENS FRANçAIS POUR LA PLUPART, ONT UN ACCENT ATROCE !!!
Ah ahah i guess i'm The only exception then
Username You don't know a lot of French...
I LOVE HUGH LAURIE !!!!!!!!!! I DONT CARE IF HE SPEAKS FRENCH OR NOT !!!! HE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST COMEDIAN BESIDES BEING A WONDERFUL MUSICIAN !!!!
Excellent ! He's so crazy ! I dream that one day i'll speak english like he's speaking french !
La france vous adore Mr Laurie !
France love you Mr Laurie !
Wonderful! Two great British talents.
The granny is so rude...since when speaking French means not speaking properly!!!
When she said about speak properly she meant speak English duh
Granny? You meant The Queen?
His accent is very good especially the tonic accent which is always on the last syllabe of a group of words in French.
Good to speak many languages. I am a Viet Nam born Chinese, grew up in France, Hong Kong, Japan and now Thailand since three years. I speak Vietnamese, Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, French, English, Japanese, Lao and Thai. More to come, I like to learn new languages. But still when I see a native English speaker I have a good attitude toward him/her because you know native English speakers usually don't bother to learn another language.
@TheYoshiToshi
Wow, thank you SO MUCH for pointing out why it's funny. I'm sure we were all staring blankly at the screen at that point until you explained it for us all.
I respect native English speakers who make the effort to learn another language. Thumb up!
@zemersEU Actualy pixels are same regardless of compression. Compression doesn't eats out pixels, it affects collor informations :)
I remember this... sooo funny.. love Hugh Laurie and Helen Mirren.
Yeah, I had talked to him about that. We had cleared things up, it was just a misunderstanding. What part of france are you from? I have a friend in Montpellier..
@phiil0u Actually it does make sence. Helen says that out of hundreds of performances they went down to the best 5 of them. So Hugh was refering to the 5 performances that came first.
Le meilleur de tout les temps !!
merci monsieur Laurie !
@carmineoxide and how should it be pronounced? just out of curiosity I'm not american but I do pronounce Hugh as "hue", kinda.
Was this filmed in Qubec or France or something?
Oooohhhh, two of the best, talented and beautiful actors together! Is it even possible?! Nice accent there mr. Laurie, even if I'm certainly not an expert on the French language... so, he can speak at least THREE quite different accents fluently?
My God the man's list of talents is endless
That's true pretty much everywhere in the world. Italy, Japan, China...
On the plus side, most women in the world like the sound of French.
Thank you Hugh Laurie your the man, and by the way, Bravo très bel accent!
Oh I love those two! Hilarious!
it's a very good ,french with very accurate ponounciations , well done !!!!
I love how Helen Mirren is just BARELY keeping it together at 1:05!
J'adore à la fin
"A la tache presque impossible de winnower"
Excellent Hugh =)
I am french canadian and his french is actually pretty good! I understood everything :)
My goodness, his accent is AMAZING ^.^
I can listen to different english dialect that sound pretty aggressive to me, but that doesn't mean the language itself is agressive.
Hugh Laurie is someone who understands humor
Thx. But was does he mean with POOF?^^
@magguylicious We're practically the same people, maybe that has something to do with it. The Angles and the Saxons were both tribes that moved to Eastern and Southern England from what is now Northern Germany.
selon moi il parle très bien, avec un accent merveilleux.
et aussi je trouve que Helen Mirren est absolument belle..
the english are so cool and elegant. quel sens de l'humour !!!
Helen Miren speach and understand french very well. I know that hugh grant, alan rickman, emma thompson speach french too, but i didnt know for hugh laurie.
when im bored i always watch this lol
hugh laurie is beautiful!~
I understand what you mean. French and German are both difficult languages (I learn German at school too). And it's also true that English is easier to learn for foreigners, thanks to all the american and english movies, tv shows, etc... Beside English is obligatory at school, unlike french, german or spanish.
I'm Belgian, I speak French and he has a really good accent
It's hard for a French or Belgian to learn French, I can't imagine how hard is this to learn French when it doesn't our mother tong !
@LaMlleAlex C'etait un synonyme de réduire en Anglais, littéralement
"Épannelager".
it's taken from an old sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
@thebeastisback2007 That's not a crazy theory, indeed. Because of the "n" the pronunciation of "cinq" actually differs depending on the region (chiefly Northern vs. Southern France).
I love how at the end Helen Mirren is trying not to laugh.
@guiyak perhaps the category they were announcing was prestigious? herp
Can somebody tell me who is the man @0:46 ??? Thx
Wow. A whole lot of people seem to forget way before he was House he was a comedian. He still is a comedian, and he is looking for laughs, not linguistic accuracy.
0:48 I swear that is the actor that played Gandhi in the movie Gandhi!
I've seen this video a million times, but I still can't stop laughing :D
I'm going to his concert in Paris next month, I hope he's gonna speak some french there too...
Bravo, cela fais plaisir de voir un si grand acteur et si connu de parler en Français ! Sans se moquer ^^
@Andreew656 do foreign people really understand english grammar?
I love how he translate that long sentence to "Pouf ! Cinq."
perfect answer, thanks
For the record, the most visited city in Europe is London and Paris is second (see the Visa/Forbes survey). But France is by far the most visited country in the world with 83 millions visitors in 2012 (United Nations World Tourism Organization), 16 million more visitors than the United States which is in second place.
In terms of received foreign direct investment (FDI in $), France went from 4th in 2007 to 2nd in 2010 (twice less than the USA with one fifth of it's population).
Il est magique! He is magical!
I love it , he's so sexy when he speak french .
Monsieur Laurie , continuais à parler français pour notre plus plus grand bonheur.
French People .
That was the point of what I was saying to Martin St. Hill.
His french is very well! Il parle très bien français! Il a une bonne prononciation!
Oh I'm sorry I didn't see ^^ I'm from Paris but I also have some friends in Montpellier :)
Énorme l'accent! - His accent is really amazing!
Actually, it just has been parodied in house S08E13, just brilliant and awesome that they have thought of that! ^^
je l'adore!!!!!!!!!! hugh tu es le meilleur!!
I'm french and he says "cinq" (five) better than i do because i have a french southern accent and even though it's pretty discreet five is one of the few words i can't say without accent !
That's so true. When people know you speak english, they want to try all their english on you even when it doesn't make sense and you'll understand them better in their own language. But I was saying that why does he go to France and expects people to speak english? They don't speak english in France, they speak french. If I go to USA or UK I don't expect people to speak french, I know I'm the one who has to make concessions because I came in an english country.
He's really good !
OMG, that was so good! And it is funny because when he speaks french, he has a german accent, it's strange xD
Mon rêve est devenu réalité *-*, merci Hugh!
And french is structured a lot too, but there are a lot of exceptions, which make it more difficult to learn (I may be wrong, but that's how I feel it anyway).
@carmineoxide German accent? How does that work when he's british? :D
I think it's 'winnowing'. It fits in this context.
@Draksen Il est anglais. Oui je sais ça m'a surpris aussi, son accent dans Dr house est super convaincant.
Exactly, I agree with you
I'm french and I can say, He have a really good accent.
Wow, his french is soooo good !
Alguien sabe donde lo puedo ver con subtítulos en español