@@sophiajetton1234 Given the fact that Emma later told while on QI that while the three of them was living at the same apartment, she'd lock the doors and chase poor Stephen flashing her boobs...
@@andersbjansson1688 i remember that! Such a funny episode, he is so embarassed by women's nudity it's hilarious. Me on the other hand would not have minded ,she was and still a fascinating woman 😏
I did that to my brother once. Acted like I was playing something, and then got up and sat next to him while the song kept on. Never have forgotten the look on his face.
I find it great to see that Both Hugh and Stephen are so comfortable in their own sexuality to never having had troubled or seemed forced in sketches like this.
Fry has said that the fact that, while the best of friends, the fact that he was never attracted to Laurie made things much easier between them over the years.
This sketch will always make me laugh my ass off. Always. So much talent together. I need a Cambridge Footlights reunion like I need breathing. Btw, Emma
The part where he gets me every time even though I've watched this tons of times is when he says ever since I first heard from Flora that she had a father you've exerted a strange fascination over me it's just like hearing that she had a dad was enough for this dude to fall out of love with his fiance and into love with her dad like wait you have a dad
by applying the same logic to the acting, their comedic timing is so perfect that it must be a mistake and a lucky accident. huh? this isnt a live show, and they have coverage from several other cameras. if the shot with the mic was a mistake, they wouldnt have used it in the final edit. it is clearly deliberate, to poke fun at the poor production of "TV plays", where camera operators often leave the tip of the boom mic in frame, and lazy editors barely look at the footage, so they dont bother to crop it out.
It's a fantastic sketch! They set you up to think Fry's character is never going to accept Hophouse. Then they do the entire, funny 'bringing a boyfriend home' routine. And just when you think you've got it, they flip the entire thing on its arse -- Hophouse was actually interested in the dad, and vice versa. Brilliant. Three phenomenal actors doing wonderful comedy. What more can you ask? :)
Indeed I did but watch the sketch two minutes ago yet I had forgotten wherefore I had found it so amusing so I thank you sir for recounting it to me so that I can once again after so long a time find joy in it.
I actually saw a documentary where Fry mentioned that he feels so lucky he never fancied Laurie being a gay man. That would've made their collaboration really akward. And he doesn't understand why since Laurie is supposed to be an attracive guy.
@@ScoopMeisterGeneral that's exactly what the comment you answered to meant : he never fancied Laurie and didn't understand why, since Laurie is attractive.
I don't know if it was intentional or not. Something tells me it was a mistake within a mistake sketch were everything was trying to be wrong and that was actually really wrong. LOL, the speed of it leaving looks like the Bom mic operator shat himself to get it out of there quickly. Brilliant.
BRILLIANT stuff indeed... I also adore watching Jeeves and Wooster on the TV... Stephen is an excellent Jeeves and Hugh plays Bertie Wooster to perfection... And Emma.. well she is perfection as Elenor in Sense and Sensibility (which she did the screen play for) ... :0)x
I went from never recognizing her in anything (mark of an excellent character actor) to thinking I was crazy for recognizing her in this... because IMDB apparently does not...
Here's a funny little bit of trivia around that mic in shot at 2:30. Many years ago, before DVD's went nuts and even before the world wide web or intersplat as we call it fondly today, I saw a trailer for the movie IQ. I've never been able to work out why, but the trailer, at least the trailer for VHS, contained almost as many boom shots as there were shots in the trailer overall. It was freakish, as if the trailer had been deliberately cut that way. The trivia? One of the stars of IQ was S FRY!
I don't know if anyone else out there has seen SNL's "Colonel Angus" skit. But this is basically the British, intelligent, witty version of that skit. I quite agree that these are some of the most legendary people to take to the screen. If only we were all BFFs...
The pitfall of having Stephen Fry as a father, is he will steal your boyfriend.
Madame Raven that really _does_ explain Elliott Spencer, doesn't it
Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie were actually dating for a while so Stephen Fry stole her boyfriend in all seriousness
Considering Stephen Fry turned out to be gay and happily married to a man much younger than him. I found this illuminating and tongue-in-cheek funny.
@@sophiajetton1234 Given the fact that Emma later told while on QI that while the three of them was living at the same apartment, she'd lock the doors and chase poor Stephen flashing her boobs...
@@andersbjansson1688 i remember that! Such a funny episode, he is so embarassed by women's nudity it's hilarious. Me on the other hand would not have minded ,she was and still a fascinating woman 😏
"That was a funny sketch. Now, I must head over to the comments section to quote various lines from it...."
Lol
TO QUOTE VARIOUS LINES FROM IT!
Love Ben Elton and his “Hophouse, for you!”
Yes, yes, it must be so!
Nah, they're allready there, just give them a like.
Emma violently playing the piano in the beginning.
Only very high and very low notes, and even in opposition to the actual tunes 😁
Oh, did she?
@@user-fo7bj2tz9y Liszt's Liebestraume No.3
Who was playing it when she stood up to address her father?
@@banksta3 i think that was a joke.
"You have a noble thigh, sir."
Size
I've learned two important lessons from this sketch:
1. Never be at home to Mr. Hophouse.
2. If Mr. Hophouse shows up at your home, show him in.
I've gone peculiar now
@@Bullshit_Media Gone? Now?
The perfect trio
2:29 and the microphone as a guest was also so funny
I wish everyone always talked like Stephen Fry in this
so posh
Damn you, sir!
You do ? I must say, I haven't the slightest idea why you would want that. It seems rather cumbersome to me...
Watch Blackadder episode "Dual and Duality"
@@dyfol we all did, mate, we all did
Emma really went all out, with her piano playing. XD
Love how the servant is dressed in a contemporary suit and tie, lol. The mic also sells the absurdity of the sketch
Laurie’s faces, his eyes, when he’s declaring his love: “Something nobler-something higher! Something... Moister.” 3:47
His faces indeed!
I'ma use this phrase some day
Unironically, Hugh Laurie met Stephen Fry through their mutual friend Emma Thompson in college (University of Cambridge)
How is that ironic?
In the Alanis Morissette kind of irony
Some might say it was destiny making love to the british dramatic arts with triplets as a result
@@xbracke5901 surely it's fortune, like sun on your wedding day.
Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson dated for four years so it wouldn't be a surprise the three of them knew each other.
The fake piano playing is so dead-on.
I did that to my brother once. Acted like I was playing something, and then got up and sat next to him while the song kept on. Never have forgotten the look on his face.
@@jovetj Have you ever considered a career in comedy?
"I cannot believe my ears!!"
"...they do rather stick out"
HOLY FUCKING SHIT LMFAO THE FUCKING BOOM MIC 2:30
It has to be a mistake within a mistake type sketch. The timing was beyond perfect.
Its also that stupid grin on Hugh's face that sells it even more as he waits to speak.
"my smooth flanks shall soon be dry and flaky" lol
Emma Thompson is delightful, Stephen Fry is marvellous, Hugh Laurie is excellent, and Mrs. Ben is the surprise star of the show.
TranscendentLion Totally agreed.
No Mrs Ben here.
@@michaelynedwards1043 Still waiting for the tea.
Oh, isn't she?
Everybody is wonderful, except that for the glitch at 2:30, the mic boom operator was fired.
“It’s her nose that rather baffles me”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is comedy gold
2:30 that boom being frantically whipped out of sight 😂
I think it was a joke on "so perfect, smooth, and shiny".
Wow, Emma looks incredible in that dress...
And now imagine the part of Ben being played by Rowan Atkinson! That would be perfection!
Actually it would be MUCH better!!
Not really 😕
Hey! Don’t diss Ben Elton’s unique contribution here! I won’t have it, I tell you!
If this was General Melchett, Lieutenant George, and Captain Blackadder from blackadder that would perfectly top the cake
He'd show him in, but not without a perfect deadpan snark and a sneer.
They're hilarious. So talented.
And Emma Thompson was, is and will always be stunning. ♥
Damn straight.
Looks like a princess, acts like a queen.
Beat me to it.
"Do what I say child! Or by Heaven, I'll ask you again."
Simply genious!
How very Oscar Wilde-esque!
My goodness, Emma Thompson!
*Drools*
The character of Ben is one of the most inexplicably funny things ever seen on television.
"HOPHOUSE! FOR YOU!"
You think? I found him very out of place haha
I find it great to see that Both Hugh and Stephen are so comfortable in their own sexuality to never having had troubled or seemed forced in sketches like this.
Stephen Fry is gay
Lol
@@MalikSheytan well still.
Yes, its so terribly important that everyone be so comfortable!
Fry has said that the fact that, while the best of friends, the fact that he was never attracted to Laurie made things much easier between them over the years.
I want to live with these three in a little house made of comedy.
This sketch will always make me laugh my ass off. Always. So much talent together. I need a Cambridge Footlights reunion like I need breathing.
Btw, Emma
Rebeca Aldea Cambridge footlights isn't a comedy troupe like Monty Python. They are a theatre society at Cambridge uni who have members every year.
Rohan Agarwal Well, I know that. What I mean is that I'll like very much for THAT Cambridge Footlights generation to reunite. No need to correct me.
Sorry I didn't mean to offend. I just thought you might have been confused but never mind.
Rohan Agarwal No offense done. Just wanted to clarify :)
You two must be either Brits or Canadians... ;-)
This is one of the most enjoyable sketches with these three lovely people. Hugh's eyes when he explains why he has come to Mr Surname's house 😂😘
I haven’t seen this one before & it’s great to see Emma Thompson in this sketch.
The part where he gets me every time even though I've watched this tons of times is when he says ever since I first heard from Flora that she had a father you've exerted a strange fascination over me it's just like hearing that she had a dad was enough for this dude to fall out of love with his fiance and into love with her dad like wait you have a dad
Right?! 😂😂
I want to have a dream about Stephen and Hugh getting engaged and then wake up to find it was all true.
3:32 “oh” ... 😂 😆
This is hilarious 😂🤣 Emma Thompson is funny as hell 😂🤣
Didn't notice but he was House before House.
Damn!
This is funnier when you realize Hugh and Emma used to date in college
Emma Thompson is still amazing.
Silence-----------"Are you sure you got that quite right?"
lol
So moist. So smooth. So stiff and unbending.
The timing of that mic 2:30 is so perfect it has to be a genuine mistake and lucky accident.
by applying the same logic to the acting, their comedic timing is so perfect that it must be a mistake and a lucky accident.
huh?
this isnt a live show, and they have coverage from several other cameras. if the shot with the mic was a mistake, they wouldnt have used it in the final edit. it is clearly deliberate, to poke fun at the poor production of "TV plays", where camera operators often leave the tip of the boom mic in frame, and lazy editors barely look at the footage, so they dont bother to crop it out.
Jim Steinbrecher
I know and you are probably right, but its so perfect, right down to that stupid expression on Hugh's face. I can't stop laughing.
Holy shit, I never noticed it, till I went back... but it's right there, in the middle of the frame!
That's the joke. She's like "is he not so perfect and smooth and shiny?" *Cut to microphone in the shot.*
@@hugjuffs OOOHHHHHH
That's hysterical. They were so great together.
It's a fantastic sketch! They set you up to think Fry's character is never going to accept Hophouse. Then they do the entire, funny 'bringing a boyfriend home' routine. And just when you think you've got it, they flip the entire thing on its arse -- Hophouse was actually interested in the dad, and vice versa. Brilliant. Three phenomenal actors doing wonderful comedy. What more can you ask? :)
i have a good friend who speaks just like emma in that skit :) i can't get enough of it :)
Indeed I did but watch the sketch two minutes ago yet I had forgotten wherefore I had found it so amusing so I thank you sir for recounting it to me so that I can once again after so long a time find joy in it.
I don't know why, bit I died at "Sir William Surname"
I ship it.
Omg!! They all look soooooo young!!
Comedic genius! British comedy at it’s best.
Something ... moister! LOL!
This is not a comedy sketch. It's a Stephen Fry wet dream about Hugh Laurie.
I actually saw a documentary where Fry mentioned that he feels so lucky he never fancied Laurie being a gay man. That would've made their collaboration really akward. And he doesn't understand why since Laurie is supposed to be an attracive guy.
@@Pssybart No, in that documentary Fry specifically states that he never fancied Laurie _despite_ recognising that he is attractive.
@@ScoopMeisterGeneral that's exactly what the comment you answered to meant : he never fancied Laurie and didn't understand why, since Laurie is attractive.
@@sps6374 Yeah, I realise that now. I obviously missed the "since" in the final sentence. Thanks!
Yeah whether him not fancying Hugh or not is true - I'm not entirely convinced...
Considering the fact Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson dated for 4 years Stephan Fry literally stole her boyfriend XD
Emma Thompson here being amazing
Wooster and Jeeves ❤️
"You sure you got that quite right, sir?"
Those are some rather extraordinary sideburns on Mr. Fry xD
I thought, “hey that looks like Emma Thompson.”
Indeed, she looks so much like Emma, that if she looked any more like Emma, she would BE Emma.
🤣
Thompson and the piano at the start instantly makes me smile. Plus, I think Fry was giving us a little preview of Lord Melchett.
3:14 Now THAT i did not see coming! ''For YOUR hand in marriage!!".
Before Hugh Laurie played Dr. House, he played Mr. Hophouse
The big microphone at 2.30 !
I don't know if it was intentional or not. Something tells me it was a mistake within a mistake sketch were everything was trying to be wrong and that was actually really wrong. LOL, the speed of it leaving looks like the Bom mic operator shat himself to get it out of there quickly. Brilliant.
Three of my favourite people in television. And, for that matter, the world. Could this get any funnier?
"Moist" is such a Fry and Laurie word
I wish the audience had laughed at "Sir William Sirname"
*Surname
Embarrassingly hilarious as usual with Fry and Laurie but Emma Thompson is amazing.
BRILLIANT stuff indeed... I also adore watching Jeeves and Wooster on the TV... Stephen is an excellent Jeeves and Hugh plays Bertie Wooster to perfection...
And Emma.. well she is perfection as Elenor in Sense and Sensibility (which she did the screen play for) ... :0)x
I love when the microphone was shoved away as soon as camera went back to Hugh
Love he expression in the end. Too bad it got cut off.
I didn't read the title properly and I was about to ask, "Is that Emma Thompson?"
Hahaha wow so glad to have seen this video.
mister Surname... lol
yenee94 that's SIR William Surname to you :)
Nice period piece. Ben Elton's hair I mean.
ParadoxapocalypSatan noice
Emma Thompson is such a beautiful woman!
LOVE that episode. She can make him blush so easily.
"Mister Hophouse!" - "Miss Surname!"
The sound mic tho 😂😂
ben!!!! its ben!! fantastic!!!
I went from never recognizing her in anything (mark of an excellent character actor) to thinking I was crazy for recognizing her in this... because IMDB apparently does not...
Emma Thompson: eternally hot
Absolute gold.
They are Ron, Harry, and Hermione- friends for life. Love them all.
Agree, but it's the other way around tho😁
Here's a funny little bit of trivia around that mic in shot at 2:30.
Many years ago, before DVD's went nuts and even before the world wide web or intersplat as we call it fondly today, I saw a trailer for the movie IQ. I've never been able to work out why, but the trailer, at least the trailer for VHS, contained almost as many boom shots as there were shots in the trailer overall. It was freakish, as if the trailer had been deliberately cut that way. The trivia? One of the stars of IQ was S FRY!
and then he went on to QI
humour so ahead of the times they depict!! magic ❤
Here, Emma sounds EXACTLY like Maggie Smith. It's unnerving😍
Something moister. I love it.
3 best friends still together since their school days.
Three of my favorites....
😅
Absolutely fantastic!!!
Wow they were 27 years old in this
Brilliant, as ever they are!
“I don’t think ever seen so fine a head” 😂😂
But Papa...
LEAVE THE ROOM, FLORA!!!!😡
DemonFoxAkira :3
It's puppaa!
Oh, this has got to be my favourite sketch XD
omg the stuffed bobcat on top of the Grand Piano is hilarious.
1:24
"Oh, and Ben...?"
"WHAAAAAAAAATTT???!!!"
...... XD
Great multi talented Emma!!!
Emma Thompson ❤️
I don't know if anyone else out there has seen SNL's "Colonel Angus" skit. But this is basically the British, intelligent, witty version of that skit.
I quite agree that these are some of the most legendary people to take to the screen. If only we were all BFFs...
Love this video
Ben is the best random character ever.
this bit is wonderful.
Gooooddd, they look so young!
How handsome Stephen Fry is!!
Oh Emma what a babe.