fry and laurie

[schmerica]

A Bit of Fry & Laurie episode two, you are responsible for my favorite bit of linguistics humor ever.

Hugh: So to you language is more than just a means of communication?

Stehen: Of course it is, of course it is, of course it is, of course it is. Language is my mother, my father, my husband, my brother, my sister, my whore, my mistress, my checkout girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square, or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God. Language is the dew on a fresh apple. It's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning light as you pluck from an old bookshelf a half-forgotten book of erotic memoirs. Language is the creak on a stair. It's a spluttering match held to a frosted pane. It's a half-remembered childhood birthday party. It's the warm, wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy. The hulk of a charred panzer. The underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl. It's cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.

P.S., here is a picture of Hugh Laurie in drag. Do with it as you will.

Comments

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I love listening to Stephen's voice. I'm so lulled by it that sometimes I get caught off guard when he says funny things.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

there need to be screencaps of him in drag on snl. for. um. comparison.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I got to the very polite spies! It was very adorable.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I never saw him on snl! I want to see the comparison!

also, pretty icon.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I love the very polite spies! They're in most episodes and are awesome.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I had the SNL episode at some point, but I don't know if I saved it. There have been clips on youTube, but they've had another crackdown recently due to the whole Viacom suing Google thing.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

now see, as i was posting that i thought "o noes! i cannot take caps myself because i think i deleted it!"

but then i remembered... i was on the internet! there must be a solution to this problem! and there was (http://www.nbc.com/saturday_night_live/segments/9349.shtml?id=7). (and sometimes it could even be properly coded.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heeee. Better wig but more facial hair; I call a draw!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

the legs are perhaps the wild card in all of this.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Dude! That's how I know who Steven Fry is. Jeeves & Wooster!

It's the warm, wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy.

[starfishchick]

That picture of Hugh Laurie totally made my 8 am class. So thank you!

And thank you, Lord, for Hugh Laurie.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

What a stunning piece of -- well, prose poetry, honestly. :-)

[zulu]

Then you might be interested to know that the special, soothing voice of Stephen Fry can now be yours!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hee, yes indeed!

Re: It's the warm, wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hugh Laurie = <3<3<3

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* It does lose something without the context of Stephen Fry's performance, though.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

My god, so awesome.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Oh!

How do I get more of this, please?

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite moments is from a later version of the sketch:

Stephen: Language can be beautiful. And Madeline asleep in lap of legends old. Plenitude. Dishes. Martita. Breasts. Tumble. Emolument. Forage. Smitten. Plenum. Vulva. Words that have their own sonority and beauty that is extrinsic, extrinsic to their connotational OR DENOTATIONAL referends.

Hugh: I think he said vulva.