Fry and Laurie - Maximum Security Poetry

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17 жыл бұрын

Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie's "Maximum Security Poetry" sketch from 1986.

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@Vojife 6 жыл бұрын

"London layed sprawled out like some vast capital city and majour commercial centre" Hahaha, genius! :D

@lelmdrWHO 10 жыл бұрын

'it was a blustering july afternoon in mid-december of 1929' how was evernone not cracking up???

@dantevandeva7493 5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA. I didn't even notice the first time, hilarious

@DomCombatVids 5 жыл бұрын

Because in English culture you don't laugh at poetry

@CDash162 5 жыл бұрын

You know I think people don't crack up laughing because they are taking in every word. Fry and Laurie do the pompous intellects so well I could listen to them all day. It's just pure class

@kahwigulum 4 жыл бұрын

later on he refers to "Julember"

@InvisiblerApple 4 жыл бұрын

@@kahwigulum the 90th!

@Agamemnon2 4 жыл бұрын

What's beautiful about this is that their explanation of "The Waste Land" being about the state of postwar despair into which society had been flung-flung is essentially correct.

@MsZiDu 11 жыл бұрын

I love both of their looks! They look so cute and handsome. Their subtle jokes are the best. "July afternoon in mid december", "Julember the 90th", "Douglas picked a buttercup/buttock up".

@CreativoErratico 10 жыл бұрын

I was born on Julember the 90th.

@D4K44R1 8 жыл бұрын

+zerosonico That's my second favourite day of the year

@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын

D4K44R1 I've only forgotten your birthday twice.

@NxDoyle 6 жыл бұрын

zerosonico It's alwise mine binthdate.

@wickedfeylady 15 жыл бұрын

Once again, Wilde's spirit takes over Stephen's mind and body, emanating forth as if Oscar had never left this mortal coil. At least Stephen doesn't mind...

@user-vg6ym5xy2r 20 күн бұрын

Stephen Fry was wonderful as Oscar Wilde. He was born to play that role. Well done!

@mildryfrr9970 5 жыл бұрын

Everybody's saying Hugh looks like Kevin Bacon here, but can we talk about Steven's Oscar Wilde getup for a sec?

@auntiecarol 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@InvisiblerApple 4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@samvidas9599 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@WyattRyeSway 4 жыл бұрын

He played him in a movie so....I mean, with good reason.

@uadevojka 3 жыл бұрын

He always looks like Oscar Wilde to me🙂

@Jeremyramone 16 жыл бұрын

I love the vocabulary in the first poem stephen reads. so hypnotyzing.

@CreativoErratico 3 жыл бұрын

The webbing spanned and floated free Her mance, her mance contained A moment loved, a moment dead The Lord is kind das echtzentekind Stapling, stopling, melted cheese Chaplin, Choplin squares of lust Awassa, Awassa, dreg, dreg Hide your noose the hangman Hide your noose the hangman The hangman The hangman The hangman The hang The hang The Th T

@rareram Жыл бұрын

Das echtzentekind

@FinalFirebrand 8 жыл бұрын

Buttock up. I love that line more than maybe I should, but it's just too clever not to.

@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын

FinalFirebrand I heard that line at the very same second that I read your comment.

@Jordan781 14 жыл бұрын

Laurie's hair is looking awefully mad scientist-ish here. :D

@deborahcrawford9079 7 жыл бұрын

'flung, flung...'

@ViceCityDJ 8 жыл бұрын

fry trying not to burst into laughter

@lastofthelapras 12 жыл бұрын

"The screws are very agreeable" LOL

@SmokeRzzzz 4 жыл бұрын

That was on point haha

@leishayoung4124 2 жыл бұрын

Oh god I loved it when these two took the piss out of England's insufferable upper classes. An an Aussie, it was just hilarious to watch. As I'm sure they have both run into such types many times over their respective careers.

@Ghoddal Жыл бұрын

They sure have encountered these types as both of them are members of the English upper class. Laurie attended Eaton, the most exclusive public school in the UK and both of them went to Cambridge.

@iOnlySignIn 14 жыл бұрын

Hide your noose the hangman. The hangman. The hangman. The hangman. The hang. The. Th.

@CreativoErratico 5 жыл бұрын

iOnlySignIn .

@AgentAsh 4 жыл бұрын

@HerEyesWereWild 14 жыл бұрын

This is better than anything we had to study for GCSE! :D I love watching Stephen Fry in his younger days, it's so strange how he hasn't changed much! Also, I wasn't around for the period they were doing sketches, so it's like a great comedy mine for me to be able to watch these clips! Utterly amazing, these two.

@vulgarpurity 15 жыл бұрын

He does, doesn't he? Stephen Fry has said in an interview how he's admired Hugh Laurie's looks. They're fantastic together.

@Alresu Жыл бұрын

Now _that's_ a captive audience.

@imabookfreak 15 жыл бұрын

It's possible that was worse than "Ode to a lump of green putty I found in my armpit one midsummer's morning". LOL!

@ChestersonJack 2 жыл бұрын

Possible, possible, perhaps. But certainly not. Or to put it another way, not certainly.

@myshepspud1 Жыл бұрын

A Douglas Adam's reader I see. :)

@HulloKat 12 жыл бұрын

Fry and Laurie together like this is infinitely more humourous than America's Saturday Night Live and nearly every programme and film on television. I do wish more youngsters nowaday had this sort of wit.

@GeorgeBaily 9 жыл бұрын

There is no way this level of prolix intellectual comedy will ever be written again.

@TheBlondiesNr1 6 жыл бұрын

George Baily have you heard of bo burnham

@Hithere-ek4qt 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlondiesNr1 Nope, but I'm sure he is a far cry from Fry and Laurie

@jonathanlee6660 3 жыл бұрын

Dont judge it till you see it

@roberto8650 2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanlee6660 Not even close. He's good, but these are in a different league of their own.

@benodaboy Жыл бұрын

@@roberto8650 not a different league, just a different generation.

@BelleWonder14 13 жыл бұрын

hugh looks a bit like a mad scientist with that hair style

@LucidaLow 5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing 😂

@Czechness 14 жыл бұрын

I just love Hugh's hair

@girl43 16 жыл бұрын

God .. how cute are they both ! I wasn't even born in 1986 .. I feel awfully young.

@em.1633 Жыл бұрын

Still feel young?

@girl43 Жыл бұрын

@@em.1633 nope 🙈

@merdufer 15 жыл бұрын

such a good introduction to Tommy Elliot. "the post-war state of despair into which the society had been... did he say thrown or flung?"

@YamixYuugi 15 жыл бұрын

Stephen is SO ADORABLE in this. :)

@blu3j4yw4y 15 жыл бұрын

Hahaha "Skip that bit..." This is hilarious, dunno why I've never watched it before :D

@atomosvrial1708 8 жыл бұрын

that buttercup bit cracked me up.

@HighKingTurgon 10 жыл бұрын

THE MOMENT THEY SAID ELIOT'S POEMS SET TO ROUGH MUSIC I SHAT MYSELF

@Philrc 5 жыл бұрын

that's unfortunate. I hope you were at home and alone

@juhiazha9600 5 жыл бұрын

Khasab what an underrated comment.

@ms.rstake_1211 4 жыл бұрын

I love them. I can't believe this is before the show began.

@allanfmarsden 9 жыл бұрын

As perfect a critique of Eliot's obscurantism and blatant class bias as I've heard.

@whomustnotbenamed5 14 жыл бұрын

Love Hugh's hair and Hugh's funny faces!!!!!

@logos47 16 жыл бұрын

Mr. Laurie's hair is wickedly done. Makes him look very mischievous.

@sprite22ify 12 жыл бұрын

If Fry and Laurie are underrated, people need to work on their taste :)

@sjoes 15 жыл бұрын

They're so perfectly at ease with each other and so on the same wavelength, it will be such a shame if they don't decide to start working together again soon. Unfortunately FOX owns HL for at least 3 more years.

@lyadmilo 11 жыл бұрын

The "The Hangman" part was actually a very brilliant parody of Eliot. Also, fucking hilarious, all throughout.

@iwanabana 7 жыл бұрын

enlighten me! As a non-native speaker and not a very devoted student of English literature, there must be plenty of things I miss out.

@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын

I love Eliot's poetry to such a degree that I completely agree & second your emotion.

@guidad542 4 жыл бұрын

@@iwanabana I'm a non-native speaker too so I'm sure I miss some stuff. Anyway, Eliot was one of the forefathers of modernist poetry and he favoured a very experimental prose (think disjointed structure, no adherance to aliterative rules etc). He also used a technique called enjabment, where no line is syntactically complete, creating a sense of continuous flow throughout the text. Moreover, he mostly dealt with themes of desolation and dejection, using repetition to instill a sense of despair. Take for example this: For thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the Pretty close to "the Hangman" huh? Of course, Eliot's genious wasn't limited to this, but it's a pretty fun and accurate parody nonetheless.

@SilverWynterSpirit 15 жыл бұрын

I wish fry and laurie would get back together and do this kind of stuff more...I miss it

@PedroGonzalez-pd6vw 4 жыл бұрын

3:44 "Thursday Julember the 90th" 😂😂

@monkeyfiona 12 жыл бұрын

"Oh the screws are very agreeable" :-P

@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын

T.S. Eliot is my favourite poet. This is funny.

@starwarsfreak1111 12 жыл бұрын

Did you notice Hugh said at 3:45 First Day Julember the 90th? =))

@breaneainn 11 жыл бұрын

lol! '...small rubber nodule..'

@tregnier279 15 жыл бұрын

4:00 And this was before Fry came out of the closet. Quite interesting.

@elvancor 3 жыл бұрын

Is that so? Pray tell, when exactly did he come out?

@katiedid1851 2 жыл бұрын

And , so what ? Always a genius ! No one quite like him or ever will be.

@NausicaaLeGuin 14 жыл бұрын

"why people leave buttocks lying around, I've no idea..."

@celestialnav 15 жыл бұрын

i love it!

@Liusila 16 жыл бұрын

Aaah, and I love their hair!

@narekm 13 жыл бұрын

@JapeUK Hmmm I'd say they are very much appreciated. I live in Armenia and even here people know them although the show never aired here. Only thing shown on TV was Jeeves & Wooster yet theres internet thank God )))

@KAT65 17 жыл бұрын

The hair went up even higher on Fry and Laurie!

@weirdgetsaround 6 жыл бұрын

he's a legend thats for sure

@Stryker1207 11 жыл бұрын

"It was a blustering July afternoon in mid December of 1929"

@InvisiblerApple 4 жыл бұрын

The clocks will be striking 13 any minute! (probably on the hour)

@Alex-jg2bc 5 жыл бұрын

I’m oddly attracted to Stephen in this video

@Plethorality 4 жыл бұрын

I've always been oddly attracted...

@MsGrinny Жыл бұрын

Timeless!

@Skeew1 12 жыл бұрын

they stole their own joke! Stephen says the "buttercup" joke in "the day i forgot my legs"!!!!

@Philrc 5 жыл бұрын

they repeated it, not stole it

@vaclav_fejt 4 жыл бұрын

Also in some versions of "The Letter".

@gaara6189 12 жыл бұрын

"It was a blustering July afternoon in mid December of 1929".........hahahaha

@LilyLylaLolaLucy 15 жыл бұрын

I LOVE HUGH'S HAIR!!!!

@Gorboduc 14 жыл бұрын

"Already I sense he is growing apart from us."

@Tracker77 14 жыл бұрын

The hangman The hangman The hangman The hang The Th T

@tineblondine 17 жыл бұрын

Well, as you say - it's UP :-)

@ShonaLavellan 15 жыл бұрын

Great hair.

@GerardHammond Жыл бұрын

more of this. Can we get them both back?

@Tropicaliak 15 жыл бұрын

so much the greattttttttt.

@mrtheobromine 6 жыл бұрын

And here we have Stephen openly admitting his sexuality but in a manner where no one would realize he was being genuine. My poor closeted boy.

@Philrc 5 жыл бұрын

? Fry had no special problem coming out as gay

@PaperbackWizard 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about this sketch while watching the movie version of "Cats".

@kahwigulum 4 жыл бұрын

I have to wonder if Bruce McCullough of Kids In The Hall stole this joke for his "The Moon Laughs" sketch. "The moon laughs knowingly. The moon laughs." The moon. The."

@nhmooytis7058 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant especially if you know Eliot’s poetry....

@ulfurinnn 15 жыл бұрын

god i wish these shows where on tv. ish there any place you can like buy a cd or sumthing? reply please

@mrlucasftw42 7 ай бұрын

Some Vogon poetry to start!

@SarahLeia 15 жыл бұрын

The buttercup line...they reused it! LOL

@StavroginNikolai 8 жыл бұрын

...and in 2015, hipsters unironically write pieces like these excerpts and consider themselves prodigiously talented and wise beyond their years as they perform bombastically in slam poetry contests for audiences consisting of their parents, a group of drunken college students and that one friend that's secretly in love with them.

@outeast999 7 жыл бұрын

Ever it was thus. You think F&L worked in a vacuum?

@MatrixAran 7 жыл бұрын

This describes most of poetry for over 1200 years...

@andreasbuehler1821 6 жыл бұрын

At most poetry slams I've been, the crowds have been pretty brutal.

@Auriflamme 6 жыл бұрын

This is bad pastiche of TS Eliot, which is the whole point of the skit. In slams they tend to pastiche Ginsburg or some feminists.

@Mlog1 6 жыл бұрын

That's not true at all!!! (The friend told me she loves me)

@HEV29 14 жыл бұрын

Yay!!! Crazy English men xxx How I loved Stephen Fry and still do - and Hugh is so aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggghhhhhhhh (phwoooooooooooooooooor) now! xxx

@bindiyay 15 жыл бұрын

Damn I've spent so much time thinking that meself too! A mixture of Kevin Bacon and Steve McQueen, depending on what you're watching :)

@merdufer 15 жыл бұрын

I didn't get the "the screws are very agreeable" part..

@aptaylor75 4 жыл бұрын

Prison guards in the US in the first half of the 20th century were usually called "screws".

@tineblondine 16 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :-D I've got two funny bones.

@TrulyStucker 15 жыл бұрын

0:19 Laurie looks like Kevin Bacon! lol

@tahsinsabah833 4 жыл бұрын

3:31 “I didn’t know that I didn’t know that I didn’t I didn’t I didn’t know that I didn’t”

@yllidiah 14 жыл бұрын

haha, BEST imagery of london

@66nylorac 14 жыл бұрын

What's not to love...sigh!

@TophxAang 16 жыл бұрын

Wow! Fry's hair makes him look sexy here ^_^ like he put gell in it or something, and of course Hugh looks sexy as always! I love these two!

@tineblondine 17 жыл бұрын

Like you say: It's up :-D

@CF1975 15 жыл бұрын

Is this also taken from Friday Night Live? I am pretty sure this is not from ABOFAL.

@finehomemadewine 15 жыл бұрын

:-) Almost! :-) :-)

@Mihoshika 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like summoning rituals.

@allerdyce 15 жыл бұрын

yeah 27 and 28 actually but seriously, thats so weird how this was just a lifetime ago.

@Hydroculator 3 жыл бұрын

Fry's jaw looks absolutely enormous here. It scares me a little.

@AgentArchangel83 14 жыл бұрын

Is he reading Vogon poetry?

@AnnabellaRedwood 5 жыл бұрын

Bahahaha!!!!!

@awesomecat26 8 жыл бұрын

the hangman. the hang. the. th. t.

@GRAHAMAUS 13 жыл бұрын

@Thesmorphia No, it sounds liek: O, frettled grunt-buggley! How thy micturations are to thee As purdled gabble-blodgits inner lurgid be Groop, I implore thee, Thy footing turlingdromes, and hoopsiously thrangle me with crinkly bingle wurdles. For otherwise I will rend thee in the gogglewarts with my burdlecudgeon. See if I dont!

@KryzMasta 13 жыл бұрын

@JapeUK I don't think they are underrated at all. Maybe less people know their sketch comedy than they deserve, and maybe they're more known for their recent work, but that doesn't make their sketch comedy underrated.