This deserves more likes.

Holy fuck, I'm dying. Well played, sir.

Ba-dum-tiss!

I love the comedy community, everyone is so supportive and take the piss but in a friendly way! This show is decades old but I'm 16 and I love these classics, Laurie is flawless. Happy to see lots of others return to these videos too

very popular with the broadsheet press

+ProudToBeNoob I don't think it's about Hugh asking the Major how he can sleep at night as much as it is Hugh _not_ asking him how he can sleep at night. We're set up to think that that's going to be the punchine, but it never comes, despite the fact that it's obviously the direction the conversation is leading. I think it's really a criticism of the way serious issues are often trivialised or downplayed in the media, specifically when it fails to hold powerful figures to account.

ScoopMeisterGeneral definitely. The it's a criticism of the media who refuse to ask the rhetorical "how do you sleep at night" of the government, instigators of the falklands war etc. (this was produced in the Thatcher years, and ABOF&L war repeatedly critical of that government in its subtext) But, of course, they also peppered it with absurd juxtaposition and sexual references for those who didn't spot their subversive themes.

Exactly, also there is the phrase "to be in bed with someone" - as the media often takes sides. (not sure if this was intentional though)

Bearded Emperor I think that the British media did ask questions of the instigators of The Falklands War ie the Argentine junta who, fed up with torturing and murdering their own citizens, decided to invade British sovereign territory.

I'm an Irish nationalist in favour of breaking up the UK and even u can spot the fact that the Falklands are British territory and the Argentinians had no damned business there

I was thinking the same thing, I'm 17

Same here

Or just tired 😂

Same here, and I’m 14

I was born old, it seems...

Not really

Ha! Yes. I was thinking the exact same thing

British live audiences are so weird. They're like a legion of Jimmy Fallons, die laughing at random phrases and missing the really good bits.

It's canned laughter, and the jokes that they didn't add laughter to were really not that funny. They probably didn't want the viewer to think "Wait... Why are they laughing at every single joke regardless of how funny they are?"

@@coolnamebro Those are real audiences, given that you can see the edge of the stage and there are laughing people in many other sketches clearly shown. Also, they literally turn towards the audience at the end.

coolnamebro - It absolutely isn’t canned. It’s filmed in front of a live studio audience. Even the on location sketches are played back to the studio audience and the laughter recorded live. As any actor will tell you who’s been in a run of a live comedy, audiences often laugh at different things each night. You can’t always predict where the laughs will come..

@@coolnamebro why make a false claim like that? you obviously didn't know the truth, but acted like you did.

Arek K. Yes, he was _terrified_ he was going to be asked that..!

Sheet+blanket AND duvet ! MWAHAHAHA

"European duvet" instead of the more common term "continental quilt"! Hilarious.

Honestly I feel like that was uncalled for. That’s just not a respectful question to be asking a guest like that, it really forces them to embarrassingly divulge that to the whole audience. I would’ve preferred him ask about his choice of pillows. Much more reasonable.

You want to stay away from duvets or you'll go continental breakfast in a month (paraphrasing what H.R.H. the (late) Duke of Edinburgh said about going slitty eyed from staying in China for over a month which made the F.O. people cringe).

guyliston literally, “how do you sleep at night?”

Wasn't there a tv series called "In Bed With... "?

It's been done on radio.

@@tomkent4656. In Bed With Joan Rivers

So you're saying it should have been a massacre? I'll see myself out...

@@zeeslag123 yes, because fry and Laurie killed it with this sketch

Yes

Gongasoso I was back in the day and thanks to KZfaq I always will be

Damn yeah.

Me.

Well of course i would

Do remember the mosquito repellent. You don't want to be tried for war crimes simply because you didn't protect yourself thoroughly.

Λαυρέντιος Ψαροκάηκας I want them to do like seven episodes of a Gelliant Gutfright series

@Henk de Tank what? No. It was a lot be audience. It literally shows the audience at the end.

There was a bit of a stony silence wasn't there.

@@simonforbes2453 Well, one could almost be tempted to say, that the british are subconciously aware of the heinous crimes commited by the former empirial spirit still lingering about in the heads of their administrations.

I think the massacre jokes killed.

You could say the jokes were killer

I find that very wrong..600 is surely a small number..statistically speaking

Always a wee bit near the bone in the UK. I think there's only been one year since 1945 when we WEREN'T 'fighting' somebody. And likely a good few massacres along the way...

Paula Yates used to have show very similar, called The Big Bed I believe, and that is where she met Michael Hutchence.

I personally find the idea of being interviewed in my bed disturbing.

You entirely missed the point of the sketch didn't you?

German television has that great series translated "A night with..." where kinda random celebs or so spend a night in the city together - somehow awsome every time.

@@TomSmith-jp1es Not neccesarily, he/she just thinks it would be a good idea irl, without the implications in this particular video. No need to be an ass about it.

This general has more self awareness

Yes, sleeping with celebrities! What a genius idea!

I used to talk about an idea for a late night show called Pillow Talk where the celebrity and host both wear pajamas and play sleepover-type games (Truth or Dare, 20 Questions, etc.) and then at the end of the show have a serious talk segment called 3 am Conversations where you get really deep and then you end with them having their favorite breakfast. I thought it was all quite clever really lol

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9OiqdReyZ-9d6c.html :D

We've got long experience of it.

When you've been through as much crap as the British have (a lot if it from our own side) you either laugh or go insane. Most of us have decided to do both, just in case.

Joan Rivers has got that request... ehem... covered.

Bunk Bed on BBC Sounds is pretty much this!

Paula Yates did something similar.

PrplMnkyDshWshr LOL

Way too tall.

Ah, you see, what you've done there, is you've cleverly deduced the hidden humour in the sketch.

+@@samgab Hey, but why exactly is the Major terrified of Peter questioning him about the duvet?

@@gopalpoudyal6553 That's the joke. He's terrified of a question that shouldn't intimidate anyone. Yet, he has no issue with the questions that pertain to the massacre.

He wears literally anything well lol

Can u imagine getting a reply after ten years of ur comment 😂😂

1) "My father was X." 2) "Oh, so he did Y." 3) "No, that's a Z, people usually confuse those." 4) "Really? What's the difference?" 5) "I don't know/[Witty aphorism about the difference]." It is a cliché conversation, they just shortened it up to subvert expectations. It's like in the letter sketch: "The man was either mad or both". Maybe.

Ah yes, I guess I can see that. Thanks!

"The man was either mad or both" is different, I think. There are two meanings of mad so he's saying "the man was either crazy, very enthusiastic [mad about...] or both". Same effect really in that it subverts our expectation of another adjective after "or" but it is more of a joke.

Ooooh, I didn't see it like that. That's a funnier joke than I had thought of. Not being native English speaker limits your interpretation to be honest, so thank you for your insight.

M'DUDE

General Dire was a huge fan of Hugh Laurie? That still not a valid excuse, though. :-P

Hugh Laurie played Mostyn in the Alliance & Leicester adverts. It might have been Peter Mostyn, but I don't actually remember him being given a full name.

No.