A Bit of Fry & Laurie - Fired

[@CaesarInVa]

Love Fry's slow, lingering laugh.

[@littoww]

It's so perfect because the laugh itself is the joke, it's really like a kind of laugh that seems specific to the character, like the laugh would being to that man, and not just any laugh a certain kind of laugh that imply so much

[@Unsung_Earth]

Not as funny as his baaaaaah

[@princealmighty5391]

What seris is this

[@TheWickedWizardOfOz1]

@@princealmighty5391 A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[@normanmccollum6082]

@@Unsung_Earth I must agree. I really found this bit interesting in the vid, but... yes. And the war-winning moustache. Baaaah, indeed, sir. Or uh... madam? Ma'am? Bitch? I neither know nor care, you are fee to select which you prefer, and if you decide to be offended on your own spare time then don't let it intrude on those who are on company time. Otherwise... Terry may have to get involved...

[@abubakar.mehmood]

"Maybe catch you later" "Possibly, possibly". :D Such subtle comedy but I always get fits of laughter watching Fry and Laurie! :D

[@SmokeRzzzz]

Oh fuck, I didn't catch that.

[@gabrielfraser2109]

It's alright, he found a new joy in Medicine.

[@BrusierWeight]

Gabriel Fraser and changed his accent.

[@TheGyrocop]

Eh, "joy" is a strong word.

[@justinpachi3707]

So this is how Dr House became so cynical.

[@MrDaiseymay]

NO IT ISN'T, LAURIE IS AN ACTOR, HE JUST FOLLOWED THE SCRIPT ( PAGES OF WRITTEN TEXT, WHICH YOU HAVE TO LEARN AND INTERPRET) HAD HOUSE BEEN A CHEERFUL CHARACTER, LAURIE WOULD HAVE LAUGHED A LOT.

[@jonatansmusic]

@@MrDaiseymay y u have to be mad, its only joke

[@soeffingwhat]

@@MrDaiseymay Its a joke, I can't believe it went over some peoples heads.

[@soeffingwhat]

Yes, this was the prequel to "House", its called "Fired".

[@gauntlettcf5669]

@@soeffingwhat so the sequel to house would be House on Fire(d)?

[@ARNDTA]

I was waiting for the puchline: "You've could at least told me!" 😂😂

[@GeneralPet]

"You have could at least told me" ? You mean, "At least you could've told me" ?

[@RogerBarraud]

Nope: Ideal reply is "You're fired!"... since Terry is the HR manager.

[@infernalchaos1066]

The great thing about Fry and Laurie is they tried to be clever, not predictable. Great comedy duo!

[@0626love]

That would be in American shows.

[@anouarkrassimovich7481]

@@GeneralPetplease help with the grammar, how should i tell you the following : "please shut the up fuck"? is it "shut the fuck up"? is that correct? if so, can you please do it? thanks

[@lpsp442]

There's the nodders, there's the criers, and then there's the exploders

[@jaguar123987x]

ahh yes they jizz all over your desk and walls ..... damn exploders

[@AurioDK]

In which category do the window jumpers go?

[@InternetEntity]

The Spark Criers. They often start that about a quarter of the way down.

[@el-kiote]

Dont forget the postals

[@scottmatheson3346]

They may start as criers, but at the end of the trip they become exploders.

[@samstudios9908]

“I thought you said you were a nodder” that ending gets me every time

[@shivagiri7406]

after watching all these perfectly executed clips i always think how do they decide who plays which character because i can't think of fry doing the employee character or laurie doing the boss character or vice versa in any other sketch. It fits everytime in every sketch they've made.

[@Richard_is_cool]

I've often ponder this. Switching them in Jeeves and Wooster. Or in Blackadder. It never fits. Still, I would love to see that.

[@RainAngel111]

I think that it doesn't matter. Fry and Laurie each put their own spin on the character so effectively that they seem made for the part, and if they had been switched you always would've said that was the only way you could imagine it. That's what a good actor is.

[@Richard_is_cool]

​@@RainAngel111 Are you thinking of Jeeves as a Dr. House kind of guy? This is the one reason I'd love an alternate universe.

[@MrDaiseymay]

YOU HAVE ANSWERED YOUR OWN QUESTION

[@Richard_is_cool]

@@MrDaiseymay Question is with tho f's?

[@Craplatte]

The writing and acting in this are superb!

[@peterd440]

I once fired someone for being incompetent and having lied on his CV. I explained to him that he had obtained his job by deception and that he had to leave immediately. Half an hour later I walked into the main office to find he was at his desk. He was convinced I had given him a warning.

[@MaskedMan66]

His name wasn't Terry, was it?

[@grahamlive]

His kids are now in the care of social services and he is in the gutter. Sleep well?

[@RogerBarraud]

Oh dear :'(

[@IanDmitriyevitch]

@@grahamlive he said that person was incompetent and a liar. Good enough excuse to get fired.

[@MKRM27]

grahamlive What’s the cause of the problem here? The sacking of the lies? Which came first, and which one wouldn’t have happened without the other. Stop trying to blame others.

[@espenBredessenJones]

it would not take much to catapult this sketch from comedy into actual horror. Stephen Fry loves to play the bad guy

[@princealmighty5391]

What seris is this

[@Liberated_from_Religion]

Once, I was fired and that made me so happy! I walked all the way back home smiling.

[@angelinasheppard3702]

Low key heart breaking

[@tylerpaulson6689]

I didn't know this existed until today. I'm happy now.

[@Isleofskye]

Still happy Tyler ?

[@DDs878]

He just doesn't get It!🤣 And that awkward laugh of Fry's

[@Saucyakld]

I was only fired once from a God awful job! I skipped home hahaha!!!!

[@CDash162]

I love that image of you skipping home. We've all done the God awful jobs lol.

[@TheHideChild]

Always loved this sketch! Brilliant stuff!!!

[@jedi77palmer]

Thought you said you were a nodder

[@noegojimmy]

Nodder? These 2 guys followed me for the last 30 years. Geniuses.

[@kartikpandey1353]

"I aim to please" carries the pun of aiming at a target with the gun, as Fry says "Fire to please". The same joke appears in Season 4 of Blackadder, when Blackadder was to be executed, and they sent the firing squad for a bit of a chinwag.

[@Adam-lw9xp]

They tried firing Doctor House multiple times, but he just doesn't take the hint.

[@kishorkafle]

I aim to please. A Blackadder reference. Got it.

[@SteveCowlishaw]

It's just a saying

[@thenayancat8802]

It's from the firing squad episode, definitely a reference.

[@tobyfellows6842]

Nayan psytribe this was aired before blackadder goes forth (pretty sure

[@thenayancat8802]

Not sure! Blackadder was 1989, A Bit of Fry and Laurie ran from 89-95 (according to Wiki, I was a bit young at the time to watch it). Probably was a reference if it was before Blackadder

[@ash_yt0]

This is from Season 3 (Episode 3) of Fry and Laurie (1992) which was filmed a few years after Blackadder Goes Forth (1988). The episode has a few skits about Thatcher's resignation too which dates it to the early 90s not late 80s.

[@normanmccollum6082]

This is actually quite accurate, based on what I know of psychology. Someone who is able to fire people will have a low threshold for BS and thereby will say whatever the Hell needs to be said. Such is why he IMMEDIATELY returned and outright called him a bastard. Very well-portrayed.

[@Romulusmap]

I wish this never ended.

[@u.v.s.5583]

And it never will indeed! Mr. Romulus, your boss asked you to drop by.

[@AaaAaa-ly3on]

-How dare you, Jeeves!.. :)

[@oz_jones]

Aaa Aaa why sir, i dare very much.

[@sebastianboeddinghaus3505]

This is perhaps my favourite episode

[@kingrobert1st]

Cleese and Palin couldn't have done it any better.

[@al3zmi]

Did you know that hugh laurie is actually the writer, director and main actor for House, he actually wrote the episodes and directed everything while acting, talk about multitask

[@celestialsalamander]

I do nor believe you.

[@Morty_Smith1057]

He is tho he wrote some bits​@@celestialsalamander

[@blaket81]

7th anniversary with my current company was today. Recommendation for this video where 7 years with a company comes up. Pretty cool coincidence. Hope I don't get canned as well.

[@Isleofskye]

I know AND we actually sat in open planned offices or,sometimes,the Boss had their own room and we COMMUNICATED with each other verbally and made eye contact.No mobile phones or Computers .No texts or E-Mails.Just given folders or wrote letters and used the phone where a PERSON answered..etc and it was great.Usually we had great banter and often became lifelong friends. I still see nearly all my main 8 colleagues scatterred all over England for a drink-up every couple of years from the 1970's !

[@SunnyIntervalsORG]

Now we see the inspiration for Gareth Southgate's wardrobe!

[@Repented008]

Ahhhh...British comedy. So good.

[@bbsundae]

British humor: W⚓

[@davidashton7144]

Bertie Wooster's grown his moustache again. Lol.

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

On a darker tone: "How would you react?" "Preferably by using the paycheck to buy that rifle we just mentioned and blowing some heads with it."

[@jjames2162]

Brilliant thx for posting this Alena

[@muslimmercy1656]

That's tremendously halirious

[@deboramarques3568]

2:00 The inspiration for Zootopia' Flash

[@DaChaGee]

They actually had a physical in-tray in those days 😲

[@mikeggg5671]

Those days? It was only 20 years ago!

[@samstudios9908]

Isn’t Wooster supposed to fire Jeeves? Not the other way around?

[@oz_jones]

Modern problems require modern solutions?

[@Hilts931]

I wanted him to come in crying and begging him to take him back, then go quiet and nod as it's explained... and then Fry to say 'Yes! Just like that' and really he's not really fired.

[@jamespilcher5287]

smoking in the workplace

[@wimpow]

I had that in 2010. In Germany. Although it is forbidden.

[@RogerBarraud]

Working in the Smokeplace.

[@dinnerwithfranklin2451]

halcyon days indeed.

[@nigelskipping7941]

I once fired myself by accident. I had an accident and then got fired - by myself of all people lol! I had a severe word with myself, I can tell you! "Now look here" I said to myself. And then I had another accident.

[@micahwright5901]

It’s so passive-aggressive 😂

[@PeugeotRocket]

You have the nodders, the criers, and then the people who come back with a gun an hour later.

[@DieFlabbergast]

Then you have the ones who come back with several guns and lots of ammo, several months later, having let it have a good stew. (This is an American scenario, of course. It's also why they have gun laws in most countries.)

[@oz_jones]

@@DieFlabbergast yes, it's better to let just the criminals have guns.

[@adrienrassat1965]

He fired himself when all his advice failed to work on him...

[@bonnyathome]

...I thought she was but I didn't have the paper work infront of me...

[@taragragg400]

I bust out in Oliver Oliver never before has a boy wanted more. More please.

[@Isleofskye]

I walk a dog called Oliver twice weekly and never fail to sing that as I greet him ending with a very drawn-out OL-I-...VER....

[@SamA-nj7yr]

The similarities to phyton is brilliant.

[@Isleofskye]

Yes,John Cheese and Monty Phyton.... btw: Why are we both putting unnecessary " H's " in their names ?

[@seagecko]

@@Isleofskye he just got the H in the wrong place... chill

[@Isleofskye]

I was going to let it go on this occasion but it would have been remiss of me as we can't allow sloppiness to creep in.It's the thin end of the wedge seagecko. The moment you do that then nobody bothers about standards. In no time nobody bothers about anything.our proud Nation is in rack and ruins and we become a 4th World Country.. I hope my little intervention has halted this process...

[@james_fisch]

@@Isleofskye a year late reading this but holy shit your response is a textbook example of Muphry's Law. Isleofskye, you're fired.

[@Isleofskye]

I don't wish to be smug but I was known as Nostradamus at School...

[@nirmalv9403]

Terry your fired 😎

[@odinsmeadhorn196]

so good.

[@8523wsxc]

always use sdirectnes in such instances.

[@MarkoTuitsch]

You said you were a nodder! haha

[@BritishComedyUK69]

Thanks for the video!

[@saahithbrahmanya]

Dr House can play Nietzsche

[@matthewhamer8583]

I distinctly remember an edit, but maybe it was another sketch, where Fry over-latinises Terry as Terrencće when he repeatedly says his name. Anyone?

[@RC000000000]

It was another sketch, where Hugh plays a student winning a poetry contest and Stephen is the teacher ^^

[@ShasOSwoll]

Why was he even trying to fire Terry in the first place :P He seems good at his job

[@CallieKills]

Because it's a comedy sketch.

[@Isleofskye]

In the previous sequence he gave his Secretary Carol a more than generous portion of his male appendage and as Fry had her as his Mistress it created an awkward situation. Best to remove the opposition.

[@jimmywoolever798]

Does he? None of his techniques really seemed to work all that well.

[@zouminlandau6753]

Terry, you are fired. Who is Terry? I am George Santos.

[@frostden]

The punchline should have been Boss pressing the intercom, only to hear Carol sobbing that she's just been fired. The reason? She didn't give boss the memo that Terry would be dropping by.

[@andyhodgson7692]

Hahahaha. I love it.

[@DDDloki]

Doctor House looked smooth back then

[@fry5544]

😍 He was gorgeous 😍 👌🏾Great sketch, so sharp & funny 👌🏾

[@DoubleBread]

Hugh has always been gorgeous

[@MrDaiseymay]

Classy sketches, and unique delivery. Not suited to today's jungle of crap, at all. They'd BOTH be fired.

[@rvcasa]

Philip Croft Not crap like American slapstick comedy !

[@richardroopnarine870]

Gold

[@jonatansmusic]

Is this actor that plays Dr. House?

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

Yes with the guy who does the uks QI

[@windamor1517]

Yes. His name is Hugh Laurie and he has done a lot of comedy. Mostly together with Steven Fry but was also in Blackadder where the comedian who plays Mr. Bean had the main role. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laurie

[@chrisphoenix77]

Terry was also the truant boy Hugh played before. Guess he grew up.

[@matic4275]

44 Dark angles .

[@AlexDeLarge1]

Is this business meant to be some form of purgatory?

[@user-ov4sl7wf7r]

Yes money penny

[@matic4275]

No cap no new friends .

[@Malikin]

you cut the part when laurie says "see you" and then fry says "possibly terry, possibly" lol

[@taragragg400]

Making redundant. Front of House.

[@tharealmikezee3165]

This channel's name...Medvyed = honey eater = bear. Russian.

[@dkvikingkd233]

guess he was not a nodd'er

[@Languslangus]

🔥

[@darthchungus-y7w]

This is the office before the office

[@jaycspeedier5507]

Not in any way

[@tomd9819]

Totally different form of comedy

[@jiffhu]

do you have any better quality?

[@AdlinLing]

Of course

[@hisroyalhighness1183]

I think I'm a crier when they fire me or something

[@abdulaaz7069]

It would be funnier if we just heard him crying outside the room

[@siredith8846]

1:45 fire, sack and dismiss employees from their jobs

[@DarrenBonJovi]

So Emelyn, what happened next?

[@cingenedovenaugustus4558]

I thought you said you were a nodder.

[@scleralp]

@2:00

[@numer_boczny_1313]

Last sentence: nodder or knob head? 😂

[@Anubis415]

Is that the dude from house

[@strangelee4400]

That dude IS House.

[@jeffreyadams648]

Yes, a younger version.

[@abirdarkmite]

@@jeffreyadams648 oh, so a brick then

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

No, he's actually Hugh Laurie.

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

The last one on the left.

[@GE0attack]

Which tv show

[@Isleofskye]

A Bit Of Fry and Laurie...

[@MrLiohman]

Is this where the producers of The Apprentice got the catchphrase “You are fired” and passed it to DJ Trump from? Funny bit

[@minbari73]

Yes, at no time in the history of the world has anyone ever put those three words together.

[@nbs90]

@Dick Fageroni Oh my, will he ever recover?

[@imranhq13]

Dr House 😀

[@Briguy1027]

House does such a great English accent =P

[@rvcasa]

Laurie does such a great American accent =P

[@RUBBER_BULLET]

I'm more of a 'desk shitter' and 'take whatever I can fit in my pocketers.'

[@Isleofskye]

Good Man...

[@Cultureghost]

this gives me performance anxiety

[@squareone2520]

That's a man, not an otter.

[@matic4275]

#seven #seven fake angles .

[@matic4275]

💣💣💣💣😴✌🏻

[@kristine6996]

😕🙁☹️

[@beataspiewakjonsson1749]

😂😂😂😂

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

Why does Hugh sound Australian?

[@adammangold1392]

Ffring

[@u.v.s.5583]

Readyaimfire!

[@mitlandson167]

surprised no one said the yet FIRST

[@antoineroquentin2297]

the first one who said first was fired

[@mitlandson167]

ha right mate, noice.

[@SteveCowlishaw]

the first person tends to be the one who says first, but if they do say first they come across as a bit of a twat.

[@BlueBird-wb6kb]

It's not funny, being fired and unemployed is never funny

[@RYN988]

the2great2bob you must be a fun guy

[@catpyjamas]

I dunno, I found it remarkably funny.

[@minbari73]

It would be if upon leaving the office he slipped on a banana peel.

[@theeverliving]

Hello Mr Buzzkill

[@mrholdbutton971]

Yes it is. Especially when it happens to the humorless.