Hugh Laurie on Going into Comedy, Working with Stephen Fry and More | Edinburgh TV Festival

Award-winning actor, director, singer, musician, screenwriter and author, Hugh Laurie CBE received the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Outstanding Achievement Award at the prestigious 2019 TV Awards, and discussed going into comedy, working with Stephen Fry, and more!
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[@freddobbs2011]

I started watching this and was inspired to comment; asking the interviewer to shut up and let Laurie talk. But many commenters beat me to it.

[@tineditmarunnerup9513]

My thoughts entirely!!!

[@user-ly8bq3tx5j]

​@@tineditmarunnerup9513 Hugh didn't mind

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

In a normal scenario, I hate her interview style, constant pushing, but you can see the joy in her eyes interviewing him, you can see how excited she is.

[@duroxkilo]

yes indeed... the company and environment suits the approach, they are both having a good time interacting. this is so much different than what we see most of the times on US tv/interviews, a departure from ultra scripted conversations -even when there's no script if that makes sense :). this feels like the opposite of artificial...

[@RenitaWellmanPhD]

The interviewer has done a lot of research. I notice that most of her questions are closed-requiring yes or no answers. This makes it challenging for the guest to respond. Hugh Laurie does a great job at unwinding an answer.

[@annawalsh8880]

Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in Blackadder are comedy gold meant to be!

[@jamesellsworth9673]

This is one of the best interviews of an artist describing what is being done and the limitations that come along with time. Hugh Laurie is very patient with the lady who is interviewing him and remains thoughtful throughout.

[@carolclark1406]

Dear Hugh luck has nothing to do with it, your ability and intuition has opened doors and placed you in your position of a highly skilled artist. To put it subtly, you're just the best. All the best from the Antipodes.

[@ankitachakravarty666]

Good lord, why does she keep interrupting him so frequently?

[@BananaGrip]

Agree.. such an insecure person.

[@velmex12]

He rambles a bit.

[@douglaswynn9668]

She seems to want to upstage him. Somebody needs to tell her that we are here for him…not her.

[@chickenmonger123]

I like it. It feels like it could go wrong, but he seems to do what’s she trying to get him to do. Which is getting into his perceptions of these greater contexts that we see as people watching. This wouldn’t work if they weren’t both participating. If they both weren’t British either. As an American who appreciates dialogue, it’s actually pretty nice. British can talk. I think they can dance around a conversation in a way few Americans could match.

[@tomd5678]

I thought she was excellent. Conversations need to feel organic

[@Ali80076]

"Hugh Laurie listens to his interviewer talk about Hugh Laurie and her assumptions about him, at occasion being rudely interrupted by Hugh Laurie amidst her incoherent ramblings about Hugh Laurie." A more appropriate title for this video

[@razorsweeney]

This comment is accurate

[@thormusique]

Very well said! As wonderful as it is to hear interruped snippets of Hugh Laurie speaking, it would've been far better to actually hear him develop his thoughts. Instead we get to hear the interviewer pontificating and making idiotic assumptions.

[@OgamiItto70]

Good one. I was going to make a similar comment, but you beat me to it and I don't think mine would have been as facetious and risible.

[@OgamiItto70]

@@thormusique It's what happens, usually, when interviewers try to steer an interview along their agenda.

[@thormusique]

@@OgamiItto70 Amen!

[@jabiraidan]

What little you know, it may be in some sort o extended cut but Hugh Laurie's desire and passion is jazz, which was very nicely placed in the TV show House. Acting and comedy is something he is simply good at. One person, along with Stephen Fry who I genuinely would like to know. Laurie being the closest being a neighbor for a few years...when he was filming House so was rarely there haha...sad face

[@colinrogers1774]

I never believed I'd see an interview where Mariella Frostrup was so starstruck that she made such a pigs ear of it. It's dire. You can see Hugh turn off and go on to autopilot after 2 minutes. Give it to Parkinson. Soupy twist!

[@chrisst8922]

Mariella Frostbite's ever so good. shame we don't see her much anymore.

[@user-ly8bq3tx5j]

she got frostbite unfortunately

[@johnmccann8319]

Brilliant.Humble.

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

3:10 there's also ROE as in cod roe.

[@184186]

Is it me or is this interviewer inept? Trying to show how clever you are while doing an interview detracts . Laurie was very gracious

[@diamondjim7560]

English Hugh Laurie speaking in an American accent on British television in Scotland. I think this gets the transatlantic totally covered.

[@HappyinJapan358]

She seems to think she is talking to a mortal. Hugh is a rare creature whom should just be let lose. This woman is trying to share his moment. Shut up.

[@laurachristianson1688]

I gotta say having been born baptized and raised in Presbyterian household ( in America) I can definitely relate to everything he has said regarding our mutual religious upbringing. To bad the church at least in this country has lost its way in the past few decades.

[@mikearchibald744]

Whats that....dry wit?

[@3506Dodge]

You think a country in which all pleasure and enjoyment is relentlessly repressed would be good?

[@duroxkilo]

the church has always been a bit* sideways... a few decades ago they were holding meetings and radio shows counting how many god has punished in the last week thru AIDS, just as an example... *a lot actually. i'm not saying everyone's mental, but the loonies always manage to get a hold of the whole assembly even if just temporarily. you know what i mean? we don't have doctors 'overrun' by psychos or firemen lead by arsonists, teachers under the leadership of child predators, etc. but we kind of see that happening w/ the church at regular intervals unfortunately.

[@rogergomez1]

She’s interviewing herself

[@myleschilton3473]

Why do interviewers think we want to hear them speak? She’s painful.

[@whatshisname3304]

i wish House had been a comedy. Hugh was hilarious with fry in the 90s.

[@WallJumpGaming]

But it was, House is very well written. At least I find it funny, every episode, at least somewhere they sneak in a joke. It has its drama bits for the sake of a soap, but come on, Laurie is a genius of comedy, he just gets on screen and you will definitely laugh in the next hour.

[@mthewalker]

Is she directing High Laurie?

[@sirlarry7229]

Can we hear Hugh talk.She wont let the guest talk

[@jameschambers6975]

MF prefers the sound of her own voice to Hugh's or any other interviewee. She's in love with herself; the ideal charistic for an interviewer.

[@lewisjones2825]

1980s comedy had to emulate Monty Python but we still find the original best. Mel Smith was good too

[@iandavidmacdonald2386]

Boy is she annoying... let him talk without interrupting and scooting on to the next topic on her chest sheet

[@sgrannie9938]

Universal to all English speaking countries: I’m going to excel in my craft in my home country and then go to America. (Naturally, this doesn’t apply to Americans by reason of location.)

[@absolutelyaidan1767]

Im one minute in to it and she cuts him off mid answer to slice another tripped over question in has infuriated me

[@anglodutch8321]

Pity the interviewer isn't that good. Too present. Too eager to say funny stuff. Interrupts Hugh Laurie as he's about to say something great.

[@trishakraybill5363]

This interviewer talks too much.

[@annawalsh8880]

You're not lucky Hugh your talented with a side of luck!

[@levitation25]

The interviewer does a great job here playfully cajoling him along. It's more of a conversation it's great viewing.

[@DerEchteBold]

Oh haha, it seems you're quite on your own there, everyone else hates her for this style.

[@philipashworth8467]

Why can't she ask the question and then shut up!

[@gaborgyorgynepap5901]

Reporter please stop talking

[@fredmidtgaard5487]

She is a very bad interviewer. And she should smoke less.

[@Clodhopping]

Bit late now. In her day Mariella was the go-to well-spoken posh party animal. Think the vocal damage has been done.

[@RYN988]

The interviewer is quite annoying

[@ahbushnell1]

she talks too much

[@glendamcgee1779]

Not an interviewer. A tedious, longwinded interrupter - interviewing only herself.

[@user-ly8bq3tx5j]

You still fancy her though.......

[@roberto8650]

Terrible.

[@futuristicvisionary9635]

He looks too old for his age..probably alcohol abuse

[@futuristicvisionary9635]

@@kingy002 hold your tongue plonker,its freedom of speech..i said what i observed..

[@claudiaschiele9756]

Heard he was very sick. Cancer or so.

[@Marina-pe1gx]

@@claudiaschiele9756 where did you hear that?

[@joesr31]

he is 62, thats just called growing old, people age differently and to be honest, he seems to age pretty well

[@methamphetamememcmeth3422]

Your comment is what is called mental abuse.

[@BertieBooBoo]

Oooph she’s a bit full on, ain’t she? Darling let the man speak!

[@carolclark1406]

A droll 'pressybutt'.