Hugh Laurie's News Flash - A Bit of Fry and Laurie - BBC

Hugh has an important news flash for the British public and passes over to Stephen for the press conference.
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[@marshhen]

This is genius. It is true we need more of their accurate satire. When Fry yells out "What about unemployment?" I burst out in gales of laughter every time.

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

Yes, funny because true.. Any innovation gets attacked for causing unemployment, something that shouldn't matter to an organised country!! Fry makes a perfect suited civil servant... :D

[@ordelian7795]

@@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV If I am to be laid off due to an innovation then the only compensation is that all my expenses are paid off for the rest of my life. All of them as dictated by me.

[@dnw009]

@@ordelian7795 Yea how about you just get laid off with no benefits and gotta find a job in an increasingly tech focussed economy. Goodluck kiddo maybe when we eventually reach post scarcity if you are still around you can have your dream.

[@ordelian7795]

@@dnw009 I'd love to see a robot put up the moisture protection in your bathrooms.

[@colderplasma]

It's uncanny how accurate Stephen fry nailed David Cameron here

[@andyventures6574]

Jim Hacker.

[@tubian323]

It's a good deal!

[@mbrackeva]

If there is any justice in the universe then it's probably the other way around.

[@dr.deadpool5959]

1:57 here it is for those from Internet Historian

[@400cabal]

You're fast

[@cadettklinge603]

A shame that many people who would want to see this scene in full do not know that it comes from fry and laurie.

[@tesseract5569]

@@cadettklinge603 I mean they had to google it and it's literally in the title dude

[@johann7476]

I am here from the Internet historian because of the good deal scene

[@isrulius]

Same

[@protheu5]

What episode was that?

[@johann7476]

@@protheu5 The one about the Costa Concordia

[@thomasthomas3593]

Yep

[@9f81rsd00]

Watch one video that leads you to another good video. A good deal, I’d say.

[@caitlindsmith]

"OR IS IT!?" Oh Hugh, you never fail to make me laugh. Brings back memories of when I was really young, and watching this with my Dad. A perfect example of the prime of British comedy x3

[@bujfvjg7222]

Someone could mistake Fry for Cameron quite easily!

[@ronan7695]

*Jacob Rees-Mogg

[@Robc--jd6yh]

Not unless they are stupid. Sounds nothing like him. Bit like saying a scouser sounds like a Geordie

[@geordiewalker2102]

Good deal. Strong and stable.

[@epiendless1128]

"troubled democracy giant"

[@ajwright5512]

"Strong and Stable Government"

[@klop4228]

In the National Interest

[@medworthy]

For the many and not for the few. The few can end up in gulags or re-education camps, or even better, does anyone remember (or is aware of) the Chines cultural revolution which started in 1966 and ended in 1976? -- enough said methinks.

[@CountBasie56]

The "Or is it!?" at the end had me legless and out of breath. Brilliant!

[@rgb5e]

That was genuinely scary. It was on fullscreen, during the last clip of Hugh when he said it was made up, I looked away, then looked back and he screamed at me.

[@IgorAntarov]

Don't look back ;)

[@buca9696]

...OR IS IT??

[@CommanderCooper]

"It's a good deal for Britain, a good deal. A good deal." --Brexit, anyone?

[@SoulessNinja]

Remainer tears, yum.

[@CommanderCooper]

+Kurz Can you name a single actual benefit from Brexit that outweighs the economic instability it causes?

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart8772]

What about the economic stability brought about by Brexit.

[@killboggins]

Juno So. How's brexit working out for you now?

[@SoulessNinja]

killboggins Great, yourself?

[@dsszerothlaw]

This seemed so ridiculous when the sketch was first shown - now it seems frighteningly likely!!!! ''What about unemployment??!!''

[@gamemaster613]

"OH WHAT ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT?" :)

[@dsszerothlaw]

:)

[@amct1019]

Christy Fearn "CHANGE THE BLEEDING RECORD"

[@ransherman1611]

YOU PEOPLE ARE OBSSESED AREN'T YOU?!

[@JohnHarding80]

YES I HAVE TRIED THE PODS MYSELF

[@ccc3]

For context, this was aired around Japan's great asset bubble. The Japanese were was awash with money and were buying everything everywhere, including the Rockefeller Center in NY. In 1989 Sony acquired Columbia Pictures, one of the big five studios in Hollywood, which had been unfathomable up to that point.

[@mattdavis9601]

In the '80s and early '90s Honda was very close with Austin-Rover, or whatever they were calling the carcass of British Leyland by that point. They'd co-developed a number of successful vehicles and everyone expected Honda to take them over. And then a funny thing happened, Austin-Rover was sold to BMW, right out from under Honda. BMW developed one good car and then punted on the whole thing. Well, except for Mini and the brand rights to Triumph cars which they've never used for anything. They still have those. Ford got Land Rover while Rover Cars (MG + Rover) went to a consortium where they promptly ran out of cash, went bankrupt, and were bought out by a Chinese company called SAIC who were wanting western brands. Ford became scared that the Chinese would use the Rover name to sell SUVs and tarnish their Land Rover brand. It turned out that BMW had quietly kept the Rover brand rights and only allowed the consortium to use them. Ford backed up a dump truck full of cash to BMW HQ before the Chinese could. So SAIC ended up with the MG brand + cars, the Longbridge factory, some engineering resources, and the rights to some other cars they couldn't call Rovers. They moved production to China but continued to import and assemble CKD kits in Longbridge until like 2016. MG ended up being pretty successful for them. The Rovers were renamed Roewe and they still sell a modernized range of MG derived luxury vehicles under that marque in China today. Unrelated; but British Leyland had spun off their commercial vans (modernized Sherpas) into their own company at some point. I'm not sure when it adopted the LDV name, just that it did. LDV went under during the Great Recession and was also taken over by SAIC. The concern was rebranded Maxis, after LDV's last van model, which was their only big van that wasn't a Sherpa with lipstick.

[@mattym8038]

This seems so fitting, 25 years later.

[@IidoliseJohnnyDepp]

Never thought Hugh Laurie could scare me and then he does

[@marshhen]

this skit is genius and they just toss it off effortlessly

[@peterlustig329]

This aged like fine wine and sour milk at the same time.

[@xhellonhighheels69x]

Hugh Laurie: a man capable of receiving information in his ears without the aid of earbuds

[@tompurcell1499]

It's a fucking comedy sketch, for fuck sake!

[@plaknas_]

Hi Helen don't think you'll read this but I have a thing where I click on random user's profiles to try and get a sense of what kind of content complete strangers are consuming. Mostly to find new music and I must say that I love your taste. I've added some of your songs (in your public playlists) to mine. Thank you very much!

[@bensmith5581]

Hey Helen Ben here just got to say I also love what you are doing, I also have a thing where I stalk strangers, gotta say love what you are doing, keep it up. Also love the joker and Russel brand stuff...see you soon

[@markwatkins8309]

True, but maybe it endorses the ending "all made up, or is it" giving us a clue at the start? Just a thought!!

[@57badarse]

OR IS IT???? good lord these blokes are still relevant these many years later

[@chris6969]

Doesn't seem so silly in 2018

[@Neojhun]

An A.I. Government would Literally be Laser operated. Because Fiber Optics Communications use Lasers. Even the technical facts are true, scary.

[@BenWillock]

Honda, Russia, what's the difference, eh?

[@lastswordfighter]

Because neither happened you demented hippie.

[@chris6969]

@@lastswordfighter You don't seem to understand comedy or insults. Lol @ "demented hippie" I'm sure it's the best you've got.

[@itookallthenames]

@@chris6969 it’s a good deal you demented hippie! A good deal, A GOOD DEAL

[@johnmartinez7440]

The meaningless rhetoric here rings disturbingly true in 2019

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

2021... It still does... ... and will probably always do... It's actually becoming harder and harder to get some true intentions from politician's rhetoric nowadays IMO. Many of them are better trained in performing in front of media so they can cover their intentions even better with clichés and rhetoric that sometimes sounds almost honest.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@bennylloyd-willner9667 Politicians true intentions are: 1. Make money 2. Make more money 3. Get fat pension if voted out (i.e. sacked) 4. Go on Strictly Come Dancing 5. Get a BBC TV series going around the world to look at the history of peddle bins or something else they can pretend to be "passionate about".

[@KMS2K]

0:44 that'll be Rees-Mogg in a few days time.

[@pepper3752]

1:23 What about unemployment

[@bmabs35]

"OH, WHAT ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT?!"

[@danielquinn6934]

CHANGE THE BLEEDING RECORD

[@ManUntdForever]

This is absolutely brilliant.

[@jamese4109]

I cracked up at "OHHH WHAT ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT?!?!" XD

[@DrumandBassLinks]

more relavant everyday .

[@LostieTrekieTechie]

Nigel who?

[@metafis]

yes, we laughed back then at this funny, but 'far fetched' sketch....now its indeed scarily accurate.

[@emmasayers7576]

Even more so here in the future.

[@StarboyXL9]

Oh did you guys not know that Britain has been a Megacorporation for decades now? Bit slow on the uptake aren't ya?

[@Jordan781]

The ending. Amazing.

[@oo0ayla0oo]

HAHAHA!! XD OMG...I had actual tears of laughter while watching this sketch ...JUST BRILLIANT! Hugh and Stephen Rock!

[@maggru91]

This was funny a few decades ago, now it's just scary....

Posted exactly 10 years ago.

[@GlasgowCeltic88]

Scary....... lol

[@danielquinn6934]

OH WHAT ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT? I died.

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

A bit of Laurie's face of the angry woman walking by and talking about writing a stiff letter (on cardboard) at the end there😊

[@edwardkiousi5061]

tories summed up

[@rikko338]

Truer words never were said.

[@BelatedCommiseration]

No one does the whole privitisation freak politicians, bureaucrats or maderins better than Fry and Laurie. I always liked these kind of sketches, as well as the 'privitised police force' bit because it makes you realise, taken to its logical point, how absurd the whole idea of privitising everything really is and that its a political idea which deserves no credence whatsoever. Yet still does. Its a shame that, in hyperbolic humour, Fry and Laurie were actually prophetic about where we are now.

[@renajsh]

LOVE IT

[@BlueBerry349]

this is so good!!!!!!

[@TheBasucoDukes]

Stephen Fry channels his inner Graham Chapman.

[@vmikozod]

"What about the employement nyenyenyeee??" XD

[@philiprandall9994]

10 years old today!

[@insainiac33]

That has been favourited simply because the last bit made me piss myself.

[@olefredrikskjegstad5972]

I haven't seen this episode of Yes, Prime Minister before...

[@hexyoutubeaccount]

I laughed so hard. Oh man.

[@heranje]

That was the best part of the whole video. "It's a completely silly idea" *scrambles over couch* "OR IS IT?"

[@dean1039]

1:47-2:14.. Theresa May in every single interview.

[@mrsstevenburns]

i'd like to have this part as ringtone...

[@jmcc4566]

"What about unemployment?" HIS VOICE

[@CosmiconOne]

haha awesome sketch ! xD

[@Guanchen]

This is a good deal!

[@sinhaboy]

love that line --- change the bleeding record! but i wonder if the person asking 'what about unemployment?' is actually hugh laurie? sounds like him...

[@breakingthemasks]

2:22. ... Because I want to watch it in a loop

[@gan9e]

my soul was bought & sold by facebook... but now I tweet... freely.

[@ankurshukla7818]

gan9e yes i loaed my body and mind to whatsapp apparently!

[@stevetobin7495]

Very true

[@mrcsanselmo]

Is he talking about brexit?! 😂

[@ShasOSwoll]

So the british government is worth less than minecraft?

[@Ensostyle]

it worth less then honda civic

[@LorrieSmithSTOPANIMALCRUELTY]

Who isn't? =D

[@thecupidstunt]

Shas'O Swoll yep

[@farhadchaudhry]

Sadly, this will no longer come to pass. Honda have decided to pull out of Britain. Maybe Unilever and the John Lewis Partnership will become interested again?

[@PurushaDesa]

I’m confident they will pay a good price. Never knowingly undersold.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

I see that you have the double spacing problem too. Annoying, isn't it? Someone assumed that I must go on reddit as a result. I've never been on reddit.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Ah, it appears that, by using Chrome, the problem disappears. That's also annoying, as I don't like Chrome. This was just an experiment.

[@stephenburnage7687]

Too late. Already sold to the EU for an undisclosed sum. However, it is possible it will come back on the market, very soon, as the EU is rumoured to be having difficulty in integrating the UK into it's existing operations.

[@jonnypayne598]

*cough* Huawei *Cough*

[@jandreid2023]

1:12 that is how Ron DeSanctimonious behaves in front of the media. 😆😆😆

[@andyventures6574]

Needed Sir humphry in the background....

[@ClaireMangoify]

how is this so relevant 30 odd years later

[@cbr3220]

Britain: The Power of Dreams

[@kahkah1986]

:)) trips on the coffee table on the way down...

[@ShadowTheHedgehog85]

At least they had a "good deal" back then. 😂

[@ahipskind]

02:25 hahahaha awesome.

[@Dundersur]

" Honda hasn't really brought the brittish gouverment, it's a pretty silly idéa. OR IS IT?" Haha,

[@JaybugJabbers]

Heh, so random at the end! XD

[@InsaneFandom]

brilliant :P

[@Garathon]

1:57 The, "good deal good deal"

[@veronyka83]

This is a good deal! 😅

[@user-wx9ky9lr1y]

Fantastic-so funny 😆

[@neptunestardust]

“This is a good deal”

[@hannah4colbert]

oh my word! pause it at 2:26! hahaha I love you hugh laurie! tehehe

[@josefserf1926]

Ha! How prophetic!

[@Crabcityrocker92]

1:13 hey, it's Boris Johnson on business. Charming (!)

[@ferretman6790]

“Replacing all the houses with pods” That aged perfectly

[@evanbautista9730]

nice

[@WarzSchoolchild]

Cutting-Edge Comedy from Stephen & Hugh *****

[@razorreznor]

Kwasi Kwarteng come Monday.

[@zachsmith5515]

to be fair it sounds like a good deal for Britain

[@Danwade7979]

Twitter sends me here to see how Brexit and Boris Johnson were predicted in 1995 bringing back a good deal

[@Ingo815]

i love H.L.'s tie

[@Erdnase23]

Historically accurate.

[@lupegarcia5233]

❤❤

[@XxBeatlesforeverxX]

That's why it's funny xD

[@rikko338]

Long wait for you there...

[@XxBeatlesforeverxX]

When he keeps saying 'Good Deal' it reminds me of one episode of 'Home Movies' where Brenden's mom Paula keeps telling him "Have fun". Of course you'd have to watch it to understand... it just reminded me of it. I'm going to Marry Stephen when he turns straight. xD

[@anarchodolly]

quality satire.

[@gegemec]

Is "honda" interchangeable with "News Corp" ?

[@bradameerbeg2154]

OR IS IT!!!

[@avinotion]

Man, I wish we had a lazer-operated governing system.

[@yongjinnkim9207]

Fry and Laurie, they are the perfect prophets. It gets to be happening in South Korea.

[@duncanparsons]

Turns out, actually, that it was HSBC.. who'd have guessed..

[@Gubbywubby]

@akatsukimaster666 That was the best ending to a sketch ever!!!!

[@jebear1]

1:40 Such a good deal for Britain.

[@Sunlight70]

Gillian Keegan’s reflective practice.

[@OrontesRM]

@brainmachine04 Ha! I thought of him when Fry screams 'change the bleeding record!!!!" :D

[@FlipGarador]

Oh my life. So .....crazy!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Taporeee]

Here because of today