Fry and Laurie - Maximum Security Poetry

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

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@CreativoErratico
@CreativoErratico 10 жыл бұрын
I was born on Julember the 90th.
@D4K44R1
@D4K44R1 9 жыл бұрын
+zerosonico That's my second favourite day of the year
@lawrencecalablaster568
@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын
D4K44R1 I've only forgotten your birthday twice.
@NxDoyle
@NxDoyle 6 жыл бұрын
zerosonico It's alwise mine binthdate.
@Agamemnon2
@Agamemnon2 5 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.
@Vojife
@Vojife 6 жыл бұрын
"London layed sprawled out like some vast capital city and majour commercial centre" Hahaha, genius! :D
@MsZiDu
@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".
@lelmdrWHO
@lelmdrWHO 10 жыл бұрын
'it was a blustering july afternoon in mid-december of 1929' how was evernone not cracking up???
@dantevandeva7493
@dantevandeva7493 6 жыл бұрын
HAHAHA. I didn't even notice the first time, hilarious
@DomCombatVids
@DomCombatVids 5 жыл бұрын
Because in English culture you don't laugh at poetry
@CDash162
@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
@kahwigulum 5 жыл бұрын
later on he refers to "Julember"
@InvisiblerApple
@InvisiblerApple 4 жыл бұрын
@@kahwigulum the 90th!
@wickedfeylady
@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
@user-vg6ym5xy2r 6 ай бұрын
Stephen Fry was wonderful as Oscar Wilde. He was born to play that role. Well done!
@mildryfrr9970
@mildryfrr9970 6 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
@auntiecarol 4 жыл бұрын
No.
@InvisiblerApple
@InvisiblerApple 4 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@samvidas9599
@samvidas9599 4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@WyattRyeSway
@WyattRyeSway 4 жыл бұрын
He played him in a movie so....I mean, with good reason.
@uadevojka
@uadevojka 4 жыл бұрын
He always looks like Oscar Wilde to me🙂
@CreativoErratico
@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
@rareram 2 жыл бұрын
Das echtzentekind
@HulloKat
@HulloKat 13 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.
@Jeremyramone
@Jeremyramone 16 жыл бұрын
I love the vocabulary in the first poem stephen reads. so hypnotyzing.
@lastofthelapras
@lastofthelapras 12 жыл бұрын
"The screws are very agreeable" LOL
@SmokeRzzzz
@SmokeRzzzz 5 жыл бұрын
That was on point haha
@deborahcrawford9079
@deborahcrawford9079 7 жыл бұрын
'flung, flung...'
@HerEyesWereWild
@HerEyesWereWild 15 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.
@imabookfreak
@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
@ChestersonJack 3 жыл бұрын
Possible, possible, perhaps. But certainly not. Or to put it another way, not certainly.
@myshepspud1
@myshepspud1 Жыл бұрын
A Douglas Adam's reader I see. :)
@iOnlySignIn
@iOnlySignIn 14 жыл бұрын
Hide your noose the hangman. The hangman. The hangman. The hangman. The hang. The. Th.
@CreativoErratico
@CreativoErratico 5 жыл бұрын
iOnlySignIn .
@AgentAsh
@AgentAsh 4 жыл бұрын
T
@ViceCityDJ
@ViceCityDJ 9 жыл бұрын
fry trying not to burst into laughter
@vulgarpurity
@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.
@GeorgeBaily
@GeorgeBaily 9 жыл бұрын
There is no way this level of prolix intellectual comedy will ever be written again.
@TheBlondiesNr1
@TheBlondiesNr1 6 жыл бұрын
George Baily have you heard of bo burnham
@Hithere-ek4qt
@Hithere-ek4qt 4 жыл бұрын
@@TheBlondiesNr1 Nope, but I'm sure he is a far cry from Fry and Laurie
@jonathanlee6660
@jonathanlee6660 3 жыл бұрын
Dont judge it till you see it
@roberto8650
@roberto8650 2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanlee6660 Not even close. He's good, but these are in a different league of their own.
@benodaboy
@benodaboy 2 жыл бұрын
@@roberto8650 not a different league, just a different generation.
@FinalFirebrand
@FinalFirebrand 8 жыл бұрын
Buttock up. I love that line more than maybe I should, but it's just too clever not to.
@lawrencecalablaster568
@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын
FinalFirebrand I heard that line at the very same second that I read your comment.
@JobiWan144
@JobiWan144 Ай бұрын
I remember them reusing the joke in another sketch. I think it's the one where Stephen tells us the story of the time he forgot his legs
@Jordan781
@Jordan781 14 жыл бұрын
Laurie's hair is looking awefully mad scientist-ish here. :D
@girl43
@girl43 16 жыл бұрын
God .. how cute are they both ! I wasn't even born in 1986 .. I feel awfully young.
@em.1633
@em.1633 Жыл бұрын
Still feel young?
@girl43
@girl43 Жыл бұрын
@@em.1633 nope 🙈
@BelleWonder14
@BelleWonder14 13 жыл бұрын
hugh looks a bit like a mad scientist with that hair style
@LorenaSings
@LorenaSings 5 жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing 😂
@merdufer
@merdufer 16 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?"
@Czechness
@Czechness 14 жыл бұрын
I just love Hugh's hair
@Alresu
@Alresu 2 жыл бұрын
Now _that's_ a captive audience.
@YamixYuugi
@YamixYuugi 15 жыл бұрын
Stephen is SO ADORABLE in this. :)
@sprite22ify
@sprite22ify 13 жыл бұрын
If Fry and Laurie are underrated, people need to work on their taste :)
@ms.rstake_1211
@ms.rstake_1211 5 жыл бұрын
I love them. I can't believe this is before the show began.
@blu3j4yw4y
@blu3j4yw4y 15 жыл бұрын
Hahaha "Skip that bit..." This is hilarious, dunno why I've never watched it before :D
@allanfmarsden
@allanfmarsden 10 жыл бұрын
As perfect a critique of Eliot's obscurantism and blatant class bias as I've heard.
@leishayoung4124
@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
@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.
@HighKingTurgon
@HighKingTurgon 11 жыл бұрын
THE MOMENT THEY SAID ELIOT'S POEMS SET TO ROUGH MUSIC I SHAT MYSELF
@Ana_crusis
@Ana_crusis 6 жыл бұрын
that's unfortunate. I hope you were at home and alone
@juhiazha9600
@juhiazha9600 6 жыл бұрын
Khasab what an underrated comment.
@sjoes
@sjoes 16 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.
@SilverWynterSpirit
@SilverWynterSpirit 16 жыл бұрын
I wish fry and laurie would get back together and do this kind of stuff more...I miss it
@atomosvrial1708
@atomosvrial1708 9 жыл бұрын
that buttercup bit cracked me up.
@whomustnotbenamed5
@whomustnotbenamed5 14 жыл бұрын
Love Hugh's hair and Hugh's funny faces!!!!!
@logos47
@logos47 17 жыл бұрын
Mr. Laurie's hair is wickedly done. Makes him look very mischievous.
@lyadmilo
@lyadmilo 11 жыл бұрын
The "The Hangman" part was actually a very brilliant parody of Eliot. Also, fucking hilarious, all throughout.
@iwanabana
@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
@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын
I love Eliot's poetry to such a degree that I completely agree & second your emotion.
@guidad542
@guidad542 5 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.
@tregnier279
@tregnier279 15 жыл бұрын
4:00 And this was before Fry came out of the closet. Quite interesting.
@elvancor
@elvancor 4 жыл бұрын
Is that so? Pray tell, when exactly did he come out?
@katiedid1851
@katiedid1851 3 жыл бұрын
And , so what ? Always a genius ! No one quite like him or ever will be.
@NausicaaLeGuin
@NausicaaLeGuin 15 жыл бұрын
"why people leave buttocks lying around, I've no idea..."
@starwarsfreak1111
@starwarsfreak1111 12 жыл бұрын
Did you notice Hugh said at 3:45 First Day Julember the 90th? =))
@breaneainn
@breaneainn 11 жыл бұрын
lol! '...small rubber nodule..'
@Stryker1207
@Stryker1207 11 жыл бұрын
"It was a blustering July afternoon in mid December of 1929"
@InvisiblerApple
@InvisiblerApple 4 жыл бұрын
The clocks will be striking 13 any minute! (probably on the hour)
@monkeyfiona
@monkeyfiona 13 жыл бұрын
"Oh the screws are very agreeable" :-P
@Liusila
@Liusila 16 жыл бұрын
Aaah, and I love their hair!
@Skeew1
@Skeew1 13 жыл бұрын
they stole their own joke! Stephen says the "buttercup" joke in "the day i forgot my legs"!!!!
@Ana_crusis
@Ana_crusis 6 жыл бұрын
they repeated it, not stole it
@vaclav_fejt
@vaclav_fejt 4 жыл бұрын
Also in some versions of "The Letter".
@PedroGonzalez-pd6vw
@PedroGonzalez-pd6vw 4 жыл бұрын
3:44 "Thursday Julember the 90th" 😂😂
@Alex-jg2bc
@Alex-jg2bc 5 жыл бұрын
I’m oddly attracted to Stephen in this video
@Plethorality
@Plethorality 4 жыл бұрын
I've always been oddly attracted...
@lawrencecalablaster568
@lawrencecalablaster568 7 жыл бұрын
T.S. Eliot is my favourite poet. This is funny.
@narekm
@narekm 14 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 )))
@Tracker77
@Tracker77 15 жыл бұрын
The hangman The hangman The hangman The hang The Th T
@KAT65
@KAT65 17 жыл бұрын
The hair went up even higher on Fry and Laurie!
@celestialnav
@celestialnav 15 жыл бұрын
i love it!
@weirdgetsaround
@weirdgetsaround 6 жыл бұрын
he's a legend thats for sure
@MsGrinny
@MsGrinny 2 жыл бұрын
Timeless!
@alexandra_the_great
@alexandra_the_great Ай бұрын
4:02 what a beautifull coming out story.
@gaara6189
@gaara6189 12 жыл бұрын
"It was a blustering July afternoon in mid December of 1929".........hahahaha
@Gorboduc
@Gorboduc 14 жыл бұрын
"Already I sense he is growing apart from us."
@GerardHammond
@GerardHammond 2 жыл бұрын
more of this. Can we get them both back?
@tineblondine
@tineblondine 17 жыл бұрын
Well, as you say - it's UP :-)
@ShonaLavellan
@ShonaLavellan 16 жыл бұрын
Great hair.
@LilyLylaLolaLucy
@LilyLylaLolaLucy 15 жыл бұрын
I LOVE HUGH'S HAIR!!!!
@Tropicaliak
@Tropicaliak 16 жыл бұрын
so much the greattttttttt.
@kahwigulum
@kahwigulum 5 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."
@HEV29
@HEV29 15 жыл бұрын
Yay!!! Crazy English men xxx How I loved Stephen Fry and still do - and Hugh is so aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggghhhhhhhh (phwoooooooooooooooooor) now! xxx
@PaperbackWizard
@PaperbackWizard 5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about this sketch while watching the movie version of "Cats".
@Hydroculator
@Hydroculator 3 жыл бұрын
Fry's jaw looks absolutely enormous here. It scares me a little.
@SarahLeia
@SarahLeia 16 жыл бұрын
The buttercup line...they reused it! LOL
@tahsinsabah833
@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”
@merdufer
@merdufer 15 жыл бұрын
I didn't get the "the screws are very agreeable" part..
@APTKC2025
@APTKC2025 5 жыл бұрын
Prison guards in the US in the first half of the 20th century were usually called "screws".
@GRAHAMAUS
@GRAHAMAUS 14 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!
@yllidiah
@yllidiah 15 жыл бұрын
haha, BEST imagery of london
@nhmooytis7058
@nhmooytis7058 5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant especially if you know Eliot’s poetry....
@TophxAang
@TophxAang 17 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!
@Jagerbomber
@Jagerbomber 2 жыл бұрын
So…. They had to have rehearsed, right? It just seemed crazy to me what they can do/remember.
@bindiyay
@bindiyay 16 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 :)
@micahwright5901
@micahwright5901 3 ай бұрын
My last two brain cells at any given moment:
@mrlucasftw42
@mrlucasftw42 Жыл бұрын
Some Vogon poetry to start!
@TrulyStucker
@TrulyStucker 15 жыл бұрын
0:19 Laurie looks like Kevin Bacon! lol
@StavroginNikolai
@StavroginNikolai 9 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
@outeast999 7 жыл бұрын
Ever it was thus. You think F&L worked in a vacuum?
@MatrixAran
@MatrixAran 7 жыл бұрын
This describes most of poetry for over 1200 years...
@andreasbuehler1821
@andreasbuehler1821 7 жыл бұрын
At most poetry slams I've been, the crowds have been pretty brutal.
@Auriflamme
@Auriflamme 7 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
@Mlog1 6 жыл бұрын
That's not true at all!!! (The friend told me she loves me)
@allerdyce
@allerdyce 15 жыл бұрын
yeah 27 and 28 actually but seriously, thats so weird how this was just a lifetime ago.
@66nylorac
@66nylorac 15 жыл бұрын
What's not to love...sigh!
@KryzMasta
@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.
@ulfurinnn
@ulfurinnn 16 жыл бұрын
god i wish these shows where on tv. ish there any place you can like buy a cd or sumthing? reply please
@AgentArchangel83
@AgentArchangel83 14 жыл бұрын
Is he reading Vogon poetry?
@AnnabellaRedwood
@AnnabellaRedwood 5 жыл бұрын
Bahahaha!!!!!
@tineblondine
@tineblondine 17 жыл бұрын
Like you say: It's up :-D
@finehomemadewine
@finehomemadewine 15 жыл бұрын
:-) Almost! :-) :-)
@tineblondine
@tineblondine 16 жыл бұрын
Thank you! :-D I've got two funny bones.
@Mihoshika
@Mihoshika 5 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like summoning rituals.
@boneappletea3858
@boneappletea3858 Жыл бұрын
3:43 julember the 90th lol
@inspectorspinda
@inspectorspinda 8 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else think they're like Louis Carol characters?
@carlabryant6210
@carlabryant6210 8 жыл бұрын
Lewis Carroll?
@Ana_crusis
@Ana_crusis 6 жыл бұрын
no
@JohnFoley1701
@JohnFoley1701 3 жыл бұрын
Damn vogons
@awesomecat26
@awesomecat26 8 жыл бұрын
the hangman. the hang. the. th. t.
@MsGrinny
@MsGrinny 2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, this goes straight over some people's heads. I don't know how. Is it: Picked a buttercup. or: Picked a buttock up? 🤣
@CF1975
@CF1975 15 жыл бұрын
Is this also taken from Friday Night Live? I am pretty sure this is not from ABOFAL.
@robertmacdonald6527
@robertmacdonald6527 5 жыл бұрын
American here. Can someone from the UK explain to me what the hell I just watched?
@AbuLaith1963
@AbuLaith1963 4 жыл бұрын
Robert Mcdonald, they are essentially making the poet TS Eliot sound like a pretentious idiot. To quote an extract from Eliot's poem, "The Wasteland:" The river sweats Oil and tar The barges drift With the turning tide Red sails Wide To leeward, swing on the heavy spar. The barges wash Drifting logs Down Greenwich reach Past the Isle of Dogs. Weialala leia Wallala leialala Elizabeth and Leicester Beating oars The stern was formed A gilded shell Red and gold The brisk swell Rippled both shores Southwest wind Carried down stream The peal of bells White towers Weialala leia Wallala leialala And at the end of the poem: I sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina Quando fiam uti chelidon-O swallow swallow Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo’s mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih The Hangman is a parodying Eliot.
@TraiIerpark
@TraiIerpark 17 жыл бұрын
yeah, hugh looks like 18 years old in this video...sweeet xDDD
@SamiShah2004
@SamiShah2004 5 жыл бұрын
The irony of Fry actually being gay.
@SteveParkerAudiobooks
@SteveParkerAudiobooks 16 жыл бұрын
oh good lord... Yes, he existed before hitting America's fetid television circuit.
@ahtaimo
@ahtaimo 14 жыл бұрын
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