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Fry and Laurie – Maximum Security Poetry

Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie’s “Maximum Security Poetry” sketch from 1986.

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anyone involved in voted “horne and Corden” as greatest comedy double act should be forced to watch all of these incredible sketches. and if they dont like them, they should be buried, because they’re probobly already dead


Tom picked a buttock up.


Ahhh, I see where Jedward got their hairstyle from… loving it, Hugh!


“Already I sense he is growing apart from us.”


Absolutely the best parody of ‘The Waste Land’ (and to some extent modernist poetry in general) I’ve ever heard! How I wish I could’ve heard what Stephen got up to in the dormitory after lights out, though…


I just love Hugh’s hair


@freekypanda Hahaha well I had difficulty also, but I thought that was because German is my third language. But if a native speaker can’t even understand it, then it’s Fry’s mispronunciation. :) I think Fry pronounces the “a” and “e” in an English way, so that it sounds more like “das echtziehnte kind”, which doesn’t mean anything.


@FuellingObsession the thing is, i am german and i felt a little stupid, as if i couldn’t understand my mother tongue anymore =)


@freekypanda I’m not sure but I think he’s saying “das achtzehnte kind”, which would mean, “the eighteenth child”, but it’s difficult to tell because of his english accent.


5:32 – fry is talking about : das …. Kind.. could someone please tell me what he intended to say with it? it sounded german =)


Laurie’s hair is looking awefully mad scientist-ish here. :D


Is he reading Vogon poetry?


Love Hugh’s hair and Hugh’s funny faces!!!!!


Oscar and Bosie!


What’s not to love…sigh!


Yay!!! Crazy English men xxx

How I loved Stephen Fry and still do – and Hugh is so aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggghhhhhhhh (phwoooooooooooooooooor) now! xxx


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.


is it just me or at 0:22 does hugh look like kevin bacon from footloose?


“why people leave buttocks lying around, I’ve no idea…”


haha, BEST imagery of london


The hangman
The hangman
The hangman
The hang
The
Th
T


If only prisons actually did this. Makes a change from Johnny Cash! :)


Hahaha “Skip that bit…”

This is hilarious, dunno why I’ve never watched it before :D


Thursday, Julember the ninetieth!?! xD So silly. I will never think of T.S. Eliot now, without hearing Stephen Fry: “Tommy Tom Tom-Tom Eliot.”

God, these guys are fantastic. And also impossibly adorable, even now.


0:19

Laurie looks like Kevin Bacon! lol


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