How Far We've Come

the next person to mention A Bit of Fry and Laurie or anything having to do with Black Adders is going to get a trident up their ass. No Brits, we Americans as a population are NOT familiar with these shows.

HOORAY.

101 Dalmatians?

British media doesn't count.

... I'm still waiting on Stephen Fry to appear in a reboot of Gilligan's Island (playing Roy Hinkley, of course)....

Jeeves and Wooster was on ITV, not BBC.

don't get you panties in a twist gentlemen. it's a joke and you don't have to be a twit about who the hell is more famous.

Uh huh - if you're a Brit, you'll best know Hugh Laurie as Prince Ludwig in Blackadder II, Prince Regent on Blackadder III and the brilliant Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh in Blackadder Goes Forth (to name but a few)! So much better than House! Friends got him in because he was more famous than Sarah Ferguson and Richard Branson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPxX-ks95Y

A bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third, Blackadder goes Forth, Jeeves and Wooster... etc.

I'm guessing your not British he was in loads of comedy shows in his 20s like Blackadder, a bit of Fry and Luarie

U should have seen him on the Black Adder series.

lol, seriously this is one of my all time favorite moments from friends. if you have a chance check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNd7dAFnq8c

I take it not many people in the US are familiar with Black Adder.

Yep, he was in Blackadder years before that.

Aww, it's Hugh Laurie when he still looked like his character(s) in Black Adder. ^_^

Truth, watch A Bit of Fry and Laurie, pretty hilarious...

Hugh Laurie was far more famous, but in the right circles. Blackadder anyone?

You should watch "A bit of Fry and Laurie"
or Stuart Little, he's very young in that one.

In that case I suggest you watch a little show called Blackadder, notably the third and fourth seasons

Check out the P.D. Wodehouse stories, Wooster and Jeeves, that was made into BBC tv programs. (They are posted on YouTube). Hugh Laurie plays the wastrel Bertie Wooster. Talk about young and adorable. He also played Mr. Little in the Stuart Little movie. I love House because it is so out of the type-casting mode he was in.

whoaaaaaa!

Most people did not. Only us cool kids. The people that cast House did not even know he was British.

Definitely photoshopped.

Yeah, but us Brits have known about him for decades.

He was famous in Britain, not America.

I love how too few realize he played in Blackadder way back, and such a different character from house.

only in the UK really. he didnt become famous in the US until house

How come Rachel is a "bitch"? Why not "Who's that bastard next to Rachel?"

I agree with Daniel. Hugh Laurie's name has always been more well known then ... crap forget her real name right now. Amazing and diverse actor.

he was the dad in stuart little. he looked really young then, too

you wanna see a young Hugh Laurie, watch A bit of Fry and Laurie, an old sketch show with him and Stephen Fry