Posts tagged “abofl friday”

  1. "Sit. Twenty-four years ago a doctor told your mother and me that it was impossible that we could ever have children."

    "Oh. Why not?"

    "I can't remember the precise reason. It was something to do with penises, I think. We decided to adopt a child."

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  2. "I sometimes think that if I believed everything I heard in rumours, I'd believe in some things that aren't true at all." This is my ASMR. It is the most soothing comedy routine I have ever seen.

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  3. I can barely watch the Critics sketches unless I have my hands up over my eyes. "Let me say straightaway that it seems to me that what they were trying to achieve was essentially two-fold. I thought the sketch worked on two levels."

    "Only two?"

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  4. Gordon and Stuart are two of Fry and Laurie's greatest achievements. They were never better than when they did that one-upsmanship-y businessman patter. "What am I, a peasant or a busy executive?"

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  5. "If we'd rung the bell, there would have been no point in my having carried this sledgehammer all the way from the car park."

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  6. "Tea? Maybelline, my love, it's Oliver here. Listen, my sweetheart, do we carry a tea machine?" THE SUPER, THE LOVELY, AND THE GORGEOUS.

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  7. Hugh's German accent is without flaw, but it's Stephen's slow and dawning Soul's Awakening that makes this transcendent.

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  8. Have we really not visited the cheerful spies Control and Tony yet? Well, I think it would sound just delightful. Almost as delightful as a cup of coffee, I shouldn't wonder.

    "Hello, this is the Secret Service. Who is this, please?"

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  9. Fry and Laurie are never better than when Stephen is an unctuous, desperate-to-please, incredibly correct tradesman who manages to stymie and flatter and outrage Hugh at every turn. "I shall have to tell Father, of course."

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  10. CREAMY ENGLAND. And with that, let us sail on into next week.

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