"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.
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."
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?"
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?"
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."