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..struggling to think of many people with more varied talent.

Just caught last 5mins of the one show and it reminded me what a talented bloke he is. Might have a bit of a man crush!

Intelligent enough to get into Cambridge
More than a little bit competent as an athlete
Internationally renown comedian/comedy actor/actor
Turns out he is an impressive musician as a second career.
Generally sound bloke that would be good company stuck in a lift.

Sickening!


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:39 pm
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Impressed with the rowing stuff.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:40 pm
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Pity about "House" though. But all round decent chap - he and Fry were so so funny together.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:41 pm
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Is he a lift engineer though?

Cos, like, if you were stuck in a lift, that might be a skill you'd want in the person you're stuck in it with....


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:41 pm
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Can't sing though. Awful voice.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:41 pm
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[s]Intelligent[/s]Priviledged enough to get into Cambridge

fixeded


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:44 pm
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Nah, I'd want a lift engineer on the outside where he could get to the motors n' stuff and an interesting bloke (or woman) to spend time with.....

And a bottle of something nice.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:45 pm
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[s]Intelligent[/s]Priviledged enough to get into Cambridge

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True, he had a doctor for a father who had the cash to send him to Eton, but you still have to get the grades.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:47 pm
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Yeah seen him last week rattling away on Piano and singing, was well impressed,


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:55 pm
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jon1973 no your not the only one ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:57 pm
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Watching him in re-runs of Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder always makes me giggle.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 8:58 pm
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Cos, like, if you were stuck in a lift, that might be a skill you'd want in the person you're stuck in it with....

How is the engineer going to get out of the lift to repair it then?


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 9:00 pm
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JFC....have you not seen "Maybe Baby"?

Sadly it's several nails in his credibility cofin

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Posted : 22/11/2011 9:03 pm
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Nice cans tho, of course, tho it's still a shit film.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 9:04 pm
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The scene where she slides off the saddle of the scooter still cracks me up though......


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 9:07 pm
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He also looks like my dad


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 9:10 pm
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Highest paid tv actor on usa tv, as well, so probably employs someone to repair his lift.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 9:16 pm
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The thinking man's Stephen Fry.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 9:24 pm
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Pity about "House" though.

Shut yo durty mouth!


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 9:27 pm
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Houae just says the things you wish you could say at work ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:15 pm
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My father in laws half sister is married to his brother.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:28 pm
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Yeah, very talented, but that music he was playing was so predictable.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:34 pm
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Oh I quite like Gyles

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Posted : 22/11/2011 10:37 pm
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Terry Wogan's another one. Bland, boring, smug ****.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:41 pm
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I hear he thinks you're a complete ****, Elf. So I guess it all works out.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:45 pm
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I think we've had enough comments about violence.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:48 pm
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Through the emergency hatch in the ceiling.

They don't have them in lifts anymore ๐Ÿ˜•


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:50 pm
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I thought he disappeared off the face of the earth a few years ago - good to know he's back.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 10:53 pm
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Inventor of the word "spoffle", the foam cover on microphones.


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 11:01 pm
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Can't sing though. Awful voice.

^^^^
THIS


 
Posted : 22/11/2011 11:18 pm
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Yeah, very talented, but that music he was playing was so predictable.

It's blues, you muppet, of [i]course[/i] it's [i]predictable![/i]

I thought he disappeared off the face of the earth a few years ago - good to know he's back.

So the widely acclaimed TV series he's been starring in since 2004, that's seven years, has completely passed you by? You do [i]own[/i] a TV, I take it?


 
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IntelligentPriviledged enough to get into Cambridge

fixeded

True, he had a doctor for a father who had the cash to send him to Eton, but you still have to get the grades.

Wow. Have you seen the figures re public school bias in Oxbridge applicants and undergrads?


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 1:25 am
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I think house is a good show. It was great, but they seem to be struggling for plot ideas now. Still a good watch even without the Olivia Wilde lesbian stuff. Hugh Laurie is very good in it. I'd love to see the story line that Stephen Fry talked about where he plays House's cleverer older brother, like a Sherlock Holmes thang.


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 6:58 am
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What series? Yes but rarely watch it.


 
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Wow. Have you seen the figures re public school bias in Oxbridge applicants and undergrads?

Now that would make an interesting thread!


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 9:46 am
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What series? Yes but rarely watch it.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(TV_series) ]House[/url]

Unless you were talking about Gyles Brandreth, of course (lovely chap ๐Ÿ˜‰ ).


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 9:51 am
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Nobody would know about his music hobby if he wasn't Hugh Laurie.

Hugh's finest hour
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Posted : 23/11/2011 9:53 am
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Oh OK thanks. Sort of thing Mrs O would watch while I'm out on my bike!

Cheers


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 9:58 am
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Wow. Have you seen the figures re public school bias in Oxbridge applicants and undergrads?

Yes - that's my day job. Are you aware of the Midyis raw score data between between the two sub groups? I could bang on for hours about this but ultimately it's very boring and not the topic for discussion here - which is HL and his enormous.....talent.

Suffice to say he is smarter than your average bear.


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 9:59 am
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I think house is a good show. It was great, but they seem to be struggling for plot ideas now.

REALLY? Are you having a laugh? As my partner and I completely disagree, We've never seen a series that's so unpredicatable & that comes up with a completely new interesting situations without being stupidly far fetched EVERY new series. House is a classic, the script writers legendary and Huges performance brilliant in our eyes.


 
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Last 5 minutes of the One Show: Pub Gig.


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 12:02 pm
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REALLY? Are you having a laugh? As my partner and I completely disagree, We've never seen a series that's so unpredicatable & that comes up with a completely new interesting situations without being stupidly far fetched EVERY new series. House is a classic, the script writers legendary and Huges performance brilliant in our eyes.

person is ill
they can't agree how to make them better
it is a right puzzle
they try some things but they get worse
house has a revelation
they are cured

Meanwhile house limps around abusing everyone while trying to shag his boss and mostly not to take drugs

As TV goes its not bad but it did get predicable and I stopped watching it


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 12:15 pm
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LOL, if you think that all that happens then, no wonder you think it predictable.
I'd suggest trying to pay a bit more attention, but your obviously pr-judged it, so I won't.
Not to worry.


 
Posted : 23/11/2011 1:59 pm