..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!

Impressed with the rowing stuff.

Pity about “House” though. But all round decent chap – he and Fry were so so funny together.

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….

Can’t sing though. Awful voice.

IntelligentPriviledged enough to get into Cambridge

fixeded

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.

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.

Yeah seen him last week rattling away on Piano and singing, was well impressed,

jon1973 no your not the only one 😉

Watching him in re-runs of Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder always makes me giggle.

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?

JFC….have you not seen “Maybe Baby”?

Sadly it’s several nails in his credibility cofin

Nice cans tho, of course, tho it’s still a shit film.

The scene where she slides off the saddle of the scooter still cracks me up though……

He also looks like my dad

Highest paid tv actor on usa tv, as well, so probably employs someone to repair his lift.

The thinking man’s Stephen Fry.

Pity about “House” though.

Shut yo durty mouth!

Houae just says the things you wish you could say at work 🙂

My father in laws half sister is married to his brother.

Yeah, very talented, but that music he was playing was so predictable.

Oh I quite like Gyles

Terry Wogan’s another one. Bland, boring, smug ****.

I hear he thinks you’re a complete ****, Elf. So I guess it all works out.

I think we’ve had enough comments about violence.

Through the emergency hatch in the ceiling.

They don’t have them in lifts anymore 😕

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

Inventor of the word “spoffle”, the foam cover on microphones.

Can’t sing though. Awful voice.

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THIS

Yeah, very talented, but that music he was playing was so predictable.

It’s blues, you muppet, of course it’s predictable!

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 own a TV, I take it?

convert – Member

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?

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.

What series? Yes but rarely watch it.

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

Now that would make an interesting thread!

What series? Yes but rarely watch it.

House

Unless you were talking about Gyles Brandreth, of course (lovely chap 😉 ).

Nobody would know about his music hobby if he wasn’t Hugh Laurie.

Hugh’s finest hour

Oh OK thanks. Sort of thing Mrs O would watch while I’m out on my bike!

Cheers

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.

muggomagic – Member
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.