Funny Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry comedy sketch! 'Your name, sir?' - BBC

BBC Studios · 7.3M views · 2008-10-13 · 3:02

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Overview

A classic sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie in which a man at a police station has a surname that is very hard to pronounce. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie play it out as a comic exchange.

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HN brings it up as a joke whenever threads touch on long names, name handling or unpronounceable identifiers.

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Stand-up & sketch comedy

What people said

Archelaos · 2022-05 · Joke / meme
> As a human even if I hear a name in another language I still fundamentally understand that it is language. Reminds me of the classic Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry sketch "Your name, sir?": [VIDEO]
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hirsin · 2019-12 · Joke / meme
Precisely. This sketch always comes to mind [VIDEO] You're under no obligation to accept names that are hard (as in painful) for you (except if you're the police, I suppose. Ironically)
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tsm · 2013-09 · Joke / meme
I agree—awkward as it is, there reaches a point where it's just unreasonable to accommodate it: [VIDEO]
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