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Atheists & Agnostics

Ron Obvious

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5. I like Stephen Fry and he did a decent job...

Reply to Yorktown (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 11, 2015, 04:55 AM

Dec 2015

... but he didn't match my mental image of Jeeves at all. I would picture someone more like, oh, Anthony Hopkins maybe. Maybe not, I don't know a lot of actors. The aunt Agathas (who, as we all know, sacrificed babies at full moon and chewed broken glass for snacks) didn't look nearly fearsome enough either, really.

Great show, though.

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Hugh Laurie, an athiest! This is a scene from one of his movies [View all] artislife Dec 2015 OP

Excellent! How's this for a carol? beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #1

I never understood that song until last year. deucemagnet Dec 2015 #10

Wodehouse Yorktown Dec 2015 #2

Hugh Laurie was born to play Bertie Wooster Ron Obvious Dec 2015 #3

And Fry pulls it off surprisingly well despite being a bit too young Yorktown Dec 2015 #4

I like Stephen Fry and he did a decent job... Ron Obvious Dec 2015 #5

Yes, Hopkins. Maybe with a twinkle in the eye. Yorktown Dec 2015 #6

I used to check out those DVDs from the library. progressoid Dec 2015 #7

Always been a Wodehouse addict. Then I learnt Hitchens was a Wodehouse expert. Yorktown Dec 2015 #8

They call it the "Woodhouse Effect" Lordquinton Dec 2015 #12

I know you just made up 'WoODhouse' Yorktown Dec 2015 #14

That wasn't me, that was autocorrect Lordquinton Dec 2015 #16

I fear you 'might' have just been very incorrect toward Mr. autocorrect Yorktown Dec 2015 #17

Mr. Autocorrect can go duck himself Lordquinton Dec 2015 #18

My good Sir, I dare hope there are no hidden spoonerisms in that sentence of yours. Yorktown Dec 2015 #19

Good tines. Good tines. n/t Gore1FL Jan 2016 #21

Thanks awoke_in_2003 Dec 2015 #20

Wode.... AlbertCat Jan 2016 #22

As was the character Gregory House. deucemagnet Dec 2015 #9

I am such a fan. I even belong to private fb groups! artislife Dec 2015 #15

A great Laurie bit, and seasonally on-topic too! onager Dec 2015 #11

... mountain grammy Jan 2016 #23

Hugh Laurie... gelatinous cube Dec 2015 #13