A bit of fun (moved from Novels)

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I've always imagined Hugh Laurie as The Prince Regent from Blackadder III. It makes House weird.
 
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I can't take him seriously. He'll always be a comedian and comic actor to me.

Plus, I've never watched one episode of House.
 

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You're not missing much; watch Becker. It's the same thing only better.
 

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Actually watched the link. Hysterical. Thanks for posting. After all, if Shakespeare had to edit, I think the rest of us have no excuse.
 

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As much as I love other things Hugh Laurie has done, I think my all-time favorite role for him was his fairly small part in the 1995 "Sense & Sensibility." He packed so much characterization into half-a-dozen line readings that he nearly stole the show, no mean feat in a movie that strong.
 

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Oh! I saw this before.

It's almost as strange as seeing Hugh Laurie as Mr. Little in Stuart Little.

First thing I ever saw him in was Bertie & Wooster, so it doesn't surprise/faze me. It was really funny when House first came out, though, and friends were like, "OMG DID YOU KNOW HUGH IS BRITISH". Well, uhm, duh.
 

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My tv-loving friends don't understand why I can't get into House. It's because the ditsy, mumbling Prince Regent has absolutely no business being a doctor! Duh!
 
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Best line ever, when Blackadder went to wake up the Prince Regent.

(Panicked). "What time is it?"

"It's three o'clock in the afternoon, Your Highness."

(Flopping back onto bed). "Oh thank heavens for that; I thought I'd slept in." :D
 

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Moving to OP, since the responses, at least, have nothing whatsoever to do with novel writing.
 

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Prince George : No wait Blackadder. Perhaps this disgusting degraded creature is some sort of blessing in disguise.
Blackadder : Well if he is it's a very good disguise.
Prince George : After all did not our Lord send a lowly earthworm to comfort Moses in his torment?
Blackadder : No.
Prince George : Well it's the sort of thing he might have done.
 

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And Shakespeare wrote plays rather than novels, of course.
shakespeare wrote life, baby. life.
 

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One of my favourite lines delivered by Hugh Laurie is from the Ink and Incapability episode:

Edmund: I believe, sir, that the Doctor is trying to tell you that he is happy
because he has finished his book. It has, apparently, taken him ten years.

George: Yes, well, I'm a slow reader myself...

:D

I like HL as House a lot. I was very aware of him as an actor at first, but I'm pretty sold on him as the TV character after a few seasons; I think he does a fantastic job. I think partly it works for me because the personality of House seems closer to HL's real life personality (as portrayed in news reports, so taken with a pinch of salt) than those of any of his comedy characters were. He seems to have shades of depression and melancholy that are sad to see, and make me worry about him, anyway.
 

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I love me some Baldrick and his "cunning plans."
 

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I like House a lot. Hugh does a fantastic job. I dig the whole "honesty even if it hurts and is usually funny" style.