Hugh Laurie, American Sex Symbol
God, those eyes . . . then I catch re-runs of "Jeeves and Wooster," and I'm all verklempt and confused. "But he's a dork! A cute sort of dork, but--Wooster! Standing there all dumbfounded with his mouth hanging open!" It took me quite a while to realize that Wooster and the guy with the stubble and the piercing stare and the reluctant smile were the same guy.
It took me quite a while to realize that Wooster and the guy with the stubble and the piercing stare and the reluctant smile were the same guy.
Heh. My father when stunned when I pointed that out to him just last night.
I'd first seen him on "Blackadder", playing another upper class twit (the Prince Regent), then Bertie Wooster ... it was hard making the two different characterizations add up.
"It's clever, it's unexpected..." "But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid and unexpected things make them feel scared."
brenda, where's your tag from? It sounds so familiar.
I think my introduction to Hugh Laurie was in Stuart Little, the movie. Talk about a disconnect.
I'd first seen him on "Blackadder",
Lord, reconciling first season Rowan Atkinson as the idiotic Prince and the suave Elizabethan courtier in the second season was another occasion of mental whiplash. "That's the same guy? No, it's not. They got someone else. That's him? Gah!"
I think my introduction to Hugh Laurie was in Stuart Little, the movie. Talk about a disconnect.
I had seen Blackadder, but I didn't even put Stuart Little's dad together with that, much less House at first.
(laughing hard at Fonzie Swergin)
McShane has quite a talent then. I suppose I shouldn't laugh or roll my eyes the next time one of our TV icons says "You know, I want to play somebody really *evil* next time." Unless it's like Bob Newhart, because that's just funny.
brenda, where's your tag from? It sounds so familiar.
I think it's from
Futurama,
I think it's familiar because Sean used it previously.
Dude, Bob Newhart could rock the evil.
I'd first seen him on "Blackadder", playing another upper class twit (the Prince Regent), then Bertie Wooster ... it was hard making the two different characterizations add up.
And George in BA:GF!
I'd say my level of o.0 (even having seen him on Spooks/MI-5, because Jools is the same basic character type he's known for, only smart and cunning) is the same as if, say, Ade Edmondson were to be announced as the next Bond.