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

Name: Funny Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry comedy sketch! 'Your name, sir?' - BBC
Description: 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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Cited on HN 3 times, 2013–2022, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

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

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.

3 jokes · Comedy

Stand-up & sketch comedy Comedy Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

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@tsm Sep 2013 Makes a joke

on HN thread Your name is way too long for your ID

I agree—awkward as it is, there reaches a point where it's just unreasonable to accommodate it: [this video]

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@hirsin Dec 2019 Makes a joke

on HN thread Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'

Precisely. This sketch always comes to mind [this 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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@Archelaos May 2022 Makes a joke

on HN thread Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

> 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?": [this video]

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