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

BBC StudiosCited 3× on HN, 2013-2022
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7.3M views · 18 years ago · comedy · evergreen

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.

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

Stand-up & sketch comedy#fryandlaurie#bbc#sketch#names#britishcomedy

3 comments from Hacker News

@Archelaos2022 · in “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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@hirsin2019 · in “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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@tsm2013 · in “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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