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

BBC Studios · 7.3M views · 2008 · 3:02

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Stand-up & sketch comedycomedy

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

What it is

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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