Laurie, Hugh - America Lyrics

Sounds about right 🤷‍♀️

Here because in the middle of a meditation session this tune shown up in my mind : dead laughing in my meditation room !

Great PUNCHline!

I've read a few books on American culture. I didn't need to. This explains the whole country.

And everyone, except Johnny cash, in it.

. Omg, the assault at the end floored me😂😂😂

it also floored hugh

My favorite part was when he said America

why are people laughing, isnt this murica's national anthem

No, but it should be. I'm an American, so I should know.

Trump.
Trump.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump

Lyrics: America.
America.
America, America, America, Americarr.
America-uh-hurrr-hurrr.
America, America, America, Americarr.
The States.
The States.
The States.
The States.
The States.
America.
America.
A....

Ur Merica

I love this skit, but it's a bit unfair to take the piss out of Springsteen and Born in the USA. Nationalism and shallow patriotism is not what that song is about. Quite the opposite.

i'm from America and I thought this was so funny.

I post this on my Facebook every single Independence Day! Love Fry and Laurie. Never seen a more perfect parody.

The lyrics have as much substance as America has.

I do like me some physical comedy.

Can someone share the lyrics for me? I’m having the hardest time transcribing them.

Americans: much talk; no substance

Very appropriate post 2016.

Ow awesome, this is exactly what I hear when I hear certain american songs especially Springsteen.

Still relevant, innit?

kinda has a similar quality like another classic, "where is the lid"

And now understand that they succeeded to even get such as _him_ to choose infinite treason over life and sanity.

Got us there

Laurie: America
Fry: What the rest of the world feels like

Ummmmrikah

The Brits totally get us...love it!!

Profound lyrics.

😂😂😂♥️

I love how he keeps a straight face throughout. Laurie is truly one of the most talented actors ever. ❤

The States !

He's actually beautiful with the piano but the lyrics are perfection

The part about America is quite good.

A merry car!

Thank you for unknowingly and accidentally contributing to a process called Making-things-go-Poof! The fate and state of the automobile industry over decades is thusly explained.

And that's how House went into medicine.

The words would be even more banal if it weren't for the refrain. The accompaniment is really nice. I was sorry it ended, although he was only being put out of his misery.

petition to make this the new US national anthem?

A stupid idea for a stupid country.

0:58 Rebel Alliance sign

Stephen Fry still feeling sore about the Revolution.

BONO!!!

I am absolutely and utterly _loving_ that third chord!

Such a beautiful song.
*tear rolls down*

Magnificent

America is 20 years into the future of your own countries.

there goes so much thought and feeling into these lyrics.. it's overwhelming.

Thank you!

It seems Bertie Wooster spent too much time in New York.

How you can tell it's fake: Hugh Laurie didn't pull out a Colt Delta Elite and put a bullet into that Brit.

They are very clever and funny and Hugh's song predicted and predated Phantom Planet's 'California' by many years.

Still better than that MAGA song the President tweeted for July 4th

I'm American and I loved this. 😂

Every year. It's really the most patriotic song I can think of.

wow, still salty after about 241 years. good to know

Stephen Fry's reaction to that song is the way that I feel everytime I hear Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA".
I'm an American but damn that song is annoying.

Regina Irby How is that song annoying and how does this comment have 10 likes

Alfred F. Jones It’s embarrassing, trite, vomit-inducing, stereotype-perpetuating dross with cringey literal lyrics that convey the feelings of someone who has no idea about the existence of anything outside of America.
The kind of song a right wing simpleton might play aloud to a crowd of similar right wing simpletons..

Oh and the comment above has 10 (now 11) likes because people agree with it, as they should because it’s correct.

@Stripes Apparently the artist who originally wrote God Bless the USA has some more complicated ideas about the whole thing, but basically the song is or has become exactly what you say it is. It's like a parody of itself it's played so straight.

Hugh Laurie Lyrics

America

America-a
America-a-a
America, America, America, America
America-a-aha-aa
America, America, America, America-a

States
States
States
States
States

America
America-a

P.S. You're welcome!

I'm kind of late to the party here, I know, but he actually sings "The States". ;-)

Brilliant x

This perfectly describes when you join an "Irish" forum and go to the Introductions thread

National Anthem of States.

Quite right, America is indeed a laughing stock right now

Whenever I hear Americans saying their country is the best, I think of this song, and Stephen fry punching Hugh at the end.

Americans should think their country is the best though.

Captainsuperbudder -

"Americans saying their country is the best."

Especially those who have never been outside of it, or learned enough History even to know when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

As for Lil' Ol' England - that's in Germany, right ?

Precisely. What a bunch of morons (I mean those who think they are the best)!

No problem when people of US of A think their country is the best. But it is funny when they are offended by a forigner who thinks his own country is the best...

As an American this is %100 realistic

kimberly s Its like they almost predicted the future

Yeah... percent one hundred!

DAMN IT STEPHEN

Someone should use this in the Richard Spencer meme

how relevant today

dam you stephen

what i thought about when i've seen the results of elections.

THIS IS RIGHT NOW THE WORLD LOOKS AT AMERICA!!!!

No, this was cute and charming. Not words I'd use to describe the current situation.

hahahahahahaha oooo no... no... it looks Worse Than that xD

I'm okay until he says 'The States' 😂😂😂

Tara Taylor I die every time at this moment. He’s looking so self satisfied to vary the lyrics.

An excellent rendition of every Bruce Springsteen song ever written! The only problem problem was that the ending was to upbeat to be realistic.

Played this when we were celebrating the Burning of the White House on the 24th August.

UK versus US?:)

I don't get it, could some explain to me?

@Big Iron I'm not sure how you read anger in ''Ooo that bitterness, talk about delicate little flower.'', but you're trying to make it fit your narrative that someone is angered/triggered when they're actually not.

You'd be right in saying that Frizzle is 'triggered' considering the long post filled with vitriol, my response was merely a response to his thin skin to the fact. Instead you've turned a blind eye to it and instead tried to defend the guy who is actually triggered.

Reading comprehension should be something you'll learn in school soon enough.

@Big Iron Where exactly is the passive aggressive speech in my initial comment or my second comment?

I know you started off out of the gate jumping to conclusions and continue to do it even though it's backfiring spectacularly.
Protip: I'm not from the UK.

@Big Iron Very amusing indeed, reading your pathetic counter arguments :)
I just love how you "discredit all my arguments" without giving any actual evidence to back up what you are saying. US not the fattest country? Oh yeah of course, because a handful of tiny, either island or almost city-states have a higher rate...the US is not the fattest technically, oh wow, you clever snowflake. It is still the fattest in terms of population size as it is the only actual large country with such obesity rates. Your second argument is hilarious. Yes, the cleaver mortality rates in the UK are skyrocketing wow you can´t go outside nowadays without being at least grazed by one!. Irony aside, what a stupid statement. Its called having sensible gun regulation laws. Weird huh, how it seems to work for like every european country. Children are not likely to be shot? I am ignorant to that context? Please explain. The way I have read the news seems to support my standpoint more, but hey I guess if there are holocaust deniers there are school shooting deniers lol. Ah yes your mighty military, unsustainable and held alive only by paper promises...high GDP? Yeah lets ignore the unbelievably high debt of your amazing economy. And you state it has a higher GDP like it is an actual argument? Of course it has, it is several times the size of the UK with a much larger populatiuon, I would damn well hope so if I lived in such a country?! Stating that the UK does shady stuff in politics does not negate the fact that the US does that I´m afraid. I mean believe what you want but if I take one look at your current elections for example, I am pretty certain of who has a more undemocratic and downright stupid political system lol. You resorting to childish insults shows your ability to debate and your intelligence. Authorities are not racist? Ok I guess we will ignore facts again, don´t think I even have to get started on such a, funnily enough, incredibly ignorant statement. Im not even from the UK by the way lol. And your last sentence, indeed, the facts speak for themselves. Of which you have literally zero in your arguments haha. Great sentence! ^^

I laughed so hard!!

I can see Donald Trump's advisors highjacking this for his presidential campaign.

WHO'S LAUGHING NOW arsehole ?

@John Stebbins LETS HOPE IT'S THE INSANE CRIMINAL CLINTONS

@Philip Croft - I agree. Shit for brains Trump could never remember these lyrics.

@David Renton Democrats can't seem to remember that America should come first before their socialist agendas.

@Joy Phillips - If only the Democrats had a socialists agenda! From your lips to god's ear!!!

isamu kiedy hutrworld

can't believe there r 217 dislikes for this! :D

+Raktim Parashar Probably all from American people :)
It's just some people's opinion. Nothing to be taken too seriously.

@gb1reinwald have to be.. :)

Never did find out what the name of Hugh's character here was. I'm guessing Bruce Joel-Mellencamp.

John Cougar Hornsby and the Range

There's some Randy Newman in there, too.

The states!

Where can I get a copy of the Lyrics? I keep forgetting them.

Haha 😂👏🏿👏🏿

*punch*
*shrug*

Don't know why he has to be so wordy.......

uhm Erica! uhm Erica-aah!

Too damn wordy :-)

LOL, I found this very catchy and now I have to check myself lest I sing it out loud while walking on the streets. Bruce Springsteen would love this parody! (If I'm not wrong, it's Bruce Springsteen who's being parodied?)

its not. It's a parody of AMERICANS.

That's how I interpreted it. Just a song about americans being full of themselves. It seems nothing has changed in that regard since this song was written :D.

Hmmm, I don't think a song with only about three words can be thought of in depth! It was 1989, so not long after the big slew of big patriotic stadium songs and their singers, of which Hugh Laurie himself is parodying. vijucat is right, it'll be Bruce Springsteen with a bit of Billy Joel/John Mellencamp etc.

I cri evryteim.

I'm putting this on my fb feed for the 4th of July. This is as American as it gets.

This song answers following question: Who is responsible for current migrant crisis in Europe? ;)

Bush & Blair

Robert Fisk's report FROM Douma. Google/YT it !!

+Gladdic Saddic

You're either ignorant, "informed" by far-right propaganda - or both.

Merkel did absolutely SHIT to create the migrant crisis (that by the way ended as soon as it started - within a few months it was reduced to a trickle, while the far-right propaganda keep lying about a never ending "crisis").
All she did was answer the situation in a moral way.
With hundreds of thousands of refugees walking north through Europe on foot she rightly said that Germany as a rich country could afford to receive some of them.
So get this through your thick skull - she didn't invite people sitting from outside Europe - she let in people already in Europe into Germany.
And if all of Europe would have done the same it wouldn't have been a problem at all as there was certainly room for even the large influx that came in 2015.

Case in point - Europe is home to 500 million people. So far in the first half of 2018 only 50,000 refugees have crossed the Mediterranean - that's less then one tenth of one per mille of the European population, so hardly a fucking "crisis" - now is it?

But still the far-right keep pushing that lie - like you did, one year ago, when the numbers where equally low.

"Most of the people coming in droves aren't even refugees, but people taking advantage of the invitation and current events."

Christ you're fucking stupid... Yeah, they wanted to take "advantage" of the great opportunity to drown or see their children drown crossing the Mediterranean - of course!
Now start by doing that yourself. Sit yourself in a overpacked rubber dingy and in the dark of night try to cross miles and miles of open sea with dozens of other people - none of whom know a shit about the sea.
If you survive that I'll listen to you tell me about what "advantage" would make people who are not desperate do something like that.
But before you've done so yourself- just shut the fuck up about things you clearly don't have a clue about, OK?

"It's why many European countries are giving the EU the middle finger, for they know these are not refugees. And blame Germany as well."

No "European countries" have given the EU the middle finger. ONE European country has done so - the UK, in a slim majority in a popular referendum that was based on lies. And they'll suffer the consequences for it, which is why there no longer is a majority even in Britain for giving the EU the middle finger now - when people realize what they voted for.

Regarding the rest of the countries you probably believe have given the EU the middle finger (Poland, Hungary, Italy etc), they're led by far-right extremists that definitely wants the EU money - but they don't want to contribute anything in return.

As a citizen of a EU member state not run by far-right extremists and a major per capita contributor to the EU budget I'd be perfectly happy seeing them kicked out of the EU.
It would cost them and save us millions upon millions and then they can sit there sulking while their economy turns to shit for all I care.

But of course that wouldn't happen.
Because the EU is extremely popular in these nations when it comes to the money these countries receive, so if we in the sane EU turn that tap of, citizens in those nations will probably soon realize the folly of voting for far-right extremists.

As always, their only "argument" is "You should help US - but nobody else! And don't expect US to help anyone else in return for the help we receive!"

Well fuck that I say - let's just kick the racists countries out and they can go joint Russia for all I care, since they seem to love authoritarian strongmen so much.

I actually expect that is what will happen eventually, unless the far-right extremists are voted out of office.
The EU will just kick the racists out and move on.
I hope you live in one of those countries - it would serve you right. :)

Europe by himself. This is their fault and they're paying for it. I hope they'll pass this exame.

Definitely wasn't the British literally drawing the borders for the countries in that part of the world. Definitely wasn't that, no responsibility there.

Where is the lid?

Where is the lid?

Where is the...where is the...where is the, where is the lid?

+CreepYourSmile "HUGH, IT'S RIGHT HERE!"

+James Haines I'M PUTTING THE LID ONTO THE JAR.

OOOH WHEEEEERE?!

In America, obviously.

LOL Love Hugh x

Great Springsteen impression. I remember growing up watching this with my parents. Yes I am old, but those were really the days, when humor and talent were real and funny. If Americans get offended? You need to get out more

Offended? This perfectly captures the state of arts in our country.

It’s a perfect parody. Most other Americans I know mock this blindly nationalistic posturing wholeheartedly. (I also reckon we might be able to do a British parody, now that we’ve got some similar stupidity going on across the pond...😉)

with lyrics they can understand

Never understood the obsession with association Americans with low intellect. They rank higher in average IQ over many European countries and on par with pretty much the rest. Joke is ironically ignorant itself.

+Mike Lasner

"Never understood the obsession with association Americans with low intellect."

I have just one thing to say to that - Donald Trump

There, I hereby rest my case.

Dear Sir, are you by any chance suggesting that Americans are of low intelligence quotient? Yew better not be or ah'll chuck mah dictionary at yew.

Mike Lasner No they don’t.

It's hysterical how much the British still think about America, Americans... the behavior of Americans... how we think, etc.  Outside of James Bond, I dare say Americans don't even remember that we were once just a colony LOL That's why we're AMERICA... AMERICA...

+GrissomLovesSara Its not that. We're over that war too. Most Brits will tell you that the sun never set on the British empire but its scary how few could tell you where that empire used to be at different points in time.
Its just you do so many un-British (not-British, anti-British?) things that we love to ridicule. The American dream, the optimism, the land of the free, the conservatives the patriotism, the arrogance, the glory and the attitudes. I'm not saying these aren't British ideas as well but its funnier if we laugh at other places for having them.

GrissomLovesSara You didn't quite get it, never mind.

Where can I find the lyrics? Thanks.

I can see the South playing this in schools

214 people got hit in the face with a cricket bat.

To anyone who may have misinterpreted my last message it was meant as a joke. I love this sketch, Hugh and Stephen. Truth be told be told I don't even know what to say about my country most times so I think this is by far the best way to explain it. Sometimes this country makes me want to shake my head. I do apologize for the fact that the last message was not as clear as I had hoped. That is all

I'm thinking this should be our new national anthem.  

+Philip Croft Definitely a punch at the end.

Finally I've found full A Bit of Fry and Laaaurie movieeee here => https://twitter.com/c9f778f19fb49e673/status/824454297890926593

You think you`d be able to remember the lyrics...?

240p, BBC? Really?

Cuz it was uploaded in 2008.

One of mine was uploaded in 2007 and is 360p - but I guess the BBC don't want people downloading it anywhere near the original quality.

Такой шедевер прервал

i sure love Hugh Laurie!! and steven fryers ;D 

I just imagined it was Bruce Springsteen the whole time. so thanks, Fry. 

I love your acting, Hugh! =)

Is there a lyric video somewhere?

Happy 2014th Birthday, America! Thank you, Dr. House, for the beautiful song! I'm trying to learn the lyrics for my BQ party.

Ronin Dave America (as in name) the country, not the piece of land on which it technically sits, is not 2014 years old.

Neither is the land on which it technically sits.

Happy Independence Day! But why is an Englishman singing about the U.S.? :P

I have to assume you didn't watch through to the end