this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
795 points (98.4% liked)

Funny: Home of the Haha

5892 readers
1377 users here now

Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.

Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!

Our Rules:

  1. Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.

  2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.

  3. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.


Other Communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm sure many (American) people think Hugh Laurie is like House in real life too ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Dagamant 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

American here, Iโ€™m a big fan of Stephen Fry so I knew about him from A Bit of Fry and Laurie. I know Iโ€™m an outlier in the statistics.

[โ€“] kylua 1 points 1 year ago

Similar story but I'm Italian

[โ€“] Thrashy 1 points 1 year ago

Jeeves and Wooster here, but lump me into that outlier group with you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

British people know how sophisticated he really is

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was VERY surprised when I heard his real accent as a kid.

[โ€“] Death_Equity 2 points 1 year ago

So were the production team of House. They totally thought he was an American and were surprised when he first spoke with them in his natural voice.