I like Laurie and find him funny but i caught a clip of this the other day and forgot how downright dreadful Lauries accent is in this. it sounds like someone doing a charicature of an American accent.
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Are you really serious? I would love to watch you try and replace your accent with a different one for a show 8 seasons long with an average of 15 episodes. Hugh Laurie did it amazingly and I doubt you have any room to judge. He's one of the actors that's managed to get his accent down almost perfect.
You're not American but you're trying to convince us that HE doesn't have an American accent down right? Yeah, sounds kinda stupid to me. You wouldn't know in the first place.
Hugh Laurie even holds his accent when he flubs and between takes. His American accent is flawless.. House has just the generic kind of American accent expected from someone who grew up as a Navy Brat (Marines but whatever).
I find it funny how it's pretty much only Brits that complain about Hugh's American accent on House.
I'm a bit critical when it comes to actors using American, and in particular, New England regional accents when I'm watching something and have been a fan of Laurie's since "Blackadder." That said, I thought he nailed it. Never once did his American accent take me out of the show. I bought it all the way. Seems like the problem certain people are having with it lies more with them, than Laurie's performance.
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I've lived in the U.S. for sixty-four years and have spoken American English for about sixty-three. Hugh Laurie's American accent is perfect. I remember being amazed the day I read that he is British.
shareIt's been a long time since I've seen it, but the thing I most remember about his American accent -- other than how much it had improved from when he was young -- was that he didn't understand what Peter Sellers understood about American accents: we all come from somewhere. Laurie's American accent was so generic it didn't come from anywhere. It wasn't Northeastern, Southern, Memphis, New Orleans, Texan, Californian, Chicagoan. It was the Great American accent, which they used to teach to anyone going into the broadcasting industry -- essentially NO accent. Others have picked up on certain words pronounced wrong, but there's still that problem of his not really having a dialect to go with the American accent.
share". . .he didn't understand what Peter Sellers understood about American accents: we all come from somewhere."
Wrong. Hilariously so. You either missed much of the previous discussion, or are terrible at reading comprehension. Or both? Shrug. In any case, any thinking human being should be able to understand that there are MANY people who *aren't* "from somewhere." Army brats (like the House character), people whose parents relocate repeatedly for job reasons, kids who lose their parents and become itinerant, kids whose parents divorce and either or both parents move repeatedly, wealthy families with multiple homes, etc, etc.
His accent is such a non-issue I'd be amazed this post exists. But this is, of course, the internet. . .where dumb takes thrive.
I watched this show for years and had no idea he was British until I saw him on a late night talk show. It was a complete shock to me.
shareI'm impressed that you read every word of an entire thread before picking one post to reply to. Yes, I did miss all that. And I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't come from somewhere. Bruce Willis was an Army brat. Both my parents were in the military. People pick up word choices and pronunciations from a number of places, but primarily their parents. And when people park themselves for a number of years in one place, they tend to pick up that accent.
But what do I know? I've just lived on the planet for 68 years, live in a state where more people come from somewhere else than here, and am fascinated by how people talk.
Actually, if anyone heard him do an American accent when he was in his twenties, we should all be grateful he learned to do as well as he did. He was absolutely ghastly.
*Fascinating* how you're Determined to prove to everyone how bad you are at critical thinking.
You started by assuming I read "every word of an entire thread," then proceeded from this cracked assumption to a number of irrelevant observations, missed connections, and random blather.
Hilarious that you cite your experience, and the exemplar Bruce Willis, and think it's reasonable to extrapolate to the entire world from there.
Once again, for the cheap seats: your claim that "everyone is from somewhere," and your subsequent idea that therefore there are no accents that are "indiscriminate," "generic," or however else you want to say it, is. . .wait for it. . .flatly WRONG. Period.
You can accept that, or you can continue to embarrass yourself. Shrug.
My failure to begin with according to you was that I hadn't read what people had said. No, I hadn't. But that wasn't your point. Hugh Laurie doing a mediocre American accent -- better than many, but not as good as the greats is your talking point, kinda, and I'm wrong because not everyone "comes from somewhere," like Army brats, of which Bruce Willis is an example. So obviously Army brats aren't a great example.
Everyone IS from somewhere. You just have to have an ear sensitive enough to hear it. You don't. Even those who speak what used to be called the Great American Accent have variations.
Glad you're a fan of his "American" accent. I, of course, am the wrongest person to ever be wrong on IMDb OR MovieChat.
You, on the other hand, are proving yourself to be smarter than a roomful of Thomas Sowells. I bow to your magnificence.
Please, do put me in my place one more time. It's the smugness that I find so hilarious!
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You really are terrible at this, huh?
You continue your pattern of failure. Basic reading comprehension seems beyond you, so maybe sit down w/someone who loves you and have them walk through what's already been discussed. Because my "talking point" seems to persistently escape you. Simple as it is.
The phrase "mediocre American accent" has no currency, so no idea how to even help you through that concept. And while you're far from the wrongest ever, you're Exactly Wrong here, regardless of how many ways your "sensitive" @$$ finds to tilt back your head and bray the same nonsense.
Elaborate shrug. You've mistaken amusement for smugness. Pray, continue. . .I find you likewise hilarious.
Yes, it's terrible. I'm not even American, but I'm able to tell he's a Brit putting on an accent.
shareHouse’ voice has always sounded unnatural to me. Whatever he is doing to put on the accent, it sounds like he is constantly choking. When you see Hugh Laurie speaking in interviews, he is much more relaxed and laid back, even his mannerisms are completely different.
shareLMAO. . .I got the same impression. It's almost as though he's creating this character, and portraying it down to the merest nuance, simply because the cameras are on.
Wild.