Fry and Laurie for presidents

"Then Betty took a bit of better butter and put it in her bitter batter and made her bitter batter better. Something like that. It was before the next war of course." [Hugh Laurie, A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, 1989]

"O yes, my wife wears the trousers. No question. But we're hoping to get a second pair some time next year." [Stephen Fry, idem]

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Pour m'avoir embarqué dans ABOFAL, des mercis infinis à Thierry et à certain visiteur.

Comments

[T.]

Ah, my precious friend. J'ignorais le détail de tout cela. Merci pour ce complément d'érudition.

[th]

You're welcome !

Pour info, la citation de Laurie fait allusion à une nursery rhyme connue de tous les marmots anglais (et donc immédiatement identifiable par son public). D'où le décalage supplémentaire de la chute, déjà très drôle en soi.

Betty Botter bought some butter
But, she said, the butter's bitter;
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better.
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter,
And she put it in her batter
And the batter was not bitter.
So t'was better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.

Talent à part, faut-il s'étonner, que des enfants nourris d'Edward Lear, de Lewis Carroll et de comptines nonsensiques deviennent plus tard les Monty Python ou Fry and Laurie ?