A woman in the UK wrote a critique of House M.D., which she had only just started watching - talk about late to the party! - and Hugh Laurie personally responded to the criticism.

Leo Kearse shares the story and his own role in the controversy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9PRdrvmxc [12 minutes]

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rhino <user3015@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

A woman in the UK wrote a critique of House M.D., which she had only
just started watching - talk about late to the party! - and Hugh Laurie >personally responded to the criticism.

Leo Kearse shares the story and his own role in the controversy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9PRdrvmxc [12 minutes]

Did she see an episode? No! The patient didn't neaarly die. Some weeks,
they literally killed, then revived, the patient. Some patients were
killed multiple times!

it was enjoyable, although not every week, but much of the drama was ridiculous.

The writers made a perfectly valid point, in most diagnosis scenes, that
other doctors assumed one disease and then ignored all the symptoms that
didn't fit and never sought a different diagnosis.

The problem was that House somehow recognized the 1 in 100,000 patient
who got the unusual symptom. No one could memorize that many papers.

Quite a lot of it was entertaining to excellent, which is why I stuck
with it for all 8 seasons.

I've mentioned this before. The producers had no clue who Hugh Laurie
was. I'd seen his comedy bits with Stephen Fry, which were sampled
whenever we got a retrospective on British comedy. But somehow they had
never heard of Jeeves and Wooster, which aired in the United States as
foreign programming. How do you work in tv utterly without knowledge of
tv?

He was in Africa on location. He did an audition tape in the bathroom of
his hotel room because the acoustics were better. They had no idea he
wasn't an American.

I only tried the show because I wanted to see if Bertie Wooster could
play a doctor, but producers thought he was a complete unknown in
America or, apparently, on television worldwide.

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Verily, in article <110msbn$3q0kh$3@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com
deliver unto us this message:

rhino <user3015@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

A woman in the UK wrote a critique of House M.D., which she had only
just started watching - talk about late to the party! - and Hugh Laurie >personally responded to the criticism.

Leo Kearse shares the story and his own role in the controversy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9PRdrvmxc [12 minutes]

Did she see an episode? No! The patient didn't neaarly die. Some weeks,
they literally killed, then revived, the patient. Some patients were
killed multiple times!

it was enjoyable, although not every week, but much of the drama was ridiculous.

I watched this video and read the tweets embedded in it, and the beef is drastically overblown. She posted a bit of snark about an old show,
Laurie had been drinking and snarked back, and then idjits overreacted
to tweets which weren't exactly white-hot flames. They resolved their differences like adults, to the disappointment of some.

The YouTuber is trying to make her sound bad by reading her tweets in a
silly and exaggerated cadence, but it only emphasizes that the tweets themselves aren't bad. He also calls Laurie a pussy for being
gentlemanly and taking responsibility for his own part. I don't respect
this guy.

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On 6/14/2026 3:18 PM, The True Melissa wrote:

Verily, in article <110msbn$3q0kh$3@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com deliver unto us this message:

rhino <user3015@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

A woman in the UK wrote a critique of House M.D., which she had only
just started watching - talk about late to the party! - and Hugh Laurie
personally responded to the criticism.

Leo Kearse shares the story and his own role in the controversy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9PRdrvmxc [12 minutes]

Did she see an episode? No! The patient didn't neaarly die. Some weeks,
they literally killed, then revived, the patient. Some patients were
killed multiple times!

it was enjoyable, although not every week, but much of the drama was
ridiculous.

I watched this video and read the tweets embedded in it, and the beef is drastically overblown. She posted a bit of snark about an old show,
Laurie had been drinking and snarked back, and then idjits overreacted
to tweets which weren't exactly white-hot flames. They resolved their differences like adults, to the disappointment of some.

The YouTuber is trying to make her sound bad by reading her tweets in a
silly and exaggerated cadence, but it only emphasizes that the tweets themselves aren't bad. He also calls Laurie a pussy for being
gentlemanly and taking responsibility for his own part. I don't respect
this guy.

His "silly and exaggerated cadence" overpowers the positions adnaces
with it, and works better onstage (his milieu, afaik) as entertainment. Meanwhile, I thought Hugh Laurie's (first) response was delightful, and
I wish I could be so urbane and witty when sober.



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