“I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture.It could rain in a room this big.”

English actor, comedian, and musician

Hugh Laurie is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Born James Hugh Calum Laurie, he first came to wider attention through his comedy partnership with Stephen Fry, in the double act Fry and Laurie. He and Fry worked together on several projects in the 1980s and 1990s, including the BBC sketch series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. Laurie also appeared in three series of the period comedy Blackadder from 1986 to 1989.