Apparently most Americans don’t know that award winning actor Hugh Laurie, currently starring in a new series of House M.D., is English. His accent is so good that they instantly assume he has the right to bear arms and shoot trespassers like the rest of them. We in England however, tend to sit in front of our TVs, mouths half open, in a state of semi-crazed incredulity thinking “Bertie Wooster, its Bertie bloody Wooster!”

Not content with getting Hollywood to rewrite our history, or dragging us into foreign adventures that ensure we will never win the Eurovision Song contest again, they take one of our most beloved public school geeks, give him a stubble a spray tan and a new accent, and suddenly he’s attractive. Oh the absolute cheek of it! Unsurprisingly Hugh is sticking to his new American look, as evidenced by his recent appearance with Keanu Reeves in Street Kings, where he plays US cop Captain Biggs.

But we in the UK should feel cheated, because we all know that Hugh Laurie belongs in a blazer and tie, sat in front of a bowl of treacle, and saying “rather!” whilst getting smacked around the head by Rowan Atkinson. Really, it’s about time this country stood up for itself.

Hugh Laurie can be seen as Dr. Gregory House in the Fox series House M.D. and frequent repeats of Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster are aired on UKTV Gold and other digital comedy channels.

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