I’m a big fan of the television show “House”, and while I knew Hugh Laurie’s British, it never quite registered with me that the American accent he speaks on the show is in fact fake.
Tonight, Laurie was the guest on Conan. I particularly liked the knife story. Here’re the clips:
Part 1
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I’m watching an old episode of The West Wing (titled “In God We Trust”). The Republican candidate for president struggles with the role of religion in American politics as his faith gets called into question by the press. Below is a link to the clips from the episode.
This calls into question the nature of the separation of church and state in this country; and, while this is an issue I find pretty fascinating, the truly interesting thing is that this issue is being brought up by a television program. The show is doing as its creator (Aaron Sorkin) has preached in most (if not all) of his work: to raise the level of debate in this county. I can only hope that this episode was watched by many different sorts of people each with their own varying viewpoints on the matter and jumped on the stage opened by the program and began discussing these things.
I think it’s great.
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