[finnigan2]

" And was a brilliant comedian in the "Blackadder" and "Jeeves" series."

- He was perfect in both roles. I've never seen an actor who was able to portray a well meaning fool the way he could. You just had to look at his eyes. They were just like window panes into an empty head with nobody home. I just had to look at his close up and start to laugh even before he'd uttered a line.

[churchillbuff]

You just had to look at his eyes. They were just like window panes into an empty head with nobody home."""

Exactly. I was trying to place this Hugh Laurie, and then read the newspaper article that said he was Bertie Wooster, and I suddenly remembered. The characters are so different -- and he plays them both to a T -- that you couldn't immediately look at House and say, "hey, that's Bertie!"