
his accent is terrible, I keep expecting him to break into that 'dammit jon!' sketch he used to do with Stephen Fry
EDIT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7o8FbGCR9U&feature=related
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Wed 18 Jun 2008, 13:19,
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EDIT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7o8FbGCR9U&feature=related

I know but who on earth, trying to cast that role, would have looked at an episode of Jeeves and Wooster or Blackadder and thought 'that's our man'?
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Wed 18 Jun 2008, 13:20,
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except about that mad Yank program with Eddie Izzard in it.
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Wed 18 Jun 2008, 13:21,
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Well no, I think he just went to an audition.
"Damn blast and an extra helping of hell for the weekend!"
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Wed 18 Jun 2008, 13:22,
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"Damn blast and an extra helping of hell for the weekend!"

but I feel being ebst mates with Sir Stephen Fry probably didn't do him any harm.
He is officially the most popular Brit in America, after Judi Dench
EDIT... sorry... DAMN IT EVERY WHICH WAY BUT ONE
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Wed 18 Jun 2008, 13:23,
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He is officially the most popular Brit in America, after Judi Dench
EDIT... sorry... DAMN IT EVERY WHICH WAY BUT ONE

Some of the casting people didn't realise he wasn't American when he was auditioning.
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