Claire Foy reads a hilarious letter from Phyllida Law to her mother-in-law

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  • Here's Claire Foy with a terrific reading of a hilarious letter Scottish actress Phyllida Law wrote to her mother-in-law, originally performed at the Union Chhapel, London.
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  • @marcowen1506
    @marcowen1506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    I am in a library and , thanks to Claire Foy's perfect delivery and the most English letter about a simple bodily function, I have tears streaming down my face in mirth and effort not to laugh.

    • @atyourservice
      @atyourservice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well, you shouldn't have replaced the garlic with an onion. Of course at some point it will have made itself a way upwards and make you cry. Why the hell would you even try that in a library. Really !

    • @antoinepetrov
      @antoinepetrov 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "The most English letter" written by a Scotswoman.

  • @thexxit
    @thexxit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    I love Phyllida Law - she's truly a treasure! Her book of letters is amazing, I highly recommend it (Notes to My Mother in Law). The Emma in her letter is obviously her daughter, Emma Thompson. I wish Phyllida amazing health, we can't lose someone as talented as that!

    • @EterPuralis
      @EterPuralis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      ... this s Emma Thompson's mother? Well, that explains a lot

    • @SenselessUsername
      @SenselessUsername ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@EterPuralis Yes... I found this out when watching The Winter Guest in the cinema, which has them in the mother+daughter roles and is just incomparable.

    • @famprima
      @famprima ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This explains so much about Emma.

    • @jeanniesegall287
      @jeanniesegall287 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's so clear where Emma Thompson gets gets her wit and brilliant writing style from!

    • @floralovespringandflowers6227
      @floralovespringandflowers6227 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      She is also Sophie Thomsons mother 😄.

  • @clairejoicey7648
    @clairejoicey7648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    It was off the back of this video and Claire’s performance that I bought Phyllida’s book that the letter comes out of. It is HYSTERICALLY funny and moving and I cannot recommend it enough. x

  • @eliameci1325
    @eliameci1325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Claire is a treasure
    Been loving her since the crown. Her delivery was beautifull. And P.L is of clurse hilarious

    • @shillanassi
      @shillanassi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you should see her anne boleyn

  • @sarahbaker379
    @sarahbaker379 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Now I see where Emma and Sophie gets their humor from

  • @mattdavis1735
    @mattdavis1735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    And Claire completely nailed reading that! LOL!

  • @linnulman7138
    @linnulman7138 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think she just became my favorite writer.

  • @mattdavis1735
    @mattdavis1735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    LOL!!! I don't care how mad you at someone...if they tell you that story from their life... you gotta forgive them! LOL!

  • @chrisg7891
    @chrisg7891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks I needed this today!

  • @gillsmith3382
    @gillsmith3382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Haven’t laughed like that in a long time 😂🤣

  • @Swimdeep
    @Swimdeep ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love anything Claire Foy does…

  • @bregieirofernandes
    @bregieirofernandes ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Claire in glasses is doing things to me

    • @antoinepetrov
      @antoinepetrov 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What kinds of things, good or bad?

  • @chipworrell6025
    @chipworrell6025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This was awesome....

  • @ellanorevannin4147
    @ellanorevannin4147 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Makes me think of my mother and I. This happens where we all burst out laughing and my mother thinks we are laughing at her. We aren't. And most of the time she isn't even part of the subject either!🤣
    Next time I should write her a letter of explanation.

  • @adolfopena7358
    @adolfopena7358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    She looks great with glasses.

  • @IloveHobbits1995
    @IloveHobbits1995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +294

    Hit tip: do not watch this while eating couscous. You WILL accidentally inhale the grains and seriously consider how Heimliching yourself works for a full sixty seconds.

    • @ginnylorenz5265
      @ginnylorenz5265 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dear llovehobbits1995, thank you for the chuckle!!

    • @anniejderose1234
      @anniejderose1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂😂

    • @rmanningau
      @rmanningau ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or drink coffee.

    • @marthacastro9162
      @marthacastro9162 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank Gd it wasn't peanuts! Lol 😂

    • @dw3403
      @dw3403 ปีที่แล้ว

      You throw yourself on a table or back of a couch hitting the edge right under the rib cage.

  • @dg8620
    @dg8620 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Phyllida Law is Emma Thompson's mother btw.

  • @marthaelenariveragarcia5752
    @marthaelenariveragarcia5752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Amazing!!

  • @lyarnes
    @lyarnes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    What a glorious way to start the week...a full bodied guffaw about a fart 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @labratamber
    @labratamber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    You can easily tell where Emma gets her humor

    • @the_mia_mia
      @the_mia_mia ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who is Emma?

    • @ayusoenaryo6809
      @ayusoenaryo6809 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@the_mia_mia Dame Emma Thompson, Phyllida's daughter.

  • @brucemah609
    @brucemah609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The BEST..❤️❤️❤️

  • @qwertyTRiG
    @qwertyTRiG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I still see Adora Belle Dearheart.

  • @maisvidaisencao3370
    @maisvidaisencao3370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    she is the best!

    • @mattdavis1735
      @mattdavis1735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She is! Super kind too! Google...claire foy lesotho...so wonderful what she did there 😊

  • @julianielsen1885
    @julianielsen1885 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I so love this channel.

  • @barryispuzzled
    @barryispuzzled 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Very nicely done, Claire! :)

  • @jewel65
    @jewel65 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a great letter!

  • @MelissaThompson432
    @MelissaThompson432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    See, I always appreciated Emma T. for her forthrightness. I claimed it as a Thompson trait. Apparently I was wrong, but I would gladly claim equally spurious kinship with Emma's mother.

  • @laurenconrad1799
    @laurenconrad1799 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I'm going to be haunted for the next week from imagining what a garlic fart must smell like.

  • @june-fc9ui
    @june-fc9ui 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    god i love her

  • @pltopper771
    @pltopper771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this is great

  • @piaauman9020
    @piaauman9020 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    that was brilliant

  • @raquelrivas2431
    @raquelrivas2431 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Amazing. Love your culture. I am from Latin America.

  • @HeatherHotcakes
    @HeatherHotcakes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is why the acronym TMI was created.

  • @violabeth
    @violabeth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love you girl💙🇺🇸🇬🇧💙

  • @chrissiem3958
    @chrissiem3958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Wow..... that is commitment to health right there: shoving garlic up your hoop 😂🤦🏻‍♀️😵

    • @SheilaR.08
      @SheilaR.08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wait til you hear about the yeast infection remedy. 😁

    • @daniellamcgee4251
      @daniellamcgee4251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SheilaR.08 Yo got to be committed to that treatment.

  • @linnulman7138
    @linnulman7138 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for book recommend, everyone.

  • @agam406
    @agam406 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love her voice.

  • @janetovens756
    @janetovens756 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved her in Peter's Friends

  • @mooniejohnson
    @mooniejohnson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well, that certainly took an unexpected turn...

  • @marcohghar
    @marcohghar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hmm, that was very cheeky!

  • @beckv8526
    @beckv8526 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What a brave letter! Hilarious!

  • @reneeyounk9663
    @reneeyounk9663 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Omg! Yes!!!

  • @helenaaraujo6324
    @helenaaraujo6324 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Claire❤❤❤❤❤

  • @elizabethturner2421
    @elizabethturner2421 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You could dine out on that story for the rest of your life.

  • @mikes5637
    @mikes5637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    If I was a theatre agent and someone proposed a live show in which celebrities read out other people's letters I would have shown them the door.
    Then I would have watched these and kicked myself up the a**e.

  • @KLJ1981
    @KLJ1981 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We really are losing the art of beautiful communication… so sad

  • @helenl3193
    @helenl3193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Slightly disappointed that they missed the opportunity for a "butt of the joke" line, but otherwise great! 😂

  • @urskaska
    @urskaska 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Isn't Phyllida Law Emma Thompson's mother?

    • @thexxit
      @thexxit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes, and her book is amazing!

    • @M.Campbell
      @M.Campbell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thexxit Which one did you read? She seems to have written at least three.

    • @thexxit
      @thexxit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@M.Campbell I have read all three, and all are very conversational in nature and very entertaining in my opinion. However, this one was in the book "Notes to my Mother In Law." I found it to be an interesting insight into their day to day life told through real letters - reading like little vignettes of the day. Some were hilarious, some were ordinary, and some were slightly sad.... There is an anthology of all three books, I think, called Three Mothers and a Camel if you want to save money/space on your bookshelf!

    • @M.Campbell
      @M.Campbell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thexxit Thank you! I'll look for it. I appreciate the tip. I'm always on the lookout for good books and, if this letter is any indication, her writing is something I would definitely enjoy.

  • @deejayk5939
    @deejayk5939 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg!

  • @mariannegeraud6318
    @mariannegeraud6318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    There you go...another use for garlic!!

  • @ingvarhallstrom2306
    @ingvarhallstrom2306 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ah, the lost art of writing letters between family members. In my family only when someone has truly fallen from grace.

  • @lisahodges8299
    @lisahodges8299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh poo! Oh no! Such a difficult letter to write.
    Birdy

  • @jandrews6254
    @jandrews6254 ปีที่แล้ว

    How perfectly British

  • @anyahathaway9613
    @anyahathaway9613 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just farted while laughing.

  • @somefactsthatneedstobeface6465
    @somefactsthatneedstobeface6465 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    do you people have a podcast?

  • @msamour
    @msamour 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    How do they find these letters!?!

    • @robyn8942
      @robyn8942 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I assume this one came from Phyllida Law's book 'Notes to my Mother-in-law'.

    • @msamour
      @msamour 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robyn8942 the only such book I ever read was "Letters from a nut" by Ted L. Nancy. I thought it was unique in its kind. I guess there are many books that are published that are letter compilations. Thanks for the information.

  • @passiveagressive4983
    @passiveagressive4983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    God this sounds harsh but Claire could play a young Emma Thompson ❤️

    • @lotlot
      @lotlot 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      She’s far too pretty

    • @passiveagressive4983
      @passiveagressive4983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@lotlot yeah, you are just mean

  • @ingridpear1882
    @ingridpear1882 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When was this letter written ,in the 80's when bran was popular? I've never heard the garlic treatment,but there was an 80's book titled The healing foods. And where was this letter obtained? Was it originally private or preformed?

  • @Falcon8913
    @Falcon8913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @psammiad
    @psammiad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I would've loved to hear Phyllida reading it! Claire is wonderful but it doesn't quite capture Phyllie's style.

  • @SubPablum
    @SubPablum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    So this is the day I keep hearing stories about bum stuffing. At least the day is almost over.

  • @zahrasattari8738
    @zahrasattari8738 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm curious to know if that remedy is really helpful? :))

    • @silvasilvasilva
      @silvasilvasilva 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, inquiring minds want to know.

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@silvasilvasilva You both could give it a try. Might pay to leave the windows open though! 😉🙄

  • @thosoz3431
    @thosoz3431 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    More than a few of that audience have forgotten how to laugh.

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I know this says this is addressed to the mother-in-law but, I would swear that this has all the marks of a mother addressing a daughter. And the bit with the garlic fart with the smell positively slew me. Thought I’d mention that. I’m going to have to listen to it again.

  • @h.huffen-puff4105
    @h.huffen-puff4105 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    To put this in writing...?

  • @RussJoysandsorrows
    @RussJoysandsorrows 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was that Cruella not enjoying herself throughout? 🤔

  • @richardl772
    @richardl772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The lady on the left is not amused…..

  • @jacquiliddell1811
    @jacquiliddell1811 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh well

  • @billrey8221
    @billrey8221 ปีที่แล้ว

    This sounds like it might be aimed at Joe Biden??

    • @Levleup
      @Levleup 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What? This has NOTHING to do with politics, at all!

  • @blagger42
    @blagger42 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actors again, boring