Being a celebrity in the public light means you're bound to get a lot of criticism. Especially if you're a veteran in the scene.
That's the case with Hugh Laurie, and the wildly successful show House, M.D. If you haven't seen it, it's a medical drama with a wacky doctor who seems to break every doctor oath possible - but he always gets it right.
But when you've seen and heard all the criticism, and some people just can't seem to shut up, sometimes you just gotta let off some steam. And after one or two drinks, that tongue-biting doesn't always work so well.
And Hugh Laurie fired some wild shots at a critic. According to People, the original critique had come from the formulaic approach to the hit medical drama. Janet Murray explained basically every episode in the show in a pretty funny way:
"Late to the party, but I've started watching Season 1 of House. Same narrative every episode:"
"Patient has mysterious illness. Hugh Laurie (House) gets diagnosis wrong. Patient nearly dies. Hugh Laurie gets diagnosis wrong again... Hugh Laurie has last minute leftfield idea. Gets diagnosis right."
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Hugh Laurie's Response to the Critic Was Crazy
And Hugh Laurie chose not to pull any punches in his response. "Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren't happy."
He went on to massively critique her "trenchant analysis", comparing her thoughts to several legendary artists. "JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself."
He Apologised After the Fact
But, he appeared to be quite apologetic once he had sobered up. He began by lambasting himself by admitting he was "very slightly drunk", as well as "already upset about something that had nothing to do with you."
He continued the self-critical tirade by saying "If it's any comfort, I got it in the neck too. I'm a thin-skinned twat, apparently, even though it wasn't my skin." He added that the reason behind his rant was to "stick up for the writers who I adored."
Hugh Laurie, who is also a blues musician, said that it may have been better to "go for the 10,000 blues songs written around the same 12 bar chord structure" rather than uptight figures like Bach and Kahlo.
