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sam_storyteller) wrote2005-07-12 04:00 pm
sam_storyteller) wrote2005-07-12 04:00 pm
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QI RPS: Blessing
Title: Blessing (AD/SF, SF->HL, AD/SL)
Fandom: QI
Notes: I'M GOING TO HELL.
Summary: Alan Davies has a very complicated set of professional working relationships.
Warnings: None.
Originally Posted 01.07.08
Alan and Stephen have a lark sometimes, but Alan's not as dumb as he appears to be on national television thirteen times a year. Some uncharitable bastards might say that the one great love of Stephen's life is Stephen, but Alan knows that it's Laurie, off in America being properly famous. Laurie once shipped a magazine to Stephen, which had an enormous article about the show and some remarks about the sex appeal of Hugh fucking Laurie.
How we laughed the note read, with a little arrow at the bit about the sex appeal. Alan did laugh, because come on, Hugh Laurie's basically famous in the UK for being an idiot and if anyone knows fame via idiocy it's Alan Davies. Stephen laughed a bit but it was obvious he didn't see quite what was so funny. Alan supposed it was different behind the camera, like it is at QI, with its giant symbolic arsehole behind Stephen's head and vastly overwrought klaxon alarms.
Stephen doesn't at all see why it should be funny that anyone thinks Hugh Laurie's a sex symbol.
Anyway, Alan is married and Stephen has a boyfriend and an undying torch for Laurie, so it really is just a lark. And if he's feeling a bit ignored by Stephen there's always Lock. Most of the guests on QI are really sort of amusingly earnest about it all, but Lock and Hall are both about five years old, mentally, and Alan relates really well. Hall's obnoxiously American and quite weird, but Lock once pretended to get eaten by his desk out of boredom. Lock's all right, the sort of man you can go have a drink with and maybe you'll shag or maybe you'll just get arseholed and laugh yourself stupid at three in the morning in some horrible pub in south London.
Alan wonders sometimes if, as an ecologically minded vegetarian neo-hippie fall-guy for a comedy quiz show, perhaps he ought to just come out and be done with it. On the other hand, Hugh Laurie moved ten thousand miles away to a closet with ten locks on the door which is WAY more pathetic, and anyway everyone who watches just assumes he and Fry are doing it regardless of what either of them say.
"Dinner tonight?" Stephen asks, as they disperse into the bowels of the sound-stage after filming.
"Nah, m'going out with Lock," Alan says. Lock, chatting with a Production Assistant, gives them a nod.
"Well, dine safely," Stephen advises with a smile. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Which is Stephen's way of giving a blessing really, Alan supposes.
Fandom: QI
Notes: I'M GOING TO HELL.
Summary: Alan Davies has a very complicated set of professional working relationships.
Warnings: None.
Originally Posted 01.07.08
Alan and Stephen have a lark sometimes, but Alan's not as dumb as he appears to be on national television thirteen times a year. Some uncharitable bastards might say that the one great love of Stephen's life is Stephen, but Alan knows that it's Laurie, off in America being properly famous. Laurie once shipped a magazine to Stephen, which had an enormous article about the show and some remarks about the sex appeal of Hugh fucking Laurie.
How we laughed the note read, with a little arrow at the bit about the sex appeal. Alan did laugh, because come on, Hugh Laurie's basically famous in the UK for being an idiot and if anyone knows fame via idiocy it's Alan Davies. Stephen laughed a bit but it was obvious he didn't see quite what was so funny. Alan supposed it was different behind the camera, like it is at QI, with its giant symbolic arsehole behind Stephen's head and vastly overwrought klaxon alarms.
Stephen doesn't at all see why it should be funny that anyone thinks Hugh Laurie's a sex symbol.
Anyway, Alan is married and Stephen has a boyfriend and an undying torch for Laurie, so it really is just a lark. And if he's feeling a bit ignored by Stephen there's always Lock. Most of the guests on QI are really sort of amusingly earnest about it all, but Lock and Hall are both about five years old, mentally, and Alan relates really well. Hall's obnoxiously American and quite weird, but Lock once pretended to get eaten by his desk out of boredom. Lock's all right, the sort of man you can go have a drink with and maybe you'll shag or maybe you'll just get arseholed and laugh yourself stupid at three in the morning in some horrible pub in south London.
Alan wonders sometimes if, as an ecologically minded vegetarian neo-hippie fall-guy for a comedy quiz show, perhaps he ought to just come out and be done with it. On the other hand, Hugh Laurie moved ten thousand miles away to a closet with ten locks on the door which is WAY more pathetic, and anyway everyone who watches just assumes he and Fry are doing it regardless of what either of them say.
"Dinner tonight?" Stephen asks, as they disperse into the bowels of the sound-stage after filming.
"Nah, m'going out with Lock," Alan says. Lock, chatting with a Production Assistant, gives them a nod.
"Well, dine safely," Stephen advises with a smile. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Which is Stephen's way of giving a blessing really, Alan supposes.