They say never drink and post, but it appears that Hugh Laurie missed the memo.
The British actor has confessed to being “very slightly drunk” when he sent a waspish response to a journalist, who had written a disobliging review of House after watching the Fox series for the first time.
Janet Murray, a British journalist, went viral on X/Twitter over the weekend when she argued that the medical drama, which ended in 2012, has the “same narrative every episode.”
Laurie responded by pointing to other great art forms, including Henry Moore sculptures and Frida Kahlo self-portraits, that were variations on a theme, before harrumphing: “I look forward to your first novel!”
Reflecting on the exchange later, Laurie told Murray: “I’m sorry if people have been having a go at you because of my tweet. Not at all the plan. I was very slightly drunk and already upset about something that had nothing to do with you. 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. I was sticking up for the writers who I adored.
“Obviously I shouldn’t have cited Bach/Kahlo/Moore – asking for trouble – and would have done better to go for the 10,000 blues songs written around the same 12 bar chord structure. I’ve listened to most of them and will keep doing so. Because we love what we love.”
Laurie’s night on the sauce might explain why, in his original response to Murray, he referred to House as being housed at NBC. Though it may have also been a reference to NBCUniversal sibling Universal Television, which produced House.
Laurie apologized to Murray after she revealed that she had been subjected to some “fairly horrific trolling” after her House tweet. “I have enough experience of the media to take it on the chin, as the saying goes. But someone without my background might have found the experience far more distressing,” she wrote.
