Nigel Pinchley is Hugh Laurie is Nigel Pinchley

Last night, Scott and I were talking about House MD (he has the Season 1 DVDs borrowed from me) and he asked me if I knew that Hugh Laurie voiced one of the British characters that take over The Drunken Clam in the Family Guy episode, One If By Clam, Two If By Sea. Well, I did not know this. So I checked IMDb, and the character that he voiced was the main British guy, the eeeeeevil Nigel Pinchley.

I'm not sure what to do with this information. For some reason, I'm completely amazed when someone has two natural-sounding accents. It could be because I'm a simpleton or something. (Incidentally, why is every British person named either Nigel or Simon? Hmmm.) And I wonder why they didn't let Hugh keep his British accent for House? Maybe his wittiness doesn't come off as well in a British accent. Or maybe Chase (Jesse Spencer) filled the non-American accent quota for the cast. Who knows. One last House related comment - Season 2 will be released on DVD on August 22 - head on over to Amazon and preorder, and I get a wee percentage of the purchase price. And you get a season of a great show - with ticks in unmentionable places, practical joke wars, and gunshots. Great stuff.