This is a sketch from A Bit of Fry & Laurie

First Kiss

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Hugh
My first kiss. I suppose everyone can remember their first kiss. Nothing quite lives up to it, does it? I was eleven years old I remember and my great uncle had come to stay for a few weeks on parole. We used to play a game where I would sit on his lap and he would pretend to be a train. Then one day ...

Stephen comes on.

Stephen
Hugh, Hugh, what are you saying?
Hugh
I was telling the ladies and gentlemen about my first kiss.
Stephen
Yes, but Hugh, this is a delicate area, I really don't think -
Hugh
We agreed that "A Bit Of Fry & Laurie" was going to be an arena for the expression of all kinds of ideas and experiences that wouldn't normally find their way on to television, didn't we?
Stephen
We did, we did agree.
Hugh
So my surprise at feeling a tongue suddenly ...
Stephen
Hugh, there are valid arenas and valid arenas. This is not one of them.
Hugh
But I want that experience to be understood, it may help others to know that they're not the first to feel that wet ...
Stephen
Hugh. Believe me this is a whole can of worms you're opening here, and if there is one single taboo left, one unmentionable subject not fit for comic treatment, you've just mentioned it.
Hugh
But surely there's nothing so very odd about it. There I was, on my great-uncle's lap and in came Lucy.
Stephen
Lucy.
Hugh
Yes, Lucy.
Stephen
And how old was Lucy?
Hugh
Oh, twelve I think. And I kissed her.
Stephen
You kissed her.
Hugh
Yes.
Stephen
You've done this deliberately, haven't you?
Hugh
Done what?
Stephen
You set it up to make it sound as if -
Hugh
As is what?
Stephen
Never mind. Get on with it.
Hugh
All right. So I kissed Lucy, and was very surprised to feel her tongue pop out. It was my first real snog and I loved it. You can imagine that I fell in love instantly. Sadly the next year Lucy developed distemper and had to be put down.
Stephen
Doh.

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Stephen
(As woman) Well, I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.