I’ve just on a whim gone searching for information about Hugh Laurie, and discovered [sadly] that there doesn’t seem to be an official home page, or even a vaguely useful site with decent information about him. Not in the top 20 google results anyway. I find it mildly depressing when a talented writer/performer doesn’t even get an "unauthorized" page keeping track of their achievements. I mean the internet has, like, a trillion pages out there, and I can’t even find a single decent one about a guy who has performed in several highly acclaimed UK TV shows, as well as a fabulous adaptation of PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster. It’s just so crappy that IMDB’s tiny bio on him [and they don’t even have a headshot!] is about as good as it seems to get! It’s not as though I’m a raving fan boy, but it just seems stupid that someone as talented and humorous as he doesn’t have a web site, while a bunch of other unremarkables [like me] do.

I think I’d just like it if more celebrities got into the idea of talking about their lives and careers like Wil Wheaton does so honestly. If they did it would make the internet feel less like the most boring room at a party.

Maybe the reason I’m saddened is that I grew up assuming that famous people became famous because of their burning desire to share themselves and their talents with the rest of the world… but the relative scarcity of their voices on the internet contradicts this view, demonstrating that by and large they really don’t have anything to say to ‘us’, other than "please see my next movie". And to be fair, why should Hugh Laurie want to tell me what kind of day he’s had anyway?

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