ABSTRACT
Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is both a gifted diagnostician and an unpleasant human being. He is also curiously likeable. Indeed Hugh Laurie (despite the change in accent and the newly acquired walking stick) is now seemingly inseparable from his character in House. He has become a somewhat improbable heartthrob, at least so far as UK viewers are concerned, where he is better known as a comic actor from television series such as Jeeves and Wooster (1990) and Blackadder (1982/3).
