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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
In the neon-coded chaos of the ToyVerse—a hyperactive digital universe where slapstick violence is entertainment—lives Buddy, a cheerful ragdoll programmed to be beaten, blown up, and bounced back again and again. But when a mysterious glitch shows him a glimpse beyond the game, Buddy begins to question everything he knows. Realizing he's just a disposable character in a stress-relief app controlled by humans, Buddy refuses to accept his fate. With the help of a band of eccentric NPCs—including a chainsaw-wielding queen, a sheep with electric powers, and a half-deleted madman—he launches a digital rebellion against deletion. As the game update approaches, Buddy must rise from comic relief to unlikely hero, rewriting the rules of the system itself. Explosive, hilarious, and surprisingly heartfelt, Kick the Buddy: Breakpoint is a wild ride through pixels, purpose, and punching back.
