Fry and Laurie

This article is about the comedy double act. For their television series, see "A Bit of Fry and Laurie".

Fry and Laurie
Medium	Television, Film, Radio
Nationality	English
Years active	1982-present (intermittent since early 1990s)
Genres	Sketch comedy Character comedy
Subject(s)	Class relations British culture
Influences	Monty Python, P. G. Wodehouse
Notable works and roles	A Bit of Fry and Laurie Jeeves and Wooster
Members	Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are a successful English comedy double act mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. Having met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson (whilst all attended the University of Cambridge), Fry and Laurie have since collaborated on numerous projects together, including Jeeves and Wooster, in which Laurie portrayed Bertie Wooster, and Fry portrayed Jeeves (Wooster's valet). They have also gained prominence through their performances in Blackadder, as well as their own sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Although they have accomplished numerous successful solo projects (in the fields of acting and writing, among others), and it has been a while since they have actively collaborated, both have expressed interest in a continued partnership.

Contents 1 List of collaborations 1.1 Television programmes 1.2 Films 1.3 Radio shows 1.4 Published materials 1.5 Miscellaneous 2 Trivia 3 See also 4 External links

List of collaborations

Television programmes

• Cambridge Footlights Revue (1982) (BBC2)
• There's Nothing to Worry About (1982)
• Alfresco (1983) (ITV)
• The Crystal Cube (1983) (BBC2)
• The Young Ones (1984) (BBC2) (appearing only in the episode "Bambi")
• Weekend In Wallop (1984) (ITV)
• Saturday Live (1986) (C4)
• Blackadder II (1986) (BBC1) (only two episodes together)
• Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) (BBC2) (appearing only in the second episode)
• First Aids (1987) (ITV)
• Blackadder the Third (1987) (BBC1) (only one episode together)
• The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987) (ITV)
• A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987 pilot, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995) (BBC2, BBC1)
• Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria! (1988)
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) (BBC1)
• The New Statesman (appearing only in the episode "The Haltemprice Bunker") (1989)
• A Night Of Comic Relief 2 (1989) (BBC1)
• Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) (BBC1)
• The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (1989) (ITV)
• Hysteria 2 (1989) (C4)
• Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93) (ITV)
• Comic Relief - 1991 (1991) (BBC1)
• Hysteria III (1991) (C4)
• Fry and Laurie Host A Christmas Night with the Stars (1994) (BBC2)
• Live from the Lighthouse (1998)
• The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything (2000) (BBC1)
• Blackadder: Back & Forth (2000) (Sky One)
• Fortysomething (2003) (one show together)
• QI (2003) (BBC2) (one show together)

Films

• Peter's Friends (1992)
• Spiceworld (1997) (cameos)

Radio shows

• Saturday Night Fry on BBC Radio 4 in 1988 (five shows together)
• Whose Line is it Anyway? on BBC Radio 4 in 1988 (one show together)

Published materials

• Published television scripts
  • A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1990)
  • A Bit More Fry & Laurie (1991)
  • 3 Bits of Fry & Laurie (1992)
  • Fry & Laurie Bit No. 4 (1995)

Miscellaneous

• Fry and Laurie appeared together in a promotional video for ICL to promote the Series 39 mainframes in 1984.
• Fry & Laurie have also appeared together in various television advertisements, interviews, audio books, and other projects.

Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (May 2008)

• Frequent collaborators of Fry and Laurie have included: Rowan Atkinson, Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Phyllida Law, Tony Robinson, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson.
• Fry was best man to Laurie at his wedding, and is also godfather to all three of Laurie's children.
• At some point during their friendship, Fry and Laurie became interested in magic tricks. The pair were able to use their skills at card tricks to surprise and perplex TV host Terry Wogan during a televised interview with him. Fry and Laurie also worked with magician and skeptic James Randi on an episode of Randi's British television show.[1] Fry also appeared on an episode of Derren Brown's television show where he was amazed by the card trick Brown performed.
• A preface to Laurie's novel The Gun Seller begins, "I am indebted to the writer and broadcaster Stephen Fry for his comments." Fry's novel Making History is dedicated (among others) to Laurie's three children. Fry's autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot, makes a few references to Laurie (although the book chronicles Fry's life before the pair met), and includes a picture of the two of them engaged in a chess match in Fry's college room in Cambridge. Fry's fourth novel, The Stars' Tennis Balls, is simply dedicated to "M' Colleague" — a sobriquet that Fry and Laurie began using during the fourth series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie to refer to each other.
• At Laurie's 2006 win at the Golden Globes Awards (for his portrayal of Gregory House on FOX's successful show House), both his wife Jo and Fry flew from England to attend the ceremony with him. Laurie thanked Fry for his presence.

See also

• Stephen Fry
• Hugh Laurie
• A Bit of Fry and Laurie
• Jeeves and Wooster
• Blackadder

External links

• Stephen Fry at the Internet Movie Database
• Hugh Laurie at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of 1982 Cambridge Footlights show
• Stephen Fry's Official Website
• The BBC's pages:
  • A Bit of Fry and Laurie
  • Blackadder Goes Forth
  • Blackadder the Third
  • Blackadder II
  • QI
  • The Young Ones
• "0.567359" gag

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