Fry and Laurie

For the television series, see A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

Fry and Laurie
Hugh Laurie (left) and Stephen Fry (right) in a sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Medium	Television, film, radio
Nationality	English
Years active	1982–2010 (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 & Laurie Jeeves and Wooster Blackadder
Former members	Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie

Fry and Laurie were a successful English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. The duo consisted of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who 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 Wooster's valet Jeeves. They also gained prominence through their own sketch show, A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

Since the conclusion of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, both have gone on to have successful solo careers in television, acting and writing, amongst other things though they still remain friends. More recently, Fry and Laurie have expressed interest in a continued partnership and reunited for a retrospective show in 2010 entitled Fry and Laurie Reunited.

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 in the episode "Bambi")
• Weekend In Wallop (1984) (ITV)
• Saturday Live (1986) (C4)
• Blackadder II (1986) (BBC1) (two episodes together)
• Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) (BBC2) (appearing in the second episode)
• First Aids (1987) (ITV)
• Blackadder the Third (1987) (BBC1) (one episode together)
• The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987) (ITV)
• A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1987 pilot, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995) (BBC2, BBC1)
• Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria! (1988)
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) (BBC1)
• The New Statesman (appearing 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 episode together)
• Fry and Laurie Reunited (2010) (GOLD)
• Fry and Laurie worked with magician and sceptic James Randi on an episode of Randi's British television show.

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 have also appeared together in various television advertisements, interviews, audio books and other projects.

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