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 | |
|---|---|
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| 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 |
| 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 (whilst both 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).
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.
List of collaborations
Television programmes
- QI (2003) (BBC2) (one show together)
- Fortysomething (2003) (one show together)
- Blackadder: Back & Forth (2000) (Sky One)
- The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything (2000) (BBC1)
- Live from the Lighthouse (1998)
- Fry and Laurie Host A Christmas Night With The Stars (1994) (BBC2)
- Hysteria III (1991) (C4)
- Comic Relief - 1991 (1991) (BBC1)
- Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93) (ITV)
- Hysteria 2 (1989) (C4)
- The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (1989) (ITV)
- Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) (BBC1)
- A Night Of Comic Relief 2 (1989) (BBC1)
- The New Statesman (appearing only in the episode "The Haltemprice Bunker") (1989)
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) (BBC1)
- Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria! (1988)
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987 pilot, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995) (BBC2, BBC1)
- The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987) (ITV)
- Blackadder the Third (1987) (BBC1) (only one episode together)
- First Aids (1987) (ITV)
- Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) (BBC2) (appearing only in the second episode)
- Blackadder II (1986) (BBC1) (only two episodes together)
- Saturday Live (1986) (C4)
- Weekend In Wallop (1984) (ITV)
- The Young Ones (1984) (BBC2) (appearing only in the episode "Bambi")
- The Crystal Cube (1983) (BBC2)
- Alfresco (1983) (ITV)
- There's Nothing to Worry About (1982)
- Cambridge Footlights Revue (1982) (BBC2)
Films
- Spiceworld (1997) (cameos)
- Peter's Friends (1992)
Radio shows
- Whose Line is it Anyway? on BBC Radio 4 in 1988 (one show together)
- Saturday Night Fry on BBC Radio 4 in 1988 (five shows together)
Published materials
- Published television scripts
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 adverts, interviews, audio books, and other projects.
Trivia
- Frequent collaborators of Fry and Laurie have included: Rowan Atkinson, Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Dawn French, 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.
"The Amazing Mystery of the Chosen Card"
- 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 to Laurie's three children (among others). 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.
