Hugh Laurie

A bit more Fry & Laurie, please...

Stephen Fry says he and Hugh Laurie are working together again. For F & L superfan Jack Seale, that's enormous news...

Video: 20 of Fry & Laurie's best bits

Hurrah, and indeed, huzzah. As either Stephen Fry or Hugh Laurie themselves might say.

Hugh Laurie announces the end of House

House, the long-running medical drama starring Hugh Laurie, is to come to an end this season.

Hugh Laurie used YouTube to prepare for his album

Hugh Laurie has confessed he scoured YouTube for how-to-sing videos before recording his debut album.

Hugh Laurie to end 30-year TV career when House ends

Hugh Laurie will quit television after his award-winning medical drama House finishes.

Video - Hugh Laurie: 'Music is my first love'

Hugh Laurie says it is difficult to cross over from a successful acting career into the world of music but the actor says music is his "first love".

In his debut album, Let them Talk, Laurie travelled to New Orleans to record sessions with Sir Tom Jones and his hero Dr John.

Laurie told BBC Breakfast he wept after recording a track with Dr John.

Hugh Laurie: happy now?

He has a huge salary, a musical career, and another sideline as a model... But only one of these makes the grizzled star of House truly happy.

World records: Hugh Laurie is most watched man on TV

It was always going to be gamble for Hugh Laurie to attempt to morph from foppish Bertie Wooster into the cantankerous physician Dr Gregory House. But it seems to have paid off.

Watching this series's parade of classic comedy clips, chosen by comedians of today, confirms the theory that some people just have funny bones. It wouldn't matter if Tommy Cooper were clipping his toenails or performing the elaborately shambolic glass bottle trick from 1974 that is replayed here tonight: the fez-wearing comedian induces guffaws just because of who he is. Similarly, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore go wildly off-script in their "Pete and Dud" sketch in the art gallery and start giggling, but they're naturally funny together, as Phill Jupitus and Rhod Gilbert attest here. Funny comes in many packages, and while the American stand-up Joan Rivers, chosen by Graham Norton and Jo Brand as a favourite, is well-known for her shock tactics, her outrageous quips about growing old on The Graham Norton Show appeared to take even Norton aback at the time. Other treats featured are the University Challenge scene from The Young Ones in 1984, co-starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, and the bit in the Monty Python film Life of Brian in which Graham Chapman's Brian Cohen exhorts his followers to think for themselves. It may be a clip show and most of the clips are more than familiar, but it surely contains more laughs per minute than any of the newer comedies on television tonight.