A TV sketch show which helped launch the careers of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie and set them on their way to comedy super-stardom. Also features Deborah Norton.
The start of A Bit Of Fry And Laurie (BBC1) a couple of weeks ago was so self-absorbed, so steadily unfunny, that, as Bertie Wooster used to say, only the fact that I couldn't think of anything refrained me from saying something pretty stinging. Frankly, I thought it might be me. Perhaps, like a vulture with a heavy head cold, I couldn't distinguish between a smash hit and a nasty accident. Circumstances were guaranteed this week's show a rating which should dinge the feeling. Luckily, it is better. Or my head cold is.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 27th February 1995
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