A Bit Of Fry & Laurie
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 1987 - 1995
- 26 episodes (4 series)
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.
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Video: 20 of Fry & Laurie's best bits
Hurrah, and indeed, huzzah. As either Stephen Fry or Hugh Laurie themselves might say.
Andrea Mann, The Huffington Post, 15th May 2012A bout of Fry v Laurie
On Sunday two of Britain's national treasures, whose surnames have been entwined in the public consciousness since their comedy show A Bit of Fry and Laurie first aired on BBC Two in 1988, compete for our affections. At 9pm, you can see Stephen Fry as a Norfolk solicitor in Kingdom. Meanwhile at the same time on Sky 1, you could watch House, starring Hugh Laurie as a medical genius. It's time to decide who is better - Fry or Laurie?
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 4th June 2009A Bit of Fry and Laurie is coming out on DVD. Fantastic news. [...] Of course, as each series arrived it got progressively worse, culminating in the unwatchable fourth season (and see here for some quotes on that), with Peter's Friends-rank guest stars lurking around Hugh's piano. Nevertheless, at its peak it remains the finest comedy ever seen on British TV. Fact.
Graham Kibble-White, Off The Telly, 10th January 2006The 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