http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/b/bitoffryandlauri_7770745.shtmlA Bit Of Fry And Laurie
Starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Deborah Norton
Stephen Fry was born in 1957, Hugh Laurie in 1959; they met in the early 1980s when both at Cambridge. Fellow student Emma Thompson recommended Fry when Laurie was looking around for someone to help him write a pantomime. The two discovered a common sense of humour and began to work together regularly. After guest appearances on various programmes, and an instructive time as part of the Alfresco team, they graduated to their own show.
A Bit Of Fry And Laurie was a witty and sophisticated entertainment of consistent high quality, with an old-fashioned revue-type atmosphere and oddly 'British' sketches that rejoiced in literary turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay. The delicate innuendos, coupled with Fry's ability to suggest hidden meanings in everyday phrases, gave the impression that bubbling below the innocent surface were lewd undercurrents threatening to burst through, although they never did. To add to this mix, Hugh Laurie demonstrated