Fry and Laurie

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This article is about the comedy double act. For their television series, see "A Bit of Fry and Laurie".

Hugh Laurie (left) & Stephen Fry on the set of
A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are a successful English comedy double act of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Having met in 1980 (whilst both attended the University of Cambridge), Fry and Laurie have since collaborated on numerous projects together. 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.

1 List of collaborations
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] List of collaborations

Laurie (left) and Fry portray Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves in Jeeves and Wooster.

[edit] 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)
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988) (BBC1) (shown as a part of Comic Relief)
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987 pilot, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995) (BBC1)
The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987) (ITV)
Blackadder the Third (1987) (BBC1)
First Aids (1987) (ITV)
Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) (BBC2) (appearing only in the second episode)
Blackadder II 1986) (BBC1)
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)

[edit] Films

Spiceworld (1997) (cameos)
Peter's Friends (1992)

[edit] 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)

The cover of Fry & Laurie - Bit No. 4

[edit] Published materials

Published television scripts
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1990)
- A Bit More Fry & Laurie (1991)
- 3 Bits of Fry & Laurie (1992)
- Fry & Laurie Bit No. 4 (1995)

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

Laurie & Fry mystify Wogan with
"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.
Laurie's novel The Gun Seller contains a section before the start of the story where Laurie thanks various people. The opening line in this section is, "I am indebted to the writer and broadcaster Stephen Fry for his comments." In Fry's novel Making History Laurie's three children are amongst those to whom the book is dedicated. Fry's autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, makes a few references to Laurie (despite the fact that 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" - "M'Colleague" being the sobriquet 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 hit show House), both his wife, Jo, and Fry flew from England to attend the ceremony with him. In Laurie's acceptance speech, his words for Fry were, "I'd like to thank . . . my good friend, Stephen Fry, sitting right over there."