A Bit of Fry and Laurie appreciation thread

Bucket

I'm going to stick my neck out and call this the best sketch comedy show ever made. Intelligent, witty, sometimes utterly surreal but always absolutely hilarious. And the things they do with the English language are just amazing.

And this is surely the best introduction to a TV show ever:

I love the live element to it as well - you can sometimes see them trying (and failing) not to laugh. And the fourth wall gets broken with amazing regularity. The sketches often flow into each other.

Great show.

Any more fans?

Handsome_Chris

Has anyone seen Sarah Munnings?

Chuffola

I remember going to see them in 1988 at Salford University Student Union

Excellent. TV show is one of my favourites too but I haven't watched it in years.

Bellycaster

Yes, huge fan of this show, hardly ever missed an Episode back in the day. Here's a few classics.

The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick, Lol.

And who can forget "Tony and Control"

Brilliant!

HAL9000

This one always amused me...

richardhomer

Ah Stephen Fry when he was funny - before he became a pompous, opinionated arse....

A great loss to comedy.

Handsome_Chris

Does anyone have a copy of The West Indies: A Nation Of Cricketers?

munckee

Genius programme and both funny and both likeable.  Mitchell and Webb remind me of them

Bridgehouse

The question is, 4 years later.. does @Bucket still think they are the best?

Dominic

richardhomer said:

Ah Stephen Fry when he was funny - before he became a pompous, opinionated arse....

A great loss to comedy.

He was always pompous, public school, incredibly intelligent and always funny;
I don't think he has lost that but like all of us he has aged 
I like it that people like Stephen Fry are opinionated because they are intelligent and provocative.
I don't enjoy his maudlin slightly self pitying persona that sometimes comes to the fore these days because it's a little bit self indulgent.

Bucket

Bridgehouse said:

The question is, 4 years later.. does @Bucket still think they are the best?

Yes.

And I certainly agree with @Dominic on Fry - the fact that he is intelligent, provocative and outspoken without being a rent-a-gob polemicist is one of the things I like most about him.

LuttiS

Sippy twist!

Bridgehouse

Bucket said:

Bridgehouse said:

The question is, 4 years later.. does @Bucket still think they are the best?

Yes.

And I certainly agree with @Dominic on Fry - the fact that he is intelligent, provocative and outspoken without being a rent-a-gob polemicist is one of the things I like most about him.

Good. 

I also really rated rated the show back in the day, and it’s still funny.

Fry is an interesting question. He’s a British conundrum in some ways - as he’s the sort of personality we hate in our politicians but love in our comedians and artistes.. 

He is what he is and I don’t have a problem with his view on life. He makes intelligent comment and seems sincere enough. 

MagicPigDetective

Darling, would you pass the marmalade? 

octatonic

I love them both but I don't think they were at their best in ABOFAL.

Bygone_Tones

Love him in blackadder.

axisus

Saw some recently as they are on netflix. To be honest I think it all looks a bit dated now, I wasn't that into the humor. I much prefer Mitchell and Webb

Dominic

Funny but everything has it's day...........at the time they were tremendous
Stephen is a very interesting man and I enjoy his intellect
Hugh Laurie is the kind of person that is just so multi talented that makes it cruel to be a mere mortal

Rocker

Stephen Fry was Jeeves and it is hard to imagine a better Wooster than Hugh Laurie.  Martin Jarvis issued a set of audiobooks of Jeeves & Wooster on CD, his Jeeves sounds like Stephen Fry playing Jeeves.

A lot of the Fry/Laurie slapstick stuff will pass into history if it has not done so already.  Jeeves and Wooster will always be with us.  We should be thankful for that.

TheOtherDennis

In the intro to one of the sketches, Fry invented 'dancercise', where you use dancing to exercise. He was taking the piss.

They take it seriously now.

http://www.dancerciseclasses.co.uk/

richardhomer

TheOtherDennis said:

Fry invented 'dancercise', where you use dancing to exercise.

It was a combination of ‘dance’ and ‘circumcise’ IIRC....