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?
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A great loss to comedy.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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They take it seriously now.
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