For British Comedy Fans: A Bit of Fry&Laurie - If Rupert Murdoch hadn't been born...

:D funny video :D

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A Bit of Fry and Laurie



Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie met while they were undergraduates at Cambridge University and members of Footlights. They were introduced to each other by fellow student Emma Thompson.

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Their shared sense of humour immediately clicked, forging a comic partnership that became one of the strongest and most enduring in Britain across the 80s and 90s.


After joining ensemble sketch show Alfresco, alongside Thompson and Robbie Coltrane and following appearances on Saturday Live, in 1987 they landed their own BBC series.

This outlet for their burgeoning writing and performing talents enabled them to explore their particular brand of humour, which readily mixed subtle wordplay with slapstick and maintained an anarchic edge partly thanks to their awareness of, and frequent references to, the set of their own show.

The mix of sketches had a healthy hit-rate and unpredictability, alternating between items recorded in front of the audience and items shot on location.


And as in all great double acts both performers had something individual to offer, be it Fry's love of language and delight in innuendo or Laurie's ability to parody musical genres at the piano (a range of talents not dissimilar to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore).

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/abitoffryandlaurie/index.shtml|BBC Comedy>

...Here's a Blackadder clip -- Atkinson was so damn funny in this character:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uzZNWu9LNc&feature=related

I've watched that series at least 20 times... at least. :D

"Only myself and the rest of the English speaking world is to know." :rofl:

...and Atkinson's timing and delivery is, for my money, as good as it gets.

awesome stuff.

I've been watching everything on YouTube with Fry, Laurie, and Atkinson in the tags.

Check THIS out: :evilgrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFlNyqeeifA

... Colbert's British counterpart. I'll bet you could sneak that one in under the mod's radar as a political video -- they're not so quick to lock/delete threads during fund drives either. EVERY DUer would and should enjoy this one.

:evilgrin:

... http://youtube.com/watch?v=d6j4_SpM5s0&feature=related

"Yes sir, but surely that was traced to a shipment of garlic éclairs." LOL

Off to bed for me now.

:rofl:

It's worth it. :D

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7PUfsDc8x0

:D

I like yours, too. :)

This is one of my favourites http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkYwItNWsQg

That was funny.

:rofl:

There's no YouTube at the Office, :-( so I will have to watch it back at home.

Thanks for the heads-up. :hi: