A Bit of Fry & Laurie is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie...
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comedy A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1987, 1989, 1995), actress Deborah Norton appearing in many of the sketches in the first series. Fry and Laurie have collaborated...
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he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. Fry played the lead in the film Wilde...
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A Bit of Fry & Laurie was a British television sketch comedy show, starring and written by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast by the BBC between 1989...
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one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster...
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Rowland Rivron (category Actors from the London Borough of Haringey)
"Sophisticated Fool" song and "All We've Got To Do Is..." song from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, also on BBC TV. He was a contributing writer to Rhythm, a UK drumming magazine...
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Paul Whitehouse (category Alumni of the University of East Anglia)
and Higson's career, and they began to appear on Vic Reeves Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie...
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The Crystal Cube (category Television pilots not picked up as a series)
a mockumentary television pilot written by and starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on 7 July 1983 on BBC2 at 22:10. The pilot was one of Fry...
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subject of a sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie. In the "Europe" episode of QI (series E), a segment...
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the final episode of the BBC comedy series A Bit of Fry and Laurie (series four) and played over the credits, accompanied by Hugh Laurie on the piano.[citation...
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musical by Richard O'Brien "Dammit", a series of comedy sketches on the British TV programme A Bit of Fry and Laurie Clutch (pin fastener), colloquially...
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precursor to A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the 1989 television series (piloted in 1987), which employed a very similar style of humour and wordplay: it included...
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English comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry. Fry and Laurie acted together in a number of projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the...
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Bob Spiers (section Life and career)
Saunders and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. He began his association with writer Steven Moffat in 1989, directing over half of the episodes of the teen comedy drama...
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Jon Plowman (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and became Head of Comedy Entertainment in 1994, mainly responsible for sketch shows. He produced the first four series of the...
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Robert Robinson (broadcaster) (category Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford)
wearing a cricket box over his forehead. Robinson was also the subject of a sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie...
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appearances in A Bit of Fry and Laurie Midsomer Murders, season 7, episode 3 (2004) Lady Alexandra Metcalfe in episode 6, season 2 ("Vergangenheit") of The Crown...
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Geoffrey McGivern (category Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge)
he played Mr Rugg. He also appeared in episode 5 of series 3 of the TV series A Bit of Fry and Laurie. In 2015, he guest-starred in EastEnders as Dickie...
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Control (fictional character) (category Characters in British novels of the 20th century)
comedy series A Bit of Fry and Laurie. The real chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the equivalent of Le Carre's Circus) is known by a similar name:...
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Nigel Havers (category Actors from the London Borough of Enfield)
of the Campaign against Drinking and Driving, while a spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers said "I think he's probably a little bit...
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O'Clock News (and its successor Alas Smith and Jones), and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. An early, perhaps the first, televised example of a sketch comedy...
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The Eleven O'Clock (section Awards and nominations)
is a 2016 Australian live-action short film directed by Derin Seale. It was inspired by a sketch from the television series A Bit of Fry and Laurie. It...
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Simon Brint (category Alumni of the University of Reading)
composer), A Bit of Fry & Laurie (producing all of Hugh Laurie's songs for the fourth and final series), the comedy special Tracey Ullman: A Class Act...
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and all its contents to help the BBC." Further criticism came from comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in their sketch comedy show A Bit of Fry and...
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Benjamin Whitrow (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
of the BBC Two sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie (series one), playing an irate member of the audience who claimed that Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie...
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Willie Whitelaw! This film is included as a special feature on the DVD of Series 2 of A Bit of Fry and Laurie. In 2012, the Cambridge Footlights celebrated...
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British humour (redirect from Humor in the Isle of Man)
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running TV comedy series in the world (1973–2010) A Bit of Fry and Laurie, sketch show...
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Imelda Staunton (redirect from Imelda Staunton on screen and stage)
as A Bit of Fry and Laurie. She was a voice artist on Mole's Christmas (1994). She had a guest role playing Mrs. Mead in Little Britain in 2005, and in...
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Kate Copstick (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
episodes, 1992–2000) Marlene Marlowe Investigates (1993) TV series A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1 episode, 1992) On the Waterfront (12 episodes, 1988) No. 73...
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Anne Reid (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in...
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