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British comedy duo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fry and Laurie are an English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s, composed of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. The two met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson while all three attended the University of Cambridge. Following appearances on TV sketch show Alfresco, The Young Ones, and revue series Saturday Live, they gained prominence on television sketch 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 | |||
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| Medium | Film, radio, television | ||
| Nationality | English | ||
| Years active | 1981–2003; 2010–2014 (intermittent since early 1990s) | ||
| Genres | Character comedy Sketch comedy Slapstick | ||
| Subject(s) | British culture British politics Class relations | ||
| Notable works and roles | A Bit of Fry & Laurie Jeeves and Wooster Blackadder | ||
Fry and Laurie have collaborated on numerous other projects including, most notably, the television series Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993), in which they portrayed P. G. Wodehouse's literary characters Jeeves (Fry) and Wooster (Laurie).
Since the conclusion of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, both have gone on to solo careers in acting, writing and other roles. They reunited for a retrospective show in 2010 titled Fry and Laurie Reunited. On 14 May 2012, Fry announced he and Laurie were working together on a new project,[1] which came to be an animated adaption of Oscar Wilde’s 1887 story The Canterville Ghost. The film was released on October 20, 2023, and features Freddie Highmore as The Duke of Cheshire alongside Fry as Sir Simon de Canterville and Laurie as the Grim Reaper.
Fry and Laurie have remained close friends throughout their careers. Laurie frequently thanks Fry when accepting awards, including at the 2007 Golden Globes when he referred to his former comedy partner, in the old A Bit of Fry and Laurie style, as "m’colleague Stephen Fry".[2]
Fry and Laurie have also appeared together in various television advertisements, interviews, audio books, and other projects.
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