Synopsis
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, broadcast on both BBC1 and BBC2 between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series and totalled 26 episodes, including a 35 minute pilot episode in 1987. As in The Two Ronnies, elaborate wordplay and innuendo were staples of its material. It frequently broke the fourth wall; characters would revert into their real-life actors mid-sketch, or the camera would often pan off set into the studio. In addition, the show was punctuated with non-sequitur vox pops in a similar style to those of Monty Python's Flying Circus, often making irrelevant statements, heavily based on wordplay. Laurie was also seen playing piano and a wide variety of other instruments and singing comical numbers.
Cast
Episodes
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Season 1
Episode One
Sketches include "Mr. Smear Confronts the Headmaster," "Hugh Laurie's Short Poetry Reading," "Politician Insists, 'Stop Breaking into My Car," "SAS Application/Library Books on Cricketers," "Spoon Bender," "Apology," and a barbershop piece called "Bitch Mother Come Light My Bottom" by Sir William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg.
Episode Two
Sketches include: "Information Desk," "My Name is Derek Nippl-e," "Flexibility of the English Language," America, "The Richard Morley Interview," "Tony Gives Control a Flash," "The Mouth Organist Gets Reprimanded," "Hands Exercise," and "Peter and John."
Episode Three
Includes: * Hugh's Brain * Gordon and Stuart Eat Greek (2nd Gordon & Stuart) * Costume Design * Doctor Tobacco * Open University * Spies Two (2nd Control & Tony) * Special Squad
Episode Four
Includes: * Trouser-Competition Introduction * Prize Poem * Awful Smell (Stole My Sketch 1) * Madness * Antique Shop (Stole My Sketch 2) * Spies Three (3rd Control & Tony) * Light Metal (The Bishop & The Warlord) (song) * Bank Loan * Nipples * Inspector Venice (Stole My Sketch 3) * Tomorrow's World
Episode Five
Includes: * Lavatories * Critics One * Judge Not * Critics Four * Ignored Teacher * That's It (Silhouettes 1) * Hugh's Favourite Sketch * Critics (heavily edited mixture between Critics Two and Critics Three) * The "Burt" * Christening * Swiss Comedy (Heidi and Johann Smell Just Right)
Episode Six
Includes: * Marjorie's Fall * Puppy Appeal * Leave It Out (Silhouettes 2) * Girlfriend's Breasts * Spies Four (4th Control & Tony) * Violence * Chicken * Cocoa * Tony of Plymouth (Sword Fight)
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Season 2
Episode One
Stephen and Hugh incorporate the song Time, Where Did You Go? and "Dancersize" in their opening gambit. Sketches include "Hardware Store," "Peter and John #2," "Letter to Stephen's Grandfather," "Arthur Meets the Psychiatrist," "The Sportscasters Cover Everyday Life," "Control and Tony Talk About Lies," "Hugh Interviews 'Michael Jackson.'"
Episode Two
The BBC must find new places for funding. Thus this episode is sponsored by Tideyman's Carpets, which ingratiates itself in almost all the sketches: "The Spillage That Wasn't," "Control Talks of the Open Window," "A Right Way and a Wrong Way to Deal with Trick-or-Treaters," "The Tideyman's Test," "Piano Standards," "Nazi Interrogates English Major," "John and Peter #3," and "The Improvised End Sketch."
Episode Three
Fry and Laurie have gags over their mouths to protests the censors' ban on traditional swearwords. Thus Fry and Laurie create new swearwords for their sketches: "Testimony," Over to You, "The Jeweller's Shop," "Girlfriends," "Mystery Object," "Westminster Society," "Peter and John #4," and "What People Find Funny."
Episode Four
Fry and Laurie want to be big enough for Marlon Brando to notice them. Thus come the sketches: Dinner with Digby, "Department Store Changes," "Interrogation in the Car," "An Elf or a Pixie," "Peter and John #5," "The Robert Robinsons," "Control's Telescope," and the "Bigometer Update."
Episode Five
Includes: MBE Introduction, This is Dominic Appleguard, Rhodes Boysons, Amputated Genitals, The Cause (1st Jack and Freddy / Neddy), (3rd Gordon and Stuart), Where Eagles Dare.
Episode Six
Includes: Satire / Tribute ("Where is the Lid?" song), Yellow Pages, Beauty and Ideas (Continued from Series One's "Language Conversation"), Anarchy, Dammit Church (6th John and Peter), First Kiss, Borrowing A Fiver Off, Spies/Firing (8th Control and Tony), Introducing My Grandfather To.., A Vision of Britain, Wrong Directions (follows the end credits).
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Season 3
Episode One
Includes: * A Word, Timothy * Very Upset * Love Me Tender (song) * Milk Pot * The Department * Stephen's Song (song) * Psychiatrists * Cocktail Ending: Whiskey Thunder
Episode Two
Includes: * Condom Quickie * Embassy * Ampersands * Duel * Ass-Kickers' Song(song) * Petrol Attendants * Jobs * European Deal * Cocktail Ending 1: A Slow Snog with a Distant Relative
Episode Three
Sketches include ""The Yorkshireman Meets the Southerner,"" ""We've Had Lots of Letters,"" ""The Department Talks to Alan,"" ""The Chimpunks' Voice Version of Hey Jude,"" ""The Day I Forgot My Legs,"" ""Terry Discusses How to Fire People,"" ?Summing Up Game,"" ""Balloon-O,"" and ""Shoe Shop."" Fry and Laurie conclude with aEverything in the Till and No Sudden Moves cocktail.
Episode Four
Sketches include ""Specialized Greeting Cards,"" Photocopying My Genitals With, ""Scene from From Here to Just Over There,"" The Not Quite Late Enough Show, ""Taping News from Bristol,"" ""Nothing Rude About God Save The Queen,"" ""AA Meeting,"" ""Pass the Marmalade,"" Too Long Johnny, and The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick. Fry and Laurie make the Mug of Holics cocktail.
Episode Five
Sketches include ""Bookshop Customer Attacks Jane Eyre,"" ""Courting Elizabeth,"" ""Split Personality,"" ""World Sport Bushwallyta,"" ""Are Tou Sleeping With…,"" ""Aromusician Ottoman Nodge,"" Cross-Wits, and ""Neddy Wants Jack to Become the Prime Minister."" Fry and Laurie make a ""Beef Goulash"" in place of a cocktail.
Episode Six
Sketches include ""Magazine Leaflets,"" ""Nigel Carter Visits,"" ""Novelty Shop,"" ""Delightful Restaurant,"" Tahitian Kitchen, My Favourite Pants, ""The Bishop and the Warlord,"" ""Court Case Against The Bishop and the Warlord,"" and Flying a Light Airplane without Having Had Any Formal Instruction With. Fry and Laurie offer Berliner Credit Sequence as a cocktail.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Season 4
Episode One
Sketches include ""Gray and Hopeless,"" ""Guest Movements,"" ""Theme Vox Pops,"" ""Blame the System,"" ""The Comedy Charter,"" ""Writing Poetry,"" Smell: The Forgotten Sense?, ""Gordon's Unintelligible Song,"" ""Wrist Changer Commercial,"" and It's A Soaraway Life. The guests order a Golden Meteorite cocktail.
Episode Two
Sketches include ""Hugh's Accident,"" ""Psychotherapy Video,"" Local News at Ten Thirty Three and a Bit, English People Care to be the Most Ignorant in Europe, I'm In Love With Steffi Graf, ""The Lover's Helper,"" ""Fascism Discussion,"" ""Max Meets Fiona,"" and ""Heart Transplant."" The guests order a Long Confident Suck cocktail.
Episode Three
Includes: * Vox Pops * Guests Introduction * Barman * Interruptus * Little Girl (song) * Making Tea * For Some Reason Angry * Don't Be Dirty * Cocktail Ending: South Seas Vulvic Wart
Episode Four
Includes: * Good Evening * Guests Introduction * Soccer School * Dalliard: Models * Hugh Interviewing Guests * Be Nice (song) * Head Gardener * Gelliant Gutfright("Flowers For Wendy") * Cocktail Ending: A Quick One With You, Stephen
Episode Five
Sketches include ""The Louella Della Tweed Interview,"" ""The Post-Race Interview,"" ""Hearing on Councilman Wade,"" ""It's Red, It's Shiny and It Doesn't Exist,"" ""Telephone Quiz Line,"" ""Dachshund Owner's Baby Talk,"" ""Wasp Exterminators."" Moore and Law order a swinging ball sack cocktail.
Episode Six
Includes: * Stolen Money * Young Tory of the Year * Variety * Gossiping Heads * Death Threat * What I Mind (Misunderstood) (Song) * Honda * The Duke of Northampton * Cocktail Ending: Silver Prostate
Episode Seven
Includes: * Guests Introduction * Religianto * Consent * Sophisticated Song (song) * Fast Monologue * Telephone Alert * Truancy * Cocktail Ending: A Modern Britain
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