A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season One
by Roger Ordish
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Actor: Charles Laurie, Deborah Norton, Hugh Laurie, Mark Arnold, Stephen FryDirector: Roger Ordish
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Stephen Fry
Writer: Hugh Laurie
Producer: Roger Ordish
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 212 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
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- Only a handful of creative works succeed in capturing the totality of human existence, from birth to death, through love, transfiguration and redemption. "A Bit of Fry and Laurie," the BBC television series co-starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, has been said, on two occasions, to be among this group. Over 40 sketches in two programs of fun and frivolity.Running Time: 212 min. Format: DVD MOV
Movie Reviews of A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season One
Movie Review: A 'bit' better would have been nice
Summary: 3 Stars
"...you cast me as the mouse in your little cat drama"
This series is slightly reminiscent of Monty Python, only not as (I hate to put is so bluntly) good. The problem mostly lies in the fact that many of these skits are parodies and reference pop culture and events - more like Saturday Night Live. So when watching something from that long ago - and from that far away - it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as if I'd been able to get all of the nuances. That's not to say that none of it was enjoyable (there certainly were moments that made me laugh) but it could have been better.
I know, nothing tops the great Monty Python, so I should be disappointed. But, given how much I've enjoyed Stephen Fry on Whose Line is it Anyway? and Hugh Laurie as House, well, I was a bit let down. I'd say summing up this as a cross between Monty Python and Saturday Night Live, 20 years out of date, is the best description. Not a waste of time, but not the best use of time.
Summary of A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season One
Only a handful of creative works succeed in capturing the totality of human existence, from birth to death, through love, transfiguration and redemption. "A Bit of Fry and Laurie," the BBC television series co-starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, has been said, on two occasions, to be among this group. Over 40 sketches in two programs of fun and frivolity.The comedy duo of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie arrived on the British airwaves with an arsenal of false mustaches, snooty attitudes, linguistic twistiness, and deranged meta-commentary (which sometimes escalated into meta-meta-commentary). It's fascinating to see the pilot episode of A Bit of Fry & Laurie (included on the Season One DVD), in which all the tools of such comedy are in place, but there is a tentativeness about deploying them. By the first broadcast episode, as they launch into a sketch about a father objecting to his son being taught Biology in school, Fry and Laurie are in full command. Crazed flights of language spill effortlessly from their mouths, be it academic critic-babble or macho business jargon gone strangely awry. Fry and Laurie clearly owe a debt to the Monty Python troupe--in addition to verbal lunacy, Fry and Laurie recognized that when a sketch peaked they could skip on to the next one, often using on-the-street non-sequiturs for transitions--but they quickly found their own brand of whimsy. In a scene from the pilot, Laurie buys a toy car from Fry, which leads to both of them pushing the cars around the tabletop making vroom-vroom noises. The effect is silly but oddly heartwarming. Over the course of six episodes, sketches range from Fry stealing Laurie's brain, to the sad tale of an orphaned puppy's slide into corruption, to their most frequently recurring scenario featuring an MI-5 agent named Tony Mercheson (Laurie) and his affable, coffee-drinking superior, Control (Fry). Long before Fry starred in Wilde and Laurie became a household name in House, they carved out their place in the history of British comedy, somewhere in the lineage between Peter Sellers and Ricky Gervais. This first season captures them at their freshest. --Bret Fetzer
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