"episode of ""Inside the Actor's Studio"" in 2006. His songs include: Four collections of ""A Bit of Fry and Laurie"" scripts have been published. The official authorised Fry & Laurie story, ""Soupy Twists"" by Jem Roberts, will be published by Unbound in 2018. A Bit of Fry & Laurie 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 36-minute pilot episode in"
"Hugh Laurie James Hugh Calum Laurie, (; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author. Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he met through their mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst attending Cambridge University, where Laurie was president of the Cambridge Footlights. The duo acted together in a number of projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the sketch comedy series ""A Bit of Fry & Laurie"" and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation ""Jeeves and"
"date currently scheduled. Fry and Laurie have also appeared together in various television advertisements, interviews, audio books, and other projects. Fry and Laurie Fry and Laurie are an English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. The duo consisted of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst all three attended the University of Cambridge. They initially gained prominence in a television sketch comedy, ""A Bit of Fry & Laurie"" (1987, 1989–1995), and have collaborated on numerous other projects including, most notably, the television series ""Jeeves and Wooster"" (1990–1993) in"
"Fry and Laurie Fry and Laurie are an English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. The duo consisted of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst all three attended the University of Cambridge. They initially gained prominence in a television sketch comedy, ""A Bit of Fry & Laurie"" (1987, 1989–1995), and 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"
"the Chancellor, Melvyn Bragg. (repackaged as ""The Chronicles of Hernia"" (2009), ) Barry Cryer Barry Charles Cryer, (born 23 March 1935) is an English writer, comedian and actor. Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise. Cryer also wrote episodes for the television comedy series ""Doctor in the House"". Cryer was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. His family is"
"""Old Acquaintance"" which was performed by David Selby (Quentin). Between 1998 and 2016 Waterhouse lived in Connecticut in the United States, though he regularly visited the UK. He has since returned to live full-time in the UK with his American husband. Waterhouse's name was used by comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams for a character in their sketch show ""Little Britain"". Waterhouse in the programme is an unsuccessful inventor of bizarre and ridiculous new versions of things such as board games and breakfast cereals. ""Little Britain"" has also featured two other characters named after ""Doctor Who"" companion actors, Michael Craze"
"well as script editor for Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. He co-wrote the 2003 BBC television satirical comedy ""Posh Nosh"" with the co-star Arabella Weir; and the BBC Radio 4 situation comedy ""Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful"" with Guy Jenkin. He wote a Radio 4 Afternoon Play ""I Love Stephen Fry"" in 2008; and in 2017 Radio 4 broadcast the short series ""Homes and Watford"" in its ""15 Minute Drama slot"". He wrote for the ITV animated cartoon version of Mr. Bean, and the screenplay for the film ""Full Monty 2"". His first novel, ""Seeds of Greatness"", a comic story"
"of the eighth series of ""Doctor Who"" with his former ""The Thick of It"" co-star Peter Capaldi, who plays the Twelfth Doctor. His character, Seb, first appeared in the mid-series episode ""The Caretaker"" and then appeared in further episodes including ""Dark Water"" and ""Death in Heaven"". In 2000 Chris Addison co-hosted the short-lived Channel 4 comedy series ""Dotcomedy"" with Gail Porter. This was a late-night, risque show featuring video clips and other humour derived from the internet. From 2003 to 2005 Addison wrote a fortnightly finance column for ""The Guardian"" titled ""Funny Money"". On alternate weeks, when the column was"
"Barry Cryer Barry Charles Cryer, (born 23 March 1935) is an English writer, comedian and actor. Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise. Cryer also wrote episodes for the television comedy series ""Doctor in the House"". Cryer was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. His family is Jewish. Educated at Leeds Grammar School, he went on to study English"
"and ""Lay Down Your Arms"". He also made guest appearances in many classic British series, including ""The Likely Lads"", ""Z-Cars"", ""The Liver Birds"", ""The Sweeney"", ""Minder"" and played the lead in ""Len and the River Mob"". In 1969 he played a small role in the ""Doctor Who"" story ""The Space Pirates"". Later that year he made his debut as boisterous medical student Paul Collier in ""Doctor in the House"". As well as continuing to star in the series and its sequels, in 1971 he began to co-write episodes with former co-star Jonathan Lynn, the first under the pseudonym Oliver Fry"
"in the 1990s. He later wrote more humorous plays and two novellas. Hugh Laurie (born 1959) is an English comic actor who worked for many years in partnership with Stephen Fry. He is a fan of the English humorist P. G. Wodehouse, and has written a Wodehouse-style novel. Despite the name, conference of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize does not make the awardee a humorist. , the center has chosen to confer the prize on nineteen comedians and one playwright; only two recipients, the comedian Steve Martin and the playwright Neil Simon, are commonly recognized as humorists in the"
"Supporter of The British Humanist Association and said Richard Herring Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and comedy writer whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring. He is described by ""The British Theatre Guide"" as ""one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy"". Towards the end of the double act, Herring also worked as a writer, producing four plays. After Lee and Herring went their separate ways he co-wrote the sitcom ""Time Gentlemen Please"", but quickly returned to performance with concept-driven one-person shows like ""Talking Cock"", ""Hitler Moustache"""
"Theatre. Throughout 2004 Rouse continued touring his live show and performed the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Rob Rouse Rob Rouse (born 1974) is an English comedian. Before becoming a comedian, Rouse was a geography teacher. Since winning Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny' competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, an award previously won by Phil Kay, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay, he has been a regular performer at major venues on both the London and national circuit. Rouse started his career in television as a ""warm-up"" on the hit BBC sitcom ""Coupling"", where he"
"Merton ""Out Of My Head"". Richard Vranch Richard Leslie Vranch (born 29 June 1959, Frome, England) is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Vranch graduated from Cambridge University with a PhD in physics. While a first-year doctoral student, he joined the Footlights in 1981 and was a contemporary of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks, Tony Slattery and Neil Mullarkey. He was a researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory and a research fellow at St John's College, Oxford for nine months before going into comedy full-time. Vranch improvises comedy on stage with the Comedy Store Players every Wednesday and Sunday at"
"Saturday Night Fry Saturday Night Fry was a six-part comedy series on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast between 30 April and 4 June 1988. Episode One had previously been broadcast as a pilot on 19 December 1987, under the title Fry on Saturday. Hosted by Stephen Fry—accompanied each week by a selection of guests including Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson, Phyllida Law, Robert Bathurst, Julia Hills, Alison Steadman and long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie—the show took the form of a round table discussion and sketches which veered tangentially from the sublime to the ridiculous. Parodies of television and radio formats were common"
"Gareth Hale Gareth Hale (born 15 January 1953, Hull) is an English comedian and actor, who is best known as one half of the comedy duo Hale and Pace, with his friend and comic partner Norman Pace. Both were former teachers, their comedy partnership has fronted several television programmes, most notably ""Hale and Pace"", ""Pushing Up Daisies"", ""h&p@bbc"" and ""Jobs for the Boys"". As straight actors, they also fronted the original TV dramatisation of ""Dalziel and Pascoe""; as well as making a guest appearance together in ""Survival"", a 1989 ""Doctor Who"" serial. Hale was a regular on the five soap"
"the legal drama ""Kingdom"", which ran for three series on ITV1. He has also taken up a recurring guest role as FBI psychiatrist Dr. (later chef) Gordon Wyatt in the popular American drama ""Bones"". In 2010, having learned some Irish for the role, he filmed a cameo role in ""Ros na Rún"", an Irish-language soap opera broadcast in Ireland, Scotland and the US. In 2014 he began starring alongside Kiefer Sutherland and William Devane in """" as British Prime Minister Alastair Davies. Fry's first documentary was the Emmy Award-winning """" in 2006. The same year, he appeared on the BBC's"
"In August 2007, Laurie appeared on BBC Four's documentary ""Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out"", filmed in celebration of Fry's 50th birthday. In 2008, he took part in ""Blackadder Rides Again"" and appeared as Captain James Biggs in ""Street Kings"", opposite Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, and then in 2009 as the eccentric Dr. Cockroach, PhD in DreamWorks' ""Monsters vs. Aliens"". He also hosted ""Saturday Night Live"" for the second time on the Christmas show in which he sang a medley of three-second Christmas songs to close his monologue. In 2009, Laurie returned to guest star in another ""Family Guy"" episode,"
"Richard Vranch Richard Leslie Vranch (born 29 June 1959, Frome, England) is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Vranch graduated from Cambridge University with a PhD in physics. While a first-year doctoral student, he joined the Footlights in 1981 and was a contemporary of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks, Tony Slattery and Neil Mullarkey. He was a researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory and a research fellow at St John's College, Oxford for nine months before going into comedy full-time. Vranch improvises comedy on stage with the Comedy Store Players every Wednesday and Sunday at The Comedy Store in London."
"drama, along with his achievements in international charity work. Articles Lenny Henry Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, and television presenter, known for co-founding the charity Comic Relief, and presenting various television programmes, including the comedy ""Chef!"" and ""The Magicians"" for BBC One. He is currently the Chancellor of Birmingham City University. Lenny Henry was born at Burton Road Hospital in Dudley, on 29 August 1958, the son of Jamaican immigrants to Great Britain. One of seven children, he was the first to be born in the United Kingdom. He"
"Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive is a 2006 two-part television documentary directed by Ross Wilson and featuring British actor and comedian Stephen Fry. It explores the effects of living with bipolar disorder on other celebrities and members of the public. Fry himself suffers from a less severe version of the illness called cyclothymia. It won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary at the 35th International Emmys in 2007. A follow-up documentary, titled """", aired in February 2016. The Robbie Williams segment, featured in the original BBC broadcast,"
"it was a commercial failure, only earning back US$3.4 million. It also garnered mostly negative reviews in the media, which criticised it for dishonouring the original film and wasting the comedic potential of its cast, but Grint also attracted some positive notice: ""It’s nice to see Rupert Grint perform well in a role other than that of Ron Weasley, and it’s clear that he’s got a career ahead of him."" In January 2011, Grint made a cameo appearance in BBC popular comedy show ""Come Fly with Me"" starring comedy duo Matt Lucas and David Walliams (Little Britain). In March 2011,"
"in the original film version of ""Doctor in the House"". He also played the part of Prof. Sir Loftus' identical twin brother, Capt. Norman Loftus, heading the cruise ship in ""Doctor at Sea"". Doctor in the House (franchise) Doctor in the House is the American collective name for seven separate British and Australian television comedy series inspired by a series of cinema films, which in turn were based on and inspired by a series of books by Richard Gordon, about the misadventures of a group of medical students — and their later misadventures as doctors. The first five series, ""Doctor"
"is also a stand up comedian and has played several gigs under the ""Laughing Horse"" banner. Toby Whithouse Toby Lawrence Whithouse (; born 5 July 1970) is an English actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter. His highest-profile work has been the creation of the BBC Three supernatural television series ""Being Human"". He also created the Channel 4 television drama series ""No Angels"" (2004–06), and has written for BBC One's ""Hotel Babylon"" and ""Doctor Who"". One of his ""Doctor Who"" episodes, titled ""School Reunion"", featured the return of the robot dog K-9 and 1970s companion Sarah Jane Smith. After initially attending art"
"Rob Rouse Rob Rouse (born 1974) is an English comedian. Before becoming a comedian, Rouse was a geography teacher. Since winning Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny' competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, an award previously won by Phil Kay, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay, he has been a regular performer at major venues on both the London and national circuit. Rouse started his career in television as a ""warm-up"" on the hit BBC sitcom ""Coupling"", where he entertained the studio audience between filming. Rouse starred in the first series of the BBC"
"BBC sketch broadcast as part of the pre-match build-up to England's opening game at the 2006 World Cup. Before the 2010 General Election, Merchant was one of 48 celebrities who signed a letter warning against Conservative Party policy toward the BBC. Stephen Merchant Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. Merchant is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom ""The Office"" (2001–2003), co-writer and co-star of ""Extras"" (2005–2007) and co-host of ""The Ricky Gervais Show"" in"
"Hotel"" (2012) and ""The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"" (2015) with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. British comedy films British Comedy films are Comedy films produced in UK. In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s. British comedy films are numerous, but among the most notable are the Ealing comedies, the 1950s work of the Boulting Brothers, and innumerable popular comedy series including the St Trinian's films, the ""Doctor"" series, and the long-running Carry On films. Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Norman Wisdom, Alec"
"time starring Stephen Fry as investigative journalist David Lander. When Roger Cook moved to television, so did his parody, in the Tony Sarchet written series ""This is David Lander"" and ""This is David Harper"" (this last series with Tony Slattery in the main role). Sarchet went on to write the Screen One TV film ""Trust Me"" starring Alfred Molina and in 2001 the ITV sitcom ""High Stakes"" with Richard Wilson. Tony Sarchet is married to the writer Andrea Solomons. Tony Sarchet Tony Sarchet is a British television and radio writer for alternative comedy shows. Sarchet studied chemistry at University College"
"Norwich Playhouse The Norwich Playhouse is a theatre in St George's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, England. It opened in 1995 in a nineteenth-century building that was once a maltings, and is a venue for theatre, comedy, music, cabaret and other performing arts. It seats 300. Television personality and theatre actor Stephen Fry is a patron. In March 2018 the Playhouse won a Chortle Award, naming it the Best Comedy Venue in the East & Midlands. Norwich Playhouse is a firm favourite with many comedians, including Mark Watson, Tim Minchin, and Sara Pascoe. The Playhouse Bar is a popular bar attached to"
"British comedy films British Comedy films are Comedy films produced in UK. In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s. British comedy films are numerous, but among the most notable are the Ealing comedies, the 1950s work of the Boulting Brothers, and innumerable popular comedy series including the St Trinian's films, the ""Doctor"" series, and the long-running Carry On films. Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Norman Wisdom, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and the Monty Python team. Other actors associated with British comedy films include"
"Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in 2015. On 2 June 2014, Lee and Herring briefly appeared on stage together when Lee introduced Herring's section at a British Humanist Association benefit. Lee and Herring Lee and Herring were a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They were most famous for their work on television, most notably ""Fist of Fun"" and ""This Morning with Richard Not Judy"" but had been working together on stage and on radio since the late 1980s. As with many double acts, Lee and Herring performed as contrasting personalities: one"
"the United Kingdom: Barry Humphries John Barry Humphries, (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer, and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only ""the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant"
"But I think it's helpful to talk about this, especially for men."" Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive is a 2006 two-part television documentary directed by Ross Wilson and featuring British actor and comedian Stephen Fry. It explores the effects of living with bipolar disorder on other celebrities and members of the public. Fry himself suffers from a less severe version of the illness called cyclothymia. It won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary at the 35th International Emmys in 2007. A follow-up documentary, titled """", aired in"