A Bit of Fry and Laurie - A Word, Timothy
For those of you who have never watched A Bit of Fry & Laurie you really need to watch this series. It's a hilarious 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.
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One of many things SA was deprived of, and that was just because of the British actors' union Equity boycott! At least it never got dubbed in Afrikaans :P
June 27, 2012 at 18:44pm - Comment
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