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A Bit of Fry and Laurie : Season 2
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Air date: 09 Mar '90 - 6 episodesA 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.
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List of Episodes (6)
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989)
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1. Episode One
09 Mar '90Stephen 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.'"
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989)
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2. Episode Two
16 Mar '90The 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."
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989)
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3. Episode Three
23 Mar '90Fry 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."
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989)
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4. Episode Four
30 Mar '90Fry 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."
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989)
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5. Episode Five
06 Apr '90Includes: MBE Introduction, This is Dominic Appleguard, Rhodes Boysons, Amputated Genitals, The Cause (1st Jack and Freddy / Neddy), (3rd Gordon and Stuart), Where Eagles Dare.
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989)
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6. Episode Six
13 Apr '90Includes: 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).
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