A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season One
starring: Bit of Fry & Laurie
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051264725
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Running Time: 212 minutes
Sales Rank: 30052
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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 MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794051264725 Manufacturer No: E2647
Amazon.com:
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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- A 'bit' better would have been nice"...you cast me as the mouse in your little cat drama"
This series is slightly reminiscent ... Read More
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- House as Funny -- Whodathunkit!These are two very talented men doing very funny bits. And "House" in drag and doing a bazillion different ... Read More
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- Excellent stuff!We expected this to be the weaker material as it is the earliest, but we loved it - as good as or better than ... Read More
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- A bit of Fry & Laurie season 1You need a chunk of time to view this. Not as humorous as I had hoped.
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- Another Great British Comedy!A friend of mine told about this show and I borrowed his DVD. After I had to buy my own. The sketches are a bit ... Read More
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