Fry & Laurie

[matpat29]

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the first series of A Bit of Fry & Laurie? It was shown around 1990-1991 I think and is pretty much the funniest thing I've ever seen. I can't seem to find it in the usual places - perhaps it was never released?

[splodger]

Soupy twist

[matpat29]

Eh?

[splodger]

'Soupy Twist' was what they both said at the end of the show after Steven Fry had made a ridiculous cocktail � honest

[matpat29]

Given. It's been so long since i've seen it - I remember that inevery show there was one terrible sketch where Hugh Laurie would be like a Harry Palmer kind of secret agent and Stephen Fry was "Control" - totally unfunny, but every other sketch was genius. Sadly the later series tended to favour the more laugh-free approach. No idea where I can get a copy?

[splodger]

www.imdb.com/title/tt0101049/ The above website has the video, you're after. You can lend it to me when you've done with it

[matpat29]

Brilliant! Thanks.

[beale]

Try ebay and Amazon, there are sometimes video copies of a best of and I think you can get the region 1 DVD of the same. I think it covers the earlier stuff. Apart from that try lobbying the BBC, it was one of the funniest shows ever but it seems to be disregarded by them.

[bernardo]

I notice from the link mentioned above that the first series was 1986 rather than 1990. The question has already been answered, but I might as well mention my greatest memory of the show - one of the funniest moments opn TV ever. In 1989 they did a sketch in which Stephen Fry was a stern headmaster, and Hugh Laurie was a pupil's parent. They were discussing something naughty which the pupil had done at school, and in the middle of the sketch SF suddenly shouted fiercely at the pupil. The joke was that the pupil was played by Hugh Laurie's six-week-old son, who until that moment had been fast asleep. He awoke with a start, and started WAAAAGHing at the sudden noise.

[Shatnerfan]

I bought the script books off eBay. I must confess to a liking for the aforementioned 'Spies' sketches with SF as Control and HL as Tony Murchison. As there are a series of 'Spies' maybe the sketch doesn't work as a one-off. There are running jokes once you get to know the characters.

[Shatnerfan]

I belive Paramount has the repeat rights.

[matpat29]

Bernardo, I'm sure you've got two sketches mixed up. The one with Hugh Laurie's son involved them kicking in the door of this woman's house and demanding to see her son with the use of phrases like "he's been a naughty boy hasn't he?". It's a classic. The one you've got it mixed up with I think is where Hugh Laurie is the schoolboy having been sent to the Headmaster's (Fry) office because he's written a poem with lines like ("I wanted information and all I got was a head full of heroin". Needless to say, another classic. Favourite sketches from the series anyone?

[Tatsbabe]

My most favourite ever Fry & Laurie sketch was in the first series and it feature the BushWahlita World Championship. I won't bother to explain what was going on because it will make no sense at all it was a very 'you had to be there' type of gag. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Has me in stitches every bloomin' time! Soupy twist!!

[Tatsbabe]

only one more umspotty spot allowed before a double fifth is ....
oh now a full ber yayinnah. ,
these are moves and ways to gain points or a win in the art of bushwahlitta.