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starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Mark Arnold, Deborah Norton, Charles Laurie directed by: Roger Ordish See Larger Image List Price: $24.98 Our Price: $14.49 You Save: $10.49 (42%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $14.44 Third Party New Price: $14.49 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 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: 11273 Studio: BBC Warner Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Related Items: A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season Two The Gun Seller Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Series Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete First Season A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season Three see more Editorial Review: 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. 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 Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A 'bit' better would have been nice "...you cast me as the mouse in your little cat drama" This series is slightly reminiscent of Monty Python, only not as (I hate to put is so bluntly) good. The problem mostly lies in the fact that many of these skits are parodies and reference pop culture and events - more like Saturday Night Live. So when watching something from that long ago - and from that far away - it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as if I'd been able to get all of the nuances. That's not to say that none of it ... Read More Rating: - House as Funny -- Whodathunkit! These are two very talented men doing very funny bits. And "House" in drag and doing a bazillion different characters -- what's not to love? I was familiar with both Frey and Laurie's excellent dramatic work - but you will find that they really shine in sketch comedy. Great fun! Rating: - 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 their later stuff. Very funny. Having viewed Seasons 1 & 2, we are looking forward to buying 3 & 4, & wish they'd made more. Rating: - A bit of Fry & Laurie season 1 You need a chunk of time to view this. Not as humorous as I had hoped. Rating: - 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 dated by now but they are still funny. Stephen Fry is an underrated comedy writer. I didn't know that Hugh Laurie was such a good comedian after seeing him in House. I especially loved the Control sketches. Laurie's song Mystery is a hilariously genius comedic song. 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