Category: Fry & Laurie
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A Bit Of Back Matter
I’m amazed it took me so long to buy the script books for A Bit Of Fry and Laurie, but there it is. The first one has the tagline ‘raw, trembling, naked sketches from their first BBC TV series’. The back cover is rather lovely. It’s got hand-scrawled notes about the design. Signed by S.F.,…
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Shop Sketches
I love a good shop sketch. Shops lend themselves so well to the format. Whether it’s a normal assistant dealing with a weird customer … Or two normal people doing something weird … Or annoying assistants ticking off haughty customers.
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A Question Of Spoof
In a cyncial effort to link to trending topics and current news, here’s some A Question Sport spoofs. First up, here’s an advert for HP Sauce. Simon Dunn And I wish I could find a better version of this from A Bit Of Fry & Laurie.
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Tummy Rubbish
Here’s a sketch from Saturday Live. What’s interesting is that parts of this sketch appeared previously in an episode of Alfresco, and other parts were adapted later for A Bit Of Fry & Laurie. I can find neither on YouTube to share though, sorry. So, by way of apology, watch this instead, it’s brilliant.
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A (Different) Bit Of Fry & Laurie
It’s easy to forget that Fry & Laurie did a load of sketches for Saturday Live. Here’s a great one. Check out the furniture.
