Fry and Laurie - Absolutely Perfect

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	• A Bit of Fry and Laurie - The Complete Collection... Every Bit! Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry BBC Warner, 2007 average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great show, but a bit pricey

Overall, this show is very enjoyable. Some sketches are really silly and so absured (Derek Nippl-e, anyone?!), that you laugh quite hard watching them. My favourite parts of the show were the musical numbers with Hugh Laurie, and the endings of the last two series with Stephen Fry mixing up cocktails and dancing hilariously as Laurie plays the piano.

As far as my ratings go: Even though I'm a huge fan of British comedy, and that's basically all I buy in way of DVD collections, I found this one a bit hard to understand being a Yank and all. This show was on air when I was about six years old as well, so I'm not sure if it's a cultural or time-lapse difference that makes certain sketches go over my head.

For a collection of four DVDs, the price is quite heafty as well. For about the same price, you can find the 8-disk Jeeves & Wooster series in Amazon's "new & used" section. What would have made the boxed set worth the price would have been a collection packed with extras (left-over sketches, bloopers, behind-the-scenes stuff, etc). Though, the one extra this set did have was the Cambridge University Footlights Review Special that aired on the BBC featuring early works by Fry & Laurie. This special is quite hilarious, and Stephen Fry shines, in my opinion, during a seven-minute monologue simply titled, "The Letter". Very witty stuff, indeed!

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A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Gets better as it goes along, but many of the jokes and skits are, I think, parodies of British TV shows that we don't get--so, though I think they're both wonderful, Jeeves & Wooster was SO much better.

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Fry and Laurie - Absolutely Perfect

I purchased this DVD box set after reading the scripts for this series. It does not disappoint. If you are a fan of British Comedy and/or a fan of Messrs. Fry and Laurie, you will thoroughly enjoy this box set.

More Than A Bit Funny

If you like British humor, this pair does a wonderful job of keeping you laughing. I still find it hard to believe that Hugh Laurie can be the harse Dr. House on American TV when he came from such comical beginnings. Enjoy.

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Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are best known outside of their native U.K. for the various acting roles they've taken in major productions. In Fry's case big-screen roles in WILDE and PETER'S FRIENDS helped establish his name. In Laurie's case the hit TV show HOUSE made him a firm favorite with American audiences. They are also known and loved for their joint turn in the irreverent comedy JEEVES & WOOSTER. But U.K. viewers first warmed to their talents at the tail end of the 1980s with A BIT OF FRY AND LAURIE. The show is composed of a quick-fire selection of sketches interspersed with Fry and Laurie donning various silly guises and being interviewed as if they were ordinary members of the public who have been asked to air their views on a hot topic of the day. The writing and performances are still as fresh as when the shows first aired and demonstrate both the quick-witted nature of the pair and their reluctance to pander to their audience. The first four seasons of the hugely influential show are included here.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 794051403322 Manufacturer No: E4033

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