A Bit Of Fry And Laurie

A Bit of Fry and Laurie #1

by Stephen Fry

A selection of sketches from the BBC2 comedy series starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

Genres: Humor, Comedy, Nonfiction, British Literature, Tv

1 pages, Audio Cassette

First published November 1, 1990

About the author

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs.

See also Mrs. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.

Reviews

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book!

I can visualize Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie doing all the sketches in this book.

I like this pun:

Betty had a bit of bitter butter and put it in her batter and made her batter bitter.

Then Betty took a bit of better butter and put it in her bitter batter and made her bitter batter better.

Can't translate that to Indonesian. It's the same like the sentence Kuku kaki kakak kakekku kaku-kaku

[Faizah]

Watched and loved the series... look forward to reading this book!

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved a Bit of Fry and Laurie and saw them at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival when this book came out. It still makes me laugh and I wish they would pair up again.

[Dane Cobain · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is basically just a collection of scripts from the A Bit of Fry and Laurie TV show, but I’ve seen every episode of it a whole bunch of times and so because of that, it felt weirdly like I was re-reading something.

The good news is that all in all, I thought it was a lot of fun, and it reminded me why I was such a fan of the show in the first place. It also got me wanting to re-watch it, especially because of certain sections like the Tony and Control sketches. It even clarified a few bits here and there where I guess I misheard what had been said in the show and so the jokes were lost on me.

Still, I was somehow expecting more from this, perhaps in the form of a few little bonuses from Fry and Laurie. There was a little introduction that added a certain amount of context, but it wasn’t really enough to make this feel original in its own right. Instead, the book was kind of derivative of the show, but what the hey? If you’re a fan of Fry and Laurie, you’ll still enjoy it.

[MKF · Rating 3 out of 5]

Watching the show is funnier than reading it even if you read it in their voices.

[Dorottya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a huge fan of A Bit Of Fry and Laurie - I just love their type of humour.
I really enjoyed reading this collection of their sketches. I was a bit confused, though, at times, by only using their names of the indicator of the character - I mean, I was a theatre major who has read a lot of plays... I am accustomed to seeing the character's name, not the performer's name.
Also, I had a feeling that some of these sketches just do not work as good with writing, especially the ones that have physical humour elements in it.
But overall, it was sooo much fun revisiting their sketches! I was literally laughing out loud on some of them

[Emilie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pas mal... mais je n'aurais pas forcément choisi ces sketchs là. Il manque quelques bons classiques (comme Shakespeare, le type bourré au barre...). Tous les textes ne sont pas aussi drôles. Mais en tout cas, très bonne idée de proposer enfin une édition française du duo Fry & Laurie.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've watched the show before, and the book is just as random and weird. Love it.

[Brieanna Brownawell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like both Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, but I think this audio program needed the visuals of the TV show to be really funny.

[Samuel Fillion Doiron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ce sera très court puisqu'il est impossible de résumer une compilation de sketch prévu pour être joué sur scène. Cela dit, en terme de ressenti pur, j'ai passé d'agréables moments de lecture.

C'est léger, simple, facile à comprendre et ça se lit bien comme lecture de chevet pour sourire avant de dormir. Cependant, il faut aimer l'humour British absurde à la Monty Python. Moi ça me plaît étant un grand fan des Chick n Swell depuis mon enfance, mais clairement ça ne plaira pas à tous.

Sinon, ça reste une compilation de sketch et j'estime que si ce n'est plus possible de les jouer au théâtre, ce serait une bonne idée d'en faire une série télévisée de sketchs (comme les Chick n Swell ont fait justement). Je crois qu'il y aurait un public pour ça, car sans les émotions, les tons de voix des personnages et les subtilités de langage de l'anglais (la traduction est très basique), on sent qu'il manque quelque chose à l'expérience.

[B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I truly enjoy their skits, and I genuinely enjoyed parts of this book, but some parts just didn't translate well to being written out in the format that was selected. This was unfortunate for me, but it didn't lessen my enjoyment of their work, nor does it serve as a reflection on their work. I truly enjoy the things these men do, but the formatting and method of presentation in this were just off for me. I'll stick to the television version of the show.

[Boris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick to read, and tons of laughs! I had worried about how sketch comedy would translate to literature, but turns out it works very well! These are some of the best early bits they did, with some interesting reflections on (then) current affairs, always ending in some bizarre manner (if you had followed some of their stuff, you already know that though). Very much recommended!

[Lorrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Stephen Fry; I love Hugh Laurie, but I did not love this. I understand how, in times past, this was hilarious. But like a carton of milk lost at the back of your fridge, this most definitely did not age well.

[Balazs Almasi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Remek jelenetek az angol abszurd humor javából.
Aki vevő az ilyesmire annak nagyon fog tetszeni. Aki nem, annak meg nagyon nem...

[Linda Umbridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great companion piece!

[Lídia · Rating 5 out of 5]

特别棒！！！就是sketch整理得和tv版顺序不太一样，vox pop也乱七八糟的，不过并不掩瑜。买来的版本还有封底签名，一本满足😊

[Nina Pupala]

Classic!

[Michael Vawser]

1P LL