BBC Week: A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Greetings and salutations my lovely readers and welcome to Day 2 of BBC Week.   Well now we have all heard of Bones, Kingdom, House and the Stuart Little series but who here has heard of an amusing duo that had a series of well-constructed short sketches and improve?  Imagine the hilarity of Monty Python but with a fraction of the crew.  Impossible you say?  Poppycock is it?  Well my ladies and gentlemen allow me to set the record straight to point out such craziness can ensue.   So critique the Common Market on its name, bash English poetry just for be occasionally glib and strap on your rubber Wellington boots.  This is A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Spot the loony!

Hugh: Hello and welcome to “Flying a Light Aeroplane Without Having Had Any Formal Spoiler With…

The delights of comedy and drama have been held aloft to the big screen to the small.  Prior to either one of them coming across the pond and showing us the depth of the wittism and range of emotion they had to join forces to entertain the masses of Great Britian.  No easy task, mind you.  Touching on taboos such as sex and violence, homosexuality and police brutality you can see our divine duo well had their work cut out for themselves.  Wither it was about relationships, town hall vital issues or the odd bishop nude in a shop looking for chocolates, these gentlemen managed to pry laughter from around the world.

You see my car has up and buggered off.

Stephen Fry of (Blackadder Back & Forth, Baddiel’s Syndrome, Fourplay, Absolute Power, Kingdom and Bones) with Hugh Laurie (Alfresco, Black Adder the Third, Peter’s Friends, Blackadder Goes Forth, Jeeves and Wooster, and House M.D.) have made us laugh and cry and moved us to emotional depths we scarcely admit to our nearest and dearest. 

I have just a few key points about this show.  Similar to Monty Python’s approach of life, our good chaps turn the modern and mundane views of life and spun it on its ear.  From the blatantly absurd to the subtle jokes that may fly over the young ones heads but the adults were a bit flabbergasted.   These two men did their level best to make Britian’s hair stand on end.

There were no traditional reoccurring characters or sense of continuity which in my belief would have ruined the whole dynamic that made up this show.  With the exception of the only skit that had a re-occurrence to my recollection were Tony and his caffeine dependant boss Control as they spoke and interacted with one another in a stiff and almost robotic nature all the while dropping the odd innuendo.  These two extremely odd characters were allegedly part of the CIA and as a taxpayer I can just envision my money being pissed away in this very fashion.

While they had a very jaded opinion of America and its constant lolly gagging and I cannot say I blame them this humor can and will appeal to many and gives you an insight to the minds of two of Britian’s comedic and dramatic treasures.

A tad close here on the sofa, Reginald.