Fry and Laurie Reunited

Britain’s leading comedy channel GOLD has commissioned a one-off special programme to celebrate 30 years of Fry & Laurie’s relationship to be shown exclusively on GOLD at 9pm, Wednesday 24^th November.

Thirty years ago Fry and Laurie met for the first time at Cambridge, introduced by their mutual friend Emma Thompson and comedy history was made.

Stephen is a national treasure and the epitome of a polymath with his staggering output ranging from acting (Wilde, Kingdom, Blackadder, Bones) to directing (Bright Young Things) to writing (The Liar, Making History) to voicing (the Harry Potter books) to presenting (Stephen Fry in America, Qi, Sorry I haven’t a Clue) and he is now of course Twitterer supreme.  Hugh Laurie stars as Gregory House in the global hit TV series House, as well as finding time to fit in Hollywood movies, voiceovers for major cartoons, comedy, music and to write best selling novel The Gun Seller.

Stephen Fry says: "I am delighted to be given the opportunity to retread the 30 years Hugh and I have known each other and worked together. It was a great joy reminiscing about our times together and I hope GOLD viewers enjoy watching us grow older and older..."

Throughout the programme, Stephen and Hugh open up, revealing fascinating insights into their friendship and their careers, and take a look back at their sketches, interspersed with hilarious clips from their work.

Filming revealed some funny insights into the pair; Fry and Laurie have different versions of how they met although they both concede they were introduced by Emma Thompson. 

The pair are great friends and their careers have intertwined frequently over the years from Jeeves and Wooster to Blackadder to their joint comedy showcase, A Bit of Fry and Laurie which ran on BBC1 and BBC2 for four series between 1989 and 1995. They started working together as students in Cambridge at Footlights, and their Footlights May Week Revue – The Cellar Tapes, won the first ever Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1981. The show was subsequently recorded and transmitted by the BBC in 1982.  From there they worked on a number of shows together including Saturday Live and Blackadder and of course A Bit of Fry and Laurie which ran for four series from 1989 – 1995.

This one-off special show for GOLD will air exclusively on GOLD November 24^th, 9pm.

Where to find GOLD Sky channel 110, Virgin TV channel 126, and Top-Up TV channel 17.

Visit www.golaughdaily.co.uk for clips, quizzes, galleries and more!

Fry and Laurie Reunited

Britain’s leading comedy channel GOLD has commissioned a one-off special programme to celebrate 30 years of Fry & Laurie’s relationship to be shown exclusively on GOLD at 9pm, Wednesday 24^th November.

Thirty years ago Fry and Laurie met for the first time at Cambridge, introduced by their mutual friend Emma Thompson and comedy history was made.

Stephen is a national treasure and the epitome of a polymath with his staggering output ranging from acting (Wilde, Kingdom, Blackadder, Bones) to directing (Bright Young Things) to writing (The Liar, Making History) to voicing (the Harry Potter books) to presenting (Stephen Fry in America, Qi, Sorry I haven’t a Clue) and he is now of course Twitterer supreme.  Hugh Laurie stars as Gregory House in the global hit TV series House, as well as finding time to fit in Hollywood movies, voiceovers for major cartoons, comedy, music and to write best selling novel The Gun Seller.

Stephen Fry says: "I am delighted to be given the opportunity to retread the 30 years Hugh and I have known each other and worked together. It was a great joy reminiscing about our times together and I hope GOLD viewers enjoy watching us grow older and older..."

Throughout the programme, Stephen and Hugh open up, revealing fascinating insights into their friendship and their careers, and take a look back at their sketches, interspersed with hilarious clips from their work.

Filming revealed some funny insights into the pair; Fry and Laurie have different versions of how they met although they both concede they were introduced by Emma Thompson. 

The pair are great friends and their careers have intertwined frequently over the years from Jeeves and Wooster to Blackadder to their joint comedy showcase, A Bit of Fry and Laurie which ran on BBC1 and BBC2 for four series between 1989 and 1995. They started working together as students in Cambridge at Footlights, and their Footlights May Week Revue – The Cellar Tapes, won the first ever Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1981. The show was subsequently recorded and transmitted by the BBC in 1982.  From there they worked on a number of shows together including Saturday Live and Blackadder and of course A Bit of Fry and Laurie which ran for four series from 1989 – 1995.

This one-off special show for GOLD will air exclusively on GOLD November 24^th, 9pm.

Where to find GOLD Sky channel 110, Virgin TV channel 126, and Top-Up TV channel 17.

Visit www.golaughdaily.co.uk for clips, quizzes, galleries and more!

Stephen Fry stikes a nerve with remarks on the female libido

STEPHEN Fry's intellect and eloquence may have earned him national treasure status; but an expert in the art of diplomacy he is not. Frequently "inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity", the actor, writer and comedian has a propensity for blurting out ill-considered and potentially offensive comments rivalled only by Boris Johnson.

Only a year ago, Fry suggested in a Channel 4 interview that the Poles were responsible for Auschwitz, a remark he himself later described as being "as idiotic, ignorant and offensive as you could imagine". And then there was all that silly business over the Pope's visit, when he added his name to a letter protesting the use of taxpayers' money to fund it, then expressed astonishment at the degree of controversy his protest had caused.

Even by Fry's standards, however, his recent comments on female sexuality - and the backlash they provoked - were remarkable. In an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, the homosexual host of QI suggested women's libidos were less powerful than men's, adding: "If women liked sex as much as men there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay ones."

He also claimed women only sleep with men because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship, a riff on the old saying that women pretend to be interested in sex because they want love, while men pretend to be interested in love because they want sex.


Read More - http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/A-question-of-lust-Stephen.6615855.jp

Stephen Fry stikes a nerve with remarks on the female libido

STEPHEN Fry's intellect and eloquence may have earned him national treasure status; but an expert in the art of diplomacy he is not. Frequently "inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity", the actor, writer and comedian has a propensity for blurting out ill-considered and potentially offensive comments rivalled only by Boris Johnson.

Only a year ago, Fry suggested in a Channel 4 interview that the Poles were responsible for Auschwitz, a remark he himself later described as being "as idiotic, ignorant and offensive as you could imagine". And then there was all that silly business over the Pope's visit, when he added his name to a letter protesting the use of taxpayers' money to fund it, then expressed astonishment at the degree of controversy his protest had caused.

Even by Fry's standards, however, his recent comments on female sexuality - and the backlash they provoked - were remarkable. In an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, the homosexual host of QI suggested women's libidos were less powerful than men's, adding: "If women liked sex as much as men there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay ones."

He also claimed women only sleep with men because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship, a riff on the old saying that women pretend to be interested in sex because they want love, while men pretend to be interested in love because they want sex.


Read More - http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/A-question-of-lust-Stephen.6615855.jp