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A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season Two
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051264824
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: BBC Warner
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: E2648
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Running Time: 177 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Review:
Season Two of A Bit of Fry & Laurie opens with Stephen Fry dressed in a green velvet smoking jacket, dancercizing as he impersonates a quantity surveyor. You don't need to know what a quantity surveyor is to appreciate Fry and Laurie's humor; it's clearly another great chapter in British absurdity. They specialize in dizzying linguistic games: to protest censorship, they made up their own vicious swearwords (like "pimhole" and "pumpslider"). Deranged flights of self-absorbed literary criticism occur regularly. They satirize conservatism and commercialism (the second episode of this season was sponsored by a carpet manufacturer, whose product was worked into every sketch), but political commentary never takes priority over silliness. Castigating former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher swiftly turns to an angry song about jars that have lost their lids, which leads to an elegy to the recently deceased Hugh Laurie, who then takes part in his own eulogy. Familiar elements from the first season--artificial facial hair, non-sequitur quotes from people on the street, and the inexplicable doings of secret agent Tony Mercheson and his affable superior, Control--return in good form. Whether scolding their audience for laughing at alcoholism and genital fungus, demonstrating the right and wrong ways to greet trick-or-treaters, or impersonating Michael Jackson, Fry and Laurie proceed with earnest gravity and gracious smiles. Fans of their later careers in movies and American television (Laurie has achieved major stardom with House) owe it to themselves to check out Fry and Laurie's delightful comedy. --Bret Fetzer
Only a handful of creative works succeed in capturing the totality of human existence from birth to death through love transfiguration and redemption. "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" the BBC television series co-starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie has been said on two occasions to be among this group. Over 40 sketches in two programs of fun and frivolity.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794051264824 Manufacturer No: E2648
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - brilliant
This is SO worth buying, spec. if you are an American and only know Hugh Laurie from House and Stephen Fry from Bones. They were (and still are) one of the funniest and most talented comic duos!
Rating: - Hilarious Hugh! Funny Fry! Give me more, please!
Inexplicably, Netflix does not yet have seasons 1, 3, or 4 of this early 90s sketch comedy done by friends/colleagues Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who usually produce successful skits if they're not too esoteric or not dragged out too long.
Imagine a funnier, shorter, and very British SNL. Recurring characters include the spy Tony and his extremely polite boss, Control ("Bohhh!"); the perpetually disgruntled, swearing business partners John and Peter ("Damn, double damn, and ... Read More
Rating:  - Fry and Laurie a total hoot!
This team of comedians should be better known in America. When you are in the mood for Monty Python, but feel you've seen them all too recently, try Fry and Laurie. I think the first seasonA Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season One is a bit funnier, but both will have you rolling with laughter off the couch! It is especially sweet to see Hugh Laurie being so goofy in a broad English accent after admiring his work on "House"House, M.D. - Season One. There is a sketch in Fry and Laurie when Laurie dons a white ... Read More
Rating: - Hysterically funny!
For fans of British humor (or should I say "humour") this DVD is a must see! If you love Hugh Laurie in House and have never seen him in a comedy role - get ready to roll in the aisle! Some of the references to British politics went over my head - but the everything else is very funny! Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are an unbeatable combination - for more of the same try Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder!
Rating: - if you hate to laugh, don't buy this
Anything these guys do is amazing and this is no exception. I love a bit of fry and laurie, love love love, wish there was a stronger word available than love and I'd use it. I just wish season three and four would be soon made avalable for the US
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