Fry and Laurie were a successful English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and '90s. The duo consisted of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst all three attended the University of Cambridge. They initially gained prominence in a television sketch show, A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1987, 1989–95), and have collaborated on numerous other projects including, most notably, the television series Jeeves and Wooster (1990–93) in which they portrayed P.G. Wodehouse's immortal literary characters Jeeves (Fry) and Wooster (Laurie).
Since the conclusion of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, both have gone on to have successful solo careers in television, acting and writing, amongst other things though they still remain friends. They reunited for a retrospective show in 2010 entitled Fry and Laurie Reunited. On 14 May 2012, Fry announced on Twitter that he and Laurie are working together on a new project. Various press sources have since announced that it is to be an adaptation of The Canterville Ghost (1887) by Oscar Wilde and is scheduled for release over Christmas 2014.
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“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement ... says heaven and earth in one word ... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.”
—Christopher Fry (b. 1907)