Fry and Laurie

{{short description|British comedy duo}}

{{For|the television series|A Bit of Fry & Laurie}}

{{Use British English|date=December 2010}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox comedian

| name = Fry and Laurie

| image = {{Image array

| perrow = 2

| width = 150

| height = 150

| image1 = Stephen Fry June 2016.jpg

| image2 = Hugh Laurie 2009 crop.jpg

}}

| caption = Stephen Fry (left, 2016) and Hugh Laurie (right, 2009)

| medium = Film, radio, television

| nationality = English

| active = 1981–2003; 2010–2014 (intermittent since early 1990s)

| genre = Character comedy
Sketch comedy
Slapstick

| subject = British culture
British politics
Class relations

| influences =

| notable_work = A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Jeeves and Wooster
Blackadder

}}

Fry and Laurie are an English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s, composed of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. The two met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson while all three attended the University of Cambridge. Following appearances on TV sketch show Alfresco, The Young Ones, and revue series Saturday Live, they gained prominence on television sketch comedy A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1987, 1989, 1995), actress Deborah Norton appearing in many of the sketches in the first series.

Fry and Laurie have collaborated on numerous other projects including, most notably, the television series Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993), in which they portrayed P. G. Wodehouse's literary characters Jeeves (Fry) and Wooster (Laurie).

Since the conclusion of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, both have gone on to solo careers in acting, writing and other roles. They reunited for a retrospective show in 2010 titled Fry and Laurie Reunited. On 14 May 2012, Fry announced he and Laurie were working together on a new project,[https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/201994441400123394 Tweet dated 14 May 2012] which came to be an animated adaption of Oscar Wilde’s 1887 story "The Canterville Ghost". The film was released on October 20, 2023, and features Freddie Highmore as The Duke of Cheshire alongside Fry as Sir Simon de Canterville and Laurie as the Grim Reaper.

Fry and Laurie have remained close friends throughout their careers. Laurie frequently thanks Fry when accepting awards, including at the 2007 Golden Globes when he referred to his former comedy partner, in the old A Bit of Fry and Laurie style, as "m’colleague Stephen Fry".{{Cite AV media|title=Hugh Laurie Wins Best Actor TV Series Drama - Golden Globes 2007|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDJNUst6Al0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/TDJNUst6Al0 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live |work=YouTube |access-date=2021-03-11}}{{cbignore}} Similarly, Fry has referred to Laurie as "m'colleague" or "m'coll" in the dedications of some of his books.