2 posts tagged “a bit of fry and laurie”

Surely absentee monarch is more fitting given that Jackson hasn't dominated the music scene for at least a decade. Perhaps his come back tour would have set the world alight or maybe gone out like a damp squid like the Spice Girls.   Either way he leaves behind his music legacy, and the gossip columns (and news channels by the looks of it) will squeeze out every last column inch and soundbite from his death. I was never really into his music but I do have two memories. Firstly, is the ace Fry and Laurie sketch about Jackson, and secondly Javis Cocker rushing the stage at the 1996 Brits to protest again Jackson.

This post appeared on The Guardian's arts blog a few days ago and it has been irking me. It is one thing to knock Stephen Fry's career with a postmortem of his choices but it is another to say that "Stephen Fry is sweet, but I don't much admire his career" and then not follow through with any substantial comment (and apparently the majority of the people who left comments feel the same way). The writer didn't even bring up Kingdom, a show so woefully slow and painful that even the wonder that is Fry could not get me to sit through one episode (and don't let me get started on Tony Slattery's role), or his turn as a bumbling detective in Gosford Park that had me squirming.  I have very much enjoyed Fry's career he has kept me entertained for many decades and hopefully will continue to do so. Here are my personal highlights from his resume.

First up his guest role in Bones elevated the mediocre, and his rapport with his comparatively young co-stars in Cold Comfort Farm and V For Vendetta electric. Bright Young Things was by no means perfect but you just have to love anyone adapting Waugh.  With  A Bit of  Fry and Laurie two things stick in my mind his turn as Michael Jackson moonwalking on a treadmill and of course the high jinx he got up to in Uttoxeter. And finally, Blackadder and Jeeves & Wooster - enough said.