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| - | '''''A Bit of Fry & Laurie''''' is a British [[sketch comedy]] television series written by and starring former [[Footlights|Cambridge Footlights]] members [[Stephen Fry]] and [[Hugh Laurie]], broadcast on both [[BBC One|BBC1]] and [[BBC Two|BBC2]] between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series and totalled 26 episodes, including a 36-minute pilot episode in 1987. | + | '''Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club''', commonly referred to simply as the '''Footlights''', is an amateur theatrical club in [[Cambridge]], [[England]], founded in 1883 and run by the students of [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. |
| - | As in ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'', elaborate [[wordplay]] and [[innuendo]] were staples of its material. It frequently broke the [[fourth wall]]; characters would revert into their real-life actors mid-sketch, or the camera would often pan off set into the studio. In addition, the show was punctuated with [[Non sequitur (literary device)|non-sequitur]] [[Vox populi|vox pops]] in a similar style to those of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', often making irrelevant statements, heavily based on wordplay. Laurie was also seen playing piano and a wide variety of other instruments and singing comical numbers. | ||
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| - | *[[Tricky Linguistics]] | + | * [[Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society]] |
| + | * [[The Oxford Revue]] | ||
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Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University.
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