Saturday Night Fry

by Stephen Fry

Dive into the complete first series of Saturday Night Fry, with Stephen Fry and his regular team, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson. Now available on CD for the first time, Saturday Night Fry was the precursor to A Bit of Fry and Laurie and is said to have influenced Chris Morris' On the Hour. Six splendid servings of the original 1988 BBC Radio 4 comedy series, including the pilot episode, plus special guests Alison Steadman, Phyllida Law, Barry Cryer, Robert Bathurst and Julia Hills.

Genres: Humor, Audiobook

3 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs.

See also Mrs. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.

Reviews

[Derelict Space Sheep · Rating 3 out of 5]

42 WORD REVIEW:

This radio precursor to A Bit of Fry & Laurie saw Stephen Fry and guests forge ground in the comedic art of playing against expectations. It is fast, clever (if not always funny), and suavely innovative in its manipulation of the medium.

[Doug · Rating 4 out of 5]

Briefly, this was hilarious (Not so fast, Jenny Flemisto!). Highly recommended for a long drive, as an audiobook of course. If you enjoy Fry and Laurie together or otherwise, this is for you.

[🌶 peppersocks 🧦 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reflections and lessons learned:
Reminders of phrases repeated a million times as a child in a family of comedy lovers... “Don’t look into camera...” so odd to think how far a lot of these performers have come, but especially Fry and Laurie, who really did sound just like two friends riffing... also important childhood introductions for me to wry/droll US humour from Rita Rudner and Steve Wright - much needed alternative tv based scene

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s very easy to see the roots of what could grow into A Bit of Fry and Laurie here. The show is not always successful, the pace is at once too fast and maddeningly slow, and the listener benefits from having an extensive knowledge of BBC radio tropes, but still: It’s a lark.

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Borrowed from the library to amuse ourselves while driving around the Norfolk countryside. As it turned out we finished it driving around the Sussex countryside. Good driving entertainment. Lovely to hear Emma Thompson and Jim Broadbent along with Fry and Laurie.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Silly, but in a good way. Six episodes of the now defunct radio series.

[Derelict Space Sheep · Rating 2 out of 5]

42 WORD REVIEW:

A patchy collection of highlights (so-called) from the 1986 TV variety show. Fry and Laurie are first-billed but don’t actually feature that much. Instead, there’s Ben Elton’s high-octane social and political stand-up, protest poems by Craig Charles, and several remarkably unfunny also-rans.