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"A Bit of Fry and Laurie is not really quite as safe as you make out - most sketches have lost their teeth since, but that&#39;s the same as most comedies (or indeed programmes). They do have numerous angry rants at Thatcher or the government or BBC guidelines and things, added to which Fry was almost dangerously depressed during series 4 and spends much of it looking like he&#39;s about to kill everyone. (The title sequence, a mock perfume ad called &quot;Pretension&quot; with the sound of people sobbing and Fry saying &quot;I hate you I hate you and yet... I hate you,&quot; gives us a fairly bleak set-up.) <br /><br />I would agree that it&#39;s not consistently very funny, with a lot of sketches going on too long or being based around Stephen Fry saying a lot whilst Hugh Laurie looks bemused. But the idea that their show notably lacks teeth compared to many other comedy shows around it is, I think, not very well substantiated.<br /><br />(Compare to Blackadder in which many critics found the last episode rather jarring, seeing as it was 25 minutes of witless catchphrase comedy followed by a sudden attempt to be serious. I think it just about works, but I&#39;ve never been a big fan of that final series just because the writing is often very lazy.)<br /><br />Never could get a handle on Jeeves and Wooster series, though. I&#39;ve tried to watch it several times and it just bores the tits off me.<br /><br />- As a side note, I&#39;ve acted in amateur dramatics plays with Hugh Laurie&#39;s son - who looks astonishingly like him - and have acted with and directed Laurie&#39;s nephew, a very witty chap with a bright future ahead of him, I reckon. Comedic talents and stage charisma seems to run in the family."
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