Simon Dunn

Scriptwriter and Comedian

Category: Fry & Laurie

  • Fry And Laurie’s Russia Plan
    Fry And Laurie’s Russia Plan

    Here’s Fry and Laurie, on an episode of Saturday Live, accompanied by Harry Enfield and Ben Elton.

  • Standing Quite A Long Way Away From
    Standing Quite A Long Way Away From

    A Fry and Laurie sketch from a 1987 appearance on Saturday Live.

  • The Laughing Prisoner
    The Laughing Prisoner

    Here’s an interesting curio from 1987. It’s a production of The Tube, featuring Jools Holland, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie. It’s about The Prisoner.

  • Hugh Reads The Results
    Hugh Reads The Results

    There’s something charming about this sketch. I mean, it’s obvious where it’s going, but the laughs come from Hugh’s brilliant performance.

  • A Bit More Back Matter
    A Bit More Back Matter

    There’s a collection of bowel-shattering comic sketches from the increasingly misunderstood BBC TV series ‘A Bit Of Fry and Laurie‘, and it’s written using only lead-free pencils. So claims the book cover for the second collection of their sketches anyway. On the back it also claims that the book contains no satire at the expense…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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