Stephen Fry And Hugh Laurie Together Again?

Now that House is wrapping up leading man Hugh Laurie is free to stop pretending both that he is American and serious. He is now free to go back to being British and very, very funny. He is, in short, free to continue with one of the longest running and most consistently high quality comedy duos of our age. Yes, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are getting back together.

Fry tweeted yesterday that "Hugh Laurie and I are cooking up a project together. We will be working again soon. Sorry to be mysterious but more news when I can." He followed that up with notice that the duo were contributing voice work to an animated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost but my gut feeling is that this is a separate project as both being hired to work on someone else's project is hardly the same thing as "cooking up a project together." Especially when you consider that Fry's very next tweet was "Off I go now to a secret hideaway to catch up on 5 days of writing. Forgive general twitter silence. Just 6 days."

For the uninitiated, Fry and Laurie are one of the top comedy duos in British history. Their work on A Bit Of Fry And Laurie is golden stuff but it is Jeeves And Wooster - with Laurie as a dim witted but very wealthy young man and Fry as his long suffering butler - that will go down as their key work. Their overlap on Blackadder was also pretty damn good. Whatever they are cooking it will be a welcome return.