Stephen: I take comedy classes and I always tell my pupils that it’s much easier to hit than to be hit. And, erm, you are just very good at being hit.

“Hugh and I were writing and we would write everyday - Monday to Friday and we ‘d give ourselves the weekend off. I was asked if I would present a documentary on the Chess Olympiad in Greece and it was great because it was only 4 days (Friday to Monday). So, for some reason, I said to Hugh “I can’t come in Friday because I’ve got something or rather ” and anyway, the point is that he found out. He found out that what I was actually doing was flying to Greece and making a documentary and coming back Monday night. So it was basically a long weekend which was not a bigger deal. But it was, as parents say to their children - it’s the fact that you lied. So he was furious. But it had an upside because there was a letter when I got back that was saying- and it said “Because it’s as if you don’t understand how much I love you” he said. He used that word!” — Stephen Fry on Hugh Laurie

The Curious Misadventures of Mr Fry and Mr Laurie

[on how they met]
Stephen: So I’m in my room at Cambridge and Emma comes round one evening “I want you to meet Hugh Laurie” I said okay, so we walked up toward Selwyn, his college, knocked on the door and his girlfriend Katie answered.
Hugh: I think we met in his room, or rooms in Queen’s.