Big Ball of Violence: As close as can be achieved when doing so with live actors in the Strom Translation sketch.

Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: The politician and Tony from 'Tony of Plymouth' are wearing suit jackets over Renaissance garb, as they reveal when they confront each other on stage.

Laurie was also seen playing piano and a wide variety of other instruments, and singing comical numbers. In addition, the show was punctuated with non-sequitur vox-pops in a similar style to those of Monty Python's Flying Circus, often making irrelevant statements, heavily based on wordplay. For example, it frequently broke the fourth wall characters would revert into their real-life actors mid-sketch, or the camera would often pan off set into the studio. It was a progressive show, playing with the audience's expectations. Elaborate wordplay and innuendo formed the cornerstone of its material some sketches deliberately threatened to cross the line into vulgarity, but would always finish just before reaching that point. The programme was a sketch show cast in a rather eccentric and at times high-brow mould. Both Fry and Laurie have expressed interest in working together again, but this has not yet taken place, due to both men's busy schedules. It ran for four series, and totalled 26 episodes, including a 35 minute pilot episode in 1987.

A Bit of Fry and Laurie, commonly known as ABOFAL or 'Boffle', is a British television series starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on BBC2 and then BBC1 between 19.

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