Stephen Fry - The Letter

This skit is from "The Cellar Tapes" (1982), the television version of the Cambridge Footlights Revue, the revue show of the Footlights club run by students in Cambridge. Many comic performers started their carriers here, including Peter Cook and the Cambridge half of Monty Python. It was also here, that Stephen Fry met Hugh Laurie through common friend Emma Thomson. The two would later form a double act of alternative comedy in various shows. Here is a very good example of the highly intellectual style of Stephen Fry, who studied English Literature in Cambridge. The Letter, as this sketch is sometimes called, is full of wordplay and subtle mockery of the literary style of Dracula.