“豪斯大叔”休·劳瑞和斯蒂芬·弗莱是剑桥大学的好友。说起斯蒂芬·弗莱也是个响当当的人物。他是《哈利波特》语音书英国版的朗读者，曾客串过福克斯热播剧集《识骨寻踪》，写过N本书，即将客串《豪斯医生》。最近他减肥成功，在接受采访时谈到了休·劳瑞：

Fry acknowledges that his life changed when he met Hugh Laurie. 'I knew he had this amazing comedy acting talent and would go far, but I could never have dreamed that we'd have a working partnership and lifelong friendship.

'Hugh would pull funny faces and make us laugh, but all he wanted to do was to graduate and join the Hong Kong police. I suspect he rather liked the mental picture of himself in freshly ironed white shorts and shirts.

'Because of that, he didn't take acting seriously, but preferred to be the English silly ass rather than a cool James Bond type. We got deeper into the university's Footlights revue, went on to do Blackadder and Saturday Night Live - and before we knew it, it was too late to turn back.' 

休·劳瑞和斯蒂芬·弗莱

弗莱承认他的生活在遇到休·劳瑞之后发生了改变。他说“我知道他有惊人的喜剧表演才华，在这条路上会走得很远，但是我做梦都没想过我们会一起工作成为至交好友。

休喜欢做好玩的鬼脸逗我们笑，但是他想做的事情只是毕业之后加入香港警局。我怀疑其实他喜欢的只是自己穿着刚熨好的白色衬衫和短裤的形象而已。

不过因为这样，他没有把表演当作严肃的事情，他宁愿去做插科打诨的喜剧角色也不愿意走酷酷的007路线。我们从剑桥的Cambridge University Footlights Revue（时政讽刺喜剧，风格类似美国的Saturday Night Live）一路走了下去，后面又有黑爵士和周六夜现场”，在我们发觉太投入之前，我们就已经不能回头了。”