Fry, Laurie reunite for TV special

Former collaborators Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are reuniting for a TV special celebrating the 30th anniversary of their comedic partnership.

Set to air this fall on British digital channel GOLD, the one-off show is tentatively being called Fry & Laurie: Re-United.

"I am delighted to be given the opportunity to retread the 30 years Hugh and I have known each other and worked together," Fry said in a statement.

"It was a great joy reminiscing about our times together. [I hope viewers] enjoy watching us grow older and older."

Filmed recently in London, the 90-minute special will look back over Fry and Laurie's comedic partnership and interlinked careers.

The duo met at Cambridge in 1980 through fellow schoolmate Emma Thompson. All three were part of the award-winning Cambridge Footlights drama club in the early 1980s.

Laurie is perhaps best known in North America these days for his turn as a cantankerous but skilled doctor in the award-winning U.S. drama House. But British comedy fans know him better as Fry's counterpart in the BBC sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie and from the duo's roles in shows like Jeeves and Wooster as well as the Blackadder series.

Fry, now perhaps best known as an actor and regular British TV and radio presenter, is also a novelist, audiobook narrator, blogger and influential user of the social networking site Twitter.