Hugh Laurie

By Andrew Dickson From 1981's victors – a Cambridge Footlights team comprising Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery and Emma Thompson – Perrier winners have succeeded in translating their Edinburgh success to stages far and wide. They include Frank Skinner, Eddie Izzard, Steve Coogan, Lee Evans, Je...

By Andrew Dickson Still known by all and sundry as the Perriers, sponsors for 25 years until the prize was handed over to Edinburgh-based bank Intelligent Finance in 2006, the if.comedies date back to 1981 and the birth of so-called alternative comedy. The first winners, famously, were a Cambridge Footlig...