Fry and Laurie Read Daudet and Jerome

Alphonse Daudet (1840-97) was a respected French novelist and playwright, best known in the UK for Lettres de mon Moulin.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) was a British humorist and novelist, most famous for Three Men in a Boat and for co-founding The Idler.

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are famous for their comic talents and numerous television and film appearances, both together in shows such as Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and later separately in shows such as QI and House.