What happened to our two heroes before "A Bit of Fry and Laurie."

Stephen Fry was born on the 24th of August 1957, with with Hugh Laurie following two years later on the 2nd of June 1959.  Stephen's life before A Bit have been chronicled in Mohab in My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles.  Hugh and Stephen appeared together for the first time in The Cellar Tapes, a version of their Footlights Revue the previous year. They then went on to appear in Alfresco and then The Crystal Cube. They then appeared in Saturday Live  and Friday Live. They then went on to appear in Blackadder, which would help launch them to becoming stars...