Ultra-quick post, because I've been told to go to bed.

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, sometimes known as That Guy From Bones and House, or Jeeves and Wooster. They were Cambridge boys, and - as seems traditional - ridiculously tall, members of the Cambridge Footlights (see also Monty Python, The Goodies, Peter Cook, Douglas Adams... and a host of others), and consequently on the BBC.

Their first major claim to fame in the UK was with A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, a comedy sketch show (although A, being a comedy buff since forever, remembers seeing them on the 1983-84 show Alfresco, with Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Siobhan Redmond, and Emma Thompson. I'd never heard of it, myself). By the time Fry and Laurie were asked to play Jeeves and Wooster, they were familiar to the British public as comic partners. That's what I think of, when I think of Fry and Laurie.

To illustrate, one of my favourite of their sketches:

 
ETA: It occurred to me this morning that this might sound all "I know him better than yooooooooooou!" - it's not meant that way. I just want more people to be aware of the delightfulness of ABOFAL, that's all. :)