Career: After graduating, Fry and Laurie enjoyed a successful comedy partnership. Fry was a millionaire by 30, thanks to a successful rewrite of the Noel Gay musical Me and My Girl. He has appeared in numerous films and TV projects, including Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Wilde, Thunderpants, Kingdom and The Hobbit. He's also written several books, and is well-known as a charming raconteur. He made his movie debut as writer and director with Bright Young Things, based on Evelyn Waugh's book, Vile Bodies. Fry is the presenter of comedy quiz QI, he has also made several acclaimed documentaries, including ones about manic depression and Aids, and he is the reader for the British versions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series of audio books.

Career: Davies performed his first stand-up gig in 1988, and by the early 1990s was a rising star, picking up rave reviews at Edinburgh. He later gave up playing clubs to concentrate on radio. His Radio 1 series, Alan's Big One FM, led to TV appearances on shows such as One Foot in the Grave, before he was cast as the lead in Jonathan Creek, the light-hearted mystery drama that made him a household name. Other acting work includes Bob and Rose, A Many Splintered Thing, The Brief, Marple, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), Lewis and Whites. He presented the three-part documentary Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution for Channel 4 in 2010 and was a judge in 2011 on ITV talent show Show Me the Funny. He's also appeared in West End hit Auntie and Me. He has been a permanent panellist on irreverent quiz QI since the show began in 2003.

Career: In 1986, Reeves received an Enterprise Allowance grant to finance the stage show Vic Reeves' Variety Palladium, which later became Vic Reeves' Big Night Out. He met Bob Mortimer during its run, and their partnership was formed. A TV version of the show appeared in 1990. Reeves and Mortimer went on to create hits such as The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars, Families at War and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Away from the partnership, Reeves has featured in various adverts, hosted historical series Rogues Gallery, been a contestant on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and presented Brainiac: Science Abuse. He's also published an acclaimed autobiography, Me: Moir. Shooting Stars was later resurrected - then unceremoniously axed - by the BBC, but Reeves and Mortimer continue to work together, including on the sitcom House of Fools.

Career: Anderson did stand-up stints at London's Comedy Store and wrote scripts for such shows as Alas Smith and Jones, The Frankie Howerd Variety Show and Not the Nine O'Clock News. He found fame presenting Whose Line Is It Anyway? and has fronted Clive Anderson Talks Back and Clive Anderson All Talk. He hosted the Radio 4 series Unreliable Evidence and presented Mastermind when it briefly appeared on the Discovery Channel. These days, he concentrates mostly on radio work, having hosted the likes of Loose Ends and Clive Anderson's Chat Room.