Hugh Laurie would "absolutely" like to perform again with his former comedy partner Stephen Fry, but worries the pair are too old for political satire.
Speaking on Sunday on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the television actor and blues singer who once rowed for Cambridge in the boat race tells Kirsty Young that a stage revue is more possible.
"We talk about it often," Laurie explains, before selecting a tune in tribute to his long friendship with Fry. A new show "with a couple of wing chairs and a rug" is still at the planning stage. "M'colleague will recount amusing stories and I will sit at the piano and play ditties."
Laurie, who appeared with Fry in A Bit Of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, suggests something similar to the 1950s and 1960s double-act Flanders and Swann.
"Probably sketching is a young man's game because, by and large, it's about mocking people much older than you. We are not only the age of cabinet ministers, we are probably older than half the cabinet," he says.
Laurie, an international star after his recent role as Greg House in the US medical drama House, watched by 81 million viewers, tells Young that fame has changed his life. He could not learn to surf in California, he said, because the famous "are not allowed that sort of tentative first experience of anything. So you can't do it, unless you surf in the dark, which I believe is not recommended."
Laurie claims his media image as a depressive is exaggerated, saying: "I am a fairly sunny individual."
Things have changed since an earlier appearance he made on the fictional desert island at 36, when he was best known as Fry's sidekick.
"I get uncomfortable with happiness, with everything," Laurie told Sue Lawley then. This time he puts his occasional gloominess down to his mother, who he said was funny but prone to dark moods.
