“Until recently I was an actor..."

After nearly eight years of playing an ornery, frequently unethical medical mastermind on “House,” Hugh Laurie has taken a break from the screen to pursue one of his other loves: blues music. His style of blues has an Old South, circa...

Mention The Secret Policeman�s Ball and music usually comes to mind�performances by an array of top performers from the late �70s and early �80s in a series of fundraisers for Amnesty International. But comedy was always at the heart of the project. The Secret Policeman�s Private Party (out Feb. 16 on DVD) collects stand-up skits performed as part of the fundraising concert series, documented by c...

The snarling physician played by Hugh Laurie in �House� is intellectually and temperamentally opposite to a character he depicted 15 years earlier, the role that earned him a devoted following. In the popular British television comedy series �Jeeves and Wooster,� Laurie stared as Bertie Wooster, a twit of the first order. The complete �Jeeves and Wooster� is out now on DVD. It�s a perfect...