Complex sentence: He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and in 1981, along with Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Hugh Laurie, he became the winner of the first ever Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Split into simpler sentences: He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and in 1981, along with Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Hugh Laurie. This team became the winners of the first ever Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.