Stephen Fry

Some folks still hold dear his appearance on Clive Anderson in 1992 or so where he proclaimed his love of My Bloody Valentine.

And EMF!!!

I wouldn't turn Jennifer Ehle down for anyone...

Did read 'Moab is my Washpot' but none of the others.

oh and after checking IMDb, I've also seen IQ and Spice World years ago but don't remember him in those. He also narrates the Harry Potter films apparently.

he also had the third apple mac in england (douglas adams had the first two)

If you are reading any of Fry's books, don't bother with The Star's Tennis Balls. It's basically the Count of Monte Cristo rewritten by Stephen Fry. Pointless then. The rest are well worth a read.

As Archel recommended upthread, Paperweight is the essential guide to Fry's work though. I seem to have three copies of it (and I know I lent another to someone and never got it back) - my mum keeps thinking I don't have it and keeps buying it for me at car boot sales.

http://www.geocities.com/mmemym/

the complete online FRY + LAURIE scripts.

like *where* is the dvd?!!!

"reader..i *married* him...now if that isn't balls,
kindly fax me a definition of what is."

You can tell that Chris Morris was listening too.

Catchphrase: "Man-on-man Action"

I'm slightly surprised this thread is so positive. Surprised and delighted.

He absconded to, of all places, Bruges. I wonder which shops he visited while he was there... ;-)

He's also the best guest there has been to date on Room 101 - Laura and I watched it when it first went out (2000?) and we ended up fervently cheering, applauding and agreeing with just about everything he said.

Also his contributions to the Viv Stanshall doc that was on BBC2 last Friday night were absolutely OTM.

It is Stephen Fry's 50th birthday this weekend, so this weekend sees a Stephen Fry theme on BBC4. Documentary about him, some Fry and Laurie, an episode of Blackadder, Wilde, some programmes he chose himself.

Fry's documentary about borderline personality disorder is outstanding

I wish I had BBC4. I love Stephen Fry.

Mostly thus far amazing for Emma Thompson's top diva outfit and seeing Hugh Laurie not being Greg House. Am flicking between this and BB.

Can you get that BBC iPlayer thing, Trish? You might get to see it on that?

I wish I had a way to see that docu! It ain't on Netflix.

I think Mr. Fry should be House's new doctor underling next season and they can just sit around one upping each other, but in American accents.

The doc on BBC4 is not the manic depression thing, it is just people talking about what a top chap he is, though the depression documentary (one of the best things I have ever seen on TV) has been talked about. It's actually a kind of tossy "woah, Stephen Fry is teh grebt" luvvie-fest which I'm very bored with. Though he totally deserves it, as the nearest thing I can think of to a national treasure.

Woah, the depression doc is being repeated on Wednesday and Thursday. Anyone who hasn't seen it, cannot recommend it highly enough.

Kenneth Branagh looks like Charlie Brooker these days

They do not show this awesome docu of my beloved Fry + my personal condition here in the states. *sad*

have you tried ukn0v4? (degoogleproofed, obv?)

Can you get that BBC iPlayer thing, Trish? You might get to see it on that?

Good thinking, Batman.

Bad thinking, BBC. It only works on Windows machines. Sadface.

I got the docu in question off ukn0v4 back when it was first aired, so there's definitely video files floating around somewhere. Guess I'll be the dissenting voice here and admit that I found it rather uninteresting on the whole.
Fry is great - I particularly liked his appearances on Just A Minute. His raps on Whose Line Is It Anyway were always classic as well (the rap on A Bit of Fry & Laurie on the other hand, "Motherlover", was just as atrocious as every other rap-parody of the time)
Tried to read the Hippopotamus once, but had to give up. Am curious about the poetry for idjits book though.

Anyhoo, I hadn't heard of Room 101, but in case anyone's curious, the Fry episode is on youtube. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLks-r4Mno8
You'll find parts 2 & 3 in the sidebar.

a paticularly good ROOM 101 that.

Is the BPD documentary different from "The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive"?

No, same thing.

this is hopkins's story to post really -- he put it on FT already -- but lol the woman he got talkin to outside a pubbe who said:

"you know the last person to go to jail for buggery? ORSON WELLES, that's who -- it was reading gaol, and when he came out he wrote a book about it and made a million"

This is marvelous: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

the '50 NOT OUT' doc from the weekend is on you tube in full here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=++Stephen+Fry+-+50+Not+Out+

SF's blog is the third result when I just searched for "blog".

where does it rank when you search for "tweedy old fart"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_VNWru5y6U

labhairt as gaeilge mind you

Did he ask them if they liked Mumford & Sons?

mumford agus mhics to you

fucking hell

get out of our language fry

ah-ha-ha jia jeeves

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jun/05/stephen-fry-attempted-suicide-bipolar

so he's marrying his squeeze, a standup comic less than half his age.

hot-cha

this space reserved for a "small fry" comment as soon as I think of one

this guy looks like he's 12 and I am super creeped out and feel so old ugh

he's my age tbh

People are falling over themselves to say how this isn'tweird but it i s a bit and its weirder because they only met a few months ago and have, allegedly, only been going out since November.

hope for the best

circumstances are a little odd but hey, live let live etc

can't believe a celebrity got married

*is getting

Apparently there are dark rumours going around that a celebrity might not have known the person they are getting married to for very long

famous old man marries younger person

Ugh I first heard about this on a NZ news website and the headline was 'Stephen Fry to marry younger lover'. They called him his 'lover' through the whole article.

I can imagine Daily Mail trying to make the most of this.

Just went into the Daily Mail website so you don't have to. Naturally, I now know how much Stephen Fry's future in-laws' house is worth.

A paper here had the headline "Stephen Fry 'engaged'" which was p irritating (theyve changed it since).

Jarring to read this thread and be reminded that people once liked Stephen Fry.

Yeah, I was surprised how positive most of it is, especially after that Worst White Man thread. But I still like him.

he's grand. ilx is ilx.

I was also surprised because older ilx threads tend to be nastier and douchier.

He seemed rather less ubiquitous and set into the annoying Learned National Treasure Shall Tell You Things You Plebs Don't Know role ten years ago, before Twitter and only one series into QI.

I still somewhat like him, but I had the chance to go to a work "do" he was at in Autumn and decided I couldn't be bothered, which would have surprised my younger self.

I was in hyde park v early in the morning late last year and he was out jogging - well he was walking in jogging gear, hands on hips, looking absolutely *fucked*. was the image of someone in the early stages of getting fit who has overreached themselves. I say this as someone who has been on laughably overoptimistic "runs" myself but the muscles of his face looked aghast at what he was doing.

did remind of the time I saw andrew Neil absolutely BOXING his bike up the slight incline on Rotten Row once. Guy was busting a ventricle. rug surprisingly stable.

Ugh I first heard about this on a NZ news website and the headline was 'Stephen Fry to marry younger lover'. They called him his 'lover' through the whole article.

https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.snl.com/SNL_1198_05_Lovers.png

lol

that thing on Neil's head is a inefficacious hair transplant rather than a rug, surely? xp

im not sure it isnt paint

yes - I think that's right in fact.

http://www.independent.co.uk/migration_catalog/article6139038.ece/alternates/w620/pixndill.jpeg

Stephen Fry and Younger Lover, yesterday.

A paper here had the headline "Stephen Fry 'engaged'" which was p irritating (theyve changed it since).

Yes! 'Engaged' was in quotation marks in the NZ headline also. But to be fair I think it was probably a cut and paste from the UK article, that NZ site is so crap.

People are falling over themselves to say how this isn'tweird but it i s a bit and its weirder because they only met a few months ago and have, allegedly, only been going out since November.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, January 6, 2015 6:59 PM

well, we've been waiting for years for gays to be as venal as the rest of humanity.

Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden sure are off to a sweet start in 2015. The two "were married [Monday] evening in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles," their rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.

"We couldn't be happier to begin our new journey together surrounded by our closest family and friends," the couple tell PEOPLE.

The pair, who have been dating since May, got engaged just before Christmas.

"Getting married is the next step when you are totally in love and comfortable with someone," a source tells PEOPLE. "Cameron has found true happiness."

That is a super weird couple too.

wait... the dude Cameron Diaz married is BENJI MADDEN??????

this is delightfully hilarious

YES

"Getting married is the next step when you are totally in love and comfortable with someone," a source tells PEOPLE

glad they protected this daring whistleblower's identity

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/news/140811/cameron-diaz-435.jpg

an ex gf who (braggin but just sayin) looked like Cameron left me for a guy that looked a lot like that.

I'd post it to her fb but I fear unappreciation

I did some link hopping and now I realize that Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie are now sisters-in-law

today has contained unexpected delights

how LA is that guy

an ex gf who (braggin but just sayin) looked like Cameron left me for a guy that looked a lot like that.

I had those trainers 15 years ago too

we are such unappreciated trendsetters

an ex gf who (braggin but just sayin) looked like Cameron left me for a guy that looked a lot like that.

was being inattentive and thought you meant d cameron rather than cameron d and lol'd q hard.

pls

sexy d cameron obv

Best ever humblebrag

no way, i had an ex who looked just like kate humble who left me for a guy that looked a lot like melvyn bragg

gonna go pop the collar on my denim vest made out of leather, brb

Wait why are we talking about cameron diaz in a Stephen Fry thread.

she married some guy from KFC ads

why do ppl keep marrying benji madden wtf

i still like stephen fry, love QI lots and lots. is there a reason for him falling out of favor?

mainly extreme overexposure

partly his ubiquity, VG. (as a friend of mine said, when we were watching the cricket and got a close up of his Holiness - 'Fucking Stephen Fry! Again! Fuck off!')

Much bruited 'National Treasure' status doesn't help anyone - your mundane pronouncements. He didn't ask for that status of course, but perhaps he could pronounce a little less.

also there's a bit of bien pensant right-on-ness that can look smug, and I wonder whether that with the periodic bouts of very public frailty is a bad look for some people.

finally, for me, i find that whole QI comedy circuit totally fucking awful, and the general chumminess that's exuded to be nauseating.

1 and 4 for me anyway, but as I say, I think 2 and 3 may play a part.

er, 'your mundane pronouncements won't usually live up to that title, causing people to question it'

gotcha. i can understand that!

Read and enjoyed The Liar probably back in high school, he's great as Jeeves, and I thought the documentary on his bipolar diagnosis was quite touching. Haven't really followed recent activities which is probably for the best, I still have generally positive feelings toward him.

QI is fucking horrible, fizzles otm

There's a wiki page "list of common misconceptions" or something you can spend 10 minutes reading that & it will spare you these awful, awful men guffawing their way through "Alan says the obvious answer and then a noise happens" for 1000 series

Also fry has said some horrible ignorant shit about women

I like him more than I did a few years ago prob cause I ignore him more successfully

He had Sue Perkins on QI as a panelist and called her Mel. And then wanted to crawl under the desk and die. The sort of thing he'd have really slated someone for doing..

Awwwww

Always feel that QI is where the BBC mission to 'educate, inform and entertain' (or whatever shape those Reithian ideals took) goes seriously off the rails although I suppose that was always wacky - ideally there shouldn't be any joins you can see.

When you watch a programme you shouldn't be aware you are necessarily being educated or entertained.

really? Not Entertained?

Yes - we'll always look to something similar in future. It closes out any other possibilities of what entertainment could mean.

I barely know who Fry is, but this Benji Madden person is just fiction, right?

Don't think he's is much good as Jeeves actually. The interpretation of the Jeeves and Wooster characters and relationship is totally off in their version. Fry's Jeeves is supercilious and smug and Jeeves is not like that.

jeeves is described as smug and supercilious all the time

by bertie tho - so he prob isnt actually like that tbh. i dont really see fry's interp as supercilious tho. i feel like hes subtle when he acts above bertie, but thats how the character is written too - those caustic "indeed sir"s

i think he's good as jeeves but when i read the books i usually imagine a slightly older, graver, less twinkly jeeves. laurie's wooster is definitive imo, almost to an annoying extent (hard for me not to hear his voice when i read wodehouse).

Jeeves is not described as smug or supercilious - by Bertie or anyone else.

Alarmed that somebody early in the thread thinks Rich Hall ruins QI whenever he appears. But he's usually the funniest person in whatever show he's in.

I do get a bit tired of some aspects of QI but I think it has less annoyances than a lot of the other panel shows. It's pretty good for whenever I'm feeling too shit or lazy to do anything else, I never go out of my way to watch it but I usually enjoy it.

I liked Fry's programmes on language, homophobia and bi-polar condition. The homophobia one (2 episodes) had some really uncomfortable moments and I thought he was very gutsy and admirable in it.

to each his own age gap, but his spouse should at least get an adult haircut.

http://www.towleroad.com/2015/01/stephen-frys-marriage-to-partner-draws-conservative-backlash-1.html

truth