Stephen Fry

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.

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