Sorry Stephen, i'm a big fan but you failed on your point about 'energy'. Quantum physics has only recently discovered that everything in existence is actually energy vibrating at certain frequencies - something that shamans and mystics have known for thousands of years.
The thing about "ransacking" other cultures for New Age is that it makes a certain amount of sense. If all religions approach the true divine from a different but meaningful direction, then the closest one can get to enlightenment would be through mixing them in an intelligent way to create an optimal blend. Of course, this doesn't work if you just take all the stuff that works best in a shop window.
Now calling them unintelligent is harsh, i dont talk like that but i know a friend with a rough upbringing who talks like that but he's exceptionally intelligent
The unintelligent and inarticulate people in Australia speak like that but not everyone of course. It is annoying to everyone, including Australians such as myself =p.
I happen to think that Stephen Fry IS one of the most intelligent and informed celebrities, I have ever had the pleasure of watching. He is intellectual, intelligent, well spoken, well mannered and just an avalanche of positive impressions. Gotta love that man!
stephen is like a hero to me. i'd love to be as intelligent as him. i mean, i understand everything he says, but i could never say it as he does. he truly is THE MAN.
and the fact that he's gay makes it all even better
I envy his optimism, his charm, his intellect, DAMN IT I WAS THE COOL KID! I USED TO THINK HE WAS TOFFEE-NOSED AND REPULSIVE!! (what was I thinking?) beautiful beautiful Stephen Fry
The Australian inflection is (to my ear) the same as Irish and Scots, probably due to the large number of immigrants from those places. New Zealand too.
It's sad that Fry probably wouldn't of appered on this show if it occured after Angus Daytons sacking from HIGNFY. I get the impression he doesn't like Paul now because of it.
@LeeEnfeild303 He didn't come on the show in the first place because he and Paul were friends, he did it because he's a comedian and tv personality and it's his job. I'm sure if he didn't like Paul (which he have no way of knowing), he could be professional with him.
@LeeEnfeild303 They've been on Just a Minute together a lot since then and there never seems to be any friction. Stephen made it clear that he was angry at the show's producers, the BBC and the tabloid media for Angus' sacking. He has never had a go at Hislop or Merton and he would probably have voiced his objections if he had a problem with their conduct, especially as he was the original favourite to replace Angus and was asked about it a lot at the time.
If you watch Stephen on "Who do you think you are". You can see the room 101 plate on the wall of his Mums house, which I think is really cute that he kept it :-)
@SiliconBong no, I don't think they do. Is this a Chinese tradition? None of my grandparents do it, even my grandmother who is a devout Buddhist.
@xHelenPx I don't think traditions like that make you 'luckier' if followed, but this one might have some logic behind it. It's probably more dangerous to have a house facing a main street, in that it's more likely to be hit by a car driven by say, a drunk driver who didn't turn timely enough.
Actually the feng shui guy wasn't giving fake advise so he could earn more money. A door opening to a main street is one of the top taboos among all chinese taboos/superstitions when you buy a house. Even my very Catholic grandparents still sort of hold on to it.
Closing the curtains wasn't originally a superstition or even a tradition: When we brought our own home and laid them out in the parlour you wanted to keep the house as cool as you could so that the fact that the body was turning wouldn't be contributed to by hot sunlight pouring though the windows. Now, say in the last century, it's tradition as we have given over the job of caring for our dead to undertakers and funeral homes.
Interesting reply, lesterclaypool1, I had always thought it was because the colour seen from outside the house was white, symbolic of mourning. This included the covering of windows with white sheets. There is also something very old fashioned my grandma used to do which was keep the curtains shut for exactly three days, after a loved one had died. I vaguely remember it was to keep the soul out of the house so it wouldn't come home to roost with it's friends or family.
I know, my wife's gran had all kinds of crazy reasons for drawing the window coverings when someone died , too, it just turns out that the real reason for doing it was much more practical.
True enough, lesterclaypool1. Neighbours could see the white sheets/curtains in the windows during the day and wouldnt visit until they were removed. ( and they usually brought bikkies and flowers! :) Considering that mourning for the dead isn't a spectator sport, it also gave the needed privacy for friends and family to grieve and, console themselves that life goes on. Not that this little digression has anything to do with Stephen Fry's portrait on a plate!
My wife grew up in a town of 1st and 2nd generation Irish Canadians and she remembers a wreath with a black ribbon being hung on the front door of houses in mourning. She thinks it was hung IF the body was in the house as opposed to the funeral home.
She also heard a story about her great great aunt coming back to life after lying in the parlour for two days. I'd imagine that this would happen occassionally before body preservation became widespread.
My parents, and the grandparents that I knew, were also of irish descent lesterclaypool1. My granpa would always walk next to the curb, whenever he and grandma were walking down the street. I asked about this one day and he did that to protect grandma from the detitrus that would be kicked up from horses hooves and the wheels of passing carts. Did you ever see men take off their caps whenever a hearse went by?
Sure, in Canada it's not uncommon for people to pull their cars over when a procession goes by, too.
Your granpa walking on the curb had another benefit, historically: When chamber pots were just heaved out of a bedroom window, to the call of "Gardy Loo", it was proper for the man to walk on the curb as he would be more likely to get drenched in the pot's contents. Despite the fact that we don't use chamber pots, now, it's still considered proper for the man to walk on the curb.
Do people still knock at the door of someone's house they are visiting? lesterclaypool1. I've heard it is customary in some countrys to just walk straight in.
Totally agree with him on AQI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought it was just me that it pissed off! My girlfirend started doing it and it was the most annoying thing ever!!!!!!!!!
@pwnXD I am a great admirer of Stephen Fry but Richard Dawkins published the Selfish Gene in 1976 when Stephen Fry was busy in jail for credit card fraud. Hitchens wrote his first leading article for the New Statesman when Fry was only 15 years old. If I have misunderstood perhaps you will let me know.
@zeomatrix3 There are plenty of folk his caliber and higher, they are kept as far from the 'masses' as possible as there is such a desperate reliance and dependence on keeping people dumb, distracted and needy because smart people:
That teleporter gag was lame lol I wasnt so much laughing at the gag as laughing at the fact it was necessary to insert such a cheap gag into the middle of what was up untl that point a decent discussion
Was he being ironic when he said "When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart."?
There's no mystery to the human heart. It's an organ which circulates blood.
@bobokk As an Australian, I am both deeply sorry for AQI, and determined to stamp it out. It isn't as prevalent as it was, though. Mostly in the lower socio-economic classes. You just wait til you hear our Prime Minister speak. Yee gads.
Iam afraid to say it seems i suffer with AQI, a few months ago my dad asked why my sentences always went up at the end, i was not even aware of it till he mentioned it, and now Sir Fry has spoken about it, i feel paranoid!! Iam however a massive Buffy fan so maybe that could be the cause (note: iam also 29)
Stephen Fry is brilliant! He's not only intelligen, but charming, honest, extremely funny, optimistic and he's a great writer. I've just read Making History and it's the best book i've read in years! Keep up the good work.
Stephen Fry is surely not the smartest nor the most informed man around, but what makes him a god in the eyes of many is the fact that he is such an optimist, and he is so sunny, he is all for being better and making the world better. Most of the other people who are as or more intelligent do not have such a disposition, and hence are not that loved. He can give hope like no one can. Every time I listen to him talk, watch him, I want to grab a new book. The world needs more people like Stephen.
Although he might come across as a delightfully sunny person, Stephen Fry is actually bipolar. So perhaps that might not be the best way to describe the man. He is however, very eloquent, self-aware and focussed on the real aspects of life, which - in my book - makes him one of the most admirable people alive.
@Roflcopter60 Yeah, I know he is bipolar. In fact, I am bipolar, too. His documentary on manic depression was a great help for me. After that, I started to feel more at ease with my condition and I found it easier to talk about it in public. And I've met others feeling the same way too. That's what I wanted to emphasize in that comment. Even though he is bipolar, he is still a very sunny human being. In fact maybe BECAUSE he is bipolar, he is such a hopeful man. And he shares this with others.
@dyonissos It's a bit sad that while he is sort of the world's nurse, he can't take the medicine he gives us so freely. Brilliance has it's price, and he is undoubtedly brilliant.
@dyonissos yup, agree. But how can you say he's not the smartest or the most informed man? Why? most so called intellectuals specialise in one field, Stephen Fry knows a lot about many fields, including music, history and art. he also has an astonishing knowledge on politics. he has a truly encyclopedic knowledge about most things. So he IS one of the smartest and most onformed men on the planet.
I love these sorts of tv shows and am so glad to live in the UK where they are made and broadcast, but stuff like that teleporting bit really cheapens the whole experience of it for me.
I love these sorts of tv shows and am so glad to live in the UK where they are made and broadcast, but stuff like that teleporting bit really cheapens the whole experience of it for me.
The host is right about the Australian accent though. It is about being worried that a statement will offend someone or sounding too clever or smart. It's called "Tall Poppy Syndrome" and it's all too common in Australia.
The bit about the AQI is very true - it can get on your nerves, trouble is, I do use it myself sometimes? It can sound cool - but upon hearing Stephen's reflections I agree with him.
yeah,because we all know about the incredible telepathic powers of the dolphin ¬_¬ that,and when they die their spirits inhabit places more inland than in the sodding ocean.
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it seems stephen only associates with middle class southern teenagers. no one up north speaks like that unless ther a really really middle class private school softy or a homosexual of a certain ilk. I'm with stephen 100 % on this one its fucking annoying.
there will be people watching this knowing full well they speak like that ....... ha ha you fucking idiots even lord chancelor of the gays Fry thinks it sounds poncey ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Who is gutted exactly? You're the gigantic faggot that just made an idiot of himself to anyone who happened to browse the comments for a fraction of a second, gtfo.
Dreamcatcher is just as stupid with the native indians as it is with native english. Picking and choosing is a better method then tradition, but it requires wisdom.
i'm 16 and i resent such a generalisation, though i do adore stephen fry (in an entirely platonic way, i hasten to add). i too despise AQI, though one of the only people i know who does it is my 58 year old father, though he lived in australia between the ages of 6 and 16 which may explain it. still, not all teenagers are illiterate dunderheads.
@93parklife I read this and thought: This could be me! I'm also 16, and I adore Stephen Fry in quite the same way, and I agree that not all teenagers are illiterate dunderheads :b
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks that's true!
Ironic that Stephen would go on to host a show with the same initials as Question Intonation. (I don't think of it as 'Aus QI' given that it's been a global trend for some time now.)
Sorry Stephen, i'm a big fan but you failed on your point about 'energy'. Quantum physics has only recently discovered that everything in existence is actually energy vibrating at certain frequencies - something that shamans and mystics have known for thousands of years.
MiG2880 3 days ago
HUUHH, I remember Trouble, Fresh Prince was on it.
God is that still going?
aaron9099 2 weeks ago
I love Fry's rant on negative/positive energy, from 2:17 to 2:48
mollyjbrooke 1 month ago 2
this man is a gift to our country
guitarreilly 2 months ago 2
@guitarreilly i really wish you wouldn't say that.... he is not a national treasure or a gift to Britain. He is a gift to the whole world.
Purojannu 1 month ago
The thing about "ransacking" other cultures for New Age is that it makes a certain amount of sense. If all religions approach the true divine from a different but meaningful direction, then the closest one can get to enlightenment would be through mixing them in an intelligent way to create an optimal blend. Of course, this doesn't work if you just take all the stuff that works best in a shop window.
Chiscringle 2 months ago
Did he say "dis"?
dantean 3 months ago 2
@dantean yep! :D
kbtreturns 1 month ago
Now calling them unintelligent is harsh, i dont talk like that but i know a friend with a rough upbringing who talks like that but he's exceptionally intelligent
KannibalKorpz666 3 months ago
The unintelligent and inarticulate people in Australia speak like that but not everyone of course. It is annoying to everyone, including Australians such as myself =p.
azdv 3 months ago
I can't find a clip of that doplhin guy anywhere :(
Piatasify 3 months ago
God I love him..
Spaghettimonster777 3 months ago
as an aussie, i didnt even realise we doOO ITT
flea2181 4 months ago
I am sure they had a similar teleportation device in Red Dwarf.
Davidbensonxyz 4 months ago
Seems more like a sperm whale has taken control of his soul
reprovo 4 months ago
I happen to think that Stephen Fry IS one of the most intelligent and informed celebrities, I have ever had the pleasure of watching. He is intellectual, intelligent, well spoken, well mannered and just an avalanche of positive impressions. Gotta love that man!
ChrJahnsen 5 months ago 40
@ChrJahnsen is that you, Stephen? ;)
thoughtitwasjustme 3 weeks ago
wow cant believe this is 10yrs ago
xierotron 5 months ago
If you want to disagree with stephen fry you better bribe him with a face plate.
Angel8795 6 months ago 3
stephen is like a hero to me. i'd love to be as intelligent as him. i mean, i understand everything he says, but i could never say it as he does. he truly is THE MAN.
and the fact that he's gay makes it all even better
DubstepOverdose 6 months ago
@DubstepOverdose the last person to admit they love stephen fry is a massive gay
stevolution666 4 months ago
i thought dolphins lived in water?
Peterpooeater 6 months ago
Stephen Fry & Kenneth Williams would have made excellent teachers
DidaDragan 6 months ago
@DidaDragan I believe Fry was a teacher for a short time during his time between university...
Chadt01 6 months ago
Like if your part of the sunny delight generation??
jimmy2k4o 7 months ago
Sabrina is awesome, Stephen, gorl
CAYOMluver 8 months ago
"getting rammed by someone who dropped sand into the vaseline"
LMAO omg
CAYOMluver 8 months ago 20
2:04 "splenetic juices of fury" ftw
steveoah 8 months ago 2
Seeing Stephen angrily punching his hand as though it were a teenager was one of the greatest things I've seen in my life.
bladerunner12 8 months ago
I envy his optimism, his charm, his intellect, DAMN IT I WAS THE COOL KID! I USED TO THINK HE WAS TOFFEE-NOSED AND REPULSIVE!! (what was I thinking?) beautiful beautiful Stephen Fry
STEPASAUR 8 months ago in playlist Stephen Fry 3
The Australian inflection is (to my ear) the same as Irish and Scots, probably due to the large number of immigrants from those places. New Zealand too.
timdaughte 8 months ago
It's sad that Fry probably wouldn't of appered on this show if it occured after Angus Daytons sacking from HIGNFY. I get the impression he doesn't like Paul now because of it.
LeeEnfeild303 9 months ago
@LeeEnfeild303 well him and paul DID do the direct line adverts together, which suggests the do still respect each other
sgtgorillaz 9 months ago
@LeeEnfeild303 He didn't come on the show in the first place because he and Paul were friends, he did it because he's a comedian and tv personality and it's his job. I'm sure if he didn't like Paul (which he have no way of knowing), he could be professional with him.
janeeyre1990 8 months ago
@LeeEnfeild303 They've been on Just a Minute together a lot since then and there never seems to be any friction. Stephen made it clear that he was angry at the show's producers, the BBC and the tabloid media for Angus' sacking. He has never had a go at Hislop or Merton and he would probably have voiced his objections if he had a problem with their conduct, especially as he was the original favourite to replace Angus and was asked about it a lot at the time.
kisbie 7 months ago
I want to do that to people that go "Hello" as a questioning end statement and those that say Whatever
IanTC12 9 months ago
The teleporter was using sound effects from Xcom enemy unknown.... my god I'm a geek.
Hardysamnin 9 months ago
Are the teleporter soundeffects the same menu sounds from UFO Enemy Unknown?
olziber 9 months ago
7:09 George Galloway: Dolphin, Cat, twat.
viewingthings1 9 months ago
If you watch Stephen on "Who do you think you are". You can see the room 101 plate on the wall of his Mums house, which I think is really cute that he kept it :-)
raisaoz 9 months ago 4
'splenetic rage juices' sounds like a death metal band
HiggsyAndGinge 10 months ago 4
energy? wasn't feng shui originally a way of organising furniture so you can easily escape invaders or defend against a house attack?
LordBlastKrieg 10 months ago
Best line ever: Not unless he's being savagly rammed by someone that dropped sand in the vasoline
Dugald64 10 months ago
Isn't it ironic that the initials "AQI" were nominated, yet less than a year after this was made, Stephen was fronting a show called "QI"!
DarthJedi2005remixes 10 months ago
7:13 My reaction whenever I read the Daily Mail
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Stephen Fry doesn't believe in God because he is God
wotsgoinonhere 11 months ago
I love Stephen Fry so much. There are moment when he reminds me of my dad lol ^_^
NarutoRocks36 11 months ago
@SiliconBong no, I don't think they do. Is this a Chinese tradition? None of my grandparents do it, even my grandmother who is a devout Buddhist.
@xHelenPx I don't think traditions like that make you 'luckier' if followed, but this one might have some logic behind it. It's probably more dangerous to have a house facing a main street, in that it's more likely to be hit by a car driven by say, a drunk driver who didn't turn timely enough.
vanillalatteblended 1 year ago
...How could anyone dislike this?!
xHelenPx 1 year ago
Actually the feng shui guy wasn't giving fake advise so he could earn more money. A door opening to a main street is one of the top taboos among all chinese taboos/superstitions when you buy a house. Even my very Catholic grandparents still sort of hold on to it.
vanillalatteblended 1 year ago
Do your grandparents close all the curtains when someone has died? vanillalatteblended
It was some sign of mourning my grandparents always did.
SiliconBong 1 year ago
@SiliconBong
Closing the curtains wasn't originally a superstition or even a tradition: When we brought our own home and laid them out in the parlour you wanted to keep the house as cool as you could so that the fact that the body was turning wouldn't be contributed to by hot sunlight pouring though the windows. Now, say in the last century, it's tradition as we have given over the job of caring for our dead to undertakers and funeral homes.
lesterclaypool1 10 months ago
Interesting reply, lesterclaypool1, I had always thought it was because the colour seen from outside the house was white, symbolic of mourning. This included the covering of windows with white sheets. There is also something very old fashioned my grandma used to do which was keep the curtains shut for exactly three days, after a loved one had died. I vaguely remember it was to keep the soul out of the house so it wouldn't come home to roost with it's friends or family.
SiliconBong 10 months ago
@SiliconBong
I know, my wife's gran had all kinds of crazy reasons for drawing the window coverings when someone died , too, it just turns out that the real reason for doing it was much more practical.
lesterclaypool1 10 months ago
True enough, lesterclaypool1. Neighbours could see the white sheets/curtains in the windows during the day and wouldnt visit until they were removed. ( and they usually brought bikkies and flowers! :) Considering that mourning for the dead isn't a spectator sport, it also gave the needed privacy for friends and family to grieve and, console themselves that life goes on. Not that this little digression has anything to do with Stephen Fry's portrait on a plate!
Thanks for answers, Silicon.
SiliconBong 10 months ago
@SiliconBong
My wife grew up in a town of 1st and 2nd generation Irish Canadians and she remembers a wreath with a black ribbon being hung on the front door of houses in mourning. She thinks it was hung IF the body was in the house as opposed to the funeral home.
She also heard a story about her great great aunt coming back to life after lying in the parlour for two days. I'd imagine that this would happen occassionally before body preservation became widespread.
Nice takling to you, too.
lesterclaypool1 10 months ago
My parents, and the grandparents that I knew, were also of irish descent lesterclaypool1. My granpa would always walk next to the curb, whenever he and grandma were walking down the street. I asked about this one day and he did that to protect grandma from the detitrus that would be kicked up from horses hooves and the wheels of passing carts. Did you ever see men take off their caps whenever a hearse went by?
SiliconBong 10 months ago
@SiliconBong
Sure, in Canada it's not uncommon for people to pull their cars over when a procession goes by, too.
Your granpa walking on the curb had another benefit, historically: When chamber pots were just heaved out of a bedroom window, to the call of "Gardy Loo", it was proper for the man to walk on the curb as he would be more likely to get drenched in the pot's contents. Despite the fact that we don't use chamber pots, now, it's still considered proper for the man to walk on the curb.
lesterclaypool1 10 months ago
Do people still knock at the door of someone's house they are visiting? lesterclaypool1. I've heard it is customary in some countrys to just walk straight in.
SiliconBong 10 months ago
@SiliconBong in my opion its polite to knock unless you are such good friends that it would be aceptable to just enter ,,, i would knock
lesterclaypool1 10 months ago
@vanillalatteblended It doesn't change the fact that it's bollocks
xHelenPx 1 year ago 2
@vanillalatteblended They weren't in China, they were in LEEDS. And it's a stupid thing to be taboo in any case.
Bumblybee256 11 months ago
I love how Stephen Fry's arguments are all so well informed.
curlzferrero 1 year ago 3
8 people watch Neighbours...
TheMacedonianGeneral 1 year ago
I could listen to Stephen talk forever!
JoeLaTurkeyIII 1 year ago 2
Totally agree with him on AQI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought it was just me that it pissed off! My girlfirend started doing it and it was the most annoying thing ever!!!!!!!!!
nikfirehazard 1 year ago 2
IF you buy into this crap, here's a small tip from me. For free I might add. CHANGE THE F*ING DOOR. My pleasure.
wimscheers 1 year ago
possessed by dolphins? what a dick
marcopaulo037 1 year ago
i miss room 101 with merton. it was comforting.
stitcha123 1 year ago
If science knew everything then it would stop.
Norkindar 1 year ago
Oh, please don't blame Buffy, Stephen.
bondfool 1 year ago 2
i don't think wittgenstein said that
jackhartcup 1 year ago
only Stephen Fry can say "spleenetic juices of fury" and make it funny...
ChannelEden 1 year ago 6
@pwnXD I am a great admirer of Stephen Fry but Richard Dawkins published the Selfish Gene in 1976 when Stephen Fry was busy in jail for credit card fraud. Hitchens wrote his first leading article for the New Statesman when Fry was only 15 years old. If I have misunderstood perhaps you will let me know.
WillShakespeare2007 1 year ago 2
@WillShakespeare2007 i think perhaps he means, in the public eye decrying psychic and supernautral bullshit.
stitcha123 1 year ago
if you believe in nothing you'll fall for anything
ihearttheplanet 1 year ago
i dread the day this man passes away. The world needs more people of his caliber.
zeomatrix3 1 year ago
@zeomatrix3 There are plenty of folk his caliber and higher, they are kept as far from the 'masses' as possible as there is such a desperate reliance and dependence on keeping people dumb, distracted and needy because smart people:
Wont buy shit they don't need,
At prices they can't afford
From people they don't like.....
:D
pixiniarts 1 year ago
@pixiniarts well put, that person
TheTommiesTheBand 1 year ago
Possesed by dolphins? Sounds more like a seagull...
DejaVu666 1 year ago
That teleporter gag was lame lol I wasnt so much laughing at the gag as laughing at the fact it was necessary to insert such a cheap gag into the middle of what was up untl that point a decent discussion
bluejeckett 1 year ago
Just sat watching the dolphin loony do this thing thinking "Two questions: what is he smoking, and can I have some?"
1thinkexist1 1 year ago
I love his emotional wrestling over that plate! It may be tat, but it's MY tat! LOL!
UKWiLFreD68 1 year ago
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Was he being ironic when he said "When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart."?
There's no mystery to the human heart. It's an organ which circulates blood.
lewisner 1 year ago
he hates the sunny delight generation who were under the age of 20 in 2001. His current boyfriend was 16 in 2001. Much hindsight lols. love this!
bubble992 1 year ago
From this to insurance adverts? Didn't see that happening...
AshTheGaffer01 1 year ago
University is responsible for AQI in England. Everyone I knew came back from Uni talking like that. Twats
bobokk 1 year ago 5
@bobokk As an Australian, I am both deeply sorry for AQI, and determined to stamp it out. It isn't as prevalent as it was, though. Mostly in the lower socio-economic classes. You just wait til you hear our Prime Minister speak. Yee gads.
1thinkexist1 1 year ago
the dream catcher bit is 100% genius. I say that of course because it's exactly what I think, but genius all the same. fry ftw.
radiohock 1 year ago 2
I hate that! People who talk as if everything is a question are so irritating! Great choices by Mr Fry!
surrendermonkeys 1 year ago 3
Couldn't agree more with Stephens last choice
sgtgorillaz 1 year ago
even in casual conversation you can hear the tremendous intelligence seaping out
roggytheaussie 1 year ago 29
@roggytheaussie yes. probably left a stain on the chair, mate.
bobbylockes 3 months ago
Iam afraid to say it seems i suffer with AQI, a few months ago my dad asked why my sentences always went up at the end, i was not even aware of it till he mentioned it, and now Sir Fry has spoken about it, i feel paranoid!! Iam however a massive Buffy fan so maybe that could be the cause (note: iam also 29)
CarolineATRC 1 year ago
@CarolineATRC
I got told off by my dad for it when I was younger so I managed to stop doing it
WTP2k 1 year ago
Stephen Fry is brilliant! He's not only intelligen, but charming, honest, extremely funny, optimistic and he's a great writer. I've just read Making History and it's the best book i've read in years! Keep up the good work.
LetitiaB8 1 year ago
Stephen Fry is surely not the smartest nor the most informed man around, but what makes him a god in the eyes of many is the fact that he is such an optimist, and he is so sunny, he is all for being better and making the world better. Most of the other people who are as or more intelligent do not have such a disposition, and hence are not that loved. He can give hope like no one can. Every time I listen to him talk, watch him, I want to grab a new book. The world needs more people like Stephen.
dyonissos 1 year ago 147
@dyonissos
Although he might come across as a delightfully sunny person, Stephen Fry is actually bipolar. So perhaps that might not be the best way to describe the man. He is however, very eloquent, self-aware and focussed on the real aspects of life, which - in my book - makes him one of the most admirable people alive.
Roflcopter60 10 months ago
@Roflcopter60 Yeah, I know he is bipolar. In fact, I am bipolar, too. His documentary on manic depression was a great help for me. After that, I started to feel more at ease with my condition and I found it easier to talk about it in public. And I've met others feeling the same way too. That's what I wanted to emphasize in that comment. Even though he is bipolar, he is still a very sunny human being. In fact maybe BECAUSE he is bipolar, he is such a hopeful man. And he shares this with others.
dyonissos 10 months ago
@dyonissos It's a bit sad that while he is sort of the world's nurse, he can't take the medicine he gives us so freely. Brilliance has it's price, and he is undoubtedly brilliant.
Redsparrowe123 9 months ago
@dyonissos yup, agree. But how can you say he's not the smartest or the most informed man? Why? most so called intellectuals specialise in one field, Stephen Fry knows a lot about many fields, including music, history and art. he also has an astonishing knowledge on politics. he has a truly encyclopedic knowledge about most things. So he IS one of the smartest and most onformed men on the planet.
marcohorowitz8 7 months ago
@marcohorowitz8
i heard that his dad was a particle physicist .... not up to scratch there .....
darkstar1345a 6 months ago in playlist good tv moments of interest
@dyonissos I agree but also his profound wisdom, could make any subject interesting
jimmy2k4o 7 months ago
@dyonissos Which makes it ever more potent when he decides to say something scathing!
Davidbensonxyz 4 months ago
@dyonissos A nice thought but i must remind you Stephen Fry the optimist is a manic depressive
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greatscot24 1 year ago
YES, about the AQI thing, I myself have only just reached my 21st year, and have been wanting to punch my peers for it almost my entire life.
Clivepom 1 year ago 4
@ finehomemadewine: Stephen Fry is NEVER irrational! (and please note: there is no 'C' in irrational)
HeathenLoveGod 1 year ago 2
I love these sorts of tv shows and am so glad to live in the UK where they are made and broadcast, but stuff like that teleporting bit really cheapens the whole experience of it for me.
Willwillwritehiswill 1 year ago 2
I love these sorts of tv shows and am so glad to live in the UK where they are made and broadcast, but stuff like that teleporting bit really cheapens the whole experience of it for me.
Willwillwritehiswill 1 year ago
Sunny Delight generation FTW!
LuminoFirewarrior 1 year ago
The host is right about the Australian accent though. It is about being worried that a statement will offend someone or sounding too clever or smart. It's called "Tall Poppy Syndrome" and it's all too common in Australia.
MissChessur 1 year ago
I like Mr. Fry even when he is nagging irracionally :-)
finehomemadewine 1 year ago
"When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart."
pownedd 1 year ago
@pownedd Thats a contradiction if there ever was one.
supercalefredjalist 1 year ago
this video is awesome simply for the fact that stephen says 'diss'. :D
Squidgey55 1 year ago 10
Damn. I meant Hear, hear.
nitramgnal 1 year ago
I love the way he says 'Horseshit'.
mattsladey111 1 year ago 2
Stephen Fry is a treasure in which are country can be proud off :)
strawblonde457 1 year ago
Thank you Stephen Fry for bringing up 'Australian Question Intonation'.
I have always despised people who speak like that. Though it's certainly not just an Australian thing....
ukulazy 1 year ago 9
@ukulazy Have you ever noticed how people from the republic of Ireland do the opposite, i.e. down at the end of every sentence?
xraycortina 1 year ago
Stephen Fry is the Renaissance Man tha tthe 21st Century needs.
Bass5el 1 year ago 29
Stephen Fry is brilliant!
kynismos 1 year ago 6
great quote....'so anti-science'. True, too many movements today are against development and humanity.
whereiamishere 1 year ago 5
"the sunny delight generation"
townsjim 1 year ago 3
I could listen to that man reading the bloody Yellow Pages and not fall into a coma.
ironicsun 1 year ago 8
spleenetic juices of fury :)
al28283 1 year ago 2
lol @ splenetic juices!!
flugel76 1 year ago
"splenetic juices of fury" Haha- love that!
whenimsixty4 1 year ago 3
Stephen Fry - I want to marry you and have your babies. I know this would be more pleasant for me than for you....but I loves ya xxxx
Ellie8969 1 year ago 10
On several levels this is very funny?
stanwayroad 1 year ago 5
The bit about the AQI is very true - it can get on your nerves, trouble is, I do use it myself sometimes? It can sound cool - but upon hearing Stephen's reflections I agree with him.
mrbeanaswell 1 year ago
it looks as thought fry is angry in this one. never seen him so judgmental of things
crapola67876578 1 year ago
Stephen Fry really is a a great antidote to X-Factor, Loose Women and associated low-brow crap that seems to infest the media at present :o
hinkyponky 1 year ago 147
@hinkyponky
If you haven't already, look up his lecture on television posted on YouTube's BAFTA channel. It's brilliant stuff.
TheConciseStatement 1 year ago
@hinkyponky well said
ste43 1 year ago
@hinkyponky I think I want to hug you. How can we stop X Factor? It is mindless bile for the Starbucks generation.
More people like you, please!
TVisHELL 11 months ago
I have never accepted the whole whatever business, but like a lot of other things, Stephen just made it really cool to say it.
FreedomValentine 1 year ago
Possessed by dolphins?
yeah,because we all know about the incredible telepathic powers of the dolphin ¬_¬ that,and when they die their spirits inhabit places more inland than in the sodding ocean.
Vault101Reject 1 year ago
AQI, or "Upspeaking" drives me up the wall.
annikee59 1 year ago 5
@annikee59 seconded!
danish93kat 1 year ago
I do?
lapislazuli7 1 year ago
LOL @ Dolphin guy "being savagely rammed by someone who has dropped sand in the vaseline."
missterribelle 1 year ago
Stephen is wonderful
anetchi 1 year ago
Did they use Starcraft sound effects? It really sounds like it.
XYZandTime 1 year ago
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it seems stephen only associates with middle class southern teenagers. no one up north speaks like that unless ther a really really middle class private school softy or a homosexual of a certain ilk. I'm with stephen 100 % on this one its fucking annoying.
there will be people watching this knowing full well they speak like that ....... ha ha you fucking idiots even lord chancelor of the gays Fry thinks it sounds poncey ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
gutted
TheHappydead 1 year ago
settle down mate it's only a tv show
chamallowbleu 1 year ago 3
i know, i know
TheHappydead 1 year ago
You see to be a very angry Northerner, was the coal mine extra cold this morning? :p
Morrisseyisdead 1 year ago
no your mum turfed me out early so i had to walk all the way home with a fishy cock
TheHappydead 1 year ago
Dissapointing reply, No wit, No humour, just vulgar stories of your childhood abuse involving your mother.
Morrisseyisdead 1 year ago
i think you'll find 'your mum' jokes are the peak of wit n humour.
TheHappydead 1 year ago
nar.
Morrisseyisdead 1 year ago
Who is gutted exactly? You're the gigantic faggot that just made an idiot of himself to anyone who happened to browse the comments for a fraction of a second, gtfo.
BelfastAtheist 1 year ago
i bet you said that with an upward inflection at the end didnt you in your soft shitty belfast accent
TheHappydead 1 year ago
I didn't say it at all because it was a youtube comment :S
BelfastAtheist 1 year ago
How stupid would a dream have to be to get itself caught in that little jumble of string?
cottonwhiskersuk 1 year ago 8
I like your thinking!
MilesBennetDyson 1 year ago
Dreamcatcher is just as stupid with the native indians as it is with native english. Picking and choosing is a better method then tradition, but it requires wisdom.
Darvinisti 2 years ago
Native Americans, "native Indians" would be native of India.
Padraig1980 1 year ago
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I agree wholeheartedly, I think Stepthem is very wrong about this.
MissStyk 1 year ago
Your argument is invalid, as Stephen is a genius..and you cannot spell 'Stephen'.
BelfastAtheist 1 year ago 5
This has been flagged as spam show
I'm actually 14 and adore Stephen Fry
calaforianrocker 2 years ago 2
Vanity, thy name is Shephen Fry!
nanagnome 2 years ago 4
i'm 16 and i resent such a generalisation, though i do adore stephen fry (in an entirely platonic way, i hasten to add). i too despise AQI, though one of the only people i know who does it is my 58 year old father, though he lived in australia between the ages of 6 and 16 which may explain it. still, not all teenagers are illiterate dunderheads.
93parklife 2 years ago 9
@93parklife I read this and thought: This could be me! I'm also 16, and I adore Stephen Fry in quite the same way, and I agree that not all teenagers are illiterate dunderheads :b
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks that's true!
danish93kat 2 years ago
@danish93kat - glad to hear it. if you like fry, i recommend 'a bit of fry and laurie', it's my favourite sketch show of all time.
93parklife 2 years ago 2
@93parklife I know it, it's amazing! They're both incredibly talented actors!
danish93kat 2 years ago
I third this! ( I'm actually also 16 and adore Stephen Fry. ) :)
Biathine 2 years ago 3
I Love his choices! So specific!
eimearoconnor 2 years ago 6
Ashwin x-factor "What eva"
pakiboy6666 2 years ago
I don't really agree with him on this, but I wish he converted me anyway...
finehomemadewine 2 years ago
Ironic that Stephen would go on to host a show with the same initials as Question Intonation. (I don't think of it as 'Aus QI' given that it's been a global trend for some time now.)
kisbie 2 years ago
aww, stephen snatching his plate :)
theunhappyhours 2 years ago 9
omg never have i laughed so hard at that dolphin man.
14kip 2 years ago
The question intonation has reached Finland as well... as if Finnish didn't sound strange enough without it...
mellielli 2 years ago 2
oh yes, i have been possessed by dolphins many times, hahah.