Stephen Fry on Who Do You Think You Are - (3/6)

[Patricknoddy]

Does anyone know what the music played when he gets to Vienna is?

[Bioniclejab]

When he said 24th/23rd of September, I nearly died, because the 23rd is my birthday.

Had a bit of a Fryphile moment.

[jackrussell19a]

@Bioniclejab oh my god, that's an amazing story.. Your grandchildren are hardly gonna beleive you..... You fucking spastic

[AsSheLikesIt]

What is the guy doing at 8:10???!!!

[topperdepop]

What's the cake called he eats @ 7:00? Gesperr Torte? I can't find it anywhere.

[nutsbutdum]

Holly Molly!! That Margate museum makes you thank god you were born in the 20th century.

[bluevanities]

what was that guy doing @ 8:11??

[nvalentino75]

Stephen Fry is literally adorable. Who wouldn't absolutely adore him?

[largesatsuma]

I love this episode. This one and the one with Boris Johnson are excellent.

[ButTheseGoToEleven]

Stephen Fry gets no dislikes.

[movement26]

In Victorian England a third of the populatation died of T.B............Now a third of the population die of cancer.......Where's the magic bullet?

[Airsculpture]

@PsychoPlumber He stole a credit card when he bunked off his public school and was caught at Swindon.

[PsychoPlumber]

Anyone knows why he was in jail?

[cywyhot]

@xxxamydollxxx Those wars were about land and resources. If you lived in a big, rich nation--including colonies, there were more opportunities to escape poverty and to escape the terror of being in a weak country swallowed by a stronger one, which made it all about the next generations. That's also why people fled, legally and illigally, to richer nations, risking all. And why there were revolutions. Hope springs eternal for the downtrodden and dispossessed.

[katarinavalencia1113]

i love how stephen is sp fond of his jewish grandmother martin

he sounds and look really nice

[lightupthesky1211]

naughty uncle earnest! hahaha

[sciarrottajuve]

A good episode as they usually are, but there are a couple of sentences from the voiceover that could have been put across better.

"Stephen doesn't remember his grandmother, Rosa. She died before he was born".

[LittleAngel1977]

@sciarrottajuve I'm glad you said that cos I was just thinking same when I noticed your comment.

[cjmag92]

I learn a new word every time I watch a video of the man!!

[shakin2009]

eva braun was hitlers woman

[johnchannetshow]

He looks a bit like James May...

[Craplatte]

All those people at the tram station around him and they just didn't know what a genius was standing beside them. Why couldn't i have been standing there?? :-(

[Craplatte]

Damn, Stephen was in Vienna and i didn't know it!!

[1thinkexist1]

I love the kindness in his voice when he talks about wanting to speak to his great-great-grandfather. His compassion and love and humanity is boundless.

[DeanMalenko]

yes! his german is really really sweet. I wanna cuddle him every time he says something in german :)

[Jubilo1]

Rather amusing! Fry did a bit of jail too so it must be in the blood !

[megan8madonna]

Oooooooooooooohhhh...don't much like dolls at the best of times. Creepy.

[bunnybrain]

does anybody know what the piano/violin piece is called that they played during the Margate and TB bit?

[VamLoveAndKisses]

His grandmother was beautiful! It's that old fashioned, romantic beauty that you don't really see any more.

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[LIVERLADD]

I always thought TB was to do with bad lungs. You live and learn Bless our poor ancestors

[LetsGetFizical]

Stephen doesn't remember his grandmother Rosa. She died before he was born.

[greengrendel]

7:04 Steve has obtained a c...ake!

[EnigmaDrath]

9:28 -> Dear lord, the resemblance with Stephen is uncanny!

[Nebirias]

@EnigmaDrath And I had always wondered what Fry would look like with a woman.

[Dionysos37]

What an interesting history we have in the body of evidence in Fry's ancestors---that they were in "work houses" and jails (including as children), suggesting the vast and brutal public and social "disciplinary mechanisms" used to control the poor back then, up through the days of Dickens: plus epidemic diseases.

[Concetta20]

I kind of agree on the slight "fakeness" but it's necessary to do all the research ahead of time, saves time and money.

[queenastilon]

I love this but there's something fake about the series. They have obviously done the research before involving the celebrity in question. This is clear from how the producers reject some people on the grounds that the history in their genealogy is uninteresting or has already been covered by a previous edition:- they already know. They give the false impression that in this case Stephen Fry did all the research himself, with a camera crew following, within a week or two.

[Sciencespipo]

@queenastilon Yeah you're right, it seems a bit artificial in that sense. The whole time I was wondering "wait, he really went himself to the Vienna War Archives or TPRB just gave him the certificate about his grandfather"? Obviously it's the latter. But oh well it's still fascinating. And let's be honest some historical backgrounds are definitely more interesting (or more "exotic") than others for viewers.

[krugerfuchs]

vienna looks very nice

[JulesWiiind]

Gefreite is a private. corporal is more likely to be a Fähnrich I think. You start as a Gefreiter in the Bundeswehr today.

[ReSpekt156]

I don't think that was german, but you're right, he is good at it.

[quovadisrass]

@ReSpekt156

It was german

[SIRinLTHR]

Omigod, the Margate "museum" is fricking insane. With those creepy dolls. I love it.

[lennona]

Wow his german accent is great!

[neeleonhelemaalniet]

You mean "his German"?

[englishfrenchgerman]

@lennona He speaks fluent German as well

[ikutsu2001]

@lennona Austrian. He' was in Vienna.

[bimaru12]

@ikutsu2001 Austrians speak German. They do have a special accent, but he doesn't speak it. But his German is pretty good for a native English speaking person!