The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate than the word "gay".
A person does not need religion, hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important, qualitative differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption.
Homosexual activists, with complete support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims and martyrs; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.
I thought that Bandura showed that at least children learned through modelling, including violence.
I think that the real problem with having so much satire is the old Jester idea...if people are laughing at things, they are less afraid and angry, they go to bed thinking they're smarter than the rich and powerful, that they know how things work, and that they are part of a large group who thinks the same way, when really they're powerless individuals.
4:15 The student looks remarkebly like Krishnan Guru Murthy. Is that him!?
If so then this may make my top ten of greatest ever videos on youtube along side Gintoki's Strawberry milk speech, Justin Bieber getting hit with a water bottle, the gay benzai rap, and Brian Blessed hosting snooker
If a man reads a book for example catcher in the rye then kills another man should the book be censored? No it shouldn't and neither should tv shows. Art is open to peoples interpretation
Answering to the why do people not copy generosity. Study by Bandura of children aggressive behavior found out that they were more likely to copy aggressive behavior than non aggressive, with one of the reason being that the children saw the non aggressive behavior all the time and hadn't seen the aggressive behavior so would imitate. Relating to TV, if you saw violence on the all the time then you may see it as a norm and potentially act out the same way.
@wobbygongman Not really. If you can see the children have already been taught the non aggressive behavior, so saw nothing new to act out and then played normally, but non-aggressively . Then when they saw the aggressive behavior they copied exactly what they did. Thus if you learn from a TV, then at first would copy it out straight and then after time you then would create your own version of the aggressive behavior. So you don't copy the generosity, as you more than likely already nice.
he gives a great answer (superb debating skills) but THERE IS a mass of pulpy soft viewers who are easily influenced... its the core of behaviourist psychology: some people are just more readily influenced than others.
I think the point was more that they aren't anyone's responsibility but their own, and that art forms should be an expression of the artist rather than of the artist's concerns less stolid folk than him/herself.
So many people agreeing that teenagers nowadays aren't capable of debate. Completely missing Fry's point at the start, "Don't for goodness sake assume that there is this mass of pulpy, soft viewers that are going to be influenced badly."
Teenagers might watch X Factor etc and know a lot about it, but have you ever stopped to think that maybe they're just as bored by it as you? Offer them something better.
Whats great about this interview is there's a confident and honest man taking questions from children who basically have no agenda. It's fast, rapid fire, and quick, as well as less than slow.
This is amazing, and scarily still relevant now. I love Stephen Fry...I wish he was my cool uncle or something. I can also relate to his manic-depressiveness.
Stephen fry is a total legend and yh i would sooooo vote him as primeminister of england-hang on i would probably vote him as primeminister/ president of the WORLD!!!
@Stevie2Sxc I only know four minds whom when as teens without doubt could produce such fine questioning ......unfourtunatly I think they'd all fall to bits in the presence of Mr.Fry.
@PaulFace im not even British and i would move to England if i though there was a chance i could vote for Stephen Fry if he had gone into politics . i dont know the UK rules for foreigners gaining citizenship and possibly voting or if their policies on that are similar to the USA or not but i would certainly try lol. thats how much i love , admire and respect Stephen Fry. i would leave my country just to try to vote for him if i though he was going to run for some form of office .
@jkarani He only got arrested and was expelled from schools because of his manic depression which makes people do strange and stupid things. He's a very smart person and even the schools that he was expelled from can't deny that. That's why he got into Cambridge.. because he is a very clever person and likes to learn.
I don't blame young people, I blame the education system. One that's more interested in producing fodder for industry at the cost of producing rounded human beings. A system that seems to be based on the one Dickens attacked in Hard Times.
@twopinplugvision I do think that some things are wrong with education but it has been proven that people are far more capable of troubling solving these days, I would say that the problem is that these days they would be shouting for attention more and try to be smart with one liners. It has more to do with the pace and character of media I think
@twopinplugvision Thats because the western education system is based off of a system made by the prussians which was to get people to conform. this may sounds like a bit of a conspiracy theory but i urge you to read the book Weapons of Mass Instruction.
im not sure how he got through the cambridge interview. his statements aren't exactly bulletproof. just because the people voicing the issues of violence on television aren't conditioned by the violence itself doesn't mean it doesnt happen to other people. simply because im not a victim of domestic abuse doesn't mean it doesn't go on around me
@MrArtVanderlay That is no way to speak about your father even if he did fuck you up the hole every night until you became too slack for his tiny cock.
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Shut up about kids being stupid! The reason this stereotype has become apparent is that a small minority of teenagers think it's fun to get drunk and be an idiot, but I am 13 and am so good at english that the poem I studied For grade 6 Drama was on the AS level syllabus, and one of my older friends came to me for help! You can check if you like, The poem was Hopkin's 'Spring'. I am also the only person in my year to know what 'iambic pentameter' is.
And that what makes younger kids stupid in an unknowing sense. You believe you're maybe clever for your age or smart, simply because of silly educational things which might only even be just the simplicity of remembering them.
I agree kids being stupid is a little stereotyped and misjudged. In my own opinion, "kids" are not stupid, they are merely less experienced in life and know little about how people think and work. In a metaphorical sense of course.
You're ignorant. Consequently your decisions are faulty because you don't know enough. Your job should be gathering information until you have enough data to make an informed decision. Until then you're bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Best of luck in your endeavours, avoid hubris and hypocrisy in yourself and others.
Watch "The Life of Brian" and "The Meaning of Life" and you can't go wrong.
These kids are pretty smart and erudite. These days I don't know of any teenagers, from my area at least, that could intelligently discuss anything other than the private lives of X-Factor contestants...
I certainly agree, but they were also certainly screened and most likely had a practice and plenty of coaching. This isn't just 20 kids off the street.
so there werent dumb kids back then, or did they grab alot of the smartest kids that would actually be interested in what he says, by saying all teens these days are idiots, is just showing how idiotic you are. did you not here the first thing stephen fry talked about.
@Capriquillo They are known as chavs, not teenagers. Chava are another species altogether, whereas tenenagers like myself in fact have a keen interest in politics.
@Capriquillo To be honest, I don't agree. I think if you compared an average teenager of today with one twenty years ago you would find ours on the same level, if not more enlightened and open-minded. This trend of scapegoating the younger generation has to stop. They won't achieve great things if we don't give them decent expectations to live up to. In my opinion, the only reason people think past generations were better is because they themselves were young then.
@Capriquillo I have to be honest, I disagree, I am 14 and I know many people my age and older who could easily have an intellectual conversation with others.
Plus, I know as a fact, teenagers at the time of this were not all like this, infact this is a rare sight, certainly if you met my parents you would not imagine them anywhere near such a discussion of politics within comedy etc.
So you can't really judge people, and no I am not having a go, just stating facts.
@Capriquillo . These so called kids are all journalists of the future , who no doubt had pre thought questions . Did you notice the channel 4 news reader of today ! If they were so smart why didn't any question follow up on the previous one ? Wasn't the first question slagging off Benny Hill who was a great comedy writer who was crucified as sexist? Yet Little Britain rips off Benny and Dick Emery but is hailed as modern day geniuses for acting gay in almost every skit , why ? RIP OFF !
@MrNodzilla Most questions were on the current topic of the conversation. Good on you for striking down on the questioning abilities of 15-year-olds though.
@Capriquillo On the whole I agree with you. I am 14 and I am probably the only person in my class or possibly my year group that could have a full discussion about something like politics. It annoys me so much that people my own age can be so naive. But I think it is wrong to generalize all young people like that even if the majority are stupid and extremely naive some teenagers to actually take an interest in things other than stupid TV programmes.
@Capriquillo They aren't really teenagers. Krishnan Guru Murthy is 19 here, for instance. Most intelligent people are already quite intelligent at this stage.
@Nonpeasant Ever been to America? At that age, we're lucky if our kids can do basic math or chew gum and walk at the same time. I know grown adults who can't quote literature. Not as in being poorly read, but as in being unable to quote any single line of any printed work unless they've seen it on television or a movie. The average American is functionally illiterate, no other nation would let their children graduate school with such low comprehension.
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This brings back memories... used to enjoy this series on BBC Scotland. A stark reminder that programmes aimed at young adults used to assume they had an attention span of more than 10 seconds, and weren't perforated by background music or daft shaky camerawork.
I'm not sure if I agree with Stephen's statement that it's "a very delicate constitution" - whatever its other many faults, the constitution has both an essential hardiness which has allowed for a remarkable durability over several centuries, and a flexibility which seems to allow changes to be made with the times. Though certainly the MP expenses scandal illuminated some glaring weaknesses. Is this accurate?
I love the way he takes every question seriously, and answers on their merits; he seems incapable of being patronising. The loveliest guy in the world? Maybe!
I disagree that we are unaffected by what we watch on TV. Of course very few people are conscious of it, but advertisers know it better than anyone. They don't spend millions on 30 second clips because they enjoy pissing money up the wall. We ARE influenced and possibly far more by say, a 90 minute film that glorifies violence than a meek 30 seconds of advert getting us to associate a car with getting laid.
the question at 1:30 is a contradicting argument i mean take freedom of speech it is something we ight for yet if a man says i hate gays\black people\short people\dumb people etc he's called a homophob racist whatever
It isn't contradictory. If there was freedom of speech people can say what they want but not be punished for it (which isn't what we have in the UK) but others can still use their speech to criticise and condemn that speech based on its effects and content, such as refering to it as homophobic or racist.
How can Stephen look so lovely while the others look so dumb in their colthes, with those haircuts. Stephen seems to be the only one with some style in there..... but who am I, it was '89 after all
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There'zs no right wing or left wing, just dialectical traps concentrating power for the cause of the utopian socialism ... look at the state of the world today and how the media responded to it.
@guv859 - Well, I believe I interpreted the original statement (and it has been a year since I replied to it, I would point out) as saying that there is no left wing or right wing, just traps to further the cause of media-supported socialist utopianism. I may have read the comment wrongly. But it looked to me like the OP was denying the existence of political 'wings' while at the same time voicing a deeply Right-Libertarian attitude.
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why do they keep raising their hands while he is still talking!? I would never do that in class and I'm not even being filmed there!
(also, articulate people all, but this is like the most boring topic ever. prob because I don't even know that country's politics and it's very outdated. spose I'm learning at least. Stephen Fry would not like to see thinking like this condemned as boring I figure, but I'm not as good as he is.)
240p, yet perfectly fine. HD is a scam.
andreqls 3 months ago 2
Never really liked Krishna Gurumurthy (don't dislike him .. the man is pretty funny but I thought he was a flake) ..
But I like him now =D
Asking someone like Lord Fry an intelligent question and following that up with an intelligent remark must be hard when you're a teenager!
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Homosexual activists, with complete support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims and martyrs; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.
lightandbeautiful 5 months ago
Why are they speaking a foreign language?
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taraabernathy684 7 months ago
He's so snorted a massive line of coke before coming on!
MegaPetrof 7 months ago
I thought that Bandura showed that at least children learned through modelling, including violence.
I think that the real problem with having so much satire is the old Jester idea...if people are laughing at things, they are less afraid and angry, they go to bed thinking they're smarter than the rich and powerful, that they know how things work, and that they are part of a large group who thinks the same way, when really they're powerless individuals.
newguy33X 7 months ago
@newguy33X The Jester is allowed to make fun of the rich and powerful, because they know it will take the pressure off of those rich and powerful.
newguy33X 7 months ago
4:15 The student looks remarkebly like Krishnan Guru Murthy. Is that him!?
If so then this may make my top ten of greatest ever videos on youtube along side Gintoki's Strawberry milk speech, Justin Bieber getting hit with a water bottle, the gay benzai rap, and Brian Blessed hosting snooker
JakenJragin 8 months ago
@JakenJragin - It is Mr Guru Murthy, yes.
PuissantAlgernon 7 months ago
Could you imagine Stephen as a teacher or professor? He would be world renowned! heck, he could teach anything he knows so much.
sigmayacht 8 months ago
If a man reads a book for example catcher in the rye then kills another man should the book be censored? No it shouldn't and neither should tv shows. Art is open to peoples interpretation
willh735 8 months ago
Answering to the why do people not copy generosity. Study by Bandura of children aggressive behavior found out that they were more likely to copy aggressive behavior than non aggressive, with one of the reason being that the children saw the non aggressive behavior all the time and hadn't seen the aggressive behavior so would imitate. Relating to TV, if you saw violence on the all the time then you may see it as a norm and potentially act out the same way.
sowhatsthatabout 9 months ago
@sowhatsthatabout You just contradicted yourself.
wobbygongman 9 months ago
@wobbygongman Not really. If you can see the children have already been taught the non aggressive behavior, so saw nothing new to act out and then played normally, but non-aggressively . Then when they saw the aggressive behavior they copied exactly what they did. Thus if you learn from a TV, then at first would copy it out straight and then after time you then would create your own version of the aggressive behavior. So you don't copy the generosity, as you more than likely already nice.
sowhatsthatabout 9 months ago
he gives a great answer (superb debating skills) but THERE IS a mass of pulpy soft viewers who are easily influenced... its the core of behaviourist psychology: some people are just more readily influenced than others.
Garcian 10 months ago
@Garcian
I think the point was more that they aren't anyone's responsibility but their own, and that art forms should be an expression of the artist rather than of the artist's concerns less stolid folk than him/herself.
yayforspooky 9 months ago
So many people agreeing that teenagers nowadays aren't capable of debate. Completely missing Fry's point at the start, "Don't for goodness sake assume that there is this mass of pulpy, soft viewers that are going to be influenced badly."
Teenagers might watch X Factor etc and know a lot about it, but have you ever stopped to think that maybe they're just as bored by it as you? Offer them something better.
LizaLips1 10 months ago 2
Fry for prime minister!
suicidedelinquent 11 months ago 3
4:16 Krisnan guru-murthy????
Howieeeeex 11 months ago 4
@Howieeeeex My god your right! Awesome!!!
JakenJragin 8 months ago
Whats great about this interview is there's a confident and honest man taking questions from children who basically have no agenda. It's fast, rapid fire, and quick, as well as less than slow.
LiquidYogi 11 months ago
Pause at 1:29
MightySheep25 1 year ago
4:12 a young Krishnan Guru-Murthy
BartBassist 1 year ago 2
This is amazing, and scarily still relevant now. I love Stephen Fry...I wish he was my cool uncle or something. I can also relate to his manic-depressiveness.
PilmarKhinKari 1 year ago
Stephen fry is a total legend and yh i would sooooo vote him as primeminister of england-hang on i would probably vote him as primeminister/ president of the WORLD!!!
yummyotter45 1 year ago
wow...i don't know any teenagers who could pose questions like this nowadays, including me.
Stevie2Sxc 1 year ago
@Stevie2Sxc I only know four minds whom when as teens without doubt could produce such fine questioning ......unfourtunatly I think they'd all fall to bits in the presence of Mr.Fry.
temporaldisplacement 1 year ago
Girl at 1:20 is rather cute. Such a victim of the 80s but very cute nonetheless.
baldrbraa 1 year ago
Really good questions and answers! Enjoying every moment.
peticco 1 year ago
only 28k views? more people should watch this and be amazed, I know I felt humbled!
sid8980 1 year ago
What is the name of guy that stephen mentions at 4:00 ?
wojtekmetal 1 year ago
@wojtekmetal I believe he says "Bernard Manning". I'm not an expert, though.
LeftyHandedGuns 1 year ago
the socks - needn't say more-
JankeyL 1 year ago
Krishnan! OMG lol - he's quite gd lol
andgadoline 1 year ago
Who else developed a fierce and insatiable erection when Fry said he thought about going into politics?
PaulFace 1 year ago 14
@PaulFace im not even British and i would move to England if i though there was a chance i could vote for Stephen Fry if he had gone into politics . i dont know the UK rules for foreigners gaining citizenship and possibly voting or if their policies on that are similar to the USA or not but i would certainly try lol. thats how much i love , admire and respect Stephen Fry. i would leave my country just to try to vote for him if i though he was going to run for some form of office .
luderudecrude 1 year ago
"'you're either wish us, or against us' and i think that must be a lie."
elegant
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Krishnan! He's so young!!
ecureuil85 1 year ago
Krishnan! He's so young!!
ecureuil85 1 year ago
@jkarani He only got arrested and was expelled from schools because of his manic depression which makes people do strange and stupid things. He's a very smart person and even the schools that he was expelled from can't deny that. That's why he got into Cambridge.. because he is a very clever person and likes to learn.
rainbowchloex 1 year ago
clever man, shame about the comb-over
ModernDionysus16 1 year ago
I don't blame young people, I blame the education system. One that's more interested in producing fodder for industry at the cost of producing rounded human beings. A system that seems to be based on the one Dickens attacked in Hard Times.
twopinplugvision 1 year ago 31
@twopinplugvision I do think that some things are wrong with education but it has been proven that people are far more capable of troubling solving these days, I would say that the problem is that these days they would be shouting for attention more and try to be smart with one liners. It has more to do with the pace and character of media I think
leverbart 1 year ago
@twopinplugvision Thats because the western education system is based off of a system made by the prussians which was to get people to conform. this may sounds like a bit of a conspiracy theory but i urge you to read the book Weapons of Mass Instruction.
NewAgeEagles 1 year ago
Oh, I could listen to him for hours =)
PurpleFunnyChocolate 1 year ago
amazing back then they were talking about the same things we have today eg, unelected people holdin office and politics becoming a PR exercise.
chrish12345 1 year ago
Lol @ the second guy from the right in the back row
SmokingOneTwo 1 year ago
Why has he not been asked about his stay in prison?
26highstreet 1 year ago
Such an intelligent person! National treasure.
Laithan 1 year ago
im not sure how he got through the cambridge interview. his statements aren't exactly bulletproof. just because the people voicing the issues of violence on television aren't conditioned by the violence itself doesn't mean it doesnt happen to other people. simply because im not a victim of domestic abuse doesn't mean it doesn't go on around me
chamags 1 year ago
haha! Martin Bashir!
kindahottish 1 year ago
?? Krishnan Guru Murphy
007DefCon3 1 year ago
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Apparently, this pervert has taken a cock up the arse on 11,327 separate occasions, not counting the occasional fist along the way.......
MrArtVanderlay 2 years ago
@MrArtVanderlay That is no way to speak about your father even if he did fuck you up the hole every night until you became too slack for his tiny cock.
nilbud 1 year ago
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KGBfbiSECUpolitia 2 years ago
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KGBfbiSECUpolitia 2 years ago
stephen fry for prime minister
mrbillymorris12 2 years ago 8
there will always be stupid kids because they don't have that much experience or wisdom. you can study and study and study and still know nothing.
that's not to say if all you do is study you're stupid, because you'll know all about the second world war and how the printing press was invented.
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keese 2 years ago
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Shut up about kids being stupid! The reason this stereotype has become apparent is that a small minority of teenagers think it's fun to get drunk and be an idiot, but I am 13 and am so good at english that the poem I studied For grade 6 Drama was on the AS level syllabus, and one of my older friends came to me for help! You can check if you like, The poem was Hopkin's 'Spring'. I am also the only person in my year to know what 'iambic pentameter' is.
Zelda123aran 2 years ago
We're all very proud of you
TerraFirma69 2 years ago 3
Do you know what modesty is? ;)
Of course, your general point isn't a bad one though.
jismith1989 2 years ago 3
And that what makes younger kids stupid in an unknowing sense. You believe you're maybe clever for your age or smart, simply because of silly educational things which might only even be just the simplicity of remembering them.
I agree kids being stupid is a little stereotyped and misjudged. In my own opinion, "kids" are not stupid, they are merely less experienced in life and know little about how people think and work. In a metaphorical sense of course.
jazcash 2 years ago 3
You're ignorant. Consequently your decisions are faulty because you don't know enough. Your job should be gathering information until you have enough data to make an informed decision. Until then you're bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Best of luck in your endeavours, avoid hubris and hypocrisy in yourself and others.
Watch "The Life of Brian" and "The Meaning of Life" and you can't go wrong.
nilbud 1 year ago
stephen fry is so so intelligent, an avatar, thanks for being you stephen
eric15746 2 years ago 5
These kids are pretty smart and erudite. These days I don't know of any teenagers, from my area at least, that could intelligently discuss anything other than the private lives of X-Factor contestants...
Capriquillo 2 years ago 69
I certainly agree, but they were also certainly screened and most likely had a practice and plenty of coaching. This isn't just 20 kids off the street.
adamredwine 2 years ago
They're prefects, they're selected. They did have oiks then, like now. I'm sure there are very clever kids around these days.
Maybe the television is so dumbed down that it doesn't reflect this?
pw3uk 2 years ago 5
@pw3uk - true
hubbardproductions 2 years ago
OMG we are so on the same page. Humanity has really fucked up its priorities.
ashman102 2 years ago
so there werent dumb kids back then, or did they grab alot of the smartest kids that would actually be interested in what he says, by saying all teens these days are idiots, is just showing how idiotic you are. did you not here the first thing stephen fry talked about.
NewAgeEagles 2 years ago 2
@Capriquillo Your area fucking sucks.
SmokingOneTwo 1 year ago
@Capriquillo Did you watch the clip? He deals nicely with the idea of underestimating everyone else around you ;o)
bluesunshyn 1 year ago 2
@Capriquillo They are known as chavs, not teenagers. Chava are another species altogether, whereas tenenagers like myself in fact have a keen interest in politics.
PurpleFunnyChocolate 1 year ago
@Capriquillo To be honest, I don't agree. I think if you compared an average teenager of today with one twenty years ago you would find ours on the same level, if not more enlightened and open-minded. This trend of scapegoating the younger generation has to stop. They won't achieve great things if we don't give them decent expectations to live up to. In my opinion, the only reason people think past generations were better is because they themselves were young then.
carminestone 1 year ago 2
@Capriquillo I have to be honest, I disagree, I am 14 and I know many people my age and older who could easily have an intellectual conversation with others.
Plus, I know as a fact, teenagers at the time of this were not all like this, infact this is a rare sight, certainly if you met my parents you would not imagine them anywhere near such a discussion of politics within comedy etc.
So you can't really judge people, and no I am not having a go, just stating facts.
stonemonkey999 1 year ago
@Capriquillo . These so called kids are all journalists of the future , who no doubt had pre thought questions . Did you notice the channel 4 news reader of today ! If they were so smart why didn't any question follow up on the previous one ? Wasn't the first question slagging off Benny Hill who was a great comedy writer who was crucified as sexist? Yet Little Britain rips off Benny and Dick Emery but is hailed as modern day geniuses for acting gay in almost every skit , why ? RIP OFF !
MrNodzilla 1 year ago
@MrNodzilla Most questions were on the current topic of the conversation. Good on you for striking down on the questioning abilities of 15-year-olds though.
petkragh 1 year ago
@petkragh .Thanks very much !
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danthemosher 9 months ago
@Capriquillo On the whole I agree with you. I am 14 and I am probably the only person in my class or possibly my year group that could have a full discussion about something like politics. It annoys me so much that people my own age can be so naive. But I think it is wrong to generalize all young people like that even if the majority are stupid and extremely naive some teenagers to actually take an interest in things other than stupid TV programmes.
danthemosher 9 months ago
@Capriquillo They aren't really teenagers. Krishnan Guru Murthy is 19 here, for instance. Most intelligent people are already quite intelligent at this stage.
Nonpeasant 7 months ago
@Nonpeasant Ever been to America? At that age, we're lucky if our kids can do basic math or chew gum and walk at the same time. I know grown adults who can't quote literature. Not as in being poorly read, but as in being unable to quote any single line of any printed work unless they've seen it on television or a movie. The average American is functionally illiterate, no other nation would let their children graduate school with such low comprehension.
7j8i9m 7 months ago
@Capriquillo i could say the same about adults
personaly ive met more young people able to debate than adults
adults can be just as unducated, and those who arnt are often biggoted from my expereince
we are all as bad as each other
its not a case of todays childen, nor todays adult
its a case of all humans are stupid in some areas, you dont know about the x factor they would deem you stupid for that
it is all perspective
myboytheharp 6 months ago
@myboytheharp It's funny that your argument would be very valid if you had not used improper spelling and terrible punctuation.
SubRosaSpear 5 months ago
@SubRosaSpear its funny that one that can see such a valid point is dismissing it on small grounds
perhaps we (or one depending on your phraseology) should look beyond the surface of the literary word and concentrate on the hard basis
fry himself said in his book that no one is as stupid as we would like to believe
myboytheharp 5 months ago
@Capriquillo
it sounds like you don't spend much time talking to teenagers
towneslives 5 months ago
@Capriquillo And that's why I come to youtube, to find others like myself.
retrogamerist 5 months ago
@Capriquillo I think that says more about your area than teenagers. I'd imagine you could equally say the same about the adults?
kaioxygen 4 months ago
Kristan Guru Murphy
I KNEW IT!! ahaha, fucking knew it! I was hoping you would write it at the side.
Olekander 2 years ago
Blimey, some actually half decent questions from a young audience. Doubt you'd get that these days.
Paracetamoljunkie 2 years ago
oh shit - i fucked it - its khrinsa guru o'murphy with his big hands
swisscottagelondon 2 years ago
wtf? is that martin bashir? at about 4:20?????
swisscottagelondon 2 years ago
He's really good looking here!
He's brilliant! I wish I was there!
It would be interesting to see what he would do in politics.
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KGBfbiSECUpolitia 2 years ago
This brings back memories... used to enjoy this series on BBC Scotland. A stark reminder that programmes aimed at young adults used to assume they had an attention span of more than 10 seconds, and weren't perforated by background music or daft shaky camerawork.
scottishwildcat 2 years ago 3
I'm not sure if I agree with Stephen's statement that it's "a very delicate constitution" - whatever its other many faults, the constitution has both an essential hardiness which has allowed for a remarkable durability over several centuries, and a flexibility which seems to allow changes to be made with the times. Though certainly the MP expenses scandal illuminated some glaring weaknesses. Is this accurate?
thatdrattedcat 2 years ago
Fry has a real Oscar Wilde look in this vid.
Reishyn 2 years ago 5
@Reishyn I was thinking the same thing.
nonameisacat 1 year ago
These are some intelligent questions for a group, almost wholly, of young teenagers.
MrSalamander7 2 years ago 3
Yeah, well, they're Scottish - thats how we roll.
CarloTheGambino 2 years ago 2
I guess so. lol
MrSalamander7 2 years ago
one shouldn't assume, as many do these days, that young teenagers are not capable of such thought
woodwanderer 2 years ago 3
Indeed, but it still impresses me when they are.
MrSalamander7 2 years ago
woah check out the rapper do on guru-murthy/murphy, whatever
plugindave 2 years ago
I love the way he takes every question seriously, and answers on their merits; he seems incapable of being patronising. The loveliest guy in the world? Maybe!
MrAdaLovelace 2 years ago 9
I disagree that we are unaffected by what we watch on TV. Of course very few people are conscious of it, but advertisers know it better than anyone. They don't spend millions on 30 second clips because they enjoy pissing money up the wall. We ARE influenced and possibly far more by say, a 90 minute film that glorifies violence than a meek 30 seconds of advert getting us to associate a car with getting laid.
chipmunkspunk 2 years ago 5
the question at 1:30 is a contradicting argument i mean take freedom of speech it is something we ight for yet if a man says i hate gays\black people\short people\dumb people etc he's called a homophob racist whatever
etocadet 2 years ago
It isn't contradictory. If there was freedom of speech people can say what they want but not be punished for it (which isn't what we have in the UK) but others can still use their speech to criticise and condemn that speech based on its effects and content, such as refering to it as homophobic or racist.
Pommit 2 years ago 3
How can Stephen look so lovely while the others look so dumb in their colthes, with those haircuts. Stephen seems to be the only one with some style in there..... but who am I, it was '89 after all
Bigfatbutterfly02 2 years ago 6
He went to and was expelled from Uppingham as well, which is a private school.
nietzsche123456 2 years ago
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BATMAN047 2 years ago
My word, that's a hair cut on Krishnan!
ir5ac 2 years ago
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What a bunch of crap,upper class crass shit
famerjake 2 years ago
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CMalburn 2 years ago
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There'zs no right wing or left wing, just dialectical traps concentrating power for the cause of the utopian socialism ... look at the state of the world today and how the media responded to it.
phoebus1966 2 years ago
Which ironically is a profoundly right-wing statement.
PuissantAlgernon 2 years ago 17
@PuissantAlgernon Enlighten us to why.
guv859 1 year ago
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PuissantAlgernon 1 year ago
@guv859 - Well, I believe I interpreted the original statement (and it has been a year since I replied to it, I would point out) as saying that there is no left wing or right wing, just traps to further the cause of media-supported socialist utopianism. I may have read the comment wrongly. But it looked to me like the OP was denying the existence of political 'wings' while at the same time voicing a deeply Right-Libertarian attitude.
PuissantAlgernon 1 year ago
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Why do people always need someone else for intelectual confirmation ...
phoebus1966 2 years ago
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why do they keep raising their hands while he is still talking!? I would never do that in class and I'm not even being filmed there!
(also, articulate people all, but this is like the most boring topic ever. prob because I don't even know that country's politics and it's very outdated. spose I'm learning at least. Stephen Fry would not like to see thinking like this condemned as boring I figure, but I'm not as good as he is.)
Tropicaliak 3 years ago
is that krishnan guru-murthy?
muchly young here
torturechamber14 3 years ago
Yeah, it is Krishnan Guru-Murthy. I think the description gets his spelling incorrect.
willhunt205 3 years ago
Thank you very much for uploading this. Stephen Fry is so eloquent and it's great to hear him speak 20 years ago. Nice time document.
sjoes 3 years ago 8
he is very eloquent I wonder if he went to grammar school
chuckmonkey7337 3 years ago
If you read his autobiography 'Moab Is My Washpot' you'll find out!
sjoes 3 years ago 9