Stephen Fry among the crowds for UK iPad launch

[Akaitsuki85]

in the ending there he sounds like Peter Molyneux :D

[edwardianeccentric]

He's starting to look like Michael Caine.

[LittleBabyBum]

LOL! "...but that would be cheap of me and I would never dream of doing such a thing" brilliant :)

[TheGreatIndoors1979]

I would be more excited about being in the same room as Stephen Fry than I would about the iPad. But that's probably because I hate hyped-up events, even if it isn't articially made by Apple.... Only now I see that kcamerons made a similar response :)

[andyyyp2]

The sage of our age............manifestly not. Only really ignorant people think this puffed up self regarding bore has anything meaningful to say.

[subinct]

He sounds french.

[kcamerons]

those must be some hardcore nerds; cheering for the ipad while stephen fry is right there...i'd be gawking and starstruck and trying to think of a way to ask to smoke a pipe with him

[Gagedudeman]

who is he? was he the fat guy in shaun of the dead?

[funrizwan]

1:14 That's what she said

[diabl2master]

@funrizwan no

[G58]

@TheDiddlysquat Three spelling mistakes and/or typos in less than 40 words. Is that a record? There's no requirement for you to be literate, for all I know English may not be your first language, but when you utter such specious garbage out of your arse, the natural reaction is to point out ALL your faults. If you were less ignorant, you'd know that Stephen has been a Mac user since I believe Douglas Adams introduced him to them in 1984. Now do fuck off.

[mozdonny]

Well, he tells the interviewer, what is good about Apple products.

Delusions.

[tinkdnuos]

Even the brightest can occasionally be stupidly star-struck, Stephen. It's ok.

[MadMonkeyVids]

@TheDiddlysquat it's vain, not vein. 

[kevinturvy]

The king of voice overs, is there anything this man wont plug if he paid..

Worse than tom baker

[TalesOfWar]

@TheDiddlysquat You really don't like the man do you?

[DALEK2626]

Girl in that add is quite hot

[sprucepantherkmt]

wow he looks sweaty. like jobs has got a gun to his head

[yousurfer2]

I like stephen but I prefer a list of functions

[bedfordcrusader]

james may has let himself go

[MrNannerman]

The one person who disliked this really is a twat.

[neutralbalance]

@MistaMase102 You haven't heard the things he has said very recently have you?

[neutralbalance]

Stephen Fry Attention Whore Much?

[MistaMase102]

@neutralbalance he's sharing his views, whats so horrible about that, hes in no way aggressive or annoying.

[kahuna3901]

i was excited, enjoyed the product thoroughly. but now im selling. i just think it hasnt got a vital use that i cannot get on my desktop or get on my phone htc. so this really is the main reasons for selling

[rabbitisrich]

Sorry, but I just don't get a 'sense of happiness' or 'companionship' from my iphone. Unless operated - or at least switched on - it's an inanimate object, like a spoon or a television. It doesn't volunteer anything. How can he compare an ipad to the devoted friendship of a dog? Fry's fawning worship of Apple is deeply weird. Sometimes I think he tries too hard to be the 'people's intellectual'. But hey, he's the messiah on Youtube, everything he says makes perfect sense.

[valjorama]

@rabbitisrich haha, well put. he does try too hard to be a 'people's intellectual.' i might even say he tries too hard to be a 'pseudo-intellectual.' what he says might sound beautiful, poetic, inspiring, or even a bit vogue w/o being ostentatious or pedantic, but they often contain very little substance - at least not anything that's particularly new.

[estebanrey]

I love Stephen Fry but his devotion to Apple flies in the face on what he says about religion as he treats Stev Jobs as a personal Jesus.

[robross1992]

@fritspas maybe because he actually loves the ipad. Stephen Fry is great STFU

[iwouldlikesometea]

If I can get mine for free I would of thought that Stephen Fry could.

[Cacophonaut]

@fritspas I think he is plugging Apple because he is a genuine enthusiast. He was like the second person in the UK to own an Apple computer. Can't a guy endorse a product he thinks is good anymore without people thinking less of him?

[daisypineapple]

@fritspas "advertise anything" - fine then, name me 20 things he has advertised recently? He is genuinely an apple enthusiast, just as some people are car enthusiasts. I for one can understand why. And besides, you said "he doesnt get payed for it"doesnt that suggest something? That he is genuinely just an enthusiast as are the rest of the people in that crowd. I doubt very much he organised thatinterview - if you'd asked anyone in that room the same questions they would have replied the same.

[fritspas]

@daisypineapple

You are absolutely right, and im being an arse. Just get anoyed when people i admire waste their time lining up for a mediocre laptop.

[daisypineapple]

@fritspas Sorry if my reply was a bit moody also :) And I really know about it being mediocre or whatever, I dont have a iPad, but I love my iTouch :P

[rabbitisrich]

@daisypineapple Erm....anyone familiar with Stephen Fry's voice will know his voice-over credits for commercials are about as long as his film credits! Twinings, M&S, Direct Line, Kenco, Alliance & Leicester, After Eights, Vauxhall, erm....Orange....

[destiny42]

I want FryPaper! 

[thebridgeofthenose]

He ages so well. Respect for the wonderful man.

[breekbaard]

@thebridgeofthenose

Then why does he do this?

[bax450]

If I found out that Piers Morgan was getting one of these, I, in turn wouldn't get one.

[hdtechnologyify]

full of himself

[insainiac33]

@hdtechnologyify Yeah, he's great, isn't he? :)

[Pook365]

I was under the impression he got his iPad while in America and as such wasn't among the first in the UK to get it.

Unless he got another one. The American one after all is * illegal* to use in almost all of Europe, something no one seems to care about.

[eezeedoesit]

flabburgastly'd ?

[mdcool26]

Has anyone mentioned the cost of £429 for the basic version. Prices go all the way up to £699 for the top of the range 64GB device with both Wi-Fi and 3G network access. Very expensive to leave such a thin fragile gadget on the sofa for someone to sit on. OOOOoooooops !!!!! there goes £700. The local newspaper would have been so much cheeper.........

[Webofscience]

"The celebrity was among the first..."

Couldn't you have thought of a better word to describe him other than 'celebrity'. Very degrading. Maybe author, presentor, journalist, comedian would have been more appropriate.

[faraday200]

@Webofscience Good point. To be fair, though, there probably isn't a word in the English language that can sum up what Stephen Fry is.

[lhawes92]

@Webofscience I agree. Stephen is the opposite of a celebrity. A celebrity is famous for doing nothing, Fry is famous for doing EVERYTHING

[tyler021]

@Webofscience Whoa, talk about fetishizing famous people.

[Mattysmyth0593]

@Webofscience The most loved man in Britain.

[Konstiin]

@Webofscience well he is a celebrity isn't he?

Celebrity is defined as someone who is easily recognized in a society or a culture.

Not everyone is a fan. I am. But celebrity is an accurate word. Him being an author has nothing to do with them taking note of him. Actor, maybe.

[Avaronism]

@Webofscience Or God.

[batmanofni]

@Webofscience Well you either say 'Celebrity' or list everything else he is. It's just quicker.

[totallymargeaux]

@Webofscience Ruler of the universe has a nice ring to it.

[ShrinkingSkunk]

@Webofscience  Multi talented individual

[mangusrah]

@Webofscience Celebrity means celebrated; famous. There is nothing degrading about the term whatsoever, unless you are trying very hard to dissociate yourself and your preferences from the popular ethos.

[JaguarEarlobe]

@Webofscience - he is a celebrity

[yerk3]

I would buy the Frypaper ap.

[NSResponder]

I love Stephen Fry. That man is a class act.

-jcr

[earlbee31]

Well awesome

[jjr1123]

heyyyy they didnt clap when i went inside/outside the store! lol

[Crustalshift]

Gadget-goons are sad, entranced materialists.

[BVargas78]

@Crustalshift c'mon give em a break, you should look at the rest of the materialistic population before singling out these 'gadget goons', at least the ipad is an educational tool and in that respect more worthy than some of the trash on the market.

[Crustalshift]

@BVargas78 Well I guess I might be persuaded to cut Messr. Fry some slack, as he obviously transponds the benefits of said education into comedy and enlightenment, to the benefit of others. But it's the seeming total disregard to the slave-like conditions of the people who are ''employed'' to make them that engenders such a withering opinion of the great proportion of the end-users.

[AphidsRuleThePlanet]

the big fag

buys an ipad

[pogmotho1n]

See what happens when you have your nose up the ring of the Royal family for too long

[h4x0rl33tee]

2 words IPHONE 4G

[CityzenJane]

the ipad actually reminds me of the book/computer the girls had in diamond age...the way he describes it anyway.

[CityzenJane]

i lurv stephen fry!

[3c00lcats]

iLaugh so much iWii iPants.

How come when Apple do a product launch it's classified as 'News'?

[R9forever]

@3c00lcats Because it is? Anything that attracts a mass of interest is worthy for news. Not that hard to fathom...

[15joey04]

Manic ?

[StonyRC]

Another marketing triumph for Apple - like or loathe the iPad, they have another sure-fire product success. As yet, the jury is out on whether it is a useful gadget or not but my guess would be that it's here to stay.

[MoscowMaestro]

Stephen Fry's answer-machine has a message that says "Yes, I'll do it, send the money"

[w35t51d369]

@MoscowMaestro i think apple send him free devices to talk about them. could they have picked a better guy to do it?

[MoscowMaestro]

@w35t51d369 I'm certain that he's not paid for his Ifad!! Just cheap PR waffle. But actually Apple need people like this twit Fry - because he represents the average computer-phobic non-specialist, and people will believe his twaddle. He'd say Aeroflot was a great airline if they gave him free tickets - same deal.

[ScreamingTc]

@MoscowMaestro He's rich enough to buy as many as he wanted, I don't think freebies come into this. He has always been a big supporter of Apple, and probably will always remain so.

And please...calling Stephen Fry a twit? I think that's the last word that comes to mind when describing the man.

[MoscowMaestro]

@ScreamingTc And he got that rich exactly how? Fry merely has a posh accent - someone else actually writes his scripts.

[ScreamingTc]

@MoscowMaestro You know all the acting and comedy shows, documentries...etc... He does get paid for those. And that's without the articles, books, and films he's produced. So how about you get over what ever deep seated class hatred you have of him, and come back when you aren't trying to troll.

[MoscowMaestro]

@ScreamingTc He doesn't write the books. They're written by a ghost writer. Like his book on classical music, for example. He writes the foreword, and someone else does the rest.

[swelstead]

@MoscowMaestro You're just trolling, right? Because a quick trip to his website - to say nothing of reading any of his novels, autobiographies, essays, etc. - would tell you the guy's a compulsive writer, not to mention the kind of person who'd be embarrassed to have a ghost writer. (The classical music book didn't have a ghost writer - it had a co-author.)

[MoscowMaestro]

@swelstead Fry knows 0 about classical music. He only wrote the foreword. But why argue with a brainless troll like you. You think he invited the iPad too :(

[swelstead]

@MoscowMaestro I'm sorry you're so unhappy. And misinformed. And too lazy to do any research to support your theses.  And that your parents taught you that people who succeed must be 'cheating' somehow. Because they were wrong.

[MoscowMaestro]

@swelstead YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT. Fuck off and suck Stephen Fry's cock, tosser. Did you know he invented the iPad? And nuclear physics? And wrote all Shakespeare's plays too?? ARSEHOLE.

[Truthiness231]

@MoscowMaestro He does have a good point though: you mistook the co-author for ghost writer, nor is there anything other than your anecdotal claim that he ever had one. Besides that, why would one of the greatest writers in recent history bring in extra help? Not only is there no proof for you claim, there is no motive for doing so... And the "all caps yelling" and calling him names does more to detract than add to your argument... if you really do have a valid claim, there's no need for that.

[Truthiness231]

@MoscowMaestro I also just had a quick look through your post history... you clearly had a bug up your ass just because he has the money to buy an iPad, then switched over to "he has all that money because he paid people to write for him" (which just leaves me confused), and then you switch to "well I don't like him because he uses ghost writers" (which, even were it true (and currently the only source of "evidence" is you blabbering on about it), isn't a big deal; that's business, chump ^.^).

[Nmal015]

@MoscowMaestro

Wait, so stephen fry got rich not because of his incredible wit, immense intellegence or his unusual and unique comedic talent, but just because he has a posh accent? Seriously, well done, spoken like someone who clearly has no idea at all.

[jalalpurjattan]

is he gay?

[scrote12345]

@jalalpurjattan He is.