Clive James talking in the Library: Stephen Fry 1/3

[retroecho]

2:04 "Persian carpets" is a reference to the meaning of life in "Of Human Bondage."

[thezego12]

what the hell is a pomp what is this man going on about

[lightandbeautiful]

Please visit my channel for the unpopular truth about homosexuality.

A person does not need hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption. Even non-religious people know this.

Homosexual activists, with support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.

[Protean213]

@lightandbeautiful Yes, their so insidious and should be feared, discriminated against, and murdered en masse (sarcasm). Grow up and admit that all your afraid of is yourself.

[2001Horatio]

Education should educate you... not 'prepare you for the workplace' - let businesses train their own fucking slaves at their own expense! 

[vanillalatteblended]

Clive James seems almost weary halfway through listing down the things Stephen Fry do in the beginning..

[andgadoline]

Love the noodles anecdote lol

[10Rivald]

Two of the most intelligent people you will ever see on telly

[whyohwhyfools]

Aussie wanker

[flupmakintosh]

i wonder if mr. stephen fry is aware of even 5% of the high speaking people do about him on the internet

[zthetha]

Steven Fry has, allegedly, a brain the size of a planet though his other organs are, alas, remarkably normal. I suppose it's a good thing we have institutions like Oxford and Cambridge which are museums of an Englishness that is now totally irrelevant - as well as gay hunting grounds for spies and others.

[Vasendec]

You are very obviously an Imbecile. The only reason I can think of that you may call him a wanker, is that you did not actually understand anything he said. Perhaps the big words were too much.

[Boratlon]

what does he get from Queen's high table: a bloody good meal.

might have changed by now though...

[TossTheParadox]

I will make, surely, one of the most silly comparisons I've done this year: But reading Paulo Coelho and hearing Fry, gives me almost the same pleasure.

To suddenly see the opportunites occuring in every direction, to begin to feel hopeful.

As the pessimist I am - that feeling, that sense of hope, linger not for very long, it dissipates quickly.

I entertain such love/slight disapproval for Fry. But I do know he's a kind-hearted man, a considerate and thinking chap, and that's enough for me

[bjankuloski]

@TossTheParadox

Yes. Extremely silly. Coelho is a mere pedestrian (at best) compared to a person like Fry.

[Beau1618]

Oh gosh - isn't stephen fry just wonderful!

[Ducktowners]

never question Stephen Fry!

[meaning1]

Why are all Youtube videos strewn with the trite, pathetic, unintelligible comments that I see here? It's especially saddening when the video that happens to be suffused with such nonsense, is one that I was hoping to find likeminded people...

[herraotic]

I'm waiting to be enlightened as to why people consider him to be a treasure. Surely someone such as Noam Chomsky should garner that credit.

[gymnosophy]

This is true. The English find him unoffensive and harmless like a sweet old granny. He is practically no use to anyone other than reasuring insecure middle classes than everying is cuddly if you say it in a cuddly whimsical little way.

[zubalu12]

If your talking about Stephen Fry, then you must be quite arrogant. Life can be rounded down to self-worth, if you aren't enjoying life and there is no apparent meaning to life, what's the point? Stephen Fry enetertains, to make people feel good, which adds to your self-worth.

[gymnosophy]

It's interesting that you defend someone on the basis of "self worth" Fry has spoken about his lack of self worth many times.

You are justifying him because he is "entertains and makes people feel good" For many people, so do lap dancers and hookers.

You've been swept up by your own sweeping statement.

Alos, It's not against the law to be indifferent about someone just because the Cool Culture cops think he is cuddly.

[ahabthewhaler]

yeah chomsky is an english treasure you jackass

[youvebeenthunderstru]

One thing I notice in Britain, which you don't get anywhere else, is that when you mention "Cambridge" or something along those lines, everyone instantly knows what you're talking about. Because likely they and half a million other people went there. Outside of that, though, say in the US, if you say you went to this college/university or whatever, no one has the faintest fucking clue at worst, and on the very rare occasion you'll meet someone who went there at best.

[theylan]

That'd be "Oxbridge" either Oxford or Cambridge referring to the fact that a person went to one or the other and is likely to have the accent to distinguish them from the "chaff". I'd hardly say that they and half a million went there, rather those who walk in the upper circles are likely to have done. It's odd, as they don't really seem to excel at anything of note (Latin, the arts?). Dependent on your field, other universities are valued higher. Surrey and Leicester for space sciences, for eg.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

I know, I know. It wasn't really a thoroughly thought out post, I was just posting some of my impressions.

[gymnosophy]

what a stupid comment.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Why? What have you contributed? You don't tell me why it's stupid, you just write it off as being stupid. I think you're the dumbass here.

[gymnosophy]

Fuck off thick cunt.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Same to you, cocksucker.

[gymnosophy]

prick

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Shut the fuck up, you started.

[phallick]

why do you bother watching? your way way down the chain of any worthy interlect.

anyway, shouldn`t you be getting ready for school...

[gymnosophy]

You obviously can't think for yourself.

To criticize something, you have to examine it.

On one hand I agree with you, on the other, youre just a fucking little cunt.

[gymnosophy]

Hi Little cunt- Can I speak to your mother or parental guardian? Now get to bed you arse licker of the upper classes.

[gymnosophy]

I'm waiting to find out what interect means.

[oneworldfamily]

This is a fine example of a well crafted conversation - an art which is largely lost today. Superb balance and flow of topics, development of theme between both, minimal but well-placed interruption and amicability.

[oneworldfamily]

What a lot of coffee table books!

[rabbitwho]

Oh this is a wonderful interview, and it has made me long to go back to college again! But I want to keep traveling.. and learn another few languages.. but the only language that should be learned in college is Latin!

[ImeldaLumos]

That Knorr story is featured in his non-autobiographical book 'The Liar'. Although, one wonder, if it's more autobiographical than not when you read it, as events in the books are revealed to have happened in Fry's life.

I love listening to him talking. It's very tasty, and always remarkably interesting. Not empty of mind at all. Never.

[mishaonbass]

And the 'most enormous... C - O - C - K...' is in one of his other books: 'The Hippopotamus', I think. Stephen never wastes good material. Can't agree with you more about the reading point. I love this interview.

[loserfreak92]

His frog green suit is lovely.

[lgnorance2all]

This goes to prove the more books you read the better, great to see Clive james looking so well

[pbain58]

Good memory. No original thought. He hasn't changed since Cambridge. Charming but shallow. Lovely stephen of the elongated vowels.

[bighty54]

Steven come and whisk me into your word

[kraigus]

his features terrify me.

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[creebefu]

Steven Fry... What an effin jeffin Genius!

[firestartertwistedfi]

i like the knorr story. someone i know sat behind stephen sondheim and tom stoppard at the theatre, which he thought was a little like sitting behind shakespeare and marlowe, so he was hoping to hear some stimulating conversation. and of course there wasn't any, it was mostly about where they were going to eat after the show!

[Knappa22]

I like the way he discreetly tells Clive at the start that he's a Fellow not a Don.

Cambridge University doesn't have Dons.

Same with courts and quads. Cambridge has courts, Oxfords has quads.

[Knappa22]

Huh??

[ebag10]

dw bout him, his species feels threatened by excessive information

[jismith1989]

Nor does Oxford have dons; the mafia has dons. However, it's an colloquial term, which is used at both universities to refer to any senior member of a college.

[Knappa22]

The quads/courts thing is true though.

[jismith1989]

Sure. It's all rather futile.

[nevewala]

78tyg I agree whole heartedly with Hardylass101. You are a twitly twit.

[Blonfelfotch]

Knorr is a Norwegian, or scandinavian not sure company, they make sauces and everything :)

[pppdc55]

knorr is german (not that it matters...). *knew that*

according to wikipedia it now belongs to unilever (english-dutch combine).

[wilsparky]

I think it ironic in the extreme that Clive James laughs so heartily when the exclusive club where every 'servant' is called Charles, is mentioned. James, the descendant of a colony populated by undesirable deportees finds the class ridden reference hilarious. So do I....for different reasons.

[kedvesemese]

every genius has his own demons. and in fact he is a genius.

[wilsparky]

no he isn't.

See how easy it is to make statements.

[gyytert]

I do admire Fry but Clive James is such a wanker! I really do wish someon would come out and say it. His bogus 'theories'... He knows nothing. Such a bloody idiot. And did I hear him talk about physics, momentarily. I doubt he knows a thing about physics. He's a showbizz twirp, all style over substance. He is backwards.

[haldenver]

He annoys me too BUT have a look at "Cultural Amnesia". Turns out he admits he is full of ignorant shit but admires what he wants to understand. It is a mea culpa of great truth. Too elitist for me, but maybe his Hughisan Aussie-ness is the chafe to his Mother-country complex?

[8cccpeevostokzempf]

relax

[shickboy]

oh dear. you really are silly, aren't you?

[rosepetal34]

fuck off darling 76tyg

[dragonlee90]

He is not as funny as people make out. If you watch QI closely, you'll see he actually just continues other people's jokes and rarely makes his own.

However, he is very intelligent

[nattt23]

'Interlectual' Yes, you are much more intelligent.

[shickboy]

please be quiet unless you know what you are talking about. you only make yourself look silly.

[smiffy1071]

We love Stephen!!

[Filidhe]

Adore the man and his work.

[hardylass101]

78tyg you are a poor sad ignorant little imbecile

[curtisww89]

Stephen Fry is a wonderful English gentleman with such intellect, talent and accomplishments that one must really wonder why he has not been knighted yet.

[trefod]

@curtisww89 Because he is gay?

[liampw20]

@trefod it can't and isn't, Sir Elton John for example

[wikiriwhi]

@liampw20

There is no documented evidence of Elton John being in the same room as Stephen Fry and neither should there be.

[liampw20]

@wikiriwhi what are you on about

[wikiriwhi]

@curtisww89

Probably neds a PHd. Or a few million. Knights never only have thousands.

[WasLilChrisnowbigish]

@curtisww89

if you really want to know, i know its a old comment but its because he has spent time in jail.

[TairyGreen89]

@WasLilChrisnowbigish Stephen Fry was in jail?

[Zarathustra06]

@TairyGreen89 Yes, for credit card fraud, when he was young.

[vancitycanary]

@TairyGreen89 Have a read of his two autobiographies... they are funny and explain it all.

[324wilson]

@curtisww89 Kinghted? I think that we should write to the Queen and ask her to declare him as a "national treasure."

[atisenif]

I could listen this man talk forever... Even the russian phonebook could make my day...

[TOMBRAMALL1]

Clive James is a bit of an arrogant tit though.

[mikethedevil]

Stephen Fry, an oracle of knowledge of noble thoughts...

[BottomLoverWOOF]

i love stephen fry..he knows sooo much hes like a walkin ball of wonder! lol!

[blackcat355]

I love it when that man talks...

I like the green and orange as well.

[lehipster]

What a fuckin mind....how has he ever had the time to sit down and think through some of these so well formulated opinions.....a

total tonic