Stephen Fry interview - Parkinson - BBC

[lexagon]

Stephen Fry is just incredible.

[mccarthy86]

I love how he said "in my Gap....year", just a great deliverence

[96gooberette]

you've just had the almost imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you so, like, cool.

[andrewshere]

What a treasure this man is.

[Flowerblood]

Lynne Truss is an idiot, she's chief of the grammar fascists; her magmnum opus being 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'. What a cow. (And yes, that was a fragment. So was that. And that. And that.)

[JohnnyBuckhead007]

@Flowerblood just took me a while to register. I wanted to leave you a comment. That is some funny shit. Hardly anybody will appreciate it, but I did.

[Flowerblood]

@JohnnyBuckhead007 Glad to be of service!

[Throred]

"I am ofcourse, counstructed entirely of tweed" Brilliant.

[MissTwiggy28]

@fletcherman1 He is a national treasure, NOT a twat-__-

[adamswampy]

I think "Sir" Stephen Fry has a certain ring to it.

[fletcherman1]

tweed no twat

[fletcherman1]

Listen closely...........awful man........

[hop208]

It's too bad pipes aren't more popular then cigarettes and cigars since they both smell awful. Pipe smoke smells nice though.

[2k7Roni]

he is the audiobook speaker of harry potter, and the vioce of reaver from fable 2. :D

[spamhead2k]

@2k7Roni Fable III?

[MisterXBob]

@spamhead2k Reaver is in both Fable 2 and 3

[billywiz661]

Oxford Click - There is more talent in the country but they don't have the rght connections !!!

[jesuisbambi]

"pipes are peaceful and placid but they are also pompous"

Only him can make such an alliteration sounds natural. LOVE HIM.

[tomtom21194]

is there anything he hasn't done?! i so wish he could have been my teacher, possibly an English lit teacher that way i actually would have been interested... point is i Love him!

[BrucknerMotet]

vocal chords made entirely of tweed.

[DavidBookless]

Steven Fry isn't a comedian

[bulked]

@DavidBookless yes he is

amongst other things

[tomsmith100]

Erm yes he is, have you never seen Black Adder?

[Instrumentals4Sale]

@DavidBookless

Steven is not only a comedian but a comedy writter. His entire carrer has been based on comedy.

Dont know how anyone could think otherwise, unless they base their entire opinion on his documentary on Bi-Polar Disorder.

[DavidBookless]

I meant that he doesn't do stand up

[Instrumentals4Sale]

ah yeah i get you now ;)

hes more of the sketch side :S

[angryhobo212]

Steven Fry isn't a celebrity.

Stephen Fry is.

Educate yourself you pitiful fool.

[TheJayChay]

@angryhobo212 You have voluntarily named you self "hobo" i suggest you sort your head out before telling to educate themselves.

[fiddleup]

I have a list of people I would like to sit in front of a fire in a pub with, enjoying a pint and picking their brains....Just talking about "stuff" late into the night. Top of my list.......GUESS!! (He really is magnificent is'nt he!!)

[CashForGash]

"skid lid" hahaha, HAVE to remember that one haha

[bluesbhoystu]

wouldn,t class Bill Bailey in Frys class {not even close } next to Fry id say Dara o,briein

[mandscat]

strangley very sexy

[zthetha]

Even when he's bored and jaded - as he is here - he shines.

[fakeusername92]

<3 him

[razian15]

Constructed entirely of Tweed, I say, a-ha-ha-ha and quite rightly so.

[jcrawley1]

I love how many of his own little characteristics he attributed to Adrian in The Liar, such as smoking anpipe while working in a prep school as a 21 year old in order to define his adulthood. Seems he really took pleasure in the semi autobiographical nature of what he was writing.

[sporefantinc]

who tinks bill bailey and stephen fry are the smartest comidiens on tv Thumbs plz

[BremenWalle]

In terms of producing a high(er)-brow brand of comedy, then yes but that doesn't necessary make you a comic genius.

[gmcg80]

@sporefantinc Rory McGrath is also very smart..

[thomasimon]

@sporefantinc David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Ben Miller, Alexander Armstrong, all Cambridge

[sarahnewt]

you don't have to be poor in any form to appreciate Fry's wit - he is a joy to listen to and a daily encouragement ..... unless you happen to have your head up your arse.....

[leapoffaith20]

Poor man's? Modern man's!

[tyrone199]

Can you at least justify such a random statement?

[MyMusic0201]

Augustusdes, the stupid man's intellectual...

[richie8811]

DUUULLLARD ... not!

[CkVega]

urg, that advert shows far too often.... I'm not gonna buy a shitty Nissan!!!.

[ChekhovBla]

LOL!! I get some weird dating service in Germany. I think...

[DonMeaker]

The good news about Nissan: They don't incorporate Lucas Electronics, inventor of the three position switch: Sizzle, Sputter, and Ignite.

[xanthyos]

soupy twist!

[charleeXD]

<3 Oooh I do love a bit o' Sir Stephen

[Gellis2009]

Stephen fry is so clever.

[sabhrann]

bfsboi, you should look some words in modern usage, as you seem to be able to spell the ones which you are using. "Aweful, dullars", awful sad, you pitiful dullard.

[charleeXD]

I dont understand your comment?

[mayitpleasethecourt]

sounds good - but what's "internet 2"

[mayitpleasethecourt]

gay

[Gangly1]

Maybe so....and?

Thankfully, he has infinitely more brain cells than you could ever wish for, m'lud.

[mayitpleasethecourt]

fuck you. not maybe so, but certainly - i have an eagle's eye for deformed, dysfunctional people & i'm sure it's easily confirmed by looking it up somewhere. go do that. and the "and" is that gays are fucked-up, crippled people; don't get your entertainment, your information, your culture, or anything else from them; insanity is contagious. and no, he's moronic, i'm far more intelligent than he is. for the ignorant, a posh accent covers a multitude of sins. enjoy your bliss.

[Gangly1]

I presume your "Eagle-eye" comes from a "sheep-like" adherence to a book that bears no resemblance to science.

Free yourself, my friend. You obviously have a lot of pent up anger that needs some form of release. Or, just enjoy your miserable existence. Either way, I care not.

[ReamisVobe]

@mayitpleasethecourt AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU'RE GAY FOR JESUS.

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

[fangirl8392]

His vocal chords are made of honey. XD

[leeangtat]

V for Vendetta

[ElicitBelief]

Amazing movie

[laughingfarmanimals]

Ah, Stephen Fry never ceases to amaze me.

And I smiled at the mention of Lynne Truss; as it happens, I have "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" sitting on the bed next to me. :)

[DrHamster786]

Dis Geeza is really cool man.he knows bre knowledge but isnt like pretentious

[TuRdSandwitch18]

i am constructed entierly of tweed lol

[LightestTurkey]

"We talked about me riding a bike..."

Ouch - Fry made a grammatical mistake - he missed a gerund. It should be:

"We talked about my riding a bike..."

[SolidOtacon]

actually, "me riding a bike" was correct, although both would be correct.

in his case, "me" was the noun and "riding" was a verb.

"me riding a bike" was the overall idea they were talking about, rather than "my.. (then the idea)

[LightestTurkey]

No - in use with a gerund, a possesive adjective (such as my) must be used rather than the objective form of a personal pronoun.

[thatdrattedcat]

For the sake of preserving Stephen's image in my mind, perhaps it could be written "We talked about me, riding a bike" :)

[LightestTurkey]

But "riding a bike" is a subordinate clause and by isolating it, the sentence not only is gramatically incorrect, it also does not make sense.

[HoraceOflaherty]

"We talked about my riding a bike..."

He would have come across as an over-educated idiot if he had said that. This is the BBC after all, where turd-like shouty-crackers such as Ian Wright are encouraged to torture the language with their modern vernacular, don'tcha knowz. It's not going to get better. My advice is to have your bags packed and be ready to leave the country at short notice when we are forced to join the euro, and London falls. This is not an evolving culture. It is a dying one.

[HoraceOflaherty]

Forgive me. That should have been "where turds like Ian Wright are encouraged to go shouty-crackers" shouty-crackers is a verb.

My apologies.

[HoraceOflaherty]

adverb

*wink

[ashburnhouse]

Isn't it an appositive phrase? I am not arguing--just curious.

[geetarmaster21]

well i and everybody else understood what he meant....i take it you didnt then?

[h0gg0]

Listen close, he says "We talked a bit about me -you know- riding a bike, and so on..."

[maribyla1]

Stephen Fry is simply the best. You can disagree, you can complain, you can protest, but that is all you can do about it.

[HoraceOflaherty]

He's just like Peter Ustinov. But without his talent, his wit, or his pathos.

[HoraceOflaherty]

He's just like Peter Ustinov. But without his talent, his wit, or his pathos.

[sagat666]

good lord, you foolish philistines. this man's use of euphimistic vernacular is quite clever. his books, alas, i would be unfamiliar with. a laterally cerebral mind, eloquent in use of lexic,syntax,symmantic and vocabulary is admirable. erudition and autodidact, join the modern maelstrom of aesthetes...no longer at the shore with Charon

we move as icepick to smash the frozen seas.

[baerin18]

you clearly haven't been to America.

[NyabUk]

Which debunks then your originial comment, if you have have never read his books you can't assess his genius, i lie?

Vanessa Feltz, funny.

[HoraceOflaherty]

We must be very different people.

All the Best to you.

Take care, and goodbye.

[baerin18]

horace, please don't think yourself clever. you're not. otherwise you wouldn't sound like a 20ish year old who thinks his opinions are interesting just because they're different. you're common, accept that.

[HoraceOflaherty]

If you say something witty or interesting I will get back to you.

*toasts your good health with a vodka*

[NyabUk]

Anyway, to say that Fry is the same type of genius as Carol Vorderman or indeed a "novelty act" has either not read his books, has not the mental capacity to appreciate them or is too infatuated with the "Life and Times of Oscar Wilde" as to accept that, on more than one level, Fry is just as genius as him.

Fellow intellect, the comment made, can be said to be no more than horrendous ignorance on your behalf.

[HoraceOflaherty]

He's the pipe smoking male equivalent of Vanessa Feltz.

Having heard him speak, I have no more interest in reading one of his books than I do in travelling to, and exploring, Uranus.

[bumcakes]

Not a nice thing to say!

Tweedy Stephen Fry.... <3 lol

[NyabUk]

"decoding enigma"...he has a huge interest in this subject and spoke alot about in his first novel "The Liar".

This man, without arguement and opposition, is a genius.

[HoraceOflaherty]

He's a genius in the same way that the man who can memorise and parrot back the contents of a telephone directory is a genius - i.e. a circus novelty act, not far removed from Carol Vorderman's genius, which is knowing the 75 times table. Something that impresses dullards.

His creative output will never be held in the same regard as a true genius - say for instance, Oscar Wilde.

[Gangly1]

He doesn't hold himself out as a genius. The media does. You responded to the spin. More fule you, I would say.

Dullard.

[HoraceOflaherty]

"More fule you"

AHAHHAHAHAAA

You ought to do stand up. But then, I guess you already do - mostly at bus stops.

[HoraceOflaherty]

Here, we call them bus drivers.

[Tait011]

hush hush, children! the clever man is talking in the box above...

[catalyst8]

'It's aweful(sic) sad looking up out of date words such as dullars(sic) to try and look smart.'

If you really think that 'dullard' is an archaic & outdated word then I suspect English isn't your first language (a suspicion supported by the composition of your comment). If English is your first language I suggest you learn to speak it fluently before criticizing others' legitimate use of it.

[catalyst8]

I was quoting bfsboi who, despite his borderline illiteracy, decided to try & criticize someone else's legitimate use of English.

[Sirius1985]

nice shoes

[HoraceOflaherty]

Proof positive if it were needed that verbosity is diametrically opposed to talent and intellect.

[frusciante39]

well you seem very verbose

[HoraceOflaherty]

I was raised on alphabet soup

*sniff*

[h0gg0]

Up the Edgeware Road it was. Cardigan with leather patches on the elbows.

[h0gg0]

Oscar Wilde - but without any of his talent.

I thought it was Rory Bremner doing one of his fancy dan impressions. Till I looked close, that is.

[Vethol]

In my opinion Rattrys offer the best Virginia blends

[himynameishelen]

"Well, I am of course... constructed entirely of tweed."

[h0gg0]

and sponsored by Vaseline.

[benjclark]

"I am, of course, constructed entirely of tweed."

[MrsOscarWilde]

I would kill for his accent

[Jannacek]

study and live for a long time in cambridge.... that might help.

[JapeUK]

I've just turned 19 and have smoked a pipe for 6 months. Living on a council estate, wearing the occassional tie is enough to produce a rather 'interested' crowd so you can imagine the amateur boxing comes in handy ;)

Gotta love Stephen Fry, and considering the image pipes have these days the pomposity is deflated by a million people a day. I just love pipes so fuck off! :D

[sonofJurell]

u keep smoking it mate! eccentricity in a working class boy is god given

[Talbot6832]

I'm in my early twenties and was driving my boy racer Peugeot through my local town with pipe in mouth, got the oddest stares. It's very relaxing. What baccy you smoking?

[clinicalcolostomy]

I'm 18 and have smoked a pipe for about a year.

[ekerilaz]

A reply really to several comments. Not sure if I quite qualify any more, but I began smoking a pipe in 6th Form (when I was about 17) - it was a churchwarden. I'm now (only!) 31, and still smoking - briar, sometimes roll-ups (I confess!) and also occasionally shisha. I still haven't tried anything like all possible pipeweeds but I prefer pressed Virginias: best (to my taste) I've found so far(in England - where or in what WAS England you can't smoke anywhere anymore....)

[ekerilaz]

would be Samuel Gawith's 'Full Virginia Flake'; I alternate this with the lighter, tangier readyrubbed 'Old Gowrie' by Rattrays. I do get stared at. All the time; even when I haven't dared to smoke one of my many pipes in public. But then I also wear tweeds and fedoras. Let em stare! But don't let the bastards get you down.

[clinicalcolostomy]

I will check these out, there's a quite comprehensive tobacconist in my town.

[ekerilaz]

You're lucky, then, as specialist tobacconists are closing down all over England - I've been forced to buy online for years now. I intend to try more tobaccos but am hampered by lack of money! I haven't yet managed to acquire a taste for latakia or perique, and I find myself - having started out on pretty potent brands/kinds - hankering for mellower and sweeter, easier-to-smoke kinds of fill, if only for a change of pace.

[ekerilaz]

I wish I could find something with a good nicotine kick, but not over an overpoweringly strong taste; and sweet, but not confectionary sweet like candy. The other problem in addition to spending money on tobacco that as it turns out one doesn't like, is that it can taint your briar. The quest continues. But the Sam.Gawith I mentioned is a wonderful Virginia flake, the best I've found of its kind. Happy smoking!

[userblue]

Pipe-smoker pride!

[nicolastephen]

Hes a legend, love him!!!

[nutbrown91]

im going to buy a pipe soon, in my eyes its very british and sophisticated and won't surprised if it becomes 'popular' again like many things nowadays, the term retro is being overused.

[tezcatbus]

you forgot "pompous".

[Talbot6832]

I recently picked up pipe smoking. Apparently a pipe a day is meant to be healthy. Don't inhale though, you'll f**k yourself right up.

[gchao]

aw, stephen fry always makes my day!

[eeg1991]

haha this so reminds me of when i was walking out of college and one of the students was smoking a pipe.

the oldest he could have been was 18, and this was last september

[weikko79]

I also smoked a pipe when I was 18 years old.

[CADAVERHUSK]

A great English gent.Thanks for the laughs Stephen

[ash88888888]

One would have imagined that Mr Fry would have been tanking Lynne Truss as she is the writer of the infamous guide to grammar "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." what with Stephen being a true grammarian and a stickler for it.

I love him.

[GraigRussell]

You should listen to his pod cast - he's actually become quite anti-grammar Nazi.

[DAH210774]

My Dad smoked a pipe for thirty years and died of lung cancer aged 57 six years ago. I'll never smoke, but I have fond memories of him puffing away but then sad ones of him being terminally ill for nine months. Ahhh the joys of tobacco!

[angryniggah]

love to see fry's big bent billiard. bet it smokes rather wet.

[Fontozio]

iv smoked a pipe for 10 years now done it since i was 20 and have much pleasure from it , at first does feel kind of silly going out with it , but then you go out to do you daily business not to look flash , nobody cares plus its much better then smoking cigarettes :)

[Maeurd]

but still, smoking = pointless, and no one will convince me otherwise.

[poldova]

my dad and brother smoke the occasional pipe too, and it's social, relaxing and pleasant..... it smells so much better than cigarettes, too!

[xzigga]

i agree

[teflonmagnet]

incidentally, i simply adore stephen fry. he is actually constructed entirely of marshmallow.

[teflonmagnet]

hatred...the only thing that lasts. i think yours is just a case of misdirected animosity. you're all in need of powerful enemas occasioned by all that fudge-packing.

[JSKanga84]

Stephen Fry rode a motorcycle??? That's incredibly awesome!!!

[operationturkey]

A pipe is surely far more manly than a cigarette.

[oyagain]

pardon? :S

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Haha. "Pipe smokers are a- a dying br- I shouldn't say that, that's sort of an old joke..."

[DWhoLover]

Brilliant. I love Stephen more and more! Have you seen that pic of him with a pipe when he was in his 20s? It's great.

[Catuveluni]

If you really love your mom you will not shame her by believing such crap and annoying everyone with your irritating spam.

[heyholetsgo69]

don't know what video you've just watched but he's not supporting or encouraging smoking of any kind in any way and says nothing that could be interperated as such...

[HotlipsPierce]

He's stopped smoking, just so you know.

[phemyda94]

really?

[HotlipsPierce]

Go read his blog. stephenfry (dot) com. I believe it's under the title "I Give Up" or something to that extent.

[tubeshan]

Mr Fry: Genious made of tweed

[pilkingtonfreak]

Mr. Fry would not like your misspelling of genius.

[arabiansanchez]

I'd argue he'd call your untactful drawing of attention to the matter "prime arse gravy."

:p

[giardia2]

ha ha

[jimbobpics]

Stephen Fry is great!

[natashagood1987]

i love this guy so much. would be ace if him and hugh laurie teamed up again

[WarningDontReadThis]

I'd love to have Stephen Fry as my teacher :D

[crash669]

The thing I like about him most is that he has many annoying faults...and he takes the piss out of all of them!! takes a big man to do that!!

[CelticReject]

I wrote to him, requesting an autograph. He replied with a wonderful witty letter. A true gent.

[samuself]

Such a brilliant man god bless Mr Fry