Stephen Fry

[threebikesmcginty]

The antithesis of 3BM really!

We're not all blessed with that fancy book learnin' innit.

 

[derrick]

I did not no he was a comedian. I plumped for option three.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Met him two or three times. He, and I, were pished on each occasion. If he wasn't a sleb he'd be

a) the sort of guy I'd like to have at a dinner party
b) not the sort of guy I'd want to get on the wrong side of

but then I also know a young person who worked for him, and I've only heard one side of the story, but not great.

 

[MacB]

I find him a bit Meh now but I think that's just over exposure...less is more and all that

DO YOU HEAR THAT 3BM...LESS IS MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[the_mikey]

It's absolutely not compulsory to follow any celebs, pro sportspeople, politicians or journalists on Twitter.

 

[User169]

I was just curious. Personally, I find his "look at me, aren't I a jolly clever chap and a brilliant wordsmith" act relentlessly tedious. It's as though he's trying to be Oscar Wilde or Brian Sewell without much success. He's probably better at spelling than I am though. I tick box two.

Now Brian Sewell I do quite like, although this pisstake from Victor Lewis Smith is pretty funny.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0bGLFGnL4

 

[Flying Dodo]

I'd say he's 1 & a bit of 3 on the poll.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 3327924, member: 45"]He is. And he knows it. But likes to pretend that he doesn't know it.[/QUOTE]
and he likes to pretend that we don't know he knows he's bright. Or summit.

 

[Beebo]

Now Brian Sewell I do quite like, although this ****take from Victor Lewis Smith is pretty funny.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0bGLFGnL4

I thought Brian handled that very well.
Some of his Art columns in the Evening Standard are great. I've no idea what he is going on about or any intention of visiting the gallaries, but I always read them.

 

[Cyclopathic]

I'd like him more if he was a republican and didn't toady up to the nobs.

 

[User169]

I thought Brian handled that very well.
Some of his Art columns in the Evening Standard are great. I've no idea what he is going on about or any intention of visiting the gallaries, but I always read them.

It's quite a short one: I think Lewis-Smth realised he wasn't getting anywhere! I used to read Sewell's pieces too. He's obviously very knowledgeable and I like the fact that he doesn't hide behin the typical art critic gobbledygook, but on the whole there's a bit too much baby out with the bathwater in his criticism for me.

 

[jefmcg]

I was just curious. Personally, I find his "look at me, aren't I a jolly clever chap and a brilliant wordsmith" act relentlessly tedious. It's as though he's trying to be Oscar Wilde or Brian Sewell without much success. He's probably better at spelling than I am though. I tick box two.

Definitely agree on the Wilde thing; but then, I'm a heterosexual woman, and I wish I was Oscar Wilde, so that's natural.

Can I add Kingsley Amis to the list? I read one of his novels - the Hippopotamus, I think, which seemed to be an attempt at off-brand Lucky Jim with added zoophillia to make it seem modern.

 

[Beebo]

Definitely agree on the Wilde thing; but then, I'm a heterosexual woman, and I wish I was Oscar Wilde, so that's natural.
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He makes no secret of his admiration of Wilde, and he has played him in film.
Here's a quote by Stephen Fry that just about sums him up.

“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

 

[threebikesmcginty]

They're all ****s.

 

[ScotiaLass]

I really enjoyed him in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster.
He's been up front and honest about his mental health etc and I applaud that.
No-one's perfect, everyone has their faults....so what if he is a bit pompous etc?
IMO it makes him more 'human' than your average celeb/actor.