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A few weeks ago, Stephen Fry was to give a big speech at Bafta on the state of British television. Friends knew he was anxious about it – he is only human, after all. But here's the odd bit. When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.

It is behaviour that has built a popular hero from fairly unlikely material and has ensured that Fry's Royal Albert Hall show this month has sold out several times over. "Oh my lordy. 20th and 21st Set dates of my Albert Hall show have sold so we're adding Thursday 23rd. Box office now open *nervous cough*," as the performer put it in a tweet.

His solo show is experimentally based on suggestions put to him by the Twitter community. Tweets will set new topics each night, rather like an improv show. The performer, who shuns official media, prefers to communicate directly with his fans and has promised nothing will be off limits. The interactive format has been trialled in two performances at the Sydney Opera House that, reportedly, had Australians eating out of Fry's Pommie hand.

But Twitter is only part of Fry's geekery. When it comes to technology, he is an early adopter and then some. He almost always goes out with an iPhone, a BlackBerry and an Android device, tweeting seamlessly all the while. His 1.7 million followers treat him like an oracle, asking things like: "Is it better to have lost something than never to have had it at all?" and are concerned when he goes quiet for a while.

Reaching out to fans in this way, reading all his messages and replying assiduously, and even incorporating the contact into his act, Fry now exists in a virtual world arguably more authentic than the one represented in the newspapers and magazines he loathes.

Yet with a Radio 4 series on language, a fresh run of the hit TV quiz QI, a new volume of memoirs out and some controversial comments last week about a culture of fear at the BBC creating "incredibly bland" programmes, the busy man's busy man is evidently also busy in what the blogosphere calls "irl" (in real life).

At 53, the writer and performer is "the nation's favourite geography teacher", to borrow a phrase from his friend, the television producer John Lloyd. But he is also part of the mix that reminds us what country we are in. A bit like a seaside pier. Or an orderly queue.

One of the pitfalls of describing Fry is the tendency to veer towards language that is recondite. His own vocabulary and the heavily weighted emphasis of his speech is so embedded in public consciousness that it has become a comic style as recognisable as an epigram from Oscar Wilde or a line from one of his other literary heroes, PG Wodehouse.

For Lloyd, though, the danger of talking about Fry, he says, is sounding like a PR agent. According to the producer, everyone loves making QI largely because of its host: "I wanted Michael Palin at first, but when Stephen sat in for the pilot show it became obvious it had to be him. He is supplied with tightly written research, of course, but all the jokes and anecdotes are his. You can tell him the answer is 'isotope', but Stephen will know what an isotope is and then make jokes about it."

Lloyd sees little sign of vanity either. During the cover shoot for the current edition of Radio Times, he was happy to live up to viewer expectations and put on a tweed jacket to sit on a Harley-Davidson. "But what one values in the end is not Stephen's wit or his intelligence. It is that he has got no side. It doesn't matter if he is talking to a member of the royal family or someone sweeping the pavement. I do know people who are as clever as Stephen, but they aren't nearly as nice."

Fry was born in Hampstead to Marianne and Alan. We know about his Jewish ancestry from the programme Who Do You Think You Are?, which traced his maternal line to Hungary and uncovered the terrible fate of his mother's cousins in Auschwitz. Left unprobed, though, was his father's rather more establishment side of the family. Fry senior was a physicist and inventor and seems to have been disappointed his son did not share his love of maths.

"He was aware pretty early on that I wasn't interested. And I did think he felt it was a lack in me," Fry has recalled. The general tenor of the relationship seems confirmed by his father's later judgment that "Stephen spends a lot of time on things that aren't worthy of him".

Expelled from more than one school, the young Fry would now be labelled as having attention deficit disorder. From the age of 12, he was insomniac and read books through the night. "I'm one of those people who was told by schoolmasters that he liked the sound of his own voice," he has said.

The first of two well-known, dark incidents in Fry's life was the three-month prison sentence he served after a teenage spending spree on a stolen credit card. It was a period when Fry had only a passing acquaintance with the truth and which is reflected in his novel The Liar and chronicled in his autobiography, Moab Is my Washpot.

Fry did try teaching at a Yorkshire prep school before university, but he found the repetitious routine alarming. Once up at Cambridge, he met a talented peer group. In 1980, his friend Emma Thompson took him to the room of a student called Hugh Laurie and "it was comic love at first sight". Fry has since characterised his friendship with Laurie as "untainted by any sort of schoolboy rivalry" and together the threesome went on to dominate the Footlights comedy club, winning the first Perrier award at Edinburgh in 1981.

"Everyone who saw their show was hugely influenced by it," said one Footlights alumnus who followed in their wake. "It was very traditional comedy and much more Oxfordy than the actual heyday of Oxford comedy itself. There were sketches full of silly puns such as, 'Capon for dinner, sir. No sir, you must put your cape on for dinner.' Amazing, when alternative comedy was taking over the rest of the scene."

As to rivalry with Thompson or Laurie, well, both the Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter and the blues-singing, highest-paid actor in US television drama have set the bar quite high, but Lloyd suspects Fry is not satisfied with his hit ITV drama Kingdom and would "quite like to get a meaty American role. And I think it might happen".

Financial success came fast for Fry after university with a cut of the takings of the revival of the musical Me and my Girl, for which he rewrote the book. A friend who attended one of Fry and Laurie's parties in the north London home they shared remembers champagne poured from a jeroboam, while the hosts exchanged bons mots with Kate Bush.

TV success and an acclaimed column in the Listener magazine were followed, in 1995, by the second notoriously dark incident in Fry's life: his flight to Bruges during the run of Simon Gray's play Cell Mates. It was a public manifestation of the battle with manic depression, or "foul weather in my head", that has dogged his career.

"He loves to be busy and I sometimes wonder if it's a way of dealing with his bipolar condition," said Lloyd. "If he had to sit for a few hours on his own and think, it might not be that easy."

When not tweeting or campaigning on mental health, gay rights and anti-war issues, Fry manages to straddle the social and political scene and is expected to compere any event he attends, from the funeral of Ned Sherrin to the recent service for Soho high-liver Sebastian Horsley. The worst you can say is that Fry functions well at formal occasions, acting as best man to Rowan Atkinson and to Laurie and appearing on the pews at the wedding of Charles and Camilla.

Whether Fry will gain in gravitas, as Lloyd suspects, becoming a serious presenter, like a cross between David Attenborough and Lord Clark of Civilisation, is unclear. Certainly, his old partner Laurie hopes he will stay silly and has spoken of putting together a sketch show again. Fry himself claims to have seen through worldly trappings. New cars and big houses are not the answer, he says. "But it is very hard to say this to other people because it's as if everyone is struggling uphill to a golden city and you're coming down saying, 'I've been there, it's useless.' They're not going to take your word for it."

However far he descends, Fry's status as a British landmark, all 6ft 5in of him, seems ensured. The only way out might be to keep travelling continually and this could be his plan.

Born London, August 1957, to Marianne (nee Newman) and Alan Fry. He lived with partner Daniel Cohen for 14 years and is now reported to be seeing the 25-year-old actor Steven Webb.

Best of times Given the first Perrier award in 1981 at the Edinburgh fringe festival. The popular success and affection that has followed ITV's Kingdom and the BBC's QI.

Worst of times His sudden flit to Bruges during the West End run of Simon Gray's Cell Mates in 1995.

He says "The strength and confidence that we associate with the Victorians we also associate with things like empire, poverty, social injustice, sexual hypocrisy. We can't seem to separate them. So if you're white and privately educated and you start talking about the virtuosity of western enlightenment, then it sounds as if you're basically grinding a boot into the face of Muslims and the third world."

They say "As he says, Stephen is a complete geek but he is also a whole range of other things. Let's just hope we don't find out he is a wonderful watercolourist as well." John Lloyd
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Stephen Fry Explaines SKY 3D

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Stephen Fry Bücher [Englisch]:




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Stephen ist so ein Schisser :rofl: :hmw: aber er macht es dann doch, auch wenns doch kein singen ist, sondern eher Sprechgesang

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Ah, geniales Video, kannte ich noch nicht und sehr amüsant :) Ist noch relativ frisch, oder?
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mj1985 hat geschrieben:
Ah, geniales Video, kannte ich noch nicht und sehr amüsant :) Ist noch relativ frisch, oder?
Ja das denke ich auch, aber ich weiß es nicht genau. Es wurde bei Twitter gepostet und nun ist es hier :D
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'Sherlock Holmes 2' Casts Stephen Fry as Sherlock's Brother
The wonderfully named Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother, is somewhat of an obscure Arthur Conan Doyle creation, appearing in four Sherlock Holmes stories, most notably 'The Greek Interpreter'. He is described as sort of a fatter, lazier version of Holmes, armed with powers of deduction that may surpass even those of his younger sibling's, but utterly unwilling to do the legwork to put them to any practical use. (Short digression: In this way, Mycroft Holmes is sort of like another of the great fictional detectives, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, a sedentary mountain of a man who refused to leave his Manhattan brownstone and had his assistant (and the books' narrator), Archie Goodwin, do all the running around. Wolfe was portrayed by Maury Chaykin in a short-lived but very good A&E television series.)

Obscurity notwithstanding, Mycroft Holmes will be included in next year's 'Sherlock Holmes 2' as part of Guy Ritchie's continuing (and not entirely unproductive) raid of Conan Doyle's mythology. And he'll be played by actor, scholar, humorist, and man-about-town Stephen Fry, which is promising. Fry announced his casting on a BBC radio show this weekend, though he compared the part kind of unfavorably to his role as Oscar Wilde in the eponymous 1997 film.


Fry is always a pleasure, and 'Sherlock Holmes' was the first Guy Ritchie film I ever liked -- tons of holiday season fun, true (in an admittedly perverse way) to the spirit of the source material. So I'm looking forward to the sequel. Of course, we still haven't heard anything about the real big-ticket item here: who will play Moriarty? The rumor mill has spit out names like Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, and Daniel Day-Lewis. (Of those three I'm actually partial to Crowe, who was awesome as the charismatic villain in '3:10 to Yuma'; Day-Lewis would be great, but maybe a little too on the nose.)

'Sherlock Holmes 2' is due in theaters around Christmas 2011.
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Stephen Fry LIVE at Sydney Opera House

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Kann sich noch jemand vorstellen, dass der Charakter Mrs. Stephen Fry etwas mit Hugh zu tun haben könnte? Twitter @MrsStephenFry und das Buch Mrs. Stephen Fry's Dairy?

Habe seit längerem die Timelines beobachtet. "Sie" ist auch aktiv, wenn Stephen off ist und auch wenn wie kürzlich beleidigt mit Presse und Twitterverse.
Das Buch läuft in den Geschäften unter Stephen Fry, er erhebt allerdings keinen Anspruch auf Urheberschaft. Dass er alles selber angezettelt hat, glaub ich nicht gerne.
Unter all seinen Freunden und Kollegen ist Hugh wahrscheinlich der einzige, der liebend gerne auf seine Lorbeeren verzichten würde.
Schon deswegen, weil er ja keine Gelegenheit ausgelassen hat, um alle wissen zu lassen, dass er nicht viel von Twitter hält.

Weiß zufällig jemand näheres?

Das Buch ist übrigens der Überhammer und nicht zum Lesen in der Öffentlichkeit geeignet! Ich hab mich schon bei der ersten Seite halb tot gelacht!
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Kann sich noch jemand vorstellen, dass der Charakter Mrs. Stephen Fry etwas mit Hugh zu tun haben könnte? Twitter @MrsStephenFry und das Buch Mrs. Stephen Fry's Dairy?

Habe seit längerem die Timelines beobachtet. "Sie" ist auch aktiv, wenn Stephen off ist und auch wenn wie kürzlich beleidigt mit Presse und Twitterverse.
Das Buch läuft in den Geschäften unter Stephen Fry, er erhebt allerdings keinen Anspruch auf Urheberschaft. Dass er alles selber angezettelt hat, glaub ich nicht gerne.
Unter all seinen Freunden und Kollegen ist Hugh wahrscheinlich der einzige, der liebend gerne auf seine Lorbeeren verzichten würde.
Schon deswegen, weil er ja keine Gelegenheit ausgelassen hat, um alle wissen zu lassen, dass er nicht viel von Twitter hält.

Weiß zufällig jemand näheres?

Das Buch ist übrigens der Überhammer und nicht zum Lesen in der Öffentlichkeit geeignet! Ich hab mich schon bei der ersten Seite halb tot gelacht!

Es kreisen ja schon länger die Gerüchte bei Twitter herum, das Hugh angeblich auch einen Account hat, aber Mrs Stephen Fry kann ich mir beim besten Willen nicht vorstellen. Du hast aber recht...ich habe auch von Anfang an den Verdacht gehabt, das Mrs Stephen Fry auch Stephen ist, denn sie ist nur aktiv wenn Stephen nicht aktiv ist...schon komisch oder?.

So viel wie Hugh momentan zu tun hat, kann ich mir auch nicht vorstellen das er bei Twitter aktiv ist. Der ist ja non-stop am arbeiten und hat nicht einmal Zeit für sich selber, also warum Zeit haben für Twitterverse.
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