Jarring to read this thread and be reminded that people once liked Stephen Fry.
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I was surprised how positive most of it is, especially after that Worst White Man thread. But I still like him.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
he's grand. ilx is ilx.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
I was also surprised because older ilx threads tend to be nastier and douchier.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
He seemed rather less ubiquitous and set into the annoying Learned National Treasure Shall Tell You Things You Plebs Don't Know role ten years ago, before Twitter and only one series into QI.
I still somewhat like him, but I had the chance to go to a work "do" he was at in Autumn and decided I couldn't be bothered, which would have surprised my younger self.
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
I was in hyde park v early in the morning late last year and he was out jogging - well he was walking in jogging gear, hands on hips, looking absolutely *fucked*. was the image of someone in the early stages of getting fit who has overreached themselves. I say this as someone who has been on laughably overoptimistic "runs" myself but the muscles of his face looked aghast at what he was doing.
did remind of the time I saw andrew Neil absolutely BOXING his bike up the slight incline on Rotten Row once. Guy was busting a ventricle. rug surprisingly stable.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Ugh I first heard about this on a NZ news website and the headline was 'Stephen Fry to marry younger lover'. They called him his 'lover' through the whole article.
https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.snl.com/SNL_1198_05_Lovers.png
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
lol
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
that thing on Neil's head is a inefficacious hair transplant rather than a rug, surely? xp
― soref, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
im not sure it isnt paint
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
yes - I think that's right in fact.
http://www.independent.co.uk/migration_catalog/article6139038.ece/alternates/w620/pixndill.jpeg
Stephen Fry and Younger Lover, yesterday.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
A paper here had the headline "Stephen Fry 'engaged'" which was p irritating (theyve changed it since).
Yes! 'Engaged' was in quotation marks in the NZ headline also. But to be fair I think it was probably a cut and paste from the UK article, that NZ site is so crap.
― franny glasshole (franny glass), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
People are falling over themselves to say how this isn'tweird but it i s a bit and its weirder because they only met a few months ago and have, allegedly, only been going out since November.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, January 6, 2015 6:59 PM
well, we've been waiting for years for gays to be as venal as the rest of humanity.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden sure are off to a sweet start in 2015. The two "were married [Monday] evening in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles," their rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
"We couldn't be happier to begin our new journey together surrounded by our closest family and friends," the couple tell PEOPLE.
The pair, who have been dating since May, got engaged just before Christmas.
"Getting married is the next step when you are totally in love and comfortable with someone," a source tells PEOPLE. "Cameron has found true happiness."
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
That is a super weird couple too.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
wait... the dude Cameron Diaz married is BENJI MADDEN??????
this is delightfully hilarious
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
YES
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
"Getting married is the next step when you are totally in love and comfortable with someone," a source tells PEOPLE
glad they protected this daring whistleblower's identity
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/news/140811/cameron-diaz-435.jpg
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
an ex gf who (braggin but just sayin) looked like Cameron left me for a guy that looked a lot like that.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
I'd post it to her fb but I fear unappreciation
I did some link hopping and now I realize that Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie are now sisters-in-law
today has contained unexpected delights
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
how LA is that guy
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
I had those trainers 15 years ago too
we are such unappreciated trendsetters
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
was being inattentive and thought you meant d cameron rather than cameron d and lol'd q hard.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
pls
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
sexy d cameron obv
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Best ever humblebrag
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
no way, i had an ex who looked just like kate humble who left me for a guy that looked a lot like melvyn bragg
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
gonna go pop the collar on my denim vest made out of leather, brb
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Wait why are we talking about cameron diaz in a Stephen Fry thread.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link
she married some guy from KFC ads
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Thursday, 8 January 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
why do ppl keep marrying benji madden wtf
i still like stephen fry, love QI lots and lots. is there a reason for him falling out of favor?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:21 (nine years ago) link
mainly extreme overexposure
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:32 (nine years ago) link
partly his ubiquity, VG. (as a friend of mine said, when we were watching the cricket and got a close up of his Holiness - 'Fucking Stephen Fry! Again! Fuck off!')
Much bruited 'National Treasure' status doesn't help anyone - your mundane pronouncements. He didn't ask for that status of course, but perhaps he could pronounce a little less.
also there's a bit of bien pensant right-on-ness that can look smug, and I wonder whether that with the periodic bouts of very public frailty is a bad look for some people.
finally, for me, i find that whole QI comedy circuit totally fucking awful, and the general chumminess that's exuded to be nauseating.
1 and 4 for me anyway, but as I say, I think 2 and 3 may play a part.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:35 (nine years ago) link
er, 'your mundane pronouncements won't usually live up to that title, causing people to question it'
― Fizzles, Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:36 (nine years ago) link
gotcha. i can understand that!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:37 (nine years ago) link
Read and enjoyed The Liar probably back in high school, he's great as Jeeves, and I thought the documentary on his bipolar diagnosis was quite touching. Haven't really followed recent activities which is probably for the best, I still have generally positive feelings toward him.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:51 (nine years ago) link
QI is fucking horrible, fizzles otm
There's a wiki page "list of common misconceptions" or something you can spend 10 minutes reading that & it will spare you these awful, awful men guffawing their way through "Alan says the obvious answer and then a noise happens" for 1000 series
― bife claro (wins), Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:53 (nine years ago) link
Also fry has said some horrible ignorant shit about women
I like him more than I did a few years ago prob cause I ignore him more successfully
― bife claro (wins), Thursday, 8 January 2015 06:55 (nine years ago) link
He had Sue Perkins on QI as a panelist and called her Mel. And then wanted to crawl under the desk and die. The sort of thing he'd have really slated someone for doing..
Awwwww
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 January 2015 07:59 (nine years ago) link
Always feel that QI is where the BBC mission to 'educate, inform and entertain' (or whatever shape those Reithian ideals took) goes seriously off the rails although I suppose that was always wacky - ideally there shouldn't be any joins you can see.
When you watch a programme you shouldn't be aware you are necessarily being educated or entertained.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
really? Not Entertained?
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Yes - we'll always look to something similar in future. It closes out any other possibilities of what entertainment could mean.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
I barely know who Fry is, but this Benji Madden person is just fiction, right?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 January 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
Don't think he's is much good as Jeeves actually. The interpretation of the Jeeves and Wooster characters and relationship is totally off in their version. Fry's Jeeves is supercilious and smug and Jeeves is not like that.
― everything, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
jeeves is described as smug and supercilious all the time
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
by bertie tho - so he prob isnt actually like that tbh. i dont really see fry's interp as supercilious tho. i feel like hes subtle when he acts above bertie, but thats how the character is written too - those caustic "indeed sir"s
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
i think he's good as jeeves but when i read the books i usually imagine a slightly older, graver, less twinkly jeeves. laurie's wooster is definitive imo, almost to an annoying extent (hard for me not to hear his voice when i read wodehouse).
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Jeeves is not described as smug or supercilious - by Bertie or anyone else.
― everything, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link