Stephen Fry Appreciation Thread (used to be rips church new one)

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Calleja

Calleja

I love this man, I really do, he's one of the few people on Earth I truly admire. Not only is he hilarious and extremely cultured, he's done everything and accomplished so much having overcome so many things, from being manic depressive/bipolar to struggling with his sexual identity so much that he spent 16 years of complete celibacy.

Now, I feel comfortable posting this without really wanting to offend anyone because he never attacks religion, just the institution that is the holy roman church. And he does it like a true erudite.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbvr0m_the-intelligence%B2-debate-stephen-fr_shortfilms

There's 3 other speakers on the debate, but none of them speak so eloquently and elegantly and.. just watch.
 
Espy

Espy

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

I'm gonna watch that after work... I look forward to it, sounds good.


Although to be fair, "ripping" the catholic church a new one is about as hard as doing a doggie paddle in a 3 foot deep pool.


AAAAH! It's Intelligence Squared. I have this on their podcast. Really good stuff.
 
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Deschain

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

That man is going to hell.
 
Calleja

Calleja

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

To be fair, he was going to hell already anyway because he lay with another man (who he's been with years), his speaking against the nation state that is the Vatican was nothing more than sugar on top of his already eternal damnation.
 
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Iaculus

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

Calleja said:
To be fair, he was going to hell already anyway because he lay with another man (who he's been with years), his speaking against the nation state that is the Vatican was nothing more than sugar on top of his already eternal damnation.
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EVIL sugar.
 
Dave

Dave

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Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

I listen to these debates on NPR when they are on. I love them.
 
Calleja

Calleja

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

Current moviegoers can also see Mr. Fry as the voice of the Cheshire Cat on Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Current tv watchers on the US can see him semi-regularly on Bones, while british tv watchers can catch him all the time here and there and regularly on the wonderfully AWESOME QI.

Seriously, watch QI, it will rock your socks off with laughter while also teaching you stuff.
 
Just Me

Just Me

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

*snip Wiki link*




And totally joining in the Stephen Fry love! Ever loved him since I saw him first on Blackadder
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

In all honesty, Stephen Fry's the only man in universe I might consider going gay for. Funny as hell, intelligent, creative, compassionate, hardworking, a true master of the verbal medium...

But that's beside the point. The video was definitely worth watching, and despite the gravity of his words he still managed to deliver them in a way that didn't feel like he was ripping the Catholic Church a new one. Even though that was totally what he was doing...
 
Calleja

Calleja

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

Oh come on, if you're gonna post a clip choose a better one, dude! I'd do it myself but I'm at a non-youtube zone right now.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

I always thought butterflies were named that because they were originally called "flutter-bys" and the sounds got switched around somewhere along the line.
 
Rob King

Rob King

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

Great video. Sometimes I feel a bit bad for the shit that the Catholic Church has to deal with, but every so often something like this reminds me that it's hardly unjustified.
 
Calleja

Calleja

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

Oh Dave, looking up clips of QI on YouTube is perhaps the most proud you've ever made me, *sniff*

If you're more... tech savvy... you can get entire episodes even if you're not in Britain, wink wink.

The last series, Series G (they dedicate each series (that's a season for brits) to a letter, since they're in season 7, it's series G) has been so fracking awesome, although sadly I think there's only two episodes left to air.

Emma Thompson was on an episode not too long ago, and watching that particular episode you find out Stephen Fry and her are quite close friends. So much so that Emma enjoys making Stephen scream by appearing naked on the top of his stairs, just to mess with his ol' gay self.

There's also recently been QI: XL episodes which last quite longer and include lots of things they edit out for time reasons on the regular broadcasting. These cut parts tend to be the more hilarious since they're off-topic conversations and ribbings between the panelists.

You have no idea how much I love this show.
 
Calleja

Calleja

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

General Specific said:
Here's a fun little video that kinda ties in here, you'll see towards the end of it.

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Oh man, that was awesome, thank you for that.

Yeah, for House and Hugh Laurie fans, another reason to love Fry... they're best friends. Began together, had 2 hit TV comedy shows in their beginnings, "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" and "Jeeves and Wooster". Fry is godfather to Laurie's children and everything.
 
Tiger Tsang

Tiger Tsang

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

I heartily recommend watching online the recent episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Stephen Fry.

They went at it old school Tom Snyder style.

No audience, just 2 guys talking about lots of stuff.

It was an EXCELLENT hour of television.

*is an html n00b and not good with the links*
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Hehe, I love that people are now looking into QI. I discovered that show a few months ago, from a related video to "Would I Lie To You?" Which I learned about from "8 out of 10 Cats", which I learned about from "Big Fat Quiz of the Year" which I learned about from Jimmy Carr stand up.


If anyone is interested, ENTIRE episodes- nay, SEASONS, of QI can be found at this youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/YouGluben#p/u/7/Gq-7fAvbG0M
 
Dave

Dave

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Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

checkeredhat said:
Hehe, I love that people are now looking into QI. I discovered that show a few months ago, from a related video to \"Would I Lie To You?\" Which I learned about from \"8 out of 10 Cats\", which I learned about from \"Big Fat Quiz of the Year\" which I learned about from Jimmy Carr stand up.


If anyone is interested, ENTIRE episodes- nay, SEASONS, of QI can be found at this youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/YouGluben#p/u/7/Gq-7fAvbG0M
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I love you.

And Tsang:

Part 1:



Part 2:

 
Calleja

Calleja

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

Thank god for torrents*, I am 6 minutes away from having a high res version of the Craig Ferguson show tee hee.


*legally and uh.. while helping old ladies cross the street, of course.
 
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Philosopher B.

Stephen Fry calmly rips the church a new one

Craig is the best thing to happen to late night TV.

Also, Stephen Fry is radness incarnate. From being on Blackadder to his 'In America' series, the man is absolute gold.

- Philosopher B., who owns all the seasons of Jeeves and Wooster
 
Calleja

Calleja

I actually downloaded all of Last Chance to See more for a Douglas Adams fanboy thing, but ended up loving it because of Fry.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

So much for watching basketball or playing WoW tonight. Must. Watch. More. QI. Damn you, Calleja! :laugh:

Also, why am I only now finding out this existed?
 
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