Jimmy Carr seems somehow a bit creepy and I won't be terribly surprised if he someday gets arrested for exposing himself to an 8 year old. BUT, he's brilliant, amazingly quick with quips and very funny. Always feel vaguely guilty, but greatly enjoy watching him...
Maybe you would like Sandi Toksvig instead? That's just as exciting, isn't it? I mean....it is, isn't? ..... Why has it suddenly gone so quiet? C'mon, don't leave me hanging here!
Bill Bailey has chosen his life. Stephen, it seems, less so. A driven and troubled man. I would not want to live in a world where the had not BOTH made their mark, however.
"Course you never knew Hitler did you?" That really reminded me of when Grandad said to Del Boy: "You wouldn't remember when I married your grandmother?" haha absolutely amazing
samderrida correct when I worked it out recently I would say it’s around the 75 mark which sounds a lot but not when you think each county has its own unique one , double that depending what part you’re from so 64 , had 6 for each of the three main cities ( Dublin , cork and Belfast ) and it’s different sides then add in some for the Aran islands off Galway and there you have it . Even in the Irish family I’ve got still there they all have different ones because they aren’t all from the same area or county for that matter some in Dublin , some in cork , one in limerick but originally from Kildare , and the rest down in Tipperary so vastly different just within my relatives .
I love the way Stevens geusts listen so enthusiastically with huge smiles in eager anticipation of his next ridiculously humorous and intelligent ramblings, he is such a joy. We love you Mr Fry.
I remember listening to Peter Ustinov with the same eagerness. His deliveries were the same, simple and so funny. I'd have both as guests at my imaginary dinner party 😆
We Scots usually frown upon English people doing Scots accents. Stephen Fry gets away with it because a) he is scarily accurate, b) all his anecdotes are true, and c) because he is Stephen Fry.
News out of Israel is pretty heavy atm, even by their standards, yet I still can’t get Stephen saying “Benjamin Netanyahu” in the voice of Billy Connolly out of my mind whenever he appears.
It's a pity they didn't play his Donegal accent. It's perfectly accurate to the accent that you'd find in & around Donegal Town. The Donegal accent vastly differs from village to village strangely enough.
It's one of the best I've heard, but there is something about it where he sounds a bit like he's about to vomit or something lol. Growing up as an Aussie wog, I can tell you his European accents are tremendous as well.
The Many Voices of Stephen Fry: 0:15 Camp German 0:29 Camp German hosting the BAFTAs 0:44 Billy Connolly (jojoba) 1:00 Billy Connolly (Benjamin Netanyahu) 1:32 Hungarian grandfather (Peter Gorus) 2:03 Australian Morning Bulletin (“Bully”) 2:48 Brendan Behan 3:21 Camp man in a horror film 4:01 Tommy Cannon 4:22 Diana Mosley 5:05 Winston Churchill 5:28 Welsh (Pakistani) 5:47 Welsh (Northern Europe / Cape Town) 5:59 Welsh (street) 6:25 Northern Irish 6:37 Chewbacca 6:45 Harrison Ford 7:09 Irish gibberish 7:25 Leprechaun 7:29 Liverpudlian teenager 8:00 Modern German Army officer 8:45 Brian Blessed (ohdododododo) 8:55 Billy Connolly (stonner) 9:43 Maggie Smith’s friend’s aunt from Morningside 9:53 “English” Scot 10:20 Billy Connolly 10:34 Vincent Price 11:09 Australian Ansett pilot 11:49 Upper class English man (actually just him)
Stephen's Australian impression/accent is one of the best I've ever heard. It's also clearly something he has actively refined as it sounds more accurate than the Australia Soap Opera sketch he did with Hugh. - An Australian
I find that most Brits can't come very close to a standard American accent (say, vaguely Midwestern), but if they are good at accents they can manage New York and the deep south. I always found that curious and inexplicable. I struggle with all accents. And, for the life of me, i still have a hard time distinguishing Australian from New Zealand, something every Australian and New Zealander I've ever met finds utterly absurd. But my countrymen are notoriously bad with accent recognition, much less imtiation. So that's my excuse. - formerly an American expat in London
@@khymaaren Really? Remember you're talking about child Stephen who had never heard of Pythagoras before. As hard as it is to Imagine Stephen Fry ever being a child, he did not spring fully formed from his mother's mind covered in tweed. I think his grandpa died when he was around 11 so this anecdote must be from some point before then.
Sem I really love his voice when he and Hugh Laurie did a skit taking off an Australian soap opera... But, it’s a specific type of Aussie accent... not all of us have that same accent; but Stephen’s Aussie accents are better than almost anyone else’s from elsewhere.
It really does show Churchill in the way we like to remember him. Completely unfazed by one of his mp's getting caught buggering a guard. More interested in the weather. Is there anything more British than that?
It is well known and firmly established, in my experience. Quite honestly, I've heard that exact phrase repeated in multiple conversations when his name comes up. The only other living figure who is equally universally recognized as a "national treasure" seems to be David Attenborough.
Stephen Fry doing an Australian accent genuinely sounds so much like my (rural Melbourne) grandfather - it gave me a hell of a shock. Like, he's not just close to "old Australian country man", he's bang on.
What a joy to watch. Made me laugh out loud. Love Stephen Fry. He is and always will be a National Treasure. His accents are amazing and I love his wit. What's not to love about him.
That's a pretty spot-on Australian accent. It's quite specific though, and not all that common in more urban areas. We don't really have regional accents in Australia. You can't generally tell the difference between people from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, etc. despite the vast distances between them. It's more city vs. country in Australia. The accent Stephen's used here is kind of a weird mix of rural + cultivated, but also incredibly accurate. He sounds like an outback newsreader. It's the kind of accent you'd hear if you were listening to news radio on a road trip from Broken Hill to Wagga Wagga.
I actually did get kicked out of a class once because I couldn't stop laughing when the foreign exchange student was looking for his 'handy'. My friends had to drag me out I was laughing too hard.
Ok, I know this is totally random, but I've never understood those emoticons - To me they've always looked like baked potatoes with ketchup on top, and now I can't see 'em as anything else. :S
@@rossmclaren9886 It adds a bit of balance to the anti-English shite we get from the Scots all the time. Anyway, are you telling me that Rab C. Nesbitt wasn't a documentary?
@@rossmclaren9886 I'm not going to go through recordings of Scottish comedians to find evidence. That would be hell. However, this is food for thought. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/9737918/Record-number-of-racist-attacks-on-English-in-Scotland.html
I adore Sandi's object work at the end. The cup is especially good. She gives it weight and the implication that she's drinking it when i'm sure it's empty and light. :) makes me happy.
If you like listening to Stephen and all his accents I highly recommend his books on audible mythos and heros as well as his readings of the Sherlock Holmes series.
@@DeflatedPumpkin Oooh yes, I binge listened to the Harry Potter books one after the other, marvelling at his accents and voices, stupendous. I didn't know he had narrated books about myths and heroes so I will look for them.
Two things.......at a Nigara On The Lake performance at the Shaw, Stephen picked me, as an audience member, to make a choice selection in his one man play. Second, one of my high school teachers was vincent Price's cousin.....a strong family resemblance and a spot on voice.
Stephen Fry, what an amazing man. He always surprises me. He is highly intelligent ( before QI ) he has great whit and drama and he also does great accents. To do an Aussie accent is great, Allen does a great Aussie accent as well. But Stephen Fry, one of the best !!
The story of the pigs in the river reminds me of my schooldays. During a geography lesson about British steel industry we were told of works in Perthshire by our Scottish teacher (in Birmingham). For homework we had to write an essay on the lesson, so I wrote about the works in Persia which got a sarcastic note asking which part of the UK was in the middle east.
I was very impressed with his South African accent. As an Australian, I find it extremely difficult to do that one without sounding like I'm butchering a New Zealand accent.
@@exprime8872 everyone butchers the South African accent (-: What he was trying there was a Afrikaans tainted English, which only applies to about 2% of the population. Much more common (with variations) is English mixed with one of the 11+ African languages which applies to some 45+ million speakers. And no-one tried to speak like this guy ru-vid.com . Wow. I have to listen very carefully to make out what he is saying. (Yes, I'm South African and speak just 2 of the 11 official languages).
