Stephen Fry on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight: INTERVIEW 

I could listen to Stephen Fry speak for days.

the guy interviewing stephen fry is really good and asks interesting questions and doesnt ruin everyones anecdotes by making lame jokes ( david letterman), american presenters need to be more like him.

I love the fact, the interviewer lets Stephen just talk. And when he asks something, it is an interesting question. Great interview indeed!

Stephen Fry is such a brilliant and fascinating person. Everything he says is so well-thought and genuine!

This is by far one of my favorite Strombo interviews. I've really grown to enjoy Stephen Fry's way. Very down to earth. Very honest. Very forthright. And very interested in truth. He's disarming.

Stephen Fry should narrate life. I would never tire of his voice

This interviewer is great and I love Stephen Fry.

That was just wonderful. Stephen is one of my favorite people in show business.

I just love him! He knows everything about everything

Stroumboulopoulos is the best interviewer!

Well done, George. Skillful interview. You keep 'em on track.

Stephen is the most adorable thing

I honestly think Stephen Fry is one of the most intelligent and articulate people in show business.

Brilliant interview. I love Stephen Fry's mind, and thanks to George for being a tremendously excellent interviewer. Well done.

Just found George Stromboulopous on RU-vid... I think I'm in Love. 🤣🥰🤣 That and the fact that Stephen Fry brought me here.

Wow, maybe the single best interview on Stephen I've ever seen! Fantastic job, Georgie!

Incredible interview.

Stephen, on behalf of Danes, you are always welcome! Just glad to see him so happy now, especially compared to then.

George is the best talk show host since Parkinson.

I'm a fan of Stephen and so expected it to be good but was very surprised by how good the interviewer was, excellent and very real...well done

A wonderful interview, a pure delight...Also, it's a pure delight to hear Stephen talking about his friendship with Hlaurie. Simply priceless!.. It's rare that kind of pure/honest "relationship"

This interviewer is great he allows Stephen Fry to talk, he seems aware that the guest is the most important person, not the interviewer and that if you get a good speaker you let THEM talk.

Good chap, Intelligent, humble and talented!

3:13 George hit a home run with that statement.....so true, that's life !

I was today years old when I found this Interviewer and he is great! Not the standard fluff show interviews. Interesting guests and intelligent questions ❤️❤️

and stephen is always a delight of course

Two of my favourite hosts.

That was a GREAT interview! First time I see that interviewer, I am impressed by how he conducts his interview : first, very relevant questions : in just a few minutes, we get a pretty complete portrait of who that immense person that is Stephen Fry is. Also, he gives room to the guest, but he is also able to keep control of the interview, wich isn't easy with someone as prolixe as Fry, and he does so in a fluid manner. Well done! And thank you very much for sharing, it makes that great interview available for everyone even many years after.

Stephen Fry....Just being amazing anywhere he goes :)

I really enjoyed that!

Appreciate your honesty Mr Fry. Had a lot of break downs can relate. Couldn't get out of bed or walk a few feet. Will try and look for your doc on the secret life..

That was just wonderful!

Oh, the feels . . . :( . I´m glad he got above his pain.

Thanks you for the upload! What an incredible interview.

Love the way George interviews people. He is just wonderful. And Stephen is a great guest no matter who the interviewer is.

i too suffer with bi-polar disorder and i can 100% empathise with Stephen when he said that the only thing that stopped him was that he couldnt do that to his parents. i can honestly say that the only thing that stopped me taking that road was that i couldnt do that to my gran. i lost my mum several years ago and i dont speak to my dad, but having watched my gran lose her only daughter (my mum) i simply couldnt do that to her. its also worth noting that Stephen an i share the same birthday (24 august) as well. astrologists make of that what you will, i dont believe in astrology incidentally.

Fantastic genuine personable interview. Well done George. Thank you

Very interesting interview. Always a huge respect for Stephen Fry and George Stroumboulopolous was excellent here in the way he interviewed him. It was very natural.

A great interview.

beautiful mind Stephen Fry!!!

His Steven Dawkins interview is sublime. Well, its not quite an interview, as Mr Dawkins barely say's a word, as he listens with admiration on Stephen Frys incredible intellect

Moment of clarity = spilling claret on yourself.

love this

Life turning upon a hinge. It's those moments that are the most fragile, like porcelain or thin glass - and the most interesting. Funny you should mention it. =)

stephen fry...., most brillant man i can think of !!

Brilliant interviewer

smart dude!!

I knew that this is where I would find positiveness - imagine if all of youtube's like the comments below.

Anyone else got the hots for Strombo? I mean, DAMN.

Madness.

I love him

By the way, if you like Stephen Fry but haven't read his autobiographies, do. There are three of them out there now, so get started. All three are the type of books you have the hardest time putting down.

I love you Stephen

Intelligent and funny

Bloody (inter)national treasure!

15:06 man, that struck home with me

Miss George on our Canadian TV.

I love listening to Stephen. even though I'm a bit of a homophobe. he's a joy.

I can finally comment. I am stunned, I can't comment. Are you really live ?

5:13 so good!

His intelligence is breath taking.

One day i will have N discussion with this beautiful mind... i hope ;)

Huh. Bromance at first sight, huh? Nice. =D

Transcript revised (starting at 12:14) : [Stephen]: …I don't know many people actually worth knowing who don’t have a mind that sometimes leads them astray, you know? I don't know that sanity-real, sober, sensible sanity-is such a “glorious thing.” I think most of the world's advances-in creativity, and invention, and in almost anything-have been in little spurts of madness. And sometimes they can be destructive, and it's particularly hard for people to live with someone who suffers from a mood disorder. The most amazing one was a man I met (um) who had been a commander in the Royal Navy. In fact he'd been in charge of the, the royal yacht Britannia-which was the Queen's yacht-(um) and he'd suffered really really badly, and at one point he was in the hospital with light security-because he'd been to talking to his people, you know, about the fact that he was considering suicide, he was really really low. He managed to evade his security people, he walked out into the road infront of a lorry, and his legs were smashed to pieces, and so badly that he dozens of operations with pins: had them re-broken and re-broken-but it took years to get his legs right so he could walk. And I remember saying to him, “my god, the pain you must be have been in, all these operations…” He said, “yes,” he said, “but you have to remember, that pain was nothing like as bad as the pain inside that made me walk into the traffic.” And that's the thing people don't understand about really severe depression. There's very much an attitude of “Oh go and walk it off.” you know, “Here just have a good walk, listen to some music, and you'll be fine.” [George]: it’s the stiff upper-lip right? (rhetorical question) [Stephen]: Yeah, and, and it’s, unfortunately it’s… it just isn’t like that. It’s like saying “walk-off the weather,” you know, the weather is real, and it's the weather inside you-you can't change it. [George]: Did you ever get that low? [Stephen]: (Umm) yeah, I-I tried to end my life on number of occasions… [in my] pre-twenties a couple times with huge mixture pills. Fortunately for me it was such a mixture-and they they went together so badly-that my brother-who had a bedroom some-way away from mine in my parents house-was awakened by the sound my projectile vomit [laughs], and he, he came in and I, I was sort of unconscious but spewing, and… and so I was taken to a hospital and had my stomach pumped, and that was very fortunate. Oh, and on another occasion-and again it's sort of faintly comic really-is um, is I put myself in a…(um)…in a garage, and put a, put a duvet-a sort of quilt-under the door, and put my finger on keys of the car, and umm, and really was thinking of turning the key… [George]: How did you get out of that though?? [Stephen]: …It was my parents. It, it was the thought of, of, of doing that to my parents, just, I couldn't bear the idea of how they would respond. I knew that it was a, [pauses] an awful thing to do to them. That no matter how much I didn't at the time want to live, I couldn't bear the idea of doing that to them-and, (um), and that's as good a reason to live….You know, there’s a poem by (um), by Dorothy Parker that ends every line as, “you might as well live.” And, and sometimes life does seem unsupportable, not for any logical reason-that's the point-you can't talk someone out of finding life unpleasant by saying, “look what you've got”-because it's not about that-but, but you can perhaps say, “look what it will do to other people.” ...powerful stuff.

He reads the harry pothead audiobooks.

Is Stephen Fry that well known in Canada?

9:40

George Strompoppadoparopapopadopalopalusopalopulus.

The world without a Stephen Fry would have been a poorer world for sure. Glad he didnt kill himself when he was young

But Stephen Fry IS an intellectual.

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Strombo basically doesn't stutter...so drastically different from US hosts.

This Canadian?

A place to belong ... yeah.

is this a Canadian show? DO people even know who Fry is?

One of my many favourite Fry & Laurie sketches: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bV3tfauw3vQ.html

I think trump took Fry's advice about being yourself on Twitter a bit too far

1:05 Ben Shapiro disapproves

poor guy, sweating very heavily

Stephen fry is married to a man ...🤩🤩

Bunch of shirt-lifters.

THE PHALICY THAT THIS MAN IS INTELLIGENT IS INSANE IM AN 18 YEAR OLD WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER and two things he said were absolute rubbish firstly that it is and only is the little walks and listening to music that do bring you back to the rest of the planet when your down and secondly then the ONLY single thing that will stop you committing suicide is thinking about what you,ve got HE CONTRADICTED HIMSELF STRAIGHT AWAY BY SAYING I COULD DO IT TO MY PARENTS WELL HE HAD THEM...............

Stephen Fry is a pseudointellectual

I LOVE British comedy. But, American comedy is just better, period. And what he said about American comedy was a huge generalization. When it comes to stand up, the greats are American. There have been some legendary British/Aus stand ups but the Americans are the greats. Also, comedic film. American comedies are better. Where the British could say they "win" would be sketch shows/ and TV comedy shows. but there really hasnt been any great sketch shows in England for a while, and i think the modern great sketch shows are American. But theres not doubt they have some amazing TV comedies. I would give them that. Film and stand up goes to Americans, period.

Fry has in other interviews remarked the same thing: British comedy is more sophisticated and self-deprecating, whereas American is all slapstick and one liners. This is nonsense. Andy Griffith pioneered comedy about rural, small town American naivete. All in the Family made the prejudiced "Archie" into an anti-hero, while MASH lampooned the hypocrisy of "Frank" and the pomposity of "Charles." And on an on. Actually, having lived in Europe half my life, it is far more the Europeans who have the inability to laugh at themselves. They take themselves extremely seriously, reflected in their comedy, which is not typically about themselves, but about "the other."