16 thoughts on “MCM: Stephen Fry

  1. Love Fry in everything he does, including—although not historical or drama—hosting QI. Wilde has a special place in my heart, although I do adore all the Melchetts.

  2. MoHub said it. I adore Stephen Fry. His Wilde and Jeeves are wry, intelligent and are rivals to Dorothy Parker for snark. I am still trying to see his Andre Breton in the Dali film. And the Melchetts one roots for against Blackadder. And Tristan Shanty a Cock and… is a mammoth laugh in a good way.

    His talent reminds me of the fey quality of some of Danny Kaye’s (the chalice from the palace) films, while striking the heartstrings in his ability to convey sorrow and loss in Peter’s Friends with whom he shared the stage with Emma and Ken.

  3. I’m always struck by how much the young Fry looks like the iconic 1920s gentleman in “Wooster & Jeeves”.

    Also, look up his BAFTA speech from about 10-15 years ago. After he disappeared off the face of the planet for no reason. It’s BRILLIANT.

  4. Love love love him. We have a list of lovely folk-of-the-gay that we want to adopt [or keep in a dark place, one or t’other], and the divine Mr F tops the list. He’s ours, hands off.

  5. STEPHEN FRY one of world’s truly great comedians of this era. Tragedy almost struck when he lost contact with his partner… LOVE SF movement… 2nd funny tragedy actor-BEN KINGSLEY IN BOXTROLL FOR LAIKA-SILLY AND LAUGHABLE-INTERESTING HOW HE CAME UP WITH THE VOICE… PETER SELLERS, KINGLEY AMIS A 3RD DRAW IN FILM… A BIT OF A CRUEL NATURE IN BOTH OF THESE ACTORS… KINGSLEY AMIS FOUNDATION-LIBRARY -BIG IN UNIVERSITY OF TX. AUSTIN. LOVE THIS WEB SITE…

    1. I am a SERIOUS Fry fangirl- just about everything he does is touched with magic. I Also strongly approve of his forthrightness and activism re mental health. He’s finally on a carefully managed med program and is doing ok himself, but he’s still putting a lot of energy into helping others, which I think is amazing.

      Beyond that, I’d love to just… rub his brain for a bit. Amazingly well-educated, and some of that auto-didactic. You could talk with him for hours and never run out of things to talk about. If you’ve seen his appearance on Craig Ferguson’s show,you’ll see what I mean. He’s the sort of person I’d love to be close friends with. :-)

  6. I suppose I’ll opt for Jeeves and Wooster; two brilliant men mining gold. But I also enjoyed his unexpected turn as the shrink in Bones who deals with Booth’s coulrophobia.

  7. I could listen to him talk ALL DAY! Such an awesome voice. And, while I don’t think Jeeves and Wooster really holds up well to film (the language in the books is SO brilliant) it was perfectly cast, and that’s a fact.

  8. That is an amazingly tough call. I haven’t seen Wilder yet, so I’ll have to reserve judgment on that one.

    My favorite of his works is Peter’s Friends, but that’s not really a frock flick. For sheer overall perfection, though, I think it is definitely the Jeeves and Wooster stories. Melchett is wonderful in both his Blackadder incarnations and really rocks the Elizabethans.

    The high-auth version of Twelfth Night is clearly his best frock flick. Where else do you see a film that names the people who created the fingerlooped braids in the credits at the end? /mic drop

  9. You are right- Stephen Fry was born to play Oscar Wilde. I cried more that once during that film. Being gay myself, the story of Wilde is part of my cultural history, and Fry brought it to life so well.

  10. As someone who’s had a pretty fierce crush on Stephen Fry for the past decade (plus some), I am happy to objectify him as well as admire his more cerebral qualities. =^^= I love all the things on this list, although ‘Jeeves & Wooster’ and ‘Blackadder’ have to be right at the top of my personal favourites. In case anyone’s interested, he also had very small roles in two Evelyn Waugh adaptations. He had a cameo in ‘Bright Young Things’ the film version of ‘Vile Bodies’ that he wrote and directed. And he was in an early ’90s ‘A Handful of Dust’ – which also starred the lovely Rupert Graves, who I believe the writers of this blog have a soft spot for too!

    Oh, and he will always be my personal vision of Mycroft Holmes. I loved that casting!

  11. Mybug, hands down. “Cold Comfort Farm” is one of my favorite films, and it’s also one of the best novel-to-film adaptations of all time. Read the book by Stella Gibbons if you haven’t and you’ll see what I mean!

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