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Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

  • 67 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, comedian and author

Press clippings Page 39

Rob Brydon's Stephen Fry suicide attempt joke attacked

Comedians often teeter on the edge between offensiveness and humour, but when Rob Brydon poked fun at his fellow QI star Stephen Fry's suicide attempt during a celebrity awards show his gag was reportedly greeted with silence not laughter.

The Independent, 4th September 2013

BBC rejects claim Stephen Fry 'trivialised' child abuse

The BBC Trust has rejected a complaint that Stephen Fry "trivialised" child abuse during an episode of QI in which he recited a limerick about a chaplain's desire for a choir boy.

Daisy Wyatt, The Independent, 29th August 2013

Stephen Fry interview

"The beauty of the brain is that you can be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn't show"

Tom Loxley, Radio Times, 25th August 2013

Stephen Fry: France is better educated than Britain

And the QI presenter thinks education secretary Michael Gove could be on to something with his proposals for a new curriculum...

Ellie Walker-Arnott, Radio Times, 19th August 2013

PM rejects Fry's call for boycott of Russia's Olympics

The Prime Minister has rejected a call from broadcaster Stephen Fry to strip Russia of the 2014 Winter Olympics because of its treatment of gay people.

BBC News, 10th August 2013

Stephen Fry calls for Olympics ban

Broadcaster Stephen Fry has urged David Cameron to support moves to strip Russia of the 2014 Winter Olympics because of its new anti-gay laws.

BBC News, 7th August 2013

Radio Times review

I laughed so helplessly at this episode that I had to re-apply my mascara, and I was still chortling on my way out of the office and on the train home. Count Arthur Strong, half-witted, malapropism-prone former music-hall star (a masterly comic creation by Steve Delaney) joins the modern world at last when his new friend Michael (Rory Kinnear) gets him on the internet. Or on "the Ilfracombe" as the Count has it. Soon his horizons broaden, and not just because "I'm going to tell that Stephen Fry what I think of him".

There's no point in trying to explain further. I will say only that Arthur decides to fulfil his dream of doing Jack the Ripper tours from an ice-cream van complete with chimes.

Alison Graham, Radio Times, 15th July 2013

Alan Davies: hard to believe Stephen Fry can get depressed

Alan Davies has spoken of his sadness at Stephen Fry's suicide attempt - but praised his pal for raising awareness that mental illness can kill.

Jen Blackburn, The Sun, 1st July 2013

Richard Herring: 'All power to the podcast'

After his agenda-setting podcast interview with Stephen Fry, in which Fry talked openly for the first time about his attempted suicide, Richard Herring explains why the podcast's time has come.

Richard Herring, The Telegraph, 29th June 2013

Video: Stephen Fry in Twelfth Night at the Globe

The actor and comedian's performance opposite Mark Rylance in the Shakespearean comedy is part of the 2013 Globe on Screen season.

Susanna Lazarus, Radio Times, 25th June 2013

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