The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry

The Fry Chronicles University Challenge - Runner-Up - Cambridge University Fry in the early nineties, thanks to his duo with Hugh Laurie in P G Wodehouse’s, ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ became a trinket of British treasure. I wouldn’t be surprised inside the Pudsey Bear was indeed Stephen Fry, after all these years - he has been about for what seems like a century, his polished quips vibrating the television as he hits the low notes and ends off with a high note. No-one does a ‘vibrating television’ deep vocal tone than Fry does, awakening sleepy-heads morphed in their sofas. And the British public ... more

As he has so much going on in his life, it is hardly surprising that Stephen Fry has written another autobiography. At a time when the likes of Jordan and Wayne Rooney have a number of them under their belts, it is about time there was the next instalment from someone I would consider one of the most interesting people on television. He at least has something of interest to add to his original one - Moab is my Washpot and I think that this book shows a lot of the person he is. I was expecting this to be a written version of what I see on QI, but this was not the case. He is open and honest but ... more

"All that love tobacco and boys are but fools" Let's face it, Stephen Fry has become a bit of a wind bag of late, his only stick now seemingly throwing big words at the upper working-classes that seem to love what ever he does, maybe how Fry amuse himself to lift him out of his manic depression, but those of his higher social class rejecting him as the intellectual he seems to think he is and so not buying into him. Fry tends to lay down the rules early on in his books that he is smarter than you because he knows big words and doesn't apologise for it, Will Self another in this category ... more