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->''Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.''
-->-- '''Dan Le Sac''' vs '''Scroobius Pip''', "Thou Shalt Always Kill"

A man of intense intelligence and great coolness, '''Stephen Fry''' is the host of ''{{QI}}'' and starred in ''Series/{{Kingdom}}'', about the life of a rural lawyer. He has also written and contributed to several books, namely ''Literature/TheLiarNovel'', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BlTirOD3o&feature=channel_video_title The Stars' Tennis Balls.]]'',''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxLnbGYAE5s The Hippopotamus.]]'' and "Making History" (a time travel story about [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct erasing Hitler from existence]]), as well as his autobiography ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poECor3_-lg&feature=related Moab Is My Washpot]]'' (a second volume, called ''The Fry Chronicles'', is now out), and ''The Book of General Ignorance''. He is very much the modern day OscarWilde (though he's English) as well as a British national treasure.

A Cambridge graduate and a personal friend of JKRowling (he won a Talkie for his reading of the HarryPotter unabridged audio-books), he has appeared as [[GenerationXerox several Melchettes]] in ''{{Blackadder}}'', played Jeeves in ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'', portrayed OscarWilde in ''{{Film/Wilde}}'', and starred as Fry in ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie''. His reading of the HarryPotter audiobooks is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for his acting abilities. Not only is his voice acting superb, the sheer breadth and convincingness of the accents he puts on for the various characters is stunning. Excellent accents are a particular quality of his.

He is openly gay (90% gay anyway) - [[StraightGay which might surprise some people]] - and open about having bipolar disorder. His early life resulted in him doing three months in prison for credit card fraud. On his release, he got a scholarship to Cambridge and joined the Cambridge Footlights, where he met HughLaurie through [[EmmaThompson a mutual friend]].

It is a sign of how well liked he is that when he vanished from a stage production he was a part of, literally missing his cue, and couldn't be found in the building, the British Tabloids published concerned articles asking him to come home, rather than the usual cruel mockery an actor would have got for such highly advanced stage fright. He only got a token mocking when he turned up in Belgium.

He also has a recurring role in ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He appeared in ''Film/VForVendetta'' (as Gordon Deitrich, a [[spoiler:closeted]] comedy television show host), as the Guide in the film version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' (mostly as a favor to the family of his late friend DouglasAdams) in which he also displayed his awesome musical talents in the soundtrack with the bonus techno-rap song "Reasons to Be Miserable", is the narrator of the ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' video game series (reprising the role in ''VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale''), and voiced the narrator in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'', Hedonistic SociopathicHero Reaver in the ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' games, and played the main character of ''Radio/AbsolutePower''. He made his directorial debut in 2003 with the film ''Film/BrightYoungThings'', for which he also wrote the screenplay, adapted from Creator/EvelynWaugh's 1930 novel ''Vile Bodies''.

He's produced and [[CozyVoiceForCatastrophes hosted]] two very personal documentaries, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4NuxGgUQfA HIV and Me]]'' and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkE56eFyk4 The Secret Life of the Manic-Depressive]]'', which was the result of the aforementioned disappearance to Belgium and eventual diagnosis of bipolar disorder.[[hottip:*:both links to trailers]] He was scheduled to write an episode of ''Series/DoctorWho'', but the idea fell through due to time constraints on his part.

%%Any comparisons with Morgan Freeman will be nuked without mercy.
In addition, he has [[CozyVoiceForCatastrophes a lovely, comforting voice]].

He has featured on ''TopGear'' as the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car", having lost about seven stone before the episode, as he went on a diet, prompting Jeremy Clarkson to ask where the rest of him was.

He also played Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock's older, cleverer, but [[UpperClassWit indolent]] brother) in Guy Ritchie's ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Holmes]]'' sequel. This was something of a PromotedFanboy moment for him, as he says in his autobiography ''Moab Is My Washpot'' that he's been a fan of ''Sherlock Holmes'' since he was a small boy.

He's [[http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/stephen-knows-the-meaning-of-the-ultimate-answer claimed]] that DouglasAdams once told him in confidence "[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy exactly why 42.]]" Apparently, "The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, [[ItMakesSenseInContext completely obvious.]]" However, he has vowed to [[SecretKeeper take the secret with him to the grave]].

A self-confessed techie, averaging [[http://twitter.com/stephenfry about a dozen Tweets per day]], he is also a [[http://www.fsf.org/news/freedom-fry/ vocal supporter of Free Software]] while still being a diehard Apple fanboy, famously purchasing the third Mac sold in the UK after Douglas Adams bought the first two (Adams always insisted it was the other way round but appears to have lost the argument by dint of dying first). Although he's also admitted that he does enjoy switching between a HTC Desire (an Android phone) and an iPhone in a recent Twitter post.
--> [[spoiler:''"I've never made a secret of my admiration for HTC and Android. Happy to flip between iPhone and Desire." - 6:25 AM Jun 12th via Twitter for Android '' (2010)]].

He now has [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Stephen+Fry/ his own theme song]], courtesy of the good people known as [[WeeblAndBob Weebl & co]], which enjoys definite {{Earworm}} status. As you may have surmised from this page, he has a very devoted fan base, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bXy5pSGJE&feature=related some of whom are just mildly creepy, in a nerdily sweet sort of way]].

Oh, and, apparently, BrianBlessed calls him "Spunkbubble".

Now go back and reread this entire page in Stephen's voice, if you haven't been doing so already. Cheerio!
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