And, of course, Stephen Fry had made a “proper” appearance on University Challenge when he was an undergraduate.
I like Fry, makes me laugh. Did you know he spent some time in prison, and that he was the first person in Britain to buy an Apple Mac (the second being Douglas Adams)*?
- This last may not be entirely true.
I recommend Fry’s autobiography ( Moab Is My Washpot) which is both funny and sad. His time in prison was after he stole a credit card from a girl-friend’s father and went on a spending spree. He was about 18 at the time.
I haven’t read it yet, but I will. His novels are pretty variable in quality, but there’s usually something worthwhile in there.
Hugh Laurie’s novel, The Gun Seller is also well worth a read: it’s a comic thriller which reads as if Douglas Adams wrote Frederick Forsyth.
And, for Hugh Laurie completists, check out the Annie Lennox video for “Walking On Broken Glass”, which Laurie simply steals.
You can also go to YouTube and see some of their old skits.
I really enjoyed them all. I think Making History was the best - a really creative idea for a story!
His auto-biography made me feel funny. What an awkward existence he’s led.
Recently Fry has appeared in a documentary on BBC TV about the Bipolar Disorder he suffers from. He has violent mood swings. Sometimes he suffers from deep depression , other times he is literally manic.
Yeah I just watched that. I’m a Fry-aholic.
Luckilly I think he’s the busiest man in British show business - there’s rarely a lack of Fry to be found 
Walking On Broken Glass, courtesy of YouTube. See John Malkovich get utterly upstaged…
Just checking that you’ve been watching QI?
Stephen Fry had a girlfriend ??
Well, you know, everybody experiments when they’re young. 
I’ll second the endorsement for Moab Is My Washpot.* Very quirky, entertaining, and sad in its way. I had not a few flashbacks myself while I was reading it.
It was a platonic relationship . He was only a teenager and still unsure about his sexuality.
We just watched the first two episodes of the Wodehouse Playhouse (courtesy of Netflix) last night. The laugh track was a bit annoying, but the shows were OK. One was a Mulliner story, and the other I was not familiar with, but we enjoyed them. The real treat was the video introduction to each by Plum himself. This was in 1975, the year he died.
Looking forward to watching the rest.
BUZZERS
Oh I’m sorry, “Have you seen QI?” is the most expected answer to “I’m a Fry-aholic” 
(yeah that show is the bees knees. turned me on to Alan Davies, too!)
Tho my b-day isn’t til tomorrow, my family gave me presents today.
Guess what I got?
That’s right.
They were cracking up, because apparently last week I came home and said some folks on line were talking about how good these shows were, and they had just got back from buying them for me.
Gonna sign off and watch me a couple eps.
Just wanted to make sure in the cause of international Fry-dom!
A bit late to the party, but I’ll just add my voice to those saying that Jeeves and Wooster is most excellent. Personally, my favourite part was watching Hugh Laurie trying to spread treacle on a piece of brown paper that kept rolling up every time he stopped holding it down. That probably makes no sense; you really have to see it.
Personally, I found Hugh Laurie to be the perfect Wooster, because I’d seen him in Blackadder (third and fourth). Stephen Fry was slightly less appropriate to my mind because I’d also most recently seen him in Blackadder. Turns out he’s pretty great in Jeeves and Wooster too, though.
Anyway it’s pretty clear that the consensus is that the show is great. Just felt the need to add my two cents.
If I remember correctly from his autobiography, it was a consumated relationship.
He said it left him emotionally unsatisfied, “but my loins welcomed the exercise.”