# Stephen Fry to leave QI **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-to-leave-qi/734658 "2015-10-14T20:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-to-leave-qi/734658/41 "2015-10-17T19:25:29Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I disagree. If you watch the whole episode, he’s just generally not happy throughout it, slouched back in his seat and only giving short answers. It seemed to me when I watched it that he was being perfectly serious there. He wasn’t being serious there. The stage/public persona he has projected for himself throughout his career has been one of deadpan, miserabilism and apathy. His heyday was the '90s and as he’s got older the youthful sardonic cynicism has increasingly strayed into grumpy old man territory. That joke was funny, if not entirely PC. He did some other joke, I can’t remember which show, about how great it would be to watch a plane crash. That one fell flat and was unfunny and a bit tasteless, in my opinion. He does still come up with maybe a couple of good jokes per show. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-to-leave-qi/734658/42 "2015-10-18T16:08:08Z")
Don’t get me wrong, I quite like Jack Dee, but yes, “grumpy old man” is spot-on. I guess not all old men can be Brian Blessed 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-to-leave-qi/734658.md?page=2)