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Originally Posted by ithinkimissyou
earth
or at least the uk is suffering stephen fry burnout
you heard it here first
he's smart, witty, amazing
but he's everywhere
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Fry irritates the hell out of me. Has done for a long time. And I'll tell you for why. It's precisely the sort of intellect in popular culture that doesn't really say or do anything intellectual. I mean, he's masses more intelligent than me, but what does he do with his intelligence? A not-very-funny comedy show where he (and his researchers) have factwanks; he writes fourth-rate books that manage to be less intellectually edifying the Ben Elton; he's a columnist for the Guardian; he used to be in a very witty but not necessarily clever comedy duo and he was in Blackadder.
Now. It's not precisely
his fault but I think it shows a severe lack in British popular culture that Fry, like Vorderman, is 'the people's intellectual'. Because, of course, the British people can't cope with the idea of an intellectual having some sort of
insight or
interest in the world beyond trotting out that same fucking fact about every town in Britain having an archaic name for a river twice in its name.
ALSO my Mum used to like him but then he ran away and she was quite upset and anyone who upsets my Mum needs a good kicking.