Stephen Fry
Summary
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster.As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show QI.
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Lisa Lynch obituary
Writer who recounted her experience of cancer with engaging candour and published a book based on her popular blog.
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30 best Android apps this week
Real Boxing, MessageMe, The Great Brain Experiment, Artkive, Doro Experience, Spacecraft 3D, Romans and more.
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Media Talk podcast: defamation bill, Iain Dale on LBC and Eurovision
On this week's Media Talk, we discuss how Stephen Fry, Tom Stoppard and some of Britain's other most prominent authors and playwrights are trying to save the defamation bill from being killed off, and talk to the new host of LBC's drivetime slot,Iain Dale.
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Authors call on party leaders to save libel reform
Open letter from writers including Stephen Fry says defamation bill is in danger of being killed off by Leveson row.
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From the Brits to the Oscars Twitter reveals award season 2013′s hosts with the most
Sunday night the curtain closed on the 85th Academy Awards, officially drawing the two-month long run of awards around music and film to a finish. They were peppered with proud moments, like Daniel Day Lewis’ third Best Actor scoop making Oscar history, well as more confusing ones, like Prince actually endorsing Gotye’s music.
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Why is Channel 4 turning into Channel Top Gear?
Do we really need this many programmes starring middle-aged blokes, from Heston Blumenthal to Stephen Fry, simply mucking around?.
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Stephen Fry's Gadget Man fails to beat MasterChef: the Professionals
Fry's new Channel 4 series kicked off with 2. 3 million viewers on Monday, but the BBC2 cookery show reached 2. 9 million.
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Speech is the most important part of radio. When will the industry realise?
BBC Radio 4's listening figures show it. talkSPORT's listening figures show it. LBC 97. 3's listening figures also show it. The.
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Pioneers of Digital: Stephen Fry talks Twitter and Steve Jobs in the new book
Last week we published an excerpt about Martha Lane Fox from a book I have co-written with Dr. Paul Springer from Buckinghamshire University.
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Perfect pitch – publisher invites the public to vote with their wallets
“The books industry has been very poor at getting money off people who love its products”, says John Mitchinson, the founder of crowd-funded publisher Unbound. He promises to revolutionise both the financing of book production and the relationship between authors and readers; and over the past year has raised enough money from online pledges to turn 18 ideas into ‘beautifully produced volumes’.
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