Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

00:00:00 This programme contains very strong language.

00:02:26 but of course they would have met because they were destined always to be friends.

00:04:59 The University Challenge episode was great fun.

00:07:20 The most interesting thing about it was that it was entirely without peer

00:09:47 Well, there, in a smooth-limbed, golden-thighed way, we are...

00:12:08 Obviously, yeah. And whatever you do, don't forget to lubricate your slip hole before any grip jigging.

00:14:36 and I think there was something in that

00:16:54 His performance, really, for me, was really the triumph of the whole show in a way.

00:19:20 particularly if you come from comedy, you're expected to be slightly wild-eyed and flailing arms

00:21:36 And he... I mean, Christ, five minutes of the most brilliant articulation of the nature of genius

00:24:05 And wore it, sir?

00:26:34 I think he has described Kingdom as putting on a comfortable pair

00:29:16 But he'd be terribly nervous about having to give them any kind of notes.

00:32:03 Hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas.

00:34:41 A lot of actors can't tell stories.

00:37:07 For a lot of people, they do it through music

00:39:19 because it was boring, but it lulled me into this gentle world of images -

00:41:51 and I love that about him. Do you know everything?

00:44:14 Most hosts, if you gave QI to anyone else, you'd know they were just reading off the cards.

00:46:50 And I think that's probably true.

00:49:35 was when he walked out of the play in the West End that he was doing.

00:52:20 where you know as you watch it that the world is going to be changed

00:54:47 and self-confidence that he could be true about himself.

00:57:19 and fortunately we still produce marvellous people like that.