mp3: Stephen Fry - Saturday Night Fry ep 1
Well, I thought I’d try a bit of comedy. No, not me, that would be horrendous; I looked for the first piece of comedy that turned up on my Zen this evening and resolved to put it on here, and lucky you, it’s the first episode of Saturday Night Fry.
Despite (sometimes perfectly just) accusations that are often levelled against Fry, including an almost insurmountable smugness, becoming almost exactly the type of Establishment figure he used to lampoon, being a voiceover slag of the worst water, oh, and let’s not forget, Peter’s Friends, one of the worst and self-satisfied films ever made, I can’t help it. I think he’s great. I always have, even when he lets me down by pretending he’s stupid, like he did in those Twinings tea ads.
And so it’s a pleasure to give away something still relatively rare - a not-very-well-known 6-part radio comedy he made for Radio 4 in 1988, Saturday Night Fry, with his Cambridge Footlights pals such as Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie, and other types like Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent. It’s quite simply one of the best things he ever did… I’m not going to review it for you as every time I try I just end up sounding like some middle-aged idiot from the Radio Times, so you just have to give it a go yourself. But remember - it’s Stephen Fry. It’s brilliant.
In about 1993, he was doing a book signing in Waterstones in Glasgow. As we were students, some friends and I didn’t have enough spare cash for a book each so we bought one and asked him to sign it five times, which he duly did. Now, one guy in particular, Ben, was a massive fan of Fry’s and was really quite in awe of him when we all gathered round the table. “To To To To To” wrote Fry in the book’s front plate. “Dermot Donald Ben Colin Colin” (there were two Colins). “Lots Lots Lots Lots Lots” “Of of of of of” “Love Love Love Love Love” “Stephen Fry”, at the bottom. Ben pipes up in a kind of joky, bit nervous voice,
“You’ll need a new pen after that!”
and thinks to himself, “Oh, that was a bit of a pathetic thing to say.”
Stephen Fry, the man he idolises, looks up and says, “Sorry, what was that? I didn’t catch what you said.”
Ben then has to repeat the lame-o line to him. He said it was the longest sentence he’s ever had to say. After Ben’s let the words slip out of his face once more, Stephen laughs almost imperceptibly. Just politely, almost. Ben’s reminded of this whenever he sees Fry’s face. I like that.
If you like it, get it here at a slightly lower sound quality.
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