Stephen Fry | Carpool

like the person too and I think that's true for parents that sometimes they love their children, you think they don't like them, they don't like each other and I think it's very common, very common and it's also what you want from your children, isn't it? You know you talk to young mothers who know they could do it? I've heard young mothers say that sometimes they walk through the school gates and they look through the bars and see their child and they feel so relieved because he seems or she seems popular, you know, the other kids are talking and laughing. , and then other times maybe another parent comes and there is their child sitting alert. on the step and they think that no one likes my little baby and that's almost more than anyone else, it's not about how smart they are when they can play musical instruments or play, but they like that they don't have to be the most. popular girl at school, I just did an episode of The Young Ones years and years ago and that was a great line Rick had about them being on the train going to Manchester to do it, of course she did well.

She was just trying. to remember what Bambi was, I think the name of the episode and uh, but I just and they're checking on the train uh uh for a weird scene and Rick kind of loses control and says, you've done many, many reviews like a girl and I had fun and of course not having been in a co-ed school, right? I never had this terrible inferiority that men secretly feel and boys secretly feel, although they are too proud to show it, yes, that. The girls do all that vision and SWAT and they're clean and I was going to go down that way, but I don't know if I really want to.

You may see a man holding the hand of a little girl. I think maybe it's a crime scene. Yeah, I hadn't seen that particular sign before. Is very. I did well in the CU exams. I cheated because I had a good memory. Yes, because that's what I was going to say. that you have to remember that the detailed exam is supposed to be yes exactly it is a memory test well, I mean, I don't feel any particular pride in having it, in knowing, you know, having an absorbing mind like lab paper. I mean, you could argue that the One thing that tests test for is people with superficial minds and a kind of quick, cunning intelligence, you know, simplistic intelligence and that's what the world values ​​more than really diligent, industrial people. , honest, hard-working and honest and, therefore, the exams I would like to believe you.

You're right, but I don't know. I think the reason I failed every exam I took was because I wasn't very smart. You know, that's a good friend of mine who was at the Dragon in Oxford and all his teachers. They were sort of Spitfire pilots with terrible burns and stuff like that. My friend Hugh was there and said something we also had at my preschool. There was a staff commander and Major Dobson. Yes, I think that taught us. that generation and and they, I mean, one of them basically taught us snobbish English, what's called, you speak, you know, and no, you, and, no, ncf, Nancy Mitford brought it to the attention of the world in a book called No bless or no bless.

I think it was read aloud to me and he called Alan Ross, who invented it, I think, but yeah, the idea that you can tell someone's class by the words they use, so if they say lavry, that's what you talk, while the bathroom is not new and The mirror is not new and the mirror or the mirror is shown. I would say sorry, but I would also say mirror. Yes, everyone would do it now I think and in fact I remember Deo Devire telling me that his children said to go to the bathroom and that his son is now the Duke of De.

So I mean you know everything has changed, let's be honest, but, um, it's just m, but I think it's vital that those things are maintained, even if they are maintained under a criticism, you absolutely know that there is one there. it's something in that that yes, it's a code, it's a nuance, it's a tribal piece of tribal dress, it turns out to be verbal dress rather than anything else and other tribes are allowed little extraordinary details that we may not understand, yes. um, but as long as it's not used exclusively, I remember Alan Alan Bennett saying that someone said oh, he's a terrible snob and Allan said oh, you know, Snowberry is a pretty nice vice and uh, I remember saying, "What "Is Snowberry friendly?" he said, "well, me." m I just mean the snob who looks up is pretty nice.

The snob looking down is disgusting because he's so interesting and the person we were talking about was a snob and they looked upset and couldn't help but name names of princes. and Duke's ears and things but in which in the end he is a kind person it does not hurt anyone obviously the snow that looks down and says sewer sniper or you have no right that is unforgivable I think so because in reality apart from any other thing shows that the person who does it is vulgar and absolutely without any class. I might say in a good way, yeah, I think I'm right, this is the roundabout that Chevy Chase goes around and around and around and yeah. was on TV not long when Mel Smith plays the disgusting Bed and Breakfast Hotel yeah, I enjoyed the Griswell being yeah, yeah, if this camera works, this is the first one, this is a pretty good tour, isn't it?

Aren't we part of London? In fact, I'm going up the clock tower for a couple of weeks, oh, are you here? Yeah, it runs into that, not that, so the other Big Ben, I mean, where is Big Ben, where exactly is Big Ben, because that's what I talked to Justin about. The glorious thing about Qi is that they are those nuggets that you already know. I mean, I'm particularly interested in that when you do the historical ones, I mean the ones that have misconceptions about you when something occurs to you. I never knew that's what happens, every person thinks they know something, yeah, absolutely, this would be something I thought I knew about people think, okay, because it's not big.

Steven's Tower, right? No, it's not, no, it's not just the clock tower. Because I thought I was going to be smart and say I thought exactly that's it. The horrible thing about that Qi stuff is that they doubt people, you know, what people really think is true that really isn't, but. I filmed at the Bell Foundry, where I made Bell White Chapel, it's in White Chapel, the fantastic EXT place, one of the greatest in ancient times, but they can't stand the guy who tunes the bells there, they can't stand to listen to him, it's not , it is not. in tune, not arena, lots of MPs talking oh yeah about Steven Green and oh wow obviously now it used to be that assembly, I think in Parliament Square it wasn't legal but as the anti-Iraq war guy has been here for so long time, they've kind of broken the pr I think so Mark Thomas Mark Thomas does a lot of things about it well, it's good for, I mean, it's good for democracy to have people protesting, it doesn't matter, I always hated that opinion that people have of that you wouldn't be able to do this. in Iran you know as if eliminating your right is an abuse of it, well, the point is that it is like the very fact that I am allowed to say the means by which I should keep silent, I mean, it is strange, that building the houses of P fairy tale, yes they are extraordinary ARs, just wonderful, it's a shame what happens inside, yes that's the only slight.

I made a fool of myself talking about politicians. I probably did it once, but I was trying to say look, let's not look. ourselves, you know, and I and everyone now thought I was speaking on behalf of MPS. I have no little sympathy for them really and I don't think they have any particular regrets. I don't think they're Sorry, I just think they're the damn news that all of this has been exposed. On the other hand, you know, the day when Dawns I find myself even slightly agreeing with a Wham is somewhat unusual, but you know, she said well what kind of MPS they do.

We want you to know that yes, the system is ridiculous, but you know that you will not be elected. Let's say you want to be a Labor MP because I know a constituency in Northland. Well, you won't get elected unless you live in the constituency. you will not be selected no, you know, the first question they ask you is if you live in the electoral district. Are you going to live in the electoral district? Yes I live here. Well, okay, you're in North Umland and you have to come. Here, yes, then you need to live a little.

I mean, should they have bed and breakfast? Yeah, uh, I mean, do we want to humiliate them into having the cheapest REM possible? I mean, that will make us feel better. What we want our politicians and legislators to be is crazy because we will have shitty people, yes, or we already have shitty people, but they will be even worse, so you know, we have to decide if it should be a good... paying job , you really should be Run Country, it should be well paid enough for someone to have a place to live in London and their constituency, if their constituency is in London then obviously they don't need it, but the problem is a Un little bit of a means test, which was one of the enemies of the working class for 100 years, was the most pernicious and horrible thing.

Now let's start testing our MP so that those who can afford it don't. get a subsidy and the poor will do it and that's yeah, okay, well, that's if that's what you want, but yeah, but just kind of an attack on God, they're all, they all have their pigs in the trough , everything is disgusting, well, yes. I mean, I have no sympathy, actually I have very little sympathy for most of those who have done stupid things and, apart from everything, just their stupidity, their public relations, their lack of public relations. Wisdom to think they could have Duck Islands and Mysteria and yes, those. that's wrong it's so outrageous oh for god's sake wouldn't it be great if the people running our country were honest, intelligent, authoritative, articulate, open minded, interested, curious, wonderful, well we'll never get them because Nobody with those qualities is going to say, come closer, look at what the press does to you, look at what the public thinks about you and then you know that you make a joke and they say oh yes oh you made some joke that shows that it is not very serious and I respond oh god I have such a dull ass I just don't say anything that might offend as a joke so at least I'm not in Doncaster oh the people of Doncaster are few oh but it's not that in a sense that's the way you can prove it and no I want to mention Twitter, you can do it, we only mentioned it once, but no, but I have the feeling that if I say something casually, that person accidentally offends someone and I feel terrible because I don't want to offend anyone, but on the other hand, you know that I'm a real person like someone in a pub and I think Twitter is not exactly like people in a pub, but you.

I know that the kind of openness and ability of friends to chat can't be that bad of an idea, but suddenly it's that kind of greasy thing where people say, well, no, what I'm saying is can they say that, That shows a lack of judgment. Does B show a lack of judgment? That's just nonsense. In that case, the church didn't have any judgment at all because he could be very rude and say things that weren't, you know, we should say, um rude, yeah, uh, but uh, yeah, this idea that, therefore, yes you can. Making a joke about someone's hair color means you're the kind of person who can't be trusted to handle the economy well.

I mean, for God's sake, if you can't make jokes, you're not the person you know. The wisest saying I know is that of someone who has no sense of humor. A sense of humor means that he has no sense of humor and with that I want to impute his seriousness, you know it well, you cannot adopt an honest and serious vision of the world without a sense of humor a sense is part of who sees how things are and it's no coincidence that people like Churchill and the better kind of people like his humor it's not just it's not just a bit of guilt in the gingerbread It's not like a little spice to let us know that you're not serious and seriousness is not the only necessary tool to get to the truth, yeah, I mean, it's a truly serious person who sees the humor in the world, yeah, yes, and you can always notice it. with the extra, you know Einstein and you know you knew that guy who loved to gag absolutely made you laugh and it's something I quote often, but I like that Chesterton that says angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. right, right and, um, lightness of touch, and that's the point: we simply won't have politicians who are nothing more than dull pencil-pushing bureaucrats, terrified of offending the press, terrified of having guts, connection, openness, you know, a kind of ability to think openly, yes, you know, instead, they have to close the things that they present so as not to make the slightest mistake and I just don't want to be governed by people like that and, I more importantly, the type of people who should be governed. in charge of the country, if he is in charge of the word, but who at least has the right by virtue of his connection with the world, yes, he will be too wise by definition to consider politics, yes, um, and a shame, It is not like this? and you can blame the politicians to some extent, there is no doubt that they have questioned the PCH, you know, they have made Meed The Nest um and you can blame the press for the fact thatthat the press needs sensationalism of this nature now more than ever they need to do it, you know, basically throw all the toys out of the pram at once, damn it's a shame they don't, have you ever had politics about Qi?

I'm trying to remember if I've seen one, no. We have the closest. I don't think he was positive in the slightest. It's very smart of you to go all the way. I thought I'd turn that little one over I have my little one um you have my you have a special card I have my personal call me personal I'm not personal so we can go around the back to the can excellent I have never driven there. They drove me there, but no, not in my own car. Is that so? If that is all. They should open the entrance.

We will show the card if you roll down the window. because you can go through the back, yeah this could literally, here we go there, hello, thank you, this is very for the rideshare viewers, it's very exclusive right now, going through the doors, well, of course, it's Like backstage at the theater, it basically is. The service quarters are much more unpleasant. This is the Glamorous entrance TV, yes, exactly filled with incredible amounts of uh, little things on wheels, prop cage things because if you listened to it now, you might be better connected to me because I was. talking to David Mell about that about the BBC Television Center and whether they're going to keep the studios and what's going to happen because we were excited.

I can't stand the thought of them leaving while you say where we made Red Dwarf and black adds and you know, you shot, you filmed the TC studio stuff one and six were the ones we used, yeah, and he left, we found Lori there and so much , God, it was fun and we did it knowing that 40 trailers I've been down there, yes, exactly, yes, it's terribly sad, it's like a piece of cultural history, it's if your heritage and it just got whipped, there's not much more to it than what you can do with that building, that's what's really sad.

Around the corner here and that's where my entrance is, as it was now. Some people have been asking me if a Prius is dangerous when it's quiet like it is now, because when people were on them and I was in C, you couldn't hear them. coming no, I heard something, I heard something in the United States, there is a congressman who is trying to yes, the synthesized noise of a car that is brilliant, thank you dear, I am very glad it worked. It was a pleasure, sounds like one of the Waltons right in the middle. of a sex operation, oh, would there be people that you had to do with that sound and everything that's here that would be appalled by what I'm doing here because the sound quality of my broadcast is not like that?

We are all shocked by what What are you doing? You should? I think we are presumably breaking the law, do we or not? This is an interesting point.