The BEST Stephen Fry Moments! | The Graham Norton Show

Stephen Fry, you could have been the hot priest because, is that true? You seriously went to a meeting about becoming a priest, yes, when I was a teenager. You know that I loved the church very much, I love the music, I love the liturgy, no. a catholic priest an anglican priest of course i lived in the country beautiful architecture um wonderful music everything i liked the clothes um i knew i could give fantastic sermons yes um so they sent me to see a bishop the bishop of lynn the african bishop of glen who He decided that I would be a wonderful priest if there wasn't one small problem and that was that I didn't believe in God in everything else, so I failed at the last moment.

I love that I've come this far, yes, you. I have a meeting with a bishop, yes, no one had asked you about the Jesus thing, yes, yes, well, and I still do. I mean, you know, I love, I love church music and, and, I love the buildings, I love everything about it, I just can't take the whole story seriously, well, I know, I just take it seriously, but I don't, um, yeah, this is the final jump, yeah, there's probably a lot of vickers watching, yeah, look at my house, look at Stephen, right? now, since you were one of the first people on Twitter, you really learned it, but now you have a kind of love-hate thing.

Do they love you now or often? Oh yeah, I'm in this, I've been in this for so many years still, I guess the difference is now I don't really get that involved, you just can't, so if you think of it as a notice, you put it on the message board. ads and then run away before looking at anyone. read it so that you don't understand it is what the comments are cruelty I am very sensitive it is pathetic after all these years that I am but I compare it to a swimming pool people always tell me oh but 99 of all the comments you receive are very Friendly and kind, like yeah, but if you said 99 percent of the pool was clear, there was just a little turd in the corner, I still wouldn't get into the pool, unfortunately for me it just ruins it. the harry potter audiobooks, oh lord, no, yes, well, I mean, I love doing the harry potter books and how many hours of harry potter have you done in total.

I can't remember that there are seven books, right? They are a lot and it got longer and longer each time, yes, from the first onwards and uh, Joe Rowling was very convinced from the beginning that they should not be condensed or abbreviated, they absolutely had to be, she should write them down because she thought right then, I think a lot of the children read them with their fingers, you know, they listened to them instead of following the text with their fingers and that was a good way to reinforce the reading between other things, so the third one I think was called the prisoner of Azkaban.

There just so happened to be a three-word phrase that for some reason couldn't come out of my mouth properly. It was Harry Pocket, right? I still can't say it, harry put it in his pocket, harry potter and I was when I was there for about 10 minutes, Harry Potter, the engineer was laughing, everyone was laughing, uh, I said look, we'll park, I'll try to figure it out at daytime. lunch, now at lunch time I called Joe running because she was not in the studio. and I said, would it be okay if instead of saying harry put it in his pocket, I could say harry put it in his pocket, which I can easily say and she could almost hear her smile and she said no and not just that in the next four? harry potter books made sure the phrase harry potter was now talking about children's favorites harry potter audiobooks how many hours of harry potter did you have to read over a hundred didn't you, of course, when it started, my agent ?

She called me and told me that there was a book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, that's what it's called in England. America's Sorcerer. Obviously, the philosopher's idea is quite terrifying. Anyway, it was a book, so I read it and there it was, there was this guy and apparently him. I was a magician and I met the author whose name is Joe Rowling and she was very kind and we read the book and she said okay, in fact there is another one, there is a second one that I wrote, I said good for you, without realizing it What happened over the years this extraordinary phenomenon flourished there was a and I loved reading them from time to time people said that there was a man who stopped me on the street not long ago and pointed at me he shouted across the street my children They go to bed with you let's not forget your wonderful work in one of the most successful British films of all time that film is the world of spices yes, there you are making your cameo do you have any memories of that day?

It was made at the BBC that's all uh because that's all I can I remember you in the BBC lobby, I think I'm curious because I had nephews and nieces and if I hadn't done it they would have killed me exactly, I was able to get their autographs, that's how big they were in that period when they were biggest. that anything on the planet exactly and I remember victoria beckham came up no beckham she wasn't then victoria whatever she was then adam adams I think she read one of my novels she said you wrote a book called the hippopotamus and I I just felt enough, I just thought what a smart, elegant woman, whatever you think, not these Spice Girls, I think they have something and I actually remember the Prince of Wales, he was before Wikipedia, so how would I have looked him up but um? there was a special

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for the 50th birthday of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, and they were in it and I was, I was watching it or whatever, I was presenting it and there was programming afterwards and they were, I mean, they didn't care , that was all girl power, you know, and Prince William, wonderful, charming, thank you very much, and he came up to them and the first thing Emma Bunting said to him, yes, she said, she said, oh sir, sir, hello.

Sir Sir, do you have a Prince Albert? and she said, I mean his great-great-grandson, yes, no, does he have one? She said, well, he was Queen Victoria's husband, no, but he looked at me completely bewildered and didn't know. which was a prince albert, so I had to say, well sir, it's a piece of intimate jewelry, so what do you mean? I said no further south of Prince Albert and said, "Oh my God, he had to lie down, but I admired him." courage, so to speak, you know, an Australian would also say it, you also know, it's to break the ice, yes, ask him, I think we have a photo of the moment he met them, there it is, well, that's me at background, yes, everyone seems very distracted by jerry mr just pointing at her with absolute determination, he actually told me that i don't think it's okay to repeat this, but prince willis once told me that the

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advice his father had ever given him, he He said when uh, when you're taking a photograph and you're doing a lineup and there are women, you always look only in their eyes, don't let your eyes fall even for a second to their chest because that's when the photograph continues and if you look, he is not looking down on the rest of us, even ask the gay guy, he looks very smart during Hamlet there was a guy who picked up his laptop, not his phone, his laptop started sending emails, do you know that story about John Gielgud, who was rehearsing? with someone and they paused he said oh no you should never pause in the West End never pause and they said why not he said I paused once and I thought it would be a wonderful silence and it was filled with a voice in the last row that says oh beast, you have reached my umbrella, can you quickly tell people the story of Christmas?

Oh well, which is amazing. I once did a schedule for a

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and there was a real family. presence and um the prince of Wales said um apparently you live in norfolk, that's right, I said well, I have a place that's not far from Sandringham, in fact, it was where the royal family had a house, he said, oh wonderful. You said you should come visit me for Christmas. You said they'd love it. I loved. Lovely idea of ​​course, I thought it was more about that. And that Christmas I had a real house full of friends, about 14 people, all together.

I'm a very early riser, I'm more of a lark, not an owl, so I was up and I was making eggs Benedict, I remember it clearly and the hollandaise sauce is very, you know, you have to concentrate, you get the melted butter. in the egg yolk you have to make a very fine and constant flow, the phone rang so can someone answer that please, someone without, there are all 14 people showering fucking whatever they were doing and no one did it. Sorry, oh, I picked up the phone, yeah. Can I speak to Stephen Fry please? I said yes, this is him and he said Mrs.

Prince of Wales here and it's up to my brain. A small part of my brain sent a signal to say "Oh, off Rory", another part because you always know when it's someone. real another part just got over it and said oh hello sir he said I was wondering if you would take him up on that offer of tea I said well that would be wonderful when would you like whenever it's convenient for you he said well what about new year's day? I said, well, that would be nice, so I hung up the phone and thought okay.

I went into the hallway and yelled a little like Rick at the youth house meeting. They all appeared at the top of the stairs and I said, "The prince." from Wales comes to have tea and then everyone was like, "Oh my God," and then this fantastic site came up, um, which I could have photographed, I should have, from all over the world, your truck vacuuming the carpet, so we're all doing. tea or getting ready everything is the fire burning everything is completely ready and we are all looking through the curtains like pathetic children so all these cars go by and finally two cars creak everyone is gone except me so the doorbell rings and I think I must act calmly, so Otherwise you'll think I'm not really cool, so I count to 15 and the bell rings again, I open it and he says, "Hi, I hope you don't mind, I brought my wife and there's Princess Diana." comes out into the shadows who is hello

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hello and everyone comes down um and we have this tea party and it's fantastic and she's wearing cowboy boots which look great on him he's not wearing car boots which looks great on him everything is going fantastic all the world is having a great time um and then they leave and he says thank you and they all say goodbye and she stops at the door and says I'm sorry we're leaving but I'm so glad we're going early because tonight is being the same image and me.

I'm going to watch it in my room, they hate it, of course, but I love it when I'm in America. I have a tesla and it drives itself so it has an autonomous mode so it's great that you have friends and can scare in daylight. to get out of them while on the highway and then you know they don't see you, you just pull the stick back three times to go into automatic driving and then you think you know, look at the book and they're going to keep your eyes on the road no, it doesn't bother me and he drives himself, another one you can also do, a good trick is, uh, if someone, if your passenger falls asleep, which I hate because you have to drive, there's no one to talk to me, I wait until They start to wake up again and I close my left eye.

Luckily, it's perfectly safe, but absolutely you.