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A tribute to Stephen Fry one of the good forces of this world. If you happen not to know him, toddle of and research him! He is the quiz-master of “QI”. He is an actor, he hase played in films like “Wilde” and “V for vendetta”. He is also in a wonderful series called “Jeeves and Wooster” with Hugh Laurie. He also collaborated with Hugh Laurie in “a bit of fry and Laurie” it is a hilarious show consisting of various sketches. Stephen is also fronting gay rights and he has made various documentaries. He is smart and funny, kind hearted and he wealds language like a weapon. And on top of all of this he also wrote one of the best books I have read in a long time, “Making History”. It is seriously good. Read it. Short summary, time travel is invented to stop Hitler from being born. A parallel world (or something like that) is created.How did the Nazi party manage without Hitler? And there will be a pairing, just saying ;DThis is a pencil drawing, nothing fancy. I haven’t got a scanner so I had to move around a little on the lightening and contrast in Photoshop to compensate. But this is very close to what the actual drawing looks like.
Stephens letter to Dvid Cameron, concerning russian anti-gay laws: www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/08/07/…
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(already in my favourites) i love Stephen Fry & your portrait's wonderful!
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Thank you 
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Thank's! You are very good at complimenting me
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Did I sound flattering? It is not my character!
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Than perhaps it is I that am good at twisting the insults of others in to compliments ...
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Your detail is amazing! So life-like...I can hear him now....
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Audiologically. "B-A-A-A-wah~!"
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There was one show called "The Thin Blue Line" & he had a very funny cameo in that one...But yes, rather similar..
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Ah just looked it up, seems interesting Rowan Atkinson and Ben Elton tends to be a good combination, also I remember seeing some funny stage sketches with Rowan as a police officer for example in fundamental frolics where he appeared along side Rik and Ade. If it's anything like that it seems like it's worth a watch.
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"The Thin Blue Line" has some moments, Ben Elton wanted to create a "Dad's Army" type of show, or try to create that sort of an ensemble "workplace" sitcom... at any rate... Elton claims "Dad's Army" as one of his favorites (I thought that was kind of weird), however I see it's merits as a classic comedy. Amusing at times, great veteran cast... not the sort of thing one can easily duplicate & have catch on.
For my money, the funniest moment of the series was stolen by Stephen Fry's cameo as Scots Campground leader. The police force tries to break up London's rave/drug culture by raiding "house" parties. The Force tries to take local hoodies on a wholesome camping trip! Won't tell you anymore, as you may see it yourself one day!
One of the funnier episodes was a Christmas-themed one where Ben Elton plays a blissfully whacked-out hippie!
Fundamental Frolics(?) I have not heard of this! Something else I need to see!Thanks for the tip! See? We can benefit from this great info/exchange!
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I've never really seen dads army apart form bits and pieces on on telly when I've been in England, never saw the comedy in it though it's referenced continuously. It's a bit to straight for me ... it's not wacky weird of surreal just seems like a very general in the middle of the road sitcom. It's a bit like Norways most famous sitcom-classic, I don't get it and have no relationship to it, though the nations in general seems to treasure it.
Ben Elton as a whacked-out hippie sounds hilarious! Reminds me of a character he played in his very early sketch work with Stephen, Hugh and Emma. Good days...
Fundamental Frolics was a live stage show, Rik and Ade weren't really famous at the time, the were the newbies invited on for variation, or so it seems. This was as Twentieth century Coyote.
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Yes, it is.... At the time when that was made there was a wave of Nostalgia that seemed to prevail England & America. The turbulence of the 1960's ( and indeed events leading up to it) made everyone a trifle weary & a huge nostalgia kick was underway & people were embracing all things 1920's/30's & even the WW2 years! That was part of the appeal along with some humor being generated by that British class distinction between the Captain (Mainwaring) & his Sergeant (Wilson). The Captain was miffed that he was shown up by his Sergeant who was better placed socially & better-liked generally. The Captain seemed to have an inferiority complex & just about everyone else shows him up. (However, it really never made me laugh out loud & took a long time before I could get into any of it. Apparently, the producers got tons of letters from real-life citizens who lived through that war time blitz & the real-life stories they had sent in were too unbelievable & wild to work into any show. A case of truth being more interesting than fiction!)
Anyway, that dynamic is in league with Jeeves & Wooster and indeed "Cabin Pressure". Benedict Cumberbatch is the captain but no one believes it because he is so ridiculously young & Co-pilot Douglas is the older, wiser sage & manages to manipulate the situations from behind the scenes & generally works things to his advantage. It's much the same device, imagine Jeeves & Wooster piloting a plane!
So what is Norway's classic sitcom? Is it a reworking of The Men From The Ministry?
Fundamental Frolics? Was John Cleese in that show? Hmmm.
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Jeeves and Wooster piloting a plane sounds a recipe for comedy and hilarity!(All though be it with the feel of a forced Hollywood re-make.) I might watch it in future it's nice to have a fuller understanding of cultural history and if nothing else something against which one can judge other works. Though I feel it will provide me with more than that as it will no doubt be entertaining once I get into it.
It appears it is called "Fleksnes Fataliter" in English, can't say I know to much about it, it was written by two Brits, or so I hear, apparently they couldn't get a deal with the BBC so they moved to a place with lower standards ... Not that we can't make comedy, we did ... once ... in 1979 when the python wave hit our nation it generated some good stuff. This show is from 72 though and I haven't really seen much of it as I grew up without telly.
Fundamental Frolics is not with John Cleese, just Rik, Ade and The guys from Not the Nine O'clock News. Th think Cleese was in "The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball and that's with Ade and Stephen as well, I might be getting it confused with Hysteria 3 though ... No matter, Ade appeared John Cleese in "The Last Supper" he also did some stuff with Robbie Coltrane and Dawn and Jennifer were there as well. Can't remember what Stephen did, I just feel he must have been in there somewhere ...
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"Cabin Pressure" is a radio sitcom, it ended last year after an 8 year run, I think. To be sure, it is going to live in reruns (BBC radio 04 extra) with the popularity of Benedict Cumberbatch.... It already has a strong following!
You know... I do remember seeing a comedy from Norway when I was a child. My Grandmother tuned in to see what it was about, but quickly changed the channel in disgust. The clip I recall, showed a skier trying to walk up stairs in his skies... Have no idea what it was all about, just my Grandmother; "Oh; God!" Click!
You are probably right, I recall seeing Cleese do something onstage with Rowan Atkinson as well, & I was surprised they had worked together..
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Benedict Cumber Batch is so ridiculously famous that even though I like him I don't feel like I have to know all his work or obsess over him because somebody somewhere has got it covered. Not entirely logical, but then it doesn't always have to be.
I don't know what that might have been, sounds a bit like sketch comedy, we've got quite a lot of that. Could also be a sitcom or something like that, for me there really only is one Norwegian comedy worth seeing. It's a late 70's show and it's like a delicious mixture of Monty Python, The Young Ones and Doctor Who, lots of weird linguistic comedy and quint humours camera work, the first show hasn't got time travel but just some explorers paddling down an hither too unexplored urban river on the search for a missing professor and woven in to the plot are these weird unconnected sketches and pieces of magic realism. Great stuff, I'm used to watch it as a kid and now I'm re watching it, and it just gets better!
Charity tends to bring on some weird combination, Hysteria three has got a sketch with Rowan Atkinson and Elton John ...
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I know what you mean, "Cabin Pressure" is a very good comedy, & the fact that he still is loyal to the medium of radio says something. He does read a lot of books on BBC. They are doing one this week, don't recall what it was...something about a man morphing ing into an insect!
That sounds interesting~!
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Fascinating, I remember stumbling up n some none, Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories read by him a while back, some of them were really actually quite good in one a man had ben shot and it turned out he did it himself as a bullet he fired ricochet off a passing train ...
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Oh the irony! Love that... many USA radio shows from the 1940/50s were like that... "The Whistler" is one I really enjoy.. The endings are so strange & have such unexpected twists, I wonder how they kept coming up with so many of them for so long! (Pulp fiction writers!)
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Unexpected twists like that are fun, but what makes them even more fun in Sherlock Holmes is that you are given enough information to stitch it together before it happens so the unexpected can be expected. You know what, I have never seen Pulp Fiction, I saw about two seconds of it last week, I'm a bit of a nerd about post modernism, mainly due to my love of shows like The Young Ones and Filthy, Rich and Catflap, so I feel like I sort of have to. It's just that I almost never watch film, binging TV is not a problem, but films are just to long! Well I spotted it on Netflix and thought that this was the time to face my fears I clicked it remembered it was american and freaked out. I try to stay clear of american television, I just can't stand the accents, sometimes it's ok, but some Americans just sound SO american and I can't watch that for long amounts of time. Also it messes with my accent, as English is my second language I get influenced by accents quite easily, after watching Irish for example TV I can't articulate anything for a couple of days ...
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I do understand what you say; I am much the same really, Some films are just too long & life is too short to waste on overly long crap... I feel like there is always something else I have to do --or rather do! Perhaps that is why I prefer the old radio dramas & comedy...
Oh-- ! I see-- "Pulp Fiction" the movie!
The "Pulp Fiction" I was referring to, were the "hack"writers of the 1930's & 40's who turned out stories by the dozens--- thousands of words done in a day or two & appearing in weekly detective magazines or the pulp dime-novels. They usually battered typewriters & chain-smoked & drank rotgut whisky. Now; that "deadline" approach of "quantity" over "quality" can either bring out the best in something or be a recipe for disaster! Fortunately, those folks usually knew what they were doing & either lived or died for their "art". It seems to live on in comic book form in some ways.... linear story-telling is the key!
So in the USA, we had network radio before TV & I think in many ways it was the more creative medium. The stories are often lurid & ironic, and death lurked around every corner!
"Pulp Fiction" (the 1995 film) is fun/dark comedy, not everybody's taste, but it did make movie going (at that time) seem fun again...
I remember going to see it twice in the theaters. I don't happen to like much of Quentin Tarantino, as he doesn't seem as credible now. A lot of what he does is borrowed from much older films & most people don't know that & think he's some sort of genius... Over-rated to say the least, anyway... "Pulp" sort of borrowed from the old formula of having 4 or 5 plot lines cross & re-cross through time. Not until you see the entire show, you put everything together. So yes, like Sherlock or any good mystery ---the puzzle pieces are there.
However, it's fun to watch just like "The Singing Detective". That was a BBC mini-series from 1986 or 87. It was one of the most amazing shows done for Television--- or anywhere. I understand it was run in theaters after it aired on TV. Have you see "The Singing Detective"? It was written by Dennis Potter. The humor in it is full of anger & from a very dark place. I think you'd enjoy it.
What accents are you hearing on American TV? 
I record voice-overs, so I think it's why I like radio/voice acting over watching a film or TV. I can tell if someone's voice is from Canada, Texas, or the eastern sea-board..... The Midwest or deep south.
Don't get me started on what the urban Ebonics have done to the lingo! Sheet!
The ones I do find a bit hard to take are the Brooklyn/Bronx types. I also love to make fun of people from the East coast, like Boston (Baby-tawk) or New England, where they cannot pronounce their "R"'s...("ahhhs") Some British accents are very soft of their "R"s too. Not sure why. Cockney types drop the "H", etc. The Swedish pronounce their "J"'s like we say our "Y''s. (whys/wise) U C ? (You see?
Life would be really intolerable if we were all the same.
Well, you write & communicate everything so well; & that's what's important.. I forgot what I was even going to say...
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I assumed you didn't actually talk about the film "Pulp Fiction", that would have been weird as it's a 90's film ... But you're right that's what I was talking about as it popped to mind.
It's interesting how some people can your turn out text, just sit down and write. I have to plan everything I writhe so thoroughly and rewrite it a dozen times before it becomes feasible, but if I'm in a very stressed situation where I HAVE to produce, like an exam, I just do it. I can't get the same quality, but I get it done. I admire people who can write like that all the time, I'm an endless procrastinator. A bit like Jennifer Sanders if you're familiar with her writing process.
Radio as a medium creates some really extraordinary effects. As these conversation tend so spin around comedy it is also worth noting that what inspired the comedy of Python and also Rik and Ade was the weird radio comedy world of "The Goon Show".
As for the question of overrating, I think anyone describing a work as original is naturally mistaken, it all comes from somewhere, creativity is a long historic collaboration.
"Have you seen "The Singing Detective"?" Is that not a chat-up line used by Richie? Anyway, I haven't really seen it, but I have seen it. What I mean to say is that I've seen bits of it, quite substantial bits, but not enough to understand what it was about, looked good though. I'll definitely watch it properly some day.
What kind of voice-overs do you record? I can't pin the american that's bothering me down to a region, it's not the accent as much as the ideolectical properties of the voice. I don't mind a neutral modest american accent what really bugs me in that bold rounded american accent, maybe more west coast? I can't stand the "æ" sound and the big round r's I myself cant pronounce "R"'s like that ... I tried to watch and episode of Bones the other day as Stephen features in it and the main character there, Bones, I understand she is supposed to seem clever, but her accent just sounds some mind numbingly stupid, particularly next to Stephen. I have a problem with Brits speaking american as well, though I want to I just cannot watch House, Hugh's accent upsets me. I guess the main problem is that as I watch so much British television I notice the american more.
What's interesting is that the British used to pronounce the "R"'s to, particularly in the working classes. When they migrated to the US they took that with them and then the "R" disappeared in England, I think it was due to people mimicking the upper classes to sound posh and clever. Bill Bryson writes about this, but I can't remember where. In Norway we have rolling "R's" forgivers often can't do that, it is how you spot English men
like "Y"'s so my name is pronounced Kaya.
Thank's I try, mind you when I read things back outer posting I see my syntax is miles off, hope it doesn't lead to problems
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Superb. Brilliant expression, brilliantly captured.
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It looks just like Stephen Fry! Fantastic work!!
(P.S. I absolutely love Jeeves and Wooster - you have a fantastic taste in television programmes 
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Thank you, I'm very proud of my taste in TV programmes, oh and thank you for the compliment.
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