You may have missed it - I did - but Stephen Fry exposed TV viewers to an avalanche of absolute filth the other day when he was hosting the Baftas.
According to the Telegraph, Fry "saw fit to make a leering reference to 'soluble lubricant'".
The entire nation was clearly appalled by this - whatever it was - the Telegraph reports it "was the talk of corporation veterans at The Oldie’s annual awards at Simpson’s-in-the-Stand, in London."
Luckily they had a reporter there, who told us what Terry Wogan had to say.
“I was actually the second choice to host this event,” joshed Sir Terry Wogan as he addressed the gathering. “But, mercifully, Stephen Fry was unavailable.”
Terry didn't mention the lubricant - it had clearly left a nasty taste in his mouth.
The Telegraph managed to find someone to be disgusted and - oh happy day! - to blame it all on the BBC, Maureen Lipman.
Maureen Lipman blamed Fry’s peculiarly ill-judged performance at the Baftas on the BBC top brass for allowing him too free a rein. “Who
upstairs was checking the scripts?” she asked.
“It’s like everything else at the BBC: someone ought to have taken
responsibility. The lubricant line was ill-judged. It was based on the
mistaken belief that we all know so much about Stephen that we would
find
that funny. It would be like me making jokes about my mother."
Stephen Glover in the Mail Online asked what was on everyone's lips; How can the BBC censor angry Archers fans when it gives Stephen Fry free rein to offend?
How indeed, Mr Glover, how indeed?
Stephen Glover in the Mail Online asked what was on everyone's lips; How can the BBC censor angry Archers fans when it gives Stephen Fry free rein to offend?
How indeed, Mr Glover, how indeed?
Perhaps inevitably the Mail is reminded of "the lewd and cruel prank telephone call made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to the actor Andrew Sachs a few years ago. Senior BBC executives were lamentably slow to grasp the severity of what they had done. It had to be drummed into them first."
"Stephen Fry is yet another, if less egregious, fount of bad taste. During last Sunday’s Baftas ceremony broadcast by the BBC, he made a leering reference to a ‘water-soluble lubricant’ so dear to him."
Ye Gads, sir!
But what in the name of Jupiter could Mr Fry have said that was so appalling that it could not be shared in toto with Mail and Telegraph readers?
I put out a call on Twitter - and thanks to @Jamie_McHale - I can now share it with you, though the better angels of my nature warn me not to.
May I advise readers of a more gentle disposition, and anyone with pets, children or elderly relatives, to look away now...
"I don’t know when I’ve had such fun, certainly not without the aid of a water-soluble lubricant."
Boom boom!
I put out a call on Twitter - and thanks to
May I advise readers of a more gentle disposition, and anyone with pets, children or elderly relatives, to look away now...
"I don’t know when I’ve had such fun, certainly not without the aid of a water-soluble lubricant."
Boom boom!
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I agree with this extremely well-thought-through and in-no-way mental, racist and homophobic comment under the Telegraph piece:
ReplyDeleteFry is very clearly part of the BBCs (and to a lesser extent other broadcasters) mission to heavily promote homosexuality.
Hes the male 'Clare Balding', if you will (the arrogant mincer will probably be offended by that, but - Stephen - its true).
His main credentials which support his contemporary celebrity seem to be:
1) fat
2) homosexual
3) very bitter reagrding the Catholic Church (ie very bitter regarding his sexuality)
4) exceptionally vain and arrogant (see his picture on the BHA website - its about 30 years younger and 15 stone lighter than he is now).
20-odd years ago, he was a decent bit-part actor in comedies. Hanging onto the coat tails of Hugh Laurie, (Jeeves and Wooster), and Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder).
That both Atkinson and Lauries careers went into the Stratosphere - including conquering America - must absolutely sicken him.
He personally has done nothing since and has simply become one of the many "rent-a-" presenters which the BBC use to promote their social agenda.
Clare Balding (also gay) and Alesha Dixon (Black) are similar, in that they are largely not given roles based on their knowledge or experience, but based on the BBC wanting to promote who they are.
Eg:
Fry:
Comedy actor
Taxi driver around america
Quiz presenter
Balding
Chat show host
Horse racing expert
Sports tv presenter
Dixon
Pop star
TV presenter
Ballroom dance expert
Showbiz industry guru
You can see that their various roles have nothing in common and they are only being appointed to promote a social demographic.
Baldings list is the most credible, as at least she has the common theme of sport running through it all.
(I tend to think Balding is the one most deserving of any success, as I get the impression she does put effort in, the other two seem to expect everything to land in their lap.)
Fry and Dixons lists are ridiculous though.
I kept expecting Alesha Dixon to turn up as the leader of the SEAL team which killed Osama Bin laden, or the director of the Higgs Boson research.
After all, as the BBC have rightly identified, as a young, attractive black woman, there is - obviously - literally nothing she cannot do, no matter how far removed it is from her career so far.
He's missed Bruce Forsyth, whose bafflingly varied career of shows about dancing, shows about playing cards and shows about remembering shit on a moving conveyer belt are clearly the result of a concerted 50 year effort to promote the agenda of fugly and boring big-chinned white dudes.
For shame, BBC! For shame!!!
Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteAt least someone else can see through "Auntie Beeb"s lies!!!
Fry was dreadful at the BAFTAs. His jokes were inane, fawning and pretentious.
ReplyDeleteHe pretends to be intelligent especially on QI and gives the answers as if he has know them all along or had researched them himself.
The BAFTAs were the same. Surely we are deserving of a show and a presenter more agile and challenging. He ambled through the whole awards programme like a pensioner with a Zimmer frame (apologies to older readers).
How come the Oscars get Gervais and we get Pope Stephen I?
Loved his lecture the other week (on QI, I think) about how people who go into a shop and ask for Rizlas have got it all wrong. They should be asking for Riz Lacroix, apparently, because it's rice paper made originally by the French Lacroix family.
ReplyDeleteTried it out on Mr Patel in the shop across the road ("A packet of long blue Riz Lacroix, my good man", in a Fry-ish voice) and he just stared.