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"I know you think you're doing a voice, but that is how you talk" is a good bit to end on
Trump
I couldn't help thinking "That's you, that is".
Jimmy Carr seems somehow a bit creepy and I won't be terribly surprised if he someday gets arrested for exposing himself to an 8 year old. BUT, he's brilliant, amazingly quick with quips and very funny. Always feel vaguely guilty, but greatly enjoy watching him...
As an Australian, his aussie accent is by far the best I've ever heard a non-Australian speak. Sounds so natural.
hi mynameis have you seen A bit of fry and Laurie, they do a sketch in the style of neighbours, absolutely spot on x)
@@eta2670 yes! I saw that shortly after this, was absolutely brilliant!
@Paul Reeves sounds like you must have your ass stuffed with your own fist.
@@himynameis8448 And he can't even spell vegemite
@Paul Reeves "veggiemight" huh? Yeah, very credbile.
I want to see Stephen's "camp horror," fleshed out in a full movie. I'd bet its brilliant.
When Stephen says something is camp, you know it’s really camp
"Oh, mien handy!" 😄👍
someone should make a camp horror movie with a bunch of gays, starring stephen as the main hero who almost makes it out alive
So he'd be the Last Girl?
Cici Liu why?
Radical Rainbow he gay
His Australian accent is actually pretty spot on, actually
Yuss! That was the BEST Australia accent I have ever heard!
It's a pity they didn't play his Donegal accent.
It's perfectly accurate to the accent that you'd find in & around Donegal Town.
The Donegal accent vastly differs from village to village strangely enough.
it's bang on
It's one of the best I've heard, but there is something about it where he sounds a bit like he's about to vomit or something lol. Growing up as an Aussie wog, I can tell you his European accents are tremendous as well.
Not enough swearing
We Scots usually frown upon English people doing Scots accents. Stephen Fry gets away with it because a) he is scarily accurate, b) all his anecdotes are true, and c) because he is Stephen Fry.
What personally impressed me was the variation he managed.
Same with we Northern Irish!
"We Scots usually frown"
period,
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot What do you do after you've frowned for a period?
@@bingola45 I'm not Scottish.
I'm Jewish.
I kvetch.
Mr Fry is hands down my number one dream dinner guest. What an incredible and fascinating human being.
Your aware hes a diagnosed depressive.
Maybe you would like Sandi Toksvig instead? That's just as exciting, isn't it? I mean....it is, isn't?
.....
Why has it suddenly gone so quiet? C'mon, don't leave me hanging here!
Mine too along with David Attenborough and Barack Obama
That’s the male section I have different guests for the female table 😊
@@huwcarrI would love to get them both at the same party
The chemistry between Stephen Fry and Bill Bailey is just sublime.
Mikaela Bowen Stephen Fry and anyone!
I believe it's because Bill acts as an equal and never deferential to Stephen. He'll quite happily take the piss.
Bruce Karaus Bill is also well read and very talented , both musically and linguistically , and also quite humble .
Bill Bailey has chosen his life. Stephen, it seems, less so. A driven and troubled man. I would not want to live in a world where the had not BOTH made their mark, however.
As well as, between Stephen and Phill Jupitus
he has got a good Australian... not exaggerated, just sounds natural
He sounds like Russel Crowe haha
His Australian accent is so good it's almost criminal.
Sem I really love his voice when he and Hugh Laurie did a skit taking off an Australian soap opera...
But, it’s a specific type of Aussie accent... not all of us have that same accent; but Stephen’s Aussie accents are better than almost anyone else’s from elsewhere.
@@Punnikin1969 you deserve more credit for this
Stephen does do a good Australian accent. Most non-Aussies struggle with it. Goodonya, Stephen!
Stephen has a beautiful way of story telling where everyone in the room just listens
Yes, and an endless supply of them. The man is a treasure.
To be fair he's the host and this is edited. So you tend to listen. But he's even better in other contexts
Aye, my grandfather was a brilliant storyteller too. His accents weren't quite as good as Stephen's but he was no an actor.
"Course you never knew Hitler did you?" That really reminded me of when Grandad said to Del Boy: "You wouldn't remember when I married your grandmother?" haha absolutely amazing
“Mae west’s vibrator” is one of the most under appreciated jokes in QI history
Callum you should get out more mate
@@DestroyerWill Why should he?
@@DestroyerWill The point is surely to keep it in for as long as possible. (I have no experience of this procedure and don't plan on changing now.)
@@DestroyerWill Can't mate, not allowed.
Yep. It’s up there with Sean Lock’s “Free Myra Hindley” joke
The Many Voices of Stephen Fry:
0:15 Camp German
0:29 Camp German hosting the BAFTAs
0:44 Billy Connolly (jojoba)
1:00 Billy Connolly (Benjamin Netanyahu)
1:32 Hungarian grandfather (Peter Gorus)
2:03 Australian Morning Bulletin (“Bully”)
2:48 Brendan Behan
3:21 Camp man in a horror film
4:01 Tommy Cannon
4:22 Diana Mosley
5:05 Winston Churchill
5:28 Welsh (Pakistani)
5:47 Welsh (Northern Europe / Cape Town)
5:59 Welsh (street)
6:25 Northern Irish
6:37 Chewbacca
6:45 Harrison Ford
7:09 Irish gibberish
7:25 Leprechaun
7:29 Liverpudlian teenager
8:00 Modern German Army officer
8:45 Brian Blessed (ohdododododo)
8:55 Billy Connolly (stonner)
9:43 Maggie Smith’s friend’s aunt from Morningside
9:53 “English” Scot
10:20 Billy Connolly
10:34 Vincent Price
11:09 Australian Ansett pilot
11:49 Upper class English man (actually just him)
His Sandi Toksvig impression at 12:10 is pretty spot on if you ask me, even looks like her!
@@Fiadys hahaha brilliant
@@Fiadys can’t believe I fell for that,
Fantastic hahaha
@@danhalbaknielsen1054 HAH
@@Fiadys I very rarely like if ever but you’ve seriously earned mine!
It's quite amazing that when Stephen does his Churchill his face instantly appears to morph into Churchill's as well
How else could he possibly sound like Churchill?
Is it just me who thinks his Churchill sounds a hell of a lot like Ronnie Corbett?
@@spillage9392 Yep. It's just you.
He does, doesn't he?!
@@thesandwich5321 no
Stephen nailing "Laugh it up, fuzzball!" in front of Carrie Fisher is a truly beautiful thing.
Well, she might've said she doesn't mind all the StarWars references but I think she simply just suffered through it each time.
@@DerEchteBold Star Wars not Star Trek
@@kmw4359
Haha, sorry, thanks!
I didn't notice, that happens, you think one and type the other.
They really should come up with more unique names ; )
@@DerEchteBoldhow about a series called “War Trek?” That should help
"I know you think you are doing a voice..." is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.
We must clone this man immediately. For the very sake of future generations, he must live forever
Heh, he reincarnates. He used to be that Oscar Wilde bloke, and before that Diogenes.
I've been saying for years that when we have the technology from Futurama of putting heads in jars, Stephen should be the pilot candidate👌👍
@@pseudonayme7717 you've been saying that for years, lol.
I've been saying that since they put my head in a jar.
This man is a living legend
"Really, I've got to say, Stephen, it's been a bewildering array of Scottish accents." 😂
And *when* is Stephen going to be a guest on QI?!
We need to start a petition or something on twitter and tag Stephen
Never
I don't think he'd be that fun as a guest. He's too smart.
King Bumi he is very smart but he is one of the funniest and charismatic comics there is
@KingBumi Stephen vs Sandi special
I would watch the hell out of Stephen Fry in a camp horror movie.
"Oh! Oh! You've given me quite a start!"
@@strangemobius "Oh, mein Handy! Mien Handy! Wo ist mien Handy?"
Robert B that's my absolute favourite bit!
I just woke up my partner because I couldn’t help laughing at that point, headphones can’t help you there! ;)
He was recently in Dr Who as a Mi5 Spy-Master
The Hungarian grandfather's pronunciation is probably a lot closer to the original Greek pronunciation than the way it's pronounced in English 🤭
Oh, Pythagoras! For a moment I thought you meant Pineapple Upside Down Cake and was very confused by the reference to original Greek... 😊
@@decodolly1535 Ahh that's it.
Fry does slip up in saying "up-shee-day" where the Hungarian pronunciation would be "oop-shee-day"
Stephen Fry's impressions are actually scarily good. His Billy Connolly is great
News out of Israel is pretty heavy atm, even by their standards, yet I still can’t get Stephen saying “Benjamin Netanyahu” in the voice of Billy Connolly out of my mind whenever he appears.
What does Israel have to with this?
I love the way Stevens geusts listen so enthusiastically with huge smiles in eager anticipation of his next ridiculously humorous and intelligent ramblings, he is such a joy. We love you Mr Fry.
I remember listening to Peter Ustinov with the same eagerness. His deliveries were the same, simple and so funny. I'd have both as guests at my imaginary dinner party 😆
I just lost it in the middle of the night at the pseudo-Hungarian pronunciation of 'pinapple upside-down cake' XD
It's almost perfect how he sais it :D
Yeah, but to be honest, I wasn't sold on him not getting Pythagoras from Pitagorasz...
@@khymaaren Really? Remember you're talking about child Stephen who had never heard of Pythagoras before. As hard as it is to Imagine Stephen Fry ever being a child, he did not spring fully formed from his mother's mind covered in tweed. I think his grandpa died when he was around 11 so this anecdote must be from some point before then.
"Arise, Sir Stephen !" is a phrase that is long overdue.
It's a nailed-on cert, Baz. And he's a pal of Prince Charles, which can only help
That's what Eliot whispers to him every night
I surely hope the UK realizes what a national treasure they have in Stephen Fry.
Most do
It sad he left QI
We do!
We sooo do, and want to see him back as a guest! ...Sandi was at least 6 times! ...see the one with her and Trevor Noah! Class!
It is well known and firmly established, in my experience. Quite honestly, I've heard that exact phrase repeated in multiple conversations when his name comes up.
The only other living figure who is equally universally recognized as a "national treasure" seems to be David Attenborough.
Stephen Fry is the most spectacularly fascinating human being on planet earth. Love him
as an irish man i can safely say that the irish accent he did was spot on perfect
It is the Irish accent us Irish people use when we are doing an exaggerated Irish accent.
anon ymous there are many Irish accents
samderrida correct when I worked it out recently I would say it’s around the 75 mark which sounds a lot but not when you think each county has its own unique one , double that depending what part you’re from so 64 , had 6 for each of the three main cities ( Dublin , cork and Belfast ) and it’s different sides then add in some for the Aran islands off Galway and there you have it . Even in the Irish family I’ve got still there they all have different ones because they aren’t all from the same area or county for that matter some in Dublin , some in cork , one in limerick but originally from Kildare , and the rest down in Tipperary so vastly different just within my relatives .
Bollox
Brendan Behan had a strong working-class Dublin accent, nothing like that one. But his Belfast accent was brilliant.
Stephen's Australian impression/accent is one of the best I've ever heard. It's also clearly something he has actively refined as it sounds more accurate than the Australia Soap Opera sketch he did with Hugh.
- An Australian
I find that most Brits can't come very close to a standard American accent (say, vaguely Midwestern), but if they are good at accents they can manage New York and the deep south. I always found that curious and inexplicable.
I struggle with all accents. And, for the life of me, i still have a hard time distinguishing Australian from New Zealand, something every Australian and New Zealander I've ever met finds utterly absurd.
But my countrymen are notoriously bad with accent recognition, much less imtiation. So that's my excuse.
- formerly an American expat in London
@@ems7623 They can't do a NYC accent; they think they can, but they can't.
BENJAMIN
NETAN
YAHUUUUUUUUU
It is a fake name his real name is polish: Miliekoesky
VeryOldEngine WHATS THAT ABOUT?
FOR FUCK SAKE!
@@palestinevideos2025 So?
@@palestinevideos2025 hail Palestine
@@palestinevideos2025 not relevant
I always feel like Stephen Fry gets a giddy thrill out of doing a camp accent. Slightly guilty but enjoys it.
I'm not a horror film fan, but I would go see Stephen's version of a camp horror film.
@@tygrkhat4087 Ditto.
Stephen Fry is gay but speaks less camp than David Walliams (who is straight)
I do miss Stephen. A wonderfully jolly chap when presenting, brings an inordinate amount of joy into my life.
I miss him on QI. "Ooh you gave me a start" 😂
4:50 LOL,. "Makes you proud to be British!" lol :D
Kris A makes you respect Churchill that much more.
Such a great man 🤣❤
It really does show Churchill in the way we like to remember him.
Completely unfazed by one of his mp's getting caught buggering a guard.
More interested in the weather.
Is there anything more British than that?
Stephen Fry doing an Australian accent genuinely sounds so much like my (rural Melbourne) grandfather - it gave me a hell of a shock. Like, he's not just close to "old Australian country man", he's bang on.
I think "Brian Blessed is not kosher!" may be my favorite out of context QI quote.
This man is beyond a national treasure
Global treasure!
We love him to death down here in Australia too.
That's a pretty spot-on Australian accent. It's quite specific though, and not all that common in more urban areas. We don't really have regional accents in Australia. You can't generally tell the difference between people from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, etc. despite the vast distances between them. It's more city vs. country in Australia. The accent Stephen's used here is kind of a weird mix of rural + cultivated, but also incredibly accurate. He sounds like an outback newsreader. It's the kind of accent you'd hear if you were listening to news radio on a road trip from Broken Hill to Wagga Wagga.
Stephen’s Vincent Price voice made me die laughing!!!🤣🤣🤣
Stephen constantly fiddles with things in front of him - glasses, QI cards etc
His imitation of Vincent Price is spot on!
I had no idea he was such a good impressionist. Seeing them back to back was a bit of a revelation.
The "pineapple upside-down cake" part was impressive
peen-ople-opschi-de-dovne-soka
When he does the wheezy voices looool -
ps: his young Maggie Smith is actually very accurate
as an australian, stephen's australian accent is surprisingly good, most people can't do an australian accent at all but stephen's is crazy good
"Otherwise it's ball of religion" Hahahaaa gotta love Alan
Every six months or so, I watch this again. Pure genius.
Stephen's Aussie accent is so soothing. It sounds the way the voices in my childhood did.
“Hello and welcome to the BAFTAs,” in his voice is something I think of when I’m having a bad day. Brings me so much joy
That's a damn good Belfast accent - very hard to get right.
...so it is.
I find northern irish easier then most, you just start of quiet and get louder and more angry halfway through the sentence
No matter how much I try I can't get the Northern Irish pronunciation of "now". No idea how to make that sound with the human mouth.
Just sat dead on continually and 12-15 bye’s at the end of a phone call 😂
Welshman here. That welsh accent wasn't bad at all. One of the better impressions I've heard!
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry! LoL
They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is...
What do they say?
of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon iiiiiiiiiisssssss
That there are..... no straight lines!
Oh don’t...... 😂
Everyone....
Theeeeeeeyyyy.....
MAN Stephen does a good Aussie accent, not overdone or exaggerated at all, extremely believable, and that's coming from a native aussie lol
The world is a more funny and entertaining place, because Stephen Fry is in it.
I hope I get the chance to meet the man in person one day.
It is a lovely fluffy wonderful experience, highly recommend.
Andrea Hogan Where did you meet him? I love him so much. Incredible mind beautiful soul.
We almost met him in Oxford on a uni trip, and my teacher actually told us to stalk him as he walked past
I doubt the people he stole money from feel the same.
@@andreahogan3820 I can concur.
Stephens impression of Sandy at the end was his best one!
Apparently he has even more range than Rob Brydon on WILTY.
Now I want to hear Stephen do Ronnie Corbett
Rob Brydon's only talent is accepting to look like a fool, just to have the camera lingering on him.
@@TheZapan99 It's still money though.
@@TheZapan99 At least he has his tiny man in a box voice.
Rob is a comedy accent man, Stephen is an actor accent man
That Churchill story had me in stitches 😂😂😂
His Australian accent is more Australian than many Australians. 👏👏👏
Batcat the pilot was brilliant
Ok, I know this is totally random, but I've never understood those emoticons
- To me they've always looked like baked potatoes with ketchup on top, and now I can't see 'em as anything else. :S
@@zetetick395 You do know they're clapping hands though?
@@zetetick395 what hallucinogens have you been taking?
@@tlaloc6885 As many as I can find, my brother ;D
I actually did get kicked out of a class once because I couldn't stop laughing when the foreign exchange student was looking for his 'handy'. My friends had to drag me out I was laughing too hard.
Our National treasure.
If I could pick one person to have dinner with, it would be Stephen Fry.
Agreed!😊
Yep....me too ☺
I was surprised the Chewbacca one made it in until Harrison Ford in a Stephen Fry costume started speaking
12 divine minutes of Stephen Fry, we must treasure him while he is still with us.
The BEST compilation of the pure bloody GENIUS of Stephen (what a bonzer bloke) Fry
I had to laugh at Stephen doing the Scottish gentleman`s "English" accent 9:52. Tweak it a little, and you`d have Gordon Jackson from Upstairs Downstairs. 😄 His story of Maggie Smith phoning the Scottish lady 9:10 was also charming, as was the Vincent Price 10:32 impersonation. Well done!
Billy Connelly's accent and speaking manners is funny, Stephen Fry impersonating his mannerisms is somehow hilarious.
I had no idea! His ability to prfectly mimic regional and individual Scottish accents is impressive!
Fry's a personal hero of mine. What a remarkable human being!
What a joy to watch. Made me laugh out loud. Love Stephen Fry. He is and always will be a National Treasure. His accents are amazing and I love his wit. What's not to love about him.
The imitation of Vincent Price is uncanny. 😂
Stephen can do better Scottish accents than me, and I'm Scottish.
Same here 😂 he sounds like a natural
@@rossmclaren9886 awe c,mon, i thought he was quite good
@@rossmclaren9886 don't be so sensitive, surely we Scots can take a joke, and I'm a Glaswegian not in a Soho doorway yet
@@rossmclaren9886 It adds a bit of balance to the anti-English shite we get from the Scots all the time. Anyway, are you telling me that Rab C. Nesbitt wasn't a documentary?
@@rossmclaren9886 I'm not going to go through recordings of Scottish comedians to find evidence. That would be hell. However, this is food for thought. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/9737918/Record-number-of-racist-attacks-on-English-in-Scotland.html
Brilliant Stephen Fry. Love him to bits
his aussie accent is the best i've ever heard, (btw and this is coming from an Australian).
met him once; unforgettable.
Stephen Fry’s ties are exquisite… I get wrapped up in his performance and suddenly I notice the tie and smile.
That's the best Australian impression I've ever heard. Good show
That roast from Jimmy Carr at the end was hilarious!
Most impressed with his Australian accent, he and Kenneth Branagh are the best I can think of 🇦🇺
I’ve never heard a foreigner do such an accurate Aussie accent 👍🏼👍🏼
I've often wondered if Australia has yet developed regional accents... I shall have to enquire
Amazing human. I hope generations to come get to know him.
Love the Churchill story & impression - spot on!
Bill Bailey's impressions are hilarious too
I was very impressed with his South African accent. As an Australian, I find it extremely difficult to do that one without sounding like I'm butchering a New Zealand accent.
@@exprime8872 everyone butchers the South African accent (-: What he was trying there was a Afrikaans tainted English, which only applies to about 2% of the population. Much more common (with variations) is English mixed with one of the 11+ African languages which applies to some 45+ million speakers. And no-one tried to speak like this guy ua-cam.com/users/doubleboost . Wow. I have to listen very carefully to make out what he is saying. (Yes, I'm South African and speak just 2 of the 11 official languages).
His accents were so spot on you could forgdt he was English for a second. His Irish accent was scarily accurate.
The BAFTAs, Camp Horror Film and Vincent Price had me rolling on the floor! Absolutely bloomin funneh as LOL 🤣
I've been helping a Vietnamese guy learn English, now for the next level, this.
The difference between Stephens average Aus accent vs the South Aus accent is just on point.
Stephen Fry just makes me smile whatever he’s saying or doing. Such an incredible guy.
“...drink Canada Dry...” 😂😂😂
Two things.......at a Nigara On The Lake performance at the Shaw, Stephen picked me, as an audience member, to make a choice selection in his one man play. Second, one of my high school teachers was vincent Price's cousin.....a strong family resemblance and a spot on voice.
Stephen Fry, what an amazing man. He always surprises me. He is highly intelligent ( before QI ) he has great whit and drama and he also does great accents. To do an Aussie accent is great, Allen does a great Aussie accent as well. But Stephen Fry, one of the best !!
Wit.
Pure genius Mr Fry.Loved this show with him as leader.🤣🤣♥️♥️👍🏴
this man never fails to make me laugh :,)
'Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is exquisite agony to me''....works on GrandKids.
Is that you in the photo at 8:34?
I loved the way Stephen said that line, oh god he is good!
The Australian is SPECTACULAR.
“It was quite good”
*Alan Davis, on the Belfast Titanic Museum.*
"I know you think that you're doing a voice. But, that is how you talk." BRILLIANT !
BEST Aussie accent I’ve ever heard by a foreigner! I’m so impressed!
I adore Sandi's object work at the end. The cup is especially good. She gives it weight and the implication that she's drinking it when i'm sure it's empty and light. :) makes me happy.
I recently bought all the QI boxsets, but no matter how many times I watch this show I love it all the more!
My shopping list just grew
Obviously a BBC staffer.
Obviously one of the great stand ups
The story of the pigs in the river reminds me of my schooldays. During a geography lesson about British steel industry we were told of works in Perthshire by our Scottish teacher (in Birmingham). For homework we had to write an essay on the lesson, so I wrote about the works in Persia which got a sarcastic note asking which part of the UK was in the middle east.