Stephen Fry | Cambridge Union
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2017
- Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter and general national treasure, winning over audiences since he first stepped foot onto the stage in Cambridge in the 1970s. Now he’s back as the President of Mind, a mental health charity.
After speaking on the subject of mental health, Mr Fry will took questions from the audience.
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Could listen to Stephen all day.
He's the kind of fellow i'd love to have a cup of tea with.
Or a pint
I do
Doubtin Thomas - Especially when he does his atheist rants !!
Well he’s not your mate, is he? He’s Stephen Fry
Mr. Fry is one of the most fascinating individuals in the whole world. He really is. What an absolute pleasure it is to listen to him.
Talk about hyperbole. He is not THAT interesting
I veto that reply
As a sufferer of mental illness I'm finding Stephen's discussion of the experience of mental health issues very good. It is real. The blackness that falls down is without the hope of finding a light switch. It's debilitating, immobilising and utterly dreadful because it is so real, and it's something no-one but yourself can feel. If you have never experienced depression it's impossible to create it or understand it. And yes, a sufferer without acceptance and support does lose everything until self-harm and eventually suicide is the only way out. If you don't get the 'relief' of mania - and I say that advisedly because I don't have that experience and can't know what it's like - it's a living nightmare. Thank you Stephen for throwing out a light.
Post script: I am however disappointed that Stephen has chosen to distinguish bipolar disorder from personality disorders, suggesting that somehow the latter is a reflection of who the sufferer is as a person and therefore to my mind arguing that it is their fault. I have BPD and believe me when I attest that it is a devastating condition, with unremitting periods of depression not alleviated by mania. All mental health issues are serious and often life threatening. A sufferer should never be somehow attributed with blame for it. BPD results from a combination of genetic disposition and early environment/experiences. Medication is pretty ineffective for a personality disorder because it involves a disorder of one's thinking which often leads to severe depression and anxiety.
I don't believe that my acceptance and support would have saved my sister. It makes me sad to think about because I loved her but every contact for years was painful. I will always wish that I had thought of a way to be still supportive.
The challenge becomes finding happiness.
Grateful he has helped people understand our mutual condition.
He is encouraging to many. :)
Stephens bah, every single time gives me a warm smile. It just brings back a memory of comedy gold.
Cambridge Uni students did their best with the audio. That really was their best. Ever.
For a university with the prestige of Cambridge, I’d imagine they’d have better equipment and understanding to record with
It's a medieval university; what is sound equipment?
@@splinterbyrd idiot!!
They are home to the Cambridge 5 so understandably their recording techniques are covert and not high budget
💯💯
He is, no doubt, one of the wisest man of our time
A Master of Language and Articulation, Fry is mesmerising! You can hear his passion from the tonal changes, Thespian 101 I suppose. And a Rockstar, when talking about the next guest, ex conservative leader, "if he is going to be drinking the same water, then I'm going to have to piss in this bottle!" Rock On Stephen! Long Live Enlightenment!
I'm surprised this had only around a thousand 'logged-in' views in two years. Stephen makes a great number of quotable points here that I haven't heard in any of his other videos; especially in the Q&A session.
One of my living heroes!!!! Impossible to listen to him and not remain under the weather. I've never bothered to query him on one question: I did my doctorate which involved a lot of semiotics, the premise of which is that language is a closed system and the referent, that reality out there, is excluded by the way we use language. I long to ask Stephen Fry if he might agree that art, whether produced by language itself, or the visual arts etc. perhaps exists precisely to reach that unreachable: the thing in itself, or possibly its apotheosis.
So glad this man is in the world.
I love Stephen all the more so for his love of Ocsar. Oscar was proud of his Irishness. Now after far too long most Irish people reciprocate this pride. So proud of Oscar.
Donald Sinden and Stephen Fry were great stars in their own right.
Booton House he used to live, I used to live quarter of a mile from it. I can imagine what an amazing childhood he had growing up in such an idyllic place
As well I love listening to Stephen Fry, and do hope he is doing well, thinking of him 🌸💖🌸
Fry. A treat.
I am a big fan of Stephen. I have a son with Bi Polar. I really appreciate his candid talk around this subject it helps to know someone as intelligent and successful as Stephen has suffered (suffers) and risen above this very debilitating condition He gives me hope. However,for his comfort and our ease of eye I would say 'ditch the sweater' because it's doing just that! Love you hot and sweaty Stephen .. and even more when you're cool xx
I also have a son with Bi Polar disorder. I agree with you on Stephen Fry. It takes courage to be this honest and it must have already helped people in their understanding. It is helpful to me.
I think mental health issues are on the rise because of the public understanding people are less likely avoid people with known issues, likewise, those suffering are more apt to get help because of public understanding.
The weather example is very cool and true. Never thought of it that way.
Wonderful as ever. Fry for president... surely 😊
Recorded with an abacus?
"I'll put it through your letter box and you'll fucking read it!" - best ever
53:20 "If anybody else starts their question with the word 'so', I will refuse to answer it." Excellent! The same sentiment for people who start a sentence with "I mean".
Stephen Fry makes me feel 8 feet tall.
He is quite small.
Almost 2 meters...
Stephen is 6'5".
This man is brilliant.
The questioner who commented on Mr Fry's eloquence is close to the truth. He is probably the nearest we now have to Christopher Hitchens.
The numbers in the self called Developed world are higher than many called under developed world. Some of the reasons for this can be put in the way life is perceived, how we liberate pressure, stress, and how we deal with the purpose in life. Developed world has focused in "believing" the MIND is all, the most important, and with thousands of questions that most generally are in a negative mode. The pressure of becoming someone, of competition rather than collaboration, the goals and objectives that may not be attained ever.
I must put the third of October in my diary.
Why are they using a webcam from the early 90’s and an audio system from the 1920’s?
The quote which Stephen mentioned of "Don't take away my Devils ............' @ 27:28 which both he and many others have said was by WH Auden, was in fact originally attributable to Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
I thought Cambridge would have brewstered in the media department, yet this looks like it's been filmed with a potato and recorded on a pube
Fantastic speech, but the audio quality leaves a lot to be desired!
Love you Steve x
I love him more LOL
Who cares about the quality, really, when it's Stephen speaking?
well, respectively, if we can't hear it, it seems kinda pointless.
"Things you are interested in "... as Stephen smirks at the cute boy introducing him
Stephen must be, IS, the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde!!!
I only think it, i feel it.
JPV JPV interesting! I thought that too!
A Fry advert came up
I'd press that button in a nano second!
I had the worst drug withdrawal symptoms in my life when I came off Olanzapine. Horrendous night sweats and vivid nightmares. Lasted for about 2 weeks. Be really careful if you come off it Stephen!
I am the unlikely one person in my current universe who is not bipolar; I think I'm accepted because I speak rather quickly and we all agree that Stephen Fry is an international treasure. I'm very interested in driven creative people, some of whom succeed and some of whom don't. The list ... JK Rowlings, Tom Petty; I'll stop there for the benefit of brevity. Neither of these people may be of interest to Mr. Fry; but they do have this in common with him. They'd go mad without their words, and/or music. The word enthusiasm applies to Stephen Fry, and others ... inhabited by a god. The god of wisdom, and wit.
I would expect the AV department of a major university to come up with better audio/video quality than this. But Stephen rules. Even when the host is bored (58:00).
Does anybody know the moderator for this? What is his name?
What a beautiful man
I am enthralled by these CU speeches/debates, but for goodness sake (and this isn't the only one) get the sound sorted - seriously lets you down.
Considering all the equiptment seemed to fail i think they did a good job
You know you can mostly fix audio FUBARs like this in postproduction?
11:15 “Not just a wit, but a cause of wit in others.” Stephen Fry in a nutshell.
Love Stephen fry 💋
who is the interviewer ? anyone know ?
best line for me was 'writing a modem script'. ah yes the good old days
Why does it look like this video is from 2003?
Nothing Happens until 2:10
actually 3:05
heroes
It is a pitty that not many people can stand an extraordinary language and intellectualy challenging content
pity*
You're welcome!
- Friendly Grammar Nazi
Benjamin Antman The funny thing is, your correction was related to spelling and not a mistake in grammar. Lmao :)
Digipixle..... LOL
Sabra If you tap on the three dots on the right of your statement, you can edit the statement
6:10 what did he say between Churchill's funeral and JFK's assassination? What did Cambridge Union censer?
Professional images? Look at the video quality? LOL
Monologue at 55:08 should be played before you can log on to your devices.
I totally, agree with Stephen, when he refers to his insatiable curiosity, and can’t ( to this day understand, why others are lacking in their own curiosity too!!! I have experienced the same since I was a child.
My Dad was a very wise man, he never sought to stifle my curiosity about life, and thirst for knowledge.
We would, with the aid of the “Google “ of the day, the Encyclopedia Británica learn a cornucopia of knowledge.
He never told me, but he was learning too. A wise man,
Pleased to hear he is no longer 'self-medicating. and is now on appropriate medication. Although, Olanzapine is known to cause serious weight gain, in some. I watched the programme he talked of and the button option and if it was offered. He interviewed a number of people and then he stated he did not take medication, which sent quite a few people into believing he was just jumping on the gravy train, of back then, and using others for the focus of his supposed mental illness. I am pleased the focus is now on him and that he is going down the well travelled route towards better quality of life with a sever and enduring mental illness. Good luck to him,. a very colourful character the way it was left when some of the pieces were taken away.
Do you need a sound tech at the Union? It’s quite unbearably distorted...
I wish I had angels with my demons.
"will took" in the description 😅
That!
Woah I got an ad of him saying he read the sherlock. I wish I had a pet Stephen fry
The "housekeeping notices" at the beginning are really a waste of time to youTube viewers, wouldn't you say?
I went to Coventry University. Why don't they race at the boat race ?
I hear Aberdeen, and Newport are good universities. .
One of my rare heroes
Are you by any chance on probation? I laughed out loud
He seems so insecure in public speaking, to some extent. Then, think of all the times he was before a camera and how much he did ... and learned. Incredible.
You have given me so much insights into my life to think about thanks 😘 love from Ohio 😊🙏😘❤️
He has self deprecating humour-he does not speak like a US car salesman🙄
I'm off to watch Black Adder.
1:06:50 urgh, you can always tell when someone is about to speak and they love the sound of their own voice.
You mean other than 45:00 where he clearly jokes that he likes the sound of his own voice.
No. Fry is invited, she's not.
It was Rilke, not Auden
I fuckin googled it ...
Starts at 3:08
Who discovered that that there was no record of the teenage Stephen Fry having been imprisoned anywhere to be found? Was it his comedy partner Hugh Laurie?
In the US minor's records can be erased
Интересный персонаж..
You lads are the smartest in the country hut apparently not when it comes to audio matters. Please sort it out . This isn't as bad as the Merchant one but c'mon lads fix up, look sharp!
1:04:03 The speakers officer (or host) , Jonah, looks so bored, shockingly rude!
I would have thought at Cambridge, they could have found a better interviewer
@thecook8964 absolutely!
Right at the beginning so British a guy drinking a glass of wine !
Video and sound quality of this video is awful. If this is what a top-level university education provides I'm glad for my meagre three O-levels and no degree!
27:24 This report seems to contradict the notion of 'mental illness'. Suppose there were a button you could press that apparently supplies only the *positive* aspects of some exciting or dangerous behaviour. It achieves this by allowing you to plausibly deny both to yourself and others responsibility for the negative consequences. Would you press that one? Looking back I think I've pressed more than one such button during my life.
Uhhhh hire a better camera/sound guy this is awful
What the fuck does that guy at the start have on his feet?
He is too optimistic about the whole digitalisation Thing. People do have Memory issues.
Our Knowledge Goes into Those machines and we're Becoming dependent on them.
This is a Huge evolutionary Step Backwards. We MUST Slow down now! Stop in our Tracks, go for a hike, Clear our minds- and the right thoughts will come to us.
Budget setup
Kinsey interviewed prisoners.
If human kill robots they can rebuild them but robots can produce another robots only unlike their creator.
Evidence?
If i comment will my words be manipulated?
Why to press the button? The only certain outcome will be that you cease being who you are, worst than the most tragicomical facial plastic surgery.
Button lobotomy
primitive people prayed to God (literally) for rain
ERR ERR ERR ERR...GET AN INTERVIEWER THAT CAN ACTUALY COMMUNICATE..
Love Stephen but this stink of privilege is so obnoxious. What happens to any normal person with a criminal record is well known, and I find his joking about getting into Cambridge absolutely galling.
Did he get in because he was privileged or because he is smart and worked damned hard? Clearly he is not normal, in many respects - and Cambridge could see that.
You mixed something up there. Stephen Fry became famous after Cambridge. He just did very well at his second attempt to the A-levels and got into Cambridge on merit.
sourcescience One should not apologize for being borne into privilege. Especially one who is so incredibly self aware and humble despite his upbringing.
wish he would stop telling that ..importance of being earnest yawn anecdote.
No wonder StirFry's a manic depressive. He should stop pretending he's clever and go back to gameshow hosting, then he may be a bit happier.
He is clever
@@jack.1. When he publishes something sophisticated let me know
@@splinterbyrd publishing something sophisticated isnt the only measure of being clever. Fry is clearly smart.
@@jack.1. But he has published stuff already, and it's all spectacularly ignorant.
Ok depression is a form of mental illness, seems a bit trendy for celebs. My Mother and thousands other suffer from hearing voices and visions that medicine struggles to suppress. They will never recover. My Mum's 50 year prison sentence, a torment, until she passed away this year at age 76. People like Fry annoy me with their "depression".
fly bobbie - I am very sorry to hear about your mother. I hope you and the family find peace with this heartbreaking situation.
Fry is so far up his own fudge tunnel its not true.
Why is a 11 year old interviewing him