Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Has Stephen Fry been cloned?

I like Stephen Fry immensely.
True, the programme ‘Kingdom’ is an embarrassment to Norfolk, and the accents are an abomination, but at least he puts our county on the map, and he’s a spokesman for all that is good and clever and English.
I’ve noticed recently though that THE BLOODY MAN IS EVERYWHERE.
In the last 12-15months alone, by my reckoning, he has done each of the following:
Narrated the seventh Harry Potter as an audio book; shot another series of QI; shot another series of ‘Kingdom’; written a book about poetry; featured on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’; presented and produced a film about The Guggenheim Press; presented and produced a documentary about bipolar disorder; narrated the ‘Pocoyo’ children’s programme; made frequent appearances in US TV drama ‘Bones’; written and directed a panto for a London theatre and given a keynote speech to the BBC in Edinburgh. Not to mention countless ‘guest’ appearances on ludicrous ‘celebrity’ panel shows on TV and Radio 4. Last week he popped up as the voice of a new radio ad about flu jabs, and now he’s hosting a 6-part, 6-hour series ‘In America’ for which he visited all 50 States of the Union. When did he find the time to do that exactly??
With his total hours on-screen and on-air over-taking even that of Ubiquitous Twats Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, I have to reach one of the following conclusions:
- STEPHEN FRY HAS BEEN CLONED.
- STEPHEN FRY DOES NOT SLEEP.
- STEPHEN FRY IS 157 YEARS OLD (and has been making programmes constantly since birth, many of which we are only now seeing.)
I don’t know which is more likely, but bearing in mind the unceasing quality of his work in all fields, it must be stated – if he hasn’t been cloned yet, he bloody well should be.

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