Reaction To Stephen Fry: The First Australian Accent I Ever Experienced

[@lindasweeney969]

Yes Stephen Fry is very well known in Australia and absolutely loved. I could listen to him for hours. We get a lot of British shows and movies. You often need to watch the ABC/ channel 2 though or 7two.

[@buddyennis5487]

@@lindasweeney969 He is also on British shows on SBS, Channel 7 , Channel 9, Netflix, Foxtel in Australia. We love him and for decades.

[@adamjacksonmedia]

Australian here... Steven Fry is an absolute gem!! I've known about Steven Fry since the 80s.

[@lindarackstraw7711]

I absolutely love Stephen Fry. I watch everything he has put out. Very intelligent nice man ❤

[@CourtneyS24]

Very well known and loved in Australia ❤ he is so bright and his observations are brilliant and spot on. We love a good tease.

[@toni4729]

I've been in Australia sixty years from London and Stephen Fry does a better version of the Aussie Accent than I can.

[@buddyennis5487]

Of course, we know Stephen Fry in Australia from Forever! Do you think we are all so backward?Honestly, not all of us speak broad Australian either as demonstrated. There is such a thing as an educated accent and the interviewers do not posses it either! They are middle of the road, and their grammar is not as good. 🤩

[@toni4729]

@@buddyennis5487 Actually, after living all over this wonderful land I've found the best speakers are in Adelaide and the worst are in Queensland. But don't tell them.😄

[@FionaEm]

​@@buddyennis5487Jeezus! He was just asking a question. Don't be so rude.

[@brackenboy6321]

@@toni4729 "Best speakers"? You need to elaborate.

[@toni4729]

@@brackenboy6321 I thought that was clear enough, we know what a good speaker sounds like when they're clear and educated and are employed for the use of their voice and speech. We also know what a sloppy speaker is like when they never bothered to learn anything but just buggered off to the pub and footie.

[@_alifeallmine_]

Love Stephen Fry, would certainly be top of the list of renown people I’d love to have a conversation with.

[@nolaj114]

I remember Stephen Fry (with his now obscure friends Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson) as Lord Snot on an episode of The Young Ones back in the 80's. 😅

[@FionaEm]

The University Challenge episode was THE definitive Young Ones episode 😅

[@MrEAus]

I was going to have a go at you for not correctly detailing that Lord Snot also happens to be the richest person in the world, but then I remembered that his father's multinational collapsed only that morning

[@kenlawton1531]

When I was in the UK several years ago, I mentioned to the bar lady serving my beer that I lived 15 minutes away from Palm Beach, where they film Home And Away in "Summer Bay"....she nearly had kittens she was so excited 😂😂😂😂

[@martinwhite3559]

Stephen Fry is a legend in Australia. I used to watch him in Black Adder. Neighbours and Home and Away were very popular in Australia in the past but nothing like Britain. Not sure how popular they are in Australia now.

[@Schiltzenberger]

British sitcoms were always on tv here, so we saw him in stuff like Blackadder back in the 80s, he was in a bunch of stuff. I even remember him showing up on Filthy, Rich and Catflap.

[@kari2570]

I believe he's quite well known in Aus, I used to love watching QI.

[@mariondrennan]

Utterly brilliant man - love him!

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

Stephen Fry, did a good job in Black Adda, I loved the show Kingdom

[@lawrencekelli]

Yes! so funny.

[@lifewithalistair.]

There was a tour operator that used to specialise in neighbours tours. I used to live in Nunawading, and I would see the neighbours mini buses often.

[@garryellis3085]

Stephen Fry is a legend.

[@peterclancy3653]

Great bloke!

[@mary-annedoon8317]

Stephen fry! What an amazing actor! and his documentaries are memorable.. he has done quite a few.. a wonderful human being😊

[@belindaweber7999]

I've seen him live, it was BRILLIANT

[@nimbinguy]

Got free accommodation in Lake District cause I caught the locals up on Neighbours! Never watched the show but adverts can be wonderful . Saved me quite a few quid

[@mort8143]

Stephen Fry is fantastic. I first saw him on 'A little bit of Fry and Laurie' on TV. Hugh Laurie's great as well. Mr Fry is intelligent, witty, and an avowed atheist. That's why I still follow him. Griff Rys-Jones is good value too! 🇦🇺👍

[@alisonhickey6131]

The first time I went to work in the UK, the first person I spoke to was a bus driver who heard my accent and asked me what was happening in Neighbours. I never watched them but everyone over there seemed to love them. Never understood that@

[@robertclothier3597]

Same same, I'm one of the few who has never seen a single episode of Neighbours, Home & Away et al. Did the usual backpacker O/S jaunt in the early 80's. Hit London & Neighbors was huge then. Got back to Oz 4 yrs later to discover my Mum was a huge Eastenders fan. So it goes both ways. Go figure

[@alisonhickey6131]

@@robertclothier3597 I did watch EastEnders for a while. A ling time ago.

[@Rhythmattica]

Love Fry... Also of course "Fry and Laurie"

[@buddyennis5487]

@@Rhythmattica Don’t forget “Bertie Wooster” as Jeeves available on KZbin here too! 🤣🤣🤣

[@KrizzySummerz1]

Yes we love him

[@jaynebuchanan4612]

Of course we’re fully aware of Stephen Fry and others in Britain!! We came from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 a couple of hundred years ago.

[@edwinakemp8554]

Love him. Love QI and his books. Really sad that I didnt see him live. But I spent an 'evening' with Joan Collins and that was fab.

[@j9andphoenix]

He also is a writer. He also does wildlife documentaries. He can pretty much do anything. He is so extremely intelligent and knowledgeable and just so funny.

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

With him. Sam Taunton ( comedian), Waleed Aly ( columnist/lawyer/uni lecturer), Georgie Tunny ( sports journalist), and Liz Ellis ( retired Netball champion, sports administrator).

[@1949cr]

So that's why the show is shite.

[@peterlinsley4287]

He was gold in Black Adder.

[@mizpahshearer1659]

I watched a debate on political correctness with Steven Fry and others. After the others had spoken Steven got up and put them all in their place on the subject. Brilliant!😮

[@elizabethpilarski1076]

The man is a walking encyclopaedia with a great sense of humour! Australians love Stephen Fry (but don't love this show 😉 I reckon a handful of people saw this interview 😅 )

[@leandabee]

Extremely well known here. I first came across Stephen by watching the Blackadder series of shows. Loved Stephen as General Melchett un Blackadder goes forth, and then Jeeves and Wooster 😅👌. Did anyone notice that woman ask the question about us Aussies 'butchering' the English language? Like she was trying to create a division, and expected Stephen to agree with her, sucked in, because it didn't work kiddo 🙄. The project, I thought it was being axed?

[@hankcuccina5260]

Stephen Fry is the GOAT.

[@alisonhickey6131]

I discovered Stephen Fry through Fry &Laurie and Jeeves, then QI. I also Peters Friends which he wrote and started in with all the usual. Enjoyed his books too.

[@vaguetymora826]

Stephen Fry in Britain is considered a national treasure. He is in Australia too. He’s a world treasure.

[@ozzietad666]

My last workplace- the women talked about bloody home and away every lunchtime. I left there :-)

[@xymonau2468]

Stephen Fry is extremely well known here. Yes, QI and his old skit shows, other British panel shows, etc. We get a lot of British comedies and panel shows on our ABC, which is like a poor man's BBC. Home and Away were popular in the early days but we got tired of them. I think they might still be shown here. I haven't had a tv for so many years, and see things online instead. But soaps like those are boring after the first dozen times. We have had a lot of others, like A Country Practice, over the years, and they were more popular in their day. The web has changed a lot of our viewing habits. I'm astonished that Bluey is such a success.

[@craigwise6374]

Yeah he's well loved down under

[@23rdsphotographyandaerials93]

I spotted Mr Fryzo in the QVB in Sydney and was taken back how tall of a man he was in real life, and how short his south American boyfriend was. Very smart man and has similar views on religion as I do.

[@Darryl_Frost]

He'd be 'fryzie'

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

I've been watching QI, and other Stephen Fry shows for years. I saw him do a show in America. I saw him travel and talk about gay rights. And I have seen him in other things too. I love this man.

[@paulsandford3345]

He was good in black adder!😂😂

[@colmastro4373]

Can't believe Fry of all people debased himself by being on the project.

[@siryogiwan]

Steven is world widely known

[@Phillipa-t3y]

Half of Britain seems to have moved to Aus, (due to it’s lousy economy) so Stephen Fry would be very welcome here.

[@brontepetropoulos4755]

NEIGHBOURS was an AUSTRALIAN production, it was made in Ozz first🇭🇲

[@FionaEm]

Yep, Stephen Fry is well known here. We know how popular Neighbours was in the UK. Couldn't believe you guys watched it twice a day 😂 It was pretty crap, but it launched some pretty big careers: the Minogue sisters, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce etc etc. Fry is imitating Western Australian English, which often has a strange inflection to the ears of us easterners!

[@creoda673]

Stephen Fry probably knows more of Australian culture than those muppets on 'The Project'.

[@TheAngeltinks]

He’s very well known here

[@KrizzySummerz1]

We love to abbreviate words, shorten people’s names or just give mates nicknames like someone who is always quiet will end up with the name Rowdy amongst mates and I’ve no idea about vinyl furniture, sounds retro and something we adopted from the US perhaps

[@aidanmargarson8910]

It should be said that Stephens ozzie accent is pretty good

[@pamelabaars6896]

Oh yes QI was very good.

[@mrewan6221]

I find his "Australian" accent is better than most, but still not quite right. If it were told it was a General Australian speaker sending up over-the-top Broad Australian, I'd probably accept it.

[@i.aladdin]

Yeah of course Stephen Fry is well known in Australia =]

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

Stephen Fry is not wrong lol

[@kirk5152]

Yeah all of Australia knows Stephen Fry, right back from Fry and Laurie. And yes ABC TV airs QI twice a day

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

Fry . I would make that frizza or bream

[@speccwolf]

I listen to his mythology audiobooks

[@fluffgirl1000]

you should research your guess

[@kevo6190]

Love Stephen Fry! This poor genius now has to deal with the 'collective, room temperature IQ' The Project offers every friggin day. 😢 Sorry Mr. Fry from all of Australia!

[@CityThatCannotBeCaptured]

I'm an Aussie and I have never watched an episode of Neighbours. The five minutes I saw was dreadful.

[@davidareeves]

So England has two TV stations, they play Neighbors or Home & Away, glad to see your TV has nothing worth watching then!

[@alexking8610]

Stephen Fry is a legend here in Australia , that show the project is totally crap , I am sure if Stephen knew a bit more about it he would not have lowered his standards so much to go on it

[@AnthonyMcInerney-vl5bf]

I turned off as soon as I copped a gander at Waleed and that former ABC chick. Stephen Fry was great in Blackadder.

[@beverleyjones4179]

Never heard of him

[@CityThatCannotBeCaptured]

No one has ever heard of a 'bonkette'.

[@DC180]

The Project is such a GARBAGE show

[@elizabethpilarski1076]

I can't believe it's still on TV!! Most of the presenters would have 1% of Stephen Frys knowledge.

[@mort8143]

Never watched it, never will. I thought Waleed Ali was better than that. 🇦🇺

[@mort8143]

​@@elizabethpilarski1076He's as much of a delight to listen to as Hitchens or Dawkins. And equally minded. Good on him. 😀

[@croftmire]

Funny that Waleed loves to say he went to Wesley College; the fact is he only did his VCE years there. From years 7 to 10 he attended a dinky public high school (Vermont SC). He never mentions that.

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

It is but this was a good segment tbh

[@genie674]

I have no idea what that vinyl stuff was about. 😂. Stephen Fry is great but that show he was on is rubbish.

[@unoriginalsyn]

Stephen Fry is beloved here in Australia too ❤ by the way this show generally is just awful, lots of sensationalism and lies

[@aussiesheila9495]

Yeah love Steven Fry , but the show , the Project , not so much , to P.C. and woke

[@greckendale]

The Project is UTTER DOGSHIT. Stephen Fry deserves BETTER.

[@Onz70]

The project was good when it first started. It's complete crap now.