Stephen Fry on Clive Anderson Talks Back - 1991

I snagged this from a Stephen Fry community aaages ago. I'm surprised that either A. it hasn't been uploaded to YT yet, or B. I just haven't found it here.
Anyway! Stephen did this interview to promote his then-new novel "The Liar" (which is well worth the read if you get the chance). And I think he may be trying to promote those socks as well.

[@ElectronicazMusic]

I've been regressing in years through all of these interviews and I love how much higher everyone's voices have been heading!

[@macolleague]

This is pure gold - Stephen looks particularly "Jeevesy"...many thanks for sharing! ;D

[@sesquipedalian2885]

Except Jeeves wouldn't be caught dead in that jacket.

[@mddistribution30]

Surely u mean Queen's?

[@TheColdkitten]

What a thoroughly nice chap.

[@Charapova100]

I looooooooove him, what a wonderful chap ^_^

[@OakHavens]

"I've never drunk tweed" :) Thanks for uploading!

[@patkawasaki]

great stuff. Stephen seems so unprepared and on the good, but is completely charming and entertaining. I like the John the Baptist line, and shall use it myself in social gatherings when discussing any of my younger brothers. So there!

[@ledeyabaklykova]

Oh good Lord! This was in 1991 .. really ancient times 😲. I was born in 1990... when the USSR started to slow down. KZbin is phenomenal as a grand archive of recorded media, I am beginning to find out.

[@anonUK]

The USSR started to slow down under Brezhnev. By 1990, it was all over bar the shouting. Having to own up to Chernobyl was the death knell.

[@theshittybeatles5768]

Steve was bang on the coke back then, he was out of his head in this interview, and held it together great.....imagine Clive on the devils dandruff.

[@Asidders]

Damn, every time Fry talks I have to look up 5-10 words

[@wackydsquarediv3805]

Giradox You're a fucking idiot then.

[@petedavid9689]

Wacky D Squared IV hahaha

[@TCrowfoot]

Thank you for uploading!

[@eyeshandy]

got to love 90s fashion

[@Lenora1854]

LAW! I've never drunk tweed! Lovely, "gorgeous, pink and creamy" Stephen Fry. Heartheart.

[@CMNedark]

He looks so young!

[@PaToUisDaRk]

Clive Anderson has hardly changed in 20 years !!!

[@Ezhuks]

Stephen making jokes about Clive's hair and getting away with it!

[@metsot]

Only gay men keep all their hair at midlife.

[@davidjames579]

They knew each other from Who's Line Is It Anyway.

[@outseeker]

on one hand you could say pssh thanks vhs- you had one job, but on the other, thanks for this! :) cheers for the upload!

[@colinstewart1432]

I'd wager a full cheese-wheel Fry's anecdote concerns Trinity college Cambridge.

[@Artemis458]

good show old boy

[@jonescrusher1]

Mastery of the art of sarcasm.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Did he say 'Wilfred Brambell in Steptoe and Sod'?

[@davidjames579]

He told that porter joke on an interview with Kenneth Williams in 1984.

[@johnking5174]

3:47 - "I really mustn't grumble" - words am sure he still lives by as apparently he is worth close to $30 million or £23 million as of 2016.

[@moad1000]

Lovely hairstyle Steve!

[@stuzaza]

Fry reminds me of William F Buckley jnr here

[@kingy002]

I love Stephen's story about the gay orgy. Just hilarious.

[@annikee59]

I love that, a "tweed Socialist".

[@stewmott3763]

Nauseatingly enough, we're now an entire nation of Noel Edmondses.

[@BigyetiTechnologies]

Why does he sound like he might end up as Rowley Birkin QC from The Fast Show?

[@SiliconBong]

*gives aliasgherladak a cookie for spotting that too :)

[@DayDreamBeliever1961]

Ooooooo Stephen you look Yummy

[@wackydsquarediv3805]

DayDreamBeliever1961 Pity you don't. Munter

[@rebeccabrewer2221]

Hes such a cutie isn't he 😍 I want him ❤️

[@trecilicious]

Damn Channel 4, they won't let me watch your "Whose Line"

[@scafleet]

I love a good, tweedy wine with supper.

[@Jordan781]

I want to know who Cartright is.

[@flaggerify]

I doubt he’d wear that jacket now.

[@MichaelStergides]

"A tweed socialist." That's good.

[@atomicmrpelly]

What's up with coming on in his coat?! Did he get there late?!

[@annikee59]

So many find Stephen gorgeous. I adore him for his brain, but he looks too much like my relatives to think him handsome.

[@NxDoyle]

Stephen has only himself to blame for the autobiographical candour that causes me to wonder, when I see him in old TV appearances like this, if he had a wee toot in the dressing room before going on.

[@johnking5174]

Bare in mind he was an undiagnosed maniac depressive during this time of his life. His mood swings would affect him and cocaine seemed the only thing to help him.

[@lennic95]

@Lenora1854 My name is Leonora Creamer and you're called Lenora and put the word Creamy in your comment. That's just weird ^^

[@Lenora1854]

@lennic95 Hahaha, coincidences never cease. Have you seen the "A bit of fry and laurie" vid about Stephen Fry's gorgeousness... I feel you would enjoy that. :)

[@Toracube]

Fry looks like Ozil from Arsenal...

[@lpsp442]

I like circa 1991 Fry more than the present day incarnation, by at least a little bit. He seems more in touch with the principle of Graham Chapman.

[@johnking5174]

This was before his mental breakdown in 1995. I think 1995 was a turning point for Stephen in many ways, which did lead to a massive change in his attitude and persona.

[@lpsp442]

Good info, thank you for posting

[@johnking5174]

@@lpsp442 Have you seen the clips of the news bulletins from the day he disappeared from the play Cell Mates, when everyone was worried if he killed himself?

[@lpsp442]

I have not, in fact while I know about Fry's well publicised battles with depression and mental health I otherwise know nothing of specific details and events. I do know he was a con artist for a brief period as a teenager though.

[@TheAkelei]

It's nearly the same with Benedict Cumberbatch's interviews ;-) but aren't they gorgeous!

[@aprilapril2]

TheAkelei Stephen fry once did a spelling bee at school with him, and benedict didn’t quite win

[@VBranberg]

[@lennic95]

@Lenora1854 haha yes I have! :)

[@johnking5174]

1:50 - I have to take issue with Stephen here when he called David Frost a "good businessman" - he was not! Frost's control of London Weekend Television in 1968 led to it plummeting in the ratings and lost millions of pounds, as viewers and advertisers deserted it. In 1983 he launched TV-am to the same attitude, and it too lost millions of pounds, viewers and advertisers deserted it. In BOTH occasions it took a millionaire Australian to save his companies - Rupert Murdoch at LWT and Kerry Packer at TV-am.

[@Lenora1854]

@annikee59 Oh, darling, but aren't we all?! :)

[@samebar]

You're no fool then.

[@howardsend6589]

Great mind and humour. Awful coat lol

[@AtheistBrit]

I agree - EW. The nineties had awful fashion!

[@hyena131]

fry - what a smug, bent nosed fruit. But my he's 'clever...'

[@TheRaizeX]

Love Stephen Fry, hate his political stance. Pretty deluded stance for a man of his nature.

[@MekinakSibiMekinacic]

Let's remerber how old he was, or rather wasn't, at that time ;)

[@jackjude]

Have you watch the debate where he's alongside Jordan Peterson??

[@brodjefferson3513]

Fuck off Tory

[@davidsmith6355]

I am pretty sure Fry is less deluded than you on most things but maybe you could explain the reasoning behind your comment? Oh, maybe there isn't any.

[@Toracube]

Fry looks like Ozil from Arsenal...