Stephen Fry: The First Australian Accent I Ever Experienced

[@davidhuggan6315]

As a British backpacker in 1998, I remember arriving in Perth and asking the guy at the Tourist Information Office, "What's the cheapest way to get to Rottnest Island?" and he replied, "Swim". That's when I knew I could move here! And I did 6 years later. 🙂

[@davetaylor2088]

Love it, that's a great response isn't it?!

[@davidhuggan6315]

@@davetaylor2088 Definitely!

[@Aurochhunter]

Aussies are veracious people, even if their choice of words leave something to be desired.

[@sandgroperwookiee65]

@@Aurochhunter Kenoath! 😁😉 ..We try 🤣

[@aheat3036]

😂 The convicts don’t like limeys!

[@JohnGordon-y7y]

I wouldn’t normally watch the project but for Steven Fry.

[@BURLINGTON-t2v]

Stephen Fry

[@Demion83]

Should have 119 thousand upvotes, because I doubt most of us are here for the f'ing project

[@robby1816]

Stevo.

[@sonnylatchstring]

I would normally watch the project but for Stephen Fry

[@Peter_Vidgeon]

@@BURLINGTON-t2v With a PH, yes, you're correct. Because he can be somewhat acidic.😉

[@skoll_2024]

The Project makes my brain hurt but Stephen makes it smile 👍😁

[@sandgroperwookiee65]

Totally concur! 👍👍

[@zanemurcha9742]

Oh yes, I believe that's a perfect way to describe this show

[@iamthebroker]

Absolutely agree. I cringed when I saw Stephen Fry (because I wanted to hear his story) but it was on The Project….

[@CÆSSIUS32]

Same I hate it but love Stephen

[@mpras684]

This interview could have lasted hours! Such an entertaining soul.

[@agustandany5652]

so true !! Love Stephen Fry. I think we should ask him reading Yellow Pages, or Chinesse Restaurant Menu, that will still be very entertaining!

[@whophd]

@@agustandany5652 or even … unboxing electronics from first-person POV … just heavy breathing - yes, that was his debut on KZbin

[@dr.dragan]

This is the only appearance that will have me watch the project

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

You better stick with the Skynews propaganda network then.

[@dr.dragan]

@@pyrmontbridge4737 not a fan of them either

[@flain283]

@@pyrmontbridge4737 what's that, crawl back into your bubble where you mind read everyone and always miss lol

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

@@flain283 Ok, I retract that. Maybe it's Foxnews you like.

[@flain283]

@@pyrmontbridge4737 still mindreading and getting it wrong, also you're assuming everyone is american? Foxnews isn't a thing where i live. You seem to have some kind of image of what people who critique your opinion should be, but you're making it all up in your head, real people aren't like what you've conjured up.

[@musicalenchantment]

Wonderful to see this charming person looking so fit and fine! Great news he is HERE in Oz... Congrats. Wishing him wonderful times during his stay and performances.

[@markleon411]

I adore this amazing human being. No one else in the world could have played Oscar Wilde.

[@7GodKnowsIDont7]

I love Australia, and Australians. I'm one. I love our accent and the way we speak, and this was brilliant, and very enjoyable!! Thank you.

[@ShelleySmith-f1z]

Always a delight to watch Mr Fry, a master of entertainment !!! ❤

[@nomadicroadrat]

Stephen Fry, always pleasurely teaching.

[@tango22ah]

Loving him right now in Jeeves and Wooster. Love from Scoatland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@deborahchasteen3206]

It's great!

[@BeverleyPrice-ty7xr]

Love listening to Stephen Fry, what a wonderful man,

[@Salam_Damai431]

My favourite Australian advertisement was for a hardware store whose motto is/was: “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it”

[@japaneselie]

I'm such a huge fan of both Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie😊

[@andrewbarnumsongs7774]

Our Australian language 'Our greatest cultural achievement' Stephen Fry knows it all too well, with great affection!

[@Raven.flight]

Never had a bad time watching Stephen Fry. He's awesome.

[@Lily-Bravo]

I was living in Perth in 1981and was half way through my sojourn there. As someone who could usually pick up an accent really easily I had extreme difficulty working out how they actually spoke in the way they did. You, sir, did it perfectly. I have always thought they had to devise a way of speaking that avoided flies entering the moistness of their mouths.

[@nickvegas2459]

Stephen Fry has learnt that Australians love to be complimented.

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

No. He's just telling the truth.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Literally the first question they ask any foreign celebrity: "what do you think of us?"

[@Demion83]

We're an insecure bunch... desperate for validation... dominate the world of internet reactions as a result.

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

@@danidejaneiro8378 True. But all countries do that? And it is cringy.

[@seldom_bucket]

I think he's just being honest, us brits do love the aussies. I'm quite particular about language and love the way aussies use english too.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

His too good for this show

[@StormLord-AOS]

Love Stephen, happy he is here in Aus.

[@tigertiger1699]

He’s a beautiful soul.., intellect & educated yet humble🙏🙏

[@zapkvr]

Yes and he has a lot for which to be humble. Joking. The best thing Ive heard him do was narrate the Quandary phase of Hitchhikers. It is excellent.

[@scottmclennan6114]

He mentioned Michael Edgley and there wasn’t a flicker of recognition from the team. He has been such a huge promoter and entrepreneur over the years and yet seemingly now unknown by show biz people!!

[@sixtytonangel]

I noticed that, too. Stephen even tried to emphasize his importance, but it seemed no one in the whole room knew who he is.

[@gebo1667]

Probably because they're under 60.

[@andrewh.8403]

Fry is the duck's guts. He does some brilliant Aus accents. If you see his story of the pilot on the plane's p.a, you will know exactly what I mean. He's a Commonwealth treasure.

[@zapkvr]

Not on Q.I. he never. Worse than Hugh Laurie's attempt at an american accent.

[@thewatchman6074]

A man of great intellect.

[@shanejbackx]

He does a brilliant Oz. He and Alan Davies doing strine on QI was hilarious

[@vivienneoneill5400]

Just love him,he is great.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@judyveness7581]

Stephen Fry is brilliant!

[@Mix-wj2ew]

Love this beautiful human being ❤

[@kevinlatham5661]

A gentleman who never condscends or shows contempt or hubris but presidents, dictators and popes live in fear of his words , written or spoken.

[@kaiberberich1]

@kevinlatham5661 - Easy does it there, mate !!

[@KymHammond]

@@kaiberberich1Monarchist all have heralds.

[@Jleon1983]

This is the first time I've seen the project. Only because of Steven fry. I'll never watch it again now for 12 years

[@thevocalcrone]

same.

[@yvonnegould2000]

@@thevocalcrone same

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

Come on, we all know you loved it. You'll be back tomorrow.

[@Jleon1983]

@@pyrmontbridge4737 we all don't know that, because I haven't watched it again since. So I know that I haven't watched it. In your case I'm sorry you failed once again. Good day

[@jontaylor4511]

I've hardly seen any of it since Charlie Pickering left and ch10 lost the big bash cricket

[@agustandany5652]

I just realised there is a deep meaning about the word Evening !!! Awesome

[@herbie0408]

The panel missed a golden comeback there, 4:57 an Avro with Stevo would have got him

[@VanillaMacaron551]

Arvo?

[@gregscally4923]

​@@VanillaMacaron551Australian slang word meaning "Afternoon" 😁 We like to shorten words and put an "o" on the end

[@kaiberberich1]

@@VanillaMacaron551 no no.. Avro - the world war 1 plane !!!

[@kwakagreg]

​@@kaiberberich1not an Aussie word . brit for A.V. Roe and Co.

[@DJKSB58]

An Arvo with Stevo

[@uwalakab]

Interesting.... Stephen Fry's explanation of "Evening" in the context he was using for it.

[@heathersherlock]

a Flattening with Frizo. What a delight.

[@user-ij4hp5nn6g]

Love mr fry, used to crack up watching A Bit if Fry & Laurie when i was 10. One ticket for Sydney... purchased!

[@sandrastone7019]

The ultimate Stephen Fry experience is to watch the KZbin video of him assembling an IKEA desk.

[@01doha]

He does a great Aussie accent

[@tinay9491]

adore Stephen Fry

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

It's always great to have a foreigner whole gets Australia. And well done panel.

[@yvonnegould2000]

@pyrmontbridge4737 as wonderfully caring and understanding is Stephen Fry, I believe he tried so hard to not talk down to the panel.....he did so well, whilst the panel were left gobsmacked....had no real idea of the genius and humility of this gorgeous man.

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

@@yvonnegould2000 I think you quite underestimate how sharp the panel are and how the banter flowed well. A problem in Australia is that some people have an unjustified inferiority complex.

[@westaussie965]

What?

[@jennywaite6245]

Stephen Fry is truly interesting and intelligent entertainment, which is somewhat unusual for The Project.

[@TheMightyHellfish]

I saw that Perth show. It was brilliant :)

[@MagisterialVoyager]

Frizo is such a delight! 😂❤

[@JennyMillikan]

Love Stephen Fry❤❤

[@tedsmith6137]

Australian accent? We don't have accents. It's the rest of the world that has accents.

[@cwegers3]

Quoting the great Norman Gunston?

[@nevillehoward8736]

Beautiful!

[@tracylf5409]

Dear Stephen Fry: I find you irresistible- all of you. This isn't an invitation-- just admiring.

[@karenglenn6707]

I adore him!!!!!

[@nathanvary7482]

Fry is a wizard

[@whophd]

Wow he just dominated that studio for 6 minutes …

[@adjoho1]

FRY IS AN ABSOLUTE GEM! (extra credit for mention of Laurie!)

[@djizzah]

stephen is so astute and a nice person

[@Amy_Housewife8809]

As a kiwi my first time in Australia, I was in a bakery shop and asked for a "pasty" as in Cornish pasty which were in the display cabinet warmer, the assistant didn't know what I meant until I pointed it out, and she said "ah, a pay-stee, why didn't you say so". 🤣

[@larrykelly-kf5pp]

Pay-stee??? Not in my Australia. Pah-stee definitely

[@hazridge]

Where exactly in Australia were you? Cus that’s definitely a weird way of saying it, sounds like a nipple covering lmao

[@daviddempsey8721]

Stevo is a great sort. His observations are fueled by insatiable curiosity backed with a mega-intellect and great humour.

[@inscrutababble1932]

Of course now he's going to have to do 'An Evening Out' in a slightly more public setting with perhaps some QR question and answers, and at least one moment where someone has to raise their voice to yell 'Oy you lot! Pipe down! Stevo's talkin' and that's with at least four to six vowel sounds in 'talking' without the slightest hint of a g. 'An Evening In With Stephen Fry' is just a five-minute video of him in a comfy chair, wearing slippers, with a nice cup of tea and a book. And otherwise blessed silence. Soft, relaxing music at the most.

[@LinMonash]

I want a Nation Wide Quizz now investigating how many people know what QR stands for.

[@VaughanMcAlley]

I lived in Perth for a year in 1982, so I’m surprised I can’t remember that ad…

[@heatherfruin5050]

Neither can I. I've been in Perth since 1979.😊

[@mehere8038]

you probably had more sense than to watch the telathon then I guess. Was clearly a telethon only ad

[@64mustangfan]

You lovely bunch!

[@yvonnegould2000]

@64mustangfan lovely bunch of what????? Infantile and egotistical. Did they understand his proper words? I think not........he was being his kind, beautiful self and quickly changing to words that could be understood by this self indulgent "bunch"

[@deb9711]

I ❤ Stephen Fry

[@RicSandblom]

The acid reflux voice is John Singleton.

[@LM-fn6qb]

John Singleton was so amazing after all the BBC accents on Aussie radio and tv.

[@thevocalcrone]

now that is hilarious.. thankyou!

[@scotconnolly1188]

Sounds more like John Blackman from Hey Hey

[@prometheus23c]

The way they are all looking at him at 1:56 🤩

[@adriang6259]

Blast, to watch a clip of Stephen Fry I had to watch 6 minutes of the Project. 1 It's Perthlings. And he would have been Steve-oh

[@Ladiesman-js3kt]

I love Stephen Fry

[@becdewar3522]

We love our telethon

[@colkur5007]

having one of the greatest minds on tv and then asking such mundane questions....what a missed opportunity.

[@KB-bx9ui]

ATTENTION PLEASE...Anyone who went to see Stephen Fry's show live in Australia...did yet to see what was under the grey sheet, that was disguise something tall? What was it?

[@oliverraven]

Seven o'clock in the evening Down Under *is* brunch time back in Blighty!

[@kondaments]

Stephen Fry's voice will *always* remind me of Pokoyo.

[@bridgetgallagher1930]

Four of them, chirping ,bright eyed with ready laughs , and so so attentive....it's enough to make you ,, 🤮

[@Purgiful]

Steveo is a bloody champion.

[@weebrianful]

I went to Sutherland national park near Sydney once . When I got back my nephew said "So, have you been to the Nasho then?"

[@jamiew1664]

thats funny. When i lived there, if i was talking about someone to an aussie, and the aussie wanted to know what nationality the person was they'd ask "what nasho was he mate?"

[@heatherfruin5050]

​@@jamiew1664I've never heard anyone say that.

[@jamiew1664]

@@heatherfruin5050 maybe its an aussie european word then, i worked for greeks in aus and they said it, also my mate whos aussie but of spanish and greek background used to say it

[@danidejaneiro8378]

​@@jamiew1664- when I moved to Sydney from the sticks, my workmate (of Macedonian descent) asked me: what's your nasho? Or are you just Aussie?

[@666bruv]

The project, just a pack of muppets

[@seansimpson7245]

I'm surprised this show is still on TV 📺 😐 😳

[@TheMVberyl]

I think his "diminutive' should BE frizza!

[@stevepitt1414]

My nickname for him would be either "Chippy" or "Frenchy"

[@StormLord-AOS]

for french fry - exceptional choice *puffs pipe*

[@EmbraceThePing]

My thought exactly when I heard that. Frenchy or Mr. Chips.

[@aheat3036]

😂 Australia was still a British crown colony back those days!

[@katewellsmore]

Will Stevo make a doco here??… that would be fun

[@TimChuma]

"Your cocoa is coming in a minute!"

[@dorisjohnson2933]

Legend

[@fanfair1813]

I thought QLD Rail invented QR codes. Now I know!

[@majorfeelgoodrecords2740]

4:16 to me this whole show is for people with no friends😂

[@kagirion]

Love some Steve-o.

[@deborafreifeld244]

Only here for Mr. Fry

[@annehat4833]

Shes gettin on !

[@alking7655]

Look up "Stephen Fry Aussie Accent QI". I swear, it's the closest any English speaking foreigner has come to doing the Aussie accent accurately.

[@geoffreypayne6867]

He diplomatically didn't mention one Aust voice he would of heard growing up in the UK in the 60s and 70s....

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Whose?

[@peteryyz43]

Strewth!, it's Sdayvun Froy, might.

[@ElGordo1959]

2:12 Perthlings please 🙃

[@petesmith9472]

Anyone called Fry has the nickname Chook. As in egg.

[@zapkvr]

The star of Skippy was Liza Goddard. She was a britisher. Pretty tastey as I recall. Yes I know you might say it was Gary Pankhurst or Ed Devereaux or Ken James. I disagree

[@aarenmyatt4509]

Coupla interesting facts about Stephen Fry, His crooked nose is a result of a fall in the schoolyard when he was 6 and he has a 37 year old husband.

[@Artman1]

Stezza Frizo.

[@petergilbert7106]

Google has added "Translate to English" below this comment.

[@bonglesnodkins329]

Yeah, Australians are much more likely to add an O to the end of your name. "How's it going, Steve-o?"

[@Divocwax]

Only here for the Fryster.

[@gardengnome3249]

Do any of them know what he is talking about? Too young.

[@SuperMegaHyperDrive]

What a wonderful guest on a terrible show

[@paulhardbottle9982]

FRYZO!!!

[@Tom.Livanos]

Boy has this guy grown on me. I remember... say... 20-30 years ago, ugh! Guess it's me.

[@lohphat]

AUR NAUR!

[@Rassskle]

Imagine if his first Aussie accent was Jeannie Little ???

[@awf6554]

What's so wrong with "Fryey"?

[@stuffandnonsense8528]

Oz did not butcher English, it perfected it.