A Bit of Stephen Fry
By Nigel Cawthorne
Stephen Fry is a national treasure.
Recognised as a near genius from an early age, there is little doubt that Stephen Fry has an awesome intellect.
Now best known as the quiz-master on the long-running comedy panel-show, QI, he is effortlessly erudite, and carries off being a brain box with all the charm of a character who has just escaped from a P. G. Wodehouse novel.
He is president of the mental-health charity Mind and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University, though he could easily rank as a secular saint. The BBC’s Culture Show made him one of their top ten Living Icons and he has been voted the Most Intelligent Man on Television.
But beneath the suave exterior, there lies a tortured soul.
