Stephen Fry

Awoken at 4:45 am by an insistent voice ordering all at the hotel to go down to the air raid shelter. So here we are. Someone showed me an app to download: as you can see, agrees with the order to stay sheltered. So here we all are down in the basement of the hotel. Coffee machine. Loungers. People laughing and chattering quite happily. No sound of drones or inbound missiles that I can detect…

Boo!!! 👻 Oscar Wilde’s immortal ghost story #thecantervilleghost is coming to UK and Irish cinemas on Fri 22nd September 👻

https://youtu.be/MiAP7CorKIo

Loved that man. Having grown up watching him interview greats, my first appearance was impossibly thrilling for me. The genius of Parky was that unlike most people (and most of his guests, me included) he was always 100% himself. On camera and off. “Authentic” is the word I suppose. For one of the shows I was on with Robin Williams, a genius of unimaginable comic speed and brilliance. Now they’re both gone, damn it #parky

I’m as buzzing and happy as a happy bee to be joining the splendid cast of Bleak Expectations as Sir Philip Bin from 8 to 13th August, at the Piccadilly Circus jewel-box that is the Criterion Theatre. Buy your tickets and find out more here
bleakexpectations.com

Words fail me…

@rmx@ursal.zone ARISE

@dtietze@mastodon.social Bravo!

Wordle 623 2/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 And a rare two-er to brighten the day…

You know you’re in a truly individual country when the glass of grapefruit juice you help yourself to at the hotel breakfast bar turns out to be sauerkraut juice. Its healthful bacteria can fight it out with the kielbasa sausage I added to my confused tummy. Niech żyje Polska!

I was stunned when I learned the story of Willem and Frieda, and I hope you’ll manage to catch this film. 2nd March #Channel4

Thanks everyone for your kind comments about the #Jeopardy gig. Those who know the show from America will agree I think that it’s stunningly fun and engrossing format. Just hope the UK audience takes to it