Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry is a British comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, and author. He made his name as one of the best at comical manipulation of writing and speech. He used these skills to desanctify the most taboo or serious of topics. Fry spent most of his childhood studying in boarding schools where he had an extensive list of violations from thief, liar, cheater and master prankster. The last straw was resetting the stops in the chapel that resulted in bizarre sounds during a church service. The school had no choice but to expel him. Despite his predilection for trouble, he loved reading and the fact that he had bipolar, rebellious and gay tendencies made him somewhat of an outsider throughout his youth. In spite of all the odds against him, he got a scholarship to Queens College Cambridge where he studied English. In college, he was involved in several drama clubs and wrote a satirical tale he named “Latin! or, Tobacco and Boys” about a pederastic school teacher. The controversial play was one of the headliners of the Edinburgh Fringe festival where Fry would showcase a lot of his later works. He was recruited into the century-old Cambridge Footlights comedy revue by fellow student Hugh Laurie with whom he began to write a series of successful sketches.