I do love the thought of Stephen banging out a great script in 7 hours, instead of admitting to not being able to fix the computer, and then not being able to ever claim any credit for it!
the funny thing is that most people watching this will have thought "yeah.. Stephen Fry rewriting the entire script in 7 hours doesn't seem all that far-fetched, actually"
[Skeptical] Probably the problem was something else, I mean, if the technician couldn't solve it and it took Stephen "National Bloody Treasure" Fry 7 hours to get it fixed, it was probably something more complicated than "I accidentally switched it to Symbol/Wingdings"
Salubrious is an odd one, because I always felt it sounds like it should have negative connotations, just from the way it sounds, bit like a cross between salacious and dubious, but of course is the opposite.
Most professional screenwriters don't use microsoft word for typing up scripts, they use 3rd party programs specifically for screenwriting which don't allow for font changes :p
+junbh2 A mis-click to change to a non-Latin font is the first thing you check for, in a case like that. Even if it was in 1992 or 1989 or whatever, Fry would certainly have known that. It wouldn't have taken him 7 hours.
It needs to be noted that this probably happened around 1994, i havent had experience with computers of that time, but i assume they might have worked slightly differently
He thinks there are little atomic clocks in our mobile phones and that's how the internet works. He is really not *that* clever. (It's from a QI episode where he "explains" things without his cue cards.)
It was probably an issue with it being saved as read-only and an inaccessible file type. I've had it happen a few times before, and even when you do manage to access it, it saves the random symbols as the actual body of text, making it impossible to recover.
While his name doesn't exactly inspire confidence, I think that "MrKILLERKOSTYA" would have thought the same thing about the computer guy. I harbor some doubts as to how competent the "computer guy" was.
Boring. Guys who think burps are funny. The only good bit is when Emma bewails the 7 hours her computer repair guy took to turn hieroglyphs back into her script, the "Help Me" expression "just like that because I'm an actress, of course".
I rescued my neighbours work (she is almost completely non-computer literate) by changing the font from wingdings to Arial. I didnt spoil the illusion by showing her how easy it is. I assume Stephen Fry did something rather more clever.. She still thinks Im some kind of computer genius. Hope she doesnt read this. Actually, no danger. She hasnt a clue about the Internet either.
"i'm german so i'm allowed to make jokes about the nazis and ww2!" lol. i'm not offended or anything, i just think it's kind of ironic. if anything being german would make it slightly more in bad taste ^^
I do suspect that it was a mild issue with the XML headings, and that it had to be reconstructed through just guessing whatever was missing from the file until it worked....
I dunno - I remember my computer technician husband of great experience and his other even more experienced computer techie friend spending well over an hour on a computer. Took me three minutes to change the fuse in the plug ;)
Hi Wanda from four years ago! If you haven't learned what she says since your comment i can tell you she says "a steam powered computer", a joke of course. What she means is just an old computer in general. Hope this comment finds you and that all is well.
I would take the Oscar what is made by Stephen Fry. That would be best Oscar ever. Thought.. I'm not gonna win one but still.. Stephen Fry made it so it shouldn't be a problem - it should be a awesome thing.
You MUST have seen the comments above yours discussing this already. I strongly doubt that it took seven hours for Stephen Fry to conclude "oh, it's just the font".
***** My friend, I have plenty of reasons for doubting his alleged intellect. However, I haven't the slightest interest in changing your opinion of him. If you think he's some kind of genius that's absolutely fine by me.
Mike Williams "However, I haven't the slightest interest in changing your opinion of him" Then why so much interest in spouting off about him to the people whose opinions you don't care about?
The fact that I made a comment which I stand by and could support (if I could be bothered) doesn't mean I want to enter into a RUclips slanging match (which is, I'm sure, what it would become.) I have my opinion of Stephen Fry - it's nothing to me whether you agree or disagree.
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I do love the thought of Stephen banging out a great script in 7 hours, instead of admitting to not being able to fix the computer, and then not being able to ever claim any credit for it!
the funny thing is that most people watching this will have thought "yeah.. Stephen Fry rewriting the entire script in 7 hours doesn't seem all that far-fetched, actually"
Well, it isn't. :)
Melting_Pot If he has one of his manic periods, off the rails on cocaine, it could very well be true!
David Mitchell, Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry, these might be my threee favorite Brits.
Love the image of the gang... Stephen, Hugh and Emma
***** For some reason the image of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger popped into my mind when I read that.
Stephen=hermione, emma=harry, hugh=ron
They should have had both Hugh and Emma on the same time!
Go to 2:05, you'll hear Hugh several times!
@@DisorderedArray you glorious bastard
And just NOW Emma and Hugh are finally on Graham Norton together!!
[Skeptical] Probably the problem was something else, I mean, if the technician couldn't solve it and it took Stephen "National Bloody Treasure" Fry 7 hours to get it fixed, it was probably something more complicated than "I accidentally switched it to Symbol/Wingdings"
Emma Thompson is so beautiful. :) So natural. She's amazing.
You'd think Stephen saving the script would have warranted a mention in the Oscar speech...
I just learned a new word. I thought she just made transmogrify up, but it turns out it's a real word. And an awesome one at that.
Salubrious is an odd one, because I always felt it sounds like it should have negative connotations, just from the way it sounds, bit like a cross between salacious and dubious, but of course is the opposite.
Every WoW player knows that word.
+Nikolai508 And neither specifically implied good or bad. Just something that made a very powerful impression.
vonteflon now that Sandi is in the chair I say have Stephen, Emma and Hugh as guests :P
I learnt it years ago, thanks to Calvin and Hobbes. They had quite an adventure with a transmogrifier 😁
The timing in the conversation and humour in this video is so graceful!
1:50 must have been a grim year...Grimm...get it? Just me....
I love how people in the comments are still trying to fix emma's computer's problems ^^
Everyone give their opinion it's hilarious
Sounds like she'd set the font to Wingdings!
+Rachael McInnes sounds like it, but I'm reasonably sure Stephen wouldn't have needed 7 hours to figure that out ;)
+Rachael McInnes, I once did that to my flatmate's dissertation, as a prank.
...It wasn't nearly as funny as I thought it would be.
+EigramGn He hasn't replied. He ded.
Most professional screenwriters don't use microsoft word for typing up scripts, they use 3rd party programs specifically for screenwriting which don't allow for font changes :p
It sounds like when I copy pasted a pdf into a doc file. It turns into a ton of $*/¥÷¥÷€_@,$)/)#
The story about Stephen saving the script, love little anecdotes like that. :)
probably just set to wingdings XD
Deterginator Maybe, but sometimes when switching processors a document can turn in words into groups of odd rectangles - that seems more likely.
I think they would have figured that out faster, though.
+junbh2 A mis-click to change to a non-Latin font is the first thing you check for, in a case like that. Even if it was in 1992 or 1989 or whatever, Fry would certainly have known that. It wouldn't have taken him 7 hours.
Wouldn't take him seven hours
emma said hugh was with stephen at that time， so adorable~
It needs to be noted that this probably happened around 1994, i havent had experience with computers of that time, but i assume they might have worked slightly differently
What a delightful aneckdote
arrgh garry no K
Anything Fry does not know, is not worth knowing.
+jim jimjim What about Riemannian Geometry? Topological Quantum Field Theory? etc ...
He thinks there are little atomic clocks in our mobile phones and that's how the internet works. He is really not *that* clever.
(It's from a QI episode where he "explains" things without his cue cards.)
Wingdings?
More likely it was written in ASCII and then got reinterpreted by a non-ASCII character set, or any number of possible character sets.
Emma Thompson is god in almost all ways, we take it later.
Wake two minutes, are you serious
Did they not try switching it off and on again?
It was probably an issue with it being saved as read-only and an inaccessible file type. I've had it happen a few times before, and even when you do manage to access it, it saves the random symbols as the actual body of text, making it impossible to recover.
While his name doesn't exactly inspire confidence, I think that "MrKILLERKOSTYA" would have thought the same thing about the computer guy. I harbor some doubts as to how competent the "computer guy" was.
If I won an oscar I'd much rather have one that Stephen made, even if it was a bit crap :')
Ah the old QI...
the video image is too poor, you need to fix it more
Ah yes, the G series, G for Film... wait...
I would like the oscar made by Stephen Fry. O_o
Fucking Windings
wingdings
where did that shirt come from?!?!
Boring. Guys who think burps are funny. The only good bit is when Emma bewails the 7 hours her computer repair guy took to turn hieroglyphs back into her script, the "Help Me" expression "just like that because I'm an actress, of course".
Emma is so lovely isn't she
I rescued my neighbours work (she is almost completely non-computer literate) by changing the font from wingdings to Arial. I didnt spoil the illusion by showing her how easy it is. I assume Stephen Fry did something rather more clever.. She still thinks Im some kind of computer genius. Hope she doesnt read this. Actually, no danger. She hasnt a clue about the Internet either.
Trust me, everybody want it XD
"i'm german so i'm allowed to make jokes about the nazis and ww2!" lol.
i'm not offended or anything, i just think it's kind of ironic. if anything being german would make it slightly more in bad taste ^^
@MrKILLERKOSTYA [Raising an eyebrow] I think the "computer guy" might have thought of that, so it was probably something more serious...
Might be that the script corrupt and PC couldn't read it etc. But at least i don't think that the problem would have been just the font.
I do suspect that it was a mild issue with the XML headings, and that it had to be reconstructed through just guessing whatever was missing from the file until it worked....
I dunno - I remember my computer technician husband of great experience and his other even more experienced computer techie friend spending well over an hour on a computer. Took me three minutes to change the fuse in the plug ;)
how the hell can someone unwittingly change their font to fucking wingdings
That really isn't that big of a deal, i just thought it was kind of funny. ;)
Your question shows how little you know about computers.
You can kind of tell by Stephens face as soon as he brought the topic up that's what he did.
Are you one of those giant polar bear things from Mass Effect?
Snow White didn't win Best Picture. Stephen Fry is wrong.
i think shes saying she "had one of those steam powered computers".
I think maybe the ascii offset accidentally changed...
at the beginning of her story she says something about a ____-powered computer... can't make out what the first word is. anyone getting it?
Hi Wanda from four years ago! If you haven't learned what she says since your comment i can tell you she says "a steam powered computer", a joke of course. What she means is just an old computer in general. Hope this comment finds you and that all is well.
almost certain that it was just a wrong font!
hahaha I actually thought of the Elcor first too when I saw the mood markers :D
Ever heard of a corrupted file?
Would that make Allan Davies the mascot?
fuck that ... he should be king!
It might have been the wrong version of word or something like that.
wingdings are serious
are you like that robot from kotor lol
so stephen fry pretty much got emma thompson her second oscar
With David Mitchell as deputy.
Stephen Fry for prime minister :D
[Embarassed] Whoops! Typo...
Fuck. This is excellent.
I want the shirt that Stephen Fry is wearing!
He does use a mac though.
I would take the Oscar what is made by Stephen Fry. That would be best Oscar ever. Thought.. I'm not gonna win one but still.. Stephen Fry made it so it shouldn't be a problem - it should be a awesome thing.
Are you going to do a renegade interruption?
Fell like i am in Mass Effect....
You MUST have seen the comments above yours discussing this already. I strongly doubt that it took seven hours for Stephen Fry to conclude "oh, it's just the font".
more like is this utf-8 or ascii? i better google this, too bad there isnt one :(
at 2:59 ....
:D
There's plenty out there.
XML was finalised in 1998 the movie came out in 1995.
I was promised hilarity, not bum-licking.
Spot on!!
ick! big ick...
I love the QI audience: suggesting things the could've possibly gone wrong with the script on RUclips.
Sounds like she changed the font to Wingdings?
can we just make Stephen Fry a honorary Nerd king?
Hilarious? More like droll.
[Amused] ha-ha... ha-ha.....
Stephen Fry is about half as clever as most people think and about a tenth as clever as he believes.
***** You're easily impressed - like most of Fry's gullible fans.
***** My friend, I have plenty of reasons for doubting his alleged intellect. However, I haven't the slightest interest in changing your opinion of him. If you think he's some kind of genius that's absolutely fine by me.
I am genuinely interested in your reasons for this?
Mike Williams "However, I haven't the slightest interest in changing your opinion of him"
Then why so much interest in spouting off about him to the people whose opinions you don't care about?
The fact that I made a comment which I stand by and could support (if I could be bothered) doesn't mean I want to enter into a RUclips slanging match (which is, I'm sure, what it would become.) I have my opinion of Stephen Fry - it's nothing to me whether you agree or disagree.