Television Archive: Parkinson Stephen Fry and Robin Williams 2002

it's easy to say what my next guest hasn't done and to list his achievements he hasn't timed Everest or captain England the cricket had a record in the top ten or a dalliance with Edwina Currie so far as we know no was he the fifth Beatle but for the rest he's been there and he's done that ladies and gentlemen Stephen Fry Oh bless you you're not in the curry Diaries are you burn it Shawn it was a major sorry about that shall we move on yes I think we should I know I'm embarrassing you although I do read here in the back relief of your book here but you're talking about the sexual habits of the spectacle to bear which of course you read about but you say it as Stephen Fry sexual habits you say subject to much speculation among scholars and gossip mongers the mating ritual which is remarkably noisy last fourteen and a half years and makes a great deal of mess yes possibly I mean a girl where did she she did yes she doesn't know how lucky she was um well I feel if you're going to write about bears and their intimate personal habits it's only fair that one should write about one's own as well because it is an extraordinary thing about animals that we belong to the same Kingdom as animals is the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom we are probably not animals many ways some further than others in general is that better send it out send the love out now there's a lot of fuss made about how similar we are you try it you know I now need to only thing we don't do is smell each other's asses to say hi how are you I do but that yeah I'm gonna say gonna say good kid it is the disc to load this man this man in the eighties when when it was when it was fashionable before anyone knew that he was dangerous he used to take the hot large quantities of cocaine I'm just trying to imagine when I was like running it there was an epidemic Star Trek where everybody lived fast and there were just little noises yes been like yeah I was a frightening thing and impotent - which was a double bill you know fast and dead assault with a deadly weapon yeah was it y'all cook kena's gods were - you're making too much money yeah he knows my accountants wet dream yeah mr. Williams I can't write off $50,000 for snacks Columbian college fund yeah didn't you corresponds to Devils dandruff oh yeah the dancing powder the wonderful joy the Peruvian marching dust yeah how are you doing are you doing man enough a tournament okay mr. Bush we have to go spot to the people now fine okay now dad can I call my dad no mr. Bush we can't call your father oh come on can we bomb yet no that's why Cheney has the codes that's what this this this talk of them of Peruvian dancing powder brings us very neatly to my book would you say if you could close in and see the lovely teats on this hair look at that works right now in play bear wants to hibernate who's your alpha but certainly a fulsome pair of fun bags as you say it's a listen I'm gonna get a collar on that [ __ ] this is the story of your certainly spectacled bears yeah through and Beyond other successful search it was too because they're becoming extinct they are they are I've never really been a you know the kind of person who's been associated other in my own mind anybody else is with the ecological quests and television documentaries following animals and part for anything else I'm someone who more or less relies on room service and broadband internet access in hotel rooms and so on and you don't get this too often in Lima and points north and the Andes but I have to say the producers of this program I want you to program at Paddington Bear who if you remember came from time from darkest Peru that's right and and I got hooked on these extraordinary endearing creatures um these bears most Peruvians don't know that there are bears in Peru there they're so shy and Disney one of the things a point I was struggling to make area about animals is is that we are so interested in them we know we we chase them we've in order to look at them and photograph them but no animal unless it's hungry is interested in us and it occurred to me we're always trying to describe what it is that human beings have that animals don't you know consciousness weird self-awareness or whatever one tries to call it but it is actually interest in other animals I mean essentially a bear doesn't give it cos as to whether or not kangaroos exist and kangaroos don't care whether there's such a thing as a cockroach but we care about all of them it's a most remarkable thing and I think what it is of course is that in a sense Genesis is bright we are so guilty that I once went to look to gorillas and it's the same with bears and you realize what's magical about them is that when they wake up in the morning a bear does not say Oh God I was a very bad bear I I'm guilty they don't feel guilty that they possess organs of sexual generation from started and they don't feel they should wear clothes they never ask another bear you're seeing another animal no exactly okay they have not they just spend 100% of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear and a tree frog spends all its time being a tree frog we spend all our time trying to be somebody else you know trying to be like the person next door the person on television the person in the movies the person on pop stars the rivals or whatever we're trying to be somebody else and animals supremely are themselves and no one is more themselves and a bear I think that's why we need a pool and pellington so I'm are so so endearing especially the British spirit because they're rather stout and dignified and slightly raffish and a little bit rumpled and slightly annoyed at things you know you see yourself I'm more or less yeah I'm not very hairy at all no in fact in your bear is impacted - it's a some gay thing you know what is well I said I looked up me right it's you know sorry but you know I'm not in China entirely unaware of many of the nuances of the of the gay community um there's an Cubs yes and it's Orci and I want when I first did this hundred I wanted to look up um I thought to look up bears that's I don't mean that obviously oh that's a silly bear gynaecology but I on the on the Internet and and so I everything said the bear cave everything one day about bears and it was a lot of very hairy men with pink objects sticking out of the nether areas you found that online I found like what I couldn't find was anything about bears there's the tramonto so notice which is the the spectacled bear that's so cool because it has little markings around its I wonder then you see said that they're unaware of in Peru the existence of these birds yeah I'm watching a film that you made it seems to me they're indifferent to their fate as well I mean what do they make a mule they still mad English McComas and find a crusade on the other animal that they thought was well just a wretched animal basically yeah well I mean this is not a conflict isn't of sentiment their understanding with human beings is is a pretty good one because the only way you can find the bear we had a natural history crew which phone for months was tracking the droppings as these people like to do they like to go chasing the the droppings and where it's seeing where they've eaten and they couldn't find one the any ones we could find the ones had been captured and put in zoos and awful to private there's a little restaurant where you found yeah and that wonderful Condor to that that's in many ways in the film the most tragic side this is majestic Borna recipe they had him straight ahead only the cage lives outside a bigger than our chair that sweet old this thing is gone soft to a bird I want to show you the bird and it's in the back in just like yeah do you know there's the line of winning Blake's a robin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage yes um and I think it's a beautiful line isn't that wonderful sort of naivety and perfection that they've managed but Condor okay what is this kind of a symbol both of the whole South American continent and I know you know it all the cliches soaring majestic creations and you look at it it's witty sparing my brilliance said it yes there it is 12-foot wingspan and this awful thing this sad bird set they're tethered and he never flown he come to flown it couldn't fly all him no no what I have a burden on it I don't know maybe I'm just a rave about Peru for a second because it's an astonishing country it has um it has more terrains in it than any other country on earth you go in the same time it takes you to fly from London to Edinburgh you go over a Pacific coastline which has like been in California or something it's a Pacific coastline over Highlands and Glen's that are over what looks like alpine scenery and then over the second-highest mountain range in the world and then down over these extraordinary high plateau into Amazonia into the someplace where you know Peru has 55% of all species of birds of the largest any pig what is it ohyou just a little coin live there's one that's like it's yeah it's used as a food source but it's like it's giant literally look at how the guinea pigs like what are you looking there yeah it's like it's like the steroid guinea pig but it's dolphins yeah a pink pink river dolphins who the local people rather conveniently believe dress up in evening dress in the evenings and a top hat and ravish the women so that when there is and the famous drag dolphins where there was an unloading record we men look for the pearl necklace they are they are the dragged orphan savaging the women slowly but surely we don't like funny the evening gown you're right Edith Head dolphin you're right you're man but you're right um it's it sorry I I was it dude if there's an unlooked-for pregnancy in the middle of the of Amazonia they say Hoffman savers the Dalton became evening how's the because it stands upright but you rescue Tibet I can say you are worth every penny so that eighty million and EMI are gonna pay you Mariah Carey you had a mean said the story ending is a good one because you found you've mated to update and the extra created well I'm with one P what we have is is some web cam we found is little bear in a cage but no bigger than this really bit always all its life in there it was called by the villagers who are hundreds of miles from civilization was called yogi which shows how far the cancer of your noxious coming boo boo boo boo come on let the silly goo boo gonna yes Scooby come on Scooby I know I can either dog was called Scooby huh George shocking but anyway this dis yogi we took to this marvelous reservation in aguas calientes at the foothills of the though they were the wonderful metro Picchu in Indian City Amerindian City and and then we found this female and we introduced into each other and they felt startlingly in love it was quite that's a lucky thing because sometimes like when they had the the Panda ling-ling the Panda he brought her mate and she looked like Oxley and he looked at her like you are ugliest panda [ __ ] I've ever seen oh you have to find a panda Nate they're very particular you know and pretty medicated to well they probably don't know that pandas yeah they thought it going oh I don't know try to there's something to Mizzou keepers if you'll ever see yeah where's your food exactly Cano Vega smelt each other and felt pity love and are and so we we have a webcam which is permanently which is what the internet is for to watch what's live shagging and then that's what we do what JD yeah exactly talk to a naked bear there you can nine seven six cub and this book is the old procedure for your bet foundation now they are indeed we found it we founded this charity do to help keep these little darlings alive and and it's working very well I did you take to the jungle to the manor born absolutely can't can't you see it in me can't you see there's a color pictures in the book let's have a look at that yeah that is that is totally unconvincing fried right here look at the next one please well now this is more like no Robin if you didn't know who Stephen was and you summer said to you what nice nut is that Monday it's saying miss wouldn't you nine is Elin see na New Zealand's corporate a looks you know is that nickname worries come on man come here I'm a wild animal Indian you know you've done these nature things oh yeah babies if I was it's not just a quiet contemplative moment after breakfast when you you know Rubby up it's late you smoke but it's also it keeps the mosquitoes away and and you get respected by the local people's when you smoke a local leaf when you bet the local leaf they the Herbalife rep comes to help you you smoke and you can see the bear any time of the day good thing that's right how did you build machu picchu i said take a cocoa leaf you gotta rise not squeak that way but lot of people don't know that come to Peru how do they do you you have to you do drink cocoa it's quite legal to drink it as a tea as a tea and really my water right number for Nexus it really doesn't do that to you Michael and if you want some we have in the back I mean if there are any young people watching for God's sake go into improvised comedy whatever see the result 5 undies unleash the beast indeed alright so no you're now directing your first movie aren't you another another string to your bow yeah is this is kind of a kind of frantic chase to do as many things you possibly can before your joy for the show oh right I of death yes it is to be perfectly honest it absolutely is III did some people are unaware of death I'm constantly aware of death or at least constantly aware of a moment are just before death when I say to myself well bugger why didn't I do that why did I say no to what whatever it is I know there's a famous I'm a Backstrom are you in this life you should try everything except incest and come to dancing someone says an Arkansan you can have bones yes let up get off me Paul you're crushing my smokes the director on that issue yeah um back to food yeah I just need to be the first you get the opportunity and an embrace it I say it's a an allocation of vile bodies of our bodies finding more yes it's good Bright Young Things it's a which arisen was called out it was it was original idea for title but it rapidly became a sort of journalistic cliche I like it girl or something it suddenly became the phrase that one used and I think he felt it was a bit beneath his dignity to call a literary novel bright young thing so you changed it to vile bodies and I think brighter things is but it is a generation of high living fast living cooking snorting cocktails sucking dancing you know two incredibly fast music it is very exciting to do a film with your words and I want to call it a literary adaptation which I don't it is also it's fast and extraordinary you know the pace of mostly when people do period films they tend to slow everything down as if people lived a much slower pace yes and this is the generation that invented everything we think of as modern we did what the story centers around is photojournalism or people now called paparazzi gossip columnist Fame fast cars telephones incredibly important what was very proud of the fact it was the first novel in which people use the telephone we see these parents the parents generation use the telephone say I have some of that fish well you know from their fishmonger and then let's put the phone down but these people were lying on the bed you know proposing to each other and so on and it was shocking much in the way to some you know the way young people text now is shocking so and drugs and drink and crashing and burning and night clubbing in particular were all invented in this insane decade and it was done like all pioneers do it was done with more zest more insanity more suicidal tendencies and above off with more style I suspect yes it is none of the stuff is there we will learn to be able to judge that in the future I did see people say oh you came garrow's two-step hip-hop what a stylish hero that and it's highly possible they will go visit ow there's a part for mr. Williams in your well I've cast a bit statutory imagine printed oh yeah dan Aykroyd done whoo yeah so much in your field he's playing a character loosely based on on or Beaverbrook and of course Jan Aykroyd his Canadian says well appropriate um but if they if he falls at some reason wants too much money I will be the first Robin if he knows and if I'm work for some of my famous exactly but I enjoin the business of directing there I mean it's a daunting prospect isn't it use your other Field Marshal I mean it's just one the troops at the moment in pre-production we start actual principal photography zits grand in and in about three weeks it's it's the fact that every day I get up at about 6:00 to to to get to our production office and nice and early and I very sort of you know hyper and excited and write down notes about things and then people starts up coming in by 7:00 it ones you can't a stately talented design and departments and production plants and everything and I get shown it's all the time here seven cigarette cases which one for this character which one for that character here cigarette holders here of shooting sticks and then suddenly well done my mind is reeling about which cigarette case was going which character suddenly someone comes in talks about music how much you know do you want a you want a live band in this scene how many in the orchestra and so and suddenly your whole life is revolving around the music in the film and then suddenly the cameraman and the operator will come in and I'll stop talking about shots and then you had driven off to a recce to look at a location and so every day is dividing these extraordinarily intense slices and I'm absolutely loving it the I just don't I just get desperate when I hear about some really good film girls that open and there's a good director because you get I don't want anybody I want every film that is made from now for the next year to be appalling every so dreadful that my might be watchable may be hearing about his wonderful films and is slightly despairing but I'm looking for an enormous city but about next year something yes yeah yes so you got too familiar you got insomnia rods were [ __ ] I am sorry when you aim back on any Street yes look well quickly you'll go to the opening of an envelope yeah there's insomnia one-hour photo and the sequel to insomnia incontinence which is just when you thought it was safe so she said you said you mentioned in passing good will humping and and is there at the ridge Oh every time I thought they would never be you know they would the reference wants the fact that every hit film that's made there's a poem there's a plot Quibbler cook plays oh oh yeah shaving Ryan's privates I thought when they made Crouching Tiger they could never make a porno my version of that like hung foo no there but they actually made crotchless tiger something's dragon oh it's like oh no every movie every movie are you getting the bone yes we have all of them it's every movie comes out they make a porn version of it which is great they never make a classical porno movie though which is so that's the way you like it really hardcore Shakespearean actors going I'm part you like the Red Sea Elisabeth right do the talk does pro you shall know my name without knowing but this uncle fees did not doing and pulling that gentle thing and calling my warned and glaze you like a Danish do you we Cornie Toscano till the major does become minor has you not know speak to me and run gentle moves without choreo names girl pinch faced one Oh giant set and curly not but you're Tony Blair just say the word and George be not going into the bush we shall classical corns the basketball settling scene entitled bog well we're back that completely back on plan you know it's nice to be the quiet one right here yeah Tyrus you've been the quiet one only can you I know I'm in normally man a few words as you know but Jojo miss mister Liguria here it's fun please help the locket I am Sam yes absolutely it's terrific I mean good God good how many are born of your I mean it is it's a people look yacht you have yet you have to when the gene causes jacuzzi this is what you get your dad children yes you have spawned listen only a Robin lamb somewhere where there are more of you where you can you know there's others who speak to shovel on the beat of your dramatic god bless these drawings I have followed you enough to know that it's so fast that people assume it must be learnt or that I said this before the dinner party so I'm gonna say it again but I swear dude these things come out just yeah workers are what he's doing unlike a lot of artists is deeply disturbing and often slightly also dear mrs. Picasso Dada still won't play with the others there's a nine-hole clay that you know which but he was asked how in constructive itch and said I take a line for a walk that's honest dude yeah you're right yeah i combined for take a joke for a while yeah abused it and bring it home waste I'm just riffing oh yeah but this does the same thing yeah you riff off tonight he wasn't able to get window he did he did he got it into whoo but anyway so back to Durrell listen so all proceeds for your book go to that that course and we look forward to good news yes absolutely you make an announcement to the effect that have been issuers it's been arranged we will we will you'll be able to see the birth and the the bloody membranous sack on on the internet if you choose to look at it Aksum ww bear - rescue dot TV dot slash members I just want to say I just heard this the other day it's a rather sweet story it's not funny but it's rather sweet you know there is this domain as they're called dot TV which we have on bear s cube TV it's it's from the island of Tuvalu which is a tiny little island what is it tiny like them but it's a tiny little eyes and tiny tiny little man who tries to dine in Thailand one of the cool one would somebody the Cook Islands and and it was dirt poor like some of the are you know just sort of blowing winnow sort of fertilizer sacks and horrible signs of modern man having come and raped it of its minerals and its fruits and then just back it off again leaving a rather to disgruntled people but now it has hospitals and roads and libraries and it's shining with wealth because just through this ludicrous accident that its domain initials are TV and an all media all around the world have paid top dollar as they say to have so they can have you know if you wanted to you could be WWE Parkinson TV you can be a good buy it and the money would go because they very cunningly didn't sell it to some shyster who had spotted it before they kept the killer on dementia to make the money and so the near nearby islands of Rumble umber or whatever I'm really thinking yeah why did blanket we call our island calm yeah wwwwww before that we the island of the stuttering people people people the island of calm and alain de WWB give it a bit dot with the island island of dot music you pay us money WW come where are you at koat.com thank you I love you too they will see the comic version of ISM is a famous there was a famous Don at Cambridge who who was said to know everything and and people get really pissed off it was no subject they could raise without which he couldn't join in and in the comic version so so they they got together were for hitting his lot and and when he was some sitting near them they said what s astonishing news for the Danish Football League isn't it and he then pointed yes who would have believed that Elsinore would have been beaten by Copenhagen United like that quite extraordinary but of course they've just done structure and he knew everything about the Danish triple link so they just as it were ripped up every idea and gave it away and I daresay if we could have a competition if someone in the audience could shout out a subject on which Robin could not discourse until you you you are either wet yourself or or had a baby or vomited with laughter I can you think of one over these hobbies well we've affected the reason what's the producers going on let's go the logorrhea foundation darkness and his a fish yes good boy good boy Stephen frog Thank You Virginia thanks to my guest being a triangle but it's next sheep I guess a poor white house Gillian Anderson Paula Grady and madness

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Views: 3,430,479

Rating: 4.8496966 out of 5

Keywords: Michael Parkinson, Stephen Fry, Robin Williams, Parkinson, Interview

Id: 39ya2Drpj3s

Length: 26min 58sec (1618 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 27 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/hitmyspot]

I saw another Parkinson with Robin Williams alone. Parky said 'How are you?' When he entered. Robin spoke for the rest of the show. Everyone else laughed.

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I didn't watch to the very end but I got the feeling Stephen was going to punch Williams! I'm sure it was all good natured though.

[u/Masuchievo]

That man was unstoppable.

[u/vibrate]

Robin Williams is funny about 10% of the time.

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For anyone else wondering, the correct aspect ratio appears to be 16:10, at least in VLC.

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That was fantastic.