to find Stephen Fry downright dull and tedious when hosting award shows?

[Lottapianos]

He got right on my thrupenny bits during the BAFTAs last night, droning on and on with his unfunny drivel instead of just flipping well getting on with it. Helena B-C looked very unamused when he made some crappy joke about her bursting into song without even having a drink first - har bloody har

How on earth can he be considered a 'national treasure' (whatever that means) rather than a vain smug misogynist twit?

I know he's very Marmite so I'm prepared to be flamed

Loving the idea of Graham Norton - I met him at an awards show once and he was so funny and super camp. Also extremely orange and wearing a silver lame suit hee hee

Bet he only grew a beard so he could make that joke.

No, Gervais would be terrible. I have no idea why they let him loose with the Golden GLobes. His bloody laugh!

Christoph Waltz is really great. He has been fantastic in everything I have seen him in (only 4 films mind you).

Graham Norton would be very good, don't know though perhaps the Baftas are a bit serious.

Damian Lewis - great idea!

Kevin Spacey also very funny and would do a good job

Just not Claudia Winkleman for the love of sanity

I don't blame HBC for not being amused.

Graham, Graham, Graham! < fist pumping and holding a banner , luv u Graham> .

High Laurie would be a good idea as well.

Would be nice to get away from stuttering englishmen of a certain class and age who like to drop into the mix their days at Cambridge though.

OOh talking of Cambridge middle aged people what about Emma Thompson (highlight of her career: "Raaar I've got a porsche' before getting blown up on the Young Ones)

I'm so glad somebody posted this, I thought it was just me that couldn't stand him, to the point where I shout out loud 'oh for Christ sake, not HIM again'. He's absolutely everywhere but still peddling that 'I'm so shy and retiring' bullshit. Did anyone see him on Claridges, trying to make out he'd live there when he's older if only he could afford it, when he's a multi, multi millionaire and the interest he earns alone would cover it? Insincere gobshite that he is.

Re Damian Lewis, I liked the Clare Danes interview, where she said she thought British men were quite charming and intellectual, but she knows better now. Didn't mention any names though.

I love the name Nayfindus.

Damian Lewis was very funny on the Jonathan Ross show, self deprecating (and probably a bit pissed).

I didn't know it was just we Scots that say 'face tripping her' Mrs Jay, I've learnt something. I'm pretty sure 'face like a smacked arse' is from us too

Thanks GetOrf. The name FreshKnickers was already taken (more aspiration than achievement some days .... )

I can't bear the guy. He is off the scale on the smug-o-meter. Or if he isn't, then he comes across as if he is. I think his verbal diarrhea (sp) on the BAFTAs last night was cringeworthy (and in previous years too). There MUST be someone better. The Brits they wheel out for these do's like Ricky Gervais, Jonathan Ross are all knobbish imo. Whenever the cameras panned round the audience to the person he was 'making a joke' about, that person either looked pissed off, has raised eyebrows, looked embarrassed or as if they were humouring him because he was a 'national treasure' and because he's British and posh.

I can't stand the bloke. He's a self important, pompous twat. Kathy Burke should host it next time.

He grew a beard because he's been in Twelfth Night.

And HBC was photographed pissed in a pub a couple of days before the BAFTAs, so that's what THAT joke was.

Charlie Brooker would be a good alternative. "And the next award is.... Oh who the fuck cares."

I used to be largely ambivalent towards him, until I realised that the merest hint of non-obsessive devotion results in, without fail, a barrage of "How dare you? Don't you realise he's a precious sensitive little flower? You just don't get him! He's too witty for you! You don't understaaaaaaaand" comments.
Now the only thing I can cope with him in is Jeeves and Wooster, which proves he's only good for servitude.

I can't stand him. You should see his nasty rants about the Catholic Church on YouTube if the poor love can't take it then he shouldn't dish it out