Stephen Fry @stephenfry Twitter profile

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2 years

No @BorisJohnson no no no no no NO! Under absolutely no circumstances. Ever. Ever ever ever, d’you hear?

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Weep for Britain. A sick, cynical brutal and horribly dangerous coup d’état. Children playing with matches, but spitefully not accidentally: gleefully torching an ancient democracy and any tattered shreds of reputation or standing our poor country had left.

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OK. Until this thing is over we’ve all got to be helpful, friendly and kind to each other, understood? Hatchets buried. Grievances forgotten. Disputes resolved. Feuds ended. Strangers smiled at. When the final whistle is blown we can go back to be being mean and beastly. Agreed?

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Maybe those who have the original, witty and clever idea of saying "Why can't we have a STRAIGHT Pride month?" might ask themselves how many times they've been shamed, bullied, mocked, stigmatised, isolated, beaten, terrorised, assaulted for being straight

London bus attack: Arrests after gay couple who refused to kiss beaten

Melania Geymonat and her partner Chris were set upon by a group of men on a London night bus.

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2 years

I first met Robbie Coltrane almost exactly 40 years ago. I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, “Alfresco”. Farewell, old fellow. You’ll be so dreadfully missed

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@Digbylj You are everything linguists and true lovers of language despise. Also, since we’re being picky, you are not “Lord Digby Jones”, you are Digby, Lord Jones. There’s a world of difference. But however you’re titled, you disgrace the upper house with your misplaced snobbery

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3 years

6 football clubs have achieved something that no politician or public figure has managed in these times of fracture, fission & feuding. They have brought together the whole divided nation, indeed all of Europe – everyone united in disgust & revulsion at such greed and stupidity

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3 years

When I sat for this portrait by Thomas Gainsborough about … ooh let's see … 260 years ago I never thought it would go on sale at Sotheby's. Now the secret of my immortality is out. Just hope the nude 4th century BC sculpture Praxiteles made of me in Athens doesn't come to light

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3 years

Oh no, what horrible news… I think it safe to say that the best episodes of QI that I was involved with were always the ones where Sean Lock was a guest. Such complete brilliance in every comic direction. What a loss. My heart goes out to his family.

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3 years

Well, I for one am very sorry to see the old boy go. But I know there are plenty out there keen to tell us all how little they care. So keen that you might almost think that they … well … care

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3 years

Happy Anniversary to me and that wonderful man who was mad enough to say "I do" six years ago today...

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5 years

Oh my, Rebecca. And right by your clam ... heaven bless us all. I am greatly honoured. Important I dedicate the rest of my life to not doing or saying anything so dreadful that you have to remove me ... xx

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5 years

But will science ever find an answer to Anne Widdecombe?

Ann Widdecombe says 'science may produce an answer' to being gay

Her comments have prompted a huge backlash

www.bristolpost.co.uk

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3 years

I’d forgotten what a pleasant thing a cheese and tomato sandwich is. I am aware that this is one of the dullest and most banal tweets in history. Accept my apologies. Still. They are nice.

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6 years

It hardly needs me to add words, but having narrowly survived 3 suicide attempts I hope the grim public stories this week remind us all of the many sad stories that don’t make the headlines, each leaving its own trail of tears & incomprehension. Be watchful of those you love x

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5 years

I think we can all agree that this is a fine headline

Giant's erection to be polished by hand for two weeks

It will take two weeks. Pictured are a group of men concentrating on the shaft and balls.

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4 years

Farewell, Terry Jones. The great foot has come down to stamp on you. My god what pleasure you gave, what untrammelled joy and delight. What a wonderful talent, heart and mind

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2 years

Bearer Party, to the pub - quick march. Bearer Party, lift tankard. Bearer party, down beer. You’ve earned it.

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6 years

Just overwhelmed by the kindness of so many of you. It means the world to me. Intensely aware of how lucky I am. Thank you, thank you xxx

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2 years

He’s still Prime Minister?

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5 years

I'm trying to work out whether your misbegotten brand of fatuous nationalism about a team composed of several players born overseas & captained by an Irishman is a) calculatedly stupid b) accidentally stupid c) a peculiar joke d) the result of a malevolent hack

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4 years

Happy Wood Anniversary to me and my most marvellous and miraculous husband. 5 fabulous years. Hurrah!

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2 years

10 minutes of your time - you won't be disappointed. Thank you, @GeorgeMonbiot

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2 years

She was groomed by dark-money lobby groups working for Big Tobacco, Big Oil and foreign oligarchs. Now Liz Truss is in office and trashing this country on their behalf.

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4 years

Well now. I've started this thing called #AnimalCrossing – I'm very much taken by the voices of hosts Timmy & Tommy, but am so far somewhat perplexed by the POINT of it all. Is it, in this sense, a metaphor for life itself? I hope not, for I may have pitched my tent ill-advisedly

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2 years

Looking forward to twenty-two minutes past ten tomorrow evening - 22.22 on 22.2.22 - it’ll be just too too exciting

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3 years

Never felt a thing! Fancy the call to be jabbed sending me to Westminster Abbey of all spectacular places. Under the eye of the poets of Poets Corner and a dozen sleeping kings and queens… thank you #NHS staff and volunteers. Amazing work. Grateful to be armed against the enemy!

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4 years

@MattHancock You. Are telling us our civic duty. You?

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7 years

She was the brightest, funniest, bravest, kindest, cleverest and sweetest person I ever knew. A crushing blow to lose @carrieffisher

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2 years

Oh dear. Oh my. Oh heavens. Bless my soul. Oh lor. Heck.

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4 years

As you can see, I’ve been stockpiling…

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7 years

Stability? Stability? In what deluded universe can a humiliated minority weakly clinging to power award itself the word "stability"?

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2 years

He’s STILL Prime Minister?

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3 years

David Attenborough has shared his hope for COP26. Let’s spread this powerful message and show world leaders we're all watching 👏 #EyesonCOP26

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2 years

@Q66Suzi Oh for heaven’s sake grow up. Do you really think any sentient adult in the world believes there is such a thing as “The Anti Growth Coalition” outside the squalid and outdated playbook of the fatuous sloganeers your party pays to advise them? Give the British people some credit

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2 years

I don’t know wrote this, but they deserve a round of drinks, a round of Chocolate Hobnobs and a round of applause…

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3 years

What a fabulous idea!

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4 years

I think another point is to imagine that the person you’re tweeting about/to might just be at the end of their tether at that moment. Your snide post, even if you didn’t mean to be cruel, could be the thing that tips them into real misery. Worth considering that.

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4 years

'It used to be you'd say it to your family in the kitchen, 'Oh that person's awful. Aren't they so up themselves? ... Whereas now people type that quite happily' @stephenfry has his say on online trolls.

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8 years

Farewell #GeneWilder , comic genius. Thank you for all those happy happy hours.

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7 years

She loved to give one the oddest and most randomly silly presents. These are the last three things she gave me. #CarrieFisher

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5 years

The Greatest Match. I feel for New Zealand who played so so well. Luck went England’s way, but what a great side they are. I feel sorry for those who don’t get cricket. They miss the most exquisite feelings of joy, agony, tension, thrill, surprise, glory and wonder. #CWC19Final

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6 years

Sad. Proud. Annoyed. Relieved. Disappointed. Unsurprised. Impressed. Vexed. Gutted. Elated. Deflated. Despondent. Encouraged. Defeated. Defiant. Broken. Resilient. Inspired. Silly. All those things #ENGvCRO 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇭🇷

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7 years

I have nothing to add

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2 years

Allow me to add FUCK NO! Never ever ever. Hell’s teeth and a bucket of blood. Seriously, what kind of resistance can we engage in to stop this imponderably catastrophic eventuality? I love my country: to see it being shafted by this unspeakably squalid moral vacuum … HELL NO

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5 years

Merry Christmas one and Merry Christmas all. May a million shimmering glimmering blessings rain down upon you. Catch you in 2019

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2 years

It’s like #wordle but instead of guessing a word, we have to guess which of two candidates the membership of the Conservative Party will choose. It’s called #turdle

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2 years

I don’t know why I’m sobbing. Silly really. Oh dear.

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2 years

Well, simmer me in prune juice and call me Daisy. I never knew till now that you can tell which side of a car the filler cap is on by a little arrow next to the petrol pump icon. 64 years on the planet shrouded in ignorance. My life is changed forever

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5 years

Boris no more represents “the will of the people” than I, you, or the penguins in London Zoo. Only one way to find out and that’s to ask… Some points to bear in mind, meanwhile.

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3 years

This literally happened. The tube just tumbled to the floor as I was screwing on the top. Slightly irritated. Then it occurred to me that the word I wanted was “crestfallen” and that cheered me up #truestory

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3 years

You know Christmas is truly over when your fingers riffle through a box of After Eights and all the little envelopes are empty. Every single one … *sob*

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7 years

There’s nothing I can add to this

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5 years

At exactly this moment 50 years ago I was 11 years old and my eyes were fixed on fuzzy images arriving from 238,900 miles away. Everything seemed possible. A golden, space-age future for humanity beckoned. And wow, has it ever arrived. I own a WiFi enabled coffeemaker. #Apollo50

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2 years

Fucking right…

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4 years

The bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover and the nightingales in Berkeley Square are singing you to your final rest, Dame Vera – quite a life, sleep well...

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9 years

Gosh. @ElliottGSpencer and I go into a room as two people, sign a book and leave as one. Amazing. http://t.co/bPDQD5WQoB

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4 years

Oh I think so.

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4 years

Just heard the devastating news of the death of Tim Brooke-Taylor. A hero for as long as I can remember, and –on a few golden occasions – a colleague and collaborator on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Gentle, kind, funny, wise, warm, but piercingly witty when he chose to be. So sad

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5 years

Many thanks to the W Norfolk Islamic Assoc for inviting me to their celebration of Iftar. A first for me. I’m not one with religious faith, but I do have faith in humanity, warmth & kindness (and the food was delicious too) شكرا جزيلا

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4 years

Golly, Muse are rather good, aren’t they?

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2 years

He’s going! Bless my soul

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5 years

I have decided, in keeping with tradition, to compose a moustache for #Movember - I hope it doesn’t occasion the world too much distress. The cause is worth it, I feel. I shall post photographic updates each weekend, so be elsewhere if you have a nervous or sensitive disposition.

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3 years

I done did do bake a carrot cake

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4 years

Pathetic by most standards, but I made a chicken pie and it has given me deeeep pleasure

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3 years

What a glorious day for two remarkable young women. Yes, it may be ‘only’ sport, but in that ‘only’ there can be found so much of human joy, despair, glory, disappointment, wonder and hope. A brief flicker of light in a dark world. #EmmaRaducanu #LeylahFernandez #USOpenFinal

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For the last 2 months I've been in the throes of a rather unwelcome and unexpected adventure. I'm sorry I haven't felt able to talk about it till now, but here I am explaining what has been going on:

Something rather mischievous - Official site of Stephen Fry

A message from Stephen Fry

www.stephenfry.com

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Surprised to find that I feel almost sorry for her. Imagine having power, yet no shred of authority, dignity or respect. Faintly pathetic.

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4 years

Well, you can’t deny that We’ll Meet Again is one heck of an ear worm. I went to bed humming it and there it was in my head this morning when I woke up. I expect it’ll leave me but … don’t know where, don’t know when …

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Good lordy, lord - is there really a conspiracy theory that denies the existence of Finland, I mean I’ve been there. Visited Santa Claus and everything. Although admittedly I am a deep state cultural Marxist Illuminati lizard, so perhaps you should doubt me…

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4 years

Treating myself to a tweeting holiday. The plan is to be contentedly absent from Twitter for perhaps a month or so. Catch you later…

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8 years

What desperately sad news about Alan Rickman. A man of such talent, wicked charm & stunning screen & stage presence. He'll be sorely missed

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5 years

Words fail us at such times, but New Zealand should know that we weep with them. In whose name and on whose behalf do the brutal perpetrators of this abominable crime believe they are acting? Send messages of love and support to your nearest mosque.

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2 years

I’ve just discovered that @JohnCena follows me here on Twitter. I can’t quite explain why, but that makes me very happy

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6 years

Let me assure you – many proud Britons like me are sitting around dreaming up FAR bigger insults to the mobster-in-chief who himself insults the office he so corruptly holds. But you and your elite friends can toady away, the true British have higher aspirations.

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Sadiq Khan has allowed an inflatable “Trump baby” blimp to fly in London. This is the biggest insult to a sitting US President ever.

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6 years

Thank you all for your VERY kind birthday wishes. Happy still to be here to attain another prime number – 61. Balloons arising from my twitter page like bubbles from a bath and all is well.

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7 years

Vote vote vote. I know you don't want to, but please do. It's your vote that may bring change & a dash of hope & belief. So vote vote vote!

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6 years

Congratulations @elonmusk and #SpaceX - how I wish Douglas Adams were alive to see “Don’t Panic” in large friendly letters on the Tesla That was a classy addition.

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Hope it’s not weird of me to think that people in masks often look rather attractive. The eyes, you know. The suggestion of hidden mystery. Hence the appeal of veils through history I suppose. Maybe it’s just me. In which case, forget I spoke. Move along now.

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2 years

Thank you for your birthday wishes, everyone - how very kind you all are xxxx

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Hang on, he’s still prime minister???

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6 years

What the heckfire? 400,000 followers expunged! At a stroke? Nearly half a million of my devoted adherents were BOTS? It explains so much. At least I can now relax in the knowledge that we scattered lonely survivors are the finest and fairest. We’ve lost the maniacs and trolls.

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Such sad news, one of the absolute greats of British comedy, Barry Cryer, is no more. A glorious, gorgeous, hilarious and gifted writer and performer who straddled all the comic traditions. Universally beloved … farewell, Baz.

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Damn, but I was thin…

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2 years

Love and support to the brave people of Ukraine, and to my Russian friends and followers banned from protesting and expressing their shame and indignation at the horrors perpetrated by their deranged and brutal leader #solidarityWithUkraine

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6 years

Ha!

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2 years

Well, a slightly better night’s sleep ahead than I had expected…

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4 years

My first attempt at sourdough bread is cooling… took five days to prepare and feed the active starter. The loaf has certainly risen - we’ll have to see how it tastes… silly how exciting it all is

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And a happy birthday to m'col @HughLaurie – a finer, nobler fellow never trod on grass – may angels breathe in his ear, butterflies beat their wings about his head & nightingales sing his praises. Until tomorrow, when he can bloody well get along without them like the rest of us

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My new t-shirt…

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5 years

So the second referendum was all Jacob Rees-Mogg's idea! You can see him introduce it to parliament here in the little film we've made that we hope separates real fact from real fear in this vexed issue tearing our poor nation apart...

Brexit: Facts vs Fear, with Stephen Fry.

How Boris conjured a mythical EU dragon and the striking truth behind it all. A trick of forced perspective put fear in the way of facts. Voiced by Stephen F...

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Aren't these BRILLIANT though!?

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4 years

Thursdays are unnecessary, don’t you feel? Be so much better if we went straight from Wednesday to Friday. Who’s with me? #ThursdayOut

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7 years

It's my fault. Last time I was in Britain a referendum gave us Brexit. Then I went to the US & Trump happened. Now I come home and… #sorry

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5 years

Well for heaven's sake ... where's the rewind? I need to go back and start all over again

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6 years

Absolutely goodness gracious me (via @pettore )

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He’s still Prime Minister??

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2 years

I hope paradise is as you remember it from the dashboard light, Meat Loaf. Had a fun time performing a sketch with him on Saturday Live way back in the last century -