Stephen Fry: he was good as Jeeves. Photograph: David Sillitoe
Is Stephen Fry only just turning 50? I thought he'd been 50 for yonks.
He's a sweet man but I don't much admire his career - he seems to have cast himself as an all-purpose media clever-clogs like Robert Robinson, a raconteur and 'stalwart' of literary festivals and the like, but I would have thought he could have done something more interesting, given that he supposedly has a brain the size of Wales and loads of money.
I liked that TV documentary he made about manic depression, but I can't think of anything else I've admired recently. His autobiography was lamentable. His greatest service to literature was inspiring Simon Gray's brilliant book Fat Chance, when he ran away to Bruges and had a nervous breakdown, but since it was unintentional it doesn't really count. He was good as Jeeves.
