Stephen Fry is the god of geeks. He’s an intellectual heavyweight, titan of trivia, humourist, essayist, polymath, inveterate tweeter – not to mention one of the finest comic actors and presenters on TV. And he’s keeping me up at night.
Stephen Fry will be speaking to me at the iTunes Festival 2009
Why? Because I’ve been asked to introduce Mr Fry, and quiz him, when he gives a speech on the internet and all things tech at the Roundhouse this Sunday, as part of the iTunes Festival . The world hasn’t witnessed such an intellectual mismatch since… well, since Alan Davies sat next to Stephen Fry on the most recent episode of QI.
Nonetheless, you don’t get the opportunity to hobnob with your heroes very often – so my shock quickly turned to joy. Joy, that is, tinged with gut-wrenching fear at the idea of treading the boards in front of a thousand Fry fans, trying to think of something quick witted to say… or something quick… or just something…
But of course it’ll be fine. I mean, it’s not like it’s going to be recorded and put onto the iTunes store for posterity. Oh, wait…
So i’ve set myself a task: to learn more about the man, the ideas, the novels, the TV shows, the stephenfry.com website, the musings, the podcasts… and that torrent of tweets. But first: an early morning showing of Brüno. And maybe a pizza. Gotta keep things in perspective.
If you have any questions you’d like me to ask of Stephen Fry chirrup away at twitter.com/tomdunmorestuff
Sadly all of the free tickets to Stephen’s speech have already been allocated, but you can still win places for other gigs over at the iTunes Festival Facebook page.
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