During the series, he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ).

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie ( Miranda Richardson ), Melchett ( Stephen Fry ), George ( Hugh Laurie ) and Darling ( Tim McInnerny ) – that he has built a working time machine.

* During the Future episode of QI ( series F, episode 9 ), Stephen Fry wears a Klingon Baldric.

The supporting cast included Olga Sosnovska, Stephen Fry and Eric Sykes and the series is also notable as the last screen performance by comedy legend Spike Milligan ( as the Headmaster ).

Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as " the funniest man who ever drew breath ", although his work was also controversial.

" Stephen Fry tweeted that Columbo was " TV ’ s greatest ever detective.

The pair began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, which inspired them to start writing comedy.

His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as " absolutely immortal — greatly in the tradition of Lear.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

* August 24 – Stephen Fry, British comedian, author, and actor

In a remake of The Dam Busters by Peter Jackson announced in 2008, Stephen Fry, the writer of the screenplay, said there was " no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word ".

* Kingdom ( TV series ), a British television drama starring Stephen Fry

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

: 1998 Stephen Fry, Making History

" Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as ' Old Bloomsbury ' Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, with Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell, and David Garnett as later additions ".

All the Cambridge men except Clive Bell and the Stephen brothers were also members of " the exclusive Cambridge society, the ' Apostles '"; there they met older members such as Desmond MacCarthy and Roger Fry as well as E. M. Forster and J. M. Keynes, who were all from King ’ s College.

* Stephen Fry, although not appearing in an official episode, took part in Victoria Wood Goes to Ambridge, a series of five mini-episodes written by Victoria Wood for Comic Relief in March 2005.

It was narrated by Stephen Fry and included interviews with current actors and scriptwriters.

The show recommenced on 15 June 2009 with Lyttelton being replaced by a trio of hosts: Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon.

The UK edition includes a foreword by Stephen Fry, and the US edition, instead, has an introduction by Christopher Cerf.

The paperback contains a foreword written by Stephen Fry ; the hardcover contains an introduction by Christopher Cerf.

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

Stephen Sondheim wrote the song " Comedy Tonight " for this new opening.

* Stephen Kuusisto wrote about his experiences as a visually impaired person in Planet of the Blind, and his upcoming memoir, Eavesdropping: A Life By Ear.

Visitors and merchants were especially struck by the beautiful monasteries and churches of the city, in particular, Hagia Sophia, or the Church of Holy Wisdom: A Russian 14th-century traveler, Stephen of Novgorod, wrote, " As for St Sophia, the human mind can neither tell it nor make description of it.

When he wrote to Stephen Spender in 1952, thanking him for a review of his Collected Poems, he added " Oh, & I forgot.

The ambiguity in his belief in religion mirrored the dichotomies between his public and private lives: Stephen Ingle wrote that it was as if the writer George Orwell " vaunted " his atheism while Eric Blair the individual retained " a deeply ingrained religiosity ".

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

Although this incurred the wrath of Bernard of Clairvaux, who wrote to Honorius expressing his disgust, Honorius pressured Stephen of Senlis to become reconciled with King Louis in 1130.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

Stephen therefore wrote to both Charlemagne and Carloman, protesting about the proposed alliance.

Stephen wrote to the rebellious bishops, suspending them and ordering them to place themselves once again under the authority of Grado, or face excommunication.

Stephen Hilgartner, the Cornell University science and technologies department chairman, wrote " The Sokal Affair in Context " ( 1997 ) comparing Sokal's hoax to " Confirmational Response: Bias Among Social Work Journals " ( 1990 ), an article by William M. Epstein published in Science, Technology & Human Values.

* Twigs ( 1971 ), play by George Furth, wrote song Hollywood and Vine ( Music by Stephen Sondheim and lyrics by George Furth )

* In December 2010, Stephen Colbert wrote and performed an " extended ending " to ' Send in the Clowns ' to composer Stephen Sondheim when he appeared on Colbert's program, The Colbert Report.

Some scientists think a more mathematical approach than philosophy is needed for a ToE, for instance Stephen Hawking wrote in A Brief History of Time that even if we had a ToE, it would necessarily be a set of equations.

Reviewing the book, Stephen F. Blinkhorn, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, wrote that The Mismeasure of Man was " a masterpiece of propaganda " that selectively juxtaposed data to further a political agenda.

Stephen King-Hall wrote a detailed eyewitness account of the surrender.

James Blood and Stephen Pearl Andrews wrote the majority of the articles, as well as other able contributors.

In a ' Declaration ' signed on 7 December 1896 and only to be opened after his death by his son Stephen, Gladstone wrote:

* 1984: British Pop impresario Malcolm McLaren wrote and performed a UK hit single, " Madame Butterfly ( Un bel dì vedremo )", produced by Stephen Hague, based on the opera and featuring the famous aria.

Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote the majority opinion ; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

Some scientists think a more mathematical approach than philosophy is needed for a TOE, for instance Stephen Hawking wrote in A Brief History of Time that even if we had a TOE, it would necessarily be a set of equations.

Cîteaux Abbey was founded in 1098 by a group of monks from Molesme Abbey, seeking to follow more closely the Rule of St. Benedict, under the leadership of Saint Robert of Molesme, who became the first abbot, Saint Alberic, the second abbot, and Saint Stephen Harding the third abbot, who wrote the Carta Caritatis, that described the organisation of the order.