Stephen Fry

Or is the sound of the barrel being scraped getting in the way?

If there's one thing that is joyous, it's to have a friend who is messier, more disordered, later.

than one is oneself.

One can polish one's medals and think, at least I get things done better than John.

But no, John is a genius, as you know.

He's a magnificent mind and a wonderful man.

But, yeah, like my dear friend Douglas Adams, he has a casual relationship with the deadline.

He's like my husband.

who is absolutely wonderful but is just not a punctual person.

So if we're going out somewhere, I just find myself always pacing up and down by the front door, knowing the taxi's there, terrified that it's going to give up and drive away.

And I'll sort of try not to call up.

And once he came up with this immortal line when I was really panicking as we were about to leave.

I don't know what you're fussing about.

We're not late yet.

LAUGHTER

I love that.

That word, yet.

Wow.

I haven't checked, to be honest.

It went down about five years ago from 16 million when they had a great clean-out of bots.