The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore.

Hutchinson. In the 1994 romantic comedy film I.  
Fry Stephen (2000).

As half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster. Fry's acting roles include the lead in the film Wilde Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder the titular character in the television series Kingdom a recurring guest role as Dr. After a troubled childhood and adolescence during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud he secured a place at Queens' College Cambridge where he studied English Literature.