...and come up with snappy one-liners that 1) made you laugh, and 2) defused the situation, making you realize that someone was trying to get you to be all serious about shit that no one has a right to get all serious about. In this clip, Stephen Fry (rather a master of the snappy retort himself, and both an appreciator of and collector of the artform) relates the story of when Winston Churchill was informed of a gay scandal in his government, back in the 1950s:
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