Erudite raconteur Stephen Fry is to take part in a gruntathon for Comic Relief.
Fry, 57, has never uttered random sounds except for his famous Blackadder 'Baaaah!'
'It's going to be a challenge' said Fry. 'I have never premeditatedly uttered monosyllabic reverberations and grunts as it is not in keeping with my public persona as an all round good egg, brain-box and prince of swimwear.'
After his recent aetheist polemic that scared a slightly baffled Gay Byrne, and his hosting of the BAFTA's this sunday, Fry's stock has never been higher.
'Now is the ideal time to guilt ordinary people into charitable giving that should be covered by increased government expenditure on foreign aid and the taxation of the rich' said rich man Richard Curtis, founder of Comic Relief.
'There are many people in Africa who live in utterly shit conditions so we get the working poor and middle classes of Britain to give money they can barely afford to people who undoubtedly have even shitter lives whilst people similar to me are drinking cocktails on yachts.'