- Reaction score
- 67
Watch this video and start about about the 1:55 mark.
I will transcribe story below for people who don't want to go to YouTube and watch the video.
Stewart: "Shall I tell you how I lost it?"
BBC: "Yes"
Stewart: "There was a man who had been in school with me, a Drama School... A Hungarian. He was older than the rest of us. He'd run his own theatre in Budapest. He was a man of STRONG personality. A good loyal friend to me. He was also a Judo Black Belt. Very strong, very powerful.
He and his wife invite me for lunch one day. The two of them got up at the end of lunch, I thought they were going to make coffee or something. All of a SUDDEN I was grabbed from behind. It was this great powerful man. I thought he was playing some kind of game. So I was laughing and joking.
Then his WIFE appeared in front of me with a pair of scissors. I knew in an INSTANT what she was going to do. I began to SCREAM and SHOUT. Now it was SERIOUS! I mean I was FIGHTING, I was FIGHTING to keep my appearance... and she lifted it up (comb-over hairs on the top of his head) and CUT IT ALL OFF! Then George, still holding me came around and knelt down in front of me. He said "NOW YOU BE YOURSELF! ... no more hiding"...
He was right. I used to walk like this... (Stewart gets up and slouches with head down). Because, you know, I was embarrassed. (Crowd laughs). I couldn't stand up properly. It was not only inhibiting me as a person, it was hopeless.
