Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and others in “Unfinished Business”

Stephen Fry

The Eiffel Tower. They loathed it. Guy de Maupassant loathed it so much that his favourite restaurant was …?

Alan Davies

The "Eiffel Tower is Crap" Bistro.

Stephen Fry

No, it was in the Eiffel Tower.

Alan Davies

Oh, so he didn't have to look at it.

Stephen Fry

So—exactly. The one place in Paris he couldn't see the Eiffel Tower was inside the Eiffel Tower.

Marcus Brigstocke

Could he not maybe just ask for a chair facing the other way?

Stephen Fry

He was a French writer trying to make a point, and therefore a git.