SO HOW DO you go about convincing Stephen Fry that he has a Polish builder doppelgänger?
You start with this Buzzfeed article.
(In case you are confused – that is not Hugh Laurie. Really. It is in fact a Russian plumber who looks like Hugh Laurie.)
Inspired by the picture, Twitter funnyman @MrNickHarvey tweeted a picture of Stephen Fry with a similar caption.
Unfortunately, no one got that it was actually a picture of Stephen Fry.
Including Stephen Fry.
We know – it’s impossible to believe that he wasn’t just playing along, but eventually the penny dropped.
Oh Stephen. Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.
Meanwhile, Nick’s pretty delighted with himself:
So really it’s quite simple to convince Stephen Fry he has a doppelgänger, because as it turns out, Stephen Fry doesn’t recognise his own face.
