QI Compilation | Stephen's Anecdotes
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Phil Jupitus's Hugh Laurie impression is 100% on point.
It makes me think of hugh laurie and steven fry in black adder goes forth.
it gave me intense flashbacks to jeeves and wooster
@@crimesinspaaace
_"Forty-seven ginger-headed saiiiiilors ..._
_Coming home, across the briney sea..._
_When the anchor's weighed_
_And the journey's made_
_They'll start the party with_
_A heave-ho, me-hearty...!"_ 🎶🎵
Yo, it's cool to see a religious leaders using the interwebs, good comment Rabbi Herschel.
I wasn't looking at the screen when he said that. I actually thought that was Hugh Laurie.
The mental image of a young and terrified Stephen Fry talking to Count Dooku over the phone while Grand Moff Tarkin watches is incredible.
Almost as incredible as the image of the Queen speaking on top of a table and elbowing him asking for cake.
What movie were Stephen and Christopher in together?
@@philipmonihan8222 they were both in Alice in wonderland but both did voices so I cant imagine they would have been in on the same day
@@more-reasons6655 Yeah, but Peter would have been long gone by then...
@@branting2 That was the best thing i ever heard i absolutely love it
"Peter. I have seen you buying vegetables."
I don't know why that's so funny.
I have seen you riding bicycles.
Dara then running with "you called him up" should be in the book of great improv moments, IMHO.
Such a shame we haven't had Steven back as a guest yet. Maybe for the final episode of season Z, you have to make it happen.
i kinda doubt it, but it would be quite a nice way to end it
He has been on No Such Thing As A Fish
It would be far too much pressure on both him and Sandy.
It's 'S' theme next year. You'd have to hope they get him in on an episode for that!
Also, I was thinking about the show ending on 'Z'. Maybe follow on with a series themed on numbers!
@@lezlezman1843 that would be fun! an entire episode on "stephens". 'even stephens' they could call it. cos then stephen wouldve tried being a guest with sandi as a host the same way shes been a guest during his time in the middle
just give the editor a raise already
Not too big of a raise 'though.
*Very* Duff steer on the baked beans thing.
(Possibly microwaving them first wasn't a great idea admittedly but, well, cold's hardly going to do it is it?)
Are you implying the editor is not fairly paid?
My favourite anecdote from QI is one Stephen told of Winston Churchill being woken by one of his staff one morning in the 1950s: "I'm afraid there's been a scandal, Prime Minister; one of our backbench MPs was found with a guardsman in St James's park in the bushes last night by the police and the papers got a hold of it."
Churchill said: "Last night?!"
"Yes" came the reply.
"Very cold last night, wasn't it?" Responded Churchill.
"Yes, Prime Minister, I believe it was one of the coldest February nights for thirty years".
Churchill replied: "Makes ya proud to be British!!".
I might be dumb but I don't get it.
I he insinuating they were just huddled up for wamth, or that's the story they'll be going with?
@@Manyhigh it's hard to maintain an erection in cold weather
@@nicolasdiaz1542 Either that or else it's simply that the British are a hardy bunch to cope with the cold.
@@Manyhigh It's a joke about how hardy British homosexuals can be.
@@Manyhigh It's simply what an achievement having sex in the freezing cold is.
The fact that he calls his parents "Mummy" and "Daddy", UNPROMPTED-
Very common among the British upper class and aristocracy.
@@emilchandran546 and VERY adorable
@@emilchandran546 among many of the British aristocracy they're the same person
Lots of people have no qualms about calling their parents the same thing they call them everyday when talking about them.
K. A. U. Yes but for most people that isn’t mummy and daddy. Most Poms will call their parents Mum and Dad, and some people will use their names. To my ears it sounds sort of infantile, a bit weird. But I also like it.
Can I just give a shout out for a little known man called Tommy Flowers.
He was a telephone engineer and the son of a bricklayer.
He build the computer that Alan Turin used. His place in history is almost forgotten but his contribution was immense
Wasn't he working at the local post office ?
There was a brilliant bbc documentary all about him and Bill Tutte narrated by Keeley Hawes.
m.czcams.com/video/FD0l8aAOiJI/video.html
Turing used a computer? Surely that would just have been for the regular decoding rather than breaking new codes?
@@jonatanrullman The computer Tommy Flowers built was the first modern proper electronic computer. But it was used to decode the later Lorenz codes, not the earlier Enigma codes. Those were decoded using what they called "bombes" that were electro-mechanical devices that essentially tried millions of possibilities until they found one that worked. So the Enigma code was broken by people like Turing, and first by a Polish team, but still involved a lot of time to work out the new code every day, in in war if you decoded a message a week later it would be useless. The bombes meant they could decode messages within hours.
A fun fact is that the first commercial company in the world to own a computer, and also to use it to run their business (doing stock control, accounting etc) was a British bakery and tea shop chain called Lyons Tea Shops. Incredibly they effectively designed and built it themselves, and would let universities use it at night for research. They then started making them and selling them to other businesses and called it LEO, Lyons Electronic Office. That became part of ILC which is now owned by Fujitsu.
I think Stephen might’ve lived one of the most fascinating lives of all time
That's true now but if you read his autobiographies you'd see it could have gone a totally different way, very badly! He managed to turn his life around but if he hadn't, early death or a lifetime of prison loomed. He transformed himself from a cheat, liar and thief into one of the UK's most respectable and greatly admired gentlemen but it was a very rough road and I think that deserves the most admiration of all!
@@lezlezman1843 thanks, I’m going to look that up. I love the guy but know exactly zero about his life.
@@chrisstar969 He tells his story from school life to early adulthood in "Moab Is My Washpot". Look for the audiobook...he reads it himself.
@@lezlezman1843 awesome, he’s one of the best audiobook narrators ever
All time? An intellectual entertainer?? Not even close.
Stephen properly geeks out over that phone call between Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee!
But what movie were they in together?
He really does! For a man to have seen so much of high society and the world, you can see where he really still gets his kicks
Ok but that Christopher Lee impression was _perfect._
Hello?! Who are you?!
But what movie were they in together?
@@philipmonihan8222 Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. (Stephen voiced Cheshire Cat & Lee did Jabberwocky). They were also both in one of the Hobbit movies.
@@urbanpoodle But Peter had passed away by then. Is there anything earlier? Maybe something that ended up not being produced?
@@philipmonihan8222 (Said) But Peter had passed away by then.
*That's* what makes it so eerie of course.
Stephen looks like exactly the type of man to have accidentally yeeted a hamster
_I'm Free! Free to conquer the world in my Hamster Ball Of Death! Oh crap, the door's closed. Curse you bastards, I shall be victorious one day!_
*yote
@@ashb7 *yate
Surely yeeting something with your foot is feeting.
I disagree. He looks like the type of person that wouldn't harm a fly. That's why the Royal family invited him. You think he would have gotten invited had they known about the hamster incident?
I love Emma being like "gotta get the nerdy mate to sort it" (I love how long her, him and Hugh have been friends, she introduced them)
0:12 Higson and Whitehouse, plasterers
0:55 The Mormon tour
2:32 Making an Oscar
3:27 Recovery of a screenplay
4:55 The hamster ball
5:32 Alan Turing and Apple Computers
6:22 The Owl and the AGA
7:26 A nudge from the Queen
8:17 Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable
9:05 A call to Christopher Lee
10:08 Vincent Price requests the mustard
10:40 A young man called Heinz
3:27
The late lamented Johnny Sessions...RIP, sir!
Bless you
The David Frost anecdote is the best... Shame it wasn't in the clip.
Thank you!
You are a rare youtube commenter champ.
😆👍
What? Down the shops?
Funny to realise that Emma Thompson was basically describing how she'd accidentally changed the font on her script to Wingdings.
No,it isn't. Whatever wingthings are.
🤣🤣🤣
I'm pretty sure if it was simply a matter of it being in wingdings, it wouldn't have taken Stephen 7 hours to figure it out. More than likely it was encoded.
@@ripdbtpoo1441 It's a font table in Windows Character Map. (I'm sure Macs have a program akin to Character Map, but called something else.) Instead of letters, it gives you all these crazy symbols. Since most people rarely need such, they may not even know the font is there. (I only know from one of the early "Windows for Dummies" books.)
@@stevevastayeah bit she had a computer repair person working on it before Stephone did. You would hope a repair person would recognise actual windings quick enough rather than claiming not to be able to do anything.
Notification: "watch Stephen's anecdotes"
Me: sadly i don't have 14 hours to spare right now but as soon as im free i shall watch immediately
To whoever edits these,
Bless you for this brilliant content
Now please tell your bosses to bring back the Qi online Encyclopedia
It's reassuring in a strange way to see someone as eloquent as Stephen mixing "chicken" and "chimney" at 7:12.
I mean he did say he was pissed 😂😂😂
Almost as good as when he should have said "cyanide" but instead said "saliva".
My mind is imploding at the thought of even having a conversation with PETER CUSHING, CHRISTOPHER LEE, AND VINCENT PRICE and have it not be the best achievement of your life
Can’t believe “buttock flossing” went unacknowledged 😂😂😂😂
It's almost like it fell through a crack.
But Stephen didn't come up with that. That's old.
That Heinz story has to be one of the greatest ever on QI.
Hilarious! And the fact that the guy just accepted it, and went on to university asking everyone to call him Heinz? Amazing!
Shame they ruined it with the censoring, if I recall all Stephen says is nob and masturbating but they both get censored, if the original didn't censor it why should it be in this video?
hesky10 Only a guess but the original would have been broadcast after the watershed but on CZcams anyone could see it.
hesky10 - youtube algorithm is real touchy with those sorta things.
I don’t have personal experience with this sorta thing, but if memory serves, I think it has to do with their advertisers and how it works.
So like, you might get a Pepsi commercial for example, but Pepsi might not want their brand associated with certain kinds of “adult content” or something, and they tell youtube their stipulations for advertising on their platform, but since youtube ads are targeted/algorithm based, they don’t have have truly discrete control over every ad that every person sees or when they see it, so they expect channels to “police themselves” and will potentially demonetize videos if they find out that they’re doing things advertisers don’t want them to do.
There was a push a few years back that some CZcamsrs I follow had addressed, where ever creator got an email and were pretty much told to stop swearing or risk demonetization, essentially. Many stopped, many others just went to the patreon model so that they could make whatever content they wanted 🤷🏻♂️
Nicknames can be funny like that, i know a grown man who has had the nickname Bambi since the age of 7 or 8. The poor kid cried when he was watching the Bambi movie and everyone called him Bambi after that. He totally owned up to the name, by now he'll be in his 40s and he's still known all around as Bambi. I must admit i even forgot his real name!
If I'd been in a room with Peter Cushing and he was calling Christopher Lee for me, my head would probably have about imploded...
0:56 As a gay ex-Mormon from Utah, Stephen Fry's response to the eternal family in Mormon doctrine was already 100% relatable because there are tons--TONS--of family members I never want to see again, much less spend eternity with, but I found out this week that Stephen Fry is gay (I know, I know, I'm the last one to know, I have no idea how it took so long...) so now the relatability has shot up to 200-300% because he KNOWS, he really KNOWS how much of a hell eternity with certain family members would be!
Hell I love my family and have a great relationship with them and I couldn’t stand eternity with them, too much arguing lol. Then again we’re all atheists and me and my sister are distinctly non heterosexual so it’s off to Mormon hell for me. Im excited, frankly
"what happens if you've been good"😂😂 I'm not sure what humanity did to deserve Stephen Fry, but long may it last
Stephen has the best stories & experiences, and he recalls them so eloquently. What a story teller
"... anyway, so that's my owl/Aga story, it wasn't worth telling, I'm pissed, never mind ..." 😆
I’d like to think the hamster lived a long happy life. Regaling friends at dinner parties about the time he got kicked by Stephen Fry.
The image i have in my head is a of said hamster, bored, sadly looking at all the lovely grass, when suddenly "here comes Fry, for Oxford!" and then the hamster's in slow motion, gleefully tumbling through space while the chorus to "space oddity" blazes away through the speakers, before zooming through open french windows and splatting, unharmed, onto a child's spaghetti on toast.
I need to get out more...
@@peterclarke7240 You should write a screenplay about this hamster.
@@PastaBakeMilkShake Thank you, that's very kind of you. I should certainly do more with my life... I have a weird imagination that surely someone will pay me to turn into stories. 🤣
Fry... for Cambridge though, surely?
And then that "Heinz" character became Prime Minister
Can't be, Stephen said he was really nice.
The mormon story will never not make me laugh! 😂
BACKWARDS BRETT DO YOU MEAN IT WILL ALWAYS MAKE YOU LAUGH 😒
Quite possibly one of the best examples of human kind. Unquestionably an incredible entertainer and beyond value to British television.
Phill Jupitus can be lethally funny!!!!!!!!!!! :D
"Black pepper, sir?"
I think I'm dying!
So there's a taxi driver somewhere in the UK telling all his mates: "You won't believe who got into my cab once at three in the morning, in her dressing gown no less!"
"God knows why, but she was lugging a computer... and you REALLY won't believe whose home I ended up driving her to!"
@@lilymarinovic1644 "She jumped out, yelling "Leave the meter running" and didn't come back for seven hours. Easiest day's pay ever!"
I always have this terrible thought that Emma Thompson's script was just put into Wingdings and none of them had ever heard of such a thing
I just had a very similar thought! Imagine spending seven hours staring at a monitor, only to realise that the script was just in a ludicrous font. 😭
The intros to these are always so fantastic
That'd be the best Hugh Lawrie voice I've heard since Hugh Lawrie. What a great collection of stories! Right people to tell, too.
What about Hugh Laurie?
@@waynemarvin5661 Oh, HIM.
I love Stephens intellectual monologues.His Christopher Lee voice is spot on.
1:30 -- If it's any comfort to the Mormons, the largest organ in the world with over 33,000 pipes is not owned by a religious organization, but by the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. It was, astonishingly, boarded up for decades, and many visitors to Atlantic City didn't even know it was there. Now in poor repair, it's in the process of being restored. The Wikipedia article on this organ has a picture of the console. It would be a daunting instrument to play. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Hall_Auditorium_Organ
Thanks so much for that info, I had no idea. I'm glad it's being restored.
By golly, I hope they keep it securely locked at night. Can you just imagine the drunks making their way home, breaking into it and firing it up, pretending to be Mozart?
Thats quite interesting
I was waiting for Stephen to make a joke about the biggest organ...
@@TheNapalmFTW That might have sent the Mormons straight to their fainting couches.
Stephen will always be my favouritr celebrity crush. What an absolute stud both in mind and body.
Stephen's holiday outfits are fantastic! I am so in love with his wit and charm.
I'd be ok with myself if I could be 1/20th the person Stephen is. What a legend. A reminder that true beauty has nothing to do with what we are but who we are. If im ever ashamed of a soul you'll know where ill be.
What does that last bit mean?
You could begin by learning the use of apostrophes in contractions.
@@SpeccyMan pick on people for their education? you're nice and normal😒
Is it hard being perfect?
@@clockworkkirlia7475 it means when I'm down about me and people I'll be here watching this video, pretending that everyone is just like Stephen, rather than the kind of spud that can't help themselves throw their anger of falling short in life at others ☝️ like spud here.
* looks at his beans on toast for a moment, then looks around the room before slowly taking the plate under the table *
I can't stop myself from tapping on your dp. Kudos 😕
Another has succumbed to the PLEASURE OF THE BEANS!
Christopher Lee... the only Christopher to never be shortened to Chris... RIP
What about Christopher Hitchens? He gets his surname shortened instead.
If some called Hitchens "Chris", he said on multiple ocasions: "Please call me Christopher. I promised my mother."
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE The curse of the caps lock key
Christopher Plummer...
Christopher Biggins...
Such a delightful story about Emma Thompson’s script.
I could listen to this man all day.
close your eyes and that *is* hugh laurie
One of the best impressions on youtube, why is no-one talking about this!
Jonas Pahlberg Phill's talent for mimicry is extremely underrated. And unlike most, he can bring his impressions into the conversation in a very natural way.
Gotta give it to Phil, his Hugh Laurie and Eddie Izzard (from the top of my head) is on point
"It's Hugh bloody Laurie"
Interesting fact: It sounds exactly the same when your eyes are open.
Stephen is a wonderful storyteller
Definitely true. I listened to The Inimitable Jeeves narrated by him, which was a very addictive book.
If you haven't read the PG Wodehouse 'Jeeves' books or watched Jeeves and Wooster, I strongly recommend them.
He is well practiced with a superb voice and excellent delivery.
That Hugh Laurie impression is incredible
Getting kicked out of a Mormon tour.
I really think that really belongs in my bucket list.
Wellllllll
If you're prepared to take the risk of eternity with your family .............
Actually that would be kind of interesting because, as ever, that lot haven't really thought this through but that would take you *all* the way down the line to great great grandpa the Amoeba.
I know there’s got to be more of these for both Stephen and Alan. Please make more!
I just love it when someone tells a story and it has everyone in hysterics.
Sandi is doing a great job as host but I do miss the national treasure that is Stephen Fry.
I will be so happy when the fad for "national treasure" dies.
I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “the Mormons,” from Stephen’s first anecdote. I served a mission in South Africa but I wish I was there serving at Temple Square when he came on the scene. That’s a hilarious comment! I’m sure I would have lost it like everybody else. Brilliant. I might have even brought him up front so that he could give commentary as we walked around. Well played.
Best name for a punk/metal band ever... Exquisite Agony!
His Christopher Lee impression is spot on.
I would have loved to have seen both Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson on the same panel while Stephen was still hosting.
Didn't they already do something like that in The Young Ones?
If they made one of Gyles Brandreth’s anecdotes the video would be *at least* 3 hours long 😄
Eric Burkheimer - ‘seem to be’ being the key words.
It would be 3 hours long, but probably only contain 2 anecdotes haha.
😀👍
@@ThisCharmingMan1984 Come on, you're stretching it. It would be one and a half, and the next video another 5 hours while he finishes that anecdote.
Watching Stephen Fangirl over Cushing and Lee is so funny and lovely. Mad respect for both those actors.
Thank you for listening to the community, you lovely elves.
They say you should never meet your heroes but Stephen Fry would be the exception for me.
A compilation of Stephen's "Luvvie Alerts" would complement this well.
'' my prep school tailors were called Goring... ''
Says it all hehe
*Gorringe
Christopher Lee's life was also very interesting.
Christopher Lee lived in London, I have seen him buying vegetables
Stephen is a wonderful person who knows about the world. He brings that to us.
I've just realised, there is an episode I haven't seen, don't remember the one with the Mormon anecdote. I'll check it out for sure. Stephens anecdotes have me in stitches every time.
Wonderfully funny and enchantingly Stephen through and through... ❤️😁
"Wasn't worth telling. I'm pissed. Nevermind."
😂😂😂
Love you Steve. A true legend in my lifetime.
The story about the queen and cake is awesome
A war time hero - Alan Turing.
His death is better described as being murdered by the state.
He was indeed, God bless him
@@thomascarroll9556 It was not a unique event. Many have suffered a similar fate. Timothy John Evans is one example.
I would pay more to get an Oscar that Stephen Fry made.
This was very much needed, thank you!
I will never look at the Queen the same way again, hahaha
stephen is so lovely and very funny. thank you for this!!
I forgot some of Stephen's wild shirt and tie combinations!
Stephen’s Vincent Price voice had me die laughing!!!🤣🤣🤣
I love hearing all these amusing stories-so endearing.
The Peter Cushing clip has an Alan Anecdote, Guests Bursting Into Song, Stephen Anecdote, Stephen Impression and Alan Impression.
Thankyou qi for giving me peace in my heart
Stephen's impression of an Etonian Rugger-bugger is absolutely spot on
As a member of the LDS (Mormon) church, I can’t understand why the person doing the tour group didn’t laugh. That’s an amazing joke!
Because they were trying to convince the tour group to join their cult and his joke undermined them and made that much less likely to happen. Hope that clears things up for you.
@@samshorto5433 then why did they kick him out of the city?
@@OhNoNotFrank Because it wasn't working? That's such an obvious answer, I can't believe I just had to explain that to another adult human.
@@samshorto5433 :-) the city wasn´t working? Sounds plausible but hardly clarifying…
This honestly brightens my day
"Well what happens if you've been GOOD?" I love Stephen so much, he really is a light in dark times.
Stephen, you are a master of humour 😃👌👌❤️❤️
I love this so much! Thank you!
To me Mr. Fry is the very epitome of an English Gentleman.
I love how Stephen finds ordinary little things so funny.
Christopher Lee not scary? When told by a director "Imagine the sound when a knife is being pushed into a mans ribs" answered "I don't have to imagine it." He was in WWII as a special operative.
Yes - I think he corrected the director by pointing out if you stab someone between the ribs you usually hit a lung so they can't really scream or cry out properly ...dude really knew his stuff!
My favourite story about Christopher Lee is one where he was driving at night and had a car accident in Sicily Italy, that left him cut and bleeding, so he found the nearest home to ask to use their telephone to get help. Apparently the door was answered by a little old Italian lady, who then promptly freaked out at the sight of the bloodied figure of Christopher Lee aka Dracula at her door.
Yes, the director, Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings, told that story in the appendices of the DVD. :)
stephen being handed christopher lee on the phone and freaking out xD
There hasn't been a day of my life since seeing this the first time that I haven't sung the Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable song to myself at least once
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That's sad.
Imagine accumulating all the knowledge and experiences Stephen Fry has
He has certainly had a remarkable life, regardless of whether one likes him or not.
Listening to Steven is my happy place
I could watch hours of Stephens anecdotes. Can we have a series please?
Though I love Sandi as host, I do miss Stephen and his many tales. I really hope they get him on as a guest at least once.
I simply love Stephen...
9:51 had me in absolute stitches
qi comments sections are so wholesome - stephen frys effect
Stephen is as national treasure.
What an enchanting man.
This is Part 1 of this series right?
I find out something great about Stephen Fry all the time.
Messrs Fry and Brandreth with their anecdotes would make a brilliant programme.