A couple of years ago, when No Such Thing as a Fish was touring Australia, I went to see them in Melbourne. During the intermission, as it was wrapping up and I was waiting around to go back in, I was standing next to some random guy. Suddenly, Colin Lane walks up with something hidden under his jacket. He says to the guy “Take these inside, I’ll go get the rest.” He opens his jacket to reveal dozens of small packets of chips which he conspiratorially gives to the other guy, who then stuffs them into his own jacket. Then they both nod and walk off in opposite directions.
I take great pride in the fact Ross Noble lived here for as long as he did. There are so many Aussie comedians in the UK, it’s nice to have one of theirs for a change. I believe there should be an equal trade agreement between the countries to balance out the number of professional funny people.
To be honest, we take your comedians because they're evidence of our rehabilitation programme working, and after sending so many convicts over, we wanted to take some of the better ones back
Lee jokes about drunks taking their kids when they have the breathalyzers in their cars but my cousin actually did that for years... It's amazing that his kids are still alive.
Its pretty normal in places where alcohol-ignition-inhibitors are introduced. Here in NZ, where drink-driving is a way of life for some of the population, it would simply be considered 'sensible'.
The Dutch turned up in North West Australia, figured no one would ever want to live there, and went home. 350 years later, they've been proven correct!
Yeah it apparently had Egyptian visitors too .. Their tourism campaigns back in the day must have been less than convincing .. Sailors would return after months or years absence and get off the ship malnourished and wobbly with a sanity that months of sailing into the unknown must induce .. It needed slaves or convicts to make setting up thinkable .. it would take giant nuts and some real insanity to sail towards the horizon without knowing much more .. adventure was all that it offered ..and that was all we needed
@David Miatke hey mate he did say the North West as in up near the Kimberly, not the southeast. I’m also a Queenslander and have worked in the northwest. It is a shithole and I can understand why the Dutch chose to ignore it
Fastest human of all time? One of those who migrated from Asia to Australia just as water started to wash over the last of the land bridge. All his mates were already on the other side, shouting "come on quick, or you'll drown!"
In my younger days the question ran like this: Q1: what's the fastest animal on earth? A1: a chicken in Biafra. Q2: what's the second fastest animal? A2: a Biafran chasing it! (This dates from the early/mis 1960s when there was a terrible drought in Nigeria.)
Had the immense pleasure of hearing Stephen speak in Sydney in 2018 when he came to speak on his late friend Christopher Hitchens. Thank you for this compilation QI!
I'm so glad that SF mentioned not only the myth of Cook "discovering" Australia but also the fact that he did NOT hold the rank of Captain at the time and was merely a lieutenant*. Centuries before Cook arrived there were the Chinese, Malays, and Dutch. * Cook was granted the rank of Captain a couple of voyages later.
@@shanewright2772 I beg to differ. On return from his second voyage, Cook was promoted to the rank of post-captain and given an honorary retirement from the Royal Navy. Post-captain is an obsolete alternative form of the rank of captain in the Royal Navy.
@@21stcenturyozman20 Post Captain is a ceremonial rank, like commodore ot the colonel in Colonel Sanders. You or I could have been promoted to that rank and not even set foot on a ship.
This is QI dreamtime. 240 different language groups. Australian Aboriginal people have the most fascinating, unique and ancient philosophy of the origin of country and our relationships with it. Yamanhaa, you're welcome, from Gommoroy country.
@@benjaminmorris7159 That when you judge them properly, and don't artificially valourize them like when you put a kid's terrible art on the fridge, their beliefs are objectively wrong and REMARKABLY dumb for an organism claimed to be "human", to the point where it literally and without prejudice brings their humanity into SERIOUS question.
@@cicolas_nage Thanks for your response. I graduated in 2017 and now study at university. I'm assuming you're an Aussie and I can say that when I was in school, we were taught about indigenous culture, the history of Australia (including before the white man arrived), and we thanked the original owners of the land the school was built upon everyday. I hope that when people speak about the history of a country, they include all history. It's all interesting
@@zayne1725 Was taught in England from late 1970s-1990. Aborigines were only mentioned as a footnote to history. Similarly we were taught James Cook discovered Australia
In high school in Denmark about 5 years ago, English classes included topics on English language majority countries. One of them was on Australia and the focus was mostly literature about aboriginal heritage. Like analyzing Once Were Warriors and short stories on aboriginal religion. Details are a bit hazy as I haven't slept well the past couple of days. But I'm quite proud of the classes I've attended in our educational system here in Denmark.
The most interesting thing about our country is we invented the most revolting beer imaginable not to drink ourselves but to sell to foriengers and laugh at them. You know it as Foster's, we know it as emu piss. You're welcome.
The Fosters sold overseas is not the same as what is sold in Australia. If I remember correctly, the international Fosters is actually what we know as Crown Lager
I only just found out about Foster's a few years ago from an American friend and had never heard of it, as far as I'm concerned, it isn't an Australian beer
indonesian actually went there yearly for hundreds of years before any european been there, its not that far from Indonesia, they went there just to harvest sea slugs, and just like the dutch they don't think people should live there, they just stay overnight LMAO
J W hey Rupert! you must be torn between spreading your false propaganda about the ABC or having your journo’s have a misogynistic go at Julia Zemiro for calling you the world’s most dangerous Australian.
Wow. How the fuck did you arrive at that spelling of queuing? I mean there are a couple of ways to spell it, queuing or queueing are fine, but "cueueing" sounds like you're injuring yourself while playing snooker or something.
@@grahamliveSince English is not my first language I hazarded a guess, googled that, and found I was right. It just looks a bit silly. EDIT: And I spelled it wrong!!! 🤣🤣 I was doing so well up to that point! dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/queueing
I love this show so much and I always find it a pleasant surprise when a fact about my country slips into the show so thank you for this compilation ❤️
I almost died laughing on the narcoleptic horse story. It is good that I'm not from Australia because I would have inflated the statistic, making the reputation of the poor horses even worse :)
There is a device to test whether you have been drinking before you drive, it's called Car Interlock Device, though you don't usually get a say in whether you want one.
Normally when people say we´re all homosexuals who smoke drugs, I get tired of the stereotypes, but when Stephen says it, I sort of take it as a compliment ))
Good compilation, but they missed out Stephen's Aussie accent reading a clip from an Australian newspaper where it had to correct itself for publishing how 40,000 pigs had been swept down a river, when it had been 40 sows and pigs. And he had an anecdote about an Australian airline where the captain greets passengers over the tannoy and tells them it's time to push some service down the aisles and some scenery past the windows.
Nobody picked Mr Fry up on saying that "20,000 years ago they found footprints"... No Stephen, they found footprints that were 20,000 years old. Missed opportunity to have a dig at him.
0:50 yep the Dutch did go everywhere. Tasmania at the bottom of Australia,long way from Dutch East Indies, was called Van Dieman’s land until 1856 after the governor of the Dutch East Indies in 1642, when Abel Tasman went right down the bottom near Hobart. Was named after him in 1856 when the colony became self ruling and to get away from being called vandemons
Off the coast of Perth is Rottnest Island. When the Dutch landed they saw a marsupial we now know as the Quokka. They look a little bit like rats, hence the name. The Dutch sailors heading to the East Indies used to travel around the Cape of Good Hope and use 'the roaring forties' to head East to Australia and the North. There were a number of wrecks.
he story about horse has to be true, as Melbounre Uni has one of the best veterinarian schools in Australia, most people wouldn't know this to make up a story
Also they can be under the limit so they don't get arrested so this is actually a good incentive and wouldn't cost very much if it truly makes people think twice about having alcohol in their system before driving home
I'm guessing the "non-drunk driver" award is an inexpensive way to make people complain less when they get pulled over for random breathalyzer stops. That's not what news reports say, but I find it hard to believe that drivers would care more about the minuscule chance of winning a bit of cash than the comparatively high chance of getting arrested and fined a lot of cash.
That’s exactly it. It doesn’t actually discourage drink driving. Nobody thinks about winning that raffle before getting in the car, they think about the fines and losing their licence. But it stops sober drivers bitching and moaning at police every time they get pulled over by coppers for RBT.
I was thinking it might encourage sober drivers to drive erratically to heighten their chances of being pulled over and so entered into the raffle. But perhaps these are roadblocks where everyone is checked, so that wouldn't apply.
I'm 100% sure that humans are the most dangerous creature in Australia, as well as in the rest of the populated earth. In 2019 there were 419 homicides in Australia. That alone qualifies humans as the most dangerous creature in Australia. To that number, add all human caused traffic accidents (1200 the same year) and other human caused accidents.
I always enjoy Colin when he's on but I suppose it's a long way to travel from Australia for a UK TV show. Colin putting the Perrier award on the bedside table when Alan stayed at his house is such wonderful trolling!
With the fastest man thing, you'd didn't take into account that the aboriginal guy was apparently running in muck given that he left his footprints for posterity.
True Story: Years ago, there was a Dutch explorer called Able Tasman, and he went off to the South Seas in search of new lands and new treasures. He discovered Tasmania (because they named it after him), he found New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Papau New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. *HE MISSED AUSTRALIA*
In 1642 Abel Tasman named Van Dieman's Land after the G-G of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). Australians re-named it Tasmania after Tasman in 1856. Also, nobody has ever discovered something after it was named for them by other people.
The Dutch sailed into the Gulf of Carpenteria in 1606, on a little ship called the Duyfken the captains name was Janszoon, his first mates name was de Leeuw, which if you havent noticed is my Surname, is he a relative I dont know but it would be ever so cool if he was!
He is wrong that James Cook was not a Captain when he arrived, he is confusing his rank with his appointment - his rank was Lt but his appointment was Captain of his ship.
Exactly. Most people automatically assume that Captain is the rank, when it’s the actual position. It’s like with the Merchant Navy now, the rank of the skipper is Master Mariner, while he/she holds the position of “Captain”.
Finally noticed that Julia is wearing one of my ex-wife's swallow brooches that I glued the pin backs on nearly all of. She probably got it a Roller Derby night at that Royal Melbourne Showgrounds. Saw her there a few times. I used to sand the saw cuts off the edges.
For the most deadly one, I would think it depends on what you mean by "deadliest." Causes the most deaths yearly. Most likely to make you dead if you encounter it. Most likely to make you dead if it attacks you. All perfectly acceptable meanings of "most deadly." There are probably others as well.
Understanding conditional probability is key. Humans spends more time around horses than around crocodiles. What's the deadliest if we are adjusting for time spent in close proximity?
the comedy of the buzzer going off has been relying on that element of surprise caused by the broad interpretation that the question accomodates since the beginning. if they defined or explained the question more sharply, it would defeat the purpose.
Aborigines have just had awarded a plaque to old structure, at 11,000 years BC. An Eel Smokehouse and Eel ponds SA which also suggests that there was a market for smoked Eel. Traded with Asians primarily but there is a Viking wreck in QLD Australia. Old, old, and Aborigines have Denisovans blood too. Old, old, old!
Having recently been to Nanango, I can't blame people for being pissed all the time. There's nothing to do except go to the pub. Decent community markets though.
Surely the fastest humans of all-time were the astronauts who went to the Moon? As they all had to break Earth's escape velocity to get there. I mean, it was not specified that these humans had to be moving under their own leg power.
Ha yeah, having your child blow into the car interlock device is a jail term in the US. The very definition of child endangerment. For that reason, there's a camera in the car when an interlock device is installed, that takes a picture when it's activated.
Cook was the first to map and report the East Cost of Australia. But he wasn’t even the first European to find the East Coast, the French were in Botany Bay when he arrived. He saw them sail away a day latter but those ships were never seen again.
The history of the French in Australia dates from the arrival of the La Perouse expedition at Botany Bay in January 1788, just days AFTER the landing of the First Fleet. La Perouse's ship was never seen again. 12 years after Cook landed in Botany Bay.
@@DanDownunda8888 More info has been uncovered ( scroll down a bit ) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Galaup,_comte_de_Lap%C3%A9rouse#Australia
Thanks for that . Followed that story along . Learnt some History I never knew en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Galaup,_comte_de_Lap%C3%A9rouse#Australia
A group from Southern India migrated to Australia 4000 years ago. There's genetic evidence among the people they got romantic with. So I think they beat the Chinese
yes I answered "india" due to having seen some doco about years ago. the Australian Indigenous are probably most likely "asians" rather than "black people". it's interesting we still don't agree to this, so little is known and now woke university historians will colour the research with emotions and not facts. see: Dark Emu.
nanango has 7 pubs , 1 rsl , masons club and the bowls club all sell alcohol and all are full of people drinking . it’s a small country town of 4000 people
As a kiwi, I was hoping the whole video that they meant the 'continent of Australia' and not the country and that a kiwi fact would come up at any point but it didn't so I guess I'm an Aussie for this video.
@@MooKau_ The Constitution gives New Zealand the option to join Australia. Covering clause 6 of the Constitution states New Zealand may be admitted into Australia as a state. New Zealand declined to take up the offer. New Zealand began as a colony administered from/as part of New South Wales, becoming a separate colony in 1841, and a self-governing colony in 1852. NZ declined to join the federation of Australia in 1901 and instead became, like Australia, a Dominion (and so effectively a nation) in 1907.
Cook did not discover Australia, nor did the Chinese. I'm disappointed that Stephen would recognise Gavin Menzies' book, which is an interesting piece of fiction. In his book 1421, Menzies also states the Chinese discovered America.
At the time of recording this epidsode, it was still widely believed and agreed that the Chinese were the first to discover Australia. We know better now, but you can’t blame Stephen Fry
A couple of years ago, when No Such Thing as a Fish was touring Australia, I went to see them in Melbourne. During the intermission, as it was wrapping up and I was waiting around to go back in, I was standing next to some random guy. Suddenly, Colin Lane walks up with something hidden under his jacket. He says to the guy “Take these inside, I’ll go get the rest.” He opens his jacket to reveal dozens of small packets of chips which he conspiratorially gives to the other guy, who then stuffs them into his own jacket. Then they both nod and walk off in opposite directions.
I take great pride in the fact Ross Noble lived here for as long as he did. There are so many Aussie comedians in the UK, it’s nice to have one of theirs for a change. I believe there should be an equal trade agreement between the countries to balance out the number of professional funny people.
You do realise he lives there now.
We lose them because we have so few tv opportunities in Aus. We keep cutting the ABC's budget and it means no new comedians get jobs over here :(
An FCA Free Commedian Agreement. Top idea.
@@simama666 OP did use the past tense
To be honest, we take your comedians because they're evidence of our rehabilitation programme working, and after sending so many convicts over, we wanted to take some of the better ones back
Lee jokes about drunks taking their kids when they have the breathalyzers in their cars but my cousin actually did that for years... It's amazing that his kids are still alive.
Its pretty normal in places where alcohol-ignition-inhibitors are introduced. Here in NZ, where drink-driving is a way of life for some of the population, it would simply be considered 'sensible'.
"The deaths are caused on the road..."
"SHARKS!"
Yes, she's not one of our best exports
Still better than Rupert Murdoch tho
That's how dangerous they are in Australia.
Road Sharks. They are deadly.
@@cassieoz1702 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰
The Dutch turned up in North West Australia, figured no one would ever want to live there, and went home. 350 years later, they've been proven correct!
Yeah it apparently had Egyptian visitors too .. Their tourism campaigns back in the day must have been less than convincing .. Sailors would return after months or years absence and get off the ship malnourished and wobbly with a sanity that months of sailing into the unknown must induce .. It needed slaves or convicts to make setting up thinkable .. it would take giant nuts and some real insanity to sail towards the horizon without knowing much more .. adventure was all that it offered ..and that was all we needed
@David Miatke hey mate he did say the North West as in up near the Kimberly, not the southeast. I’m also a Queenslander and have worked in the northwest. It is a shithole and I can understand why the Dutch chose to ignore it
Is that why were usually swamped with Brits. ‘350 years....you are aching to get here ;)
I could do with a couple of weeks in Broome.
@@DeepseaSteve Broome is pretty awesome
Fastest human of all time? One of those who migrated from Asia to Australia just as water started to wash over the last of the land bridge. All his mates were already on the other side, shouting "come on quick, or you'll drown!"
In my younger days the question ran like this: Q1: what's the fastest animal on earth? A1: a chicken in Biafra. Q2: what's the second fastest animal? A2: a Biafran chasing it! (This dates from the early/mis 1960s when there was a terrible drought in Nigeria.)
As an Australian, can I say that the panelist who answered, “Rupert Murdoch” was 100% right?
I don't know if you know her, that's Julia Zemiro.
She used to do RocKwiz on SBS!
Currently does Home Delivery on ABC I think.
Zemiro was on Thank God You’re Here back in the day
As an Australian, you should know who Julia Zemiro is!!!
The reason the Dutch were such great explorers was that it was either sail thousands of miles looking for new lands or stay in Holland, no contest.
or make Holland "bigger", which they also did.
“What where they running from”
“The white man” 😂😂
T8 did have the advantage, of being a terminator.
Unfortunately it was a sequel terminator
"Rupert Murdoch" funny, true, and also sad
Julia’s another rabid left wing mental case. Of course she’s going to say Murdoch.
@@mjames4709 imagine defending Murdoch 😂 I don’t think I even need to respect that enough for a response
Who she
@@mjames4709 Sure, because it's "radical" to not enjoy having all our news owned by one company you potato.
Who tf is this Murdoch fella? XD.
Had the immense pleasure of hearing Stephen speak in Sydney in 2018 when he came to speak on his late friend Christopher Hitchens. Thank you for this compilation QI!
Adelaide was particularly nice, 2017
Darwin had a hurricane after the ship Hygromia Shell Tanker sailed.1974?
Arnhem Land is planned to standing strong.
Fastest human runner- Elijah
I can't believe Stephen killed Christopher Hitchens.
I'm so glad that SF mentioned not only the myth of Cook "discovering" Australia but also the fact that he did NOT hold the rank of Captain at the time and was merely a lieutenant*. Centuries before Cook arrived there were the Chinese, Malays, and Dutch.
* Cook was granted the rank of Captain a couple of voyages later.
Whatever his actual naval rank, the skipper of a ship was called 'Captain' by his officers and crew.
He NEVER actually held the rank of Captain as he never commanded a ship of sufficient size to warrant the rank.
@@shanewright2772 I beg to differ. On return from his second voyage, Cook was promoted to the rank of post-captain and given an honorary retirement from the Royal Navy. Post-captain is an obsolete alternative form of the rank of captain in the Royal Navy.
@@21stcenturyozman20 Post Captain is a ceremonial rank, like commodore ot the colonel in Colonel Sanders. You or I could have been promoted to that rank and not even set foot on a ship.
@@shanewright2772 And then become the ruler of the Queen's navy?
This is QI dreamtime. 240 different language groups. Australian Aboriginal people have the most fascinating, unique and ancient philosophy of the origin of country and our relationships with it. Yamanhaa, you're welcome, from Gommoroy country.
much of it based on superstition, it should be noted.
@@lifelongbachelor3651 bet you’re fun at parties
@@lifelongbachelor3651 give me an ancient belief system that isn't based on superstition??? what are you talking about
And they have the appearance of the offspring between a gorilla and a pig.
@@benjaminmorris7159 That when you judge them properly, and don't artificially valourize them like when you put a kid's terrible art on the fridge, their beliefs are objectively wrong and REMARKABLY dumb for an organism claimed to be "human", to the point where it literally and without prejudice brings their humanity into SERIOUS question.
That Rupert Murdoch joke has taken on a more sinister turn lately.
Stephen has the best Australian accent by far, of any UK professional actor - fair dinkum.
For those who are unaware, 'Fair Dinkum' is an Australia phrase which means to be honest or play fairly.
Glad to see a show making an effort to discuss Indigenous Australians, who are so often pushed to the side when discussing Australian history
Are they? How can you not talk about aboriginals when discussing Aussie history?
Not trolling. Legit asking
@@cicolas_nage Thanks for your response. I graduated in 2017 and now study at university.
I'm assuming you're an Aussie and I can say that when I was in school, we were taught about indigenous culture, the history of Australia (including before the white man arrived), and we thanked the original owners of the land the school was built upon everyday.
I hope that when people speak about the history of a country, they include all history. It's all interesting
I was in high school in the 90s and there was no such think as acknowledgment of country then. We were taught next to nothing about First nations
@@zayne1725 Was taught in England from late 1970s-1990. Aborigines were only mentioned as a footnote to history. Similarly we were taught James Cook discovered Australia
In high school in Denmark about 5 years ago, English classes included topics on English language majority countries. One of them was on Australia and the focus was mostly literature about aboriginal heritage. Like analyzing Once Were Warriors and short stories on aboriginal religion. Details are a bit hazy as I haven't slept well the past couple of days. But I'm quite proud of the classes I've attended in our educational system here in Denmark.
The most interesting thing about our country is we invented the most revolting beer imaginable not to drink ourselves but to sell to foriengers and laugh at them.
You know it as Foster's, we know it as emu piss.
You're welcome.
The Fosters sold overseas is not the same as what is sold in Australia. If I remember correctly, the international Fosters is actually what we know as Crown Lager
i thought american beer is the most revolting, in germany we just call it water
There's worse. Haven't had Foster's in Australia, though. I stuck with the Royal Dutch (is that what it's called?) tinnies
I only just found out about Foster's a few years ago from an American friend and had never heard of it, as far as I'm concerned, it isn't an Australian beer
If you think Foster's is the worst beer, you've never tried Michelob Ultra.
I love your show so much. Love FROM Australia
Same here
Oi oi oi.
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
Wish it was easier to watch over here
😃 we love you Australia 🇦🇺 ❤😘
I'm a little sad they left out Jack Dee's line from the fastest runner section: "He's not as fast as Jimmy Carr when it's his round."
They’ve also cut out Alan’s response to Stephen saying Native Americans can be described as ‘aboriginal’: “It’s more fun to call them redskins.” 😬
indonesian actually went there yearly for hundreds of years before any european been there, its not that far from Indonesia, they went there just to harvest sea slugs, and just like the dutch they don't think people should live there, they just stay overnight LMAO
Yeah, jokes about Jimmy Carr avoiding paying for things aren't funny. They're hilarious.
I want Ross Noble to be the voice of every horse character from her on out. For some reason the Jordie accent works so well with a horse
Geordie*
Colin Lane is wonderful. QI should definitely try to have Frank Woodley on the show. They are almost like our version of Laurel & Hardy.
omggg yes
Yes, yes, YES!! That would be hilarious!!! 😁
Frank Woodley is fantastic. Colin Lane ... hmmm, not so much.
@@freebeerishere Nooooooooooooooo!
@@nickydenning6988 Noooooooooooooooo!
Sign Rudd's petition to stop Murdoch's monopoly on the Australian news
I believe you're thinking of their ABC, mate.
@@cicolas_nage legend, thanks
@@user-bf8ud9vt5b yeah nah.
Already did 👍🏻
J W hey Rupert! you must be torn between spreading your false propaganda about the ABC or having your journo’s have a misogynistic go at Julia Zemiro for calling you the world’s most dangerous Australian.
A narcoleptic horse 🤣
That should've been used in Blazing Saddles, as they were cueueing up for the toll booth!
Wow. How the fuck did you arrive at that spelling of queuing? I mean there are a couple of ways to spell it, queuing or queueing are fine, but "cueueing" sounds like you're injuring yourself while playing snooker or something.
@@grahamliveSince English is not my first language I hazarded a guess, googled that, and found I was right. It just looks a bit silly.
EDIT: And I spelled it wrong!!! 🤣🤣
I was doing so well up to that point!
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/queueing
I love this show so much and I always find it a pleasant surprise when a fact about my country slips into the show so thank you for this compilation ❤️
I almost died laughing on the narcoleptic horse story. It is good that I'm not from Australia because I would have inflated the statistic, making the reputation of the poor horses even worse :)
I feel attacked. TWICE! 🇦🇺
There is a device to test whether you have been drinking before you drive, it's called Car Interlock Device, though you don't usually get a say in whether you want one.
*clap* ;)
You do get a say - you can opt not to drive. I have known people who preferred to give up driving rather than drinking.
Every time I see Lee Mack I think "steadings"
No clip from when Stephen said marsupials weren't mammals!!!!! That made me jump up and down yelling "Wrong, not so smart after all, Stephen?"
A marsupial is a mammal that belongs to the infraclass Metatheria, which is sometimes called Marsupialia.
Normally when people say we´re all homosexuals who smoke drugs, I get tired of the stereotypes, but when Stephen says it, I sort of take it as a compliment ))
Turned phone upside-down for proper viewing angle
I feel embarrassed that it took as long as it did for me to get that.
Good compilation, but they missed out Stephen's Aussie accent reading a clip from an Australian newspaper where it had to correct itself for publishing how 40,000 pigs had been swept down a river, when it had been 40 sows and pigs. And he had an anecdote about an Australian airline where the captain greets passengers over the tannoy and tells them it's time to push some service down the aisles and some scenery past the windows.
Collin is a brilliant chap, love him!
Nobody picked Mr Fry up on saying that "20,000 years ago they found footprints"... No Stephen, they found footprints that were 20,000 years old. Missed opportunity to have a dig at him.
0:50 yep the Dutch did go everywhere. Tasmania at the bottom of Australia,long way from Dutch East Indies, was called Van Dieman’s land until 1856 after the governor of the Dutch East Indies in 1642, when Abel Tasman went right down the bottom near Hobart. Was named after him in 1856 when the colony became self ruling and to get away from being called vandemons
Off the coast of Perth is Rottnest Island. When the Dutch landed they saw a marsupial we now know as the Quokka. They look a little bit like rats, hence the name. The Dutch sailors heading to the East Indies used to travel around the Cape of Good Hope and use 'the roaring forties' to head East to Australia and the North. There were a number of wrecks.
he story about horse has to be true, as Melbounre Uni has one of the best veterinarian schools in Australia, most people wouldn't know this to make up a story
How many Aussies does it take to change a lightbulb?
Bugger all,you can still get drunk in the dark.
Whats the difference between yoghurt and Australia? Yoghurt has culture
As for English culture, I've seen better cultures in a Petrie dish.
"Who were they running from?"
"The white man"
Lee Mack asking how not being arrested is not an incentive? We're convicts, mate. Getting arrested is the incentive!
Also they can be under the limit so they don't get arrested so this is actually a good incentive and wouldn't cost very much if it truly makes people think twice about having alcohol in their system before driving home
4:07 Thank you former host of SBS's Eurovision broadcast's Julia Zemiro
I'm guessing the "non-drunk driver" award is an inexpensive way to make people complain less when they get pulled over for random breathalyzer stops. That's not what news reports say, but I find it hard to believe that drivers would care more about the minuscule chance of winning a bit of cash than the comparatively high chance of getting arrested and fined a lot of cash.
That’s exactly it. It doesn’t actually discourage drink driving. Nobody thinks about winning that raffle before getting in the car, they think about the fines and losing their licence. But it stops sober drivers bitching and moaning at police every time they get pulled over by coppers for RBT.
I was thinking it might encourage sober drivers to drive erratically to heighten their chances of being pulled over and so entered into the raffle. But perhaps these are roadblocks where everyone is checked, so that wouldn't apply.
@@qwertyTRiG Driving erratically might still earn you a ticket that might be more expensive than an possible raffle winnings.
@@Chillazilla2 Is it possible to drive erratically enough to arouse suspicion without being erratic enough to get in trouble?
"what were they running from?" "
-the white man"
this cracked me up so hard i had to pause it
I'm 100% sure that humans are the most dangerous creature in Australia, as well as in the rest of the populated earth.
In 2019 there were 419 homicides in Australia.
That alone qualifies humans as the most dangerous creature in Australia.
To that number, add all human caused traffic accidents (1200 the same year) and other human caused accidents.
then in 2020 we shut down the whole country for
Jim's almost rocking 'the Stan Laurel' haircut here!
Kinda suits him! 🤣
Australia - the only country where the Prime Minister can just disappear and nobody thinks it’s suspicious.
No, because we all know that he was kidnapped by frogmen from a Chinese submarine.
And we named a swimming pool after him.
People who know the danger of swimming where he did are not worried about the result.
Well he was a Liberal so 1. who cares, and 2. being a Liberal he was a crook, so again, who cares?
i love this one Alan got the award on his bed side table when he visited the guy that beat him
More, please.
I expected Colin Lane to be like in all of these clips tbh
I wish he was a guest more often!
I always enjoy Colin when he's on but I suppose it's a long way to travel from Australia for a UK TV show.
Colin putting the Perrier award on the bedside table when Alan stayed at his house is such wonderful trolling!
"Narcoleptic horse" would be an awesome name for a band.
Lol -my friend comes from Nanango- I’m not surprised!👍🏻🤷♀️🇦🇺
With the fastest man thing, you'd didn't take into account that the aboriginal guy was apparently running in muck given that he left his footprints for posterity.
True Story:
Years ago, there was a Dutch explorer called Able Tasman, and he went off to the South Seas in search of new lands and new treasures. He discovered Tasmania (because they named it after him), he found New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Papau New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
*HE MISSED AUSTRALIA*
"Discovered Tasmania" "Missed Australia" Tasmania is an Australian state...
In 1642 Abel Tasman named Van Dieman's Land after the G-G of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). Australians re-named it Tasmania after Tasman in 1856. Also, nobody has ever discovered something after it was named for them by other people.
As a Tasmanian, i agree with Aaron’s statement
Able was afraid of spiders, that's why he stayed away from Australia
The Dutch sailed into the Gulf of Carpenteria in 1606, on a little ship called the Duyfken the captains name was Janszoon, his first mates name was de Leeuw, which if you havent noticed is my Surname, is he a relative I dont know but it would be ever so cool if he was!
I didn't expect to go down (under) this early-
He is wrong that James Cook was not a Captain when he arrived, he is confusing his rank with his appointment - his rank was Lt but his appointment was Captain of his ship.
Exactly. Most people automatically assume that Captain is the rank, when it’s the actual position. It’s like with the Merchant Navy now, the rank of the skipper is Master Mariner, while he/she holds the position of “Captain”.
Lieutenant and Commander, now known as the rank Lieutenant Commander.
"It is true that most of the deaths are caused on the road"....
..."Shark!" 🤣
In the interest of realism, I turned my monitor upside down to watch this video.
Loser
"i got you this horse, its really docile"
stephens inner posh 5-year-old, bitter and disillusioned with experience: "they never are.........."
Sandy is wearing a Wonder Bread blouse!
(1) Alan's face at 0:49
(2) Alice's reply at 2:40
Finally noticed that Julia is wearing one of my ex-wife's swallow brooches that I glued the pin backs on nearly all of. She probably got it a Roller Derby night at that Royal Melbourne Showgrounds. Saw her there a few times. I used to sand the saw cuts off the edges.
"What is the deadliest animal in Australia?"
~ Cue extensive list of possible candidates ~
Prime ministers.
I really want to know how big Ross thinks out rabbits are.
He did used to live in Gippsland and we grow the bunnies big here!
A cave with some of the worlds oldest art Was blown up by RintoTinto in WA 2 year ago
I really wanted more of Colin Lane in this.
Why?
@@JohnyG29 He’s from Australia. And he’s funny.
Yesss get me a full strength beer i want to learn about my country and then get pissed and completely forget about it
'was it in the isle of white'? haha :)
So funny
For the most deadly one, I would think it depends on what you mean by "deadliest."
Causes the most deaths yearly.
Most likely to make you dead if you encounter it.
Most likely to make you dead if it attacks you.
All perfectly acceptable meanings of "most deadly." There are probably others as well.
if only David Mitchell had been on! He would have pulled them up on this.
Yes, kind of the whole point of the wording they use.
Understanding conditional probability is key. Humans spends more time around horses than around crocodiles. What's the deadliest if we are adjusting for time spent in close proximity?
the comedy of the buzzer going off has been relying on that element of surprise caused by the broad interpretation that the question accomodates since the beginning. if they defined or explained the question more sharply, it would defeat the purpose.
Pedantic, but Lt James Cook was the Captain of the Endeavour. Not a Captain, but THE Captain all the same.
Quite outdated information, makes sense though considering it's old.
LMAO, Lee Mack is a fkn legend. That breathalyser bit's gold hahaha xD
Was hoping this would be best of Australian guests 😅
THANK YOU SANDIE!! For pronouncing Queensland properly! Every other non Aussie on YT runs the “l” like Maryland. It’s Queens-land!
Aborigines have just had awarded a plaque to old structure, at 11,000 years BC. An Eel Smokehouse and Eel ponds SA which also suggests that there was a market for smoked Eel. Traded with Asians primarily but there is a Viking wreck in QLD Australia. Old, old, and Aborigines have Denisovans blood too. Old, old, old!
Surely only Ross Noble could have a narcoleptic horse 😊
1:28 they of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is......
Having recently been to Nanango, I can't blame people for being pissed all the time. There's nothing to do except go to the pub. Decent community markets though.
Surely the fastest humans of all-time were the astronauts who went to the Moon?
As they all had to break Earth's escape velocity to get there.
I mean, it was not specified that these humans had to be moving under their own leg power.
“Name the fastest human *runner* of all time”
I don’t think rocket propulsion counts as running.
'fastest human of all time'
my bank when im late on the mortgage.
4:13 They really do know us...
Classic Colin
Ha yeah, having your child blow into the car interlock device is a jail term in the US. The very definition of child endangerment. For that reason, there's a camera in the car when an interlock device is installed, that takes a picture when it's activated.
Usain Bolt can run 27mph. There's evidence that T8 ran at 23mph. Now, I think 23mph is slower than 27mph, but that's my opinion.
Sure, if you refuse to look at the circumstances even after you've heard them.
@@andrew7taylor But they're all estimates and educated guesses, rather than actual proof.
@@tdyerwestfield No kidding?
one was on a stadium track with shoes and clothes / the other barefooted in soil
Shows why addo car is so fast, his ancestor's have been the fastest man for millennia
Maybe to loud mouthed Australians who were trying to make a big name, and lots of money, for themselves in America. Otherwise, not so much.
I would have a chance of getting that money in Queensland....
If I lived there 😂😂😂
Subscribe? With all those ads, you must be joking!
No ads when I watched it.
Does anyone know which episode the first clip is from?
And also the second clip. I wanna watch the full episodes bc of Jimmy Carr
I know Lee Mack was joking about using your kid for the breathalyser but it has happened. One guy had his 12yr old driving him!
Cook was the first to map and report the East Cost of Australia. But he wasn’t even the first European to find the East Coast, the French were in Botany Bay when he arrived. He saw them sail away a day latter but those ships were never seen again.
The history of the French in Australia dates from the arrival of the La Perouse expedition at Botany Bay in January 1788, just days AFTER the landing of the First Fleet. La Perouse's ship was never seen again. 12 years after Cook landed in Botany Bay.
@@DanDownunda8888 More info has been uncovered ( scroll down a bit ) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Galaup,_comte_de_Lap%C3%A9rouse#Australia
Thanks for that . Followed that story along . Learnt some History I never knew en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Galaup,_comte_de_Lap%C3%A9rouse#Australia
Based on this clip CCP will claim Australian territory as part of ancient motherland.
It will get sold to them before then.
@@Egg-mr7np by scomo
T8 was obviously pacing in water.
5:43 Ludwig the Accursed.
A group from Southern India migrated to Australia 4000 years ago. There's genetic evidence among the people they got romantic with. So I think they beat the Chinese
I think you mean genetic.
@@hayreddinbarbarossa661 yes. Thanks
@@sophitsa79 no thankyou. This was a great fact I'd never heard so I went a read a little bit. Fascinating. Definitely a fact worthy of QI. Cheers👍
yes I answered "india" due to having seen some doco about years ago. the Australian Indigenous are probably most likely "asians" rather than "black people". it's interesting we still don't agree to this, so little is known and now woke university historians will colour the research with emotions and not facts. see: Dark Emu.
I thought Australian aboriginal people have been living there for over 40,000 years.
0:54 Isolationist policies during the Ming dynasty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin
nanango has 7 pubs , 1 rsl , masons club and the bowls club all sell alcohol and all are full of people drinking . it’s a small country town of 4000 people
As a kiwi, I was hoping the whole video that they meant the 'continent of Australia' and not the country and that a kiwi fact would come up at any point but it didn't so I guess I'm an Aussie for this video.
????????? NZ is a bunch of islands hundreds of miles away from the Continent of Australia.
@@DanDownunda8888 Its Australias semi colon. Look at it -> ;
@@MooKau_ The Constitution gives New Zealand the option to join Australia. Covering clause 6 of the Constitution states New Zealand may be admitted into Australia as a state. New Zealand declined to take up the offer. New Zealand began as a colony administered from/as part of New South Wales, becoming a separate colony in 1841, and a self-governing colony in 1852. NZ declined to join the federation of Australia in 1901 and instead became, like Australia, a Dominion (and so effectively a nation) in 1907.
Right off the bat, some out of date information. Perhaps they'll address it one day. Miss Stephen though
If you don't count the records there was guy in bolts 200m race that did 100m of the race quicker than any one ne ever
"from the sample year....." that's convenient.
Cook did not discover Australia, nor did the Chinese. I'm disappointed that Stephen would recognise Gavin Menzies' book, which is an interesting piece of fiction. In his book 1421, Menzies also states the Chinese discovered America.
At the time of recording this epidsode, it was still widely believed and agreed that the Chinese were the first to discover Australia. We know better now, but you can’t blame Stephen Fry
@@genuinejoe2103 Yes, you're absolutely right. A knee jerk reaction on my part.
@@genuinejoe2103 Only by idiots that failed to recognise the simple fact that other peoples had been here for tens of thousands of years.
Ross Noble looks like Gallagher.
Fossil sprinter - found near a fossil Thylacoleo! Sabre-tooth eat ya heart out!