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That segment about Alan Turing and computing is probably the most quiet and respectful I’ve ever seen anyone on this show.
Yes, very appropriately.
Technically knows that we’re he born 50 years earlier, there but by the grace of some invisible asshat, goes he.
Alan Turing and his Turing machine/binary numbers... It shortened the war and saved thousands of lives. Then the hypocritical British castrated him for being gay. They persecuted Oscar Wilde too, sending him to prison and forcing him into exile... Not cool.
It was terrible, the way that man was treated.
The great man deserved the respect shown from the audience . 👍
"they can feel no love" had me in tears😂
They do feel pain, which many people refuse to believe.
RIP Sean Lock (April 22, 1963 - August 16, 2021), aged 58
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Yes, he died on my birthday. 😥😥😥💜
“Long live Sean Lock” in the same sentence where you tell us he is dead…..????
@@TraitorFelon.14.3 long live in legacy and in memory.
@@TraitorFelon.14.3 the king is dead, long live the king
You guys really must get over Sean Lock's death.
watching QI is always like having a group of old friends round for dinner.
Same here! But for me i want to add `Would i lie to you`
That has been especially true when they are audience-free due to COVID
@@louisinjoliet8546 as much as I like the live laughter they provide, I love how much more natural it feels without the audience. It feels more conversational.
@@trickytreyperfected1482 *Conversational
@@pseudonayme7717 *Conversant
Listening to the bit about Stephen saying he’s never read 1984 was quite interesting because he has since narrated it for Audible and gave a foreword about how he felt he never had to read it.
Stephen Fry should be declared a Unesco World Heritage Person.
i realize I'm quite randomly asking but do anybody know a good site to watch new series online?
@Luka Layne Thank you, I signed up and it seems to work :) Appreciate it !
@Musa Jeremiah You are welcome :)
Myflixer seems a bit more complete though.
Open it in a secure browser to avoid popups.
Data thiefs. these are bots/hacked accounts. Do not go there.
“Why did I say lunchES?”
“Because there’s…more than one...”
😂🤣😂
I love the way Bill is so cautious when he says it. He's been on this show long enough XD
Can't sneak anything past ol' Bill.
He has that wacky tone sometimes with ridiculous answers and it always cracks me up. The other one that's coming to mind is when Stephen asks "Who built England's railways?" and Bill responds back something like "Oh, some large beasts of burden! The railway... mouse!". Love that man.
I always love seeing David answer a question correctly and then desperately trying to hide how please he is with himself.
Pleased
@@2beer49 please
Especially considering the fact that 3 years prior he wrote and filmed “The History of Numberwang” sketch based around early computing, and entails everything they’re talking about. I’d be smirking too if researching history for a bit resulted in a paycheck from the BBC for two separate shows with added QI points of course.
Everyone needs more Steven Fry in their lives.
And less Sandy what’s her name tbh
@@ianmackinlay8925 she's sharp as a razor mate
@@larapalma3744 and more irritating than nails on a chalkboard
@@ianmackinlay8925 Hint - read the title...
22:50 *humbly suggest if the media that plays the item you stole is no longer commercially available you should just be allowed to walk out of jail.
Sandi crying with laughter has to be one of the best moments ever.
I love to see Stephen Fry laughing. Such a great man.
A bit of fry and Laurie is good... Blackadder is better
i hate that all of the Fry QI episodes are blocked in the US. it's stupid, it's pointless, and anyone who thinks its a good idea is deserving of loss of oxygen.
Rip
@@ghomerhust why did they do that??
@@paulinegallagher7821They're available in the US. Not too sure why you can't watch them? Anyway if they are it's due to the fact they are too high brow for the US audiences.
"It's like that but with a tune" Possibly the best put-down ever.
I love how frustrated Susan gets because she hasn't got a comeback for it.
Savage respond and so beautifully executed
THAT’S NOT ROUND! - died of laughter there 😂
SHOW US THE ROUND THING!
It's also not a supernova - it's the Crab Nebula, which is a remnant of a supernova that was observed on Earth during the 11th century.
Omg I had forgotten that one, was ded at the time, thanks for your comment I saw it back!
2:18 I love how Alan can make Sandi lose her composure like nobody else can. 😂
I love Alan's sense of humour.
Phil Jupitus is arguably the best recurring guest on this show. "It's nOT ROOOOUND" and "then show us the ROUND THIIING" was so good
once I first got into QI, he was part of my perfect, dream panel (which never quite happened), and as soon as I found Taskmaster a couple of years ago and got into it, he was immediately part of my dream team to be featured there.
What’s your dream panel, out of idle curiosity? :)
@@blueribenaberry I would struggle to keep that answer to four...after Phill and David Mitchell, a bunch of people could all claim a spot. Maybe we let Alan host and have Jo Brand and Ross Noble, idk
Phil and Bill together is an amazing episode every time
@@ethanderrick8486 Phil and anyone is an amazing episode, he's got banter with everyone
As an American, it's sort of reassuring to see people looking at our criminal justice system from the outside and being absolutely dumbfounded. Helps me to remember that it's not normal and should be completely overhauled.
To be fair it should be pointed out that you people have pretty crazy and violent criminals, and allthough Iam against the death sentence, I dont want those guys to ever get out. I mean over here in europe it is big news if someone starts a shootout in a city, in chicago and detroit that would be a normal working day.
@@ABW941 That is true, but that has nothing to do with the criminal justice system and a lot to do with our practically nonexistent mental healthcare infrastructure and lax weapon regulations.
"There are more 17-year old black people in jail than in college in America". That's because we don't start college/university until 18 or 19 normally! Just a simple observation, since college means something different in the UK they expect 17 year old's to be in college.
Something else to consider. The prisoners ABSOLUTELY CAN refuse to work. In the vast majority of prisons it is a privilege to work, not a requirement. After all, what are they going do if you stop working? Throw you in prison? Of course, the cost to the taxpayer of keeping people in prison is also far more than the money earned from a prisoners work. The reason they're paid 25 cents an hour is because they owe, quite literally, a debt to society. Mostly their 'profit', such as it is, goes towards paying any sums owed to the victim or a victims fund, and slightly reduces the cost of their trial and imprisonment.
QI is a fantastic show, but in this case they seem to have not done their homework and instead relied on what is the prevailing belief of the US prison system, school system, and so on. Our prison system is functioning as best it can in an imperfect situation. Now if only we didn't continue to imprison addicts, and instead focused on recovery...then maybe our prisons would empty out enough that we could actually start keeping violent criminals locked up instead of this constant catch and release.
@@tax1643 What happens when addicts commit crimes? Do we ignore their crimes in favor of rehab? I agree that they should get rehab, but if a junkie beats an old woman half to death for her social security check to buy another fix, the junkie needs something other than a stay in a posh rehab center.
You know Alan's on a roll when Sandi takes her glasses off 😄
It's like that but with a tune. Freaking brutal, Sandi!
@@rjwh67220 no she's not 🙄
@@ShiningBOT I mean a bit... She's used that same line on that girl several times (from memory) but I believe this is the only time where she had done fine! That was genuinely a pretty accurate snippet of the song. Like it was "good enough" you could tell where specifically she was at in the original based purely on the absolute notes rather than the relative ones. She's in the right key!
She's just being playful, the way that Sandi and that panel member (you'll have to forgive me, the full episode isnt here and i don't remember her name) have playful back and forth throughout the episodes they're in together, they act like they're at least somewhat friends.
@@tricursor2481 Sandi and Susan know eachother very well and have been on many things together, they're good at bouncing comments between them
For such a sweet lady, she can be absolutely brutally funny
QI has become one of my all time favorite shows. I can watch the episodes over and over and still find it both interesting and hilarious…
8:14 It is possible to open the cockpit door from the cabin, however the locking mechanism has a timeout feature (meaning the door won't open immediately, you have to wait for the timeout to end) and anybody inside the cockpit can override it. If you think about it, if the flight crew leave an aircraft and the last pilot out accidentally closes the door behind him, there needs to be a way to open it from the cabin. Conceivably, in Stephen's hypothetical situation, if both pilots were incapacitated they'd be unable to override the timeout function and so the door would open. Source: I'm a former air traffic controller.
Clever, and much safer than having the purser know a secret keypad code (which can be extracted by torture). Unfortunately, it worked too well on that Germanwings flight .
You pushed tin?
I know a few people who did that.
Incredible job.
I cannot count how many times that I have watched & rewatched the opening clip of Alan Davies doing a crazed Julie Andrews. I laugh as much, if not more than Sandi does here. It's probably the funniest, (& longest) laugh in the time that Sandi has been hosting. And in Stephen Frye's era, the entire panel making Stephen almost wet himself with laughter about the Parthenon...! I am sure that is on here too! A great show !
What do they say about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?
They say...that theeeeeyyy....
I bet you _do,_ girl, *I BET YOU DO!!!* 😂
@@phogue1 What do they say?, What do they say? l will never understand why Alan has not become a household name here in the states?
@@221b-Maker-Street That was lightning in a bottle!
stephen - "i haven't read 1984"
*googles*
"1984 - Narrated by Stephen Fry"
Maybe that was after that episode?
It was only released in January this year. This QI clip however, is from nearly 12 years ago - January 2010!
@@MissRaindrop24 It was - 11 years after!
He didn´t inhale
Huge respect for Jimmy Carr who so often acknowledges other peoples’s jokes that he tells.
Sometimes bastardising them as he tells them 😆
He's such a nice bloke
Hes incredibly quick. Its rare to see a comedian thats able to add a joke to whatever anyone says
@@smurfette_blues7922 its almost.. annoying
@@tomcross3000 lmao yes. You could say that. Especially his laugh.
I love it when Sandi laughs so hard. 😂🤣😂🖖🙂💕
"They haven't got any legs"
Arh Sean you will be missed sir.
Missed? Did something happen to him?!
Edit: NO! I had no idea!
@@83gemm Yeah, sad times :/
The guy that studies snakes. R.I.P Sean.
I love it when Alan breaks Sandi, she has the best laugh when she loses control!
"Did he hit?" Comedy gold! Taking something tragic and making light of it in a way that isn't degrading.
echolalia and echopraxia being a very common thing heard as an autistic person with many autistic/adhd friends made me so happy hearing stephen be excited about hearing it.
I was thinking the same! So nice that echos are being spoken about. I can still remember my weird exholalia quirks from songs and books quoted still from my childhood!
That “we have sold two!” Got me laughing out loud by myself
We were hoping for sales of ONE 😂😂😂😂
Such a cool show. Stephen Fry is a British national treasure
A world treasure ...!
I enjoy Steven Fry so much, he’s a classy man.
The only thing that I genuinely laugh out loud at while being alone is when I read Terry Pratchett books.
Especially the footnotes....
just sending Kudos to a pratchett fan. 😄
Love Pratchett ❤️
ayyyy Pratchett fans!💯
GNU Terry
"They can feel no love."
Best line
Loved the special touch of costumes, and normal dress that Mr. Fry brought to the production, as well as his speaking style. Bravo!
I must say i absolutely love Stephen, but Sandi pulls this show together so well.
She is an excellent replacement. I will watch anything Stephen Fry is in, and having a full series with him as host was great for that, but like you says, Sandi plays the part very well.
I love them both as well, but yes Sandi was the perfect successor because shes as fascinated and knowledgeable with trivia as Stephen
Rich Hall and Alan can always be counted on for ideas that are so stupid they're brilliant
Rich Hall 👌
The most unfunny person on any show. Rich Hall that is. His US humour just doesn't land.
The part about Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter is 100% how I feel. Stephen Fry is always reading me a book while I read, as soon as Deathly Hallows end I restart from the first book.
"Then show us the round thing!" 😄I love Phil, he should be on more🤞
hes been on it more than anyone else interestingly
There's plenty of him
YES!
His daughter is one of the QI elves.
Yes, excellent, Stephen's rudest and often funniest guest.
Alan's crazed Julie Andrew's makes me laugh as much as Sandi, it's so good
2:07 and Sandy losing it is SPECTACULAR
"its like that but with a toon" is just so well delivered and savage :)
There are a few that should be in the top 5, which are missing... one of which is Stephen's _"how many muscles are in my fingers"_ question... to which Phil Jupitus responded, _"One, if you play your cards right!"_
"I'll put the pencil in"
at 2:04 and this is why I am extremely excited to hear that Alan Davies will be on Taskmaster.
This is the type of hilarious silly humor I'll hope to see.
The way he is able to think up these absurd scenarios and then has the physicality to act them out. And then also his anecdotes. I love seeing alan in any context. I am beyond excited to see him on taskmaster.
HE WAS SO INCREDIBLE xD
His monster impression in the last live task was the single funniest thing I have ever seen in my life
I love the fact that Stephen says here he's never read 1984 and yet I have the audio book with him reading it! I wonder if he knows he's read all the Harry Potter book too?
It looks like the Fry-narrated audio version of 1984 was released in January 2021, long after he left QI.
@@steve470 guess he liked it then!
@@steve470 Guess he couldn't stand not having read it, and did it as publicly as possible.
I had to read 1984 for my English GCSE
Love Bletchley Park. I’m lucky to only live 30 minutes away and never get bored of visiting. Such an inspiring place.
There was a huge difference between Enigma and Lorentz. For one thing, as it is mentioned, the Poles had early on secured a specimen of Enigma, so they knew what it was doing. Whereas no copy of the Lorentz machine got secured until just before the war ended anyway. That makes for a huge leap in sophistication to be able to figure out how to decipher the code. And it wasn't actually Turing who was the main man in that side of the operation, it was William Tutte, another famous mathematician who worked at Bletchley.
'People don't laugh as much when alone'
- Me hysterically laughing home alone.
Stephen Fry is a national treasure ❤
I love the line,"Vee have sold twoooo" Lol. I really like British talkshows, gameshows and BBC news. They're more sofisticated than we Americans.
That tickled me too 🙂
Sandi has such an infectious laugh!
David Mitchell, Bill Bailey...so brilliant
"Oh ho, Nelly Furtado" 😂😂😂
"Because there's more than one." - cracks me up no matter how many times I see it
I do agree with Harry Potter not being worth reading because Stephen Fry's oration of the books is simply the best way to absorb the stories.
“Slow down, Plato..!” 😂
"Did he hit"??? Got me in belly hurting laugh...
Alan Davies , Stephen Fry and Phill Jupitus at the same time are absolutely hilarious
Sandi Toksvig is proof that the BBC can actual get a replacement presenter completely right when it can be bothered!
Well, she was kinda the logical choice for this but the more I see her the less I like her, with Fry that never happened ...another change is long overdue.
actually
I was a fan until I saw her speaking at a feminist event. It was not long after she took the QI presenter role. Where she highlighted her salary and compared it to Stephen Fry's, prior to leaving. There was a gasp from the audience at the difference. No acknowledgement that the pay difference could be based on talent, reputation, etc. Instead purely male/female 🤦🙄
@@LiamLewyShepherd
Yes, I heard about it, quite appalling really, she lost all my respect with that.
To make such a ludicrous claim, in showbusiness of all fields...
40% it was, if I remember correctly, all things considered that is somewhat appropriate, she isn't more than 40% as good as Fry at this.
Surely in a job that has no qualification requirements as such other than an ability to read cue cards and a sense of humour. One would think the salary would remain the same no matter who the host was or what their gender.
The reason that the breaking of the Enigma code was kept so secret for so long is quite revealing. After the war ended, the British had a large number of captured machines which they sold to various friendly nations, who thought they were secure.......
*_Time flies like an Arrow - Fruit Flies like a Banana_*
If you play Fall Guys, this has another meaning
I knew echolalia, but I had never heard the word echooraxia. I have always been an oral mimic, but recently I realized that I am echopraxic. On a visit back to my home state, I spent the afternoon with a relative whose movements and body language have almost entirely changed due to a rapidly progressing neurological disorder. Later I found myself living my relative’s uncertain, agitated, emotionally labile mental state, gestures, movements and walk. Certainly some of what I was feeling was due to my own grief shock at her rapid decline, and fear for her and her family’s future.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, as in school and for a few years after I took drama classes and acted in (or worked crew) plays.
As for Jimmy Carr’s observation, I live alone and laugh my head off watching shows line this and Mock the Week.
I don't know if it's on here but David Mitchell burying Alan on hedgehog feeding habits is the best 30 seconds ever on QI...
Haven't you heard what they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?
@@NomadUniverse Classic...
How about "why do the pillars of the pantheon look straight? because they are"
Alan had a point though, milk isn't good for humans
@@funkyfranx all things are relative
In Brazil, The Sound of Music is called 'The Rebel Novice"
How strange........'The Adventurous Student' is synonymous with 'The Rebel Novice' and makes a much better title........ What's wrong with 'O Som Da Musica'?
Same in spanish speaking countries
In german it's "my songs - my dreams"
That’s so awesome!!!
I live in spain. It's "smiles and tears" here
The 'Did he hit?' joke at 35:47 was genius 😂
Sound of Music in Spanish: "Sonrisas y Lagrimas" = "Smiles and Tears".
"Música no Coração" = "Music in the heart" in Portuguese
Sound of music in German: "Meine Lieder - Meine Träume" = my songs, my dreams
I can't decide which one is the weirdest to be honest.
¿En serio? Yo la conocí como "La Novicia Rebelde" (The Rebel Novice); debió ser el doblaje latino.
@@valerianaranjocruz25 In Spain. Can't speak for the rest of the Spanish speaking world, but my wife told me she knew it as that.
I like Stephen Fry presenting the show, I've got to say, I have never heard anyone use the the word (jolly) so much with ' jolly round, jolly far, and we had a jolly good time , lol.🧐
He is sooo clicheishly a high IQ gentleman.!
Stephen Fry ended up narrating the audiobook of 1984. Would recommend.
One of the best shows ever 😆😂
*the best
Neutron stars may be the MOST spherical objects in the universe, but even they aren't perfectly spherical. As they rotate incredibly fast they also slightly deform into oblate spheroids, though incredibly round ones.
Yeah.
Technically, the roundest thing in the universe is, in fact, the universe itself.
Oh not oblate spheroids again!
@@LoisoPondohva photos required as proof
And he said the “roundest” thing, which is obviously a circle.
You mean JOLLY round ones
28:52 Churchill's comment "Give them what they want," those five words
probably saved millions of lives, for all his great speeches, those words
where surely, HIS "Finest Hour."
Churchill was an evil racist, who was happy to see "savages" go to slaughter.
@@thetessellater9163…spoken like a true Whig.
in Italy it's unfortunately pretty common for foreign titles to be changed or directly slaughtered. The most infamous one is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind wich became "Se mi lasci ti cancello", that roughly means "If you leave me i'll cancel you". Just immagine what someone would think with a title like that... sunday afternoon romantic comedy
This show keeps me sane!
1:45 Absolutely legendary moment
Well Stephen’s definitely read 1984 now. I just listened to him reading it. Highly recommended.
6:30 it has happened in Adelaide Australia but was a small plane...in either 2019 or 2020...the guy was on his first flight lesson and the instructor had a heart attack. the guy had to radio in and the air traffic controller had to talk him down on a landing. he was not meant to learn that part yet but it gives a whole new meaning to Crash Course Lesson.
So the claim that it has never happened in commercial airline travel is still true.
They released the radio tapes of that incident for the ones interested:
czcams.com/video/vnWfgHAdajo/video.html
If im not mistaken a helios flight had a steward trying to land a plane that had lost all the oxygen in the cabin ,leaving all the other unconscious.
@@erik6732 shame it was too late and fuel was already depleted. Must suck to be that engineer whos error killed a whole planeful of people.
@@erik6732 the steward and his girlfriend had a go, and he briefly waved at the fighter jets flanking the Helios aircraft, I think
Was delighted to see Rich Hall. Always found him hilarious.
I absolutely love Sandi.
14:57 That knowing glance from Stephen was so sad
I searched for this comment his very expression said "if only you knew" to me
2:20 All I'm waiting for is a Harry Enfield "Is that what you want? Cos that's what's gonna happen!"
So glad I found this show!
I’m shocked to hear that people don’t laugh when alone, I certainly do.
11:22 - classic Mitchell
28:26 ‘oh superb’ - David Mitchell.
“How would you land the plane”
My answer: “poorly”
Any landing that you can walk away from.
Very fast.
I watch most of this stuff on my own, and I always laugh out loud when something gets me
Lordy I wish we had stuff this smart and truly funny on TV in the U.S!
I think we are the only country with this style of show. In premise you are on the show to score the most points. However, in UK shows we just have comedians tell jokes and score points as an after thought. The scoring on this show apparently has some weird formula. Very few people know how it's scored.
@@Jimmy_Jones Like the original "Who's Line is it anyway?" Always loved that, wish that was the case here, sadly true wit and silliness are not as cherished here.
@@Jimmy_Jones The points are immaterial, tbh. It's the *journey* that's interesting for us - I really don't care who wins. I just love the wit, the sparring, and the intellect. 😬
I love Victoria's tone of voice. I always feel when a woman has a low voice tone, she's more trusty.
Who's gonna tell her....
@@jackmehoffe9372 Tell what?
@@phoenix9531 I'm not entirely sure
@@jackmehoffe9372 what? Then your first comment makes no sense. Are you trolling?
@@phoenix9531 6 people liked it enough. Let's just sweep this under the carpet fire bird
'I was the same with A Muppet Christmas Carol.'
"We Have Sold Two" 35:20
"He's gonna says, he's gonna say, he's gonna say!"
Stephen Jay Gould, who I studied under at Harvard, did not get a Nobel Prize.
I first came to his attention when I took a History of Science class from him, and he said that during the latter part of the 19th century, the Royal Society "did nothing in particular". I pipe up with, "And did it very well". Gould was delighted that someone recognized the reference to Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe.
And then the entire class stood and gave you a standing ovation. Right? MegaFortinbras.
@@KingAnarchist Well, no. But Gould was pleased.
r/nothingeverhappens
I sat in one of his courses because I had lectures in Science Center B the hour before and the hour after. I found him to be rather full of himself, frankly. I also thought that his argument against gradualism was rather self-serving ("Victorians believed in gradualism because it fit in with their political views, but I believe in punctuated equilibrium *because it's true*").
I remember having to order his book Wonderful Life, this was years before electronic downloads.
Still one of the best programmes!
i love the clip abt alan turing. what a brilliant guy. 💛
I love Brit humor!
Two Irishmen offered to dig the Chunnel by digging with shovels, one from each side
until they met. They were asked "What if you miss each other in the middle?'
"Well Sir.. Then it's buy one, get one free!
Sandi's laughter at Mickey's Julie Andrews impression is mad adorable
Terrific shows
No such thing as a fish "A Salmon is more related to a Camel than it is to a Hagfish !"- classic
In Jack's defense, if someone came around calling themselves a "purser" I too would assume they were just pronouncing "bursar" wrong
The standard of education truly has crashed through the floor.
Here's a tip: 'insure' and 'ensure'; 'bought' and 'brought' are not mis-pronunciations of each other.
@@trueaussie9230 I could sass back, but honestly I find this condescension bizarre more than anything. Firstly, the two are cognates, and second, unless we plan to employ our children on cruise lines or airplanes en masse, I fail to see the modern relevance of familiarity with the term, except insofar as being on TV with David Mitchell is concerned.
@@artstsym
My condolences to your kids, should you ever have any.
@@trueaussie9230 Again, finding this amount of shade very strange. You seem to take strong offense at the idea that someone would confuse a very uncommon profession for a much more common one with the same root. Are you doing ok?
@@artstsym
Yes. I'm fine. Thanks for asking.
"Amount of shade"?!?
What the hell are you talking about?!
(Are YOU OK?)
Notwithstanding the very simple fact that there are probably more, if not as many, 'pursers' employed in the world than there are 'bursers', both words are in common usage in the English language.
(FYI - 'purser' is not strictly 'a naval term'. It's used in regard to any and all forms of transport.)
The issue at hand is your apparent unwillingness to learn the language you are attempting to use.
The reason the English language has different words with different meanings is to distinguish one from the other.
I'm starting to believe you MUST be American.
"US English' came about as a result of the inability of the American mind to grapple with 'complex' issues.
I often wake in the night and have a thought that makes me laugh out loud.
Of course, as history shows, only a German can bring the British and French together in some middle ground!
that's deep!