QI Rounds On Literature! Featuring Shakespeare And Tolkien!
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- QI Rounds On Literature! Featuring Shakespeare And Tolkien!
Funny and interesting rounds of QI that are about authors, books and plays! Featuring hosts Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and panelists David Mitchell, Bill Bailey, Alan Davies, Daniel Radcliffe and many others! Comment your favourite rounds below and anything we might have missed!
#QI #stephenfry #litrature
Stephen doesn't recall the word 'clitoris' in Shakespeare ... to be fair, it *_is_* hard to find ...
When will we accept that the clitoris doesn’t exist. It’s pseudoscientific nonsense, there have been multiple studies done by experts in the STEM fields and none of them have found evidence for this supposed “clitoris”
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I don't imagine he was particularly interested in the search either.
I'm not sure there is such a thing.
Also, the Earl of Oxford DID write poetry, and it's awful. It is absurd to think that someone would allow his bad poetry to be ascribed to him, but hide his better work.
Hagridden - a Norse mythology based term. A witch or "hag" would turn a sleeper into a horse and ride them about the countryside at night until the horse was exhausted or had their wind broken. The horse would then be returned to bed in their human form, and wake up feeling terrible.
Wait .... In the Potter Universe there's Hagrid .... JKR is nasty, well, maybe not nasty, but certainly odd.
@@ValeriePallaoro No, she is 100% nasty.
That's a great excuse for a hangover.
3:20 nine doofs, or four and a half doof-doofs.
The Jingling Johnny sounded to me like the Vulcans at Spock's wedding.
TIL about Ultravox, love the song, and will listen to the album now.
As Stephen said it would be called a Lagerphone in Australia as we used bottle tops mounted similarly for bush bands.
The Jingling Johnny bit has nothing to do with literature AFAIK, wonder why it was included?
@@lilymarinovic1644 Captain's log, star date 3372.7. A classic. Shakespeare, Dickens, Doyle, Sturgeon....
1984 is a great read I read it many years ago and still recall how harsh life would be in a regime of life under it's story line.
You claim to have read it.....
@@mileskiddell no I read it in school for English literature so had no choice, try reading it yourself it's a good book but best for adults who know a lot more than normal about politics.
@@alunchurcher7060 thank you. As somebody who is obviously much smarter than me, you don't need me to point out that as the video says 25% of people who claim to have read it actually haven't. PS: I have read it also (or have I?)
@@mileskiddell i don't own a TV so I do read a lot of books, as people used to in the past before TV's took over peoples lives. My old English Literature teacher used to drum the importance of reading in to us and for some of us students it took hold.
@@alunchurcher7060 as somebody that lives in a country (Madagascar) where internet is "lucky" to be found.... same. I read 1984 because I chose to and loved it. Brave New World was recommended to me but I did not really enjoy it that much.
I was forced to read (and loved) 'Lord of the Flies' at school (and have read again since) and my favourite book is probably 'The Death of Grass'. Based on these books can you advise my next read please?
Daniel Radcliffe is surprisingly delightful on QI.
3:43 You know, that really doesn't surprise me 😂
1984 was on our GCE reading list for the English Literature examination.
Inductive reasoning is mostly what Sherlock used as well. A conclusion that has supporting evidence that gives it the most likely hood to be correct. Abductive logit is also called inference. Best guess. Sherlock used all three types.
I can't believe Stephen Fry got through a conversation about starlings without mentioning murmuration.
I’m surprised Alan didn’t know it either.
Bear in mind that these are just clips and are often not the full conversation. Still, at least it provided you with an excuse to flaunt your knowledge. ;) :)
@@Codex7777 In the spirit of the show.
I read it at 14 at school.
I've read it at least once every 10 year's and at 65 I've just bought the 40th anniversary publication to read again, having lent my last copy to someone about 8 year's ago.
I have also read it in high school and was massively freaked out by it. It seemed to me to be plausible and therefore inevitable. Later I was comforted by the realisation that simple human incompetence would have collapsed the system within a generation or so. The current advancements in technology, eliminating the human factor, are a cause for renewed concern.
I've read it a few times, the first time was because of the bbc's The Big Read way back in the 00s. Despite this, I don't think I have ever actually owned a copy of it.
I have read 1984. Honestly.
I read it but I don't remember it.
@@KristineMaitland Oh, it's terribly good.
I read it in '84, senior year. Will be reading it again.
So have I, several times
I did it when in form 6 at school as well as Brave new World and I got them mixed up so I forgot them.
Do you know anything about consistent sound levels?!
Did anyone else think David Mitchell and the guy in the video thumbnail looked alike👀
I think Miss Marple used the same sort of logic as Sherlock Holmes
"Inside Mrs Shakespeare"
I have read that it wasn't Shakespeare who wrote the plays. It was another guy called Shakespeare .
We read 1984 (I know, should be written out) in grade 9 in my school in western Canada. It mattered. Everyone should read it
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Some people believe that Ann Hatherway, who was a writer, also might have written some of Shakespeare's works.
This feels like it was compiled by a deaf AI.
4:54 Having read both, I'd still suggest "Brave New World" 1st, then "1984"...
"Have you found the genes you would like to be enhanced on your baby?" --
'member, when the EU had a strict law AGAINST genetic engineering?
'member, when NATO promised the CCCP never to "touch" their neighbouring states?
If the big ones don't follow the rules, why should the lil ones... which rounds the circle and brings us to the -- nah, read it for yourself ;p
p.s.: Although Ridley Scott is interested, there is no cinematic movie adaptation for it yet (both the 1980 and the 1998 versions are sh*t)
If you think the Earl of Oxford wrote "Shakespeare", take a look at his poetry. It`s absolute crap. Anyway, Ben Jonson was a drinking-mate and described his manner.
2:46 where the HELL did that come from?! 😂
I read it and when I mention bits of it to people who have also said they read it, they'll say they don't remember that part. We're the same age, I remember it but you dont? So weird
Different people have different memories and different selective memories. Some people are good at memorizing names, some aren't, even if they're heard those names the same amount of times. I'm sure even yourself have better recollection of some things you've read than others, even from the same author, I definitely do.
I've never read 1984 but I've read Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell, and there's definitely plenty of bits in them that I've forgotten, more than bits that I rememember. I couldn't even name a single character from Down and Out except Orwell himself (it's non-fiction).
I'm a muggle... and proud of it 🙃
adverts after each clip is too much
I didn't notice ...
Dumbledore, sounds so English, could it possibly be French? Gold bee? 1066!
I have read 1984 (no really); we were assigned the book when I was in Yr 8. I was 13. That was, actually, in 1984. Most of the questions involved how it didn't come true, blah blah.
_None_ of the things my English teacher said that year about how the book was a load of nonsense have aged well. No.
There's more evidence for Edward De Vere's writing 'Shakespeare' than there is for William of Stratford! Some for Christopher Marlowe as well. Read "Shakespeare Was A Woman, and Other Heresies", by Elizabeth Winkler.
Always had a bit of an Aisling crush,, she's gorgeous. Not so much that voice though,,
there a re a lot of (wrong!) people who call listening to audiobooks "reading".
Hi- English literature & Education major here. Final thesis in Shakespeare.
I can attest, as a former teacher, that however a person takes in a work of literature, be it braille, direct reading, or via audible book, that person HAS READ THE BOOK. Many of the greatest books produced by humans have actually become popular via both reading or being read to, since many books started out as oral/performing tradition. Example: the Iliad, the Bible, Shakespeare’s plays, Dumas was often read allowed by a person paid to do so while factory workers assembled goods.
There are many veterans with traumatic brain injuries who use audible books- and since I had Covid and it effected my sight? So do I.
Don’t scorn another person’s opinion or method of intake just because you find direct reading of printed text an easy feat.
Thank you Susanhale6197. I have been an avid reader of English literature in particular since a young girl, now 65. I cannot read much anymore due to eyesight though I do honestly insist that I do. Asleep after ten minutes though 😊. My two grandsons are being homeschooled and my daughter finds that the boys get more out of hearing a story, current,y Ronald Dahl’s Boy. If you can’t get them one way then to listen to a story is another way. Really important to read of course and who knows it may be a catalyst for them to make their own decision to pick up a book. Though no matter either because to know a story can elicit questions which is just marvellous.
Ok boomer…
@@susanhale6197 "Read" here in the looser sense, much as we say we "butt-dialed" someone even though I'm pretty sure no cell phone ever made had a rotary dial on it.
Besides, if we didn't say someone read to had "read" the book, we'd be forced to say they, what? "Consumed" it? Ew.
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